"Well done, Izuku," Shote says as she approaches him.
"Thanks, that minefield thing was annoying. I think I almost went above my resting heart rate." Izuku replies.
Shote rolls her eyes and starts to reply but glances up and sees Endeavor staring at her. Her good mood quickly evaporates as she simply nods and walks away.
"That was weird," Mina says, walking up to Izuku and hugging him. "Any idea what that was about?"
"Probably something to do with him," Izuku says, nodding to Endeavor in the stands.
"Oh yeah, that makes sense," Mina says, noticing Endeavor in the stands. "I've heard he's a bit of a jackass."
Izuku glances at her and is about to say something, but Ururaka, Momo, and Iida walk over from the course.
"Congratulations, Midoriya," Iida says.
"Congrats Izuku!" Ururaka says happily.
"Yeah, congrats Izuku," Momo says out of breath.
"What happened to you?" Izuku asks Momo in a concerned tone.
"Mineta decided that the best way for him to get to the end was to attack himself to her back for the whole course." Ururaka supplies helpfully.
"Damn, that's a cruel way to win," Izuku says with wide eyes.
"You're telling me," Momo says, still catching her breath. "That pervert is way heavier than he looks."
"HEY!" Mineta yells from a few feet away.
"Anyway, well done, Izuku," Momo says, ignoring Mineta.
"Thanks," Izuku says, glancing over at the end of the course. "Hey, how did so much of Class 1b get here?"
The rest of the group turns around to see a large chunk of the winners are different members of class 1b. "HAHAHAHAHAHA YOU IDIOTS!" Monoma screams out walking towards class 1a. "YOU MAY BE WONDERING HOW SO MANY OF US, THE SUPERIOR CLASS 1B, GOT INTO THE NEXT ROUND WHILE COMPARABLY FEW OF YOU DID YOU SEE UNLIKE YOU IDIOTS, WE CHOSE TO STRATEGIZE TOGETHER TO MAKE SURE THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF US GOT IN. WHO IS THE SUPERIOR CLASS NOW! HAHAHAHAHAHA-"
Monoma falls unconscious as Kendo waves to class 1a and says, "Sorry about that."
"Nice strategizing on their part," Izuku mumbles to himself. "It worked well for the first part now let's see who wins the second part."
"And the next type of battle will be A CAVALRY BATTLE," Midnight announces. "Alright, the 42 remaining contestants will group up into groups of two to four for the cavalry battle. Now, every person who managed to get into the team battle will get points with increasing intervals of 5 points with number 42 getting 5 points, number 41 getting 10 points etcetera, however, the exception is the person who got in first place who will be getting 10 million points. The four teams who have the highest points will win and every other team will be eliminated. The member of the team with the highest number of points will be the rider. Also in the cavalry battle the person who is the rider is not allowed to touch the ground or they will be eliminated. Are there any questions?"
Izuku raises his hand and Midnight points to him, "Out of curiosity, what exactly do you consider the ground? What we are standing on right now or are we not allowed to touch the walls and stuff as well?"
"If you are the rider you are not allowed to touch any solid object other than other students," Midnight replies.
"Okay thank you for the clarification," Izuku says, nodding his head and taking a step back.
"Okay if there are no more questions you may now form teams. You have 10 minutes before the battle begins." Midnight says, letting the students pick their teams.
"He did well," Kurogiri says, staring at the TV in the backroom of the bar sitting with Nana and Razor, who for the first time in months was not on an assignment so she could watch her students' performance.
"That he did," Razor replied. "Especially when considering that he barely put any effort into his acceleration."
"That is true," Nana says, as she drinks a shot of whiskey, "Most of the time he speeds up much faster than that."
"In his defense, he could just be saving energy for the fights at the end of the match," Kurogiri says.
"Or he's just sandbagging it so no one questions exactly how he got that strong," Nana adds. "That's not even mentioning the extra alerts that have been going off since they finally found Mind Touch's hand."
"That is a good reason to be cautious," Razor agrees. "I wonder who he'll pick for the team battle."
"My bet is the tech girl will be on his team," Nana says, downing another shot.
"Why do you say that?" Kurogiri asks.
Nana glances over at Kurogiri and says, "Simple really, one she's a good potential asset for the future assuming we can get her to work for us, two she seems like someone that would remind Izuku of his life before he became a villain and he may be a very good villain who won't hesitate to kill people we both know that he has a soft spot for people who remind him of himself in his past life, and three because he's currently talking to her." Nana gestures to the screen showing that Izuku is indeed talking to the girl in the tech suit.
