After steeling themselves with determination, the group headed towards the auditorium where all the other students have gathered and settled down.
"Wow that's a lot of students." Izuku said fidgeting a bit at the capacity of students within the place. It's been so long since he's been around other people… that he didn't have to kill and collect their souls… even with new powers he has no social skill whatsoever.
"Come on you big baby, let's sit down here." Ochaco teased as she grabbed his arm and pulled him towards her as they sat at the end of a row with two chairs empty behind them.
"I guess we'll take this spot, ribbit." Tsuyu croaked as she sat behind Ochaco and Katsuki behind Izuku. The latter sitting with his arms crossed and propped his feet up on top of the Izuku's chair, snorting as he looked around.
"Tch… too many damn extras here." The blonde scoffed as he looked at the crowd beside them. "So, anyone wanna tell me whose presenting this program?"
As on cue, his question is answered as the lights hit the stage in front of them, on the platform they saw a man with a wild blonde haircut with orange shades and a pair of headphones wearing an outfit with black pants, a black jacket with upturned collar with shoulder pads and fingerless gloves. This was the current Pro Hero Present Mic.
"Welcome one, welcome all to my very live show. I am your host Present Mic! Everyone say HEY!" The Pro Hero announced loudly into the mic and pointed his fingers towards the crowd. He was met with silence.
"Hahahaha! Tough crowd aren't we… well not to worry, it's my job to make you all fill your hearts with passion and have that fire inside stir and grow into amazing fireworks!" he shouted as everyone had a bead sweat drop from their foreheads.
"This man is seriously energetic.' Ochaco and Tsuyu thought.
'This man is seriously retarded.' Katsuki thought with an annoyed expression.
"It's Present Mic! One of the Pro Heroes in UA, I listen to talk shows on the radio all the time and he's actually here. I get the feeling all the teachers are Pro Heroes." Izuku muttered to himself and would've continued if Katsuki hadn't put give him a chop to head.
"Quiet nerd!" The blonde hissed while the latter rubbed his head tenderly and Ochaco giggled at their antics while Tsuyu sighed in exasperation.
"Now listen up, listeners! Mic shouted as he snapped his fingers towards them. "Its time prove yourselves to see if you what have it takes to be in UA in our ten-minute practice run at our replication city district!
Students followed his fingers towards the screen and saw a preview of the city before the slide changed into a different one.
"To survive in our little area of action, we have tons of fake villians with a select number of points planted on them from 1 to 3. Destroy these fiends for points to rack up a high score but remember the higher the points, the more difficult the robot is!"
"You can use whatever gear you want to blow them sky high, just grab what you need then meet at your designated area after my presentation, ya dig!?"
"Designated Area?" Ochaco repeated as she looked at her card before looking at Izuku's and saw that he was in District A while she was in D. "Different districts huh?"
"To make sure we don't work together with people we already know." Tsuyu clarified as the brunette nodded her head.
"Right, that would be unfair to everyone else if they had partners helping each other stock up on points, so they divide us into different areas." Izuku muttered out of habit.
"Works for me, still it sucks we're not in the same area Deku… it's a shame that I can't show up and beat you with the most points at the same time." Katsuki smirked as Ochaco sweat dropped at explosive user while Izuku was still muttering.
Only the blonde would think of everything as a competition.
"All fake villians spread out across all battlefields in each district. Take out as many as you can with your quirks but no attacking competitors directly now! That's anti-hero stuff right there and against the rules you see!?
"Excuse me sir!"
Everyone turned their attention to a student with a stern expression on his face wearing glasses. "On the handout, it states that there are clearly four types of villains listed. IF this is an error then this is a shameful to U.A academy." He then pointed all the way to the other side of the stands, directly at Izuku.
"And you with dark green hair, stop talking to yourself it's disturbing others. If you think UA a place to goof around then you should leave immediately." He said firmly.
What they didn't know is that Izuku was slowly building up his quirk to as dark started gathering into his right fist. During his training with his embodiment, he learned how to control some of his powers but the bond between him and Death was still static and shaky, so his emotions became a little more hostile but not towards his family, his victims. Death would also try to influence him through mental connection to get rid of nuisances in this world to make it better, like right now.
He was about to raise his right hand until Ochaco quickly grasped his hand and whispered comforting words to him while the blonde growled at the student.
