"Iida! Izuku! That was amazing!" Ochaco called out as she ran to the two with a tired grin, Mina not too far behind her with a smile of her own. "You were all 'Zoom!' and 'Woosh!' and I couldn't even keep up when you passed me and you guys were soo fast and-"

"Breathe, Uraraka." Tenya instructed calmly, the brunette listening with a nod and small laugh. While the blue haired teen made sure Ochaco wasn't too out of breath from the race, Izuku turned to Mina with a small grin.

"You freed us when Todoroki trapped us." He said simply, cocking his head to the side with a questioning look. "Why did you do that?"

"Hey, it was you, at least partially." The pink girl said with a small laugh, throwing an arm around his shoulder and making him blush lightly as she grinned wide. "The obstacle course was a free-for-all, if I want to help my bestie then I can help my bestie!"

"Hehe… thanks As- Mina, I think we might have only got first place because of you." He laughed, returning the hug. His eyes shifted to behind the girl, where he noticed that most of the students were now gathering around the centre again.

Something interesting Izuku noticed that he'd somehow missed the first time was the metal patterns all over the floor. He could have sworn they weren't there before but they were present now in all sorts of weird patterns.

"Come on, I think they're about to explain the next round." He said, letting go off Mina and feeling slightly guilty with the pout that came onto her face. They took their place near the back of the group and waited for the last few students to gather.

Once they did, Midnight once more took her place on stage, a wide grin on as she used her flogger whip, cracking it to make everyone hush before indicating to the board that displayed the final results.

"Everyone! Well done even if you didn't pass this round, simply reaching the end of this arduous challenge is something to be proud of! Nevertheless, this is a competition and so only the top forty students will be passing into the second round." She announced with a somewhat threatening grin, making Izuku feel slightly uneasy. "Feast your eyes on the results everyone!"

Of course, Izuku and Tenya's names were listed for first place, Todoroki apparently came third followed in fourth by Bakugou then a girl apparently by the name of Ibara Shiozaki in fifth after that.

Izuku's eyes kept scrolling down, relieved to see a majority of his class placed in the top forty. In forty-first place was another girl named Mei Hatsume then the only member of 1-A who had not placed in the top forty sat in the forty-second place, Yuga Aoyoma.

The greenette looked over to where the blonde was, seeing him quietly huffing with a pout and crossed arms. His eyes briefly landed on Izuku who just gave him an apologetic smile.

Before more could come of it, Midnight's voice picked up once more pulling everyone's attention to her as she licked her lips, eyeing them all like prey. "Now, it's time I explain the second round. Our team based event: 'The Point Maze!'"

A picture of a maze flashed up on the hologram behind Midnight, before a picture of All Might, Thirteen, Present Mic, Midnight and Nedzu appeared, each wearing white headbands as they were seen in a labyrinth of sorts.

"This game is incredibly simple, with only a couple rules to remember! You will all form teams of five and enter the maze at a designated spot. Once you are in, you are not allowed to leave at all, lest you forfeit the round. Each competitor has a different point value that will be decided based upon their placement in the previous round." The woman explained, pacing back and forth on her podium.

Looking down, Izuku suddenly understood why the metal patterns were there as there were clear gaps in them. He still didn't know how he missed them the first time though.

"You will be allowed to steal other player's headbands and the five highest scoring teams will be admitted into the final round of the sports festival. You must restrain yourselves if you do fight however, you are focused on points, not on fighting for this round."

Suddenly, numbers started to pop up beside each student in the top forty, starting at five for the student in fortieth place and increasing in increments of the same amount for every student until finally it reached Izuku and his jaw dropped.

"Oh, and for first place? Ten million points to both Izuku Midoriya and Tenya Iida." Midnight announced, looking more as if she'd just found her victims to murder than just announcing the scores for a game as she stared into the crowd.

Suddenly, Izuku was intimately aware of at least half the crowd staring right at him. He felt sweat start to form as his throat dried and tightened.

Then the panic rising up was curbed suddenly by a hand gripping his tight. He followed it to see Mina, who gave him a small reassuring smile that just said 'it's going to be alright.'

He squeezed her hand with a small blush and she let go, reassured he'd be okay for the moment. With that, Midnight dismissed them all to find partners for the coming event.

Izuku expected Mina to leave after that to find a team but to his surprise she never once walked away. He looked up to her, raising a brow in confusion. "Mina? Aren't you going to find a team?"

"I've already found who I want to partner up with." She said simply, making his eyes widen in surprise. She just fixed him with a grin, placing a hand on his shoulder. "I was doing a little bit of thinking. You never used fusion in the past before, and your superpower broke you. If Bakugou is anything to go off for how some other people might have treated you… All I've got to say is I'm not abandoning you Izuku, you're stuck with me now."

