Another side note, I'll start using - {insert name here} as a the person thoughts or speaking sometimes.
. . . . . there's like a gap in time, like an awkward silence
* WAKE UP, GET UP, GET OUT THERE *
Izuku opens his eyes, looks at the alarm clock ringing. February 26, it's Izuku's D-Day today, also known as the entrance exam for UA.
…
"I've… made it.." looking at UA, standing at the entrance. It's time to take my first step towa-
"Fuck off Deku" Startling Izuku.
"Kacchan…"
"Don't stand in my way, or do you wanna fucking die?"
"ah, hhe-yy-y, theeeeere Kacchhhann, let's do-do our…" Izuku tries to blurt out
Bakugo just ignores him and walks past, shunting into Izuku a little. Ever since that day with the slime villain he hasn't laid a single finger on me, he certainly has changed much, just looking more tired and less active than he usually is in class. Doesn't matter, it's time to step forward!
He thinks to himself as he trips over his own feet.
Well, I guess I'll just die then.
. . . . . odd, he hasn't felt the floor yet, feeling something wrapped around his collar pulling him up.
"Jeez you're heavy you know that?" a girl voiced out.
Quickly putting his foot forward to gain balance. He turned around to look at the person that saved him from falling. A fair skinned girl with triangular looking eyes with dark purple hair with earphone jacks looks at him, cut-.
"Try not to fall again next time, ok? Sorry if I hurt you when I grabbed you there, thought it'll be better than falling face first, don't be scared by the other contestants, they're just trying to rile you up"
Izuku looks at the girl, no idea how to respond. "ahh err ya thaaaan yyuu-"
"And your heart rate is all over the place, you should chill out abit"
My heart rate? Ah, not calm, emotions running everywhere, try to calm yourself down Izuku, Clear your mind…
The girl raises an eyebrow "ok seems you calmed yourself down really quick, so don't go hurting yourself again, cya" the girl waves as walks off
I…i… talked to a girl again! my life is certainly changing! - Izuku He didn't actually say anything that resembles a word.
…
EVERYBODY SAY HEYYY!
Silence fills the room.
Izuku thinks to himself, gosh he's the voice type hero, present mic, really like listening to him on the radio, but haha, he feels a little out of place trying his style on a bunch of students preparing to take on the exam that'll change their lives.
EVERYBODY WILL GATHER AT THE DESIGNATED MEETING AREA. AFTER THE PRESENTATION YA DIG?
Looking at his paper, it states with a large letter "B", one eye rolling to the side, he can see Bakugou have "C" on it. Whew, don't have to deal with him today. Looking around the other students, he sees a familiar orange head a few rows above, waving at him. Izuku smiles and waves back. Ahhhh, it's so reassuring to see familiar faces, I'm glad I saw Kendo… I wonder where Ojiro is…
THERE'LL BE A LARGE AMOUNT OF "VILLAINS" OVER THE BATTLEFIELD, THERE'LL BE 3 DIFFERENT VARIETIES THAT'S IMPORTANT, WITH POINT VALUES SCARED ACCORDING TO DIFFICULTY, USING EACH OF YOUR INDIVIDUAL ABILITIES, TAKE DOWN AS MANY AS YOU CAN, YOUR GOAL LISTENERS, IS TO RACK UP A HIGH SCORE LIKE A HERO!
AND DON'T THINK OF DIRECTLY ATTACKING ANY OF THE COMPETITORS OR ANY OF THAT NASTY ANTI HERO STUFF THAT'S AGAINST THE RULES, CAPISCE!? ANY QUESTIONS?
"Excuse me, may I ask a question"
FIRE AWAY LISTENER!
"On the print out, there are clearly four types of villains listed, Is there a reason it is left out of your briefing? Is this an error? Ho-
OOOKAY OKAY, LISTENER 7111, THE FOURTH VILLAIN FOUND ON YOUR PRINTOUT IS WORTH ZERO POINTS!, WE CALL THEM ARENA TRAPS….
Izuku noted down mentally what the hero said, a villain to avoid, he looked around at the other students participating… so nerve wrecking, all of them having their abilities their entire lives, against something that came out half baked from training after 9 months? No way he can compete right? It'll be lucky that he'll even score a few points, he thinks to himself.
