Izuku stood in the hall after his fight with Momo to recenter himself. He clenched his fists and took deep breaths.

'That was closer than I would care to admit. Mostly due to the alternating attacks from different ranges. Not to mention as soon as I looked at one toy another would fire from a blind spot. That is a rather deadly strategy that I never would have guessed Momo would use.'

Izuku punched the wall causing a massive web of cracks that were instantly fixed.

'It's my fault I started believing my hype from this stupid festival. After everything with the Nomu monster, I managed to believe I was unbeatable here. These are not kids from Aldera these are the crème of the crop, no one does it better than UA.'

Izuku touched the wall and with alchemy turned the stone to sand then glass created perfect water and cooled it for a drink. Another breath and he sent the glass to oblivion and walked towards the stairs leading to the stands.

'Kaminari is a known rival of mine, as is Bakugo, Shoto has more raw power than anyone here and they are likely to be my next opponents. I cannot repeat this showing.'

Endeavor chugged a water before tossing the bottle to the recycling bin.

"Midoriya has untold potential, as does Yaoyorozu and it was displayed. The girl entered with a very strong strategy and executed it to near perfection. However, the sheer versatility and adaptability of Midoriya allowed him to overcome that and pull a win. I do not believe that there will be many pros that do not extend them an offer." He said while rubbing his flame beard.

Rei hummed next to him, "Will you?"

"No, Shoto is the best student here." He answered immediately.

Hawks coughed up his soda at Endeavor's declaration, "Putting aside Endeavor's unbiased opinion. I believe that I will not be sending offers to either, they don't mesh with my style." He said with a sigh, they were impressive.

All Might nodded, "Excellent breakdown my friend!" He said to Endeavor who glared in the opposite direction with a frown, "Young Hawks! I commend you for acknowledging your strengths and weaknesses. To know a good fit from a bad, as the number three hero it is likely they would accept your offer due to your status hindering them from a better match up!"

Hawks tried not to blush like a child while receiving praise from the greatest hero in history. Strange how so many of his feathers started to float around him, huh so weird.

"This next bout will be of incredible interest to myself and the more speed-oriented heroes," Edgeshot said as he leaned forward while watching Kaminari and Ida walk out onto the arena floor.

Mirko hopped over to the ninja with a grin and a lump on her head from the dragon woman's, "I agree, sparky has some moves and the engine boy has a lineage we all know of. If they impress me, I might grace them with a spar or two!"

"I could think of no worse a disaster than two promising hero candidates crippled because you don't know what restraint is." Ryukyu snarked from her chair while her arm slowly morphed back to normal from the dragon state it was in to smack Mirko.

"Let us see how it goes!" Interjected All Might before the two women could continue their sniping once again.

Kaminari walked toward Ida with a determined glare, "Of all the people here, you are the one I hoped to face."

Ida nodded, "I do not like the thought of singling out classmates, but I would have to agree, Kaminari. I too was hoping we would face each other today."

"This is too good a chance to show off just how powerful I am," Kaminari said before his body started to glow with a golden aura that sparked with yellow arcs of electricity.

Ida took a runner's stance as his engines started to burn blue and his face held nothing but the fiercest determination. "Agreed."

Midnight managed to utter the first syllable of begin before they blasted towards each other.

Streaks of blue and gold clashed a dozen times in a matter of seconds with the crowd mostly being unable to follow the actual fight. The better pros were able to see the trademark kicks from the Ida family being blocked and parried by Kaminari's brawl-like fighting style.

Kaminari clenched his teeth and veins started appearing on his neck as he amped his quirk up further than ever before, approaching the output levels of his indiscriminate shock attack.

Ida's legs began to burn bright white as he shifted into top gear and he utilized his maximum output.

If before it was two streaks clashing over and over. Now it was two streaks moving fast enough that the energy trails couldn't dissipate before the next happened. In a matter of three seconds, they clashed twenty-seven times. The arena looked as if there was a crisscross of white and gold energy with small flares at each connection.

