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(Last Time)

With that said, the man then began reading out names, choosing teams at random as he did so. The man obviously not planning teams around the student's talents, the compatibility of their Quirks or even their strengths and weakness as he instead just read out two names at random and made them a team. With this often leading to some teams being very unbalanced. Still he was the teacher and as such he supposedly knew best…

"Team A: Yuga Aoyama & Mina Ashido!"

"Team B: Izuku Midoriya & Yui Kodai!"

"Team C: Momo Yaoyorozu & Shoto Todoroki!"

"Team D: Denki Kaminari & Ibara Shiozaki!"

"Team E: Mezo Shoji & Ochako Uraraka!"

"Team F: Ejiro Kirishima & Chikuchi Togeike!"

"Team G: Kyoka Jiro & Rikido Sato!"

"Team H: Tsuyu Asui & Fumikage Tokoyami!"

"Team I: Toru Hagakure & Mashirao Ojio!"

"Team J: Tenya Iida & Hanta Sero!"

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Chapter 7

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(With Izuku)

Upon hearing the teams they had been assigned for the upcoming combat class, the assembled students almost instantly erupted into noise as they all began talking amongst each other, some of them cheering their luck at having been paired up with a notably powerful partner, whilst others, silently, cursed their misfortune.

For the most part though everyone seemed pretty content with their pairings, after all it was still early on in the school year, and as such they knew very little about each other, both in terms of their individual Quirks, strengths and weaknesses, and their personalities.

Izuku for one didn't know anything at all about his partner, except that she was quite a quiet, and seemingly introverted girl.

Scanning over the chattering students, Izuku quickly found the girl in question.

Yui Kohai.

The first thing he noticed about the girl, much to his inner embarrassment, was that she was attractive. With shoulder-length, black, bob-shaped hair, side swept slightly to the right, a few shorter strands noticeably hanging above her eyes, and fair, flawless skin, a lithe, athletic build, and cerulean blue eyes, she certainly cut a striking figure.

Some of her features like her pale porcelain skin, blue eyes and dark hair, gave her a northern European vibe. Her name though was definitely Japanese, and the shape of her face too, it definitely had distinct hints of Japanese in there.

Eyeing her closely, as he approached. The expression on the girl's face was notably as neutral as ever, even as she watched him approach, which in turn highlighted her appearance.

Seeing this, Izuku, found himself curious about whether she actually did have a European mother and a Japanese father, or some kind of derivative of that in her heritage.

It was not exactly under heard of, in fact multi-cultural partnerships were very common nowadays. Especially as the rapidly expanding and developing technology in the world, due mainly to those with intelligence based Quirks, meant that rapid travel across the globe was fast, easy and cheap.

On top of which, things like culture, country and creed, they were not as important as they might once have been in the past.

Instead the most important thing nowadays tended to be a person's Quirk, and their Quirk lineage.

Some people in fact just got married and had children due to their respective Quirks, as they tried to breed better and more powerful Quirks, like one would a show dog or something else of that ilk.

It was odd, but still very much a part of the superhuman society they lived in.

Pushing those thoughts away as he skirted around the excitedly chattering Kirishima, Izuku instead focused on Yui's hero costume.

Again, it certainly stood out as far as costumes went, and was a damn sight flashier than his own.

With the costume itself consisting of a simple red bodysuit with a white collar trim, and a matching "V" pattern that ran over her chest and around her upper arms.

Complimenting this, her costume also included a short white skirt, with a red design at the front, the design dipping slightly so as to follow the same pattern that was on her chest.

Adding to the rest of her costume, she also wore plain, metal vambraces, as well as a hat which resembled the front of a baseball cap, which again was coloured red with white U-shaped lines around the sides, with a metal piece resembling a fin attached at the back of the strap around her head.

Then finally, to finish off her ensemble, she wore a belt around her waist which noticeably had small pouches hanging off of it. Some of which, he observed, seemed to contain various nuts, bolts and all of the other small bits and pieces of metal.

