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 03: Quirk Assessment

Issei grimaced as he was trying to put on the tie that went with his new school uniform.

He was currently dressed up in a light gray blazer with turquoise trimmings over a white dress shirt and dress pants, but the red tie was really messing him up.

It got so bad he managed to tie it into his hand instead. How Issei managed that, he had no damn clue.

"This is getting ridiculous," Issei muttered, taking his time in getting it off. "I really hope the tie isn't mandatory."

Sadly he didn't know given how the guidebook he got didn't say anything about the dress code besides the box that had the uniform in it along with the ID Card that would get him in.

And he didn't want to risk getting into trouble on his first day.

"Issei you're going to be late!" Nozomi's voice called up with Issei biting back a curse when he tried to put the tie on again, but it didn't go on right.

"One second." Issei called back as he attempted to try again only to give up.

He could either be late or be in trouble for the tie.

The lesser of them for going to hero school is the tie, he can't be a hero if he's late.

Looking at his reflection, Issei took a deep breath and grinned.

Show time.

With that done, he grabbed his bag and left his room to see his parents waiting.

That was something to be surprised about as while his Mom worked in the afternoons, his Dad was usually gone before he got up.

Seeing his surprise, Ryo grinned. "What? I can't see our son off on his first day to be a Hero?" He joked with Issei rubbing the back of his head. "Where's your tie?"

"Um… I can't tie it." Issei answered.

Wait, was that technically a pun? He wasn't sure if it was or not.

Nozomi gave a giggle, trying to cover her mouth with a hand. "You're just like your father, he could barely tie anything in his life."

Ryo coughed, looking away in embarrassment.

Moments later, Issei shifted a bit after Nozomi helped him put the tie on. "Oh you look so handsome." Nozomi told him before using her quirk to try and get his cowlick to stay down.

Only for it to pop right back up much to her annoyance.

"Someday I'm going to get that to stay down." Nozomi vowed while Issei just shrugged.

He was rather used to her attempts to fix it.

Ryo shook his head before placing a hand on Issei's shoulder, giving it a gentle squeeze. "Words can't express how proud we are of you," He said to his son. "But keep safe and listen to your teachers, being a hero isn't easy and I've heard stories about how tough Hero classes can be."

"I will." Issei promised, knowing the rumors himself.

Especially concerning UA where the best pros have graduated from.

"More importantly make some friends while you're there." Nozomi gave Issei a hug that he returned.

'Crap! Crap! Crap!' Issei was panicking as he ran through the halls of UA, trying to find Class 1-A.

He's been at it for awhile and he was so lost.

Checking the time, Issei's panic increased as he only had a few minutes.

"Why couldn't there be a map handed out when we entered?!" Issei cried out as he moved to run again.

Come on, he has to find it somewhere-.

Running around the corner, Issei saw someone exiting a room and he tried to come to a stop only to slam right into the person before landing on his butt.

"Ow." Issei muttered in slight pain before seeing a hand in front of him.

"Young man, are you alright?" The voice belonged to a rather sickly and skinny blonde man wearing an over sized suit with Issei mentally comparing the man to a skeleton for a second before he accepted the hand up.

"I'm good-," Issei began before remembering how he ran into the man and grimaced before giving a slight bow. "I am so sorry for running into you."

"It's quite alright, I'm assuming you're looking for your class?" The man asked as if he knew what it was like, which he probably did.

Issei glanced up at him and for a split second he felt like he's seen this man somewhere before but he put it in the back of his mind due to the need to find where his class was. "I'm looking for Class 1-A but I have no clue where it is."

"Ah you're actually close, it's down the hall and you take a left and then a right." The man directed with Issei feeling immense relief. "You can't miss it."

"Thank you and again I'm so sorry." Issei said, rushing off, not thinking about getting his name while the man waved the apology off and in farewell.

The man was rather nice, though Issei was wondering why it felt like he knew him.

