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Spider-Weirdo: Did you guys get your results already?

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Sunny-Boy: I did

Khanela: Same

3V: Yes

Spider-Weirdo: How bout you Hitoshi?

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Purple Insomnia: just got them

Spider-Weirdo: Neat! Ok, let's all count to three and text the results, ok?

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Spider-Weirdo: I passed!

Sunny-Boy: got in

Khanela: I got in!

3V: I passed too

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Purple Insomnia: I'm in

As Annie read the message through her phone's cracked screen, she smiled. Squealing from the joy, jumping a couple of times while ffist-bumping the air. They all kept on chatting for a bit. Talking about what to expect from U.A and everything else. At the end, they all learned a thing or two from what had happened to them in the exam. Mainly the fact that both her and Robbie took down their respective zero pointer. Although in a different fashion each.

According to Kamala though, there seemed to be a third examinee that did the same. She overheard that someone from ground 'B' literally managed to leap from the ground and reached the robot's head. Afterwards, he (according to Kamala) literally demolished it with a single punch.

With power like that, the guy must be like a miniature Hulk or something similar to him.

Something that Annie found odd, was that Hitoshi was rather quiet through most of the conversation. Like, he was more quiet than Valerie. She was wondering what was all that about, so she suggested for them to throw, well not a party per say, but a small get-together between the five of them. But they declined it for various reasons.

Robbie said that he needed to work on something on his end. Something about getting his body adjusted for his powers or something. Kamala said something similar, but also that she was going to try and study on her own because she was afraid that if she were to ask them for help (primarily Annie and Robbie), then she would somehow get distracted. Valerie said something about her character or something and Hitoshi… just said that he had things to do.

She decided not to delve too much into the subject, so they all agreed to meet once school started. And so, they all waited for weeks, getting over subjects, training their bodies, buying the essentials like pencils, notebooks and what have you and so on. By the time that they were all a week away from school, Annie decided to visit Dagobah beach once again. This time however, it was completely clean. No longer were there any signs of the pseudo-junkyard of before, but the spotless sand of the beach. It seems that whoever was cleaning, did in fact, do one hell of a job.

It was around 5:48 P.M and the sun was already starting to set down. The look of the sky was in beautiful orange colors that shined down on everyone. Also, apparently it was reported that All Might was seen here not that long ago. Odd but who knows, maybe the guy appreciates walks through the beach or something.

Walking a bit more, she could have sworn to have seen Hitoshi not that far from where she was. She decided to follow him just in case that it was indeed her purple-mane friend. She ended up at a McDonalds where she finally saw that it was in fact Hitoshi, looking up to see what to order. So, the young Parker decided to approach him.

"Hey, Hitoshi! How's it going?" she asked him.

The boy was taken by surprise, but when he turned around and saw that it was the New Yorker, he greeted as well.

"Oh, hi Annie." he said in his normal neutral voice. "I'm fine, thanks. How about you?"

"Oh you know, kind of nervous." she said, scratching the back of her head while awkwardly laughing. "Still trying to wrap my head around things. Talked to my dad and-" she was saying, but suddenly stopped, much to the curiosity of the boy of purple hair.

"Something wrong?" he asked.

"N-N-Nothing!" she said… blushing?

Alright, now he was really interested.

"If your face looking as red as your hair is any indication, then I don't think it's nothing." he said.

"C-Come on man, you're thinking things way too deeply…" she said, stuttering almost as much as Valerie.

"You know, I could use my quirk to make you tell me if you won't spill the beans." the native boy commented.

Said comment snapped Annie out of her nervous state. She looked at the boy for a bit before chuckling a bit. "Come on Hitoshi, you can't expect me to take that seriously, can you?" she said.

"How can you be sure that I'm not serious?" the boy asked back.

"Because that's not your style! You're not the kind of guy that abuses his powers like that!" she told him while smiling. "Besides, I know for a fact that you would never use your quirk on me like that!" she said, flashing a bright smile at the boy of purple hair.

The boy was rather stunned by the reply. Granted, he actually didn't mean what he said, but… she could see right through? More importantly, not only did she tell him that he was not one to take advantage of his powers, but that she wouldn't believe that he would use his quirk against her? Any other person would not react that way. Hell, most girls were specially wary of even talking to him, afraid of him using his quirk on them… and yet, here was Anna-May, not even taking that into consideration. Could it be because of her spider-sense? It did warn her of incoming danger, so maybe it was that…

Or… maybe it wasn't?

… maybe… maybe she did think that way of him?

The idea of that being the case made him smile and go along with Annie's reply.

"Alright, you got me there." he chuckled a bit. "But still, either you tell me or I'll bug you into telling me." he told the girl.

"... Was that a lame pun?" she asked with humor.

"Want to test me, arachnid girl?" Hitoshi asked.

"... Fine, but only because of just how bad that pun was. Truly, I'm proud of it… that and that you didn't get bugs and arachnids mixed-up like others would!"

"The idea is for me to annoy you, not the other way around." Shinso replied. "I know for a fact that I would never meet the end of your thirty five-long slide-show of you telling me why spiders shouldn't be called bugs or whatever."

"It's twenty three at most!" she joked back. "... fine… but you better not laugh, you hear me?"

"... maybe." he replied.

The girl sighed. Not the answer that she was hoping for, but it was probably better than none. "Alright… the thing is, I was talking to my dad, getting praised for just how awesome I am when… when he… said something really dumb…" she was saying her blush returning once more.

"Go on." Shinso encouraged her, much to her annoyance.

"... F-Fine… the thing is…"

"The thing is…"

"... He said that I better not plan to make my highschool years into a bad CW rom-comedy!" she said, her face turning a bright red.

Shinso himself, couldn't help but to remain quiet for a bit after hearing that. Only for him to burst out laughing shortly after.

"BWAHAHAHA!" he laughed, holding down his stomach. "H-He actually- BWAHAHAHA!"

"Hey! Stop that!" Annie complained while still blushing.

"Come on! How else am I supposed to react?!" he asked, still laughing.

"Ugh! I don't know why I told you that. And I don't know why dad said that! Seriously, I was the kind of girl that saw all of that as yucky and gross growing up, does he actually think that I'm going to spend all day long looking for dates or turning boys down?!"

"I don't know, are you?"

