7-8 - don’t read elder

Chapter 7: Challenges from unexpected sources.

After the whole quirk test Aizawa-sensei put us through, we left or the showers were like the men we are, we didn't speak to each other, make eye contact, dare look below the belt which was quite hard for someone like Mineta nor waste time, it took us about ten minutes for everyone to finish and leave, the girls took longer but they could hear them discussing the test through the wall so they were excused-(BYW, they thought that Kota was the most adorable of the boys and Bakugo the most dangerous looking. Like with everyone else, they all think I'm plain looking, maybe I should ask Yu-chan about it later). The rest of the day passed by without any incident other than the usual high school stuff. Still, by the time the final bell rang, I was tired-not physically but emotionally.

It had somehow leaked to the rest of the school that I was quirkless and in the hero course which predictable, got on some assholes' nerves. I spent the rest of the day listening to the snide remarks and crude jokes passed around the halls and cafeteria. I swear, if it wasn't for Tokoyami sticking close to me for all of that, I would have tased someone. Their words didn't hurt me so much as they did frustrate me, like a lot.

"Aizawa-sensei was pulling us along with that expulsion threat. Though I would have much preferred a more honest approach to things." Tokoyami stated as the two boys walked off campus, heading home.

"I don't think he was lying." Izuku replied as he pulled out his board and checked the wheels and such to make sure he won't faceplant when he tries to use it.

"What do you mean?" Tokoyami asked him, he didn't notice any faults or ticks from the man that would hint that but before he could get an answer, another person made their presence known.

"Midoriya-kun!" Iida called out as he marched on over to them in his robotic fashion.

"Hmm, Iida?" Izuku asked him once he caught up with them.

"I was meaning to ask a question if you don't mind!" Iida requested of him, though Midoriya could guess what he was going to ask, he could see it in just about everyone's eyes in class.

"Go ahead." Izuku gave his permission.

"Is it true that you are quirkless?" Iida asked him as quietly as he could tell this was a touchy subject and had heard some of the snide remarks their schoolmates had said about him, it was a disgrace to such a school to have people like that!

"Yes it is, didn't you notice that from my performance?" Izuku replied with a straight face as he started walking again, leaving the other two to follow in his footsteps.

"Forgive me! But it wasn't obvious as your quirk may have been an emitter or mutation type that doesn't show, I had thought it was an intelligence booster at first." Iida told him and he wasn't wrong, many types of quirks wouldn't have been useful in the quirk test Aizawa made them do.

"He is not wrong Midoriya, appearances can be quite deceiving about one's quirk." Tokoyami stated, agreeing with the speed-based teen.

'He would know that since even I thought his bird head had something to do with his quirk.' Izuku thought to himself as he looked over at Tokoyami.

"I wanted to say that you truly are the better man! Not only are you in the hero course of your merit but your quirkless status has not hindered you from performing better than I! I shall follow your example to better myself and become a better hero!" Iida continued as he gave the boy a bow with some energy behind it. His apparent compliment was a surprise to the two boys as they didn't think Izuku would get some so soon.

'He is passionate about this.' Midoriya thought to himself with a sweatdrop.

'He must have more energy than he knows what to do with is he insists on those robotic hand movements.' Tokoyami thought to himself with a sweat drop as well.

"Thanks…I guess." Midoriya replied after taking a second to process that before they continued to walk off-campus. "Anyway back to what I was saying, I heard some 2nd years talking about Aizawa and found out we must be lucky or we all impressed him." Izuku continued what he was telling Tokoyami.

"Why's that?" Tokoyami asked him.

"The guy expelled his entire class last year for the same reasons he threatens us for, he judged them to not have hero potential." Midoriya told them both, scaring the two of them as they didn't think the school would let someone expel an entire class on the first day! Hell, it was pushing it to expel just one!

"That is rather unfortunate for our would-be upperclassmen, then that means he wasn't lying about the threat." Tokoyami said as both he and Iida came to the same conclusion Midoriya already did and felt the shiver go down their spines, they lucked out.

"He just lied about lying since we all met his expectations." Midoriya finished the collective thought as they walked in silence for a bit to think about that.

"It is rather unsightly for our teacher to use such underhanded tactics but the results obtained don't lie. I should have expected such from an institution like U.A. to use such unconventional methods." Iida said with some hand chops which were starting to look pretty funny.

"Hey! You three!" They heard someone call out to them from behind as they all turned to face it. "Going to the station? Wait for me!" The girl calling out to them yelled with a smile as she raced to catch up.

"Uraraka?" Midoriya asked as he recognized her from the class register and matched the name to the face.

"You're the infinity girl, correct?" Iida asked as she came up to them. She nodded her head with a smile as she faced them.

"I'm Ochaco Uraraka." She introduced herself as she looked at Iida. "Um, you're Tenya Iida," She then turned to Tokoyami. "Fumikage Tokoyami and…" she stated, both times the boys nodded their heads at her to show they got their names right. "Deku Midoriya, right?" She finished with a smile, think she got all three right.

"Deku!?" Midoriya asked her, appalled she would insult in the first damn day, and with such an innocent smile!

"Huh? But that is what the boy-Bakugo called you during the fitness test." Uraraka said as they all recalled what Bakugo said when it was made clear Midoriya was pushing it with the push-ups.

"Deku, you Bastard stop scoring so damn high!"

"Izuku is my name, Deku is just something that explosive ass likes to call me to make fun of me. I stopped caring about years ago." Midoriya told her with a frown as he recalled how many hundreds of times he had heard it by now, not all from Bakugo but those around them that were jealous he was the smartest kid in school.

"An Insult? Iida asked as he cupped his chin.

"And you haven't tried to stop this, why?" Tokoyami asked as this was the first time he was hearing of this.

"I did but he's as stubborn as a mule mixed with an old dog. Once he starts something, it's almost impossible to make him stop." Midoriya replied with a huff as he now felt slightly depressed.

"Oh sorry about that, I didn't know!" Uraraka apologized as she saw her error and tried to make up for it. "But Deku sounds a lot like Dekiru which means 'You can do it'!" She finished with a fist pump.

"Huh?" Midoriya uttered, he had never thought about it like that in all the years he has heard it. "I never thought about it like that, thank you Uraraka." He replied with a smile as he continued walking, now feeling…lighter?

"It is indeed rare to find an individual that can turn such a cruel insult into a positive nickname." Tokoyami stated as they all continued down the road towards the terminal.

'There are indeed things that I will never be able to do but…I've accepted that and chosen to focus on the things that I can do. I'll work hard to achieve them and become the hero I always wanted to become and with all the support in my life, I know that I will do so.' Midoriya thought to himself as he waved goodbye to the three who stepped into the terminal as he placed his board down and skated home.

(With All Might)

Later that night, Yagi was in his apartment, looking down at his hero costume as he thought about what was to come. 'You don't have the time to relax, young man. The real test starts tomorrow.'

(The next day)

'The U.A curriculum for its hero course wasn't all that different from most high schools as they were still required to take regular classes such as English in the morning.'

"Which of these four English sentences is wrong?" Present Mic asked the class in a quiet and rather mature manner, behind him on the board were four separate English sentences he had written down earlier.

'So normal.' Mina, Jiro, and Kaminari thought to themselves as they faced forward.

'This is so damn boring.' Bakugo dismissed as h looked out the window.

"Everybody, head up! Let's get this party started!" And just like that, the man reverted to his usual loud and random self. After his little burst of energy, one of the girls rose their hands.

"Yaoyorozu!" Present Mic called out as he pointed at her for her to stand and answer to which she did so.

"The relative pronoun is in the wrong place in sentence number 4." She stated as she pointed to the sentence in question.

"Correct! Someone get the young listener a cookie!" Present Mic confirmed for her as she sat down, wondering why someone would just hand her food. Was it a U.A. thing?

'After that, we had Mathematics with Ectoplasm.'

"Now, can anyone solve the following Trigonometric equation?" The coat wearing pro-hero asked the class as he pointed to the pretty hard-looking equation on the board. "Come on this was something you all should have done in middle school. You're going to get much harder ones from here on out so I hope you're preferred to study." He told them as even pros still needed a high school diploma at the very least, hell some go on to study something in college such as Recovery Girl picking up her Doctorate in Medicine to even practice her craft.

'Great, more math.' The whole class bar a few thought to themselves. Midoriya was one of those who didn't share the collective opinion and rose his hand.

"Midoriya, would you like to try and solve it?" Ectoplasm asked to make sure the boy knew what he was doing.

