Chapter 4: Entrance Exams Part 2
Izuku's POV
The break felt like it only went on for a few minutes. You don't know if you were nervous or time seems to be faster than normal. You and Carlos went back to your respective seats followed by everybody else.
"Oh good, you're all back." Clock guy says tiredly "The one with combat quirks will go to the Battle Simulation Grounds while the ones with non-combat quirks will follow me. The combat quirks will be fighting robots with points on them. Gray Robots give 1 point, Red Robots give 3 points, Yellow Robots give 6 points, Orange Robots give 10 points, and there's a Gigantic Equalizer Robot with no real purpose other than making you run away and piss yourselves." Clock guy says with what you could swear is a sly grin. "Now as for the non-combat quir-"
"GODDAMMIT!" the scream came from Carlos' area though you already know who said it. He's smiling but his eyes tell otherwise. He's annoyed but you really didn't know why.
"Is there a problem, Mr. Curdo?" asks Clock Guy
"Nah man, says in the instructions that the practical tests were randomized with about 900 options to choose from. I mean, of all things that got picked we got robots. Would have been great if we have to run through a couple of flaming hoops and laser beam shooting lions but naaaahhhh, we got robots." Carlos explained. He's back to his usual self which is pretty unusual for other people except for the ones that already knew him
"Laser Beam Shooting Lions?!" you suddenly felt lucky because you don't know how you're going to survive against a predator like that while jumping through flaming hoops. Carlos, however, sounds disappointed. You made a mental note to remind him to take his meds.
"... Anyways, for the non-combat quirks, you'll be doing quirk analysis, different types of puzzles, and more tests that fit your quirks. Now, line up everyone it's time to see you fail." that felt demoralizing.
You and Carlos made your way to the Battle Simulation Grounds along with Apollo and Artemis. The four of you wished each other luck as you stand ready to start the exams.
"GO!" the announcer says as you and Carlos was the first to get inside and quickly separating to find robots. You quickly found a red and yellow robot near the buildings. Before they could manage to attack you, you quickly crushed them with your quirk. You quickly felt as if you've been punched by a metal fist but you went on seeing as how it's not as painful as before. You decided to pick up a small piece of the crushed robot and turned it into a spike so as to not have any major pain in the future.
"Alright, I just got 9 points. All I need is at least 80 points to pass this exam. This seems easy enough to-" you heard a robot get destroyed behind you. You weren't paying attention and you could've gotten seriously hurt if it weren't for you saviour. The person is covered by darkness with a sword made of darkness. They were pointing their hands out as if they just shot the robot.
"You should be more careful." the voice was very monotone and and familiar to you and you quickly realize that this is Artemis.
Artemis Korrina Iro
Quirk: Umbra Veil
The user becomes covered with darkness. She can turn invisible for 5 seconds and can materialize anything out of darkness like a sword or arrow. She can also shoot a beam of darkness though this weakens her power. Her quirk is stronger at night and weaker at day.
"T-thanks, A-Artemis." you say as she walks away. You continue to get points using your metal spike to quick destroy the robot's brain.
"Okay that's 60 points. I need 20 more to pass. I wonder how Carlos is doing?" you seem to wonder as you've never seen him since when you two got separated. "No point trying to find him. I need to focus on the exam right now." you thought to yourself. You know that he'll be fine.
"5 MINUTES REMAINING." says the speaker.
"Oh no… I need to find more robots." Luckily you found an orange robot near your area and you easily destroyed it with your metal spike. "Great now I need ten more poi-"
"Hey Izu-bro." you got shocked by the sudden loud voice behind you and punched it in the face. "Huh, good thing you give weak-ass punches or that would have seriously hurt, bro." Carlos says while holding his forehead to soothe the pain.
"Oh no, I-I'm r-really s-sorry C-Carlos. Y-you r-r-really s-startled me there." Carlos just sighed and says "Breath, Motherfucker. You're gonna die of mumbling and stuttering before we even got in this school. How many points you got?"
"I got 70 points. H-how about you?" you ask Carlos.
"I got 75. I guess we can go find some robots together since we only got like, 5 minutes left. Weird, they mentioned a big-ass robot but I've never seen it onc- Oh my god. I just fuckin' jinxed us." Carlos said as a big shadow begins to loom over the area. It's the giant robot. You were about to panic but you felt a hand on your shoulder. "Okay, okay I know you're starting to panic but I got an Elite Strategy for this type of situations." you didn't know Carlos was THIS prepared.
