"ARE YOU ALL READY FOR THIS FIGHT?! THIS ONE'S A FAMILY FUED!" Present Mic announced. "ON ONE SIDE OF THE L/N TREE, WE HAVE THE CRAZY KID WITH THE CRAZY WATCH! HE MAY BE IN A 'LOWER CLASS', BUT HE'S MAKING A BIG NAME FOR HIMSELF ALREADY! HE TOOK OUT A ZERO POINTER IN THE OBSTACLE RACE AND GOT FIRST PLACE IN THE CALVARY BATTLE WITH THE REST OF TEAM MIDORIYA! IT'S Y/N L/N FROM GENERAL STUDIES!"

Y/n smirked at his cousin. Gwen smirked back as her eyes flashed pink.

"HIS FIGHT IS WITH A GIRL WHO HASN'T SHOWN OFF MUCH, AND JUST SO HAPPENS TO BE HIS COUSIN, BUT SHE'S SURPRISINGLY STRONG AS WELL! AND PINK!" Present Mic announced. "IT'S GWEN L/N FROM THE SUPPORT COURSE!"

"You ready to get your butt whooped, dweeb?" Gwen asked her cousin.

The stands were roaring loudly with cheers.

"Funny," Y/n chuckled. "I was about to say the same to you, dorkerina."

"ARE YOU READY?" Mic asked. "BEGIN!"

And with that, Gwen summoned pink energy around her hands and threw constructs at her cousin. Y/n activated his watch and slammed down on it, resulting in a flash of green light. Then the mana constructs struck their target, making a big boom and a cloud of dust and... smoke?

"HEATBLAST!"

A mighty yell blows the cloud back, revealing Y/n had transformed into Heatblast. He smirks at his cousin as his flames flicker in his hands.

"Nice," Heatblast said, "but you'll have to do better than that."

"Plan to!" Gwen stated as her hands glowed bright pink.

She created some energy ropes and sent them at the transformed teenager. Heatblast only either dodges them or fired at them with his heat. However, one sneaked up on him and grabbed his leg. The alien gets lifted up into the air and gets swung around, only for Heatblast to think quickly and shoot a fireball at Gwen. Her eyes go wide and she jumps back to avoid getting hit. This causes the ropes to vanish and Heatblast falls back to the ground.

"AND WE'RE ALREADY AT A GREAT START!" Present Mic declared. "Y/N L/N SEEMS TO BE AT A DISADVANTAGE SINCE HIS COUSIN CAN REACH HIM WITHOUT MOVING! WILL THIS BE ANOTHER QUICK MATCH?"

Heatblast pushes himself to his feet and Gwen runs at him, using her Quirk to create small platforms that let her go higher into the air. Heatblast fired at each platform, but his cousin had stepped onto a new one each time he did. Then she leaped behind him and summoned a hammer made out of mana.

"Ah, shit..." Heatblast swore before he got knocked back.

The alien grunted as he fell to the ground and looked up at his cousin. He smirked.

"Thought you didn't like using your Quirk to attack," he said.

"I always make an exception for you," Gwen smirked.

[‐‐‐‐]

Shinso: "Gwen L/n. Quirk: Aura. She can use this special energy inside her called 'mana' to create constructs she can control. If she concentrates hard enough, she can even make energy blasts. However, her power is limited to her emotions and how much mana she has inside, so she has to eat food high in sugar her body converts into mana."

[‐‐‐‐]

"Yeah, and I usually don't hit girls," Heatblast smirked before flipping to his feet. "But I always make an exception for you."

"Bring it on, then, doofus!" Gwen taunted.

"With pleasure!" Heatblast charged at his cousin.

He swung a fist at the redhead, but she brought up her hand a manifested a pink shield. A small shockwave occurred as Gwen smirked, but Heatblast only grabbed the shield and picked his cousin up with it.

"Whoa! Hey, hey!" Gwen called out before she gets thrown aside.

