Chapter Four: Rescue and Capture (Part 1)
"Everyone gather around," Mr. Aizawa calls us from outside the dorms, a bus standby behind him. "We'll be moving to where you all took your entrance exams. And as for Toga," he handed me a case. "Assuming that you'll pass this practical test, this will be your costume."
With that, everyone hopped on the bus, I decided to sit at the very back window seat. To my surprise, everyone else rushed to sit near me, but Uraraka took the seat beside me before everyone else. Bakugou and Kirishima sat on the two seats in front of me and Midoriya and Iida took the seat adjacent to us.
"How is UA for you so far?" Uraraka initiated the conversation, making Kirishima turn around and join in on the conversation.
"I'm just excited to show Bakugou here," I kicked his seat, "That I'll do better than him since he publicly said he'll take the top spot," I grin mischievously.
"I'd like to see you try, I'll be hitting you with everything I've got so don't give me any half-assed efforts, got it?" He turned around to sneer at me.
"I gotcha'," I laughed.
Once we got to our destination, we hopped off of the bus and changed into our costumes. I was surprised when I pulled it on. At first, I thought it was going to be an uncomfortably tight suit but I like the way it hugs my figure. It was a red halter spandex-polyester suit with a v-neck, exposing my cleavage a little. I clipped the bracelets that came along with it that had retractable little daggers and a toolbelt for melee weapons around my waist.
"You look great!" I hear the girls say simultaneously from behind me.
"Thank you," I reply as I try to tie my hair up into pigtails.
"Let us give you a hand," Yaoyorozu smiles as she sits me down and steals the comb from my hand, brushing my hair for me. Uraraka takes the other side of my head, tying it up as well. Suddenly they started giggling to themselves before putting clips onto my hair.
"Hey, that's unnecessary," I nervously tell them, patting my head down as the wavy curls fell over my shoulders.
"You look cute," Usui and Hagakura compliments me, making me relax a little. They hand me a mirror and I check out the red rhinestone comb hair clip they tucked into my pigtails (I attached a pic as reference).
"Plus, you match with a certain hot-head," I find my cheeks reddening at Ashido's comment.
"I have no idea what you mean, plus, if you should be teasing anyone, shouldn't it be Uraraka and her admiration for Midoriya?" I changed the subject.
"It's not like that, I just want to be as strong as him," Uraraka covered her reddened face as she floated in embarrassment.
"Keep telling yourself that," I joke. "Let's go," I got up from my seat and walked to the meeting place with them. I looked at the board that displayed different teams.
Team A: Midoriya, Uraraka, Ojiro, Aoyama, Usui
Team B: Mineta, Tokoyami, Sero, Ashido, Shoji
Team C: Yaoyorozu, Todoroki, Koda, Sato, Hagakure
Team D: Bakugou, Jiro, Kaminari, Kirishima, Iida
"Toga, come here to draw the team you'll be in," All Might calls me, holding a box and shaking it lightly. I slipped my hand inside and took out a piece of paper saying "A". I waved the paper in the air as I walked over to my team next to Team D, settling down.
"Rescue and Capture. You are to assume that the opposing team is a villain. Three prop dolls are given to each team to defend. The team is given a point when they are able to steal the dolls without damaging it. An addition of 3 points will be given if you are able to capture a member of the opposing team. You are given 5 minutes before all the points are tallied up," Mr. Aizawa explains. "Team A against Team B and Team C against Team D. The winning teams will face off in the final round."
"You hear that, Bakugou? Don't damage it," I nudged his shoulder, laughing. "It's a good thing they're props or you would've hurt their feelings instead."
"Want to break a bone before even starting the exams?" He lifted his hand up to my face and created tiny explosions.
"If you can even lay a hand on me," I challenge before getting up and walking into the arena with the others.
"Oi, Midoriya, Toga, don't lose before you can even face me!" he shouts. I just wave my hand at him and Midoriya manges to stutter a reply. Deep inside, I'm nervous of facing off anyone in this exam, I'll just be a burden to the group.
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Surprisingly, we did win the first round, with the final score of 9-6. We almost lost if it were not for Aoyama's navel laser scaring Tokoyami's shadow away before he can catch us, this also gave us the chance to pull him into the cage. I wasn't much help since all I did was volunteer to be the bait and hold Mineta down, which is easier than it seems, he was eager to jump into the cage actually. Sero managed to snatch me last minute and put me in the cage. Unsurprisingly, Bakugou's team won by a landslide, capturing everyone.
So here we were, face to face with them. I didn't even get to activate my quirk last time, so I don't know how well I'll be able to perform.
"I could be the bait again and try to provoke Bakugou," I suggest.
"That'll put you in the risk of being shocked by Kaminari with his pointer and shooter gadget," Ojiro counters me.
"You said your quirk lets you manipulate blood, right? Can you change its shape like how Todoroki can change the shape and size of his ice?" Midoriya asks me.
"I think I can, but the size depends on how much blood I use," I explain.
"Then can you make a net with it?"
"I can change the properties of my blood to make it sticky as well."
"Then I can make her lighter," Uraraka adds.
"And I'll slingshot her away," Usui continues.
"Great, sounds like a plan," I smile. "But what if I miss?"
"We'll be back-up for that, for now, focus on making that net."
I slowly made a cut on both of my palms, moving the droplets so they weaved with each other. This should work so that if Bakugou or Kirishima tries to break through, I can just remake the net until it dries up. My quirk is limited to controlling fresh blood, which dries up after an hour.
To be continued..
A/N:
I decided to cut this into two parts cause it was kinda long.
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