Greywing44: This was shorter then I was expecting and I also didn't even think of Genki and Uraraka's quirks working together like that! That was awesome! I wonder how you'll get other quirks to work together, maybe something sensory like Kyoka's earjacks and Genki's wings? Aplifying the sound waves they create into a high buzzing blast?
NeoNazo356: [Earphone Jack] and [Gokiburi] wouldn't "mesh" like that, unfortunately.
Kyoka's [Earphone Jack] allows her to transmit the sound of her heartbeat into whatever "medium" it's projected into, and the reason it's so-effective as an anti-infantry weapon is because Humans are 70% Water (barring Quirk-related exception), and if you ever saw Dosu (Naruto) using his own "Sound Release" on Choji during the Chunin Exams, that's essentially the same principal. That's why, when she isn't sticking her "Jacks" into people's eyes or ears, she's sticking them into speaker-type Support Items on her costume; because air by-itself is a very shitty medium for conducting sound.
I'm glad that [Zero Gravity] & [Gokiburi] as a Combination Move went over so well with you, but [Gokiburi] + [Earphone Jack] doesn't really "add up".
Ferdiad: Not much to say, good chapter, maybe have All Might criticise Genki if his team wins for delegating too much, he needs to learn how to plan himself after all.
NeoNazo356: Being a good leader isn't only about giving orders. It's also a matter of receiving input from one's peers, and knowing when and how to trust in the expertise of others. If Genki had only his ideas executed, that'd be limiting the "contributions" that could be made by the rest of his team.
Remember when Todoroki and Momo were fighting Aizawa in the Final Exams? If Momo had completely "ceded" leadership to Todoroki, they would've lost. It's only when she asserted her own role as a contributor, that they were able to win.
Ultimate-Zelda-Fan: Be honest with me; how many Red Vs. Blue references are you going to use?
NeoNazo356: Only as-many as I feel necessary, for as long as the Capture the Flag exercise requires. Outside of CTF, there won't be any Red vs Blue division. Dialogue references I might still put in, but I'll try not to "shoehorn" it in where it wouldn't thematically "fit".
Guest: I expect a slew of red vs blue references in the next one.
NeoNazo356: I had one or two in the previous. If I can squeeze more in, I will, but Giant-Slayer: New World (Volume 2) and Young Justice: The Hunter are my stories most-heavy with RvB references.
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By the time Bakugou got back to Red Base, everyone else had already returned, all of them looking up at the scoreboard and the fluttering gold flag-shaped icon glittering in Blue Team's favor.
"Geez, who knew Uraraka and Gen-kun made such a powerful combo," Mina pouted.
"What do you mean?" Kirishima asked.
"I mean, Genki can't fly on his own, but Uraraka's [Zero Gravity]…"
"The power to break free of one's earthly tether… A most wondrous boon indeed," Tokoyami hummed stoically.
"Well, if he tries it again, we'll be ready for him," Sero said as he strung his tape between the buildings like party streamers.
"Icy-Hot. Freeze the flag over," Bakugou ordered the moment he got back.
"That's against the rules," All Might spoke up from the intercom.
"Oh, and bear traps aren't?" Toru asked.
"They didn't rig the flag itself in any way, and you should've been watching where you were going."
"There's a certain irony in this. An invisible girl bested by an invisible trap," Tokoyami hummed.
"Hey, just because I'm invisible doesn't mean I can magically see other invisible stuff!" the girl pouted, swinging her gloved hands around.
"So on top of invisible beartraps and fireworks, they could have just about anything over there," Shoji hummed.
"We could try coming at them from below, but it might be a depth charge showcase down there, kero," Tsuyu hummed as she looked down an open manhole.
"And for all we know, Blue Team's cooking up another insta-kill strategy right now," Mina sighed.
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"What do you mean you aren't participating in the second round?!" Blue Team gawped.
"I want to test out one of my Sub-Quirks for the final round, but it's going to take time. That's why, during the second round, I'm going to be taking a momentary… 'leave of absence'," Genki answered, synching the item Momo synthesized to his tool belt.
"B-But you did so great last time!" Ochako cried.
"Yes, and now they're going to make it so I can't do that again," Genki answered. "Sero could cover the air with tape making an aerial approach a kamikaze run. If I don't lay enough oil on the ground beforehand, Todoroki will give me frostbite. If I try any of the back alleys, Tokoyami might get the power boost he needs to take me out and put that Capture Tape around my neck," he continued as he paced a large ring around the flag, a thick viscous oil spilling out of his soles as he walked. "This should slow Todoroki's [Subzero] down, but you guys are going to have to come up with a plan without me," he said as he finished the circle. "Each and every one of you could've stopped me in the Sports Festival if I hadn't gotten so lucky. That's why I believe in you now."
