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Ask Game AU Masterlist

If an AU from an Ask Game receives attention, it is named and tagged for easy finding. Untagged AUs can still be found in the Ask Game tag

Current AU Count: 333

You may notice that this is more than 250. That is the limit of links that work on Tumblr, so this post only works on Dashboard view.

1-B AU

Midoriya is put in Class 1-B

Acidic Heroes AU

Ashido asks Yaoyorozu and Midoriya to tutor her

Adopted Mei AU

After the death of her parents, Power Loader adopts Hatsume

Akatani AU

Midoriya is AFO’s son, and he and Inko enter witness protection

Aldera Uraraka AU

Uraraka is Midoriya’s childhood friend and attended Aldera with him, while Bakugou was in Mie Prefecture.

All For Classroom

All For One is the homeroom teacher of 1-A, and they have to take him down before graduation.

All For Hero AU

All For One is also a Hero

All For Inko AU

Inko is All For One and determined to raise her kid well.

All For Support AU

Midoriya is coincidentally born with All For One, and goes into the Support Course with it.

All Of You Might Be Adopted AU

All Might adopts the future Class 1-A after rescuing them from All For One

Apprentices AU

Everyone in 1-A is a Legacy Student in some way.

Aura Guardian AU

Midoriya has natural Aura abilities inspired by Aura from Pokemon.

Bakugou For All

Midoriya mysteriously disappears, and Bakugou’s efforts to find him lead to All Might choosing him as a successor

Bakugou Himiko AU

Himiko is Katsuki’s cousin, who ends up being taken in by Mitsuki and Masaru when they notice the Toga’s behavior.

Bakugou Izuku

Inko married Mitsuki and Masaru instead of Hisashi, Izuku and Katsuki are brothers

Basilisk AU

Mongoose Habuko has One For All and is in 1-A. Midoriya has a shark Quirk

Batfam AU

MHA and DC setting fusion. Midoriya ends up part of the Batfamily while training for OFA

Bladestorm AU

Midoriya has a Quirk that lets him turn his body into blades and is scouted by the HPSC.

Blaze of Glory AU

Kamiji Moe, Pro Hero Brunin and sidekick to Endeavor, is secretly the eldest Todoroki child post-transition, trying to surpass her father the non-homicidal way.

Blizzard AU

Rei is a Pro Hero, and Enji is a civilian.

Blond Swap AU

Monoma is in 1-A and Bakugou is in 1-B

Bloodright AU

Toga is All For One’s successor and Uraraka has One For All.

Bloody Bullet AU

Toga’s parents sell her to the Eight Precepts while she’s in Junior High, and she does her best to protect Eri

Blue Blazes AU

Iida murdered Stain at Hosu

Blue Sky AU

Shimura Hana lived and became a Hero

Boogeyman AU

All For One is a myth invented by the HPSC. Yoichi, on the other hand, is very real and has been desperately stealing bodies to keep himself alive since the dawn of Quirks.

Brass Knuckles AU

Midoriya meets Knuckleduster and learns from him

Can’t Stop Twinkling AU

Aoyama stays Quirkless and in France

Captain Midoriya

Midoriya and Melissa are given a super serum in the same vein as Captain America

Challenge the Game AU

Midoriya has a Quirk that gives him access to an RPG stats manager

Chameleon AU

Midoriya with a Chameleon Mutation Quirk

Changeling AU

Toga is given to the HPSC at age 4 and put through the same program as Hawks.

Chaos For All AU

Nedzu takes an interest in privately teaching Midoriya

Chesire AU

Based on the original plans for Haigha. Midoriya has a copy of All For One and stole a lot of Quirks from him. He has no idea about this.

Childhood Friends AU

Bakugou stayed Midoriya’s friend

ChimerOFA AU

Every One For All holder before All Might (not including Yoichi) had a Mutation Quirk. Midoriya got them all during the entrance exam.

Chuuni Dabi AU

Todoroki Touya does not exist. Dabi just thinks that’s who he is for some reason

Class One AU

The Hero Course consists of a single 40-student class

Class Vill-A AU

Midoriya radicalizes his entire class into secretly being Villains. Well, I say secretly. The teachers are helping because fuck the HPSC.

Cleaner AU

Inko used to be an HPSC assassin alongside Lady Nagant. Together they brought down the HPSC.

Clone For One AU

All For One is a body double made by the original 200 years ago. The original AFO retired, having forgotten about it.

Cloud Nine

Midoriya has a Cloud Quirk like Shirakumo’s

Combustion AU

Hisashi is a Pro Hero

Convergence Event AU

A fantasy setting beings encroaching on the main MHA setting through reality-warping phenomena, resulting in people and places being changed significantly

Cousin Kota AU

Kota is related to the Midoriyas and comes to live with them instead of the WWP

Cousin Rumi AU

Miruko is Midoriya’s cousin, and he’s inherited the family rabbit mutation

Cousin Shoto AU

Inko is Rei’s sister

Curiosity AU

Curious as both a Hero and a UA Teacher

Dance of the Fire God AU

Midoriya is the descendant of Kamado Tanjiro from Demon Slayer

Dead Engine AU

Stain killed Iida

Deika Civil War AU

Re-Destro resurrects Destro. Destro doesn’t like what he finds.

Demon Adoption AU

Iruma-Kun Crossover. Hisashi sold Izuku to the demon Sullivan. Inko ends up also adopted by Sullivan when she broke into the Netherworld looking for Izuku

Demon Midoriya AU

Midoriya has a Quirk that makes him look demonic and lets him control fire.

Dequirked AU

Class 1-A is exposed to a gas weapon that temporarily removes their Quirks

Descendant AU

Midoriya is also descended from the original Destro.

Destro Lives AU

Midoriya finds a stasis pod with the original Destro preserved in it

DestrOFA AU

Destro was the Third Holder of One For All

Dichotomy AU

Midoriya tied with Bakugou in the entrance exam, with nothing but Rescue Points

Digital Haunt AU

Midoriya’s Quirk lets him possess technology

Divinity AU

Yaoyorozu is an actual goddess and Midoriya is her High Priest

Don’t Fear The Reaper AU

Midoriya has a necromancy Quirk and ends up with OFA.

Double Agent Shigaraki AU

Kotaro was never abusive, and Shigaraki is plotting long term revenge against All For One for the death of his family

Double Expulsion AU

Both Midoriya and Bakugou are expelled during the QAT

Draconic Hero AU

Getting One For All caused Midorya’s latent firebreathing Quirk to manifest… as a fully-fledged dragon mutation

Dud Explosive AU

Bakugou isn’t allowed into UA because he didn’t earn a single rescue point.

Early Cowling AU

All Might has Gran Torino teach Midoriya after the Entrance Exam but before classes start

Early Meeting

All Might met Midoriya at the hospital after his first AFO fight

Early Retirement AU

All Might retires from Heroics after the first AFO fight to be a UA teacher.

Eight and Nine in Time

Both Midoriya and All Might are sent back in time. Neither of them is aware the other also went back.

Eighth Nana AU

Yagi and Shimura Role-Swap

Elementalist AU

Midoriya has a Quirk that lets him manipulate earth, water, fire, and air.

Emerald and Sapphire AU

Inko and Rei used to be a Vigilante duo and their children are picking up the family business.

Endadver AU

Midoriya is Endeavor’s secret love child. Something neither of them are aware of at first.

Energy Conversion AU

One For All turns Midoriya into pure energy to keep him from breaking himself

Engineered Solutions AU

Hatsume, Midoriya, and Uraraka fall in love with each other at the Sports Festival

Enter the Rat AU

The story of how Nedzu escaped experimentation, performed several Unpleasantnesses, and became principal of UA.

Equivalent Exchange AU

Midoriya has Overhaul Quirk

Erased Singularity AU

The Vestiges tell All Might that the Tenth Holder will get the previous users’ Quirks, so he and Nedzu have Aizawa hold on to One For All until All Might can find his successor, so they will get Erasure.

Eraser Midoriya

Midoriya has Eraserhead’s Quirk

Eri Escapes AU

While Midoriya is in Junior High, Eri runs into him and Inko at the mall and they rescue her.

Eri’s Precepts AU

Overhaul uses cell cultures instead of tearing Eri apart ad putting her back together. This backfires when Eri rewinds him to childhood, wakes The Boss, and becomes the next heir.

Escaping Gravity AU

Uraraka is All For One’s daughter and on the run from him.

Exciting New Problems AU

Midoriya’s deadbeat dad starts working at UA

Expelled AU

Aizawa expels Midoriya to Gen-Ed at the QAT.

Explosion Midoriya AU

Midoriya has the Explosion Quirk and Bakugou is Quirkless

Extinguished Flames

All Might saves Touya at Sekoto Peak

Failed Foresight

All Might dies in the first fight against AFO, leaving Nighteye with One For All

Fanboy Aizawa AU

Midoriya gets Blackwhip at the entrance exam, to the delight of Number One Lariat Fanboy Aizawa

Feral Fluffle AU

Miruko is the one to save Midoriya from the Sludge Villain and mentor him. She’s also friends with Gran Torino.

Fire and Ice Midoriya AU

Shoto is Quirkless and Midoriya is born with Half-Hot, Half-Cold

Flame On AU

Midoriya has a Quirk like Human Torch

Foretell AU

Inko is Nighteye’s brother, and Izuku has Foresight

Forum AU

Midoriya befriended several Pro Heroes online as a kid

Free Tsutsumi AU

Lady Nagant escapes capture after killing the HPSC President, with as much evidence as she can carry

Fresh Start AU

Hisashi and Inko were in an arranged Quirk Marriage, and he took her to America. He ends up arrested by Star and Stripe, who gets with Inko. Izuku has a powerful Spatial Manipulation Quirk.

