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"The contestants are pouring in one after the other! Let's hear some applause for all our competitors as we prepare the results."

Midnight stole the spotlight from present Mic, the screen changed from showing all of us to showing the score. "The first game for the first‐years is finally over, and what a game it was! Now, let's take a quick look at the standings, shall we? Only the top 42 will advance to the next round. But don't be too let down if you didn't make the cut! We've prepared other opportunities for you to shine. Now the real fun is about to begin. The chance to fully move yourselves into the limelight! Give it your best!" She spun around and faced the crowd. "Let's see what we have
in store for you next. Will your wildest fantasies come to life? What could it be? The waiting is torture.Prepare yourselves...for this!"

Sero whipped his hands off on his uniform before asking, "Cavalry battle? I'm terrible at those."

"Team building...."

"Looks like you gotta work with others Y/N."

"Hahaha, funny joke."

"I wonder how they'll split us up."

Midnight dragged our attention back to her, "Allow me to explain. The participants will form teams of two‐to‐four people as they see fit. In theory, it's basically the same as a regular playground game. But there is one difference. Each player has been assigned a point value based on the results from the obstacle course. I get it, a point‐based system like the entrance exams. That seems pretty simple. So that means each team will have a different point value based on which students are on it." The screen changed as it had a demonstration of the obstacle course. The point assignments go up by increments of five, starting from the bottom. For example, 42nd place is worth five points, and 41st is worth ten. And the point value assigned to the contestant is...ten million!"

"What?! Ten million?! I feel bad for the person in the first place." Sero snickered and poked at my side.

"Too bad it's Midoriya..."

"You're kidding.."

"Do you see him shaking? He's practically going to shit himself any moment now."

Mei walked up next to us with another classmate, "In other words, if you take down his team..."

"You'll win the Cavalry Game and take the lead yourself. That's right. It's survival of the fittest, with a chance for those at the bottom to overthrow the top." The green haired girl engulfed her hands terrified. "I'm kinda bummed I didn't make it, something tripped me and got tangled with me and I couldn't make it..."

"Something tripped you?" Sero asked, eyeing me.

"It was cold and hard, nothing like my warm plants..."

"I'm pretty sure plants are also cold... but isn't that ironic?"

"Mhm?"

"Did you get tripped up at the beginning or end of the match?"

"Sero...." I warned him, he shushed me as the greenette placed a hand on her chin.

"Oh, right at the start!"

"Cold and hard... Could you say metal?"

"Sero..." I begged.

"That's what it most likely was!"

"That's so funny, hey Y/N--"

"--Oh look at that it's my que to leave--"

"--Ah ah ah, get back here." He tapped my torso and dragged me back into the conversation. The girl from class 1B looked so concerned at us. She looked as if she was going to run away herself. "Hey Y/N, don't you have a clock with metal attached?"

"Well.. i would say had... it got betten pretty badly and im sure one of them actually broke."

He dug around in my pockets, for the record I was not okay with, and pulled out the pocket watch. She gasped and reached out for it, "Doesn't that remind you of something?"

"T-This is what tripped me!" She wrapped it around her leg to make sure it was the same feeling, she stood up angrily. "You.. you.. You! You made me trip! I could've gone pretty far! I made it so close to the finishing line! I was number 44!"

"Hey, that's a good number!"

"Y/N...."

I avoided Seros disappointed glare, "I'm sorry... I didn't mean to hit you, I meant to hit your classmates who were making fun of my class?"

"That's still evil... This world is filled with so much of it.."

"All fair in love and war right?"

"NO! It is not fair in love and war!"

"I'm sorry but there really isn't anything I can do about it... I'll aim my watch more precisely next time..." I just wanted to walk away but Sero had a tight grip on me. Half of me felt bad and the other half of me wanted to sucker punch him in the dick.

"Oh no, you're going to do this one thing."

"I'm scared-- what is it? I can't ask my mom for any more autographs.."

"You're going to carry my friends to the next rounds so they can crush you in the competition."

"Oh....that's it?"

"That's... it?!"

"I mean-- i'll do it! Have no worries! I'll carry them all to the next round."

She grinned at me before extending an arm. I tried to grab it as best as I could, "Great, they'll come up to you before the next round starts."

