A quirk assessment? With expulsion for the person in last place? This has got to be a joke! Hikari gritted her teeth. This didn't sound too good. "Heh, you kid, right, teach?" she asked nervously, raising a finger.

Aizawa flashed a grim look at her. "I wouldn't joke about expulsion," he deadpanned.

Hikari's eyes widened. "Right! Sorry!"

The black-haired teacher turned to the class. "Like I said, I get to decide how this class runs. Understand? If you've got a problem, then you can head home right now."

Ochako stepped forward and protested, "You can't send us home! I mean, we just got here! Even if it's the first day, that isn't fair!"

Hikari grabbed a hold of Ochako's shoulder. "He totally can, dude, keep it down!" she hissed through her teeth. If their teacher was capable of expulsion at a whim then who knew what he'd do to her friend if she protested against his words.

"Oh, and you think natural disasters aren't?" The class recoiled at his response. "Or power-hungry villains, hm? Or catastrophic accidents that wipe out whole cities? No; the world is full of unfairness. It's a hero's job to combat that unfairness. If you wanna be a pro, you're gonna have to push yourself to the brink. For the next three years U.A. will throw one terrible hardship after another at you. So go beyond, plus ultra style." He lifted his hair out of his face. "Show me it's no mistake that you're here."

This teacher is definitely hardcore! I gotta do my best on these tests, even if he's a little crazy, but that's what I have to do to be a hero, right? Hikari balled her hands into fists and clenched her jaw. Let's do it!

/

The 50-Meter Dash

My quirk won't be of any use in running… unless…

Hikari took a deep breath and swung her right arm windmill style. Alongside her was a thin, bony boy with black hair, stretching his arms and legs. What was most notable about him were his elbows; they were round and jaunty. I wonder what his quirk is... To her left was a girl with pink skin, curly, yellow horns and fluffy pink hair. What surprised Hikari the most were her eyes. Black with gold irises, she noted.

She shook her head. No time to be staring, HIkari! Concentrate! Hikari took a deep breath and closed her eyes. Gradually, her arms began to glow a soft light. She could hear the surprised murmurs of her new classmates, but she ignored them. In her hands a large, golden shield was formed. Hikari tested its durability before setting it on the soft dirt. It was perfect, sturdy enough to support her weight.

It never hurts to try! To be quite honest, Hikari had only used this trick once in her life, and it had nearly resulted in a trip to the emergency room.

"Runners, on your marks, ready... Go!"

Immediately the pink girl dashed forward, grey liquid oozing out of her feet and onto Hikari's side of the track. Hikari, surprised, decided to use this to her advantage. The slime would make her makeshift toboggan slide easier. She ran forward and slammed the shield and herself onto the ground, launching herself forward. The boy followed in a mad dash.

Her idea worked; she was sliding in the slime in the same way she had seen American children do it on TV on snowy winter days.

"5.38 seconds!" The machine cried. The pink girl had crossed first, and soon after, Hikari and the black haired kid crossed the finish line. "5.49 seconds! 6.89 seconds!"

"Whoo… what a ride," Hikari panted, rising from the ground. She brushed off the dirt and slime from her gym uniform.

"Woah, what was that? That was totally cool!" the pink girl exclaimed excitedly, practically bouncing on her toes.

Hikari brushed a strand of hair behind her ear before breathlessly replying, "That… was my quirk."

Hikari Hinata - Quirk: Solar Shield

By absorbing sunlight through her body, Hikari is able to create shields that can protect herself from any oncoming danger!

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Despite her stellar performance, the other tests were not in Hikari's favor. Her quirk proved to be a hit or miss in a few of the other tests. Grip strength? Average. Standing long jump? Hikari had barely managed to make it in front of the robot.

The only test that her quirk helped in were the repeated side steps. She had set up two shields on each side of her on the side, but it made little difference in her score.

I hope I'm not the one that's gonna go home. All of my hard work down the drain!

Now it was time for the ball throw, and Hikari was watching Ochako take her turn. She had activated her anti-gravity quirk on it and let it float upwards. After a few moments of waiting Aizawa's smartphone showed an infinity symbol on it.

"Infinity?!"

