98: Todoroki vs Zhu

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Todoroki stomped on the ground, sending spiked ice rushing straight towards Aiko.
She dodged, flying up into the air with a small tornado around her lower body, holding her above the ice.

Todoroki looked up at her like he was just slightly annoyed. But still focused. He moved his hand upwards like he was tossing something under hand, ice shot up at her and she dropped from the sky, sliding down his ice and blasting wind at him with a few kicks.

He dodged carefully, building a wall of ice and bearing against it to keep in bounds.
He stared over at Aiko and shot some ice at Aiko, she dodged. Going through the same motions she did in her fight with Tris but quicker. She used the wind to reroute the ice in a small tornado and hit Todoroki with them.

He dodged them easily, ducking his head and bending backwards when he needed to. He just had a small frown on his face as he carefully watched Aiko's moves.

The speed of the wind picked up and tossed his hair around his face. Aiko did something she didn't do in her fight with Tris.

In fact it was the opposite of what she did with Tris. After watching his fight with Todoroki she noticed that Tris had something he didn't.

Todoroki couldn't handle the cold as well as she could. His body was made to rely on both of the elements of Ice and Fire. Not just ice. So over using it caused him to get cold, just like a normal person.

So Aiko dropped the temperature. She could keep away from the ice, meaning she was just a little chilly.

But Todoroki not only had to create it, he was constantly being hit by his own large pieces of ice. That combined with the chill wind he was being hit with meant he was getting very cold quickly.

Like if you walk around on a stormy snowy day. With cold wind chapping your face, only you're not wearing a coat.

He glared at her. Finally noticing what she was doing.

"I know what you're trying to do." He said calmly, bracing his foot against the ice wall he made.

It must be freezing him.

"And what exactly is that?" She asked, she swung ice around and crushed it against the ground in front of Todoroki and then blew a strong wind at him, picking up the pieces of ice and blasting them at him.

There was no way he could dodge all of them.

He couldn't, the quarter sized pieces of hail-like ice peppered his body, they hit him everywhere hard enough to leave small bruises.

"You can't win like this Todoroki, you know that. I know that. Everyone knows that. I already beat someone with an ice quirk. She had better temperature regulation as well."
Aiko said. Lowering the temperature even more. "You'll freeze by the end of this because of your stubbornness."

He coughed and his breath left a white mist.
"I don't need it for this. I'll win without my Father's quirk."

Aiko gaped at him. Was he really saying that? Did he really think he could win without it?

Anger bubbles in her stomach. Clouds swirled above them and It started to rain.

No, it started to hail.

Aiko was making it as cold as she could to pull the fire out of him.

"Your quirk is irritating." Todoroki complained, stomping on the ground. Sending a blast of ice close to Aiko, she dodged and broke apart the ice with her wind, sending it closer to Todoroki.

"Your arrogance is irritating." Aiko said as she countered his moves.

"I don't follow." Todoroki said calmly.

They were at a small stalemate. Because it was just the same cycle over and over again.

Aiko could counter every move he threw at her.

And Todoroki had used all of his ice moves.
He shivered as he watched Aiko, she stood on some of his ice.

"You look down on me, you always have. I've seen it, anytime we interact you act like I'm weak! Since we first met. You've never seen me as an actual Opponent."

Aiko said, the wind picked up around them.
"I guess your father really has gotten to you, he's told you all over again that you're going to be number one. That you're better than everyone else. So you look down on the rest of us! Don't you?"

"No!" He stomped his foot and ice crystals flew out straight at her. Aiko simply stepped to the side.

"Yes you do!! You're a fool if you think you can win with only half a quirk Shoto Todoroki!! You'll lose right here and now if you don't, and all you'll prove is that you were too stubborn to show anyone but Midoriya respect in a fight!!"

"Shut up!!!" Fire burst out from his face, melting the ice that had been clinging to his hair and uniform.

"There we go!" Aiko yelled, manipulating the wind around to go faster.

Creating hail the size of a fist and battering him with it. It started to melt whenever it got close to him though.

He extended the hand that had fire growing up and aimed a powerful blast at Aiko. It covered the whole platform and melted any remaining ice in its path. It roared towards Aiko and the crowd gasped as it covered her where she was standing.

