Chapter 9: Ch. 9
Izuku stood in front of UA, his hands nervously, or excitedly, running up and down the straps of his backpack. He had made it! Sure, he had known for a few days, but it really hit him as he stood in front of the imposing buildings that made up UA.
He was dressed in the UA uniform, a grey blazer and navy blue pants. Izuku decided he much preferred his own suit. Not only was it much more fashionable, it was also very comfortable. He liked it, though it was more because of what it represented. His place at UA.
Izuku took a deep breath, and took his first step into the school he would be attending for the next three years of his life. The school where the greatest pro heroes had attended. Where All Might had attended! Where All Might was teaching!
As thoughts swirled in his mind, Izuku naturally grew increasingly more excited. He was practically bouncing with each step he took.
That is until he realized he had no idea where he was going. He knew he had to go to class 1A, but the school is so big that could be anywhere.
Stopping for a second, Izuku closed his eyes and focused, spreading his awareness via Mind's Eye. He always had it monitoring the area directly around him, and could effortlessly keep it up. To expand it, he had to actually focus, especially if he wanted to expand it to the size of the building he was currently in.
Taking in the information of the entire building, Izuku quickly noted that nearly every door was, to put it simply, huge. They were easily four times the height of Izuku. He supposed it made sense, as quirks that enhanced height were fairly common.
After only 10 or so seconds, he had found the classroom he was looking for, a few floors up. He sighed and began his trek through the halls towards his new classroom. He wondered how other people would find it without his convenient skill. He wasn't too worried about it though, there were already a few people in the classroom. If they could find their way there, then surely others could as well.
As he stood in front of the door, he confirmed that it was indeed over four times his height. Breathing out in an attempt to curb some of the shakiness from the excitement he was feeling, he slid the door open.
He was immediately delighted by what he saw. He would be in the same class as Kacchan.
The person he was delighted to see didn't seem all that delighted himself, though it wasn't aimed at Izuku. The well-built, blue haired guy from the exam seemed to bothering him.
"Why can't I put my legs up?!" Yelled Kacchan, eyebrow twitching in irritation at the annoying boy in front of him. It was a desk for God's sake, who cared!
"It is extremely disrespectful, not only to the school, but also to the people who made the desk." Reasoned the boy as he mechanically pushed his glasses up.
Katsuki just glared at the boy, "How does that make any fucking sense?!" He growled out.
The boy stepped back in shock, looking absolutely appalled, "Language!" He reprimanded. Izuku almost laughed at the fact that somebody tried to get Kacchan to watch his language. Luckily, he was able to suppress it into just a small snort.
It still caused the two arguing to finally notice him standing at the door. The boy wearing glasses robotically walked over to him, while Katsuki looked about ready to blow up.
"Hello, my name is Tenya Iida, and I graduated from Somei Middle School. Call me Iida, I hope we can get along in the future." Said Iida as he held out a stiffened hand towards Izuku.
"O-oh. I'm Izuku Midoriya, it's a pleasure to meet you too." Said Izuku as he shook Iida's hand. He was almost expecting to find out this boy was a robot, what with the way he carried himself. He was still slightly taken aback by the force Iida had approached him with.
"IZU!" A yell came from the middle of the room, attracting everyone's attention. Some of them even jumped a little at the sudden noise. Izuku might have as well, if he wasn't so used to it.
Katsuki Bakugou stalked to the front of the classroom, hands in his pockets the entire way. "What the HELL did you do at the test site!? I wanted you to try, not to do whatever the fuck you did!" This had everybody interested. Not that they weren't before, but now a pink-skinned girl was leaning so far off the edge her seat she seemed like she would fall off.
Izuku just chuckled and waved his hand nonchalantly, "Sorry about that Kacchan, I just wanted to do my best." he said as he averted his eyes away from the fiery gaze of the two red pupils in front of him.
"Tch, whatever. Just don't think this means you're better than me! We're equals." Declared the blonde boy as he continued staring at Izuku.
