Hope you all enjoy this sorry for it being so late.
Standing before Kirishima and Bakugo was the final boss, who was a robotic Minotaur, with its arms crossed, guarding the only way out. And that wasn't the only annoyance that they had to deal with, coming up quick were two other teams running for the door: Team Spiderman and Team Midoriya. The humanoid bull just looked at its assailants as if they were gnats that needed to be swatted away. Both Bakugo and Kirishima were on guard with their opponent with Kirishima activating his quirk and hardening skin. Though before he was all the way back behind everyone else, it was able to make it up to them in a short amount of time.
"Oi, what kind of look you giving me," asked Bakugo, "you should change your mood before I fucking make you."
To further emphasize his point he sparked explosions in his open palm. As if provoked by that challenge, it uncrossed its arms and gave the duo its full attention. Bakugo noticed this act and started positioning his arms in case the thing made a move. Kirishima also took a more wide stance in order to better withstand an attack. For just a brief moment, there was nothing but the sounds of footsteps drawing closer. Suddenly, the Minotaur reeled its arms back and tried to swipe at both of them. Bakugo launched himself to the side with his quirk and kept on going for the head. However, Kirishima chose to block the attack, with the ground cracking somewhat underneath him. He couldn't really move from his position since the Minotaur was still pushing its fist into him.
"Hey Bakugo, if you could, do you think you could help me out down here," asked Kirishima.
"Don't worry," responded Bakugo, "by the time I'm done with it, we'll already have this shit first event as good as won."
Bakugo had finally landed on top of its head and poised his hands right above the poll. With a menacing grin, you started a barrage of constant explosions on top of its head. With each explosion, it seemed as if the non-stop push of Robo-Mino got weaker and weaker. He wasn't thinking of stopping anytime soon, at least not until the inside of Minotaur's head combusted and it on the floor smoking. However, that wouldn't be the case as its hands came up and grabbed him.
Bakugo could only curse at the thing as he fired his explosions on its hooves. "Fuck! Get your goddamn hooves off me!"
Instead of putting him safely on the ground, the Minotaur opted to throw away from the door.
"DDDDAAAAMMMMITTTTTT!"
"Bakugo!"
Kirishima couldn't really see what was going on since his face could only see a metallic hoof. But he did hear Bakugo get sent flying and now it was just him and the Minotaur. And it seemed it resumed hits pressure upon him. Maybe if he could push back just some more, he could get a shot in and maybe destroy the thing. Yes, even among this, a man would never give up, even if his efforts may be in vain. With a new resolve, he started pushing back harder, with the Minotaur answering that push with an even stronger push right back.
"You…Think…You…Can…Beat…ME?! I'll…show…you…what…I…can…do," spoke all the while gritting his teeth and pushing back even harder.
However, he soon found himself almost falling to the floor, right after the pressure from the Minotaur's fist suddenly vanished.
"Whoa. Whoa."
He barely caught himself from falling on his face only to look up to see the Minotaur crouching on the ceiling, flashing its red eyes at him. It only took a second to realize what it was getting ready to do, but it was already too late as it launched itself back at Kirishima ready to crush him against its horns. Kirishima brought his arms up again to brace against the impact, but even he didn't think it would do that much to protect him. But then he was pulled away just as the Minotaur crashed into the ground, where he was just a moment ago.
"Whew, that was a close one. A second later and it would have been hard to figure out if you were the floor or not."
Kirishima looked to find that Spiderman had saved him from nearly becoming paste.
"Thanks, man. You're a real life saver."
Spiderman offered him a hand up, which he gladly obliged. As he got up, the Minotaur wretched its head from the ground where it left a crater in the cement. It turned its head to the side to look at Kirishima and Spiderman. Both of them got back into a battle ready position and not once taking their eyes off it.
"Hey Longhorn, you really shouldn't ram your head into things, it's not good for the ole noggin. You really could lose some important stuff in there."
The bull just huffed out steam from its nostrils as it continued to stare at the two. Soon, however, the Minotaur was surrounded by the rest of the people that were in the running for the door surrounded it with the recovered, but angry, Bakugo with them.
"You're gonna get butchered for that cow," threatened Bakugo. Only to have Minotaur ignore him, which only made him more furious. He took a step forward as he was about to again attack the Minotaur.
