"Attention students. Your exam will begin in just a few minutes."

Turning to stare up at the speakers nearby Momo Yaoyorozu frowned, a worried look moving along her face.

She would like to say that she was feeling calm but the truth of the matter was that she was feeling anything but. She could feel the nips of worry and anxiety biting at her ankles and weighing her down. She had no doubt that she could potentially handle a bunch of robots but the principal of the school? One of the most gifted minds of this generation? She was not so sure...

Nearby she could see Kyo and Honenuki doing some stretches as Yanagi was sitting in a meditative position.

Twisting her waist around slowly Kyo let out a satisfied sound before turning to face her. "Ok so what's the plan?"

Raising an eyebrow at that she couldn't help but look surprised, her face slowly shifting into something more unsure.

"I...don't know. I can't imagine what Principal Nezu has planned for us."

Letting out a little scoff Honenuki shook his head. "What's the big deal? I know he's the Principal and everything but he's three feet tall. Can't we just...I don't know, rush him?"

Opening her mouth to disagree Yanagi's one eye snapped open, her gaze looking to them with a blank expression. "A snakes poison is deadlier the smaller the snake."

"Ok but he's not a snake he's a...rodent, I think?"

"I believe she is speaking in metaphor Honenuki." Momo said gently. "And even though that is actually a myth the implication still stands. Just because Principal Nezu is small does not mean he should be so easily overlooked."

"I would go with Momo on this one. Girls wicked smart." Kyo said with a nod, Honenuki having a serious look on his face before nodding as well.

Considering Honenuki also got in on recommendation the fact he was so willing to put his faith in her was something that she could not overlook.

"Then what is the plan?" He asked again with a contemplative thought.

That's a good question, what WAS the plan?

Placing a hand to her chin she walked back and forth, her mind racing at the possibilities.

"Truthfully it is impossible to completely predict what the first move in a game of chest is. You can try to make plans and know the most optimal routes but you never really know what your opponent will do until he moves to do it. That in mind I do not even know the board, let alone the pieces..." Trailing off a little she turned back around and winced under the confused gaze of all three of them. Righting herself she coughed into her hand anxiously. "What I mean to say is...I think we should play it by ear for now. Let's try and make our way to one of the exits and adjust accordingly."

"Sounds good vice prez." Kyo said with a smile, placing her bat on her shoulder as she walked past, followed quickly by Honenuki and Yanagi with her hunched walk. Watching her team head for the entrance she heard Kyo's voice calling out. "I mean...how much damage can the little guy do anyway?"


She just had to open her big mouth didn't she!?

Wincing under the loud crashes going off around her Kyouka Jirou slowly stood back to her feet, a wave of pain running up her body and thrumming through her ears.

Taking a quick look at her shattered weapon crushed beneath a chunk of metal she decided not to dwell on it, instead trying to take note of the carnage going off around around her. Looking over at the large chunk of metal that fell behind them, trapping them inside, she could faintly hear the mad laughs of their principal in the distance as he set off chain reactions all around them. Each crashing and scraping of metal making her teeth clench tightly under the grating sound.

Looking towards her team they all looked pretty beat up, thick layers of dust abd bruises covering their bodies. You could see defeat on everyone's faces...which made sense considering every turn they've made since entering this death trap just lead to more obstacles. Bruised egos was a given but what really concerned her the most was the look in Momo's eyes. Her eyes looked cloudy and dejected, stray hairs dangling from her ponytail and covering parts of her face. She looked like she was already handing in the towel.

Leaning forward she watched as Momo placed her face into her hands, her posture looking defeated around the collapsing rubble around them.

Reaching a hand out to her she hesitated before walking closer.

"Hey Momo, how are you holding up?" Wincing under her own stupid question she shook her head, her jacks swaying a little. Rubbing her arm she quickly sat down next to her. "Sorry, stupid question."

Momo sat there for an extra moment before sadly mumbling through her hands. "Maybe my parents were right...maybe it was stupid to think I could try to be a hero."

She frowned at that. "Hey now, that sounds like quitter talk."

"It's true. I believed I was ready to come to UA...I trained my entire life to come her after all. Yet ever turn and every choice I've made has only resulted in failure." Tilting her head to the side Momo turned away with shame in her eyes. "I ran when both you and Midoriya went down to the USJ to fight. I failed during the second event at the sports festival...the only thing I've truly done of note is become the classes vic president and even then I can't help but feel that I was merely lucky."

"Its only been a few months Momo. We're still in our first semester."

"And what of a few more months!?" Sitting up some Momo shouted, making their two other teammates jump in place. Her burning eyes now on Kyo making a small shiver run up her spine. "How many times do I have to fail before I realize I'm not cut out for this!? How long until the truth of the world pierces my thick skull!?"

Something about Momo's tone was really starting to piss her off. She wasn't supposed to be the negative one...that was her thing! All of this talk of giving up and running away from her problems was starting to make her sound like, like...

Like her.

