(Edit, just realized Itsuka wasn't listed in the test rankings. It's fixed now. She's replacing Rikido Sato who'll be in 1-B.)

Here comes chapter 15. Another fairly slow chapter this week, but don't worry next chapter is when the fights start. Now to the reviews.

Neo-Devil: She'll come in with a 'Yang' a few arcs down the road. Not gonna say when though. All I'm gonna say is I got a few surprises in store.

Gamelover41592: I'm sure he'll be just fine.

Now, on to the chapter.


Battle Trial Arc

Chapter 15: Day One

Acceptance letters were mailed out about a week after the Entrance Exam. Examines' score was determined by three separate point systems, Intelligence, Heroic, and Combat. Intelligence Points can be earn anytime during the exam even in orientation. There meant to be a measure of an examine's strategy, preparation, and decision making. They are the only points which you can lose points on as such it is possible to receive negative Intelligence Points. Heroic points are to reward heroic actions taken by examines' throughout the test. Lastly, Combat Points are meant to measure an examine's combat prowess. The final two stages of the exam are the only test where these can be earned. In the mock battle this is earned through defeating faux villains save the zero pointer. In the one on one battles this is earned through winning one's fight, ten points per victory. With this new exam structure class sizes were increased from 20 to 24 students to accommodate the increase in high scoring examines.

With the acceptance letters eventually came a new season. With spring came nicer weather and the start of a new school year. In the time before the first day Izuku was able to get a better handle on [One for All]. Now he's able to quickly draw out the power with his current max without injuring himself still being three percent. During that time Ruby worked on a design for a new Crescent Rose to replace the one she lost on Remnant. She keep most of it the same as the original but made it have a non-lethal mode as well as a mode to help in rescue situations.

Also during that time Eri became more accustomed to her new surroundings. To say the little girl was happy would have been an understatement. She smiled more, laughed more, and overall was starting to heal from the hell she'd been through. She now had no problems with either Izuku or Ruby being gone where as before she was a nervous wreck when they went to the big group meeting and couldn't take her with. Despite this she still had a long road to recovery. They dyed her hair green like Inko's so she could pass off as her daughter and safely go out in public, though they've yet to officially adopt her. However a new problem arose one day.


Midoriya residency, Saturday…

Ruby and Izuku entered their apartment after a long afternoon of training. It was about two weeks till the start of their first semester at UA and they were working hard to make sure Izuku quirk was firmly under his control.

"OH MY GOODNESS!" They heard Inko exclaim from the kitchen.

"Mom/Inko!?" Both shouted as they rushed to the kitchen.

Quickly they burst into the room.

"Hey mom/Inko whaaaaaaaaat the heck happened?!" Both Izuku and Ruby exclaimed at the same time.

Before them stood not the short plump Inko that they'd known but a younger, taller, and slimmer Inko like Izuku remembered when he was younger. There was also a crying Eri, as though she'd done something wrong.

"This… this…" Inko began.

"I-I-I-I-I-I'm s-s-s-s-s-sorry. M-m-m-m-m-my quirk… i-i-i-i-it's bad it's…" Eri cried.

"This is incredible! I'm young again!" Inko exclaimed has she picked up Eri in a tight hug. "I don't know who told you your quirk was bad this is the most amazing thing ever."

Eri was so shocked at Inko's reaction she couldn't even speak. The same could be said for Izuku and Ruby who merely stared on with wide eyes and mouths agape.

"B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-but what if y-y-y-y-y-you disappeared?" Eri asked fearfully.

This caused Inko to stop.

"Disappear?" Inko questioned.

"Y-y-y-yeah I-I-I-I-I… used m-my quirk on my papa b-b-by accident and he d-d-disappeared." Eri answered.

Suddenly Izuku had an epiphany.

"I see now. That's what her quirk is." Izuku muttered.

"Huh?" Ruby expressed.

"Her quirk I think I got it figured out, mostly at least. We'll need a proper medical evaluation find out more. But from what I've seen Eri is able to rewind a person to a previous stated." Izuku explained. "This doesn't seem to affect the targets memories. But, from what she just said, I assume she can revert them to a state where they essentially don't exist."

Eri looked down.

"Wow, that quirks incredible." Ruby expressed.

Eri looked up in surprise.

"Sure it's dangerous now but I bet if she gets a good grasp on it she can heal any injury." Ruby noted.

