Chapter 54: Unexpected Development (2)
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Izuku Midoriya vs Momo Yaoyorozu
Who would win?
I turned to Izuku, the Protagonist with Tier 4, and then I turned to Momo, my girl who blinked thrice realising she has to fight first.
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This is her quirk, and you know how powerful is this, exactly? Well, Momo can create a TNT and blow this school up, and in that case even the Tier 4 Deku would die. So does that mean she is stronger than Izuku?
Before answering that, let me talk about her weird power system. I have said before, (at first) I wanted her to be with me because of her Quirk, and this has a lot to do with that statement. She is surely not at the level of Ryukyu but….
...She is still Tier 5. I am not surprised. In fact, when we first met in middle school, her Tier was 4. Her quirk grew more dangerous, or versatile, whatever you call it, as she gained more knowledge on how to make things.
Back to the previous question, is she stronger than Izuku? The answer is, well, NO.
...Obviously, even Ochako would be able to beat Momo if given the chance, let alone this new Izuku. Momo might have greater destructive power considering whatever she decides to make, but for the sake of truth, her Tier 5 is just for show inside a battle… as long as her enemy doesn't decide to finish her as soon as possible, which is the case here, in this GAME.
She might not be 'Stronger' than Izuku per se, but she can indeed 'Defeat' him, at least in a game such as this.
Looking at Momo's concentrated face as she stared at the battlefield, mostly coming up with a plan, I patted her head again.
"Scared?"
She turned to me and stared at my eyes with well-hidden worry present in her gaze. "What makes you think so?"
"He's strong."
Momo didn't respond to this. She wouldn't have taken any of the Hero Course students lightly anyway, but my words seem to have concerned her. Momo knows, or uh, at least suspects, that I have some kind of 'Scan' ability that lets me know the Power-level of someone. That's why her face darkened a little.
Momo is a nice girl, but she has some twisted things about her too, which I guess is normal for rich kids to have. Among the many things there is, the most prominent thing is: She doesn't like to lose.
No, she doesn't want to lose. Not in exams, not in games, not in anything. If she does lose, she enters a state of a reality check and, for some reason, accepts the person who she lost to as someone superior to her, that's what happened when I beat her at all the video games she threw at me, she started to think I am a God of Games who she can never beat, which is not false considering all my gaming proficiencies… Anyway, the point is, I am telling her that Izuku is strong, not to make her discouraged, but to make her take this seriously because I don't want her to believe someone else other than me is superior to her.
...Fuck, I am acting like Ereh again.
Anyway… I gotta make sure my girl wins, but also to not make her feel like she is using underhanded tactics, she hates that.
"I have an idea-"
I started but Momo stopped me.
"It's fine…" She turned to the soccer field with thinned lips. "I want my first match with another Future Hero to be fair and fun."
"..."
Okay~ Sure.
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Yaoyorozu Momo knew her best friend didn't want her to lose, that's why he said those words, but she didn't want to rely on... his plan. She already has her own plan, after all.
'I don't know what quirk he has…'
Looking at Izuku Midoriya, she realised her disadvantage.
'But the opposite is also true.'
Her plan is simple. She knew it'd work in most cases, and so she nodded just when Aizawa called,
"Both contestants come inside the field."
At Aizawa's words, both Izuku and Momo walked inside the field, both occupying either side of the arena.
Izuku slowly took out his left hand from his pockets while staring at her indifferently, his green eyes were dim, looking bored and a bit arrogant. Opposite to him stood Momo with a determined look on her face and a busy mind, prepared to change her initial plan at any given time.
In front of both of them, at the exact center of the field, the football stood. Momo prepared to user quirk as soon as Aizawa declared,
"The game starts now."
She quickly spawned a Gun in her hands that would shoot a Sticky Arrow with a rope bound to it, using this she'd be able to bring the ball from the middle point without any problem.
Bang!
She immediately fired the gun as the bullet/arrow accurately hit the ball causing it to get stuck, seeing which an immediate smile appeared on Momo's face as she pulled the trigger again, causing the ball to jump to her and landed on her leg. She immediately ran for the Goalpost behind Izuku, but just as she was about to pass Izuku who was surprisingly standing casually, the ball that she was about to kick simply… disappeared. No, it didn't disappear, it moved so fast that it seemed like it disappeared.
"Izuku Midoriya has scored 1."
At Aizawa's announcement, she abruptly turned her head to her goal post and found the same football bounding inside.
'What?'
