ISSUE #6: Rivals
["Your indoor combat training is over. The Hero team WINNNNNNNS!"]
"Yeaaaaaahhhh! We did it!" Wade exclaimed with a big smile, after he swung over to Mina's side of the hole.
Mina quickly ran over to him and tackled into him, nearly knocking Wade over as she brought him into a bone-crushing hug. "You did it! You did it! You're so awesome!" Mina squealed with glee and joy. Wade grunted as she was actually kind of strong, but also blushed brightly because…well, she's a cute girl with a mature body hugging him.
"Filthy Hero!" Wade and Mina's attention were then caught when they heard Iida yelling from the hole the spider student kicked him in. Still hanging from the web line, Iida was still playing the role of the villain. "You'll rue the day you've…"
"Alright, Iida. It's over." Mina called down to him with a giggle, surprising him. "You can stop."
"Oh, right." Iida finally dropped the act. They all stayed where they were for a moment. With the Hero team staring at the speedster. "Would you mind cutting me down?"
Mina threw some acid at the web, melting it. And causing it to snap.
"AH!" Iida down to the floor, landing on his head and shoulders. "…Thanks…"
"Woo! Talking about intensive training. Am I right?" Mina commented with a happy-go-lucky smirk. Still so full of energy. But then again, she didn't fight Bakugo.
"I'll say. This class is intense." Wade replied back, before grabbing and taking off his mask. Looking at it, he saw that it was in for some much-needed repairs. He then turned to the pink girl. "You go on ahead, I'm going to go check on the hothead."
"You sure about that?"
"Trust me, with the training over, I doubt that All Might will let him do anything violent." Wade said with a chuckle, before jumping over the hole and then leaping out the window he broke through.
"Okay, bye!" Mina waved, not even fazed that he just jumped out of a window from an eight-story high build.
When Wade swung into the third floor through the massive hole, he imminently saw that there was likely going to be trouble.
As still as a statue, but trembling, Bakugo looked absolutely stunned that he'd lost. His attacks were all predicted by Wade, making him look like an idiot. And not only that, but he managed to win the exercise. "You…You were planning this…all from the beginning." He said, staring with wide eyes at Wade and panting in a way like he was in a panic. "You didn't use…your full power…From the start, you…you've been mocking me…!"
"Oh, for the love of God. Didn't you even hear what I did in the practical?" Wade sighed. "I didn't use my powers at the maximum because despite my durability, my body would've gotten messed up from the backlash. Plus, I could've killedyou."
Bakugo immediately shut up, as Wade walked over to him and patted him on the shoulder.
"You lost. End of the story. It's time to move one and strive to become better." Wade simply said to him, before taking his hand off Bakugo's shoulder and walking away. However, Bakugo wasn't finished and started hyperventilating. Trembling more violently and his eyes started to become bloodshot.
Does that mean that if he really fought back, and didn't hold back at all, he would beat him with his Quirk?
Bakugo stopped when the large hand of All Might was placed on his left shoulder, as the Pro Hero stood tall behind him. "Young Bakugo. Cool your jets." He told the young man. "Let's go review your work." Whether you win or lose, you can always take something away from an experience like this. As long as you're open to learning."
About several minutes later, after the end of the exercise and entering the monitoring room, Mina, Wade, Bakugo and Iida stood next to each other in the back of the room. In front of them was All Might and the other students of Class 1-A.
"Alright! I'm sure everyone can tell me who the player of the match was?" All Might said with his booming voice.
The response from the other students was immediate and simultaneous. "Walker!"
"Huh?!" Wade almost like a little shocked. Sure, he gave it his all in the match and his performance shouldn't have made it that much of a surprise, but he didn't think he'd deserve such praise. "Oh, come on. I wasn't that good." He said, a little embarrassed with a head scratch.
"You're kidding?! You were so manly back there!" Kirishima exclaimed with a grin.
"We were the ones watching, and you're the one that did the best." Tsuyu stated.
"Indeed, you impressed us with your performance, Wade." All Might smiled at the young man. "And with that being said, who'd like to example why Walker was the top player?" All Might asked, throwing up a fist.
"Sir! I can tell you why!" Wade saw it was Momo who wanted to answer. Raising her hand up, before blowing it. "Wade was the only one that embraced this challenge. He was the only one who truly adapted to his roles and completed to the best of his abilities."
She lowered her hand, but she wasn't done yet.
