Quick note at the beginning. I appreciate all of the comments, I will have one more update that I will be working on, then I will be prepping stuff to post on Christmas, so I appreciate all reviews!
Nezu had heard some years ago about a student who wanted to be a hero despite his rather unique transformation quirk. So of course he wanted to see this in person. He had spent an hour figuring out all of the details about this mysterious possible student. All of the notes on his quirk were contradicting each other. Some called his quirk amazing, others called it terrible.
Contradictions like these made him contemplate hunting the boy down himself during his free time. However Nezu ultimately decided against it, as while he could likely easily find him, he would rather see how good of a drive he had. Of course, Nezu had it all decided that he would show up at the high school the boy chose during their university and college information booths and get to know him then.
Which was how he found himself sitting in his personal booth, bored.
Honestly, he was surprised by how few students came into his booth to ask questions. He knows several of them want to become pro heroes, but he has only had the odd couple of students enter, ask a couple of questions like 'What does U.A do differently to keep pumping out top heroes?'.
Essentially all they asked was information that wasn't really easy to answer. Then at the halfway point in the assembly, the boy he was waiting for came in.
Now, Nezu was expecting a slightly taller than average student to enter. what he didn't expect was for a student taller than most pro heroes to walk in. Nezu of course hid his shock well as he has dealt with tall individuals before like All Might.
"Ah, Young Midoriya! I see you have finally shown up!" He chiperly stated, ignoring the dropped backpack.
Now, Nezu was prepared for many things to happen once he introduced himself. What he wasn't expecting was for Midoriya to faint, barely getting his name out.
"Now that wasn't expected, hmm, how shall I wake him up? Oh I know!" Nezu said with a massive grin, that sent shivers down all of the U.A staff's spines.
Izuku suddenly felt something cool flow along his face. In a moment of grogginess his mind hadn't properly woken up, so he thought someone was poking him.
"Hello?"
Izuku had started lifting his head off of the ground where he fainted, the water pouring down his face, forming a puddle where his face last was. Seeing that moment happen caused Nezu to burst out laughing as he wrapped the towel around Izuku's collar to absorb the water he used to wake him up.
"You alright there Midoriya? You fell flat on your face after seeing me. Surely that isn't healthy."
Hearing that voice caused Izuku to sit upright as he realized where he was, causing the remaining bits of water to flow into the towel.
"Sorry Nezu sir, I just wasn't expecting to see you here. U.A never really partakes in these types of information assemblies, hearing that U.A was going to be here, I was thinking a teacher may have been here, not their principal!" Izuku rambled on while bowing repeatedly.
"Relax Midoriya, no need to apologize. I was interested in you specifically, actually."
"Wait, you were!"
"Yes, I have been interested in you. This all has to do with your quirk."
Hearing that Nezu was interested in him because of his transformation quirk got Izuku a bit worried, but he pushed it down in favour of his curiosity.
"What about my quirk?"
"Well, I heard how it transforms you into what other people have best described as an alien, but yet all the information on your quirk contradicts itself. I would like to see this quirk for what it actually is, and find out what personal biases played into your quirk records."
"Wait, they're contradicting?"
"Yep, some examples of this are, your quirk being great for a hero, others state it is the opposite of a hero's. Your quirk is also apparently the worst quirk in existence, yet also one of the best. See what I mean?"
"Oh, well, how would you like me to show you my quirk?"
"Well, for starters, I want to see you transformed, that way I can see what will need to be taken into account."
"Alright, I am happy I got stretchable clothes so they don't tear when I use my quirk. Otherwise this would be a massive pain to do."
Izuku then started to grow in height, while his muscular build started to shrink, turning into a slimmer build, but Nezu theorizes that is purely visual only, and instead his muscles became compact, while still giving him his normal strength. Once Nezu took his eyes off of his muscles shrinking, he saw his jaw had split into four sections, all with tiny little spikes on the inside. Nezu also noted how his skin had changed from a tanned white colour, to an almost blueish gray.
"Now that is certainly quite the transformation Midoriya. What capabilities does this form have, roughly, from your experience?"
"Well, I can lift almost twice as much while transformed, and my reach is increased by a decent amount. Also, because of the change in my feet and legs, I can run a lot faster than the average person, meaning getting into close quarters will be a lot easier."
"Interesting. I will make you an offer: on the weekends, I would like for you to come to U.A so we can have a better understanding of your quirk and find out what your limitations are and just how good of a quirk you actually have."
"There has to be a but coming." Hearing Izuku say that caused Nezu to laugh in delight.
"Indeed, there are two catches for this. Catch number one, you won't be allowed to take the entrance exam, and instead, you will be put into a special exam that I will put together to see if you are truly capable."