"Screw off Four-Eyes." Katsuki growled at him. "If it really was a problem, then why didn't DJ over here say anything about it or the students beside us huh!?"
"Now, now, everyone settle down. Examinee 3452 is right but save the heat for battle after the written exam." Mic shouted as Katsuki stared at him with a shocked expression.
"The hell?"
"How did he know your number, ribbit?" Tsuyu asked as she turned to Katsuki for an answer.
"The hell would I know." He hissed.
"Thanks guys." Izuku said.
"No problem." Ochaco said as Tsuyu nodded her head and Katsuki sat back with his arms crossed.
"If anyone's gonna mess with you that's my job." The blonde stated while the death user chuckled nervously at his statement.
"Good point young man! Let's just say that the fourth villain is a surprise, a gimmick that goes wild in crowded and tight areas, so I best avoid that sucker if I were you!" Mic shouted.
"I see… pardon my interruption!" The glasses man said before sitting back down.
"Well that's all I have say little listeners. Now go out there and have a great time suffering! GO beyond Plus ULTRA!"
"This is ridiculous." Izuku said as he stared at the giant city before him from his selected district. All four of them were in Districts from A to D. He was in District A while Tsuyu was in B, Katsuki in C and Ochaco in D.
He kind of wished one of them was in there with him right now but this was the Entrance Exam and as stated earlier, you can't have others to help rack up your points. Only in his case, he needed someone to keep him in check.
"I hope I don't go berserk over this."
"So many souls, so many of them to play with… and yet…"
"Shut up." Izuku muttered to himself getting rid of that voice inside his head before focusing back onto the exam. "I really need to get this under check. I just hope things don't get worse."
"You from earlier!"
And it just got worse'
"Was I not clear with what I said, if you are only here to goof around then you might as well leave. This exam for those who want to be heroes not for jokesters." The glasses kid said as he placed a firm hand on his shoulder, sending a warning gaze at Izuku. "So I think it's best if you—"
"If you don't get your hand off me right now…" Izuku started before turning to him as creepy grin formed onto his lips scaring the older teen. "…there might be an unfortunate accident in the exam."
"Accident?!, are you actually here to become hero!?" the older teen with a bewildered expression.
"I am but it's not like I have chance in the matter. And even if I wanted to, I can't fix past mistakes…nor bring back those who lost their lives." Izuku said cryptically before walking away to the starting line. As he did, he notice the wary looks of those around him after what he said.
They were scared of him… might as well be. It's not like he can even make friends if he tried. He couldn't make any before when he was little… so why start now? Katsuki was the only person that met him when he was little, and he met both girls during his captivity so… yeah not really keen on making friends, especially if they all fear you.
"Let's do this."
"Alright listeners, it's time for your entrance exams!" Present Mic shouted watching them all from the observation tower. "AND START!"
Izuku instantly rushed towards the district as everybody looked at the Pro hero in confusion.
"What you kids waiting for, a countdown? In a real battle there is no countdown! Now get those little legs moving and start smashing!" Mic laughed and yelled at them as he saw the students start hurdling towards the district.
Time Left (9:30)
Izuku was rushing down a street looking left and right for a robot to hit but there were none in sight, so he quickly stopped and used his ears to listen for any sound in the area. Waiting a few seconds nothing came in until he heard a bunch of metal clink and saw at least 3 robots beside him to his right. Two of them were two pointers while the one in the middle was a three-pointer.
"Target lock. Objective set to kill target." The third pointer shouted robotically. Izuku quickly rushed towards them, getting behind a two pointer he instantly punched a hole through its chest with brute force before moving to the other two. He dodged the second two pointer's arm that was aimed at him before grabbing it and lifted the hunk metal towards the three pointers, colliding against each other to the ground before stomping on their heads.
Earning a total of seven points, Izuku quickly dusted off his hands and was about to go to his next destination until another three-pointer appeared out of nowhere from behind him. The robot went to attack Izuku through his shoulder but as soon the metal touched his body… the hand turned brown before enveloping the entire robot into a new color.
The robot was now turned into rust before its entire body crumbled into dust. Izuku looked at the dust down on the ground before sighing to himself.
"I'm lucky that I activated my quirk in time. Then again I probably wouldn't have died or get seriously injured from since I'm literally immune to death itself."
