Chapter 18: Shōnen Is Not Shōnen Without Timeskips
Nervously, Hitoshi tugged on his bandages. He rubbed his left arm, the one that had previously been cut when he and the others ended up in Hell. Tou-sama and Oji-chan (Lucas-ji-sama insisted that he is to be called "Oji-chan" and no one really had the heart to refuse) regrew it back but had purposely leaved a scar on the part where it has been tear off. A silent reminder of what had transpired. Now, he usually treat it as a fuel to grow better in each and every passing day.
He shaked his head out of his depressing thoughts. This is the day that he will take a major step on becoming a Pro-Hero (never a Hero, no. Hitoshi knew the difference. Being around his second father taught him many things and that is one of them. You don't get to be a Hero just because you graduate and received a licence. No, things doesn't work that way. No matter what the whole world tells you otherwise), he need all the focus that he could had to make through it.
He step through the gates of UA with one brave step. Amongst his many adopted siblings, Hitoshi is the only one that is applying to UA. All of them went to the school that Tou-sama builded, many of them wondered why he didn't want to attend the Foster School for All Entities and had chosen to attend UA instead.
Quite frankly, Hitoshi would love to attend with them there. He really would. But…
He made a promise to his father, the one who sired him, that he will attend UA and become a Hero (not just a Pro) when he grew up. No matter what happens, he will be.
Tou-sama understand his reasoning and had approved of him doing so. Oji-chan even suggested that he take the recommendation exams. Just like Matatabi-nii and Shirako-nii did before.
Hitoshi politely and adamantly refused the offer. He'll enter the Hero course the normal way, on his own terms, just like anyone else that doesn't have the backings that he had would do. Just like how he would do if he were to try and take the exam if he hasn't ended up in the orphanage and if his late father was alive. Tou-sama and Oji-chan smiled and ruffled his hair after that, telling him how proud they are at him.
"Hitoshi!!" Hitoshi turn around to face the source of the voice.
He saw Mashirao waving his hand at him with his tail also wagging unconsciously behind him that honestly remind Hitoshi a tail of that of a dog sometimes.
Mashirao didn't knew that of course.
…nor he's planning on telling him about it for that matter.
The two of them walked inside of the auditorium and found that they had seats next to each other. Not surprising, considering that the two of them came from the same School.
"I wonder what the exam will be…"
"Ienari-san said that his test was about beating up robots but we can't be sure…"
UA do switch their exams every year after all, who's to say whether they would use robots or a round robin? Or better yet, an obstacle course?
They didn't have much time to catch up and talk to each other that much because the speaker already stepped in to the podium when they seated.
Though many were confused when someone in all black, who looked like they hadn't sleep an entire week step up to the podium.
He had slight stubble on his chin, thick eye bags, bandaged looking scarf on his neck and a slightly short messy black hair that looked as though it never met a comb on it's entire life.
Hitoshi was taken back for a moment. Because even though he had a different hair style, there's no way that Hitoshi couldn't identify the capture weapon on his neck that is worn like a scarf and the yellow goggles peeking underneath of it.
…that said, Ienari-san and Oji-chan said that Present Mic always act as the speaker in UA Entrance exam. So why on Earth is Eraserhead of all people is standing at the podium?
"If any of you are here just to play games and fool around, then you better get out of this building right now immediately." The man, that looked as though he is a hobo, stated flatly in to the podium.
He look really uninterested and so done with life and gave them the most deadest (if that was even a word) stare that they had ever seen. Everyone grew more tense and silent, more than they're already are the moment that he had spoken in front of them.
"This is the Hero course exam." Everyone sweat at the sudden pressure that the man exudes. It's thick, it's heavy, and they felt like drowning.
"Only the toughest of the toughest as well as the most skilled and talented are allowed to pass. And if any of you think that your Quirks will be enough to let you pass, then you are in for a serious trouble." He stared at the applicants with narrowed eyes as the majority of the teens take a collective gulp.
'Scary…'
"Now pay attention, because I don't like repeating my self twice." He pressed a button and the screen flashed images and information about the exam.
"All of you here will be running around in the faux city district with ten minutes as your assigned time limit. You are allowed to bring anything you like in to the physical exams given that you have signed the forms provided to you by UA regarding support items. After the presentation, everyone will gather to the designated area, understand?"
