Izuku stared down at the bright golden dates of UA as he, Bakugo and Himiko looked at the next step in becoming heroes, the giant institution towering above them. Izuku remembered how last time he had been here his heart wanted to jump out of his chest and his legs were nothing but jello, yet now his heart was steady and his legs were standing firm on the ground.
Another difference this time is… the security.
Izuku gave a quick glance around and counted at least five different pro heroes standing guard in different parts of the entrance and the one that made him the most nervous was the black haired man standing next to the gate looking at all the students walking in.
Eraserhead.
Why were there so many heroes here and if he is here then it must be serious because if it was just standing guard he definitely wouldn't have come or at least would have stayed hidden instead of just standing in plain sight.
"Izuku, you're muttering again" His sister said as she lightly pushed him snapping out of his trance and then began the walk into the school.
Izuku sighed, he would need to look into this but it would need to be some other time but for now…
He looked down at his feet, his usual favourite red shoes shining under the light.
It was time to meet someone.
Izuku took a step forward and purposely tripped with his own feet, he saw the ground quickly approaching but he kept the calm expression on his face. At the edge of his vision he could see Bakugo and Himiko reach forward to try and catch him, he held back a chuckle as he mentally apologized to them.
Soon, as expected, he stopped falling or, to better describe it, he began to float.
Everyone froze in surprise as Izuku was no longer touching the ground and the new brown haired girl that stood next to them helped him get back on his feet before she brought her hands together and the feeling of weightlessness disappeared.
"Sorry for using my quirk on you but it would have been bad luck if you tripped, right?" the brunette said with a relaxed smile as she continued "I'm so nervous, bet you are too!"
Izuku and the others could only look at each other as the girl kept talking without giving them an actual chance to speak before she began to walk away waving at them "Well, good luck!"
"That was weird" Bakugo was the first one to break the silence as they watched the girl disappear into the crowd of other participants.
Izuku had a small smile on his face but didn't say anything as they continued to walk into the auditorium, they luckily found seats together and they began chatting as around them the seats began to fill.
Izuku was mostly just looking around at the different participants hoping to see some of his future classmates and he was not disappointed when he saw Iida sitting with his back straight on his seat or the shiny hair of Aoyama somehow sparkling in the middle of a crowd, but the one that almost made him break into a wide smile was the messy head of purple hair that he recognized, it might have already been a few years but there's no way that he would forget about Shinsou.
Soon everyone's attention was caught by the figure that walked on to the stage " WELCOME EVERYBODY! CAN I GET A HEY!? " Present Mic exclaimed as he waited for a response from the deathly silent audience but he just moved on as if it was nothing " ALRIGHT, EXAMINEES. I'M GONNA GIVE YOU THE LOW-DOWN ON HOW THIS WILL GO DOWN! ARE YOU READY!? " and once more the audience didn't answer back his excitement.
Izuku could hear by his side his sister chuckle at the situation but Bakugo was paying full attention as the hero began to explain their situation but he soon noticed her expression fall "We are all in a different area…"
Bakugo clicked his tongue "They don't intend on letting classmates or friends cooperate with each other, huh?"
Himiko just gave him a sad nod as she had been really excited to do the exam with the three of them together. Izuku didn't say anything as he absentmindedly listened to the pro hero explain the exam. The information was useless for him since he had already done the exam once.
Suddenly, a young man stood up from his seat before raising the handouts that they had been given "On the instructions, there are clearly four types of villains listed! Such an error would be the height of embarrassment for…" Izuku smiled fondly as he watched Iida continue his questions.
" DON'T WORRY ABOUT THAT LAST ONE, IT'S WORTH ZERO POINTS SO IT WILL JUST BE A SMALL NUISANCE IN YOUR EXAM! " Izuku wanted to laugh at the way he described the zero pointer knowing full well that it was a 'little nuisance'
Finally, the time had come for them to go their separate ways, his sister gave him a quick good luck hug and Bakugo... "I swear that if you somehow fail this I will kill you and then kill you again, got it nerd?" Well, he told him to do his best in his own way.
In front of the city replica, Izuku played around with a small ball of fire that he rolled around his hand, it burned slightly but he didn't mind it as his skin healed instantly at the small damage. He looked around and caught glimpses of his future classmates, sadly, Shinsou didn't seem to be in his area so he couldn't see how he was.