" . . . Mmh! We won't let you down!" Ochako nodded, pumping her fists. "We'll get the job done, so you go and get that 'super move' of yours ready for round three."
"Gotcha, neighbor!" Genki said giving the girl a thumbs up before bolting off, the oily blur vanishing in the distance.
A moment later however he zipped back into sight.
"However, before round to begins… how 'bout I give you guys a little… something extra," Genki chuckled mischeviously as he drummed his fingers together, a chuckle escaping his lips that made the others shudder.
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"Round Two: BEGIN!" All Might announced.
"Alright, slackers, listen up!" Bakugou raged. "I don't want that flag leaving that spot! Are we clear?!"
"Yeah…" Red Team returned, with little enthusiasm.
"Alright. Glad you got the message. Let's dig our heels in and cut them off as soon as they come out into the open."
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"WHERE THE FUCK ARE THEY!?" Bakugou raged twelve minutes later, in which no-one from Blue Team so much as poked a toe into their camp.
"Blue Team may potentially have the same idea as us; digging in and waiting to capture any forward party we send," Iida stated.
"That and Blue Team's in the lead one-to-nothing, so if we run the clock out, it's our loss," Mina pouted.
"Dammit, waiting around isn't getting us anywhere," Bakugou growled. "Icy-Hot! Guard the flag. Keep Soy Sauce Face, Streaker-Girl, Frog-Face, and Emo-Bird with you. The rest of us will hit Blue Camp," he declared as he started stomping away.
'You're making it really hard to want to win,' Sero, Toru, Tsuyu, and Fumikage thought simultaneously while Todoroki let out a tired sigh in response.
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"Hey, Octopus Man. What do you got for me?" Bakugou ordered as he, Iida, Kirishima, Shoji, and Mina snuck towards Blue Base.
"Hmmm…" the [Dupli-Arms] user hummed as six ears twitched and swiveled. "I'm getting… interference, of some sort."
"Interference? The fuck does that mean?"
"He means there is likely some form of noise-maker interfering with his senses," Iida stated matter-of-factly.
"Sounds like… metronomes. Maybe… half-dozen," Shoji nodded.
"Damn Garbage Girl and her garbage Quirk, making random shit…" the explosive teen grumbled expletives under his breath, still seeing spots from when all those fireworks went off in his face.
"Even without the metronomes, we're still looking at a two-to-one in favor of Blue Team," Kirishima added. "Not to mention, Gokiburi did beat you-"
"THAT WAS A FLUKE AND YOU KNOW IT!" Bakugou raged.
"And like that, our position has been given away," Shoji sighed, hearing the faintest traces of people shuffling around in anticipation.
Yaoyarozu's metronomes were doing an exceptionally good job of dulling his senses at-range; provided everyone kept quiet so as not to give away their position.
"Well, they definitely know we're coming now," Kirishima sighed.
"Oh I'm coming all right… I'm going to come straight down their throat!"
"How vulgar!" Iida cried.
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The Red Team's forward party foregoing all forms of subtlety, a few minutes later Bakugou exploded out of the alley perpendicular to Blue Team's camp. His boots skidding across the ground and wresting his momentum, palms peppering with explosion as sweat poured out of his pores, ready to explode at the first thing that moved…
" . . . WHERE THE FUCK IS EVERYBODY!" Bakugou raged, the explosive teen met only-with the sounds of the metronomes scattered across the camp, both high and low.
"Do you think they all decided to attack our base camp, and we just passed them?" Kirishima asked.
"With ten individual walking patterns, I would've noticed them, metronomes or not," Shoji hummed as he turned to a "Yaoyarozu Brand" Metronome and stopped it.
"So then… they just left this flag here…? Completely undefended?" Mina asked looking right at it, the blue triangle of cloth flapping in the wind.
"No, I do not think so. This seems… too easy," Iida hummed.
"Whatever, let's just grab the flag and spring whatever trap they have for us," Bakugou grumbled as he stomped toward the flag. "And watch out for invisible bear traps!"
"THEY'RE IN POSITION!" Ochako shouted, poking out from a balcony overhead. "BOMBING RAAAAAAID!" she shouted, raising something above her head.
"ATTAAAAAAACK!" the members of Blue Team cried as they stepped through doors and poked their heads out windows, pelting Red Team from all sides with-
"WATER BOOOOMBS!" Mina cried as the water balloons beaned them all, coating them with…!
