Climactic Semi Finals

Izuku can't help but feel excited for the match between Momo and Bakugou since he will more than likely have to face his wife in the final match of the tournament. Provided he defeats Ojiro who's one of the most proficient metal benders he has ever seen and he's only been learning how to earth bend for a little over a year now. Seeing how easily Hagakure was defeated by Ojiro, Izuku is left wondering what he should use against the metal bender in their round. This is assuming that Ojiro will choose to use his metal bending in the first place. Izuku could just choose to use One for All and since he's able to use 100% of its power it would make the match significantly easier. While he does want to get to the final round, he wants to earn that spot. He mumbles to himself the possible choices he has to use against Ojiro, and finally decides on what he is going to use as he gets to the ring.

"Here we are in the first match of the semifinal round! Both combatants are nothing to scoff at and have demonstrated their talents and mastery over their bending arts and their quirks. In the north end we have the man, the myth, the legend, Avatar Izuku Midoriya!!!" Present Mic proclaims, causing the crowd to roar with excitement for this bout. "In the south side we have class 1-A's master metalhead, the male with a tail, give it up for Ojiro Mashirao!!!" The crowd roars once again with excitement, the firebenders throwing flames into the sky and earth benders rumbling through the stands creating a cacophony of noise almost drowning out Mic in the announcer's booth.

Below on the field, Midnight walks up her podium after a brief intermission between the quarter and semi-final rounds. She lifts a hand and flutters it downwards, signaling to the crowd to quiet down so she can speak. "Boys, you know the rules, who wants to decide first?" She asks, causing the two men to look to one another, with a brief nod to the other, Ojiro turns to Midnight and chooses. "Earthbending." and this statement causes Izuku to smirk. "Waterbending." This choice causes a series of "oohs." To murmur across the stadium, not many people have seen the avatar of fire use waterbending.

With a signal to the announcer booth, the grass circle around the ring opens up revealing a large empty circular swimming pool surrounding the ring. From the sides of the pool, slits open up and thousands of gallons of water pour in, filling the pool. "Much like the other matches with waterbenders, the pool and the ring itself qualify as the inbounds area for the fight." Aizawa's voice says over the intercom. Across from him, Ojiro gives Izuku a confused look as to why he chose waterbending, but he gets a wordless answer as Izuku merely sinks into one of the stances taught to him by Water Hose. He extends his left foot forwards and squats back slightly on his right, lifting his right hand so that it's parallel with his face and his palm is open. His left hand is extended outwards and left open with the palm facing upwards. Across from him, Ojiro steps into a traditional stance as well, dropping into a low horse stance with his right arm in front of him with his forearm pointed downwards and his fist clasp, while his other is behind him with his forearm raised opposite of the position of his front hand. "Ready? Fight!" Midnight declares, chopping her hand downwards.

Izuku draws his arms upwards, summoning hundreds of gallons of water to surround his body. Water coats his arms and surrounds him in a large octopus formation with 24 tentacles around him all moving in tandem with his movements. Ojiro immediately goes on the offensive, stomping his foot on the concrete, summoning several square blocks up before kicking them forwards towards Izuku. As the initial blocks fly forwards, Ojiro follows it up by punching the ground and shattering the concrete before drawing his arms inwards and surrounding himself in the rocks in a suit of armor. Across the ring, Izuku uses the tendrils of the water to slice through the stones before he freezes the water and launches a few icicles at Ojiro. The earthbender punches through the icicles before slamming both hands on the ground and pierces his fingers into the ring before beginning to pry the entire thing apart. Izuku furrows his brow seeing Ojiro attempt this but he decides it wouldn't be a good idea to let him finish whatever he's planning. Spinning on his front foot, Izuku turns and thrusts both arms forwards, launching the water from around his arms and the tendrils surrounding him forwards towards Ojiro.

Removing a hand from the crack he's creating on the ground, Ojiro thrusts it upwards creating a wall to block off the spray of water that Izuku launched towards him. Cursing to himself, Izuku draws up more water around himself before creating a wave under his feet to glide across the ring. As he does so, the entire ring begins trembling the water he's creating as it suddenly splits down the middle and across itself breaking into four sections. Using his flexibility, Ojiro digs his hands into the dirt then kicks his legs up and over himself so he's now laying on the ring with his arms embedded on the concrete. He slams his heels into two of the slabs before thrusting his legs outwards launching three of the split sections of the ring away from each other. For Izuku, the ground suddenly is removed out from under him and he partially loses control over the water he's bending as it drops to the lower elevation. Thinking quickly, Izuku spins his body and pulls his arms in towards his chest creating a waterspout around his waist. Doing this he prevents himself from falling on the dirt beneath the ring, which would technically be out of bounds.