"…" Everyone is silent, to tense to give an answer. Eraserhead narrowed his eyes as he glared at them with his Quirk activated. His eyes glowing in sinister red as his messy hair and the capture weapon around his neck began to float menacingly.
"Do all of you understand?" He asked his question once again as the examinees flinched collectively.
"Ha-HAI!" Everyone squeak back in response. Honestly, everyone is to tense about the exam that they are to tense to spoke a word. The scary looking hobo speaking in front of them didn't really helped in that matter. They actually freaked out when the man's eyes suddenly turned red and glared at them as though they killed his kitten or something.
"As you can all see on your hand outs, we will be sprinkling a large number of "villains" over the battle field." He pressed another button and pictures of multiple robots in different shapes appeared on the screen.
"Immobilize as many villains as you can in anyway you can. Your goal is to rack up the highest scores that you can given the limited amount of time."
He narrowed his eyes at them, "Don't even think about attacking any other competitors, or any sort of things that are underhanded. It should go without saying that it is against the rules. Try it and there would be consequences."
Everyone gulped nervously at the threat. A few seconds later, an incredibly brave (or stupid, they couldn't really tell.) teen raised their hands. "Excuse me, may I ask a question?!"
Eraserhead deadpanned, "Well, you already did, but go on."
"Thank you! In the hand out, there are clearly more types of villains listed!"
The examinee hold up the print out to him, "Such an error would be the height of embarrassment for a top-tier national academy of Yuuei's caliber! The reason we are seated here today is because we seek guidance in the path of becoming nodel heroes!"
Eraserhead gave him a blank stare and looked as though he's been wondering why he's here and what had he done in his past life to deserve this, "If you had bothered to listened and let me finished, you would have known that the specific types of faux villains that your talking about on the prints out is worth Zero points. If one of my colleagues is here, he'll call them "arena traps" like that entity in game that will stomp and crush you without mercy. Something similar is in the arena among other things. They are gimmicks that would go on a rampage when crowded."
"I-I see… like one of those stage hazards that you slip through and avoid."
"Is it me or it's becoming more and more of a game?"
"Thank you very much! I apologize for being rude!"
"Well, enough of that. Unfortunately as a staff of UA, I'm obligated to give you all with a presentation on the "school precepts" of this academy."
Adjusting his scarf, he started. "As a certain "Hero" by the name Napoleon Bonaparte once said; 'A true Hero never stops overcoming the misfortunes of life'."
A grin full of teeth appeared on his face that will forever be etched to everyone's mind and will appear in their dreams as a nightmare whenever they sleep, "So suffer, and surpass your limit."
Just when they thought that it couldn't be any more scary, it did just that when his smile widened more and his blood shot eyes glowed red with his hair and capture weapon began floating and wiggled in a way that could only seems to promised pain.
"Go beyond, Plus Ultra!"
'Shit'
"And please do remember that even by chance that you pass due to some miracle, if you failed to meet our expectations at the first day of school…" he trailed off and everyone felt the massive dread looming over them in the horizon.
"Let's just say there will be less students in Hero course after the first day."
Everyone stared at him in horror as the very atmosphere became even more thick and oppressing as it was before due to the high standards and expectations set in front of them.
'This isn't a school! This isn't even an test!' Everyone thought in dread and horror.
'This… This is execution!!'
Standing amongst the crowd of hopeful applications, Hitoshi adjusted his bandages that is wrapped on his arms and underneath his black shirt. He exhaled, regulating his own breathing. He rubbed his left elbow, feeling his anxiety bubbling inside of him.
…damn, he knew he shouldn't have taken Tou-sama's Death Wish coffee when he was on the car earlier when Endō-san drive him to UA.
He stretched a little and pulled out a kunai, twirling it on his fingers in preparation and to somehow ease his nervousness. He'll be fine, he had trained for this for so long. There's no way that he'll fluke this. With all the things that he learned from Tou-sama and Oji-chan, there's no way that he'll fail.
There's no way that he'll disappoint them like that.
He exhaled once again, and gripped on the kunai tightly.
He'll do this. He'll pass and—
"AAAAAAAND GO!!!!"
