Disclaimer: I do not have any connection whatsoever with Kohei Horikoshi, I do NOT own, co-own or have any stake in Boku no Hero Academia or Shonen Manga or even Studio Bones, other than my emotional involvement of course.

Now with the mandatory disclaimer out of the way, let us begin Chapter eight in this epic tale!

It was rare to ever find Minoru Minetta self-reflecting, but that is exactly what the Pop-Off user found himself doing, as he sat on the roof of his academy building, his legs hanging off it, dangling in the wind.

It had been but a few days since that faithful day at U.S.J, that faithful day when he'd nearly died. And most likely would have if it wasn't for two people. He'd helped Yaoyorozu as much as he could, using his quirk to prevent all other enemies from approaching in any other direction other than the front.

Yaoyorozu took advantage of that and used her creations to pin her opponents down to the ground, while doing her best to stay on guard, but even she eventually met her match. If Izuku hadn't shown up when he did, Minetta would have been dead and Yaoyorozu would have most likely suffered a fate worse than death.

Izuku Midoriya…

It had been a week and that man had already become someone he admired. From the way he understood Bakugo and Ida so thoroughly from just witnessing an argument between the two. He had seen his passion, skill and sheer grit through his battle with Bakugo and Kirishima, and USJ, showed him just how much of leader and a hero that green haired boy was.

"Midoriya" Minetta whispered to himself "How could I be more like –"

"Minetta think fast!"

Minetta head snapped up towards the source of the voice and his hand automatically shot up to catch the ball that was heading towards his head.

"Good catch Minetta" said Izuku as he jogged up to the pop off uses and plopped down beside him "Ever thought about it?"

"Ever thought about what?" asked Minetta and in response Izuku indicated the ball that Minetta had caught, a baseball.

"There are more ways than one to get a legion of fangirls after you Minetta" said Izuku with a knowing grin "Ever thought of going into sports, being a sports star"

"So you think I can't cut it?"

"Minetta, your quirk may not be as flashy as Bakugo's and Todoroki's, but it powerful in its own right, and an amazing quirk for an urban hero" said Izuku "And from what I've observed you're smart, probably one of the smartest in the class. From all our classmates you could easily make pro, I'm just not sure it would get you what you want though."

"What do you mean?"

"Your quirk isn't flashy, it's effective. And the best way to be the greatest Hero you can, would be to learn under Aizawa, learn his methods, his fighting style, his abilities. You'd be amazing at infiltration, recon, restraint and defusing a potential hostage situation, the problem is that way does not lead to getting the horde of fans you desire." Izuku grinned as he looked Minetta straight in the eye "Of course if you decided to be a sports star by day and savour by night, well You'll get the honor and fame of being a Pro-Hero, and the stardom of being a star."

Izuku reached into his pocket, and pulled out another baseball, except this one was painted entirely purple "Looks a lot like one of your orbs doesn't it. Weighs about the same too I'd expect… Imagine it for a moment Minetta, imagine if you had the speed and aim of a professional baseball thrower, imagine if you were a baseball thrower."

"It'd be a lot of work."

"Anything worthwhile requires a lot of work Minetta" said Izuku as he stood up "Your perverted not lazy, and you could be amazing Minetta, but only if you choose to be."

Izuku turned around and started walking away. He had training to get to after all, and his friends were no doubt waiting for him.

"Midoriya" Minetta called out to him.

"Yes?"

"Thank you!"

"You're welcome Minetta, just think about what I've said."

"I will…"

Finding and joining a baseball club was easy, getting good was harder, but made infinitely more bearable by the fact that cheerleaders practices happened at the exact same time (Minetta absolutely did not join the club because of that, it was just a happy coincidence)

Minoru Minetta knew that his team was going to the final round, and he knew that it was thanks to Midoriya that he was even getting far.

"Minetta" growled Shoji

"I know" he answered as his eyes darted around, they were surrounded by five teams, inching closer and closer. His hands were already on his head ready to throw his next ball, but he needed to be careful, one wrong move and all their hard work would be for naught. "How much time do we have left?"

"One Minute!" replied Tysuu.

One minute huh, they could try and hold their own, or, perhaps… well they'd already come this far, why not go for the gold.

