The trio learn their results and begin some training to understand their new combined powers! And they find out the new solution provided for Himiko's situation.

Ochako wasn't entirely certain how she ended up in this situation. They returned to Izuku's apartment soaked, with bits of seaweed hanging off their clothing, giggling and barely able to stand as they kept breaking down into chuckles. Inko took one look at them and gave them the most mom Look, with a capital L, that Ochako had seen in a while. She sighed, pinching her brow, as Ochako's Mom just rolled her eyes indulgently. Her dad and Toshinori were in the other room, but when they entered, they both just stared at the trio in consternation.

Inko shoved towels into their arms, forcing them into the showers one by one, as Toshinori explained the plan to go to UA and do some training with their shared Quirks, which…Ochako was actually pretty in favor of. She kind of wanted to test the other powers out, and to see what and how she did that weird black hole thing during the exam! Only problem was…Inko wanted them to eat breakfast. With her parents. And Izu and Himi and Toshi and in front of everyone she had to eat.

Every fiber of her being resisted the concept, the very idea. Which…was a bit weird, wasn't it? She knew she was fine, after all, and it's not like everyone else wasn't eating. Like, it should be fine, Inko had plenty, right? Toshinori even said he'd been supporting Izuku and if anyone had money it was the Number One Hero, so it was okay, the cost wasn't too bad then, right?

Yet her hand trembled when she tried to clasp her chopsticks, making them clack loudly against one another and causing her parents and Inko to look at her oddly for a moment, but she quickly shoved a smile on her face and got her hands under control, acting like it had been just a slip up. Clumsy, butterfingers Ochako, she's got quite a grip problem due to her Quirk, everyone knew that. She just smiled and joked it away, making sure no one else noticed as she hid one hand beneath the table and the other rubbing the back of her head, at least until she could get them to stop shaking.

She forced herself to down the food, just as she'd done before, but again it weighed oh so heavily on her. She felt sick. Her stomach roiled as if it was warning her it'd erupt and spill all her secrets, all her choices, all the sacrifices she made, and she had to struggle to keep it all contained. Himiko was the important one today, and Izuku clearly was struggling too. She needed to be strong for them, like she was for her parents, like she was every day back home as she worked her ass off to make it here. Her issues with food weren't important enough to dwell on.

Idly, she wondered if she'd feel better if she just excused herself and…removed…the food from her stomach. She'd already gotten something from it, right? That's how digestion worked, so it wouldn't be a big deal, and she'd feel less bloated and wide and heavy, right…no! No no, that's how people with disorders did stuff, she didn't have anything like that. She chose to eat less to save money, that's all, no other reason, nope. And, and she'd be fine once they were at UA, right? Food there was part of the room and board, and she got the scholarships she hoped so it wouldn't be a problem! She'd be fine then, money wouldn't be a problem and she'd be okay. Just a few more weeks (assuming she made it in) and she'd be okay.

Which led to what happened after breakfast, the food heavy and choking inside her, as they actually were on UA Campus, being led to a training ground by All Might himself. Even with how disgusted she felt with herself, she couldn't help but feel a smidge of excitement…although that might be Izuku's barely contained excitement bleeding over to her somehow. He was nearly shaking in his boots, the thought of training under not only All Might, but Nezu and whatever other hero would be there had him nearly ready to vibrate out of existence.

She shared an indulgent smile with Himiko, feeling nostalgia wash over her and briefly pull her out of her food-focused mentality. Even when they were little, pro heroes got Izuku so riled up that Ochako and Himiko couldn't help but mirror his excitement at times. Ochako wanted to be a hero to help her parents…Himiko wanted to be a hero for those who were 'different', as she put it. But Izuku? He just wanted to help people, and Ochako had always admired him for that.

Although something was very different about him. Granted, she expected change…she changed a lot too. But it wasn't just in how he looked…sure, he grew up, and even though his clothes were generally baggy she got to see that he was in good shape when they were playing in the surf (no she wasn't checking him out why are you asking) but he was…it was like he was two people. When they first ran into him, he was the slightly stuttery, nervous, prone to crying boy she remembered from her childhood. But he seemed to have two other modes too now.

One, how he was acting when she ran into the room and saw him holding Himiko. It was like all his shyness and anxiety vanished, and in its place was a young man who was just…ready to do whatever it took to help the blonde. And then the other…that overly apologetic, fearful, nearly breaking down sight she saw when he was apologizing for 'forcing' his Quirk on them. He didn't stay in either of those modes for long, but…she noticed. She always noticed things about people after all, her childhood friend was no exception.

