Not long after Iruka had arrived, Izuku came followed very closely by Katsuki and Shoto. Iruka went and congratulated them.

Katsuki was yelling at Izuku for pulling a "dirty move" like that.

"Hey win by any means necessary remember. Besides he can't break his bones this early into the festival." Iruka laughed.

Soon more and more people came in. The first 10 or so people were either from 1-A or 1-B but then Iruka spotted a very familiar lavender haired boy come in at 15th place.

"Shinso! Congrats on making it in top 20. Sorry I left you behind." Iruka congratulated him.

"Nothing to be sorry about, I can't always rely on people to win. Besides I had to put all that stamina training to use." He smiled but noticed Iruka wasn't looking at him more so behind him. Momo had just arrived and somebody decided to hitch a ride.

Mineta was practically groping the poor girl and Iruka was having none of it. Hitoshi followed Iruka towards the two. Iruka changed her hand into a tiger's paw and grabbed Mineta by the collar tossing him to the ground.

"Mineta if you so much as touch Momo again I'll have you out of UA that very second, got it?" She didn't sound angry or annoyed but she did sound threatening. Pretty rare to see one of the calmest kids in class throw a threat like nothing.

"Thanks Ito."

"No problem. Congrats on getting top 20 Momo." Iruka said. Once Yuuga had arrived Midnight announced the 42 winners.

1st place- Iruka Ito- Class 1-A

2nd place- Izuku Midoriya- Class 1-A

3rd place-Katsuki Bakugo- Class 1-A

4th place- Shoto Todoroki- Class 1-A

5th place- Ibara Shiozaki- Class 1-B

6th place-Juzo Honeuki- Class 1-B

7th place- Tenya Iida- Class 1-A

8th place- Fumikage Tokoyami- Class 1-A

9th place- Hanta Sero- Class 1-A

10th place- Eijiro Kirishima-Class 1-A

11th place- Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu-Class 1-B

12th place Mashirao Ojiro-Class 1-A

13th place-Yosetsu Awase-Class 1-B

14th place-Tsuyu Asui-Class 1-A

15th place- Hitoshi Shinso-Class 1-C

16th place- Ochaco Ururaka-Class 1-A

17th place- Mezo Shoji-Class 1-C

18th place- Momo Yaoyorozu-Class 1-A

19th place-Minoru Mineta-Class 1-A

20th place-Rikido Sato-Class 1-A

21st place-Mina Ashido-Class 1-A

22nd place-Kyoka Jiro-Class 1-A

23rd place- Aden Kaibara-Class 1-B

24th place-Kosei Tsuburaba-Class 1-B

25th place-Denki Kaminari-Class 1-A

26th place-Kojiro Bondo-Class 1-B

27th place-Reiko Yanagi-Class 1-B

28th place-Jurota Shinshida-Class 1-B

29th place-Shihai Kuroiro-Class 1-B

30th place-Yui Kodai-Class 1-B

31st place-Hirya Rin- Class 1-B

32nd place- Nirengeki Shoda- Class 1-B

33rd place- Kinoko Komori-Class 1-B

34th place-Togaru Kamakiri-Class 1-B

35th place-Neito Monoma-Class 1-B

36th place-Pony Tsunotori-Class 1-B

37th place- Toru Hagakure-Class 1-A

38th place-Setsuna Tokage-Class 1-B

39th place- Manga Fukidashi-Class 1-B

40th place-Mei Hatsume-Class 1-H

41st place- Koji Koda-Class 1-A

42nd place- Yuuga Aoyama-Class 1-A

"Now onto today's heart-pounding second event, Human Cavalry Battle!" Midnight announced. Questions were floating around asking how that would work out.

Midnight then explained how everyone would have to be in teams of 2-4 and swipe away as many headbands to get points. The catch, their points were given based on their performance in the last trial.

"The number of points you're worth is 5 if you're in 42nd place, 10 in 41st, 15 in 40th and so on so forth." That's a fairly easy concept, that means I'm- "With the exception of 1st place, whose head is worth 10 Million Points." Iruka froze.

All eyes were on her now. Iruka didn't look at anyone, she didn't even raise her head. Everyone's going to come after me, I'm going to be their target, that means no one would want to team up with me.

"Hey Iruka we're teaming up right?" Hitoshi asked.

"Wha- You want to team up with me?" Saying Iruka was shocked was an understatement.

"Course I do, if we can be a team we should be right? Know anyone else you think would work well with us?" Iruka thought for a moment before looking around and spotting just who she needed.

"Tsu! Uh do you, by any chance, want to team up with me and Shinso?"

"I'd love to, Kero." Iruka let out a breath of relief. They decided to have a 3 person team since it was hard to find someone else who would join their team. Izuku and Katsuki had already formed their own separate teams.

Before their discussion time was up they devised their plan. Iruka was to be a rider while Hitoshi was the front and Tsuyu was the back. She hated being up top but Iruka did understand this was the best formation to keep their headbands.

"Now I hope you all formed your teams because we'll be starting the countdown to this vicious clash!" Midnight announced. As the countdown went down Iruka watched as the teams stared her down.

When Midnight reached 1 everyone headed straight for Iruka's group. She had Hitoshi dodge the other teams while she and Tsuyu confused the teams by making them think their headbands were about to get stolen.

Iruka had changed her hands into tentacles and was pretending to use them to grab the other teams headbands. They weren't planning on stealing anyone's headbands purely protecting their own.

In the midst of things she noticed Izuku's team had purposely avoided her's. Sadly Katsuki's team wasn't doing the same. They had come towards her at least twice in the first 5 minutes of the battle. To combat this Iruka used her tentacles to swat away Katsuki's hand. Though it absolutely stung when he tried to practically explode them it was a rather effective method.

