"This is sadly familiar," Ahsoka muttered to herself as she held out her hand, using the force to shove a One Pointer into a Two Pointer, causing both of them to break apart. Glancing to her left she saw that Ochaco was going for a similar method as her, only in her case she was tapping the robots, causing them to float high into the air before bringing them smashing down. "I really wish I had my lightsaber." She had tried to convince Obi Wan to let her bring it but he had said that since it would have been seen as an offensive weapon it wasn't allowed.

"What's a lightsaber?" Ochaco asked.

At the same moment Izuku, never looking up from the guts of the Two Pointer he currently was wrist deep in, added, "I said the same thing about my blaster."

"Rex got you a blaster?" Ahsoka asked, surprised.

"Yeah. It's just a small hand held but I'm real good at it… I could have actually gotten some points by now if I had been allowed to bring it." He began to mumble to himself as he moved to a different section of the Two Pointer.

"What's a lightsaber and what's a blaster?" Ochaco asked as she avoided a strike from another One Pointer, tapping it and sending it flying. They had ended up in a town square and had been swarmed by the robots.

"It's a sword made of energy," Ahsoka said, wincing and hoping that Master Kenobi wasn't listening as he would have a fit if he heard her describing it like that. "Cuts through most things real easy."

"Blaster is a gun that shoots energy," Izuku stated before moving over to his backpack and dumping out the contents.

"Yeah, I guess those would be helpful but isn't this about showing off our quirks?" She released the One Pointer and sent it smashing to the ground.

"It's about us proving we have what it takes to be heroes," Ahsoka countered. She grit her teeth as she focused on a Three Pointer that had suddenly spotted them, fingers curling into claws as she slowly began to press them together, feeling the force respond and press on the Three Pointer. It was made of strong stuff though and all she really managed to do was dent the metal in enough that it couldn't move anymore… but it could still fire on them she so she began to look for more droids she could throw to intercept its rockets. "And a hero uses every tool in their arsenal. What if you encounter a villain that isn't affected by your quirk?"

"I… I guess I'd call for help?"

"Or you have something else that can take them down," Ahsoka said. "A weapon."

"Case in point," Izuku said and the two ladies' eyes went wide as he hefted up the Two-Pointer's Tail Cannons, which had been stripped down and fitted with a shoulder brace and a trigger. Ashoka shook her head; of course Rex would teach Izuku how to turn the Villain Bots' weapons into something he could use. More than one trooper had saved thesmelves by snagging a Battle Droid's fallen blaster, which was why the Separatists had began moving to integrate their droids' weapons right into their bodies. Rex, in turn, along with several of the Alpha Clones, had begun advocating figuring out how to creating tools that could take a droid's arm-integrated blaster and turn it into something they could use. Clearly he, and she suspected Anakin, had managed to do just that.

Smirking Izuku knelt down and fired on the Three Pointer, destroying it with ease. He stood up and Ahsoka saw he now had two jerryrigged blasters attached to his belt. Reaching down and grabbed two more of the smaller blasters that he'd made, he tossed one to Ahsoka and the other and Ochaco, who fumbled with hers a bit.

"Okay, let's get some points and see if anyone needs help."

"With these?" Ochaco exclaimed even as Izuku began to hurry down the street, the larger weapon now resting on his back while he took out one of his new guns.

Ahsoka smiled, seeing Rex's training as Izuku began to do his sweep of the area, firing on Villain Bots that were loudly moving about side streets and alleyways. "They might be uncivilized but they're do the trick."

"Uh… I'll just hang onto it… in case you two need it." Ochaco wasn't really comfortable using the gun Izuku had made her, feeling like it was cheating. But she also didn't want to say that to her new friends, fearful they would leave her behind if she didn't go with their plan.

Izuku suddenly dropped, pulled the cannon up, and fired at a mob of One Pointers that had turned the corner towards them, causing the Bots to explode. Those that weren't completely damaged Ahsoka shot, so that by the time they were close enough for Ochaco to use her quirk there weren't any that actually needing destruction.

