Got this done! Finally, we going to meet some U.A kids and Crona being U.A! Let see how this turns out~
Special thanks to R3N41SS4NC3 for beta-reader this chapter
Edit 10/23/2021: Fix some grammar mistakes here and there. As well to change Stein as Crona's last fake name
Chapter 4
"You got in!" Maka gushes when Crona told her the news. She uses the mirror to call her to tell her about the school she has gotten into. She smiles looks downcast a bit.
"Maka." Maka stops and Crona tries to find the words, but her tongue catches in her throat. But Maka waits there to let Crona gather up her words, "Do you think they like me? The other students?" she asks.
"I don't see why not. You're kind, thoughtful, and overall a great friend to have," Maka lists, but notices that Crona still looks down, "You nervous?"
Crona rests her head at the sink, "Yeah."
"Crona." Crona looks up. "You going to be fine. Me, Marie, and even Stein are going to be with you every step of the way. If you have a bad day or need to talk some then you always call me and Marie ok?"
Crona smiles, feeling better, "Yes, thank you."
Crona feels her legs get weaker at the sight of the sheer size of U.A. It's 20 times the size of DWMA.
'Breathe in and out,' Crona recalls Marie's breathing lessons she taught her beforehand. Breathe in and out slowly. Slowly she calms down and walks ahead. She keeps her eyes cast downward. She can't meet anyone's gaze yet. Plus she has gotten pretty good at walking with her head down, only needing to glance up every once in a while to find the right classroom.
'1-A, 1-A…there it is!' Crona smiles when she spots the classroom, but stops before entering.
'There are going to be people in there. People that are going to look at me and judge,' Crona panics, sweat starting to form on her face, 'No!' She shakes her head and wipes the sweat from her brow. 'It'll be fine! I need to make a good first impression.' Crona took a deep breath and walked in with her head held high.
…Only to bump into someone and almost nearly making the other falling over.
'So much for the first impression.'
"I'm sorry!" Crona shouts out and lowers her head.
"I'm sorry!" The one she bumped into apologizes to her. When she got a good look at the guy, she sees a young, plain-looking boy around her age.
"No, I bumped into you and it's my fault. Please forgive me!" Crona told the boy. By now the whole class is watching this exchange.
"No, I'm sorry!" The boy professes to bow his head to her.
"Oh, will you two shut up!" A loud voice shouts at them causing both children to jump. A blond student who has his feet on his desk glares at them with red eyes.
Crona was about to open her mouth to defend herself, but two other voices stop her.
"Stein!"
Crona turns and sees a familiar pink-skinned girl and a red-haired boy.
"Ashido! And um…" Crona takes a closer look at the red-haired one. Those red eyes and scar look familiar. Then it clicked,
"Kirishima?" Crona asked and Kirishima smiles.
"Yep! Glad to see you made it!" He pats Crona's back. She almost doubles over but manages to hold her ground.
"Sorry." Kirishima helps her straighten. Guess he doesn't know his strength.
"It's fine. I'm glad you guys are here." Crona says truthfully. The other boy, the one she'd bumped into, was nervously chatting with a kid with glasses and a short girl round girl.
"If you're just here to make friends, then forget coming to this school," a voice told them.
Wha?
Crona and the others turn to the door and see a tired-looking man in a sleeping bag. W-was he there before? Crona didn't sense him because she was talking to her classmates.
The man got out his sleeping bag and looks over the classroom.
"It took you 8 seconds to calm down." Man comment as he got up out of his sleep bag, "Time is precious. You lot can do me a favor and be mindful about it." Everyone takes this as a cue to get back to their desk. Crona sits far in the back where she can be closer to the corner.
"Hello, I'm Aizawa Shouta, your homeroom teacher. Nice to meet you all," he greets in the most bored tone. Kinda reminds Crona of Stein when he's not cutting something or discussing any science in class.
The man reaches into his sleeping bag and pulls out a blue uniform with white trim.
"Put on these and head outside," the teacher orders them.
"W-where to?" the green hair asked.
