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Izuku's eyes widened as he saw every single team running towards him.

"I knew that we would be targets, but this is still overwhelming!"

"It's a battle for the ten million points!" Tetsutesu shouted as his team got closer.

"Get ready to run!" Izuku called out to his teammates.

"Like hell! Get'em Honenuki!" Tetsutesu shouted to his front teammate.

"Honenuki?" Enso wondered. He then saw the ground in front of Tetsutestu's front horse suddenly look as if it was shifting, but also spreading towards them.

"The grounds changing. But I don't want to find out why."

"Hold on and keep balance." Enso told his team.

The three listened as Enso formed an aura of white.

"Brute Style..." He raised his right foot up, and the aura around it vibrated intensely.

Bakugo and Todoroki's eyes widened.

"Back up! He's doing something!" Bakugo knocked on Kirishima's head.

"Iida, turn!" Todoroki instructed.

"Earth Tremor!"

Enso slammed his foot into the ground before the class B student's field changing quirk could reach them.

The ground violently shook and cracked around Izuku's team, dirt and stone pillars erupted upwards and were sent flying towards the other teams, cutting off the ground changing quirk the class B student did while shocking everyone else in the process.

"Eek! Back up!" Hagakure shouted to her team, consisting of Jiro, Sato, and Koda. They, along with many other teams, were forced to stop and retreat due to the scattering wave of rock and stone coming towards them from Enso's move.

"Nani!? What is with that amount of brute force! Just shattering the ground and using it as a weapon against the other teams!?" Mic shouted.

Izuku was stunned, "Another move I've yet to see from Enso... How many moves has he already created in each one of his styles?"

Many teams had backed off.

However, not everyone was fazed by the flying pieces of the earth.

From her spot as the rider, Kendo grew her fists and literally punched each piece of rock and stone out of the air as it came to her, grinning as her team continued to Izuku.

"Gotta try better than that!" She beamed.

A few rocks were smacked, grabbed, and shattered in the air, which Izuku saw that Tetsutetsu's other team member was using her green hair to stretch out and get rid of the rocks.

"Nice job Shiozaki!" Tetsutetsu grinned.

"Vine-like hair? They stretch really long too." Enso narrowed his eyes.

Then some explosions occurred, which was obviously Bakugo blasting away everything that came at him.

"Are you telling me to keep away you shits!?"

"We have to move! Ochako! Mei! Look away!" Izuku yelled as he pressed a red button of a switch.

The jetpack Izuku wore activated abruptly, sending his team flying into the sky with the help of Ochako making them weightless.

They soared over many teams underneath them, feeling some relief that they headed to the other side of the arena.

But Enso saw something from the corner of his eye and warned them, "Earphone jacks coming behind us."

Izuku didn't hesitate and slightly turned his back, "I got this!"

He saw the incoming earlobes heading right for him, he raised his arm and aimed his fingers at them, charging up One For All's power.

"Delaware Smash 5%!"

He flicked his fingers and sent a rather strong gust of wind that forced Jiro's earphone jacks back.

"Sorry, Jiro!" Izuku called out as his team flew to the other side of the battlefield.

Jiro couldn't help but feel a little annoyed, "This guy!"

"Wow, Midori is flying! That's so cool! But he still has the ten million! Onward!" Hagakure cheered out.

Jiro grinned, "We'll get you, Deku."

Getting to the other side of the field, Ochako pointed out the mechanical boots she was wearing down and directed her team to land safely to the ground.

Upon landing, they started to run at a steady jog as Hatsume glanced up at Izuku, "Well? What do you think of my babies!? Aren't they cute?"

Izuku nodded and looked down at Mei, "These have great mobility! These 'babies' are amazing!"

"Right, aren't they?" Hatsume replied cheerfully.

Hearing no praised to her, Ochako pouted, "It's because I'm making them float..." She muttered under her breath.

Enso noticed her face, "So obvious..."

In the meantime, Hagakure directed her team to Izuku's direction. "Keep going! We're going to keep going after them!"

"Hey, wait! Hagakure! Your headband is gone!" Sato pointed out in shock.

"Eh!? When did that happen!?" Hagakure screamed.

Meanwhile, Neito Monoma carried her headband with a smile. "So simple..." He sighed rather arrogantly.

He glanced around at the other teams, looking for more prey.

Only for his eyes to meet with Shinso's a few yards away, both having another person's headband.

"Oh." They both uttered at the same time.

They stared at each other as the horses underneath them ran, both teams looking rather unsure of what to do.

"What should we do?" Tokoyami asked Shinso from the bottom.

Shinso grinned and spoke to Monoma.

"I see you've already nicked someone else's points. What team was it?"

Monoma just smiled back and put a thumb and finger to his own lips, bringing them across as if showing that he was zipping his mouth shut.

Shinso slightly frowned, "He must've seen me use my quirk at one point during the race... To think he would've seen it and figured it out how it works so quickly though, he's smarter than he looks."

Shinso didn't want any trouble so early, so he smiled and decided to appeal to Monoma. "We both wanna make it to the next round, and I'm sure you understand what is it that I'm going through, so how about I go to this side, and we forget we saw each other?"

Monoma nodded his head up and down as an answer, to which both teams ran off in separate directions.

Shinso looked down at Tokoyami and his other two teammates, "Keep going by the edges of the arena, we want to lay low for a while."

Dark Shadow came out of Tokoyami and stretched up to Shinso, "We're not going for the ten million?"