"Heck no!" Annie replied without haste. "After hearing all the convoluted nonsense that my parents had to go through before and after getting married, the mess that was my dad's love story outside of mom and after seeing all the failed relationships that my sister went through? No thank you, I rather be spared of that wackiness!"

"If you say so." he said, still chuckling a bit.

Annie frowned at his expression. "Alright mister, care to explain what are you doing here?" she said, hoping to change the subject.

"My parents are out of town. So, instead of dying of hunger back home, I decided to come here to get something to eat." the boy replied.

"Seriously?" the girl asked. "You should have called, we wouldn't mind having you over for dinner. Heck, I'm sure that the others would say the same. For crying out loud, one of them lives with a freaking butler in a mansion the size of a mall!"

"Yeah well, I would only feel out of place eating rich people food. Rather have something more down to earth, you know?" he told Annie, who looked at him for a bit.

"Alright then, if that's the case I'm eating with you." she told the boy.

"Wait what?" Hitoshi asked, taken by surprise by the girl. "You really don't have to. Besides, don't you have, I don't know? A mother, two siblings, an interdimensional monkey-lizard pet and a tortoise to get back to?"

"Meh, I'm sure that they won't mind. Heck mom would be ok, she likes you guys." the girl replied.

Hitoshi looked at the girl and chuckled. So, he and Annie ended up ordering a meal each. It didn't take that long before they both received their respective order each. Once they did, they went to search for a place to sit and enjoy their talked about how things have gone for them these past couple of weeks, their expectations, among other things.

Once they were done, they left the fast food place and walked for a bit before bidding each goodbye. And while Annie had nothing but a nice time with a friend, Hitoshi couldn't help but to feel ashamed for not being completely honest with her. After all, it's not like they weren't going to find out next week.

"You sure you have everything with you?" MJ asked her daughter.

"Yeah, mom. Don't worry, I have everything… Oh wait."

"You were saying?" the mother mockingly asked as she saw her daughter rushed to her room.

When Annie reached her room she saw just what it was that she was missing in her work table. A single silver bracelet, or more specifically, her father's old web-shooter. The same that he used to well, use back when he was her age. Both her and Miles Morales were given one each, or more specifically, the two annoyed Peter into giving them to them. Her father actually made a pair specifically for Miles to use. Annie though… well, she wouldn't accept such a gift. Not that she didn't want a pair of her own, but rather that she wanted to figure them out on her own.

Prideful? Perhaps, but she wanted to earn them.

She took the gadget and put it on her right wrist. She had to admit, it was a bit of a tight fit, but she could fix that later. Besides, it didn't look bad with her uniform.

She wasn't excited to learn that she had to wear a uniform for school. But this one didn't look half bad. It consisted of a short sleeve, button-up white shirt, a gray jacket with blue-green stripes, a dark blue-green skirt… she could do without the shoes though.

They weren't that bad, actually they felt comfortable to wear… but something about them didn't fit her style. Neither did the tie, so she decided not to… well, tie it. Instead, she let it rest over her neck. Just in case that a teacher told her that she had to wear it.

Once she had what she was missing, she left her room and headed for the front door of her house. She was about to say goodbye to her mother, but before she could, Mary Jane wrapped her arms around her daughter and held her tight.

"Have a good day sweety." she told her.

It took Annie a few seconds for her to react to what happened. But once she did, she smiled and hugged her mother back.

"Geez mom, I'm not a little kid, you know?" she told her while smiling.

"You can be 45 and still be my little girl." she told her. Afterwards, she broke the hug off and gave Annie a kiss on her forehead. "Now, go get them kiddo!" she told Annie.

The young Parker nodded and prepared to leave, not before looking at her baby brother. Who was watching from his chair. "Yo, Benjy! Take a good look at your cool big sister and you may learn a thing or two!" she told him, giving him a thumbs up.

Benjy's response was to laugh and clap at her direction. So with a smile, Annie headed off for U.A.

It wasn't difficult for her to figure out how the train worked, it was similar enough to the one in New York, so she managed to get to her destination very easily. After that, it only took a couple of minutes of walking at most before she arrived at the school's gates. She also arrived just in time to see Jarvis drop Valerie off and wishing her luck for the day. She decided to walk toward her and say hello, while also noticing that unlike her, Valerie was actually wearing her tie properly.

"Hey Val!" she greeted.

"Oh, h-hi Annie. How have you been?" the shy blu girl asked.

"Oh you know, nervous, excited and surprised that their train stations are so clean. I'm sure that the hobo of Lexinton would appreciate them." Annie joked. "Hey, have you seen the others?"

"N-No, so far you're the only one that I have met." Valerie answered Annie's question. "B-By the way, what class are you in?"

"Mmmm, class 1-A if I remember correctly. How'bout you?"

"C-Class 1-A too!" Valerie replied, with a happy tone. Probably glad that she wouldn't be on her own.

"Neat." Annie replied.

"You know, from what Strange said about your old man, I was expecting you to arrive late." Annie and Valerie suddenly heard.

Turning around, they both saw Robbie and Kamala walking towards them wearing the same uniform as them. Although naturally, Robbie was wearing dark blue-green pants instead of a skirt. Aside from that, she saw that Kamala was wearing her tie a little loose. Meanwhile, Robbie was wearing his, but had his jacket opened instead of button up like the rest of them.

"Let me guess, you don't know how to tie a tie." Robbie said, looking at how Annie had her tie over her neck.

"What can I say, it ain't my style." Annie replied.

"So basically I'm right and you don't know how to tie them." Robbie joked, earning a glare from the red-head.

"I mean, can you blame her for not wanting to use them? I was feeling like someone was trying to suffocate me." Kamala said, glad to have loosen up her tie a little bit.

"You two are just acting like babies. Look at Valerie, you don't see her complaining, do you?"

"D-Don't look at me!" Valerie quickly said.

"Whatever Sunny-Boy. By the way, what class are you two in?" Annie asked.

Robbie pulled out a paper from one of his pockets and looked at it. "Class 1-B."

"Same here." Kamala said. "Are you guys in another class?"

"1-A, actually." Annie said.

"Aww, so we won't be in the same classes?" Kamala complained.

"W-Well, we can always meet during lunch hours, can't we?" Valerie pointed out.