"I've got a plan, do you two trust me?" Minetta asked

"Well you've gotten us this far" said Tysuu

"I trust you" said Shoji in agreement

"Good" said Minetta with a smirk "One more minute and we're in the finals! Let's do this!"

"Dark Shadow!"

The creature of darkness that was Tokoyami's quirk quickly moved in front of the oncoming hale of icicles, courtesy of one Shoto Todoroki, before Ibara launched her vines at him in retaliation. Shoto responded by grabbing those vines, and freezing them as Momo swung her staff down with all her might, breaking though the frozen vines, before Todoroki's ice could reach Ibara's head.

"Dark Shadow"

"DIE!"

Izuku didn't waste a moment, aiming his shotgun at the exact spot Bakugo attacked, the problem was that in the short span of time that Dark Shadow took to retract into Tokoyami, was enough for his opponent to disappear.

"DEKU!" Bakugo screamed as he appeared at Deku's unprotected right, unleashing a medium sized blast with his own right hand, sending Izuku's shotgun flying away and badly burning Izuku's hand. Bakugo's left hand, taking advantage of the momentary distraction, shot forward and just managed to grab the Million Point Headband.

Unfortunately for Bakugo, Izuku was much higher than the blonde hothead anticipated as Izuku had to deal with far, far more painful injuries on a far regular basis. The inheritor of One for All twisted his body, lashing out with his own left and just managing to grab Bakugo's wrist as Bakugo managed to grab the million point headband.

Even with a fraction of a fraction of his quirk's power flowing through him, Izuku was still far stronger, physically, than Bakugo could ever hope to be, something that Izuku easily proved as he twisted the blonde hothead's arm, causing Bakugo to scream and reflexively let go of the headband. But Izuku wasn't done just yet as he used his injured fist to unleash a powerful blow to Bakugo's jaw, shouting

"Detroit Smash!"

The blonde haired hothead went flying back just as Todoroki released another volley of icicles straight at them.

"Dark Shadow"

"Good job Tokoyami" said Izuku as he caught the robotic arm that was trying to grab he headbands and crushed it with one arm. "If it wasn't for you we would have lost this a long time ago."

"No thanks is necessary, I am only doing my job" replied the birdman as he gazed upon his opponent "Now how do we –"

DING DONG ! ! !

"Ladies and gentlemen the time is up" announced Midnight "And well done everyone well done. Now surprisingly, due to a tie as well as an open slot due to the team's uneven numbers we now have five advancing teams. In first place we have team Midoriya, in second place we have team Monoma, in third place we have Team Todoroki, and finally, tied for fourth place we have team Bakugo and team Minetta. My congratulations to all the finalists.

"Yahoo we are through" Ochako screamed, causing her team to swerve slightly due to her erratic movement

"She should have at least waited till we were all safely on the ground before beginning" Momo said

"Never the less, we made it through, and that all that matters" said Tokoyami

"Indeed it seems that our prayers have been answered" added Ibara

"Midoriya" said Todoroki "I would like a word with you alone if you don't mind!"

"Of course Todoroki!"

Todoroki wanted to have their little talk in private, and Izuku decided to oblige him, leading him to an abandoned stairway where they wouldn't be interrupted, or hopefully overheard, as all the other students and audience members went for lunch.

"I experienced All Might's true power up close that day at USJ!" said Todoroki, more to himself than anyone else "I felt his presence, and that presence has been seared in my mind through all this time."

"Your point?" asked Izuku cocking his head to the side, a tinge of amusement in his voice.

"I have never felt the presence of anyone before, not of any of the pro-heroes, not of my father, not of any of our classmates, but that day, at the start of the USJ incident, I felt it from you" said Todoroki as he looked Izuku straight in the eye "And ever since then, whenever you pushed yourself during training, I could feel it, though the feeling was always weak, I could feel it, but only because I was looking for it."

Izuku was honestly amused. The way he utilized his quirk was quite different from his predecessor. And he wasn't afraid of showing just how much of a fan of All Might he was, with his All Might key-chain, personal notebook having an All Might cover, his phone cover extolling his idol. And yet, Todoroki had come to the same conclusion as he would have in the original timeline.

"It was only after we fought against each other during that last round that I realized . . ."

