Chapter 8

Izuku and Mina quietly leapt through the open window on the first floor of the building. They slowly crept through the nearest hallway, whispering to one another.

"We both know Kacchan won't sit still long enough to defend the weapon. Our best bet is to sneak around him when he comes looking for us and then head directly for the weapon." Izuku said softly. Mina nodded an affirmative as they continued making their way through the building and up a few flights of stairs. They both suddenly stopped as they heard stomping coming from close by, more than likely from the hallway next to theirs. It picked up in volume until it sounded like it was right next to them and then stopped. Both Mina and Izuku began sweating knowing what was about to happen but knowing didn't stop the impact from being felt as the wall exploded outward sending both of them rolling across the floor.

Izuku and Mina were both coughing, trying to clear their lungs of the dust of the collapsed wall when they heard Katsuki talk through the smoke, "Bet you two thought you could just sneak past me? Bet you thought I would just come running down here without a plan? I had Earlobes tell me your exact location. There's no hiding from me, so come at me with everything you've got Izuku!" Izuku sighed and began to remove his gloves. He turned to Mina and spoke, "You should head for the weapon. I'll keep him distracted until I find a chance to meet up with you."

Mina nodded and began to run down the hallway, heading for the stairs, before she turned around and addressed Izuku, "You can beat him if you try Izuku. You're a lot stronger than you give yourself credit for." With that she turned and began running again. Izuku looked at her for a second, contemplating what she said before he turned to face his opponent. Katsuki, to his credit, looked rather calm for what was about to happen, although he still carried his signature smirk. "Let's go already!" Katsuki lunged forward using explosions to boost himself right at Izuku with a clenched fist. Izuku quickly thrust his palms at the ground and shouted, "Pad Cannon!" The force of air cracked the ground and sent a cloud of dust into the air blocking Katsuki's sight. This did not stop him from swinging a fist at where he believed Izuku to be. He hit nothing but air, clearing a path through the dust with the swing revealing Izuku had crouched and had his palms facing directly at Katsuki.

His eyes widened as he unclenched his fist and released an explosion, sending him spiraling away from the air blast that came half a second later. The blast shot through the ceiling and collapsed a portion of it sending even more dust into the air. Katsuki slid across the ground after he landed and looked at the dust cloud trying to anticipate his opponent's next move. He was not expecting Izuku to suddenly burst through the cloud and run straight at him with an open hand. He smirked and brought up his own hand and rushed as well. When they were about to meet in the middle, they slammed their right hands into each other like an overly-aggressive high-five.

An explosion rocked the center of their palms and grew in size as Katsuki let the explosion build to even greater heights. Izuku winced in pain as he could feel the heat on the rest of his hand other than his palm. The explosion continued to build until it could stand no more pressure from both sides and projected out each side into both walls of the hallway. The walls immediately collapsed from the force of the explosion and as the wall to the left collapsed sunlight began pouring through and illuminating both of the fighters. Izuku and Katsuki both stared at each other and panted slightly. Izuku softly spoke, "I'm not going to sit back and watch you get ahead anymore. I was fine with being number two and following your footsteps, but no more. Now that I know I can surpass you I will! I, will be number one!"

Katsuki ground his teeth and clenched his fists. They both took a deep breath and roared at one another. What followed was a flurry of compressed air and explosions as the two teenagers let their emotions rage. They slammed the palms together in blindingly fast rush attack that filled the entire area with smoke and rocked the building to its core.

Mina ran up the stairs as fast as her legs would carry her. She now knew there was no point to stealth with Jiro around. She would just have to take her in a straight fight. As she was running, she heard a loud boom and the entire building shook. She fought to regain her balance and leaned against the wall. She knew Izuku would be safe. After all this was just an exercise, but she couldn't help but worry slightly at that explosion. She continued making her way up the stairs until she finally came to the top floor. She was walking down the hallway when the building began to shake again and this time it didn't seem to be letting up.

Mina stumbled her way to a set of double doors and flung them open to see Jiro waiting in front of the weapon she was supposed to capture. Jiro currently had her hand to her ear and was yelling into her piece. "What the hell are you doing? It feels like your going to bring the whole building down." Mina could almost hear Katsuki yell back through his ear piece from several stories down. Jiro removed her hand from her ear and sighed, looking up at Mina. "I don't suppose you could make it easy on me and just let me capture you right?"

Mina smiled and shook her head, getting into a battle stance. Jiro sighed again, "I didn't think so, but it was worth a shot." Mina rushed at Jiro, sliding along the floor on a small pool of acid she let loose from her shoes. She began to build up some acid in her palms, ready to defend herself when one of Jiro's jacks extended and whipped Mina's knee hard. Mina stumbled and tripped, rolling along the ground until she stopped close to Jiro's feet. Jiro quickly ran forward with her capture tape and used her jacks to attempt to keep Mina in place. When she wrapped the jacks around her, she immediately recoiled in pain as her jacks felt like they were burning.

Mina turned on her side and smiled, "I figured you would try that. I had already built up acid around my forearms." Mina quickly lashed out with a kick, catching Jiro in the shins and knocking her to the ground. She jumped up and ran towards the weapon. She didn't make it far before she felt something wrap around her ankle and trip her up once again. Before she could make more acid to remove the jack it had already removed itself. Jiro stood and ran to Mina while she was down. Mina tried to stand by pushing her self up but another jack pulled her hand out from under her forcing her to slam her face into the ground.