It was when the gold streak dodged a clash and slammed into the white one on the side that Ida was thrown out of bounds onto the grass with smoking legs.

Kaminari fell to a knee on the arena stage gasping for air with frazzled hair.

The entire fight lasted thirty-one seconds.

The crowd had only managed to get their eyes to adjust to the fight before it was over but that didn't stop the thunderous applause from shaking the stadium.

Kaminari only hoped that his mom and Ryujin Sensei watched the fight and saw how far he's pushed his quirk in his training.

Izuku stared at the arena with wide eyes and a slacked jaw. He was completely blown away by his two classmate's speed. While still slower than the Nomu it was nearly unheard of for people his age to be that fast.

Bakugo sat next to him without his usual fuming glare, "Class President is better than I thought. Kaminari is good." He muttered to himself.

The fact that he knows and said Kaminari's name is proof that Bakugo considered the lightning user a rival. Izuku had to hold himself back from commenting such to his oldest friend, he didn't want to undo the growth Bakugo has just shown by saying someone's name.

'…wow the bar is so fucking low for him, how did we get here?' Izuku thought to himself but only sighed and moved on.

Uraraka on the other side of Bakugo wiggled in her seat with starry eyes, "Woah that was amazing they're so fast!" Many of the others agreed.

Jiro stared at the ground with wide eyes, "Who would have thought…"

Izuku smirked at the rocker's reaction, it was no secret that she liked ribbing Kaminari about his accidental short-circuiting in training. Nor was it a secret of lightning boy's interest in her romantically. Hell, she turned him down for dates almost every day, it was actually quite entertaining.

That gave him an idea.

"Way to go Kaminari!" Shouted Izuku before sitting back down, "I know he'll get a lot more attention from girls after a showing like that. I'll have to make sure he doesn't get in over his head at the beach this weekend." He said just loud enough to be heard on his row.

The small body twitch from Jiro was only noticeable cause he was observing her with his quirk.

'Maybe you have a shot after all Kaminari.' He thought with a grin.

Down on the field both speedsters were being led to the infirmaries, neither had too bad injuries from the fight but they both most certainly had quirk exhaustion. Although Ida's legs might have some burns, Kaminari better have more in the tank…After a showing like that Izuku wanted to have a go at him!

Mirko's right leg couldn't stop bouncing, it was moving so fast and with enough force that the entire room was shaking.

Her grin left little wonder as to where her head was at, "Those two are good, I want them both at the same time. Yeah, that would be a good time." She said lowly.

"Phrasing!" Shouted Rei, the only mother in the room who didn't like the innuendo. "You're like thirty!"

Hawks slapped his forehead with Ryukyu rolling her eyes although she was happy that it wasn't her needing to call out her colleague.

Mirko shot to her feet glaring at Rei, "Thirty! I'm not thirty I'm twenty-six! Don't think just cause you're a housewife or something I won't-"

The entire crowd and surrounding audience in the vicinity of the arena felt the air cool and their breath became visible. Most noticed their drinks starting to freeze and the thinner people started to shiver.

In the VIP room, Mirko was in a clear ball of pure ice with Rei glaring out the window not even bothering to look in her direction. All the glass in the room was frosting over and even Endeavor's flames had all gone out for an instant.

"Do what? I'll have you know I'm not in a good mood right now." If one were to look, one would see that Rei's eyes held a glow of incredible power within them. She gazed at her son as he walked out for his match.

Endeavor was about to unfreeze the rabbit when the ice shattered, and Mirko's laughter could be heard throughout the room.

"Ha! I thought you were just some old housewife! Who knew you were packing that much power? Guess it takes more than a pretty face for the number two!" Much to the credit of the top hero Mirko despite taking a blast of ice that would put most down for the count she didn't even look to be all that slowed by it.

Endeavor slinked back into his seat careful not to draw attention to himself when his wife was in this kind of mood. He noticed since her release from the hospital she was far more willing to let him know of her displeasure with her quirk, and she had much to be displeased about if she sat and thought about it usually.

