Chapter 2
Finally!
I have waited for this day to come. The UA entrance exam.
In this world discriminating against non-human looking beings im seen as a monster just because of my body.
But what would they do now? I took over a human-looking host who had a shit power, but i found its strengths and weaknesses and trained it daily to the point where im confident i could do something.
Even under the mutants there was discrimination, the farther you looked from a humans anatomy the more they treated you like an animal or monster.
I cant remember any kindness from anyone really, under my fellow 100% non-human looking mutants i got hated too because i even lacked hands or feets, even a face or mouth would be impossible to find on my non-static body.
However because of this treatment i discovered my power. One day i entered a mutant boys body and accidentally discovered that my body had enough acidic strength to dissolve its form.
Before i knew it i had gained his quirk and could transform into him, sadly the transformation barely held for a couple of minutes, the quirk however was always possible to be used. From that point forward i embraced my position as a monster, in the darkness i would eat villians and low-level scum that nobody would miss until one day where i ate the member of the yakuza.
It didnt take long for them to start the hunt and so i had to hide...luckily this child was alone in this empthy field, i came here for quite some time in order to train, here i found this host, he cried because his quirk wouldnt become as awesome as he wished it to be.
If quirks could be just changed i would have done so a long time ago.
Once i entered his body i forced my body to shrink and spread throughout the boys body, i didnt allow my to eat him, i needed a place to stay safe, so i took over his nervous system and brain, following that i absorbed what little memory he had and gained control over him.
Lucky me, he was a 100% human looking being. The best host to live in, someone like that was also qualified to enter into the hero business and be judge and jury on evildoers who use their quirks. From personal experience i know how they behave, they use their popularity to do whatever they want and act as if it happens in the name of justice. Sadly i cant use my powers (even though i wish i had time to explore the possibilitys of my powers and if i could combine them or not) without killing this body so i had to do it like everyone else.
If i become a strong hero i can hunt down the yakuza as well as everyone who made my life a living hell and never face the consequences.
Thats why i trained, thats how i met that kid Bakugo Katsuki, a annoying piece of shit but he was a good training partner.
Anyway, i have my jogging clothes on, the hero explained to us how it would go, seems like robots have to be destroyed.
Looing at this lineup it seems like they looked over everyone before allowing them to enter, there are only normal looking people, some very few unique things are there on some people but it seems like everyone is basically human as human gets.
BEEP!
The gate in front of us opened, immediately all of us ran inside seeing 1 meter tall robots.
The hero told us that the points are given according to the robots heigth. 1 point for 1 meter, 2 for 2 meters etc.
While others had to run or in Bakugos case shout while exploding themselfes towards their targets i could use my quirks on things of currently maximum 10 meters distance.
So i used it and a 2 meter robot instantly shot into my direction, but im not inexperienced, i learned how to do the pulling on parts of the target once its about 2/3 meters away from me. There i focused on its core, it immediately ripped with far greater speed out of the robots chest, the speed was the maximum i could accomplish, i naturally didnt try to catch the ball-shaped core, cancelling my quirk would just result in the core breaking my hand so i kept pulleing it towards my hand while spinning as fast as i could.
The moment i saw another robot i released it at the best moment for it to fly towards my target. At this speed it was akin to the speed of a cannonball.
Beep!
Yup, as i expected, the wristband they gave us doesnt only watch out for our position but also shows us our points.
BOOM!
„Hahaha, this is the best."
A portion of a building exploded, the annoying twat appeared again, having killed a 3 meter tall robot with a single attack.
„Oh, Deku, you already giving up? I just got 3 points in less than a minute since the exam began, you only have 10, shouldnt you work harder instead of standing around?"
I dont know when but at some point he started seeing me as some kind of rival, provocative voice and behavior but clearly he is enjoying it whenever i play along in this little game, to keep the disguise up i had played along, at this point i guess it would be to strange for me to not keep this up.
So i showed him my wristband, showing him that i had 4 points already.
His initial suprise turned into anger, and without saying a word he used explosions to jump on a car that was close by.
„Dont let this get to your head, i will end with with more points than you or anyone else."
„Than i will do twice as much as you have."
Low effort? Maybe. But it keeps the disguise up.
So i jumped up too and showing Bakugo how well i could use my own form of „fast movement".
If i dont have a connection to the ground of anything heavier than what im moving than i will (if the object is heavier than my body) move towards the object, i get pulled towards it like two opposing sides of a magnet.
The last thing i heard was him screaming F*CK while i flew in the air in a strange manner, as if i was grabbing invisible vines and swung on them i moved around the city.
Thats because my range is just 10 meters, so i had to „let go" of one target and use my power on another, making it kind of similar to rising and falling.
My estimate is that with 40 points i should have a sure way to get into the class.
Since this is one of the best hero schools in Japan (good that its this country im in, others have far bigger competition, although i wish i could have somehow gone to norway or iceland or canada, they are a lot more accepting of mutants, but from Taiwan to Korea to China and than Japan, i have been around quite a bit….if i think about it, im just in Japan for around ten years, not much compared to the other countrys) they only have one classroom full of heroes each year, so exactly 21.
Before i realised it i had already gained 32 points by just repeating my first form of attack a couple of times.
But as the number of robots went down the hunt for them got harder, at some places people actively hindered each other at getting a robot so a third party, like myself took the win.
Just at the last two minutes a big robot appeared, 30 meters tall.
Most just ran away immediately, thats understandable since it destroyed a building just by crashing into it, normal kids should fear this thing.
Luckily im not a kid nor am i normal (even in this crazy world).
I used my pulling to jump on the robot and find a place to keep myself on it.
