Chapter 2: practical exam
"Hello little listeners! Are you ready to start your practical exam? Well then, listen up! You will be split up into mock urban centres and need to collect as many points as possible in 30 minutes. You are failed if you attack another examinee. How do you get points? You do get them by defeating mock villain bots, three of them give one, two or three points, depending on their difficulty and there-"
"Excuse me", called a blue haired examinee with glasses, "you said there are three kinds of Robots but this pamphlet clearly shows four robots. If this is a mistake, it is most unbecoming of a school as prestigious as this. We come here expecting the best and this doesn't shine a too favourable light on this whole school!"
"Yes, examinee 2441, there are indeed four robots but only three are worth any points, the fourth robot is more of an obstacle to avoid, it is worth zero points and is also the hardest robot to defeat, though again, there is no point in trying" Present Mic explained.
"Thank you for the clarification", the kid sat back down, clearly satisfied with the explanation.
"Now, on your sheets, there is a letter corresponding with your urban Center , you will mount one of the buses with the same letter on it, good luck everyone", Present mic told them.
Izuku glanced at Kacchan's paper, the blonde did the same for Izuku's paper. Izuku was in mock urban centre D and Kacchan was in centre B.
"Probably don't want friends to help each other", Kacchan scoffed, "what a shame, I was hoping to crush you"
Izuku only laughed nervously, before he walked off. He could feel the malice radiating from Kacchan, it scared him. Even with the omnitrix, he still had the fear ingrained into him from the years of abuse. But he knew, deep down, Kacchan was a good person, he just needed to learn he was not the top dog everywhere, which is exactly what Izuku planned on doing, now that he had the omnitrix, he would have better scores than him and, eventually, when they fought each other, he would beat his once friend.
Izuku walked towards one of the buses labelled 'D' and sat down. Next to him sat the same girl that had saved him earlier that day, "hey, I just wanted to say, thank you for saving me back there"
"No problem, my parents always taught me, look out for others and they'll look out for you", she smiled, playing with her bangs. She was kinda cute but not his type. What even was his type? He didn't know. He had had a few crushes but they had about nothing in common. Back in the days, he even had a crush on Kacchan. Yep, he was bi… or pan? He didn't really know…
Izuku was brought back to the bus and away from his thoughts when the girl asked something, "huh?"
"I asked what your quirk is. Hihihi, you are cute when you space out- I- I mean- eep" she went crimson red and avoided eye contact. Izuku was the same shade of red, a girl thinks he is… cute?
"M- m- my quirk is c- called omnitrix, it- it allows me to transform into ten different c- c- creatures" and just like that, all his confidence was gone.
"W- wow that is so cool! Way cooler than my quirk… it sounds so versatile, your quirk that is"
Izuku's confidence shot right back up as the conversation moved onto quirks, "really? What is your quirk?"
"Well, my quirk is called zero gravity, it allows me to cut the gravitational pull of whatever I touch with all five fingers. I can return the gravitational pull by touching my fingertips of both hands together"
"That is an awesome quirk!" Izuku called out a little too loud, "sorry… like I said, that quirk is so awesome. Do they things you touch still have weight or is hitting someone with something you touched like hitting them with air?"
"It still has weight. Doesn't make any sense physics wise, I know but it is a quirk after all" she chuckled.
"Yeah, quirks are weird…"
Quirks were indeed weird. Impossible things were done all the time without any regards to physics or common sense. How did the physics of telekinesis work? Short answer they didn't, at least not with our current understanding of the world. Some worked thanks to science, sure, magnetic fields, gravitational pulls but most quirks were nonsensical.
Soon, they arrived at the urban centre, in front of a huge gate. Izuku's gaze traveled between the different examinee's. He didn't recognise any of them from his school, but there were a few familiar faces. There was kamui woods' brother, the brunette girl and the blue haired boy who had interrupted present mic.
"And go" it sounded over the speakers as the gates opened. No one moved, "what are you waiting for, little listeners? There are no timers in a real battle, go, go, go!"
Everyone rushed in, not Izuku though, he carefully selected a hologram in the omnitrix, XLR8. In a flash of green light, he was replaced with a raptor looking alien with balls for feet. He rushed deep into the city at breakneck speed, away from the others. When he arrived at a far away corner of the city, he slapped the omnitrix and transformed into four arms. He smashed robots left and right with his four muscular arms. As he moved further into the centre of the city, he slowly began encountering other students. He catched falling rubble that was about to smash the brother of kamui woods, before hurling it at another robot.
"Thanks man", he shouted as Izuku was already running away to smash more robots and save more examinee's. In the middle of it, he retransformed into big chill, freezing robots and rescuing examinee's by phasing under robots which had fallen on them. Then, the ground started rumbling, as the giant zero point robot appeared. It was bigger than the buildings. Everyone was running and Izuku was about to do the same when he heard a cry for help, the brunette girl was trapped under some rubble at the foot of the bot.
"Shit" Izuku murmured, transforming into XLR8 to rush towards her. He got there in less than a second and he slapped the omnitrix again, the slender reptile like alien disappeared in a flash of green light and a red skinned four arms appeared, easily lifting the rubble and carrying the girl out of danger.
"The time is up!"
Izuku found recovery girl soon after and lädt the girl in her care as he detransformed and walked off. He should have enough points to get into the hero course but did he beat kacchan? That was the real question here. He wanted to show that asshole that he wasn't useless little deku any more, he was the second coming of Legion!
Izuku went back home and fell on his bed. The day had been exhausting. The theocratical exams had exhausted his mental capacity and whilst he couldn't get hurt from what he did in the alien form, he still was tired.
A week later, the letter from UA came and Izuku was nervous, did he pass? He had to, right? But what if he didn't?
"Argh! No use in worrying, let's just open it!"
He ripped open the letter and a disk fell out, it started a holographic projection and Mr. Principal's face greeted him, "hello, child, you are probably wondering whether you got in or not, we'll worry not, you definitely got in. In fact your theory scores were so high that I want to meet you personally to meet with me to discuss your results next Sunday at UA, in this letter you find a temporary guest pass to get onto school property"
The recording ended and Inko rushed in, "what did they say? Did you get in?"
"I did and- and the principal wants to meet me next Sunday."
"But that is- that is tomorrow! Oh my baby is getting into UA! I am so proud of you, my dear baby", she hugged him with all her might.