"Yeah, so don't feel bad that you're not with the cool kids, 'kay?" Annie joked, wrapping one of her arms around Valerie.

"-COUGH- five friends -COUGH-" Robbie said, not so subtly.

Anni glared at Robbie once again. She was about to reply to his comment, but stopped when she saw a certain someone coming their way. It was Hitoshi, also wearing the same uniform. Although Robbie and Valerie did notice a minor difference between his and their uniform. Mainly, that there were two buttons on both of his jacket's shoulder pads instead of their one button.

"Hey, look who it is! Our favorite insomnolent! How' you doing?" Annie said, offering a fistbump to the boy. However, the boy did not reply instantly, something that the red-head took notice of. "What's the matter? Come on, can't leave a girl hanging like this!" she joked, still holding her fist-bump.

"Huh?" Hitoshi finally reacted. "Oh sorry Parker, I had my head in the clouds for a sec there." he said, fist-bumping her back.

"What's with the Parker all of the sudden?" Annie asked.

"I call you Parker whenever I can." Robbie said.

"Yeah, about that… Could you try not to do that in front of, well I don't know, anyone and everyone here at school?" Annie asked.

"You still on about that?" Kamala asked.

"I'm the antichrist to them, of course I'm still on about that!" she said, only to notice that a couple of kids were staring at her weirdly.

"Man, is the hero course full of wackos, or what?" one of them said, walking past them and leaving Annie to turn red out of embarrassment.

"Five… friends."

"... Sip it Reyes…" Annie said, only to notice something. "Wait a minute, how did they know that I was on the hero course? For all intents I could be from generals or support!"

"Or management."

"Slow down Kamala, let's not exaggerate."

"W-What's wrong with m-management?"

"You kidding? That course sounds lame and boring! Can you imagine having to do things like calculate the yearly income of 'x' business or the breakeven point of a made up company for the next three or so years?"

"This coming from the girl that does things like calculating the tensile strength of carbon nanotubes and both research the nature of monomers and methods of increasing a monomer chain." Robbie told Annie. "Also, the hell's a monomer?"

"Not now California." Annie replied. "But seriously, how did they figure it out?"

"You mean, you guys haven't figured it out?" Hitoshi asked.

"Figure what out?" asked the inhuman of the group.

Somewhere in Musutafu, Hitoshi and his parents sat in their living room. A week has passed since the entrance exam and the results had just arrived. Nervously, he opened the envelope that held the results and pulled both a letter and a device from it.

He placed the device on the table and it turned on. From it, the image of a man that seemed to have just as much of a problem to get some sleep as the young Shinso appeared. He was recognised as the underground pro-hero Eraser Head since, while he is known for avoiding cameras and the media in general, there was still a decent amount of information about him to be recognized by the public if they thought hard enough.

He seemed like he didn't want to be there to begin with, complaining to a voice out of camera about it, but ended up doing the recording anyway. Also, maybe it was his imagination but… was the voice from Present Mic? It sure was as noisy as his own if memory served Hitoshi right.

With a reluctant sigh, Eraser Head continued with his duty. The boy of purple hair was nervous, he knew that no matter how good he did at the written exam, it was the practical portion the one that mattered the most. And he was sure as hell that he… well… let's just say that he didn't do that well there.

Still, a part of him, a very, very small part of hope within him was praying. Praying for a miracle, so that fate could twist in his favor. Some technicality, or hidden grading that he didn't know of, anything!... Unfortunately, the universe worked in ways that didn't favor everyone in the same manner.

"So, even though your score in the written portion of the exam was rather impressive, it alone is not enough to get you all the way to the hero course." Eraser said through the holographic recording. "While you got yourself a seat in U.A's Department of General Education, that may as well be as far as you'll go. Sorry kid, bet-" the recording of the underground hero was about to say, but was cut off due to Hitoshi turning the device off.

Maybe it was about to say something about his performance in the practical exam. Maybe his score was in that letter that came in the envelope. Hitoshi didn't dare to either continue with the video or read the letter. He already had his answer, so why waste his time?

Both parents looked at their son with a sadden expression, not sure what to say. After all, what could they say? 'Don't worry champ, you could always try again!', or 'You know? There's always victory even in loss! It just means that you have to improve your weak points so that later, you'll have none!', like, really? Sure they could just as easily tell him that they still believed in him and that they'll always encourage him, but… Would that really help?

'You guys are my parents, of course you'll support me', was what came to their mind. Their son was someone that was a rather straightforward person with an innate ability to spark conversation with anyone, despite holding a reserved and quiet attitude most of the time. Yet, despite that had a hard time socializing with people thanks to his quirk's nature. And still, with that in mind, he somehow managed to make friends. People that didn't judged him and encouraged him just like they did. People that believed in him and saw what he was inside; a caring soul that wanted to do good above all else.

When he came home one day and told them that he met a couple of nice kids that were new to town and that he was hanging out with them, both of the boy's parents were happy. And when he told them every now and then that he was hanging out with them after school? Their happiness grew tenfold. Even though he had a stoic look on his face, they could see the joy in his eyes and that thought filled their heart with a warm feeling. It looked like this year was going to be his year… too bad that instead the only thing that awaited him was a punch to the gut.

"... Huh… guess… guess I should have seen it coming…" the boy said in a low, yet audible voice.

Tears were falling down his face and without a second thought, both of the adults hugged their child and held him tight as he cried.

The boy managed to get into U.A… unfortunately, it wasn't in the way that he was hoping.

"You see those golden bits on the uniform's shoulders?" Hitoshi said, pointing them out. "The amount that you have indicates people as to what course you're from. One bit means you're from the hero course. Three means that you're from the management department."

"And what does two mean?" Kamala asked the boy.

"Heh, isn't it obvious… it means that I'm in the general course." the boys said, with a humorless chuckle. "Guess that the people in charge don't think that I'm hero material… to be honest, I shouldn't have been surprised."

The comment of the boy made the group of Americans all feel for the boy. Although Annie in particular seemed a little enraged after a moment or two of processing what was said. Hitoshi had a feeling as to why though. After all, he said absolutely nothing when they met up a week ago. And yet, when she voiced her opinion, it turns out that it was the complete opposite of what he was expecting.

"That's the biggest piece of baloney that I've ever heard!" she said, much to the surprise of the Japanese boy.