Friend Shaped AU

Midoriya successfully befriends many things he probably shouldn’t, from gods to Noumu

Froppy Style AU

Asui interned with Miruko

Frozen Legacy AU

Fuyumi has One For All

Frozen Pyre AU

Touya has an ice Quirk, Fuyumi and Natsuo have fire Quirks

Full Throttle AU

Midoriya can use 100% of OFA safely, but can’t use anything less than that.

Future Aizawa AU

Time Travel Fix-It Aizawa. High-octane crackfic territory.

Future Asui AU

Time Travel Fix-It Asui

Future Bakugou AU

Time Travel Fix-It Bakugou

Future Endeavor AU

Time Travel Fix-It Endeavor

Future Eri AU

Time Travel Fix-It Eri

Future First AU

Time Travel Fix-It Yoichi

Future Inko AU

Time Travel Fix-It Inko

Future Izuku AU

Time Travel Fix-It Izuku

Future Kayama AU

Time Travel Fix-It Midnight

Future Kirishima AU

Time Travel Fix-It Kirishima

Future Kurogiri AU

Time Travel Fix-It Kurogiri

Future Mei AU

Time Travel Fix-It Hatsume

Future Miruko AU

Time Travel Fix-It Miruko

Future Monoma AU

Time Travel Fix-It Monoma

Future Nagant AU

Time Travel Fix-It Nagant

Future Nedzu AU

Time Travel Fix-It Nedzu

Future Peace AU

Time Travel Fix-It All Might

Future Shigaraki AU

Shigaraki goes back in time, kills AFO, and sets out to be a real Villain on his own terms. Unfortunately, this is a crack AU and he ends up a Vigilante instead.

Future Shimura AU

Time Travel Fix-It Shimura Nana

Future Shinsou AU

Time Travel Fix It Shinsou

Future Stain AU

Time Travel Fix-It Stain

Future Star AU

Time Travel Fix-It Star and Stripe

Future Toga AU

Time Travel Fix-It Toga

Future Yoarashi AU

Time Travel Fix-It Yoarashi

Geist AU

MHA but the dead eventually form again as ghosts. Destro’s Ghost becomes a poltergeist.

Gen Ed Sweep AU

Quirkless Midoriya in Gen Ed organizes his class, leading to no Hero Course students making it past the first round of the Sports Festival

Gentle Whisper AU

Midoriya joins Gentle and La Brava when he’s unable to apply for UA. They become phantom thieves.

Giants AU

Kodai Yui has One For All. Midoriya has a Gigantification Quirk.

Godspeed

Midoriya has a Quirk that lets him become living electricity

Grand Debut AU

The League attacked the Sports Festival instead of the USJ

Grandfather For One AU

AFO is Hisashi’s father, making him Izuku’s grandfather. Izuku ends up with a copied version of One For All

Grandma Nana AU

Inko is Nana’s daughter and Izuku has Float

Grandpa Torino AU

Gran Torino is Inko’s father

Ground Zero AU

Bakugou’s lethal attack at the Battle Trials lands. Fa Jin revives Midoriya.

Guardian Spirit AU

One For All is sentient.

Gun For All AU

Tsutsumi Kaina gets One For All and goes to UA instead of the HPSC.

Hagakure for All AU

Hagakure gets One For All after the entrance exam

Hair Trigger AU

Midoriya is the son of Lady Nagant and inherited her Quirk

Hamster Ball AU

Midoriya has a force-field bubble Quirk

Hatsume For All AU

Vigilante Hatsume gets One For All

Heart of Steel AU

Midoriya is an AI made by Hatsume and Melissa, attending UA via android body.

Heirs AU

Izuku, Momo, and Melissa are childhood friends. Melissa is Cathleen Bate’s daughter. Inko is a famous lawyer.

Her Acid Heartbeat AU

An examination of Ashido being aromantic

Hero A Hero AU

MHA crossover with Live A Live

Hero Abroad AU

Midoriya decides to go to an American Hero School instead of UA.

Hero of Legend AU

Mild Zelda Crossover. Midoriya has the Triforce of Courage

Hero Overhaul AU

Yagi adopted a young Chisaki instead of the Yakuza

Hero Twice AU

Twice as a Pro Hero

Heroes and Pokemon AU

Mild Pokemon Crossover. Midoriya’s Quirk creates pokemon based on who he touches.

Heroes May Cry AU

Devil May Cry fusion. Midoriya is a descendant of Sparda. Demon incursions happen from time to time.

Heroic Cultivation AU

Midoriya is a Spirit Cultivator

Hive Mind AU

Due to a Quirk accident with Midoriya’s latent Quirk being overcharged by One For All, it’s shared with all of Class 1-A who are permanently mentally linked.

Homeroom Teacher Bubble Girl AU

Nighteye’s agency closes so Bubble Girl goes to work at UA

Homeroom Teacher Miruko AU

Nedzu challenges Miruko to be the 1-A homeroom teacher and she is surprisingly good at it

Homeroom Teacher Nedzu AU

Nedzu decides to be the 1-A homeroom teacher to see why Aizawa keeps expelling people.

Homeroom Teacher Torino AU

Aizawa disappears before the start of the year, and Gran Torino becomes homeroom teacher of 1-A

Horn Buddy AU

The Midoriyas move to America, and Izuku and Pony become childhood friends. OFA!Pony.

HPSC President AU

Midoriya joins the HPSC so he can change Hero regulations so he can be a Hero. This goes horribly right.

Hustle and Bust AU

In his quest to become a Hero, Midoriya becomes the world’s greatest con artist

I Am Speed AU

Midoriya has a speed Quirk

Ice, Wind, and Fire AU

Yoarashi and Todoroki are cousins

Iida Himiko AU

Tensei saves Toga and she ends up adopted into the Iida family.

In The West AU

Midoriya chooses to attend Shiketsu instead of UA.

Inhumans AU

Everyone in Class 1-A, including Aizawa, isn’t entirely human.

Inko/Cathleen/Kaina AU

Midoriya Inko, Cathleen Bate, and Tsutsumi Kaina get married and have Izuku

Instilled Idea AU

Midoriya has a mind control Quirk

Internal Affairs AU

Hawks betrays the HPSC, leaking their crimes.

Into the Unknown AU

OTGW AU, Midoriya and Eri are in The Unknown

Inverse Copy AU

Midoriya has a Quirk that gives him a copy of the opposite of someone’s Quirk

Inverted Ratios AU

Only 20% of people have Quirks

Iron Melissa AU

Quirkless Hero Melissa Shield

Izinogre AU

Midoriya has a Quirk based on the Zinogre from Monster Hunter

Izuku Phantom AU

Mild Danny Phantom crossover. Hatsume and Midoriya gain halfa powers in a lab accident.

JTA Hatsume AU

Hatsume is part of the Joint Training Arc with Shinsou

Keys to the Kingdom AU

Kingdom Hearts Crossover. Midoriya gets a Keyblade

King Explosion Murder AU

Growing up, Bakugou is bullied for having a Villainous Quirk

Kismet AU

Mild Ghost Trick crossover. Midoriya has the Powers of the Dead

Knife Fight AU

Midoriya accidentally convinces Stain to stop killing people and teach him to use a knife.

League Saves Eri AU

Twice and Toga kidnap Eri from Overhaul, leading to Eri becoming a member of the League.

Legacies AU

Izuku is a Legacy Kid, the son of a line of Pro Heroes like what Tenya is to the Iida family. Inko/Cathleen

Little Mouse AU

Nedzu raises Midoriya

Longshot AU

Lady Nagant as the homeroom teacher of 1-A

Luminary AU

Midoriya has a photokinetic Quirk and, as the popular kid in Aldera, helps his Junior High classmates excel into UA

Magical Romances AU

By staggering coincidence, every single person Inko has ever dated is supernatural.

Mahoudoriya AU

Midoriya becomes a magical ‘girl’ while in Junior High.

Manager Midoriya AU

Midoriya in the Management Course

Manager Toga AU

Toga is a Management Student who starts working with Midoriya as part of his curriculum, and because the teachers are hoping to find evidence that she’s being abused.

Marvelous AU

Midoriya with a Quirk like the powers of Carol Danvers

Maybe I’m Perfect AU

Midoriya snaps in middle school and starts actually weaponizing his analyses. Bakugou is very afraid.

Media Scrum AU

The Press catches CathInko and assumes that Izuku is Cathleen’s son. Izuku does his best to make this true.

Medic AU

Inko is a nurse at UA, and Bakugou and Izuku have some medical training because of it

Menagerie AU

1-A is a special course for Quirked animals and similar.

Mentor Fat Gum AU

Midoriya goes with Fat Gum after the Sports Festival

Mentor Miruko AU

Midoriya decides not to put up with Nighteye’s shit and goes with Miruko instead.

Mentor Mt. Lady

Takeyama spots Midoriya and All Might on the beach and ends up as something of a mentor for him

Mentor Nighteye AU

Nighteye actually does his job during Work Studies

Merry Go Round

MHA/Lonely Castle in the Mirror AU. Junior High Midoriya ends up a guest of the castle.

Midoriya Shoto AU

Shoto and his siblings run away from home after Rei scars him, and are taken in by the Midoriyas

Midoriya Tenko AU

Inko finds and adopts Tenko before AFO can

Midoriya Yo AU

Shindo Yo is Midoriya’s brother

Might Tower Intern AU

Midoriya is hired as a part-time intern at Might Tower during his 10-month training

Mighty Vigilante AU

Yagi accidentally became a Quirkless Vigilante. Twice.

Minamorphosis AU

Ashido has a Mutation Quirk, and at the end of Junior High undergoes a slow, monstrous metamorphosis. She thinks it’s rad.