She nearly gets sent out of bounds, but Gwen creates a slide that catches her and sets her back on the ground.

"AN EXCELLENT MANUEVER ON GWEN L/N'S PART!" Present Mic stated. "SHE ALMOST LOST!"

"Not on my watch," Gwen stated.

"And I will with mine!" Heatblast declared as he aimed his hands at his cousin.

He shot a blast of fire at her and Gwen moved aside to dodge it. However, the flaming alien kept of shooting fireballs at Gwen who kept dodging, but each one had less and less time to react before the next one shot at her.

"Y/N L/N ISN'T GIVING HIS COUSIN ANY TIME TO BREATHE!" Present Mic declared. "OH, HOW THE TURNS TABLE!"

"You mean 'how the tables turn'?" Erasure Head asked.

"I KNOW WHAT I SAID!" Present Mic stated.

Heatblast sent another fireball at Gwen who moved aside to dodge it. However, her cousin made it explode before it made contact with anything, sending Gwen flying back.

"Crap...!" she grunted as she hit the ground.

"If you can't stand the heat, stay outta the kitchen!" Heatblast exclaimed.

[‐‐‐‐]

Shinso: "Oh, hey, another alien description. We saw this guy already, but time to properly introduce him. Alien name: Heatblast. This flaming rock humanoid can expel extreme levels of heat in condensed balls of fire or continuous streams of it. His body is hot to the touch, but we don't know the limit to his heat. L/n tried to fly as him once. Didn't end to well. Good laugh I got, though."

[‐‐‐‐]

"God, I did not miss your bad jokes," Gwen said as she stood up.

"Nah, you missed me and my jokes," Heatblast stated.

Gwen cracked a smile. "Not in the slightest."

"Then I guess it's time to get serious," Heatblast summoned balls of fire in both hands, "and turn up the heat!"

Putting both hands together, Heatblast fired a giant fireball at Gwen. Her eyes went wide and brought her glowing hands out in front of her to make a shield. The fireball made contact, making a giant explosion and a huge smoke cloud.

"HOLY COW! THAT SURE WAS SOMETHING!" Present Mic declared. "THIS IS THE THIRD TRANSFORMATION WE'VE SEEN FROM Y/N L/N, BUT WE CAN ALREADY SEE THAT HE'S SUPER STRONG! WOWZA!"

Heatblast smirked as he lowered his hands. He eyed the smoke cloud caused by his fireball, weary of what could happen next. Then Gwen shot out from the side of the smoke, both hands covered in pink light as she glared at her cousin.

"Okay, now you're so getting it!" she exclaimed.

(Artist's name in picture. Can't read it, but credit to them anyway)

"Here we go..." Heatblast mumbled.

Gwen threw two energy bolts at Heatblast who returned fire. Only one fireball connected with one energy bolt, however, and the other one went right to Heatblast. It hit him right in the chest and sent him stumbling back before fire two more fireballs at Gwen. She blocked one and dodge the other before rushing straight at her transformed cousin. Heatblast swung at her, but she slid under his arm and made a mana rope that wrapped around his leg and made him fall to his face.

Gwen then got up to her knees and aimed her glowing hands at Heatblast. She created a pink bubble around him as he got to his feet. The alien teenager looked around and punched it once, only to recoil in pain. He shakes his hand around to ease the pain.

"Ow..." he mumbles.

"IT SEEMS Y/N L/N IS IMMOBILE!" Present Mic declares. "IS THIS THE END OF HIM?"

"Seems that way," Gwen smirked.

Midnight began to raise her whip.

"Not yet," Heatblast says.

He places his hands on the dome and begins to raise the temperature of his flames. Midnight noticed this as she decided to wait to see what would happen and not end the match. Gwen also noticed this and arched a brow.

"The hell are you doing?" she asked. "You can't break my barrier, doofus."

"Try me!" Heatblast exclaimed.

