Hayato looked at the green lights as they started flashing down.

1 light gone.

2 lights gone.

3 lights gone.

"BEGIN!"

Everyone started running towards the tunnel. Using his superior physique, Hayato pushed his way to the front on the pack and started to speed up.

*Fshhhhh!*

As he was walking, he heard a sound of a quirk activating and suddenly his feet and legs were covered in ice. He saw Todoroki run past him with a smile on her face. He didn't like that smile, it lit his competitive spirit up.

Activating his quirk, he quickly enhanced everything he could. He lifted his foot upwards and slammed it down into the ground with enough force to shatter all the ice surrounding him. Todoroki looked at Hayato in shock, she was sure she froze his legs hard enough to keep him in place for a while.

Seeing her shocked face made Hayato strangely happy. He shook off that weird happiness and pointed his hands in the direction of the exit and sent two muscle fiber wires into the walls, they went into the concrete and secured themselves in it.

With a pull, Hayato shot towards the exit. He learned this technique when he was messing around in the Urban Battle City on campus, it was a quick way to get around and took away his weakness of being nearly helpless in the air.

He went past the running Todoroki with a smirk on his face. He didn't know if she saw it but he did see that she wasn't very happy.

She seemed to have decided to use an ice construct to push her forward to catch up to Hayato. She did end up catching up to him when his momentum from the slingshot ran out. But he kept his pace, running at a slower than usual speed to conserve energy.

Todoroki tried to freeze his legs to the ground every now and then but Hayato just dodged her attempts and sent a kick towards her trying to knock her off balance.

Overall, it was very stimulating for the both of them. They both had competitive smiles on their faces as they carried on fighting.

Others were starting to catch up because of their slow speed, attributed to their fighting. Before they knew it, Mineta, the midget with sticky purple balls for hair, was right behind them using his sticky balls to bounce towards them as he didn't stick to his balls, they repulsed him instead.

He was about to jump onto Todoroki's back, and Hayato was planning to hit him into the ground, but a robot came out of nowhere and slammed him away.

Todoroki and Hayato looked at the robot and saw that it was one of the robots from the entrance exam. It was massive, even compared to Hayato, and it's green colored metal plating looked quite strong.

It was right in front of Izuku, as Izuku also came to the realization that they were the robots from the entrance exam.

Present Mic's booming voice was heard by the students and the spectators as he started commentating about everything "Oooo! Enemies have shown up out of nowhere! We're in for a show now!" just as he said this, everyone saw the gigantic, building-sized robots from the exam in front of them.

The other robots were bigger than people but smaller than a house but these '0-point' Robots were absolutely massive.

"It's a robot INFERNO!" was all Present Mic had to say when the cameras showed the giant robots.

Hayato and Todoroki stopped their fighting and stood where they were, staring up at the giant robots, the people behind them did the same thing but they were all panicking, while Hayato was confidently smirking while looking at them and Todoroki had an indifferent face while she looked at them.

Hayato heard Todoroki speak "So, this is what other students faced in their entrance exams?" she looked at Hayato and he nodded to her question. Getting her answer, she stepped forward and activated her quirk. Quickly Ice surrounded Todoroki as she carried on speaking "Clearly, they've gone through a lot of trouble, but I wish they'd prepared something a little more difficult." her voice was cold and indifferent to the giant robot throwing a punch to their direction.

Spikes of ice protruded from the ground as Hayato heard her whisper "Especially seeing as my dear old dad is watching..." Hayato was aware of the enmity between Todoroki and her dad, so he wasn't too surprised to hear her say that.

As the hand got closer, she brought her hand back and threw it upwards with her palm facing outwards. Following her command, the ice spikes grew and grew and blasted out of the ground and into the robots massive hand, freezing it. But she didn't stop there, she kept throwing more and more ice into her attack, completely freezing the robot and stopping it from moving.

Hayato was shocked by her power as she blew out a breath of cold air, which was visible because of how cold it actually was.

As she pushed some hair behind her ear and tightened her ponytail, Hayato was slightly enthralled by her beauty, he just couldn't believe someone could show off that much power and still seem beautiful but right at that second, he'd been proven wrong.

Before he knew it, Todoroki had left him in the dust as she propelled herself forward with ice, again.

"And there goes Todoroki Shoka into the lead, with a devastating display!" Present Mic screamed in excitement at the power he just witnessed a first year produce.

Everyone behind Hayato was cheering about how they could go through the legs when Todoroki's cold voice sounded out in the distance. "Careful. I froze them when they were off balance" the robot started falling towards the massive group of students and unlike the anime, it wouldn't just land on Kirishima and Tetsutetsu who could harden their bodies to survive, it would land on quite a few more people.

Hayato shot backward to the group of people whom it would affect the most, when he got there he looked in Todoroki's direction. "That wasn't very heroic, Todoroki, that wasn't very heroic at all." disappointment could be heard in Hayato's voice and under that, anger could be heard. She'd put people in danger for her own advantage.

