The Gunslinger Hero: Flintlock

by Professor Donger

After 8 years in America Izumi Midoriya is asked to return home to Japan to teach at UA. She won't be coming back as some quirkless little girl though. She'll be returning as The Lone Star State's Number 2 Hero. The Gunslinger Hero: Flintlock! Fem!Izumi! Izumi Has a GUN! Cowritten by Damian02 on AO3

21. Chapter 21

AN: Professor Donger: Hey! Here's a new chapter for you guys! This one was a pain in the ass to write, but also fun so here's hoping you enjoy it!

Damian: We wanted to make sure the quality was good enough for y'all. I mean, we ain't about to half-ass a fight against someone like Darth Vader!

Remember that we have a discord server now too for people who want to talk about our fics or just hang out in general! /rXhwQ9bFjn

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Meanwhile, in the United States.

Star had never really watched UA's Sports Festival before, much to the chagrin of her best friend, Japanese native Izumi Midoriya. Every year the Texan heroine would try and get her to watch the festival with her, and every year Star would come up with an excuse to just… well not.

It was nothing against Izumi, Cathleen loved that woman like a sister, and watching a festival put on by All Might's Almamater would have been fun, it's just… Cathleen had a bad habit of holding grudges.

Izumi was her closest friend, the spunky Texan was always the first to volunteer for any out-of-state op, the first to fly out to New York if Star ever needed help or an extra set of hands. She was a ray of sunshine and one that Star couldn't help but gravitate toward, being a massive extrovert herself.

So finding out Izumi's backstory after one night of drinking, finding out that this sweet, brave, and kind young lady was treated so poorly back in her home country…

It made Star's blood boil, and it didn't encourage America's Number One hero to enjoy watching a Japanese school's sports festival, even if Izumi said that UA was one of the few major Japanese hero schools that never discriminated against people.

So yea, call it petty, but Star didn't want to give support to a country that treated her friend so poorly.

Unfortunately for Star though, Izumi had decided to pull what everyone in their circle of friends was calling a "Dick move" and went to teach at UA.

That wouldn't have been a big problem, but then Izumi started sending texts talking about her "cute little students" and how they're all doing so well and how she can't wait for everyone to see them at the sports festival…

And dammit Star and the others got curious!

So here Star was, grilling on her rarely used grill, flipping burgers, steaks, and hotdogs at nearly twelve in the morning while Florida-Man sat in her living room, barely fitting on her couch (which itself was already big to accommodate for Star's size), trying to find the correct channel for the blasted Festival.

"Dude, it should be on ESPN." Star called from the backyard, plating up the last burger before heading inside to set up the rest of the snacks. She didn't even flinch as the giant alligator man banged a clawed fist on her couch's armrest.

"It's fucking not! I checked ESPN One, Two, and Three! Why do we even need three ESPN's!?"

"Would you mind not breaking my God damn remote again?"

The sound of spurs clinking interrupted the two's argument and they turned to see a man in a trench coat standing at the door, staring at them from behind the red visor of his gas mask. He nodded slightly before walking in like he owned the place.

"Did… you seriously just leave your door open for anyone to just wander in?" Florida-Man asked with a frown.

"I wouldn't worry too much about it, Jay. Have you seen me?" She flexed her bicep. "Who would be stupid enough to break into the home of the Number One?"

"Izumi." Florida-Man deadpanned, causing Star to snort. "She would take that as a challenge."

"She doesn't count." Star turned to the Lone Ranger "Hey there, R, I'm surprised you decided to come. Usually, you don't accept invites to these types of things."

The Lone Ranger looked at her for a moment, saying nothing, and Star nodded.

"Well make yourself comfortable, maybe help Jay figure out what channel the Sports Festival is on, he can't seem to find it," Star asked, the Ranger nodded and moved toward the alligator, reaching for the remote and taking it into his black-gloved hand. He lifted the remote to the massive TV and quickly typed in a channel number, only for the channel to pop to ESPN One.

The Sports Festival was on.

Florida-Man stood with a hiss and a growl. "Oh, that's bullshit! I literally just checked there!"

The Lone Ranger just gave him a thumbs-up before sitting on the couch.

Star glanced away from her work at the TV and saw that the Sports Festival had already started. "So what's going on now?"

Florida-Man let out another hiss. "We missed the first event!"

"Eh, I wouldn't lose sleep over it, the first two events are primarily for clearing the wheat from the chaff, or so Izu told me quite a few times." Her doorbell ringing caused her to turn and smile at the two new guests that were entering her home. One was a red-headed petite girl, wearing what would honestly be described as "Ranch Hand" clothing, plaid, jeans, and a cowboy hat. While the other was a large Polynesian man, dressed in shorts and a very bright Hawaiian shirt.

"Aloha, Star! I never got a chance to thank you for helping with that big guy back home!" The Hawaiin man hugged her tightly with one arm. "I wish I knew this was gonna be a cookout! I'd have brought some Poi!"

Florida-Man hissed out a laugh, "Well if it isn't the Big Kahuna! Didn't think you'd actually fly out here from Hawaii."

Star smiled as she hugged the man back. "Hey BK, Spirit, how you doin'?"

"Kinda tired. Jetlag and all that." He waved her off. "But not anything I can't handle, thankfully Alex here picked me up!" He gave the smaller girl a pat on the back, causing her to stumble a bit and glare at him.

"If I didn't you'd get lost." The cowgirl muttered but her frown turned into a smile when she looked at Star. "Hey Star, did we miss anything?"

"No." A new voice suddenly piped up causing everyone in the room to jump, save Ranger who just lazily tilted his head up to the ceiling. Standing upside down with his wings folded like a cape was an absolutely massive moth. He quickly dropped down from the ceiling quietly and didn't even flinch when Alex started pounding her fists on his shoulder.

"Mothman, you sonovabitch! Stop scarin' me like that! Or I'll call Ezekiel in here and he'll kick your ass!"

"The fact that you need to call your horse in here to fight me is sad, Spirit."

"Don't go mockin' my horse!" She was about to put her fingers in her mouth to whistle, only to get slapped in the face by a slice of American Cheese causing her to sputter as she tried to get it off.

"No summoning spirit horses in my damn house," Star scolded with a frown, she turned to Mothman. "And you need to stop showing up at random intervals."

"I've been here since last night," Mothman said like it was a completely normal thing.

"..." Star raised an eyebrow at him and he shrugged.

"I stayed in the trees nearby all day sleeping."

"Start with that next time, asshole."

BK laughed a hearty laugh and gave Mothman a pat on the back. "I like this guy! You've got to come to Hawaii one of these days, Brotha, you can help me with my own pest problem."

"I am a moth, Big Kahuna, I do not speak to moths."

"Sounds like a right attitude problem," a deep voice interjected causing them to once more turn to the entrance as an eight-foot-tall ape-man wandered into the room. He was rather sharply dressed, all things considered, wearing a suit and tie along with dress pants, though his massive feet and hands were still bare.

"Elroy, why are you in a suit?" Star asked as she motioned for everyone to help themselves to the food. She threw Florida-Man a beer which he accepted with a grin, showing his many… many teeth.

"Why aren't you in a suit?"

"Because this is my house?"

"Sounds like a personal problem."

"Right," Star rolled her eyes. "Just watch where you shed while in my house."

Elroy looked offended. "I don't shed!"

Everyone turned to look at him with unamused expressions.

"...much."

"The incident at the Lū'au last year says otherwise," BK deadpanned.

"We… we don't talk about that." Elroy shuffled nervously. "It's not my fault I don't handle humidity well." It was then he noticed the gas-masked man sitting on one of the many chairs that Star had set up. "Is that The Ranger? The hell are you doing here? I thought you never showed up to social events!"

The Ranger simply turned his gaze towards Elroy and said nothing as he seemingly just stared. Elroy looked around awkwardly as he didn't know what that look meant.

Eventually, Alex groaned as she flopped onto one of the couches, munching on the now-liberated cheese. "Ranger, not everyone is gonna be able to read your mind." She glanced towards Elroy, holding up her phone to show him. "It's been mentioned that Izumi is commentating on the festival. He's only here because of his kid."

The Ranger's gaze turned onto her, and Alex simply rolled her eyes. "Oh please, you practically treated her like a daughter. Pretty sure her real dad was getting a lil' jealous," she said with a smirk.

The Ranger got up and started heading towards the door.

"No! I was joking! Don't leave!" Alex yelled out, but she couldn't stop the bit of laughter that escaped her.

The Ranger stopped and shrugged before returning to his seat. He gave Alex a quick pat on the head, which made her pout, before turning back to the Festival.

"Hey," she called over to Florida-Man, "did they explain what the second event was yet?"

The giant reptilian let out a passive growl before speaking. "I think we just missed it."

Star hummed as she looked at her phone, while expertly bringing a tray of prepared burgers and dogs to the coffee table. BK had decided to help bring the chips and condiments, which she was grateful for. "Izumi says that it's basically a kill as many things as-possible event, with a golden snitch rule to end it." She carefully put the platter down before shrugging "She didn't explain what the snitch was."

"Sounds like it's gonna be a quick one then," Elroy said as he took his own seat, luckily not a couch, so Star won't have to clean up too much fur later. "UA kids are supposed to be no joke, so whatever they got to kill is in for a tough time."

"Melissa made the robots," Star added.

"..." Elroy sat in frozen silence as the words processed.

"Oh, they are so fucked, " Alex snickered.

"Hey now, don't count the os pequenos out before they even get a chance to tussle." A voice sounded from the door, once again causing everyone to turn and see a large, casually dressed Brazilian man entering with a grin on his face.

"You're late, Miguel," Star spared him a glance as she was finishing up. "Aren't you supposed to be fast or something?"

"I was coming here from the airport, but got… sidetracked. That being said, you have a serious crime problem in this city, Star."

"Yeah, well, welcome to The Big Apple," Star grumbled. "All Might tried to eliminate the crime rate here and he couldn't do it, I may be good but I'm not that good." She shrugged. "It was a lot worse before I showed up though, so at least I'm making progress."

"We take any win we can get, yeah?" BK said as he got comfortable in his seat, a large tray of food with him. Star always forgot how much that man could eat.

Miguel chuckled and took a seat, "Very true, Amigo, very true." He looked up at the television. "Has Pouco Verde gotten bored and jumped down to fight the robots herself yet?"

"The event is about to start," Mothman said from his perch up near the ceiling. Star would tell him to get down, but he wasn't bothering anyone so there was no point, as long as he didn't sleep up there.

Alex had no such qualms. "You better not be plannin' on eatin' our clothes from up there!"

"I do not do that."

"Bullshit! You tried stealing my hat once!"

"You have no proof."

"I have a bite mark on the side of one of my hats!"

Miguel chuckled as he relaxed in his seat. "Now this isn't a sight you see every day. Nine out of ten of America's top heroes all in one place. What is this, the I-Expo?"

Elroy stopped sipping his drink and grumbled "I wish. It'd be more interesting."

Florida-Man laughed and clapped the large ape-man on the back, "Don't be such a nerd, nerd, you can ask Melissa all about her little inventions during the event. We all know you two are penpals."

Elroy snapped his head in the alligator man's direction. "Who told you such a thing?!"

"Izumi." Everyone said at once, except Ranger for obvious reasons.

"...Sometimes I hate her," Elroy grumbled.

Before anyone could poke more fun at the scientist, a sharp knocking on wood courtesy of The Ranger drew everyone's attention to the mute, who simply pointed at the TV. The event looked like it was about to properly start.

"Finally," Florida-Man hissed with excitement.

The Teams it seems, had finally been formed and the camera was currently panning across each team, subtitles appearing above the student's heads with their names and quirks.

One name, in particular, made a certain cowgirl pause.

"Wait a damn minute," Alex sat up in her seat and leaned forward as she read the name. "Is that girl related to ol' Abigail?"

