After me and mum had finished eating dinner and her deciding my punishment, which wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, I raced to my room to start creating my new form. Once I got to my work station I fired up my desktop and immediately started a video call with Melissa, who picked up fairly quickly. "Hey you" she said, still wearing her school uniform "hey babe, how was school?" I asked. "Pretty good, we saw you on the news, you're okay right?" she asked, I could tell she was concerned which never failed to put a smile on my face. "I'm fine, and I managed to get some samples of that guy's quirk" I told her as I plugged the Omnitrix into the computer "whoa, this is more advanced than normal!" she asked. I told her about the new interface and how that must be the reason for the improvements to the DNA collection, so we quickly got to work on creating a new form with the villain's quirk. It took a while, we couldn't find a way to hold the body together without the original host body, but we eventually managed to come up with something. After some tinkering and bouncing ideas off each other we created an anti-gravity projector that would appear above the top of body and it was able to hold itself together, so we moved onto Mount Lady's quirk, which Melissa was more than happy to make a comment on. "I saw what happened to you two" she asked with a smile that made me blush, though I still nodded in confirmation "you ask her out?" she asked, even though I could tell she was just as unsure as I was about taking on more than one girlfriend. "I'm still not sure about this whole thing" I told her, leaning against the table with my forearms crossed "I care about you, I don't want you to think I would ever hurt that" I informed her, looking down at the table instead of meeting her eyes on the screen. "I care about you too, but I still want you to be happy even if we can't see each other" she replied with a smile, which made me look at her image on the screen again. "I'll come see you soon, I promise" I told her before we started looking at viable transformations using Gigantification. It took a while but with a lot of will, and a quick google search, I was able to find the best option, a bipedal dinosaur with orange scales and an elongated neck, I even made a joke that I could become bigger than a mountain, but Gingantification wasn't able to do that, no matter what we did to it.
Calling it a night, I bid farewell to my girlfriend before laying down on my bed and falling asleep almost immediately, though this bliss only lasted for about three hours before I was awoken by my alarm telling me I had training with Izuku and All Might. Slowly getting back up and out of my warm and comfortable bed I trudged towards my destination, Dagoba beach. Upon arrival I saw Izuku tied to a fridge and attempting to drag it along the sandy surface, though with All Might in his enlarged form sitting on top of it he wasn't getting very far. As I approached, I heard Izuku questioning why he was hauling trash across the bridge and I had a hilarious idea.
"People move these everyday, ya know, and most of them don't have any super strength" All Might said, referring to the food container he was sitting on, his head pointed away from the suffering teenager on the ground, causing him to miss my approaching form. "Well yeah, but there's an extra six hundred pounds with you sitting on top of it" Izuku replied, though All Might already had a reply ready "nah, I've lost weight so I'm down to five-sixty these days, in this form at least". All Izuku could do was release an exasperated sigh and turn around to look at the rest of the trash, yet he wasn't quick enough to see the green flash before it happened and the 12-foot-tall form of humungousaur standing over him, smirk firmly plastered on his features as he made a single solitary sound.
"BOO"
Izuku immediately scrambled away yelling out a villain had found them, which made a loud, bellowing sound to leave my mouth. Izuku was surprised by this at first, he'd been expecting a massive attack similar to the one three says ago, yet here was this dinosaur creature laughing his ass off, despite the visible glare All Might was giving him. "You're late" he chastised, clearly surprising the green haired teen even more, "sorry, I was up late deigning the new form with Melissa" I replied, finally slapping the Omnitrix symbol and reverting back to my normal from, which seemed to calm Izuku who finally understood the situation.
After scaring my friend and his subsequent calming down we got to work on his training. All Might helped him with his physical training and getting stronger, while I taught him hand to hand combat and keeping calm during intense situations. This went on for ten months until it was the day of the exam and I was walking with All Might to Dagoba beach when we heard a very familiar scream, one that had a very specific message behind it.