Mirage AU

Camie has One For All and goes to UA

Miss Direction AU

Compress mentors vigilante Midoriya, who acquires an AFO copy. TransFem!Midoriya.

MLA Bakugou AU

Bakugou is expelled after the Battle Trials and is recruited by the MLA

MLA Yaoyorozu AU

The Yaoyorozu family is a major part of the MLA, and Momo never attends UA.

Momnight AU

Midnight adopts Izuku after Inko passes away.

Monoma Friendship AU

Midoriya is childhood friends with Monoma

Moss AU

Midoriya can control plants with his Quirk

Mr. Yagi AU

Instead of All Might, the new teacher at UA this year is his secretary, Mr. Yagi

Musketeer AU

Midoriya unlocks All For One from inside One For All during the entrance exam

Mustafa Monster AU

Midoriya has a Quirk that lets him adapt to danger. This unfortunately catches AFO’s attention, and by the time he escapes he no longer looks human most of the time.

Mustafa Private Middle School AU

When Aldera refuses to help Izuku, Inko transfers him to Mustafa Private Middle School

My Super Robot Academia AU

Quirked Animals have posed an existential threat to humanity since the Dawn of Quirks. Instead of Heroes, society is protected by mecha pilots, using frames that imitate their pilots’ Quirk

Nao AU

Shimura’s child that she gave up for adoption is a daughter named Nao. Kotaro is All For One who marries her

Neighborhood Vampire AU

Toga attended Aldera and attacked Midoriya instead of Saito

Nen User AU

Midoriya (and a handful of others) can use Nen from Hunter x Hunter.

Night Might AU

All Might becomes an Underground Hero instead of the Symbol of Peace

Not So Ordinary AU

Ippan Josei gets One For All and is All Might’s teaching assistant

One For Ashido AU

Ashido gets One For All when All Might sees her trick Gigantomachia

Oracle Cell AU

MHA/God Eater/Code Vein crossover. Midoriya agrees to join a special unit made by AFO to fight Aragami, and accidentally stumbles across the Humanoid Aragami known as Eri

Orcinus AU

Inko married Gang Orca, and Izuku inherited his Quirk

Others AU

One For All and All For One are conduits of eldritch beings. Cathleen Bate is an eldritch being.

Paradise of the Strong AU

MLA take over Japan about 40 years before canon

Pegasus AU

Midoriya finds a Pegasus (Quirked animal) and partners with them to become a Hero

Pixie Dust AU

Midoriya has a fairy Quirk that lets him make things float.

Plus Ultra AU

UA staff are all extremely overqualified.

Pokemon Legends Mustafa AU

The MHA world is the distant future of the Pokemon world, and they return at the Dawn of Quirks

Portals AU

Midoriya’s Quirk lets him create portals.

Princeling AU

DFO. 4-year-old Izuku accidentally stole all of AFO’s Quirks, killing him. Izuku has no idea this happened.

Problem Child AU

Everyone in 1-A is somehow a bigger headache for Aizawa than Midoriya is

Profane Torch AU

All For One is a Hero, and the OFA holders before Midoriya are all Villains.

Protégé Swap AU

Togata gets One For All and in response Nighteye starts trying his bullshit with Junior High Midoriya as his chosen holder.

Psychic Stockpile AU

Midoriya has a Psychic Quirk that grows stronger over time.

Public Knowledge AU

Everyone knows about One For All and All For One

Pyrrhic Victory AU

Dabi reveals his identity after the Hood fight, and succeeds in killing Endeavor before dying himself.

Quasar AU

Inko has One For All and is the Number One Pro Hero, Quasar

Quirk Swap AU

After a sleepover, everyone in 1-A wakes up with someone else’s Quirk

Quirkier AU

Emitter Quirks are rare, and secondary Mutations are common.

Quirkless Quartet AU

Yagi, Midoriya, Aoyama, and Melissa as a Quirkless Hero Team.

Red Flag AU

Aizawa investigates Aldera after the Entrance Exam

Redoer AU

Eri is given to the HPSC instead of to the Eight Precepts. She is raised to be an asset like Hawks, codenamed Redoer.

Reflection AU

Midoriya has a Quirk like Flect Turn’s

Relocated AU

Rei takes the kids and goes to All Might for help, and he hides the family in Mustafu, where she meets and falls in love with Inko.

Renegades AU

AFO is dead. The League of Villains are a completely different organization.

Reversal of Fortune AU

Midoriya manages to lock AFO in a vault and doesn’t know what to do next.

Royal Hive AU

Instead of being a Villain, Queen Bee was experimented on by AFO and Garaki. She escaped and ended up bonding with Midoriya between the Entrance Exam and the start of school.

Runaways AU

Midoriya gives One For All to Eri after being mortally wounded at the Yakuza raid. Eri, with her trust issues, runs away, aided by Midoriya’s Vestige. Don’t worry, he gets better.

Saiyan AU

MHA/Dragon Ball fusion. Inko is a Saiyan and the Number 2 Hero. Izuku is half-Saiyan. CathInko

Sarka AU

The Midoriya’s are distant royalty in the small island nation of Sarka and suddenly forced to take the throne

Save Eri Speedrun AU

Midoriya grabs Eri and runs the first time

Second Amendment AU

Lady Nagant flees to American after being labeled a Villain. Kaina/Cathleen

Secret Love Child AU

Midoriya really is All Might’s secret love child, not that they know that.

Secret Rat Society AU

There’s a hidden part of the written exam at UA, and those who pass it are put in a secret after school club run by Nedzu

Seiai Academy AU

All of the UA Girls go to Seiai Academy, including TransFem!Midoriya, who is a childhood friend with Intelli.

Seraphim AU

Midoriya has an angelic Quirk. Yes I am aware that Seraphim is the plural of Seraph

Shadow Twins AU

Midoriya has a sentient Quirk powered by his emotions

Sharpshooter AU

Tsustumi teaches Midoriya to use a gun

Shattered Masterpiece AU

Todoroki is expelled to Gen-Ed for refusing to use his fire.

Shifting Sands AU

Midoriya has a sand Quirk

Shiozaki for All AU

All Might passes OFA to Shiozaki during the first fight against AFO

Shirakumo Lives AU

Exactly what it says on the tin

Shoot the Stars AU

AFO attempts to steal New Order years before canon, only to be poisoned by Inko and lose. CathInko ensues.

Simple Victory AU

Midoriya uses martial arts to win the Sports Festival

Simulated Agency AU

After Midoriya impresses Aizawa with his analysis, Nedzu creates an assignment for the first years to simulate working at a real Hero agency

Singularity AU

Midoriya starts hearing the Vestiges the day of the Entrance Exam

Skyline AU

Uraraka is actually related to the American pro hero Captain Celebrity

Solar AU

Midoriya has powers like Superman thanks to the HPSC.

Somnambulist AU

Midoriya has a Quirk like Midnight’s

Spark of Genius AU

Mild Girl Genius crossover. Midoriya and Hatsume are mad scientists at I-Island

Spider AU

Midoriya has a spider Quirk and One For All

Spiral Energy AU

Hado Nejire receives One For All early in her first year

Springtime for Todoroki AU

Todoroki is trying to get expelled, and failing

Spy x Class AU

Everyone is a spy for All For One

Squad Swap AU

Ashido, Kirishima, Sero and Kaminari are the Dekusquad and Uraraka, Iida, Asui, and Todoroki are the Bakusquad.

Star For All AU

Cathleen Bate has One For All

Star Spangled AU

Midoriya is a bigger fan of Star and Stripe than All Might and moves to America as a kid. CathInko ensues.

Stars Won’t Burn Out AU

Star and Stripe helps All Might defeat AFO. CathInko ensues.

Start Again AU

Teen!Eri comes back from an apocalyptic future caused by Overhaul’s Quirk-destroyers being mass produced.

Stendhal AU

What if Stain was not a clown?

Stepmom Joke AU

Inko remarries Ms. Joke

Stepparent Trap AU

Cathleen Bate is the amicable ex-wife of David Shield, and Melissa is her daughter. When Izuku and Melissa meet at I-Island, they unofficially adopt each other and decide the obvious solution is to hook up Cathleen and Inko. Hilarity ensues.

Still a Hero AU

Ragdoll refuses to retire after having her Quirk stolen

Still Life AU

Midoriya’s Quirk brings his illustrations to life

Stolen Explosion AU

AFO steals Explosion from Bakugou before he can be saved at Kamino

Stopwatch AU

Midoriya’s Quirk lets him rewind time

Stray Cat AU

Midoriya but even more Feral

Sumo AU

Midoriya has Fat Gum’s Quirk

Superheroes AU

Class 1-A was born at the Dawn of Quirks and since Pro Heroes aren’t legal yet engage in secret vigilantism.

Support Bakugou AU

Bakugou wants to be a Support engineer in spite of having a Heroic Quirk.

Sweet Dreams AU

Midnight has One For All

Symbiosis AU

Midoriya volunteers to bond to a symbiote that is an artificial Quirk.

Symbol of Peace Nana

Shimura killed AFO. Yagi became a Quirkless Hero.

Tamama no Mom AU

Midoriya is the son of Inko and legendary kitsune Tamama no Mae.

Tarrasque AU

Midoriya has a Quirk like the mythological Tarrasque

Teacher Assistant Fuyumi AU

Fuyumi is All Might’s TA

Teacher Swap AU

Vlad King teaches 1-A and Eraserhead teaches 1-B

Terminated Contract AU

Aizawa is fired after the Kamino Rescue Team saves Bakugou

Thorns AU

Inko is an HPSC assassin who trained Izuku in her skills

Time God Uraraka AU

Uraraka’s Quirk awakens and she gains control of time and space

Toontown AU

Midoriya’s Quirk lets him run on cartoon physics

Torino Tenko AU

Tenko is found after the Decay Incident and taken in by Torino

Transferless AU

Midoriya has an invisible Quirk that means that he cannot have his Quirk stolen… or be given Quirks.

