Flux of Emerald Lightning
Disclaimer: Check chapter 1 for disclaimers.
Julia: So far so good. Go.
Kei: Welcome to chapter two. Thanks, but we're not accepting suggestions for pairings. Please stop reviewing about that only. You're only proving FoxonPie right.
Julia: Today we go into the Entrance Exams.
Chapter 2: UA High Entrance Exams
A decade has journeyed through time since that electrifying event. Now a teenager graduating middle school, Izuku Midoriya stands tall before the doors of an A-shaped building ready to take in all of its glory. This is UA High Boarding School. "I'm going to do it. Today is the day!"
Having grown up, the emerald protagonist has changed a bit. His black and green hair has grown and become curlier overtime, stretching far enough that if he combed it he could cover his eyes. Though he stands at 5'7 feet, he has grown in core and strength. Underneath the clothes he wears is the body of a runner, lean arms with a six-pack stomach and legs that could run for an hour. He also sports dark blue gloves with black index fingers and thumbs that have a golden lightning bolt inside of a circle on the backs.
Ignoring the thousand other students passing by him, Izuku smiles as he clenches his fingers into fists. "It's time to make my first step. I will-"
"GET OUT OF THE WAY, DEKU!" He flinches at the voice, its tone kind of familiar. Though a second after taking it in he can tell it's him.
Turning around he spots Katsuki Bakugo standing behind him. Like Izuku, his amber-haired rival has grown a great amount as well with his spiky hair and scarlet eyes a dead giveaway. However, unlike Izuku's leaner body, Bakugo's body shows results of training all around, mostly upper body. "Kacchan! Don't scare me like that!"
"Get used to it, nerd! Now that no one's around to enforce the rules and protect you, I'll show you just how much better I am than-" Bakugo stops suddenly to drop down and viciously cough up a lung. The emerald boy takes a knee next to him.
"Are you okay?"
"I'm fine! It's nothing new!" he replies, getting up to walk away. "Just need to stop yelling is all."
Izuku watches as his former bully heads inside. He still feels bad after what happened even though he wasn't there. "Sorry, Kacchan." With these thoughts in mind, he heads inside the building.
Inside, he and everyone hit the classroom. That's where they take the written exam, consisting of knowledge that was based on heroics. Afterward, they file to the auditorium, where they sit before the professional hero Present Mic.
The loud hero speaks out in his reverberating voice tone, "EVERYBODY LISTEN! ALL YOU UA CANDIDATES NEED TO KNOW HOW THIS IS DONE SO PAY ATTENTION!"
"Whoa! It's Present Mic!" Izuku says in a childish way as he stares in awe at the hero. He proceeds to murmur about how amazing it is to see him in person and personally hopes that all the teachers are heroes too. "This is so exciting!"
The voice hero then goes on detailing the description for the practical part of the exam; they have to destroy a bunch of robot villains in a time frame. There are three types, er four actually, and each of them has differing scores going from one to three. No attacking other players either, so Izuku can feel glad that no one would sabotage him, a thought he comes across while looking at Bakugo.
"As if I would ever."
That's when it happens; a tall boy – he could be mistaken as a young adult – proudly stands up and calls out, "MR! I wanted to inquire about something you said. It's said that there are four villains but you only described three. Is this a mistake on part of UA, because that would be a shameful thing! Additionally…
"YOU THERE! You've been mumbling this entire time!" This blue-haired individual with glasses points directly at the green teen. "Yes, you, the one with curly hair! If you're trying to psyche everyone out, then stop it. We don't need people like you here!"
With Izuku embarrassed, he backs in his seat sheepishly laughing.
"Okay…" Present Mic chuckles through his nose. "Well, that's actually not important, since the fourth villain is worth zero points. It's a gimmick thrown in that's more part of the course than actually being something to take down. When it appears it'll just rampage and destroy indiscriminately instead of actually attacking someone.
"THAT'S ALL FROM ME! I'll just leave you with a little piece of encouragement, our school motto. A true hero is one that overcomes life's misfortunes. So do it right, and Plus Ultra!"
After the explanation is over, everyone dresses in gym clothes they're given and head out to their respective battlefields. Luckily Izuku doesn't have to deal with Kacchan, but the serious glasses-wearing guy who called him out is with him.
'Oh great. Well, beggars can't be choosers.' Izuku glances over at this nameless teen as he scans the rest of the teenagers taking the exams.
