Chapter 6: Welcome to the U.A.!
A week later…
Izu-Chan: Did he write you?
No, unfortunately not. And you asked me that before dinner.
Izu-Chan: Sorry, Michi-Kun, I'm just so tense.
I know Izuku, I'm sorry too. I'm annoyed with All Might that he hasn't called us back yet. What is he doing all this time?!
Izu-Chan: Well, he's still a professional hero.
Sure, but he used to make time for us, what's up now?
Izu-Chan: Maybe he's thinking about how he can gently tell me that I can't get to the U.A. and that it was a mistake to trust me with his Quirk.
Izuku, we've already gone through that, he won't do that!
Izu-Chan: I didn't score a single point!
You helped that nice girl, this alone has to count for something. And All Might like you, Izuku, he won't let you down.
Izu-Chan: Remember me when you go to U.A. and become the next All Might.
Furiously Michi was tipping an answer an her phone to lift Izuku's spirits when her mother called her.
"Michela!", she shouted from behind her bedroom door. "The letter from the U.A. has arrived!"
WHAT?!
Fast Michi tipped Izuku how her letter had arrived, so his must come also before she opened the door to find her parents and grandparents.
Her whole family was nervous, you could clearly see it.
Mother shook as she handed Michi her letter.
They all hoped she and Ares made it.
Playing her nerves down, she thanked her mother and told all she would open it first alone.
With that, she closed the door and sat down on her bed.
"Well, this is it.", mumbles Ares from his standard place on her head.
"Let rip the bandaid off, ne, Ares?"
"Let's do it, whirlwind."
Michi opens the letter.
A small device comes out, and a hologram appears.
It's All Might!
"I am here as a projection!", greets the Number one hero them. "Young Massaro and of course Ares I'm sorry I didn't reach out sooner to you or young Midoriya. You must know I'm starting as a teacher for the U.A. and had a lot of paperwork to do."
Michi and Ares just blinked.
Did this mean All Might would become their teacher?
How cool!
"But this is not important what is important is if you, young Massaro, have passed the Entrance Exam. Now the writing test you passed without a problem. Now we come to the battle exam."
All Might turns on a TV beside him.
A ranking is showing.
A happy shout and tears spring into Michi's eyes as she reads it.
"Young Massaro, we don't only give villains points but also rescue points. You have shown a formidable performance in both areas and it's my great honor to congratulate you on the First Place! Massaro Michela 70 Villian Points and 55 Rescue Points!"
Another happy shout leaves Michi's lips and even Ares is celebrating hard.
"We did it, we did it. We are even before Bakugo!", they shout and Michi dances around her room.
Hahaha, in your face, bastard!
"Come, Young Massaro.", called All Might from the projection. "This is your hero academia!"
Smiling bright like a child on Christmas Eve Michi salutes the hologram.
She can't wait to tell her family and Izuku!
In April…
Humming happily a little song Michi waited on their intersection for Izuku.
Now they wouldn't go to Aldera but to U.A.!
It was incredible.
A real dream come trough!
"Michi-Kun, good morning!", called Izuku for her.
The boy smiled brightly at her, only in the next moment to turn red as a pepperoni.
Michi looked so beautiful in the U.A. school uniform and the black with one red side strip stockings.
They made her legs look incredible.
The girl smiled at her best friend/crush, he looked so cute in his uniform and embraced him.
"Morning Izu-Chan! Can you believe it, we are going to the U.A.! Finally!"
A squeak like a yes came from Izuku which made Ares laugh.
"What's up with your necktie?", mussed Michi after she stopped hugging Izuku. Smiling she fixed it for him, which turned Izuku even more red. "There, now you are handsome as a prince."
Ares nearly fell from Michi's head as Izuku imitated a teapot.
God, the boy was so red and the sounds he made.
The ribbon couldn't anymore!
Michi ignored her laughing ribbon and took Izuku's hand.
Together they walked to the U.A., even if Izuku was still rattling like a teapot.
After taking the tram, they reached their school and searched for classroom 1A.
This was the first time they would be even in the same class.