Triple Cross AU

Midoriya’s parents bought him a Quirk from All For One, and now he’s being forced to spy on UA. He’s not about to take that lying down.

True Foresight AU

Nighteye’s visions of the future are suddenly accompanied by a future version of himself

True Liberation AU

What if the MLA were actually against all Quirk discrimination?

Turn of Fortune AU

Midoriya has a Quirk that manipulates luck

UA University AU

UA is a University, but the timeline is otherwise unchanged, meaning the Sludge Villain attack is in Junior High, etc.

Uncle Cat AU

Sansa is Himiko’s uncle and adopts her

Uncle Might AU

Inko and Yagi are long-time friends, making Yagi Izuku’s honorary uncle. Pro Hero Inko.

Uncle Rappa AU

Kendo Rappa is Izuku’s uncle.

Undercover Heroes AU

The League of Villains are spies for Nedzu

Underground Todoroki AU

Todoroki chooses to spite his father by becoming an Underground Hero

Uraraka Wins AU

Uraraka defeats Bakugou at the Sports Festival

USJ Swap AU

Class 1-B are the ones at the USJ when its attacked.

Vampire Lord AU

Magic and Quirks coexist. Midoriya awaken his latent Vampiric lineage.

Villain Assault AU

Shigaraki doesn’t accept the AFO Quirk and kills the doctor before launching a full-scale assault against the HPSC

Villain Natuso AU

Natsuo recognizes Touya as Dabi and secretly becomes a doctor for the League

Villainous Activity AU

The League goes out and commits crimes to get more experience as a team

Wayward Bakugou AU

After the Sludge Villain attack, Bakugou ends up on the Infinity Train

Weaponmaster AU

Midoriya’s Quirk makes him a natural with any tool or weapon.

Werebeast AU

The Midoriyas are werebeasts.

Wildcard AU

Midoriya has a Persona

Wingman AU

All Might and Izuku try and set up Cathleen and Inko

Wings of Salvation AU

Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin crossover fusion. Midoriya is the Rider

Wonder Duo AU

Both Bakugou and Midoriya are Quirkless

Woomy AU

Mild Splatoon crossover. Midoriya’s Quirk makes him an inkling/octoling

Yakuza Inko AU

The Midoriya family are a part of the Eight Precepts. Inko killed Overhaul before he could start anything.

Yakuza Princess Eri AU

Chisaki Kai becomes an honorable Yakuza like the Boss, leading to Eri becoming the Boss’s heir

Yami AU

Midoriya is possessed by Yami from early Yugioh, back when it was a horror series

Young Heroes Camp AU

Class 1-A met as children for a summer camp.

Youthful Heroine AU

Recovery Girl is rewound to her prime

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Their Hero Academia - Chapter 96: Towering Inferno

Continuing my nextgen MHA fic!

Earlier chapters can be found here or by searching the “their hero academia” tag.

As soon as the Green Dagger gave the start signal, the four towers exploded into a flurry of action, with the students from the starting groups scattering like spooked cats, trying to get their bearings. They only had three minutes before the Shiketsu students would be released. Two minutes after that, they would have to contend with the U.A. students. And two minutes after that, SSZ would be unleashed upon the field.

It took Izuku back to his own school days, and the Licensing Exams, both the Provisional and Professional one. Everyone was so desperate to prove themselves and that could easily override more critical thinking skills. If someone was being completely objective, the smartest move would be to stake out the door and mob the competitors entering later. On the other hand, that would require teenagers being pushed into competition with one another choosing to cooperate with students who were ultimately the opposition, and he just couldn’t see that happening this early.

He sighed. He’d been at this for more than two decades, and in that time there had been a shift in how Hero society functioned in Japan. There was certainly still a degree of competition for rankings among Heroes, but the rankings weren’t treated with quite as much importance these days (He honestly hadn’t tried to take All Might’s place as the new Number One. That had just kind of happened! He was grateful to trade it off with Mirio sometimes).. And cooperation was way up compared to when he was a kid, with many Hero teams and partnerships out there.

But at the end of the day… it was still human nature to want to be the best, to be the star. He’d half stumbled into his own fame, but for the countless others in the profession, well, sometimes it was a struggle for a Pro-Hero to even get recognized. Throw a bunch of teenagers together like this and their own victory was going to be first in their minds. Add in the public hierarchy with U.A. and Shiketsu as the big two Hero schools in Japan, and the mix of animosity and envy towards SSZ as ‘outsiders’ and ‘the elite’, and it was all but certain.

Multiple screens around the area displayed different views from the four towers. In the upper left of the towers, tagged as Tower One on the big screen, Izuku watched as the red Seijin ninja found himself being backed into a corner by the girl from Seiai who was generating tendrils made out of some kind of energy. She’d created eight of them all together and while he’d pulled a weapon from within the folds of his uniform—some kind of kusarigama—he was just barely able to parry her attacks.

If Izuku remembered right, the ninja’s Quirk was touch-based. He’d taken down Toshi with it, at least. A bad matchup for him, then. He tried not to smile as one of the Seiai girl’s tendrils slipped past his guard and smacked the sensor on his chest. It let out a high pitched beep and started blinking red.

Above the monitors showing the towers, there were scoreboards, showing the competitors, grouped by school. A red x appeared next to the red ninja’s name.

This was the tower Toshi had been assigned to, so it was where he was going to be paying the most attention.

In the meantime, the Ketsubusu student who was dressed like an old-timey circus strongman had made his way to a higher level. But the strongman didn’t see Kayda Tsuchinoko, the daughter of Tsu’s friend Habuko Mongoose, sneaking her way through the rafters. The Ketsubusu student was strong, but so was Tsuchinoko’s snake tail. If she could take him by surprise, she might have a chance.

Tower Two was going to be one to watch as well. With both Nozomi and Haimawari in it, the action was likely to be fast and furious. There, a Seiai girl had fled from the action and retreated to the top floor. From there, she’d activated her Quirk and was projecting her consciousness into a construct made from the material of the tower. If she could keep her actual body protected, she stood the best chance of running roughshod over everyone else.

Which could be a challenge in and of itself. The Ketsubusu boy in the costume with the arrows has some kind of “push” power, while the girl from Isamu Academy had force blasts, making them well balanced against each other. Both were currently running and gunning, exchanging blasts and dodging the buzzsaws thrown by the green Seijin ninja.

Tower Three, at least objectively, seemed like a broader mismatch of abilities, and was also tilted towards female competitors. Other than Shinji and Ushimaru, everyone there was female. The girl from Ketsubusu had some kind of mental Quirk. She’d been able to make the others run away from her at the outset, but he hadn’t gotten a good look at what she could do at any point in the Festival so far. The Seiai girl had whipped up a cloud of steam, obscuring the entirety of the first floor. The Isamu Academy girl was firing nets randomly in the cloud, hoping to hit someone. Meanwhile, the purple Seijin had pulled a chain from her arsenal and had animated it with her Quirk, turning it into a makeshift fan to give herself a bit of space. There weren’t any clear winners here, at least as far as Izuku was concerned. But Shinji would likely waste little time in dominating the field once he was released.

At least Tower Four was a little more mixed. The Ketsubusu samurai, his armor freshly repaired from Mineta’s kick, had leapt right into the fight, using his energy slashes to scatter the rest. The animal shifter from Isamu Academy had given himself ape-like characteristics and was hanging from the exposed rafters, dodging out of the way of the Seijin ninja’s fireballs. And the Seiai girl was using her heat-generating touch to do damage to the steps, keeping the others from following after her. Kocho was in this one, and her Quirk would give her lots of advantages here. But so was Tatsuma. From what Izuku had seen in the first event, there might not be anything left by the time the others were released.

“We’ve seen first blood drawn already, but things are about to get more intense! It’s time for Shiketsu to join the fight!” Present Mic’s voice rang out.

***

Mika fought down the urge to cheer as Shinji rushed out. It probably wasn’t good to be rooting for the competition, even if the competition was your giant and super hot boyfriend.

“Can’t believe they’re making me wait,” Spencer grumbled. He looked over to the Festival worker monitoring them, who was staring intently at a countdown displayed on a handheld device. “You sure I can’t forfeit my advantage here?”

The worker shook his head. “Sorry kid, rules are rules.”

Spencer kicked the ground in frustration. “Aw, dagnabbit.”

“What, don’t you want to spend more time with me?”

“Later, Mimi,” he replied, giving her a charming smile that made her heart do a few flutters. “Never mix business and pleasure. And the business here’s fighting.”

Outside, Shinji was more than proving his power. He’d opened with a massive blast of wind, blowing all of the steam out of the tower. The girl from Seiai with the net launching Quirk made the mistake of attacking him head-on, firing a pair of nets from the openings in her hands. Shinji just threw back his head and laughed. She couldn’t hear it, but she knew the body language well enough. He threw his arm up in an arc, letting loose a mini tornado almost as tall as he was. It raced out and sucked up the nets and slammed right into the girl, setting off one of her sensors and throwing her into the nearby wall.

The Seijin purple ninja was a little smarter, trying to sneak up behind him. She used her object control Quirk to send one of her chains to wrap him up, pinning his arms to his sides.

Under most circumstances, that would probably have been a smart move. Shinji did use his arms to help direct his Quirk. But that was all it did. Direct his Quirk. He had more than enough control with it to fly, after all. A fierce wind whipped up around his body, pushing the chains away before shattering them.

Shinji was big. And he was loud. And he laughed often. Those were the things people saw, forgetting that Shiketsu was at least as difficult to get into as U.A. and even more rigorous in how it policed and educated its students. It got people to badly underestimate him.