"Hell no. I want to guarantee a spot in the next round." Shinso answered, keeping an eye out for anyone coming near them.

Tokoyami looked somewhat nervous as he looked back to the other teammates he had, Aoyama and Ojiro, only... their faces looked rather empty.

"Shinso?" Tokoyami called to him.

"Hm? What is it?" Shinso glanced down at him.

"What... What did you do to them?"

Shinso knew what he meant and chuckled. "Exactly what you saw me do. But don't worry about them, they'll be alright. They should even thank me later. I'm bringing them to the final round after all."

"I see..." Tokoyami glanced forward and focused. "To think that he has such a quirk... How terrifying."

"Not even two minutes have passed, but this battle went from archenemy to free-for-all!" Present Mic shouted.

Izuku smiled, "We got some pressure taken off us!"

"To the right!" Ochako shouted out.

Izuku looked right and saw Kendo's team running towards them, consisting of the bellow shoulder-length dark green-haired girl, the chin-length gray-haired girl, and the mushroom-shaped brown-haired girls of class 1-B.

"Company on the left side too." Enso warned.

Izuku looked left and saw Hagakure's team coming towards them again.

"Midori! We need your points, please!" Hagakure called out.

"Not that easy, Hagakure!" Izuku shouted. He then turned back to his group, "We need to keep moving!"

"Tokage! Now!" Kendo called to one of her teammates.

The dark-green haired girl called Tokage of Kendo's group grinned and stuck her left hand out.

Then her hand and head split off from her body.

"EHH!?!" Izuku and Ochako shouted.

But Tokage's head and hand didn't just come off, they actually levitated and dashed towards Izuku's head.

"What the hell kind of quirk is that!?" Izuku screamed in his head as the two body parts came at his head.

Enso swiped his left hand out and sent three white energy spheres flying towards the body parts, but both the head and the hand swerved in the air, avoiding them.

"It's like she's controlling them telekinetically." Enso thought in shock.

Izuku saw the head and hand zone in on him, but he managed to smack away the hand right before it could reach his headband.

He caught sight of the head opening its mouth from above him to try and catch the ten million points between her teeth, but Izuku raised both hands up and caught the girl's head in his hands.

He stared at Tokage's head, his eyes widening to see it blink suddenly.

"Um, hey. You mind giving up those ten million points for me, please?" The girl's head asked with a grin, revealing her point teeth.

"KYA!" Izuku pulled his arm back and yeeted her head back to her team.

Kendo caught Tokage's head in her large hand rather easily.

"Sorry, Kendo! I missed it! I even tried asking him nicely for it." Tokage said as Kendo passed her back to her body.

"It's alright! Let's just keep going!" Kendo instructed.

"Deku! Behind us!" Ochako yelled.

Izuku turned around to see Jiro's earlobes stretching quickly to his head once more.

"Yikes!" He instinctively reached up and grabbed both of her earlobes from the air, holding them tightly.

"Mmph!" Jiro stopped and started twitching with blush and slightly scrunched up expression forming on her face.

"Jiro! Are you alright!?" Hagakure asked her.

Jiro's legs started shaking, and her body grew hot, "Let go, idiot! Please let go please! Don't let this happen here!"

Izuku noticed her reaction, "Ah! This must be hurting her!"

He let go, and his team kept running away.

Jiro retracted her earlobes back and turned her head with a blush.

"You alright?" Sato asked her.

"J-Just, give me a moment..." Jiro answered. "That idiot... Why does it keep being him doing things!?"

Meanwhile, Izuku's team remained on the move, heading in the opposite direction of Kendo's team.

"You can't run forever, Midoriya!" Kendo grinned.

"Actually, that's the plan!" As he said this, Izuku pressed the switch and the jetpack activated once again, sending his team flying upward into the air once more.

Kendo looked up at them as they flew. "Dang it..."

She then formed a smile in the corner of her mouth, "He's got a good team."

Once in the air, Izuku let out a breath of relief.

"That was close... Kendo's teammate really surprised me with her quirk..."

"Down below!" Mei announced.

"Eh?" Izuku looked down, but his eyes widened as multiple projectiles came at him.

"Hang on!" He turned his back, so his jetpack turned and jerked them to the side, avoiding a barrage of purple balls and a tongue and getting farther away.

Izuku looked down and saw that the attacks came from Shoji, who had his arms made to make a dome over his back. Although there was an immediate problem, he noticed...

There wasn't anyone else who was him.

"Shoji is all by himself?!"

Izuku then formed a look of realization.

"No... Those purple balls and that tongue definitely was from-!" before he finished, the dome on Shoji's back partially opened, and out came a barrage of purple balls and a long tongue again.

Izuku aimed his fingers down.

"Delaware Smash 5%!" He flicked his fingers and another force of air shot at the barrage and sent the balls of hair, as well as the long tongue, backward.

Tsu's head poked out from Shoji's back, "Not bad, Midoriya."

"Using one body to hide the smaller ones, how unique." Enso said, slightly impressed.

Two large explosions suddenly rang near their flying team that caught their attention.

Izuku turned to the other side and saw a trail of smoke coming from the ground, leading up to a human missile heading right towards him.

"Kacchan!?!" Izuku uttered in shock to see him flying.

Bakugo let out two more explosions from each of his hands and sent himself flying directly at Izuku.

"Don't get carried away! Damn, Deku!" Bakugo yelled as he reached his hands out, sparks starting to fly again.