"Baloney? Seriously?" Robbie asked.

"I'm Spider-Man's daughter and have a baby brother, cut me some slack!" she told him.

"... You know, you're right. I should have seen it coming." he said.

"Wait, you're not mad that I didn't tell you guys?" Hitoshi asked.

"I mean, yeah! Not cool man, but then again, considering that I kept silent as to who my dad is for most of my life, I really have no room to judge you, do I?"

"Point taken." Robbie said.

"But seriously, what is that about you not being hero material? Are their standards that messed up that they would put you in general studies instead of the hero course?!"

"Didn't you call out someone for insulting U.A back when we took the practical exam?" Kamala noted.

"Hey, maybe glasses was up to something all along!"

"You also kinda insult us in the process, but whatever." Robbie said.

"I mean, my quirk-"

"Your quirk is freaking awesome!" Annie cut him off mid-sentence. "You know? Forget being a hero! Picture this; you're a grizzle cop, harden by years of service to the law! One day, you're called because some felon refuses to spill the beans! That's when you come in. You enter the interrogation room, with him or her chained to the table! You get in close, with a cool mustache and a pair of shades just to intimidate the guy, or gal, even more. You sit on the other chair, take a look at the guy, or again gal, make a few comments about the person's choice of wardrobe, mixed in with a few 'Your mama' jokes and when the person in front decides to talk back, BAM! He or she's suddenly under your control! You make the felon tell you where the hidden treasure and the hideout is, get them to act like a chicken as punishment, the day is safe, your face is on every news outlet, you get the key to the city, a pretty medal and a nice statue in a praked named after you! And whenever someone passes by and looks at it, they'll go: 'Man, that is one nice guy! I wish I can grow to be half as cool as he is!', just think of the possibilities!" the New Yorker said.

"... What is it with you and 'Your mama' jokes? Did one save your life and thus, you feel in debt to them?" Hitoshi asked.

"Hey, possibilities. Think!"

"Why the mustache?" Robbie asked.

"Come on, that's a classic! Like, have you seen Seprico?"

"Of course I have seen Seprico, who do you think I am, a heathen?"

"I-I haven't."

"We're changing that later." the two of them said to the blue girl.

"Do you honestly believe that I could be a hero?" Hitoshi asked the New Yorker.

"Course I do!" she said without hesitation. "Didn't I tell you already? You're one of the good guys!" she said, smiling at the boy, who was rather stunned at just how highly the girl thought of him.

And she wasn't the only one.

"I mean, when it comes to looking villainous, who am I to judge? I practically use 'Hail Satan' powers and take the appearance of a Halloween decoration." Robbie said.

"Yeah, besides, have you seen the news recently? Freaking Blade just got accepted into the Avengers! The guy's a freakin vampire for crying out loud!... ok technically he's half vampire, but still!" Kamala told him and the rest of the group.

"I-I really can't see you as a-anything other than a hero." Valerie shyly told Hitoshi.

Looking at the support that he was getting from his group of friends surprised him a little. But afterwards, he couldn't help but to feel… nice. Like this was how things were supposed to go. He would have probably shed a tear or two if not for the fact that he tried his best not to do so.

"Thanks Annie… guys… it really means a lot." he said, a small smile showing on his face.

"Hey, don't worry. We're here for you, remember that." Annie told him.

"I-I think there c-could be a way to get you transferred to the h-hero course. M-Maybe we could ask around?" suggested Valerie.

"Yeah, and even if that's not the case, you could always try to make your debut in the States or somewhere else. Having someone that could just make people obey you just because they talked to you is probably useful to have around." commented Kamala.

"Although, we definitely need to work on your physic beforehand. You're a little on the scrawny side." Robbie said, making Hitoshi chuckle.

"Yeah, I guess you're right." he replied.

Looking at his four friends, Hitoshi couldn't help but to think one thing and one thing only.

He hated those on the hero course.

Bad enough that the ones that are there were blessed with flashy powers that were seen as more hero-like than his own. But now? They also get to hug his friends all to themselves! As far as he was concerned, they were the only ones worthy of being in the hero course… And one day he was going to be there by their side, he was going to make sure of that.

"I think we should start to head inside. Wouldn't want to be late on the first day, would we?" the boy of purple hair said.

"Probably. I do know for a fact that punctuality is pretty important here, right?" Kamala said.

"In theory, it should be important all around. But it seems that places like Japan and others are the only ones to actually give a shit about it." said Robbie.

"T-Then I guess… s-see you later?" Valerie said, as the others nodded.

So the five walked in and ended up splitting up. Going to three separate places each. Although that didn't necessarily mean that things would change drastically. It only meant that they would be apart for a little bit before the rang bell. Which meant that they would look forward to that moment even more than they already did.

"That is one big door." Annie noted.

After splitting up, both the daughter of the web-slinger and the adopted child of the Avengers headed for their homeroom. When they found their room, they saw that it was marked with a big red '1-A' and was at the very least around five meters tall. It was quite surprising at first, but then they realized that maybe it was to accommodate students that were abnormally tall. Bulky too since it was also almost two meters wide.

"S-Should we get in already?" asked Valerie.

"Probably. Wouldn't want to waste time, would we?" Annie replied.

Entering through the massive door, they saw that there were already a few students there already. They could recognize a couple of them, Valerie herself saw the blonde tailed boy that she met during the practice exam, which is why she turned red (or purple?) remembering how she made a fool of herself when she tripped. Annie on the other hand recognized Hershey dude, or Rikido Sato, sitting on the back of the classroom. They also saw the boy with glasses from the entrance exam there as well.

"Oh great, uptight's here." Annie complained

Ignoring that, she and Valerie went for two vacant seats that were close to each other, located near the middle of the room. Once there, Annie pulled out a notebook from her bag and a pen as well. She then opened it to reveal what looked to be some sort of chemical formula that Valerie couldn't understand. There were also a bunch of scribbles and scratched words that indicated the blue girl that Annie has been working on this for a while.

To Annie's surprise however, there was someone in the classroom that did recognize a few of what the red-head had written there. She was a girl with long jet-black hair that was tied in a ponytail. She got a glimpse at the New Yorker's notebook and to say that it peaked her interest would be an understatement.

"Is that a Nylon based compound?" the girl asked, startling Annie, who was taken by surprise alongside Valerie.

