Chapter 3- The Big Entry

After 10 months of intensive training and research Izuku was finally at the entrance of the UA exam hall. He was so overwhelmed that he just stood there for some time to take it all in.

"MOVE LOSER!"

That is until a angry and annoying voice that he would recognize anywhere made him snap out of it.

"Hello Katchan."

That is right Katsuku Bakugou in the flesh, what are the odds?

"Well. Well. If it isn't the useless quirkless Deku. What the fuck are you doing here?"

"Like you, I assume, I am here to take the hero exam."

"HAAAAAAAAAA! OH! THAT IS A GOOD ONE! A QUIRKLESS NOBODY IS TRYING TO TAKE THE EXAM! HAAAAAAAAA!"

"I don't know, this quirkless nobody handled himself pretty well last time, speaking of which, how are your teeth?"

The question made Bakugou stop his laughing fit and stare with a lot of hat at Izuku.

"LOOK YOU DAMN NERD! THAT JUST HAPPENNED BECAUSE I WAS HAVING A OFF DAY! NOTHING MORE!"

"Sure. You keep telling yourself that."

"OH! I AM GONNA-"

"Blow me to bits? Sure go ahead! Attack a unarmed civilian with your quirk right in front of the place they are gonna exam if you are worth of being a hero."

He hated to admit it but Izuku did have a point so Katsuki just spit some hateful curses under his breath and walked past him.

"You better hope you don't run into me in the practical exam! And by the way, that bracelet is queer as fuck!"

Just as Katsuki had said, Izuku was wearing a black bracelet in his left pulse.

"Really? I think it looks rather fashionable."

Seeing that he was unaffected by his insult Katsuki just roared internally and walked angrily to the hall, bumping in a poor girl along the way.

"OTTA THE WAY EXTRA!"

Just as the girl was about to hit the ground Izuku caught her and helped her back up.

"Thanks."

"You are welcome."

"What's wrong with that guy."

"I have asked myself that exact same question over the years and came up with a lot of theories but I suppose the most correct answer would be: he is a asshole."

"HaHA!"

Izuku was just stating the facts so her laugh really surprised him, not in a bad way though. He thought the brunet smile was really captivating.

"You have a beautiful smile."

"Oh! Thanks!"

That really made the girl blush but Izuku didn't mean for that to happen, he just didn't have any experience with people in general so most of the time he just said what was his mind.

"I am Izuku Midorya."

"Ochaco Uraraka."

"Pleasure. So, I imagine you are here for the hero exam?"

"That's right, I am."

"Well for what it's worth I think you would a great hero, specially considering how you help your family with their construction business."

"Thanks y- Wait how did you know about that?"

Was this guy stalking her?

"Don't worry I am not a stalker? I just noticed that you have some callus in your hands and that your arms are somewhat developed for a girl your age so that led me to believe that you lift heavy objects. It could be that you work out but you are clearly not the type, so that leaves construction equipment. It could be that you work part time in another place but the fact the car your dad brought you in had a advertisement for hiring in it and seeing as your personality is that of one that puts the well being of others first that seems highly unlikely. So there you have it."

"… So you picked up all of that from talking to me for 1 minute."

"And from observation too, but yeah pretty much."

That honestly surprised Ochaco more than when she thought he was a stalker. She imagined he must have had a amazing intelligence enhancement quirk.

Izuku looked at the watch in his right arm and exclaimed.

"Oh damn, it's almost time! I gotta run if I want to make it to the exam in time. It was great meeting you but I gotta go. Bye!"

"Ah… Ok, bye!"

Izuku was already gone by the time she answered.

'What a odd guy. Kinda cute though'. She thought blushing.

…

After the written exam all the participants were led to the auditorium where Present Mic began explaining the practical exam. You know the drill: 1,2,3 and 0 pointers.

At the end of the explanation the hero asked:

"Does anyone have any questions."

Only one hand rose.

"Yes! You! The one with the messy green air!"

It was, of course, Izuku.

"Actually, I don't really have a question I just wanted to apologize to everyone in advance."

That confused not just the hero, but everyone else.

"For what?"

"Well, because you are gonna have to make another exam for them."

"And why, exactly, is that!?"

"Because I am gonna destroy all of them before anyone else has the chance."

Now that affirmation made the room almost shook with surprise.

"What's your name and quirk young man?"

"Izuku Midoriya. I am quirkless."

After that the room became full with remarks like, "What's that quirkless loser talking about?", and "Hu, this guy is full of shit" and stuff like that.

"Silence!"

Present Mic screamed with his quirk.

"…"

"Better! Now young man, confidence is a good thing but too much of it can be dangerous."

"Hahaha… We will see."

…

On the bus to field where the exam would be held Izuku was approached by a tall boy with glasses.

"Listen if you are not gonna take this exam seriously it would be best if you didn't take it at all. This is the school that molds the greatests heroes in the country, not a playground for trouble-makers!"

Izuku observed the boy for some time before answering.

