"Did you forget your handkerchief? What about your books? Did you-"
"I'm fine mom! I'm going to be late!" Izuku was trying not to brush his mother off, but her worrying wasn't necessary as he had packed and repacked his school bag last night… four times.
"I'm sorry, but I'm so proud of you! Go on now, my little hero-in-training." Inko let him go after a kiss and Izuku bolted for the train station. Once he got on the train, the realization struck. 'I really am a hero in training now, aren't I?' Izuku couldn't remember a time when he didn't want to be a hero like on T.V. and now he was going to be formally educated on how to do it. Yes, Anima had trained him to be a hero as best he could, but there was only so much you could learn from martial arts. Walking to the board at school that would tell him which class he was in, he saw the brunette from the entrance exam. It looked like she saw him too as she waved.
'I really am a hero in training now, aren't I?' Izuku couldn't remember a time when he didn't want to be a hero like on T.V. and now he was going to be formally educated on how to do it. Yes, Anima had trained him to be a hero as best he could, but there was only so much you could learn from martial arts. Walking to the board at school that would tell him which class he was in, he saw the brunette from the entrance exam. It looked like she saw him too as she waved.
"Hey, it's you! I'm glad you got in as well!" giving a shy nod to her enthusiasm Izuku gave a glance at the board.
"It looks like I'm in class 1-A, you?" her bouncing made him guess that she was a classmate.
"Me too, let's go!" without giving a response, the green haired teen was being dragged by his sleeve to class. Coming close he heard two familiar voices.
"And I said shut the fuck up unless you want me to blow up your fucking face!"
"You dare threaten a student!?" Izuku went in the room to break up the fight.
"Ah, it's you!" he called to the teen in glasses, he also greeted the ones he saw in the video. He took a bow.
"They showed me what you all tried to do after the exams. Thank you for trying so hard to help me!" they smiled at him.
"Don't sweat it, dude. What you did was too manly not to let you in. I'm Eijiro Kirishima, by the way." the redhead told him. The others spoke the same sentiments and introduced themselves as well.
"My name's Midoriya Izuku; I hope we get along-" a voice cut him off.
"Get to your seats. If you are here to socialize, go home." a man in a yellow sleeping bag dropped from the ceiling. As everyone did as he said, Izuku noticed the hero teaching and felt sorry he had to teach what appeared to be right after work.
"My name is Aizawa Shouta, and while there's supposed to be a small speech for me to give, screw it. Get your gym clothes and meet me at the courtyard outside." everyone was confused at his statement, but followed his instructions anyway.
Outside, everyone was gathering around.
"Today, we'll be doing a quirk evaluation exercise." the teacher spoke in a dead voice.
"Sensei, didn't we have an evaluation as the entrance exam?" Tenya spoke up. Shouta Ignored him and turned to Katsuki.
"You're my demonstration." he threw a softball at the blond. "How far was your softball throw in middle school?"
"67 meters, why?" Katsuki asked with a glint in his eye.
"This time use your quirk. As long as you don't step outside the circle, use whatever means you want." At Aizawa's words, the explosive blond gained a disturbing smile. He took a stance and started to throw-
"DIE!" using the shockwave as a propellant he launched the ball far away. The ball stopped on the other side of the field.
"Before anything else, one must know what they are capable of. This will be your basic hero foundation." Showing his score of 705.2 meters, Aizawa gave his reasoning. The class started thinking it would be fun to see their limits until Aizawa shot them down with his counter proposal of expelling the student that ranked last.
Izuku was in the top five, so he was sure he wasn't getting expelled. Using both One For All and reinforcement chi was becoming routine for him, and they made most of his tests a breeze. Side hops were where he was lacking, but he made up for it in the grip strength (though Shoji bested him by a good hundred kilos). When it came to the softball throw he felt the lightning in one for all fade and only his reinforcement helped, making his score of 95 instead of his middle school record of 65.
"Oh? Is your quirk a mutation, cause I thought I erased it." Izuku looked to his teacher in puzzlement.
"Only part of it functions like a quirk, the other one is governed by other limits. Why erase it though?" As the words fell from the martial artist, Bakugo stowed those words away to ask his rival later. Izuku didn't have a quirk as far as he knew, so why would he be affected at all, unless something happened during his martial arts training he didn't know about.
"Why are you holding back?" Aizawa, no, Eraserhead asked Izuku. "Is it that you want to hide it, or do you think you can get by half assing it?"
