Chapter 17- Second Round: Flags Up! Time for Battle!

Let's switch this game up a bit. Nothing too…crazy.

Chapter 17- Second Round: Flags Up! Time for Battle!

"What took you slugs so long?" A smug looking Buttercup was standing next to her unamused looking sisters.

"You try evading hordes of competitive students, while they are doing freaky stuff to slow you down. Then we can talk." Bubbles replied, defensive at the moment.

"Oh please, it couldn't be that bad." Rolling her eyes at her explanation.

"Oh, just because you won the race. Suddenly we are all high and mighty, huh?" Blossom cocked an eyebrow at the raven haired girl.

"Jealousy is not a good look on you, sis." Shrugging off her sister's glare. A small argument broke out, 2 against one, siting about one particular girl's ego.

Izuku was busy staring at the girl who bested him on the race. He so wanted to win the first event, but inside he knows that it's not over yet. 'Yeah. I came to win and prove myself.' He was brought out from his thoughts, when a familiar face came over.

"Deku!" Uraraka came over to him, panting and out of breath. "H-hey…I um…glad you got second position. It was awesome that you finally got a handle of your powers like that." Through the fatigue she felt, gave him a tired smile.

Izuku could not help but reciprocate. "Oh, thanks Uraraka." Rubbing the back of his head. "Honestly, I just wish I had put in more work and maybe I would have gotten first place." He said.

"Well Deku, its fine. All that matters is that we can face the next event together and gladly win." Her eyes shown a new rise of determination.

"Right."

Once the last of the students crossed the finish line of the Obstacle Race, it was revealed that only the top forty-two students would go on to the second round. Looking around at the ones that had made the cut revealed the General Studies guy with purple hair that had declared war on Class 1-A and the pinkette from the Support Course. To Bubbles delight, the girl who also made her own declaration of war was cut off as well.

Midnight came out to give their long awaited announcement.

"Now people! As we have come out of our first event of the festival, we're also coming across our first rankings. As you can see, there's a leader board of where you placed in terms of race's outcome! But if you can't seem to find your place on the board that means you have placed below 42nd place, and are now eliminated! Which means that you are prevented from moving on to the next event!"

"Now, let's discover the second round event!" Midnight cracked her whip as the wheel on the display began to spin rapidly. Everyone watched on as the wheel spun. The sudden stop revealed the event and everybody was quick to read it.

[Capture the Flag]

"Capture the Flag? I'm not so sure my Quirk is going to be good for this." Kaminari looked a little worried.

"Since it's not an individual event, how is it going to work?" Tsuyu questioned curiously, unknowingly voicing the thoughts of several others.

"Allow me to explain, it has quite the twist! Firstly, this next challenge involves teams and with the help of the screen above me, it will display and place each of you in to teams at random, which means, you won't get to choose who you will partner up with!" With that, the Teams were placed on the screen.

Everyone looked over the screen and some realized that certain members of each class were mixed together.

"Well this sucks." Buttercup deadpanned at seeing the list, no one she spoke to was on her team.

"Hmm, they might be doing this as a way for us to learn to work with heroes we might not know well in the future. Kero." Tsu deduced at that, making others understand now.

"Now! The game will take place in the forest, located on school grounds, but don't worry, it's not a big area, just enough to be covered by trees and greenery! There will be camera surveying from the skies, capturing all the action; displaying it on the screen for all the teachers and people to see! Each team will be making a sort of home base that will house your flags! Aim of the game is just the same as the standard match of Capture the Flag! The main difference being that based on the results of the first game, each person will be assigned a point value! Those points will be added together to determine the value of a Team's flag! And at the end of the competition, we are to have at least 6 teams, with 16 remaining contestants!"

"Wait. There are at least about 4 people in each team. And if you want 16 contestants from the 6 teams, how are we supposed to run down the numbers from 24 to 16?" Bubbles inquired, speaking out what everyone was thinking.

"Ah, that's the twist my dear! Out of the 11 teams on the board, I did say that we are to have 6 left with the most points and out of those, 16 contestants will go ahead! But, there will be further eliminations according to the position of the said teams!" Everyone gasped at that twist. "Basically, the top two teams with the highest points, will get to move on without losing an individual! The next two will lose at least one teammate and the last two teams will lose THREE!" Everyone gasped and worried about the whole situation.

"Wait, so how do the four last team's individual's get eliminated?!" Mina asks, worried.

