Disclaimer: I don't own MHA or Yu-Gi-Oh GX so don't sue me, seriously you won't get anything so you'll be wasting your time.

Summary: Heroes and Superpowers were normal occurrences and everyone wanted to be one for various reasons. Despite having what some would deem an unfit Quirk for heroism, Issei dreams of becoming one, will he rise as Bubbleman or will he fall before his dreams are realized?

Chapter 02: The Entrance Exam

"WELCOME! NOW ARE YOU READY TO GET STARTED?!" Issei blinked as he sat in a seat with countless other teenagers, looking in awe at who was speaking to them. "LET ME HEAR YOU SHOUT, YEAH!"

The man shouting was none other than the Pro Hero known as Present Mic, a rather slim young man with long blonde hair that was spiked upwards in a huge tuft, seriously the amount of hair gel that probably took. He also had on a black jacket with the collar turned up, black pants, knee high boots and around where his neck was a directional speaker.

Silence however greeted this Pro Hero's enthusiasm, though Issei tilted his head when he heard muttering somewhere.

"Oh my goodness! It's the Voice Hero Present Mic, so cool! I listen to his radio show every day of the week! It's crazy that all the teachers here are Pro Heroes!"

He couldn't find who was mumbling but Issei grinned at it due to it taking his mind off of his nerves.

Mic seemed a bit off from no one shouting 'hey' but for his credit he quickly shook it off. "Well that's cool my examinee listeners! I'm here to present you with the guidelines of your practical! Are you ready?!" Mic pressed a button as the screen of TV's behind him lit up to show a map along with goals and various robots. "This is how it'll go listeners, you'll be experiencing a ten minute long mock cityscape maneuver. Bring along whatever you want, after this presentation you'll head off to your assigned testing location."

Issei swallowed nervously, happy that he was able to bring the backpack he had full of water bottles due to how he needs them for his Quirk. Granted there should be some water inside this mock city to use if he needed to but he didn't know they really were there or not.

He really hopes that if he passes, his costume and gear design he sent in is accepted to help make it easier to use his Quirk. Even if it's only the beta stage of the costume, he hopes to improve it as he goes through the classes provided he makes it in.

"Each site is filled with these faux villains," Mic continued, the screens now focusing on the robots, each of them showing a different point. "Points are rewarded for defeating them depending on their difficulty level. Use your quirks to disable them and earn the points, that's your goal listeners."

Hearing that, Issei found himself even more nervous but also confused.

Surely that can't be it, if it was then what about the students who quirks would be useless in a fight considering these pointers were robots? Shouldn't they have something to make up for it?

"But playing Antihero and attacking other examinees is strictly prohibited." Mic warned in a serious tone and Issei swore he heard a rather angry 'damnit' from somewhere.

"May I ask a question?!" A hand was raised drawing attention to a young man who stood up with black hair, glasses and a very stern expression. "You said there were three villains but on the handouts there are no fewer than four, such a blatant error is very unbecoming of UA! We're all here today in hopes of being molded into model heroes!"

'Oh God, please tell me he isn't one of those by the books students.' Issei had to stop himself from groaning as while he can understand following rules given how they were there for a reason, there are people who take it way too far in his opinion.

"And you with the curly hair!" Heads turned to see who the stern man was calling out to see a rather plain kid who froze under the attention. "You've been muttering this whole time, it's distracting, if this is some sort of game to you then please leave immediately."

'So that's who was muttering.' Issei made a note to thank the kid for making him less nervous but he couldn't help but be annoyed at how he was being called out.

Aspiring hero this guy may be but embarrassing someone who was clearly nervous wasn't heroic at all.

"Alright, alright! Examinee 7111, nice catch," Present Mic brought the attention back to him to keep things going. "But that was done intentionally as the fourth faux villain gives zero points, he's there as an obstacle to be avoided rather than engaged. Only one at each site. You need a total of thirty points to pass the exam, so keep track."

"I see, it's an unbeatable opponent," The teen then did a dramatic bow at a ninety degree angle, which was honestly kind of impressive. "Thank you sir, I apologize for the interruption."

'So wait, is this like a Video Game then?' Issei found himself rather intrigued.

