All right guys, time for the first Q&A.
#1: Have you read the manga? I don't want to bring up spoilers for you with some of my questions.
Yep, I try to read it as it comes out to avoid spoilers. I actually am planning on writing this for as long as I can and might try to incorporate some stuff from the manga, there are six things relating to Izuku as he is in the manga right now that come to mind off the top of my head that I won't say in case any of my readers are only watching the show. I don't really have any more obvious hints that won't spoil anything. Sorry
Also that question does bring up something important, if you have any questions about my opinion on stuff from the manga I'll gladly answer them but if it might be too big of a spoiler I'll just respond with a message instead of posting my response in the story.
#2: Does Izuku make an exact copy of an effect caused by a quirk or does it modify in order to fit the user. For Example: Instead of the Somnambulist quirk being violet and working better on males than females, which may be due to Midnight and her sexual preferences. For Izuku it would come out as an emerald green and work better on females than males, due to his own sexual preferences.
The exact changes to the quirk varies from quirk to quirk. You are actually completely right about somnambulist (including the color) but some other quirks that require certain physical abilities from their user might not even work at all. By that I mean Deku won't have his own version of Dark Shadow, or anything like that.
#3 Why was the surprise exam so hard? Even the final was easier than that and the class got to work in pairs.
It was more to get him to figure out how to copy quirks, because while he figured it out with Mirio (a flashback of that moment will come later) he didn't tell the teachers yet because he was going to surprise them. Since multiple faculty members were helping train him already and All Might was the one who brought him in Nezu had no intention of not letting him in to UA.
#4 Since Izuku copied One for All, will someone else get it from All Might? If yes will they be training with Midoriya?
In the words of River Song "Spoilers" (Doctor Who reference)
#5 Who are your top five favorite characters?
All Might 2. Gran Torino (which is why I started teasing him back in chapter 4) 3. All for One
4. Aizawa 5. Deku
That's it for the Q&A section for this chapter. Since there were so many questions I'll let you guys have a choice for the chapter I'll release on my birthday. Do you want me to answer 10 questions instead of 5, or do you want a brief part (just a single paragraph and a couple pieces of dialogue) of one of the chapters I wrote that takes place in the middle of season 3 of the show (I already have the section chosen if that is the option you guys go with). There is a poll on my profile feel free to vote there or message me your response.
Sorry about how long that was, that extra part about the Q&A is a once or twice a year thing so it won't normally take this much space. As always thank you to my readers, and my 144 followers, and thank you to Saulong8655 for sending in the first question.
In the time between getting his acceptance letter and the first day Izuku and Uraraka began working out and making more team moves. He introduced Uraraka to his trainer, Mr. Yagi who helped them figure out new ways to use their quirks. He still hadn't asked for permission to copy Urarakas quirk. For some reason he didn't feel comfortable using her quirk without permission. In the time before school started he was only able to get one new quirk, actual strength enhancement.
He still hadn't figured out how to make himself use two quirks at the exact same time like he did in the entrance exam. He managed to do it a few times, but always on accident. The only exception was strength enhancement which seemed to be continuously on. His ability to use each proficiently came down to how much he practiced with each one. Because of that the quirks he acquired most recently weren't as strong as his other quirks yet.
Izuku made his way thought the gates of UA and towards his class. Class 1-A.
It's a good thing I've been here so many times or I wouldn't have any idea how to get there. They didn't exactly give a map, and I doubt Mr. Aizawa would be happy with anyone who's late on the first day.
Midoriya made his way to the giant door to the class and took a deep breath.
Here it goes, time to meet the guys I'll be working with for the next three years. Time to try to make a good impression.
"Get your feet off of that desk now!" The boy from the auditrom yelled as Izuku opened the door.
"Huh?" Bakugou looked up at the other student.
Crap he's here too?
"It's the first day and you're already disrespecting this academy by scuffing school property you cretin!" The tall student with glass continued.
"You're kidding me right? Your old school put a stick up your ass? Or were you born with it" Bakugou leaned forward starting to get slightly more angry than usual. The tall student paused for a second, adjusted his glasses and took a deep breath.
"Let's start over, I'm Tenya Iida from the Somei Private Academy."
"Somei huh? So you must think your better than me? I'm gonna enjoy tearing you a new one." Izuku looked around at the other students who were watching the exchange between the two, but not doing anything. Izuku slowly stepped into the room.
"That's enough Kacchan." Izuku heard himself speak even though he had planned on just joining the rest of the students. That got the attention of the whole class minus the one student that hadn't arrived. Bakugous face went from the anger he had from what happened with Iida to pure rage at seeing Midoriya there. They stood there for a moment as tension built up in the room until Bakugou looked away.
"Tsk, whatever." Iida started to walk up to Midoriya and Izuku felt all his previous confidence leave him.
