The Bright Hero, Cobalt

A/N: Big thank you to my editors, Penguin Lord0029, and nightwind83.

Chapter Two

Days Later, At Dagobah Municipal Beach

Izuku trained. He trained hard and long. He didn't want to do as much resting, but he rested hard and long as well. Removing trash from the beach was hard work, but it would be worth it. All Might worked hard to make a workout regimen that would grant him a decent amount of strength by the time the U.A. entrance exams rolled around. His mother was incredibly supportive as well, making sure to keep an eye on both him and All Might as they worked.

Normally, All Might would be off doing hero work for some of the training, but Izuku's powers were more unprecedented than just a late-blooming quirk, and his doctor friend insisted he be available to carry the boy to her office as swiftly as possible in case something went wrong.

Speaking of his doctor friend and the state of his powers…

One Day After The Incident, At U.A. High School

Recovery Girl frowned at the boy in front of her. "Kid, I get that what happened yesterday happened, but facts are facts. You're quirkless," she stated loudly enough to prevent the boy from interrupting her. Before he could retort again, she explained, "Quirkless does not mean powerless, sonny. The human body has done strange things long before quirks existed, and I don't think it will stop anytime soon. What you have is a power of some sort, but it isn't a quirk. If it were, the quirk factor would be in your DNA, just as it is in mine, All Might's, and your mother's."

Izuku was baffled. He sensed her sincerity with his new...well, it wasn't a quirk, was it? Whatever it was, the passive mind reading would not shut off, but he was typically not surrounded by people with spiteful thoughts lately, so he could deal with the feelings and thoughts in the back of his head that weren't his own.

On the other hand, it was very uplifting to have evidence right there in his head that All Might believed in him, and that his mother believed in and was proud of him. She was still getting over the fact that All Might and the skinny man from the other day were the same person, but she was incredibly capable of adapting. She always had been.

"Toshinori!" the Youthful Heroine barked. The gaunt man jumped a little in his seat. "I need you to keep an eye on this young man properly through his training. We're dealing with unknown territory here, so I need you to keep your heroics to the hours of the day when he's resting. Look out for anything unusual or dangerous, and have Miss Inko help you out where possible. Bring him to me for anything that rubs any of you the wrong way."

All Might sighed, turning to Inko. "Sorry about all of this, Midoriya-san," he said with a sheepish grin. Inko simply waved him off with her own awkward smile.

Back To The Beach

It was looking more and more like All Might's presence was going to be unnecessary, but having two people there to cheer him on made the work all the more satisfying to Izuku. He'd train his body by moving trash, and he'd train his new power by...also moving trash. Just, he'd move the same piece over and over with his mind, only getting rid of it at the end of the day, so as to not get rid of the mess before his body could benefit from it. It turned out he could carry some really heavy junk with his force powers, as he jokingly called them.

When Yagi learned he was calling them that, he laughed like a madman, and insisted on sitting on Izuku's shoulders like Master Yoda did with Luke, while Inko took a picture with her phone. All three of them had a good laugh afterwards, enjoying a water break then getting back to work.

The training went incredibly well, and Izuku learned what it was that decided whether his power went green or blue. Green came from the desire to protect, he'd determined, after a passionate talk with All Might on the most important aspects of being a hero had him glowing green throughout, despite not calling on the power consciously. Green was also the color his power appeared as when he summoned it without the use of his emotions. Without an emotion to call on this power, it was useful for carrying objects and people around, including Izuku himself, he'd discovered when fooling around with it. When he summoned it with his emotions, though…

They'd tried to test its durability, making a wall with the green energy for All Might to punch. The tests only really concluded that All Might was incapable of penetrating them. They had no limit to go off of yet, but if All Might couldn't break it after ten minutes of wailing on it, it was safe to say it made for a durable shield. It should be noted that while it would not break, it could be moved, but All Might assured them that moving it wasn't something that could be done without a strength enhancing quirk of some kind.

His blue power was something else entirely, however. It came from feelings of joy, and made him incredibly powerful, both with his knockoff force powers and his physical strength. He levitated every piece of junk on the beach at once using the blue power at one point, astonishing all three of them. If it continued to grow with him, he would become far more powerful than his own idol had ever been, regardless of Toshinori's plans for him.