"Yess…Death… cannot hurt host… nor can host hurt Death. We are one… who have taken away many and send them to their own hell." His tenant said mentally before disappearing once again into the deep psyche of his mind.
"I wonder how the others are doing on their exams." Izuku wondered as he started running towards his next robot to kill.
Time Left (7:50)
"DIE! YOU PIECE OF SHIT!" Katsuki shouted as he fired explosions from his hands towards another pair of robots that were making their way to him before getting blown to smithereens once again. All around Katsuki were nothing but pieces of destroyed robots that were either burned, blown to bits or had giant holes in them.
The said kid was laughing like a maniac as he destroyed the robots. These robots coming at him like a villain made something inside him tingle, as if he was on battlefield fighting for his life against numerous opponents with their weapons ready all aiming to kill him.
Hahahaha! Oh, the feelings of excitement and the thrill of survival were truly something oneself should experience.
"Why can't people feel like this all the time!? If they did they probably have more fun fighting and enjoying the ongoing battle than try to get it over with! Where would the fun be in that!? Hahaha!" Katsuki laughed as he clutched his sides together.
While he was doing this, the other examinees that were passing by or were right behind them were really scared at what they were seeing. Oh, who were they kidding they were scared shitless at the blonde in front of them that took out the robots as if they were dummies and then started laughing like a lunatic.
'He's absolutely crazy/insane/nuts/psycho.' Those were the thoughts of multiple examinees as they continued staring at Katsuki's laughing form before going back to the task at hand.
Making sure to avoid Katsuki at all costs.
Time Left (5:10)
Ochaco was panting to herself as she held a hand over her chest. She just dealt with a bunch of robots and took them all down pretty easily but that wasn't the problem. The problem right now was her aura reverting from pink to green back and forth.
'My chest it burns…" she thought mentally. The tightness in her chest was starting to get more and more heavy before hearing her own tenant speak in a calm tone.
"Calm down child, it's only a small burst of your desire trying to breakthrough. I need you to take a deep breath and relax." Famine spoke.
Ochaco took several breaths as the voice spoke to her and was walking through a small alley. Leaning against the wall, she panted again once more before taking her tenant's advice and slowly took a deep breath. Inhaling a big lump of air before exhaling it all out through her mouth, her aura disappearing as she did this.
Ochaco quickly scanned her chest before releasing a sigh in relief. "Good it's gone now."
"Child, your desire is burning your soul brighter than normal and your resistance is weakening. I told you, you must follow your own desire like everyone else."
"I need to hold it… just a little longer…"
"Child your starving! Your soul is literally starving for desires… not through others but your own…. And you know what you want the most." Famine told the brunette as the latter clicked her teeth in frustration.
"The thing I want the most… is so close to me but is constantly fighting the battle within themselves and is always haunted by those from the past." Ochaco argued as she walked out of the alley, wiping the sweat off her forehead with her right hand. "Even so, I can tell he wants to be with me just as much I want to be with him… but I won't force myself on him."
"I want to be with him… without trouble… without the need to fight… without the need to suffer… nothing. I just want to be with him, so we can be together along with our daughter." She said sadly as her embodiment frowned at her.
"I know child, I know. But sometimes you need those things, they are necessities vital for anyone in order for them to grow into the person they'll become in the near future. It's not just you… Human, Demon, God, doesn't matter who. Everyone needs it."
"Right." Ochaco voiced, still deep in thought about her desire and how bad it can be if she doesn't satisfy her hunger soon.
"How about this child?"
"What is it?"
"If you make it into UA... I will hold off your desire a little more."
Ochaco stopped for a bit stunned at her tenant's statement. She was offering her host a proposition and they never really did that before.
"Y-You… You're serious?"
"Yes, but once a certain event comes that's it… you will have to come forth with your desire otherwise you will consumed by it." Famine stated.
"Okay… wait what about this event?"
'Do not fret, this event is not happening for awhile so you have plenty of time. I will inform you when it is near understood?' Famine warned her with a stern tone.
"Yes." Ochaco nodded, accepting the voice's request. If you could imagine it, Famine gave Ochaco a small smile at the girl's personality.
'Good now get back out there and get to smashing.'
"Roger that!"
Time Left (3:00)
Tsuyu was swinging around the district with tongue from one building to the next before landing onto a clear rooftop. Walking over to the edge, she looked over at the replicated city in front of her and saw all the other students taking care of other pointers.
