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𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘦: 𝘪 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘱 42𝗇𝖽.

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"And so it's over! Everyone, this is the results!"

Midnight's voice catched the attention of the students, their eyes landing on the huge screen that shows their ranks.

1: Tᴏᴅᴏᴜ Yᴜʀɪᴋᴀ
2: Sᴀᴏᴛᴏᴍᴇ Aᴋᴏ
3: Mɪᴅᴏʀɪʏᴀ Iᴢᴜᴋᴜ
4: Nᴀɴᴀᴋᴜʀᴀ Kᴏʜᴀʀᴜ
5: Tᴏᴅᴏʀᴏᴋɪ Sʜᴏᴜᴛᴏ
6: Bᴀᴋᴜɢᴏ Kᴀᴛsᴜᴋɪ
7: Sʜɪᴏᴢᴀᴋɪ Iʙᴀʀᴀ
8: Iɪᴅᴀ Tᴇɴʏᴀ
9: Tᴏᴋᴏʏᴀᴍɪ Fᴜᴍɪᴋᴀɢᴇ
10: Hᴀɴᴛᴀ Sᴇʀᴏ
11: Kɪʀɪsʜɪᴍᴀ Eɪᴊɪʀᴏ
12: Tᴇᴛsᴜᴛᴇᴛsᴜ Tᴇᴛsᴜᴛᴇᴛsᴜ
13: Oᴏᴊɪʀᴏᴜ Mᴀʜɪʀᴀᴏ
14: Aᴡᴀsᴇ Yᴏᴜsᴇᴛsᴜ
15: Asᴜɪ Tsᴜʏᴜ
16: Sʜᴏᴜᴊɪ Mᴇᴢᴏᴜ
17: Sᴀᴛᴏᴜ Rɪᴋɪᴅᴏ
18: Uʀᴀʀᴀᴋᴀ Oᴄʜᴀᴋᴏ
19: Yᴀᴏʏᴏʀᴏᴢᴜ Mᴏᴍᴏ
20: Mɪɴᴇᴛᴀ Mɪɴᴏʀᴜ

"The 42 at the top have earned the rights to advance! I'm sorry for the kids who failed, but take heart! The festival's show stopper is still being prepaired!"

"And now, the post-preliminaries, the final selection! From here on, even the press corps will teem white in excitement, so go all out!"

Yurika and Ako looked at each other, grinning in excitement. The whole podium roaring and cheering for the battle to start, anticipating the skills of UA the students would show.

"It would be amazing if the other princesses are here as well." Ako muttered to herself, that was heard by Yurika and Koharu. Smiling to themselves as they imagined the usual calm and elegant princesses smiling in excitement as they watch this kind of festival.

"We could make one of these in the kingdom, with a touch of our style." Yurika whispered, her eyes curving in a crescent moon as it hid almost half of her eyes. Ako and Koharu sighed, both shaking their head in agreement.

"Sounds like a great plan."

Midnight announced the second event as the Human Cavalry Battle. Before she could even proceed to explain, the students of 1A started demonstrate how the Human Cavalry works, making Midnight to cut them off - telling them to shut their mouth so she could start explaining for those who doesn't understand it yet.

"But yes that's right! And the number of points you're worth will be 5 points if you placed 42nd, 10 if you placed 41st, 15 for 40th and so on. With the exception of the first placer, whose head is worth ten million points!"

All eyes turned to Yurika, with eyes turned to her all so suddenly - she suddenly felt self-conscious. But of course she didn't showed it on her face, her body became stiff but her face remained emotionless, her eyes still piercing and sharp.

"That's a dangerous bounty." Ako chuckled, her eyes falling to the vampire princess whose whole body became still. Teaming up with Yurika would be a big advantage to her since she had the ten million points, but the challenge of having to beat Yurika while she teamed up with others brew ever so strong within Ako.

With that in mind, her eyes landed on particular individuals that could help her.

"This is the chance for the low to supplant the high! Welcome to our survival game!"

It's the peasant's battle to overtake the crown, huh? Ako smirked with that thought in mind. "Wish you goodluck, Yurika." Ako grinned, her feet walking away from thr vampire princess.

Koharu on the other hand wanted to team up with Ako, or Yurika. But she doesn't want others to chase after them, and so she decided to look for other teams that could help her; since she doesn't have a great leadership skills.

After Midnight explained the rules of the game, including the time limit and the points in each member that would be teamed up will be total accumulated points, and the one to wear the headband would be the rider. Clarifying the rules of the survival game, students started gathering in groups; while there's Yurika, still standing alone.

Ofcourse, she doesn't mind it if they doesn't want to team up with her. But Ako and Koharu would be her opponents in this game - she had to find a team, so she could stand head on with Koharu and Ako.

With 15 minutes time limit of teaming up, she needed to be quick. Her head shot up to find suitable students that could complete a team.