"Jesus/D-Don't look at me!" the two girls exclaimed, getting the attention of some of the other students.

"Oh I'm sorry. I didn't mean to startle you." the girl apologized.

"Oh, d-don't worry. It's just that… well, we weren't expecting to be approached by anyone that quick." Annie told the girl, recovering from the surprise while Valerie awkwardly nodded.

"And why's that?" she asked, only to remember Annie's face. "Isn't she the girl from ground 'E'?"

"Oh well, my friend's kind of shy and I usually don't get people speaking to me until a week or two after class started… or until they need help with homework."

"She doesn't seem to behave in the way that I thought she would." the girl thought, while looking at the red-head. "I still would like to apologize for it. I'm Yaoyorozu Momo, it's a pleasure to meet you." the girl introduced herself to Annie.

"Well, nice meeting you. I'm Anna-May, but you can call me Annie."

"A-And I'm V-Valerie Vector."

"First names? Would you happen to be foreigners?" Momo asked.

"Oh yeah. We're from New York actually."

"I see." Momo said at the revelation. "If I may, could I know your family names? I would like to address you in a formal manner." Momo said, making the two worlds flinch a little.

The fact that giving their last names could mean making the connection between them and their family (a.k.a Spider-Man and the Wasp) was not something that they would like just yet.

"Oh umm…"

"W-We would actually p-prefered if you called us by our names. I-If it makes you feel any better, V-Vector's fine by me." Valerie told the girl.

"Well, I wouldn't want to be disrespectful, but then again, we do have different cultures. But I'll try my best." Momo told the two Americans. "But If it's not too much trouble, I would actually want to know about that chemical compound that you have written there." she said, pointing at Annie's notebook.

"This, oh it's nothing."

"I don't think that that could describe what you have there. It is quite the complex work. Honestly, it took me by surprise to see the complexity of it."

"Well, it's kind of a personal project that I've been working on for a while now." Annie told Momo. "To give you an idea of what it's supposed to be, this is based on the idea of a super glue formula."

"I see…" Momo said, placing her right hand on her chin. "And what does sulfuric acid have to do with it?"

"Well, I did say that it's based on super glue, but the end result should be an artificial silk. Although a problem that I keep having is the monomer chains. So far I have only reached around 1850 monomers long, which is not what I'm hoping for."

"And what would the desirable length be?"

"To be honest, a bare minimum of 120, 000 monomers would do. Although my end goal would be making it around twice as long while also making sure it's lightweight." Annie said, surprising Momo a bit.

"But to do so, you would require industrial equipment!"

"Yeah, thus where one of my main headaches resides. I want to do that without the need of heavy equipment."

"How would you do that?"

"Umm, I'm still trying to figure that part out." the American told the Japanese girl "I mean, if that could do it at fifteen, then so can i, right?"

"Well then, would you require help? I believe I could help you in that regard." Momo offered.

Annie could already tell that this girl was smart. The fact that she could kind of get what the writing on her notebook was, indicated that she was definitely smart. Smartest person her age that she has ever met? Not really, but then again, it's hard to surpass the likes of Valeria Richards and Nadia Pym. Even if she's not all buddy-buddy with the daughter of Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman, it was already clear to her that she was probably smarter than the young red-head. And Nadia… well, according to Valerie and Jarvis, she's the kind of inventor that doesn't wear pants whenever she's thinking of problems to tackle. That's an indication that she meant serious business despite her young age. But still, Momo could probably help a little, but of course, her pride wouldn't allow it.

"I appreciate the offer, but this is kind of a personal thing that I'm doing. Don't take it personal." she told the Japanese girl.

"Oh, don't worry. I understand perfectly what you mean. Please forgive the intrusion."

"No, don't worry, we're cool… We're cool, right?"

"Yes, we are. Please, keep working on your project, I wish you the best of luck." Momo said as she took to her seat once more. Not before taking a certain level of interest at the red-headed American. There seemed to be more than the surface level show that she put during the entrance exam.

"... Well, so far things have been good for us, right?" Annie asked Valerie.

"I-I guess." the shy girl replied.

After that, Annie returned to her work while Valerie remained in her seat quietly. It wasn't long until other students started to arrive, including some ash-blonde boy of red eyes, a mean look on his face and with his uniform somewhat saggy. He took an empty seat and sat in the most cliche delinquent way possible, including having his feet on top of the desk. Naturally, it was only a matter of time until some rule-maniac expressed their discomfort to such behavior. And that person turned out to be none other than glasses, of course, who walked towards him and demanded for the ash-blonde to sit appropriately. Something that the other boy decided to ignore.

"Take your feet off of that desk now!" glasses said.

"Huh?!" was the only response that ash-blonde gave, which was said with a certain level of arrogance.

"It's the first day and you're already disrespecting this academy by scoffing school property, you cretin!"

"You're kidding me, right?! Your old school put a stick up your ass, or were you born with it?"

"Goddammit, why?" Annie thought in annoyance as she did her best to isolate herself from the two boys' ruckuss.

"Eh… Let's start over; I'm Ida Tenya from the Soumei Private Academy."

"Soumei, huh?! So you must think that you're better than me! I'm going to have fun tearing you a new one!"

"Uh! You would threaten me? Your own classmate?! Are you sure you're in the right place?!"

"Oh for the love of… Would you two bozos keep quiet! Some of us are trying to get work done over here and you sure as heck are not making it any easier with all your yabering!" Annie told the two boys, much to the terror of the blue girl that sat next to her.

"A-A-A-Annie!"

"Umm…" they all suddenly heard.

As the entirety of the students turned to the classroom's door, they saw Izuku Midoriya, looking quite nervous at the fact that he naw had more than a dozen pairs of eyes looking straight at him.

"Umm, Hi!" he said, nervously.

"Hey, Izuku! Long time no see!" Annie greeted the green-haired boy, much to the surprise of glasses and ash-blonde.

However Tenya decided to put aside said thought and went on to try and greet the newly arrived boy. However, Annie called him before he could get close to Midoriya.

"And what exactly are you trying to do, glasses?" Annie asked.

"Annie, why?" Valerie cried at the actions of her friend.

"Obviously, to greet our newly arrived classmate. And one more thing, my name is Ida Tenya and I would prefer that you address by my name, American." he told the red-head.