Her musings were cut short as the trio were ushered through a large, open gate, into what looked like a mock city not unlike the entrance exam. Standing before them was a hero all three of them recognized as Nezu, UA University's President, and beside him, a tall, black-haired scraggly looking man with tired eyes and a mug of what she assumed was coffee (although she could smell it from there and had to wonder if this man drank the same atomic sludge her mother did).

"Welcome new students! Am I a dog, a mouse, or a bear? Well, I'm the President of UA university! Welcome to your future school!" the one recognizable hero exclaimed, his one hand high in the air in greeting.

"Wait…we passed?" Izuku asked, eyes wide.

Nezu turned to look at Toshinori. "You didn't tell them?"

Toshinori shrugged. "I assumed you'd prefer to talk to them about it."

"Good assumption. We have to go over their scores anyways," the tired looking man said with a drawl. He cast an appraising eye over the trio before him. "I'm Shouta Aizawa. I'll be your homeroom teacher this year. As part of our normal process, I'd pull each of you into my office after the first day to go over your entrance exam results and explain the scoring. Since you're here, it's only rational to do it now instead, and I get to save myself time on the first day with your classmates. So we'll go over that and then start working on your Quirks…plural."

Ochako flushed slightly at the reminder. She hadn't really thought a ton about it, but the fact she had multiple Quirks now was going to likely cause issues. Especially with how obvious it was now, with the whole eyes, fangs, and her Quirk's finger beans. All they needed was a pair of cat ears and a tail and they'd be some fantasy catfolk creature (although the other two with those would look really cute).

Aizawa continued. "Let's get this over with. You three swept the top three spots by a pretty significant margin. That's because we provide two types of points. Villain points, which you knew about, and Rescue points, which you gain from heroic actions unrelated to combat. Taking out the zero pointers in defense of the students around you netted a hefty amount of Rescue points, as well as the various heroic actions you each performed over the course of the exam."

He held up a tablet that he'd had at his side, showing the three short clips of various times they had stepped in to help other students up, push them out of the way of a strike from a villain bot, or blocking blows. Ochako pursed her lips as she saw how many times Izuku blocked strikes using his own body as a shield, but decided not to say anything right then..she'd confront him later about being so reckless.

"However, after we get your full total, we begin to deduct points for various demerits. An example is if you are reckless with your Quirk use when destroying a bot and put another examinee in danger or harm them, even a small amount, you will lose points. None of you lost points for that, as all three of you were judicious in your attacks. However, you did lose Rescue points for how you went about your rescue solutions." Aizawa took a moment to narrow his eyes at the trio, but Ochako noted how he seemed to laser focus on Izuku more than her or Himiko.

"Self-sacrifice is a fact of our job as pro heroes. There may come a time where you must let yourself be hurt for the sake of another. But it should never be your first solution…only a last resort. Because a dead hero saves no one. All three of you were reckless with your own safety during the exam, but you more than the other two, Midoriya. Let me make this clear: In my classes, that will not be acceptable. I expect you to do your best to protect others while keeping yourself safe. Am I understood?" Aizawa scanned over the trio, Ochako nodding along as Himiko offered a thumbs up. Izuku sheepishly nodded, looking down at the ground with an expression of shame on his face.

Aizawa sighed, stepping forward and putting his hand on Izuku's shoulder, making the teenager start and look up at him. The teacher made sure to meet Izuku's gaze, and then turned it to the other two girls, locking eyes with each of them in turn. "I'm not being a hardass for the fun of it. I want you to graduate and become the best hero you can, and you can only do that if you graduate healthy and with a good mindset. I've yet to see one of my students' names in the obituaries, and I'd like to keep it that way."

Izuku looked contemplative for a moment, before nodding along as if he understood what the teacher was saying. Ochako got it. He was being strict because he wanted them safe, which made sense. But that was okay, she'd make sure Izuku wasn't being an idiot out there! And Himiko too, if she started being dumb like that.

Aizawa took a step back and nodded, tapping on his tablet quickly. "That all said, here's your results." He flipped the tablet around, showing a listing of what seemed to be the top ten scorers in the list. Ochako quickly scanned the list from the bottom, expecting her name to be lower. She kept going up, passing name after name…not seeing any familiar names until she reached 3rd.

3rd: Himiko Toga:

Villain Points:43

Rescue Points:80

Gross Score: 123

Net Score: 79

2nd: Izuku Midoriya:

Villain Points: 38

Rescue Points: 95

Gross Score: 133

Net Score: 82

1st: Ochako Uraraka:

Villain Points: 41

Rescue Points: 85

Gross Score: 126

Net Score: 83

"...I-I got first?" Ochako asked, her voice shaking as she stared at the scoreboard, eyes wide.