"Yes sir." Midoriya confirmed as he stood up and walked over to the board. After about a minute he put the chalk back down after finishing putting down his calculations and final answer.

"Correct, you can take your seat Midoriya." Ectoplasm said as he instructed the boy to sit down.

"Yes sir." Midoriya replied as he went back to take his seat, not noticing Ashido and Kaminari looking at him like he just found the Atlantis.

'Lunch was held in the main cafeteria, where we could buy gourmet food for reasonable prices.'

"White rice is great comfort food, isn't it?" The Pro hero, Lunch Rush asked Midoriya's table which had himself, Tokoyami, Iida, and Uraraka.

"It sure is, and is very cheap." Uraraka replied with her mouth full, leaving Midoriya to wonder why she brought up the pricing.

'And then, in the afternoon, we had the class that we had all been waiting for.' Izuku thought to himself as he entered their homeroom class and took his seat. 'Hero Basic Training.' He finished as the last person took their seat as they waited for their teacher to arrive.

"I am…!" A voice called from behind the classroom door.

'Wait a minute, isn't that?' Midoriya thought to himself as he could recognize that voice anywhere.

"Coming through the door like a normal person!" All Might announced as he didn't come through the door like a sane person world but with his usual flair

"It's All Might!" Kaminari said in joy at seeing the number one hero.

"Wow, I can't believe that he's a teacher!" Kirishima told Tsuyu who sat near him.

"That's the costume from his Silver age, isn't it?" Tsuyu stated with some noticeable awe in her voice as All Might marched over the teacher's desk.

"Its style is so different, it's giving me goosebumps." Ojiro said as he took in the older but great-looking costume.

"I teach Hero Basic Training. It's the subject where you train in different ways to learn the basics of being a hero. You'll take the most units of this subject so be prepared for that!" All Might announced to the class.

"Let's get right to it. This is what you will do today," All Might started as he pulled out a card for all of them to see. "Battle Training!"

"Battle Training." Midoriya and Bakugo said at the same time with different thoughts on the subject.

"And to go with that are these!" All Might continued as he pointed to the wall with a remote which he pressed the button one, revealing selves with briefcases with different numbers on them. "Costumes made based on your quirk registrations and request you all sent in before school started." He explained to them as the class got up to fetch their costumes, luckily they started enough to know that your seat number marked which was which.

"I finally get to test the full thing out." Midoriya uttered to himself with a smile as he held onto his case which was a bit bigger than everyone else's.

"After you change, gather at ground beta!" All Might informed them as he made his way to the door.

"Yes sir!" And with that, the pro hero left the room as the class made their way to the changing rooms to get dressed.

(Later at Ground Beta)

'I wonder what young Midoriya will have, the last suit I saw him test was the one from the beach but he needed a whole set-up plus assistance to remove the thing, his case didn't look that much bigger than everyone's else so maybe something small and light?' All Might thought to himself as he waited for not only 1-A but 1-B as well. The two homeroom teachers thought it best to have them complete this kind of class together to see how they work together. Vlad noticed that some of his class looked angry that 1-A did a quirk apprehension test on the first day and took it as an insult to them so he suggested this to help smooth things over. As All Might pondered this, he heard the students walking out of the tunnel towards him, he could already make out some of their costumes and he was impressed with what he saw.

"They say the clothes make the man, young ladies, and gentlemen. So be very aware from this point onwards, you are heroes in training!" All Might told them all as both classes made their way into the sunlight.

"That's great, everyone. You all look very cool!" He complimented as he looked over every one of them.

"Now shall we begin, you bunch of newbies?" The top hero challenged as his eyes landed on Izuku and were quite shocked with what he saw.

(Flashback to three weeks ago)

'Normally Hero schools take in design applications from students and work with their quirk registries to make suitable costumes for heroes in training. You simply send in your physical measurements and desired designs so support companies under exclusive contract to that hero school can produce the state-of-the-art costumes.' Izuku thought to himself as he looked over his forms and designs.

"The only problem is that I already built my gear and suit so can the school accept that or do I need to rely on some person I don't even know, no way I'm giving up my hard-worked and tested designs." Izuku muttered as he had no interest in sharing his designs as they could be stolen and made by some else if he wasn't careful.

"I'm home!" His mom announced as she opened the front door and walked in but not before locking the door behind her.

"Welcome back! How was the store?" Izuku asked his mom as she carried the shopping to the kitchen to put it away.

"It was good, I got some good deals on some plums and carrots." She replied as she put away the before-mentioned produce. "What are you working on?" She asked him.

"I trying to see if U.A. accepts students bringing their costumes." Izuku replied as she put down the forms.

"I think they do, the neighbor's son did the same when he went through hero school a couple of years back. It saves them work so I don't see why U.A. would be any different." Inko told him as she recalled have a talk about this with the neighbors some years back.

"That's a relief, so I can just ship the Mk VIII." Izuku stated, pleased that his work would be accepted.

"Speaking of which," Inko started as she went back into the kitchen to keep putting cans and bottles away. "Have you had time to paint it yet or is it still that dull grey and white?" She asked him. She was met with a silence which made her think he had left for his lab without her noticing.

"I CAN'T BELIEVE I FORGOT, I GOTTA GET THAT DONE TODAY AND SEND IT OVER!" Izuku panicked as she heard him race down the hall for the elevator to his lab, no doubt he was going to start painting the thing right now.

"For a smart boy, he has his father's forgetfulness at the worst of times." Inko muttered with a fond smile as she went back to what she was doing.

(Flashback end)

"Is that a suit of armor?" Uraraka asked Midoriya as he stepped out wearing his hero costume which in his opinion was more of a suit. It consisted of a full black body glove worn under some protective padding which was for his knees, thighs, elbows, shoulders, and chest. He was wearing the same red boots he wore the previous day as well as clawed gauntlets. The fast and most prized piece of equipment he had was his green and white-winged backpack, the wings themselves may have been closed but they were so big that they still stuck out much like Hawks. The wings themselves were red and green. He held the knight/fighter pilot-inspired helmet in one hand.

"Is it like Iida's, Midoriya?" Tokoyami asked him as he inspected the saw how most of it looked mechanical, in his opinion-he gave the boy a rather steampunk appearance.

"No, this is something much more than that, I assure you." Midoriya answered with pride in his voice as he caught Bakugo watching him in the corner of his eye.

"Oh my God, are those wings?!" Uraraka asked as she pointed to the very large wings attached to his backpack. They were nearly as tall as he was.

"Yes, they are." Midoriya replied to which she reached out and touched one of them. "Why are you touching them?" He asked her after she didn't stop touching them after a couple of seconds.

"They're just like a bird's…but made of metal." She uttered as she felt how each individual 'feather' moved independently but somehow still looked capable. It kinda reminded her of Aizawa-sensei's wraps but stiffer.

"A special metallic-carbon alloy." The boy corrected.

"It's great, I should have written what I wanted though. Mine ended up being a skin-tight suit. It's kind of embarrassing." Uraraka replied as she sheepishly rubbed the back of her head, leaving Tokoyami and Midoriya to wisely not comment that they didn't mind the costume.

"Then could you not merely send in a form to have your costume size redone?" The bird-headed boy asked her.

"I could but that takes some time so I'll be stuck with this for a while." Uraraka told them as it would take them up to two weeks to make another one if she asked.

"Still, I did not see us doing a joint exercise with 1-B." Midoriya said as he and the rest of them noticed how both classes largely kept to themselves and didn't mingle.

"Well, Kan-sensei wanted us to work together on this to build interclass relations." A voice said from behind them. They turned to see a boy taller than all of them wearing light-colored knee-high boots, a dark vest with white clouds across it, and a collar that covers his chin. He had a belt tied around his waist with pouches on the side and he also wore large gloves and a visor on his head. His outfit appears similar to a Jiangshi-(From what Izuku remembered from reading about Chinese mythology and folklore)-his visor appears similar to the talismans commonly seen pasted on their forehead.

"Is that right, oh where are our manners? I'm Izuku Midoriya, that is Fumikage Tokoyami and this is Ochaco Uraraka, you are?" Midoriya introduced each of them before asking the newcomer's name.

"Hiryuu Rin, a pleasure." The now named Rin started with a handshake, he seemed friendly enough. While they talked for a bit, Izuku couldn't help but look over to Uraraka when she wasn't looking.

