Everyone had 15 minutes to gather their teammates. While they did that, the rest of the rules were laid out.
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The headband’s worth is equal to the total points of the horse’s members.
The rider may not equip their headband on any area besides above their neck.
Even if the team loses their headband or their horse crumbles, they’re not out.
Headbands can only be taken physically.
Only the top 6 teams will advance.
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The fourth one was added for those with psychic quirks. After Tatsumaki soloed this entire event, this role was created.
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As for the team formations, Momo was watching as the teams quickly formed.
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Bakugo was pretty popular and ended up with Mina, Kirishima, and Sero.
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Todoroki managed to get those close in his rankings, even if they were in class B. To challenge himself, Ida agreed to join with him alongside Ibara and Honenuki.
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As expected, Aoi teamed up with her closest friends: Kaoru, Shiho, and Sabrina.
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Finally, the team Momo was conflicted on. She wanted to join Izuku, but what Ida said to him stuck with her.
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Ida: “Ever since the entrance exam, I’ve been doing nothing but lose to you. You’re an amazing friend, but it’s precisely because of that fact that if I only ever follow you, I’ll never grow myself.”
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If she joined with Izuku, would she be preventing her own growth? Shouldn’t she also see him as a rival and challenge him again?
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In the end, thanks to her indecision, Izuku formed his team: Kiri, Uraraka, and Tokoyami.
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So where does that leave Momo? Well, not alone, to her pleasant surprise.
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Mei: “Let’s team up!”
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Momo: “Huh!?”
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That girl from before was right in her face with a manic grin. Momo took a step back from the possibly insane girl.
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Momo: “Team up? With me?”
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Mei: “Of course! Your creation in the race was almost as great as my babies! Your quirk is the ability to create things, right!?”
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Momo: “Y-Yes.”
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Mei: “Excellent! Together, we can create even more amazing babies!”
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If the girl’s enthusiasm and invasion of personal space didn’t do it, that statement finished the job and painted Momo’s face red.
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Momo: “B-Babies? I-”
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Jiro: “I think she means her support gear.”
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Momo: “Kyoka!?”
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And alongside her was Denki, who was smiling at Mei’s antics.
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Mei: “Correct! I’m Hatsume Mei of the Dept. of support! Not only will we create magnificent babies, but your position will be sure to draw attention to my super cute babies!”
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Denki: “Trying to get the attention of some big shot, huh!”
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Mei: “Yes!”
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Momo: “I see… well, I won’t turn you away if you want to team up with me. Kyoka, did you… find a team?”
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Jiro: “No, that’s why we’re here. Want to team up?”
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Momo: “Y-Yes! Thank you.”
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Denki: “We should be thanking you. With you, I think we have a chance to win.”
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Jiro: “You’re just saying that because she’s the only one that can protect the rest of us from your lightning.”
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Denki: “Yeah, but I still want to team up with her.”
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Jiro: “I saw you eyeing Todoroki before I dragged you over here, dummy.”
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Regardless of the reasons, Momo is happy that she got a team that believes in her.
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Momo: ‘This time, for sure. We even teamed up before during the villain attack…’
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But it wouldn’t have ended well if not for the Pro Hero Snipe.
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Momo: ‘No, don’t think about it. We can do this.’
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Teams decided and horse formation created, the time had come.
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Present Mic “All right, have you all formed your teams?!! Well, you better have!! Let’s do it!! Let’s start the countdown to vicious clash!!”
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3
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Bakugo: “We’ve all got-”
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Bakugo’s team points: 640
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2
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Todoroki: “Just one target.”
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Todoroki’s team points: 670
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Izuku and Momo look at their targets from the rider position.
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Izuku’s team points: 660
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Momo’s team points: 425
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START!
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Kaoru: “Bring it on!”
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Aoi’s team points: 10 mil and 475
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The opening attack was instant; Sabrina’s eyes flashed red in an effort to lock everyone down. But as expected, Izuku counters with his own quirk.
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Sabrina: “I’ll keep him distracted. Do your thing, Kaoru.”
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Kaoru: “Yeah!”
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But before Kaoru, the front legs of the horse, can charge in, her legs are submerged underground.
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Kaoru: “Houenuki!”
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She looks at the approaching Todoroki team and the seemingly guilty Houenuki.
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Aoi: “All’s fair and all that?”
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Shiho: “Watch out!”
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Aoi turns just in time to see Bakugo, off his horse, aiming straight for her headband.
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Bakugo: “Die!!”
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Right before defeat claimed them, Aoi teleported the entire team feet away.
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Bakugo: “Wha-”
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Before Bakugo falls to the ground, he is retrieved by Sero’s tape.
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Present Mic: “What do we see heeeere!! The rider can detach from the horse!? That’s allowed!?”