"I'll explain." Momo turned her head towards Bakugo, who looked down with his spiky hair covering his eyes. "Bakugo's judgement was clouded by a personal grudge against Wade. As you pointed out earlier, launching a large-scale attack indoors was a foolish move. It could have been disastrous."
Wade held up a hand. "Wait, what about Mina?" He asked.
"Your partner let her guard down mid-battle, though she was able to keep Iida in one place, she also risked the possibility of causing the building to collapse with her acid. She recklessly threw her powers around without thinking of the consequences."
"Dang it." Mina groaned.
"However, she was able to work together with Wade as a team." Momo then turned to Iida. "The only one that performed as excellent as Wade was Iida. He was fully prepared for his opponent's arrival. He had a strategy, and never lost sight of his mission to protect the dummy weapon, even if he was foiled in the end by simply not looking behind himself."
Iida looked like he was going to cry with joy.
Momo then turned to Wade, with a serious face still remaining. "As you Wade, you never lost sight of your mission, but also had made a quick and effective strategy with your partner. You may not have used your full powers, but you used everything from your Quirks abilities to knowing your opponent's moves and countering them. You looked past your personal grudge and tried to capture Bakugo as fast as you could so with the purpose of returning to Mina's side and completing your objective. When realizing that Bakugo wasn't going down without a fight, you outsmarted him and used his explosive Quirk and anger against him. And finally, even though Iida was the enemy, you took the time to make sure he didn't hurt himself, and then complete the whole test."
Everyone looked at her in silent amazement. This girl definitely had a good eye on her. All Might grunted a little, still stunned how she basically stated everything he wanted to say. "Yes…Well, you overlooked a few things. Young Walker spent too much time dealing with Bakugo and he was rather hard hitting and violent, but…otherwise, you nailed it!" All Might said, giving her a thumbs up.
"Maybe so, but it wasn't like Bakugo was giving him a choice." Momo said. "However his excellent performance may be, it's also good to remember that one should always start with the basics and devote themselves wholeheartedly to learning. That's the only real way to become a top Hero."
Wade could only stare at her in amazement. Momo may have been stating everything he did correctly in a professional manner, but she also basically complimented him. Then again, she was one of the to be admitted to the Hero Course based on recommendations. So, of course she'd be amazing.
'I think I'm in love...' Wade thought, with a bright blush. 'Wait, SHUT UP! What am I saying!? I just meant her!'
"Now then. Time to blow this joint." All Might said, having the same hero and villain boxes from before in front of him. "Let's move on to the next match! Think about everything we saw and discussed as you tackle his training for yourself."
"Yes, sir!" Everyone with the exception of Wade, Mina, Iida, and Bakugo.
"Match two! Team B will be our heroes! And Team I will be the villains," All Might announced. Wade, Mina, and Iida stood with the crowd of people watching the screen.
Standing outside of a new building, as to keep the locations unfamiliar with each team, the Hero team was ready to get going.
Team B was Shoto Todoroki and Mezo Shoji.
Inside the building was Team I, consisting of Mashirao Ojiro and Toru Hagakure.
Ojiro had blond hair, very small black eyes, a muscular build, and a large tail with a hairy tip. Unlike most students, he wears silver-colored sneakers instead of brown shoes in his uniform. His Hero costume was a white karate-like outfit with a partially furred collar and a hole behind for his tail.
As mentioned before, his as a Tail, which is actually his Quirk.
And for Toru, it was really hard to tell what she looked like because of her Quirk, Invisibility. Just like the name suggests, it granted her a completely invisible body. Because of this, none of Toru's physical features could be seen. However, the Quirk didn't extend to her clothing or any held in her hands.
This helped Wade determine that she was short in height. However, seeing her Hero costume, consisted of blue gloves with pink lines and brownish-gray shoes.
And that's it.
"Wait, is she…naked?"
"Hey, Ojiro," Toru said, as he was stretching his arms for the fight ahead of them. He looked at her after she called him. Toru inhaled, with only her micro transceiver being seen in her right ear. "Let's get serious. I'm gonna take off all my clothes and totally disappear."
"Yeah. Cool," Ojiro said with a smile and nod. Then he looked away, scratching his right cheek with a finger. Toru's using her Quirk to their advantage, but it's kind of weird and embarrassing knowing that he was standing only a few feet from a naked girl. What's he even supposed to do?
"Uh…Just don't look, okay?" said Toru in embarrassment.
"What's the difference?"