"So what? You're just going to give up? Just like that!?" She shouted back, waving a hand aside angrily. "Back at the sports festival you scolded me for running from a fight and now here you are doing the exact same thing. I had no idea your parents raised a hypocrite!"

Nearby Honenuki and Yanagi looked between them, their eyes looking almost excited as they ate up the drama. If they had popcorn she's sure they would be munching away at it right about now.

Standing up Momo frowned, her hands clenching. "I'm not sure if you are aware but we are trapped Kyo! Principal Nezu has us pinned in and has already started to seal off our exits! Do you hear those crashes? Thats him cutting off our routes! He has been ahead of us every step of the way, everything I've tried he's already countered! There is nothing for us to do, it is over!"

Maybe she was right...maybe it was already over. They should just take their failure and not go camping with the others...

Almost like a flash Kyo remembered a boy of green hair, of watching him constantly struggle by a far. Watching this small frail boy get up on shaking knees as he pushed himself harder then anyone she had ever seen before, never staying on the ground for long.

Frowning harder she turned to stare at one of the walls that trapped them in.

Hell no. She wasn't going to just roll over!

Walking past Momo without another word she heard her friend call out to her but she did not acknowledge her. Closing her eyes she tuned out any other sound, her hand pressing to the circular wall covering their exit. Taking a slow steady breath she focused on her own heartbeat, the steady rhythmic sound starting to vibrate and grow. Her eyebrows started to lower, getting tighter and tighter before her eyes snapped open.

There!

Thrusting her jacks into the wall she pushed the vibration forward, the rumbling sensation shooting into the wall before bursting outward.

In a loud crash the wall blew apart, splintering into large pieces of concrete and metal.

Turning back to the others she smirked. "I dont know about the rest of you but I'm not going down without a fight!"

Getting up to stare she could see hope return to her teammates eyes. Honenuki smiling as he clenched a fist while Yanagi had the ghost of a smirk on her face.

Taking a step forward stunned Momo looked to her in awe. Her mouth opening and closing like a fish gasping for water.

"What do you say vice pres?" She said with a reached out hand. "You with us?"

Smiling back Momo reached out a hand to take hers. "Always...and I think I have just the idea."


Sitting in his large crane chair Nezu chuckled, smiling happily as he was finally seeing movement again.

"Oh good, Sisuphus has started to move yet again. I was almost afraid that they had given up."

Stirring a cup of tea he took a sip as he watched wall after wall be destroyed in a straight line.

Interesting, I was unaware that someone on their team had the ability to destroy their obstacles like that...no matter.

Raising a furry paw he pulled a lever, creating another chain reaction nearby to slow them down.

While their push is impressive at the speed they are going it does not look like they are going to make it in time. A shame rea...wait a second.

Pausing his thought he did a double take, turned his head to look at one of the cameras to see young Jirou and Yanagi making their way through the walls. Yanagi was riding on a long flat sheet of metal like a hoverboard and using her quirk to keep it a float as Jirou destroyed his self made maze one wall at a time.

When did they split up? How did he lose track of two of them?

Turning his head quickly one of his ears twitched as he took a mental note of all of his cameras.

"Strange. I do not see miss Yaoyorozu nor Honenuki anywhere. It does not look like they are heading to one of the other exits...if that's the case they must be..."

The crane he sat on shook, startling him to his feet. His crane starting to shift and wobble farther and farther into the ground, the ground giving way under the weight of the machine. Another shake made him run to the edge, and look down below to take note of of how the base of the machine was starting to sink into the ground.

At this height he could make that landing easy enough.

Taking a quick leap he knew that he would be able to land safely but what he didn't know about was what was waiting for him at the bottom.

Jumping out the window instead of finding solid ground he only found himself landing in a net, the wires snapping tightly around him like a venus fly trap.

Yelping he struggled against the tight wires but it was no use, a cold snap of cuffs slamming around his wrist. The bag opening to reveal a smiling Yaoyorozu and Honenuki.

Looking over the smiling young adults he quickly connected the dots.

"Ah I see, you made it look like you were making a break for it while secretly tracking my location. Then you had Honenuki soften the ground around my hiding spot knowing it would not be structurally sound enough to withstand the weight of the machine. Well played! I did not think you would be able to track me amongst the chaos."

Giving a small bow Yaoyorozu blushed slightly at the praise. "Thank you sir but I cant take all of the credit, my team did much of the heavy lifting. Once Kyo pointed me in the right direction it did not take long for me to find you."

"Spoken like a true tactician. I see much promise in you young Yaoyorozu.

"Principal Nezu has been captured. Team Yaoyorozu has passed!"


Pumping his fist excitedly Midoriya smiled, relieved to see that Jirou and Momo passed.

"Man. That was a rocky start huh." Kendo chimed with a knowing look. "I told you Momo had it. The girls smart."

"Yeah I guess you were right."

"Like always. You should learn to trust me by now."

Letting out laugh at that he rolled his eyes playfully.

"If anything you should be more worried for me." Chimed in Tokage, gesturing over her shoulder with her thumb. "I'm stuck with the little pervert."

"W...hey!"