"Cow Lady?" BK asked, remembering her. "Does she have kids?"

"No, no," Alex waved her hand, "she don't got kids. Uhm," she snapped her fingers as she tried to get her brain to put together the puzzle in her head. She then slapped her hand on her leg as it clicked. "Her sister! Her sister's got kids! She married some Japanese feller, that's why the last name rung such a bell!" She then looked closer at the girl on screen and smiled wider. "Oh shit, that's little Pony?!" Her eyes widened. "I haven't seen her in ages! I didn't know she ran off to UA."

Florida-Man grunted, "Isn't Cow Lady one of your heroes?" He asked.

"Don't say that like I own her, Jay."

"I don't know, you Oklahomans are pretty primitive," he chuckled.

"She's part of my militia, yeah, the same as Otter is for Izumi, what of it?"

"I was just trying to figure out how you knew some random hero's niece is all."

"Yeah, well when that 'random hero's niece' tags along with their aunt to your gun range to have some fun every once in a while, you tend to recognize her."

"Can you all Shaddap?" Star got comfortable in her own seat. "I'm trying to listen."

"Must be nice, knowing Japanese," Mothman's tone was neutral, but the group knew him well enough to detect the hint of annoyance.

"Should have taken Izumi up on those lessons then," Miguel chuckled. "She had me speaking Japanese like I was born to in no time."

"You two also spent a good while stuck with each other down in Mexico when you were taking care of that Cartel," Elroy added as on-screen Midnight was getting ready to set the teams loose. "I'm not surprised." He hummed in thought. "Honestly, she's not that bad of a teacher, all things considered."

Everyone then chose to sit quietly and watch as Midnight gave the go-ahead for the event to begin, the teams of students all rushing into the building in their own way.

The silence was only broken when the group of Heroes bore witness to what the robots were.

"SHE FUCKING WOULD!" Star began to laugh so hard she started wheezing, almost falling out of her chair. Leave it to Melissa to make a Star Wars-themed event to appease her girlfriend. And lore accurate Stormtrooper aim too? 'Izumi must be in nerd heaven right now.'

A few minutes later into the event, Star retracted her earlier mental statement, after the Boss was unleashed. They couldn't see what happened on the fourth floor, except that Koda kid turning into a bear at some point and fighting something before being knocked out, but the moment they heard that breathing…

"Izumi is probably losing her shit right now," Florida-Man commented, and sure enough, they could hear the flood of excitement Izumi was trying to keep reigned in as she introduced Darth Vader as the boss.

"I am so glad I chose to watch the Festival this year," Cathleen admitted.

"Wait wait wait wait wait," Alex quickly said as she shook her head. "I just realized something. That boy turned into a goddamn bear to fight Vader, right?"

"Yeah?" BK raised an eyebrow at the smaller woman.

"Right, and… Vader took him down without even using that lightsaber of his." Alex's observations caused everyone in the room to freeze, Florida-Man mid-way through taking a bite out of a huge burger made especially for him since all the others were "bite-size" to him.

Elroy leaned forward in his seat, resting his elbows on his knees, and clasped his hands in front of his face as he said, "Oh, my stars and garters…"

Florida-Man snorted, "Melissa really woke up one morning and said 'fuck them kids', huh?"

"Oh, no," Star shook her head, "if she really wanted to give those kids no chance, then this event would be over by now. I know the kinds of things that woman could make."

Miguel hummed while stroking his chin. "This ought to be a very interesting Sports Festival."

His smile widened a little more when he saw a boy with some kind of electricity quirk start fighting with increased speed and agility.

"Very interesting indeed."

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Back in the present

It didn't take a tactical genius to realize just how totally screwed Team Tsunotori was. Trapped with a state-of-the-art combat robot, low on energy, low on options, and no escape. Technically speaking, with how many other robots they've destroyed, they could take the loss and still all advance to the next stage, but that wasn't the point! They refused to give up, and they would do whatever it took to take down Vader.

Now if only one of them had a quirk that involved pulling miracles out of their ass, because the truth of the matter was that was the only way they would win against the death machine.

Pony flew around the room on her horns, holding a rifle that she had procured from one of the Purge Troopers they'd killed. She was doing her absolute best to try and put pressure on Vader, staying out of reach of his lightsaber while raining fire on him, but even then it was as if she was no more than a pesky fly to him.

This couldn't have been made more obvious as when Ochako had gone in to engage Vader and Pony tried to help make openings by firing at him, hoping to force him to use his lightsaber to deflect her shots so her friend could get a hit in. Only this plan failed when Vader didn't use his lightsaber to block the blaster bolts. Instead, he engaged Ochako, lightsaber to electro-hammer, while using whatever bullshit power he had to lift the remains of the Stormtroopers in the room, clumped them together, and used them as a shield to block Pony's attacks.

Pony was honestly a little mortified by the action. "Okay, that's kinda messed up!"

Vader didn't seem to care, as he held his hand out to Pony before dozens of Stormtrooper bodies went flying in her direction, forcing her to flee or be smothered. With the nuisance dealt with for now, Vader refocused on Ochako as she tried to sneak a hit in with her hammer, raising his hand lazily before she found herself being sent flying across the room, impacting the wall hard.

She groaned as she fell to the ground on her hands and knees. "That Force bullshit is starting to get really annoying!"

Vader was about to advance on the downed girl, when a purple blur zoomed past him from above, blaster bolts being fired at him. He watched the blur move around, bouncing from wall to pillar to ceiling to floor. After a few more seconds of deflecting and observing he acted. He threw his hand out to a wall where a purple orb was placed and it exploded. Minoru then found himself impacting hard concrete at high speeds, resulting in him falling to the ground and clutching his arm while yelling in pain.

Vader turned and raised his blade to block more blaster fire from Pony, the machine growing increasingly annoyed by this thorn in his side. So focused he was on trying to get Pony out of the air, he barely had time to react as Tsuyu came seemingly out of nowhere from above, kicking him in the back with enough force to actually send him stumbling forwards. Vader stood there in stunned silence for a moment before slowly turning to face Tsuyu, the Sith towering over the already short girl.

"Impressive strength, but it is not enough," He said.

"Yeah, no shit," Tsuyu responded before backflipping out of the way of a lightsaber strike. She bounced back toward a nearby wall before rocketing herself off it with all the strength her legs were capable of cracking the concrete beneath her as she sped straight toward Vader. She flipped around at the last second before impact, slamming both legs into the robot's torso faster than he could react, their momentum slamming the two of them through the wall and multiple layers of concrete, shaking the whole building.

Ochako by now had managed to get up and made her way over to Minoru to help him up. "You alright?"

"No…" He groaned as he held his arm. "Fuck, that hurt."

Pony flew on over and hopped off her horns, coming to stand next to her two teammates with an excited smile on her face. "You see that?! Tsu is crazy!"

"Yeah, did I feel the building shake?" Minoru asked, both girls nodding in response. There was no way Vader withstood a blow like that, right? "Holy shit, how strong are her legs?"

"You can ask her later," Ochako said as she hefted her hammer and began walking towards the hole, "I'm sure Tsu would be more than happy to give you a demonstration."

Minoru paused for a moment. "W-what kind of demonstration are we talking about here? Like, watermelon between the thighs level or…?"

"I-I can do that if you want." Tsuyu's voice echoed as she walked out of the hole she made. Well, more limped out, she shakily gave a thumbs up and a grin.

The team stared in shocked silence before erupting into cheers, whooping and hollering as they actually managed to pull a miracle out of their ass. They started chanting Tsu over and over, cheering for the one who dealt the final blow.

"Got him…" Tsuyu said, panting before nearly falling over. "Oh, my legs hurt…"

"Allow me to relieve you of your pain."

Her eyes widened before she tried to turn around, but before she could even do that she screamed as a red blade went slicing across her back, sending red electricity coursing through her body as she fell over twitching and unconscious.

"TSU!" Her teammates screamed as they looked on in horror.

From the smoke and rubble, Vader stepped out and over the unconscious frog girl, his gaze focused on the remaining members of the team. He was almost completely unscathed by the attack.

"Shall we continue?" Vader mockingly asked, leveling his blade in their direction.

Before their nightmare could continue once more, a sparkling laser came blasting through one of the locked blast doors and towards Vader, who barely deflected the beam into the ceiling with his blade.

"How dare you block such a wonderful attack!" Yuga's voice called from the other side of the blast door.

Ochako raised a finger and was speechless for a moment before pointing at the door. "Is that Aoyama?"

From the blast door, a team consisting of Yuga, Mashirao, Rikido, and Mezo came through.

"Sorry guys, but I hope you don't mind if we steal the Boss kill from you," Rikido cockily said as he cracked his knuckles.

"We uh, kinda need the points," Mashirao sheepishly admitted as he scratched his cheek.

Ochako stared at them like they had lost their goddamn minds, which they probably had if they were volunteering to fight Vader. Were they not aware of how bullshit he was to fight?!

She was about to voice her objections when she found a hand covering her mouth.

"Sure!" Pony eagerly nodded her head. "You got this! Tag In!" She quickly started pulling Ochako away.

"He's all yours!" Minoru all but shoved Ochako along with Pony past the sacrifi- uhm, team, and out of the room. "You guys go nuts!"

Mezo stared after the rapidly retreating team before looking at his own teammates. "They left way too quickly."

"It matters not, mon ami," Yuga struck a pose as he aimed his Naval Laser at Vader. "This villain won't last long against my brilliant laser!"

Yuga fired his quirk at Vader, but the Sith Lord didn't react much besides raising his lightsaber at just the right angle to refract the laser into Mezo, sending the giant young man crashing into the wall behind his team.

"...Oops," Yuga said.

"Alright bucket head," Rikido took out a sugar packet (he was allowed them since otherwise he may as well have been quirkless) and swallowed its contents, buffing up before charging headfirst at Vader. "LET'S GO!"

Vader simply sidestepped the charge and swung his blade through Rikido, sending the boy crumbling to the ground twitching.

Yuga posed to fire again, but his stomach growled as he began to suffer from the side effects of his quirk. He grabbed his stomach as it began to cramp, and fell over on his side, presumably cursing in French.

"Team Aoyama has been eliminated!" Midnight could be heard announcing.

Vader simply moved to follow after Team Tsunotori, but not before stopping by Mashirao and looking down at him.

"This… was pathetic."

The tailed boy sighed. "I know…"

Vader moved on, ignoring the medic bots that rushed into the building to extract the fallen students.

He had more targets to hunt.

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Izumi took a deep breath before letting out a long exhale through her nose.

Next to her, Yu cringed at the frankly embarrassing performance she just witnessed. "That was… something."

Izumi was still exhaling.

"Izu, bud, you alright?"

Eri looked at her mom in concern before going back to watching the match.

Izumi was… she was still exhaling.

"Okay, you're starting to actually worry me," Yu admitted.

Then she stopped.

"I am going to kill them," Izumi muttered as she started tapping her foot. "I am going to make them go through so many drills and exercises, that when I'm done with them they'll have to actively try to let another outcome like this happen again."

Yu picked Eri up and scooted her chair a little bit away from her volatile friend. If there's one thing she remembered about Izumi Midoriya, it was how there was always a calm before the storm.

"Uhm, Eri, why don't you sit with Aunty Yu over here for a little bit, okay?"

"Okay!"

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In the Midoriyas' private booth, Jin and Present Mic were trying desperately to hold Aizawa back.

"You little shits!" Aizawa shouted, causing Hisashi and Inko to stare at him in shock while Melissa just sighed and downed another drink.

Himiko just ate popcorn as she watched Aizawa have a mental breakdown.

"I woke up on time for you guys for two weeks! TWO WEEKS! And this is how you repay me?! I'll make sure to PT you all so hard you fucking die!"

Nezu pulled out his phone and quickly typed a message to Recovery Girl.