"That's for us to decide and you all to keep an eye out!" Midnight remarks all slyly.

"What would happen if the team lost their flags, does it mean they're out automatically?" Tokoyami inquired.

"Not so my student! If you can accumulate enough points, even when you seem to have lost your flag! Then your good, as long as those points are enough to guarantee your spot in the next round!" Midnight answered.

"Oh I see. We are meant to accumulate enough points, just like we did in the entrance exam." Momo nodded.

"Yes, you're completely correct! The points assigned start at five for the student in forty-second place, and then go up by five from there. That means the forty-first place is ten points and fortieth place is fifteen points."

"That means that Buttercup has two hundred and ten points. Seeing as she placed first in the Obstacle race." Blossom deduced, standing next to her sisters.

"Not quite, Blossom! You see, there is one exception to this rule. The point value assigned to first place is...TEN MILLION!" Midnight gave them a sadistic smirk while pointing her whip at Buttercup.

The girls suddenly felt all eyes turn to Buttercup and focus intently. In their mind's eye everyone had turned into shadow-like silhouettes with bright red-eyes. Buttercup felt a momentary tinge of nervousness at being the target of literally everyone else in the Second Round. She never would've figured that there would be some kind of penalty for her success in the Obstacle Race. Guess her ego came back to bite her in the butt sooner than expected.

"That means as long as you have the ten million point flag, you automatically win." Someone said just loud enough for everyone to hear. Girls didn't recognize the male voice, so it must have been one of the members of Class B.

"That's right! It's survival of the fittest, where even those at the bottom can overthrow the ones at the top! Now, you have 15 minutes to find your teammates and make a plan! Before time is up, head on over to one of the hero teachers on either side of the exit, to show you where the field will be!" Midnight declared with a wide grin.

"Oh crap!" Buttercup muttered under her breath. As she turns to look at her sisters now, she sweat drops at their faces. Each one has an 'I am going to get you flag' face that makes Buttercup a little more nervous. She understood that this was a game and she can proudly say that she can be way too competitive, but she did not like the chances of everyone including her sisters gunning for her.

"All the best Buttercup." Blossom said with a cunning smirk.

"Yeah. This will be so much fun." That innocent tone of Bubbles, made her shiver a bit.

With that, the blue and pink girls left, leaving Buttercup to the mercy of her new teammates, who some did not look too pleased to be in her group,

"Right, so this is our team? Okay…we just need to-" She was cut off by Momo

"I think the best course of action, would be to create a fortified barrier around our flag. Insuring a proper defence, while we all provide an equal standard offence." Momo explained.

"Uh yeah…" Buttercup blinked in surprise. "Well, I say that we all-"

"I say we just get on the field and try to win. Honestly, I can't believe I am on a team with all you Class A losers." Juzo groaned the last part out, but it was abundantly clear that he was not happy being with any of them. While the other was hard to read but she could not help the single thought going through head at the moment.

'Yup. I'm doomed.'

Over to the other side of the stadium, Blossom could see the three people that would be on her team. The first two she recognized as Izuku and Uraraka and the last girl with pink hair must have been from the support class mentioned on the board.

She walked over, overhearing a conversation about…Babies?! That nearly makes her stumble at those words.

"Yes with my babies, we will surely win the whole round!" Pink haired girl said, while showing a chest of her inventions, Blossom took a sigh of relief, 'Oh, she meant her inventions, that's…good to hear.'

When Izuku comes down from his discussion session about the jetpack the girl had, looking similar to a certain hero. He spots Blossom coming their way. "Oh, hey Blossom!" He kindly waved over her.

Blossom gave a small smile, as she arrived. "So, this is our team, eh?" She politely asked, not wanting to sound disappointed.

"Yeah. It's not much, but I hope we can find a way to win this." Izuku nervously remarked.

Blossom nodded. "I see. Well, if this is the team, then we have to form a plan of acquiring points and defence." She commented. "First to start off, my powers as you heard from Present Mic, is called Chemical X, like my sister's quirks name."

"Oh yeah, your powers deals with more on psychokinetics right?" Izuku asked, for which I nodded, "Yes, more or less." Trying not to over share.

"Well, as you have seen, my quirk allows me to enhance my speed, so-" H was cut off by a confused Uraraka. "Wait Deku, I thought your quirk was a strength enhancement type, how come you were able to move so fast back there?" She questioned.