"Set, you flirt with everyone." Said Kendo back with a dead pan look.

"That's only because almost everyone in our classes is insanely hot. Don't hate on me for having good taste."

"Even m..."

"Except you."

Hearing a loud cough they all turned to see Shiozaki standing nearby, flanked to her right by the pink skinned girl Mina Ashido. The pink girl smiling widely at them before waving.

"Tokage, we are up after this. We should start heading to meet our burning bush. We must not dally on our destiny."

Blinking a little confused it took a second for Tokage to process what was said before shrugging, off to join them. Turning around to walk backwards she shot them both finger guns. "You heard the girl, I got a date with a bush or something. Catch you guys later!"

...

"...so uh, how screwed do you think they are from a one to a ten." Kendo muttered out.

"It depends on if they can focus long enough to work together..." Scratching his neck Midoriya frowned towards the wandering group.

"So...pretty screwed?"

"Oh big time."

"Speaking of screwed...how do you think Iida is going to do?" Flickering her teal eyes over to the monitor she watched Iida stretch near the entrance to their testing ground, his body looking stiffer then usual.

"I...dont know. Ever since he got back from his internship he's been weird, like he's on auto pilot. Before he atleast looked like he had a goal but now he's almost aimless." Taking a long look at the monitor as well he frowned. "Uraraka was saying that he's been yawning a lot and that she doesn't even think he studied for the written test."

That really surprised Kendo, almost making her do a double take. "You think he's going out at night to try and find the hero killer?"

"What else could it be?"

"What are you guys whispering about?" Asked Uraraka in a fake low voice, her head poking out between them.

Her appearance startled him a little but Kendo looked unphased, his best friend almost looking miffed at the arrival of the bubbly brown haired girl.

"We were worrying about Iida." Kendo said matter of factly, the info making Uraraka deflate a little.

"Oh...I'm worried about him too." Her words trailing off before she clenched a fist, fire lighting up in her eyes. "But...he's our teammate right!? We should believe in him! I trust in Iida!"

Chuckling a little at the display Midoriya smiled before looking back at the monitor. "Yeah, maybe you're right Uraraka."


"What!?"

Slamming his hands down onto the wooden polished desk it rattles under the force, a few papers and a mug shaking before becoming still once again. A single framed photo of Tenya and his brother smiling back at him on the desk.

They were interlocked into a side hug, his older brother tugging him down to mess with his hair, an act that he remembers being so annoyed with at the time...yet now he looks back on the memory fondly.

It's true what they say, you never truly appreciate something until its gone.

The booming voice of his father pulled his gaze away from the picture.

"We are pulling out of the search for Tensei for now." His father gruffed so matter of factly, so devoid of negotiation. The same way he would if he was just reading off something from the newspaper.

His father was always a strict man, years in the military at a young age had molded him into a proper soldier. Even years later when he left that life behind to be a pro hero just like his father before him he still clung to his old ways.

Though sometimes harsh he knew that his father always had their best intentions at heart...he never once considered challenging his authority. Never once even so much as thought of raising his voice at him until now.

Taking a slow breath he removed his hands from his father's desk. "Father please, reconsider. I know we are this close to finding Tensei."

A slow breath from the nose, his father's glasses glinting in thought.

"We've spoken on this Tenya, repeatedly. There is nothing more we can do at the moment."

"But what of your comrades from the military? If we just had a little more man power we could..."

"Tenya."

"Or we can even reach out to the Yaoyorozu's for aid. I know they supply our companies with hero equipment, perhaps we can strike a deal and..."

"Tenya!"

"If it comes down to it I can even drop out of UA and lead the search myself! Give me a few interns and I can..."

"TENYA!"

With a thundering boom any other words he was going to say was silenced in an instant. The large intimidating frame of his father standing to his full height.

"There is nothing more we can do." For the first time his father looked...tired. It was the first time he ever noticed how many wrinkles covered his fathers face. How sunken his eyes were or even how grey his hair had become. "I have spoken to everyone I could, worked the interns well past over time and have run myself ragged. Crime rates have risen in our area because we have spread our man power out far past what is possible and the vulchers have been camped out in front of our agency for days now, just hoping to get a whiff of something juicy. We need to focus our attention here for now to regain our footing. We will continue the search again once we have gotten back to a semblance of normal. That is final."

Fist shaking at his side he nodded, rage boiling deep inside of him as he stared at the ground. Turning he sharply about faced before stomping his way out of the room, not even trying to hide his displeasure as the door slammed loudly behind him.

His father, now alone collapsed into his chair, his mask breaking to show a devastated man under his facade of stoic veneer. Rubbing an old hand again his face he took a long look at the framed picture of his two sons, a long choking sigh escaping his bushy grey mustache before standing back to his feet and resuming his paperwork.

Making a break for an exit Tenya quickly made a sharp turn right as another hole collapsed in front of him, his shoes skidding as he turned ninty degrees.

Bouncing a little on his back Shoda hung on for dear life, his short arms struggling to keep himself on the speedster.