"Congratulations 'Chako!" Himiko shouted, her excitement over the news shoving the gloom she'd been feeling all day in the background. She leapt over and nearly tackled Ochako in a hug, her arms squeezing the brunette's neck tightly. She looked over at Izuku, worried he'd be upset he got a higher total score than her but she got the better placement, but he was looking at her with so much pride and joy she felt herself flush in embarrassment.

"I always knew you'd be amazing, 'Chako," Izuku said, his smile wide and brilliant.

"You did g-great too!" she protested, wanting him to celebrate his own achievement as well.

"All three of you did great. You beat my score, in fact, haha!" Toshinori said, hands on his hips as he smiled wide. The trio stared at him in consternation, the blonde shrugged sheepishly. "I lost a lot of points to collateral damage heh."

"So…we're accepted?" Izuku asked nervously, as if he required that affirmation.

"That you are, young Izuku!" Toshinori exclaimed, his smile wide. After a moment, it softened a bit as he continued to speak. "That does lead into what we'd like to do, going forward." Ochako was…confused, by the way he sounded, but turned her gaze to the President as he stepped forward and raised his…hand? Paw? She wasn't sure what to call it, but he wanted their attention.

"Yes, after discussion with Toshinori on your situations, both living and Quirk, we wished to extend an offer. Your school years are, for all intents and purposes, over. You have two weeks left but already finished your final exams and have no work left, based on what I read in your school reports. UA normally does not start for another month and a half, but, the dorms are already cleaned out and prepared for move in, so, we'd like to have the three of you move in now, thus giving us plenty of time to train and practice with your now shared Quirks and learn the extent of your abilities in a safe environment!" Nezu beamed at them.

"I already spoke to Inko and your parents, young Ochako," Toshinori assured. "They understand and also agree this is probably the best path forward. Your school records are already done, and graduation is but a formality for you three, so we can get that handled behind the scenes." No one said it, but Ochako and Izuku both were side-eying Himiko, knowing what it was the adults were not directly saying. Himiko just stood there, blank-faced, keeping her composure. Ochako set her jaw, swallowing thickly as she shuffled closer to Himiko, pressing her shoulder against the blonde to show her support. She felt the gentlest press back, pressing down on her own smile at Himiko's returned affection, before speaking.

"I'd be okay with it," she said, willing to speak first.

"Yeah, that's fine with me too," Izuku added.

After a brief moment, Himiko cleared her throat. "Y-yeah. I can do that too."

Nezu clapped his paws(?) together. "Excellent! Then let us begin working on your Quirks! I am led to believe you've done some preliminary analysis on them, Midoriya?"

Izuku jolted for a moment, before nodding, pulling a notebook out from wherever he hid them (years later Ochako still didn't know how he did that. Quirkless her ass, he clearly could summon notebooks from hammerspace or something). He flipped it open and began to flip through pages quickly. "Um, so I have my notes from when we were kids, I've added them all here, but I know Chako and Himi both said their Quirks got better since then. Since we got the um, sharing thing, I've not touched Transform because Himi said not to yet, but I've used Zero Gravity a couple times on accident-"

"Wait, accident? Aren't you wearing the gloves I gave you?" Ochako interrupted, narrowing her eyes at him.

He scrunched his shoulders up in protest. "W-well yeah, but I can't exactly wear them in the shower can I?!" After his statement rang in the air for a moment, Ochako felt her cheeks flush, noticing his face go red too as he turned away from her at what he said aloud. Himiko let out an indelicate snort, covering her face with her hand to try and cut off her giggles at how embarrassed Izuku suddenly got. Ochako hunched in on herself, feeling flustered by having forced him to say that aloud.

"Your teenage drama is irrational. Let's focus on the important part here. So far, none of you have done much experimenting, correct?" Aizawa interjected, his eyes narrowed.

Izuku cleared his throat and nodded rapidly. "Yes sir. Um, we made sure they could both use One For All safely, but that's it."

"Fine. Let's start there." Aizawa pulled up his tablet and tapped on it once more, reading over whatever was on screen. "Based on what you told Yagi, none of you can wield the full strength of One For All. And with it split, you all have your own 'pools' of its strength, correct?" Izuku nodded in confirmation. "Now you say you can picture it in percentages, and the higher you go the more it begins to hurt. What are your current caps?"

"Um, I can go up to 19% before it starts to be hard to move," Izuku said.

"15% for me," Ochako added.

"14% here," Himiko said.

Aizawa nodded. "Makes sense. Midoriya trained specifically for this Quirk and focused on muscle gain, while you two trained for your own Quirks. Fine. Show me your maximums."

