Chapter VI- Logical Ruse
It had been two weeks since the entrance exam and almost a year since he cleaned Dagobah beach. And now that he had nothing to do, Izuku sat on his chair with his legs crossed binge-watching old pre-quirk era shows like Stranger Things and The Witcher when he heard his mother call his name.
"IZUKU, IT'S HERE!"
Lazily turning his head and letting out a tired yawn was all he could muster in response.
"Izuku, your letter is here!" he heard his mother call from the front door. Shooting up, he looked over the couch to see her walking toward him with the letter in hand.
"Your acceptance letter. It's here." She said flashing him a grin.
Collecting the letter, Izuku took a moment to stare at it and while some people may have been nervous to open the letter, it wasn't Izuku as the number of robots he had destroyed was more than enough to get him in and he was pretty sure he did well on the written test. To him opening the letter was a formality as he knew that he had passed the damn thing with flying colours.
"I AM HERE! As a projection!"
Putting the disk and letter down on the coffee table in front of him, he was taken by surprise when a holographic projection of none other than All Might appeared from the disk.
"Young Midoriya, I would be the one announcing the results and I would say, you did pretty well on the written portion scoring ninety-seven percent, and while that would have been more than enough to get you a spot in the general education department, it doesn't end there! In the practical, you broke the record set by me scoring a total of 212 villain points!
"Damn, I went overboard," was all Izuku could mutter comically.
"While that alone is more than enough to get you in the heroics course and put you In the first place what kind of people would we be if we ignored a true hero in the making?" All Might said leaning towards the camera with his smile ever present on his face and the video continued before Izuku could question any further. "We were also looking for a true judge of character! People who would show the markings of a true hero on instinct and that is why we have rescue points and you Izuku Midoriya have earned 45 rescue points!"
The camera then cuts to the times during the entrance exam when he saved fellow candidates from being crushed or just helping them in general.
"With a total of 257 points, I am here to inform you that you have passed the exam with a comfortable first place. It would be my pleasure to inform you; welcome to YOUR hero academia, Young Midoriya!"
The camera then cut again and showed the rankings with Izuku in first with 212 villain points and 45 rescue points and Yui Kodai second with 50 villain points and 50 rescue points Katsuki Bakugo third with 77 villain points and 0 rescue points Ibara Shiozaki in fourth with 38 villain points and 32 rescue points and Itsuka Kendo in fifth with 45 villain points and 22 rescue points but one name stood out to him. Ochaco Uraraka was in ninth place with 30 villain points and 22 rescue points.
'So she passed huh… '
With that, the projection ended and Izuku could not help the small smirk that his mouth had twisted into, and looking back he saw his mother looking at the table with a neutral expression.
"Congratulations," was all she said before walking out like she knew Izuku was going to pass.
"I wonder if Momo passed…" was all Izuku could think and on instinct, he reached for his phone but decided to call her later instead putting the phone in his pocket before grabbing his green hoodie on the rack close to the entrance of the house and putting it on, he decided to go to the arcade and play some games as a form of celebration.
"Mom, I'm going to the arcade!" he told his Mom as he did not want her to worry about where he was.
"Ok, but come back before dinner I'm making Katsudon!" came his mother's reply.
Not replying but getting her message, he grabbed his shoes before sliding the door open and going out.
(X)
Bakugo was having a good day. He had dominated the exam and aced the written test showing the fucking extras their place. He remembered the thrill, the adrenaline that pumped through his veins as he blasted those robots to fucking bits.
He was the godamn best and nothing would ever change that fucking fact so when his old hag called him to see his entrance exam results he walked down the stairs with a certain swagger as he went to open the formality as he already knew he had passed the fucking exam. The fucking exam was his first to surpass All Might and being the greatest hero this godamn world has ever seen.
So, when the letter from U. A. finally came in the mail, he knew it was simply a formality. He destroyed the most robots in his zone, and the written test was a piece of cake. The envelope contained a disk and a formal letter, so he pressed play on the disk, and a holographic projection of All Might appeared. Now, he was stoked. All Might himself was telling him how well he did. It was the first step on his path to surpassing All Might, and no one would stop him.
"With a total of 77 points, I am here to inform you that you have passed the exam with third place in the rankings. It would be my pleasure to inform you; welcome to YOUR hero academia, Young Bakugo!"
Now, Bakugo was appalled as the words third place constantly rang in his mind and he didn't even register when the audio went off and decided to do the most sensible thing and restart the recording and forwarded it to the rankings where he heard All Might tell him he got THIRD place. No, he did NOT trash those robots and annihilate the competition just to come in 3rd, right?
The projection shut off again and Bakugo's mind was stuck in the simple almost alien detail of him getting THIRD place, not second place not first place, THIRD.
He grabbed the disk again and for the third time restarted and fast-forwarded it to see the rankings and who in fucks name stole his spotlight and the name atop the rankings with 257 points was none other than Izuku Midoriya and second was Yui Kodai with 100 points.
Bakugo destroyed the disk with an explosion-powered punch before tossing the smoking pieces away. Now he was beyond pissed. A girl and Deku of all people had outclassed HIM. The future number-one hero. Hell no, this would not stand.
He remembered vaguely that Kodai and he went to the same elementary and middle school but he never took notice of her in middle school thanks to her anti-social personality. And Deku, that fucking bozo had even while quirkless exuded confidence that rivaled fucking All Might, and his old hag constantly warned him not to get on Deku's bad side but when he disobeyed his old hag, Deku manifested his quirk and then promptly dropped off the face of the earth for 11 years. He remembered the scolding his old hag and even his old man gave him for trying to teach a quirkless fucker his godamn place and then the fucker finally showed up after eleven years and he stole HIS spotlight.
"DEKU I AM THE FUTURE NUMBER ONE YOU HEAR ME MOTHERFUCKER, WHEN I SEE YOU I'LL MURDER YOU! ENJOY YOUR FUCKING VICTORY WHILE YOU STILL CAN 'CUZ' SOON, I WILL PUT YOU IN YOUR FUCKING PLACE. YOU HEAR ME YOU SHITTY, FUCKING DEKU!" Bakugo ranted with an insane gleam in his eyes.
"What are you screaming up there brat? Did you fail the exam? Mistuki's voice rang from downstairs.
"Fuck no," Came Bakugo's simple reply.
"LANGUAGE! And why the hell are screaming if you didn't fail?"
"NONE OF YOUR GODDAMN BUSINESS YOU SHITTY OLD HAG!"
The only thing Katsuki heard after that was his mother's footsteps before she barged inside his room with a pissed-off expression written all over her face.
Fuck, he should have closed his door.
(X)
Izuku was walking home from the arcade when suddenly his phone started ringing he picked up the call and Momo's excited voice was all he could hear.
"Izuku, I got in!"
"Congrats, Momo!" Izuku replied cheerfully.
"Did you get in?"
Izuku smirked and said, "Of course! Did you even doubt for a moment that I wouldn't get in?"
"Uh, of course. Who am I even asking? But congratulations on scoring the highest Entrance Examination Points."
Izuku laughed but then a realization struck him "How did you know I scored the highest?"