He began yelling as he raised his temperature even higher, his flames growing bigger and brighter as he did so. The bubble began to heat up and crack which Gwen noticed. So she concentrated to strengthen her barrier around her cousin. However, the transformed teenager kept on yelling and raising his body heat, making more and more cracks appear in the dome like glass.

"No, no, no, no, no!" Gwen chanted.

"Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!" Heatblast chanted.

And with one final shout, Heatblast released a blast of heat and fire from out of him. The dome around him shattered and exploded with heat. The blast covered most of the arena with dust, flames, and smoke. The crowd cheered.

"HOLY COW! DID YOU SEE THAT?!" Present Mic asked. "THAT'S SOME CRAZY EXPLOSION! BUT WHO IS OUR VICTOR?"

It took a few moments, but the smoke finally cleared up to show the arena floor. It was cracked and scorched, with Heatblast at the epicenter of it all. He was panting a bit, but he smiled as the smoke cleared.

Gwen groaned and coughed a bit as she opened her eyes. She then lifted her head to look at her cousin and growled. She attempted to get up and get to her feet, ready to fight on. However...

"Gwen L/n is out-of-bounds!" Midnight cracked her whip. "Y/n L/n advances to the next round!"

Gwen stopped in shock. Then she looked around and saw that her left leg was over the boundary line. She couldn't believe it. She had lost.

The crowd cheers as Heatblast lifts his hands into the air. He laughed at his victory before noticing his cousin. He lowers his arms and crosses them.

"Hey, doofus," he greets her.

"Congrats on your win," Gwen said, shocking Heatblast. "I guess I underestimated you and that watch of yours."

"Yeah, but I guess I can say the same for you," Heatblast chuckled. "Good game?"

He offered a cooled down hand to his cousin. She looked at it before taking it.

"Good game," Gwen smiled.

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Later, it was time for the second round matches. The rest of the first round matches were kinda boring, except for the final one. It was Bakugou against Uraraka. Everyone at first thought she was just rushing at Bakugou to try and get close to float him away. However, she kept on getting sent back by Bakugou's explosions. It was like this for a few minutes before some Heroes tried to get the match to stop, only for Erasure Head to tell them off. The match went on, with everyone discovering that Uraraka had stayed low to the ground to erase gravity from them, and every time Bakugou blew her back it would tear up the arena's floor and send the debris floating into the air. Uraraka tried to send all the rocks and debris down onto her opponent like a meteor shower and then tried to get in close. However, Bakugou had blown everything away with a single huge explosion. The ash blonde ended up winning the match, ending the first round of matches.

When the second round of matches began, it was a rematch between two Hero Course students. It was Izuku Midoriya versus Shoto Todoroki. First place versus second place. In reality, it was a fight many were anticipating.

"What are you thoughts on this fight?" Shinso asked.

"Well, I don't really know a whole lot about the two. So I can't tell," Y/n tells his friend. "I haven't seen much of Midoriya's Quirk, but in the last game when he used it to swipe at Todoroki, there was this crazy pressure I felt. He also used it in his fight against you."

"Yeah," Shinso said. "It was something else."

"Then there's Todoroki. His Quirk allows him to manipulate ice, but he can also do fire," Y/n continued. "He's strong from what I've seen, but it wasn't much. It could go either way."

Shinso nodded in agreement. Then all Hell broke loose in the fight.

Todoroki had started with sending out ice at Midoriya who fought back by flicking his finger. A blast of wind pressure was resulted in this and broke the ice, sending it back while Todoroki was sent back as well. However, before he could go out-of-bounds, he made a wall of ice that caught him.

The next few minutes of the fight was the same thing. Todoroki sent out ice and Midoriya shattered it with another flick of a finger. Each one was incredibly strong, sending wind pressure forward which sent everything back. Todoroki caught himself everytime before he went out-of-bounds. Then when Todoroki went close up to freeze his opponent, only to be sent flying back when Midoriya threw a powerful punch. It shook the stadium and broke his enture arm.

