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"First years! These are the rules that you'll abide by: the game itself will last 15 minutes. Individual points values will be added together to reach your team total. Everyone will know how much your worth thanks to your headbands. Swipe as many headbands as you can to raise your team's score. Stolen headbands must be worn from the neck up.
So the more you steal, the harder it'll be to manage them. And another thing. Even if your headband gets stolen or your team falls down, you can keep playing until Time's up. This is going to be rough. You may use your quirks as much as you like. But there are still rules! Make a team fall on purpose and I'll slap you with a red card. You'll be disqualified! Now you've got 15 minutes to build your teams. I recommend you get started."
I pursed my lips and looked around. My eyes landed on a guy with purple hair, the one from that day. Where all the classes decided to block us in and challenge us for our spots in 1-a. I made my way towards him and tapped his should shyly.
He turned around and looked straight over my head. "U-um." He looked down meeting my eyes.
Well this was embarrassing. "Be on my team please?" I rushed out. I had gotten comfortable talking to my small circle of friends that I hadn't realized I needed to talk to other people. "Me, are you sure you have the right person?" I nodded.
"Y-yep!" I tried to sound confident. No one wants to work with someone who could barely hold a conversation. "Alright." I sighed in relief.
"Uhm. There was another guy? Uh, blonde hair, kinda cocky." I tried to describe him. "I can go look, and we can meet back here." I nodded.
"A-alright!" Once he left I turned around. "Oi Apple!"
"Wrong fruit."
"Join my team!" Bakugo demanded. I rubbed the back of my head. "I picked my team."
"The hell! You tryna go against me!" He yanked my shoulder back and forth.
"Kinda." I saw the purple guy and the blonde guy from afar. "Gotta go! F-first place won't win i-itself." As soon as I said that I took off.
I said some bold shit but I knew I couldn't handle that backlash. I stopped in front of the two. "You found him!" I said cheerily.
"So you were looking for me. I guess I'm just that desirable huh?" I stared at him blankly. "You w-wanna be on our team?"
He kinda reminded me of a calmer Bakugo. "I'll agree to it."
"Great ."
"So you'll be the rider right. With Monoma and I as horses." Monoma stiffled a laugh.
"I think so. I think I know the gist of your quirks but I uh, I don't like to assume. So can you guys please explain your quirks?" I asked.
"I can copy any quirk as long as I touch the person." I nodded and looked at the other guy. He rubbed the back of his neck.
"I can brainwash people as long as I get a verbal response from them." He said. My eyes sparkled. "C
cool. I have explosive" I cringed, "explosive blood and flames to match. I don't think I should use fire but uh I can protect us. Wait uh, i don't know your name?" I realized.
"Shinso Hitoshi." I nodded.
"Shinso you can brainwash people away or get them to hand over their headbands and Monoma, you can help me with offensive or copy shinso's quirk to keep people away." I planned out. I nodded, sure of myself for once.
I am in second place afterall.
"How come I can't use your quirk?" Monoma asked narrowing his eyes. "Is it to good for a nobody like me to use?" My eyes widened.
"Oh I didn't mean to come off like that. I promise, it just has intense drawbacks and can wear you down quickly." Worse than Bakugo, worse than Bakugo.
He looked at me seriously before laughing. "You should see you face! Jeez, take a joke princess." Shinso hit the back of his head.
"Cut it out." A timer rang out. "Oh, goody. It's time to get this party started."
"After 15 minutes to pick teammates and talk strategy, 12 cavalry teams are preparing to go head-to-head!" Present Mic said.
"I see some unexpected student combinations." I could hear Mr. Aizawa comment.
"Come on, everyone get your hands in the air! It's time for an arena-thumping UA battle royale! Let me hear ya scream!" I nearly yelped when Shinso and Monoma actually picked me up and placed me on their shoulders. I wrapped the headband around my forehead.
"So, Shinso is on the right. Make sure no one gets too close. Y-you the same Monoma. I'll watch the front and steal points."
"Sounds good." Shinso said. "Alright contestants! Are you ready? Let's get this part started! One final countdown before the game starts!"
"Three.
Two.
One!" He counted down. "Begin!" Ms. Midnite said. So many people immediately charged towards Midoriya. I bit down on my hand and blood immediately shot out.
I snatched up a headband quickly. "Hey princess." I looked down and Monoma was twirling a headband around before he tossed it up to me.
I was not gonna question how he got it. I tied both of the new headbands around my forehead.
"Wow! Barely two minutes have passed since we started, and it's already a total free for all! Yeah! Watch those headbands! You can even ignore the ten million points and go after the other chart toppers!" I heard present mic yell.
I heard a loud explosion and quickly ducked. I knew Bakugo was gonna be a problem. My team skirted to a stop. "That could've burned." I said.
"No shit grapefruit, hand over the headbands or I'll blow ur ass to kingdom come." I sucked in a deep breath. I wasn't a big fan of using my flames against classmates unless necessary but with Bakugo, it's always necessary.
My blood shot forward quickly, but curved just before hitting him before exploding with high flames. "Wow, pretty tough quirk there red." Shinso said.
I beamed. "Thank you."
"Let's end this out strongly." Monoma grinned.
Those last few minutes flew by quickly, it was almost too easy. Everyone was focused on those million points around Midoriya, we were able to skate on the sidelines, deflecting anyone who came to close.
"TIMES UP."
Everything stopped. Finally. "Now let's take a look at those first four rankings."
"In first place, team todoroki!" His team consisted of him, Yao-Momo, Iida, and Denki.
"In second place, team Nakamara!" Shinso and Monoma placed me down and I stretched. "Nice doing business with ya, princess." Monoma gave an almost sadistic grin. He's a lil weird but cool.
"In third place, team Bakugo!" Bakugo's team consisted of him, Mina, Kirishima, and Sero.
"In fourth place, Team Midoriya!" That was Midoriya, a girl with pink hair and a lot of gear, Ochako, and Tokoyami.
"These four teams will advance on to the final rounds!" Yippee.
