The Force Is Not A Quirk!

by Mr. Chaos

After a mission goes sideways Obi Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Padme Amidala, Captain Rex, and Ahsoka Tano find themselves appearing on a planet where 80% of people are born with quirks. With no way to return home the fivesome set about creating new lives for themselves, altering the destiny of the world forever.

40. Ep3- The Gathering Light 9

"WELCOME TO THE SPORTS FESTIVAL!"

The crowd roared and Hizashi grinned at the sheer volume the audience was able to get to. As much as he loved his radio show, and he truly did, there was just something that made his blood thunder in his veins when he got to play off an audience. When one got in the right grove they could manipulate them into gasps, cheers, screams, and cries. It was like an instrument, knowing just which buttons to press to get exactly what he wanted.

At a slightly lower voice (which was saying a lot for him) he declared, "Today we will be focusing on the First Year Students here at UA as they compete in a series of challenges to show case their skills and talents to all of you watching here at our stadium and the millions watching at home! So let's welcome them all now for the Opening Ceremony!"

Muting his mic he glanced over at Obi Wan who was seated next to him, Eri currently on his lap watching the students as they began to parade into the stadium proper. Behind them were all sorts of toys and activity books to keep the little girl entertained when things hit the natural lulls the Sports Festival would have peppered throughout. Though at the moment Eri seemed content to just watch the students.

"Thanks for joining me up here," Hizashi said with a grin. "I was going to try and force Shota up here, if only for the amusement factor, but honestly you're going to be able to offer better insight. He's a bit biased when it comes to his Hell Class. Or a bit too judgmental. Depends on his coffee intake."

Obi Wan waved him off. "Perfectly fine. I think all of this would have been far too stimulating for Eri. Besides, I think it best to avoid being around Anakin at the moment."

"Oh? You two have a fight?"

"Not at all."

~MC~MC~MC~

"WOOOO!" Anakin shouted, waving an orange foam finger in the air.

"Is that your dad?" Shoji asked, looking up at the stands as Class 1-A made their way towards the podium that had been set up in the middle of the stadium.

"My guardian," Ahsoka said, utterly embarrassed. She looked at Izuku. "Can we switch? Rex isn't screaming his head off."

"No but he did tell me that if I don't do well its just an excuse for extra lessons."

Ahsoka grimaced; Rex was treating the Sports Festival like it was cadet training and warned that if cadets failed to score well during such tests they had to do extra lessons… grueling exercises that made them wish that maybe they'd just been injured while trying to complete the exam. Hikes with full packs. Swimming against fast moving rivers. Reverse mountain climbs. All designed of course to make someone better but that didn't mean they wanted to be a part of it.

"Nevermind," she muttered.

"Come on," Ashido said with a grin, "its cool that your guardian is getting so into it!"

"Go Ahsoka!" Padme cried out, her face done up in orange face paint. She and Anakin suddenly ducked down before putting out foam hats that resembled her montrals.

Ahsoka gripped her own head in her hands and fought the urge to scream.

"I hope they enjoyed this chance to cheer for you," Monoma said with false kindness as he hurried to move next to them, "because it is the last chance they will have for you and all of Class 1-A. This is where the world learns that you are nothing more than frauds and fakes and that it is us, Class 1-B, who are the true future! Does it bug you?" He suddenly was RIGHT next to Ahsoka, practically draped over her shoulder. "Does it fill you with dread that everyone is going to learn what you truly are? Do you tremble with the knowledge that your time at the top is about over and you are about to crash down? Does it? Does-"

Monoma crumbled to the ground.

"Sorry about that," Kendo said as she grabbed Monoma by the ankle and dragged him away.

"You should invite him to target practice," Ahsoka muttered, causing Izuku to panic and begin waving his hands about, trying to tell her that he would NEVER do something like that.