Following the directions, Issei saw the class room and entered, seeing various other students in there, though he did see the stern guy who called curly out looking like he was having an aneurysm as he was strictly talking to another student with spiky blonde hair who had his feet on the desk.

Entering the room, Issei looked around before seeing Kaminari and he grinned as the guy saw him. "Watanabe, how's it going?" Kaminari asked, waving at him with a grin while Issei approached him.

"I'm good, Kaminari right?" Issei asked to make sure he remembered right with the guy giving a nod. "Glad to see someone I recognize."

"I hear ya, but hey we're in Class 1-A." Kaminari gave a thumbs up before the stern guy raised his voice. "Though that could get a little annoying."

Issei nodded in agreement as he finally paid attention to the conversation while taking note of some of the other students from a guy who seemed to have a giant tail to a small teen with round purple balls on his head and what looked to be clothes floating in place which puzzled him before realizing it was someone with an invisibility Quirk.

"Remove your foot from that Desk!" Stern exclaimed, making some sort of chopping motion at the blonde who just gave him an annoyed look. "Such an action is an insult to those who came to UA as well as the craftsmen who made the desk!

"Like I care." The blonde said as the door opened again to show Curly. "What middle school are you from extra?!"

'Extra?' Issei thought in confusion before smiling at seeing Curly who froze at seeing stern and the loud blonde, so he gave a nod at curly to try and set him at ease, though he was pretty sure the teen didn't see him.

So he glanced around seeing a young woman with black hair pulled into a ponytail and another teen who had a bird head.

He did see an empty desk nearby that he chose to sit at before seeing the girl sitting next to it who had long black hair that reached her waist and pale ash white skin along with piercing green eyes that looked at the commotion in annoyance.

"I'm from Somei Private Academy," Stern saw fit to introduce himself and held a hand out to try and attempt to be cordial to the loud blonde. "My name is Tenya Iida."

"Somei?!" The loud blonde gave a rather terrifying smirk. "A stuck-up elitist then? I should blow you to bits."

That made Issei narrow his eyes at the casual threat, and he was pretty sure the guy wasn't even joking, especially with how Iida looked rather shocked from it and even questioned if the loud blonde was in the right class.

"Well that escalated rather quickly." Issei muttered with the girl next to him turning to give him a look, but not saying anything before she looked back at the commotion.

Iida then noticed curly and walked over to him with Issei now getting back up in case the guy was about to continue calling him out only to see that he was actually introducing himself and saying he misjudged curly who then introduced himself as Izuku Midoriya.

"Deku." The loud blonde growled at seeing Midoriya.

Remembering how his Mom said to make friends, Issei stood back up, leaving his bag at the seat to approach the group at the door as the brown haired girl Midoriya saved during the exam walked in looking rather happy to see the green haired teen.

"You got in, just like Present Mic said," The girl said before doing a punching motion with a grin. "Makes sense though, that punch was awesome."

"No, I mean… I have to thank you for speaking on my behalf… I… Well-." Midoriya sounded like he was struggling to speak, red in the face as he looked away from the girl covering his eyes.

Geez, it was like he never spoke to a girl before in his life.

"Huh? How do you know about that?" The girl asked in surprise while Midoriya shifted in place.

"Regardless how he knew it's great to see you made it in curly." Issei said walking up with one hand in his pocket while he gave a bit of a lazy wave with the three turning to look at him.

Midoriya blinked, recognizing Issei. "It's you." He said thinking back to when Issei interjected himself in the conversation during his meeting with Iida.

Then he blinked as he realized what Issei called him.

"Wait, curly?"

"Well I didn't have your name until now." Issei looked a little embarrassed while Midoriya gave a nod and was a little self conscious about his hair due to the nickname. "I'm Issei Watanabe, nice to meet you."

"Greetings I'm Iida Tensai from-."

"Somei," Issei gave a nod at the teen, smiling a little awkwardly. "You said it three times now."

He's pretty sure everyone in the class knows it by now.