He was curious.

From just an outside look, he wasn't sure what her Quirk was. He could vaguely remember her doing relatively well in the assessment test, but little more than that.

With her being quite a quiet person, and apparently not having a flashy Quirk, or at least not one which he noticed the other day, he honestly couldn't remember what she was capable of.

Then again maybe that wasn't so surprising.

They hadn't been classmates for long after all.

"Hey," He said with an awkward half wave to the girl, "Looks like we're on the same team."

"Yes," Yui replied solemnly, her dark eyes fixed placidly on him.

"Well, do you want to talk about how we're going to work together?" Izuku pressed on, scratching the back of his head uncomfortably as he realised that this girl was somehow even more socially awkward than he was.

"Yes," Yui nodded, her voice soft as she continued to watch him curiously, her head tilting cutely to the side.

"Right…" Izuku replied.

Already he knew that this was going to be troublesome. From what he knew of Pro Hero team ups, from his own research, communication was key. Both sides of the partnership had to know one another's Quirks, strength and weaknesses. Which in turn would allow them to work together seamlessly, reacting and adapting to situations on the fly, both parties fully aware of what the other was capable of so that they could compensate for their partners weaknesses, and have their own weaknesses compensated for in return.

Hero team ups needed to be mutually beneficial, and for that to happen both sides needed to be fully aware of what the other was capable of, after all you didn't want to find yourself getting in your teammate's way, or being a hindrance as opposed to a help.

Whilst all the students were moving about tracking down their partners and making introductions, if introductions still needed to be made, All Might had begun scanning over his list for a moment, before he once again spoke up, attracting everyone's attention. With him this time calling out two teams at random.

"Ok then, listen up. The first two teams to fight will be Team B consisting of Izuku Midoriya and Yui Kodai, who will be the villains, and Team F, consisting of Ejiro Kirishima and Chikuchi Togeike, who will be our heroes!" The Number One hero called out, a wide smile on his face as he lowered his clipboard and looked at the four students.

His intense blue eyes once again lingering on Izuku for slightly longer than the others, before he once again looked away and continued to speak. "The villains will start inside the building. You'll each have five minutes to come up with a strategy, then after that the heroes will be able to enter the building as well! The rest of the class and myself will all observe through the surveillance cameras dotted around the building! Since this is practice training, feel free to fight it out without fear of injury! Of course, if things get too extreme, I'll cut the exercise short, but other than that, no worries! Give it your best shot!"

"Alright! Let's get ready to rumble, Midoriya!" Kirishima suddenly roared, even as the rest of the class started chattering excitedly. The redhead pointing at him as he did so, a shark like grin on his face, and his skin becoming distinctly rocklike due to his Quirk, as he laid out his challenge.

His partner meanwhile, the new girl, Togeike, merely gave him a flat look. Her face almost as stoic as his own partner's expression.

Speaking of which, sending Yui a sideways look, Izuku noticed that the girl had finally looked away from him, and was instead solemnly looking over at the grinning Kirishima.

"You hear me, you're going down!" Kirishima pressed on, his grin widening as the other students began muttering amongst one another, some of them already muttering about which team they think would be victorious.

Was the guy attempting to psyche the two of them out?

Or was he just that excited about the idea of properly fighting with his Quirk, probably for the first time?

"Ok, it's on." Izuku replied, the slightest of smile spreading across his face. The muttering from the onlookers noticeably intensifying as they saw this challenge.

From the side-lines, he could feel All Might's gaze once again boring into him as the Number One hero began to speak again. "Now, now let's leave the fighting talk for the battlefield!"

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(A few minutes later)

Examining the fake bomb in front of him for a moment, Izuku then looked around at the rest of the room that they had chosen to defend.

It was a relatively large room, on the top floor of a small tower block, with plain concrete walls and floors, and multiple supporting columns throughout it.

