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Chapter 19: A Bigger Pond
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Chapter 19: A Bigger Pond
“I win, Deku!” Bakugo proclaimed as he set loose the explosion. One that dwarfed any he had used before, one larger than any Midoriya had ever seen as it tore through the ground, heading right for him like a fiery elephant stampede. Simultaneously, Midoriya swung his sword down as hard as he could, launching off a massive blade of fire that crashed into the pips and walls between him and where Uraraka.
Midoriya didn't have time to tell her, he didn't have time to do much other than that half-assed warning, but that was all he could do, as he couldn't fend off that attack, he didn't have the time to build up a strong enough counter or defense.
All he could do was clear the way and hope for the best.
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“Uraraka, aim for your right, use it!” Uraraka paused in her attack on Iida as she heard Midoriya’s hysterical call, she took a moment to wonder why he made it, why he sounded so hysterical but, in her gut, she knew that there had to be a reason, so she trusted him.
Dropping the large pipe she had been using as a bat against Iida, she turned on her heel to her right side, where Midoriya and Bakugo were fighting, and pulled back her fist. She had explained that her quirk evolved recently, and she could drastically increase the power by increasing the weight of her attacks, but how she couldn't properly control it, which was why she broke her bones using it.
It was a terrible explanation, one that made little medical or scientific sense but lucky for her, as Recovery Girl had told her when she ran the excuse by her, quirks often broke the norms of biology and science, so if she were merely confident when she said it, most wouldn’t think anything of it. that had happened earlier when she explained her quirk to her team.
None of that mattered as she called upon the power of One for All, and felt it roar to life in her arm with power so great that her costume's right sleeve and her Uraraka wrist were destroyed, exposing her skin which was alit with cracks of red and pink energy just beneath the surface of her skin. As she geared up to throw the attack, she felt more than heard the reason why Midoriya made the call.
The ground started to shake like they were having an earthquake, and before her, she could hear how the buildings, pipes, and other obstacles that stood between her and the other fight were being destroyed by an incoming force, one that seemed to be crazy hot.
"Smash!" She yelled as he though a punch so much like All Might's, sending out a massive blast of force straight into the right side, obliterating the obstacles that weren't already destroyed by Midoriya's attack, giving it an easier time reaching Bakugo's raging explosion attack, when the two collided, it seemed like, even a moment that they were evenly matched.
But what one quirk could stand up to the raw power that lay within One for All? That moment passed as Uraraka's attack not only smashed through Bakugo's crushing the explosion force and dissipating the heat that came with it, but managed to strike an unsuspecting Bakugo and knock him clean off his feet, sending him flying for a couple of seconds before he landed on his back with a curse and grunt.
The aftermath of the two-attack meeting was silence, for many reasons as Iida marveled at Uraraka's power, even if he wondered what drove her to use such an extreme level of it as he looked at the destruction that she had wrought.
Midoriya, who had dodged to the side to avoid being caught in the middle of the two attacks looked on wide-eyed. 'If…if I hadn't moved...' He had never seen such power before, not from anyone out of the strongest of rampaging quirks. What could have been going through Bakugo's mind to use such a thing?
Bakugo was dumbfounded. How the hell could Round Cheeks counter his attack? Her fucking quirk was messing with gravity! But the poof laid bare for him as he could see through the slowly clearing smoke and dust where his attack had been met and destroyed, as that was where the concrete it had been digging up ceased.
The rest of the students on the field were frantically trying to contact their teammates after they felt that rumble and saw and heard what looked to be a massive explosion, but Iida, Midoriya, and Uraraka remained silent, leaving their teammates worried for their safety.
With their classmates, they were stunned by what they had just witnessed, from Bakugo's blatant refusal to obey Eraser's orders, to his unleashing such a crazy strong attack, and Uraraka's even stronger counter. "What the hell was that?" Tetsutetsu asked after he forced his jaw to close.
