The entire rest of the week was a blur for Izuku. He woke up in the UA infirmary after the Entrance Exam, and saw Recovery Girl and had a little fanboy moment before he was (very politely) kicked out. He had kinda lost track of all the points he had required after he had saved Rumi, so he was hoping that he had enough to pass the exam.

His mother assured him that he was worrying for nothing, but Izuku couldn't shake the feeling that something bad was going to happen. The boy in question was flying in his room, doing sit-ups/pull-ups when he heard footsteps rapidly run through the house. His bedroom door flew open and his short, plump mother collapsed with tears of joy in her eyes and was holding out a letter.

"Izuku! Your letter! It's here!"

With a nervous glance at the envelope Izuku grabbed it and closed his door. Without moving, and utilizing the newly discovered elasticity portion of his quirk. He heard his mother pacing a storm outside as he effortlessly tore open the letter. A small metal disk fell out of the envelope, which he caught after only falling a foot or so. Sitting cross-legged in the air, Izuku saw the disk glowed blue for a second before a hologram appeared. The video showed a small classroom, with a tall brick wall of a man. He had unkempt white hair, and was wearing a red outfit with a yellow visor and many tubes connecting to his arms and back. It was the Blood Hero: Vlad King! His quirk, Blood Control let him manipulate his own blood as soon as it left his body, additionally it had the added mutation of giving him a rapidly regenerating bloodstream.

As this was going through his head, Vlad King cleared his throat.

"Greetings Izuku Midoriya. You did excellent on the written examination, getting just over a ninety percent. On the practical examination was where you truly shined, though. Your quirk is very versatile, practically multiple with how much the kinetic energy you absorb can be manipulated!" The large man awkwardly coughed, and continued, "Anyway, in the exam you got a whopping eighty-nine points from destroying the mock villains, but that's not all!" The man seemed to be really getting into it now, "What kind of hero school would we be if we valued destruction over everything else? We also had "Hero Points" for those noble enough to put themselves in harm's way to save another! And you Izuku Midoriya got the highest number of Hero Points, with a seventy-four point total for your constant heroic spirit and the destruction of the zero pointer to save your fellow examinees! For this, you got a total of one-hundred and sixty-three points, tying you with the record holder, All Might!" Izuku began feeling tears fall down his face at this.

"With this… You can be a hero! And this is your hero academia!"

Izuku began sobbing so much that didn't even notice the light blinking out, as the projector fell out of his hand and clattered on the ground. He landed, weeping tears of joy. He didn't deserve this.

A sound from behind him alerted him to the presence of his mother standing in his now open doorway. He turned towards her, a smile on his face as tears cascaded down onto the floor. Painting a similar picture to a day so long ago.

"Mom… I got in. I did it!"

The older woman threw herself at her son. Her arms wrapped around him as they cried themselves dry. This was the best day of his life. Even if he felt like he didn't deserve it, this was the best thing to happen to him. He felt like there were other more qualified people to take his position, but the numbers didn't lie. An idea popped into Izuku's head, he could check what the scores were now considering that they were probably released at this point.

Untangling himself from his mothers grip, he went over to his computer and began typing up the UA website, and clicked onto the most recent update. "The Next Top Ten Heroes?" was what that article was titled as he clicked on it. As it began loading in, he had second thoughts He shouldn't interfere with this. Wasn't this basically snooping? He should probab-

All thoughts died in his head when he looked at the list that finally loaded.

Izuku Midoriya (89 Villain, 74 Hero)

Rumi Usagiyama (60 Villain, 18 Hero)

Katsuki Bakugo (77 Villain, 0 Hero)

Eijiro Kirishima and Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu (39 Villain, 35 Hero)

Ibara Shiozaki (36 Villain, 32 Hero)

Itsuka Kendo (25 Villain, 40 Hero)

Tenya Iida (52 Villain, 9 Hero)

Fumikage Tokoyami (49 Villain, 10 Hero)

Yosetsu Awase (50 Villain, 6 Hero)

Hitoshi Shinso (3 Villain, 47 Hero)

"K-K-Kacchan didn't get first? I g-got first?"

Izuku was floored. Bakugo didn't even get second! He was beaten out by Rumi for one point! Then he remembered he didn't even know which class he was in, and he scrambled over towards the envelope and looked through it, and found a schedule with his class at the top.

Class 1-B, Hero Course.

A few days earlier…

"I don't want him. He's gonna cause too much trouble, you take him Nemuri."

Aizawa glanced over to see Nemuri had a finger on her nose, and glanced over at the other freshman homeroom teacher for the Hero Course. Kan looked giddy at the prospect of getting such an S-tier student. So Aizawa decided it would be logical to defer to him for this.