"Come on, I hear more fighting," Izuku said. "We need to make sure that the other students aren't hurt."

"Right," Ochaco said, feeling a bit better about that line of action. "Prioritize the rescue."

With that the three hurried on, Ahsoka and Ochaco making sure to allow Izuku to get more shots in so he could catch up with their totals.

~MC~MC~MC~

Momo tossed the disc at the Two Pointer that had been rushing her, smiling as the Villian Bot seized up before crumpling into a heap. The discs were something that the security detail that escorted her around when she went shopping used; they were basically throwable tasers, good for dealing with people that liked to do hit and runs. While she'd never had that happen to her it was always a worry and the discs would knock out someone who tried to flee the scene of a crime.

Or, if one amped up the voltage a touch, take down the Villain Bots.

The other nice thing was they were small so she didn't find herself getting worn down creating a bunch of them. That, combine with the shock staff she had made, was helping her net a ton of points.

Which was good because she was NOT going to fail this exam.

She hadn't been happy when she'd learned that she had placed fifth in the Recommendation Exam and thus was required to do the Entrance Exam if she wanted to get into UA. While she had done well on the test and the interview with Vlad King had been pleasant the race had given her some trouble and while she had been in the middle of the pack her father had done some research after the fact and learned that UA weighed it far higher than the other parts of the Recommendation Exam.

No matter… she'd just ace the Entrance Exam.

"Heads up!"

Momo looked up and quickly dove away as a Two Pointer crashed down beside her, a teen with spiked red hair and a craggily looking face flashing a sharp smile as he pulled himself from the wreckage. "Sorry about that! This one was attacking some kid made of metal, had him pinned down. I was aiming to just push it away but went a little too hard."

"It is fine," Momo said and after a moment she offered him a hand to get out of the wreckage. "How are you on points?"

"28 so far, you?"

"33."

"Good numbers but I'd like to get some more." He paused. "Hey, want to team up for a while?"

"Team up?"

"You know, watch each other's backs, no kill stealing? What's your quirk, by the way?"

"I can create non-organic items so long as I know their components," she answered.

The red head grinned even wider at that. "Okay, that is awesome! I can harden so I'm all about punches and tackles but I can also serve as a wall so you can set up for some take downs! You provide me some stuff to deal with long range and I'll watch out for you!"

Momo pursed her lips, considering that for a moment. It was… odd… to think about working with the other teen. They were competing against each other, after all. But on the other hand if they both got in they might well be classmates. And later allies and partners working to take on villains. Her father and mother always talked about making the proper connections and developing relationships… she'd always seen that as things for the boardroom but why not here?"

"Okay," she said. "Yaoyorozu."

"Kirishima."

~MC~MC~MC~

Tenya grit his teeth as he drove his leg into the Three Pointer, watching the metal buckle and some screws pop but otherwise not break. It actually made sense… the teachers clearly wanted the students to be able to take the Villain Bots down with a few hits but the higher scoring ones needed to be a touch more difficult. It wouldn't do if someone were able to just rush around and take out Three Pointers with ease. A level of-

He saw something flash in his glasses and he turned to see two Two Pointers rushing him, far too close for his liking. He tried to weave away but one managed to get a limb in his way and Tenya toppled over, fighting off a cry as he hit the ground. He felt the asphalt grind into his cheek, tearing off thin layers of skin, but he wasn't too concerned and didn't let it bug him; thanks to his quirk he was used to road rash and the like. He quickly got to his feet only to realize that either through some cunning of the AI or dumb luck they'd managed to drive him into a dead end alley.

"Not a lot of room," he said, reaching up and adjusting his glasses. "But perhaps-"

One of the Villain Bots exploded.

He blinked at that and the other one slowly turned to where its companion had been moments ago, only for the Two Pointer to suddenly begin to wiggle and thrash as it rose in the air. Tenya's eyes went wide; he didn't remember Present Mic saying that the Villain Bots could fly! That added a whole new set of complications, as well as the worrying thought that UA would fail to let their potential students know vital-

"Hey!" someone called out from the mouth of the alley. "Mind taking this thing out?"