"Hello, I'm Tenya Iida from the-"
"Ye yeah, I know. My name is Izuku Midoriya, it's very nice to meet you." Izuku started scratching his head as the whole class started talking to each other at once.
"That's the kid that got first place."
"Based of his score his strength is almost like All Might."
"What kind of quirk do you think he has?"
"Did you hear he took out the giant robot with one punch?"
"No way! That thing was taking down buildings like it was nothing!"
Midoriya looked at all of his classmates who were looking at him with respect, something he hadn't ever seen in school. The only exception was a boy with red and white hair who seemed to be studying him. Iidas voice brought Midoriya back to reality.
"Midoriya, you realized there was more to the practical exam didn't you, that's how you were able to get so many rescue points. I admit as a student you are far superior to me."
"Wh, what no, I was just trying to keep people from getting hurt." Midoriya heard a familiar voice behind him.
"I'd recognize that messed up hair anywhere! Midoriya! Wow it's awesome we're in the same class."
"Hey Uraraka! It's awesome that we're in the same homeroom."
"Yeah I can't wait to meet everyone." Uraraka started to look at the rest of the class when their teacher finally spoke up from the hallway.
"If you're here to make friends you can pack up your stuff now." Midoriya tried to suppress a smile and act shocked along with everyone else as Mr. Aizawa arrived behind Uraraka in his sleeping back. He slowly got out of his sleeping back and lifted the sleeping bag. "Welcome to UAs hero course. It took eight seconds before you all shut up. That's not gonna work, time is precious. Rational students would already know that. Hello I'm Shota Aizawa, your teacher."
Izuku looked around the classroom to see everyone in some state of shock as Mr. Aizawa started to reach into his bag and pulled out a gym uniform. "Everyone put these on and meet outside."
Midoriya joined the rest of the glass and had a small grin on his face. He knew what was about to happen. Aizawa turned to the class with a small electronic device almost like a phone in his hand.
"Today we're going to be performing a quirk assessment test to find out your potential."
"What a quirk assessment test?" The class spoke up at once. Uraraka took a step forward.
"But orientation, we're gonna miss it."
"If you really want to make the big leagues you can't waste time on pointless ceremonies. Here at UA we aren't tethered to tradition, so I can run my class however I see fit. You've been taking standardized tests most of your lives, but you never got to use your quirks before. The countries trying to pretend we're all created equal by not letting those with the most power excel. It's not rational. One day the Ministry of Education will learn." Aizawa turned and looked right at Midoriya. "Midoriya, you managed to get first place in the exam. What's the farthest you ever threw a softball in middle school?"
He already knows the answer, but he's not letting the class know we know each other. Smart.
"65 meters I think." Aizawa threw a softball at Midoriya, who caught it and took a deep breath.
"Try throwing it with your quirk, don't hold back." Midoriya walked into the pitchers circle and looked back at the class who held their collective breath in anticipation except for Uraraka and Bakugou, the later of which seemed completely uninterersted.
Which quirk should I use, one for all will break my bones, strength enhancement is always on anyways, hang on. I have an idea.
"Mr. Aizawa, anything goes as long as my feet stay in the circle right?" Midoriya looked back at his homeroom teacher, who just nodded.
All right, here goes nothing.
Midoriya made a clone of himself and handed the ball to the clone before picking him up. He combined his strength enhancement with explosions to throw the clone as far in the air as he could. After a moment of panic the clone used jet to go even higher, then it stopped using jet and used One For All at 100% to throw the ball as far as it could before it dissolved due to the damage it took. A sonic boom crashed through the air as the ball went flying out of sight, and the windstorm made by the explosions and the throw almost knocked some of the students off balance. Midoriya turned towards Aizawa who was waiting for the ball to land before he showed the class.
"You all need to know your maximum capabilities. It's the most rational way of figuring out you potential as a hero."
5.01 kilometers.
"That's insane!" One of the students yelled, but it was drowned out by an angry roar from a rather explosive teen.
"Deku! What the hell did you do you quirkless loser! That's my quirk! How the hell did you do that?" Bakugou charged at Midoriya only to have Aizawas capture scarf wrap around him.
"Calm down and get back Bakugou." After a moment of awkward silence a pink skinned student with horns spoke up.
"Can I go next? This looks like fun!" Midoriya looked back and forth between her and Aizawa.
What did she just do?
"This looks fun you say? Listen up, you have three years to prepare for life as a pro here. You think it'll all be fun and games? Idiots. These tests are to gauge your potential, whoever comes in last has none, and will be expelled from the program."
"You can't just send one of us home, we just got here, and even if it wasn't the first day it's not fair!" Uraraka spoke up again.
"Fair? Are natural disasters and power hunger villains fair? What about catastrophic accidents that wipe out whole cities? If you want to be a hero, then you need to learn to deal with unfairness every day." Aizawa started his explanation just like he did that day on the beach when they first started training. "If you want to be a hero, you need to learn to go against the odds. You need to go beyond. Plus Ultra."