"Look at this show of strength folks! Ojiro has divided the ring into four sections! If Midoriya touches the ground he's out!" present mic shouts over the intercom.

"You're gonna have to come down eventually Midoriya!" Ojiro shouts up to Izuku before stomping his foot on the pavement, lifting up a few more rocks before punching them towards him.

Izuku slashes his arms outwards, throwing crescent blades of water from the waterspout and splitting through the rocks being thrown at him. He maneuvers the waterspout over towards the circular pool giving him more fuel for the twister. "I bet you think that was real slick, Don't you Ojiro?" Izuku asks as he pulls up a massive amount of water and creates a second waterspout spinning around his hand. "How about you try this on for size!" Izuku shouts before thrusting his other hand into the second waterspout he's creating before pulling them apart. This splits the waterspout in half allowing him to cover his arms with it. He lifts his arms high into the air causing the water twister to reach up towards the heavens before Izuku forces the one around his waist to go higher. He climbs higher and higher into the air before relaxing slightly allowing his body to spin with the waterspout around his waist. As he does this he lowers his arms causing the water twisters to reach down towards the ground, tearing apart two of the concrete sections of the ring. "That's not good." Ojiro says to himself as he watches one of the waterspouts begin moving slowly towards him. Trying to avoid it, Ojiro runs to the corner of the section he's on before kicking the ground behind him and sectioning off a small piece for him to stand on. Izuku's waterspouts rip apart the remaining portions of the ring before throwing the broken concrete away and out of range for Ojiro to use. "Incredible! Midoriya just destroyed the rest of the ring! The little piece that Ojiro is standing on is the only part of the ring left and the only bit that counts now!"

"I think I might have underestimated you." Ojiro confesses as Izuku maneuvers the waterspout over the pool surrounding the ring. Suddenly the waterspout vanishes from underneath him as Izuku lets go of his control over it before he plunges into the water. "Oh... Oh no..." He says as he hears a massive amount of water begin moving.

Rising up from the pool, Izuku grins with a wide smile reminiscent of All Might as he is supporting himself by five massive tendrils of water attached to his shoulders and arms. His wet and matted hair hanging down over his face only revealed the smile on his face. "Ok that's fucking terrifying." Ojiro says before looking down at the little bit of rock he has left to work with. He looks up at the camera above them, "Oh poop." he mutters to himself before a massive blast of water hits him. The geyser of water blasts off all his stony armor before pushing him off of the little rock he was standing on and across the field. Ojiro washes to a stop in the grass laying flat on his back and now soaking wet. He slowly gets himself up to his hands before spitting out a mouthful of water with his blonde hair similarly matted and hanging over his face like Izuku's. "Ojiro is out of bounds! That means Avatar Izuku has made it to the final round!" Midnight declares as Izuku walks over to Ojiro. With a brisk flick of the wrist, he pulls all the water out of his clothes before tossing it into the grass. "Sorry for the impromptu bath." Izuku says as he offers Ojiro a hand up.

"Don't sweat it, I needed one anyway." Ojiro says with a slight laugh as he grabs Izuku's hand and is helped to his feet.

"We are gonna need to take a short break to repair the ring for the final match. We shall return after these messages." Presentation michea- Present Mic (WHY DOES THIS KEEP CHANGING?!?!) declares over the intercom allowing the two fighters to exit the field. Above them in the tournament bracket, Izuku moves to the last position and is displayed in the final round bracket waiting for the winner of Momo and Bakugou's fight.

"I've only seen him waterbend on a few occasions, usually it's just for being lazy but that was actually terrifying." Bakugou says, Momo merely chuckles to herself hearing this before turning to the blonde firebender. "And I've actually seen him Bloodbend."

"You can say that again, I've seen him waterbend the soda out of his drink and just stick a straw in the bubble to drink out of it while watching TV." Todoroki chimes in. "Remember when they thought I was the avatar? I'd probably do the same thing to be honest."