But he took a deep breath to be cordial. "Sorry for being short with you at the exam." Issei apologized, holding his hand out to Iida.

"No need, you were right with me making the wrong assumption." Iida accepted the handshake while the girl who has yet to introduce herself began to converse with Midoriya who still looked embarrassed.

"So we've got our Entrance Ceremony and Guidance Sessions today, yeah?" The girl asked, not noticing how embarrassed Midoriya was. "Wonder what our teacher will be like? Boy, I'm nervous."

"If you're here to socialize, then get out."

That sudden voice made everyone look out the door to see a yellow sleeping bag that was facing them with a man who looked like he was dead or at least dying with tired baggy eyes and messy black hair that was partially hanging in front of his face with half-lidded eyes that seemed to be a mixture of tired and sharp. He also seemed to look a bit scruffy due to his unkempt facial hair.

Slowly he pulled a juice box out of the sleeping bag and drank it. "This is the hero course."

'What. The. Hell?' Issei blinked at what he was seeing, unsure of what was going on and he was pretty sure he wasn't the only one.

Especially when the man inside the bag somehow managed to stand up without unzipping it before pulling himself out of the bag to show that he was wearing a black shirt with matching pants that tucked into his boots, a utility belt of some kind and a grey scarf that seemed to cover his shoulders and neck.

"It took eight seconds for you to quiet down." The man said his eyes scanning all of them as he entered the room. "Time is a precious resource, you lot aren't very rational are you?"

"So he's a pro hero too?" Midoriya muttered, looking at the man rather intently. "But he doesn't look familiar."

As the teen continued to mutter, the man stretched his neck, emitting a small crack. "I'm your homeroom teacher Shouta Aizawa. Pleased to meet you."

'So this is our homeroom teacher?' Issei wasn't sure what to think as the man looked like he was about to drop dead at a moment's notice from how tired he looked.

But he can't make that assumption as this man was their teacher for a reason.

The man then reached into his bag and pulled out gym blue gym clothes that had a white U going up to the shoulders and an A symbol going down to the pants before tossing them to the various students. "Change into your gym clothes and head outside."

"Quirk Assessment Test?!" Every student of Class 1-A was rather stunned as they stood outside in their new uniforms as Issei tugged on the shirt of his new Gym Uniform standing next to Kaminari and the short ball haired boy.

"But what about orientation?" The brown haired girl who Issei learned was called Ochako Uraraka asked as Aizawa didn't seem too bothered by it.

"If you're serious about becoming heroes you can't waste your time on pointless ceremonies." Aizawa said to the students, looking over his shoulder at them. "UA is known for its 'freestyle' education system. That applies to us teachers."

Issei understood that as everyone stiffened up.

This man was saying that he can teach this class in any way he wants as long as it's legal, even if it's questionable at best.

"Softball Throwing. Standing Long Jump. 50-Meter Dash. Endurance Running. Grip Strength. Side to Side Stepping. Upper Body Training. Seated Toe Touch." Aizawa listed off at least eight different exercises. "You did all of these in middle school without Quirks correct?"

Not waiting for an answer, Aizawa pulled out a small softball.

"Bakugo, how far could you throw in middle school?"

The loud blonde frowned. "Sixty-Seven meters."

With that said, Aizawa tossed him the ball that Bakugo caught with ease. "Great, now try it with your quirk, do what you need to. Just don't leave the circle."

Bakugo gave a rather dark grin as he stretched while approaching the circle before rearing back.

The moment he threw, shouting 'Die' an explosion sounded from him sending the ball flying.

'What a terrifying Quirk.' Issei looked taken aback by that. 'Wait, DIE?!'

Who shouts Die in a Hero School?!

"It's important for us to know our limits." Aizawa held out his phone for them to see that Bakugo managed to throw that ball at least 705.2 meters. "That's the first step to finding out what sort of heroes you'll be."

Issei whistled in awe at seeing something like that.

The guy had an attitude for sure but damn if that type of throw wasn't impressive.

