Pushing Onwards

Final exams

The day for the practical exam had finally arrived. Many of the students looked forward to it after the written exam a few days ago. To the suprise ofe the students, they were greeted by all the teachers. They were about to ask the teachers why almost all of them were there, but stopped when Nedzu popped out of Aizawa's capturing gear.

"It is I, the principal!" the small white fured animal said with excitment. "You probably have heard about the practical exam from the older students. Haven't you?" He asked. "Yes, it's just like the entrance exam. Smashing robots right?" Kirishima said with an excited voice. "It's true that it used to just be a fight with the faux villains. But due to the recent rise of the league of villains we have decided to change the exam. You will be paired up and fight us teachers!" The small animal announced. "WE'LL FIGHT YOU!?!" The entire class shoted. "Yes you will be fighting us" Aizawa said.

Aizawa started listing up the pairs and who they would be fighting. Eventually only Izuku and Bakugo remained. They then saw the figure of All Might coming down from above and making a superhero landing. "Young Bakugo and Midoriya, you will be fighting ME!" All Might announced and looked down on his two students. Izuku was having an internal muttering rant 'How can I defeat him!? Even with my equipment I'm slower, weaker and he has years of experience. There is only one thing I can do better than him, but how do I use that?" He thought to himself. "We teacher will be using these compressed weights made by the support department that will serve as a handicap" Aizawa said as the teachers started puttig on the weights on their arms and legs. When All Might took on his weights his arms dropped a bit beacuse of the unexpected weight. "Now get to your assigned areas. You will get the time to prepare and make a plan" Aizawa said and the students and teachers started to head towards their areas.

Izuku's and Bakugo's walk was filled with an uncomfortable silence that lasted all the way to the place of their exam. "Kacchan, we need a plan if we-" Izuku tried saying carefully "Shut up Deku!" Bakugo snarled back. "No, you shut up!" Izuku snapped back at Bakugo with anger that surprised the explosive teen. "I am so tired of the way you treat me! The way you treat everyone! Why? Why are you like this!?" Izuku shouted at Bakugo who just stood there silent. "Come on answer me! It's the least you can do after all those years" Izuku said again. "You never give up!" Bakugo snapped at Izuku "Thats why. You NEVER give up! You keep standing in my way and look down on me. Then I push you away and you just keep climbing back up! It pisses me off!" Bakugo yelled and aimed an explosion towards a tree. "And at the sports festival I... lost. I lost to the one I have always looked at as pebble in my path. Why can't you just leave me alone? I'm supposed to be number number one! I have the quirk!" 

Izuku stood silent, trying to formulate a response. "Kacchan" He said carefully. "WHAT!" Bakugo yelled and turned away from the knocked over tree and back to Izuku. "I never looked down on you" Izuku said to his childhood friend. Bakugo stood with a confused look when Izuku continued with his response "I never looked down on you. You can't move forward if you keep looking down on people. If you want to rise higher then you have to look up at people, which is what I did. I'm quirkless so I couldn't be born powerful. I had to make my own path if I wanted to do anything. I idolized All Might of course, but you were the one that was the closest and you had power. I looked up to you as the thing I could never have, but always wanted. Just take the number one spot, I can't have it anyways. I'll be lucky if I ever get into the top fifty, not to mention the top ten, but the number one spot is something I could never reach. The only reason I keep trying to reach it is so that I will always do my best. I'm sorry if you thought I stood in your way or looked down on you. I just hope we can get past that and do our best to make eachother go all out. What do you say?" Izuku said and extanded is hand for a handshake with a big smile on his face. 

Bakugo was thinking about what he just heard. "You never looked down on me?" he muttered to himself. "Ok" Bakugo said and took Izuku's hand. "Let's keep pushing eachother forwards. Now, do you have a plan?" Bakugo said with a small smile himself. "Well we have one advantedge over All Might. He can't manuever in the air as well as we can. And I also think he has a weak spot" Izuku responded with a small smirk.