All Might blurred between them reminding the room of his presence.

"Enough."

One word and Mirko was cowed, she wasn't foolish enough to test the number one. She's seen him change the weather with a punch casually. Not much a rabbit can do there.

Unfortunately for said rabbit, the number one turned his gaze her way, a single glowing blue eye that held the power to smash mountains singled her out.

"Being excited for challenges is one thing, being unnecessarily combative is another. I will need to ask you to leave if you cannot understand that." Said All Might, he didn't mind or really care all that much if Mirko messed around with the other heroes, but he was aware of Rei's situation and didn't want Rei to have that kind of stress, she seemed to be upset by something since she left.

Mirko nodded silently and sat down. She didn't want to cause more problems that could sour her professional relationships with the people in the room. The top three were here and if they wanted, they could make her life very difficult. Well, only Endeavor would likely flex his influence if it got to that, but she was just antagonizing his wife so maybe she got a bit ahead of herself.

Edgeshot had largely ignored the people in the room to type into his phone. He needed to immediately send his team orders to send offers to both of those boys.

Hawks scratched his neck keeping his thoughts to himself. 'Rei Todoroki, class-4 elemental quirk. Wife of Enji Todoroki, also class-4 elemental quirk. She has been a person of interest since she was young, but no one could do anything due to the rising star's presence in her life since she was seventeen. I'm grateful, if Endeavor didn't swoop in and marry her giving her his and his families protection those dicks at the commission would have someone like her running ops.'

No known hero training, no known history of fighting with her quirk and she had that level of power and control.

'There is a good chance…that she is more powerful than Endeavor.' Hawks thought in awe.

Todoroki wasn't interested in drawing out his battle to show off. He wasn't all that concerned with internship offers. Honestly, because of his last name, he would be shocked if he didn't get the most offers anyway.

Tokoyami steadied himself. Todoroki was capable of producing ice and fire at immense levels. One would weaken him, the other well…the sun was nearing the arena walls.

He would have one shot.

Midnight cracked her whip, "Fight!"

Like literally everyone expected a massive iceberg blasted into existence towards Tokoyami. Unlike what everyone expected, Tokoyami retreated towards the sun and the ice followed at terrifying speeds.

With the ice following him towards the light what followed the light was shadow. And with the shadows came the familiar comfort of darkness.

Within Tokoyami was the king of darkness.

A massive dark shadow exploded into action from Tokoyami keeping low behind the ice mountain that was shading them from the sun allowing his strength the reach greater heights.

Todoroki tsked and swung his arm to send several blades of ice forward from him and the ice mountain next to him.

Dozens of large ice pillars attacked Tokoyami and dark shadow who merely roared in defiance as he smashed them all away as if they were paper. It was in the next moment that the beast of darkness was upon Todoroki who glared.

"To think the shadow chicken would bring out my super move." He said angrily and kneeled touching the ground with his hand covered in frost. "Ice Age."

Rei felt a tear fall from her eye as she watched Todoroki invoke the technique passed from her father to her and from her to him. It was the most powerful ice attack her family was capable of, she only managed to explain it to him before her breakdown. He must have worked to master it all these years.

As she looked at the fallout of the Super Move, she knew instinctively that he would far surpass her and her father with his ice.

Izuku instinctively knew something big was coming, he stood and raised his arms while gritting his teeth.

'Fucking hell!' He thought as he forced his quirk to work overtime to keep his class from freezing over.

Ice Age.

A time in which large portions of the earth are covered in glaciers and snow. An apt name for his mother's more powerful ability passed down from her family.

From the epicenter of Todoroki, it looked like waves of frozen water exploded outwardly in a still frame. Dark Shadow and Tokoyami were frozen solid in white ice with the massive waves of ice exploding out over the crowd and over the entire arena. The surrounding crowd around the arena at the festival was covered in snow and ice for hundreds of meters.

The sky darkened with clouds as the atmosphere itself was being affected by the sudden cold.

