U.A. High Unmanned Gear (UG) Registry - Filed with the Ministry of Defense and authorized by Commissioners Hiiragi and Kujou.
A registry of Unmanned Gears designed and commissioned by Principal Nezu, circa 2232. These designs have been sold to the Japanese Government in exchange for the usage of demilitarized usage for hero training in HPSC-approved hero schools.
UG Victory:
- Armaments: Gatling gun located on right arm.
The Victory UG model is propelled by a single gyroscopic wheel which provides quick mobility. This model is not heavily armored.
UG Imperial
- Armaments: Tail-mounted laser.
The Imperial UG model is a quadrupedal robot with a form similar to a scorpion. The attached tail is modular and can be swapped out with different equipment. This bot can also scale walls to attack from above.
UG Venator:
- Armaments: Two shoulder-mounted belt-fed rocket pods.
The Venator type UG is the only UG capable of flight which grants it higher mobility than the previous two. It can engage in ground or aerial combat and is capable of using airburst rockets for anti-air. It also possesses two wheels which can be used in areas where flight is too dangerous.
Metal Gear: Executor & UG Variant
- Armaments: Skull-mounted homing missile launchers. Mainly a melee-oriented Metal Gear.
Metal Gear: Executor is a combat unit designed for the subjugation of villains of extraordinary size and civilian evacuation. The machine's armor is designed to take multiple hits from most SS-ranked super-strength users. This is not a guarantee of the material's strength. There is also a UG version of this Metal Gear. The Executor model comes in a bipedal or treaded mobility configuration that can be swapped at the torso.
U.A. reserves the right to use these machines in any way they deem fit for educational and examination purposes so long as they adhere to the following conditions:
They must be constructed using demilitarized schematics when used for training purposes. U.A. High must request permission from either the HPSC or Tenryou Commission to construct fully armed UGs. Failure to adhere to these terms will be considered an act of treason against the Japanese government.
In addition, the HPSC and Tenryou Commission reserve the right to appropriate any UG units that U.A. possesses in times of crisis without Diet approval.
The HPSC reserves the right to license the designs to other hero schools across Japan for training purposes. The same restrictions above will apply to these schools.
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[U.A. High School, February 26th, 2243]
Izuku had been to U.A. twice before today. Both times had been under less-than-ideal circumstances, the first being interviewed by Detective Tsukauchi and the second when he broke his arm and uh… accidentally impaled Haylee on her training sword.
Hopefully, this wouldn't become a pattern of unfortunate events. So far he was two for two with both incidents involving Haylee.
"Nervous?" Haylee asked in between bites of her chocolate protein bar.
"Y-yeah." His gaze wandered to the arches leading up to the H-shaped complex ahead. "I just never thought I'd be here. It's always been my dream and now that I'm here I can hardly believe it." He admitted nervously.
"Hey, isn't that the kid who withstood the sludge villain?" Another applicant murmured. "
Izuku's world slowed to a crawl as he stopped to look behind him.
Kacchan was walking in right behind him. The blonde's eyes narrowed as he approached.
"Get outta my way, stupid Deku." He growled as he passed.
"Oi." Haylee clenched her fist and stormed after him. "The fuck you say to him?!"
"Who the fuck are you?" Katsuki glared at the random extra approaching him and continued his trek toward the building.
"Hey! Don't fucking ignore me!" Izuku watched as Haylee ran off after Katsuki.
"If I hear someone call you that I'll kick their ass."
She wouldn't assault someone on school property before the exams even started, right? He wanted to call out to her but she was already following Katsuki into the building. Izuku sighed.
Haylee and Katsuki meeting wasn't something he had considered because he tried not to think about his classmate that much considering he had other friends now. Still, Haylee and Katsuki were the two people who shouldn't meet because of their similar personalities. While both had a hair-trigger temper Haylee was at least a cordial person to be around. She was basically Katsuki if he were nicer and didn't simultaneously have a superiority and inferiority complex.
'Haylee won't start a fight on campus. She won't risk getting kicked out.' Izuku reassured himself with a sigh. He should probably join her inside before the introduction started. Izuku started toward the building again, filled with renewed confidence. 'We can do this. Together!'
Izuku felt his left foot immediately caught itself on the right, sending him hurtling toward the stone path. This was it, all this effort and he was going to knock himself out before the exam even started. He mentally speedran the stages of accepting his death as his fate grew ever closer…
SLAP!
He felt something, or someone touch his bag and his momentum was halted, saving him from the cruel indifference of the universe. "Huh, whuh!" Izuku's legs fluttered in midair as he looked around frantically, eyes finally settling on an auburn-haired girl with an outstretched hand
"Are you okay? It looked like you were about to have a nasty fall!" The nice girl reached out and pulled him to a standing position. "Sorry, I used my quirk on you without asking, but I didn't think you would want to break your face on the ground." She flashed him a cute smile.
"Oh, it's alright." Izuku rubbed his head nervously. He probably wouldn't be saying anything if he hadn't had experience talking to Haylee and the other girls. "I uh… it would be bad if I hurt myself before the exam."
"Yeah, wouldn't want to miss out because you got hurt. It's already nerve-wracking enough." She giggled. "Anyways, we should get going before the written exams start! Good luck!" With that, she ran off toward the doors.
"Wait!" But she was already gone. 'I didn't even get to thank her, whoever she was. Maybe I'll see her at the practical.' Izuku hurried up to get inside.
==VI==
"Fucking prick…" Haylee grumbled. By the time she made her way through the crowd, the blonde asshole was already gone. She remembered Izuku telling her that name was meant as an insult and she hated it when people close to her were insulted. As much as she wanted to kick that guy in the dick she had to put a lid on her temper. If she started a fight with someone on school grounds she wouldn't be allowed to take the exam.
"Haylee!" She spotted Izuku weaving his way through the crowd.
"Oh, there you are. What took you so long."
"I uh…" Izuku blushed. "I almost fell."
