Aaand I'm back, time to deliver some more mediocre content courtesy of yours truly. This chapter takes place on the same day as the last if you were wondering, which is the day of the entrance exams.
Thankfully the train ride to U.A is about an hour long which gives Izuku enough time to know what the hell he's doing and maybe inform All Might if he can contact him so soon before the exams.
Hope you all enjoy, story start!
'Ok, note to self: Read ALL servant descriptions before attempting to use their cards. No matter what...Side-note, casters are fucking psychopaths.' Izuku thought to himself as he looked through the bios of his new cards that he recently summoned. Much had happened in the short period of time between him activating his quirk and arriving at U.A
For one he checked out the starting SQ that I had available. Which came with handy breakdown of where everything came from:
For waiting an extra 10 years to get a quirk: +50
For consistently scoring high in academics: +5
For creating over 10 notebooks filled with weapons grade knowledge on heroes: +5
For surviving an encounter with a villain!: +10
You met All Might!: +1
He signed your notebook!: +1
You discovered one of the world's great mysteries 2x. +20
You've been mentored by All Might!: +30
You've fully cleaned Dagobah beach!: +10
You've ate the hair: +60
You've used OFA for the first time: +5
For completing the tutorial: +10
And that was about it. Which left Izuku with a total of 207 SQ. Which he thought to be a significant amount until he checked the shop tag. Less than 20,000 yen...All those quests amounted to less than 20,000 yen worth of saints quartz…
Sad realities of capitalism aside, Izuku decided to roll a few more times in order to give myself an edge in versatility. Hoping that it would be enough to cover for his inexperience and inability to use OFA without breaking his body.
He pulled only once though, a 10x summon specifically, and wrote down his thoughts on each of them in a new notebook. The summoning gave him the following:
Craft Essences:
Freelancer(I can use guns now. So that's pretty cool)
Jeweled Sword Zel-ack!(The card disappeared and chucked some spare change in my face...Something tells me the former owner doesn't want me to have it…It freaked out the people around me on the train too, I apologized profusely.)(2)
Room Guarder(...Weird picture aside it was just a resting area filled with games and snack food. Might be nice to use later.)
Servants:
Alexander(1)
Fergus Mac Roich(Powerful but dangerous, use with caution)
Hozuin Inshun(Nothing but respect for this man, his dedication was quite literally legendary.)
Cu Chulainn(Caster): (Wasn't this guy supposed to be a spearman? And a demi-god? Wait are classical god's real?!)
Hassan of One hundred faces(Surprisingly cool despite her classification. Very loyal, summon later.)
Bedivere(I think I just found my favorite servant. Jesus Christ how determined!..Wait is Jesus a servant?)
Altria Pendragon(Lancer)(Alter)(WHAT?!)
The fact that one of the most mythical kings in history was actually a woman really shouldn't have surprised him considering what Mash said, but it definitely caught him off guard. So much so that he didn't even notice Kacchan pass me by, or that he tripped on my own two feet, hell he barely even noticed that my feet were now floating off the groun- 'Wait what?'
Freaking out slightly he kicked his feet a bit trying to get down only to hear the giggling of someone right next to him. "Sorry about using my quirk on you without asking. But I doubt you'd want to eat pavement right before the exam." A frankly adorable girl said, a smile on her face and eyes closed as she deactivated her quirk.
"T-Thank you, I just realized something earlier and it distracted me. M-my name is Midoriya by the way! Midoriya Izuku." Izuku returned the smile, still a little nervous about talking to such a pretty girl but didn't want to come off as rude by not saying anything.
"Nice to meet you! I'm Uraraka Ochako, I'd love to chat but we should probably get going, the tests will start soon." She said before heading off. She was right of course the test started soon and it would be for the best to get in early.
Several hours of standardized testing later.