She walked away and Sero released me from the tapes, I turned to him angrily and tried to punch him. He grinned and dogged all of my hits. Putting a hand to my head he kept a pretty hefty gap in between us.

"Good luck getting your team.."

"Sero i'm going to send you so far back in time---"

He flicked my forehead and walked away from me, I sat out during the minigames they had set out for everyone to play. I needed to fix the second pocket watch for the second game. I walked around and tried to find my mom in the crowd, I finally spotted her next to nejire, i'm pretty sure her game was after mine.

"Are you Y/N?" A voice tugged on my hoodie. I turned around to be met with three other people dressed in the uniform. "I'm assuming you are, you're the only one holding the pocket watch. We're here to play with you in the next rounds. My name is Tetsutetsu! My quirk is steel!"

"Nice to meet you! You have the same quirk as Kirishima, did you know?"

"Who?"

"Ah, you'll meet them later, trust me--You guys are in class 1B right?" I shook each and every one of their hands.

"Alright! Nice to meet you Y/N i'm Juzo Honenuki! My quirk is called soft, not too cool huh?" Juzo is a pale-skinned young man with angular eyes, mid-length spiked white hair. His teeth, which sit on the outside of his skin, looked so cool. He had no lips and I really wanted to poke at. I know he's one who takes good care of his teeth since it's on display 24/7.

Juzo's Quirk allows him to soften any non-living thing he touches. For example,he can soften the ground to make it similar to quicksand, hindering
movements and mobility. If Juzo makes contact again, he can undo the effect. He is also capable of swimming through softened material.

"I think its cool"

"Yosetsu Awase. Weld" Yosetsu has long black hair, spiked upwards and backward to his left, and rounded gray eyes, tilted inwards. He wears a wide, zig-zag patterned headband around his forehead, pulled down quite low, to keep his hair out of his eyes. He reminds me a lot of Ray from The Promised Neverland.

Yosetsu's Quirk gives him the ability to fuse
objects together at an atomic level, although
he needs to be touching both objects in
order to fuse them. This Quirk is effective on
both organic and inorganic material.

"How many points did you all get? I think mine was 195?"

"I got 190 and Yosetsu got 155 while Tetsutetsu got 165.." Juzo counted up his fingers before showing me a seven. "In total we got around 705 points!"

"We're going to win this!"

Midnight suddenly spoke up on the intercom. "Forty‐two of you are qualified to move on. Now, gird your loins and prepare for a Cavalry Battle! Izuku Midoriya placed first in the qualifier. He'll be worth ten million points! It's survival ofthe fittest, with a chance for those at the bottom to overthrow the top!"

"Who's going to be at the top?" Juzo asked. We stopped and questioned whose quirk would be best for this situation. I need two hands for my quirk and I can't really use it if I'm holding onto someone else's legs... However Tetsutetsu also needs his body to use his quirk--

"Up you go, Y/N." I felt someone place their hands under my armpits and I was lifted up into the air. I landed on a pair of hands and Tetsutetsu moved to the front. "Bend down a little so I can tie the headband around your head."

"So....i'm leading the group right?"

"Yeah, don't mess up." Yosetsu grumbled. I could tell he's still upset that I took his friend out of the running.... Sighing we practiced going around in circles. We walked past Bakugou's team and he glared at me, our eyes made contact and he looked down at my team.

"Having fun?"

"I would watch it if i were you." I narrowed my eyes down to Sero who was on his right side, he waved at me and I tried to kick him. "I'm aiming to take gorilla tape down over there."

"Ooo I'm so scared." He mocked me, and I went in for another kick.

Yosetsu gripped onto my shoe and shook me harshly, "Stop. Save it for on the field, Y/N."

"Yeah, Y/N, save it for on the field!" Sero mocked me, I tried to jump off of the cavalry formation. Tetsutetsu grabbed my legs and started to walk us away from bakugou's group

"Learn to control your temper.... It's not a good look for you Y/N. He's just messing with you."

'I rolled my eyes. Who knew that Sero was this devious, I guess he does hang out with Kamanari and Mineta... they have to have something in common.'

"We're about to start, are you guys ready?" I asked my group.

"Mhm.."

"Y-Yeah!"

