Toshinori Yagi, known worldwide as All Might, walked down to Dagoba Beach. It was 6 A.M on February 26, the day his disciples would be taking their entrance exam to U.A. High, and he began reminiscing about the past 10 months. Izuku Midoriya, the boy who would inherit his Quirk, had made amazing progress. The boy who could barely pull a fridge ten months prior, was almost done cleaning the garbage from the beach. By the first month, he had grown accustomed to his new sleep schedule and his new diet. He spent every moment that he wasn't moving the trash on the beach doing some sort of exercise: whether it was a hundred pushups from the moment he woke up, bicep curls as he studied and did his homework, or using a hand grip in class. He had seen this boy who could rival him in his "true" form become a fit and muscular young man. However, he had doubts whether or not he was ready to accept his quirk. Only time would tell if he was finally ready.

Hayato Kiryuu on the other hand was a different case, while Izuku had quickly grown accustomed to his training regimen: the original training plan was built for someone with a different kind of speed quirk than his. When he learned Hayato was a speedster, he reached out to the hero, Ingenium, for advice to help build his plan, but within the first week he realized that he overlooked what Hayato had told him about his Quirk: he cannot maintain his top speed for long due to it draining his electrolytes. Ingenium's Quirk and Hayato's could be viewed as two different racehorses: with one made for running long distance and the other made for bursts of speed, and he could never reach the goal he had made for him because his body couldn't keep it up. So once he managed to fix the plan for him, Hayato began to improve as the new exercises he made him do, helped him to maintain his top speed longer while also increasing how fast he can go.

"I hope those boys are ready." He said to himself before hearing a loud scream. He ran forward, pinpointing it coming from the beach, only to see it was his successor standing at the top of the remaining tower of trash, sweat dripping from his face and body while Hayato sat at the bottom of the tower in a similar way. "Oh...Oh my...oh my...GOODNESS!" He blew up into his muscle form seeing every last bit of litter that once plagued the beach was now gone, even from other parts of it than where he instructed him to clean, and the sunrise clearly visible. Izuku fell forward and All Might ran forward to catch him before he hit the ground. "Well done."

"All Might...I did it..." Izuku said weakly before Hayato made his way down to them.

"And you, Young Kiryuu?" All Might asked putting Izuku down. Hayato reached into his pocket and took out a speedometer and handed it to the hero. "Amazing!" This speedometer was a special one that All Might had asked for, that would clock Hayato's fastest speed and for how long he maintained it whether he held it or Hayato did. And currently it read 150 KM/H and that he kept that speed for 8 seconds. "You've come far, Young Kiryuu. But now, it's time for Young Midoriya to inherit the powers of One for All, once and for all."

"How do I get your power?" Izuku asked excitedly as his energy slowly but surely came back to him. All Might chuckled and reached into his hair, pulling out a strand and holding it forward.

"Eat this." Both boys looked at him with a mix of confusion and disgust, making their idol break into laughter. "Well you need to take in some of my DNA, and this is the only thing I could think of since you boys need to go and get ready. Otherwise, you'll be late for your exam!"

"Well...through the lips and past the gums..." Izuku gulped as he reached for the strand of hair and put it in his mouth, attempting to swallow it at once. Instead it got caught on the saliva on his tongue and halfway down his throat so he began to violently cough while Hayato went to get him a bottle of water.

"Wow...I'm finally here." Izuku said as he stood in front of U.A. High, mentally preparing himself for their entrance exam. He took a deep breath as he quickly relived the past ten months and clenched his fists, remembering how he spent hours every morning moving the garbage off the beach and even helping Hayato with his exercises.

"Don't stand in front of me or I'll kill you, Deku." He turned around seeing Katsuki walking towards him and he began to frantically wave his arms around.

"Good morning! Let's both do our bests and hope we make it in!" By the time he finished, Katsuki had already walked past him and was nearing the entrance. Izuku decided it was time to stop standing around and get a move on, before taking one step and tripping on his own leg. But before he hit the ground, he felt himself stop mid-air and looked to see a girl with brown hair with her hand on his arm. She helped him stand up straight and brushed some dust off him before giving him a reassuring smile that made him blush slightly.

