Izuku stared at Goldie from across the arena. The boy looked...nervous? Embarrassed? No. No, those weren't the right words. He looked like a strawberry. Cheeks tinted rose-red and eyes darting around, looking anywhere but Izuku. Izuku tilted his head, concerned. Was he perhaps a bit too harsh earlier? No. The boy didn't look guilty. Izuku's not sure what the boy looks like, but he knows it has nothing to do with how Izuku lashed out at him earlier.
"Are you ready boys?" Midnight called out.
"Yup!" Izuku chirped in response, popping the 'p'.
"Mhm!" Goldie said, voice sounding oddly strangled.
Again. Weird.
"I'm sure you know the rules, but just to reiterate! No fatal blows, no detrimentally incapacitating your opponents. Once you step out of bounds, you're out and if you can't move you are also out! Got it?" She said, loud enough for the audience to also hear.
"Got it!" Izuku said, pulling out the knife he couldn't use against the other blonde.
"Uh-huh!" Goldie said, voice cracking.
"And start!" As Midnight's hand came down in a chopping motion, Izuku pressed the button on the hilt of his knife. The metal of the knife buzzed with electricity. The voltage was enough to give someone muscle spasms, yet the second button just below the first one could adjust it and seeing as how Goldie seemed to have some sort of electricity quirk, Izuku wasn't afraid to up it to at least 50%. 100% would be too much, even for someone like Goldie.
Right as Izuku held the knife in a better grip and lowered himself to the ground, MeiMei's voice rang out through the loudspeakers.
"Behold dear investors! The IzuMei shock knife! The voltage can go from 110 volts to 1.7 million volts! The name is a work in progress, but this baby has a voltage adjuster that you can adjust at will! As of right now, it is a dull blade because we were not allowed to build an actual knife that could hurt people." Mei ranted.
( Up in the announcer's booth, a raven haired man is wondering what his kid's weird obsession with knives is. It's the third knife they've showcased so far. The man's partner, on the other hand, is fretting over the hacked into loudspeakers. Shouta doesn't know why he tries. Hatsume's just going to do it again. )
Izuku grinned. They're both really proud of how high of a voltage they could get the knife to go. They were trying to make it so it could harness lightning ー like actual legit lightning ー but it was a hassle trying to make it not shock the user when it happened. Izuku already has enough electric burns (that Shouta, Hizashi, and Majima-sensei weren't happy to see on him) just from simulated lighting at 20 million volts. He doesn't think even he can withstand lightning at 300 million volts.
"Izuku don't you dare!" A voice calls out from the crowd. Izuku's not sure who it is, but he thinks it's Majima-sensei's voice.
Ignoring the yell, Izuku lunges at Goldie, aiming low for the kid's stomach. Goldie dodged, the knife just barely grazing his abdomen. Izuku wondered if it shocked the boy, but without being able to see the muscles without things like shirts blocking his view, Izuku wasn't sure. And there's the added factor of Goldie having an electricity quirk.
Goldie gathers his bearings quickly though and retaliates, hands outstretched to possibly touch him and shock him. Izuku throws down a small pellet, aiming it towards the other boy's feet and watches as it explodes on impact, cementing Goldie to the ground.
"That, esteemed viewers, is the FAX. No, the fax doesn't stand for anything, it just sounded cool! Anyways! Upon impact of any solid surface, it will explode a quick drying goo that will cement the target to the ground, walls, or ceiling!" MeiMei exclaimed. "To dissolve the goo all you need is the solvent spray! It's harmless towards humans and animals and won't leave any lasting effects. The affected area may be red for an hour or two after, but that is okay!"
Goldie's eyes widened at the explanation and he began to struggle, letting out small amounts of electricity in his panic.
"Don't panic Goldie." Izuku said, walking up to the boy and patting his cheek. "It'll be over soon so you don't need to worry. We just have to use a few more inventions first!"
If anything Goldie looked even more panicked at that, and red. Goldie's being an anomaly today.
"Yo, dude, um can...can we not? I can forfeit the match." Goldie tried, pulling at his feet that were stuck. Izuku, curious as to if the kid was getting sick because of how red his face was, leaned in closer to the boy, inspecting his face. If anything, this seemed to make the boy's face heat up even more.
"No can do Goldie!" Izuku said, pulling back. "Gotta showcase all of our babies!"
Goldie's face heated up more. Izuku wondered why. MeiMei has always called their inventions babies and the blonde's never reacted this way. Huh. Maybe he is sick.
"Come on man. Please. I'll help you test out your inventions." Goldie pleads.
"You are helping me test them!" Izuku chirps, reaching for the black fabric looped around his torso. Goldie seems to understand the implications of that and tries to wiggle his way free of the substance holding his feet to the ground.
Izuku wraps the fabric around Goldie's torso (they tried making it like Shouta's capture weapon, yet weren't able to finish it all the way), making sure to include the kid's arms as well. When he pulls the fabric taut, it tightens and squeezes Goldie's arms to his sides, in a not so comfortable way (Izuku would know, he got trapped in it during the building process).
Hitoshi watches, amusement in his eyes as Izuku pats Kaminari's cheek and pulls out one last invention. Kaminari looks like a tomato from how much he's blushing and Hitoshi has to wonder what Izuku thinks is wrong with the teen. To be fair to Kaminari though, Izuku is very close to the poor hero-hopeful.
Kaminari ends up restrained on the ground, Izuku sitting on him and Hitoshi has to hide a snort at how the blonde looks like he's about to explode from the closeness. Izuku looks concerned, but when his win is called, he hops up and starts to free the blonde from his prison. There's small sparks of electricity coming off of the blonde and Hitoshi wonders how he hasn't shorted out yet.
Hitoshi sighs, standing up and heading towards his prep room to get ready. He knows he's going to lose this round, but he's gotten this far, so he's fine with that.
Denki wishes the ground would just open up and swallow him whole. He had a whole plan going into that fight and then Izuku had gotten so close to him and he froze. He tried bargaining, but it didn't work. He tried pleading, yet it still didn't work.
And now he's being princess carried, like it was fucking nothing , towards Recovery Girl's temporary office. He feels like he's shorted out, yet he's still here. He can still think and he's present, so he knows his brain is just buffering.
It's not fair. Izuku's too attractive for Denki's heart to take.
He wishes his heart could just stop beating so loud in his ears. Instead, he sighs to himself, disappointed. He had lost, sure, but he didn't even get to fight! And in his last round he short circuited so it wasn't even a fight. He doubts he's going to get any internship offers after this.
"Ah, here we are!" Izuku says, opening the door with his foot.
(And Kami, why is that hot?)
The kid from 1-B that Izuku fought in the first round is sitting on one of the cots and scrutinizing Izuku. Denki wants to ask him to stop, but he's too embarrassed at the moment to even open his mouth.
"What happened?" Recovery Girl asks.
"Ah, well I think I may need to fix a few formulas because Goldie can't walk after I used those pellets on him. Maybe it was all the wiggling he did though." Izuku says. Denki couldn't bring himself to
"Alright Dearie, just set him down on an empty cot and I'll take a look." Recovery Girl sighs.
"Yes ma'am!" Izuku says, depositing Denki on the empty cot closest to them.
Denki watches as the bi-colored teen leaves the temporary infirmary, either not noticing, or ignoring Monoma's scrutinizing gaze.
"Looks like the 1-A brat has a crush." Monoma says, tauntingly.
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