Heroes in the crowd slowly began shattering the ice and to the shock of those still able to watch the ice surrounding Dark Shadow cracked and broke apart. The beast's eyes held a frenzy in them as it swiped towards Tokoyami to save him from the ice then began to recede into the bird-faced boy.

"I concede," Tokoyami grunted out as he struggled to pull Dark Shadow back in.

Tokoyami barely managed to hold his darker half back from rampaging as the clouds made it even darker and his danger made dark shadow even angrier. It could have been dangerous for Todoroki as he was too close to dark shadow in a near frenzied state.

From a high window box seat, a large torrent of flames blasted outward covering the arena. Endeavor was visible from the window as he quickly melted all of his son's ice and freed those in the audience who were caught up in the super move.

"Do not use that again Shoto!" Endeavor shouted as the last of the ice melted.

"Well, I will say that no one could have expected that." Present Mic said with a dazed light in his voice.

"I swear my class is absurd. Good call Tokoyami."

Todoroki didn't even acknowledge his father as he placed a hand on the still-struggling Tokoyami. Using his heat only in the slightest possible way to warm his classmate up.

"I'm sorry." He said lowly. "That move was not meant for you," Todoroki said as he looked into the crowd at Midoriya, who was standing among his class, a noticeable absence of frost or steam in their area.

Tokoyami sighed tiredly and stood up, "It was a good showing. I hope your use of that will look favorably on me drawing that out."

Todoroki nodded and walked off carefully using the heat to unfreeze his internal body and organs that were supercooled. Outwardly he didn't look worse for wear as the heat from his father melted the ice off his body but he had a large amount of it still inside he would need to rid himself of if he wanted to stay conscious.

Izuku fell back into his seat with an overdramatic sigh, "He went way too far there! I mean thousands of civilians were caught in that! I guess I'll have to talk to him." He said with a laugh easing the tension of his classmates around him.

'That was more ice than I would like to face. I'm sure I could keep myself in the fight and recover fast but the amount of power behind a single side of him makes me apprehensive of Todoroki using both his ice and fire at the same time.' Izuku thought while scratching his cheek.

Then his hair shadowed his eyes for a moment.

'But the far large part of me is so very excited to go against him. Perhaps he'll truly push me, lord knows only the Nomu has and that was a different type of difficulty. Oh man, now I'm all fired up.'

Bakugo's hands were crackling as he made to leave for his match. Clearly, Todoroki's showing was a bit much for him as well. Especially, since his next opponent would be Todoroki if he managed to defeat Jiro…

Who was he kidding he was her worst match-up.

Looking over it would seem that Jiro had already left.

Bakugo knew that he had a tough fight ahead of him to win the sports festival. The dam nerd and icy-hot were tough competition. But then he saw how sparky and class president showed speed that far surpassed his own. It would seem that he underestimated his fellow students. While most were barely worth his attention, there's some real competition here.

That being said he almost felt a bit bad about his strategy for dealing with earbuds.

Jiro knew that this was going to be a bad matchup, she would give it a try cause she's not a quitter but yeah this wasn't going to be fun.

"Fight!"

Bakugo pushed both palms forward.

'Flash Bang Max'

Less of a powerful explosion of force and more of sight and sound.

Jiro screamed in pain as she grabbed her earbuds and waved to Midnight as she fell to her knee overcome with pain and slight dizziness.

"This match is over to concession from Kyoka Jiro!"

No one did anything but offer polite applause for both competitors.

"I feel bad for the little listener that was not a favorable match-up."

"She did the logical thing and conceded. I would not think less of her for doing so, she showed heart going out and trying despite knowing what was coming."

"Awe you do care, papa bear!"

"Stop talking to me."

"And he's back!"

Bakugo walked over to the still-wincing girl with a small frown on his face.

"I don't hold back." He said visibly struggling, "It would be an insult."

Jiro looked up at him and withheld a chuckle, something about the usually screaming and boisterous boy being all shy amused her something fierce.

"I forgive you."

