*First of all- sorry for the moth long wait between chapters! I know like, three people follow this fic but I just needed some time to think of decent plot
The license exam in this chapter will deviate wildly from the actual exams from the manga mostly because I forgot about the actual arc since it happened quite a while ago. Sorry about that.*
The students of Shiketsu High's first year hero course were all hanging out in their recreation room. Tomorrow was an important day and they all were equal parts excited and terrified about the provisional license exam.
"Are...are you guys willing to fight against your former classmates? I understand if you are having doubts…"
"Well, they can't have doubts Nagamasa." Seiji crossed his arms indignantly "If they don't get their heads in the game then they won't pass, simple as that."
"Come on Seiji! Those guys are still their friends-"
"Sorry Nagamasa, I have to agree with Seiji here." Inasa spoke up before turning to the five transfer students "Sorry guys, but if you don't give it your all, you're gonna fail. A lot of people want their license and any hesitation will lead to your downfall."
Iida adjusted his glasses "We are all well aware of what we must do. Although we adore our friends from UA we know that we cannot let these feelings cloud our judgments. We fought each other in our Sports Festival and we didn't have any moral quandaries during that endeavor so we should be fine."
Seiji nodded his head, accepting Iida's logic and his worries ebbed away.
"Besides, both Midoriya and Kirishima's girlfriends told me that they warned them not to hold back because of their relationships and I doubt they would want them angry" Yaoyorozu added to Iida's statement with a cheeky smile
Kirishima pumped his fist into the air in triumph "Hell yeah! My girl is manly as fuck!" the rest of the class simply rolled their eyes at his interesting choice of words. They were all used to his odd personality.
Midoriya however was still a bit nervous about the prospect of fighting Mina "Aw man, why do I have to beat up the first girl that actually likes me?"
Todoroki was excited at the idea of fighting his old school and he knew that deep down that all of his fellow expelled students felt the same way. "Come on guys, even if we still like our former classmates don't tell me that you're not exciting at kicking UA's ass?"
The others attempted to deny their feelings before reluctantly agreeing to Todoroki's feelings.
Iida adjusted his glasses once more "even though our feelings of retributions might be misplaced I would be a liar if I didn't even admit that beating UA decisively wouldn't thrill me."
Yaoyorozu giggled "Do you think UA needs anymore bad publicity?"
"Come on guys, they still outnumber us!" Midoriya slammed his fist into his hand as a way to psych himself up.
"Yes but because of all of you guys, we know the in's and outs of their quirks so we got that going for us." Inasa said with a beaming smile
"We already formed a strategy for the other participants. Don't you remember? Nagamasa pointed out in a matter of fact manner.
"Right...we should review it." Todoroki, Yaoyorozu and Inasa you're going to form the brunt of our attack-"
Yaoyorozu continued Midoriya's sentence without missing a beat "Understood. I will unleash numerous flash bang grenades to disorient our competitors while Inasa and Shouto initiate their "Firestorm" maneuver."
Todoroki and Inasa looked at each other and grinned at the mention of the special move that they have been working on. "Firestorm" involves Todoroki unleashing his flames while Inasa augments his fiery attacks with his Gale Force quirk. The result is a devastating, all-consuming attack that burns anything that it doesn't blow away. Anyone that doesn't want to be caught in the fiery blast will have to scramble away like headless chickens.
"Me, Seiji, Nagamasa, and Midoriya will takedown anyone that manages to get out of Todoroki and Inasa's warpath! Kirishima proudly proclaimed.
Midoriya gave them all a nod of appreciation before turning to Iida and Camie "You guys are going to take down Kacchan. The guy's pretty dangerous so you have to stick with the plan we made.
Camie gave him a smile and a cheeky salute "Aye, aye Captain! I'm gonna make an illusion of you and Kirishima mocking that explosive guy and while he's too busy raging out Tenya here is going to kick the shit outta him!"