"Realized what?"

"Just how similar your presence is to All Might's!" said Todoroki "So I will ask you straight, are you his illegitimate son?"

"No" said Izuku firmly "As much as I wish it were so, All Might is not my father. I am but the simple son of an ordinary middle class family. However we do have very similar quirks, so much so that you could say we have versions of the same quirk. We just utilize it in very different ways."

Todoroki tilted his head to the side in silent contemplation.

"Even without his quirk, All Might's body is that of a superhuman. He uses his quirk to empower his body to its very pinnacle, and then he floods his body with excess energy which allows him to go beyond" said Izuku "At my current state I can comfortably go up to ten percent, if I push it, I can go up to twenty percent for about five minutes, before my body cannot stand the pressure. I can't go, well I could but I would destroy my entire body with just a single blow. Unlike All Might though, I can use my blood to allow me to empower other items that can stand that pressure, hence my guns."

"You speak of your quirks as if they have the same source of power"

"They do, but I do have to keep a few secrets you know"

"Of course" said Todoroki "I guess that explains All Might's interest in you"

"Indeed, just because I can't use it the same way as him, doesn't mean he can't teach me to streamline my power, since they work the same way" said Izuku with a small smile, before he turned serious "But that's not what you want to talk about is it? Half-Cold Half-Hot, I don't want to take the worst case scenario but…"

Todoroki took a deep breath, he had to steady himself for what he had to say

"My father… he's a powerful bastard who only thinks of becoming stronger. He's done all he could to get stronger, to get as much power for himself as possible. But there is one person who stands in the way of obtaining his ultimate goal. My father could never beat All Might on his own, so he came up with another plan…"

"A quirk marriage" said Izuku, "Your father chose someone specifically for her inherent gift."

"Indeed, with his wealth and fame, my father made my mother's family agree to the marriage, all to get his hands on her quirk" said Todoroki "And with me, a perfect blend of those two quirks, he had what he wanted. So he raised me as a Hero who could exceed All Might, just so that he could fulfill his own selfish ambitions."

Izuku could clearly see the sorrow, the pain and the despair in his classmate's eyes.

"I Hate It" the vitriol in those three words was powerful "Being no more than a tool for that Human Garbage to achieve his own dreams." He took, a deep breath, his words calming down, the anger in them being replaced with a deep sorrow as he continued to speak "As I remember it, my mom was always crying 'I can't stand to see that left side of yours' she said before throwing scalding hot water in my face." His hand reached up, to touch his face, as if to remember the pain "I swore that I would win this tournament while never using my flames. I will rise to the top without using my left side, and in doing so I'll have denied him everything."

"Can I ask you an honest question Todoroki?" said Izuku "How long do you plan on letting Endeavor control you?"

BAM!

Honestly Izuku was not expecting the punch, but in hindsight he should have been. Taking a moment to touch his jaw, before pushing himself off the ground and turning to once again face his classmate "In your own words, Endeavor created you to be the best, to achieve his own ambitions through you! Do you honestly think that by becoming the best, irrespective of if you use your flames or not, you will deny him everything? Or will you give him everything? After all, you would have done exactly what he wanted you to do! Then again the people who hold the most sway over us are those we love –"

"I do not love that man, I hate –"

"Same difference" said Izuku sharply "Love isn't the opposite of hate Todoroki, that just love gone bad, and it still gives him power over you. The true opposite of love is apathy, when you don't give a damm about what he thinks!"

Izuku walked straight up to Todoroki, until they were standing a mere hair's breath away from one another

"I am not All Might" Izuku snarled, the power of one for all subconsciously leaking into his words "Just as you are not Enji Todoroki. You are Shoto Todoroki! That blood is your own! That power is your OWN! You are the ONLY one who get to decide what your future will be, so make your God Damm Choice! Will you be a puppet of the bastard that sired you, or will you rise above it, will you embrace yourself, embrace your power, and be a hero Todoroki? Make. Your. Choice!"

Izuku turned around and started to walk away, stopping just before the exit, to add in one last word "From here on out everyone is going to be giving it their all, they are going to give their hundred percent and then some. If you can't even respect them enough to give them the same courtesy than you don't belong here. And if you thing you can defeat Bakugo or I, or even Ida and Yaoyorozu without your flames, you've got another thing coming!"