"AND BEGIN!" Everyone freezes up hearing Present Mic up top a building. "What are you waiting for? There's no countdown in a real fight: GO, GO, GO!"
Izuku turns to his left as Present Mic concludes. He spots to his surprise that everyone else has run off ahead of him. He reacts suddenly, flailing his arms exasperatedly and shouting at his slowness. He rushes in trying to catch up with the others.
"Okay, some of them might take more points. But I can overcome this." He splits off from the others to go find a robot.
Coming down a street he spots something green and mechanical coming his way. When it comes forward to attack, he partly freezes up. 'No! Don't be afraid. Just remember your training!'
"Izuku, as far as we know, there are four fundamental forces in the universe: strong interaction, weak interaction, gravity, and electromagnetism. Our power affects electrically charged particles and forms atoms. Without it, molecules wouldn't be able to stay together. While my Quirk can control things through the electromagnetic spectrum, I can't exactly produce my own electrical current.
"Your Quirk is special because you can produce electromagnetic energy by yourself. It's all raw for you, and it can grow more than what you have now. This training will help you increase your stamina."
"So why am I outside with a tire tied to my waist? And why are you sitting on it?"
"As I said, because of our Quirk we can lift anything and anyone technically, but certain materials can resist your power. Rubber is one of them, and since the point of this is to build your stamina you'll be pulling this along with me around the beach."
"Wait, what? You expect me to be able to run around this entire beach pulling you and this tire using my power?"
"Of course not. You're only 13. You'll be walking around the beach pulling this tire alone while using your Quirk. Next month, you'll run!"
'Time to put your training to the test mom!' Izuku stretches his with a shout and fires a bolt of emerald lightning at the machine. The plasma pierces through and leaves a hole in its path, causing the machine to explode. 'Whoa! Wrong attack. I gotta calm down!'
Another machine catches him from behind and grabs him. Its arms containing Izuku lift him up to remove his foothold. Of course, the boy simply discharges a small amount of power, an action that causes the machine to malfunction and drop him. Sparks fly out of its body afterward.
'Okay, that's two points!' He spots another robot not far ahead and raises his hand to blast it. Before he could, a laser shoots out of nowhere and pierces through its dark green metal plating. The figure falls apart, chinks of its body hitting the ground with clattering noises.
He tracks the path of the beam of a boy standing elegantly. With a flamboyant expression and smile, he flicks his golden blond hair saying, "Thank you for the distraction!" He then leaves as quickly as he arrived.
Sighing, Izuku checks down for the time, only to find that his watch has malfunctioned. 'Dang. I'll just have to move quickly!' He looks down at one of the robot's arms and turns the tip of his finger into a plasma welder before cutting it off. He then stands on top and infuses his energy into the object, lifting him up off the ground.
The freckle-faced boy makes a nervous smile as he balances himself. "Alright!" He then flies higher over the buildings to survey the scenery. North of him he sees that guy from before running ahead at a crew of villain bots. West has some teens attacking a large group spread out. Southeast, he spots a group of one and two pointers moving in.
"That's where I'm going!" He then heads southeast with his hands sparking green electricity.
…
"Quite a fine crop of gems this year, eh?"
Up in the observation room, the faculty members of UA watch the exams going on through multiple screens. One of them, a rat/bear/thing watches while making his assessment. "With the limited time and wide area, they have no idea how many villains we've filled it up with. The deciding factor for passing will be how they gain those points: I see some have decided to either scope the area gathering information or rely on speed to pull ahead. Others gain the advantage through simple raw fighting instincts."
The woman who spoke before keeps her eyes on one screen as that last sentence was spoken, where amidst smoke, smoldering scrap metal, and awestruck teens, is Katsuki Bakugo. His palms emit a large amount of smoke as he stands, glaring at the screen unknowingly.
"Oh, I'm going to enjoy this year." Sadly, this was spoken in a seductive tone.
One of the members, a skinny person overshadowed in the darkness, speaks up. "It's been seven minutes. How about some rational danger to separate the zirconium from the actual gems?"
"You've read my mind, Aizawa!" The animal jumps to the monitor and presses a big red button on the console.
…
Izuku maneuvers himself on the metal device to dodge a strike coming his way from the bulky three-pointer. He then places a hand on its head, as pink electricity enters his body from it. He then smiles with satisfaction feeling the power coursing through him, watching the machine drop dead. He releases his new power to surround him, creating an aura of green electricity. Turning around he blasts another robot coming for him. The blast destroys its head, and it falls over.
