➤( CHAPTER 015 ! )
"end of the second battle"

"WE'VE GOT HALF THE GAME LEFT! Keep going! There's more than one team behind us," Midoriya ordered, then looked down at Shousuke to see if he was listening to what he was about to say next. "Shousuke, can you let go of yourself?"

Shousuke nodded, and then Midoriya and others suddenly felt a force under their feet, and their legs were unstable, but Shousuke has now successfully escaped from Todoroki's ice trap.

Seeing Shousuke's progress, Midoriya couldn't help but let out a sigh of joy. He smiled confidently and ordered everyone to run, but was stopped by Hong. "Iida, go forward," Todoroki ordered as Shousuke heard Iida's calf's engine start.

Then he looked back at Yaoyorozu. "Yaoyorozu, get our guards and commanders ready!" He said, and got a "Go!" As her reply.

"Kaminari—" He called out, only to be interrupted by the boy with Pikachu's hair. "Yeah man, I know!! Hang in there!"

Immediately, waves of electric current struck Midoriya and his group. "Shousuke!!" Midoriya yelled, but was stopped when a giant barrier was thrown over him, Uraraka, and Mei, but not Shousuke.

When Midoriya noticed that he wasn't inside, he looked at Shousuke questionably with a face of 'what are you doing'. But when he saw electricity rushing towards Shousuke without any protection around him, his eyes widened widely.

Then he watched Shousuke standing calmly in front of them, almost as if he didn't care about the world, raising his hands to his face, electricity touching his entire body from his hands.

Once the electricity hits Shousuke, sparks fly around, around the group, but not them. "Komi-Kun!" Uraraka yelled but stopped when she noticed an electric spark above her head, so she quickly closed her eyes, thinking it was going to hit her. But it doesn't.

While Midoriya's group had Shousuke's barriers to protect them, Yaoyorozu of Todoroki's group created an electric-proof blanket that completely covered her group from electrocution.

But that doesn't work for the ground and the groups around Shoto. As a result, everyone was shocked. But the ground under Shousuke's feet was a different scene. Because now there is a hole inside, causing dust to rise on the ground, completely blocking the sight of Team Todoroki and Team Midoriya. 

The crowd around the stadium was dead silent, and no one dared to utter a word. The dust on the black-purple-haired boy began to slowly sway in the wind, once the dust was cleared there reviled an unscathed Shousuke who stood there as if he didn't get electrocuted earlier. Yes, part of his hair stood on end, and they saw electricity go from one hair to the other, but he was fine.

"KOMI SHOUSUKE SURVIVED!!!" Present Mic announced in shock. "Honestly, I thought he was screwed!"

"NO WAY!"

"WHO IS THIS KID?! HE JUST GOT HIT WITH THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL SORSE AND STILL CAME OUT UNSHAVEN!"

"WHAT TYPE OF QUIRK DOES HE HAVE?!"

"He's going to be a great pro-hero in the future!"

"If it's that kid I have to entrust my whole life to, then I don't have to worry about anything!"

The crowd was shouting for Shousuke. They thought that once the electricity hit him, he was a goner. A little smoke escaped from his lips as Shousuke sighed, then put his hand back to his side, a little sweat dripping from his face. He doesn't do anything with Kaminari's electricity, other than absorb it and he'll up it to later use in the future for later use.

'Don't they know that electricity is a source of energy?' Shouske thought for a moment, then looked back to see if his team members were okay.

The barrier quickly disappears, and the group becomes vulnerable again, and Midoriya quickly realizes that he can't rely on Shousuke for the rest of the fight because he thinks he's putting too much pressure on the purple-haired boy by doing so, but in reality not so. "I'm sorry, Shousuke, I shouldn't have asked you to do anything for our team..." Midoriya apologized in a low voice, but loud enough for Shousuke to hear.

