Chapter 9: Flux (Sports Festival Round 3)
A/n: Hey guys it has been a minute since I've even tried to write anything, almost a full year truthfully. If anyone decides to pick this back up thank you.
I am feeling motivated again to write more and I actually have time thanks to a new job. Enjoy this chapter please and if you have anything to note let me know!
The bracket was being made as everyone was let out for a brief intermission. I started to walk with my class as people from around the stands and halls are looking and whispering about me. "He is from America, right?" "I heard he was actually a hero there" "How is that fair?" Those are the words and types of conversations I was hearing at this point.
They had a point; I was a previous pro hero within my time in America... "Hey don't let those guys get you down buddy!" Kaminari throws an arm over me trying to keep my spirits high. "Yea man, it will take more than that to stop me" I chuckle as we all get to have a good lunch thanks to Lunch Rush, the cooking hero. "So how do you think the bracket is going to shake out?" Midoriya asks to the little group we had with us. "If it is actually random there is no possible way to tell" Yaomomo says putting her head into it.
"Why do I get the feeling that it won't be like that though" Jirou says scratching her head. "It's possible that since this is a sporting event they may try and keep matchups possibly interesting" I do say nodding in agreement. As we are all eating, we are getting various stares as a certain blonde boy begins to walk up to our table. "So, you're the American transfer student huh? Not all that intimidating, I don't get all the hype" He scoffs as I notice both Pony and an orange haired girl begin walking over to us. "You are clearly inferior to class 1-B, do not think that you helping get one of our own in makes yo- gahh!"
"Sorry about him, he tends to think of class 1-A as the greatest possible rivals ever" The orange haired girl says with a soft smile, as pony nods. "I am so sorry about the Sen! I saw him coming over and got Kendo right away" That's when I learned of the 'Big Sister' of class 1-B Itsuka Kendo. "Hey no worries, Pony, thank you for getting her to stop him" "So your name is Kendo?"
I ask looking at the orange haired girl as she nods. "Nice to formally meet you" When we shake hands, I can tell she has good martial arts experience as they have well-formed callouses and a slightly rough feel. "We better get ready to head back to the stadium to see the bracket" Uraraka says as she checks her phone. "Break is almost over" she says as we all get up and begin to clean off our plates as I can see Kendo giving Pony a small pep talk as Pony smacks her cheeks seemingly trying to hype herself up for this.
Soon after all the students make it back to the stadium the bracket is formed onto the monitor. "Ladies and Gentlemen, we have our tournament for the 1 versus 1." Midnight announces as we all get a good look at the bracket. "Hmmm let's see first up I'm against... Oh crap" Me and Denki locks eyes we are against each other in the first round as everyone else's opponents were drawn as well. "So, for the first match! We have the son of the number 2 hero Endeavor Shoto Todoroki versus the Raven headed by Fumikage Tokoyami!" Mic announces as I look over too both boys. 'Hm if I'm being honest Todoroki would almost certainly win if he was going all out, I've heard he has two quirks but I have yet to see his second quirk..' I end up thinking to myself.
"Next it's the battle of the live wire students Sen Denryu and Denki Kaminari!" The rest of the fights go as following, Katsuki Bakugo versus Ochacko Uraraka, Momo Yaoyozaru versus Kyoka Jirou, Pony Tsuninori versus Hanata Sero, Izuku Midoriya versus Mina Ashido, Eijiro Kirishima versus Ibara Shiozaki, and lastly Tenya Iida versus Mei Hatsume. "I can't tell if these are truly random or not" I nudge over to Izuku as me and him are gently conversing about the first match to come up.
"Based on some matchups it is highly likely as You and Kaminari are on paper a very good match since your quirks can seemingly cancel each other out." Izuku thinks out loud, "However Kirishima going again Shiozaki and her vines is such a miss match that..." Uh oh there he goes again on one of those long rants as everyone gives him room to breathe as the two students for the first match are left standing at both edges of the ring, and everyone else is sent to the stand to watch.
"Okay boys I do not want any dirty fighting, all clean hits above the belt, always keep your guard up and do not stop until I call the fight!" Midnight is laying down the ground rules as I sit next to the wall with Denki in front of me Jirou and Momo to my side and Izuku behind me. "So, Sen who do you think is going to take this round?" Uraraka asks leaning over my shoulder as Momo thinks, "Based on what we know so far about the both of them I would say Todoroki." Everyone nods in agreement as I shrug. "Honestly, I do not know, based on what I have seen in these past rounds I am not going to count Tokoyami out, especially since Todoroki is only using half of his strength so far.
