Hey everyone. I am here to start of the next chapter. Anyways, thank you guys so much for reading. Thank you again to the 99 people following the story. I thought I would be lucky if I hit 10 followers, and now there's almost 10 times that number, so thank you guys. Now then, on to the rest of the exam.
Izuku looked back and forth from All Might, to Aizawa, to the other pro heroes realizing just how outgunned he was.
"Are you going to surrender like a good little hero?" All Might asked as he took another step towards Izuku.
This isn't good. I can't take All Might when he's alone, let alone when he's got this much back up. I still have to try something though. I can't give up.
Izuku slowly got up trying to stay conscious. His entire body is in pain, yet he still tries to force a smile.
"How can I call myself a hero, if I can't even save one person?" Izuku raised his hand to try to hit All Might when he felt Eraserheads capture scarf wrap around him.
"It's over Midoriya." Eraserhead deactivated his quirk, figuring Izuku would have the common sense to quit. "Just give up so we can get you to Recovery Girl."
"Mr. Aizawa, I thought you wouldn't make the same mistake twice." Izuku smiled for real this time as he blew an explosion in front of him with his hand, knocking himself backwards, and pulling Aizawa off of his perch on top of the maze. He started to free himself from the scarf as the pros started to surround him, but Izuku was already gone. He blasted the ground under him going up into the air and tried to blast himself towards the hostage. Unfortunately, with only one working arm he went way off course. He went about fifty feet too far to the left and hit the wall. He struggled to get to his feet as the white and gold man flew at him.
"Not bad kid, but you still have a ways to go." He launched himself at the unprepared boy, hitting him in the side. Then he started bouncing around the walls before landing on top of Izukus back and pinning him to the ground. He put his foot on Izukus broken arm and started to put his weight on it. Izuku screamed in pain as for the second time today, All Might landed in front of him.
"It's over Young Midoriya. You can't escape." All Might said, no longer smiling as he watched his injured student continue to struggle. Izuku looked up at his teacher.
"But All Might, I haven't run out of tricks yet." Izuku said smiling as he disappeared, leaving the hero pinning him on top of a pile of empty clothes.
"What the-?" Was all the hero could get out before Izuku reappeared coming out of the ground, completely naked. Izuku grabbed the hero by the head and started to take off from the ground, without using an explosion.
All Might quickly got over his shock and grabbed Midoriya by the leg, throwing him against the nearest wall much harder than he had planned. Izuku hit the wall so hard he went through it, knocking him out before he even touched the ground.
Izuku woke up in the all too familiar UA infirmary. However instead of waking up with only Recovery Girl in the room, he was joined by Nezu, All Might, and Mr. Aizawa, who were all talking to each other. All still in their outfits from earlier. He tried to sit up but his ribs and arm still hurt like hell, he looked down at himself and realized that his arm was in a cast.
"What happened?" Izuku asked looking at the group.
"Hey kid. How you feeling?" All Might asked.
"Like I got hit by you." Izuku said trying to force a smile.
"Mr. Midoriya, it's good to see you awake so soon. My apologies for not letting your teachers tell you about the test today. I wanted to see how you would react to the pressure." Nezu explained moving to the side of the bed. "To be honest, I expected the exam to end rather quickly when I saw you charge at Mr. Ectoplasm, but you surprised me by taking out three members of UAs staff, which is why I sent our newest faculty member to assist them."
"Wait, newest faculty member?" Izuku could hardly believe his ears.
"Sorry for not telling you, UA is going to make the official announcement when the results are sent out from the exam in eight months." All Might started scratching the back of his head again.
"Which brings me to your results. You were able to score thirteen points, which is far more than I expected due to you only having two months of training, however you failed to rescue the hostage, destroyed much of the field, injured yourself, and were incapacitated." Izuku looked down, realizing how badly he had done, even with taking out three of the teachers, he still failed to actually complete his goal. He wouldn't be getting into UA. "Luckily, you did well enough that after watching the footage, over half the staff asked me to let you pass, which is why I have the great pleasure of welcoming you as the first member of your class in UA high."