"Iida, it's really important that you kick Kacchan in the balls with one of your strongest kicks"
"I understand that Bakugou is powerful but do I really need to kick him in the-"
Midoriya cut him off "Yes. Yes, you do…" his face darkened and pure venom dripped from his voice
"Well…alright then"
"Never thought I'd see Midoriya think of someone like that" Todoroki made an offhand comment about his friend's sudden interest in seeing Bakugou humiliated
The tales of Bakugou's childhood bullying from Ashido ran through Kirishima's head as he let out an unnerved chuckle. The truth is that the red head couldn't blame Midoriya for wanting to kick Bakugou's ass. The guy basically tortured Midoriya back for his entire life just because he wanted to be a hero.
"Let's kick their asses!"
The students of Shiketsu High arrived in the testing centre the next day. Well, calling it a "testing center" would be downplaying just about every amazing aspect about the location. There were two extremely large buildings, each specifically designed for unique challenges. One of them was a gigantic battle arena that allowed all the participants to go all out with their quirks to test their mettle while the other was meticulously designed as a rescue simulation that pit potential heroes against veterans in a bid to save civilians.
There was another, smaller building where all the prospective heroes arrive and the rules of the license exams are explained.
The students of Class 1A of UA high arrived first. Aizawa had drilled into his student's heads that this exam was beyond important and this test was and how they should spend an inordinate amount of time studying. A majority of his students were fairly confident at their chances of getting their licenses, they all surmised that if they were able to live through all the disastrous events that they went through, then a simple exam should be a piece of cake. Aizawa warned them that they shouldn't get cocky now.
The next class that was also taking the exams arrived shortly afterwards. Ketsubutsu Academy was another hero school; one of the many that dotted Japan. It was never as well-known as UA but its reputation still garnered a decent amount of respect. Aizawa hoped that they wouldn't take the exam on the same day, that Ketsubutsu would be testing with Class 1B but those dreams were dashed when her voice rang through his ears
"Shota, darling! How's my boyfriend doing?"
The ears of his students pricked up immediately and Ashido was the first to speak up "Boyfriend? Mr. Aizawa, I didn't know you were in a relationship!"
"I'm not" was the reply the pink skinned heroine got through gritted teeth
His aforementioned "girlfriend" decided to introduce herself to Aizawa's class.
"Hi, I'm Emi Fukukado and I teach a first year hero course in Ketsubutsu Academy!" she wrapped one arm around Aizawa's shoulder "when on the job, I go by "Ms. Joke" because I'm so good at comedy I could disarm villains with my jokes! Isn't that right, honey?"
"Stop it, Fukukado. You're not tha-" Aizawa cut his own words off with a slight chuckle and his students gasped in shock. They had never seen their beloved teacher utter any genuine laughter. What was this woman's secret?
Ms. Joke's face morphed into a sly grin "I'm sorry Shota, what were you trying to say? I didn't really catch that?"
"I said you're not really fu-" once again he was cut off by his own laughter. This continued for several moments before Emi dropped the act.
"I'm sorry for messing with you all but this is just my quirk in action. "Roaring Laughter" causes anyone I want to just uncontrollably laugh. My favorite target is Shota here because; let's face it- the man doesn't know how to laugh otherwise."
Uraraka was the first to respond after Ms. Joke told the truth "So does that mean you and Mr. Aizawa aren't dating?"
Aizawa cleared his throat "No...We are not" he stated in a grim fashion
Ms. Joke simply sighed "Shota's pretty oblivious but I'm sure that one day he'll face his feelings…"
Aizawa raised a single eyebrow "And what's that supposed to mean?"
Before Emi could give him an answer, a third school entered the building to take the test.
Marco Bernal stepped in the building without his students. The man was clad in his own hero outfit- which was basically a grey suit with a red shirt that wouldn't look out of place on a criminal negotiator.
"It's always a pleasure to see you two again! Shota, Emi I see that you both decided to not wait for me before you started talking. Am I that bad of a third wheel?"
"You're worse than Emi sometimes, Marco."
"Hey Mr. Aizawa, who's this guy?"
"This is Marco Bernal, Kaminari. He's a teacher at Shiketsu and Pro Hero that goes by the name "Breaking Point". He's the first year's homeroom teacher and one of the people currently teaching your former classmates"
"Where's his class than, Mr. Aizawa?"
