A/N: Thanks for all the support thus far! I might slow down the chapter releases eventually but, for now...I'm kinda on a roll.

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Chapter Six: Entrance Exams Pt. III

Izuku's first real obstacle came quickly as he and Miss Positive were forced to hide in an alleyway, waiting for what they had seen to pass them by.

It was a large road-roller, being controlled by what appeared to be a paper doll of sorts, going quickly through the streets and flattening anything in its path. Izuku gulped.

Are they sure there's no danger to us…? That seems a bit much.

When they snuck out of the alley, there was a screech. They looked and saw that the large vehicle had spun around and was facing them now.

"Whoa! That's not good," Miss Positive said with a big smile, as if it wasn't a concern.

"Run!" Izuku grabbed the woman's arm to drag her along, knowing it was hopeless to get her to go otherwise. There were screeches as the road roller was kicked into gear and went flying towards them.

All the ways out of the street are closed up! We won't make it to the next alleyway..!

Izuku slid to a stop and tried a door, finding that it wouldn't budge, and all the windows were boarded up from the inside. He looked back, seeing the vehicle almost upon them.

I-I really don't want to do this, but…

"Excuse me!" Izuku turned to Miss Positive and scooped her up into his arms, much to her delight. His face was turning intensely red as he felt her softness, trying desperately to not make eye contact.

He clicked in both of his pointer fingers, holding them in. The Flow began to whirr as it packed in more and more air from around.

More… More! After a few more moments, he released his fingers. The Flow activated and shot powerful blasts of air from his boots, sending them both into the air rapidly. The vehicle flew by underneath them, but there was no time to waste as the paper doll jumped up into the air at them at an alarming speed.

Izuku managed to kick off the wall of a building to dodge, as he watched the doll try to grab onto Miss Positive.

That thing was fast! Paper Mache's quirk is no joke, he thought as they started to fall back down to the ground. He held out his left foot and readied to fire a blast of air from it to catch them—

Shing! Suddenly, the paper doll flew down past them. Izuku looked in surprise, finding that it had severed the tubes between the boot and the Flow backpack— But it was too late to stop the device, as it shot out a large burst from around his leg area, sending them flying down the street uncontrollably.

Gotta… counter… our momentum! They were heading for another building at an alarming speed. Judging the distance, Izuku held out his working right boot towards the building, while keeping his attention focused on the doll.

As he thought, it jumped towards them again, this time aiming straight for Miss Positive, its hands changing to thin blades. However, it wasn't ready as Izuku released the Flow charge, air bursting from the boot as he moved his right leg upward, making them spin in mid-air. His leg came up hard and kicked the doll, ripping it in half from the force. They lost a lot of momentum but still ended up flying through a window into the building, tumbling to a stop as Izuku let out a sigh of relief.

"That was close… Are you—" He screamed as he looked down, seeing the woman underneath him, her chest right in front of his face.

Quickly scrambling up, Izuku looked away, embarrassed, as Miss Positive stood and giggled.

"That was fun!~ I love this exercise," she said happily, her figure shimmering a bit for a moment. This caught Izuku's attention, and he looked at her, seeing there were a few very thin blue cracks along her body.

Does that mean she's taken some damage? I need to be careful from now on..

Suddenly, the light vanished from the room, as something covered the broken window, leaving them in darkness. Izuku could still see Miss Positive, who gave off a faint blue glow, so he tried to move closer to her— Only for something in the darkness to push him away.

"So, Midoriya right?"

The voice that spoke was a familiar, serious tone. He took up a defensive stance and looked around, trying to adjust to the darkness.

"That stance, it's interesting. You seem like you wanna be a Hero more than a Support huh," they spoke.

Izuku reacted as he felt something moving to his left, bringing up his arm defensively, only for it to be a weakly-thrown ball of paper that harmlessly bounces off.

"P-Paper Mache… What is this?" Izuku's eyes searched the darkness more, even the faint blue glow from Miss Positive gone.

"Being quirkless is quite the disadvantage," the man spoke, his voice seemingly shifting to come from different directions. "You can't become a Hero so you think you can sneak in another way huh?"

"That's not true," Izuku retorted. "I-I have a way… I know I can become a Hero with my own abilities!"

Something came from his right, which he managed to deflect— Another simple crumpled up paper ball that fell harmlessly away.