"Why you…I'm gonna fry you till you're nothing but a cr—."
He was interrupted by, Dark-Shadow which in turn meant he was stopped by Tokoyami.
"Get your shit out of my way before I tear it from you," demanded Bakugo.
Still, with his stoic demeanor showing on his face he responded to Bakugo.
"You can't just rush in there without a plan. Or did you forget that you got sent flying."
"Shut up, It only got lucky once. Now get out of my way."
Bakugo forced himself through Dark-Shadow and lunged at it once again, starting with its hind legs. As Bakugo attacked, everyone else was hesitating about what to do. On one hand, they could just leave with Bakugo keeping it busy, but leaving him would leave a bad taste in their mouths. They looked back to see that Bakugo was trying to blow his way through the Minotaur stomach, but the only thing that he seemed to be doing was only singeing the coat off the robot. Kirishima had enough standing on the sidelines and watching his partner fight alone. He hardened his skin again and jumped at its back putting a dent in it. The Minotaur reached for Kirishima, but couldn't exactly reach him.
Kirishima cracked a grin, "Can't reach huh? Well, hope you don't mind if I put some dents into you."
He began punching the back of the Minotaur trying to at least damage it. But he barely made a dent after his constant punching. The other robots weren't this durable. Just one punch and they'd either explode into pieces or just fall. But this thing was not only strong but durable. He couldn't decide which was worse: One enemy that was very strong or many that are very weak.
The Minotaur was getting annoyed with pest on its back. Since he couldn't get him off his back the usual way, it'll just have to figure out a different way to get rid of this itch. It jumped again though not as strong as the first time and slammed his back into the wall leaving Kirishima in the wall.
"Ok, enough standing around," spoke Spiderman as he ran after Minotaur. "Win or lose, I'm not gonna let some huck of metal beat up my friends…Maybe Bakugo."
Bakugo gritted his teeth at that comment. "Shut up." He then raced after him.
As Spiderman drew closer, the Minotaur took notice of him.
"So, a question for you Robo-Mino, are actually compelled to ram anything with the color red?" asked Spiderman. "Regardless if it's with your head or arms. Because I would think that you would be able to at least resist that common trend."
It looked at the wall-crawler and when he was within reach tried to punch him. Spiderman jumped above the punch, and using the hoof he launched himself and kicked the Minotaur in the chin which caused it to careen its head back. He landed behind it, only to have his spider-sense to go off making him dodge out of the way of another punch.
"You recover fast, most guys your size would be amazed by that kick," commented Spiderman all the while dodging all the strikes. "Several of them took a second to recover because they can't believe something like me can pack quite a punch."
He caught one of its arms and threw it into a wall. Bakugo landed right next to him having, though he didn't show it, he was extremely surprised that Spiderman threw a 20-foot robot without much effort. With every fight, competition, or exercise they do he finds something else that Spiderman has an advantage over him. And another thing he has on his mind in order to close the gap in their abilities. The Minotaur tried to get up, but appeared that is was damaged enough, and collapsed back to the ground. Everyone soon came up behind the two all surprised about what they all just saw.
"Wow, I know you were able to stop a car from crushing you, but I didn't think you were that strong," spoke Uraraka.
Tokoyami responded agreeing to the notion, "Yes, its quite amazing that you hold such power within you. As always you are quite spectacular Spiderman."
"Yea you guys never have seen all his muscles it's quite impressive," spoke Kirishima.
Everyone looked in the direction of Kirishima, who only shrugged his shoulders.
"What? It's not weird to understand your rivals body type in order figure out your own way to beat them. Besides you guys see me without my shirt all the time."
"Aww you guys are making me blush," the wall-crawler scratched the back of his head.
Bakugo crossed his arms but didn't move from his spot. Instead, he looked at the Minotaur and gave it a glaring look.
Spiderman looked back at the robot as if he was waiting for something to happen. Midoriya was also looking over at the robot, though it was always cool to see a fight with potential heroes, something felt off about fight. It seemed as if it went down too easily given that Kirishima couldn't really put a dent in the thing and Bakugo had trouble damaging it. It was as if it was playing possum, waiting for a moment to strike or charging for something outrageous.
