Powerless - A My Hero Academia/ DC Crossover

Chapter 18 - The Obstacle Course

"Without further ado, it's time to get things started!" Shouted Midnight into the microphone. "This is where you begin feeling the pain!"

She raised her nine-tails whip upward and a large jumbotron screen appeared behind her. "The first fateful game of the festival!" She said. "What could it be?" A large spinning object appeared on the screen, and the students waited for it to reveal their fates. After about ten seconds, it abruptly stopped. Their first challenge was an obstacle course.

"All 11 classes will participate in this treacherous contest," said Midnight, the screen behind her outlining the course. "The track is four kilometers around outside of the stadium. I don't wanna restrain anyone, at least in this game," she added slyly, licking her lips. "As long as you don't leave the course, you're free to do whatever your heart desires! Now then, take your place contestants."

The students all piled around towards the gate that led outside to the course. Izuku readied himself as he nervously watched the clock countdown: 3. . .

Bruce, Izuku thought. I know you picked me for a reason.

2. . .

I'm not sure I completely know what those reasons are.

1 . . .

But I will make you proud!

"BEGIN!"

The students scrambled like a herd of spooked cattle towards the gate opening. As they got closer, the students began to smash and bump into each other, trying to push past towards the other end of the gate. Izuku hesitated before entering as all the students scratched, pushed, pulled and yelled themselves through.

They're testing us, Izuku thought immediately. They're trying to see how we get through!

A wave of ice erupted in the cramped space of the gate. Students slipped and slid, others found themselves stuck as the ground beneath them was frozen solid. Todoroki had obviously came to the same conclusion as Izuku, and was attempting to hinder the other's progression.

Izuku wouldn't be so easy to stop. Leaping quickly to avoid the ice, Izuku pulled his grapple hook from his belt and fired upward. The hook embedded itself in the roof of the gateway, and Izuku was launched upward. Surveying his surroundings, he saw that Todoroki had already pulled ahead, while several other students, notably most of them from his class, were close behind him. Izuku even noticed the purple-haired student being carried through the ice by four other students. Izuku released the clamp of the grapple gun and launched it forward, latching onto the ground next to Todoroki. Izuku was propelled forward, but Todoroki must have noticed the grapple claw landing next to him, as he quickly froze the line solid, snapping it off from the claw. Izuku was propelled forward by the momentum of the grapple line, but stopped short onto the ice below. Thinking quickly, Izuku tumbled in air and landed on his feet, allowing the ice to carry him the rest of the way.

Nice try, Todoroki, thought Izuku.

Todoroki looked up as he saw Mineta leaping towards him, having launched the sticky balls on his head onto the ice and using them to springboard him forward. He was preparing to throw one directly at Todoroki when he was smacked across the face by a long, metal object.

The students stopped short as before them was a wall of at least a dozen villain robots, the same robots from the entrance exam. Including several of the zero-pointers. Todoroki wasted no time, placing a frozen hand on the ground and freezing the zero-point robots solid.

"He stopped the robots!" Said one of the students.

"Look! We can get through the legs!" Shouted another.