If i touch a target i can control which part im pulling at, so even while i was 8 meters away from the core i could pull on it.
DING!
Dammit. The „ribcage" of the robots chest it to strong, i cant pull on it strong enough to break it.
Maybe if i pull and let go i can destroy the core like that…..
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!
Huff. Huff.
This doesnt look good, im already loosing my breath, taking down so many robots and now this one seems to be to much.
FSSH!
A laser suddenly hit the chest area.
„Dont stop now, we are going to shine!"
It was a strange french-like boy shouting from the ground, his laser melted 10 cm of the metal, thats really impressive.
So he kept shooting but the robot reacted, trying to kill him with a stomp.
„Oh no!" While he shouted he was turning to run but a immense explosion followed right after that.
„Hey you shitstain" he was obviously talking to me „dont have all the fun by yourself".
The robot didnt stagger a bit, it put his foot down...technically its a tire like the ones on tanks and moved his hands forward.
After a explosion its hand was pushed to the side again while that french boy attacked with his lasers, at the same time i pulled on the core, lucky for me the robot didnt have movability to touch his own body.
The next arm moved towards Bakugo again, this time i helped him, strange, i know, but if he doesnt keep the robot away from laserbody we wont get the core.
His explosions got weaker as well, he is hitting his limits too, in my case my body gets more and more exhausted the more i use my power, in Bakugos case he seems to feel pain in his arm and gradually become unable to move them since they go numb.
We successfully managed to deflect the other arm again but than the previously deflected arm had been ready already, i tried to pull and Bakugo used his explosions but it moved forward.
It crashed into the ground, i expected some shouting and a smoke of dust but it seems like someone stopped it.
„Dont stop now!"
„Yes dammit, this this is heavy as hell."
„My quirk isnt even that focused on defense."
One of the three lines didnt seem to match but i ignored it.
What happened? Once the arm moved back i saw a Bakugo on his knees, his hands on his sides, breathing heavily. Behind him laser boy looking scared and in front of them three people.
All relatively inhuman. But as i said, they wouldnt allow mutants to enter so they must have been transformation-type quirk users.
One looked rather stony and sharp, the other one had green scales all around his body and a claws, he looked like a typicaly human monster, but good for him, he was able to transform, people transforming are seen as humans without a issue since their „real form".
The third one was made out of metal.
I didnt try to pull the core anymore since it wouldnt work, i knew that much.
Suddenly mushrooms popped out of the joints of the robot, they made its movements slower than before.
„It took a while for my spores to reach all over the robot."
A girl shouted from a rooftop of one of the buildings.
Laserboy was firing again, this time a full three seconds, but he collapsed after that, seems like he hit his limit too.
Boom!
What the!?
I looked down, the explosion happened right at the robots chest so it couldnt have been Bakugo, he always said he would be able to throw explosions from his hands but so far he always failed at it.
There was a girl with a cannon.
(Can you use a cannon in a test like this?) was what i thought.
But to my suprise she created a cannonball from her stomach.
(Wow, so she creates the objects.)
Boom!
Another explosion, it doesnt do as much damaged as laserboys attack but it helped crack the surface.
A girl suddenly ran up to the robot, she had hearphone-jack like extensions from her ears but looked normal otherwise.
Suddenly the robot started shaking rythmically, the cracks increased by a lot and got deeper.
Ding!
I pulled at it, finally!
The red light of the core was visible.
Before i knew it hugh stones flew at the core, a few electrified pieces of metal did so as well.
In the distance i saw the three responsible for it, a girl who touched the stones and metal to make them float, a muscular guy threw the boulders and a smaller and shorter guy seemed to electrifiy the metal, it helped make the crack even bigger.
„Pull it out, NOW!"
„Stop shouting!"
I scream back whenever he shouts, someone has to teach him this behavior is wrong.
So i jumped from the robot, the three tanks from before had lifted Bakugo and threw him higher than the robot, by nearly 20 meters, there he build up momentum for one final hit, so since i wasnt on the robot anymore i used my power to move closer to the robot again, i stood right above the core of the robot, the moment i touched it i learned a interesting thing about my power.
(Its like it became one with my body.)
So i pulled on it, obviously it moved hardly, but i managed to pull out a good piece of it, no scratch on it whatsoever.
(Nasty piece of trash!)
Now it was time however, i jumped of the robot and flew towards one of the buildings, barely managing to reach the ground.
Huff! Huff!
Its hard to even breath let alone stand, but even so i moved forward like everyone else because Bak-…
BOOOOOOOMM!
A immense explosions shot me forward several meters.
This is some strong firepower, his ability would have been much better to have.
I cant remember what happened next because i lost my consciousness, i woke up in a hospital room.
„Oh, you are awake, thats fast, i expected you to lie down for a couple more hours. Gratulations, you passed."
The old lady explained that i had managed to impress the judges with my ability to pull people into working alongside me even though i didnt even try that in the first place.
Furthermore, from the looks of it Bakugo and I got the highest score alongside two other students, exactly 50 points. A new record.
A week later i got the list of all the kids who passed as well,
Excluding me and Bakugo there had been 19 other names.
Eijiro Kirishima
Rikido Sato
Kyoka Jiro
Shoto Todoroki
Momo Yaoyorozu
Hiryu Rin
Neito Monoma
Setsuna Tokage
Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu
Kosei Tsuburaba
Ibara Shiozaki
Kinoko Komori
Yui Kodai
Itsuka Kendo
Sen Kaibara
Yuga Aoyama
Ochaco Uraraka
Denki Kaminari
Alongside the names the number of points had been listed too, the two other students had been Shoto Todoroki and Ibara Shiozaki .
Seems like there are some strong students in this class, nobody of them had below 20 points afterall.