Puppetry

7

There was a few minute break after the obstacle race, but now everyone is back in the arena waiting for Midnight to announce the next event. "Alright everyone! The next event is going to be a team one, it's time for the Calvary Battle! The goal is simple, be one of four teams with the highest points at the end of the timer, each person will receive a headband with the point total that is determined by their placement in the last event. 42nd place is worth 5 points, 41st is worth 10, and so on. 1st place on the other hand... is worth 10 million points. You have 15 minutes to put together your teams, you may have a max of four people or a minimum of two. Begin!"

"Hmm... who should I join with?" "H-hey... Azugo?" "Hm? Yes Midoriya?" "Would you be willing to join my team?" "Who else do you have?" "Uraraka is willing to join" "Okay, what about Fumikage?" "Yeah, I'll ask him" "Alright, let's do this" "Y-you'll join?" "Yeah" The boy smiles and she can see a bit of a blush on his cheeks, and lightly frowns to herself. "You okay? You're frowning" "It's nothing, don't worry. Let's go meet up with the others" "Right!" The two go and join Uraraka before finding and asking Fumikage if he'll join, who agrees. "Alright, who wants to be the front horse?" "I am willing to be the front, me and Dark Shadow would be more able to protect us from there. Midoriya. You should be the rider, you'll be able to use your quirk better from there" "I guess that's true, but everyone will see me and go after us" "Hmm..." Kuroza smirks, a plan forming in her mind, "I have a plan, but that requires me to be the rider so I can use my quirk"

After the 15 minutes is up, the teams get into position, and Midnight starts the match. "Get ready to run you three, regardless of who's on top, Midoriya can be seen" "Right!" Kuroza stares at the other teams, and after a bit of silence, about half the other teams run at them. "Now! Let's get out of here" They start moving, and the teams follow them, "Any second now..." "What are you waiting for?" Kuroza hears an explosion behind her, "That" "THAT HEADBAND IS MINE!" "It's Kacchan! What do we do?!" "Keep moving, I got this" "You heard her, she has a plan and we need to trust her" "Thanks Dark Shadow" She sees Bakugo catching up to her team, and right as he gets in arms reach she reaches for his headband, barely missing but getting enough contact to activate her quirk. Bakugo flies back to his team, and tells them to get moving. "That's one~" "Wait, you got his headband?" "Not quite, but just as good... I got my quirk activated" "If you don't mind, I don't understand Azugo" "Simple, we now have the equivalent of two teams running around, because of how I just barely touched him, it should be all good in terms of his team seeing what happened" "Impressive" "Midoriya! I'll be taking your team's headband now!" "Shit! Todoroki!" "Don't panic, give me a second" Kuroza focuses on her connection to Bakugo just enough to get him to bring his team over, and uses him to distract Todoroki's team. "Quick, we don't have much time, get as much space as possible, if Iida uses his quirk to the max we need to be far away so they can't get to us before it runs out" "Got it!" They run away from the two teams who are now fighting each other, none of them noticing that Bakugo isn't yelling as much as he would normally.

"Should I drop my control over Bakugo? I don't feel like getting him mad at me for controlling him the entire time of this event" "Yeah probably" "Alright, I'll drop it... now" She drops the control as he's midair, making him fall, but he gets caught by Sero. "GET A HURRY ON TEAMS, YOU ONLY HAVE 3 MINUTES LEFT!" "Already? Wow" "Azugo! Incoming!" She looks over where Midoriya is pointing, and sees Iida using his quirk to the max to get his team over to them, Todoroki grabbing the headband as they rushed past "Shit. I thought we were far enough away" "We were, but they ran closer before Iida used his quirk" "Iida's engines are overheated, get us over there" They go after Todoroki's team, with 2 minutes left on the clock. "Todoroki! They're coming after us!" "Yaoyorozu, be ready for Dark Shadow. Kaminari, be careful to not hit us, but be ready as well. Until Iida can use his quirk again we're going to be unable to escape easily"