"Kind've weird you brought me here, I'm not complaining or anything we just never hung out before." Sero rubbed the back of his head and paced behind Geus.

Him alone in a graveyard with Geus kept him on his toes. Nothing in the news or web forums made him believe that stuff was true about Geus. Yet his mind had the idea of something wrong was about to happen. To this point, he and Geus never spent time together. In class they were with a group of others and any time alone was always dissed to the side. So this trip was more than a shocker for Sero.

Sero walked over to Geus and stood over his backside. He arched his back down closer to the grave and inspected the gravestone. 'The son born in a cursed world that he didn't belong in. The next ground carried him to a life worth living. Keena Sansei'. An inscription that puzzled him.

"So ah, what's the writing supposed to mean?" Sero asked.

Geus opened his eyes and lifted them to the red granite stone. He felt the engraved border and dragged his hand over to the lettering. It slightly amazed him his arm didn't deteriorate any part of the rock. The gas around his arm and hand filled the grooves and nothing else.

"You know my family." He finally said. "We aren't ones to praise quirks. And such, it just means they hope wherever he is now is a place that supports our lifestyle." Geus grabbed his mask from the ground and stood up from the softness of the grass.

"I know he was there when everything happened. It's something I've never felt before. I couldn't imagine what you're dealing with. Pretty cool you invited me though."

Geus turned back to Sero, the smile he gave off secretly always made him laugh on the inside. A Peter Parker type until he placed on that mask, then he could actually be seen as a threat. Their styles were opposites of each other which made the resemblance stronger. He the young hero, and himself the villain of the story.

He wiggled the gas off his arm and severed the connection. "You might just change that." A slight chuckle interrupted himself. "I only did because you reminded me so much of Keena. We never really knew each other, we were very distant. Only family connected us and even that was slim. Kind've like us. Yeah we're in the same class but hell." Geus swung his arms up and shrugged. "If it wasn't for the lockup, I'd be a year ahead of you."

"Don't worry about it man." Sero widened his stand and placed his hands on his hips. "We got years ahead of us and a whole career to get to know each other."

"Do you though?" A thick and pudgy hand gripped over Sero's right shoulder. Geus froze in place, he knew this was an illusion from the start. He wanted to move and punch himself out of it. Iroh knew this as well, the dumb kid from days ago wasn't present anymore. So his tricks needed to be stronger and more straight forward. His head and upper body rolled over from the side and towered over Sero. "It really doesn't matter if you know I'm not really here." He leaned over Sero's should and gave off his giant, yellow grin. His teeth became worse than they were in prison, they started to rot at the base of a third of his teeth. "You're still afraid of me no matter what." Iroh's laugh shook the blood in his body and momentarily disjointed his bones. "Am I sure this is the kid that's supposed to stop villains?"

"If you can mess with my mind that mean's you're pretty close to my location. Sero could knock me out of this state or even I can."

"Yeah, you can." Iroh reached in his pocket and pulled out a small flip steel lighter. A single flip sparked a flame. "Just burn yourself. Scare this kid and possibly lose your stance at the exams. Do it."

"You and I have a really weird dynamic between us." Geus grabbed the lighter and tossed it on the ground. "Just you wait till I get my hands on you, I'm alot stronger than before. Strong enough to kill you."

His palm opened up with the lighter snug inside the center point of the muscles. His thumb shrugged inside and flipped the piece of metal to his fingers, where he shoved it inside his inside coat pocket. He grumbled as he itched his nose and gave a slight approval nod.

"You have kid can't lie about that. But don't let that get to your head, I'm part of something much bigger."

"And that was the last time you heard from him?" Beka whispered. Her head rested on his shoulder and spoke directly into his ear.

Geus looked out the bus's window, no longer did he look into the past to what he saw earlier. He was too close to these exams to have those memories haunt him. Even though he knew he went directly against what the court ordered him to do. Any other day this would be allowed to bother him and contemplate what to do. Today was too important to let that happen. Only hours away determined if he could be considered a pro-hero or not.

"To tell you the truth I have no idea if I should even go to the police with this information. I mean, I don't want this stunt to take away a chance at a license."

