178Izuku smiled as he walked into the locker room for the boys, looking around his new classmates. He stopped taking proper steps forward, simply sliding on his feet towards a locker marked with his name.
He got some odd looks from some of his classmates as he did, ignoring them as he opened up the locker and smirked upon seeing his gloves and utility belt.
"Um… Midoriya?" A voice called, getting the green haired boy to look around and notice it was a redheaded teen with spiky hair. "That's your name, right dude?"
"Yeah. Something the matter?" He asked as he took his gloves and slid them on, before attaching his utility belt.
"Was just wondering what took you so long? Also what's that stuff you got on there?" He pondered curiously, before then tacking on as an afterthought "Kirishima, by the way."
"Nice to meet you." Izuku beamed, before opening one of his satchels and showing the pellets inside. "Also, this is support gear."
"Oh, do you need that for a dazzling quirk, like mine, mon amie?" A blonde boy who seemed to be literally sparkling asked. Izuku just laughed.
"Un camarade de classe français? Cool. But no." Izuku said, stretching before looking around them all. "Actually, the reason I need these is because I don't have a quirk at all."
There was a moment of silence, before the blue haired teen from the entrance exam, Iida looked up in confusion. "You can't be serious? Then that outfit you were wearing…"
"It's essentially my hero costume. I didn't have a school to represent which is why I was wearing it throughout the whole exercise." He explained, slightly cold but that act quickly dropped at the look of shame which came onto the taller teens face, standing up and bowing.
"…Midoriya, I apologize whole-heartedly for how I treated you during the entrance exam. I had presumed you were not taking it seriously at all, yet clearly if you went to that much effort, then you were taking it completely seriously. I hope you can forgive my rudeness." The blue haired teen apologized, catching Izuku off-guard.
After a moment though, the quirkless teen simply smiled. 'Well it's more than what most students have done in the past .'
"Thank you for your apology. I accept." He said simply, before a thoughtful hum from another boy caught their attention.
"Wait, if you don't have a quirk, how were you sliding on the floor a minute ago?" Asked a boy with bright yellow hair that had a black streak running through it, in the shape of a bolt of lightning. Izuku simply grinned as he sat down and lifted his foot showing the soles of his feet, revealing the small wheels in them.
"The teachers let me wear heelies to add to my speed." He laughed. 'Easiest gadget to make in my entire arsenal, seeing as I just buy them from a store and have Powerloader change them to all-terrain wheels.'
"Damn dude, lucky. So wait, what are those gloves for then?" Kirishima asked, before getting a cheeky smile from the green haired teen.
"Now now, I can't reveal all my secrets right away. Where would be the fun in that?" he laughed, finishing up getting changed and stretching one more time, making sure to keep his fingers closed so his claws didn't come out before he turned and made his way to the door. "Don't take too long by the way, mister Aizawa is never too happy about having to wait on someone."
With that, he left his fellow male classmates behind in a state of confusion.
It didn't 1-A long to gather on the P.E. grounds of U.A. after Izuku arrived, all of them were currently waiting to be told what they were here for by Aizawa.
"You have all participated in a series of physical fitness tests before, correct?" the man began, getting various nods from the students. "Okay good. Tsuyu Asui, step forward."
A girl with long green hair tied into a bow and frog like features walked forward with wide, confused eyes as she kept a finger pressed to her lips in what was, to Izuku at least, an adorable pose.
"What was your farthest softball throw in middle school?" the scruffy pro inquired with bored eyes.
"Thirty-eight metres, sir." Asui answered, before suddenly their teacher handed her a softball and gestured to a spot for her to stand at.
"Alright. Now, throw this ball but use your quirk." He instructed simply.
The girl took a moment to think before throwing the ball in the air and a long powerful looking tongue shot out her mouth, grabbing the ball as she began spinning on her heels before eventually letting the ball go and causing it to fly.
After a few moments, Aizawa turned lazily to the class and held up a display pad with a score on it. "Three-hundred and three metres."
"Holy…" One of the girls muttered under their breath as everyone but Izuku looked on wide eyed. The quirkless boy instead just smiled, even offering the frog girl a thumbs up for her score, which she smiled at.
