UA Entrance Exam: A New Generation

## A New Dawn

*Ah, the beauty of summer. A time for fun in the sun. While the weather isn't necessarily ideal, the warmth is never overlooked. But for some people, summer wasn't just fun and games.*

*The sun was still hidden behind the large U.A. High building, but it was light out. At around 5:30 in the morning, when the custodians had just arrived and opened the school, a tall man with short blond hair and an awfully flamboyant outfit approached the building.*

"I can't believe the old fart put me in charge of the stupid exam," the man muttered to himself. "This will help you grow as an educator-my ass, doesn't he realize I'm not that into this job?" The man looked at the time. "About two and a half hours. I can probably just dig up an exam from past years and set it up. But it's gotta be reeeeeeaaallly far back, so the really nerdy ones don't catch on to me." With this the man entered the building and began to work.

## The Pressure Builds

*With the sun now high enough in the sky to be seen behind the glorious U.A. main facility, many young teenagers began filing towards the academy. If the weird monologue didn't make it clear, today was the entrance exam for the U.A. Hero Academy. A very momentous occasion for aspiring heroes, this exam was everything to many of them, whether they will admit it or not.*

Steady walking up to what She hope will become her new School and the Start of her Dream, Kaguya Couldn't help but be nervous despite being a naturally confident person, This feeling of nervousness is the main reason why She appeared far earlier than anticipated to U.A. High. "Oooh Nooo, I think I got here to early." Muttered Kaguya as she looks around unsure of what exactly she should do. "I knew I shouldn't have listened to Grandma, The greatest Heroes Get to a scene before the Crime she said." grumbled Kaguya as she sits on a near by bench having decided to wait for someone else to show up.

As the bunches started to emerge, a small pink fellow made his way to the elite school. Parents and other children giggled at the sight. Not only did he appear physically inferior to the rest, but his outfit; it appeared as if he were brought up on the streets. No shirt on, pants that were clearly too big for him. It wouldn't be too much of a surprise if everyone was already counting him out. "These small fry are toast." he thought to himself, as a confident smirk emerged on his face. "It's fine that they laugh at me now. It just makes it all the more entertaining when I rip their hearts out."

A black car parked right in front of the school's gate, from where a girl with pale skin, dark hair and pink clothes left carrying a simple leather bag. As she walked in the direction of the gates, one of the car's windows opened, revealing the face of a man. "SAKURA, I'LL MISS YOU", he shouted in tears. The girl stopped her walk, turning in his direction. "Thanks to you, I'm 0.17 seconds late", she said with a soft yet mechanical voice. "Yay, papa, you suck", she expressed no emotions in her voice, but it was enough to make the man shout even louder. "SAKURAA! Don't be so mean with your pap- oi, wait!", she completely ignored him, merging with the crowd of students and following the path to achieve her dream of becoming a hero. "There's no doubt that I'll be the number one", she thought with herself.

As everyone crowded the entrance, with one person talking to the next all throughout the entrance trying to get themselves in. It was then that the crowd was silenced by a loud, interrupting shout. "MOVE YOU DAMN LOSERS! GET THE HELL OUT OF MY WAY!" The crowd turned towards the direction of the shouting and from there they saw a boy with silver spiky hair and pale skin pushing and shoving everyone in his way as he makes his way to the doors of the building. "If you so much think of trying to stand in my way i'll blast you all into kingdom come." He continued his insulting rampage in a violent tone with a sinister look on his face.

After walking for several minutes Fūjin Nakano, younger brother of one of the Seven Deadly Sins, walked arrived on campus and just in time he would notice as he took a quick glance around at the other people who were arriving. He was wearing casual clothes with his lance strapped to his back and walking in his usual lazy way that makes it look like every step he takes is exhausting. Unlike other students his parents weren't there with him at his request. He insisted that they stayed home so they would avoid the glances and that appeared to be the right choice because the moment he stepped onto the campus he could feel the eyes of various parents and students on him, probably wondering whether he was going to turn out like his brother. "This is going is going to be a pain in the neck," Fūjin muttered under his breath as he let out a lazy sigh.

