Deku had gotten up early to leave before his mom woke up, and went to Mashirao's house to talk before the exam. He stopped by and knocked on the door of the dojo waiting for a few minutes until he saw Mashirao running towards him from around the corner. He was dripping with sweat as if he had been running for hours. He walked up to Deku with his breath ragged, and his hand on the wall holding him up. "Hey what's up Izuku? You came so we could go to UA together?"
"Yeah I did. Let me guess you didn't sleep well? AH! Also I just remembered, I never asked you this, but what's a spirit animal?" Deku helped Mashirao into the dojo to sit down and sat down himself, his hands on his lap.
"And why are you only just asking about that now? I mean let me explain it quick before you answer. Your spirit animal is something that matches your personality and beliefs. It also decides your fighting style when it comes to this dojo." Mashirao explained while trying to catch his breath. He almost started wheezing while explaining it.
"Well I'm asking because I'm close to getting mine. One more level on meditation and I will know, and get new techniques. I mean it's no big deal!" Deku just smiled and looked at an extremely deadpan face of Mashirao, who then closed his eyes and breathed deeply.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S NO BIG DEAL! THAT'S SOMETHING MOST PEOPLE HAVE TO TRAIN FOR YEARS TO GET!" Mashirao quickly calmed down and we flushed blue from a lack of breath. He caught his breath and just stared and the now quivering Deku, who looked like a kid who just got scolded, tears in his eyes.
"Sorry," Deku let out lightly and looked at Mashirao, now standing over him. He got up and bumped his fist on his chest, "for not telling you sooner. We should get going to UA. I mean they aren't gonna wait for us." Mashirao just nodded and they gathered up their stuff for the written exam.
Along the way to UA a window crashed out of a building next to them, and a man who had flesh like spikes running up his arms and replacing his hair landed on Mashirao's head, jumping off it and knocking Mashirao out do to the unexpected force of his full body weight. Deku looked over and the building had been a bank, and the man had just leave with two large bags. Deku took it upon himself to at least slow down the man escaping with what he assumed was money or other valuables. He figured his agility stat was at least higher than most people unless they used their quick to boost it. 'Wait why haven't I thought of trying to look at other people's stats before? Questions for later,' Deku thought to himself. He began to chase after the mystery man down an alley and yelled at him, "Stop you're breaking multiple laws involving the use of quirks in public and committing robbery!"
"Oh a goody two shoes huh? Well then I guess I'm ending a kids life to day!" The man said this in almost a snarl. Deku froze for a second hearing that, realizing that meant he had a way to attack from range, Deku grabbed a metal trash can lid to use as a shield and kept running after him. The man's hair started to shoot out at Deku and he held up the lid, blocking the spikes. Deku watched as his hair quickly regrew and shot again. Deku crouched as he ran to let the lid block most of his body. Spikes quickly filled the now punctured and dented metal. You couldn't really tell it was a trash can lid at this point anymore. 'Well fuck it,' Deku thought to himself as he chucked the remainder of metal at the man with his full force.
"Due to you attacking me I am now allowed legal to use my quirk in full force!" Deku yelled as he ran at full speed now, easily catching up to and slightly ahead of the man attacking him. His face was full of shock and anger. Deku moved his fist in to punch him as he brought his spikey arms up to block and skewer his fist at the same time, Deku quickly used Useless Assault, to force himself to miss. The man thought this was an opportunity to attack, and in turn was dodged, leaving Deku to the side to punch him clean in the ribs, using Focused Puncture. The man started to tumble on the pavement, and got up quickly to lat a barrage of spike towards Deku, at which point he dived behind a nearby space in between two buildings. As Deku left the mini alleyway he had dived into, he saw a figure behind the spikey man and then he saw it disappear from view. The next second he saw a man fly through the thief and next to him.
"Are you alright?" The figure was a full suited hero with a long red cape, and a white body with yellow numbers that showed one million. He had spiky yellow hair along with a face shield that matched, and a huge smile across his face. His blue pants similar to the UA outfit he had seen watching the UA sports festival. All deku could this was 'He reminds me of All Might.' and he nodded. "Good!," the boy standing in front of him started to laugh, "I saw that punch you got off on him, although I couldn't see much after that. I got it from here!" Deku watched as the man he had just seen, almost fall into the ground, and pop up right below the man who had stolen from the bank, leaving him unconscious with a high speed uppercut. He just looked at Deku and asked him, "What did he do anyway? Other than attack you of course. You had to be chasing him for some reason. Also where were you going so early in the morning that you can waste time chasing bad guys?" Deku's face sank with the realization that he still had to get him and Mashirao who is now out cold to UA.
