Smoke 10

Harry secretly drew his number. He grinned, for once something was going his way. He slid the ball to All Might and put a finger on his lips as the first match was announced.

"HERO TEAM: MIDORIYA IZUKU AND URAKA OCHAKO VS VILLAIN TEAM: BAKUGO KATSUKI AND TENYA IIDA!" All Might boomed, Harry waited for the Hero team to enter the elevator to wait, whilst the Villains were shown a shortcut onto the field. Harry waited and on silent feet, which was odd, considering his boots, followed at a distance.

He slid down the corridor, following the teens at a distance before Bakugo paused and turned around "YOU!"

Harry had crossed the distance and shoved his hand over the teen's mouth "And spoil the surprise? You have a grudge against me and against Midoriya…I want to see how well he's progressing, plus, you and I might be able to have our fight if everything goes as planned."

Bakugo's eyes widened, then narrowed "What are you planning?"

Harry chuckled "Think about what Team we're in. Come on, we don't need Engines to…"

Unfortunately, Iida had been listening "Just why do you think, you won't need me? Why don't you wait for your own match to be done?"

"If you weren't paying attention, I'm allowed to join any Villain match l want. I decided to get it over and done. Now do you want to win?" The tension between the three teenagers playing the villains was evidently building. The buildings were planted with microphones and cameras all of which were linked back to the control room where the Hero Students and All Might were watching and observing. The 16 observing members jaws dropped and unison screamed a variety of 'that's cheating! So unfair!' And familiar call of 'Super Unmanly.'

Jiro after screaming in rage at the stacked odds against Midoriya, grinned. She liked the green powerhouse, so, it was going to be interesting to see how he dealt with Bakugo and her Boyfriend. "Jiro, do you think the Heroes can win?"

Jiro turned to Yaoyorozu "Erm…it's a long shot, but, it all depends on how well Midoriya can adapt. He's gone on at length about the Explosive Teen and Smoke trained him a little bit. Honestly, I've got better odds on the Villains self-destructing because my boyfriend's going to do something stupid."

By now the Villains were setting up the bomb and immediately problems were occurring. "I'll defend the bomb, the pair of you go find the others!" Iida instructed his arm, chopping furiously.

Smoke merely focused on rolling his cigarette, before lighting it. "That's the dumbest idea ever, Midoriya knows precisely what Bakugo and I, the two of us, can do. You're not exactly useful in this entire scenario. So you and Bakugo go find them and I'll protect the bomb."

"Are you always this unhelpful and condescending to your colleagues?" Iida snapped "We need a plan…"

Smoke sighed as he finished his cigarette 'To do a stupid or not do a stupid…I'm sorry, Kyoka, I've gotta do the stupid.' Smoke vanished from view before reappearing behind Iida. Bakugo watched in horror as tendrils of smoke jumped from the tips of the transfer students fingers and he began to choke out the Engine-Extra.

Harry let out a rasping breath, before casually throwing his, newly unconscious, peer off and out the fourth floor window. "Being a villain means being a dick. Now that the chaff is out of the way, you go and hunt them. I'll babysit the objective."

Bakugo's grin was positively wolfish "You're sure about this?"

"I'd be tempted to pull punches."

Bakugo cackled "So you do have a weakness."

Smoke grinned "Not really a weakness, just, a soft spot for my pupils."

Bakugo snorted "What are you going to do about Infinity-Girl?"

"Infinity Girl?"

"The brunette…in pink."

Smoke nodded "Ah, the one with a pervert of a costume designer. Kick her about."

Bakugo raised an eyebrow "You're sure about that?"

Smoke nodded "Just because she's easy on the eyes doesn't mean I'm not gonna kick the shit out of her. We're training to be heroes."

"You're harsh."

"I'm being realistic. Now go! You have goody-two-shoes heroes to take out. Just don't bring the fucking building down."

(Heroes)

Izuku and Uraraka entered the building "Deku, what do you know of our opponents? Have you already got a plan?"

Izuku nodded "Kaachan has a very explosive quirk, plus, I know he's going to come right for me. That leaves Iida, and guarding the bomb, to you. You're going to need to find the bomb and confront Iida. His quirk, engines, means he's going to be extremely quick."

Uraraka nodded "On it. What do you think we're going to do about the fact that we've got 21 Students in our class."

Izuku paused "I hadn't accounted for that possibility. There is a faint chance that you're going to be entering a 2 vs 1 situation. I have an idea about Smokes' quirk which is relatively straight forwards. However, how skilled he is with it I'm not sure, all I can say is you want to reduce the close combat chances with him as much as possible."

Uraraka stared at him "How do you know this?"

"He taught me everything I know."

Uraraka shook her head "Then ill deal with Bakugo, and, You deal with Smoke and Iida…"

Izuku shook his head "All that's going to do…" They were distracted by a thunderous explosion.

"Go!" Izuku yelled as Bakugo descended upon the green-clad teen with a crazed bloodlust expression on his face.

(Smoke)

Smoke sighed as he casually stepped to the otherside of the building. "That fucking idiot. I told him not to bring the building down."

Smoke: Bakugo…what the fuck was that? I thought I told you not to bring the sodding building down.

Bakugo: That was to blow the wall out.

Smoke: A loading bearing wall you retard! I take it you found one of the Heroes?

Bakugo: So there is a brain in your vapour-locked brain. Yeah. Deku!

Smoke: Kiss your mother with that mouth of yours?

Bakugo: Quit that, dickwad, anyway pink-extra's heading your way…took off like a bullet in a smoking gun.