"Now I guess its back to racing to the door," said Kirishima. He fist pumped his arm into the air, ready to win the event. "Last one to the gate—."
Before he could finish Spiderman yelled, "GET DOWN!"
Just five-seconds ago, it was all fine, but now his spider-sense was screaming in his head telling him to move. The Minotaur had gotten up and laughed itself at the group in the span of a few seconds. Luckily since Midoriya and Bakugo were already alert and looking at the robot so they were already moving out of the way when it started moving. Unluckily, the rest were already slow on the uptake, pushed Tokoyami and Kirishima out of the way and grabbed Uraraka and threw her into the air.
"URARAKA! FLOAT! NOW!"
Uraraka was barely able to process everything that just happened, but since she was in the air and getting ready to fall back to the ground. She activated her quirk and began floating down.
The web-slinger barely had time to jump out of the way before he was skewered upon the horn.
"That was a close one, you almost made several of my baddies sad that they couldn't finish me off. But seriously you need to a better trick instead of ram something and then stopping to for punch."
However, as the Minotaur neared a wall it flipped in order to plant his feet upon the wall and launched himself off it hurtling toward Spiderman.
"Huh," remarked Spiderman just as he landed on the ceiling. "I guess that is different. But 0 points for creativity."
Spiderman jumped off the ceiling with the Robo-Mino chasing after him. They kept on jumping from wall to ceiling to wall to floor. Spiderman could keep this up for a while, however, he was more concerned about the others, and he could end up crashing into them if he wasn't careful. The rest picked themselves up and Uraraka finally made it back on the ground. They looked at the ensuing chase, trying to figure out how they can beat an unstoppable force.
"We gotta help him," cried out Uraraka.
"I know but we can't even get close," said Kirishima. "Even if we tried to, I don't know whether we'll get in the way."
"Well, we can't just stand here and do nothing."
"What we could do is leave the bug to handle this himself. He seems capable enough."
Tokoyami could only look at him in shock. "You would leave the person who went in to save you. You are my vicious than I thought, Bakugo."
"You forget bird brain. This is a competition, I don't give a damn if he helped me, that was his chose if he gets trapped that was his fault."
Midoriya was trying to rack his brain. None of them were fast enough to reach to Spiderman, and even if they were the only one who may be durable enough to take a hit from it was Kirishima. Maybe he could try using his quirk. No, that wouldn't work either. I still don't know if I can control my quirk, even with all the practice Spiderman and I did. They didn't have much time since Spiderman couldn't hold it off forever. They also didn't have the time. The longer this kept up the higher the probability that some more of the competition could arrive. He looked back at them watching zip around the room. They were going incredibly fast, maybe if…
He snapped his head back at everyone. "Guys, I got an idea. But we're gonna need to blow off its springs on the back of its legs to prevent it from moving so much and ramming us."
Everyone looked at him as if he was crazy.
"You do realize that we get flattened if we tried going stopping that thing while it's jumping around right," pointed out Tokoyami. "Not to mention, Spiderman is still fighting that thing. What will happen if he gets distracted for a moment seeing us trying to fight it?"
"That's why we'll get him to stop it."
Spiderman was still evading the Minotaur. They weren't getting anywhere from dodging but he was too concerned not trying to put the rest in harm's way. He barely had time to look around, as the Minotaur would be close to crushing him. He needed to get it away from them in order to fight this thing without having to worry about them. If he had his webs he could maybe immobilize it when it landed. Or maybe he could shoot webs in its eyes. He was starting to regret leaving his web-shooters in his other clothes.
"SPIDERMAN!"
He looked in the direction of the shout and saw Midoriya running toward him. If he got any closer, it'd be possible that the Minotaur will go for him. He landed on a wall tried to say what he had before he had to jump again.
"Stay away Midoriya. I don't want you getting attacked."
"Don't worry, we have a plan to take it out. We just need you to stop it."
He considered it, I thought it might work. I, however, he wasn't sure how long it would stay stunned before it reared its horns on the others. Then again he didn't have any better ideas, and play tag wasn't getting them anywhere.
"Ok but if it gets too hairy backoff."
"Right."
He just leaped off the wall and began moving toward the opposite side of the room.
