"In comparison, my beloved arms are so much more versatile, strong enough to lift 40 tons, yet capable of movements so delicate that they can handle frail glass!"
"AND NOW STUDENTS, GET READY FOR THE CAVALRY BATTLE! IT WILL BEGIN WHEN THIS COUNTDOWN REACHES ZERO, SO GET READY!"
...
Izuku tensed. He saw that a lot of the teams were already turning to face them.
"THREE!"
He could feel the center of gravity shift beneath him as two incredibly strong metal arms embedded themselves into the ground for better stability.
"TWO!!"
Mina tensed. Uraraka did likewise. Mei seemed almost relaxed.
"ONE!!!"
"Let's rock!
"START!!!!"
Immediately two teams came barreling towards them, and with a feeling of dread, he saw that Jirou was at the head of one of them, carrying Hagakure the invisible girl behind her.
Out of the entire class, she was far and away the biggest danger to Izuku himself, even more so than Todoroki.
While the boy's fire might be the more intimidating, the fact was that the fire would only affect Izuku where it hit him. Sound-based attacks on the other hand would travel through Venom's entire body, the same way that the shock of a hand grenade exploding underwater had no resistance as it ripped apart anything unfortunate enough to be beneath the water with it.
One hit from her earlobes and depending on how strong it was, Venom's mass would explode all over and Izuku would be horribly injured.
It would be catastrophic right now.
He made his decision with that in mind.
With a quick raising of his hand, he aimed straight at Hagakure's headband, where her invisible head had to be.
Then he let loose a web.
He hoped to God that he would manage this before Jirou managed to react.
He then jerked her forward and down, effectively making her head but Jirou from behind.
"OWW!"
The two girls let out a cry of pain simultaneously, and Jirou stumbled, bringing the group to an immediate stop.
The web line disintegrated before Jirou could attack it with her lobes.
His ploy to bring his great enemy to a halt was a great success, but it also meant that the other team barreling for them hadn't been halted, and was free to act as they pleased.
Which they did.
The team, composed of members from class 2-B all had quirks which Izuku wasn't familiar with, other than the guy who was made of metal who had the headband around his head.
The one in front opened up the attack by stomping his foot down into the ground which turned to mush around it. Instantly, the ground beneath their feet did the same, and the entire group sank maybe a half meter into the ground.
Shit!
Izuku was about to webhook them to the wall just by and drag them up when suddenly, accompanied by mechanical sounds, two of metal arms of Mei shot up and embedded themselves into the wall behind them, and with no difficulty whatsoever it pulled them out and lifted them up and along the wall.
The two other arms had grabbed around Mina and Uraraka, lifting them up.
"Uraraka, weightless now!" The pink-haired tech wizard said with great enthusiasm.
Then 3 seconds later, with a burst of strength that crushed the spot on the wall they had just been attached to, they sailed through the air across the battlefield, leaving the two attacking teams in the dust with amazing speed.
Even with Uraraka's weight being the only thing that kept them linked to earth's gravitational pull, they still would have slammed into the ground with the force of a car crash, but with a burst of compressed air, they came to a stop right before the ground.
"What do you think of my babies girls? Really cute and versatile aren't they?"
Without thinking, Izuku, so used to being open with his praise, blurted out his thoughts.
"Yeah, they're really amazing Hatsume!"
"Your opinion is absolutely worthless to me Midori."
He flinched at the tone of her dismissal.
"New attackers coming from the left!"
All of them snapped around as sure enough, a new team was barreling towards them.
Though at first glance, "team" seemed an inaccurate description, for it seemed it was just Shoji running hunched over, with his wings going behind him and covering his back like a giant clam.
Izuku had to jerk his head backwards when a tongue shot out from a small opening of the giant clam with massive speed.
It barely missed his headband and quickly pulled back again.
In the frontal opening between the wings, Izuku saw that 3 students were sitting on top of Shoji's back. Mineta, Tokoyami, and Tsuyu.
Clever, they used his great strength and size to carry all of them at once, along with his wings to cover them for defense.
"We need to move, now!"
"No need," Mei said, in a cheerful tone.
Two metal arms shot forward, and closed their grip around the charging Shoji, and brought him to a sudden halt.
Then, with a whip-like motion, the arms lifted all four of them up into the air, then flung them across the arena.
Mina, Izuku, and Uraraka just stared after them for a moment.
"I'm kinda starting to feel redundant here." Uraraka said in an awkward tone.
Izuku's head exploded in pain.
He screamed.
He wasn't sure what happened next, but with a tug, he felt his headband be ripped from him.
Then, snapping of mechanical tendrils. Once he finally managed to see clearly again, his team was facing towards another team.
Bakugou's team.
"Getting pretty full of yourself, huh bastard?"
He saw their 10 million headband in his hand.
Anger and adrenaline suddenly surged through him, and he acted without any thoughts.
A black web line shot right into Katsuki's chest, and with a heave, Izuku ripped him straight through the air and towards him.
He was going to punch that punk's face in-
Katsuki ripped the webline holding him to pieces with an explosion.
He still sailed through the air towards Izuku though, and his hand went to his regular pull back before an explosion.
"HYA!"
Izuku didn't see what Uraraka did, but Katsuki stopped in the air like the oxygen had just gained mass and slammed into him.
Izuku saw the blonde boy get the wind knocked out of him, but he also saw him lose his grip on the headband.
The band was suddenly engulfed in a black line and shortly afterwards, it sailed through the air, before once more being attached around Izuku's black head.
He had hoped Katsuki would slam into the ground and be disqualified, but alas no. A large green, disembodied, flying hand gripped around his shirt and pulled him back towards his formation.
Said hand looked kinda like it belonged to a green, humanoid dragon, though in reality, it belonged to a girl with really dark green hair.
As it plopped Katsuki back on his seat, the hand both turned into a normal one, as well as reattaching to it's owner.
"Fuck that was too close."
"Yeah Bakugou, if you touch the ground it's all over for us man!"
"Shut the fuck up!"
Katsuki seemed to have recovered fast from what had just happened.
"Focus on the fucking enemy!"
Then, as the two teams stared each other down, another team, lead by a boy with blonde hair swooped in from behind and yoinked Katsuki's headband with no difficulty.
"You're way too easy 1-A." The blonde boy said with a cooky, mocking tone.
Venom burst out laughing.
Izuku himself suddenly felt incredible schadenfreude.
"Getting pretty full of yourself, huh bastard?"
Katsuki looked like he was about actually explode, but instead, he was distracted as the blonde boy began to explain in large, overly prose speech about how much he sucked, and how easy it was to take the band from him.
It was absolutely hilarious to see as all of Katsuki's attention shifted over at the blonde boy.
Izuku would gladly have stood there and watched the following chase with a smile at Katsuki's expense, but instead he was pulled out of it, as they were challenged by another team.
A team composed of Todoroki, Iida, Momo, and Kaminari.
Of course.
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