"That's one big door." Ayano said looking up at the door that led to where the test would be.

She had changed out of her junior high uniform into some workout clothes. She wore a sleeveless muscle shirt under just as sleeveless hack that she had halfway zipped up. She then had on running pants with her lucky pair of red running shoes on her feet.

"You're telling me." A voice said from beside Ayano.

Ayano turned her head seeing a boy with spikey red hair standing next to her with an excited grin on his face.

"I can't wait to get in there to show off what I can do." He said then turned to look at her. "I'm Kirishima Eijiro by the way."

He held out a hand to Ayano, so she reached out to shake his hand in greeting.

"Ishida." She said. "Ishida Ayano."

"Nice to meet ya, Ishida." Eijiro said as they dropped hands. "Good luck in there."

Ayano returned the sentiment while getting a read on this guy. Based off his thoughts he was being sincere when wishing her good luck. Also, despite his smile—he was worried that his quirk wouldn't get him very noticed in this test. He was concerned that he might not get in because of this. Ayano didn't say anything though since people usually got defensive when they learned she could get into their heads. Ayano then looked out at the rest of those in their group.

A few stuck out to her like the girl hanging back from everyone. She was petite in size with platinum blonde hair that kind of stood out. She was dressed as if she was getting ready for karate lessons with a black belt wrapped around her waist and everything. She was even bare-footed and sitting in a meditative position as if she didn't gave a care in the world. And her thoughts reflected her cool posture. She was definitely someone to look out for in this competition.

Then there was a boy sitting on top a pillar kicking his legs back and fourth. He seemed normal enough with scruffy brown hair and dark eyes that were under goggles. He seemed calm as well, but she couldn't get into his head far enough to understand why. She didn't know him well enough to delve that deep, and he was currently just thinking about doing well in these exams, so not to disappoint his family. Apparently he comes from a family of powerful quirk users. Interesting.

Finally there were a few others like the girl with frog like appearances who was speaking with a girl wearing a flashy silver track suit that matched the girl's equally silver hair. The girl with silver hair was speaking at a speed that her lips seemed to almost vibrate, and Ayano could tell from the frog girl's thoughts that she had no idea what her companion was saying.

"Oh, Ayumi caught your attention, huh?" Eijiro asked getting Ayano to look at him again. "She's the daughter of the pro-hero Warp."

Ayano knew who that was. Warp was a pro-hero with the quirk that allowed him to "warp" from one place to another. He was basically a teleporter though some argued he just moved at such a high speed that he just seemed to teleport. Almost as if he was moving at light speed. Like those space crafts do in that Star—whatever TV show. No one was certain, and the pro-hero wasn't sharing.

"A lot of people are expecting her to do really good." Eijiro said.

"She probably will." Ayano said. "But I can't let anyone in this group beat me. No offense."

She added this last part to Eijiro while looking up at him. He just chuckled not seeming too upset.

"Nah, it's alright." He said. "I get it. I feel the same way, so don't get mad when I try to show you up, okay?"

"Of course." Ayano said.

She then turned to the large tower in the center of the large area that could overlook all the faux buildings.

"Right, let's start!" Present Mic said getting everyone's attention. "Get moving! There's no countdowns in real battles!"

He kept encouraging them to go, but Ayano and most of the group with her were already running into the opened gateway to get inside the faux city. There was no time to waste. She had to start taking care of the faux villains and rack up the points before anyone else could get too ahead of her. She went far into the city before she met her first mock villain. Actually she met three 1-pointers who immediately circled her.

"Well, if that's how you want to do it." Ayano said then raised one hand towards the robot.

It was lifted into the air, and she gave a shout as she used her telekinesis to throw this robot into the other two. They immediately combusted as they were busted together. However, that wasn't enough. It was only three points she needed more. Just as she thought that a 3-pointer came smashing through the building after her. It swung its arm at her, and she had to do triple backflip to get out of the way. She landed in a crouch then slammed her hands down with the chunks of building she had picked up while flipping backwards crushing the unsuspecting robot.

Okay, that's six points, but she can do better. All she has to do is stay focused on the task at hand. It didn't take long to find more robots who were circling around some other examinees. Before her competition could take a crack at them, she formed a psionic wall that had sharp edges. She used the wall to slice through the robots that fell clean in two around the other examinees' feet. They didn't have time to even look at the one who stole their points as Ayano hurried on. As she ran along to find more villains, up in the booth where the teachers were watching—some hummed thoughtfully.

"It's only been seconds in and she's already racked up 15 points." Cementoss said. "Impressive. The girl is focused and has good control over her quirk."

"Who is she?" Midnight asked.

Ectoplasm, who had the files on the examinees, looked through the papers as he sat with his fellow teachers. He found her file while seeing who she was.

