When Izuku opened his eyes, his vision was blurred due to the overwhelming feeling of dizziness. As his body started to wake up, his nostrils were flooded with the smell of anesthetics. He was at the hospital, he guessed. This was confirmed by the bland whiteness of the room, after taking a longer look to take in his surroundings. It was nighttime, and he didn't have anything stuck to him except the normal equipment that they attach to all hospital patients.

There was a note on the side of his bed, it was his mother. He took a second to read it. Of course, the paper was floppy, like someone had put it under a slowly dripping faucet. He paused for a second, before putting the note in a way where he could still read it, but he didn't touch the paper. He then wiped his hands on the sheet, before finishing the letter.

Apparently, he had gotten a slight concussion. He frowned before trying to remember what had happened. He took a second, before realizing that he didn't know if he passed or not. He remembered that he had just saved Uraraka from the large robot and getting stuck in the ground… but…

A slight panic ran through him. Was Ochaco okay? Did she make it through the exams? Did HE make it through the exams? Last he remembered, he only had 15 points, did he get more? He remembered there being a minute left. How many points did he have at the end? Did All Might know? He recalled people calling numbers above 20, were they just good, or was that average?

He realized he was muttering again, and laid back down, flopping on his pillow, willing to get some sleep. He didn't get much rest because a second later, the door went crashing open, and a tall figure with glasses ran over to his bedside.

Turns out, his pulse had spiked, and held a constant 110 heart beats per minute. And because of this, the doctor ran to his room. They gave him a slight scolding before telling him of his conditions. Yuuei's nurse, Recovery Girl, had done most of the repairs with her quirk. The doctor got the report, before telling him something interesting.

"By the way, Yuuei contacted us and wanted to let you know they would like you over to their reputation department. Apparently students reported a green and brown haired students getting crushed, and they want to clear things up with the media."

Izuku blanched.

-x-x-x-

According to his mom, students from City Zone B had seen the whole thing with the large Zero pointer robot, and had either told their parents, or a group of friends. Despite that it was only one day since, the media worked fast at circulating, and speculating what had 'happened'. Soon after, rumors had circulated and Yuuei was under close watch, even losing some of it's reputation.

The reason Yuuei had called Izuku and Ochaco back was because they wanted to have them go to an interview with them, and demonstrate that yes, they were all right. This still didn't calm Izuku's nerves when it was explained to him. It wouldn't technically be the first time he was mentioned on tv, but…

That was tonight. Yuuei wanted to get it cleared as fast as any organization. Their PR department was already blowing up. Apparently other schools in competition had been pushing the media to respond, and paid "rumor talk shows," that generally played after the news section.

That was tonight. His mother had tried suggesting that he comb his hair, but with the mop that was his head, that just didn't work. So he just put on his student wear, and ran out to the bus.

-x-x-x-

Because U.A. wouldn't naturally allow visitors, at any other time than the entrance exam, Izuku had to be given a special, temporary ID that allowed him in. That still didn't mean they would let him roam freely, it would just mean he could get in. Deku assumed they would have some civilian, or perhaps a student to guide him to the Reputation department. But to his surprise, Present Mic showed up to greet him. He had to actually keep himself from squealing a loud, as not to embarrass himself.

"Yo." Present Mic said. "So you're the kid with the…" he looked at a small folder that he had on him, "teleportation and strength quirk? Must be some weird combination of the two." He shrugged

Internally, Izuku froze. He had completely forgotten! It would be strange if someone had both the ability to teleport and have inhuman strength. Of course, the older of the two had just assumed that it was a combination quirk, but it, of course, it really was actually two quirks.

He nodded carefully, feeling silence would be the better option. Present Mic gave him the temporary pass, and motioned for him to follow. "C'mon kid, the other male and female listener already got here." Izuku blinked owlishly. He wasn't surprised at the "female." Ochaco didn't seem like the person to refuse something like this. But "other male"?

He followed, still with a light blush on his face. Now that he didn't have to worry about failing the exam, he stopped to smell the roses. The place was majestic, simply put. He knew that taxes could generate a lot of income for hero schools, heroes etc. But it was simply extravagant. How did they attain this money?

He shook his head as he followed Present Mic. despite trying to distract himself, he really couldn't believe he was following one of his idols. Though, now that he thought about it, training with his number one idol, All Might, had kind of dulled his perspective on the "legendary pro heros." They were still cool, but they were just super-super humans. Super, but still human.

