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With the first match decided, the other students moved to the watching room, where there were multiple screens showing in real time what was going in the building the match was to take place.

Shinso was paired with the insect-looking teen, Togaru Kamakiri. With Shinso using the capturing weapon and the other teen having a quirk that made blades, it might be hard for them to fight together in an enclose space. Although, from what Yousuke knew, it wasn't like Shinso to go in without a plan.

As for the other team, Kaoruko Awata was the one with the bubbles, while Pony Tsunotori had horns she could shoot and somewhat control. Yousuke didn't know how many she could control at once, but that wasn't that big of a problem since she could just keep shooting horns.

Since team G was the villain team, they had to sit inside the building and defend their paper-mache bomb. Team G has the territory advantage since they're allowed to set up traps or whatever inside the building for a few minutes before the hero team can go in.

The hero team wins if they either capture the villain team with capture tape or touch the bomb. Conversely, the villain team wins if 10 minutes pass and the bomb explodes or if they knock out the hero team.

In the short time they had before the hero team was allowed in, Shinso and Togaru decided on a plan of action: Togaru would go and confront the hero team first and tire them out if he can't knock them out, so that Shinso could easily capture them once they reach the bomb room.

The buzzer rang, and the hero team rushed inside. The two girls were flying on Pony's horns, each standing on two horns each, so they were much more discreet than if they ran.

The villain team heard the buzzer too, so Togaru made rather large blades in preparation. From what Yousuke could see, the teen couldn't remove the blades from his body, but that suited the insect-looking teen just fine. He was using a bunch of tiny blades he'd made from his feet to hang from the ceiling in the stairwell. He wasn't planning on actually hurting the girls with the blades, this was a training exercise after all, so he intended to hit them with the blunt of the blades.

It didn't take long for the hero team to encounter Togaru, who, despite wearing what looked like black rags, wasn't that well camouflaged because he had, well, huge blades jutting out of him. Regardless of that, the teen took advantage of the fact that the hero team hadn't properly seen him, and jumped from his spot, blades overhead about to strike the two girls.

The large blades crashed heavily on the floor, and the hero team had fallen off the horns trying to dodge out of the way. Togaru was momentarily stuck before retracting the blades in his body, though he was almost hit by Pony's horns, the girl having elected to shoot them at the teen.

As Togaru and Pony were locked in a stalemate, neither of them being able to best the other, neither of the two teens noticed Kaoruko slowly drawing closer.

Togaru was just swinging his blade-hands at the horns, when he noticed a small, harmless bubble approaching him with the corner of his eye. Almost reflexively, he sliced at it, not expecting anything extraordinary from it. It was just a soap bubble, after all.

The teen sniffed the air once, before thinking that it was a weird smell.

'Wait a min-' were Togaru's last thoughts before falling unconscious.

Pony was similarly surprised at that. She hadn't known her ally could do something like that. Though she soon snapped out of it as she saw Kaoruko wrap Togaru in capture tape.

"Togaru Kamakiri has been successfully captured by the hero team!" All Might's voice blared in the intercom speakers.

It was so unexpected Shinso had almost fallen off from where he was dangling off one of the support beams.

"The fuck?" he muttered.

If Togaru was already defeated, he couldn't let the hero team get to the bomb room. It'd be way too close for comfort. Thinking that, the purple-haired teen went down to the floor and quietly moved towards the hero team.

It didn't take long before the hero team was in sight for Shinso, so the teen used his capture weapon to ensnare the closest hero to him, which happened to be Kaoruko, binding her hands to her body.

Before Pony could shoot him down, he moved Kaoruko before him, to act as a human shield. He checked how much capturing weapon length he had left, and almost cursed as he didn't have much remaining since he accidentally used too much on Kaoruko. He wasn't dexterous enough yet to be able to unwrap just a bit of it without freeing the girl.

"You don't want to hurt your partner, do you, hero?" he asked, faux-maliciously. If he could just activate his quirk right now, he was sure he'd win.

Much to his distress, the girl didn't reply to him, choosing to have four horns hover around her. Shinso didn't know how fast she could shoot those horns, but just the size of them made him wary. He once again tried to make Pony speak.

"Don't try anything, or else..." he didn't finish the sentence, instead he tightened the capturing weapon, making Kaoruko grunt.

"Or else what? You'll-" replied Pony, much to Shinso's elation.

'You fell for it, you fool!' he thought, seeing the girl stiffen, as her eyes lost their glimmer.

He was feeling cathartic at the moment.

'The match started pretty bad, but I made it, in the end.' Shinso thought.

"Okay, drop the capture tape." he ordered, and the girl followed suit.

His quirk didn't let him make his victims do things that require some kind of advanced brain function, like talking or writing a name from their memory, but his order was simple enough.

Shinso only had to capture Pony and the match would end. But when he moved to the other girl, Kaoruko had made another bubble while he wasn't paying attention. When the bubble popped, a strange smell spread around.

"What's thi-" mutterd Shinso, and much like his teammate before, he fell unconscious. The capturing weapon slackened, so Kaoruko slipped out of it, before wrapping the boy with capturing tape."

"Shinso Hitoshi has been captured! Hero team WINS!" came the loud declaration from the Symbol of Peace.

With Shinso unconscious, Pony wasn't under his control anymore, so the two girls grabbed the unconscious teens and walked to the watching room.

"Excellent work!" congratulated All Might, and the girls couldn't help but preen at that. He was the Nr. 1 Hero, after all.

Afterwards, the Pro Hero discussed the match with the students. He had a few cards ready for the occasion, but he couldn't say anything when Yaoyorozu had done a great job dissecting the fight. The huge man could only ashamedly agree with the girl, before displaying the next match-up.

Villains: Team B (Bakugou Katsuki and Fumikage Tokoyami) VS

Heroes: Team D (Kaminari Denki and Midoriya Izuku)

Yousuke could practically hear the explosive teen's glee.

Okay, I didn't expect that match to last as long as it did.

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