"So, Bakugou, are you nervous about your battle against me?" Momo asks, causing Bakugou's blood to run cold. Beside him, Camie laughs as she feels goosebumps from fear perk up across his arm. "Just so we're clear. I'm not going to give up the chance to fight my husband in the final round. That means, you're the only one left in my way." A look of fear washes over his face as he turns to look at her. And that expression turns to terror as he sees Momo smiling with closed eyes but blue flames behind her as from his perspective the world turns black aside from her.

"You think that fight between me and Midoriya was rough? When I dueled her back at the academy, she told me to use my quirk on top of firebending. She whipped the floor with me." Todoroki says, "I couldn't keep any ice around long enough to even land a hit, much less do so with any lightning since I was on the back foot the entire time. For your sake, I suggest you ask to use everything."

In the field, Cementoss pulls concrete from the surrounding walls in large sheets before moving them to recreate the ring. He lifts up stone from the ground to create the base before carving it back to shape and adding the stairs. Deciding to forgo any paint because it's just going to get destroyed again anyways. He instead creates a small trench around the perimeter of the ring to act as its new boundary line. While this is happening, the pool around the ring is being drained then covered back up. When everything is set and done, Cementoss gives a thumbs up to Midnight before signaling for the last match of the semifinals. Finding his resolve to fight the princess of the firenation, Bakugou walks over to the little railing in front of the class 1-A section of the stands. He steps up onto the railing before jumping off and blasting flames through his feet to guide him through the air. He lands on the north side of the ring before turning to look up at the stands. It isn't long before he sees Momo do the same thing, launching herself into the ring with her firebending.

"Coming to the field for the last match of the semi finals is The Princess of the Firenation Midoriya Momo and The resident Combustion bender Bakugou Katsuki! These two firebenders have scorched their way through the competition, almost defeated Team Avatar in the second round working together and are now facing off against each other for the chance to take down The Avatar in the final match! With that being said, what do you all choose to use for this fight?"

"I have a request. I want to use the full range of Firebending. That means, Fire, Combustion and Lightning." Katsuki asks, causing Midnight to shoot a look up to the announcer's booth.

"If that's the case, then I too wish to use everything I have. Firebending, Lightning and my quirk. That should level the playing field." Momo requests politely.

"Uhh... Aizawa? Are we gonna allow this?" She asks, prompting Aizawa to peek his head out of the announcer's booth before shrugging.

"*Bleep* It, why not?" Aizawa says over the mic with it getting censored to the audience. "Three two one go." He says in a rapid countdown, but no one moves for a moment. They all stare at the announcer's booth for a moment before Midnight turns to Momo and Bakugou and flicks her whip.

Katsuki shares a look with Momo before shrugging, assuming that that was the only signal they're going to get to start the fight, Katsuki thrusts his arms downwards behind him and fires a combustion beam from his palms. The explosion propels him forwards towards her, as he pulls up his arm to shoulder height and balls up his fist. His entire arm catches fire as he closes the distance with this opening attack. Momo on the other hand waits, not even getting into a fighter's stance as he closes the distance between them. As he gets close enough to land the attack, Momo suddenly pulls her sports jacket open and from her stomach a battering ram emerges from the light of her creation quirk slamming hard into Katsuki's stomach and stopping all his forward momentum in an instant. The impact causes him to throw up as it hits him directly in the stomach, even Momo cringes at the pained expression on his face but she isn't going to let him get off easy. Suddenly the battering ram rockets out of her stomach attached to actual rocket motors propelling Katsuki halfway across the ring before he manages to push it away from him. He skids to a stop almost where he had started the match, Katsuki takes off his sports jacket and uses it to wipe the mess off his face before he casts it to the side and burns it away. Across the ring, Momo smirks before finally sliding into the same hands and fingers extended stance she used against Tokoyami. With her front hand, she turns it over and flexes her fingers twice in a "Come at me" gesture.

