TWO SYMBOLS
CHAPTER THREE: STARTING POINT
Ken: Hey there guys! Ready to read the next chapter of 'Two Symbols'?! I sure am! *Says with a large toothy grin*
Izuku: Just make sure that when you're reading you turn the lights on and don't stay to close to the computer. *Says with a smile* It's not good for your eyes.
Inko: Boys. Hurry up, it's time for breakfast.
Ken and Izuku: Okay mum. *Faces screen* See ya!
Disclaimer: I do not own My Hero Academia or any of its characters. It all belongs to Kohei Horikoshi. The only thing I own are the OC's used in the story and the many twists in the plot of the anime.
Chapter 3: Starting Point
"Man, so this is it. The greatest hero school in the whole world. UA High." Ken says as he stares at the large building in front of him. The two brothers had woken up rather early and got ready quickly. After breakfast, they rushed over to the school not wanting to get there late. And now they were standing in front of the prestigious school.
"I know right?" Izuku says as he stares at the building in awe. The school was way larger up close than it was from a distance. Way bigger. At one point in his life, he was doubting he would ever be able to stand in front of the school but after meeting Ken and gaining OFA from All Might, he had grown more confident and was sure of his chances of getting in. "I've been waiting and dreaming of this moment most of my life." He then faces Ken. "Let's show them what we're made of." Ken's grin widens as he looks back at the boy.
The two then walked into the school, growing excited as they did. That excitement died however when they heard a familiar yell. "OUTTA MY WAY YOU LOSERS!" They turned to see Bakugo who had his usual scowl on his face. The two brothers just stare at the ash blonde teen before slightly moving out of his way, not wanting to cause any trouble. Bakugo just glares at the two before entering the building. Izuku then walks forward but trips on something and begins to fall face first to the ground.
'Aah! I'm gonna die! Goodbye world!' Izuku thought before he realizes that he was floating.
"You okay. Sorry about using my quirk on you without permission but I wanted to help." A voice, obviously feminine says causing Izuku to look at the girl. She was a cute teen of the same age as him and Ken and looked to be around or shorter than Izuku's height. She had brown hair and brown eyes and a permanent blush on her cheeks. Izuku blushes as he stares at the girl who then touches her fingers together causing him to fall to the ground.
"O-oh, it's no problem. T-thanks for t-the help." Izuku says stuttering a bit. Ken sees the blush on the boy's face and smirks. The girl then waves at the two boys with a smile and walks into the school. Ken then wraps an arm around Izuku's shoulder. "Well, well. Looks like you've found your Juliet, Romeo." He says and Izuku's face turns even redder.
"E-eh? What a-are you talking a-about?" Izuku says before composing himself. "Quit messing around." Ken laughs as the two walk inside. Once they made it to the auditorium, they sat on the seats assigned to them, which unfortunately was beside Bakugo. The ash blonde boy glares at them and Ken glares back, Izuku ignoring him. That just made Bakugo even more angry. Ken decided to take a short nap, seeing as the person explaining the exams wasn't there yet and also not in the mood to deal with Bakugo.
"For all you examinee listeners tuning in, welcome to my show today!" The loud voice of the pro hero, Present Mic, booms through the hall for everyone to hear. It startles Ken, waking him up from his short nap. "Everybody say 'hey'!" The man shouts out but was only met with silence from the crowd.
'Wow. Tough crowd.' Ken thought.
"Oh my gosh! It's the voice hero Present Mic! I can't belive it. I always listen to his shows." Izuku says causing Bakugo to groan in annoyance, while Ken just ignored him, used to his fanboy attitude by now.
"Alright then. Now I'm going to go over the rundown of the practical exams for the exam. SO ARE YOU READY?!" Again no response and the man's shoulder slump slightly before he continues.
"Alright, like it was written in the application requirements, you listeners will be conducting ten-minute mock urban battles after this! You can bring whatever you want with you" The screen behind him begins to display different letters ranging from A to G. "After this presentation, you'll head to the specified battle center!"
"In other words, they won't let you work with your friends huh?" Bakugo says as he stares at the paper in his hand. "You're right. Even though our examinee numbers are consecutive, we're assigned to different battle centers." Izuku stated as he looks at his, Ken's and the blonde's papers.
"Don't look or I'll kill you!" The blonde says glaring at Izuku before grumbling. "Damn, now I can't crush you."
Ken then looks at his own paper which had his name, examinee number and battle center. He was in battle center B. "Oh I'm in battle center B."
"There are three different types of faux villains in each battle center." Present Mic says as the screen displays different robots on the screen with their points on top. "You earn points from each of them based on their level of difficulty. Your goal is to use your quirks to earn points by immobilizing the faux villains. Of course attacking other examinees and any other unheroic acts are not allowed!"
"Excuse me sir, I have a question!" A tall blue haired boy wearing glasses says as he gets on his feet. "In our handouts, it was written that there would be four types of robots. This kind of error is embarrassing especially for a top school like this." He shouts out and Ken just shook his head at that.
'Seriously, let the man finish first.' He thought.
