Alright, so I haven't been wanting to post this chapter, because I made barely any differences the Final Exams. I couldn't really think of what to change. Anyways, this chapter is going to start building up to the climax of the story, so I hope you all enjoy it.
Most of the practical exams happened the exam same way as the originally did, except for Izuku and Bakugo's exam.
Bakugo's quirk evolution training with Blur was finished, and he had mastered an entirely new skill, that he couldn't wait to use against All Might, Izuku was more confident due to his special training, but he knew that he only had 7% of All Might's full power at his disposal, so there was no way he could win in a head to head fight.
"I'm telling you, we should avoid a battle at any cost!" Izuku said nervously.
"I'll just lead him around by the nose up until-" Bakugo started saying.
"No Kacchan! Just who do you think All Might is. No matter the number of handicaps, you can't beat him."
Bakugo swung his arm around to hit Izuku, but Izuku caught his arm by Bakugo's gauntlet.
"The only way we pass the exam Kacchan is if we escape through the gate" Izuku said determined.
"What the hell has gotten into you, you nerd? You think your better than me?" Bakugo said as he made an explosion.
Izuku was knocked backwards but unharmed, "The only way I pass is by beating All Might!"
All Might suddenly entered the field, dealing collateral damage with just the sudden air pressure change.
"IF YOU'RE THINKING OF THIS AS JUST A TEST. THEN YOU'RE IN FOR A WORLD OF PAIN. I AM A VILLAIN. OH HEROES. COME AT ME AND PUT YOUR WHOLE HEART INTO IT!" All Might announced with a demanding presence.
Before All Might had a chance to charge at the two of them, Bakugo had already closed the distance with a single focused explosion and attacked. Releasing an explosion from his gauntlet at point blank range, knocking All Might backwards towards the escape gate.
When the smoke cleared, Izuku saw that Bakugo had already closed the gap again, and was rapidly firing off explosions while skillfully dodging All Might's attacks.
Bakugo's hand explosions dealt barely any damage to All Might, but by Bakugo's constant dodging he was able to build up sweat to fill his gauntlets.
Izuku was still standing where he was when the battle started, shocked at how quickly Bakugo was moving around the battlefield.
Realizing that Bakugo wouldn't be able to fight All Might forever, he activated his 7% Full Cowl, and cloaked his body in 30% of his black flames. The combination of his black flames, the energy from Full Cowl, and the hero mask he pulled over his face made him look like a demon.
Izuku ran towards the two of them, keeping his range from All Might, he shot off fireballs aimed at All Might's face as a distraction to help Bakugo, but he ended up hitting Bakugo in his back instead.
"YOU IDIOT! JUST GET OUT OF THE FUCKING WAY, I'LL HANDLE ALL MIGHT MYSELF!" Bakugo yelled, distracted.
All Might then grabbed Bakugo by his face and slammed him into the ground, then he charged at Izuku.
"YOU'LL SOON JOIN HIM, MIDORIYA, MY BOY."
Izuku lept into the sky, using his flames to propel him higher, All Might jumped after him, then punched him, knocking him downwards into the ground next to Bakugo. Which caused Izuku to lose his Full Cowl.
"I'm telling you Kacchan, there's no way we can beat him, he's too strong."
"I will win. Because… that's what a hero does."
Izuku tried to convince Bakugo once more, but then All Might came from above with an attack. He trapped Izuku under a guardrail, then went to punch Bakugo, but he dodged, and ended up five meters to the left with a single explosion.
All Might charged at Bakugo once more, but he released an omni-directional explosion from his body, knocking All Might back giving himself a chance to catch his breath.
"WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS SUCH A WASTE, MY BOY! DON'T YOU GET IT? SURELY YOU MUST! YOU CAN STILL GROW SO MUCH, BUT IT ISN'T YOUR STRENGTH THAT NEEDS TO GROW BUT YOUR JUDGEMENT!" All Might said, barely phased by the explosion.
"Shut your mouth, All Might… it's better to lose all together than have that piece of shit, Deku, help me!"
"IS THAT SO? THEN I DON'T REGRET THIS!" All Might said as he approached the exhausted Bakugo with a final strike.