When Todoroki finally relented the heatwave Aiko was still standing, her hands up forming a small air bubble around herself.

Todoroki glared and ran towards her quickly. Aiko's quirk was best at long range, if he got close to her he'd have a huge advantage.

Aiko blasted air at him quickly and Todoroki grounded himself the same way Tris had in Aiko's last match. He put both his hands out and decided to make an opening.

He released both Fire and Ice at the same time, the conflicting temperatures created a quick reaction from the air around them, he used the same heat shockwave he did in his fight with Midoriya. Only he used it's power to push him towards Aiko.

Aiko tried to dodge him but the blast of his quirk made it difficult. He grabbed her arm with his fire side and let his quirk lose.

Aiko turned her head away as fire spread up her arm. She couldn't help but scream in pain as the fire danced over her skin. The sleeve of her polyester jacket melting against her skin.

At this moment she couldn't help but think of everywhere she went wrong.

Provoking the son of endeavor to make him fight her. Choosing to wear long sleeves because her quirk makes her cold.

Showing up in the first place. (Honestly what was she thinking.)

The crowd stared in absolute horror as the boy literally lit her on fire. Aiko let out a phenomenal amount of wind out of reflex to try and defend herself. But Todoroki's grip was iron.

This was the only way he could win. If they stayed across the ring from each other this match would've lasted forever. Them just countering each other.

The only way for him to beat her was brute force. Aiko stared in shock as Todoroki looked at her. Holding her arm tightly and expelling an extreme amount of heat and cold right towards her at pointblank range.

Aizawa stood up from his spot and Midnight tore her hero suit, both deciding Todoroki was going too far. But they were seconds too late.

Aiko's eyes rolled back in her head and her knees collapsed. Todoroki let go the moment he saw that she was done.
She fell back into the large hot puddles the melted ice had created and everything went completely black.

The heat, the pain, the smoke and the exhaustion. All working together to knock her unconscious. Todoroki stepped back, the small fire on Aiko's sleeve sizzled out when it touched the water on the ground.

Todoroki froze, staring down at her in horror. He felt like... like his dad. Ruthlessly burning someone like this.
He used an uncounterable move and won.

But in reality Aiko could have done the same and ended the match in seconds. If she had summoned lightning she could've killed him.

But she didn't. She had mercy, and he didn't show her the same mercy because she had angered him.

"T-Todoroki wins the match, Aiko Zhu is rendered completely unconscious."
Midnight said, touching Aiko's neck and checking her pulse.

The medical robots collected Aiko gently and pulled her away, leaving Todoroki standing there in shock.

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"Holy shit!!" Mina screamed when the two students went up in flames.

"Fuck! Stop the match!" Denki yelled, standing up.

"Is he trying to fucking kill her!?" Sero and Kirishima yelled at the same time.

"Stop the match!" Was screamed throughout the entire stadium by Pro heroes and by students alike. Even the civilians screamed for the pros to do something.

And then suddenly it stopped. The fire stopped and Aiko slumped back, falling onto the ground. Her limp body plopped into the puddle with a small splash, her body actually looked like it was steaming.

"Is she dead!? This school is nuts!!!" Nishi screamed, her hands in her hair.

"Wait- who are you!?" Uraraka screeched, turning around and seeing Nishi.

"I'm not here!" Nishi said, turning and bolting out the door and rushing down the hall.

"Who was that!?" Uraraka yelled over the panic of the crowd. The Baku-squad just shrugged in response.

"I don't even know what's going on anymore." Mina shrieked. "I just want to know if she's okay!!"

"She's probably not dead you dumbasses!! They would tell us if she was dead! They said she was unconscious!!" Bakugou yelled to calm everyone down.

"But look at her Bakugou!!" Mina grabbed him and shook him. "Look at what Todoroki did!!"

"Chill!!! I'll beat his ass in our fight! Alright?!" He yelled down at Mina.

"Awh! That's really nice Bakugou!" She gushed and he groaned.

"It's like you only hear every two words I say! You airheads!" He growled, shoving Mina away. "Just shut up, all of you."

The panic seemed to settle down as they watched Aiko being taken off of the field in a gurney.

While Todoroki slowly walked out, eyes on her the entire time.


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