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Chapter cover- Cortney's hero costume case.

Ch.33- The Provisional License part 1

August 5

"Alright, everyone today you will all be putting your training to the test," Mom tells us as we sit on the bus to the license exam.

"Now, I have no idea what will happen but keep a lookout and you should be ok." Mom follows up.

"Thanks for the encouragement Mom," I grunt out.

"Hey, we're here!" Setsuna said as the bus stopped. The students followed their teacher off the bus and saw many groups of other students out on a lawn, but no arena. The only structure they saw was a wide metal column in the ground. "Wait, are we here?"

"We are," Mom clarified. "Look up."

"…WHAAAAAT!?" We all shout in unison. Perched on top of the skyscraper-tall column was a giant stadium.

"Welcome to National Bespin Sky Arena, also known as Cloud City. The tower in the ground supports it somewhat, but what mainly keeps it in the sky is the anti-gravity tech developed on I-Island."

"Please don't mention I-Island." Me, Pony, Peace, and Axel say in unison.

"What happened there?" Itsuka says to herself. Just as a ninja star comes at Mom, which she blocks with her case.

"Ms. Tan, I see you still got it." A feminine voice says. We turn to see who threw the star, and see a woman with purple hair and wearing a purple sweater.

"Zone." Mom introduces trying her to not swear in front of us. Axel snaps his finger.

"I knew I've seen that woman before, that's; the demonic warrior: Zone-Tan," Axel explains who she is.

"Yep, and you're her daughter, Cortney Tan Jr. right?" Zone points me and confirms her assumption, "Well, I like you to meet my daughter, 0z0ne." A smaller version of the woman appears next to her, wearing a brown uniform with a bag for the emblem.

"Nice to meet you, OzOne. I'm the representative of U.A Class 1-B, Cortney Tan. I'm sorry but what school are you from?" I ask not recognizing the emblem.

"Hello Cortney, I'm from Gaijin Academy, and I'm the representative of Class 1-A." That's the school that Slice said he enrolled at, "Slice, told me about you and I watched you during the School Festival."

"Yo Cortney!" I look over to see who's yelling for me and once again by fate, I get to see Slice again.

"You guys are doing the exams early too, huh?" Slice ask and I nod in confirmation.

"Sweet, I wish we could talk more but I have to get into my costume," I tell OzOne and Slice before breaking away.

"OK, it's time to get started," a voice said over the loudspeakers. "Don't make me wait or I may fall asleep again. My name is Mera and I'm with the…*yawn*… Heroes Public Safety Commission. Honestly, I could go for a nice coma right now. I've got vacation days saved up…"

Maybe they should've gotten someone more… awake to do this, Axel thought.

"Actually, it's a little erroneous to say that I'm Mera. Truth is that we're so understaffed that they hired someone with a cloning Quirk to clone me so I could host all of these tests all over the country today. The real me has been so busy lately. I just kinda want to stop existing at this point."

"They're that understaffed?!" Everyone thought.

"Well, I'll just start the explanation of the test," Mera continued. "There's about 1600 of you here today, so the first phase is a big free-for-all battle or whatever. There's a lot of pro heroes around right now, and the general opinion about heroes has been kinda shaky since that whole 'Stain' incident. Thing is, risking your life to save someone deserves some reward, so we pay heroes a salary. That's just how this works, OK? Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah. We have a lot of pros, so we're gonna be looking for the best of the best. In hero work, a speedy job is the norm, so people who can resolve incidents quickly is what we're looking for. First 100 of you to complete the first test will advance, while the rest fail."

"Only 100 out of 1500?" Itsuka repeats. "That's pretty daunting."

"That's about 6%," Neito notes, "And it's not even how well you complete it – it's how fast. Plus, I'm sure even more will fail in the phase after."

"Kinda crappy, but that's life," Mera said. "Here are the rules. You, examinees, will get three targets to put somewhere on your body. It can be anywhere as long as it's exposed. You also get six special balls. If you hit someone's target with a ball, it'll light up. If all three of your targets light up, you fail. Whoever hits the third target gets the credit for taking down the opponent. You pass by taking down two people… God, I need coffee. Uh, we'll pass out the targets and balls now while we open up."

As soon as he said that, the walls and ceiling of the room they were in began to unfold and fall away, revealing the real testing sight we were in the middle of. It was a city area, a highway area, a mountain area, an industrial area, and a forest and lake area.

"This seems… excessive," Neito says.

"I thought it just looks big from the outside, but now it seems even bigger," Itsuka adds.

"I'm sure you kids have preferred or disliked terrains," Mera announced, "So pick somewhere that suits your abilities and fighting styles best. It's an entertaining reveal, but it took so much time and energy. So much energy. Anyway, get ready with your targets and we'll begin soon enough."