Izuku nodded, clenching his fists as red began to bleed through his veins, green lightning sparking over his skin. His hair lifted slightly, sparks of green passing between strands of his hair as his eyes glowed an unnatural green. Izuku grinned. "Full Cowling! Cool name, isn't it?" he announced, with a bit of pride in his tone. Aizawa took a tiny step back, his eyes narrowing further.

Ochako took a deep breath, focusing in on herself the way Izuku had taught her. Reaching down deep, she pulled the power stored within her to the surface, the light around her body dimming slightly as white and pink lights began to sparkle and shimmer over her skin. She took a moment to brush her hair out of her eyes and smirked at Izuku. "Nah, Galactic Shroud is better!" Izuku pouted playfully at her as she giggled. Aizawa's eye twitched, but she barely noticed as she turned to look at Himiko.

Himiko's fists clenched in a mirror to hers and Izuku's, golden strands of light lifting off her skin and surrounding her in a nimbus of amber energy. Blood-red streaks began to slip between the lights, entwining with them and making Himiko blur slightly. Himiko rolled her shoulders and stretched, one hand reaching up to the sky as she leaned back. "I was thinking I'd go with Sanguine Cloak. What do you guys think?"

Ochako opened her mouth to reply, but she was startled out of her thoughts when she felt the Quirk suddenly vanish from her, Himiko and Izuku letting out startled shouts as they also depowered suddenly. She turned her head to see Aizawa, his hair lifted and eyes blood-red, staring at the trio of them, now an entire step back from where he had been before. She blinked, confused, noticing Nezu was now also a few steps back, and the fur on the back of his neck was lifted up. The only one who seemed 'fine', was Toshinori, the pro standing there with a nervous smile on his face.

"Wait…you're Eraserhead?!" Izuku exclaimed, completely ignoring the fact their Quirks vanished in his sudden excitement as he pointed at Aizawa. The older man sighed, his eyes dimming once more and his hair falling back down.

"Yes. I am," he replied. Not letting Izuku go off on what Ochako knew would be one of his sudden hero mumbles, he continued. "My Quirk is called Erasure. It lets me disable most Quirks. I activated it on instinct…and I'd like to know why I did, Yagi," Aizawa's words were growled at the end, turning to glare at the blonde hero.

Toshinori chuckled nervously, rubbing the back of his neck. "Well…you see, I've always been told that One For All is a bit…terrifying, to others. It's why I try to always be cheerful and smiling, to offset the feeling. We never were sure why, but it seems to activate the fight or flight instinct in most people. At the lower percentages they were using it, it normally wouldn't, but since three of them were active at once, well…," Toshinori trailed off, gesturing towards Aizawa and Nezu as an explanation.

"Hmm, yes. I was quite used to the sensation of you going to higher tiers of strength, but this was novel. I believe that all three active at once caused an exponential increase in the 'fear' factor, as it were," Nezu mused.

Aizawa rolled his eyes. "Great. So if all three light up, my class is going to panic. Perfect. Well, they'll need to get over it. Exposure to it over time should mitigate the effect, yes?"

Toshinori nodded. "Yes, those closest to me started to ignore it over time, and if you have a cheerful attitude, people tend to dismiss it as something else either way!"

Aizawa sighed, turning back to the trio as he pinched the bridge of his nose. "Fine. Let's see how well you work with Zero Gravity now, and then we'll do Transform. Let's see what Midoriya and Toga can do, then we'll move to see the improvements for you, Uraraka." The trio shared a glance, before nodding…time to learn what they could and couldn't do.

It appeared that Izuku and Himiko both gained Ochako's normal Zero Gravity, as well as the 'improvement' she noticed where she could 'add' gravity to something touched, causing it collapse in on itself or at the very least, hold someone down if they were very careful in how much they applied. However, Ochako's new 'Singularity' ability, as she named the ability she used to bring down the Zero Pointer, was something they could not reproduce, and it turned out she could chain her Quirk through objects touched from one she had the power active on.

But when it came to Transform, it was…a bit of a struggle. Himiko was not keen on talking too much about it, but with gentle coaxing from Ochako and Izuku, she explained how it worked as far as she knew. Unlike with Ochako, they chose to test her changes first…and it began with seeing if she could use other peoples Quirk's. The short answer was yes, once she activated Aizawa's Erasure with the blood he had carried in a vial to the testing facility. The long answer was more complex, because she ended up accidentally activating it before she even changed shape.