"Just saying. Wouldn't want you to antagonise him again like you did during the entrance exam. And since you're up in arms about how to address you, the name's Anna-May, not American. Got it, Tenya?" she replied.

"I do not believe that the level of our current relationship merits to be on a first name basis. Mainly, due to the fact that said relationship is nothing more than one of mere strangers so far." the boy replied. "Now, if you are done instigating an argument with me, I would love to greet our classmate."

"So long as you don't step out of line, sure. Go for it."

"Why does this happen to me?" Valerie cried, covering her face with a notebook, so as to hide from the eyes of almost everyone in class, who were watching the back and forth between the New Yorker and the tall boy.

Tenya himself cleared his voice before turning to face the freckled boy. "As I was trying to do, before being rudely interrupted…" he said, earning a glare from the American that was met with one of his own. "Good morning, my name is Ida Tenya-"

"Y-Yeah, I know!" the boy awkwardly replied. "I'm Izuku Midoriya… it's super nice to meet you!" he replied awkwardly.

"... Midoriya… you realized that there was something more to the practical exam, didn't you?" he asked Izuku, getting everyone's attention. "You must be very perceptive. And I completely misjudged you."

"Least we can agree on that." Annie mumbled.

"As a student you are far superior to me."

"I find that hard to believe." Midoriya thought.

"I don't find that hard to believe." Annie thought, getting up and approaching the green-haired boy. "So, you saw through the practical exam? Nice job greeny! Being honest, a friend of mine and I only thought that something was up, but if you managed to figure it out on your own, then props man!" she congratulated Midoriya, giving him a pat on the back.

"Oh, t-t-thanks. B-B-But in all honesty, you guys might be giving me too much credit." Midoriya admitted. "B-B-Besides, you did just say t-t-that a friend of yours and you also saw through, r-right?"

"It was more of a small hunch to be honest." she said.

And while the fact that she had a hunch about the practical exam did get a bit of Tenya's attention, his train of thoughts was interrupted when a new presence arrived to class.

"Hey I recognise that mess up hair!" the voice of a girl was heard. "Falling boy!" she said.

Turning around, they saw a round-face girl with short brown hair that had just arrived. And while the girl herself was talking about the entrance exam. Something about him punching something or what have you. Midoriya recognized her as that nice girl that helped him out… that and the fact that he admitted that the uniform did look good on her.

"Oh hi!" Midoriya started to say, as his face turned a shade of pink. "Oh my gosh, I should probably thank you for talking to Present Mic about me." he said.

"Huh? How do you know about that?" the girl asked.

And while the ash-blonde of the class was glaring at Midoriya as Valerie was tapping her shoes over and over as she repeated there's no place like home to herself. Annie couldn't help but to get a little curious about something that the browned-haired girl said.

"Wait, super punching a robot?" Annie asked.

"Oh yeah, he knocked the zero pointer that was on our site with one punch, It was amazing! Although he did get hurt in the process." the girl replied.

"So you're the guy that got all mangled out, aren't you?" the New Yorker asked Midoriya, who was going from a shade of pink to a red one. "Dude, I know that the saying goes 'break a leg', but you didn't have to take it that literal!" the red-head quipped.

"Y-Yeah… I guess you're right." the boy stuttered.

"Hey, what do you guys think we're doing today besides orientation? I wonder what our teachers are like? I can't wait to meet everybody!" the girl happily said the boy shyly covered his face.

"If you're just here to make friends then you can pack up your stuff now." a voice was suddenly heard.

"Eh?" they all turned to see… was that thing alive?!

From outside the classroom, laid some sort of hobo in need of a haircut alongside a shave and inside a yellow sleeping bag. "Welcome to U.A's hero course." the hobo said, moving around a little inside so as to open the bag's zipper a little bit and allowing him to drink some juice that he had there.

"What is that thing?" the four teenagers thought as they saw the hobo stand up and getting out of the sleeping bag at the same time.

"It took eight seconds before you all shut up, that's not gonna work." the hobo said, finally out of the sleeping bag, revealing a pair of tactical-looking pants, a black long sleeve shirt, a belt with some pouches and what looked to be some sort of toilet paper scarff or something. "Time is precious, rational students would understand that."

"Who is this guy? If he's here then he must be a pro. But he looks so worn out, what's his deal?" Midoriya thought.

"I know a hobo when I see one, so did security got lazy today and let this one get past school grounds?" Annie though as she was looking at the guy.

"Hello, I'm Aizawa Shouta, your teacher."

"OUR TEACHER?"

"THAT HOBO IS A TEACHER HERE?!"

"Right, let's get to it. Put this on and head outside." he said, as he got what looked to be the school's P.E uniforms out of his sleeping bag.

"... So umm… do you have like, twenty or so of those in there? And do we have to put those ones specifically? 'Cause that doesn't seem very sanitary." Annie said, trying to break the ice as Valerie tapped her shoes even faster.

"What is it with the door being big enough to fit a giraffe through it?" Kamala asked, looking at the massive door in front of her that read '1-B' in red.

"There's no way you can fit a giraffe through it." Robbie told her.

"Are you sure?"

"... I think… Well, unless you have a giraffe at hand we'll never know."

"Or, we could look up how tall a giraffe is through our phones and figure it out from there."

"Nah, way too much work for something so trivial." Robbie said, shooting the idea down. "Let's just get in already. Last thing we need on our first day here is to be locked out for asking sumb questions." he said as he made his way into the classroom.

Once inside, they saw that the room was almost full. Counting the inhuman and the dual-eyed boy, they were twenty two in total. Robbie thought that it was a bit odd all things considering. According to what Yu told him, U.A usually has four students through recommendation plus thirty six from the normal entrance exam each year in the hero course. But by the looks of it, there could be a total of forty four students in the hero course this year if his class was anything to go by.

So, what gives?

"... Meh, I'll know it soon enough." he thought, as he and Kamala started to look for seats to sit on.

"Hey, look! It's skully-McFire!" said a girl with dark green hair.

Kamala just looked to the sides a couple of times before her eyes were set on Robbie. Afterwards, she simply pointed at him, so as to get clarifications that it was him who the girl was talking about.

"I can shoot fire and turn into a walking skeleton. Who else are they going to refer to?" he asked the inhuman.