The room had windows along one side, though the windows themselves were just small squares, only just large enough for a normal sized person to get through.

Other than that, the room was barren of furniture, and in fact just held them and the fake bomb.

There was also only one way in or out of this room.

Which was the reason why they had chosen this point to defend.

It had one point of entry and was on the top floor. To get to them the two heroes would need to traverse the rest of the tower, making their way through a maze of dimly lit, narrow corridors, and then climbing four flights of narrow, winding stairs.

The place was easy to defend.

Or at least it was so long as they didn't somehow find their way to the roof and then break in that way.

If such a thing were to happen then it would be both Yui and himself in trouble, after all their opponents only needed to get to the bomb to win.

Fortunately he had already analysed the likelihood of such an event, and had still found that their current positon at the top right corner of the tower block was the optimal one.

Honestly he had considered choosing the third floor to make his home base, but upon evaluating the usefulness of having an extra floor and set of steps to delay their opponents, when compared against the likelihood of the duo attacking from above, he had decided that the top floor was still probably the better option.

During these deliberations he had of course asked his partner's opinion.

Yui Kodai however had just nodded at his suggestion, and simply said, "alright".

"So you probably already know what my Quirk is after what happened in Aizawa's class, so what is yours?" Izuku asked, turning away from his assessment of the room, as he instead turned to his partner, who was silently standing a few feet away from him and like him, looking around the room.

"Size," Yui replied softly, her blue eyes shifting over and locking onto his as she started to eye him carefully.

It was a little unnerving, almost like she was analysing him, trying to work out what made him tick.

Yes, it was definitely unnerving to say the least.

"Size?" Izuku prompted.

"Yes, it allows me to increase the size of any non-organic object that I've recently touched." Yui continued, a faint smile making its way to her face now as she spoke about her Quirk, almost like she was suddenly feeling a lot more comfortable and confident now she was on familiar ground. "I activate it by touching the tips of my fingers together, like this."

As she said this, she pulled a simple looking metal nut from a pouch at her hip and then placed it gently on the floor in front of him. Following on from which, as she finished speaking, she then placed her fingertips together.

Almost immediately the nut on the floor expanded in size. Going from a centimetre thick and two centimetre wide ring of metal, to a nearly twelve inch thick, ring that could easily fit around an average sized man's waist.

Reaching down, Izuku picked up the large metal ring with a single hand, a slight grunt leaving his lips as he felt its weight, before he held it out in front of him with both of his hands, examining the metal nut curiously.

Not only had the things size increased, so to had its mass, its weight. The changes weren't just aesthetic they were absolute, what he was holding was a metal nut, only one that was several hundred times larger than what it had been before.

"How long can you hold the transformation for?" He asked, drawing on the enhanced strength from his Quirk to keep his arms steady as he continued to examine it for a moment, before he then put it gently back onto the floor.

He didn't want to just drop it and smash a hole into the floor of the room they were supposed to be defending after all.

"For as long as I keep my fingertips together." Yui replied, moving her hands apart as she did so.

The metal nut on the floor once again shrinking back to what it was before the moment she took them apart.

"Are there any aftereffects?" He asked, thinking back as he did on the gravity girl, Ururaka, as he did so and how she made herself more and more nauseous the longer she kept her Quirk active.

"No, I am not limited to how many objects either, the only limitation is that it only lasts for as long as I keep my hands together." Yui replied softly.

"Right," Izuku nodded, his mind whirling as he thought about the possible combination that could be made between their two Quirks.

If he were to take on his Titan form, then she could massively increase the size of a weapon, like the spiked knuckledusters he had in his pocket, and make them large enough for his hulking Titan form to use.

Her Quirk could make his own many time more formidable than it already was.

"What about you?" Yui's voice suddenly interrupted.

