Boku No Hero Academia Rubber Edition - Chapter 17

It was almost time for the sports festival, but the teachers weren’t as happy as they wanted to be, the UA faculty was having a meeting with the investigator Naomasa Tsukauchi, unfortunately, Tsukauchi couldn’t find anything about the villains, but the captured fodder said that they swore allegiance to Tomura, the handy man, because of his childlike mentality, and the pressure of the hero age.

Class 1A was preparing for the sports festival which was days away, Aizawa encouraged his student’s to use this special event to get exposure and get noticed by the country’s top pro heros. Ochaco was especially spirited about it.

After a boring day of lessons the fourth period ended and it was noonday break, Izuku was invited by All Might to eat launch with him and discuss something in the break room:

“What’s up All Might? what you want to talk about?”

“Young Midoriya, its about my time in the muscle form, im sorry to inform you that it starts to drop faster and faster, from 2 hours and 50 minutes now its 2 hours and i can feel the embers of one for all leaving me faster and faster, it seems i wont be able to remain the symbol of peace for much

longer.”

“Im sorry to hear that All Might, if it wasn’t for me maybe you would have been able to extend your time…”

“There’s nothing to be sorry about young Midoriya, my fate is sealed even if i kept one for all, my body would still deteriorate with time, and i still wouldn’t be able to keep up the transformation, actually i should be able to live a bit longer now without the quirk.”

“Anyways Midoriya, how’s your one for all practice got anything above 30%?”

“Actually All Might, with my physicall training im starting to improve and i can use 35% now, one for all also starts to move along all my body and i can feel myself getting strengthened and my control increases.”

“Oh that’s normal young Midoriya, your body starts adapting on one for all, the more it adapts, the more you will be able to use, also right now, your body is pretty strong, actually its almost strong enough to handle 100%, well if it was the past one for all…. it seems when i gave you one for all, its stockpiling strength increased by a lot, that means you will be way stronger than me at your peak, not talking about your rubber quirk in combination, haki too.”

“So if i had the older version of one for all i could have used 100% thats what you mean All Might?”

“Yes it sums up like that, for now you will still need to train your body to increase the percentage, but when you will reach 100% there will be a transformation in one for all, your strength increase will become massive, but for now there’s no need to talk about that, now go, i think your friends are waiting for you.”

“Then thank you All Might, see ya later!”

As class 1A was walking back to their classroom, for homeroom they could see a lot of students from other classes waiting there, some of them were from general studies other from support, there were even students from class 1B as they talked class 1A could hear them that they wanted to see the class who beaten back the villains in the USJ, and they also wanted to see the class president and strongest in the class Izuku Midoriya, Izuku complied, and after a bit of talking and arguing the classes left.

The few days passed and the UA sports festival began, security on the surface didn’t seem that strong, but it was actually beefed up considerably, but it was in such a way the people who would look, wouldn’t know, the festival was broadcasted live.

In the class 1A waiting room just before they headed out, Shoto approached Izuku and asked for a handshake and said:

Izuku smiled at Shoto shook his hand said:

“As heroes we need to give our best in every situation, so don’t go easy on me.”

Class 1A walks out of the freshmen stage the UA sports festival has officialy begun.

The other freshmen classes also walk out. The Chief Referee for the Freshmen Stage of U.A.’s Sports Festival, Midnight, asks for the player representative who is Izuku Midoriya to come towards the stage.

(switch to first person pov from here)

I walked up to the stage near Midnight and started talking:

“We as heroes need to united, but we also need friendly rivarly, this sports festival right now, is the best way for us to show the world our talents, so let’s just do that!” the students cheered and even the ever brooding Bakugou looked inspired if you would look closely at his scowl.

First Event of the Sports Festival: The Perilous Obstacle Race Around The Stadium

Midnight announces the preliminaries (or the First Event) of the Sports Festival. She reveals the first event to be the Obstacle Race; a nearly 4 km race around the stadium.