Unlike Mika, it wasn’t something he purposefully cultivated. It was just how things worked out. And it had worked out to his advantage here.

The worker’s device beeped. “Mineta, you’re up in five seconds. Get ready.”

Mika gave Spencer a kiss on the cheek. “I’ll try and leave you somebody to fight.”

The Texan grinned, teeth bared. “Mmm, you’re too good to me, Mimi.”

***

Once, when she was small, Koharu had been channel chasing and had caught a few moments of a sci-fi horror movie, where some terrible monster had gotten loose inside of a space station. It had slaughtered most of the crew and had been chasing the remaining members around. It had been absolutely inappropriate for a child and had given her nightmares for weeks.

When the Nomu had dropped out of the sky during her internship, she’d felt a very similar fear.

What she saw when she flew out of the gate wasn’t quite that bad… but only by a few degrees.

Tatsuma, in her full draconic form, stomped heavily after the competitors from Seiai and Seijin. The samurai from Ketsubutsu was already on the ground, all three of his sensors blinking. His armor had been shattered again, his helmet lay a few feet away, and his sword had shattered itself on her scaly hide. She felt bad for the guy. He’d tried his best to stand his ground, and he’d gotten curb-stomped for it.

The girl from Seiai was just flat out running now, while the Seijin ninja was trying to pepper Tatsuma with fireballs. But using fire against a dragon was just as ineffective as it sounded; the attacks splashed against her scales like nothing.

Tatsuma had one sensor somewhere on her back, between her wings, one on her upper right arm, and one on her stomach, as though daring someone to get close enough to try and hit it. With the increased size of her dragon-form, it made for a very small target.

The shapeshifter from Isamu Academy seemed to have made himself scarce. Koharu couldn’t blame him.

Maybe she ought to just fly to the top? Once she had a high enough vantage point, she could spread her scales and unleash some of her powders over the whole thing....

A screech like a bird of prey shattered any thoughts of strategy right before something slammed into her.

***

“Stand still, dammit!” the girl from Isamu Academy shouted, filling the air with force blasts. She was getting madder and madder, barely even bothering to aim her shots.

Sorry!” Isamu shouted back at the girl from his namesake school. “Can’t do that!” He kept himself slow, zipping along the ground, moving side to side at the same time. It was a lot of concentration, but so far he was managing

He could understand her desperation. She was down to her last sensor. The Ketsubusu guy had gotten both her and the green ninja with a massive spray of scrap from his repelling power. Isamu’d nearly gotten hit then as well, but had managed to push his repulsion field out through his whole body, protecting himself.

Pow! He slammed into the Isamu Academy girl’s legs, flipping her over his back and knocking her down. He spun around, slid into a stop, and stood. There. Her last sensor was on her upper left arm. He charged up a low level pulse and fired it off with a soft pup. The energy pulse splashed into the sensor and set it off with a high pitched beep.

“Damn…” the girl groaned.

But he didn’t have time to rest or celebrate his victory. The sound of metal on metal made him spin. He had just enough time to throw himself out of the way of a punch thrown by the Seiai girl. Or rather, by the construct body she was controlling with her Quirk. He rolled and fired a volley of energy pulses at her as he came up, but it did nothing to slow her down. Behind him, he heard the Isamu Academy girl running away.

He kept the volley up, a constant barrage of shots, but she just kept walking, slowly pushing against them.

Wait! This was just a construct, right? He gained next to nothing by fighting it. It didn’t have sensors, her real body, wherever that was, did. They were on the second floor of the tower, and he knew at least some of the fighting was on the ground floor. If she was smart, she’d have gone to high ground…

“And now it’s time for SSZ!” came the voice of Present Mic.

The chill that ran up his spine had nothing to do with fear. Definitely not. Not at all. Nope.

A high pitched whistle made everything stop.

“What the hell is that?” the construct demanded, stopping suddenly. She looked around in alarm.

Oh shit,” Isamu thought.

“A nightmare,” he said out loud.

***

“HAAAARRRAAAH!” the Ketsubusu strongman let out a roar, his muscles becoming even bigger than before. He swung a meaty fist in a wide arc, but Toshi was already moving before the blow could hit him.

A quick gravity bounce sent him up and over the bigger student and as he dropped, he increased his gravity and kicked, slamming his feet into his back. It sent him flying, but didn’t knock him down. And unfortunately, the sensor there’d already been triggered, probably when Tsuchinoko had gone after him. So all it bought him was time.

The strongman spun and growled, dropping into a fighting stance. “Pretty fancy footwork, Mini-Deku. Your dad teach you that one?”

“Actually, no,” Toshi replied. He bounced lightly on the balls of his feet. A lot of his fighting style came from Great-Grandpa Torino, studying what little footage there was of the man. He couldn’t match Nozomi’s mid-air redirection, but he could bounce just fine.

He launched himself, towards the nearest wall at low gravity and bounced off it, launching himself at the wall on the opposite side. There, he bounced again, towards the back wall and back towards the muscleman.

Despite his size, the Ketsubusu student was faster than he looked. He spun and caught Toshi’s head in his hand, swinging him around and slamming him into the wall. Stars exploded behind Toshi’s eyes for a second. He’d been cycling his gravity up in prep for impact and the guy’d still managed to fling him around like it was nothing.

“Imagine somebody like me getting one over on somebody like you,” the strongman said. He cracked his knuckle. “I’m going to enjoy this.” He flexed again, growing even more muscular still. Once more, he let out a bellow.

“HAAAARRRAAAH!”

Both of them stopped at the second scream, which was tinny and high-pitched, a sound like a cartoon mouse would make.

Both Toshi and the Ketsubusu competitor looked behind him to see… a miniature version of the Ketsubusu student, maybe only about waist high, flexing and letting out another tiny bellow of rage.

“HAAAARRRAAAH!”

The tiny version let out another warcry, before breaking out into laughter. Both Toshi and the Ketsubusu student could only watch with fascination as his body stretched and reshaped itself, into a muscular, dark-skinned boy. It was the shapeshifter from SSZ, the one who’d been clowning around during the opening ceremonies by turning into Quirky the Quirkasaurus. Not quite the same, but still clearly the same person. The crowd was audibly in hysterics.

Everyone continued to stare at each other for a moment, before the shapeshifter broke into a toothy grin and laughed, throwing his head back, before doubling over with laughter. “Sorry,” he said after a moment, “but I just could not resist. You should have seen your faces!”

“What?” the Ketsubusu strongman said, flatly.

The shapeshifter cut off his laughter and pointed at the strongman. “You! That’s what you look like. All brute force and no style. Where’s your sense of showmanship? You dress like you’re part of the circus, but you have all the charm of a drunken office party!” The strongman seemed to deflate slightly.

Toshi, however, was quicker to recover his wits. And with one of the Ketsubusu guy’s sensors exposed now that his attention was on the shapeshifter, he increased his gravity and drove a punch right at it.

THWACK!

The impact sent the Ketsubusu strongman flying.

Toshi spared the shapeshifter a quick glance. His form was changing again, but Toshi couldn’t tell into what, just that it was horrible. “Sorry,” Toshi said, “but I… gotta bounce!”

Shifting his gravity, he launched himself into a bounding jump to put some distance between him and the shapeshifter.

As he bounced away, he could hear the shapeshifter call out. “I will give you a five second head start just for that pun!”

***

Koharu slammed the heel of her hand into the nose of the Isamu Academy animal shifter, forcing him to release her from his taloned feet. He looked disoriented, flapping his wing-arms hard, as though staying airborne was all he could manage. She hadn’t broken his nose–thank goodness–but that had definitely hurt. His Quirk didn’t seem as versatile as SSZ’s shapeshifter; it looked like he could only take on animal characteristics, like she’d seen him do back during the first event. That was something, at least. It meant there were limits.

He’d put his sensors all on his front. One on each shoulder and one dead center of his chest. While he was still stunned, she fired a blast of String Shot at him, hitting him with enough mass to knock him back as it expanded into a net. It hit him dead on in his center mass, triggering the sensor and pinning him to the wall.

He struggled against it for a moment before his shape began to change again, taking on the muscles and dark fur of a gorilla. Before, her String Shot and Mineta’s balls had pinned him pretty decisively. Here, he had more leverage and her String Shot began to tear.

Which was when the rumbling started. She was flying, so she couldn’t feel it, but she could certainly hear it. And worse, the whole structure seemed to be suddenly shaking.

The sounds of battle that had been filling the structure had come to a clumsy halt. Just moments ago, she’d been able to hear Tatsuma’s heavy footfalls on the floor above and the screaming of the other competitors as they tried to avoid her or stop her without success. The sound of her flame breath had been even scarier, truth be told.

What she hadn’t heard or seen, she realized, was SSZ’s competitor entering the tower, even with the doors open. Maybe she’d just been distracted by her own fight, but she didn’t think so.

She’d seen Torino and Ushimaru during the first event and the other boy was a very good shapeshifter. The other girl had some kind of water power, right? She remembered it now, the girl rolling out like a small wave during the opening ceremony.

If the ocean ever disappears, don't go looking for it.

It was a lesson drilled into every school child, especially those who lived in coastal cities and island communities.

“High ground!” she yelled. “Get to higher ground!” She flapped her wings hard, heading for the staircase. Going outside would make her too exposed.

“What?” the animalistic shapeshifter asked, confused.

Over her shoulder Koharu could see the arena floor had been ripped open, and a massive wave of water was spilling out from the entry gates, flooding the first floor. The Isamu Academy student was swept away and slammed around. And worse, the water was following her, heading up the stairs!

