Chapter 28: Reaching for the Top.

Katsuki cracked her neck as she glared at Tetsutetsu like he killed her whole family.

"You're dead meat, punk." Katsuki's hands were releasing small explosions.

"Bring it on ora!" Tetsu changed into his steel body.

"Start!" Midnight shouted and Katsuki went up to him immediately.

She was actually a huge fan of Alex's martial arts. So she copied his Wing Chun and after every hit, an explosion was released.

"Ohhh! Starting with an onslaught of attacks! Can Tetsutetsu survive!" Hizashi shouted.

"Heh, too easy." Katsuki stopped and she suddenly got smacked on the face by a shiny fist.

"Hah, hah, you think I'll just go down with this, you punk?" Tetsu was breathing heavily and he was reeling from all the blastwave trauma.

"So this one can fight back huh? Then this will be more interesting." Katsuki grinned at him like a lunatic.

"Uh-oh, that's a really bad idea." Izumi cringed.

Fighting back against Katsuki if you can't really match her would be the end of you.

"Then you can take bigger ones, huh? You shiny aluminum bastard." Katsuki's explosions began to increase in strength as she concentrated them.

Tetsu gulped, but he couldn't back down now. Especially after Itsuka gave him the chance.

He ran at Katsuki to enter a cqc battle which is his specialty.

But sadly, Katsuki's better than him at it. Much, much better.

"Take th-" Tetsu screamed as he released a haymaker, but he got countered with a devastating cross counter.

"Boom." Katsuki smirked at him as his head got engulfed in an explosion.

"She killed him!" Monoma started screaming and Itsuka was having trouble calming down her class.

Tetsu dropped to the ground with his eyes rolled and Katsuki snorted.

"Fucking extra, don't fight if you can't back your words up. Stay where you belong, trash." She walked away like a goblin and Midnight announced the win.

"The support student that got into the final event is stepping into the ring! Mei Hatsume!" Hizashi was pleasantly surprised by her presence.

Even though she used Alex as a bus, she still got in the final event.

"As for her opponent! How will the gravity defying Ochaco deal with her!?" Mic screamed and Aizawa glared at him.

"Shut the fuck up Hizashi." Aizawa put on some earplugs.

"Hi!~ I of course will show everybody my babies!" Mei was wearing an exo-suit, some boots, and a housing with cables on her hip.

"Let's get along!" Ochaco bowed and she was as mild-mannered as ever.

"She wearing a mic? How annoying, especially with her squeaky voice." Aizawa clicked his tongue.

"I can dodge with my hydraulic support item!" Mei suddenly got lifted by some metal rods like Wukong's Jingu Bang.

It didn't matter though, as she was suddenly tapped by Ochaco who currently has a lot of her mass cancelled.

"What speed." Aizawa furrowed his brows, she was like an assassin.

"My 32 axis gyro sensor auto-balancer can even help me maneuver in the air!" Mei flew around due to the weightlessness.

She then shot some grapple hooks on the ground. Having a knock-off, 3-d maneuver gear.

Ochaco didn't wait for her to just yap though. As she threw a piece of rock at her that travelled at breakneck speeds.

Mei's quirk, zoom. Could let her zoom her vision multiple times. And she saw Ochaco making a move.

Mei's exo suit suddenly whirred and a metal shield with automatic sensors blocked it.

"That's a lot of damage! With my flex seal, I can make quick repairs!" Mei slapped some black material on it.

"See? No leaks!" Mei nodded in satisfaction at her invention.

"Uhhh, I think that's copyright..." Alex remembered a chainsaw wielding guy that promoted something like that before.

And after 5 minutes of cat and mouse chasing. Ochaco didn't really pressured her much as she understood what she was doing.

Before Alex gave her parents that huge ass contract for the lab, they were struggling. And she respected Mei's hustle.

"Fuuu~ I have shown my babies sufficiently. Thank you for listening, bye~" Mei stepped out of the ring.

"That's just an advertisement, isn't it?" Hizashi didn't know how to hype that up.

"Shut up and start the next match." Aizawa pointed at the crowd who watched a glorified ad that was unskippable.

"The Pony from the wild west! Varsus! The gloomy gen-ed student, Shinso!" Hizashi got his mojo back quickly.

"Howdy, you doin' fine?" Pony smiled at Shinso and he smirked.

"Just fine, how about you?" Shinso couldn't hide his villainous ass grin.

"Fine and dandy!" Pony suddenly froze and she walked out of the stage.

"Well, that guy's an NTR doujin protagonist if I ever saw one. The only thing missing is for him to be a fatass." Alex snorted.

"He does have that rapey vibe to him." Mina agreed.

"Izumi! Show them our hard work!" Melissa who didn't make it cheered her on.

"Oh!" Izumi nodded and her opponent was Ibara.

"I don't want to hurt you, so please surrender now." Izumi analyzed her and her vine hair has similar strength to steel cables.

But her repulsors won't have much trouble blasting through that with her arc reactor's power output.

"I have to do my best for the lord and my classmates." Ibara put her hands together like she was praying.

"Your loss." Izumi sighed and her software started speaking.

"Is that Alex's voice?" Mina raised a brow at Melissa.

"Well, his voice does sound cool." Melissa laughed nervously at Mina's inquisitive gaze.

"Engaging anti-plant life mods." Her gauntlets revealed some nozzles.

"What are some puny nozzles gonna do?" Monoma scoffed.

But it suddenly released burning white phosporus at Ibara who blocked it with her hair.

"Ahhh! My hair's burning!" Ibara couldn't smother it at all, even when she put her hair underground.

"Isn't that a war-crime?" Midnight blinked dumbly.

"I give! I give!" Ibara cried out and Izumi smothered it with a special chemical extinguisher.