"Eep!" Ochako uttered by how close and dangerous he was getting.

"Enso!" Izuku yelled.

"On it." Enso swung his arm and released a small wall of scattering energy spheres from his palm.

"Tch! Damn it!" Bakugo saw that he couldn't get passed the many spheres, so he pointed his palms forward at the incoming spheres and released two massive explosions in front of him. "DIE!"

Bakugo's explosions hit all the spheres in the air and caused them all to explode at once, the force of which, causing Bakugo and Izuku's team to get sent back in opposite directions.

However, the force was also strong enough to disperse Izuku's team and send them scattering in the air.

"Wah!" Mei cried out.

"Guys!" Deku shouted in desperation.

"NANI!? Team Midoriya has fallen apart but is still flying!?" Present Mic shouted with his face close to the screen.

Izuku was still flying since he had the jet pack on, but he knew that none of his other teammates had one.

But instead of seeing them falling to the ground, Izuku saw them floating in the air.

However, Ochako was falling.

"Ochako!" Izuku was about to fly downward.

"I'm fine!" she shouted, tapping her body to activate her quirk on herself, now suddenly floating up. "M-My quirk is still active, just go get them! I can float myself!" Ochako reassured him.

Izuku nodded, trusting her. "R-Right!"

He activated his jetpack and first flew to the closest person, Mei.

As he flew towards her, he couldn't help but feel worried.

"Ochako was using her quirk on the three of us to make it easy for us to fly through the air, but she couldn't use it on herself, or she would end up getting sick after a bit of time. If she keeps using her quirk on herself for too long, then she won't be able to keep herself from being sick! I have to get our team back together!"

Bakugo had just landed back in his team's arms after the confrontation he just finished attempting against Izuku's team, but seeing his rival's group split up in the sky, he saw a moment of vulnerability.

He grinned.

"Throw me back up!"

"Eh!? But-" Mina started.

"DO IT!" Bakugo shouted.

"Eep!" Mina, Sero, and Kirishima mustered their strength to toss Bakugo upward, to which the teen then used the space to point his palms back and blast himself back towards Izuku.

At the same time, Izuku hugged Mei out of the air, staring at her face. "Mei, are you alright!?"

Mei's eyes were spirals from spinning in the air for so long, but she grinned upon feeling some of Izuku's toned muscles pressed against her, "I am now, did anyone ever tell you that you're beefier than you look?"

"Eh?" Izuku blushed.

"DEKU!" Bakugo shouted, two massive explosives sounding in the air.

Izuku flinched and turned around to see Bakugo flying near him once again, his hand reaching for Izuku's headband with a menacing grin.

Izuku's eyes widened, "Oh no! He came back so fast!?"

"I don't think so!"

Everyone saw Enso and Ochako both fly through the air with Enso holding the girl's hand tightly.

He then pulled Ochako around him in a circular motion, spinning in multiple full circles.

Before suddenly throwing her right towards Bakugo.

Ochako stuck her legs out in a dropkick fashion and grinned: "Improvised special move- Flying Meteorite!"

Her feet both crashed right into the side of Bakugo's torso, kicking him away from Izuku.

"Nngh!" Bakugo was sent backward in the air, looking even more pissed off than ever.

"YOU TWO!?" He screamed furiously before once again getting pulled back by Sero's tape.

"Ehhhhh!?! Ureshi and Uraraka tag-teamed Bakugo from the air! I thought attacks to people aren't allowed!?"

"Only if the attacks are trying to make people fall off their teams on purpose! But kicking them away while the person who is separated from their team and in the air doesn't count!" Midnight answered.

"Still! What is wrong with these kids!?"

Izuku was shocked, "But how did Ochako and Enso come together!?"

Enso pointed a palm behind himself and formed an energy ball in it, but he immediately let it explode behind him in order to send himself forward towards Izuku.

Izuku formed a look of understanding, "Amazing! He copied Bakugo's technique to move in the air!"

Izuku, still holding onto Mei, flew using the jetpack and grabbed Ochako.

"That was amazing, Ochako!" he said with sparkling eyes.

"Praise me later! For now, we have to get back in formation!" Ochako giggled.

As Enso came near them, he said, "I'll provide cover." and proceeded to fire multiple energy orbs randomly around them, letting them exploded in the air to create a wall of smoke that covered his team.

"Now he created a smokescreen to hide from other teams!!"

Bakugo landed back in his team's arms with an ache in his torso from Ochako's kick, "DAMN IT!"

"He's really pissed!" Mina, Sero, and Kirishima thought nervously.

After a few seconds of the smoke in the air, Izuku's team came out of it back in order and started falling back to the ground.

"Team Midoriya is back in form!" Mic said.

The crowd riled up in cheers.

They landed smoothly to the ground, thanks to Ochako, and kept on running.

Ochako let Izuku stand on her shoulder as she put her fingertips together rather dizzy, "R-Release!"

The group felt their gravity return, hinted by them feeling Izuku get slightly heavier.

Izuku glanced down at the gravity girl, "Thank you, Ochako! We would've fallen if it weren't for you!"

Ochako looked nauseous but forced a smile, "Heh, thanks... But... I don't think I'm gonna be able to do that again."

Izuku looked serious, "She must be starting to feel sick from using her quirk on herself, I don't think we'll be able to fly up again."

"Okay, for the rest of the battle, we'll have to remain on foot. We can't risk Ochako getting sick."

"S-Sorry..." Ochako muttered, looking ashamed.

