What if?

What if…Mecha!


The UA Entrance Exam, a gruesome fight to get one of the rare 40 seats of the hero course… well, rather one of the 36 rare seats as 4 seats are already filled with the recommended students. And today will once again attempt about 8000 teens to gain one of those 36 spots. I think you all can calculate the chances of getting accepted, yourself.

The about 400 teens that were Assigned to battle block D made themselves ready. As they made themself ready one green-haired boy in battle block D was grinding like a savage. Not that anyone would see his face as he was sitting in his Mecha-suit.

The suit is olive-green and stands about 5 meters tall. The legs alone make up 2 and a half meters with a diameter of about 1,4 meters each. The feet are V-Shaped with 3 cube-shaped toes in the front and 1 in the back. The tights are shaped like a cuboid with the long edges cut with black hexagons with silver edges all over the front. The body makes up about 2 meters with being 2,2 meters wide at the hip and 3,20 at the shoulders. The Upper body is about 1,50 meters thick. The head is a dome with a decentral yellow light to the right and a hatch in the back of it. The upper arms are 1,50 meters long and about 1 meter wide. The forearm is 1,70 meters long and 1,50 meters wide. The hand has four 3-segment fingers that are each 70 cm long and a 60 cm long thumb. On its back is a backpack-like structure.

"Hahaha! She is moving, She is moving!" The boy piloting excitedly exclaims as he flips a few switches and levers. The Cockpit sits in the Torso and is 1 meter deep, 1,45 meters high, and 1,20 meters wide. In front of the boy are 6 Screens that display different things. Switches, Levers, and a few dials are on both sides of him, with a few wires and smaller tubes hanging from the ceiling of the cockpit. In front of him is a dual control joystick which he holds with both hands. "And now for the test run!" He says as both hands of the mech form fists and he bashes them together. He then presses a few switches as the Mech moves a few steps forward.

Many were staring at the bot, wondering if this was one of the bots of UA they were going to fight but dismissed it for now as the exam hadn't yet started. Then with a loud bang smashes the bot his fists against each other and then a loud hissing sound is heard as steam comes out of pipes at the arms and on the back. Then, under thunderous steps, the bot walks to the front as the other participants go out of its way.

The Mech then stands in front of the gate as vents, valves, and outlets open and close in what looks like a test. Inside on the top right screen was a figure displayed with all pat's green. "Good. Hydraulics, electronics, servos, and sensors are all green." He mumbles before the Mech goes into a crouch start position.

A few tense minutes go by until… "GO!" Present Mic gives the start signal and the Mech starts and rams the still opening gate and destroys a large part completely.

"*Beep* *Beep* TARGET ACQUIRED!" The Roberts calls out but before they can do anything the large and heavy Mech simply plows through them. Jumping on a few and damaging many in the process. The heavy mech then skips to a halt in front of a street filled to the brim with Villain Bots. In the front are 8 Victory Bots, behind them 6 Imperial, and lastly 10 Venator bots. Even some of the robots from behind him close in on him as he begins to fight.

The dark olive-green Mech simply walks forward, as 22 Bots attack. Firstly, the 10 small Victory Bots. They try to punch the Mech but are unsuccessful in doing actual damage and are either simply stomped on or grabbed and thrown at one another. After crushing 8 of the small bots, both the Imperial and Venator Bots attack. The Imperial shoot lasers out of their 3 focus points in their hull which simply do no damage to the armor of the Mech, The Venator meanwhile shoot rockets from their backs which also hit the Mech but only manage to make her tumble backwards 2 steps.

"Urgh, note to myself, add shock absorbers for the Cockpit." The boy mumbles before grinning again. "Now I will kill you!" He proclaims and then attacks the Bots. He grabs an Imperial by its head and then swings it around and throws it at 2 other Imperial, destroying all 3 in the process.

2 other participants also stumble across the particular street the Mech is trashing the Bots in and after one look they decide that it would be counterproductive to get involved in that fight.


-With the Teachers-

The teachers were watching the exam. The principal even gave one of his exposition speeches about heroes but Higari Maijima aka the Excavation Hero: Power Loader wasn't listening. He had his own screen to the side where he watched a robot smackdown. This olive-green Mech made his bots look like pushovers and quite frankly they were. After all, they are designed to be easily beaten by students with no prior experience, he even needed to build an off button in an exposed position.

The Mech then goes and jumps on the head of a Venator, completely destroying it in the process, and Maijima can't control himself anymore. "WHOO! YEAH SMACK THEM!" He calls out while cheering on the Student who was smashing his Bots.

All the teachers then looked over to the usually quiet man, before Nezu puts the camera feed Maijima was watching on the big screen in front of everyone. Just in time for them to watch as the Mech of the Student quickly deals with the remaining 8 Venator Bots and 3 Imperial Bots. Firstly the 11 Bots reform with the 3 Imperial in the center while the 8 Venator Bots form an arrowhead formation. The 3 Imperial fire 9 beams concentrated on one point, managing to actually damage a small part of the armor, melting it away. The damaged part is on the center of the right Upper arm. The Hexagons on the legs of the Mech then open and fire a salvo of little rockets that hit and destroy the remaining 13 Bots.

