Chapter 6 (Male Version): The Entrance Exam

You walked through the front doors with Laura and took a look around. Everything was so clean and fancy, it made you feel like you were far away from home rather than being in the same city.

You went to the place where you were told to meet up. It was a room with a huge desk, the people behind the desk were probably around their late twenties or early thirties.

You walked up to them and showed them your letter of recommendation.

However, all of the students have to pass the entrance exam which will focus on three things:

1. How good your combat abilities are.

2. How strategical you are.

3. How heroic you are.

Out of these three, the one that usually gives people the most trouble is the last one, which tests how selfless you are and how much you care about others.

Every student is tasked with taking down an opponent and save someone from that opponent. The opponents are different types of military robots, which each has a difficulty grade on them. The higher the difficulty, the more points you get for defeating it, except for the hardest one, which will give you 0 points. You can defeat and save as many people as you want.

Few minutes later, and you're in a huge city arena together with 30 other candidates. The exam has now begun and you have 30 minutes to save as many people as possible and defeat as many robots as possible, however you were warned to not engage in a fight with the most difficult robot as it only gives you 0 points for defeating it.

The people you have to save are normal civilians, which you easily recognize by their purple bracelets, the robots however have yellow bracelets.

You saw a robot with a green bracelet and asked what it means.

It was a medical robot, which were to pick you up after the exam if you were hurt.

You remembered that you were not allowed to destroy them, as doing so would lead to you getting expelled from the hero academy.

You were ready to start fighting, and it was your time to shine.

You looked for robots with yellow bracelets so you could destroy them and save the civilians with purple bracelets.

You saw a robot with a yellow bracelet and destroyed it.

To your surprise, upon destroying the robot, a civilian with a purple bracelet fell from the sky.

You thought that maybe this was the way to save them.

You tried to catch them so they didn't get hurt from falling from the sky.

You looked for more robots to destroy, but for some reason there were none to be seen.

While you were searching for robots.

10 minutes passed and you've only saved 3 civilians so far and destroyed 5 robots.

The other candidates were starting to get the hang of things so it was getting harder to find robots to destroy.

You could see other people happily catching civilians as they fell from the sky.

Some civilians was also attached to the robots, so that the candidates had to think before fighting the robots.

You looked for robots to destroy and couldn't find any, but you start seeing falling civilians everywhere.

To save them, you had to act quickly.

You started running towards the civilians and tried your best to catch them.

5 minutes passed and you suddenly heard a loud noise coming from somewhere. One of the teachers immediately announced through the speaker that they have released the robot which gave you 0 points for defeating it. In other words, the robot which was the most difficult to beat. It was as large as a small skyscraper.

You knew that it was too powerful for you to destroy, but you couldn't ignore the people either.

Most of the other candidates started running away from it, as it would be impossible for them to destroy such a robot.

Immediately, just out of instinct, you warned all of the civilians by giving them a nightmare about the robot. As a result, all of the civilians evacuated from the robot, because the nightmare they got, told them where to go.

Meanwhile, you were on top of one of the houses and watched where the robot went.

The robot was destroying all of the buildings, roads and bridges as it made its way towards a dam just outside of the city.

You knew that if it destroyed the dam, water would flood the entire city and everyone here would drown.

But then again, the entire city was made so you could take this test. Why they had a dam there was beyond your understanding.

You came up with two plans of action:

A) You could warn everyone else about the dam and get them to help you stop the robot from destroying it.

B)  You could destroy the robot yourself to prevent it from destroying the dam.

You would only need help if you chose plan A. On the other hand, you would be able to stop the robot immediately if you went with plan B.

However, due to its size, you were unable to think of a way to stop it. Besides, it wasn't like you knew everything on what you could and couldn't do. From your point of view, you've only had you quirk for 1 year, even though you've actually had its since you were 4 years old. You didn't know everything about it or how it could help you in this situation.

After weighing the pros and cons of both plans A and B, you decided to pick one.

Which one would you choose?

You decided to go for plan A. Unbeknownst to you, you weren't the only one trying to figuring out on how to deal with the robot. Several other candidates were also trying to come up with something on what to do with the robot which was walking towards a dam.

There were now 8 minutes left.

You quickly looked for these candidates and told them the plan.

You told them that someone had to distract the robot away from the dam. While you weren't sure if this was possible, the only thing you knew that could do it was your nightmare quirk,  so you needed to try it.

They were hesitant to do so, but they listened to your orders.

Some of the candidates was also worried and asked why you were in the hero exam. You simply told them that it was a really long story and now wasn't the time.

They got the hint and decided to help you.

You all approached the robot, which was still making its way towards the dam.

The robot noticed you and decided to go after you instead of going to the dam.

You had to act fast as the others couldn't distract it for too long.

You looked at your options on what to make the robot do.

You had to think of something that could be used against it.

One of the students had the quirk Organ Manipulation and could move his organs in his body.

There were now 4 minutes left.

As the robot came closer, all of you including yourself came to an agreement that it was best to just run away from the robot.

It was too powerful to fight, so you tried to run.

However, the robot managed to catch one of the slower students with its extendable arms and bent him backwards. His back was broken from the sheer strength of the robot.

You were not sure if he survived.

There were now 3 minutes left.

You had no choice, but to try and fight the robot.

You had 4 other people who were willing to give their lives to save others.

You tried to see if your nightmare particles had any effect on the robot. Unfortunately, it didn't. The robot was too advance, to a point where your quirk didn't affect it. It was like the robot was powered on a different kind of energy.

The robot didn't feel any fear towards you and got ready to kill you.

The others didn't want you to sacrifice yourself for them, but you had already made your decision.

There were now 2 minutes left.

You ran towards the robot, trying to find a way to damage it and prevent it from killing you.

You tried punching it, but that didn't work. As soon as you began to feel fear inside you, your body began to produce large amounts of nightmare particles. So much of it in fact, that you couldn't stop it.

Your eyes turned completely black and you fell onto the ground, laying in your own pool of blood.

1 minute left.

The other 4 students looked at you, scared at what they just witnessed.

As soon as you hit the ground, the nightmare particles exploded out from your body. You were no longer in control of your own body; it was now controlled by your quirk.

You saw everything that was happening around you, but you couldn't do anything about it.

For some reason, it was as if you had experienced it before, but you couldn't remember when it may had happened.

You saw the robot get affected by the explosion of your nightmare quirk. It began to malfunction and eventually stopped working altogether.

However, that wasn't the end of it. Your quirk had other plans.

It was the start of something much worse.