Chapter 6: Exam Slam
Izuku walked into the campus of UA, in any other situation he would be in awe… But he had become a regular there that he knew about half of the support students and many other students as well.
Although he was in a robot body, he wore his school uniform due to the fact he figured it would be best to hide the fact he was inhabiting a robot, and it really wasn't a good idea to come with a puppet.
He did have a puppet on him in case of emergencies, but other than that he was in a robot.
"Deku!" yelled Katsuki.
"Hey Kacchan, you ready?" asked Izuku.
Katsuki looked at Izuku's hands.
"It's not the explosion model." Said Izuku.
"Good… I don't need a copycat." Muttered Katsuki.
Izuku laughed, Katsuki was still upset with that model.
"So which one is it?" asked Katsuki.
"The one David Shield built for me." Said Izuku.
"Didn't you just get it?" asked Katsuki.
"But it's my strongest one, and if I want to make it in, I have to be at my best." Said Izuku.
"Whatever." Muttered Katsuki.
As they walked in however Izuku ended up tripping on his own leg.
"Oh great…" thought Izuku.
However that was when he found himself floating.
"Sorry about that." Pipped a bubbly voice.
Izuku turned to the voice, it was a girl with short brown hair and rosy cheeks.
"I figured it would be all right." Said the girl who put her hand together caused Izuku to fall to the ground, "IT would be a bad omen to trip on the day of the exam you know."
Izuku just stared at her unable to form words.
"Well I'll see you inside." Said the girl running in.
"I talked to a girl!" yelled Izuku.
"No you didn't." said Katsuki.
He really didn't.
"Also you talk to Sweater all the time." Said Katsuki.
"Yeah but Mabel's different, she's like a big sister or a cousin… she's like family…" said Izuku.
"Either way! I like her!" said Mabel suddenly appearing giving the thumbs up
Izuku jumped into the air.
"Which one is it?" asked Katsuki as Mabel wasn't visible.
"Don't do that Mabel…" said Izuku.
Mabel decided to become visible.
"Come on she was cute…" said Mabel giving the thumbs up.
However that was when Dipper showed up and began to pull her away.
"Wait…" said Katsuki when she was gone, "Did you see that…"
"See what…" said Izuku.
Then it hit him.
Brown hair… perceptual rosy cheeks…
"Oh now I see it…" said Izuku.
"Seriously… that's weird." Said Katsuki.
"Let's go inside." Sighed Izuku.
They went inside and took the written exam first, with Izuku closely watched because… well they knew about abilities… of course other were closely watched as well due to their quirks. But still.
Afterwards they went inside for an orientation about the practical exam.
Izuku and Katsuki sat next to each other for this one as everyone was group by school.
Present Mic was the one presenting it.
"Hey Listeners give me a yeah!" yelled Present Mic.
No one did so.
"Well Sweater's not in the room." Muttered Katsuki making Izuku laugh a little.
"Well we have a reserved crowd here! Now let tell you how this exam will work! We're going to have a mock battle in a hip urban setting! You will have three types of opponents. Each one with a point value. Each one is worth 1, 2 or 3 points…" explained Present Mic.
Izuku looked at his and Katsuki's IDs. Both of them had different training grounds.
"I guess they have it so you can't team up with your friends." Said Izuku.
"Like I would help you." Said Katsuki.
"I know… it would just become a competition to make sure who would kill the most." Said Izuku, "But still… I know the enemies are robots… what should have plan should I come up with… would possessing them be a good idea but I don't know…
Katsuki rolled his eyes as he went on a mumble storm.
That was when one of the student raised his hand, it was a rather tall boy with dark blue hair and glasses.
"Yes number 7111!" said Present Mic.
"You said there are three opponents, yet the pamphlet said there are four of them." Said the boy, "Also you with the messy hair. Would you please stop mumbling! It's distracting for the rest of us! If you're not going to take things seriously, you should leave now!"
Izuku covered his mouth and blushed, it was probably best not known how his robot could blush.
Katsuki immediately saw red.
"You're the one who interrupted his explanation! And you shouldn't yell at someone for something they can't control!" yelled Katsuki.
"Kacchan! Please calm down." Begged Izuku.
Present Mic sighed, he knew he couldn't show favoritism after all he had gotten to know the two though out the months (as Katsuki did sometimes go to UA to talk to Nezu sometimes and was introduced to the staff) and he kept it in and kept up a professional demeanor.
"Great question Number 7111. There is a 4th opponent! But it's worth zero points, it's more like an objection or a wall. It's better to just avoid it because there's no need."
"Thank you for the explanation." Said the boy sitting back down.
Katsuki glared at the boy making a silent vow if they're in the same grounds that he would kill steal all of the enemies from him.
"Now before I leave you let me share with you a quote from Napoleon." Said Present Mic.
However Katsuki and Izuku both tuned out this part.