"What about me?" Izuku replied, a slight frown of confusion on his face. "I mean my Quirk is, Titan, it allows me to create a Titan form which I can pilot and control like it is my own body. It gives me massively increased strength and size, the ability to reinforce and harden parts of my body at will, and incredible regenerative capability. When not in the form I have enhanced strength, regeneration, and the ability to harden parts of my body too, but just not to the same level as when I'm in my Titan form."

Yui nodded at that, her expression still quite placid, "What are your weaknesses?"

"My weaknesses?" Izuku asked again, before he nodded. It was only fair that he share the limitations of his Quirk with her, just as she had shared the weaknesses of her own Quirk with him. "Well, it takes a psychological toll on me, it's not just my strength that is heightened in my Titan form, but my emotions too. When I am angry in the Titan form, or when I'm assuming it, I get, well, incredibly angry, it affects me made more than it would others, so much so that if I'm not careful I could lose control, and well, people have already seen what that can lead too. I also get more and more dehydrated the longer I am in the Titan form."

"Dehydrated?" Yui asked in confusion.

Izuku smiled wryly at that. "Yeah, well steam that comes off my Titan form, it is vented from the muscles, and, well, it does so to keep me cool and to stop me from roasting myself alive in there. It's not perfect though, despite the Titan form naturally venting steam out of its pores, it's still exceedingly hot in there, like furnace, and the longer I'm in there, the more dehydrated, delirious and dizzy I get."

"So you have a time limit?" Yui asked curiously.

"I have a tolerance limit," Izuku replied. "The more I move about, regenerate and exert the Titan's muscles, the warmer it gets, and the more steam is released. Eventually though it reaches a point where the body can't vent anymore steam and heat than it already is, and then I'm on a time limit as things start to get warmer and warmer."

Yui frowned minutely at that.

"But I doubt that that would be a problem, it takes a while to get to that point." Izuku pressed on, a smile on his face. "Nor am I planning on taking my Titan form in this building, it would upset the buildings structural integrity and put everyone in danger. I mean I weigh well over a dozen tonnes in that form, these concrete floors…" Here he stamped on the plain grey floor beneath him. "…wouldn't a second if I were to go full Titan."

"So what will you do?" Yui asked quietly.

"You mean, what's the plan?" Izuku asked. "I have some ideas. I mean, I reckon that we could split up. Kirishima is tough and a hand to hand fighter, but I don't think he's much of a threat to me. Togeike though, well I don't know what her Quirk is, but mean as it might sound, I don't think it's particularly combat orientated since she didn't manage to get through the physical portion of the entrance exam."

Yui nodded at that.

"That's why I think I should head down and engage them so I can take the fight to them, you know, knock them around a bit and disrupt anything they might have planned. I think a fighting retreat would be good too, so I could continue to back off whilst fighting them and then lead them to a different floor and then trap them there?" Izuku mused, throwing out ideas as he pondered on what would be the best way to approach the class.

"Or we stay together?" Yui offered.

"Yeah, or we can act defensively. " Izuku nodded, considering all options. "We could wait for them to come, maybe at the stop of the staircase and then bombard them with expanded projectiles. That or I could collapse the steps…? What do you think?"

"Either could work," Yui shrugged helpfully.

"I hope both the hero team and the villain team are ready, as you have around thirty seconds before the match up starts!" All Might's voice crackled out of a nearby set of speakers, that Izuku had noticed in the corner of the room.

Nodding curtly at that, Izuku looked to Yui. "Ok, so we'll do both. We'll split up to begin with, and then meet up later on. I'll head on out first off and see what they're up too, maybe harass them a bit if I get the chance. You setup the defences here. If I get into trouble I'll retreat up here, and we can then defend the stairs, and if you get into trouble drop one of these bolts down the stairwell and make a racket, I'll come running!"

Yui nodded at that, and then pulled out a number of nuts and bolts from her pockets.

"Right," Izuku said, retuning his quiet teammate's nod as he did so.

"And begin!" All Might voice boomed out moments later, a loud beep sounding out as he did so, starting off the training exercise.