They all blink at me, "What do you mean?! Using half his strength and still doing as well as he is?!" Kaminari says worried out of his mind for what comes next. "Yea that dude makes glaciers the size of a Zero Pointer and that's half his strength" Jirou agrees and can't believe me. "Let me explain, how many quirks does he have?" This clicks a light bulb inside of Izuku "He has two but is only strictly using his ice"
"Correct, for one reason or another he doesn't want to use his other side" I say as we see both students down in the field stretching and warming up. "So, are you saying he may lose?" Uraraka asks as an ash-blonde has now decided to listen in. "No of course not, Todoroki's ice is extremely strong, but I have a theory about Tokoyamis quirk that I'll need to test if we go against each other." As Midnights call to start the match gets everyone's attention. "Round 1 Match 1 of this tournament begin!" As a chill fills the air almost instantly. Todoroki is wasting no time in trying to advance to the next round.
"Well, that's it" Kaminari whines, "There is no way bird brain gets out of tha-" "Hush and keep watching" I scold everyone already thinking that is over, as we hear the ice crashing and being crushed as Dark Shadow claws his and Tokoyamis way out of the glacier and races towards Todoroki. No one notices Dark shadow seemingly has shrunk down a little bit except for me. 'Hm interesting', as Dark Shadow advances onto the Bi-colored teen, he slides around with ice and uses smaller ice attacks to try and get Tokoyami out of bounds always avoiding Dark Shadow and targeting the master. "I do not like being ignored! That is rude sir!" Dark Shadow says blocking for his master as Tokoyami advances slowly towards Todoroki needing to keep moving himself so he doesn't get ice'd.
The fight between the two teens is honestly a quicker one that most people would think, Todoroki is slowing freezing himself over as Dark Shadow is just smashing away any and all ice attacks, he can throw at him. "I need to... I need to wi..." Todoroki starts to think to himself as he slowly freezes over slowing down in all things, as we all watch intently both me and Midoriya are worried for him, and wondering why he doesn't thaw himself out. "I'm sorry Todoroki but I will not concede even if you freeze yourself" Tokoyami says taking the advantage and beginning to push him back. As for a moment everyone watches his other arm begin to flicker with a small flame as one Endeavor is on the edge of his seat.
However, as quickly as his arm sparked a flame it was quickly snuffed out and Todoroki releases himself to his fate. "Shoto Todoroki is forced out of bounds! Fumikage Tokoyami advances!" "WHAT IN THE WORLD! THE SON OF NUMBER 2 IS OUT IN THE FIRST ROUND WITHOUT EVEN BEING ABLE TO SHOW HIS FIREY PASSION!" Mic announces in what seems like a huge upset as everyone looks to me. "Did you know?" Jirou asks as Bakugo is listening in. "No, I had no idea, but I was leaning towards Tokoyami to winning since he would be giving it his all the entire time." I say as me and Denki get up from our seats to make our way to the staging rooms to get ready for our match as they clean up the field.
"So based on what we know... Kaminari is going to get absolutely destroyed..." Jirou says wishing the best for him. "We don't know that I mean we all thought Tokoyami wasn't going to win." Sero says popping into the conversation as he tries to give Kaminari his vote of confidence. "No, you don't know what we saw when we trained with Sen... an entire room full of 7 battle ready bots that put UA to shame were trashed and all he had was light damage to himself..." Izuku says remember back to the day I blew off a door that hit him and Kaminari.
I currently find myself taking a meditation moment to channel my power as I'm sure Kaminari is going to try and play Lightning Tag again and try and over load me and guide my current so I can't attack him. "I am going to have to think outside the box on this one." as I'm getting up my phone rings and I choose to ignore it. "Aw man he didn't pick up!" Peter says as it is currently on a commercial break for the watch party. "You know how he gets especially since it is his best friend who shares a similar quirk to him kid." Stark says laughing and placing bets on me to win the entire thing against Bruce who is thinking. "Kid may be a former hero but he is still a kid he is going to slip up!" He says taking Stark on his bet.
"Will the next contestants please come out?" Midnight calls to me and Kaminari as Mic announces. "These two boys go way back! They are childhood friends and they know each other like the back of their hands! Do they have any new tricks to show up the other! The most electrifying match is going to start now!" I look to Kaminari "He man no hard feelings, right?" I ask as he nods "Yea, don't go getting mopey when I mop the floor with you!" Me and him laugh and step up to the plate. "Alright please no low blows and show us a good fight! Begin!" Midnight shouts as Me and Denki slowly start to emit sparks.