"Man, did I underestimate Midoriya's strength," Y/n said.

"Dude, I could've fucking died..." Shinso was shook from Midoriya's power.

The fight went on as Midoriya hit Todoroki in the gut with a punch, but instead of being blown to bits he was just sent back. It looks like the greenette held back so he wouldn't kill his classmate. Midoriya then spoke some words to Todoroki...

"IT'S YOURS! YOUR QUIRK, NOT HIS!"

... and, after a few moments of silence and anticipation, fire started to form on Todoroki's body. He then ignited into flames, the fire rising high into the air as the crowd cheers. Then a man walked forward as he yelled. It was Endeavor.

"YES! SHOOOOTOOOOO!" he called out. "You have finally accepted your inheritance! With it, you will finally accomplish the very reason why you were born!"

Y/n and Shinso looked at the number two Hero in confusion. However, Todoroki said nothing in response to his father as a tear ran down his cheek. He then looked back at Midoriya and said a few words before his opponent grinned. He then activated his Quirk, ripping apart his gym uniform as Todoroki raised his flames and summoned his ice.

Midnight used her Quirk and Cemontoss used to his to make a barrier between the two opponents.

Midoriya leaped forward as he reached his hand forward. Todoroki stayed where he was as he raised his hand up and aimed it at his opponent. Midoriya hit the barriers, along with Todoroki's powers, and a huge explosion rocked the earth. Smoke and dust was everywhere as everyone awaited for the announcement of who won. Then the smoke cleared, revealing that Todoroki was still standing with half his top burnt away and showing that Midoriya was on the floor.

Todoroki had won.

Midoriya had lost.

Y/n later made his way down a hallway in the stadium. The fights have been put on hold so the stadium could be cleaned and fixed up. So Y/n decided to give a quick visit to Midoriya to see how he was holding up. However, when he arrived outside the temporary nurse's office, the alien watch wielder was shocked to see Uraraka, Iida, Asui, and Mineta waiting outside the door.

"Whoa! Hey!" Y/n cried out. "What are you all doing here?"

Everyone turned to Y/n in confusion, but Uraraka was happy to see him. She beamed a smile at him.

"L/n! What are you doing here?" she asked.

"Oh. I, uh, wanted to check up on Midoriya," Y/n admitted. "That fight was pretty gnarly."

"Tell me about it!" Uraraka exclaimed. "We're all him to see him, too."

"Uraraka's right," Asui nodded. "You're Y/n L/n, yes? You're Quirk is quite interesting."

"Uh, thanks," Y/n scratched his arm. "However, maybe we should talk later and see Midoriya?"

"Right!" Iida called out. "Everyone, let's enter the nurse's office in a neat and orderly fashion so we don't disrupt--"

"MIDORIYA!" the Hero Course students called out, cutting off their class representative as they barge into the nurse's office.

"Nevermind..." Iida sighed.

Y/n walked up to him and patted his arm. "Good effort."

He then walked into the nurse's office with Iida as they greeted Midoriya who was in a medical bed. Recovery Girl was there as well, along with a man in a suit and blonde hair. Midoriya greeted his classbefore his eyes landed on his former teammate.

"L/n...?" he questioned. "What are you doing here?"

"I came here to check on you and see how you were doing," Y/n stated. "Just like everyone else."

"Shouldn't you all be watching the matches?" Midoriya asked.

"The stage was far too damaged," Iida informs. "They're taking a quick break to repair it now."

"That match was the scariest thing I've seen in my entire life, Midoriya," Mineta shakes. "What Pro's gonna want a sidekick that hurts himself?"

Asui slaps her classmate with her tongue. "Now you're just rubbing in salt."

"Hey, I'm just speaking the truth!" Mineta defends.

"You all are much too noisy!" Recovery Girl states as she tries to push the students out. "I know you're worried, but I've got to focus on surgery now."

Everyone was shocked to hear this. "SURGERY?!"

"Go on," Recovery Girl says. "Get!"

