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Chapter Cover- Thanatos and Delaila standing on top of U-A, seeing everyone walk in.
Ch.10- A true hero!
2015 April 26, Cortney's age- 13
After getting over our colds, me and Pony are walking to school with Dekuy, in the distance, we hear a roar, we all run over to see what's happening and see a crowd people watching a villain attack.
"Is it starting?" I hear Pony ask.
"Yep, come on, let's see the fight." I push my way to the front with Pony and Dekuy as the villain smashes a power line and it falls on us.
"Wait for it." The fight goes on just like in canon and Death Arms catches the powerline, I look to my left and see Dekuy talking to a man. I grab Pony and make a break for school.
"Hey Dekuy, we'll see you after school!" I yell to Dekuy as we run by him.
"Pony call Peace and I'll call Axel and tell'em it's time." I tell Pony as we run to school.
After school
I wait for Peace and Axel to show up at the spot we talked about, after they show up, I discuss what's about to happen.
"Alright, the anime starting and Peace this is gonna be the hardest on you, considering your relationship with Kachy." Peace gets imminently worried over my statement.
"Kacchan." I hear Peace whispers out woefully, clutching her backpack specifically a little charm. A little All Might figurine to be specific. I put a hand on her shoulder to put her at ease.
"I promise that no harm will come to Kachy." I put some hope in Peace and after that, me and Axel tell Peace and Pony of events to come.
A Few Hours Later
Almost everything goes down as in the show except when Dekuy goes to rescue Kachy from the sludge villain, Peace goes with him and we have to go after them after All Might defeat the villain, we get scolded for being reckless but Death Arms recognizes me.
"Hey kid didn't we meet before?" Death Arms ask, to which I reply to by nodding my head.
"Yeah, sorry, but my friends were in danger and I needed to help them." I tell Death Arms with zero regrets in my voice and receive a chop to the head from Pony.
"Sorry about my friends, they aren't normally this reckless." Pony tells Death Arms, as me and Peace nurse the goosebumps on our heads.
"Why does that hurt so much!?" I ask how Pony is hurting me with her HANDS, when before she couldn't even faze me before. After that, me and Pony walk home the long way to avoid Dekuy and All Might meeting when we get home, I call Peace to see how she's doing.
"Hey Peace." On the other end, I hear Peace tinkering with something and then.
*BANG* "Dammit!" Something fires off and Peace ducks for cover.
"Peace! Are you ok? Are you alright?" I ask, hoping she isn't in danger.
"No, I'm working on some new ammunition types and one of them just exploded." Peace has always been the one to handle things on her own like with Kachy but I never suspected her to make her own ammo.
"Since when have you been making your own ammo?" I ask in utter curiosity, wondering how long she's been doing for.
"Ever since your mom gave me my gauntlets. I'm currently working on shotgun shells, once I get all the kinks out these will be my main rounds from now on." I see Peace is working on improving herself in every way possible and this gives me an idea.
"Cool, hey Peace I gotta work on something myself. Bye." Peace hangs up and I start meditating after a second I'm standing in front of Kim.
"You ready?" Kim nods her head and we get ready and cross our arms.
"Fifth Gear Monster!" My hair and skin turn Red and my spikes turn White. I rush of power throughout my body and my arms go limp. This lasts a second before I return to normal, exhausted but with some better understanding of the power, that lies within me.
"I have to gain control over this."
10 Months Later- February 26, 2016
Man seeing U-A in the anime was awesome, but seeing it in person is unbelievable as me, Peace and Axel walk past the statues of heroes of the past, I can't help but get hyped.
As we walk inside, I see Ochaco stop Dekuy from falling on his face, but continue on knowing I'll be seeing her again. In the auditorium, we're given the breakdown of what's about to happen by Present Mic, a man with a long blond hair spiked upwards and rocking a biker look, explaining how we earn points and where we're going. However, Peace starts to see my hair move.
"Um, what's going on with your hair Cortney?" I quickly try to deflect the question.
"Nothing, nothing is going on, whatsoever with my hair just pay attention to what Present Mic is saying." However, that doesn't stop Peace from poking my hair and hearing a whine come out. I give up the act.
"Sigh, come out Chibi." Chibi unfolds to full size on my head.
