Two days later a letter arrived from UA.
Kota was home alone due to some laser brained cave hikers, who got the bright idea to use a sonic emitter type quirk underground, that needed rescuing by the Wild, Wild, Pussycats. Koda was sitting at the kitchen table with his letter from UA unopened, he wanted everyone to be there. They didn't have to be, but he wouldn't be where he was without them.
He sat there drumming his fingers on the table looking at it. Did he make it, the test was unorthodox, but UA produced amazing hero's like All Might, Endeavor, Deku, Creati, Ground Zero and Phantom Thief. So maybe the test was a ruse to see how he handled pressure, no that didn't make any sense.
He couldn't think. Then the doorbell rang.
It was Jensei. "Hi, your aunt called said you were expecting your test results, I brought my camcorder to film it." Kota stared at him. This was one of the first times he voluntarily made conversation with Kota. On the one hand he gave Jensei numerous reasons to hate him On the other hand he never seemed mad about the shenanigans Kota pulled when he was younger.
Kota let him in from the rain, huh it was raining Kota hadn't realized. He reached out and grabbed as many droplets as he could hundreds of them froze in place at once before they continued down.
"Some trick" commented Jensei. Kota ignored him "How's the rescue going?" the teenager asked after a crack of thunder. "It's over, total success, they're waiting out the storm in a cabin." "That's good." Commented Kota.
Kota led the man into the kitchen it's right there, I didn't want to open it without them.
"Oh" was all Jensei said, he set down his camcorder bag. Kota pulled the water off the bag and dropped it in the sink. *splish*
Jensei sat down with his bag between himself and the letter not directly across from it as if to give Kota some breathing room. Kota fetched his laptop and sat down across from the letter next to Jensei, who didn't seem to have any problem with this. 'Hmm maybe what I said was too impactful.'
Reminder for the party in March ask 'Why Yawara and I aren't uncles yet?' bound to get me in trouble with Aunt Shino but worth it.
Kota got another splendid idea. He started looking for ingredients. The only adult in the room saw Kota taking ingredients out of the fridge, eggs, cream cheese, strawberries. He cleared his throat "Kota, are you going to cook something?" Kota stopped and turned to the adult realizing what the man was probably thinking. "Don't worry I've done this before, I'm not useless."
Up on the mountain, Tiger was massaging his temples listening to the them was worse than going down the mountain and risking breaking his neck. "If you hadn't freaked out, we wouldn't have been in that mess." "You're the one that wanted to go crawling through caves in the first place" "I wanted to go surfing."
Tiger looked to Mandalay for help eyes pleading 'Help, please make them stop, I can't take it anymore.' Mandalay shrugged she had no idea what to do. Pixie-Bob saw the pleading in his eyes and nodded to them 'I've got it don't worry about a thing'
She pulled off her glove and put two fingers in her mouth before letting out a sharp whistle that silenced the entire cabin "I have never heard two people yell so much, you two are married; aren't you?" they nodded, afraid to make her whistle again.
Pixie-bob kept talking "How long have you been married?" she directed the question at the husband. "Two years yesterday." Pixie-bob nodded "I've been listening to the two of you for almost two hours now, we pulled you both out of a hole barely wide enough to fit you through it and you both could have died, but by stroke of luck and hard work on our parts" she gestured to the other pussycats "You are almost completely unharmed, SO WHY ARE YOU YELLING!"
She exploded "I have been married for nine years with two major vacations, a majorly successful career for each of us, two moves, and three major family reunions that ended in disaster! One of which was entirely my fault because I threw his mother's wedding cake off a balcony!" Everyone in the cabin has her full and direct attention. "At no point did either of us at any point doubt the decisions we made to spend the rest of our lives together."
Pixie-Bob smoothed her hair down breathing slowly then continued in her regular inside voice. "The secret is communication, you fell in love because you communicated on a deeper level, just go back to communicating before I eat my hero license and chop the two of you up and pour you back into the hole we pulled you out of."
-Back to Kota-
Kota burst into laughter. "Off the balcony?" Jensei nodded, "I watched her do it, I ran to the balcony and look down and my mother and my second stepfather are looking up at us covered in frosting. And I say Ryuko- but she interrupts me by yelling down at her 'That one's for ruining MY anniversary' I try to say something again but instead she walks right past me to my stepfather and says 'You raised a wonderful son you should have an award for pulling it off with the Shinigami down there trying to pull the strings' Then I finally get to put in my piece-"
"We Are Here!" Cried the Wild, Wild, Pussycats.
"To protect the world from stupidity" spit Tomoko.
"To pronounce the good of Truth and Justice" called Shino.
"To inspire hope in the heroes to come" sang Ryuko.
"To unite and combat the forces of evil" yelled Yawara
"Ragdoll" Chirped Tomoko
"Mandalay" Roared Shino
"Pixie-bob" vocalized Ryoko
"Tiger" shouted Yawara
"Here to save the day" They cried in unison in their full pose
The two non-members in the building burst into applause standing up and cheering.
When they stopped applauding, they started laughing.
Then Shino saw the envelope. "You haven't opened it yet?"
There was a collective of surprise.
"What?"
Kota looked at the floor pulling his hat low. "Don't make it worse, I just wanted you guys to be here."
Everyone sat down and watched him open the envelope, which was evidently made of plastic seeing how far it stretched before tearing. The disk that landed on the table projected a video against the fridge. It was All Might, or Professor Toshinori seeing as he'd retired for almost ten years.
"Kota Izume thank you for taking the entry exam to UA, you scored 43rd on the practical and did a satisfactory job on the written test, you scored an 82; for reference that's the top 12% of test-takers. So, I'm the first to welcome you to class 1-A in the hero course here at UA."
The rest of the night was cheering and strawberry cheesecake.