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(A few minutes later)

Walking down the staircase a couple of minutes later, his hands shoved into his pockets, and his stride steady and unconcerned, Izuku continued to descend the stairs, heading down to the lower floors.

At the moment he was not planning to head all the way down to the first floor, instead he would probably stop around the second or third, and wait to see if they were coming up the stairs.

That way at least, he knew he could run back up and meet up with Yui, just in case they did manage to attack from above, like he feared they might.

Continuing on down the stairs, Izuku rounded the corner and prepared to walk down the corridor of the third floor.

Before he could however, his attention was suddenly drawn to distant footsteps and the sound of hushed voices.

Increasing his pace at the sound of the voices, Izuku strained to hear what they were saying.

"So remember, we need to get passed Midoriya first. I don't think he'll go Titan in here, but even so he'll be trouble. He got first in the Quirk assessment test we had the other day!"

The voice was Kirishima's.

"Do you really think you can handle him?" A softer, female voice replied.

That one, Izuku mused, must belong to the other member of the partnership, Chikuchi Togeike.

"Yeah, I reckon I can at least keep him busy. He might be strong, but I'm durable as hell. So long as he doesn't go full Titan I can keep him distracted long enough for you to get passed him and go for the bomb!" Kirishima continued his naturally loud voice, despite being hushed, still quite audible.

Creeping along the corridor, Izuku came to the start of the next staircase and paused just around the corner.

He could hear the voices getting louder and louder, as the speakers ascended the staircase.

"What about his partner, that Kodai Yui girl?" Togeike asked.

"I'm not sure what her Quirk is, but I doubt she is fast enough to stop you from getting to the bomb. I mean remember we just have to touch it to win!" Kirishima replied.

The two of them, Izuku thought, were taking this whole test too easily. They were treating it like a game, they weren't even trying to be stealthy. It was almost like they didn't think that their opponents might be creeping around, and instead expected both Yui and him to just wait for them to assault their positon.

"Or we can wrap them up in capture tape, like you wanted to do originally." Togeike pressed.

"Yeah, yeah, or that, but as much as I want to try going toe to toe with Midoriya, I mean that would be hella manly! But still, like you said before, I think our best bet would be to go for the bomb!" Kirishima grumbled. The redhead's tone of voice made it clear to Izuku that he was not too pleased with this approach, but had at least seen the logic of his partner's caution and accepted it all the same.

"It's just a pity we can't attack from above. That way we could have taken them by surprise and grabbed the bomb before they even knew what was happening!" Togeike grumbled dourly.

"Yeah that would have been cool!" Kirishima's voice agreed. The two of them now so close, that Izuku could hear the rustle of their costumes, and the sound of their feet padding on the concrete steps beneath them.

They were very close now, probably only a few metres from reaching the top of the stairs.

Narrowing his eyes at this, Izuku pulled his hands out of his pocket and clenched them into fists. A bluish sheen covering the knuckles of both fists as he did so, the shimmering blue sheen then travelling down to envelope the rest of his hands, the shimmering blue energy stopping in the middle of his forearms.

Just as his two opponents had an idea, so too did he.

Without waiting for either of the duo to talk again, Izuku swung out from around the corner. His green eyes passing over the surprised expressions on both Kirishima and Togeike faces as they found themselves standing just a couple of metres away from him, both of them freezing in surprise halfway up the staircase.

Grinning mirthlessly, Izuku took a step forward. His gaze following the other two as Kirishima's skin instantly took on a rocklike tone, his hands becoming something reminiscent of blades, whilst Togeike started to bend her legs, almost as if she were preparing to push off and cross the final couple of metres and hit him in a single leap.

Not giving either of them the time to act, Izuku, in the same motion as his step forwards, slammed both of his first down and onto the staircase below him. A dull crack sounding out, as the concrete beneath him splintered, the cracks rapidly widening and shooting downwards as the staircase began to break apart.