"Less than 6 minutes left." He roared when he noticed that Shousuke was the main resister of their group against any attack. "We need to target Shousuke! His main attack and resistance!" He ordered Midoriya to gulp.

Todoroki then froze the floor around them, calling those around him aside from Shousuke's side. Then he ran past the frozen students without taking their headbands first. "I'm going to take these." He said to let the students in class 1B complain.

Midoriya sees Todoroki's group getting closer to him and tries to use the Mei jetpack, but it appears to be malfunctioning. "The backpack is breaking!!" he said and confronted May, who just smiled at him. "My baby!!! It still has room for improvement."

Midoriya looked down at Shousuke with a sorry face. "I'm sorry, Shosuke, we'll have to rely on you for a while longer." He apologized, but Shousuke just nodded his head, "it's okay," and regained his composure.

"They are too strong! We can't run away!" Uraraka cried.

Veins started to creep up his face and surrounded his eyes, Shousuke squeezed them shut tightly. Panicked, Midoriya started shaking Shosuke, trying to get him out of his tracks, but the dark purple-haired boy didn't mind. But when he opened his eyes, the eye sockets were completely white without a trace of color.

It took Midoriya's breath away, but he soon quickly understood what Shousuke had done. "Shousuke, stop them!" He decided.

Shousuke then removed one of his hands from under Midoriya's foot, and Shousuke's right arm began to glow purple. Immediately, he swung his arm towards Todoroki and his group of people, but Todoroki didn't think that it will make it to them, saying the distance between the was still far away.

But what he didn't expect was that the glowing arm suddenly appeared in front of him, with fingers touching the top of its palm, ready to attack him. 'Damn it! I'm almost sure he can solidify his quirk...' He thought

"Yaoyorozu!" Todoroki called out, as she made a shield to block Shousuke's attack. However, before the shield and the solidified arm came into contact, the shield was instantly shattered by the force around the arm, which made Yaoyorozu wince a little because the feeling of the shield being forcibly broken made her body shrink slightly.

Then the arm disappeared, and Shousuke quickly put his hand back at Midoriya's feet. "Damn it! Her creations are really weird and difficult to deal with, but Kaminari is no small threat." Midoriys muttered, trying desperately to strategize in their heads, but they were on the fringes of the battlefield, basically corners.

"1 minute left!" the Present Mic announced, making Midoriya gnash her teeth while trying to figure out a way to escape the one-minute delay and win.

"Todoroki, made it so he has tens of millions to himself to seize in an instant! " Present Mic yelled, then stood up, began to swing his body violently, and then pointed at the group of people in Hong. "At least that's what I thought five minutes ago! But it's unbelievable that Team Midoriya was able to keep away in that cramped space for five minutes!"

Todoroki and his group members took one step forward to Midoriya's team, but they took a step back. 'He keeps his distance, and stays on the left side.' Todoroki's narrowed his eyes while observing Midoriya's movements. 'He is paying attention. At this rate, If I want to freeze them over the short distance possible, I'll get Iida trapped. And if he keeps moving like this, I'll do myself in if I freeze indiscriminately. And Shousuke can defend against Kaminari's electricity... only one minute left...'

"Guys, we have less than a minute..." Iida said, drawing the attention of the others. "I'm afraid it will be useless after this, so it depends on you."

When approaching Shousuke narrowed his eyes and stared at Team Todoroki, but he quickly realized something and tried to tell Midoriya, but Iida rushed over at an unimaginable speed. "Shousuke-!" Before Midoriya finished speaking, he felt the hairband on his forehead torn.

"Damn... We need Shousuke-" When Midoriya saw the calm expression on Shousuke's face, he couldn't help but give a questionable look at the older, he looked back at Todoroki's team and saw that there was something on Iida's leg.

A small but noticeable purple bruise and a small spot of blood ran down his leg. And the other runners, Yaoyorozu and Kaminari, body's were glowing purple as they seem to be struggling to even take a step at a time. Immediately, Iida, Yaoyorozu, and Kaminari fell to the ground together, dropping Todoroki who wasn't doing too well.