"That's what I want to know." Aizawa waved at his friend "Uh...Marco...did you forget your class or something?"
Mr. Bernal rubbed the back of his neck, he was clearly a bit flustered "Well, you see they wanted to make a...dramatic entrance by themselves. It's...a little weird but they should be arriving any moment now."
Almost on cue, the students of Shiketsu High arrived in the building. They strode in with confidence radiating from their very beings. It was as if they were all already sure that they were going to pass the exams with no trouble at all.
"Guys, the exam starts in an hour. Why are you in costume already?" Their teacher was clearly not impressed with their bravado.
Inasa used his free hand to lift the brim of his hat off his face "Sorry sir, our hearts our pumping hot blood throughout our veins. We can't help but feel enthusiastic!"
Mr. Bernal shook his head, amused by what was going on "I honestly expected this level of excitement from you and Kirishima; but for the life of me I cannot understand how you roped everyone else on your little hype train."
Surprisingly, Midoriya responded to his teacher's question with a genuine smile plastered on his face "Well, we're just excited to find out just what our old teachers taught our former classmates while we were gone!" the green haired boy looked over to his former classmates and gave them a grin of audacity, something they only saw once before during his battle against All Might with Bakugou.
Needless to say, his old classmates were quite stunned by his newfound attitude. Bakugou just growled in Midoriya's direction, the blonde was itching to battle him once again. Uraraka had to fight the urge to swoon after witnessing Midoriya's newfound confidence. Mina however, grinned right back at her boyfriend and gave him a cheeky salute and a wink.
"Can't wait to see you act like this when we go out after this, babe!"
For a brief moment, Midoriya quickly became shy again "Y-Yeah, c-can't wait too!"
Aizawa and Bernal decided to let the two classes mingle for a bit, partly to catch up and partly to let Aizawa's former students interact with their friends again.
Jirou and Tooru immediately gave Yaoyorozu a large hug
"Yaomomo!" the both of them squealed at the top of their lungs.
"It's good to see you too, but didn't we get together in the spa not too long ago?"
"Still, it's great to see you!"
Sero and Kaminari gave Kirishima high fives as they greeted him once again.
"Long time no see, Kirishima!"
"It's good to see you, man!"
"Sero! Kaminari! What's up at UA?"
"I guess the same old stuff that was going on back when you were here. Mineta and Kaminari are a lot less gross with their pervy shit now that Iida's gone and Bakugou's the one giving them shit for it. And Bakugou's a lot more threatening than Iida so Mineta got a lot sneakier whenever he's around. When he's not around, Jirou's doing the scolding and you know how Kaminari can't act perverted towards her."
"Yeah, I hear you."
"Hey! Can you not compare me to that purple freak? Yeah, I like girls but I'm not a future sex offender."
"Well...you got a point there...I guess."
"Speaking of girls, Kirishima who's that boobylicious chick in your class?"
"...boobylicious?"
"The one in the jumpsuit, man! The only other girl besides Yaoyorozu!"
"Oh!" Kirishima acted like a light bulb went off in his head "You mean, Utsushimi?"
"That's her name, huh? She single?"
"Sorry to disappoint you, but she's dating someone...and she's pretty happy with the guy she's with."
"Damn, who's the lucky guy?"
"Okay, you guys aren't going to believe this but she's dating Iida!"
Kaminari belted out a shocked "WHAT?!" while Sero had a more bemused reaction "Really? Huh, never thought I'd see the day...Guess the guy has a lot more free time since he's not the class rep anymore."
"Speaking of class rep, you guys got new ones?"
"Nah, we were too caught up in training for the license exams to actually pick some new ones. I gotta say, we're all kinda glad about that. No one wants to fill Iida and Yaoyorozu's shoes in that regard"
While Kirishima was catching up with Sero and Kaminari, Todoroki just stuck with Iida as the bespectacled teen went to hang out with Tsuyu and Uraraka. Todoroki was never quite social with anyone outside of Midoriya and Iida so he didn't actually have many friends still in UA.
