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~16: Awards~

tw // fighting, violence, vomit:)

"Welcome to the last fight for the first years! We have two incredibly strong students from our top class 1A. Please give a warm welcome to Astelic and Tubbo!" 

They both ran out from the opposing sides. Smiling brightly at the audience. Fears melted away from the encouragement of the audience and their friends.

"Three... two... one... go!" 

Astelic activated her quirk with a sharp inhale. As she sprinted to Tubbo she made a large cloud of dust behind herself. The haze floated towards him.

His summoned bees created a shield on his arm. He waited in the cloud. Waiting for anyone.

A shoe.

He shot a cloud of bees at where he saw the shoe. Though no reaction came back, he had missed.

Turning around as the haze cleared up, a figure was created within the disappearing dust. He flicked his wrist, sending out a bunch of bees. She held up her forearms to protect her face.

"Ouch-" She felt tiny pinches on her skin. Luckily for her, the adrenaline gave her a high pain tolerance. 

Astelic continued to fight even with a swollen hand. She went in for a kick. Aiming for the nose bridge, she kicked his neck. 

His head went flying backwards to the ground. A thud sounded from the back of his neck. 

The thud led to a gag. He had thrown up all over himself. 

She stared at the pool of fluids before sending a kick to his side. He curled into a ball, trying to defend himself. With a stretch of his fingers, a swarm of bees flew her way. 

Throwing a kick to the cloud was useless. Her foot would faze threw it no matter how hard she kicked.

"Go for Tubbo..." She said with fatigue. The adrenaline rush wavered away from her body slowly.

Her legs pushed for him while he continued to throw out clouds of bees. Eventually one cloud turned into a whole colony. She managed to reach the source, Tubbo himself.

She threw any punch she could. 

Any kick. 

Anything. 

The bees tried to defend him by stinging her, shielding Tubbo, or grabbing her limbs. She managed to get her opportunity. 

The back of the head.

Once holding his stomach, he was now laying on the ground. 

Limp.

"Astelic wins!" 

With Tubbo, the whole civilization of bees dropped dead. 

"Oh my..." 

She pulled dead bees out of her hair with disgust. 

"I'm gonna be sick."

---

After a lot of students in the nurses office, it came time for the end of the festival. They handed out awards to the students.

"Give it up for our first year winners! With Tommy Innit in 3rd, Tubbo Benson in 2nd, and our overall winner is Astelic Pixels!" Skeppy allowed Bad to put their medals on them. 

Tubbo and Astelic's eyes beamed at the audience with pride, joy, and triumph. With the places they've made their new future awaits them at upcoming internships or hero agencies of their own. The audience surrounding them cheered for them like they had saved the world.

Even with all of this, the third place winner stood with his head hanging low. He stared down at the copper medal around his neck. Disgust flooded his eyes. A tear rolled down his face while he stood on the podium.

Why was he so upset?

"One last round of applauds to the first years!" 

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The first and second year winners stood off to the side while the third years received their awards. Tommy watched the third years step onto their respective podium. He noticed the third year with the guitar, Wilbur Soot, stood on the 2nd place podium. 

At the top was a guy named Charlie Slimecicle, the weird guy that Drista and the gang asked Dream about. Speaking of Dream, his friend named Sapnap Nicholas stood on the third place podium.

As the third years walked past him, a small piece of paper hit his nose. He knelt down and picked it up a little confused. His gaze met with Wilbur who winked at him.

Tommy held the tiny paper ball in his hand until he got back to the dorm.

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At the end of the event, 1A had a nice quiet bus ride home together. Tubbo's head was laying on Tommy's shoulder while he reevaluated the day. 

Mainly the reason why he was so upset. 

He had made it into his dream school, he got into the top hero class, and he had placed third in the famous UA sports festival. Even with all of this, something was missing.

All of the students filed off of the bus back to the dorms. Many of them shoved mouthfuls of food into their mouths. They had many different dishes prepared, but the popular dish of the night was the ramen. 

"I wonder when we will find out what internships are available." Jack brought up.

"I'm hopping pretty soon. I wanna get into the action as soon as possible." Tubbo said before taking a sip of honey.

"Yeah same." Drista chimed in.

Curfew finally came and all of the students slept well.

Well. Not all of them.

Tommy had stared at the crumbled paper ball on his table for the past fifteen minutes. He finally picked it up and unraveled it.

hey meet me at lunch tomorrow next to the vending machine

-will

He dropped the tiny piece of shriveled paper with mild shock, more of total shock. 

Maybe this was the missing piece he needed.