Izuku gave a full laugh this time, due to how obvious that declaration was. "Of course Kacchan, just don't think that means that I won't be the number one hero in the future." Said Izuku as he sent a determined gaze at his childhood friend.
Katsuki laughed as well, a cruel smirk marring his face as he did. "We'll just have to see." He said, before stomping back to his seat, then imperiously swinging his legs onto the desk.
"AH! You're the thousand pointer!" Yelled the pink girl as she pointed at him. She had been the one listening the closest, and therefore the only one to connect his nickname to his real name.
Whoever hadn't been watching the confrontation before was now totally paying attention, although two students looked slightly confused. One was a boy who had half of his hair coloured white, and the other half red. There was also a burn mark covering one side of his face. The other was a girl with spiky hair and… two other large, recognizable features.
They both were here on recommendation, so they hadn't seen the scoreboard, nor heard of the new record which surpassed All Might's previous one. Before either of them could ask any questions, the door opened again.
In crawled some unusual mutated, yellow caterpillar with the face of a man. At least, that's what they thought before the man stepped out of the sleeping bag. He looked like he had not slept in weeks. The only thing that clued anyone into thinking he was not homeless, was the fact that they were in UA.
"Six seconds to get silent, what a waste of time. You kids aren't rational enough." He said in a drab voice, "I'm your homeroom teacher, Shota Aizawa." He continued as he pulled something out of the sleeping bag he crawled in inside of. It was the UA tracksuit.
"Now, everyone go put one of these on and meet out in the field."
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After everyone was in the field, wearing the tracksuit, Aizawa explained what would be happening. "You each will be doing a variety of tests. This is similar to how you would test your physical abilities in middle school, throw a ball, a 50 meter dash, so on and so forth. What's different today, is that you get to use your quirk."
Aizawa stared at them as the students seemed to get pumped up from his words, the pink girl even yelled her opinion of it. "Oh, this sounds so fun!" she shouted energetically.
Aizawa scoffed, drawing everyone's attention once again, "Alright, if this sounds so fun, what do you think about the person in last being expelled? After all, we do have an extra person this year due to some… unforeseen circumstances." Stated the teacher as he looked to Izuku. A few noticed, and wondered if it had to do with the whole 'thousand points' thing. However, most were too busy freaking out at the prospect of being expelled from UA.
"Midoriya, you scored first on the exam, come up here." Said Aizawa as he pointed to a circle that had a ball within it. "Stand inside that circle, and throw the ball as far as you can in that direction. I don't care how you do it, as long as you don't leave the circle."
Everyone stared intensely at the boy who scored first in the exam. They wondered what type of quirk he had to be able to score a thousand points.
Izuku didn't touch the ball. Instead, it floated up into the air by itself. It began to move in a small circle, starting off at a relatively quick speed. Soon, it blurred into itself, causing others to see a white circle, floating in the air. Only seconds after that, it spun even faster, creating a sonic boom that was muffled by a barrier Izuku created.
It didn't take long to reach the right speed, just about 10 seconds. A series of sonic booms occurred, and Izuku released it at a point in the circle that would allow for the greatest distance.
The white ball shot off into the distance, moving at a speed that the other students couldn't even begin to follow. There was silence, as people wondered what his quirk was. Most immediately dismissed the idea of telekinesis, thinking it would be something more complicated. While it may be a powerful quirk, it is definitely not enough to score a thousand points in the entrance exam. This left many people in a dazed state of mind as they pondered over what the ability could be.
"144.381… Kilometers." Everyone's jaw dropped at the declaration. Even Aizawa's voice was tinged with a hint of astonishment.
"... I suppose that's enough for a demonstration, it's time for the real thing to begin. First is the 50 meter dash." They would go two at a time, each getting their time called out to them by the machine that times them.