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Midnight: “It’s only a technical; the rider’s just not allowed to plant their feet on the ground or stay airborne for more than 5 seconds!”
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Five seconds is more than enough.
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A flash of green later, and Aoi is once again in danger of losing her headband.
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Sabrina: “Foolish, lock.”
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Izuku is locked in place, right when he was about to grab the headband. He wasn’t fast enough to get the headband and block the lockdown.
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Kaoru: “Just keep him there for 5 seconds!”
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Bakugo glares at Deku’s risky maneuver. If Deku loses here, the person Bakugo lost to, what will that say about him? But before the explosive boy can charge in, he feels his headband being taken.
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Neito: “Like taking candy from a baby, class A.”
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Bakugo: “What the fuck, fucking assrag piece of shit motherfucking fuck, give it back!! I’ll kill you!!”
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Mina: “We’ve been had!”
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Neito: “You’re much too focused on the ten million. Not like you could take it from those girls anyway.”
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Kirishima: “The rest of class-B is surrounding us!”
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Neito: “Ah, now that I look at you, aren’t you the victim of the sludge incident? Tell me all about it next time. How it must feel to be attacked by a villain once every year, I mean.”
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Before Bakugo could explode in anger, another explosion shook the area.
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A bloom of green light enveloped the area.
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Sabrina: “Ugh!”
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Izuku broke out the lock and teleported back to his horse, exhausted.
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Kiri: “Onii!”
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Izuku: “Keep… moving!”
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As for Sabrina, she was forced to her knee, unbalancing the horse.
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Kaoru: “Sabrina!”
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Todoroki: “Shiozaki!”
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A green vine shot straight for Aoi, and she couldn’t react in time. The vine got the headband and returned to her team.
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Aoi: “Darn it.”
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Ibara: “Forgive me, miss Nogami.”
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Todoroki doesn’t give them a glance and returns to the battlefield.
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Sabrina: “I’m sorry too. He… was stronger than I expected.”
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Kaoru: “It’s not over yet! Come on!”
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The once top team returns to the battlefield. Neito and Bakugo saw the whole thing. Bakugo couldn’t help but laugh at the turn of events.
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He’ll be sure to take that headband from halfnhalf, but for now… he’s free to enact some payback.
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Bakugo: “Kirishima, change of plans. Before Todoroki and Deku, let’s send these goddamn shitstains to some early graves!”
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Neito gulps at the enraged Bakugo but keeps a calm facade up. After all, he’s sure his class can turn this around once more.
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Back to the Todoroki, his team has become the target. But as long as he can keep the ten million, he wins.
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Kaoru: “Stand still!”
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Thanks to Ida’s speed and Honenuki’s softening, they are able to avoid most attacks. Aoi is constantly teleporting out of the softening, and Izuku’s team has to defend against the vines from Ibara.
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At this rate, time will run out and Aoi’s team will be at the bottom.
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Sabrina: “I may need to-”
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Kaoru: “No! Save it for later. I got this. Aoi, get ready, I’m going all in.”
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Aoi: “Right!”
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Kaoru focuses while building up energy and enveloping her friends with protective shields.
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Meanwhile, Dark Shadow knocks away more vines while Izuku prepares once more to teleport.
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Izuku: “Don’t worry, they don’t have anyone that can stop me. Kiri, Uraraka, are you ready?”
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Kiri, the front, nods while tensing her legs.
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Uraraka: “Yep!”
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Grasping his chance, Izuku teleports again. Todoroki sees it coming, but it doesn’t change the fact he can barely react to it. Izuku appears behind him, aiming for the one million around his neck.
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Instinctively, Todoroki uses his flaming side to try and deter Izuku. But being an esper, Izuku is able to mentally push aside his arm and grab one of the headbands around Todoroki’s neck before teleporting away.
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Todoroki: ‘My left side… what am I doing!?’
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Ida: “Todoroki!”
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Still frozen by what he did, he was blindsided by Izuku’s strategy.
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Kiri was already moving when Izuku teleported. She was much faster thanks to Uraraka making their team weightless. Tokoyami dealt with the vines while Kiri charged forward into position.
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Izuku teleported back onto his team, perfectly on time to snatch another headband from the other side of Todoroki.
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Izuku: “Got it!”
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Kiri kept the monument with a smile. But that’s when Kaoru saw her chance.
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Kaoru: “Charge!”
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A blinding red light caught Izuku off guard and even shrunk Dark Shadow. The next instant, Izuku felt his headband come off.
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Aoi: “Thanks for your contribution.”
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Before Kiri could turn the horse around to face their enemies, Aoi had already teleported away.
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Kiri: “Tch.”
