Boku no Hero Academia: Tales of Heroism

Disclaimer: This is a fanfiction story of Boku no Hero Academia. I own nothing of the series other than the fanfiction stories that I make.

Tale 1.2: Monstrous Hero Izuku

It was the day of the entrance exams into U.A. High School and, needless to say, Izuku, Toga and Katsuki were taking part in it to get into the hero course of the highschool. Not surprisingly, many of the examinees were intimidated by the monstrous-looking Izuku and stayed away from him. It was also not surprising that some of the more judgemental examinees thought that he was too monstrous to be accepted as a potential hero.

Used to being judged for his appearance, Izuku ignored their comments with practised ease while Toga, who usually looked cheerful and even lovesick at times, glared at any examinee who made particularly cruel remarks towards her younger stepbrother. Her baleful glare was intimidating enough to convince many people that she was just as scary, and unheroic, as Izuku.

Katsuki, who knew the two better than most, simply ignored the idiotic side-characters and focused on passing the entrance exam into the hero course of the high school.

--A while later…--

All the examinees had gathered in an auditorium where a pro-hero, a blond man with a loud voice named Present Mic, gave them an energetically loud welcome like a DJ. The pro-hero then explained the rules of the test which basically involved getting as many points as possible by defeating three types of enemy robots which had different levels of difficulty and therefore offered different amounts of points each.

The pro-hero's explanation of the rules of the test was interrupted when a black-haired boy with a pair of rectangular half-rim spectacles and a serious-looking face spoke, "Excuse me, may I ask a question? On the hand-out, there are clearly four types of villains listed! Such an error would be the height of embarrassment for a top-tier national academy of U.A.'s calibre! The reason why we are seated here today is because we seek guidance on the path to becoming model heroes!" The boy then turned his attention to Toga, who was sitting between Izuku and Katsuki, and pointed at her as he added, "Moreover, you, the girl with the messy blond buns!"

"Huh?" was Toga's intelligently surprised reply.

"Can't you sit still for a second? You're distracting! If you think that U.A. is some kind of pleasure jaunt, then leave this place at once!"

Hearing the bespectacled boy's stern scolding, Toga, who had been humming and swinging her legs without a care of proper manners, glared at him with an angry pout on her face as she replied, "What crawled up your butt and died, Mr I-Have-A-Huge-Stick-Up-My-Arse?" Hearing Toga's rude response made Izuku slap his hand onto his face with a groan of exasperation while Katsuki actually silently agreed with Toga.

Shocked by the sheer audacity of Toga's apparently unrepentant reply, the bespectacled boy was about to give the girl a piece of his mind when Present Mic cleared his throat to get everyone's attention and said, "About the four types of enemies, Examinee 7111, the fourth kind of villain that you'll encounter is worth zero points. You could say that they are area traps to the avoided."

Once the bespectacled boy, who was currently known as Examinee 7111, understood why there were four types of enemies, he threw one last glare at Toga who blew a raspberry at him in response before bowing to Present Mic and said, "Thank you very much! I apologise for being rude!"

Present Mic then told the examinees to get ready to go to their respective areas of the arena where they would be taking the test.

--At the arena…--

While many examinees were amazed by the sheer size of the arena which looked no different from a town, Examinee 7111 was busy scolding an unrepentant Toga while waving his hands in a comically robotic manner, "You should be ashamed of yourself for your shameful conduct just now!"

Izuku, who was feeling embarrassed by the whole affair, placed his hand onto Toga's head and said, "Toga-chan, please apologise to…" Realising that he did not know the other boy's name, he asked him, "What's your name by the way?"

Examinee 7111 turned his attention to Izuku and politely answered, "My name is Iida Tenya. What is your name and what is your relationship with that… uncouth girl next to you?"

"My name is Midoriya Izuku. This is my stepsister, Midoriya Toga," replied Izuku who then bowed as he added, "I apologise for her less than respectful attitude but she… had a rough childhood before she became my sister through adoption."

Not expecting Izuku's explanation, Tenya glanced at Toga who seemed mildly annoyed at Izuku for telling him about her past and felt his anger deflate as he realised that he may had been overly judgemental about her behaviour. He then turned his attention back to Izuku and replied, "Apology accepted, Midoriya-san." Turning his attention to the arena, he added, "We should get ready. The test will start soon."