"Yep, yep I was thinking the same thing." Izuku replied with a noded.

Eri could only look on in surprise as her two saviors continued to praise her quirk. Tears began to form in her eyes as a smile spread across her face. She felt great joy in the people she found herself with.

With this current problem, her schooling situation became even more difficult since she had little control over [Rewind] as they named it. They talked things over with Naomasa on how to best handle this. On top of this there was also things to regarding Eri situation that still need to be gone over with the police and a medical evaluation had to be done sooner or later. But for now things were peaceful and life was good.

About two weeks later Ruby's and Izuku's first day at UA came. The two were up bright and early so they could be all ready for the first day of highschool. After eating breakfast and getting changed, the duo waved Inko and Eri goodbye and went along their way. After a bit of travelling the duo arrived at the school. This came with it's own problems.

"1-A, 1-A, 1-A, 1 why is this place such a maze to navigate?!" Ruby questioned.

"Are you sure we're going the right way?" Izuku asked.

"Yes I'm sure. Now let's see hm…" Ruby mumbled. "Ah… here it is it's this way."

Ruby turned around and ran off ahead of Izuku.

"Hey wait up." Izuku called out as he ran to catch up.

After a bit the duo finally managed to find class 1-A.

"Ah here we… are…" Ruby trailed off as she noticed the size of the door. "That's a really big door."

"I-it's probably for people who have quirks that make them larger." Izuku noted.

"I guess whelp let's meet our new classmates." Ruby stated as she slide open the door.

"Remove your feet from this desk at once it's disrespectful to our upperclassmen who used them before us!" Tenya shouted.

"Shut up four eyes before I blow you to bits!" Katsuki shouted back.

"Of course this would happen on the first day." Izuku sighed.

Completely ignoring what was happening between Katsuki and Tenya, Ruby looked around for some familiar faces. Eventually she spotted Jaune, Ren, Nora, and Itsuka all conversing with one another around a group of desks. With a smile she went towards them.

"Hey guys!" She greeted with a wave drawing their attention.

"Ruby!" Nora cheered.

"Hey, took you long enough." Jaune noted.

"Hey I'm still a bit early." Ruby returned.

"But you nearly weren't. Again I might add." Ren pointed out.

"Hey this time it's not my fault. This place is a like maze to navigate." Ruby pointed out.

"At least it's not like that one time when…" Jaune began.

Ruby's face immediately turned beet red.

"Nononononono do not take about that time." Ruby pleaded.

"Oh I've gotta hear this." Itsuka stated.

"No you don't!" Ruby cried.

Izuku stood off by the door watching the who exchanged with an amused look on his face.

"Deku!" He heard called out from behind him.

"Gah!" He shouted before quickly turning around. "Uraraka?"

Immediately Izuku's face turned beet red upon seeing Ochako in her uniform. She looks really good in that.

"Hey why's your face all red are you sick or something?" Ochako asked.

"Huh… oh.. Aaaahhhhhh… no I'm fine just nervous about our first day that's all." Izuku answered.

"Oh I see. Anyways how's your quirk coming along do you have a better handle on it now?" Ochako asked.

"Y-yeah, I do I've been practicing with it a lot." Izuku answered.

"Good now, why don't you all socialize elsewhere?" A familiar tired voice questioned from behind Uraraka.

Slowly Uraraka turned her head to she Aizawa laying on the ground wrapped up in a yellow sleeping bag.

"This is the hero course after all." Aizawa stated.

How did we not notice him till now? Izuku mentaly questioned. Wait when did he get there? We came in only a few minutes ago. Aizawa unzipped his sleeping bag and stepped out of it. Quickly Everyone took their seats as he stepped into the room.

"It took you all too long to quiet down it's irrational." Aizawa stated. "Your hero students start acting like it. I'm your homeroom teacher Shota Aizawa."

WHAT?! All who didn't already know mentally exclaimed.

"Now…" He began as he started to rummage through his sleeping bag.

After a bit of searching he pulled out a UA Gym Uniform.

"I need you all to change into your gym clothes and meet me out on the grounds." He ordered. "Don't be late."

He then walked out of the room.

"How can we be late if he didn't give us a time to be out by?" A now red haired Eijiro questioned.

"Don't ask just get changed as fast as you can." Jaune stated as he got up from his seat.