"Turn around Iida! We have to go back! We left Ojiro and Bondo behind!" Shoda called out, his body shaking in the wind.

No, they were just going to slow him down. They just had to make it out and they'd win. With his speed and Shodas stature they could make it out easily.

Another hole cut off his path, forcing him to jerk another direction. No matter how fast he ran Power Loader was one step ahead of him.

He just needed to get faster.

Another sharp turn, his shoes giving way under the slippery traction before he quickly righted himself. Just a head of him was the exit! He was almost there...he...

Too focused on the gate in front of him Iida was too tired and too weak to notice the obvious trap. In an instant both him and Shoda were plunged into a deep hole, sand shooting up into the air and sprinkling down upon them.

Blowing some hair out of his face Shoda coughed, spitting up sand as he shook his head. "I told you to be careful! Now we are stuck."

No...no!

Not bothering to listen to his teammate he sprinted at one of the walls, his boots digging into the dirt wall as he attempted to run up it to no prevail, the wall giving way and knocking him back to the ground with a thud.

"Iida listen to me!" Shoda called out, watching as he ran straight at another wall again in a frantic attempt to climb it. "If we just...Iida!"

After the fifth time Iida found himself collapsing on the ground, defeated. The soothing words of his teammate drowned out from his panic.

It was no use...he had failed. There was nothing more he can do...it was over.

Jerking at a sound of a buzzer it cut through his thoughts like a knife.

"Bondo and Ojiro have made it out. Team Ojiro has passed."

T-they won?

Squeezing his fingers through the sand and dirt Iida laid on the ground defeated. Even though they had won he still felt useless.

What would his brother say if he saw him right now?

That thought immediately brought tears to his eyes, his vision becoming blurry.

All he could think about was how he had failed his brother, how he had failed his family...but more importantly how he failed himself.


Cringing at the display Kendo couldn't help but look away a little, sure they weren't exactly close but even still watching Iida like that hurt to see.

From the looks of it she wasn't the only one, the others that were standing around were turned away as well, especially the ones from 1A. Concern was etched all over Uraraka's face, the girl watching on with her hands to her mouth, worry in her eyes. Turning away from them to look at her best friend she was a little surprised that he had not turned away, his green eyebrows were lowered as he took in the scene before him. Too lost in thought to take note of anyone watching him.

It didn't take a genius to piece together that he was thinking on ways on how he could help. Midoriya and her were the same way like that, always wanting to help the people around them...but even she was stumped on how to help someone on Iida. She wouldn't even know where to start with that, let alone relate to what he was going through. She just hoped he would be able to pull himself out of the muck before it became a bigger problem for himself later on.

"Midoriya." Called out Shinso, slipping next to them. "Aizawa said we're next up. We need to start heading to the meet up point."

Smiling towards Shinso Midoriya answered with a nod. "Ok got it, you can go on without me. I'll catch up in a sec."

Taking one final look Shinso nodded back, her and his eyes meeting for a second before he turned and wandered off.

"Guess that's my cue, wish me luck." Midoriya said with a chuckle.

"Good luck Izuku!" Uraraka said with a bubbly wave, a few others chiming in as well.

For a split second Kendo could feel the creeping worry that was usually tied with Midoriya peek up for just a moment. It was enough to make her pause but she just as quickly shoved it back down.

Her family was right, they were always right. She needed to let Midoriya be his own man and sometimes that meant letting him make his own decisions. All she could do was be here when he needed her. Instead of voicing any of her worries she reached a hand out and slugged his shoulder like she usually did.

Now that she thinks about it when was the last time she's done that? She's been so afraid of touching Midoriya recently it feels like it's been a while.

"Please don't kill my homeroom teacher Midoriya. I still need him for at least a few more years."

He laughed at that, a genuinely happy smile breaking away from his mask for just a second. If she didn't know better he almost looked happy to get slugged on the shoulder.

"No promises, I'm planning on winning this."

"That's what I like to hear! Give em hell!"

Watching Midoriya walk off a little longer then she should she absently rubbed her wrist, only now realizing how firm Midoriya's shoulder felt against her fist. Teal eyes flickered to his broad shoulders, tightly fighting against his uniform.

huh.

Was his shoulders always so broad?

"Kendo." Shishida called out, wandering closer as he drew her attention from her current thought. "Shiozaki's final has started...you might want to see this."

Kendo couldn't place the tone that Shishida used, it sounded worried but there was also a level of disgust to it that was usually not there when her classmate spoke.

That could only mean one thing...

Slapping a hand to her face she slide it down slowly before letting out a tired sigh.

Guess it was big sister time.

"How bad is it?"


Inside of an old fake house a shadow crept along the closed window, then another and another. A long pause at the stagnant door and there was the faint, muffled sound of panicking.

Slamming open the door swung wide as in rushed Tokage followed by Mineta and then Shiozaki carrying a groggy looking Ashido. Floating a severed hand over it quickly closed the door behind them.

"Oh man, oh man!" Cried out Mineta as he started to walk back and forth, small droplets of blood starting to drip from his head. "That could not have gone worse!?"

