Chapter Ten is here. This chapter brings an end to the UA Entrance exam. That means we have two chapters till the end of this arc. Review reply to all is, read and find out. Now onto the chapter.


New World Arc

Chapter 10: Setting Things Straight

Izuku eyed down Flash, his mind racing to try and find a way to win this battle. Flash, despite the advantage he had, didn't make any moves knowing Izuku was while to go to the lengths of breaking his bones in order to win. The crowd was silent eager to see what would take place next. However Ruby was growing increasingly worried having just seen Izuku unleash his quirk.

"Ruby!" She heard Jaune call.

She looked to see Jaune running up to her.

"Jaune." Ruby expressed.

"What's happening in there? I was on my way over when I saw that attack." He question.

"It's Izuku, he used his quirk." Ruby replied.

"What he used it?!" Jaune expressed with concern. "That guy must be some serious trouble if he's resorting to that."

"I know and that's what's got me worried." Ruby expressed. "The only good hit he got on him was with using it even still it wasn't enough. I don't know how he's gonna win."

Suddenly Izuku readied his fingers to flick with his quirk again. Flash braced himself for the coming attack. However instead of releasing another blast of wind Izuku charged forward. The minute Izuku was in range he sent his fist through a portal and slammed it into Izuku's face. Izuku staggered a bit but again readied his finger to flick. Like before Flash braced himself for the coming attack. Again Izuku took the opportunity to charge and close the distance some more. Quickly flash sent several swift punches Izuku's way, each finding there mark. Like the time before Izuku was staggered but as before he was able to ready his finger to flick.

"I won't fall for that this time!" Flash yelled.

He sent a punch straight into Izuku's face. Izuku began to fall. Flash remained on guard expecting should Izuku attack with his quirk. Suddenly Izuku regained his footing and stood up right to meet another fist to the face. However Izuku spun himself with it. He did a complete 360 in place and fired off a blast of [One for All] with a flick of his middle finger. Flash was blasted away. He must be desperate if he's using that a second time I was right to weary. Not that it'll help. Flash quickly made a portal in front of him which opened at the same time as one behind him did. Like before he dove through the portal behind him. However the minute he exited he was met with Izuku readying to throw a punch.

"What the?!" Flash expressed.

You acted exactly as I expected. You rightly assumed my quirk, while powerful, wasn't much of an option outside of a flick given I have no way of holding it back. Izuku channeled [One for All] into his fist. That is until my fight with Kirishima. Had I not had that fight I won't have figured out a way of holding back my power and this fight would have been yours. He stepped forward and swung his fist forward with his entire weight behind it. However that fight made me realize that I could subconsciously hold back my power… He slammed his fist straight into Flash's face. By attacking someone directly.

"SSMMMMAAAAAASH!" Izuku shouted from the depths of his heart.

He sent Flash sprawling to ground knocking him unconscious. There was a brief moment of silence save the pants of Izuku. The examiner went to check on the state of Flash.

"Flash Dallas is unable to continue the winner is Izuku Midoriya!" He shouted.

The crowd erupted in shouts praise. Of them Ruby and Jaune were the loudest and most excited. Izuku took the time to revel in his victory. After a few seconds Flash regained consciousness. He slowly got up with a groan. Izuku made his way over to him and held out his hand.

"Here let me help you up." Izuku offered.

Flash only stared at the hand for a few seconds before chuckling lightly.

"Your a good man Midoriya." He commented as he took hold of Izuku's hand.

Izuku pulled him to his feet.

"And you'll make a great hero once you master that quirk of yours." Flash added. "I hope we both get in so we can fight again. Hopefully you'll have a better grasp of your power then."

"I hope so too." Izuku replied.

With their final words said both went their separate ways eager to hopefully met again in UA. Izuku leapt out of the arena.

"Izuku!" He heard Ruby shout.

Suddenly an elated Ruby flew into him and tackled him to the ground in a hug.

"That was incredible I can't believe you won." Ruby beamed.

"Me neither," Izuku squeaked out with a bright red face. "Now can you get off of me."

"Oh, sure." Ruby replied.

She released Izuku and hopped back to her feet. Izuku slowly rose back to his feet. In that time Jaune managed to catch up to them.

"Hey Midoriya, congrats on the win." He complimented.

"Thanks, though that was a really tough battle and I got lucky with a few things." Izuku replied.

"Hey now don't go saying that mister, you earned that win fair in square so don't start selling yourself short." Ruby scolded.