At least, Izuku thought she was smiling, her facial expression didn't change that much really so he couldn't be sure.
"This is what you all will be doing, using your quirks on a series of fitness tests to see how useful your quirk really is. The entrance exam only judges so much about each applicant's capabilities, I'm going to make sure you actually have what it takes to be a hero." The man said.
"That looks fun." One boy muttered, making Izuku flinch. 'Oh, bad choice of words'
"Yeah! I want a go!" a girl spoke up. 'Seriously, stop before-"
"Fun?" '….Well, here comes evil dad mode…' "Heroics aren't something you do for 'fun', you will be taking this seriously. To ensure that much, whoever scores the lowest on these tests will be judged to have no potential and thus, be expelled."
As the class burst out into shocked shouts, Izuku looked to see both Tooru and Ochaco seemed slightly stunned but nowhere near as shocked as the rest of the class thanks to his earlier warning. He also chose to ignore how some of the boys were now giving him looks of pity.
"That isn't fair!" One girl with pink hair and equally pink skin said, looking like she was about to continue but before she could, Aizawa cut her off.
"Life isn't fair. People taken hostage by villains, people who lose family members in natural disasters, the people permanently injured due to villain attacks will all tell you, life is not fair." The man said simply with his harshest glare so fair. "So for them to put their trust in you, you need to be the best of the best. So prove you're meant to be here, Plus Ultra style."
Aggressive, but motivational. A harsh slap in the face to get the class going.
Izuku was sure that's what his dad was going for. Which is why he just walked forward with sparkling eyes and a shit-eating grin. "So… can we get started now or are you going to keep doing the whole Grinch teacher act? Because the sooner we get through this, the sooner you can sleep."
There was a beat of silence.
"God dammit, Izuku." Aizawa muttered under his breath. "Everyone, go to the fifty metre dash."
He pointed to the nearby dash as he did so, before fixing Izuku with a light glare. Izuku just smirked back, before continuing to walk, finding himself side by side with his friends.
"Do… Do you deliberately try to undermine him?" Hagakure asked as they joined the crowd, Aizawa calling a 'Shoji' and 'Sero' forward.
"Yeah. It's basically a game. If he punishes me for my goading, I win and he's fully aware of it." He explained before waving it away with a small smile. "Don't worry, I still respect him and won't do it when things are actually serious. Still, dad could stand to lighten up a little for the first day."
"As long as you're sure you won't get in trouble." Ochaco hummed with a small frown, not wanting her new friend to end up in detention or something on the first day.
"I'll be fine." He said with a small laugh.
"Ochaco Uraraka, Pony Tsunotori." Aizawa called, so the brunette ran forward to the start line, leaving Hagakure and Izuku alone.
Looking to his invisible friend, he frowned as he took in her posture. It was ever so slight but she was slightly hunched forward, more than what was normal for her and based on the creases in her clothes, her head was hung forward.
It would be difficult to read the emotions of an invisible person without being really good at analysing, fortunately Izuku was quite literally trained to read people and his environment by Nezu.
And he could tell his friend was upset.
"Hagakure? What's the matter?" He asked simply, tilting his head to the side.
"H-Huh?"
"You look worried." He said simply, surprising the girl.
"Y-You can tell?" she asked with a confused tone, getting a nod from the boy. With sigh, she just gestured forward to Pony and Ochaco who had both just finished up. Their brunette friend with a time of seven point one five seconds and the American blonde with a time of four point five six seconds. "It just kinda hit me… these are fitness tests. I'm probably going to be screwed here."
Ah, that explained it. With a small smile, Izuku set his hand on her arm.
"Hey, remember what you told me in the exam?" he asked, getting a confused hum from the invisible teen. "You said we've got to stick together, and you were right. Plus most people would have just laughed at me when I told them I was quirkless but you didn't, you even came and found me in the exam to help me. So I'm going to stick by you now, you've got this Hagakure!"
"Midoriya…"
He gave her shoulder a light squeeze, flashing her a bright smile.
"Just give it your all, okay? I'll be cheering for you every step of the way!"
