And it's that time again!

I'm back with another chapter and… I don't have really anything to announce right now, just only a couple of things at the end.

But, for now, let's just jump right in!

Time for the second challenge of the festival! *THE* Cavalry Battle!


"I chose the three of you because I believed we would make for the most stable formation," Todoroki stated.

Minutes earlier, before any of the conflict had gotten rolling, teams were forming their battle strategies.

"Tokoyami is our left wing. He will use his quirk to keep enemies at bay on all fronts."

Dark Shadow gave a thumbs up. "You got it!"

He then turned to the disciplined Iida, who had his hands on his hips.

"Iida, you will be at the front. We are relying on you for mobility and physical defense in case they get close."

The class president fixed his glasses. "It shall be my duty."

Lastly, his eyes settled on the Yanagi. With her hand on her other elbow and averted gaze, she was being aloof. However, Todoroki's deadpan attitude didn't change.

"How does he do it?" Dark Shadow nudged Tokoyami. "So unfeeling…"

"Be silent." Tokoyami said to his summon.

"Yanagi." Todoroki spoke. "You will be the right wing, using your telekinesis to create distractions as well as for support."

Reiko nodded.

Todoroki took in that acknowledgement… as his eyes went over her for a second time.

"Also." He pointed to her left eye being covered. "You might want to fix your hair to see better."

Reiko then lifted one of her dropping hands, and pushed the hair on her left eye to the side, revealing a beautiful blue iris just like the other one.

She looked at him, with an equal deadpan stare. This time, Todoroki became the one to nod, with his dismissive expression not changing in the slightest.

"And you will be attacking and creating diversions with ice and fire, is that right, Todoroki?" Iida spoke up.

Their leader became annoyed.

"Not quite." Todoroki looked away to the stances. There stood a pro-hero with metal gauntlets, a tight navy-turquoise bodysuit, and a fire coming from his upper body as well as his shoes. It formed a mask, mustache, and beard around his face, however the only heat that Todoroki could feel from him… is in his glare.

Detesting the sight before his eyes, Todoroki responded equivalently. "I've already told this while recruiting Tokoyami, but in battle, I will never use my left side."

He turned back to his teammates. His eyes washed over them one by one.

Tokoyami: Attack

Iida: Speed

Yanagi: Utility

And himself, defense.

"If everyone just sticks to their assignments…" Todoroki gritted his teeth, dialing back his anger. "We should be able to handle whatever anyone throws at us."


Back to the fight

"What is this now?" Todoroki grumbled.

Momo muttered all silently to herself. "A new alien…"

Gwen facepalmed from the stances.

All teams looked at the little, white new form which Tennyson donned. More than half of him was submerged in the softened ground, but it was clearly unlike anything they'd ever seen.

"Shota, wasn't he supposed to just have the 10?" Present Mic took his hand off from the microphone for a second. The red lights turned off.

"That's what his file said." The almost-mummified teacher, also solemnly responded.

The two were at a loss for what to do.

"Hey, boys." Midnight's voice came through the channel. Eraser looked down to see her using the communicator in her ear, rather than the microphone in her hand.

"I'm gonna guess you two are thinking what I'm thinking?"

Present Mic took a deep breath. Yep, Tennyson's new NEW quirk evolution. What in the heck was going on with this kid anyway?

He reached to turn his microphone back on. It could be dangerous, quirk evolutions like this weren't exactly common.

Perhaps… a quick unscheduled break was in order. Just so that Nemuri can get out there and ask him what he was–

Shota blocked it with his leg. "Eraser…?"

"For what purpose?" Aizawa's gaze cut through him like a knife.

He couldn't physically cross his arms more than they were right now, but it felt like Aizawa closed in on himself even more.

"You two." He stated. "How exactly would it be prudent if we were to act on instinct now?" he asked his colleagues. Of course there was no reply.

"Tennyson has already caught us off-guard. We can't afford to step in, and turn this into a bigger deal. That would only panic the people." He stated.

The voice hero adjusted everything in the studio. "We'll continue playing to the crowds then."

"Yes." Eraser Head said, and then leaned to the speaker. "Now Nemuri, I'm going to need you to–"

"Say no more." She said with a smile. "Just in case things get messy my, hard as a rock, coworker is already on his way."

Aizawa felt whatever's left of his soul leave his body. "She's talking about Cementoss…"

Present Mic couldn't help but giggle at his collapsed co-commentator.

"Yeah, alright, we'll step in *if* something happens during the match that can endanger anyone, which shouldn't happen…"

"... and during the break, we will then give Tennyson a lecture on *sharing*. As well as All Might."

His blonde co-commentator looked at him, and from under his orange shades, he could see Shota's black hair risen, some of his bandages floating and red irises.

Present Mic laughed it off though, as he made sure the headphones and his hair didn't get in the way of each other. "Tennyson, gotta say, you're never boring."


He had turned himself into a small, white dwarf with fully green eyes, mouth and circles on top of his wrists. There were also black lines across his entire body, making the inside of his mouth look… like an amp?

There was also something like an MP3 player on his back, headphones over where his ears should be… WERE THOSE THINGS ON HIS KNEES CASSETTE TAPES?!

"Tennyson, what–" Jiro was at a loss for words. "Where the heck did you get this white and green boombox from?!"

"Uh." The transforming hero in question could say, as his hands and legs were still in the softened ground.

"Oh how cute!" Hatsume said, looking at Tennyson from behind her goggles… right before she faced the battle again. "So yeah, which of my babies are we using?"


Momo noticed the opposite team's uncontainable kind of wonder and amazement.

"They didn't know." Momo thought. "So, this wasn't a team strategy…"

It was obviously the Omnitrix at play, however, in the midst of them, she could also see Ben's smiling face.

"However, it wasn't a complete surprise either."

"Yaomomo." Asui said from the left side. "Are we still going to move forward with your plan, ribbit?"

Kaminari was also apprehensive now. "Yeah, Tennyson flipped the script on us as per usual. Who knows if your theory holds up no–"

"Hey!" Tokage called up from above. "What's with the doubtful talk? Even if we're surprised, we have to stay on track, and trust the leader."

She flashed a smirk, with her pointy teeth. "Don't you agree?"

"Y-Yes." Yaoyorozu stumbled on her words. She had become briefly unnerved by Tennyson's surprise, but the spirit of competition was returning to her.

"He changed form, so what?!" Tetsutetsu declared, snapping everyone out of that brief pause. "Get him!"

Kendo responded by putting up her arms, a plan forming in her head.

"We don't have our deterrent right now…" She looked down at their stuck fourth member. "I should be able to hold off Tetsutetsu until Tennyson manages to save himself–"

Bakugo also leaped off from his team and took flight!

"DON'T THINK FOR A SECOND YOU'RE SAFE!"

Making explosions behind him, he maneuvered through the air like an expert, launching himself like a missile to the number 1 team!

"Oh, right." Kendo reached out. "Tennyson told me about him."

"Get out of my way, extra!" He made an explosion with his right hand, making his body move left and then reached for their points.

However, as he grazed the headband, Kendo's fist grew 10 times in size, smacking the ash-blonde!

"Ah-!"

He had to force his hand a little, but Bakugo managed to stay in the air.

"Without your gauntlets, your explosion quirk requires a close quarter combat-style, doesn't it, Bakugo?" Kendo smiled.

"Grrrrr! You think you're so great?!"

Bakugo rushed in, but the president of Class 1-B deflected!

"Nope, but this is why I'm the rider!"

He went back around, tried to sneak from behind, but Kendo saw it coming again. Bakugo tried from all kinds of angles, but with her reaction time and surface area which she could defend, he couldn't get close to the headband.

Bakugo then pulled back, and then launched himself way up, and then descended from above.

"You-!"

Kendo covered her head with one hand though, and then still pushed him away with the other.

"When I'm done, I hope you will want to reconsider that 'extra' comment."

At that moment, Bakugo took it to the skies, getting further away… but they could assume it was for his fastest assault yet.

"You guys could have prepared me a little more for his persistence." She said with her big fists.

Jiro deadpanned. "Trust me, we couldn't."

No one could actually be prepared for Bakugo.

Kendo looked at her hands, and the irritated skin because of the explosions. She could continue the defense, but it wouldn't be viable.

She called out to her teammates. "Jiro, by any chance, could you use your quirk to save Tennyson?"

Jiro looked down at Tennyson. "Not much luck from me. I would need my speakers to push off the ground with sound. Hatsume?"

The pink haired girl's eyebrows went up.

"I thought you'd never ask!" With her off-hand, she reached to her back and pulled out a shoulder-mounted yellow and gray rocket launcher with red highlights!

She showed all of them, perhaps the most innocent but excited smile. "Take a deep breath, I'll get you out in a moment!"

"Woah! Wait! Wait! Wait!" Tennyson could only screech, making Hatsume stop.

"Okay okay. It's up to you." He thought to himself. "This is a new one, but what can it do? Surely, i got something going for me other than the power of cuteness–"

In that moment, he felt a bursting feeling around his chest, boiling upwards.

The ash-blonde was still getting close. "You lose!"

Kendo made the team reposition. "Jiro!"

"I know!" her earphone jacks shot forward, but Bakugo brushed them aside with an explosion! Kendo got ready. It was up to her again. Ben's chest swelled.

She could see his intense glare.

"Son of a b-" He stopped himself, gritting his teeth. "I GOT YOU THIS TIIIIIII–!"

"SCREEEEEEEE!" From Tennyson's new form, a geyser of sound emerged!

"WHAAAAAA!" Present Mic was shocked. "Sonic screams?! Seriously?! He stole my 'do!"

Bakugo, though, couldn't help but cover his ears. That caught him mid-air and ruined his concentration!

Explosions weren't coming out from him, so he couldn't stabilize himself. He was rapidly approaching the ground–

"Wha-?!"

He was floating back, with stuff under his arms. They were horns from the horse girl!

"Hey!" He yelled. "I was in the middle of something!"

But the horns still dropped him off back with their team.

"Nice catch!" Kirishima remarked, and Pony seemed glad.

"Thanks!"

"GRRRRR!" Bakugo didn't care. His eyes turned to the ground. It was the midget's doing!

"See. Ya." The little Tennyson waved at him from afar, before opening his mouth again!

