"So have you given any thoughts on what I said?" Mina asked Dokusei as they walked home from school, they found out they live pretty close to each other when they first met three years ago. The two of them have grown, Dokusei is now a bit taller than Mina, while the pick girl was more athletic than him.
She walked on Dokusei's left, walking casually with her hands behind her head. Dokusei held his bag over his shoulder. "Yeah," was the quote reply. He's was looking at his phone texting his mother that he and Mina are on their way to his house.
Mina gave him a look. "And that thought would be? Come on Doku I really want to know!" Doku was her nickname for him, she had trouble pronouncing his name when they first met. She just started calling that and it stock.
Dokusei sighed, put his phone away, and grab that his neck, "it's not that easy Mimi, I don't have the same amount of confidence as you do. Becoming a hero takes more than a flashy quirk, you got to have the heart to face the dangers too, or else you're going to get yourself or someone else hurt." It not that he doesn't want to be a hero, he just lacks confidence in his ability. What good is a toxin that can kill an African elephant ten times over to someone who's under ten feet of rubble? Nothing in his opinion.
"That is totally not true! I saw you save that cat who was stuck in the tree last week!" Mina tried to show an example. "You really do have what it takes to be a hero, you just need to take the right steps to do it!"
Dokusei sighed and was about to say something when Mina stopped walking. "Tell you what, you train as hard as you can and apply to UA's entrance exam with me, and I'll stop hammering you about this whenever you pass or fail." Before he could awesome, she wanted to seal the deal so she pulled out her secret weapon, her puppy dog face, she grabbed her hands in a begging position, pouted her lower lip, and made her eyes as sad and big as they can. "Please just try, for me."
Dokusei looked at her, his resolved failing fast. He really hated it when she did this, the only reason she's doing this because they both know it works on him. The walking biohazard looked away thinking to himself that he may be able to brake his own record of two minutes. The moment after he did that he heard her whimpering, looking back he can see tears pulling in her eyes. His shoulders sagged in defeat with a sigh. "Find I'll do it, just enough with the face, you look like I took your favorite toy or something."
"You promise?" Not letting go of the face and she made her voice a bit higher. She was really trying to sell this.
Dokusei smiled at her. "On my life."
Mina smiled and lunged at him with a hugged, "YAY! You're going to be one of the best heroes ever!"
Dokusei chuckled and hugged her, "I sure hope so." Hopped he sure did. "What have I gotten myself into this time?" He thought to himself.
"Come on, my mom is not going to be happy if we're late for dinner again." He stopped hugging her and took a step back. Mina visibly shivered and nodded, grabbed his arm and bolted to his house.
That promise was made two years ago during his second semester in the first year of middle school. He joined a martial arts dojo that specialize in Taekwondo and Jiu Jitsu about a week after he made that promise. His masters told him he had decently powerful legs, as of now he can crack concrete. His belt rank was a level 4 2nd degree black belt.
During the two years he got ripped, yet he was still lean. He was also able to gain fine amount of control over his quirk. He's now able to produce a paralyzing toxin that can render people immobile in under a minute, half that if he added an adrenaline accelerant.
The day of the Entrance Exam had arrive. The gray green skinned boy was waiting for Mina at the train station, he arrived five minutes ago. When the horned girl finally showed up the train was a minute away from arriving. "Did you overslept again? You really need to stop staying up so late." Dokusei said with clear nervousness in his body language. His muscles were tense and he rolled his shoulders every now and then.
Mina was panting slightly, having ran all the way to the station. "Actually I go up pretty early, I just lost track of time with some last minute exercise to get rid of the nervousness." She patted his arm, "thanks for the text I would have been late other wise, heh."
The train arrived on time like usual, Dokusei walked to board with Mina quickly following. "What are friends for?"
The two boarded the train, Mina easily noticed Doku's nervousness as the two sat down. She gave him a kind knowing smile. "Nervous?"
Dokusei chuckled. "That's somewhat of an understatement."
"You'll be fine Doku, you just got to relax and not over think it."
The boy groaned. "Easier said than done Mimi." Leaning back in his set he looked up towards train's ceiling, "I just have this weird feeling that it going to be a lot harder for me than should be."
Mina just lightly shook her head. "Still, you don't need those unwanted nerves. Don't focus on the negative, focus on the positive!"
"I'm surprise you're not nervous about the written portion of exam, it will eat you alive," he looked at her with an amused smile, "you got to pass both in order to get in."