"W-what elite strategy?" you asked nervously as you see Carlos' shit eating grin. "Oh don't worry, it's pretty easy to do. All we need is our legs for this."
"O-our legs? O-okay fine, I'll follow your lead." you see Carlos smirk before he grabs your hand and screams "RUN THE FUCK AWAY, IZUKU!"
"H-huh? We could've just done that from the beginning!" This guy is crazier than you thought. You see other people in the exam running away from the giant robot as well.
"AAAAHHHH" you heard a scream in the direction of the robot and it looked like it grabbed onto something. No, someone. "AH SHIT! AH SHIT! AH SHIT! Someone back me up! The thing's got Art!" you heard someone scream and it turned out to be Apollo. He looked like he lost his cool and is now panicking. You quickly realized why he is panicking. The robot somehow grabbed onto Artemis. You looked at Carlos and he seemed to understood what you're trying to say. You have to save her.
"Okay, don't worry Apollo, we got thi-" that was the last thing your best friend said before the giant robot's free hand goes down on Carlos. "CARLOS!" now you're definitely panicking when you see blood leaking out. Apollo looked just as shocked that the robot just killed a student. You quickly heard something from under the robot's hand as it began to rise.
"Active State: Killer Clown." you heard a bloodied Carlos say when he began lifting the hand.
Carlos' POV:
"Goddammit, I didn't hear them stop the exam the moment I got crushed by the big-ass piece of junk. They must've known my quirk's active state. Dad probably told them about it. Heh, at least they know how to make some drama." You thought to yourself as you lift the robot's hand with the strength of the giant alien clown from your arsenal of Bards and Clowns. You see Izu-bro and Apollo looking shocked when you got out of the hand.
"Hey Izu-bro, you looked like you've seen a ghost." you said jokingly as you smacked both their senses back. "Ya'll motherfuckers need to focus on saving his sister. Got any plans?" you ask them but it looks like they don't have any right now.
"H-how are you alive?" they ask simultaneously.
You gave them the simplest answer you can think of. "You can't kill a clown." which isn't really true since now you can die for real if the robot decides to crush you again.
"Well, since no one's got a plan, I say we wing it. Izu-bro, throw me at the bot."
"W-what?"
"Just trust me. I need a better view of the bot. Also, be ready to grab Artemis when I fuck it over. Apollo, try to trip him up if you can. "
"S-sure, Carlos." Apollo then turns into pure light and proceeds to target the bot's leg.
Apollo Agnas Iro
Quirk: Light Form
The user turns into pure light. He can use this to become a human flashbang or a human flashlight. He can materialize objects made of light like swords and arrows. He can also shoot light beams out of his hands though this weakens him a bit. The quirk is more powerful at day and weaker at night.
Izuku then grabs you with his quirk and launches you as high as he can. You saw him kneel down in pain for a bit before standing up again. "I guess that garbage dump back at the beach really did something to help him." you told yourself before focusing on the robot. You begin to draw out the power of your second most powerful clown, or rather, harlequin from your arsenal. Blood-like substance begin to grow out like tentacles from your hand before expanding bigger and having the size a little smaller than bot. You launched your attack at the robot and it quickly overwhelms the bot as if it was nothing.
"Huh, Red Miles is much stronger than I thought." you quickly deactivated your active state to avoid any shitty mental illness. Mood swings are already bad but multiple personality is gonna be much worse. You saw Izuku quickly grab Artemis with his quirk as she was falling and made sure she landed safely. After he released his hold he seemed to look around for a bit as if he got blinded. Apollo and Artemis gave their thanks to Izuku before looking up. "Oh yeah, I'm falling. Wait… oh shit I'm falling." you screamed like hell before Izuku grabs you with his quirk and quickly settling you down. He quickly felt some pain after settling you down and you still think this is some stupid downside that's gonna kill him later.
"You okay Izu-bro?" you asked him and he nods "Y-yeah, I'm fine. A-are Y-YOU f-fine?"
"Well that's pretty much how you activate my Active State. Ya'll pretty much have to kill me to activate it. If I die in my active state, well…. I die for real, but it's gonna be real hard to do so." you explained to Izuku.
"W-what the hell did you do to that robot?" asked Apollo who seems to feel uneasy being near the guy who just fucked up a 100 ft tall bot. Understandable.
