Episode 1: Chapter 1

Disclaimer: I do not own Arpeggio of Blue Steel, nor do I own My Hero Academia. None of the characters belong to me either. I only own the plot of this fanfiction.

"Grandpa, what ship is that?" Izumi asked, holding hands with her grandfather. Currently, the duo was located near Yokosuka Shipyard, amongst the museum located in the area. Being 3 years old, Izumi was naturally curious about the world around her, soaking up whatever knowledge she learned like a sponge. "Izumi, my dear. That is a shrunk down version of the biggest ship Japan had, the Yamato."

"Why is it called the biggest battleship?" Izumi asked.

"It is known as the biggest World War 2 battleship due to its length and width, bigger than any of the warships of its time. A pity it got sunk by the Allied forces." replied Izumi's grandfather. Izumi's grandfather is a WWII veteran, and the current guardian of Izumi. Izumi lost both her parents to a villain attack when she was just 2 months old, rescue heroes found Izumi miraculously covered in only dust, with no injuries on her. Sadly, both her parents perished in the villain attack when the building collapsed. Izumi now lives with her grandfather in the Niigata prefecture, in a Japanese-styled mansion located near the ocean.

"Do you think they'll rebuild Yamato again? It looks cool!" Izumi said, excitement coming from her very body itself. "The government probably won't rebuild her seeing how the cost is very, very high. But Izumi, you can command such a ship too, or be a hero that uses such ships. We will see when your birthday comes next year, when your quirk shows itself." Izumi's grandfather said. Izumi started bouncing with excitement at this point, since it was already the end of November and she had to wait only 8 months for her birthday. (Canon Izuku's birthday is July 15th).

-Time skip brought to you by Kirishima/Youtarou)—

"DEKU!" screamed a certain crass, loud, ego-fueled boy named Bakugou Katsuki. Knowing that her childhood bully is behind her, she turned around and said "Yes? Bakugou? Do you have a problem with my presence here?" "Of course I have a problem with you being here, you shouldn't be at this school you quirkless fuck!"

"I do have a quirk, I just have not used it in front of you. Stop using this fallacy as a excuse to try and anger me. Just because I have never used it in front of you, yet, does not mean that I do not have a quirk Bakugou." Izumi said exasperatedly, turning back and moving to the entrance of U.A University. She hated having to talk to Bakugou like he's a toddler. "It's as if he still lives in the past, living in his trauma. Hopefully it would be over soon, he had much more time than necessary for his trauma."

"Hey everyone! Gimme a 'Hey!' everyone!" 'screamed' Present Mic as he walked into the auditorium.

"…"

"Tough crowd huh. Well, it doesn't matter, I'm here to give you the briefing on the physical exam that you will take soon, you all have taken the written exam a few day ago, no? Well now it's the time for you all to use your quirks, your body, and your strategies to ensure your entrance into UA. As shown on the pamphlets that was given to all of you before this briefing, you will see that there are four types of enemies. The three general enemies you should be targeting are the one pointer, two pointer and three pointer robots. They scale in difficulty as the score given goes up, so watch yourself and know your limits!" said Present Mic as he moved along the slides.

"Sir I have a question!" said a certain sonic as he stood up.

"Go on, examinee 7111." Said Present Mic. "On the paper it is mentioned that there are four enemies, if it is intentional of you, then it isn't very honorable as the most prestigious hero school!" said Tenya Iida. Izumi knew that trouble would start at this rate, given how he was turning to Bakugou's direction, who was right beside her. Izumi decided to stand up and said "Please shut up about the 'fourth robot'. Just because Present Mic hasn't said it yet does not mean that he won't say it, be respectful to him at least, and wait for him to finish before raising questions. And before you say anything, remember that for every second you stay standing, Present Mic gets delayed from continuing his briefing."

"Now now, just sit down the both of you. And yes, I have not finished the briefing yet. Thank you examinee 7526. Examinee 7111, you will have use for her advice, now sit down the both of you." As Present Mic moved to the next slide, he explained "The fourth robot is what we examiners refer to as 'Arena Traps'. They have zero points, and have always been very durable, very strong, and will go wild in tight spaces. I do not recommend any of you taking it on, unless you are very sure that you can beat the robot. Even if you do beat the robot, remember that we will not issue points for you since it is the zero pointer after all." At this point, it seemed that Present Mic was about done with his briefing, so Izumi decided to start preparing for her trip to her exam site.