"That's worrying, but not fully impossible, what's the second catch?"
"That's simple, I want full permission to gather some samples of your DNA and skin to try and figure out what all your quirk does. Don't worry, nothing will be done if you are extremely against it."
"Alright, I'm a man of my word, I accept this invitation to train at U.A on the weekends."
Izuku stood up and shook the mammal's paw. As he was about to turn to leave he saw Nezu fiddle with his desk. Intrigued, he watches as he pulls a small little pass out of the desk.
"Midoriya, here is the pass to get into U.A grounds, I expect you to show up at 9:00am sharp, I will have a staff member pick you up from the gates and then they will lead you to the training ground where we will begin your training. Now is there any after school activities that you get up to?"
"Uh yes, I have been cleaning up the beach that's full of trash to help a girl get materials to build things. But aside from that, nope, nothing else."
"How much of the beach is left to clean? This will determine how the training will go, also you will have a mentor of sorts starting Saturday."
"Well, it's almost complete, I would guess that only like 2 weeks of cleanup remain."
"Excellent! Now then, go on with your day, I shall see you again on Saturday!" Nezu excitedly said as he waved goodbye.
"Goodbye Nezu! It will be an honour to be trained by the likes of you."
Word spread around the school fast that the principal of U.A had come to the school to talk to Izuku. Many were infuriated about this, as countless people believed they were more deserving of Nezu's attention, rather than the creepy alien dude. However, very few people did much about it because they knew that he was stronger than them, and that any attacks might bring the principal's attention to them.
So for the most part, people avoided Izuku, which he was torn between liking and hating. On one hand, it meant no one would shove him or target him. On the other, it only made people more fearful of him, which he hated as he wants to be liked by everyone.
All in all the week flew by pretty uneventfully, and now here he is, standing in front of the gate to U.A waiting for the staff member to arrive.
After a few minutes of waiting, a sleeping bag rolled towards him out of the corner of his eye. Confused and worried, he got into a stance to intercept the bag. Once it got close to him, he kicked his foot out to stop it, only to feel himself kick something solid and for the bag to grumble. Now even more confused and worried, he removed his foot from on top of the sleeping bag, and then he heard the sound of a zipper being undone.
Izuku was shocked to see a man emerge from the bag with longish black hair and a freshly shaved face. The man was wearing all black, and he had a large white scarf around his neck. The man turned and addressed him.
"Midoriya right?"
"Yes sir!"
"Good reflexes. You have better reflexes than most of the students I've been the teacher of, at least during their first year."
"Thank you! Your praise humbles me."
"Anyways, it's irrational to chit chat, follow me to training ground Beta. Also I appreciate the fact you're already in your training attire. Very rational. Now, we've wasted enough time."
The man proceeded to walk up to the gate, putting his ID against the scanner and unlocking it. Izuku followed suit, took his first step into U.A… And then he stood in awe at the fact on how he was finally inside of U.A, the dream hero university.
After spending a moment taking in that fact, he then turns to look at his escort, only to see him a fair distance away. Realizing that he wasn't one to allow others dime to dilly dally, Izuku jogged to catch up. After about thirty seconds of jogging he finally caught up to the adult, and the man glanced at the taller teen with a small grin, glad that the student seems to take physical training into account already.
"What is your record for longest time running without stopping?"
"I think it was like 30 minutes continously running and that was over a year ago, so I have at least improved slightly from that score."
"Interesting. Well, here we are."
The man then opened the door to the training ground, and inside was a multitude of pro heroes. He saw the pros Ectoplasm, Midnight, Present Mic, Snipe, Cementoss, Powerloader, and of course, Nezu.
Izuku then realized that each pro is there to serve as a different threat. Midnight would be for gas/seduction attempts in all likelihood, Cementoss would be for handling shifting terrain during a fight, Ectoplasm for handling a swarm of opponents, Snipe for dealing with ranged tracker opponents, and Present Mic for the ranged AoE attacks. Of course, he doubted that he would get much training from them, otherwise there wouldn't be a need for actually going to U.A.
Nezu noticed them first as the other pros were still doing their own thing, helping set up.
"Ah, welcome back Aizawa, I am glad you actually came to help this boy train. After all, it seems like you have an allergy to training students." Nezu remarked with a grin.
"He passed my first test, so I decided to give his potential a shot. If he failed that test I would have left him there."
"Oh, you would have left the boy standing there, despite my orders for you to bring him here?"
"What test did I pass?" Izuku asked confused as to what he did to pass.
