My Hero Academia: Relationship Pool

Chapter 81

I stepped into the ring and realized that this was going to be hard. And not in the good way.

"Alright, ready for round two?" The instructor asked as he ripped the connection cord from the new robot. It stood up straight and did the same calibrating stretch as the first one.

"Yes." I said and got into a ready position. I wasn't about to be caught off guard like last time.

"Alrighty then." As the instructor stepped out of the ring. "Start!"

I decided to make the first move and rushed towards the robot, and turned my fingers back into tentacles. The robot got into a defensive position as I brought my extended fingers down on top of it, and it grabbed ahold on my tentacles when I made contact. 

I flinched at the feeling of my fingers being crushed and was thrown into the air before being whipped downwards onto my back. I had little time to think as the robot was suddenly standing over the top of me and grabbed me by the throat, lifting me into the air. 

I couldn't use my tentacles as the robot was still holding onto them in his other fist. It knew that I was best at mid to long range combat using my tentacles. It knew that from my entrance exam, and from the first fight. I had to figure out how to change it up.

I changed my fingers to shrink and retract back, but once they fully snapped back into their proper place, I changed them into sharp metal claws. Swinging my arm up and around to gain momentum, I got them to pierce deep into the robot's arm and dragged them towards me, causing one of the tubes in his arm to be severed and release the hydraulic pressure in the hand, dropping me to the ground.

The robot stubbled back a bit staring at it's hand not being able to close, and I took the time to cough and rub my neck for just a second before I had to keep the fight going.

I rushed forward keeping myself low, towards the ground and turned my other hand into claws as well. The robot kicked it's leg up to try and kick me, but I slid across the ground and let my momentum be the force that dragged my claws through the robots' ankles, also breaching the hydraulics line on the leg it tried kicking me with. The other leg was just made weak.

I didn't see that the robot had reached around before I was able to get up and grabbed ahold of my ankle. It was going to either throw me or try and slam me down again. I dug my claws into the body of the robot with both hands. Just to try and slow down the force at which I was about to be slammed into the ground. 

While being dragged into the air I caught another hydraulic line, and it lost all strength in its hips and back to stay standing with a useless leg and the other torn to shreds with no structure. It let go of my ankle with its strength fluctuating as it tried to recalibrate itself, and I pushed myself away from the robot before it hit the ground and rolled myself into another fighting position not knowing if it could still fight.

"Fights not over till it stops moving!" The instructor called from behind me as it tried pulling itself with one arm towards me. 

I rushed towards it, transforming my leg into a heavy metal with a steal boot. When I was close enough, I swung my foot forward and kicked the robot's face so hard that it half crushed it before it flew off its body. 

"Very nice!" Shoji said as he walked up to me as we watched the head land over fifty feet away. I sighed, that turned more into a gasp and realized that I was becoming lightheaded. I was at my limit.

Shoji handed me a towel, and it felt like I was soaking the towel as I wiped my face. I looked down at the towel I realized that my nails had grown longer and more to a point, with the darkest black imaginable painted over them fading as the ink tried bleeding up my hand.