"It's so good to see you guys but at the same time I don't want to fight against any of you!" Uraraka whined
"Don't feel so discouraged, Uraraka! Everyone in your class will become powerful heroes one day; I wouldn't be surprised if you take us down!"
"Psh, fat chance! If you didn't notice already you guys got you, Deku, Todoroki, and Yaomomo! I heard Inasa also got recommended to UA like Yaomomo and Todoroki but chose to go to Shiketsu instead! You guys got so many powerhouses."
"Well, it is imperative that you all try your hardest as well. A defeatist mentality will never gain you anything."
"Pfft! I almost miss your lectures now that you're gone from UA. But you're right about giving up so soon before the fight even begins. I sometimes wonder what happened to the girl that took Bakugou head on in the Sports Festival. After that, I just felt like I've been Deku's cheerleader until he left with you guys. And it's pretty clear that Deku would rather spend time with someone else..." Uraraka just realized that she just spilled her feelings about the Midoriya to someone without even realizing it. But before she could freak out, Iida informed her that Ms. Joke was going to go over the rules of the exam soon. She was thankful that her friend was still so oblivious of her feelings towards Midoriya.
The entire portion of students and other would be heroes taking the license exams were seated in a large theatre like room, all of their attention had been given to Ms. Joke who was busy giving a breakdown of the tests.
"The exams will be divided into two different parts and each of them will take place in separate buildings. The first part of the exam will test your combat prowess. You can use your quirks to the fullest extent possible. This portion will also be a team exercise. Students still in school will be teamed up with their usual classmates while everyone that is not here representing a hero school will be randomly assigned teams. This portion of the exam will last one hour and then we will announce the people who advanced to the next portion of the exam"
"This portion of the test will be judged by the assigned pro-hero proctors, in this instance Eraserhead, Gang Orca, Breaking Point, All Might, Kamui Woods, and Edge Shot and I, Mr. Joke. We will be assessing your individual skills and teamwork and that will determine if you pass this portion of the test."
"The second portion of the test will be a civilian rescue operation. You will be randomly assigned to different teams, and unlike the first portion of the test these teams will be completely random. The object of this portion of the test is to save the citizen from the villain's lair. In this case the "villain" will be one of the proctors sans All Might for obvious reasons and the "citizen" will simply be a crash test dummy with sensors to stimulate and indicate how much damage a human being could take.
Three lights on the dummy's chest indicates how much damage a civilian has taken- Green means that the civilian has taken no damage. If a team rescues a civilian whose damage is still in the green zone then that team will automatically pass. A yellow light indicates that a civilian has taken some major damage that will need to be tended to immediately. Since hero work often involves saving civilians that are gravely injured this will not be an automatic fail state. A panel of judges will determine whether the team passes. A red light indicates that the civilian's injuries are fatal and it shall be an automatic failure. Even though heroes will not be able to save everyone, during this portion of the exam you cannot afford to lose a hostage. All of the "villains" will leave at least one way to beat them and if you can't beat us you aren't cut out to face real threats yet.
This portion of the exam will have six teams go at the same time until they have passed or failed. The next set will go after the training field has been successfully rebuilt. This will not take as long as you will think since a large amount of students will be cut beforehand."
"Any questions?"
"No? Good...We begin in twenty minutes so be prepared."
In the back, Bernal and Aizawa were having a laugh at how professional Emi sounded out there.
"I'm pretty sure that's the first time I've seen Emi sound so professional. You must have liked it, eh Shota?"
To his surprise, Aizawa took the obvious bait that his friend and colleague "You know what? At first I was kind of enjoying her acting extremely serious but by the time she finished her lecture I actually found myself missing her constant bad jokes…"
Marco almost choked on the water he was drinking "Good God, you're a mess man."
"Ha ha ha, very funny. Come on, we got to oversee the first part of the exams. I wanna know how well you taught my students."
"Hey! They're mine now!"
"Alright, this is it." Izuku Midoriya stood in front of his classmates with a bold grin on his place "Let's make sure we all make it to the second part of the exams. We should be starting in a couple of moments so Yaoyorozu, ready your flash bangs."
