The train ride has been… awkward to the say the least. They had sat in silence, not meeting one another's eyes as they waited. It was a long fifteen minutes, that was for sure.
Eventually they arrived at the station and got out, neither really acknowledging each other, except for one moment as Midoriya stayed behind to wait on Kendou. She'd expected Bakugou to just leave but instead…
"Deku?" He asked, voice lacking his normal growl. Curious she turned to him with a quirked brow. Then he smiled, far to evil looking for someone who was supposed to be a hero. "Give up, fail the exam. You're gonna regret it if you don't."
Once upon a time, she might have trembled that or even listened, but now she just turned to him with a bored expression. "No, I don't think I will. Do me favour and take a hit on the head, maybe then you'll fix whatever is wrong in your head. Just a thought."
"Tch. Fucker." The blonde snarled, turning around and stomping off as another train pulled up. Looking around, the girl grinned as she saw her friend jumped out, turning to her with a beaming smile.
"Izu! You sneaky little…" The red head laughed, punching her friend in the shoulder before pulling her into a hug. "You planned this, didn't you?"
"Not really, but I guess you said yes?" She asked, and Istuka nodded as the two separated. "Nervous?"
"About as much as I would be anyways. Come on, we don't have much time before they close the gates." The taller girl said and the two hurried along, laughing amongst themselves and talking about what they were expecting to find inside.
They knew robots were involved, but not much about the machines themselves. Kendou was expecting some dumb hunks od metal while Midoriya was prepared for full on artificial intelligence laser eye bots. Sure the greenette's was more fantastical but she'd seen a lot in her years as the Prototype, she'd learned it was best to be prepared for anything.
"Well, I guess I'll see you inside." Itsuka said, smiling as the two wrapped each other in a quick goodbye hug. The red head chuckled as she nuzzles her head into the smaller girls neck. "Don't you dare lose, miss I can do anything."
"Good luck to you to, Itsuka." Midoriya laughed, separating and walking her begin to walk down the path will she stayed behind a moment. "Maybe they'll have a Rock, Paper, Scissors contestant you can win at!"
At that, her friend just gave her the finger as she walked off while the shapeshifter laughed. Looking up at the school before her, she could barely believe.
So long ago, she'd been a random quirkless little boy with a dying dream and no real hope. Now she was the greatest version of herself she could be, with amazing powers and friends like Kendou helping her along, the number one pro hero as a mentor and even years of extra experience under her belt.
Nothing could stop her now! Except that crack in the ground her foor just caught in.
yeah, that could stop her. She sighed, ready to faceplant without a word however the impact never came. Blinking she felt a hand on her back and turned to see a brown haired girl holding her afloat, at a sideways angle.
A very steep angle, that was maybe showing off a little to much. "Uh…"
"Sorry, I used my quirk to stop you failing, but I figured you wouldn't mind!" The girl said. Midoriya just continued to blush as she tried to right herself. "Hey are you….oh…OH! I'm so sorry!"
"i-it's fine." The greenette brushed off quietly as the girl set her back on her feet. "You were just helping. I shouldn't have feel in the first place. Izumi Midoriya, you are?"
"Oh! Ochaco Uraraka!" The girl said, scratching the back of her head and radiating cuteness. Suddenly, Izumi was very glad she already had a reason to be blushing. 'Pretty….No bad brain! Focus!' "Isn't this all like, way nerve-wracking?"
"Well…. I guess it depends on what part you focus on, quirks, things like that." The shapeshifter shrugged as they both began to walk towards the building. "What exactly was that anyways?"
"Oh! My quirk lets me cancel people's mass so they float. I have a weight limit but you were surprisingly light." The brunette laughed, looking to her. "What about you?"
"It's… hard to explain." The greenette said, scratching the back of her head. No way she could fit the whole thing in to the two minutes they had left walking to the lecture hall. "To put a long story short, I can shapeshift and I'm strong. That's the important parts anyway for today."
"Oh, then I bet you'll do well! Hope I can meet you again sometime!" The brunette smiled, walking in and wandering off to find her seat. With a quiet sigh, Izumi took her spot beside Bakugou, and the presenter began.
"Oh wow it's present mic…." The girl muttered with a grin, once she recognized his massive blonde hair and overabundance of flair.