["Look alive, kids! Show us you're the embodiment of good. Or evil! Let's good!"]
And then the buzzer blared after All Might talked over the loudspeakers. And the timer started. The match started off with Shoji entering the building first, with Todoroki following behind.
Once they entered and stopped, Shoji spread out his six arms. The tips of four of the arms turned and morphed into ears. This was his Quirk; Dupli-Arms. This allowed Shoji to replicate different body parts on the tips of his arms—or tentacles.
It's actually really strange to see.
The ears turned into little, mini mouths. "One's in the hall one the north side of the fourth. And I think the other's on the same level somewhere. Both are barefoot." Shoji said through one mouth, then said through another mouth, "I bet the invisible one plans to sneak up and ambush us."
"For your own safety, go outside." Todoroki told him, walking past him. This confused his teammate a little. "I'm sure our opponents intend to fight a defensive battle." Todoroki held up a hand, and a cloud of cold air started to come out of it.
Todoroki placed his right hand on the wall. Using his Quirk, he started to freeze the structure in ice. From his right foot, ice also started to form, before it started to spread.
"But we've already won." Todoroki said.
Suddenly, ice started to freeze everything in the corridor from the walls, floor, and ceiling. Not only that, but it was quickly spreading at a rapid and continuous rate. The ice expanded down to all the halls and rooms on the first floor, before going up the stairs.
Seeing how Todoroki was right and figuring that he should follow his advice, Shoji turned and walked outside. -After doing so, he turned and watched as the entire building got frozen, until he was amazed to see it completely covered in ice.
"Ow, ow, ow!" Hagakure turned to get her feet out of the ice that suddenly covered everything, but she found it difficult to do so. "My feet are stuck!"
In the room with the dummy weapon, Ojiro was also frozen to the floor. "This Quirk is insane." He said with his body shivering by the cold. Then his attention was caught by the sound of footsteps crunching against the icy floor from the other side of the open doorway.
Those footsteps belonged to none other than Todoroki, who came walking into the room.
Ojiro got into a stance, ready to fight and defend the objective. "Pry yourself up if you want." The two-sided boy said as he approached him. "But it might be hard to fight me with no skin on the bottom of your feet."
With no chance of beating him, Ojiro was forced to let him walk right past.
"H-H-Hol-l-l-ly crap." Wade said through chattering teeth as he shivered. And he wasn't the only one. Almost everyone was affected by the cold from Todoroki's ice powers, and were cold because of it.
"He incapacitated them without compromising the weapon or his teammate." All Might said to the students, also freezing. "Take close note of his technique, students."
"Whoa, he's so strong!" Kirishima said.
And it was clear to Bakugo as well, who could only look at what he was seeing in shock. The truth would finally settle in for him. He came in first in the exam, but it wasn't enough. Just watching Todoroki, he realized he couldn't beat him in a head-to-head fight. And Bakugo hated to admit, but he agreed with what Momo said. His attack was so stupid. "Damn it..."
Todoroki placed his left hand on the weapon.
["The Hero team wins!"]
Todoroki narrowed his scowling eyes, as he used his other power. His secondary Quark. This caused the ice to melt when he used an intense heat. "Heat, too?" Ojiro gasped, as the ice everywhere started to melt.
And it wasn't just in that room. Just like before with his ice, all the frost on and in the building was melted away. Hagakure whimpered as she hopped up and down on her feet. The ice may have melted, but now it was hot water. "Ow, ow, ow!"
Todoroki took his left hand off the dummy bomb. "It's not your fault. We're just playing on different levels." And that wasn't hard to see why. Todoroki was another of the four admitted to the Hero course based on recommendations, just like Momo.
And he was packing a powerful Quirk. Called Half-Cold, Half-Hot. He's able to freeze with the right side of his body, and then uses flames with his left side. As of now, the range of his abilities was unknown.
"Holy crap!" Sato exclaimed after witnessing the end of the test.
"That guy's kind of intimidating." Kaminari said, getting the creeps to see how devastated could be Todoroki's quirk.
"He got in on a recommendation, so he must be good. Ribbit." Tsuyu stated.
"Moving on! Time to gather 'round for a review of the second match. After that, we'll jet on over to our next battle!"
"Yes, sir!"
And so that's how it was for the remainder of the class. In Battle Building C, it was Team J against Team H.
Sero and Kirishima were the villains. Sero got to work on setting up a defensive environment, with the use of his Quirk Tape, which allows him to eject adhesive tape from openings located on both of his elbows. Using his Quirk, he stretched tape from wall to wall, creating a web like barrier around the weapon.