"Deku! You better get high enough points." Muttered Katsuki.
Izuku nodded.
And enough both of them got ready by changing to athyreotic wear and then bused to the training grounds.
Many of the examinees were in awe of the place.
Izuku just looked around and that was when he saw he was sharing the area with the nice girl (the one who kind of looked like Mabel) who was trying to steady her breathing.
"Maybe I should return the favor and help her out." Thought Izuku.
He began to walk over her, however a hand stopped him.
It was "Examinee 7111".
"Can you see she's trying to calm herself down." He said, "It would be rude to interrupt her. OR are you trying to sabotage her."
"That's not it all!" said Izuku, "She helped me earlier and I was planning to…"
However the other examinee saw Izuku and immediately brushed him off.
"He doesn't look like the hero type." Said one person.
"Well one less person we have to worry about." Said another.
"GO! GO! GO!" yelled Present Mic suddenly.
Everyone was confused.
"There's no countdowns in a real battle! Go now!" yelled Present Mic.
Izuku took a breath (even though it really wasn't needed) and activated the body's ability.
The robot body was already super strong as it was, but he guessed the power to increase the strength the body had, it was only a small among, he figured about 5 percent would be good.
He zoomed forward shocking the other enemies and went into body.
He saw a One Pointer an immediately punched it hard.
"All right! That's one." Said Izuku.
He ran off to find others.
In another room the staff watched. Along with the Pines family.
Among the staff was their newest teacher, Toshinori. Who had finally told the rest of the staff about his injury.
Though it did get rather interesting when he told them who knew.
(Flashback)
The teaching staff was shocked with only Nezu and Recovery Girl knowing about the injury.
However they were somewhat surprise about the list, it included his friend on the force, his and old teacher which sounded normal. He also explained he told Izuku and Katsuki, which they weren't surprised about, after all he did was trying to help them. Then he mentioned that the Pines also knew.
They understood Ford and Dipper.
He did have to explain about Mabel and Stan.
"Mabel stumbled on it." He explained.
"What about Stan?" asked Eraserhead, who still was the only member of the staff to still tolerate the criminal spirit.
"I tried to lie to him about being a separate person." Said Toshinori, "But he saw through it."
"That's what you get for trying to con a con man…" said Nezu.
"Also he believed the theory that Dipper and Ford had about me being another form." Said Toshinori.
"Well even if they weren't the researchers they were later own, they're still very intelligent." Said Recovery Girl.
"Though their main reason was that there was nothing on social media about me in public doing regular things." Said Toshinori.
There was award silence.
"You know that's always bugged me." Said Present Mic, "I mean you'd think there would be a ton of selfies and other things about you doing things like buying groceries or just walking down the street."
Toshinori face palmed at that reaction.
(End of Flashback)
Although he wasn't one of the judges, he still watched Izuku, who wasn't doing too badly.
The Pines who also weren't judges were also watching Izuku along with Katsuki.
"Looks like Katsuki is getting way too into it." Said Dipper.
Toshinori turned to the footage showing Katsuki standing on top of could be described as a bunch of robotic corpses.
"Do you think he would have done that if Bill hadn't messed with him?" asked Stan.
"Yeah…" said Dipper.
"Probably…" said Mabel.
Back on the testing ground, Izuku found a 3-Pointer, when suddenly he was surrounded by several 1-Pointers and a few 2-Pointers.
He got a fun idea and left his robotic body.
He entered the body of the 3-pointer and used it to destroy the other robots, then left, re-entered his own robot body and delivered a harsh punch destroying it as well.
Inside the monitor room Mabel cheered at this.
She got looks.
"Sorry…" she laughed.
"Well Mabel's enthusiasm aside… don't you think it's time for the real test." Said Nezu.
The other teachers seemed to agree.
One of the teachers pressed a button.
In the battlefield, Izuku was taking a small break to calculate how many points he had gotten.
"Okay so far I have gotten 15 one pointers, 7 2 Pointers…" he said in a muttered storm.
However he was doing it in the middle of the street, in a 1-Pointers was about to attack him.
However someone else had spotted it first. He turned and saw a blonde boy who seemed to sparkle wearing a strange looking belt.
"Oh Pardon Moi but thanks for the distraction…" said the boy, "Don't know if we'll see each other again…"
Izuku sighed at the boy. He was okay, but having another point would have helped a bit.
However before he could think about everything had rumbled, and everyone started to run.
He turned around and saw a massive robot that was the size of a building.
"That's the zero pointer!" he yelled in shock.
He was about to run away.
However he heard a cry.
He turned around and saw that girl, she was clearly injured and caught in rubble. With the Zero Pointer closing in on her.
His eyes widened in horror
He didn't even think, he didn't even think, his body just moved on its own.
And it wasn't because some weird glitch, while the bodies were referred to as robots, they were more like large metal puppets could control.