Izuku nodded in understanding and said, "May the best of us pass the exams."

A few minutes later, the test began…

--Meanwhile…--

As the examinees tried their best to score as many points as possible, the teachers of U.A. High School, including the current number one hero and symbol of peace, All Might, were watching their performances. Although All Might was an undisputedly famous and well-liked hero, the true form of the large and muscular blond man with blue eyes was actually skeletal in appearance. His emaciated appearance was due to suffering a villain's attack which destroyed one of his lungs and his stomach. Inevitably, his terrible injuries caused his body to waste away and weaken to the point that he could not maintain his muscular powered-up form for more than three hours a day.

Watching the examinees fight against the robots, a few students stood out from the rest such as a certain blond boy with red eyes who used his explosive quirk to destroy the robots. However, none stood out more than a certain pair of students as a monstrous-looking boy with a long tail charged into battle on all fours like a beast while his blond stepsister rode on his back with a gleeful smile on her face. The tailed monstrous boy then created a "bone nagatina" from the tip of his tail which his stepsister quickly tore off to attack the robots with incredible agility, skill and ferocity. While his stepsister attacked the robots, the monstrous-looking boy transformed his arms into bony claws to rip and tear at the robots like a beast.

Whistling at the destruction they were leaving behind, and the fact that they actually intimidated many of the other examinees, Present Mic swore, "Dang, those two are going to pass for sure at this rate!"

Another teacher and pro-hero, a beautiful and curvaceous woman with messy black hair named Midnight, smiled in a sultry way as she eyed the nagatina-wielding stepsister and said, "I like her style already." Knowing Midnight's occasional sadistic tendencies, none paid too much attention to her interest in the blond girl who was clearly aroused as she severed robotic limbs and heads.

Another teacher, a scruffy-looking man with tired-looking eyes named Eraser Head, observed the monstrous-looking boy with interest as he spoke, "I'm more interested in her stepbrother." As the teachers observed the monstrous boy transform parts of his body according to changing circumstances with clearly practised ease, Eraser Head explained, "He's clearly aware of how to use his quirk as effectively as possible. I wouldn't be surprised if he has practiced his transformation abilities since middle school or even earlier."

Smiling what they were seeing, an intelligent quirked animal of unknown species named Nedzu said, "It seems that we have gotten ourselves a lot of promising students this year." He then turned his attention to Eraser Head, who nodded in understanding before pressing a big red button, as he added, "However, the thing to really test their mettle is THIS!"

--After the button was pressed…--

Everyone in Izuku's examination group gaped in shock as a massive robot the size of a big building appeared. Understandably, many of them had a similar thought about the robot that moved on tank treads, "It's ridiculously huge!"

The robot then attacked with incredible force, smashing buildings into rubble. Certain that the massive robot was the "area trap" that Present Mic had talked about and had zero points, none of the students were interested in attacking it. In fact, many of them decided to run away instead. However, both Toga and Tenya noticed that Izuku was not running away from the robot but was instead running towards it. Knowing that he must have a good reason to do so, Toga ran after Izuku and soon realised that a brown-haired girl with large bright eyes and blushes on her cheeks had been pinned down by the debris created by the giant robot. Knowing what Izuku wanted to do, Toga yelled, "Izu-kun, throw me!"

Hearing Toga's yell, Izuku extended his tail to wrap it around Toga's waist and, with a quick spin, threw her towards the pinned girl with all his might. Trusting Toga to rescue the other girl, he transformed his arms into a pair of draconic wings and, with a powerful leap, launched himself towards the robot's face with a monstrous roar in an attempt to distract it and keep it from moving further.

Upon realising that both Toga and Izuku were trying to save someone, Tenya ran towards them to give whatever assistance he could offer. Using the quirk in his legs, [Engine], he ran towards Toga with incredible speed and yelled, "Do you need assistance, Midoriya-san?"

Lifting up the brown-haired girl and placing her arm over her shoulder, Toga yelled back, "Obviously, you four-eyed party-pooper!"

