My Hero Academia belongs to Kohei Horikoshi.
"Time to make our move, guys," Tanaka mutters to his teammates. They smirk and nod in agreement.
"Looks like less than half the time is left, folks!" Present Mic announces. "Now let's take a look at each team's points."
Team Midoriya-10,000,310
Team Tetsutetsu-1005
Team Bakugo-0
Team Tanaka-625
Team Todoroki-600
Team Mineta-0
Team Hagakure-0
Team Monoma-1720
Team Shinso-280
Team Kendo-210
Team Kodai-0
Team Rin-0
Team Kamakiri-0
"What?" Present Mic says. "Wait a minute! Other than Midoriya, Class 1-A isn't doing so well..."
"Class 1-A is too simple minded," Neito Monoma says, having just managed to snatch away Bakugo's headband. He puts it around his neck along with the others that he managed to get.
"He got us!" Ashido exclaims.
"What'd you say, Lemonhead?" Bakugo shouts. "Give that back! I'll kill you!"
It was then that something strange began to happen. The scores of the other teams that didn't get their headbands snatched away have all of a sudden begun to plummet to zero. The same for the few teams that were able to get more than one headband like Monoma's.
"Huh?"
"What the...?"
"Hold on, why is my team's score down to 0?" Midoriya asks, wondering what just happened.
"Deku! Your headband!" Uraraka shouts.
"Huh?" Midoriya puts a hand on his head, before noticing the absence of his headband containing the ten million points. "What the heck?! Where did it go?! I could've sworn I had it on me!"
Turns out the hero fanboy isn't the only one wondering what was going on. Bakugo, Hagakure, Mineta, and everyone else in Class 1-A and Class 1-B have noticed that their headbands have all inexplicably gone missing. Even the indigo haired boy noticed that his headband was missing.
"And just when things couldn't possibly get any more crazy, they get even crazier!" Present Mic then shouts. "Who or what could possibly be responsible?"
"Hey guys," Tanaka calls out to everybody. This catches everyone's attention, as they all turn to look at the brunette. "Looking for these?"
As he said, a dozen Helping Hands popped up around his team. Each of the hands is grasping a headband that was snatched from them.
'How did he managed to take them from us?!' were the collective thoughts of the other teams.
"Whoa! Talk about being sneaky!" Present Mic comments. "Was not expecting Tanaka's team to actually try and steal the other headbands from underneath everyone else's collective noses."
"He took advantage of the fact that everyone was focused on going after Midoriya's ten million points to implement his strategy," Aizawa brings up. "One should always be prepared for anything out in the field, even if the methods are questionable to some."
Without saying another word, Tanaka removes his own headband. Much to the confusion of everyone watching, he turns it backward so that no one can see the amount of points on it. Then, he lifts it high above his head before the Helping Hands grab it and do something with it. The other headbands are also turned backwards, making it near impossible for anyone to tell which one had which amount of points on them. The Helping Hands tie each end of the headbands to each other, the shadow user's own headband joining in the mix.
The shadow user then ties the composite headband back onto his head. Now there's no way for anyone to know where the 10 million points are.
"And if stealing everyone else's headbands weren't crazy enough," Present Mic continues. "Now Tanaka is tying all of them together before turning them all backwards so that no one can see which headband's which!"
This bit of commentary gets everyone a bit on edge, since there's no telling which one of the headbands has the ten million points or not.
"Okay, that is so not fair!" Kaminari cries out, understandably frustrated. Bakugo is even more frustrated, due to how the points he just lost were stolen again. And it was done by someone like Tanaka.
Smugly smirking at Bakugo, the shadow user ends up performing a double bird flip his way. Seeing this, the explosive blonde reacts with vicious anger before shouting at him.
"You're going down, Silent Hill!"
"Sticks and stones, Bakugo!" was the reply.
With that, the walking timebomb and his team immediately charge at the brunette. The other teams follow after.
"If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate," Tanaka says, quoting Sun Tzu's "Art of War".
The others in his team can't help but chuckle at the quote being used and how it's best exemplified at the moment. Tora uses his quirk through using his legs as a pair of rockets to blast themselves away from the other teams. Kaeda would do the same with the rocket thrusters in his suit for the rear end of the team. This strategy of waiting for the other teams to go after them, only to increase the distance time and time again is proving to be quite an ingenious one in terms of killing away time.
"We've only just reached the second half of the Cavalry Battle, and it looks like everybody is heading after Tanaka's team to get back at the points that he managed to steal from them!" Present Mic continues. "Things have definitely gotten pretty interesting in this festival so far!"
At one point, Dark Shadow was about to sneak by and grab the makeshift headband. But before the sentient quirk could, however, Tora launches a Flame Breath at it. This causes it to shrink back to its user in fright of how bright and hot it was.
