➤( CHAPTER 014 ! )
"is it too late"

"LET'S SEE WHAT'S IN STORE FOR you next! Will your wild fantasies come to life? What could it be? The wait is torture! Prepare yourself..." Midnight exclaimed as the hologram behind her started to pick.

".... A cavalry battle? I'm terrible at those..." Kaminari frowned and grumbled, Shousuke also frowned at the next event. He wasn't really good with teamwork.

"Let me explain, shall I? The participating can form a team of four people as they wish. It's as you expect but based on the results from last round, your points have been determined!" Midnight announced once again pointing to the screen behind her. The screen beginning at  44 at 5 points 43 at 10 point and so on.

"However, first place is worth.... 10 million point!" Midnight smirked sadistically as everyone turned to Shousuke with a devilish gleam in their eyes. Shousuke lowered his head as three purple lines appeared at the back of his head and let out a sigh and a little sweat rolled down his cheek. 'Is it too late to back out?' Shousuke thought.

"Now, I will explain the rules. You have a time limit of 15 minutes. the point value of each others group's headband is worth the total point accumulation of each of the warhorse's members. And the one wearing the headband will be the warhorse's rider! Think of he or she as a standard bearer. Until time's up you'll all be fighting and stealing as many of each others headbands as you can! But! You may not equip you're headband on any area besides above your neck! As more as the head bands are take, maintaining control of the situation will be more and more demanding! And the most important  aspect of out human cavalry game, is that even id you should lose your headbands or crumble as a horse configuration, You're still not out of the game! Now, form your team!"

As expected no one wanted to be one Shousuke team due to his high bounty. He didn't even care that he was left alone, until.

"Komi-Kun!" A hand was placed on his shoulder he turn around and saw, Uraraka with Midoriya and another pink haired girl. "You're our final person."

See that he had no one but himself, he nodded his head agreeing. Midroya lit up in relief as the pinked haired girl pushed him out of the ways and grabbed Shousuke's hand and started shaking it rapidly. "Tied in first place and a psychic?! Man, I've gotten so luck that my babies will be on display for everyone." Shousuke shook his hand back and looked at Midoriya in confusion, giving a face saying Who is this girl? Midoriya quickly told him that her hand was Hatsume Mei and that she was from the department of support.

"So, Who's going to be rider?" Uraraka questioned as Mei turned to Shousuke but he quickly turned his head and looked at Midoriya. 

The green haired boy felt the teller's boy glaze and agreed. "I'll be rider, Shousuke you should be in the front, you're very quick and you'll be able to defend us from the front and the back, and Uraraka and Hatsume you two should go at the sides.

Everyone seemed to agree with Midoriya then Midnight came over to them and handed them their headbands, which wasn't really that necessary considering how many point both Shousuke and Midoriya had.

"ALRIGHT! Time's up!" Present Mic exclaimed getting excited for the start of the cavalry battle. "Light the signal fire!"

All riders now started hopping on there teammates back. Shousuke turned around and brought his hands to the to the back allowing Midoriya to step on them as Uraraka and Mei did the same but both of their hands where supporting one side of Midoriy's heel.

"Three!" Present Mic clenched his fist in excitement.

TEAM BAKUGO
Katsuki Bakugo: 195 P
Ejiro Kirishima: 170 P
Mina Ashido: 120 P
Sero Hanat: 175 P
Total: 660 P

"Two!" Present Mic was now shaking the injured Aizawa back and forwards and side to side.

"Just get one target..." Todoroki uttered to his group below him.

TEAM TODOROKI
Shoto Todoroki: 200 P
Tenya Iida: 185 P
Momo Yaoyorozu: 130 P
Denki Kaminari: 95 P
Total: 610 P

"One!" Aizawa now has the loud mouth wrapped in around his hair.

TEAM MEDORIYA
Ochako Uraraka: 135 P
Mei Hatsume: 10 P

TEAM MIDORIYA
Shousuke Komi: 10,000,000 P
Izuku Midoriya: 205

"Start!" Midnight intercepted as the rapid movement of footsteps was hears as all the teams started charging for Midoriya and his group.

"In essence, this is a completion for that Ten million!" Tetsutesu shouted as his group got closer to Midoriya's group.

"What do we do? Deku?!" Urarak asked looking worriedly at him as she watch all the other teams get closer to them.

"Employ our escape move!" Midoriya answered, but suddenly the ground below them started getting softer, Shousuke looked down and noticed at they were sinking. He then brought his glaze up straight at one class 1B student. 'It must be his quirk...'