***

“That’s where you put your sensors?” the purple ninja demanded. One of hers was already glowing. “What is wrong with you?” She’d ditched her chain weapons from earlier and now held a pair of boomerangs. But she also had the high ground, so to speak, having been coming down the stairway as Mika was going up it.

Spencer and Shinji had been going at it when she’d left the bottom floor. And not in the hot way she’d had liked to see and would hopefully be dreaming about tonight. She and everyone else down there had wisely decided to scatter from the ensuing slugfest.

“What?” Mika asked, batting her eyelashes innocently. So she’d put two of her sensors on her boobs and the other on her butt. Psychological warfare was a legitimate tactic for keeping people from trying to touch them! And the officiants hadn’t said a word about it, even if they’d given her a look, so obviously it was fine, right? She was reasonably sure it was fine.

Also, she hadn’t completely heard the ninja over the howling of the wind and the way that ninja mask muffled her speech. Plus there was some kind of rumble and shaking that she didn’t know the cause of. But she was very good at reading people’s reactions to her antics.

The ninja threw her boomerangs, which were glowing as they left her hands. Mika dodged under them, firing off a volley of her balls. The ninja dodged as well, so that all they did was hit the wall. “Guess we both missed,” she started to say.

SMACK!

Something slammed into her ass, making her yelp and her sensor there go off. The boomerangs sailed around her, landing back in the ninja’s hands.

Right. Boomerangs came back. And an object control quirk. Stupid!

“Hey, at least buy me dinner first!” she yelled, firing more balls at the ninja.

“By the gods,” the ninja said, “Don’t you ever shut up?!” She dodged the volley, but one of the balls struck one of her boomerangs, knocking it out of her hand. The ninja let out a cry of pain and tucked her hand against her body.

It was just the distraction Mika needed. “Only if my mouth’s otherwise occupied!” Mika brought her head low and charged up the steps, catching the ninja off guard as she headbutted her in the stomach.

Mika kept her speed up, hooves clanging on the metal of the steps, until she reached the top of the stairs. She stopped suddenly there, letting momentum launch the ninja. She landed on the ground in a heap, another of her sensors now blinking.

~*F~*E~*A~*R~*~

It hit her like a blow to the head. Sudden, overwhelming, fear. No, not fear. Terror. The kind of fear reserved for a plant eater suddenly sensing a wolf. The kind of fear that provoked stampedes out on the prairie. The kind of fear that stirred up something ancient and primal in her, and played the sound of ancient hoofbeats in her mind.

Mika ran.

***

Deku being the Symbol of Hope or not, operations at Might Tower were played fairly close to the vest, and as a result, information about what students had interned there recently wasn’t publicly available. The I. Island footage on the other hand, was all over the internet, if you knew where to look. A lot of it was about as high quality as Bigfoot sightings, but if you knew what you were looking for, there were things that stood out.

The same things that had been standing out in public footage of the Shield for a little while now. One For All was about as well understood as the inside of a cat’s head, but Nana Shimura and Sorahiko Torino had kept careful records of everything they’d been able to learn. And all of that had been passed down to The Six Wind Hero - Cyclone, Nozomi Torino. The moth girl was worthy of closer inspection at another time (she’d received Uncle Izuku’s approval, after all), but right now, she was in the same field as Haimawari. She’d agreed to participate in the National Festival partially because the Headmaster requested it, and partially as a training exercise for herself, but now her priorities had shifted.

“Six seconds until entry.” She took a few rapid breaths as the officiant gave her the warning, stretching her lungs.

None of the competitors in the tower had been eliminated yet, and from the screens available, and what she could hear, she was fairly certain she had a fixed location on where her target was.

The roar of the crowd swelled, but her focus remained on the countdown “--one, and… go!”

A high-pitched whistle tore through the air, the exhaust ports her Quirk left across her skin tearing against the air as she burst out of the starting gate. Most of her propulsion came from the soles of her feet, but the ports on her arms allowed her to fine tune her steering. No sooner had the excitement of her and her teammates entering pushed the crowd into further enthusiasm, she clocked the glint of a metal blade flying at her. The ninja student had let themself fall behind as the fighting headed up the stairs, likely waiting to ambush new entrants. A reasonable tactic.

Unfortunately, it meant he was between her and her objective.

The propulsion from her feet abruptly cut off, and she expelled air from one side of her arms, flipping her harshly over the path of the incoming weapon. Her mid-air position was an awkward sight to behold, but she simply let out another blast from her feet and resumed her forward path. She pivoted again, diving under a second blade, then shoved her palms into the ground. Another blast of air, and she flew upwards into her attacker.

“Oh for fu–”

Whatever the Seijin student was about to say turned into something you might hear from a children’s squeaky toy, as Nozomi’s fist met his abdomen. Nothing added from her Quirk except the momentum behind her flight path. ‘Practical training’ was what Uncle Izuku used to jokingly call her signature uppercut. For a brief moment, she could feel the shape of his ribs against her wrist, before the impact sent the boy flying away from her. She hadn’t hit a sensor, but maybe the impact would trigger one of them. Not her concern.

The ‘pup’ of Haimawari’s Quirk was audible one floor up, interspersed with heavy crashing sounds. Not easy to hear, but if you were already listening for it, you could catch it. He hadn’t pressed his advance further yet.

A floor to ceiling bounce let her build up speed before she flew up and just beyond the edge of the tower, grabbing onto an edge to come swinging around. And there he was. Haimawari, fighting some creature made of garbage.

“Hey, U.A.” It wasn’t the teasing tone she reserved for Toshi, and she certainly wasn’t smiling the way she did for him. She landed in a crouch at the edge of the floor, and shifted into a runner’s starting stance.

“I’ve got something to find out from you.” She took a deep breath, and a thought and a split-second scream later, the distance between the two of them vanished.

***

As Toshi headed for the next set of stairs, something thick and warm wrapped around his body. Not the shapeshifter from SSZ. He’d left him behind when the red ninja had interrupted their chase. The laughing shapeshifter had said something about not being able to resist messing with such a humorless guy.

Toshi looked down to see red, scaly coils wrapped around him, leading up to the ceiling, where they were attached to a red-haired girl in place of legs, who was hanging in the rafters. Kayda Tsuchinoko. They’d met a few times over the years, though the last time was probably more than five years ago, owing to their families mutual friendship with Aunt Tsu and Uncle Rikido, but he wouldn’t say he really knew her. Sato probably did.

“Midoriya, right?” Tsuchinoko asked. “Can’t believe I actually caught you. That’s going to win me some prestige back at school even if I don’t win this thing!”

Toshi tensed against her coils. Contrary to how it often looked, he didn’t actually have super-strength. He just used his ability to adjust his gravity to give power to his punches or his jumps, but he couldn’t actually lift a car over his head or break out of chains or anything like that.

Beep!

The tip of her tail pressed against the sensor on his chest. She’d missed the others, at least.

“Good job!” he said. And it was. He hadn’t been looking up. A big mistake, obviously, and she’d taken advantage of it.

“But not good enough!”

He canceled his gravity just enough to make himself float and activated the CO2 jets in his boots. He hadn’t used them during the first event, because he only had a limited supply and because they’d been out in the open, where it was easy to get around by jumping. The sudden acceleration was like being shoved forward by being hit by a truck, but Tsuchinoko let out a yelp. She was dragged from her position in the rafters and trailed behind him, still wrapped around his middle.

As the edge of the Tower approached, he cut his jets and returned his gravity to normal, landing on his feet. He increased his gravity to turn himself into the unmovable object and Tsuchinoko snapped around him, her tail releasing as her upper body went flying by.

Toshi grabbed her tail as her upper body went sailing out into the open air and let himself fall backwards, dragging her back inside. He released her and got quickly to her feet.

She stared at him with eyes with slit pupils. “You saved me? Why?”

Why had he done that? It would have been a nice, easy victory. One person closer to guaranteeing he’d be in the final round. But…

“My body just moved on its own,” Toshi said. “Instinct, I guess.”

“Still got me, though,” Tsuchinoko said. She pointed to a sensor on her tail. “Guess even an accidental tag counts.”

They probably should have fought. It was the smart thing to do. To try and get another strike in that way.

But…

Toshi gave her a smile, before bouncing off. “Good luck!”

***

As Koharu flew, the water followed. It has swept up the Isamu Academy animal shifter (who’d managed to survive by taking on shark characteristics) and slammed him into a wall, setting off one of his sensors. And it had continued to flow even as she’d climbed higher.

It was only when she reached the top floor, open to the sky, that she understood the severity of what had happened. Up in the air, she could see the arena itself had been damaged. The ground had been torn up and exposed pipes shot water into the air in pitiful sprays. The water girl from SSZ – Amani, that was her name – must have pulled more water from the plumbing in order to get that much liquid.

A stupid part of her brain wondered if the toilets were still working after that stunt. Another part called it all overkill. And yet a third wondered if SSZ taught its students to use such over the top measures or if it was just Amani. And then she remembered Ushimaru and Torino, and decided that making that big of an impact might just have been their thing.

Other than the Ketsubusu samurai, who’d been eliminated early, and the Isamu Academy shapeshifter, it looked like everyone else had made it to the roof. Tatsuma was there in her dragon form, the girl from Seiai with the heat touch, and the blue ninja with his fireballs. Tatsuma’s sensors were completely untouched, but both of the others had only one left.

In a show of surprising teamwork, the Seiai girl dropped to her knees and unleashed a wave of heat into the roof, projecting it towards the stairs. Tatsuma and the ninja both unleashed their own firepower on the advancing water as well. It sizzled and steamed, but still rose up in a massive column. It towered over them for a moment, before it came crashing down.

The Seiai girl was swept away, falling off the tower. She screamed as she fell, making Koharu wince in sympathy. That was a long way down. The ninja was swept away too, but he pulled a grappling hook from somewhere and threw it, snagging a spot along the edge of the tower.