"Well, it's good to clarify just in case." she told him.

"Hi, you guys seem to be the last ones that were missing." said a girl with orange hair and teal eyes. "Hi, I'm Kendo Itsuka, it's a pleasure to meet you guys." she told the two Americans.

"Oh, hi! I'm Kamala Khan, no wait Khan Kamela… wait Kamela? Ugh! Why-"

"Names Kamala, last name's Khan." Robbie intervened, so as to get over his friend embarrassing herself in front of their new classmates. "I'm Roberto Reyes, you can call me Robbie or whatever. I really don't have any issue about it."

"Nice knowing you Reyes, Khan." said an ash-blonde whose face looked a bit like a skull. "I'm Honenuki Juzo."

"Hi, question where is the teacher?" Kamala asked.

"He hasn't showed up just yet." Kendo answered.

"And what have you guys been doing so far?" Robbie asked the orange-haired girl.

"Mostly, we have been getting to know each other in the meantime. You know, break the ice early and what not." replied Kendo. "By the way, I don't want to infer or anything, but by your names and your accent I can tell that you're not from here, are you?"

"No, we're from America." Robbie told her. "I'm from Los Angeles California, Kamala over here's from New Jersey."

"You're Americans too?" asked the girl of dark green hair.

"Too?" they asked.

"Hey Pony! Come here!" the girl shouted.

From the other side of the room, a blonde girl with prussian blue eyes came to their side. The most notable features however, were the fact that she had hooves and a pair of horns.

"W-What's happening?" she said, with an accent. It also sounded like she was still in the process of learning Japanese or something.

"Look, it's your people!" the dark green-haired girl joked while signaling the other two Americans.

"M-My people?/Her people?" the trio asked.

"Sorry about that. Tokage seems to be the kind of girl that jokes a lot." Kendo said.

"Great, another chatty one. Just when I thought that I was freed from the last one." Robbie joked.

"O-Other?"

"Oh yeah, you probably know her. Her name's Anna-May, she mentioned you and your aunt once or twice." Robbie said, surprising Pony.

"Anna-May?! As in Anna-May P-"

"Yes! That Anna-May!" Kamala awkwardly said out loud. Annie didn't want people to put two and two together, so until they get the green light, it was probably better to keep her last name a secret. "She's also on the hero course in class 1-A with another friend of ours."

"PFFF Class 1-A? How sad, it must hurt you two to know that the two of them have now turned into the enemy!" a blue-eyed blonde boy said, confusing the two Americans.

"... Did he say enemy?" Kamala asked the other kids from 1-B.

"What's with him?" Robbie asked.

"Y-Yeah… Monoma is… yeah…" was the only thing that Kendo could say.

"Hey!" the kids suddenly heard.

Turning around they saw a pair of kids that both Kamala and Robbie recognised. One of them was the beast-looking boy Shisida Jurota. The other one was Hiryu Rin. The two kids that Robbie and Kamala met and helped during the entrance exam… well, some of the few that they helped.

"So your name's Robbie Reyes?" Hiryu said while looking at the American boy. "Well, it took around a month or so, but at least I finally know it." he said.

"Hi Khan, nice seeing you again." Shisida greeted the inhuman.

"Oh hi! Good to see you Jo- I mean Shi- no wait I think I was-"

"We really need to get that fix, you know? You're making an ass out of you." Robbie said.

"Yeah, guess you're right." Kamala said, scratching the back of her head.

"Well, it doesn't seem like the teacher is coming any time soon. So come on Reyes, Khan, meet the rest of the gang! I promise that Kamakiri doesn't bite!"

"I heard that Tokage!" a boy whose face somewhat resembled an insect's head with a green mohawk and a pair of mandibles.

"What?! A quirk assessment test?!" most of the students of class 1-A said at the same time.

After their hobo teacher handed them each their own P.E uniform, the students headed for their respective locker rooms and put them on. They were a pair of dark blue pants with white vertical lines going up the legs and a dark blue short sleeve jacket with white lines that form the letters 'U' and 'A'. In all honesty, they weren't half bad. Comfy, stylish, creative, Annie didn't mind them that much. Afterwards, the class headed outside of one of the school's gyms. Once they were all on the field, Shouta Aizawa, a.k.a hobo teacher told them just what exactly they were supposed to do.

Suffice to say, the kids' reaction was one of confusion.

"But orientation, we're going to miss it!" the brown-haired girl pleaded to their teacher.

"If you really want to hit the big leagues, then you can't waste time in pointless ceremonies." their teacher replied without hesitation, as if he had done this a million times before and will do so a million times again. "Here at U.A, we are not tethered to traditions. That means that I get to run my class however I see fit." he told his class, who were all listening with all their attention. "You've been taking standardized tests most of your lives. But you've never got to use your quirks in physical exams before… The country is still trying to pretend that we're all created equal by not letting those with the most power excel. It's not rational. One day, the minister of education will learn."

"S-Standardized test?"

"Don't worry Valerie. It's nothing scary, don't let hobo teach scare you." Annie said, trying to ease the nerves of her friend.

"Bakugo you managed to get the most points on the entrance exam." Aizawa told to ash-blonde. "What was your farthest distance throw with a softball when you were at Junior High?"

"Sixty seven meters I think." he replied.

"Right, try doing it with your quirk." Shouta said, handing Bakugo a softball as he headed for the designated area where he needed to stand and throw the ball. "Anything goes, so just stay on the circle. Go on, you're wasting our time" the teacher indicated.

"Alright man, you ask for it." he replied as Bakugo started to do some basic stretches beforehand. "I'll add a little heat to my pitch and drop their jaws." the ash-blonde thought to himself.

Both Annie and Valerie watched carefully what the boy was about to do. This was something relatively new to them, Valerie specifically. So they wanted to make sure not to miss anything. Besides, they wanted to see what the first place of the entrance exam is capable of doing. So once he was ready, he started to throw the ball, his body moving in an ark. And on the very last second, when the ball was just leaving his hand, a massive explosion burst out of his palm, boosting the ball with more power than initially.

"DIE!" the boy shouted as the ball rocketed into the air.

"Die?" Annie and Valerie thought, wondering if that was even appropriate to say in a hero school.