"Hey discount Rhino, bet you can't break this wall with my body." And right on time, the Minotaur was charging right for him and looked like gaining speed since it was back on the ground. His spider-sense, of course, was going off, but he needed to wait just a little bit longer. When the Minotaur was about to impaled against the wall, he leaped over the Minotaur leaving it to crash into the wall.
He dusted some of the dust off that got caught on his clothes. "Well, you almost got through, but I wasn't really in the mood to be a battering ram. But thanks for the…Mino…Tour."
It tried to remove its head from the wall but found itself stuck. It tried again but to no avail. Spiderman turned to the rest of the group. "So tell me again what the plan wa—."
He then heard a crunching sound behind him to see that Kirishima was breaking the springs on the back of its legs.
"RAaah, there now it can't bounce around everywhere. Uraraka you're up."
"Right. You can count on me." She ran up to it and place both her hands on the leg. She activated her quirk causing for the bottom half to start floating up. It was still trying to get out of its predicament, as if getting out of the hole meant more to it, than what was going on with the rest of its body. Tokoyami came up with Dark shadow and had it grasp one of the Minotaurs legs. He attempted to wretch it out but he was having a little problem. It seemed it was stuck in there pretty well.
"Spiderman if you would," he spoke as he gestured his the Minotaur."
"Help out pulling Pooh out of Rabbit's hole?"
Though confused, Tokoyami just nodded his head. Spiderman usually understood what was going on and what they were talking about so this should be no different. The wall-crawler walked over to one of the legs of and grasped it. He then began pulling on it with Dark Shadow grasping the other and pulling. Soon it was out of the wall and floating with Dark Shadow still attached to it. Uraraka started to cup her mouth in order to suppress her body's urge to puke.
She spoke while still maintaining her quirk and keeping her vomit down, "Please hurry. I don't know how much longer I can keep this up." Her cheeks bulged once more as she forced it back down.
"No need to worry Uraraka, this will be resolved in a moment. Dark Shadow."
Listening to its partner, it started slamming the Minotaur against the ground. At first, it didn't seem as if it was doing anything, but after the 4th slam, the Minotaur started seeing some parts flying off. However, it jammed its arm into the ground, preventing itself from being lifted in the air again.
"Just let yourself be defeated you iron monster," yelled Tokoyami through his gritting teeth. This was starting to become very difficult, it felt as if it was getting heavier. That could only mean that Uraraka was starting to lose control. Everyone noticed that Tokoyami was starting to have trouble and they all knew what was happening. Midoriya ran up Uraraka to give his support as much as he could. It already looked like she was about to let go.
"I..can't.. ..d it any lon..ger."
She deactivated her quirk, causing for the Minotaur's legs to fall back to the ground. Making it impossible for Darkshadow to even budge the Minotaur. Dark shadow soon retreated back into Tokoyami. He soon collapsed to a knee, obviously drained from exerting Darkshadow too much trying to lift the thing. It started to get back up with much difficulty since its main supports for its leg was destroyed.
"I knew the fucking nerd's plan wouldn't work," yelled out Bakugo.
"Crap I didn't think it would have that much of self-preservation will," spoke Kirishima. "Just like the myths where heroes fought these monsters."
"If you're too busy admiring the goddamn bull. I'm gonna blast it into the fucking ground."
Bakugo raced toward the struggling iron bull ready to end its life. He was aiming for its elbow, to make it almost impossible for the thing to fight back. However, the Minotaur lurched its arm pinned Bakugo to the ground.
He started blasting large digits to get free. "Dammit. Not again. I'll kill you. I'll send you to hell after you let go of me."
"Crap, Bakugo got caught again. Come on Kirishima, let's go save your short-fused friend"
"Right."
Spiderman and Kirishima ran to free their 'friend'. But they were wary of Minotaur though it only had one limb that preoccupied inoperable. Kirishima activated his quirk as they drew closer their eyes started to focus upon the only unimpeded arm, but then the wall crawler's spider-sense went off. He looked to the side to an incoming kick coming right for them. Though Spiderman was able to dodge, he failed in warning Kirishima in time who took the kick and got sent skidding across the floor.
Spiderman cried out, "Kirishima!"
His spider-sense and saw the free hand going for him. He couldn't move completely in the air and his leg was grabbed. He was then thrown back on the ground then was trapped after the Minotaur jammed its three fingers into the ground.
