Darkness was encroaching when the feeling of weightlessness pulled at him as he fell off the building. The fence that was placed for protection became smaller the further he fell and the face of his once childhood friend, full of shock and regret, disappeared when the edge of the building cut off his view. He extended his arm, reaching out his arm towards the edge of the building in the hope of finding a ledge to hold. "Noooo–" Izuku shouted out in desperation, his chest felt heavy and he had trouble breathing. Sweat was pouring out of him and he couldn't move anymore. He tried opening his eyes, trying to blink away the darkness but it didn't help. 'Am I buried in a coffin? Why can't I move and breathing becomes harder…' Suddenly the sound of a door being pushed open and the sound of a switch was heard. Out of nowhere, there was light flooding his room and hasty footsteps were heard before his vision was filled by a welcoming face. "M-Mom!" He called out with relief and he felt the mattress sink a bit when his mother lifted his head before taking a seat on his bed and then placing his head on her lap. "I..I'm sorry f-for waking you up."
"Calm my darling. You are safe my sweetheart and don't you worry about me." His mother kissed his forehead before caressing his damp hair. "Did you have that nightmare again?" Izuku nodded his head and could feel his mother tightening her hold on him, making him feel safe and warm in his mother's embrace. Despite the comfort she gave him, there was still this lingering fear since that day, almost three years ago. "I think that you should take today easier, no more studying on heroes or training with your Master and friends."
"But mom…" Izuku started but was silenced by the soft touch of his mother's lips on his forehead. "No buts Mister. For the past years since you met your new friends, you have trained hard. Maybe not as hard as your best friend, but you have put in all your effort nonetheless in your training." She kept combing her fingers through his curly green hair. "No training, I am serious about it, young man. Tomorrow you have a big day and you need all your energy for the exams."
"Okay Mom," Izuku said with a smile, loving how much his mother cared about him. "Maybe my friends like to go to an arcade or perhaps see the new All Might movie that is now playing in the cinema?" He felt his mother lifting his head from her lap and standing up, he slowly sunk back into his pillow. Izuku smiled when his mother tucked him in and kissed him again on his forehead.
Inko smiled at her brilliant son. "Of course, sweetheart, Naruto and Mina wouldn't mind taking a break from their training and doing something to relax." She brushed his hair before she slowly left the room and for a moment stood still at the door. "I'll leave the door slightly open and the hallway's light on. There are some hours left before your friends arrive to pick you up. Sleep well, my darling son."
"Sleep well too, Mom," Izuku whispered tiredly and sleep returned. Light snores could be heard while his mother watched him for a moment, thanking his Master and her son's best friend for rescuing her little Izuku that day. As Inko was thanking them like every day in her thoughts when she looked at her son, Izuku himself was dreaming about his encounter that was told to him when he woke up at U.A. High Medbay.
"Nooo–" His dream continued and the fence became smaller and darkness encroached around him. "I don't want to die…I haven't fulfilled my dreams yet, I want to become a hero too!" Izuku shouted out from the bottom of his heart. Suddenly he felt a warm, firm hand grab his hand and hold tight, stopping his fall abruptly. His eyes widened, not believing the possibility that his childhood friend found a window to catch him. Craning his head up and could only see a dark silhouette and the distinctive hairstyle of his childhood friend. "Kacchan. You rescued me?!"
A light chuckle could be heard that sounded so strange to come from his childhood friend. "I don't know who you refer to as Kacchan, but my name is Naruto, Uzumaki Naruto and you, my green friend, just disrupted our training this morning."
"I'm sorry," Izuku meekly apologised and looked down. Seeing the huge distance between them and the ground, his hand tightened and quickly his other hand joined in grabbing Naruto's hand for fear that his rescuer's grip would get loose. "It wasn't my intention to disrupt your training." He decided that it was better to look at the face of his rescuer than look down to the ground and imagine them falling and ending up like flat pancakes on the street.
"Our training." Naruto corrected him gently. "Mina and I are being trained by Master Roshi, who are both currently waiting for us down below on the street."
His eyes widened when they suddenly made the connection that they were still on the street below. "Wait! If they are down below then who is going to pull us up through the window? No normal person can hold on to the window's ledge while holding twice his weight!"
"Window? I don't know what you are talking about this time, again. Just to notify you, there are no windows on this side of the building from which you jumped down." Izuku immediately turned his head from looking at his saviour's calm, confident face towards the face of the building, seeing only smooth walls, but more importantly, they were too far away for his saviour to hold onto a ledge and keep them from falling. "Wh…what how?!" Izuku shouted out in shock and fear. "How aren't we dead yet!"
Instead of expecting an answer from his saviour, a girl's voice reached them from below. "Because he can fly, green bean! Of course, he can fly…" Izuku looked down again, seeing a pink girl, who had bushy pink hair and golden eyes. He noticed that she was carrying five crates in her arms and on her back was a turtle shell. Standing beside her is an old man, bald but with a big bushy white beard, clothed in a Hawaiian shirt and pants. Just like the girl, he too was carrying a turtle shell on his back and beside him was a small tower of crates, easily three times the height of the pink girl. "Did you know that Naru chan could fly Master?"