"Just before you all leave and go to the site, Napoleon Bonaparte once said this, a quote that us at UA use as our school quote. Remember the quote… PLUS ULTRA!" Present Mic screamed as he stood there, watching the examinees leave, one by one. "They will learn the truth of this exam, sooner or later." Murmured Present Mic as he left the auditorium.

Izumi, now in a tracksuit, started doing stretches as she waited for all the exam to start. She felt someone being nervous and turned around, seeing a girl being nervous. She stopped her stretches, and as she was moving over to help her with her nervousness, "Hey you, could you please not disturb that examinee?" said Tenya Iida. Izumi, fed up with all the bullshit from him, spun around and angrily said "Look, I was trying to calm her down, look at her body language and you can see that she is visibly nervous, I was about to try and calm her down but you had to stop me, make a commotion like you did in the auditorium. Could you at least observe the situation before acting? You massive idio-"

"AND START! Get moving!" screamed Present Mic as his face appeared on a screen above the entrance to the site. "Get moving! There are no countdowns in real life, and you should try and catch up to that examinee there! She has the right idea! PLUS ULTRA!" The examinees turned around, only to see that Izumi had rushed forward, a K2 assault rifle in her hands, with a ballistic vest strapped to her.

"Good thing I had brought it out earlier when Present mic was talking, I was lucky to have prepared this beforehand." Thought Izumi as she sprinted around, gunning any robot she can see. Moving around a corner, she saw a purple haired teenager trying to stab a robot with a metal pipe. Chuckling, she shot the robot and walked over to the teenager. "What's your name?" Izumi asked. "Shinsou, Hitoshi Shinsou, who are you?" replied Hitoshi. "I'm Izumi Midoriya, Hitoshi-san, I would suggest that you don't use that pipe, you won't get kills with it, take this gun instead." Said Izumi as she took out her Desert Eagle XIX, alongside any magazines she has.

"But it's your weapon, won't the point go to you? And how did you get a gun in Japan anyways?" asked Shinsou as he looked at the menacing weapon.

"It's my quirk, and don't worry, for now it will be your weapon. If you're worried about the weapon, the weapon will disappear when the exam is over. I'm going to get more kills, it was nice meeting you Hitoshi-san" said Izumi as she started running out of the alley to get more kills.

As Izumi was running around and killing robots, she started wondering about Shinsou. "Why did he use a metal pipe? Is his quirk not combat-oriented?" Izumi pondered as she was running around a corner, facing a group of robots and a blonde boy that seemed to… sparkle? Izumi shouted "Hey you dumb robots, come after me instead you smooth circuit board fucks!" She did pick up a few things from Bakugou from their time in school. The robots all turned towards her, and the two three-pointers started shooting from their missile pods. Izumi started to shoot all the missiles, but she had to roll to dodge the two one-pointers. As she rolled, she sprayed the two one-pointers, discarded the empty magazine, and reloaded a fresh magazine into her rifle. As sh started spraying at the remaining three robots, she shouted to the blonde boy "Help me out here?" Izumi got her help, in the form of a laser shot through the heads of the three-pointers.

"So, what's your name?" Izumi asked the blonde boy as she walked over to the boy, reloading her rifle as she did so.

'Grazie, mademoiselle. I'm Yuga Aoyama, thank you for helping me with the group." Aoyama said as he got up from the ground.

"Good to see that you're fine, we should be helping each other as examinees taking this exam, now I'll get going to get more points. Good luck Yuga-san!" Izumi said as she started running around the exam site to get more robot kills and points.

"This year's examinees sure are interesting aren't they?" said a mouse…dog….bear?

"Sure is, Principal Nezu. I'm surprised to see a lot more combat-oriented quirks this time round." Said Aizawa, also known as Pro Hero Eraserhead. "There's defensive-quirks," The screen showed a teenager with a hardening quirk to protect himself from the missiles. "there's speed-based quirks," The screen then showed the speedster, Tenya Iida, clotheslining a one-pointer. "There's also attack-based quirks" The screen then shows Bakugou, blowing up a duo of one-pointers.

"This year will definitely be interesting, a pity we can only accept 36 students from here. We'll just have to see how the points end up getting allocated." The screen pans over to show Izumi, gunning down a robot with her rifle.

