"The formation of Midoriya's team bears a strong resemblance to Bakugou's team in match 4," said Iida.
"They have a similar makeup too," added Sero. "But they don't have a Jiro type on their side! They gotta be even more careful than we were, unless they wanna get wrecked!"
"That's true," said Jiro. "If their strategy involves luring them out, then Midoriya will have to work even harder than Bakugou!"
Midoriya gave Uraraka a small gesture with his hand. She nodded and he went off to scout, jumping around the structure. Uraraka, Ashido and Mineta set about setting up a trap.
"EEK!" Came a cry from Uraraka - no, not from her.
"That shout must've been Shinso. They're close!" Said Mineta as Uraraka floated him up to set his trap."
"Kinda funny to picture that shriek coming from such a calm guy," said Ashido.
"Hey, we gotta look at each others' faces when talking!" Said Uraraka.
"We got bite!" Mineta cried as he adjusted his trap. As objects came flying towards them, Ashido threw up her protective barrier. ACID VEIL!"
'It's Yangi's poltergeist!" Cried Mineta as objects came flying their way. "Is she even aiming!?"
Two small objects came flying towards Ashido, who threw up her acid veil - not enough as they suddenly grew huge! A barrel and a screw.
"Release," said Kodai, placing her hands together.
It's Kodai's size!
Uraraka jumped into action and slapped the materials, floating them away.
"Twin impact, fire!"
The objects exploded.
"AHHH!" Cried Ashido.
"WE've got a decent idea of what direction they're in now. Let's launch a second attack while they're still in the dark!" Said Shoda to his two teammates.
"That was crazy! They've probably got our location now. What about Deku?" Asked Uraraka.
Midoriya had been unexpectedly cornered by Monoma.
"Huh? Did you spot me?" Came Monoma's smug voice. "After observing Bakugou's performance, we'd be fools to take you lightly! It's only natural to be on guard against someone as strong and agile as you. The clever among us realize that much. On the other hand, someone truly clever might also think that it was the other three who amplified Bakugou's strength…that crushing them should have taken priority. You're such a showman, you've gone out of your way to reveal yourself, yes? Meanwhile I expect my allies have already located yours. It'll be three against four. How will your team fare? With Shinso in the mix they can't exactly communicate freely. I suppose you'd better race back to check on your friends. But wait! What if that scream just now was Shinso mimicking a voice? What if your three friends are still hidden but you end up leading us right to them? Ha ha ha! I'm afraid there's no easy answer!"
Midoriya headed towards him.
"Don't you have any regard for your friends' potential plight? That's cold! I had a little chat with Shinso. 'The gifted will break this world!' Tell me. Your pal, Bakugou…how is it that he can still smile without a care when he's the one who brought about the downfall of the symbol of peace?"
Midoriya's face went black with rage.
Something - came from his glove. Not a blast of energy. Black liquid tendrils - something strange - something new.
Something wrong.
Midoriya was actually writhing around, clutching his glove as if in pain.
"He's grown even more? That jerk," scoffed Monoma. But Midoriya screamed at him "RUN!"
The black tendrils or whatever they were were blasting out of Midoriya's arm like some kind of demented spider or something, Monoma just barely ducking out of the way.
"Shinso!" He shouted.
"Another new move from Midoriya?' Asked Sato.
Shinsou was the nearest to Midoriya, who was becoming visible through a cloud of dust
"Shinsou!"
He rasped out as the dust cleared away and his arm - flapped around, unnaturally, as if the strange tendrils were controlling it. "Just run! The power - can't control it - It's exploding out of me!"
What's wrong with him? Is he going to bust up his arm again?
The thing was whipping up through the surrounding area as Midoriya's teammates and rivals gasped - it was blasting far enough away to hit even them, pulling Midoriya along by the arm.
"Deku!" Gasped Uraraka.
"Stop it, stop it!" He was screaming.
Uraraka jumped from nowhere and wrapped her arms around him, screaming "Deku, you gotta calm down!"
"I can't - stop it!"
"Shinsou!" She shouted. "Brainwash him! You need to stop Deku!"
Shinsou looked a little uncertain, but then shouted "Midoriya!" Pulling off his voice changer and smiling. "Let's fight!"
"OK!" Midoriya responded - and froze. Brainwashed. The quirk receded.
"Deku! Hey, Deku!" Said URaraka, slapping him awake. "Are you okay? Hope I didn't slap you too hard!"