"Hohoho…" Their old man, his saviour master, laughed. "I did not Mina chan, I did not but I always knew that Naruto chan is a remarkable young man." Izuku noticed the ground coming slowly closer and knew that he was just lucky that they came across him while training. His feet touched the ground softly and he turned to his saviour, Uzumaki Naruto and couldn't help to notice the bulging muscles and the confident physique. "Th-Thank you for savi–" Suddenly reality caught up to him and that he had just a brush with death. Swaying on his feet and feeling disoriented, his perspective suddenly changed from his view to that of a third-person perspective and saw himself topple forward unconsciously.
That scene slowly faded away and for a moment there was only darkness. For a small moment, Izuku panicked but light quickly returned and with its return a new scene showed up. The green-haired boy noticed a medical resting room, rows of beds lining the wall and sunlight pouring through the windows. Izuku saw himself lying down in bed, peacefully asleep while seated beside his bed, his mother was holding his hand and gently rubbing with her thumb his skin. "Good morning Mrs. Midoriya, I hope you like some vanilla-flavoured coffee?" An elderly, small woman joined his mother and gave her a cup of steaming coffee. "I've examined your son, besides a bruise on his face, he is the epitome of health."
"Thank you for the coffee Recovery Girl." Inko managed to say while her eyes remained focused on her son's face. "I don't understand why my little boy would jump off from a building. I…I should have known something was wrong."
A small hand patted Inko's hand in a comforting way. "We should focus on his recovery and leave his reason for when he is with us. It won't do you well to linger on why for his actions." The Recovery Girl gently said to the single mother and the silence was broken when the door slid open and a small group of people entered the Medical wing. "Good morning sir, I would like to introduce you to Mrs Midoriya and Mrs Midoriya, this small bundle of cuteness is Nezu, U.A. High Headmaster." The small mammal waved at the green-haired young woman who waved nervously back. "Standing next to our Principal is Master Roshi, former Number One Pro Hero and Master of the Kame Turtle style. His student, Uzumaki Naruto has been his student for seven years and next to him is Ashido Mina, his newest student of two months." Mina waved cheerfully at the mother, sending her a blinding smile while her friend gave the green-haired boy's mother a thumbs up and like a certain duo of Green Beasts, when he smiled the corner sparkled. "It has been Mr. Uzumaki who caught your son out of the air…" Suddenly the white-haired boy felt arms wrap him in a crushing embrace. A blush worked its way up his face when he felt her assets and he nervously looked away, rubbing the back of his head with his hand.
Izuku's view changed when he woke up in the medical bed and his mother released his rescuer and pulled him in a crushing hug. After the hug, the green-haired boy was for the first time scolded by his mother. After the scolding ebbed away, Nezu stepped forward, or more correctly Naruto stepped forward and Nezu was sitting on his shoulder. "I'm glad that you are back with us, young Midoriya. You have given us quite a scare with your actions and a worried mother who loves you very much." Izuku lowered his head in shame for worrying his mother and causing a lot of problems for others. "Young Midoriya, I ask you if this was a suicide on your part or was this an accident?"
"An accident, sir. I never intended to fall off the building or commit…su–suicide." His voice broke a little at the end. "I was with…" The boy suddenly clammed up, knowing if he says his childhood friend's name then his dream of becoming a hero will be taken away by them. "I'm sorry young Midoriya, we know that you weren't alone when visiting the abandoned building roof and that you were in the presence of someone else. I've also let Recovery Girl examine the bruise on your face, which gives us all a significant clue in the right direction." Izuku shrunk under the stern gaze of the small, adorable but now very serious principal. "Medical technology has advanced since the birth of quirks, and one of those advancements is the determination of what kind of quirks are being used on victims. From the bruise on your face, we determined that the quirk user has an emitter quirk but more importantly what the nature of the quirk is." Izuku started to sweat, he didn't know that they could determine a quirk user so well and if they discovered his childhood friend did this then his dream would come to an end. "Young Midoriya, you have nothing to fear. You are safe here and the instigator will be arrested and–" Nezu stopped when the young boy suddenly rolled out of bed and prostrated in front of him, his head touching the floor.
"PLEASE! HE DIDN'T MEAN TO PUSH ME OFF THE BUILDING! IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!" Izuku shouted out nervously. "HE WANTS TO BECOME A PRO HERO LIKE ALL MIGHT! LIKE ME, WE BOTH WANT TO BECOME HEROES! Please, forgive him!" Izuku could hear the cries of his mother, she had probably already pieced the puzzle pieces together. "I know that he can become a great her–"
Nezu held up a paw to stop the boy from talking. "You weren't the only victim of this person, young Midoriya. An acquaintance of mine has been bullied and was a victim of his abusive use of his quirk besides being a quirk user herself. It didn't stop him from abusing others if they possessed or did not possess a quirk. Someone like that has a low chance of becoming a hero and zero chance to apply at my school." Izuku shivered at the cold voice of the principal. "PLEASE! DON'T INVESTIGATE HIM FURTHER! I BELIEVE THAT HE CAN CHANGE AND BECOME THE HERO I KNOW HE IS. I WILL DO ANYTHING, SO PLEASE, I BEG YOU NOT TO LOOK FURTHER! Please, I beg you!"