Uraraka spoke up. "But--"

"Surgery's a big deal isn't it?" Mineta asked.

"Will his wounds be healed?" Iida asked.

"Will he be okay?" Y/n asked.

"Don't worry, just leave me to it," Recovery Girl says.

Asui lets out a sad ribbit and leaves the nurse's office with her classmates and Y/n. Said alien watch wielder was the last one out before the door was closed in his face. He sighed a bit and turned to the 1A students.

"I guess we should head back, yeah?" he says. "Midoriya should be fine in Recovery Girl's hands."

"Yes, we should," Iida nodded. "But I can't help but be worried. He's never hurt himself like that before."

"Wait, you mean this has happened before?" Y/n asked in shock.

"A few times," Asui ribbits. "His Quirk is kinda odd. Super strong, though."

"W-well, we shouldn't be worried," Uraraka states. "Deku's gonna be fine."

Everyone looks at her before nodding. The class 1A students then walk off, leaving Y/n at the nurse's office. The General Studies student looked back at the closed door of the temporary nurse's office. He could hear the muffled sound of a conversation. He tried to fight his curiosity, but he failed and ended up pressing his ear against the door.

"You got Todoroki to realize something very important about himself," a man's voice said. Probably the man in the suit.

"I guess so," Midoriya choked. "In his first match, he looked so sad. I was trying to figure out why when I should've been focused on the match. I made a bigger mistake, though."

Y/n grew even more curious. He listened intently.

"Whenever we were fighting... I was just so... so frustrated," Y/n heard Midoriya state. "I couldn't see the bigger picture. Or what it would take to to win. I'm sorry..."

There was a beat of silence. Y/n was about to leave, but the blonde man spoke again.

"It's true that the match didn't go how we wanted it to, and realizing where you went wrong won't change that," the man said. "But listen. Meddling where you don't technically have to, is the essence of being a Hero."

Y/n heard his former teammate whimper and sniffle. Then some footsteps walked away from the door, and Y/n realized he was still pressed against the door. It took him a moment and a released breath, but he pushed himself from the door and began to walk away.

As he made his way down the hallway, he recalled what he had heard inside the nurse's office. The things the man inside had said was on his mind still.

"The essence of a Hero..." he spoke under his breath.

●●●

The crowd cheers as the first match of the second round began. The stadium had been fixed up since Midoriya and Todoroki's fight, and it was the next fight with Iida against Shiozaki. It was a fast fight, with Iida using his Recipro Burst to push his opponent out-of-bounds.

The came Y/n's second fight. It was him against Mina Ashido, the pink girl with horns that could throw acid from her hands.

"ARE YOU ALL READY FOR THIS NEXT FIGHT? IT'S THE WATCH KID WITH THE FUNKY TRANSFORMATIONS, Y/N L/N FROM GENERAL STUDIES!" Present Mic announced.

Y/n cracked his knuckles as he grinned.

"Wassup, pinky?" he asked. "Ready to go down?"

"Oh, I'm not the one going down, today," Ashido smirked. "You are!"

"VERUS... THE PINK DRAGON THAT SPITS ACID INSTEAD OF FIRE, MINA ASHIDO FROM THE HERO COURSE!" Present Mic shouted. "READY? BEGIN!"

The crowd roars as Ashido rushed forward, skating along the ground with her acid.

"I'm gonna end this quick!" she announces.

"Want quick?" Y/n asked. "I got quick!"

Y/n activated his watch and spun it around for pizazz. Then he slammed down the dial, engulfing himself in green light.

When the light faded, Ashido stopped in shock. Her opponent was gone.

"What the...?" she began to question.

"HUH?! A VANISHING TRICK?" Present Mic questions. "DID Y/N L/N JUST BAIL?!"

"I wouldn't say I... bailed," an ethereal voice said.

Ashido felt the hair on the back on her neck stand on end. A cold chill ran down her spine as she suddenly shivered from... fear? Why was she suddenly scared?