"It's kind of hard not to hear those kinds of rumors Izuku. It's what everyone is talking about."
"Damn, I went overboard with it. I planned to score at least a hundred points initially but I decided to add an extra seventy points and I guess I lost track." The lack of reply made Izuku wonder what she was thinking about.
"Anyway, wanna go for a cup of coffee?"
"Tomorrow perhaps, I would be busy today as my mom is hosting some relatives from overseas."
"Sure I'll text you the place,"
(X)
Three months later….
Izuku stood in the mirror as he did some last-minute preparations. He checked to see if he had taken everything or not. Once done, he walked to the mirror to check himself over.
He had grown two inches in the last three months, making him 180 cm (5'11) tall. And he still had more years to grow. If his height increased at this rate, by the end of his 18th birthday, he would stand at least 195 cm (6'5), and although he wasn't as tall as his mother who stood at a towering 185 cm (6'1) his current height was still well above average.
U.A. had sent their uniform a week ago through the parcel. It was a gray jacket with blue-green stripes and dark turquoise trimmings over a white long-sleeved shirt, dark blue pants, and a red tie.
Izuku looked at himself again in the mirror. He had gotten a new haircut and tamed his wild hair allowing it to fall to the base of his neck and he wore the U. A uniform although the pants were adjusted to be slim fit and the red tie was knotted properly around his neck complete with a casual black lace-up sneakers. Instead of wearing his usual glasses, he wore a black blindfold over his eyes which propped up his hair giving it a spiky appearance easily adding another two inches to his height.
He then walked to the front door, where he saw his mother standing.
"The uniform really suits you Izuku,"
"Thanks, but I think we should be going now," Izuku replied trying his best not to sound exasperated.
"Sure thing! Just lemme grab my keys."
(X)
Izuku walked through the halls of U. A with practiced ease to find his classroom class 1-A with his hands in his pockets and his sling backpack hung over his shoulders.
Momo had called him and told him that she had gotten to school less than an hour ago and Izuku was sure he could make it at least ten minutes before homeroom started.
Good thing he knew the way around because this place was a fucking maze.
Getting to the class 1-A he saw how large the door was and all he could do was marvel at how U.A. didn't play around in architecture even though the school was too big.
"Damn, U. A. has a lot of money. Wonder if they built it for people with mutant quirks?"
Deciding not to stand around any further, he opened the door and saw people chattering around including some familiar people.
"Take your legs off this desk this instant! It is unbecoming of us freshmen to vandalize the desk our predecessors have sat on!" lida ranted on to Bakugo who seemed pissed off while continuously karate-chopping his arms.
Izuku felt exhausted already. He could only hope the rest of his classmates weren't like those two.
"And who the fuck do you think you are you damn extra? I'll blow your ass to kingdom come!"
With a resigned sigh, he stepped into the just about half-full classroom, tuning out the argument between them and scanning the room. His eyes immediately landed on a yellow sleeping bag behind the podium in the front of the classroom, and the face of a scraggly, dark-haired man poked out of it. They stared at each other for a few seconds before Izuku shrugged and walked away toward his seat. He recognized the man as Eraserhead but frankly hadn't done much research on him other than to satisfy his curiosity.
Going to his assigned seat which was behind a white and red-haired boy, Izuku sat down before seeing Momo behind him without turning his back. Turning back he saw her smile and give a small wave of acknowledgment. The multi-colored-haired boy turned back before greeting him in a monotone voice.
"Midoriya," he said and his neutral face made it hard to tell what he was thinking.
"Oh hey Shoto you passed! But to be honest I didn't expect to see you in class 1-A,"
"How were the exams?" Izuku inquired curiously.
"It was fine," Was Todoroki's neutral response.
Having nothing else to say Todoroki simply turned around to mind his own business.
"Deku…" a low growl from Bakugo pulled him out of his thoughts.
Slowly meeting the intense, piercing red eyes of the blonde filled with barely restrained indignation, Izuku was at a complete loss for what to say to him. Their last meeting hadn't been stellar, and it had been more than a decade since then. He had no idea if Bakugo had changed or if he still hated his guts and wanted to kill him or maybe he was just a misguided tsundere the entire time who just couldn't properly express his feelings.
Regardless, Izuku made a mental note to avoid him.
Before Bakugo could say anything, someone dashed in front of him while chopping his hands.
"Midoriya! I must apologize for my behavior at the entrance exam," he solemnly began. "It was unbecoming of a future hero to cast judgment upon you before even speaking to you. You figured out the rescue points better than I ever could."
"I was very impressed by your record-breaking achievement at the Entrance Exams, Midoriya," Iida stated and Izuku could only groan in response aggravating a certain as ash blonde.
"It's him, the Record Holder." A red-haired teen spoke as he recognized Izuku's name.
"Tch." Bakugo scowled at Izuku from across the classroom. All of the others. students in the classroom, the majority based on the fact that only a few seats were empty, looked towards him at the same time. "Uh…hi?" Izuku greeted the class as a whole. He wasn't used to having so much attention on him all at once.
"So he's the guy that scored even more than All Might?" A boy with a literal bird head said to a blonde guy with a black, lightning bolt-like, streak in his hair. "No way, are you for real?" The blonde replied; looking between Izuku and the redhead.
"I heard the old Record was like 161 or something. And thanks for saving me during the exam by the way," A purple-haired girl mentioned as she looked over at Izuku.
"I saw the list for the Entrance Exam, he got 257 on it. Kero." A vedette girl with long hair and large eyes commented.
"That's crazy." A short boy with purple balls on his head piped up.
"The name's Ejirou Kirishima! You were so manly in the entrance exam!" Kirishima said thankfully saving Izuku from more questions.
"Um… Thanks, Kirishima-san,"
"No need for formalities! After all, we're going to be in the same class," The now named Kirishima spoke boisterously.
"lida-san it's nice to see you here!" Momo said cheerfully noticing her former classmate while waving her hands.
"Ah, likewise Yayoyorzu-san!" lida replied happily before doing a perfect 90-degree bow.
"You two know each other?" Todoroki questioned while raising an eyebrow.
"We're from the same middle school,"
"Somei right?" Todoroki asked but before Momo could reply, Bakugo decided to chime in.
"Somei? No wonder four-eyes over there thinks he can tell me what to do, just because you attended some shitty school for rich kids you think you're a fucking elitist? I'll blow you to bits!"
"Such uncouth language. Do you really wish to become a hero?" lida asked appalled by the foul words coming out of this aspiring pro hero's mouth.
"You'll get used to it lida-san," Momo said casually with a hand wave trying to console lida who was now looking like a gaping fish.
"Shut it Big-tits!"
"Why, you–"
While Momo was having a glaring contest with Bakugo Izuku and Todoroki simply minded their own business like they'd seen what was going on here before.
All the chattering students had by now stopped to look around and see who was shouting cuss words at the top of their voice.
Izuku could now feel the whole class's attention directed towards them and it was just the first day. Way to go.
"It's just the first day and you kids have already found ways to make me lose sleep." A tired voice came from the sleeping bag on the floor it opened revealing a shaggy-haired man who was sipping a juice pouch looking like a small gust of wind would knock him over.