"That's all from me listeners, let me leave all of you with the school motto," Mic said, snapping a 'finger gun' at everyone with a wink. "The Great Hero Napoleon Bonaparte once said 'True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life', PLUS ULTRA! BREAK A LEG EVERYONE!"

Issei couldn't help himself this time as he stood up. "PLUS ULTRA!" He shouted with as much excitement as he could.

Only he was the only one who shouted, making everyone give him an odd look, some snickers erupting as Issei slowly sat down, red in the face, now wishing he didn't do that.

"Nice one listener!" Mic said happy that someone actually did that while Issei quickly tried to cover his face.

Issei rechecked his shoes to make sure they were tied, now dressed in a silver tracksuit looking ready to at least attempt this test.

He kept an eye out for Hayate or Daichi, but he didn't see them, making him assume that they were at a different test zone while he began to do some light stretches.

It would just be his luck if he ended up pulling something right when the test started, so he had to be at his best.

Though he did see that curly student who muttered nearby and looking to approach a girl with a bobbed haircut that was curved at the end with two longer clumps going down the side of her face before the stern teen came from the crowd and placed a hand on curly's shoulder making him flinch with a look of terror showing.

"That girl looks like she's trying to concentrate for the trials ahead, are you trying to distract her and destroy her chances of succeeding?" The man asked in a demanding tone.

Okay that does it.

"Lay off, he's nervous enough as it is, for all you know they could be friends and he's probably trying to wish her luck." Issei said walking towards them, adjusting his one strap shoulder bag to ensure it stayed on.

He wasn't blind to the people in the crowd as they spoke.

"Isn't that the kid who acted like an idiot at the front gate?"

"He flinches at the slightest touch."

"I guess that's one less rival to worry about."

The stern kid looked at Issei. "Or he could be sabotaging others."

"Maybe but you don't know that and neither do I," Issei said before clasping a friendly hand on curly's shoulder with the kid flinching again much to his surprise. "Don't let him or anyone else get to you, just focus on the exam and you'll be fine."

Yes he was saying the exact words that Shinji told him that morning, but he felt like this kid needed to hear them more.

Slowly the kid nodded. "Tha-."

"AND BEGIN!" Mic's voice echoed around them confusing everyone as they could see a speck on top of one of the buildings. "WHAT'S WRONG?! THE TEST HAS STARTED, RUN! RUN! THE DIE IS CAST!"

Eyes widening, Issei rushed forward with everyone, pulling a water bottle out of his bag, ready to use his Quirk before he ran down an alley to separate from everyone.

With them all attempting points, he needed to get as many as he could to get into UA and he can't risk anyone else stealing points from him.

'Hopefully curly hair makes it, he seemed nice.'

Then again he barely heard him speak a word that wasn't muttering so it was too early to tell.

A robot burst through a wall with Issei barely jumping back, recognizing it as a two pointer. "Target Acquired, Eliminate!"

"Not today Terminator," Issei quipped, referencing that old movie from a few centuries ago, focusing as he expanded the bubbles inside of the water bottle, causing it to explode and the bubbles flew into the small cracks of the robot where he ended up soaking the inner systems showing that they weren't waterproof. "Thank goodness, I would be in trouble if they were waterproof."

Two points gained, he'll need to continue.

And he still has a few bottles left, but he'll need to conserve as much as possible, that was reckless.

"Target-." Issei immediately turned around making another bottle explode, this time seeing a one pointer and a three pointer.

He did the same thing, only having the bubbles split up to do that.

Five points, he was on a roll.

It went on like that for a bit before he ended up passing curly after a few more robots with four minutes being left in the exam.

"Alright I have twenty-five points!" Issei cheered, missing how Curly looked rather horrified at the number for some odd reason before the Bubble expert moved to gain more.

This was a lot of fun, just fighting robots and he needed only ten points now.

But right now he only had five bottles left. He was lucky he ran into a group of them at one point otherwise he would've been out of bottles by now.

He'll have to do something new soon, maybe focus on three pointers to ensure he gets the points?

Suddenly the ground began to shake with Issei nearly falling on his butt from how unexpected that was, looking around before a huge shadow encompassed the area and he glanced up to see a robot bigger than a skyscraper making him gap as he began to shake.

"T-That's insane." Issei muttered as he saw the others begin to run before he followed, though he did see curly frozen in fear.