"Not good." He tried lifting the hand off of him, however, since it was embedded in the ground and the Minotaur put most of its weight on that hand, he was unable to make it budge.
"I blame you short fuse."
"Shut up, fucking bug."
They continued to try to escape, with Spiderman trying to lift thing off him and Bakugo trying to rupture the hand of the Minotaur. It was still propping itself up from its Everyone was either pinned, incapacitated or too tired to give an attack. Or at least that was what someone was thinking. Midoriya was the only one who wasn't down. It was up to him this would be easy to take it down, but he was still unsure if he would be able to use his quirk and not break his bones in the process. Though this is what all that training was for, he felt as if he would mess up this time, after all his plan did get the lot of them incapacitated. Maybe he should wait for another team to come to the—. He looked at Kacchan and Spiderman, still fighting, not giving up. He closed his fist into a ball. He can't just give up, there are people still trying to win. He couldn't prove to the world that another symbol of peace was in the making if he just waited for people to help him. He'd have to show everyone that he had just much of a reason to be here as the rest of them, but not only that he wanted to fight all the strongest students, including Kacchan and Spiderman. He called upon One-for-All into his legs and bolted toward the Minotaur who was keeping his friends from moving.
"If I remember correctly, robots have several weak points, especially in their joints. But for it to be taken down completely, the head needs to be taken out."
He stopped right under the Minotaur's neck, leaving a trail of torn up cement behind him trying in an attempt to slow him down. Leaving Spiderman and Bakugo dumbfounded.
"DEKU?!"
"Midoriya!?"
He smiled at them, which pissed off Bakugo. "Don't worry guys, I'll take it from here."
He jumped up and enveloped his arm in an orange hue with red streaks. As he drew closer, he gritted his teeth and pulled back his arm ready to punch through. He hoped that he wouldn't break his arm. He thrust his arm through the Minotaur's neck, practically lobbing off its head. It crashed right between Bakugo and Spiderman, with the last of its power draining and its eyes fading out. The rest of the body collapsed onto the ground with its upper body being supported by its arm. Everyone had their jaw wide open after seeing Midoriya practically burst through the Minotaurs neck, all except Spidey.
"Nice going Midoriya, too bad you couldn't see the look on its face when he punched through him."
"Do you ever shut up."
Midoriya landed on Minotaur and tumbled down its back. He picked himself up and tried to assess what may or may not be broken.
"Arm not scratched up, and my legs just feel kinda sore. But nothing's broken! Guess all that training really did pay off."
He clenched his fist and silently thanked Spiderman's help, with a tear creeping out of his eye. Uraraka got up and ran up to Midoriya.
"Great job, Deku. That was amazing! You punched its lights out. Oh and look you didn't break your arm this time.
"Ur..ura..raka! Y..ea. I..wa..s.. tra..ining to im..prove m..y quirk befo..re the st..art of the sp..orts festi..val. I was ho..ping th..at I wou..ld get th..is good."
Midoriya kept on trying to hide his blush from her. Even after all this time and the weeks, he still couldn't look at her without getting nervous. She kept on smiling at him. She always admired him and his quirk was just amazing. The first time she saw him do this kind of thing, he practically blew away an arena trap, another time he flung a ball 750 meters with just his finger. Heck, she even used the wreckage from one of his punches as munition to win one of their battle trial they had their first week. If he was involved it seemed he could rise above the challenge and meet it head-on.
Spiderman tilted his head back to call out to them. "Hey, if you guys are down with patting yourselves on the back could you get this bucket of bolts off me. Not this guy here, This is the perfect shell for him."
"Just fucking die already."
After getting released from the confines of the Minotaur, the 3 teams took a breath from their battle. Though none of them were badly hurt, though Kirishima had taken a bad hit in the last attack, he seemed fine and just felt sore. Now nothing really was stopping them from getting out of here and winning the first event. The longer they just stood there, the likely hood of someone showing up grew much larger.
Kirishima was the first to speak. "So I doubt that they have another big bad waiting for us, but I'd rather not find out."
"Good suggestion Kirishima," remarked Spiderman. "So are we gonna do another race again. Or are we gonna sluggishly walk to the door."
Uraraka raised her finger. "I vote for taking our time."
Tokoyami and Darkshadow opted to vote with her. "We second that."