"Dude, are you for real." Haylee deadpanned. "I swear, I leave you alone for a minute and you almost hurt yourself." With an exasperated sigh, she held up her fist. "I'll see you at the practical. Good luck with the written exam."
Izuku gave her a fistbump. "You too!"
==VI==
The practical wasn't too hard. Most of the questions were common sense or quirk science; the only difficult ones were the world history ones. History was probably her weakest subject because she had to sort out which universe's history she was remembering. Besides that, the test had gone by in the blink of an eye. Haylee made sure to use all the time she was given, although she wasn't sure about some of her answers.
As she left the proctor a man with a rectangular concrete head was handing out ticket slips. Her slip said, "Examinee No: 2013, Test Location: Battle Center A".
"Please follow the arrows to the auditorium." The stone-gray man instructed.
Ah, according to the ticket, there was a presentation with information about the practical. Haylee followed the milling group of students into a large open room with a huge screen. She scanned the room and saw Izuku sitting next to that blonde dick from earlier. Haylee could already feel her blood pressure rising at the mere sight of the boy.
'Deep breaths.' Haylee calmed herself, taking a seat a few rows in front of Izuku. She gave him a quick wave and a thumbs-up. Glancing around the auditorium she caught a glimpse of the white flower pinned in Lumine's hair. She didn't see Neito in the dense crowd, but they had less identifiable features to pick out from afar.
"Tch." Katsuki glared at the blue-haired extra from earlier. Stupid foreign bitch was probably just as useless as Deku if she was friends with him. Why was the nerd even here? He wasn't going to get far in this exam without a quirk. 'The Hero course is mine, shitty Deku. Stay in Gen-Ed where you belong if you're so insistent on going to U.A.'
Deku was too stubborn to back out of U.A. no matter how many times Katsuki tried to make him fuck off. He was supposed to be the only one from that crappy school to get into U.A., not Deku. Fine, if he was so adamant about getting into U.A. Katsuki would allow him to be in Gen-Ed. That was where an extra like Deku belonged.
Glancing over at the nerd's ticket, he noticed that he was going to a different Battle Center than Katsuki. "Looks like your stupid little girlfriend won't be able to carry you through the exam Deku." Katsuki sneered. "You won't have anyone helping your quirkless ass out."
Izuku turned a deep shade of red. "Sh- she's not my girlfriend!" He squeaked, then to Katsuki's surprise his expression shifted to one that was angry? "And don't call her stupid Kacc- ahem, Bakugo."
"What the-" Katsuki's shock over Izuku's sudden development of a spine was cut off by Present Mic.
"Yo yo yo! What is up listeners?! It's your school DJ, Present Mic! Lemme hear how excited you all are!" The hero shouted.
…
'Awkward…' Everyone thought.
"Wow, tough crowd. Guess I'll get right into it then!" The projector screen booted to life behind him. "Here's how the exam is going to work. You all will be split up between seven different battle zones ranging from urban, suburban, industrial, rural, or forest areas."
"Ohmigod-It's-Present-Mic!" Izuku fanboyed, much to Katsuki's growing annoyance.
"Shut up!" He hissed.
"A hero needs to be able to adapt to any setting. Some of you might have an advantage due to the terrain, but that won't always be the case. You won't always be groovin' to the perfect beat, ya dig?" He was met by more silence. 'Man, these kids are really killing my vibe…' The hero sweatdropped. "These zones will be filled with faux villains for you to take down as you see fit with your quirks or pre-registered weapons."
Murmurs filled the room as people realized that weapons had been an option.
Katsuki smirked at Deku's crestfallen expression. The dipshit didn't even think to bring a baseball bat, not that it would help him.
"Now remember, we're all heroes here today, so no attacking other examinees. If you do that on purpose you will be disqualified from the exam." Mic warned. "With that out of the way, here are the three 'villains' you will be facing!" Three rotating 3-D models of some robots with a human silhouette for scale popped up on screen.
Haylee zoned out as the hero explained the point values of each of the robots, instead focusing on their designs. 'Let's see, those things are larger than most Corpus proxies. I should be able to outmaneuver them easily.' The real question would be how tough they were to take down.
Izuku gulped. The robots were bigger than he expected. How was he expected to take those down without a weapon? He hadn't used One For All since he broke his arm, instead doing light training exercises and practicing with his sword. If he had injured himself again with his new quirk he wouldn't be able to participate in the U.A. exam. What could he do? He could…
Katsuki twitched as the nerd kept muttering something under his breath, trying to keep focused on any extra info on the villain bots.
In the middle of the Voice Hero's presentation, a tall boy in glasses stood up. "Excuse me sir, on the printout there appears to be four villain types. I find it highly irregular that U.A. would make such an obvious mistake on official test documents. U.A. is one of the finest hero schools in the world and blunders like this could sully the school's reputation." He turned and pointed to Izuku. "And you with the unkempt hair!"
"Whu?" Izuku pointed to himself.
"Your muttering is distracting the other students. If you can't keep it down then please leave." The boy glared at Izuku.
"Grrr…" Haylee growled quietly. Who shoved a telephone pole up that guy's ass? It seemed everyone except Izuku was trying to piss her off today.
Izuku tried to hide himself in embarrassment while the examinees around him laughed.
"Woah, nice catch young man!" Present Mic gave the boy a thumbs up. "The last villain type is less of a villain and more of a natural disaster or an obstacle. Think of it like the final boss of a video game appearing at the tutorial level. You could fight it, but you'll probably get one shot."
A full diagram of the robot appeared, showing it towering over some boxes resembling skyscrapers.
'Holy shit, that thing's bigger than an Orb Mother.' Haylee's jaw dropped. How the hell did U.A. afford one of those for every Battle Center!?
"... PLUS ULTRA!" Mic finished in the background.
==VI==
There was a twenty-minute break for students to swap to clothes more fitting for a fight, those with approved support items and weapons retrieving them from the faculty holding them. During that time, the group chat met up one last time.
"Which Battle Center did you get assigned to?" Neito asked, standing across from Haylee. "I'm in F."
