Undyne was dying for the thousandth time. She had gained enough DETERMINATION to remember the timelines, and she got better and better in all ways,her spear, her magic, her strength, and yet, no matter what, the human still killed her every time they wanted to. But this timeline was- different. she had found alphys's DT extractor byproduct, and she absorbed the DETERMINATION that she had gotten from all 6 human SOULs, as well as the SOULs themselves. Then, she saw a button that was not there before. Transmigrate and replicate. She had learned Alphys' entire dictionary long before now, so she knew that a version of herself would remain to protect the underground.
Izumi Midoriya was born with a fish mutation and a defective left eye. Her skin was replaced with blue scales and her remaining eye was a slitted yellow. And she seemed to understand almost everything. Her eye held far too much understanding for one not even one year old yet.
When her bright red hair came in, she immediately tied it into a high ponytail. Her mother had learned not to question her daughter's strange mannerisms.
Izumi was three when she dared to start showing more of her abilities and maturity. She became less frivolous, stopped doing the standard child "play" as much, started watching the children's anime and started exercising. Her mother was blindsided by her change in attitude. Inko assumed it was a side affect of her mutation. And then one day, Inko Midoriya caught her daughter in the woods, summoning and using a spear with what seemed to be practiced ease.
Inko took her child to the quirk doctor. The doctor examined her abilities and declared her mutation a happy side effect of her spear manipulation. When she went back to school, she said nothing, as she was already praised to high heaven for her "impressive quirk". She knew that if this pattern continued, this school would create villains and bullies. Then her "friend" Kacchan as she forced herself to call him, because she knew a five year old wouldn't recognise the signs of an inferiority and superiority complex, or the massive ego that he was developing as the teachers bent over backwards for the student with an impressive quirk. And then Bakugo walked in on Izumi's training clearing. His jaw dropped as he saw her lifting medium sized rocks, handling spears, and the amount of lean muscle she was packing under the skintight tank top. Then and there, he decided that he would make her his girlfriend. Unfortunately, at least for Bakugo, she knew who she was, and straight was not one of those things.
Izumi noticed his change in attitude immediately, and was not in any way subtle in her rejection of his advances. He persisted, and she grew increasingly irritated at his stubbornness. As years passed, she practiced and improved her magic and physical capabilities tenfold, as well as her manipulation of determination, with both seven human SOULs and monster SOUL to work with. Her improved form was stable now, and she could enter an even further improved state. She was almost ready to go to U.A, so she could further her training. She found that she was only happy when she was training or cooking, and her mom had taught her how to actually cook and not burn the house down. She was actually getting good at cooking, unlike her previous self. And now the teacher walked in, boasted about quirks, and how they all wanted to become heroes, and how he didn't need to hand out the career aptitude tests. Then Bakugo, the idiot that he was, tried again to court her. When she was in an already pissy mood. The absolute fool. He walked over as suavely as he could and started to flirt shamelessly. She wasn't sure he even remembered why he wanted specifically her, but he was stubborn as a mule. Then he got frustrated when she didn't return his advances, and his face scrunched to the one of a child who wasn't used to being told no, which he was, and then to that of an angry pomeranian, which he was close enough to. Then, she jumped out the window and started jogging home. When she was passing under a bridge, she hears a strange gurgling, akin to the janitor in MTT hotel. She looked to where the sound was coming from, and saw a disgusting green slime ooze out from a manhole cover.
"A medium sized vessel, perfect."
The slime started oozing toward her, trying to entrap her. She decided that she was acting in self defense, and summoned a spear. The sludge villain laughed
"You really think a spear will hurt me? I'm a liquid!
"Oh, it's hurt much more evasive things before, have at thee. NGAHHHHH!"
The spear pierced his soul and grazed his eye, and he screamed in pain
"AAAahh ow, ow, it hurts, it Hurgggh-. He fell unconscious, spreading out into a thin coating of liquid that clung to the bottoms of her shoes. She then heard another rattle from the drain, and instinctively summoned another spear, Then, the manhole burst open, and All Might jumped out.
"DO NOT FEAR FOR I AM-nani?"
Izumi immediately responded with her patent snark
"Hi nani, I'm Izumi."
All Might looked slightly nonplussed at this. He started again.
"Did you defeat this sludge villain?"
"Yup, he was a weak coward who couldn't fight his way out of a paper bag."
All might looked legitimately disturbed at this point.
"Many heroes would say differently."
"And those heroes are weak and overspecialized. I could've beaten or at least kept him busy without my quirk."
"And how would you do that young lady?" All Might said, genuinely curious.
"His eyes are still solid, I could've thrown dust in them."
All Might stands there speechless. Then started muttering along the line of "why didn't I think of that?"
Izumi was getting impatient now
"Aaaanyways I need to go or my mom will worry. Bye now All Might." and with that, she turned tail and ran off at speeds that would make Ingenium jealous.
Izumi Midoriya was gearing up for the entrance exam, and boy was she exited. She could barely wait as she slid on her combat boots and eyepatch. Then she jumped out the door, her ponytail flying out behind her.
When she arrived at U.A. she noticed that she was one of the tallest people there, only out done by a boy with blue hair and glasses, and a masked boy with six arms. The crowd filed toward the auditorium. When she arrived, she sat down, and to her irritation, she was right next to Bakugo. Then, the Voice Hero; Present Mic stepped up to the podium
"HEEEEEEEY LISTENERS!" crickets. Not a person dared to speak into the silence.
"Wow, tough crowd. But anyway, I'll get to the point. Welcome to the U.A. practical exam. In this test, your goal is to destroy as many robots as possible. Now, there are three different units you will want to pay attention to! Present Mic described the fast and fragile 1-pointer, the well balanced two pointer, and the heavy, attack oriented three pointer. Suddenly, the tall boy with blue hair stood up and began shouting in an impressively loud voice. Not on her levels mind you, but still commendable.
"On the pamphlet given to us by U.A., there seems to be no less than four robots! If this is an oversight on the part of the U.A. staff then it is a heinous mistake on the part of school that we've all chosen to mold ourselves into exemplary heroes."
"Great feedback, little listener! There is a fourth robot, one that will simply crash around and cause damage, an obstacle, if you will!
"I see. Thank you, sir." The blue haired boy bowed stiffly and sat once more.
And with that, it's time for the practical! Good luck listeners, and head to your testing sites!
Izumi rushed to the testing site C and almost ran into a short brown haired girl. Quickly apologizing to the girl, Izumi made it to the massive gates.
Silence and then.. The gates opened, and almost nobody ran through.
Almost. Izumi Midoriya, with almost 70 years of fighting experience against a foe who could kill her in less than three hits, jumped the first chance she got. Mutterings along the lines of "Isn't that cheating?" and "He didn't count us off yet." made their way around. then , the semi-silence was broken by Present Mic.
"WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? THERE'S NO COUNTDOWN IN A REAL BATTLE! GO GO GO!