"Heh, someone who thinks fancy gadgets will get him into the Hero course… I respect it, but what I don't respect—"

Movement from his left made Izuku look, only for something to slam hard into his right side, making him tumble a little ways away, gasping as the surprise attack took the air out of him.

"Is stupidity!"

There was a loud rumble from nearby, making Shiro look up towards the sky warily.

The girl had been utilizing her quirk perfectly— By touching solid objects with her hand, she was able to see and sense things through them, making it fairly easy to dodge the traps and devices that were around, though it was a slow process.

However, she gasped as she saw what had made the noise up in the air. It was a girl and her Miss Positive… flying.

"Hey, why can't we do that?" Miss Positive tugged on Shiro's arm, seemingly bummed out that she couldn't do the same her.

Shiro scowled and looked down at the glove she had created— The Power Turbine.

"Well…" Shiro was a calculated risk taker, so anything she didn't know for certain would work was out of the picture in her mind. However, she also knew that being too careful was probably costing them valuable time.

I've gotta show all those cute, tall boys that I can make it! Especially Midoriya!~"

The very short girl smiled to herself, and began to hatch her new reckless plan—

That is, until they soon found that same girl who had been soaring through the air, now lying face-down on the ground. Next to her was a group of thin, card-board bears that were dancing around her, chanting happily about how they caught her. Looking down the street, Shiro spotted a large electrified wall, which seemed incredibly tall and impenetrable.

W-Well... No way past any of this nonsense—

Movement intruded her thoughts, as someone ran past the girl on the ground, rushing through the odd living props and scattering them. It was the pink-haired girl she remembered Izuku talking to a lot, so Shiro watched her closely.

Mei was running, using her propulsion boots to make herself move a bit faster, with her Miss Positive riding piggy-back.

"You're actually super light! This should be easy," Mei said as they neared the wall.

Obviously theres no way they'll make that! Shiro thought as they watched, a smirk on her face. Guess not everyone here is that smart.

"Alright, use it now!" At Mei's call, Miss Positive took out something the girl had given her.

It was a small cylindrical bomb of sorts with a black substance inside. Miss Positive threw it ahead of them. The container hit the wall and burst, sending a sort of black goo all over. Mei jumped and pressed her legs together, metal rods sliding out from her pants and sticking to the metal, magnetised to it. This gave her stability as she stood perpendicular on the wall, smiling at her success.

The black goop that exploded everywhere washed over them, but Mei didn't seem to care as she began to trudge up the wall, the electricity not affecting them.

Whats that? Some kind of insulator?! Shiro was in disbelief as she watched Mei climb all the way up the wall, before hopping over it.

Mei hadn't planned on testing out her new discovery yet, but she always felt like there was no better test than a practical one.

The bomb had been created by studying some of the sludge villain they had encountered nearly a year ago, which she had swiped a sample from while All Might wasn't looking. From her tests, she had found that it seemed to be impervious to most things, like physical attacks, fire, electricity—

There was a major application of it that became apparent, but she didn't want to tell Izuku yet, knowing it would help him out immensely in the future. Instead, she had brought one of her experiments using it, just in case an opportunity arised.

As they reached the top of the wall and hopped over. Miss Positive gave the cutout of Drama Boss a peace sign as they passed it.

"W-Well, good work," the prop spoke.

The two fell fast, but landed easily thanks to Mei's propulsion boots. She let Miss Positive down and they shared a high five, not caring that they were incredibly messy in the black goop.

"Worked like a cha—"

...Then they looked up and saw the looming, monstrous shape above them.

Izuku stood and backed up a bit, feeling the wall behind himself, trying to remember the room's size when he had first arrived.

"I'm not gonna cheat and snuff out your chances of passing this exam," Paper Mache spoke. "But I don't mind taking out that crazy idea you have ingrained in your head."

I can't see him or sense him coming… He clenched his fists and felt the EMP bracers he had created. Here goes nothing!

Izuku waited for a moment, before putting his right foot against the wall and charging his Flow with a moderate charge. When he released it, he went flying forward blindly, and slammed the bracers together, sending out a visible wave of electricity all around as the magnetic field was warped. He looked around with his eyes, spotting the point at which the field seemed to pass through something and dissipate.

There he is! Izuku twisted in mid-air, bringing his right fist upwards to try and catch where he believed Paper Mache to be.

However, his fist hit nothing except a piece of paper, which floated away from his attack. He slid to a stop, feeling the opposite wall of the room just behind him now.

