'It's so big!' Midoriya thought to himself. He tried to keep calm, knowing nerves could be his downfall, but anyone who looked could tell that the green haired boy's knees were trembling. The doors towered over them, several stories high. He knew that behind these doors was a fake city where the exam would take place.
"So we're at the same test sight, huh?" Midoriya was caught off guard by the approach of Killua. "I don't know which one Gon ended up at though."
"I bet he'll be fine, he seemed confident."
"Tsk, I know he'll be fine, but he's an idiot that needs constant supervision. Even in such a controlled environment I know he'll manage to find trouble." The white haired boy had reached Midoriya's side and stood beside him, hands deep in his pockets. The proximity to someone that he knew, even for just a few hours, made Midoriya feel better.
Midoriya scanned the crowd 'everyone seems so confident, they've all had their quirk since they were little.' He spotted someone familiar again pressing her fingers together, deep in concentration. 'It's that girl again, Ochako Uraraka, I should thank her for earlier.' He started to head off, Killua following behind.
"Hey!" there was an outcry from behind Midoriya, the voice was vaguely familiar. He turned around to see the strict boy from earlier who had interrupted Present Mic, his arm was outstretched towards Midoriya's shoulder as if to grab him, but his wrist was caught in Killua's firm grip.
"It's fine Killua," Midoriya told him, not knowing why the boy would defend him when they barely knew each other.
"Tsk," Killua let go of the boys wrist, letting it fall. The tall dark haired boy rubbed his wrist as if it pained him and eyed Killua warily, discreetly taking a step back.
"I apologize for catching you off guard but I simply wanted to discuss a matter with you. You have not come to interrupt your fellow test takers have you? You have yet to stop mumbling to yourself since you arrived, and you do not seem to fit in." The taller boy crossed his arms, the rays from the sun making his glasses into a mirror.
"I-I, uh, I didn't mean," Midoriya stammered trying to think how to defend himself.
"Leave him alone, he's here for the exam just like you are, so what if he mumbles a little bit." Killua stepped so he was slightly in front of Midoriya, placing him between him and the strict boy. He had put his hands back into his pockets and was slouching but something about him made the tall boy back away. He looked like he was about to respond but a booming voice echoed over them.
"AANNNNNNDDDDDD BEGIN!"
Midoriya jumped, and that split second left him behind the rest of the examinees who took off immediately. The strict boy was in front of the pack, his quirk seemed to be engines in his legs which propelled him powerfully forward. Midoriya could not see Killua anymore but he did not waste any time searching for him and took off after the crown through the large doors which had just opened.
As soon as he entered the fake city it was chaos. 'Stay calm, its fine, clear your head. I will be a hero.' Midoriya kept up a constant stream of assurances to himself, trying to focus on the task ahead.
He weaved his way through already destroyed robots, trying to find where the fight was happening at, knowing that with each second he was falling further behind. Some of the robots had been smashed, some broken into pieces, some with holes and others destroyed in ways that Midoriya could not tell how it happened.
Suddenly a destroyed robot crashed in front of him, had he been two steps further he would have been crushed.
"Sorry about that!" Midoriya looked up from his shaking knees to the familiar brown haired girl, and just behind her was destruction, but also more intact robots.
"6 minutes and 40 seconds left in the exam." The announcement caught Midoriya, he didn't have much time left, he had already wasted over three minutes trying to find the fight.
He could he wheels rumbling on pavement behind him and he looked over his shoulder to see a robot approaching him, locked onto him as a target. 'Why can't I move? I need to move!' But he could not, his feet seemed to be glued to the ground and his knees no longer shook but were locked in place. The robot was almost on top of him when it suddenly stopped moving and a white head poked over the edge.
"You alright?" called Killua, easily scaling the side of the large robot and approaching the frozen boy.
"Y-y-yes, th-thank you." Midoriya could barely get the words out, but he could move again as he was no longer in imminent danger.
