A/N: This chapter is really badly paced, in my honest opinion. I was trying to make sure I didn't copy everything down word-for-word, and I may have sacrificed a good flow for this chapter in order to do that.

Just thought I'd let you all know in case you think this one's weird.

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"A terrorist attack by villains has unfolded! The scope of the damage encompasses the entire city, and the collapsed buildings have injured a great many!" Mera's voice sounded through the loudspeakers.

The walls of the reception room swung open, the same way the orientation area had.

"The damage to the roads is severe, causing considerable delays to the first-responders! The heroes on the scene must lead the rescue efforts until they make it there."

Hitomi ran out to the debris with the rest of the class, right as a horn sounded.

"Save as many lives as you can, even if it's just one!"

She followed Midoriya and the others to the closest pile of rubble, hearing a loud voice wailing.

"You've gotta save him!"

There seemed to be a small child, dirty and covered in fake blood, with tears streaming down his face. A portion of the class surrounded him as he continued to cry.

"Grandpa, he's over there! He… he got crushed!"

"Oh no, this is bad!" Midoriya said worriedly. "Where?!"

"What the hell was that?! Points docked!" the child exclaimed, throwing everyone off. "Shouldn't you confirm whether or not I can walk?! And if I'm breathing funny?! What about the amount of blood pouring out of my head?! If you've got a provisional license you oughta be able to judge the victim's situation in an instant!"

Are the people from the Help Us Company gonna be grading us?!

The child continued lecturing Midoriya, telling everyone to look around them. The people from other schools were clearing debris, making open areas for temporary refuges for the victims, and locating victims that were hidden from view. They knew exactly what they were doing.

The child wiped some blood away from his eye. "You do realize we're all suffering an immense amount of pain and anxiety? The first words out of your mouth should not be 'oh no, this is bad!'"

Hitomi watched as Midoriya suddenly slapped his cheeks, before a bright smile erupted on his face.

"It's alright!"

The child immediately went back to crying, prompting Midoriya to pick him up and take him to the first aid area.

"You guys go ahead!" he told everyone before running off.

...

Hitomi decided to follow after Iida and the others, following her class rep's instructions along with the upperclassmen's from other schools.

She held up unstable structures with her force fields as her classmates carried victims out, and made makeshift gurneys to take those unconscious or unable to walk to the temporary refuges the other schools had made.

Although she was anxious, she followed the advice that child- or, well, she supposed it was an adult since he was a professional rescue victim- had given Midoriya, doing her best to comfort the injured as she helped them out.

As she was taking the latest victim she'd found to a nearby refuge, her mind drifted back to Yoshiho.

She seemed pretty cross when I ran into her, and she wasn't talking to anyone earlier… Would she be able to pass this portion of the test…?

Hitomi shook her head as she approached, bringing her attention back to the task at hand.

A second-year student ran towards her. "You! Bring him over here!"

"Uh, right!" Hitomi followed after them, pushing her force field-gurney with her as she explained the victim's injuries to the second-year. "He's injured his leg, but there doesn't seem to be any fatal wounds. He's not responding properly to questions, though, so there might have been some sort of head injury."

"In that case, we need to take him over this way," the second-year said as they gestured for Hitomi to follow them to a different area of the refuge. "We can assess him better over here."

After Hitomi left the victim with the second-year, she ran back out again, looking for any more people who needed rescuing. Checking debris, using the plasma from her force fields to light up darker areas, carrying more victims to the temporary refuges. Word had eventually spread that there was a group of villains attacking the first aid station, and right as Hitomi was about to make her way over there, a loud buzzer sounded.

"At this moment, all the H.U.C. who were deployed have been rescued from the danger zone. With this, all the provisional licensing exam procedures have been completed."

The test… is over…?

Hitomi stood with the rest of her class, back in her uniform and taking deep breaths as they awaited the results.

"Alright everyone, thanks for your hard work," Mera said. "I'll now announce the results, but before that, I will tell you about the scoring system. Between those of us at the Heroes Public Safety Commission and H.U.C., we had a two-fold demerit system we used while watching you. In other words, we were evaluating you on how few mistakes you made in a crisis situation.

Anyway, the names of those who passed are listed in syllabary order." Mera raised a hand, gesturing towards the large screen behind him as he finished. "Please check the list while keeping those words in mind."

The screen suddenly turned on, Hitomi nearly wanting to jump over the person in front of her if it would help her find her name faster.

Ka…! Ka!

Her eyes caught sight of Kaminari's name, and right below it…

Kanetsukabe.

She squealed, grasping hands with Kaminari in giddiness. "We did it! We did it!"

Next to her she heard Kirishima make a noise of excitement.

"I'm there!"

Hitomi moved to hug him, practically squishing him before she noticed the scowl on Bakugou's face.

"It's not there!" the ash blonde growled.

"Oh no…" Hitomi said, letting go of her hold on Kirishima.

Bakugou didn't pass…

Her thoughts were interrupted by Inasa, who she found was in a deep bow, apologizing to Todoroki.

"Todoroki didn't pass…?" she heard Mina say.

No way…!

The two strongest people in our class failed?!

Mera's voice was heard over the loudspeakers, putting the class' chatter to a halt. "Um, next we'll pass out your results," he announced as the Commission staff split off to hand them out. "They have a breakdown of your results, so look over them carefully."

As Hitomi waited to get her paper, Mera continued explaining the details of the results. "The cutoff score was 50 points. We scored based on a demerit system. You can see how many points were taken off for which actions all listed on the printouts."

"Kanetsukabe."

Hitomi turned to find a paper held out towards her, and she eagerly grabbed it. The number "82" was underlined at the bottom, sending a wave of relief through Hitomi.

That's a pretty good score…! Better than I would've expected…

Hitomi felt her lips curl up in a timid smile.

Maybe… Maybe I really can be a hero.

A/N: The license exam ends pretty quickly because Hitomi's not a part of the kids' fight against Gang Orca, and also because I didn't really want to spend too much time on how Hitomi handles rescuing the victims. This arc was more for Yoshiho's introduction and Hitomi's development, which is what I spent my time focusing on. You can assume that a lot of the points she missed were because of how she, like everyone else, was unsure of what to do at the beginning, though.