Later...

"YOU WILL NOW BE PUT THROUGH VARIOUS FITNESS TESTS SUCH AS SIDE JUMPS AND 1500 METER RUN. YOUR PERFORMANCE FOR EACH TEST WILL BE GRADED AND BY THE END, YOU WILL RECEIVE A FINAL GRADE FOR THIS PORTION OF THE EXAM. NOW, PLEASE REPORT TO YOUR DESIGNATING TESTING LOCATION STUDENTS," Present Mic's voice blared through the speaker in the boy's locker room.

Midoriya getting himself changed into his blue jumper. Behind him was Bakugou, changing into his usual workout clothes that consisting of a simple black tank and sweatpants. The written portion had ended just about thirty minutes ago, and they were given a long break to prepare themselves.

Midoriya had to say though, he did not feel the best about his written exam. 'What even was that reading section about?!' He mentally freaked out, knowing full well he was forced to Christmas tree 7 questions in desperation.

"Man, that reading section was just fucking embarrassing with how easy it was," Bakugou joked.

Midoriya hid his weak smile. "Yep. Totally."

"Still, I think it's dumb that we have to be stationed at different testing locations," The ash-blonde said with a disappointed voice.

"Probably to prevent teaming. Doesn't matter though, we'll do fine on our own anyway,"

"DUDES AND DUDETTES, PLEASE GO TO YOUR DESIGNATING TESTING GROUND WITHIN THE NEXT 5 MINUTES. THE PRACTICAL WILL BEGIN SOON," Present Mic's voice screamed from the intercom again.

"Welp, I guess this is where we part. See you later," Midoriya said as he began walking out. Bakugou simply nodded a response as his friend left.

In a short trip, Midoriya arrived at Ground Beta. It was a massive, almost completely realistic city, which upon thinking about it, was quite an odd place to take a fitness exam.

Eventually, the rest of the other examinees gathered together and were lead into the city by Present Mic himself. "JUST FOLLOW ME FOLKS. YOUR TESTING CENTER WILL BE JUST UP AHEAD.

And soon they realized why they were taken to Ground Beta. In the heart of the city was a massive metal dome. And once inside, Midoriya could see it was filled with testing stations and equipment that they would be using, as well as several employees acting as judges and referees manning them

Here Midoriya could see there were several others who were now beginning to warm up by the entrance. Some looked rather very anxious and nervous while others were simply oozing with confidence. And Midoriya just there in indifference, not giving the test much thought at all and hoping it'll blow over fast.

"WE'LL BEGIN WITH THE 1500 METER RUN. EXAMINEES 00 TO 15 GET TO THE TRACK AND LINE UP AT THE STARTING LINE!"

As examinee number 09, Midoriya walked over to his spot and stood at the starting line of the track. To his surprise, a familiar face stood next to him. It was the blue-haired kid from before.

"Hey, it's um… you."

"Now is not the time for idle banter. You should be focusing"

"Oh, well... I'm Izuku Midoriya." The green-haired boy.

He sighed. "My name Tenya Iida. Now please stop distracting me for this test. This is very important to me."

Now standing face to face, he could get a better look at the guy. He was a lot taller than him and despite the tracksuit, he could tell he was very well built. However, as he watched Tenya do some stretches, he noticed something odd with his calves.

Iida was quick to notice Midoriya's sudden confusion at the sight of his misshapen leg and explained before he could even ask. "If you were wondering, my quirk is Engine. My calves are biologically engineered to allow me to achieve great speeds. Perfect for this portion of the test," he explained as quickly as he could.

"Nice that's pretty cool I guess. I'll try my best to keep up then."

Now Iida found himself getting intrigued for a moment. "Wait, do you also have a speed based quirk?"

Midoriya gave a small smile. "Funny story. I don't even have one," he said bluntly. A look of shock had formed on Iida's face. "Wait, how exactly are you-"

"EXAMINEES, GET READY!" Present Mic had cut their conversation short.

Immediately, Iida dropped the question and got into a running position. As did Izuku. However, upon taking a stance did he noticed his shoe was untied.

"RUNNERS... GO!"

All the test takers had sprinted off, running at flashing speed by using their quirks to help them with their speed, with Iida in particular being ahead of everyone else. In his dust, was the green-haired kid still back at the starting line.

'Just need a second,' Midoriya mentally checked.