"SCREEEEEEEE!"

Using his power, he pushed it off the softened ground from both himself and teammates.

"Alright, so that's what this guy does…" He looked into parts of his hands above the quicksand. "I got sound power!"


This got Aizawa thinking…

"He could do the same thing in his Blitzwolfer form, so it is not exactly an improvement…" Aizawa thought.

The sound he could make… it was still strong enough to push the softened ground off, however from what he could tell, it wasn't a match for his wolf form.

So what was the deal with this–

"And Bakugo split off from his horse?" Present Mic turned to Eraser Head, stopping that train of thought at the station. "Is that even allowed?!"

Midnight raised a thumbs up. "He never touched the ground, so technically it's okay."


"Glad… you could help us Tennyson." Kendo said.

Behind him, Ben saw his teammates rubbing the sides of their heads.

"But, next time, could you give us a warning when you're gonna do that?"

His smile wasn't as big anymore.

"Seriously." The worst off though was clearly Jiro. "I got a hearing quirk over here."

"Sorry." Tennyson said, as Hatsume looked at all three of them, and shrugged.

"Eh." She was mostly upset she didn't get to use the rocket launcher.

Kendo's headache died down first, and her bright and tactful manner revived, with intrigue. "Everyone was so surprised…"

"Yeah. We *still* are." Jiro added real quick, so Kendo continued.

"How come you didn't say anything about this form during planning?"

"Umm." The little Tennyson tapped two fingers together. "Didn't. Know?"

The silence was, quite frankly, palpable. Even though the four teams were once again gunning it towards them.

"Wait, so even you didn't know you had this form?" Jiro cut in and Tennyson confirmed it. Honestly, he really just couldn't come up with a good lie right now s–

"Oh, really?! This is a new baby then!" Hatsume beamed. "What's his name?!"

Ben's eyebrows went up. Right! There was also the fun part. "Um–!"

Midnight then cracked her whip towards him.

"You! Tennyson!" she said, making Ben's heart skip a beat.

She was going to question him about his new powers. Wasn't she…

"You are not the rider Tennyson, but still disconnected to your team!"

Tennyson took a second to have his brain register that.

"Oh." he looked up. "Right."

However, even when he was free, his little hands could only reach their waist.

"Well, that might be a problem." Jiro stated.

Midnight nodded. "That's correct ladies. You're going to have to figure out a solution."

Kendo clicked her tongue. She was ready to step off, since they had agreed Ben to be the front horse because most of his forms were too heavy. However, if he was going to use this, perhaps it would be best for her to be the front horse instea–

"How about he switches?" Jiro reasonably called out. "I mean all his other forms were tall enough."

Ben glanced down at the dial. Yeah, he had the option to switch to anyone else, minus Ball Weevil because he would then be even smaller…

…but then where was the fun?

"I don't like how that looks." Jiro saw the mischief on Tennyson's new form.

"No." Ben stated, and let out a green glow around his body. "Watch this."

Suddenly, five more of them appeared in a pyramid formation!

"Tennyson, are those…" Kendo was in disbelief, as was all the other team members. "...your clones?"

"Better." The Tennyson at the top turned around, smirking. "They. Are. Me."

He then gestured for Kendo to put his hands on the heads of the pairs of the clones, as the bottom row also helped out the sides in holding onto his feet.

Ben knew he could just settle on making a ring around his teammates as well, but Kendo looked like she definitely needed a shoulder to lean on.

"Cloning?..."

Now *that* was a way to get Class 1-A's homeroom teacher's attention. *This* power of his was unique–

"CLONING?!" And Mic HAD to make it dramatic.


"So, he has sonic screams like Present Mic, combined with cloning like Ectoplasm Sensei?" Uraraka said outloud.

The little Tennyson on top of the pyramid proudly smiled.

"It seems so." Shiozaki pensively replied. "A powerful combination, no doubt."

The last-minute member of Deku's team, Shinso, had been dismissively observing. "Good thing you didn't make us rush ahead like them, the–"

"There is a glaring downside."

Deku suddenly threw that out, like he was in a deep, trance-like state. "No, Shinso, I think *they* had the right idea. We need to move."

Uraraka tilted her head.

"Why do you think so, Deku?" She asked.

"There is no balance of power."

He watched as a team from 1-B, led by a black haired girl was forced back by another one of Tennyson's screams… However, it also almost made the pyramid topple.

"The structure he chose to meet the Cavalry Battle's formation isn't compatible with the force which Tennyson outputs from his mouth." he said. "If his feet were pressing on the ground, or if he could just anchor himself in a better formation in general, it wouldn't be a problem."

Tennyson let out another scream, which was cut off as the ground beneath them softened again!

The clones at the bottom level worked overtime to get the sludge out from their feet, and that forced Jiro and Hatsume at the back to plant one foot back to not trip over each other.

"However he's forced to work with a team and stay in the pyramid formation, constantly risking them toppling over… and hence making them stop."

"Like a gun barrel that cracks after one shot." Uraraka thought out loud. "Everytime they fire…"

"Exactly." Shinso was also studious. "So they can be surrounded."


"SCREEEEEEEE!"

It was time for Hagakure and her team to be pushed back by Tennyson.

"Tennyson, two o' clock!" Kendo pointed, as she grew out one of her hands, blocking a swarm of scales shot at them. "Ah, Rin!"

A seventh copy emerged from Tenyson's back, and jumped on Kendo's back to take aim.

"SCREEEE–!" He had to cut it short, as their structure shook.

They were still hard at work, protecting the ten million points, and trying to get some distance–

"OH, HELL NO ARE THEY RUNNING AFTER THAT!" Hagakure was pouting. "SATO! FULL SPEED AHEAD!"

"Aye aye!" Her team of Sato, Koda and Aoyama started sprinting.

"Mademoiselle Hagakure!" Aoyama then noticed. "Your headband!"

Both of the other embarrassed students then looked up, and saw that it was missing!

"Huh?! When did that happen?!"

A very arrogant Monoma passed by them, twirling the headband around his finger. "Well, that's one."


"We're not letting up either!" Tetsutetsu covered himself with steel, and put his hands over his ears! "Komori, it's your time to shine!"

"You got it, shroom!" The brown haired girl of their team said, as a yellow mist came out from her body.

Hatsume, very ignorantly, asked. "What's that–?"

Without pause, Kendo blocked Jiro and Hatsume's mouths with her hands, she pressed her mouth to her shirt.

"Tennyson..!" She said muffledly. The little clone looked at her, and immediately understood.

He faced the cloud and screamed at it, pushing it away!

"Oh crap…" Tetsutetsu muttered. "Turn!"

The team dodged their own cloud just at the right time. Meanwhile, Kendo allowed the rest of her teammates to breathe in the air again.

"What. Was. That?"

Kendo pointed, as the cloud settled down, and mushrooms grew on the empty ground. She had one hand rubbing her eyebrows still recoiling from the sound.

"Spores." She said. "Kinoko can grow mushrooms on any surface, the more humid the better."

Jiro put that piece together with the hand on her mouth and nose just a second ago. "That means–?"

"Our throats, right?!" Hatsume tilted her head. "It's the most logical place!"

Kendo nodded. "It's an ace she doesn't bring out until she has no other options, but…"

"Got. It. Translation. Crisis. Averted." Tennyson stood proudly. "You're. Welcome."

Almost immediately, a mushroom grew on where his nose would be. Kendo was about to point to it, but she barely dodged a strand of tape, coming real close to her forehead!

"Dammit, so close to a sneak attack!"

A string of tape shot out, but another scream from Tennyson destroyed it!

Then, from behind them, there were vines creeping up.

"Oh no, you don't!" Kendo was about to grab and rip them apart, but they tied around her hand instead.

Ben didn't even turn. Fists clenched, another copy popped out and did the exact same thing… not realizing that he had two people where only one used to stand.

"SCREE– EEEE– EE-!"

The copy stumbled, forcing them to stop, as did their whole structure again!

"Hey, Earphone jack girl!" This time… Hatsume shouted?

"This is the perfect time to use it. Stop messing around and use my baby!" She tapped her feet together and her own hover soles turned on. "Bend your knees!"

"Oh, right." Jiro bent her knees, and the brown and yellow shoes of her roared to life with blue fire, making her hover slightly. The gyroscope in them helped with stabilizing, before both boot sets turned off.

"Phew…" The team took a sigh of relief–!

Rin, from Kodai's team, shot his scales again. Kendo blocked them, and Ben got ready to fire.

*inhale* "SC–"

Kendo put a hand on his mouth.

"Sorry, but we should be finding a better way to utilize your power, Tennyson." Kendo said as the clone got off and merged with the main one. "Otherwise, just in 15 minutes, we're all going to walk away with brain dama–"

This time, she had to dodge a floating horn. Pony had also joined the conflict!

"We know. I'd love for this quirk to not be used." Jiro answered Kendo in place of him. "But they're not going to give us another choice."

And then a blue laser.

"I know that wherever I see it." Jiro spoke under her breath as she saw Aoyama from Hagakure's team.

Her earlobes levitated and chose them as their target.

Hatsume reached behind her and pulled out a pistol-like baby this time. It was tall, red and black, and was making a whirring noise. A gear was turning on the outside of it as the two nozzles were wide, both of which had a blue glow emanating.

She picked the explosion boy as her target.

Kendo looked around and… between Kodai, Tetsutetsu, Hagakure, Sero, Bakugo and Midoriya, there were six teams who had them at their sights!

She, the class president of 1-A, shielded her head with one hand, and faced Tetsutetsu off with the other–

"Not. Yet!" The top Tennyson clone told everyone on his team."I. Got. An. Idea."

"About time!" Jiro said, earphones retracting back. "What is it?"

"Plug. In. Me."

And that… immediately made her very confused.

"Not. Like. That." He pointed to his back to the MP3 player looking thing, before holding his arms up like an infant. "Kendo. Enlarge. Your. Hands. And. Aim."

The 1-B class president and earphone jack user looked at each other.

"Hurry!"

As the teams got close, they did as they were told.

Kendo, with her other enlarged hand, lifted him up and Jiro plugged one earphone jack into his back!

Hatsume, in the meantime, gave a smile, and pulled on the trigger. One after the other, small saw blades launched and started to slice and dice Shiozaki's offense!

