Midoriya gave a sharp whistle, and Ryuto screeched, flapping his wings and shooting into the air.
His baby bird had finally learnt how to fly, and Midoriya was just... really, really proud of him. It felt weird, really; that warm, fuzzy feeling in his chest. Midoriya held out his arm, and Ryuto flew over to him, landing gently on his arm. He pecked gently at Midoriya's nose, before he fluttered to the ground, right where Reiko was standing. He was slightly larger than the cat, but Ryuto still lent forward, nuzzling Reiko.
Ryuto took off into the air again, before settling down on Midoriya's head. He really seemed to like perching on Midoriya's head, and Midoriya didn't really care either. Ryuto gave a small screech, before leaning downwards to nuzzle the green haired boy.
Midoriya gave a small smile, and reached up, scratching Ryuto under his beak, "Yeah, love you too, Ryu."
Reiko whined from her position on the ground, and Midoriya scooped her up, depositing her on his shoulder. Ryuto gave a delighted cry, and Reiko reached up to pat Ryuto's talons.
"You're going to fall, be careful." Midoriya grumbled, before he grabbed his bag and made his way back to the dorms. Yagi had just set the class an assignment to write an essay about him, and he had stupidly enough, not given them any restrictions.
Which meant Midoriya was free to write as much as he wanted.
Yagi had been a hero for a very long time, so there was tons of information and data flying around the internet. He had also allowed the class to type the essay out on their computers and print it out, which meant that Midoriya could write a lot more given the same amount of time.
Midoriya may not like to hold grudges, but he really, really didn't like Yagi. The man was too loud, too flashy, and while he knew he was probably being very passive-aggressive, he didn't care.
He was going to make Yagi's life miserable.
Yamada and Kayama were making their way to the staff room, when they heard laughter.
"Is that... Shouta?" Kayama's jaw dropped, before she grabbed Yamada's arm and yanked the door open.
"Help. Aizawa's lost it!" Snipe yelped, pressed himself against the wall.
Aizawa was sitting at his usual seat, head pressed against the table, laughing.
"Aizawa-san! Please! It's not funny!" Yagi whined, waving his red pen in the air.
"You... stupid... fucking... idiot..." Aizawa hissed through his laughter, "You didn't ... give him any restrictions... and you're a pro with... a super long history... and it's Midoriya... we're talking about... what else did you... fucking... expect..!?"
Kayama blinked.
"What is going on?"
Ectoplasm made his way towards Kayama and Yamada, shutting the door behind them.
"We all know that Midoriya... isn't too fond of All Might, right?"
"Yes?" Yamada asked, confused.
"And that he... I wouldn't call it a habit... but generally, the more he dislikes a person... the more he writes when it comes to essays?" Ectoplasm continued.
"Yeah. We know that." Kayama replied. Without restrictions, Midoriya usually gave her thirty paged reports, Yamada and Aizawa forty paged reports, and Ishiyama around twenty five paged reports. Ishiyama was quieter than the rest of them, so it was obvious that Midoriya would be more comfortable around him. Yamada was way too loud, especially with his quirk, and she felt that Aizawa might have offended Midoriya by constantly calling him "problem child".
There were differences in how many pages Midoriya handed in depending on the subject and topic, but he usually handed in fewer pages when he was more comfortable with a teacher.
"Wait, so, didn't All Might give them this essay about himself?" Yamada asked, "How many pages did he write?"
Yagi held up a stack of paper that was about hlaf a centimeter thick. It was too thick to be stapled together, and there were several paper clips holding the entire report in place.
"Around a hundred." Yagi sighed, "Proper report format, with a contents page, and coloured tabs for easy flipping. He handed it in in a ring binder."
Kayama stared at the report, and blinked, before she let out a peel of laughter.
Midoriya really, really didn't like Yagi, and he showed it by writing him a super long essay.