"A-Ashido…" He felt his eyes begin to water, making the pink haired girl roll her eyes.

"She's not the only one, Izuku!" A new voice said, getting the greenette to look around and see Ochaco, who fixed him with a determined look as she put both her fists up in front of her. "I just know, as long as you're in charge of the team, you can get past this! Which is why I want to join you as well!"

"Ochaco… Mina…." His dam broke about that point, tears starting to stream down his face. Still, he grinned wide as he took a steadying breath and wiped them away. "A-Alright! Tenya said he wanted to show off his own skills now that we've already fused and he has his own ten million to worry about so I doubt he'll be joining us… I think I have an idea if we only need two more people though."

"Let's hear it, boss! Who do we need?" Mina asked excitedly. The fusion teen was quiet for the moment, eyes searching the crowds hopefully. His grin grew wider when he saw the two students he wanted to talk to, together but with no one else with them yet.

Wordlessly he made his way over to them both, pulling their attention towards him.

"Jirou, Hagakure. Please, join my team. I have a plan."

"Alright, tell me the plan again just to be safe." Jirou asked, as Izuku and his newly formed team took their places, Hagakure at his side while Mina and Ochaco stood defensively in front of the other three.

"Alright, you'll be serving as our radar. We'll be moving slowly and carefully, with you keeping us informed of anyone approaching so we can evade them. If we're lucky, we can avoid a fight entirely and keep our one million points." He explained with a serious gaze, keeping a careful eye on the other teams.

Due to how the teams had set themselves up, the three main teams Izuku had to worry about each had a single 1-B student with them as total wild cards the One For All wielder couldn't account for.

Todoroki's team consisted of the heterochromatic teen himself, Koda, Kirishima, Satou and a 1-B student with small pupils, swept back black hair in a ponytail and medium sized eyebrows.

Bakugou's team seemed to be more makeshift, as there didn't seem to be any real rhyme or reason to his choices, at least as far as Izuku could see. He seemed to be simply going with whoever would work with him as he had no choice but to take on teammates. Sero, Mineta, Kaminari and a plain looking boy with brown hair and an irate scowl with his hands in his pockets all keeping a small distance from the blonde.

Finally, Tenya had a team consisting of Tsuyu, Tokoyami, Shoji and a long green haired girl who looked almost like a reptilian version of Tsu, who had an excited grin on her face.

Both Bakugou and Todoroki were most definitely glancing in his team's direction, making Izuku nervous. They weren't the only ones but they were the biggest threats.

"Bakugou and Todoroki are who we really should be trying to avoid the most, but if we can avoid everyone that would be ideal. If we can't, Mina and Ochaco are our first line of defense. Ochaco will disable our opponents and we'll run, if that doesn't work Mina will hold them off." He explained, noticing Midnight moving to count them down to starting, the walls starting to raise around them. "And if all else fails, hopefully the backup plan will keep us from being tagged, if Hagakure and I's powers combine like how I think they will. We should be able to use the invisibility to prevent anyone from taking our headbands easily. Speaking of, are you ready?"

"As I'll ever be." The invisible girl said, grabbing his hand as he wouldn't be able to see hers properly, and an explosion of green and white light filled the stadium for a few seconds after.

"Get ready!" Midnight called out, as the light faded and the fusion of Izuku and Tooru was revealed.

She stood tall above their teammates, eyes fluttering open and looking around with an innocent curiosity. One pupil green as always, however the other was red.

Her hair was messy and long, falling down to her shoulders. She also had big pig tails at the back of her head. Her hair was primarily blonde, with green highlights running throughout.

In terms of figure, she was fairly modest overall, somewhat curvy thanks to the extra mass of Izuku but not to the same degree as Izuraka or Izumo had been. She had a well-endowed chest and decent thighs and now that her senses had come back to her an adorable grin was splitting onto her face.

"Oh my god, this feels amazing." She squealed happily, bouncing on the spot excitedly, before looking to Ochaco with a massive grin. "I see why you like this so much now! I can't wait to kick butt if I have to! I feel like I could take on the world!"

She let out a giggle of excitement, chopping at the air and making the other girls giggle a little themselves.

"Well aren't you adorable." Mina laughed, walking over to her while Kyoka set to work already, one of her jacks plugging into the wall. "What's your name?"

"Huh… oh, I know! You can call me Izoru!" She said, putting a hand on her hip as she took a stance with her legs spread apart and she flashed them all a peace sign, winking. "Pleasure to meet you all! Now let's kick butt, girls!"

"…I like her already." Jirou said simply with a small smirk.

Then Midnight's voice suddenly echoed through the maze.

"BEGIN!"