Bakugo didn't even try to say he wasn't apologizing before stomping off. It just wasn't in his nature to say sorry, it felt like he was complementing her a bit. Not that she would give him that much credit. Guy was still a bit of a dick, even if she was beginning to understand he was mostly harmless.

Jiro made her way back to the stands as everyone got excited for the next match. She knew she wouldn't get to tell him this before the match, so she just closed her eyes and wished her dork good luck against Midoriya.

Inko had only just calmed her heart down from the battle her baby had against the young woman that she felt could be a future daughter. When the whole place froze over from that Todoroki boy and now a boy that she considered a nephew managed to win she had to push down the embarrassment of Mitsuki's shouting for her son.

Now her son was about to walk out to fight again.

This may be a bit too much for her to have come watch in person. She should have watched from home, that way she could cry in peace.

"That's it, baby! You got this!" Mitsuki shouted with a hand on her bicep as she flexed.

Mitsuki turned to her with a huge proud mama smile, "Semi-Finals next! What do you think is gonna happen?"

Inko put a finger to her cheek in thought, "I know that Izuku and Kaminari are friends and have fought before so I'm sure it will be a fun one. Todoroki and Bakugo, well…" She didn't want to say-

"Hey!" Mitsuki shouted with a glare, "That boy may have the number 2 as a daddy, but Katsuki is MY son and he's built from tougher stuff! Also, I don't think he would physically allow himself not to reach Izuku in the finals."

Yep, another thing that Inko wasn't too excited to watch. "I just hope these boys don't go too overboard." She said tiredly.

"I don't!" Laughed Mitsuki.

Kaminari stood across from Izuku with his chin held high and his arms crossed. Izuku's body was facing away as he looked to the side and lazily pointed at Kaminari with a bored expression.

Strangely there was a slight wide in the arena blowing their hair and clothes around just enough.

"So, you're my next opponent, bastard!" Declared Izuku with a haughty sneer.

Kaminari spread his arms as he smiled, "It's a shame that a magnificent hero like me has to sully myself with a ruffian like you. Izuku, you punk!" He shouted and began walking forward.

Izuku raised an eyebrow, "Oh, you're approaching me?" He asked barely withholding an evil laugh. "You who knows the depths of my abilities so well, better than most? You're still capable of coming closer knowing just how powerful I am? Like an ant approaching a hurricane, you think you have a chance at overcoming me!" Izuku's voice gradually became louder as he spoke and his expression darker.

Golden sparks emitted from Kaminari in short intervals as he approached, "I can't beat the shit out of you from here." He said with a fierce glare.

Izuku laughed darkly, "Is that right." He turned his body towards Kaminari fully, "Then come as close as you like." He said with a smile and started stepping forward slowly.

The tension in the crowd rose with every step Kaminari and Izuku took to close the gap. The people in the crowd shifted attention from one student to the other, they didn't know what small spark would set off this powder keg!

"Will you two idiots start already."

"Shut up Aizawa this is amazing!"

Kaminari wasted no time after his teacher's interruption from what was a fun bit of banter and sped off with his max from the very beginning. Midoriya was right, he did know how good he was, better than most so he knew that he couldn't hold back!

Midoriya leveled himself and took a stance, his awareness of the world within his area of effect was absolute so he was able to sense Kaminari's approach even at these speeds.

A trade of three punches each found that Izuku's hardiness was able to withstand the shocks that came with contact with Kaminari and that the lightning user's hand-to-hand was far better than the last time they fought.

From there, dozens of more trades happened. Izuku's physicality and experience from the dojo allowed him to move around the more dangerous hit and give a few in return. Kaminari however, had been fighting there longer and his speed was now at a level that Izuku needed to focus or he would be overwhelmed.

Well, if he kept this fight purely hand-to-hand like he was currently doing.

Izuku ducked under a punch redirected a kick and spun around an elbow before trying to attack with a kick of his own. Kaminari managed to dodge the kick and pushed a palm forward towards Izuku but out of his range of contact.