"Why did you bring Chibi here?" Peace asks.
Earlier Today
Today's the day, the U-A entrance exam, I have been training for this day, but first, you look good to be good. I go to the bathroom to brush my teeth and do my hair that's when I notice the extra hair on my head.
"Chibi." Out pops a yawning Chibi, I grab him and get a love bite on my nose and give him a kiss on the nose in response.
"Sorry Chibi but you can't come." I then quickly realize take Chibi by hiding him on my head, I put Chibi back on my head.
"Okay Chibi camouflage with my hair." Chibi tucks his tail and head in and looks just like some extra
Present
"And that's how I got into this situation." I finish explaining to Peace.
"So you plan on making Chibi a hero himself?" Peace says with a tone exposing all the flaws with my plan.
"Okay, I didn't really think this through, but this could be awesome for Chibi," I tell Peace with a skeptical look still on her face.
"Hey, where are you going?" Axel interrupts our conservation to bring us back to our regularly scheduled program. We were so distracted that I missed Tenya's introduction.
"Ugg, I got H," I answer.
"I got area C." Peace answers
"B, I'm in with Izuku, Tenya, and Ochaco." Peace doesn't try to ask who they and I wish him good luck.
"Let's all do our best!" Both Axel and Peace agree as we split off to get dress and go to our areas.
Battlefield H
I'm wearing my wrap and bindings under a tank top and cargo shorts and my bag. I look around to see who I'm up against until I spot a boy with long gray hair, some very weird eyelashes, and sharp teeth. I open my book to see if I can identify him while unknowingly walking closer to him.
"H-Hey!" I turn to his page just in time as I bump into him. Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu, quirk Steel- He can harden his body to be as strong as steel. He's wearing a black tee and sweatpants and managing to look remarkably handsome. I quickly banish the thought and response back.
"Hey, Cortney Tan Jr. and you are?" I ask already knowing a little bit about who he is.
"I'm Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu." Seeing as he is the only person I can recognize, I decide to have some fun.
"Let's have some fun, whoever smashes the most villain bots, the loser has to buy the winner lunch. You in?" I can see Tetsu wants in.
"Sure." We're drawn away from our conservation by Present Mic standing on a huge tower.
"Right, let's start!" I take that as my cue and run into the battlefield.
4 Minutes later
"Straight Flush! And that's 34 points." I say as I smash another villain bot, however, while I'm catching my breath another one pops out of nowhere and smacks me through a wall and sends Chibi off my head. Some rubble falls on top of me and prevents me from moving.
"Prepare to be destroyed." I hear the robot say, I brace myself as best as I can for the worst but it never happens. I soon feel the rubble being lifted off of me, I turn around to see Tetsu holding up the rubble, I feel my heart beating inside my chest, I crawl out and make my way towards Tetsu and give him a kiss on the cheek.
After I break away from the kiss to see Tetsu left speechless, I open up my book, write down my number tear it out, and give it him, "Tell you what it's my loss." I make my leave to find Chibi but not before giving Tetsu the "call me" gesture.
It takes a minute to find him, but I see he's been busy as I find him sleeping on top of three slashed to bits, three-point robots. "And that's 43 points," I say as I pick and twirl him around.
"Chibi Chibi, I just asked my first boy out on a date, Eee, I wonder how the others are."
Battlefield C- Perspective Peace
Only five minutes in and I already have 48 points, but some vine haired girl keeps getting in my way. I almost burned her a few times, but she managed to save me a few times.
"Hey, who are, you're pretty good," I ask the girl as she grabs and throws a three-point robot up into the air.
"I am Ibara Shiozaki and you are?" She replies back just as the robot crashes behind her.
"Name's Peace Miglow. Nice to meet you." I answer back before the robot falls to the ground.
"TWO MINUTES LEFT!" I hear Present Mic announce.
"I wonder how the others are doing?" I say to myself as I rush to secure myself more points.
Battlefield B- Perspective Axel
*Smash* That racks up to 50 points, thanks to copying Tenya's quirk now I can move much quicker, but I start to feel the ground rumble. I look up to see a huge 0 point robot coming straight for us while most flee for their lives, I stand my ground as everyone passes me and Deku rushes to the rescue.