"Now, this guy isn't exactly who I wanted," the voice came from behind Ashido this time, "but I'll win either way."

Ashido slowly turned around to see who spoke, and her pink skin turned pale. She gasped in fright at what she saw and began to back away in fear.

"WHOA! HEY! THAT'S SOME NIGHTMARE FUEL RIGHT THERE!"

"G-g-g-ghost!" Ashido cried out, pointing at her opponent.

The alien smiled. "F-f-f-freak!"

Ashido was shaking. In front of her was a phantom/ghost-like creature with a gaseous appearance and claw-like hands, and grey skin with black lines running all over him. Black and white tendrils were wrapped around where his torso would be and broken shackles around his wrists with a single purple eye protruding from a black line on his head. The grey hourglass symbol was the left side of his chest with a lock connected to it.

(Art by Fiqllency on DeviantArt. Credit to them)

"WAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!" Ashido cried out in fear.

She began hurling acid at her opponent, only for her attacks to go through him. Ghostfreak then chuckled as he rubbed his hands together.

"ASHIDO'S ATTACKS ARE USELESS AGAINST THIS NEW TRANSFORMATION!" Present Mic announces. "HAS THE MATCH ALREADY BEEN DECIDED?!"

"I haven't used this alien much, so let's see what we can do!" Ghostfreak announced as he rushed forward at his opponent.

"ST-STAY AWAY!" Ashidp ordered.

However, Ghostfreak didn't listen as he plunged right into the 1A student's body. Ashido arches her back a bit as she chokes and gags. Then she returns to her normal composure, but she was no longer in control. Her now purple eyes showed that it was now Ghostfreak in control.

"Wow! Man, possession is weird," Ghostfreak says with Ashido's mouth and voice. "But now what should I do?"

"WHAT JUST HAPPENED?" Present Mic asked. "DID ASHIDO JUST GET POSSESSED BY L/N?!"

"Obviously," Erasure Head says.

"Ooh-hoo! I always wanted to do this to Gwen, but Ashido will do," Ashido grinned at Ghostfreak's will.

She then started to do the Chicken Dance, with Ghostfreak making Ashido make the song with her own voice. The entire crowd laughed, along with some Pro Heroes and even her classmates.

"Bahda-bahda-bahda-bah! Bahda-bahda-bahda-bah!" Ashido sang and began clapping. "Bahda-bahda-da-da-da-da-da!"

"THIS IS HILARIOUS! L/N IS CONTROLLING ASHIDO LIKE A PUPPET AND GIVING US ALL A SHOW!"

Ghostfreak started making Ashido do cartwheels around the ring, making sure to stay inside. He wanted to mess with his opponent a little more.

"Whoa, freaky..." Kaminari mumbles. "How many transformations does that guy got?"

"Possession and humiliation?" Kirishima crossed his arms. "So un-manly. But still super funny, though."

"Heheh. Looks we all know who you're next opponent is, Bakugou," Sero tells his classmate.

"Shut it, elbows," Bakugou tells his classmate. "I'll send him to Hell, just like everyone else."

"Yeah, but he's got a lot of strong powers from we've seen so far," Kyoka states. "That ball guy from the obstacle race, the big red guy with four arms from the calvary battle, and that fire guy from his first fight. They're all super strong."

"What did I just say?!" Bakugou asked. "I'LL KILL EVERY TRANSFORMATION HE SENDS MY WAY! HE'S JUST SOME LAME EXTRA UNDERCLASSMAN! HOW MUCH TROUBLE CAN HE BE?!"

"Lots, probably," Uraraka says.

Bakugou scoffs at this.

Back down at the ring, Ashido was spinning in the air and landed perfectly on her feet. Ghostfreak looked at his puppet with a smile on his face.

"Man, this girl is so cool!" his grin turned malicious. "But no more playtime."

Ghostfreak closed Ashido's eyes for a moment before they open again. The right eye was still purple, but the other was once again yellow. Ashido was now kind of in control again.

