UPDATE ALERT! Yes, I'm updating. This means I'll be updating 4 times this week. Why? I don't know. I'm not bored, I just want to. On with the story!

*Katsuki's POV*

My next fight was against that bird-brained idiot, Tokoyami. His quirk was damn near invincible and pissed me off. I wasn't going to let him beat me. I listened to the crowd's boos of contempt as I emerged from the tunnel and made my way onto the stage. I didn't give a fuck about what they thought about me. They were just throwing hissy fits because I had the guts to actually fight a girl without immediately jumping to the conclusion she was too weak to handle me. Tch. Bastards. When Birdbrain came out of his tunnel the crowd's attitude changed. One second they were hissing at me like feral fucking cats and the next they were singing that emo bitches praises. Although, I couldn't really comment on being emo. 

"Fighting for a place in the finals, both from class 1A, we have Katsuki Bakugo and Fumikage Tokoyami!" Hizashi bellowed. I felt sorry for Shota who had been sitting next to the loud-mouthed cockatoo since the sports festival started. "Both of these young men have very powerful quirks! Who will come out on top?!" Hizashi continued to scream. I wished he would just shut up so that I could fight. I looked over at Midnight and saw her raising her whip, the sign she was about to initiate the fight, I crouched down and rubbed my hands together to generate sweat. I prepared myself to launch forward and attack the pesky bird before me. "Begin!".

I launched myself forward with my explosions. When I was close enough to make it count, I blasted the bitch with a huge explosion. I landed on my feet and watched as the smoke cleared to show that the bird-headed bitch hadn't even been hit. His stupid quirk had protected him. "That's so fucking annoying!" I hissed under my breath. I launched forward again, I didn't want to give him time to attack me, my best strategy was to keep him on the defensive. If he managed to attack me it would be hard to get back in the game. However, despite all my offensive moves, Tokoyami still managed to break through and attack. 

I was winding up for another explosion when that shitty shadow of his barreled at me. It headbutted me in the stomach sending me sprawling backwards. The crowd laughed at me and cheered as Dark Shadow tried to pick me and take me to the out of bounds line. I wasn't going to let some shitty extra take me out. I was going to fucking kill the crowd as well, who the fuck did they think they were laughing at me? Fueled by my growing anger, I broke free of the stupid shadow and sent it flying back to Tokoyami with a huge explosion which shook the ground slightly. Tokoyami mumbled something but I couldn't hear him. Not that I wanted to. I wanted to prove to the crowd that I was strong. I wasn't weak. I was going to win! I fought with renewed vigour to prove that I wasn't useless. I was just as strong as everyone else in my class. I wasn't weak! I could feel tears pricking in my eyes, but I forced them back, only weak people cried. And I wasn't weak!

As I got closer, I noticed that Dark Shadow was getting smaller and seemingly timider. I smirked as I realised that the bird bitch wasn't so invincible after all. I got in close and blasted Birdbrain backwards. He landed on his feet and was about to send a weakened Dark Shadow at me, but I stopped him with my stun grenade. The arena was blindingly bright due to the light-emitting from my palms. Whilst Tokoyami was stunned I knocked him down and held his beak to stop him from moving. "So you knew?" he asked, I could hear a hint of bitterness in his voice. "Wasn't hard to figure out." I smirked at him. I held my hand above him threateningly, little explosions popping in my hand. I stared down at him, challenging him to try to resist any further. I told him with my smirk and the look of victory in my eyes that if he tried to fight back, I would blow his ass out of the ring. "I... give...up" he growled. I smirked at him as I stood up and began to walk out of the ring. The crowd's cheers weren't very enthusiastic. I could tell that they hadn't wanted me to win, but I didn't give a fuck about what they wanted. I was going to win. No matter who my next fight was against.

*Todoroki's POV*   

I watched the TV screen as Bakugo defeated Tokoyami. I had noticed that the crowd didn't seem to like him all that much. It wasn't all that surprising, but one had to admit that he was rather strong. I was glad that I had issued my declaration of war to the right people. When Bakugo won, hardly anyone in the crowd cheered. I could pick up both Kyoka and Ochako's voices through the recording, praising Bakugo for his fight. I could even hear Midoriya cheering, despite the fact he hadn't seen the fight in person and Bakugo couldn't hear him. I wondered what the relationship between the two was. They seemed very close. I wished I could be that close with them, but having friends and significant others only held you back from your true potential. 