There was another particular team that Iruka did not want to be near which was Shoto's team. She told Hitoshi to keep as far away as possible from that team. She didn't need to see them to know where they were. Perks of having heightened senses.

When they were halfway through the battle the points were up on the board. It seemed most of the teams that had much higher points like Katsuki's had completely lost theirs. It seemed that one of the teams from 1-B had taken it.

This kept most of the people who were after her team distracted. Iruka made sure not to lose sight of Shoto's team.

"Shinso, I want you to go near Izuku." She told him. She knew this plan could fail horribly. The only reason she decided to do this was only because his team was the only team that wasn't going after her.

"What? But his team could-"

"Could take our headbands I know, but trust me alright." Hitoshi reluctantly headed straight for Izuku's teams but stopped before getting too close.

"Iruka?" He asked, confused. Iruka finally confirmed that he wasn't trying to take their headband.

"We just need to shake off Todoroki's group. Do me a favour and take my headband."

"What!" The members of the two groups shouted.

"Iruka are you insane? I thought we were supposed to be protecting our headbands not giving them up like prizes." Hitoshi explained worried for his friend's sanity.

"I told you to trust me on this. Izu your team has a better defense against Todoroki but my team can steal the headbands back easily. All you have to do is put up a fake fight and I'll help you keep your points." She listened around in case Shoto had something up his sleeve. Izuku nodded and took Iruka's headband.

"What's this? Ito gave up her 10 million points and practically gifted it to Midoriya's team!" Present Mic shouted. This effectively caught everyone's attention, including Shoto's.

There was merely 3 minutes left and Iruka's team stood next to Izuku's. It was pretty clear to anyone with an eye that they had both teamed up. What exactly their plan was, was a mystery to everyone except Iruka.

Shoto had made Denki electrocute as many people around them as he could but it didn't reach Izuku's team nor Iruka's. After freezing several of the teams, Shoto's team headed towards them.

They didn't run away and by the time Shoto's team was in front of them, they couldn't. Shoto had made an ice wall around them.

For a moment there was only silence among the three teams. Iruka kept her eye on Tenya because he was the legs of the team for the most part. Izuku was on Shoto's left side which seemed to be the reason Shoto wasn't doing anything. That's right he doesn't fight with his left side.

"Sadly I'll be useless after this but hold on tight." Everything happened in a split second and Iruka could barely comprehend. Tenya had boosted quickly between the two teams allowing Shoto to grab all of the headbands Izuku's team had accumulated.

There was less than a minute on the clock so Iruka had to move fast. She had Hitoshi move as close to Shoto's team as he could and using her octopus tentacles she grabbed one of the headbands. Shoto had all of them turned to the back so no one saw the points but Iruka had a trick up her sleeve. He tried to block the tentacle with his left hand but Iruka swatted it away with her other tentacle.

In the last ten seconds Izuku tried to grab a headband for his own team but failed.

"TIME UP!" Present Mic yelled out. "Now shall we see who our top 4 are?" Everyone looked at the board thinking Shoto's team would be first and Izuku's not even top 4 but that wasn't the case.

1st-Team Ito- 10,000,285 p

2nd- Team Bakugo- 1,360 p

3rd- Team Todoroki- 1,065 p

4th- Team Midoriya- 785 p

Everyone looked towards Iruka and Izuku's teams. Iruka held up their headband in the air as proof, whilst Fumikage was holding up the headbands his team had collected earlier.

"B-But how? Todoroki had the points covered and I didn't even see Tokoyami grab any?" Izuku questioned. Iruka flailed a tentacle around.

"An octopus smells with their tentacle. I could smell my shampoo and your body wash on the headbands so I grabbed ours and had Tsu grab yours and pass it to Tokoyami while Todoroki was busy." Iruka explained as she slowly got down.

"The first 4 teams will advance to our final event. The event will be after your 1 hour lunch break. See you all later!!" Iruka turned to face her classmates.

"We did it!" She cheered before high-fiving the two. Iruka winced slightly but didn't show it but alas there is always someone who does.

"Iruka your hands." Hitoshi pointed at the litter of burn marks on her hands.

"Oh it's fi-"

"Hey Whiskers!" Katsuki called out and grabbed Iruka's hand.

"Ah ah- Kacchan," Iruka winced at the pain. Katsuki noticed and lessened his grip but continued to drag her away. As he did someone else was watching.

"Those are from my explosions aren't they?" Katsuki questioned and Iruka finally understood where they were headed.

"Ya, but it's fine I have a burn kit in my bag so I can go-"

"No you're going to go to recovery girl. I'm not doubting your first aid skills but you can't really fight wincing the entire time. And next time tell me if it hurts I wouldn't make the explosions next time dumbass." Katsuki lectured her.

"It wouldn't be fair if I told you to go easy on me. You wouldn't go easy on anyone, besides a villain wouldn't either."

"Ya well if you were fighting a villain with an explosion quirk you wouldn't have used those damn tentacles."

After getting patched up by Recovery Girl they both headed towards the cafeteria but Katsuki got dragged away by his friends.

Somehow Iruka managed to spot Tenya, Ochaco and surprisingly Hitoshi eating together. It was hard to get Hitoshi to eat with her friends so she was glad she didn't have to drag him this time around.

Iruka did notice that Izuku wasn't eating with them and when asked, Ochaco told her that he had been dragged away by Shoto to talk about something. She did want to know where he had gone since Izuku was a magnet for trouble (so was she but she wasn't the one breaking her bones).

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