First up was Iida and a girl named Tsuyu Asui. She had silky green hair, but what stood out more about her were her frog-like features. The long tongue, crouched stance, and occasional ribbit gave away the fact that her quirk made her more frog-like, at the very least.
Iida, using the engines in his legs, scored an impressive 3.04 seconds. Asui hopped to the finish line, clocking in at 5.58 seconds.
As the other students took their turns, Izuku thought about how he should go about getting the best time he could. There was the most straightforward way, simply propel himself at high speeds to the finish line. However, Izuku felt like he should make it more interesting than that. He thought of an idea he had only used a few times before.
It was something he naturally experimented with once he found out about it. It was one of his more amazing abilities, given the scope he could use it at. He just never had any particular reason to use it before, even now it is still just something extra he decided he would do.
"Midoriya and Bakugou, you two are up." Came the slightly bored voice of their homeroom teacher, snapping Izuku out of his ponderings.
As they got up to the starting line, Izuku began to prepare for his plan. He got a good grasp of the surrounding gravitational energy with his telekinesis. He waited for the signal from the teacher, his mind ready to dart through the motions needed to execute his plan.
"GO!" shouted Aizawa, eyes pinned onto Izuku, curious as to how he would handle this. He hoped it would again be something unexpected.
As the signal was heard, Izuku gathered the gravitational energy into the spot in front of him, and also at the finish line, both in the shape of circles. Connecting them was a thin strand of gravitational energy, dense enough to cause distortions to those who could perceive it. Which consisted only of Izuku.
Izuku simply stepped forward into the circle he had created, and appeared at the finish line, directly in front of the other opening. To everyone else, he simply appeared at the finish line in less than a second. To Izuku, however, it was somehow even quicker.
He had created a wormhole, a shortcut through space, and, potentially, time. It wasn't the type made for cross-planetary hopping, considering it was made with gravity, but it was the more stable alternative. The real wormholes you would hear stories about were much more complicated, and even required a type of matter that only existed directly after the creation of the universe, just to be slightly stable. Izuku didn't want to risk his life with such a shifty thing.
His wormhole created via gravitational energy copied the makeup of the generic wormhole to the greatest possible degree. It even copied, theoretically, the ability to, theoretically, travel through time. And while Izuku could have messed around with that, he'd rather not accidentally succeed in making a time machine, only for the universe to implode because of its existence.
As Izuku stepped out onto the finish line, Katsuki had just begun firing explosions. The machine at the finish line beeped out in a high pitched voice his time, "0.19 seconds." This caused everybody, who hadn't yet noticed he was at the finish line, to turn towards him in shock. Even Aizawa's brows twitched in confusion when he saw the sight.
This was mostly due to the fact that Aizawa knew what his quirk was, and couldn't understand how it had been used to teleport across the 50 meters. For everyone else, it just made his quirk all the more mysterious.
Katsuki, who noticed him standing at the finish line already, did not falter. Instead, he roared, and pushed himself to the limit, only slowing down after he had crossed the finish line himself. The machine beeped out his time, "3.87 seconds."
It's robotic voice resounded throughout the silent throng of students, the only sound being the echoes of Katsuki's explosions still ringing off somewhere in the distance.
"Damnit!" Yelled Katsuki as he finally digested the huge gap in time between he and his childhood friend.
"Midoriya, you will see me after class is over for the day, I have my own questions. I've also heard stories of a notebook." Aizawa said, confusing the students. Surely he knew what Midoriya's quirk was, and what notebook is he talking about?
Their questions wouldn't be answered, as Aizawa quickly started the next round of tests. This one was grip strength. The top scorers in this one were Izuku and a masked man with six arms whose name was Mezo Shoji. Shoji's grip strength reached an incredible 540 kilograms. Izuku, on the other hand, completely crushed the device used to test grip strength. There was also a girl who somehow created a pair of large pliers, and used them to achieve a grip strength of 456 kilograms. Izuku recalled her as Momo Yaoyorozu, someone who apparently got in with a recommendation.