"In addition, you over there with the curly hair." Izuku points at himself trying to confirm if he was the one being pointed at. "You've been muttering over there the whole time, it's distracting. If you're here on a pleasure trip then you should leave immediately!" Izuku flushes a bit in embarrassment. He had been muttering a bit since Present Mic started but he thought no one would hear him.
"S-sorry…" He apologizes.
"Okay, okay, Examinee number 7111. Thanks for the great message and nice observation. The fourth faux villain is worth zero points. It's more of an obstacle, so to speak. There's one in every battle center. It's an obstacle that will go crazy in narrow spaces. It's not impossible to defeat, but there's no point in doing so. It's better you avoid it." Present Mic explains.
"Thank you very much sir. Pardon the interruption!" The glasses guy says with a bow before seating down.
"That's all from me. Finally, I'll give you listeners a present, our school motto. The hero Napoleon Bonaparte once said; 'A true hero is someone who overcomes life's misfortunes.' Go beyond. PLUS ULTRA!" Ken then grins as he cracks his knuckles. "Now everyone, good luck suffering."
Izuku then turns to Ken. "May the best win." He says and Ken scoffs. "Don't think just because you now have a cool quirk and some special training that you will beat me. I'll get the most points and get first place."
"We'll see…" Izuku says with a challenging smirk.
Battle Center C
"Holy shit! That's a huge gate!" Ken shouts in shock as he and the other examinees in the center stood in front of the massive gates of the battle center. He was wearing a short sleeved black tight shirt with blue track pants and white snickers. He hat was still hanging on his back through the cord around his neck. "I wonder how the inside is like." He begins to get himself ready for the test to come with some stretches.
He stops his warm up and decides to look around at the various contestants to see if there was anyone that looked interesting to him. He noticed that most of the female contestants were looking at him like he was a piece of meat and had blushes on their faces. The boy raises an eyebrow not knowing why he was being looked at like that.
'What's with those strange looks. Something on my face?'
Ken then decides to ignore them and wait patiently for the exams to start. An excited smile forming on his face.
"Ten seconds till the start of the exams." A robotic voice says through the speakers causing everyone to stop what they were doing and get themselves ready for the exams.
Battle Centre B
Izuku was performing some last minute work out as he and the other examinees in the arena waited for the gates to open and the exams to start. He had a green short sleeved track suit on showing his muscles and also his favourite red shoes.
He then stops and looks around, spotting a familiar face in the crowd. 'It's the girl from earlier.' He noticed she was shaking a bit and looking rather nervous. He couldn't blame her. This exams were really nerve-racking but he decided to help out. So with that in mind, he starts walking towards the brown haired girl but was stopped when he felt a hand grab his shoulder. Glancing back, he sees that it was the same blue haired glasses boy from earlier.
"What are you trying to pull now? Are you trying to distract that girl right before the exams?" He asked and Izuku just groans mentally before releasing himself from the boy's hold. "Listen here buddy. I wasn't distracting anyone. The girl looks really nervous and I was trying to help." He says and the glasses boy looks at the girl to see her shaking and slightly widens his eyes.
"Oh, I see. Sorry about that!" He says with a bow.
"No need for that man. No harm was done." The green haired teen says.
"Ten seconds till the start of the exams."
Izuku along with everyone else heard a robotic voice say. He then stops and gets ready for the gates to open up. He crouches down.
"3, 2, 1!"
"Begin!"
The large gates open up allowing everyone to run into the fake city. Izuku manages to run passed a lot of the examinees, deciding not to use OFA yet so as to not drain his stamina until he spotted a robot. It didn't take long as a two pointer appeared in front of him.
"Target locked! Eliminate!" The robot says as it charges at the boy ready to attack. Izuku jumps back, evading a punch from the robot that smashes the ground. He then activates OFA. Red vein-like marks began to spread across his body before they faded away as a green lightning aura appeared, crackling around his form.
'OFA Full Cowling…8%' After he had received OFA from All Might. He had immediately tried using it's full power but ended up busting his right arm. He couldn't use the quirk's full power as his body wasn't strong enough to handle. He later figured out a way to use the quirk without breaking his body. Instead of using the power through one limb, he could spread the power through his whole body, adding a limiter to it to reduce the amount of the power he using.
He had named it his Full Cowling form. His strength, speed, power and durability were increased in his form. Right now he could only use 8% of OFA with no difficulty, 10% if he pushed himself. Izuku then leaps up at the robot with increased speeds and punched the two pointer on the head, smashing through the metal and knocking it down.
That's two points.
Izuku then turns around to see more robots heading his way. They were about three one pointers. He dashes towards them and leaps up before delivering an axe kick on one, destroying it with ease. He punches through the other two now earning him five points. He looks around a bit to see that other robots had been destroyed. Iida was dashing around in fast speeds thanks to the engines on his calves and destroying the robots with hard kicks. He also saw a blonde boy, that looked like he was from France shooting lasers from his belly.
'Crap! Gotta hurry!' He thought as he dashes off with high speed, searching for more robots before they were all destroyed.
Battle Centre C
Ken and everyone else immediately charge into the large battle center that looked more like a city. Ken was quickly outpacing everyone. 'Alright, now to find a robot!' He thought as he turned around a corner only to be met with one of the robots in the exams. A one pointer.