"Wow, he indeed has Spirit! I like this little listener!" Present Mic exclaims as he watches the firework that is just happening in front of him.

"WHOO! HOO! His Mech is awesome!" Maijima exclaims after the fireworks finish to reveal the total destruction of the 11 Bots.

"This is indeed an interesting Student… but these Rockets could very easily become a deadly weapon," Aizawa remarks as the camera switches to one of an adjacent alley. A few seconds later the Mech also comes into the frame.

"You are right, Aizawa, but I think you forget how easy many quirks can become deadly. With quickly hardening cement Gang Orcas sidekicks use, they would become quite a bit more acceptable. Especially as this cement has a low chance of causing any property damage." The Space Hero: Thirteen counters the always grumpy Hero Course Teacher.

"Hmm, we can worry about that when he becomes a student at UA!" Nezu exclaims as he switches to a random Camera, which just happens to show a Boy… pooping at a robot that shortly thereafter explodes…

"..quirks are weird." Toshinori Yagi says quietly, but the whole room agrees with that statement.


-Back to the Mech-

Our olive-green Mech was still plowing through all bots that were coming at him, many times they were even forming a formation before attacking but the pilots' skill and the sheer power of the Mech were enough to Power right through. The Pilot is a boy by the name of Izuku Midoriya. He is wearing a black baggy jumpsuit along with his long messy green hair bound into a high ponytail. At the moment he was completely lost in piloting the Mech as it was quite fun to use its power simply to destroy things.

He is letting out the steam of being bullied for about 10 years straight since he was declared to be 'Useless', 'I will show you all Useless.' he thought darkly as he crushes the head of an Imperial Bot with the hand of his Mech and then continues to let some steam out on other poor innocent Bots

The Power of the Mech comes from a self-sustaining, Magnetic-Confinement Fusion Reactor with Hydrogen as its fuel. Izuku has driven into Robotics, Physics, Math, and a bit of IT after his diagnosis and had slowly made progress in building his own Mech over the next 3 years. The back through came as a weird girl with Pink hair offered him to help, together they built a fully functioning Mech in 4 and a half years. They drew inspiration from old pre-quirk Mechas, such as Cherno Alpha from Pacific Rim and even the Evangelion as well as the art concept called Tankhead Mechs.

Suddenly a loud rumbling is heard which causes the ground to shake as a giant smoke cloud rises up in the center of the arena. Izuku quickly acts and deploys hydraulic metal spikes on the feet of the Mech that quickly ram themself into the concrete to stabilize the Mech as the ground shocks. The ground then stops to shake and a new opponent rises out of the smoke, a truly massive Bot. Izuku quickly disengages the spikes and then sprints towards the largest Bot yet who is fittingly named, Executor.

"Help!" A weak-sounding voice calls out. A girl is trapped beneath some rubble and lying directly in the path of the Executor Bot as it is slowly advancing towards her she sees the others run away and feels the ground shake beneath her from the giant tracks of the Robot. But then, before she even knows what is going on, a rather large shadow jumps over her and pulls the rubble away, shortly followed by a boy with square glasses and engines in his legs pulling her up and carrying her away. As she takes a looks back towards where she was trapped, she sees a Mech engage the Executor.

"HEY! BIG FAT AND UGLY!" The mech's speakers boom with a slight crack in them, as it points at the bot in front of him. "READY FOR A BEAT DOWN?!" It asks as it raises its right fist and as if to answer, the giant bot swings his arm downwards in an attempt to crush the smaller Mech. Many participants simply watch in amazement as the Mech that is about 10 times smaller simply catches the swing of the Bot with both hands.

Izuku meanwhile was sweating bullets, he didn't know the limitations of his Mech but the sound of metal being bent, crushed, and cracking sure wasn't a good sign. Just then a system gets yellow, signaling that a Servo pump in the right arm has just been damaged. "Shit this isn't good!" Just then the Execurer is hit in the head, sending it a bit backward and giving Izuku an opening to escape.

Izuku quickly backs up as he looks at the Cameras and sees the girl he had helped to rescue and the boy with square spectacles attacking the Giant in front of him. The girl would cause debris and Robot parts to float and the boy would then kick it towards the head of the giant. "Thanks for the Help!" The speakers of the Mech boom as Izuku makes himself ready for round 2. But before it comes to that…

"AND DONE!" Present Mic calls out as the Executor backs down and turns around to leave, prompting Izuku and the 2 others to let out a sigh of relief. Izuku then wakes up to the 2 that had saved him. Just then a loud cracking is heard as a hatch in the back of the head opens, both the spectacle boy and the brown hair girl run around the Mech to see the green-haired boy that was piloting look out from there. "Ahh, you both are fine, that is good!" He exclaimed. The right half of his face and also his neck is covered in bandages but he smiles down at them.

"Are you OK?" Spectacle Boy asks as he does chopping motions. "You seem to be hurt already! You need to see a doctor immediately!"

"Nha, that is something old," he says while pointing at his face. "Anyways, my name is Izuku Midoriya. Nice to meet you two and thanks again for helping me!" He says while giving them a thumbs up.