So he grabbed his arm and began to tug. "Shake a leg, we can't stay here."

It seemed to snap him out of his fear as he began to follow only to stop and turned, hearing an 'Ow'.

Seeing what he was looking at, Issei paled at seeing the brown haired girl from earlier looking like she was trapped and suddenly curly began to run right at her while Issei stood there in shock.

He snapped out of it and went to follow only for Curly to amaze him by jumping into the air with enough force to shatter windows and make a crater before he obliterated the Zero Pointer in a single punch.

"HOLY SHIT!" Issei placed his hands on his head in shock that the rather meek looking kid pulled that off.

The unstoppable obstacle was destroyed and-the debris was heading right for him.

"Oh crap!" A voice said behind Issei showing that someone was next to him and if they didn't move they would get hit.

So in a panic, Issei focused on the last five water bottles he had, destroying them and soaking his bag as the water shot out, enveloping him and the guy behind him in a bubble shield right as the debris rained down around them.

Thankfully the durability was enough to keep them from getting injured and once it stopped, he let it fall with his nose now bleeding due to how long he kept that up.

"That was terrifying, my whole life just flashed before my eyes!" Issei turned to see a blonde hair student that looked like he had a lightning bolt streak the left fringe.

Taking the moment to wipe his blood away from his nose, Issei chuckled. "I'm definitely going to need some new pants." He joked, trying to lighten the mood and it seemed to work due to how the blonde grinned.

"No kidding, nice shield by the way that really saved us."

Issei figured he shouldn't say that he had no idea if it would stand up to that assault, he was probably better off not knowing that.

"Names Denki Kaminari." Blondie said, giving a thumbs up while Issei nodded as the announcement came for the end of the exam.

"Issei Watanabe."

Turning from Kaminari, Issei turned towards where he could see Curly on the ground-good lord he didn't even realize limbs could bend like that.

"Oh geez." Kaminari looked pretty ill at seeing something like that.

"At least he's breathing so that's… Good?" Issei was rather unsure if he should continue or not.

"Wonderful work," A voice made them turn to see a short elderly woman with gray hair that was kept in a bun by what looked to be a syringe wearing a white doctor's coat over a white dress with a red and yellow design on the sides. "All of you are heroes in my eyes, here have some haribo candy."

The examinees she gave these candy too looked a bit weirded out before the woman made it to Curly and frowned in contemplation before she actually kissed him and just like that his limbs straightened themselves and began to heal.

"Wait, Recovery Girl?" Issei muttered now recognizing the woman despite never seeing her in the spotlight that much due to how her quirk worked.

She healed a person by kissing them, a weird one but it was incredibly useful considering how dangerous hero work can be.

"Well at least he'll be alright." Kaminari said, sounding a little relieved now that the test was over. "Oh man I barely got the last point in."

Last point-?

Just like that Issei paled in realization as he remembered what Mic said.

He needed thirty points and he only had twenty-five.

H-He failed.

"Hey you alright?" Kaminari asked, seeing Issei's face.

"I only needed five more." Issei got out in a low tone.

Kaminari blinked before realization showed as he gained a bit of an awkward look as now his mindless comment about being relieved sounded like bragging.

"Hey maybe they combine it with the written portion?" Kaminari tried to backtrack, though in the back of his mind he was worried about that portion himself.

Issei slowly smiled. "Y-Yea."

He tried not to show how worried he was.

His worry didn't disappear as he was back in his room where he was looking at the wall where one could see countless Pro Hero figurines hanging on shelves while sitting on the edge of his bed.

"All of that effort and I failed." Issei muttered, pulling his legs to his chest not even bothering to entertain the possibility that he passed.

Maybe he should've gone to one of the other Hero schools to get his license rather than the top one? He would've stood a far better chance.

"Gah, stop having a pity party." Issei stopped hugging his legs and pulled some hair in frustration.

There was no shame in failing, he gave it his all and he attempted UA, he should be happy for that right?

He needed to distract himself.

…

"Wow, that bad huh?" Akemi asked with a backpack, now entering the room where he could see countless bubbles going around the room a few days later, watching as Issei laid on his bed, staring up at the ceiling where the lights were shining off the bubbles, quite a few bowls of water being on a nearby desk.