Though he's pretty sure curly could beat that easily considering how he one-shot the Zero Pointer.

"Whoa! That looks like so much fun!" A pink skinned girl with horns said with a very excited look on her face.

"705 meters?! Seriously?" Kaminari asked, looking from Bakugo to Issei who shrugged in response.

"So we can use our Quirks? The Hero Course rocks!" That voice came from a guy with shoulder-length black hair who looked rather plain if it wasn't for his unusually large teeth and his elbows looking like tape dispensers.

"Fun?" Aizawa repeated now giving them all a look, annoyance clearly evident in his tone. "You're here to be heroes and you think it's all fun and games?"

The way he spoke sent a shiver down Issei's spine as he made a mental note to never piss this man off.

That feeling of fear increased when Aizawa gave a wicked looking smirk. "Very well then, if you think this will be fun then you will compete in these eight events and the one who comes last will be expelled immediately."

Issei's eyes widened in fear as he could hear a lot of people shouting 'what?!'

Expelled?!

It's only the first day, they're here to learn how to be heroes. How can they do that if they're expelled?!

Aizawa's smirk got a bit wider as he used a hand to brush the hair out of his face. "Your fate is in your hands," He said looking at all of them. "Welcome to the Hero Course of UA."

"That's completely unfair!" Uraraka shouted out. "It's only the first day-."

"Natural disasters. Highway pileups. Rampaging villains." Aizawa cut her off instantly, not even bothering to give her a look. "Calamity is always around the corner and none of them are fair, heroes are the ones who correct that."

That was when he turned and glared at them.

"If you're here hoping to spend your evenings at McDonalds then you're at the wrong school, you'll be put through the wringer for the next three years, prove that you belong here."

As much as Issei wanted to dispute that because he thought the expulsion threat was a bit much, he knew Aizawa had a point.

Nothing in life was fair, especially when one has the job of being a hero on their shoulders.

To rise above that is the true strength a hero must possess.

He just had to avoid coming last.

Luckily it was still early morning so there was still some morning dew on the ground that he could use for his Quirk.

Issei began to stretch as he watched the other students compete with each other in the 50-Meter Dash with Iida being the first against a dark haired girl who had frog-like features with a wide mouth, wide eyes as she hopped instead of running in the dash.

Iida seemed to have some sort of speed-like Quirk due to the engines in his leg as he and the frog girl who was named Tsuyu Asui finished.

After him the other students did it one by one with Uraraka racing the one with the tail and the blonde guy who emitted some sort of beam from his stomach went against the pink skinned girl.

Midoriya seemed to compete with Bakugou though the former didn't use his Quirk which confused Issei before remembering how broken he was after the Zero Pointer.

Was that the back draw of his Quirk-?

Issei stopped when he heard his name being called as well as someone named Hanabi Kaho and he saw the pale white girl he sat next to walk towards where they would have to take the 50-Meter dash.

So he took a deep breath and walked out there focusing as he made tiny bubbles form beneath his feet from the dew.

As they got ready, he gave a friendly smile to Hanabi. "Good luck."

What he didn't expect was the cold look he got in response before she focused as Aizawa said go.

Immediately she took off with fire emitting from her skin, actually flying with Issei quickly running after her, using the bubbles to launch himself for short bursts of speed with each step.

But Hanabi managed to beat him by getting a 4.21 while he got a 4.34.

Though Issei didn't let that get to him as he laughed and smiled at Hanabi. "Man that was intense, let's race again someday."

Hanabi still didn't say anything, or even acknowledged that she heard him but he shrugged.

Maybe she just didn't like to socialize.

From that point he ended up doing a little bit of average in the Grip Test, barely getting a 43KG, but he ended up forming a giant bubble beneath his foot for the standing long jump to clear the area making that his best one up to that point.

The repeated side steps was another average, though he was rather impressed when the short teen used the balls on his head to help him bounce back and forth making him wonder if he could do that with his bubbles?