NOW EVERYBODY, LET'S MOVE TO THE MAIN EVENT!, PLUS ULTRA! EVERYONE!
…
"Whoa, it's so big… What kind of budget does UA even have? And there's a few more of these cities around the campus? How big is UA again? Do we have to drive from one training ground to the other?!"
"YOU THERE!"
Startling Izuku, he turns around to look at a tall well-built guy, with the number 7111 plastered on his chest, from the top he sees blue hair, glasses and lower down he sees exhaust… exhaust? Looks kinda like Ingen-
"You should keep it down with your speeches, you're disturbing others, you didn't come to obstruct your fellow test takers did you?"
Ahh… so the habit hasn't been fully fixed yet, Izuku thought. He glances around to see everyone looking at both of them, Izuku wants to hide his face somewhere now.
Opening his mouth to reply when-
AAAAAAND STARTO!
Everyone looks up at Mic, slightly confused
WHAT'S THE MATTER? THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A COUNTDOWN IN A REAL BATTLE! RUN! RUUNNNNN!
Izuku looks back to ground level to see nothing, everyone has long bolted into the testing venue.
"EHHHH?"
Izuku takes off behind them
It's ok, calm down, clear your mind. There's still a chance. Focus and believe in the force.
…
Running behind the main pack of participants, Izuku thinks to himself… I could use force speed and force Valor, glancing at the remains of a 1 pointer destroyed on the streets in the wake of the horde in front of him, taking a moment to look, the robot seems fragile, easy hollow and probably easy to take out with a force push hard enough. But he has a limited amount of power before he's burnt out, if he uses it too early, he won't be able to do anything near the end. I can only use Force Valor and force speed once without drawbacks, use any of anymore than that I'm done for, 20 seconds first stint and 20 seconds for my final stint. I can't afford any more than that!
Reaching the main street, he sees chaos, everything destroyed around him, Izuku can't even tell what's destroyed and what's not.
"35 points!" says the blue haired guy
"Wheey * Coughs *, 28 points" said a yellow hair guy
The number of robots in the main street is dropping by the seconds. If I get to an alleyway, I might find some robots that haven't been taken out.
Running into an alleyway that he didn't sense no force presence in, he saw a 3 pointer in front of him, ok 3 points, I the Armor is a lot thicker, tapping into the force and covering it around his body. He thinks to himself. FORCE VALOR. Izuku feels a surge in strength and charges straight at the bot, the bot notices him and pulls its arm back to meet the charging greenie.
THOOMM
Izuku sees the robot that was shot in half by a Laser, panning he sees a blonde man running and screaming "Merci!".
SHIT, SHIT SHIT, RANGE ATTACKS REACHES THE BOTS FASTER, I TOOK TOO LONG THINKING ABOUT WHAT TO DO AND BUFFING TO SLOWLY BEFORE I EVEN ATTACKED.
Looking around in a panic to at least destroy something with the remaining time left with Force Valor, Izuku bolts off into another street.
…
*Somewhere in some dark room*
"This year's crop is quite the something" A Lion shaped shadow says
"Indeed, would be interesting what they'll do at the sports festival" as the panel of shadows looked at the many different monitors
"I didn't know you were looking that far" the lion replies
"Just starting out early, Nezu wanted us here to promote collaboration, i'm just taking it seriously"
… On the other side of the room
"Different students using different techniques to deal with the situation, Insight, Agility, Judgement, and the most impressive of all, Firepower." As the shadow looks at the screen showing a blonde student with smoking palms.
"Some even deal with the robots in unconventional ways" another shadow looks at the screen showing a robot completely disabled stuck by 2 purple balls.
"Nezu, I think it's time"
"Indeed it is. At this rate we won't have enough robots to satisfy everybody, time to bring out the big guns"
…
*RUMBLE*
The earth shakes around the test centre, looking up and seeing a towering figure tower over everyone, the zero pointer, tall as the buildings around it, with large tracks moving forward. A WORTHY CHALLENGE, TIME TO TEST OUT MY NEW MOVE, he thinks, ignoring the screams and fleeing students, he charges straight at the robot before aiming his arms to the floor. An explosion erupts, sending the person airborne.