"Also, Nezu and Aizawa both said that they weren't going to help All Might mark it, though Midoriya sent them the soft copy; Midoriya stated that if he gave All Might a thumbdrive, he was most likely going to crush it by accident. All Might's going to have to cross reference everything and check the citations himself." Ectoplasm finished off.
"It's kinda funny, but I'm also terrified of the kid." Snipe whispered, almost begging, "I don't want to see any more long essays, please."
"Midoriya's scary." Ojiro admitted.
"How so? He seems okay." Kamakiri asked, as he sat down opposite Yaoyorozu. Jiro was sitting beside her, and Hagakure, Ojiro, Kendo, Monoma, and Honenuki were also at their table. Monoma was annoying at times, always saying how 1-B was better than 1-A, but Yaoyorozu never minded as much; he was much nicer to her after her defeat at his hands during the Sports Festival, for some reason. She supposed that Monoma had already felt that they had showed that they were better than her, and there was no longer the need to be so haughty towards her.
"You know how All Might made us write that essay about him, right?" Yaoyorozu whispered.
"Yeah. We wrote it too. It wasn't that hard. Are you saying that 1-A can't even handle - mpppf!" Monoma started saying, until his mouth was covered by Kendo, "Come on, stop it."
"So... continue?" Honenuki asked, grabbing his spaghetti.
"He handed in a binder. A ring binder, and just gave it to All Might directly." Ojiro stated.
Monoma raised his eyebrows, "Okay? So?"
"He handed in fifty sheets of paper. It was like... this thick." Hagakure replied, pinching her fingers, though no one could see her.
Honenuki choked on his spaghetti, "Wait, what?"
"Yep." Jiro sighed, "All Might got Iida to collect the reports, but Midoriya just stood up, walked from his seat right at the back of the classroom to the front, and plopped the binder, right on his desk. I swear, it's almost like he purposely wanted to make All Might's life difficult. We all know how much trouble All Might had with marking reports."
"Well, All Might might not be the best teacher, but he's awesome for moral." Kendo admitted, "Having the Number One hero on our side just makes me feel that we can do anything."
Midoriya sat down, as he waited for the teachers to start the exam. They had finished the written papers, and they had held several study sessions, so Midoriya was fairly sure the rest of the class would pass. There were twenty one students in 1-A, and Midoriya wasn't too sure how the exam would be conducted.
"Alright." Nezu popped out of Aizawa's scarf. Midoriya wondered how he managed to hide in there in the first place, "There's an odd number of students in this class, and we've grouped you into groups of three. Each group will be facing two heroes, or just All Might, if you happen to fight him. In order to pass, you either have to cuff both of the heroes, or to have two students pass through the gate."
Nezu pressed a button, and the list of groups popped up.
Kirishima, Shoji and Bakugou were a group, while Ashido, Todoroki and Kaminari were in another group. Uraraka, Jiro and Hagakure were together, as were Iida, Mineta and Ojiro.
Midoriya looked down the list.
Asui, Aoyama and Sero were grouped together, as well as Tokoyami, Yaoyorozu and Sato.
Which left Shinsou, Midoriya and Koda together in a group.
Midoriya bit his lip. Three students, with non-offensive quirks. As much as Midoriya hated to admit, they were at a huge disadvantage. All the other groups had a nice balance of long and close ranged fighters, and their group didn't have a single directly offensive quirk.
"We've also invited other UA alumni to help us with the fights!" Nezu finished off.
Midoriya just hoped that they wouldn't be as unlucky with the groupings as they were with the teachers they had to fight.
Kirishima, Shoji and Bakugou had to fight Yagi, which was probably for the best. Kirishima could tank Yagi's weaker punches, albeit barely, but Shoji and Bakugou's attacks were barely making a dent on the Number One hero.
"Throw me!" Kirishima yelled, activating his quirk, and Shoji nodded, picking the red-haired boy up and hurled him at Yagi. Bakugou aimed an explosion in Yagi's face, blinding him, just as Kirishima shot down like a bullet and collided with Yagi. He was lucky to hit the hero right where his injury was, and Yagi winced, as pain shot through his body. He was aware of Shoji creeping up behind him, and let the boy cuff him.
