Chapter 30: The Finals Part 2
Shote and Momo stand still glancing back and forth around the arena.
"Ready for this," Shote says.
Momo nods slightly.
"Begin match 4," the announcer says.
Momo quickly bends down and throws a small handful of bead-like objects on the ground about 40 feet away before creating a tiny drone (and controller) that quickly flies up into the sky in search of the exit.
"Give me a few minutes and I'll find it," Momo says, looking back at Shote.
"I'll get us some cover," Shote says, raising her left hand and creating a cocoon of ice around them.
"Are you sure his quirk doesn't work through Ice?" Shote asks.
"To the best of my knowledge it doesn't," Momo says as the continues to fly the drone around looking for the exit.
"How much longer?" Shote asks.
"About a minute, probably. Why?" Momo says.
"Because I'm pretty sure I see Aizawa," Shote says as she presses her hand against the ice wall and begins to thicken it.
"Is that necessary?" Momo asks.
Shote keeps staring out the ice at Aizawa and says, "Last time I thought my ice was thick enough to block an attack I almost lost. I don't plan on making that mistake again."
"I have to admit this is a good idea," Aizawa says as he leaps beside the ice wall. "But the problem is that neither of us can attack each other and you can't escape."
Shote grins like the Cheshire Cat and says, "Are you sure about that? MOMO NOW!"
As Momo presses a button on her controller, the small bead-like objects launch themselves toward Aizawa and explode right before impact, wrapping Aizawa in a tangle of ropes that immobilize him.
"Izuku showed them to me and told me how they work," Momo says as she continues to pilot the drone as they step out of the ice dome with Shote carrying the handcuffs. "They're capable of holding most people without superhuman levels of strength though he wasn't able to show us the final feature he wanted to show us but it should work fine for our purposes."
"Very impressive," Aizawa says before a dark smile takes up his face. "But unfortunately you forgot that you're dealing with someone who specializes in restraints."
In a majestic display of twisting and turning he gets free of the restraints before launching himself at Shote and Momo.
"Oh shoot," Momo says as she ducks under Aizawa's scarf.
"Behind me!" Shote says as she rushes in front of Momo.
"Heroics won't save you here," Aizawa says as he wraps Shote in his scarf and hangs her from a light pole.
"I don't need heroics. Just a break from your quirk," Shote says as she stares at Aizawa's hair looking for its telltale fall.
Aizawa quickly rushes forward towards Momo but she manages to dodge the scarf and leaps into a car.
"Come on, come on, come on," Momo mumbles as she slams the door and locks it quickly trying to get the car on.
"You seriously think that will work?" Aizawa says as he starts hitting the window to break it.
"Yes," Momo says as right before the window breaks she punches the window herself launching the glass towards Aizawa causing him to instinctively close his eyes.
Shote quickly smiles as a wave of fire comes off her left side and incinerates Aizawa's scarf before she quickly turns it off and throws a wave of ice at Aizawa blocking him off from her and Momo.
"You found the exit right?" Shote asks Momo.
"Yep, it's that way," Momo says pointing northeast.
"Can we get exactly perpendicular to it?" Shote asks.
"Maybe but I doubt it," Momo says.
"In that case, let's get this over with," Shote says as she raises her right hand.
"I wonder what those kids are doing," Aizawa says as he sits on a light pole like Spider-Man. "The exit is behind me so they know they have to attack."
As the ground starts to rumble Aizawa clutches onto the light pole and mumbles, "The hell is that?"
As a giant wall of ice, easily 50 feet wide, flies toward Aizawa he quickly leaps out of the way, "I figured they'd have a better plan than that. They didn't even get hit me and they completely blocked their way to the exit."
As Aizawa looks at the wall of ice, he notices a red glow from the other side of the ice wall.
"For reference, I would still prefer if we fought him and won," Shote grumbles as she continuously melts the ice in the middle of the ice wall to form a hallway right to the exit. "This feels cowardly."
"For this type of villain, we need to get someone who specializes in fighting without their quirk. Neither of us fits that category; we need either Ovrium or a hero with a mutation-based quirk," Momo says.
"You're beginning to sound like Iida," Shote teases.
"In this case his line of thinking is helpful," Momo says blushing slightly.
As they melt the final bit of wall that leads to the exit they walk through the exit and the buzzer signaling they pass goes off.
"How much was the bet again?" Izuku asks sullenly in the viewing room as he pulls out his wallet.
"20," Mina says happily.
"You didn't think they were going to win?" Kaminari asks as he and Shinso stand next to each other.
"That wasn't the bet," Ururaka says with a smile on her face.
"Then what was it?" Shinso asked.
"Oh no no no if you don't get it you don't get to know," Mina says.
Shinso glances over at Izuku who simply shrugs and says, "For this type of stuff I'm not arguing with her."
"Argue with her about what?" Momo asks as she and Shote walk into the room.
"Makeup and stuff," Izuku says, gesturing to Mina.
"That is fair," Shote says. "She does seem to be the most skilled with that stuff."
As Mina runs up and hugs Shote while saying, "Aww thank you so much."
As Shote looks around uncomfortable while in the hug, and Momo glares slightly at Mina, Ururaka claps her hands together and says, "Well I'm up next so wish me luck!"
"I'll give you a credit card whether you win or lose," Shote says.
"Good luck," Izuku says.