Izuku smiled at her, "Don't be! We would've gotten disqualified at that moment if it wasn't for you!"

Ochako smiled.

"As expected, nearly everyone is still after the first place team!" Present Mic shouted.

"Don't repeat the obvious." Aizawa sighed.

Izuku saw more teams heading towards him, including Bakugo and his fiery anger.

"Crap..."

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Kamui was in the break room watching the sports festival from a television placed in there, holding a bottle of water in his hand and looking rather shocked by the events unfolding in front of him.

"Those class A guys really are great." Death Arms said in astonishment.

"I didn't think I'd see a whole team fly..." Mount Lady added, munching away at the free food available.

"..." Kamui just kept focusing on Enso, "Yes... Great indeed."

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"Seven minutes have passed! Let's look at the scoreboard!" Present Mic yelled, pressing a button that projected a screen that showed several rankings.

"Here are the current rankings on the screen! Class A is- Wait a minute."

Everyone looked slightly shocked and confused at the scoreboard.

"Other than Midoriya's team, class A isn't looking too good... Huh!?! Bakugo's team has zero points!?" Mic screamed in disbelief.

Bakugo's eyes widened, "What?!" He put a hand to his head and found that his headband was gone.

He turned left and saw Monoma holding his points.

"He got us!" Mina cried out.

"Damn, and here I was thinking that I could sneak away." Monoma grinned.

"Give that back, we'll kill you!" Bakugo shouted.

Monoma's team stopped for a moment to let their leader turn back and speak, "Despite what your speaker said about our classes earlier, it's clear as day to see that even Class 1-A can be predictable too."

"Huh?" Bakugo looked pissed.

"All of you went for the ten million points, all of you tried to make it to the top to show off."

He tied the headband to his head.

"My class went the smarter path to just stay within the ranks, making sure that we at least move on. After all, there's no point in hustling to be at the top if you can just guarantee to move on, right?"

He narrowed his eyes with a smug look.

"So we just kept to ourselves enough to pass, while also examining everyone's quirks and abilities from the back. Getting ourselves ready for when the battles really do get important."

"They did this as a class!?" Kirishima thought in shock.

"This is much better than being temporarily on 'top' and having everyone go after you in the next round." Monoma chuckled as he glanced at Izuku's team running away.

"I suppose we should be going now. See ya." He finally waved as his team started running.

Bakugo grinned evilly with a menacing aura, "Kirishima..."

Kirishima looked up at him, "Hey Bak-AH!" he noticed just how bloodthirsty their rider looked.

"Change of plans, before Deku, we're going to crush them!" Bakugo's voiced echoed in a chilling matter.

"R-Right!" Their team then proceeded to chase after Monoma's team, aiming for total abolishment.

Shinso watched them from afar with a grin, "That was a bad idea. He should've just left that guy alone."

"Yes... Bakugo is relentless." Tokoyami agreed.

Shinso looked down and patted Dark Shadow. "At least I won't have to worry about seeing him in the finals, I'm sure."

He looked up at the timer, "Just a bit of time left." He then glanced at Izuku's team running, "How long can they last, I wonder?"

At the same time, Izuku watched as Bakugo's team started heading straight for Monoma's team, giving himself a small sense of relief as his own team continued running.

"Phew, I can worry about two fewer teams coming for us now, especially since one of them is Kacchan's. Hopefully, this makes things easier on us-"

He felt his teammates skid to a halt underneath him, making Izuku nearly lose balance for a moment.

"What happened-!?"

His eyes widened to see Todoroki's cold eyes staring right at him, the rest of his teammates looking just as dangerous.

Izuku sighed, "It won't be that easy, huh?"

"The cavalry battle is in the second half! Who will win the ten million points in the end?!"

Izuku looked right and saw multiple teaming honing in on them.

"Keep moving!" Izuku shouted, his team starting to run away.

"Iida forward!" Todoroki yelled.

"Yes!" Iida activated his quirk and blasted faster than running speed.

"How are they moving that fast without falling!?" Izuku wondered as he looked behind them.

He suddenly saw that Momo and Kaminari both wore roller skates behind Iida, letting Iida basically pull them rather than run themselves.

"They'll catch up to us in no time!"

"Yaoyorozu, prepare to guard us and conduct electricity!" Todoroki instructed. "Kaminari you-"

"I know what I have to do!" Kaminari yelled with a grin.

Izuku saw a metal come out of Momo's arm and connect to the ground, a tarp of some kind also arising out of her stomach. He also saw some sparks of electricity starting to come out of Kaminari.

"Enso!" Izuku called out, hoping he noticed it as well.

Enso looked back and saw what Toodorki's team was doing, "We have to turn." he said, eyes and aura turning white.

His team stopped and quickly turned so that Enso was facing Todoroki's team, raising his right foot with his aura vibrating around it.

"Brute style..."

Todoroki grabbed the tarp passed by Momo and pulled it over him and his team, covering everyone but Kaminari.

"Indiscriminate shock-" Kaminari started, "-1.3 Million volts!"

He released electricity all over.

"Now!" Izuku yelled to Enso.

"...Earth Tremor!" Enso finished, stomping his foot and cracking the earth underneath once again. A wave of dirt and stone shot up from the ground around Izuku's team, essentially making a wall that took the electricity coming at them.

The rest of the teams weren't so lucky.

Everyone else felt the full force of the charge from their own teams, feeling their bodies stiffen up and get electrified in place.