Any other hero would probably be knocked out after having Kirishima collide with them like that, and Nezu did mention that they had to give the students a chance to win somehow.
Ashido, Todoroki and Kaminari were facing Inui and Nezu. Nezu was currently knocking buildings over, and all Todoroki could do was to use his ice to freeze all the debris in place before it crushed him and his teammates, while making sure that his ice didn't reach Kaminari and Ashido, as they tried to fend Inui off. The school counselor, while not a teacher, was still a formidable opponent; Ashido could barely dance out of his reach, and while Kaminari was trying his best to shock Inui without harming Ashido, his attacks wasn't really reaching Inui through all that fur.
"Move." Todoroki ordered, and shot out his ice. Ashido and Kaminari were barely able to get out of the way before the ice froze them, but Inui had heard Todoroki and had also dodged the ice attack.
"Attacking your own teammates? Is that how a hero should act?" Inui growled, taking a step forward, dodging once against as Todoroki fired off his flames.
"Who said I was aiming for you." Todoroki blankly replied, as Kaminari raised his hands, "Eat this!"
He placed his hands against the ground, which was now drenched with water, and let his electricity loose, paralyzing Inui. Ashido was with Todoroki, and had melted the ground with her acid so that the water didn't reach them.
"Wheee!" Kaminari grinned, having shocked himself into Idiot Mode, and stuck his thumbs up as he wandered aimlessly around. Ashido had quickly cuffed the paralyzed hero, and Todoroki spoke up, "We'll make our way to the exit, and I'll stop any debris with my ice. Let's go."
Ashido grabbed Kaminari's arm, before she followed Todoroki as he headed towards the exit.
"Wait, we're not going after the principal? Then why did we cuff Hound Dog?" Ashido asked.
"Once they're cuffed, they're out. They can't interfere. If we headed right for the exit, he can still chase after us. I can easily stop the principal from raining more debris on us." Todoroki replied.
Uraraka, Jiro and Hagakure had to fight Snipe and Thirteen. Thirteen was trying to suck them in with her Blackhole, while Snipe kept shooting them, forcing Jiro and Uraraka to use their quirks in order to defend, while desperately trying to not get sucked into Thirteen's Blackhole.
"Hagakure, take off your gloves and shriek." Jiro whispered, blasting away another wave of bullets, "Then take out Snipe."
Hagakure immediately complied, and yelped, whipped off her gloves. Uraraka let go of the railing, and they all got sucked towards Thirteen, who panicked, and stopped their quirk. She looked around, watching as Hagakure's gloves fluttered weightlessly to the ground, before she got kicked in the face by Uraraka.
Snipe had also stopped his assault on the three girls, only to find himself cuffed by Hagakure.
Iida, Mineta and Ojiro were up against Kan and Kayama. While Iida had a helmet that helped to protect against Kayama's quirk, Ojiro was trying to hold his breath and use his tail in a failing attempt to filter out the sleeping gas. Mineta was rushing around helplessly as he tried to dodge Kan's attempts to catch him.
"Ojiro, fall back!" Iida ordered, distracting Kayama with a kick and pulling Ojiro away from the sleeping gas, "Take on Vlad King with Mineta. I'll take on Midnight-sensei."
Iida was trying his best to avoid getting hit by Kayama's whip, but he couldn't get close; his quirk required him to get up close, but would leave him open to an attack.
Mineta screamed as he almost got hit by Kan's blood, and whirled around, desperately throwing his sticky orbs in an attempt to slow Kan down.
Ojiro intercepted Kan, taking the attention off Mineta, as the small purple haired boy dived behind a rock in an attempt to catch his breath. He looked over the boulder, seeing Iida and Ojiro fending off Kan and Kayama, and bit his lip.
I can't be a hero like this...