"Got it"
A loud bang signified the start of the combat portion of the exam.
As the battle began, Yaoyorozu launched dozens of flash bang grenades out of a cannon she materialized, stunning a vast majority of participants.
"Alright, it's up to you two now!"
On cue, Todoroki and Inasa performed the special technique that they have been practicing for weeks.
Todoroki launched a massive torrent of white hot flames straight ahead
"FIRE!"
Inasa proceeded to shoot jets of hard hitting gusts of winds in the same direction of Todoroki's fire
"STORM!"
The resulting burning hurricane was a sight to behold. The massive attack took out a majority of the participants who weren't prepared for the onslaught. Inasa's gale force wind only enhanced the potency of Todorki's flames. Anyone who dived away to escape the wrath of the flames were susceptible to being blown away and taken out of the competition before they even did their first moves.
Unfortunately for the students of Shiketsu high, there were still a good number of examinees still standing after their devastating initial assault. Midoriya called off their Firestorm attack; he knew that they shouldn't waste that much energy on such a large scale assault. Todoroki and Inasa were their people of mass destruction and they needed them to stay standing. The fact that their quirks were useful together made them stay as a unit.
Seiji and Nagamasa were busy taking out stragglers that managed to escape the fury of the firestorm. Nagamasa tied people up with his prehensile hair while Seiji turned them into meatballs. The other examinees reaction to the first couple of "meatballings" was immediate disgust. Some of them even vomited at the sight of Sight of Seiji's disgusting creations. Seiji and Nagamasa didn't mind at all, it just gave them more time to blindside them.
Nagamasa almost got hit by a flying man but he was saved by Iida, who rocketed past him and slammed the flying person down on the ground. When the speedster got a good look at the person who almost knocked out his classmate.
"Aoyama? What were you thinking doing such a risky attack?"
Iida's former classmate sighed "I knew I couldn't measure up to any of you so I decided to sacrifice myself for the sake of my camarades de classe. Looks like I couldn't even do that right…"
Iida desperately wanted to tell him that he was wrong in his terrible assumptions and that he was a valuable member of class 1A but then he realized that he was no longer their president and he had people he couldn't let down. He uttered an apology before punching Aoyama in the gut, knocking him out.
"Why were you talking to that guy?"
"Just a former classmate, Seiji. We should get going…"
Midoriya was zooming across the battlefield, taking out as many combatants as he can. His new capoeira style let him weave in and out of battle before his opponents could even react and he thanked Gran Torino for teaching him such moves. The green haired hero in training spotted his girlfriend in the corner of his eye taking out people with what appeared to be concentrated balls of acid that exploded after being thrown. He mentally gave himself a reminder to ask her about her new techniques after they were done with all of this. Midoriya saw Mina notice him and give him a beckoning look as well. She was looking for a fight and he was going to give her one.
"Those are some sweet moves you got there, Izu. You're super flexible now and I can't wait to take advantage of that!" she gave him a wink to seal the innuendo.
"Your new moves look pretty cool as well!"
"So I guess it's time for us to kick each other's ass, huh?"
"Nope!"
Mina frowned "Aww, still can't bring yourself to fight me? Well...at least it's gonna be easier for me!"
"You didn't let me finish."
"What are you talking about?"
"I'm not refusing to fight you because I'm afraid of hurting you. I wouldn't disrespect my girlfriend's abilities like that. I'm not going to fight you because I know a guy who relies on close range moves shouldn't battle someone who could secrete acid from their body. So I opted to switch dance partners."
"Switch dance partners? What's that supposed to mean?" Before Midoriya could answer her question, Mina was blindsided by an attack from Kirishima.
"It means that while Kirishima is battling you with his impenetrable defense I'm gonna take on Tsu since I could keep up with her." with that he raced off to battle Tsuyu. Mina chuckled at her the audacity of her boyfriend before turning to Kirishima
"You think you're armour could take my acid?"
Kirishima merely grinned in response "Let's test it!"