"I got A," Haylee replied.
"Same," Lumine affirmed. "Looks like we could team up."
"Nah, I don't want to take potential points away from you," Haylee said confidently. "Not to undermine your skills or anything, but my quirk is more suited for combating multiple enemies from long range. I'll probably stick to myself."
"That makes sense. Thanks." Lumine nodded. "Which one are you in Midoriya?"
"Uhm… B." Izuku gulped. He was all by himself.
"Don't be nervous Midoriya!" Lumine tried to cheer him up. "You got this!"
"But I can't control my quirk and I don't have a weapon." Izuku's stress was evident.
"You could use my sword if you want." Lumine offered, holding up the case containing her weapon. "I don't necessarily need it to use my quirk, it just helps channel it. There isn't a rule against sharing gear."
"I couldn't do that," Izuku babbled. "You shouldn't have to cover me because I didn't register something before the deadline. I can't just let you weaken yourself on my behalf." He'd never forgive himself if Lumine didn't get in because she tried to help him.
"Midoriya is right Lumine." Neito nodded. "He should've thought this through."
"I guess…" Lumine replied despondently. "Oh, Neito, do you need a top-up on my quirk?"
"Sure." The blonde reached over and grabbed her arm.
"What quirks do you have copied Monoma?" Izuku asked. Neito's quirk was incredible. Copy quirks were super rare and most weren't as strong as the boy's. The fact that Neito could quickly swap between different quirks was amazing.
"Sonar from a classmate at my middle school, Elementalist from Lumine." Neito listed. "I'm keeping one slot open in case I see something useful during the exam."
Recon and an offensive ability. Technically Elementalist could double as a defensive one as well if he made enough earth or ice. Good picks for a scenario where you had to locate and take down multiple enemies at once.
"Hey," He felt Haylee's hand on his shoulder. "Don't freak out Izuku. I believe in you. You may not have a weapon but you're strong and smart. Remember all the times we sparred?" Izuku nodded. "Just use your head and think about ways you can do it. Do you really think everyone has a quirk suited for the exam?"
Izuku thought for a moment. There were many people here, if their physical features were anything to go by who had quirks that weren't necessarily combat oriented. Heroes like Sir Nighteye had made it into the hero course… no wait, he transferred in from Gen-Ed… but he remembered last year's sports festival. Some of the competitors in the hero course didn't necessarily have useful quirks for combat and they were still in it. They couldn't all be transfer students from other courses, could they?
"You're right!" He brightened slightly. "There must be another way to take down the robots without brute force!"
"Attention examinees! The buses will be leaving in two minutes. Please board in an orderly fashion. You will be disqualified from the practical exam if you fail to board." The intercom blared.
"Looks like we should get going. Good luck everyone!" Lumine smiled cheerfully.
"Good luck!" Haylee and Lumine sprinted off toward their bus, leaving Neito and Izuku. The blonde's gaze tracked Haylee for a moment before he turned to Izuku.
"Remember what I said in the group chat Midoriya. You will do fine, just try your best." Neito said curtly before waving goodbye.
==VI==
[Battle Center B]
'I can do this. I can do this.' Izuku mentally prepared himself. Upon arrival to the testing site he'd seen the nice girl from earlier and tried making his way over to her. He was stopped by the tall boy in glasses who lectured him about distracting her before he could though.
"Alright, let's start!" Present Mic's voice rang out. Izuku, thanks to his training with Haylee always keeping him on his toes immediately disengaged with the boy and sprinted into the test site a few steps ahead of the other examinees. As soon as he rounded the first corner, a one-pointer burst out of one of the walls and swung its fist at him.
Oddly, he didn't feel any fear. Haylee in her Warframe form was much faster than this bot and she was scarier when she got fired up during training, able to manhandle Izuku and Lumine simultaneously. The one-pointer was big, but it wasn't very fast and the Gatling gun on its arm was just for show. On top of that, he knew it wouldn't try to seriously hurt him. There was always the risk of getting hurt during the exam. That was why they had to sign waivers in case of injury or death. Thankfully U.A. had never had a student die during the entrance exams before.
Reacting quickly, Izuku jumped and landed on the machine's arm and grabbed onto its neck. The faux villain flailed around trying to grab him and started to swing its long head around until it smacked into the wall of a building at high speed and disabled itself.
As the villain collapsed Izuku rolled upon landing. Sparing a quick moment to look for weak spots now that the robot was down, he saw there was a button hidden behind an armor plate with a hatch with the letters "K.O" on it.
A non-lethal takedown method on the back of the head.
His moment of clarity was interrupted by a bright laser flying by his head and destroying a two-pointer behind him that he had been too preoccupied to notice. A blonde boy with a belt around his stomach waved before running off.
Izuku noticed a particularly weighty-looking pipe had become dislodged on a nearby building. He picked it up and tested swinging it against the robot's head. It was strong enough to break the weaker cerebrum of the villain without suffering too many dents.
He had a weapon and knew where the weak spots were in general. He had a plan.
==VI==
[Battle Center A]
As soon as Haylee arrived at the Battle Center she made her way to the gates. This arena was a large city from the looks of it. Perfect for her Warframe's high mobility with lots of buildings to parkour from. Out of the corner of her eye, she spotted Lumine who had already prepared her sword and strapped it to her hip. That blonde guy was also there, but she did her best to him. Now wasn't the time for distractions.
"Begin." A tall-masked hero spoke into the microphone, before dissolving into a cloud of white mist. As soon as he said that the gates began to open. Haylee reacted even faster, dropping into a crouch and rapidly Void-dashing to the nearest rooftop. She reappeared several dozen meters ahead of the crowd and transformed into Excalibur in midair.
A three-pointer turned toward her, seemingly startled by her sudden appearance despite being un unfeeling machine.
'Slash Dash!'
Before the villain bot could even fire off a rocket Haylee had already sliced through it. The machine floated in midair for a second before falling into two neatly cut pieces which then exploded.