Kirishima used his Hardening Quirk, which allowed him to harden any part of his body. Protects him from most physical threats, and also granting the redhead offensive power by turning his hardened body rough and sharp like rocks.
Now they were ready for Tsuyu and her teammate, Fumikage Tokoyami.
Tokoyami stood out defiantly. He was a young man with a bird-shaped head that includes a yellow beak and red eyes. Despite those traits, his body was a normal human's and he has human teeth. His costume consisted of a dark robe with a purple tint that covered his entire torso and knee-high black boots.
Walking down the hall on the first floor, Tokoyami stopped, before two giant, shadow claw-like arms came out from underneath his cloak. These arms come from Dark Shadow, a Quirk that grants Tokoyami a shadowy monster-like being within his body that he can materialize and dematerialize at any moment.
Tsuyu called along the walls, with her Quirk; Frog. Much like Wade's Spider-Quirk, Tsuyu had the abilities of…well, a frog.
Next match, Team C were the villains. So, taking in all the information and seeing what everyone did, Momo got to work setting up her defense. Starting with barricading all doorways with metal plates. She was actually able to make these plates with the use of her Creation-Quirk, which allowed Momo to materialize different inorganic objects from any exposed part of her body.
As she was at work, her partner, Mineta, was standing close by but wasn't really helping at all. He was instead staring at her figure. He blushed, giggled stupidly, and gave a thumbs up. When she saw this, Momo gave Mineta a harsh look, making the little pervert laugh nervously.
Meanwhile, on the floor below them, Kaminari was with his partner, Kyoka Jiro. A petite, slender girl with fair skin, triangular onyx eyes, and short purple hair with asymmetric bangs that also had lavender colored streaks that resembled sound waves on both sides of her head.
Her Hero costume consisted of a black leather jacket, long salmon-colored shirt with several rips at the collar and bottom, black pants, and boots with stereos in them. She also sports two small, red triangle facial marks just below her eyes, a plain black choker, and white fingerless gloves.
Jiro's most notable feature was her plug-like earlobes which seem to be able to change their length and control at will. This was part of her Quirk; Earphone Jack.
Controlling one of her earlobes, she moved and stabbed it into the wall. Jiro then closed her eyes and listened to any faint sounds that she was able to hear across even extremely thick walls. When she heard the Momo and Mineta were directly above them, she turned to Kaminari and pointed up at the ceiling.
Kaminari and held up his hand. His Electrification-Quirk showed when he charged volts of electricity in his right hand.
For the last match, it was Ochaco's team against Team F.
Up on the top floor, Sato was ready to fight. With an intense grunt, he got into a fighting stance. Though this did frighten his partner, Koji Koda. He was a tall and large muscular boy with a head that had the form of a rock, which was unevenly shaped and pointed at the top, and his jaw was square shaped. His skin was also peach colored. Despite his appearance, he was actually really shy.
Down below, Ochaco and Aoyama were walking through the hallway of the first floor.
"Let's go!" Ochaco exclaimed with excitement, punching her fist up in the air. But then she accidentally stepped on Aoyama's cape. Feeling the snag, Aoyama looked behind and saw her stepping on it. Getting him to start groaning. "Uh, oops!"
The final whistle blew, and everyone was standing in front of All Might near the exit of the Battle Center. After what felt like hours of the student groups fighting under 15 minutes each match, before All Might evaluated them on their performance—with Momo getting involved, too—they were all finished.
"That's a wrap! Super work!" All Might told them all. "You really stepped up to the plate. And, we didn't have any major injuries. You should be proud. Excellent first day of training, all around!"
"It's nice to hear some encouraging words after our homeroom classroom." Tsuyu said as she turned to the other classmates.
"I'll say." Wade commented, thinking back to Aizawa and his attitude. "Mr. Aizawa's not exactly a fun teacher." Everyone nodded to that.
"I'm happy to bring such staggering positivity to my alma mater! That's all for now, folks. We'll continue this tomorrow. Now, watch how a Pro exits. Like he's got somewhere to be!" And with that, All Might turned and ran down the long exit at breakneck speeds. Causing some of the students to cover their face from the winds blowing back into their faces.
"Okay, you guys, that is a Hero!" Kaminari said with a big grin on her face.
"Aw, I'll never be able to run that fast." Ojiro complained.