On the way to Tsuyu, Midoriya spotted Uraraka casually floating some other people. He felt like he could probably battle Uraraka before catching up to Tsuyu and confronted his good friend.
"Uraraka! I see you're getting better with your quirk. I didn't even notice any signs nausea from you."
"Deku! Hey! You wanna team up a fight some other guys?"
Midoriya smiled and shook his head "Come on Uraraka, we both know we can't do that. We're competing against each other here!"
Uraraka immediately deflated when she realized that Midoriya wasn't in her class once again. She hadn't seen him in a long time and wanted to catch up.
"Damn, I almost forgot. So what are you doing here talking to me huh, Deku?"
"I want to fight you of course!"
Uraraka didn't expect that answer
"It felt wrong just attacking you from behind since we're still good friends so I wanted to let you know I'm gonna attack you so get ready!"
As Midoriya charged at Uraraka he realized that he should not have warned her. She could take him out with a mere touch and he was adept at close quarters combat as well. As he charged at her, Midoriya waited for himself to float off into the atmosphere.
...Except that didn't happen. Uraraka never touched him with her hands and he never floated away. Instead, Midoriya just pinned her to the ground with a leg scissor. After taking her down, Midoriya ran away. He surmised that he got lucky and surprised Uraraka with his speed and that's why she didn't attack him. He didn't want to give her a second chance so he raced away to fight Tsu.
The girl that was on the ground knew the real reason why she didn't attack Midoriya- she simply couldn't bring herself to harm him in any way. He was so close and she could have caught him easily but her body just froze up when he got close to her. In her mind she pictured Midoriya coming in close to give her a tight hug after finally realizing how much she meant to him but in reality he was fighting her because of how much he respected her as a friend and nothing more.
Aizawa watched that debacle from the stands and sighed loudly
"What's with the sigh, dude?"
"You see how Midoriya just knocked down one of my students easily, Marco?"
"Yeah, so?"
"She should have taken him down, or rather taken him up easily with her gravity powers but she didn't"
"Guess my boy was too fast for her."
"No, that student, Uraraka has some strong feelings for Midoriya. I've noticed it for a while but lately I believe it's been detrimental to her performance. She hesitated on the attack just now and paid dearly for it."
"Damn, that sucks."
"What makes it worse is that Midoriya is currently involved with another student of mine and Uraraka is actually good friends with her."
"Yikes"
"Uh-huh, Uraraka told her that she got over her feelings for Midoriya a while ago but as you can see, she clearly hasn't."
"What do you want to do?"
"I don't think she passed this part of the exam. She took down only three other people before Midoriya took her out."
"Is that the first person in your class who so far isn't passing?"
"No, another student took off using a desperation move only to be intercepted by Iida. Looks like he felt that this was the only way he could contribute was to sacrifice himself…"
"That's rough."
Katsuki Bakugou was on a role. If he were to guess, he probably took out thirty people already and he was always a very conservative guesser. The explosive teen scoffed at all the "damn extras" who thought that they could measure up to his class. Even though he knew he was the best at this point even he couldn't discount how effective his entire class was. If Bakugou were to guess, every one of his classmates would pass at least this portion of the exam.
Well...everyone except for the laser nerd who told him that he was going to sacrifice himself to help the more capable students pass. Bakugou was actually a bit unnerved by his mentality but couldn't actually discourage him from doing it.
Bakugou spotted Deku just standing on the field doing absolutely nothing. Now he could have attacked him right then and there but he wanted to crush that nerd without sneak attacks.
"Hey, you fucking nerd! Tired already?!"
For some reason, Midoriya just started laughing at his face which only angered him more
"What's so fucking funny, dipshit?"
"Aren't you tired of being obsessed with me? I know I surpassed you pretty quickly once we came to high school but this is just pathetic Kacchan"
"You son of-"
He was interrupted from his tirade when Kirishima suddenly appeared beside Midoriya.
"Shitty hair? How the fuck did you get here so fast?"
"I will always be as fast as possible to get close to my best bro, Midoriya over here!" Kirishima wrapped his arm along Midoriya's shoulder, an action that caused Bakugou to roll his eyes.
