Robaato Riamu has wanted to be a hero as long as he can remember. After moving to Japan from America, his dream of becoming an awesome hero seemed more tangible to him. This was when Robaato was four years old. Eleven years later, Robaato is now preparing for the entrance exam to his dream school, Yuuei.
"Don't worry grandpa, I won't get hurt. I'll be home in a bit, wish me luck!" I said to my grandpa, who was still cleaning up the huge breakfast that we had just had to 'prepare me for the big exam'.
"I'll always worry, that's just how I am," grandpa started. "I personally think that you should be worried. Isn't this school super hard to get into, kid? What are you going to do if you don't get in?".
I had never thought about this really. It just seemed like it was impossible for me not to get into Yuuei. I just had to. "I don't know, but I'll find a way to become a hero no matter what. I have to do it for..." I stopped. I didn't need to talk about that right now. I had to focus on the exam, not on that.
"Well, that I'm sure of. Anyways, good luck kiddo. I'm rooting for ya!" grandpa stated. He really was a kind man, taking me in after everything that happened. I've got to get in for him too.
"Thanks, grandpa. Well, I'm off." I stated. I put on my backpack and my sports clothes and quickly ran out the door.
Around half an hour later, I arrived at the school of my dreams. I didn't run because I wanted to save my energy for whatever was to come. While I was walking through the gates, I saw so many interesting looking people. I wondered what their quirks were. I wasn't looking where I was walking, and I accidentally walked into someone.
"Oops, I'm..." I paused. The person I walked into was around 5'7, a couple of inches shorter than me. They had bright red hair, spiked up high. "It kind of looks like a hedgehog..." I thought to myself before he turned around. He had big, red eyes, just as bright as his hair. He was totally my type. Uh oh.
"Hey man, sorry for getting in your way. I'm Kirishima Eijirou!" The boy happily exclaimed. He was nice too, this wasn't good.
"Uhh, I'm... uh." Oh my god what am I doing! Just say sorry, Robaato! "I'm sorry I walked into you, I'm Robaato Riamu."
"Nice to meet you Robaato. Good luck on the exam, man!" Kirishima chirped. He was way too nice for just having met me.
"OK, do you want to..." I started, "never mind. I'll hopefully see you in school, Kirishima!" I quickly walked away before my feeling exploded out of my chest. I need to focus on passing the exam, I can't be distracted.
I walked into the school and was led into a building with thousands of students. We all sat down in the room, and the hero Present Mike walked in and started explaining what the entrance exam was going to be. There was a written portion and a practical exam. I was pretty confident in my intelligence, but my skills... they depend on what kind of exam it's going to be.
I saw a boy about as tall as me stand up and start yelling at some poor kid with green hair, but I wasn't really paying attention to what was happening. I was thinking about Kirishima and how nice he was. I heard something about robots and points, but I thought that I would understand it all when I got to the arena or wherever we were going.
I noticed everyone opening letters with their information on it, so I followed suit with the one that was in front of me. It had a picture of me, my name, and all my other information on it. It also had a big letter on it.
"You participants will go to the area that correlates with the letter on your paper, yeah!" Present Mike shouted.
"God, he's annoying." I thought. "I hope he isn't my teacher if I get into Yuuei."
Everyone started leaving to their test areas, so I followed the people who were in my group to a large city looking area. We were all just standing there when I saw everyone running into the city. "What! I'm already behind everyone else! I have to get going, I can't lose this.". I started running and caught up quickly. I was pretty fit, and have always been fast.
Suddenly, I saw a robot with a large '2' painted onto it. Yes, a real robot. It was then I noticed, there were tons of these guys everywhere! " I guess that I'm supposed to destroy these guys? What about the people who don't have quirks that can fight these guys? Should I help them?" I thought to myself. The robot didn't hesitate though and quickly started advancing towards me.
Thankfully today was not a clear day. There were many big, white clouds in the sky. Perfect.
I extended one of my hands towards the incoming hunk of metal and one towards the sky. I then clenched both of my fists. A huge cloud suddenly appeared right in front of me, but I just ran through it. Another robot advanced. More clouds appeared. I was doing good until I saw Kirishima. Of course, why not? He was fighting a robot, and his arms looked like rocks. He didn't notice a larger '3' point robot coming up behind him, and he wouldn't have time to react if I shouted to him.
I acted on instinct, pointing one hand at the robot behind Kirishima and one at the boy himself. A small pop was heard, and they both changed positions. Kirishima looked confused, but swung his arm down, destroying the robot.
"Good, he didn't get hurt. Now to focus on destroying more of these guys!" I said out loud before I heard a large crashing noise and saw a huge robot that towered over half the buildings in the mock-city. I was shaking. I saw Kirishima running towards me, and suddenly he grabbed my arm and pulled me away. I was too scared to stop him, but I noticed that many people were also just like me, too scared to run.
"Wait, Kirishima, let go of me!" I exclaimed.
"What? We have to get out of here, let's go!" He shouted. Normally I would agree, but I couldn't leave these people to get hurt.
"Kirishima, can you bring those robot pieces in front of me? I have an idea to help those people."
He didn't say anything as he did so. Did he already trust me? How was he so nice...no, I can't think about that right now.
I extended my arms for what felt like the hundredth time this day. "Stand back, Kirishima. I don't want you to get hurt." I said. He complied.
I quickly started to point my arms and the people still shocked by the giant robot and the remains the other robots. Point, clench, release. I repeated this action until all four of the people who were about to get stomped on by the zero point robot were in front of me. I quickly helped two up, and Kirishima helped up the others. "We have to go, let's run!" I exclaimed. They nodded and ran. I stood still for a moment before collapsing on one knee. That move had taken too much out of me. It was a lot harder for me to swap people than objects.
Kirishima saw me and lifted me up. He started carrying me away from the robot. Once again, how is he so nice?
Unfortunately, the robot was fast. It was catching up with us and was going to trample us any second.
"I can't let Kirishima get hurt, I have to save him!" I thought to myself.
I placed one hand on his chest, which felt oddly hard. I pointed another at the remains of another robot and clenched my fists. Kirishima disappeared with a 'pop', and I was left laying on the remains of a robot.
I turned to face the giant right in front of me. I extended one arm to the sky, right above a building, and another at the robot. I hoped no one would get hurt by this, but it was my only chance. The robot was suddenly gone, replaced with a cloud. Just as I did this, a loud ring could be heard around the city. Time was up. A few seconds later, a louder crash could be heard as the robot landed on top of the building, just as I planned. I didn't plan for the huge rocks to be flung at me due to the impact of the robot's landing though. I was lying on the ground and slowly tried to raise an arm to swap the huge rock coming at me with anything when I saw a flash of red and heard a loud crash. I was so tired I just fell down onto the ground, unable to move. This was an after effect of overusing my quirk.
Just before I drifted off, I could hear my name being shouted, and I thought to myself that surviving would be great, just so that I could hear my name called by that angelic voice again. "Oh god, I'm going crazy..." I mused, finally drifting off into a deep sleep.