'Damn, she got some curves on her…wait,' Izuku thought to himself as he looked her over but then he noticed that Bakugo was still looking at their group, at first he thought he was sizing them up but his gaze was locked only for Uraraka. 'Is Katsuki 'Explosive Tsundere' Bakugo checking her out? Now I've seen everything.' Midoriya thought to himself with a silent chuckle as he wasn't sure there was a sex drive in that boy.

"The hero course is the best." Mineta came to the same conclusion about the poor girl's costume.

"The fuck you say, grape stain?!" And apparently, the resident explosive tempered make didn't appreciate the comment.

'Okay, he was checking her out and doesn't like when other guys do the same.' Izuku thought to himself as he was the only one who heard the short boy's comment since Uraraka looked confused as to why Bakugo looked like he was going to murder the prev.

"Such a vulgar brute." One of the girls from 1-B commented, she wore a toga-like costume and had green vines for her.

"I'll avoid him for a while, see if he chills out." The tall brown-furred teen standing next to her stated.

"The Hell you say?!" Bakugo called out, seemingly angrier than usual for some reason.

"Or maybe not." The furry giant replied as he took a step back in slight fear.

"Now it's time for combat training!" Lucky for them, before a fight could break out, All Might called the class to order.

"Sensei?" Iida asked with a hand raised. Once All Might gave him the go-ahead, he went on with his question. "This is the battle center used in the entrance exam, so will we be conducting urban battles again?" The tall glasses-wearing boy asked.

"No, we are going to move three steps ahead. Most of the time, fighting villains take place outside but statistically speaking, more villains are found indoors more often than not, and it is the most heinous and crafty of the criminal underworld who stay away from the light of day, so to speak. Think about it, imprisonment, house arrests, backroom deals, home invasion, or even the standard hostage situation." All might explained to them with three fingers raised in the beginning before he started listing all the situations where villains and other criminals would be indoors.

"For that reason, we will be doing something different today. The two classes will be split into groups of five where two will act as the hero team while the other three will act as the villains. They will then fight it out in a 3-2 match in our indoor battle simulation for today." All Might explained.

"Without basic training?" Tsuyu asked.

"That seems kinda strange." The armor-wearing student of 1-B, Honenuki added.

"This is a battle to understand those basics, besides leaning in this manner tends to stick better than being told the same thing in some stuffy classroom." The number one hero answered with a chuckle.

"But doesn't a three-on-two fight seem unfair for the heroes?" Ashido asked.

"As I'm sure Aizawa-san already told you, the life of a pro is always unfair and as you might have seen on the news or in the streets, heroes more often than not, have to fight and arrest multiple opponents rather a fair one on one. The official statistics show that heroes are more likely to face three weak villains than one average villain." All Might replied to her question with the same hard truths Aizawa had told 1-A the previous day. "The fact is the matter is that the criminals outnumber us 13 to 1, the only reason that we can match them and drive them into the shadows is the ease of movement and proper training, things they lack." "This is why hero schools have such high standards and such higher demands for their students, to produce the best pros they can to meet this threat." He finished, giving a reason as to why hero schools have such high standards, they were counteracting quantity with quality.

"That is true, almost every fight I've seen as more than one villain and maybe two pros." Midoriya added as he had seen hundreds of them on the internet, news, or in the streets.

"So the students picked to be pros are to fight with a handicap, how unfortunate." The black-skinned student of 1-B stated, sounding…excited by the prospect.

"Yes but remember, you will be fighting actual people this time, not robots which means you must hold back and not inflict any long-lasting wounds or unnecessary damage. If you do so, your team will be automatically disqualified." All Might warned them ahead of time so they would have no excuse later on.

"How will wins and losses be determined?" A light-haired redhead from 1-B asked.

"Are we still allowed to beat the crap outta them?" Bakugo asked, just wanting to skip to the part where he could blast something

"Will the punishment still be expulsion like Aizawa-sensei said yesterday?" Uraraka asked, surprising those not from 1-A that had no idea that their sister class went through that.

"How shall we be split up?" A boy with a bandana asked.

"Is that cape crazy or what?" Aoyama asked the most useless question of them all.

"I'll answer all your questions!" All Might shot out with nervous sweat. He coughed into his hand and answered the first question from the girl he called Kendo. "The situation is that the villain team has hidden a nuclear weapon somewhere in their hideout. The heroes are trying to neutralize that threat. The heroes need to capture all three villains or one of them needs to touch said device while the villains must either last till the end of the exercise or defeat both heroes." He then further explained the grading. "Now the heroes and villains are graded on their technique, communication skills, teamwork, adaptability, power and control/restraint, observation, how well they work under pressure and tactical-(problem-solving)-skills so you don't necessarily need to do any of these things to pass or fail, the heroes can get someone to touch the bomb but if they act alone you can potentially fail. Same for the villains as if you beat the heroes but fail to properly plan out things and just rely on brute force, you can fail as well." He finished as he answered the question and gave the details of the exam, making it obvious that you could fail and cost your whole group if you're a loose cannon.

"Yes, you can let loose on your foes but remember to hold back, we don't need Recovery Girl to make rounds for every group, we're not training villains here." All Might answered Bakugo's question with the same warning to hold back but otherwise go nuts. "You will be split up randomly by drawing lots so you can't choose partners now." All Might answered the boy he called by the name of Awase before he turned his attention to Aoyama. "For that last one, I don't know, ask someone like Midnight."

"This feels very American." Midoriya stated as this sounded like a standard action movie.

"I like it! Nice and simply like." A short girl from 1-B replied in somewhat imperfect Japanese, which combines with her facial features made it clear she was a foreigner.

"You same kind of optimist?" Sero asked her.

"So haphazardly?" Iida asked.

"Pros more often than not have to work with other heroes from different agencies in emergencies so this is rather realistic." Momo told him as it made perfect sense.

"I see. The discernment to look ahead, forgive my interruption!" Iida bowed his head in apology.

"It's fine. Let's do this quickly!" All Might announced as the groups were randomly chosen and shown to the class by a smartphone app.

Group A: Midoriya Izuku; Awase Yosetsu; Bakugo Katsuki; Kodai Yui; Jiro Kyoka

Group B: Kendo Itsuka; Ashido Mina; Tsunotori Pony; Hagakure Toru; Shishida Jurota

Group C: Kirishima Eijiro; Rin Hiryu; Sero Hanta; Shoda Nirengeki; Aoyama Yuga

Group D: Kuroiro Shihai; Shoji Mezo; Bondo Kojiro; Ojiro Mashirao; Kaibara Sen

Group E: Iida Tenya; Komori Kinoko; Koda Koji; Tsuburaba Kosei; Mineta Minoru

Group F: Honenuki Juzo; Uraraka Ochaco; Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu; Tokoyami Fumikage; Shiozaki Ibara

Group G: Asui Tsuyu; Yanagi Reiko; Sato Rikido; Fukidashi Manga; Yaoyorozu Momo

Group H: Monoma Neito; Kaminari Denki; Kamakiri Togaru; Todoroki Shoto; Tokage Setsuna

"Now the first group will be split like this!" All Might announced once more before he presented the results.

Heroes: Midoriya Izuku and Kodai Yui.

Villains: Awase Yosetsu, Bakugo Katsuki, and Jiro Kyoka.

At this announcement, both Midoriya and Bakugo locked eyes. They didn't think it would come this soon but a fight between them was bound to happen sooner or later anyway. The groups stayed behind as the rest of the classes followed All Might to the monitor room but before he left, All Might informed them that the villain team gets to enter the building and set up with a 5-minute time limit to do so before the hero team could enter.

(Later-with the Villain team)

"Man, it sucks that we have to the villains." Jiro complained as she looked for suitable spots to plug into the wall to listen to the vibrations of their targets.

"Can't be helped, all we can do is our best to keep this thing safe, kinda clique looking for a nuclear bomb though." Awase replied as he walked over to the bomb that they were supposed to protect. His hero costume consisted of a baggy, full-body suit with its collar passing his chin. He wore shoulder pads, and he had a bag on his belt in which he keeps various items, including metal and blocks of wood to aid with the use of his Quirk. He also switched out his usual zig-zagged headband for a striped one.

"It's paper mache, I already checked." Jiro told him before he could touch the thing for himself.

"So we can at least move it around easy, that's good." Awase said as he could imagine that it was light.

"Hey!" They both turned to the third person present. "Watch out for that little nerd, he's smarter than he looks and I'm not failing just cause of you two extras." Bakugo both warned and insulted them as he glared at the door, waiting for the trial to begin.

"Charming personality on that one." Jiro joked about him, getting a rise out of him in a form of glare which she shook off.