"Have you wrecked any yet? There aren't many left and the exams almost over, there are some pretty strong kids here." Killua had again shoved his hands in his pockets, he stood calmly, not at all looking like he was in the middle of a battle field.
"How many have you defeated?"
"Oh, about 50 or so. There was triple the amount of robots at the beginning, they're almost all gone now, everyone has been wrecking them pretty fast, they're not very strong."
But Midoriya had stopped hearing him after 50, there was no way he would be able to catch up. His dream of being a hero seemed so far away, and now it was even farther. Everyone else was so strong and here he was standing around like an idiot not accomplishing anything.
"Well catch you later, I can't let that annoying kid from earlier beat me." And with that he disappeared, he didn't run off, or anything Midoriya could see. One second he was there and the next he was not.
Midoriya hurried into the midst of the fight, trying to find a robot to find, trying to get even one point. But there were none. All around him students were easily smashing robots, shooting them, tearing them apart. All around him students were getting points but he wasn't getting any.
There were almost no robots left in the square where most of the fighting had taken place when a crash echoed around them, making everyone freeze momentarily. Dust billowed around them as a building was partly crushed by a robot that was several stories tall. Midoriya recognized it from the pictures at the meeting, this was the robot that wasn't worth any points, but he was ten times the size of the others. Not willing to face it the other participants ran away, getting to safety from the crumbling buildings, and searching for more robots.
Midoriya was about to do the same when he heard a shout from the direction of the robot. He turned to loo and saw Ochako stuck under some rubble. The robot was taking steps forward, towards where she was trapped, and as she struggled Midoriya could tell she would not be able to free herself in time.
Without another thought he took of in the direction of the robot, no longer thinking, only following what he felt was right. He knew he had to stop the robot before it crushed the girl, and the only way he could think of would be to crush it, and he could do it with his newly acquired quirk. He felt new power coursing through him and using that he jumped off from the ground. Launching himself into the air, high enough to jump over a house. But his body was not used to the power and Midoriya could feel his leg shatter as he was flying through the air towards the gigantic robot, but he could not give up now. He focused the power as best he could into his arm and used it to smash the robot dead in what would be its face.
The robot went flying back, the head shattering away from the point of contact and it fell over onto its back. No longer able to make its advance Ochako was safe. But Midoriya was now falling from three stories up. He had no time to think of how to land, had not planned this far ahead. He squeezed his eyes shut and prepared for impact with the cold unforgiving concrete.
Something warm and hard slammed into his side and then he was flying sideways. The two bodies slammed into the wall of a building, but Midoriya's savior took the impact with his legs, and them they were falling towards the ground, ut on an angle from the power of the other's push. They still hit the ground hard but they rolled to absorb some of the momentum. When they were at a stop Midoriya clutched his shattered right arm that he used to smash the robot and looked up at his savior that was crouching by his side.
"Yo, you alright?" Killua still didn't look any worse for wear, even after their rolling landing, his hair was a little fluffier and was lightly dusted with dirt, but otherwise he looked the same as he did that morning when they met.
"Is Ochako alright?" Midoriya asked, for the moment forgetting his own pain.
"Yah, she is, thanks to you anyway. That's quite a punch you got there. That thing isn't ever getting up again. Annoying glasses kid got her out of the rubble on our way down. How does your arm feel?"
"I don't care about my arm, I didn't get any points. I may have wrecked that robot but it wasn't worth anything. I only wanted one point, I just want to be a hero." He shoved his face in the concrete, hiding his shame, and not able to do much else. After he stopped moving Killua thought he was crying, but when Midoriya did not respond to being poked he realized the green hair boy must have passed out from his injuries.
The practical exam was over and Midoriya had finished with zero points.
To reviewer who titled themselves Here's Something, thank you for your review I really appreciated it. Though I have sad news for you, I have only seen 30 episodes of Bleach and did not finish Leged of Korra. You have some amazong ideas thoug. Why don't you write your story? No one will write what you want to read better than yourself. And if you do I would love to read it.