That was… surprisingly weaker than she expected. It was like tearing apart a tin can with a laser. If they were this weak she wouldn't need to waste energy with Slash Dash. Haylee didn't stop moving, but when she came across the next bot, a one-pointer, she simply punched it in the head. The green-armored robot's head crumpled like a candy wrapper under the unrestrained force of her punch.
Fuck it felt good to let loose. Months of holding back in her sparring matches made her feel so rusty and with today's frustrations getting to let out all that stress on some robots was cathartic.
==VI==
Lumine's blade was a simple steel sword her father had bought her. Easily replaceable if she broke it during the exam. Like she'd told Izuku it wasn't necessarily required for her quirk, but she could infuse elements into the weapon and use it to augment her attacks.
"Hiyaah!" With a quick swing, three arcing bolts of lightning erupted from her sword and fried the two-pointer in front of her. The bot's capacitors popped from the overcharge and it dropped, smelling of ozone.
"That's fifteen points," Lumine said to herself. She launched herself forward on a ball of air toward the next fight.
==VI==
Eijiro slammed his hardened fist through another two-pointer, pulling another panicking examinee to the side who narrowly avoided being hit by a rocket from a three-pointer.
"Crap!" Two more two-pointers dropped from the side of the building and several three-pointers turned towards them. The rockets weren't dangerous and he could probably take these bots on, but leaving this guy behind wouldn't be what Crimson Riot would do. "Get ready to run, I'll block anything they shoot!" He yelled to the cowering student who was clearly not prepared for the exam.
Someone landed in front of them. A tall guy, judging by body shape. He was clad in shiny organic-looking armor. A glowing purple sword appeared in his hand before the boy slammed it into the ground.
Multiple blades appeared around all the surrounding bots and skewered them nigh instantly.
"So manly…" Eijiro's gaped as the boy gave them a thumbs up and jumped away in a spinning leap.
==VI==
[Teacher Viewing Booth]
"This year's group looks promising." Midnight noted, eyes wandering to the several small displays showcasing applicants that had accrued large amounts of points.
"Eraser is going to have a handful this year. Lots of powerful ones that could use some work controlling them." Dreamweaver, the second-year heroics teacher nodded.
"If he keeps them this year," Stingray grumbled behind his mask. "My class is still short a few from last year, and I'm not referring to the dropouts and cheaters."
"It's not my fault they didn't make the cut back in after the sports festival. Just be happy the rest did." Eraserhead retorted, taking a sip from his juice packet.
"WOAH!" Mic suddenly shouted. "Someone just jumped up forty villain points with one attack!"
Everyone glanced over as a new window popped up with the current top scorer, and Nezu began to cackle.
"Who is that?" Cementoss asked. "We didn't approve a full suit of power armor, did we?" The stone-faced man watched as the applicant ran up a wall followed by a spinning leap into an airborne three-pointer.
"I checked all the gear the applicants submitted. I think I'd remember seein' some fancy piece of tech like that." Snipe said.
"That's because it isn't a suit," Nezu responded with a feral grin. "That's her quirk."
Several teachers turned to him. "Are you for real?" Power Loaded asked bluntly. "No way that's a quirk. She looks like some sort of sci-fi movie soldier or something."
"Oh, I assure you it is." Nezu pulled up the feed from the beginning of the exam, showing Haylee suddenly appearing over a building and rapidly transforming.
'Wait, I recognize her from the MEC!' Nemuri's eyes widened, as did Hound Dog's. 'That's the girl that Yagi brought in with those foreigners.' The same group Nezu told them to keep quiet about. She looked over to the Number One Hero, who was currently ignoring the conversation in favor of watching a green-haired boy and the armored girl on one of the screens.
"She may be on the track to beat your record, Yagi." Vlad pointed out. "She's already at 60 Villain Points, and we haven't even calculated her rescue points." He rewatched the clip of the girl protecting another examinee who was shielding a third applicant.
The skinny man looked up with a smile. "I believe that she will." Honestly, he was surprised that nobody had beaten his old score of 126 points in the forty-odd years he'd been away from U.A. The closest had been Endeavor a few years later. 'Young Tenno, I can't say I'm surprised with how well you are doing given your… experience.' His gaze shifted to the other screen. 'And Izuku is doing well even without One For All.' Pride welled within Toshinori. The boy was sitting at a decent 16 points with five minutes remaining. Still, he was a bit concerned considering the leaderboards for some of the other applicants.
Shota narrowed his eyes. The girl, whoever she was had an extraordinary amount of control and skill. She moved like a pro would, expertly moving in and striking down bot after bot. Someone that young shouldn't have those skills.
"Many people can defeat an enemy in combat," Ectoplasm murmured, watching a blonde boy decimate bot after bot with his explosion quirk.
"Let's test their spirit." Nezu pressed the Executor release button.
==VI==
Ochaco struggled not to vomit. She'd never had to use her quirk in such rapid succession before today. At the moment she had twenty-eight (assuming her math was right) points. Was it enough?
The ground shook from a series of large explosions, knocking her off her feet. From the dust, a large robot, the Zero-pointer, emerged. Ochaco felt a sharp pain in her leg. "Agh!" The explosion and subsequent punch into one of the nearby buildings by the robot had thrown some debris down onto the street, pinning her leg.
At the same time in all the Battle Centers, unmanned Metal Gear: Executors emerged from the ground, causing mass panic.
Katsuki passed by a blonde with a sword and blasted a robot she that the girl hadn't finished off out of shock from seeing the kaiju-sized robot emerge. "Keep moving ya extra." He blasted himself toward the next bot. The huge villain wasn't worth any points so there was no reason to engage it. He was here to win, dammit, not run away!
Haylee landed next to Lumine, morphing back into human form to recharge energy. "You alright?"
"Yeah…" Lumine stammered, shaken by the robot's sudden appearance. "That thing is huge!"