"Oh shit!" Kirishima shouted, grabbing onto a nearby bannister as the ground beneath him began to fall into the floor below.

"Here!" Togeike shouted.

Turning away, Izuku prepared to retreat back up the stairs.

He had no doubt that they would find another way up to the top floor, but he had at least delayed them. That and now he knew their plan, which was a real bonus as once he got back to Yui they could brainstorm a counter.

Breaking into a jog as the sound of falling rubble continued to sound out behind him, he headed for the next staircase.

Only glancing back at the collapsed stairwell by chance as he noticed that the two heroes had stopped shouting.

This in the end, turned out to be a lucky thing, because as he looked back over his shoulder, he was just in time to see Kirishima and Togeike land on the third floor. Kirishima holding gamely onto Togeike as the girl landed, and them immediately releasing her as she let out a gasp of exertion.

"The fuck!" Izuku muttered to himself, a scowl on his face now, as he saw both heroes rapidly regaining their composure, and then looking over at him. Togeike noticeably taking a few moments longer than Kirishima to catch her breath.

"That wasn't manly, Midoriya!" Kirishima called out, a grin on his ridged, angular face as he met Izuku's gaze for a moment, and then began running at him. "I would have thought you would stand and fight me one on one, like a real man!"

Rolling his eyes at this statement, his lips quirking momentarily upwards in amusement at his eccentric classmates words, Izuku responded by slamming his reinforced fists into the floor gain, creating another shattering crater beneath him, a crater from which more cracks spread. The cracks this time going along both sides of the corridors, causing the entire floor to begin caving in.

Reacting to this, Izuku turned and ran, sprinting across the rapidly collapsing floor as he tried to make it to the next stairwell in time, not even looking back as he heard Kirishima start cursing again.

"Shit, shit, shit!" Izuku hissed out, practically dancing across the crumbling floor now as he made it to the next staircase and immediately started running up it as the corridor continued to crumple, taking the first couple of steps with them as it did so.

Any previous nonchalance he had was well and truly gone, by the time he made it up the first flight, and looked back down at the remains of the third floor.

His eyes roving over the significant cracks he could see slowly spreading across some of the surrounding walls.

Ideally he would have liked to have just taken them both on. He wanted to test Kirishima's assertion that his durability was equal to, if not greater than, Izuku's base strength.

Fortunately though he wasn't that prideful or foolish.

If he had done such a thing he would have been playing into their hands.

Togeike had some way of rapidly moving across distances, it was the only explanation as to how they had made it to the third floor from the collapsing staircase.

Such manoeuvrability would be a tricky thing for him to mitigate with his skillset, or at least it could be, after all at the moment he didn't know anything about her Quirk, and had only been able to infer what little he did know from his observations.

It was too risky to just go for a straight confrontation now, especially when they were planning for him to engage Kirishima in just such a fight.

It would be the height of arrogance to deliberately fall into an opponent's trap.

Nodding to himself at that, Izuku continued to look at the devastation below. His eyes raking the dust cloud the fallen rubble had created as he looked to see if the duo would be able to replicate the same feat as before.

"Hey Midoriya!" As if aware of his thoughts, Kirishima's voice called out to him at that very moment, a red and black blur exploding from the dust as Togeike, carrying Kirishima with both her hands under his arms, flew up from the collapsed floor below. Sweat noticeably beading on the former General Studies' student's forehead as she flew over the lip of the broken staircase and then dropped Kirishima.

The momentum of her flight, and timing, making it so the red head crashed straight into where he was stood. The redhead's weight and impact as he hit him, causing the already fragile ground beneath them to crumble and both of them to fall down to the next floor, even as the dark haired girl twisted in the air and momentarily landed on the far wall of the staircase for a moment, before pushing off and flying up to the next floor.

They hadn't even needed to lure him into their trap for their plan to work, Izuku thought as he saw this, a scowl passing across his face as he twisted in the air, turning his fall into a controlled landing, as with a slight "umph" he landed in a half crouch on the rubble strewn ground beneath him.