"Dude relax we managed to get away." Rolling her eyes Tokage ignored the purple midgets cries, popping out one of her eyes and floating it out the window. "Midnights quirk just puts people to sleep, we just have to smack her awake or something."

"You mean like...on the ass? If so I volunteer!"

Shiozaki's eye twitched as she laid her fallen comrade gently on the ground with her hair, her shoulders growing ridged.

"You shall do no such thing! If you so much as LOOK at this girl I will personally remove your wandering eyes from your skull! Do I make myself clear!?"

The little pervert must have gotten the message, quickly looking away as he went back panickly strafing the room.

"Oh god I'm going to get expelled before I get to sample any of the girls from the hero course!? Lifes not fair!"

"We can only be so lucky." Mutteted Tokage, focusing on her eye scout as her back pressed against one of the walls. "Instead of peeing your diaper cant you set up traps or something? Secure the perimeter?"

"I already used up so many of my balls for our failed trap! Anymore and my scalp will start to bleed!"

"Does it look like I care!?"

Pressing a hand to Ashido's head Shiozaki tried to tune out her teammates bickering, instead focusing on her comrades breathing. Everything she has studied from her medicinal text books pointed to her body being in a deep sleep. She doubts they would be able to just "slap her awake" like Tokage had suggested before.

Taking a look around the fake house she noted that the place did not seem physically strong and hardly worthy of setting up defenses.

They could try and make a break for it but with one of their fastest runners out for the count that does not seem like an option.

Perhaps if they...

"Where did you run off too little sheep?"

The sound of Midnight's voice made them all go stiff, three sets of eyes zeroing in on the closed door. Near the window the curvy silhouette of Midnight walked past, stopping in the window for a second.

"Aww where did you go? This is no fun...if you come out now I promise to go easy on you!"

Holding her breath the shadow slowly started to drift away, moving on to the fake house next door.

That was a close one. If they were careful maybe they could...

Just as it looked like they were in the clear the silence was broken by the weirdest, most disgusting sound.

A loud fart.

Eye twitching she and Tokage turned to the source, a horrified Mineta staring back at them.

"I panicked ok!?"

With a loud bang Midnight slammed against the door making all three of them jump in place. The door handle jiggling violently as small billows of pink smoke started to drift from the bottom of the door.

"There you are!" Midnight's muffled voice called out in glee from behind the door.

Thrusting her hand forward Shiozaki's vine like hair lashed out and slammed the door closed. The sound of struggling on the other side could be heard as she held it firmly in place. Vines shifting to try and cover the cracks in the door and stop any kind of leakage.

"Flee you two! I will hold the door closed as long as I can!"

Looking back at her Tokage gave her a serious look before running over to scoop Ashido up in her arms. "Your sacrifice will not be in vain Ibara! I'll tell your story to my children! And their children's children!"

"None of that is needed just, please, go!" Struggling against the door she could hear the sound of a cracking whip from the other side, hacking away at her vines slowly. It was only a matter of time until she broke through.

Running forward Mineta wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her close into a hug. "Thank you thank you thank you!"

The action surprised her a little, a small smile gracing her face.

Perhaps she was mistaken of this one. Though he may come off perverted and testing of her patience at times he must have a kind soul under it all. Theres no way a holy place like UA would allow him to train here if they didn't see anything in him.

Now that they have come to an understanding hopefully they could see eye to eye in the fu...

Any kind and generous thoughts she was thinking stopped in an instant when she felt his hands reach around to grope at her bottom. A bubbling anger laying just under the surface coming up from deep below.

Like touching the red button on a bomb...Shiozaki exploded.

Lashing out, a long tendril scooped Mineta up with a startling speed and slammed his small body into the opposite wall, rattling his little skull.

Stomping past a shocked Tokage and a passed out Ashido she let the tendril holding the door closed go, her fury purely focused on the little pervert.

"You disgusting, vile little creature! I have tried my very best to overlook your intricacies but I can turn a blind eye no longer!"

Bursting from the door Midnight smiled amongst all of them, slapping her whip against her bare palm with a playful lick of her lips. "Ara ara, look who had fallen right into my..."

"Silence your incessant noise!"

Like being slapped across the face Midnight reeled back a little stunned before quickly taking note of the situation, her playful mask dropping. Looking amongst them with a frown.

"What's going on in here?"

"This...this...lust adled sinner dared to place his grubby hands upon me!" Shiozaki growled through reddening cheeks, her vines tightening and making Mineta squirm. His eyes bulging like a squeaky toy. "I refuse to take the test any further until he has answered for his crimes! I care not if that means I fail, somethings are far more important!"

Thinking for a second Midnight scowled, the gravity of the situation finally taking over.

"Is that so?" Crossing her arms in thought she hummed. "I'll allow it. You have my permission to leave the testing grounds and take Mineta to Principal Nezu. I'm sure he would love to hear about Mineta breaking his third warning. I will talk to you later about a grade Ibara Shiozaki."

Bowing to them without another word Shiozaki started to walk off of the test sight, dragging a frantic Mineta behind her like an outlaw from the old west.