"Target locked! Eliminate!" The robot says as it charges at the boy ready to attack. It punches down at the boy who jumps back to prevent getting hit. Ken then activates his quirk, his normal blue electrical aura crackling around him. He then dashes at the robot with inhuman speed and delivers a powerful kick to its face, destroying it. He glances around and spots a group of robots that hadn't spotted him yet.
Dashing straight towards the robots, he pounces on the closest one which was a two pointer. With a powerful kick to the back of its head, the robot was knocked down and smashes against another two pointer, destroying it and causing a small explosion. The last of the group, which was a three pointer spots him and charges at him, swiping at him with its large metal hands. Ken jumps upwards avoiding the swipe and delivers a power spin kick to the side of the head, smashing into it and knocking it down.
'That's eight in the bag.' He thought with a grin. He then looks around noticing other people destroying robots around him. He notices a few other robots charging at him. 'And more to come.' He says dashing towards them. With inhuman speeds he was able to easily take down the robots, using his speed, combined with his impressive physical strength to deliver strong kicks and punches that smash through the robots.
"Six minutes and twenty seconds left." The voice of Present Mic says could be heard through the speakers. Ken doesn't pay much mind to it as he rushes at another robot which was a three-pointer but just as he was about to attack it, some kind of gooey looking liquid is sprayed on it and the next thing he knew, it was melting. 'What the hell?!'
He looks around and spots the person who had done it. It was a rather cute pink haired girl with pink skin and horns with somewhat square eyes and a black sclera and yellow irises. She was spraying the same liquid at different robots, melting them down. 'That's a pretty cool quirk.' He thought before quickly ducking under some of the liquid, which he had deduced was acid, that was heading for his face. 'That was close.'
"Oops, sorry about that." The girl says noticing what had happened. Ken gets on his feet and waves her off. "Meh. Just be careful next time." He says before dashing off, looking for more robots to destroy.
Izuku
Back, at battle centre B, the number of robots were dropping rapidly as examinees left and right were taking them down with their quirks. People were starting to give up as their wasn't much time and robots left. Izuku at the moment had smashed his fist through another robot, easily destroying it with his enhanced strength.
He had a smile one his face. He had managed to procure about forty points with not much difficulty. The one and two pointers went down with one hit while the three pointers took about two to three. As he was taking down the robots, he had also spotted people with interesting quirks in the exams.
He spots another robot heading towards him and he activates his Full Cowling. Before he could attack however, it was kicked on the head knocking it down and destroying it.
'Woah.' He thought when he saw that it was the blue haired glasses wearing guy from earlier. The boy just glances at him before dashing away with fast speeds. 'He's fast, almost as fast as Ken.' He thought before spotting the engine like pipes on the boy's legs. 'Those must be how he runs fast.'
"Die!"
"Huh?"
Izuku turns around only to be met with a mechanical fist aimed for his face. He managed to react quickly and cross his arms to block it but was still sent flying from the punch. He screams as he crashes into a building. "Ow." He mutters as he gets on his feet. If it weren't for his enhanced durability, he might have been knocked out and it would have seriously hurt. He then charges at the one pointer and destroys it with ease. 'Alright, that makes it forty one now.'
He deactivated his quirk and looked around for any robots. A loud crash and rumbling sound caught his attention and he looks back to see a building collapse as a massive robot emerges from the building.
The zero pointer.
'That thing's huge!' He exclaimed mentally as he watches the robot destroy buildings left and right sending parts of buildings and debris crashing down on the ground. "Gotta get out of here." He says as he begins to run away. He could only use OFA at 8% right now and he was sure that was not enough to destroy the zero pointer. He stopped however when he heard a loud cry and he quickly turns to see it was the same brown haired girl from earlier. Her leg was stuck in some rubble as the zero pointer was getting closer to her and would surely kill her if someone didn't save her.
So without thinking, he dashes towards the massive robot, ignoring the protests from a certain glasses wearing boy.
Ken
Ken leaps back to avoid a falling debris from flattening him. He stares up at the massively sized robot that had suddenly emerged from a building and his eyes widened at what he was seeing. 'Holy shit! That thing's massive!' He thought as he began to run away. He knew he couldn't destroy that thing at his current level so he decided to run like everyone else.
However, he noticed a girl trip as she was running and falls to the ground as the zero pointer was getting closer to her. 'Shit!' He thought as he activated his quirk and dashes towards the girl as fast as he can. Luckily he was fast enough to grab the girl bridal style and get out of the way, narrowly avoiding getting stomped.
Before he could address the girl, he looks up and notices large debris falling at him. He dodges all of them quickly before running back towards the large gates. He then looks down at the girl in his arms. "You okay?"
The girl, who had a small blush on her face just nods her head not saying anything. Ken drops the girl just as they reaching the gate and begins to pant slightly, feeling the drain in his stamina.
Izuku
Izuku quickly scans his surroundings before spotting some debris that had been knocked down from a building the zero pointer had destroyed. An idea quickly forms in his head as he runs and jumps towards the debris closest to the ground, landing on it and quickly shooting upwards towards the next one, causing the one he was on to rocket towards the ground.