A few minutes later, UA Grounds…

"A quirk assessment test?!" Everyone questioned.

"But what about orientation or the guidance sessions?" Ochako asked.

"You don't have time for useless ceremonies if you want to become heroes." Aizawa answered. "For those who don't know UA has a freestyle education system which applies to us teachers. I run my class how I want got it?"

Everyone nodded.

"Good, now for your tests we'll be using the same ones you did in middle school." Aizawa explained. "Softball throwing, standing long jump, 50 meter dash, endurance running, grip strength, side to side stepping, upper body training, and seated toe touch, these were all your tests yes? The difference is now you'll use your quirks."

He took hold of a softball.

"Bakugo," He began as he tossed the ball to Katsuki who caught it. "How far could you throw in middle school?"

"67 meters." He answered immediately.

"Not bad, now step into the circle and try it with your quirk." Aizawa directed.

Katsuki smirked cockily as he stepped into the ring. He cocked his arm back. Shifting his whole body forward.

"DIE!" He shouted as launched the ball with a powerful explosion.

Die? Izuku mentally questioned.

"This country insist on not using quirks to calculate the averages for these test. The Department of Education is procrastinating acting as though we're all equal, truly irrational." Aizawa stated as he looked down at the device in his hand. "You need to know your limits. That starts here."

He holds out the device for all to see a score of 705.2 meters.

"Wow 705 meters!" Someone shouted.

"That's insane I want to go next." Another stated.

"I can't believe we can use our quirks the hero course is awesome." Another added.

"Hey now don't get too excited." Aizawa stated menacingly.

"Huh?" Everyone expressed as fear gripped them.

"You have three years to become heroes don't even think that it'll be all fun and games." Aizawa continued. "UA will throw one hardship after another at you. The first are these tests. The person who overall scores last will be expelled for having no potential."

"What?!" Everyone exclaimed, except those who already knew Aizawa.

"The world's unkind so it's best to get use to it now. This is your initiation, so go beyond plus ultra style." Aizawa declared.


First test, 50 Meter Dash…

Ruby and Tenya line up next to each other.

"On your marks," The robot stated. "Set."

When the shot went off both Ruby and Tenya shot forward leaving behind a large cloud of dust and rose petals. While Tenya was fast, Ruby was leagues faster and shot forward across the finish line before him.

"0.59 seconds." The robot there stated.

"Holy crap!" Eijiro exclaimed.

"That's some insane speed." A boy with large elbows noted.

Not too long after Tenya dashed across the finished line.

"3.04 seconds." The robot stated.

"I was only able to get up to third gear in 50-meters." Tenya noted to himself.

"Hey Tenya nice job." Ruby congratulated.

"Thanks, but it seems in speed you clearly hold the edge over myself." Tenya expressed.

"Yeah, but I bet your quirks much better at long distances I burn out pretty fast." Ruby noted.

"Hm… I see, your right. I should do well to remember that all quirks have their strength and weaknesses." Tenya expressed with a robotic chop.

"Might also want to remember to loosen up a bit." Ruby expressed.


Second test, Grip Strength…

"Whole crap are you a gorilla or something?" The boy with large elbows exclaimed.

He was referring to a boy with six arms who used three of them at once to net a score 540kg.

"No maybe a…" The large elbow boy began.

Suddenly they heard something shatter. Shocked, everyone looked to see that Nora had literally crushed the grip machine.

"Aw… it's broken." Nora lamented.

"Uhmm… Mr. Aizawa how do you…" Jaune began.

"Just putting it down as the max it can take." Aizawa stated.


Third test, Standing Long Jump…

Ruby burst across the sandlot at incredible speeds netting her a decent score.

"Oh cool her quirk let's her fly as well as move super fast." A girl with pink skin gushed.

"But what's with her leaving behind rose petals?" A girl with jacks on her ears noted.

"Who cares it looks cool." The pink girl stated.


Fourth test, Side Stepping…

A boy with purple balls for hair bounced between two piles of them he pulled from his head at incredible speeds.

"Welp… I think we know who's getting the top score on this one." Jaune noted.

"I guess ha ha." Izuku expressed with a nervous laugh.


Fifth test, Softball Throwing…

Ochako touched the softball with all five fingers. With a toss she sent the ball into the air. The ball stayed in the air and kept going, and going, and going.