"HAAHAHAAHAHA!" She laughed as the blue glow of the blades shined off "If anyone thought the engineer was the weak class in any team, they've never met this TF2 player!"

The blades were ricocheting from the ground, up till their energy ran out and they fell to the ground. It certainly slowed the upcoming teams, but as seen with Bakugo blasting the blades away to the level of breaking them, it hadn't withered everyone.

For them though, Tennyson got ready. He clenched his fists. "HIT. ME."

Jiro was confused. Did he *want* to be shocke–

The little Tennyson looked down. Right, race against time! She closed her eyes, and let her heartbeat speak for itself, Kendo closed her eyes, just hoping that her fist muffled the sound a little this time.

However, what came out wasn't his usual sound.

"screeeeeeeeeeeee–!"

Instead of the booming violent scream from earlier, a high-pitched sonic attack came out!

Just like that ALL 6 teams stop, clenching their ears.

Hatsume put the gun away, and then noticed something along with Kendo. The backlash wasn't as bad, and so if they tried…

She nudged Jiro and along with the rest of Tennyson clones, they moved their team and got distance as the top clone continued to fire!

"Okay, enough!" Kendo rattled the clone.

"...eeeeeeaaaam!" Tennyson stopped, and Jiro unplugged.

The headache was there, once again, but it wasn't as bad.

"What was that?" Kendo asked, looking at the clone in her hand.

Tennyson opened his arms like an infant, giggling at their reaction. "It. Is–"

"My speakers?" Jiro had spoken up.

The earphone jack girl was speechless. That was the sound of her sonic boots from her hero costume, and… Tennyson replicated that like her speakers.

She looked up at the little guy, taking a breather.

"Yes." he said, as Kendo lowered a cheeky smile, he pointed to her, and then himself. "Figured. Us. To. Be. Compatible."

Jiro… frankly didn't know what to say–

Suddenly, the team came to a very swift stop.

"...and we're in trouble."

Like it was to repent for their dilly dallying, a glacier of ice soared!

The number 3 team was standing right before them. The chilling ice that came from his left side…

Todoroki was standing before them like a full-on enemy, as the rest of the teams were still coming behind them.

In a flash though, Todoroki extended the glacier into a circle!…

And *it* locked both himself and the number 1 in.

Like it was a call to arms, Jiro's earphone jacks alerted floated again, Kendo took a martial arts stance, and Hatsume… got to searching her pockets.

"Oop, there we go!"

She found a small orange device, and mounted it on her wrist. With the press of the big green button on top, two yellow blades appeared on the side of her hand! "Alright! My Razor Claw baby is working!"

The blade vanished and then came back right at that moment.

"Mostly." She added. "There is always room for improvement."

"A third of the time has come and gone!" Present Mic yelled out. "Calling all teams, you only have 10 minutes remaining now!"

In response, Dark Shadow was at the front, Todoroki had his ice in reserve and… Yangai had floated some of the debris. Iida, not having any ranged attacks, just placed his foot forward, engines already revving up.

All of them were piled back to back though, rather than standing all together, like a unit or team would.

Todoroki didn't care. He spoke, meeting both Kendo and Tennyson's gaze.

"I will be taking that now."


Ben 10: Hero Force

Chapter 27

Echo of Competition!


"WOO-OO!" Present Mic shouted. "Isn't this exciting, Eraser Head? Now that number 1 and 3 are in their own zones, things have turned into a free for all!"

Mic then gestured to him to say something.

*Sigh.*

Eraser Head did as so.

"Don't forget." He stated, very deadpan. "Instead of banging at their wall of ice, you could ignore the ten million points and go after other chart leaders. It's an extremely sound strategy."

And some were doing exactly that too.

Kodai's team turned to attacking Yaoyorozu and Tokage.

Sero had also pulled back and gone full attack mode on Tetsutetsu for their points.

It would seem like Tennyson's only problem was Todoroki right now…

Midoriya though, along with his team, stood just outside of the said barrier.

He brought his hand forward. The index finger was still wrapped around in the vines, and now that he tried to move it again, it gave him great pain.

"I can't give them this time alone."


Bakugo was further to the right side of the wall, warming up his palms as Ashido on their left flank held out her hand too.

"Icy-hot thought he could seal him inside to prevent other teams from stealing the points."

He scorned the idea, growling, palming his fist. "Challenging everyone and still making an oversight…"


"It's true that this wall would block us off." Midoriya took the word back. "However, we know that Tennyson isn't used to this form just yet."

Midoriya riled his fist back.


"Having no one else to overwhelm him, means you're only giving him a flashy training course jackass!"

Bakugo's explosions were ready. Pony had her horns already floating, and balls of viscous acid were forming in Ashido's palms.

They quickly started chipping away.

"The more he gets used to that midget, the bigger of a problem he's gonna be!" Bakugo roared on the inside as he waited. "He needs to be taken out now, and *you* won't be able to do it!"


On the inside, Tennyson really was having the time of his life. Dark Shadow tried to attack, but Tennyson jumped back to one of Kendo's larger hands instead, as his claw grip-locked with the other.

"Now. Launch!" Ben said.

"With pleasure!"

Like an actual baseball, Ben was launched into the air, Jiro's earphone jack still plugged to his back.

Out of the whole team, Yanagi acted first. Making whichever small rocks she could find float, she sent them towards Tennyson like a hail–!

"screeeeeeeeeeeee!"

The rocks crumbled under the high-frequency sound, not even having the chance to make it to their target.

Todoroki's team got hit by a sound attack…

"Fumi!" Dark Shadow shouted and as he was distracted, Kendo hit him with one fierce haymaker, sending him back to his team!

Todoroki, as defense to the sound attack, erected another wall of ice!

Meanwhile, Jiro sent her second earphone jack to the Tennyson clone, wrapping onto his arm and making sure to pull him back to their team.

"Tick tock!" Present Mic's voice came through. "9 minutes left!"


Bakugo looked at the wall. A small peep hole had opened up, and it was time to make a gateway for him and the rest.

This glacier was about to come down–!

"Speaking of which, let's see them now." Present Mic said, gesturing to the big screens. "Throw those rankings on the screen!"

And right at that moment… Bakugo could feel something, or rather someone tugging at his forehead.

The result that came to view took everyone's breaths away.

All Might, Thirteen, Snipe… Even the teachers were also quite perplexed.

"Wait, hold on, stop the count! What's this! This is an unexpected turn, that's what this is!" Present Mic went on. " Other than Todoroki and Tennyson, Class 1-A isn't doing so hot!"

The ash-blonde felt his 585 point headband rip away from his head, and the one who did that… had a very sly grin on his face.

1. Team Kendo: 10,000,320 Points

2. Team Monoma: 1850 Points

3. Team Todoroki: 700 Points

4. Team Tokage: 530 Points

5. Team Tetsutetsu: 420 Points

6. Team Shoda: 315 Points

7. Team Kodai: 170 Points

8. Team Midoriya: 0 Points!

9. Team Bakugo: 0 Points!

10. Team Sero: 0 Points

11. Team Hagakure: 0 Points

"Even Bakugo?!" Present Mic screamed. "What?!"

"Class 1-A is too simple minded."

Ashido turned around first. "He got us!"

"What did you say?!" Bakugo also turned his attention away from the ice wall. "Give that back! I'll kill you!"

Eraser Head thought to himself, as Bakugo's arch-rival, Midoriya, also noticed the absence of his points. "They even got past Midoriya's defensive group."

He narrowed his eyes, before they snapped up from the ground, onto the homeroom teacher of Class 1-B, a very proud looking Vlad King.

"Just like that Monoma!"

The underground pro shook his head, but he had to admit. Just like his group this year, Vlad had also secured himself an interesting class.


Pony could see the veins on Bakugo already. "Are you insane, Monoma?!" She asked.

"Insane?" The extra called Monoma added the headband to his neck. "Tell me which part of this is insane, Tsunotori…"

He opened his arms. "Miss Midnight said the Obstacle Course was just the first game, right? So we figured they wouldn't cut that many of us right off the bat."

His voice oozed confidence. "Assuming they would keep around 40 contestants for the next event, all we needed to do was make sure we stayed within that ballpark… add to which we could fully observe the quirks and tactics of our opponent from the back, while keeping ours close to our chest."

His chin raised, and the blue pupils he had stared down at them.

"There is no point in obsessing over a preliminary game, wouldn't you say?" his attention was firmly on his fellow classmate. "Can an insane person have such a forethought, Tsunotori?"

The horse girl's glare hardened. Even though she shouldn't have expected anything else, she was still feeling betrayed and angry.

Bakugo turned to his teammate too, and saw her sour expression.

It was easy to put the pieces together. "You couldn't have planned this as a class." he stated.

Monoma shrugge–

"Kacchan!"

Bakugo looked, as he saw Deku and his lousy team pull up to his side, and in front of this bastard blonde.

"Pony." Shiozaki nodded, greeting her classmate as the front horse.

"Ibara!" Pony cheered. "How is it going?"

"Adequate I would say." The vine-haired girl said. "The only contrivance that soiled my very day… would be seeing insanity truly overtaking my classmate."

Her green eyes were directed right at Monoma for that last part.

"Awwww!" Now he started mimicking her postures, making fun of them. "You too, Shiozaki?"

Her hair was moving like snakes right now, fully pouring her unleashed aggression.

"It would be my honor to exorcize it out."

Meanwhile, Bakugo really wasn't happy to see people either.

"Deku…" He seethed, taking the attention of All Might's pupil before his glare went back to the opponent with actual points.

"Kacchan." Midoriya spoke. "I know you won't want to hear this, but–"

Explosions came out of his palm.

"Kacchan, don't!"

Oh, Bakugo had enough of that. Kacchan this, Kacchan that, Kacchan listen!

He gritted his teeth, does EVERYONE think they can just tell him around, get in his way?!

Bakugo took off from his rider seat again, only to *almost* get splashed by glue!

With an explosion from his hands, he propelled back and sat on top of his team again.

"Of course not everyone decided to go with us." Monoma cut in at this point. "But I'd say we made the best of what was dealt."

Two more teams stepped forward.

"I tried to tell you. They got in my way." Midoriya said, as some of Shiozaki's hair also had glue on it.

