24-The Sports Festival-1/6

It was time. Mina and Victoria walked to school together with Mina getting more and more flustered as the thought of possibly millions watching her on TV.

"I know you're nervous. The best advice I can give you is just to ignore all the eyes and focus on getting through" Victoria says with a smile.

Mina puts on her adorable facade of suddenly wiping the look off her face, giving herself a big smile as she starts to strut down the street with the most confident but goofy walk ever. The 2 girls laugh as Mina then stops, having got the joke across, looking at her girlfriend.

"Hey, I don't want you to help me. I want to get through this with my own training" Mina says, surprising Victoria who always thought she prefered to do stuff the easy way.

A few hours later, 1-A is assembled in a waiting room deeper in the stadium, discussing their own thoughts among other things. This is before Ida barges in like a drill sergeant.

"EVERYONE, GET YOUR GAME FACES ONE, WE ARE ENTERING THE AREA SOON!" Ida says as he repeatedly slashes the air like he always does.

"Victoria," Todoroki says, being his first word to anyone today.

Victoria knew what was coming but still addressed him.

"From an objective standpoint, I think it's fairly clear that you are the strongest here. I'm going to make this short and simple. Don't think for one moment that I won't hesitate to throw all I have at you, I'm not here to partake in the comradery, I'm here to win" Todoroki says as he turns his back and walks away.

"That is the mentality we should all have. We all haven't known each other for too long, but sure enough, have made friends already as a class. With this being one of the major determining factors of our futures, we don't have the luxury of pulling our punches because it's our friends we are dealing them to" Victoria says, creating a dead silent room as well as a motionless Todoroki.

"I expect to see a new ice age out there," Victoria says, reinforcing Todoroki's already iron-clad determination.

"Well...this just got intense," Kaminari says with a nervous sweat.

"Well said Mademoiselle!" Aoyama says with a wink and a thumbs up.

"Victoria..." Bakugo says as though steam is about to shoot out of his mouth, getting up and facing the girl he's known for all those years, as well as the one who is an entire foot taller than him.

"DON'T BE SO COCKY YOU BASTARD, YOU STILL NEED TO FIGHT ME!!" Bakugo yells in her face.

"I'm looking forward to it," Victoria says with a chuckle.

"WHAT'S GOING ON SPORTS FANS!" Present Mic, the best commentator you could ask for says as he pops onto the screen, making the crowd roar in excitement.

"GET YOUR PHONES OUT, GET THOSE CAMERAS READY, BECAUSE THIS IS GOING TO BE SOME OF THE BEST MATCHES IN SPORTS FESTIVAL HISTORY GUARANTEED!" Present Mic yells over the intercom.

"Alright baby girl, make your dad proud!" Hendrick says as he watches the TV in the living room with Hina just sitting there, trying not to laugh over her husband's tomfoolery.

Class 1-A walk out onto the grass as the crowd roars as if it's a charging army.

"I HOPE EVERYONE IS READY BECAUSE THIS FIRST GROUP SURE IS. YOU MAY BE HEARD OF THEM OVER THE NEWS WHEN THEY FACED OFF AGAINST VILLIANS, IT'S CLASS 1-A OF THE HERO COURSE!!" Present Mic once again yells over the intercom, somewhat being necessary due to the sheer noise.

"Omg, this is so nerve-racking!" Toru says with shacky hands, the only part anyone can see of her.

Present Mic proceeds to list off Class 1-B and various other classes from General, Support and Business classes.

All the U.A Students gather up in lines on the stage, meanwhile, Midnight makes her grand entrance as she will be the "Host" of the festival so to speak.

"NOW, THE INTRODUCTORY SPEECH!" Midnight says, bringing the entire crowd to a whisper which is the least amount of noise yet.

"SILENCE EVERYONE. FOR THE STUDENT PLEDGE, VICTORIA ISAYAMA HAS BEEN NOMINATED!" Midnight yells out, making Victoria sigh as she isn't surprised.

Hendrick is silenced as well as Mina as both are surprised that she was chosen. Victoria walks up to the podium, looks around at the possible tens of thousands in the stands, then begins to speak.

"I'm going to make this short and sweet. Watch and learn" Victoria says, standing there as she looks down on all the other students with some gaining snarls on their faces, with some of her own classmates gaining looks of concern and nervousness from her statement.

"Hmf, what a bitch" Monoma says, making Kendo slap him.