Chapter 9

The trio arrived in a stadium with mountains and large rocks can be seen, there is a river and waterfalls too. And a giant screen with a timer.

And there, standing on a platform, is none other than Katsuki Bakugo grinning at the cheers he was receiving.

His eyes then met Izuku, and his cheeks couldn't help but twitch seeing him holding the hands of that Melissa girl and another beautiful black haired girl.

'I was gone for a few hours!'

As for why he only arrived at the Villain Attack Attraction, it was because on the way here here, he spotted an arena where a tournament is happening.

Of course he signed up, because the price for winning is to have one of I-Islands renowned inventor make you your own hero costume or support item.

He couldn't pass up that opportunity! So he signed and won! He already sent his request and his costume will be ready in five days.

[Ready!] The announcer...well, announced, [Start!]

Bakugo wasted no time and blasted himself towards a nearby robot and blow it up into bits!

Without as much as a pause, he moved towards the next one and destroyed it too. Then he moved towards the robot on the river and destroyed it as well.

Then another, and another, and another, until he destroyed the every robots he could find!

[OH MY GOD! 12 SECONDS! FIRST PLACE! IS THERE ANYONE WHO COULD BEAT HIS RECORD!]

Katsuki smirked at the announcement. He then turned towards Izuku and pointed his finger at him, gaining the attention of the crowds.

[WHAT'S THIS!? IS OUR FIRST PLACER CHALLENGING THAT GREEN HAIRED YOUNG MAN!? DO THEY HAVE SOME KIND OF RIVALRY GOING ON!?]

Bakugo used his explosions to jumped towards them as he stared at Izuku with a smirk, "Come on parsley, beat my record."

"Hoh~?" Izuku smirked and let go of Melissa's and Momo's hands, before taking off his silver chain necklace and handed to Melissa, "Hold it for me please."

"Okay." Melissa nodded.

Izuku grinned, "Watch me." With that, he jumped towards the platform, leaving Bakugo with Momo and Melissa.

[AND WE HAVE A NEW CHALLENGER! DOES HE HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO SURPASS THIS RECORD!?]

Bakugo turned towards Melissa before pointing at Momo, "Who's this rich looking girl?"

Melissa blinks while Momo looked offended. Melissa remembered what she and Izuku talked about earlier and giggled, "She's Momo Yaoyorozu, she's from Japan like you. Izuku and I met her earlier."

Though she was rather offended by Bakugo, she still greeted him, "Greetings. I'm Momo Yaoyorozu."

Bakugo looked at her before rolling his yes, "I'll stick with rich girl until you earned my respect or impressed me enough to call you by your name."

"Excuse me?" Momo furrowed her brows.

Melissa just giggled, "Leave him be, he's just like that. But he's definitely a softie on the inside, Izuku even calls him dandelion."

A tic mark appeared on his forehead, "WHAT DID YOU CALL ME GLASSES!?"

"Look, Izuku's starting."

"DON'T IGNORE ME!"

Izuku who was standing on the platform looked up to Melissa, only to see Bakugo screaming bloody murder, Melissa was waving at him, and Momo was giving him a smile.

Izuku returned it with a smile of his own.

[READY!?]

Izuku turned towards the closest robot he could find and immediately activated his quirk. 'One for All: 10%!'

Red lines appeared on his body followed green electricity, signifying the activation of One for All. With a roar, the platform he was standing in cracks, as he caused a strong gust of win.

[START!]

Izuku rocketed forward into the first few bots before the first second was even over. He shot up the cliffs and hills, destroying every bot in sight.

Then, he finished the last bot by punching the air, creating a strong air pressure that destroyed it.

[HOLY SMOKES!? 6 SECONDS!? THIS IS INSANE! WE HAVE A NEW RECORD FOLKS! AND THIS ONE IS EVEN LESS LIKELY TO BE BROKEN!]

With a satisfied smile, Izuku jumped back to his friends and was immediately greeted by Bakugo's annoyed glare.

"You got lucky," Bakugo spat out.

"What was that?" Izuku gave a smug a smile and put a hand on his ear, "I couldn't hear you over the sound of the crowds cheering me for being first place."

Bakugo grunted and took out a notebook and pen, Izuku did too. The two girls just stared at them, wondering where they got the notebook and pen.

"What's our score again?" asked Izuku with a grin, "I kinda forgot to count after my last win."

"Dunno." Said Bakugo as he angrily wrote something on his notebook.

"I think it was 500 to 70 right? In my favor?"

"FUCK YOU! IT'S 402 TO 89!" Bakugo roared, "DON'T GO AND CHANGE OUR SCORE YOU SHITTY NERD!"

"Oh is that so? I'm so sorry."

"Tsk."

Melissa leaned over the ninth successor, "Hey Izuku, what are you two writing?"