"The Training Grounds."
Crona tilts her head. Don't they need to get to orientation?
"Um…sir," Crona starts but is cut off by the teacher.
"What are you doing?" The teacher narrows his eyes at them, "Do heroes stand when they received an order? Get to it!" he orders, and the rest of the students get up.
"Yes sir!"
Bakugo huffs as he stands to walk with the rest of the extras to the changing room. He was in bad mood today. First, he found out that someone stole his spot in the first of the class, and then Deku appears in U.A. even after he threatened him. God, can't he take the hint?
He angrily slams the door after changing. The sooner this is done, the better. Some skinny-ass pink-haired student had the unfortunate honor of standing in front of him when he was getting out.
"MOVE EXTRA!" He yells and pink-haired flinches and moves away. Good. Someone knows their place around here. He enters the Training Ground with the rest of the extras. The teacher waits until they are all here before he speaks up.
"Stein." The pink hair flinches when called upon. "You finished first in the practical exams, correct?"
Wait a minute...
"Yes sir…" The pink-haired answers the teacher. The teacher throws the ball at her and she caught it.
"Then you can be first to throw using your quirk," the teacher told her.
ARE FUCKING KIDDING?!
THIS PUNK BEAT HIM FOR FIRST PLACE!?
Crona nervous walks up the base. She faces away from others and ready herself to throw. Then she remembers she has to use her 'quirk'. Should she use Bloody Needle? No that would destroy the ball. Scream Resonance?
"Franken?" It took Crona a moment to realize that she was being called on. They were still not used to being called Franken but it's for the mission.
"What's the problem?" Aizawa asked her.
"N-nothing I'm just thinking." She answered.
"Well better hurry up or you'll have to leave this school," he tells her coldly.
Crona's eyes were wide and were about to throw it panic but remember she has to use her power. But which one?
"He got the top score?!"
"Why is she this shy? I thought the stronger the quirk the more presence the person has?"
"My, my," One of the boys spoke up "Can his abilities shine that brightly if his appearance or he cannot?"
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A voice louder than the rest shouts, "Just throw it already you fucking sacredly cat!" Before Aizawa or anyone else can say anything to a blond-hair kid. Ragnarok busts out from Crona's back(ripping up her shirt in process) and grabs the ball, throws it at the blond kid's face.
"Will shut your fucking mouth you fucking blondie!" Ragnarok shouts and Crona tries to cover his mouth but that only made him angry and started pitching her cheek, "You want some too Crona? You piece of shit!" Crona bats Ragnarok's hands away. Then the blond boy let out a demonic growl and turned to see the blond-hair kid giving Crona the angriest look she saw on a person.
"You." The blondie darts forward. "ARE SO FUCKING DEAD!" Crona's eyes widen but then narrow. Ragnarok melts back into her skin and from skin pores in her hand transforms into his sword form. If Crona thought that blond kid would stop because they have a weapon then she was mistaken. Heck, Crona swears he was grinning.
Lucky Aizawa steps in and grabs the boy with his scarf.
"What the fuck is this thing made of?!" the boy shouts at the teacher.
"Carbon fibers and a special metal alloy." Aizawa explains while glaring at the boy with red eyes, "Go back in line and settle down."
Crona quickly goes back in line and Bakugo glares at them as she walked past.
This wasn't over.
Not by a long shot.
Aizawa put eye drops in his eyes. Damn it he didn't want to use his quirk that much. But those two got into a fight.
Speaking of…
He looks where Stein was in line. When he uses his quirk on them the grown on Crona's back, Ragnarok didn't disappear. That never happens before. Aizawa rubs the bridge of his nose in thought. He knew the kid is in trouble because of their records, but there seems to be more to their story than what's on paper.
He needs to get to the bottom of this.
Crona hangs her head. First day and she made an enemy.
'Great work Crona! You painted a target on your back,' she thought bitterly to herself.
"Oh hey!" a cheerful voice calls out to her. Crona looks around, confused until she sees...floating outfit?