So it was all him.
As he ran, he pasted by "Examinee 7111" who saw him ran to help her.
When he forced the power into his legs and jumped up as high as possible, and then forced the power in his arm.
He punched the robot with 100 percent of the power he could give, completely smashing the robot.
Also it went over the structural limit of his arm… and his legs. As he fell back down he looked at his arm and legs.
"That's not good." Thought Izuku.
Then it struck him.
"I just wreck the body that David Shield made for me." He thought.
Thankfully he though, he was saved from further damage to his body, when the girl suddenly slapped him in the face.
He found himself floating in the air.
He saw that she was floating on some robot parts.
"Release…" the girl managed to get out as both of them fell to the ground.
Then the girl vomited all over the ground.
Izuku sighed and left the robot body.
His hand went to a pouch on his hip where he kept his emergency puppet in case something happen to his body he could at least communicate.
He decided to see if the girl was all right.
"Hey are you okay?" he asked.
She looked up and saw the floating puppet. She screamed.
"Oh sorry about that…" said Izuku.
"Wait… what's going on." Said the girl.
Then she saw the wreck robotic limbs from the robot body.
"Wait were you a robot? And now you're puppet…" said the girl then realized something, "Oh… you have a possession quirk."
"Uh… It's something like that…" said Izuku knowing he shouldn't tell her about Bill.
He wasn't sure if she had gotten enough points after all.
Now the exam was over many people was gathering around Izuku's robot body, while he wasn't sure what do about the gathering crowd.
"He was a robot the whole time!" yelled one of them.
"What was Tweest!" yelled someone nearby.
Of course most of them didn't notice the floating puppet.
However "Examinee 7111" was lost in thought.
"He saved that girl…" he thought, "He knew it was just a test but he still want out of his way to save her… but if he was just a robot…"
That was when he noticed the floating puppet near the girl and how the puppet looked like the robot body.
"Never mind." He thought, "There's something else going on with his quirk… but still… he saved her… but I would have done the same even if it wasn't a test…. Wait… it can't be…"
However that was when Recover Girl showed up.
"You're all heroes in my book." She said.
She looked around for the injured and gave those that weren't some vitamin gummies.
"Hey! There's something weird going on." Said one of the enemies .
"What do you mean?" she asked.
She saw the wrecked robot body.
"Midoriya… I know you're nearby." She said.
Izuku sighed and flew to her.
"Hey…" he tried to say.
But she just flicked the puppet's head.
"I know you can't feel pain like this but if you do stuff like that you might develop some bad habits." She scolded, "Who knows what might happen when we fix everything."
"I know…" sighed Izuku.
"Honestly…" she sighed looking for others to help.
In the monitor room the teachers were disusing something about what happened. While the Pines all sighed.
"Mabel you have to keep a tight lip about it." Said Dipper.
Mabel was kind of bad at keeping secrets, especially ones that were of good news.
"I know! I know…" said Mabel.
"You could always join me in trying to fix the robot body." Said Ford.
"No I can do other things." Said Mabel.
"Please tell me it's not hanging around with the second years" said Dipper.
"I won't." said Mabel.
Toshinori sighed.
"Hey! Are you going to avoid him for the next week?" asked Stan.
"Maybe.." sighed Toshinori.
The staff knew that he felt some favoritism towards Izuku, but they knew a good chunk of it came from the fact he felt like he was to blame for Bill taking over his body.
"If you do that you might want to give a fake excuse." Said Stan.
"Also probably tell him you're not mad about him wrecking that body." Said Mabel.
"(Shit! I didn't think about that!)" he yelled in English.
The Pines all stared at him.
"The greatest hero on earth everybody." Muttered Stan.
Sometime later… Izuku met up with Katsuki outside.
Katsuki eyed the fact he was in his puppet.
"So many points did you think you get?" asked Katsuki.
"In the 30s at least." Said Izuku.
"Ha! Got twice that many." Said Katsuki.
"I also wrecked the robot body…" sighed Izuku.
"Seriously Deku?" asked Katsuki, "That was one that All Might gave you."
"Yeah." Sighed Izuku.
"You think he's mad." Said Katsuki.
That was when Izuku's phones buzzed with a message from All Might reassuring him he wasn't mad at him for the wrecked robot body.
Also that something came up and he might be able talk for a while.
"That's good." He sighed.
"Seriously I can't believe you wrecked it." Said Katsuki.
"I was saving that girl who helped me." Said Izuku, "The zero pointer almost crushed her and I had to save her."
"You fucking wrecked it?" asked Katsuki, "The fuck!"
"I know… I know… I also wrecked the robot body…" said Izuku.
"I can't wait until we fight Cipher and get your body back…" said Katsuki.
"Wait! What do you mean by that!" yelled Izuku.
"Never mind…" muttered Katsuki.