The manipulator looked at the motion curiously as he was out of range and didn't bother dodging or blocking.

'You don't know everything Izuku.' Kaminari thought with a smile.

While he was an internal manipulation type emitter, he was still able to expel his lightning outward, it just wasn't the best for prolonged battles as it tired him out faster as he wasted too much energy.

But at this range, it was more akin to a short barrel shotgun in use, not for range or control, just raw power.

Izuku took the full brunt of the lightning blast and was launched backward. Kaminari wasted no time and sped after him.

For normal people, they would find their muscles seizing and overwhelmed by the pain. Izuku's mind and quirk worked at unprecedented speeds ridding himself of the electricity and healing the damage as he righted himself to his feet still flying backwards. He was fully aware of Kaminari approaching him to continue his assault.

'Guess I should show off too, huh? I'll keep it elemental.'

Izuku clapped his hands and locked eyes with Kaminari, "Unleash."

It looked more like water to those watching but it was most assuredly not, it was red and bright but swirling in an almost liquid fashion.

Everyone who knew Izuku looked on in shock. This was either new or Izuku had been keeping this close to the chest for a while.

From Izuku's slowly opening hands, in a tight swirling orb, was a ball of super bright and hot flame.

His right hand kept the ball of flame, while his left was pulled back in a sort of archery-like motion, curiously the ball of flame began to stretch with his movements and morph almost into an arrow.

'Creating lightning was an accident that came from learning this, I seriously never had a reason to use it. I went more lethal with the Nomu, so I skipped right over this bad boy.' Izuku thought as Kaminari made it within one meter of him.

"I would dodge." Said Izuku before releasing the attack.

Kaminari did as was told and dove forward just in time for the fire missile to pass him by and impact the ground behind him. He felt it before he saw it, Kaminari felt the ground shake wildly and his back heat up as if he was sitting in front of a roaring fire.

Turning around he saw a massive trench in the ground stretching towards the walls, flames coving the ground where the attack gouged through the earth. Easily twenty meters long and eight in diameter was the aftermath of the attack. Something that could take down buildings was just fired at him, what a day.

He let out a sigh as Izuku placed a knife to his back.

"Yeah, yeah, I give." He said with a laugh and a shake of his head.

The knife was gone and Izuku moved next to him and raised his hand to extinguish the residual flames.

"How?" Asked Kaminari.

Izuku turned to him, "Fire has mass, my friend. The photons that make up its appearance don't, but the base does. You've seen me control fire before, are you really that shocked?" He said in wonder.

Kaminari shook his head, "No I mean how did that small fire do that? And what does 'Unleash' mean?"

Izuku nodded in understanding, "I can make all sorts of stuff, and let's say I didn't just make fire you know I like compound techniques after all. And that's just the name of the branch of attacks that this falls under. That was called Hells Arrow."

Kaminari laughed and rubbed his hair, "You are too much my friend." He said as they made their way off the stage and Cementoss began to once again clean up.

Endeavor frowned, "Fire now, I don't like this boy." He grunted.

Hawks just laughed, "I don't think I'm all that surprised anymore by these kids. They're all crazy strong especially these top four. That Kaminari kid's speed was unheard of, and he managed to win the hand-to-hand exchange, but Midoriya is just as crazy, he took those hits and all those watts like it was nothing."

"I believe Midoriya utilized control over fire during his fight against those villains a few weeks ago that was made into quite the spectacle by the news." Commented Ryukyu. "But the level of power behind that attack, those weren't normal flames."

"No, they weren't." Endeavor said heavily, "I couldn't control them, which means they weren't just fire."

Mirko just laughed, "Way to sound ominous Endeavor, I'll just assume it's more of his crazy quirk's B.S. and move on. No use getting all bent out of shape by it, I'm more impressed by that invisible cutting technique he displayed against Yaoyorozu when he made that ice. Not sure how you'd dodge or block that." She said lightly hiding the unease from such an ability.

All Might interjected before thoughts could get too dark.

