Iron Maiden

Longshot: Part 2

I AM SO SORRY FOR NOT UPDATING SOONER! I had so much school work from college, job hunting, taking care of younger siblings, and I pretty much lost my motivation to write due to stress. But! I have a spark of motivation and I did not let it go to waste! I hope I can keep myself motivated because I love this story, much more than 'With Great Powers, Comes A Great Alliance' actually.

Also, I hope you like the new cover photo! I commissioned an artist on DA named BlueWolfArtista! Thanks again for the art mate, I love it! Go check out his DA, it is full of awesome artwork!

Anyways, a new chapter, yay! It is ridiculously long, like very long. Don't expect them to be this long though, I try to keep it at a maximum of 15 pages.

"Is everyone ready?" Midnight asked, "No? Too bad! BEGIN!"

As soon as those words left the mistress's mouth everyone charged at Midoriya's team. Well, almost everyone. My team stood back as we watched Midoriya and his group, Uraraka, and a bird-head fellow, get swarmed by the teams. I understand why they would go after him. Midoriya has the 1 million point band, an instant winner if you hang onto it throughout the match. Well, I don't think everyone was accounting for second or third place which is okay by me. I don't care much for winning the obstacle course, it's not a big spotlight nor the ultimate prize, and like my partners Itsuka Kendo and Ibara Shiozaki, we just wanna advance.

With that being said, we set our plan in motion. "Shiozaki!" I shout.

"Right!" Shiozaki's vines start to grow out and extend towards many of our opposition's headbands.

"WHAT'S THIS?!" Present Mic shouts, "WHAT IS TEAM HATSUME DOING?!" We answered his question rather quickly as the vines snatch headbands off the riders head, all of them looking at us with stunning looks. "WHAT A BRILLIANT STRATEGY! INSTEAD OF RUSHING TEAM MIDORIYA LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, TEAM HATSUME HUNG BACK AND STOLE HEADBANDS RIGHT UNDER THEIR OPPONENTS NOSES!" Present Mic explained as the crowd cheered for us.

"Great plan, Kendo!" I say happily as I place five bands around my neck, "What's next?"

"Run!" Kendo yells as the five teams start to chase us now.

"Activate flight mode!" I yell out as I press a button on my jetpack, "Kendo, move your head!" I say to her as she does so. Not a moment later, we are in the air and flying over everyone. The hover soles on our feet turn on as well and keep us afloat in the air. "That's your plan, Kendo?!"

"For now!" She yells back with a smile, "It was reasonable to believe that those five teams would charge at us the instant we took their headbands, so I had to plan for that!" Kendo informed me. I had to admit, she did have a point. "Let's try to waste as much as time as possible in the air that way when we are forced to land, we already killed the clock some!" Shiozaki and I nod in agreement.

"GET THE **** DOWN HERE!" Yelled out a familiar angry voice. Before Shiozaki used her Quirk to steal everyone's bands, I used mine to find the ones with the best value, and Bakugo's so happened to be one of them.

"LANGUAGE!" Shiozaki glared down at the user of such profanity.

I looked down to see that Bakugo had left his group and was chasing us in the air with his explosion Quirk acting as a source of flight. "Shiozaki! Defend against him! Kendo's hands will add weight, and set us off balance!" Shiozaki nodded her head and launched several vines at him. Bakugo dodged all of them as he kept charging at us with a ferocious grin.

"You're mine now!" Bakugo yelled out before one of Shiozaki's grabbed him by lig left leg, "What the?!" Bakugo looked back down but had little time to react as the vine flung him back towards the ground. Bakugo's team would have been disqualified if Bakugo had landed on the ground, but a plain-looking boy using some type of tape Quirk made the save as he wrapped the tap around Bakugo and pulled him back towards his team.