"Ahh, of course, My name is Tenya Iida, it is indeed nice to meet you, Midoriya.. ah you too, of course,... ahh…. what is your name?"

"Urgh, my name is Ochaco Uraraka, Thanks for saving me, you two!" She says, only to nearly fall over and be caught by Iida. "AH, thanks. I have overused my quirk…" She states and Izuku then retrieves back into the Mech. Shortly after he tested the hand and they still work normal…ish.

"I'll carry you 2 to the Exit, Recovery Girl should be there and attending to the people who got hurt," Izuku says as he bows the Mech down and extends his hands to them to sit on. The 2 then get on and they walk.

"Are you ok, deary?" A small elderly lady calls out to the trio as they reached the exit point. Izuku simply puts both Uraraka and Iida down before opening the hatch in response, he then simply looks out from there before sitting on it.

"I am fine, Recovery Girl," Izuku says as he waves to her from the open hatch. "Sitting in a metal suit really helps in that department." Izuku says with a chuckle, "Those two on the other hand should be looked after, they hadn't the privilege I have." He says before climbing back into the Mech, "See you in the new school year! I Will visit and not because I am injured!" Izuku finishes over the speakers as the hatch closes and the mech walks out from the UA grounds. Leaving 2 confused teens with Recovery Girl.

"Sooo~," Izuku says out loud without activating the speakers, "Time to go home…" Izuku thinks out loud, he then wanders off towards his home…


-1 week later-

Inko Midoriya, a beautiful, tall, and well-built woman, was cooking in the kitchen as her son came into the room. "IT IS HERE!" He exclaims as he is holding a letter up from UA.

"That is super, sweety! Go on and open it!" She says and they both then move the couch to do so. In the envelope is the official letter from UA as well as a small metal disc. As it turns out it is a holographic video player! And a Video starts to play.

"Hello, young Midoriya! I am here! …to present to you the newest member of the UA-" None other than All Might began but he was then drop-kicked out of the frame by a man wearing a yellow helmet.

"I don't care what you say, I want to do it!" The man says, seemingly arguing with someone offscreen. "Hello Izuku Midoriya, I am the head of the support department, Power Loader! First of all, thanks for the awesome fight! Giant robots fighting really makes man's heart beat faster!" The man, now identified as Power Loader, begins, "You have destroyed Bots in value of 72 Points, oh and little note here, many of them were the 3-Pointers that the others simply tried to avoid… This alone secures you the 6th place in the ranking for Villain points alone! But here is where the fun part begins!" A video clip is then shown of him confronting the much bigger Executor and stopping it. "You have engaged the Arena Trap and came out unscathed additionally have you stopped the Villain and saved other participants, notably this one here"

Then another video is played. This time Present Mic and the brown-haired girl are seen. "Ahm, excuse me, Present Mic?" The girl asks shily. "I-I would like to give my points to the mech and robot boy that have saved me, you know the boy that has asked you a question during the audience, Tenya Iida, and the boy who was controlling the Bot that engaged the 0-Pointer, Izuku Midoriya."
"HAHAHA, No worries little listener, They have more than enough points, additionally even if I could, I wouldn't don't worry about them they both made it in, I am sure of it!" Mic says and the girl simply nods and leaves.

"As you can see you already have fans." Power Loader says with a small chuckle before continuing. "Anyway this alone has earned you 60 rescue Points making your final score 132 Points. Congratulations, Izuku Midoriya… This is your hero Academia!... who writes this corny shit?" Power Loader finishes but there is no answer to his last question. Just then a list of the top 10 is displayed.


1st Place - Izuku Midoriya - Villain Points: 72 - Rescue Points: 60 - Total: 132
2nd Place - Katsumi Bakugou - Villain Points: 74 - Rescue Points: 23 - Total: 97
3rd Place - Tenya Iida - Villain Points: 52 - Rescue Points: 42 - Total: 94
4th Place - Ochaco Uraraka - Villain Points: 30 - Rescue Points: 50 - Total: 80
6th Place - Ibara Shiozaki - Villain Points: 38 - Rescue Points: 39 - Total: 77
5th Place - Eijiro Kirishima - Villain Points: 39 - Rescue Points: 35 - Total: 74
7th Place - Itsuka Kendo - Villain Points: 30 - Rescue Points: 40 - Total: 70
8th Place - Fumikage Tokoyami - Villian Points: 57 - Rescue Points: 10 - Total: 67
9th Place - Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu - Villain Points: 49 - Rescue Points: 15 - Total: 64
10th Place - Jurota Shishida - Villain Points: 50 - Rescue Points: 10 - Total: 60


Both Midoriyas looked at each other. Izuku had a bright grin on his face while Inko could barely hold in her tears. Her son had done it, he had gone over and above everyone's expectation of him and he had done it. She then falls her son around the neck and hugs him tightly with only one thought in mind. Her Baby had done it. This is shortly followed by both of them falling over as Izuku's Wheelchair tips over.


And Done! I wanted to do this for a long time but couldn't find a good starting point. Pacific Rim and The Tankheads are a real thing and you should check that out if you like Mechs as much as I do!

See ya!