Izuku looked a bit flustered at the question. "Well you see…um, it also amplifies some of my other physical abilities and such." Giving the best answer he could. But Uraraka was not letting up. "I see, but what about-" She was then cut off by Blossom.

"The questions seem all fun and dandy, but can we go back to the task at hand and deal with this later." She said, not wanting to waste any more time and seeing as the boy was not feeling like explaining his quirk any further, which she could respect.

She looked a bit miffed, but went on. "Okay, right. Um, my quirk is called Zero Gravity and allows me to nullify gravity on anyone or anything I touch." Uraraka commented

"Quite interesting. My quirk's name is Zoom, it allows me to see things up to five kilometers away or teeny tiny things while I build my babies! Useful, right?" She grinned as she gave a brief rundown of her Quirk to her teammates.

Blossom thought that would be very useful in the plan she was coming up with. If they all play their parts right, they would surely win this round. "Okay, Hatsume, is it?" The girl eagerly nodded. "I want to know what sort of "babies" you have and whether or not some can help with the plan." That got the inventor to squeal and give a rundown on some of the support gears that she was able to bring in to the competition. On the other side of the competition, more plotting was being done to reach their goals.

"Okay everyone. This is our team and seeing the rules, we will have to get the top spot. That being said, we must obtain those million points at all means." Shoto said, determination in his voice. For which everyone agreed wholeheartedly.

"Beg my interruption Todoroki. But may I ask if you have a plan to obtain them? I hate to admit it but it might not be an easy feat to acquire said points, especially with her having it." Iida remarked, knowing full well who he is mentioning.

He nodded. "Yes I do. But it will need us to be very quick. That's where you come in Iida." He commented, for which the glasses wearing boy nodded.

"Alright everybody! We have a few minutes left! Please go over to the exits, and follow the assigned teacher to the fields! Now, let's get this game of Capture the Flag started!" Midnight announced. Everyone went their respected ways.

"Hey, hey, come on, wake up, Eraser! The second round is about to start!" Present Mic shook the dozing Aizawa awake. "It's now time for the Capture the Flag battle to begin! We have all of the teams displayed on the monitor!" He exclaimed to whip the crowd up.

"Hmmm... There are some interesting teams out there." Aizawa commented as he took a few seconds to look at the teams. Not much to go about, but he was sure it would be interesting.

"Now, raise those battle cries! It's time for the bloody battle!" Present Mic declared and the crowd roared in excitement.

"You're exaggerating. I doubt that there will be much bloodshed." Aizawa gave a side glance at his old friend. Mic ignored him entirely as he continued to fan the flames of the cheering crowd's excitement.

"ALL RIGHT! Every team is ready to begin! I'm not going to ask if you're ready or not!" Present Mic yelled loudly stirring up the audience as they eagerly anticipated the beginning of the Sports Festival's second round. "Now, let's go! The countdown to the brutal bloody showdown begins!"

"You're exaggerating again," Aizawa drawled as the countdown began.

"THREE!" Mic began the countdown.

"TWO!" Midnight called out.

"ONE!" The entire stadium roared!

"BEGIN!" Midnight yelled as she snapped her whip with a loud crack.

-UA Forest-

On the monitor, the camera's caught something big.

A massive wall of ice sprung up around Todoroki's team. The two-toned teen was apparently going on the defensive to protect his team's flag first. He'd effectively made an icy fortress right off the bat. But it does make it more clear to everyone on their location.

A bit further away and one could see Sero -a part of Team Bakugo- rapidly setting up a huge net of his tape around their flag. In short order the flag was behind layers and layers of the strong adhesive tape. Aside from trying to burn through it all, or slicing it if a person had a suitable Quirk, there wasn't much way to get to the flag now. There seems to also be mushrooms sprung out and covering their fortified base now

"Alright guys, you understand the plan right?" Blossom asked her teammates.

"Yeah!" They all said in unison.

"Okay, let's go." She said.

The plan was as so. Izuku and Uraraka, with the help of Uraraka's quirk, Mei's hover boots and jet pack, will take to the sky and try to locate and obtain as many flags as they can get. They will be aided by Mei's capture weapons to better immobilize any of the targets, while Mei will assist Blossom in defending against all the other at their designated spot. As the two left to accomplish their part of the mission, a certain sound was made.

"Look over there." The pink haired gestured. It seems an ice fortress erupted in a far enough distance. Blossom could only deduce it was Todoroki who made that as his base. She was certain that him and his team would rather ambush Buttercup then come after her team's flag.