"Uraraka - get back, it's too dangerous!"
"Shinsou's brainwashing helped calm you down. You're fine now, right?"
"Uraraka, you're hurt! Gah, what did I do?"
From behind him, Monoma leaped into action.
"Hm? I'm afraid this match isn't over yet!" And he swiped at Midoriya.
"Monoma!"
"I've got this!" Said URaraka, using her martial arts moves to run at Monoma - until more resized weapons came flying at our classmates.
"Are you two ok? What was all that?" Said Yanagi.
"Nice poltergeisting there!" Said Monoma.
"That wild black energy ruined all our plans," said Tsuburaba as he and Kodai ran up, pursued by Ashido and Mineta. "Eat this!" Cried Asdhio, then to our classmates, "Midoriya, URaraka, everything ok?"
"Everyone's here!" Said Uraraka. "It's an all out brawl!"
Shinsou had attempted to capture Uraraka with his scarf, and Midoriya had seized the end to protect her. Shinsou pulled back on the scarf, dragging Midoriya forward with him; he let go and fell onto the ground.
"Deku wasn't strong enough to resist?" Uraraka cried out, leaning over the edge of the building to look at him.
"I might still be a danger to you guys, so there's no way I can use my quirk now."
"Then let's retreat for now! We'll figure something out!"
"Retreat? That means losing! Shinsou's up there waiting. This is my chance for victory!"
Uraraka jumped down to join him. "But Deku, you can't really mean that you're gonna fight quirkiness?"
"Nope. But I'm gonna need your help, Uraraka."
Meanwhile, Ashido was fighting almost singlehandedly against the others, unleashing a new attack on Kodai and Yang.
"Acid shot!" She called out, unleashing what looked like acid bullets as she leaped through the sky. "This might sting a little!"
"Big." Said Kodai, changing the size of a nearby object to protect herself.
"I can't afford to take critical hits on a brawl like this," said Shoda, throwing something up towards her and shouting "Twin impact, fire!"
An exploding pinwheel was headed towards Ashido, but Mineta got in the way with a shield.
"Mineta!" She cried.
"Just as planned! Hear that Nirengeki Shoda. Just as freaking planned! Since I knew I couldn't actually stand up to your twin impact -"
"Really? Even now?" Said Ashido as he bumped into her - and she threw him away, bouncing him through the entire setup.
"That's enough, here we go!"
He was bouncing back and fourth through the various balls he'd set up throughout the buildings.
"I wish we could regroup," said Shoda. "But they're coming at us so quick! There's no time to come up with a plan!"
"Yeah," said Kodai.
"Our guys have the edge despite the numbers disadvantage!" Said Kaminari.
"The others gotta be careful about getting into Ashido's range!" Said Kirishima, and pumping a fist into the air he announced, "She's so awesome!"
"The girls aren't exactly close combat experts, so Shoda's gotta guard em by himself," said Tsuburaba.
"Having a bigger team is backfiring! They gotta get outta there!" Said Manga.
"Didn't the teachers run off to shut all this down?!" Asked Jirou. "And what're Midoriya and Uraraka up to?"
Our classmates had been engaged in battle by Monoma,who was tossing objects at them and appeared to be taking a swipe at the two of them.
"Your power is mine!" He shouted, and I remembered that earlier he had slapped Midoriya. Could he have really swiped his quirk? But Midoriya's quirk -
"Wait, Monoma! That's too risky to -" Uraraka started.
"Too late!" Monoma shouted, but his attack didn't seem to have affected them. Uraraka slammed him down and shouted to Midoriya, "That wasn't your power, Deku! It's a bluff! Now go!"
"Sheesh, I drew a blank," muttered Monoma, now pinned to the ground by Uraraka.
"Monoma!" Shouted Shinsou, but at that moment Midoriya had - FLOATED - Up to him!
"Release!" Said Uraraka s MIdoriya trapped Shinsou's scarf.
"Last time we tangled like this was at the Sports Festival!" Said Shinsou. "It won't be like last time! I'm not the same as before, Midoriya!"
He had wrapped the scarf around barrels above him and pulled them downwards on top of Midoriya, just like Sensei would!
And Midoriya's strange black quirk tendrils and emerged from him again, but this time - not as dangerous weapons, but as a tool he used to seize the barrels and save himself.