Back in Battle Center B, Tenya raced away with the other examinees. As he passed the boy he'd scolded earlier he noticed him staring at the girl he'd been trying to talk to before the exam. She was trapped beneath some rubble. 'She may be trapped, but the teachers wouldn't let that zero-pointer cause her serious harm…"
Izuku's breathing intensified and he clenched his fist. Even if this was just a mock battle there was still the possibility of harm to other students. What kind of hero would he be if he just ran away?
[MHA OST, You Say Run]
Izuku took off toward her, reaching the girl within a few seconds thanks to his training. As the Metal Gear inched ever closer on its treads. Even with his strength, Izuku couldn't lift the heavy rubble. It was much heavier than a car. And kept shifting with the potential to cause even more damage if he wasn't careful.
Haylee glanced up at the robot. "Want me to take care of it?"
"What?" Lumine gasped. "You can't mean-"
"It's in the way of the other examinees." She shrugged. "Plus, I want to test this move out on something." Present Mic said that this was supposed to be a 'Final Boss' type enemy? Haylee welcomed the challenge. With her energy recharged she began to transform.
"I can't reach it with my quirk." Ochaco had already tried to, but moving caused the pain to increase.
'Crap, crap, crap!' Izuku panicked. He couldn't just leave her here. What would Haylee do in this situation?"
'This move is the one Izuku helped me come up with. The power draw is so much that it disables my shields for a bit after I use it, but in exchange, it's my most powerful attack aside from Exalted Blade." Haylee cocked her arm back and it began to glow with Void energy.
"Don't worry," Izuku looked down to the nice girl. "I won't let anything happen, because I'm here."
'A true hero's character will be revealed in times of crisis.' Toshinori thought. 'Those that are willing to put their lives on the line, or face things that no one else will.'
One For All's energy filled Izuku's body, ripping through the pants below his knees and giving Ochaco a nice view of his well-developed legs. With a burst of wind he launched himself toward the Zero pointer, ignoring the sudden pain in his legs.
'These bots aren't worth any points, so most applicants choose to ignore them or flee.' Nezu's eyes gleamed as he watched Izuku rocket into the air. 'But they are an opportunity to show your strength of will, to stand against overwhelming odds.' The principal glanced at Haylee's screen. 'Or to fight something that no one else is able to even if there is nobody to rescue.'
"Radiant-"
"SMASH"
"- SPEAR!"
In Battle Centers, A, B, and G, three Zero pointers were simultaneously destroyed in displays of overwhelming force.
Izuku's punch connected with the Metal Gear's head causing the massive machine's heavily armored faceplate to crumple inward. The titanic robot's body fell back with a series of explosions detonating from the recoil alone.
Haylee's shields flashed red and the spear punctured the Zero pointer's head and out the back. The damage didn't stop there as glowing cracks appeared down the rest of its skull before exploding in a violent burst of Void energy. The Metal Gear toppled chest-first into the street and kicked up a massive cloud of dust.
Haylee grabbed Lumine and pulled her close to shield her from the harsh cloud and the shorter blonde instinctively surrounded them with a small whirlwind to avoid being choked and covered in dust.
"That's right. Show us who you really are!" Toshinori cheered alongside his fellow teachers. "Self-sacrifice and bravery are the true marks of a hero!"
Izuku soared through the air for a few seconds as he processed what just happened. The adrenaline was blocking the pain for now but his right arm was covered almost entirely with a dark purple bruise and he was positive he'd broken something. His legs flopped uselessly behind him, similarly broken.
'Fuck.' Izuku swore. This had been a heat-of-the-moment decision driven by pure instinct, just like when he'd rushed to help Katsuki and stood in front of Hunhow.
He had not thought about how he would get down and now three-fourths of his limbs were broken. His mom would be upset if he died like this, plus Haylee would be really pissed. Ok, think, the ground was getting awfully close. He just needed to time a punch with his good arm to break his fall and-
Ochaco slapped the boy in the face, the zero-pointer's fall having dislodged some of the debris and allowing her to crawl onto a destroyed three-pointer and float herself up to catch him. "Release!" She wheezed out, causing both to fall to the ground from a much lower height.
Ochaco promptly threw up from a combination of quirk overuse and pain, clearly looking like a hero as rainbow vomit dripped from her mouth.
'Do I have enough points?' Izuku struggled to drag himself forward. 'How many minutes-'
"And that's time!" Present Mic's voice boomed over the loudspeakers.
Haylee let go of Lumine and stared at the wrecked zero-pointer. "I think that was a bit overkill… there wasn't that much time left in the exam anyways." She reached out and brushed aside one of Lumine's bangs that the wind had shifted in front of her face. "You alright?" Haylee asked as the dust cleared, a beam of sunlight highlighting her like a knight in shining armor.
"Buh…" Lumine stammered before slapping her reddening face. "Yep! All good!" She whirled around before Haylee could see how flustered she was getting. 'She's so cool!' Lumine squealed internally.
'It's already over?' Izuku despaired. How many points did he have? His vision became blurry and he passed out from the pain as the adrenaline faded.
==VI==
"Seventh…" Banjo sighed. "Your successor is an idiot."
"How is it my fault!" Nana cried out.
"Ninth is too much like Eighth." Bruce scowled. "He's going to get himself killed at this rate. This is the second time he broke his bones using the quirk. The girl is a better teacher than Toshinori is, and she hasn't even done anything to help him control One For All."
"Yeah, but the girl is like way older than Eighth," Yoichio protested.
"First, she's still a kid, and she was in stasis for hundreds of years. You should know better than anyone that time doesn't equal maturity." En, the latest to wake up argued.
"Eighth should've given the quirk to someone else." Bruce sighed.
"I like Ninth," Yoichi replied. "He just needs a bit of work and then he'll be doing fine. Isn't that right," He looked over and smiled at the aforementioned holder of the quirk, who had appeared with his eyes closed next to Yoichi.
Yoichi promptly let out an unflattering girlish shriek and fell off his throne.
==VI==
[Recovery Girl's Office, U.A.]
