The tests continued, and every student managed to excel at one area or another.
Even a small, purple haired kid managed to get a rather impressive score on the sustained sideways jumps, the way he used his quirk was rather impressive, so Izuku was quite hopeful of his intelligence, he would have tried to befriend the boy, if the looks he gave some of the female students didn't make his skin crawl.
Not to get him wrong, the boy could appreciate a pretty girl as much as the next guy, and he had to admit that all of the girl in his class were actually rather good looking, even the invisible girl had a figure going for her, which really did not help his anxiety situation, but the way the diminutive boy seemed to leer at them gave Izuku the impression that he was imagining them doing unspeakable things, even by his hormone addled standards, and that was one abyss Izuku didn't want to look into.
The way the boy looked at Ochako especially sparked some negative emotions in the green haired boy, which was another alien sensation that he wasn't sure what it meant.
In terms of constant exceptional achievement in the trials, Izuku was definitely first, followed closely by a girl with a physics defying ponytail called Momo, who ket pulling bullshit out of her bare skin. A sight that was arguably enjoyable, but made the green haired boy blush to his ears every time.
There wasn't really an issue with any of the trials, but Izuku was finding himself hard pressed to come in first place for anything other than the fifty metre dash, which frankly surprised the boy, not that he was counting out any of his classmates from the beginning, but it just surprised him that despite the versatility of basically having what amounted to ten quirks, he couldn't win them all.
He supposed that this was simply the curse of a jack of all trades.
Even with four arms brutish strength, he just barely fell behind a boy with multiple limbs, Mezo Shoji he believed, who grew three hands on one of his arms during the grip strength test, unfortunately for Izuku, Four Arms' hands were too big to fit more than one and it was against the rules to use more than one arm anyway, so he was beaten by strength in numbers and a clever use of loopholes, he did get an impressive score of 187 kilograms, however, which was actually behind Momo's five hundred kilogram industrial clamp.
Whether she was making these things, or could simply store them in her body, Izuku was nonetheless impressed.
Next came the standing long jump, and even though the greenette was sure he could win if the score kept going after the sand pit, he could just use Stinkfly, a four legged insect-like form with large green wings, to fly for a good ten minutes, clearing the pit was clearing the pit, regardless of how much you did it by, so quite a few people were sitting in first place for that event, including Katsuki, who could somehow fly now, not that Izuku had been keeping track of what he could do for a while, but the fact that his explosions were now powerful enough that he could sustain flight without sustaining damage was impressive, despite how begrudging Izuku was to admit it.
Alongside him and Katsuki at the top were the sparkly blonde boy, Aoyama, who shot himself over the pit with his laser, Tsuyu, who could actually jump very very far, like scary far, Ochako, who removed her own gravity and made it across, before puking out her breakfast, and finally one Shoto Todorki, who Izuku suspected had ties with the number two hero, Endeavour, but needed further confirmation.
The boy simply made an ice bridge and walked across the gap, which was apparently a legal move, despite not involving jumping of any kind.
Izuku didn't manage beat Momo this time, her use of a pogo stick was rather impressive, but unfortunately for her, pogo sticks could not fly.
The fourth event, sustained sideways jumps was taken by the short purple haired boy.
As much as it pained Izuku to admit, such small and precise movements were not particularly easy to do with XLR8's wheels, or the rather bulky or simply unathletic form of most of his transformations.
So he simply chose to preserve transformation time and do it in person, which left him in the middle band of participants despite his physical condition being quite good.
He beat Momo though, she had certain bodily aspects that made rapid jumping from side to side rather troublesome, if not hypnotic to watch.
Not that Izuku was watching.
Definitely not.
The girl really should have closed her uniform jacket after making that industrial clamp.
For the fifth event, Izuku was quite convinced his score of over two kilometres would gain him a first place, until Ochacko threw the ball infinity meters away.
Izuku did not want to question the physics behind that, so he simply contented himself with congratulating his friend with her ridiculous score, he wasn't bitter at all, despite how lazy awarding an infinity was…
At least Momo didn't beat him, she sure did try with the hand held cannon thing she made, but it wasn't quite enough to get a higher score than the greenette.
Sit ups and seated toe touch were the next two tests, and they ended up similar to the sustained sideways jumps, as in Izuku had to do them himself, it begged the question, however, of how anyone could actually use their quirk to do sit-ups more efficiently, he supposed having the ability to stretch your limbs could facilitate toe touching, but again, he had no idea what the point of using super powers to touch your toes was, so he chose to save his transformation time yet again.
His scores weren't bad, especially not in the sit-ups department, he was quite close to the top, but some of the girls were simply much more flexible than him and so he had to concede victory of the toe touches as well.
He'd lost to Momo again, not that he was counting.
The last event, however, was the one Izuku was the most bitter about, the endurance race, he honestly thought he had this one in the bag, run for about seven minutes until he inevitably ran out of transformation time, the constant use of the watch and non stop physical activity had no doubt taken a toll on his time limit, and then push the last needed minutes in human form.
He doubted anyone could run for that long without rest.
Izuku didn't come first.