"Hey Akemi." Issei greeted out with some forced cheer. "What brings you here?"

"Your Mom called and said you've been acting like a hermit." Akemi deadpanned, his eye popping out to fly around the room as he spoke.

"I have not."

"From what I've heard the only time you've left your room was to use the bathroom or to get some food." Akemi sat on the edge of his bed before leaning back with his eye flying back to his head to watch the bubbles, his head across Issei's leg.

"What are you doing?" Issei asked, tilting his head to give him a weird look.

"Hopefully pissing you off." Akemi said with no hesitation.

Issei gave a snort at that. "Sounds about right." He said before trying to move his foot. "Okay get off before my leg falls asleep."

Akemi grinned and sat up. "In all seriousness I was worried, you've been blowing off my texts these last few days."

"Sorry, I'm just annoyed that I failed."

"You don't even know that, you're just assuming." Akemi waved that worry off. "Trust me Issei, you definitely passed, the teachers at UA would have to be idiots to not accept you."

"Didn't you always make a joke about me trying to use bubbles to fight villains?"

Akemi didn't answer immediately before grinning as his eye popped out again, this time to look at Issei while the teen kept his head looking at the bubbles. "Yes I joke about that because we're friends, it's never serious," He said to Issei who tilted his head, still unnerved by the eye quirk, something he knew that Akemi was rather proud of. "Remember when I said you were being cheesy a few months ago? What you were really being was one of those heroes from the old comics back before Quirks were a thing, one who smiled and did the right thing only because it was right."

Hearing that, Issei couldn't help but go red from embarrassment. "I just do what many people would-."

"Let me stop you there, you don't," Akemi said, now looking at Issei, his eye flying off in the process. "A lot of heroes out there are just in it for the pay, sure they do a great job but when it comes down to it, that's what our Hero Society is becoming, just a way to be famous and rich, to climb the ranks and have their name out there."

"Shinji isn't like that." Issei said in defense of his brother-like figure, frowning at the bitter tone Akemi seemed to be having when he spoke about the hero society.

"I know and neither are you, you genuinely want to help people and I was always jealous of that." Akemi's admission took Issei by surprise. "While the other kids were playing hero versus villains or talking about how big of a hero they wanted to make themselves you were helping old ladies across the street and finding lost items for others. So no matter what happens with UA, you're a hero in my books."

With that said, Akemi got off the bed, doing a stretch.

"Now enough with that mushy stuff, I brought over some video games, you up for some mindless carnage?"

"You know it." Issei said, feeling a lot better as Akemi pulled some games out of his bag. "Akemi, thanks."

"Hey, what are friends for?" Akemi asked, grinning.

The next day, Issei was once again nervous.

On his desk was an envelope containing his results from the Entrance Exam and he was rather unsure about opening it right now.

"Come on." Issei tried to psych himself up.

The worst that can happen was them rejecting him, yet he was really hoping that didn't happen.

"I won't know if I don't open it." Issei picked the letter up before frowning as he felt something round in there along with the paper.

So he opened it and turned the paper upside down to see a small metal disc before it began to shine out some sort of hologram-.

"I AM HERE AS A PROJECTION!"

Issei fell out of his seat in surprise at seeing a projection of All Might.

The Number One Hero dressed up in a yellow suit that hugged his rather large physique, his blonde hair swept backwards with two tufts sticking straight up, the smile he was well known for all across his face.

"A-A-All Might?" Issei whispered in pure shock.

What was he doing as a projection in his UA Letter?!

"You're most likely wondering why a projection of me is in your letter," All Might began with Issei now wondering if the Pro Hero was psychic as well as strong. "It's simple, I have taken a position as a teacher at UA!"

Issei felt his eyes widen in pure disbelief, his brain almost shutting down.

All Might was teaching at UA?

T-That was incredible, there were so many things every aspiring hero could learn from the Symbol of Peace.

"But let's get to the matter at hand, Issei Watanabe," All Might saying his name was another shock for Issei though he quickly shook it from his head when the screen behind him showed Issei's name along with the word Villain Points. "Based on your practical exam you've made twenty-five points which sadly isn't enough to pass even with your score from the written exam."

Just like that, Issei's shoulders slumped. "I-I see." He said in a heavy tone.