Hayato entered his Battle Form and then entered [Oni Mode: x2]. With the thin suit of muscle surrounding his body and the crimson lightning arcing around his body, Hayato looked incredibly powerful. He looked back at the people behind him and spoke "Don't worry, I'm gonna protect you all, okay?" Hayato spoke in a gentle and reassuring way to the people behind him and put on his best smile, they were all pretty terrified because a giant robot was about to drop on them.

'Man, I need to stop protecting people from Giant Robots, otherwise, it's gonna become a gimmick.'

Hayato joked around mentally, but he was incredibly serious at the minute. "I've been meaning to have around 2 with one of you guys, so let's get this party started, huh?" Hayato bent down with his knees and gathered power into his legs. He gathered more and more until the robot wasn't that far from the ground and then he shot off of the ground, sending cracks for tens of meters from where his feet were.

He shot towards the chest of the robot and he brought his fist back. He started channeling the energy in his diaphragm into his arm and in response, the crimson lightning got more and more chaotic while the muscles there got more and more buffed up.

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When he put as much as he could into the arm, he'd gone past limits he'd had before and he threw out a punch with unimaginable strength.

Within the arena, everyone was watching Hayato protecting the students who were about to be hurt.

All Might looked with wide eyes as he watched Hayato fighting the robot. He remembered something he told Hayato when asked why he always saved people no matter the cost "When there's nothing to be gained, rising to the challenge at those times, is surely the mark of a true hero." he remembered the look in Hayato's eyes at that moment, like he'd found something to grab onto and that he'd never let it go. Right now, Hayato was showing what a true hero was.

"Look at that, that's class 1-A's Tagami Hayato, the boy who took on a strong villain and defended his classmates and here he goes again, protecting those who need it most instead of racing in the obstacle course!" Present Mic spoke in admiration for Hayato and roared as he commentated for the crowd.

Many heroes in the crowd nodded their head looking at this act of protecting those in need.

As Hayato's fist hit the robot, a massive boom went off, sending massive waves of air pressure to those on the ground. The robot that got hit had its chest caved in and flew backward into the robot behind it with a massive explosion.

Shockingly, the two robots still went backward from the force sent into the first robot and even hit a third robot sending all 3 of them back before they finally exploded. Everyone was in awe at the power Hayato had just shown off, he landed at an amazing speed as he bent his knees and put his hands on the ground to diffuse the force of his impact.

Still, a small crater formed around him. In the arena, the crowd watching was silent before they erupted in roars of cheering and praise for Hayato.

Hayato stood up with steam coming off of his body, most likely because of the power his body just went under the strain of. He looked at the people he protected and smiled at them before shooting off towards Todoroki who was quite far in front.

By now she had got to the tightrope crossing and with his speed, Hayato wasn't far from it. Following close behind Hayato was Iida with his quirk "Engine" which gave him superhuman speed and Katsuki's with his quirk "Explosion" which he used to propel himself through the air.

Before them were a few more robots but Hayato easily destroyed them with a kick or a punch; they were nothing compared to the 0-point robots.

Hayato focused most of his energy onto his legs and the muscles that helped him run, he also made his blood circulation speed up. Doing this, he experienced a sudden increase in strength and speed and he soon shot ahead of the rest.

He soon saw Todoroki in front of him and he saw her using her ice to slide over the tight-ropes between the rocks in the canyon.

As he looked at it, Hayato saw that he could just jump between the rocks quite quickly but he'd still be behind Todoroki if he did that, so he pushed as much energy into his legs and enhanced them as much as he could.

The result was an incredible increase in speed. And when he got to the edge of the canyon, he jumped with all his strength and found that he had an incredible jumping ability, just like he expected.

He jumped from rock to rock, pulling himself in with his muscle fiber wires. Soon, he'd completed the obstacle and was close behind Todoroki.

"If you found those two obstacles hard, how about you look at the next one!" Present Mic's voice boomed through the speakers yet again and explained the next obstacle "The next obstacle is a minefield! These mines don't hurt that much but they should stop anyone in their tracks long enough to slow them down and make them lose their chances of winning! So, step with caution!" it seemed like he couldn't help himself from always being a jokester but Hayato didn't mind, he just ignored him.

Todoroki slowed down a bit when she knew there were mines there, so Hayato caught up to her and confronted her. "Why did you put those people in danger, Todoroki? That was incredibly idiotic." Hayato's voice was full of confrontation as he looked at her.

"Well, it's their fault for being weak, why should I have to babysit them?" Todoroki spoke in an indifferent voice but Hayato could hear the disdain in her voice when she talked about those weaker than her. Hayato was aghast when he heard what she said. "Because you want to be a hero! Heroes protect those who can't protect themselves and you just put people in danger, so shouldn't you want to protect them? You could've gotten those people killed!"

Todoroki seemed a bit affected by what Hayato said, like some part of her agreed with what he said but another, bigger, part didn't agree.