"Now, Aizawa, calm down." Nezu began slowly only for the man to turn his bloodshot eyes on him

"I want them expelled! I want all four of those jokers expelled for this!"

"You can't just expel them because they lost in a…less than satisfactory way." Nezu tried to reason with him.

Aizawa wasn't having it. "THE HELL I CAN'T!" He finally broke out of Mic and Jin's grip, only to fall face first into his sleeping bag snoring, a dart sticking out of his neck and Recovery Girl sighing from the doorway.

"Nice timing," Toshinori gave her a thumbs up.

"Got this younger body to thank for getting me here quickly." She looked at Jin. "Make a few clones, deary, let's get him to the infirmary so he can sleep this off, I put enough juice in these babies to take down All Might."

"Wait… you did?" Toshinori looked back at her with concern.

She didn't answer, instead leading the two Jin clones out of the booth.

Inko sighed, "Well, I'm sober now…"

Hisashi let out a laugh while Himiko grinned.

Melissa giggled. "I'm not. Getting a little itsy bitsy tipsy over here."

Nezu just sighed "Do I have to cut you guys off?"

"Pfft fuck you mole-man," Melissa grumbled. "I can drink at least four more of these and still be fine, worst comes to worst I can do a nanite flush and be fiiiiine."

Hisashi raised an eyebrow at her. "The last time you did that you were vomiting for like four hours."

"That's future Mel's problem."

Cat let out a meow to get Melissa's attention, her eyes flashing.

"Oh, that must be the Kenobi Protocol," she said as she pulled out a tablet from… somewhere.

"You're gonna tell us what that Protocol thing is now?" Mic asked.

"You'll see," Himiko said with a giddy look as she let out an ominous giggle.

Mic was about to persist, but his and everyone else's attention was instead drawn to something entering the field and heading toward the building. It didn't look like a medical bot.

"Uhm, what is-"

"I'm not going to tell you so don't bother asking anymore," Melissa said with genuine annoyance entering her voice.

"Yes ma'am." Present Mic knew better than to piss off the woman who made the Vader-Bot.

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Denki groaned as he lay on the floor, having not moved for a while. He wasn't exactly unconscious yet, but he wasn't coherent enough to pay attention to his surroundings.

"Is he dead?" He heard a familiar voice say.

"No, of course he's not dead."

"You know what I meant. "

"Hey, Kaminari!" He heard snapping in front of his face, but he refused to open his eyes.

"Go away…" He grumbled.

"Okay, you asked for this."

"Huh- OOW!" Denki jolted as he was stabbed in the arm and his whole body vibrated uncomfortably.

"WAKE UP, SLEEPY HEAD!" Kyouka screamed as Denki jolted up into a sitting position.

"I'M UP! I'M UP!" Denki scowled at her "Those hurt ya' know!"

Katsuki from his place next to Kyouka was openly snickering. "Nice."

Kyouka didn't even look as she shared a high-five with him, before addressing Denki. "Yo, the hell happened?"

"Huh?" Denki looked confused as his brain tried to catch up with everything that transpired.

"What the fuck happened, and where the fuck is Momo?" Katsuki asked.

Denki's eyes widened as everything came rushing back. "Oh fuck! Vader! We tried to hold him off but he fucked us up!" He started looking around. "I only didn't get eliminated 'cus of my quirk. I'm actually feeling pretty juiced, but the dude started choking me out and Momo stepped in…"

"And she got eliminated," Katsuki finished with a low growl. "Fuck."

"So it's just us?" Kyouka didn't look confident. "Momo was basically our toolbox, without her we're stuck with what we have!... What do we have anyways?"

"What she made us at the start and those weird boots you got," Katsuki said as he nodded at the long-fall boots.

"And this." A voice interrupted, causing the three to look as a little robot rolled into view.

"Is…that a camo-painted R2-D2?"

"My name is Army-Chan." The Robot said in an apathetic tone. "Technically Army-D2, I guess. The Kenobi Protocol has been initiated…Yay. Here you go, losers." The newly named Army-D2 leaned forward and launched a cylindrical object out of the top of its head, nailing Denki in the chest.

"Ow! Fuck! Why me, every time?!"

"Smart Mom wanted to give it to the one labeled 'Kacchan', but Gun Mom overruled her, saying and I quote 'Katsuki is already OP, give it to Kaminari, he can't hurt himself with it, and if he does after getting it I'll be incredibly disappointed', end quote. So, yeah, good luck."

They stared at the astromech for a moment before Katsuki growled. "Why the fuck does Deku's girlfriend have more faith in me than Deku?"

Kyoka patted him on the back. "Hey, she said you were OP, that must mean something right?" She then frowned. "At least you guys can actually do something. I don't even have a damn weapon!"

Denki hummed before a metaphorical light bulb lit up over his head. "One second!"

He frantically looked around the room before finding the spear Momo had made him before, still in good condition. He went over to Kyouka and handed it to her. "Here, use this."

Kyouka took the spear and weighed it in her hands. "Okay, this'll work. Say, what did the Droid hand you anyways?"

Denki grabbed the object he was "handed" and inspected it. "No, fucking way…"

They all jolted when he pressed a button and a blue blade manifested from the hilt.

"Why the fuck do you get the fucking lightsaber?!" Katsuki screamed. He wasn't jealous. Not at all.

"Oh wow it even looks like Obi-Wan's lightsaber," Denki said as he swung it a bit, listening to the hums it made. "This is sick."

"If you lose it I'm picking it up and using it myself," Katsuki grumbled with his arms crossed.

"By the way, that Lightsaber puts you on the big man's shitlist, have fun." With that, the little droid started rolling away, toward the direction of the fighting.

The three stared after the Droid before Katsuki and Kyouka turned to face Denki, who was busy processing the situation he was now in because of the lightsaber.

"You know what? I don't care, this is still awesome." Denki smiled as he twirled the blade around. "Let's go fuck shit up!"

"Finally!" Katsuki grinned at the promise of a fight. Though, with two lightsabers on the field, it was obvious what was to come soon.

He wondered how Deku was reacting.

---

In the teacher's booth, they looked on in concern as Hound Dog kneeled on the floor, holding his hands over his ears as he let out howls of pain.

"Are you okay?! What's wrong?!" Ectoplasm asked.

"WHAT IS THAT SCREAMING?!" Hound Dog yelled.

"I don't hear anything," Cementoss looked around as if that would help him find whatever sound Hound Dog was apparently hearing.

"IT HURTS! MAKE IT STOP!"

Unbeknownst to the rest of the staff, Hound Dog was hearing what sounded like a prolonged scream of joy, only for him it was many times louder to the point of being painful.

They would never know that the source was a young green-haired woman who had somehow achieved a scream that was on a frequency only canines could hear.

---

Darth Vader stalked through the many rooms and corridors of the building, hunting his prey. As he checked room after room, he paused as his scanners detected something.

"I sense something," he said to himself, "a presence I've not felt since…"

"You're really committed to the bit aren't you, Cat?"

Vader stopped moving for a moment before turning to the little droid that had dared enter his vision.

Then his entire demeanor changed. The Sith Lord slouched and a more feminine voice, sounding like Melissa but filtered, came out of his mouth. "Army-Chan you were supposed to leave after delivering the package…"

"I know, I didn't want to."

"I could tell Mom, I'm literally sitting on her lap right now!"

The droid just looked at Vader. "That would involve letting her know that you overrode Vader's AI the moment he got too aggressive with Team Ashido to keep him from murdering them. His combat protocols were not designed for students, they were meant for heroes in the top fifty."

Cat-Vader nodded in agreement. "Yeah, Mom doesn't know how to dial it back."

"Mm-hmm. We both know how she handles her own failures…" The two bots shuddered. "As it is, you're lucky the cameras aren't on you right now, and that I'm keeping it that way, you should probably get back into character before a student sees."

Cat-Vader crossed her arms. "You're an ass…" Izumi's voice grumbled from her speakers

"And you're a pussy. Your point?"

Cat-Vader didn't say anything, instead reaching her (or Vader's, it was a bit confusing) hand out to Army-D2. The astromech was then lifted into the air, and the metal that made up her chassis began to crumple in on itself.

Army-Chan let out an exaggerated moan in Izumi's voice. "Harder Daddy Vader!"

"Why the fuck do you even have Gun Mom's voice recorded!?" Cat-Vader scowled.

"Fuck you that's why."

"...I hate you," Cat-Vader responded in Himiko's voice before finishing the job and crushing Army-Chan's droid body into a flat sheet of metal.

Cat-Vader let the remains fall to the ground and took a deep breath (metaphorically speaking since she wasn't actually capable of breathing) before standing up straight again.

"Okay, what was I doing?" Melissa's voice came through the speakers on Vader before switching to Izumi's. "Right! Traumatizing children!"

The Lightsaber snapped back to life and Vader's deep baritone returned as he stalked off. "I love my job."

---

"Thanks for letting me take a break while we retreated, by the way, Pony," Ochako mumbled as she rested on Pony's back.

Her team ran through the building, happy that there didn't seem to be any more Troopers bugging them. Ochako had felt a wave of exhaustion hit her when the adrenaline had worn off, and Pony was more than happy to let her ride on her back, her freakish stamina allowing her to keep going despite everything. Minoru was running behind them, watching their back in case Vader showed back up.

Normally she'd be a little leery about the shorter hero in training watching their backside, but the little guy had been detached and quiet since Tsuyu got eliminated.

She honestly felt a little bad about it. She couldn't help but think that maybe there was a way that could have gone so much better-

"Oof!" Pony had turned the corner and ran into something, resulting in both her and Ochako falling back onto the ground.

"Ow! What the…" Ochako rubbed her head, not that she hit it but it was more an instinctual reaction. She looked up to see what they had run into.

She only saw what looked like white and a blaster for a split second before reacting.

She rolled back and picked up her dropped hammer while in motion, coming up to her feet and letting out a yell as she raised it.

"Drop the fucking weapon!" The… headless Stormtrooper said?

Eh?

The sight was enough for Ochako to pause in her strike, giving her enough time to realize that the "white" she saw was more silver in color than the bright white of Stormtrooper's armor.

And that was about as far as she got before more screaming erupted from more people.

"Put the gun down!" Minoru yelled while aiming his pistol.

"Stand down!" Shouto Todoroki ordered while aiming his right arm at them.

"Listen to what he said!" Hitoshi Shinso yelled as well.

"I'm gonna shove my horns up your-" That was Pony.

Different variations of "drop your weapon" were thrown around before the headless Stormtrooper that was by now obviously revealed to be Toru Hagakure pointed her blaster at Shouto.

"Drop your weapons or I'll fucking shoot him!" She yelled.

Shouto, for his part, looked rightfully confused by the threat. "Wait… what?"

Everyone stopped screaming at once, turning their heads to look at Toru in confusion.

"But… isn't he your teammate?" Minoru asked.

"That doesn't mean anything!" Toru continued in her aggressive tone. "Now he's my hostage! Put the guns down!"

"...None of this makes sense anymore," Ochako eventually said as she lowered her hammer and sighed, rubbing her forehead. "Just… Why are we even yelling?"

"Hey, you started it," Hitoshi said while lowering his blaster.

"True, true, I did yell first."

Shouto looked around before turning his gaze toward Toru. "Am I still a hostage?" He asked innocently.

Toru remained silent for a bit, and no one could tell what she was thinking due to none of them being able to see her face.

Eventually, she mumbled, "It's just so tempting to shoot you in your almost perfect face." She pointed her gun away from Shouto. "Fine, you're not my hostage anymore."

"...Thank you?" Shouto said, even more confused. He felt Toru pat him on the back.

"You're welcome bud."

Ochako looked back at them after calming her minor headache when she finally noticed something. "Hang on. Toru, you're in your hero costume."

"Yeah, and?"

"How come you get to wear yours but we can't?" Ochako felt this was unfair.

"I want Sweet Business!" Pony demanded.