It made the two happy.
No more waiting for the lunch break to be together, they could even sit beside each other.
Just awesome!
"Man, this thing is huge.", pointed Izuku at the door of their classroom. "Are there giants here?"
"Well, who knows what Quirks our classmates have, it could be.", said Michi, ready to open the door.
Only she stopped as Izuku made a little whine sound.
"Izu-Chan, all good?"
"I'm just worried a bit…what if Kacchan and the boy with the glasses from the exam are in our class?", he admitted shy.
He knew he could tell Michi his deepest fears, she never would laugh at him.
Surprisingly before Michi could say something, Ares spoke first: "Boy, even if they are there, you aren't alone anymore. Michi and I are with you. We are a team, did you forget?"
"And we protect each other.", added Michi.
Then she gave Izuku a big hug.
He hugged her tightly back, fighting with his tears.
"You can do it Izuku!", whispered Michi in his ears. "We believe in you. I believe in you, my hero."
"T-Thanks, Michi."
"Now let's get inside!", proclaimed Michi, raising a hand in the air.
Ares raised one of his flaps and Izuku copied Michi.
"Let's go!"
So the girl took with one hand Izuku's hand, and he squeezed it as she opened the door.
Only to be met by a loud shouting match between, oh how wonderful, Bakugo and glasses from her shit list.
Michi made a face, Ares deadpanned and Izuku hid behind his best friend's back.
Bakugo and glasses squabbled over Bakugo having his feet on the table.
At least they learned the name of the glasses, Iida Tenya from the Soumei Private Academy.
"An elite.", grumbled Ares.
"No wonder he has a stick up his ass.", grumbled Michi back.
Izuku just looked shyly around from behind Michi's back.
Which was a stupid move since Iida zeroed in on him.
And the rest of the glass looked at them too.
The glass-wearing girl got ready to protect her Izuku.
But it wasn't necessary because Iida just introduced himself: "My name is Tenya Iida from the –"
"Yeah, I-I know!", interrupted him Izuku stuttering. "Uhh… I'm Izuku Midoriya and this is Michi Massaro and Ares. It's super nice to meet you…"
"Michi Massaro?", repeated Tenya and all the class stared now at her. She just raised an eyebrow. "You are the one who took the first place!"
"Ares and me.", corrected Michi, as Ares waved: "We are a team."
Their classmates started to murmur.
They never saw a Quirk like that, while Tenya made chopping hand moments.
"What an incredible and rare Quirk. I never saw a living and breathing ribbon."
"And you won't I'm the only one.", deadpanned Michi.
Silence occurred and someone coughed.
Then Tenya recovered, turning to Izuku: "Midoriya… You realized that there was something more to the practical exam, didn't you? You must be very perceptive, and I completely misjudged you. I admit as a student, you're far superior to me."
Okay, this pleased Michi. She would take Tenya from her shit list.
Everyone who said sorry to Izuku and complimented him was all right.
"Hey, I recognize that messed up hair! Falling boy!", called a female voice from behind them. "And the beautiful girl with the cool ribbon. Of course, you would be together."
They turned around.
"Oh, it's the cute girl with the gravity quirk. How are you, cutie!", greeted Michi, while Izuku waved shyle.
Cutie giggled and blushed.
"I'm Ochaco Uraraka, I'm fine…erm?"
"Michi Massaro and the ribbon is Ares and the boy behind me is Izuku Midoriya."
"Yes, he is the one who saved me at the mock exam. Thank you, your punch was incredible."
This made Izuku just stutter and turn red more, while the girls smiled at him.
Unknown to them Katsuki watched them and felt the familiar anger in him rise.
He remembers the day their old school principal congratulated him, Deku and Massaro for entering the U.A.
Katsuki can't believe that he is standing here before the principal with Deku.
He had a feeling Massaro would enter the U.A., he recognised her strength, but that she even took first place from him.
Yeah, Katsuki was not thrilled.
The two idiots who had the hots for each other, yes even he could tell, smiled at the principal.