On the field, it was Uraraka who broke the silence. "Ow…Midoriya, I did it," She started as the dust and smoke cleared enough for Midoriya to see her, standing with her right arm stretched out, a right arm that was bloody and red from the damage she had done to it.
Midoriya was rushing over before he even realized it. "Uraraka!" He gently guided her to the ground, looking over her arm and hardly knowing what to even make of it, it looked like she let a bunch of people whale away at him with hammers. “Oh man, you said you couldn’t control it, not that it would do this!”
“Sorry bout that, figured ya wouldn’t let me use it if I’d been honest.” Uraraka hissed at the end as they moved her into a more comfortable position with her back to the wall, her arm having been moved a little by it, which Midoriya quickly apologized for.
"Of course, we wouldn't let you use it!" He cursed the fact that he didn't have medical equipment to treat her, all he could do was rely on his knowledge from EMT training, which was to monitor her breathing, keep the arm from moving, and try to spot if any bone had pierced a blood vessel as internal bleeding could be fatal.
Spotting none of the signs of that, though that proved hard with how red her skin was, he turned around to face the two opponents, his eyes hard as stone but as hot as flames as he gripped his blade in both hands. “You just rest up, I’ll handle these two.” The blade reacted to his fury, coating itself in a thick, bright coat of orange flames.
“Midoriya.” Iida looked hesitant to attack, but Bakugo looked more than ready to get back to it. Round Cheeks might have pulled a miracle out of her ass with the first blast, but he still had the second-
“There’s no need.” Both sides paused when they heard Aizawa on their coms. “Bakugo, you’re disqualified.”
“What?!” Bakugo grabbed at his, enraged that he had been removed when he had clearly been winning!
“Should I make it an expulsion as well? You are to exit the field and return here now, you’re in enough trouble as is, but if you want to add to it, feel free to continue to act like an idiot.” Aizawa sounded as calm and disinterested as usual, but they could all detect it was merely a calm surface. For their classmates who were with him, they could see for themselves that Eraser was not happy. Not happy in the slightest.
With that ultimatum over his head, Bakugo reluctantly ceased, with a final glare to his annoying teammate and piss stain of an opponent as he turned on his heel and blasted off. Having heard the entire thing, those remaining in play had to just process what had just happened, as Jiro muttered about how much of an ass Bakugo was.
“Did…did he just?” Uraraka asked, watching as the least sociable member of their class flew away.
“Yeah…” Midoriya explained, though his gaze didn’t soften even as the main source of his ire made his exit. “That just leaves you, Iida.”
“That won’t be necessary, Midoriya.” Iida shook his head, reaching for his helmet and removing it, revealing that he was just as pleased with things as Midoriya was. "I can't in good conscience continue this exercise when things have gone so wrong. Nor can I accept that any gains we could make came from my teammate's reckless and extremely dangerous actions."
Even if they were meant to be villains, he couldn't just keep going when Uraraka was in such a terrible state, partly because of him as he should have been able to keep Bakugo in line better, get him to cease with his pointless violence but he wasn't fast enough. So there was only one thing he could do and still be able to look at himself in the mirror as he tapped his earpiece. “I hereby forfeit the match.”
“Team D has lost 3 members and therefore have lost the match. Winner is team A. All injured students are to report to Recovery Girl, the rest of you are to make your way here as soon as possible for a post-match performance review.” Eraser announced over the area’s speaker rather than comns, a siren going off marking the end of the match.
Despite their victory, not a single person in team A felt like winners in the moment. Not when they could all tell that whatever just happened wasn't a good thing as Midoriya heavily implied that Uraraka was pretty injured.
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Later, both teams, sans Uraraka, had made it to the observation point where the rest of their class was waiting for them. They had found Bakugo there thanks to him leaving early, but he stood to the side, glaring at nothing and frankly, none of them wanted to engage with him, though that didn't stop Jiro, Kamakiri, and Tokage from glaring right back at him.