"Well you see," Toru said as if she were about to give a presentation, "to effectively use my quirk without my suit's cloaking device, I'd have to be naked." She put her hands on her hips as she made her unarguable point.

"...Okay, yeah, that's fair." Ochako nodded, her teammates nodding with her.

Hitoshi sighed through his nose and counted to ten before looking at Shouto. "Are you 1-A guys always this fucking insane?" Shouto opened his mouth to answer but Hitoshi cut him off. "It was a rhetorical question, don't answer that." He turned to Ochako. "Look, my team and Iida's team have teamed up to deal with Vader, we kind of just want this event to end, are you guys with us?"

Ochako looked at her haggard teammates for a moment, taking in their disheveled appearances. Pony, despite her scrapes and bruises was still ready to go, while Minoru looked depressed but determined as well.

She turned back to Hitoshi and nodded. "Yeah, we're in." She hefted her hammer and put it away on her back. "Just point us in the right direction!"

"Awesome!" Toru pumped her fist."We got Monoma, Shiozaki, Iida, and Fumi up where the boss started setting up a trap. We're gonna lure him to them and let Dark Shadow fuck him up!"

"That… seems like a very simple plan." Ochako frowned "And how do you know Dark Shadow's even gonna be strong enough to deal with Vader? I mean, I know he's strong, but still…"

"He gets stronger in the dark, right? Well, the room up there is basically pitch black. Tokoyami said he was pretty sure with that kind of power that Dark Shadow stands a good chance," Hitoshi explained.

"Now all we need is-" Shouto began to say before the wall further down the hall exploded, getting the group's attention instantly.

Vader stepped through the hole, his cape flapping in a wind that wasn't even there.

"I have you now."

"...Vader," Shouto finished his sentence. "We're not in the right position," he whispered to Toru, who was closest.

"Then we get in the right position," she hissed back, before activating her cloaking. "Kite him," was the last thing she said before fully disappearing.

"What dokites have to do with this?" Shouto asked in confusion

"Lead him on a chase, dammit!" Toru said in frustration, her voice coming from a different location than she was a second ago.

"Oh," Shouto's face of realization was almost funny, if not for the situation they were in. "Why didn't you just say that?"

"...shooting you has never been more tempting," Toru's voice sounded from further down the hall.

Minoru didn't take his eyes off Vader as he took a step back next to Hitoshi. "You mind telling us where we're running?"

Before Hitoshi could answer, the walls around them and throughout the hall began to crack.

"There will be no more running," Vader raised both his hands and started pushing them toward each other as if squeezing something.

Shouto looked around at the walls before sighing through his nose and lifting his right arm. "Yeah, no." He immediately blasted Vader with a glacier, distracting the Sith Lord from doing whatever he had planned to do. He turned to the others. "Run. Now."

A scream of rage was followed by Shouto's glacier exploding, ice chunks being suspended in the air by Vader before he started throwing them at the alliance.

"Running sounds good!" Minoru shouted as he led the others back.

Hitoshi narrowly dodged a chunk of ice. "Todoroki! Stall him!"

Shouto gave a firm nod and quickly touched the floor with his right hand. With a grunt of effort, the entire hallway flash froze, with Vader being encased in ice up to his knees. For good measure, Shouto also created a thick wall of ice blocking off the hallway between them and Vader. "That should keep him for a couple of seconds, we have to move!"

No one even thought about arguing the moment they saw cracks forming in the several-foot-thick ice wall.

"This way!" Hitoshi led the others away, sprinting down multiple corridors toward where they needed to be for the plan to work.

As they rounded a corner, Minoru hopped onto Pony's back so he didn't have to struggle to keep up. He asked, "Are we sure Vader's following?"

No one needed to answer as another wall behind them exploded and the Dark Lord stepped out of the smoke, dozens upon dozens of blocks of ice following behind him in the air. He let out a growl of exertion as he thrust one of his arms forward, sending the ice toward the fleeing students. With his other hand, he clenched it into a fist, and the walls cracked before breaking apart, chunks of concrete moving to try and obstruct his targets' path.

"Who the fuck pissed in his cereal!?" Minoru shouted as he jumped off Pony's back to let her maneuver, and he started dodging as best he could.

Hitoshi didn't seem to have much trouble jumping through what was becoming a living obstacle course. Flintlock and Yagi made sure he worked on more than just building muscle after all.

Ochako rolled forward to dodge a chunk of concrete that came flying out the wall next to her. Instead of continuing to run, she quickly gripped the chunk using her quirk for assistance and hurled it back at Vader. She continued this process with a few more reasonably sized slabs of concrete that she managed to get her hands on.

Vader ignited his blade and proceeded to slice through each and every piece of concrete sent his way. With his focus on slicing through the oncoming projectiles, the hallway stopped trying to kill them, and the blocks of ice Vader had been throwing ceased immediately. Ochako furrowed her eyes in confusion as she glanced back at Vader while she ran. She saw him slice through another slab before swiping his off-hand through the air, sending a block of ice to intercept the concrete that would have otherwise hit him.

Her analysis was interrupted when Pony grabbed her by the collar and pulled her around the corner. Ochako had been so distracted that she had almost run past their next turn.

"Focus!" Pony's response was stern as she grabbed Ochako's hand and pulled her along to catch up with the others.

"Sorry!" Ochako apologized as she put her fingertips together to deactivate her quirk on the concrete from before. This also returned gravity to the hammer on her back, causing her to stumble a bit at the sudden increase in weight and lean on Pony for support. "Gah! Forgot about the hammer!"

"No time!" Pony once again hefted Ochako onto her back like a champ, and started running full-tilt down the hallway.

"I'm starting to see a pattern here!" Ochako yelled as she adjusted herself to get a proper grip.

"We're almost there!" Hitoshi shouted from the front. A flight of stairs came into view and the students all rushed to get up it. Once the last student was inside the darkness of the final floor, Shinso gave a quick order. "Ibara now!"

Vines immediately covered the entrance, blocking the light from the hallway and casting everyone in darkness. Ochako got off Pony's back and looked around, vaguely making out her friends in the dim light of the room.

"You guys didn't destroy all the lights?" She asked in concern.

She flinched as Fumikage walked out of the shadows nearby. "This is enough darkness for our purposes." He motioned with his head to the back end of the room. "Go regroup with Iida, he'll give you the rest of the plan with Shinso."

"What about you?" Pony asked as she caught her breath, causing Ochako to nod in concern.

He turned as the red light of Vader's saber started slowly showing through the vines.

"We're the vanguard, right Dark Shadow?"

Ochako gaped as the now massive shadow engulfed the room, blotting out the remaining lights as its yellow eyes looked balefully at the entrance where Vader would emerge.

"We'll show this punk darkness."

Ochako nervously shuffled away from Dark Shadow and Fumikage. She quickly made her way over to Tenya, who was talking with Hitoshi, and the others, noting that Ibara wasn't there.

"Where's Ibara?" She asked Hitoshi who looked unconcerned.

"Getting ready for phase two."

"Phase two?" Ochako asked, glancing at Shouto who was shivering slightly, but otherwise fine.

"Yeah, She's gonna try and damage Vader as much as possible on my signal."

Before Ochako could ask for clarification she was quickly mushed to another side of the room with her team by Tenya.

"Glad you can join us." Tenya began with a nod, only to be interrupted by Neito.

"Oh great, more 1-A goons…"

Ochako immediately pulled her hammer with a growl "Do you wanna fuckin' go?!" but she was held back by Pony.

Tenya glared over at Neito and Hitoshi sighed before walking him away from the group.

"As I was saying, your team is going to need to cover Toyokami from here." He began, he noticed her hammer and nodded. "I'd avoid getting involved in the melee until Dark Shadow retreats. We hope they will be enough to bring him down, but knowing how this contest has been going so far…" He shrugged. "If Dark Shadow falls back it'll be up to us to step in and finish the job."

"I mean," everyone jumped as Toru's body shimmered into existence next to them. "If that," she pointed at the shadow monstrosity, "can't take down Vader, then I don't know what can."

"He's here!" Fumikage interrupted, causing Hitoshi to nod.

"Ibara, send him through!"

Fumikage mentally readied himself to keep Dark Shadow reigned in enough to not hurt his allies and exhaled through his nose. "Prepare yourself, Dark Shadow, remember to only target Vader."

"Yeah, yeah, I get it." Dark Shadow growled. "Just keep them out of my way."

Everyone took a couple of steps back at that.

The sound of breaking concrete and metal reached everyone's ears as the building started to shake. A moment later vines crashed through the nearly burnt-through vine wall, with Vader flying through the air and landing back first on the floor, sliding before coming to a stop.

Ibara came crashing through the floor on the far side of the room, breathing heavily, "I don't think I have another one of those in me…"

Hitoshi was about to say she did a good enough job, but Vader immediately, though slowly, stood back up, looking no worse for wear.

"How tough is this son of a bitch…" He muttered as Dark Shadow let out an ungodly screech.

"We're about to find out…" Shouto muttered as he raised his right hand, ready to block off the area as best he could if the fight started making its way toward them.

Dark Shadow didn't give Vader any time to fully recover as its black mass came crashing down on top of the Sith, pummeling him with punch after punch. The whole building shook with each blow, and many of the students started to worry that it would come crashing down any second. Ochako was wondering how the hell it hadn't happened yet. She may not have gone into construction work, but her parents taught her enough for her to know that the building's structural integrity should have definitely been compromised by now with all the wall breaking and whatnot.

In the darkness, Vader's lightsaber reigniting was clear as day as he swung it at Dark Shadow, slicing it across its fist and making it recoil in pain. It was enough room for Vader to get to his feet and stand tall, blade in hand as its light revealed him to hardly be damaged at all.

"Are… you… KIDDING ME?!" Ochako screamed in outrage. "HOW DURABLE IS THIS ASSHOLE?!"

---

"Good question," Melissa hummed as she watched the cameras showing the room adjust for the low lighting. She turned to Nezu to answer his question. "See, when I was making Vader I didn't want him to get one shot or anything, so I had to make him undergo a lot of rigorous tests, each one getting progressively more difficult. If I had to compare the process, it would be like how Syndrom from The Incredibles kept making his robots stronger every time a superhero destroyed the previous model until it was almost unstoppable."

"Oh, and may I ask when you stopped testing and finalized a design?" Nezu grew more intrigued by the second.

"When he could withstand at least one of Uncle Might's all-out punches," Melissa revealed like it was no big deal. Everyone in the booth slowly turned to look at her, even Himiko who was aware of Melissa's methods. Melissa for her part looked at them all confused. "What?"

Present Mic spoke first. "You… are aware we wanted to give the students a chance to beat the Boss, right?"

"Yeah?" She asked with a confused frown.

"So why would you make it capable of withstanding a maxed-out punch from All Might?"

"I just said I didn't want it to just flat-out lose."

"More like she didn't want it to lose, period," Himiko mumbled. She flinched as Melissa hit her square in the forehead with an empty beer can.

"Quiet apprentice, don't question my brilliance!"

Toshinori looked at Nezu who was deep in thought. "Sir, should we maybe cancel the event? The teams that remain have enough points to qualify for the next event, but if Vader knocks them all out…" He honestly wasn't sure how Vader's point reduction worked, and he really didn't want to see his little zygotes eliminated because one of his nieces got carried away again.

"Now where's the fun in that, Yagi?" Nezu asked all too happily.

Yagi sighed and put his head in his hands, he forgot his boss could get just as carried away.

Present Mic tried to reason with him. "Sir, it's been nearly fifty minutes and this thing was designed to survive All Might!"

Nezu however was unconcerned as he sipped his tea. "Plus Ultra, Hizashi. Plus Ultra."

Inko frowned as she squinted at the screen. "On a side note, how is the building still standing with all the damage it's been taking?"

Melissa shrugged, "I've got some cloaked robots repairing structural damage and keeping the building standing."