I. WIN.
Running up to the edge of the path that overlooked the beach we saw Izuku standing upon a small mountain of trash that he had collected... from the entire beach. He'd collected everything from the whole he could find and piled it up in one area, leaving the whole beach free of any clutter. Izuku had gone above and beyond what had been asked of him to impress his idol and as far as I could tell, he'd squashed any expectations he had for him.
The screaming began to subside and Izuku started to fall from his creation due to all the hard work he'd been enduring, he very nearly hit the ground before All Might scooped him up just as he was about to crash, kicking up sand as he moved in his muscle form. I ran over to them with a proud smile on my face as I heard Izuku weakly tell All Might he'd done it and asking if he was ready. In response the number one hero showed him the picture he'd taken of him crying his eyes out upon hearing he wasn't ready and assumed he hadn't been worthy after all. "There's still a long road ahead of you before you can inherit my full power set" All Might began before holding his arms out and indicating to the mountain of trash that was still on the beach "but it's starting to look like you can do it!" he finished. Upon hearing this Izuku asked "Do I deserve this?" all I could do was laugh, all the hard work he'd put in, the effort and perseverance he'd shown, and he was worried he hadn't earned this power. "Both of you put so much time and energy into training me... how did I end up so lucky?" Izuku questioned, making me frown "Izuku, you earned this" I told him "You've done something I was never able to do and that tells me you will be a far stronger hero than I could ever be" I finished, my hand placed firmly on his shoulder in reassurance. Tears welled up in his eyes upon hearing this, he knew of my skills and what I could do, yet I had told him the truth when I explained he had put in more effort than I ever did and that would take him far further than me.
"Someone told me once, there's a difference between being lucky and deserving" All Might started, plucking a hair from his scalp "one's an accident, the other a reward. Never get the two confused" he explained, bringing Izuku's attention back to him. "Take that to heart young man. This gift, you earned it with your own valiant effort" he finished before saying something that brought this whole moment crashing down around our ears. "Eat this" All Might said, indicating to the hair he had pulled from his head. Realising what he had said I immediately grabbed at my sides as loud laughter flew out of my mouth, which caused All Might to become flustered and start explaining what had to happen in order for Izuku to inherit One for All. In a haste to be on time for our exam Izuku shoved the hair down his throat and swallowed it with an audible gulp and rushed to get home and prepare for the trial ahead, though I went straight to UA as those on the recommendations were expected to go early so that we had more room to show off our skills and not interfere with the other candidates.
As I walked into the exam area I spotted some people I recognised, the first was Shoto Todoroki, a teenager of about my age with half red and half white hair, his face had a scar over his left eye. His quirk was half cold and half hot, his left side could produce fire while his right produced ice. I knew Shoto from when I was younger, his mom had been made my god mother by my own mother. We'd been pretty good friends for a while, but then his bastard of a father had hurt her pretty badly, which put her in the hospital.
I also recognised our examiner, a pro hero by the name of Midnight, my mom and her were old friends and she'd baby sat me from a young age. Though as I got older, she stopped coming round to see me as much which made me sad as I'd always enjoyed her company and her sense of humor. She had long purple hair and a white skin-tight outfit that showed off her figure, she carried a small whip which helped her 'sexy teacher' vibe she gave off, which was capped off by the pointed glasses she wore which I swear didn't have lenses.
Finally there was a girl with long black hair that was put in to a bushy ponytail, she wore a school PE outfit, though that didn't exactly help as she had very large breasts that seemed to bounce with each step she took. I knew her from my time at I-Island, which her family had a share-hold in, Momo Yaoyorozu I believe her name was. Melissa had encouraged me to talk to her before I left, though I didn't have the nerve back then.
I began approaching Yaoyorozu with the intent of introducing myself but was intercepted by my god-brother trying to talk to me. "Ben, it's been..." he began, however I just held my hand up to stop him "have you spoken to Rei yet?" I asked, though I already knew the answer. "No" he replied, his cold glare back in full force "then we have nothing to talk about, she's your mother Todoroki, she deserves to see you at the very least" I told him, putting emphasis on the fact I used his last name, despite being close enough to use his first. I walked away from her and over to Yaoyorozu to strike up a conversation, but I stopped as I could see she was focusing herself.
