Chapter 52: Cavalry battle?
"Good job making it through the qualifier. The top 42 of this race will be the ones who make it to the next round. For those who didn't make it, we have prepared other chances for you too shine. The press will be all over it. And moving right on to the next round. The real competition begins now, so give it your all!" Midnight said, as the slot hologram appeared again.
"The next round will be.... a cavalry battle!"
"A cavalry battle? I'm bad at those." Kaminari said.
"Since it is a cavalry battle, it's not an individual event. I wonder how it'll work?" Tsuyu asked.
"Let me explain." Midnight said, "The participants can form teams of two to four people as they wish. It's basically the same as a regular cavalry battle, but the one thing that is different is, based on the results of the last game, each person will be assigned a point value."
"So like the points based system of the entrance exam huh? That's easy to understand." Sato said.
"In other words, each team is worth a different amount of points based on who is in it?" Uraraka reasoned.
"I see!" Mina said.
"You guys don't hold back even though I'm talking, huh?" Midnight cried.
"Yes, that's right! And the points assigned go up by five starting from the bottom. That is until the first rank. The first ranked person is worth is ten million points!" Midnight said.
"Ten million points?!" Everyone muttered, as they turned to me with predatory eyes.
I just shrugged my shoulders.
"In other words, if you take down the first place's team, you basically win!
That's right! It's survival of the fittest from here on out!"
"You have 15 minutes to decide on a team. Then you'll have another 15 minutes to battle. Go!"
Everyone immediately got to negotiating and recruiting.
So did I. And I had an idea of who I wanted to recruit.
I looked at Deku. And he looked back at me.
"Deku, will you join.."
"No." He interjected.
I was shook.
What? Is Deku actually refusing me?
"Why?" I asked.
"I can't always be living in your shadow Haru-chan. This time I want to compete as my own person. This is my hero academia too, after all!" He said.
Damn. Damn! I did not expect that response.
Fuck. There goes my horse.
Still I had backups.
I ran over to Tokoyami only to be flat out rejected even before I could utter a single word.
"No. You betrayed my trust in the obstacle race. I'll have my vengeance!" He said.
Fucking chuunibyou bastard!
Nevermind. Onto the next one.
I walked over to Uraraka only to find Deku already scheming with her.
He saw me and turned to face me.
"Uraraka-san is on my team Haru-chan. I know what you plan on doing. You won't succeed."
Dangit! Why is everyone being such a pain in the ass today?!
Fine then. Plan B it is.
"Kirishima. Ojiro." I called out.
They turned and walked over to me.
"You wanna team up?" Kirishima said.
"Yep." I said, "And I need two horses. How would you two like to win this thing, head and shoulders above the rest?" I asked.
"Sure." Ojiro said.
"Hell yeah." Kirishima replied.
Next, I walked up to Midnight and asked about the boundaries of movement.
"So long as you don't leave the stadium." Came the answer.
Good. I walked back and explained my plan to the both of them and prepared for the coming curbstomping.
I once again projected eyes onto ever corner of the stadium. But this time, I also projected them onto the cameras and in the commentator's room.
Now they can't stop me.
As the fifteen minutes ended, I formed a cavalry unit with the two and waited.
The moment the whistle rang for the battle to start, I stopped everyone in place with their individual quirks accoubted for. No more Dark Shadow ropes or flash freezes. Not with them stuck at such odd angles.
Except Deku. Fucking Deku. He started his form with his hands above his head.
Bastard knew my plans huh?
Not going to help you Deku.
Then with a burst of power, the both of them, Kirishima and Ojiro, jumped as high as they could.
At their peak, I stopped them in mid air by the soles of their feet.
As we prepared for another jump, I saw it.
Deku pulled back his index finger.
Fuck.
"Kirishima, harden!" I said, sheltering behind him, immobilizing his whole body to avoid broken legs.
Then a massive gust of wind hit us, almost blowing away Ojiro.
I looked out from behind Kirishima and saw Deku's broken finger. I immediately froze all his individual fingers in place. No more air bullets for you.
"Alright. Jump!" I said. Only nothing happened.
"Kirishima! Are you alright?" I asked, only now looking at him.
His hardening was all cracked from the pressure, and blood seeped out at some points.
"Kirishima, if you can't handle it, we can just .." I said, as he interrupted me.
"No. I'm fine. I can still do it." He sputtered out.
"Fine. But we'll go slower this time." I said.
Then they made to jump again. At the last moment I released the binds, leading us further up.
Inch by inch, we made it to the peak of the stadium.
Next, Ojiro spread out his tail between his legs, and I stopped it and his torso in place horizontally, using Ojiro as a staging platform, while Kirishima climbed on.
Now on stable footing, we relaxed for a bit as the players below chewed our ears out. Or attempted to do so.
This high up though they sounded like mice screeching in the sewers.
"So we just wait them out now?" Kirishima asked.
"Heh? Why wait it out when we can take all of their headbands and leave them utterly destitute." I said.
"How?" Ojiro asked.
"Wait, watch and enjoy!" I said, sitting down on Ojiro's chest and activating remote control.
One by one, I carefully pulled off the headbands from the now despairing teams.
Ah! Their pained moans. Music to my ears!
Kirishima looked at me wierdly.
"That's messed up man!" He said.
"Oh C'mon. They wouldn't hesitate to steal our headbands. Why not return the favor?"
"But all of them? That would just leave us three to fight in the finals. Won't that be boring?" He asked.
"Wait! You're just going to ignore the fact that he just pulled a new quirk out of thin air? Even the commentators are talking about it now?" Ojiro interjected.
"I'm just used to this by now. Of course he was hiding his skills for this. Why wouldn't he?" Kirishima said.
"Fine then. I'll do it. How did you get two quirks? Did you have it from the start? How many other quirks do you have?" Ojiro pushed.
"Really?" I asked, giving him the stink eye.
"We have 10 more minutes to kill up here. Might as well?" He said.
"Fine. I have two quirks. One for each eye. Immobilization Eye and Remote Control." I said.
"That's it? No details?" Kirishima asked, now interested.
"Can't lift with my power, what I can't lift with my hands. Can't use on living material. Works by line of sight. One item at a time." I explained.
"So you can't pick up a car?" Ojiro asked.
"No. Not yet at least. Maybe someday." I said, lying.
I could play table tennis with ship shipping ships by now. A car was nothing to me.
Soon the timer ended and I let the participants go, jumping down from the stadium roof and landing on the ground, victorious.
"Team Shikimori wins another overwhelming victory, with ten million and 4005 points.
And on second place, Team Tsuyu, with 300 points."
"What?!" I cried.
"Wait! How?" Ojiro asked, as Tsuyu vomitted a bunched up slog of headbands.
"Oh! That's how!" Kirishima said.
"As for the other teams. Too bad. Or not! To make things interesting we're making up the rest of the next round's participants from the top positions in the race. In order, the following students get promoted as wildcards to the next round!" Midnight pointed at a screen behind her.
"Shikimori Haru.
Kirishima Eijiro.
Ojiro Mashirao.
Tsuyu Asui.
Mineta Minoru.
Shoji Mezo.
Izuku Midoriya.
Shoto Todoroki.
Bakugo Katsuki.
Iida Tenya.
Juzo Honenuki.
Hitoshi Shinso.
Tokoyami Fumikage.
Ibara Shiozaki.
Toru Hagakure.
Neito Monoma."
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