Izuku awoke, the sound of someone screaming in a high-pitched voice echoing in his mind for some reason.
"Ah, you're awake I see." Recovery Girl said from her stool. "You were very lucky, young man. If that girl hadn't stopped you I'm not sure I'd be able to put you back together."
Izuku groaned and held up his arm, which was wrapped in a cast. Recovery Girl placed her cane on the limb.
"Don't go exerting yourself, sonny. I healed three of your limbs so you will be pretty weak. Just sit back and take the fluids from the IV." She demanded.
Izuku relaxed in the bed, staring blankly at the ceiling as today's events came back to him.
Nineteen points, if his calculations were correct. All one and two-pointers as he couldn't reach the airborne ones. Seven one-pointers and six two-pointers. He couldn't even ask Recovery Girl if he passed because it was too soon and the elderly heroine couldn't tell him anyway. Was nineteen points enough to get into the hero course?
The door to the room opened, snapping Izuku out of his funk.
"Haylee!" Izuku piped up from the hospital bed.
"Dumbass!" She angrily pointed her finger at him.
Uh oh. She looked pissed.
"We get separated for half a fucking hour and I hear that you hurt yourself again!" She stomped up to his bed and chopped him lightly on the head. The green-haired boy yelped in response. "What did he do this time?"
"The fool broke both his legs and his right arm." Recovery Girl informed her.
Haylee stared it Izuku in disbelief. "Fucking how!"
Izuku turned as red as his hair was green. "I punched the zero-pointer trying to save someone…"
Haylee sighed in exasperation. "In the treads?"
"In the head," Izuku admitted sheepishly.
Haylee glanced at his wrapped legs, then at his arm. "You need to get a Voi- -ahem-, goddamn handle on One For All you dumbass." She flopped down on the chair next to him. "You can't heal like me, so it's not okay if you get hurt."
Recovery Girl smacked her in the head with her cane. To which the girl didn't react aside from an annoyed stare.
"What was that for!" Haylee cried out.
"Just because you can heal and can't feel pain doesn't mean it's okay for you to get yourself hurt missy!" She wiggled her syringe-shaped cane at Haylee. "It's a bad habit that's going to get you killed someday. Do you have a death wish or something?"
"It's not like we're trying to get hurt…" Haylee pouted, glancing at Izuku out of the corner of her eye. "Or at least I'm not." She crossed her arms and huffed.
"I'm not!" Izuku desperately tried to defend his lack of self-preservation skills.
Recovery Girl sighed and sat down across from them. "Danger magnets, the both of you. I yell at you, just like Toshinori, because I won't always be around. You can't always rely on my quirk, or any other healers to fix you up. I've seen it many a time over the years, young kids like you getting complacent during training because they know they will get healed because they are heroes or heroes in training."
"I'm sorry," Izuku said despondently.
"You don't have anything to apologize for aside from not thinking ahead." The old woman chided. "It's that muscle-brained fool that should be apologizing to you for not preparing you enough."
"He needs a teacher," Haylee grunted. "I can teach him how to fight, but I don't know jack shit about quirks." She didn't even know why her powers worked the way they did now, but since the function was almost identical she didn't have any problems, unlike her green-haired troublemaker of a friend.
"And you," Recovery Girl pointed her cane at Haylee. "You shouldn't have to be the one teaching him at all! I'm grateful you taught this lemming some combat skills, unlike a certain someone." She grumbled, glaring at the doorframe as if expecting Toshinori to walk in at any moment so she could give him a piece of her mind.
Haylee bit her lip and nodded. "Is Izuku going to be all right?"
"He should be so long as he doesn't overexert himself." She stared menacingly at Izuku. "No strenuous exercise for a few weeks. I don't want you trying to hit anything with One For All either. I'll be very disappointed in you if I see you in here again Midoriya."
"Yes ma'am…"
==VI==
[Midoriya Family Apartment, March 4th, 2243]
Izuku's stress levels hadn't gone down. It had been more than a week since the exams and still no letter from U.A. From what he'd heard online it took at least two weeks to get the results back.
"Izuku, honey…" Inko poked her son, who had been blankly staring at his food for the past ten minutes. "That fish isn't going to eat itself."
"Huh? Oh. Sorry Mom." He took a small bite of the fish which had already gotten a bit cool.
"Are you okay Izuku?" Inko sat down next to him. "You've been quiet the past few days… I'm starting to get worried."
"I'm just worried about my results…" Izuku poked his lunch with his fork. "I only got nineteen points. All my friends got so many points, and there were so many cool people with amazing quirks at the exam. What if I didn't get in?" Izuku flustered.
"Oh sweetie, I'm sure you did fine." She tried to reassure him. "Waiting for the results is always the worst."
"Yeah… and Toshinori hasn't responded to any of my messages." Izuku slumped in his seat.
"About that… he did tell that since he witnessed the exam he wouldn't be able to talk to you about it until the results were posted," Inko remembered.
"Did he tell you that on your last date?" Izuku asked absentmindedly.
Inko froze. "Wait, you knew we were dating?"
Izuku nodded. "Uhhhhhhh…" His face grew flushed as he realized he'd spoken out loud. "Yes?"
"When did you find out?" Inko asked.
"A few weeks after New Year's? Haylee heard Mr. Karris talking about it and told me." Izuku explained.
"Oh…" She thought Izuku would've made a bigger deal out of learning that.
A few months ago…
Izuku rolled around on his bed in a frantic daze, having just finished his phone call with Haylee.
'OhmygodsmymomisdatingAllMight!'
"Are you upset we didn't tell you?" Inko asked guiltily.
"Not really," Izuku admitted. "I mean, you're both adults and all. Why didn't you tell me though?"
"Well," Inko started. "It was a spur-of-the-moment thing, and we didn't want to say anything until we were sure about dating. We didn't want to tell you and then not have it work out. It's a big change for both of us." She sat down on the couch and motioned for Izuku to join her. "Are you okay with all of this?"