-x-

Present Mic watched the green haired boy and his rather nervous looking stride. He turned away when a smile formed on his face. How he would love to see the kids' reaction of getting in. Maybe he would be able to convince Nedzu to tell him early. The kid had done pretty well, and decent before he took down the Zero pointer.

The judges were initially suspicious of Uraraka and Midoriya, considering how well they worked together. But after reviewing the tapes, and finally finding a camera that actually shown the scene, including their escape, it turned out that their quirks just work really, and Present Mic meant this, Really well together.

He listed off few of the purposes in his head. In terms of hostage situations, all Uraraka had to do was just lighten some of the hostages and Izuku could just teleport with them and escape. Or in combat, find some rubble, turn it to zero gravity, and have him use the part of his quirk that was strength, and just use some area of effect move and absolutely pelt the enemy. The possibilities were nearly endless.

He was getting ahead of himself, they still needed to get past Aizawa's test. He broke out of his thoughts and brought the kid to the department.

-x-

Uraraka had been sitting in the same room with the glasses person, Iida, for a long time. She would be lying if he didn't creep her out. He introduced himself, but it looked like he was struggling with the concept of appearing on TV. He sweated bullets and just didn't say anything. Just staring at the wall intensely. Ochaco was glad he didn't have a laser eye quirk, because she was sure he'd burn the wall down by now. She heard the door open and saw Izuku come through, looking like it was the end of the world. She would have hugged him, but she figured doing that would fry his brain. "Thank you, Deku! I wouldn't be alive by now if it weren't for you," she said while jumping around him. He still gained his blush, but it was a lot tamer at this point.

"W-Well… I just saw you, and it was like you were begging for help… Who am I to refuse?" he said very seriously "I mean it's not like I did much, I just-" he started

"You essentially slapped a 20 ton robot into the side of a building hard enough to make part of it collapse." Iida interrupted, deadpanning. Izuku stepped back slightly as he hadn't noticed the older kid's presents

"Uuh- uhm- Hi?" Midoriya said slowly "I'm Izuku Midoriya, and uh… aren't you-" Again, he got interrupted by Tenya.

"Yes! I am Tenya Iida, and I apologize for my earlier behavior! I had seriously underestimated you as a person, and as a candidate for a hero!" He said while bowing.

Izuku eyes were wide, and he looked at Uraraka, who was just as confused. "O...K… It's okay?" he said, almost as a question. Then he remembered something "Oh, Uraraka, I forgot, S-sorry about… uh… asking about your weight," he said, returning back to a blush

She also got a light blush and looked away, "It's okay, it's just… Why?"

Izuku blinked. "W-Well, my quirk relies on w-weight. I can barely teleport 2 kilograms outside of my c-clothing. T-The reason I asked for your… Weight was because I have a technique that allows me to replace myself with something equal or lesser than my weight." She took a second, before nodding in acceptance.

Iida looked like he wanted to say something but before he could, he got interrupted by the door opening.

"So I see that all three of you came, huh," came a lighter toned voice. "Though if I'm honest, I'm not surprised," Nedzu said with a smile. All three of them immediately stiffened up. Nedzu just kept talking however. "You two," he pointed at Izuku and Ochaco "caused a lot of problems with your supposed 'deaths.' Because of this, we need you to be with us, when we prove you haven't 'died.'" he did the whole air quotes.

Despite the situation, Ochaco couldn't but think he was the most adorable thing. But if he said was right, then why is...

"As for you, Iida, I called you here to be a witness. I chose you because you received the most villain points out of everyone who watched the boulder 'crush them'." Nedzu said carefully. Neither of the other two seemed to catch it, but Midoriya narrowed his eyes.

"Now, I've already planned our speech out, but I need you to be participants.

-x-x-x-

Bakugo knew he made it through. He spent almost every second destroying some robots, if that was any proof of how many points he had gotten. Briefly he tapped his chin, 70-something, was all he remembered. He moved downstairs to turn on the TV. Normally he couldn't give a crap what was on, but he was bored so he just flipped channels.