Inko couldn't help but tear up seeing her son like this, she wasn't entirely proud that her smart, little boy was sticking up for his former childhood friend turned bully. She never thought that the sweet little boy she once knew would do that to her son. Her sweet little boy on the other hand also made her proud, seeing his big heart and wanting to see the best in people. She quickly joined her son on the floor, hugging him to show her support for his brave heroic spirit and that she was proud of him. "Why are you so determined to protect this person despite what he did to you?"
"That's what heroes do. They protect everyone, even those who seem lost to everyone, except for the hero who can still see that little spark of light that they hope to renew and turn them away from the dark path they walk on" Nezu and Inko turned towards the speaker. "You are correct Naruto, but what if they don't want to change? What will Midoriya Izuku do when this person doesn't want to change? What do you think, young Midoriya, a hero will do when their villain doesn't want to change? When they love to bring chaos, to bring carnage…what will you do?" Nezu spoke after hearing his Master's student before giving the question to the young boy.
"I'll stop him!" Izuku spoke with confidence, which impressed Nezu and the principal smiled at last. "Then do you agree with young Uzumaki?" The green-haired boy nodded firmly. "But that still hasn't solved what we are going to do with young Bakugo?" Izuku's eyes widened in surprise that the principal knew who his bully was. "I propose the following actions: I pull Midoriya Izuku out of his current school and place him at Mustafa Private Middle School which Ashido Mina and Uzumaki Naruto are attending. This will create a healthier and more positive learning environment where young Midoriya can develop himself with the support he deserves. Ashido Mina and Uzumaki Naruto also can keep watch over him and if young Bakugo visits young Midoriya to continue his actions then my Master's students can step in and put a stop before anything happens." Both Inko and Izuku's eyes widened and Nezu's sharp eyes noticed the worried look of the boy's mother. "You have nothing to worry about any costs Mrs Midoriya. Young Midoriya transferring to Mustafa Private Middle School will all be sponsored by me."
"Thank you! I cannot express how much this will help my son!" Inko, who was still on the floor and rubbing her son's back in comfort, now prostrated herself in front of the principal.
Nezu smiled and asked them to sit on the bed because seeing them prostrate on the floor made him feel a bit awkward. "There are a few things I expect from young Midoriya, one of them is to earn good results on his reports naturally." Stepping forward, Master Roshi spoke finally. "Secondly that young Midoriya will join the Kame House, he will learn alongside my students and prepare himself for the entrance exams at U.A. High."
"The road to becoming a hero isn't easy to walk. I say this to you Midoriya Izuku." Nezu made himself comfortable on the broad shoulders of his junior. "Work Hard, Learn Well and Eat and Rest Plenty!" Izuku nodded and showed with his expression that he would follow those words, yet that didn't stop him from asking about his once-childhood friend. "About that boy? He will be observed and see how he handles the situation with you out of his life. Will he continue down this path? Will he stop what he is doing or will he become a good person? We, nor you will inform him about anything of this. I want to see how he develops without you and see if he is worth your belief in him." Nezu sent a smile towards the mother and son pair and asked for Naruto to move towards the cafeteria. "Good luck Midoriya Izuku, you will need it!" And then the small principal cackled evilly and caused cold shivers to run down the boy's spine.
Midoriya arrived home and received a bone-crushing hug before being scolded again till his ears turned red. The next day in the early morning, at four o'clock, Master Roshi, Ashido Mina and Uzumaki Naruto picked him up for training. His hands hurt from working the fields with bare hands. He cried, yet kept running despite his arms feeling like they would fall off when delivering milk crates to citizens of Mustafa. Followed by swimming in the ocean while wild sharks were trying to make a meal out of him and the next training also again included animals when Master Roshi disturbed a bee nest and angry bees were trying to make a pincushion out of them. His training only saw breaks when he was at his new school or when in his bed, resting from the crazy training. This became his normal life, training and schooling day in and day out. Before Izuku knew, months flew by and the day of U.A. High entrance exam came closer with each tick of the clock, which was announced by the alarm going off and his mother's gentle voice sounding through the door. "Izuku, honey, I've made your favourite food for breakfast and your friends are here."
In the early morning, Izuku, Naruto and Mina were jogging through the streets of Musutafu. Musutafu, just like any other Japanese city, was a mix of modern and traditional buildings. Old buildings from the '80s, which they adopted from the Americans. Old, grey buildings with cables sticking out and over hundreds of neon signs illuminate the early morning streets. Small shops along their run, each still closed but the aroma of small eateries was already being lifted by the wind into the air. The street they were in gave them a Cyberpunk kind of feeling. "Oh boy, all those delicious aromas of what the chefs are cooking just make me want to eat again." Complained the only-tailed person in the group, causing Mina and Izuku to nervously laugh when the sound of their friend's black hole rumbled loudly. Both individuals had learned that Naruto's appetite was something to fear, especially when you decided to treat him to a meal. "Haven't you eaten enough at Izuku's place? His mom is the best at cooking breakfast!" Naruto's best friend, Ashido Mina said with a sigh and sadly shook her head at her best friend. "But Mina, everything he ate was something he brought with him to my place and Mom just heated the meals."