"Iida!" Mineta shrieked, popping off a handful of sticky orbs and lobbed them where Iida and Kayama were fighting. Iida quickly moved out of the way, as the sticky orbs rained down on them, but Kayama wasn't as lucky; the orbs landed on her and her whip, immobilising her.
"Alright, nice job!" Ojiro shouted, "Go for the exit! I'll hold him off!"
"Got it!" Iida replied, rushing forwards, quickly scooping Mineta up and making a run for the exit.
Asui, Aoyama and Sero were grouped together, against Ectoplasm and Maijima, in an open field. Aoyoma was trying to fire off his lasers in short, small bursts in order to prolong his chances of getting a stomach ache, destroying the Ectoplasm clones one by one. Maijima was tunneling through the ground, and Asui and Sero did not know where he might pop up. There were very few trees, and Maijima had already knocked them all down to prevent them from using their quirks to cross.
"Kero, I have an idea, but we need to make it fast." Asui leapt up from the ground, wrapping her tongue around Aoyama as Maijima erupted from the ground. She landed near Sero.
"I'll throw you two towards the exit. Aoyama, use all your power and blast the clones, and Power Loader, when he comes up; it doesn't matter if you get a stomach ache, kero. Sero, grab the gate after I throw you and pull yourselves past. I'll try to buy you time."
"Alright. Gotcha." Sero shot her a thumbs up, and Aoyoma gave them determined nod.
"Power Loader's going to come up… in around five seconds. Aoyama, get ready, kero."
Aoyama powered up his quirk, and Asui wrapped her tongue around her male teammates, before leaping up in the air, just as Maijima struck. Aoyama fired off his laser, right in Maijima's face, destroying a good half of the clones in the process, and Asui threw Sero and Aoyama towards the gate.
Ectoplasm was about to respond, but she lashed out with her tongue again, destroying a few more clones.
"Gotcha!" Sero grinned, grabbing Aoyama with his tape, before shooting more tape out of his other arm, attaching it to the gate, "It's going to be a little bumpy, hold on."
Sero reeled his tape him, and both him and Aoyama shot towards the gate, flying right through and tumbling to the ground.
Tokoyami, Yaoyorozu and Sato found themselves against Ishiyama and Snipe. Apparently, Snipe was fighting again, due to the lack of available teachers for the exam. Sato was smashing through Ishiyama's cement walls, while Yaoyorozu had created a shield to block against Snipe's bullets. Dark Shadow was trying to get closer to Snipe, but Ishiyama kept creating more walls to block Dark Shadow.
"Tokoyami, cover yourself with Dark Shadow. I'm going to make a smoke bomb. Sato, keep on making noise, we'll make a break for the exit." Yaoyorozu whispered, as the device appeared in her hand. She lobbed it at the heroes, before making a gas mask for herself. She put it on, just as the device exploded.
Tokoyami covered himself with his quirk, protecting his vision and his sense of smell, and Yaoyorozu placed her finger to her lips, telling him to be quiet, as they crept towards the exit. Tokoyami sensed something behind him, and he lashed out, nailing Snipe in the chest with a punch, with Dark Shadow's help.
Sato leapt at Snipe, distracting him, allowing Yaoyorozu and Tokoyami to make their way towards the exit.
Shinsou, Midoriya and Koda found themselves against Yamada and Aizawa, and they were fighting in an open field. Ryuto and Reiko were with Nezu, probably watching the fight somewhere outside the area from the safety of the security cameras.
Aizawa practically fought quirkless, so it wasn't a big problem. Yamada was the problem; his yelling could easily burst all their ear drums, and he could attack from anywhere. Aizawa would also be affected, but Midoriya figured that they had been working together for so long that they would have found a way around it.
Midoriya also knew that Nezu had probably put him with two students he was more familiar and comfortable with on purpose.
"Okay, we're fighting Mic-sensei and Aizawa-sensei. Any ideas?" Shinsou asked.
