Chapter 22

Chapter 22: Obsticle course

(Third Person POV)

"GATHER ROUND, MASS MEDIA! IT'S TIME ONCE AGAIN TO SEE THE HIGH SCHOOLERS YOU KNOW AND LOVE, REVEL IN THEIR YOUTH, IT'S THE UA'S SPORTS FESTIVAL. EVERYBODY ARE YOU READY?!" announced present mic.

The UA grounds were packed today, as stalls could be seen all around, selling their various merchandise, from food to supporting props. Heroes were also all over the place assumably for security purposes, They where mostly surrounding 3 stadiums. These were the venues of this year's UA Sports Festival. Each of these stadiums would host the events, they each hosted a different year group. The most popular would always be the third year stadium, this was due to the fact that they would always put their experience to good strategic use and give it their all for this last chance. This resulted in them always taking the center stage, however, this year was different, a lot of eyes were on the first year classes this time around. This was due to the USJ villain attack that took place 3 weeks ago.

(MC POV)

1A Preperation Room.

We were all waiting for the event to begin, most were nervous, as could be seen by Mineta's constant recitation to himself of the words, 'keep it together', Others were busy chattering amongst themselves, I was leaning against a wall watching them. We were all wearing our sports uniforms due to costumes and equipment not being allowed, all in the name of fairness. The ice user suddenly got up, making his way before the green haired kid, he then made his decleration that he will beat him.

"Not with only half your power you won't." I said seemingly talking to myself, however, my words were clearly heard as he stared at me, with me only giving him a thin smile.

Midoriya answered him with his own decleration of reaching for the top with all he had. Seeing it was time to go, I gave them some encouragement, "Give it your all and prove you deserve to be here." With that I left the room. Heading towards the stadium. On the way I heard present mic speak.

"IT'S THE UA SPORTS FESTIVAL!! THE ONE TIME EACH YEAR WHEN OUR FLEDGLING HEROES COMPETE IN A RUTHLESS GRAND BATTLE."

FIRST UP, YOU KNOW WHO I'M TALKIN' ABOUT!! THE MIRACULOUS RISING STARS WHO BRUSHED OFF A VILLAIN ATTACK WITH THEIR STEELY WILLPOWER!! THE FIRST YEAR'S OF THE HERO COURSE!!

IT'S CLASS A!!

FOLLOWING CLASS B, IT'S CLASSES C, D AND E OF GENERAL STUDIES..!!!

AND HERE COMES THE SUPPORT COURSE CLASSES, F, G, AND H! AND THE BUSINESS COURSE..."

With the crack of a wip sounding, all our attention was drawn toward Nemuri. She would be the Ref this time around. The crowd cheered lowdly, while I heard Tokoyami question if she should even be at a school. Afterwards Bakugo went up and gave his iconic speach, and without delay the first event was announced. I used this chance to get closer to the gate out.

The qualifiers, its in this stage that so many are sent home crying. This time around the fateful first event is an obstacle race. It's a race against all members of all 11 classes. The course was a 4 kilometer around the massive stadium itself. So long as one stayed on the course, all was fair.

"Racers to your positions!" said Nemuri.

"START!!" Shouted present mic.

Everyone dashed towards the entrance, due to how narrow it was, not all would fit, I was right behind Mineta with Todoroki leading, as we were reaching the end of the passage I covered my feet in nen, moments later Shoto froze the ground behind him, I simply powered through it and kept moving. I stayed a step behind the two. Suddenly Mineta attempts to throw his balls towards Shoto, however, at that very moment a one pointer robot came from his blindspot. With a solid hit to Mineta's side he was sent Rolling. Coming up behind Mineta, I punched at the robots head, ripping it right from its body. Shoto went on ahead stopping when he ran into the many zero pointers, he didn't stop for long as he froze both leaving a small path for himself, seeing this I slightly increased my speed hiding my presence with Zetsu, this was so that Shoto wouldn't sense me right behind him. As he was half way through, some of the students wanted to use the passage way, the moment he turned his head to warn them, our eyes met as I used this moment to surpass him, seeing this he abandoned the attempt to warn those behind him, however because he had slowed down I was already ahead of him.

