31 Obstacle Race

"U.A. sports festival! The huge battle where fledgling heroes sharpen their swords once a year!

Anyway, these are the guy's, right?

The miraculous new stars who overcame enemy attack with their hearts of steel!

Hero course, Class 1-A, right?!" Present Mic announced as soon as all students in class A got past the corridor. The audience cheered for them the loudest.

"They haven't been getting as much airtime, but this class is also full of talent! Hero Course Class 1-B!" They were also cheered, but not with the same intensity as Class A.

"Next up, general studies Classes C, D, and E.

Support course Classes F, G and H are here too.

And the business course Classes I, J and K.

All of U.A.'s first years are here now!" Present Mic just screamed like that, but the audience were pumped.

As the cheering were dying down, a woman walked over to the podium and wipped in the air. Seeing her, all of the audience and students recognized her as the R-Rated Hero: Midnight.

"Time for the player pledge." As she said that, the stadium became quiet.

After making sure it's silence, she spoke, "Representing the students is Katsuki Bakugo from Class 1-A!"

As his name was called Bakugo, he walked out from where Class 1A was standing and climbed the podium.

Reaching the mic, he spoke, "I pledge. I'll be number one."

A second later, he said that other students started to curse him.

"What the heck!"

"Stop messing around!"

"Don't be so full of yourselves, Class A"

"You sludge bastard." And many more were heard by everyone.

Not able to understand why he did that, Iida spoke to him from ground, "Why are you doing something so disgraceful?!"

"At least become a nice bouncy step for me to jump off of." Not responding to Iida, Bakugo spoke again.

After he left the podium and the students calmed down a little, Midnight spoke, "Now, let's get started right away.

The first game is what you'd call a qualifier. " looking at the students, she continued, "Every year, many drink their tears here!" She said that a hologram screen appeared behind her. "Now here is the Fateful first Game." After she said that, the words on the screen started to rotate. After a couple of seconds, it stopped playing.

Seeing the game Midnight announced, "This year it is obstacle race,"

After that, in the screen, an animated explanation was given, while Midnight gave us verbal explanation: "All eleven classes will participate in this race. The course will be the outer circumference of the stadium, about four kilometers!

Our school's selling point is freedom!"

Licking her lips dangerously, she said, "As long as you stay on the course, it doesn't matter what you do!

Now! Take your places, everyone!"

When she said that, every students gathered around the exit and waited for the signal. As the last green light was turned off, Midnight spoke, "Start!"

Hearing this, all the students started to run into the exit corridor.

As the game started, Presen Mic started to do his commentary "Okay, here's the play-by-play! Are you ready to do the commentary, Eraser?"

A tired Eraser Head said, "You are the one who forced me to come."

Nit minding his reply, Present Mic spoke, "Lest get started right away!"

"What should we pay attention to in the early stages?" he asked Eraser.

"This part is now."

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"Start."

As soon as Midnight gave the signal, all the students started to run into the corridor.

Knowing what would happen here, I slowed down and ran slowly at the back of everyone.

A second later, they were all crammed in there and started to curse at each other for either stepping on their toes or for pushing aside.

As I was enjoying the show from the back and as the frin runners reached the exit, ice started to form on the floor. So as far as I know, it's due to Shoto. I just jumped up and let it pass under me.

As I was also out of the corridor, I saw some students stuck in ice; they couldn't do anything about it. So I just ran past them at my normal speed.

From a bit ahead, I could hear Momo, Kirishima, and Bakugo speaking towards Shoto. Suddenly, the robots from the entrance exam appeared and hit some of the students, taking them out of the course. Seeing that everyone stopped since in front of us were the gigantic zero pounters.

Shoto just frozen one and ran past it, seeing that some students, Kirishima and Tetsutetsu, ran after him, but the frozen robot just fell on them. A couple of seconds later, they both came out of it, and as they were arguing, Bakugo just flew over the zero-pointer and took the second position.

Deciding that it's enough, I squatted down and jumped straight towards one of the zer pointers and punched it into oblivion.

"What the hell was that?" Present Mic couldn't help but scream as he saw that someone took down the zero pointer in one hit.

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As Haruto destroyed the zero pointer in one hit, in the teachers area, Sho's and Hina's eye's went wide.

Looking at the scene, Nezu asked them, "Did he ever mention about this?"

"No," Hina said.

"I did tell you that he went to that place for training, right? Before he went there, he said, It's a surprise for us." Sho said to Nezu:.

"But we didn't think it'd be like this." Hina said she was still surprised.

"Well, I think it may be because of his angelic physique. After all, Angels are strong in myths." Nezu said he was analyzing the situation.

