Izuku felt panic, sheer, horrible sweep into his mind.
He lost the 50 meters sprint, though thankfully not to Momo or Uraraka, but instead to Iida. The tall boy had a quirk which made it so that his legs essentially had race car engines sticking out of them.
Not too surprisingly, he was fast.
He took the 50 meters dash in 3.04 seconds, compared to Izuku's 4.03 seconds that he cleared with a jump.
Uraraka made it in 5 seconds flat, making her 5th after Mina, a girl with pink skin and long pink hair who took the 50 meters in 4.12, and Katsuki who did it in 4.13.
He was doing well, but he wasn't at number 1. Shit!
Uraraka jumped while making herself weightless. Though it lasted only for a second, her momentum, and the distance she cleared in that second, still sent her 45 meters.
Okay. He just had to do 50 then. Time to see how far he'd go.
Before he and Venom had finalized their bond, he had been able to make a 10-meter jump.
He was way stronger than just 5 times what he had been… Right?
On his side he felt, more than saw Momo preparing a jumping staff.
Ignore her, focus more only on jumping!
He tensed, his muscles ready, waiting only for the sound to go.
It came, he sprung forward, only 4 meters before the sand, not as much as he had usually used when he did these kinds of jumps. He reached the end.
He bent down his legs, and prepared them for the bound, like a catapult.
Like the log so long ago, the ground broke beneath his feet as he jumped, but it didn't prevent him from leaping into the air.
Izuku soared, for the first time since he bonded with Venom, he felt at true ease. He felt like he had back in the woods, running, so long ago now.
This was what he was born to do. Motion, energy, momentum. All in the simple act of moving at great speeds. He was free when he did this, free from the world, free from worries, free from everything that worried him.
-It's amazing isn't it?-
"Yeah." Izuku said softly, his words taken by the wind. Venom understood it, he knew how this felt. Was this how all those who bonded with symbiote felt?
Finally, after what felt like a small eternity for Izuku, the ground came up to meet him. This time, he didn't fall flat on his face or crash in the ground into a roll. Instead he landed on his feet, and instantly fastened himself to the ground.
He turned around. Then repeatedly blinked. Had he really gone that far? He had cleared the sandbox a bit back.
-78th meters.-
"Not… Not bad. That's almost twice as far as Uraraka."
He smiled. Then it faded and he melancholically added. "That's how far we're ever gonna go isn't it?"
-We might push it a few more meters with training so you become better at it, but yeah, you're not going to become stronger no.-
"And there really isn't any way to increase our powers?"
-For you? No. We do become temporarily stronger for a period, in the time leading up to when we will spawn another of our kind, but that is not going to happen in your life.-
"Right… You mentioned that when you talked with my mom."
He'd gone on about that for quite a while in fact, as Inko questioned him about the idea he might create an alien takeover since his kind reproduced asexually.
Symbiotes built up energy over the period of multiple hosts' lifetime, which would eventually be enough to allow them to spawn another of their kind.
All well and good, except the usual time span between each new spawn was about 4 hosts, and generally a time period of 2 centuries.
Needless to say, he would not be alive to see it. And even if the symbiotes did achieve a large number on earth, by the time that happened, humanity would have taken to the stars.
Or at least that was what Venom said.
As he walked back, he heard shouts from his fellow students.
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"OVER 70 METERS? Wow, that's amazing!" Mina, the cheerful pink girl, exclaimed loudly! Several of the rest of the class muttered similar opinions.
Izuku, still neither familiar nor comfortable with contact with the opposite sex, nor used to compliments in general, blushed like a fire hydrant from the praise.
"Indeed! It's as I said earlier, you'll do. Fine Midoriya!"
"You… Really have that much faith in me?"
"Of course! I was there during the exam. While it is true that Uraraka Ochako's full power dwarfs everyone else here, she is also not capable of using said power at it's maximum without injuring herself. That is not the case with you however!"