"OH NO The Entrance Exam!" Deku yelled as soon as he started to run back to Mashirao. He turned back to the hero and yelled, "HE ROBBED A BANK, I HAVE TO GO OR I'LL MISS MY CHANCE AT UA!" The hero's smile got even larger than before as he thought to himself, 'What a heroic, great and trouble-making junior to have. I think I think I will have to talk to Principal Nezu about him.' With that Deku rushed himself and the now barely conscious Mashirao to UA before the exams had begun.
The lot of the students had already taken the written exam and were brought to an auditorium where Deku ended up sitting next to his worst nightmare. Rather what would have been his worst nightmare if he hadn't been training the past 10 months with Mashirao. 'I mean sure Kac-Chan is powerful and scary but not as much as someone who has a tail and been doing martial arts their whole life.' Deku had just looked at Bakugou and smiled and shyly said, "Hey Kac-Chan how are you?" Bakugou looked at Deku and then looked forward.
"Shut it Deku. I'm here to pass not make friends or talk to dumbasses. Got it?" Deku just nodded and sat down, at which point the lights went out and a single spotlight shined down on one person with hair almost like a yellow paint brush and a black yet shiny coat.
"ALRIIIIIGHT! ARE YOU READY TO ROCK!" Deku instantly knew who it was from the voice alone. Deku started to mumble all about the hero at the stand 'That's Present Mic the Voice Hero. He has a podcast every single Friday called Put your Hands Up Radio. I listen in every time but of course UA would have such a big and popular hero working here. I mean it's UA the biggest hero high school in the entirety of Japan. Who else would they hire?' Deku had been listening clearly as Present Mic called on a student holding up the sheet of paper they had all been given.
"Sir you had said that there were three robots with each one being worth a different amount of points, but there are clearly four robots on this sheet! If this is a mistake it would be an outrageous stain on a school as prestigious school as UA! Also you there with the plain and messy looking hair! Please stop mumbling, do you think that UA is some game or a joke!" He was pointing directly at Deku which had caused him to shrivel up a bit in his seat and sit quietly until the end of the speech. Present Mic had answered about a fourth robot that was a zero pointer there as a distraction.
Each student was told to go to the gate letter that matched the one on the sheet they were given. Once Deku walked up to the gate he looked up in awe. 'Wow they have a whole city, and based on how they labeled our sheets they have more than one. It's huge.' At this point the boy from before walked up to with a stern face. "Why are you trying to ruin people's odds at success? Are you planted here by UA to distract people?" Deku just looked shocked and then went into his mumble state again 'I mean it would make sense that UA would make the exam hard as possible but others to sabotage the odds of students? It's completely possible for that be a reality…' As he kept on rambling the boy from before just walked away realizing that he is either just like this or he is really committed to his role. The doors opened and a few students dashed into the area. It took a few seconds for most students to realize that there was no countdown. It was just go for it. Deku dashed in and came across a one pointer at which point, it was quickly blown to pieces by a blue laser.
"Merci my plain looking friend! Although I don't think I will see much of you at a later date!" The blonde, what Deku could assume was a french man, ran off to get more points. I this point Deku had gotten no points even though he spent all that time training his stats and skills. He came across one of the robots at which point he saw it fall flat.
"Sorry I had to take that from you! Good Luck!" He heard a feminine voice nearby but saw no one. He kept running, unable to get any points. If he found one it was quickly blown apart by someone with a long range attack. 'I need to increase the range I can work at,' Deku thought to himself along with, 'I wonder if Kac-Chan is having the same issue or has he found a way to close the long to mid range gap his quirk leaves?' Deku didn't have time to think about that as a large robot came in, smashing a building that was not too far from him. His face filled with panic and worry for a moment, 'THAT'S THE ZERO POINTER!' He was about to run when he heard a voice cry out for help. It was a girl with brown hair trapped under some rubble. He thought for a second about it, but he didn't have a skill powerful enough to break the concrete covering her, but Meditation was almost leveled. He went with that and sat down, clearing his head. Only one word remained, that he couldn't clear no matter what Protect and with that his skill leveled and his head was filled with the one animal, Turtle. With this he gained two new skills.
Turtle Shell Shield Lv 1: This skill embodies what the turtle's body is all about. Protection of yourself and others. The shield takes damage and drains focus in a replacement. You can manifest it up to as large as your body and as small as the palm of your hand. The conversion ratio is for every 5 hp the attack would drain it drains 1 focus.
Turtle's Mind Lv MAX: This skill represents the mind of a turtle. Old and wise. It is a passive boost to wisdom, and increase of 25%.