Ignoring the insult, Tenya quickly helped Toga to carry the other girl away from the giant robot while Izuku continued to fly around its head to distract it by obstructing its vision and even trying to claw at its visual sensors with his clawed feet and bladed tail. Looking at her two rescuers, the brown haired girl tearfully said, "I'm sorry… for making you help me…"

Glancing at the remorseful girl, Toga huffed bashfully and said, "If you want to apologise to anyone, apologise to my brother, Izu-kun. If he hadn't noticed you, I wouldn't have realised you needed saving." She then thought about her past and continued to speak with a softer sombre tone, "Like how no one except him noticed that I needed saving all those years ago."

Hearing Toga's reply, the brown-haired girl made a mental note to find her brother to thank him and to apologise. Tenya, who also heard Toga's words and recalled Izuku's explanation about her past, was all but certain that he was the most worthy of becoming a student of U.A. High School.

Before long, the exam was over…

--A week later…--

Izuku and even Toga were relieved that they passed the exam. In fact, Izuku scored the highest score of 85 points which was significantly higher than Katsuki's own score of 77 points. Of course, earning rescue points for saving the girl, whose name was Uraraka Ochako, in addition to the villain points he had obtained from defeating various robots helped. Speaking of Ochako, Izuku still remembered how the thankful girl offered to give him, Toga and Tenya her points in gratitude for saving her life. Needless to say, Izuku and Tenya kindly declined her offer while Toga was more interested in having Ochako as a friend rather than taking her points. Considering that Toga never had girls her own age as friends, which was at least partly due to her rather twisted personality, her interest in having Ochako as a friend was rather understandable.

Speaking about Ochako, the person who declared Izuku's and Toga's results also mentioned that she was barely able to pass the exam to enter the hero course at U.A. High School and was even going to be their classmate. Needless to say, both Izuku and Toga were relieved by the news and looked forward to seeing her again. They were also looking forward to meeting Tenya who, while an undoubtedly strait-laced fellow who would have a hard time getting along with Toga, was actually a good person at heart and was willing to try to get along with her. Not many people were willing to give her a chance so even Toga appreciated the sentiment in spite of his tendency to irritate her with his apparent obsession with proper decorum and order.

--Springtime…--

Both Izuku and Toga were dressed in their uniforms and were ready for their first day at U.A. High School. Their mother, Midoriya Inko, smiled proudly at them and said, "Good luck, both of you!"

Smiling at their mother, both Izuku and Toga replied together, "See you soon, mom!"

--At U.A. High School…--

Izuku sighed as he realised that Katsuki was his classmate and thought, "Of course he would be here!" It certainly did not help that Katsuki was arguing with Tenya when he entered Class 1A with Toga.

What was more, Toga was making things worse by calling out to Tenya, "Hey, Mr Square, fancy meeting you here!" She then took a quick glance at Katsuki and returned her attention back to Tenya as she added, "I see that you're getting acquainted with Baka-gou here."

Angered by the insult, Katsuki got up from his seat and yelled, "What did you just say, you psycho bitch?!"

Izuku could only groan and ask himself, "Is it too much to ask for a little peace and quiet here…?"

"I'm guessing that you and Toga-chan know him, Izu-kun?" asked Ochako who approached him from behind through the door while keeping an eye on the bickering trio. To be more precise, Katsuki and Iida were bickering while Toga kept on teasing them both.

Turning his attention to Ochako, Izuku explained to her, "That's one way to put it. Baka-gou and I knew each other since kindergarten and we never got along. In fact, I found out about my biomorphic quirk when I was five years old by punching him in the face after he tried to hurt a cat."

Shocked that Katsuki would hurt a cat, Ochako gasped and said, "He didn't!"

Izuku nodded in confirmation as he assured her, "If it makes you feel any better, I took the blow for the cat and it got away unhurt." He then flexed his right arm as he added, "Then I punched him hard enough to break his nose and one of his baby teeth."

Ochako tried to stifle her laughter but failed as she snorted in amusement and said, "That's good to know. Serves him right for trying to hurt a kitty."

Suddenly, a voice spoke, "I'm actually inclined to agree with you."

Everyone was surprised as the person that spoke appeared to be a massive caterpillar until it revealed itself to be a scruffy-looking man who was in a sleeping bag. Possessing black hair, a moustache, a goatee and tired-looking eyes, the man introduced himself as Aizawa Shouta, the homeroom teacher of Class 1A. Izuku studied the man's features for a moment before he suddenly recognised the man. He wore an amazed expression as he pointed at Shouta and exclaimed, "You're Eraser Head!"