One was with the black haired Kodai, riding the brown beast named Shishida, along with Bondo and Rin.

And the second was led by a short, blue haired vice class representative of 1-B named Shoda, as he was riding with Awase and the manga page named Fukidashi.

They clearly seemed more resentful over the tactic, which both Monoma and Midoriya noticed. Bakugo on the other hand…

He responded more angrily.

Monoma bowed before them. "Honestly, I will have to thank your dimwitted number 1 for the distraction. He played his part as the jester perfectly,.

"I mean, what other perfect hook could get us to line in this bag of inflated ego!" Monoma gestured with his hand.

The vice-class president even felt disgusted by tha–

"Inflated ego?!" Bakugo snarled.

Midoriya spoke up. "Kacchan, he's just trying to get in your head."

"Shut it, Deku!" He snapped at him.

"Oh, and while I still have your attention. You, in particular, are kinda famous, aren't you? For being attacked by that sludge villain?"

Midoriya also stopped… right there. His mouth was slanted open, and his pupils contracted.

"You'll have to tell me about that sometime." Monoma gleefully said. "I'd love to hear how you got bailed out by the pros."

Monoma looked down on him. "It must be strange… to always find yourself in the role of the victim."

The front rider of Bakugo's team felt the heat behind him spike–!

Monoma smiled mockingly.

"Monoma, don't provoke him man." Kamakiri spoke from his right flank. "That's the kind of thing he would do."

"I guess you're right." Monoma raised her hands, and smiled under his breath. "IT WOULD not be very hero-like. Besides, we know how these things work."

"Heroes are always being hounded by moronic villains, desperate for some kind of revenge."

The blonde then retreated, as the two other teams almost acted like escorts. A cross shaped vein appeared on Bakugo's face… at multiple spots.

He was shaking.

"CALM DOWN, BAKUGO!" Kirishima said as he faced forward. "You've gotta keep a clear head, or we'll never make it into the top 4!"

The frustrations of the ash-blonde poured out of him in one guttural scream.

"AHHHHHHHH!" He palmed his hand with an explosion. "Shut up! I've never been calmer! Can't you tell?!"

"Eep!" Pony shrunk as she got one glance at the rider.

"Kirishima…"

The redhead turned back and saw a demon incarnate sitting on him instead.

Midoriya on the other hand… kept his mouth shut. Under his lips, he had also gritted his teeth, as Bakugo continued!

"We have just had a change in plans."

Explosions happened all over his hands.

"Before we take down Deku, Freak Show, Ponytail or any of those bastards!.." He grinned. "We're gonna kill every last one of those B-LISTERS!"

His hands brushed the smoke coming off his body aside.

"NOW, GET AFTER THEM KIRISHIMA!"

The redhead reluctantly looked back to Uraraka, and then sighed. "*Please* don't make us regret this!"

The exploding team bolted forwards.

"Us too."

The Midoriya team was the only one left behind, but when they heard this order, they got back on the move.

"Gladly." Shiozaki said. Admitted by her own words or not, she wanted those points back. Shinso was annoyed but he had no other choice but to obey, and for Uraraka…

She just wanted to know what Deku was thinking.

The pupil of All Might was thinking to himself with a solemn expression.

"Listen. I would never ask for a weakling like you to help me.." He mulled over the words of Bakugo from that time. "I was fine by myself! You didn't help me!.. You did nothing."

Other words got mixed in, like the pros when they chewed him up for jumping in.

"You moron! Do you have a death wish? There was absolutely no reason for you to have put yourself in danger like that!"

Those words weighed on his mind.

"You'd never be able to hang with the best of the best! You're just a quirkless wannabe!"

Midoriya clenched his fist. Things had changed so much since junior high, and that was the day where it all changed.

All Might's words as well as Tennyson's echoed in his heart.

"The next All Might… The fledgling Symbol of Peace… Izuku Midoriya!"

"Basically, with no space cops around, we're the last line of defense."

It was terrifying, but it led him to places he could never imagine.

And Midoriya, the pupil of All Might himself, his successor… wouldn't stand anyone who would insult that.


"Back to the stars with you, beast!"

In the meantime, the two top contenders continued their routine.

Kendo and Dark Shadow were too busy fighting their battle, and Hatsume waved around her wrist claw weapon.

"Hah!" Dark Shadow scoffed, with his high and mighty laughing. "What do you think some wrist guards are gonna–"

Hatsume landed one of her slashes, and it actually cut through his shadowy presence. "Ah, it burns!"

Dark Shadow backed away, giving Kendo the opening she wanted.

"Here's the next one!" She threw another Tennyson towards the opposite team.

Todoroki called out. "Yanagi!"

The silver haired girl levitated more debris from the ground again, to launch them and support their attack against–

The one Ben split into four!

"Stay. Down! Sonic. Eruptor. Times. Four!"

"Todoroki!" Iida spoke concernedly as another wave of ice emerged AGAIN to block the attack!

The ice user gritted his teeth.

"He's seeing right through your strategy." Endeavor, the number 2 flame hero, stated from the stances. "Don't be a fool."

Todoroki's eyebrows crossed. "Tennyson is keeping his distance, and making me use my right side. In a battle of attrition, he knows he has the upper hand."

He patted down the ice on his shoulder and forearm.

"However…" He glanced to his right side, at his classmate with the raven-esque head. "Tokoyami's Dark Shadow isn't affected by the sonic attacks. If we can corner them even further, he could steal those points."

"They are still the ones captured here."

"I wouldn't be so sure, Todoroki." Iida spoke up. Todoroki raised an eyebrow, he must have been thinking out loud.

The pair looked from the corner, and saw the Ben's use their sonic screams in short bursts, navigating through the air.

"Kendo, you caught them?" Hatsume teasingly asked, and the big sis of 1-B shrugged.

"Oh, we will see." The orange haired student said, as she held up her big open hand… with one Tennyson in her palm. "I've played some baseball, but I don't know how much of it stuck."

As the first Ben came towards them, she positioned the two clones to crash and abosrb into one another. "Next!"

Kendo laughed and did it with the other 3.

"At this rate, they will make it to the end of time with their points." Iida stated. "And they seem well aware of it."

Todoroki gritted his teeth. They really were not forcing Tennyson's team as much as he thought.

Something should be missing. Tennyson being able to combat him made sense, but to do it without even switching form?..

This also made Iida think to himself.


"You think you're tough?!" Bakugo jetted towards them, Monoma stopped his team, and gestured his escorts to back off, almost giving Bakugo one free shot.

And the ash-blond took it eagerly!

"Die!"

"Bakugo wait!" Pony saw what was happening. However, her warning came in too late. The big right swing he threw was deflected… and then countered with another explosion right back to his face!

"Wow, what a nice quirk!"

It dazzled Bakugo, giving Monoma enough time to touch Kirishima real quick.

"I forgot to tell you! He can copy quirks." Pony said. "It's for 5 minutes and limited to whoever he touches!"

"Hey, why are you spoiling the surprise!" Monoma responded coyly, acting like he was angry.

"WHY did you forget to tell me that?!" Bakugo's vision came back to him.

Pony was quick with the clapback. "You never asked!"

"Whatever!" Bakugo scoffed, as Pony took the chance to attack this time. She fired four horns, right towards Monoma's neck to undo the headbands. Even if he moved, Pony would curve them at the last minute.

"Tsuburaba! Guard!"

Their front horse inhaled and made a disk right in front of the rider, blocking the horns!

"Alright!" He cheered to himself… only to realize it was too soon. During that attack, vines had crept up through all of their legs.

Sun shined brightly on Shiozaki as well as the whole team that followed after her.

"Time for these lost lambs to learn their place."

Bakugo looked behind him and saw Deku's team approaching. WAS HE REALLY TRYING TO HELP HIM NOW?!

Monoma then had vines wrapped around his body, restricting him.

"Really now?" Monoma deadpanned, as he glanced down to his flanks. "Kaibara! Kamakiri!"

The pair nodded. The former raised and rotated his legs at lightning speed one at a time, whereas the latter just let blades emerge from his body, cutting off the plant life!

Monoma's entire body then hardened as a rock, and he ripped out of the vines just like that.

"Good attempt." He told them. "But I think mine's better."

"Ah!" Kirishima frustratedly spoke up. "I knew I felt something smack my hair earlier!"

Shiozaki's eyes narrowed. Her thorned locks moved to attack again, only for another team to come around. Shoda's team, but most importantly the person as their right flank, Awase.

He ran over the vines, and as his feet touched the vines, he fused them to the ground!

"Sorry about this." Awase said solemnly.

Shiozaki tried to pull on them, but it was useless!

Bakugo didn't pay any mind to what happened with Deku's team though. All he cared about was breaking their air wall and–

"It's too sticky!" It was Kirishima's turn to call out this time. His whole left leg was covered… with glue!

As Ashido moved to help, Bakugo growled. It was the work of the jackass' second escort!

"Nice one." Monoma called out. "Thanks for the backup, Awase, Bondo."

The two people who assisted… looked at each other from their separate teams.

Monoma glanced around, and saw Midoriya talking with Shiozaki, probably trying to help. Uraraka was also listening to them.

Going over, then Bakugo's front horse firmly stuck in place, and since Monoma was a guy who picked and chose his battles, they did the only logical thing.

Leaving.

"Nice try you two!"

As their points got away, Shiozaki muttered under her breath. "From above, the wicked shall receive their just reward…"

Everyone was feeling bitter, and eager to get back into it.

"I have a plan." Midoriya said.


Back at the ice field

"Perhaps… we're missing something they have." Iida spoke.

He had experienced the very same thing during the battle trial, when he was selected to be the teammate of Bakugo.

"We're not working our quirks together."

He peeked from the corner of the ice again, and the contrast was even more real. Dark Shadow was alone in attacking all four members of Tennyson's team.

Todoroki's ice acted as the only defense between Ben, Jiro and Kendo's combined sound attacks from above.

Their patterns were too rigid and so his engine and Yanagi's Poltergeist stayed on the ineffective side as well.

"What do you have in mind then?"

"Combination attacks, just like them." Iida bowed his head, trying to come up with some on the fly… only to blank out.

Curses! It really was more difficult than Midoriya or Tennyson would make them seem.