Kirishima landing several metres away in a similar fashion.

"Ha, fuck! I can't believe that worked!" Kirishima laughed in delight, pushing himself up as he did so, a grin on his face as he found himself facing off with Izuku, just like he wanted.

"What the hell is her Quirk?" Izuku asked, brushing dust off of his coat as scowled at the redhead.

"It's awesome isn't it?! She calls it 'Raptor Flight'. But basically it's a flight Quirk which lets her fly rapidly through the air for short periods of time. It's pretty awesome, though she said she has trouble changing directions when flying, and can't really carry anything heavy as it slows her down and stops her from being able to fly very far. It's why we didn't attack from above like she wanted too!" Kirishima rattled off. Apparently not at all perturbed about giving away his partners secrets.

"So I'm curious, did you know I was there at the staircase? Did you speak so loudly on purpose, was it all some kind of ploy?" Izuku asked, genuinely curious.

"Oh no, we didn't know you were there. Honestly, we thought you would be with your partner defending the bomb!" Kirishima laughed. "Still you almost got us, if it weren't for Togeike we would've lost when you collapsed the staircase."

"You do know that you've not won yet, don't you?" Izuku replied lightly, pulling down his face mask as he did so.

"Haven't we?" Kirishima asked glibly, raising his hardened fists, and taking a classic boxing fighting stance.

Sending the red head a wry smile, Izuku glanced up at the remains of the staircase now two floors above him, too far for even him to jump, and then back at the other teen, taking up a similar stance, his own hardened fists clenching as he did so.

He would have to leave the rest up to Yui.

With that thought in mind, he darted forward dodging a retaliatory swing from Kirishima as he instead landed a solid punch into the redhead's gut. Knocking Kirishima back a few steps, even as his fist rebounded off of a hardened set of abs.

Stepping back, Izuku avoided a powerful right hook and instead weaved in and delivered another blow, this one to the side of Kirishima's head.

In response however the other teen raised his arm and blocked the punch.

He didn't block the follow up kick though, the force of the blow, although not hunting him, still knocking him back and causing him to stumble on the rubble strewn ground behind him.

Rushing in to take advantage of his stumble, Izuku managed to land three more blows, each one sending the redhead stumbling back further, but not actually injuring him as his hardened, rock like skin held up to the force of each blow.

"Is that all you've got?!" Kirishima laughed, his body becoming, if possible, even more rocklike, as he then lunged forward and counterattacked.

Both Izuku and Kirishima clashing as they traded brutal blows, the two of them occasionally adding in kicks, or attempting to grapple one another as they fought.

Kirishima's hardened form shielding him from Izuku far stronger punches, or at least for the moment, as every punch seemed to chip away at the redhead's stamina.

Izuku meanwhile found himself having to strain to keep his fists reinforced, even as he blocked punches from Kirishima. His own form of hardening, unlike Kirishima's, could only cover certain parts of his body, and at the moment he needed to focus it into his fists and wrists so he didn't break them on Kirishima's rock-hard body.

This though meant that the rest of his was vulnerable. Something that Kirishima seemed to realise too, as whenever he got the chance he would deliver a brutal punch into Izuku's gut, or try and land a headshot. Which in turn forced Izuku to; either take it, and then heal it up. Which would chip away at his own stamina in order to do so, or block it and go on the defensive.

To an outside observer it might look like the two of them were evenly matched. An unstoppable force colliding with an immovable object.

But to the two of them, they already knew who had the advantage.

"So," Izuku grunted, grabbing Kirishima's wrist as the other teen threw a punch, and then pulling him off balance. His green eyes narrowing as he then rammed his knee into the redhead's side, knocking him into a nearby wall and staggering him. "How long can you keep this up?"

"At least a bit longer!" Kirishima gasped out, pushing himself off of the wall as he did so, just in time to avoid a punch form Izuku, the shimmering blue fist instead smashing straight through the foot thick concrete wall.