"Tooru Hagakure, Denki Kaminari." Aizawa called out, and Izuku felt his hand get squeezed for a moment.
"You are so getting hugged later." The invisible teen said with a small giggle, her voice sounding slightly more relaxed before she hurried over to the start while Ochaco took her place on the other side of Izuku.
"Look forward to it." The greenette said with a grin. Uraraka giggled a little, having heard the end of that conversation.
"Do you think she'll do good on the tests?" The brown eyed girl pondered, getting an enthusiastic nod from Izuku.
"Oh yeah, she'll be fine." 'Like she said, we have to stick together, and I have a plan to make sure she will end up with some good scores.'
"Six point three six seconds!" the robot that tracked times announced as Hagakure crossed the finish lines. It came to life again a moment later when Kaminari, who turned out to be the yellow haired boy from earlier, passed it. "Seven point zero two seconds!"
Tooru sprinted back after that to her friends, letting out a slightly excited giggle. "I think… that's the fastest I've ever run in my life…"
"You did great, Hagakure!" Ochaco cheered, throwing an arm around the transparent girl's neck.
"Izuku Midoriya, Eijirou Kirishima." Aizawa's voice rang out once again, making Izuku grin as he took his place on the left track, the red headed boy from the locker room on the right track with a grin of his own.
Izuku's faltered ever so briefly though as a thought came to mind, while he prepared his wrist shooters for use. 'I bet Bakugou would have used his explosions as propulsion if he was here… These won't make anywhere near as much of a difference, but even a small advantage is still and advantage at least. Then again… maybe using them like this will be more of a hindrance…'
The distance recording machine made a sound like a gun going off and the two boys launched forward, Izuku quickly taking the lead. He rapidly had to make the choice between using his arms in a natural way or relying on his gadgets and he ended up choosing the later, arms flying back as he pressed down on the pressure switches and flames shot out in massive streaks.
Some people let out shouts of surprise at the flames as he finished quickly, with a bounce at the end that propelled him past the finishing line. It was cheating sure, but that was the whole point of these tests in the first place essentially.
"Five point three seconds!" The recording machine announced Izuku's time in its chirpy voice, before then being set off again by Kirishima. "Five point eight six seconds!"
Izuku just grinned, as he walked back to Ochaco and Tooru, both looking at him amazed.
Now he just had to keep up the impressive showings for the rest of the tests.
"Hey, Hagakure?" Izuku called out to his invisible friend across the room. They were inside at the moment, taking part in a grip strength test using machines.
The floating U.A. gym uniform that was Tooru at the moment hurried over, letting out a small groan. "Dang it… I don't think I did too good on this test."
It wasn't hard to figure out why she thought that, as nearby a group of boys had gathered around Shoji, a muscular masked student with short, sharp grey hair and six arms, who had impressed them all by managing to reach a score of five hundred and forty kilograms.
"What about you Izuku, are you about to take it?" The girl asked, getting a small snicker from Izuku. "Will your gloves or something give you an advantage?"
"Maybe a small one but that's not how I'm going to get my big score." He said with a grin, making sure she was watching as he pointed his left wrist at the machine and let it hit the back. He didn't want to leave it too long and break the thing all together but he did make sure the plastic panelling was made softer before he pried it off with a claw. "These things specifically are kept more safe than the other machines, but all of them are able to be tampered with. After all, we're supposed to cheat, it just so happens they make it about quirks normally. But all cheating is allowed…"
"Wait really, so then you're going to force the machines to give you high scores?" She inquired, making him grin as he found a knob and began cranking it up as much as he could, one that affected the sensitivity of the machine. 'There, if I counted correctly, ten pounds of force should now be one hundred to this machine…'
"Not exactly. Dad will still try to stop us from doing it, to keep everyone on their toes and he knows to keep an eye out for me." He looked up at her with a grim. "I'd need to be invisible or something to do it while he's distracted."
He even went as far as to throw a wink, just in case he was being too subtle somehow as he took a tight hold of the machine in his grasp.
"Holy crap…" Hagakure muttered under her breath at the reading on the machine and Izuku looked at it before grinning as he saw it was giving a reading of five hundred and fifty-one Kilograms.