"Ishida Ayano." Ectoplasm said. "She's a straight A student with a perfect school attendance with only minor disciplinary marks on her record. In her application she listed her quirk to be psionic with her quirk ranging from telepathy, telekinesis, and psionic construction."

"A child with a triple psionic quirk." The Principle said. "I haven't seen a student like that in a while."

Nezu looked to All Might as he said this, and the blonde man looked down at his lap. There hasn't been someone like that since he was a student here. That woman. The woman who always smiled. All Might looked up again with his eyes falling on Ayano who had no trace of a smile on her face. The two might look very similar, but it was obvious they were very different people.

"Ishida?" Snipe spoke up. "Wait, is that Jailer's little sister?"

He looked back towards Aizawa as he asked this with the Erasing Hero, who was a classmate of Ishida Ko's, not commenting. He just looked to the side silently.

"She is." A woman wearing a nurse's outfit said. "Hmm, I wonder if she'll live up to the kind of hero her brother was."

The woman brushed the bangs her sandy blonde hair back behind her ear as she stood beside her mentor—Recovery Girl.

"The poor girl." Recovery Girl said. "It mustn't be easy being on her own with her brother in the state he's in."

The teachers went silent while looking back to the screens to watch the rest of the exam and other students.

Ayano let out a breath as she took down another 3-pointer. She was going good so far, and looking at 40 points. However, the clock was ticking and other students still had more than her. Like that silver-haired girl. It seemed her quirk was similar to her father's because she was zipping around here too fast for anyone's eyes can keep track of, and she's taking out big pointers left and right before anyone could even get near them, which had slowed down Ayano gaining any points for herself. She had to be racking up the points. Ayano was about to continue on going, but she heard a scream that brought her to a halt.

She turned her head while seeing about five 3-pointers circling a girl who was pinned to the ground by some rubble that must have been knocked over by other mock villains. She couldn't seem to get free, and those villains were closing in on her. Even if this was a test with everyone trying to out-do the other, Ayano wasn't about to leave the girl on her own. She could be seriously hurt.

'Don't worry!' Ayano called mentally while rushing towards the girl. 'I'm coming!'

The girl looked up with tears leaking from her eyes from either pain or fear, but it didn't matter at the moment. Ayano reached the first villain while using her telekinesis to jerk it backwards so hard it was sent flying and crashing into a building. It gave her an opening to the girl whose leg was still trapped under the rubble, so Ayano lifted it up. She looked seeing the girl's leg did look as if it as twisted a bit out of place. It was definitely broken.

"I'm going to get you out of here." Ayano assured the girl. "Do you think you can help me get you on my back?"

The girl nodded her head then gasped pointing behind Ayano. Ayano whirled around seeing a robot quickly reaching towards her. She didn't have much time to react, and when she thought she was going to be hit, the robot's arm was wrapped up in a web like substance. The arm was jerked back by the web rope connected to the stuff on its arm, which had both Ayano and the girl looking up. Ayano saw that boy in the hood hanging from one of the light poles—upside down without his shoes she might add—while pulling the robot back as if it was nothing.

"Go on," He urged. "I've got you covered!"

Ayano was a bit surprised someone else was offering help since this was a test after all. She was certain everyone would be more concerned with gaining points than helping. But she wasn't about to turn down help.

"Thanks." Ayano said nodding.

She managed to get the girl to her feet while able to also get her on Ayano's back, which made her easier to move. One of the other robots tried to come in from the side, but before the boy could help them a silver streak zoomed by to hit the robot, which teetered backwards, but didn't deter it much. The streak came to a stop with the speed girl—Ayumi—standing there while taking off her goggles.

"Sorry, can't let you interfere with the rescue mission." She said to the robots while grinning. "Though seems like you're still ready to play."

She didn't have to worry about it though since the robot was soon being covered in crisp white sheets of paper. It had the ragtag group turning to see that platinum haired girl standing there with her skin and clothes having creases and lines across them making it look as if she was made of paper. Pieces of paper were even flying from her to cover the robot. Soon it was cased in a cocoon of paper and fell over with a thud unable to move.

"You're free to continue with the rescue." The girl said. "That robot won't be moving anytime soon."

"Sweet." Ayumi said grinning then looked to Ayano.

She zoomed over to the psychic girl while holding out her arms to the girl Ayano was carrying.

"I can get her out of here faster than you." Ayumi said. "You can help our new web-slinging friend with the robots about to come around the corner. You have the power to take them down easy while I have the speed to get her somewhere safe. So switch?"

Ayano blinked while actually a bit surprised now that two strangers were willing to help her and this girl even though they didn't know them. Of course, Ayano didn't know who this girl was either, so she supposed she didn't have room to talk.

"Alright." Ayano said. "If you're sure."

Ayumi nodded her head then the two of them carefully switched the girl onto Ayumi's back as web boy took care of the remaining villains that had been circling the girl. Ayumi was gone in a flash just as the web boy was jumping down from the light pole and the paper girl was looking to be whole and made of flesh again.