Mom and Zone-Tan sit in the observer area, far away so they can't give their students any advice.

"So how are you and John holding up?" Zone asks, knowing how people are seeing U. A and a mother herself knowing that Cortney got kidnapped.

"We've been better, don't worry about me. How's your husband?" Ms. Tan asks back.

"Fine. You know what's about to happen right?" Zone asks, to which Ms. Tan nods.

"Alright everyone, splitting up might be the best idea," I suggest.

"What? Why should we split up." Neito asks.

"Because we're all high threat targets, and that means we have a giant target on our backs, that my reasoning, got any problem with that?" Nobody says anything before we enter the area.

"Really?!" I ask, seeing almost every school standing in front of us, holding balls.

"They're gonna jump us right at the start?!" Shoda yelped in a panic. "Why are we heading to the city area where everyone will be?"

"There's plenty of areas to hide and duck away if we need to. Going somewhere wide open means we'll be attacked from all sides and have nowhere to escape too," Itsuka answers. "More than that, I believe in our strengths. If we stick together, watch each other's backs, and give it everything, we can beat anyone. We beat All Might, remember?"

"That's right. Defense, get ready," Monoma instructed. As the class neared the entrance to the city area, running alongside the elevated highway area, a buzzer went off.

"The first phase will now begin." Just as the announcement kicked off the test and we reach the city entrance, hordes of competitors jumped out at us. They're attacking us from all sides, from the windows of the buildings, above us on the highway area, even from behind in the open area just came from, and a storm of testing balls are launched at us.

"The crushing of U.A." Mom states.

"Itsuka, Axel, Neito, Chibi! Get ready!" I tell them, Axel, Neito, and Itsuka enlarge their hands, while Chibi spins his tail.

"Gods of the winds!" The whirlwind we generate blows any balls throw at us away, along with a few students who were too close.

"We stay here, everyone not passing. Run and back someone up." I tell my classmates before running into a city with Chibi following me.

"Wait up." Tetsu follows me as well, while everyone else books it. We take cover in a building and wait for things to cool down.

"Nope." Or we try to, unfortunately, someone manages to spot us and tear down the wall we were hiding behind with a giant fist. A dark-skinned boy, wearing a straw hat, short, blue trousers with cuffs, sandals, and a sleeveless red vest.

"Oh Come Onnnnn!" I groan, as I quickly figure out who that is, Jerome.

"I could say the same thing to you." Jerome retorts, "Why is the first I find, is the last person I ever want to see again."

"Gum Gum Pistol!" Jerome launches his fist at me which I proceed catch, and he tries to get his arm free from my grasp.

"I've grown a lot since we last fought," I tell Jerome with some help from Tetsu, we force Jerome over to where we are and in our punching range.

"Steel Scratch." Tetsu lands the first punch with me following close behind, together we smash our fists in Jerome's face before sending him crashing into a wall.

"Ouch, that hurt." Jerome says rubbing his nose, "You're not worth it." He says before running away.

"Wait, you're not going anywhere," I yell at Jerome trying to chase him.

"There you are." OzOne hops down from somewhere, right in front of me. Now, she's wearing a Purple sweater as well as black high-heeled shoes.

"You're dumb if you can win a 1v3," I inform Oz.

"Which is why we're going somewhere else." Oz says grabbing me by the throat and flying off leaving Chibi and Tetsu to defend themselves.

Meanwhile

Axel, Neito, and Bondo managed to escape to the chaos that was happening behind them. All the while they know that they can be ambushed at any second. As they walk through the city, Bondo suddenly falls into a pit trap.

"Bondo!" Axel checks to see if Bondo was hurt during the fall. "Ugh, Bondo is too heavy for any of my forms." Axel thinks of what to do.

"I can't believe that worked." A person says with surprise in their voice. Axel and Neito look to see who made the trap.

"The name's Edward." The person tells them. He has golden-blond hair long tied in a braid going down to his shoulders. He parting his bangs in the middle to frame his face on either side as they fall and, in the center he has a single strand of hair sticking up like an antenna.

His costume is a bright red, long-sleeved, hooded cloak whose tail comes down to his upper calves. Emblazoned in black on the back is a Flamel.

"Let me guess, you belong with Gaijin?" Neito asks.

"Like I'd be stupid enough to tell you." Edward says, "I'm just trying to earn my license like you. So are we fighting or talking!?" Edward claps his hands together before putting his left hand on his right arm letting out light blue electricity making a blade come out.

Axel wraps his scarf around Edward's arm and pulling him in. "Thanks for showing us how you activate your quirk." Axel laughs as he reels Edward in.

Edward tries to cut himself free, "Don't bother. My scarf is tougher than titanium, normal weapons are worthless." Axel informs Edward. Axel runs in to close the distance, turning his body steel so he won't get cut.