"W-wait hold on now! Let's not get too hasty Ibara! I'm sure we can talk this out without bringing the Principal into this! Shiozaki? Please! I wont do it again! I promise! M-miss Shiozaki?...Maam!?"

Watching them from a far Tokage watched on with a still passed out Ashido in her arms.

Reaching a hand out all Midnight did was tap Ashido and she jerked awake with a start.

"The answer is the square root of four!?" Ashido screamed out like she was having a bad dream.

Giggling at the little display the mask went back on as Midnight turned to the two remaining students, looking over to them with amusement.

"Now that that's out of the way let's get back to it shall we!"

Tokage and Ashido let out a gulp in sync with each other.

Maybe Mineta was really the lucky one after all...


Taking a slow breath Izuku Midoriya crouched down to do a few stretches, his body twisting as he focused on being as limber as possible.

Nearby Shinso watched on with a frown, a hand raising to grip his scarf. "So...what's the plan?"

"Plan?" he shot back playfully, standing up to his full height before rolling his shoulders.

"Don't give me that, you always have a plan. You are the plan guy."

"I'm the plan guy? When did that happen?" he said with a chuckle, making Shinso huff before crossing his arms unamused.

"You know what I mean. Are we making a break for it or are we fighting? I've never heard of the hero Vlad King before but I imagine if he works here at UA he must be a pretty big threat."

Letting out a thoughtful hum Midoriya slowly started to wrap his own capture scarf around his neck.

"Vlad King is a battle hero. He may not be incredibly strong but he's very good at locking people down. His quirk, Blood control, allows him free control of his own blood allowing him to harden it and pin people to walls or even in place. He can fight for extended lengths of time and wont bleed out because he can close his open wounds up and keep his blood in his body longer. Making him more or less immune to blood loss." Tightening the grey fabric he turned towards Shinso for the first time. "He actually has a long list of achievements under his belt making him a pretty intimidating foe."

Turning his head Shinso nodded slowly, taking in everything that was just said. "Ok, as I was saying. A big threat. Does that mean we are running then?"

Shaking his head Midoriya frowned. "No. While it's true that Vlad King is not a highly mobile hero that does not mean he's dumb. He's probably well aware we could easily outrun him using our scarfs which most likely means he's planning on waiting near the exit and forcing us to fight."

"Oh great." Shinso huffed with an eye roll. "We are going to fight a guy that can probably fight for days. Sounds fun."

Letting out a small laugh at that Midoriya walked closer, his large rough hands giving his shoulder a gentle pat. "Don't look at it like that, we're here because they see potential in us. Hell, if we do really good here they may even let us into the hero course next semester."

That got his attention, his tired eyes blinking a few times before a genuine smile crossed his face. "Well when you put it like that how could I turn the chance down?"

A low deep buzz came from the speakers and drew their gaze away for a second before turning back to each other.

"Let's put on a show for them." Midoriya said with a smile of his own, reaching a hand out curled into a fist. "What do you say? Double the work?"

Meeting his knuckles with his own Shinso couldn't help but let some excitement through. "Half the credit."


Standing near the one exit Vlad King scanned the horizon for any kind of movement, his hands rubbing at his wrist. Taking a step forward he made sure to look at the back alleys and any other place they could hide.

These two were trained by Eraserhead after all. As much as he liked to joke at Eraserhead's expense he truly did respect the underground hero, he just wished the pro would learn to relax sometimes. He knew how dangerous the man could be...that's why the thought of two little Eraserheads walking around scared and also excited him.

Its also why he volunteered to test them.

A rippling sound caught his attention, his head turning a little to follow the sound before quickly rolling out of the way. Where he was just standing a grey scarf latched onto the ground.

Cracking his knuckles he smiled, following the scarf up to a roof top to see Shinso and Midoriya standing overhead.

"An ambush huh? Not bad but you are going to have to try harder then that to defeat me!"

Leaping at him at the same time the two started to circle him, using their extra movement to their advantage. Circling him like two wolves looking for a weakness to strike.

Reaching out Vlad King took a trash can and hurled it at Midoriya forcing him to change direction in order to avoid it. Dodging out of a grey scarf lash he started to run at Shinso, wrapping a hand around his scarf and yanking him to the ground.

Twisting in the air Shinso shifted his weight in the air like a pendulum and delivered a powerful kick at his forearm, using the hardened surface to springboard off of it and swing out of his reach.

Dodging back Midoriya's scarf stopped him from pursuing Shinso, the large boy bouncing off of one of the walls before swinging a wide punch at him.

Blocking the punch Vlad King took a step back, putting some space between them before raising an opened hand. A small whirring sound coming from his white gauntlets followed a sharp sting, blood being pulled from the holes in his knuckles to fire outward.

Firing off a blast of blood Midoriya rolled out of the way of the attack, disappearing down one of the alleys. Turning he fired off a second blast at an incoming Shinso, a shot of blood coming out of his gauntlets and pinning Shinso's scarf to the wall.

"That's one down."