"What's his quirk anyway? Yui's is that she can change the size of just about anything so long as she makes contract." Awase asked while giving them what he knew about the Kodai as he heard the girls talking about their quirks the previous day when he passed by their table at lunch.

"That sounds dangerous." Jiro commented as she finally found a good spot to set up.

"Deku is quirkless." Bakugo informed them, totally not caring for the shocked looks they both had.

"What!"

"The damn nerd thinks he can take me on without a quirk." Bakugo went one, looking like an enraged bull at the thought of Midoriya of all people beating him, he wasn't going to let that happen.

Not if he had a say about it.

(With the hero team)

"So how do you propose we go about this?" Midoriya asked his team-mate as he looked over the floor plan and saw that there were many places they could store a 'nuclear bomb', even if none of them were built for such.

"I can't say, the villain team is made up of mostly your classmates, as a result, I cannot come up with a good strategy." Yui monotony told him. He looked her over as she spoke to get a better read on her.

Her hero costume consisted of a simple red bodysuit with a white-collar trim, a matching "V" pattern running over her chest and around her upper arms, which also included a short white skirt with a red design at the front, dipping so it follows the one in her chest. She wore plain vambraces, as well as a hat that resembles the front of a baseball cap, colored red with white U-shaped lines around the sides, with a metal piece resembling a fin attached at the back of the strap around her head. She had a belt at her waist and straps around her shoulders, what appears to be an oval-shaped gemstone set between them on her chest, each adorned with a small pouch

"Well I know that Bakugo can create explosions with his sweat so watch out for him, he's a beast in close quarters. Jiro on the other hand, I don't know much about her quirk." Midoriya stated as he recalled what he saw during the previous day's tests, Jiro didn't use her quirk….at all from what he could see. Must have been unsuited for all of them which means he knew he didn't help her in the traditional physical sense but not much else, maybe it was a mind booster.

"Then is aren't sure about the abilities of our opponents, it will be best to know our own. My quirk is called 'Size', as the name implies, I can alter the size of objects that she comes into contact with, however, I can only activate it by pressing five of her fingertips together. It also does not affect living things." Yui told before gesturing to him to say something as well.

"I'm quirkless so I use this armor I designed to supplement that area. It grants me increased strength, speed, durability, and flight. I also have built-in scanners and other weapons." Midoriya replied as he gestured to his suit. He waited for her response about him being quirkless or even have a power armor of sorts.

"Okay."

"Wait, what?" Midoriya asked, thinking he heard wrong, no way her answer was so bland.

"Yes?" Yui asked him, turning her attention back to him.

"You're not going to say anything about the quirkless part?" Midoriya asked, he was so used to it that he was expectant of it these days but this….was something new.

"Why would I? The fact that you are in U.A. taking the hero course shows at least have potential. I shall hold any further judgment of my own till the end of the exercise." Yui told him like he was nothing and turned her attention back to the pouch she was meddling with earlier.

"…Okay then, so what about Awase, what can he do?" Midoriya asked her, changing the subject to get rid of this awkward air around them.

"He can fuse two things so long as he's touching both. So he will most likely seal most of the windows and doors shut to either keep us out or force us to take routes of their choosing." Yui told him as she already had thought about it and came to that conclusion.

"So we have an unknown, a guy will bar some paths and will most likely try and lead us to Bakugo," Midoriya thought aloud as he cupped his chin-(he's wearing his helmet by the way)-"You wouldn't happen to have some experience on self-defense, would you?" he asked her, it was always beneficial to know such things.

"Mostly Judo my parents signed me up for in middle school. You?" Yui asked him, her folks had told her such was required if she wanted to defend herself and she knew she was somewhat…desired. The point was that she wanted to be able to fight off boys who didn't take no for an answer.

"Crane Style Kung Fu, Aikido, Judo, Taekwondo and some Hapkido I took up last year." Midoriya replied, so he was the main fighter of the team, she would have to stay behind him in a supporting role then. With this knowledge, Izuku tried to come up with a suitable plan to win this challenge.

"Okay…I think the best plan is to let them think they have us duked. As we go through the place, I'll keep scanning for them or the bomb. Once we know its location, we will lead at least two of them away from it. Once that is done, one of us circles back to capture the device. Sound good?" Midoriya asked her after telling her his thoughts

"Interesting thought but what if only one is led away?" Yui asked.

"Then we take them down together, that way it will be a two of two for the device." The armored lad responded as he already could think of who was gunning for them most.

"Okay. That can be the plan of attack." Yui agreed just before the announcement to begin was aired.

"Now, let's start the indoor 3 vs 2 combat for group 1 begin." All Might announced throughout the area, to which the Midoriya unfolded his wings and after taking Yui into his arms-(it was not romantic in any way)-he flew over to a window where they could enter the place.

(With the others)

"Now everyone, you should all watch as well and see how this plays out. It may help you when your turn comes up." All might advised everyone as they watched the test being recorded through dozens of cameras and audio receptors, giving them a great seat.

(With the villains)

"Are they in yet?" Bakugo asked as he patrolled through the route they set up. He had left the bomb room as soon as the test started to search for the hero team while Jiro stayed behind.

"….Yeah, they just entered through a 2nd-floor window on the west side." Jiro responded as she could hear footsteps coming in from that direction, the hero team must have scaled the building since they never used the front door.

"Did you finish blow-touch?" Bakugo asked as he came to a corner.

"Yeah, all the short routes are blocked with debris. They can only take one of three paths." Awase replied as he made his way back to the bomb room.

"It was supposed to be one!" Bakugo yelled over the coms.

"Well sorry, I run out of time. Five minutes isn't that much to work with you know." Awase defended himself to which Bakugo just cut the connection.

"By the way, why blow-touch of all things?" Awase asked Jiro as they both knew Bakugo had signed off and couldn't hear them.

"Just go with it, I don't think he even takes the time to remember names." Jiro told him as she kept track of their movements the best she could.

(With the heroes)

"Just as I thought, no cameras like with most lairs." Midoriya said as he and Yui crept around another corner and had yet to even spot a camera.

"So they can control our direction but they can't see us?" Yui observed as she looked around for new paths, already they can come to four doors that had been fused shut.

"Seems like it. I've been scanning for a while now. The highest heat signatures are this way." Midoriya said as he checked the infrared readings again to make sure he was right.

"Listen Yui, when we find Bakugo, take this and head to the other way." Midoriya said as he took out a small grenade-looking device and passed it to her.

"Why are you so sure that it will be Bakugo, Awase from what I have observed is no slouch?" Yui asked him.

"Bakugo isn't the most….social bird in the sky, he'll come for us alone. That will leave the other two to guard the device." Midoriya replied as he rounded another corner which ended with a dead end.

"Sounds logical." Yui stated as they walked to the end of the hallway where they could see the door.

"Hold up, this path was blocked." Midoriya said as he tried to open the door but like the others, it was fused shut.

"Meaning it could be a shorter route. Suggestions?" Yui asked him as this was the right track. Midoriya inspected the door and saw that, unlike the other doors, the door wasn't fused to the frame completely, meaning it wasn't one with the building just yet.

"Can you make the door only smaller?" Midoriya asked as he stepped aside for Yui to step forward the see the thing for herself.

"I can try." Yui replied as she tried to use her quirk on the door. At first, she was getting nothing so Midoriya ripped off the parts that were fused and Yui gave him a quick thanks. "Okay, it's done." As she removed the door and placed it in her pocket.

"Good, let's go." Midoriya stated as they kept moving, at least that was the plan till Midoriya checked his scanners and saw something was coming towards them very fast.

"Move!" Midoriya yelled as he pushed Yui out of the way of what would have been a face-full of explosions, courtesy of the resident boom-boom expect.

"You good?" Midoriya asked as he got back to his feet to gauge the threat in front of them.

"Yeah, nothing serious." Yui replied as she took got back up.

"I had a feeling you would take this route, don't dodge next time Deku." Bakugo threatened as he stood in their way.

"And who in their right mind, would just stand still and let someone blow them up?" Midoriya asked as he got into a combative stance.

"Yui, when you see a chance, run past him." Midoriya told her quietly as he didn't wish for Bakugo to hear them, she got the message and simply nodded her head in confirmation.

(With the others)

"A surprise attack?" Tetsutetsu called out, seemingly disgusted by such a move.

"That's so unmanly Bakugo." Kirishima added as he was apparently of the same mind as the first.

"Would you expect any less from such a ruffian?" Monoma asked, it had already been established he didn't particularly like 1-A for reasons unknown to them so his taunts weren't as hurtful as the first few.