Seeing that he's apprehensive about attacking her head on again, Momo decides to go on the offensive, in a move that Katsuki has never seen before, he watches Momo drop to one side in a side lunge then jump upwards spraying fire from her foot before side flipping creating a massive ring of blue flames. When she connects the flames together, she lands before spinning her arm around herself and thrusting her hands forwards. The massive ring of fire she had created around herself extends forwards trying to encircle Katsuki and limit where he can bend. As the tunnel of flames covers Katsuki, she starts generating a bolt of lightning attempting to end the match quickly. Katsuki has to jump and spray fire through his feet in order to prevent the flames from burning his legs. As he looks up he sees the lightning bolt she's creating just as it leaves her fingers. Without enough time to even begin the redirection technique, he opts for the next best thing. He fires a combustion beam from his forehead at the bolt of lightning, connecting in the center of the blue flame tunnel and creating a massive explosion. The blast leaves a massive crater in the center of the ring, taking up almost all of the available fighting space that they have.

As the smoke rises into the air, more lightning begins manifesting in the ring, this time a bright red coming from Katsuki. Once the black smoke clears, Katsuki is revealed to have gotten singed from the flames, his uniform pants have melted to just above the thighs, now looking more like a pair of shorts and some of the skin on his chest is red and slightly raw from minor burns. The red lightning around his fingers glow on his face as he grins before pointing his hand forwards and firing the lightning towards Momo. She on the other hand, hadnt gotten burned from their last exchange, not even her spiky ponytail was disturbed from the explosion as she had bent the flames away from her and directed it towards Katsuki. As he pointed his hand towards her, she went through the process of creating another object. Suddenly, from the back of her forearm a large metal is created before stabbing into the concrete. She side steps away from the lightning bolt allowing it to hit the lightning rod completely absorbing the electricity. Seeing this from Momo, Katsuki turns and points his hand towards her before flicking his wrist upwards and moving his fingers away from his palm. Momo can see the crimson eye in the center of his palm glint with light before a combustion beam is fired directly at her.

From the audience's point of view, the beam slams into her head on, surrounding where she was with thick black smoke. Katsuki on the other hand, saw the blast connect but he didn't see anything fly out of the smoke. He doesn't drop his guard as he waits for the smoke to clear and he furrows his brows when it doesn't fade. Instead, the smoke cloud begins getting larger and larger before the entire ring is covered in smoke. Instinctively he holds his breath trying not to get any smoke into his system. "Fuck. She's either creating the smoke with her quirk or she's creating it with firebending." He thinks to himself, smoke bending wasn't a skill he knew, but damned if he didn't try to get rid of it. Trying to replicate one of Izuku's airbending motions, he extends his hands outwards with one high and one low before swirling them around himself in a spiral motion and pulling them together. This unfortunately for him doesn't amount to anything, and the excess movements use up what little oxygen he has left forcing him to breathe. As he inhales, he begins coughing from the smoke, he attempts to wave away the smoke but it's no use. He turns and tries to run out of the cloud of smoke but as he does so he comes face to face with a soulless gas mask, its wide empty circular eyes reflecting the embers of light back at him. When he sees this, he almost screams when he sees her but it's too late...

The crowd is completely silent as they watch with bated breath, slowly the seconds tick by as the smoke slowly clears. When it does, where Momo was once standing is a solid steel pavis shield and the burned remains of her clothes. However, Katsuki is in one hell of a predicament. He has a metal headband bound over the agni eye on his forehead, his arms are tied behind him with chains and he's on his knees in front of Momo who's wearing a gas mask and brand new gym uniform. She has two fingers pointed at his neck with a small blue flame almost close enough to singe the stubble on the blonde's chin. With her free hand, Momo rips off the gas mask from over her face before smirking confidently at her defeated opponent. "Concede." She commands, and Katsuki laughs to himself before speaking. "What are we up to now? You 19 and me nothing?" He asks before looking at midnight. "I concede." He says prompting the crowd to cheer for Momo as Mic echoes her victory through the stands. Once the match is over, she releases Bakugou from the restraints before walking over to Midnight's podium. She beckons for the airbender to give her the mic before she turns and looks up to where Izuku is sitting in the crowd.

"Ready for some fun Zuzu? I have a challenge for you. One that you cannot refuse." She says causing the stadium to fall silent. "You," She emphasizes this by pointing towards him. "Me." She says before pointing to herself. "Agni Kai." This statement causes a roar amongst the firebenders in the crowd. Izuku himself stands from his seat before walking to the edge of the stands. He takes a deep inhale and projects his voice with the assistance of his airbending, making sure she can hear him.

"I Accept." 

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