Two hours later, Izuku found himself walking towards the building where the examinations would take place. 'I never got to try out All Might's power.' He thought to himself. "I absorbed his DNA, but did I get his power?" he asked to himself. "DEKU!" he turned around and saw Bakugou walking toward him, a smile on his face. "Kaachan!" he replied. "So how are you feeling?" his best friend asked. "Nervous." Izuku truthfully replied. "Well I know something that'll cheer you up! Muto was banned from the exam!"
"W-what?" Izuku stuttered out. Bakugou laughed. "The bastard got drunk and tried to fight a cop! He's never going to get into UA!" The two of them ignored those muttering about Bakugou. "So are you gonna do your best?" he asked Izuku. Izuku nodded. "I'll try my hardest!" His friend gave him a fist bump. "Just don't try your hardest near me, Ok? I'd like to not be overshadowed." Izuku chuckled. His friend ran into the building. Izuku had paused about twenty feet from the door. 'This is it… this is the first step towards being a hero!' he put his foot forward, defying his inner doubts.
And then as he brought his other foot forward he tripped on himself. 'Well shoot' he thought, bracing for impact. But then no impact came. His fall stopped suddenly, but there was no pain. He noticed that he was levitating! "Are you all right?" A cheery voice asked. Izuku slowly turned his head towards the voice and then started to flail. It was a girl! And she was talking to him! She evidently had some sort of levitation Quirk. "I'm sorry for using my Quirk on you without permission but it would be bad luck if you fell right?" 'She's pretty' he thought, eyes still wide. "Are you nervous?" she asked. Izuku only managed to stammer awkwardly. "We should do our best! See you!" She waved before leaving. Izuku stood there for a few seconds. 'I TALKED TO A GIRL!' he mentally screamed.
The entrance exam orientation was hosted by none other than Present Mic, a hero with a sonic Quirk. Izuku didn't like sonic Quirks due to the fact that Muto had one (he created a high-frequency screech that could cause several nasty side effects), although he did like Mic. He listened to his show every week. "Welcome listeners to my entrance show! Everybody say 'hey'!" He was met with silence. "W-what a… refined response." he stammered out, a little embarrassed. "I'll give a quick rundown on the exam. You will all be competing in mock battles in an urban setting! Each person will go to a random area!" Bakugou and Izuku looked at each other's cards. "So we won't be able to help our friends." Katsuki responded. "Even though we're consecutive we're in two different places." Izuku said aloud. "Good luck." The ash blond Explosion user said to his friend. "Perhaps we'll each get the highest scores of our respective areas?" he asked. "You're just glad you don't have to be near me." Izuku muttured. "Is it a crime to not want to be near your Quirk?! It gave me Ophidophobia!"
(AN: A fear of snakes, because the tendrils sometimes move like snakes)
Present Mic had gotten back on topic by now. "There are three types of villains here. Each one has been assigned a point modifier based on difficulty. Your goal is to defeat these villains to gain points! However, unheroic acts or attacking exam takers is forbidden!"
"I have a question!" a boy shouted. "Yes?" Mic asked, a spotlight activating over the boy. "On the printout there are four villains! If this is a misprint then this school should be ashamed of itself!" he shouted in a rather rude way. "And you! With the curly hair!"
"M-me?" Izuku stammered, pointing at himself. Katsuki growled. "Stop muttering! It's distracting!" the bossy boy yelled. "If you're on a pleasure trip, leave immediately!"
"S-sorry" Izuku stammered. Chuckles arose. "Shut it ya bastards!" Bakugou shouted. "To answer your question" Mic said, "The fourth type of villain is worth zero points! It is only an obstacle to be avoided!"
"Thank you! I apologize for the interruption!" the bossy boy sat down. Muttering broke out. "And finally, as a present I'll give you our school motto: Plus Ultra!"
Izuku soon arrived at the site, along with the rest of those assigned. 'All right, it's time to put the ten months of training to the test! I'll soon become the hero I've always dreamed of being!' Izuku mentally said to himself. Most of the rest of the group was muttering at the sheer size of the testing ground. "It's like a city itself!"
"They have more than one of these?" "UA is amazing!" Izuku was shivering, remembering the rules. 'Defeat as many villains ass possible, avoid the obstacle, and survive for ten minutes. H-how can everyone be this confident? Some even have equipment for their Quirks!' Then he noticed a certain face. 'S-she's here! The nice girl! I need to thank her!' And then he felt a hand on his shoulder. "Hey" a familiar voice spoke out. 'H-he's here to?!' "That girl over there is trying to focus. Why are you here? Are you here to throw off our focus?!"
"N-no! Of course not!" Izuku stuttered. He overheard some of the other examinees talking about how he almost tripped, and how they were lucky that he was here. 'Lucky? I'll show you 'lucky' when I- NO! NO NO NO! THEY ARE NOT TO BE HARMED!' Izuku fought down the desire to feed. He mentally thanked All Might for the rabbits. "OK START!" Present Mic shouted over the microphone. Everyone turned, confused. "What? There's no countdown in a real fight! Now get going!" "Huh?" Izuku asked, and then he saw everyone else running towards the entrance. "I'm behind ALREADY!" He shouted, before activating his Quirk. Using the extra power toward his muscles, he quickly caught up. He flashed back to what All Might had said about One for All.