Tenya shook his head before nodding, bursting forward with a rush of speed and kicking the Villain Bot, shattering it. Looking around he saw a student with orange skin and a white fleshy… well, not quite horns but something similar in shape… on her head. A few feet away was a girl with a round face who was using a quirk to send the Three Pointer he had been fighting into the air before sending it crashing down, destroying it. And kneeling down in the street taking out several One Pointers was a green haired boy who-

"HEY!" Tenya said, zipping over to the kneeling student and ripping the guns from his hands. "What are you doing?! It is against the rules to bring weapons into the entrance exam! You should be immediately disqualified for this action. Stay here while I alert one of the teachers-"

"Hold up, big man," Ahsoka said, shaking her head and a smirk on her lips. "No need to freak out. Izuku didn't bring those weapons he made them."

Tenya paused at that. "Oh…" he instantly deflated, feeling rather foolish. "Of course. That is your quirk. Are you related to Yaoyorozu? She can create weapons and such-"

At once Izuku's eyes lit up. "Wait, really? How does she do it? Does she need matter to create it? Well, I suppose she would need matter of some kind because the laws of physics make it clear you can't create something from nothing. I've researched a lot of quirks and never run into one that let someone fully break the laws of physicals. There are people who appear to do so, like Mt. Lady, but I think with her quirk she merely has a super dense smaller form that is our size and when she grows she's merely expanding that denseness to reach giant size. Which if that is the case she could be a really affective hero by actually NOT growing… if her bones and skin are in fact super dense and her atoms more tightly pressed together when our size she could hit harder and survive strikes that would take any of us down. Honestly-"

"Sorry, he apparently gets like this," Ochaco said, jogging over to them. "We saw someone with a quirk that lets them create glue and he went off for three minutes about all the amazing things they could do."

Izuku blushed at that. "Sorry, I just really like quirks. I don't have one myself-" And it was a testament to Rex's training that he didn't shrink down anymore when he admitted that, owning who he was and knowing that he had gifts and skills even if he didn't have a quirk, "-so I really like watching other people with quirks and learning more about them."

"Wait," Tenya said, holding up his hand. He knew he was being rude but what Izuku had just said… "You don't have a quirk? But how did you get those weapons?"

"Oh, you're able to bring Support Items with you. I brought the stocks and handles and triggers that can integrate with the Villain Bots' weapons."

Tenya looked down at the guns he was still holding. "You… that must be against the rules."

"If it were," Ahsoka said with a huff, "we'd be doing this course naked." Tenya sputtered at that and she snagged the guns from his hands and passed them back to Izuku. "Listen, we're going around picking up people who want to work together to take down Villain Bots. If you're interested you can join."

Tenya though shook his head. "No… no, I think not. I am not sure, it will require research, but I know that Izuku's use of weapons here must be against the rules and I cannot have any penalties he gets affect my score." He'd already failed the recommendation exam he wouldn't fail this one. "I must look after myself."

"Okay," Ochaco said with a smile. "If you are sure."

Tenya nodded, giving them a bow before jetting off, seeking out more Villain Bots.

~MC~MC~MC~

"Interesting group," Ken stated, leaning forward as he watched a teen that could copy quirks snag one from a pink girl who was able to spray a mild acid, using it to take out some of the Villain Bots. "Anyone in particular you want to place a claim on, Aisawa?"

The homeroom teacher for 1-A merely narrowed his eyes. "No."

"In other words there is someone but he doesn't want to tell you," Nemuri teased. "Afraid you'll snag him yourself."

"Oh come on, I'm not gonna do that. You know the rules… we agree on the number of students we can claim and then it's a back and forth and debate." Ken looked over at Nemuri who nodded; that was how all the teachers did it. Her and Snipe were the Homeroom Teachers for the upcoming 2-A and 2-B students; the year before they had sat down and worked out who would get who over a large dinner at Dex's, at times laughing and other times nearly coming to blows over what their classes' make ups would be.

"Well, if he doesn't get into the hero class I want Greenie," Higari stated. "That was smart to turn the Villain Bots' weapons into things he could use."