"Phew. That takes care of that," says Izuku as he proceeds to tally his score on his fingers. "That's 30 points. Hopefully, we have enough time." He crouches down preparing to fly up to scan for more robots. "I'm not going to let pulling that tire during the summer go to waste!"
Once he rises to a roof's level, his attention is overtaken by the sound of demolition. His heart skips a beat as he hears metal crunching and stone cracking. Curious yet foolish, he flies higher on the arm to survey the scene, noticing almost everyone else has decided to run for their lives in the opposite direction. There he gets close enough to pass over the rising dust to see the cause of the destruction. "Uh oh."
There in the midst of destruction stands a colossal enemy robot. Aesthetically it gives the appearance of the other robots fused together into a Megazord of sorts, with a set of ten eyes. Its arm crashes through a building, rubble flying every which were without question. After a quick analysis, he determines this behemoth the gimmick they mentioned, as it is indeed a rampaging monstrosity attacking but not chasing.
Immediately, people bolt at the sight of the machine as it scrounges that same building. Steel, stone, and stubble rain down upon the teenage public as they escape.
"Present Mic was right; this isn't something a non-hero can face easily," says Izuku in his murmuring tone. "I could take it out with enough voltage, but I won't gain any points. I should conserve my power for the rest." Looking down he notes everyone else is gone. Even the guy with glasses who berated him for psyching people out earlier is dashing for safety. He's pretty fast too.
While contemplating his options, the emerald protagonist notes the rubble and debris have fallen and trapped some people. As more buildings around the gimmick are being wrecked, the horrid destruction deafens his ears to their cries for help. Not that he would need to to take action.
Sparking with emerald lightning around him, the sky-high hero in training flies up at the machine and fires his em energy. His Quirk crackles as it slowly surrounds the behemoth. The red visor eyes transform to have a green shine as its body release beeping noises.
Breathing deeply, Izuku sighs with relief seeing that its rampage has stopped. After recovering some breath, he says, "Good."
"Two minutes left!" Everyone flinches hearing Present Mic's voice counting down.
"Uh oh!" Izuku uses the hand possessing the machine to direct its actions. Stretching its mechanical arms, the robot grabs debris left on top of teens and lifts it up, tossing it away far from their sight.
Elsewhere in the arena, a boy with purple balls on his head continues to throw the orbs at the robots about to attack him. They stick and trap the villain bots, rendering them immobile. As he uses his Quirk, he groans feeling blood trickle down his head.
"Oh, come on! I just wanted a harem!"
As if answering his hopes, debris rains down upon the machines crushing them. The boy looks around, shrugging. "Eh, beggars can't be choosers!"
The students saved by this gimmicky puppet look up at their savior as he asks them, "Are you okay?" Though he doesn't stick around to hear their answer, before having his toy move down the street towards a throng of more villain bots.
Instead of having it directly fight them, Izuku simply swipes the puppet hand to the side. Through this action, the machine stops dead in its track before sparks go off. It tilts forward with a slowly growing cranking noise, crashing dead down on the villain bots.
He goes down still floating to check up on the other students. One girl with chestnut hair has a rock pinning her ankle. She cries in a low tide tone, "My leg…" as the pain continues to splash on her.
'Whoa. She's really cute… no, focus!' Izuku slaps his face to refocus and pulls the rock off of her with his Quirk before tossing it aside. Free, the girl brings her leg closer. "Are you okay?"
"Y-yes, thank you," she says to him through the pain. "Oh, what am I gonna do? I only have 28 points."
As she gripes about her situation, the corner of her eye catches a piece of the building they're next to chip off. It comes free and drops in their direction. Acting without thinking, she uses her other leg free of wounds and kicks off the ground, diving into Izuku to effectively push him and her out of the way of the debris.
The two hit the ground once more, with the emerald protagonist noticing that his body feels far lighter than usual. But, he can't find it in his mind to think further on why. This is the first time a girl's chest has touched his. Scratch that; this is the first time a girl's ever been this close to him!
And now he's reacting like a teenage boy, pushing her off before he could embarrass himself. "T-Thanks for y-y-your help!" he stutters, his head so red he's giving the impression that he's a tomato – what with his hair color.