"Um...hello?" She doesn't know how to deal with this….
"Do you remember me?" The voice sounds like a girl. Crona thought back to where she heard that voice before and then remember the exam…
"Oh! You're from the test!" Crona exclaims and the girl giggles at her outburst. Crona rubs the back of her neck. "Sorry I didn't catch your name before."
"Oh it's Hagakure Toru," she tells her.
"I'm Stein Crona," she answers in kind.
"It's nice to meet you, Franken." She couldn't see her face but the tone of her voice that she was happy.
"It's nice to meet you too," she answers. Crona was about to talk to her some more but the teacher cut her off.
"Let's get on to the next test!"
First Test. Fifty Meter Dash.
Crona stretching as she was up to dash line. To her side, Kirishima was stretching too but he had nervous look on his face.
"You ok?" She asks him.
He rubs the back of his neck, "Yeah it's just…" He looks ahead at the track line, "It just..my quirk is not suited for this course." He explains to her.
Crona blink, "Oh?" She didn't really think of that. Then again her black blood can almost do anything so she is good about these tests. But without it, she is just a skinny teen so she can kinda see it in Kirishima's point of view. There were a couple of times where she fell short on spots with BlackStar and Kid, but then BlackStar said something to her that makes her feel better…
"Kirishima." Kirishima turns to Crona. Breeze brushes against her hair in a dramatic way. "You may not be a star that shot down god-like my friend's planning to do, but you shine like one."
"Whaaat?"
"Runner on your mark!" The robot announces to them and they got the message and get ready, "Go!"
Kirishima took off like an arrow.
But Crona is like a bullet with Ragnarok's wings out.
"4.23!" The robot beep as Crona pash it, "5.50." When Kirishima passes.
"You did good!" Crona tells him.
"You did bad," Ragnarok tells him at the same time.
"Ragnarok don't be mean," Crona scolds him.
"Don't tell me what to do!" Ragnarok pinches her cheeks.
"Ouch! Stop it Ragnarok!"
"What did I just say?!"
"Stein," Crona and Ragnarok stop their little fight to turn to Kirishima, "I understand what you were trying to say."
"You do?"
"Yeah." Crona got nervous because Kirishima's face was blank for a moment before crying manly tears. "That we should aim high and reach for the stars so even if we fall we leave a blaze of glory. That's so manly!"
Ummm…
"I guess." Crona doesn't understand it either, but Maka said that's what BlackStar meant.
Kirishima holds up his hand so she can take it.
"Let's do our best Crona!"
Crona nervously takes it. "Um... yeah." Oh, good, she's making friends-
"Let's move, people," Aizawa deadpans.
Second Test. Grip Test.
Ok, this test is simple. Just grip as hard as you can on the hand-held device and it measures it out. Crona knows how to deal with this.
"Here it goes," She takes a deep breath and squeezes it as hard as she can.
Beep!
Crona looks down and her eyes widen.
999.99 kilograms.
"Um… Aizawa-sensei." Crona turned to her teacher, holding the device. Aizawa took the object and look it over. "I-I didn't mean t-too...I mea-"
"It's fine. Just put it back," Aizawa tells her as he hands it back.
"O-oh...ok," Crona nods and was walking back to the box where the other devices were put when the students were done. When Mina walks over to deposit her own, she looks at Crona's device.
"Wow, that's a lot of 9s!" Mina exclaims.
"Hm? Someone beat my mark?" Sato says as he walks over. He's a tall, very muscular young man with spikey, brown hair.
"O-oh! Um...I guess I did." Crona rubs the back head. This was too much. How did BlackStar deal with this?
"Great job! I know you can do it!" Kirishima pats Crona's back.
"T-thanks...I was just doing my best," Crona replies.
Deep breaths Crona. You can do this!
Third Test: Standing Long Jump.
Crona clears the ground easily with Ragnarok wings. Along with some of the other students. One of which creates a javelin to clear the field and another with ice.
So far an impressive crop.