Izuku sighed, as he stared at his lunch. He hoped he had gotten through to Todoroki but somehow he doubted it, words were just that, words, no matter how strong they were. They needed to be backed up by action. Izuku hoped he could do it, but honestly he wasn't sure if he could.

Still, there was something else he had to do, well something he could do, he just wasn't sure if he would "Minetta, a word please?"

"Yeah Midoriya"

"Pray tell me, what exactly are you up to?"

"No – nothing, what are you talking about Midoriya-san?" came the reply, with such an obvious guilty tone that Izuku was sure that Minetta had already gone on with his game plan

"I'll let it slide for now Minetta, just make sure you get a few pictures of what scheme you've concocted" replied Izuku, with a pretty good idea of what the resident pervert had done "Still have you given any thought to your opponent?"

"It was that kid from Class 1-C, Shinso I believe his name was"

"And what can he do" Izuku pressed "Do you have any idea?"

"Mind control, clear as day!"

"How?"

"Touch"

"What?"

"Touch" repeated Minetta, "I saw it clear as day, every time he took control of someone his hand was always on their shoulder"

"Are you sure" asked Midoriya. He of course, knew the truth, but he needed Shinso to show his stuff, show what he was capable off, otherwise there was a chance he wouldn't be acknowledged, wouldn't get the chance to live out his dream. Besides Minetta deserved a little punishment, and as the class president, it was only fitting that he give it to him. A minor punishment for a first offence, just the withholding of information

"I am confident" said Minetta with a determine smile "I'll immobilize from afar with my quirk and move on to the next round!"

"Very well then" said Midoriya with a smile "Good luck Minetta."

"Round One of the tournament" announced Midnight "Match One, Minoru Minetta vs Hitoshi Shinso, Begin!"

"So you're the Pervert of Class 1-A aren't you?" said the purple haired boy with a smirk.

"What's it too…" Minetta voice trailed off as his eyes lost focus.

Shinso smirked, while he knew that his future opponents would no doubt understand and be wary of his quirk now, he had gotten his name out there bringing him one step closer to his goal "Turn around and walk out of the arena"

"Winner of the match Shinso!"

"Mind Control" said Kirishima "How exactly are we supposed to defeat that"

"By shutting the fuck up that how"

"Kero?"

"Bakugo's essentially right" said Izuku "Shinso had to wait until Minetta said something before he could control him, which means that as long as we don't speak, we need not fear his quirk. Now if you will excuse me I have a match to attend to"

"Match Two, Izuku Midoriya vs Neito Monoma" said Midnight as she raised her whip to signal the start of the match "Begin!"

"Hey Midoriya" said Monoma as he watched the green haired boy get into a fighting stance "Let's give them a match to remember!"

"You bet!" Izuku responded with a smile, missing his opponent's gleeful smirk, before his eyes lost focus and his features began to relax.

Monoma smirked,

"Stupid, stupid, stupid" muttered Izuku to himself as he stared straight into a black void "His quirk's copy, how on earth could I have forgotten that!"

"Did you really forget it?" asked a male voice from behind his left shoulder

"Or did you simply want to meet us" said a soft, but powerful feminine voice from behind his right.

"Perhaps" said Izuku as he turned around to look at the two that had spoken "I did want to meet you all after all, since it is the lot of you that empower me, but I didn't think I'd be able to meet you all so soon"

He looked at his predecessors, all of them, there were two, right at the back covered in shadows, in front of them stood All Might, who despite the surrounding darkness seemed to be wreathed in flames. And in front of him stood the remaining five wielders of One for All, with Nana Shimura and the original holder of One for All.

Nana smirked "I must admit that Toshinori has chosen quite the unique successor, you have taken our power in quite an interesting direction. And even now, you continue to think of ways to push our power in unique ways."

"So you know" said Izuku flatly, as if speaking a statement of fact and not a question.

"We are in your mind and are the source of your power" said the original One for All "Of course we know. And to answer your question we do not know if it will work, we may be past the point of singularity but this is unknown territory even to us."

"But we have no reason to think it won't work" added the Seventh wielder of One for All "Especially with the way your power manifests itself, it wouldn't be that much of a stretch if you could control it."