Izuku continued to jump until he lands on the robots large arm and begins to run up the arm towards the robots head. He then leaps up and cocks his right arm back, activating 100% of his power on that arm as it glowed brightly with power, gritting his teeth due to the pain he was feeling in his arm. He knew that 8% of OFA will not be enough to knock it down so he resorted to using 100%.
'This is gonna hurt.'
With that thought, he punches the robots head with full power blowing it apart and causing the massive mechanical creation to fall over and topple towards the ground hard. With a resounding boom, the robot hits the ground and lays there. Izuku winces and looks at his now broken right arm. He then looks down and realizes how high he was before he then begins to fall down.
'This is also gonna hurt real badly.'
He thought as he activated his quirk up to 10%, hoping that with his enhanced durability, he would survive the high fall. Luckily, he didn't have to find out. As he was getting closer to the ground, he felt a hard slap on his face and started to levitate. He looks up at the girl he just saved and she looked like she was struggling a bit before she puts her fingers together.
"RELEASE!"
The girl shouts out and Izuku falls face first into the ground. She then began to puke out what he thought was vomit but it looked like rainbows to him. He then gets on his feet and looks at his broken arm just as Present Mic announces the end of the exams through the speakers. He was lucky today but he knew he had to get better with OFA.
Ken and Izuku (After Exams…)
"You beat the zero pointer?" Ken asks shocked at what he heard. He knew Izuku's quirk granted him incredible strength but he didn't think he would be strong enough to destroy the zero pointer.
"Yeah. But I used more power than my arm could handle to I destroyed my arm in the process." Izuku says as he stared at his bandaged up arm. Ken just scowls with crossed arms. "Hmph, don't think cause you bit that huge bucket of bolts that you're better than me." He says and for a second, Izuku thought he sounded like Bakugo. "I'm still better than you."
"We'll see who'll be saying that when I beat you and become no.1." Izuku says with a scoff.
"Like that will happen." Ken retorts as the two share a smirk, leaving the school premises.
Midoriya Apartment (A Week Later…)
"Dammit! How the hell did I lose to you?"
"Ha! Bet you didn't see that coming."
"Whatever you just got lucky."
Ken says angrily as he glares at the letters in front of them. They had been delivered from UA and they were to reveal whether they had passed the exams or not. For the written exams, Izuku had passed with flying colours while Ken just barely managed to pass. That wasn't what made him angry.
It was the scores for the practical exams.
They had both passed as they had expected. Izuku had gotten a total of forty one points from taking down robots while Ken had fifty. However, there were extra points called rescue points that were given to students who performed acts of heroism during the exams. Ken had gotten only fifteen of these points while Izuku got sixty of them. Which meant Izuku had gotten first place with a total of a hundred and five points while Ken only had sixty five points and had gotten third place much to his chagrin.
"I didn't even get second place. I got third. Third for crying out loud!" He shouts out.
"Quit whining will ya!"
"Shut up!"
Inko had a smile on her face as her sons celebrated their success. Or at least Izuku was. Ken was just complaining about not getting first place. However, she was really happy that they had passed and now had a chance at fulfilling their dreams of being heroes. She was so proud of them, she couldn't stop the tears that were pouring out of her eyes.
The family spent the rest of the day celebrating and just spending time with each other.
-Izuku Midoriya. Quirk: One For All. A power passed on from generation to generation of heroes, getting stronger as it's passed on. Increases the user's physical capabilities to super human level. Currently the ninth user of the power-
-Ken Hiro Midoriya. Quirk: Speed Force. This power increases his base speed by five times, allowing him to run at super human speeds. It also seems to grant him a faster recovery rate than a normal person-
April
The month of April was here and so was the first day for the first years of UA high. Due to the school's hard acceptance rate, which was a one in three hundred, only thirty eight candidates were admitted into the school's hero course excluding those admitted through the recommendation exams. Those thirty eight students are then split into only two classes of Classes 1A and 1B, nineteen in each one. The four recommended students are then split into two and added to the classes to make it twenty one for each class.
Not that Ken knew any of that as he along with his brother walked through the hallway of the school looking for their classroom. Ken felt like he was walking through a large and confusing labyrinth. The two had been walking around for a minutes now and hadn't found their class.
"Dammit, where is this class?" Ken asks in a frustrated tone.
"Calm down. I'm sure we'll find the class soon." Izuku says trying to calm the black haired boy down while hoping that they found the class soon as he himself was getting tired of walking around. Thankfully they were able to locate their class which was class 1A. They stared at the massive door in front of them that led to their class.
"Wow…that's huge." Ken says.
"I know right. It must be in case there is someone with a gigantification quirk that increase their sizes. Or for those who are just that tall." Izuku says as an image of All Might appears in his head. Speaking of All Might, he was quite shocked to find out that the man was now a teacher in the school. It got him exciting to know that the number one hero and his idol was now gonna be his teacher in school.
"Hmm, you have a point. Alright, let's head in." Ken says as he opens the door and walks in. Only to be met with what sounded like arguing. They spotted two of their classmates in a heated argument.