"What?" Izuku quickly looked at the principle.
I must have misheard him right?
"I never told you how many points you needed, you assumed you needed a high amount, but in truth you only needed to get one point." Nezu said with his devious smile returning.
"You did it Young Midoriya." All Might said, congratulating the boy.
"Looks like I'm stuck with you." Aizawa sighed.
Izuku let their words sink in as he thought about the test. He made it into UA, the school of his dreams. The place he's been working towards for almost his entire life. They would let him in even though he failed at the exam they made for him, even after all of the damage he caused.
"I'm sorry, but I can't accept this." Midoriya said, looking down, away from them all.
"What!" All Might cried out, spewing blood everywhere.
"I don't deserve this, not yet. It's like you said, I failed to save the hostage, and I destroyed a huge section of the battlefield. What if that had been a populated area, how many people would I have killed? I can't come in to UA, not after a test like that. I will earn my way here in the normal exam with everyone else." Midoriya said, slowly looking up at the three pros with determination.
"Kid, you took on ten pro heroes, including the number one hero, by yourself. You had practically no prep time, no heads up, and no backup and you still took out almost a third of them. Trust me, you earned the spot." Aizawa defended, much to Izukus shock.
"Now now, it is the boy's decision. If he doesn't feel comfortable with the circumstances, then I will gladly let him take the practical test with everyone else." Nezu said as he started to make his way to the door. "If you ever decide to reconsider before the test, just let me know. I'll let you have until the practical test begins to make up your mind." With that, he left the room, leaving Midoriya alone with All Might, Aizawa, and Recovery Girl.
"So, when do we resume training." Midoriya asked the still shocked pros.
Izuku spent the next eight months training even harder than before. It took him four months but he finally realized how to dial back the strength of One For All and spread it through his whole body. He not only got to meet the man who trained All Might, named Gran Torino, but he even got a few lessons with him. Now Izuku could use his copycat ability even outside of combat and his list of abilities had grown even longer.
He now had access to black hole, somnambulist, cement, clones, jet, heal, permeation, erasure, explosions, and one for all. He was proficient with erasure and explosions, and he had a basic idea of how to use almost all of his quirks. He had limited experience with each of them, but at least had the basics down with all of them. He could go up to five percent with one for all without any problem, and he could use ten percent briefly, though it hurt a lot. He was finally ready for the entrance exam.
8 months after the recommendation exam.
Izuku once again stood outside the gates of UA, this time with several other students walking past him. It was the day of the exam. He took a deep breath, trying to calm himself.
I can do this, I was able to go toe to toe with pros, I should be able to handle whatever they throw at us.
"Deku? What the hell are you doing here you quirkless loser?" A familiar voice came from behind Midoriya.
"Oh, good morning Kacchan! Let's both do our best today!" Izuku stepped out of the way of Bakugou as he got closer.
He's barely even looked at me since that incident with the sludge villain, maybe he's actually getting nicer?
As he got closer Bakugou bumped into Izuku with enough force to make the unprepared boy start to fall over.
Or not.
Izuku got ready to catch himself, but for some reason he stopped falling. In fact, he wasn't even touching the ground anymore.
"Are you okay?" A cheerful sounding voice came from just behind him as he slowly went back to the ground. He turned towards the voice and almost immediately started blushing. Next to him was a short, brown eyed girl with bobbed hair. "Sorry for not asking before using my quirk, but I figured you wouldn't mind."
"Th thank you. Sorry about that, we should probably get inside." Izuku stuttered, realizing he was actually talking to a girl.
"I hope I don't end up having to deal with that guy, he seemed so mean." The girl said gesturing at Bakugou. "I'm Ochaco Uraraka by the way."
"I I'm Izuku Midoriya." Midoriya and Uraraka walked into the building and took their seats. The test was about to begin.