"A surprise attack is a tried and true strategy people, there's nothing wrong with that." All Might reminded them as there was no shame in such, it was also true that Bakugo was playing the role of villain so such moves were to be expected.

"Still, he was fast if he could dodge and save Yui like that." Ashido gushed as it was getting exciting to watch.

"He's going at it again!" Tsunotori called out as she pointed to the screens where Bakugo was charging them again.

(With group A)

"I won't do so much damage that they call the match but it'll be pretty damn close, Deku!" Bakugo yelled as he went for a big right swing but Midoriya caught his whole arm in a hold, surprising him. "What!?" and with that, Midoriya used his hold on the boy to flip him into the wall, rather than the ground. He hit the surface with so much force that the wall was cracked from the impact.

"You're too easy to read!" Midoriya told him as he slid down to the floor in a pained heap "Besides, I should say the same to you. After all I only threw you into the wall since I know you can take it. Yui, get going-remember, stick to the plan!" He finished as he turned to his team-mate quickly to see her ran past the both of them.

"On it!" Yui said as she ran down the path Bakugo came down. As she did, Bakugo had already got back up to his feet.

"You bastard…!" Bakugo growled out as he let off some explosions in his palms.

"You usually start with a big right swing. I've known you for years, there's not much I don't know about how you fight after seeing you do so since we were in kindergarten." Midoriya started as he got back into his stance.

"So let's get this party started." He finished as he dashed forward towards Bakugo, who responded with his advance.

Chapter 8: Unexpected Conclusions

"Hey, Bakugo! What happened, where are you?" Awase asked as they felt the tremor from the two students clashing, the explosions weren't quiet by any means of measurement.

"Shut up, I'm about the beat the crap outta Deku and I don't need you in my ear. Get ready to defend the damn bomb from the other extra." Bakugo replied over the line as he sized by his target.

"Extra? Do you mean Yui? How did she get past you in the first place?" Jiro asked.

"Just do your damn job and keep her away for fuck's sake!" And with that, the only blonde present cut the line.

"Great and he hung up on us." Awase complained as he wasn't into this team thing if their teammate was doing his own thing half the time.

"Were you expecting anything else?" Jiro said as she listened in for the incoming 'hero'. "Anyway, it's still a two on one fight in our favor so we shouldn't have any problems."

(With the others)

"Man Bakugo isn't the most 'team player' dude out there, is he?" Kaminari asked as they all heard the conversation. Both side's comms had been broadcasted to them in real-time so they could understand what was going on.

"He seems more like an angry beast than a person like this." Shishida commented.

"I agree, he must be willing to work with his teammates, so far it appears to me as if he's only doing the bare minimum." Kendo said as Bakugo was just barely being a team player.

"From what Midoriya has told me, he was never someone who could work in a team. He feels like it's something that is beneath him." Tokoyami added as he could see for himself that his friend wasn't lying.

"Arrogant much?" Honenuki asked.

"Very." Sero dryly added.

"By the way, how do the heroes beat the villains? Do you just have to knock them out?" Momo asked All Might as they weren't informed on that.

"No, each team was supplied with a role of capture tape per person, so long as you can wrap this around your opponent's body or limb, that person would be counted as captured. The heroes were also given the floor plan of the building to have a better understanding of the battleground, so to speak." All Might explained to them as he took out a roll to show them all.

"So we just have to wrap it around may be an arm and they count as beaten?" Mineta asked as he pointed at it.

"Yes and once that happens, that person must leave the area, if they don't they will receive demerits and their whole team will be automatically disqualified." All Might informed them before one of them tried something funny.

"Monsieur, Bakugo is-" Aoyama started as he kept his attention on the main monitor while the rest discussed the rules.

(With Bakugo and Midoriya)

"So you got some moves, so what!" Bakugo yelled as he set off an explosion behind himself to propel himself towards Midoriya at a faster speed than normal. Once he got into striking distance, he tried to kick the boy on the side of the head but Izuku counted by rising one arm to take the hit while the other came forward in an attempt to wrap the capture around Bakugo's right arm.

'Capture tape!' Bakugo noticed it and before Midoriya could wrap it around his arm, he quickly disengaged his attack and blasted himself back to a safe distance. While he thought of a new attack plan, Midoriya was already using the one he came up with beforehand.

'Just as I thought, he immediately went for close quarters and close a high-powered kick to avoid another flip. If I right again that would mean he will get impatient and try to make some distance.' Midoriya thought to himself as he waited for his chance.

That chance came when Bakugo made another charge towards him, faster than the last one. 'That will my chance to strike back!' Midoriya thought to himself as he waited till Bakugo was right on top of him, as Bakugo launched a left hook, Midoriya caught the attack by his wrist, moving in closer before Bakugo could counter, launching his attack in the form of a crane style side elbow strike to the chest. The hit landed and with enough force to force the air out of Bakugo's lungs as he wheezed in slight pain. He quickly set off an explosion in his trapped arm to get Midoriya to loosen his grip on him and retreat but Midoriya pursued on. He used his increased speed to close the gap between them before, Bakugo tried to keep him back with another explosion but Midoriya dodged it by lowering himself to the floor.

"Too slow!" Midoriya taunted as he grabbed Bakugo in a bridal style fashion before performing a cradle backbreaker. Dropping the blonde into his armored knee for maximum damage and letting go of him afterward so Bakugo could roll away in pain.

(With the others)

"Midoriya's amazing, he is beating the mean boy with no quirk." Tsunotori praised in her broken Japanese as she recognized the move Midoriya just used as one of the many techniques used in pro wrestling. It was a welcome change to her as in Japan, most pros used variants on martial arts rather than American wrestling.

"Wait, you knew he was quirkless?" Unfortunately, due to her bad language skills, Iida thought she meant something else and asked the question.

"Wait, he's quirkless?" Monoma asked he didn't hear about anything like this.

"Now that you mention it, I have heard some rumors about it but it was a student in one of the other courses." Kaibara stated as he heard something about this at lunch the previous day but didn't read too much into it.

"You mean to tell me that he scored the top position in the entrance exam without a quirk?!" Rin asked as he knew it was Midoriya but he didn't think he did so without a quirk, once he got his answer in the form of most of 1-A nodding their heads, he whistled in amazement. "Damn, remind me to never get one his bad side."

(With Bakugo and Midoriya)

'Goddammit, who the hell did the fucking nerd get so good in combat?! He never liked wrestling before!' Bakugo asked himself as he got back up to his feet, he may be in pain but he felt worse during his boxing matches over the years. As he did so, he noticed Midoriya touched the side of his helmet, no doubt listening to whatever the other extra was telling him before he turned around the bolted down a hallway.

"Come back here Deku!" Bakugo yelled out in anger as his target just upped and left as he gave chase.

"Yui, any progress?" Midoriya asked his teammate as he raced around the halls.

"Yes, I've found a trail that I can follow, looks like Awase split some kind of liquid while doing his barrier work." Yui replied.

"Good, so far I've been able to keep Bakugo's attention but sooner or later, he'll catch on." Midoriya replied as he rounded a corner.

"I see…"Yui started as Midoriya could hear she was doing something but he didn't know what. "Lead him to our current position. When you get there, tell me."

"Got it." Midoriya answered, he figured she has a trick up her sleeve so he'll trust her.

(With Jiro)

"Awase, Yui's heading here." Jiro informed him as she listened in to the girl's footsteps as they got closer and closer to her position and the bomb.

"Which path?" Awase asked as he unsealed the door and opened it.

"The one you came down, be ready for her." Jiro told him as she listened in to get her location better.

"Got it." Awase replied as he stepped out and sealed the door shut before he ran to meet her and either slow her down to take her out.

"Why do I have to play overwatch?" Jiro complained to herself as she wanted in on the action but had to stay put. She continued to listen in on all the sounds in the building and caught that Bakugo was still chasing after Midoriya,

"What the hell!?" Bakugo yelled over the comms, making her want to get rid of her own before he deafens her.

"Was is it Bakugo? Why did you stop chasing Midoriya?" Jiro asked as she could tell he was standing still…and so was Midoriya.

"Blow-touch didn't tell me he blocked this path too!" Bakugo demanded.

"Which one?" Awase asked.

"South corridor, on the 3rd floor." Bakugo reported as he quickly recalled the level he was on and his general location.

"…I didn't do that." Awase replied, sounding just confused as she was as she didn't even know there was a blockage of any kind there.

