Silver and Gold // BNHA OC

Ten

Ichika immediately began weaving through people, grabbing someone's shoulders and launching herself up. She used their shoulders as stepping stones, feeling a few of them fall when her foot landed.

As they were getting started, she heard Present Mic say, "Oh, what's this? We've got a special guest here in the announcement booth!"

"Mic, no," Annya's voice rang out through the stadium.

Annya is in the announcement booth? Ichika thought before shaking her head, tuning them out.

She heard Present Mic's enthusiastic voice commentating, and then Aizawa's much more dull one respond. Their words fell to deaf ears among the racing 15 year olds, who were much more concentrated on standing out and making their way through the hall. People trampled each other, while Ichika stepped on their squirming shoulders and made her way towards first place.

Ichika tuned back in momentarily as she heard her name.

"Ichika Sakurai from class 1-A is off to a fierce start! Using other students as stepping stones to make her way to first place!" Present Mic shouted excitedly.

"You're supposed to be unbiased," Aizawa droned with a sigh.

Ichika hopped off of everyone's shoulders, running ahead of the crowd.

Just as people began funnelling out of the hall, Todoroki came running forward, freezing the ground beneath him.

Just as the ice reached Ichika, she did an aerial to dodge and skated along, avoiding slipping.

As Todoroki reached her, he attempted to freeze her feet to the ground and she leaped, springing off of her hand and continuing to skate. His shoulder bumped hers as he tried to overtake her.

As the two were locked in a battle, Bakugo came bursting in and, as Ichika had predicted, soared over everyone else, along with several more from her class.

"Nice trick, Todoroki!" Yaoyorozu exclaimed, a large beam shooting from her hand.

"I won't let you get away so easily, you icy-hot bastard!" Bakugo shouted, explosions firing as he caught up to Ichika and Todoroki.

"I didn't expect that many people to dodge that, especially so many from other classes," Todoroki looked back, and Ichika used that as a chance to get further ahead.

"You think you're so cool, but I've outsmarted you!"

Ichika knew by both the voice and the queasy feeling rising in her stomach who was speaking. "Ha! How pathetic, Todoroki!"

Ichika stopped in her tracks when a large robot appeared. She cursed under her breath, hearing Mineta screaming as he fell to the ground.

"Robots!? Crap! How am I supposed to deal with these?!" Ichika exclaimed, standing back momentarily.

They were big, so they had to be slow. She had to use them to her advantage somehow. If she managed to get through them without damaging them, that would leave the people behind her to deal with the obstacle, which would mean that she didn't have to deal with them.

Everyone was frozen in place, and Todoroki was the first person to make a move. He was speaking, but Ichika couldn't make out what he was saying. A robot was reaching down towards him, and he brought his hand up, a massive wall of ice freezing it in place and shutting it down.

Ichika felt her face grow hot, watching the ice cold breath leave Todoroki's lips, and the way his hair flew around with the force of the power.

Students were speaking to each other, hesitating, before they started running, but Ichika wasted no time in following after Todoroki.