'Thank you Nezu and Powerloader for showing me how these things work…'
The standing long jump had come after the grip strength test, with Tooru and Ochaco having their turns before Izuku once again.
The gravity defying brunette had seemed slightly hesitant to use her quirk, but with some quick encouragement from Izuku and Tooru she'd decided to use it on herself and floated over the pit without issue.
Afterwards though she'd had to lean on Izuku for a little bit until she regained her bearings from the nausea it caused her, while Izuku called Aizawa over during Tooru's turn.
It was the perfect excuse, simply making sure Ochaco would be saved until last in the next round so they didn't have any incidents while he tried not to smirk as Tooru, instead of clearing the jump in her now naked state, instead tampered with the machine in a similar way to Izuku, causing it to make the noise that would signal a student clearing the sandpit.
Once she'd got her clothes back on and one or two other students had had their go's, it was finally Izuku's turn.
He took a deep breath as he prepared himself. This was one of the tests where he would have to rely completely on his skill and experiences alone, as none of his gadgets could help him here.
Fortunately, he'd been training for a long time to be agile, nimble and, at Nemuri's insistence to add it to his list of descriptions, flexible as possible. Along with that, he had attended a great many parkour lessons over the years, giving him as much of an advantage as possible.
He let go of his breath and launched forward with a graceful technique, gaining him as much distance as possible. He soared through the air, landing perfectly and looking back, sighing with relief when he saw he'd cleared the sandpit by mere inches.
Three tests down, five more to go.
The side-steps had been another event that had come down more to skill for Izuku then anything, though in the end that ended up being just fine as only two people ended up being able to use their quirk to achieve high scores, so the quirkless teen had been able to surpass most of his classmates.
Tooru and Ochaco hadn't done too bad themselves either, clearly putting their all into it (even if the invisible girl was likely going to tamper with the recording machine barely minutes later to change her score.)
It was the event that came after that that Izuku finally got a chance to show off his gadgets again, as they had finally returned to the ball throw. Tooru of course couldn't tamper with the machine in Aizawa's grasp, so she had to settle for the simple fifty-two metre throw she managed.
The quirkless teen still congratulated her for a good performance for someone with no enhancement abilities.
Pony had gone right after the invisible girl, her horns firing off after she threw the ball into the air and causing it to gain quite a few extra meters, getting a few impressed looks from the class.
She'd ended up walking back to near Izuku, so he'd given her a thumbs up and a quick smile. "Well done! Impressive throw."
"Thank you very much!" She'd simply beamed, before the freckle faced teen's attention was brought back to the next student going up, as It was Ochaco.
She'd used her quirk on the ball, throwing it with as much force as she could at the same time…
…and then, they had to stand there for a good ten minutes in silence before their teacher finally took pity on them and showed them the score Ochaco reached was, somehow, infinity.
"That's insane…" One boy muttered in surprise, absolutely flabbergasted by what he just saw.
"Izuku Midoriya." Aizawa called out, ignoring the shocked teens. Izuku just smiled as he took his place, taking the ball and a deep breath.
"Dude... Do you think he was telling the truth about being quirkless? I thought he was joking before and had a weak quirk or something, but he hasn't used actual powers a single time yet." One boy asked, causing some of the girls who hadn't met Izuku to have their eyes to go wide in surprise.
Izuku was ready to tune the conversation out as he folded back his cartridge holder to reveal the crossbow, priming it for use as he was sure it wouldn't have anything nice to say about him due to habit. He was glad to be proven wrong a moment later.
"He must have been telling the truth dude! Which means he got through the entire entrance exam quirkless! Dude, that's so manly!" Kirishima said with a massive grin, causing a few people to nod in agreement at that statement. "Wonder how he's going to deal with this then…"
Izuku just smirked, throwing the ball high into the air and as far forward as he could before snapping his arm upwards, taking aim like Snipe had taught him and shooting a dart forward.
He'd never used them at the time, but they had been darts intended for the entrance exam he'd simply ended up not using in favour of his other gadgets. They were small, designed to be rapid in speed and powerful enough to pierce the solid metal armor of the villain bots.
