Geus pushed through the heavy crowd of reports at the front gates. He kept his head low and avoided any questions tossed at him. The liveliness of the school today was a dozen times louder than his center. The lines of pop up shops and food tents catered to heroes and fans alike. Every part of this made him want to win even more. Even if he couldn't win.

"Geus! Geus! Over here!" An unfamiliar female voice shouted amongst the crowd. By the time Geus turned to the crowd he witnessed a female reporter squeeze through. Her eyes roared with determination and a microphone arched proudly forward. "Geus, Geus! Why were two U.A. teachers spotted at the hospital you stayed at a year ago? Does this have to do with the rumors of the reopening of your case?"

Geus couldn't answer her questions, the only thought on his mind was how she recognized him past his covered face. The time to answer her question disappeared, a couple more reporters appeared. All spewed out their own rapid-fire questions.

"Has security in the school enhanced because of your appearance?" One asked.

"In your time here, has any student been hurt or worse because of your quirk like your parents were?" Another yelled through.

"Ha-how do you know these things?" Geus whispered. 'I don't even know these things.'

"Do you believe your quirk is not your own since it took so long for it to rise?"

"Ae all these questions dodges because of you knowing the truth to each one?"

"Geus I have come to rescue you!" Iida shouted, his quirk boosted legs stormed past every report in his way. His minimalistic u-turn happened right as he past Geus and snatched him up during his next pass.

"Thanks, Iida."

"It is no problem to help a fellow student."

Iida charged through to the designated sections for only students. Free of any hassle from outside forces, they were safe. Iida placed Geus down and went off into the locker room.

"Hey, Geus." Itsuka waved from the split of the hallway. To the left was class 1-B and to the right was class 1-A's locker rooms.

'Iida was this planned?' Geus grudged in his mind. "I guess it's finally time," Geus spoke out. Both of them walked to each other.

"Two weeks and you refused to face me. Only training with your only two friends."

"I have more than two friends... We just don't hang out as often."

"I'm going to see you in the finals, and I'm going to face you, and win."

If Geus could feel his lips, he definitely smirked under his mask. "Whatever you say." Geus brushed past her to his locker room. "First you have to win the first event."

The locker room of his class was full of equal parts complaints and uncontrollable excitement. Only now he couldn't focus on the events ahead. The thought of his family out in the stands. The thought of his case in new hands. It again forced his mind into the forgotten.

He couldn't breathe, two people stood over him with their arms just in his vision. Their solid white eyes and solid white smiles contrasted their black silhouettes. Purple smoke covered their faces. Their expressions changed to fear, their eyes were no longer narrow. The smiles turned upside down. Their faces and bodies disappeared.

'This wasn't how it was supposed to happen.'

"Geus man, are you alright?" Kirishima shook Geus out of his blank state.

Geus saw that he flexed in and out his damaged hand. He turned his hand over to his palm. He looked at his red friend. "I'm fine."

"Well come on! The crowds waiting for us!"

His class was the first to walk out to the open field. The entire stadium was packed full of roaring fans. But none of those people mattered to him, it was only a select few he searched for. His quirk changed to pinpoint accurate eyes. Near the bottom of the rows was four straight-faced sour people. They were almost disgusted to be there, only they were. Geus knew of this event from them, he knew of their hate for anything that celebrated quirks. Not a surprise for him to see them like this, it was a surprise to see them here.

"You sure you doing alright Jumpus?" Jiro asked. "You're doing that hand thing again."

"I'm fine." Geus jogged over to his sparring partner, Midoriya. "Hey Midoriya, I got a question before the games start."

"Oh yeah, ask away."

"Your quirk came in late too, and you hurt yourself like mine. Do you feel like it wasn't your quirk at all? Like it was given to you?"

Geus pinched a nerve in Midoriya, he jumped and spazzed into defense. His eyes slammed shut front his gigantic smile as his hands waved nervously in front of his face. "What are you saying? Mine just came in late as yours did and we're here to train our quirks. They just don't feel like ours yet because we didn't have as much as everyone else did to make them special."

Midoriya's panicked words surprised Geus for how much they calmed his nerves. The rush of words the reports handed out to Geus was destroyed by the rushed words of his friends. He looked up to his family in the stands. Their words mellowed out in his heads at the sight of Beka, who was only a few rows away from them.

"I can do this." Geus attempted to boost himself up. "Whether they like it or not I got a quirk and it can help people. I may not become a hero but I can assist in the evolution. I'll show them."

"Yeah, we'll show them all we'll be strong heroes!" Kirishima yelled in Geus's ear. "I'm going to show them I'm stronger than all of them!"

"Ah okay?"