"Neither. My quirk manifested a little under a year ago, so my body isn't responding use to it. Using more than I am currently causes damage to me. Even kicking the faux villain in the exam tore a calf muscle because I overshot my limit." The class, Katsuki included, was shocked. Quirks manifested at age 3-5, not 14. Taking his words at face value meant that he only had ten months to get used to what most people had spent their lives dealing with. While many found it hard to believe, those that did were impressed that he made it in first while not working at 100%. Aizawa appraised him and found that his student was telling the truth. Unbeknownst to everyone, Izuku was only telling a half truth while stretching the time frame; his quirk did manifest, only that was due to him inheriting his power.
"Fine. but this time, show me something grand." Izuku nodded and decided to go the whole way. As he was using chi, he started his momentum…
"ORYAAA!" only to put 100% of his quirk in the tip of his finger at the last instant. The meter showed an astonishing 725.8 meters. Clenching his hand, Izuku turned to his homeroom teacher.
"Was that grand enough?" he grinned. Aizawa gave a slow clap and gave the green haired teen a smirk.
"Alright then, Everyone return to class. As for the expulsion rule, I changed my mind." The class went ballistic at those words.
At the end of school, Katsuki dragged Izuku off to the corner.
"Alright, spill. How the fuck did it happen?" Despite his choice of words, the blond hadn't raised his voice. Izuku gave the reason Anima and All might Came up with.
"While it isn't nearly as common as it used to be, Anima-sensei found that some quirks manifest during the stress of teenage years or dangerous situations. It came just after the incident with the villain we got involved in, so we were guessing danger triggered it." It was when quirk users were called 'metahumans' instead. Anima remembered a friend that suddenly controlled fire when he turned sixteen along with another guy getting a hardening ability when he was hit by a truck. Until that point, neither showed any signs of 'metahuman abilities', and while it was very rare nowadays, there were a couple of cases where a scenario like they were trying to tell happened to others.
"The hell? Ah fuck it, just get used to it already. I wanna kick your ass at your best." As much as it seemed odd to him, Katsuki just didn't care enough to push further. Going their separate ways, Ochaco and Tenya joined him in his walk off campus. When asked, Izuku explained his new quirk as he did with his rival.
"They used to work like that? It is an interesting thing, the time quirks were being discovered. Do you know anyone else that had a similar gain?" Tenya seemed to be just a straight forward guy and after the bad first impression, he was easy to talk to.
"My sensei, Anima Cacciatore, had a basic enhancement mutation at first; he was fast, strong, durable, and healed really fast. When he turned fifteen though, his quirk gained a new set of abilities; apparently, this happened again when he turned twenty. Jesse-san, Anima-sensei's wife, had a similar experience." Tenya took this information in and started to think of a reason quirks would come in so late when Ochaco pointed something else out.
"Anima-sensei? Which course does he teach?" realizing her confusion, Izuku explained.
"Ah, Anima-sensei doesn't teach at a school. We met when I was six, and he decided to help me be a hero ever since by teaching me everything I know about martial arts. He helped me make the Bahou Lujing." this caused a series of more questions about his path and the styles he's learned to make it. Tenya chimed in a thought.
"He sounds like a hero, is he someone we'd know?" Izuku pondered for a moment.
"He's retired and he was from the states, so I don't think so. His hero name was Fiara." Both Izuku's companions were drawing blanks.
"Hey, on a different note, why don't we give each other our phone numbers so we can meet up sometime after school?" Ochaco changed the subject. Izuku didn't know how to answer so Tenya spoke up instead.
"That's a fantastic idea, Uraraka-san!" Izuku gave a small nod and they pulled their phones out. After completing that, Izuku had to get on a different train and waved them as he left. 'Today wasn't so bad' he told himself. 'Maybe tomorrow will be just as good… sans the threat of expulsion,' he corrected himself.
"HERE I AM…" The class was already buzzing with rumors, and now they found them true as the number one hero came through the door.
"COMING THROUGH THE DOOR LIKE A NORMAL PERSON!" even his cheesy line managed to hype the class up.
"Hello, class! As you may know, I am All Might, and I'll be teaching foundational hero studies for your time at the school here! Now then, as your hero costumes were finished, I want you to don them and come to ground beta!" Everyone took their costumes to the changing room to get ready. Izuku's suit had a base green overtone with darker shades in the highlights. His mother had made his suit from durable materials. There was padding on his shoulders and elbows to protect his joints when he struck. There were black sturdy plastics that acted as shin guards and dark metal knee pads that emphasized his kicking style, but he still wore mildly padded gloves. The back of the suit also had segmented plastic plates to protect his spine without losing any movement. The rebreather and steel toe red combat shoes were also part of the costume. While his costume design may be changed later on, the suit from his mother, the shoes from Jesse, and the rebreather from Anima were always going to be constants that reminded him one thing; while he forged the path of the protector, he was never alone with family having his back. Coming out of the changing room Izuku saw everyone else's costumes.
