Ultra Responsibility (My Hero Academia X Spider-Man Reader)

Issue 76 - Butterflies, healthcare and a Spider Part 2

The third-year under me was shaking so hard I could feel it through the concrete.

He had one arm pinned beneath his back, the other half raised in surrender, tears gathering at the corners of his eyes. His breathing came out in sharp little bursts.

"Please," he choked out. "Please, don't. I'm sorry, alright? I'm sorry. I shouldn't have jumped you. I panicked. I just... I just need this. It's my third year. This is my last chance."

I rolled the red ball between my fingers like I was deciding whether to let him live.

Around us, the battlefield looked like a tornado had decided to minor in humiliation. A dozen students were scattered across the area. Some groaning. Some webbed to rocks, trees, broken slabs of concrete. One poor guy was hanging upside down from a bent lamp post by his ankle, looking like a very stressed piñata.

I pressed the ball into the second marker strapped to the third-year's chest.

It lit up with a sharp beep.

He flinched like I'd branded him.

Then I leaned down, close enough for him to hear me over the chaos, and pushed the same ball into the third and final marker at his shoulder.

Another beep.

Out.

I smirked down at him. "If you're not good enough to take down one lonely first-year, you don't deserve to be a pro. Office work is way more fitting for an outcast loser."

The guy looked like I'd just kicked his dog.

I stood, letting him crumple where he lay, and bounced the ball in my palm.

One more.

Just one more and I was through.

I glanced around the mess I'd made and spread my arms. "Come on, then. Who wants to take one for the team?"

A red blur flew at the back of my head.

My hand shot up on instinct and caught the ball an inch from my face.

I turned, almost bored, and saw some straggler from another school frozen mid-throw behind a chunk of rubble, eyes wide because his miracle shot hadn't worked.

I whipped the ball back so hard it hit him square in the chest and folded him in half. He hit the ground wheezing, all the air blasted out of him at once.

I started toward him, ready to claim the points and be done with this whole circus.

"Y/N!"

I looked over my shoulder as Ashido came sprinting toward me, breathing hard, one hand full of red balls, the other half raised like she was about to launch into a speech.

"We should stick together in case we get ambu..."

She slowed to a stop.

Her eyes swept over the students plastered to walls, stuck to trees, and moaning on the floor.

Then she looked back at me.

I gave her a little wave. "Aw. You came to save me. My hero."

Ashido blinked, then stared at the whole scene again. "You... did this?"

I shrugged. "Wasn't exactly a fair fight."

I pointed toward three students I'd webbed up together like a very unhappy human knot. "There. Three more. You can have those points and move on to round two. Free win. Lucky you."

She opened her mouth to argue, probably because she actually has a conscience.

I never got to hear it.