And that wasn't even all of what it did, it seemed. When the blue juju was going, people nearby felt energized, like they had been given an incredibly effective pep talk. It was a shame that such a power would be out of reach during crises. Joy was not something that could be found when death and destruction surrounded you, and the ability to passively boost morale amongst your comrades and the people in danger was something that could be incredibly useful during some of the horrendous disasters that had become more commonplace in their world.

Thankfully, Toshinori had an idea for that. After all, his strength hadn't been enough to defeat All for One, but number nine might have better luck…

Sometime During Month Nine Of Training

Toshinori sat at the steps separating the beach from the city behind it, Inko beside him. Izuku was in the middle of jogging, while carrying an abandoned car with his telekinesis. Toshinori had been curious about something, but didn't want to ask too soon, not wanting to upset his student or his mother.

"I apologize if I'm being forward, and you don't have to tell me a damn thing about it if you don't want to, but who is the boy's father?" All Might asked, speaking softly so as to lessen any impact the question might have.

Inko sighed. She figured this question would come eventually, what with Izuku's strange power. She had thought long and hard about how she would answer it, and she hoped her new friend would be satisfied with her response for now. "He didn't have a father. I mean, he came from me and a man, but he was never part of our lives. I'd been going through a rough patch in my life, and one night I passed out drunk, and woke up where I'd fallen asleep, as if it were just a rough night. I hadn't even known I'd been raped until I'd missed my next period and went to see a doctor. It's a good thing I'd had such nightmares that night and sworn off alcohol for a while, otherwise he'd have been brain damaged! The man's quirk was perfect for his little hobby...If not for my decision to keep Izuku, he might not have gotten caught. I probably wasn't in my right mind thinking this, but I'd hoped that having a kid would brighten my spirits, so despite how he'd been conceived, I decided to keep him. Got a DNA test done, and that monster was caught. And even better…"

Inko gazed out at her son, with his big smile and his big heart. "I got the hero I needed during that time. Izuku may have been small and helpless, but he saved me. Raising him has been stressful at times, but when he smiles, and I mean really smiles, not that one he uses to pretend everything's alright when it's all gone downhill, it lifts my spirits. He puts all of who he is into helping people, and he never wants anything for it. It scares me that he has some sort of superpower now, and that he'll be using it to become a pro hero, but after how much he's helped me, how hard he's worked for this, telling him to let go of his dream now would be too cruel."

Toshinori gazed at the woman, dumbstruck. That was not what he'd been expecting, if he were to be honest, but he was glad it was an issue that appeared over and done with, with the evildoer caught, and mother and son being stronger for it. He turned his gaze back to the kid in question, who was now laughing a lot like himself when he wanted to look good for his fans, as if the setting sun had told him a good joke. All Might resigned himself to ask Tsukauchi if he ever needed information on the kid's dad, so as not to bother these two about the issue again.

The Morning Of The Exam

Toshinori Yagi exited his pickup, happy thoughts buzzing in his head. Izuku had done well thus far in his training, and spending time with him and his mother had been good for him. Hero work was hard, and the people he'd been unable to save haunted his every nightmare, but when he spent time with these two, it was like he was home with his own family again. His parents had been slain in a villain attack long before his debut, but he resolved to spend more time with the two Midoriyas. It could only be good for his mental health, and they were both very accommodating with his stomach issues where meals together were concerned.

Now, if Izuku had kept to his training regimen, he should have all of next week to work on the beach before he was finished, to keep his mind off of whether or not he passed the entrance exam. It was unlikely he'd fail, but waiting for the results with nothing to do would probably be nerve-wracking for the kid, something the Symbol of Peace remembered going through himself.

As he made his way onto the beach itself, it became obvious to Toshinori that he'd not accounted for his student's desire to get the job done. All of the remaining trash had been put into a single pile, and was being crushed by the force of his student's joy, the blue glowing particles of joy spreading and growing across the beach as the pile of trash was compacted into a smaller and smaller ball, with young Midoriya stood atop it, howling and whooping with joy at the sunrise.

"Oh, my…oh, my...GOODNESS!" All Might exclaimed in English, transforming into his buff form mid-shout. The trash ball was split into several pieces, each about the size of a fridge, as Izuku floated down from where the top of the pile had once been, dropping down the last two feet in front of Toshinori.

A confident grin split the boy's face. "How's that, All Might?" Izuku was incredibly proud of himself. He managed to exercise his muscles, his new powers, and his restraint all throughout last night, making sure to stop lifting with his physical strength when he'd deemed himself exhausted, then did the rest while lying on the beach resting via his crazy brain powers.