A giggle escaped Mina and she lightly elbowed Izuku in his side. "Be glad that my bestie brought his food. I would fear the day when he comes without his food and eats ours, we'll be hungry because everything will instantly be gone!" She mocks and glares at the white-haired boy, who pouts at hearing his best friend mocking him and a moment later he childishly puts in some extra strength in his legs, causing him to increase his pace and causing the others to jog harder. "Hey Naru…Naru, I was just joking! Slow down, I didn't mean it!"
They followed the path along the river and they were sweating and out of breath from the run. Mina dropped with a groan on the river bed, sitting on the grass and undoing her shoe lashes and pulling her shoes and socks off. With a sigh, she let her pink feet sink in the cold river water. Besides her, Izuku followed her example and then pulled a book out of his backpack. "What book are you reading Izuku?"
"Ah, my mom gave me this book on my last birthday. The story is about a young orphan in a village hidden in the leaf. Like us, they have something like chakra that gives them supernatural abilities. The orphan, Menma Namikaze, wants to become a shinobi and win the hearts of his village. Last night, before sleeping they arrived in Nami no Kuni and fought the Demon Brothers and their boss, Zabuzza the Demon of the Mist."
Mina hummed as she listened to Izuku talking about the book. "Sounds scary to be fighting against demons. Are these rogue ninjas like our villains and is Menma Namikaze alone in Nami no Kuni?" She asked curiously the green-haired boy.
"Menma Namikaze is a part of just freshly graduated shinobi. His teammates are the top-ranked classmate Sasuke Uchiha and the top-ranked girl Sakura Haruka." Izuku explained to the pink-skinned girl, who was amazed. "Wow…then Menma Namikaze must be pretty good then?" She adopted a confused face when Izuku shook his head and laughed nervously. "Sorry Mina, but Menma was at the bottom of the class rank. To top the team off, they have a lazy teacher who reads all day porn." At this, Mina laughed and slapped her tights with her hands.
"That sucks," she exclaimed, at which Izuku nodded in agreement. "I hope that our sensei at U.A High won't be a lazy ass!" She shouted the last word out when their third member suddenly appeared behind them and dived into the water, making them wet when water rushed towards them. Izuku quickly jumped back to prevent his book from becoming wet. "Naruto!" Mina dived with clothes and all into the river, chasing the white-haired boy who only had his black trunks on. The girl had never been happier before with her skin tone as her blush easily blended in with her pink skin when she saw the state of undress her best friend was in.
Izuku laughed as he watched them play in the water. He found a nice large rock to rest his back against while his feet dangled in the water. "Alright, where was I?" He opened his book again and continued where he stopped last night.
After a day of hard training, giving your body time to recover is an important step in your training my students… following their Master's advice, his students were giving their bodies time to recover by having fun at the river bank. Naruto was splashing the pink girl with water and her clothes became soaking wet, Mina in retaliation dived underwater and stealthily managed to swim around him. Jumping out of the water, she wrapped her slender arms and legs around his neck and waist and used her body weight to pull him into the water with quite some difficulties. "Hey, Green Bean! Don't be such a nerd and help me get my bestie underwater!" She shouted out while wrestling with Naruto, who refused to give up the water wrestling match against his best friend.
Izuku laughed at the ridiculous demand. Since he met them, they have become his best friends. He learned what true friendship is and what he had with his childhood friend, was sadly not the friendship he has now. Now he laughed and smiled more, all because he was tricked by the cunning Principal of U.A. High. "Wrap it up, guys! If we leave now we can grab a bite before the new All Might movie begins!" He called back and quickly pushed his book back into his backpack when he noticed the smirks on his friends' faces. Both are wearing smirks that just drip with mischief. Suddenly Naruto jumped out of the river and his landing caused the ground to rumble. Suddenly the green-haired boy was pelted by water when the two were wildly shaking their heads like a wet dog. "Hey! Hey guys, stop that! You are making me wet!" He laughed while dodging his friends' attempted hugs. After a lot of laughter and not being able to catch Izuku, Naruto used his kiai to dry their clothes, banishing the water out of their clothes and led his team to a small washing room where they took a shower and put on new clothes.
When Naruto came out of the washing room, he noticed Izuku leaning against the wall, in his hand, and open, is his book that he had written about his life. The white-haired boy found the thought amusing that his best male friend learned about his past life without knowing it was he who wrote that book. "I've heard Izuku that the writer of the Maelstrom Chronicles is planning to release the third book of the franchise soon." A chuckle escaped him when his green-haired friend's attention was immediately on him. They started a small conversation about the books while they were waiting for the third member of their small group. A moment later, Naruto felt the weight and softness of his friend when she jumped on his back and demanded a ride. Laughing, Naruto carried her on his back while Izuku followed them and like a certain cyclops, he read his book while following his friends as they laughed about a private joke between them.
Hasty footsteps could be heard, followed by the spatter of water when Naruto was running through the heavy rain towards the entrance of the examination hall at U.A. High. Clinging to his back and holding tightly was Mina, who held an umbrella above their heads to keep them dry. "I cannot believe that the weather of yesterday with clear skies, sun bright and just an overall nice day can turn into this shitstorm when we are taking the combat exams," Naruto complained while running. In the distance, he spotted a familiar unkempt green hair and so he hollered out. "Izuku!" He grimaced when his friend turned and slipped over a puddle as he was trying to see who was calling out to him. "Shit! Need to speed up, hang on Mina!" Before he could speed up, Mina spoke up when she noticed something. "No need to hurry bestie, Izuku has fallen hard for someone else!"