"I… I guess so…"
He looked around for said girl and she was off to the side of the building where their next text was.
"Anyway…. Thank you for the support."
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Izuku had quickly realized that while his many classmates here were capable of doing one or two of the tests really, really well, when it came down to it, the overall number one spot would be either him, Uraraka, or Momo.
The tall, black-haired beauty did not possess the sheer brute power of him or Uraraka, but it was incredibly versatile.
As she proved when she conjured up a cranked winch to score 1.2 Tons in the grip strength test.
It was an incredibly high score, or so Izuku would have thought.
If not for the fact Uraraka scored 2.3 Ton before them.
Sweat began to trickle down his skin.
-Man, you worry way too fucking much. We'll beat both those no problem."
Izuku picked up the grip as it finally became his turn.
He took deep breaths, and desperately tried to calm himself. Only one try. If he screwed up, he was fucked. Don't think about that, just… Grip it. Grip it hard.
CRUNCH
Izuku blinked at the unexpected sound, and looked down. He had, unintentionally, crushed the device in his hand as he had tried to measure his grip strength.
A blonde boy with a streak of black whistled, at the sight. "Impressive."
He turned to Aizawa.
"Sensei, I… I broke the device…"
Aizawa just looked at him stoically.
"You only get one try Midoriya."
Then he walked off to the next students, leaving Izuku to gape after him in panic.
-That would either make us number 1 in this, or we just became last place.-
Shit, Shit, SHIT!
...
The following exercises ended up going all over the place. He beat Uraraka in endurance running, lost to her in upper body strength, he and her both performed only relatively well in sustained sideways jumping(Frankly the only members of the class who did that well was a dwarf kid named Mineta, Iida and Mina in that order.) and he had beaten her in seated toe touch in, losing only to a girl named Tsuyu.
Now he shook in terror, waiting for Aizawa to read up the results, and either doom him or praise him.
He had no idea how he'd rank in this. Was it the best overall? Or was all sums just added up, so if you did exceedingly well in one it could elevate your score completely above your other ones? If it was that latter, he was fucked, given Uraraka had gotten an infinity.
"Time to present the result."
"The total score is just the aggregate sum of each of your scores. Since it'd take forever to go ever each score individually I'll just disclose all of them at once."
He raised his phone, preparing to make it show a hologram of all the tests.
The moment of truth.
"Oh, and by the way, that whole expulsion thing was all a lie."
Silence.
Aizawa grinned, but unlike his previous attempt at a sadistic smile, which had been completely natural, this one could best be described as the smile of a lazy man who had only ever been heard of sadistic smiles in stories.
"It was a logical ruse to pull out your best performances."
"WHAAAAAAAT!!!?"
Izuku was not the only one screaming that, but he and Venom were the loudest.
The only one not shocked was the raven-haired Momo. "C'mon guys, use your brains. That was obvious from the start."
Venom disagreed.
-BULLSHIT!!! He WAS planning to expel someone when he gave the threat earlier, we could FEEL IT! That fickle asshole just changed his mind on the spot!-
Izuku didn't know how true that was, but at the moment he just stood there, breathing in relief.
Aizawa let things quiet down a bit before he continued.
"Anyway… With that first day's over. Your curriculum sheets are in the classroom. Make sure you give them a thrice over before you go home."
Holy shit that was an abrupt end of the first day. It was only 11.36.
"Oh, and Midoriya…"
-Ah, here it comes.-
What? What was coming? The hell was Venom talking about?"
"A cording your sheet, your quirk is an emitter type. That's wrong. Go get it's classification changed to a mutant type quirk."
Izuku just stared. After a moment he was about to ask, why? Only for Aizawa to turn and leave before he could do so.
-What a fucking asshole.-
"Why, what'd he do now?"
Was Venom really so pissed about him leaving before he could question him?
-Nothing.- Venom said in an annoyed tone, then he pushed down Izuku's sleeves almost as an afterthought. -Anyway, let's just go home already.-
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