"Jeez, you're persistent that's for sure. Sorry kid, I'm tellin ya that it ain't gonna go your way—"

"S-Shut up!" Izuku was feeling a bit of anger rising in himself. "You're the one whose wrong!"

They only had limited time to make it to the end of the test, and Izuku already felt like he had many disadvantages going in. Now that his dream was slowly becoming more and more visible in his mind, thanks to the efforts he and Mei had gone through, there was a Hero trying to knock him back down, bringing up familiar memories.

Kacchan… It's just like him, pushing me down… But I won't get pushed down anymore!

In the darkness, Izuku knelt down, not looking away from the darkness as he began to fiddle with the severed tube on the left side of the Flow.

There was a sigh from Paper Mache, who shrugged in the darkness. "Well, you'll come to thank me one day."

The man moved silently through the shadows, his many years of espionage and intelligence gathering making him impossible to detect. As he grew close to Izuku, he flicked his hand, making one of the balls of paper fly over from Izuku's left. As he expected, the boy turned left and punched downward at it with his right hand, leaving his back open to where Paper Mache really was.

This time I'll break his toy, that oughta do it, Paper Mache thought as he struck out at him.

However, Izuku didn't stop with the punch. Instead, he kept moving his hand down to the ground, before bringing his left leg up and back straight towards Paper Mache, who was taken off-guard. Luckily, he managed to block the boy's kick with the arm he was attacking with, thanks to his fighting experience, and he chuckled a bit.

Not bad actually, this kid might make a good officer or somethin—

There was a small click as Izuku released his right index finger. A blast of air shot out from Izuku's left boot, slamming right into Paper Mache and sending him flying backwards, straight through the wall of the building.

Gah! Dammit… He fixed it in that short amount of time? Paper Mache thought as he fell, thinking about how he had severed the left leg of the device. No, he re-routed the other tube to the left leg! Just so he could surprise me?

Izuku was breathing heavily from the anxiety and effort of the encounter, happy to see sunlight again as the hole in the wall allowed light inside the building.

There was a small dome of papers across the room, which fell away to reveal Miss Positive underneath, who looked very confused.

"W-What happened? I'm so lost," the usually happy woman spoke, seemingly on the verge of crying.

Izuku walked over to the hole in the wall and looked outside, seeing no signs of Paper Mache around.

"It's okay, were safe, for now," Izuku said, looking over at Miss Positive, giving her a confident smile. "Come on, we've gotta hurry!"

There was no more time to waste, Izuku had no idea how many had made it to the end already, if any. They headed out and eventually came to a large wall that cut right through that section of the city, seemingly not ending as they ran along it a ways. Sparks and electric currents were visible on its surface.

Izuku finally stopped and knelt down and took off his bracers, fiddling with them a bit. Miss Positive watched him, confused, as he worked for a minute.

"Shouldn't we find a way around?"

"No time!" Izuku stood and turned to the woman. "C-Can I carry you again?"

The Miss Positive giggled and acted shy. "What a straight-forward boy you are! Going for a woman like me at my age!"

Izuku groaned and got her to ride piggy-back on him. He then struck the bracers together and watched them as they began to light up a bit. I hope this works…

A smaller pulse than usual shot out, and then settled around the bracers in a constant gentle glow. Izuku smiled at the success. He had connected the power source of the Flow to the bracers now, helping them maintain their power.

"Perfect! Now we should be able to…"

Izuku hesitantly grabbed some of the visible wiring on the wall, watching as the electric currents went out in an area around him. With that confirmation, he began to climb, keeping his legs up close to himself, knowing that, over time, the bracers charge would wear off and the safe space would dwindled.

He climbed and climbed, and, once he reached the top, the bracers had finally cut off.

"Here we go! Hold on," Izuku called back to Miss Positive, as he grabbed the top of the wall and pulled them both over with all of his effort. Once over, he took the chance to scout out the area around.

There…! He spotted something a couple of blocks across the city. There, he could see several figures gathered. That's where were going!

They fell, and Izuku kicked off near the ground using his Flow, rushing forward through the street with Miss Positive in tow. His legs were burning from the effort as he ran, dodging many pitfall traps and swinging metal objects by keeping up his speed.