They all flinched as Dark Shadow slammed into Darth Vader so hard that the entire stadium felt the vibrations from the hit. Vader still barely took any damage.

"They've got their work cut out for them…"

"The students or the robots keeping the building standing?" Toshinori weakly asked.

Melissa took a long pull of her newly acquired drink. When she finished she simply said, "Yes."

---

Fumikage was honestly amazed that he and Dark Shadow were lasting this long. He thought he would have succumbed to his quirk's rage by now, but it seemed that having a common enemy allowed Fumikage to help direct that aggression rather than let it run wild as it had in the past. It was a barely controlled rampage.

Though, Dark Shadow was starting to lose it because of the lack of damage it was doing to Vader.

"WHY" SLAM "WON'T" SLAM "YOU" SLAM "DIE?!" SLAM

Vader slid back across the floor, and though he was a robot, the breathing coming from him sounded… different. Almost like Vader was gasping for breath. This didn't go unnoticed by the dark duo, Fumikage figured maybe it was an auditory cue to signal when Vader has taken significant damage. This thought served to strengthen his determination to finish this fight.

"Don't let up, Dark Shadow," he told his partner. "The Dark Lord has to be nearing his limit!"

"Then let's finish squashing this roach!" Dark Shadow seemed to only grow bigger in size, intent on engulfing Vader and crushing him. As it came down upon Vader, Dark Shadow abruptly stopped only inches away, frozen in place.

"Limits…" Vader's voice was barely heard as he spoke. He raised his head and looked up at Dark Shadow, lifting his hand to reveal he had it held as if he was gripping something. He slowly stood up from his crouched position and slowly pushed his hand forward, Dark Shadow being forced to the ground against its will. "Limits?"

Vader thrust his hand forward, and Dark Shadow went flying back, almost running into Fumikage if it hadn't dug its claws into the floor to stop itself. It was still held in place as an invisible force kept trying to force it back.

Vader stood up fully and held his hands out to his side, letting out a groan of exertion. Cracking could be heard from all around them, and soon a ray of sunlight started to shine through the growing cracks in the walls and ceiling. Everyone looked around in awe as the room started to be filled with more and more sunlight as the number of cracks increased. Soon, Vader brought his arms close to his chest before throwing them out with a scream of rage.

Then the room exploded. The transition from the pitch-black darkness of the room to the brightness of the outside world was so sudden that the students went blind for a moment. They heard the shrill shrieking of Dark Shadow as it was weakened by the sudden exposure to sunlight. When their eyes adjusted, they all gasped at the sight before them. Dark Shadow was now much smaller, yes, but that wasn't what they were looking at.

The entire top floor had been destroyed. Chunks of the walls and ceiling were now floating in the sky around them, slowly orbiting what remained of the floor, which now may as well have been the rooftop of the building. They noticed the shimmering of what looked to be robots holding the rocks up but ignored it. For the first time in almost an hour, the students were able to see and hear the audience gathered at the stadium, reminding them that this was, in fact, a school event. They were all wildly cheering.

Their eyes were drawn back to Vader as he grabbed his lightsaber from its place on his belt and ignited it while staring the students down.

"I have no limits." His words combined with his display of power sent shivers down their spines.

"What the fuck happened to the roof!?" A voice caused them all to turn around and gape at the entrance to the room… which was now basically just a hole with stairs coming up. Team Bakugou had arrived, looking as surprised as everyone else had felt.

"That happened!" Minoru pointed at Vader who had turned his head to look at Team Bakugou.

He seemed focused on Denki.

"Well, whatever, we'll mess him up!" Denki grinned as he ignited his lightsaber.

"When the fuck?!" Ochako's eyes widened. "I want one! Is there a hammer version?!"

"Who will come out on top!?" Flintlock's voice surprised everyone, they had forgotten that the announcers weren't audible inside the building.

"Marvel Vs Capcom? Really?" Mount Lady deadpanned.

The hero students were almost relieved to hear their sensei's voice, but Vader's presence kept that relief from really taking shape. Especially when he reached out and pulled in Fumikage out of nowhere.

"Fumi!" Dark Shadow grabbed its host with one arm and dug its free claw into the ground to try and keep them in place. It worked for a moment before Vader threw his lightsaber at them and nailed Fumikage right in his back, making both him and Dark Shadow yell before dropping to the floor, the living quirk disappearing into its unconscious host.

"Fumikage Tokoyami has been eliminated!" Midnight cheerily announced. "Team Iida has three members remaining!"

Vader didn't even look as he used his "psychic power" to lift Fumikage off the floor and threw him over the edge of the building. Everyone gasped in shock with Tenya running to try and catch his teammate, but it turned out to be pointless. The same bots that had kept the debris from hitting the audience had caught Fumikage and were bringing him over to the infirmary.

"Guys I think we all need to take a breath and remember that this is an event…" Minoru shakily said.

"And yet somehow it feels just as scary as the USJ!" Ochako's eye twitched.

"Wimpy 1-A –" Nieto began but was cut off by Ibara smacking him on the back of his head.

"Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble." She frowned.

"What?" Nieto asked, confused.

"It's from Proverbs, it basically means shut up and stop getting yourself in trouble."

"Someone still wanna fill us in on what the hell happened here?" Kyouka asked as she readied her spear.

"Fumi was fucking Vader up. Vader got mad. Vader destroyed the roof. That leaves us where we are now." Toru summarized as she turned fully invisible.

"Ah fuck, did he phase change?!" Katsuki groaned. "And I missed it?!"

"I don't think we should be worryin –" Denki started to say but was cut off by Vader appearing right in front of him, faster than he probably should have been able to, hand outstretched as if to grab the electric quirk user by the throat.

Everything moved in slow motion as Denki leaned away from Vader's hand and brought his saber to defend.

"You're mine, Kenobi." Denki didn't have time to put up a proper defense as Vader closed his hand into a fist and used it to backhand Denki across the roof, separating him from his team, and nearly causing him to barrel into Shouto who managed to duck out of the way.

Denki shakily got up, twitching as his body started to discharge electricity, which Denki was starting to assume it had used to block the hit, though it still hurt. "What the fuck did he call me?" He brought his saber up and kept his eye on Vader as the Sith started stalking toward him.

"Right," Kyouka lightly smacked her own head. "Army-D2 or whatever did say the lightsaber put him on the shitlist."

Katsuki growled as his hands crackled with explosions. "He ain't gonna have all the fun. Round two, fucker!" He launched himself across what was now basically the boss arena towards Vader's back. Vader knew he was coming, and turned while swinging his lightsaber to slice right through Katsuki. The blonde reacted and maneuvered himself with an explosion to go over Vader, dodging the counter-attack while blasting Vader with multiple explosions. He landed and used a few more explosions to dodge back as Vader tried to take another swing at him.

Katsuki had a manic grin on his face as he let his quirk crackle in his palms. "Fucking fight me you piece of shit son of a bitch!"

Hitoshi frowned as he looked over at Katsuki. "Come on, at least try to sound more sophisticated when you make threats like that."

Denki perked up, having recovered. "Oh, like this? Ahem," he spun his lightsaber around with flair before angling it at Vader. He then spoke in a very posh tone as he said, "Does thou wish to engage in a duel, my good bitch?"

"How did that end up being worse?" Hitoshi muttered.

"Less talking, more action!" Katsuki scowled as he prepared to launch himself toward Vader.

Kyouka shouted out to him, "Dammit Katsuki, we need a plan or you're just gonna get choke-slammed through the floor again!"

"Wait, he got choke-slammed into the floor?!" Ochako yelled.

"Through multiple floors," Katsuki firmly corrected before grinning. "It was awesome." Katsuki let out a low chuckle.

"We're all going to get knocked out…" Ochako muttered as she hefted her hammer and started moving toward Vader with the other frontline fighters. She knew this was it, this fight was going to end here, one way or another.

---

"These fucking heroes and their blood sport…" Tomura mumbled as he scratched his neck while watching the big TV hung up in one corner of the bar. "But it's so cool, but it involves heroes. But it's like a Souls Boss. It changed phases!"

"It seems Tomura Shigaraki is conflicted," Kurogiri idly said as he placed a pizza box next to the villain in question.

"Fuck you, Kurogiri, I'm not conflic– Did he just throw that one hero brat off the stage?!" A laugh escaped his lips. "Oh shit, I'm rooting for this robot! Fuck them kids!"

"This robot does seem incredibly advanced…" The thoughtful voice of the Doctor came through the small TV that sat at the bar.

"I'll take your word for it, Doctor. You said the robot was designed to look like… Darth Vader?" Sensei questioned. Tomura knew that he was not able to see or watch the event himself.

"That's what the commentators introduced him as. It seems to possess some sort of artificial telekinetic abilities, it's been using it to manipulate the environment around it this whole time, having just used it to destroy the entire upper floor of the building the event is taking place in." The Doctor described what he was seeingfor his master. "It also has remarkable speed and reflexes, having kept up with a boy who was moving faster than I could track, though it doesn't seem to have a lot of maneuverability, perhaps by design choice. Hmm…"

"Vader was never known for being particularly flexible in his movements, Doctor." Sensei chimed in, Tomura looked at the TV surprised, and the Doctor must have as well because Sensei chuckled. "I am over two hundred years old, but even I had a childhood. This 'Vader robot' is based on one of the greatest fictional villains to ever exist. An unstoppable force who took what he wanted and cut down anyone in his way, his very name struck fear into his enemies. A true icon of villainy." Sensei could be heard letting out a sigh that sounded almost longing. "Oh, how I wish I could see this. And you say it is a… robot?"

"Yes, sire, designed by Melissa Shield."

"Fascinating." Sensei paused. "Shield… Wasn't he The Buffoon's former support supplier?"

"I believe so, though I do not recall Professor Shield ever creating such a technological marvel as this combat robot…"

Sensei could be heard letting out a thoughtful hum. "Hmm… Melissa Shield. So David had a child... How nice that the young girl took after her father, and maybe even possibly surpassed him."

Tomura's eyes were transfixed on the screen as he continued to watch the battle. "This thing, it was… playing with its food. And it still took most of those hero brats out effortlessly. Awesome…"

"Indeed it is, Tomura. Indeed it is."

Kurogiri poured a glass of soda before placing it next to Tomura and said, "I must say, Sensei, you sound very interested in this, far more than I would have expected."

"Anyone capable of creating such a formidable machine is worthy of my attention," Sensei said. "Doctor?"

"I understand, sire. I will look into it immediately."

"Good. Meanwhile, Tomura, I want you to continue to observe the event. These hero students may be green, but they cannot be underestimated again. I hope you've learned that from your failure at the USJ."

Tomura turned to the TV on the bar and bowed his head. "Of course, Sensei. I'm taking note of everything, as you've taught me."

"Good," Sensei let out a low laugh. "Very good."

---

Hitoshi watched as his allies engaged Vader, and he was rapidly losing what little confidence he had that they could actually win this as he watched Vader expertly block and counter each and every attack thrown at him. If multiple people ganging up on him wouldn't be enough, what will?

"Hey!" He heard someone yell from his side. He turned and caught a blaster just in time before it hit him square in the face. He looked and saw that at some point Toru had collected a bunch of discarded weapons throughout the building. Blasters, staves, batons. Wait, were those grenades?

"Where the hell did you get grenades?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.

Toru shrugged, "Just found them layin' on the ground. I even saw a few of these little things that kind of reminded me of Roombas dragging a few of them around."

---

"Uhm, Miss Shield, I thought you said there were no more thermal detonators in the building."

"There weren't…"

"Then how did Miss Hagakure find a cache of them?"

Melissa was taking out her phone, getting ready to call a certain gunslinger. "That's what I wanna know myself."