"You there, get your feet off the table!" One Tenya Iida shouts as he marches up to a spiky ash blonde haired boy with red eyes who had his feet on his table with his chair leaned back a bit. This is Katsuki Bakugo. The blonde looks at Iida with a glare as he didn't want to be disturbed. "Eh?! What's it to you four eyes?!"
"You're being impolite by doing that! This is UA high school property and you're disrecpecting the academy by keeping your feet on it's property you crittin!" Iida explains while chopping his right hand, a habit he had picked up ever since he was a kid. Bakugo however didn't seem to care the least about what the boy said.
"You're kidding right? Did your old school put a stick up your ass or were you just born with it?" Bakugo asks causing Iida to take a step back in shock at the question. He then shakes his head and speaks. "L-let's start over. I'm Tenya Iida from the Somei Private Academy."
"Somei huh?! So you must think you're better than me cause you're an elite huh? I'm gonna have fun tearing you a new one and crushing you?" Bakugo says with a wicked grin on his face.
Iida was shocked by the statement and recoils back in surprise. "Crushing? You would threaten me? Your own classmate? You sure you want to be a hero?" He asks causing Bakugo to let out a snort. The two then turn towards the class entrance where Ken and Izuku stood. Bakugo just narrows his eyes when he saw them.
'Why aren't we surprised?' Ken and Izuku thought in unison.
"It's him." Iida says and this catches the attention of every other person in the class as they all turned their heads towards where the two brothers stood and staring at them, more specifically Izuku, some recognizing him from the entrance exams as they all witnessed him destroy the zero pointer with a single punch. The other students wondering what was so special about the boy.
Izuku noticed that everyone's eyes were on him and he get nervous and a bit uncomfortable. He looks upwards to avoid his new classmates eyes. "U-um. Hi e-everyone." He managed to say.
"Yo." Ken says with a small wave.
"Good morning." Izuku looks towards Iida who was walking towards him. "My name's Tenya Iida from Somei Hi-"
"Y-yeah, I know." Izuku quickly cuts him off having already heard the boy introduce himself earlier. "I-I'm Izuku Midoriya. It's really nice to meet you." Izuku states nervously as he could still feel the stares from his class mates, especially Bakugo who had a rather angry look. Even though he had grown more confident over the years, he still felt a bit shy and uncomfortable when he was the centre of attention. Ken was about to introduce himself when Iida cut him off.
"Midoriya huh?" Iida repeats the boy's last name. "Midoriya. You realized that there was something more to the practical exams didn't you?"
"Huh?" Izuku exclaims, confused at the glasses wearing boy's claim. "You must be very perceptive and I completely misjudged you. As a student, you're completely superior to me."
'I find that hard to believe. And what's he talking about?' Izuku thought with a sweatdrop.
"Hey, I recognize that messed up hair anywhere. Falling boy!" He quickly turns around when he hears the familiar voice and sees it came from the same brown haired girl he had met and saved during the entrance exams. Izuku gasps with his face slowly turning red at the sight of the girl.
"I'm so glad you passed the exams like they said you would. Not that I'm that surprised, that punch back then was amazing." Uraraka says as she punches the air repeatedly, unknown to her, Izuku wasn't listening to what she was saying.
'Oh my gosh. It's that nice girl who talked to me. She looks really good in that uniform.' He thought, his face turning red. "O-oh hey hi. So, I should to t-thank you for going out your way and talking to the staff to let me pass." Izuku says looking away from the girl.
"Huh? How'd you know about that?" Uraraka asks.
"O-oh, w-well…" As Izuku and Uraraka were conversing with one another, Ken, feeling ignored and unnoticed, decides to take a seat in the class. Bakugo just kept staring at the green haired boy with an angry expression. He couldn't believe how the weak kid he has known for years was able to get into UA of all schools. It just didn't seem possible to him that Deku had passed. He remembered when the principal of their middle school had told the him and the two brothers that they had gotten in, how surprised he was that day. He expected Ken but not Izuku. He remembered confronting Deku about it.
Flashback (Few Weeks Ago…)
"Wow, to think that three students from my class are going to UA, and to think that two of them are the Midoriya brothers. I am really surprised you got in Izuku but I can honestly say that I am proud of you guys." The teacher said, showing some honest emotion for the first time in the while. He was honestly surprised the Izuku made it into UA, as he was known for his lack of quirk.
When they were leaving Bakugo stopped them, "How did losers like you get into UA. I'm the only one from this crappy school that was supposed to get into UA, not you two losers, especially you Deku! You cheated right, how else could you get in."
Ken was going to say something, but Izuku stopped him. He looked defiantly at Bakugo and said, "Shut up Katsuki." This caused Bakugo and even Ken's eyes to widen in shock, to think that Izuku would talk like this to Bakugo, he meant business, "We got into this school fair and square, and I got the highest scores at of everyone who took the exam. So you're the loser here not me. We're officially heroes in training now, so don't get in our way." Izuku finished with a clenched fist, Ken grinned at his brother standing up to Bakugo. About time.
As they were leaving Bakugo grew more furious and charged at Izuku. However, Izuku saw this coming and turned around to stop Bakugo's charge by putting him against a wall, and punching the area right next to his face. He charged up OFA up to 10% in that arm and the power behind the punch caused a deep crater to form.