"True, but there are other ways to increase my abilities, such as mastering the skills of those who came before me" said Izuku "I mean I don't even know your name for heaven sake"

"And you will, when the time is right, just remember that you are never –" he trailed off as the void they were in started to shake.

"What's going on?" asked Izuku as he started to look around in a panic

"It seems like someone desires our power" said the original One for All as white lightning started to envelop his frame.

"Well, should we accommodate him Successor?" asked Nana, her slender beautiful frame crackling with purple streaks of lightning.

Izuku didn't bother to respond as he channeled the power of his quirk, the power collected and honed by everyone in this void, through his body, and as if that was a signal they were waiting for, the other predecessors began to channel the power though their own manifestations as well.

"Well I say we give him exactly what he's asking for!"

"AHHHHHHHH!" Monoma screamed.

He had never ever felt something so ancient, so powerful, as what he was currently feeling. When he had copied powers before there always was a bit of pain as his body accumulated the changes necessary to replicate it, even that one time when he had tried to copy a quirk that spawned an entity such as Dark Shadow, he had to struggle, just a bit, to mentally maintain his being,

But this? This was something else entirely!

It honestly felt like there were nine all powerful beings, looking upon him, and finding him unworthy. It felt like there were nine extremely powerful entities who were trying to punish him, both physically and mentally for his folly.

"You want our power?" growled Izuku, though it didn't sound like Izuku, rather it sounded like nine, extremely powerful, extremely pissed-off people speaking in tandem "Then take it! Take it All!"

Izuku grabbed both sides of Monoma's head and the arcs of emerald lightning that were crackling around Izuku, rapidly expanded until both Izuku and Monoma were fully encased in lightning!

"Kamanari!" Izuku screamed, though his voice now sounded like his own as he held on to Monoma for a minute longer before cutting off his power and dropping the fried member of class 1-B down onto the ground.

"Back away" said Midnight emotionlessly as she almost instantly appeared between the two boys, and knelt down to check the fallen student. "Pulse is slightly erratic, breathing is normal."

Getting up she raised her whim and announced the results "Monoma is unable to continue, Izuku wins!"

Izuku looked up, to the booth where he knew All Might was seated. They needed to talk.

"Match Three Shoto Todoroki vs Shoji, Begin!"

Todoroki didn't waste a moment. The minute Midnight gave the signal Todoroki unleashed all of his power and intended to create one massive iceburg to end this in a single instant.

"Not this time" muttered Shoji as he crouch low and started to rapidly swing his gloved hands straight at the oncoming ice. His six arms delivering punches of such power that he was able to hold his position against Todoroki's mighty attack.

Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!

It was probably the most stupid thing he'd ever done, as he punched his way through Todoroki's ice, his body screaming in pain from the burning cold that surrounded his skin, his muscles crying out in protest against the sheer strain he put them through, but, after what felt like an eternity to him, but was just a few minutes, he busted out of Todoroki's ice, and ran forward, his target clearly in his sight.

Todoroki smirked, as he shifted his right foot slightly, before a thin sheet of ice started to emerge before rapidly zooming towards Shoji.

"Not gonna work" growled the masked boy, remembering the frozen building during their first day of Combat Training with All Might, pushing every ounce of power into both his feat he leaped up and over the sheet of ice that rapidly covered the floor beneath him, not losing a bit of momentum as he spread towards his opponent.

Todoroki didn't so much as blink as he rapidly created a block of ice on the sheet just below Shoji, and rapidly expanded it forward, intending on pushing his opponent out of the ring and ending this match. Unfortunately for him Shoji saw his opponents next plan of attack, and with a ridiculously well timed kick off, used Todoroki's attack as a platform to jump off and close the distance between him and the half and half quirk user.

Todoroki quickly stepped back and immediately created a large and thick cone of ice in front of him to create some distance, but Shoji was having none of that and one powerful swing of all his right arms, shattered the cone into smithereens. Only to come face to face with more ice.