The attention of the entire classroom snapped to the front where a yellow sleeping bag was lying abandoned on the floor and Aizawa stood before them with a flat, unimpressed glare. Everyone who wasn't already in their seat quickly rushed to it, and they all silently waited for their homeroom to begin.
"It took you all 8 seconds to get yourselves in order. Such a lengthy waste of time could cost lives in the field. I expect it to improve," he plainly stated, his glare never wavering as he reached behind the podium and pulled out a blue P.E. uniform. "I'm your homeroom teacher, Shota Aizawa. Put these on and follow me to the P.E. fields."
(X)
"The Department of Education mandates that students not use their quirks when conducting fitness tests in middle school," Aizawa began in his signature straightforward manner. "It's the height of irrationality. It gives the impression that everyone is equal when that just isn't the case, for better or for worse. Today, we'll be conducting a quirk apprehension test."
Murmurs broke out among the students before an orange-haired girl raised her hands.
"Yes, what is it?" Aizawa asked in his usual bored tone.
"Umm sir, what about orientation and–"
Kendo questioned but she was cut off by Aizawa with a simple hand wave.
"U.A. isn't like your traditional school in a lot of aspects and one of those aspects gives teachers leeway to handle their classes and students however they see fit. Heroes don't have time for inconsequential things like orientation," He answered before shifting his attention to Izuku.
"Midoriya, you ranked first in the entrance exam. How far could you throw in middle school?" He said ignoring or not noticing Bakugo cringe at the mention of Izuku's name in the first place.
"500 meters, give or take,"
"Without your quirk,"
"As I said, 500 meters,"
"500 meters?!" The whole class, besides Iida and Momo, exclaimed in fascination. To think that someone could throw that far without even using their quirk. Some even had a look of smug disbelief plastered on their faces.
Aizawa with an expearsarated look pointed at the circle. "Right. Walk up to the circle and throw this ball." The Pro-Hero threw a ball at Izuku, which stopped a few inches away from him.
Taking the ball, he examined it before walking inside the circle reinforcing the ball with cursed energy, he took a pitcher's stance before throwing it as hard as he could but a second away from throwing it, the energy covering his hands flashed black and he threw as hard as he could kicking up dust in the process.
In less than a second, the ball had broken the sound barrier and disappeared from view.
Aizawa held up the machine in his hands and a few seconds later the machine beeped and for a brief blink it and miss it moment his eyes widened showing surprise before settling back into his tired and bored look.
The distance calculator showed 2509.79 meters.
"Three kilometers?!" Bakugo exclaimed in disbelief. "How the hell did you do that!?"
Aizawa ignored Bakugo and said, "This is what you are capable of achieving when you use your quirk. Midoriya's score increased multiple times. You all will be going through these simple tests with your quirks."
"Whoa!" A pink-skinned girl exclaimed joyfully. "We will be able to use our quirks!? This is going to be fun!"
Aizawa's eyes narrowed dangerously as he stared at the girl. "Fun, you say?" Aizawa questioned with the word fun rolling off his tongue like it was an alien word.
"Don't tell me you were planning on having 'fun' for three years here at U. A. You know let's make this more 'fun'. Whoever comes in last," he said flashing his signature grin, "Would be deemed to have no potential and would be expelled."
"That's not fair! We just got here, and you're threatening to expel one of us on the first day?!" Ochako indignantly cried out.
"Fair?" Aizawa scoffed. "Are natural disasters fair? Villain attacks on civilians? Targeting a hero's family or catching them specifically on their day off, is that fair?" There's nothing fair about life or heroics. Take it or leave it."
Okay, Aizawa made some pretty decent points as being a hero wasn't all shits and giggles. Some consequences and risks came with the job.
Taking a look at his classmates, Izuku saw Momo and Todoroki looking indifferent while Ochaco and lida had hardened their resolve.
The first test was a 50-meter dash. Iida was called up to begin alongside a girl with what appeared to be a frog mutation quirk. He would be lying if he said he wasn't excited to see his classmates' quirks in action. But seeing him practically become a blur across the 50-meter track to finish in only 2.45 seconds was incredible to Izuku. Asui wasn't far behind, coming in at 4.58 seconds.
Izuku watched with interest as he saw his classmates use creative ways to complete the fifty-meter dash. Ochaco lightened her clothes and completed the dash in under seven seconds while a fawn-haired girl who ran alongside Ochaco completed the race in five seconds. He watched as a blonde-haired boy propelled himself with his navel lasers across the track.
"Bakugo, Midoriya your turn," Aizawa called out to them.
Izuku walked to the track and began stretching and Bakugo walked next to him glaring and readying his palms behind him.
"You think you're so cool huh, Deku?" Bakugo snarled. "Just watch as I crush this test and put you and the rest of these fucking extras in your godamn place!"
"Sure, whatever you say," Izuku replied not even bothering to hide the irritation and indifference in his voice.
Izuku's response only served to infuriate the explosive blonde further but he didn't retort deciding to let actions speak louder than words.
The moment the signal went off, Izuku used blue for short-range instantaneous movement and dashed to the end of the track and when he stopped he turned and saw Bakugo lagging behind him before the boy finally used his explosions to make it to the end of the track.
Midoriya 0.58 seconds. Bakugo 4.13 seconds.
Shock-filled cries erupted from his classmates as the machine declared the time. Bakugo's eyes widened in shock as Izuku walked back to his friends while smirking at their shocked faces. The only people who weren't shocked or showed indifference were Momo and Todoroki.
"Holy shit! That was like totes fast I didn't see anything what's your quirk pretty boy?" The fawn-haired girl who had competed with Uraraka came up to him to ask.
"Space manipulation, what's your name by the way pretty girl?" Izuku replied smirking.
"Utsushimi Camie," She said with a tint of red on her face at being called pretty.
"Izuku Midoriya," Izuku said deciding to introduce himself.
"Your eyes, why'd you cover them?" Camie asked her tone laced with curiosity.
"I have enhanced eyesight and leaving them uncovered is kind of a pain," Izuku said pointing towards his eyes.
"That's, like, totes amazing!" The fawn-haired girl exclaimed her eyes wide and a smile on her face.
"Thanks, I guess?" Izuku said confused by her over-the-top accent as well as her complimenting his quirk's drawback.
"So what can you do with your quirk? Is it like the prison hero: Space Lock or is it like Rock Lock or–" She asked back-to-back questions with never-ending curiosity.
Izuku turned just in time to see Todoroki and Yayoyorzu about to take the 50-meter dash. Yayoyourzu created skates with her quirk which she used to cruise the track in 4.40 seconds while Todoroki used his ice to slide across a second before her at 3.37 seconds.
Izuku shrugged at Camie's question before deciding to answer. "My quirk allows me to manipulate space for a variety of effects. I can use it to stop, attract, fly, and levitate. Well, you get the point."
"Wow, that's so lit!" Camie replied with literal stars in her eyes. "Your quirk is like totes cooler than mine!"