Haiiro shuddered as he walked up to the gate. His knees were weak, his palms sweaty, his neck was craned downwards so that the eyes of others could not meet his. Today was a day he was both waiting for and dreading. Today was the day where his future was determined. Today was the day where he'd finally learn if he could be a hero. *"Just please please please don't hurt anyone out there ok?"* He asked his inner self, knowing there would be no response. He hoped that he could just find a friendly face in the crowd, something familiar to calm him down.

As prospective students from all over the world made their entrances at what each hoped would be their future school in order to propel a heroic career to levels that no other institiution could, a certain blonde-haired girl  appeared to be simply awestruck by being in front of the building, taking everything around her in through her blue, prismatic eyes. The building was incredibly beautiful, and the architecture, seemed, well, amazing. In fact, come to think of it, the young girl realized that she had never quite appreciated the construction of a building like she was at the moment ever before in her life. Perhaps it was just that the excitement associated with these examinations finally taking a hold on her, however, "*Ms. Orudera Junior"* quickly brushed it off, finally snapping out of her stupour. Breathing a lengthy sigh at the fact that the entire examinations process in her case was supposed to be unnecessary, and at the fact that her guardian refused to let her go on simply recommendations, Miku was somewhat confident in the fact that she had what it took to become a powerful heroine, much less a heroine-in-training. Taking a stride with unwavering confidence, Miku noticed a familiar figure, her paranoid brown-haired friend, Haiiro, and gave him a quick, reassuring yet playful jab on his shoulder, slowing down to walk with him. "Heyyy Hairo! We got this!", Miku said, staying true to her encouraging nature, radiating a sort of contagious spirit of courage so strongly it almost felt like one could reach out and grab at it.

*As the time of reckoning grew nearer, the masses of students which lingered outside began to shuffle into the main building and were directed to the auditorium. A good twenty minutes after the designated start time, the lights began to dim until it was pitch dark in the room. Though confused, the students were all too nervous to begin panicking out loud. Suddenly, one of the most odd openings to a UA Entrance Exam began.*

Random flames sparked and died out in the air above the students, making quite a cool light show. After a few sparks, one extremely large spark revealed a man floating in mid-air. The man had short blond hair, was very tall, and had one of the funkiest get-ups the kids had ever seen. He wore pointy loafers, magenta and pink pants, a white button down that was completely unbuttoned, some very trendy glasses, and a cloak... of fire? The man hovered for a few seconds not seeming to notice that he had become a human torch. One student who managed to snap out of their stupor pointed and yelled, "FIRE!"

"What? No, its Angel Knight. That's my hero name, now try again." When the student did not budge, the man decided to look behind him and let out a pretty embarrassing scream when he saw the fire. "HOT, HOT, HOOOOOOOT!" He exclaimed as he seemed to stumble through the air until he landed on the stage, with his back to the ground. "AUUUUGGHHHHHHH," the man writhed in pain on the ground until he stood up and began frantically stomping on his cloak. A custodian came rushing on the stage and put out the fire with a fire extinguisher. It was impossible to distinguish the cloak from roasted chicken skin at this point.

The man turned to the crowd, now slouched over with a scowl on his face. "Seriously? Do none of you know who I am?" The silence served as a response. "Ugh, well this sucks." The man approached a podium and picked up some papers. "Ahem! Welcome to the U.A. High Entrance Exam, the first step to your future as a hero. I, String Hero Angel Knight, will be proctoring your exams," said Angel Knight with a very annoyed tone. "This will consist of a written exam that will be completed in this room, and a practical exam that will be administered elsewhere," The monitor behind him changed to a diagram describing the exam. This showed a few silhouettes next to numbers and a picture of a city. "Uhhhhh, let's see... So I guess the city is where you'll take your exam. And the shadows are villains you will have to fight with their respective point values outlined there. Uhhhhh, the numbers have colors so I guess those must be the colors of the bad guys... I'm sure you guys will figure out the rest, I'm supposed to tell you like next to nothing anyways." The man took a deep breath. "Okay, any question before we begin the written portion?"

"Yea!" Toby called with his hand risen. "How about you stop with this fucken bullshit dance routine and get this crap started." He said angrily yet calm. "I have better things to do then to watch you dance around like a headless chicken." He continued.

"Loving the enthusiasm you little shit!" is what Angel Knight wanted to say. Instead he said: "I'll take that as a no, alright get your pencils ready it's time to begin the written portion of the exam."