Izuku joined Bakugou in a large auditorium full of students from across the country. In front of them was a dark stage with a screen that took up almost the entire wall behind it. The room was buzzing with anticipation of what would happen next. One by one the lights on the stage turned on revealing Present Mic.
"What's up UA candidates, thanks for tunin' in to me, your school DJ. C'mon. Lemme hear ya!" Present Mic paused waiting for a response that never came from the auditorium. "Keeping it mellow huh, that's fine, I'll just skip straight to the main show. Let's talk about how this practical exam is gonna go down, okay? Like your application said, today you rockin' boys and girls will be out there conducting ten-minute mock battles in super hip urban settings. " The screen behind Mic lit up to show a map with the routes to the different testing areas. "After I drop the mic here, you'll head to your specified battle center, sound good?" Again there was silence.
Izuku looked down at the paper with his information on it, then looked over at Bakugous.
"I see, so they're splitting us up so we can't work with any of our friends." Bakugou commented on the information on their card. Izuku was going to center B, Bakugou was going to A.
"Your right, our numbers are one after the other, but we're going to different testing sites." Izuku let out a sigh of relief.
"Get your eyes off my card." Bakugou glared at Izuku, who just ignored the comment. Present Mic started explaining the next part of the information as the screen lit up showing visuals for his explanations.
"Okay, let's check out your targets. There are three types of faux villains in every battle center. You'll earn points based on their level of difficulty so better choose wisely. Your goal in this trial is to use your quirk to raise your score by shredding these faux villains like a mid-song guitar solo. But make sure you're keeping things heroic. No attacking other examinees, ya dig?"
"Excuse me sir, but I have a question." A boy a few rows ahead of Midoriya stood up raising his hand.
"Hit me!" Mic exclaimed as he pointed at the student. A spotlight turned on, shining on the boy, who was holding the printout with the info Mic was explaining.
"On the printout you've listed four types of villains. Not three. With all respect, if this is an error on official UA materials, it is shameful. We are exemplary students. We expect the best from Japan's most notable school. A mistake such as this won't do."
"All right, examinee number 7111, thanks for calling in with your request. The fourth villain type is worth zero points, it's just an obstacle we'll just be throwing in your way. There's one in every battle center. I'd recommend avoiding it and focusing on the one's topping the charts. That's all I've got for you today. I'll sign off with a little present. A sample of our school motto! As General Napoleon Bonaparte once laid down, "A true hero is one who overcomes life's misfortunes." Now that's a tasty soundbite. You ready to go beyond? Let's hear a Plus Ultra!"
Yet again, Mic was met with silence, now all anyone was thinking about is the test.
Izuku was outside the exam area, preparing the test to start. Everyone around him seemed calm, and for once in his life, so was he. He looked around sizing up the other students when he spotted Uraraka.
I should probably thank her for earlier.
Izuku started to walk up to her when Presents Mics voice rang out.
"Right let's start! Get moving, there are no countdowns in real battles. Run run run listeners, your wasting airtime here!"
Izuku turned and jumped into the sky and blasted off into the battlefield using jet. He got to the top of the nearest building before spewing out clouds that turned into clones. Five of them to be precise.
Five is all I can manage right now, it'll have to do.
"All right, let's do this." The Midoriyas spoke out with one voice before splitting up.
The only downside is that I won't know how many points each of them get. I'll just have to hope they get at least a few, one hit each and they're gone.
The real Izuku jumped off the roof into an alleyway containing two one pointers, two two pointers, and a three pointer. He landed on one of the two pointers. He used one for all to rip its tail off and stabbed it into the three pointer before throwing the remains of the robot he landed on at the one pointers, and then he ripped the head off the last two pointer.
"That's nine points." Izuku counted before rushing into the chaotic street where he saw Uraraka running by several now floating robots which soon fell to the ground. The boy from the auditorium was running around at high speed destroying robots with his legs. One of Midoriyas clones was fighting a group of robots that had surrounded a blond student wearing a strange looking belt. The real Midoriya took off to help, tearing a stop sign out of the ground and using it like a javelin as he ran, impaling a one pointer. The clone finished the rest of the robots before he could join him though.