"Look Ida, since you didn't mean anything bad by it I am not gonna be offended, but you should know that I take this more seriously than anyone in this entire world could. I know that you have very high standards of how a hero should act since your brother is Ingenium but you shouldn't judge me before you see what I can do."

Ida didn't know how to respond to that so another person did that for him. Guess who.

"HA! WHAT A QUIRKLESS NOBODY LIKE YOU COULD POSSIBLY DO!?"

Izuku couldn't say he was surprised when Katsuki got up from his and jumped at the chance to insult him.

"Hey! That was too far!"

"SHUT IT ROUND FACE!"

"Hii!"

Ochaco tried to defend Izuku but the second the explosive blond yelled at her she shrieked back to her seat.

"Hey, Katsuku."

Even though Izuku's voice wasn't nearly as loud as Bakugou's it carried a different kind of intensity that made everyone pay attention to it.

"I don't care what you say to me. Quite frankly your opinion of me is worth less than dog shit, and all that yelling does is make more obvious that you are a man-child desperate for attention."

Everyone in the bus was taken aback by the smack Izuku was throwing at the blond, even Bakugou himself.

"But,"

Izuku stood up and walked closer and closer to him.

"When you make a innocent girl shriek back in terror, well, that's where I draw the line. You have a problem with me? Fine, we can settle this anywhere you want anytime you want, just say the word and I will be more than happy to kick your ass."

They were mere centimeters form each other and the tension was so tick you could cut it with a knife. Bakugou was literally red with rage but Izuku just stood there unfazed with a bland look on his face.

"HEY YOU KIDS! Sit down! We are almost there!"

And just as the driver said the teens got back on their seats but everyone knew that this wasn't over. Not by a long shot.

…

'Alright Izuku, this is it! Time to shine!"

Izuku was pumping himself up while all the students were being positioned before the gates of the mini-city the exam would be held, when suddenly Ochaco called out to him.

"Hey! Midoriya!"

"Ugh? Oh! Hi Uraraka."

"I just wanted to say thank you."

"Hey if I turned a blind eye to that kind of thing what kind of hero would I be?"

"Wow! You take this stuff very seriously, don't you?"

"More than you could ever imagine."

Ochaco was stunned, Izuku's motivation was so pure that she started doubting her own.

"S-So were you also serious about destroying all the pointers?"

"Yeah I was. Sorry Uraraka, originally I was gonna leave enough for the rest but… Someone I admired didn't have any faith in me and I am gonna prove just how wrong he was."

His determined face made Ochaco blush but before Midoriya could notice it something else happened.

"AND START!"

Present Mic gave the signal and everyone was so shocked at the sudden start they wouldn't move. Well except Izuku that is, since he was used to this kind of thing.

'Alright! This is it!'

And with that thought Izuku activated his invention.

…

Before we resume let's explain what Izuku was creating in his underground lab.

When he was little one of the things he loved most was "Power Rangers" and what he liked about the series the most was the fact that the rangers could transform and get weapons with literally the press of a button. He thought that if real heroes could do that kind of thing they could be ready to help people even when they were off duty and help in case of a ambush when they weren't suited up. Most kids could only do wishful thinking but Izuku was different. He came up with a lot of ideas over the years to implement it in the real world and encountered countless failures until he came up with the solution: Nano-bots.

He came up with it when he was watching a old movie that featured a fictional hero he liked using it in his armor.

The process of making the bots was even harder than coming up with the idea as Izuku not only needed a way to control but also make them be able to multiply and self-destruct in a manner of mili-seconds.

It took him 3 years to develop the bots, the last 4 months of it when Izuku was in the underground facility.

The way he came up to control them was to make them respond to his brainwaves. In the beginning the reading was made with heavy machinery but over time he was able develop it into a device that looked like a computer chip. The chip needed to stay in contact with Izuku's head at all time and he didn't want it being easy to take out so he surgically connected it to his cranium which in turn made his mom have a panic/fury attack when she heard of it.

To make the armor Izuku needed to be able to tell how many bots were necessary to make it and the form they would take in every part of it which was quite hard but he was able to get the hang of it rather quickly.

The rest of the time he was down there he trained to integrate his fighting style with the armor, which wasn't so hard since he ran simulations of it several times.

The only problem was that the nano-bots had to be close to him in order to receive the commands, so he needed them to be with him at all times(like a morpher). So he made the bots take the form of a bracelet when he didn't want to be in the armor.

Which leads us to the current moment.

…

Izuku activated the nano-bots and the bracelet he was wearing turned into a black liquid that soon engulfed his entire body and took the form of a slick black armor with a boomerang shaped vizor(for better mental image imagine genji from overwatch without the bandana).

"What the-"

Before Ochaco could even finished her surprise yell Izuku blasted through the crowd and flew right past gates. She wasn't the only one surprised though.

"How in the-HEY! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?! THERE'S NO COUNTDOWN IN A REAL BATTLE! RUN!"

Present Mic regained his composure and oriented the students, which in turn started running but they were already too late.

…

Izuku was flying in top of the town and using his I.A to search for the robots. 2 seconds later it responded.