"Since when did you two become such good friends?"
"Dude, I'm always gonna be here for my Theodore Brosevelt! I mean, Midoriya's cool as fuck! A total upgrade from a nerd like you! Can't believe I spent believe I wasted so much of my life trying to be friends with such an asshole!"
"See Kacchan, even your former best friend know that I'm better than you!"
If Bakugou was angry before than at this moment he reached an untold level of rage he never thought was possible. He charged at the both of them, explosions barreling out of his palms
"YOU THINK YOU COULD JUST TAKE MY BEST FRIEND AWAY LIKE THAT YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!?"
But when Bakugou finally hit Midoriya, he just vanished into thin air.
"What the fu-"
"RECIPRO BUUUURRRST!"
Bakugou collapsed on the ground when he felt it. He knew that the man who kicked him was none other than his former classmate. No one else kicked like that. But never in a million years had Bakugou expected Iida to just kick him square in the dick like that. As he felt his consciousness fade Bakugou saw Iida talking to someone who wasn't there before.
"Holy shit, what did I agree too?"
"Ah yes...Our former classmate isn't the most levelheaded person"
"No shit! I was like twenty feet away from him and still felt a little freaked out!"
"You should be proud. You captured Midoriya and Kirishima's personalities quite well while still making them just a bit "off" as to unsettle Bakugou. You're illusions are wonderful!"
"Yeah but I was impressed with how you kicked the shit out of this Bakugou kid. You think his dick's going to be okay?"
Iida took a glance at his fallen former classmate and grimaced "Well...there should be medics that will tend to everyone's injuries.
The students of Shiketsu high were celebrating. Their teacher had informed them that every one of them had passed. They all fought hard in the first part of the exams and all the proctors agreed that they had the necessary combat skills to become heroes. Now all they needed to was prove that they could save civilians as well.
"Excuse me Mr. Bernal, this might be an odd question but…"
"Ask away, Yaoyorozu!"
"How many students of our former school passed this part of the exam? I know we don't go there anymore but we are still friends with them and I hope they did as well as we did…"
"Well since we are a small group, I don't think any school has had a success rate as well as ours but so far a vast majority of UA's class 1A had passed. I can't tell you anything about class 1B since they are taking the exams tomorrow?"
"Oh, who didn't pass?"
"Just two students- Yuga Aoyama and Ochako Uraraka"
Kirishima noticed Iida look a bit sad as soon as he heard Aoyama's name and decided to grill him about it.
"What's up with you and Aoyama?"
"I actually knocked him out while he was performing a sacrificial attack on Nagamasa. When I asked him why he had done such a dangerous move he told me that he didn't have the skills to fight with his classmates and performing such a maneuver was the only way he could be useful. I wanted to assure him that he wasn't useless but I knew that I had to support my current classmates. Still...it felt awful doing that to him…"
"That's rough bro."
Iida felt Camie squeeze his hand and plant a kiss on his cheek "You did the best you could, babe. Please don't feel guilty"
"Thanks...I hope no one else feels like that in UA. I just felt so helpless out there…"
"Thing is, UA isn't you and Yaoyorozu's problem anymore. Yeah, it sucks that we can't do anything because they're still our friends but they are across the country. They need to take care of themselves without us and if we keep worrying about them it won't help us either."
"Damn Todoroki, that's pretty cold...no pun intended."
"Todoroki's right, Kirishima. I love our old class too but there's only so much we can do from across the country. I'm just shocked that Uraraka is eliminated already. Yeah, I beat her pretty quickly but I assumed she had a better performance before I took her down…"
"Well, you kids don't have time to think about that right now. The next round is starting soon and you should get ready."
Kirishima didn't know how he felt about the team he was in right now. Sure he was with Ashido, one of his closest friends and Tsu, his amazing girlfriend but Bakugou was also with him.
"I'm surprised you made it this far after getting kicked in the dick super hard?"
"Fuck off, I took down so many other extras before Four eyes blindsided me. I don't give a shit about you either but we have to work together to beat that laughing chick."