Struggled to free his scarf, Shinso was unable to free his item from the wall as Vlad King walked closer.

All he had to do was touch him and he could trap him in a cocoon in an instant, then he can deal with Midoriya.

Yet when he got closer Midoriya lept out to stop him, getting in between him and the stuck Shinso.

Or they could fight right now.

Entering a fighting stance he stared Midoriya down as he entered a stance of his own.

Crouching down low a small amount of dust came up as Midoriya's leg slide back against the concrete ground, both of his fist rising up to cover his face.

They say that truth is subjective based entirely off of who is telling you it...and while that may not be completely true sometimes its less about what actually IS true and more about what people wanted to be true. Kan knew that feeling all too well, came across many people in his time that believed that just because they tried hard enough at something it would magically become true.

Sadly, that is not always the fact.

One of those truths for Sekijiro Kan was that quirks did not make villains. Despite many people screaming at him since he was a child about how he was born to be a villain, how his blood based quirk could never be used to save a person's life, he never for a second believed them. No matter how many people kicked or screamed he knew that their opinion did not matter.

Quirks did not make villains...but situations did. All it took was a series of bad moments to turn any person towards a life of crime. It was a sad but true fact he had seen many times before. He had arrested many people in his time as a hero. People from all walks of life and all kinds of backgrounds.

All of that is to say that Vlad King had believed that he had seen it all...yet, there was something weird about the stance that Midoriya went into. He could not quite place it, he has seen many boxers fight in his time but they usually were more...stiff, he supposed was the right word. Their stances were unyielding while their feet were not. Midoriya's however was more lose and bouncy.

Walking to the right slowly he didn't break eye contact with the green haired boy, making sure to keep both of them in his eyesight. Shinso was struggling to free his scarf from the wall as Midoriya was clearly sizing him up and showing no sign of moving to help his teammate.

Was he planning to take him on his own?

It didn't matter, all he had to do was pin Midoriya and this entire thing would be...then Midoriya moved.

"Have you tried boxing before Midoriya?" The deep voice of his teacher called out, snapping Midoriya out of his daze as he sat up tiredly.

"What?"

"Boxing. Have you tried it?"

"A little bit, I dabbled but not by much." Midoriya sad with a shrug.

"Hmm." Scratching his scraggly chin the shadow boxer smirked. "I think you would make a devastating In-Fighter."

Rushing in quicker then he expected Midoriya weaved to the right to dodge his punch before throwing a few out of his own. Raising his hands to protect himself Kan found himself taking a few steps back in an attempt to put space in-between him and his opponent yet no matter how much he tried he could not widen the gap. Midoriya was relentless, throwing heavy hit after heavy hit, each one making his forearms hurt from the sheer force of the strike. Pushing his advantage even further he kept dodging his attacks, his low stance blocking him from overhead strikes as he peppered away at his defenses.

"It's a style of boxing. In-Fighters specialize in close quarters combat and high aggression. They bombard their opponent relentlessly to prevent any kind of effective counter attacks and wear down an opponents defenses by attrition."

Raising a hand to try using his quirk his arm was knocked aside before he had an opening to use it, the space between them almost suffocating. Winding an elbow back Kan swung it as hard as he could, landing a devastating hit but even then it hardly seemed to effect young Midoriya, the young adult simply taking a hit like it was nothing. It almost looked like he didn't try to block it, taking the hit and pushing past it. Taking another step back Kan found himself getting overpowered by his opponent, silently cursing his weighted arms for holding his reaction time back.

"Boxers tend to use this style to stay consistently just on the edge of the opponent's punching range, forcing them to engage on their back foot. Admittedly, this style of fighting tends to take up a large amount of energy for both you and your opponent but if done right fights wont last long."

Trading blows back and forth no matter how many times he struck Midoriya he just kept coming, beads of sweat starting to form on his neck as he panted. Midoriya would just barely leave his striking range but not long enough for him to catch a breather before they were back into the fight. Taking another step back he bumped into one of the walls, feeling himself getting cornered as Midoriya peppered away at his defenses.

In a last ditch effort Vlad jumped back just as Midoriya punched at the wall, his hand raising before firing off a blast point blank. Red sticky blood wrapped around Midoriya's hand before hardening around it and sticking him to the wall.

Panting Vlad King could feel sweat dripping down his costume, finally able to breath.

That was a close one, any more of that and he was done for.

His relief was short lived however, turning his head he realized that he was so focused on the opponent right in front of him that he forgot to keep track of the other one. His red eyes looking over to see an empty scarf blowing in the wind right where Shinso just was a few seconds ago.

"Shit! He couldn't have gone far!"

Turning his head quickly to try and find him in the corner of his eye he saw purple. Turning his head a little more Shinso was standing at his right way too close for his comfort, just barely within his blind spot.

Raising his hands Shinso slapped them together right next to his face making him jump back startled. "Boo."

Flinching at the jump scare he made a surprised sound before everything went black...

"Vlad King has been captured, team Shinso and Midoriya have passed."