"TIME!" Everyone stops in their tracks when they hear Present Mic's voice. Izuku pauses, before slapping his cheeks groaning realizing he only scored what he can only assume to be 30 points. He probably has more, but he didn't really take the time to check which ones he destroyed.
As everything calms down, the robots vacate the area. The probable students look around at everything that has happened in the area Izuku is inhabiting as well as where the giant robot fell. Murmurs louder than his go off.
"Did ya see that?"
"A better question would be who didn't."
"All that just to destroy something that gives no points?"
"I know, what an idiot. It's not like we were in any real danger."
"That last thing he did at the end probably was something he did just for the hell of it."
"So nobody here is going to comment on how awesome it was seeing him control that robot?"
The glasses wearing speedster glares at them with disappointment. He knows the truth of that action. 'None of you noticed, but he was trying to save those people. It was a noble act, one worthy of a hero. I mean, I would have done the same thing had this not been an exam.' A thought then crosses his mind.
'Wait… was that part of the exam?'
"Well done everyone." He comes out of his thoughts when he sees a short old lady with visors walking by everyone. Using a long syringe as a cane she approaches others handing out candy to the students. As she does her lips extend to kiss certain people on their skin, the effects of which cause a green aura to form over them and wipe away their wounds.
The laser guy from before notes her. "Well, if it isn't Recovery Girl."
"Who is she?" asks a girl with long, black hair.
"Recovery Girl; she is the main doctor of UA Boarding High. Without her, there's no way they'd be having such a risky exam," explains the laser boy.
Recovery Girl soon comes before Izuku, noting his condition and the girls. "Oh, look at you deary. I can help clean that up."
"Oh! Recovery Girl! I never thought I'd see you here-" A whack to the head shuts the murmuring up before it could start. "Ow!"
"Please step aside so I can tend to the wounded," says the elderly woman, glaring at him through closed eyelids.
Frightened, the boy steps aside. 'It's like looking at my mom.' He then watches as she kisses the girl's hand, and the green aura surrounds her causing the wound to close up on its own.
Though as her wounds disappear without so much as a scar left in its wake, the girl – as she tries to stand up – drops down on her behind with a tired huff. "Huh? Why am I so tired?"
"That would be my Quirk's effect, deary," says the woman. She goes over to Izuku and kisses his hand. As his scuffs and scrapes go away, she explains the effects: "My Quirk increases a person's healing factor to be instant. But, it requires the person's energy to work; not enough, and you'll end up taking long naps. Maybe even an eternal nap."
'Spooky!'
"AFTER GETTING PATCHED UP, FILE BACK INSIDE!"
…
Some time pass after the exams with the teenagers finally being released to go home. Among them, Izuku can be found with a worried expression on his face. With only thirty points, he worries if that's enough to join UA's hero courses. He probably should have also subscribed to general studies just in case.
"Hey, hey wait!" The green boy stops in his tracks to look over and spot a girl coming his way. She is the same chestnut haired girl who he saved and ended up saving him. As she comes closer, he takes note of her pink cheeks.
"Oh, uh…" Izuku freezes up as she gets closer. 'Okay, calm down. She probably wants to see someone else.'
To his horror, she stops in front of him. "Phew. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to catch up with you."
'Oh no, she did want me! Just calm down, and talk to her like a normal being.'
"I never got to thank you properly for helping me out that time," she tells him, giving a proper bow.
"No, it's okay. You saved me back then too," he replies, rubbing his hair sheepishly.
"I think you did more though. But, I'm getting ahead of myself. I hope you make it in."
"I hope you do too." The girl then runs off waving to him.
Izuku watches as she runs away, and exhales a large amount of air. "Phew."
"Hey, Deku!" Once again getting a heart attack, Izuku turns around to see Bakugo storming after him. After a gross cough, he shouts, "Trying to leave without me?"
"Not at all, Kacchan. How'd you do?" The two walk away heading for home.
"87 points, bitch! What'd you get?"
"Lost count," is what he says, which is his means of dancing around the truth.
…
The next week, Izuku sits at home worried endlessly about what would become of him. Based on his own calculations he made it through the written test, but the 30 score worries him greatly. He needs to know. Even as he sits in the living room pacing back and forth.
"Izuku!" stutters his mother as she comes up to him. She holds out a letter to him, addressed from UA. "It's here!"
Immediately, Izuku takes the letter runs back to his room, passing by Hisashi exiting the bathroom. Inko comes to the door and awaits the results.