If Izuku noticed her over-the-top teenage accent, he didn't comment on it. "What's your quirk anyway?"
"It's called Glamour. I can like use it to create images of things that aren't actually there,"
"Like illusions?"
"Yep, like illusions."
"Wait, are you related to the pro hero Mystic?"
"That obvious, huh? She's my elder sister," Camie said while her face looked like she was lost in her thoughts.
"Wow, your quirk is cool no matter what anyone says Utsushimi-san, Don't sell yourself short as your quirk while not overly flashy or combat-oriented is pretty useful with stealth missions and with the right application could be a pretty deadly quirk."
"Thanks, Midoriya," Camie replied now smiling.
"Please, just call me Camie no need to be so formal greenie."
"Grennie?"
"You know your hair's like totes the right shade of green and it's spiked up like a paintbrush." She said snickering with her hands over her mouth.
"As interesting as Midoriya's Quirk is, we have tests to finish," Aizawa spoke up and the two students snapped to attention. Izuku watched on, trying to commit Quirks to memory as the rest of the class finished their Fifty Meter dash.
"Call me Izuku then," Izuku said walking away while giving her a thumbs up.
(X)
The next event was grip strength.
On a raw strength basis, the most impressive was Mezo Shoji, who scored about 540 Kg.
Momo once again demonstrated her quirk's versatility and creativity by designing a pair of gloves with hydraulic pistons attached to them. It had increased her grip strength, allowing her to score 300 Kg.
Next was Kendo, who increased the size of her fists and scored an impressive 350 Kg. Ochaco and Jirou had not performed well in grip strength, with Ochaco scoring 50 Kg and Jirou scoring 45 Kg. Iida had somehow scored 100 kg, which was impressive in itself. Camie had trained for someone whose quirk wasn't strength-oriented scoring an impressive 79 kg.
When Izuku's turn came, he applied Blue around the device's grip to constrict its space before crushing it completely.
The device beeped loudly and displayed "999 Kg".
Once again, the entire class was shocked by the result. How could someone's quirk be that powerful?
(X)
The next few events went by with Izuku dominating nearly the whole test much to the chagrin of Bakugo.
During the endurance run, Izuku came in first using infinity to fly out running everyone by at least an hour, Momo created an electric scooter and came in second while Todoroki came in third sliding on his ice and Bakugo came in a close fourth propelling himself with his explosions. The frog-like girl had out-performed Kendo, Ochaco, and Camie.
During the long jump, Izuku was fascinated as he watched Ochaco make herself weightless and cross the sandpit in one jump. Another one was the blonde-haired boy who used his navel lasers to propel himself across the pit and the frog girl crossed the sand pit in one leap. When Izuku's turn came, he simply used his quirk to fly across the sand pit.
The next event was repeated side steps, his years of dodge training helped immensely in the repeated side steps, trauma notwithstanding, the short boy with balls for hair was the undisputed leader in that event by using his quirk as trampolines to bounce between. The ball throw was next, and Izuku was allowed to sit back as he had performed the event before and watch the others take it.
There were only a few standouts: Bakugo unleashed a massive explosion while yelling "DIE!" and was promptly seething that his impressive score of 705.2 meters was less than his score. He watched as Yayoyorzu pulled an entire cannon from her midsection and launched the ball with it.
Then, there was Ochaco, who just negated the gravity of the ball and tossed it into orbit. Everyone was shocked as the teacher gave her a score of infinity.
The only tests that Izuku couldn't use his quirk were the repeated side steps, sitting toe touch, and sit-ups as he couldn't figure out how to incorporate his quirk in those tests although he did get a high score.
(X)
Displaying all of the individual scores would be a waste of time, so here are the cumulative rankings," Aizawa drawled and displayed a holographic list from the device he used to measure their scores.
Izuku checked the list and was unsurprising, his name was in first place with Yayoyorzu in second, Todoroki in third, and Bakugo in fourth. Izuku looked further down and saw the name Minoru Mineta in 20th place. The horrified look on the diminutive boy's face said it all and Izuku couldn't help but feel a little pity at the boy's fate. Passing the entrance exam and entering your dream school only to end up expelled on the first day.
'Fourth? FUCKING FOURTH?! Forget first place, I didn't even get second?! FUCKING DEKU BEAT ME AGAIN!?' The explosive teen was boiling mad.
"DEKU!" Izuku looked to his right and saw Bakugo charging towards him like a rabid dog with his palms readied to blast Izuku to kingdom come. But upon getting towards Izuku, Bakgo slammed into an invisible wall.
Raising his arms, he tried to blast Izuku but nothing came out, and then what looked like a rope came out of nowhere and wrapped around the snarling Bakugo. Managing to turn his head around he saw Aizawa looking at him with a pissed-off expression and his hair was raised with his eyes signaling he was using his quirk.
"It would do you well to quiet down Bakugo. You have a good quirk but I wouldn't lose any sleep over expelling someone like you." Aizawa reprimanded him in a very stern tone before releasing him and restoring his quirk.
Thankfully, Bakugo was sensible enough not to try and attack Izuku as it would put a permanent black mark on his record but he silently seethed on how Izuku made him look like a fool in front of the extras.
'What a prick…' Izuku thought as Bakugo looked at him like he wanted to kill him. Well, there went the misguided tsundere theory.
"By the way….. I lied, no one is getting expelled today." Aizawa said smirking at their shocked faces.
"It was just a ruse to get you all to be on your toes and try your best. You're all safe…. For now," Aizawa drawled out returning to his usual bored face.
The class immediately deflated, the tension leaving them and a few of the more social teens perked back up to talk amongst each other.
Momo couldn't help the tiny little scoff that escaped from her, "Well of course it was. It should have been obvious if you just thought it through…" She mumbled to herself, "Maybe I should have said something?" She mused to herself.
'No… you're wrong there, Momo'. Izuku knew something was amiss. This is the same man who had expelled his students in two weeks claiming they had no potential. What makes them so different?
"Aizawa-sensei, you've expelled over a hundred and fifty students in your time working here including the last semester who you expelled in under two weeks claiming they had no potential. What makes us different!? We're heroes in training and we can handle the truth Sensei!"
"Izuku, what are you doing?" Momo couldn't help but ask but she was ignored.
Aizawa stared at him but Izuku didn't flinch. Finally, Aizawa closed his eyes and flashed a smile, "Alright then, Midoriya. Have it your way." He opened his eyes and glared at Mineta and said student flinched and stiffened up in terror, "I was NOT lying about someone being expelled. In my time here, I've expelled a hundred and fifty-four students. Last semester I expelled my entire class in just under two weeks."
Momo's eyes went wide in terror and she took a half step back, covering her lips with her hand, "Understand this, the only reason none of you are going home today is because I see potential in all of you. If I thought you had no prospects at all, I would have cut you loose immediately. There is nothing crueler than letting someone chase around a half-baked dream." The entire class was shivering under his words, which doubled when he addressed them all, "And that goes for each and every one of you. If I feel you're slacking off and not being serious about your position here, I would kick you out so fast it would have your head spinning."
He stared all of them down, and they all trembled before him, "Any other questions?"