"Young Midoriya's Cleve and Sever abilities are ones that he reserves for inanimate objects and medical procedures, he wouldn't use them in a fight on a person." Unless he was truly pushed against the wall. "Make no mistake he has the true qualities of a hero in training!" Proclaimed All Might with his trademark grin.

"Oh well," Said Hawks, "Onto the last semi-final."

Todoroki glared towards the stands, "So he has a fire attack now." He said lowly.

Bakugo laughed, "Of course he does! Pretty dumb to think he wouldn't, but I wouldn't worry too much Icy-Hot you won't have to face him today!" He declared with sparks blasting off his palms.

"Right, I have to go through you, Bakugo." Todoroki said seriously, "I originally thought you'd be my toughest competition, up until the battle trials that is." Left unsaid was who he believed to be the real challenge.

Bakugo growled, clearly understanding what he was saying, "Don't you dare look down on me."

"Fight!"

Ice exploded outward and so too did Bakugo! The ice was practically slapped away as Bakugo approached and after a second Todoroki switched tactics.

With a stomp on the ground, Ice spears shot towards Bakugo who took to the air to maneuver around them. With his aerial mobility, it made it difficult for a static element that Todoroki had to produce from himself to land.

With fire, he could…

No! Todoroki glared hatefully as he used his ice to move around the arena to reposition and Bakugo stopped flying to point both his hands toward him.

Similar to the race earlier dozens of glowing balls shot out of his palms carpet bombing the arena. All the ice was shattered, and the arena was covered in craters.

Todoroki was protected by creating ice in front of him but none of it lasted that long under Bakugo's assault.

As the game continued, Todoroki attacked with ice that Bakugo would blow up the elemental noticed that Bakugo was getting stronger. It was as if the more he exerted himself the stronger he became.

Todoroki mentally groaned, he just remembered that Bakugo's quirk was from his sweat. Now the whole thing became a bit easier.

Frost fell from Todoroki's side as he sent out as much freezing air as possible. It was the first step in Ice Age, without going so far as to create ice. Vastly cooling the environment around him.

Bakugo blasted himself backward and higher with tsk. Seems his opponent was trying to keep him from sweating which was an annoyingly smart strategy that he didn't think the melodramatic boy would think of.

Oh well, time to go for broke.

Using his explosions to spin mid-air he began to set up his strongest attack. He used a smaller version on it against weird hair earlier. A small tornado of explosions compared to the cyclone of power that was his trump card.

Todoroki created massive amounts of ice on the ground and in front of him to the point that the entire arena ground from the stage to the walls was solid ice. From there he sent pillars into the air to disrupt Bakugo.

The cyclone moved towards Todoroki's stationary position with furious speed. The pillars that were shot towards it were all torn through with little issuer as the force of all the miniature explosions batted them away.

With a base made Todoroki rapidly lowered the air temperature and readied his quirk.

The cyclone approached and was within a single meter before both boys made their moves.

A massive glacier amount of ice shot from Todoroki but it disintegrated nearly instantly under Bakugo's attack.

The force of the cyclone explosion cracked and shattered not only the ice base Todoroki made but also the concrete stage, the ground around them, and much of the walls were cracked and shattered under the force. That being said the recoil from the attack launched both boys at the epicenter backwards.

But only one had prepared to keep themselves grounded.

Bakugo's back touched the ruined grass before his brain could process that he was knocked backward. He shot into the air with his quirk before screaming angrily.

"No that wasn't how this was supposed to end dammit! Not by dumb ring out!" He screamed at himself while furiously rubbing his hair. "Dammit, dammit, dammit!"

Todoroki, despite winning was the more hurt by the trade and only just managed to drag himself towards the tunnel to leave. Bakugo wanted to continue to scream angrily but just closed his eyes and stomped off.

Neither of the boys even heard the thunderous applause, too absorbed in their thoughts.

The festival was approaching the finale, it would be the dual elemental versus the manipulator.

End Chapter.