Shocked, Momo turned to Izuku who was standing with his left hand raised straight horizontally, with his palm facing the goal post that had green light dancing on its rods, as an indication of the goal.
"This would be easy."
He muttered simply with a smirk that made a cold sweat run down Momo's back.
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Momo Yaoyorozu and Izuku Midoriya went back to their spots, well, Momo did, Izuku never moved from his spot in the first place. The ball was also back in its place, but Momo wasn't prepared yet.
'The ball didn't teleport.'
She thought, frowning. The ball moved so fast that she didn't even see it, so she assumed the ball simply teleported, but from the way Izuku had his hand raised, and the way she felt a pulling sensation...
'Telekinesis?'
She thinned her lips. She wasn't sure… but that most likely was the case. She decided to change her plan then. With such a quirk, trying to keep catching the ball using Sticky Arrow wouldn't work anymore. So she came up with another idea…
"Round 2, start!"
At Aizawa's declaration, she again created a gun, but this time, instead of shooting Sticky Arrows, she shot a small and round black orb that rushed at the football.
All the while Izuku didn't intervene, this would be too easy and boring if he didn't let the girl use some of her tricks.
Bam!
The round ball she shot hit the football, passing all its velocity on the football, causing the football to blast forward instantly, passing under Izuku's legs, as Momo smiled again… However, the ball stopped right before entering the Goal Post just as Izuku raised his palm towards it.
Momo stilled as the ball jumped at Izuku's palm as if it was an iron attracted towards a magnet…
This was when Momo had her 'Ah…!' moment.
Then the ball left Izuku's palm and entered Momo's Goalpost, and just as Aizawa announced Izuku's 2nd score, Yaoyorozu Momo figured out his quirk.
'Magnet and Iron… but it can't be Magnetism since the ball isn't made of metal… it also can't be Telekinesis based on how it just stopped and jumped in a singular direction, is it… Attraction and Repulsion?'
Telekinesis would have been hard to counter in this game, but this on the other hand, even if similar to Telekinesis, can be cheated.
'Okay… you got this Momo.'
She breathed out, until now she was throwing the rock randomly, but now she could see her target, albeit the target was far to reach. But this could work.
She noticed how Izuku doesn't bother to act before she does, that can help her. She just has to catch him off guard.
"Round 3, start!"
The mumbling of the students stopped just as she created another gun, this time a bigger one with a large mouth, and fired a soft net with small magnetic cubes attached to the different ends of it towards the football. The net encircled the ball like a bug, the magnets clinging together. By that time, Momo was in front of the ball and kicked the ball with all her strength towards the Post.
Bang!
All this happened almost too fast for Izuku to react, the keyword being almost because immediately Deku raised his palm at the flying ball as it stopped in mid-air. The ball then rushed back to his hand, but before it could touch his palm thus rendering it a foul, Izuku redirected it at Momo's Post, however, the ball stopped in mid-air again before it could enter the Post causing the audience to gasp.
"Fuuu…"
Shocked, Izuku turned to the sigh as his eyes widened. Momo had a huge U-shaped magnet in her hand, pointing at the ball. Izuku realised what the net was, no, what the cubes attached to the net was.
Magnets. Small magnets were being controlled by the large ones.
Izuku grit his teeth and tried to push the ball further, he could attract up to 9 tons after all, this much was nothing. He was deliberately using less power because if used his full on a mere football it would just burst. However, before it could heed his command, the ball had already rushed to Momo, and by the time he could point his arm at the football again, thus locking target, the ball had… entered his Post.
"Momo Yaoyorozu has scored 1."
"YES!!!"
His opponent jumped up in ecstasy, to which Izuku clenched his jaws. He should have seen through this. He assumed the girl's ability was something like 'Gun Creation' which let her create different kinds of guns based on her previous creations but it seems her quirk is more versatile than that….
"Ha… haha."
He chuckled softly as his bored gaze turned sharp.
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Momo knew the same tactic wouldn't work, more so since Aizawa removed the net from the ball before the next round, and even her opponent seemed to be in his guard. But she had more than 1 way…
"Round 3, start!"
Midoriya raised his hand the moment he heard this, however, before he could bring the ball to his hand, Momo shot… another bullet. But this bullet just stabbed inside the ground.
Izuku grinned, she has missed-
*Flash*
Before Izuku could celebrate, the bullet flashed like a stunt bomb, creating light that blinded him, causing him to draw back his palm and instead cover his eyes.
And by the time he opened his eyes…
"Momo Yaoyorozu has scored 2!"