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Uraraka: “It’s okay, we got the ten million.”
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Izuku: “No, we didn’t.”
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The esper looked at the headbands he got and saw numbers other than ten million.
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Izuku: “It must still be on his neck. He shuffled them around.”
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Ida: “Pull your wits about you, Todoroki!! That was dangerous! And we’re not safe yet!”
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Todoroki snaps out of it and sees Izuku’s and Aoi’s team charging him. He also hears explosions coming from above. He breathes cold air, ready to freeze them and collect their headbands afterwards.
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Present Mic: “TIME UP!!”
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Bakugo fell out of the sky while Izuku squeezed his eyes in frustration. It was over.
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Aoi: “Darn, we only ended up with Midoriya’s 660 headband.”
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Kaoru: “That’s not too bad.”
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Sabrina: “We could have done better.”
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Shiho: “Don’t blame yourself, Sabrina.”
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Sabrina: “I’m not. I’m only stating the fact that we could have done better.”
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She looks at Izuku and narrows her eyes.
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Sabrina: ‘Shame, I would have liked to challenge him again.’
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Present Mic: “Now shall we see who our top 6 are!?”
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1. Team Todoroki
2. Team Yaoyorozu
3. Team Bakugo
4. Team Shinsou
5. Team Nogami
6. Team Midoriya
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Sabrina: ‘Ah, never mind.’
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Midoriya breathed a sigh of relief.
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Uraraka: “We made it!”
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Kiri: “Ih.”
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Tokoyami: “Indeed. Yaoyorozu’s team is a surprise, however.”
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Izuku looks at Momo and sends her mental congratulations.
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Izuku: “Great job, Yaoyorozu!”
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Momo: “M-Midoriya! T-Thank you, but I still missed first place. I was so focused on gathering extra headbands that I missed my chance to go for the ten million.”
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Izuku: “That’s fine! It was chaotic anyway; you made the right choice to stay out of it.”
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Momo: “… I suppose.”
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Mei: “What are you spacing out for?!”
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Momo: “O-Oh, sorry Hatsume.”
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Mei: “This was a great chance to test some of my babies, but we didn’t get to shine as much as I liked. I need to make up for it with the next event!”
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Momo: “I-I’m sorry.”
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Jiro: “Ignore her, it’s fine, Momo. If we did it her way, we may not have made it.”
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Momo: ‘You don’t think we could have won either… ’
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As for Todoroki, he glares at his accursed arm.
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Todoroki: ‘I said I’d never use it. I made a promise to myself. But when I was threatened…’
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Todoroki: “I… I can’t let it go on like this… this is exactly what he wants…”
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Present Mic: “The next event will be after lunch break! See you then!!”
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He turns to Izuku and walks towards him. There is much to discuss.
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Kiri: ‘So close… ’
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She and her onii-chan were so close to failure. She could have reacted better to Akashi. She could have insisted on being on top instead; maybe then Izuku would have put himself at risk.
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Maybe if she were on top, she could have gotten the ten million.
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Kiri: ‘No.’
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There is no point in thinking about the past. She’ll do better next time. He needs her to be better.
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Kiri: “Onii, let’s-”
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Kiri: ‘Gone?’
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Uraraka: “Where’s Midoriya?”
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Kiri: ‘It seems I’m not the only one wondering. But I’m the only one that can find him.’
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Kiri slips from the group heading to the mess hall and follows Izuku’s psychic signature. It didn’t take her long; it was in one of the hallways.
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But it would seem she wasn’t the only one who knew how to find her brother.
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Kiri: “Bomb boy.”
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Bakugo: “Tch, ghost girl.”
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The two glare at each other, but before they can throw any verbal blows, they hear Izuku.
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Izuku: “So… what is it? What do you want to tell me? If we stay too long, it will get crowded.”
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Seeing that their objective is the same, the two call a truce, lean against the wall and listen.
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Todoroki: “Your quirk… overwhelmed me enough to force me to break my pledge. I’m… one of the few to have seen your full power. That power and the quirk your sister has, they both remind me of people we both know.”
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Izuku: “… What are you trying to say?”
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Todoroki: “I just find you and your sister interesting. I know you’re related to Tornado, and Tae is apparently adopted. More than that, you both caught All Might’s eye. Which leads me to my question; is your sister All Might’s Illegitimate child, and did he ask the number two hero to take care of it?”
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Izuku: “… Huh?!”
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Bakugo looks at Kiri with wide eyes; considering her strength, it might not be far off. But Kiri shakes her head violently, denying such ridiculous claims.
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Izuku: “That’s not it at all! Their quirks may seem similar, but I promise you that is not the reason.”