"Huh?" Naruto replied dumbly but followed the finger of Mina who was pointing out to the girl that was standing next to Izuku, holding him in the air as she held his shoulder. "Whoa…she must be strong!" He could feel Mina on his back nod her head in agreement. "Go forth my noble steed! Let us meet this fair maiden that had rescued our Green Bean!" Naruto grumbled when she had the nerve to kick with her heels in his sides. Sighing, he let it go and sped up to join the duo. "How's it hanging Izuku?" The white-haired boy asked with a broad grin, similar to his passenger on his back.
Izuku hung his head low, knowing that they will keep this embarrassing moment long over his head. He had hoped that his clumsiness had become a part of his past and stayed there, it seems it was not. "And whose fault was it that I slipped?! Everyone would have fallen when you shouted out its name so early in the morning!" He shouted comedically, causing the girl who held him afloat in the air to giggle. "Uhm…thank you for catching me…ehm…what's your name?"
She is a pretty girl with auburn hair framing her face which matches with her cute innocent brown eyes that just sparkled with joy. "Ochako, Uraka Ochaco and I'm sorry for using my quirk on you without your permission." She carefully placed him back on the ground, his feet touching the brick road first.
The green-haired boy just waved off her apologies and laughed nervously when he finally noticed that he was talking to a really cute girl. "I didn't mind for you to use your quirk on me, if you hadn't I would have probably hit the ground and wet my clothes because of the pools of water and you know…" He suddenly got an elbow buried in his side and Izuku looked to see his best friends grinning at him. "Less mumbling and introduce yourself to this maiden!" The poor boy could only glower at the mischievous pink girl who sent him a peace sign with her hand. "Don't look at me, look at her!" Sighing out deeply and expelling the nerves he felt, Izuku looked back up at Ochako. "Sorry for mumbling, I'm Izuku, Midoriya Izuku and these are my annoying friends, Uzumaki Naruto and the pink menace on his back is Ashido Mina."
Mina just stuck out her tongue at the green-haired boy before kicking her heels in the side of her best friend, signalling that they needed to go. "Go forth, my noble steed! We don't want to arrive late to the tournament of heroes!" Naruto just grumbled below her but moved while addressing his friend and the new girl. "If you don't mind Ochako, you are welcome to join us. We are on our way towards the entrance exams and there are rumours that one of the Pro-Heroes is going to explain the rules of the entrance exams." Ochako smiled at the invitation, much to Izuku's delight. The small group of four followed the mass of students to a huge stadium and took their seats.
"Welcome One and All to my Live Show!" Izuku practically jumped up and down in his seat when the host of today's Tactical exam showed up. "It is the Voice-type Pro Hero Present Mic!" Naruto and Mina actually giggled at the boy who was practically vibrating on his seat. "Everybody says….HEEEEY!" Izuku knew what was going to happen next and just laughed when Mina and Naruto jumped up and landed on their seats, towering over everyone. "HEEEEY PRESENT MIC! We love your radio show, it is the best, yeah!" They shouted while posing like a famous former superhero team the Super Sentai and annoying everyone except Izuku and Present Mic. "Welcooome…faithful listeners! I've got shivers down my spine, from excitement that you are here, Listeners! All right, examinees…" Izuku sighed in relief when his friends jumped down from their seats and blended in with the crowd again. Nervously he glanced at their new friend, Ochaku who laughed nervously. "Hahaha…they usually don't do this…hahaha." Present Mic lifted a hand into the air dramatically. "I'm gonna give you the low-down on how this'll go down! Are you READY!" Two flags with Present Mic's face suddenly popped up and were waved in the air by Izuku's friends which earned them a thumbs up from the Pro Hero and a shout of: "Yeahh! Now pay close attention, listeners! We'll be testing you mettle by running a ten-minute practice run at our replica city-district! You can take whatever you like! Everybody gathers at the designated meeting area after the presentation, ya dig?" Behind the Pro Hero, a huge screen came down from the ceiling, showing seven blocks with the first seven letters of the alphabet. "These replica city-districts will be chock full with a large number of villains that roam the streets." Behind the Pro Hero on the screen, the replica city-district-A zoomed in and then was surrounded by familiar figures of the famous Mario games. A Goomba shadow with the number one large in white next to that is the Hammer bro with its number two in white and lastly is the Piranha plant's shadowy figure with the number three. "And they'll appear in three different varieties, with point values scaled according to difficulty!" His explanation was followed by a small animation when Mario entered the screen and jumped on the Goomba. "Using each of your individual quirks, dispatch as many villains as you can. Your goal, faithful Listeners, is to rack up a High Score!" Suddenly the loud voice of the Pro Hero became calm and almost turned into a whisper when he spoke seriously. "But be warned! Don't think about directly attacking any other competitors or any of that nasty anti-hero stuff, because that's against the rules and directly failing in the exams, capisce?!"