"You stopped me, that was the test. It was a test on your spatial awareness. You saw me approach and stopped me before I got close, something many heroes would ignore, imagine if I was a flashbang, or a gas grenade. Many pros would ignore me. Not very rational."
"Anyways, I say it's time we test your skills in different combat types, each teacher has their own specialty. Who would you say you would have the best fight against? We will go with best to worst." Nezu spoke up as he looked at each teacher in thought.
After a few minutes of thinking Izuku decided his opponent.
"Cementoss, are you a combatant?"
"Yes I am. I'm surprised you chose me. What's your reasoning for assuming I was here to fight?"
"Well, I had already figured out that each pro here served a different fighting style in this room."
"Oh really? Tell us each fighting style you think you would be put up against?" Nezu asked intrigued at Izuku's intellect.
"Alright so, Cementoss will be a fight against constantly shifting terrain and having the terrain as traps. Powerloader is all about stealth attacks as he will be underground making me have to fight purely on reaction. Midnight would be second most uncertain opponent here. it could be a test to see how I handle female villains trying to seduce me, or it could be a test to see how I handle an opponent I can't get close to. Aizawa is his name right?" Izuku asked pointing at the man in black.
Nezu nodded along, impressed with the teen's deductive work and how skilled at it he actually was.
"Alright, Aizawa is the biggest unknown, seeing as how he is likely an underground hero or a sidekick. I don't have any information as to what his quirk is, but my best guess as to what you are actually testing me against him would be my ability to adapt to the unknown, right?"
"This kid is very rational. I am indeed the unknown variable. I am actually interested in how well you will do against me. Seeing as how I will have all the advantages, it will be interesting to see how you plan on overcoming them."
"Wow, you impressed Mr. Aizawa, the man who is willing to expel entire classes because they don't impress him." Midnight commented in shock at seeing their irritating coworker praise a teenager.
"Anyways, Snipe would be for dealing with opponents that can easily track me. Present Mic would be for dealing with ranged area of effect opponents. All of these are to outline my strengths with my quirk, and my weaknesses with it purely in combat, as well as to see what sort of combat training I have been given."
"You have a very intelligent mind Midoriya, I wouldn't mind partaking in some cultivating of your mind. Now please go to the back of the room and transform, none of the pros here are aware of your quirk, so this first fight is as close to even as you'll get."
"Alright!"
Izuku then took off running towards the other side of the gym and once he hid behind a pillar, he transformed. He knew that he could catch Cementoss off guard, but also knew that once the fight started, all the cover will be taken down, making it a sprint to see if he can outpace a man who can erect buildings in seconds. All in all, he knew this was one of his worst match-ups. if he didn't win quickly, the longer the battle went, the harder it will be to land hits on the pro.
Once the horn sounded, he instantly felt the ground being manipulated below him, so he broke out into a sprint. Once he got past the first two rows of pillars he was out in the open. He could tell because of the faint gasps he heard as people saw him in all of his height. Cementoss didn't even look up at him, but Izuku knew that Cementoss knew where he was. As a precaution he kept moving the entire time to not allow himself to be trapped in concrete.
However one thing he wasn't expecting was for traps to be set all over the place in spots that looked solid. Izuku realized that this is what he was doing at the start, which was why he wasn't in immediate danger. The only reason he didn't get trapped was because the second he felt his foot start sinking, he lunged to the right, dodging the hollow mound turned pit. Izuku then started avoiding all the potholes, mounds, and tiny nooks to trip him up. Within half a minute, Izuku had gotten close enough to Cementoss.
Cementoss meanwhile was surprised by the boy's maneuverability. it was rare that it took this long to trap a student or block them into a corner. He tried to pull numerous tricks on him to get him easily without dealing with his weird horse quirk, at least if the footprints he has are anything to go off. However, he was getting too close for comfort, so he glanced up to see what he was doing and fell, shocked at the teenager charging at him.
What he saw was a creature standing at at least 7'7" running straight at him, occasionally lunging to the side when he was starting to fall. Needless to say the normally stoic pro panicked seeing such a large creature gunning it straight for him, but he also realized that he was going to be in his weakest element, close quarters combat. Normally, if he didn't freak out at that sight and maintained his cool, he would have summoned a wall to block all forward movement for a moment. But he didn't, so instead he got into his combat stance and threw a swift left hook into a right punch.
What the pro was expecting was for the teen to dodge out of the way of the sloppy left hook and end up meeting the right punch straight to his gut. However, what he was not expecting was for the teen to vault overtop of him, grab his arms as he was going overtop, and pin them behind his back. He struggled a bit to escape his hold or to use his quirk, however he ultimately couldn't, so he admitted defeat.