"Super awesome!" Mineta said.
As he ran from them, All Might looked over his shoulder, looking at Wade, before he looked over the lad's right shoulder and saw Bakugo. His spiky hair covering his hair. His successor was right, the blonde boy really was overflowing with pride. Bakugo's ego may be justified, but a school like U.A. was bound to shatter it. That ego had already taken a hit when Wade showed himself to be the dominant fighter. As his teacher, it's All Might's sworn duty to counsel him well.
It'll have to wait though, as steam was starting to come off his body. He couldn't hold this form any longer.
All Might started coughing when he reached an elevator that was used by staff only. Entering into it, he hits the close-door button. Once they closed, he panted for a moment, before finally letting go and releasing himself from his form in a puff of smoke. All Might panted while being frustrated with himself. He barely had enough time to teach a class.
Riding up the elevator, All Might took a moment to think back to Wade. He's done well. Far better than what he could've ever hoped for. All Might wasn't trying to play favorites. He wanted to consider the boy's feelings, though. Wade needed to see that he was capable of winning the exercise.
Several people knew about his injuries and his weak form. Like the U.A. faculty and a certain group of Pro Heroes, for example. However, only a select few people knew the secret of One for All. There's Recovery Girl, the principal, and a very close friend of his. Wade, too, of course, but no one else knew the truth about his powers.
A part of him was guilty of what he was asking of Wade. Back then, he was still a grieving boy, and All Might asked him to become the next Symbol of Peace. Some would ask why All Might needed to be the Symbol of Peace and why it was so important.
However, if the world knew that he wasn't, the temptation of this power could corrupt their society.
This Quirk…Those who wield it are responsible for mankind's safety.
Wade sighed as he walked back to the classroom. He was the last one to exit out of the locker room and then going to be the last one to get back to class. There were still all of the afternoon classes. And with him being the last one out, Wade wondered if he was going to get choked by Aizawa and his scarf.
Pushing open the door, Wade walked and caught the attention of everyone when Kirishima exclaimed. "Hey, look who it is!" Wade was a little surprised when he was approached by the redhead, Sero, Mina, Sato, and Tsuyu. "Man, I don't know what you're saying during the match, but you were all fired up, huh?"
"I can't believe you held your own against Bakugo—And the way you swing around with your webs is pretty cool!" Sero added.
"Honestly, I kinda expected you'd shot webs out of your butt." Kaminari said with a chuckle.
"THAT'S DISGUSTING!" Everyone who's standing around Wade cringed at Kaminari's comment. Ochako laughed awkwardly because she thought the same thing before, but now she was too embarrassed to admit to everyone.
"You were so cool dodging! I wish I could've been there to see it!" Mina beamed with a big smile.
"Yeah, and you surprised us when you can also turn invisible! I thought I was the only one who could do that!" Toru exclaimed, wearing her school clothing, yet her body was still invisible.
"You guys really turned in the first match, so none of us held back in our rounds, either!" Sato said with a smirk, with Sero nodding in agreement.
Aoyama was seated at the desk next to the door. "You were far from elegant, but I suppose—"
"And the dodging was like, whoa!" Mina exclaimed gleefully, interrupting Aoyama again.
"Oh… Well, thank you!" Wade said with an embarrassed blush. He wasn't used to being praised by this many people. Or even being this popular. "Well, my name's…"
"Dude, we already know your name, Wade!" Kirishima laughed, cutting in before he finished. "I'm Eijiro Kirishima. We saw the fight and we've been taking inspiration from it." he said, pointing to Sero over his shoulder with his thumb. "And then showed it to Mina."
"Hi. I'm Hanta Sero, good to meet you." Sero said with a toothy grin.
"My name is Denki Kaminari, hope we can get along!" Kaminari said with a thumb up.
"Hi! I'm Toru Hagakure!" The invisible girl waved her invisible hand.
"More importantly, I'm Yuga Ao—" Aoyama was interrupted when Mina jumped in front of him, bouncing because she wasn't able to contain her excitement.
"You already know me, and I've just got to say that when I watched the video of your fight, you became the coolest person to have as a partner!" Mina exclaimed with a bright grin.
Tsuyu then poked herself out from behind the pink girl. "Tsuyu Asui. But please, call me 'Tsu'."
"Hey, I'm Sato." The big young man said.
Wade smiled at them. "Well. It's great to meet you all." He said to them, before Mineta jumped up in front of him.
"And my name's Mineta!"