"It seems like an unfair bet now," Razor says, grabbing some popcorn from a nearby bucket.
"So you would've taken it if he simply waited a few minutes before talking to her?" Nana asks.
"No, I probably would've said the same thing but it does make the betting part less fun," Razor replies.
Nana shrugs and says, "Well, it looks like we won't have to wait long it seems the team portion is about to start."
"All teams ready?" Midnight calls out to the assembled teams.
Izuku, Shote, Bakugo, Monoma, Tetsutetsu, Shinso, and all the other team leads nod. (for the sake of ease and because I'm way too fucking lazy to list every single member of each team just assume that all the teams are in the formations they were in the show don't worry unless they are actively going to participate in this combat for this battle they will not be mentioned so just assume they're all just fighting in the background or something because I forgot how many members of class 1b I'd have to relearn the quirks and personalities of if I was going to use all of them because this is just ridiculous)
"All right 3, 2, 1, BEGIN!" Midnight calls out.
A 5 minutes earlier:
"So what's the plan Izuku?" Ururaka asks as she, Hatsume, and Tokoyami surround Izuku in a huddle.
"Because everyone is going to be targeting us right from the get-go we need to be on the defensive," Izuku says. "Our biggest concerns are Bakugo, Shote, and Monoma teams If I had my gear I would be able to counter Monoma and Shote's teams fairly easily but Bakugo, despite being a jackass, is intelligent enough to know how to build a good team."
"Plus you don't want to hurt your girlfriend," Ururaka says.
Blushing slightly Izuku continues, "Yes that too. Anyway, since I don't have any gear Hatsume has been kind enough to loan me some of her gear which should counter most of the problems but we still need large amounts of speed to evade them long enough because most of the gear is a one-trick pony. No offense Hatsume."
"None taken," Hatsume says with a smile. "After all, most of them were designed only to be used once."
"So using Hatsume's rocket boots in addition to Ururaka's quirk we will try to evade them to ensure that we remain out of range of the other students and in as many potential shadows as possible to help strengthen dark shadow who will be responsible for defending us from any possible attacks."
"Right," Tokoyami nods.
"Okay, now then let's beat their asses," Izuku says with a smile.
"BEGIN!"
A blast of ice and a hail of explosions rain toward Izuku's team as Hatsume quickly activates the rocket boots and they fly out of the way.
"GET BACK HERE DEKU!" Bakugo yells having his team rush after him.
"You should pay more attention to your own problems," Monoma's voice rings out as his team rushes towards Bakugo's. "You see we don't need to have the most amount of points to win we just need enough to be in the top 4."
As Monoma and Bakugo's teams start to fight Shote's team rushes towards Izuku full throttle as Shote launches ice blast after ice blast at Izuku's team.
"Just give up already you know you won't keep that headband on forever," Kaminari yells as he charges up his body to launch an attack at Izuku.
"Yeah, but I don't need to do it forever, do I? By the way, catch." Izuku yells back as he throws a round object at Kaminari.
Kaminari, acting more on instinct than anything else, catches the object thrown at him. "The hell?" Kaminari mumbles confused as he holds what looks to be a simple water balloon in his hands.
That would be the last thing Kaminari would say for a while as all the electricity he was building up for his attack got sucked into the water balloon and redistributed across his body causing him to enter braindead mode.
"Kaminari!" Momo yells as she summons a rubber glove and smacks the water balloon out of his hands.
"Did you like my invention?" Hatsume shouts from the bottom of the cavalry position. "It's a rubber-like material but instead of being electricity resistant, it is a high-level conductor that when filled with water amplifies it up to 10 times its original charge. I call it 'The Surge Inducer'."
"Make your sales pitch later," Izuku says as he dodges another ice blast from Shote from atop the formation using a combination of fancy footwork and, unknown by the crowd, his perception quirk to stand atop the three people underneath him and to remain at least somewhat mobile on top of his classmates.
As another ice wall flies toward Izuku's team he gets an idea. Quickly using Evaluate, he finds the weakest icicle on the wall and kicks it off the wall, snapping it off at roughly the halfway point, and he grabs it and launches it straight at Iida.
"Oh no," Iida says, putting his arms up to block the strike while stopping only to find nothing hit him as Shote had raised an ice wall in front of him to block it.
"Thanks, Shote," Iida says gratefully.
"They got away," Shote says, looking at Izuku's team, who is once again flying across the arena.
"I got them," Momo says as she finishes creating a gun using her quirk and aims it at the rocket boots.
A loud bang fills the stadium as the shot hits the boot, causing it to break and causing team Izuku to descend much quicker down to the ground.