However, the moment they met eyes with her - they would either avoid her gaze or the others would just ignore her. And that's when she realized.

'I'm the target, that's why they're hesitant to team up with me.' It really is a dangerous bounty on her head huh? Looks like she won't be able to team up with anybody at this point.

"Todou-san."

Midoriya's voice snapped her out from her thoughts, hearing him behind her she immediately turned to look at him: his eyes looking straight at her emerald eyes, determination adoring his smiling face.

"Let's be teammates, if that's okay with you?" His last statement made him coy, considering he didn't use his quirk during the race earlier - he can't find teammates because they're not confident enough to trust his abilities.

"Are you sure you're okay with me? I have a bounty on my head, they'll be coming after us." Yurika questioned Midoriya to make sure he doesn't regret teaming up with her. They had only known each other for two weeks, both doesn't know the other person's capabilities.

It would be a very difficult decision, but not for Yurika. As long as that someone have that determination and is willing to compete with strong people, then she'll gladly take him.

"I'm sure about it. We can overcome them together, as a team." Midoriya's answer made Yurika smile. "You're in, Midoriya-kun."

After Yurika and Midoriya became a team, Uraraka followed after; wanting to be teammates with her friends. Although she's not really close with Yurika, she still considered her as a friend because she is Ako and Koharu's bestfriend. And the last one to join is Tokoyami and Hatsume. And there, Yurika's team is complete.

On the other hand, Ako walked towards a certain pompom head. As her steps became louder, Bakugo's head snapped onto her direction, his eyes meeting her turqoise ones.

"Mind teaming up with me?" Ako grinned at Bakugo who becane stupefied that Ako actually walked up to him and asked him to be her teammate. His lips curved upwards, his face is still scary though.

"Don't mess it up, pussycat." He walked up near her, "Because i want to be at the top."

"Don't worry about that, I'll make sure we'll be number one - because you got me in your team, desu wa!" Ako winked at him before moving her eyes towards a certain redhead behind Bakugo. Missing the pink shades coating his scowling face.

"Kirishima-kun! Team up with us!" Her hands frantically waved at Kirishima. Hearing someone calling his name, he turned towards Ako's place. "Saotome! You teamed up with Bakugo? That's surprising, i thought you two would be rivals again." He chuckled.

"I figured that Bakugo's the most suitable teammate for me, so I came up to him." Hearing her reason why she teamed up with him, made his face more pink. "..tch." He silently scoffed to hide his bashful self away.

"Woah! And does that mean I am suitable too?"

"Well, yeah! You're our shield okay? We still need someone who can accelerate our running speed, because I'll probably be heavy." Her eyes wandered around again, before it landed on Ashido's back.

"Kirishima! Call Ashido into our team! Hurry!" Without saying anything, Kirishima ran up to Mina's place, telling her to team up with Ako and Bakugo. Mina, ofcourse - agreed.

But along asking Mina, Sero also joined in the team. And there, Ako's team is complete!

And lastly, Koharu is still wandering around the place, there's only six minutes left before the game starts. She bit her thumb to restrain herself from being antsy.

"Koharu, you still don't have a team?" Momo came up to her, thankfully stopping Koharu from crying. Koharu immediately nodded her head, her doe purple eyes teary. Seeing Koharu almost cry made Momo heart to soften.

"You can join in our team, I'm with Todoroki." Koharu looked behind Momo and there's Todoroki, Iida and Kaminari. "Is it okay with Todoroki-kun?"

"I see no problem with it." Todoroki answered for Momo.

"O-Okay. I'll do my best!"

Todoroki had a glimpse of Koharu's quirk, and she will be a really great addition to the team if he will be fighting against the other teams, such as Ako and Yurika.

Discussing their plan and the formation, with Koharu on the left side of the horse, Momo on the right, Kaminari on the back, Iida at the front, Todoroki became the rider.

Ako on Bakugo's team, became the rider, Bakugo on the front, Kirishima on the left side, Sero on the back and Ashido in the right side.

And lastly, Yurika's team. Midoriya on the left side, Ochako on the right, Hatsume on the back, Tokoyami on the front and Yurika being the rider.

The timer clicked zero, the game finally starts now.

To be continued....

I was actually thinking about the teams, who i should team Ako, Yurika and Koharu. On my original plan, Yurika should be teamed up with Todoroki, but i thought that the balance would collapse, it would overpower the others. So i teamed her up with Midoriya. And Koharu's case, she's not really the attack type, she's more on the support side, so I figured she would be suitable to place with stronger people ( Todoroki, Momo, Iida and Kaminari's team. )

And Ako, i first thought of placing her on Shinso's team. But then, Shinso's almost invisibility throughout the game that caused him to win unnoticed would also crumble into pieces, so I decided to just let his team be and make Ako team up with Bakugo. Besides, it would be a reallt funny team if you would ask me.

Anyways, sorry for the long wait! Hope u enjoyed this chapter!

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