"Welcome, everyone!" Midnight called out from the stand and podium, cracking her whip to get everyone's attention. "Thank you for coming to the Sports Festival. I so do love seeing you eager children ready to get all hot and bothered!" She flashed a saucy smirk and Ahsoka wondered how Midnight could go from that to putting on puppet shows for Eri to help the little girl go to sleep. "Now then, before we begin with the first event we will hear from the First Year's chosen representative: Yaoyorozu Momo!"

"I'm glad its her and not me," Uraraka commented softly.

It had been a big deal with Aizawa had said that their class needed to pick a speaker who would welcome everyone to the Sports Festival. Most of the class had wanted the honor, knowing that any attention one got would only help with furthering their careers after they got out of UA. It had been Izuku who had finally suggested that they give it to someone who hadn't had a chance to shine. Todoroki and Insai were their recommendation students, Komori and Iida their class reps. Izuku himself had removed himself from the running because he'd ended up with the highest score for the entrance exam; it had gone without saying he was also worried about getting TOO much attention, what with being Quirkless, and that annoyed Ahsoka to no end but she'd respected his choice. In the end Yaoyorozu had been selected as the best option of those left as she had the most experience with public speaking, having done several Public Speaking Contests in middle school and even made it to the national finals.

"Thank you," the tall teen said. "I know that today is going to be entertaining for you all watching but remember that for us this is merely the next step on our journey to becoming future heroes. Do not cheer for merely one of us. Cheer for us all. Because one day we hope to be your heroes when you need them." She dipped her head slightly, raising it just as the audience burst into cheers and applause.

"Feh," Bakugo grumbled. "That's just loser talk. If it had been me I would have let all these extras know they stood no chance because I was the best. And the audience would see that they were witnessing the next Number 1 Hero."

"Well, hopefully the first event isn't one for humility," Ahsoka snarked.

"What did you fucking say, Shit Horns?!" Bakugo roared, moving to stand right in front of her, screaming in her face.

"All those explosions must be making you deaf, Boom Boom," Ahsoka responded, folding her arms over her chest and staring at Bakugo while using her best impression of Master Windu's "I am staying calm and collected because otherwise I might beat your ass" look. "I said I hope the first event isn't one for humility because you'd be in last place."

"Humility is just something weaklings cry about because they can't back up any boast they might make!" Bakugo shouted. "I'm going to be number one and you, your little Deku boyfriend, and that Round Face shadow of yours are going to be walking out of here with nothing!"

"Or," Ahsoka said, eyes narrowed, "you're scared because you know that Monoma was at least right about you: everyone is going to see what a fraud you are."

"The only fraud is-"

Bakugo's rant was drowned out by Present Mic speaking over the speakers. "It is time for the first event!"

"This isn't over," Bakugo warned.

"I'm trembling," Ahsoka said with utter dryness.

"You know," Uraraka stated, "you wouldn't fight as much if you didn't go out of your way to antagonize him."

"Oh, I should just meekly roll over whenever he decides that because he doesn't want to release his anger into the Force?" Ahsoka said sarcastically. "That will be wonderful training for when we have to deal with villains." She smirked at that. "Dealing with Bakugo is just training for all the loud mouth pieces of crap we'll have to deal with when we're officially heroes."

Uraraka wanted to ask… several things, including what Ahsoka meant by 'Releasing his anger into the Force' as what did Ahsoka's quirk have to do with any of that, but was cut off by Present Mic's voice.

"And now its time for the first event: The Obstacle Course! Competitors will be racing out of the stadium and battling their way through a series of, well, obstacles!"

Obi Wan's voice chimed in. "It does seem rather self-explanatory when you word it like that, doesn't it?"

"Quite!" Present Mic declared dramatically and Ahsoka snickered at that. But her face fell into grim determination when she saw the large door light up to her left, the glowing bulbs upon its frame flashing white before going red, pulsing like a heartbeat. "Competitors will use that door to leave the stadium, moving along several of our training fields before returning here!"

" Remember that only those that complete the course in the designated time limit will be making it," Obi Wan added.

"Of course we won't be telling the students just what that time is!" Present Mic teased. "That way they are giving it their all til the very last moment!"