"Brother is cool." Hana's sparkling eye's interrupted their talk.

On the other side, Snipe said, "As expected, most of the group that's gone ahead is from Class A."

"Class B and other's aren't bad either!" All Might said.

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Seeing Haruto destroy one of the zero pointers as a piece of cake, Endeavor asked Touya, "What did you say his quirk was?"

"I don't know. I didn't ask him. But seeing him now, it might be body enhancement quirk or booster quirk? "

"Possible. But in any case, I want to meet him after the finals end." 'I don't know, but that power is almost similar to All Might. Almost similar.'

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Right after I destroyed one robot, three more fell down Thank's to Momo and lot of students passed by them.

As I was running ahead, Shoto and Bakugo were in the lead, and I was in third place, with Kirishima and Tetsutetsu a bit behind me. A second later, Iida passed by me with his speed.

After a long, slow run, we reached the second obstacle, "The Fall."

Looking at the obstacle, I thought, 'Should I just jump from here to the other side or... '

As I was thinking about what to do now, many students passed by me, and I didn't even mind them. After a couple of minutes, I decided not to jump that much so I made use of the acrobat skills I got from Rath's dna, walked on the rope and started to clear the Fall slowly, After all, I was not in a hurry.

But even in my slow pace, I was overtaking lots of kids who passed by me.

"A lot of different people are working hard for their chance, huh, Eraser Head?

And now, the leader of the pack is easily through furst."

Hearing this, I was sure that Shoto cleared The Fall first.

So I picked up my speed. As I was nearing the end, I saw Bakugo and Iida right on Shoto's tail.

A couple of minutes later, I finished the second obstacle. Present Mic announced, "And now, we've quickly arrived the final barrier! The reality here is that it's a minefield! It's set up so you can tell where the mines are if you look carefully!

So you have to exploit your eye's and legs!

By the way, these landmines are for games, so they're not that powerful, but they are loud and flashy enough to make you wet your pants!" When I heard that, I was sure Shoto might have started to get past the landmines using ice, 'So that means Midoriya is at the back of me?' So I looked back and saw Midoriya running towards the third obstacle.

As I reached there, I saw Bakugo and Shoto fighting inside the minefield, and Iida running while blowing up the mines on his way.

*Booooooommmmmm*

As I reached the middle of the minefield, I heard a loud boom from the back and saw Midoriya flying past over my head.

While I was trying to move forward, I saw Mineta trying to stick his balls on her back and trying to hitch hike on her. So as a helping hand for Momo, I used the shadow binding technique from Naruto to stop Mineta in mid-air for a second and that's all I wanted. From mid-jump, he just fell right on to mine and blasted away to the front. Momo, noticing that looked at me and nodded with smile.

Just then, another explosion was heard from the front. 'Ah, Midoriya is taking first place, huh.'

"Midoriya swiftly blocks those behind him!

Would you believe it?

He cleared the minefield in an instant!" The present mic was fired up for sure.

Then I didn't hold back anymore and just increased my speed, overtook the ones in front of me and reached the entrance to the stadium.

I finished all the obstacles and reached there. As soon as I got into the stadium, I knew my place in the preliminary round, as it will be in the top ten, I hope.

"And niw, they're finishing one after another! We'll make a list of the results later, but for now, good work!"

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After the preliminary round was finished with forty-two students finishing it, Midnight came to the stage and announced, "The first game of the first year stage is finally over. Now look at the results!"

1. Izuku Midoriya

2. Shoto Todoroki

3. Katsuki Bakugo

4. Ibara Shiozaki

5. Jizo Honenuki

6. Tenya Iida

7. Haruto Kageyama

8. Fumikage Tokoyomi

9. Hanta Sero

10. Eijiro Kirishima

As I looked through the results, I saw that Aoyama didn't make it past rank 42.

"The top 42 made it through to the next round. It's unfortunate, but don't worry even if you didn't make it! We've prepared other chances for you to shine." She paused.

"The real competition begins next! The cavalry'll be all over it! Give it your all!" After she said that, just like the preliminary round, a screen appeared behind her. "Now then, here is the second game. I already know what it is, but what could it be? What could it be? I Just said it, and now here it is: Calvary Battle!"

Looking at the confused students, she said, "Let me explain. The participants can form teams of two to four people as they wish. It's basically the same as a regular cavalry battle, but one thing that's different is based on the results of the last game, each person has been assigned a point value."

After she said that, the point table was shown, starting from the 42nd position with five points and coming up with five points extra of the previous one.

"And the point value assigned to first place is...

ten million."

Hearing this, everyone looked at Midoriya with the eyes of predators.

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