"I believe I have an idea." Tokoyami spoke up, and made Dark Shadow retreat.

It was all up to Todoroki to say yes to it though. The fire and ice teen… reluctantly opened his mouth.

"What did you have in mind?"

Tokoyami's eyes descended to his summon, and then the rest of his teammates.

"Unfortunately, something cold."


"Last five minutes!" Present Mic shouted. "It looks to me like Team Kendo has this in the bag."

Jiro rolled her eyes. "Well, someone is looking to jinx us."

"Nah, with our lead, no way!" Hatsume added.

Kendo and Ben looked at each other though.

"Uh. Uh." The little clone put a hand on his chin, and then glanced back at the dial. "Jiro's. Right. Universe. Isn't. Kind. To. Me. With. These. Things–"

The glacier right ahead of them exploded for example.

"See?"

"Yes, I do." Kendo enlarged her fists. "What is happening?"

On the outset, it was like any other ice blast from Todoroki, similar to the one he made the wall with or any one of his other barricades, but… this one then rose up to the air.

It was like part of a glacier had broken off and was moving right towards them.

"What is that?" Jiro and the rest of the Tennyson team moved back.

"Guys! You're not gonna believe this!"

Kendo turned to look at Hatsume. The pink haired girl, using her quirk for a change, identified what it was.

"Oh, so they are approaching like that…" She muttered. "Nevermind I take it back, five minutes will still be a problem!"

"What do you see?" Jiro nudged her, and Hatsume giggled.

"It's the crow kid!"

Both the rider and front horse narrowed their eyes, not understanding what she meant.

"Don't you guys see!" Hatsume asked. She could zoom in and see from a couple of cracks.


Inside the two-meter thick dome of ice, held up by mostly Dark Shadow with assistance from Yanagi, Tokoyami didn't even shiver, even though it was made to be cramped, and on short notice…

"I shall name it." He determinedly spoke. "Dark Shadow: Fimbulvetr mode."

"That's… admittedly a very interesting name!" Iida said, shouting in his usual characteristic tone. "Todoroki–"

"I'm aware." He stated. "I will be ready to fortify our defense."

Tokoyami might have not been shivering, but Todoroki was. His right leg was completely frozen over.


"An ice dome? But why?-" It clicked with Kendo first. "Our sound attack."

Ben nodded too. "They. Needed. The. Glaciers. To. Defend. So. Now–"

"They are bringing the glaciers to us. Smart." Jiro bent her knees and the hoverboots fired up once more. "Once they get close enough, Dark Shadow can drop the dome…"

"... and as I'm griplocked with the shadow, Todoroki can get our points." Kendo finished the thought.

Hatsume did the same, using her propeller boots. The Tennyson clones… did the best they could to increase mobility like the other two.

But it wasn't enough.

"They are too fast!" Jiro shouted. "We can't get away!"

Kendo assumed command again. "Tennyson! Jiro!"

The duo launched their sonic attack. If they could chip down the ice wall fast enough, maybe they could put a stop to the assault as well.

Inside though, the team was fine.

Todoroki let his ice side burst forward, as one crack formed two more were sealed up.

"F-Four minutes left…" he quivered. "It's time to make a move!"

"Get us as close as possible!" Iida said.

"Screeeeeeeeeeeee!"

"Guys, this isn't working!" Hatsume stated.

"I know!" Kendo responded.

Cracks appeared through it, but it seemed just resilient enough to last. Tennyson thought about bringing out more clones to help him out, but their structure was unstable enough as it is. By making them move this much, Todoroki was also eating off from that advantage.

Their leader felt out of options… up till it her. "Hatsume!"

The pink haired girl looked up.

"What was that other baby you wanted to try out?"

Surprise, and then a grateful expression spread across her face. Her scope-like eyes grew. "Really?"

"Well, I don't have any better ideas." Kendo shrugged.

Hatsume put away the 'Razor Claw' as she called it, and then took out the yellow&black rocket launcher!

"Rise and shine Ice-Box, and say hello to the new big kid on the block…" She cocked the shoulder-mounted firearm. "THE NEGOTIATOR!"

The hearts of everyone on her own team dropped.

"Don't worry!" She cheekily remarked at them. "I tempered with the yield, plus it's very compact. It should be just shy of non-lethal."

Ben raised an eyebrow. "Should. Be?"

"Just shy?!" Jiro also exclaimed.

Hatsume pulled the trigger, and a long-range rocket launched at the other team!

Todoroki started layering on the ice–!

"No need!" Tokoyami intervened, and had Dark Shadow extend his fist to punch a hole through their Fimbulvetr armor.

"I got it."

With his claw covering the hole, he then caught the missile, letting out a small explosion!

"HA!" Dark Shadow closed his smoking fist. "Payback time for that razor claw, pink girl!"

The missile had not deterred them at all, Todoroki and his team were coming.

"One clone can't handle this." Ben thought. "Plus Dark Shadow is unaffected by sound…"

He lifted up his hand. "Well, I've had fun, but I gotta try something else!"

"Get. Ready. For." he told his team, as his clones fused back together, and hit the dial!

Instead of the small white humanoid, the tall purple and magenta crystalline warrior emerged.

"Chromastone!"

Without warning he shot at the ice, Todoroki tried to shut him out but the concussive laser was persistent.

"Can't block this one!" Dark Shadow retreated back.

Iida… saw his chance. This was it.

He leaned forward.

"Todoroki…" The glare that appeared over his glasses, and the shadow fell on his face hid his intentions. "Reiko, I think we have discussed this?"

The ghost girl nodded. "It was something spooky…"

Todoroki was about to ask, but instead nodded acceptingly.

"I'm about to do something that will leave me useless to you."

"What are you planning?" Todoroki looked down alarmedly, however Iida chose to not elaborate yet.

"Just make sure to get that headband." he put one foot forward. "Whenever you're ready, Reiko!"

The ghost girl of 1-B nodded, and stretched out her hand. The magenta aura that encapsulated debris earlier… appeared around Tokoyami's and her own shoes.

"Brace yourselves! Hold on tight!"

Todoroki firmly planted one hand on his back, and Tokoyami let Dark Shadow emerge, letting the creature put its claws over the points where they were holding Todoroki's feet.

Reiko in the meantime, raised the front of their shoes off from the ground!

Steam and fire erupted from Iida's calves!

The class prez planted his foot on the ground, waiting until the pressure built up further and further… so much so that the fire became blue..!

"TORQUE OVER..!"

He raised his feet, and like a bolt of lightning, their team struck without any reservations.

The ice that they surrounded themselves with was left behind.

Todoroki could barely blink, as one second he was staring down Tennyson's team, and in the other, he was past Chromastone and Kendo… with the 10 million points!

"RECIPRO BURST!"

1. Team Todoroki: 10,001,020 Points

2. Team Monoma: 1850 Points

3. Team Tokage: 530 Points

4. Team Tetsutetsu: 420 Points

5. Team Shoda: 315 Points

6. Team Kodai: 170 Points

7. Team Kendo: 0 Points!

8. Team Midoriya: 0 Points!

9. Team Bakugo: 0 Points!

10. Team Sero: 0 Points

11. Team Hagakure: 0 Points

Reiko quickly deactivated her quirk as did Tokoyami with Dark Shadow, and as the dust kicked up from their shoes skidding along the dirt mixed in with pure dark smoke, the team and their opponents were in shock.

"WHA? WHA? WHA?!" Present mic was in shock. "What just happened?! That was one big blue blur! Holy smokes, folks! Why didn't he show off that speed in the preliminaries?!"

Tennyson's team were in shock. Chromastone was just about to blast back Dark Shadow! What really happened?!

"Iida, what was that?" Todoroki just put the 10 million around his neck, as sunlight properly warmed up his joints a little.

"Force my torque and RPM into overdrive…"The class president stated, panting and like he was reading off some manual. "It gave me explosive power, however, the recoil stalls out my engines for a while."

"It's a secret move I've been saving. I've only told Reiko just before the start of the match, because I had concerns over needing to use it."

He exhaustively sighed. "I've trust that you'll be able to keep the points safe."

Tokoyami and Reiko nodded. Todoroki, even though he was a quarter of the way to being an ice statue, responded to the challenge as well.

And then the class prez… grinned up to Chromastone.

"I apologize… but this is where your stake in this battle, ends!"

Present Mic shouted "INSANE! THIS ENTIRE GAME OFFICIALLY TURNED ON ITS HEAD! Todrooki's team now has all the chips, and Tennyson is left with none!"

From the stances, Endeavor crossed his arms and grinned, while All Might himself, sweatdropped.

However… Chromastone smiled right back.

"Taking initiative…" He said. "Now, you're acting like a class prez, Emergency Exit!"

Iida was taken aback. Praise in the middle of combat?

"Thanks!" He bowed his head. "That's high praise coming from someone like you! I greatly appreciate it–"

"Unfortunately though." Chromastone tagged on at the end. "We're going to be taking those right back!"

His teammates adapted to the front horse's new tall stature, and got to attack!


Now that they were dealt with, they could leave the initial air wall up, and leav–

"Kirishima! Harden your leg!" Midoriya's voice came out, making the blonde dismissively think about turning back around.

"Jeez, so persistent–"

*BOOM!*

Monoma instantly turned around after that. What the hell was 1-A up to now?

And what he saw… was a floating Midoriya up in the air, with a couple vines wrapped around his waist and two additional broken fingers.

"Release." Uraraka put her hands together, as Shiozaki directed him back down.

Monoma looked down. With that shockwave though, the redhead's leg was completely free… and Tsunotori had him in his sights.

She launched two more horns, making Monoma resort to his last option. He copied Tsuburaba's quirk immediately and made another air wall!

With the amount of plays, he was out of breath for a second.

"Ha!" he arrogantly declared. "What was that supposed to accomplish, huh?"

"This."

Suddenly from the back of his neck, Bakugo swooped in and managed to steal three headbands!

He had taken flight a long time ago to dive towards their team, but Monoma didn't realize because of Midoriya's stunt!

"OH, BAKUGO COMES IN WITH THE SNEAK ATTACK!" Present Mic shouted. "With the other team members making for distractions, he sneaks in and snatches the points of a lifetime!"