This time the girl didn't yell. Momo Yaoyorozu, who was wearing a pair of sunglasses, the thing that seemed to have protected her from the light, had curled up lips. She simply went back to her position.
Izuku finally decided to give this his undivided attention, he took his right hand out of his pockets.
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In the next match, round 4, Izuku won. Since Momo knew Izuku would be on guard for any of her weird tactics, she instead decided to just run and kick the ball normally, which was her mistake as Izuku simply pulled the ball to him and redirected it to Momo's post, thus gaining 3 points.
At round 5, Momo created a baseball bat using which she hit the football thrown by Deku, who could only throw his projections at a single path, causing the ball to enter his Post and gaining her 3 points too.
The Cat-Mouse game continued for 2 more rounds and both of the players now had 4 points. This time, in round 8, Izuku also had a plan. He rarely plans anything after… the changes he went through, but he was still a Nerd once, he could make plans that could even catch certain Heros off-guard.
He stared at Momo with sharp eyes, waiting for Aizawa to start the match.
"Round 8, start!"
Just as he said this, Izuku threw the ball at Momo's Post, that was his plan, being as quick and direct as possible. However, surprising him, Momo aggressively blocked the ball with her body. Deku tried to push beyond, however, surprising him even more, Momo opened her shirt's chain and closed it immediately, thus locking the ball inside her shirt.
Izuku frowned and turned to Aizawa, "Sensei, isn't this breaking the rules?"
Aizawa shook his head. "Her hands haven't touched the ball yet."
Izuku groaned and turned to Momo as his frown deepened.
Drop~ Drop~ Drop~
Now, multiple footballs were bouncing on the ground, there was no football inside Momo's shirt either.
"Tch." Izuku clicked his tongue. He shouldn't have turned his head against an opponent like Momo. It seems she created more footballs.
It was when Aizawa explained, "As you know, when the football enters the Post, the Post would glow green. That'd only happen when the real ball enters because of the sensor inside the football, and only then would it count as a score."
Izuku nodded at it… This wasn't bad either. Until now, he was facing difficulties targeting the single ball, but now that there are multiple balls on the ground, he can just release a wide and spread "Repulse", and all the balls would naturally enter the Post.
Which is exactly what he did. He crouched down and clapped the ground with his hands, causing a repulsive shock to leave forward and hit the balls resulting in all the balls entering the Post making Izuku grin.
He turned to Aizawa for the last declaration, however, Aizawa's eyes were focused on someone else… Realization hit Izuku, he turned to the Post and confirmed that it didn't glow green. Then turning his head abruptly, Izuku saw Momo running past him and on her back, under her shirt, a round lump was present….
Izuku easily understood what the lump was, but since he couldn't see it, he couldn't focus on his Quirk on it either, so he instead focused on Momo trying to stop her from entering the Post, but his Quirk didn't work…. Why???
"Like I said, using quirks on the opponent is forbidden."
Turning back, he could see Aizawa's glowing red eyes and floating hair, this was when Izuku finally recognised who his Homeroom teacher was.
Beep! Just then Izuku's goal post made a sound and glowed green.
Aizawa released Deku's quirk and declared, "Yaoyorozu Momo has scored 5. The winner of the match is Momo."
'No way…'
Izuku felt gravity pushing him down as he almost fell on his face. Just… What happened?
He, the great Izuku Midoriya, lost…? W-was his Master lying?
'No, never.'
He immediately shook his head. His master would never lie. So he instead tried to decipher what Momo did, exactly.
First Momo captured the ball inside her shirt, then when he turned to Aizawa, she created more footballs which filled the ground – that part was clear. But how did she move the ball on her back from her stomach without using her hand? That should be impossible, at least in such a short time. Izuku and Aizawa at most talked for 5 seconds, and Aizawa had his eyes on Momo the whole time, too, so she couldn't be cheating… then?
Izuku clenched his jaws. He just couldn't wrap his head around it.
"Dammit."
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Of course, Izuku didn't know that Momo could 'Uncreate' things too, albeit only small things like the football. Momo uses her calories to create different things, but after Neji gave her some ideas that she never thought were possible, she was able to come up with this technique. She calls it
What she did was, she absorbed the football into calories from inside her shirt, then without mixing that calorie inside her body, she simply guided it behind her and popped it out of her back causing it to get stuck between her back and shirt. In this scene, the Football was the 'same', not a new one, that's why the goal post still recognised it and glowed green.
"Hahh…"
Momo heaved a sigh as a smile bloomed on her face. UA High looked promising because she had… won.
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