'Probably for the best I didn't get those million points. Having a big target on your back is never good.'

"We have company on its way!" Just then she was brought back out of her thoughts by an alarmed Katsume.

With Mei's quirk, she could see quite a far distance, which was good for Blossom as it helped with her plan.

"Okay, where exactly?" Her question was answered when a sharp moving object landed a few inches before her foot.

"I would say, here already." Her nonchalant attitude made Blossom groan for a second before facing her opponents.

There was a boy a with a braided ponytail that she recognized from the obstacle race, his power seemed to be forming green scales on his arms and shooting them like bullets. And a girl with dark moss green hair. Blossom doesn't know her powers but nevertheless is still vigilante.

The boy transforms, covering both his arms with the green scales, aiming for the flag, he lets out a number of blasts. Before Blossom could think to redirect the shots, Mei threw a disc in the direction it was heading and within a second, a foamy mount appeared and took the force of the shot.

"One of my babies! A compact foam disc, used to absorb certain attacks, such as bullets and some blunt attacks!" The girl practically squealed as she gave a brief rundown of it. Blossom would have asked more questions if she wasn't dodging flying human parts left and right.

"Why you dodging? I just want to get close to you." The girl whined in a mocking tone. Blossom was not giving an inch with any of her parts. But a thought went through her head and took a moment to realize her flag was being whisked away by one of her floating appendage at a fast speed.

"Gotcha!" She smirked to herself.

Blossom was not having any of it. Raising a hand up, her pink aura covered the appendage before it could get back to her. The girl tried but it was basically a game of tag of war, where she was losing by a hand. Blossom was able to retract the team's flags, much to the other's dismay. But just then…

"Look out!" Mei cried out, as the boy she was versing with, went on to attack Blossom. But before he could do anything, she fully enveloped the other girl with her pink aura and launched her with enough force to slam the guy back on his butt.

"Mei, now!" Taking the opportunity, the pink haired girl with a wide smile, used her capture weapon, releasing a net that covered the fallen duo. Now bound and struggling to break free from the otherwise strong net.

"Yay! My babies will surely be noticed by now!" She exclaimed with joy at the prospects of her inventions being used and seen by the present support companies.

"Glad to hear it." Blossom said, happy for her. She hoped that the others were working well according to plan.

Sadly the air team consisting of Izuku and Uraraka were not faring well on their own. The plan was to be able to use the skies and snatch some flags from the other teams, but they only managed to not get attacked out of the sky by other people's quirks. Team Kendo had been an immense surprise for the Zero Gravity user and the green haired boy. Kendo's Quirk had almost smacked them out of the air. The silver-haired girl on another team, had launched a mass of pebbles from the arena floor at them like buckshot; Izuku could not help but ponder if her telekinesis strength would be a match for Blossom's. The worst part was that Kaminari was practically standing over the flag just waiting for anyone to find a way into the fortress. In an enclosed space like that, a single shot of Kaminari's Quirk would render any invader incapable of continuing the match.

Seeing that there was nothing to be done, "We'll have to get back, seems that we won't be able to get any flags before time is up." Ochako didn't want to throw in the towel so soon, but she had to admit that they weren't having much luck in the flag snatching department. Nevertheless they went back, but at the corner of Izuku's eye, he saw a dark moving rapidly through the trees. He had an idea who it could be but left it alone for later.

With Bubbles' team, they were having a battle with some of the other contestants who wanted to steal their flag. Bubbles was doing her best to keep up the force-field bubble she had on, but the attacks were still coming. Tetsutetsu and Jurota were busy handling the individual battle. Koda was taking to the trees like a monkey. He chose to handle his battle by evading it, as well as drawing out attention from Bubbles.

-Announcers Booth-

On the monitors, everyone was watching with how the students were performing well. Some of the Pro Heroes in the stadium were discussing about certain students who caught their individual eye.

"Did you see that kid?"

"Her quirk is very impressive."

"Wow! It seems that our first years are each trying to show their own in this battle! I can honestly say that some of them have caught our attention!" Mic announced, feeling thrilled about the whole event.

"Naturally in situations like these, a hero is expected to work another hero. Whether they know each other or not. This event is to teach the kids about teamwork and working together in unfavourable situations." Aizawa explained in a serious tone.

"Oh, you mean like what is happening in the team over there!" Mic said, gathering everyone's attention to a team facing their own situation.

