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"What does that kid think he's doing?"
Ectoplasm really wanted to smack whoever decided to let a quirkless child take part in the Hero Course entrance exam and, with a quick scan across the room, it seemed the other judges agreed.
With a shake of his head the small mouse, bear, dog that was the Principal of U.A. corrected his colleague, "Now, now Ectoplasm. You know there are no rules against such a potential student. If he wishes to try his hand at becoming a young hero than we must give him that opportunity."
Ectoplasm glared at the suit clad animal.
"Besides," Principal Nedzu continued, "it looks like he's doing rather well."
With that the others looked at the tab with the lone quirkless boy, dressed in a black long sleeve shirt, black tights, with matching combat boots, and watched as he defied the odds.
*With the examinees*
The quirkless boy, Richard "Dick" Grayson, was flipping between a pair of robots, a 1-pointer and a 2-pointer, and dodged the metallic arms that were swinging towards him. He got behind his opponents unscathed, but they couldn't say the same. By avoiding their punches, Dick managed to get them to attack each other. Without pausing he moved on to a third nearby, jabbing at the joints of the robot and pulling the wiring. Another one down. That brought his total 34 points. Good, but he could do better. He had to. This was his only chance to do anything with his life away from Ra's al Ghul and his assassins.
Before Dick could get lost in thought, the shaking ground alerted him to the zero-point villain. Which was, admittedly, very large and slightly intimidating. Dozens of examinees raced past him, eager to escape the pointless obstacle, but he stayed in place, eyes scanning the beast and looking for weakness. He couldn't find one that he could exploit without a quirk. Dick started to turn to run away when a female voice stopped him.
"Someone Help!" A floating pink jumpsuit shouted, arms wiggling underneath a collapsed building.
"Hold on, I'll help you!" An orange haired girl ran forward and started pulling off pieces of rubble that had trapped the invisible girl. As the zero-pointer stepped closer to the two girls, orangey's hands grew and she grabbed more pieces of concrete. It wasn't long before a silver-haired boy with impressive eyebrows came over and began to help. They were making quick work of the rubble, but the giant robot was walking towards them even faster. There was no way they would save invisible girl in time to dodge the robot villain.
'I need to get rid of that robot.' Dick took a step forward before stopping, unsure of what to do. Should he run and get a higher score or help his competition and ruin his chance of leaving Ra's? There was only one real answer.
*Back with the judges*
'That brat is full of surprises.' One Shouta Aizawa thought as he watched the mostly ebony, with a small tuft of white, haired teenager fight against a stream of people to help two others in their effort to free some girl. Aiazawa was rather impressed by the courage he showed, even if it was rather stupid. Anyone without a quirk stood no chance against such a large opponent, but, unlike some of the others in the room, he wasn't willing to write off someone who displayed such raw potential: with or without a quirk.
"He's gonna be killed!" Ectoplasm shouted.
Aizawa glared at the man. No one had ever died taking the exam and it certaintly wouldn't happen today. He was just being melodramatic.
"I wouldn't be so sure," Cementoss interrupted, ever the voice of reason, "he seems to be doing just fine." Indeed, Richard Grayson was doing fine. His mouth moved and spoke to the other two teenagers. Soon it seemed a conversation was taking place. None of them knew what was being said as the video had no audio.
"Really? To be socializing at such a time." The R-rated hero Midnight drawled, unimpressed by their conduct.
With a sip of his tea, Nedzu gave a soft smile. "Just watch."
Where the others had no clue on what was being said, Nedzu was rather proficient in reading lips and was rather impressed by the plan being constructed by the trio.
*Back with Grayson*
Dick towards to duo and quickly introduced himself,
"My name's Richard Grayson but you can call me Dick. What're your quirks?"
Both orangey and silver hair glared at him. Even though he couldn't see invisible girl's expression, Dick could tell that she too was glaring daggers at him.
"Now is not the time to talk! Help us get her free!" Orangey shouted at him, anger clear in her voice.
"Yeah that is so not manly!" The silver haired boy agreed.
Clearly, they thought he was an inconsiderate maniac. With a shake of his head Dick gave them a very quick explanation to his perceived madness.
"The zero-pointer is going to get here before you ever get her," he gestured towards invisible girl, "free. But if we destroy it before if gets here then we can get her out. To do that I need to know what you can do!" He finished in a rushed shout.
Understanding dawned on the others faces. With a nod the orangey introduced herself.
"Itsuka Kendo. My quirk is Big Fist. It lets me make my hands larger and increase my strength with the size of my fists." As soon as she finished the boy rushed out his answer.
"I'm Tetsutetsu Tetsutesu! My quirk is Steel, and it turns my entire body metal!" Dick nodded and began to analyze the two in front of him.
Both had a lot of compassion and seemed to be willing to do anything to help someone. Pair that intense level of caring with their strength-based quirks and that robot wouldn't stand a chance. All they needed to do was hit its weak points and they would be in the clear. The beginnings of a plan formed in his mind.
AN: Sorry about the cliff hanger but this chapter was just getting too long. On the bright side the next part should be up tomorrow!
Some of the characters may seem OOC and that's because I either don't know enough about them to confidently write their character or I changed some of their backstory.
If you have any questions about what's happening or the basic history of Dick Grayson up until his time at UA feel free to review and I'll be glad to answer.
If there's any issue you have with my writing or formatting, please review. None of this is beta'd so mistakes will happen. I'd also like to get better at writing and would appreciate any feedback.