"Before we get onto who was the MVP of the match, and what lessons we can learn from this, let's address the elephant in the room," Aizawa stated, turning to walk over towards Bakugo, his typically quiet steps sounding like the tremors that came before a massive earthquake, though Bakugo tried to act like he didn’t feel it, Aizawa could tell just as unnerved the boy was. But being unnerved was the least of his worries.
"Bakugo, you lost the entire point of the exercise. I stress multiple times that you're acting as a villain on the retreat and that combat was meant to be the last option and yet you went looking for a fight." Aizawa’s voice was deceptively soft, but there was a coiling snake in his words.
He didn’t stop as he explained things as bluntly as a hammer to the face, his gaze locking Bakugo’s feet in place as he started to sweat. "Then as if that act of irrational foolishness wasn't enough, you went against direct orders not to use your support item, an item that till I say otherwise, you will be barred from even carrying in training,"
“Hey-!”
“Silence.” Aizawa didn't scream, he didn't yell. He didn't need to cause the entire class to shiver as ice traveled through their veins. With Bakugo, his heart felt like it had been grabbed by the taller, shaggy-looking man whose hair started to float like he was a ghost, while his eyes turned from their normal black to piercing crimson that glowed like angry stars.
Aizawa's anger wasn't like Bakugo's, it was the cold kind, the one that didn't cloud judgment so much as it reinforced it. It was the scariest kind of anger as it meant that when he made a choice, he was doing so with a clear mind and no intention to be swayed from it. And that was something Bakugo was seeing firsthand as his teacher leaned in, making him lean back to keep some distance between them.
"I did not ask for you to answer, I did not ask for your opinion or whatever pitiful excuses you can conjure up in that head of yours to explain why you indulged some juvenile grudge against Midoriya. You are shut up and listen." He didn't ask, he didn't order. He merely spoke as if his words were absolute, and Bakugo, for all his bravado, ego, and anger, couldn't find the strength to refute his teacher.
Bakugo's being forced into silence didn't appease the man however, such a trivial thing couldn't appease the fury he felt as he got back to the task of stating point by point, just how much Bakugo had lost the point of the exercise and how much trouble he was in for it.
"Typically, I wouldn't need to say it, but you've made me doubt your intelligence and maturity, so I'll say it anyway. Your blatant overuse of force could have killed Midoriya, it could have seriously injured Iida and Uraraka if not for Uraraka paying with her arm to cancel it." He pointed at the replay of the match, more accurately, the moment where he fired off the attack. He saw it, how Midoriya cleared the way for Uraraka, then dodged out of the way. He saw the result of his attack from an outside view and it was devastating, as the area was wrecked, looking like someone had dropped several bombs.
However, despite being able to see what had become of the field, Bakugo didn't apologize, he couldn't. Aizawa's disappointment in that face was palpable though his response remained unchanged as he stopped using his quirk, his hair falling back under the effects of gravity.
“Since you can’t seem to follow simple orders when conducting practicals, you’re barred from any future classes outside the classroom, also you have 2 weeks detention.” He told him, to which Bakugo tried to refute.
“What, you can’t do that!” Aizawa’s glare remained sharp, even if his eyes weren’t red.
“I can and I just did. Don’t forget that I’m the academic advisor for the first-year hero course. Also, I remember telling you to keep silent, so make that 3 weeks detention." He cut off whatever nonsense the boy was about to say next. "Don't test me, as I don't care how talented you think you are, what quirk you have, or what delusions you have in your head, disobey me again, act out again and I'll expel you from the hero course where you stand, am I clear?"
Again, Bakugo glared back at him like a petulant child, but he soon looked down in surrender. “Good.” Aizawa turned back to the rest, though he made a mental note to add some demerits to Bakugo's record for this stunt and bring up psychological screenings with Nezu as these students weren’t middle schoolers, he expects them to act like it.
“What that settled, can anyone tell me who was the MVP of the match?” He asked them, leaving that issue to the wayside for now. In response to his question, it was Honenuki that rose his hand, just barely beating out Yaoyorozu.