"All targets acquired"

As soon it sent the locations he started dashing towards the closest one. When the robot was in reach Izuku made a sword with his nano-bots and using his propulsion cut the thing in half in one go. This continued on with all the other pointers and just like he had said none of the other participants could destroy one before he did, also after every finishing blow Izuku removed the helmet part of his armor and looked directly at the cameras as if to say: 'See? I am doing exactly what I said I would do'.

…

(At the observation room)

"Who the hell is this kid?!"

"He is taking them all down in one hit."

"What the hell is his quirk?"

"Where did he get a sword?!"

These kinds of remarks were being made by all the heroes in the room. The boy in the armor had taken down all the bots they had thrown in the city in less than half a hour.

Nezu, the animal director, was also in great shock but at this moment he was paying attention to his friend All Might, who was in his buff form. He usually made a point to always smile when he was in this form, only this time he wasn't.

"Do you know this kid?"

"Yeah, I do. And I think I made the biggest mistake of my life."

…

Back in the city Izuku was just leisurely flying around when he heard screams. When he went in the direction of it he saw a immensely huge robot, the zero pointer, chasing dozens of fleeing participants.

That didn't particularly caught his attention, what did was Uraraka being stuck under a huge block of a building in the direction the 0 pointer was heading. He knew there was no way the robot would stomp her to death since the school wouldn't allow it but he didn't care.

He flared up his thrusters to the maximum and was in front of the robot in half a second. He knew his sword wasn't long enough to cut and he still couldn't enlarge armaments so he decided on another strategy.

He cut it's chest armor at a speed so high it created after images. At some point there were enough cuts to make a hole large enough for him fit him and that is exactly what he did. He figured that if couldn't take it down on the outside he would do it from the inside. When he got inside the thing he used the sword to cut his skeleton and the circuits that made it work. When the lights inside it went out he figured he did enough damage to it. He got out from the same hole he came from and just to make sure it wouldn't hurt anyone as it fell down he pushed to make fall on it's back.

Once that was dealt that was dealt with he got back to the ground to help Ochaco. His armor also boosted his strength so he was able to easily lift the block.

He removed the helmet to talk to her.

"Are you okay?"

"Y-Yeah!"

But she obviously wasn't, her ancle was twisted in a bad angle. She had to go to the infirmary, so Izuku decided to take her there… in a princess carry.

"Mi-Midoriya! W-What are you doing!?"

"Getting you to the infirmary. Hold on."

"Wh-AAAAAAAAAAAAA-"

And just like that they flew away leaving all the others just hanging their mouths.

…

(At the infirmary)

After the Recovery Girl did her treatment Ochaco and Izuku were left alone. She was in a patient bed and he was seating next to her, without his armor.

"So, are you okay?"

"Yeah. Recovery Girl said that it should heal itself in a week or so."

"She really should think about changing that name, it's misleading."

"I know, right? Hahahaha."

They laughed about it for a while and stayed in silence until she mustered up the courage to ask the question she wanted.

"Midoriya, are you really quirkless?"

"What do you mean?"

"Look I am not saying that being quirkless is a bad thing it's just… You lifted a 100kg block like it was nothing, you can fly, and there is that armor that appears and disappears out of nowhere! I mean those aren't things a normal person could do."

"… You may be right but I still don't have a quirk. That armor that you saw is what makes me capable of doing those things and it isn't a quirk, I made it."

"Really!? How!?"

"The details are boring so let's just say it took a lot of trial and error. I figured leveling the playing field was the least I could do if I was competing with heroes like All Might."

Saying it was easy but actually doing it was another thing all together and she knew. They stayed in silence for a while after that and like last time it was Ochaco that broke it.

"So, you really did it. Recovery Girl talked about what happened. No wonder I couldn't find any pointers."

"Sorry. But don't worry, since they couldn't correctly evaluate the others they will probably do the exam again."

"I am not doing it."

"W-What! Why!? Is it because that thing hurt you."

"No, not really it's just that… I don't think I am qualified to be a hero."

"What do you mean?"

"Midoriya why do you want to be a hero?"

"Well… because I want to help."

"Exactly! It's been a life-long dream of yours and you are doing for all the right reasons. But me? I didn't want to be one until recently and the only reason I am doing is for the money."

"But you are using the money to help your parents because their business isn't going well right?"

"How did you-? You know what, forget it. That may be the case but still…"

"Look Uraraka even if it wasn't your life-long dream you are still doing to help someone in need. This job is very dangerous but you are still doing it, not for the fame or the glory but to help someone else and if that isn't a hero then I don't know what is."

"Thanks."

"Look I don't know you well enough to tell you what to do, so just do what you think is best. Okay?"

"Okay, I will."

"Good.

Well, I gotta go if I don't want to be late for dinner, sorry."

"No problem. Thank you for everything Midoriya."

"You are welcome, and I hope to see you again at UA."

With those parting words Izuku left the room and Ochaco was left alone with her thoughts. Every time she closed her eyes all she could imagine was Izuku and every thought in her head was connected to him somehow. This made her remember a talk she had with her mom some time ago which in turn led her to one conclusion:

'I think I might be in love!"