*flick*

Soap opera

*flick*

Some western cowboy movie

*flick*

Some sort of kids' show. He paused for a second, before shaking his head

*flick*

Live coverage of Yuuei apologizing for the 'scares' that people had over the 'deaths' of Izuk-

*flick*

Another kids'- wait, Bakugo blinked

*flick*

"Once again, we apologize for scaring people, who feared for the lives of attendees. To confirm that this is indeed them, we have a witness of the entire event," The camera panned to left, showing a student standing behind a microphone. Bakugo recognized him as the student who had asked about the Zero point robot. He looked slightly nervous. "I-I am Iida Tenya, and I did indeed witness the supposed 'death,' of Izuku Midoriya and Ochaco Uraraka. But as you see h-here, they are fine.

Again, the camera panned over to show some more students. However this time keeping Iida in frame. Bakugo's eyebrows furrowed. Why was Deku there? He almost 'died'? Bakugo grunted, somehow that didn't surprise him. His childhood friend seemed to somehow survive anything put before him.

He let loose a few explosions from his palm to release some annoyance at Izuku, he would try to steal the spotlight somehow, like he did with the Slime incident. Probably made him look like the her as well. "NO EXPLOSIONS IN THE HOUSE, YOUNG MAN!" He quickly got reprimanded by his mother.

"Stupid woman…" he muttered under his breath as he turned his attention back to the TV

By this point, the camera panned back over to the principal. He bowed before thanking everyone for their time. Bakugo rolled his eyes then turned the TV off. Bakugo knew about Izuku's quirk. Teleportation sounded useful, but if you had some sort of extreme accelerator, then you really didn't need one. It also relied on the user being able to follow up after teleporting, and if he remember correctly, Izuku could only use it after a couple of seconds. It left too many openings.

Still, it was a quirk, and not absolutely terrible for combat, it was just... He never used it. Bakugo knew through experience that through using your quirk, you could make it stronger. Izuku just couldn't stand being partially nude. That's why he was Deku, useless. Other kids would call him quirkless, but Izuku was too embarrassed to show his quirk off.

So how did he 'die'? Apparently, he wasn't the only one. The girl, bubbly-face, was included. Bakugo's eyes widened when he realized. Milkshake Deku did it again. He grit his teeth remembering, but when he ran to him during the sludge villain fight. He did it again huh Bakugo thought crossly. Despite this, he was still sure Deku had screwed up in the exams.

-x-x-x-

"I-Izuku, honey, Why… Why are you smiling at the dead fish?" Inko said cautiously. This seemed to snap Izuku out of whatever daze he was in.

"Oh uh… Yeah…" Izuku he slowly ate his food. He still couldn't get his mind off of the exams. He doubted he made it, but with the week to build up, and that weird way Nedzu had phrased his sentence, Deku couldn't help but hold onto whatever hope that he had made it. The green-haired boy cleaned up his dish mindlessly while he thought about it. 'It' would come soon, either that day or the next. He went into his room to lift weights, as he normally did.

As he was about to get to bed, he heard his mother yelp and essentially crawl across the room.

"I-I-Iz-Izu! It's the letter" she said, her voice filled with something akin to dread. He just stared at it blankly.

Midoriya carefully took it out of her hands and held it like it was as fragile as thin glass.

"M-Mom, c-can I, uh, r-read this alone?" he said quietly after staring at it for at least a minute. Being the loving and understanding mother, she nodded. She walked out the door and shut it quietly. Despite this, he was sure she was pacing around outside his room.

He went over to his desk and just plopped down in his chair, Izuku ran his hand over the wax seal, and he could tell it was of the highest quality. This letter, so formally created, and elegantly, made, decided whether he was a disappointment or a success. He must have been staring at for a long time, because his mother knocked and asked if he was okay.

"Yeah… I haven't opened it yet." he said, voice full of dread. He sighed as he heard his mother close the door again. Suddenly, a bolt of adrenaline and 'I need to know' came upon him, and took the letter and ripped it in half. He yelped slightly when a heavy object fell upon his table, before landing upright.

A large holographic-like screen popped up before Izuku and he could help but yelp.

"I COME AS A PROJECTION!" A large picture of All Might appeared, making Deku jump.

"Izuku Midoriya! I'm sorry I haven't been able to contact you, I've had loads of paperwork." He smirked slightly "For I work at U.A. now! I will be a future teacher!"

Now that Izuku thought about it, normally All Might wouldn't be doing this projection…

"I am here to inform you of whether you made it or not. But in a past life, I was an entertainer, so before I tell you," All Might turned to his right, "look here at this screen!"