First up on the tests was the 50 meter dash. Midoriya watched his classmates as he thought about the best way to get the fastest time possible, finally settling on using Jet again. When it came to his turn he took his place next to Bakugou and got ready. Bakugou took a second to glare at him before they took off running. They both flew through the air with Bakugou using explosions and Midoriya using the air from his feet. They finished at almost the exact same time with Bakugou getting 4.13 seconds, and Midoriya getting 4.12 seconds, much to Bakugous displeasure. It still wasn't as impressive as Iida, who finished the test in just over 3 seconds.
After that was the grip strength, Midoriya used what little control he had of One for All to grip it with five percent of his power and his strength enhancement, earning a score of 259 KG, he was proud of his score until he heard one of the students talking to a multi armed students.
"Wow, you got 540 kg? You're such a beast!" Midoriya looked around and saw one of the girls with long black hair made some sort of device that wrapped around the handle and she tightened it to a score of 315 Kg, putting Midoriya in third place for that event.
They went to the standing long jump and Midoriya finally had his chance to shine again by using jet to get as high in the air as he could before using explosions giving him the farthest distance by almost triple what the second place student had.
The repeated side step was the first event where Midoriya had to rely on his physical abilities without his quirk since none of them seemed useful there, and there was no way he could top the short purple haired student that bounced back and forth between two piles of weird balls that he pulled off his head.
After that came the ball throw, where all the other students got their turn. Uraraka got rid of the gravity on the ball and tossed it into the air, surprising the class with her score of Infinity. The only other major scores were Bakugou who threw the ball with enough explosive force to go over 700 meters, and the black haired girl that made some sort of catapult to launch the ball over 800 meters.
From there on Midoriya had to rely on his own physical abilities without the quirks he could purposely activate, but he still did well in all of them except the toe touch.
Aizawa gather the class around a computer screen. "All right, time to give you your results, I'm not going to take the time to go over your individual scores so I'll just give them to you all at once." The scores were projected up on the screen and Midoriya found himself in second place, between the recommendation students, higher than Bakugou who was in fourth place. In last place was the short student with purple balls for hair named Mineta. Midoriya turned to see him on the ground crying before Aizawa spoke up with the most surprising news of the day. "I lied about the expulsion by the way, that was just a rational deception to get you to do your best."
But I thought he expelled his entire class last year?
"Pick up a syllabus on your way out. I'll see you all tomorrow." Aizawa turned off the monitor and walked away.
"That was pretty nerve wracking wasn't it?" One of the students named Sero asked a red haired student named Kirishima.
"Nah I'm always up for a challenge." Kirishima responded. Midoriya was about to say something when he found himself cornered by the pink skinned girl named Mina and the invisible Hagakure.
"Midori that was awesome what you did with the ball, what's your quirk? I saw you do a lot of different stuff. I mean you made explosions, and a bunch of wind, and there was that weird part where there were two of you." Mina started
"Yeah, and you flew through the fifty meters and long jump!" Hagakure added. Midoriya turned to see almost all eyes on him.
"Oh, uh, well you see, my quirk lets me uh, replicate the quirks of other people if I touch them, but I don't really have full control of all of the ones I have." Midoriya explained as he felt all the blood rush to his face.
"You can copy quirks? That's so cool!" Mina exclaimed. "Can you copy mine!"
"Wait what? You want me to try to copy your quirk?"
"Yeah man, and I want to see you try out mine!" Kirishima stepped forward.
"I I I guess I could try." Midoriya looked back and forth between them, and at the growing crowd. "I don't know if I'll work on you though" he pointed at Mina.
"Come on let's test it out!" Mina grabbed Midoriyas hand and dragged him back to the soft ball pitch. After calming himself down about holding hands with a girl Midoriya tried to copy her quirk, but nothing seemed to happen. He didn't feel any different. After a few seconds he shook his head, much to Mina's disappointment.
"My turn!" Kirishima walked up. "So uh, how does this work."
"Oh, I just need to touch your skin with all five fingers on one of my hands." Kirishima rolled up his sleeve and Midoriya put his hand on the red haired students arm when he felt the familiar rush of energy from when he copies a quirk and his skin started to harden.
"Whoa, this is an awesome quirk!" Midoriya looked at his arms and hands as they went back to normal.
"You really think so?"
"Yeah, I'm sure this would be great for fighting villains!" Izuku turned and saw almost half the class had lined up to see him try to use their quirks, including Uraraka. "Oh, you guys want me to copy yours?"
After going through almost half the class Izuku gained access to zero gravity, hardening, creation, and electrification, but he couldn't make creation work. There were some quirks that he pretended to try to copy to avoid hurting any feelings, but he didn't want to worry about any side effects they might have. Specifically sugar rush and naval laser. All in all, not a bad first day of school.