Midoriya broke free of the guardrail, and used 20% Full Cowl with his fist engulfed in a 100% flame. He punched All Might, knocking him to the side.
Izuku had injured his arm, but could still use it. He grabbed Bakugo and ran, hoping to make it to the gate before All Might recovered. However, All Might dashed to the side and punched Izuku.
Right before the punch connected, Izuku threw Bakugo with One for All at 20%. Bakugo landed two feet away from the escape gate.
When Bakugo stood up, he saw All Might smashing Izuku into the ground, "YOUNG MIDORIYA, BAKUGO IS MUCH TOO PRIDEFUL TO PASS BY ESCAPING, IT WAS FUTILE FOR YOU TO THROW HIM AS HE WILL RETURN TO FIGHT ME!" All Might declared.
There was then an yell, "HEY ALL MIGHT!"
All Might looked away from Midoriya to watch Bakugo casually walk backwards through the escape gate, passing the exam for himself and Izuku, "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT ABOUT BEING TOO PRIDEFUL!"
Both All Might and Izuku were shocked by the fact that Bakugo walked through the gate, when Izuku tried asking him about it, the only response Izuku got was a threat from Bakugo, that was along the lines of "I'll blow you to hell!"
…
Kirishima and Satou had an altered final exam as well. Thanks to the bone growing ability Blur gave Kirishima, instead of simply smashing every wall, Kirishima dug his fingernails into the cement walls and bones grew from his legs grounding him.
Cementoss kept creating wall after wall trying to overexert the two of them. Kirishima focused all of his energy into his fingernails, making them grow into the cement walls, growing longer and wider, creating a wedge going through every wall Cementoss made.
Kirishima finally made it all the way through Cementoss's walls, but as he had no way of knowing that he did, his fingernails continued growing past Cementoss, becoming weaker the farther they grew.
His fingernails finally got to their limits and broke, leaving him a few inches outside of his fingers.
"Hey, Satou! Why don't you try punching here?" Kirishima said as he released his bones from the ground.
Satou took several cubes of sugar, then punched the fingernail ends that Kirishima had created in the walls.
Every wall crumbled around the fingernail wedge.
As the walls crumbled, Kirishima lept forwards running towards Cementoss, ready to strike.
Cementoss was shocked that all of his walls fell and became distracted long enough for Kirishima to finish closing the distance.
He punched Cementoss with a decisive blow, knocking him backwards, then Kirishima slapped the cuffs on him, securing victory for him and Satou.
...
Blur applauded Bakugo when he next saw him, "I'm glad to hear that you did what I wanted you to during the exam" Blur smiled.
"WHY THE HELL DID I HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE ESCAPE GATE, THAT'S THE COWARD'S WAY OF PASSING, I COULD HAVE BEATEN ALL MIGHT!" Bakugo yelled angrily, on the verge of tears.
"Hush Bakugo, I am going to mold you into a great hero. You will crush Kaine, as well as Midoriya, Iida, and Todoroki…" Blur said in a calming voice, relaxing Bakugo right away.
Blur's book of life suddenly appeared, "What the hell? I didn't summon this…"
The book opened itself to a blank page, red writing slowly started to appear, Bakugo said calmly, "What… is that? That… book…"
"I guess I can tell you, I'll just blur memories after… I have three quirks, not just one"
"That's not… possible…"
"Just be quiet. My three quirks are to blur memories, create constructs, and to rewrite reality. I rewrite reality using special books, and this one is mine, my future self is currently writing a paragraph to me… and it doesn't look happy. Just a moment please."
Blur picked up the book and began reading the text, "He wants me to leave Kaine alone… why, he knows how my quirk works?" Blur kept reading, "How is that supposed to make us be a hero rather than a villain? Why can't we just rewrite and fix that?"
Blur then summoned a handful of books, that belong to Bakugo, Shoto, Izuku, and Kirishima respectively. He started flipping through the pages of Bakugo's book, "I don't see it in Bakugo's life…" he closed Bakugo's book and set it to the side while he started reading through the rest of the books.
"Ah found it… it was hiding in Todoroki's book… why can't that be rewritten? Bakugo what do you think?" Blur looked up to see Bakugo was missing, and so was Bakugo's book of life, "Well then…"
...
