Sero who had been stretching up till now with a tired look on his face, instantly sprung into action wrapping Todoroki up in tape.

The tape kept her arms firmly against her body so she couldn't use either of them to attack with her quirk and Sero took advantage of this as he grabbed the tape still attached to his elbow and started to swing her around, picking up speed and momentum to fling her off the platform.

"Woah! Look-y here at Sero! An instant surprise attack and a follow-up attack to throw Todoroki off of the platform!" Present Mic was as loud as always as he screamed out what was happening for the fans.

Hayato stared at the fight, wondering if Todoroki would do what she did in the anime.

As he looked closely at the serious expression on her face and the anger in her eyes, he found his answer; Yes. He also got an answer when Todoroki flicked her right hand upwards in Sero's direction while saying something.

Hayato eyes lip read it as 'Sorry'. Then it happened.

The first thing Hayato felt was the cold biting at his skin, the wind feeling like it was slicing his warm skin. Then he saw it, the massive Iceberg in front of him. He'd seen it once before in the Anime bit right now it seemed bigger and Hayato was pretty sure it wasn't just his shock that made him feel this.

What made him feel that it was bigger was that he'd instinctively entered his Battle Form and sent a half powered punch at the iceberg which was coming to crush/freeze them.

His feet had dug themselves into the ground, sending cracks throughout the seating area and his fist was buried deeply in the ice. A crater was evident on the part of the iceberg Hayato had punched.

This made him feel it was bigger because even a half-full power punch in Battle Form had barely put a stop to it and despite the reinforcement on his bones and skin, his skin had lacerations all up his arm and his bones felt like they were crumbling apart because of the force traveling back and forth in his arm.

Pulling out his arm from the iceberg, Hayato let out a sigh of relief that he'd stopped the iceberg and another sigh of relief when he saw that Todoroki hadn't seriously hurt anyone with her outburst.

Hayato looked toward the screen to the side of the stadium and saw Todoroki apologizing to a shivering Sero as she thawed him out with her left side's fire quirk. While she was doing this, Midnight-sensei and Present Mic were announcing that Todoroki had won.

After Sero was thawed out, he was carried off in a stretcher as even after he'd been thawed out and removed from the ice, he was still shivering from the bone-deep coldness.

Everyone looked at Todoroki who slowly walked off the stage in her sulky attitude she'd had for most of this competition.

Hayato knew why she was being like this and he couldn't help for either Izuku to help her like he originally did in the Anime or for he himself to do something to help her.

Anyway, U.A enlisted the help of Endeavor to melt and evaporate the rest of the ice and water on the Platform so they could carry on with the tournament. Taking it as a way to personally show his daughter how much better his fire quirk is than her mother's ice quirk, Endeavor blasted the giant iceberg with a massive storm of fire.

Surprisingly, despite the size of the fire storm, no one was hurt by it.

After the ice was melted down to nothing and the water was then evaporated so the stadium and platform were as dry as they could be, the matches carried on. All of this didn't take too long, much shorter than if they had any else other than Endeavor help, that's for sure.

"Sorry for the wait, folks, but that was one big block of ice!" Present Mic spoke to the crowd, who'd settled down after the iceberg, and told them the tournament was starting again.

After saying this, Present Mic welcomed the next two students onto the platform.

The students up next to fight were Denki Kaminari and Ibara Shiozaki. Hayato looked at Denki staring at Shiozaki like his heart had been struck with cupids arrow or something and couldn't help but laugh.

Denki seemed to somehow know this and looked in Hayato's general direction with an embarrassed smile on his face.

Hayato just stuck his thumbs up at him, telling him to have fun with his new-found crush.

Shiozaki got into position and Denki tried a few lame pick-up lines on her before declaring something.

"How about me and you go out after this?" Shiozaki seemed confused at this but Denki carried on "I'll be happy to console you after this because this match will be over in an instant!" without waiting for her to reply or react, Denki threw his hands up in the air.

"INDISCRIMINATE DISCHARGE 1,300,000 VOLTS!" Yellow arcs of electricity flowed around Denki as he gathered his energy to cast his super move. Shiozaki simply turned her back and her vine-like hair shot itself into the ground and expanded to make a shield for her before the vine shield detached itself from her head of hair/vines.

The super move Denki had charged was fully done, so Denki threw his hands downwards in a throwing motion sending massive arcs of electricity in every direction but mainly in Shiozaki's way.

The vine shield covered the back and sides of Shiozaki's body and took most of the brunt of Denki's super move as it didn't conduct any of the electricity meaning the attack didn't affect Shiozaki in any way.

As Denki had been channeling his power into his Quirk to carry on with his Super Move, he didn't notice the ground cracking and the cracks appearing as if something was moving toward him but underground.

Well, he did notice them but it was too late and he couldn't do anything about it.

Through the cracks came an army of vines which wrapped themselves around Denki's limbs and body before more vines wrapped around his entire body keeping him still and immobilized.

"HE'S IMMOBILISED! THAT'S IT, FOLKS, IT WAS OVER IN AN INSTANT!" Present Mic's yell of acknowledgment caused the crowd to go wild again.

Denki was floating around with a dumb look on his face, showing he'd gone over his limit with his quirk and fried his brain a little bit too much and made himself into his dumb-self once again.

Hayato got up, as did Ashido and each of them shared one more look before going separate ways and walking to their own Hallways. As fate would have it, Hayato had to go to the same hallway Izuku had come out of when he had his match.

Just as Hayato expected, All Might was standing there in his skinny form, slightly smiling.

"Now, I know I don't need to reassure you out of anyone, Young Tagami, but I'm here to do it anyway." Doing his usual worn-out smile while in this form, All Might stared Hayato in the eyes and clasped his shoulder with a hand before carrying on "Good luck and make sure to show 'em how strong one of the next Symbols of Peace is!"