He hoped his sister would do good, her quirk isn't really well suited for battle against machines but he knew that she was smart and really tricky, she would find a way, Bakugo was of no concern seeing how he did last time.
Having done his little mind list, he decided to close his eyes and take a deep breath as he waited for the signa-
" AAAAND START!!! "
As soon as Mic shouthed the words Izuku's eyes shot open with new determination and under him a spark ignited as he focused his flames under him to shoot him forward through the open gates into the fake city.
" WHAT'S THE MATTER!? THERE'S NO COUNTDOWNS IN BATTLE, SEE THAT GUY GETS IT, NOW GET TO IT!!! " Mic said, finally snapping everyone from their shock and causing them all to rush forward.
Izuku smirked as he remembered how he had been like them before but now, as he shot forward a wave of fire completely engulfing three two pointers, he was different.
The exam continued like last time except that this time he was finally getting some villain points, sometimes danger sense would activate and warn him of someone in danger which he would go and help and it helped since he could gain some rescue points and boost his score even higher.
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In a dark room lit up by only the screen that flickered through the different participants of the test, the different pro heroes murmured to each other.
"That blonde kid with the explosion quirk is strong but he's been insulting everyone he meets, what a bad personality…"
"Man, that green haired girl is really quick on her feet, her quirk sucks for this test but she has actually taken down a lot of robots and is even using their parts as weapons!"
The heroes continued but one tired black haired man stared at one screen in particular which showed a young boy with purple hair run around with a long metal pipe which he used to fight against the robots and he couldn't help the small proud smile that came to his face.
Shinsou had grown a lot in the last few years after Remnant got him out of his home and somehow before he knew it, he had already signed the adoption papers.
It took him a while to actually get used to their home as the scars of the old one were still present but he has done leaps and bounds towards recovery although he still got a bit of anxiety when left alone but the cats they owned helped with it. Another thing that changed was his own body, because they barely fed him before he had been shorter and skinnier than most kids but after some good meals and exercise he had actually gotten a surprising growth spurt.
Since he was a teacher at UA he had offered him a chance to enter by recommendation but he had turned him down since he said that he wanted to get in by his own merit.
But his mood soured as he thought about the last thing they had talked about before he entered the exam.
"Do you think… Remnant will try to get into UA?" Shinsou said, almost making Aizawa spill his coffee.
"...What?" He carefully said so that his son wouldn't notice his obvious hesitation.
"Well it's just that, don't take my word for it, but I think that maybe we have the same age so… if I'm finally entering highschool they might also be entering too" he said with a shrug "They did good work as a vigilante and they could finally do it legally with a license, but it's just a thought…" Shinsou finished sadly.
Aizawa was tightly gripping his mug as he considered the thought his son offered as he also tried to decide between telling him what he knew about the missing vigilante.
One thing that had stayed consistent over the years was that Remnant was his son's biggest inspiration, probably even bigger than him and Mic. But his son thought of the vigilante as someone who tried to do good while he knew that they could be related to the most dangerous villain to ever exist.
Aizawa, now plagued by the thought of someone who could be a traitor decided to inform Nezu about this which got a reaction out of the small animal, they ordered to increase security for the exam and school and since he was the only one who had seen the vigilante he would be in charge of looking into students to see if anything strange appeared.
Luckily, nothing had yet to happen and his list of possible suspects was still empty so maybe the vigilante had either gone somewhere else or somehow died and was now laying in a ditch somewhere.
"Hey, did Endeavor have another kid?" The sudden question caught everyone's attention because of its sheer stupidity and total possibility.
Everyone turned to look at one screen that showed a kid with messy green curls as they shot into the sky by using their fire under their feet as propulsion and then sent a barrage of fireballs at a duo of three pointers that exploded to pieces and the kid gracefully landed as they dashed forward for another target.
Everyone was shocked as that did not seem like the movements of a young teen, they were too calculated almost as if they had been practiced for years.
Nezu moved forward on their seat with a smile on their face that sent a shiver through everyone present in the room "we have quite the interesting batch of kids this year, but of course…" a red button suddenly light up in front of the white rat showing the manic twinkle in their eye "this is where they show their true value"
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Izuku waved his hand extinguishing the small flames that remained on it, he had taken out a good amount of robots so he was confident that he would get in and if it still reached short, the rescue points would come in handy.
