It was finally time for the entrance exam; Sosa and I have been preparing each other for this day, studying almost daily after school, helping each other train our quirks and even developing prototype gear for each other, well, that was mostly Sosa's doing. In order to help with our quirk drawbacks, Sosa made herself a pair of glasses, that seemed more like goggles, that could increase their effectiveness by a simple scroll wheel. For me, the day after we got ambushed, she asked me to not cut my hair for a few months; I figured it was because she liked me with long hair, but about a month before the exam, I realized it wasn't the case, maybe. She offered to cut my hair and it was a bit more than I was expecting; almost a total shave. About a week before the exam, she finally showed me what she did with my hair; she pulled out a pair of blue biking shorts and asked me to try them on.

"Ok... this isn't weird at all."

"Haisui, I'm your girlfriend, it's nothing I haven't seen before." I blushed at her comment, but then went to the bathroom to put on the shorts; despite being skintight, they were comfortable and reached down about an inch below the knees. She gave a big smile as I walked in, before instructing me to phase.

"You sure?"

"Positive." I phased into my energy state, and just like normal, my shirt fell right through, along with my socks, but surprisingly, the shorts were nowhere to be seen. "Good, just as I thought. Now shift back to human." I did, preparing to cover myself, but very soon, I realized that the shorts were still on me.

"Ok, that's new. I've never had clothes stay with me before."

"Yes! It worked! I'm a genius!" She was running around, bouncing all over the place, humming a happy tune.

"You mind telling me exactly what you did?" She stopped, then sheepishly looked at me, realizing no explanation was given.

"Right. So, remember a few months back when I asked you not to cut your hair?"

"Yeah. Then you went back on your word and chopped it all off."

"Which really hurt me to do, because I liked it. However, it was worth it, because I made those shorts out of your hair. With a little bit of dye thrown in of course."

"Wait, so these shorts are made of my hair... so that means..."

"Since they were originally a part of you, they can phase shift with you."

"Just like Lemillion and his suit! Wow, you really are a genius. Thank you Sosa, you're the best. Now I don't have to worry about going fully naked when using my quirk."

"I know I am. Now then, let's finish up studying, there are still a few more things to fine tune before the exam."

Now, here we were, walking through the arches of U.A hand in hand and into the exam room. While walking in, we were handed cards that placed us in certain seats; we parted ways to go sit where we were supposed to, then sat down for Present Mic's informative mini lecture about the exams.

"Alright students, here's how it's gonna go!" Actually, I think I'm gonna just summarize this part since I know most of you just wanna get to the action. So, we're all assigned to battle areas as to not work together with friends, which was kind of a bummer, but I wouldn't let this get me down; there are four villain bots, each worth a certain amount of points, one two and three, while the biggest one was worth zero, it was just meant to be an obstacle to run away from.

Before the practical exam, we had to take a written test and thanks to studying with Sosa, I'm pretty sure I aced this thing no problem. Once the written exam was done, I walked with the rest of my group into my testing ground and immediately got to work, not stopping to chat; this was something present mic actually enjoyed.

"Hey, he's got the right idea! In a real battle there are no countdowns, so stop flapping your gums, time's a wastin!" By the time everyone began, I already powered down three drones, one two pointer and two one pointers. I ran around as fast as I could, draining every robot in my sight; though this would beg the question as to how Sosa was doing, then I saw the red button located behind each robot, a shutdown switch.

"She'll do just fine." I sprang back into action, seeing the rest of the applicants trying their best, but as I finished draining a three pointer, I was caught off guard by a blow to the left arm, sending me tumbling: I looked to see another three pointer come my way, but it was blown up by a powerful blue bolt of electricity. I looked to see a black haired guy in a dark blue jumpsuit with his finger in a gun position.

"You good there? You took quite the hit." He walked over and extended his left arm with a smile; I reached with mine, but felt a sharp pain course through it, I held it, knowing it was broken. "Oh jeez, that looks bad." He held out his right hand instead and I took it, grimacing a little at the motion in my left arm.

"No worries, I've done worse." I shifted my arm to energy, then back again, punching the air for good measure. "See, good as new."

"That's really cool. I thought you could only absorb energy. I'm Shogeki Shuto."

"Haisui Fantomu."

"Three minutes remain until the end of the trial everyone!" We heard present mic say.

"Wish I could talk more, but I've got some points to rack up."

"Me too. May the best energy fighter win." We waved goodbye as I decided to give it my all. I shifted into my energy state, leaving my shoes, socks and shirt behind, then zipped through every single bot I saw, gaining so many points I actually lost track. While I was in another bot, I felt the ground shake and out came the giant one, causing mass panic everywhere, but I simply exited the bot I was in and held my ground, thinking about what to do.

'This thing is nothing; I could take it out easily. But there's nothing for me if I do, I'll just end up wasting time." I got ready to run off, when I heard a familiar voice behind me.

"Help! I'm stuck! Somebody help me!" I looked to see Shogeki beneath a large pile of rubble, trying to shoot the rocks with his bolts, but they had no effect. I looked above him to see that the bot was about to step on him, so I acted before even thinking; I shifted and launched myself directly at the thing, absorbing its energy as fast as I could.

'Come on! Hurry up and drain already!' I thought to myself, before no longer feeling power absorbed into me. I looked all over and saw that the robot had stopped, I left the bot through its foot and semi phased back; it seems that my consumption of all the power without proper drainage left me unable to phase back completely, I was tangible, but just barely, with a glowing body that you could almost see through, like frosted glass. I walked to Shogeki and lifted the rubble off of him no problem, then helped him up.

"Thanks. But why did you save me?"

"I was just returning the favor, besides, how can I be a hero if I can't save anyone."