1. Team Todoroki: 10,001,020 Points

2. Team Bakugo: 1120 Points!

3. Team Monoma: 730 Points

4. Team Tokage: 530 Points

5. Team Tetsutetsu: 420 Points

6. Team Shoda: 315 Points

7. Team Kodai: 170 Points

8. Team Kendo: 0 Points

9. Team Midoriya: 0 Points

10. Team Sero: 0 Points

11. Team Hagakure: 0 Points

"There you go!" Meanwhile, Ashido waved her hand, and acid sprayed over the fused vines of Shiozaki, trimming the edges and separating them from the host. "Charity from one neighbor to another, don't you think?"

Shiozaki solemnly nodded. "I agree. Thank you." If she had to let them go on her own, they would be from the root, and that would require too much time for regrowth.

Now, though, she was ready for another attack… even though Monoma's team wasn't.

"Dammit, he snatched some of them!" Tsuburaba shouted. Monoma tried to touch him by the feet, but two horns got under Bakugo, helping him with the retreat.

"The latter half of the game has been full of shake-ups, final 3 minutes everyone!"

"We're still in third." Kaibara said. "It's fine!"

Monoma checked his neck. There were only his 130 points and the 600 from the green kid.

"Yeah…" He pulled the headbands close to his face. "If we defend these to the death, we'll move forward."

Bakugo landed back with his team.

"Hey, what was that attack from Deku, huh?!" He looked at them.

"Hey, he offered to help–" Kirishima shrugged.

However, Bakugo wasn't taking that attitude. "Never take offers from Deku, alright?!"

Kirishima opened his mouth. Why? What did Bakugo have against Midoriya so bad?–

But, he remembered, this was Bakugo. Either he wouldn't listen, or he wouldn't answer.

"Fine whatever." Kirishima said. "This still means we're advancing–"

"WE'RE NOT DONE!" Bakugo started banging his hand against Kirishima's hardened head. "WE'RE GONNA BE THE INDISPUTABLE CHAMPIONS OF THE GAME!"

Eraser Head watched the whole show unfold from above. As Present Mic was too busy commentating on Tennyson, and Todoroki, this side conflict with so many combination moves, got his attention.

"Class 1-B's strategy… or rather Monoma's strategy was a reasonable one, however there are a couple of things he forgot to consider."

His bloodshot eyes tiredly closed. "First one was the feelings of his allies…"


Tsuburaba's eyebrows went up, as with one more blow, he made another air wall.

"What happened?" Monoma quickly got to attack mode, copying Kamiakiri's quirk, blades emerging from his body.

He was slowly but surely getting jumpy, because of the shaky situation.

From behind the wall, he saw Shoda's team, along with Awase and Fukidashi.

"Now, you're turning against me?" Monoma frustratedly asked.

"This was never a class game, Monoma." Shoda spoke from behind the solid air. "And after how you treated our sister class, I can't blame them for their reaction."

Kamakiri barely had Monoma stop before they ran straight into a pit of glue.

Monoma copied Tsuburaba's quirk again and made another air wall!

This time it was Kodai. She was the one who tried to ambush them. With her unchanging, unimpressed expression, she spoke to the blonde. "Why do you think we didn't do a Class prez re-election?"

"You wouldn't win." She plainly stated. "You're too intense."

"You don't know when to stop." Shoda said. "So, we figured we would keep an eye on you."

The realization dawned on Monoma. These two teams were never his escorts, they were just keeping an eye on him, save him to get his points later!

"Fukidashi." Shoda ordered. The student with a speech bubble as a head spoke.

"Crack!"

Instantly, their air wall fractured. Monoma's eyes widened. They had to go, stat!

From behind him, he could hear the *Boom!* and the wall turned to absolute dust.

Monoma continued to run with his team, as Bakugo, Shoda and Kodai were all behind him, however…


"...and second, not only did Monoma underestimate Bakugo's overwhelming tenacity, he underestimated Midoriya's brashness during combat."

Eraser Head then looked at the stances. There was someone else, watching this student as intensely as he did, wasn't there?

All Might leaned forward.

"Shiozaki, wrap your vines around my waist!"

She did as she was told. Now that her hair was fully free, the connection was even stronger!

"Uraraka–"

"I already know, Deku!"

The zero-gravity hero touched the pupil of All Might with all 5 fingers. He took flight like a kite yet again.

"I'm not alone in this."

Red veins ran up Midoriya's arm.

"If we rushed in now, we would never be able to overtake those three." It then spread to his left arm. "All three of them put their trust in me. As the rider, it is my responsibility!"

"We all have our reasons to win this, and I refuse to let the others down!"

With his middle fingers, he prepared two more flicks.

All Might solemnly and under his breath, spoke from the stances.

"This Sports Festival is a competition where everyone aims for the top."

As he stood up from his seat, hunched over due to being in his skinny form, he held onto the railings.

"When I chose you though, you wanted to help others above anything else, so I thought your selflessness could be your weakness."

Letting the flicks loose, Midoriya launched himself like an arrow, similar to the Obstacle Course, but this time he could stay up right!

"This will be fine." Midoriya thought. "You have been using One for All against people for a while now."

He quickly passed the other three teams, coming right up on the air walls.

"Take out your opponent's defenses…" he thought, as his eyebrows crossed. "And act like Kacchan would!"

He broke through both air walls and..!

"SMASH!"

He grabbed the final two headbands!

"Midoriya is a merciless force!" Present Mic jumped out of his seat. "He ripped all of Monoma's hard investment away from him! Telling him he gets nothing, AND good day sir! Man, I can't wait to watch the replay!"

1. Team Todoroki: 10,001,020 Points

2. Team Bakugo: 1120 Points

3. Team Midoriya: 730 Points!

4. Team Tokage: 530 Points

5. Team Tetsutetsu: 420 Points

6. Team Shoda: 315 Points

7. Team Kodai: 170 Points

8. Team Monoma: 0 Points

9. Team Kendo: 0 Points

10. Team Sero: 0 Points

11. Team Hagakure: 0 Points

"But, turns out I was worried for nothing." All Might thought to himself as the rest of the crowds cheered.

"You *are* a fighter… who isn't afraid to do anything for his comrades."

With Shiozaki's vines, Midoriya was quickly pulled back to the rider spot.

"Release." Uraraka said, and now, tied around his neck, Midoriya found their ticket… to third place.

He looked at them proudly.

"Thanks, you guys."

Shiozaki and Uraraka gave him a nod.

"You're the one who forged our path to glory." Shiozaki stated. "We merely followed."

Midoriya felt a fist tap him by the side.

"Come on Deku, take some pride in it." Uraraka beamed, and that made the pupil of the number 1 laugh… however he refused to open his mouth to gloat–

He saw Kirsihima who stopped before him, and once Midoriya raised his head, his glare met Bakugo's eyes.

The ash-blonde was annoyed.

"Listen here…" He seethed. "...Deku–!"

"I didn't help you."

Bakugo raised his head. Deku wasn't quite looking him in the eye… however he could speak without the stutter.

"You didn't ask for my help. " Midoriya tied the points around his neck. "You…

The words lingered, just for a second.

"You took your own points by yourself."

Bakugo… closed his mouth. Whatever he was going to say, he didn't.

Anger from his expression hadn't quite washed off, but he did make his team turn away.

"Damn straight."

Ash-blonde left the scene, and even though Midoriya was feeling a little frustrated, that was probably the most normal interaction they've ever had.

The greenette then looked at his hand too. His middle fingers hurt… but they weren't broken.

"Now, we're going after Tennyson and Todoroki."


Chromastone shot out from his magenta crystals. "Give it up, Night King!"

Todoroki made a wall of ice to protect himself. Tennyson was still quipping, even with two minutes on the clock.

"We just need to hold out–"

Another rocket hit the block of ice, right before Kendo and Chromastone's rainbow-powered fists demolished it.

"Sorry, but we can't have an end like this." Chromastone declared as he lifted one hand.

Their front horse did something unprecedented, and reached out for the points himself!

Tokoyami tried to make his move with Dark Shadow, but in the face of the rainbow light, it had to back off. Todoroki tried lifting his right arm up… but it was useless.

The frost had crept up too much, he could barely move his arm anymore. In the final couple minutes, he was completely exposed!

"No!"

He grabbed Chromastone's wrist. As with embers flaring from his left side, he pushed the silicon-based creature away, and moved to let out a stream of–!

*BOOM!*

"SMASH!"

One after the other, two shockwaves rocked the outer walls, and Team Midoriya along with Team Bakugo emerged.

"Who's got the points?" Bakugo eagerly looked around, and immediately found them on his neck. "Damn it, Icy-hot!"

Chromastone pulled back, and as relief hit the right side of Todoroki's body, his eyes widened.

"My left side…" He noticed. "What am I doing?.."

"Now, we're talking, Todoroki." Chromastone nodded. "Finally turning up that heat! Any other form, and I would be toast."

Todoroki's heart dropped. "No."

The fire shut off as fast as it appeared.

"I can't let *him*... win." He declared. Tennyson hadn't gotten attacked with his fire, he didn't let it burst, it was just a light shove.

"I won't break my vow."

Todoroki reassessed the situation. The wall he made between himself and the other teams had been broken, and on top of the three leading teams, everyone was rushing towards him–

"Yaoyorozu, get ready with our protection!" Tokage said from the rider's position.

"Yaoyorozu?!" Todoroki muttered to himself. She had arrived as well?!

With her black tied-back hair, and sharp eyes, she finally showed her face, along with Kaminari and Asui by her sides.

An insulation sheet emerged from her stomach, and Tokage pulled it over herself. "Kaminari!"

"You got it, vice prez." Kaminari said.

*Everyone* could see the storm which was coming.

"Hope you've made something strong!" Kaminari sparked up.

Many people had very little time to prepare.

"Thank god!" Chromastone thought. "Any other form and I *really* would be toast! Get behind me!"

"Shiozaki!" Midoriya called out, and the nun-like girl with luscious vine hair split off some of her hair as a barrier!

Desperate times called for desperate measures. Todoroki did the only thing that came to mind since their ice shield was down. "Tokoyami!"

Dark Shadow got in front of their team and opened his arms too. "Oh, this is going to hurt."

And Bakugo's team…

Kirishima looked up to their rider seat, and saw no one there. In the distance there were just some explosions!