"Time to make things even harder for everybody," the shadow user says. He uses his quirk to spout out a whole ton of the black mist substance. Moving his hands around in a circular motion, he spreads the substance all around himself and his team.
Before anyone could even blink, Tanaka's team was surrounded by a series of black misty portals. Whichever one of the teams when through one of them, they end up in another part of the stadium far from the shadow user.
From his peripherals, the brunette could see Bakugo using his quirk to launch himself over the portals in an idiotic attempt to get at him. The blonde's waist is wrapped in Sero's tape.
"Alright Kaeda, you're up!"
"Way ahead of you!"
The quirkless genius ducks down, activating something in his suit. On the back of it, a clamping device clearly meant for capturing villains is launched out of the suit and speeds toward Bakugo. In about three seconds flat, both of the walking timebomb's arms are clamped to his sides as he's being hurled towards his own team.
Sero manages to save him at the last second from falling onto the ground, before putting him back on top of the team. He and the rest of the team watch as the blonde struggles to get out of the clamping device, only for it to get tighter with every struggle.
"Don't just stand there, Raccoon Eyes!" Bakugo shouts at Ashido. "Get me out of this thing!"
"I'm already on it," Ashido says. "And I have a name, you know!"
The pink-skinned girl immediately gets on it, using her acid to get this device off of him.
The shadow user could only smile as he watches Bakugo's team try their best to get him out of that thing. Kaeda designed it to take down any rowdy villains that could be quite stubborn out in the field. The more the blonde struggles, the tighter the device gets. It might take a while before he finally gets out of that thing, and by the time he does break free it could probably be less than a minute before the Cavalry Battle ends.
"Don't get too comfortable, you 1-A prick!" he hears the annoying voice of the copycatting blonde heading his way.
"Look who's the pot calling the kettle black!" Tanaka retorts. A gigantic boxing glove appears from one of the portals, speeding towards the prick and his team.
"Incoming!" the copycat shouts, the right side of his team nearly avoiding the glove at the last second.
Another one of the teams, this one being Kamakiri's, tries going after him. Only to make full contact with another boxing glove from a portal to his left side.
A loud explosion can be heard coming from Bakugo's direction, meaning he's managed to get himself out of the restraint on him. The explosive blonde is hurtling his body towards him again. Like before, Sero's tape is wrapped around his body so that he can be pulled back in case he were to fall.
'I wonder what'll happen if I do this,' the shadow user thinks. He uses his quirk to send a tiny amount of black mist in his opponent's direction before it changed shape and turned into something.
A mini portal, small enough for the explosive blonde's head to get through, appeared in front of him without him even knowing. The moment his head passes through, he's right in front of a rather confused Monoma.
"Wha-?" the two blondes say before their faces get closer to each other until a resounding "SMOOCH" can be heard.
The whole stadium, as well as everyone else watching from either their TV's or online, can only stare in stunned silence as they all witnessed one of the most unexpected (and outright amusing to some viewers out there) moments to ever happen in the history of the U.A. Sports Festival.
Bakugo and Monoma, the former with his head through a portal, have their lips make contact with each other. Basically, they were kissing each other. Right in front of everyone. On live TV. All across the country.
It wasn't long before the silence was broken by a few chuckles from the audience, which gradually evolved into full hysteric-fueled laughter at the sight right in front of their collective eyes.
"Whoa nelly!" Present Mic shouts, a bit startled. "I was clearly not expecting that! N-not sure what to say about it, if I'm being honest!"
"No amount of therapy or sleep is ever going to make me unsee this," Aizawa mutters, eye twitching underneath the bandages.
Midnight, as she's the referee of the 1st year day of the Sports Festival, tries her best to stifle her laughter at the sight of the two boys being tricked into kissing each other.
'Oh my,' she thinks in her head. 'I can't say for certain I wasn't expecting that. But anything can happen in this festival, I suppose. But still, this is far too hilarious not to laugh at.'
-Kamino Ward, at an unknown bar-
Kurogiri and Shigaraki, watching the whole thing unfurl through the TV at the bar they happen to be using as their lair.
"Well... I can't say for certain I wasn't expecting that," Kurogiri remarks, a bit stunned at the unexpected event happening just now. The gamer manchild that is Shigaraki merely tilts his head in confusion at what is going on right in front of him.
"I cannot believe that that NPC would actually pull off something like that," the manchild says, scratching his neck with the hand that wasn't stabbed. "Is there something about it that I'm not getting?"
"It's best that you don't. Trust me," the mist man replies.
-At an unknown part of the country, at the same time-
"Ahahahahahahahaha, oh man! That is good! That is REALLY good!"
