Sports Festival 6

My next match up was against the class rep himself, Tenya Ida. He got through the first match after Hatsume made a total fool out of him with her scores of gadgets. Luckily for Ida, Mei never had any interest in the tournament so once the stadium was shown her last piece of equipment she forfeited the match, sending Ida through to the next round.

After being turned into a walking advertisement Ida was eager to prove himself in the match between us.

If I was to guess, I think he's going use that superfast one shot move from the start. The one he used in the Cavalry Battle, Recipro-something, can't really remember.

If Ida doesn't go for it straight away... I mean it'd be pretty stupid. He might as well try and send me out of bounds before I can pull the same thing as last round.

All the other first round matches were pretty fun to watch.

I thought Yui's match was hilarious, she was up against Ashido and ended up winning by nearly squashing Ashido with her shoe. Since there's not any debris in the arena to manipulate, she waited for Ashido to close in before attacking.

Yui threw her and supersized it to her current maximum, which was around half the width of the battle field. Being that close Ashido couldn't dodge and was knocked unconscious from the blow.

Kirishima ended up fighting Tetsutetsu who had a similar quirk, so it ended up being an all out brawl that ended in a draw. Once they both recovered they arm wrestled to see who would advance, that Kirishima won and it ended up being one of the strangest advancements in the history of the sports festival.

Bakugo vs Uraraka was good as well. Everyone got clear look at his serious firepower and although his opponents plan was good, he came out on top with little trouble.

The first match of the second round was intense as well. Midoriya ended up giving Todoroki a run for his money at the expense of several body parts, and I got to see Todoroki using his fire quirk properly instead. The fire and ice combination ended up being too much for Midoriya and he was put out of action after a final collision.

Endeavour, Todoroki's father also said some questionable stuff that was brushed off as some strange form of encouragement, but in my eyes it definitely never seemed that way.

Standing out on the field Present Mic got on with our introductions.

"Here we go folks, the second match of the second round is starting. On one side we've got the walking advertisement himself, the class Rep of 1-A, Tenya Ida!" to which Ida cringed at his failure from the last round.

"Fighting against him, we've got the man who's burning through the competition, Benimaru Shinmon!"

As we faced off against one another Ida spoke up, "Shinmon, I must redeem myself from the shameful performance I put on in the first round, so I won't hold anything back. I hope you'll respect me and do the same."

"Sure, knock yourself out" I replied.

Midnight then called out to start the match, "Ready, begin!" she shouted as her whip cut through the air.

Looking at Ida, he quick dropped down into a sprinters starting position. The engines on his legs heat up rapidly in preparation for what must be an attack, as blue flames started spewing from the exhausts he shouted "Recipro Burst!".

There's the name of that move, I'll try remember it this time.

As Ida's words finished he flew towards me at staggering speeds, even faster that when he used it in the Cavalry Battle due to not having excess weight.

While this was happening, several strategies passed through my mind, the one at the forefront was just taking control of the flames in the engine and making them explode, but that's too fucked up for this kind of fight. For all I know it could end up with his legs being blew clean off, can't have that happening.

Quickly deciding on a different option, I wait for Ida to get close. He probably thinks he's going too fast for me to react, how far for the truth that is.

When he was just in front of me about to take his shot at pushing me from the arena, a well timed burst of flames came from my left hand in a similar way to how Bakugo uses his explosions to move around.

The small burst done enough to knock me out of Ida's pathway, causing his eyes to widen as he was going too fast to change direction in such a short amount of time.

Before he could even process what was happening, I took a hard swipe at his legs. The kick connected which threw Ida off balance, and at the speeds he was going at there was nothing to stop him from flying out of bounds.

All in all, it was less effort than the match against Ibara, all because of some good timing and Ida's over confidence the match finished as quickly as it started.

There were no cheers from the crowd, only confusion as for most of the viewers everything happened faster than they could keep up with. Leaving them wondering what the heck happened.

While the crowd gawked at the result, Midnight called it "Winner, Benimaru Shinmon"

That got the crowd going, but I can guarantee Konro wasn't cheering as much as he was before. All he knows is that he's in for a hard time soon.

I walked off to go and help up Ida, I know that the move he just performed stalls his legs for a while so I decided to give him a hand reaching the viewing platform.

Upon reaching the class rep he asked "How were you able to keep up with my speed?"

In return I responded, "I'm used to speeds like that, you never seen me flying before?"

"I suppose that's a fair point, I underestimated you and I payed the price. I just hope my brother won't be disappointed in me" He said with a sigh.

Helping him walk I asked "You've got a brother?"

"Yes, one I look up to very much. I don't know if you've heard of him before but he's the Turbo Hero Ingenium." he stated with a proud smile on his face, despite looking terribly a moment before. It really shows how much he cares about his brother.

At the name I was pretty shocked, I wanted to kick my own ass for not noticing the similarities between them and not putting two and two together.

"Seriously? your his brother. I should've noticed it sooner, Ingenium sometimes ends up being called to the area I live for villain attacks"

"So you already know who he is you say, tell me Shinmon. Do you think he'll be disappointed in me for failing to advance further" I asked me for my opinion.

"Don't think so, he seems like a pretty chill guy compared to other heroes I've met." I commented.

We we're passing the changing rooms when Ida said "You can leave me here, I'll call him when I get inside".

"Sure" I answered, letting Ida walk freely I watched on as he limped into the room.

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