Suddenly Then Shousuke's body started glowing as he jumped into the air throwing the whole team up along with him, successfully getting them out of the trap that was set for them.

Shousuke successfully landed after knocking Jiro's ear jack out of their way, as the others looked at him in shock at his strength and speed. "Amazing! I knew I made the right choice of picking this group!" Mei exclaimed and pumped a fist in the air as they continued running, dodging all the other teams as they charged towards them once again.

"You're incredible, Shousuke! You have much skill and sense of awareness!" Midoriya complemented, but got a hum in return as Shousuke continued running.

"Next time, we should use my babies! instead of instead of Mr. psychic incase he get 'tired'." Mei suggested, even though the group knew that she only cared about showing off.

"Gah! My foot is suck!" Uraraka cried as she looked down and saw a familiar purple ball under her feet.

"It's one of Mineta's thing! Where did he even chuck it from?!" Midoriya questioned, then looked back and saw Shoji running towards them.

"Team Mineta has made good use of the starling difference in its members body parts! They might as well be a war tank!" Present Mic announced making the camera bot direct their camera at Mineta's team.

"Over here, Midoriya!" Mineta called out with a smirk as he held another one of his purple hair ball in his hand, as another recognizable quirk in the shape of a long frog tongue flew out at them. It tried to go for Midoriya's headband but was stopped by a shield that suddenly appeared in front of Midoriya.

The green haired boy was shocked by this and quickly looked down and saw that Shousuke's whole body was glowing along with his hair flowing up. 'Shousuke!' Midoriya thought in pure happiness know that Shousuke has his back.

Midoriya then quickly hit the button of the jetpack that was given to him from Mei, and their group was sent shooting into the sky once more. However in the result of escaping, Uraraka boots that were given from Mei were ripped off. "No! My babies!" Mei cried at her broken creation.

Loud explosions from the back made Shousuke turn his head back to he the hot headed Bakugo right on their tail. "Kacchan!" Midoriya called out trying to figure out an solution. "Shousuke!" Shousuke got the plead for help and turned around and faced Bakugo.

Psychic energy started flowing through Shousuke's body then down to his right hand that supported Midoriya. He then moved his hand away from under the green haired boy. Shousuke then moved his hand upwards creating at wall, that appeared out of thin air.

When Bakugo's explosion made contact with that wall, the explosion rebounded back at Bakugo, but the hot headed boy brought his arms to his face forming an 'X' and successfully blocked the explosion. But he didn't have much time to counter when Shousuke appeared in front of him and delivered a powerful kick to his stomach, in order to push him back as Bakugo was then wrapped in tape and brought back to his group.

"The rider can detach from the horse?! Is that even allowed !!?" Present Mic questioned loudly making Aizawa grumble.

"Nice catch!" Kirishima said to Sero, as the tape boy dragged Bakugo back to his group.

"It's only technical so it's okay!!" Midnight said while sticking a thumbs' up. "The rider his just not allowed to plant his or hers feet on the ground!"

Midoriya was shocked by this, he didn't once feel Shousuke's hand leave his feet, he then looked down and saw a glowing hand underneath him and he instant understood what Shousuke did. 'Shousuke, is so cool!'

Shousuke's group landed once more as Shousuke placed his hand back under Midoriya feet making sure that the green haired boy wouldn't fall.

"Not half bad, are they, Those class 1A kids...!" Death arms muttered whiles watching the event that was taking place with Mt Lady. "It's fun just watching all of their flashy moves! So just by facing off against villains once could make this a big difference!" Mt Lady added.

"WHAT'S RIGHT! Whether it's the boy in first place who being chased or the rest of class A, now doing the chasing, this here's a veritable congregation of top dog! Let's briefly confirm that by checking their current point values!" Present Mic announced, making the crowd turn the attention to the big screen above them.

".... Whoa Damn!!?" Present Mic said while scratching the side of his head in confusion, even Aizawa was shocked by the results. "Wait one gosh darn second...! You mean class 1A aren't taking it by mile, well apparat from Midoriya's team, and oh my gosh, Bakugo what happened?! Team Bakugo has zero points!"

Shousuke suddenly halted, making the whole group bump into each other as they looked at Shousuke as to what happened and what was the reason why they stopped. Both Shousuke feet were covered in thick layer of ice as Todoroki's team was now in front of them.

"I'll be taking that now."

chapter fourteen word count: 1767 words