Shoji snarled and unleashed powerful blows after powerful blows, destroying all the ice in his path. The air around his was thick with frost as his opponent, not only blocked his path with ice but constantly assaulted him with ranged attacks. Shards of ice continuously peppered his body from all sides as every so often a spear made of ice would appear from the ground below him, or from the ice he had broken through and inflict a painful, but shallow cut on him, trying to wear him down, trying to make him give up. But Shoji pushed through it all as he continued to break through the ice intent on –

"Mezo Shoji is out of bounds, Todoroki Wins!"

Shoji laughed defeatedly, and with one last massive blow destroyed the ice that walls that had been forming on either side of him for a while now. There, too his right on the ground, a mere inch away from the out of bounds line, looking like he had ducked away at the last moment.

"Good Match Todoroki, and all the best for your next round!"

And with those parting words, the duple-arm quirk user, walked out of the arena on his own two legs, intending on visiting Recovery Girl to help heal his battered, bruised and torn body.

Izuku looked at his phone, there was a fifteen minute recovery period between rounds, and he and All Might had agreed to meet then. Right now he was more interested in the matches at hand. See just how much his classmates had improved, and of course, getting data on Class 1-B

"Match Four" announced Midnight "Sero vs Tysuu, begin!"

"Let's have a good match Tysuu" said Sero as he bent low into a fighting pose

"Kero"

"And may the best one win" said Sero as he immediately shot a roll of tape aimed at Tysuu's lower thigh. Tysuu, seeing the attack a mile away, simply sidestepped and bypassed the attack completely. Except doing so was exactly what Sero was expecting her to do, which is why he aimed his attack so low.

The second the tape hit the stadium floor, Sero immediately began to recall it, causing himself to shoot forward with a speed that was reminiscent of Ida, as he intended to deliver a vicious haymaker to his classmate.

Unfortunately for him Tysuu had been constantly sparring with Ida and Izuku, and was hence used to fighting opponents who could move at such speeds, and had even better mobility. She waited until Sero was just close enough before leaping up, spinning as she did so and delivering a powerful kick to the back of Sero's head as he passed by where she stood mere moments ago.

"Owe" said Sero as he rubbed the back of his head, while turning around to face his opponent "That was painful Tysuu!"

"Well you did just try to take my head of Sero" said Tysuu, as she bent low, ready to leap forward "It thought it would be only polite to return the favor kero!"

Sero grinned at that. For a girl who loved to be direct and straight to the point, she could be quite the trash talker when she wanted to be. Still those reactions were good, too good. He would be decimated if he tried to get into close range again, which meant that he had to keep this battle at a distance. Fortunately he was quite good at that too.

"Well then, let's start round two!" he said as he shot his tape forward, intent on binding her this time.

Sero expected Tysuu to try and do a number of things, he expected her to jump out of the way. He expected her to sidestep and try to close the distance, he expected her to leap into the air and lash out at him with her tongue.

What he did NOT expect her to do however, was to grab his tape, and pull it forward with all her strength, which was far greater that what he expected a girl of her size to have.

Unfortunately for him, being caught off guard like that meant that he didn't offer any resistance as she pulled him forward, causing him to fly straight into the path of her tongue, knocking him completely off his feet.

With the tape still stuck to her wrist, Tysuu, leaped forward and quickly closed the gap between the two of them, landing quite painfully on the boy's stomach. Using Sero's own creation, she quickly flipped him over and tied his hands behind his back, before tying the tape to his legs as well.

"Hanta Sero has been successfully captured" announced Midnight "Asui Tysuu is the winner!"

"Match Five, Kirishima vs Tetsutetsu, Begin!"

Izuku leaned forward, this would be the test to see if Kirishima had matured or not. Originally Kirishima and Tetsutetsu had been evenly matched. However originally he would have never received the booklet that was designed for him.

Kirishima shifted to his side as he activated his quirk, minimizing what Tetsutetsu could target as his entire body hardened as much as Kirishima cold reasonably manage. He brought his hands up, and held them in a traditional boxer's guard, ready and waiting for his opponent to make the first move.

And Tetsutetsu did, closing the distance between them the Class 1-B through his arm out to try and deliver a nasty punch to his opponent.

Kirishima bent his knees (which weren't hardened, allowing for faster movement) going low and dodging the blow, delivering two good punches to the torso before going for a launching a full powered fist into Tetsutetsu chin.