"How did he know we were having Villain Bots though?" Ectoplasm asked.

Nedzu chuckled at that. "Oh, it is quite obvious if one does a bit of digging. UA has not changed on the entrance exam works in years… one would only need to talk to a upperclassman or even a graduate and they'd be able to find out." He paused. "Or have a mentor who is friends with a teacher."

"I cannot confirm or deny that I told Anakin and Rex what the battle part of the exam would be," Obi Wan said. "And if I did I told them to only supply the information if pressed, not to volunteer it. IF I told them. Which I am not confirming."

"Is that allowed?" Ken asked.

"Know your enemy," Nedzu stated. "It shows great thought to seek out what you'll be facing before you enter a battle."

"Well, I want Greenie if he doesn't get into the hero class," Higari repeated.

"He's getting in," Nemuri stated. "He's in the top twenty for Villain Points and him, Ahsoka, and the Float Girl are the top three for Rescue Points."

"Whoever takes Greenie will have to take the other two as well," Snipe stated. "I can tell already they are going to be a package deal. You don't-"

"I'll take'em," Aisawa stated.

"Seriously?" Ken asked, startled that after making such a show of not wanting to claim students this early Eraser would claim three.

"Too many heroes don't know how to work together," Aisawa stated. "And I already know I'm going to end up with some loners who think they can do it all. Those three will be able to teach them something."

The principal held up his hand. "Now then… they have tasted victory," Nedzu said as he watched the students in the different arena move about, the time reaching the final minutes. "Let us see how they do against certain defeat." He lightly pressed a button on his control panel, almost as gently as one trying to tap an egg yolk back in place. "Release the Zero Pointers."

~MC~MC~MC~

"ooooooh that can't be good," Ochaco said, slowly turning from the One Pointer she had taken down towards the explosions and dust clouds that were rising up behind her. Izuku and Ahsoka joined her, as did several other students, in watching as a truly MASSIVE Villain Bot arose from the ground, towering over the buildings. Though it only had large glowing red optics all of the potential students felt as if the massive machine was glaring down at them.

"A Zero Pointer," someone whispered.

"What do we do?" someone else said in worry while others began to flee in terror.

Ahsoka stepped forward.

"You aren't going to fight that thing!" Ochaco exclaimed in a panic.

"No," Ahsoka assured her, "but we have to distract it so everyone else gets to safety." She had seen the students panic and knew that people were going to get hurt if someone didn't step up. Clearing her throat she bellowed out, using the Force to project her voice, "STOP!"

While many of the students continued to run others stopped their rush to get away and turned towards her, though they were leery of the Zero Pointer that was still lumbering towards them.

Calling upon her experience in the Clone Wars and directing soldiers Ahsoka quickly came up with a battle plan. "We have to make sure everyone gets to safety! Izuku, you distract it! If anyone else has long rang quirks use them… we need it focused away from this road. This is our main path out."

Izuku was already prepping his cannon. "Right." Rex had always taught him that one did not leave the field of battle until every one of their vod was safe. And while the potential students weren't his vod they might one day be. He would not abandon them.

"I… can help," a girl with horns said, her words halting though Izuku could tell from her accent it wasn't because of fear.

"Okay… I'll take the left, you the right. As soon as I have it focused on me you begin attacking, okay? Keep falling back though… we don't want to get pinned." The girl nodded and ran off, Izuku going in the opposite direction, firing one of his blasters wildly purely to give the other teen time to get set up.

"We need to check to see if anyone is trapped in the side streets!" Ahsoka called out.

Tenya instantly stepped forward. He had begun to run from the Zero Pointer but hearing what Ahsoka had said had made him feel ashamed of his actions. "I am fast enough to check. I can go."

"If you are willing," another teen with a slightly smug look on his face said, "I can copy your quirk… two is better than one, right?"

"Right," Tenya said with a firm nod, allowing the other teen to touch him, engines forming in his legs. "Fascinating…"

"Go!" Ahsoka called out before turning back to the others. "Everyone move steadily but carefully! There might still be other Villain Bots around. You see one work together to quickly take it down! This isn't about points anymore, this is about us all leaving safely. If you see someone pinned or trapped call for Ochaco or myself. If there is anyone with a strength quirk let us know!"

