With bolts of pink lightning around her, Uraraka moved forward with a speed that made the kind of movement she showed when fighting him seem, if not slow, far less crisp and unpolished.
...
Katsuki however, did not wait for her to engage in a fisticuffs brawl.
With an explosion from his left hand, he shot up and into the sky, and as Uraraka's hand slammed where his stomach had just been he was 6 meters above.
Then he brought both hands up over his head, a couple of crackles dancing along his fingers, then he brought them down towards Uraraka, an explosion engulfing the entire section of the arena, hitting Uraraka head-on.
Izuku, who had been sitting as he watched, shot up into a standing position, both hands on the railing, accidentally breaking his chair seat with the massive force he used as he sprang up.
He heard mutterings of shocked people all around, but he ignored them as his eyes watched the arena, desperately looking where Uraraka had been.
There was still smoke from the explosion covering the ground.
Bakugou suddenly made another explosion with his fist, making him yet to the side.
Izuku blinked. It looked like he had dodged something, but if so, Izuku hadn't seen what.
As the smoke cleared below, he dodged again, another explosion in his hand.
Then a third time.
This time though, as he dodged, something new happened, and something, that was invisible to the naked eye slammed into him from below.
He almost fell straight down, but he managed an emergency landing, cushioning his fall with two explosions.
As the smoke from the massive explosion cleared completely, Uraraka stepped out of it, towards Katsuki.
The explosion hadn't been without effect. For one, her school uniform was in complete tatters, looking like it was about to fall to pieces all over. The entire sipper on the front had been ripped away, along with pretty much the entire front of her jacket, though thankfully for her modesty, the upper part of her black undershirt was still intact, with only her stomach being visible.
Her pants were similarly in tatters, though with them, it looked more like she had been hit by a grenade, with a ton of holes that looked like they had come from shrapnel. From the rocks thrown about from the explosion, Izuku realized.
Bodily vise though, she at first seemed rather unharmed, other than singed hair, and a ton of scorch marks.
Then Izuku noted that she had blood dripping from one ear. The explosion had damaged her ears at the very least.
That was probably why she seemed in excruciating pain, judging by her expression as she stepped forward.
Katsuki didn't seem to be in much better shape, hunched forward where he stood, clearly in massive pain.
"What just happened? What was Bakugou hit by!?" Mineta asked from behind in a frantic tone.
Izuku opened his mouth to answer, only to realize he wasn't entirely sure.
Mina, however, had caught what he hadn't.
"She threw stones at him. Small ones, at massive speeds, probably a result from the explosion hitting the arena floor."
She stepped up besides Izuku, though unlike him, she didn't lean out over the railing.
"Then, when she saw she wasn't hitting him with those, she threw one of them as a distraction and hit him with that technique she used in the cavalry battle. Seems to have been way more powerful this time, though."
That it had. When she had hit him with that explosion during the cavalry battle, it had been like he had collided with something in the air. This time, it looked like she had broken several of his ribs if that posture was anything to go by.
Then suddenly, both his hands shot up, their palms pointing towards Uraraka who was maybe 5 meters away.
With a massive burst of speed and pink bolts, she moved from the spot she had been, to the corner of the ring behind Bakugou, avoiding an explosion of a magnitude similar to the previous one.
She was about to attack when suddenly she froze as Katsuki slammed backwards from the force of the explosion, his legs suddenly no longer bracing for the impact, and he hit the ground unconscious.
It was over so suddenly that it took a moment before everyone realized it.
"Katsuki Bakugou is unable to continue, Winner is Uraraka Ochako." Midnight said calmly, as she quickly went over to the unconscious boy, and lifted him up. She carried him to the side where a carrier speedily came.
"What… What just…"
-One of his broken ribs probably pierced a lung when he fired off that second explosion. The git really is a glass Cannon of the highest caliber. Frighteningly high destructive power, but man, has no defensive power at all.-
As he was carted off, however, Izuku did not focus on Katsuki, but instead of Uraraka, who stumbled her way out of the arena, both hands clutched around her bleeding ears.
...
It was amazing how Izuku had been so worried about his fight with Todoroki, only for all that worry to seemingly dissipate, as he instead only worried about Uraraka instead.
He really, really wanted to go check up on her at the infirmary. To hear how badly she was hurt by the explosion.
Instead, he was heading down towards the entrance, towards the arena where he was going to fight the boy with the highest potential for sheer destruction in class 1-A. The boy who could call forth the flames.
And Izuku just couldn't focus on any of it. All his thoughts were instead on Uraraka, worried that the explosion had permanently damaged her ears.
He was so out of it, that he didn't even feel it as he walked through the corridors, and someone was reaching the corner just in front of him, until as he walked, he crashed right into a massive figure, well over two meters tall.
"Oh, sorry!" He squeaked out. Then he jumped back and winced as he realized his leg was touching fire, a sharp sting of pain shooting through his body. He hastily clapped on the part of his leg that had touched the flame, and he put it out.
"Ah, there you are." Said a deep, hard voice.
Izuku blinked at that voice. He knew who it was, of course, he was a giant Hero nerd, and it would have been inconceivable that he didn't recognize the man before him.
Izuku swallowed, as he stared at the person before him.
Over two meters tall, powerfully built with muscles so well built they seemed on the verge of splitting the dark blue material his skin-tight suit was made off apart. His hair was a dark red, complemented by a beard of flames, a mask of fire also adorning most of his face like a mask.
His suit had flame running through it in lines, his boots practically looking like they were made of the stuff.
Roughly 4-5 times Izuku's body mass, the towering figure in front of him was one of the most impressive heroes in Japanese history. A man who held the distinction of having solved more criminal cases than any other person in the history of the human race!
Todorki Enji. Endeavour. The number two hero of Japan. Todoroki Shotou's dad.
He was an incredibly intimidating sight, looking more like a bear on fire than a man.
Yet as he stared at him, it wasn't the build or the fire he instinctually feared so much that struck Izuku speechless.
No, the thing that did that was his eyes.
Endeavor had a presence, an aura of intimidation, which seemed to be permeating the very air around him.
Yet it was those eyes that struck Izuku so hard.
Enji Todoroki had clear blue eyes, which seemed so utterly, and completely without anything that could be taken as anything that even resembled anything a hero should be. They weren't compassionate, nor kind, nor friendly in any way. They were two blue holes of anger that were staring down at him.
They were the same kind of blue as All Might, but they could not have been any different.
At that moment, Izuku couldn't help but think of the Villains he had faced so far in his life. Rhino and Tel.
Somehow, both of them had had more life and humanity in their eyes than this man did.
He swallowed.
Venom appeared on his shoulder and bared his teeth against the man covered in flames.
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