"Thank-you for the help." Ayano said to them both.

"Sure thing." The boy said grinning. "Just doing what any aspiring hero would do, ya know?"

"I am just glad no one else was hurt." Paper girl said.

There wasn't much room for more conversation because those robots Ayumi mentioned came racing around the corner along with some other examinees who were trying to rack up the points as well. Ayano saw Eijiro amongst them, and he easily smashed through them with his quirk.

"I guess we better get in there before all the points are gone." The boy said then shot a web out of his wrist. "See ya on the flip side!"

He swung out of there to start taking on more robots, and after Ayano exchanged a look with her new paper friend, they both joined the fray. There were only seconds left until the test was over. Ayano went smashing through as many robots as possible before the siren finally sounded.

"Time's up!" Present Mic called out to the students as the siren continued to wail.

All the examinees came to a halt, and for the robots not destroyed, they all shut down while tipping over. Some students looked relieved things were over while some seemed worried that they didn't do well enough.

"That siren more sounds like a distress call rather than end of test bell." Ayano commented as she wiped a bit of sweat from her jaw. "I wonder how Katsuki and Izuku—!"

Ayano stiffened not finishing her sentence when she picked up on Izuku's thoughts. When thinking about them she had subconscious reached out to their minds. Katsuki was fine and thinking how well he did, but Izuku…

"Oh, no." Ayano said.

Without warning she spun around on heel to book it out of her battle training zone.

"Ishida!" Eijiro called after her. "Where are you going?! Is something wrong?"

She didn't stop to answer as she kept running as fast as possible towards battle zone B. She ran right past the tower Present Mic was at, and he watched her run past.

"Well, she's certainly in a hurry." He said scratching the side of his head.

Ayano finally made it to battle zone B while heading towards where she could hear a large amount of voices—mental voices she means. She found a group of examinees surrounding one area while murmuring about the kid who took down the large robot and got himself hurt in the process. She ran pass all of them while not even noticing the guy who she had spoken to during the meeting before the test. He looked at her with wide eyes while wondering why she was there. She ran over to Izuku, who was being helped by Recovery Girl since her protégé was dealing with the injuries of another battle zone, and he realized she had to be there for him. But how did she know he had been hurt?

"Izuku!" Ayano said as she crouched down beside him.

She placed her hand on his back while noting the injuries she had seen through his head weren't as bad as she had thought.

"It's alright, dear." Recovery Girl said getting Ayano's eyes on her. "Your friend is going to be just fine. Though I suggest you tell him to take it easy next time, okay?"

Ayano let out a sigh of relief. Though that relief then turned into annoyance. So much annoyance that she whacked Izuku over the head, which had people gasping at how harsh she was being.

"You idiot." Ayano said. "I ran over here for nothing, and when you wake up, you're getting a lecture."

Ayano usually doesn't waste her time on lectures. Sure sometimes she has to give small lectures to Katsuki to get him to chill, but she's never had to lecture Izuku.

"Both of you are troublemaking children." She said sighing again though her lips twitched up partially. "Though I suppose as long as you're happy with the path you've chosen, I'll support you all the way. Don't expect Katsuki to feel the same way though."

She gently pat his head while supposing it was time to get him home then wait the long grueling week for the test results.

Ayano walked silently next to Izuku as the two continued on the way home. Izuku insisted on making sure she got home safe, so they were heading to her place. They haven't said much since they left the school together. Izuku was definitely in his own little world. Thinking about how much he let down himself and All Might. She wanted to assure him that he was probably worrying for nothing, but had a feeling those kinds of words wouldn't help him at the moment.

That and she didn't know much to reassure him without giving away that she knows about his and All Might's secret. Even if she wants to talk to the pro-hero about it after what happened to Izuku during the test, she was still keeping her mouth shut. It was probably for the best. At least that's what she keeps telling herself. Though if words of encouragement didn't work, maybe she could distract him a bit instead.

"Hey, Izuku," Ayano said getting his attention. "When we get to my place, why don't you come inside for a bit? You look as if you could use some friend time. We'll eat junk food and watch those All Might clips you like so much. Maybe prank call Katsuki."

The last time they did that, Katsuki came running over and tried to kill both of them. Of course, Ayano had stopped him while Izuku had cowered behind her, but it had actually been fun. Izuku's lips twitched up slightly though the sad look in his eyes didn't leave.

"Thanks, Ayano." Izuku said. "But I'm not really in the mood. Maybe another time?"

Ayano sighed kind of not surprised, but she didn't like seeing him like this. He was one of her few friends.

"Listen, Izuku, you shouldn't worry too much about the test." Ayano said. "If a hero course would ignore someone who sacrificed something to save another, it isn't much of a hero course. Who knows? Maybe there was another side of the test we didn't even know about, and what you did passed you. I'm just saying don't write yourself off too soon."