Beka fixed her body to a more comfortable angle and leaned closer to him. Her arm puffed in front of him and wrapped around the small canvas between his arm and side. She had to be careful for any of the others that would listen in on them. A few students already had a keen eye on them and probably attempted to hear what she and he talked about.

"As your friend I'd say it doesn't help in the slightest. That was hours ago and it's less than likely that he'd even be there still. And no matter when you say it, the government can pretty much any point take your license away because of this. As your registered government-appointed therapist have me report the incident as we see how it goes, or report it at your earliest availability."

Geus lifted up his mask and sighed as he rubbed his jaw. "Until all this stress is gone, I don't want to do anything." He adjusted his mask over the magnets and found his own comfortable position in the chair. It wasn't long for him to feel a presence behind his head. His eyes rolled to the top of his eyes till he felt the strain. The familiar perfectly gold hair popped inside his vision. He forced his head up further to see the full head of Aoyama. "She's twenty-six, my therapist, and never going to happen."

Aoyama leaned over his seat even more and patted Geus's chest. "Don't worry, I know you who like."

Geus grumbled and shimmied his shoulders deep into the seat. "Maybe you can reveal something I don't even know."

Beka's eyes lit up under the shadow of Geus's annoyance. Her arms squeezed around his and her fingers dug into his school uniform. She slightly wiggled his arm just enough for him to see it but not enough to be noticeable. She gasped quietly. "You should tell me." She whispered. "I can be the best matchmaker for you."

"I rather have my parents give me pick up lines to give to Midnight."

They reached the building for the provisional hero license. Emotions ran high at the sight of the building that determined their future. As calm as Geus tried to appear on the outside, his heart pounded twice as fast from fear. His knuckles turned white as he tightened harder around his suit's case.

"If you can pass this test and get your provisional licenses," Aizawa grabbed the random faces of the student's attention. "Then you novice eggs will become chicks. Do your best."

Geus's bodily tension exhausted through a really long exhale. "Short and sweet." He whispered to himself. "Short and sweet."

"All right, I'll become a chick!" Kaminari cheered, not realizing the entirety of what he said.

"Let's all call out the usual! Read, set" Kirishima added to his partner's energy.

"I don't know the usual." Geus mumbled in realization on how far apart he always carried himself from the rest.

"Plus."

"Ultra!" The absolutely over shouted word came from somebody not part of their class. The white tucked in shirt and blue dress pants had a chance of sneaking inside their school. But the officer style hat with the S logo on it pulled a bright red card.

"You shouldn't just barge in on other people's huddles, Inasa." Another student from his school followed silently behind the loud one. Two more of the same school was with him, a curvy girl with dark blonde hair, and a tall man covered entirely in hair.

"Oh no." Inasa's body flashed to his sides and stiffened his body. "I am... very... extremely..." His upper body slammed into the concrete sidewalk, his head cracked the material on impact. "Sorry!"

"What's with this guy trying to get by with his enthusiasm?!" Kaminari's shocking appearance was the same as everybody else. Only he was able to say anything about it.

Everybody else started to mumble about the selected few that decided to approach them. This made Geus realize more and more how out of the loop he was in the hero world. He didn't know the top ten heroes, the way quirks are organized, and now schools.

Geus removed his mask and removed his hood as well. The hood dropped to the start of his wingspan and the mask clipped to his side. "God that group is as much of freaks as we are."

Beka pinched Geus's ear and reached around for his mask at the same. No matter how much he whined, she continued to pull back on the small mound of the flesh and grab hold of the mask. "You can't" she grabbed and centered Geus's chin. "flirt for other girls." Quickly she aligned the magnets and locked the mask to his face.

Geus took the weakness she offered and managed to shove her off of him. "You're like a really bad wingman sometimes."

"Hey." She pushed off of him and skipped backward to the entrance. "I'll see you inside, keep your eyes on the real prize." She twirled around on one foot and proceeded forward this time to the entrance. One hand rose into the air and gave a peace sign into the air. "And I'm not talking about the license."

"Eraser? It's you, isn't it, Eraser?!" Another girl came out of the woodwork. She, unlike the others, wasn't a student. Her bright orange gimmick and bright greenish hair made it impossible to be unnoticed. Along with her loud and energetic voice and face brought more views. "I haven't seen you since the festival but I haven't seen you since the festival."

