AN:
I'm back, and I'm going to make these notes short. I know not much action has happened yet, but there is just one more chapter after this before the action finally begins. I hope you all enjoy!
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BoredAndSleepy2000- Glad to hear it! I hope to not disappoint.
Xerzo LotCN- I'm sure there are a good bit of stories like that, but I haven't personally seen one with the twist I am planning. I never said anything about her going to give him points, did I? Lastly, no, I do not ship them, in fact there is only one ship I care about and I haven't decided if I should even add it in. For now, I'm planning just friendship and platonic relationships, and if I do add a ship, it will be a gradual growth, rather than them going from barely or not even knowing one another to being in love in the course of a couple chapters, anything I do add will take a long time to come into play.
Alostdonkey- All for One isn't who you should worry about, he is collected enough to see value in Izuku and control his temper.
MasterBlade47- Let me know how your idea turns out, I'm curious how predictable I am!
megasharpy- I'm glad to hear that, and I don't want to give any spoilers, so I can't comment on your second part…
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Chapter 9:
Bakugou stared at the letter before him. An acceptance letter from UA indicating he scored the number one spot with a total of 80 Points: 53 Villain Points and 27 Hero Points. Katsuki knew he would make it, but he wanted to have his points far beyond anyone else's. The blond pushed himself beyond his limits everyday for the past four years, he needed to be better. Bakugou couldn't just be the best, he had to go beyond, the best wasn't able to find 'him'. With this score, Katsuki was barely in the lead, but he needed to go further, he needed to be unstoppable.
The young Bakugou growled as he crumpled up the paper. This was that round faced girl's fault, he could have used that time to double his score, but he wasted his time to save her and only got 15 points for his effort. Katsuki grunted as he dropped onto his bed, this just meant he'd have to get stronger.
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"Are you sure?" Tomura asked Kurogiri, glaring at the mist man through the slits of the hand covering his face.
"Your Sensei used his connections to find this out." The bartender said as he cleaned a glass, keeping a cautious eye on the blue haired man.
Shigaraki's glare persisted for a few more seconds before a chuckle escaped the young man. The chuckled gradually evolved into full blown laughter as the blue haired man clapped his hands and proclaimed, "This is amazing! Do you have any idea what this means?"
"Why don't you enlighten me…"Kurogiri stated as he sat the sparkling cu down and grabbed another.
"It means that he'll be vulnerable!" Tomura shouted in joy as he threw his glass away, causing it to shatter against the wall "He won't have other heroes around to help him; he'll just have a bunch of snot nosed brats! We just have to find out when he'll be alone with them and we can strike then!"
"Oh? How exactly do you plan to find that out?" Kurogiri asked, their master already warning him that this would be the boy's reaction, but the question caught the red eyed man off guard, causing him to stop laughing.
"… The media!" Shigaraki grinned, "When they learn that the Symbol of Peace is working at some school, they'll swarm them demanding an interview! We'll then stage a break in, and while the teachers are distracted with the media, we'll find the schedule and find when the best time to attack will be!"
"Very well, but what shall we do in the mean time?" the mist man asked as he nodded along with the plan.
"Start recruiting." Tomura sighed as he sat down, waving the question off "A couple dozen low level minions should be more than enough to deal a couple brats. I'm sure Giran knows plenty of fodder that will be more than happy to help."
"As you wish…" Kurogiri said as he shook his head, the boy had a nasty habit of underestimating his opponent and over estimating himself.
"Oh and…" Shigaraki added as he lazily turned his head to the bartender "tell Sensei I'd like to put our 'secret weapons' to use."
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"How dare you!" a blue haired boy shouted, glaring at Bakugou as the blond leaned back in his chair, feet resting upon his desk.
"Eh? The hell are you talking about?" Katsuki asked, cracking one eye open to look at the tall teen.
"What am I talking about!?" the boy in glasses seethed as he gestured towards the explosion user's shoes "You are disrespecting our upper classmen by placing your shoes on that desk! And watch your language, this is a school, you should treat it with more respect!"
"Jeez, who shoved that stick up your ass? Or did it come preinstalled?" Bakugou groaned, rolling his eyes as he shifted his feet back onto the ground.
"How dare-…" the blue haired boy began before taking a breath to calm himself down "Perhaps we just got off on the wrong foot… My name is Tenya Iida, from Soumei Academy."
"Soumei? So, you think your private school ass is better than me, you two bit extra?" Katsuki growled, flexing the muscles in his hands, forcing them into a claw like state "I'm going to enjoy crushing you!"
