I'M NOT DEAD!

Okay, now that that's off my chest. Let's continue.

I know I haven't been too active lately and I can explain. I've been having a lot self-doubt problems and I basically lost all motivation to do anything really. But after talking with my good friend Ninjamon1228, I'm excited to write this story again.

I have so much stuff planned for this series, like I'm nor kidding a LOT. But these things take time. So please be a little more patient the full chapter should be out before the end of the month. But because you've all been so patient with me I've decided to give you a little sneak peek into the next chapter.

I hope you like it.

Chapter 4 (sneak peek)

After Present Mic's orientation of the entrance exam all the examinees were dismissed. Their next instructions were to get ready and gather at their assigned Battle Centres. Each Battle Centre was constructed like a miniature city, trying to recreate the feel of a suburban battle.

There are seven centres in total. Each one labeled from A-G.

Batlle Centre F

Outside the front gates of one of these centres was none other then the smartest Ed himself, Double-D.

Dawning his red tracksuit Double-D was currently busy doing his routine stretches for his arms and legs. Even though it earned him a few giggles from the other examinees, he didn't care. Stretching helped loosened his body, and more importantly it helped him to get any last bits of nervousness out.

'Calm yourself Eddward, remember to breathe. This is your opportunity, you can't afford to fail here. Find your zen garden, think of marine life, dolphins, whales, the majestic see breeze and-'

"No freakin way!" said a loud arrogant voice, interrupting Double-D's thoughts.

"Oh dear," mumbled Double-D to himself, because he knew exactly who that voice belonged to.

"Well if it isn't Double-Dweeb. What the hell are you doing here? Did the school run out of targets to shoot at or something?" asked the ever arrogant Kevin as he walked up to Double-D from behind.

After taking a deep breath Double-D turned around and replied, "Salutations Kevin, and to answer your question. I'm here because I'm participating in the Hero Course Entrance Exam just like you are."

"Ha you're joking right? There's no way you can get into this school. Wait are the other dorks here too?" asked Kevin rather insultingly.

"Yes Kevin, Ed and Eddy are here as well. Now if you'll excuse me I need to get ready," with that Double-D then turned out and continued his stretches.

Kevin then just started laughing at the news, "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA that's hilarious! Oh man! I can't believe you chums actually think you're gonna make it! HAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Double-D just tuned Kevin out of his thoughts, he knew listening to Kevin would've been a fruitless effort. He only focused on the big gate that was staring right back at him.

'I wonder how the others are doing.'

Battle Centre B

Outside the gates of this centre was the young successor of All Might himself. Wearing his light blue tracksuit, Izuku was so nervous he could barely move. Once a quirkless little boy who dreamed of becoming a hero like All Might, now he was given the opportunity to enter the greatest hero academy in the world.

"Okay here it is, a mock-battle," said Izuku to himself as he tried to mentally prepare himself.

Izuku then started to scan the crowd of applicants and thought to himself out loud, "How come these guys don't seem nervous at all? Are they that confident? Some of them even have special gear."

Izuku surveyed the crowd for a few more seconds until his eyes landed on a certain brown haired girl.

'Hey it's her, the nice girl I met at the school gates. The one who kept me from falling,' thought Izuku to himself. It definitely was the same girl from before, only now she was wearing a black and white tracksuit.

Still a little nervous, with stiff arms and legs Izuku started making his way to the girl.

'I should probably thank her for helping me back there,' thought Izuku to himself.

However he was stopped in his tracks when a hand was placed on his shoulder. Izuku then turned around to see who it was, and to his surprise it's the applicant who scolded him and Ed earlier at the orientation. He was now wearing tight athletic clothing and shorts. It could now be seen that the boy's calves were bigger then normal and each one had exhaust pipes coming out of them.

'Ah he's here too!?' thought a shocked Izuku. Ignoring his response, the boy with glasses then looked towards the brown haired girl.

"She looks like she's trying to focus on the trials ahead," said the boy as they saw the girl taking deep breaths to calm herself.

The boy then looked to Izuku and asked with a stern voice, "What are you going to do? Distract her and ruin her chances to succeed?"

"Nono o-ofcourse not! That's not it at all!" responded a nervous Izuku as he waved his arms around.

In Izuku's desperate attempt to justify himself, a voice came from behind.

"Hey lay off!"

Izuku's and the boys' attention were now drawn by the familiar voice. Both boys turned around and saw someone walking towards them.

"Eddy?!" exclaimed a surprised Izuku.

Eddy was wearing his yellow tracksuit and had his hands in his pockets, he was also giving the tall boy an annoyed glare.

"Excuse me?" asked the boy rather harshly.

Eddy answered, "I said lay off, what are you deaf too? Looks like you need more then just glasses buddy."

This remarked angered the boy as he responded, "I beg your pardon but I was nearly acting as a good citizen and not allowing this hooligan to disturb that girls focus! If she loses her concentration and fails to enter it'll be because of him! And this is a hero-course, your mannerism is quite disrespectful and unfitting for this school! Do you even know why you're here!?"

The words manage to make Izuku feel guilty for even considering of talking to the girl. However during this rant Eddy was nonchalantly cleaning his hear with his pinkie, not really paying attention.

After blowing away a bit of wax from his finger Eddy then stated, "We're here to get into the hero-course and become future heroes."

Izuku was brought out of his guilt and listened to Eddy as he continued, "You talk about Izuku causing distractions when you're the one who distracted everyone just to scold my friends."

The boy was immediately taken back by this and struggled to respond, "I… I was just…"

Eddy then pulled out a small bolt from his pocket and said in a casual tone, "By the way, talk to my friends like that again and I'll knock off your glasses next time."