"I can't believe we have not one but three students from our school heading off to U.A.!", said the principal proud. "And to think you're one of them, Midoriya. It's a miracle."
Deku just smiles brighter like the idiot he is, while Massaro pats his shoulder proudly.
No, this was not right. Katsuki knew Deku had to use a trick to get into the hero school.
However, which one?
Massaro couldn't have helped him, she was in her own battle zone, far away from him.
So how did Deku do it?
When the principal made them go, Katsuki turned to the pair.
"I want to talk to you.", he simply said.
Massaro's red eyes burned him and her ribbon was flapping around.
"Whatever do you want to talk to us?"
"Not with you, Massaro. Deku I want to talk to you."
Before Deku could say something Massaro stood protetiv before him.
"Whatever you want to say to Izuku, you can say before me. I know you just want to beat him up if I'm not around."
Well, she wasn't wrong.
Annoyed Katsuki growled to Deku: "What did you do to pass the exam? You must've cheated somehow, right?"
Deku just stutters.
It pissed him off!
If Massaro wasn't there he would slam him against the wall.
"I already know I had to share with Massaro to be the first students from this crappy school to get into U.A., but you, Deku, had to go and screw that all up! I warned you not to apply!"
The girl opened her mouth to surely defend her crush, but, unbelievably, Deku stepped before her and stared him down.
Him, Katsuki!
The nerve!
"Kacchan…Someone I look up to told me… that I can become a hero. That's why I applied. That's… why I'm going. Like it or not, you can't stop me!"
Then Deku took Massaro by the hand and the two left him.
Well, Massaro ribbon made a raspberry in his direction, but this wasn't important.
I'm gonna ruin that little bastard… right after I figure out how he got in.
Meanwhile, Michi and Ochaco talked with each other like they were old friends.
Izuku was a tiny bit jealous, okay.
He knew Michi liked girls also and Uraraka was way prettier than him.
It made him feel even more inferior than normal.
"What do you think we're doing today besides orientation?", wondered Uraraka. "I wonder what our teachers are like! I can't wait to meet everybody!"
Before Michi could respond a male voice from the floor declared: "If you're just here to make friends, then you can pack up your stuff now."
Everybody looked at the man on the floor in the yellow sleeping bag.
"Is this a hobo?", whispers Ares quietly to Michi.
Unsure she shrugged her shoulders.
"Welcome to U.A.'s hero course.", said the possible hobo, unzipping his sleeping bag and sucking on an energy jelly pouch. "It took eight seconds before you all shut up. That's not gonna work. Time is precious. Rational students would understand that. Hello, I'm Shouta Aizawa… your teacher."
Every teen and one ribbon thought the same: That was their teacher?!
A wannabe hobo?!
Aizawa-Sensei pulls out a tracksuit from his sleeping bag.
Uh-Oh, what now?
"Right, let's get to it. Put these on and head outside."
Oh dear Mary, already?
Michi had to sign.
When they took her measure for her tracksuit and uniform she had informed that she needed to transform with Ares to use her Quirk.
It turned out Ares's eyes in the supersuit form were too big to put on the gym jacket.
So Michi got permission to only wear the pants since this was the only piece of clothing that fit over her Ares supersuit.
Amazing all would see her half-naked self already!
Stupid Ares and his stupid pervert supersuit.
Grumpy she followed the girls to the locker room, where they started to put on their tracksuits.
With a huff, Michi transformed which earned her confused looks.
Even more confused as she put only the pants on.
She explained the reason.
No one said anything, till a girl who looked like an alien said: "That's rough, buddy."
This made Michi smile.
"An Avatar reference, nice!"
"You are welcome, I'm Mina!"
"Michi!"
Well, at least she made some friends.
When the girls walked out to the sports field, what Michi thought of course happened.
Nearly all boys, especially a tiny one with round balls as hair, got nosebleeds.
Surprisingly, besides the little pervert who stared, the other boys looked away quickly and did as if it were nothing.
Huh.
Seems like nearly all the boys in her class were gentlemen.
Meeting a nice boy was rare.
She always thought Izuku was a special case.