I arrive at a canyon with walking ropes attached from both ends here i would need to keep my balance if i didn’t want to fall down so even though i did it pretty fast some people started to catch up, but they were still behind me, as i approached the unmarked land i looked downwards, this was the supposed landmine field, if i walked hapzhardly i could start a chain detonation, but i didn’t want that. I picked up a piece of metal and inserted it into the ground, it wasn’t that big but it wasn’t small either, i grabbed it with my hands and started going backwards, it was time for me to get first place, as i stretched Shoto and Bakugou almost catched up to me but when they were almost behind my back i stopped going backwards and shouted:

“Gomu Gomu no Jet Rocket!” i springed myself forwards really like a rocket and i entered the stadium, behind me both Shoto and Bakugou coming.

The first event ended with me first Shoto second and Bakugou third.

Midnight states that the 42 students at the top have earned the right to advance while the other students fail to advance. Midnight announces the second event of the Sports Festival: The Cavalry Battle. The top 42 students each form a team of 2-4 for this event and earn points by grabbing headbands from the other teams. The number of points each student is worth is dependent of their placement in the Obstacle Race. However, Izuku, who placed 1st, is an exception to the points rule and is instead worth 10 million points.

Midnight explains that the time for the Cavalry Battle is 15 minutes and that the point value of each team will be the total accumulation of each of the members the teams’ members. Midnight says the one to wear the total point accumulated headband will be the rider. Midnight continues to explain that the headband can only be worn around the head or the neck. Midnight also explains that if a team crumbles or loses a headband, that team is not out of the game. Midnight says that Quirks can be used but cannot be used for malicious aim. Midnight orders the students to begin team negotiations and have 15 minutes to team up.

While other’s were teaming up i was alone because no one wanted to team up with me, because of my 10 milion worth, most of the other students also didn’t know my quirk, Bakugou, Shoto, And Iida said that they wanted to have a match with me, well Bakugou said something that isn’t family friendly but you would understand what he ment by it. So i teamed up with Ochaco, who was pretty glad to team up with me saying that, teaming up with friends is great, Mei the girl who i felt her pretty big bȯȯbs, she was also still looking at me strangely it seems she wasn’t over that, but she was enthusiasted to team up with me for some reason, last but not least, we also took Fumikage in our team.

The event started and like a well oiled machine team Izuku tried their best to avoid everyone, because well everyone tried to steal their headband, Izuku used his quirk smartly to inflate his limbs and help Tokoyami dodge and or push other teams behind, but they were confronted by team Todoroki who said that they would take the 10 milion headband from them which consisted of Tenya Denki and Momo.

Team Todoroki have trouble in breaking through Team Midoriya’s defense. With only a minute left, Tenya tells his team to hold on tight. Tenya uses his move Recipro Burst and in an instant, Shoto takes Izuku’s headband. But before they could celebrate Izuku appeared immediatly infront of Shoto steaming and pink he takes his headband back and appears in the same position as before. the timer rings out and the rankings were as following:

Team Izuku- first

Team Bakugou-third

Team Shinso-Fourth

After the Cavalry Battle ends, the Sports Festival takes a noonday break.

All of class 1A, 1B, and the others were either relaxing or talking, Izuku was chatting with Uraraka and so the break was almost coming to an end. Elsewhere All Might was talking with the 2nd pro hero Endevor, All Might says that they have not spoken to each other in ten years and that he wanted to give him a shout out. Endeavor replies that he can take his tea offer to some other place and tells him to go away. As Endeavor leaves, All Might stops him, saying that his son Shoto was able to show a great performance even without using his full power. All Might then asks Endeavor for advice on how-to raise the next generation. Endeavor then comments on All Might’s attitude, finding it to be annoying and then says that he will make Shoto a hero that surpasses All Might, then angrily walks away.