He bolted to the gates, not caring if they're still not fully open, leaving behind his fellow examinees. He scaled the wall and by passed the gate it self and jump over the building roofs and lamp post across the faux city.
He could vaguely hear Present Mic telling the others that there are no count down on real life. He tune out their reactions and focused in to the exams.
With a small flare of his Qi, he channel them in to the bandages covering his arm as it immediately come to life and uncoiled from his arms on his will. He swinged himself on them and did a somersault and latched his other bandage from his right arm in to the flying robot in the sky and stabbed it with a kunai. He unlatched, watching as the air type robot crashed down to the harsh and unforgiving, rough concrete.
That's three points.
He fling multiple kunais to the approaching land bound two pointer and punched the one pointer sneaking behind him.
At this point, the other examinee had already catched up to him and had started taking down robots. He flinged his bandage upwards on the building and had started to move once again, swinging and moving across the Fake city, destroying multiple robots on the way. He'll admit, the flying robots are more annoying than what he'll preferred them to be with how they always tried to either skydive on him from above or sniping him from afar. As well as those robots that dig underground and attacked from bellow him.
Though what's really troublesome was those human shaped robots that talked back and specialized in stealth and close combat. There not overly strong, and Hitoshi could list a few gaps in their fighting style and he could clearly tell that they are set to easy settings or something or they would be a lot more stronger than they currently are. He could deal with them just fine but they are really troublesome. They're annoying, sassy bitches and his Quirk doesn't work on them. They're much more annoying considering that they didn't give any points when defeated.
They're only a few of them thankfully, he can't imagine the other examinee doing well against those sassy Robin Zero Pointers that called humans a "lowly life forms without any spare parts" and "Delusioned fools who dream comics about Heroes and Villains" as well as "This is why Aliens doesn't visit this planet more often than they do". Hitoshi can't imagine that going well for anyone involve.
Though those monologues does sounded awfully familiar.
He stabbed a hole in to the chest of the Robin Zero pointer in front of him, his whole arm laced with qi and elbows deep inside it's chest cavity. He pull out from the robot and shrugged his arm.
"[…I hate my existence.]" It grumbled before falling and shutting down.
He stared at the fallen Humanoid robot at his feet, examining the creator's choice of design. Now that he think about it, not only that they sounded familiar but they also look familiar to him as well. It's like he had already seen them somewhere.
He paused and stared at the broken robot longer as he realize why they look and sounded so familiar to him.
He cursed.
"Oh Fuck, Oji-chan designed this things doesn't he?"
(At the underground laboratory under the Satooya mansion, Lucas cackled maniacally at the thought of the reactions of everyone who would see the robots that he made for the UA entrance exam, Shiranui pinched the bridge of his nose as he sighed and Binge eat marshmallows while Mikumo is just laughing fondly as he eagerly revelled at the chaos happening on screen.
Staring at the monitor, watching the events of the exam on their own via spy drones and satellite footages, Lucas continue cackling, "BWUAHAHAHAH!!! SUFFER BRATS! SUFFER!"
…it turns out that being one of the major share holder of U.A. and being friends with it's principal had it's perks)
On his perch, Hitoshi felt a shiver run down his spine. It felt like there's a bunch of Super Sadists having a viewing party somewhere for some reason. He shaked his head clear from the thought, he doesn't need distraction (a terrifying one at that) on a important exam. He turn to the other participants and saw multiple floating, land bound robots in the air before they all fell down and be destroyed with the power of gravity.
He whistled.
What a cool Quirk, whoever owns it must have racked up so many points already. He glance to the other sites from his current perch.
He wonder how Mashirao is faring.
"And you said that you don't want to host and yet, I'm pretty sure that enjoyed scaring those kids at the auditorium before the exam."
"…I had no idea what you're talking about." Aizawa said, having a deadpan expression on his face.
Midnight take a good look at Aizawa's hair and whistle, "Anyway, your knew hairdo actually suits you. I love it."
True, Aizawa's normally long and shaggy hair is now shorter, which actually looks good on him. If he ever bothered to shave his facial hairs, many would have found him attractive.
The other teachers paused as they felt dread wash over them, "…pease tell us that the barber that cut your hair is still alive."
"RIP for the barber."