Suddenly, the entire city began to tremble making everyone stop in their tracks and look around in confusion and surprise, just as sudden, the buildings began to fall as from the ground a massive figure began to rise, it's dark green metal body stood taller than any of the buildings and the eye in the middle of its face shone a bright red as it turned on.
Everyone looked in shock and fear at the zero pointer that had begun to slowly move, it's massive body toppling down the buildings around it.
"What the hell is that thing!?"
"Isn't that too much, even for UA!?"
"It's not worth anything, just run!"
Izuku calmly stood in place as students ran past him in the opposite direction of the giant robot, he even caught a glimpse of Iida following the crowd.
Izuku suddenly flinched at the headache that danger sense gave him. He had been using the quirk a lot throughout the exam so it was starting to take a toll on him, as a new warning entered his mind.
"Yeah yeah, I know…" he muttered to himself as he looked towards the brown haired girl that had gotten stuck under a pile of rubble.
Izuku let out a sigh as ge mentally prepared himself for how badly this was going to hurt. He shot forward towards the zero pointer ignoring the looks that the other participants gave him but he didn't care as he focused on boosting his fire quirk with OFA, he had yet to perfect the move but he couldn't hesitate even for a moment.
He just hoped that Endeavor would get angry about him stealing one of his moves.
Around his arms flames began to form and soon shined a bright blue but he just clenched his teeth at the pain and focused all of the energy to the tip of his fingers, the flames followed his will as the flames snaked down his arm to his fingers where they formed small balls of fire.
He stopped in front of the mechanical beast as Uraraka looked at him with surprise and concern but he just smiled at her before turning back at the robot with a cocky grin "Sorry big guy but you messed with the wrong guy"
He pointed his fingers at the zero pointer and in the blink of an eye ten different beams of fire had already sliced all the way through the machine only for him to then pull the beams almost as if they were strings tied to his fingers making them slice the beast as if it was nothing more than paper.
The beams disappeared just as fast as they had come but the results were plain to see as the zero pointer crumbled to countless pieces. Everyone who watched the scene could only stare in pure awe as what had seemed unbeatable had been turned into a pile of scraps in seconds.
Izuku fell to his knees as he clutched his badly burned hands, the skin already dark and in some parts falling off but he just took deep breaths as he put all of OFA into his healing quirks and he watched as his own skin regenerated and the burned one fell off and crumbled on the ground.
Flashfire Fist - Hell Spider
His hands felt a little numb but that didn't matter as he quickly moved to push the rubble off of the girl who just looked at him with wide eyes, finally after freeing her leg he offered her a hand "Hi, are you okay, can you stand?"
It seems that was enough to get her back as she shook her head "N-no, I think I sprained my ankle…" Izuku carefully helped her stand by letting her put her weight on him.
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The dark room had gone into chaos as the heroes all loudly talked about the impressive scene that had just developed in front of them.
"That kid was insane! Everyone was running away but he just dashed towards it with no fear!"
"And he did it all just to save that girl, now that's what you call a heroe"
"Are we not going to talk about the power he just showed? He must be incredibly talented to pull that off"
A skinny blonde man in an eye-catching suit looked at the young green haired boy that was helping the brunette stand as Recovery Girl approached them.
That small boy had shown not only an incredible power but his amazing control over it but most importantly he showed the great importance of rushing into battle to selflessly save a life.
The skinny man smiled as his blue eyes twinkled with excitement as he thought that he might have found another possible successor.
On the other hand, Aizawa glared at the image of the green kid on the screen, it was all too strange for him. He grabbed the file of the boy and began to skim through it.
Izuku Midoriya
So they don't have any connection to Endeavor, that's good to know but it wasn't important.
Quirk: Fire bending
Strange name but it worked, it was short and straight to the point, but again, nothing weird. Until he noticed the date it stated when his quirk manifested.
10 months ago.
10 months ago.
Warnings began to ring all through his head, how was it possible for a child to suddenly get a quirk at the age of 14 and in ten months master it to the level of the literal number two hero?
It just didn't make sense. Once more he looked at the boy through the cameras with a frown and suspicion in his eyes.
His list has already gotten a name.
