Hey guys!

So I'm finally here! After so long without updating any of my stories whatsoever. I'm not really sure what to say. I sorta went on like a weeklong spree of writing where I got like 5 chaps out in like 8 days and then I've been spent ever since. So I'm glad I could get back to it and hopefully I shouldn't burn myself out this time xP

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And with the shameless plug over it's time to finally begin the big ol' chap 10 of Telekinetic Leader!

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"Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the UA Sports festival. Today we're showcasing our wonderful first years. I'm Present Mic, your host, and with me today is the homeroom teacher of The Class 1-A. Eraserheadddd!" Present Mic spoke through his microphone getting a huge eruption of cheers from the crowd.

"Do I have to be here?"

"YES! Moving on! Since the time to begin has passed. I believe we should start bringing out the first years, don't you?"

"What I think doesn't actually matter does it?"

"Not in the slightest! Let's bring them out!" Hizashi continued, playing off his stoic partner with a talent born of years of knowing and being friends with the man.

"Up first we have our wonderful Business Ed students! Most of who won't be competing today, but give them a round of applause anyways!" The group of sixty students walked out to the mild cheers and exclamations from the crowd before finding their place on the very left of the arena stage.

"After them Issssssss, Take it away Eraser!" A sigh was heard over the intercom from the still heavily injured man.

"Up next are the General Ed students" Was all they got out of him.

"So dry and boring! Spice it up a little! Get the crowd raring to go!" Mic spoke to his partner deliberately over the mics.

"Its completely illogical."

"Maybe so but it's fun! Coming in right now are our wondrous General Ed students. The ones who usually compete every year for a spot in our coveted Heroics Program!" They lined up next to the Business ed students and began to quietly talk amongst themselves similarly to the Business Ed's.

"Now we get to our Support Students! Those who work day in and day out to create Support gear for our wonderful heroes and heroes-in-training. What have they prepared for today? Who knows! Doesn't it just fill you with excitement?" The crowd cheered and Hizashi laughed as they walked in, the most noticeable being a busty pink haired girl with steampunk style glasses on her head.

"AAAAAAND finally our coup de grace! Our Hero Department!" The cheers that left the crowd was almost deafening, a few people even waving around flags and banners "Coming out first we have Class 1-B! Lesser known than their cousin class but don't let that fool you! They've been training vigorously and probably have a secret or two up their sleeves!" The cheers continued as they walked out, apparently lead by an Orange haired girl and a dark blonde haired boy who trailed just slightly behind her, a smug smirk on his face as they found their place on the very right of the arena.

"And last but certainly not least. The class that most of you have probably been waiting for! Class 1-A! The class who survived a villain attack on their very first week! Give them a round of applause folks!" And they certainly did, the class piling out of the tunnel though to those who were paying attention, not many to be honest, they would see that they were primarily lead by three people.

Izuku, Shouko and Katsuki lead the class, not even realizing as they maintained a pace about two or three steps ahead of the rest of the class, nearly perfectly in line with each other as they walked into place. Izuku, looking around at everyone with a sense of awe, amazed at just how large everything felt when you were actually the one in the arena.

"Woah! It's the R-rated Hero, Midnight!" One student said, spawning a bunch of similar comments as the Heroine in question walked on stage in full costume with her signature whip weapon.

"Quiet down everyone!~" She spoke while cracking her whip, managing to settle down most of the cheering and murmuring "It's now time for the student address! Performed by our very own student representative, Izuku Midoriya!"

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With Inko

"OH MY BABYYYYYY!" She cheered while tearing up. Blowing her nose as happy tears built up in her eyes.

Next to her sat a veritable wall of tissue's, evidently the mother having been prepared for the emotional outbursts she knew she was going to have.

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UA Sports Festival

Izuku gulped and made his way up to where Midnight was standing while steeling his nerves. Taking a deep breath and slowly exhaling while trying to relax his body as he did so. By the time he reached the microphone the look of focus on his face was easily enough to startle a few of the students.

"…..We are all here today to have fun" People began to look around and a few quietly murmured in confusion, even among the crowd "Even if we strive to win. Even if we strive to prove ourselves to the world. I believe that more than anything today is a day that meant to be fun. People see us, students of UA, and they think about how strong we must be, how smart we must be, how lucky we must be to have gotten the Quirks that we did. At least when considering the Hero Department. And in some cases those things are true. But the pressure to be something that a lot of us aren't, not yet at least, can be suffocating"

'What the hell are you doing you shitty nerd! Just fucking finish already!' Bakugou raged mentally while glaring at the green haired teen.

"Where's he going with this?" Uraraka asked Shinsou, getting a curious shrug from the boy.