The standing long jump came next, which was one of the simpler ones for Izuku. He just flew up in the air, and after Aizawa was made aware of his ability to fly for long durations, he marked down some score that everyone assumed was high. Bakugou performed well in this one, propelling himself with explosions in order to get some distance. There was also a stylish frenchman named Yuga Aoyama, who shot a laser from his belly button.
The next test, repeated side steps, was a bit harder for Izuku to excel in. He had to brace his body constantly so that he would not damage himself with the sudden change in direction. The other notable figure in this test was a small, less than four foot, student who looked to have grapes for hair. His name was Minoru Mineta, and he pulled the balls that were on his head off. After placing them down, he used them to bounce his small body back and forth.
Then it was back to the ball throw. Izuku had already done this one, so he took this chance to really observe his classmates. Some of them had barely used their quirks, or they hadn't at all. Izuku assumed that this was because their strengths lied in other areas.
There were some of them who had still used their quirks in very creative ways. For instance, Fumikage Tokoyami, a student who had the head of a bird. His quirk seemed to be some type of sentient follower made of shadow. His use of it during the long jump was very resourceful, at first letting it fling him as far as it could, then using it as a stepping stool for as long as it could last. It seemed surprisingly weak right now, and Izuku assumed it to do with the fact that it was made of shadow or something similar. The fact that they were doing the tests in broad daylight probably acted as a detriment.
Izuku noted a few impressive performances in the ball throw. Kacchan had made a large explosion, sending the ball quite far. His reached a distance of 708.4 meters. Another noteworthy display was Yaoyorozu, who again created something from nowhere. Izuku was interested in how that worked. She made a large cannon this time, which fired the ball to a distance of 783.9 meters.
The most impressive score for the ball throw was undoubtedly Uraraka's, the girl he had met briefly before the entrance exams. Her quirk erased the effects of gravity on the ball, giving her an effectively infinite score.
Izuku was ashamed of the fact that he didn't think of sending the ball into orbit himself, he could have gotten a score that good as well. He didn't dwell on it though, it was somewhat refreshing to have someone get a better score than him on one of the tests.
"Alright everyone, that's it, I'll start tallying up the scores now, head back to the classroom." said Aizawa. As they approached the classroom, he separated from them, going into a different room, presumably to score them.
Izuku could see the other students become nervous, especially the ones who didn't have quirks fit for the tests they did. In particular were Mineta, the grape-haired boy, Toru Hagakure, a girl who was invisible, and a boy with wild indigo hair. Izuku doesn't even have a single clue as to what the indigo-haired boy, Hitoshi Shinso's, quirk is.
As Aizawa came in through the door, those three in particular tensed, along with a few others. Some had no reaction whatsoever, Kacchan, Yaoyorozu, and the boy with dual hair colors, Shoto Todoroki. They were all confident they would not be expelled.
Aizawa stood in front of the classroom, and slowly pulled out the device he had scored them with. Pressing a button on it, the results they were all waiting for popped up.
In first place was Izuku, to no one's surprise. Second place surprised a few of them, in the form of Momo Yaoyorozu. In third was Katsuki Bakugou, and in fourth place was Shoto Todoroki.
While both Bakugou and Todoroki seemed dissatisfied with their placement, nobody else cared enough to notice. In fact, everybody was instead focusing their sights near the bottom of the list.
The name in 21st place was Hitoshi Shinso, and just above him was Minoru Mineta. Mineta heaved an audible sigh of relief. Shinso, on the other hand, was looking down at his seat, fists clenched tight. The previously bored expression he wore was now wiped off his face. His lip was trembling as he attempted to reign in his emotions.
Before Shinso could break down, Aizawa spoke again. "Oh yeah, about the whole expulsion thing, that was a lie. It was a logical ruse, designed to make you give your best effort."
"I would like to welcome you all to the beginning of your learning experience to becoming a hero."
Aizawa's voice may have had just a touch of enthusiasm in it.
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