The presentation went well for the most part, with the man explaining the idea behind the practical test and written test as they all listened to him and Midoriya quietly noted strategies under her breath. However there had been one small mishap, when the pro had been explaining the different types of villain.
"Excuse me, sir!" A voice called and all eyes turned to a tall and bulky blue haired teen with glasses, who was raising his hand as he talked. "On the pamphlet we all received, it clearly listed four robots, not three! If this is a mistake then it is quite an egregious one on U.A's part. Additionally…. You! The girl with the long curly green hair! Stop muttering, it's distracting to the rest of us!"
"Uh… sorry?" The girl said, surprised. She was sure she hadn't been that loud. 'Didn't need to call me out so publicly like that though.'
"Well, to answer your question little listener, we do have a fourth type! It isn't worth any points however, so you should just think of it as an obstacle to try to avoid." Present Mic explained, satisfying the teen while Midoriya grumbled a little under her breathe.
After that little mishap, they'd done a written test for half an hour, and Izumi was more than confident she'd aced that part so now all that was left was the practical exam.
She and a group of other assorted teenagers all stood before a gate to a mock city, massive in scale. It was impressive a school could even build something like this.
Looking around to see if there was anything she should be careful about from other students, she noticed the brunette from before. 'Oh, I should probably wish her good luck.'
She had begun walking forward, only for a hand to land on her shoulder and get her attention. Looking around she came eye to eye with the blue haired teen from before, who was frowning at her. "She's trying to prepare for the trial ahead, what are you gonna do, distract her?"
Oh, that was it.
"Dude, back off!" She said, yanking her shoulder back with a frown of her own. "Why don't you focus on it, instead of trying to make me feel bad again. You don't even know what I was going to do."
"I-" The taller teens eyes widened, and he went to say something but before he could, he was cut off by Present Mic's voice from the speakers above.
"STUDENTS BEGIN!" He announced, getting everyone's attention except Midoriya, who immediately started to move. "WHAT ARE YOU ALL WAITING FOR? THERE'S NO COUNTDOWN IN REAL BATTLES!"
The greenette could hear the other students start to thunder behind her, practically a stampede as they all rushed through the door. For a second, beside the girl the blue haired boy caught up to her, and she noticed he had engines in his legs giving him greater speed.
Not wanting to have to risk another scolding or something, the girl started going full speed, easily leaving him behind. The world flashed and she grinned as a robot suddenly swung around the corner.
She heard shouts from the others behind her as the metal machines started to appear. The one before her stomped a leg down near her but she jumped over it easily, tearing through it's head with her bear hands before forming her blade on her right hand and her hammer fist on her left hand. 'Armoured. Better going with my stronger powers.'
Another flash alerted her to look forward and bigger tank like robot barrelled down towards her. 'Let's try this!'
She leapt into the air, flipping upside down above the robot and sending out two tendrils to bungee back down, smashing her hammerfist into the robot and causing dents all over. Where the plating had fell off near it's eye, she shoved in her blade with a quick thrust, seeing the light in the robots eyes die.
Her hands turned back to normal and she saw the brunette before fighting a cluster of them at once, and the blue haired teen tearing through one with his legs. 'Clusters probably are a good idea. Robots kick out a lot of heat from all that tech so….'
The world turned to a rich blue in her eyes as she looked around, noting a few people glowing red, and then she saw her targets through the walls. A group of ten three-pointers all wandering about the same area. 'Perfect!'
She leapt up the closest building and ran along the wall, swing other the next buildings roof with a tendril and diving for the cluster, landing in front of them all. A series of beeps came from them as they all turned to see her and she grinned. "Ten against one?"
They started charging towards her and she formed a set of claws, pointing the ones on her left straight towards them all and taking aim. "I love those kinds of odds!"
The claws shot off rapidly as she changed between, easily slicing through four of the robots in a couple of seconds before running to the next nearest robot and flipping over it, landing in the centre of all the bots. "Now this one is a special move i've been dying to try out! Devastator: Ground spike Graveyard!"
As she shouted this, she forced her remaining claws into the ground. A moment past of silence before the street suddenly started to rumble and all along it, massive spike burst out of the ground. Most were directed at the robots but a few just popped up here and there without direction. Something she could only use when no one else was around.
She laughed as she leapt up onto a building and sling-shotted herself over another, seeing a cluster of two pointer down below her. 'Whipfist or muscle mass? Ah screw it, let's do both!'