"Honestly, I didn't think that attack would be that big. Specially since it's only half the fuckin' power." you answered him casually though it only made him more uneasy.
"Half the power? Half the fucking power? Now I'm afraid on what the full power is."
"Well based on what I saw on the webcomic, the full power is… uhh, the universe." you say starting to feel uneasy due to knowing a clown that can destroy a universe.
"Changing the subject, you should've destroyed more robots instead of saving me. I already have 95 points and I can hold out on my own but that doesn't change how grateful I am towards you and Izuku." Artemis says with her ever monotone voice but it seems like she's giving a subtle smirk. "What points do you guys have?" she asks.
"I got 75 points and Izu-bro got 70 points." you tell her. "I got 85 points." says her brother. "Hey maybe if we rush we'll be able to get mo-" you got interrupted by the speaker.
"AND THE LAST 5 MINUTES IS UP"
"Well shit." that's the only thing you could really say right now since you and Izuku failed the exam.
Artemis looks at you and Izuku with concern "I wonder if I can give some of you my points? You wasted your time to save me instead of getting more. I'm sorry."
"D-don't be. It looked like you n-needed help so i-it doesn't matter if we pass the e-exam or not. I-I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I let someone get hurt when I could have done something to help them." says Izuku. You thought to yourself that this guy is gonna end up getting killed for being so heroic but you really can't judge him for that either. Helping people is what heroes do.
"O-oh, a-anyway we should hurry back to the building. I-it seems like everyone has gone back to the written exam area." you could've swore you saw Artemis got a very faint blush on her face. It seemed like Apollo noticed and gave a very sly grin as the four of you went back to the building.
"Well Izu-bro, we tried our best. Might as well wait for the rejection letter and go to UA then…." you say with your head low since you really wanted to go here. The Hero Course and Support Course was combined into one in this school and you really wanted to make some weapons you can use. "I-it's okay Carlos, at least we did our best, right?" and now you felt even worse.
? POV
Damn. You knew your kid was powerful but you didn't think he was that powerful. A lot of the other heroes seemed impressed with the three kids' heroism. "Hey Zech, your kid really likes to show off doesn't he?" says your friend.
"He isn't showing off. In fact, he did it to save someone. He really does have his mother's heart….." you say to your coworker.
"Don't forget his friends that helped him. The kid with some kind of telekinesis quirk and the guy with the light form quirk. They were both impressive earlier in the exams. Would have been bad if we didn't add hero points, right? I mean, failing by doing the right thing is really stupid." your friend says as you look at the board of the top 5 highest scorers.
1. Apollo Agnas Iro- 85 Villain Points and 30 Hero Points.
2. Carlos Gerald Curdo- 75 Villain Points and 30 Hero Points
3. Artemis Korrina Iro- 95 Villain Points and 10 Hero Points
4. Izuku Midoriya- 70 Villain Points and 30 Hero Points
5. Jolena Consejo- 90 Villain Points and 0 Hero Points
"This is gonna be an interesting year for me, isn't it" says your friend. "Yes it will be. Don't make it easy for Carlos just because he's my son, okay?" your friend nods and walks off to meet with the examinees.
Well, now that that's done. Yes, I did another asspull. No, I don't regret it. Anyways, submit your SYOC's. I'm too lazy to make a lot on my own but I will if I have to. A lot of you might be asking what clown abilities down Carlos use so I'm gonna have to list it down
1. Joker- Unpredictability
2. Some weird juggalo alien- Extreme Durability
3. The weird juggalo alien's ancestor- Monstrous Strength
4. Juggalo Alien's god- switches between laser beam, sarcophagus space ship, or Monstrous Strength (Monstrous Strength stacks up)
5. Lore Bard- Buffs and Debuffs
6. Valor Bards- Fighting Skills
7. Some Bard he found in a videogame- Silver Tongue
8. The Batman who Laughs- High Intelligence
9. Some Black Guy who got turned into a one armed, sword impaled, winged harlequin god dog- Red Miles
10. Reserved
It's only OP when he's on his active state which rarely happens. The Red Miles on a passive state can only be thrown into a straight line and so does the laser beam. Monstrous Strength on Passive is only as strong as a rhinoceros. Extreme Durability, he can take a lot more hits but not the fatal ones when on Passive.
As for Jolena, She's….. a reference.