It played a film where you could see Ochaco. Initially he thought this was during the time at the department, but she had a small bandage on the left side of her face (not canon, but I'd figure it would be there after all that happened.) so this was after the exam, Izuku guessed

"Um… Do you know of that boy that has curly green-hair, freckles, and kind of plain-looking?" While Izuku wondered why she was asking about him, he slouched a little when she said 'plain-looking.' 'I was wondering if I could give him some of my points. She looked to the side "Rather than gaining more, he spent his time saving me instead. Please!" she said while bowing.

All Might paused it after that and turned to camera, "Unfortunately, Neither can you exchange points, and through villain points, you didn't enter." Briefly Izuku's heart and mind broke. 15 points wasn't enough, huh… and he thought that Nedzu had just left him a hint… "If that was all to the test" Midoriya whipped his head so quickly back to the projection screen that his neck cracked.

"You see, what hero academy would we be if we didn't award hero points," All Might let out a booming laughter, like he knew Izuku's reaction. "YES! You proved incredible valor, as well as skill in the saving of young Uraraka!" It showed a picture of a leaderboard with Izuku's name at Number 2, two points behind Bakugo's 77. Izuku eyes started watering as his body just kind of gave up "No way…" "Your skill as a hero are there! This is your hero academy!" He smirked as the hologram ended with some notes, legal notices etc.

Izuku just sat there, eyes wide as his mind tried to comprehend everything. He looked down and grinned "I… I did it… I can become a hero…"

-x-x-x-

This was his third visit. It was a strange feeling, knowing he would come to his dream highschool every single day. He didn't need to, but he held his card out as he went into the gates of the school.

He gulped slightly as he entered. He walked through it with an apprehension, like this was some sort of cruel prank. But when nothing happened, he just sighed in relief. He walked through, checking his watch. He still had 15 minutes, so he decided to look around.

-x-

Apparently, that was a bad idea, because when he decided to get moving to his classroom, class 1-A, finding it was a bit more difficult than he thought. When he finally did find it, he was greeted with Iida and Bakugo yelling over some trivial matter. This, however, stopped when Bakugo noticed Izuku. Scowling, he got out of his chair and stomped over to Midoriya, with Iida trailing behind, curious.

"DEKU!? How the HELL DID YOU GET SECOND PLACE?!" he said while releasing some smaller explosions in his palms. Izuku put his hands over his head as if it would protect him

"Kacchan! I-uh-I got a lot of Hero points…" he said carefully. Bakugo scowled, he had seen the 'hero points' He didn't get any because he was too focused on the other type of points. "Yeah," Katsuki said challenging, and after a moment he said "Well? how did you get those points, then, Deku?" he said with a 'charming' smile, while holding onto the front of his shirt in a threatening way.

"Deku saved me! He was like *zap* and I traded place with him and then I saved him, and the he was like *WAPOW* to the big zero robot thingy and it went flying. He also teleported me again when we got stuck when I tried to save him." A voice from behind Izuku said, jumping up and down excitedly.

Lifting Izuku up and to the right, Bakugo could see Ochaco, standing there with a bright smile, "What do you mean, 'Wapow'?" he raised an eyebrow at Izuku, who inhaled sharply.

She grew an inspired look in her eyes "Yeah! It was awesome! He just kind of walked up the zero pointer robot and was like 'SMASH!' and it went flying! Of course, we almost died trying to escape," she put her finger to her chin,

Bakugo turned to Izuku, his eyes narrowed. "Smash…?! Your ability is teleportation! How did -"

He was interrupted by what looked like a yellow caterpillar "If you're here to make friends or enemies, you came to the wrong place." it said lazily "Get into your seats."

All except Bakugo ran to their designated seats. Somehow, the caterpillar got on its' end with just muscles, which just impressed the class. However, as much as they would like a 6-foot caterpillar, it turned out, that he was their homeroom teacher, much to everyone's surprise.

"i'm shouta aizawa. (1) pleased to meet you, yatta yatta, we are going outside to test you, follow me." Everyone kind of just looked at each other before following him. Their teacher was kind of boring- looking, and kinda dull for U.A. standards.

-x-

Once outside, the students lined up before what looked like a large pitching area. Aizawa looked at his little notepad, before looking up. "could i get a 'katsuki bakugo' to come forth, please." He said, sounding eternally bored.

Bakugo stepped forth, before frowning. "Yes?" he said, slightly irritated. Shouta just looked at him before handing him what looked to be a baseball.

"what was your max throwing distance at your middle school." the older man said. "67 meters," Bakugo replied. "now try with your quirk."

