"Qualifier's 1st placer Mikami Takeo! Appointed points: Ten Million!!!"
Midnight just announced the 2nd round. It was a cavalry battle, and the goal it to steal points from each other while protecting your own points.
Being the first placer, Takeo got 10 million points right from that start. Surprisingly, the 42 people that finished the race wanted to team up with him, the complete opposite of what the staff of UA was intending, which is for everyone to target the first place.
Only 2 people didn't want him, Bakugo and Todoroki as always.
Takeo scanned through all the people screaming at him, trying to persuade him to join their team or wanting to join his team. He picked 3 people for no particular reason: Midoriya Izuku, Uraraka Ochaco, and Hatsume Mei. {A/N: I'm toootally not picking them cuz I have no ideas.... (° ͜ʖ °)}
Midoriya tried to convince Iida to join them but refused, saying that he wants to beat Izuku as one of his rivals, and Takeo, the strongest among them.
The cavalry battle is about to start. Crowds cheering and everyone trying to guess what the 1st placer is going to do.
The 3 people Takeo picked lifted him up, the 10 million points bandana on his neck.
"Hey Hey Mikami-san. We in the support course make tools and gadgets to help heroes on their missions. I've been very curious about your energy and I think my baby can be of use."
Hatsume handed Takeo a capsule the size of a palm. It was sleek and had a glass-like material on the side.
"What is this?"
"Put your energy inside!"
Years of research on Takeo's energy have allowed scientists to finally scratch the surface of it. So the data about his energy is spread across all the teachers handling the support class and curious students naturally read the data about him.
Following the girl's introductions he put a sliver of his energy inside the device and the glass-like material lit up, indicating that it's full.
"It's still a prototype but it's meant to be a grenade that uses your energy for combustion!"
The grenade suddenly vibrated. Takeo immediately put up a barrier around it and the grenade exploded.
"Hmmm... it is still a prototype but I'll definitely make this baby a working product!"
"Doesn't matter, it's starting." Takeo murmured.
Midnight announced the start of the cavalry battle. All teams rushed off against each other trying to steal their points. Some went towards Takeo's team, hoping to have a chance to steal that sweet 10 million points.
When suddenly a glowing violet barrier surrounded their team. Protecting them from all the threats.
All the teams that were seduced by the 10 million points were desperate, but couldn't even scratch the barrier.
"Honestly... this feels like cheating..." Uraraka commented.
The teams eventually gave up their pursuit and went against others to have a chance of at least getting 2nd place.
"DAMN YOU FLOATY BASTARD!!!!"
Bakugo flew in the air, using his explosions to propel himself. Setting his sights on Takeo he immediately used his ultimate move, full aware of the barrier's durability.
"HOWITZER IMPAAAAAACT!!"
His momentum from the high speed rotations adding more power for one final explosion hit the barrier. Alas, it only cracked a little.
"Hoh? Interesting. That attack can crack a 5% barrier huh?" Takeo repaired the crack almost instantly.
"DAAAAAMMMMMIIIITTTT!!!"
Tape suddenly stuck onto Bakugo and pulled him back to his team.
"Bakugo! We got no hope in getting number 1! Mikami's too strong, let's at least aim for 2nd place." Kirishima tried to persuade Bakugo.
"Dammit! THIS IS THE LAST TIME THIS IS GONNA HAPPEN!!! I SWEAR I'LL BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF YOU!! YOU FLOATY BASTARD!!!" Bakugo cursed at Takeo and went to target a different team.
Takeo and co. just stayed there, safe inside the barrier while they watched the battles happening outside. Quirks being used everywhere. Big explosions coming from Bakugo and large glaciers manifesting coming from Todoroki.
This continued on until the timer reached 0.
"TIIIIIIIIIIIIMMMMEEEEE OOOOOVEEEEERRRRRR!!!" Present Mic, with his unnatural, neverending enthusiasm announced that the Cavalry Battle is over.
The 1st placers are obviously Takeo's team. 2nd Place is Todoroki's team, 3rd place is Bakugo's team and 4th is Team Shinso, the person that has the hypnotism quirk.
The 2nd event ended, leaving the audience even more excited for the final event of the championship: The Tournament.
Todoroki went towards Midoriya." I want to talk to you.... privately."
Takeo noticed them followed them while invisible and levitating so he wouldn't risk making a sound by walking.
He followed them to a secluded area of the stadium and Todoroki asked if Midoriya is All Might's love child. This made Takeo almost laugh at the stupid speculation, which made both Midoriya and Todoroki to instinctively look at his direction. Seeing that there's nothing there they continued their talk. Vowing that Todoroki WILL defeat Midoriya again, he walked away leaving Midoriya in that place.
Takeo disabled his invisibility and touched Midoriya at his shoulder.
"AAAAAAHHH!!! M-MIKAMI-KUN?!?!" The getsure startled him.
"You doing ok?"
"Y-yeah..." Midoriya looked back at Todoroki's figure, getting smaller and smaller as the distance between them increased. "Yes I am."
"You're going to try and save him aren't you? Save him from Endeavor's influence?"
"How did you-"
"I can read minds. Well, only surface thoughts. I didn't really trained on my telepathy."
"I see..."
"You'll do good. Believe in yourself."
"I will."
"You truly are worthy to be All Might's successor."
"How did you-.... Did you also read my mind again?"
"No. All Might already told me his secret long ago, including about how he found a boy with no quirk, and how he's more heroic than anyone."
"He told you that??"
"Yep.... he did. Anyways bye." Mikami disappeared right in front of Midoriya, the boy still processing in his mind that the strongest person he knows other than All Might also acknowledges him.