Aizawa twitched, "…shut up, no one is dead." Though looking back now, how he wished he did in that woman who did this to his hair. Stupid Satooya staff.
Everyone sighed in relief.
"…yet."
Everyone sweatdropped.
"…though, I must say, this year's exam seems really hard. It feels like an overkill to be honest."
Staring at the footage, everyone agreed. It did seems like an overkill with how varied the robots roaming around. Robots that specialized in digging, flying, stealth as well as Videogame Boss like Zero pointers and small humanoid, close combat Zero point robots isn't really something that a typical untrained, impulsive teenagers could deal with. Heck, they're not even sure if Pros could deal with them.
Nedzu sipped on his tea, "Well, it's only appropriate. With the threats around getting more and more powerful, and now not being limited to villains but to creatures of unknown origins popping out left and right, the heroes of the future need to up their game. This is why I personally asked the Satooyas to help device the entrance exam this year."
Everyone whipped their heads to the principal at the news.
He did what?
"You asked the Satooyas for the exams?"
"I play chess and have tea with Satooya-san every week or so, so I figured, why not? He's part of the board and have the necessary means to make the exam more challenging."
"I think you just made the exam more impossible to pass more than normal."
Nedzu chirped cheerfully, putting down his tea cup as he stare at the screen, "Now, don't be like that. It's true that the exam became a little more harder than normal, but it still hold the same essence."
"We literally just saw some girl get thrown away and—huh?"
Everyone paused when one of the humanoid zero pointer robots saved the girl from harm before sinking back to the shadows and tailed more examinees.
"…is it me or did that specific type of Zero pointer just saved the girl from danger?"
"Of course! Did you think that Satooya-san and I won't put some precautions? The Robin Zero Pointers are different from others as they tailed students and do not attack unprovoked. In addition—"
"They also prevent the exam takers from being harmed severely."
"Correct! It was a wonderful idea! One that we would not normally think of on our own."
Powerloader lean closer to the livefeed and grunted, "…I've checked those robots before the exams and they're all state of the art. At first, I thought that it was Hakui that made them due to him being a Satooya but it turns out that he didn't. Whoever made them is a genius."
Creating a network of robots capable of communicating with each others and act accordingly on different tasks in hands deserve a praise. Sure, robots these days commonly work in a network much like the ones at I-Island, and the UA bots has A.I.s inside of them, having a network of advance A.I.s that are capable of communicating, learning and solving complicated problems on this scale however are nothing sort of work of a genius. Not mentioning the fact that they are all self aware and understand the very concept of their own existence as Mechanical Entities, Powerloader can't help but admire and be wary of whoever created these robots.
Self learning and self aware sentient robots are to be feared after all.
"You can thank Satooya-san's cousin for that. He made them apparently."
Everyone blanked out for a moment at the information, "…cousin? You mean the Man who could spawn Eldritch Monstrosity and drive people to insanity, the one capable of taking All Might's seat as number one, the one who is aptly called literal 'Demon God' has a cousin?" What kind of monster would that even be? If Majin could spawn things that are Crimes Against Nature willy-nilly just like that with a snap of his fingers, then what would his cousin could do?
"Yes, it was really a surprise for me as well when I found out. Much more when I found that the two of them are on the same level of skills and intellect."
What have they unleashed? One super genius is already too much, two is pushing it, three is just… no. No. They did not need an alliance of mad geniuses with questionable sanity. The world may not survive the end result. No.
Just… no.
"It was fascinating watching a fourteen year old fight me in chess and put me on a stalemate. I wonder if he has more relatives like that that he hasn't introduced yet."
Everyone stared at him in horror.
Someone manage to stalemate Nedzu. A fourteen year old manage to stalemate Nedzu.
Nedzu, the one probably the smartest being on the planet has been put on a stalemate.
Oh God.
Cackling, Nedzu turn to the control panel and grinned, "Now for the main event!"
He pressed a bright red switch and everything fell in to chaos.
And Nedzu just laughed as he watched everything fall in to ruins.
Far away from U.A., Lucas and Mikumo did the same.
Still somewhat in denial, Shiranui tried to fight the urge to join cackling like a super sadist that he secretly is.
…needless to say, he failed and immediately join the three in their manic laughter.
Katsuki soar through the air like a heat seeking missile that's equipped with it's own artillery system.