A few moments later…

"And going, and going, and going, and… it's not coming back down is it." Ruby noted.

"Nope, not until I release it that is." Ochako expressed sheepishly.

Suddenly the device in Aizawa's hand beeped. He held out the device and it showed the infinity symbol.

"It actually showed the symbol?" Someone exclaimed.


Sixth test, Seated Toe Touch…

"Haha… yes this test is MY turf." A girl with pink skin proclaimed as she easily scored the best on the test.

"Or so you thought." Ruby taunted as she seemed to perform just as well as her.

"Wow, I'll be honest I wasn't expecting anyone to beat me in this." She admitted. "I'm Mina Ashido by the way."

"Ruby Rose. It's nice to meet you Mina." Ruby greeted.

"Same to you Ruby." Mina returned.


Seventh test, Upper Body Training…

Izuku maintained a good even pace as he worked through the pull ups he was doing. All that training on the beach really plus [One for All] really help with this. I barely got one in middle school. I wonder how Ruby's doing. He looked over to see Ruby going at a surprisingly fast pace given her seeming lack of muscle definition. He stared on in shock and even nearly stopped his reps. That was until he remembered that according to Ruby she wielded a giant sniper scythe with enough recoil to literally send her flying. She'd have to have some insane upper body strength for that.


Final test, Endurance Run…

A tried Ochako sat with Izuku and Ruby as other students we're still somehow going. Mina was using a trail of acid to keep herself going without having exert too much. Tenya continued to run lap after lap thanks to his quirk. Then there was the girl with a large ponytail who made a solar power scooter to ride around the track.

"I think we know who wins this one." Ochako sighed.

"Yeah," Ruby moaned.

"I wonder what kind of limits are on her quirk maybe…" Izuku trailed off into a classic mutter storm as he wrote in his notebook.

"When did he…" Ochako began.

"Don't… just… don't ask." Ruby replied.


Later…

"Now then, time for the results." Aizawa stated as he brought up a hologram display. "It'd take too long to go over your performance in each event these are simply a reflection of your overall performance."

1. Momo Yaoyorozu

2. Nora Valkyrie

3. Shoto Todoroki

4. Katsuki Bakugo

5. Jaune Arc

6. Ruby Rose

7. Tenya Iida

8. Fumikage Tokoyami

9. Izuku Midoriya

10. Mezo Shoji

11. Lie Ren

12. Mashirao Ojiro

13. Itsuka Kendo

14. Ejiro Kirishima

15. Mina Ashido

16. Ochako Uraraka

17. Koji Koda

18. Tsuyu Asui

19. Yuga Aoyama

20. Hanta Sero

21. Denki Kaminari

22. Kyoka Jiro

23. Toru Hagakure

24. Minoru Mineta

The purple ball haired boy in last place paled when he saw his name there. What, no, this is too soon. Sure there are other hero schools but this is UA and the girls are at worse 8/10's. There must have been something I could have done different. I lost to a girl who's literally invisible. Speaking of which…

"By the way I was lying about expelling someone." Aizawa stated.

"Huh?" Minoru replied.

"It was a rational deception to bring out the best in you all." Aizawa stated with a cheeky grin.

"WHAT?!" Everyone but those who knew Aizawa and a few others exclaimed.

"Of course it was lie it was obvious from the beginning." The girl with a large ponytail expressed.

"Nah, he just didn't think we we're all totally worthless. I mean he did expel the entire class last year." Nora pointed out.

"WHAT?!" The girl cried.

"She's right you know. Congratulation you all pass." Aizawa stated.

The class stared at Aizawa dumbfounded.

"There are papers about your curriculum to pick up in the classroom. Give them a good look." Aizawa stated as he walked away, ignoring there look. "Best prepare yourselfs, tomorrow's trials are only going to be harder."


Izuku: And that brings a wrap to the first day.

Ruby: Kind of glad no one got expelled, even though Minoru is a total creep.

Izuku: I'm just glad I got my quirk done in time.

Ruby: Oh we all knew you were.

Izuku: Anyways next time is our first day of basic hero training.

Ruby: And with it, the start of an explosive match.

Izuku: Right it's time for me to finally prove myself to kacchan I'll so him the Deku that does his best.

Ruby: You get him Izuku. Next time, Chapter 16: Battle Trials Begin.

Izuku: Catch you then.