Chapter 5 - Brains and Brawn
It has been a week since the entrance exam, Izumi was waiting for her acceptance letter to arrive and inform her of how well she did on the exam.
"Izumi… Izumi… Izumi!" her mother Inko shouted, snapping Izumi out of her thoughts "Are you alright dear? You've been glaring murderously at that fish for a while now."
Izumi met her mothers concerned gaze "Of course I'm alright. Just wondering when this fucking letter is going to finally arrive!"
"Honey, watch your language please." she sighed but smiled at her daughter "And it's fine to be worried about it, but I'm sure it'll be here soon."
"H-H-Huh w-why would I be worried?! There's no way in hell that I wouldn't get accepted." she stated cockily "Though I did fuck up that Robo Retard at the start of the exam, that better not have messed up my chances of getting in. It wouldn't have right? Right?"
Inko chuckled at Izumi's confident yet obviously worried attitude, she had no doubt that Izumi passed but even if she didn't she would still be proud of her daughter. However she couldn't lie that sometimes her demeanour was a bit much to handle but that didn't change the fact that she was still a proud Mama. She still blamed Mitsuki for corrupting her once innocent little Izu.
Izumi moved to the couch, grumbling to herself about having to wait. And speech of the devil and he shall appear, Inko came bursting into the living room, a white letter sealed with a large UA insignia in hand.
"IT'S HERE!" her mother said, practically crawling on the floor.
Immediately Izumi snatched it out of Inko's hands and dashed towards her room. Slamming the door behind her, she sat at her desk staring at the letter in her hands. Violently she tore the latter in half, revealing a small metallic disk that rolled onto the desk.
"The hell is this?" she asked herself.
The small disk suddenly burst to life, projecting a hologram "I AM HERE! AS A PROJECTION!" boomed the voice of the number 1 hero.
"HUH!? All Might, the fuck is do doing on a letter from UA?" she wondered.
"Now you maybe wondering 'All Might, what's he doing there?' Well the truth is as of this moment I'll be a teacher at UA!" he explained.
"So All Might himself is going to be teaching me and Kacchan." she grins "That's perfect! The current number 1 teaching the future top two heroes."
"But anyway, onto your results!" All Might continued "Young Midoriya for the written portion of the exam, you did remarkably well! Ending up within the top 3 scorers."
"And as for the practical portion you did equally fantastic! You managed to score an impressive 70 Villain Points which has landed you in second place."
"DAMNIT! Kacchan must have beaten me to first place." she growled, but wasn't too angry, they were still the two front runners for the whole exam, proving they were simply better than the others that took it.
"However that would have been the case if that was the ONLY thing you were being marked on." he swivelled around dramatically to show a screen "Behold this video!"
The screen started playing, showing a familiar brunette girl with a plaster patch on her cheek. Izumi would never have admitted it, but waking up in a stranger's lap with her hand firmly glued to their face was quite the embarrassment for her.
The girl walked up to Present Mic "Umm, Sir? Sorry to bother you but..."
"What's up listener?" he asked
"Do you know the girl with the big curly red and white hair, she had freckles and a scary look on her face." she asked "Well she wasted so much of her time saving me. So is there any chance that I can share some of my points with her!"
"HAHAHA, I'm afraid that's not possible. However she was a fierce one out there so I don't think you'll need to worry about her." Present Mic said while patting her head.
The video ended and All Might resumed "For this you both received Rescue Points! Ochaco Uraraka: 45 Points and Izumi Midoriya: 60 Points, resulting in you taking first place." All Might cleared his throat awkwardly
"Unfortunately however due to your act of aggression before the exam and the fact that you saving Young Uraraka was just a by-product of you defeating the Zero Pointer. You have been deducted 40 of your Rescue Points." He pointed to another screen behind him.
The screen displayed the top 10 scorers, but to Izumi only the top two truly mattered. The top two were as follows:
Izumi Midoriya: 70 Villain Points, 20 Rescue Points.
Katsuki Bakugo: 89 Villain Points, 0 Rescue Points.
All Might turned back around, facing directly into the camera and extended his hand "Now come Young Midoriya, to you Hero Academia!"
The projection cut out, leaving Izumi in the dark room and with a devilish smile donning her face "Ha, good thing that last 3 pointer came at me. I'm so going to rub this in Kacchan's face."
Izumi was stomping through the halls of UA "1-A, 1-A. Where FUCK is it! This place is too damn huge!" she shouted, but eventually found herself in front of a massive door with 1-A written on it in large red letters.