"Hey guys, what's gotten you all laughing like a bunch of hyenas?" a guy with a scope over his left eye asks. One of his associates simply points at the TV as a way for him to answer. The guy looks at the screen, only to burst out laughing at the sight of the two boys kissing in the middle of the festival as well.
"Gahahahahahahaha! Whoa! Talk about getting it on! Ahahaha!"
-Meanwhile, inside the stands-
"Oh, this is too good! Oh, this is too good!" A man with a lion mutation quirk howls out in laughter, as he brings out his phone to record the whole thing. He's lucky that his seat wasn't destroyed as he was laughing his butt off.
"Tell me about it. I almost feel bad for those two," was the reply from his companion, a man with lavender eyes and rocky-looking skin. "This is definitely going to be on my list of favorite moments."
-Back with the two blondes-
"Gaaaahhh!" Both Bakugo and Monoma scream out in disgust, grabbing hold of their respective throats as if they had just tasted poison or some foul-tasting piece of meat. No matter how hard they try, neither one of them will ever be able to get the taste of that kiss out of their mouths.
They both turn their heads to Tanaka, who appears to be trying his best not to laugh at their expense.
"You are so going to pay for that!" Monoma shouts out, angrily.
"Uh, Monoma?" one of his team members says, looking down. The copycatter looks down as well, finding that his team is standing one of those portals.
"Oh craAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" That was all that the cocky blonde was able to get out before he and his team fell in. The rest of the teams could only look at what happened in shock, before seeing that Monoma's team are falling into the portal endlessly. The shock turns into confusion, and then bewilderment as they see this repeat over and over. All while screaming their lungs out from the continuous falling.
With a snap of his fingers, Tanaka turns the portal into a large balloon of Monoma lying on the ground wearing nothing but a large sash with the words "Vlad King's #1 sycophant!" written on it. The exact moment the copycat blonde and his team land on the balloon's abdomen, air starts to come out of where the butt plug is, causing it to deflate. As this happens, members of the audience begin howling with laughter as they watch the chaos unfold.
-With Midoriya's team-
"Is it just me, or does Tanaka have some sort of warped sense of humor?" Midoriya asks.
"Funnily enough, Deku, I was sorta thinking the same thing," Uraraka replies.
"Truly a source of enigma," Tokoyami remarks, clearly wondering what goes on inside his friend's head sometimes.
Mei Hatsume, their last teammate from the Support Course, is rather focused on how her classmate Kaeda was able to create and use his suit (his "baby" as she would call it) with such precision and creativity the way he did.
-Meanwhile, with the teachers in the stands-
"What the hell are you kids even doing out there? You're making yourselves look like a bunch of complete fools!" Sekijiro Kan, the homeroom teacher of Class 1-B going by the hero name of Vlad King, shouts out to his students. "And why is that sash for that balloon calling Monoma my '#1 sycophant'?"
The other teachers give him a deadpan look, clearly getting what Tanaka was referring to.
"What's with the weird looks you're all giving me?" Kan questions, looking clueless.
-Back with Tanaka's team-
"Aha, oh man!" Tora laughs. "Now that is just plain hilarious! There's just no way Monoma's ever going to have his first kiss with a girl anytime soon!"
"Same with that walking timebomb, Bakugo," Kaeda agrees, trying his best to hide his giggling fit.
Instead of conversing with them about his little stunt, Tanaka thinks up of a way to make the last minutes of the Cavalry Battle a bit fair for a few of the other teams. He decides to pick four of the headbands from his makeshift headband, before rolling up each of them into a ball.
"Now let's see. Who should I give these headbands to?" Tanaka mutters, four balled up headbands in his hand. Looking around, his eyes catch sight of four teams that he believes should deserve them.
"TEN SECONDS LEFT TO GO!" Present Mic shouts out to everyone.
'There's one.' Tanaka thinks, catching sight of one team to give a headband to. His eyes then drift over another, and then a third.
"SEVEN SECONDS!" He hears Present Mic shout, motivating him to find the last one.
The moment his eyes catch sight of his fourth team to give a headband to, he thinks to himself, 'Might as well.'
The exact moment he threw the last balled up headband to the last team he chose, the brunette clearly hears Present Mic shout out, "TIME'S UP EVERYONE!"
With that, the Cavalry Battle has finally come to a close.
A/N: With that said, the Cavalry Battle has officially come to a close! If I was being honest, when I was thinking of a few of the scenes for the battle royale I was thinking of referencing a few shows I watched. The scene with Bakugo and Monoma kissing is a bit of a nod to a certain hilarious scene from the Naruto anime. As for the scene where Monoma and his team are falling endlessly into the hole before coming down from the sky, I was thinking of an episode from Ed, Edd n Eddy. Can anyone guess which one?
Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed reading this after I had to type this thing up for a while.
Thank you.