"Hey Bakugo, where the hell are you going?!" Kirishima called out.

"WHAT GOOD IS IT IF I GET SHOCKED ALONG WITH YOU?!"

Yaoyorozu was undeterred however. "No matter if you've defended. This… is what we've been waiting for."

"Indiscriminate Shock: 1.3 MILLION VOLTS!"

All other teams got the shock treatment, all except for the lucky ones.

"WHY?!" Dark Shadow whimpered, but Todoroki breathed a sigh of relief. It did save them from being shocked.

The ten million points–

"Asui, now!"

"Ribbit." Her tongue shot out right to his neck, and pulled the newly acquired headband right off!

1. Team Tokage: 10,000,850 Points!

2. Team Bakugo: 1120 Points

3. Team Midoriya: 730 Points

4. Team Todoroki: 700 Points!

5. Team Tetsutetsu: 420 Points

6. Team Shoda: 315 Points

7. Team Kodai: 170 Points

8. Team Monoma: 0 Points

9. Team Kendo: 0 Points

10. Team Sero: 0 Points

11. Team Hagakure: 0 Points

"Todoroki!"

The fire and ice teen looked down, and saw two floating hands around his own neck!

His hands raised without waiting, but it was too late!

"You got it! You actually got it, Yaomomo!" Tokage jumped in place.

"Yes." Yaoyorozu said… as Asui passed her the 10 million.

The rich girl had to hold onto it for a second.

"Now." She then solemnly passed it on. "If you would?"

Tokage got the white band with the big red number, and firmly cracked her knuckles, right before her hands snapped off.

"Leave it to me!"

As her hands split off, so did her upper torso and flew into the air!

"Last minute!"

Chromastone scoffed. "Oh so you had an air battle in mind, Yaomomo? Easy pickings for Jet–"

He was about to slam the dial on his chest, only to see it blinking.

"Huh?!.."

"We've accounted for your transformation time." Yaoyorozu gritted her teeth as she looked over to him, specifically the dial on his chest. "If you were to switch now, your quirk wouldn't have enough charge remaining. The drawbacks would not allow you to sustain another transformation!"

"Drawbacks?-" Chromastone's eye widened. Yaomomo had calculated it, hadn't she?

"Each quick change is set to shave off 20 minutes of your time."

The midswitches. She was one of the only people who knew about the new restrictions on the Omnitrix, prior.

Yaoyorozu looked him dead in the eye. She had really gone and done that, this was her strategy!

"We don't underestimate you…" She spoke. "... yet you underestimate us!"

The hero of heroes was at a loss for any kind of response!

"Oh, some performance issue from Tennyson!" Present Mic cut in. "Right at the last minute too!"

Chromastone looked back at his team. He had no points, and the time. There was no chance for a switch back as well as a recharge right now!

"THE GAME IS ALMOST OVER!"

"Yanagi." Todoroki stated, and… the magenta glow appeared around his body, chasing after Tokage!

"My weight limit is roughly the weight of an average human." Reiko stated in a lower tone. "Todoroki is… an average human."

"GET BACK HERE!" Bakugo also changed course towards her, with his make-shift explosion airlines. Midoriya joined the group with help from Uraraka and Shiozaki!

"LOOKS LIKE WE'VE GOT A THREE WAY CHASE FOLKS!" Present Mic played up the intensity. ""IN THESE FINAL SECONDS, WHO WILL GET THE ULTIMATE 10 MILLION PRIZE?!"


Todoroki gritted his teeth. He was ahead of the three.

Right as he got close, he tried to make some ic–

"Boop!"

All in an instant, her entire upper body split into 10 pieces!

"Sorry handsome!" Tokage said. "But, hands off the merchandise!"

Her two hands floated to grab hi–

Todrooki grip-locked with them first, and gave her the ice-cold glare.

"Ooookay, tough crowd…" Tokage though as he tossed her hands down, undoing most her defenses.

"Tokage!" She heard from the ground. It was the team captain.

"Land back down!" From her stomach, Yaoyorozu was making shields. "We need to shift to Plan B…"

"Oh yeah, Tokage!" Kaminari said. "My strat!"

"TIME FOR A COUNTDOWN!"

Midnight cracked her whip and a 10 second countdown appeared on the hologram behind her.

10!

Tokage didn't even question it. She dove down–

"Not in your dreams!" This time Bakugo intercepted her.

"Oh, would you look at the time!" All at once, from the wrist up, she let pieces of her right arm bombard him!

9!

Tokage floated away. Bakugo was further away now. Todoroki was close, and Midoriya… not so much.

She smiled, everything was going just like Yaomomo said.

8!

And Tennyson…

"I'm told to not underestimate them…" With one eye split off, she wanted to spy–

…only to see their team in a brand new formation.

7!

Chromastone had lifted up Hatsume with one hand, as he supported the rest of the team with the other. "Are you ready?"

"Born ready!" She put on her goggles.

Kendo looked from her side. "Remember, we only have one shot."

"Anything less than a perfect aim…" Jiro rolled her eyes, with zero belief.

"Then I'm overqualified!" Hatsume said. "Send me up already!"

6!

Chromastone nodded and put all his force on that arm, sending her barrelling towards the sky.

"Activating hover-soles!" She tapped her boots together, and they activated, straightening her course.

"Now, you get ready Tennyson." Kendo said, her fists growing. Chromastone nodded, and got ready…

5!

Yaoyorozu saw the girl from the support course rise to the air. "Asui–"

"I wouldn't, frog girl!" She took out her blade weapon. "Buzz Blades here are way sharper than cotton candy, you see!"

She pressed a button on the side of her goggles. It made the lenses retract, letting her quirk activate.

4!

Her pupils narrowed on that path, brushing past Midoriya, swerving by Todoroki, almost hitting Bakugo… and honing right on the paper headband!

"Everyone!" She took aim. "Observe what babies of brilliance… and a little fangirling can do!"

One pull of the trigger, let loose a singular zooming saw blade go past.

It cut right through the paper, making it fall from Tokage's neck!

3!

"OH, THE HEADBAND IS AROUND NO ONE'S NECK NOW!" Present Mic jumped up.

Everyone swerved down.

Tokage and her floating hands, Todoroki with the poltergeist, Bakugo alone and even Midoriya!

"I got it!/I have you!/You're mine!/Just a little closer!"

A rainbow trail blew past them.

2!

It grabbed hold of the points, as all in a green flash, he revealed himself.

"No." He said with his back turned. "I*'ve got it!"

Tennyson… had managed to get up there.

1. Team Kendo: 10,000,320 Points!

2. Team Bakugo: 1120 Points

3. Team Midoriya: 730 Points

4. Team Todoroki: 700 Points

5. Team Tokage: 530 Points

6. Team Tetsutetsu: 420 Points

7. Team Shoda: 315 Points

8. Team Kodai: 170 Points

9. Team Monoma: 0 Points

10. Team Sero: 0 Points

11. Team Hagakure: 0 Points

Asui's eyes turned elsewhere. "Ribbit!" She fired her tongue to someone else's neck!

1!

"Dark Shadow!" Tokoyami yelled out from the ground. Yanagi swerved her hand, making their leader go even faster.

"Give it back." Todoroki said, but the currently free falling Tennyson just smiled earnestly.

"You were way too close, Todoroki." He looked at and then kept the points close to his chest. "But… maybe next time. When you bring more flare and less frost."

Todoroki's eyes widened–

"TIME'S UP!"

The heart rate of everyone in the air, at that time… suddenly dropped to zero, as relief washed over.

"AND WITH THAT, THE SECOND ROUND OF THE SPORTS FESTIVAL IS OFFICIALLY OVER!"

Todoroki found himself suspended in the air… as his teammate directed him back.

"I got you, Tennyson!" Kendo and Jiro positioned themselves right under him, and caught the winner.

Todoroki didn't look at them though. Not for another second, he didn't.

"Damn it…" He muttered under his breath.

Midoriya was also clenching his fist, as his team let him down. So did Tokage… though there was a lot more sorrow on her face than usual.

And Bakugo…

He slammed face first into the ground.

"Bakugo!" Kirishima became the first to call out. "You okay man?"

"HRRRRRRRRRRRR!" HE kept slamming his fist to the ground. "AHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Pony concernedly looked over, as Ashido nodded.

"Yep, he's fine as ever."

"NOW, LET'S LOOK AT WHO OUR TOP 4 TEAMS ARE!"

The cameras descended on Kendo and her team as Hatsume also just touched down..

Present Mic yelled. "IN FIRST PLACE, TEAM KENDO!"

Team Kendo: 10,000,320 Points

"EVEN THOUGH THEY BRIEFLY LOST THE POINTS, THE TEAM PULLED TOGETHER WITH GREAT UNITY!"

"And to think almost all of us are from different classes." Kendo said as she helped Tennyson find his footing.

"I know." Ben said, as he looked at Jiro who was taking off her hoverboots and Hatsume who was working on her saw gun.

"Can't believe it worked out."

"IN SECOND PLACE, TEAM BAKUGO!"

Team Bakugo: 1125 Points

"Ugh…" Mina waved her hand around. "We were so close to first place… and I really couldn't do much!"

"I know…" Kirishima said. "And I don't think our team leader feels the same way."

"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Bakugo continued to shout, hunched over. "LOST. TO. F**KING! AHHHHHH AGAIN!"

Pony assembled her hands behind her. "Well, it was fun at least. AND we're moving on."

"AND THIRD PLACE GOES TO 1-A AGAIN! THE UNRELENTING TEAM MIDORIYA!"

Team Midoriya: 730 Points

Their response was one of relieved sighs… minus Uraraka's fistbumping the air and Shinso walking away, with hands in his pockets.


Yaoyorozu… couldn't find the right words.

They stopped the cavalry formation, and for the first time she got to have a real look towards her teammates.

Kaminari was discontented, to put it simply. He held himself back from muttering, yelling, or just complaining in general.

Tokage also came down from the skies, equally discouraged and a little pissed. She could see her grab and pull off the other 530 points wrapped around her forehead.

"Everyone, you have my apologies."

Yaoyorozu bowed her head, taking their attention. "I know I made a promise to win and get you all to the finals together, with our teamwork, however…"

She lifted up her head, eyes still not able to look at them.