More tests concluded she could temporarily mirror Quirks, with a time limit based on how much of that person's blood she had in her, and she didn't need to change to use them unless it was a mutation or heteromorphic Quirk of some kind. However, neither Izuku nor Ochako could use Aizawa's Quirk…but they were able to use Inko's, as Toshinori had brought her blood along as well.

Testing the blood of the other teachers at UA revealed the same results. Himiko could duplicate the Quirks, but Izuku and Ochako seemed limited solely to Inko's. Nezu postulated this may have something to do with the relationship they had with her…the closer connection allowed them to use hers, while Himiko, being the originator of Transform, could access any Quirk she had the blood for. Izuku was nearly bursting with excitement at the thought of testing it out further, but for now, they needed to test the actual shapeshifting.

Ochako and Izuku both chose to change into Himiko at first…a combination of wanting to change to someone familiar, as well as it would last the longest as her blood was the one they'd used the most. It worked perfectly, although neither of them were very good at acting like Himiko…Ochako got far too into it, breaking into giggles as she tried to mirror Himiko, the blonde cracking a grin and laughing with her. Izuku on the other hand, he seemed to feel a bit…out of place. The expression on his transformed face was weird, to Ochako, who was familiar with all of Himiko's looks. He looked like he was confused, and she vowed she'd ask him about it later.

Ochako and Himiko tried shifting into Izuku next, and Ochako was struck by the realization that, oh, the shapeshifting meant everything changed, but also, she didn't really feel off about it. Something to talk to Izuku about later, she supposed. It was weird though…her arms and chest kinda stung, for some reason, but she didn't want to just go around feeling up his body while changed into him. That'd be way too awkward. Maybe he had some sore muscles from when she drank his blood or something. Something else to ask later.

Still, it was kind of cool to have his muscles. She felt like she could run for ten kilometers without breaking a sweat! She decided to try and make Izuku laugh like she had Himiko, hamming up a fake Izuku performance where she started prancing about, acting like All Might. Izuku looked embarrassed for a split second, before her giggles seemed to infect him and he started laughing at her, Himiko now mirroring Ochako as well.

Finally they tried turning into her, and this was where they found one more caveat for Transform. While they were in her body, it appeared like they could mirror her Zero Gravity ability to affect a radius around them. Izuku realized this by accident, as he was back to looking off put by the change…not like he was disturbed, but like something didn't make sense, but during his confusion, he accidentally activated it. Which Himiko then mirrored a moment later.

And so, they tried another round of changes…while in Himiko's body, they could mirror any Quirk now, and while in Izuku's, they both found they had access to the higher percentage of power he could use. Izuku was nearly catatonic from the overflow of information, muttering under his breath rapidly about the ways they could utilize such a series of powerful Quirks, while Nezu chuckled gleefully under his breath. Ochako was treated to the strange sight of the President of UA University clambering up onto Aizawa's shoulder and sitting in his weird scarf, still chuckling, as Aizawa's eye twitched.

Toshinori just looked proud…not just of Izuku, but her and Himiko too. He was effusive in his praise, making Ochako flush at the random compliments. Izuku was his successor, not her, she just got lucky she got this special power now. But she kept her mouth shut…by now, she'd figured out Toshinori would try to reassure her or something, and she didn't need that. If anyone did, it was Izuku, or Himiko…Himiko because her parents were twats who she planned on punting to the sun if she encountered them again, and Izuku because he kept being so damned self-deprecating. Something else she was going to have to address.

Ochako's mental notes set, she nodded to herself. She added a second long-term goal now. Make Izuku and Himiko happy. For her short-term follow ups, she just needed to keep an eye on them and help them push past their clear self-esteem issues. Himiko's Quirk was beautiful and her parents were stupid not to see that, and Izuku was always more than just his Quirklessness, he just never realized that. She could do this, she could fix them. Like her parents taught her, you gotta build up from below.

She winced internally as her stomach tensed, feeling a bit queasy, but she set it aside as unimportant. They knew how the Quirks worked, they were gonna move into the dorms in a few days, and train all the way up to class. She could do this. They could do this. Just had to buckle down and focus. Her goals were now in reach, and nothing was gonna stop her from succeeding. Nothing.

I had a lot of fun coming up with this twist on the Entrance Exam! And you best believe it has some implications for the results the other students got too...but I will spoil and say Bakugo still got in. My reasoning why he wouldn't lose TOO many points is basically he ran so far ahead he didn't get much chance to accidently cause harm to other students...but he DID cause a lot of collateral damage and that docked him points. But he still got in...just not 1st or even 4th place xD

Galactic Shroud as the name for Ochako's variation of Full Cowling comes from the amazing Aliandris, who gave me permission to use both that name and the names of Ochako's parents. Check his work out!