Her smiling demeanor plummeted into one of despair. She hanged her head and her shoulder slacked. "Thank you for reminding me about that Dokusei."
Dokusei chuckled at that, brought his arm around her shoulder and gave her a hug. "You'll do fine I was just teasing." he grunted as she elbowed him in his ribs.
"Ass" pinky muttered, but a smirk was clearly visible.
Another chuckle was heard from him, "Love you too sis." They may not be blood related but that was their relationship, two friends so close they're practically siblings.
The ride was mostly quite, the two trying to calm their nerves. They still had a few minutes before they reach their stop, then Mina had a thought. "Do you think well see Kirishima there?"
Dokusei looked at her with a raised eyebrow, "Eijiro Kirishima?" She nodded, "I heard rumors of him shooting for UA. Maybe, why?"
"Remember that time when the four of us went shopping, and we ran into that huge villain?"
"You mean you three girl were shopping, while I was the pack meal? Yeah the guy was the size of a house and nearly crushed those nearly crashed you guys. It wasn't for your quick thinking you all would be dead."
Mina folded her arms. "Don't sell yourself short, if you didn't kick away the concrete that fell, my quick thinking wouldn't have matter."
"Your point?" Getting back on topic.
"My point is, Kirishima was there that day and the next day after school he appeared in front of us and apologize for not reacting."
Dokusei hummed at that. "He was scared, and couldn't move. It happens, if he's going for UA it means he doesn't want to make the same mistake again."
Mina nodded and the train came to a stop. She got up and stretched, those sets were definitely uncomfortable. "Come on the sooner we face the monster, the sooner we become heroes!"
"Ugh," he wasn't looking forward to this
He had to give UA credit, they sure know how to make a test. The written portion wasn't too difficult, he knew it was the practical though he had to worry about. He saw Kirishima when he entered the auditorium, giving the guy a pat on the shoulder as he walked by and sat to Mina's right.
What Present Mic showed them was pretty simple, defeat villains, gather points. Should be easy, except for the fact that the villains are robots. Dokusei had to really think out side of the box if he wanted to pass.
As he was walking towards the changing room, Mina asked him something. "You got any ideas on how you're going to pass?"
Dokusei shrugged. "I might able to blind some of them, but I'm not even sure about that." He was about to say more however Mina interrupted him
"You can do it, you'll think of something I know it!"
"Mina I-"
"I don't want to hear it!" She snapped at him. He gave her a look of shock, she rarely snaps at him like that. She took a breath to calm herself, "You of all people deserve to be a hero. So please just do your best?"
He smiled and nodded, "I will," then walked to the changing room.
Dokusei waited outside of his battle ground. His work out clothes were a gray t-shirt and bright green sweatpants. Looking around he saw many people, but a few caught his eye. One was a cute brunette doing some stretching, another was a fellow green haired boy, who was called out in the auditorium and right in front of him was a really tall dude who called out the green boy. Dokusei felt sorry for him. He was about that go help the guy, but Present Mic's voice chimed in, "And begin!"
Everyone took a second to make sure they heard that right, Dokusei on the other hand started moving, "What's wrong? The test has started! Run! Run!" He got about half way through the crowd before they started moving, "The die is casted!"
Dokusei was able to break away from the group and wined his way around, he ran in to a one pointer. "DIE!" is what it said.
"I hope this works," he thought to himself. "Blinding Spray!" He spitted and green poisonous goop landed on the robot's ocular sensors. The robot fired at him but missed by a mile. Dokusei smiled at that, "It worked!" He ran up to it and kicked its head clean off, surprising him. "huh guess these guys have weak plating. Ok one point!"
He ran into another one pointer and did the same tactic. It wasn't until he ran into a three pointer were that tactic didn't exactly work, he still blinded it but its frontal armor is too thick for him to kick through. "Ok if the front won't work let's try the back." He ran around the thing and kicked a decently sized dent in the back of the chassis, he did it again and the dent was bigger, on the third kick he bust through the chassis, stuck his hand inside and pull some wearing out. It must been important because it deactivated after that.
"Alright five points so of," he heard someone call out 28 points. "Damnit I'm falling behind." he soon booked it to another location.
It was here he ran into a trio of three pointers. "This is going to be problematic," he matter to himself. Running between two of them he got one of the to destroy the other, hopefully that counts. He blinded the one in far back and climbed on the back of the one that destroyed its friend. Ripping into its armor plating as fast as he can, he pulled out what looked to be its core. It started to beep very dangerously. Not thinking twice he threw the core at the blinded one, as soon as it made contact with the robot, it exploded.