"Sorry about that, it's my Quirk and I know I should've asked you, but I didn't want to see you fall since it's bad luck, you know. You're here for U.A.'s exam right?" All Izuku could reply with was a nod. "Me too! Let's both do our best!" She walked away towards the entrance leaving Izuku there blushing.

"Statue Hero: Izuku, let's go." Izuku snapped out of his trance feeling something grab his shoulder, to see Hayato next to him and pulling him to the entrance.

"It's the Voice Hero, Present Mic! Wo-" Izuku was cut off from having one of his fanboy moments by Hayato quickly covering his mouth with his hand while both of them and Katsuki sat together, listening to the explanation of their practical exam.

"For once, I'm fucking glad you did that." Katsuki said earning an agreeing sigh from the speedster.

"As it says in the application requirements, you listeners will be conducting ten-minute mock urban battles after this!" A blond haired man with his hair spiked up into an arc wearing what looked like punk rock clothing explained as the screen behind him went from showing the U.A. logo to showing seven different areas on it. "After the presentation, you'll head to the specified battle center, okay?" Silence. "Okay?!"

"In other words, they won't let you work with your friends?" Katsuki said noticing that on his ticket and on Izuku's, both of them had different test locations with the former being sent to Battle Center A and the latter being sent to Battle Center B.

"Y-You're right, even though our numbers are consecutive: we're assigned to different battle centers." Izuku said noticing that his ticket was 2234 and Katsuki's was 2233.

"Yeah I got sent to C." Hayato said noticing that he got sent to a different battle center as well.

"Three different types of faux villains are stationed in each battle center. You earn points for each of them based on their level of difficulty. Your goal is to use your Quirks to earn points by immobilizing the faux villains. Of course, attacking other examinees or anything unheroic is prohibited." Present Mic explained even further as the screen showed a pixel version of him attacking the fake villains.

"May I ask a question?!"

"Yes!" Present Mic pointed at one of the people sitting in front of the three, letting one of the lights shine down on him to reveal a blue haired boy wearing glasses holding up a piece of paper.

"On the printout, there are four types of villains. If that is a misprint then U.A., the most prominent school in the country, must be disappointed in themselves! We Examinees are here in this place because we wish to be molded into exemplary heroes!" He turned around and pointed towards the three, mainly at Izuku. "In addition, you over there with the curly hair! You've been muttering this whole time! It's distracting! If you're here on a pleasure trip, then you should leave immediately!" To this, Izuku hid his head in shame while everyone else began to laugh.

"...sorry..."

"At least he kept it as quiet as possible, you're talking louder than our proctor down there and his Quirk amplifies his voice, so what's your excuse? Sit down before you embarrass yourself more than you tried embarrassing him." Hayato said quickly jumping to his best friend's aid making everyone redirect their laughter towards the other boy.

"Okay okay, Examinees 7111 and 2235, relax. Thanks for pointing that out, the fourth kind of villain is worth no points. It's an obstacle so to say." Present Mic explained as the symbol for the fourth villain appeared on screen. "There's one in every battle center and they go crazy in narrow spaces. They're not impossible to defeat but not something you should try to, I recommend you all try to avoid it. That's all from me, before you go let me just present you with our school motto: Go beyond, Plus Ultra!"

"Mock battles...how can everyone be so confident? Aren't they nervous? They even have equipment to go with their quirks!" Izuku said looking at the crowd in front of him. But then he remembered that both Katsuki and Hayato were taking their exams nearby as well, so he slapped his cheeks to snap himself out of his trance. He looked forward and noticed the girl from that morning standing in the front taking deep breaths. But before he could go towards her to thank her, he felt a hand on his shoulder and turned around to see the boy who called him out earlier standing behind him in what looked like a marathon runner's outfit. 'He's here too?!'

"That girl appears to be trying to focus. What are you doing here? Are you taking this entrance exam to mess with everyone else?" The boy asked glaring at Izuku. He began shaking his head and waving his arms frantically to deny the accusation.

"N-N-No! That's not true!" He looked to see the crowd smiling at how he was being reprimanded by the other boy. "I just want to thank her for helping me out this morning from an embarrassing situation, that's all."

"And that friend of yours, the disrespectful one?"

"O-Oh! Hayato meant nothing rude by it, he's just always been like a protective brother to me since we were young." Izuku explained before they heard Present Mic yelling.