"Stop lying to cover up your fuck-up! There the damn wall in my way!" Bakugo yelled, clearly irritated that he couldn't pursue his favored target.

"But didn't you chase Midoriya down that path?" Awase asked.

(With Bakugo)

"But didn't you chase Midoriya down that path?" Awase asked him, the question itself wasn't meant to mean anything but to Bakugo, he stopped and thought about it and he knew he saw the damn nerd go down this route and he also remembered it was a clear hallway, though it looked like the wall in front of him had been roughed up a bit.

Almost like there was a fight here….but there wasn't….

'Shit!' Bakugo thought to himself as he hurriedly got as far away from the barrier as possible, how could he forget that detail about the extra working with Deku?!

"Do it now Yui!" Bakugo heard his voice through the barrier as it instantly shrank to the size of a pebble, revealing both Yui who had her hands together with the fingertips touching, and Deku who was rushing towards him at a pace Bakugo never thought he could reach, it was moving as fast as four eyes.

"Take this!" Midoriya called out as he landed a powerful Superkick to his face, breaking his nose and sending him back even faster into a wall, cracking it like the last one he was thrown into. Before he could recover, Midoriya grabbed him by the throat and let loose a powerful electrical shock.

"Arg!" Dammit, he yelled as he pried off Midoriya's grip on him and fired off an explosion to Midoriya's chest, forcing him back and allowing Bakugo to fire off an even larger one to act as a smokescreen. Once that was in place, he rocketed into the smoke but changed direction mid-flight to come from above and land a good punch to the back of Midoriya's head through the helmet must have taken most of the impact as he wasn't that phased by the hit and only moved back to where he was at the beginning of the bout. As Midoriya landed next to his partner, she used her quirk again, this time on multiple pieces of debris to create another, much stronger barrier between them, giving the hero team time to run off for the bomb.

(With the others)

"Yui made a fake wall?! How?!" Tetsutetsu yelled as he and the rest of them had seen the whole plan unfold.

"She didn't, she took a segment of wall that Bakugo broke when he made his entrance and sized it up to match the walls." Tokage explained to him.

"Man, that was a smart move on her part. She thought ahead." Sero stated as he didn't think there was a reason that she snatched up a piece of the wall before she and Midoriya separated but now he saw she did so for a reason.

"Bakugo doesn't seem too pleased with the whole being tased thing though?" Shouda said with a frown as they watched Bakugo get tased.

"Would you?" Kaibara counted with a smirk as this was getting entertaining.

(With Awase)

"Jiro, I'm heading to Bakugo, from the sounds of those blasts, he's not having an easy time." Awase stated as he ran down the stairs towards the fighting, he was hesitant to jump in when the fighting started but now he had been hearing explosions and yelling for quite some time and threw his hesitance to the wind.

"No shit, I can hear it from here. Make sure to at least keep them bogged down till the time runs out." Jiro replied as she could feel the tremors from Bakugo blowing stuff up and Yui messing with the sizes of objects such as rubble or doors.

"How much time do we even have left?" Awase asked as he rounded a corner.

"About 10 minutes." Jiro said back as she quickly looked down at her watch.

"Shit, I'm not sure we can buy you that time." Awase swore as he didn't think he'll be able to hold both of them back when Bakugo had been failing to do so.

"Then weaken them, I have a surprise for them if they do manage to get past you anyway." Jiro ordered him as she looked down at her boots, hoping her trump card would be enough for this.

"Alright, wish me luck." Awase finished as he turned the corner and instinctively ducked to avoid a freakishly large barrel of water from smacking into his head. "The hell!?" He asked himself as he quickly got back up and looked over to the damn thing. 'How a barrel get so-Yui.' He thought to himself as only she could make something like that twice its normal size. He was then tackled to the floor by a bruised and very angry-looking Bakugo, he would have yelled at him but he saw that right where he was standing a second ago, a strange-looking disc had been shot into the wall and now hung there with some cables hanging out.

"The hell are you doing here!" Bakugo demanded as they both got back up only for Bakugo to block a kick from Midoriya aimed at his head and knocked the armor-wearing boy back. The three had been at it for some time and the hallway showed so as there were holes and debris all over the place. Yui had the least amount of visible damage besides some scratches here and there along with dust while both Midoriya and Bakugo looked like they had gone more than a few round with the bents, missing areas of paint on his armor for Midoriya and the bloody lip and broken and blood stained nose.

"Helping you, we don't want to fail any more than you do so deal with it!" Awase told him as he fused two pieces of a pipe he found on the floor together to make a staff.

"So he called for back-up?" Yui asked as she stood at the ready with a couple more mini barrels of water.

"It looks like it, we don't have time to deal with them." Midoriya stated as he checked himself over and saw that all those strikes and punches were starting to catch up with him going by the dents and scraps

"Bakugo may have it out for you but I seriously doubt that Awase would just let me pass." Yui said as she didn't think she could just run on by and not have to worry about at least one of them chasing her.

"I know but-" Midoriya started before he whispered the rest of the plan to her to ensure that Bakugo and Awase didn't hear them. Once he was done, she thought it over and quickly nodded her head in agreement.

"That will work." That was all she said, not saying anything about what the plan was or if was risky or not.

"Let's go!" Midoriya said as he and Yui together charged at the two boys, forcing them to meet them in kind.

"Damn nerd!" Bakugo said as he ran in for a punch aimed at Yui, she quickly flipped him over but Bakugo quickly reoriented himself and landed on his hand, and performed a role to dissipate most of the force. Now that he was behind them he fired off an explosion at their back, Midoriya responded by opening his wings to the max he could in the closed-off space and used them as a shield to protect them from the blast. While he did this, he threw a rather big looking piece of debris towards Awase who responded by dodging to the left and lunged at them, forcing them to back up to avoid the strike while Midoriya kept up his defense the increasingly stronger blast from Bakugo was slowly was pushing them back.

"Got you!" Bakugo yelled as he blew off some of the metallic feathers at last and saw an opening to strike. Yui seeing this, grabbed the device he had given her earlier and panted in on the ground. Once it was set, Midoriya closed his damaged wings and stepped back to let Bakugo fall forward a bit as the shield he was striking wasn't there to catch the force of his hit. Yui for her part turned and punched Awase in the gut, making him wheeze and then throwing towards Bakugo, the two collided with each other and fall near the small-looking device.

"Now!" Yui called out as Midoriya kicked the wall with enough power to blow a hole through, letting them both escape the hall into the next room as the now revealed flash-bang-sonic bomb hybrid went off.

"Arg!" Awase screamed in pain as his eyes and ears were assaulted by this violent overload of sensory intake.

"My eyes!" Bakugo screamed as he tried to get back up but fell to his knees in pain as he couldn't get his bearings. Watching this from the relative safety of the next room, Yui was both impressed and annoyed-(though she didn't show signs of either)-she was impressed by the little bomb Midoriya had made and carried with him as it took out the both of their targets pretty easily while she was annoyed because it was much louder than she was told and now her ears were still ringing.

Yui saw that this was their chance so she took out another small object. This one was a tiny stuffed teddy bear, she tossed it over the two recovering boys and once it was over them, she increased its size to about the size of a small car to stop their movement without actually crushing them. "You alright?" Yui asked him as he came out of their hidey-hole.

"Yeah, but my wings are damaged. I'll wrap up Bakugo, you handle Awase." Midoriya answered as he inspected his wings and saw they had taken a real beating, sure he could still fly but he wouldn't try anything risky till he did a full diagnostic check.

"If they worked together better, maybe they would have beaten us." Yui stated as she took out her capture tape and quickly wrapped it around Awase's exposed legs and dragged him out from under the bear. Midoriya had done the same, tying his tape around Bakugo's right arm and pulling him out as he thrashed and struggled in fury, to save himself the curse words, he tied both his legs and arms together before hitting them both with some knock-out gas to put them to sleep.

"Why didn't you use that in the first place?" Yui asked him as she placed Awase next to the knocked-out Bakugo.

"I wanted to kick Bakugo's ass. Right now the score is around 32:23 in his favor. I need to catch up." Midoriya answered as they left them there and walked off.

"Bakugo and Awase have been captured. 7 minutes left on the clock!" All Might announced over the intercom after he saw for himself that both had been taken out.

(With Jiro)

"-minutes left on the clock!" She heard the end of the announcement as both her ears had been badly hit by the sonic part of Midoriya's little grenade. She had been 'plugged' in when it went off it didn't do any favors for her very sensitive ears. Now she didn't know if she was on her own or not.