It took the boy a few seconds to realize what he meant, "Wait second, you were the one who threw something at my head earlier weren't you?!"

"Damn right," said Eddy rather proudly.

Izuku then flinched at the tall boy's next outburst, "That can be counted as assault you delinquent, which is against the rules! I should have you reported right away and have you disqualified!"

"On what proof?" asked Eddy.

Once again the boy was taken back by Eddy's response.

"I mean you have no proof that I did anything wrong, for all the examiners know you could be lying. And if I remember correctly we're not allowed to attack during the exam, he didn't say anything about before it," said Eddy with a mischievous grin.

He then finished off with an overly sweet voice, "I'm just an innocent applicant being falsely accused."

The tall boy was speechless, as much as he hated to admit it Eddy was right. He had no proof of Eddy's actions and if he went to report him he'll tarnish his family's good name. The boy started to walk away with clenched fists.

"For the sake of the school's reputation, I hope you fail," said the boy quietly to himself.

Eddy and Izuku watched the boy walked away.

"U-um thanks, for… you know," said Izuku as he walked up to Eddy while rubbing the back of his head.

"Nah don't sweat," responded Eddy casually.

"Still I'm really glad you're here," said Izuku.

Eddy replied, "Same here,"

Eddy then looked around and asked, "Is Ed and Double-D here?"

"I don't think Double-D's here. But I know Ed is with Kachan," answered Izuku.

Eddy then started laughing a bit, "Hahahaha, seriously? Oh man I wish I could see that."

"Aren't you worried about Ed?" asked a concerned Izuku.

Eddy answered, "I'm more worried about Bakugo, Ed's gonna drive him crazy."

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!"

Suddenly a loud shriek caught the boys' attention. Both turned towards the direction of the noise and saw a commotion. Both headed there to see what was happening, however upon arrival they wished they stayed away.

Standing there was a teen about the same age as Izuku and them, he had blue hair, tanned skin, a sturdy and fit body, and he was completely naked.

Izuku immediately panicked, "Aaaahh! Why isn't that guy wearing cloths!?"

"Ah geez," said Eddy as he looked away.

Izuku's outburst actually caught the blue haired teen's attention. When the teen saw the two he walked towards them and greeted with a friendly smile.

"Ah if it isn't mop-haired Izuku boy, Rolf hasn't seen you in a while," said the teen who now is identified as Rolf.

"W-wait, y-you're Rolf?" asked Izuku in slight disbelief.

"Correct, and Rolf sees the short-statured Ed-boy is here too," said Rolf as he noticed Eddy who was still looking away.

Eddy greeted back, "Hey Rolfie boy, I didn't think I'd see you here."

"Same can be said for you too Ed-boy, this is the challenge of men and the son of a shepherd didn't expect you here," responded Rolf.

"U-um Rolf, w-why are you naked?" stuttered the flustered Izuku.

Eddy explained before Rolf could answer, "It's because of his quirk. Remember he can transform into any animal, but his clothes can't change with him. So many times he'll go naked just to avoid tearing his clothes."

Rolf confirmed, "Indeed, to avoid the harsh beatings from Nana Rolf will battle like his ancient ancestors did against great-great uncle Noris. He drank a lot of apple cider one night, but that's another story."

While Izuku was still incredibly uncomfortable about the situation, Eddy was lost in thought.

'I wonder who else from our class is here.'

Just then Izuku realized something.

"Wait a minute, if he's naked when he turns into animals. Does that mean, when we met Nazz and Johnny, they were riding him, and he was completely-"

"RIGHT LET'S START!"

Luckily Izuku's thoughts were interrupted by a loud voice. Everyone then looked up to a tower that was close by and on top of it was Present Mic.

Present then continued to yell, "Get moving! There are no countdowns in a real battle! RUN RUN RUN LISTENERS! You're wasting airtime here!"

Both Izuku and Eddy then turned around and saw everyone was already running towards the gates.

"We're already behind?!" said I shocked Izuku.

"I'll see you inside Midoriya! Good luck!" were the last words Eddy said before dashing off.

This quickly snapped Izuku out of his state of shock.

"H-hey wait for me!" said Izuku as he quickly activated his full-cowling before running into the centre with great speed.

Battle centre A

"Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy!" exclaimed a very excited Ed as he ran past everyone into the centre.

"Yikes, what's with that guy?" asked a female applicant.

"Yeah he seems way too happy for this," replied a male applicant.

Just then over their heads flew a furious Katsuki who used his explosive quirk to propel himself through the air.

"Don't think you're gonna beat me that easily you bastard!" yelled Katsuki as he gave chase to the lovable oaf.

Battle Centre F

Double-D was running with the group into the centre. Those who had quirks that aid in travel were far ahead of everyone else.

"See ya, don't wanna be ya!" said Kevin mockingly as he grew metal wings and turbines on his back and took off into the sky.

Double-D then turned his gaze to his front and said to himself, "Apologies Kevin, but I'm not losing this."

Battle Centre B

About a minute has passed and Eddy separated himself from the rest of the group. He was currently running around the streets hoping to find one of the pointers.

Eddy quickly stopped for a sec and looked around the quiet street, "Geez how hard can it be to find a robot? This place is suppose to be full of them!"

"Commencing Attack"

"Wha-"

BOOOOM

Eddy was barely able to roll out of the way of an attack from a 1 pointer that came from behind. When the dust cleared the robot locked its eyes on Eddy again.

Eddy got on his feet and smirked, "So that's how you like to play?"

Battle Centre A

"Oh this is so cool!" exclaimed Ed.

At that moment he was surrounded by at least half a dozen 1 pointers. But Ed wasn't the least bit afraid.