AN: I do not own My Hero Academia.
Delusional777: I'm glad you are liking the story. I'm going to reveal the true nature of his quirk in a few chapters.
PopSonic: Too many times.
I'm glad you are all liking this story. Hopefully I can keep pleasing you all.
(Home)
A week had passed since the exams. Katsuki had asked how I felt I did. I told him I felt pretty good about my results.
He had scoffed disbelievingly and said I had probably turned into a crying mess and pissed my pants in fear. I told him I didn't do those things anymore. I didn't tell him that I was incapable of one of those things. I had removed that part for increased visual efficiency.
My mom had worriedly asked how I was doing each day. I kept assuring her I was fine, but I doubted she believed me.
My results came in the afternoon. My mother had all but thrown the letter into my hands. I went to my room to view it. Inside the letter was a CD, that I placed in my computer.
A video of All Might congratulating me on passing the written exam appeared on the screen. I was wondering why he was in the video until he said he was going to be a teacher at U.A.
He said I had attained twenty-nine villain points, which was barely passable for Hero course. But that wasn't the only types of points I scored. A video of me helping Shinso from the two-pointer. I was awarded ten rescue points for this. Rescue points was for saving other examinees. I was given another five rescue points for the weapon I have given to the guy, since they had to count that as a positive action and didn't have another category. Something All Might thought should be looked before next year.
So I had fourty-five points now. That was almost as much as Ignenium Jr.
The next video were a few brief videos of Uraraka and Hitoshi asking Present Mic about me and my condition. Once they were assured I was okay, they had offered some of ther points to me, but were told that wasn't allowed. Why would they do that? The whole test was a competition of skill and power.
I was awarded forty points for stopping the robot form crushing Uraraka. All Might had said a hero's true purpose was to rescue the those who needed help. He told me with my eighty-one-point total, I had scored the top place in the practical exam.
[High rise of emotions detected. Room determined a safe place for emotional outlet. Emotion dampeners not needed.]
I would have cried if I could, but I settled for making some sobbing noises. This gained the attention of my mother, who ran into my room to check on me.
"I can be a hero, Mom," I told her in a shaky voice. This caused her to cry, both in regret and happiness, as she hugged me. She told me she was really proud of me and was going to call my father.
I was going to savor this happy moment. The unfamiliar feeling of true happiness. I took the CD out of the computer and ate it.
[Retrieving data from disc. Retrieval complete.]
I spat out the CD and placed it back on my computer desk. The feeling was still there. I could enjoy just a bit longer.
"Deku!" The loud knocking and yelling of Katsuki ruined it. The feeling was gone instantly. He ruined all my good times for the last ten years.
(?)
I was walking home after Kaachan had been saved from the Slime Villain by All Might. The same villain that had attacked me earlier and lead me to be saving by the number one hero also.
After getting an autograph from the All Might, I had jumped on his leg before he vaulted into the air. Just to ask him one question. One stupid question that I already knew the answer to. The answer I had been ignoring since I found out I was quirkless.
All Might only confirmed what I already knew. I couldn't be a hero without a quirk. It was too dangerous. I was just going to get myself killed.
I had thought of many scenarios of how I could possibly be a quirkless hero. I could train extensively in martial arts and be supplemented by support gear. But any villain with an electric type emitter quirk would be able to disable my support gear and I would have to pray my martial arts training was enough. A villain with a powerful strength quirk would just completely overpower me, like that Muscular guy.
All I would be was liability to the real heroes. The ones with powers and hero training. I would just decrease their chances of success. I need my own powers.
I bumped into someone, as I wasn't paying attention to where I was going. I was going land on my rear, but a strong arm grabbed me. I looked up to see a middle aged man with a humanoid robot as his companion. The robot was the one that held me.
I got back to a standing position with the aid of the robot. I couldn't take my eyes off it. It looked so human!
"I see my little buddy here has your eye," the man said, "It's my latest creation. I'm hoping to show him off soon to possibly gain an olive branch from one of the support companies. I want him to help elderly people with their living."
"How so?"
This prompted man to give a detailed explanation of the robot. It could lift up to a ton, this feature was help move heavy furniture or things the elderly can't move. It had a bunch of other abilities, like being to keep an intensive list of things needed medications and when the medicine needed to be taken.