"What the hell! Did they have to carry a stun grenade on him?" Jiro yelled in pain as she tried and failed to get her teammates to respond to her calls, Bakugo maybe but she didn't think Awase was one to just not answer, especially during a team exercise, the only way both wouldn't answer was if they were busy or….'Crap!'

'Which way will they come in? The door or the window?...maybe both at once to prevent bottlenecking?' Jiro hurriedly thought to herself as she looked at both in thought, the door was quicker as they could just leg it but the window was a one-way entry point. She figured that Midoriya didn't include wings on his suit for a show so she figured he could fly or at least glide early on, the way they entered the place helped that theory.

'How can I defend two entry points? I can aim my speakers at both but how long will that keep them back? I won't be able to move around while doing so either.' Jiro considered as she knew that would hold them back but she was already in pain from whatever kind of stun they had and to even aim at both would require her to stand awkwardly to properly hit them both.

'Dammit, you two. You just made things ten times harder for me than they should be. We're the ones who are supposed to have the numbers advantage, not the other way around!' Jiro silently raged as she tried to come up with a plan to win this.

(With the others)

"Wow, Deku and Yui are so cool, they took down both of them." Uraraka praised as they just watched the duo take down the villain team's best fighter and support fighter.

"I didn't think that Midoriya stored stun disc's in that suit of his as well. Clearly, he came prepared." Tokoyami stated as he referred to the circular discs Midoriya had been firing earlier, he knew of them and how they acted both like a bola to trap targets and a taser.

"We can't count out Jiro just yet(kero). She hasn't done anything yet." Asui croaked.

"Dammit Awase, you should have played more Mortal Combat when you had the chance!" Tetsutetsu ranted in anger at his friend's loss.

"No way, that wouldn't have worked." Kirishima stated to the boy, acting like he was using common sense. "Streetfighter is much better for fighting!" and with that, common sense went out the window.

"Is not!" Tetsutetsu as he butted heads with the fiery passionate redhead.

"Is so!" Kirishima shot back as he pushed back, the two acting like two bucks fighting over something which in this case…was something stupid.

"Are those two arguing about which game helps you learn martial arts?" Ojiro asked as he as a martial artist, always took offense when someone new at the dojo brought up those two games and how they wanted to learn to 'kick ass'.

"I think they are. What are the odds that they've never been a dojo before?" Kendo asked as she agreed with him, honestly, she never got how those games made martial arts so damn popular when they had very little actual martial arts.

"I'll say around 90 percent." Mineta said, adding his two senses to the discussion.

(Back with Jiro)

'Okay, I've rigged the window with some boards and the door is still sealed shut.' Jiro thought to herself as she looked at the window she covered up with most of the stuff she found lying around and the door that Awase closed up.

'But which one will they pick?' She thought to herself as she aimed her boots at both points of entry. She didn't have to wait much longer as she heard footsteps approaching the door on the other side, they got louder and louder as a single person got closer to it. When she thought they would try and break the door down, she was in for a shock when they just stood there and placed something down.

'What was that?' She anxiously thought to herself, thinking it was another one of those bombs they had but she was in for a shock when the door-(and most of the surrounding wall)-was smashed to pieces by a giant red, black and blue toy looking train with Yui standing next to it.

"WHAT THE HELL!" Jiro yelled in sheer shock and disbelief.

(With the others)

"DID SHE JUST USE A DAMN TOY TRAIN AS A BATTERING RAM!?" Mineta yelled out, voicing the confusion between the two classes. Hell, even the stoic and quiet Tokoyami, Todoroki, Kamikiri, and Momo had their jaws dropped at the sheer…craziness of her stunt.

'These kids don't know the meaning of subtlety, do they?!' All-Might thought to himself as he barely held his jaw in place. And he thought the third years did crazy things.

(With Izuku)

"THIS IS WHAT SHE MEANT WHEN SHE SAID SHE 'GOT THIS'?!" Midoriya asked himself as he saw the whole thing through his scans of the room. Yui had told him that it would be best to strike at two points of entry and since he could fly, he was given the window. Honestly, he thought that they would keep the destruction to a minimum with Bakugo out of the fight but clearly, he didn't know his teammate.

"Knock…"He said to himself as he knocked himself out of it and got into the moment as he got into position, landing both feet on the wall before rising his right one up (He's latched into the wall)-charging the shock generator. "Knock!" he announced as he brought down his foot and not only broke through the wall next to the window but made a hole over 2m in width.

"We can do this the hard way but how bout we do this the easy way instead." Yui stated as Jiro saw she was had on both ends. On one side, a girl who clearly didn't do social norms and might just make the plane toy she was holding larger to crush, and the other was a guy who broke through the damn wall and now had his backpack missile salvo-(because of course the idiot put in missiles, why not!)-opened and aimed at her.

"[GULP!]" Was Jiro's response as she took in both options before she made her move.

(Later)

"I can't believe a choked." Jiro moaned sadly as she sat being comforted by Kendo and Kaminari. She had chosen to surrender rather than fight and as a result, her team lost the trial with 5 minutes left on the clock.

"No one blames you, those two didn't make it easy for you." Kendo said as she tried to make her fellow student feel better about her loss. Bakugo and Awase were being questioned by Tetsutetsu and Kirishima, thought Bakugo looked extremely pissed at that, or it could be because he was beaten and knocked out.

"And now they're discussing…whatever they're discussing in the corner." Kaminari stated as he pointed to the corner where Yui had joined Midoriya, Iida, Uraraka, and Tokoyami as they talked about the trail.

"Alright students, now that the first trial is over, can anyone tell me who was the MVP of the match-up?" All Might asked them all, it took less than a second for Momo to raise her hand.

"It was Midoriya All-Might sensei. He did most of the leg work by scanning the building for the villain team and the bomb's location and he was the one that distracted the villain team's beast close-ranged fighter while Yui continued onwards. It was also his grenade that allowed them to take out two members of the villain team at once." Momo stated all in one statement, which was more than anyone was expecting, including the teacher.

'She said way more than I thought she would.' All Might thought to himself as he worked to keep his composure in the face of the young lady saying almost everything he wished to say. "That's is correct young Momo, thought Midoriya did most of the work, Yui did her part in taking down the villain team by creating those obstacles for Bakugo to overcome and showing her skills in unarmed combat. Though I would advise against using trains indoors as in real life, heroes try to minimize damage to infrastructure and private property, insurance companiesalready have it out for us as is." All Might finished with a laugh.

"Yes sir, I'll take that into consideration the right time." Yui answered with her trademark nonexpressional face.

"It's fine, better to make a mistake in training than in real life. Now, let's get on with it." All Might announced as he showed them the next two teams to go head to head was time for Group B to get into positions with Tsunotori and Shishida as the heroes and Kendo, Ashido, and Hagakure as the villains. Needless to say that Villain team won after only 7 minutes due to Hagakure being able to scout ahead without being seen-(she needed to take off what little clothing she still hand to do so)-Ashido's acid melting some of the paths and Kendo's leadership and quite brutal-looking punches easily overwhelmed the Hero team though Pony did get points for her stellar effort even after her teammate had been beaten. The villain team won in 9 minutes.

Group C heroes did better as the team of Kirishima and Rin put up a much better fight against the villain team of Sero, Shoda, and Aoyama with Aoyama keeping them on the first floor for a while with his navel laser-(they only got in once he couldn't fire anymore till he calmed down his stomach). Sero took a page from Awase and used his tape to try and seal up some paths but Rin and Kirishima just cut and clawed their way through them. The final fight was entertaining as little Shoda showed he had the stuff to be a hero when he took on Kirishima and showed just how useful his quick could be. It wasn't till the final 30 seconds that Rin got past Sero and claimed the trail for the hero team.

Kuroiro and Kaibara took the win for the heroes in group D as Kuroiro used the shadows on the alleyway to sneak into the bomb room and waited for Kaibara to draw away by taking down Bondo and forcing Ojiro to fall into a hole to the bottom he made by a corner-(It was an old but useful trick, the old disguised pitfall.) after that, all Kuroiro had to do was wait for Shoji to step away from the bomb to wrap his capture trap around his ankle and claim the win. It took them seven minutes to win.

Iida performed as well as one could expect since his attention wasn't solely focused on the hero team as he had to stop now and then to reprimand his partner(Mineta-who else) who kept sneaking looks at Komori till she 'accidentally' put him to sleep with her mushroom's spores. Sadly for Koda, there weren't that many animals to call to his aid and his nervous and shy demeanor didn't help all that much in the match-up(Iida apologized as he thought it was his performance as a villain that scared him). Tsuburaba performed well but Mineta caught him with one of his balls before they captured him. The villain team won in about 8 and a half minutes.