All Might deflated back to his base form, tearing up a little. "Stop making me regret having never raised a kid, young Midoriya. I'm really jealous of your mom right now! She must be so proud of you!"

Izuku chuckled nervously. "Hehe, actually, she is, but she's also really peeved that I was out all night before the big exam, if what I'm sensing is anything to go by," he explained, tapping his fingers together nervously.

Toshinori placed his hand upon the young man's shoulder. "You've done incredibly well, kid. I've got something to offer you for your hard work and dedication," he said happily.

Izuku interrupted him with a mental nudge. "If it's what you've been thinking about offering me the past month or so, we should really shut down our phones properly and take this discussion to the truck," he said seriously, already taking his phone out and shutting it down fully.

Toshinori blanched at this. "Y-you knew?"

Izuku nodded. "From what I can gather, when I spend enough time with somebody I have positive feelings for, I'm just there, in the back of their mind, to an extent. You've heard me speak to you a few times you were feeling down in the past couple of months, even when you were on the other side of the city. I can't just do that with anybody. It has to be somebody I care about. I don't know yet if the feelings need to be mutual, since I've only bonded with people who already respect and care about me thus far, but it's not something I can just turn off," he explained softly, then looked into Toshinori's eyes with such determination it was palpable. "I didn't talk to you about it because of the importance of your offer, and if you'd changed your mind at some point, I'd prefer my mom not be part of the secret at that point. She was always around before, so I didn't bring it up."

Toshinori's face was set in a grimace. "Y-yeah, I'll just shut my phone off, and we'll do this in the truck," he agreed nervously.

In a moment, they were both seated in the pickup, silent for a few minutes to let their nerves wear off. Toshinori was the first to break the silence. "I'm still of the opinion I should give it to you. I just want to know how much you already know, so I can fill in any of the blanks and reduce the hassle of passing my quirk to you."

Izuku sighed, fidgeting with his fingers for a few seconds before starting. "I know your quirk is One for All. It's a stockpiling quirk that's passed down from one user to the next. I know that you are its eighth wielder, and that even with this many users, you had trouble defeating...him...I know that the strength training you gave me was necessary, and that I should be careful using it so that I don't destroy my body. I...also know some of the more personal issues that came up with Sir Nighteye when you decided to train me over Mirio Togata, and I want to allow the two of you to connect again before...well, you know what the time limit he gave you was. If my power can be used as a bridge to bring you and Sir together again, it would make me incredibly happy," Izuku explained, a nervous smile on his face.

Toshinori barked out a laugh. "Even now, you're thinking of ways to save me? You really are worthy, young Midoriya!" And so, the titan of heroism pulled out a single hair. "My predecessor, Shimura Nana, had some very nice words for me when she entrusted this torch to me. The difference between being lucky and being deserving is that one is an accident, and one comes from incredible effort. You've taken your first steps, now, receive the reward you have worked so tirelessly for! Eat this!"

Izuku blinked. 'Eat his hair?' he wondered to himself.

Toshinori chuckled. "Sorry. Ideally, I'd have grabbed a drink, spat into it, and mixed it up enough to make the taste undetectable, but I was in a hurry this morning, and didn't have time to prepare properly. Something to keep in mind when you pass it on to number ten, I guess. We should get this over with quickly, because it'll take a few hours for it to start working, and that's about how long you have until the entrance exams!"

Izuku sighed. "It'll make a good story to tell whoever number ten ends up being, at least," he said with a nervous smile, then took his future into his hands, and opened wide. "Bottoms up, I guess."

It tasted like shampoo and conditioner, and activated his gag reflex, but he would have a quirk in a few hours to go with his new abilities. Now, he just needed to get to U.A.

Several Hours Later, At The Entrance To U.A.

Izuku was in awe. The greatest hero school in the country, and he stood within its gates! Not only that…

The air was alive with the joys, hopes, and dreams of every applicant. It was all he could do to keep his blue aura from spreading further than the courtyard, but nobody seemed to complain much, since it boosted everybody's morale.

It's a good thing his head had been in the clouds, or this next encounter may not have happened. As he gazed up at the school in bliss, he tripped over a loose bit of brickwork, and started tumbling forward. He was in no danger at all, honestly, but he was surrounded by good people, and one of them did what heroes do.