“That would be Jiro, sir.” He replied, his fellow recommendation student lowering her hand, either she had a similar answer or merely respected that it was his time to speak.
“And why’s that?” Aizawa asked them, as he didn’t care so much for the answer as he did their rationale.
“She was the one that the hero team relayed on to keep tabs on the locations of the villains, allowing her teammates to better plan their attacks. Also, she was the only one to take out a villain in the match as Bakugo was disqualified and Iida forfeited.” Jiro felt a little bashful being put in the spotlight like that, even if Kamakiri and Yanagi both gave her a nod or a thumbs-up, agreeing with Honenuki.
“Correct, now for you all,” Aizawa did as well as he turned to the 8 students that had been in the field. “Can you think of ways you could have improved your performance in that last match?”
Tokage started, looking at her feet. “I didn’t know what kind of quirk Jiro had, but even so, I should have made the plan more flexible to account for that unknown, if we did, then she wouldn’t have caught off by surprise and basically blinded us.”
"I shouldn't have chased after my teammate as when it was clear he had no intention of working with us, I should have decided to close ranks and focused on trying to pass without him." Iida was next, feeling just as much shame for his dogged insistence on trying to get Bakugo to behave. Because of that, he had been separated from teammates who wanted to work together the entire time, which made them that much easier to take out.
"I need to work on ways to fight opponents that are faster than me, Kamakiri was dancing around me the entire time, I'm not sure why he couldn't get his tape around me sooner," Sato answered, as he had known he wasn't the fastest brawler but man, he would be lying if he said it wasn't humiliating to be the turtle to Kamakiri’s hawk. His only positive was that he didn’t overdo it with the sugar and didn’t render himself too mentally drained to even avoid capture.
It wasn’t just the villain team that felt like they needed ways to improve as the person that had been up against Sato was next. “I need to find ways to better use my environment, as while I boxed in Sato, he was able to keep up with me enough that I couldn’t take him out without risking him landing a knock-out blow.”
“My lack of ways to handle quirks like Bondo long ranged taggers meant that I wasn't able to capitalize on the situation and neutralize him sooner. I need to try and be sneakier in the future to catch people like him by surprise." Yanagi went next, and lastly, there was Midoriya who had been quiet since he escorted Uraraka to Recovery Girl.
“I…I made the same mistake as Bakugo.” His teammates and even opponents looked at him funny for that admission, as they recalled that he had been the calm one of that fight. Even then, he didn’t seek it out, merely exploiting the fact Bakugo wanted it to begin with.
“I know how his quirk works, so using fire was the worst choice possible, if I wanted to limit his power, I should have used ice instead but I wanted to fight, I wanted to force him to see he was wrong and…” Todoroki seemed interested with that ice bit, though Midoriya didn’t notice as he covered his face with his head, even with his quirks saying otherwise, he knew that he had made the wrong choice.
Turning to his teammates, he bowed low to them. "Uraraka paid for that mistake, and because of that, I apologize to you all. It's my fault that things got so bad."
“Hey, you couldn’t have known that it would get that bad.” Jiro tried to tell him, though he remained bowed.
"She's right, none of us could have predicted that Bakugo had such a weapon, or that he would use it in the situation," Yanagi added, the group ignoring how Bakugo was grinding his teeth in the corner as they talked about him like he wasn’t there.
“That’s enough.” Aizawa ceased their words before they lost any more time they had for class. “You all made good points in your self-reflection. I want you to focus on finding ways to improve on that going forward. But keep in mind that this is training so while it’s a time to learn, you shouldn’t be too harsh on yourselves else you’re work yourselves into a rut.”
“Yes sir.” The class, sans Bakugo, replied to his words as the two teams moved to join the rest of them.
“Good, considering the damage to the area, we’ll be moving to another one. The teams that will be handling this would be team B as the heroes and team E as the villains." Aizawa said, pulling out the aforementioned teams from the two boxes.