While being made completely of steel did help negate most of the damage from those blows, it didn't prevent him from being momentarily stunned, allowing Kirishima to create a bit of distance between them once again.

"Tch" Tetsutetsu spat as he glared at his opponent, before charging at him once again. This time his assault was different as he moved in for quick jabs rather than powerful but slow blows.

Dodge, Dodge, Block, grab, jab jab

Kirishima knew that he was durable, knew that he was powerful. The problem was he didn't know how durable he was compared to his opponent. Might as well lessen the risk by dodging as much as he could, while making sure that if he had to block, he would return the favor in kind.

Tetsutetsu on the other had didn't even bother to do so, letting his steel skin absorb each of Kirishima's hardened blow as he solely concentrated on the offensive. This however was proving to be to his detriment eventually his defenses started to wane after several bouts, all of which accumulated in a very visible flinch of pain after the latest round of Kirishima's jabs.

"Alright, it's time for the grand finale" Kirishima's grin was wide and predatory, as he decided it was finally time to move on the offensive. Showing no care at all for the defense of his body, knowing his quirk would be more than a match for whatever Tetsutetsu could throw. Kirishima threw himself entirely into the offensive.

It was an almost entire role reversal from what it had been at the start, with Tetsutetsu almost completely on the defensive and Kirishima raining down blows upon him without any care for his own defenses.

The difference was that unlike Kirishima, Tetsutetsu didn't have any defense for the blows that got through and hence each blow, blocked or not, packed the power of a professional boxer, not to mention that unlike a boxers glove, his fists were hardened to the max.

"This match is over" said Izuku as he leaned back and turned to look at his partner, I suggest you go ahead and prepare for yours Momo"

"Any words of advice?" the black haired girl asked with the quirk of her lips.

"Even better" responded as he dug out of one his hero notebooks "Page sixty-nine, quite a bit of it is speculation, but even then I'm sure you'll be able to create a battle plan."

"Thank you" said Momo with a nod of her head as she took the notebook and made her way to the waiting room to prepare for her match.

"Match Six" announced Midnight "Yaoyorozu vs Tsuburaba, Begin!"

Yaoyorozu tilted her head to the side as she observed her opponent, who seemed to take a deep breath of air as he waited for her to make a move.

'Name: Kosei Tsuburaba, Quirk: Solid Air' she recited in her head as her hand started glowing 'his quirk allows him to solidify air to form a wall or platform through his breath. Izu theorized that eventually he would be able to use move his creations and use them like weapons, or even create giant maze and castle like structures depending on the limits of his quirk, but for now it was a purely defensive and supplementary ability.'

Grabbing the fully formed steel staff in her had she began to twirl it around, her eyes observing every movement her opponent made as she continued to think 'Could I by pass his barrier, or can he make them fast enough that my only choice is to go through them. On one hand I need to be sparse with how I use my quirk for the upcoming rounds. On the other…'

Without a second's hesitation Yaoyorozu threw her staff at her opponent's chest, as if it were a javelin. Tsuburaba immediately blew out the air in his mouth and created a solid shield in front of his chest, just in the nick of time.

"Breaking through it is" said Yaoyorozu aloud, as her had glowed again. This time she created a far shorter, but very deadly weapon, a Morningstar Mace "Ready or not here I come!"

"Huh, Hawkgirl Momo, go figure" said Izuku with a smile as she watched his partner smash through everything in her path "Wonder if Mei will be up to creating a winged jet-pack for her, kind of like Falcons."

"Falcon's?" asked Ochako as she overheard her best friends murmurs.

"It's nothing" said Izuku as he shook his head slightly "Regardless, tell me what you think about Momo's fight Ochako"

"Tsuburaba has no chance does he" said Ochako as she commented on the match before her "Yaoyorozu is smashing through everything he throws up, and his barriers aren't strong enough yet to withstand her."

"Good enough" said Izuku as she watched Momo push her opponent further and further back "And if you were in his place what would you do?"

"Try and get around her" came the immediate reply "She's expending more energy breaking those barriers than he is creating it, if he could get her to chase him around the arena, then he could simply outlast her"

"And what makes you think he hasn't thought of that already?"