He knew it, why did he actually try to hope?

"If it was only Villain Points that is." Issei's head snapped up when hearing that.

Just like that the screen changed to show him at two separate occasions.

The first trying to pull Curly off the street from when the Zero Pointer showed up and the second showing him making the shield to protect Kaminari.

"After all, the point of being a hero is being there for others and you've shown that by putting these two ahead of your own life." All Might was back on the projection. "How can we turn away such a promising student? For that you were awarded thirty rescue points."

Blinking at that, Issei realized what that meant.

He had fifty-five points.

H-He-Did he-?

"Issei Watanabe, welcome to UA, you pass!"

Just like that the projection turned off as Issei sat there, taking that in, slowly a big grin going across his face before he erupted in a cheer, jumping into the air.

"I DID IT!" Issei exclaimed with laughter erupting from him before bubbles began to fly around him from the nearby bowls.

He couldn't help it, he was so excited with making it into UA.

Now looking at the letter with a grin, he saw that the class he was going to be a part of was none other than 1-A as he had the eleventh highest score in the exam due to his points.

But then he tensed as a realization dawned on him.

He shouldn't be celebrating, he only made it in.

That was the easy part, the hard part was doing the actual school, especially with the reputation UA holds.

"Check out the results from the Exam." One of the teachers at UA said as they were currently looking at the top ten from the Entrance Exam.

"Wow, I can't believe he got first place with no rescue points." A young woman spoke up when the image of a teen with red eyes and spiky blonde hair was shown, creating explosions from the palm of his hands with a rather bloodthirsty grin.

"The One and Two Point faux villains were just itching to catch him, in the second half of the exam when the other examinees were slowing down he kept going," Another voice spoke up, sounding rather impressed. "He's one tough cookie."

"Hmph and then the other end of the spectrum, we have the one in seventh place who only got rescue points, surprisingly he took the zero pointer down with a single punch." The screen was changed to show the curly green haired kid who looked rather nervous on one side while the other side of the screen showed him punching the Zero Pointer.

"Kid makes me want to go YEAH!" Mic's voice sounded out from around the room.

"But to suffer a serious injury from his own attack, it's like he just manifested his own quirk."

"Still we have quite the group this year and that's not counting the recommended students. Can't believe Nezu decided to expand Class 1-A and 1-B to have twenty-two students each, don't we usually do twenty?"

"There were a lot of exceptional students shown, I mean look at these two." The screens showed two students one with green wax wings and the other looking like a clay golem taking down some of the faux villains with ease. "Those are some strange mutation quirks."

As they were all speaking, one figure with long black hair was looking at the screen showing the seventh place student with a frown that was barely hidden by a white scarf.

To Be Continued…

Alright got the second chapter typed and hopefully it's as good as the first one. I tried to show how good in a fight Issei is with his Quirk, though he'll be better when he finally has his Uniform due to the limitations of his Quirk. Plus we finally have some other characters introduced such as Iida, Kaminari and then the badass scene with Midoriya taking down the Zero Pointer.

I also tried to flesh out Issei's personality a bit more showing a more insecure side, but also one to make a bit of a rash judgement on people due to his first impression of Iida, but that was only with the first impression.

I didn't show his parents or Kamui in this chapter, though I did give him a moment with his best friend to flesh that guy out as well.

Given how he's in UA now you can bet that the rest of the Class 1-A characters will be getting their own time to shine and hopefully I can both keep them in character and add more to them without ruining them.

Alright let me get the reviews done so I can post this and go to sleep, it's late over here.

Akashi1412: Thank you and while I do find the other hero archetype cards interesting I plan to only use the Elemental Heroes-with the exception of the Evil Heroes if I want to give them a bad guy that isn't the League. The Elemental Heroes, Akemi and Issei's parents are the only OC's I have planned for in this story as I'll focus more on his interactions with the canon characters in the next and later chapters. Hopefully I can keep this story promising.

Duskrider: I have to be honest I recognized each and every name you listed except for Ice Edge, that's the only one I haven't heard of, thanks for bringing that to my attention. I do have plans for some Evil Heroes to give the Elemental Ones their own enemies, but I only have plans to focus on Issei along with the other four main Elemental Heroes and the rest of the canon characters for now.