"How bout I make it easier for the all of you and just cross the fucking door."
They all looked at Bakugo and started laughing.
Spiderman took a moment to wipe a fake tear from his eye lens. "Ok Banger Mcsplosion, leave it to me to tell the jok…"
Spiderman could already see Bakugo running for the door and getting ready to blast it open again. He started running after him, not wanting to get left behind he raced a, leaving everyone else having to realize that two of the six people have left. Soon they all were trying to catch up to them, luckily for all of them the door was still closed so at least he'll have to… Bakugo tried blasting the door open only to make it bend somewhat, however, Spiderman jumped and kicked the door open and continued running until he got to the first step to a stairway running up to an opening of light.
"Great," Spiderman sighed, "Stairs and the rays of sunshine shining through. I feel as if this is an end of an episode or something."
His spider-sense went off but since it wasn't too bad he just let it slide. Then his head was pushed slightly down because Bakugo used it as a springboard.
"Then maybe you shouldn't stand around like a damn character in your shows."
Bakugo then jumped from his head and started running up. Spiderman rubbed the back of his head looking at Bakugo heading out.
"Did you really need to use my head as a trampoline." Taking a step he bounded toward Bakugo with little to no effort but as he tried to pass, Bakugo attempted to grab the back of Spiderman's shirt, but the web-slinger jumped on the wall to avoid the hand but got the end of his mask caught.
"He…y..y let go. I know I made a few cracks at you, but that doesn't mean you get to touch the mask." He reached out and grabbed onto Bakugo's spiked hair.
"At least I can keep you from getting ahead of me," spouted Bakugo as he still attempted to de-mask the wall-crawler.
To his credit, he had noticed that Spiderman had been very protective of his mask. He never has seen him without his mask at all even during lunch. He came upon him one time when he was eating lunch, though he seemed to stop at his nose all too suddenly as if he sensed he was there. But now since he's distracted he may be able to pass him, and finally beat him. With this realization, he could only grin at the idea.
Back at the foot of the stairs the rest the group had finally made it and looked up seeing Bakugo and Spiderman "fighting" while they'll were climbing the stairs.
Tokoyami could only look at them and sigh.
"Are they really fighting while running up the stairs? Though all of us are tired, they somehow have the energy to bicker."
"Hey, that's how people bond, through fighting with their fists and understanding their struggles through their fists."
Midoriya could only look at the antics going in front of them but then turned his attention to two running for the gold. They're already close to finishing, but the only reason that they haven't already won was that both of them were keeping each other in check. Well, Spiderman was just acting as if this would slow him down. They were getting closer to them, but not quick enough for them to pass them quickly. If he was going to close the gap he needed to capitalize on this. He could use "One-for-All," but he'd create knockback that the others wouldn't be prepared for and he didn't want to hurt anyone. So maybe he could have Uraraka make him weightless again. The only problem is that she already was tired from the fight and barely recovered. But this is the only way so he turned to Uraraka.
"Uraraka, I have an idea for us to win this thing. But I need you to use your quirk one more time. Even if it's only for a second, it will be a great help."
She looked at him with a troubled look. Just as he thought, she was still tired and still needed time to recover, but this is was the home stretch and if they didn't do something quick they won't come in first. But after second her expression turned into a smile.
"If it's you Deku, I think you can pull us the win. But I might be only able to get you about 2 seconds." She extended her hand and opened her palm ready to activate her quirk for him.
Midoriya blushed but then gave her a toothy grin. "That's all I need and thanks. I'll win this for us."
"Ha, you better."
He slapped his hand against her hand and noticed he was slightly lighter. With no time wasting, he activated his quirk on the low side and jumped for the two leaders ahead and bypassing the two guys in front of him. He was close to hitting the ceiling until gravity became a factor, and started falling right in front of Bakugo and Spiderman.
"What the hell?! How the fuck did you get here Deku?!"
"Midoriya?! You didn't tell me you could fly!"
Though he passed them, it was only for a moment as he started losing momentum and they were catching up fast. He didn't have much time before they passed him again and he'd be tumbling down the stairs. If he was going to win this, he needed to use the people behind him to give him a "push." Bakugo outstretched his hands and started rocketing toward him, furious that he somehow got in front of him.