"That's one big sucking door. Kacchan better be in her or I'll kick his ass." Kacchan had never told her which class he was in, saying that it would "Ruin the surprise."
Slamming the massive door open with a CRASH, she instantly found her target due to him arguing with a familiar fucker she wished wouldn't have been here.
"Remove your feet from that desk! Don't you think it's disrespectful to the upperclassmen who used it before us?!" reprimanded the Robotic blue haired teen, while chopping his arm animatedly.
"HUH! Nope, which middle school did you come from Extra?" snarled Kacchan.
"I attended Somei Private Academy, my name is Tanya Iida." he answered.
"Somei huh, so you must think you're a damn elite. I'll have fun crushing you."Kacchan said, glaring at the guy in front of him.
"Wh-what crush? Are you threatening a classmate? That is unbecoming of a-" Iida never got to finish that sentence due to being interrupted by a new voice.
"YOU FIRECRACKER FUCK!" Izumi shouted, grabbing the attention of everyone present.
"YOU HALF 'N' HALF BASTARD!" Kacchan shouted right back.
There was tension in the air as Izumi marched her way over to Kacchan who himself had stood up, slamming a hand on the desk as he did so. A couple of seconds past, of them just glaring at each other, everyone else in the room were wondering if fists were going to fly on not just their first day but their first period of their first day.
"Good think you also made it into Class A Michan, it would have been too boring otherwise." Kacchan said, pulling Izumi into a brohug.
"Only the best for the best. Did you think I'd settle for being a shitty B lister Kacchan?" she replied, breaking the hug and giving a high five. The action reelevated the room of the tense atmosphere.
"Excuse me! Good morning, I am Tanya Iida and I-" Iida introjected, however was interrupted once again.
"I heard. Izumi Midoriya, and don't forget it you Extra." she said, glaring at him much akin to how Kacchan was earlier.
"I don't agree with your crassness, however I would like to make amends for my actions during the exams. Due to me 'antagonising' you then, I was docked points, it was my fault and I apologize." he said adding a 90 degree bow.
"Tsk, whatever." Izumi grumbled.
"Oh hey, it's the scary girl. I knew you'd get in!" exclaimed an excited sounding voice from behind her.
Izumi turned to face her, however her eyes didn't focus on the girl but rather drifted to the large yellow… caterpillar? Lying on the floor behind her "The fuck is that?" she asked
"Ehh?" Ochaco followed Izumi's gaze to look at what she meant "EHH!" she shrieked when she saw the creature skulking behind her.
"If you're here to make friends then leave. This is the Hero Course." the thing said, unzipping itself to reveal a hobo looking man sucking on a juice pouch.
He was about to say more but Izumi beat him to it "What are you talking about idiot?"
"Get something to add?" he ground, harshly steeling his eyes onto her.
"Of course! This is UA, it pumps out the best heroes in the country. Meaning now's the best time to make friends or more accurately connections." Izumi crossed her arms and was just oozing cockiness "Because I am going to need sidekicks in the future anyway and if they're from here then I'll know they're not at least 100% useless."
"Well that's rude, kero"
"Yeah that's not manly at all!"
"Hey! I'm going to be a full fledged hero, not some sidekick!"
Complained some of the class.
Aizawa just thought about what Izumi had said "Well it is true that connections are important and now is the best time to get them." "All right, just sit down and shut up. We're wasting time and that's illogical."
Once everyone was seated he continued "I am your Home Room teacher, Shota Aizawa." he fished out a set of UA gym uniforms from his yellow cocoon "Now put these on and meet me outside within 15 minutes."
Izumi had nothing to complain about, grabbing a set of gym clothes for herself, she was about to walk off. What suddenly just like at the exams, a hand heavily landed on her shoulder.
Sighing, thinking it was the Robo Retard again. She whipped around, ready to fuck him up (Or would have if their teacher wasn't right there.) however she was honestly shocked to the core, due to the person that she was now facing, that being a…. genderbent her?!
Unbeknownst to Izumi this 'ganderdent her' has been intensely staring at her ever since she smashed open the door and walk into the room as if she own the place, blue and grey stare into blue and grey for what felt like hours. Suddenly a vein bulged on Izumi's forehead, her stare turned murderous and she grabbed her doppelganger's collar.
"WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU!? YOU CANDY CANE CUNT! ARE YOU SOME KIND OF ME WANNABE?!" she more than yelled, she screamed. Causing everyone, including Aizawa to look at the pair.
From an outsider's point of view the two looked practically identical, twins really, resulting in confusion over the conflict that was happening.