As I walked out to face Midoriya, the cheers of insignificant people swelling in my ears, I could tell something significant was going to occur within my match. "The last match of the semi-finals, deciding who will fight Bakugo for the title of this year's victor, it's Izuku Midoriya and Shoto Todoroki!" Present Mic announced. When I reached the top of the steps, I saw Midoriya staring at me resolutely. His viridian hair blew in the wind and his enchanting emerald eyes stared directly into my soul. I cleared my head of such thoughts and focuses on the impending fight. I had to beat him. I had to beat him without using my father's quirk. "Begin!"

I did my usual opening move, sending a barrage of ice at my opponent, only for Izuku to evade it by turning into what looked to be an eagle and flying out of the way. I couldn't do much whilst he was in the air unless I used my father's quirk to shoot Midoriya down, and I refused to do that. I tried my best to get him down anyway. I created a pillar of ice for him to smack into, but he easily flew around it, screeching in a way which was vaguely mocking. No matter what I did he wouldn't come down. I was starting to get pissed. I felt my left side heat up slightly but quickly quelled my urge to let the flames consume me. I was so lost in my own thought that I didn't notice Midoriya dive towards me. His talons slashed my face, causing me to hiss in pain. In my brief moment of weakness, he transformed into himself and kicked me towards the boundary line. I would have fallen out if I hadn't created an ice barrier behind me. I stomped my foot which made ice spread throughout the entire ring. Midoriya tried to jump out of the way of the ice but his foot got caught by it. I expected the outcome to be something like what happened with Shinso. It was clear that Midoriya had twisted his ankle, so he had no reason to continue to fight, but he didn't cry out and concede. He simply looked down at the ice and leant down. 

The entire stadium watched in shock as Midoriya transformed the ice into flowers. He pulled his foot out from the patch of green and stood on it awkwardly. He was injured. He should have just given up, but he didn't. I watched in awe as he picked up two shards of ice and they transformed in front of my eyes into knives. Exactly like the ones he used during hero classes. I knew he could wield them astonishingly well, I didn't want to be on the receiving end of his blows.

Midoriya launched himself at me, slashing at me in what seemed to be an erratic pattern but the closer you looked, he was striking in ways which led to his next attack. He was breaking through my defences. I couldn't use my ice at such a close range. I needed to use my fire, but I refused to. I was going to beat him without giving in to the temptation. "Are you even trying? Use your fire Todoroki! Do you want to lose! I'm going to take you down, we're nearly out of bounds, do you want to lose!" Midoriya screamed at me with tears in his eyes. I was confused as to why he was crying until I noticed the way he was moving. Placing all of his weight on his right foot. "Use your fire Todoroki! 'Cause we're getting dangerously close to that boundary line and I won't hesitate to throw you out!" Midroiya growled. The usual happy boy who wanted to be friends with everyone in the class was gone. Instead replaced with a pushy dual wielder who refused to back off about my power. "NO!" I shouted as I sent him sprawling backwards with my ice. On instinct, Midoriya transformed into a kitten. It was quite amusing to see a cute little kitten perched on top of an iceberg. Well, that's until you realise said kitten is hissing in pain and his left back leg was twisted at an odd angle. I wanted him to give up so badly. I may not be close to anyone but I hated seeing people hurt. 

Midoriya transformed back into a human. He had a grimace of pain on his face. He looked directly at me before shaking his head as if he didn't want to do what he was about to do. He took a deep breath and placed his hand on my gargantuan iceberg, he looked me directly in the eyes, looking for something, he didn't seem to find what he was looking for because he sighed very loudly and transformed the iceberg into fucking nightmare fuel. 

Millions of spiders erupted from the iceberg. I felt my heartbeat speed up to an inhuman rate. People all around the stadium screamed as spiders of all sizes scuttled around the ring. There were money spiders, tarantulas, spiders the size of dinner plates and even flying spiders. I wanted to scream in fear. I absolutely despised spiders. They had too many eyes and legs. They were repulsive! Yet millions of them were surrounding me, crawling over my shoes and up my legs. I kicked and squirmed, trying to rid myself of the monstrosities but more of them replaced the ones I managed to get rid of. I forgot I was in a match. I just wanted the spiders gone.