"I still can't believe that UA have their own city that is used for battlegrounds such as this. Makes me wonder if we might come back if we do pass, ribbit." She said in thought as she put her finger to the corner of her mouth.
"The pointers distributed all over in this section of the city were pretty easy to deal with. Looks like all that training paid off." She said as she got into another leap position before jumping upwards and out towards another building sticking onto its surface like a spider.
"I wonder how the others are doing with their scores." Tsuyu then got into a thinking position. "Let's see I have a total of about 75 points, but I'm pretty Katsuki or Izuku have a higher count while Ochaco and I could be tied for the same amount of points."
"Oh well I guess I'll find out when this exam is over." She said to herself before jumping off the building into another direction.
Izuku was rushing towards the center of the city as he took out another pair of robots and searched for the next one only find out there were no more in the area.
"I should have a good amount of points to qualify for UA, but I don't know the exact amount I need in order to pass." He muttered as he ran through the city. He was then met with a familiar face when he heard his name being called.
"D-Deku!"
Hearing his name being called he stopped his run and turned to his right to find Ochaco running up to him.
"O-Ochaco? What are you doing here?" Izuku asked her.
"That's my line. I thought you were in a different district." Ochaco said in a confused tone, but she was nonetheless happy at seeing Izuku.
"I am, at least I think I am. I just started running down here looking for more robots." He answered her.
"That's exactly what I'm doing!"
"Hush, Katsuki!"
Hearing two familiar voices, both Izuku and Ochaco turned their heads towards the direction of where they came from and saw Katsuki and Tsuyu descending before landing in front of them.
"Hello." Tsuyu greeted them.
"You guys are here too?" Ochaco called out in confusion once again.
"The hell's going on here, I thought we couldn't work together with people to rack up points?" the blonde thought as the Pestilence user beside him answered his question.
"We can't."
"So then why the hell are we all here then?" Katsuki growled at her as Ochaco shrugged her shoulders.
"Your guess is as good as mine."
"Ribbit. I just realized something." Tsuyu started as they all gazed at her to listen. "Did anyone here encounter the fourth type of the fake villains?"
"No." Izuku answered.
"Nope." Ochaco added.
"Didn't see shit." Katsuki cursed as the others frowned at him.
"Can't you go for one day without cursing Kacchan?"
"I do that every day with Unicorn."
"Unicorn?" Ochaco and Tsuyu answered.
"Eri's nickname." Izuku answered reluctantly as they both nodded before he spoke again. "Back to the topic, if none of us encountered the fourth villain than what does it—"
*rumble**rumble*
Izuku was cut off as the ground beneath the four of them and all the other students. They all turned to the source of the small rumble and their eyes widened in shock and awe. IN front of them was a massive robot with a giant number zero planted onto his forehead.
"Well shit." Katsuki cursed with an eyebrow raised in curiosity.
"That's your reaction to this?" Ochaco asked him with a tick mark on her forehead at his reaction.
"Eh. More or less."
"Doesn't matter it's only here to distract us we need to find more robots before the test—" Tsuyu paused as the robot release a giant shockwave through the city by stomping its foot hard, causing some of the buildings crumble around them.
The group covered their eyes as dust flew into the direction for a few seconds before dying down. Their eyes then widened in horror as they saw numerous examinees around them trapped by some of the rubble around them. Some of them were groaning in pain and were still disoriented from the attack. As they were trying to escape the zero-pointer continued heading towards them with no intent of stopping.
"It's still going. Doesn't it notice the students trapped there?" Ochaco panicked as the robot came closer.
"I don't think so."
"Don't these stupid robots have a failsafe or some shit to stop them from injuring the extras?" Katsuki asked in a bored tone.
"It doesn't matter. Something tells me that thing won't stop if we wait it out." Izuku said before turning his attention to them. "Ochaco, you and Asui—"
"Tsuyu."
"Sorry, you and Tsuyu go and help the other students from the rubble. Kacchan, we'll take care of the robot." He ordered as the blonde let out a feral grin.
"Good enough for me. Let's get going."
"Please don't go overboard." Izuku muttered to himself as they all split up.