"Oh this?" Izuku closed the notebook and put it back in...somewhere, "You heard our score right? That's how much we competed with each other. And every time after that, we took notes about our performance and how to improve even further."

"Wow," Momo looked at the two, impressed, "Such dedication to improve. Are you two planning on joining U.A too?"

"'Too' huh?" Bakugo stared at Momo, "So you're planning on joining too?"

Momo nodded, "Yes, I got in through recommendation."

"Wow," Izuku stared at her in amazement, "You must be pretty amazing then if you managed to impress a Pro with High Enough ranking to recommend you to U.A."

"Thank you." Momo smiled, "It's nothing really."

Izuku wasn't kidding though. After all, only heroes within the top one hundred can recommend a student to U.A, and not only that, they can only recommend one student each.

After all, if every hero could recommend a student then U.A wouldn't be such an Elite School.

"By the way Momo," said girl turned towards Melissa, "Are you invited to the party tonight?"

"Well yes," Momo nodded, "I'll be attending along with my mother since my father couldn't attend, he's currently in Italy for business."

"What party?" Asked Izuku with a raised eyebrow.

Melissa tilted her head, "You don't know? There's a party in the tower later tonight. Since you and Katsuki came with Uncle Might, you are probably invited too."

"Probably?" Izuku looked a bit nervous, "What if we're not invited? I don't want to walk in there in a suit and get kick out because I wasn't on the list!"

Melissa giggled, "It's fine. I can just ask my Papa to let you in."

Momo smiled and nodded, "Right, I could also ask mother. We owned stocks on several sponsors of I-Island, we technically owned a quarter of this Island, we can let you in with a word."

"You guys..." Izuku stared at them before pulling them to a hug, "You're just the best!"

Bakugo cringed at the sudden display of affection. 'Fucking nerd. I'm outta here.'

"Oi nerd! I'm gonna go and grab some grub! I'll be leaving first!" Bakugo said as he quickly left the trio.

"Hey wait! Come back here!" Izuku called out and was about to follow him but was stopped by Melissa putting a hand on his shoulder.

"Hm?"

"Ah, Izuku, actually I wanted to show you something. Can you follow me to my workshop?" said Melissa before turning towards Momo, "You can come too Momo."

Izuku raised a confused eyebrow but still nodded, "Well, sure."

Momo also nodded her head at Melissa, "If you're alright with it, then I'll gladly come along."

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"Here we are!" Melissa flipped on the lights to her workshop. "Come in! Come in!"

"Wow! You have all of this for yourself?" Izuku said examining all of the lights and computers.

"Impressive." Said Momo as she looked around.

"Yep! She's all mine. Come over here." Melissa led him to a shelf in the corner of the room.

She picked up a steel black box and took off the lid. Izuku watched as she pulled out a red high-tech wristband. "Pull up your sleeves and hold out your hand."

Izuku did as he was told and she clipped it onto his wrist.

"Your quirk is rather similar to Uncle Might's, as it enhances your body. But I could tell by your careful movements that you were holding yourself back."

Izuku nodded, "My body couldn't handle my full power and if I tried, I would probably break my bones. I try to limit myself using only fifteen percent."

Momo blinked, staring at Izuku in shock, 'Fifteen!? That was fifteen percent!? Just how powerful would he be if he uses one hundred percent?'

She furrowed her brows, 'He's planning on attending U.A, as expected, that school has such high standards. I thought that I would be place at the top with my Quirk and skills, but it seems I became a bit arrogant. I guess I have to train more. That Bakugo earlier is also powerful.'

"Fifteen huh?" Melissa adopted a thoughtful look, "Well, this should help you out."

Melissa tapped the center of the wristband and it glowed a bright blue.

The band expanded and wrapped it's way up to Izuku's elbow before fully forming back to its solid state. "Woah! A gauntlet!?"

"Yep!" Melissa smiled, "I made this to be able to withstand Unlce Might's power up to three times. I don't have a name for it yet, but that gauntlet should allow you to use your full power, so how about we call it Full Gauntlet?"

'Uncle Might? That name again. Who's that?' Thought Momo.

"Whoa!" His eyes widened, "Are you serious!? My full power!?"

Even Momo was staring at the gauntlet in shock. 'As expected of someone who won first prize in the GSSA competition and received a trophy in the Australian Schools Science Competition (ASSC). She's really impressive!'

"I...I can't take this..."

Melissa smiled and grabbed his gauntlet-covered hands, "Izuku. Please take it. I decided to pursue being a support engineer so I could help heroes. All I wanted from you, is to use this to be hero you always wanted to be."

"Melissa..." Izuku stared at the blonde girl with wide eyes. It took a few moments before he calmed down.

"Thank you."