He grinned savagely as he destroy multiple Flying Three Pointers without even batting an eye as he zoom across the Fake city. He felt a slight jolt at the back of his head then points a finger in a gun pose just a little down below.
"[Blast Piercing]!!"
A compressed explosion shot down from his finger like a sniper bullet towards the robot below that is about to sneak up on some dumb fuck and destroyed it cause the fucker weren't focusing on their surroundings.
The dumb fuck was surprised and turn to his flying form and let out a loud thank you.
He screeched, "I DIDN'T DO SHIT FOR YOU, YOU FUCKER!!! I DID IT FOR THE POINTS! LOOK AT YOUR SURROUNDINGS BETTER NEXT TIME!"
"THANKS BRO!"
"I SAID FUCK OFF, DAMMIT!"
He continue flying around and saw a clump of land bound robots on the ground. He grinned and Sky dive at the flock with at a impressive speed.
"[MORTAR IMPACT]!!!"
He dropped on the robots as a loud explosion shooked the ground and destroyed every single one of them. He wiped his sweat from his forehead as smoke and dust covered the entire place. It cleared out and revealed a large crater with him at the center of it and the broken remains of the robots scattered around him at the blast radius.
He looked around and stared at the broken remains and all of the gawking fodders around him. He clicked his tongue at them.
"Extras."
These robots are too weak for his tastes, too fragile. There's no way that he can be content with these fodders. He need something strong and resilient to test his skill to. To test the result of all of his training.
Moments later, he felt another jolt, much more stronger than the last, and as if hearing his previous thoughts, the ground began to shake and the buildings began to fall down like dominos. From underground, something gigantic rises.
Everybody covered their ears as it let out a metallic sounding screech. It rose from below, knocking down buildings in its wake. It stretched it's metallic wings, standing on four metal legs with it's tail swishing in the background. It's eight red lens for a eyes glowed on it's face as it opened it's metal beak and screeched.
"[I AM AVIANEX.]"
It turn it's eight glowing red eyes and examine all the humans running at the ground.
"[AND ALL HUMANS SHALL PERISH.]"
Everyone screamed.
They run away from the giant four legged bird robot of destruction. Far away from the robot who stretched it's wings and began to fly.
"OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD—!"
"RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!"
"HOW DOES SOMETHING THAT LARGE CAN EVEN FLY!!!?"
"HOLY SHIT! IT JUST DROPPED A GODDAMN BOMB FROM IT'S ASS LIKE SOME GIANT ASS PIGEON!!!"
"SCREW THIS TEST! I'MMA OUTTA HERE!"
"I KNEW I SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO THAT HOBO FROM THE ORIENTATION EARLIER AND WALKED OUT."
"WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!"
Everyone run, the test completely forgotten, scattering like ants on a ant hill flooded with water.
Still inside the crater of his own creation, Katsuki stared at the giant robotic bird flying in the sky, dropping bombs from it's ass like it's no ones business. He knew he had asked for a challenge but what the fuck? A giant flying ass robot with swords for feathers and bombs for shits? What the fuck? Like, who the hell even designed this shit? And what kind of crack did they smoke when they thought of this?
(Still watching with Shiranui and Mikumo on the couch underground, Lucas sneezed.)
Shaking his own head at the ridiculousness, he climbed out his crater and shot to the sky with an accompanying explosion. A grin slowly creep in to his face as he pump explosion after explosion to fly towards the flying metal behemoth.
Red lightning pulse from his body, through his arms, drastically boosting his own Quirk and his travel speed.
As ridiculous as the behemoth is, a challenge is a challenge.
One, that Katsuki wouldn't miss in any other way.
"[TSAR BOMBA—!"
Running across the fake city, Mashirao wield his Qigong enhanced black and yellow naginata* (the same one that Amehiko-san had given to him years ago) and cleave through multiple faux villains like a hot knife to butter.
Seriously, this exams are crazy. There's so many types of robots running, digging, and flying around the city. The only type missing is a water type robot and that only seems to be because they're in a city setting with no water to put them in. If they was water around, Mashirao is sure that they would have put robots that swim in water already.