"START! Come on, there's no countdown in being a hero! What's that saying? The die has been cast? Get a move on, kiddies!" The gates opened and the crowd ran inside to start gaining their points. As Izuku ran inside, he remembered what All Might had told him once he managed to swallow his hair: the Quirk should be in his system after two to three hours and that using it will have physical repercussions. Then suddenly the wall next to him shattered and from it, a green robot burst through and towards him.

"One-pointer?! Damn it, it's coming right at me!"

"And that's a point!" Hayato laughed as he ran right through a one-point enemy at his exam field. He fell back slightly, feeling light-headed, before reaching into his pocket and placing a handful of raisins in his mouth. "Can't stop now, I just hope Izuku hasn't frozen in place yet."

'I'm frozen in place!' After having been saved from the previous one-pointer by another examinee, Izuku continued ahead to try to gain some points himself, but every villain he came across was either already destroyed or in the process of being destroyed. But once he had arrived to the area where the most examinees were, the zero-pointer Present Mic had told them about had appeared, destroying the top floors of the buildings in front of it and throwing it towards them. Most of the examinees, including the boy from before, began running away while Izuku stayed where he stood, as if he was frozen in place.

"LESS THAN TWO MINUTES LEFT!"

"Only two minutes?! I don't even have a single point yet!" Izuku yelled as he finally felt some feeling in his legs to run away. At least that was the plan, until he heard someone cry in pain. He looked forward to see the cloud of dust subsiding and the girl from before trapped under the debris.

'...it's my Quirk and I know I should've asked you, but I didn't want to see you fall since it's bad luck, you know.' The very words she told him that morning when she saved him from falling, were playing on repeat in his head. So in that moment, instead of running away from the zero-pointer: Izuku made a break towards her. But the next thing he knew, he was flying up into the air and towards the robot's head as he balled his hand into a fist.

"SMAAAAAASH!" He threw his arm forward and into the robot's head, completely destroying it and the damage began a domino effect all across its body as everyone below watched him in shock. And unbeknownst to all of them: they were being watched on camera by the faculty of the school who all of them, save for All Might who was there watching as well, they all looked as he obliterated the robot in one hit with the jaws of most going agape while the others cheered. 'It...it activated! I have a Quirk now!' Izuku's glee was quickly cut short as gravity now took effect and he began to plummet down to the ground. As he did, the adrenaline left his body and he now felt the pain of both his legs shattering from the jump, and his right arm shattering and even being cut from the punch, and now all of them were flapping in the wind as he fell to his doom. 'Damn it! All Might warned me about this! I need to break my fall in some way. A Detroit Smash! If I aim a punch at the ground, I should be able to create enough air pressure to cushion my fall...but if I do it too early or too late I'm going to die! Damn it, Hayato where are you when I need you?!'

Meanwhile, Hayato and his fellow examinees were dealing with their own zero-pointer as well as a swarm of one, two, and three pointers that was now crowding them all together. He looked up seeing the zero-pointer was beginning to crush buildings and fling the debris making him take a step back.

'All Might once told me of a hero that was so fast that he unraveled a tornado...what if I push myself as fast as possible to make one, it wouldn't be strong enough to destroy that thing but it should be enough to block the debris and clear up some of these things?' Hayato looked around seeing everyone else trying to make a dent in the swarm to escape but to no avail. He balled up his hands into a fist and got into a starting position, activating his quirk as he did. 'I don't have a second to even think if it's gonna work, I'm just gonna have to try!' Hayato took in a deep breath and began to run around the crowd of examinees as fast as he could, feeling the wind begin to kick up. After a few seconds, he felt himself begin to slow down before he reached into his pockets and threw in all the snacks he could. "I don't have a second to waste!" He pushed himself, harder than he ever had in the past few months, and began to try to run faster and faster around the crowd who looked at him in amazement as the wind began to spin with him, until they were all protected by a wall of wind that was picking up the debris and robots and throwing them around at the swarm of robots and at the zero-pointer beginning to destroy it. But after about thirty more seconds, the wall diminished, and Hayato slid out of the circle he was running in, without a shred of energy left in his entire body.

'No time to lose! SMA-' Izuku winced feeling like he slapped mid-air as he was only meters away from the floor now, only to stop right before he did. He looked to the side to see the very girl he risked his own life to save floating on a piece of a villain struggling to put her hands together.