But it was in the afternoon now with the morning dew evaporating so Issei had to get creative.

The fifth event however was the one that Bakugo demonstrated which left him out since he already showed his best and Issei managed to do good by using his sweat to form a bubble to form around the ball and launched it at least 312 meters.

With his scores combined he's pretty sure he wouldn't be in last place, but he couldn't afford to get lazy because there were three more exercises to do.

He did gape however when Uraraka threw hers and got an infinity symbol on her test.

"Nice job." Issei remarked as Uraraka returned to the group to stand next to Iida and Bakugou while Midoriya moved for his turn.

"Thanks um-." Uraraka blinked in thought before snapping her fingers. "Watanabe."

Issei didn't seem bothered by her having trouble remembering his name considering he only said it once around her while Iida looked worried. "Midoriya isn't doing so well."

"Well duh, he's a Quirkless Runt." Bakugo scoffed at them while Iida gave him a surprised look.

"Quirkless?! Didn't you hear about his feats during the Entrance Exam?" Iida asked, with the question taking Bakugou by surprise.

Issei however gave Bakugo a look.

Just the way he said that set off some alarms in his head, along with how the blonde acted this whole day.

But he shook it away, instead watching as Midoriya moved to throw the ball only for it to only go 46 meters while Aizawa's hair seemed to rise, that last part taking Issei by surprise before he grabbed his scarf and made it wrap around Midoriya, bringing him close enough that no one could hear what was being said.

Though they heard Midoriya gasp out Eraserhead which made Issei gape.

He's heard of this guy through the online chats of various heroes who avoided the spotlight and Eraserhead was one of the most infamous as not many people have heard of him.

He was a guy who can literally erase someone's Quirk by looking at them.

Eventually, Aizawa blinked with his hair dropping as he let Midoriya go.

"Are you worried about him?" Issei jumped when the flamboyant blonde who had the belly beam came out of nowhere to place a hand on Uraraka's shoulder. "I'm not worried at all."

Uraraka blinked at him. "Um? Who are you?"

Iida cupped his chin after seeing the scene. "Seems like he's received some special instruction."

"Tch, yeah the instruction to leave this place." Bakugo muttered and Issei frowned.

"What's your problem with him?"

"It's none of your damn business extra." Bakugo gave Issei a dark glare.

"Too bad I'm making it my business." Issei returned the glare at being called an 'extra' while Midoriya reared back, ready to throw.

"I said-." Bakugo was interrupted when Midoriya threw the ball as it shot high into the air, surprising the hell out of the rude blonde.

Issei however noticed how one of Midoriya's fingers looked pretty bad while he actually hit 705.3 meters, beating Bakugo's score.

"Yeah! That's a hero-like record if I ever saw one!" Uraraka jumped into the air with a cheer while the flamboyant blonde smiled and posed.

"Stylishly done."

"His finger appears to be swollen," Iida noted with a concerned look. "Thinking back to it at the entrance exam… What a strange Quirk."

"I know, didn't he break three limbs back then?" Issei asked before Bakugo ran forward with rage on his face.

"What the hell?! Explain yourself Deku!" Bakugo roared as explosions sounded behind him before they disappeared as Aizawa's scarf wrapped around him. "What the-?! Why is your cloth so damn strong?!"

"It's a capture weapon made of carbon fibers and a special alloy wire," Aizawa said with his erasure Quirk activated. "Stop using your Quirk so much, I'm getting dry eyes here."

Issei however was shocked at how Bakugo just tried to assault someone like that.

He had his reservations about Bakugo's personality earlier but hid them because he thought he was being too hasty judging him like he did Iida before but now this just sealed it.

Anyone who does that isn't a hero in Issei's eyes.

"Hey come on." Issei blinked when Kaminari placed a hand on his shoulder showing that he was too caught up in his thoughts. "We're getting ready to do the final three tests."

"R-Right."