Ahsoka glanced over at Izuku. "Okay, what do you think?"

"The door is the first obstacle," Izuku said. "We all rush it and get jammed."

"Then we either need to be the very first…" Ahsoka smirked.

"What are you-" Uraraka asked only for the lights on the door to begin flashing between red and white.

Ahsoka tensed, crouching down, before the lights suddenly went green. The moment they did the students were rushing towards the door and the Padawan Learner used all her skills to duck and weave through the throng of bodies. She had a few chances where she could have burst ahead, overtaken a few students, but that wasn't what she was going for. Rather she needed the crush to occur, to lock up most of the first wave of students. Already she could hear cries and yelps as students found themselves pushing and shoving each other in an attempt to wiggle towards the other side of what Ahsoka now saw was a tunnel. Which worked out better than she could have hoped. Putting on a burst of speed she used the Force to leap up and began to run along the wall, taking four steps before she felt gravity begin to pull at her. At that moment she leapt to the opposite wall, taking another few steps before leaping back to the first wall and diving over the heads of the crush of students. Looking about she saw she was one of the first to make it out and grinned-

And instantly felt a wave of cold go through her as Todoroki blasted above her, freezing the ground in the tunnel and just outside, leaving everyone frozen to the floor.

"HEY!" several people roared but Todoroki didn't even bother to apologize. Ahsoka growled in her throat before thrusting her hand down, using two Force Pushes to shatter the ice around her so she could move before plunging her hand forward, eyes narrowed as she focused on Todoroki's shoes.

The two-toned teen suddenly bobbed and Ahsoka was greeted with the sight of his utter shock as she yanked at his shoes, causing his body to twist in the air before he slammed down on the ground. Ahsoka smirked even as she ran forward, waving her hand to send a spray of ice and snow in his face.

"And Todoroki looked to have been trying to take out every other competitor!" Present Mic exclaimed. "Too bad he didn't count on Tano using her Quirk to yank him back!" He paused. "Wait, is that allowed?"

"Technically it is!" Nedzu said, popping up next to Obi Wan. "See- GAAA!"

Eri had suddenly appeared behind him, grabbing the principal and giving him a hug.

"So soft…"

Obi Wan chuckled as Nedzu, unable able resist Eri's cuteness, allowed her to cuddle him despite his normal dislike of being touched. Of course it helped that Eri was cooing about how wonderful he was... "As Principal Nedzu was stating students are not allowed to use their quirks to harm one another. However, Ahsoka merely used hers to pull on Todoroki's shoe, which is a distraction but allowed. If it weren't that Todoroki would have been disqualified for using his ice to freeze everyone.

"That is something all students must remember," Obi Wan said over the loud speakers, "they aren't the only ones with quirks. Nearly everyone has one and have no problem using them… oh my." Obi Wan chuckled. "And it seems that two of the students wish to prove me wrong… you should also remember that the world isn't just quirks."

Ahsoka turned to see Izuku launch out of the tunnel, having used his wrist-mounted zipline to fly above the others. Following him was a pink haired girl with goggles on her head that had… well, it looked like she had on jet shoes and honestly Ahsoka wondered why she hadn't considered such a thing existing.

"For those curious," Obi Wan stated, "all students were allowed to put in requests for support items to add them in the Sports Festival. Of course many do not, believing that their quirks will get them through, but Midoriya and Hatsume have just shown them the error in thinking like that."

"We ALWAYS have a few first years who find out that little detail!" Present Mic said with a laugh. "And as watchers of previous Sports Festivals will tell you that is something they won't forget next year."

Ahsoka cursed at that. She had made the same mistake. 'I just assumed because I'm only allowed my lightsaber during Master Kenobi's class and training with Anakin that I couldn't have it during the Sports Festival… and I have a feeling I'm going to regret not having it with me this time."