All of the staff there were impressed with his ability to defeat a pro in a spar. Sure, Cementoss clearly made more mistakes then he normally would, but it's still an impressive feat nonetheless. Impressed by his skills, Aizawa decided to step in to see how he would fair in a quirkless brawl.
"Kid, you're facing me now. I wanna see how skilled you really are."
"Alright Aizawa, are we doing the same thing as I did in the fight against Cementoss or something different?"
"We'll fight here and NOW!" Aizawa shouted as he dashed straight at Izuku.
Izuku was mid lunge when he noticed he was no longer transformed He glanced to the staff member,saw the glowing eyes, and let out a massive gasp.
"Oh my god! It's EraserHead! I am honoured to be able to fight you sir! You have been one of my bigger inspirations." Izuku said as he focused on dodging while studying his attack style.
Aizawa was shocked but hid it behind his neutral expression. This kid knew who he was, and the kid looked up to him. Of course, while he was busy masking his surprise he failed to realize that he was making a repetitive move. Izuku, meanwhile, saw that everytime he ducked under a kick, Aizawa would always follow through with an attempted sweep. So he waited for the next kick aimed at his head to make his move.
Once the high kick was dodged, he lunged and tackled Aizawa, who, having only one leg as a support, quickly lost his stance and fell to the ground. Although he wasn't done yet. thinking quickly, Aizawa swiftly moved his legs into the kid's stomach and kicked hard, sending the tall teen flying off of him. Taking advantage of the stun, he quickly launched his scarf and wrapped it around his body, disabling him from continuing to fight with the capture weapon wrapped tightly around him
"You have potential. I am tempted to mentor you if you perform well enough against the remaining teachers here." Aizawa said as he undid the scarf, surprising everyone with his statement.
Izuku was over the moon with joy, because his 4th favourite pro was offering to mentor him. not for a quirk, but to improve his already well trained skills. There's no way he would decline this golden opportunity, so he got up once he was unbound and grinned savagely towards the remaining teachers.
"Who's next?"
Izuku said that as he transformed into his tall quirked form. Nezu smiled brightly, proud that Izuku was performing better than he thought he would, but he did notice how distracted Aizawa was in the fight as he never capitalized off of Izuku's mistakes. Though he was more than happy to let this continue.
"The next opponent is PowerLoader!"
At that declaration, the man in question snapped his head to Nezu in shock, but sighed and dug into the ground to hide himself. Izuku went straight to the middle of the room and closed his eyes, focusing on the sounds…
Izuku hadn't been able to win any more fights, however he put up good fights against all the teachers but Midnight. Her quirk was a complete counter to his, and when he fought her without his quirk, she just smacked his cheeks, causing him to inhale some of the gas and fall unconscious.
The battle against Snipe was pretty even, until Izuku got close and got shot by twice by snipe which was all he was allowed to take. Izuku learned one thing, bullets hurt. Seeing as how he had no fat to cushion his body from said blows, they all hit his arms and probably stung four times as much as they normally would.
Powerloader was the only real close fight he had left, as he had managed to yank the hero above ground, but he got an excavator headbutt for that, stunning him severely. And Mic literally screamed at him until he called for mercy. He had fought hard against the screams until he was just outside of arm's reach before he collapsed and surrendered.
"Midoriya, I am impressed at how well you handled yourself, I wouldn't mind fighting both of your forms to improve your capabilities with them. I am definitely going to show up to more sessions if you keep putting in this much effort." Aizawa said as he patted Midoriya on his shoulder.
"Thank you sir! You have no idea how much this means to me."
"I am curious, you said I am one of your bigger inspirations, where am I placed on your list of inspirations?"
"You are my fourth biggest inspiration."
"Who are the top three?"
"Number three is Edgeshot, I have always had an interest in his fighting style without his quirk. Number two is All Might."
"Wait, All Might's number two? Normally people have him as number one. I am really interested now."
"Well, my biggest inspiration is Gang Orca. He has a very intimidating appearance like I do with my quirk, and well, the fact that he is a top ten hero despite being called one of the 'most villainous looking heroes' is very inspiring for one who also gets called a villain a lot."
"Wow, you keep adding more and more things that I like about you. You are going to ruin my reputation if this keeps up."
"When will we start training together?"
"Next friday at 5:00pm, meet me at the front gates. If you are five minutes late I will not wait for you and I will leave to patrol or something."
"I'll be there!"
Izuku left to go home, looking forward to his training by both Nezu and Aizawa. While the teachers left, Aizawa hid his smile behind his scarf. he was glad he had a student who would probably say thanks after being put through hell. He also started mentally calculating the schedule for training the boy. His last thought as he left U.A was a sadistic thought of how Izuku isn't ready for his training...