I smirk at him and he smirks at me as everyone's hair begins to stand up on end all throughout a 3-mile radius. "What are those two doing?!" "I think they are playing a game of chicken" Izuku says as Todoroki eventually joins everyone as he is sitting far back. "Maybe they are wanting to end it quick?" Jirou thinks as Momo tilts her head. "That would make sense but that is not the smartest move by either..." As she says that I literally make myself explode my energy and quickly run straight at Kaminari as everyone is extremely confused. "Why did Bolts let go of his power?! He is weaker now!" Bakugo is actually pissed thinking I'm throwing the match as Nezu chuckles. "Seems his is as smart as his profile says" Nezu says as Kaminari laughs, "What happened letting me make the first move?" "Of course!" I say as I come close to Kaminari and start to grapple with him, all hands no quirks.
"Is he just trying to force Kaminari into submission?" Uraraka asks as Izuku figures it out. "He drained his own electricity to an absolute minimum so Kaminari even at max output can't over load him... He is playing a game of chicken with himself" Izuku says as Momo catches on as well. "He is using his superior fighting skills to win this instead of relying on raw power!" As they are discussing this me and Kaminari are currently fighting it out Kaminari always threating to release is maximum output but every time he does start to let some out, I force myself to explode to cause him more damage to make him second guess that. "You can't because you know if I explode with how juiced you can make me you lose from the start!" I say as Kaminari growls and tries to take me down diving for my legs.
"That isn't smart..." Kendo says seeing myself prepare myself for this as I roll with Kaminari to get him into a submission hold and pin him down. "Give up Denki!" I say as now I begin to charge up my quirk and he feels my current invading his system slowly amping up my strength as well as edging him closer to his limit. "I give I give!" "Kaminari has given up! Denryu Advances!" Midnight announces as the crowd cheers, maybe not as loud as for the previous match but people are indeed impressed with the decision making I made. "This live wire match turned out to be a brawl with might instead of lightning! Sen Denryu lives up to the hype showing he is more than a shocking good time!" Mic says as literals everyone in the stadium groans. "He is making those kind of jokes..." I end up facepalming before discharging my quirk with sparking dancing around my skin.
"Sorry Denki" I say helping him up. "Honestly I forgot how good at hand to hand you were... and how smart you were to make me charge up all that much to just keep me dangerously close to the edge" He laughs as we walk out together showing good sportsmanship. 'Seems Bolts is can really think on the fly... This 'extra' may be more to handle than what I thought' Bakugo thinks to himself and after studying that fight, he knows to not take me to the ground. "See he I told you" "Alright alright, seems some things are easier to predict than others. Jirou and Sero are going back and forth as Izuku is currently writing notes into his notebook with a whole 3 pages for me now.
"Deku?" Uraraka is trying to get his attention as Yaomomo chuckles and thinks to herself. 'He is going to give everyone a run for their money our only chance in a team environment is to team up on him...' She thinks as soon me and Kaminari are back into the stand as nothing ever happened. "I had to try it man" "Bro you fucking bit me! How is that even remotely cool!" I laugh as Jirou looks at us like we are crazy. "You bit him?!" "Thats is gross Kaminari!" Momo says as Izuku and Uraraka chuckle. "He was just doing everything he could to give himself a shot, I do not judge him." I smile and rub the clear bite marks on my arm as we watch the next few matches between Bakugo Uraraka with the ash blonde seemingly barely pulling out the win, Ibara clearly destroying the hardening quirk user in a quick fashion. Pony taking out Sero by constantly tearing his tape whenever she got the chance.
Then in a bizarre fashion Mei and Iida technically ended up with Iida winning... but it felt more like a sales pitch than anything else as Tony was laughing that entire segment. "She knows how to work... and her inventions don't seem half bad maybe I can sponsor her?" He wonders as soon as the next match comes up it is Kyoka versus Momo. "Soooooo Sen who you rooting for here?" Mina asks giggling scooting up all next to me since my normal friends are not here to play role block. "Umm I don't know, Jirou has more attack and defensive capabilities than Momo but honestly Momo is up there in the intelligence, so it really all depends on who makes the decisive move first"
I say thinking about it somewhat mumbling as well as Izuku asks "... Is that what I look like when I do that?" as the class all nods as he laughs softly finally being able to see what it looks like from the outside perspective. "Yo earth to sparky" Mina waves her hand Infront of me" Oh sorry, If I'm looking at this objectively it's a pretty balanced match." I say not wanting to pick sides. "Well, if you won't pick sides... then will you help me come up with a strategy to beat Ol Midori up there?" She asks me as I tilt my head watching Izuku get into his notebook.
"Hmm so let's see, Izuku has you in the power department but you are seemingly more agile, but one hit and your done for, SO always keep on the move" I try and tell her as she nods and smiles. "Roger that Sparky!" Seems I have another new nickname to possibly answer too. "Let the second to final match between Momo Yaoyozaru and Kyoka Jirou begin!" Midnight says as instantly Jirou extends her jacks to get Momo on the defensive and Momo creates a shield to block the hit. "I can't get close enough to use a staff so maybe.." Momo starts to quickly think on her feet and creates a whip to basically counter act Jirou's long range capabilities.