There was movement to her right and she saw the small purple pervert kid that had confronted her and the rest of her class earlier in the week overtaking her, bouncing on the purple balls that grew from his head. He threw them out with admittedly impressive accuracy, leaping from one to the next and using that to make up for his shorter legs to quickly overtake Ahsoka's lead as they raced towards a large suburban training area. Behind her Ahsoka could hear more students making it out of the tunnel and using their quirks to try and get back to the front of the pack. There was a cold wind as Todoroki once more blasted himself through the air on frozen jets and based on the bellowing screams she knew that Bakugo had also-

The ground all around Ahsoka began to crack and buckle as the Force SCREAMED danger and she leapt back, causing the purple kid to cackle… only before he let out a wail as a massive hand burst from the ground, sending him spiraling back towards the stadium. Ahsoka watched, barely noticing that Todoroki had come to a stop beside her along with Hatume, Izuku, Yaoyorozu, Tokoyami, and several others, as the massive Zero Pointer from the Entrance Exam pulled itself free from the ground.

Followed by a second.

And a third.

And a fourth.

And from the craters they dug themselves from came spewing out an army of the One Point, Two Point, and Three Point robots.

"And the contestants have made it to the next part of our challenge, which we love to call "Robo Inferno"!"

"And by that you mean you love to call it that," Obi Wan teased.

"I'm getting serious flashbacks right now," Ahsoka muttered to herself, hand going to her hip before she remembered yet again she had no lightsaber.

"die die die die diE diE diE dIE dIE dIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE!" Bakugo roared as he blasted over their heads, slamming his palms down onto the head of one Zero Pointer and sending a blast that had it rocking.

Todoroki, not to be outdone, thrust his hand down against the ground and the cracks that hadn't spawned bots let off wisps of frost before a massive blast of cold ripped through the earth, freezing up the Villain Bots.

What followed was several minutes of madness as all the students began to attack the villain bots. Ahsoka used the force to slam the droids into each other while she spotted Tsu having caught up and using her tongue to fling droids into the air where Tokoyami's Dark Shadow was ready to rip them apart. Inasa let out a laugh as he made presence known; creating funnel clouds that tore the robots into bits. Ashido was showing off how much more potent her acid could be, melting droids with admittedly pinpoint accuracy. Kamikari was hacking them to bits while Yaoyorozu-

"IS THAT A GATLING GUN?!" Present Mic exclaimed as the tall teen, panting slightly before she crammed an energy bar in her mouth, leapt onto the wheeled platform of the weapon she'd made, kicking on the brakes and let out a scream as she began to fire on the droids. Ahsoka had never seen the normally reserved and collected young woman look so… maniac… as she fired on a Zero Pointer, reducing its head to scrap.

"Ah, we were working on that," Obi Wan stated. "For those that don't know Yaoyorozu can create object so long as she fully understands their basic make up. She has been pressing herself to get more advanced and this is her latest endeavor."

In the stadium Padme looked over at Anakin. "He encouraged her to make a Gatling gun?"

Anakin nodded. "I don't know if I should be proud of him taking a page out of my book or fearful that if he ever turned to the Dark Side he'd kill us all."

"I heard that, Anakin," Obi Wan said over the loud speaker.

"HOW?!" Anakin shouted, waving his hands in the air.

"What's this?" Present Mic exclaimed suddenly. "Two students, Midoriya and Hitoshi, have already made it through and are racing to the next challenge."

"How?" Momona called out. "There are still villain droids!"

But Ahsoka knew. 'Rex always told me that sometimes the Seperatists will send out waves of droids just to distract us. That the best way to defeat them is to not fight them at all. To get around. Izuku and Hitoshi must have snuck around them all while we were fighting them, using us as a distraction.' She smiled grimly. 'Clever.'

At once Ahsoka raced towards where Yaoyorozu was, waving at Shoji, Kendo, and Iida. "Come on!" she said as she raced towards the back of the weapon. "We push, you fire!"

"Right!" Yaoyorozu declared.

"What if something tries to come from the sides?" Iida asked.

"…Tokoyami!" Ahsoka shouted. "Team up?"

The bird-headed student considered her for a moment. "The only way to face the darkness sometimes is with others at your back!"