The 0 pointers fell on top of Kirishima along with Tetsutetsu. Making my way to the second obsticle I heard explosions behind me, they probably belonged to bakugo making his way over the 0 pointers. With the fall approaching ahead of me, I used my Enhanced vision to locate all the ropes connecting all the stone pillars, speeding up and lowering my weights, I started opening a gap between Shoto and myself. Going at an extremely fast speed, I reached the fall, without any hesitation I jumped. Flying through the air, I aimed for a specific rope that was horizontally connecting two platforms, landing on it, my weight along with the force caused the rope to nearly snap, however, the ropes where quite solid as they were put there for students to use, some of which might be extremely heavy due to their quirks. Using the rope, I lowered my weights even further, shooting myself to the other side, landing I rolled on the ground, this was to negate some of the force of landing. Due to this Shoto couldn't afford to fall behind so he formed a bridge across with his ice for himself in attempt to catch up. Bakugo who was hot on our tail didn't stop at all as he jumped, using his explosions he propelled himself forward, allowing him to fly over the fall.

Standing up I saw Shoto hot on my tail and I began running once more. I heard explosions quickly approaching. My instincts flared, with my eyes glowing red, I tilted my head to the side, the exact moment I did so a hand passed by where my head had been, reacting I grabbed the hand, stopping and twisting my body, using all of our momentum, I slamed Bakugo to the ground, both of us falling hard. Shoto used this to pass the both of us with the mine field being only a a short distance from us, however, I saw Ida coming at an insane speed, due to Shoto Making a bridge, the fall wasn't an obsticle anymore, making it possible for others to catch up. Focusing my nen into my eyes, I rolled towards where he would pass kicking out. I managed to kick his hind leg, this caused it to hook his other foot, due to the speed at which he was moving, he flew out crashing into the back of Shoto, causing them to both crash through nearly half of the mine field, with a loud boom, a chain explosion happened, standing back up I looked at Bakugo, he was currently slightly imbedded into the ground, I knew he would be up again before long so I began running at a great speed once more, running straight through the part of the mine field Ida and Shoto had crashed through, ahead I saw Ida who was attempting to get up, without slowing down even a bit, I used Ida's back as a launch pad, and jumped towards the other side of the mine field. Seeing me jump over him. Shoto froze Ida's feet and arms, to the ground, successfully immobilizing him. He then froze the ground ahead of him to disable the bombs. Others were beginning to catch up, and once again a straight path was open for them. At this time Bakugo had gotten up and was making his way through the mine field, boosting his speed with his explosions, quickly catching up to us. We were on the last stretch, Bakugo passed Shoto and was heading towards me, with my eyes glowing once more, I jumped up causing him to crash straight into my body propelling me past the finish line.

I had come in first place, with Bakugo at a close second and Shoto into third. The crowd was quite silent as me and Bakugo were both on the ground, with me on my back laughing, and a Bakugo who seemed as if he was looking down, his face was full of disbelief, but soon it changed into pure unadulterated rage.

"I'll KILL YOU!!!" shouted Bakugo as he was thrusting his palm towards me.

Rolling, I dodged and swinging my body back I punched him in the face causing him to fall in that direction. We were stopped by Nemuri who threatened to disqualify us if we continued fighting. Bakugo got up and walked away with small explosions going off within his palms. Standing up I began dusting off my clothes, as they had gotten quite dusty during the race. I had not lowered my weights too much as to allow me to enjoy the contest, however I never expected it to be so close. Shortly after the crowd went wild, as I could hear Present mic finally speaking. It seems he was drawn into the contest, same as the crowd and had neglected his commentating duties. As he announced my Victory, I heard Yachiru over the mic,

"See, I told you Yhwa-chan would win."

It seems she had decided to join present mic in commentary during the race. The two usually got along so I would simply leave them be to their antics.

Few moments after the rest came running in, those in the lead supprisingly were the same as those in Canon, although a lot more had managed to finish they were still eliminated due to the positions they attained. With that a draw for the second event began.