Fifth Test: Ball Throw
Crona sighs, they didn't have to go do this test again and can stand off to the side. She watches all the other students go. Uraraka definitely won because she just makes the ball float. Not even Bakugo can top that. Hagakure went up and it comes out 37.3.
"That was bad." She sounds sheepish as stands beside Crona.
"I-I think you did good!" She tries to comfort her.
"Nah...you doing so much better than me." Hagakure comment. That comment should have made Crona feel better but she feels someone glaring at her. She didn't need to put two and two together to see it was that Bakugo kid.
'He's out for me isn't he?' Crona thought sadly to herself. The teacher calls for Izuku to throw. He flinches but goes up anyway. Crona feels for him. He hasn't been doing well and people keep looking at him.
"Ha! He's going to get kicked out!" Bakugo said out loud enough for Crona and Hagakure to hear.
"Haven't you seen his quirk?" Iida asks him in disbelief.
"What are you talking about Deku doesn't have a quirk!" Wait he doesn't? Well, that does explain why he not doing good but why was Iida saying he does have one? And what nickname is Deku anyway? Doesn't sound that nice…
Crona's attention turns back to Izuku when she hears a soft thump sound. Izuku looks at the ball in disbelief. It only went up to 48 meters.
"I erased your quirk," Awaiza explains to him. His hair begins to wave as if he was underwater, "Those stupid Entrance Exams should be changed if someone like you can pass." Izuku's wide as he saw the googles.
"My quirk is erased! Wait, those goggles…are you Eraserhead, the Erase Hero!" Crona tilts her head. The... what hero?
"Ever heard of that hero?" Crona whispers to Hagakure.
"Never heard him," Hagakure answers her.
Crona didn't hear what the teacher was talking to Izuku about. But whatever it is, it seems to hurt Izuku from the look on his face. He looks like a kicked puppy. Awaiza didn't look too happy either as he got back to his spot. He locks eyes on Izuku, and his frown was firm on his face.
"What do you think they talking about?" Hagakure asks her. Crona was about to tell her she has no idea but Bakugo opens his mouth first.
"He probably going to get kicked out!" Bakugo shouts in glee.
"That brat's got a big mouth," Ragnarok comments, and Crona agrees. So much so that she did something that she shouldn't have done.
"You got this Midoriya!" Crona cheers. She could feel Bakugo's glaring at her. But Izuku looks back at her and smiles just make her think she did the right thing.
Izuku looks at the ball and talking to himself but Crona couldn't make out the words. Izuku reared his arm back to throw and...was his finger glowing?
"SMAASH!"
The ball shouted out his hand like a canon. Crona and the rest of the students look up in awe.
"Sensei!" Awaiza looks up from his phone, "I can still move!" Even with tears in his eyes, he and his hand gripping with his broken finger.
"This kid!" Awaiza grins.
"Now that's a hero's throw if I have ever seen one!" Uraraka shouts in glee.
"Holy crap that was awesome!" Hagakure agrees.
"What the fuck!" Bakugo charged, his quirk blasting alongside him, "Explain yourself, Deku! You lying snake!" Deku screams and Awaiza was about to stop him,
Only for Crona to tackle Bakugo and hold him down. She took off when she saw Bakugo's rage at Izuku. Crona grabs Bakugo's arms and forces them away from her so that she won't get caught in his explores.
"Get off of you scaredy-cat!" Bakugo roars, "I'll kill you!"
"Like to see you try asshole!" Ragnarok yells back.
"He just throws the ball. I don't why you work up to about it," Crona comments, but that only makes Bakugo madder.
"Since when did you grow a spine?! I'll kill you!" Bakugo shouts at Crona. Unlashing small explosions in the process, but Crona holds on. "How are this strong?!" Bakugo shouts. For a skinny thing, Crona is strong.
"Because of me! Can I get a thank you?" Ragnarok asks Crona.
"Oh thank you," Crona replies, while still holding Bakugo down. Ragnarok then pitches Crona's nose.