"How vulgar…" a girl with a spiky, black pony tail, sitting three seats behind the exchange whispered as she covered her mouth in shock.
"I, uh… don't think that's what he meant…" a boy sitting directly behind the duo, covered head to toe in long porcupine spikes.
"Why you-!" Iida began before a bubbly voice cut him off.
"Oh! It's you! The angry boy!" Uraraka exclaimed as she bounced over to Bakugou's desk.
"Huh?" Katsuki grunted as he looked at the brown haired girl before narrowing his eyes "Oh, it's you…"
"I was hoping to ask you something…" Ochako began, ignoring the looks of shock on the majority of the class.
"Of course you were…" the boy grunted as he rolled his red eyes.
"I tried asking the teachers, but they didn't know…" the gravity girl sighed, oblivious to the boy's growing irritation.
"... Will you just get to the damn point?" Katsuki growled, causing the girl to jump slightly.
"Who is Deku?" Uraraka blurted out, causing Bakugou to freeze in his seat, eyes wide as he stared at the girl.
"…What?" the blond boy whispered, the noise around them seeming to vanish.
"Well, I tried asking the teachers, but they didn't know anyone with that name, and they couldn't tell me what school you went to…" Ochako explained, nervously looking at her feet "I was just wondering what happened to him… I mean, you said he would have been a good hero, but the way said it made it sound like…"
"You're a fucking idiot." Bakugou stated as he stared blankly at the girl.
"Wh-what?" the girl squeaked.
"First of all, his name wasn't Deku that was a nickname. Second off, it's none of your business." Katsuki growled as he narrowed his eyes at the brown haired girl.
"Now, that's uncalled for!" Tenya shouted as he stepped in between the two "While how she went about her question was tactless, she was merely trying to help…"
"Help what?" Bakugou snapped, jumping from his seat and into the blue haired boy's face.
"…I…"Uraraka whispered, gaining the attention of the two boys "… I just thought that if he wasn't… I could try and convince him to become a hero… I mean if he could inspire someone like you to help people, he has to be someone pretty amazing…"
"…" the blond boy stared at her, his anger slowly fading away, but when he opened his mouth to replay, a tired voice interrupted him.
"That's enough." a man with long black hair rose up in the doorway, slowly unzipping a yellow sleeping bag as the class fell quiet "… you took far too long to quiet down… My name is Shota Aizawa; I will be your homeroom. Place on your gym uniforms and meet me outside."
The class was silent as the tired man walked away from the door before they slowly began to follow after him, Uraraka only stopped as Bakugou decided to speak up "…He's not dead, he went missing after a villain attack a few years back… but he's still out there… I know he is…"
Ochako wasn't sure if he was telling her that, or himself.
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"836 meters?! That's insane!" a blond boy with a black bolt in his hair exclaimed as their teacher turned Bakugou's results towards the group.
"So, we get to use our quirks?" a pink skinned girl laughed in excitement "Oh, this is gonna be so much fun!"
"… 'Fun'?" Aizawa sighed as he glared at his class "Well, if this is gonna be so much 'fun', then how about this… Whoever comes in last will be expelled."
"B-but…"Uraraka gasped in shock "You can't do that! It's our first day!"
"I can't? UA gives its teachers a lot more freedom than normal schools, so I think you'll find I can." The teacher yawned, not caring for the growing fear "This is a hero school not a play ground… Take this seriously or go home."
The class was silent, each member forming plans, fears or, in the case of the black haired girl, theories. Slowly the students made their way to the first event, a cloud of dread hanging over some of the students' heads. All the students making a silent vow to hold nothing back.
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Bakugou seethed as he stared at the projection, not only did he not get first place; he tied for second with the walking peppermint stick! After pushing himself for the past four years straight, the explosion user was still only tied with the human candy cane. Bakugou was even more pissed that the ponytailed girl beat him in nearly every exam! Katsuki wasn't sure if he wanted to laugh or cry.
"Inochi Matsu…" Aizawa spoke, projecting his voice over the crowd of students, drawing the attention of the spike covered boy "You scored the lowest over all… In fact you failed nearly every exam. Pack your stuff and leave."
While Inochi's world was crumbling around him, Bakugou decided on how he was feeling as he let out a snort of laughter.
"Stop that!" Uraraka yelled at Katsuki as the rest of the class sent sharp glares at him "Why are you being so mean?"
"What?" the ashy blond growled as he rolled his eyes "You can't honestly say you didn't see that coming? The damn extra didn't a single good score and half the time he tripped and stuck himself to the ground!"