Flattening both hands, Kirishima's hands resembled blades as he lashed out at Izuku, attempting to take advantage of his one armed state as he did so.

Unfortunately though before he could land a hit, Izuku wrenched his arm out of the wall, doing so in such a way as he did, so that rubble from the wall bombarded the other teen, forcing Kirishima to instinctively cover his face and eyes in response.

Landing two more punches after this, Izuku then shoved Kirishima back against the wall, forcing him to rebound off of it and then hurtle straight into another punch, this one smashing him back into the crumbling wall and then knocking him to the ground.

Spitting out a glob of blood speckled spittle, Kirishima attempted to get up.

Before he could however, Izuku stamped on his back, sending him crashing back into the ground.

"I think we should call it a day." Izuku said, wiping some partially dried blood off of his face, as he kept his foot on Kirishima, pinning him to the ground.

"It's not over yet!" Kirishima growled, once again trying in vain to push himself up, his body only partially hardened now, as he no longer found himself with the stamina he needed to use his Quirk to its fullest potential.

Before Izuku could respond however, the sound of crashing came from above.

"Right, move!" Izuku snapped out as he looked up, moving his foot so it was under Kirishima now, before he literally kicked the other teen out of the way, before quickly moving out of the way himself as several giant nuts and nails slammed into the ground where the two of them had just been brawling.

Hazarding a glance up the now decimated stairwell, Izuku could see Yui and Togeike battling it out far above them. The new girl using her flight Quirk to dart about the stairwell and try to get in close, even as Yui kept throwing and then expanding nuts, bolts, bits of rubble and other objects. All of which, after missing the nimble flying girl, then started to fall to the ground below, smashing through anything that got in their way.

Looking around at the surrounding building even as the fight continued to go well above them, Izuku couldn't help but wince as he saw the amount of cracks and holes in the surrounding walls.

The entire building looked to be on the verge of collapsing.

"Hey, I said this isn't over!" Kirishima growled, the redhead once again making it to his feet further down the ground floor corridor, his expression particularly ferocious as only half of his face remained ridged and rocklike, with the other half looking, puffy and pink, a yellowish green bruise noticeably already forming across a portion of it.

"It's over, man." Izuku sighed, turning away from the bottom of the stairwell, even as a few more giant projectiles smashed into the ground.

Raising two shaking fists, Kirishima once again adopted a fighting stance. "I didn't hear a bell, did you!?"

Sighing at this, Izuku raised his own fists, the blue shimmer once again covering them as he prepared to finish his and Kirishima's brawl.

"That's time!" All Might's voice suddenly rang out, moments before they could restart their fight.

His words causing all four students freeze.

"And the wins of this event, by time out is the villain team!" All Might continued. The tone of his voice lost in the crackle of the speakers as he spoke.

"Aw shit!" Kirishima groaned, sinking to the floor as he did so, his Quirk altered form fading away, and going back to normal, completely now.

"It was close." Izuku replied, shaking off his own surprise as he offered a hand to the forlorn looking redhead. A hand which Kirishima gratefully accepted, as he allowed Izuku to pull him up. The red head then leaning on Izuku as they turned back to the wrecked stairwell, just in time to see the exhausted and battered looking Togeike fly down with Yui.

Togeike looking distinctly red faced and tired as she almost collapsed to the floor the moment her feet touched the ground, sweat dripping down her forehead as she took several deep, ragged breaths.

Yui meanwhile looked quite fresh.

In fact the only sign that she bore, which showed that she had been in a fight at all, was the fact that her short dark hair was far more ruffled and dusty than it had previously been, with her costume being likewise covered in dust.

Sending the girl a smile, Izuku received a solemn nod in return.

They had won, but that had gotten lucky.

It hadn't been a good victory.

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AN: Thanks for reading, and what not and I'll catch you later.

Greed720.