"Hopefully Aoyama isn't that much of an ass," Mina mumbles.
5 minutes later
Aoyama and Ururaka stand in the USJ staring at Thirteen waiting for the buzzer to go off.
"Match 5 begin," the announcement rings.
"Let's see you do heroes!" Thirteen screams in her best villain impression as she raises her hands.
"Aoyama split up!" Ururaka yells as she sprints to the left.
"Right," Aoyama says as he runs to the right forcing Thirteen to have to split her attention between the two.
"You think that just splitting up will make you win," Thirteen shouts.
"Come on, think Ochako," Ururaka mumbles to herself as she dodged in between different bits of cover to stop the quirk from working. "Think. What would Izuku do?"
"NAVEL LASER!" Aoyama screams as he runs parallel to Ururaka and launches a full power beam at Thirteen.
"Fool lasers do nothing to me muahaha!" Thirteen shouts as she quickly sucks up all the light into the void.
"What would Izuku do?" Ururaka continues to think to herself as she runs towards the nearest objects and starts activating her quirk on whatever she can touch.
"Come on Ochako I know you can do better than that," Aoyama says as he launches lasers at Thirteen.
"Come on, come on," Ochako thinks to herself. "What would Izuku do?"
"Come on Infinity, let's do this," Aoyama calls out as he shoots his laser beam toward Thirteen.
"Infinity?" Shote says. "That's a weird nickname."
"Probably a reference to her score at the ball-throwing thing at the beginning of the year," Momo says.
Meanwhile, Izuku continues to silently stare at the screen while thinking to himself, "SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! Does he know? I know it was her score and hence a good nickname opportunity but if he fucking knows we need to counteract this immediately."
"Whatever it was seems to throw her off her game a bit," Mina comments, bringing Izuku's full attention back to the screen.
"What would Infinity do?" Ururaka thinks to herself as she continues to try to dodge Thirteen's attacks.
"I went with something with a personal meaning while she just looked up the first synonym of her quirk's name so I would say just do whatever you feel will fit you best"
"Do whatever you feel will fit you best"
"Fit you best"
Ururaka smiles as she stops running from Thirteen's attack and places both of her hands on the ground looking up at Thirteen she says, "Let's take a flight together."
As she activates her quirk on the ground she starts to feel very faint but forces herself to keep herself awake as the entirety of USJ starts floating into the sky.
As the USJ starts floating in the sky it starts spinning around in the air causing everything inside the USJ not chained to the ground to start spinning including all of the water, the big boat, and of course Thirteen.
"Holy shit," Thirteen mumbles as she begins flying backward towards one of the far-away walls.
"Aoyama!" Ururaka yells as she desperately holds onto the ground while gesturing to the door.
Aoyama nods as he starts crawling forward towards the exit of the USJ where the Nezu exit sign is placed.
As Thirteen slowly tries to get up from dealing with the fall she looks up and notices what exactly made the USJ start tilting in that direction.
The few hundred thousand gallons pool they made for the Flood zone.
All of which is crashing down towards her.
"Holy shit!" Thirteen yells as she raises all her fingers and activates her quirk, trying her best to remove all the water before it hits her.
"Ururaka," Aoyama yells from the exit. "We have a slight problem. There's no ground for me to exit onto."
"Just stick your leg out enough for it to count as an escape," Ururaka says as she struggles to force her hands back together while remaining attached to the ground.
After a few more seconds of struggling to put her hands together, Ururaka hears a buzz signaling they won and decides to let go of the ground and then put her hands together.
"Release."
By some miracle, no one died when USJ landed (relatively) back where it started but to say that the USJ itself survived the landing is also a bit generous.
Author's Note: Hello, everyone, and I hope you enjoyed this chapter. So unfortunately I'm already out of my emergency supply of fight scene whiskey AND WE'VE BARELY STARTED THIS ARC! So I will now be accepting donations of any and all whiskey that you guys can scrounge up (for legal purposes this is a joke). Also, I now have a Discord server. Please feel free to join to talk about the fic or whatever else you wish /8VCq3MmKgs. Anyway, please feel free to review the piece if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions on how I can write better until next time. I hope you all have a great day.
Deku's Quirks
Evaluate: Upon looking at a person or object, while the quirk is active, the user will see the target's weak points shown by a red glow. However, it can only be used on one opponent at a time.
Perception: allows the user to sense all of their surroundings and have perfect spatial awareness within a limited range (Now 100 meters/yards)
Memory Viewer: allows the user to see the memories of people they touch while the quirk is activated. However, if a memory is too painful it will cause the user to have a minor nosebleed and a migraine. It can only be activated once every 24 hours.
Deku's Gear:
2 custom swords: each capable of cutting through 10 inches of steel and has a variety of features that can be put into it including poisons and other fun things that I will come up with later
A variety of knives and flashbangs
Stun gun: 2 million volts per shock
Deployable cameras: Small cameras that stick to walls and other objects and are linked to the suit computer. They can see in infrared, normal, and ultraviolet light.
Deployable smoke emitter: small smoke emitters that can emit smoke for up to 1 hour
Various chemical mixtures created by Razor for different situations
Deku's Armor upgrades:
Boot Blades: 10-inch blades stored inside the boots of the armor that can be extended by flexing all the toes on either foot.
Computer screen that has the controls for all of the suit functions and external deployable tools