"All of you need to know your maximum capabilities." Aizawa said, as his phone suddenly beeped once the ball touched the ground. "It's the most rational way of figuring out your potential as a pro-hero." he said, afterwards, he showed the rest of the class just what it was that it read on screen. Which was…

"Wow seven hundred and five meters! Are you kidding me?!" a blonde boy with a black lightning-shaped stripe said.

"I want to go! That looks like fun!" said a pink girl with horns. If memory served Annie and Valerie right, then that girl was probably Mina Ashido… or Ashido Mina… great, now Kamala got them doing the same thing as her.

"This is what I'm talking about! Using our quirks as much as we want!" said a boy with black hair and weird elbows.

"... So this looks fun, huh?" Aizawa asked, getting their attention. "You have three years here to become a hero. You think it's all going to be games and playtime?... Idiots…" he said, whispering the last part, but still making sure it was audible for the students to hear. "Today, you're going to compete in eight physical tests to gaze your potential. Whoever comes in last has none and will be expelled immediately."

"HUH?!" the kids all exclaimed.

Meanwhile, on another part of campus, All Might was cursing at what he just discovered. "Oh crap! He got Aizawa!" he complained, looking at the documents before him. "Midoriya is going to be single out from the start!"

Back on the training field, Izuku Midoriya started to fear for himself. His lack of control over his power started to worry him. With the ability of either going zero or 100%, plus with the fear of imminent expulsion? Things weren't looking good for him.

"Like I said, I get to decide how this class runs." Aizawa said, snapping everyone back to reality. "Understand! If that's a problem, then you can head home right now!" Shouta warned, as everyone started to get ready for what's to come.

And while Annie was certainly having multiple thoughts going all around. Valerie only had one at the moment:

"WHY?!"

I did promise to answer your questions and so I will.

Ok, so the first question that I'll answer isn't from one review, it was a message that was sent to me, by the user B4TM4N-WH0-L4U6H5:

He asked if Gwen and Ben Reily are dead in this world? The answer to both is yes. I'm planning on going into detail with Gwen's case in a future project, but it'll be a long time before that.

As for reviews, I would like to thank CRUDEN, Aztec 13 and Random65 for being among the first to read my Marvel stories. Random65 and Aztec 13 specifically for also reading the prequels, as well as the guest OK KO (if you are the same that firsst wrote on Spiderling's one shot).

Noe¿w, for the reviews questions:

OK KO: I'll try to use as many international Marvel characters as possible, as well as the most mainstream ones. But I'll only bring them when it makes sense and not just force them to the plot if it doesn't make that much sense for them to even be there. I already made a couple of reference here and there, but some of the ones that you named will probably appear at one point or another... except Big Hero 6. Their Marvel story was so messy that I'm pretty sure that around eighty to ninety percent of the people that know of them, would probably pick their new movie version. And the movie version doesn't really works for me in the main Marvel Universe, which is probably why despite the popularity of the movie, there hasn't been that much if any effort in re-introducing them to the main universe as far as I'm aware.

But hey! I do plan things involving Sunfire and a Silver Samurai, so does that make up for the lack of Baymax?

The second comment with a question that I found was from lautaro94 and to answer your question: It's mainly genetics and small factors here and there. For example, while there is the possibility of the child having their power already unlocked from the get-go (examples being Tooru from MHA and Beast from Marvel) quirks are mainly awakened around four or five years old while the X gene develops mainly around puberty. As far as I'm aware, you can't force a quirk to awaken earlier than it's supposed to, while we do know of at least one mutant that had that done to her, being Laura Kidney, who had her powers forcefuly awaken by small bombarments of radiation or something. Quirks are also easier to detect, since they are tied to the amount of bones you have on your foot's little toe or something (I don't remember that part as well as I should). I could also go over raw power and what not, like how mutants have the Omega level class, for those who have seemingly limitless potenital, while the only possible examples that we have on quirks like that are One for All, All for One, Eri's rewind and maybe Chisaki's Overhoul, but even then, that's just stretching it.

I mean, I could have just call them mutants and be done, but I want this world to be one were the idea of quirks being a variant of the X gene be tru. Or that at the same time that the gene that will one day grant En Sabah Nur his godlike powers was developing, somewhere in another part of the worl, the gene that would one day allow a baby on China to glow also started to develop.

Think of quirks and the X gene as Arthropods. To a certain degree, they are the same idea. Powers that one was born with and that later on manifested over time, bbut because of certain details are classified as different and treated diferent. Like how spiders, Beetles and Shrimps are all arthropodes, but not because of it are shrimps arachnids, or bettles crustaceans and spiders bugs. Because of certain small and/significant details that set them apart from one another, despite being of the same phylum.

Aztec 13 has a couple of questions, so here are some answers: What classes will the kids be on? Well, the chapter already answered those. Robbie using the Penance stare on some fools? Not happening until much later. Robbie has always been the oddball of the Ghost Riders, with him not even able to use the Penance Stare until years after his creation with him not knowing what he just did. Something like that is also happening here. He's technically not a Ghost Rider in the traditional manner, but rather has the ability to use magic fire and the ocational hellfire that is harder to control. I'll go into deeper details later, but long story short is, he doen't have the penance star just yet.

: With this, I can definately say that there are definately some Ghost Rider fans here. I have something for Blaze, but not in the way you described. Again, I want to write them in a way that makes sense for them to be there and not just shoehorn in them just cause. So, while (at least to me) it doesn't make sense for him to just show up one day at U.A just cause, I do have something involving him that I do believe does make a little more sense.

lautaro94 again: about Krakoa... yeah, that's also off the table for the time being. Like, I do find myself reading the current Hickman series from time to time and I do find a lot of the new status quo interesting... but since I'm also taking elements from other canonns, for example Renew Your Vows, in which part of the final act revolved around Mr. Sinister wanting to attack thr X-Men because he believed that the current piece enviroment that the new generation was growing into was making them soft. Plus with the addition of quirks I really don't think that the nation of Krakoa has much of a place in this story. So yeah, in this world, mutants do sometimes get dirt thrown at hem, but it's no longer as bad as it used to be and is actuallu more frown upon by society. So in this story, things are nowhere near bad enough to force mutants to form their own nation... for like a third time or whatever.

That's it for me for the time being, enjoy the chapter if it's of your liking and stay safe.

Bye