"That's thank you very much!" Ragnarok corrects her and Crona yelps but holds on to Bakugo who is really trying to escape. Sudden all three of them were wrapped in Aizawa's scarf.
"Hey what's the big idea? I was about to teach them some matters," Ragnarok shouts at him.
Aizawa frowns, "Franken control your quirk, and Bakugo gets back in line. Or both of you will be kicked out!" All three got the message and let up. But Bakugo glares at Crona before they got back into line. Crona just sighs.
Already made an enemy.
"Here the results," Aizawa as he presses a button.
1. Stein Crona
2. Yaoyorozu Momo
3. Todoroki Shoto
4. Bakugo Katsuki
5. Iida Tenya
6. Tokoyami Fumikage
7. Shoji Mezo
8. Ojiro Mashirao
9. Kirishima Eijirou
10. Ashido Mina
11. Uraraka Ochako
12. Koda Koji
13. Sato Rikido
14. Tsuyu Asui
15. Aoyama Yuga
16. Sero Hanata
17. Denki Kaminari
18. Jirou Kyoka
19. Hagakure Toora
20. Midoriya Izuku
Crona and Hagakure both breathe a sigh of relief when they see their names on the board.
"That was close," Hagakure said but then looks at Midoriya. "I feel bad for Midoriya though." Crona looks at Midoriya who was looking like he wants the earth to swallow him whole. She bites her lip. She doesn't know what to do. Should she go over to comfort him? Or will he be embarrassed because of this in a public place?
"Oh yeah about expelling one of you." Midoriya flitches when Aizawa spoke. "I lied."
"Huh!?" All of the students shout in surprise.
"It was a logical ruse, so you all will try your best," Aizawa says with a big grin on his face.
"WHAAAAT!" Iida, Uraraka, and Midoriya shout, and Crona covers her ears. They were loud.
"What, you guys didn't figure it out? Sorry, I should have said something." Yaoyorozu comment.
"Was it really? I didn't notice," Hagakure whispers to Crona.
"I didn't either," Crona whispers back. She was sure that Aizawa was going to expelled someone.
"I wouldn't see your best performance otherwise," Aizawa explains to them. Which makes sense but don't scare her like that!
"Anyways" He rubs the back of his neck, "We're done here. Your syllabus and documents are in your classroom. Midoriya." Midoriya flinches. "Go see Recovery Girl about your finger." He walks up to him and hands Midoriya a slip of paper, "Tomorrow will be just as hard as it was today. Be at your best, ok?" Midoriya nods as he took the note. "Dismissed."
With that, Crona and other students head back. She couldn't help but look back and see Midoriya go into another building where the nurse was. This was already the first day and there was already a huge risk of her being let go.
Crona better gives it all she's got in this school.
He couldn't shake it. Something was wrong with that kid. Not only did she have good control over her quirk, but when Aizawa used his quirk on the growth, Ragnarok, it didn't stop. It's the first time that has happened to him. Usually, even a Transform-type quirk would be too stiff for the user to use. But Crona used hers just fine.
If being an underground hero teaches him anything it's trusting your instinct. And his instinct is telling him that Franken is hiding something big.
And he's going to find out what that is.
Crona sighs as she got out of school. This has been a day…
"Stein!" Crona almost trips. Who..? When she saw the floating outfit she knew who this was.
"Hagakure?" Crona tilts her head.
"Hey, Franken! Want to walk home together?" She asks her.
Crona blinks in surprise. "You really want to hang out with me?" she asks in disbelief.
"Well yeah! You're really nice to hang around," she explains. "Would that be cool with you?"
"Um...well sure!" Crona said still shocked that this is happening, "Does this means we are friends?" she asks her.
"Maybe if you buy some sweets on the way," Hagakure told Crona.
"Oh! Um…" She feels around her pockets, "I don't have any money on me…"
Hagakure laughs, "I was just teasing you! Of course, we are friends!" She runs up ahead.
"Hurry up! Or the train will be leaving soon!" she exclaims.
"Hey wait up!" Crona catches up to her.
Maybe things are looking up for her.
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