"I've gotten twelve points so far." The clone said before running off.
"Right, with the nine from earlier, and the point I just that puts me at twenty two." Izuku tallied up before running into an alley, then he jumped and used jet to bounce from wall to wall to increase his movement like he saw Gran Torino do. He went up into the air to see if any robots were on the roofs and wasn't disappointed. Two three pointers and six one pointers were on top of what looked like a hospital. He rushed over and landed a lot harder than he intended, pain shot up his legs and he fell over, almost rolling off the roof. He quickly turned and blasted the strongest explosion he could muster at the general direction of the robots, blowing them all off the roof, but also taking a chunk out of the building as well. The robots fell either to the street below or hit the building across the street before falling down into the sidewalk. Izuku could hear the screams of some of the examinees as it rained parts and glass as the world shook.
Am I seriously that powerful? Izuku got to his feet but the world was still shaking. No, something big just got here. Izuku turned to see something the shape of the zero pointer Mic mentioned, except unlike the other robots this one was the size of a skyscraper. Isn't this a little excessive?
Izuku made his way down to the street, where he saw examinees running away from the beast. His remaining clones were directing people into the alleyways out of its path, and surprisingly people were listening. Izuku looked up to see the giant robot moving right for him.
I need to run, now!
Midoriya turned to take off when he heard a familiar voice come from by the robot.
"Ow!" Izuku turned to see Uraraka, whose leg had been pinned under a pile of rubble. Right in the path of the 0 pointer. Without thinking Midoriya used one for all at 100% to get to the giants head as he let pressure and heat build up in his arms, as soon as he got close he let loose with both one for all and his explosions, blowing the robots head off the body and out of the city. The rest of it toppled over, destroyed. Izuku smiled at his work before fully realizing what he just did.
Crap, I pushed it too much, my arms and legs are busted. I don't have any way to stop my fall.
Izuku closed his eyes and screamed as he waited for the ground to hit him, only to feel something hit is face. He opened his eyes to see that he was now hovering over the ground.
"And release" Izuku fell to the ground and looked over at the girl that just saved his life, who was now throwing up.
"Are you ok?" Izuku asked, getting a thumbs up in response. He looked around for his clones, which were no where to be found.
They probably dissolved.
"And times up!" Present Mic announced.
Great, I have no idea how many points I got. Izuku thought bitterly to himself.
"Here, let me help you get to the nurse." Uraraka had gotten up and next to Midoriya while he had been thinking about his failure.
"You don't need to do that, she's already here." Izuku gestured with his head at Recovery Girl, who was scowling at him.
"Young man, how many times have I told you not to overuse your quirk, you aren't even a student here and I think I've treated you more than last years first years combined!" She said as she got close enough to heal Midoriya. She bent down and kissed him on the head. The familiar weakness went throughout his body as his bones mended.
"Thanks recovery girl." Izuku said as he slowly got to his feet.
"You can thank my by not being so reckless. Is anyone else hurt?" Recovery girl looked around, and after healing Urarakas leg she left to go to the next testing center.
"How do you think you did?" Uraraka asked as she and Midoriya walked out of the center.
"I honestly have no idea, I had copies of myself running around to help maximize my score, but I don't know how many points any of them got. They might have gotten zero for all I know." Izuku explained.
"So that's why I saw you wherever I went."
"Yeah, so I guess I'll just find out whenever the results come in." Izuku scratched his head. At this Uraraka took a piece of paper and a pen and wrote something down before giving it to Midoriya.
"Here, text me when you find out if you got in or not." Uraraka gave Izuku the paper with a smile. "I have to go do something before I leave, talk to you later tonght?"
A girl just gave me her number!
Izuku looked down at the paper, unable to form a coherent sentence as Uraraka walked back towards the school.