*Izuku's POV*

I watched as Todoroki tried to shake off all the spiders, a look of utter panic on his face. If I could, I would attack him, but I felt dizzy and woozy. When Todoroki had caught my foot in the ice, it felt like I fractured it, but I wasn't going to give up. As I had been attacking Todoroki, my ankle had been getting steadily worse. By the time Todoroki managed to send me across the arena, I was fairly certain my ankle was broken. But I had to keep on fighting no matter what. When I transformed into the cat on instinct, I was in excruciating pain. I knew that I wasn't supposed to transform whilst damage had been done to my bones. It could really mess up my bone structure and apparently my bones could become shattered, but I had to keep fighting. The spiders had not been intentional. I was supposed to transform the ice into one massive spider. It would have no doubt been more terrifying to face a 6m tall spider than millions of little ones. Transforming the ice had taken everything out of me. My bones felt weak and my head was spinning, but I wasn't going to give up yet.

I put my hand on the floor and transformed all of the spiders into butterflies which flew away gracefully into the sky. Todoroki looked at me in horror. I don't think he liked spiders. "Why aren't you trying. You could have killed them! You could have used your fire but you didn't!  I don't care what you think, it's your power, not his!" I screamed across the ring. My voice sounded slightly hoarse. I attributed it to the intense pain which was coursing through my body. Something in Todoroki must have snapped. His eyes widened like he was having an epiphany and flames began to lick at his sides. I smiled, I knew I wasn't going to win. I was in no state to fight, but I still transformed into Kacchan and rocketed towards Todoroki, who had ice building around his feet and fire on his outstretched hand. I ignored my immense pain and held my hand out to fire off an explosion which I knew would rock the very stadium to its core. I felt the explosion rip from my hand as a wave of pressure generated by the rapidly heating air made the entire stadium arena explode. I was sent flying through the air until I hit the wall with a sickening thud. I fought to keep my eyes open as the smoke cleared; showing Todoroki stood in the centre of the ring, panting for breath. My vision began to dull as Todoroki was declared the winner of the match. I felt a gentle smile grace my lips before I fell sideways on the floor and lost consciousness. 

*Kyoka's POV*

Katsuki, Yaomomo, Ochako and I all ran down to the nurse's office. Iida would have been with us but he'd had to leave because of a family emergency. Kat's match had been postponed whilst Cementos rebuilt the ring so he was able to come with us as we went to see what sort of condition Izu was in.

When we arrived at the nurse's office, we were met with the sight of Shota pacing in worry. I couldn't see his face because of his bandages, but I suspected his face was contorted into one of fear. "Mr Aizawa? What are you doing here?" Ochako asked. Shota's head snapped up to look at us and he stopped his pacing. "One of my students was just seriously injured. It's my duty to be here. Izuku needs an operation to remove bone chips in his ankle and arms. Transforming whilst having damage to his bones can affect his bone strength and structure. He transformed and transformed other things quite a bit after breaking his ankle meaning he sustained irreversible damage." Shota explained. We all gasped at how serious the situation was. We had thought he had broken a bone at most, not shattered multiple. "When the fuck can we see him then?" Katsuki grunted. I punched him in the arm for cursing at Shota, we had discussed multiple times that he wasn't allowed to cuss in front of Shota at school. Shota sighed and leaned against the wall behind him. "He won't be out until after the sport's festival is over. You might as well just wait until after." he sighed. We all nodded in understanding before solemnly dragging ourselves away from the nurse's office. Our heart's heavy with worry for Izuku. 

Izuku and Shoto's fight was absolute shit but I had no idea what to write. There wasn't really a reason for Shoto to use his fire but I didn't know what to do. 

If Izuku couldn't have OFA then I think I'd want him to have developed his mum's quirk but more powerful. I think he'd do really well with such a quirk. I'd keep his father figure/ mentor as All Might. I just think they have a good chemistry in a father-son way. Canon Shota and Izuku just don't have the same dynamic as canon All Might and Izu. Keep asking questions, I enjoy answering them.

Anyway, thank you for reading Chapter 36 of my story and I hope you have a wonderful day wherever you are.