"Deku, the hell do you think you're doing? Stay behind me and fucking lose."
Spiderman ran up alongside him in case Bakugo tried to do anything to Midoriya.
"Come just a little closer…"
Finally, Bakugo and Spiderman were in the position he needed them to be. Midoriya bent his legs and activated his quirk. He thrust his legs back and with the force his legs made, he created an air current that not only propelled him further up the stairs but sent the wall-crawler and Bakugo flying back down the stairs.
"Sorry Spiderman, but I gotta win this."
As he drew closer and closer he could hear the audience growing louder. And landing started to come to mind once again. Hopefully, he would make it to the exit before having to make an abrupt landing on stairs. Finally, he was about to shoot out, when he heard Present Mic speaking.
"In first place we have… Team Izuku Midoriya and Ochaco Uraraka!"
He finally reached the top of the stairs and the finish line. The crowd was cheering and he could see the confetti floating down.
"I did it! I beat Spiderman and Kacchan. Did you see All-M—"
He fell back onto the ground, having finally slowed down enough to which gravity could pull him back on the ground. He picked him up himself and had a tear in his eye. Not from the fall, but the happiness that he was able to win and show All-Might he could win this thing. He looked toward the crowd hoping to see All-MIght. When he finally laid his eyes on him he saw that him clapping and smiling at him. Midoriya wiped a tear off his face and smiled back at him.
"Now let's see which team or person finishes second, please direct your attention back to the opening."
The crowds turn their heads back to the stairs opening in the ground where Midoriya had shot out of, they all waited with anticipation who would make it out. Soon a brunette could be seen bouncing as she drew closer to the top and outran Uraraka.
"Though she already won alongside Midoriya, Uraraka is the second to rise from the labyrinth."
Uraraka took a few steps then crouched over try to regain some breaths. After she got a little stamina back, she looked to see Midoriya walking over to her. She stood back up and greeted Midoriya with a smile.
"Uraraka?! How did you get past Tokoyami and Kirishima? We were behind them when I jumped."
"Oh, that?" She smirked replied, "I got enough energy to use my quirk again and used it to speed myself. I only had to worry about Tokoyami and Dark-Shadow."
Midoriya blinked a few moments.
"R..r..eally!?"
The only thing he got from her was a laugh and her hand resting on his shoulder trying to keep her from falling from laughter.
"Nah, that didn't happen," she said in between fits of giggles. "Whatever you did up there, it sent Spiderman and Bakugo flying back us. Tokoyami tried to catch Spiderman, but when he had Dark-Shadow catch him, he got pulled along by Spidey with Tokoyami in tow. Kirishima, on the other hand, got head-butted by Bakugo and I think he might be out cold."
Midoriya gave her a blank look. He couldn't believe his plan could actually cause all that.
"So it should take them a little longer for them to make it up, right?"
Uraraka shook her head, "I didn't say that, as I ran up I could hear—"
She was interrupted by the loud yelling coming from the stairs. They turned to see Bakugo coming up from the dark standing in the light with a bump on his head.
"And the second team to return to the light is…Team Katsuki Bakugo and Eijiro Kirishima! Look at the determination, he didn't even try to give up after getting sent flying by Midoriya!"
"Bakugo looked incredibly angry and when he locked his eyes on Midoriya, it only intensified. He angrily and slowly walked toward Midoriya and Uraraka. His face also sporting an anger that Midoriya had never before seen. In all honesty, he was definitely scared what Bakugo might do to him if he got to close. Then they all heard the sound of running footsteps, they all turned to look who was going be the 3rd team to make it up. Soon something black and spiky could be seen steadily rising from the stair and when I become a little easier to see, they could see something red be carried on the side. Finally, they were able to distinguish who was rising up and Tokoyami could be seen.
"I can't believe it. Somehow Tokoyami was able to make it all the way back up in record time from the bottom of the stairs. The third team to come out is…Team Fumikage Tokoyami and Spiderman!"
As finally stepped away from the stairs they could get a better look at him… or rather 'them.'
Tokoyami was getting piggyback from Spiderman while he had a slightly dazed Kirishima on his side with an arm wrapped around him.
"Look at that! All the team leaders finally have all their members above ground. And who'd had thought Spidey would be carrying them all!"