"HA! YOU THINK A LITTLE WATER'S GOING TO STOP ME!?" the sopping wet Bakugou demanded as he rushed toward the nearest member of Blue Team, Koda, right arm drawn back. "DIIIIIIIE!"
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' . . . NANIIIIIIII?!' Bakugou shrieked internally as his Quirk fizzled out. 'Wait a minute… This residue…!'
And like that, it hit him.
Well, that and another Water Bomb catching him right atop the head as he stood stunned post-dud-tonation.
"THESE WATER BOMBS! THEY'RE FILLED WITH SHIT-BUG'S OIL!" Bakugou roared over his shoulder, the advance party of Red Team sufficiently saturated and flip-flopping all over themselves in a growing puddle of oil and…
"Thanks for getting nice and wet!" Kaminari cackled as he rushed over to the growing puddle of Oil and Water around their feet. "Completely Discriminate Shock: Water Bomb Edition!" the [Electrification] user declared as he put his hands to the water, electrocuting four fifths of Bakugou's forward party and dropping them to the ground like lead weights.
"DAMN IT ALL!" Bakugou raged, lunging towards the flag if nothing-else.
He absolutely refused to come that far only to utterly fail!
"N-No you don't, Kacchan!" a familiar stuttering voice called from on high, descending straight towards him from a second-story window, the sun at his back obscuring the weapon held in his arms.
"Release!" Ochako cried, giving Izuku back his personal gravity a few feet above the ground, Izuku levelling a "Yaoyarozu Brand" Super-Soaker at Bakugou's direction; this one featured sleek brown cockroach-like armor, done up in an adorable chibi-style.
"Goki Oil Flow: Goki SHOTGUN!" Izuku called out as he pulled the trigger, the built-up pressure loosing a cone of Oil all over Bakugou, smothering him from head to toe in the Mutant-Type teen's bodily secretions.
Bakugou, left sputtering and spitting, the soles of his boots barely keeping him upright, Momo rushed in from a nearby building, twirling an improvised Capture Weapon above her head.
"I've got you right where I want you!" Momo shouted as she rushed toward Bakugou from another building, twirling three weighted balls overhead linked together by a white-colored band shaped in a Y.
"DAMN GARBAGE GIRL!" Bakugou growled as he got his feet underneath him.
Before he could leap away however, Izuku pulled him into a Full Nelson from behind.
"YAOYAROZU-SAN! NOW!" the green-haired teen cried, struggling against Bakugou's flailing and the oil covering him.
"Let's go! Yaoyoro-Bola!" the raven-haired girl cried as she flung the trio of weights Bakugou's way, the slipping teen getting an arm tangled up instead of a leg.
"BLUE TEAM WINS ROUND TWO!" All Might announced.
"WHAT?!" Bakugou raged, looking down at the Bola around his arm, body beginning to tremble with unrestrained rage.
Wrapped around his arm wasn't any ordinary Bola. The trio of bands were made of Capture Tape!
"I can't BELIEVE THIS!"
"Believe it!" All Might proclaimed. "It doesn't matter how Capture Tape gets wrapped around you just as long as it forms a closed loop around any part of your body. No-one ever said it had to be applied by hand; excellent thinking, Yaoyorozu!"
"Y-Your praise is more than I could ever hope for," Momo said with a smile, heart filling with pride as the No.1 Hero showered her with praise.
Just the sort of confidence-boost she needed after her less-than-stellar performance at the Yuuei Sports Festival.
However, would it truly be enough?
"GRAAAAAAH!" Bakugou raged as he stomped off, ripping the Yaoyoro-Bola from his forearm as he violently shook the oil from his body.
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"God damn it!" Bakugou swore as he stomped back to camp. "Even when Shit-Bug's not around, he's still screwing with me!"
"Which just begs the question; where is he?" Iida wondered as he looked around.
"You think he went out-of-bounds?" Kirishima asked.
"I don't think any out-of-bounds was formally established," Shoji answered.
"I… have a very bad feeling about the next round," Mina shuddered, the neon-pink hairs on the back of her neck standing on end.
"Hey, don't worry about it. I'm sure we've seen the worst of it," Kirishima said patting her on the shoulder, only to draw his hand back when he left a print of oil. "Uh… Oops."
"Don't worry about it. If anything, I'm actually loads better off than that guy," Mina said as the oil slid off her hydrophobic costume, a finger pointed at Bakugou whose uniform had no such feature.
"RAAAAAAAGH!"
To Be Continued…
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AN:
Sorry for the delay. Hit a bit of writer's block.
I'm hoping things will pick up after the Internship Arc, though I do have a little surprise in store for after this arc.