"That doesn't mean you can laugh at him!" Ochako exclaimed, earning nods of agreement from the rest of the class.
"Enough both of you!" Shota sighed as he activated his quirk to add a sinister edge to his glare.
"Are…Are you serious?" Matsu whispered, his eyes trembling as he stared at the ground.
"Yes, you only got enough points to get in here because your needles jammed up the robots joints. You don't deserve to be here and worse you took the spot of someone that may have." The teacher explained in a monotone voice before he turned to his class "The rest of you, head home and go to your regular classes tomorrow… and Bakugou another outburst like that and we will be having words."
The class began to shuffle out, most trying to cheer up or frowning at the spiky boy as he broke down crying on the field.
"He was serious…? I… I was wrong?" first place, Momo Yaoyorozu thought to herself as she watched her teacher walk away, suddenly very glad she decided to give the test her all; the mature girl biting her lip as she joined her classmate, anxiety eating away at the back of her mind.
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"You're insane." A man wearing a skull themed helmet and black tank top said as he stood in front of a large group of thugs and criminals, all gathered inside a large warehouse.
"You may think so, but we are going to kill the Symbol of peace with or without you." Shigaraki said calmly as he swirled the glass of alcohol he brought along as he sat on a stool overlooking the group, Kurogiri and the green haired brat standing behind him, but he ignored them for now.
"What makes you think you can even do that?" a villain in the crowd laughed.
"Yeah, what makes you different from the rest of us?!"Another criminal shouted, earning murmurs of agreement.
"Because we have this!" Tomura stated as he snapped his fingers, signaling the mist man to open a gate and reveal their secret weapon.
"What in the fuck is that!?" the crowd screamed as an enormous creature appeared from the portal of mist, powerful muscles bulged under charcoal black skin, offset by the yellow beak.
"This is our Symbol of Peace killer!" the blue haired man as he swung his arms out, spilling his drink onto the floor "It has been genetically engineered to be able to defeat All Might, and with him working at UA, he will soon be vulnerable!"
"… Okay, but if you have that… thing then why do you need us?" the skull masked villain asked, as he watch the monster with shaking eyes.
"Basically meat shields." Izuku spoke up with a shrug and amused smirk, earning glares from Shigaraki and the rest of the villains.
"And who the hell are you kid?" the masked villain shouted angrily as yellow lightning sparked to life between his fingers.
"Well, I'm up on the big boy podium, while you're down with the cannon fodder." Midoriya laughed.
"That's it!" the villain shouted as he threw his arm, firing a bolt of electricity at the boy, the room flashing with yellow light as the lightning neared its target with a thunderous boom, Izuku merely raising his right hand toward the attack.
"Wh-what?!" the electric villain gasped as the flashing yellow became accompanied by a stable blue light. The lightning dancing was around a ball of blue energy as the electricity slowly disappearing into the orb, seemingly being devoured by the ball.
"Surprised? Sorry but lightning doesn't work on me." Izuku chuckled with a sad smile as the last of the lightning disappear into the orb which sparked and glowed with massive power.
"That's enough!" Shigaraki growled as he pulled out a familiar black remote and pushed the button, activating Midoriya's collar, the metal spikes that were stabbing into his neck shocking the green haired boy before he could use his blue light to absorb it.
"Sensei made sure to give me the control to your collar when I asked to use you for this plan." Tomura laughed as the ball of light vanished with the boy's body convulsed as the electricity passed through his body.
"… Mad Mask gave that to you? I guess you can call that a… hand-me-down!" Izuku joked, only for his laughter to quickly turn into a yelp as the hand covered man pressed the button on the remote with a growl.
"Oh, come on you of all people don't like hand jokes?" Midoriya groaned with a sheepish grin while rubbing his neck and scratching his cheek.
"Do not joke about father." Tomura growled, glaring at the boy through the fingers of the detached hand on his face.
"Wait, that's really your dad? What's his diet plan, he's lost a ton of weight!" the green haired boy nervously chuckled, watching as Shigaraki unconsciously crushed the glass in his left hand, activating his quirk and disintegrating the shards, aging to the point that they just crumbled away.
"Stop talking." Tomura commanded as he pressed the button again, holding it down watching as the boy slowly tries to reach for the collar.
"Tomura, that is enough, we still need him." Kurogiri spoke up, seeing the blue haired man was about to lose control.
"… Fine…" Shigaraki groaned, releasing the button as he turned to the group, a dark gleam in his eyes "Now, I'm going to ask you this once… Do you want to keep living in the shadows until the day you die, or do you want to help create history?"