"Why don't Me, Kirishima, and Tsu take down Ms. Joke while you die in a fire you blonde bastard!"
"Fuck off, Raccoon eyes. We were cool before you started fucking that nerd. What made you do it anymore, pity?"
"Why you slimy piece of-"
"Guys, the round is starting!" Tsuyu found herself being the sole voice of reason.
"Tsu's right, we should shit on Bakugou after we save the civilian."
Ms. Joke was inside a control of a complex two story building. The civilian was somewhere on the top floor and they had to him while Ms. Joke was in a control room with a view of every room in the building.
Tsuyu opted to scout ahead because of her superior mobility but right as she was about to go Bakugou and Ashido started attacking...each other.
"Guys, what the hell are you doing!?" Kirishima did his best to break up the two but nothing worked. There was simply too much simmering hatred between Midoriya's former friend and his girlfriend.
"YOU DON'T GET TO BE CALLED A HERO! NOt AFTER ALL YOU DID TO IZUKU!"
"FUCKING DEKU DESERVED EVERYTHING 'CAUSE THAT PIECE OF SHIT ALWAYS LOOKED DOWN ONE ME!"
Blows of acid and explosions were exchanged. The two teen almost leveled the first floor and Ms. Joke actually had to put a stop to their rampage. Her quirk managed to disorientate the two rage fueled combatants and she instantly failed Bakugou and Ashido.
She also decided to put Tsuyu and Kirishima with two different teams since they were unfortunately caught in the crossfire.
Tsuyu joined a group consisting of Sero, Iida, and Ojiro. They were against Aizawa. Iida took advantage of his former teacher's inability to do anything against mutation type quirks and told Ojiro and Tsuyu to attack Aizawa head on. While those two were distracting him, Sero taped the teacher's eyes shut preventing him from using his quirk. While he was busy attempting to remove the layers of tape that were on his face, Aizawa received a tail slap and a super-fast kick by Ojiro and Iida while Tsuyu and Sero rescued the civilian unharmed.
Kirishima joined the team that had Midoriya, Todoroki, Inasa and a student from Ketsubutsu named Shindou. Shindou played possum against Gang Orca and attacked the whale hero while he was checking on him. This let Todoroki and Inasa dry him out with their quirks while Kirishima delivered rock hard punches to the hero's gut. Midoriya grabbed the civilian while Gang Orca was distracted
After that, it was all over. Every member of Shiketsu high's first year had passed. Yaoyorozu told her colleagues that she was luckily paired with Nagamasa, Seiji, and Shouji against Edge shot. Apparently they used Yaoyorozu's planning and Shouji's super senses to lure Edge Shot to them before Nagamasa and Seiji trapped and "meatballed" him.
Camie was with Tokoyami, Jirou, and Toru and she told her classmates that she simply made a decoy Mt. lady to distract Kamui Woods while Toru sneaked past their proctor and grabbed the civilian
"I knew the gossip magazines were right about them being together!"
After their teacher gave them a much deserved congratulations and a promise of a party on Saturday to celebrate Kirishima received a text from his girlfriend.
"It looks like Ashido and Bakugou failed the entire test because of their stupid stunt. They're going to have to take make up exams with Uraraka and Aoyama."
"Crap! Mina and Bakugou are just going to start fighting again! Why did she have to team up with that jerk?"
"Sorry Midoriya, it looked like they gave her the worst possible team mate." Todoroki was quick to try to cheer up his close friend. "Knowing Bakugou, he's not going to do something that stupid after he learned his lesson the first time. So I think he won't antagonize her any further."
"That's all well and good, Todoroki but I'm afraid that Mina's going to keep attacking Bakugou!"
"Not gonna lie- didn't even think of that." everyone in the room gave Todoroki a cold stare.
"What? I don't know much about Ashido!"
*Since Iida convinced Aoyama about his strength I figured without his influence our favorite Frenchman would have actually attempted to sacrifice himself
Also, I made Uraraka take some shots at her own cahracter regression (IMO). sue me
I also changed up who passed and failed the exams, I did warn everyone this fic is diverting from the canon*