"It's about time, isn't it. Should we release the zero-pointer?" Asked Nemuri Kayama, aka Pro Hero Midnight. Nemuri turned around to look at Nezu, visually asking for confirmation.

"It is, and I will release it now." Said Nezu as he pressed a red button on the table that they were seated around.

"5 minutes left! Get moving you all, it's the final phase!" Present Mic's voice boomed over the speakers littered everywhere.

Izumi looked up, wondering if the "final phase" had any meaning to him, or if it was a clue for whatever is about to happen. "Hopefully I didn't jinx myself because of that…" Just as she thought about that, a loud rumble reverbed throughout the exam site, along with vibrations that Izumi could feel through her combat boots that she used her quirk to form. "What was that?" She heard a nearby examinee ask. She herself was curious, so she started to run towards the source of the rumble, and as she was turning around a corner,

"IS THAT THE ZERO POINTER?!"

Izumi screamed as she look at the gargantuan body of the zero pointer, seeing how it literally dwarfed the shorter buildings and barely reached the taller buildings of the exam site. She started to holster her rifle and run, only to hear a girl calling out for help. Izumi didn't know what to do. It was either she started running now and the zero pointer would catch up to her current location, or she could go in and help out the girl, who was currently stuck under rubble. And in a split second, she knew what to do.

As she started to run towards the girl, she grabbed a device strapped to her waist, she shouted in "Fleet! This is the high flagship, I currently need the deployment of two heavy cruisers and 4 destroyers. Deploy immediately and take out the threat, use corrosion torpedoes near the body of the zero pointer, and send Doc and Thunderbird down here now!" Izumi willed for her gun and suit to dissolve back into nanomaterials, and form a exoskeleton that would help her lift the debris currently trapping the poor girl's ankle.

"Can you move? Do you need help getting out of here?" Izumi asked the girl as she starts to lift the massive chunk of debris currently trapping her ankle. The girl tries to move, but suddenly jolts and shakes her head. "I don't think I can move, not without aggravating the fractures any further. I could help you with getting out of here though." The girl says, looking at Izumi's exoskeleton that is currently straining it's artificial muscles to help Izumi lift. Both of them then hear a zipline coming from behind Izumi. "So, who's the patient here?" Doc says as he gets rid of the harness, taking out his STIM pistol in the meantime.

"This girl has a fractured ankle, and possibly quite the sprain on her ankle as well. I need you to stim her ankle to act as a temporary measure until the exam is over." Izumi lists to Doc, who loads a Stim shot and shoots it at her ankle. "Where are the ships?" Izumi asks.

"Right now? They're deploying their graviton engines, you left them in the docks for far too long, so they need some time to start it up." Says Doc as he holsters the STIM pistol and takes out his MP5 submachine gun. "Here's my MP5, I know you normally don't use SMGs, but we don't have a choice right now" Doc voices out as he takes out his P9 pistol and slings the girl's arm over his shoulder.

*riipp*

Izumi looks up and mutters "About time…"

Around the zero pointer, 6 rifts open up in a hexagonal manner, and the bows of the ships start to peek out from the rifts. In only a matter of seconds, the warships all have the ship fully in the sky, turrets all aimed at the zero pointer, opening up for some unknown reason. And missiles firing at the zero pointer. The first missile hits, and a mini black hole sucks away the surrounding metal protecting the zero pointer's delicate interiors.

"What are those missiles? Aren't they unsafe?" the girl mutters as she looks up at the ships circling and whittling away the armor of the zero pointer. Izumi, who's very proud of the ships, looks over, and answers "Those are corrosive missiles, made with a element that mankind of today will never find, let alone use. They act like a black hole with significantly diminished strength, but a much longer duration that a black hole of similar size."

(For anyone curious, a black hole of the size of a cell could devour a small city instantly but would disappear very fast due to hawking radiation.)

Izumi suddenly stops running and tells Doc and the girl that they longer need to run, both turn and asks her why should they stop running when the danger has not passed yet. "Because it's about time the exam is done."

"AAND THE TIME IS UP! EVERYONE STOP FIGHTING! The robots will now shut down. Please head to the entrance of the gate and stop by the infirmary if you have any injuries need treating." Present Mic's voice booms over the speakers, and the zero pointer suddenly stops moving.