Which meant it had no issue going straight into the softball with enough force it rapidly disappeared into the distance, Izuku having borrowed the idea from Pony after seeing her horns in action.
He looked over to his teacher with a grin, who held up the display pad while hiding his likely smiling face behind his capture scarf.
Two-hundred and ninety-one point six metres.
Izuku stood side by side with Tooru and Ochaco, all three somewhat nervous as they waited for the results. While they were aware the threat of expulsion was a lie, they still hoped they scored decently well.
The last three tests had been fairly simple, nothing to write home about. During the sit-ups, Izuku and Ochaco had been keeping count for one another, and the quirkless teen was able to simply blaze through that particular test as he was used to much more intense training by now, easily earning a high score.
After that Izuku and Tooru had been assigned to count each other during the toe touches and had once again found a way to cheat the system. his gloves gave him a little bit of extra reach, providing an advantage he hadn't even accounted for and with Aizawa needing to check multiple students, he couldn't keep a consistent eye on the two to make sure their counting was accurate.
Izuku had practically got away with admitting he was lying as well, by pointing out with Hagakure's invisibility there was no way for him to know if his count was exact, so the pro simply had to accept the number Izuku thought it was, giving the invisible girl a slighter higher score than what she really achieved.
And now the moment of truth was upon them. For Ochaco to see how well her quirk did and for Izuku and Tooru to see if their little plans had worked out for them.
Aizawa pressed a button and the results flashed up.
1st. Momo Yaoyorouzu
2nd. Shoto Todoroki
3rd. Tenya Iida
4th. Fumikage Tokoyami
5th. Mezo Shoji
6th. Mashirao Ojiro
7th. Izuku Midoriya
8th. Eijirou Kirishima
9th. Pony Tsunotori
10th. Mina Ashido
11th. Ochaco Uraraka
12th. Koji Koda
13th. Rikidou Satou
14th. Tsuyu Asui
15th. Tooru Hagakure
16th. Kyoka Jirou
17th. Hanta Sero
18th. Yuuga Aoyama
19th. Denki Kaminari
20th. Minoru Mineta
"And I lied, no one is going home." Aizawa announced, as he closed the results. Some of the students shouted in displeasure while Izuku just rolled his eyes. "That was just a ruse to ensure you gave it everything you could on the test."
He looked over them all momentarily before sighing. "All of you get changed back into your normal school outfits and return to class, you will meet your next teacher once you're back in class. I have other things to deal with."
With that, the man walked off, leaving his class behind to just stare confused for a moment, most of them absolutely stunned at the bizarreness that was Shota Aizawa.
Once they collected themselves though, they all began to make their way back, as a grin spread wide on Izuku's face, turning to Tooru. "Hey, didn't you say something about a hug earlier by the way?"
"Oh, you want that now?" the girl asked with a playful giggle, before suddenly jumping him. "I thought you'd have waited to the end of the day."
"W-Well… I mean I like your hugs." He simply admitted quietly, enjoying the embrace for a moment before noticing the look on Ochaco's face. "I'm pretty sure you can join to Uraraka."
"Yep!" Tooru said happily, holding an arm out and as soon as she did, the brunette made her way into the embrace as well with a smile and slightly red face. "Gotta love hugs."
"Ah, personally I find they make my fur bristle in irritating ways, however that may just be a me problem." A new voice spoke up, getting them to look around and see principal Nezu standing there, smiling at them. "I find myself rather glad Aizawa still holds these tests, it made finding you rather easy. I hate to drag you away from your first day of class Izuku, but I wish for you to come with me, It's important."
"Yes sir." Izuku said, going into business mode as he let go of the hug, waving the two girls away before following the principal through the school. "May I know what exactly you need me for?"
"It's time for you to meet the newest member of U.A.'s staff. I believe you already know of him…" the principal said simply, not elaborating any further as they traversed the halls to the hybrid creature's office. He didn't step inside, instead letting Izuku make his way in first.
Of the many things he thought he might see when he walked in, the last thing he expected to see was the Symbol of Peace himself.
All Might was here.