"What's going on are they not brother and sister?" asked a floating school uniform.
"Uh, maybe it's one of those long lost twins kinda deal, like separated at birth." added a pink skinned girl.
"THE FUCK! THERE'S TWO HALF 'N' HALF'S NOW!" Kacchan yelled.
"That's what I was wondering, so who are you?." he calmly asked, not even flinching at the pure malice that Izumi was sending his way.
His calm demeanour only fuelled her fury at her copycat. She had her first raised ready to start beating him for answers to this shit, the teacher be fucking damned, her fist was about to collide with his scarred left eye. Or it would have, if it wasn't currently being held back by a white cloth that was a lot sturdier than it had any right to be.
"ENOUGH! You can settle this some other time, now hurry up and get changed. You'll give my dry eye if you don't get a move on." Aizawa said with his hair raised and eyes red, gripping his magical floaty scarf.
"Humph, fine." Izumi lowered her fist "But this isn't over. You hear me you Candy Cane Cunt, Not. Fucking. Over!" she shoved him and grabbed her gym clothes, stomping out the room angrily.
"Don't they have, like the exact same hair though?" Asked a boy with yellow hair which had a black line going through it.
15 minutes later all the students were standing outside in a big group, waiting for their hobo teacher to explain what's going on.
"Alright class we'll be doing a quirk assessment test today." Aizawas said lazily.
"But what about the opening ceremony and orientation? We can't miss them." Ochaco protested.
"We don't have time to waist on such useless things." Aizawa explained "At UA we have a free teaching style meaning teachers have the freedom to choose how we work our classes."
"You've been doing standardized fitness tests throughout your school life, however due to 'equality' and 'fairness' reasons, quirk usage was not permitted. That is illogical, it doesn't show a true measure of your capabilities." Aizawa said and threw a ball at Bakugo "Bakugo you scored the most Villain Points during the practical exam. How far was your softball throw in middle school?"
Bakugo shot a sneer at Izumi, to him it didn't matter that she got first because he got more villain points and to him that meant that he was stronger "82 meters I think."
"Well this time use your quirk, anything goes just don't leave the circle." Aizawa said while pulling a small device out of his pocket.
Walking into the circle he did a small scratch to warm up, then started winding back his arm. Shooting his arm forward he let off a massive explosion while screaming "DIE!" the blast kicked up a large dust cloud around him and the ball disappeared into the horizon.
A few seconds later Aizawa held up the small device, displaying the distance the ball went for everyone to see "916.5 METERS!" most of the students shouted in unison.
"900 plus meters, are you seriously?" said the yellow blond kid.
"We get to use our quirks all we want! This is going to be so much fun!" the pink girl said happily, but that excitement didn't last the longest.
"Fun you say? Well in that case, new rule: Whoever gets last place will be seen as hopeless. And immediately expelled from UA." their new teacher stated, smiling sardonically. The creepiness of it sent shivers down their spines.
"But that's not fair Sir, it's only the first day!" Uraraka protested, receiving support from several other students who agreed with her.
"Natural disasters, accidents, murder and villain attacks. Do those seem 'fair' to you? Life isn't fair so get used to it, this is the Hero course and it'll be your jobs to try and right those wrongs the best you can." Aizawa said stoically, giving off the aura of a man who's seen the unfairness of the world up close and personal.
First test 50 meter dash:
The first set to run was Tenya Iida who had engines in his calves and Tsuyu Asui who was a frog, nothing more nothing less just... frog. Once the recording robot at the end of the track said go, Iida was off, leaving a trail of dust behind him "3.04" the robot announced as he passed it. Asui wasn't far behind and hopped over the line earning a time of 5.58.
Several other groups went, demonstrating their quirks. Such as another blond who was able to shoot lasers from his bellybutton, as well as a guy with a tail, yep a tail! Best hero school in the entire nation of Japan, only 40 spots available each year and one of them went to a dude with a tail.
Next it was Bakugo and Midoriyas turn to go, unfortunately Izumi's quirk helps little physically and she knew it. That's why she needs to be smart with it instead, so when the buzzer sounded, Katsuki sent three consecutive blasts with his hands pointed behind him, resulting in a time of 3.11 seconds. Izumi on the other hand managed a respectable time of 5.67, just a bit slower than Asui. She achieved this by heating the air around her and therefore redesign its resistance as she ran, as well as giving her a slight push as it rose.