*Smack! Was the sound my head made as it collided with the table he was sitting for the last few hours, he wasn't alone in this either as numerous students smashed their faces united in the hatred of all things paperwork. A hatred that would surely follow them into adulthood, causing them to wish such pain to be placed upon the young, perpetuating the cycle.
It wasn't long until Present Mic of all people arrived to explain what the practical portion of the exam entailed. 'We're gonna be fighting robots? Score!' Collateral damage doesn't seem to be a concern either so as long as he wasn't not near too many other people he could use some of his stronger NP's! Just imagining what an activated Caladbolg would do to an army of machines was getting me excited.
"The hell are you so happy about Deku! Are you that ready to commit suicide via robot?" Kacchan griped from the seat next to me, probably annoyed by Izuku's excitement and general happiness. So business as usual really.
"N-no sorry about that, I was probably being too loud. A-ah, that's right I forgot to tell you! I-" Izuku was about to tell him about having a quirk now but was interrupted.
"And you two with the unkempt hair!" ...Well that was rude. "You've been talking this entire time, it's distracting. If you aren't going to take this seriously then leave-" Was as far as the guy got before Kacchan exploded. Thankfully not literally.
"Shut the fuck up you pomposs extra! If anyone's distracting everyone it's the dipshit that can't even read their own instructions for a simple test like everyone else! If you need to have your hand held through everything then you're the one that doesn't belong here!" Brutal with his words as ever Kacchan had effectively cowled whoever he was yelling at before Present Mic called for order, from there we were each moved to our respective areas.
On the way to the bus that would bring us all to our testing area Izuku saw a familiar face, Uraraka was about to enter one of the busses when he decided to head over, wanting to wish her luck and maybe talk for a bit before the exam.
"Uraraka-san, It's nice to see you again! So...Giant robots right?" The lovable cinnamon roll bumbled into a conversation. Guess Love Potion doesn't instantly cure social ineptitude. Luckily she didn't notice, or didn't care about how nervous he was and gave me another bright smile.
"I know right? I mean, it makes sense I guess, heroes are always fighting things at that level so we're expected to do it too. My Zero Gravity is nice and all but I'm not sure how well I'll do against that kind of enemy." Wow, ok she's effectively the opposite of him when it came to conversations huh.
"I don't think so, if anything your quirk is one of the best for fighting mechanical opponents!" Oh the potential! And depending on it's limitations it could be the best weapon against machines, even compared to electric quirks.
"Think about it, if they have no gravity then their internal components will go all over the place, plus something that heavy falling from anything higher than a few meters is almost guaranteed to break them!" Izuku exclaimed, growing excited over the applications and effectiveness of quirks, though thankfully he didn't descend into a mutter fueled episode for once.
"W-wow, you really put a lot of thought in it. Everyone's always told me that my quirk was better off being used for rescue missions and stuff like that but now that you mention it...Oh! Sorry I spaced out there for a second! What about you? What's your quirk?" She awkwardly rebound the question, blushing slightly. 'C-cute..W-wait no, focus!'
"A-ah, that's a bit difficult to explain...The simplest way I can describe it is that I can summon various things to help me. It's vague I know but my quirk is honestly all over the place...Here I'll show you." Taking out Emiya's servant card and activating it's include function, his iconic weapons appeared in Izuku's hand.
Showing off Kanshou and Bakuya he explained some of their features. "These blades for example are particularly good against non-human opponents, they're not very durable but I can summon more copies at will and they have a special feature that lets them return to the user so long as they hold one of the blades, kinda like a magnet." I ran my mouth before realizing that Uraraka was too busy staring at the blades to really listen.
"Uh." he said dumbly breaking her off of her staring contest with the swords.
"O-oh, sorry about that. Those swords are just really beautiful. And those are just two of the weapons you can make? What else can yo-" She quickly regained her composure but our bus arrived before she could ask anything else, we all headed off the bus and decided to split ways to prepare. Thankfully we didn't have to wait long for the exam to begin.
