Chapter 4 - The First Battle

How the hell was he here? Izuku Midorya was standing at the entrance to UA. After the interviews, he had to do and the support he'd gotten he felt the spark of heroics reignite in him and he dedicated the several months left to training for the UA entrance exam. Now he was here, however, he was feeling endlessly nervous and concerned - the views drilled into him since the age of 4 were clearly still present. This was until he heard a familiar voice behind him.

"No way! Izuku, is that you?" Izuku turned around to see the one and only Ochako Uraraka walking up behind him with more energy than he thought humanly possible. "It's great to see you, finally decided to become a hero, huh? I knew you had it in you!"

While she had made the week following the rescue like hell for Izuku, he couldn't help but feel like she had helped him in the long run. With people talking about him online and on television as a kind of mini-hero, it was hard for him not to feel like she had made him wanted by society for the first time in many years. This, however, made it surprisingly difficult to talk to her - especially since he rarely talked to anyone that wasn't his own mother.

"Oh, right. I figured the idea wasn't as bad as I thought it was so I applied at the last possible second." His face was quite contorted, most likely out of her being the only person (other than his mother) that he felt actually liked him as a person, though even this he couldn't be sure about.

They continued to walk towards the hall and talked about the past several months with each other, something that Bakugo noticed from behind them until they had to split up. They said their goodbyes and left each other to sit down, Izuku grimacing having been sat next to Katsuki.

The explanation was mostly filled with awkward silences and lame jokes from Present Mic (something that won't be described for the reader's sake) and some annoying guy with glasses acted all presumptuous and irritating, the second worst type of person in Izuku's mind. The first was, of course, people who actively made life worse for others for their own gain and this was at the front of Izuku's mind because he knew that Bakugo would get in whether he deserved it or not because of his quirk. It really grinded his gears.

As Izuku walked out to site B, he thought back on how much his life had changed after the earthquake. 'The interviews where reporters encouraged me, the mail I got from people who wanted to support me, the number of people talking about me online.' He began to self-monologue, 'Even the kids in my class stopped calling me a villain and Bakugo laid off and haven't bullied me. She saved me as much as I saved her.'

"We're both at site B!" Izuku turned around to see Uraraka again. 'So much for not letting you pair up with friends.' was his first thought before he finally responded with a simple acknowledgement of this fact, as if she wasn't sure that they were, in fact, right next to each other.

Izuku's next, admittedly less pleasant surprise, was when the annoying glasses guy came up to him and asked in a particularly annoying voice, "Why were you giving me death glares in the hall?". Izuku turned around and gave him another death glare. "There it is again! How do you think you'll make a loved hero?"

Izuku snapped. "Heroes believe that other people can do their job and have confidence in other's abilities when they have proven themselves. You don't." Stare-down time. It took a little bit of effort for Uraraka to separate them and when she told Izuku off for his behaviour he just quietly apologised and moved closer to the gate.

"START!" Everyone looked at Present Mic who seemed to be having a fit on top of the tower. "WHAT? REAL FIGHTS DON'T HAVE A COUNTDOWN! GO!" And they were off.

Many people's quirks gave them increased mobility, including Izuku's which allowed him to weave past people and slip through buildings in a person-sized cloud. The problem with Izuku's quirk is that it took more energy to hold bigger amounts of mist so a ten-minute trail would need him to conserve energy properly. He didn't mind, however, because the mist could slip into the robots and he could materialise for a split second and completely wreck the systems keeping the robots working, producing smoke and forcing them to turn off: destroyed.

All Might, for his part, couldn't take his eyes off what was happening - HE WAS HERE! All Might observed as he took down his sixth, seventh, eighth robot (something Nezu picked up on but didn't act upon).

Izuku had just destroyed his twelfth robot - giving him 21 points - when a huge explosion happened 2 blocks away. He moved his mist onto the roof and involuntarily turned back into his physical form out of shock at what he saw; a giant robot - the 0 pointer!

He was ready to run when he saw three people trapped under rubble from its attack and who, if not saved, would be crushed by the giant tracks headed towards them. Once again acting on instincts he expanded his form in a large cloud of mist and descended upon the three people. He then, in the space of 8 seconds using his teleportation, freed them all from the rubble and noticed that Ochako was one of the people trapped - how many times can this happen to one person?! He moved them to safety and began fleeing to try and increase his score when the siren blared and the scream on Present Mic was heard all around the site.

Unsure of whether he had passed with his measly 21 points, Izuku met back up with Ochako who thanked him at least a dozen times on the way out and kept talking to him until the entrance of UA was reached, in which time they had learned of each other's scores. Ochako was visibly worried about Izuku but he had reassured her and secretly prayed that it would all work out okay.

A week later and the letter was here, being shaken at him by his panicking mother and then being opened in the darkness if his room. Izuku carefully unsealed it and a projector dropped out displaying non-other than All Might.

"HA HA HA! I AM SPEAKING TO YOU AS A PROJECTION!" Still loud, it seemed, "NOW YOU'RE PROBABLY WONDERING WHAT I'M DOING HERE - I'M GOING TO BE A TEACHER AT UA!" Cool, "AND I CAN TELL YOU THIS BECAUSE YOU PASSED!" Slightly cooler, "YOU DID WELL IN THE THEORY, BUT ONLY GOT 21 POINTS IN THE PRACTICAL, NOT MUCH COMPARED TO THE OTHERS." Great confidence booster there, "EXCEPT THAT WASN'T THE ONLY PART OF IT! YOU GOT 50 RESCUE POINTS FOR SAVING TH THREE PEOPLE TRAPPED!" Okay, that actually was a great confidence booster, "I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AT UA, AND I'M GLAD YOU CHOSE TO BE A HERO, MIDORYA!" aaaand it ended. It looked like it was time to prepare for the new school.

Hey! I'm glad some of you are enjoying the story and I'm really trying to make it as good as I can but I'm still pretty new to this and can't seem to make my writing very long. I hope this is okay for now and I will try and improve quickly so that you can get some new content. Thanks for reading!