"I mean, he's All Might." Izuku blushed. "But, I want you to be happy Mom. Dad's been gone for almost nine years now and I'll be going into high school this year. I'm not a little boy who will get upset that you're moving on."
"Oh Izuku," Tears welled up in Inko's eyes. "You'll always be my little boy!"
Izuku's lip started to quiver. "Don't cry Mom, because then I'll start crying too!" He hugged Inko tightly. "I'm happy for you, and not just because All Might might be my stepdad some day."
Inko chuckled. "Well, don't go getting ahead of yourself." She wiped the tears from her eyes.
==VI==
[Group Chat]
GreenBean: NotAMasochist CopyPasteKey ✧Lumi✧ DinoRawr ! I got the letter today!
DinoRawr: ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ take my energy my friends. ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
NotAMasochist: I got mine too. Are we still opening together?
CopyPasteKey: Not in person, we should open them asap. If I don't get in I'm going to take the Ketsubutsu Exam next week.
✧Lumi✧: Alright, let's open them and see. (つ﹏⊂)
==VI==
[Tau Household]
"Nezu instructed me to give this to you." Hunhow handed her a sealed envelope and walked off without another word. After a quick text to the group chat, Haylee ripped the envelope open and a silver disc fell out.
"I am here as a projection!" All Might appeared on a projected holographic screen in front of Haylee.
"Mr. Yagi? But this is supposed to be from U.A., isn't it?" Haylee wondered aloud.
"You may be wondering, why is All Might here?" The recording stated Haylee's obvious question. "And that is because… you are looking at U.A's newest faculty member!" The man did a dramatic spin and posed. "I'll have to make this brief so I that I can record them for all the students, so I won't leave you in suspense. Young lady, you passed!"
Haylee knew that it was a near-certain possibility that she had passed based on the number of villain bots she destroyed compared to Lumine and the other examinees she'd seen. She just didn't want to rub her skill in Izuku's face.
"You scored one hundred and seven villain points. With that, you were our top scorer this year!" All Might congratulated. "But wait, there's more! We don't only judge students on their combat ability. We also track rescue points!" Clips popped up of Haylee saving several students or assisting in kills. "You kept several examinees out of harm's way, earning you a total of fifty rescue points based on the potential danger they would be in! This brings your total up to One hundred and fifty-seven points. Congratulations, young Tenno. You've gone Plus Ultra and shattered the previous record held by yours truly!" He gave the camera a thumbs-up and flashed her a proud smile. "This is your Hero Academia!"
==VI==
[Midoriya Family Apartment]
"You scored an impressive nineteen villain points young man! Unfortunately, this would not be enough to enter the Hero Course-," Izuku's face fell. "If we only counted Villain points that is." He perked back up.
"Huh? Speed it up? I have to do forty of these?" He said to someone offscreen. "Let me show you something."
A clip of Izuku punching the zero pointer played, followed by another of the nice girl begging Present Mic to allow her to share some of her points.
"You see, what kind of hero school would U.A be if we only graded on attack power? That's we we also have another system in place: rescue points!" The number on Izuku's screen updated to show seventy-nine points. "You risked it all, even though it wasn't required to try and save her against a foe much stronger than yourself. The willingness to put your life on the line is what separates true heroes from all the rest."
Izuku's placement jumped from unranked all the way to second place. Tears began to pour out of his eyes.
"Congratulations, young Midoriya, this is your Hero Academia!"
Izuku rushed out and grabbed his mother, picking her up and spinning her around with tears leaking from his eyes. "I DID IT!"
Many tears of joy were shed that night in the Midoriya home.
==VI==
[Bakugo Household]
Katsuki cracked the pencil in his hand in a blind rage. FIFTH? FUCKING FIFTH PLACE? He didn't know who placed above him as U.A didn't show names or faces due to privacy concerns, but five goddamn people had somehow beaten his score? Bullshit!
It didn't matter that he got in the top 2% of the written exams. There were plenty of smart kids in the gen-ed and management courses but that didn't mean squat in the hero course if those losers couldn't get in.
"FUCKING DAMMIT!"
==VI==
[Nezu's Office, U.A. High School, March 4th 2243]
"Gentlemen," Nezu folded his paws. "Today we will decide the class rosters for the hero course." The chimera explained. "We will start with the regular students, and end with the recommendation students."
"I'll start," Sekijiro pulled a few papers out. "Kendo Itsuka,Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu, and Eikyō Lumine."
"I see. Any objections Aizawa?" Nezu queried.
"They seem to have good control over their quirks and Kendo knows martial arts. I see no issues." Shota crossed his arms. "In exchange, I want Tokoyami Fumikage, Mineta Minoru, and Bakugo Katsuki." The last one would be good in Kan's class if it weren't for his personality.
"Approved." Nezu slid the students into their respective folders.
They continued to sort through each of the students until only a few remained.
"Kirishima Eijiro?"
"I'll take him. Kan already has Tetsutetsu." Aizawa slid the spikey-haired boy's picture to the 1-A folder. "Last four: Midoriya Izuku, Fukidashi Manga, Tenno Haylee, and Monoma Neito." Aizawa spread their profiles out. "I'll take Monoma and Manga. You take Tenno."
"What about Midoriya?" Sekijiro asked.
"That's the boy that broke his bones during the exam with his quirk. He knows how to fight without it, but he should have control over his quirk by his age. Unless he can do that he's a liability. Put him in Kan's class but on probation until he can get it under control."
"Hold on," Nezu raised his paw. "Aizawa, read his file."
Shota sighed and pulled it over. Super strength quirk, too strong for his body…
Wait.
Midoriya was a late bloomer, an extraordinarily late one at that. He finally manifested the quirk two weeks before the exam.
He only had a quirk for two weeks and came fucking second in the entrance exam. Granted, it was for rescue points awarded for taking down an unmanned Metal Gear, but the fact he did it in one punch and the reason why he did it made the points reasonable.
"I wish for you to take him into your class. Your quirk will ensure that you stop him from hurting himself." Nezu explained. "And as for Tenno Haylee, I am vetoing putting her in Kan's class.