Iida clenched his legs in pain before feeling that his leg was starting to go numb. Yaoyorozu and Kaminari tried to stand up, but they felt gravity binding them to the ground, immobilizing them.

"Shousuke!? How did you hit them? At Iida's speed!?" Midoriya asked as Present Mic screamed into his mic again.

"Whooooo! Team Todoroki doesn't seem to be looking good!" Present Mic exclaimed.

Team Midoriya team then started to run toward Todoroki's Team. Todoroki weakly raised his head as his vision was all blurry, all he could see was a blur of colors running towards him, "I, Iida...!, Yaoyorozu, K-K-Ka-Kaminari!" He tried to shout, but his team could barely move, so they couldn't defend. Todoroki tried to activate his quirk, but it didn't work as he felt his entire body's energy being sucked out. He felt so numb... He was so weak.

Shousuke's hand went to react for the one million headbands because he was the closes to it. But Todoroki's tried to stop him by using his left wrist to block the other hand. But what he didn't know was that when Shousuke was just about to reach for the headband a little fire appeared on Todoroki's arm, burning Shousuke's palm a little bit, but Shousuke didn't retract his hand instead he quickly grabbed the one million headbands from Todoroki's neck and handed it to Midoriya.

The feeling of the headband being ripped off, Todoroki clenched his fists and shut his eyes in frustration. However, he found that only one was taken away, and the others were not, and even his trick of putting a hundred thousand on the neck and the lowest point of the top of the head didn't work.

"Team Midoriya snatched back 1,000,000 points! Take advantage of the fact that the team is not moving!" Present Mic was about to go crazy, he looked at Aizawa, and was terrified of what he was about to attend class.

With 10 seconds left on the timer, Bakuhao's team broke through the ice barrier and rushed toward Green Valley and his group. Shousuke can't be bothered to do anything because he knows the timer will run out once Bakugou gets close to them.

"Deku!" Bakugo yelled as his hand got closer and closer.

"Times Up! End of the second round!" Present Mic yelled making Bakugo face plant onto the floor. Letting Midoriya down and walking towards Todoroki's group. First, his body stopped glowing making Yaoyorozu and Kaminari feel suddenly relief, but they still were having a bit of a hard time getting up. Then Shousuke made his way over to Iida who was still on the floor clenching his legs.

He placed both his hand above Iida's legs and they started glowing a light purple from underneath. He moved his hands around covering the bruise he left on Iida, he then lifted his hand away from Iida's legs raveling it to be completely healed. Iida was shocked by this but quickly thanked Shousuke for his gratitude.

Then finally Todoroki. Shousuke walked over to him calmly, yet Shoto gave him a harsh glare as Shousuke was just about to place his hand on Todoroki's shoulder, Todoroki saw a small burn mark on the palm of Shousuke's hand, which made his brows frown in a bit of guilt.

After a short while Shousuke placed his hand on Todoroki's shoulder and gave him back the energy that the dark purple-haired boy had taken. 

Shousuke then got up and went back to his team, leaving the group to recover. Shousuke stood next to Midoriya watching Bakugo act like a dolor slamming his fist down on the ground and everything.

"Now let's take a look at our top four teams!" Present Mic announced. "In First place, Team Midoriya! In Second place is Team Todoroki! In Third place is Team Bakugo! And lastly, 4th, Team Tetsu- Huh? It's Team Shino!?"

Suddenly Midoriya burst down in tears, 'Might as well be crying a whole river...' Shousuke thought as he raised his arms trying not to get wet.

"Shousuke!" Midoriya called out making Shousuke lower his hands as the tears finally stopped. "Shousuke! I'm sorry for making you do everything!" He said then bowed, Shousuke just nodded his head, meaning that it was okay, and turned around to leave the stadium and take a break.

chapter fifteen word count: 2216 words