Everyone couldn't help but be confused. This must have been the most boring, precise conversation they'd ever witnessed. Bakugo went into the middle of the circle, looked at the ball, stepped back, and pitched it. With his Quirk. Suddenly the bored-looking kid went crazy, because upon release, he shouted "DIE!" much to everyone's confusement.

"Die?!" they all thought collectively

Aizawa turned to the class. "in this class, you're allowed to use quirks under my supervision," He showed them his calculator looking device. Some students gasped in surprise. It showed 705.2 m "S-Seven hundred meters?!" Kirishima said in shock. "for some of you, i'll either limit, or extend your scores to make up for your quirk. we're doing a competition where if your last, you're expelled. This made some, who weren't paying attention before, suddenly snap to attention, eyes wide.

"W-What? Can you even do that?!" Kaminari asked, quite terrified of being expelled because of his non-strength enhancing quirk. Aizawa just shrugged, "i've done it before," said lazily.

They broke out in a whisper before Shouta just clapped his hands to regain their attention. "wow much shock, i can't believe he's doing that to us, blah blah. just don't fail.

For Izuku, he just scored average of all non-strength enhancing quirks. The highest he scored in was the 50-meterr dash.

Izuku went up to the line, next to Bakugo, who was shooting him death glares at any second he could. Aizawa counted dully. "3. 2. 1. go," was all he said.

Izuku didn't even think to think this time around. He just kind of appeared at the other end, much to some of the other kids' astonishment. Some still didn't know he had a teleportation quirk, despite Bakugo yelling about it earlier in class, so they were pretty astounded when the speed-checker put it at 1.079e+9 (2) km/h. Izuku more impressed that their device could track him, and was pleasantly surprised to know that he moved that fast.

Bakugo didn't yell at him or anything, he knew his quirk, and that he would never physically be as fast as Izuku's quirk. He just glared slightly.

Anything else wasn't as nearly as interesting, other than Ochaco's amazing pitch that ended with an infinity sign. Then came his turn at the pitch.

He went to the circle before swallowing. He'd just use One for All, it might break his arm, but he'd get a sure high enough score that he'd make it in. He started using his quirk for one good throw. He knew this would hurt, but he couldn't help smirk. He launched it.

"FOURTY-SEVEN METERS," the bot said mechanically. Izuku blinked, and looked at his arm. It looked normal, no bruising whatsoever.

"Are you looking for a broken arm? Are you going to shatter it every time someone is in danger?" He said while his his bandages snatched him, drawing him closer. "I've taken your quirk, tell me boy, are you just going to destroy your body after every use?" Aizawa said unusually serious.

Midoriya shook his head frantically. He finally remembered who this hero was. Eraser Head. Noted especially because he didn't like appearing on any type of media. This was why he was a teacher, Izuku realized.

"I've returned your quirk." He said while glaring at the kid. "do as you please."

Deku took this second to think about his options. He could just teleport straight in the air, and throw it, hoping for the best. He thought about the rules.

Mina Ashido tried to be cheeky with the exam by getting a running start, which was not against the rules, but the moment she threw it, her right foot was out of bounds. Aizawa instantly reset her score. "during the pitch, your feet can't go outside the circle. try again."

Izuku took a second, before turning to his teacher. "I can't touch the ground outside the circle during my pitch, right?" he asked carefully, trying to just get a yes or no answer. Eraser Head narrowed his eyes "Yes." He said thoughtfully.

Izuku rarely ever smiled, but his teeth were on display for all. He turned to the field. He readied his pitching arm and started channeling One for All in his finger. Just before releasing the ball, he teleported, the absolute farthest he could with his quirk at a 45 degree angle, maybe some 100 meters. He pitched the ball with a loud explosion as it was sent flying, and a moment later he landed on the ground with a roll. (3)

Izuku's head hurt like hell, his finger hurt like hell, but he had done it.

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I hope you enjoyed today's chapter. This may have come out sooner, but the Google Docs I was using struggled to keep up with this many pages. BTW we have hit 50 followers! Thank you so much! I hope you all are enjoying this as much as I am.

(1) I purposely had most of Aizawa's lines lack capitalization because I thought it might breath more life into his lazy lines.

(2) This number is the speed of light. Yes I know, no object with mass can travel this fast, but It's fantasy so I have an again, this is fantasy.

(3) yes I know, it was about 50 meters high, and people struggle to survive that kind of fall, but again, this is fantasy.