As they turned to leave, he told them only one final thing. "Follow the scenario, I don't want any more complications."
"Yes, sir." They nodded, none having any issues to turn their match into a mess similar to the first. As they walked off, Aoyama stopped shoulder-to-shoulder with Midoriya.
“Your match, that wasn’t like you at all, Izuku. Care to explain?” He quietly asked him in French.
Midoriya pursed his lips, his brow creasing. “It wasn’t, I suppose…Bakugo has a way of bringing out the worst of my competitive spirit.” He was never this bad when they were kids. But then again, neither was Bakugo.
Aoyama was silent for a little bit, his teammates already well ahead of him before he shrugged. "Well, either way, you need to apologize to Ms. Uraraka after this, perhaps take her out for dinner?" He suggested, avoiding Midoriya’s playful swipe at him.
"Just focus on your match, your opponents won't make it easy," Midoriya warned as they already knew that Tetsutetsu wasn't going to be an easy fight, but Todoroki also proved that his ice was quite formidable, certainly greater than his own.
“Izuku, my friend,” Aoyama laughed as he started to walk off, an eager smile on his face. “I wouldn’t be this excited if they did.”
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“All right, how are we going to do this?” Kaibara asked once the timer started.
“It would be great if we had a scout, then we can pull off what Jiro and Tokage were doing last match and figure out where they are.” Tetsutetsu bemoaned the fact that they had a pretty solid team, plenty of combat options but no scouts and this wasn't even meant to be a fight. Sure, the enemy team was the same, but that didn't comfort him much.
“That I can do.” Shoji stepped up, spreading his arms wide, and from the tips of them, he sprouted an additional 4 tentacles, those four had eyes while the remaining 4 had ears.
Seeing this even got a reaction out of the ever-silent Todoroki. “Wow, I thought your quirk was while 6 arms thing," Kaibara asked him, but Shoji shook his head, keeping his attention on gathering intelligence.
“That’s part of it, but my quirk, Dupli-Arms, allows me to create replicas of my body parts on the tops of my tentacles, including things like ears and eyes.” He explained before he managed to pinpoint what sounded like movement near the middle of the area.
“That..is so frickin cool!” Tetsutetsu cheered, Shoji finding his reaction surprising, but a welcomed one as the guy seemed like a kid in a candy shot.
“Can you spot them?” Todoroki focused on the objective, his surprise over Shoji’s quirk gone.
“Not very cute.” Shoji pretended not to hear what Tsunotori muttered under her breath, he had more important things to discuss.
“Yeah, I hear what sounds like Ashido siding towards the west entrance, Tokoyami isn’t that far behind her, they could be moving as a duo.” Not a bad team combination, she was a lot faster than him and if she could fling that acid of hers, it was a potent close-quarters weapon. Whereas Tokoyami's shadow seemed to be a ranged quirk and a powerful one at that.
“The others?” Todoroki pressed, a mental map building in his head as he recalled the layout of the last place, and reasoned that this one couldn’t be too different.
“Aoyama’s moving towards the east entrance along who it could be Komori, yeah, definitely her footwalls.” Komori and Shoda were both short, but she was much smaller and lighter, so what he was hearing tailing Aoyama could only be here. And that means that the last one was… “Shoda seems to be heading right for us.”
“So, they split into 3, one to slow us down and 2 for either of the 3 exits. We can work with that.” Kaibara spun his hand around like a drill, as it would be pretty easy for them to take on Shoda, who probably thought he'd get the jump on then. With him gone, it'll just be as easy as finding one of the two teams and capturing them before they manage to get to the exit.
“I can handle Shoda.” Kaibara looked towards Todoroki who walked ahead of them, not even explaining what he was planning on doing as he placed his right hand onto a nearby wall.