"Wha--? Hey!" she immediately became angry. "Get outta my body! That's so creepy!"

"That's the point," Ghostfreak stated.

"Huh?" Ashdio questioned as her right arm lifted up with a balled fist. "Oh... OOF!"

Ashido started to punch herself in the face, but it was really Ghostfreak's handiwork. And as he punched, Ashido slowly started to back up towards the boundary lines.

"Hey! Ow! Stop it!" she ordered. She punches herself again. "That one hurt!"

"Stop hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself," Ghostfreak laughed. "Stop hitting yourself."

"ASHIDO IS RELENTLESSLY HITTING HERSELF!" Present Mic snickered a bit. "BUT IS SHE HITTING L/N, OR IS L/N HITTING HER?!"

"Stop hitting yourself," Ghostfreak continued.

"Stop! That's super annoying!" Ashido declared.

"As you wish," Ghostfreak laughed a bit.

Suddenly, Ashido's right leg fell from underneath her and she fell to the ground. She grunted as she hit the concrete and her opponent flew out of her body, giving her full control of herself again.

"I win," he stated.

"Wha--?" Ashido questioned.

"Mina Ashido is out-of-bounds!" Midnight announced. "Y/n L/n advances to the next round!"

"What?!" Ashido questioned as she pushed herself up.

She looked to the side and saw that her head had went passed the boundary line. She groaned and whined as she lied back on the ground.

"Dammit..." she whined.

"Another win in the bag for me," Ghostfreak grinned under his skin and turned away, "... meatbag."

He floats away, leaving Ashido on the ground. He floats over into the tunnel with Shinso watching him, his eyes narrowed. He didn't trust the alien transformation one bit.

Ghostfreak floated through the tunnel as he made his way back up to his class' spot in the stands. However, Gwen was there waiting for him.

"Hey, doofus," she greeted her cousin. "Congrats on winning."

Ghostfreak said nothing in response. He just simply passed by Y/n's cousin and made his way down the hallway. Gwen stood there in shock for a moment before turning back to the alien.

"Hey! I was talking to you, dweeb!" she called out. "Answer me!"

Ghostfreak didn't respond. He only glanced back at Gwen for a moment before floating out of view. The redhead growled as she gritted her teeth.

"Come back here, Y/n!" she ran after him. "I'm talking to--... you?"

However when she turned the corner Ghostfreak took, she stopped. Gwen was shocked. Her transformed cousin was gone.

"Where did he...?"

"Oh, hey! You must be Gwen L/n, right?"

"Huh?" Gwen turned to see Kirishima coming down the other side of the hallway. "Oh, yeah. That's me. Kirishima, yeah? Good fight you had last round."

"Thanks! Same to you," Kirishima grinned. "I'm up against Bakugou this time."

"The angry pomeranian?" Gwen asked.

Kirishima laughed at this. "Yeah, I guess so."

"He's pretty scary," Gwen states. "But I've seen scarier."

"Heheh. Don't let him hear you say that," the shark-toother student tells the Support Course student. "He'll try to prove you wrong. Probably in the most dangerous way."

"I'll keep that in mind," the mana-manipulator smiles. "Good luck."

"Thanks," Kirishima begins to walk forward. "I might need it."

Gwen watches the Hero Course student walk off to the ring to start his fight with his classmate. She then sighed as she walked away back to her class' spot in the stands. She'll figure out what's going on with her cousin later. She wanted to watch the rest of the fights of the Sports Festival.

At the ring outside, Kirishima and Bakugou stood in front of each other. The redhead cracked his knuckles as the ash blonde popped some small explosions in his palms.

"Get ready lose, Bakugou," Kirishima smirks, "'cause I'm the one winning this."

"I'm gonna send you to Hell," Bakugou smirked as well.

"ARE YOU ALL READY?!" Present Mic asked. "FIGHT!"

And the two rushed each other, ready to win this fight.