Taking another look around I could see there was a guy with short brown hair who looked incredibly excited to be here, but as soon as Todoroki said something to him his mood changed. Seeing this pissed me off, it was understandable for him to be annoyed at me but that didn't give him the fight to take that out on other people. Once they were apart I made my way towards him with the intent of cheering him up, though stopped when I saw him barrelling towards me. "HEY YOUR BEN TENNYSON RIGHT" he yelled, which caught me and everyone else here by surprise, bringing attention and whispers to myself "Err... Yeah, that's me" I asked as I held out my hand for him to shake. This turned out to be a mistake as he grabbed it in a death grip and vigorously shook my appendage, causing pain to shoot through my entire arm. "I'm Inasa Yoarashi" he told me, his mood much calmer than before "it's an honour to meet the son of such a great hero" he explained, though this caused me to frown. "I haven't done anything myself yet" I started "how about we graduate UA first, then you can say it's an honour" I smiled with this declaration. This guy was really cool, I couldn't wait to see what his quirk was.
A loud voice called out to us and we were lead into a hall with multiple desks and sheets of paper stapled together on top of them. This was the written part of the exam, which I had full confidence in. My mother had been pretty good at tests and, quote, "didn't want me to get dad's lack of normal educational skills to be passed onto me". Throughout the exam I felt like someone was watching me, though when I went to look all I found was people either focusing on their papers or, in the case of Midnight, staring at her shoes for some reason. Deciding to focus on the test and talk to her later, I finished with about five minutes to spare, so I started planning how the practical side was going to go. I knew I couldn't use any of the heavy hitters due to how slow they were, so that excluded Four Arms and Humungasaur, I also couldn't use Ripjaws unless the test involved a large amount of water, Echo-Echo wasn't built for anything except ending a fight quickly or overpower an enemy with sheer numbers. This left Big Chill, Heatblast, whom my father had created after a fight he had with Endeavor, Todoroki's father and the number two hero, Diamondhead for if it was a battle and finally XLR8 and Spidermonkey could get around quickly if it was a race.
When it came time for the practical side of the exam they switched teachers for some reason and Present Mic announced we would be partaking in an obstacle course, six at a time and we would be called up based on number. They also said you couldn't just race right through so that excluded using XLR8 to just race right through, so it looked like I was going to have to use my new found ability to switch forms while already transformed after all. I was up against Yoarashi, Todoroki and three others I didn't recognise, so that made it difficult. I didn't know what Yoarashi's quirk was so I couldn't discount him having something that could knock XLR8 off his feet.
The first light came on.
I went for the omnitrix and popped up the dial, circling through the holograms until I found who I had decided on
The second light appeared.
I held my hand over the watch and got ready to transform. The others would have a minor head start on my so I would have to catch up quickly.
The third light was seen and the other contestants were already off, though by that point the volcanic humanoid with a fire for a head and molten rock for a face had carved out a piece of the ground to fly on and was neck and neck with Yoarashi, who was in the lead. Every time I over took Yoarashi he would slowly catch up and force me to go faster, though I had a fear of harming anyone with my flames by going to fast. This all changed however when Todoroki overtook us while riding a wave of ice he was creating behind him. Completely forgetting about me Yoarashi, who had been riding on a tornado he had created underneath him took off to keep up with Todoroki, though this was his mistake as in our haste to keep the lead we'd left the other contestants in the wind...
Which meant there was no one behind us to get hurt by my fire.
Taking off at a blinding speed I over took Todoroki and Yoarashi and slid past the finish line, coming first just as the excitable wind user came through inches before my god-brother. Hearing that we had come through three minutes before the average time made me proud as I slapped the Omnitrix symbol on my chest and reverted back to normal. Taking a look around I noticed that Yaoyorozu was applauding while staring directly at me and Midnight was a distance away with a solemn look on her face, arms folded over her breasts. Resolving to find her and talk to her later I decided to just enjoy my victory when I began to wonder.
'I wonder what Izuku's doing right now'