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For the villains, they had followed through with their plan to split up, while they could have made a break for just the one entrance, they didn't think they'd be graded highly for the simple solution. Besides if they had some bad luck and the enemy team had people waiting for them, they'd end up in a fight that they didn't want. “Have you gotten to where they are?” Tokoyami asked.
"Almost, once I do, I'll keep an eye on them and report back," Shoda replied, he might have been smaller than most, and a bit on the large size, but he wasn't slow or out of shape. Plus, with his quirk, Twin Impact, it was pretty easy to add an extra push to his steps, making it so that he could jump further between obstacles, remaining out of the light.
“Remember, you’re not a sacrificial lamb, if they spot you, fall back and join whichever team is closest.” Tokoyami reminded them, as their team had made it clear that the goal was for either all of them to make it out or at the very least, suffer no losses while 3 did.
“Yeah, I know. No way he can take on 2 of them, never mind all 5.” Shoda shivered when he thought about taking on someone like Todoroki, wait, why’d he shiver?
“That’s cold!” Before he could question it, he was hit with a large blast of cold air, looking through it, he saw that the area seemed like it had been hit by a freak winter storm, ice was everywhere, covering just about every surface. “Was that Todoroki, wait did he-!” He tried to move but found that he couldn't. when he looked down, he saw that his feet up to his ankles were covered in ice.
“Shoda? What’s wrong?” Ashido asked him, picking up on his worrying pause as she and Tokoyami paused their dash for the exit.
“I’m been caught, Todoroki froze the entire area and trapped my feet," Shoda replied, as he could guess that if they pulled this, it meant they had a general idea of his location, so he had to get out of this fast. The only issue was even with Twin Impact, his progress at breaking the ice was too slow, they'll probably find him before he could escape.
“How’d they know you were coming?” Komori asked as Aoyama and she stopped and looked in the direction that Shoda went in. Just barely peaking out from the rest, he could make out some ice on some buildings.
“I can see some ice, we’re heading to you now!” Aoyama told his team over the coms, before with a quick apology, he scooped up Komori like a princess, the girl letting out a peep as he rushed off towards his teammate. Heroes didn’t leave people behind, and while he was a villain for this, Yuga didn’t leave comrades behind.
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“That’s insane.” Sero held his head at seeing what Todoroki was able to just do like it was nothing. The area of effect is even larger than that clash between Uraraka and Bakugo last match.
“No kidding, how’d you manage to spread his ice that far to trap him?” Fukidashi wondered as Todoroki removed his hand from the wall, his team rushing ahead led by Tetsutetsu to find Shoda.
"It's just as impressive that he managed to ensnare one of the enemy teammates without causing damage to his surroundings," Yaoyorozu noted, as it was true that he had covered a greater area than the clash from the previous match, but he had done little if any damage to the buildings, nothing if they were built to handle cold winters like most things in the country.
“Though he has tipped his hand that he can do this, now their only advantage is that they can’t know how Shoda was spotted, only that he was.” Honenuki tapped his helmet-covered chin as Aoyama, with Komori in his hands, seemed to be making good time, if they were lucky, they'd arrive just before the heroes did.
“The villains aren’t out of the running yet.” Tokage reminded them, as that move, no matter how impressive, only managed to ensnare the one person, meanwhile, Tokoyami and Ashido continued to make their way to an exit.
"He's just as strong as I thought…no even stronger, and there's still his teammates," Midoriya uttered, watching Todoroki.
“You worried?” Jiro asked him, but he shook his head, a ghost of a smile on his face.
"Not at all, because Yuga and his team are also strong," Midoriya replied, sure that his friend would find a way to counter this, all while Bakugo watched the scene unfold with disbelief in his eyes.
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“I found him!” Shoda looked up from where he had nearly busted out of his icy trap, seeing Tetsutetsu rushing towards him, capture tape in hand.
“Crud,” He said as he pulled back his fist to try and break out with one good hit, maybe then he could put some distance between them.
“Wait, Tetsutetsu!” Shoji called out to him, as he heard that they weren't the only ones there.