While many of Izuku's classmates wore confused expressions, except for Toga who had spent enough time with her stepbrother to know his obsession with heroes and knew many of the heroes whom Izuku knew about as a result, Shouta smirked at Izuku's recognition and asked, "Oh, how did you know about me?"

Izuku scratched the back of his head as he sheepishly answered, "Well, I like researching on heroes and Toga-chan and I have always been interested in how you managed to beat villains with mutation-type quirks even though your quirk only erases emitter and transformation-type quirks. The fact that you can beat them while being essentially quirkless is quite an inspiring and humbling truth." The whole class, especially Bakugou, was surprised by the revelation.

Knowing that Toga basically fought like a quirkless individual and that Izuku possessed obvious physical mutations due to his own quirk, Shouta understood why they would be interested in him in spite of being an underground hero who was largely unknown to the general public. Allowing himself to take a rare moment of pride in his own achievements, Shouta replied, "Normally, I dislike being in the spotlight but I'm actually pleased to know that both you and your stepsister were inspired by what little you two had found out about me." His expression quickly changed back to a neutral expression as he spoke to the entire class, "Enough distractions, all of you get changed into your P.E. uniforms and meet me at the P.E. grounds."

--A few minutes later…--

When everyone in Class 1A were at the P.E. grounds, Shouta told them that they were going to do some physical tests while using their quirks. He also stated that, since there were twenty-one students instead of the standard twenty students in Class 1A, he would remove the student with the lowest total score from the hero program. Needless to say, the students were determined not to be in last place.

In a different universe, Izuku would get the lowest total score but that did not happen in this universe as his biomorphic quirk allowed him to transform into various forms for each physical exercise. As a result, he had the highest total score while Toga had a respectable score of eighth place as she used her transformation ability to transform into Izuku's base form for some of the exercises. Although Toga could not use his biomorphic quirk, her ability to transform into his base mutant form granted her his base strengths which were already stronger than that of a normal quirkless human. There was the complication of her needing to be basically naked while using Izuku's base form but not even a certain perverted boy with purple balls on his head named Mineta Minoru dared to comment about it. Anyone who could transform into Izuku's base form and make full use of his base physical abilities was not to be trifled with.

Speaking of getting last place, Mineta Minoru got the last place and would be transferred to General Studies as a result. Although the short perverted boy was tearfully unhappy with the decision, he could not deny that he did poorly in many of the exercises compared to the others. However, after a bit of kind encouragement from a sympathetic Izuku who knew how it was like to be told that he could not be a hero and even complimented Minoru for his ability to use his quirk, [Pop Off], in cleverly skilful ways, the short boy swore to improve himself so that he could get back into the hero course to achieve his dream of becoming popular with the ladies. The fact that hero courses could accept additional students from other courses who had proven themselves meant that Minoru actually had a chance, albeit a slim one at best. That said, not even Izuku was particularly impressed by Minoru's admittedly selfish dream when he made his oath to improve himself. In fact, Izuku sheepishly wondered if he had made a mistake and many of the girls thought that he probably did.

Minoru's unwilling transfer into a different course aside, many of the students in Izuku's class were simply glad that they could continue learning to be heroes. Little did Izuku or his classmates realise of the trials that they would face in the near future.

"-but that is a story for another time…"

--End Chapter--

Author's Notes:

This concludes a continuation of the first one shot. I plan to post a continuation of the other one shots soon.

Whether or not Minoru gets back into the hero course is something for me to decide as I envision Class 1A getting more involved with the other classes after the USJ incident. Needless to say, Izuku will be the driving force behind it but I will not be revealing any details for now.

Also:

I have an idea of creating a version of Izuku with a quirk that allows him to create minions. Possible options include slimes from his sweat and tears, goblins from the spores that his body creates (like the Orks from Warhammer 40k) or even a female version of Izuku with the traits of a queen ant that produces eggs from her gaster through parthenogenesis. What are your thoughts about the three proposed ideas? Post them in the comments.

Until next time, go beyond, plus ultra!