Chapter 17: It's time for CAVALRY BATTLE!
Katsuki stood off to the side. They were given 15 minutes to form teams, but of course it seemed like everyone in class wanted to team to up with Shoto due to the combination of being the most powerful in class and the face he didn't have a target painted on his back.
Probably in the last few minutes he'd demand to join a team that had two or three people.
He didn't expect this… though.
"Hey Bakugo!" called out Ochaco.
"What?" he muttered.
"Let's team up okay…" said Ochaco.
Suddenly Bakugo spat something out.
"You okay… you weren't drinking anything…" said Ochaco.
"I'm fine…" said Katsuki, "Why do you want to team up…"
"We're friends aren't we?" asked Ochaco.
"I guess…" muttered Katsuki.
He felt like she was Izuku's friend and he was more of a drag along.
"We're supposed to be a team and we need to work together." Said Mezo walking over.
"You're not going to do the whole "I don't like you" thing are you…" muttered Katsuki.
"No… but I don't think that really needs to be said." Said Mezo.
"Should we get a fourth?" asked Ochaco.
"Leg day's already joined Icy Hot." Said Katsuki pointing to Shoto's team, which did include Tenya.
But before anything could be said Hatsume showed up.
"Hey! Kid who got first place! Team up with me!" yelled Hatsume.
Everyone stared at the girl.
"What do you want?" asked Katsuki knowing she was in the support course.
"I want to show off my babies! Not join the hero course!" said Hatsume, "And the best way to show them off is to team up with the guy everyone has their eyes on!"
The three stared at her.
"Your babies?" asked Ochaco.
She took out a box and showed off various inventions.
"The Support companies will be watching!" she explained.
Katsuki smirked, "As long as you're not like eye bags over there, fine by me." Said Katsuki.
They looked at the lavender haired boy and he had recruited both Ojiro and Aoyama into his team along with someone from Class 1-B.
The three members of Class 1-A all glared at him.
"Oh looks like you got a grudge!" she said, "Interesting…"
"It's a long story… "said Mezo.
"Hey… what about the other student from general studies." Said Hatsume, "You're going to beat her too?"
They all turned to the green haired girl who looked very confused as she looked around… and she seemed to be ranting a little.
"Why did I decided to do my best… that was a terrible idea… the top guy said he'll kick the ass of any anyone trying to get into the hero course… but I don't want to be in the hero course… why did I even think that trying my best would be a good idea…I just came to this school because it's the best school in general" she ranted to herself, "I JUST WANT TO BE A BOTANIST!"
They all stared at her.
"Wow… I feel really bad for her…" said Ochaco.
"Okay… so it's just the purple haired guy you want to beat up… good to know…" said Hatsume.
The girl continued to rant to herself, wondering what was going to happen to her.
"Hey there!" said Mineta approaching her, "You looking for a team."
She nodded.
"Want to team up…" said Mineta.
"Okay…" said the girl.
"Yes! A girl team up with me!" thought Mineta.
That was when suddenly he got hit by Tsuyu's tongue.
"Hey… I'm joining this team." Said Tsuyu.
"Really?" asked Mineta becoming happy.
The girl was just confused by everything.
"Trust me… she needs protection… from you." Said Tsuyu glaring at Mineta.
"I have no idea what's going on…" sighed the girl.
Back with Katsuki's team, Hatsume was showing off various inventions that would help.
"I don't need a jet pack." Said Katsuki.
"Okay… so your explosions will propel you… I get that… but one of them should have one." Said Hatsume, "Oh and I forgot to ask… how do you quirks works?" asked Hatsume.
"You should have asked us sooner." Said Mezo face palming.
Thankfully Hatsume had brought plenty of "babies" with her that they could work out plans.
Meanwhile almost all Class 1-A teams began to mull over if it was a good idea to get after the 10 Million point headband.
"A team consisting of Kirishima, Hagakure, Tokoyami and Ashido all talked about it.
"You don't think that Bakugo would really blow us up really?" asked Ashido.
"HE probably would." Pointed out Hagakure.
"Remember what I said about Dark Shadow." Said Tokoyami.
The others nodded.
"So I guess we won't go after it." Said Kirishima.
They decided not to go after it.
With a team consisting of Sero, Jiro, Koda and Sato…
"Okay! If we want to we have to go after the 10 Million!" said Sato.
"You got that right." Said Sero.
"I don't know if it's a good idea." Said Jiro.
Koda just sighed knowing they would go after it.
One team was probably going to after it.
With Shoto's team, which as mentioned included Tenya, Yaoyorozu and Kaminari.