"True. And is that normal? For you to be all... that?" I looked down at myself and laughed.

"No, not really. Don't worry, my body is just burning off all the excess energy I've absorbed. It'll be faster if I do this for a bit though." I shifted my left arm and instantly, my glowing began to go away just a little bit faster than before.

"What about your clothes though? Seems the only thing left are those shorts."

"My clothes tend not to shift with me and these shorts are made of my hair fibers, so it's the only thing I really have." I scratched the back of my neck while laughing.

"And that's time!" We looked up to see present mic shouting over all the areas, causing competitors to stop. "Be sure to check your mail throughout the next few days to see if you made it or not! Till then, toodles!" Shogeki and I shook hands one last time with a determined smile.

"Guess I'll see you around then?" He asked me.

"Judging by how you performed, I can guarantee it. Though, good luck beating my score." We laughed and went our separate ways, I picked up my clothes from the floor and put them on again, then walked out through the gates, looking around for Sosa, who jumped onto my back, sending us both to the ground. "Well hello to you too." She giggled and helped me up, then gave me a hug; I saw she was wearing her goggle glasses.

"Soooo how'd it go? How many points did you get?"

"I don't know, I lost count around 60." Her expression was pure shock at that.

"I ended at 50, yet you had more than 60?"

"A whole lot more. But enough about me. How many fingers did you use?"

"Only three, don't worry about it. I'll be fine, see? my vision just upgraded to level 2." She scrolled up on her little wheel, lessening the amount of zoom on her glasses.

"If you say so. C'mon, let's head home, I'm starving and can't wait to see my results in a few days. Oh, and I made a new pal, I really hope he gets in."

"I've never seen you so energetic before. Guess you must be really excited to go here, huh?"

"Beyond that, I'm over the moon!" I accidentally shot into the air while shifted, jumping out of my clothes again. "Whoops." When I landed again, I put everything on while Sosa just chuckled.

"Well, Mr. Over the Moon, you won't know until your test results come in. Also, I've been thinking; while fighting and saving people is fun, I feel like I belong more in the creative aspect, helping improve others to save people more efficiently. If I get accepted, I want to be in the support course, cheering you and the rest on!" She seemed incredibly hyped while saying this to me, I could tell this was her calling, the thing she truly wanted to strive for.

"I'd like that, you would be an incredible support student. Who knows, maybe you'll get recruited by the support company that recruited Mei Hatsume." Her eyes lit up at this comment.

"You really think so?!"

"If these goggles and my shorts are anything to go by, I'd say you have one great shot, almost as great as Snipe." She smiled, then we began to walk to the bus stop in order to ride back home; she fell asleep on my shoulder as we rode back, me having to wake her up when our stop came. We walked to her house first, said goodbye and agreed to game when I got back home after dinner of course. Once I walked through the doors, my parents were already there waiting for me.

"Tell us everything Haisui, we want to know all that happened." My mom said, both worried and completely ecstatic.

"Don't spare any details!"

"Woah, alright, a simple hello would have been fine."

"Sorry, we're just really excited about your entrance exam." My dad said, not losing his smile; I chuckled and shook my head.

"Alright, I'll talk, but can we do it over dinner? All that running and fighting made me hungry." They agreed and we sat down to eat while I told them everything, my enthusiasm getting the better of me at times; they already knew about my special shorts, so didn't have to explain that. As I talked, my excitement became theirs, eventually ending with them hugging and congratulating me.

Three days passed and dad walked in with the mail, handing a specific letter to me with a big smile on his face. I took it and my heart instantly began to race when I saw UA's stamp in the corner.

"Mom, dad, I need support in opening this. Wanna come watch?"

"I already have the popcorn ready." My mom said, walking in with a bowl, handing it to my dad as they sat on the couch while I knelt in front of the coffee table, carefully opening the surprisingly heavy envelope, revealing a holo-disk within it. I slowly pulled it out, looking to see if there was anything else, revealing nothing, I held the holo-disk in my hands, nervous to press the button. I felt two hands on my shoulders and looked behind me to see my parents smiling confidently; I took a deep breath and pressed the button on the disk, out appeared the principal of the school, a white mouse, bear animal, principal Nezu.

"Greetings; we haven't formerly met before, but I'm principal Nezu, head of U.A High. This message is for a special person by the name of Haisui Fantomu with great news." Upon hearing that, tears started to form in my eyes from the happiness. "First, let's see the scoreboard for your practical exam; as you can see, you managed to beat every other student by an absolute landslide; even without rescue points taken into account, you would have still gotten top place." I looked at the scoreboard behind him and saw my score, 80 villain points and 45 rescue points, while the second place person got 40 villain points and 32 rescue points; my hands went to my mouth to stop my jaw from dropping, but he continued. "While your villain score is impressive, what we truly saw in you was your drive to save another contestant in need; you didn't hesitate to jump into the action and do what's right, just like a true hero would. So, what I'm trying to say through all this, is we offer you a place at U.A high. We hope you can make us proud." With that, the message ended; the three of us stood there in silence before I jumped up in excitement.

"WAAAAAAHHHH HOOOOOOO!" My parents celebrated with me, all of us in a group hug, congratulating me on getting in. Just then, my phone rang, I saw it was Sosa and I answered, just to hear a super excited voice on the other end.

"I got my message today, what about you?"

"I did too. What did yours say?"

"What did yours?"

"We'll say it together on three ok?"

"Ok..."

"One..."

"Two..."

"Three! I got in!"

"I got in!" We both cheered for each other over the phone while my mom brought out a congratulation cake as my dad was laughing at me. While we had cake, I looked over the message, seeing all the other names that passed, looking for one in particular, eventually finding it. 7th place, Shogeki Shuto.

"Guess I'll see you at school buddy."