Speaking of Izuku, without saying anything, he stood before her to cover her up.
He only reached till her chin, but it was the thought that contended.
"Thanks, baby boy!", she purred in his ear and gave him a little cheek kiss.
Her best friend did his best teakettle and pepperoni imitation.
So sweet and innocent, Michi couldn't wait to corrupt him.
One day soon hopeful.
Anyway, Aizawa-Sensei said they would do now a Quirk assessment test.
Surprised all repeated it.
"But orientation… We're gonna miss it.", remind Uraraka.
"If you really wanna make the big leagues, you can't waste time on pointless ceremonies.", was Aizawa-Sensei's dry answer. "Here at U.A., we're not tethered to traditions. That means that I get to run my class however I see fit."
That sounded like trouble.
Their teacher continue: "You've been taking standardized tests most of your lives… but you never got to use your Quirks in physical exams before. The country's still trying to pretend we're all created equal by not letting those with the most power excel. It's not rational. One day, the Ministry of Education will learn. Massaro, you managed to get the most points on the entrance exam."
"Yes, sensei."
"What was your farthest distance throw with a softball when you were in junior high?"
"Eh, 70 meters."
"Right. Try doing it with your Quirk."
A bit unsure Michi walked up to the circle, where you threw balls.
"Anything goes. Just stay in the circle.", told Aizawa-Sensei. "Go on. You're wasting our time."
"Alright, alright.", Michi huffed.
She took the ball into her gloved hand.
"Ares, ready for some action?"
"Let's throw this ball into the sky!"
Grinning Michi put all her strength into throw.
The ball, fly and fly and fly and was only a little twinkle in the sky before it came down again.
"All of you need to know your maximum capabilities. It's the most rational way of figuring out your potential as a pro hero.", said Aizawa-Sensei.
He showed them Michi's result.
999 meters!
Michi and Ares formally preen on their classmate's shocked and aww-ing sounds.
Oh yeah, they were badass!
All get excited to use their Quirks and test them, however, Aizawa-Sensei reminds them that this is not a game and who fail all eight tests will be expelled!
Of course, protests are heard, however, their teacher doesn't care, telling them life is unfair. So they should go beyond, Plus Ultra to prove they are worthy to be in this school.
Oh, Michi would, show him!
She was worthy!
But…
She stared at Izuku.
He can't still regulate his Quirk…oh Izuku how are you going to pass? I wish I could help somehow!
The first test was a 50-meter dash, Michi managed to complete it in 4,01 seconds and Izuku in 7.02 seconds.
Sadly against someone like Tenya who finished it in 3.04, Izuku was in last place.
The second test, the grip strength test, begins.
Michi deforms the device with her grip, for which the girls cheered on her and some of the boys got scared. Izuku again was more average.
The third test, the standing long jump, starts and Michi manages to jump over the sand pit, poor Izuku lands in the sand.
The fourth test, repeated side steps, starts, Again no problem for Michi, but Izuku.
Since she already did the ball throw Michi can now look on.
She applauds Uraraka who gets Infinity.
Then it's Izuku's turn and Michi prays for him.
He needs at least one good result!
The girl feels formally how her best friend uses One For All, but strangely he only reaches 46 meters.
What?
As it turns out their teacher isn't no one than the famous Erasure Hero… Eraser Head, who stopped Izuku from using his Quirk.
He chest the young boy.
Does he want to break his bones again? Does he wait for someone to heal his body again?
When their teacher grapes Izuku with his scarf, only Ares hissing Don't stops Michi from helping her love.
Aizawa-Sensei chest Izuku some more, comparing him to All Might and how reckless he is.
Then he gives him his Quirk back.
Now it was the moment of truth.
Would Izuku manage to at least use his Quirk without breaking all his bones like their teacher doesn't want?
Michi can't help herself and starts to pray quietly.
Izuku needs to manage this!
It seems her prayers are answered since Izuku somehow managed to channel One For All in one finger and can throw so the ball to 705.3 meters!
A quiet yes comes from her lips, while Izuku tells Aizawa-Sensei cool how he was still standing.