A glimmer of reflection suddenly sparkled somewhere in the crowd of prospective future students and a tall, well-built young man surged to his feet, his hand raised in the air. "Excuse me, may I ask a question?!" And without waiting for the host to recognize him, he continued. "According to the handout, there are clearly four types of villains listed! Such an error would be the height of embarrassment for a top-tier national academy of U.A's calibre!" Naruto grinned and suppressed a laugh when seeing the boy hold up a pamphlet with text and pictures of the four villains. "The reason we are seated here today is because we seek guidance on the path to becoming model heroes!" Mina and Izuku were trying to keep their friend in his seat, knowing that Naruto would probably say something along the lines of: "Villains do not announce their presence when they are on the assault, neither will they reveal their Master plan, but if they do then you must think really hard what their actual end goal is. You, my good friend, just failed to notice that our host wasn't finished yet and would have mentioned the fourth villain or the fourth villain is a hidden ace to see how the exam candidates react to a powerful foe." The two obviously failed to stop their friend while Ochako giggled. Amusingly enough, Naruto's comment just stopped the student in his track of questions when an embarrassed blush crawled up his neck and he quickly sat down.
"Okay, Oookay! Thanks for the sequence and explanations, much appreciated examinee 7111 and examinee 9999! Like my young friend just said: the fourth type of villain you'll encounter is worth Zero Points! Let's call them ~arena traps~! Like in the Super Mario Brothers game, these arena traps are like those things that chomp on you." Present Mic suddenly smirked at his audience. "Well, that's enough from me! I'll leave you all with a presentation on the school precepts of this academy of mine! As a certain hero by the name of Napoleon Bonaparte said: A true hero never stops overcoming the misfortunes in life! Now let's move to the main event! PLUS ULTRA! And may you all suffer gladly in the trials to come!"
"Plus ultra indeed," chuckled Nezu, a faint light from the many screens was the only source in an otherwise dark room. The Principal was surrounded by dark silhouettes, each one of them judging the new examinees. "Who of the many has the qualities of becoming a hero and getting the rights to attend at My Hero Academia? Let us begin the Hero Tactical Exam in 3…2…1…PLUS ULTRA!"
It was pouring out of the sky, rain fell heavily on the gathered students who were waiting just outside of their designed replica city-blocks. Standing a bit further away from the gathered students, Naruto curled his hand into a fist. A faint, almost invisible blue hue was covering his feet as he crouched low. Lightning suddenly lighted up the sky and Naruto was still crouched in his position when suddenly it slowly faded away and revealed that he moved so quickly that he had left an after-image behind. Sprinting through the huge gate that gave entrance to the replica city-district, Naruto didn't stop when multiple announcements of 'Target Lock-on! Eliminate!' was heard around him. Instead, Naruto's hand buried itself into the chest plate of a One-pointer and dragged the robot with him. "Target Lock-on, Eliminate the Jedi! For the Emperor Chimera!" Arching a brow at the clear reference of the Star Wars movies, he chuckled when noticing in the distance a small group of different numbers of pointers, Naruto placed the One-pointer in front of him and took cover behind the massive robot. Using the One-pointer like a shield, Naruto closed the distance while small explosions rocketed the One-pointer apart.
"Awh… a small party, for me?" Naruto grinned while a blue-whitish aura suddenly engulfed his dominant arm. The hybrid-shinobi found himself in the heart of the Pointers' party, surrounded by One, Two and Three-pointers, all of them aiming their weapons at him. Despite being surrounded, he didn't feel frightened at all, to be correct, Naruto felt excited. "Please, become my test subjects for my new jutsu: Supirritsu Senju Sodo!" Flashes of white energy cut through the darkness and a moment later, heavy thud sounds broke the silence. The Pointer-droids were all cut into pieces. "Start! What did you expect, a countdown? Move! Move! MOVE!" Grinning, Naruto departed from the destroyed pointers in search of its siblings. Having heard Mic's loud voice, he knew that the others would soon enter the battlefield and the points would be fewer to collect. Finding another group, or more likely a street full of several different droids with points, Naruto dashed through them, his jutsu easily cutting through them and appearing on the other end of the street. Behind him, all the droids were being cut and the top slid off from the lower parts, earning him more points to his tally. This continued for a long time, him blitzing through the streets and cutting down the pointers.
The battle centre that he was assigned to became more rowdy when his fellow examinees joined him, One-Pointers and its siblings crashed through the buildings, leaving destruction behind them. However, it wasn't only the Imperial Army that caused destruction, an ash-blonde-haired boy had some difficulty to activate his quirk in the rain. Naruto noticed that he lured the fake villains into the buildings before destroying them, causing buildings to collapse. One of his attacks caused parts of the walls to come down and fall towards the examinees below. "I cannot use my new jutsu in close proximity to the other examinees because of their unpredictable actions and I could end up hurting them…" Waving his fingers through a chain of hand seals that was done so quickly that they weren't visible to the naked eye and ended with the tori-seal. "Suiton: Suiryudan no jutsu!" Raindrops gathered in front of him, taking the form of a huge Asian dragon and roared, causing everyone to stop for a second upon seeing a dragon made out of water. It then suddenly surged forward at an incredible speed and flew up into the air and intercepted the bricks that were falling towards the students, preventing harm from coming to them. The dragon didn't stop after rescuing the other examinees, in fact it continued flying through the air and towards a small group of three-pointers. Surging up into the air and roaring, Naruto's jutsu made a sharp dive and exploded in the heart of the group of fake villains, taking them out in the process.