A gentle slap to his cheek, not nearly enough to hurt, and he was floating without actively making himself do so. He turned his head to see who had made him levitate, and was awestruck by the smile on the girl next to him.

"Sorry about using my quirk on you like that, but you seemed to be in a really good mood, and I didn't want to let a little tumble get in the way of that!" she exclaimed, clearly feeling in a good mood as well. "My name's Uraraka Ochako! Nice to meet you!"

Izuku nodded. "Let me just right myself real quick," he said, using his own power to lower his feet to earth, even if his heart had made it into orbit with this interaction. He reached out his hand, and said, "My name is Midoriya Izuku. It's an honor to meet somebody so nice right off the bat. I bet you're gonna do well here!"

Ochako nodded, pressing all five fingers together with a quick mutter of "Release." Izuku felt weight return to him, and her hand made its way into his own, though she made a point to keep her pinky from making contact with him. "You're gonna do great here too, I bet! Boosting everybody's mood like that, and moving yourself in the air like you've got a Jedi hiding in the bushes keeping an eye on you, you must have some sort of esper quirk, don't you?"

Izuku blushed, sensing the admiration coming from the girl in front of him. "I mean, that's not all there is to it, but that's a big aspect of it. I can't really use this blue aura unless I'm happy, so it'd be useless in big disasters, but there are other parts of my power I can use whenever I feel like it, so-"

"INCOMIIIIIIING!" an explosive voice shouted, a certain ash blond dropping from the sky to the ground before them, a manic grin on his face as he looked over his new friend.

"Izuku! You keep proving me wrong! I fucking like it!" Katsuki exclaimed, and while Izuku could sense some hesitance in the boy's statement, he also sensed his sincerity and the joy coming from him independent from his aura. Taking a minute to study the physique of the greenette, the explosive hero wannabe managed to grin even further. "You've been training your body and your quirk, huh? If we were to start wailing on each other without our quirks right now, I'm not sure I'd come out on top! FUCK YEAH!"

Katsuki reached his upward palm in the direction of the main school building, and closed his hand into a fist, as if grasping the school in his hand. "We're gonna absolutely murder the crap out of this exam! Don't hold back, got it?!"

And with that, the bombastic hero in training left as he arrived, flying with his quirk and his grin, laughing like their shared idol, but just a bit crazier.

Ochako blinked owlishly at the spot where Katsuki had just been, then looked at Izuku with the same expression. "Is he…"

Izuku chuckled awkwardly. "It took my quirk awakening to figure it out, but Kacchan is very complex. I try not to look into the hearts and minds of people when I can concentrate enough to prevent it, but I know enough about him now that he was hurting for a while, and he didn't deal with it properly. He's working really hard to make up for it now, but even with his rude language, he means well. In his own way, he's going to bring smiles to peoples' faces."

Ochako grinned. "Well, he's made quite a splash just then, hasn't he?" she replied enthusiastically, then added, "But we should probably get going. Good luck with the exam!"

Izuku nodded, and they made their way to an enormous auditorium. It took around fifteen minutes for everybody to find their assigned seat, but considering the amount of applicants, it showed that the school had streamlined the process well.

Not even two minutes later, the Voice Hero, Present Mic appeared in front of the crowd. "Good morning, listeners! We've got quite an event for you today!" he exclaimed, his radio show host persona coming through loud and clear. "Can I get a YEEEAAAH?!"

There was silence, and thankfully nobody with a sound altering quirk was rude enough to emulate cricket noises. The mumbling that came from one kid in particular was just a bit weird, but the pro kept on with his schtick despite the lack of response from his audience. "You'll all be sent to several of our training grounds, where you will do battle with fake villains! There are three types in total to keep an eye out for, worth one, two, and three points respectively! The idea is to grab enough points to make it in! But don't attack your fellow heroes-in-training! You'll be sent home faster than Ingenium gets from the front door of his agency to the coffee shop down the street!" the over the top hero explained.

"Excuse me!'

Present Mic looked over to the young man to raise his hand, interrupting his explanation. "What's your request, listener?" he asked, friendly as always.

"You say there are three types of villain bots, but on this pamphlet before me, I clearly see four! If this is an oversight on the part of U.A., it's a disgrace! Please be more diligent in the future!" the blue haired young man, incredibly serious and stern, exclaimed to the hero on stage, then turned to the right and continued, "Furthermore...You there! With the green hair and freckles! You've been muttering to yourself this whole time! Please pay proper attention. It's disrespectful to the heroes who have been here before us!"