"Yeah, that's my girl!" Hikari cheered, jumping up and down with her arms up. She could feel a few confused stares on her, but she didn't care. Meanwhile, others were in various states of disbelief and shock, commenting on her friend's impossible score.

"You're definitely not the one going home, Ochako," Hikari smiled to her friend as she walked to the circle, grabbing a spare ball as she went.

"I hope so, otherwise it would've been for nothing," Ochako exhaled as she walked back to where the other students stood.

Once inside the circle, Hikari clasped the ball in her hand and took a deep breath. This is my last shot. I better make it count!

Once again, Hikari's forearms glowed with light. As the shield was materializing, though, she placed the ball in the middle of the shield just as it hardened. An improvised discus!

Hikari twirled in place and with enough momentum, she let go of the discus, and it flew a distance of… 22 meters. Hikari paled as she saw the score. Oh, that's not that far. Bonus points for creativity?

She staggered back next to Ochako, who was already fanning her in the face to make sure she was still alive. Only when the boy with the glasses and the indigo undercut (Tenya Iida was his name, as Hikari learned earlier) commented, "If Midoriya doesn't shape up soon, he's the one going home." did Hikari finally snap out of her trance. Midoriya? The green-haired boy? He also hasn't been doing well either, huh. She recalled seeing his average scores and his increasingly visible worry etched on his face.

"Huh? Of course he is, he's a quirkless loser!" Bakugou sneered rudely at Iida.

"Well, if he's quirkless, then how come he's made it this far?" Hikari challenged. She stepped closer to Bakugou. "He wouldn't be here otherwise, McSplodeypants."

"HUH?! WHAT'D YOU CALL ME, SUNSHINE BITCH?!"

"That sounds an awful lot like a pet name, y'know!"

Their bickering loudly continued for a while, with Iida and Ochako having to restrain Bakugou and Hikari before there was a full on brawl. It looked like there was going to be one, until Aizawa's stern, monotone voice said, "I erased your quirk."

In front of Class 1-A stood their teacher, but with his black hair and grey scarf hovering in the air. He looked like he was ready to strike at any moment. H-How is he doing that?!

"The judges for this exam," he continued, "were not rational enough. Someone like you should never be allowed to enroll at this school." The class was shocked silent at his bold, blunt statement... until Midoriya drew back in surprise.

"Those goggles… I know you!" the greenette realized. "You can look at someone and cancel out their powers... the Erasure Hero: Eraserhead!"

Eraserhead… now why does that sound so- oh! Hikari remembered her father bringing home some paperwork from the hero agency he worked at. She would look over the papers out of curiosity from time to time and see many hero names, Eraserhead being just one of the many. She brought a fist to her chin. I don't know that much about him, though.

Her classmates were just as confused as she was. "I think he works on the down-low," mused the frog girl behind Hikari.

The one-sided conversation was too quiet for Hikari to hear, but whatever Aizawa told Midoriya, it definitely wasn't pleasant, judging by Midoriya's stunned expression. He even wrapped one part of the floating scarf and jerked the boy close to him.

Finally, the hair and scarf ceased from floating and released Midoriya from his grip. "I returned your impractical quirk. Take your final throw. Hurry up and get it over with," the teacher told him.

"I wonder if our teacher gave him some advice," Iida muttered as Bakugou thought of the worst and predicted that he "told him to start packing." Hikari could feel a palm on her shoulder, but she chose to ignore it and instead focused on Midoriya, who stood still in the circle with the ball in his palm.

Finally, finally, he reeled back his arm and leaned forward. Hikari could've sworn that she saw a light from the tip of his finger, but the ball went up with a gust of wind and she didn't have time to dwell on it. She followed the ball's trajectory until it hurt to look at the sky. Damn, that's impressive!


A/N: Fun fact for this chapter: Hikari's original quirk was called See-Through. It let her be able to look through solid objects (walls, doors, etc.). It wasn't very useful (i.e difficult to write), so I changed it to a different quirk called Bubble Shield, where the oils on her arms would allow her to create shields that would protect her. I still wasn't satisfied, but I really liked the idea of a quirk that would mean finding new ways to adapt to fighting, so Solar Shield was born! Thanks for reading!