"Hatsume, you didn't happen to make a lipid blocker, did you?" Izuku asks.
"No, why?" Hatsume responds
"It would be a much easier way of getting Momo out of the fight, but I guess we'll have to do that the hard way later. Dark Shadow, new plan block any shots coming towards those rocket boots, got it," Izuku says.
"Got it," Dark Shadow responds with a nod as he reorients himself from the front of the team to near the bottom to protect the remaining rocket boot.
"Ururaka how much longer can you keep your quirk going on everyone?" Izuku asks, turning to Ururaka.
"Probably enough for one or two more bursts," Ururaka replies, looking very queasy.
"Okay got it," Izuku says with a nod looking over at the teams rushing towards them again.
"All teams 5 minutes remain in the match." Midnight's voice rings out over the arena.
"Okay good so we only have… well shit," Izuku says up from Ururaka. "Well on the plus side Dark Shadow, I think you can stop protecting the boot now."
"Why I haven't even been attacked… yet oh that's why." Dark Shadow says looking around them and seeing that every potential avenue of escape has been blocked by walls of ice.
"Nice Shote I didn't think you could make this much ice," Izuku calls out to Shote.
"Sorry about this Izuku," Shote says. "But I have a promise to keep."
Izuku blinks and looks to the side quizically and is about to ask what she meant when he hears "Recipro Burst!"
Before the match:
"There is only one way I can see beating Izuku's team with our current formation," Shote says to her team. "We need to distract him long enough for Iida to use his special move to steal the headband."
"How will we distract him though?" Momo asks. "I've never seen him distracted even in class by anyone except Mina and that's only when she's whispering something into his ear."
"Yet he also hungers for knowledge," Shote says. "Even in the boring modern poetry class with Cementos, he pays attention all I have to do is say something that will cause his curiosity to get the better of him long enough for the move to work."
"And how will you do that?" Kaminari asks.
"I think I know a way," Shote says with a fleeting sad look across her face.
"AND THERE YOU HAVE IT FOLKS AFTER 10 MINUTES OF COMBAT TEAM MIDORIYA FINALLY LOSES ITS HEADBAND!" Present Mic announces loudly.
"Would you please stop being so loud," Aizawa moans.
"Stop being such a grouch Aizawa get in the spirit of the tournament," Present Mic says with a grin.
"UGH!" Aizawa moans.
"I'm surprised they haven't rushed us yet," Iida says.
"Yes, it is rather odd," Momo replies.
"Why would we?" Izuku calls out. "We still have enough points to make it into the next round."
With a smirk, Izuku raises his arm and reveals the 3 headbands that were on Shote's head prior to the attack.
"The hell," Kaminari mumbles as he looks up and sees Shote has no headbands around her head besides Izuku's.
"Felt like a decent trade after all now all the teams will be hunting you, not us," Izuku says with a grin.
Raising her arm Shote forms a ceiling to the ice walls she constructed and says, "There now it's just the two of us Izuku what are you going to do now."
"In that case, I'm fine just sitting here but I have a feeling the crowd will be less than pleased," Izuku gestures to the stadium surrounding them. "So instead I think I'll be taking that back now, DARK SHADOW!"
Dark Shadow quickly moves in behind Izuku and then quickly gets pushed a few dozen feet into the ground as Izuku uses him as a launching platform, but not towards Shote but towards the ice wall.
Launching himself again and again across the ice walls until it is impossible to identify where Izuku is.
"Just to make it clear to the teachers," Izuku's voice rings out throughout the enclosed area. "You said that I couldn't touch the ground or the stadium walls you said nothing about artificially created walls in the arena."
"Hey, does that count?" Present Mic leans over, asking Aizawa.
"Technically, he is following the letter of the law and it does make sense since in real combat he would be able to do this. So this would be allowed," Aizawa says, sipping his beverage through his bandages.
Izuku smiles as he sees his plan come to fruition as in their confusion they had left a gap for him to exploit. With one last push off of the 10-foot thick ice wall, leaving cracks all along its surface, he rushes straight towards Shote.
More specifically Shote's left side.
Shote's eyes widen as she realizes what Izuku is doing and acting more on instinct than anything else she launches a wave of fire at Izuku.
Using Kaminari as a stepping stone Izuku launches himself over Shote's attack before landing on Dark Shadow and then launching himself onto the other unmelted ice wall.
"ONE MINUTE LEFT IN THE MATCH!" Present Mic's voice rings out.
