-Oh so just a race then. Great, we should dominate this, no problem.-
Mina, who stood at Izuku's side, evidently felt the same.
"A race! Sweet! We'll dominate this so hard, right Midori?"
"Ye-Yeah
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They weren't wrong. A race really would be like it tailor to him most of all. As far as he knew, none of the class could fly. But he could jump over 50 meters no problem. And not at small speeds either.
Whatever obstacles there would be, he could simply soar above them.
He could do this.
"This race will be between all 11 of Yuei's classes."
As Midnight kept talking, the wall in front of them began to mechanically fold themselves to the sides, revealing a relatively narrow corridor.
"The race itself will be 4 kilometers long, and also…"
Her face suddenly got an expression of pure sadistic glee, that did not belong on a teacher of children.
"Our school preaches freedom in all things, sooo…. Everything is fair game, so long as you don't go of course! Now get into position."
As they got into positions(which was a fancy way of saying a huge crowded cluster of people), Venom decided to pop in with some commentary of his own.
-You know, it's been a while since we meet a school teacher who encourages students to randomly attack each other with a sadistic grin on their face.-
Izuku ignored him, and instead focused on the upcoming race start.
Which was signaled by three lights over the corridor they were to enter.
The first one to the right flashed red. Izuku tensed, but almost immediately, the next one flashed after it, and then, before he was ready, the third one flashed, and with a ding sound, along with a massive shout of "STAAARRTTT!" from Midnight, the race was on.
…And Immediately, The pressure of almost a hundred students trying to cram themselves into a corridor made itself known, as everyone tried to force their way in at once. The lucky ones were in the front, and unless they were overtaken by those behind, they shouldn't have any problems keeping their lead.
Not that Izuku had any plans of going through the mass of people. On the contrary, he let the mass move past him so he stood behind them, giving him more space to move.
He had not practiced wall-running, which was an obvious mistake on his part. He would have to rectify that later.
However, he had practiced another, more situational move, actually designed for flinging himself through the open air.
With a quick bit of aiming, two lines of black slammed themselves onto the sides of the corridor, a bit over the heads of any students.
Izuku quickly began walking backward, and quickly the webs tightened, as tension began to build like the rope of a catapult. Which incidentally was what Venom had called this move.
You webbed yourself to a solid source, then forced tension and weight into the webs by moving backward, then once the tension had built up, you simply cut it by releasing the stickiness to the ground, and you would be flung like a Boulder from a catapult.
Easy, simple, and not too hard to use.
It was a move that would easily have let Izuku soar above the entire rest of the students of their year, and net him the number one spot with a wide margin, despite the time needed to set up.
Alas, the moment he let go and was beginning to be flung through the air, a mechanical tendril, shot up from the crowd, and sliced through one of his webs with a blade.
And thus, rather than flying triumphantly through the air, he instead was sent flying off course and slammed into the wall inside the corridor, then bounced off it and kept going.
The force was still easily enough to fling him through the corridor, and over the mass of students though.
Izuku slammed hard into the ground with such force that he made the ground, which for some reason had been frozen, crack and splinter, as he bounced off it and kept going.
It was rather lucky he didn't hit any of his fellow students, because if he had, the speed and force he flew at would probably have broken their necks.
As it was, Izuku finally stopped maybe 20 meters from the exit.
He groaned, and began to stagger himself to his feet, feeling the pain of the impacts upon his body. It wasn't nearly as bad as being hit by Uraraka or Rhino, but it still hurt a lot.
It wasn't before he realised that people were actually running past him, that reality hit him again.
He was still in a race. Idiot. Moron, stupid boy, get moving!
He snapped around, and there, in front of him, he saw several students all running. In lead was Todoroki, who seemed to freeze the ground behind him, making it a pain to run for those who followed him.
Well. He wasn't planning on running.
Not for long anyway.
He began to run, to build up speed.
Unlike his fellow students, he had no problems running on ice, Venom's black mass keeping him anchored to the ground.
He bent down, preparing to jump.
Then he soared.
He took over the lead almost instantly, with the speed he flew dwarfing anyone else.
In that moment, peace came to his mind. It was just him and the sky, nothing else. Not crowds, not cameras, not his fellow students. Nothing, but him and the air.
Then, with a burst of horror, he realised the path curved to the left, and he was in danger of overshooting it and being disqualified.
He instantly slammed a webline straight down into the ground, and immediately he changed course downwards, just barely avoiding going off the set course.
He slammed into the ground like a Boulder, though he landed right on his feet with no problems.
Immediately after landing, Todoroki passed by, and froze him up to his neck in a thick layer of ice.
Izuku was taken by surprise for a moment, then, putting some muscle into it, he simply stood up, breaking the ice with no particular difficulty.
Then he kept running after Todoroki, only to see Mineta, the purple haired Dwarf launch himself at Todoroki.
… Only to be immediately swatted away by a robot, slamming into the side of the course. Izuku looked at him with a worried look, but he was alive and judging by how he got back in his feet, he was relatively fine.
The robot who had just sent him flying was one of the robots from the entrance exam.
Upon seeing it clearly as it turned around to face the rapidly approaching Izuku, a vague memory of kicking this particular model's head like an American football popped into Izuku's head.
This time a black line slammed into from above, a large, white tooth punching through it's skull with particular difficulty.
Izuku dissolved the line and kept running. Then, something hit the ground with enough force to make the earth shake.
Upon looking up, he didn't have any trouble seeing what it was.
There, ahead of him, having seemingly popped out of nowhere so suddenly that even Todoroki had stopped in his tracks for the moment, was the zero point robot from the entrance exam.
10 of them.
Lining the course from one side to the other.
Izuku stopped in his tracks to stare in shock, just like Todoroki had.
That was a mistake however, as two blurs moved past both him and Todoroki.
To his right, was a blur of pink, that could only be Mina Ashido. To his left, a brown blur that left bolts of pink lightning in her vake.
Both of them passed Todoroki in a flash, leaving him far behind. In Uraraka's case, she made a jump, hitting one of the massive robots, then jumping off of it and past.
Mina took the less subtle approach and just burst her way straight through with a mass of acid.
-Get moving-
Right, this wasn't the time to stand and gawk.
He began running, building up speed again, and preparing a leap above them. They were just 5-6 stories tall. He could make that leap surely.
Todoroki froze two in one instant with not difficulty, then he quickly ran forward.
Izuku was about to jump. Then, he froze.
The two enormous titans of steel had been moving forward when Todoroki froze them, and they were not in stable positions, not stable at all.
They weren't a danger to Todoroki who ran beneath them at max speed, but for those who came after him…
He made the decision.
He slammed his hands forward, and two scythes launched forward, embedding themselves into the main body of the one to the left.
He rose up, only to slam his foot down for support for what he was about to do next.
He wrenched the enormous, massive robot to the right, the strain as he put his back into it, feeling like it was about to rip him apart.
The robot flew, a mixture between the enormous pull, and it's own precarious position making it easier for it to be wrenched off it's feet, and it slammed into the one on the right, the enormous weight sending it crashing into the robot to it's own right.
Izuku, didn't stop to listen to either the surprised reaction of his classmates, or Present Mic's commentary. He made another leap, this time landing in the front of a massive staircase.
He could see Mina, Uraraka and Todoroki up ahead. For whatever reason, Todoroki had not frozen the staircase behind him.
How nice. Not that it would have mattered to Izuku.
He took the staircase in one go, soaring past both of the Girls and landing on a… A giant, flat topped stalagmite?
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