"No, Sensei!" All the students replied terrified at what they heard.
"Good, you're dismissed." With that said he turned around and the students left.
"I- I thought I had it figured out. I was so sure," Momo mumbled in a downcast tone to Izuku.
"It's okay Momo. This man is an underground hero and if not for the fact my mother works here and tells me about him I wouldn't have figured it out either,"
Several people had lost feeling in their legs and slumped to the floor, hearts racing and adrenaline pumping. Except for a few who weren't affected by the speech left quickly, making it a much-subdued group that finally made it back to 1-A.
Chapter VII- Reunion and Revelations
After the quirk apprehension test, Aizawa walked calmly back to class with his hands in his pockets when he spotted All Might in all his grandeur staring down at him with his blinding smile ever present on his face.
"Hello, Eraserhead!" All Might said while waving his hands awkwardly.
"Did any of the kids catch your interest?" Aizawa drawled out in his usual bored tone.
"Eh, What do you mean?" All Might asked confused by Aizawa's question.
"You know, I wonder how you got your spot as the number one hero if you're that terrible in stealth." Aizawa mused aloud although to whom was unclear.
"How did you know?" All Might asked surprised that Aizawa could figure out that easily he was spying on the kids.
"It wasn't hard. I wonder why none of the kids called you out or noticed you were spying on them. Why you were even spying on us is none of my business just answer the question I asked in the beginning."
"Well, all of the kids caught my interest in their way with their unique abilities!"
"But seriously that was quite the stunt you pulled. Threatening to expel kids on their first day?"
"If you had paid attention to what I said you'd know that It wasn't a threat," Aizawa said turning away from All Might.
He then turned back and said, "You're hosting the orientations along with Nezu later today so if I were you I'd use my time more rationally."
He then walked away leaving All Might alone in the hallway. All Might clutched the place where his wound was reminding himself of his time limit now.
That was one of the reasons he spied on class 1-A. To gauge their quirk and abilities and to see if any of them was worthy to inherit one for all but there was a voice in the back of his mind telling him to do otherwise.
'All for one is dead so I should probably let one for all die with me.'
He then walked away with a slightly downcast face while thinking: 'What would master think of me now.'
(X)
The next day was a return to the usual school schedule that Izuku didn't miss very much and since U. A. was a school that combined high school, university, and hero training curriculum in synchrony it made everything twice as difficult. No wonder U.A. had such a low acceptance rate but he agreed that having pro heroes for teachers was certainly cool, though, and he didn't think that the novelty of that would wear off anytime soon.
But now, was his favorite class of the day; Foundational or practical heroics class. And it was being taught by All Might himself not that any of his classmates knew. Izuku wondered what it would be like being taught by All Might himself.
All Might was employed 11 years ago shortly before he disappeared from the spotlight for an extended period and the hero commission claimed that All Might was busy on vacation learning 'teaching experience'. All Might's presence alone boosted U.A. applicants every year by a considerable margin and even after his return to the spotlight he spent less and less time fighting crime with the excuse of 'training the next generation' but All Might never spent time at U.A. talk less of teaching despite being employed for 11 years. Which meant he had the barest minimum of teaching experience.
Izuku nearly face-palmed himself for not deducing this simple fact earlier and suddenly he found himself less enthusiastic for his next class but before he could go down that rabbit hole All Might made himself known through his boisterous aura.
"I AM HERE! WALKING THROUGH THE DOOR LIKE A NORMAL PERSON!"
"Holy crap,"
"Is that his silver-age costume?"
"That's not how a normal person walks through a door, kero," Asui ever the blunt one interjected.
All Might who heard Asui's statement rephrased himself saying, "I AM HERE! WALKING THROUGH THE DOOR LIKE A WEIRD PERSON!" Earning a chuckle from the class.
"Alright, young zygotes are you ready for hero training? Please change into your costumes in the locker room and meet me on the ground beta!"
(X)
Izuku stood in the locker room and pressed a button button on a wall, and a panel in the wall opened to show a case containing his costume. He grabbed the case containing his costume, he began preparing to change for his first practical lesson in heroics.
Izuku sat on a bench and stared down at the unopened case holding his costume. When he first drew up a design at the age of 4, it was heavily inspired by All Might. It even included a cowl with two long appendages that were supposed to be reminiscent of All Might's two signature locks of hair. As he grew and his hero worship of All Might slowly diminished into something less fanatical, he revisited and completely reworked the costume idea.
What came out as a result was a black zip-up jacket with a fairly wide high collar along with slim-fit matching black pants, black combat boots along a black blindfold.
When Izuku awakened his quirk, over time many of his old habits started to disappear. His stuttering, his use of his hero analysis notebooks and his muttering all disappeared although his muttering still happened in his mind. A characteristic he shared with his mother who tended to go off on what she called mental muttering. And thanks to his six eyes he no longer saw the use of writing about useful quirks in a notebook when he could decipher them with a simple glance and since his quirk offered him the ultimate defensive and offensive power he became less creative for flashy costumes instead opting for stealth.
After getting dressed into his costume, he started to make his way toward Ground Beta, noticing someone begin to walk in step with him.
"Ya know, I was expecting a bit more creativity from the record breaker," A blonde person with a lightning streak on his hair playfully commented. He was Kaminari he believed if he wasn't mistaken.
From behind his blindfold Izuku's eyes twitched at the mention of the record breaker before responding, "My quirk provides enough protection. Adding any other thing would only be overkill."
"Nice costume by the way," Izuku said half-heartedly referring to his simple costume of a plain white T-shirt, black joggers, and a jacket with white outlines resembling lightning bolts.
"This? It's as plain as they come," Kaminari said lazily referring to his costume.
"Nice costume! Though I was expecting a bit more color," Ochaco chirped behind him.
"Thanks and I can see the space motif you were going for,"
Ochaco beamed at the recognition, and then her smile faltered a bit. "I'm glad you noticed! I wanted something a little more puffy, though, sorta like Thirteen's suit. This one's a little skin tight."
Momo then walked behind him and her costume was on full display. It was a red skintight zip-up bodysuit with a yellow utility belt futuristic white combat boots and forearm bracelets.
"I must say, Izuku, you choose practicality over impact, seems like a truly wise decision. I wish I would have thought the same. Although it is a nice costume! But I thought you'd be going for something like your mother's costume." Momo said walking beside him while eyeing him playfully.
"Well, My mother's costume isn't my type. I dunno why she even included the gauntlets and speaking of gauntlets," Izuku said pointing towards Momo's bracelets, "What exactly are those for?"
'Costume, Aunty Inko is a fucking pro?' Was the thought of Bakugo who happened to have overheard their conversation.
"Oh, these? These are just a digitalized version of my Yaoyrictionary." Momo said smiling like a kid showing off their toy.
"Yaoyrictionary? Isn't that the chemistry notebook for your formulas?"
"Yes, and this digitalized version allows me access to the internet, gives me molecular formula of things I don't know." Momo said rambling on about her 'digitalized Yaoyrictionary.'