"Green is a good pallet choice for you." Tokoyami gave Izuku his opinion. All Might started explaining the exercise; a glorified capture the flag with prop missiles as the flag. Villains protect the bomb and won if the timer ran out while heroes were supposed to grab it. Dividing the teams randomly made sense when you thought about it, as you hardly ever knew what assistance you'd be provided in a real scenario. After pairing up, The roles of heroes and villains were given. Izuku and Ochaco were heroes facing off against Tenya and Katsuki as the villains.
"You know Midoriya-san more than me, so do you have any advice?" Katsuki was grating on Tenya's nerve, and vice versa, but they both wanted to win.
"Deku's skilled and his fighting style is mainly kick oriented. Wolf Grin taught him a shit-ton of different styles for him to make his own, so don't get fucking close if you can! The fucker also has good planning skills, so be prepared for a fucking off kilter scheme!" Despite the language, Tenya heard the respect Katsuki had for Izuku.
"Any idea what he'll think of?" Tenya asked.
"No fucking clue; it's Deku." Outside the building, the heroes were having their own battle plan.
"Kachan isn't good at strategy but he and Iida-san are fighters, so we don't want to have one break out. If we treat this like the real scenario All might described, getting to the bomb unimpeded is a better option." Looking around, he remembered that no one was told that you couldn't leave the building, so he made a plan. Ochaco was taking this in and giving advice on things she could help with. When the timer started, they started moving.
"What are they doing?" Shoji voiced his confusion from the observation room. Izuku and Ochaco didn't go in the building with the bomb, but the one right next to it.
"Maybe they're trying to cause confusion?" Denki tried to reason.
"They may be trying to get in the building the target is in by using a non-conventional route." Momo voiced her thoughts. True to her words, when they reached the roof of the structure they entered, Ochaco tapped their clothes and got on Izuku's back. Jumping from the roof to the building with the bomb, They started down the steps.
At the two minute mark, Katsuki knew something was up.
"Shit! They may have decided to climb the fucking building! Stay here while I check the floor above!" Tenya looked at his partner and gave a nod. At that moment, the hero team blew a hole in the ceiling on the far side of the room. Rocks came flying out before the dust cleared, catching the villain team flat footed.
"FUCKING DIE, DEKU!" Katsuki bellowed as he blew up vast amounts of the rubble ammunition. When the dust no longer hid them, The explosion quirk user charged Izuku while Tenya tried for Ochaco. The gravity girl picked up a large slab of concrete and threw it in between the two teams before releasing it of her quirk. Izuku ran to it and shattered the slab with a kick. Katsuki decided that the terrain wasn't working for them and pulled the pin on his gauntlet. The roar of the nitroglycerin blew most of what wasn't secured out through the wall, missing everyone. Tenya subdued Ochaco by pinning her to the ground to ensure she couldn't continue.
"HERO TEAM WINS!" Turning around almost instantly at those words revealed Izuku holding the paper mache Missile.
"You used the slab round face threw as fucking cover to slip past!" Katsuki shouted.
"Although I wish I won, that was an excellent strategy. Nicely done, Midoriya-san, Uraraka-san." Tenya congratulated them while releasing Ochaco.
"It was still a gamble. If you or Kachan saw me, then I wouldn't have been able to do much. Uraraka-san, Thank you for the distraction." He bowed.
"No Problem! With how much rubble I had to work with, I could have held them off longer if it wasn't for bakugo-kun's awesome attack!" the talk devolved into a discussion of how they each performed and the flaws they saw in each other. After a discussion with their classmates when they got back, everyone else had their matches.
Hey everyone! Now the first two days at UA have been explored. Katsuki's reactions were more subdued mainly because he had Izuku as a rival to ground him, so he's not as arrogant. The same thing happened during the team trials during hero studies; knowing that Izuku uses his head, he tried to figure out what he was planning on what he knew about him. He's also lost a couple times to Izuku, so while he's still a sore loser he knows how to deal with it and let it help him improve. That's all I wanted to get out of the way, so until next chapter!