Yamada and Aizawa were Shinsou's parents, so he should know the best, though Midoriya figured that even Shinsou didn't really think that he would end up fighting them.
"Present Mic is entomophobic," Midoriya signed, "Ï'm not sure if Koda's quirk extends to them, but if it does, then we can incapacitate Present Mic first. Aizawa-sensei will most likely come after us. I can handle him, but if he erases Koda's quirk, assuming it does work on insects, then you might have to deal with Present Mic again."
Koda blanched almost immediately, and shook his head, "No. Please. I really, really don't like bugs."
"Well, it's either bugs or -" Shinsou immediately slammed his hands over his ears as Yamada let out a loud screech that reverberated through the entire area. Midoriya and Koda did the same, and they waited until Yamada stopped screaming.
"- going deaf. Ow." Shinsou finished, rubbing the ringing noise out of his ears. "Come on, Koda, please?"
"Mic-sensei is most likely going to be stationed by the exit, and Aizawa-sensei would probably be trying to hunt us down. We need to move fast." Midoriya hastily signed, before slamming his hands over his ears again and Yamada let out another shriek.
"WHERE ARE YOU!? AREN'T YOU GOING TO COME AFTER US?!"
The boulder they were hiding behind cracked, before crumbling, leaving them completely exposed to the loud, harsh soundwaves that Yamada was letting off.
Koda shook, waiting for Yamada to stop, before he hastily dove towards the ground, where there were a few centipedes and ants, "Please, can you find that guy standing near the exit and crawl up his leg? And also find your friends to help?"
The critters agreed almost immediately, diving back underground almost immediately.
Koda shakily shot them a thumbs up, and Shinsou sighed, "Alright, let's go."
The trio started making their way towards the exit, before Shinsou yelped as Midoriya pushed him out of the way. A capture weapon sped towards them, but Midoriya caught the weapon before it reached anyone.
Aizawa leapt out of the trees, his goggles placed firmly on his face, and reeled his capture weapon back in. Midoriya growled at him, before he looked towards Koda and Shinsou, just as they heard a girlish screech somewhere in the distance.
They got the message almost immediately; go towards the exit, and don't let Aizawa erase Koda's quirk.
"Got it! Koda, let's go!" Shinsou yelled, grabbing Koda's arm and leading him towards the exit.
Aizawa turned to chase after them, but Midoriya literally pounced on him, tackling the hero to the ground. They were both sent tumbling, and Midoriya quickly got to his feet. Aizawa pushed himself up, hastily dodging as Midoriya attacked, and whipped out his capture weapon.
Midoriya caught the weapon, and Aizawa pulled him in, but Midoriya just used that opportunity to use Aizawa's strength against him and aimed a punch at the man's stomach. Aizawa quickly blocked it, but at that point, Shinsou and Koda were long gone.
He didn't have too long to think about it, though. Midoriya was still attacking, and Aizawa wasn't too keen on getting hit by the boy if he had the power to keep up with Stain.
"Alright, I have news. Everyone passed both the written and the practical, so you're all going for the training camp." Aizawa wearily stated, and gave 1-A five seconds to cheer and celebrate before he silenced them with his quirk, "I'm going to give you a packing list for the camp, and you have one last piece of homework to hand in before the camp."
"Aww. Another report?" Ashido sighed, and Aizawa nodded, "Yep. Write a report about the hero that I'm going to assign to you. Pros and cons, improvements, the usual. No restrictions."
Midoriya sat in his seat as Aizawa rattled off hero names. Uraraka had gotten Ryukyu, Iida had gotten Kamui Woods, Shinsou had gotten Gang Orca, among others, and Midoriya waited patiently for Aizawa to assign a hero to him.
Endeavor.
Midoriya blinked.
That guy?
Midoriya looked up at Aizawa, confused, but Aizawa just gave a shit-eating grin, "Remember, no restrictions. Go for it."
Excitement bubbled in his stomach.
Midoriya was going to have so much fun writing about Endeavor.