When the electric current weakened, Izuku aimed his finger at the mound of dirt and stone that had been sent up from the ground and flicked his finger.

"Delaware Smash 5%!"

The force was enough to pick up many pieces of the earth scattered and send them straight at Todoroki's team.

But Todoroki noticed the debris and pulled the tarp off, "Yaoyorozu!"

Momo pulled out a grenade of the sort and tossed it in the air right at incoming debris. It went off and expanded foam that enveloped all the flying pieces, stopping them in place and causing them to fall down and breaking apart.

"Less than six minutes left..." Todoroki noticed on the timer.

He grabbed the metal pole Momo made with his right hand and froze it and, due to it connecting to the ground, it also froze the terrain and kept expanding to the other teams around him.

Every team was left stuck in place in shock by their feet frozen solid.

"Nani!? Todoroki froze the crowd of teams in place!"

"He kept them all still with Kaminari's quirk only to then freeze them... Only Midoriya's teammate managed to keep a wall of dirt to keep the electric currents and ice from getting to them." Aizawa added.

Kendo was still recovering from being electrocuted and rubbed her head, "Man, that really stung..."

But then she realized that something was missing from her head.

"My points!? Where-!?"

"I might as well take these, sorry." Todoroki said, holding up their points as he got ahead.

Kendo looked shocked, looking down at her team, "Can you guys move?"

"No, our feet are literally frozen to the ground!" Tokage said.

Kendo pouted, looking rather frustrated. "Damn it!"

She put her hands on her face and sighed. "After I promised Midoriya that I would see him in the finals too..."

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"I think the only way to guarantee that we can stay away from them is by flying!" Izuku shouted to his team.

"But won't we need gravity girl to make us floaty again! What if she gets sick?!" Mei asked worriedly.

"I-I can do it if it's just you guys!" Ochako tried to reassure them.

"There's no time, we're at a dead-end." Enso warned them.

Their team stopped right by the out of bounds line, unable to back up more.

"Move to the right-!" Before Izuku could finish, cut off their path to the right, then immediately afterword their path to the left was cut off by another wall of ice.

"He's cut off our escapes!" Izuku thought in distress.

"Team Midoriya has nowhere to go! And team Todoroki is heading towards them!" Mic shouted.

"Enso! Can you do something about this ice!?" Izuku asked him.

"I can make a big enough path for us to go through, but that requires much more intense force. And I don't wish to risk you falling off again. For now, our safest bet is to stall here."

They then saw Todoroki freeze the ground heading towards Izuku's direction, but Izuku's team just stayed on Todoroki's left and avoided the ice.

"Damn, he's paying attention. He knows that I'm not using... 'his' power." Todoroki thought in anger.

"Get closer!" he then shouted to Iida.

"Right!" Iida started to move forward with his speed.

Enso's eyes and aura then shined blue.

"Punk Style..." He stuck his left hand into the air and fired over a dozen white energy spheres into the air.

"What's he doing!?" Iida wondered, prompting him to stop in place.

Enso's eyes flashed in their blue color, and the energy spheres in the sky also turned completely dark blue.

"...Mind Storm" Enso finished his move by swinging his hand down and sending all of the energy spheres raining downward at Todoroki's team.

Todoroki's team spotted the rain of energy coming down at them and were shocked.

"But if it hits us, then that'll clearly be a penalty!" Todoroki thought in confusion by why he fired the attack.

"Guys!" Momo passed him and her other team members shields at an attempt to take the attack. They all held their shields up in an effort to cover themselves from the barrage.

But instead of directly hitting them, the energy spheres suddenly changed directions and started circling around Todoroki's team at fast speeds instead.

"What the hell!? They're around us!!" Kaminari exclaimed in shock.

Todoroki saw Enso with his hand sticking out, looking rather focused with his eyes completely blue.

"He's controlling them with his head!"

Izuku looked down at Enso, "Such a strong move, to be able to control his own projectiles in that way."

"Team Todoroki is surrounded by Ureshi's insane energy balls!? How are they gonna get out of this!?"

"I'll just keep them there until the time is done. If they try to move, then they'll blow themselves up so it won't count towards us." Enso said, maintaining his focus.

"That's so evil, Enso..." Izuku sweatdropped.

Todoroki grit his teeth, "The bastard..."

Iida then raised his head, "Everyone, there's not much time left. It's clear that the only way to get out of this is by moving right through it. So... I'll take it. You won't be able to use me after this, but I'm counting on you!"

Todoroki, Momo, and Kaminari looked confused.

"Iida?" Todoroki said.

Iida took a deep breath, "Hang on tight! Make sure you get it, Todoroki!"

Iida's engines suddenly burst out with blue flames, "Torque over Reciproburst!"

Iida blasted forward faster than ever before, his body slammed into the energy spheres that were spiraling in front of him and they exploded on him on contact.

The multiple small explosions stung, but Iida knew that he had to keep going.

"NNgh! Not yet!" At the given moment, he ran so fast that despite taking the first hits from the projectiles, he managed to outrun the chain reaction of explosions from the other energy spheres, keeping his other teammates fine.

"Move-!" Izuku saw Todoroki's team there, but then suddenly, they weren't.

Iida continued to move forward away from Izuku's team before he felt his engines sputter and was forced to stop, panting hard with bruises and even a few burns on his chest and clothes from taking the initial first explosions from that trap.

Everyone was shocked, Todoroki was too, but he held something in his hand that made what Iida had done entirely worth it.

The ten million points.