Bakugo's eyes widened in shock at what he had Izuku had just done and slowly looks at the huge crater that had cracks that spread at large radius. He looks back at Izuku who just lets go of him and begins to walk away with Ken. He looks back at the crater then at the two brothers again and only had one thought in his head.
'What the hell?'
Flashback Over
'How?' He thought again as he tried to think of how the nerd now had a quirk. 'Quirks are meant to manifest at the age of four and the damn Deku didn't show any signs of a quirk at that age till now! This is unthinkable! How did that damn nerd get a quirk. Unless…' He looks back at Izuku who was still a blushing mess. He then looks at Ken who was looking out the window. 'Just what have those two been holding out on me?'
"So what do you think we're going to do today besides orientation. I wonder how our teachers are like. Oh, I can't wait to meet everybody." Uraraka says excitedly but there was a hint of nervousness in her voice.
"If you're here to just make friends, then you can pack up your stuff and leave." The two students heard causing them to stiffen a bit and turn their heads towards the direction the voice came from only to see it was a man with black hair that looks sleep-deprived laying in a yellow sleeping bag on the floor. The man then takes out a juice box and drinks it.
"Welcome to UA's hero course." The man says boredly.
'W-what is that thing?' Izuku, Tenya and Uraraka thought in unison as the man got up and got out of his sleeping bag. "It too you all eight seconds to shut up. That won't work. Time is precious. Rational students would understand that."
'Who is this guy?' The green haired OFA user asked himself mentally. 'If he's here then he must be some kind of pro but he looks so…worn out.'
'Why's a homeless guy here?' Ken thought.
"Morning class. I'm Shota Aizawa. Your teacher." He says shocking everybody as they weren't expecting someone like him to be their homeroom teacher. The man then looks at the whole class, noticing everybody was here, except one person as there was still an empty seat. He sighs before taking out the UA PE uniform from his sleeping bag.
"Okay I want you all to put this on." Aizawa says referring to the PE uniform and showing the class. "And meet me outside."
Outside (Minutes Later…)
"A quirk assessment test?!" The class of 1A say in unison, surprised at what their teacher had just told them. They were all outside in the PE uniform standing in front of the man who still had a bored expression on his face.
"But what about the entrance ceremony? The orientation?" Uraraka asks wondering why they weren't attending the event like the rest of the students from other classes. Aizawa, with his back still facing her and the class immediately answers.
"If you're going to become a hero, then you don't have the time for such leisurely events. UA's selling point is how unrestricted it's school tradition is. That's also how the teachers here do things." He then turns to face the class. "You kids have been doing these since junior high too, right?" He then takes out a phone and shows what was displayed to the class. "Physical fitness tests where you weren't allowed to use your quirks."
"The country still uses averages taken from results from students not using their quirks. It's not rational. Well, the minister of education is still just procrastinating." He then faces the Midoriya brothers. "Midoriya."
"Which one?" The two ask and Aizawa just stares at them with a blank expression. He then points at Izuku. "You the green haired one." He then points at Ken. "I'll be calling you Hiro from now on so as to avoid confusion." Ken nods his head in understanding.
"Anyway, you finished at the top of the practical exams, right?" The boy only nods his head in response. He then glances around, feeling everyone's eyes on him. He noticed Bakugo glaring at him but just ignored it. "In junior high, what was your best result for softball throw?" Izuku answers quickly and curtly. "65 metres." He then catches a ball that was thrown towards him. He looks at the ball for a second before he looks back at Aizawa with a raised eyebrow.
"I want you to throw that ball using your quirk. You can do it however you like so long as you stay in the circle." The man says and Izuku nods before he walks into the circle. He then takes a breath and closes his eyes. 'OFA Full Cowling…10%' He thought as he called upon 10% of OFA's power. Red vein-like markings appear all over his body before they fade and a green lightning aura began to crackle around his form.
Izuku then opens his eyes that were glowing and pulls his arm back. With a loud cry, he throws the ball with all his strength, causing a small shockwave and gust of wind to pick up around his and blow against everyone else. The ball rocketed at extreme speeds far away from him and the rest of the class. Everyone watched the ball as it soared through the air before disappearing into the distance. Their eyes all widened in shock at the raw strength Izuku just displayed. Only Izuku and Ken that looked unsurprised by what they saw.
"You all have to know your own maximums first." Aizawa states as the ball lands. A sound is heard from the device on his hand. "It's the most rational way to form the foundation of a hero." He finishes showing off Izuku's score which was 715.5 metres, shocking the rest of the class.
"715 metres? That's crazy?" A boy with yellow hair and a black lightning streak on the side shouts, baffled by the score. The others were just as shocked as he was. Bakugo's eyes were wide at the display of strength before they narrowed with determination. The nerd might have a quirk now but it was still nothing compared to his and he would prove it by getting higher than him.
'He has a great handle on his quirk but from what I saw during the exams, he still hasn't fully mastered it yet.' Aizawa thought slightly impressed.
"Oh what's this? It looks fun." A pink haired girl with pink skin and horns with somewhat square eyes and a black sclera and yellow irises says excitedly. "Being able to use our quirks as much as we want. As expected from the hero course."