Iida noticed this and shook his head in disappointment. 'He's hopeless. There's no way a quirkles-'

WOOSH

His thought was suddenly broken as out of nowhere a giant gust of wind picked up and nearly all of the students including himself nearly blown to the side as Midoriya just took off sprinting, leaving everyone else behind him.

Iida was awestruck, astonished that the boy he had seen earlier had overtaken everyone in a blink of an eye. 'N-No… He can't be faster than me… can he?!' Tenya worried. Suddenly, a barely recognizable figure passed him from behind. Then it happened again. And again! And by the time Iida had finished his third lap, He saw Midoriya walking away from the track already done!

Tenya was getting nervous now. 'He traveled faster than me! The Iida Family are the fastest heroes there are. How did someone quirkless overtake me like that?' He thought to himself. For some reason, seeing such a display of speed in front of him made Iida feel incredibly competitive and inferior. This wasn't like him, but being shown up like that hurt his pride. 'Just what kind of power was he hiding?!'

Nezu twiddled his paws in the control room with the rest of the faculty watched the monitors displaying the exam. "This year students sure are going to be an interesting crop," the animal said.

"They all seem promising, what do you think Toshi?" Midnight pointed out.

The blonde man simply nodded in agreement and continued to watch a particular screen showing Izuku Midoriya. For a while, there were no incidents involving him so he couldn't get a chance to observe him.

He had theorized with Detective Tsutachi that they both agreed Izuku was given a power. Meaning, he had to be affiliated with All for One. And if Izuku Midoriya were to truly be All for One's successor posing as a student, they both agreed that Midoriya would have a power would be similar to that of One for All as a form of spite. Furthermore, the evidence from the villain attack was supporting this theory, making Izuku a huge suspect.

As of right now though, he had only displayed exceptional speed. And while One for All allowed that, it wasn't enough to support his theory. Now, if he were to consistently break the fitness test with extreme results, then Toshinori would have no second thoughts about questioning him immediately.

'I'm watching you young Midoriya,' The number on hero squinted that boy on the screen.

"SIDE JUMPS!"

Midoriya went moving side to side at such incredible speeds that not only did he start kicking up the ground and causing a small storm, but he was also creating multiple, seemingly perfectly tangible copies of himself with his after images.

Minoru Mineta, who was a station away, felt incredible intimidated and under-confident with his performance.

"WEIGHT LIFTING!"

Effortlessly with one arm, he lifted the bar of 635 kilos over his head like it was nothing. Probably because it was nothing for Izuku who was yawning as he kept it in place.

Eijrou Kirishima on the kid's right looked at his mere stack 245 kilos and sighed in disappointment.

"BALL THROW!"

The green-haired kid chucked the ball into the upper atmosphere.

Attempting his shot, Nirengeki Shoda found his quirk: Double Impact, only sent the ball a little over 600 kilometers max, which left a rather bitter taste in his mouth compared to the beast beside him.

"VERTICAL JUMP!"

Tsuyu Asui felt pretty good about her 11-meter vertical jump. But suddenly, someone who was next to her had launched themselves through the roof on their jump.

"WHACK-A-MOLE!"

He didn't mean to break the high score limit. Or the machine itself in general.

Mezo Shoji on the other hand, could only just give a respectful small clap after witnessing his record being beat so effortlessly in front of him.

All Might was… beyond shaken.

While the control room was going wild, he was having a silent panic attack at what he just witnessed. Nearly all of the teachers were frantically talking about the amazing site they had seen and the epicness of it all. The fact that all of U.A.'s legacy scores for the entrance exam were all broken just now by one kid was hyping them up.

However, Toshinori was in deep thought, as he was both amazed but also in dread at the sight of the force of nature that was Izuku Midoriya. It was astonishing to see, but the punch he pulled off gave him major deja vu.

'T-That looked exactly like One for All. There's no way he could be quirkless. He has to be lying!' Toshinori concluded. He stared back at the screen displaying the green-haired boy who was picking his nose beside the demolished equipment.

"We're going to need a long talk Izuku Midoriya," the number one hero mumbled under his breath.

Nezu faked a yawn and walked over to the control panel where a large red button sat. "As nice as fitness tests are, let's make things more interesting, shall we?"