"Neito, I got him. Help Bondo out that hole." Axel advises before a concrete fist hits him in the chest. Edward slips free from Axel's scarf and claps his hands together again. He touches the ground, unleashing blue electricity. Out from the ground, Edward pulls out a steel club with the likeness of his face on the front.

"I need his focus on me." Axel thinks, he does a quick look over Ed and takes a page from Cortney, "How did they let a middle schooler into high school?" Axel jokes about Ed's height.

That seems to get under Ed's skin, "Who you calling middle schooler! I'm 15 years old!" Ed retorts with fury in his voice and charging Axel. His first hit reveals his true bulk underneath, Ed almost staggers Axel.

"He's much stronger than I first thought. I guess I have to bust out a super move now." Axel converts backs to normal, then switches to hardening and spinning his arms.

"Human Drill!" Axel flips putting on his goggles and digs through the ground using his combo quirk super move.

A month earlier

"Axel, I brought you here because I want to talk to about something," Aizawa tells Axel why they're outside.

"What is it, Uncle?" Aizawa looks over to a tree.

"I want you to harden your body with Kirishima's quirk..." Without hesitation Axel hardens his body, gaining a sharp appearance.

"Now try using Kaibara's quirk as well." That makes Axel stop.

"As you're my nephew, I expect you to give it your all." Aizawa smiles at Axel, "Besides...when have ever given up without at least trying." Axel is brought back to when he asked his uncle to train him, and all the things he's been through.

Axel hardens his entire arm up to the elbow and starts spinning it as fast as he can before jabbing the tree. He manages to get a scratch on the tree but his fingers get stuck. After he gets his fingers free, Axel turns to see Mr. Aizawa grinning.

"You have a start, now you have to make it to the finish on your own."

Present

Axel thanks Mei because now his goggles have Infrared vision allowing him to see Edward without exposing himself, he slips away going over to the pitfall Bondo is in.

"Hurry up and get moving before Edward, figures out where I am," Axel tells Bondo to go through the tunnel he made for him, before going back to digging.

Edward turns his sight to Neito seeing as he is the only one above ground, he swings his club down at Neito who enlarges his hand to protect himself. Neito rips the club out Ed's hands before grabbing him with his other hand, copying his quirk in the process.

Lighting shoots out Neito's hand, "Good luck using my quirk." Ed laughs out before stabbing Neito's hand.

"Now I have his quirk, I've already won." Neito ensures himself, he claps his hands together and touches the ground trying to make a spike field under Edward. Blue electricity shoots out Neito's hands but instead of forming several spikes under Ed, he barely makes one and it didn't even reach Ed, now Neito feels extremely weak.

"Let's me give you a breakdown of my quirk; my quirk is Alchemy, I can convent and alter matter itself by using energy conversion. However, it wasn't always like that, originally my quirk used my life to complete the transfer." Neito puts it together, they had it set from the start everyone, Gaijin is hunting them down.

Ed has to quickly make a wall to protect himself from Axel, who just jumped out from the ground. Ed presses his hands into the wall making a stone fist knocking Axel away. Neito gets up and punches Ed as he turns around knocking him into the wall, now Neito is steaming.

Ed reaches into his coat and pulls out a bomb with the fuse already lit. Neito jumps for cover and waits for the bomb to blow up but nothing. Neito looks to see what happened with the bomb and sees it open to reveal a flag with a picture of Edward sticking his tongue out.

"Goddammit." Neito feels like a fool, falling for something so simple.

"Dumbass." The bomb says and Neito kicks the bomb out his sight.

"Don't let him get under your skin Neito." Axel says putting a hand on Neito's shoulder, "We have to start getting targets, and standing around will do us no good."

"Let's go bag us some targets." Axel pats Neito on the chest before running in search of points with Bondo, now out of the pit trap, following behind.

"I hope everyone is doing better than us," Neito says to himself, before trying to keep up with Axel and Bondo.

Writer: And with that, we end things here. I hope you enjoyed Zone-Tan and Edward's guest-starring in my story.

Thanatos: And without further ado, Today's power of the week is Edward's quirk, Alchemy.

Delaila: This quirk allows Edward to change and modified matter, but has many drawbacks.

T: This quirk follows the laws of Equivalent Exchange, so he needs something of equal value to what he needs. Like when he made that club, he used some of the metal on his arm to make it.

D: Also this quirk originally used Edward's own life force to complete the exchange but through training, he can now use the energy around him instead.

T: But other then that, this is a really powerful quirk. Edward is capable of even manipulating his environment like the pit trap or wall he used against Axel.

D: But that's all the time we have for now.

T: As always,

D&T: Go Beyond Plus Ultra! B-Bye- See you later souls.