She just ignored him after that, no matter what Hayato said, she ignored him or she answered with short, uncaring answers. Before long, they'd both gotten over half way for the minefield and then Katsuki came out of nowhere tried to blow them both up.

Hayato moved his torso out of the way and Todoroki dodged out of the way, fortunately not hitting any mines.

Hayato sent a punch towards Katsuki's gut but he dodged it with an explosion, which changed his direction mid-air. He sent an explosion to both Hayato's and Todoroki's face. Todoroki dodged again and froze Katsuki's arm, while Hayato dodged as well but instead of attacking Katsuki, Hayato sent a punch towards Todoroki.

This carried on for a while, pushing Hayato's concentration to the very limits. He had to focus on both Katsuki and Todoroki and dodge their attacks while also watching where he put his feet so he didn't set off a mine.

Suddenly a massive explosion went off and shocked Hayato because he thought he'd stepped on a mine. Luckily he hadn't and it was actually something behind him. All three of them looked behind themselves and saw a massive explosion that reached to the sky, suddenly someone came out of it, shocking Katsuki and Todoroki, while Hayato just smiled.

"What the hell just happened? Well, on any account, class 1-A's Midoriya Izuku is in hot pursuit to the lead of this race!" Present Mic told everyone who it was, surprising most. Hayato could only imagine how happy All Might was hearing that Izuku was catching up.

"Strike that, the lead is his!!!" Present Mic screamed as Izuku passed all three of them.

Katsuki forgot about the other two and shot off with a massive explosion, while Todoroki made an ice path and propelled herself with an ice construct. The ice seemed to stop the mines from exploding.

Hayato sighed when he saw this.

'I really didn't want to use this before the fighting part of the tournament but desperate times call for desperate measures...'

"Hyper Focus." was all Hayato whispered and nothing seemed to change from the outside but from Hayato's perspective, everything had changed. His senses had been enhanced greatly and so had his reaction time, so right now he could easily see where the mines were. The only downside was that Hayato wasn't used to the power and it drained a lot of his energy.

He got this ability at the end of the 2 weeks of training. He found that he could open up one of the pathways to his energy storage in his diaphragm and after a lot of thought, he opened the brain one, to see if he could cover for one of his weak points; Reaction time.

And it did.

Not only does it nourish his innate reaction time to be better, it also nourished his senses to be sharper and be much keener. It also gave him the mode he was using now if he wanted an extra boost.

Anyway, Hayato enhanced his legs once again and ran after the three of them. He was incredibly quick and caught up to them without even touching a single mine.

But he was starting to develop a splitting headache because of the amount of input going into his brain through his senses and nerves. By the time he got to Katsuki and Todoroki, Izuku had pushed himself forward off of the two of them and was running with everything he had and was quite far in front of them all.

Hayato, seeing this, couldn't help but have a feral grin on his face; he loved a challenge.

He pushed himself further, ignoring the blood coming out of his nose and charged past the two who were just getting off of the floor. Izuku and he were in the tunnel now and they were already coming to the end because of there speed.

"Eraser head, what have you been teaching your students? They're amazing!" Present Mic screamed as he saw what Izuku did and how Hayato was charging towards him like a mad bull.

Aizawa-sensei's muffled voice rang throughout the stadium "This had nothing to do with me. Each of them is powered by their own drive to succeed." Aizawa-sensei seemed oddly proud as he said that. By now, Katsuki and Todoroki had started catching up to Izuku and Hayato.

"There you have it, folks, Eraser head is a terrible teacher!" Present Mic declared with 100% certainty.

Hayato, even with his strong body, was struggling to stand up so he exited the Hyper Focus mode and also his Battle Form and instantly felt better and more at ease.

He was closing on Izuku still but the end of the tunnel was right in front of them, he didn't know if he could make it.

Inside the stadium, everyone was looking at the exit where the winner would come from with anticipation. "Who's going to be the winner?! I just can't wait!" Present Mic spoke for all the audience and teachers when he said that. All Might was on the edge of his seat, with his eyes locked on the exit.

Surprisingly two figures came out of the exit, one tall and muscular and the other short and muscular. "IT'S A DRAW!!! TAGAMI HAYATO AND MIDORIYA IZUKU HAVE DRAWN FOR THE FIRST PLACE!!!" Present Mic screamed into his mic as the crowd went absolutely wild. All Might shot up and started laughing like a madman while in his Muscle Form.

In an undisclosed place, Shigaraki, the leader of the League of Villains looked at the screen and saw Hayato's face. "It's that goddamn brat...!"

Back in the arena, Hayato put his arm around Izuku's shoulder and lifted his other arm into the air in celebration while letting out a roar of happiness and then he and Izuku looked at All Might and started laughing with him.

Izuku was crying from joy, while Hayato just looked at the crowd with a beaming smile, full of confidence.

Some people could just feel it; That these two would become heroes.