All Might cut into their radically different rumination by explaining what their first class would be: a battle trial. He explained (with the help of cue cards) that the class would be divided into teams of two. The teams would face off against each other in a mock scenario where one team played the role of villains holding a large bomb within a building, and the other team would play the role of heroes attempting to thwart them.
After his explanation, some people decided to voice their complaints.
"Is it truly alright to decide at random? Wouldn't it have been better to just have us form pairs?" lida asked intensely while raising his hands.
Izuku answered before the hero could.
"It is to simulate a real-life situation. Heroes often don't get to choose who their partners are when disaster strikes. This is to teach us to plan on the fly and to think how we can combine our powers." All Might looked impressed as did some of Izuku's classmates.
He then held out a box for them to draw lots for what team they'd be a part of, and Izuku found himself on Team J. He looked to Ochaco, but she, unfortunately, was on Team C and Momo was on Team D. He looked around for his partner as the class started to group up and he saw Kendo (if he wasn't mistaken) walking up to him with a friendly smile.
"You're on Team J right?" Izuku inquired with a raised eyebrow behind his blindfold.
"Yup! Guess we're partners for today," Kendo said excitedly.
Izuku blinked, and then he returned the smile she was sending him. "I guess we are."
Kendo's costume was a loose long-sleeved bodysuit with a knee-length sleeveless turquoise qipao worn over the black bodysuit and over the qipao she wore a loose brown utility belt around her waist with a thin black domino mask with goggles around her eyes, and white navy blue boots with wide vamps that reach down to her toes, filled in with white slips and black fingerless gloves.
Overall, it was a very well-thought-out costume.
"Now, for the first group," All Might bellowed as he reached into a box with labeled slips of paper, "the hero team will be Team J!"
"Well then, we have to go first," Kendo said while Izuku focused his eyes on the box in All Might's hands.
"And the villain team will be Team B!"
Izuku looked around for any team to perk up in acknowledgment, and his eyes landed on the feral grin of Bakugo and the indecipherable stare of lida from behind his mask directed back at him.
"The fuck…" Was the only thing Izuku could mutter at that moment.
(X)
Inko walked to Nezu's office for a short meeting. She was on her break and as much as she wanted to sit in the teacher's lounge and pretend not to know about Midnight fawning over her or listening in on student's conversations she had important things to discuss with Nezu and the fact that he didn't text her the details or discuss it over the phone proved it was very important.
After purposely delaying for about ten minutes, she decided to go to his office and upon getting to Nezu's office, she was about to knock on the door before she heard an enthusiastic "Come in!" From inside.
She opened the door and saw Nezu sitting down arranging some paperwork before deciding to put a paper weight on it.
"Mikumo! I'm glad you could make it and right on time too," Nezu said with his trademark smile.
"You were expecting me now?" Inko couldn't even mask her surprise.
"Well, your break would be the best time to see me so…" He paused letting Inko piece it together. "Anyway, please have a seat." He said pointing to the seat across his table.
"Before we begin would you like anything?" Nezu says cheerfully, in his paws, he's holding a teapot, "Tea?"
"Sure, give me four tablespoons of sugar." Inko drawled out as she sat on the chair. Nezu dumps in four cubes of sugar before handing it over to her.
"That's quite a lot of sugar," Nezu remarked while Inko took a sip from her tea.
"Eh, I have a bit of a sweet tooth," Inko replied dismissively.
"A bit?" Nezu asked. He was sure if he had eyebrows he'd be raising them in doubt right now.
Deciding to ignore that and go straight to the main issue, he brought out an envelope with a red seal on it before handing it to Inko who took it and opened the envelope.
"Is this about the MLA?" Inko asked while bringing out the contents of the envelope which was a bunch of pictures.
"Yes, I have found a new lead and from what I've seen it seems war may be coming sooner than anticipated," Nezu said In his usual predatory tone.
Inko brought the contents of the envelope to eye level which was a bunch of pictures of men in suits meeting with each other and shaking hands, and a news article that reported about increased Detnerat presence in Deika city.
"What are these for exactly?" Inko asked suspiciously unable to completely decipher the connection between the article and the pictures.
"There has been increased Detnerat presence in lately, not enough to draw suspicion but enough to come to a few conclusions if you read more than what is between the lines."
"Isn't this the C.E.O of Detnerat in this picture?" Inko inquired pointing to a picture of a plain middle-aged man in a suit shaking hands with a blue-skinned woman in a picture.
"Yes, I would also like to believe that is him not to mention the increased amount of organized villain raids as of late."
"And the villains who have quirk supremacist views all had support tech rivaling that of heroes and all of these point towards Detnerat," Nezu explained with a voice that was a far cry from his usual chirpy voice.
"So, you're saying that Detnerat is supplying quirk supremacist groups with money and technology to fight heroes?" Inko asked dropping the pictures on the table.
"I would believe so,"
"Can we…" Inko asked hopeful that the hero commission would put an end to the resurging MLA by performing a small-scale raid on Deika city.
"No," Nezu said as if he read her mind dashing away any small shrill of hope within her. "Detnerat is a support company that is worth trillions of yen and with a fortune worth of investment in foreign countries such as China and the United States. Attacking them with a head-front strategy would put Japan's economy into jeopardy and we may be risking the ire of the foreign countries by crippling Detnerat."
"So, what can we do?" Inko asked.
"There's nothing we can do now except gather a war council and keep our spies in Deika on the low," Nezu solemnly responded.
"You know, it's cracks like this in quirk laws that allowed organizations like this to form in the first place. Back when I was in America everyone could use their quirk as they pleased just as long as they don't hurt anyone with it or use it for vigilantism." Inko perked up replying to Nezu's solemn statement.
"That is exactly why taking down the commission is next on my list right after the MLA but regardless, it is only going to get harder going forward."
"Why do you say so?" Inko inquired curiously.
"Their ideals. If they are a quirk supremacist group whose goal is to overthrow the government and authorize free quirk usage and nothing more then they'd be much easier to deal with but if they are a group charismatic enough to draw large amounts of people to their side while preaching about the shortcomings of the government…" Nezu paused again to let things sink in for Inko to digest.
"It would plunge the country into a civil war which it is not ready for while putting whoever comes out on top with an undesirable outcome. Either way, we can't let Japan plunge into another civil war. It would not be good for the overall stability of Japan in the long term."
A long silence fell over them before Inko decided to speak up again.
"Anyway, moving on from that topic I want to tell you that after this year I'd be resigning," Inko said while putting up her trademark smile.
"You'll what?" Nezu asked surprised by this revelation.
"I'll be resigning, my work schedule has grown too busy for poor Nitta to handle."
"Well this is certainly shocking news but I suppose it can't be helped," Nezu said putting up his trademark smile again.
"How did you even manage your lofty schedules?" Nezu wondered aloud.
"I guess having a good P.A. helped with that and also but going on trips overseas with no fee charged while also having a profitable salary may have something to do with her agreeing to handle meetings on my behalf but my schedule has become very hectic lately."
"Well then, at least you told me ahead of time so by the time comes you'd submit your resignation letter to me as well as announce your resignation to the students."