Emergency alarms screeched throughout all of Ground Beta. Startled, examinees thought there had been an accident of some sort, confused as to what was happening. Most people just were ready to leave and finally head home since everybody had completed their tests. But soon they heard an announcement from the intercoms inside the dome.

"OH, DID I MENTION THERE'S A SECRET THIRD EXAM? AN ARMY OF ROBOTIC VILLAINS ARE ATTACKING THE CITY, AND YOU EXAMINEE'S MUST BE THE ONES TO STOP AND DESTROY AS MANY AS YOU CAN WITHIN FIVE MINUTES. GOOD LUCK!" Present Mic explained.

Frantic conversations erupted from the confusion as they discussed in confusion what the heck was going on. To be fair, Midoriya was kinda intrigued, as he also found this quite unexpected. But quickly he was able to put two and two together. 'So that's why they put us in a mock city. They were building up to this event,' He told himself.

Their voices died down though as everyone's attention was now focused on the motorized sound of something coming. Through the entrance window, they could see a tall robot, single-wheeled robot with a giant number one painted on it charged into the testing facility, breakdown the doors with it. Many were surprised and shaken by this sudden attack, the robot earning a few frightened screams.

However, before it could attack anyone, with his six muscular arms, Shoji charged at the mechanical menace and with moderate effort, promptly destroyed it with his powerful extra limbs by crushing its head with his bare hands. "Don't worry, I took care of it," He said reassuringly to some of the frightened ones.

Another larger robot with a two on it had spotted the group as it passed by the open entrance and began making its way toward them only for Iida to rush out of the crowd. "Leave this one to me!" he said as he jumped at the automaton, using his strong legs to stomp on the mechanical beast into scrap metal.

"Hey leave some for the rest of us!" Kirishima said excitedly as his skin began to harden and barreled out of the building to face a huge robot with a three on it. More students began to steel their resolve and started running out of the building and into the streets to confront these 'villains' that needed to be stopped.

Midoriya zoomed out of the dome and down the street, where he spotted dozens of robots that were trodding around, to which he promptly rammed into all of them with his body and practically clearing the southern end of Ground Beta's main street of villains. However, with just a look to his right, he could see several other 'villains' were speeding toward him from different alleys after being spotted.

"Boring Punch," he said as he let loose a powerful smash that blew and ripped apart all of the incoming attackers.

After the attacked finished, he looked around for a short bit. Everyone was fighting something, trying to disassemble and wreck any mechanical villain insight. Some were even saving fellow examinees from robots that were giving them too much trouble. It sort of reminded him of actual hero work.

That's when it hit him. "Ohhh, now I get it. This is supposed to test our character and heroism in a realistic situation. That's kind of smart actually," he mumbled to himself as he took off once more at an incredible speed, searching for more robots that could be lurking around at different sectors of the city.

The teachers were once again, hollering at the screens, pointing and shouting at how amazing this batch of examinees was.

"Without even wasting a minute, they all immediately took action and engaged the threat. It pains me that we can only take 40 of them," Vlad King admired.

Aizawa was also pleasantly surprised. "They don't even know we're grading them or about the point system. Yet all of them are doing their best to take care of the situation."

"I'd say they're all practically heroes at this point, right Toshi?" Ectoplasm complimented. However, he didn't receive a response. "Uh, Toshi?"

Toshinori was in a state of shock, as he was paralyzed with fear at what he had just seen. 'H-He used Detroit Smash. Right in front of me. D-Does he really have my quirk!?' All Might felt a tap on the shoulder.

"Are you alright?" Ectoplasm asked.

He nodded. "Yeah, sorry. Just in deep thought. Just a lot of potential I'm seeing, that's all," Toshinori finally commented.

"I think it's about that time everybody!" Nezu shouted as he went over to another button. "Let's see how they react to this," He said in his usual happy tone, slamming the control.

RUMBLE

Several students stopped dead stopping in their tracks as the ground began shaking violently as if an earthquake had just hit. Dirt and dust filled the air as debris flew from all directions. However, it did not take long for the examinees on main street to identify the culprit that had caused this.

Having come out of seemingly nowhere, a gargantuan robot was slowly rising over them, before fully standing at a height of a size of a six-story building, staring at them like they were ants. On it, painted a very large, noticeable zero. The examinees of Ground Beta stood in terror where the towering machine began to overshadow everything in front of it with its sheer size.

"T-This is nuts, that thing could kill us…" Kirishima commented in anxiousness.