"Both my idea and I… have been insufficient–"

"Yaoyorozu." Asui cut her off. She sympathetically looked her in the eye…. and lifted her right hand.

"You didn't fail."

All 3 teammates were perplexed, as the realization dawned on them.

"I've wanted to save Tokage as you've said, ribbit." She said, unraveling the headband. "However, there was too much commotion to take aim. I thought Todoroki might freeze my tongue, or Bakugo could explode it, or the girl from support could…"

Asui paused for a second, most likely because she felt reminded of Hatsume's saw weapon.

"Ribbit, still, I looked around elsewhere to get one… " She handed it off to Tokage. "...and I found it on one of your friends."

Tokage took one look, as did Kaminari and Yaoyorozu… only for all her eyes to widen.

170 points.

Tokage took out her prior 530 points again! If they had both of these, then… wait a second!

Momo felt an adrenaline rush coming.

"AND WHAT IS THAT INFO I'M GETTING LADIES AND GENTS?!" Present Mic shouted, one hand on his headphones.

Her heart felt like it was about to burst from her chest.

"BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE A TIE FOR THE FOURTH PLACE! TEAM TOKAGE…"

Team Tokage: 700 Points!


Team Todoroki: 700 Points

"...AND TEAM TODOROKI!"

Present Mic then… looked at his co-commentator about what to do. He threw up his hands. Five teams?-

Midnight saw their struggle from the podium. She looked at Cementoss next to her, and as she saw him shrug as well, she cracked her whip.

"As this is unprecedented, we will decide what to do during the break!" She said. "For now, let's all get recharged before going onto the afternoon festivities!"

Eraser Head turned on his microphone. "Well said, Midnight."

Present Mic cleared his throat, and got his words back in order. "AND WHEN WE COME BACK, WE'LL SEE HOW 16 FROM THESE FIVE VALIANT TEAMS WILL ADVANCE… TO THE FINAL ROUNDS!"

Tokoyami looked up to the commentator booth… before looking over to the team they've tied with.

"We really cut it close, huh, Fumi?" Dark Shadow emerged.

"I'm sorry everyone!" Iida raised his fist, shaking with disappointment… directed to himself! "If only I could save my trump card just for a little while longer."

Reiko tilted her head, talking under her breath again. "Even though we advanced, it felt like we were skating on thin ice."

"It is fine, class president." Tokoyami, on the other hand, tried to be supportive. "Without you, we would have been out of the fight to begin with."

Iida looked at him with surprise.

"All we have to do now, is learn how they will decide on 16 out of 20 of us."

"Right…" Iida settled back down.

Yanagi got further away from them… Now that the event was done, they could be split off to their own classes.

She crossed her arms, and leaned against a wall–!

"Hey!"

Reiko almost jumped, seeing an exhausted and seething Monoma approach her.

"Yanagi…" He said, as an overwhelming sinister undertone as well as desperation was still in his voice.!

"I… I have to congratulate you on making it into the final couple of teams!…" he said, with one hand over his face. "...in spite of your entourage."

Her own eyes widened.

"I didn't do much." She bluntly stated.

"Oh, don't be all humble like the others, Yanagi." Monoma opened his arms. "You USED the lousy 1-A members of your team perfectly. YOU allowed that engine guy to execute his desperate assault. And at the end, seeing an unwinnable situation, you ensured a tie would happen!"

She honestly had no idea what he was talking about. They qualified with just the 700 of their own points, and as for helping Iida, that's… what exactly she did. She allowed him to use his trump card by levitating their own feet so they wouldn't trip over one another.

"Don't tell me you've gone soft as well!" Monoma saw her being unresponsive. "Come on!"

Reiko looked away this time. She wasn't looking to indulge him anymore–

"I can see your hair brushed back too!" he opened his hands. "Since when do you do that?!"

Her eyebrows went up, as she checked it. Yes, the left side of her face was uncovered.

Reiko fixed it back, covering her left eye once again.

With her burrow furrowed, her eyes turned to Todoroki in the distance and Yanagi stated plainly. "It was to see better."


Todoroki looked up at the commentators as well… before looking into his own left hand.

"I said I'd never use this to attack." he said frustratedly. "But as soon as I got overwhelmed… I broke my own promise."

His fist clenched. "At this rate he'll win… and I'll be just like how he wants me to be."

Endeavor looked annoyed, before retreating inside the stadium. His stomps had an extra weight to them now, as his expression held crooked.

"To think you were doing well earlier." He scoffed.

Tennyson was in the distance now, talking and laughing along with his team.

"His eleventh… new form." Todoroki thought. "The type of quirk he has…"

His eyes narrowed.

"It's strong…" He thought. "... and feels purposefully so."


"NOW, LET'S TAKE OUR HOUR LONG LUNCH BREAK! SEE YA SOON!"

Midnight cracked her whip. "Run the ads now!"

Present Mic relaxed in her seat. "Hey Eraser Head, let's go grab some food."

"Maybe I'll take a nap…" Eraser Head leaned to his microphone, and turned it off.

Present Mic noticed him getting up, and walking fast. That didn't look like a man who was going to grab a sleeping bag.

"Hey, where are you going?" he asked from the corridor.

Aizawa deadpanned. "Did you forget?"

There were some answers he wanted to get, and as he walked off to do so, the students in the field started to disperse to the cafeteria, along with others from their class.

"Mina, congrats." Asui said, as she met up.

Ashido however wasn't in the mood to party all that much.

"Thanks, but I really didn't do much." She said with a hand behind her neck. "Bakugo only asked me to join because I could melt Todoroki's ice and I didn't even get to do that. It's not like, you know, I really helped that much."

"Don't downplay yourself, ribbit." Asui responded. "You made it to the finals, without a tie. You should enjoy it!"

"Iida, you were holding out on us!" Uraraka ran in place. Even though she didn't get attacked by it, she had seen the Recipro burst from the giant screens. "I had no idea you could do that!"

"Rest assured, my intention to deceive you had no malicious intent." He robotically waved his hand. "I was just being strategic."

"What a strategy it was though." Jiro crossed her arms. "You know Chromastone probably didn't show it, but I'm sure you made Tennyson piss his pants a little."

"Language, Jiro!" Iida waved his hand again!

"Speaking of which…" Yaoyorozu joined their group. Her eyes traveled around, with a reluctant expression. "Have you perhaps seen where Tennyson went?"

Uraraka and Jiro looked around.

"Or Midoriya for that matter." Iida noticed another one of his fellow classmate's absence as well.


At the Faculty and Student Entrance just next to the exit that they had, stood Tennyson… and Todoroki.

They were alone, and face to face.

The light was just cutting in from the doorway, covering only half of each other's looks.

Tennyson stood tall in the presence of the blue iris on Todoroki's right side, enlightened by the light… and the black iris on his left, darkened by the shadows.

"Well, you asked, and here I am." Ben stated, trying to sort of lighten up the mood. "What did you want to talk about?"


Endeavor was also inside the tournament grounds, long since left the spectator seats, and walking down some stairs.

"YO." The flaming hero heard the unintentionally booming tone from behind him.

It pissed him off. He could hardly keep a lid on his quirk.

"LONG TIME NO SEE."

With a dark navy suit, white shirt, red tie, and his usual bulky physique, the number 1 hero… had appeared behind him.

"LET'S HAVE TEA AND CATCH UP, ENDEAVOR!"

That was the final straw though, his usual jovial and familiar tone. His flames couldn't help but actually grow larger, especially around his mask as a show of force.

He looked over his shoulder. "All Might…"


And that's it everyone! What did you think?

Personally, before anything else, the teamwork in this chapter was just really fun to write. Especially anything involving the 1-B characters.

I'm not gonna go in-depth this time, for both your sake and mine because otherwise we're looking at a 25k word chapter.

So, I'm just going to stick to mentioning a couple of things.

First is Tennyson's new form. Yes, I'm just going to come out and say it at this point, it IS Echo Echo, but the naming segment I had for him ended up being too long and is being worked into Chapter 28. For sure this time, he's going to be name dropped!

Second, Hatsume's weapons. If you got the reference, you got the reference, and for those that did, what do you think? To be honest, the story behind that is I got my hands on a PS3 and just actually started to play through the games for the first time. Inspiration happened to strike and… well here we are. If you have any weapons you want to see included, comment them down!

Third, Shinso. Yes, he didn't get to do anything and he just kind of ended up being an unfortunate casualty of trying to pace this hectic situation. He will get more in the next chapter, I promise.

But yeah, other than that, I'm really looking forward to the reviews for this chapter, especially about the ending.

Speaking of which, before I go, one last thing.

A quick shoutout to Bman6272000 from AO3. YEP, YOU SON OF A GUN, YOU CALLED THE ENDING!

To be honest, I was conflicted beforehand, like I DID ponder Yaomomo's team losing, but maybe she got enough L's for now…

In either case, if you're curious, I'm leaving the details of all 12 teams right here at the bottom, but until the next one, I hope you guys have a great day, and I hope to see you on the next one!


Cavalry Battle Teams

Team 1(10,000,320 Points): Kendo(Rider), Tennyson(Front), Jiro(Left), Hatsume(Right)

Team 2(700 Points): Todoroki(Rider), Iida(Front), Yanagi(Left), Tokoyami(Right)

Team 3(600 Points): Midoriya(Rider), Shiozaki(Front), Uraraka(Left), Shinso(Right)

Team 4(575 Points): Bakugo(Rider), Kirishima(Front), Ashido(Left), Pony(Right)

Team 5(530 Points): Tokage(Rider), Yaoyorozu(Front), Asui(Left), Kaminari(Right)

Team 6(420 Points): Tetsutetsu(Rider), Honenuki(Front), Kuroiro(Left), Komori(Right)

Team 7(350 Points): Sero(Rider), Shoji(Front), Ojiro(Left)

Team 8(315 Points): Shoda(Rider), Awase(Front), Fukidashi(Right)

Team 9(195 Points): Hagakure(Rider), Sato(Front), Koda(Left), Aoyama(Right)

Team 10(170 Points): Kodai(Rider), Shishida(Front), Bondo(Left), Rin(Right)

Team 11(130 Points): Monoma(Rider), Tsurburaba(Front), Kaibara(Left), Kamakiri(Right)