"There's someone else I want to target before we go after Bakugo." Said Shoto.
Tenya knew who he was talking about and nodded.
Kaminari and Yaoyorozu both figured it was the lavender haired boy.
They would go after the 10 million points… after they stole his.
And Mineta's team…
"We're not going after Bakugo's headband." Said Mineta.
"Is he really that scary?" asked the girl.
"He is… trust me on it." Said Mineta.
"Okay… he does seem a little unstable…" said the girl.
"A little is probably an understatement." Said Tsuyu.
And soon enough it was time for everything to get started with all of the teams ready to go.
"All right! Now it's time for the second event the Cavalry Battle! Let's get this started!" yelled Preset Mic.
"All right you remember the game plan?" asked Katsuki.
Ochaco was wearing a set of boots that Hatsume gave her.
"You better show off some my babies during the match! Said Hatsume.
"Don't worry! I will at one point." Said Katsuki with an almost feral grin.
And with that it started, with most of the Class 1-B teams all out of to get him.
"ALL RIGHT FUCKERS! YOU THINK I'LL JUST ROLL OVER AND LET YOU TAKE THESE POINTS THINK AGAIN!" yelled Katsuki.
Team Bakugo as it was officially known ran towards all the teams with explosions blazing… he blew up a couple of the teams and stole their headbands.
"Well it looks like right out of the gate Team Bakugo is taking headbands…" said Present Mic.
"I'm beginning to think this was a terrible idea for the second round." Sighed Aizawa who was dragged into being his co-announcer.
"Holy crap! That guys nuts!" yelled Tetsutetsu.
In the class 1-A box Mabel sighed.
"I wish I could eat right now!" she bemoaned.
"Why?" asked Izuku.
"This is such a watch with popcorn moment you know." Said Mabel.
Dipper and Izuku were about to say something but then they looked at each other and realized.
"Yeah… you're right…" said Dipper.
"It is one of those moments." Said Izuku.
"See!" said Mabel.
Back on the hellish battlefield, which can only be described as Katsuki had his team chaise them down.
That was when Shoto eyed his first target.
The lavender haired boy noticed the look he was giving hm.
Due to the couple nights of Bill going after him he didn't join in on the glare despite him knowing that what he said was reopening the wound that Bill had made when he gave the speech to Izuku.
And after Izuku stopped Bill from continuing his nightmares an hearing why Izuku wanted to be a hero, he knew that boy couldn't make it the final part of the Sports Festival.
He considered using that move now but decided maybe he should wait until he got that headband.
"Kaminari… hold on." Said Tenya.
"Wait… why do I have to hold on?" asked Kaminari.
Then he noticed that Yaoyorozu was wearing a pair of rollerblades.
"Wait… Why don't' have I skates?" he asked.
Before any of could answer, Tenya activated his quirks and they sped towards the lavender haired boy.
Shoto managed to steal his headband.
The lavender haired boy looked at them.
He had a plan and knew he had to bide his time to pass.
Back with Team Bakugo he counited to try to steal the headbands from Teams from Class 1-B.
Team Tetsutetsu and the team from 1-B where the red haired girl was the rider both knew to avoid him.
The girl turned to team Hagakure (as she was the rider).
"Hey! Is your classmate all right?" asked the red haired girl.
"Not really…" answered Kirishima.
"A villain messed him up pretty badly." Said Hagakure, "And it happened before the USJ…"
"Same villain showed up at the USJ… and the creep showed up and messed with him more." Explained Mina.
"I see…" said the red haired girl.
That was when a green haired girl on the Class 1-B team noticed something about Hagakure… namely that she wasn't wearing a shirt.
"Wait… are you going topless?" the green haired girl asked.
"Steal her headband!" yelled Hagakure.
They started to run towards the team, however Dark Shadow remerged from Tokoyami and grabbed the headband off her head while calling out "Yoink!"
"Hey!" vled out the red hair girl.
"Sorry but it's ours now!" teased Hagakure.
"But seriously… thanks for worrying about Bakugo…" called out Kirishima as they started to run away.
"We're not going to tell him someone's worried about him, right?" asked Hagakure.
"No way!" said Ashido.
"IT's a very bad idea." Agreed Tokoyami.
Meanwhile Katsuki had several headbands around his neck.
That was when he heard sarcastic clapping.
Team Bakugo turned and saw Monoma and his team.
"Such a violent rampage… are everyone in your class like that?" asked Monoma, "Oh wait I forgot… they're also wimps that back down from a challenge."
"What did you say?" asked Katsuki.
"You only got second place in the entrance exam… and yet the one who had gotten first place backed out…" said Monoma.