Sensing an impending attack about to happen, he performed a pirouette and smash the three land bound one pointers that tried cornering him with his tail before using the advancing land bound two pointer just behind the now broken one pointers as a platform to jump and attack the flying one pointer that is on it's way on skydiving towards him with his naginata.
He landed to the ground on his feet that is reinforced with Qi.
He exhaled and steadied his breathing, (breathing that is important when performing Qigong) before stumbling when the ground suddenly began to shake.
The buildings around the city began to fall as the earth continue trembling. Mashirao immediately panicked when he saw a large debris of the falling building about fall on one of his fellow examinee. He enhance himself with Qigong and was about to move to save the fellow from the falling rock when a humanoid robot, a Robin Zero pointer beat him to it and save the examinee.
"…ookay." Looks like he's worried for nothing then. He did wondered why those Robin Zero pointers never attacked him, they just keep on following him and the others but not attacking, not unless provoked.
Now he know.
He stumbled once again when another building fell down, he was about to walk away when a massive metallic claw rise up from the ground.
"What the…"
Another claw rise up and after knocking down a few building, a Titanic star nosed mole robot with eight glowing red dots on it's star like nose emerged from underground. It screeched, making everyone clamped their hands on their ears and—
"[LONG LIVE THE MOLE PEOPLE.]"
What the fuck.
It move, sending tremors and debris of rocks flying everywhere everytime it does.
From the very same hole that it emerged from, smaller humanoid mole like robots (which he identified as Digger Robots ranging from one to three pointers, the ones that would suddenly dig under you and attack from your blind spot) came out. They came on bulk and scattered, finding examinees to torment.
Those who haven't run from the display earlier definitely did after that.
…well, who wouldn't? When there's an army of bulking, humanoid mole robots and a Kaijuu size star nose mole robot gunning after you?
He was about to run to the opposite direction because like Hell that he's going to fight a Kaijuu size robot (He already has enough trauma from the Crow Witch and he's not adding more by fighting a giant star nose mole), when he saw a blond facing at the Giant robot with both of his hands in a thumbs up with a… with a… sorry if he sounded rude but, he's facing the robot with a very dumb looking expression on his face.
Concerned, Mashirao called him and told him to runaway. The only response that he get from him is "Hooo! A giant mouse, Wheeeey!" and a thumbs up.
"…" for some reason, Mashirao had the urge to face palm at the situation.
He had a half of mind to just leave the other teen alone since those Robin Zero pointers would just save him if he become endangered like they did with the other examinees earlier.
But… if he did that, what kind of Hero would he be if he just leave someone in need of help when he could perfectly help them out?
With the decision formed, Mashirao stashed away his Naginata and run towards the boy using his tail as a kick starter and with his legs being enhanced by Qi for faster speed.
He skidded to a stop when the boy suddenly discharge large amount of electricity. It was so bright that Mashirao had to pull out a pair of sunglasses from his Qi space to prevent being blinded by the flashes. The boy, still having the same expression on his face, pulled out what it seems to be a coin and flip it in to the air. The discharge of electricity intensified but seems to focus on him and in to his now stretched hand then—
"[Wheeeeeeeeey—l Guuhn]—!!"
There was a bright beam of yellow and the defening sound of electricity. There is so much heat and the beam hit the robot.
After the massive light display, the giant Star nosed mole fell down with a resounding crash. It's head missing with the stump smoking and partially melted.
Mashirao stared, from the now headless behemoth and to the yellow haired boy with a lightning mark on his hair. He could smell the of ozone in the air, sparks could be seen still popping around the teen and the dumb expression on his face became even more dumber than what it look like before.
"Wheeeeey…"
What the fuck?
There was a crash and Mashirao turn to the wreckage. The humanoid mole robots advances, much more faster and menacing than they were before after the fall of the Star Nosed Zero pointer.
ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ
…for some reason, he could also see Jojo onomatopoeias floating in the air and Boss music playing in the background.
ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ
One Three pointer mole robot look at him and the electric teen with its glowing red lens as eyes before brandishing a menacing and deadly looking drill emerging from it's right hand in to their direction, "[The next thing that you'll say is 'Oh crap']"
"Oh crap." Wait what? Di… did that bots just made a Jojo reference? What the fuck?
The robot's red eye lenses glowed intensifies, the drill in it's hand started to spin at high speed, "[You humans will pay for this transgression.]"