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Todoroki: “The way you said that, ‘That’s not it’. In other words, there is a connection between you all. Something you can’t talk about. Whatever that might be, you must know about my father, Endeavor.”
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Izuku: “… I do.”
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Todoroki: “He was the number two hero forever, and then your sister comes in and drops him to third place. You’re not only connected to the person who did that, but to All Might, the person he wants to surpass more than anything. Because of this, I need to win all the more.”
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That’s when Todoroki revealed his past. His father, the quirk marriages, and his mother…
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Todoroki: “I’ll become number one, a hero, without needing to use his quirk. This is my total disavowal of him.”
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Izuku and the two eavesdroppers stood shocked at his reason for reaching for number one. They all have different reasons for becoming a hero.
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To be the best.
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To be a hero like All Might.
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To stand alongside their family.
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But those reasons feel… shallow somehow when compared to Todoroki’s. However, that won’t stop them from fighting and reaching that coveted pedestal.
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Todoroki: “If you can’t tell me anything, that’s fine. You two can keep being All Might’s something-or-other. I’ll overcome you two using only my right side.”
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Izuku: “My… reason for reaching number one may not be as good as yours. I want to be like All Might, to stand next to my sisters with pride. I need to… master and… control my quirk for that to happen.”
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Izuku: “It may be a poor, and maybe even a selfish motive compared to yours. Even so, I can’t lose. For those that believe in me, to pay back my family for taking care of me when I was quirkless. So I’ll echo your declaration of war.”
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His eyes glow green as he stares into Todoroki’s.
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Izuku: “I’m going to beat you!”
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Kiri closes her eyes and smiles at his words. She won’t disappoint him either; she’ll try her best. As for Bakugo, his gaze is blank so as not to give anything away to Kiri.
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But deep down, very deep down, he can respect Izuku for his words. That won’t change the end result, though.
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Bakugo: ‘I’ll be the one to win this with a complete victory. I’ll be number one.’
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Bakugo goes to leave for the mess hall. His movement catches Kiri’s eye.
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Kiri: “Bomb boy?”
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Bakugo: “I’m leaving. There is nothing else to see.”
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Kiri: “…Nh.”
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After making sure Bakugo and Todoroki were gone, Kiri decided to join Izuku. But just then, they both got a mental message.
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Tatsumaki: “Kiri! Izuku! Follow my psychic signature; we’re having lunch!”
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Izuku: “C-Coming!”
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Kiri: “Sugar cubes?”
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Tatsumaki: “Of course.”
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Kiri: “Yay.”
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Inko: “You two were amazing!”
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The whole family was eating their lunch together in the elevated. Izuku made sure to tell Momo mentally where they were so no one was worried.
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Izuku: ‘That’s becoming very convenient. Maybe I should-’
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T: ‘Finally, use that wonderful mind of yours, Prince. The Mind would be most pleased if you did.’
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He shakes his head when hearing that rare voice. Out of all the main ones, his hurt Izuku’s head the most. So many strange voices overlayed onto the main sickening one.He always comes around when Izuku wants to do something creative or expand his mental abilities.
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Izuku: ‘I have to get this under control. I miss Phoenix; she was so much simpler. But I can’t see her until I master this phase… apparently.’
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Fubuki: “Izu, are you okay?”
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Izuku: “Y-Y-Yes, just thinking.”
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Tatsumaki: “Is it because of your placement? I told you, I’m not disappointed.”
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Fubuki: ‘I doubt that.’
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Tatsumaki: “It was stiff competition. Those girls with our type of quirk were surprising and impressive.”
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Fubuki: “Yeah, they were… ”
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Izuku: “I see…”
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Tatsumaki: “That being said, I still expect you two to come out on top in the next event. Sabrina seems like a glass cannon; overwhelming force may help. That Akashi girl is strong but she is reckless, I’m sure you two can outsmart her.”
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Izuku: “R-Right. We can do it.”
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Kiri: “Nh.”
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Fubuki: ‘And what if they don’t?’
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Fubuki still remembers the look she received from her older sister when she failed to get first place in the festival. Tatsu tried to soften it, but she could feel the disappointment.
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She takes a breath and pushes those memories down.
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Fubuki: ‘I’m stronger now. Besides, I’m sure Izuku or Kiri won’t have to face that.’
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The rest of the lunch break went by quickly after that. Fully refreshed and filled with confidence thanks to his family, Izuku joined everyone back in the arena.
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While everyone was at lunch, Cementoss used his quirk to create a concrete battle stage fit for the event.
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Present Mic: “Here it is, everyone, the final event you’ve all been waiting for! From 6 teams, 24 individuals have made it through! The 1v1 battle tournament!!”
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This was it, the last chance to claim the number one spot and impress the agencies watching. But with five espers in the running, how good are their chances really?
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