Tokoyami got off of Spiderman's back and looked slightly embarrassed. Spiderman looked and saw Midoriya and rest and walked over them still carrying Kirishima with Tokoyami walking beside him.
"Hey guys, that went well," Spiderman spoke, "seriously, Midoriya, are you sure you don't have any wind power or something. But it was all worth it to see Bakugo not understanding the concept of 'friendly fire'. "
"Fuck you bug," retorted Bakugo.
"Seriously, people start thinking that you have anger issues."
Kirishima finally started to stand up and the wall-crawler let go of him. Kirishima also had a bump on his head that, luckily, was going down.
"Now that we have our 3 teams, time to bring everyone else up to speed."
The rumbling started to occur and the ground opened up showing the labyrinth and its interworkings. Soon the walls shrunk into the ground showing how far everyone got in the labyrinth. It seemed that a lot of the students had made it to the Minotaur room and had only stopped because the labyrinth opened. All of Class-A made up the students in the room and most of Class-B was also there and a few stranglers.
"Everyone that has reached the boss room, you have made it to the second round. You will soon be told the rules for the next event."
Several cheers and angst sounds could be heard throughout the labyrinth. Soon everyone who had made it was again in front of Midnight, ready to hear the details of the next event. All the students who had made it was catching their breaths and discussing what the next event might entail. Though most of Class 1-A wanted to know what happened to that robot in the big room.
"How were you able to fight that robotic monstrosity," Tenya spoke rubbing his arm, "it's head was completely taken off?"
"Right? I ran past it and was like at the heck was that" chirped in Ashido. "I didn't have time to look since Momo and I didn't know how much time we had."
She extended her arms to get a better stretch until she felt she had stretched enough. With everyone finally calming down and getting some breath back, Midnight thought it time to let the details of the second event be known, by cracking her whip, bringing everyone's attention back to her. With everyone now being quiet it would be very difficult to not hear her.
"I know all of you are eager to get the second round started, but let me congratulate all of you who have made it this far." Now I know all of you were trying to do your absolute best, but in the end there can only be a few winners," she pointed her whip at the 6 people who made it out of the labyrinth first, "and we have our leaders our Team Midoriya, Team Bakugo, and Team Tokoyami.
Spiderman leaned into Tokoyami. "How come my name isn't first, I practically carried two teams."
"Oh hush," responded Tokoyami, It's not like its going to matter anyway."
"Yea? Then I haven't told you about my infamous luck."
"Now I can imagine what all of you feel, but don't worry let this notion calm you. You all have the chance to rise again because the next round you'll be hunting these leaders as hunters."
Everyone looked at each other and started whispering and glaring at the six, who could definitely feel them and their weight. Midoriya couldn't be more nervous until he remembered that he was the first one out. He was getting ready to tear up until he felt a hand rest on his shoulder. He looked to the side to see Spiderman giving him a silent thumbs up as if saying we're all in this together. This calmed him down and returned his eyes to Midnight.
"The second round is a Fox hunt after all. Its six against 36 and you all need to get something from them. Not much but some tails at least two you will need in order to progress. Unfortunately, there is only a few to go around so all of you will need to hold on to those tails as long as you can. Now the foxes will each have a certain amount of tails they will have with the 6th place having 2 tails, and 5th place 3 tails, and so on. This will go all the way to someone having nine tails. It is unfortunate though, that none of you weren't able to see the Minotaur in action. However, if you were to make it to it, then you would have had the chance to be apart of the leaders along with their partner. Alas, it did not come to pass, and Midoriya here was able to take it out. So I mark him as the nine tailed fox."
The tension among the students had grown from just an uncomfortable sensation to a killer intent all directed at Midoriya. He looked at Spiderman to find some comfort but the only he saw was him staring at him as well as if he was a fly caught in his web.
"What did I get myself into."
"Now your battlefield will be here!"
She whipped her whip, toward a section of the stadium, to which soon the hole opened up and a building began rising out of it. She looked at the students one last time and licked her lips.
"Happy hunting."
I hope you guys got liked it. I know that I promised to do this monthly, but since I couldn't keep it up on my end I'll just say I won't stop writing until I end it. No matter how long it takes. So hopefully it won't nearly take me as long for the next few chapters. And most of everyone's questions will be answered soon.