"HOPEFULLY THIS WORKS!" Deku ran up to the robot and put up his shield to try and stop in its tracks. Surprisingly this worked, to an extent. He slowed it down, gaining the attention of everyone else. The boy who had pointed out is mumbling from before came flying in and slammed into the joint near the bottom of the tracks, causing that side to stop. A blue laser flew through the other sides joint, tearing it out. The boy that shot the laser fell over as so did Deku, ignoring the pop up warning about low Focus. He also got another pop up.
Congrats! You made an achievement possible! You forced the students to work together on destroying the 0 pointer. Due to this you will gain a new skill on wake up and 5 whole more points to spend on stats!
Deku later woke up in his bed with a letter left on his desk. He assumed this was the UA letter. He held it in his hand, knowing that he had only helped in stopping the large zero pointer. He wasn't sure if he was going to be let in, or if he was even qualified to be in remedial classes. Not to mention he wasn't even sure if he did well on the written exam. He opened it to find a hologram projector and hit play, astonished to see All Might there in a suit. "Hello young Izuku Midoriya! You were unable to get a single point in the practical exam. However you did score almost perfect in the written exam! The biggest part you scored in was in HERO points! Especially after young Mirio told us about how you helped take down a villain in public! So welcome to UA high school!" Deku was stunned. He did it. He made it into the best school in Japan. Then he remembered that he got a new skill. He decided to check it out.
Congrats on the achievement! Pick one of the three following skills:
Tough Skin Lv 1: This is a passive skill that increases your HP by 10%.
Focus Muscle Lv 1: This skill allows you to increase the Focus in your muscles as you are using them, to increase for a burst of speed, strength or durability. It costs 30 to use and can cost health if you over use it.
Power Throw Lv 1: With this skill you channel Focus into something you are about to throw, increasing its rotation speed and its aerodynamics. This allows it to fly father and hit harder. This adds you Wisdom to the damage it would normally do. It costs 10 focus to use this skill.
Deku hadn't realized that he would be picking his skill, so he decided to hold it off for now. Although he would most likely go with Power Throw to help with his lack of long range skills. He needed to cover every base to help as many people as possible. He spent his extra 5 points and laid back down, deciding to go right back asleep.
Deku's Stats:
Level:5
Hp:300
Focus:420
Strength: 20
Agility: 15
Vigor: 15
Intelligence: 15
Wisdom: 15 (+3 from Turtle's Mind)
Unspent Points: 0
Skills:
Tear Off Lv 6:This Skill uses focus to increase your strength when ripping or tearing at something, allowing the user to pull with great force. Increases strength 40% when using and costs 5 focus.
Basic Focus Control Lv 5 : This skill allows someone to move the focus they use in their body and move it in the air around them, some famous magic users from history would call this mana, or chi. Upon reaching this level of control, you can move the Focus around your body freely and manipulate it within 5 inches of your body without costing focus. Every additional inch beyond that takes 10 Focus per second in use.
Dish Cleaning Lv 10: This skill allows the user to get some serious stains out of any dishware while cleaning. Cleaning rate increased 100%
Cooking Lv 1: This skill allows the user to cook. While it may not be the best, it will restore 5% hp or focus.
Useless Assault Lv 6: When attacking someone with a higher Strength, Itelligence, or agility, you can make an attack you know won't work almost like a feint. If they counter you can chain this into a dodge. Costs 4 focus.
Basic Martial Arts Lv 3: Martial arts are a deadly form of hand to hand fighting that has been passed down for centuries. The basics include how to punch, kick and block. Passively increases your unarmed damage by 30% as well as giving you knowledge on how to fight.
Focused Puncture Lv 2: By channeling the Focus from your fist into your target you create what feels like a puncturing attack. This deals damage based on your Strength and Wisdom. Dealing 20% of both, and ignoring 20% of armors. It costs 25 Focus to use.
Power Throw Lv 1: With this skill you channel Focus into something you are about to throw, increasing its rotation speed and its aerodynamics. This allows it to fly father and hit harder. This adds you Wisdom to the damage it would normally do. It costs 10 focus to use this skill.
Turtle Shell Shield Lv 1: This skill embodies what the turtle's body is all about. Protection of yourself and others. The shield takes damage and drains focus in a replacement. You can manifest it up to as large as your body and as small as the palm of your hand. The conversion ratio is for every 5 hp the attack would drain it drains 1 focus.
Turtle's Mind Lv MAX: This skill represents the mind of a turtle. Old and wise. It is a passive boost to wisdom, and increase of 25%.
Hey! Author's note here! I've never really done this before but I want to do a Q and A before the next chapter so Ask away! I'll answer questions in a few weeks on the website, but before it. I will avoid spoiling the story. I will also like to hear what you think so far!