Bakugou rose immediately, irritated as hell. "HE'S GOT ANXIETY ISSUES, YOU FOUR-EYED FUCK! LET HIM COPE!"

The four-eyed fuck in question, taken aback, apologized softly and returned to his seat, Katsuki doing the same, sans the apology. Mic was heard muttering, "Tough crowd," under his breath before returning to his explanation. "You are correct, listener! There are four types of robots you will come across. However, the final one on the list is worth zero points. It's meant to be an obstacle for you to avoid, as destroying it would only waste time! Now, get to your assigned buses, and get ready to work your butts off! Let's Go!"

Several Minutes Later, Outside One Of The Training Grounds

Izuku had mostly pulled himself together on the bus ride to the fake city he'd be taking the practical exam in. He and Katsuki had been sent to separate training grounds, likely due to coming from the same middle school. He didn't really know anybody here, but that nice girl, Ochako, was assigned here as well, so that was nice. She appeared to be nervous as well, so he started walking over to her.

However, on his way over, he bumped into that blue haired boy, who seemed to be lost in his own train of thought as well. Izuku would have been nervous, if he didn't sense the thoughts of the boy in front of him not being particularly bad. "Oh, I was just wondering about you. I wanted to apologize for singling you out there," the bespectacled young man explained, moving his arms as if he were part droid as he spoke. "Nervousness before a test like this can be horrible, and it was wrong of me to interrupt your mumblestorm, if that is, in fact, a coping mechanism you use. My name is Iida Tenya! It is good to make your acquaintance!" He extended a hand in greeting at this.

Izuku looked past him for a second, still worried about the girl he'd been about to approach before, but he saw her smiling at the two of them, clearly in a better mood than she'd been before, and so he brought his attention back to the young man in front of him, and shook his hand. "I'm Midoriya Izuku. Thanks for the apology, Iida. I get the feeling you didn't want to upset me as much as you almost did. You just seem to expect the best out of yourself and others, and that's not such a bad thing. No harm done, all right?"

The visually-impaired young man appeared startled for a moment. "Is it really that obvious? I had no idea I was wearing my emotions on my sleeves like that…" he wondered.

The ninth wielder of One for All shook his head. "No, part of my quirk is passive mind reading of people around me. I try to keep from hearing things I shouldn't, but typically things that are right at the surface are hard to ignore. And even if I heard something I shouldn't, I'm not about to just talk about it without the consent of the parties involved. You do give off the impression of somebody really serious, though. I would have probably figured it out without the quirk if I were to spend a few hours around you, but in this instance, it was the quirk that told me," he explained.

Tenya looked thoughtful for a moment, and was about to say something in response, but was interrupted by a screen lighting up, with Present Mic's face appearing on the display. "All right, listeners! Your test starts now!" The gates opened to the faux city, and a few examinees just stared blankly. "Did I stutter? There are no countdowns here! Get a move on!"

At this, anybody who hadn't headed in already was sprinting into the training ground. The exam had begun in earnest!

Izuku floated up to the top of a building, glowing bright green as he ascended, and kept an eye out for objects to arm himself with against his mechanical opponents. He did not have to wait long to find some. Several of the faux villains had floated up as well, a block over, and abruptly crashed back to the ground. He sensed the work of that bright girl who he'd met outside of the school, and decided to take advantage of the robot parts she'd left behind, grasping out with his power and pulling several of the leftover chunks to his location. Chunks of droid started orbiting around him, ready to act as either shield or projectile, and he floated off in search of targets. It didn't take long to accrue a decent amount of points, floating about and wrecking the machines in the area.

He wasn't here just to learn how to break robots, though. Anytime he saw a fellow hero-in-training about to be blindsided by the mechanical giants, he would take those protective feelings and raise a barrier between them and their opponent, keeping them from taking unnecessary damage, and giving them an opening to strike back at their own targets. It all went without a hitch, up until the ground trembled, and the zero pointer rose.

The fear of his fellow exam takers startled him enough that he dropped from the sky, barely stopping himself from crashing to the ground. He was about to run away, to get to safety, however…

He felt something he would eventually learn to recognize as fear for one's life, from somebody he needed to save.

It wasn't even a question of whether he should help or not. One second he was a ways away from the zero pointer, the next he was in its path, having unconsciously used One for All to sprint to the person feeling such horror, having destroyed his legs in the process.