Izuku looked down at the ground before looking up at Ayano. The look in her eyes said she as being sincere, and maybe he should try to be more hopeful. Though he was finding it a big difficult. Ayano nudged him.

"When is the last time either of us actually hung out together?" Ayano said. "I'd say now is as good a time as any."

It was true. Ayano wasn't much on hanging out even with him or Katsuki who's she known since childhood. And he supposed he didn't want to go home just yet to tell his mom what happened. She's probably tell him she was sorry, and wished things were different. He knew she meant well, but he didn't want to hear that ever again.

"Alright." Izuku said. "But I need to call my mom."

Ayano nodded her head in understanding as the two of them continued on to her house. She hoped she could help him forget his problems even if only for a few hours.

"How should we prank call Katsuki this time?" She asked.

Izuku paled while just remembering the last time they had done that. It wasn't something he really wanted to relive.

"Um, I'm not so sure that's a good idea." Izuku said nervously.

He knew Katsuki wouldn't hesitate to rush over to try and beat them up just like last time. He wasn't sure if his heart could handle that at the moment.

"Alright," Ayano said while actually looked a bit bummed. "Junk food and All Might videos it is."

A week passed with all being quiet. Ayano went to school as needed. Though with the year nearly being over, she might have skipped a few days. She knows it wasn't something an aspiring hero probably should do, but with the spare time she could keep up with her training. Just because the exams were over didn't mean she could slack off. Though she certainly didn't train as intensely as she did during the time leading up to the exam.

She had even made time to spend with her friends—Izuku and Katsuki. Though she had to spend time with them separately since Katsuki was ready to kill Izuku at any moment since he's on edge about waiting for the results just as much as the rest of them even if he denies this when Ayano brings it up. He nearly bit her head off last time, which resulted in her smacking him in the face with a large psionic hand. Besides, Izuku was a bit too fragile right now to deal with Katsuki to begin with.

Though Ayano was taking a bit of time for herself today. She soaked in a nice hot bubble bath until she turned into a prune. Ate a quart of her favorite ice cream, which was vanilla cookie raspberry. It might sound like an odd combination, but Ayano loved it. After the bath and gorging herself on ice cream, she had curled up with a good book while using her telekinesis to solve a rubrics cube on the side. Her quirk relied more on mental strength than physical, so she always tried to keep her mind busy with new challenges.

Not only that, but she was trying to keep busy, so she didn't worry too much about that fact her results have yet to arrive. She didn't like feeling nervous. In fact, she detested that feeling, which is why she tried to ignore it or make it go away completely. Once the rubrics cube clicked into place, she sighed setting her book to the side. Well, that was the fifth one she finished. She took the cube from the air into her hand before tossing it onto the couch with the others. They were all different from last with their level of difficulty increasing with each new one she bought. Now she needs a new one.

"Guess I'm going to the store." She said to herself. "Beats sitting around here."

She got up from the couch while going to get dressed out of her comfy clothes into something more weather appropriate and more appropriate for being out in public in. It didn't take her long to dress, and soon she was putting on her shoes.

"I might get some dinner while I'm out there." She said.

She forgot to do grocery shopping yesterday, so the cupboards were bare now. She didn't feel like full out grocery shopping, but she needed something for dinner. She got up from putting on her shoes then opened up her front door. She blinked when seeing a envelope waiting on the ground for her. She noticed the seal on it was from U.A, which had her eyes widening. It was finally here. She quickly reached down to grab it while guessing food could wait. She had a letter to read.

Ayano, who kicked off her shoes, went into her living room while sitting down on the floor in front of the coffee table. She ripped open the envelope while noticing there was more than just a letter in there. There was some kind of disk in there as well. She shook it out into her palm then set it down on her table. She was about to poke it when it came to life with a large hologram being put out in front of her. Her eyes widened as All Might's image appeared in front of her in the hologram.

"I am here!" All Might shouted. "As a hologram! Are you impressed?!"

He paused as if waiting for a reaction from Ayano, but she only blinked at him in return. He sweat-dropped then cleared his throat.

"Well, Young Ishida Ayano, I am here to tell you your results!" He said.

Ayano had figured out as much, but honestly she was worried about what her thoughts were. Though she tried to keep calm as possible. When she continued to remain silent, All Might supposed that meant he could continue.

"Um, well, my news is good, young lady, because you did an excellent job during the exams!" All Might said giving a thumbs up.

Ayano felt the tension in her shoulders ease as she let out a breath she had been holding without even realizing it. Could she really stop worrying?

"So I would like to welcome you, Ishida Ayano." All Might said. "Welcome you to U.A High—the start of your Hero Academia!"

Ayano felt herself smile as she tried to ignore the tears collecting in her eyes. She made it. She really made it!