"Because he would have done so if that were the case"

"Are you sure about that Ochako" asked Izuku "Look carefully at the movement of their feat"

Ochako looked down at the arena concentrating on the movements of the two combatants below"

"She is mirroring his movements" said Izuku as Ochako's eyes widened, his words confirming what her eyes were seeing "Choppily yes, as she needs her own footwork to give strength to her swings, but the idea is there. Every time he moves to the side she does so too, preventing him from either circling her or getting around her. And if he tries to dive or dash out of the way, then he will get a stomach full of mace as a reward for his folly."

Izuku watched as Tsuburaba, who was right at the edge, tried to dive out of the way in desperation, but Momo lashed out with her leg, blocking him and pushing him back. Tsuburaba had but a moment to put up another barrier, before Momo's swing her mace, breaking through the barrier, had hitting him straight in the stomach, knocking him out of the arena.

"Kosei Tsuburaba is out of bounds" Midnight announced "Momo Yaoyorozu wins!"

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The next match is Ida vs Mei (cannon matchup) nothing has changed in that matchup and nothing will change, so if you want go watch it please read the manga or watch the anime, i am not touching that bout of insanity with a ten foot poll.

Moving on...

Author Notes

This is the list of Matchups for round one, for all those who I know will ask.

Minetta vs Shinso
Monoma vs Izuku
Todoroki vs Shoji
Sero vs Tysuu
Kirishima vs Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu
Momo vs Tsuburaba
Mei vs Ida
Ibara vs Bakugo
Ochako vs Tokoyami

With what's about to happen to Tenya (oh, should that happen or not? Please decide down in the comments) Ida would have withdrawn and Mei would have forfeited, so things all seem to work out. If you guys ask me to spare Tenya I will, and I will instead give someone a bi, as is the case in normal tournaments with an odd man out. I've already got it all worked out.

OK, confession time. This story, as I am sure most of you have noticed now is completely different than most other works, that because I'm not writing a book, I'm writing scenes. I wanna try my luck at writing screenplays and hence I need to change my writing style to suit that medium, and that's what this fic reflects, a collection of scene after scene after scene. I know this is not most people's cup of tea, but please bear with me.

EDelta88: Thank you for leaving a review mate. Also Momo, even as a student with no combat experience (i.e day one) is beyond broken. And she is scarily intelligent. I mean when you sit down and think of the way her quirk is supposed to work, and the fact that she managed to create a tracker, and well, it's insane. And that's exactly what I plan on making her, Insane (at least in terms of Combat)

Sandman001: Actually the translation I use to read used Ida instead of Iida. So I just went with that. Once I reach Chapter Ten, I plan on reading through the entire thing, making all the corrections, removing all the kinks and hammering out all the details. I'll make the changes then so please bear with me till then.

Nixxon Mysterio: That's the plan man, that's the plan. Thank you for all your support. Also, they do make quite the cute couple don't they, I just don't get why people don't ship them more.

.master : I understand, and thank you for all your support. In regards to the names, I was actually planning on going with the whole DC motif, like Canary Cry from Black Canary as well as a few others, that you will see. I'll also be borrowing a few jutsu's from Naruto as well, just to throw fuel to the fire… we'll see how things go.

D3lph0xL0v3r: Thank you, just Thank you, your kind words of praise just fill with me with joy, it makes me feel that my writing is actually worth something and so I thank you from the bottom of my heart and I hope this chapter is to your liking.

Blade1hunter: Bladehunter, while I doubt you'll read this, I guess all I can say is that I am sorry. My grammer and spellings are atrocious, a side effect of a disability I had to overcome when I was young. And I suck at beginnings. I can't make them. I can elaborate on things once there are already in place and bring them to a whole new area, but I'm horrible with beginnings. I guess, all I can say is that I am sorry and I'll try to do better.

Guest: (Shoji Comment): I guess I didn't think that math, all the way through, I was kinda going for a double of Bakugo. But Honestly, it's not that off the mark really. People just don't seem to get just how crazy strong Shoji is. I mean with each duplicate arm he makes, his strength is halved, in that arm. And if I'm not mistaken, going by the manga and anime, his fourth arm has the strength of the average well-built human. I bet Shoji could easily out power a Sato who is buffed up on sugar.

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