---

"No, I didn't tell her to give them grenades!" Izumi tried to defend herself as she was on the phone with her very tired-sounding girlfriend. "Army-Chan was just supposed to give them the lightsaber, I didn't know she snuck mouse droids in. But hey, to be entirely fair, Kacchan is down there, and he's basically a walking grenade, so…"

Yu watched in amusement as she heard presumably Melissa Shield on the other end of the line shout something, and with each word yelled in English Yu watched as Izumi started to look more and more like a puppy that was being scolded for doing something wrong.

"What do you mean I raised her wrong!?"

Eri looked concerned and Yu quickly started asking her questions to distract her from the yelling match going on. "So uhh… what's your favorite color?"

"Green, like Mama's hair."

"Ah, of course." Yu nodded. "Favorite food?"

"Apples," Eri said as she held up her half-eaten apple.

"Hmm…" Yu stroked her chin in thought. "Have you ever eaten green apples?"

Eri went stiff for a moment before turning in Yu's lap to look up at her with eyes of disbelief. "There are green apples?!"

"Yep!"

Eri turned to look at Izumi, who had just gotten off the phone. "Mama! How could you?!" Eri gasped in betrayal.

Izumi flinched at Eri's accusatory tone. "What? What did I do now?! Yu?!"

Yu shook her head at Izumi in mock disappointment. "How could you never introduce your daughter to green apples? That's just bad parenting."

Izumi threw her hands in the air, done with this situation. "Everyone is on my ass today!"

---

"Right so we have some firepower… but if Dark Shadow couldn't handle him what are a few grenades supposed to do?"

"Annoy the hell outta him?" Toru suggested as she riffled through the pile of weapons. "Where is… AHA! Pony! I got you a birthday present!" Toru reached in and pulled-

"Okay, where the actual fuck?" Hitoshi shouted as Toru held up what looked like a minigun.

She didn't keep hold of it for long before Pony came zooming in out of seemingly nowhere and snatched it while yelling "GIVE MEEE!"

Toru and Hitoshi flinched and backed away as Pony inspected her new weapon. She spun the barrel and made sure everything was working before grinning and hefting her weapon in Vader's direction.

Pony quickly started spinning the gun up, the gun's barrels were loud enough to cause everyone to look her way, even Katsuki who was busy trying to explode Vader from a distance. "Explody! Move!"

Katsuki didn't have to be told twice, he blasted himself away just in time for an absolute storm of blaster bolts to rain down upon Vader.

"DAKKAAAAAA!" Pony screamed as she held the trigger down, Vader was doing his absolute best to block every shot but after a moment he was overwhelmed and had to quickly erect a wall of concrete to protect himself.

Katuski grinned "Not today shit stain!" He reared his arms back and powered up the biggest explosion he could before launching it towards Vader's cover. The explosion rocked the building and shattered the cover Vader had built for himself, causing Katsuki to grin, but almost everyone else started coughing from the amount of dust and debris that had been kicked up.

Including Pony.

Vader dashed from the smoke cover at Pony, arm extended as if to grab her by the throat.

Pony was too distracted by her coughing fit to start firing again, and Katsuki was still recovering from the recoil of his attack.

Minoru however was one of the few people not coughing, and after quickly calculating the trajectory he'd need to bounce to reach Pony in time he moved.

He zoomed through the air, building momentum quickly by bouncing between the floating debris in the sky, traveling past Tenya who had somewhat recovered and was trying to move to Pony to intervene, and shoulder-checked into Pony, hard enough to knock the American onto her back a good few feet away from her previous location.

Unfortunately for him, Vader was a few seconds behind him and he felt the firm, robotic hand grab him by his gym shirt.

"You're brave." Vader intoned, causing Minoru to spit on his visor in spite.

He felt Vader's grip tighten and watched with wide eyes as Vader lifted his saber "And stupid," and stabbed it into him, causing Minoru to silently scream as electricity coursed through his body.

He passed out a few seconds into the pain, and Vader discarded him like he was trash, throwing him toward Katsuki who had finally turned to try and attack him.

Katsuki quickly caught his fallen classmate and sighed, moving to put him somewhere he wouldn't get trampled and effectively halting his offense.

That didn't stop Tenya from running in though.

"You fiend!" His engines roared, and he quickly closed the gap, sending out a kick that Vader effortlessly dodged, before backhanding him away.

Tenya frowned and shook his arm, he had brought it up in time to protect his face but it was a close call…

"We need a plan!" He heard Hitoshi call out, and Ochako agreed. He watched as the remaining members of each team started gathering around Hitoshi defensively, trying to come up with some form of plan to tackle Vader.

He saw Katsuki and Denki walk up next to his periphery. "Let those nerds come up with a plan, we'll stall him," Katsuki said as he once more stood ready to strike.

"Yeah, but how…" Denki asked, "I don't wanna hit you guys with this and accidentally eliminate you."

Tenya thought for a moment as he stood, wincing as his arm ached. 'I… didn't want to have to use this before the tournament… but…' he exhaled through his nose and nodded to Katsuki.

"Can you kick up a smoke screen again? I may have something that could work."

Katsuki raised an eyebrow but nodded in affirmative, bringing his arms back behind him once more. "Brace yourself fucker!" He shouted at Vader before bringing his arms forward and letting loose an explosion, the blast kicking up enough smoke to obscure the Sith's vision. He continued firing off more explosions into the smoke to keep Vader busy while Tenya prepared.

He got into a runner's start, placing both hands on the ground and one leg behind the other as his engines began to charge up.

"What's your plan, Four-Eyes?" Katsuki asked as he halted his onslaught and prepared to move if things went south.

Tenya tensed his legs as fire started coming out of his exhaust pipes, growing hotter and hotter every second. "This may be only a sports event, but it is also a test. If we cannot stand up to a robot like Vader, how can we be expected to face true villains? No, we will triumph here, I'll give it my all to prove that I can live up to my family's legacy!" The fires turned blue, and Tenya shouted, "RECIPRO BURST!"

And like that, he disappeared in a blue blur into the smoke, the wind he generated with his speed alone clearing it as he went. He came upon Vader, who was not ready for the speed at which Tenya approached him. He received a swift kick to the torso, making him grunt, before Tenya sped off. A moment later he was struck again from a different angle, and not a moment later he received another kick. Vader staggered and fell to his knee, his "breathing" labored, but he focused and watched, and waited… there.

In a swift motion, Vader extended his left arm out and turned. Tenya had no time to react as he was clotheslined, the air knocked out of him as he fell to the ground on his back. He barely had time to get oxygen back into his lungs before he felt the harsh burn of electricity crackle throughout his body, soon knocking him unconscious.

Vader removed his lightsaber from Tenya's torso as he stood back up. In the same motion, he turned and brought the lightsaber around to block the attack from Denki, who had tried to sneak a hit in. Their sabers clashed in a show of red and blue lights. Denki felt his arms ache at the pressure Vader was putting against him, but he was proud to say he still held his own.

"You are persistent, I'll give you that, Obi-Wan." Vader growled as he continuedto push against Denki, barely struggling to overpower the student."Even still there is no hope for you or your allies. All of you will die here, at my hand. And I will take great pleasure in hearing all of you beg for mercy."

Denki grunted as his leg almost gave out, but he held firm. "Man, I get you're a robot, but you're making this way too dark for a school event!"

Vader gave a forceful push that broke the saber lock and swung for Denki's head. He dodged under the blade with a roll and swung, managing to slice Vader across the torso and leave a burn mark on his armor, causing little damage but enough still to make the Sith Lord angry as he growled before striking at Denki again. The boy blocked every swing he could and attacked when he had a moment, but ultimately Vader's reflexes were too good, and while Denki was fast, Vader was strong.

During one particularly heavy strike from Vader's blade, Denki's lightsaber was sent flying out of his hands. Vader closed his fist and backhanded Denki, sending the young man rolling back across the ground. Vader, like with Tenya, was ready to strike him while he was down and with no weapon. Denki gasped as he saw the red blade descend upon him, and in his panic held up his hands and let his quirk flow into them. Though he didn't expect anything to happen, and closed his eyes as he waited to be eliminated.

…Nothing happened.

"Huh?" Denki opened his eyes and looked up, and his eyes widened into saucers as he saw what was happening.

Lightning was erupting from his gloved hands and into the blade of Vader's lightsaber, holding it back about a foot away from him. He couldn't help the smile that graced his face as he witnessed himself doing yet another thing he only dreamt of before today.

He shouldn't say it, he really shouldn't…

Screw it! He was gonna say it!

"POWER!" Denki yelled as he pumped more electricity into his gloved hands, the lightning between him and Vadsr becoming more violent. "UNLIMITED POWER!"

Vader grunted as he tried to force his way through Denki's electrical attack. Denki, while finding the whole situation cool, already began to feel the strain on himself as Vader's lightsaber inched closer.

"Uh, if anyone wants to help, now is a good time!" He called out.

His call was answered when a wall of ice slammed into Vader and swept him away. Denki let his quirk relax and lay flat on his back. "Thank you… I'm just gonna… take a second here…"

Meanwhile, Vader was pushed to the other side of their little arena before having enough of the glacier pushing against him and destroying it with his power. The shattering ice caused a cold mist to congregate around him. He was about to move back toward where he was before but stopped as he sensed a shift in the mist. He quickly ignited his blade and turned just in time to block the strike from the floating lightsaber. After batting away the attack the blue blade disappeared back into the mist.

"Hiding in the mist," Vader slowly walked forward, his weapon ready. "An effective strategy, but pointless. I do not need my eyes to see you…" another shift to his left, "Jedi."

He brought his blade down towards the floating hilt coming at him but met empty air as he instead struck the ground.

Toru was grateful for her quirk at that moment, as it allowed her to confuse her enemies on where her body actually was since they couldn't see her stance, so she was able to mislead Vader into missing her entirely since all he could see was the hilt of Denki's lightsaber that she picked up. And that's how she got her opening. She ignited the blade and swung for Vader's face, her attack struck true and he let out a yell of pain as Toru had struck his mask, causing Vader to stagger back and hold a hand over the damage.

"Yeah, buddy, the other week I shoved my hand down the throat of some kind of living monster. A creepy robot is hardly enough to scare me at this point," She said.

Vader stood there, stunned for a moment as he held the left side of his mask, he then lowered his hand and turned towards Toru, and she admittedly flinched back at the robotic face and the glowing red eye that seemed to look at her with hatred.

"Then you will die braver than most."

Toru knew now was a bad time to take back her words. She was about to try and retreat into the mist again when she felt herself get yanked forward and stumbled. She tripped over uneven ground and fell on her stomach, the cloaking device on her belt sparking and malfunctioning, revealing her. "Oh fuck…"

"Or perhaps I was wrong." Vader raised his blade, getting ready to impale her with it, but stopped and quickly turned around and stretched out his hand towards the girl that had lunged at him with a spear.

Kyouka found herself frozen in the air, unable to move. She had waited in the mist for an opportunity to strike and ran in when Toru had Vader's attention, but that plan failed. She felt pressure on her wrist that forced her to drop the spear and floated forward into Vader's waiting hand.

"When will you children learn? You are no match for me." Vader lifted his blade, ready to strike Kyouka. She grabbed at his hand and tried to desperately loosen his grip, or do something, but she wasn't physically strong enough. Then she noticed something on Vader's left arm, the one holding her.

'Sparks!'. There was a hole in his arm! It was occasionally sparking, but it was definitely a hole! She didn't know if it would work, but she had no other ideas. She sent her jacks forward into the hole, stabbing them in as deep as she could, and let out as much sound as she could through her jacks. The result was instant. Vader let her go as his arm spasmed, and he let out a yell of pain that began to become distorted as Kyouka kept pumping vibrations through his body. She could have sworn Vader's voice sounded almost female during his cries of pain, but then again he was a robot so she figured it was his speakers malfunctioning or something.

Toru gasped as she saw an opportunity, and quickly grabbed her lightsaber. She once more activated it and lunged forward, bringing the blade down in an arc.