As he turned the corner of a street, he was surprised to find a large creature there. It resembled a sort of green, cliche' movie alien, but it was a thin prop made of cardboard, like a cutout. It let out a loud, low quality, angry roar that sounded like it was coming from a megaphone or something.

This has to be Drama Boss' creation! I'll just power through!

The prop monster tried to slam its fist down at them, but Izuku side-stepped it with ease and rushed between its legs. The monster groaned and roared before turning and lumbering after them.

They quickly arrived at the scene he had spotted from the air, with all of the people around— But his excited thoughts dropped from him instantly as he realized what it was.

They were blank, person-shaped cardboard cutouts, in a circle with one cutout of Drama Boss in the center. The cutouts were in shapes that looked like someone was laughing, and pointing right at where Izuku was.

W-What is this? Izuku let Miss Positive down, catching his breath.

"Hahaha! Wrong way dummy," came the familiar booming voice of Drama Boss from somewhere. "If you thought it was that easy then maybe you should—"

"Shut up!" Izuku's yell cut off Drama Boss, who could be heard letting out a gasp of surprise. "S-Sorry, Mr. Drama Boss… Long day!"

Izuku quickly motioned to Miss Positive and they left the scene. After a few moments, the cutout of Drama Boss poofed into a wisp of smoke, and, when it cleared, the large man was standing there, a bit dumbfounded and saddened.

"G-Geez, some of these kids are so mean… He didn't let me use my cool special effects and stuff..." He sniffled, fighting back potential tears. "At least he still has to deal with my other props…"

Still, I wonder what happened to Mache? He seems like he's gone silent, Drama Boss thought seriously, looking down at his watch.

Well, I should start heading towards the end so I can mess with some more people, he thought, grabbing the cutouts under his big arms and whistling happily as he casually headed out.

~Late-Chapter Break~

Name: Mikuru Koizumi 'Drama Boss'

Age: 35

Quirk: Prop Transformation- Can turn any non-living thing (with the exception of himself) he touches into a fake prop and make it act.

Personality: Dramatic, emotional, caring.

Power: 3/5 C - Speed 1/5 D - Technique 5/5 A - Intelligence 3/5 C- Cooperativeness 5/5 B

The end goal of the test was a round pavilion near the back end of the large testing city, marked with many flags and other such things to symbolize it as the finish. The buildings all around did well to hide it however, making it hard to spot from anywhere outside that block.

Power Loader watched as another hopeful approached, their Miss Positive partner along with them.

"Good work," he spoke to the boy, who cheered and went to join the others. Power Loader looked up at the sky, noting the Sun's position.

Not much time left, only about twenty have made it so far, he thought.

Then, as if purposefully intruding on his thinking, someone jumped down right in front of him. It was a pink-haired girl with her Miss Positive riding piggyback, both of them covered in dirt and something else he couldn't perceive.

"You look like you had a rough time," he commented.

Mei laughed. "Nope! It was fun though!"

"Fun huh?" He watched the girl as she let the woman off her back and went off to the others. "I hope those other two didn't slack off…"

More and more time passed until forty-four hopefuls had made it to the end. Power Loader had been informed via Miss Negative how many of her clones had been destroyed, so he knew there were only a few more out there.

Well, they've had plenty of time. We'll just have uneven classes maybe—

There was a loud noise, and everyone looked over, watching as a green-haired boy ran towards the pavilion, completely exhausted, Miss Positive in his arms.

Behind him, a large prop of an alien-like monster came in and tried to reach for him. However, Izuku began to fall forward, Miss Positive jumping out of his arms as he collapsed, dodging the prop beast.

The prop groaned and seemed to get embarrassed with so many eyes on it, turning and running off, in true Drama Boss fashion.

"Midoriya!" Mei ran out to him and looked down at him, smirking. "So you made a dramatic last second entrance huh?"

Izuku rolled over onto his back, breathing heavily, looking up at the girl. He smiled and let out an exhausted laugh, both from relief and the sight of how messy Mei was.

"I tried… to impress you… I guess," he said weakly.

Mei laughed and lowered a fist down towards him. He weakly lifted his own and bumped fists with her.

They had both made it to the end of the exam.

"Great, that'll conclude the test then," Power Loader spoke as he received confirmation from Miss Negative that the few others in the city had lost their Hero. "You've done well to get this far, but will be closely assessing how you did over the next week to report who will make it in—"

"So don't start celebrating yet."

To Be Continued

Next Chapter: A Letter and a Spark