"YOU NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO TAKE IT FOR A TEST DRIVE. NORMALLY IT'D SHOW UP IN TWO TO THREE HOURS, BUT YOU'VE PROBABLY ALREADY DIGESTED IT. JUST… BE PREPARED FOR THE PHYSICAL REPERCUSSIONS IT'LL HAVE ON YOUR BODY." "Huh?" He had asked. "WHEN YOU USE ONE FOR ALL, SQUEEZE YOUR BUTTOCKS AND YELL, FROM WITHIN YOUR HEART; S-"
Izuku was brought out of his memory when a robot appeared in front of him! 'A Single-pointer!' he thought to himself. "Target Acquired!" the robot spoke. Izuku already rushed towards it, claws out. 'The best bet would be to decapitate it!' he thought. He pushed off of the ground, and brought his claws to its neck. The head separated with a bit of resistance. 'All right! That's one point!' he thought to himself. "SIX MINUTES AND TWO SECONDS LEFT!" Mic shouted. "I-it's been four minutes already!?" Izuku shouted to himself. "Points… I need points fast!" he said to himself as he rushed past several robot corpses. He soon entered a clearing and saw many people fighting. "T-the nice girl!" he said to himself. He watched as she lifted several robots up high. "Release!" she shouted, causing them to drop. "Whew. That's 28!" she shouted. '28?!' Izuku thought to himself. And then the bossy boy appeared. Apparently he had engines in his legs. "45!" he shouted. "Forty five?!" Izuku spoke aloud. As he listened to the other examinees, he began to panic. 'The amount of enemies is decreasing fast! I need to find some!' With that he forced power into his legs and took off.
Meanwhile, several pro heroes were watching the prospective students fight. "The examinees will have to search a large area fast." Nezu, the principal of UA, said. "Therefore tracking, mobility, and attacking abilities are important. Also, the ability to stay calm is essential. These are key abilities for heroes on the streets." "This year's recruits look very interesting." Vlad King said. "Well, don't count your chickens before they hatch. Their true test begins now." And then he pressed a big red button.
A massive explosion shook the mock city. Everyone looked towards it in shock, Izuku included. He had just managed to decapitate both heads of a three-pointer, bringing his score up to 4. It was a massive thing, easily twenty stories tall. He had a flashback to Mic's warning to avoid the zero pointer. 'Isn't that a little big?' he squealed in his mind. It then brought a giant fist down, blowing him back. Everyone started running, completely ignoring him. The bossy boy gave him a glance before sprinting away. "I'll get more points as I run!" Izuku said out loud. And then those hopes were crushed. "Two minutes left!" Mic shouted. 'T-two minutes?! The last ten months will have been wasted!' he thought in despair. And then he sensed prey. "O-ow!" He turned and saw the nice girl pinned under some rubble, seemingly unable to get out. He mentally squashed the desire to feed as he remembered her nice words to him. Without thinking, he rushed towards her. The pros watched in amazement, but Izuku didn't know that he was the center of the heroes' attention. He felt an amazing energy rush through him. And then he lept into the air. 'Clench your buttocks, and from deep within you heart, yell' "SMASH!" he punched the zero pointer in the face with a powerful right hook, his claws having reverted into hands. The blow dented the robot and caused it to fall back, and tiny bits of it exploded. And then Izuku realised he was two hundred feet in the air, and three of his limbs were broken. As he fell, he felt the intense pain. It almost made him pass out. "One minute left!" Mic shouted.
'I'm an idiot! Ten months is barely enough!' he thought as he fell. 'Both my legs and my right arm are broken. If I use a smash on the ground with my left at the right time I'll survive! However, I won't be able to get any more points!' And then all thoughts were stopped when the nice girl slapped his face. And then the momentum stopped in such a way that he felt nothing. 'She saved me again!' he thought to himself. "R-release!" she said. He fell a meager 3 feet to the ground. This allowed him to see the second part of her Quirk; her ability to barf rainbows. 'I-I'm safe.' he thought to himself. 'And she's all right! That's good!' He then noticed his arms were beginning to heal! It was slow though. He estimated it would take several hours at least. "I-I need points…" he wheezed out, dragging himself forward. "Time's up!" Mic shouted. Izuku's eyes rolled into the back of his head and he passed out.
