Spacetime Anomaly: MHA Fanfic

Chapter 9.4: Izuku's Battle Trial

Thus, by the time All Might initiated the start of his round of Battle Training, Izuku had figured out a rather cheeky plan with his new-found technique. With a siren indicating for the round to start, at the building's entrance, only Hagakure could be spotted; and that was only because she was still wearing her gloves and boots. However, to those watching alongside All Might in the building's bas.e.m.e.nt through the various cameras that littered the building and its surroundings, confusion began to spread as Hagakure could be seen taking off her gloves and boots and all traces of her existence visibly extinguished.

Izuku was nowhere to be seen and for the next couple minutes, nothing apparently happened. However, by the fourth minute into the first round, the silent intercom systems that both the heroes and villain team had received prior to them separating from the class suddenly came to life as Todoroki calmly whispered, "I've found Hagakure sneaking around by herself in the second floor."

Before the round began, Momo and Todoroki had decided on letting Todoroki wander the building's lower levels while Momo stayed with the bombs and rigged dozens of traps within the room. However, before letting Todoroki leave to scout for the heroes, Momo created two sets of multipurpose goggles that would allow him to spot Hagakure through infrared sensors. Suddenly finding a bright red signature in the otherwise black and blue world shown through his goggles, Todoroki knew he found Hagakure.

However, before he could even initiate an attack, he suddenly found himself lying on the floor, bound tightly by several layers of capture tape. In the next moment, everyone was startled to hear All Might's bombing voice announce, "Todoroki has been captured!"

He heard Izuku faintly whisper, "sorry," before the shock of it all settled into his face. Had he just now lost and before he got a chance, too? It was inconceivable… Izuku had taken advantage of Todoroki's lack of preparation and knowledge to approach him from behind before using Hagakure as bait to capture him.

For the next couple minutes, an eerie silence pervaded the building once more as Izuku and Hagakure made their way up to the fifth floor. Izuku had used Spatial Barriers to isolate all sound from his footsteps, but Hagakure had to make do with a special walking technique to remain stealthy.

Eventually though, the two made it up to the fifth and final floor, but since more than enough time passed for Momo to rig the room up with dozens of traps, Izuku had to discuss a plan with Hagakure before making their final push room. In the end, their strategy was simply to push through with overwhelming power and make us of the confusion Momo would be put under after finding out Izuku could turn invisible as well.

With a plan created, Izuku flew out to the roof through a window and on his mark Hagakure would burst through from the door. For a couple of seconds, nothing seemed to happen, before suddenly Momo noticed that sunlight started pouring in from the ceiling. Izuku had just finished setting up his entry point as he used spatial tears to carve out a square into the roof to enter the building from above.

However, his mark to prompt Hagakure into action only came afterward as he smashed into the room and instantly used a significant amount of his gravitational power to jam Momo's traps. Hearing the resulting crashing noise Izuku's entrance made, Hagakure entered the room and shot towards the bomb after spotting it.

Momo quickly recovered from the ambush, sending a staff strike right at Hagakure's iridescent glowing figure which she saw through her infrared goggles. Only for Izuku to suddenly materialize out of space right before her, deflecting the strike by applying soft pressure to the staff at an adjacent angle. As all this happened within a fraction of a second, turrets Momo had created beforehand and spread at the four corners of the room suddenly activate, sending a hailstorm of rubber bullets at both Izuku and Hagakure's as they too had infrared sensors…

Eyes narrowed, Izuku's eyes flashed with cyan as his attention was momentarily focused on the turrets. He used even more gravitational power to catch the bullets before they could hurt either himself or Hagakure and within the second, he used the turret's ammo against itself with the exertion of gravity.

The turrets were all instantly destroyed along with chunks of the wall they were attached to as Izuku overshot how much power he needed to use. But since he couldn't focus on both the turrets and Momo at once, he took a kick to the gut; not a light one, either… As he was knocked back, Momo pulled out a pistol already loaded with a magazine of rubber bullets. But before she could shoot at Hagakure, Izuku teleported behind her arms already in position restrain Momo; or at the very least block or disrupt her aim.

However, before Izuku could get his hands on her, Hagakure had already made it to the bomb. The sound of a siren blaring caused everyone to stop before All Might stated, "The bomb has been captured! The Hero Team wins!"

…

After freeing Todoroki from the capture tape he used to take the boy out of the Battle Trial, Izuku walked alongside his three peers to the bas.e.m.e.nt where they would be graded. Of course, with Hagakure done for the day, Izuku fervently pressed her to take one of his extra set of clothes so that she may be clothed at least until they changed back to their formal uniforms. Everyone seemed to think a bit more of him after seeing him refuse to continue looking in her direction until she properly clothed herself.

Still, the four of them needed to have their Battle Trial evaluated, so All Might began the process by saying, "I'm sure we can all agree that young Midoriya is the MVP for that round, no?"

After raising his hand and being called on, Kirishima asked, "But didn't the Heroes win because Hagakure was the one to capture the bomb?"

"Good question, young Kirishima! Doesn't anyone know why I think I Midoriya should take the most credit?"

Several hands were raised, but because he was the fastest to do so, Iida was called on. He said, "I believe Midoriya-san overall performance from devising a plan to acting in accordance with Hagakure-san despite their… unfortunate circ.u.mstances… more than carry his efforts above Hagakure-san. Though if I may be allowed to say, I also think we should appreciate how wonderfully Hagakure-san managed to carry out her roles on the Hero Team."

Without being called on, Kaminari added, "Definitely. Acting as both the decoy to capture Todoroki and the vanguard to capture the bomb was totally pro-tier effort, especially with Yaoyorozu's friggin turrets shooting at her!"

Sero also spoke within being called, saying, "Too bad for the Villain Team, though… Todoroki couldn't even fight back against Midoriya's sneaky invisibility trick and Yaoyorozu couldn't have prepared enough for a two-on-one assault."

Iida, drawing from Sero's comment moved to reproach Izuku, saying, "I agree with Sero-san. Midoriya-san, that was very unsportsmanlike conduct to trick your peers with an ability we never knew you had."

All Might cut in to say, "Now, now, young Iida. This was meant to simulate a real confrontation between heroes and villains. You can't expect to know all of your opponent's abilities."

"Right, what he said," said Mina, before she asked Izuku, "though I don't really understand why you even bothered with all that extra work. Couldn't you have just teleported the bomb over to your side?"

"He can teleport things other than himself, too?!" Kaminari beamed.

"It was too risky since it was both too far away even if I stood right above it from the ceiling and it was too big. It might have been alright, but there was a chance my teleportation would misfire and the bomb would be damaged or my position would be given away."

"Besides," Izuku continued as he turned to face Momo, "With all the traps Yaoyorozu-san set up, if our ambush failed as a result of misfiring, we would have had an even slimmer chance at capturing the bomb. You all might have thought I handled everything effortlessly, but keeping the dozen or so traps around myself and Hagakure-san at bay, along with capturing and firing back bullets at the turrets, made me near my output limit of mental power. I couldn't even keep up my warping of the space around me to stay invisible and have enough strength to fend Yaoyorozu-san off for those couple seconds."