Ojiro, who was close by, was shaking in his boots as his strong sense of self-preservation kicking in. "U.A. wouldn't actually let that thing hurt us… would they?"

But they small herd of examinee's fears were confirmed as the thing clenched its large robotic hand as with reared its arm back, with very loud mechanical hissing and cranking sounds as it did so.

That's when the rest of the test-takers who were paralyzed in fear regain their ability to move again as the darted away from the attacking machine. However, they were nowhere near being out of the robot's range

Midoriya made his way out of an alley, having cleaned up an entire section of the city, with his clothes slightly tattered and stained while oil smeared across him being proof of this. However, upon returning to the main street, he noticed the large group of examinees running for their lives, confusing him a bit.

A shadow began lurching over him as he turned to see what was causing all the ruckus.

Izuku was met with a colossal metal fist that was coming straight down on him that dwarfed him, humming from the powerful hydraulics that was going to obliterate road he was standing on.

"Huh, I whatcha look at that..." Midoriya commented in a normal voice.

KLANG

Midoriya had just simply raised his palm and the fist slammed into it. The street was immediately bisected, a fault having formed in the asphalt from the force behind the punch.

But Izuku barely moved as much as an inch from the blow, still standing straight as if he was anchored into the ground. Having blocked the attack and now effortlessly holding back the humongous fist of the mech with just his bare hands, he had saved the group of examinees nearby from being smacked down on.

Most of the students were still running for their lives, trying to steer themselves away from the danger zone that was the might of the giant robot. But almost all of them had seen the green-haired boy come from the alley, having stopped and withstood the full brunt of the enormous punch like it was a love tap, shocking them all with his amazing strength.

"Holy cow, a student is engaging the zero pointer!" Power Loader announced in awe.

The other teacher broke into chatter with each other. A moment like this was quite rare, as the last person to have defeated a zero pointer was Best Jeanist back ages ago.

"Wait, hold on, make two! There's a kid from Ground Alpha trying to blast it's head off!" Cementos noticed.

"Well this has been certainly interesting, never before in U.A. history has any of this ever happened," Nezu added. "Today just keeps getting more and more enticing!"

"Who are they by the way?" Snipe asked.

Toshinori was the one to answer for him. "The student fighting it in Ground Alpha is named Katsuki Bakugou. His quirk allows him to shoot explosions from his hands."

Eraserhead looked at the other monitor recording from Ground Beta. "Who's the other kid?"

Toshinori glanced at the screen broadcasting the green-haired boy who's been putting him on edge since he found out about him. "That's Izuku Midoriya. He's supposed to be quirkless."

Aizawa eyes-widen and looked at the blonde man in surprise. "Excuse me?!"

The joints of the mech creaked, applying pressure on the boy holding its hand back. Izuku sunk into the ground, with a large crater forming in the ground he was standing on and a powerful shockwave rupturing throughout the testing area.

However, he was still standing tall and upright, not even phased by the additional force while maintaining a poker face. Any onlooker had their eyes practically bulging out now in disbelief, unable to comprehend how unreal everything was.

"Alright, this is getting boring, let's get this over with," Midoriya said dully as he threw the arm of the zero pointer off of him.

The large thing stumbled back a couple of feet from that single push, each stomp causing loud thunderous tremors. Its sensors focused on the kid that had stopped it, now challenging him.

The green-haired boy put a finger on his chin. "Hmm, it's got a thick hyde. I think I'll use a bit more power for this one," He planned.

Squatting his legs, Midoriya trusted himself into the air, lunging toward its 'face'. He pulled his arm back…

"Breaking Series…"

And curled his hand into a firm fist...

"Normal Punch," He said as he rammed his fist into the mechanical being.

BAM

An audible smash was echoed across the entire vicinity of Ground Beta, catching the attention of nearly all the students testing. And those who turned to look saw the incredible sight of the menacing mechanical titan being overthrown by a single, clean punch by a mere teen...

Next Chapter: The True Test

A/N: As you can see, there has been some things added, rearranged, or taken out. But needless to say, I am MUCH happier with this chapter than last one and I think it's better quality. And I'll try my best to try to balance fun fluff and critical plot points. Until then, stay healthy and safe everybody. Bye.

P.S.: I like Christmas and the holidays, don't get me wrong. But I probably dislike 75% of holiday music.