"Welcome hero course class 1-B!" Present Mic's amplified voice filled everyone's ears.

Geus was one of the few to turn around in his class. He locked eyes with Itsuka, determination to beat each other fixed their eyes. Even though the rest of the school filled the stadium, they didn't separate.

"Who you looking at Jumpus?" Jiro asked.

"A girl who wants to kick my ass."

"I'm right over here."

Geus angled his head over to her. "Yeah." He wrapped his arm around her head and moved it to tap his forehead. "You are."

Her expression was visibly shocked, and a bit red. "Uh what was that?"

"Don't worry about it."

Once every class was in an orderly fashion on stage, the start of the festival really began. The formal host of the events would be the Rated-R Hero, Midnight, her beautiful and exposed body caught the attention of everyone, students and viewers. The lick of her lips is what distracted Geus tue most. Almost to the point where he nearly missed the first obstacle course event.

The first stage of the event was similar to the entrance exam. Skyscraper-size robots blocked the way to the rest of the race. Shoto and a few others with extreme attack type quirks were able to pass through with no problem. Geus also saw that this part of the exam would be no problem for him, even if he missed the entrance part. He untwisted his air filters and shoved them in his tracksuit pockets. Gas quickly flowed out of the now pure open holes.

"Stay away from the gas," Geus warned. "It's bad."

All these eyes on him made him insanely confident. Yet in class, he saw himself scared and alone. He walked straight up to the first robot. It paid attention to him but didn't swing. His gas already wrapped around the metal legs and inserted inside the crevices. The metal melted and stiffened the joints as the wires inside melted as well as where they refused to work. Smoke eroded from the top of the bot and tumbled it forward. A cloud of smoke covered his body and kept his walk hidden.

'Holy shit that's so cool." Geus looked up to the sky. I'm going to show all of you.' He took off into a sprint while he twisted his air filters back on.

The next challenge came upon him, mountain-size holes around small rock platforms were up. For people that couldn't jump plane size gaps, tightropes were tied to each pillar. A few other students that went off ahead of the group still hesitated to their next plan. Geus's plan was to show the innovation that quirks held to his family. Which meant there had to be no hesitation.

He quickly released his air filters and jumped into the pit. Only the awes from the other competitors entered his mind. His gas shot out of the holes and hardened around the tightrope. The strong momentum down cause the ropes to curve down then snap up and create speed force down the rope. A split second thought ran through mind to destroy the rope behind him. But ultimately chose not to as it would foil his plan to show the helpfulness of quirks. He chose to simply swing up past the rock pillar and continue onto the next rope.

The third and final challenge also held the advanced students back. The first action would easily be for him to stab the ground with his quirk and explode every landmine that was buried in the ground. Several things ran through his mind. First, it would set a path of destruction. Second, it would allow every other runner to get past him by just pure speed. And finally, how else he could get past this thing easily.

He watched the leads of the challenge battle it out in the middle of the field. Bakugo and Shoto fought with their close quarter combat quirks. This allowed many other of the students to catch up, even if it was one step a minute. Midoryia caught up with him, he carried a giant piece of scrap metal with him. "Uh, what'ch you got there, Deku?" Geus asked.

"When did you start calling me Deku?"

"Is Deku not a middle name? Bakugo keeps calling you that."

"Oh no," Midoriya nervously rubbed the back of his head. "It's a name Kacchan gave me to make fun of me. I guess you missed that conversation with your quick walkouts."

"Sorry. You might want to watch out for my gas. I got an explosion coming up."

"Explosion." Geus barely heard Midoriya whispered.

Geus watched his classmate jump into the landmines. The largest explosion yet launched Midoriya far into the air. 'There goes the calm and safe use of quirks.' Geus thought.

Geus turned away from the landmine field. His gas flowed out of the ground and hardened it in the ground. He reenacted the first quirk test from UA. The hollow shell of his quirk started to fill the insides. The explosion launched him in the air. Only this time he enlarged the shell and the pressure. He launched farther inside the field than he did at the forty yard dash. While in the air he filled each port in his mask for a special task. The left created another explosion while the other formed a spike. The spike landed in the ground and propped him up. The explosion launched him back into the air.

The finish line was just in front of him. He was far from last and at the same time far from first. He crossed through the finish line, which was placed back inside the stadium. The crowd roared for the victors of the first challenge. All except his family. Their disappointed and stern faces burned their image inside Geus's eyes. Luckily Beka's over the top cheering kept his psyche in check.

This was only the first event in the three-part series to lay out his plan. His family still looked unimpressed and downright disgusted by this. Geus only wished for those looked to change by the finals, and nothing would stop him to get there. This was his only chance to change their outlook and rebuild what was destroyed so long ago.