"Heh, cool," he added up his current total, "14 points still not enough." Dokusei ran into another three pointer in the streets, he was about to engage it when it exploded by some sort of laser. Looking towards the source he saw a blonde boy with an awesome belt. Dokusei was about to say something, however he saw that from a nearby building a slab of concrete was about to land on the blonde. Jumping into action, Dokusei tackled the blonde away from the falling debris. He checked the guy for injuries, "your alright?"
"Yeah thanks, let's call it even. I saved you, you saved me." He got up and ran to find another villain bot.
Dokusei was about to run to another area when the ground started to shake. He saw the 0 pointer, it towered over the buildings. It was coming his away thusly he ran in the opposite direction. He saw the fellow green hair on his back side with the look of utter fear on his face. Dokusei stopped to help the guy up, that when they both heard a scream. looking back he saw the cute brunette trapped under some rubble. The green eyed boy ran at the behemoth, with Dokusei not to far behind. The fellow green haired boy jump towards the things face as Dokusei ran to get the girl out from under the rubble. He lifted it up as best he could, there is just enough room for her to squirm out.
As soon as she was out, they heard someone yell smash about them and a sonic boom soon after. Both looked up and saw that the boy just destroyed the 0 pointer in one punch! They also saw the guy had no safeway of coming down. The brunette ran to a wrecked robot and made it float up, "Catch him if I don't!" She yelled at Dokusei.
"Right!"
The boy was plummeting towards the earth at a pretty fast rate. He looked like is about to throw another punch, but before he could the brunette slapped him, and Dokusei caught him. Being careful not to stab him with his claws, Dokusei tried putting them down but realize that the boy was floating. The burnett weakly shouted. "Release!" Her, the wrecked mech and the boy stopped defying gravity and obey its laws.
Dokusei gently put the boy down seeing that both his legs and his right arm were broken. He looked around for stuff to make a makeshift splint, he found too long piece of metal about the size of the boys arm, and place them parallel to it. He took off his shirt and tour two strips from it and tied it around the metal, securely sandwiching the metal between the boys right arm.
He heard Present Mic yell times up and saw the boy started crying saying he just wanted one point. That didn't stop Dokusei administering first aid. The brunette came over after emptying her stomach. "Well he be ok?"
"Yeah I think so, I just need four pieces of metal about the size of his shins, to make two more splints, then we wait in till someone can give him proper medical attention."
Dokusei and the brunette looked around for that only finding enough for one more. Dokusei repeated the process of making a splint.
"Now now, you didn't need to go that far." They both heard a elderly female voice.
The two would be heroes looked towards the voice and saw a small old woman, with an nurses outfit on, hobbling towards them.
"I didn't know how long it would've been for someone like you to get here." Dokusei bowed his head, "I only thought about the guy's safety."
She stood in front of the now unconscious green eyed boy. "Those are some good instincts, you'd make fine heroes, both of you," she leaned down and kissed the top of the unconscious boy's head and his limbs magically healed.
"Yeah I would have, if I would've made enough points." Dokusei grumbled a response
"What's your score?" The brunette asked.
"14," disappointment was written all over his face, but he looked up at the brunette, "what's yours?"
She read the back of her head nervously and smiled, "28."
Dokusei hummed and got up. "Good for you. Now if you excuse me I got to break the bad news to a friend of mine."
Mina was waiting outside the main entrance to UA, waiting on Dokusei. She started worrying about Dokusei when didn't show up right away. "Did he leave with out me or is he hurt? Or..." Mina didn't have to think any longer, spotting her best friend exiting the main building. She ran up to him. "So how did you do!?" Excitement was written all over her face, but then she noticed the blue look he gave her. Mina's shoulder slacked and her face grew concerned, "Hey what's wrong?"
Dokusei couldn't look at her in the eye his voice was low and weak. "I'm sorry Mina, I didn't get enough points. I don't think I'm going to make it to UA."
There was a long pause, Mina looked at him in disbelief. "Please tell me this some sort of joke?"
Tears welled up in both of their eyes. Dokusei shook his head no. "I wish it was."
Mina hugged him, and he hugged back. "I'm sorry Mina. I'm sorry I couldn't keep my promise to you." Then both broke down into tears
The two sat there for a few minutes, but it felt like hours to them. Eventually they let go of each other, Dokusei hander her a handkerchief, the the too walked home with little to no words spoken between them.