Exam Start(Izuku POV)
'No countdown huh? Makes sense I guess.' I thought, immediately installing Emiya's card, which I decided to do ahead of time. He may not be the strongest, or the fastest, or the most durable, or- Ok this is starting to turn into something less than flattering. The point is that he was the most versatile and easy to use considering that his stats were the most evenly spread. Not to mention his NP. All of them.
2 Pointer on the right, three 1 pointers on the left. Medium distance, optimal response: Throw Kanshou at the father of the two 1 pointers, rush the two pointer myself and cleave off the tail with Bakuya, using it to impale the robot. By this time Kanshou has impacted and cut off the head of the farthest 1 pointer and is now heading towards the closer one, cutting off it's head before it can attack me. I catch Kanshou and head off for a new target.
'Emiya has some serious fucking issues. But I can't deny the results.' The part of my personality that hasn't turned into a 100% efficient machine of mass destruction thought as my body almost moved on it's own in its robot destroying carnage.
Sooner or later I ran into some less than lucky individuals who were being pushed back by the robots. 'I know this is supposed to be a realistic test but were the missiles really necessary?' I asked myself as I sent copies of Hrunting to intercept said explosives before they hurt or god forbid killed anyone. 'I shall save everyone in front of me...Wait what. I mean, I don't disagree with that per se but, context please?' Context never came.
This continued for a decent amount of time, that was until I felt the ground beneath me shake as and the sky above darkened, a mechanical monstrosity made itself known as it towered over the surrounding buildings…
"Holy shit it's the Ancient Gear Golem!" And just like that someone had to ruin it. The robot didn't seem to take too kindly to being called a relic of the past, both in the context of the referenced trading card's aesthetic and playability so it sent it's own 'mechanized melee' at whoever said that to make it's ire known.
'Message recieved, don't call it old. I think this is about the right time to leave before something stupid happe-' "Oww!" 'Mission updated: Protect at all costs. Optimal response: Send the mountain buster.''
Summoning the Black Bow along with Caladbolg II my body moved on instinct, knocking the sword turned arrow I aimed at the central mass of the incoming, and soon to be nonexistent robot. "I am the bone of my sword. CALADBOLG!" My voice boomed, not quite my own as I launched the drill sword, it's magic twisting everything around it as it soared towards the metallic faux villain. And then through the metallic faux villain.
As the machine crumpled up and exploded for some reason(No seriously why? Caladbolg wasn't explosive and I highly doubt they filled these things with TNT for fun) I made my way towards Uraraka who was staring up at the falling 0-pointer, clear shock on her face.
"Uraraka-san? Are you ok? Did that thing hu-Arck!" Was the last thing I said before my world went black, I really should have known that this kind of power would come with a price. That day, I dreamed of a hill of swords. And of a hero whose name was forgotten to time.
Ok, ended that one on a bit of a heavy note but I needed to find an end point sooner or later. Due to a mixture of my own incompetence and E-rank luck I had to rewrite this chapter four fucking times!
Two of which were, as I said earlier from my own incompetence which I can deal with, but the other two were just Comcast making my life hell again which has made me practically incandescent!
*Sigh, the final result therefore looks much different from the original, hopefully this version doesn't crap out on me too, hope you all enjoy. Now, on to the notes from above, I didn't forget them this time!
Duplicate cards are immediately converted into hard cash at the following conversion rate.
Servants: 1 Star: 100 yen
2 Star: 200 yen
3 Star: 500 yen
4 Star: 1,000 yen
5 Star: 5,000 yen
Craft Essences: Half of what servants give.
Can't let Izuku become too OP so quickly, plus the universe might implode if I gave an MHA character the kaleidoscope. Best to just not do that. Also if you were wondering, Zelretch is technically part of the counter force too.
Otherwise Alaya and possibly Gaia too would work tirelessly to erase him from existence. Though really it's more of a non-aggression pact between him and the two gods.