"Well, that seems simple enough, but if you'll excuse me now I would like to take my leave," Inko said standing up in preparation to leave.
"Of course you can leave," and with that, Inko walked towards the door opened it, and walked out when she was gone Nezu went back to his paperwork letting out a long sigh in the process.
(X)
Kendo and Izuku stood outside the faux building with Izuku putting the ear comm device in his ear and Kendo trying to memorize the building's blueprints before she decided to break the silence between them.
"So, what's your business with explosive arse?" Kendo asked while memorizing the building's blueprints not even bothering to mask her dislike of Bakugo's behavior.
"Explosive arse?" Izuku asked shocked by the nickname and Kendo simply shrugged before he decided to answer her. "We were friends," Izuku simply said.
"You were friends with that guy! Kendo asked with her mouth open like that of a gaping fish. "Like I mean that would explain why he calls you Deku and all but what have you done to him that he hates your guts?"
"Some perceived inferiority complex… I think but we can still make this work in our favor." Izuku said thoughtfully.
"Bakugo hates my guts and I am a hundred percent sure he'd abandon the objective in a heartbeat just to pursue his vendetta with me."
"So, you've got a plan?" Kendo asked with her lips moving upwards into a smirk.
"Yup! But before I start tell me more about your quirk…"
(X)
'So, that useless Deku thinks he can beat me, because of his shitty ass quirk? THAT BASTARD THINKS HE CAN LOOK DOWN ON ME! I'll show him. I'll be no.1!'
"So, do you have a plan in mind?" lida asked while checking out the bomb.
"Yeah, I got a plan alright. I'm going to take on that shitty nerd and teach him his place. I don't care what you do, just stay out of my way!" Bakugo snarled at poor lida.
"Bakugo-san! That is not a plan, if we don't plan Midoriya-san and Kendo-san will outsmart us!" Iida ranted on karate chopping the air but of course, he was ignored by Bakugo who was hellbent on taking Izuku on.
While Katsuki was having his internal monologue, lida was looking at his rage-filled face with worry. That wasn't the face of a hero. But he decided to ignore it in favor of moving the bomb. As soon as All Might announced the beginning, Bakugo plugged in his earpiece and used explosions to launch himself towards the entrance, not caring what his teammate did. lida just looked after him in worry before resigning himself to his fate.
(X)
Bakugo was now walking, having decided that conserving strength was his best bet. He searched three stories so far, and yet no signs of Deku. And it was starting to piss him off. Constantly ready to blast something or someone on his way, he finally found his target. Izuku was at the end of a long hallway, standing with his hands in his pockets.
"As I predicted, you've come after me. I must congratulate you, King Explosion Murder, you took less time than I expected."
He wasted zero time responding, instead opting for a full-scale charge. Izuku's face remained the same. But Katsuki noticed the expression on his face. Something only someone who knew him well could. It was pure, unashamed smug. Like everything was according to plan. Katsuki feinted starting with a right hook, and then attacked with a left, but Izuku was already out of the way, executing a shoulder throw.
"Gotta admit, you surprised me, Kastuki. You usually start with a right. Trying to catch me off guard, weren't you?" Bakugo who was seeing red only wanted to beat the ever-loving shit out of Deku.
"SHUT UP YOU BLINDFOLDED BASTARD!" He screamed and launched an explosion where Izuku's face was. But unfortunately for him, like the other times, the explosions failed to hit him.
"It…just…doesn't make sense," Bakugo whispered mostly to himself. "Is Deku…stronger than me? That…just can't be possible."
Bakugo, still having some combat sense left knew his explosions weren't going to hit Izuku decided to put some distance and continue firing explosions from range hoping to overwhelm him. But Izuku plowed through the explosions before punching him in the gut. He doubled over in pain and spittle was sent flying out his mouth as he barely prevented his soul from being ejected from his body. He was forced to retreat holding his stomach as he could not take that kind of punch again.
'DAMN IT! How is he so fucking strong? And fast? HOW IS HE BETTER THAN ME?!' Katsuki was forced to weigh his options. But just then he received a signal that his gauntlets finished charging. A grin crept on his face. He just got a game-changer. "Alright, you shit-faced Deku! Think you're some hot shit now because you have your shitty barrier? I'd like to see it withstand this!" He jumped backward to create some distance and prepared to pull the pin.
"Young Bakugo, cease this immediately! This could kill him!" spoke All Might through his earpiece.
"NOT IF HE MOVES!" he smiled and pulled the pin. "DIEEE!"
A humongous explosion rocked the entire building. Katsuki was squinting his eyes, but even he could see that Izuku had no intention to dodge. And that made Bakugo rethink the whole thing.
"YOUNG BAKUGO! IF YOU USE AN ATTACK OF SUCH MAGNITUDE AGAIN I WILL STOP THE EXERCISE AND YOU WILL FAIL!" All Might berated Bakugo shouting at the top of his voice through the ear comms.
Izuku stood the with a nonchalant expression written all over his face but deep down he was annoyed. He could take Bakugo's mega explosions head-on but that would only put a dent in his grade so he decided to do the most sensible which was to minimize the explosions.
Izuku raised his hands, and a faint blue energy enveloped it before he clenched his hands with the exception of his first finger into a fist. A blue ball of energy appeared on the tip of the Izuku's finger, swirling, compressing into itself, into a void of nothingness.
"Technique Amplification Lapse: Blue!" Izuku whispered and his quirk responded by creating a void in space reality forced itself to correct by pulling in all surrounding matter.
All the fiery explosions created by Bakugo decreased in scale and magnitude as Izuku's sphere absorbed it increasing to the size of a baseball before Izuku stopped to look around. He had counterd Bakugo's mega explosion leaving the boy beyond dumbstruck as he stood there although the whole hallway was severely burned and nearly everywhere was covered in soot and dust.
"Is that all you can give me?" Bakugo's eyes bulged in disbelief at Izuku's words. But as the smoke dispersed, there he was. Standing, with his arms in his pockets and no trace of an explosion where he stood. Katsuki was too shocked to even register the capture tape wrapping around him. But it is hard to ignore All Might, especially when he's screaming into your earpiece. "BOTH VILLAINS ARE CAPTURED! THE HERO TEAM WINS!"
That knocked Bakugo out of his stupor.
"You... You were toying with me the entire time, weren't you." Izuku stayed silent, but that silence spoke volumes. Katsuki felt rage bubbling inside him. He should be the winner. He should have murdered the shitty nerd! But, if Deku truly was stronger than him. There was only one thing left to do. "You bastard. This is nothing more than a fluke. Yes, I am the number one!... It doesn't matter how hard you train Deku because I'll still be head and shoulders above you! YOU HEAR ME? IT DOESN'T MATTER! Because no matter how high you climb, I'll always be above you! And I will climb even higher than you ever will! You hear me, Deku?!" but as Katsuki turned towards his newly self-proclaimed rival, he was walking away, not even caring. "STOP IGNORING ME, ASSHOLE!" Bakugo screamed before promptly falling into the bliss of unconsciousness.
"Midoriya, what the hell happened down here?!" the voice of Kendo shouted from the hallway as she ran to meet Izuku stopping and standing above Bakugo's captured form.