Sekijiro frowned. "But she has control over her quirk, a startling amount in fact, plus she's already trained in combat apparently. Why does she need to be in his class?"
"For the same reason that Tokoyami, Bakugo, and Midoriya are in his class. Please, both of you, take a look at the details of her quirk.
Both men leaned over to read it. Energy manipulation, regeneration, minor warping via some sort of dash, invisibility, and the ability to transform into the armored form she used during the exam.
"What the hell kind of quirk is that? Are you sure she's not a Stand user or something?" Sekijiro asked with wide eyes.
"If she were a stand user, I would put her in your class or assign her to train with Dreamweaver." Nezu elaborated on his reasoning.
"Nezu," Shota looked him dead in the eye. "Why the hell is half of Tenno's information redacted under Level 8 World Hero Association clearance?"
Nezu stared back with his beady little eyes. "I'm afraid that that information is classified."
Fucking rat bastard. Shota relented, knowing that if it wasn't something that the higher-ups in the WHA wanted him to know thatit wasn't worth the trouble of asking. "Fine, so I get Midoriya and Tenno, then Kan gets Monoma and Fukidashi." He could already tell that this class was going to be trouble based on the fact that Nezu had personally overwritten his choices, something had only happened once or twice in the years since he started working here.
"Now for the recommendation students. First up is Todoroki Shoto." Nezu listed.
"Aizawa can take him." Sekijiro immediately blurted out. He was not dealing with the son of one of Japan's strongest heroes. Like the other powerful students, he was going to someone who could stop them from going too far.
"Narfidort Fischl?" Sekijiro picked up the next one. "Ah, she's another one with a sapient quirk like Tokoyami. Looks like it isn't excessively aggressive in low light settings like his." The Blood Hero noted. "Mind if I take this one?"
Shota grabbed the paper from Sekijiro to take a look. "You take her. She looks like she just needs help with powering up, maybe some physical combat training. If she's anything like Tokoyami she'll be too reliant on her quirk. Maybe find a weapon to train her with."
"Alright. Tokage Setsuna and Yaoyorozu Momo." Nezu listed off the next two.
The two men looked over the information about the two students. "Tokage sounds like a toss-up based on her quirk. Lizard Tail Splitter could be good for stealth, which is your specialty, or I could try to get her to improve on combat." Kan held up two fingers. "But Yaoyorozu seems more up your alley."
"I'll take Yaoyorozu if you are set on taking Tokage. Otherwise, you will be forced to take the remaining two." Shota surmised. "You take the next one if he's a good fit for you too, and I'll take whoever is left."
"Alright, that sounds good." Nezu handed Sekijiro the second to last paper. "Honenuki Juzo, softening quirk. Excellent control. I'll take him."
"And last but not least," Nezu slid the last paper into Shota's waiting hands. "Hashibira Inosuke."
Shota picked up the paper and was immediately reminded of an arrest and a small amount of paperwork he filled out almost a year ago. He stared at the examinee, an older boy wearing an unforgettable boar mask. "Oh fuck, Sekijiro, please." Aizawa pleaded, dropping his professional formal tone with his fellow teacher. "Take this one, I beg you."
"Hm? The quirkless one?" Sekijiro looked over the sheet. "Seems like he would be perfect for your class. Wait… isn't that the one you were telling me got arrested for throwing Takeshita through a window?"
"Yes." Shota groaned. "Nezu, how did he get in on recommendation?"
"It seems Mirko took him in as part of the Villain Reform Act. She and O'Clock recommended him and he scored highly on the recommendation exam. His reasoning for wanting to be a hero impressed me as well." Nezu explained.
"She did… that kid tried to cut her arms off!" Aizawa blurted. Was this revenge for going home and leaving the boy for her to deal with? She was spiteful enough to do that…
Oh god, he's going to have to deal with Hashibira the whole year, because he knows from observing the quirkless boy fight Takeshita and Mirko that he will always be giving it his all and has the skills to survive as a pro despite his status. Hell, that delinquent was nearly an adult already!
"Fuck me." Shota slammed his face into the desk.
==VI==
Entrance Practical Exam Top 10 Scorers:
1st - Tenno Haylee: 157 Points
2nd - Midoriya Izuku - 79 Points
3rd: Eikyō Lumine - 75 Points
4th: Uraraka Ochaco - 73 Points
5th: Bakugo Katsuki - 71 Points
6th: Kirishima Eijiro - 67 Points
7th: Monoma Neito - 63 Points
8th: Fukidashi Manga - 60 Points
9th: Shiozaki Ibara - 59 Points
10th: Kendo Itsuka - 57 Points
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If you didn't expect Haylee, someone with more combat experience than most heroes and fighting robots designed to be taken down by untrained teenagers using a (modless) Warframe to not get a high score on the practical portion idk what you were thinking. As a result of her and Lumine being in Katsuki and Eijiro's arena, the latter two didn't score as many points as in canon. Lumine is skilled, and Haylee can find and destroy large groups of enemies which are again, designed with the intent for teenagers to break them.
1-A is same as canon with addition of Inosuke and Haylee
1-B is same as canon with addition of Lumine and Fischl.
It only took a quarter-million words, but we finally reached U.A.
Plans for next 4 Chapters:
- AFO and his minions work behind the scenes and other villains begin to make their moves.
- Izuku deals with the fallout of passing the exam and makes an important breakthrough with OFA, while Lumine tries to process her feelings (which will be a flashback right after the New Year Chapter)
- Natah and Ordan go to get their hero licenses
- The First day of U.A.
I'm probably going to write Chapter 2 of All For Tyria before i write another VI chapter, because Im in the mood for it. Sometime next month i have like 3.5 vacation days too, so I'll try to write a lot for VI then as well.
Honestly I never thought that I'd write this much because this fic started off as an idea I had while really sleep-deprived after reading John_Prodman's (abandoned?) fic Skiajati on FFnet.