"Especially for my own class. Having recently been through a villain attack, it feels like everyone is looking towards us, weighing us down with questions and expectations. But today I don't feel that weight" People immediately began to pick up on his change in tone "Today I feel free and weightless! Because today is a day to match our progress against our peers! Today is a day to enjoy ourselves! Today is a day, where we can forget the weights, the expectations, the stigmas. And focus on giving the country the best show that we possibly can! So my hope is that every student here can truly enjoy themselves and show the world what the next generation of Heroes can do. How we can go PLUS ULTRA!" The crowd cheered and more than a few students did as well, Izuku walked off the stage and rejoined his class.

The moment he did so he placed a hand over his heart and let out a shuddering breath, slouching over slightly.

"Holy crap that was stressful…."

"Really? You looked so confident though?" Uraraka commented in confusion.

"Looked? Maybe. Was? Not in the slightest. I forgot my actual speech the moment I reached the mic."

"Oh…" Iida muttered, not sure how to take that information.

"Now!" Everyones' attention was brought back to Midnight as she began speaking "We have a full day ahead of us so let's keep things rolling with our first event. THE OBSTACLE COURSE!" Cheers went up through the crowd "Through those doors is our lovely entrance to the course that'll take you all around the arena. Now! We'll be beginning in three!" The students began to panic and tense in preparation even as the Business Course quickly fled the scene.

"Two!" Izuku, seeing the interlocked gates and ran off to the side of everyone.

"Ah! Midoriya?" Ochako asked in surprise.

"One." She quickly dropped into a runners start while Izuku slid to a halt and dropped down into a leaping stance, his left leg bent and close to him while his right leg stretched out, his left arm on the floor as flames sprung up around him and his hair began to wave in a non-existent breeze.

"Go!" The gates swung open and all the students began to rush forwards in a frantic mass of bodies and limbs. A few of them noticing the green blur that raced past overhead.

Izuku launched himself directly over the crowd and landed in a crouching position on the wall of the tunnel, close to the roof, his flames then swelling brighter and his eyes glowing minutely as he pushed off and launched himself forwards, bursting out of the other end of the tunnel in a flourish of blue jumpsuit and green flames as he landed into an immediate run.

"And we have our first competitor out of the tunnel! Izuku Midoriya making quite the flashy entrance!" Mic announced as he kept running.

Meanwhile the rest of the students were beginning to get clogged up by the small area of the tunnel before a large group of them were frozen to the ground and a wall of ice was erected in front of the entrance. Todoroki running with a steady but nonetheless rapid gait as her eyes narrowed at the form of Izuku ahead of her.

"And Todoroki Shouko makes use of the beginning bottleneck to stop everyone behind her and Midoriya! Essentially turning it into a two man race. Or at least that was she was hoping to do!" Shouko's eyes widened and she turned her head slightly while continuing to run.

"Where do you think you're going Icy-hot!?" Bakugou roared, smashing the ice wall to pieces in and instant and blasting after the girl and Midoriya while the rest of the students climbed over or burst through the other parts of the ice wall with differing amounts of ease.

"Hm. I expected our class but more have gotten through than I was hoping." Shouko murmured to herself.

"Haha! You've shown your skills! Now its time for me to show my killer-" Mineta got before being harshly nailed in the side by the panel of a robot.

"And now how are they going to get through the robo-inferno folks? Featuring everyones favourite hero exam robots! Including our good old friends the Zero Pointers!" Present Mic declared immediately getting shouts from the students.

"This is bullshit!"

"Not this thing again!"

"DID HE SAY FRIENDS!? AS IN PLURAL!?"

Shouko froze and stared up at the zero pointer directly in front of her, her gaze impassive as she murmured.

"So this is what the general exam students had to go through…." She distinctly saw the glowing green flames of Midoriya travelling up one and clicked her tongue "I just wish they would have prepared something a little more extravagant" She crouched down and placed her right hand on the ground, a ring of frost pulsing out from her hand and creating a small circle under her "Because my dear old man is watching" She swung her hand forward before flicking it up, the ice following and travelling up the robot like a sentient snowstorm, freezing it solid and creating ice spikes jetting out the back from the sheer speed the frozen air had been moving at.

Shouko took a moment to let out a deep breath, frost coming out and disappearing into the air before she cracked her neck and kept running, watching Izuku twirl overhead as he pushed off the head of the robot he had climbed up, making her click her tongue and speed up a bit.

"Between their legs!"

"We can just run right past them!"

"Alright ice-chick!"

Shouko rolled her eyes and called back "I wouldn't do that if I were you"

The ice surrounding the robots began to creak and break as they began to lean over, making a few students scream in fear and stumble away as they watched the titanic monstrosities topple over like demolished skyscrapers.

"I froze them while they were unbalanced" The robots hit the ground.

Frost and earth exploded outwards with a muted shockwave as Shouko kept running after the figure of Izuku who had begun running thanks to the lack of anchors he could use to efficiently pull or push himself forward.