So, while Izuku and Katsuki distracted the robot, Ochaco and Tsuyu helped the other students out of the surrounding debris. Ochaco made all the rocks weightless, lifting them up together while Tsuyu picked up the examinees with her hands or with her tongue. Either way they were all making sure that everyone was getting to a safe spot.
Katsuki shot out explosives at the giant zero pointer while Izuku was doing his best to lead it away from the others all the while taking out any other pointers that got in their way.
Unfortunately, the robot resumed its course towards the students and then spoke out in loud tone. "Mission directive: Kill all students. Must obey directive."
Suddenly it opened it's mouth like a cannon, and all of them could see that a beam of some sorts was forming into its mouth. All the examines were in shock that UA had something like this in their arsenal to prepare students.
Only problem is… that they didn't.
"Tsuyu!" she called out to her frog friend before shouting to everyone else. "EVERYONE TAKE COVER!" she shouted as she used all the rubble that the examinees were trapped from earlier to form multiple shields around the students including setting one up in front of herself and Tsuyu.
Back to the boys, both were staring in shock at the robot in front of them.
"What the hell, I thought the damn DJ said that this thing was nothing more than a pebble in our damn paths!" Katsuki shouted in anger. The latter kept shouting in curses while Izuku just stared at the robot's target which was the girls and everyone else. He felt a terrible feeling settle into his stomach at the thought of them getting hit with that blast.
Just thinking about it made him more scared but above it all it made him angry. Angry at whoever set up this stupid exam for all of this to go down, he refused to let the girls get hurt…. He was not losing anyone else…
Before he even knew it, Izuku was already running and jumped off the building high into the air, startling Katsuki as he saw his best friend jumping towards the robot recklessly.
"DEKU!" he shouted.
Ochaco heard Katsuki's voice calling Izuku but it didn't sound like anger, she could tell it was out of worry and anxiety. Peering her head from behind her shield, her own eyes widened at seeing Izuku jumping towards the robot in midair.
In that heat of moment, Ochaco blocked out all other sounds and just focused on the one person she cared about that was heading towards the robot, fearing that he would get injured.
"DEKU!" she shouted in horror. Tsuyu heard both of their voices and peered her head to see the commotion and like the others, she shouted his name across the city.
"IZUKU!"
The said boy was in midair aiming towards the zero pointer. He knew he didn't have a plan set beforehand, but his body moved on instinct at seeing his family in the line of fire. He knew his quirk could take it down but with how large the robot was it would take at least 30 to 45 seconds to bring it down. So, he was going to use his other option.
Dark mist surrounding both of his hands and his sclera glowing back leaving his green eyes, inside the mist was a object forming itself into a weapon.
The zero pointer was almost done charging and ready to fire as it's eyes glowed. As it tilted its head back slightly, everyone on the ground held their breaths as they got ready for the inevitable attack but at the same time…
Izuku's eyes widened for a fracture as he suddenly burst through the air with more speed and the black mist finished forming and disperse, showing a long black one-sided scythe. The blade was glowing with a dark green color as if it was drained while a black shroud of darkness surrounded the blade. Izuku was now close to the pointer's body and knew it was time to strike.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Gripping the blade with all his strength he drew back and swung the scythe downwards at the pointer. A slash was heard and Izuku went through the pointer as its body was cleave in half diagonally. The beam was stopped immediately as the energy from the pointer died before it started falling towards the ground.
Katsuki eyes widened in awe, seeing his friend take out the zero pointer by himself, as did Ochaco's and Tsuyu's. Izuku then landed on the ground in front of them, his form a few feet away from the girls before the robot was then engulfed in waves of darkness in the background. Suddenly the darkness dispersed, and it showed the destroyed metal laying on the ground. Izuku's scythe suddenly transformed back into mist and vanished.
All the examinees eyes widened in shock at the event that had transpired in from of them, a zero-pointer rampaged through the city almost killing them but was immediately stopped by a single boy with green hair, the same boy they gave wary glances. This kid saved them.
Izuku turned back to Ochaco and Tsuyu as they were still stunned from what just happened. He gave them a small smile, muttering a few words towards them before he suddenly felt the energy leave his body and he collapsed to the ground in exhaustion.
Before he could completely fade into unconsciousness, he could the teacher signaling the end of the entrance of exam but, what was more important was someone frantically calling his name in worry and then his eyes slowly closed as he faded into a blissful sleep.