“Solar Beam!” His warning came a moment too late as a bright yellow beam of light came shooting from the other way, lighting up the darkness it came from as it crashed into Tetsutetsu's steel-covered gut, knocking the wind from his sails and pushing him back. Shoda looked in the direction and saw that it was Aoyama and Komori, the former's blade drawn and the source of the blast.
“Shoda, we’re coming for you!” Komori yelled as she ran his way as Aoyama ceased the attack.
Coughing, Tetsutetsu got back up, tapping his gut and feeling that it was warmer than before but otherwise undamaged. “Dang, that actually pushed me back, but it didn’t put a scratch on me!” He laughed as Aoyama met that statement with a smile of his own, holding his blade up with just one hand.
"Ice boy, Todoroki, freeze him before they can rescue him," Tsunotori called out as she fired two horns at Komori, forcing the girl to cry out in shock as she dodged them, only to dodge them again when Shoda yelled for her to duck.
‘Ice boy?’ Todoroki thought to himself, though didn't give it much weight as he placed his right hand on the ground, with more ice shooting towards Shoda. He didn't intend to harm him, but seeing how he hadn't broken out of that foot trap, he could cover him up to his waist and keep him immobilized.
“Solar Saber!” His attempt to do so was cut when he had to redirect his attention to defending himself from a pot shot from Aoyama, the blonde busy dealing with a double assault from Kaibara and Tetsutetsu, having broken off to launch that attack.
With the two about to reengage him, Aoyama didn’t have time to both fight and save his teammate while keeping an eye on Todoroki so that they don’t get trapped like Shoda. “Pardon this, Shoda!” Aoyama called out as he jumped back, gathering white light into his blade before swinging it towards Shoda's legs, the attack slicing deep into the ice keeping him trapped, giving him enough leeway to pull his feet free and rush over to join Komori.
“I little warning next time would be nice.” He said as Aoyama blocked a steel punch from Aoyama and evaded a spinning kick from Kaibara.
“That is why I pardoned myself, any more blatant and I fear that they would have blocked that attack.” Despite being in a 2-on-1, Aoyama didn't lose his smile he seemed to relish it, swinging his blade and sending blades of yellow and white light toward the two, though they didn't do much against Tetsutetsu who charged through them.
“Shoji?” Todoroki looked towards the one person who wasn't in the fight yet.
With his tentacles spread out, he had ears facing the area in front of them. “They’re the only ones here, Ashido and Tokoyami aren’t anywhere near.”
This wasn’t missed by Komori, who sprouted some mushrooms on Tsunotori’s horns, surprising the girl enough for her to lose focus and the horns to fall to the ground. “At least we know how they found us fungi with so many dark, damp places to hide.”
"If his hearing is that above ours, then it would be fruitless to whisper," Aoyama added, leaping to the side to avoid the ice streak that had crept up on him and nearly captured him.
“What’s our play?” Shoda asked him, as Todoroki turned his attention towards them, sending ice their way as Komori and he had to play keep away from it, and the horns being fired their way.
"Our plans didn't account for this, so we're going to need to improvise," Aoyama replied.
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Have you ever stopped reading something because interest died, but then you tried reading it again and found yourself binging like over a dozen chapters? That happened to me. Sure, the story in question has over 300 chapters, but that…that wasn't something I was expecting.
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And that is that! We got the conclusion to the first fight and its aftermath, and for the record, Aizawa chewing out Bakugo feels like it should have been his reaction post their first hero class since All Might explicitly told Bakugo that using that weapon would kill Izuku, and Bakugo AGREES with him, just adding that 'if he dodges, it's cook'.
Even Yaomomo post the match was able to tell that both boys were more concerned with their fight than the match itself, which…yeah, they were. With all that said, it seems weird that the same guy who threatened to expel them if they failed to impress him, wouldn't have anything to say to them about their match other than reminding Izuku to better control his power and to tell Bakugo to not act like a child.