"What was with that sudden explosion of speed!?! Team Todoroki now has the ten million points while team Midoriya has zero!"

Enso turned his head with his eyes widened. "He ran right through that wall? To think he'd do that while I was so focused."

"We have to get it back!" Izuku shouted, looking stressed out and sweating hard.

Enso's eyes turned back to red and flashed, "Roger."

"Let's go!" Ochako shouted.

Izuku's team turned and started running towards Todoroki's team.

"Keep moving!" Todoroki shouted, snapping his team out of their stunned stated.

"Two minutes remaining!" Mic shouted.

Izuku felt his hope crumbling, "There's no time to keep running! I have to do something now, or we lose!"

Ochako looked up anxiously, "Don't worry, Deku! You'll think of something, you always do! Don't let Iida leave us in the dust like that!"

Izuku looked down at her with a taken aback look, "That's right..."

He clenched his hands into fists, "Everyone's counting on me! Come on, Izuku! Think!"

He looked down at Mei's goggles.

He glanced at the smoke still left behind by Iida.

He remembered Bakugo flying through the air.

"Ochako! Could you still use your quirk on me to make me float?!" Izuku asked of her.

"Eh? If it's just you, then sure!"

Izuku then grinned as he thought of a plan.

A stupid plan.

But at this point, it was all or nothing.

"Everyone! We need to turn to the side so that Ochako can point her mechanical boot to Todoroki's team! Ochako! When we turn, you point the bottom of your boot to blow air to the ground so that we kick up a wall of dust that'll cover Todoroki's sight!"

"Eh!? Won't that cover our line of sight to?!" Ochako asked, clearly confused.

"Don't worry, just do it! Enso, once the dust is kicked up, find out where Todoroki's team is located and how fast they're going!"

"Alright."

Izuku's team then turned so that Ochako's electric boot was blowing air at an angle to kick up large clouds of dust from the ground in front of her.

"Eh!? What's team Midoriya doing!?"

Once the dust was kicked up, Izuku's team stopped and let Enso focus, blue colors appearing around him.

"Punk Style-Calm Mind." He closed his eyes and felt the entirety of his surroundings around him.

"Ochako, use your quirk on me!" Izuku said, reaching his hand down to her.

Ochako looked curious but touched him, "There!"

Izuku felt himself slightly floating but used his hands to hold on to Enso's shoulders while pushing his feet down.

Todoroki turned and saw the dense wall of dust obscuring his sight, "What are they doing?"

After a second, Enso opened his eyes, "Eleven o'clock and at about five miles per hour!"

"Thank you!"

Izuku then reached down and grabbed Mei's goggles, pulling them off of her head.

"Wha- my baby!" Mei cried out, her yellow eyes revealed with shock.

"Sorry, I have to borrow these!" Izuku yelled as he put them on.

"One minute remaining!" Mic yelled.

"I'll leave the rest to you guys!"

"The rest to us-?" Enso didn't finish as Izuku's body glowed in orange, red, and green colors.

"Please let this work!"

Izuku took a deep breath, "Full Cowling!"

He then used his teammate's hands as a footing to jump off and dive into the wall of dust.

"Midoriya left his team!?"

"What!?" Toshinori yelled from his seat by what he saw.

Izuku had jumped in the direction that Enso had pointed out Todoroki's team was going, even estimating where they would be when he came out of the dust.

With his 5% increase in power and with Ochako's quirk, Izuku soared forward in the air at blazing speeds, hands behind him as he flew.

And by wearing Mei's goggles, Izuku's eyes were protected by the dust he passed through, not letting any of it obscure his sight.

He had only been in the wall of dust for about a second, then coming out of it flying with a serious expression that showed just how determined he was to get his points back.

Todoroki was staring at the clouds of dust as his team kept running, but in just a moment of blinking, he suddenly saw Izuku fly out and heading right towards him.

He was taken aback, "He really jumped!?"

Izuku stuck his right hand out and aimed for Todoroki's head, only to see that the multiple headbands he was wearing were inside out.

The world slowed as his thoughts went rampant.

"He turned them inside out to hide their point values, but he took the ten million last and put it on, so it must be the one on top!"

Seeing Izuku reaching his arm out, Todoroki instinctively lifted his left arm up and formed some flames on it.

Izuku was surprised to see flames for the first time from the boy, but he didn't let that faze him from doing his next actions.

"But if I want to actually grab the ten million, then I have to move his arm aside!"

Izuku channeled power into his right arm and pulled his own arm inward rather than reaching for one of Todoroki's headband.

Before he got close to him, Izuku swung his arm with enough force to create a gust of wind, pushing Todoroki's arm to the side and leaving him vulnerable as he got close.

Todoroki didn't know what happened, he felt a breeze on his arm and suddenly saw it to the side, but what shocked him even higher were the few flames on it.

"My left...?! What am I-!?

"Now's my chance!" Izuku then reached out left arm and aimed for the headband on top.

"This one!"

He finally snatched only one of Todoroki's headbands as he passed by him.

"Midoriya snatched two headbands!!"

Izuku grinned as he flew forward but came to a sudden confusing thought.

"Wait... two?" He glanced down at his hand and only saw one headband, "How-?"

"But where is he gonna land!?!"

Izuku blinked as he realized that this was a problem. Since he was flying forward quickly, especially without gravity, he would reach the out of bounds any second.

He clenched his teeth together, "There's only one thing I can do now!"

