Compared to his pretty good performance against Mei to see the difference between fighting while you were level-headed, and fighting when you were high.
Oh well. This was gonna be fun.
"So… You're in control Venom?"
...
Uraraka's question came haltingly like she was in pain. Which she very much was as Venom could feel rather clearly.
"Yes. Izuku couldn't finish you off, so that falls to us instead. Don't worry though, kid. We'll make it quick."
Then Venom punched the air, and a ball of black liquid slammed into Uraraka's chest like a Cannonball.
Venom saw the look of complete shock hit her as All air was knocked out of her. Then that was hidden from their view as a second cannonball of black liquid hit her straight in the face, breaking her nose.
This one knocked her straight over, and she slammed into the ground.
Uraraka scrambled to her feet and barely got out of the way as a line of black slammed straight down at where she had been, like a whip.
She knocked the third cannonball out of the air with a punch, only for a line of black to take her in the gut and wrench her through the air, straight at Venom's massive frame.
In response, she grit her teeth and hit the punch Venom was trying to land on her with a punch of her own. The two fists collided, a deafening "Crack!" Sounding from it, as a shock ran up Uraraka's arm.
She made her move the moment her feet touched the ground. She planted them and put 50% power into her next swing as her left hand slammed into the massive frame with a thunderclap of a hook.
The mass of black exploded into liquid, then immediately reformed as a mouth of teeth... Which slammed shut around her arm.
Uraraka screamed in pain and shock. Though the teeth were neither as strong nor sharp as the ones in Venom's mouth(As a matter of fact they broke against her skin) the vice-like grip the arm was now caught between was pretty damn strong.
Her scream was cut out very quickly, however, as Venom punched her straight in the face with a hook, which the symbiote followed up with a massive uppercut, all while Uraraka was caught in that vice-like grip.
Uraraka crumpled to her knees from the blows, her eyes completely out of focus as Venom chuckled.
"You know what the really funny thing is kid? If you had just focused on blows to the body and limbs, and not been so insistent on head blows, you'd have won this little duel. Oh well. Time to finish it."
Venom put the large, black hands together, fingers intertwining, as they were raised high, preparing to slam them straight down on Uraraka's head.
The girl looked up, then in a moment, her eyes cleared up. Pink lightning burst around as Uraraka finally wrenched the arm free, and put some distance between the two of them.
All the distance, as she was now at the opposite end of the arena, as far from him as she could possibly be.
So she wanted to drag this out just a bit longer, did she?
Well, Venom didn't mind this going on for just a bit longer.
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As Uraraka backed away, she felt like there were walls closing in on her, trapping her where she stood.
The walls in this case were the white lines of the arena, making sure she wasn't going anywhere.
Holy shit this had changed gears quickly.
She and Izuku had been fighting in a relatively equal playing field. Then Venom Had taken over and smashed her, and her confidence to Itty bitty, tiny pieces.
Now, she was beaten, she had trouble breathing through her broken, blood-filled nose, her sides hurt like hell itself, and worst of all, Venom was taking his sweet ass time getting over to finish her.
He just… Stood there, hand under his chin, contemplating her, as if he was considering just how to finish her off.
And all the while, her mind struggled, wrecked it's way around how he would finish this. Finish her off.
What the hell was she gonna do now? Her thoughts went back to what she had talked with All Might about before the tournament had even begun. About how important a moment in her career this was.
And yet here she was in the final moment, barely able to stand, just watching her doom as it prepared to end her.
And as she looked into Venom's eyes she was struck by a sudden emotion she hadn't really felt since the invasion.
Fear.
There was something about those eyes that reminded her of the eyes of the man of mists. A killer, who would not hesitate to claim her life. Back then, she had been able to steel herself and grit her teeth as she worked through it for the battle.
Here though… That look was on the eyes of someone she considered a friend. A comrade, someone she cared about.
It was a thousand times worse than the eyes of him, or the man with the white hair had been.
Then, suddenly, and without any prompt, Venom's grin got wider as he nodded, then began walking forward cracking his knuckles.
Every single muscle in Uraraka's beaten and sore body tensed.
Then…
"WHAT THE FUCKING HELL ARE YOU DOING URARAKA!?"
Uraraka and Venom both stopped their imminent final clash to turn and look in the direction that the voice had come from, and all around them, noises across the arena had gone silent.
The speaker was their classmate Katsuki Bakugou.
"YOU'RE SERIOUSLY GONNA LOSE LIKE THIS? YOU MANAGED TO BEAT ME, YET YOU'RE GONNA HALFASS IT HERE IN THE FINAL ROUND, AND LOSE LIKE A BITCH TO FUCKING DEKU!?"
The look on his face was… Weird in her mind, a strange mix between pissed off, angry, and desperate, like he was in physical pain from seeing Izuku win.
"DIDN'T YOU DESTROY ONE OF THE FUCKING ENTRANCE ROBOTS IN ONE SINGLE BLOW, YET HERE YOU ARE, ABOUT TO LOSE, HAVING USED NONE OF THAT KIND OF POWER AT ALL! WHAT KIND OF FUCKING JOKE IS THAT URARAKA? ARE YOU SERIOUSLY GONNA LET DEKU WIN JUST LIKE THAT?!"
Venom snorted derisively.
"So… Is he a friend of yours?"
"No…"
She had literarily only had a single sentence worth of talks with Bakugou Katsuki during her time at Yuei. And that had been a pretty short talk during their first exercise as a team against Izuku and Tenya.
"Yeah… A friend would have encouraged you. But Katsuki isn't capable of giving support to anyone. He just isn't able to handle it if we win this we suppose. It would destroy him if we took number one by besting the one who beat him into the ground."
He grinned.
"Isn't that a beautiful thought?"
Uraraka though, suddenly felt a boulder of fear disappear from her shoulders. Katsuki… Katsuki was right. She HAD destroyed one of the dummy entrance exam robots. She had done it. No one else. And he was right in one other way too. She hadn't been giving this battle Her all.
She'd been playing this way, way too safe. She still had way more to give.
As that thought clicked into place, she also noticed another thing. Midnight wasn't standing behind Venom, instead standing off to the side from where the two of them were standing.
She didn't need to hit Venom. She just needed to get him out of bounds.
So she called upon it. The enormous power that was One for all in it's entirety.
100% power, all gathered into her arm.
She was going to win this, a d she was going to win, and she was going to win giving it her all. That was the kind of hero she wanted to be.
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