Twisting his arms and wrist, he fires off small explosions out of his palms sending him into a spin, using the small explosions to adjust he trajectory at the robot before shouting, screaming and concentrating all the sweat he has built up into one move and one point on his arms. And just before the hand makes contact with the robot...
HOWITZER IMPACT!
…
Midoriya looks up at the towering figure, you're kidding me? A robot this size? It's as tall as the buildings around it!
" GAHHHH THE ZERO POINTER! RUNNNN! " Some random guy screams
Izuku pans around, everyone is running away from the zero pointer, there's no point, there's no reward for sticking around when there's no reward, I can't be lollygagging, I only have a couple of points. Twisting around, to follow the crowd before spotting somebody in the direct path of the zero pointer, just standing there giving a thumbs up. What? What is he doing?
The robot comes to a stop before raising its arm pointing it straight at the guy. That can't be right, right? I don't think the robot is going to crush that guy just standing there? It's just a test?
*BGM: You Say Run*
The robot launches its arm at the guy.
It's not good, even if he dodges he won't get out of there in time! No time to think, I need to do something now!
Closing his eyes and Tapping into the force. FORCE SPEED!
..
Tenya Ida day has been going well so far, he's racked up 50 points so far, could be enough to pass, there's still time, best to-, before feeling the ground rumble, turning around he sees the Zero pointer, not quite what he was expecting, everyone around him starts fleeing thinking the same thing. Best to do the same, as he starts running, no point boosting, till he sees another opportunity to take out a robot.
While running, he spots that green boy that he lectured before the test, he's still looking at the Zero pointer, why? Slow reaction? Suddenly he closes his eyes. He's giving up? That's it? He sees the green haired boy swing both of his arms over his head to one side before the ground cracks around him and suddenly disappears, leaving an afterimage of himself. What!? Tenya looks up in the direction of where the green boy was previously looking. A guy? Still standing there? Why?… recalling the very words he heard half an hour ago " YOUR GOAL LISTENERS, IS TO RACK UP A HIGH SCORE LIKE A HERO! ".
..
Izuku surroundings turns into a blur, he swings his arms to adjust for the speed he's about to move at, before opening his eyes
FORCE SPEED!
Stepping off the ground, literally crushing the asphalt under him, sprinting as fast as he can towards the yellow hair guy.
"RUN!" IZUKU SCREAMS
"Wheeyyyyy" the guy responded. No good he seems out of it - Izuku
Izuku puts himself in front of the guy and in the path of the robot arm. Going straight at him. Izuku has no choice, he has to tap into the force one more time, he braces himself before screaming
FORCE VALOR!
His entire body tensed up from the force power, his body burns from tapping into the force more times than he has ever done before. He put his arms up just in time to catch the robot arm slamming straight into him.
*GRUSHHHHHH*
" GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH " Screams Izuku, he's caught the arm, but he can't hold it forever! I don't know how long I can hold this before I my body isn't able to take it. The robot arms slowly moulding itself around Izuku. The ground around him cracks, slowly cratering around him.
"I-I CAN'T HOLD THIS FOREVERRR!" shutting his eyes when suddenly something sounds off in his head.
Let yourself go, let your hate flow through you, use it...
The years of harassment he's experienced in school, the years he's spent quirkless, "You're Quirkless, you can't be a Hero", "You should just take a dive off the rooftop" all flashed before him.
Yes… good, you need power, we can give it to you, give into your anger just repeat after me. Peace is a lie, there is only PASSION, through passion, I gain STRENGTH, through strength, I gain POWER, through power I gain VICTORY…
What is this, I've never heard Master Windu saying this before. Gain power? I don't know what even is this, using hate? Giving in to my hatred. That definitely does not sound like light.
"I CAN'T HOLD ON ANY LONGER" Izuku screams into the air, his body screaming with him from the amount of stress he's under.
It seems you need a bit of a taste before giving in…
That voice, I recognise it… but what should I do? I've already passed my limit long ago… if i try it i could sav-
..
"Power loader, it seems your zero pointers this year isn't as strong"
"It is, it's just unexpected 2 of the students already destroyed them, how would I prepare for such a th-"
"That boy! He can't be serious!?" a female said in the dark control room
"The half of the room screen switched to view Test centre B"
"Holy shit"
*GRUSHHHHHH*
"Power loader, stop the test there's no way he ca-"
"Do not worry everyone, it is all under control" says a calm voice behind a chair.