"Now I really need Beka." Geus grumbled.

"Let's get married." Whether she was serious or not still shocked everyone, except Aizawa. Almost like he was perfectly shaped and ready for this kind of attention.

"No." He answered right back in his monotoned voice.

She took the answer as a joke and broke out laughing. And laughed hard enough to clench her sides and curved into her body. "No? Good one!"

"You're hard to talk to, as usual, Joke." Aizawa said, still unamused.

"If you marry me, then we can make a happy family with never-ending laughter!" Her body shot out of the shell she forced herself in. Her upper body posed up and confident with her arm at her side and the other point out and the thumb raised.

"A family like that can't be happy."

Geus rolled his eyes. "I don't blame you teach."

"You just don't know love!" Mina surprised Geus as she jumped on his back and covered the front part of his mask.

"Even though I'm part of the cross-class lovers." Geus mumbled as he pulled off his filters. "I don't 'know' love." His gas flowed out and wrapped around her arms. They hardened before they touched her and easily pried her off of him. "I can surely be extra though." He continued to mumble as he turned his filters back on. He looked over at another group of students that came for them. "What'd I miss?"

"Ketsubutsu Academy, second years, Class 2!" Joke answered inadvertently. "They're my class, please be kind."

"Can we just get this over with?"

Geus got his wish and every school that's participating was placed inside a room just big enough for them all. All of them were in full hero gear and full of anxiety. It was loud in there, even at everyone's voice level was barely above a whisper.

"Alright." The new voice over the loudspeaker made everyone silent. "Let's get this provisional license test over with. I'm Mers from the Heroes Public Safety Commission. The kind of sleep I like is non-REM sleep..." The announcer nearly passed out at the stand. Obviously not at all embarrassed by his exhaustion. 'I like him.. Geus thought of the man. "About the content of the provisional license thing... Frankly, all 1,540 examinees here will have to win through a free for all exercise. Our society is currently said to be saturated with heroes, and ever since Stain was arrested, many have shown doubts about the current state of heroes... But anyway, whether it's for compensation or for loyalty and courage... The result of many heroes working hard together to help people and defeat villains is that right now, the time from when an incident begins to when it is resolved is so short that it'd make you sick. You all are about to receive your provisional licenses and finally throw yourselves into those rapids. Those who can't keep up with that speed will frankly have it tough. Accordingly, what you'll be tested on is speed!"

A large display booted up behind the announcer and the line of suited men with glasses. 'Number to pass 1st Test 100 people'. Geus cleared his throat. 'It would be a miracle if we all pass. Let alone five of us.' Geus nudged at Fumikage. "What do you think?"

"The chances for us all to pass are against us. But if we rely on our strengths to aid each other, we have a chance."

"Well a lot's happened out there in the world," the announcer pushed off his forearms and held himself up from the podium. "and you know, about luck and everything... The examinee will put three of these targeted on his or her body. They can go anywhere as long as it's an exposed area. You will also have six balls, the targets are made to only light up if they're hit by these balls. And if all three of your targets light up, then you're out. The person who lights up your third target will have it count as their defeat. You get through this round by defeating two people."

Next, the walls around them opened up. No longer were they where the bus had dropped them off. They were placed inside somewhere similar to the USJ, except far larger. A city in one area, spikes of mountains in another, a lake placed somewhere else, different terrains everywhere. With everyone's target's placed on their bodies, Geus placed his shoulders and mask clip, the school's separated. It wasn't a surprise that they separated by schools as that's what kept them comfortable.

"Everyone, don't get too separated! Let's move as a group!" Midoriya advised.

"Yeah right," Bakugo went against the rest's agreement and walked off from the group. "this isn't a field trip!"

"Idiot!" Kirishima hesitated for a moment, unsure on what to do. "Wait up!" He shouted before he followed behind.

Shoto also separated from the group. "Me too, it's hard for me to use my power in a big group."

"Todoroki!" Midoriya shouted after him.

Geus grabbed Midoriya's shoulder and stepped next to him. "Sorry to act like a third wheel but I gotta separate myself too. I'm much better alone than risk a large group." His eyes drifted at Jiro. He lifted up his mask enough to show his lips and grinned before he placed it back down. "Good luck."

"First test, begin!"