And Tatsuma? She stood there and took all of it, not being moved in the slightest. The only thing she did to defend herself was to flip her wings in front of herself, protecting her sensors. It was impressive and terrifying all at the same time.

The water pooled and pulled itself towards one spot, rising up and becoming Amani, now magnified in scale enough to look the dragon in the eyes. Koharu couldn’t make out any sign of the SSZ student inside the mass, it seemed that she wasn’t just controlling the water, but was one with it. Midoriya would probably have some really helpful insight as to what that meant and how to counter it, but she was at a loss. Amani and Tatsuma were sizing each other up, like a pair of wolves who had suddenly stumbled into each other’s territory. Tatsuma’s throat swelled as she drewin a breath, preparing to let loose another fire attack, while Amani’s enlarged figure once again collapsed into a roiling mass of water, only her head visible. All three of her sensors floated and bounced inside her watery mass.

This was not a fight she stood any chance in. Both of them outclassed her on every possible level. Neither of them were even paying any attention to her, even though her instincts were screaming that would change in an instant if she made a move on either of them.

But…

She flapped hard, flying past them. As she did, she released a cloud of her Paralytic Powder. It probably wouldn’t do anything to either of them, but at least it would make her feel like she’d done something.

She swooped down outside the tower, to where the blue ninja was pulling himself back up. She flapped her wings harder, arms extended out in front of her, as she dove towards him.

“Hai-yah!” With one hand still hanging onto his climbing rope, he threw a volley of fireballs at her with his other.

Internally thankful for the flying drills she’d been put through at the training camp, Koharu dodged them easily. Down to his last sensor, he was getting desperate, his aim erratic. And then she flared her wings, flipping upward, and slowing her descent. As she did, she unleashed her sleep powder, filling the air with orange-yellow powder. His mask helped him some. Most people went to sleep almost immediately, but he was able to throw another few fireballs, his aim even worse than before. His other hand began to slip, until, finally, he started to fall.

She swooped down again, and grabbed his arm, bringing him to a stop with a sudden jerk. His sudden weight made her wings ache as she fought to keep from dropping. Gritting her teeth, she brought them both into the third floor of the tower and dropped him on the still wet ground. His last sensor was on his head, attached to the side of his ninja headgear. She gave it a hard slap. It let out a high pitched beep and she breathed a sigh of relief.. The ceiling dripped on her head.

“That’s three eliminated for Tower Four!” came the voice of Present Mic. “And… Amani has walked off the tower? Talk about making a splash!”

“Yes, but I don’t think Tatsuma liked that, Mic… But with Shiketsu, SSZ, U.A., and Isamu Academy in the final round for this tower, she’s likely to get a second chance to even the score!

***

Driven by unrelenting fear, Mika took a running leap off the side of the tower and began to fall. In that instant, all the induced and irrational fear vanished, leaving her mind as clear as it ever was.

***

(Back at U.A., Chihiro Kaminari suddenly felt the urge to make a sarcastic comment and wasn’t sure why.)

***

Unfortunately, it was replaced by very real and very rational fear. Mika was a tall girl, with dense bones and muscles, and ample amounts of body fat in a number of places considered conventionally attractive by society. All of which meant that she fell very quickly.

Okay brain, she thought, I know I’m usually drowning you with thoughts of hot bodies, but right now, I can’t boobily breast my way out of this, so I need you to do math. You’re falling at x speed, the floors are x meters apart, angle of descent…

She quickly fired a number of balls from her horns, covering the ground below.

BOING!

Grateful for the fact that she didn’t stick to her balls (No, no time to laugh!), Mika instead bounced off them like a trampoline, hitting at just the right angle that she went sailing back into the ground floor of the tower. She slid along the floor until she collided with the central pillar.

“Let’s… not do that again,” she said, quickly getting back on her hooves.

There wasn’t anyone near her on the ground floor at the moment and she was ashamed to admit she’d lost track of who’d been tagged and who hadn’t. She could still hear the sounds of high-speed winds, backed up by a booming laugh, which meant Shinji was still in the game at least. The sound of heavy footfalls, like hammers on anvils, accompanied by delighted Texan yelling, told her that Spencer probably was too.

Quickly, Mika peered around the central pillar to check the other side of the floor. There, as she’d expected, Shinji and Spencer were still duking it out.

“Holy hurricanes!” Shinji bellowed. “I haven’t had this good a fight since I went up against Tatsuma! You are indeed a worthy adversary, friend!”

He shot both arms out, unleashing a massive funnel of wind.

Spencer, meanwhile, was glowing as he ran headlong into the funnel, his arms out in front of him. The wind funnel brought him to a stop momentarily, the glow around him getting brighter as he pushed against it. Little by little, he was actually making headway against the gale, his feet actually leaving footprints in the metal floor.

“You ain’t… so bad… yourself… pardner,” Spencer grunted. He started glowing brighter as he pushed forward.

Shinji planted his feet and kept up the blast of wind for another moment, until he abruptly stopped. Spencer, surprised by the lack of resistance, tumbled forward. Meanwhile, Shinji sidestepped him and thumped him on the back as he stumbled past him, hitting one of the three sensors that were in a triangular shape on Spencer’s back.

Back when they’d been waiting to be released, Spencer had explained that “If they’re seeing my back, then I deserve to get hit.” Mika could respect it, even if she didn’t follow the logic.

Spencer quickly spun and prepared to attack again, while Shinji rose up on a small tornado and shot away from him. He let out a laugh of his own. “You are good, big fellah. Not many people’s pulled that one off. You got me once. But that’s all you’re gonna get.”

“You’ll forgive me if I disagree!” Shinji shouted, whipping up more winds.

Out of the corner of her eye, Mika spotted someone coming down the far stairwell. Not the purple ninja, but the girl from Ketsubusu, all in black, save for the blank white mask that only showed her eyes. She had to have been the one who’d caused her to go over the tower edge. The Isamu Academy girl had been the one firing the nets and the girl from Seiai had been the one making the steam. And she hadn’t seen either of them in a while.

The Ketsubusu girl began to raise her hands to the sides of her head, her line of sight focusing on Shinji and Spencer. She hadn’t noticed Mika yet. Good.

Lowering her head to aim, Mika fired a pair of balls at the girl. One hit her left arm, breaking her stance and concentration. The other hit her in the stomach, doubling her over and tripping her sensor.

“And that’s three down in Tower Three,” Mount Lady announced. “U.A., SSZ, Shiketsu, and Seijin take this one!”

“Great shot, babe!” Shinji called out, his fight with Spencer already forgotten.

She heard a massive clang that sounded like Spencer kicking the floor. “Ain’t gonna lie, that was nice shootin’, Mimi.” She caught a disappointed tone in his voice.

She walked around the corner. “But you wanted to fight more, didn’t you,?” she asked, a smile tugging at her lips.

“See? You just get me, Mimi.”

***

Toshi was shifting through gravity in high gear, bouncing off walls and the ceiling as quickly as he could. Ahead of him, he could see the red ninja creeping along. Concentrating, he poured on the speed.

“Meteor… Smash!”

He slammed into the ninja before he could react, knocking him down and triggering a sensor. The ninja snapped back up, trying to strike at Toshi (And probably employ that nerve paralysis Quirk of his again), but Toshi had lowered his gravity quickly enough immediately after impact that he went flying out of the way, flipping and landing in a crouch.

The red ninja looked down at the sensor as though it had personally offended him. It was his second strike.

There was a strange sound and a subtle feeling of a change in air pressure, coming from behind him. He didn’t think, he just lowered his gravity and jumped straight up. His head bumped the ceiling, but it was a small price to pay. A bright blue beam sailed under him and struck the red ninja before he could get out of the way, tagging the last of his sensors. It was a force beam and slammed him backwards.

The ninja slumped against the wall. “All my ninja arts,” he muttered, “useless…”

Toshi looked behind him, to where the beam had come from. It was the Shiketsu competitor, the girl with the three eyes. He hadn’t seen her at all during the first event, but why hide such a simple Quirk?

Wait. She did have three eyes, didn’t she? But then why did she only have one eye now?

“Thank you,” the cyclopean girl said, “for setting him up for me. But my gratitude extends no further. We are still competitors here.” She brought her hands up and released a double-barreled blast.

Toshi turned and bounced, heading toward the stairs. He beams flashed around him, but fortunately none of them hit. Was her depth perception poor with only one eye? If so, that was a bad combination with an Emitter-type Quick like that. He poured on a little more speed…

SMACK!

He impacted hard with something solid and unbendable, where there should have been empty air, and fell backwards, landing on his butt. He looked up, blinking away stars, to see a pinkish energy field in front of the stairs. And just behind it, clearly generating it, was… the cyclopean girl?

Did she have any energy manipulating Quick then? But then why were there two of her? And each one only had one eye. Which meant that there was probably a third one running around somewhere too, no doubt with a unique ability all her own.

At least now he understood why they hadn’t seen much of her during the first event. With a Quirk like that, it was probably great for intelligence gathering, on top of the offensive abilities.

“Good job, To,” the one who’d fired the beams said, coming up behind him. “I knew we could lead him into a trap.”

“Of course, Ko,” the force field wielding one said.

“All right!” a voice called out. It was another one of the girls. She seemed a little unsteady though and leaned against the wall to guide herself as she approached. “We got him!”

Both of the other girls gave each other a look, then nodded. The force field generating one encased the third’s legs in a block of pink energy and the blasting one hit her with blasts from both hands. The blasts rocked the third girl’s body, tagging one of the sensors as well.