Second Grip strength:
Once again Izumi was unable to do much physically to the grip strength device, meaning she had to use her brains instead, unlike a six armed muscle bound octopus guy who reached an astonishing 540 kilograms or Momo Yaoyorozu who designed to casually whip out a hydraulic clamp to do the work for her and completely crushed the think, easily giving her the top score.
Again Izumi had to be smart about things to help her along, so she decided to slightly heat up the spring inside the machine to make it more flexible under pressure. Izumi managed another great but not outstanding score of 78 kilograms.
Third Standing long jump:
Several of the class were able to easily clear the pit, Bakugo with explosions, Yuga Aoyama shooting his laser and Uraraka flouting herself across. Izumi nearly crossed the pit with a mix of pure athleticism and hot air creating an updraft to help carry her along.
Fourth Repeated side steps:
Only one person had any real advantage with their quirk on this test and it was a purple midget (Who had been staring at Izumi's hips almost the whole time.) with… sticky hair. Like really? Not a single person from the exams that wasn't already here did better than a pervert with fucking sticky hair?
Oh sorry my bad, I forgot to mention, it's not ONLY sticky hair for you see he himself bounces off of said sticky hair. Using that he just continuously bounces side to side gaining first for the test.
Fifth Ball throw:
Now this was the test that Izumi was looking forward to and knew she could excel in it with just a teensy bit of assistance from someone.
After Uraraka got a mind boggling infinite as her score and Yaoyurouzu created an entire cannon, you know what they say 'Bitches love cannons!' with it she reached a score of 2.98 kilometres.
Izumi sauntered up to her "Oi you, Ponytail. You can make shit right?"
Yaoyurouzu wasn't too much of a fan of the language used but still answered "Correct, my quirk Creation allows me to create any inorganic substance from the lipids in my body as long as I'm aware of its atomic structure."
"Good. I need a 2 meter long STURDY metal pipe, make the first meter have a diameter of around 30 cm and the second halve the same diameter as the ball." Izumi asked, or, well, demanded Yaoyurouzu to make for her.
Yaoyurouzu was confused. True, to her eyes she hadn't seen Izumi's quirk at work and just assumed it was an ice quirk similar to the boy who looks so much like her. She couldn't lie though the request made her curious, so she decided to fulfil it and see what she does with it "Alright, it's done. I look forward to seeing how you apply it in this test." she handed Izumi the large pipe.
Izumi replied with a psychotic looking grin and a glare that made Yaoyurouzu shiver and question if she just made a mistake, surprise the answer was Yes and a damn big YES it was.
Izumi made her way to the circle with the massive pipe "Sir I'm using this and if you're wondering there's nothing in it or anything, it's just a pipe with a chamber at the end."
Aizawa knew Izumi's quirk was listed at Cold 'n' Hot and could make a rough guess at what its effects were, so right now he was in a rare state of confusion at what she was planning here "Very well Midoriya, proceed."
Izumi propped up the two layered pipe with a tripod made of ice at a 45 degree angle and then began her work. To everyone watching it just looked like she was merely holding onto the base of the object, there was steam coming from the top and wisps of cold vapours coming from the bottom. But apart from that nothing really seemed to be happening, the more confusing thing they all thought about the situation was the fact that Bakugo had run away, choosing to hide behind a fence a sizable distance away from Midoriya.
Approximately 2 minutes later Midoriya walked to the front of the pipe and inserted the soft ball. Aizawa still couldn't get an idea of what she was up to "I'd suggest covering your ears." she said.
As soon as she covered her own ears, a gigantic earth shattering explosion rang out, a secondary boom occurred as the ball created a sonic boom, it could be heard throughout the entire UA campus, startling many.
All the people present were sent to the floor, unable to comprehend what just happened, including Aizawa himself as well as a peeping pro hero who was situated around a nearby corner. Everyone lay on the floor stunned, but all crashed back down to reality as mad cackling turned into psychotic laughter.
"HAHAHAHAHAH!" Izumi laughed looking at the remains of the pipe that was glowing white hot and had split, banana peeling at the top.
"Truly a mad woman!" Exclaimed a bird headed boy
"Man, I'm not sure if I can handle that level of intensity." said the yellow haired blond, who's name was Denki Kaminari.
"Step on me please!" shouted a certain purple grape boy while drooling.
Aizawa finally got out of his daze, shooting up he activated his quirk and binded Izumi in his capture weapon "MIDORIYA! You will explain what you just did and you will. explain. it. NOW!"
"WHAT! And reveal my secrets? HELL NO!" Izumi protested, trying to manoeuvre her way out of the clutches of the magic scarf.