Earlier before the exam started
As everybody is preparing for the exams to start, I see Deku standing before everybody taking in what they have. I walk over to introduce myself seeing as we have never actually met.
"Hey there Dekuy." I surprise Izuku by calling him the nickname Cortney calls him.
"H-hey, you're a friend of Cortney I assume since you called me Dekuy." I look at Izuku, Cortney told me that she did give Izuku extra training and I say she did pretty well since I can see a lot more muscle on his arms and legs even underneath his blue tracksuit.
"Yeah, names Axel Gallavancer, I just wanted to tell you that you'll show everyone what a true hero is." I walk away before Izuku can respond and just in time as Tenya starts walking towards him.
Present
As Deku jumps to destroy the robot, I go over to help Ochaco, a girl with brown hair stuck underneath some rubble.
"Hey, help that kid when he starts to fall," I say as I toss aside the rubble on her leg to the side, I faintly hear what she says, but by that point, I'm already on the other side of the battlefield. I stop once I hear the robot be smashed away, I look towards the falling Izuku and his desperate cry as he tries not to become a human pancake however that problem solves itself as Ochaco slaps him midair and stops his fall. Even with most of his limbs broken, Izuku pushes on until the very end.
"TIMES UP!" After Present Mic calls the end of the exam, everybody walks over to the broken Izuku but I take my leave.
One week later- Perspective Cortney
The wait to see if I got in or not is killing me. Ever since we moved, I noticed that Mom hasn't been at home lately and comes back late at night now. Speak of the devil, she just walked through the door holding two letters stamped with a U-A seal.
"Cortney, Pony, your letters from U-A are here." She says with no surprise or urgency in her voice. I hear Pony running around the corner and swipes it from her hand, I grab mine and go into my room, cutting it open reveals a slip of paper and a display device. I turn the device on and All Might appear on a projection.
Author note: If All Might is in his power-up state his text will be in bold, but if in his true form then it will be normal.
"Cortney Tan, you got 50 villain points." After I asked Tetsu out, I got so flustered that I couldn't concentrate on the exam anymore, but seeing as I got 50 points meaning they didn't mind Chibi at all.
"But there was more to the exams, RESCUE POINTS! Since your pet saved someone you got 10 rescue points, for a total of sixty points, meaning you tied with 3 other students." All might says leaving me questioning who I could tie with and the video ends there and I switch to letter most of it doesn't have anything of great importance, but when I see what class I'm left speechless.
I see Pony standing in the door frame of my room and I hand the letter over to her.
"Let's see, class 1... B, ok. I see what the problem is." My original plan was to get into class 1-A and get help from class 1-B later but this completely ruins my plans. Oh well, I have three weeks to come up with a new plan. Class B was shown briefly from where the anime was, so I only have knowledge of three classmates and I don't know jack about the rest. I get a call from an unknown number, but I pick it up knowing who it is completely forgetting that Pony is in the room.
"Hey, Tetsu," I say while trying to keep my composure. Tetsu is the first boy I've ever liked, I mean I have received love letters before, but none of them seem interesting and I don't want to end up in the same spot that Dekuy and Ochaco were in.
"IIIS that a boy?" Pony asks successful making me lose the tiny amount of composure I had left.
"G-Get out." Instead of getting out of my room, Pony moves closer to my phone.
"Is this a bad time because I can call back late-" I stop him before he can finish.
"NO, that's just my friend being annoying. So what did you call for?" I ask.
"I just wanted to know if you're up for getting some lunch tomorrow." The look on Pony's face says a million things but she refrains from saying anything.
"Yeah that sounds awesome, how does 4 sound alright?" I ask.
"I'm good with that," Tetsu replies.
"Great. See you tomorrow." After Tetsu hangs up, I lean back in my chair and take a deep breath then give Pony the nastiest she's ever seen from me.
"Sorry. Anyway, what's up with you and Tetsu?" I just throw my head into my desk.
"I lost a bet and I own him lunch now." I say.
"Ok, but I still don't see why it's so awkward between you two." I throw my head even further into my desk causing to bend from the amount of force I'm putting on it.
"I kissed him." I mumble through my desk. I can sense the shock in Pony and I don't even need to see her face.