Smoke: As I thought.

Bakugo: How did you know, that she'd run?

Smoke: It's what I would do.

(Observation)

Everyone couldn't believe what they were watching, or hearing. They'd just watched the Villains go from a man advantage to equal. "All Might…what was that all about?" Mineta whined as he saw Iida hit the concreted from the fourth floor window.

"If I had to guess, I wasn't paying too much attention to the Villain communications but it would seem Iida-san kept disagreeing with Potter-san about how to proceed." Yaoyorozu replied.

All Might nodded "You're correct Yaoyorozu-shonen, but, you're also overlooking a small detail. Villains and Villainous Organisations or Teams are notorious for falling apart. Unless a villain can swiftly ascertain dominance over his fellows then the Villains are more than likely to fall apart."

Ashido nodded "So, Iida and Potter got into an argument and as Potter is on the Villain Team, like Iida, He decided to remove an obstacle."

"Correct, Ashido-shonen and I will confess, the execution of it was exemplary."

Jiro grinned "My boyfriend doesn't tend to play well with others. He prefers to be in the thick of it, screaming obscenities and garbled instructions which are turned into orders. His plans are 'make plan, throw away plan, beat everything and everyone up.'"

Todoroki remained silent "It appears Uraraka has just discovered the bomb…and…Bakugo has just blown up half the floors in his fight with Midoriya."

(Uraraka)

The girl yelped as the building began to tilt dangerously to the left. Deku hadn't been joking when he'd said that Bakugo had an obscenely dangerous quirk.

She arrived in the room, sweating and panting as the centre of the room exploded. She could see the bomb, but, "Where's…" the sentence wasn't finished, her mouth filled with blood as kick connected with her gut.

Any momentum Uraraka had vanished. She groaned as the leg vanished and she hit the floor. She lashed out with her hand, hoping to connect only to swipe thin-air…smoke laced thin-air. Sitting, actually, sitting across from her was the ventilator face-guard of smoke.

"Don't look so shocked. I have to give Midoriya credit. He came up with a fairly comprehensive plan." Smoke rasped.

"You're…meant…to…be a villain. Why are you complimenting heroes?" Uraraka asked. Smoke smirked before disappearing a plume of smoke, to reappear and deliver a kick that shattered her mask and nose.

"Because credit is due where credit is due. Now, Hero, it's time for you to die." Uraraka lunged forwards, this was the moment! One touch was all she needed!

She managed to get to her feet. Smoke was gone! Then she heard it! The moment in all of the TV shows the sound of a gun being loaded. She turned and found Smoke with a loaded pistol "You need to touch the bomb to win, we have to grind the timer down…tell me…have you ever heard of the 'denial directive'?"

Without waiting for a response, Smoke pistol-whipped Uraraka across the head, before firing a pulse of reddish smoke at the bomb and vanished. "Smoke to control."

All Might answered immediately "Send message."

"What was the bomb? I just detonated it and vanished before it connected."

All Might paused, he'd run through several different outcomes. Yet, this one had eluded him "Just a high yield explosive. Yes it would have exploded. You realise that you killed your colleague…"

"I was a villain…we, I, did, what we have to win. Even if it means killing our colleagues."

All Might nodded "MATCH 1: VILLAINS WIN!"

The moment the match finished, Smoke pulled his mask off and pulled Uraraka to her feet. Before the girl could do anything, Harry had grabbed her head and then pulled on her nose resetting it. "I've done it before. Although the worst one was when I copped a brick to the face."

Uraraka stared at him "How the fuck did you take a brick? Didn't you learn to dodge at your school?"

"My style of dodging is dodging into someone's face. Couple that with a little telepathy and a dude with a strong-arm quirk…brick to the head. He wasn't a total dick, he could have hit me in the balls. Anyway, you did good. Very good."

Uraraka sighed "I need to improve."

"Yeah, you do, all of us do…listen if I hadn't decided to fuck with this match completely, chances are…you would have won."

Harry scooped the girl onto his back "Let's go. We have a debrief to participate in."

(Observation room)

The elevator door opened revealing Harry with a bloodied and battered Uraraka using him as a crutch.

Ashido and Hagakure peeled the pink-clad girl off the smoking teen, as Jiro pulled him to her "I'm not sure whether to be…"

"I haemorrhaged her gut, and kicked her twice in the face…me carrying her out, the least I could do."

"Dude, that was, unmanly man! Why'd you do that? I thought we were training to be heroes!" Kirishima exclaimed.

"Erm, Kirishima…we're kinda in an exercise where we're encouraged to beat the heck out of each other. Besides, I think, Potter was helping." Denki replied.

"Please explain your…logic." Shoji chirped up.

Harry snorted "Villains aren't going to give a shit if they're killing a male or female hero, they're just going to be killing a hero. Heroics is a lifestyle where being a man or woman it doesn't matter. Besides, my…nee-chan I believe the term is, tended to use me as her training dummy…mainly because even at eleven, I was throwing down with my housemates and schoolmates upto two years ahead of me. Heartbeat Belly-to-Belly/Belly-to-Back Suplexes hurt. Oh and I was holding back."

Uraraka's face was one of fury "You were holding back! I wanted you to…"

Kyoka shook her head "No. Harry-kun has training for Western Villains…what he calls holding back we'd call 'overkill'. I'm not going to betray his confidence anymore than I already have." With that she burrowed her head into his neck.

"Smoking corpses of classmates makes me uncomfortable."

There was a stony silence before All Might coughed "Right…now onto the briefing."