"WERE GOING TO KICK ASS!"

"Hell yeah Tetsutetsu!" The alarm went off and immediately my group fell back in line. We decided to keep our 4th place win and stay hidden, defensive strategy. We passed by other groups and tried not to get our headband taken, we didn't try to take others headbands unless they were going for ours. I swung the watch in hand just for protection. We watched other teams deal it out, mainly deku and bakugou.

"Don't think for a second you're safe." I screeched as a hand was coming forwards. We jumped back to be met with the Minetas team. He was in the protective bubble of Shoji. We tried to make our way out of their grasp but it was no use, they were aiming to take us down. Fedup, I hit their arm with my hand and they froze in place. Mineta fell out of the bubble. Before he could fall all the way, Juzo grabbed the headband and we sprinted off.

Tsu, who was in the bubble as well, reached out to catch her teammate. He unfroze and started to cry about how he blew it and now didn't have a headband. He passed the headband up to me, 'heh 420...nice."

"Good job stealing from your classmates... they are going to be fucking pissed with you." Yosetsu snickered.

"Yeah yeah, they are angry with me. At this point who isn't?" I rolled my eyes as I gripped the headband. I tied it around my neck and started to stretch, this bumped up our points and we went up a couple of spots. All we needed to do was make it to the net rounds, not come in first place.

"This just means there's nothing left to lose!" We heard his voice blaze, "Shoji! Full‐on attack mode! We'll use all our powers to steal the points from those two teams!"

"RUN RUN RUN!" I shouted as the big arm man raced after us. The game's only halfway over and we had someone already gunning for us. We can't stop now.... "Todorokis going to turn the ground to ice after Kamanari uses his quirk to stun us... i'm going to nee--"

"Already on it." Juzo warmed the floor under us and we stayed still as our classmates suddenly shot up bright like a glowstick. They twitched and turned as Todoroki shot ice through the ground. Juzo made a path for us to continue running and I could see Todoroki glare at me, we effectively dodged his attack. I blew him a kiss just to spite him.

"Will you look at that! He's stopped all those teams cold in their tracks!" Present Mic shouted.

"But only after Kaminari had immobilized the students using his electricity. In the obstacle course, he was surprised by how many people avoided his attack. He's adapting his strategy. However he keeps missing one team-- or one player."

"Nice commentary!" Todoroki ignored my group and made ways to steal other groups' headbands. We could have done the same but as soon as Todoroki attacked they bounced back into action. "With time almost up, Team Todoroki is in first place with four headbands. Despite their best efforts, Team Midoriya has fallen to the bottom! Will these be the top four teams that move on to the next round?"

Todoroki team started racing after us. I quickly tapped tetsutetsu head to warn him about the team running at us. He immediately ran left and Juzo messed with the floor under us.

"Now, look at this." Aizawas voice played over the intercom. I was too focused on running away from Todoroki team to do anything. " Class 1‐B's strategy was a reasonable one, but there's one thing they forgot to consider..." I ducked under someone's arm, and we rushed into Monoma and Bakugou's team... 'crap this isn't looking too good....' "Class 1‐B didn't take into account Bakugo's overwhelming tenacity."

"Bakugo is a merciless force! Do you see that mosh pit Y/N got their team into while running away from Todoroki. He effectively pushed the team in second place into danger. Anything could happen and I can't wait to watch the replay!" Prenet mic shouted.

"Watch out, make sure not to get hit with the watch...." I warned them. I started to spin it around in a circle and immediately I hit half of my opponents.

Todorokis eyes flashed with fear, "Backup! Back up---"

Deku went in for the kill as the boy with two quirks was frozen. Stealing a headband, his team ran away. He flashed me a big thumbs up as a thank you, I quickly ducked unter hands and drove out of the circle. Trying to not trip over frozen bodies, we safely made it out.

"With just 11 seconds left and the help of Y/N's team, Team Midoriya's back in the game! Did anyone see how fast they were swinging that watch, if they weren't careful they could have caused someone a concussion. It looks like they're only frozen temporarily."

"Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!" Juzo steared the team away from the ongoing mosh pit. We almost fell apart when the buzzer sounded.

"Time's up! And with that, the second round is officially over!"

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