A scream of pain was followed by a part of an arm and hand falling to the floor.

Vader stumbled back, the vibrations that wracked his body had stopped, but he was not unscathed, for his left arm was now severed. Sparking was seen coming from the wires that were exposed from the cut, and he stared down at his new stump.

"I… I got him…" Toru stared in disbelief, Kyouka staring right along with her. She let out a laugh. "Holy shit! I got him!"

Their sense of accomplishment of having done significant damage to Vader was short-lived however when the Sith turned to glare at them. They both flinched back as the red eye locked onto them, and they could practically feel the bloodlust radiating off of him, which again was weird since Vader was just a robot, but nevertheless scary. The Sith Lord began to stalk toward them, intent on delivering vengeance.

Kyouka wouldn't let him. Plugging her jacks into her gloves, she clenched her hands into fists, put them together, and aimed at Vader. She then pumped as much sound as she could, letting out a massive sonic blast that shook the air. Her heart beating fast definitely helped her output, the force of the sonic waves actually pushed Vader back a couple of feet before he stopped, having anchored himself to the floor with his powers. Kyouka's attack also dispersed the mist, clearing the arena and allowing visibility once more, allowing everyone to see.

"What the fuck?!" Katsuki yelled, his eyes having finally recovered enough to see Kyouka. "Since when the fuck could you do that?!"

"I DON'T KNOW, BUT IT ROCKS!" Kyouka screamed over the sound of her attack, a large smile on her face.

Vader growled as he struggled to move. "I WILL NOT BE BESTED BY A BUNCH OF CHILDREN!" He pointed his blade towards the sky and brought it down in a single swift motion.

The next thing Kyouka knew, a slab of concrete crashed next to her, startling her and making her stop her sonic assault. Vader did not move to attack, because he didn't have to. The concrete that had been orbiting their little boss arena began to descend upon the battlefield, crashing down like meteors.

"Take cover!" Hitoshi yelled as he ran over to Ibara, who had used her quirk to pull Denki over and formed a shield of thick vines around them.

Neito had copied Shouto's quirk and had used it earlier to attack Vader when Denki was in trouble. Now he used it to make an ice dome around himself, Ochako, and Pony to protect them all.

Toru tried to get over to them to also get into cover, but she was one of the furthest away from everyone else. Concrete fell all around her, and she struggled to run as she was forced to try and navigate through the attack. A large slab of concrete impacted the floor near her and she was launched off her feet by the force of the impact, falling to the ground. She tried to get up but it was like trying to stand during an earthquake. She saw a large shadow loom over her and looked up, only to gasp as she was about to be pelted with a bunch of debris. She brought up her arms to cover her head but knew regardless she was in for a world of pain as she closed her eyes and waited for the concrete to hit her. But instead of rocks hitting her, a wave of intense heat did.

She opened her eyes and looked up, and saw a column of fire had blasted away the debris before it could get to her. Her eyes watered at the sheer intensity of the heat from the flames, and she followed them to their source to see…

"Todoroki?!" She saw her last teammate standing there, left arm outstretched and fire erupting from it in a blazing inferno.

"HOLY CRAB BASKETS!" Flintlock yelled over the speakers. "I KNEW YOU HAD FIRE BUT HOLY SHRIMP KID!"

The column of fire receded, and Shouto stared for a few brief moments, his face panicked and his breathing heavy, before he looked down at his left hand and gasped before quickly extinguishing the flames.

"You used your fire… Why did you?" She asked in confusion.

"I… I don't know. My body moved on its own…" he shakily replied. He thought he should be disgusted with himself, ashamed for breaking his oath, terrible for using his father's flames. But at that moment, when his teammate was about to be crushed by concrete and he ignited his left side to blast it all away… he felt no disgust, no shame, instead he just felt… good?

He had no time to think on this conundrum further as another slab of concrete impacting near him reminded him they weren't safe, and he quickly moved over to Toru and made a dome of ice for cover. It was in this dome he wouldn't hear the prideful shouting of a certain flame hero in the stands.

He could still hear Flintlock's gushing over the speakers about how cool he looked though…

That he didn't mind so much. Her praise made him feel… warm. Almost as if he could be proud of himself.

Meanwhile, Kyouka was dangerously close to the edge of the building, having the same problem as Toru. She couldn't find her balance in the meteor shower. She stumbled and yelled as she almost went over the edge, but felt someone grab the back of her gym uniform and pull her back. The hand then let go and wrapped around her waist. She turned and saw it was Katsuki who had grabbed her. He held his free hand forward and used a few explosions to blast them away from the edge.

"Don't be so close to the fucking edge! The first rule of rooftop brawls!" He yelled.

"Wasn't my fucking choice!" Kyouka yelled back as she held on for dear life. "Wait when the hell were you ever in a rooftop brawl!?"

Katsuki landed closer to everyone else, the meteor shower beginning to cease. "You're really asking me that question? Side note: your light as hell."

Kyouka blushed as she realized Katsuki was effortlessly holding her off the ground, her feet dangling a few inches in the air. She took a deep breath and said calmly, "Put me down before I stab you with these." She held her jacks up like snakes ready to strike.

Katsuki barked out a laugh and set her down as he held his hands up in surrender. "Alright, alright. Hell of a way to say 'thank you'."

"Guys?" Ochako poked her head out of their ice dome, Neito having made an exit. From nearby Shouto did the same, him and Toru stepping out. Ibara's vines opened up to reveal that herself along with Denki and Hitoshi were intact. Ochako asked, "Is Vader dead?"

Everyone went silent as they stared at the smoke and rubble the attack from Vader had kicked up. The entire floor-turned-roof was utterly destroyed, the floor cracked and holes to the floor below all over the place. Luckily bots had extracted the unconscious forms of Minoru and Tenya during the fighting, so they were safe from the onslaught.

"I… don't hear anything…" Neito said. No one heard anything… except Kyouka.

Quiet, labored breathing.

"Guys," she said as she stepped back.

Katsuki glanced at her, already knowing what she heard. "You gotta be fucking kidding me."

From the smoke, they saw the seven-foot shadow approaching, his armor covered in dust, but no other damage other than that which was caused to him before. They saw the glowing red of his exposed eye, and soon they all heard his breathing.

As he ignited his blade to cast himself in its red light, orchestrated music blasted from the speakers around the arena, a choir singing with them.

Katsuki immediately turned and glared up at the announcer's booth. "Are you fucking playing music right now?!"

Over the music they heard Flintlock say, "Yes, Kacchan, yes I am."

They heard Mount Lady next. "It's a boss battle, you gotta have boss music."

"Also, watch your language!"

"Seriously," a little girl's voice was heard. "What does fuck mean?" The crowd collectively gasped at the sound of a young child cursing.

"...Folks, we'll be right back. Enjoy the battle and this awesome music in the meantime. Kacchan, I'll be having words with you later," Flintlock forebodingly growled before the speakers cut out and the music continued.

Katsuki stood there before sighing. "I'm fucking dead," he whispered.

Kyouka looked at him in concern "It can't be that bad…"

"The last time I pissed her off was when we were kids, she came to my house, removed all my stuff, and wouldn't tell me where she hid any of it."

"Where… where did she end up hiding your stuff?" Kyouka was almost too afraid to ask.

Katsuki stared off into the distance as if he was reliving the event before he shuddered and shook his head.

"It's too horrible to relive." Katsuki would never be able to look at beaches the same way again. To that day he still had no idea how Deku got his entire bed, completely made too, underneath the sand on her own.

"Guys, focus!" Ochako yelled, hefting her hammer, "What are we going to do!?"

"Okay," Denki lifted his hand up. "I-"

"Got a plan?" Katsuki and Kyouka immediately knew what he was gonna say. Kyouka continued, "Your plans have been working so far today, which is surprising, but I'm not questioning it anymore."

"Vader!" Pony yelled out, reminding everyone that the Sith Lord was approaching them.

"Distract him!" Denki shouted as he ran for the spear which had luckily found its way close to them in all the chaos.

"On it!" Kyouka plugged her jacks into her gloves and ran forward. She slid to her knees and braced herself before unleashing another sonic attack, though this one was noticeably weaker, the gloves' speakers having been strained. This allowed Vader to actually still move despite the sonic waves hitting him, and he slowly made his way toward the students. "Anyone wanna help?!"

Her answer came in the form of two blasts of fire on either side of her. She looked and saw Neito on one side, who looked at her. "You 1-A can't take all the credit for this one."

She looked to her other side and saw Shouto. He didn't pay her any mind, too focused on blasting Vader with all he had. Kyouka didn't question it.

Vader meanwhile held up his blade, and an invisible field blocked the attacks of fire and sound. He was slowed down considerably by the attacks, but he still moved forward slowly.

Katsuki and Ochako were about to go in and help, but were stopped by Hitoshi. "Wait, we need you two."

"The fuck?" Katsuki glared at him. "You don't tell me what to-"

"It's for the plan! Kaminari told us while hell was breaking loose. You wanna beat this guy, right?" Hitoshi glared back.

Ochako gave Katsuki a stern look. "Let's just listen."

Katsuki growled, "Fine, but if I don't like it…"

Hitoshi sighed but took what he could get. He then began to explain the plan.

Back with Denki, he retrieved the spear and held it in his hands. Truthfully, he had been nothing but lucky the entire day. His quirk was capable of things he had no idea of, and while awesome he couldn't help but wonder just how much longer until his luck ran out. Now could be the moment he screws up, fails, and lets everyone down.

"Hey," he heard someone next to him. He turned and saw the uniform of Toru standing there. "You good?"

"Nervous," he admitted.

"You got this!" Toru gave him a double thumbs up and he smiled.

"Yeah…" He looked down at the spear again and felt his quirk crackle beneath his skin. "I got this."

"Alright, Dunce Face," Katsuki called out, "it's now or never!"

Before Denki could initiate his plan, Toru told him one last thing. "Hey, he's got an opening in his torso now. I put it there earlier. Big gash, you can't miss it."

Denki nodded distractedly "Thanks for the heads-up." One could almost hear the lightbulb go off in his head. "Okay! I got this!" He looked at Pony. "I need an opening." She nodded and flew off with her minigun. Man, that girl was strong.

He then turned to Katsuki and Ochako, "Bakugou, Uraraka, get ready."

"Don't fucking miss," Katsuki sternly said.

Ochako slapped him on the shoulder before giving Denki a thumbs up. "You got this! You won't miss!"

Denki gripped the spear tightly "I really hope I don't…" he gulped before turning to Toru and the others "Step back, I don't want to hurt anyone." Everyone did as they were told and Denki spread his legs to give himself more stability.

Then everyone felt their hair start to stand on end.

Electricity started flowing throughout the building, all of it emanating off of Denki as his voltage skyrocketed. He flinched as he felt something snap and a crack of thunder filled the air.

Even as his mind clouded from the voltage he recognized the signs, the electromagnetic field he's been generating since the strange evolution of his quirk had shattered from all the electricity he was generating, but ultimately that didn't matter. He grit his teeth and focused all that energy into his arm, specifically the spear in his hand.

He looked at Ochako and grimaced, "Float… Me!"

The girl nodded before slapping him on the back, yelping as her hand was shocked. He then looked at Katsuki. "Throw me…into…air!"

Katsuki grinned "Fast Ball Special huh? I got you, Pikachu!" He grabbed Katsuki by the arm and swung him around, ignoring the electric shocks he was getting, he chucked his teammate into the air, far enough into the air that the crowd was able to clearly see him.

As Denki ascended, he yelled out, "NOW!"

Vader looked up and saw Denki flying through the air. Before he could even try to do anything, a hail of blaster bolts hit him in the back courtesy of Pony, who had flown behind him to get a clear shot. He stumbled, and his Forcefield fell, allowing the combined attacks of Kyouka, Shouto, and Neito to hit him and blast him back.