"Crapcrapcrap—!"
He pulled out rubber gloves from his Qi space and grabbed the other blond with electricity Quirk and run away.
Behind him, the robot howled, "[Ho? You're running away?! Even though you know that it's hopeless, you still runaway?!]"
"You'll beat the crap out of me if I get closer!!"
After the exams, Hitoshi felt like dying.
"So, how's the test?"
Hitoshi look at his foster siblings with a dead look on his eyes. Some of his hair is singed along with the hem of his clothes.
He's also somewhat twitchy for some reason.
"…you don't wanna know."
"…" his siblings stared, examining his appearance before nodding in agreement.
"…are you okay at least?" They can't help but ask, Hitoshi did look like he came from a warzone after all.
Hitoshi look at them like they just sprouted another head, "Do I look like okay to you?" He deadpanned.
"…"
Hitoshi stare at the wall with a blank expression as if he's having flashbacks, "It was war. There was gunshots, missiles, collapsing building and fire. Lots and lots of fire."
"…"
"There's so many robots everywhere. On the land, on the sky, fuck, even underground. Then there's this giant robot that knocked down buildings like they're nothing but cheap props in a Power ranger production set inside a studio."
"…"
"It easily dwarfed the buildings around it. It has eight menacing dot like eyes that glows red as it destroy buildings after buildings, it has cannons on it's shoulders that looked like it could shoot out missiles but turns out that it actually shoots out fire. Lots and lots of fire. And did I mentioned fire? Because everything is on fucking fire."
Suddenly, they felt like going to the school that their adopted father built is one of the greatest decision that they made in their lives. Just what kind of torture is the U.A. entrance exams?
"It didn't helped knowing that Oji-chan made those robots himself. I'm pretty sure that Tou-sama also helped the principal in creating the whole exam."
No wonder they could hear Oji-chan and Tou-sama cackling underground earlier.
One girl stared at Hitoshi for a moment before snorting, "That's what you get for drinking Tou-sama's Death Wish coffee before a nerve wacking exams."
Hitoshi felt his eye twitched violently at the remark.
It was a sunny day.
Hitoshi stared in front of a rock with the lastname 'Shinsou' engraved on it. Tou-sama and Oji-chan is standing beside him, holding an umbrella over their heads. Blocking the sun's rays from hitting them.
He kneeled down, Staring at his dead father's grave at eye level, the U.A. letter settling on his hands.
It's been a week since the entrance exam and the results are already in his hands, handed to him by Tou-sama personally. Before he could go to his room and check the results however, Tou-sama caught him by the back of his shirt and dragged him to Oji-chan's red Ferrari with Endō-san at the driver's seat. They'll visit someone important, they said before tossing him inside.
…he didn't expect that they'll bring him to his father's grave though.
His hand trembled, staring at his father's tomb, the letter in his hand somehow felt like it weigh a ton all of a sudden. His palms are sweating, his sweat felt cold and he could feel a wave of mild nausea wash over him. What if he didn't pass? Sure, he destroyed so many robots but that can't be as easy as that right? There's got to be something more to the test than meets the eye. "Look underneath the underneath", Kakashi once said, and with Tou-sama and Oji-chan's involvement in making the test, there should be hidden meanings behind it right?
He could feel his hands trembing more than before, the envelope containing the U.A. letter crumpling over his hold. What if he missed something important? What if he missed the true meaning of the test? What if it wasn't just about destroying robots? What if—!
He paused, feeling a gentle hand over his head, stroking it in a soothing manner that he could felt his panic slowly leaving him.
He look at his adoptive father as the Man gave him a soft smile.
"It's okay, take your time."
Feeling a lot more better than before, Hitoshi stared at the crumpled envelope in his hand. He then turn to his father's grave before returning his eyes to the letter.
Gathering his resolve, Hitoshi opened the letter.
"Testing, 1 2… AM I ON SCREEN?!"
Katsuki stared at the hologram, wondering why the fuck All Might is talking to him in the hologram that was supposed to be his acceptance letter from UA.
"IT TOOK SOME TIME TO JUMP THROUGH SOME HOOPS AND GET IT DONE, SO FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO CONTACT YOU SOONER—" He was cut off mid sentence by a cough before continuing, "THAT'S MY BAD!!"