## The Action Begins

"Please put your pencils down," said the peculiar proctor as the written portion of the exam ended. Many of the children were scratching their heads or had their faces in their hands, but our "heroes" all seemed to have some sort of confidence about this portion of the exam. "Ok, hopefully you remember what I said about the practical exam because I'm not repeating it. If you would kindly take a look at your entrance tickets there should be a field assigned to you, that's where you will be testing," murmurs broke out among the children. "FOR YOUR INFORMATION IT WAS RANDOMLY ASSIGNED, SO QUIT THE CHIT-CHAT," yelled Angel Knight. The room fell silent. "Ahem, now you are dismissed from this room. Please change into adequate outfits, and follow the signs to your field." With this all the students exited the room to get prepared for the most intense moment of their lives.

After getting dressed in one of the training suits provided by the school Kaguya couldn’t help but smile as her dreams were becoming a reality she could feel her heart beat rapidly as he begins to move towards the end of the hallway leading out towards the training field due to her excitement and without realizing it, let out a loud joyous squeal. "Finally after all this time, I’m on my path to becoming a great Hero" she said aloud before pausing one step away from the exit and looking towards the sky outside before softly mumbling. "Watch over me Mother".

The test-takers appeared before a giant walled off zone, presumably the training field they were using. Two giant doors towered above them. Angel Knight awaited them with some belts around his right forearm. "Listen up, there's one more thing you have to know about this exam. Destroying the enemies will award you necessary points, but there's one more way to gain points. The robot enemies have cores inside them that will grant points. If you can break them enough to pick up a core attach it to these belts I will give you," Angel Knight smiled maliciously, "the fun part is, you can grab these babies off someone else's belt. Points are awarded by how many cores you have at the end, so hold on no matter what." Angel Knight then proceeded to hand out the belts. "Alright, good luck and don't get killed since it will probably fall on me to clean up that mess." With this Angel Knight walked out of the way of the doors.

A hologram appeared before the door with a countdown from ten. "10, 9, 8..." The tension grew as everyone took their positions and fell silent. "6, 5, 4..." Many different breathing patterns were heard, some heavy, others calm, and some were holding their breath. The doors began slowly opening. "3, 2, 1..." The doors finished their swing, and a large city landscape could be seen before them. The hologram finally said: "BEGIN!"

As soon as the timer finished, Toby rockets through the doors by shooting a beam of brilliant white light from his hands to rocket himself into the city standing before them, knocking away every student that was standing in his way and leaving the crowd of students in his dust while dealing with the shock wave of his sudden burst. "Such losers, every one of them, they don't have what it takes to pass compared to me." He said just before he shoots through seven robots already in the middle of the city and held their cores in his hand. "I'll head to the opposite side of the city so they wont be able to get in my way." He then rockets himself up into the air and heads towards the opposite side of the city where the crowd of students were when it started.

With the timer counting down, Sakura's eyes were covered by a red visor that was formed from her ears, showing her the status of her body and gathering information from her surroundings. "97%", she said. As soon as the timer marked one, jet engines sprouted from her thighs and, when it marked zero, she propelled herself with a jet of air, flying in the direction of the doors at the same time of the strange kid with silver hair, going right behind him, but taking a different route.

Facing the zone and the robots, Sakura did a small flip to properly position herself in the air, floating with weak thrusts from her jet engines. "17 robots in the surroundings, 9 in the line of sight. Preparing for partial arms modification. Mode: Vacuum Cannon", she said with a mechanical voice, as her right and left forearms started to rearrange themselves, merging in a single cannon-like construct. Her elbows opened, sucking the air, filling her shoulders that started to grow in size just like a balloon. They soon deflated, creating a single bullet of compressed air that was stored inside the cannon. "Compression successful. Ready to shoot in 3... 2... 1... 0". She shooted the bullet that flied with great speed and force, slightly throwing Sakura back with the impact. It went through 8 robots, fading before reaching the 9th, creating enough pressure to break any weak structure in the surroundings of its path. "85%", she said before flying to collect her cores.