Over the next week Izuku was worried. He did want to get into the Hero Crouse after all.
But he wasn't sure if his 30 plus points got him in.
During the week Mabel tried to reassure him it would be fine but when he asked how she knew she would come up with a bad excuse and leave the room.
He knew she knew something as because of what was going on he figured she probably knew his results, but decided to not to ask her.
After a week, Inko checked the mail.
"Izuku! It's here! Your acceptance letter from UA!" said Inko.
Izuku was excited and went to his room for privacy.
He awkward opened the letter, then realized it was two puppet job and inside was a holo-disk.
And immediately it turned on revealing All Might.
"I AM HERE! As a projection!" said All Might's projection.
"All Might!" said Izuku surprised.
"Yes! Something I've bene hiding from you and Young Bakugo all year is that I have taken a job this year teaching at UA. It's one of the reasons why Nezu invited me to know about Bill Cipher. But it was meant to be top secret until this announcement."
Izuku was surprised.
A voice whispered at the camera.
"What… I wanted to let him know." Said All Might's projection.
The person on the other end said something.
"I'm sorry…" said all Might projection, "Wait… I have to do how many of these?"
Izuku sighed at All Might's projection.
"Now after allying up everything, even including that little bit where you possessed the three pointer you managed to defeat 15 One Pointers, 7 2-Pointers and 4 3-pointers giving you 34 points" said All Might's projection.
Izuku gulped worried about what was going to happen next.
"However we also couldn't over look something." Said All Might.
The protection shifted to that of the girl.
"Excuse me… I was wondering." She asked Present Mic, "About that boy… the one who possesses things… I was wondering if you could tell me if he passed…"
"Sorry little listener, but I can't reveal the scores until the results are sent out." Said Present Mic.
"It's not that." Said the girl, "I was hoping that if he couldn't pass you can give him my points."
Izuku watched in shock.
"He could have gotten more points if he didn't save me! He's a real hero! He saved my life! I have to pay him back…" said the girl.
"Don't worry, everything's going to be fine. Trust me." Said Present Mic.
The girl was confused but beloved him.
The projection switched back to All Might.
"You see there's a secret hidden point, given out by those who act like a true hero. After all fighting villain is one thing, but we can't ignore those that go above and beyond." Said All Might ,"That is why we also award Rescue Points! 60 rescue point for Izuku Midoriya!"
He put up the test results and he saw the list of the various names at who got the highest score.
On top with 94 was Izuku's.
"Congratulations Young Midoriya, welcome to Your Hero Academia." Said All Might.
Izuku was celebrating, then he saw that the letter also included the top 10 that he briefly saw.
Then he saw who was number 2.
"Uh-oh…" said Izuku.
His cellphone started to ring.
He decided to ignore it and tell his mom and the Pines the good news.
Though the Pines already knew.
"I got in!" he cheered.
"Oh Izuku!" cried Inko going to hug her son's puppet.
"Well... we already knew." Said Mabel.
"Those rescue points." Laughed Dipper.
That was when Izuku's phone rang again.
"There's some bad news though..." sighed Izuku.
Stan sighed.
"I haven't had corporal time today so…" said Stan.
He went in and picked up the phone, but he didn't answer.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT DEKU! HOW THE FUCK DID YOU GET FIRST! THIS IS BULLSHIT!" yelled Katsuki on the other.
"Are you done yet kid?" asked Stan .
He could feel Katsuki freeze on the other end.
"Stan…" said Katsuki.
"Green bean knew you were going to react like this." Said Stan.
""Seriously?" asked Katsuki.
"He beat you for number 1." Said Stan.
"But those rescue points…" muttered Katsuki.
"Not your fault if you didn't act like a hero and save people." Said Stan.
"Why you…" said Katsuki.
"You don't want to blow up the phone… do you." Said Stan, "Look I got to go. Running out of time…"
He then handed the phone.
"Hey Kacchan…" said Izuku.
The way he was on his phone weird, he held his phone and as his voice came from the puppet he just had to hold it in his hand… the weird part was the fact that Izuku could hear from the puppet as well.
"Seriously rescue points." Said Katsuki.
"I just reacted." Cried Izuku.
"This is bullshit and you know it!" yelled Katsuki.
Izuku sighed as he let Katsuki vent.
But still… he was one step closer to his dream and one step closer to hopefully finding his body and Bill.
Even if his current only team mate is metaphorically biting his head off for getting a better score than him.
Next Time: It's the first day in school, with Easerhead (or going by his real name Aizawa) as their homeroom teacher things won't be easy... however it's not just that as they have to tell their whole class about Bill, but it helps that Mabel chooses who gets her symbol while other symbols are either figured out or chosen. Who are they and what will happen? Find out next time!
A/N: Yeah, the fact that Ochaco and Mabel look similar will sometimes be brought up...