"Oh no. Oh no."

She was hurt, some rubble having fallen onto her, and from what he could tell, she'd overused her quirk, and so she couldn't use it to get the debris off of her. She snapped her head in his direction upon hearing his arrival. "Wha-when did you get here, Midoriya?" she asked, clearly scared.

"I just footed it. I felt your terror, and the next thing I knew, I was here next to you. I think my legs destroyed themselves getting me here, though…" he explained, then got to work trying to lift the pieces of building off of her leg. He glowed green, the debris trapping her glowed green, but then why…

Oh…

Upon looking again, he realized that the debris had fallen in a way that while there was only one piece weighing her down, there were many, MANY pieces weighing that one piece down. "I can't lift it. No. No," he muttered, then floated himself closer to her, and placed a few of his green aura barriers in front of the zero pointer. They didn't break, however, they only slowed the machine. It was not stopped entirely.

Ochako started looking really worried. "Look, Izuku. You can get away, all right? Don't just stay here for me. It's just a test. It'll probably stop before it crushes me, okay? Please just get out of here," she said, trying to force calm into her tone.

Izuku had never been so touched by somebody lying to his face. "I'm not leaving, Uraraka. I can literally feel your terror as if it was my own right now. I'm staying, either until it stops, or until we're both crushed. Even if I got away, if it killed you, feeling your last moments like this would probably mess me up really badly." he told her, also working overtime to keep his voice sounding calm.

Ochako gazed at the boy in front of her. Took in the shape of his face, his bright green eyes, with the adoration and sincerity fluttering right behind them, the, admittedly cute, freckles upon each cheek, and the messy mop of green hair atop his head, and made a judgement call. "Izuku. I've...never dated or anything in my life, and, well, I don't even know if yer into girls, or if yer into me, but, well, you've been really nice, and...if this is the end, can we...hold hands?" she asked, her accent coming out as she reached out to him, for possibly the last time.

Izuku nodded, tears brimming from his eyes. "Yes. Yes, Ochako. I would be very happy to hold your hand," he spoke tearfully, grasping her hand in his own, smiling despite his fear, like All Might taught him.

Ochako gave him a grin. "I'm really glad I met ya, Izuku. Sorry that I've gotta trick ya like this, though," Izuku hadn't even realized her ploy. She had activated her quirk on him the instant their hands had clasped. "Go be a hero, Izuku! But, do it someplace else! It's kinda dangerous 'round here!"

She threw him away from the zero pointer with all her might, resolving not to release her quirk until the titanic droid was right about to crush her. "I hope I survive this. He seems like a really nice guy. Whatever happens now, though, at least he'll survive to be an awesome hero!" she thought to herself, though it was feeling more and more like the behemoth of a machine would not stop for her until the last minute. "I'm glad I've already got a friend here. This thing's making me kinda nervous, though. Kinda wish I had a car nearby to chuck at it."

"Did you really mean all that?" a voice in her head that wasn't hers spoke, a familiar voice. Her eyes, which had been focused on the zero pointer to properly time the release of her quirk, focused on something new, as she turned her head to find Izuku Midoriya flying at the bot, green aura flying off of him like it was some kind of propulsion system, floating around and spreading to surround them both. He slammed into the titan of a machine palms first, pushing against it with all his might, then turned to her, and said with his voice this time, "Did you mean what you were thinking just now? That we're friends, and that I'd be an awesome hero?"

Ochako was a bit worried, now. Did he not think they were friends, or that he could be good at what he was doing right this second? "Well, yeah, we're friends! And the fact that you're slowing that thing down at all to save me kinda points to you going places with the whole hero thing someday, so I mean that as well!"

Izuku grinned at her, tears floating off of his face. "I'm glad! In fact…" Green became Blue. "I'm absolutely euphoric!"

The zero pointer had been gradually pushing against him and moving him back, but now, it was being pushed back, back, and...up! Izuku's blue aura exploded, flowing beyond the boundaries of the training ground, and even managing to invade portions of nearby training grounds. He and the zero pointer ascended skyward, further and further, until they separated, and Izuku started acting like a human bullet, making hole after hole in the machine, faster, faster, more and more! The zero pointer began resembling swiss cheese more than robot, and more and more pieces flew off, flying off in many directions, until Izuku cooled off, and floated back down with all the pieces of the behemoth, dropping them softly to the ground.

On that day, a hero gained his wings.