"She's right, so stand proud." Jaune added.

"Thanks guys," Izuku replied sheepishly.

"Even still… you still broke your fingers to win. While not that bad, you still have to stop hurting yourself." Ruby scolded.

"I-I know that, a-and besides I'm making really good progress on that front." Izuku pointed out. "I already figured out a way to hold back my quirks power."

"Really how?" Ruby questioned.

"Funnily enough by attacking someone with it directly." Izuku explained. "If I do that I somehow subconsciously put a limiter on it. It's not much but it's still something to go off of."

"Well that's good," Ruby noted.

"Yeah and given some more time I'm sure you'll get a hang of it." Jaune added.

"I hope so." Izuku replied.

With his fight concluded Izuku, Ruby, and Jaune made there way to a more secluded area. There Izuku plopped down to rest from his fight.


In the Examination Room…

Toshinori couldn't help but grin proudly at his successor's surprise stunning victory. His joy only grew seeing him getting a better handle on [One for All].

"My you seem happy Toshinori. I wonder why?" Nezu teased as he looked to the screen with Izuku on it.

"I guess you could say that. Seeing the boy go from breaking his foot with his power to having some semblance of control over, I can't help but be proud of him." Toshinori admitted.

"You shouldn't play favorites with your students All Might." Shota scolded.

"Oh come now Aizawa, even I can tell you've already taken a liking to the boy." All Might returned.

Shota scoffed and looked away, but didn't deny it.

"Somewhat on topic there's the other two and potentially now three prospective students with the group from Remnant." Nezu pointed out. "It seems that Miss Ruby Rose plans to inform them of the truth of her and her friends situation."

"Yes, while it is her secret to share, we ourselves did agree that only the UA staff and her caretakers would be aware of the truth of her and her friend's situation. We all know the kind of trouble the media will bring with this story not to mention the social unrest." Toshinori pointed out. "However Young Kendo is quite intelligent is already aware that they haven't told her the real story. It'll be quite hard to trick her."

"Logically keeping this to as few people as possible would be best." Shota pointed out. "However what All Might said seems to be true from what I've seen."

"Indeed, while I have my concerns I believe we should leave it up to Miss Rose and her friends as to if they wish to reveal the truth of the situation to the other three." Nezu stated. "Any objections?"

"No," They both replied.

"Alright then send a message to your respective groups so they know we leave the decision up to them." Nezu ordered.

The two nodded and did as they were told.


Later…

After the last test had finished up and everyone got patch up by Recovery Girl, Izuku and his group had agreed to meet up outside of UA. While getting changed and getting their stuff, Izuku; Ruby; Jaune; Ren; and Nora saw the messages they had received from All Might and Aizawa. The messages stated that they would leave it up to the group from Remnant whether to tell the truth about their situation or not. With All Might's message to Izuku and Ruby, he add that he would explain why he was watching over the Entrance Exam later since he said he would be busy for a few weeks. After getting changed, Izuku made his way out with Jaune, Ren, and Tenya. They were the first to come out.

"So what do you think we should do?" Jaune whispered to Izuku.

"I don't know. The message said it was up to you guys specifically and I told Ruby I would follow her lead on this." Izuku whispered back.

"Well I'm alright with it." Jaune whispered. "What about you Ren?"

"I think it'd be for the best. We wouldn't be able to keep this secret forever so telling a few people now shouldn't do any harm." Ren returned.

"What are you three whispering about?" Tenya inquired.

"Nothing!" They quickly replied.

In that moment the girls had finished up changing and were heading towards them.

"Hey guys!" Ruby called out.

"Hey/yo/hello." The boys greeted.

"Everyone here?" Ruby asked.

"Looks like it." Jaune answered.

"Good now you can explain the whole truth like you promised." Itsuka stated.

"The truth?" Tenya questioned.

"R-right, that's okay with you guys right? I already checked with Nora." She ask Jaune and Ren.

"We decided it's best to tell them the truth." Jaune answered.

"Cool," Ruby replied. "Hey Izuku can you call your mom and see if it's okay if we all go to your place? We should probably discuss this in private."

"Sure thing," Izuku returned, getting right to doing as Ruby directed.

"Okay now hang on a second what's going on here?" Tenya inquired.

"Oh right you weren't here for that." Itsuka noted. "It's nothing too important, I think. Their just something I need to know from them it's up to you if you want to come along. Same to you Uraraka since you've just met us and all."