When he came to Vlad King was sitting against the wall, looking around dazed before down at his cuffed hands. Looking up the freed Midoriya and Shinso were standing over him with smug looks.

"Huh. Well played." Holding his bound hands out to them he didn't even need to ask before they freed him from the cuffs, rubbing his wrist as he stood. "What was that thing that you did Shinso? I was made to believe your quirk only works when someone responds to you."

Blinking slowly Shinso gestures over to Midoriya before speaking. "It was Midoriya's idea. He was the one who suggested that the response didn't need to be actual words for my quirk to take hold, it just had to be verbal."

"I see, so when you startled me the sound I made..."

"Counted as a response, yes."

That sounds extremely dangerous...

"I see, well done you two. With performances like that they would be crazy to not transfer you over next semester. I for one cant wait to see you both in the hero course."

Looking amongst each other the looks the two gen students gave each other made all of this worth it. Chuckling a little to himself he followed after them, heading back to the others.


After the excitement of watching Midoriya and Shinso pass their final Kendo was stuck watching a few of the next matches by herself while waiting for Midoriya and Set to come back from their test.

Kodai was there and she tried to start a conversation with the girl but that went mostly nowhere, it felt more like she was talking to herself then having an actual conversation. Eventually even Kodai had to leave for her test.

Staring up at one of the monitors she frowned as she watched Tetsutetsu, Sato and Kamikiri rush at Cementoss and quickly get over powered by Cementoss's oppressive quirk.

If he actually talked with her before his match she would have suggested playing it smart...not that it would've worked.

"Hey Kendo, I'm back." Called out Midoriya, giving a wave and smile while Set walking next to him, walking a little too close for her liking but she also knew that's just how Set was.

Plus knowing Set she was actively trying to make her jealous to get a rise out of her...

"Yo Kenken, what'd I miss?" Set said with a sharp toothed smile, wiggling her eyebrows playfully.

Rolling her eyes at the two of them she gestured out with her hand.

"Tetsu's team just failed his test because all the three of them know to do is fight stuff. Tokoyami, Kaminari, Komori and Awase managed to fight off the Ectoplasm clones and pass. Uraraka and her team managed to cuff Thirteen despite fumbling it at the beginning and Shishida couldn't get past Present Mic's quirk because he had heightened hearing from his animal side. Thankfully Koda summoned a bunch of bugs and saved the day."

Letting out a low whistle Set leaned on her shoulder to look at the monitor showing results.

"That's a bummer, I like Tetsutetsu and was looking forward to giving him shit at camp."

"Did I miss Kodai and Snipe already?" Midoriya questioned a loud, moving on from the Tetsutetsu conversation weirdly quick. "I was wondering if she could sneak up on a pro as easily as she does us."

"You couldn't even see her on the cameras, I dont know how she does it."

"Damn. So I cant even watch the footage later to see how she did it." Huffing good natured Midoriya shook his head. "Maybe it's just another one of lifes mysteries."

"Like the Bermuda Triangle, Easter Island Heads and the Loch Ness Monster." Set chimed in, making both her and Midoriya look over to her with raised eyebrows.

"Set. Isn't the Loch Ness Monster a myth?"

"I heard most of the photos of that were faked..."

Blowing out a breath of air Set huffed at them annoyed. "Don't ruin this for me."

"Kendo. Aizawa says were next after Todoroki's group. We have to prepare."

Almost instantly their good mood soured as soon as Monoma opened his big mouth. The blonde haired boy standing nearby with a smile but she could tell there was an edge to it. An angry aura radiating from him directed right at Midoriya.

She wanted to call him out on it but it was probably a bad idea to do that right before they had a match together.

Looking back at her friends she gave them her best smile. "Catch you guys later. I'm going to get beat up by All Might a bunch."

"Make sure he hits you in the body, not the face! That's your meal ticket girl!"

"You got this. I believe in you." Midoriya's said so confidently it made her pause. There was no hesitation in his words...he really did believe she could take on All Might. Feeling her cheeks get a little red she nodded back, their eyes meeting for probably longer then what was normal before a grating cough brought her back to earth like a bucket of cold water.

"If you two are done making goo goo eyes at each other we have places to be." Monoma said more angry then usual, reaching out to grab her wrist and yank her away from them.

They only got a few steps before she easily pulled her wrist free with a scowl.

"I can walk myself Monoma."

Hurt moved across Monomas face for just a second before he scoffed, deciding to double down on being an asshole.

"Whatever. Just come on. We have a test to take."

Swallowing her irritation she took one final look at her two best friends before storming off after him.


Notes:

Originally I planned on doing all of them in a single chapter but it had gotten so big that I decided to split the chapter into two. A handful of the other test and then the two big fights in the next chapter.

Sorry if a chunk of these turned out basically the same as canon. I had ideas for some of them but I also saw them going the same way regardless of the extra teammates, so I skipped them.

Momo and Jirou got a moral boost. Iida barely passed and is slowly descended into a gray area of not knowing what he wants. Mineta's many pervy acts finally caught up to him and Midoriya has a new fighting style!