"A-And...release..." She pressed her fingertips together and almost immediately, both her and Izuku touched the ground. As soon as she took a breath, she covered her mouth feeling extremely nauseous, only to end up vomiting on the floor.

"I need a point...but I can't move..." Izuku said to himself, trying to move with only his left arm.

"AND TIIIIME'S UP!" Izuku looked up in horror hearing Present Mic announce the end of their exam before hitting his head on the pavement.

"I didn't even get a single point. Damn it!" Izuku said as he felt tears begin to well up. He moved his head slightly, hearing the crowd around him talking about what he had just done.

"Wow, he took that thing out in one hit!"

"But if he had a reinforcement Quirk, then why does he look like that?"

"He should've just run away, what was the point?!"

'They're all missing the point, he didn't jump in the way to try to score points. He did it to save that girl.' The boy from before thought to himself as he studied the now heavily injured Izuku, the broken zero-pointer in the background, and his savior currently regaining her composure on the robot part she was on. 'He jumped without hesitation and I...would've done the same thing if this wasn't an exam! Wait...exam.' The boy clenched his fist, trying to reassure himself that he would've done what Izuku did, before the realization hit him.

"Good job everyone! I'll give you all some candy for doing such good work right now, but first let me attend to this young man." A small elderly lady wearing medical gear walked past the examinees and towards Izuku who was mentally beating himself up for not getting a single point. 'His Quirk did this to him? It's almost as if his body wasn't used to it.' She bent forward and gave the boy a kiss on the back of his head, making his legs and arm glow green as inside them: the bone shards came together and quickly healed back to normal.

"Who is that old lady?"

"That mademoiselle is the backbone of U.A. She's the school's licensed nurse, the Youthful Heroine: Recovery Girl. She's the only reason this school is even allowed to have such a dangerous exam." A blond haired boy wearing a bedazzled shirt and a colossal belt around where his navel was located introduced Recovery Girl to the group as she gave the girl who helped Izuku some gummy bears.

'Wait, of course! If that's the case then that boy...' The boy looked at Recovery Girl and Izuku and nodded his head as it finally dawned on him.

A week following the exam: Izuku sat in his living room following dinner, using his hand grip while his phone was in his other hand, with a look of disbelief evident in his eyes as he thought that he had blown his one chance to enter U.A. and become a hero. He knew that he had barely passed the written exam from scoring himself but the zero he got from not destroying anything else but the giant robot cancelled out the score he had received on the exam. Not only that, he had been trying for a week to get a hold of All Might to talk to him but to no avail.

"Izuku...honey...is Hayato alright?" His mother walked up to him and placed a hand on his head, lovingly running her hands through it, snapping him out of his trance.

"He's fine, he's waiting on the results."

"I see, they should be here today or tomorrow, right?"

"Yeah..."

"The fact you even took that test makes me proud of you, Izuku. I only hope that both of you make it in." She planted a kiss on her son's head and walked out to get the mail as Izuku turned on his phone screen, seeing a picture of him and Hayato from Halloween over ten years ago, with both of them dressed as All Might. When he had left his practical exam area: he found out about what Hayato did, making the mini tornado to protect his fellow examinees from the attacks in the last two minutes, but such a risky move without the practice had completely left him without electrolytes in his body and all Recovery Girl could do was give him fluids to replenish at least some of them to protect his heart and muscles. He put his hand grip down and looked at his slightly scarred fist now, clenching it as tightly as possible.

'I let you down, All Might...I let you down, Hayato...I'm sorry.'

"Izu-Izu-Izu-Izuku!" He snapped his head to the left hearing his mother call his name only to see her sprawled on the floor with a letter in her hands. "Th-They're here!" Izuku stood up and hesitantly grabbed the envelope from his mother's hands, taking it to his room and place it on his desk. He gulped and ripped open the letter, only for a small disk like object to fall out and light up.

"I'm here as a projection!" He pushed his chair back seeing the light form into a screen with All Might wearing a bright yellow suit in front of the U.A. logo.

"All Might?! But this is from U.A. isn't it?!"

"I had a lot of paperwork to do that wound up eating up all my time, I'm sorry I couldn't contact you. Actually, I moved to this town to work at U.A." Izuku looked shocked as on the screen, a hand appeared motioning for All Might to speed things along. "I have something I need to tell him. It'll push everything back. Okay then I got it. Even if you passed the written exam, you got zero points on the practical exam...so that means you didn't pass."