Despite being confident already, hearing this from All Might, Hayato felt even more secure in his confidence for this tournament.

Nodding his head, Hayato blasted a smile at All Might that was full of gratitude for his words.

Walking passed All Might, Hayato went to the very edge of the tunnel he was in, waiting for his name to be called out and introduced. It didn't take long as Present Mic soon started shouting about him.

"UP NEXT, IT'S THE BOY WHO TOOK ON REAL VILLAINS AND USES GIANT ROBOTS AS HIS SPARRING PARTNERS! ONE OF THE STARS OF CLASS 1-A, HAYATO TAGAMI!"

Present Mic's introduction made Hayato a bit embarrassed but he still strode forward with his back straight and his gait full of confidence and fighting spirit. Seeing him, the crowd were going wild as they remembered him from the obstacle course and his one punch which decimated a few robots.

Hayato even seemed to have a few fans as his enhanced hearing picked up a few chants of "HA~YA~TO~KUN!".

But Hayato kept himself calm, not letting the cheers get to his head, so he could focus on the fight ahead of him. As he got to the stairs for the platform, Present Mic introduced Ashido as someone from the Hero Course. He didn't expand on it much as her exploits were obviously lesser than Hayato's.

Standing on the platform across from each other, Hayato and Ashido both bowed and smiled at one another before Present Mic did what he did for every other match.

"START!"

Instantly, Ashido charged at Hayato throwing a volley of small goop balls. Hayato easily slipped passed them and pushed himself off the ground and at Ashido who was still charging at him.

With his impressive physique, he was immediately in front of her and threw a strong punch at her gut. But as his fist was traveling through the air, Ashido seemed to have guessed this was going to happen as she contorted her body and dodged his punch giving Hayato a reminder that her innate reaction time was incredibly high.

As she slipped to his side, Ashido dragged her fingers up Hayato's outstretched arm, covering it in a slippery but thick goo.

Seeing that his punch had missed and his arm was now covered in this mystery goo, Hayato pulled back by shooting off a muscle wire to the side and pulling himself away.

When he was a distance away from her, Hayato looked at the goo. It wasn't hardening, in fact, it was still incredibly slippery but it had the right amount of stickiness on the inside as it wouldn't come off no matter how hard Hayato shook his hand.

"Don't bother trying that, Tagami-kun. I spent quite a while figuring how to go about fighting against enhancers like you and that's the product of my thoughts! It has some fun properties~" Ashido said this as she charged at him again, her goo being a sort of lubricant on the ground for her to slide over.

As she was charging over, Hayato tried to grab at the goo on his arm but every attempt just led to him slipping off of the goo and not being able to grip it.

'Damn, she really has thought about how to stop heavy hitters like me. I can't hurt someone if my punches just slip off of them and I can't punch hard enough to negate this as it'd hurt her real bad. Man, Ashido really can use her quirk.'

Hayato decided to drop heavy punches out of his fighting style for a minute to avoid getting any more goo on himself. The punches were too slow and despite their power, Ashido could dodge them quite easily.

By this point, Ashido was back in front of him again and threw another volley of small goo balls at him. This time the amount had more than doubled and as if she'd learned the way he dodged the last time she threw the volley, most of his escape routes were cut off.

Hayato found a way passed most of the goo balls but a few still hit him on the chest and stomach.

They didn't seem to do anything to him other than congeal and harden on his upper top. Thinking about how to take her down, Hayato figured a throw was all he could really aim for.

Augmenting the muscles in his legs, Hayato burst forth at Ashido and grabbed her by the collar with his hand which wasn't covered in goo. With a high-pitched yelp, Ashido was lifted off of the ground. She stopped flailing almost instantly and instead started to cover Hayato's hand with goo, trying to slip out of his grip.

Unluckily for her, his grip on her collar was vice-like and none of her goo could get on his palm to help her escape.

Hayato lifted her upward and back and got into a baseball pitcher stance before throwing her to the nearest edge with his inhuman strength.

Another high-pitch yelp came from Ashido's mouth as she was flung to the edge of the platform. She tried to make a wall of hardened goo to stop herself but as Hayato had put a bit of spin in his throw, her attempts at using her quirk were useless; she couldn't focus.

"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, HAYATO TAGAMI HAS WON!"

Present Mic screamed out as the crowd joined him in his enthusiastic cheers.

Hayato looked down at the goo covering his arm and saw that it was beginning to harden and lose it's slimy and viscous consistency. Using his power on his arm, his muscles bulged and the fibers came from under his skin pushing the hardened goo off of his arm.

Flexing his hand and arm, they felt oddly numb but he shrugged it off as he guessed it was to do with being encased in hardened slime/goo.

Hayato started ripping the hardened goo balls off of his shirt as well. This wasn't the brightest idea as it left him with more hole than shirt but he shrugged, not really caring at the minute and instead walked over to where a dizzy Ashido was lying down.

When he walked over to her, she opened her eyes and saw it was Hayato and smiled.

Hayato smiled back and offered his hand. "That was a good fight, Ashido" Hayato knew that she knew he didn't go all out in his power, so he tried to reassure her that she did push him in his base form.

Ashido smiled and took his hand and pulled herself up. "No need to console me, Tagami. We both promised there'd be no hard feelings, didn't we?" Her smile was kind of blinding as Hayato looked at it, not knowing what to say. Ashido's cheeriness obviously knew no bounds.

Instead of saying anything he laughed and he Ashido walked over to the center where they bowed to each other and Midnight-sensei announced the winner officially.

Ashido walked off to the seating area while Hayato walked off to get a new shirt. Weirdly, his arm continued to get more and more numb but he ignored it, figuring he'd inspect it once he got a new shirt.