"Uhhh, cut the tape! Cut the tape!" Midnight shouted.

Thankfully, everybody thought it was just some flame throwers.

"Let us draw the next set of fighters then, ahem." Midnight coughed as she broke into a cold sweat.

Match 1: Shinso vs Alexander

Match 2: Momo vs Ochaco

Match 3: Katsuki vs Shoko

Match 4: Mina vs Izumi

Alex and Shinso stepped up to the arena and the latter immediately talked.

"Your quirk seems to be psychologic in nature. Lets you control them? You'd make a good capture hero like Aizawa." Alex nodded at him.

Shinso squinted his eyes. "What do you know? You have a great quirk and you're definitely the crowd favorite."

"Well, you can't use my powers without a baseline. I can beat a lot of you with just my base form." Alex sighed.

"Gotcha." Shinso used his quirk on him and Alex was compelled to do his bidding.

But he suddenly transformed into his tigrex form and he roared, but it was softer this time or Shinso might get killed or something.

He was basically just a normal kid without a smidgeon of physical training.

"Don't interrupt me, kid. I was talking. How dare you. You don't have a single idea what I've done to be here." Alex snorted.

"Tch, big talk. You're the one who has no idea! I've been labeled as a potential villain since I manifested my quirk!" Shinso hissed.

"Well, did you use it for that? It's not like you mind controlled your classmates to suck your dick. It doesn't matter what they think." Shinso was speechless at his bluntness.

"What matters is what you think. If you doubt yourself, there's no greater enemy. You know all your weaknesses, chinks in your armor, it's an unwinnable battle." Alex pointed at him.

"As I've said, a hero carves their own path. Allmight was doubted as he caused tons of collateral damage before he became a symbol of peace. Make up your mind, kid.

Be a loser that doesn't amount to anything. Or work on yourself and be your best version. Make them see that you're Shinso, the hero." Shinso just stood there.

"He'll be a great dad, should I poke holes on our condoms?" Mitsuki mumbled.

"Mitsuki! We're too old to have kids!" Inko shouted.

Alex then threw him out of the arena. "Oi! What's the big idea!? That was just dirty!" Shinso complained.

"You snooze you lose, consider that your first lesson kid. Nobody will wait for you in real life." Alex walked away.

"A life lesson from a teen! Such unexpected turn of events!" Hizashi nodded with tears in his eyes.

"So manly!" Kirishima and Tetsu shouted as they cried manly tears. They then looked at each other and gave a thumbs up.

'Hmmm, I guess that kid Shinso will be a great underground hero. I'll maybe take him in if he has potential.' Aizawa smiled a little.

Next match, Momo and Ochaco stood opposite of each other.

They didn't say anything and Ochaco made the first move.

Momo immediately backed off with a shield on hand and Ochaco touched it to make it weightless.

'Got you.' Ochaco pried it off due to the shield's sudden floatiness and she used Momo's distraction.

"Crap." Ochaco suddenly saw shades and an earplug form on Momo. With the signature light from her quirk.

With a bang, Ochaco got flashbanged and her ears were ringing.

She was sent reeling from the flashbangs and Momo quickly wrapped her in steel rebar.

"Ugh, I forgot you don't overthink anymore." Ochaco clicked her tongue.

"Yes, Alex helped me with that. Hesitation is death." Momo used to overthink a lot.

"Umu, I have taught you well Momo." Alex nodded in the waiting room.

Katsuki and Shoko stepped up in the ring and the blonde's temperament quickly changed.

'She's serious about this. Too bad, I am too.' Shoko squinted her eyes and she immediately made another iceberg like earlier.

"Midnight-sensei, call the match please. Katsuki can't sweat in that ice." Shoko was confident.

But shards of ice flew everywhere as Katsuki make herself go boom.

"You half and half bastard. What are you, cream? You think you can take me out with that you half baked fucker?" Katsuki was fuming at her words.

'Shit... My body's getting cold.' Shoko was forming frost on her other half of her body.

"Let me show you what I'm made of." Katsuki jumped in the air and she went higher as explosions on her soles boosted her.

"Artillery series: 155mm Howitzer! Dieeee! You icepop bastard!" Katsuki pooled sweat on her palm as she accelerated like a rocket towards the ground.

"You won't!" Shoko tried to make pillars of ice to stop her, but Katsuki outmaneuvered it all with explosions from the sides of her body.

Her acceleration then sped up even more and Shoko's pupils dilated as Katsuki's palms hit her on the abdomen.

The whole dome got shellshocked by the explosion and the whole arena got shattered.

"Medics!" Midnight shouted and Alex immediately went to the arena.

He smelled the air and saw Shoko was planted deeply in the wall.

"Damn, a fractured skull. Her ribcage is shattered, and her limbs are all broken. She's still alive though." Alex bathed her in vitajuice.

"How about that, can't freeze that?" Katsuki grinned.

"Hah, you went a little overboard Katsuki. Though you held back enough and didn't do an AP round, I guess." Alex sighed at her.

Shoko got carried by stretcher and she was on a one way trip to the hospital for sure.

The crowd was speechless and Midnight called for Mina and Izumi.

"Let's go! Izumi!" Mina smiled at her and the smol broccolini nodded.

She soared to the skies immediately and Mina sighed.

Mina then clapped as she released a mist of her acid.

She then held her breath as she started dodging Izumi's repulsor blasts.

Too bad though, Izumi wasn't stupid enough to go through the corrosive mist. And Mina self-destructed as she needed to breathe.

"I give! That's so not fair, she can fly." Mina grumbled.

"A little break for our semi-finals, folks! Piss and shit now! Because things will get exciting!" Hizashi hyped everyone.

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