Quickly pointing his right hand to the ground while tightly gripping the headband in his left hand, Izuku started to charge power and make his fingers glow rather violently.

"Delaware Smash... 100%!!"

An explosion of force came from Izuku's finger as he flicked it, propelling himself back and soaring into the air. Huge gusts of winds passed by all the teams and forced them to cover their eyes, but the winds also reached the audience, amazed by this.

"Man, what's with that power!?"

"Look, he's flying!!"

Izuku was hundreds of feet off the ground.

"NANI!?! Midoriya just turned himself into a human missile and is flying sky high! Wait a minute, isn't that too high?!"

Due to Ochako still having her quirk on, Izuku's lack of gravity made him fly even higher.

Ochako saw this and looked terrified.

"Oh, no!" She didn't hesitate to put her fingertips together.

"R-Release!"

Izuku regained his gravity and stopped at the peak so high above the stadium that everyone looked like ants below.

He blinked.

Then he started falling.

"EEEEEK!!! I'm falling fast! I'm falling fast!!!"

His eyes started watering from the wind getting into his eyes.

Actually, he was wearing Mei's goggles, so it was actually his own scared tears.

"Crap, crap, crap!"

"Midoriya is falling too fast!! If he hits the ground, then it'll be a messy SPLAT!!"

"Don't give that image!" Aizawa shouted.

Toshinori stood up with an intent to buff up and save him, but-

"Hold on now." Nezu grabbed his wrist.

Toshinori looked down at him, "But then he'll-!"

"Don't worry." Nezu chuckled, looking down at Enso below.

Izuku felt himself getting dizzy and closed his eyes.

"I trust them... They'll get me..."

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"IZUKUUUUU!!!" Inko screamed from her seat, her eyes inches from the television screen and her apartment flooding from the amount of tears she was waterfalling.

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Izuku heard the concerned cries of the people underneath getting louder and louder, indicating that he was getting closer to the ground. Their voices muffled as Izuku felt his ears muffle up all sound.

"Please!"

He then abruptly stopped in the air.

"Eh? Is it what I think it is?"

Izuku hesitantly opened his eyes to find himself just entering from the top of the arena, finding himself staring at the crowd, who looked rather shocked by what happened.

He had intense blue colors around him, the same color as the aura from a specific person.

"NANI!?! Midoriya stopped in mid-air!?!"

Izuku smiled already slightly turned his head, seeing the person's intense blue eyes and aura focusing on him.

"Ens-WHOA!" Izuku suddenly felt his body get yanked downward at a diagonal angle.

He flew down until feeling himself land into a pair of arms.

"Nngh... My head... That was too sudden." He weakly removed Mei's goggles off of his eyes and saw the bright sunlight shining down on him, also finding the eyes of his team looking down at him as well.

"You're a real idiot, you know that?" That was the first thing he heard.

"Heh... Hi to you to Enso." Izuku smiled.

"Welcome back, Midoriya!" Mei giggled.

"And that's a SAVE by Midoriya's team!"

"DEKU!"

Izuku flinched, "Oh, come on!!!"

Bakugo started blasting towards him over the ice, "Just give me your damn points!"

Enso raised a hand up and started forming an energy sphere.

Todoroki's team started running towards then with fire in Todoroki's cold eyes.

But...

"Wait! Wait! Time's already been up!"

Bakugo fell to the ground.

"..."

There was a moment of silence.

Then the crowd cheered.

"That's it for the U.A battle royale here!" Mic laughed.

Kendo looked up at the screen as Izuku's team was shown to everyone.

"Team Midoriya! Or actually, Midoriya specifically. We didn't see the points you grabbed from Todoroki in that fast pace and hella intense moment! Show us if you made it to the next round or if you'll end up crying miserably!" Present Mic grinned.

"Way to put them on the spot like that." Aizawa sighed.

Izuku was placed onto his feet, with Mei looking excited, Ochako looking worried, and Enso remaining emotionless.

Izuku nervously held the facedown headband in his hand, everyone staring at the screen at him now.

He turned it face up, but a look of terror formed in his eyes.

70 Points

A sense of dread overtook him as he realized.

"Todoroki must've changed positions of the headbands he wore, they... they..."

His hand tightly gripped around the headband, his eyes starting to water.

"They got us..."

"Huh? What are you crying for?! Stop keeping us waiting and show us the other one!"

"Huh?" Izuku blinked, "Other... one?"

Izuku saw his teammates staring at him confusingly and turned to his left, where a second headband was wrapped around his shoulder.

"Wha-!?" He didn't have time to question it as Enso swiped the second headband and stuck it up to everyone.

There was a moment of silence.

Then a loud cheer from Mic.

"Team Midoriya got back the ten million points! That automatically makes them in the first place!!"

"YEAAAAAAHHHH!" The crowd screamed.

"To think that they got back their points in the last second, that's amazing!"

Izuku blinked multiple times, staring at 70 point headband in his hand. He didn't feel as excited as he should've been, he wasn't celebrating like everyone else.

He was confused.

His mind flashed back to when he had grabbed Todoroki's headband, vividly recalling the events of what happened.

"Wh-What? I only grabbed one headband, I know I did! So how did I get another onto my shoulder?"

"Now, let's look at the top four teams moving on!"

Izuku glanced up at the results on the screen.

"First place, as I said before, is team Midoriya! Getting back in their top spot in the nick of time!"

The crowd cheered once more as Enso handed Izuku back the ten million point headband, to which Izuku was still confused about.