"Bastard!" One of the people he rescued shouted at him. "You stole my points!" Snarled a boy, his hands curled up into fists and sent him a withering glare. That boy wasn't the only one as others around him nodded before they angrily stalked off in search of more Pointers. Naruto was confused as to why they blamed him for 'stealing' their points, they weren't even close to that group of Three-pointers. "Uhm…thank you for rescuing me." The white-haired boy blinked in surprise when a pretty girl with long, messy, wavy chartreuse hair appeared in front of him. He spotted pink specks in her hair that framed her heart-shaped face, large round eyes with pupils that are teal on the outside and yellow on the inside. Like the other examinees, she too was wearing school gym clothes. "They are pretty mean to call you that. I mean, you saved us from being buried by bricks and those hurt…" She mewled out cutely.
Naruto chuckled. "Thanks, I'm Naruto and we can better continue with the exams. There is only a few minutes left." The girl nodded and turned around to continue her search for points, but Naruto's voice stopped her. "I noticed that you had some difficulty in taking down the Pointers, I guess that your quirk isn't suited for combat or you haven't discovered the application to use it in combat yet." The girl nodded at the boy who had saved her. "I think you don't need raw power to take down the Pointers, I noticed that they have on their backs, off-switches. This will probably shut them down and give those less battle-oriented quirk users a chance to earn points." The girl smiled and bowed to him in thanks, but then the confusing parts happened. She removed her gym jacket, which was followed by her shirt and bra. Her gym pants and cute pink panties with hearts came down and her shoes and socks. Blood flowed out of his nose when he saw this beautiful girl strip in front of him, without a second thought of thinking that he was still there. She didn't even look at him and just ran off in her birthday suit and Naruto could see her well-endowed chest bounce up and down. "Oh Kami, if Master and Ero-sennin saw this they would have died from blood loss." Keeping his nose pinched to stop the flow of bleeding, Naruto focused back on the job in front of him and took down the villains.
"Holy shit!" A woman with long dark purple hair exclaimed. "When I met him all those years ago and saw him effortlessly pull a yacht back to Japan while swimming I thought he was hot! Now my little brother is taking down those Pointers like they are nothing!" Nemuri looked around the dark room and spotted the Principal. "Did you know about his combat prowess?"
Nezu chuckled and shook his head. "I didn't, Nemuri. He kept everything close to his chest, saying that he wanted to surprise us. Surprise us he did…" The Chimera quirk Hero laughed when another group of One-pointers were removed from the map and he could hear the sound of sobbing from one of his faculties behind him. "He has everything we want in a hero, a good mind, strength, a strong sense of justice and protection."
"Yet somehow he was wounded by something when he suddenly spewed out blood from his nostrils." All Might commented worriedly. "Do you think that Recovery Girl can check the boy's health in case of an illness?" The large hero's hand was moving to the side of his body and he knew beneath his hand he would find a large wound that almost ended his hero career.
Nezu laughed and knew that everyone would stay curious as to why that had happened to his junior. Even he didn't know because the remains of a wall that belonged to one of the houses that crashed managed to stay up, blocking the view. When he used the controller to get there from a different direction the view, all they witnessed was his junior picking up clothes, girls' clothes, yet strangely enough they hadn't seen anyone leave the area. "We won't know for a long time what caused him to react like that, but it is almost time for the Big Unfriendly Giant." His sight turned to a different screen, seeing a pink-skinned girl moving at respectable speed through the fake streets.
Mina laughed cheerfully as she sped through the fake shopping district. Her hands were coated in acid that has the properties to easily eat through steel. Year in and year out, Master Roshi forced her and her friends to plough the farmlands with their bare hands. At first, she cried when her hands hurt and her skin broke and bled. But with Naruto at her side, who followed the same training, but had no trouble with ploughing and his healing hands, she continued following the training of her Master. Now, her hard work had paid off and Mina's beautiful soft, pink hands were deadly. She easily cut through steel and with her hands coated in special acid, which quickly eroded the metal, she barely felt the resistance. "Target Lock-on!" Droned a few Pointers, who found her. Mina grinned and tilted her head back and spat into the rain creating a small acid cloud that the rain passed through, causing the rain to become acidic and melted the metal shells of the Pointers, which gave her a wallop, a huge amount of points. She was careful that her acid didn't hurt her fellow examinees or the buildings. "Eliminate!" A mechanical voice sounded behind her and she dived forward and then rolled when rubber bullets pelted the paveway. She threw her hand forward and a dragon made out of acid flew through the rain and covered the Three-pointer. Suddenly the ground shook and Mina lost her balance. "What's happening? Is this an earthquake?!"
"Something is coming?!" A random examinee shouted out and he pointed in a direction. Mina, seeing him, turned her attention towards where he pointed. At first, she saw nothing but the heavy sounds and creaking could be heard, becoming louder. Then a shadow loomed over them and giant, massive metallic hands grabbed the top of buildings when a giant face came into view. "Hehehe…isn't this a bit too crazy?" Mina mumbled upon seeing what it was. "Serious, who made the Iron Friendly Giant?"