The other candidates of city B started muttering about Izuku's move. They asked about the Quirk and why he was so jumpy. 'They're all missing the point!' the bossy boy thought to himself. 'Don't they see?! He did what he did to save that girl. He was aware of the remaining time and his own safety, and the points he needed to pass! And he still did it anyway! If we weren't in an exam I'd have done the same! Wait. Exam? Of course…' he was brought out of his musings when an old lady walked up. "Good work everyone!" She then stopped at a random examinee. "Have some gunnies!" she said, handing said treats to the prospective student. "T-thanks." he stammered out, confused. A French boy held out a finger. "This lady is the backbone of UA!" he said. Said old lady walked up to Izuku. "Oh my, your body suffered this much from your Quirk?" she asked. 'Evidently it's not used to it yet.' She puckured up her lips and kissed him on the head. "W-WHAT?!" one of the examinees yelled. The French boy spoke again. "That's UA's registered High School nurse; the youthful hero, Recovery Girl!" They watched as a green glow enveloped Izuku's limbs. "Her Quirk causes super regeneration in those she kisses! It's the only reason exams such as this are possible!"
"Does anyone else need healing?" she asked. Meanwhile, the bossy boy was thinking. 'I see. So if the exam is set up like that… that means he…'
ONE WEEK LATER
"Izuku? Izuku? Izuku?!" Inko asked. Her son was just staring at the fish she made. "Huh?" He focused back to his mother. She was a lovely lady. She hadn't changed much since he was a child. Sure she had gained weight when he was five, but by the time he was seven she'd dropped it. "You've been talking to your fish for a while! Are you alright?!"
"I-I'm fine" he lied. 'Through self-scoring I knew that I passed the written exam by a good amount. However, I still only got four points on the practical exam. And ever since then I haven't been able to contact All Might.' "The results should arrive today or tomorrow right?" His mother asked. "Y-yeah." he said. "Well I think it's amazing that you even applied! And I know your Father would be so proud of your dedication!"
"Y-yeah." he repeated. 'I'm glad I had the nerve to tell her about the full extent of my Quirk during those ten months. I had told Dad, but I had never gotten around to telling Mom. She'd keep it a secret, but some groups may try to target her to get to me. After all, if the government knew the full extent, they'd either hunt me down or use me as a weapon.' He paused to pick up a weight. 'All Might, I'm sorry I squandered the potential I showed, but I have no regrets' And then the door burst open. "IZUKU! IZUKU! IT CAME!" his mother shouted. Izuku took the letter and went into his room.
Izuku stared at the letter fo a moment before carefully opening it. Instead of a letter, there was a metal disk. When he put the disk on the table, it began to light up. A hologram appeared. "I AM HERE AS A PROJECTION!"
"A-All MIght?!" Izuku shouted. "I HAD TO DO SOME PAPERWORK, SO I COULDN'T CONTACT YOU. I APOLOGISE." he bowed. Izuku was stunned. "ACTUALLY, I CAME TO THIS TOWN TO WORK AT UA!"
"All Might is working at UA!?" Izuku shouted to himself. "HMM?" All Might asked as a hand tapped him on the elbow. "WRAP IT UP? BUT I HAVE SO MUCH MORE TO SAY. IT'S GOING TO PUSH EVERYONE BACK? ALL RIGHT. OK. EVEN THOUGH YOU PASSED THE WRITTEN EXAM- WITH FLYING COLORS I MAY ADD- YOU ONLY GOT FOUR POINTS ON THE PRACTICAL EXAM. THAT MEANS THAT YOU DIDN'T PASS." 'I already knew that.' Izuku thought to himself. 'But it's so frustrating!' "THAT IS, IF THAT WAS ALL THERE WAS TO IT!" Izuku looked up confused. "I'M AN ENTERTAINER AS WELL! NOW TAKE A LOOK AT THIS VIDEO!" The video showed the nice girl he saved offering to give him some of her points! Izuku was stunned. "SHE CAME DIRECTLY AFTER THE EXAM TO TRY TO NEGOTIATE ON YOUR BEHALF IN PERSON! THIS LED TO US STAFF TO MAKE A DECISION! YOU SEE, THE PRACTICAL EXAM IS MORE THAN JUST DEFEATING VILLAINS! THERE'S ANOTHER TYPE OF POINT! RESCUE POINTS! THESE ARE GIVEN BY A PANEL OF JUDGES! AND YOU, IZUKU MIDORIYA, GOT 60! YOU ARE, AS SEEN HERE, ARE IN 6TH PLACE!"
Izuku just stared, jaw hanging low in shock, sweat beading on his head. He saw that many others, including the nice girl, had more rescue points then villain points! She had 45, placing her in 3rd! "YOU BOTH PASS." he said. Izuku's eyes watered, almost ready to bring forth a flood. "T-this is crazy…" he muttered. "Come, Young Midoriya. This is your hero academia!" All Might calmly finished, hand outstretched. Izuku immediately reached for his phone. "DAD! I GOT IN!" "That's great son." came the response. Inko came in as well, sobbing in joy. It was times like this that they wished Hisashi was home.
Hisashi put down the phone. He really wished he could be there for his family. He then scowled under his mask. His son was going to UA! As proud as he was that he was accepted, he was worried. He was afraid that Izuku would die due to a villian. He was afraid that he'd have to fight his son, especially since he was now the ninth One For All wielder. And lastly, he was afraid that his son's Quirk would be seen as too villainous.