Katsuki glared at him.
"Wait… you mean the robot kid?" asked Hatsume.
"Yeah, you know Deku…" said Ochaco.
"Kind of…" said Hatsume.
"Are you trying to get me to kill you?" growled out Katsuki.
"Oh…" said Monoma.
"You don't know anything you're talking about." Said Katsuki.
"Oh the fact that you're all spoiled just because you survived a villain attack?" asked Monoma.
"You think that it?" asked Ochaco becoming upset.
"The only reason why the three of us survived because knowing that triangle bastard he wanted to "play" with us some more…" growled out Katsuki, "If he wanted to, he would have killed us in the USJ…"
"You make it sounds like you're going to have to fight him again!" laughed Monoma.
That was when Katsuki literally launched himself at Monoma.
He grabbed his headband. Then Mezo multiplied his arms and grabbed him pulling him back.
"Is that allowed?" asked Monoma.
"He didn't touch the ground so I'm allowing it!" called out Midnight.
"Let's get out of here." Said Ochaco.
"All right! Time to off my babies!" cheered Hatsume.
Mezo grabbed all of them as Ochaco negated their gravity and Katsuki launched them into the air with the help from the boots that Ochaco was wearing.
"And it appeared the Team Bakugo has gone airborne!" yelled Present Mic in shock.
"They can fly too!" yelled Tetsutetsu.
However that was when Shoto knew he had to pulled that move now.
He created equal parts fire and ice which hit and soon enough the battle field was covered in a thick hot steam that also acted like a fog.
"What the fuck!" yelled Katsuki.
"We need to land!" said Mezo.
"He's right heat rises!" said Hatsume.
"You don't think I don't know that!" yelled Katsuki.
They landed, and Mezo used his tentacles to eyes and ears.
In the stands Izuku was smiling.
"That's what the two of you were working on, wasn't it?" asked Mabel.
"It was." Said Izuku.
He turned back to the fight and began to think of a possibilities.
Elsewhere the stands Endeavor watched this turn of events, surprised at the move that Shoto made.
Back on the battlefield.
Team Bakugo was keeping and eyes and ears out for Team Todoroki.
"They're coming on the left!" said Mezo.
They managed to dodge the attack.
"So you had to make it personal." Said Katsuki with a smirk.
"Actually you were the one to attack me during the race." Said Shoto.
Katsuki glared at him.
"He's not wrong…" said Ochaco.
Katsuki growled, then he smirked
"I'm going to guess that's the idea Deku came up with…" said Katsuki.
Shoto didn't answer.
"But something you should know about steam…" said Katsuki, "It makes people sweat more…"
Shoto's eyes widened.
"Oh you have got to be kidding me!" yelled Kaminari.
Katsuki let loose a gigantic explosion headed towards Team Todoroki.
"Careful… you almost got us with that!" scolded Mezo.
"I know…" muttered Katsuki.
"If you want my headband you'll have to deal with all of us!" said Katsuki.
Shoto just stared at him.
That was when it reached the half way point.
"All right it's officially half way over and let's see the scores!" yelled Present Mic.
He brought up the score.
"Looks like Team Bakugo is keeping hold on the 10 Million points! But Team Todoroki is after them and in second place!" called out Present Mic, "With Team Tetsutetsu and Team Hagakure in third and fourth place… there not many teams with any points left! But it's still anyone's game!"
"Honestly Class 1-B made a mistake messing with Class 1-A. They know what it's like to fight a villain." Said Aizawa.
"Though from what I can tell it's a grudge match between Team Todoroki and Team Bakugo." Sad Present Mic.
"I wouldn't call it a grudge match… more like a complicated rivalry." Said Aizawa.
"Seriously…" muttered Present Mic.
"I know you're trying to make it exciting… but it's true." Muttered Aizawa.
Back on the battlefield Todoroki knew he had to switch to ice and while he was he more comfortable using his ice this was the tactical advantage.
Shoto froze the ground so they couldn't escape.
"Seriously! Now you're just using your ice?" asked Katsuki getting angry, "Are you trying to hold back again?"
"I'm doing it because if I use any form of heat that will give an advantage." Said Shoto.
"If he uses fire attacks then you'll just end up sweating." Pointed out Mezo.
Katsuki growled when he said that.
"You got any more inventions that will melt the ice?" asked Katsuki.
"No… sorry…" said Hatsume.
"And it's cold!" yelled Katsuki.
"Yeah! I noticed…" said Hatsume.
"Did you pay attention to what I told you about my quirk?" asked Katsuki.