"Whoa! Where the heck did you come from!?" Wade jumped back, sometimes he forgot there was a shorty student in this class.
Momo watched from her desk as Wade was crowded around by some of the other students. She was kind of hoping to talk to him more, but it looked like he was going to be busy. "He sure is becoming popular." Ochaco said, walking over to her desk with her usual smile.
"Indeed." Momo said with her own smile.
"So nosy." Tokoyami said, sitting on his desk with Jiro and Ojiro standing near him.
"Tokoyami!" Iida shouted, catching everyone's attention as he marched over to the bird-headed boy. "Stop using that desk as a chair! Get off it this instant!"
"Dude, you need to chill." Jiro said with a deadpan tone.
"Uh—"
"You're carrying a lot of tension." Ojiro added, pointing at him.
Iida sloughed his back a little. "No one understands." He moaned, before bouncing back up to his normal self. "I cannot condone actions that disrespect these desks. Not when great men and women, our upperclassmen, once used them!"
Wade stared at him with a raised brow. Iida never seemed to take a moment to relax. Thinking he needed to get to know the rest of the class, he decided to talk with the others.
"Hey guys, I think we didn't introduce ourselves before, have we?" He said as he walked up to the desk where Toyotama was sitting.
"We haven't." Tokoyami spoke as he turned to Wade. "I'm Fumikage Tokoyami."
"Mashirao Ojiro, nice to meet you." The young man with a tail said with a smile. "And she's Kyoka Jiro." He pointed at the purple haired girl next to him.
"Sup." She said nonchalantly.
"The ones standing over there are Mezo Shoji and Koji Koda." Ojiro pointed to the taller man with six arms and the silent boy with the rock-shaped head.
"Hey!" Wade waved at them.
Shoji only nodded with his head, but Koda seemed to be sweating and tried to avoid eye contact.
"Don't mind him, he's just very shy." Jiro chuckled at Koda's reaction.
"You were amazing at the test. No one could have imagined you would gain the upper hand against Bakugo and his destructive quirk." Ojiro commented with a smile.
"Speaking of which, is he okay?" He looked at where Bakugo sat down and saw the Explosive boy sitting there with his hair covering his eyes.
Wade looked at him with a look of confusion. "Okay, that's a little odd."
"He's been like that when he came here." Tokoyami responded. "He hasn't moved a muscle nor he spoke to any of us."
"Yeah, no doubt he's upset after his loss." Ojiro agreed.
"I guess it would be better to give him some space. After seeing him going nuts in the test, I don't wanna imagine what would happen if we lit his short fuse." Jiro stated while staring at Bakugo.
"Yeah, maybe you're right." Wade didn't even think he would talk to Bakugo, but he couldn't help but feel this was very strange for him. Maybe Bakugo finally learned how wrong he was about everything.
When school let out, Wade was walking out of the U.A. building. He had his head down, as some students walked past him. The events of today and the assessment test spread like wildfire to the rest of the school. Almost every student he passed looked and whispered to each other at the sight of him. Including one blonde that looked jealous.
As he trekked down the path leading to the gate, Wade looked up to see Bakugo walking a few feet away ahead of him.
"There you are!"
FWOOSH!
All might speed right by Wade, almost knocking him down. He stopped when he stood right behind Bakugo and grabbed him by the shoulders. "Bakugo! I found you!" All Might said, panting a little. "Just so you know, pride is an important attribute to have. But while you certainly have the abilities to become a Pro Hero, there's still plenty you have to learn!"
"Let go of me, All Might. Right. Now." Bakugo growled, which made All Might look at him with confusion. Bakugo looked at him over his shoulder with a glare. "Save your speeches. I'll be more famous than you, and I'll do it without your help."
"Uh—" All Might really didn't have any idea what to do to respond. He must have been over it already. He just complied with Bakugo and released him. "Uh…right." Man, being a teacher was hard.
Bakugo then turned around and glared right at Wade, taking him aback a little. Did he know that he was walking right behind him? "Enjoy that win, Walker. You won't get another! I'm just getting started! Got that?!" He yelled at him. "I'm gonna end up the number-one Hero, no matter what!" Bakugo turned and walked away. "You'll never beat me again, you bastard. Don't even try."
Wade sighed a little and scowled back. Bakugo's fire's been lit. Their fated battle was over, and Wade's won. But the war wasn't over. Wade knew what he had to do.
He'll keep on becoming better than what he was.
"May the best man win."