"Fuck she is smart and it hurts!" Jirou's says as she tries to move in closely to fight there thinking maybe my hand-to-hand combat training will help. Once she runs in, she uses her jacks to push Momo close to the edge. "No, No! I can't be pushed out like this!" Momo says and as Jirou takes a page from my book and snakes her jack up Momos arm and stick it in her arm and puts her heart beat through it causing Momo to lose all feeling in the arm and drop her shield and then promptly receives a kick to the gut to get knocked out of bounds. "Kyoka Jirou is the winner! Momo Yaoyozaru is out of bounds!" Midnight calls the match as everyone is cheering for how much of a scrappy fight that actually was.
"So, she took a page from the Sen school of things with how you hid up her arm in the Calvery battle!" Izuku says excited as he Mina both get up and get ready to go for their fight. The last of the first round. "Hey good luck to you both!" I say cheering both Izuku and Mina on. "With Sparks cheering us on Midori we need to really perform!" Mina is as excited as she always is. "Y-yea may the b-best one of us win!" "Oh, I intend to" Mina teases as soon Momo and Jirou are coming back up.
"He you two you both did great!" Uraraka says with a cheer as I agree. "Yea you both really gave it your all" I high five both of them, as we all get settled into watch the final match. "Thanks for the idea of snaking up someone's arm to get an advantage by the way Sen." Jirou says with a light punch to my arm as Momo is pouting. "I was really surprised with how quickly you adapted and your close combat was really good out there." Kaminari says with a smile cheering Jirou on as I rub Momos shoulder. "Hey you did great Momo, if Jirou didn't train her butt off you probably would have had her." I say honestly as now it is Jirou's turn to pout.
"You know what I take back the compliment I said earlier" Jirou huffs as I chuckle. "What did I say." Uraraka giggles as well before saying, "Look they are coming out, Sen since you trained him what do you think?" she asks as I analyze the whole field. "Hmm if I had to say it's going to be a close one if Izuku can't focus, but if Izuku can focus and clear his head he should have this in the bag" I say honestly as Kaminari agrees. "He can be quick once he has everything turned on." As Midnight starts the match and Ashido is already trying to run circles around him sliding around with her acid.
"Let's see how you do Midori!" she says starting to spray down the surrounding areas but before the acid can do any real damage, Izuku uses a 2% smash to blow away the acid and rushes towards Ashido normally at first before he gets his weak green lightning and starts to give chase. "Woah woah woah! I thought you couldn't do this!" Ashido says starting to want to run away more than even fight Izuku as this new development is hard on her she thought she honestly had an easy win.
"Sorry Ashido with Sen teaching me I need to show up and prove to him and everyone else that I am here!" He says full of confidence for once as he quickly swaps to his arms and claps his hands together to create a stronger gust of wind and forcibly pushes Ashido out of bounds! "Izuku Midoriya advances!" Midnight closes out the round with that as Present Mic "Erasure! Your kids are sure full of surprises! First an upset and then some scrappy fights now what seems like Izuku pulling out the stops for this!" 'He has grown, no more breaking his arms and legs... Sen thank you but just who are you' Aizawa thinks as Izuku helps Mina up and takes her to get checked out by Recovery girl as she seems pretty dizzy.
"Alrighty! Onto the next round of fights, there will be a brief 20-minute break to get everything ready for the next round!" As the remaining contestants' names are shuffled along the monitor until it lands on the next 4 fights. "The match ups for the next round are as follows!" Erasure announces as Midnight is currently on a water break Iida versus Bakugo, then Ibara Versus Izuku, third Pony versus Kyoka, and lastly Sen versus Tokoyami." As everything is announced everyone looks at their next round opponents as Bakugo as always just doesn't care. "Tch so I'll be fighting the Deku or Bolts for the final from the looks of it." Bakugo disregarding the others.
"We will see now wont we you angry Pomeranian" Kyoka huffs and reminds him of what I did to him at USJ." I end up chuckling as I look to a camera knowing Tony and everyone is watching, I just smile and wave.
A/N:
Well, here we are end of chapter 9, it was something to write. Hopefully I was able to do the fights of importance to me and the story some justice! Shocking right that I knocked out Todoroki in the first round? I realized that if Todoroki fought Tokoyami and refused to use his fire that Tokoyami had a much higher chance of winning, and knowing that Izuku wouldn't get his speech in to Todoroki... Shoto was gonna refuse and lose.
Shoto will still have his moment later on but rather than with just Izuku it'll be Izuku and Sen for obvious reasons my OC is the main character.
Anything to work on? I know the stories orientation may be centered and I tried hard to fix that! So, I'm sorry, please review and thank you for reading so far!