"Huh didn't know you could use fire for more than defrosting, Shote. I'm surprised you don't use that more," Izuku says as he hangs onto the other ice wall having dug his fingers straight through the ice in order to get a hold.
Shote stands there looking horrified at her left hand causing Izuku to tilt his head in curiosity as Shote turns and in a rage throws an ice blast at Izuku.
Izuku dodges and smiles knowing that while what he is about to do may reveal more strength than he originally intended this would at a minimum impress the judges.
He launches himself at the ice ceiling Shote created, shattering the 10-foot ice wall behind him with the force of his kick-off, and with another push off the ceiling he shatters that too sending him spinning down towards Shote. Moving his foot out he smiles and says, "Wind Blade Kick!"
Shote's eyes widen as she forms layer after layer of ice to try to stop the attack but it's not enough as Izuku breaks through them all milliseconds before he grabs the headband he hears Present Mic's voice ring out. "AND THERE YOU HAVE IT FOLKS THE MATCH IS OVER! IN FIRST PLACE WE HAVE TEAM TODOROKI! IN SECOND PLACE WE HAVE TEAM BAKUGO! IN THIRD PLACE WE HAVE TEAM TETSUT- WAIT, WHAT! WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN? IN THIRD PLACE WE HAVE TEAM SHINSO! AND FINALLY, IN FOURTH PLACE WE HAVE TEAM MIDORIYA! Now then, while we set up the final battles all students may enjoy the different recreational activities that we set up. So please enjoy them and for all you watching at home please take this time to grab some popcorn because these final matches are going to be wild!"
"Damn, I almost had you there," Izuku says, now on the ground having aborted his wind blade kick to not hit Shote.
"That you did," Shote mumbles looking at her left hand. "Normally I would join in the celebrations but I have to go."
As those who got through to the final 16 get congratulated, Izuku chooses to follow Shote to see what's wrong only to see her walk into the bathroom and hear her start crying.
"I'm sorry I broke my promise to you," Shote says in between sobs. "I won't do it again I swear I won't use that motherfuckers quirk again."
As Izuku stands back hearing this he hears footsteps behind him and he turns around to see Endeavor standing behind him.
"Well done, Midoriya," Endeavor says nodding his head. "I don't know who your trainer was but they should be proud you are a very skilled warrior."
"Thank you, sir," Izuku says bowing his head slightly.
"Now then you can go now but I do appreciate you looking out for my daughter," Endeavor says.
Izuku nods and walks away but not entirely out of earshot to hear the interaction between Endeavor and Shote.
Shote walks out of the bathroom and sees Endeavor standing outside it, "What do you want you motherfucking asshole," Shote sneers at him.
Endeavor ignores the tone and says "I wanted to congratulate you on finally using your fireside it seems you are finally-"
"Fuck you." Shote interrupts him, "It was one slip up out of instinct I will never use your quirk you asshole."
"Shote we both know you will only make it so far using only ice," Endeavor says his false good demeanor burning away quicker than ash. "You will need to use my quirk eventually and when you do I will be waiting to say I told you so and to begin your real training."
"Even if I did start using it you think I would accept your help? After what you did to-" Shote starts nearly yelling.
"That was an accident," Endeavor says with a snarl.
"It may have been but that doesn't change the fact that even with the side effects you still forced him to train," Shote screams.
Shote takes a deep breath and looks up at the person whom she is forced to call her father and hisses at him "Fuck you. Until you can bring him back from the fucking dead fuck you. We both know that the only reason I fucking do this anymore is because of him so fuck you, Dad. Fuck you."
Walking off with a stern look on her face and tears still in her eyes she walks to the locker room and opens up her locker and pulls out a locket and opens it. Inside rests a picture of a 7-year-old Shote and a teenage boy ruffling her hair as they both smile at the camera.
"I miss you, Toya," Shote says as tears fall from her face hitting the picture in the locket.
Author's Note: Hello and Happy New Year everyone I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. I hope you all don't mind the fact I didn't go over everything that happened in the tournament but quite frankly I was getting annoyed at trying to keep track of the several dozen characters I had to write into the script so I just narrowed it down to just the fight between Shote and Izuku's teams. Also don't worry more Todoroki family lore will be coming up in the next chapter so hopefully you all like that type of stuff. Also in case you all haven't started to notice yes for Izuku's special moves I am just going to be ripping off Sonic Flashy Flash and (maybe) Saitama's moves from One Punch Man and before people say that it is unrealistic I recommend you use google translate on the Russian training program I used as Izuku's training back in chapter 2 because it translates to Saitama in Russian. 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 weak points of the target 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 spacial 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 made by Razor for various 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