Fūjin walked toward the training field after getting dressed with his lance still on his back and stopped near the doors just in time for the doors to open. Unlike the other students who raced in Fūjin lazily walked into the training field with a glazed over expression and stopped the moment he entered. "I guess this is the part where I put effort," Fūjin said with a sigh as he looked up at the clouds for a second. After taking a moment to find his motivation Fūjin jogged forward. After a while, he stopped to take a look at his surroundings only to find one robot charging at him from the front and the other from behind. He pointed to the ground in front of him and controlled the air currents close to the ground to form an air platform close to the ground. When the robot that was coming at him from the front stepped on it he pointed upward to cause the platform and the opponent standing on it to rise. Unable to stop, the robot's momentum carried it forward so it soared over Fūjin's head and landed on top of the second robot crushing it and breaking itself due to the fall effectively having Fūjin destroy two robots with one move. He walked toward the robots and took a moment to look through the scrap pile to find the cores and put them in his belt before continuing his jog forward.

Due to his size, Kiyoshi was unable to make it any further middle of the pack of students."These fools, towering above me as if it meant something. I'll show them. I'm going to take all the cores for myself!" he thought as the counter began. As if he had no bones in his body, his legs began to spin rapidly, resembling two springs. "This should at least get me in the front of the pack." he mumbled as arms began to spin, resembling the shape of his legs. Literately springing from his spot when the alarm rang, Kiyoshi found himself in the front of the pack. "I see I'm not the only one with some speed." Bouncing off the side of buildings, Kiyoshi was moving at incredible speeds. "Sky Mode: Springs!" he shouted before pummeling robots in his vicinity with ferocious kicks and punches. "This shit is too easy!" he yelled, before bouncing off somewhere else. "That's seven, three more and that should be enough to start targeting others."

As the doors opened, Miku was so excited that she rocketed outside shortly after the sudden explosion created by the silver showboat earlier. As with all things, gravity causes even the lightest feather to inevitably fall to the ground, so it would appear that the blonde's fall was inevitable. However, immediately before falling to the ground, Miku's fall seemingly began to slow to a crawl, until it became apparent that she was falling no longer. If one looked closely enough, or rather at all, one could see that what would appear to be a cloud was just under her feet. Using her clouds to propel herself with great speed, upon coming near what appeared to be an unsuspecting robot, Miku suddenly made a back-flip as her cloud slammed into the legs of one nearby, causing it to effectively kick another robot and crush its shell. As this robot was pierced, it fell back on yet another robot, crushing itself and those behind it in an apparent domino effect that culminated in a chain of mechanical explosions, quickly eliminating almost six robots in a single shot. An application of her notable intellect, it could be said that Miku's seemingly rash decision to eliminate a single robot was actually a calculated maneuver meant to destroy several others. Making a graceful descent to the ground as if just completing a beautiful dance, her clouds suddenly captured the cores from her robot kills and brought them to her. "This is fun, huh Haiiro!?" As Miku finishes up dispatching both robots, Miku starts looking around for Haiiro, with her excitement delaying the realization of the fact that this situation may have gotten him even more anxious than ever before.

Unlike the rest of the people in the exam, Haiiro did not rush out but slipped through the crowd and out the door to the side. Taking a wide arc as to avoid other students. *"Believe Haiiro believe, you can't not use your quirk anymore. You have to show you're at least capable of something."* He soon found himself surrounded by fake buildings as he looked around in confusion, the other competitors must have gone for the heavily populated robot areas. "Cores cores, I need cores." He muttered as he walked through the false urban landscape. His head perked up as he heard whirring all around him. It was then that robots began to emerge from the urban landscape, crawling towards him as their emotionless eyes locked onto him.

*"Be strong Haiiro, be brave, Miku would use her quirk here."* He shuddered as he checked once again to make sure no other students were near him before taking a breath. As the robots pounced him they found nothing, clashing into each-other as they reeled back, confused. Upon the ground before them was a pile of ash. It sat there for a moment before the entire area around it erupted in fire and heat, a circle expanding from the ash itself that quite literally incinerated the robots as it touched them. As the piercing light cleared there stood Haiiro in the middle of the scorched metal. "I did it." He cheered softly, only to realize he had melted the robots cores as well.