Ochaco nodded. This… this is what she wanted to do with her life. A hero, yes… but a rescue hero. Helping those that were helpless or scared and trapped.

She would show UA she could be the best.

"No one gets left behind," she declared even as the girl with horns began to attack the Zero Pointer, drawing its attention away from Izuku.

With that the potential students began to slowly make their retreat.

~MC~MC~MC~

In another one of the testing areas Tsuyu knew she was going to die.

When the Zero Pointer had activated she had been dealing with a Two Pointer and the massive robot had allowed her opponent to get in a cheap blow, slamming her through a window and into a building. The Zero Pointer's progress had caused part of the building's front to collapse; she could see outside but none of the holes through the rubble were big enough for her to get through.

And now… the Zero Pointer had turned and was heading her way.

She struggled to rip bits of concrete and rebar away but it was all lodged so tightly that she couldn't do more than wiggle it weakly. And the Zero Pointer was coming closer… closer…

Tsuyu saw other teens running past her but if they did notice her they didn't care to stop. She'd given up trying to call out for help and grimly continued to try and free herself…

…even as it was becoming clear that wasn't going to happen.

She sent a silent prayer to the Heavens, hoping whoever was listening would watch out for her family.

"HEY!"

Her eyes snapped open as she saw a blonde boy with a fierce scowl suddenly grab another student… and point at her.

"Get that fucking extra out of there!"

"What?" the other teen said.

Bakugo snarled at the shitty extra and his stupidity. "You fucking heard me? You fucking deaf as well as stupid? Get her the fuck out of there, now! I saw your quirk, you can-"

The other teen thought ripped himself away from Bakugo's grasp. "I'm getting the hell out of here and you should too!"

"YOU FUCKING SHIT HEAD COWARD!" he roared before turning towards Tsuyu. "Hey, Frog Bitch! You working to get out of there?"

"I am… but I don't think I have enough time." She looked past him at the Zero Pointer.

"Oh, I'll get you fucking time," Bakugo said, eyes flashing. "Just keep digging yourself out."

And with that he walked TOWARDS the Zero Pointer.

"A hero… a real hero? They don't wait around when people are in need. A real hero races towards danger, without thought, while others run away. They don't stand around and give lectures after everything has been done. They don't care about ensuring they get an easy victory. They save people."

He didn't even know her name. All he knew that while all those pathetic heroes that were merely stepping stones to him becoming the Number 1 hero had stood by with their thumbs up their asses… she had raced in and saved him. Whatever her quirk was it must have been pathetically weak if she didn't even bother to use it… but she still had worked to save him.

Because heroes weren't cowards.

All Might didn't run.

She hadn't run.

Bakugo wasn't going to run.

Because he wasn't a coward.

He… was a fucking hero.

Gritting his teeth he stared right up at the Zero Pointer and roared, "DIE!" and began launching his blasts at the Zero Pointer…

…only for a buzzer to sound and everything to stop.

"…what the fuck?" Bakugo said, softly which was surprising to him.

"Well done, everyone!" Present Mic called out over the speakers. "The exam is over! Please make your way to the locker rooms to change. We have one final bit of business before we are done for the day."

Bakugo growled as he looked at the Zero Pointer. Fucking time limit… he would have destroyed that shitty robot if only-

"Hey."

He turned and was surprised to see the hero Extoplasm standing next to him, several of his clones helping the Tsuyu out of the building, moving rubble so she could get out.

"Exam's over." The hero paused, looking back at Tsuyu. "You did good. You did real good."

Bakugo scoffed… but didn't say anything else as he walked off.

~MC~MC~MC~

"…this year…" Nemuri whispered.

"Yes," Ken agreed. "They are going to be something else.

Obi Wan though merely leaned forward. "Now let's see how they handle the final test."

"Wait, what?" Higari said, startled.

Obi Wan and Nedzu shared a look… and all the teachers felt a shiver run down their spines.