Round 2: Masaki Sako vs. Reiko Sukoru
@taiyuu-high-oct Time for them to battle it out!
Jewelry for this round above!
A few days earlier…..
It was break time in Class 1-A, and everyone was conversating before class started. Tokachi walked up to the front of the classroom and waved, getting everyone’s attention
“Hey guys! So I had this idea, maybe we can make walkie talkies for us to use during our next test? And we could have codenames! It’ll give us a huge advantage, and it’ll be fun!”
The class buzzed with excitement, and as one they gave their affirmation.
Tokachi beamed, glad he idea went through. “I got really really excited about this, so I came up with some code names already! Here!”
She started writing down the codenames on the board, and after a moment of silence, silly grins began to spread across people’s faces.
Oh, this was going to be good.
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Sako stared out across the makeshift city,taking account of what he had on him. Plastic and iron? Check. Walkie Talkie? Check. Unknown Fabric? Check. A stupid, inaccurate codename? Sigh. Check. He took in all the sights and the eerie lack of sound. Everyone had gone to their areas, and each of them was isolated, leaving a bridge of silence that no one could cross. The city was well endowed, complete with signs and vehicles, there must have been a huge amount of electricity used for this round.
There was an overlay of chatter from the radio.
Now, the feathered boy knew who his opponent was. His opponent was Reiko Sukoru, the girl who literally shocked Lyrimon, and if what he heard was true, she had flown over most of the obstacles in the entrance exam, by turning her legs into freaking tornados. Or maybe she had drifted as a cloud, but either way, pretty cool, right?
Sako was fucked. Like normal. But hey, what’s a fight without a challenge?
He stood listlessly, his arms at his side, his wings folded up, and he was trembling with adrenaline, finding it hard to breathe.
Aurora cheerfully began explaining, with gruff inputs from Wolfsboon every once in a while, and then she began her countdown, everyone silencing as she went.
“On your mark!” He looked up, searching.
“Ready!” He leaned to get ready to run
“GO!” And off he went, running at a fast jog, not quite ready to spend all his energy yet. Even so, his endurance was pretty good, and he looked, up, down and all around for the faint glow of the orb.
The feathered boy thought it was a good idea to go just straight towards the middle of the course, that would make sense, right? They want to make it fair for both the students. And off he ran, taking note of who his area overlapped with.
Oh look, there’s green fire. ….. And all the power went out over there. Looks like Funkee and Koatsu.
“HA! SEE HOW MUCH YOU LIKE THAT- oh. He sets things on fire.”
“COME AT ME BRO!”
There’s Lyrimon, and I guess that’s Suzuki. Oh dear, she’s staring at me. Haha, and now she’s not, good job Lyrimon!
Returning his attention to the task ahead of him, he glanced down alleys and streets, not willing to take too many chances. Directly ahead of him was a roundabout, and in the middle was the orb, gently floating above it’s pedestal.
WHOOSH!
Reiko with tornado legs, dropped from the sky, and she reformed just in time to land gently on the ground, grabbing the orb as she went.
If I just turn around and go back the other way, she’s going to think that I have it, right? I mean, she knows what my quirk is, right? Oh boy.
Sako turned around and started walking off as though he was trying to be stealthy, as she examined the orb, probably trying to figure out whether it was real or not.
And there it was, the rumble of noise coming from behind him, and he took off in a sprint, definitely not holding the orb, but making one as he ran, along with one of the other most stupid looking things he’s made in a while.
He loaded his homemade orb into the hand held ball launcher, like the kind you use for dogs, and as he ran, he threw the ball as hard as he could down one of the streets, luckily, he judged the timing correctly and it flew quickly, going decently far before dissipating, leaving nothing behind. Just to be safe, he ran down one more block, pretending to throw something again, and then he put his acting skills to work, pretending he was shocked.
Now he was “angry”, stopping and glaring at the street he just threw the orb down. “FUCK! THAT WAS THE WRONG ONE! UGGGH. I have to go get it now. Hrmph.” He took off again, this time going down the street, dropping the ball thrower, knowing full well that there wasn’t anything down there… Except for Shou and Otsuka.
“Hey Chicken Little, you good?”
Sako sighed at the name, he’s not short, dammit. He didn't know who it was, but he responded back anyway with a grunt of affirmation, “Yeah, it’s all part of my plan. Hey, I’ve Got A Bone to Pick, Reiko’s heading down your way, can you try and distract her?”
Otsuka’s voice came through. “I’ll try my best! I’m a little preoccupied, Shou keeps changing the range of their quirk and it’s very disorienting.”
Sako was pretty sure that Reiko was getting more confused now. And that was a good thing, and now she looked conflicting, glancing between the orb she was holding and the way Sako was running, and the first orb he threw, and she went off to follow the first orb, putting down the orb because she couldn’t carry it and go full speed arm and leg tornado at the same time.
He glanced behind him and silently cheered as he veered off into an alley, Reiko not taking any notice of him, thinking that he was looking for it.
And all through this, he backtracked while carefully stayed out of Shou’s range, knowing full well that Reiko was going directly into it, and as he ran, he checked to see how she was doing, but Shou’s activation and deactivation of their quirk range was disorienting her, despite her ability to propel herself.
And he ducked and scooped up the orb, and sprinted like there was no tomorrow.
Glancing around, he goes a block down further from the main road, hopefully to avoid Reiko if she came sooner than expected. He pressed himself against the side of the building to catch his breath, and as he stood there for a few minutes, Funkee came running around the corner, also catching his breath, and the two made eye contact.
“.....”
“....”
“Uh, hello Hacker Voice.”
“Hi Masaki. Or should I say Chicken Little. Alright, so I’m running away from Koatsu, I have the orb.”
“.. Oh nice! Me too! You think you could help me with something?”
“Sure.”
Sako explained his plan, telling Funkee he just had to stay there, and run electricity through a wire for him. Funkee nodded in affirmation, and Sako began his plan to lure Reiko towards him.
He went back to the main street, and saw Reiko.
Now an angry tornado was after him. Great!
He was going to have to move his plan forward in time a little bit, and this time he slapped one of the exposed wires as he created a light, thin, metal web, and one long wire weighed down by what was essentially a hockey puck.
He threw the web at Reiko, and the puck at Funkee, who was connected to the building already, and as soon as Funkee caught it, he electrified the thing, Sako getting out of the way of the web as it fell, electrocuting Reiko.
The two boys winced at her fall, she was now unconscious, with slight burn wounds where the net landed.
Ouch.
Sako pulled up the web, intending to simply get it off her, when Koatsu came across them, and there was a beat of awkward silence before everyone starting moving, Sako throwing the web at him too, and Zeke channeling electricity, while Koatsu was running over to Reiko.
Bzzzt!
He dropped like a rock, and the two boys stared at their handiwork before sighing in relief, high fiving.
Speaking into the radio, Sako made eye contact with Funkee, grinning all the while. “Chicken Little and Hacker Voice here, we took down both our opponents. Mix n Match, I’ve Got a Bone to Pick, need any help?”
“Masaki, we can’t reach their areas.”
Sako blushed, and returned back to the radio. “Never mind then! Carry on, haha.” He turned to Funkee. “Hey man, thanks for your help.”
Funkee grinned. “Any time. And now, to win our rounds.”
The two of the shared one more smile before sprinting off to their goals. Sako carefully placed the orb in the goal, and Wolfsboon's voice growled out from the speakers.
“Masaki Sako wins!”