"I will take him!" He was practically frothing at the mouth at the idea of it.

Aizawa nodded. Good, he already had a couple problem students he had to worry about. Like Endeavor's spawn and the blonde psychopath Katsuki Bakugo. He didn't need any more chaos. It was bad enough that the principal was adding a third Hero Course class this year that Nemuri was in charge of, but if he got three problem children… he'd probably expel his entire class again. And Nezu said the next time he did that he would be sent packing, so he was on thin ice.

Present day, elsewhere…

Third. Place.

"THIRD FUCKING PLACE! I LOST THE TOP SPOT TO SOME EXTRA AND FUCKING… DEKU?!"

Katsuki Bakugo was fuming. Sparks were popping out of his hands. He had been so sure that he would pass the Entrance Exam with flying colors, which he did. He got a ninety-nine on the written portion, and seventy-seven of those robots crumbled to the might of his explosions. But they also threw in Hero Points. Tch, and of course they didn't communicate that with anyone because that would make the rescues artificial.

The thing that bothered him the most was that he lost to Deku. He could handle some no name chick, that was fine. He could show her who really was better, he had no doubt. But Deku? That was heinous. How did he even get eighty-nine Villain Points? The loser was fucking quirkless, there's no way he could've done anything unless he was cheating or he was… lying.

Wait.

Bakugo grit his teeth. That had to be it. Damn snake. Lying sack of shit. Making him think he was quirkless for years. He had to be laughing at him. A small part of Bakugo realized that this was irrational, everything was too genuine to be deceitful, and the boy wouldn't cheat at anything. But he was not in a rational mood. He felt slighted.

"Deku…"

Bakugo growled more akin to an animal than a human.

"I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU, YOU USELESS GOD-DAMN NERD!"

His roar shook the apartment, and the sounds of footsteps pounding towards his door drew Bakugo's attention away from the computer screen.

"STOP YELLING KATSUKI! AND WATCH YOUR DAMN MOUTH!"

"QUIET, YA DAMN HAG!"

The day had come. Izuku flew through his house getting ready, and after a few minutes of struggling with the tie he threw it aside and decided to go without it. UA didn't really seem like the type of place to enforce dress code, and if it did he'd just learn how to tie a tie and bring it tomorrow. He didn't know who was in his class or who his homeroom teacher was, but he was hoping that they were at least nice.

He pushed open the massive door that had the class number on it and stepped in the room to find it… empty? He wasn't that early was he? He glanced at his watch and shrugged before heading over towards his seat, number eighteen. He put his backpack down behind his chair and emptied it, putting his newest journal on the desk, Hero Analysis For The Future Vol. 14: UA Edition. He had come up with the idea to create a separate notebook for his classmates at UA, in order to take notes on them and figure out their quirks and maybe help them better in the future.

Eventually the door opened again and a couple of students stepped through. One of them was the tall, sallow boy with the arm blades from the exam. He glanced around the room and then his eyes widened when he saw Izuku, and he nudged his friend. His friend had short, brown hair and a pretty plain face with eyes that seemed to always be surprised.

"That's the one who fuckin' decimated the zero pointer!"

Apparently it was possible for the brown-haired boys eyes to get wider, since they did. The duo walked over to him, ignoring their seats. Today was probably going to be interesting. Was the only thought that Izuku could muster.

A/N: There it is, the next chapter. Now I don't know if you guys noticed but this is where a lot of the divergence starts happening. The class layouts are going to be slightly different, beyond just Izuku being in 1-B instead of 1-A. There is also an additional Hero Course class in 1-C. General Education now starts at D instead. The three Hero Course classes will play a vital role in this story and we won't just have insular dynamics for the classes, they're heroes they need to establish relationships with other heroes, support students, and business students. A lot of the interactions will be post USJ, though. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, but there is something I would like to address before I get more people asking. No Izuku will not be getting One For All, I've already dealt with that particular bit of canon by changing things around a little bit behind the scenes. He wasn't at the Sludge Villain incident so All Might didn't get the chance to see his heroic spirit until the Entrance Exam, where Izuku had already developed his quirk. Izuku was too busy at the time being depressed and throwing himself off of a building :).

If anyone has any questions, going forward I will be answering them in the Author's Note at the end of the chapter. So please leave a review, even if it's to tell me I fucked up on something. I can't learn and grow if I don't know what I did wrong. Although make sure it's constructive, anything else would be cringe. Lol, all this aside I do genuinely hope you enjoyed this and so long and goodnight!