"You can't be serious?"
..
He can't be serious?
*GRUSHHHHHH* "GAHHHHHHHH"
Tenya sees the green boy holding back the entire zero pointer punch, such strength, such speed, all to save that guy… like a he-
Tenya widens his eyes, he finally understands the true meaning of the test, and that boy knows it. Shame, shame on him for not realising it earlier.
"I CAN'T HOLD ON ANY LONGER"
No, I can still do something about it! As fire starts coming out of his exhaust in his legs and changing into a running position.
I can still make it, I can save them!
*Whoooosh!*
Tenya reaches the yellow haired boy, grabbing him and moving him away from the danger zone. Looking back, the green hair boy is still holding the arm, I can still help him as well, changing direction while letting go of the guy in his hand preparing to launch himself at the arm, no clue what he is gonna do, he can't just grab him as he's surrounded mended metal around him. He'll just cross the bridge when he gets there.
Getting into a running position again preparing himself to dash straight into the arm, moving the weight of his body forward when-
TIME'S UPPPPP!
..
TIME'S UPPPPP!
Midoriya snapped out of it, suddenly he felt there was nothing pushing him, but he still held position. He was on autopilot when he held the robot arm, he couldn't give in for those few moments, now it's done, the test is complete… I've only scored 2 points… i…-
Izuku let go of his strength, Force Valor being deactivated at the same time, his body leaned back, before all semblance of strength was lost. Looks like he'll fall in the end…
*Toosh*
With all of his strength Izuku opens his eyes seeing the blue haired guy holding him, catching him in the fall… but he has no strength to lift any part of his body up, "I just need to get more points… I've only got 2 points…" he mumbled before losing consciousness.
..
All Might looks at the screen in front of him with a label "Test Center D", smiling to himself.
"All Might, you see that kid in test center B? Looks like you when you're being Heroic"
Toshinori Yagi smiles and nods, indeed, that green bundle of hair seems familiar, thinking he has seen it before… those powers he used, almost looks like my own, super strength, super speed… before going back through the video feed to a couple minutes before the zero pointer was activated. He sees the green hair boy finding a 2 pointer, waving his hands to telekinetically throw those robots into the wall.
Those powers… he has seen it before… 5 years ago…
***Flashback*** BGM: All for one theme
"It's over All Might, you've carried One for all for too long, parading around the world as the number 1 hero. Since you're not going to give in to my demands, I think it's time to end this game" All for one says, pointing his arm at All Might who was holding his left stomach.
"Say Hello to Shimura-san for me" AFO smirked as his arm starts charging something
"YOU BASTAR-" All Might screams into the night sky
*Woosh!*
AFO suddenly rag dolls away from him, skipping on the ground a few times
"It's sad to see you in this state All Might, it's time to get your ass up"
All Might looks to the side, as Windu does a superhero landing next to him.
"Windu-san, i-"
"Well well well, it's unexpected to see All Might needing help from a civilian" AFO walks back into range of both of them
"And who are you supposed to be?" Windu Quipped
"Ah, apologies All Might, looks like I have to introduce myself to the uninvited guest" bowing to All might before looking at the man in the robe "you can call me All for One" he smiles
"and you're supposed to be the head honcho around here?"
"I suppose i-" when suddenly he rag dolls again, as Windu waved his arm with an open hand.
"GAHHH, how rude of you" suddenly teleporting behind Windu
"Pity I couldn't get to know you better, however, we are short on time, i'll be taking your quirk now" as a few tendrils spout out of AFO straight at Windu
Windu draws his short Vibroblade while force jumping back and with one swing, cutting off most of the incoming appendages.
AFO frowns "Why can't you stay still!" as he launched every tendril he had at him from all directions.
Windu stands position, blade in one hand, focusing on the force, suddenly turning his blade making many swings around him to cut as many of these tendrils as he can. His defence was good, cutting away tendrils after tendrils attacking him, and dodging those that he couldn't, letting it stab into the ground behind him but it was a matter of time, his defence wasn't flawless, he couldn't use his preferred form for defence with only one hand.