Meanwhile on the other side of the city of the exams, Toby was seen running through the streets, with brilliant white light glowing from his hands. He punched through one robot after another as he's making his way down the streets with a large armada of robots chasing after him. He then ran towards a street corner and suddenly stopped in placed. He looked around him only to see that he's completely surrounded by the robots in all directions. He let out a large grin "Alright, now that i have you all huddled up together." He raised his light enhanced fists up and took a fighting position. "I'll be taking your cores now." He said ready to fight. All the robots then charged at toby at once causing toby charge forward. He then pointed his glowing fists down to the ground and released a steady beam of light just like from before to send himself into the air to fly above the large group of robots. As soon as he landed, he rose his hands up at the robots and started running towards them and released a blast of energy at the robots destroying a couple at once. He continued a rapid fire blast at the group as he got closer. When he finally reached them he ceased his fire and jumped up with his light enhanced fist about to smash down onto them.

### Brawl between Mutants

Keeping up with the pink lad would be challenging for those who did not possess any type of enhanced vision or tracking abilities. His unique physique allowed him to not only transform his body into springs, but take little impact from the bounces. He effortlessly took out multiple robots and picked up their cores. "It's about that time I start kicking the rest of these student's asses." he spat arrogantly. Stopping his barrage of assaults on the mechanical beings, he surveyed the area for other students. One by one, he started to narrow down those that would be to easy or did not have enough cores for him to even waste time on them. Then suddenly his search ended; a girl, while appearing to be normal at first glance, possessed mechanical physiology. "She should be interesting." he snickered before launching himself towards her.

After destroying many robots in a single shot, Sakura landed on the ground, picking their cores one by one and concentrating in the last robot that wasn't affected by her attack. Her uniform sleeves and what seemed to be the reminiscents of her skin now hung from her mettalic arms, where flows of blue energy run inside small tubes like it was blood. She pointed her left hand to the robot, with her thumb and index finger positioned like it was a gun; both with the distal phalanx opened, creating a channel connecting them. The distal opening of her thumb sucked the air around, creating bullets of compressed air that were stored inside her hand. As she was ready to attack, her visor caught a strange body moving in her direction. Without thinking much, she moved her hand to the said "thing", shooting a bullet through her index finger. The bullet, despites its size, had enough power to penetrate the robot's steel body.

For most, an attack launched towards him at incredible speeds would prove to be problematic, especially mid-air. But Kiyoshi, a teen who has dedicated his time to watching anime and reading manga, has seen how plenty of his favorite characters deal with attacks similar to this.

Bubble Gum, a mutant quirk that transformed Kiyoshi's physiology into a material similar to gum. As a result, his body is very elastic; allowing him to perform feat most cannot. Mid-air, his body switched to a free fall position. At that moment, the air caught within his torso causing his body to take form into a parachute. "Sky Mode: Parachute." he exclaimed, as his body floated upwards dodging the shot.

Avoiding immediate danger, he regressed back to his initial form, descending to the ground. "You're an interesting chick, let's try to make this as anime as possible!" he said as he rushed towards the girl with his base speed.

"Shapeshifting?" For every action performed by Kyoshi, Sakura's visor added new information to her database. In fact, she had information about every one of the students' names and some of their qualities, but their Quirks where a mystery and could only be proved through real action. As far as information about them could be crucial later, Sakura had no interest in fighting another student, as it would slow down her progress to be number one. With that in mind, she pointed her finger to the ground, shootting a bullet that penetrated it. With a short delay, the compressed air that made it expanded, forcing the earth to go upwards, throwing pieces of rock and concrete against Kyoshi randomly, covering the spot with dust. Sakura could barely be seen behind it, hiding her presence.

"Trying to mask your presence eh?!!?!?" Kiyoshi yelled, as dust scattered across the area obstructing his vision. As pieces of rock and rubble raced through the skies, Kiyoshi simply leaped upwards. He was fine with some pieces hitting him and his body would manage to render the damage void. In the skies, Kiyoshi placed this tips of both of his fingers into his mouth. Taking a breathe, he started to exhale into his fingers. As if his body was a balloon, his hands began to fill with air. Within a matter of moments both of Kiyoshi's hands both would resemble that of a small giant. "Titan's applause!" he screamed, before smacking his hands together. The collision summoned a massive air and sound wave, the pushed all of the dust and rock shards away. As he descended, Kiyoshi snicked. "Is that the best you can do?!?"

"It seems you'll not leave me alone." Sakura said with her mechanical and monotonous voice as she walked through the remaining dust scattered in the place. "Then, I have no choice. Preparing for full arm modification." She extended her right arm to the side, which started spinning, deforming its shape to give place to a cannon-like construct with a single opening on the front. "72%. Mode: Incineration Cannon." She pointed it to Kyoshi. The opening in the front radiated a red-orange light, but nothing happened. Sakura remainined still.