"I'll take that as a yes," Kendo said as she grabbed onto the back of the Gatling gun, Tokoyami leaping behind Yaoyorozu. With Iida in the middle and the rest spread out around him the four students began to push hard, rolling Yaoyorozu forward as she mowed down droids while Tokoyami and Dark Shadow worked to both clear a path and prevent any surprise hits. Several other contestants, seeing what they were doing, moved to run behind them, helping to deflect any shots from the sides so that Dark Shadow could focus on swooping around the front to knock away deactivated droids.

"GET SOME!" Yaoyorozu screamed in delight as she fired.

"I've never seen her so… passionate… before," Shoji stated.

"I like it," Kendo said with a smirk as she watched the tall teen blast a Three Pointer.

Back in the stadium Padme watched as Ahsoka helped her quickly patched together team get through the first obstacle. "That was smart of her. Too many of the students are forgetting that they technically aren't competing against each other yet." She pointed to one screen that showed that two Gen Ed students using their quirks to hinder each other. They couldn't actually attack one another but they could keep throwing obstacles at one another, causing them to trip up or fall or miss their attacks as they tried to get past some of the Three Pointers.

Anakin nodded. "Too many people don't realize that you need to work as a team."

"That's a powerful statement, coming from you."

"And what's that supposed to mean?"

Padme glanced at her husband. "Only that you have a bad habit of thinking you need to put the entire galaxy on your shoulders?"

"… maybe," he admitted.

That startled Padme. "What HAVE you and Hound Dog been talking about in your therapy sessions?"

"Come to one and find out," Anakin said but it wasn't nearly as snarky as one might have expected. "I was reading up on couple's counseling and I think it would be great for us. Sure, normally people that are having relationship problems do double's counseling and we're rock solid but there are a ton of things we could always improve upon. I mean, we're both heroes-"

"Shhhh!" Padme hissed. "Secret identity, remember?"

"See!" Anakin exclaimed, waving at her. "That's why we should have a few sessions. Let me text Hound Dog-"

Padme grabbed his wrist as he moved to pull out his phone. "Let's wait till after the Sports Festival, okay? I bet he's super busy."

~MC~MC~MC~

Hound Dog carefully balanced the playing card on top of the castle he had made with the rest of the deck, pulling back and smiling to himself as he looked at his hard work.

~MC~MC~MC~

"Are you sure they won't mind?" Padme and Anakin heard a voice say near them. "They might be holding those seats for someone."

"They are," Rex said. "Us. Anakin. Padme."

"Rex!" Anakin said with a grin, leaping up and gesturing for his friend to come over from the stairs he was walking down. "I was afraid you were going to miss the entire Sports Festival."

"Sorry about that, I had to step in and deal with some criminals that thought it was wise to cause some traffic accidents." The Clone Captain let out a sigh. "You know how it is."

Padme opened her mouth to confirm that she did before remembering that the public wasn't supposed to know she was a hero. So instead she said, "Don't worry, you didn't miss much. They had to get through a narrow tunnel and then deal with some droids. Izuku snuck around while Ahsoka created a team and had them fight their way out. They are moving towards the next obstacle right now."

"Good," Rex said before gesturing at a green haired woman who was just behind him. She was looking at Padme and Anakin in concern, most likely startled by Padme's face paint. "This is Midoriya Inko."

"H-hello," the green haired woman said, ducking her head against her shoulders. "I hope we aren't brothering you…"

"Of course not!" Anakin said happily, shifting so that he was now further away from the aisle, figuring that Inko would much prefer being close to the stairs. He had met plenty of people who didn't like to be boxed in; troopers especially who did not feel safe if there wasn't the ability to quickly move. "You're Izuku's mother, right?"

"That's right," she said as she sat down next to Padme. She blinked and then smiled bashfully. "Oh, are you Ahsoka's parents?" The moment the words were out of her mouth her brow furrowed, clearly confused at how a couple so young could be parents.