It was group F however who posted the best time as before the hero team even made it past the 2nd floor, the ceiling above them become liquid-like-(due to Honenuki's quirk) and from it, heavy objects such as tables, chairs, draws and bookcases fell. The villain team had set up the trap rather quickly using both Honenuki and Uraraka's quirks to move just about everything they could into that hall before dropping them, this took out Tokoyami as one of the tables knocked him out before he knew what he hit him. As that happened, it didn't take Tetsutetsu long to overpower Shiozaki who had to use most of her vines to protect herself. The heroes were beaten in only 5 minutes.

Group G's trail was the only one to end with a draw as the hero team of Yanagi and Sato couldn't break past the villain as Momo armed her teammates with bō-staff, bolas, and stun guns. They didn't lose as those same villains couldn't defeat or capture them so All Might saw fit to pass both teams for their effort and how they adapted to each other rather quickly.

Group H had the funniest result as the Hero team won in 7 minutes without the villains ever realizing it as Monoma, Kamakiri, and Todoroki all but beat the heroes as Monoma copied Todoroki's quirk and they both froze the heroes in place before Kamakiri took them both down. They were so confused when the heroes were declared the winner as Kaminari was taken out. They found out after the trial that Tokage had sent off her right eye and left hand to find the bomb, once they did so, all she did was command her hand to touch it. It only took some time as controlling her limbs from such a distance while covering up the fact she was missing an eye and hand was very difficult. Tokage still needed to see Recovery Girl after she lost her eye and had to regenerate another one which made her very sleepy.

By the end of the day, most had passed except for Shishida-(Taken out too quickly); Iida-(Too distracted by Mineta's perverted attitude), Tokoyami-(same reason as the first) and the villain team of group H-(they all left the bomb unguarded)

(Later)

"Good work everyone, we were able to finish our first class without any major incidents or injuries besides Tokage. To those who passed, good work. To those who failed, don't fret, today was the first day of your three years here at U.A. plenty of time for improvement!" All Might announced to the two classes as they all stood at the entrance to the testing ground.

"To have a proper class after Aizawa-sensei's class was….kinda if anticlimactic." Asui commented as she and the rest of 1-A all pictured Aizawa's creepy smile from the previous day and nodded their heads in agreement with her assessment.

"No shit." Sero added as 1-B looked at them like they had a crazy person for a homeroom teacher. Some of them thought they were in the clear but All Might busted their bubbles pretty quick.

"We are free to do what we want with our class's after-all and before those of 1-B think any different…" All Might started cheerfully before he started to chuckle and his ever-present smile looked a bit darker than usual as it sent the child down the spines of those in 1-B "I hear that Vlad King once worked the first-year class so hard that half of them dropped out so don't think you're in the clear just yet." He informed us he had heard that Nezu always had to deal with the fall-outs of Aizawa's purges and Kan's wash-out rate.

"And for a fleeting moment, I thought we had the sane teacher." Yanagi moaned as she could already picture him running them into the ground.

"I don't wanna drop out." Tsunotori whimpered out as she didn't want to drop out of the hero course but if others had done so before…

"Now I must look over the results for our class today so…" All Might started, forgetting about the fact he put the fear of God into his 1st-year class. "GO CHANGE AND HEA BACK TO CLASS!" and with that, he was gone, having raced down the exit path so fast, he was nearly out of sight within seconds.

"All Might's amazing!" Tetsutetsu said as he felt so pumped from being able to learn from the number one.

"Why was he in such a hurry though?" Ojiro asked as it seemed a bit strange to do so.

"So cool…" Mineta said.

"Alright then, you heard All Might-sensei, let's all go change. You doing okay Tokage?" Kendo announced as she turned to her sleepy-looking classmate.

"[yawn] Yeah, let me just get one of my power bars from my locker and I[yawn] be good to go." Tokage replied sluggishly as she used Bondo to stay up.

"Sure." Was everyone's reply as they all walked off towards the showers. Some were making conversation but most keeping their thoughts to themselves.

(With All Might)

'Dammit, I just barely made it. I need to work on that if I'm to teach a class.' All Might thought to himself as he went out of his muscle form as soon as the door closed.

"Hard day?" A voice said out of nowhere, scaring the crap out of Yagi as he turned to see it was only another one of the teachers.

"Oh, Cementoss! I didn't see you when I entered. How has your day been?" Yagi asked him as he collected himself and dropped his tired body into one of the chairs.

"I can't complain, though I would prefer if my students paid more attention to my literature lectures. And yours?" Ishiyama replied as he sorted through some of the test papers he brought with him to grade. He had a free period and decided to use the staff room to grade them as it was much more peaceful.

"I just finished my first class, besides one student overusing their quirk, it went smoothly." Yagi told him as he was just glad he got through it without problems, teaching was harder than it looked. That's for sure.

"How so?" Ishiyama inquired.

"Young Tokay lost her eye during her trial, I didn't even know she could do such a thing." Yagi informed him as it still unnerved him how easy it was for her to just write it off as nothing, was this the first time or tenth?

"You should have read the files on the students beforehand. On the account of Tokage, she's one of the recommendation students for the hero course so this was the first time she had to use her quirk in a combat setting." Ishiyama replied after thinking about it to recall the face of the student in question.

"So she just did whatever came to mind, okay, I'll that in mind the next time I take their class." All Might answered as they both fell into silence.

(With the 1-A boys)

"Man, that Shoda guy knows how the throw a punch, I didn't think it would hurt that much!" Kirishima stated as he massaged his forearm of the arm he used to block the boy's hit.

"At least you had a fighting chance, I never it coming." Shoji said as he put on his undershirt.

"You and I both." Tokoyami agreed with him as he put his cloak back into his locker.

"Yeah, dealing with being stunned and tased half the time isn't fun." Sato added his two cents as he fastened his belt.

"Still though, how the hell did you find the time to prev?" Sero asked Mineta who was tying his shoelaces.

"A man never reveals his secrets." Was his cringe-worthy attempt as being cool.

"Dude…your like, fifteen. Between the 14 of us, you're about as manly Aoyama." Kaminari roasted as he pointed to the blonde who was fixing his hair in the locker-mounted mirror.

"Monsieur, I resent that statement." Aoyama shot back, not wanting to be dragged into this.

"I was going to say he has experience which speaking of," Midoriya said as he buttoned his shirt and turned to Mineta. "Here's some free advice, stop before he hit 18 otherwise you find ourselves in a jail cell faster than Bakugo's temper flares." He stated with a straight face as he turned around to continue getting dressed.

"What was that Deku!" Bakugo yelled out as Kirishima held him back from starting something.

"Please don't call me when it does, I don't need to explain how I know you to my folks." Sero added, not that Mineta cared.

"Midoriya, I was meaning to ask, how did you procure such a powerful suit of armor? I wasn't aware support companies made them." Iida asked as he was busy putting on his tie.

"They didn't, I did." Midoriya answered as he picked up his tie to start to put it on.

"You made it?" Ojiro asked, shocked that someone their age made something so advanced.

"Well you don't shoot fire out of her hands or laser outta your belly button, you gotta learn to adapt." Midoriya answered nonchalantly as he finished with his tie.

That's so cool, I still can't forget how you blocked most of Bakugo's attacks with it." Kirishima said with a massive grin.

"Yeah, but he takes damage for it." Tokoyami stated as he finished buttoning up his blazer and left.

"Yes, but it won't take too long to fix, maybe a couple of hours. Better than a physical injury like the lot of you would have taken, that's where I have you all beat, where your quirks all have some kind of price or recharge time, all I need to switch suits or replace the fuel cells and I can keep going till the cows come home." Midoriya explained to them as he also finished getting dressed. The boys present were surprised by what he told them as it was true to some extent, quirks at the end of the day were a part of them, and overusing and pushing them hurt them, this was something Bakugo and Todoroki knew well but on the other hand, Midoriya didn't have that weakness, as long as he stayed awake he could keep fighting since he relayed on a non-bodily part. "See you in class." Midoriya stated as he left the locker room in silence.

"Why do I have a feeling this will come back to bite us?" Kaminari asked. Feeling slightly scared of the smile he saw on the boy's face when he left.

"Because it might very well do just that." Todoroki answered as he looked to where Midoriya was just moments prior and knew he would need to be defeated sooner rather than later.

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