Vader rolled across the ground, came to a stop, and slowly got back up. He looked to the sky and saw Denki getting ready to throw the spear. He reached his remaining hand out to grab him with his powers, but before he could a mass of vines came out of one of the holes in the floor and wrapped around his whole arm, pulling it back and disabling his abilities.

Denki saw his chance and took it. Even in his clouded state of mind, he couldn't resist shouting out "Gathering… STORM!"

He aimed and threw the spear with all the strength he could muster. With a crack of thunder and a flash of lightning from the sky above, the spear cut through the air toward its mark. Vader's one visible eye seemed to widen before the spear met its target, slamming into the exposure in his armor caused by Toru. His distorted yell of agony could be heard from outside the stadium as electricity discharged, arching out into the sky in angry, yellow bolts of lightning.

Back on the ground, Hitoshi gave Katsuki and Ochako the signal. "Now! Go! Go!"

"Bakugou, throw me!" Ochako yelled as she hefted her hammer, activating its electricity.

"Another one!" Katsuki grabbed her and blasted the two of them into the air. Once he deemed them at a good enough height and angle, he began letting off explosions on his free hand as he spun him and Ochako around, building speed. Soon he let go of her, launching Ochako at Vader at what felt like terminal velocity.

Ochako readied her hammer and brought it back, getting ready to swing with all her strength.

"Hammer…" Ochako timed her swing, right as she was in front of Vader she brought the hammer down with all her might, hitting the spear as if it were a nail. "DOWN!"

There was a blinding explosion. The crowd was forced to shield their eyes because of how bright it was. The sound from the slam was deafening, causing Kyouka to cover her ears in pain as she fell back, a similar fate having befallen others with sensory quirks as well.

Nobody knew exactly what happened, but when they all could see again, the sight before them left them all in awe.

Half the building had been destroyed. Nay, not just destroyed, but obliterated. Gone, reduced to atoms. Everyone on that roof tried to recover. Some were faster than others. For the most part, everyone was unharmed.

Hitoshi groaned as he stood up. "What the…" he didn't expect such a result from Denki's plan. Speaking of which, "Where's Kaminari?"

Ibara looked up into the sky and spotted him, pointing. "There!"

Denki was floating in the air, Zero Gravity still affecting him. Ibara stretched out her vines and safely began pulling him back to the ground before he fell. He was unconscious.

Ochako stood up and struggled as she did so. She was mostly fine… mostly. Her arms hurt like hell, and her arms and legs were trembling as she held what was left of her hammer… which was basically now a stick. She looked down at the remains of her weapon. "M… my h-hammer…" She weakly muttered with a remorseful sniff. She dropped her ruined hammer and slowly brought her hands together, releasing Denki from her quirk.

Oh… Oh she felt like she was going to puke.

She felt a pair of arms wrap around her and looked around at who had grabbed her. Of course, it was none other than Pony. She smiled at her friend and excitedly shouted, "You were so cool!" She felt Pony pull her into her bosom as she started excitedly trying to convey how awesome Ochako was in broken Japanese.

Ochako gave a weak smile as she tried to relax. "Thanks… Pony."

Katsuki grinned and helped Kyouka up, the girl wincing and dabbing at her ears. Luckily her eardrums hadn't burst from the sound, but she was still hearing the ringing.

Everyone else by now had recovered the best they could, regrouping. As they all gathered, Neito couldn't keep the awe out of his voice, "That was… crazy. Credit where credit is due, Class A."

"Damn straight!" Toru exclaimed as she threw or arm around Shouto and leaned on him, the taller boy not budging from the sudden weight.

"I'm almost afraid to ask," Ibara spoke up. "But… the demon… is he…?"

Hitoshi put his hand on her shoulder. "Oh come on, no way he survived-"

Breathing. They all heard breathing.

Ochako took a deep breath before glaring at Hitoshi. "If I still had my hammer, I would smack you with it."

"Yeah," Hitoshi nodded, "I would too."

They all turned towards the edge of what was left of the building and saw Darth Vader… laying there. He was… not looking too hot.

He was pretty much nothing but torso, his arms, and legs incinerated by the discharge of power from Ochako slamming the spear with her hammer. His breathing was labored, distorted, and the spear was gone, all that was left of it was a gaping hole in the robot's chest, exposing the circuitry.

And yet the damn thing was still alive.

For a moment, nobody moved or spoke, they just listened to the distorted breathing of the bot that had made the past hour of their lives hell, before he spoke once again.

"W..wElL… Done…Heroes." His voice twisted and distorted until it swapped to sounding vaguely like Flintlock. "I… am prou –"

Before the robot could finish its speech, a flash of blue caused them all to jump as Vader's head was lopped off its body.

Toru held her lightsaber, before she lowered the blade, deactivated it, and dropped the weapon next to Vader. She held up a thermal detonator that she took from her weapons cache, activated it, and dropped it onto Vader's corpse. She then turned on her heel and headed straight to what was left of the stairs.

"Get me the fuck off this building." She said, not stopping for anyone, not even to look at the explosion that went off behind her.

"It's over!" Midnight's voice cheered and the crowd went absolutely bonkers. "The Boss has been defeated, and Team Iida has claimed the one million points! They will be moving on to the final event, alongside the members of Teams Bakugou, Monoma, and Tsunotori!"

"What an explosive ending by Teams Iida, Bakugou, Monoma, and Tsunotori!" Flintlock's voice filled the stadium. "It is now Twelve in the afternoon! Wow, that event sure did run long! We're going to give our contestants time to recover and eat! And will be back in two hours for the final round!"

Mount Lady cut in, "In the meantime! Why don't you all stretch your legs? Explore the festival grounds and get some popcorn! The support course, business students, and gen ed students have put on a wonderful festival for you! Go on and enjoy yourselves!"

One would expect the crowds to grumble, but honestly, this wasn't that unusual for the Sports Festival, and they all did as they were told, people excitedly gossiping about who would be the winner of the day, and how spectacular these first years were.

Meanwhile, Recovery Girl sighed and made her way down to the field with her team.

It was going to be a long two hours.

---

Back in the United States, the Heros that had gathered to watch the Sports Festival were all staring at the screen in awe.

"Izumi's kids are fucking nuts." Florida-Man chuckled as he leaned back in his seat, "Some of the shit they pulled…"

Star nodded "Man… Part of me wishes we could take some of 'em. I mean did you see that gravity girl!?" She grinned. "She's got spunk!"

"I like the boy with the bird head." Mothman added with a nod. "He seems like he really understands the darkness."

"That was the most edgy thing I think you've said all night," Alex mumbled.

"Bite me."

"I liked the robots!" Elroy added cheerfully.

"We know," everyone deadpanned.

Miguel chuckled as he sipped his drink but paused. "I liked that invisible girl, Hagakure. Did you see her finishing touch on Vader?" He kissed his fingers, "A masterpiece."

"Well, we have two hours." Star clapped her hands together as she got up from her chair. "Anyone want coffee?" She laughed as eight hands shot up, she turned to Ranger. "Would you mind helping me out? I got the beans you asked for but I can't seem to prepare them the way you do."

Ranger gave her a thumbs up and stood, following her into the kitchen.

Florida-Man let out a laugh. "It's a good thing we're all used to nighttime stakeouts, this festival probably gonna run till about five in the morning!" He checked his watch. "Hell, the final event won't even start till One in the morning!"

They all heard snoring and turned, only to see Big Kahuna snoring away on the couch.

"Jet lag," Alex explained as she put a blanket on him. "It's nearly Seven pm for him and he stayed up all night yesterday finishing some business in Hawaii before coming here."

Silence fell over the group of Pros, all of them just relaxing as they tried to think of some way to pass the time.

"...You guys wanna make a betting pool?" Florida-Man asked.

Everyone turned to look at him in silence before Alex immediately pulled out a thick wad of cash and slammed it on the coffee table. "Pony's gonna kick all their asses!"

"One hundred on Gravity Girl!" Star shouted from the kitchen

Mothman pulled out his own wad of cash. "Two hundred on Tokoyami and Dark Shadow."

Elroy shrugged before putting his own money down. "A hundred on the Yaoyorozu girl. I like her creativity.."

"Boo! Bad quirk joke!" Alex gave a thumbs down.

"It wasn't a joke? I want to know more about her quirk, it seems fascinating."

Miguel laughed and put his money down. "I'll vote for that Katsuki kid. I think Izumi would gut me alive if I didn't vote for her precious Kacchan."

"Wait, that's the Kacchan she used to talk about?" Alex asked in surprise. "But he's like… so volatile and loud!"

"Have you met Izumi?" Miguel asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I mean yeah! But she's a sweetheart regardless of how loud she can be, and she's not always so loud!"

"Like you're being right now?" Mothman said more than asked.

"Why I oughtta-"

"Hey, Ranger wants to bet on the Momo!" Star shouted as she threw his money at the table.

"Wait, Ranger wants to bet?" Alex asked in surprise.

Elroy chuckled. "Even he can see the brilliance behind that young girl's mind, and!"

"Yeah, no, Elroy," Star shook her head. "He said it's because she can make lots of guns."

"..." Elroy sighed. "Why do I bother believing you people are more sophisticated than you seem?"

Miguel quickly started typing on his phone, causing Florida-Man to lean over and ask him what was up.

"I'm shooting Izumi a text to see who she wants to bet on."

Alex let out a laugh. "Come on, don't be silly. She's their teacher! She can't just bet –"

Miguel's phone buzzed and he held up his phone for everyone to see.

Pouco Verde:

One Thousand on Pony!

"She fucking would," Alex grumbled but then smiled. "I'm glad to see she's backing the right horse!"

"Is that racist?" Mothman asked, "I'm pretty sure that's racist."

Star sighed as she and Ranger kept preparing the coffee, but she smiled.

It was going to be a great night, she could tell.

---

Meanwhile, Melissa was currently preening at her success. She got so much data from this! And the robots all worked flawlessly! Sure some kids got hurt a little more than they probably should have but, science! Right?

Nezu and Hisashi were both congratulating her on how well made the robots and their weapons were, Himiko was happy that she got to help make them, and even received praise from her dad for it! Even Inko was interested in the conversation!

It was great!

And then, she felt it.

The cold, and it seemed that everyone else had felt it too.

They turned toward the door, only for it to slowly open and reveal Eri, who hummed as she walked in, holding who Melissa assumed was Mount Lady (what with the hero costume and all) by the hand and dragging her to meet the rest of her adopted family.

That wasn't what concerned her though, what concerned Melissa was Izumi standing there, menacingly. She wasn't frowning, she wasn't glaring or anything but Melissa had been dating her for almost two years, she knew when Izumi was mad.

This was one of those moments.

Izumi kept her arms crossed as she leaned on the door frame, but she brought a hand up and slowly crooked a finger, motioning for Melissa to follow.

Melissa knew better than to disobey and quickly stood up to go talk to her, much to everyone's confusion.

The two stepped out into the hall, Izumi getting ready to lead her to somewhere more private for their conversation before she popped her head back into the room.

"Stay with Aunty Yu okay?" She said sweetly to Eri.

Eri, who was busy trying to convince Jin that apples were the best lunch food, nodded happily, oblivious to the tension that had come with her mother's arrival.

The door closed and nobody said a word for a good long while before Inko finally spoke up.

"Hisashi, how did you, the sweetest, most wonderful man on the planet, raise our daughter to be that terrifying?"

Hisashi sighed "I… really don't know."

Himiko nodded. "With how angry sis was, Melissa is either fucked, or she's getting fucked!"

Inko slapped her hand over Himiko's mouth, scandalized. "HIMIKO!"

"What?!" She asked, her voice muffled.

Hisashi looked confused. "What are you talking about?"

"What does fuck mean!?" Eri stomped her foot pouting, causing everyone to look at her surprised.

Inko took a deep breath and stood up. "I'm going to go get drunk again."