"Guardians," Padme stated. "Ahsoka lives with us because of her quirk. Anakin has a very similar one, as does his brother, so they have been helping Ahsoka train so she can use it."

"But I think you want to focus on the next part of the Sports Festival," Anakin said, pointing to the screen. There it showed the students, as they finished up the last of the kilometer run, reaching a large yawning canyon with pillars that rose up throughout it.

"Oh my," Inko whispered.

"And the first students have reached The Fall, our next obstacle!" Present Mic declared.

"It looks like our support-using students Midoriya and Hatsume are two of the first to arrive, along Hitoshi. But they have plenty of people looking to catch up, with the team led by Tano as well as Todoroki, Bakugo, and several other students only a few seconds behind."

Present Mic took over when Obi Wan paused. "For The Fall students will need to get across the canyon, using ropes or- OH! It looks like are frontrunners are looking to impress again!"

Sure enough Padme, Rex, Anakin, and Inko saw that Izuku had used his wrist zipline to secure himself to Hatsume, the girl let out a gleeful cry before she activated her rocket books, launching the two of them across the canyon.

"YOU AREN'T BEATING ME, DEKU!" Bakugo roared, thrusting his hands down and causing a massive explosion that catapulted him into the air. He twisted past Izuku and Hatsume, angling so his explosions caused them to wobble and drop down to a pillar.

"Worry about other people, Blasty!" Ahsoka called out as she waved her hands in the air before yanking. The result quickly became clear as a cloud of grit and dust rose in the air, Bakugo screaming in outrage as it got in his eyes and caused him to missing his mark, falling too soon and landing on one of the pillars.

"Oooohhh I don't think Katsuki will be pleased with that," Inko commented even as Ahsoka began to force leap from one pillar to the next. Tsu, Iida, Inasa, and Shoto were using their quirks to allow them to quickly move along the ropes while Tokoyami and Dark Shadow were slightly behind. But it was Yaoyorozu who had Anakin leaning forward as she pulled out a vest and a grappling hook gun, donning the former before firing the latter into the opposite cliffside, latching it onto her vest before taking a running start and diving down. The grapple hook gun instantly began to retract, yanking her easily across the gap. She reached the top just as Ahsoka, Izuku, and Hatsume landed from their leaps, Ahsoka pausing to offer Yaoyorozu a hand up while Izuku and Hatsume disengaged themselves. Rather than move on though Izuku turned and made sure that the others that were crossing weren't having any problems. He made sure to clear a path for Iida while Ahsoka used The Force to help Uraraka, who had just begun along the rope, balance properly so she could run better. Tsu smiled as Hatsume and Dark Shadow moved in front of her just as Shoto made it across, the frog quirked girl shivering but managing a smile. Inasa, for his part, had at some point grabbed Hitoshi and flung him over his shoulder and made it the rest of the way, the purple-haired teen looking grumpy at needing help but still nodding in thanks while Inasa laughed.

"It seems that several of the Class 1-A students, along with Support Student Hatsume, have decided to work together!" Present Mic declared.

"Very wise of them," Obi Wan stated. "As with the previous obstacle working together will ensure that more of them make it to the next round. It isn't well known but UA has had at least two times in its history no 1st Year Students make it through to the second round. By working together they better their odds-"

At that moment Bakugo surged forward, blasting over the heads of his classmates before going into a dead run. Shoto was a close second and used his ice to make that even closer, so that he and Bakugo were in a dead heat. Ahsoka, Izuku, and the rest of the group that had made it across gave chase while other students worked to get across the divide.

"And we have a real race, folks!" Present Mic shouted. "Bakugo and Shoto of Class 1-A are neck and neck with each other, switching off between first and second while our Team Work Teens are working to narrow the gap. But if they think they can just race to glory they are sadly mistaken, for they have come to the final obstacle-"

Bakugo and Shoto took a hard turn into what looked like an open field, getting only a few feet before the ground under them exploded, sending them flying into the air with the two forced to use their quirks in order to prevent them from crashing to the ground.

"-The Minefield!"