"So, this looks fun to you huh?" Aizawa questions catching the class's attention. "You have three years to become the best pro heroes you can be. Are you going to have an attitude like that all the time?" The class aren't able to answer. Aizawa then sighs before a his lips spread as he lets out a smirk though it didn't looks friendly. "All right then. Whoever comes in last place in all eight tests will be judged to have no potential and will be punished with expulsion."
The class goes quiet, shocked at what they heard. Expulsion? On the first day?
"But sir, that isn't fair. We all passed the entrance exams so it doesn't make sense for us to get expelled on the first day for getting last place." Uraraka was the one who had said that breaking the silence. She earns a few nods of agreement from the class.
"Oh and you think natural disasters, power hungry villains and the way lives of innocent civilians have been destroyed is fair? As pro heroes, you'll be faced with adversities and you have to be ready to combat then unfairness." Aizawa says. "Also, we teachers are allowed to do what we want with our students. So I welcome you all…" Aizawa says as he raises his hair and looks at the students with an unfriendly smile on his face. "...to UA's hero course."
50 Metre Dash
This test was a short race used to find out how fast one can run but in a hero school like UA, students were allowed to use their quirks to go as fast as they can through 50 metres. Ken was up against Iida for this test. The two boys stood at the starting line, ready for the short race.
"On your marks..." Both boys got down on one knee with both palms touching the ground. "Get set…" The sound of a gun firing is heard and the two boys immediately dash through the fifty metres with fast speeds. Iida using his Engine quirk and Ken with his own quirk, dashed forward at high speeds.
Ken ends up winning the race much to Iida's surprise.
"2.97 seconds."
"3.04 seconds."
'W-what? I lost in a race?' Iida thought as he stared at the grinning Ken. 'He has a really good quirk.' He added, disappointed that he had lost. Ken just grins and walks over to Iida.
"Man, you're pretty fast."
"Thanks, but you're faster than me. But I'll just have to get better then." Iida says determined to better himself.
"That's the spirit!" Ken states with a nod.
Next was Uraraka and a blonde guy with a large tail. Uraraka used her Zero Gravity quirk to make her clothes really light so she could go faster. The sound of the gun firing was heard again and the two run through the fifty metres. The tail guy, as Ken dubbed him, finished first while Uraraka came in second place.
"5.49 seconds."
"7.15 seconds."
After a few more students had done theirs, it was Izuku and Bakugo's turn to race each other. Bakugo was glaring at the boy hatefully while Izuku was looking away from him with a nervous expression on his face. The sound of the gun firing is heard and the two of them charge towards the finish line. Bakugo uses his quirk to blast himself across the track and towards the finish line while Izuku bursts forward with high speeds using his Full Cowl at 8%.
"3.15 seconds."
"4.15 seconds."
Bakugo growls in frustration. Deku had beaten him. The thought of the nerd beating him at something didn't sit well with him. He glares at the boy who had small grin as he walked up to Ken.
Grip Strength
"540 Kg?! Are you some type of gorilla?!" Sero, a black haired guy with what looked like tape dispensers as elbows shouts in shock and awe as he stares at the score of another student. A multi-armed tall guy with white hair and wears a blue mask to cover the lower half of his face. The boy was using his multiple arms to grip tightly on the machine. Ken, meanwhile, gripped as hard as he could on the device and got a score of 110kg while beside him, Izuku, using his enhanced strength, got a score of 450 Kg.
Standing Long Jump
The students were supposed to jump as far as they could across a large sand box. Few students like Uraraka, who used her quirk to float over it, Bakugo, who propelled himself past it with his quirk and the French looking guy, cleared the sand box. Ken and Izuku leap over the sand box thanks to the high speeds their quirks grants them.
Repeated Side Steps
"Man, that's quite the quirk." Ken says as he watches a short boy with purple grape like balls on his head using his quirk to bounce side to side quickly. No one else really did well in the test.
Ball Throw
Like Izuku had done earlier, it was now Bakugo's turn to do the ball throw test. He walks into the same circle the freckled teen stood when he threw his and stretches himself a bit.
'I'm gonna blast through this test with a huge explosion!' He thought as he pulls his arm back. "DIE!" He shouts as he uses his Explosion quirk to release a huge blast that sends the ball flying far away at fast speeds. Aizawa stares at the scoring device.
'Die?' The others thought with confused expressions and sweatdrops. Why was he screaming die? Izuku just sighs already used to the blonde boy's habits.
"705.2 metres." He announces and while everyone was marveled at the score, 'Bakugo was shocked and speechless. He couldn't get a higher score than Deku? 'Dammit!'
Uraraka went up next and thanks to her quirk, got a score of infinity as the ball sailed through the air and continued to go until it was out of the Earth's atmosphere. This score shocked the class.
"INFINITY?!" The whole class shouts out.
'Holy shit!' Ken thought in shock.