"Give me that flag Kayama." Shooting a trail of ice spikes at the raven haired girl.

"Not happening candy cane." She declared with a blast of her plasma beams that broke the ice. Buttercup manage to dodge an explosive strike from behind, jumping a few feet away from the attacker. "THAT TEN MILLION POINT FLAG IS MINE!" Bakugo proclaimed loudly as he glared fiercely at Buttercup.

"In your dreams!" Sending another form of plasma blasts at the blonde hot head, who countered it with a strong explosive blast.

Buttercup took a moment to scan her environment, she saw that some of her teammates were holding their own, but not much. Momo and Juzo-as she has come to learn-are battling off Kirishima and Ibara. Tokoyami using Dark Shadow, guarding the reinforced structure housing the teams flag, was also trying to guard against Tenya and his speed.

Buttercup could remember that upon working with her team, she worried for nothing (almost nothing) about her teammates not working with her. Momo and Tokoyami were cool to work with, but the other had his reservations about her and quite honestly pissed her off. They spoke about their quirks and what they could. Buttercup wanted to come up with a plan of attack but Momo, came up with an interesting idea of fortifying the teams flags away. She went on to create the material, Buttercup used her strength and heat source to put all together in to a dome of some sort. Tokoyami volunteered to scout out the competition and tackle one or two things; which they all agreed.

"Don't get your feather butt captured!" Buttercup cried out to the disappearing bird teen.

It was not too long before some unexpected, expected company showed up and boy was Buttercup not in the mood for the couple of jerks she would have to deal with.

Bakugo launched for a full head on attack, for which Buttercup jumped out of the way and delivered stun blast that sent the blonde sprawling across the ground.

Her teammates were not having an easier time. Momo was too slow to create anything more offensive other than a bow-staff in the battle against Kirishima, she also had a shield but was easily getting totalled by the red heads hardened punches and kicks. Juzo was also having a hard time capturing Ibara in his quick sand trick, for she would use her vines to rise up and avoid his traps.

Buttercup looked around, 'Geez, these bozos are a real pain. I have to hurry this up before time runs out.' She readied in a fighting position, ready to for what's next.

Todoroki knew he was running out of time and needed to end this whole charade now. He looked over to Iida and Ibara, signalling them on what must come next. Tenya escaped from the battle with Tokoyami, much to his confusion.

"Forgive me, for the fate that will befall on you all." That was the only warning that she gave before her vines sprout out from the ground and bundled and restrained all the opposing teammates by surprise.

"What the fuck is going on?!" Bakugo thrashed and tried to break out.

"What the heck is going on?!" Buttercup shouted in surprise.

Todoroki who was now a good distance away, placed his right hand on to the ground, "Sorry, but this game is over." He sent out a stream of growing icicle shards in the direction of where her and her teammates were. Everyone were freaking out, not able to defend in their situation; momentarily to use any of their quirks. Buttercup for a second was wide-eyed but came out of her initial shock with anger. She tore through the vines with blazing strength and blitz towards the icicles; once in front, wound back a flaming fist and struck a punch that shattered the ice. As if time had slowed down, ice crystals were falling down as she gave a heated stare towards her opponent, who looked smug.

At which time she saw a glimpse of Iida speed through and take her flag that was broken out of the fortified cage. He ran off, leaving Buttercup outraged.

"What the hell?!" As if to add insult to injury, the timer for the game was over, concluding the match.

"Time's up!" Midnight's voice was heard over the speakers. "All teams bring your flags to me to be tallied!"

"See, I told you that the game was over." Turning around, leaving the beaten team behind him.

-Break room-

The competition came to a halt and every one of the first year students made it back to the stadium in one piece, albeit with some scrapes and bruises but all in all, fine to say the least. Midnight surprised everyone with the twist of elimination being amongst team members to decide.

Some of the students looked pleased what they had done, but others were salty at the outcome, knowing they would not place in the top teams. They were given time to rest and heal before the ceremonies would begin. That gave the girls ample time to re-group and talk about their experience, whether good or…not so good.

"I AM GOING TO FUCKING KILL THAT CANDY CANE BASTARD!" Buttercup yelled like a mad woman in the room that her and her sisters were currently residing in. They two heard about the fake out that Todoroki did and although Blossom could appreciate the tactic, the outcome could have been dire if Buttercup had not reacted in time. Yeah to say that she was upset would be an understatement. Her body emulated her green aura, barely able to hold her anger in check. Not a good sign.