"I knew it..." Izuku hung his head down and grabbed his pant legs in defeat, feeling his eyes well up.

"That is, if that was all there was to it. I'd like to show you something." All Might took out a remote and turned on a nearby TV screen, showing the girl who had helped him that day walking into a room.

"Excuse me..." The girl said walking up to Present Mic.

"She came directly after the exam to negotiate with us!" All Might explained pausing and then continuing the video.

"Um, the boy with green curly hair and freckles...is it possible for me to give him some of my points?" Izuku jumped slightly hearing her request. "I heard him saying that he needed to get at least one point, so I figured he probably didn't get any..." Hearing this, Katsuki's insults about him being useless for being Quirkless from when they were growing up replayed in his mind. "At least the points he missed out on for saving me...he saved me and got himself hurt doing it! Please, he deserves at least that much as a thank you from me!"

"Now not only do you have a Quirk: you inspired that girl, the same way you inspired me all those months ago, probably even the same way you inspired Young Kiryuu as children." All Might paused the video again and turned his attention back to the camera/Izuku. "The entrance exam wasn't graded on just how many villains you destroyed either!" Izuku jumped up again as All Might resumed the video.

"I'm sorry but even if you ask, you can't give him your points. But don't worry, there's no reason to give him any." Present Mic said pausing the video yet again.

"What kind of hero course would reject someone who's willing to risk their lives to save others? This is a job that requires doing just that and doing the right thing! You were also graded on: Rescue Points! They're points given to you by a panel of judges. It's the other basic ability that we at U.A. look at!" All Might yelled before the screen showed the scoreboards, revealing Izuku came in the top ten on the test. "Izuku Midoriya, 60 points!" Izuku's eyes widened seeing the points as a photo of the girl appeared. "And Ochaco Uraraka, 45 points!" All Might looked at the camera and gave a thumbs up towards his disciple. "You both passed."

"This is...unbelievable..." Izuku said as his lips began to quiver and the tears from before began streaming down his cheeks, this time from happiness.

"Come, Young Midoriya. This is your hero academia!" Izuku nodded and looked at his action figure of All Might and the photo of him and Hayato again, this time with pride.

"Hey Speedy, you up?" Hayato sat up in bed, his body still partly sore from his exams, as his grandfather walked into his room with the same envelope in his hands.

"What's this?"

"Your acceptance letter, what else?" The elder Kiryuu said before running his hand through Hayato's hair. "I'll be sure to call your parents and let them know."

"I haven't been accepted yet...I find out once I open this envelope." Hayato said as he opened the letter. He found the projector and placed it down before the projection started for him.

"I'm here as a projection!" Hayato and his grandfather were taken aback by the sudden appearance of the Number One Hero on the projection. "I hid the truth from you both but I actually came to live in this town as the new Heroics teacher at U.A. But that's not why I'm here, I'm here to talk to you in regards to your scores for your exam. You passed the written portion but that practical portion? It was incredible. The last time I had seen moves like that was when I trained under the retired hero, Gran Torino. But especially, those last two minutes, that was a sight to behold. I saw your potential in that cyclone. No, it wasn't a big one, and it definitely wasn't something worth writing home about...but the way you did it was heroic. You risked your body giving up on you to create a wall of wind that would not only protect your fellow applicants, it would use the enemy against themselves." All Might explained as he played the video they had recorded of what Hayato had done, pointing out how the wind was knocking the debris back into the zero-pointer and into the robots around them as well as other robots into one another. "That was amazing, and all together you gained 30 villain points, and 40 rescue points!" Hayato clenched his blanket tightly, feeling tears beginning to stream down his face as well. "You passed. Now come, Young Kiryuu. This is your hero academia, and I look forward to seeing you and Young Midoriya grow into amazing heroes."

"What was that you said, you hadn't been accepted yet? Well how's that for an answer?" Hayato's grandfather smiled as he pulled his grandson in for a hug while he happily cried into his chest. "I'm so proud of you."

"I did it...we did it..." Hayato grabbed the back of his grandfather's shirt tightly feeling himself begin to cry harder as all the years of protecting Izuku and reassuring him that he would be a hero, had finally caught up to him.