Inside his bedroom, Izuku sits on his bed with the letter in hand. "Here it is. Do or die time." He opens the letter, and from it pops a hologram. "Good day, Izuku Midoriya."
The hologram shows an unkempt man standing in front of him. Though as Izuku examines the person, he finds that he can't really recall who he is. At the same time, he seems familiar.
"So, let's get down to it; I got a hundred more of these to do." He sounds incredibly bored and dead outside. "You passed the written test with a score of 80 percent, and you received 41 villain points. This combination alone is enough to get you in, but we don't stop there. Remember when you controlled the Zero Pointer to save people? That earned you rescue points?"
This surprises the emerald protagonist. "Rescue points?"
"Yeah. We don't tell people about it, because we shouldn't have to. If you're going to be a hero, rescuing others must come as second nature. So we included it in as part of a secret means of passing this exam. And because of your outlandish rescues, you have earned 69 rescue points, and that makes you the highest scorer with 110 points and puts you in Class 1-A." Relief and joy exit Izuku's eyes as a condensed liquid.
"Welcome to your hero academia." The hologram then disperses.
"My Hero Academia…" He's done it. He's well on his way to becoming the greatest hero.
He pushes the door open, where his mother and father await. Here he shouts loudly, "I'M IN!"
Elsewhere…
"Hey, Katsuki! It came in!" Bakugo looks down the steps before rushing over with bloodshot eyes.
"Gimme!" He takes the letter and almost rips it open. But his mother, Mitsuki Bakugo, pulls it out of his hand. "Hey!"
"Slow the fuck down, brat! You're gonna rip it." She then opens it properly, and a hologram appears. From it appears another teacher from UA, a woman this time. She stands tall and proudly dressed in a dominatrix outfit equip with a whip.
"Aw, I get the fiery one. I prefer the secret S types… huh, we're recording? Oh!" She straightens herself. "Hello there, Katsuki Bakugo,"
"Oh great, it's Kayama," Mitsuki says in a spiteful way.
"Oh, the sleepy one."
"Thank you for applying to UA. With your effective score in the written exam, the dealbreaker would have to be the practical test. Luckily for you, 87 villain points aren't something to scoff at." She swipes her hand across her hair and stares down at nothing seductively.
'Stop seducing my child, you harlot!'
"Does that mean I'm in?"
"But, there's more to your story. Because of what you did here-" Kayama points to the side, which shows a video feed.
Here, it shows Bakugo going nutso blasting as many robots as he could find. His surroundings are mostly clouded by black smoke created by either his explosions or what he exploded. He stops for a bit dropping to a knee as he clutches his right hand. It twitches painfully. "No stopping yet."
"Look out!" Bakugo hears, turning just in time to dodge a 2 pointer trying to hit him from behind. He wrestles the machine to the ground and glances at who just warned him, spotting a girl with orange hair wrapped to the left of her head in a ponytail.
He notes something coming out of the smoke behind her and takes action immediately. "Hey, side ponytail! Duck!" He grips the machine tightly and spins, using explosives to propel his spin. This concludes with a final spin in where he throws the robot over her crouching body. This collides with a three-pointer that almost got her.
The video concludes here, with Bakugo twitching at the eye. 'They were recording that!?'
"Aw, isn't that sweet? You rescued the girl who helped you out!" Mitsuki pinches his cheek.
"Get off, hag!" This earns him a slap in the head.
"Because of what you did, you have earned a total of 13 rescue points, giving you a score of 100 points and tying you with one other accepted. I hope you take into mind what you can do by rescuing as well as fighting. Welcome to your hero academia, Katsuki Bakugo. I'll see you in Class 1-A." She gives him a wink, and then the hologram disperses.
"OH FUCK YEAH! 100 POINTS! I AM IN, BABY-" His joy is cut short when he begins coughing again.
"Stop fucking yelling," yells his mother. "You'd think you'd know better after what happened with that villain that captured you!"
Wanda: That ends this chapter.
Julia: As much as I'd like to skip it, Lightz wants the effects the scene has with Izuku saving not only that girl there but other possible students and the inspiration that provides later down the line. If you can't understand at least that, go f-
Wanda: Mucky words like that are beyond you.
Julia: My apologies. What's in the next chapter?
Kei: Well Julia, next chapter will be the students moving into UA. Then it's the orientation ceremony, the assessment test, and introduction. Some people will be moved around.