NOVEL NEXT Chapter 31: 31
POV "Midoriya":
"Ida is what?" Kirishima shouted. "Ida is in the hospital; his inner organs are gravely damaged; he is lying next to his brother for the same reason," Aizawa said with sleepy eyes.
The class went wild. "he is stupid," Mina threw a bomb, "why did he chase that villain if even his brother nearly died under him?". She felt a lot of chill in her spine, and sweat started to roll on her back. A hand landed on her shoulder and it was Kirishima, he made her look at the 3 that shot her that glance. "he's not stupid to go for revenge,". "he's stupid; he's weak,". "he couldn't handle the shit alone so he's stupid.". Midoriya, Todoroki, Bakugo.
Aizawa clapped his hand as the B-1 arrived, "Okay, enough of insulting your-in emergency room-friend and get ready for a new one." With B-1, there was Vlad King and a purple-haired boy. "Hitoshi Shinso is officially added to A-1". Vlad and Aizawa went a little away to talk.
"Okay, hi everyone," he took that hand from the back of his neck waved and put it back while the other was in his bucket, "you all should know me from the festival so I don't need to say my name nor my quirk, and one last note, I didn't come here to make friends so keep distance.".
"…" everyone.
There was a very awkward silence, and suddenly the class seemed like a light bulb emitting light. Shinso felt a hand patting his shoulder, "good luck, shit," the hand was Bakugo's. The class was a very pure bulb of light but 3.
Moments later Shinso was drowned in the swamp of friendship without even noticing. "okay, that's enough time waste," Aizawa said while walking with his sleepy eyes and bent back, "today training is rescue race," he pointed at the thing that looks like an industrial area, "Ground-G, your goal is to reach the big red target 3 km away."
We were sent 5 by 5 and I was in the last 5 with Bakugo and Shinso. First 5 were Ayoama, Mina, Asui, Uraraka, and Ojiro. Vlad King stood in front of them "Rule number 1: you can't surpass the roof line of any building from the east. Rule number 2: if you stop moving you're out. Rule number 3: the damage is put into consideration; if you make too much, you're out."
He moved and stood on the roof we were all on besides those 5. A great screen made its way from the ground to our faces, it displayed the 5 ready to go. Aizawa held a device, and when he clicked, a loud ring came from the microphones around the place, initiating the race.
Asui had the lead with her tongue and legs, followed by Ojiro and his tale. Both were using the obstacles to keep their speed. Then Uraraka tried hard to keep herself from surpassing the roof line. Then, Ayoama and Mina didn't have much competition, yet they did all they could. It ended with Asui first, then Ojiro, Uraraka, Ayoama, and Mina, all in order.
Now it was Kaminari, Kirishima, Koda, Sato, and Shoji. They stood waiting for the ring, and when it came, they all dashed. All of them didn't have much to offer in such a race. However, Kirishima had another opinion. While he was running, he stopped dropping his second place; he crouched and held his knees. They didn't pay much attention to him as everyone wanted that place on the top. He kept pushing his hardening to the limit until that sound he started to love broke through his ears; he released all he got.
Crack*
That was the sound of a metal pipe being met with Kirishima's new power, the "Earthquake Effect". He held onto the pipe before he fell, jumped over it, and crouched again and this time, it came faster than the previous one.
My eyes shone; Kirishima found a really badass move right there. "awesome!" she shouted with wide eyes like mine, "Kirishima is awesome," Mina was the one. We all kept our eyes on Kirishima as he bolted his way. "He moves like me," Asui said; he was using his legs to jump and his hands to hold to surfaces like walls. It was the end of the race and Kirishima had smashed his way to the top… he crashed into the red target.
Everyone was phrasing him but Jiro, Sero, Tokoyami, Todoroki, and Hagakure; they were waiting for the ring.
Kirishima had told me while we had been changing our clothes that he had created a new skill, and when I heard the name, I thought that he had just broken the ground and made it rumble. Never in my wildest thoughts that the effect is applied on his body. 'is it possible with any of my quirks?' I thought as I waited for the ring to watch.
The ring sounds initiated the race. Todoroki made a way of ice in front of him while all of them started already, he was a little late. Todoroki took a stance, and with his foot, he started to produce fire; in an instant, he reached half the distance they moved.
Todoroki kept the momentum he built while dodging buildings and obstacles. He was the 3rd, falling before Tokoyami and Sero. There was still a kilometre; Todoroki knew that racing on the ground was a drawback; he made his ice trail rise, changing his stance and his hot half to the back, and started to compress the flames. He was going up, and when his legs flew from the end of the trail, he let out all the fire, making a small explosion of air that pushed him and the fire that turned jet. He cut all the distance between them, and in the next second, he took the lead and hit the target.
They all were stunned by the speed but not like me. "he just broke the sound speed," I mumbled, "over 1.4 Mach,". I looked at Bakugo, who looked smugly at me. "children play.". I was speechless. Technically, I and he had surpassed this speed. However, it's still impressive to see it.
Now was our turn: Bakugo, me, Mineta, Momo, and Shinso. We stood 2m away from each other. I focused on my hands that were on the ground and when that ring echoed in our ears, it started. Pushing myself through the air with a leftover image, while behind Bakugo, everything was coloured in ashes. We were flying next to each other; I shot him a side glance to see him do the same. In part of a second, he smirked with his feet in front of him and his hands to the back; in response, I smirked with my hands in front and my feet to the back.
He jetted his way while I needed to touch anything to keep the speed. 'the hardest race to win,' I thought. I touched a metal pipe, and with all the force, I caved it in. he was in front of me at a great distance, and the race wouldn't last for more than another 2 seconds with his speed. I needed a way to win; he was moving freely, and that smugness was fueled by confidence and true power, which made me smirk more as I was fueled with the same. The way was clear and all it took now was one move for him to win and a lot for me.
Time slowed down as both of us were aiming for it. I moved all the power from my body to my right palm as a thin needle was lying there; with all that power, I shot that needle that broke 2 Mack and surpassed Bakugo. The sparks were going crazy in the closed hands behind his back. I closed my mind on the needle, and with all my powers, I pulled my body. Immediately my nose bled, but the blood didn't escape. He opened his hands where sweat lay and the sparks set on the expulsion.
My body accelerated to the point when air hurt, but I was too focused to feel...and the suit helped. Bakugo was already at his full speed and with every following expulsion, it increased. The blood rushed through our veins, everything was vague but a red target, 'it's now or never.' We thought as we broke the 2 Mach wall and went for the 3.
The target was penetrated by the force and fell to the ground after it was hit with two living missiles.
I spread my veins like a parachute and slowed down after a while, Bakugo moved his hands and made his way to the ground smoothly.
Both of us now looked at each other and the smug was Bakugo's, "Eat.My.Dust.".