“Well,” the third said, her voice suddenly and surprisingly deep and accented, “it was worth a shot.” And then… the third girl changed. Her form blurred and shifted until she became SSZ’s shapeshifter. He tried to change form again, starting to become something big and monstrous, but more force fields held all his limbs in place while the other blasted him again and again.

Which was when someone else let out a war cry and Toshi barely had time to dodge out of the way. It was the actual other cyclops girl, this one clearly with some kind of strength Quirk. He bounced out of the way of her strikes, rebounding off the walls and ceiling, before barreling back towards her. She parried each time, deflecting his strikes and sending him flying until he could right himself. Her reflexes were good; her strength was even better. This could go badly for him, especially if the other two took down the shapeshifter and joined the fight.

A beep told him that the other cyclopes must have finally taken down the shapeshifter. Toshi paused just long enough to look.

“Th–th–that’s all, folks,” the shapeshifter said, a pig snout suddenly appearing on his face.

“Let me guess,” Toshi said, carefulling looking between the one-eyed girls, “mental connection between your selves he didn’t have?”

The two one-eyed girls looked him over. “Smart,” the blasting one said. “Not a lot of people who can figure that one out.”

Both of them got ready to fight again.

“And with that, it’s three down for Tower One!” Present Mic announced. “After such a strong showing, who could have predicted SSZ wouldn’t make it to the finals for this tower?! U.A., Shiketsu, Isamu Academy, and Seiai are going on to the next round!”

***

Torino tore through the constructed body of the Seiai girl like a missile, shattering it into a thousand pieces. “Good,” she said. “Just the two of us now.” And she launched again.

There was a time, when faced with an opponent with a personal mad on for him, that Isamu might have panicked and tried to run. Which was not to say he wasn’t still afraid, but a full term at U.A. with Aizawa for a homeroom teacher,, an internship under Deku, the events of the Tokyo invasion, the I. Island affair, and the summer training camp had changed his initial reactions from one of flight to one of fight.

At the speed Torino was traveling, he barely had time to do anything but react. But he threw up both hands and projected his repulsion field outward, as hard as he could. Torino slammed into it with a mighty crack and bounced off, flipping in the air, before she landed on her feet.

“Good reflexes,” she said. And then she was moving again, ricocheting around until she became a blur. His helmet sensors attempted to track her, but she flickered in and out from tracking. The sounds of her rebounding off the various surfaces became a staccato rhythm as he waited for the next strike, from whatever direction it would come. He was getting dizzy from turning to try and follow her.

She struck again and again, and each time, he just barely managed to get a repulsion shield up in time to deflect her blow.

“Your defense is acceptable, but where’s your offense?”

He could have pushed his field through his whole body. That would have offered some protection, but it might not have been enough, not all spread out like that. But he’d already been slow a couple times, now, getting his shield up with microseconds to spare. He had to get lucky every time. She only had to get lucky once.

And so did he.

He sucked in a breath and called up his Quirk into his hands. A few months ago, he’d have never dared try this, for fear of completely exhausting himself. But the more he’d trained, the greater his energy reserves, it seemed, especially since the start of the summer.

He let loose, spinning, arms out, filling the air with rapid fire, low-power blasts from his Quirk. “MACHINE-GUN SHOOT STYLE: MAXI-BLAM!”

Much as a disco ball filled a room with light, his arms filled the air with small pulses of energy as he spun in place, waving his arms through the air. None of them carried more physical power than one of his punches might – he was going for quantity over quality here – but that was hopefully all that he needed.

Isamu was well aware that this was a trick he would probably have only used under desperate measures in the field. It was too wild, too undirected, too dangerous to have used on the streets of a city unless he had no other choice.

But if this wasn’t desperate, then what was?

It was almost deafening, between the screaming whistle of Torino jetting around, the sound of his blasts hitting the metal structure of the tower, and the sounds his blasts made on their own.

KA-POW!

But there was a very distinct sound his blasts made when they hit someone.

He had shut his eyes shut before spinning, to avoid the resulting dizziness otherwise. As he opened them, Torino was nowhere in sight. Then there was a soft crumbling sound from above, and a piece of grit clattered off his helmet. He abruptly looked up, and Torino was clutching onto the ceiling, perched on one of the beams.

“Plus Ultra offensive effort,” Torino said. He’d managed, through sheer luck, to tag one of her sensors. And from the way her other arm was cradling her midsection, it looked like it had hurt.“But your follow through leaves much to be desired.”

Torino released her side and brought up an arm in front of her, gloved palm open. “Air Force - Ten Percent.” The fabric of her glove abruptly swelled like a balloon, before there was the shrrrp of velcro coming undone. The glove flew off her hand and tumbled clumsily but at high speed straight down. Isamu raised his hands in front of him in reflex, bringing up a shield, the glove slapping against it.

While his arms were still raised, he felt his stomach drop as there was a sound of impact on the floor in front of and below him. It was immediately followed by an impact, and a crunching sound as one of his sensors was triggered and smashed. Then his brain registered the impact.

Isamu’s costume was designed like motorcycle gear, to cushion impacts and protect his bones and vital organs from being smashed if he smeared himself on the pavement or ran into a wall. The blow knocked all the air out of him in one massive puff of breath and it was only by virtue of the padding that the blow was slowed just enough that he didn’t also lose his lunch. Throwing up in his helmet would have been very, very bad.

He sank to his knees, holding his stomach. But he managed to bring his head up to see Torino towering over him. She took his helmeted head in her ungloved hand. “You’re skilled. I’ll give you that. And you’ve found a lot of uses for your Quirk. But you lack a killer instinct. That will cost you, every time.”

She drew back her other fist to give him another punch. “And I can keep this up as long as necessary until you tap into what you were given.”

Which was when he activated his Quirk again, extending an adhesion field through his helmet. Torino’s eyes widened in surprise and then Isamu took off at full speed, dragging her along with him as he zipped along on all fours. She threw off his balance something terrible, and between her body and her cape, she created a hell of a lot of drag. But he didn’t particularly care where he was going. He zipped left and right at random intervals, turning sharply near corners to try and bang her against the wall.

Torino fired her own air jets, trying to change their direction, but he kept his own thrust up, matching her burst for burst, at least for the moment.

But he was so fixated on her, that he wasn’t completely watching the road ahead. It was only when his own proximity alarms started screaming that he looked to see a long, fleshy tube stretching out ahead of him.

“Look out, you idiot!” Torino yelled.

Both of them slammed into the thick tube and bounced off, separating in the process as they skidded to a stop.

The tube retracted, but the rest of what it was attached to rounded the corner. Miyahara, Shiketsu’s stretching rubber man.

“I don’t know what you two were getting up to,” he said, “but that was way too easy.”

Miyahara started extending his arms. “I finished off the ninja, and somebody got the girl with the force blasts, so this is for all the marbles.”

***

Isamu would give Miyahara credit, he had a lot of confidence for someone who was facing two-to-one odds against two people with high mobility and range. Even as his arms stretched out to ensnare them, Isamu and Torino moved.

They hadn’t planned it, hadn’t spoken to each other, but their Quirks made it perfect for her to go high and him to go low. Pressed so low to the ground that the zipper on his jacket scraped against the floor, he slammed into Miyahara’s legs at the same time that Torino slammed into his head.

Isamu kept going, while Torino bounced around for another strike, now aiming for his midsection. This time though, Miyahara elasticized himself against the impact and he stretched against her blow, until he snapped back, sending her flying like a pellet from a slingshot.

There were a lot of flying heroes that that probably would have worked on. But Torino’s skill and particular Quirk let her almost immediately stop herself, rocketing back again.

Isamu, for his part, drew himself up and fired off a volley of energy pulses. They were physical impacts, so they stretched Miyahara’s body out as they hit (Which was something he was probably going to be seeing in his nightmares.), but did little or not damage.

He may have read this one wrong. The rubber man may have, in fact, been more qualified to deal with them than he’d thought.

“Sorry,” Miyahara said, though he did not, in fact, actually sound sorry. “I’m pretty much punch proof.”

His arm shot out and Isamu was forced to duck and slide again, keeping just out of his way. Miyahara was good, though, stretching out of the way of Torino’s rapid fire strikes at the same time, his rubbery body moving like a snake.

He got lucky and his hand wrapped around Torino, elongated fingers pinning her arms to her sides.

“Fine,” Torino gave him a once-over, before a smile pulled at one side of her mouth. “Let’s see what your limits actually are.”

As it turned out, holding on to someone who could effectively fly by shooting air out of holes in their body was not a good way to limit the use of their Quirk. Torino jetted off again, around and around the central column of the floor, back and forth, this way and that, with Miyahara’s arm stretching and being pulled along the entire way.

Miyahara’s look of alarm swiftly became a grimace of pain as he tried to resist the pull, stretching out his other arm to grab onto a ceiling beam in an attempt to anchor himself.

That was when Isamu took his shot. A repulsion pulse, dead center mass, tagging one of Miyahara’s sensors. More importantly though, it knocked him off his feet and he went flying, his other arm reeling him in like a fishing line. Miyahara banged against the tower structure several times by the time Torino stopped, collapsing in a heap at her feet, all of his sensors lit up.

Isamu had far too much of a sense of self-preservation to point out that she’d copied the same basic strategy he’d used on her.

“And that’s it for Tower Two!” came the voice of Mount Lady. “With that brutal takedown, SSZ, U.A., Seiai, and Ketsubusu will be advancing to the final round!”

“And with that,” Present Mic added, “Round Two is over and we have our tower champions! They all fought an amazing fight, but what will happen in Round Three? We’ll find out after a short break! …and I’d also like to give a big thanks to our dedicated maintenance staff, who I’m sure will have the arena grounds handled just fine.”

The look Torino was giving him, though, suggested that her interest in him was far from satisfied.

Great.

Just great.

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