Her right arm shifted into a sharp, angled blade with a curve and two points, attached to a bunch of tendons ready to be launched at any time. Her left arm became coated in a stone like residue, up to her elbow and she could feel the weight behind it.
Grinning she dropped down from above and used stone-coated hand to shatter the first robot's Armour instantly, throwing her other arm up as she landed, going straight through another robots head and yanking back.
Flipping in front of the last robot, she grinned as she held the metallic head. "Did your friend drop this? Well I can leave it with you, right? Great!"
As she said that, she smashed the head against the robot and tore its own one off, smashing the circuitry inside. Stretching she let out a giggle. "God I wish I could go all out more. This is fun."
Hopping off the robot, she clapped her hands together with a grin. This was going well. Then the city started to rumble.
"What the…"
The world flashed, and she heard a cry of pain. Turning back as students bolted past her, looks of terror upon their faces she noticed two things. The first was that Uraraka had gotten trapped under some rubble, struggling to get out.
The other was the zero-pointer, the size of a skyscraper barrelling down towards them. Somewhere in the back of her mind, she vaguely registered she could rub this in Kendou's face later.
She rushed forward before she could comprehend anything else, knowing just that the robot going over the girl would be incredibly bad. She looked forward, considering sending out a tendril and yanking the girl away however she decided against it. With the brunette stuck, she'd likely end up breaking the girls ankle in the process.
So, she settled for plan B, putting her arms into an x shape as she ran before throwing them down, creating a dozen small flesh grenades that flew under the robot monstrosities feet. "FLESH GRENADE CLUSTER!"
They all landed, exploding all around and creating a platform the massive robot got stuck in, trying it's hardest to fight. She still couldn't focus on Uraraka just yet!
She leapt into the air, swinging onto the robot's leg and punching a hole through the metal, stuffing both her arms inside. "Improvised devastator! Tendril Disruptor!"
Her arms exploded with dozens of red tendrils and after a second hundred of holes opened up all around the robots body as sharpened tendrils burst out, destroying it from the inside.
After that, she flipped backwards and landed beside the brunette, smashing the rubble around her foot and picking her up bridal style. She didn't have time to think as she bolted to the other end of the street, setting the girl down.
Looking back she saw the zero pointer twitching, ready to explode and she grimaced. 'That'll cause some collateral! Gotta…'
She put her hands together, focusing all her stored biomass to a single point and looking at her target. She only had one shot at this! "Final Devastator! Critical Pain!"
With that shout, she threw her hand forward and billions of interlocked and tightly packed tendrils burst forth, all hitting the giant robot in the chest and pushing it high into the air, parts of it falling off as the main body was thrown into the stratosphere.
"T-thanks, that was- LOOK OUT!" Before the greenette could even process what was wrong, she was shoved forward by the girl and looked back to see a piece of rubble crash into the ground where she would have been standing. "Are you ok?!"
"Uh! Yeah, but you didn't need to do that." The girl said, running around to see Uraraka looking panicked. Smiling, the greenette walked up to her. "I can handle that kinda thing. More importantly, are YOU ok?"
"Uh, yeah, yeah I think so." The brunette nodded, giving herself a once over.
"Great, then we should get back to-"
"TIMES UP STUDENTS! PLEASE RETURN TO THE GATE!"
"-Never mind." Midoriya deadpanned, and the girl chuckled a little. Shaking her head, the shapeshifter looked up as the two began walking to the entrance together. "So, do you think you did well?"
"I mean I hope so but I have no idea." Uraraka shrugged with a frown. "You?"
"I think so. I didn't really hold back so…."
"Hey…Midoriya right?" The brunette asked and Izumi nodded. A grin split across Uraraka's face as she clapped her hands together. "How about we trade numbers?! You seem really cool, even if one of us doesn't get into U.A., and if we do then that just means we have some friends going in!"
"Heh, yeah ok. That sounds great." She nodded, pulling out her phone. Despite being composed on the outside, she was internally panicking on the inside. 'A pretty girl who isn't secretly planning to kill me who wants my number? Am I dreaming?'
It only took them a couple seconds to exchange and they both agreed to text one another when they got home. Looking around after that, Izumi smiled happily.
She didn't need to see the scores to be certain she'd done well enough to pass! Now she just needed to know how Kendou had done.