The super strength was a detail I paid the most attention to. The robot wasn't that much bigger than me, but it still had so much strength! Maybe I could replicate that in some support gear?
"Hey mister, do you think I could make something like that?" I asked, "I'm really good at math and science."
"Sure. I learned it all from online," he answered, "I don't a have a degree, which will probably make it harder to sell my idea."
"I'm sure you can do it," I told him, "Is there a site I could learn this stuff from?"
"Dexterity Distrubution dot com," He told me, "I got to go kid. Don't won't to be late."
I wished him good luck one more time as he walked off. Maybe this was the first step to being a hero?
(U.A)
Today was my first official day at U.A.!
[Excitement level raised by 75%. Emotional dampeners activated. Emotions reduced by 50%.]
I took in every detail of the campus as I walked towards my classroom. Every nook and cranny were noted. The location of classrooms, workshops, and restrooms. All information to update my internal map.
I eventually found the door to my homeroom. It was gigantic, like all the other doors. I deduced that the size was for students with mutation quirks that changed their size.
When I walked in into the room, I saw Katsuki being scolded by Ignenium Jr. The taller male was making vigorous chopping noises as he reprimanded the blonde. Katsuki made some rude remarks about the blue haired boy and his attitude.
The blonde noticed. "Deku…"
That got the attention of the Ignenium Jr., who introduced himself as Tenya Ilda as he rushed over to me to apologize for his behavior during the exam. I told him not to worry about it. He continued with his apology, saying I and Shinso were the only ones that recognized the true reason of the test.
Shinso was here? I tried to look for him but was stopped by the arrival of Uraraka.
"You're here!" she said, excitedly, "I never got the chance to thank you for saving me."
"It was no problem. Just the duty of a hero."
"If you're here to make friends, the get out. This the Hero course, not General Ed."
A human head inside a yellow sleep bag said that. He looked like a caterpillar in the position he was in, laying on the floor sideways. His face looked familiar.
I took in all the details of his attire and expression as he stood up somehow and unzipped the sleeping bag. He came out drinking some form of slushy.
[Searching Database.]
[Black Shaggy hair? Check.]
[Constant tired expression? Check.]
[Red eyes from possible quirk use? Check.]
[Minimal untamed facial hair? Check.]
[All black clothing? Check.]
[Capture tape? Check.]
[Googles? Negative.]
[95% probability of Pro Hero EraserHead sighted.]
"Underground Hero EraserHead," I said before he could speak again.
The man gave me a surprised look, that lasted for 150 milliseconds. "Surprised you know about me. Most kids your age only know about the overly flashy heroes, like All Might."
I told our teacher one must know all types of heroes to reach their full potential. Learning from the vastly experienced was important for one's growth.
[Otaku self showing. Rerouting to grateful and respectful self.]
I bowed. "I hope to be an acceptable student."
He snorted at me. "Prove yourself then. All of you get changed into your gym uniform. You're taking the quirk assessment test. And call me Aizawa."
(Minutes Later)
With al of us in the open, I took the time to fully examine my classmates. I saw the twinkling boy from the practical exam. A boy with a bird head stood off by himself, could he manifest wings or something? I saw a pink skinned girl, with a quick scan telling me her skin's PH level was lower than normal. Acid based quirk?
One large guy had a mask on for some reason, while another had a tail. I saw one boy whose head resembled an outcrop of rocks. Maybe he had a mutant quirk that hardened his head? Would be good for ramming.
A girl with green hair was hunched over with her tongue sticking out, resembling a frog. Then there was floating pair of clothes, invisibly quirk that couldn't be turned off. And a girl with purple hair and earphone jacks coming off her ear. The remaining students looked pretty normal, so I couldn't make anything out of their quirk until later. The only students I knew were Katsuki, Uraraka, Ilda, and Hitoshi.
[Happiness level increased by 10%. Determined not the minimal level to activate emotional dampeners subroutine.]
I was glad thebrain washer was able to make it. When I glanced at him, he gave me a subtle nod.
Aizawa-sensei told us we were going to take the physical fitness test we have been taking since middle school. But we were going to use our quirks. Uraraka meekly asked about the opening coronation. Our teacher told her that this was the hero course and we had no time for such useless time wasters.