Bubbles spoke up. "Buttercup, please relax. It was just a game and besides, you did all you could do." Trying to calm the fire that was inevitably trying to come out. The words fell on deaf ears as the raven haired girl's eyes were glowing bright and dangerous.

Blossom had enough and went over to cool off her sister. Taking a deep breathe, she trapped her sister in an ice block, but not more than a minute had passed before it the said girl shattered through it; steam coming out. "What's the big idea red?!" Buttercup exclaimed, still looked angry but not so much as before.

Blossom unfazed and spoke, "You've seemed to have calmed down now. Great. Now you can simmer your powers before you blow a gasket, i.e. THE WHOLE STADIUM!" She crossed her arms, raising an eyebrow as if to punctuate her point.

Buttercup wanted to tell off her sister/ "Team leader" but knew she made a point. Her anger simmered but still held her scowl and crossed her own arms in annoyance. "Yeah yeah, whatever." Averting her eyes to the side, making her annoyance clear.

If nothing else, that seemed to reassure the two sisters as well. She knew she was still angry but that was better than full blown furious.

"Now, use your words." She didn't mean to have a mocking tone, but wanted to lighten the mood.

She rolled her eyes. "Fine." She exhaled. "I am just mad at that smug guy beating me, that's all."

"Buttercup, we know you could have taken him, but we also understood that he tricked you with that stunt. You had to save your teammates." Bubbles said.

"Still bullshit." Buttercup muttered.

"Yes we understand, but what can we do. At least you had some points in the end." Blossom pointed out.

"Yeah, like how did you guys pull it off?" Bubbles asked, awfully curious as well.

"Well, after I managed to free the others, we were obviously upset that we lost but Tokoyami-"

"You mean the one with the adorable black bird thing from his body?!" Bubbles cooed.

"BUBBLES!" Blossom yelled, followed by an embarrassed sorry from the blonde girl. "Please continue Buttercup."

"Yeah, like I was saying, the guy surprised us when he pulled out a few flags from his pocket. Apparently, his "scouting" was his way of securing more points in the unlikely chance of us losing ours. Came true in the end." Buttercup groaned that bit of information.

The girls looked at each other and were impressed at the sneaky feat, glad they were not either of the one's he was targeting.

"That's great to hear anyway." Bubbles cheerfully said.

"Yeah it is, if you are not at the bottom of the barrel!" Buttercup exclaimed.

"You don't know that." Blossom commented.

"Pretty obvious to me." Rolling her eyes. "Besides, even if my team made it on the top 6, how will one us decide to be picked?"

That was a good question. They knew about the twist, but were they going to be properly placed. The door opened at that point, "Hey guys, it's time for the announcements to begin, come on." The girls wasted no time and followed.

-Sports Stadium-

"Welcome back everyone from the short recess! That's the end of the second round and our Capture the Flag Battle!" Mic declared as the crowd cheered loudly. Everyone had enjoyed the dynamic and surprising second round of the Sports Festival. "Now we'll take a look at the top six teams right away! These will be the teams where some of their members will participate in the third round!" The giant screens around the stadium lit up, displaying the rankings of the various teams. Everyone glanced up and some were relieved, others angry at their placements while others were shocked.

Team A: [Shoto Todoroki, Tenya Ida, Denki Kaminari, Ibara Shiozaki] 1st

Team B: [Izuku Midoriya, Blossom K, Mei Katsume, Ochaco Uraraka] 2nd

Team C: [Bakugo Katsuki, Eijiro Kirishima, Hanta Sero, Kinoko Komori] 3rd

Team D: [Bubbles K, Koji Koda, Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu, Jurota Shishida] 4th

Team E: [Buttercup K, Momo Yaoyorozu, Juzo Honenuki, Fumikage Tokoyami] 5th

Team E: [Hitoshi Shinso, Nirengeki Shoda, Pony Tsunotori, Yuga Aoyama] 6th

"Todoroki nodded at his team's placement. He knew his method was a bit much, but this was a competition, where only the strong could win.

"You did great, Iida!" Kaminari praised his teammate. "You even bumped us up to third place!"

"Thank you, Kaminari, but I did follow the role I was assigned to, that is to capture that flag. It was just my duty to our team leader!" Iida plainly spoke of his own actions while Kaminari and Sero sweat dropped at that.