"I'll make yer bitch-ass pay for hesitating." he shouted, before landing back to the surface. As soon as he made contact with the ground, he raised his knee up. "I'll use his move..." he thought, before his foot penetrated the ground. His leg navigated through the distorted bedrock, making it's way swiftly to his target without making the attack to forward. His leg continued to strecth as if it were limitless. "Eat this you robot whore!" Kiyoshi exclaimed, just as his leg emerged from the ground directly under Sakura. But just as his leg rushed to the bottom of her chin, it suddenly stopped. "Shit! "

Sakura couldn't move at first. Using her incinerator cannon could be detrimental to her overall body due to the possibility of overheating her system and forcing her to turn off for a moment. However, while remaining still and deactivating some of her functions, she could cool off her body at the same time her cannon heated without the overheat problem. With that in mind, she remained still.

Kyoshi's attack was a surprise and would certainly hit if wasn't for his Quirk limits. Sakura couldn't dodge at time; the pressure of his kick lifted her hair. "Full charge. Ready to shot." Sakura said. The opening in the cannon shined brighter. Pointed to Kyoshi, it projected a long stream of fire that consumed everything in Sakura's front.

While he didn't wanna show it, Kiyoshi was feeling the pressure. He knew something big was coming and if he didn't dodge, or his entrance exam could be over. He tried to remove his foot from the rubble, but his leg was stuck. "SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT!" he yelled internally. It wasn't every day somebody placed so much pressure on him. Just as the steady stream of flames were released from Sakura's gun, a last minute idea emerged. In-hailing a huge gasp of air, enough to inflate his stomach dramatically, he titled his head upwards.

With the flames less a meter away, he released the air. At that moment, he shot downward. Navigating through the tunnel his first leg designed, his body forceful yet quickly made his way to Sakura underground. Where his leg still remained, the hole in which his foot created widened as Kiyoshi emerged. With cuts and bruises scattered across his body along with some slight burns, Kiyoshi planned to finish what he had started with other leg. "Fucking Upper Kick!" he yelled.

Blinded by her own flames, Sakura couldn't follow Kyoshi's movements with her visor. She took the attack; it was strong enough to lift her in the air and displace a chunk of her neck's skin, revealing part of her true, robotic body. Her cannon stopped firing at the same moment.

Despite its strength, it wasn't enough to knock her out. The metal that composed Sakura's body was thick enough to receive the full blow without damaging her internal system. Still in the air, the jet engine of her left tight popped out, using the momentum combined with a sudden jet of air to completely rotate her body in the air, directioning her cannon-right arm with its burning hot metal against Kyoshi's body.

Upon seeing her mechanical physique, Kiyoshi found himself admiring her briefly. "She's just like the cyborgs in my show! So fucking cool!" he thought, before snapping back into reality. Prior to her taking action, Kiyoshi was more than aware that his attack wouldn't do her in. While he was still ascending due to the his previous attack, his arms, which were extended downwards, stretched to the hole Kiyoshi arrived from. Latching onto rocks, he pulled himself downward in order to avoid the majority of the assault; though his left leg did fall victim to yet another burn. "I don't know how much longer I can keep this up."

But similar to almost all the protagonists in his anime and manga, Kiyoshi refused to throw in the towel. Taking a deep breath, and twisting his body, in a similar fashion to when his turned his legs into springs, as his body avoid the full assault. Kiyoshi let out one last roar. "Battle Mode: Attack Helicopter!" His two legs mirrored each other and began to spin rapidly. The sheer speed of the kicks would allow him to rise and hopefully send his opponent flying. Every second counted at this point, and Kiyoshi knew it.

After succesfully damaging Kiyoshi, Sakura kept herself in the air as the boy started his counter-attack. With the heaviness of her arm and the momentum acquired with her jet engine, she couldn't easily escape; but, quickly analysing the situation, she followed the path where she would take minor damage and be somewhat victorious in their exchange of attacks.