Final Event of the Sports Festival: The Battle Tournament

Before Midnight can commence the drawing to determine the pairing for the tournament event, Mashirao requests withdrawal from the event, saying that his participation in the Human Cavalry Battle was done by being manipulated and insinuates that it was because of Hitoshi’s Quirk. Mashirao says that he understands that the tournament event is a rare opportunity and that walking away would be foolish, but while everyone was giving their best on their own he wasn’t doing his best due to being manipulated. Toru and Mina try to persuade him to reconsider, but Mashirao replies that he is saving his dignity. Shoda Nirengeki from Class 1-B also requests to resign, feeling that he does not deserve to participate in the tournament event. Midnight, liking his reasoning for resignation, accepts Mashirao and Nirengeki’s requests for withdrawal from the tournament event. Midnight then says that the open slots will be filled in by the team that placed fifth: Team Kendo, but Team Kendo decide to give the opportunity to Team Tetsutetsu, much to Tetsutetsu’s happiness. Midnight then announces that Tetsutetsu and Ibara will be replacing Mashirao and Shoda. After the drawing takes place, Midnight then shows the pairings for the tournament event. Izuku sees that his opponent is Hitoshi Shinso. Hitoshi approaches Izuku, but Mashirao warns Izuku not to respond to him. Katsuki notices he is fighting someone named “Uraraka” and wonders who that is, while Ochaco looks at Katsuki with a terrified expression.

The Sports Festival has recreational activities before the tournament event. The recreational activities end and the tournament event begins.

The first match began, it was Izuku versus Hitoshi

I decided to keep my mouth shut and not respond to anything Shinso says per Mashirao’s advice, it seemed his quirk was a manipulation of some kind but Hitoshi calls Mashirao an idiot for throwing away the opportunity to participate in the tournament, while i was angered because of his insult i didn’t respond to him, taking Mashirao’s advice by heart, Shinso was sweating bullets, he knew how strong Izuku is, he observed his speed when he took his headband back from team Todoroki, there was no way in hell he could beat him without his quirk.

“Yes i don’t know how it feel’s to not have a quirk suited for combat, i was born with a strong quirk, but that doesn’t mean yours is useless, if you could use it smartly you could still become a great pro hero, you just had a bad matchup with me, not every villain has strength enchanting quirks.” before Shinso can respond to my words i stretch my arm backwards and hit him in the stomach launching him away from the ring, I made sure to not him too hard but hard enough for him to be pushed out.

Shinso couldn’t retilate his quirk wasn’t meant for direct combat while he trained his body it was a far cry from Izuku’s.

Izuku has defeated Hitoshi and advances to the second round. Lying on the ground defeated, Hitoshi remembers his past; where people at his previous school disliked his Quirk due to its villainous nature. After the crowd cheers for the combatants, Izuku questions Hitoshi as to why he wants to join the Department of Heroics. Hitoshi replies and says that he cannot help what he truly longs to be. The students of the General Department applaud Hitoshi’s efforts while some people in the crowd comment on the usefulness of Hitoshi’s Quirk against villains. Hitoshi declares that one day he will enter the Department of Heroics and show everyone that he will become a great hero.

On his way to his first round match, Shoto encounters his father, Endeavor, and tries to ignore him. Endeavor tells his son that he is disappointed with his behavior and reminds him of his duty to surpass All Might, ordering him to stop fooling around. Shoto declares to his father that he will never use his fire power and will only rely on his mother’s power. Endeavor replies to his defiant son that while his tactic may work now in high school, he will eventually be pushed to the point of being forced to use it, much to Shoto’s fury.

The second match of the first round between Shoto Todoroki and Hanta Sero begins. Hanta wraps his tape around Shoto, hoping to get him out of bounds. However, Shoto (still furious from his conversation with his father) creates a massive pillar of ice in retaliation, completely immobilizing Hanta and freeing himself in the process. Hanta, unable to move at all, is declared the loser and Shoto is declared the winner, thus moving on to the second round. Shoto goes to the nearly frozen Hanta, apologizes for what he did and thaws him out with his fire power.