A few other students went until it was Ken's turn. He walks into the circle and takes a breath before throwing the ball sky wards, surprising everyone as they were wondering why he did that. He then clenches his fists and spreads his arms and feet apart as a bright blue electrical aura. He then begins to spin around at high speeds before leaping upwards and delivers a fast spin kick to the descending soft ball causing it to rocket at extreme speeds far away from him and the rest of the class. Everyone watched the ball as it soared through the air before landing.
"695.5 metres."
'God dammit! Izuku beat me again?!' He then looks towards Izuku who was smirking at him. He knew he wouldn't hear the boy would hold this over his head for a while.
Distance Run
Izuku and Ken decided to not use their quirks so as to save their stamina and strength but they still did really well in the test. There was also a black haired girl who had also performed well in it.
Seated Toe-Touch
No one was able to beat Ken in this test as he kept on going and going until he had to be stopped by Aizawa.
Sit Ups
Like before, Ken had to be stopped by Aizawa again as he kept on going. Izuku was able to get a pretty high score as well.
Later…
"Alright, I'm gonna reveal the results right here. I don't really have the time to say the individual scores so here it is." He says revealing it to the whole class that had gathered in front of the man.
1. Izuku Midoriya
2. Ken Hiro Midoriya
3. Momo Yayaorozu
4. Shota Todoroki
5. Katsuki Bakugo
6. Tenya Iida
7. Fumikage Tokoyami
8. Mezo Shoji
9. Mashirao Ojiro
10. Eijiro Kirishima
11. Mina Ashido
19. Kyoka Jirou
20. Toru Hagakure
21. Minoru Mineta
"Dammit. Not again." Ken pouted with crossed arms. Izuku had gotten above him again. He then looks at Izuku who had a smug grin on his face and looked like he was about to say something. "Shut it."
"Also I was lying, I wasn't going to expel anybody." Aizawa says surprising everyone. Aizawa had a small smile looking at their reactions. "It was just a rational deception to make you all give it your all."
"Eh?" The class exclaim.
"I'm surprised no one figured it out. I thought it was obvious. Guess I should have said something." Momo Yayaorozu, who had gotten second place with her Creation quirk says having figured it out a while ago. If only she knew.
'Yeah, you should have.' The class thought.
"Alright we're done for the day. You can pick up the syllabus from class and head on home. Tomorrow will be filled with more rigorous training that today." Aizawa says as he walks away from the class.
After school, the two brothers could be seen walking out of school talking about their first day when they heard someone calling out to them.
"Midoriya! Hiro!" They both turn to see Iida walking up to them. "Oh how's it going Iida?" Ken asks the boy as the three continued to walk away from the school.
"I'm okay."
"That's good." Ken says with a nod. "You know, I was really taken in by Mr. Aizawa." Iida suddenly says with a hand on his chin. "I even thought, 'This is the best of the best' and such. I never thought a teacher would encourage us with a lie."
'Wow, Iida's really earnest.' Izuku thought.
"Hey! You guys!" The three students heard a familiar voice calling out to them causing them to turn around to see Uraraka running up to them. "You guys are heading to the station right? Wait for me!"
"Uraraka?!" Izuku states.
"You're the infinity girl?" Iida says remembering her score from the ball throw as the girl stops in front of them.
"My name's Ochako Uraraka. And your name's Tenya Iida right." Iida nods his head. "And you're, Ken Hiro Midoriya." Ken nods his head. "I already know Deku-kun."
"D-deku?!" Izuku states in surprise, not expecting anyone to call him by that name. Well other than Bakugo. "T-that's not my name!"
"Huh? But during the fitness tests, the boy named Bakugo said…" Uraraka stops imagining a comical version of Bakugo screaming with an angry look on his face with explosions going off on his right arm.
"Deku!"
"Uh…that's not actually my name. It's just Izuku Midoriya. D-deku is what Katsuki calls me to make fun of me…" Izuku explains quickly and a bit uncomfortably.
"So an insult…" Iida says making sense of what the boy said.
"Yup." Ken said with crossed arms.
"Oh really? I didn't know that." Uraraka says apologetically. "But I like the name Deku, it sounds like the word 'Dekiru' which means 'you can do it'. It seems to fit you!" Uraraka finishes with her cheerful smile.
"You can call me Deku!" Izuku, who was blushing as his whole face was red says quickly, accepting the name much to Ken and Iida's shock. "Midoriya! You're accepting it too easily! Wasn't that an insult?"
'I'm just as confused.' Ken thought.
Izuku just covers his red face and looks away. "It's like a Copernican Revolution…"
"Co-pe?" Ken and Uraraka, with both their eyes replaced with dots, state confused at what the freckled teen just said. What the hell is a Copernican Revolution? After the boy had calmed down, the four students and newly befriended teens left the school, heading towards the train station conversing and thinking back on what they had gone through for the day while excited for the days to come in UA High.
Alright, that's it for this chapter. I have already decided what Ken's future quirks will be and an interesting idea entered my head for the story ever since I started watching the 'Vigilante Deku' arc in the anime. You'll see when I get there. Anyway as for the ship of the story. Izuku will end up with Uraraka as expected but for Ken, you all will have to wait and see.
Anyway, I would still like some ideas for Ken's quirks from you guys and I'll see if it's something I can give him in the story.
Well, till then,
Read and Review.
Peace.