Mina let some light acid build up on her skin before turning on the ground and slinging it at Jiro. Jiro jumped back to avoid the acid as it fell to the ground causing smoke to rise. Mina got up to her feet before Jiro could recover and built up more acid to throw. As she let loose with the ball of acid Jiro plugged her jacks into her boots and unleashed a burst of sonic waves that splattered the ball and scattered the acid all over the room. Jiro unleashed another wave that hit Mina directly and forced the girl onto her knees as her ears started ringing from the noise.

Jiro made her way across the room unleashing a burst every few moments to keep Mina in place. She made it to Mina who was still crouched down in pain and pulled out her capture tape. "Sorry, Ashido, but it looks like this is my win." However, before she could wrap the tape around her opponent Mina fell through the floor and down one story. Jiro looked to see that she had been releasing acid through her shoes the entire time she was down and had melted the floor underneath her. Mina looked up through the hole she had created and shouted up to Jiro, "Sorry, but I don't plan on being captured like that!" With that Mina made her way back to the stairs, intent on finishing this fight when the loudest explosion so far erupted somewhere underneath her and the building shook even more. Mina was about to make her way to the stairs when she noticed that the floor seemed tilted and it was getting worse. "No way! The building is falling!", she screamed.

A few moments earlier…

Izuku and Katsuki continued their rush attack down the hallway, neither one gaining any advantage over the other. Their fight was bringing down several walls as they continued their relentless assault. As they lashed out at one another with open palms Katsuki launched a kick at Izuku's ribs but he was prepared. Izuku shot out his hand and repelled the foot away sending Katsuki spiraling down the hallway where he landed on his side with an ungraceful thud. Before his opponent could recover Izuku crouched and put his hands forward palms out and began to rapidly thrust his hands toward Katsuki. "Thrust Pad Cannon!" Several compressed balls of air shot down the hallway at incredible speed.

Katsuki quickly shot up and pulled his hands together and formed an open claw with them. He unleashed a massive explosive shockwave from his hands at the approaching missiles. As the explosion hit the compressed air they popped and dispersed the air in several small shockwaves that destroyed most of the hallway. Both combatants panted heavily when they both noticed Katsuki's right gauntlet light up red. Katsuki smirked and raised his gauntlet at Izuku. "This will decide the fight, Izuku. Let's see if you're ready!"

Izuku gulped as he figured out what the grenade-like gauntlet was for, but he steeled himself and prepared for what was about to come. Katsuki pulled the pin on his grenade, not paying attention to All Might yelling in his ear, and a massive plume of fire and smoke shot out of his hand straight towards the green haired boy. As the wall of flames approached it destroyed what was left of the hallway. Izuku opened his arms wide and then clapped his hands together and where they met and let go there was a large influx of air as if he had created a vacuum bubble that was getting larger as he spread his arms. The explosion met the vacuum and spiraled toward the center of it.

The explosion continued to get sucked into the vacuum-like bubble and shrank and shrank until it was all contained inside of an air bubble. Izuku then pushed the bubble down until it was about the size of a softball. Katsuki looked on in bewilderment as his largest attack was completely nullified. He didn't notice that Izuku seemed to be straining. "Kacchan, what do I do with it? I can't keep it contained for long. If it blows up, it'll take the building with it!" Katsuki shook his head to come back to his senses and spat, "You idiot, just throw it into the next building!" Izuku wasn't sure what to do so he listened and used his palm to thrust the compressed explosion into the next building, which was exposed thanks to their fight. The ball soared through the window of the next building then there was a blinding flash as the explosion was unleashed.

Izuku rushed to Katsuki and put his palms forward to somewhat protect them from the blast. Even with Izuku protecting them they were launched through several walls as the blast penetrated the building they were in, collapsing even more walls behind them. Smoke and dust filled the area as the explosion finally ended but they weren't out of danger yet. The building was still shaking and it looked like the ceiling was about to collapse on them. Katsuki, who was bleeding slightly from the forehead, pulled Izuku to his feet. "Come on we have to get out of here! I think the goddamn building is falling!" Izuku's eyes widened, "What about Mina and Jiro?!" Katsuki clicked his tongue. He had forgotten about them.

Before they could decide what to do next a deep voice echoed through the building with a powerful shout, "I am here!" They heard a window shatter somewhere above them, somewhat surprised there were any unshattered windows left. Then they saw a shadow pass by their floor through a broken window before All Might leapt through. He quickly grabbed on to both boys and jumped out the same way he came in. They landed at the sidewalk in front of the building and All Might set them down on the street. Izuku was happy to see that both Jiro and Mina were already there.

Before he could say anything though All Might spoke up, "What were you thinking young Bakugo? Someone could have been seriously injured; and young Midoriya I know that you were under pressure but you must react faster next time you are holding a literal bomb. But we'll cover all of this in the review of your fight. All I can say is that neither team won and we'll have to use a new building for the next test but right now go and get patched up at the nurse's office unless you think your fine to watch the rest of the fights?" Both of the teams nodded the affirmative that they wanted to stay and watch. "Very well. Let's return to the monitor room."

Somewhere on Dagobah Beach a tall man was laying in the sand. He appeared unconscious by his slow breathing and closed eyes. But this peace didn't last as he shot up in an instant taking deep breaths and cautiously looking around. His hands shook as he ran them through his green hair, knocking loose sand from it. He lifted his hands in front of his eyes and saw one gold ring on his right index finger. At the sight of the ring the man began to laugh maniacally.

A/N

I'm very sorry I haven't updated in a while, but I haven't been inspired to write lately. And for those of you asking why I didn't put it in the crossover section of Fanfiction, it's because I didn't know I would be including more elements from One Piece at the beginning. And don't worry about characters from One Piece being overpowered. They have to follow the rules of the universe they're in.