Izuku notes that the image of seeing Shoto using his fire power to melt his ice seemed immensely sad to him.

The third match of the first round ends in the blink of an eye; Ibara Shiozaki defeats Denki Kaminari by making his Quirk backfire on him with her type advantage Quirk

The fourth match of the first round, Tenya Iida (who is equipped with Mei’s support gear) versus Mei Hatsume. During their match, Mei uses the opportunity to advertise her support equipment and items. After ten minutes of cat and mouse, Mei, feeling that she has shown everyone her support gear effectively, walks out of bounds. Tenya wins due to this action but he is not pleased with Mei using him.

The match between Katsuki and Ochaco begins with Ochaco making her move first. She tries to reach Katsuki, but Katsuki uses an Explosion on her. Katsuki reaches down to the floor to grab her, only to find Ochako’s jacket lying there. Ochaco moves behind Katsuki to attack him, however, Katsuki’s reflexes allows him to attack her with an Explosion, knocking Ochaco back. Ochaco tries to get up first, but Katsuki reaches her more quickly and uses another Explosion on her. Katsuki then uses more Explosions on her, causing the crowd to rebuke Katsuki’s actions. Shota criticizes the crowd for thinking that way, saying that Katsuki is on guard due to his opponent’s strength. Ochaco, despite being battered and wounded from Katsuki’s Explosion ȧssault, thanks Katsuki for not letting his guard down as it allowed her to put her plan into motion; to create a meteor shower from all of the rubble utilizing the effects of her Quirk. Ochaco fires the meteor shower of rubble at Katsuki, planning to use the shower of rubble as a distraction so that she can attack him directly with her Quirk. However, Katsuki uses a huge Explosion, destroying Ochaco’s meteor shower of rubble and knocking her back onto the ground at the same time. Ochaco gets up and starts to move towards Katsuki, however, Ochaco’s heavy wounds finally takes their toll and Ochaco collapses onto the ground, unable to move. Midnight goes to check her and declares that she is unable to battle anymore, thus Katsuki is declared as the winner.

The first match of the second round is about to commence with both Izuku and Shoto in the ring. The match begins and both Izuku and Shoto prepare to attack.

While Shoto try’s to freeze me with his ice i easily dispatch it with my techniques, even though his ice was hard, i was strong enough to blast it with my normal gomu gomu no techniques, Shoto was in a pinch he couldn’t anything with his ice to beat Izuku, his father was right, he couldn’t always keep on using his ice powers, but he didn’t want to use his fire powers either, his scar still stung everytime he used them, he still remembered the way his mother looked at him, but to win he had to use them.

It might look like Shoto thought a lot but not even a second happened when he had the inner conflict, scarlet red flames started to grow on his right part of body, Endevor in the stands had a giant grin on his face and shouted out while walking slowly towards the last stands:

“Thats it Shoto, thats your destiny embrace it!”

Shoto looked disgusted at his fathers “encouragement” but he still shot a high amount of fire towards me, it seemed now i will need to also make my second quirk appear, it would be easier to explain. so i started to use my Busoshoku Haki encasing my whole body making it purplish black.

In the stands a muscular old man started to laugh “Bahahaha that’s my grandon Midoriya Izuku, and he inherited my quirk aswell!” it was Midoriya D Garp, a relatively well known hero in Japan, but more well known outside. When people heard him and looked at him, not a high amount recognized him, but those who did started shouting “It’s Midoriya D Garp, did he say that the little guy down there is his grandson?” more and more people started to focus on the fight, pro heroes as well.

Back with the fight, Shoto’s fire couldn’t do anything to the Haki encased Izuku, it was normal, Izuku could beat a nomu, something that even the current All Might would have problems with, he wasn’t in the scope of students anymore, actually it was a kind of bullying to let Izuku still participate in the Sports festival, now it appeared clearer and cleare in the teacher’s eyes how far Izuku was compared to his peers.