"Not really." Said Hatsume.
Katsuki yelled out.
"That's the look of someone who wants to hit his head on something." Said Kaminari.
"I guess it's time for the defensive plan." Said Mezo.
"Fine…" muttered Katsuki.
That was when Mezo covered Katsuki with his tentacles.
"Okay seriously!" yelled Kaminari.
"I should have known there would be such a plan…" said Tenya.
"How long can you hold this?" asked Katsuki.
"We'll have to see…" said Mezo.
"This is weird…" said Hatsume as she and Ochaco weren't covered.
However Team Todoroki was already working on a plan. It was just taking a bit because larger items took longer for Yaoyorozu to make.
"All right! It's ready!" said Yaoyorozu.
"I have a bad feeling about this." Said Katsuki.
That was when Yaoyorozu made some sort of sheet and used it separate the rest from Kamari.
"All right! Time to let loose!" said Kaminari with a smirk.
"Shit!" yelled Katsuki.
Kaminari's quirk was an electric based quirk.
And he ended up electrocuting Team Bakugo just enough for Mezo to drop his tentacle shield and Team Todoroki to grab the 10 Million Headband… only the 10 Million Points.
"You should have enough points to get to the next round…" said Shoto.
"Damn you Icy Hot and Pikachu!" yelled Katsuki as thanks to the shield he was mostly unaffected.
"Wheey!" called out Kaminari giving the thumbs up.
It should be noted that his Quirk's drawback was that if goes over his wattage limit it short circuits his brain.
Unfortunately there was an unforeseen problem with the stealing of the 10 Million Points put the target on their backs.
"The crazy guy doesn't have the 10 Million points anymore!" yelled one of the members of Class 1-B.
Shoto sighed.
He once again created the steam based smoke screen.
They dodged anyone who managed to get close enough.
However the steam based smoke screen did give a certain team the Advantage for another team.
Katsuki was able to seat thanks to other steam and blew away chunks of ice.
Though there was a cost.
"My baby!" cried Hatsume.
"It's sacrifice won't be in vain." Said Katsuki.
"You know… even if we don't get the headband we're going to the next round anyway…" said Hatsume.
"I'm going to get that headband back!" yelled Katsuki.
"All right! 10 Seconds left!" called out Present Mic who began a count down.
They ran towards Team Todoroki, somewhat awkward due to the face that Ochaco was wearing any more shoes.
"Icy Hot!" yelled Katsuki.
"So you got free…" said Shoto.
" And I'm getting back that headband!" yelled Katsuki.
It should be pointed out that they had five seconds left.
He decided to take a chance and launch themselves at them but it was too late.
Time was called and they didn't get the headband back.
And Katsuki landed on the ground almost comically.
"Should we help him up?" asked Tenya.
"He'd just blow us up… "said Yaoyorozu.
"All right! Let's just out the score!" yelled Present Mic, "In first place with the over the 10 Million Point headband is Team Todoroki! In second Place is Team Bakugo who did fight hard but couldn't make it… In the third Place… oh what an upset!"
When that was yelled they saw it… at the very last second it was the Lavender Haired boy had stolen Tetsutetsu's headbands.
"Team Shinso for a come from behind victory!" yelled Present Mic.
The boy with the family name of Shinso noticed that he gotten several glares at this announcement.
"And in fourth is Team Hagakure!" yelled Present Mic, "These are the teams who will be moving on the third and final events!"
"All right! We made it!" cheered Hagakure who then hugged Tokoyami who was blushing though his feather.
"Please put a shirt on…" he managed to say.
"Nice Fumi!" said Dark Shadow giving the thumbs up.
"Why didn't you mention the scores?" asked Aizawa.
"I have my reasons…" muttered Present Mic.
"Now we're going to take a lunch break an then move on to the Recitational Games!" said Present Mic, "Hey Shota! Want to get lunch?"
"I'm taking a nap." Said Aizawa.
In the class 1-A box, Izuku sighed.
"Hey! Everyone in the team made it to the next round!" said Mabel giving Izuku.
"Yeah… but it was hectic…" said Izuku.
"Come on! Let's go find them and you can talk to them!" said Dipper.
The teacher's box, Toshinori sighed and knew there was someone he had to find.
And with that the second event ended… and it was on to the third…
But there were going to be some conversations… conversations that were going to help Izuku greatly in multiple ways.
Next Time: Izuku gets two pepe talks, one from one of his classmates and the other from All Might. Not only that but All Might want to tell Izuku something... something that will change everything for him. Meanwhile Shoto talks with his father about the second round... What will happen? Find out next time!