"Kendo?" he asked in confusion. "I thought you were looking for the bomb?"
"I already captured the bomb when I felt that massive explosion and I figured you might need help," she frantically reasoned.
"Well, you came at the right time. Everything on my side went according to plan," Izuku explained as he flashed a grin at Bakugo's unconscious form lying on the ground.
"I take it my plan worked perfectly?" Izuku asked.
"Yeah, but I was only that fast in defeating lida because…"
(X)
Flashback… A few minutes earlier
Iida who had given up on communicating with Bakugo stood admiring the texture of the bomb as he watched intently for any movement while ranting on about the gall of Bakugo's behavior.
"What a mouthy miscreant,"
"He refused to work with me and he expects me to guard the bomb by myself? If Midoriya-san comes here I cannot get past his infinity nor can I defend and attack at the same time," lida ranted on but unknown to him, Kendo stood behind a pillar listening to him. "And now because of him our chances of success are low," lida finished before taking a deep breath to motivate himself again.
"I, Tenya lida the heir to the lida family and future ingenium should not be caught moping around just because of an uncooperative teammate! I will go beyond and overcome all obstacles sent my way!"
They were supposed to be heinous villains, right? "Maybe I should embrace my villainous side…" Iida hummed thoughtfully.
"Right, that's it! I must embrace my inner villainy. Yes! I shall be… the epitome of evil! Bwahahaha!"
"PFFFT"
Iida, blushing with embarrassment underneath his helmet, snapped his head towards the entrance. He had forgotten to keep his attention towards the entrance.
"Who goes there? Reveal yourself!"
Kendo, fighting her laughter, walked from behind a pillar.
"Dude… we all know it's you there's no need to put on that cringe act of villainy," Kendo managed to wheeze out between bouts of laughter.
"Stop laughing! I am evil!" Iida insisted.
That seemed to make Kendo roll her eyes, laughing. Iida felt an eyebrow twitch at that. Maybe he had to do something only a villain would do… but what? Oh, right, it was time for a monologue! He could get some time if he did that, right? "Ha-ha, laugh to your heart's content, hero, but you won't stop me! For you see, I have prepared myself for this very encounter. I have removed any objects that may have served against me. Moreover, this room was strategically chosen to maximize my movement!" Iida boasted.
Thankfully, Kendo simply stood there, watching. Iida raised an eyebrow. Why wasn't she running at him? It all looked like... a distraction. Cautiously, he paced around, looking behind the pillars of a bare bare grey room.
"Where is Midoriya?" He wondered.
"He is distracting Bakugo," Kendo innocently replied.
Before lida could go on a monologue again, Kendo jumped at him and expanded her fists three times her body size before doing a back flip mid-air, and just as lida was about to carry the bomb away laughing, what seemed like a giant earthquake rocked the building and kendo who was mid-air fell with a loud THUD! But lida who was on the ground when it happened was rattled and fell to the ground seemingly in a daze leaving the bomb unguarded and that was Kendo's cue to wrap the capture tape around his legs.
All Might's voice rang through the comms shouting, "BOTH VILLAINS ARE CAPTURED! THE HERO TEAM WINS!"
Kendo then walked up to lida before offering him a hand which he humbly accepted. "Nice showing! But In all honesty, you just got the short straw when it came to partners today."
"You too had a nice showing Kendo-san, if not for that mini earthquake I would not have been bested so easily."
"But I promise, next time we will have a proper fight and I will defeat you!" Iida proclaimed to Kendo who just stood with a blank face.
"Sure, but don't complain when I kick your butt," she said before jogging away while lida stood muttering something to himself.
Flashback end…
(X)
The rest of the class was left to make sense of the supernatural ass-whooping they had just witnessed. The blindfolded guy had just beat the piss out of the explosive jerk and the explosive jerk may have tried to murder the other? And, in the end, the winner was still the guy who was the guy who was blindfolded.
The control room was silent. The entire class, teacher included, could only stare at the screen, mouths agape. None moved a muscle until All Might snapped out of it and sprung into action, leaping out of the room and toward the building to collect Bakugo.
"Holy. SHIT!" Class 1-A was in complete uproar over the outcome of the first battle trial. Tears of excitement leaked out from Kaminari's eyes. "He beat him, he really beat him!"
"That was so fucking epic!" Proclaimed Mina.
"It was absolutely dazzling." Take a guess at which student said this.
"Most impressive," Concluded Tokoyami.
"Is this guy even on our level?" Camie asked shock evident in her tone.
(X)
Izuku walked back to the observation room while Kendo recounted what happened between her and lida.
"So after he fell… I wrapped him up with capture tape and waited for a minute or two. After that, All Might announced the end of the exercise." Kendo finished telling her side of the story, ending it right as they walked back into the observation room.
All Might decided to interrupt the chattering class 1-A after sending Bakugo to the nurse. He was planning on giving a VERY harsh lecture and punishment to him when he regained consciousness but in the meantime decided to ask their opinion on what they just watched.
"Now, can anyone tell me who was the MVP in this battle?" Yaoyorozu was the first to raise her hand.
"That would obviously be Midoriya. He used his knowledge of his opponent's personality and quirk to devise a perfect plan. He knew Bakugo would go after him, while lida would be more rational and protect the bomb. He was aware that his quirk could get past his trap, so he devised a simple plan that was effective enough to catch his opponent off guard. And while he was taunting Bakugo during their battle, he distracted him for long enough for his partner to incapacitate lida, however unconventionally it was."
Pretty much all of class 1-A went along with Momo as from what they witnessed Izuku was the one who made the whole plan that ensured the defeat of Bakugo and lida.
Meanwhile, All Might sweatdropped.
"My goodness, she said even more than I was planning to, just how smart are these kids?" But he said it out loud praising Momo for her observation skills while she blushed bashfully. He then sent the next group, while the rest prepared to observe their battle.
"Although, Young Midoriya…" All Might started, only to sigh with disappointment. "Why is your quirk registry so lacking in details? It is truly shameful you dared to venture into a fight, ready to use your quirk against your classmates, without even providing sufficient warning to the faculty. As a teacher, I need to assess potential risks for such delicate exercises."
Izuku knew why his quirk registry was as vague as possible only listing space manipulation and giving as little details of it leaving whoever was looking at it to go theorize and figure out the full extent of his quirk.
"Although, if your quirk is what I think it is you could have ended the battle before it even began. Why did you choose to drag it out using your quirk as little as possible?"
"As a result of this, I would deduct points from you not enough to fail but to serve as a warning for next time." All Might finished his assessment before turning to the observation screen.
But All Might's criticism about dragging out the fight was a hundred percent true. He could have used lapse Blue to pull Bakugo towards him before knocking him out but no, he just had to let the fight get to that level for no apparent reason.
Izuku sighed taking All Might's criticism to heart.
Momo walked to him before putting a hand on his shoulder and offering words of encouragement. "I still think you did great Izuku, but we just have to learn from our mistakes. It's why we are here after all,"
"Thanks, Momo," was all Izuku could manage before he turned his attention to the observation screen.