"N-no way, I'm way too curious now to not know." Ochako replied.

"The same goes for myself." Tenya added.

At that moment Izuku got off the phone with is mom.

"Alright then My mom says it okay." Izuku stated. "We all ready?"

They all nodded.

"Let's go then." He stated.

The group set out for the Midoriya residency. Ochako and Tenya let there parents know that they were going over to Izuku's place on the way. Ruby and Jaune let All Might and Shota respectively know what they planned to do. After traveling for a little bit the group had arrived. Izuku and Ruby lead them up to their apartment. Upon entering they were greeted by the sight of Inko preparing tea.

"Oh your all here good, there are quite a few people. The tea should be ready soon." Inko greeted them.

Ruby, Izuku, and Itsuka all made their way in. Everyone else however were still a little reserved.

"Oh don't be shy now come on in and make yourself at home." Inko assured them.

Inko ushered them further into her home.

"I'm sure you all have a lot to discuss." She expressed.

"Yeah," Ruby sighed.

They all sat around the living room area.

"Alright now, the truth." Itsuka demanded.

"Right… guess I should start with the fact that Jaune, Ren, Nora, and I aren't from here." Ruby explained. "And I don't mean not from Japan, I mean not from this world. We're from a world called Remnant."

"WHAT?!" Itsuka, Ochako, and Tenya exclaimed.

They all looked to Izuku to see if she was telling the truth. He merely nodded.

"But if that's the case then how did you four arrive here and for how long?" Tenya questioned.

"We're not sure, Me, Nora, and Ren kind of just showed up here in some alleyway about three months ago." Jaune began. "We've been staying with a man named Shota Aizawa. He's a Hero who works for UA and is the reason we we're allowed to take the test."

"I see what about you Ruby?" Tenya inquired.

"I've been here for about seven months. Believe or not All Might was the one helping me out." Ruby answered.

"ALL MIGHT!" Everyone but Izuku and Itsuka exclaimed.

"Are you serious?" Ochako asked.

"One hundred percent." Ruby answered. "As for how we got here the only clue I have to go off of is the woman I was fight against before being sent here, Cinder, held what appeared to be a crown."

"Wait… you made up to the tower?!" Jaune shouted. "If that's the case what about Pyrrha?"

Ruby looked down, she couldn't bear to look Jaune in the eyes and tell him the truth. Tears began to stream down her face.

"I am sorry Jaune…" She spoke softly. "I… *Sniffles* I was too late. She's gone and as far as I know so's our home world."

"No…" Jaune whispered.

Despair sunk into Jaune, Ren, and Nora, they had hoped against hope that Pyrrha was alive somehow. They hoped that whatever brought them to this world had saved Pyrrha. However, with the truth out about not only Pyrrha's death but the possible death of their home world, they realized how vain their hope was. Itsuka, Ochako, and Tenya were silent through all of this they knew from the expressions on their faces that a terrible fate had befallen their now gone friend. However determination to help their new friends had been planted in them.

"If only I was just a bit faster then maybe…" Ruby began.

"Don't say that Ruby!" Jaune shouted.

He wiped away the tires forming in his eyes.

"Don't go blaming yourself for something you can't fix now. For now all we can do is find answers and hopefully bring the person who did this to justice." He declared.

"Yeah," Ruby replied.

She wiped the tears from here eyes.

"Your right." Ruby expressed. "We don't have much to go off of. But I'm sure if we work together we'll figure things out.

"Yeah we will." Itsuka declared.

"Wait what, your gonna help?" Ruby questioned.

"Of course I'm gonna help. We're friends and I get the feeling I'm not the only one." Itsuka stated as she looked to Ochako and Tenya.

"She's right there's no way I can say no after hearing all that." Ochako expressed.

"What kind of potential UA student would I be if I didn't get involved." Tenya declared.

"B-but this isn't your problem it's ours?" Nora pointed out.

"She's right, you shouldn't be worried about this you've got your own things to worry about besides…" Jaune added.

"Jaune…" Izuku interrupted. "We're friends now and friends help each other when they're in need."

Jaune smiled softly along with Ren and Nora.

"Thanks," He expressed.

In that moment Inko brough tea for everyone.

"Glad to hear your all so will to help each other." She expressed as she passed around a cup for everyone. "Just remember you can't do much without at least a Provisional Hero Licence. I don't want you all ending up on the wrong end of the law for this."

"Your right, in our world we would have been fine, for most part, investigating stuff like this without such things. Here however, we could run into some major problems." Ren noted.