"Run! Run for your life!" One shouted while debris fell down from the buildings that Friendly Iron Giant was leaning on. "Ouch!" Mina heard a girl shout before she was abruptly cut off. She looked around, searching for the girl and found her, close to the Iron Giant's feet, who was planning to step on her. "Not on my watch!" The pink-skinned girl took one step, then another which was followed by another while her quirk started to cover her in acid. "Thanks, bestie for the inspiration…Acido Tsuga!" Ashido Mina became a humanoid drill, she was spinning rapidly upwards towards the Iron Giant's head and drilled through, causing the Zero-pointer to die. Its light for eyes flickered off and it wobbled a little before toppling backwards, destroying a few buildings and causing the ground to shake. A few moments later, Mina stepped out of the head, her legs were a bit weak as she wobbled but there was a huge smile on her face. She threw her arm into the air and shouted. "I did it bestie! I–I have the POWER!"
"What did I just see? That is impossible?! My beautiful Zero-pointer was destroyed in one shot!" A short, skinny man, whose usual tanned skin had turned drastic pale upon seeing his master creation broken. "Sorry Maijima san, but I think that isn't the end for your creations..." Higari woodenly turned his head towards the Number One Pro Hero, who pointed at another screen, showing a green-haired boy with green lightning surrounding him, who had just punched his beautiful creation in the face and knocked out its light. "Noooo!" Higari screamed and slowly crawled forward and reached out towards the Zero-pointers as if he could reach them through the screen. "Uh…oh! I think it's best for you to step out of the room Maijima san, this won't do your health anything good." Nemuri commented when she noticed something on the screen. A moment later, everyone watched what happened to one of the Zero-pointers in the replica city-district that Naruto was assigned to.
Naruto prayed to his mother that she wouldn't kill him when he saw her again one day, because he saw a pretty girl in her birthday suit. He was pretty sure that his mother was currently beating up Ero-sennin for trying to corrupt him. To clear his thoughts, Naruto destroyed a few more One, Two and Three-pointers and saved a few other examinees when the ground suddenly started to rumble. Buildings started to collapse and a huge, terrifying robot with large, sharp teeth and glowing crimson eyes glared down at the examinees. "Small and insignificant are you fleshlings. This planet belongs to the Decepticons, belongs to me…Lord Megatron!"
"Help! Somebody help me!" Someone called out for help. The voice came from the debris that the Decepticon caused. She sounded frightened and with good reason, she was trapped behind a huge slab of cement wall. Megatron heat vision quickly found the source of the annoying crying and lifted his metallic feet to crash the insect. "I got you!" She heard and felt someone lifting the huge slab of cement off her leg before she was cradled in his arm. Instinctively she brought her arms around his neck to secure herself. Looking up at the handsome face and cute whisker marks on his cheeks, she suddenly screamed when she saw the massive foot coming down at them. Closing her eyes, she expected to feel the pain of being squashed. "There is nothing to fear, pretty girl. Just open your eyes." The girl did what she was told and saw him still standing, one arm up and holding the metallic feet at bay. "Let us get rid of this Zero-pointer first and then you can tell me your name because calling you a pretty girl every time I see you will be disrespectful." The girl blushed upon hearing the boy calling her pretty, which she can remember nobody had ever called her that because of her quirk effect. A cold wind suddenly caressed her bare skin, causing her to look down, only to scream when the ground was far below them. "Y–You can fly?!" His reaction was a laugh while he was swirling the Decepticon-looking Zero-pointer above his head. "Pretty cool isn't it? Now cover your ears, my attack has some high-pitched sounds that can be a bit disorienting to you." She covered her ears with her hand but she watched what he did next. Suddenly Megatron was thrown into the air and while the Decepticon look-a-like Zero-pointed flew higher and higher, creating more distance. A sudden bluish-white sphere appeared in her rescuer's hand. Small, white blades suddenly appeared around the sphere before with a heave, Naruto threw the beautiful sphere towards the Zero-pointer. "Futon: Rasenshuriken no jutsu!" The beautiful attack quickly swallowed the distance between them and the Decepticon…it hit Megatron's chest and ate through the metal, disappearing from sight. Suddenly a blinding white light cut through the darkness, its power so strong that the wind parted away the dark clouds, bringing back the clear blue sky and the radiating warmth of the sun.
Naruto turned around in the sky, facing the city and unknowingly the many cameras that had recorded everything. Nezu and his faculties looked with their mouths wide open at the unnatural powerful display on the screen. There was nothing left of the Megatron, Decepticon Leader look-a-like that Power Loader made his Zero-pointer likeness in. All that was left in the sky was Naruto, a blue ring of clear azure sky and the sun basking him in her embrace and making him look divine.
As for Power Loader, he was catatonic at the loss of his Zero-pointer.
Hello, sorry for the long chapter. As you can see, Izuku didn't die. He instead found incredible loyal friends. Mina, oh boy, she got some inspiration from Naruto. As you can see, I will change a few quirks a little bit to help some people to make stronger. I hope that you liked this chapter. Ah, before I forget, I use Grammarly to correct some of my spellings, but I got the feeling the program didn't work that well, except if you pay subscription, so I apologise if there are some errors.
Thank you for reading and have a good day.