Bakugo had stolen his book of life from Blur. He had no idea what to do with it, but he remembered Blur talking about Kaine, so he figured he would ask him, but Kaine was taking his final exam at the time.
Bakugo walked into the battleground viewing room, where a few of the second years were watching the exams.
"Hey, this is the second year exams, a first year shouldn't be here!" a boy yelled out.
"Shut up, Yuuto!" a girl's voice yelled out.
"WHAT! YOU GUYS GONNA FIGHT ME TO KICK ME OUT!" Bakugo yelled.
Aoi walked up to him, "Your class 1-A, right? Are you looking for Kaine?" she asked as she rubbed his head like he was a little kid.
"So what if I am!?" Bakugo yelled as he threw her arm off of his head.
"Stop shouting all the time and just talk!" Aoi yelled, her quirk slightly active.
Bakugo was going to yell more, but realized it didn't matter, "Just tell me where the hell he is."
Aoi calmed down as well, "He's about to take his exam, you can watch if you want while you wait."
Bakugo didn't say another word. He started watching the exams, the book in his hands started shaking like it was trying to escape, but Bakugo held it firmly.
…
Kaine and a classmate whose body was seemingly made from shadow stood in a dimly lit indoor battleground, and their opponent was Aizawa.
Kaine was sitting cross legged on a platform he made of light, thinking.
"Kaine shouldn't we keep moving?" his partner said with a demonic voice.
"You get stronger in the dark, correct?" Kaine asked.
"Yeah, that's right, and your stronger in the light, that's why we got paired together."
"And Aizawa's quirk only works if he can see us…"
"Yeah, so we need a plan."
"I already have one" Kaine said as he stood up, the platform vanishing from underneath him as he did.
Kaine started focusing light in his hand for a moment, it began glowing like it was on fire, "You might want to close your eyes for a minute…"
Kaine thrusted his hand into the air shouting, "Shadow World!"
A bright light filled the battleground, even blinding Aizawa who was on the opposite end of it. The light got brighter and brighter, and then it turned black. The entire battleground was so dark that nobody would be able to even see their own hand in front of them.
"Can you see in the dark?" Kaine asked looking at his partner, as he was still able to see with his golden eye.
His partner nodded, "Yes, it's easier for me, than to see in the light."
"Ok, you go find the escape gate, you're practically invisible to Aizawa, I'll release a glow from my body and be the distraction."
His partner nodded and ran off in one direction, Kaine started making his body glow, being the only light in the entire battleground.
Aizawa quickly found Kaine, and started fighting him hand to hand, cancelling Kaine's quirk making light be restored to the battleground.
Kaine didn't focus on winning against Aizawa, he was just trying to keep the fight going to give his teammate time.
Then an announcement filled the battlegrounds, "Escape was successful in record time! Three times faster than the previous record!"
"So that was it… you were the distraction… I thought the glow was so you could see in the dark…"
"Sorry Mr. Aizawa… I figured it was the best way to pass."
…
Kaine made his way up to the viewing room, Aoi leapt into his arms with a hug and a laugh, "That was amazing, you finally figured out to use your shadow powers!"
"Yeah, I figured out about two months ago, I just haven't really used it at school until now."
"HEY KAINE, STOP CELEBRATING! YOU PASSED WE GET IT!" Bakugo yelled.
"Oh yeah, this kid was looking for you. Wish me luck on my test."
"I can't believe you and Yuuto have to fight Aizawa also…" Kaine said as Aoi and Yuuto walked out of the room, "Hey… what's your name again?"
"JUST SHUT UP AND TELL ME WHAT THIS IS!" Bakugo yelled shaking the book in his hand.
"Ah Bakugo… the loud one… you're asking me what that book is?"
"YEAH, THE BLUR PERSON TOLD ME HE COULD REWRITE REALITY WITH THIS! I READ THE FIRST TEN PAGES, IT'S ALL ABOUT ME!"
"You got your book of life from The Author… and Blur is The Author…" Kaine said in a bland tone.
"WHO THE HELL IS THE AUTHOR? WHAT IS A BOOK OF LIFE? WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?" Bakugo yelled.
"Let's go somewhere a little safer, and secluded… I'll tell you everything I know."