He was beat by someone, Momo Yaoyorozu was her name, when she produced a BMX from under her shirt and leisurely rode her bike around the track until Izuku's Wildmutt, a large, orange, dog like transformation ran out, a form he had only taken because running like a dog was oddly satisfying and less taxing than doing it as a human, and the boy himself ran out of energy minutes after.
He'd decided, Momo would be his Jack-of-all-trades rival.
Their battle would be legendary.
At the end of the day, he did manage to get first place, followed closely by the girl who had just beat him, but the perfectionist in him was severely unhappy.
He did understand his forms weren't omnipotent, but he'd honestly expected a better performance on his own part when using them, he supposed he had a long way to go still.
Speaking about long ways to go, Izuku looked on at the small purple haired boy in pity as he absolutely bawled his eyes out for coming in last place.
It surprised the green haired boy actually, since a lot of people didn't have quirks that helped them in the trials at all, like the invisible girl, granted she came nineteenth, but Izuku thought demolishing one of the trials would have been worth a substantial amount of points.
Then again the small boy was absolutely abysmal at most of the other trials due to his ridiculously small stature and honestly sub-par physical ability.
"By the way, no one is getting expelled, that was a logical ruse, to pull out your best performances."
The class collectively yelled in protest.
"C'mon guys, use your brains! Of course it was just a ruse." Momo added matter-of-factly.
So she saw through it did she?
Well Izuku wasn't about to be one upped by his new, self-proclaimed rival.
"You gotta admit his acting was top notch though." the boy added giving Ochacko's shoulder a few pats in hopes of getting her to pick up her jaw, and to mask the revelation that he had read way too much into his teacher's character and should have just stopped when he marked him as too lazy to follow through.
Maybe the non-existent class 2-A had been in some horrible training accident
"Well with that it's over." Aizawa said finally, away to head back into the U.A building. "Your curriculum sheets are back in the classroom so give them a once-over."
With that the students of 1-A watched their enigmatic homeroom teacher stalk away.
"That was more nerve wracking than the entrance exam, don't you think Izuku?" Ochaco asked her friend.
"I agree, imagine being expelled on the first day, that would be sooooo much worse than failing to get in at the first place eh Midori?"
Izuku regarded the pink skinned girl, Mina, that had basically accosted him after the trials, singing praises about how awesome his quirk was and giving him a nickname that he definitely appreciated more than Deku, but had to give an F for effort.
Eventually he would have to admit to being quirkless, but the school was well aware, and his classmate's reactions was one headache he didn't really want to deal with just yet, especially not if he had to tell them in small groups and deal with the headache more than once.
He'd wait until he had them all in one place to save time, it totally wasn't because he was concerned with how they would treat him when they found out, not at all.
Mina was as upbeat as they came though, maybe a little too upbeat, if the greenette was concerned, but she seemed to get on well with Ochaco, so his opinion was kept to himself, plus it wasn't a particularly bad thing, just a new set of social interactions Izuku needed to get used to.
"I think it was really MANLY!" A red haired boy by Eijiro Kirishima yelled right into Izuku's ear, causing the boy to take a deep breath in order to calm himself down after he was able to hold down the need to jump to the roof out of surprise.
Izuku was glad to have friends, he really was, but Mina and her so called 'horn buddy' were louder than he liked, they were good people, he could tell, just very very loud.
"I honestly expected something like what we just did." Izuku said nonchalantly, "being a hero is a high stress occupation, I'm not surprised they're preparing us for it with such extreme measures."
The three other teens looked at Izuku in contemplation as if what he had just said was some kind of great discovery.
He was just glad Iida wasn't here, the speedster running off to find his curriculum at the earliest convenience, the rather diligent boy would no doubt have gone off on some tangent congratulating the boy for his deep insight, and then Izuku wouldn't have been able to resist being an ass to him.
He meant nothing by it, but Iida was just really easy to tease, it didn't help that the boy didn't seem to recognize that he was being teased, and continued presenting more opportunities for teasing.
Izuku was sure they would be great friends, but the by did horrors to his new found 'be less of an ass' goal.
Being popular was strange.
That was what Izuku had learned today.
That and Momo's quirk was bullshit, that was an important piece of factual information, no bias there at all.
Luckily for Izuku's ears, the rest of the journey back to the classroom was spent in relative quiet, the four teens trading small talk, and getting to know each other better without anymore exclamations being made.
They were all raring to go home and relax, whilst Izuku was mentally filing away everything he'd seen today to add to his notebooks, learning to counter his classmates was important for the upcoming sports festival.
Which had oddly been completely forgotten by most of his peers, maybe they were too excited by just being here in U.A to think that far into the future, but All Might had won every festival he had participated in, so Izuku had made it his goal to do the same.
Unfortunately, Izuku wasn't able to go home right away, because staring right at him with an intense red gaze was Katsuki Bakugou, standing between him and his school curriculum.
In a tone so quiet he would not have attributed to his ex bully in this lifetime the boy rasped a few words that caused Izuku's barely contained anxiety to resurface.
"Deku, you fucking nerd, me and you need to have a little talk."