"Explain or be disqualified." Aizawa threatened authoritively.
"Tsk fine." Izumi was released from her bindes "My quirk is called Cold 'n' Hot, it allows me to control the speed at which atoms vibrate." she walked over to the pipe "It also allows me to target specific atoms, so basically what I did was cool only the hydrogen and oxygen in the air while heating the other gasses. Resulting in a mixture of pure liquid hydrogen and oxygen."
She looked around seeing many confused faces, a couple of shocked ones and one furies one that was sending glares her way "Seeming some of you are dumbasses and don't understand, I'll explain. I basically made rocket full, and as the pipe was 1 meter high and had a diameter of 30 cm that would be about 70 liters of the stuff all blasting of at the same time."
Aizawa sighed long and heavily "Very well, that explains it." he held up the distance reader, it showed a reading of 7.33 kilometres "Alright that's enough gouging, get a move on. Next!"
To say the rest of the test felt underwhelming after that spectacle would've been the understatement of the year. At least Izumi got first in the toe touch and got (to many peoples surprise) second in the endurance run, just behind Iida.
When the tests were finally over the students gathered in front of Aizawa "Alright it's time for the rundown of the results and because it would be illogical to waste time going over everything I just put it all together in a list."
1. Momo Yaoyorozu
2. Katsuki Bakugo
3. Izumi midoriya
4. Shoto Todoroki
(I'm lazy)
(Very lazy)
(Skip, skip, skip)
20. Minoru Mineta
Almost everyone glanced at the boy with pity in their eyes "NOOO, HOW I'M I SUPPOSED TO GET POPULAR WITH GIRLS NOW!?" yeah, the glance of pity turned to disgust real quick after that little comment.
"By the way I was lying about the expelling thing." Aizawa flashed his creepy ass smile again "It was merely a logical ruse."
Yaoyorozu decided to add her opinion at this point (Spoilers, it was a bad idea) "Of course it was a logical ruse. It should have been obvious if you thought about it a little." she sighed, shaking her head with a hand on her cheek.
Izumi's spidey senses are tingling, does she sense PITY! Well we can't have that now can we. She raised her hand, getting Aizawa's attention "Yes Midoriya, what is it?"
"I'm calling you out on your Bull Shit! That's what it is!" she heard the class gasp at what she just said to their teacher "First let me ask, what kind of illogical imbecile wouldn't look into their future teacher that was guaranteed to be a Pro Hero? UA only has Pros Heroes as their facility after all."
Izumi stared at Yaoyorozu who in turn shuns away from her "And here's what I found." Aizawa was now glaring daggers at her, but fuck him, someone was looking down on her and she was not going to be having none of that shit thank you very much.
"Shota Aizawa. The Erasure Hero: Eraserhead, quirk fittingly named Erasure, the ability to nullify a person's quirk whilst they're within his line of sight. Entered UA in General studies, got transferred to the Hero course due to a good performance in the sports festival. Graduated and became an Underground Hero notorious for hating the media. Hired as a teacher at UA and since then has expelled a total of," pauses for the dramatics (and to breath) "154 students as of this moment." Izumi smirked triumphantly at the paling faces of those around her.
"Great, she's not only a cocky problem child that can back up that cockiness but also a smart problem child, great just god damn great!" Aizawa let out another sigh, this one akin to the sound of a death rattle "Yes how logical of you. It is all true, I'll expel anyone who doesn't show potential."
The students present all gasped, they'd really wished that Yaoyorozu was right and Midoyira was wrong. But no, reality just gut punched them all, and reality always hit hard.
"Take it as a complement and a warning, I see potential in all of you. HOWEVER if you don't show results then you're out, especially you Mineta if I don't see fast improvement your spot will go to someone else more deserving." he swivelled around and started walking away from the frozen (slightly terrified) students "Your curriculum sheets are on your desks, give them a once over."
Author's Note:
Yo, here once again.
So yeah, that's the quirk test done and I decided to make Bakugo stronger, seeming I did go on and on about their training in the other chapters.
Also I get that Todoroki is like OP but honestly I have no idea how he did so well on the tests in the cannon story, like I love my boy Todoroki but apart from maybe like making an ice bridge to walk over the sand pit for the long jump and riding an ice wave for the 50 meter run I just don't see him doing so well in the other things.
Idk maybe he's just that buff and could make it on his strength alone.
So, like it? Hate it? Please review to let me know what you think. Also thank you to anyone who did leave a review and if you have any question or shit just PM me and I'll try to answer them.