All Might see his display of skill, holding back All for one like that isn't a small feat… he's buying precious time, he's not even a Hero, I'm pathetic, how can I be called the No.1 Hero when someone else have to defend him from his responsibility, getting up, ignoring the pain as his focus is now 100% on All for one.
*STAB*
One of the tendrils finally met its target, going straight into Windu back. "GAH!"
"Finally I've got you now-.. what? Impossible You can't be" All for one face changes.
*GRUSH!*
All for one turn his attention to the new sound, remembering the initial foe he was supposed to be fighting with. "All might!" now in point blank range of him, fire in his eyes, hole in his stomach, arm pulled back, butt clenched and screaming at the top of his lungs.
THE UNITED STATES OF SMAAASSSSHHHHHH!
"All Might" as Toshinori snaps back to reality.
Looking next to him, Nezu was standing there looking at the video as well "Fascinating isn't he, quite like our old friend"
All Might nods, "Indeed he is" looking at the screen seeing the Youthful hero recovery girl tending to him.
"...Were you really going to punch that participant?"
"Heavens no, what did you take me for? A killer?"
"...Then that kid that pushed himself over the edge, was that all controlled?"
"Of course, I had the bot to push as much as he was pushing back, it's a smart fail safe is it not? In the end we saw his intention, that's the most important part" as the rodent sips on his never ending cup of tea
"..."
…
"Izuku… Izuku!? Are you alright? What are you doing smiling so vacantly at the fish!?"
"Ah sorry, it's nothing, just lost in thoughts" as he continues to eat lunch.
If I were to grade myself, I guess I passed the written test without any problems. The problem comes that he only scored 2 points from the practical skills portion. That hardly mattered now.
After the test ended, Windu messaged me to not come back to Takoba beach for a while, there's some stages being setup at the beach.
I haven't told anyone about my performance at all, not my mum, Windu, my friends Kendo-san and Ojiro-san on our messaging group.
"IZUKU!, IZUKU!, It's HERE! UA!"
…
Opening up the letter, All Might appears from a device.
Testing 1,2 am I on screen?
All Might!?
It took some time to jump through some hoops and get this done, so sorry for not being able to send this sooner everyone, that's my bad!
You did fine for your written test, but… at the practical you scored a total of 2 points, which would result in a failure.
I knew it, I failed… i-
But wait there's more! Behold, this screen.
"Greetings Mic sensei, sorry to bother you but, do you know the boy with the curly haired kid, freckles and plain looking?"
"Would it be possible to share some of my points with him? He mention he only scored 2 points, he saved that boy life, and as an aspiring hero, he displayed what made a hero a hero, if I am able to pass but he didn't with his heroic actions-"
"It's ok listener, you can't share points, and I think you won't need to in the first place"
DID YOU THINK THERE'LL BE A DEPARTMENT OF HEROICS THAT REJECTS AN ENTRANT FOR DOING THE RIGHT THING? PREISH THAT THOUGHT. SO, TAKE YOUR RESCUE POINTS! THE JUDGES ALL AGREE. MIDORIYA IZUKU 50 POINTS. AND WHILE WE'RE AT IT TENYA IDA 20 POINTS.
MEANING YOU PASSED, YOUNG MIDORIYA. COME ON DOWN to Class 1-A, UA WILL BE YOUR HERO ACADEMIA
Notes: Chapter 4 Notes:Yeah, I made some adjustments to the story, it isn't anything major, the end result still kinda plays out the same so far. It's an AU, I do what I want :P, don't worry about Uraraka btw, she also passed in a different testing site. There's some characters I've added during some scenes, they'll be relevant far far into the future, don't worry about them. Yes, I'm buffing some characters, it just makes sense to me. Wait till you see the results on the exam for the next chapter, big buffs to some characters. Star wars things mentioned:
· Sith Code – It's a code the Dark Jedi/Sith code follow. Side note, I'm having trouble with character names, like Kyoka in some mediums and Kyouka in other mediums, Toru and Tooru, Kendo and Kendou. To simplify everything, i'm going to use it without the U for both Kendo and Kyoka, Tooru will continue to be Toru in this story. But when their names are mentioned, it's them.