I'm sure people will feel some type of way here, but I actually made the brackets in mind for this outcome. I don't want Bakugo to fight Izuku here or just yet. Growing needs to be done first and like Bakugo's reaction to the reason for his loss a ring out isn't all that fun for a fated match.

Hopefully the fights were fun, I had fun writing them.

Let me know your thoughts and any recommendations for upcoming arcs, I have plans in mind of course but I actually enjoy hearing what you all have tried to predict.

Not sure at the frequency of updates, but rest assured the sports festival will be done soon. I wrote this chapter in about two nights. So, my urge to write is there it's just my attention and free time are the issue lately.

Review Responses:

InfinityMask: Kaminari is underused by MHA. Which surprising because usually thunder or lightning always one of most powerful ability. Wonder whatever he will be called yellow flash. Lol.

My Response: Yep, that's why he was a character I've add the most too. Lightning is one of my favorite anime abilities and I hate how underutilized he is. I was hoping maybe he would be the traitor or something.

inugami rukazu: Could izuku make mini black holes? They probably would collapse on themselves, but if the could exist for 1s, maybe he could use them to move things tha he normally wouldn't be able.

My Response: Dude, I don't think Izuku would ever try. The presence of an actual black hole would be catastrophic even at small levels. Nor do I really think he could.

Darkantos: Because OFA kills it's pre-quirked hosts by overpowering them with quirk factor until their bodies literally tear themselves to pieces (I think) does that mean that Izuku could host without issue because he could just adjust his body to cope? Just imagining what that would look like, his power buffed by the massive stockpile in OFA and just... oops, there goes the planet.

My Response: I honestly don't know right now. I healed All Might for the most part to let him keep the quirk for a while. It's less Izuku dying from the merger and more the sheer level of power he would have that makes me hesitant. Izuku would become god, and that is boring to write. But yeah if it isn't Izuku I don't think I can pass on OFA so who knows where that quirk goes and what happens with All Might.

Crainium9: His "weakness" confuses me why does he have to be so precise he can just scramble something instead of being precise I cannot imagine anything being able to survive being scrambled whether energy beams or items

My Response: Yeah it isn't rocket science. Izuku needs great focus to use his quirk not new. Momo's strategy was to force him to dodge or respond to a new attack as soon as he focused on one of the bots. In all of Izuku's fights it was the mental strain of his quirk that was slowing him down.

AnimeFan13579:You know a rather specific target Izuku should have considered going for was something that would allow Momo to control the toys. The visor in particular all he'd need to do was break a piece of it and it could have cancelled out the toys entirely. He only needs to focus on the point of control disrupt that and she would have needed to discard it and recreate it.

My Respose: Yep you're right but the same as the above point applies here, as soon as he looked at Momo several beam would come his way.

Rusetheimmortal: ...As for Midoriya, a thought passed that he could possibly do with his quirk. An attack sort of like a makeshift Vergil from DMC with his ranged attack by sending rubber if going with non lethal, or sharp pieces of metal, be it daggers or just shards of metal, and sending them at his opponent on all sides within his range of effect? He might have done this already and I might have accidentally skipped past that. Now for pairings, I get that it might not be a main focus as this is a hero fanfic after all, not something like HSDxD or Fate, but I have to wonder. Will it be a single pairing, Poly pairing, or no pairing for this story? I've always enjoyed romantic side plots for these kinds of stories, but they are training to be heroes, so there might not be much time for this until we get to the dorms, if you do the dorms at all in the first place.

My Response: If it's under the 5kg limit then sure, would he depends on the situation. Izuku is very reactive in how he fights. For pairings, no poly crap or harem. If I even do one it will be one girl. "He has enough love for everyone" I can't express my cringe well enough to express how much i hate that kind of stuff in stories. Not to mention it usually takes over a story completely when that happens and i just...not a fan. Poly stuff in real life isn't cool, look at who's usually in those relationships. get you a nice girl (or boy) and enjoy a deep bond with a partner it will be more real. Huh guess that's some wierd peeve for me lol.