"Well it's a good thing we're going into heroics. As long as we work hard we should be able to pass the Provisional Licence Exam without too much trouble." Itsuka added.

"Yeah but we can still do stuff in the meantime." Ruby pointed out. "Trying to find anybody else who could have gotten here from Remnant shouldn't cause too many problems if any at all."

"Speaking of which I've been think of something." Izuku brought up. "Iida you brought up during the exam that it changed from two tests to four."

"Yeah what about it?" Tenya questioned.

"Well I was thinking what if someone from Ruby's world is the one responsible for the change." Izuku brought up.

Everyone gave him a perplexed look.

"Let me explain." Izuku stated. "UA had no real reason that I could think of to change the test, at least not as radically as they did. A possible explanation for this is someone, who likely was of some importance, that wasn't initial a factor in the equation was added in. Whatever path this world was set on got changed the moment said outside factor was entered in."

"I see… that makes sense." Tenya noted.

"It does?" Ruby and Nora questioned.

"Yeah I'm confused what does this have to do with anything?" Ochako asked.

"What Midoriya's saying goes along this line of thinking." Itsuka began to explain. "Our world was on a set path but then something came in a veered us off that path. That something are you guys and anyone else that came from your world. How much this change of course is would be reflected by how much of an impact someone had. What Izuku is saying is that for someone to be able to impact UA's admittance process, they'd already have to be of some importance on Remnant. If they weren't they likely would have had a hard time sliding into that role."

"Yep and if it's someone of importance…" Izuku began.

"Then it could one of the people I told All Might to look for!" Ruby exclaimed. "Jaune you said this Aizawa guy worked for UA did he mention anyone from Remnant being with the school?"

"Yeah he did but he never told us his or hers name let alone let us meet them." Jaune answered.

"What?! B-but why?" Ruby questioned.

"Your guess is as good as ours. He did say if we passed the Entrance Exam he'd introduce us after acceptance letters were mailed out." Jaune replied. "They should be out in about two weeks so we'll have to wait till then."

Ruby let out a deep sigh.

"Greaaaat more waiting." Ruby moaned.

"Well in the meantime we can still look in to stuff. You said you told All Might specific people to look for?" Ochako brought up.

"Yeah, I figured my Uncle Qrow, Professor Goodwitch, General Ironwood, and Professor Ozpin would know something. Especially Ozpin." Ruby answered.

Jaune's expression became downcast.

"Ah Ruby we can uhm… cross Ozpin off that list." Jaune expressed.

"Why?" Ruby questioned slightly scared.

Jaune took a deep breath.

"Cinder defeated him. He's likely dead." Jaune answered.

"No…" Ruby expressed. "Well… the other three we're fairly close to him so they should still know something. Ochako, Tenya, give me your number I'll text you their names since their spelled a little weird."

"Oh… o-okay," Ochako replied.

"R-right," Tenya replied.

Both of them did as Ruby directed and Ruby text the names to them. After doing this, there was a brief awkward silence.

"Sooooo… now what?" Nora asked.

"I don't know hang out for a bit?" Ruby suggested.

"Fine with me but I can't stay too long I have to go back to the hotel to get packed. I have to go back to home tomorrow." Ochako replied.

"Same for myself. I have to be sure I'm ready to return home tomorrow as well." Tenya added.

"Well then what should we do?" Itsuka asked.

"I know we can make pancakes!" Nora suggested.

"No Nora!" Ren and Jaune shouted.

"Why nooooot!" Nora moaned.

"Cause we aren't making a mess of Mrs. Midoriya's house." Ren scolded. "Not after what happened the last time."

"Oh come on it wouldn't be that bad." Nora moaned.

"Yes it would." Both Ren and Jaune deadpanned.

As the trio continued to argue everyone else was doing their best not burst out in laughter.


Ruby: And that's a wrap. Glad everything went okay.

Izuku: I told you it would. Now on to the chapter preview.

Ruby: Next time we all get a chance to hang out like friends and finally relax.

Izuku: And I start training to get a hang of [One for All].

Ruby: Oh is that the name of your quirk.

Izuku: Oh uh... y-yeah sort of at least. I... thought it sounded cool. Though I might go with Superpower instead. Kind of fits more with what my quirk does.

Ruby: Oh I see, that makes sense. Anyways something else also happens but I can't say what.

Izuku: Find out next time in Chapter 11: The Changing World. See ya then.