He passed Katsuki a softball and told the blonde to enter the center of the field. Once Katuski reached the center, Aizawa-sensei told him to throw the ball as high as he could and use quirk also.
"Die!" Katsuki screamed as he threw the ball. My hearing receptors slight ringed from the explosion he used.
The device Aizawa-sensei was holding showed the soft ball went seven hundred and five point two meters into the sky. Impressive.
Everyone got excited about using their quirks, until Aizawa-sensei told the class the person in last place will be judged to have no potential and would be expelled. Everyone's excitement died down afterwards.
Uraraka said that was unfair, especially for the first day of school. Aizawa-sensei just smirked and told her U.A. will continue to throw hardship aft hardship at the class. This was just the beginning.
"Go beyond. Plus Ultra." No enthusiasm was in it.
[Test 1: 50-meter dash. 5.2 seconds.]
Ilda placed first in this event, with a record three point zero two seconds.
[Test 2: Grip strength. 56.0 Kilograms]
The masked guy, named Shoji, had placed first five hundred and forty kilograms. He had made multiple arms and hands to increase his grip strength. Him being have large arm muscles also helped.
[Test 3: Repeated Side Steps. 9th Place.]
The pink skinned girl worn first place here. She seemed to be dancing the whole time. She was named Ashido.
[Test 4: Standing Long Jump. 46 feet.]
Katsuki and the twinkling guy, named Aoyama, had both got first place. Katsuki used his quirk to keep him airborne for an infinite amount of time. Aoyama used laser to clear the sandbox.
Finally, the softball throw came up. Uraraka had used her quirk to let the ball go out of orbit. Yaoyorozu made a cannon to launch the softball, almost reaching Katsuki's house. The blonde started to grit his teeth about be up shown by someone.
I was the last to go. As I stood in the center, I gauged the most optimal flight path.
[Disengaging shoulder-arm lock to increase arm rotation's RPM from 80 RPM to 320 RPM.]
I shot the ball off at the perfect angle to create a small arc. The ball's trajectory was almost a straight line. After a few seconds, the ball came crashing back down to the ground. Aizawa-sensei showed my results.
[Test 5: 610 meters.]
It was fourth highest. I bet surprised Katsuki with that.
"Deku!" the blonde screamed, as he flew towards him, propelled by his quirk.
His explosions suddenly stopped, and he was wrapped into the capture scarf. I looked over to see our sensei's quirk activated.
[Fear of Aizawa-sensei increased by 20%.]
After a short scolding about Katsuki;s behavior, Aiwaza-sensei told us to finish the last three tests.
[Test 6: Distance Run of 1 mile. 6 minutes and 30 seconds.]
Ilda won this race, unsurprisingly. He did have some competition at the beginning from Yaoyorozu, with her using a bike. He sped up doing the second half though. Maybe it takes him awhile to reach full speed?
[Test 7: Seated Toe Touch. 16th Place.]
Mina won this one. I was beginning to think she was a gymnast by how much she could stretch, maybe even a contortionist.
[Test 8: Sit ups. 70 Sit ups in two minutes.]
The wide, but muscular brown haired boy, named Sato, one first place by doing a hundred and twenty pushups.
Aizawa-sensei gave out the rankings. I was ranked 8th place, right under that guy with tail, Ojiro. I saw Hagakure, the invisible girl, and Shinso tied for last place. The floating clothes were making exaggerated movements of panic. Hitoshi was silent, head hanging low and clinching his fist.
[High levels of anger and stress detected.]
[Processing suitable response to reduced emotional levels.]
"The part about expelling anyone wasn't true," Aizawa-sensei said, with a hint of a smirk on his face, "It was logical ruse to get everyone to do their best."
[Levels of stress and anger in both targets has been significantly reduced.]
[Response not needed.]
Yaoyorozu muttered that of course what our sensei couldn't be true. I corrected her and said he did expel his whole class year. That's why only Class 1-B last year.
[Anxiety levels of all classmates raised by at least 30%.]
Our teacher told us to head back and change back into our uniforms. We still had to go to our regular classes today.
AN: Next chapter should be out in a few days.