"Moving along, time for the final results." Aizawa said as everyone stood there nervously. "Your total scores simply reflect your performance in each of the events. Explaining the process would be a waste of time so all you get are the final rankings."

With that said and done, he pressed a button as a holographic screen showed.

1st Momo Yaoyorozu 12th Issei Watanabe

2nd Shoto Todoroki 13th Koji Koda

3rd Katsuki Bakugo 14th Rikido Sato

4th Tenya Iida 15th Tsuyu Asui

5th Hanabi Kaho 16th Yuga Aoyama

6th Fumikage Tokoyami 17th Hanta Sero

7th Maezo Shoji 18th Denki Kaminari

8th Mashiaro Ojiro 19th Kyoka Jiro

9th Eijiro Kirishima 20th Toru Hagakure

10th Mina Ashido 21st Minoru Mineta

11th Ochako Uraraka 22nd Izuku Midoriya

"Twelfth place?" Issei looked relieved at that as he was almost in the top ten.

But Midoriya looked rather terrified as he was in last place while the short kid who had to be Mineta looked relieved given how close he was to last place.

Uraraka placed a hand on Midoriya's shoulder in concern as the boy looked like he was about to cry before Aizawa spoke up.

"Also I was lying about expelling someone," Everyone went dead quiet at hearing that as Aizawa smirked at their dumbfounded expressions. "That was a rational deception to bring out the best in you."

"WHAAAA?!" Almost everyone shouted while the girl with the hair pulled in a ponytail sighed.

"Well of course it was a lie, it didn't take much to figure it out."

"Anyway we're done here, your documents about the curriculum and such are back in the classroom. Give them a look and Midoriya," Aizawa passed by the curly haired teen and held out a slip. "Have Recovery Girl fix you up, tomorrow's trials aren't going to be any easier."

As he left, Issei let out a breath he didn't realize he was holding in at how no one was expelled.

Of course they wouldn't be, man he was letting himself be easily fooled.

But that deception did help them bring out their best and now Issei knew where he stood among his class.

Out of twenty two people he was in twelfth place.

That was actually better than he thought it would be.

The rest of the day passed by as Issei found himself exiting the school in time to see Midoiya, Iida and Uraraka chatting as they left and he thought about joining them before deciding not to.

They looked like they were having fun talking and he didn't want to intrude.

Instead he looked to see who he could talk to on the way and he saw Hanabi.

So he decided to try and be friendly again. "Talk about a stressful day right?"

She did stop when he spoke but still gave him the same cold look as earlier.

"So I'm Issei Watanabe." Issei tried, holding his hand out.

"What do you want?"

Whoa, she actually spoke that time, though she did sound a little hostile there.

"Eh?" Issei looked surprised by the question before retracting his hand to rub the back of his head. "Sorry I don't really know anyone here with the exception of the people I met at the Entrance Exam. I'm just trying to make friends."

"I'll make this easy for you then, I have no desire to be friends." Hanabi bluntly said before walking off with Issei wincing at that.

Perhaps he should've caught up with Midoriya and them to try to make friends with them?

"Ouch, that was painful to watch." Kaminari's voice sounded behind Issei with him turning to see him walking up. "Got shut down huh?"

"Shut down?" Issei asked, blinking in confusion.

Kaminari just grinned and walked past him. "You up for hanging out?"

The question surprised Issei before he grinned and followed after him.

At least he seemed to have made a friend at UA.

To Be Continued…

Alright the third chapter and man so many things happened from the Quirk Assessment Test to introducing the character who will be Burstinatrix, she has her own reasons for being distant and a jerk, it will be shown in a future chapter don't worry. But Issei himself stands in the middle between his classmates in terms of skill. Nothing else to say really. Though he did show some disdain towards how Bakugo was acting for obvious reasons.

Now let's get to the review so I can post this and go to sleep.

Duskrider: I've been thinking about the idea if I wanted to do the whole fusion thing or not, I haven't decided as of yet.

Alright, happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!