"WHAT!? HOW DO ACCIDENTALLY KISS SOMEONE!" Pony screams at the top of her lungs and pulling me close to her. So close that her normally peaceful eyes are screaming "you're an idiot" and after a second she tosses me over to my bed, she sighs and presses the bridge of her nose.
"It was on the cheek." I retort.
"Okay, explain the situation from the start." And I do, I tell her the series of events that lead up to that decision.
*sigh* "Fine, I'll help you." I look at Pony wondering what she means.
"I mean finding you something pretty to wear because let's both be honest, you dress like a tomboy." I mean she's not wrong.
"Alright, make me a woman," I tell Pony.
March 5, 2016
As I approach the noodle shop me and Tetsu talked about, I see Tetsu looking around for me. He's wearing a dark blue shirt and sweatpants with the numbers 02 on the left leg.
"I did tell him to dress like he normally does, unlike me," I say to myself. I'm wearing a white dress with a floral design and I'm not wearing my bounding. I left my hair down which hangs past my neck and even straighten it. My left arm is wrapped up to cover my scar, and I'm wearing flats. I walk over and tap Tetsu on the back, it takes him a second to recognize me.
"C-Cortney you look beauti- great, you look great." Tetsu says, turning his blushing face away from me.
"Thanks, you look nice. So are you ready to eat?" I ask Tetsu as I sit down and look at what I want to eat.
"Yeah." The meal goes off without a hitch as I go to pay, Tetsu stops me.
"Wait, let me pay." I'm surprised Tetsu wants to pay, we even talked about how I was going to be paying since I lost the bet.
"I thought I was gonna be paying?" I say thinking I did something wrong.
"No, my dad says that a woman should never pay for dinner." Tetsu pays an employee and we walk out, I look at the time on my phone.
"5 O'clock. There still a lot of time, so how about we walk around town and learn more about each other?" As I say this, me and Tetsu's eyes lock, time seems to stand still. I close my eyes in preparation for our kiss, but I find out that was just a dream.
"I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to make things awkward." I quickly blurt out. Tetsu turns his head away to look at something else.
"So are you still up for that walk?" I ask, trying to get things back on track.
"Sure." Tetsu puts his hand out and I grab on to it.
In front of Tan resident
After the kissing incident, the rest of the day was great. Me and Tetsu learned a lot about each other like we both like fighting games and we both love a good fight. We end the day in front of my door.
"Thanks, Tetsu, I had a great day. It was awkward at first, but we made it better." I unlock the door and proceed to walk in but not before saying goodbye to Tetsu.
"I guess I'll see at school." I say as I walk through the door, Tetsu pulls me back to him.
"Listen Cortney, the reason I was so distant at first was that I didn't want to mess things up. But I was wondering if you want to do this again?" I thought Tetsu just wanted to be friends but he actually likes me.
"L-Like a d-date?" I stutter out.
"What does this say?" And our lips truly meet, time seems to stand still even though the kiss only lasted a second, it was an eternity for me and I enjoyed every second of it.
"Does that answer your question?" Tetsu ask.
"Yeah." After the kiss, we wave each other goodbye and head to my room to take in what just happened over the last week.
April 1st
"Come on Pony I don't want late to be for our first day of school." Pony rushes out of her room and almost tackles me running to the door.
"Get your horseshoes and let's go. Come on Chibi!" As Chibi jumps into my hands, I place him on my head. Mom left earlier, but she said, I'll see her at school, no idea what she means, but I walk out the door to start my journey as a hero.
Writer: And that's a wrap. Once again, sorry for the mini-hiatus. It's not because of a lack of motivation just laziness, that's all I have to say. Now on to what every Thanatos and Delaila have planned today.
Thanatos: Thank you mister writer. Now for the Power of the day.
Delaila: We changed the name.
T: Today we'll be talking about that move Cortney was working on, 5th gear Monster.
D: Cortney allows Kim some control over her body to grant her extra power.
T: But that's not all her fighting style switches to a more kicking style and she gains access to some powerful attacks.
D: There more to this form, but that's all we're going to reveal.
T: Now on the preview, Cortney starts her first day at U.A. and let's just say both her classmates and teacher are unique and remember.
T & D: Go Beyond Plus Ultra!