Shoto tried both fire and ice, all of his techniques but he couldn’t go trough my defense, it was actually pretty pitiful when you looked from a third person view, i was actually pretty ashamed, this sports festival shouldn’t be even for me, i also showed enough for me to be recruited intern in a pro hero agency so i decided to forfeit the match in my mind. Shoto still didn’t give up his father put a lot of pressure on him, even though he was friends with Izuku he still wanted to prove himself to his father, even though he hated him.

When the last amount of ice hit Izuku it dispersed but it also pushed him out of bounds. Shoto’s jaw and everyone elses was on the floor, no one was actually that dumb here, they knew that Izuku gave up.

Shoto looked towards me with angry face:

“Why did you throw the match? you said you would use your full power on me!”

“Im sorry Shoto, but this ring is too small for me.”

Shoto had a thoughtfull face at my sentence, while the pro heros already knew what i was talking about, i was too strong for this festival, i didn’t belong here.

I retreated back to the seats, and i stood near Ochaco who was looking at me with big eyes like i had three heads. I didn’t comment and just sat down near her.

The final match was between Katsuki and Shoto, but Katsuki looked really angry, he actually wanted to fight me to see how strong he became by comparasion, but now he had to fight Shoto.

The final match of the tournament event between Katsuki and Shoto begins. Shoto makes his move first and attacks Katsuki with a huge pillar of ice, trying to end the fight quickly. However, Katsuki thaws himself out with an Explosion. After breaking out of Shoto’s ice, Katsuki uses some Explosions to somersault himself into the air. While in the air, Katsuki grabs Shoto’s hair and shirt and throws Shoto onto the ground, but Shoto creates an ice wall behind himself to prevent himself from being thrown out of the ring. Katsuki immediately attacks Shoto again with an Explosion. Shoto dodges Katsuki’s Explosion and he counters by throwing Katsuki into his ice wall while in the process throws himself out of harm’s way.

Katsuki becomes angry at Shoto for not using his full power, telling Shoto to not stand in front of him if he is not fighting to win. Katsuki prepares his next attack by jumping into the air and spinning himself around with two Explosions in his hands. As Katsuki makes his preparations, Shouto is in deep thought of whether to use his fire power or not; having trouble on deciding if it is the right choice to use it or not. Shoto admits to himself that since fighting Izuku he is struggling on what to do and how he should proceed. Shoto is confused and conflicted from his deep thinking. After Izuku yells at Shoto to keep fighting, Shoto decides to get his head in the game and activates his fire power. After activating his fire power, Shoto remembers the trauma of his mother’s reaction to his fire power and becomes disheartened, causing him to deactivate his fire power. Katsuki’s preparations are complete and after gaining momentum for his Explosions from spinning, attacks Shoto with his move, Howitzer Impact, an explosive tornado that hits Shoto.

After the smoke clears, Shoto is out of bounds, seemingly knocked out. A furious Katsuki walks to Shoto and grabs him by his shirt, dissatisfied with Shoto’s performance. However, Katsuki is knocked out by Midnight’s perfume before he can do anything to Shoto. Because he went out of bounds, Shoto loses and Katsuki is declared the winner of the final match and tournament event as well as the winner of U.A.’s Freshmen Sports Festival.

The tournament ended and the award ceremony was held out, i was standing where i was before i didnt win any medals, but i didn’t care either, the people who were on the stand were Fumikage Tokoyami, Shoto Todoroki, and Katsuki Bakugo, Fumikage was 3rd, Shoto 2nd, and Katsuki first,

However, due to being furious at Shouto and to prevent him from unleashing his fury at him, Katsuki is fully restrained; his arms and hands restrained with locks, his body wrapped around a wooden log, chained to the podium and a face mask.

All Might appears in his muscle form and gives each of the winners their respective medals, while he also gives advice, congratulates them and also aknowledges their power.

While i didn’t win anything officially, a lot of pro heroes, even villains, who looked at the live broadcast were interested in me and my powers. It seemed trouble was strating to brew on the horizon.