"Hey second place isn't anything to scoff at, right?" Izuku nervously smiled at their placement.

"Yeah, you're right, no reason to complain." Blossom agreed with a nod as she smiled at her teammates. "We did everything we could and we prevailed."

"At least I get to show off more of my beautiful babies!" Mei exclaimed happily as she bounced so close to the red head, much to her growing annoyance.

"Damn it, damn it, damn it…" Bakugo raged under his breath at placing behind to Izuku of all people! Small crackles of his Quirk were sparking off his palms in his frustration. He should've been the undisputed winner!

Bubbles spoke to Koda about what happened. "How come you aren't moving on?" She asked sadness present in her voice.

"I am not much of a fighter. I decided to vote myself out and would rather just stay on the side-lines, cheering you on." His voice was whisper, but Bubbles nevertheless still heard it.

"Aw, Thanks though." She hugged the big lug, who blushed furiously and nervously.

Buttercup wasted no time in going over to her former teammates; though she only managed to find the two of her classmates. They noticed her approaching.

"Okay you two, spill. Why am I the one to move forward, I thought we would have to argue or something?" Buttercup inquired, folding her arms.

"Quite simple, we, meaning me and Momo, wanted to thank you for saving us." He said.

"We decided that you would be the best fit and although we defended as a team, it was you who saved us all in the end. Even though you could say that some of us didn't do much." Momo honestly spoke, though you could hear the sadness in her voice. Maybe it could be guilt she felt.

Their answer took Buttercup back a little. "Huh, I don't know what to say." Buttercup bluntly added.

Tokoyami just gave a small smile. "Well I am not much for feelings but I do wish you all the best." Tokoyami said as he left with Momo in tow, before Buttercup could say anything.

'Hm, maybe these Class A guys aren't total jerks. Some of them.' She thought to herself, as she went back to her sisters.

"There you have it!" Midnight called out to everyone in the stadium. "These are the sixteen students that will advance to the final round!" With a crack of her whip the screens changed to a list of the competitors.

[Third Round]

Todoroki Shoto

Ibara Shiozaki

Denki Kaminari

Tenya Ida

Midoriya Izuku

Blossom K

Uraraka Ochako

Hatsume Mei

Bakugo Katsuki

Eijiro Kirishima

Bubbles K

Sero Hanta

Hitoshi Shinso

Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu

Jurota Shishida

Buttercup K

[Third Round]

"Now, I am sure everyone could use a break! With that being said we'll be putting the Sports Festival on a two hour pause for lunch! When we come back it'll be straight into the third round! See you all in a bit! Hit the restrooms, grab some food, buy some merch, all proceeds go to the school!" Mic informed the public as the crowd began to stand up from their seats to take advantage of the break.

"Don't pressure them to buy things." Aizawa was heard over the speakers.

"I'm not pressuring, it's a suggestion!" Mic chuckled at his co-commentator.

"Whatever…" Aizawa replied dully just before the speakers clicked off.

"Hey, let's go grab some food, Shota." Mic grinned at the thought of food.

"Go get it yourself, Hizashi. I'm taking a nap." Aizawa replied as he climbed into his sleeping bag and turned to face the wall.

"What? Come on, how many naps do you need?" Mic questioned his friend while nudging him with his boot.

"More than I get." Aizawa responded as he buried himself deeper into his yellow sleeping bag.

"Well I don't want to eat by myself, so you're coming too!" Hizashi declared as he grabbed the top of the sleeping bag and dragged it along behind him.

"Ugh…" Aizawa groaned in dismay at his pushy, extrovert friend.

Author's Notes:

First off, I wanted the girls to spread out and be more independent. Don't get me wrong, I love the girls as a team, but also want them to also grow as individual heroes as well.

Also, I understand Buttercup losing her points seems like crazy, but I want to add a bit more spice to the girls.

I wanted capture the flag as an outdoor time of sport and to give Koda's quirk more light in the situation. He will find an internship pretty soon too, but shush, no spoilers.

Okay y'all, I am soooooooo sorry that this chapter came late. I had to really research to make this work and even with that, I had writer's block; I never like those situations. I hope you enjoy this chapter and although it is not my favourite, I am still happy that I did it. Please comment and tell me what you think about.

I want to give a shout out to Collector Hero: Synthesis by Kairomaru for the help and inspiration in this chapter. If you are by chance taking a read to my works, thank you for the inspiration.

Okay everyone, see you soon.