Katsuki stared.
All Might flash him with his signature grin, "I GUESS WE'LL BE SEEING A LOT MORE OF EACH OTHER, SINCE IT'S BEEN DECIDED THAT I'LL WORK AT YUUEI, NOW, THAT IS."
All Might is going to what at UA?
"WHAT'S THAT CITIZEN!? TURN TO THE CAMERA TWO!? I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF TELLING THE BOY SOMETHING IMPORTANT… WE'LL FIX IT IN POST!? AH, ALRIGHT, THAT WORKS."
Why are the fuck are they chatting about camera angles in the middle of his acceptance letter!? Couldn't they do that behind the camera or something!?
"ANYWAY, YOU, YOUNG MAN, HAVE PASSED THE WRITTEN EXAMS WITH FLYING COLORS, WHILE YOUR PERFORMANCE AT THE PRACTICALS ARE WORTHY OF PRAISE, WITH YOU EARNING NINETY FIVE VILLAIN POINTS! AND I MUST SAY, WHAT YOU DID WITH THE AVIAN ZERO POINTER IS TRULY IMPRESSIVE."
Hearing his total points and the Number One Hero praising him, Katsuki grinned.
"BUT THAT'S NOT ALL! AS THIS IS A SCHOOL BUILT TO TEACH FUTURE HEROES, IT'S ONLY NATURAL THAT WE WOULD ALSO HAD RESCUE POINTS!"
Katsuki paused at that, rescue points?
"EARNING TWENTY FIVE RESCUE POINTS, YOU GAINED A TOTAL OF ONE HUNDRED TWENTY POINTS! EFFECTIVELY BREAKING MY OWN RECORD AS WELL AS THE PRO-HERO GIOVANE ASTRO'S* ONE HUNDRED POINTS!"
Giovane Astro, that's the Quirkless Hero doesn't it? Last thing he heard from him, he's been alternating between being a day time Hero and the underground. Not surprising with his connection to the Satooyas. That hidden village are a bunch of crazy people. People we're rioting on his debut because he could summon neon green electricity and gain super human strengthall of a sudden, calling him a fake for pretending to be Quirkless. Which in turns out to be not the case. The Majin claimed it to be some kind of martial arts which obviously no one believed. Well, no one did until they revealed something called [Qigong] and presented multiple people displaying powers different from their Quirks.
Everyone went in to an uproar about the revelation that quirks aren't the only superpowers available.
It became more crazier when it was revealed that the Vigilante Azrael is a member of the Satooyas and had been the one who trained the newly minted Pro-Hero. Katsuki rolled his eyes at them. It was obvious that the vigilante had connection with Majin, many had already voiced out their similarities ranging from the mask and their mannerisms. Why everyone is still surprise when they announced it is just dumb.
Anyway, enough of that. What's important is—holy shit, he just surpassed All Might's record. He could die happy—fuck wait, no. He can't be a Hero if he's dead.
"CONGRATULATIONS! YOU PASSED, BAKUGOU SHOUNEN! WELCOME! TO YOUR HERO ACADEMIA!!"
The hologram fizzled out after the message, leaving Katsuki alone in his room.
He's in. Finally. He's going to be a Hero, the greatest that there is. Greater than All Might.
His eyes fell to the note pinned to the wall on his desk.
Midoriya Izuku, Hero name: Deku! The one who gave his all!
"Soon nerd." He said to the air, not expecting an answer.
"…Soon."
A/N:
Words: more than 6700
I gave Shinsou capture weapon due to the manga but with a twist that he had his capture weapon wrapped around his arms and underneath his shirt unlike Eraserhead who wear his own capture weapon like a scarf. However, it's already too late when I realized that I had turned shinsou in to a Spiderman ninja with mind controlling powers.
Bakugou is more powerful here than in canon and yes, Kaminari just used a rail gun in true level 5 esper, Misaka Mikoto, fashion.
Also, Aizawa with short hair. Because, why not? I haven't read anyone try so why not be first?
Naginata - japanese halberd, long sword.
Giovane Astro - Italian word that can be roughly translated in to "Young Star".
Anyway,
Thanks for reading, Favorite. Follow. Review. Schwarz out.