"Dammit Todoroki! If I wasn't me I would have been killed!" Kirishima yelled out as he burst through the metal plating of one of the zero pointers.

"Dammit 1-A! If I wasn't me I would have been killed!" Kirishima did a double take as he looked over and saw another student, seemingly made of metal.

'Dammit! Even when in UA I'm still just par for the course!' Kirishima growled in his mind before digging his fingers into the metal, pulling him out and pushing himself onward, with the metal student following suit.

"And now our lead competitor, Midoriya, has reached our second stage!" The cameras zoomed out to show the massive chasm filled with occasional pillars of stone, all connected by wires "Our Tightrope canyon! How will Midoriya get passed this time?! Or will he lose his lead to Shouko and our fast approaching third place?"

Midoriya perked up at the mention of the third place and looked back to see Shouko running for him, and just a bit behind her the familiar sound of explosions could be heard.

"DEKUUUU!"

"Alright. So I can either be recklessly stupid and do something which has more chance of failing than it does working-"

"GET BACK HERE YOU FUCKING SHITHEAD!"

"Or I can deal with that." Izuku deadpanned before his flames swelled slightly while he leapt off the edge, his fall suddenly beginning to curve around a pillar like a rope was tied around him.

"And Midoriya has found a way past by using his telekinetic quirk to act like a rope swing! Meanwhile Todoroki and Bakugou are making their own way across and- HOLY CRUD WOULD YOU LOOK AT THE AIR HE'S GETTING!" Mic yelled in surprise, getting an annoyed grunt from Eraser.

The cameras played back for a few moments to replay the image of Izuku beginning to swing up before suddenly sending himself flying forward, high into the sky.

"GODDAMMIT YOU FUCKING DICKHEAD!"

"Clever. This may help the others but I can't lose." Shouko began to ice-skate, moving much faster while Bakugou's explosions increased in size and intensity.

The two raced across the second stage in no time flat. Bakugou using explosive leaps from pillar to pillar while Todoroki used ice to skate across the wires and pillars. Once the two hit the ground they sent themselves hurtling forward, Shouko beginning to make small but noticeable headway against Bakugou, who only began to get more angry, trying his hardest to generate more sweat to create bigger explosions.

"Uh oh, ladies and gentlemen! It looks like Midoriya's landing zone is smack bang in the middle of our third stage! Our glorious unicorn mindfield!"

"Unicorn…?"

"It needed some pizzaz!"

"It needs workshopping, is what it needs."

"You wound me Eraser."

Shouko kept an eye on Midoriya's falling form as she raced towards the minefield.

'You wouldn't let yourself lose that easily. Not after what I've seen. So where is it? Where's the attempted turn around?' She asked herself before hearing a slight crackling besides her and dropping into a combat roll, dodging the explosion, before rolling back onto her feet and continuing to run, looking over and seeing a grinning Bakugou.

"You picked the wrong fucking person to declare war on Icy-Hot!" He roared while she turned her head to glare at him.

"This is between me and him. You stay-" She quickly created a wall which was then blown apart.

"Don't tell me what the fuck to do! Especially when it involves that slimy shit!"

The two quickly made it to the landmines, beginning to dance around them while trying to slow down or take out the other. Well, until Present Mic brought the crowds' attention back to them.

"And it looks like our favourite airborne student has just swallowed his flames! Who woulda seen that coming!?"

"OH YOU COWARDLY LITTLE-"

'How is that cowardly?' Shouko thought even as she erected a wall around herself.

The flames fell from the sky like a laser from God, carving a line in front of the two competitors and setting off any mines it came across, leaving flames and clouds of pink in front of them in a large, curved line. Shouko lowered her arms and glowered in anger, taking off in an explosion of ice and speed while further back, having been blown back by the flames and mines, Bakugou screamed in outrage and took off as well.

Meanwhile Midoriya breathed a sigh of relief, wiping some sweat away, as he jogged lightly, flames the size of his pinky flickering around random parts of his body. Having used both the flames and his telekinesis to slow himself down enough so that he didn't turn himself into a fucking pancake upon impact. The tunnel covering him in shadows as the bright sunlight ahead illuminated ahead of him. He could hear Shouko and Katsuki behind him and tried to push himself harder, passing through the tunnel and back into the stadium where hundreds, possibly even thousands, of cheers met his ears.

"AND THERE IT IS LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! OUR WINNER FOR THE FIRST EVENT IS IZUKU MIDORIYAAAAA!"

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AAAAAND THAT'S A WRAP!

Chapter 10 is now all nice and completed, as is the first stage of the tournament. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! And that you enjoyed how the

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Is going. (That was a reference btw). And if you have any suggestions or thoughts about this chap or arc do let me know, either through reviews or DM's, either one is fine. (Especially if you go and use my discord, the code is above)

Regardless I'll see you guys next time!

Adios!