"In second place! Team Bakugo!"

"Man, to think Bakugo would target one team because he took our points..." Mina pouted.

"Oh well, second place isn't that ba-"

"DAMN IT!" Bakugo cut Sero off, repeatedly slamming the ground angrily.

"Wow..." They sweatdropped.

"Third place! Team Todoroki!"

"To think Izuku would risk it all to come and get his points back..." Iida said.

"It sure sounds like him, doesn't it?" Momo chuckled.

Iida smiled, "Yes... It sure does."

"Fourth place, Team Tetsute- Huh!? What!? It's team Shinso!? When did you come from behind!?"

Many people were shocked and confused to find that the team that didn't have any excitement coming from it was the one that passed to the next round too.

Shinso spun the headbands from the tip of his finger and grinned next to Tokoyami.

"See? Everything worked out fine. Hopefully, I don't go against you in the finals."

Tokoyami looked to Ojiro and Aoyama, both looking very confused as to where they were.

"What happened?" Ojiro uttered.

"Thank you for your hard work." Shinso said before walking away.

Tokoyami, stared off as he left, looking into his own palm, "We... didn't do much, did we?"

Dark Shadow came out, "No, but don't worry! We'll show them our stuff in the next round!"

"These four teams will advance to the final round! Give a round of applause!"

Izuku wiped his eyes of the tears that had started to form up before, not looking happy.

"What happened?"

"Hey, Izuku!" Mei said next to him, "You mind giving me back my goggles now?"

"Eh?" Izuku looked down in his other hand and saw that he was indeed still holding the inventor girl's goggles. "A-Ah! Sorry!"

Mei giggled, "No worries!"

Izuku handed her back the goggles with a small smile, eyes focused on them as Mei took them.

"What? You like them? Sorry, but they're my personal babies!" Mei said.

"N-No, I'm looking to take them. It's just... They helped win us the game. Without them, I couldn't have seen been able to snatch our points back clearly. So... Thank you, Mei."

Mei formed a gleaming smile and gave him a thumbs-up, "You're very much welcome!"

Izuku saw her yellow cross-haired eyes shine momentarily by the sunlight as she smiled, mesmerized once more by their uniqueness.

Mei noticed him staring.

"What's wrong? Were you checking me out my eyes? Pretty bold, aren't ya?" Mei said with a mischievous grin, playfully nudging Izuku with her elbow.

Izuku immediately turned red and backed up, flailing his arms in front of him, "N-N-No! I-I mean yes! I-I mean... I-I just saw them and... well-"

"Just messing with ya! I know they're weird!" Mei reassured him.

"Weird? N-No! I didn't think that! I-I thought that... they look pretty... Like gemstones." Izuku muttered embarrassingly.

Mei had a blank look on her face.

"Ah! Sorry for saying something so weird!" Izuku nervously backed up.

Mei put her goggles back on and turned around, "No, you didn't say anything bad. It's just that... You're one of the only people who's ever said that to me."

"Eh?" Izuku didn't expect that.

He suddenly felt a pain in his finger.

"Ouch! What the-!?" He turned and saw that Enso had grabbed him by the hand. "E-Enso?"

Enso didn't say anything, he kept his gaze on Izuku's hand, holding it up and examining his finger.

"What's this?" He asked, pointing out the one swollen and broken finger Izuku has.

"Ah, that's right... I had to break my finger to launch myself into the air with 100% of One For All..." Izuku remembered.

"I thought we got over this, 'breaking your own bones' thing?" Enso told him.

Izuku shook a little nervously as he answered, "W-Well... This was the only thing that I thought about to get our point back to you guys. We were short on time."

Enso sighed and let go of Izuku's hand. "Listen... Izuku, the more you break your body, the harder it will be to heal it back. I only have a few more of those 'supplements' left, and even if I use one on you, having a significant injury may still issue you with nasty scars even if it heals. So... don't push yourself too much."

Izuku looked at his broken finger, thinking about Enso's words and looking slightly sad. "Sorry... I'll be more careful."

"Good, go to Recovery Girl to heal that and then eat something. Our next battles will be the most important."

Enso then put his hands in his pockets and proceeded to walk away, leaving Izuku there wondering about his choices.

Ochako pouted, "Can't he just be happy that we won?"

Mei went next to Izuku and chuckled. "Wow, he doesn't really seem to like you."

Izuku chuckled for a brief moment, turning towards the two of them with a small smile.

"When he says something like that, it just shows that he cares."

Todoroki stared at Izuku from afar, glaring at the boy as he recalled what happened in that one instant.

"I was overwhelmed... I actually instinctively tried to use my left side..."

Todoroki glanced down at his left hand.

"But it wasn't just that... Midoriya grabbed the wrong headband, I know it."

He clenched his hand tightly.

"And yet..."

His mind flashed back to the exact moment Izuku snatched a headband from him.

"I saw something else..."

He saw something behind Izuku at that exact moment, something that he couldn't explain.

"Red eyes..."

Todoroki looked back up at Enso in the distance, who was walking out of the arena.

"It wasn't Ureshi, those eyes I saw... were different."

He started following Izuku out of the arena, eyes narrowing.

"Who... or 'what' was it?"

"Now we'll take an hour break for lunch before we start the afternoon festivities! See ya!" Present Mic announced.

Everyone else got up and started moving.

"Hey, Eraserhead, let's go grab food."

"I'm going to sleep..."

A thump was heard.

"Well then... See ya next time!"