"Well, I guess it all over," Izumi says as she grabs the device and gives orders to the fleet: "Fleet, you are dismissed, resupply any missiles fired, and any fuel you have used while fighting the zero pointer." The ships start to open the rifts again and slowly move into it.

As the trio moves towards the entrance of the site, the girl says "I am Momo Yaoyorozu, who are you, and is he a part of your quirk?" Izumi looks over, replying "Nice to meet you Yaoyorozu-san, I'm Izumi Midoriya, and Doc here is technically a summon of my quirk." Momo seemed to digest the information, then asks "Earlier you said 'this is the high flagship', does that mean that you also have a ship?" Izumi curses under her breath, because no one else was supposed to know her rank, let along figure out that she has a ship.

"Yes, I have a ship, and also we're here at the infirmary, see you another day Yaoyorozu-san, hopefully we can meet in UA's classroom." Izumi bids goodbye to Momo, and leaves after telling the nurses that she is uninjured.

"Well, I don't think we all saw that coming." Mutters Nezu, as he stop giving orders to the temporary personnel hired.

"Agreed, I didn't think that even I would foresee 6 ships being summoned, let alone 6 floating ships capable of firing 'black hole' missiles and laser cannons." Aizawa says as he reviews the footage captured by camera and drones. "What do you think of this, Yagi-san?" Aizawa says as he looks over to the only person who looks much too injured to be even alive.

Yagi stares back at Aizawa, and tells Nezu: "She would be the perfect successor, but I don't know how it will affect her quirk. We should issue the rescue points, and then review the zero pointer fight to determine how we should go about asking her to be my successor." As Yagi looks at his hologram screen, he wonders about the true strength of those ships, and how it will affect the future of society if she becomes his successor.

One week timeskip brought to you by Kirishima/Youtarou

As Izumi was checking her mail, she noticed an envelope. An envelope with the stamp of UA. Wide-eyed, she grabs the letter from the mailbox, slams the front door, and runs to her room. Jumping into her chair, she rips the wax seal from the envelope and rips it apart, only to see… a button? Confused, Izumi pokes the button.

"I AM HERE! As a hologram." All Might's voice reverbs throughout the room, shocking Izumi. She did not expect for UA to hire All Might for the results of the exam. "Young Midoriya, I will now tell you about the results of the exam, and before you send a letter back to UA asking about me, I will say now that I am a teacher at UA."

"Your results were basically perfect, having scored a perfect score on the written exam, and accumulating over 70 villain points in the exam. You have secured yourself a seat in Class 1-A of UA's Hero Course, as well as a guaranteed seat in the General course of UA." Hearing this, Izumi then realizes that she has scored a guaranteed seat in UA. She scored a seat! Jumping out of the chair, she bounces around the room: "Yes yes yes yes! I got in!"

"BUT, that's not all there is to the exam." Hearing this, Izumi rushes back to the hologram, eager to hear what All Might has to say. "Due to your heroic actions in saving young Momo Yaoyorozu, you have scored yourself another 45 hero points, a secret section of the scoring in the exam! Young Yaoyorozu has also sent a handwritten letter to UA, explaining her situation and expressing her gratitude to you. She has also expressed her request to transfer some of her points to you as a reward for saving her. As such, you have earned yourself an additional 30 points, totalling up to 75 hero points. Do not worry, young Yaoyorozu will not have her score deducted. Your score totals to 152 points, granting you the position as the number one on the leaderboards of this exam!"

"Welcome, to your Hero Academia."

After that whole ordeal, as well as a lot of excited screaming from Izumi, of which her pillow is the victim, Izumi notices that the hologram screen has changed to a 5-letter long code that the hologram mentions is her password on the school website to access her list of items required to buy before school starts. Izumi mentally jots down the item list, noting down how it seemed like they knew how many copies of the uniform each student required. "Probably due to the experience they hold as the oldest and most prestigious hero school." Izumi thought, as she changed into more casual clothing. She had plans to go to the nearby arcade to celebrate.

How, you ask? By decimating zombies of course!

Thank you so much for reading this first chapter. This is my first actual Fanfiction, I haven't actually written anything before, and have always been reading, but I felt that I should try my hand at writing. Hope you enjoy this, expect chapter two to come up within a week of this chapter.

(Uploaded on 18/6/2021)