A badass Deku

Part 2

-Izuku-

Grinning, Izuku looked around the other members of the top forty-two as they found out just what he did to win. Kacchan's frustrated scream was soothing for the soul if he was being honest. "Alright everyone, time for our next event!" Midnight shouted before Kacchan could attempt to kill him, "This next one is based upon a points system. The person who came in forty-second place has the fewest points and it keeps increasing the higher your spot was." She explains as everyone nods, the point totals starting to appear on the board, "First place though, has a point total of ten million!" Gaping, Izuku saw that number, one higher than all the other points added together.

"And our event...is a calvary battle!" Midnight cracked her whip as she pointed to a screen above everyone "You all will split into teams of two to four people with the rider of the team wearing a headband that has the teams point totals written on it. The battle will last for twenty minutes and the top sixteen will move on to the final tournament round."

"Any rules we need to know?" Izuku asked with a grin, having found a love of loopholes...if he was the one using them at least. His classmates' glares implied they didn't share that sentiment.

"You cannot leave the arena, you cannot permanently injure your opponents, you can't deliberately make your opposing riders fall. If the rider falls and it's their own fault or not intentional then they're eliminated." Midnight explained, "You all have five minutes to form your teams." Grinning widely, Izuku shot off, already knowing the perfect team to make for this event.

-All Might-

"He's smiling." All Might held back a gulp as Izuku rushed into the throng of students, pulling some aside and talking to them with a wicked grin, "Why does that scare me?"

"Because the kid is apparently a Slytherin." Snipe snorted, "Although I don't have a damn clue what sort of loophole he could use for this event. The rules seem pretty-straight forward."

"Yes my disciple!" Nezu cackled "Show them their places! Mwahahahahahaha!"

"Wait...that's his team?" All Might tilted his head in confusion as he saw young Midoriya select a student from class 1-B, a purple haired student from general education who looked like he needed a nap, as well as young Mineta who he was sure Midoriya did not care for.

"Oh, this should be good." Ectoplasm snorted, "I'll bet that the kid pulls some bullshit out of his hat that lets him not have to do anything."

"I do not take suckers bets." Cementos shook his head as the rest followed suit and the cloning hero sulked.

-Izuku-

"Alright everyone, it's time for the Calvary Battle to begin!" Midnight shouted as the crowd cheered, the other teams all glaring at the headband around Mineta's head hungrily.

"Midnight-Sensei, could I borrow your microphone real quick." Izuku asked politely as everyone stumbled for a moment, confused at what he was doing.

"Um...alright?" the 18+ Hero handed over the device.

"I just want to say that it is impossible for any of you to win thanks to my team. My teammate from Class 1-B, Awase Yosetsu, has the Quirk Weld. He has used it to fuse the headband to Mineta's head meaning that the only one who can remove said headband is Awase himself. Not to mention none of you are aware of what Shinso hear can do. That means any attempt to get the headband would be futile and would therefore just be an attempt to unseat Mineta, therefore disqualifying you according to the rules of the event. Is that not correct Midnight-Sensei?"

"I...um...he's not wrong." The stunned teacher took back the Microphone as even Aizawa-Sensei spoke up in his agreement over the issue, "Since team Midoriya has officially become untouchable for the even and their point total exceeds every else's combined their team is the winner and can go ahead and get lunch."

"I'm gonna go check out those cheerleaders." Mineta was practically drooling as he shot off towards the American cheerleaders Present Mic had flown over for the event, not even bothering to have the headband removed.

"Why did you even have him join our team?" Shinso rubbed his temples as the three of them walked over to get their food while their classmates fought over fashion accessories.

"Oh, I don't think he deserves to be in the hero course so by having him get past the first round by literally hanging onto a classmate, doing nothing here to the point I didn't even mention him, and then get his ass beat in the next round tournament I'm hoping he gets the boot and someone like Shinso here gets to join. Plus, as mentioned, it provides an easy fight for the upcoming tournament."

"Doesn't deserve to be in the hero course? Isn't that kinda harsh?" Awase asked as they sat at a table.

"He openly stated that he wanted to be a hero so that girls would have sex with him and happily let him grope them. He also saw no reason with this motivation." Izuku deadpanned as Awase and Shinso gaped before nodding in understanding.

"Well, easy fight will be easy." Shinso shrugged as they dug into the delicious food ready for them, enjoying the show that was the calvary battle.

"How did you know about my welding quirk anyway?" Awase asked as they saw Kacchan chasing Monoma while screaming bloody murder.

"I'm a Quirk Nerd, I managed to find out about the quirks of everyone at U.A." Izuku said proudly.

"..."

-All Might-

"He...he got his team exempt from the calvary battle." All might deadpanned even as Nezu's cackling grew louder.

"I get using Awase." Vlad King nodded, "His quirk was practically made for this event. Why the other two though?"

"I'm confused as well, I know he does not care for young Mineta." All Might shook his head, sharing the reasons why with the faculty, having been informed by his successor as to why he thought so little of a classmate.

"Maybe he wants everyone else to see the grape kid isn't a good hero candidate and wants to give the general ed boy a shot." Hound dog pointed out as everyone pondered that. It...well given the level of cleverness the newest user of One for All was showing it was quite likely.

"He didn't injure himself here either!" Recovery Girl shouted happily, looking close to crying from happiness.

Shaking his head, All Might wondered what his successor was planning. He was drawing attention yes but not in the way he was expecting. He thought Young Midoriya would throw himself into mastering One for All and blow away the competition with that. How would people feel safe with him as the successor if he didn't show the kind of power he was capable of?

"Young Midoriya is doing excellent, isn't he Toshinori?" Nezu asked with a smile as the small rat bear dog thing approached him, more tea in hand, "It's so refreshing seeing a Hero candidate using his head to outthink problems rather than just his fist to punch the problem till it goes away."

"...I feel attacked." All Might frowned.

"You should."