Pointing her cannon arm to the ground, she shoot a weak blast of fire, with enough power to move her entire body in the opposite direction when one of Kiyoshi's foot direct hitted her chest. Combining both forces, she was sent flying several meters before the jet engine on her leg stopped her from going any further. Doing a complete flip on the air, she fell with her two feets on the ground, pointing again her cannon against Kiyoshi, preparing it to shoot. However, before she could do any action, the bell announcing the end of the exam rang.

"Hm." She sighed. Her entire modifications started to go back to their original human-like form, leaving only her torn uniform and the metal parts of her neck and chest exposed. "Our fight ends here, Kiyoshi." She said, before turning her back to the pink boy and slowly walk away from the place.

"Son of bitch!" he yelled in disappointment. "If I had more time, I definitely could've beaten you." he told Sakura as she walked away. While he attempted to hide it, he was rather exhausted. His love for junk food would definitely made him out of shape. "Fuck,w aht if I didn't get enough. What if I don't pass?!?!" he thought to himself, awaiting to hear about the next part of the exam.

### Another Nakano's Chance

As he walked the two cores in the belt clack together. He stopped running and took a look around him. Judging from the look of things he appeared to be very close to the middle of the city if not two blocks west of it. The streets were empty of any students or any robots at the current moment. However, his air current sensing abilities were telling that there may be a robot coming his way. He took his lance off his back and lowered his body into a defensive stance.

Noises could be heard from within one of the nearby buildings. Before Fujin had time to surmise what it might have been, another examinee burst through the wall and flew right in front of Fujin. Out of the hole in the wall came a humanoid robot that was smaller than the others, but had a humanoid shape. "Oh yeah, by the way I forgot to mention that I was under no obligation to show you all the robots in the orientation, I was just being nice. If you see any other robots they probably have cores, as for scoring that's a secret so fight them at your own risk. But, if they're within a few feet of you they probably won't let you get away so good luck," the voice of Angel Knight rang throughout the testing field as more and more new robots appeared. A red light turned on where a head would usually be as the robot began bounding toward Fujin, its right hand becoming a four foot blade.

"You have got to be kidding me," Fūjin complained. He swung his lance in a wide arc to parry the blades out of the way as he complained even more about how troublesome this will turn out to be. "Can't life throw something easy my way once in awhile. "What a drag," One of the blades managed to get through his guard and slice into his arm to leave a shallow cut there that stung for a while. He immediately bent his legs and lunged forward with his arms fully extended in the attempt to slice into the robot as he shot passed it. After he stopped moving from his lung forward, he kept his back to the robot to tempt the robot into attacking by making it seem as if he was leaving himself vulnerable when in reality he was using his air current sensing abilities to pay very close attention to the robot's every movement. All the while he continued complaining and whining more to make this act all the more convincing.

The robot bought the bait, but its protocol told it to use another form of attack since the blade was not successful. The light on the robot turned yellow as its other hand became a small machine gun and began firing rapid rounds at Fūjin. The robot began taking slow steps toward Fūjin with its blade-hand ready.

Upon sensing the robot move behind him and the bullets disturb the air Fūjin zipped and weaved to avoid the bullets before leaping backward into a back flip. Once in the air, he took control of the air around and used it to guide his body behind the robot. As he soared through the air directly above the robot he pulled the trigger to his lance to fire a blast of compressed air from his lance. Instead of aiming directly at the robot Fūjin would aim at a spot right in front of the robot in the hopes of getting a reaction out it. If the robot did react to the false attack it would create an opening for Fūjin to strike the robot from behind with several quick slashes.

The robot's quick reaction sensors immediately reacted to the false attack. It ceased gunfire and made a small motion with its blade. Noticing its mistake it made a few quick calculations in the remaining moments of Fūjin's jump to re-position in order to minimize the damage of Fūjin's attack. The robot jumped toward the false attack, opposite from Fūjin's path. The damage done by Fūjin's attack was minimized to the robot's machine gun arm being cut off, weakening it significantly. Wasting no time, the robot countered by slashing its sword arm upward in an attempt to knock the spear out of his hands or at least create an opening.

Taking advantaged of his lightning-quick reflexes, the young Nakano dropped lance so that the strike would hit nothing but empty air. This would create an opening as the robots guard would be fully open and exposing the center of his body. Fūjin took advantage of his by using the air currents to take a hold of his lance and maneuvering it a telekinetic matter so that it would be sent straight at the robot's core at great speeds.

The spear pierced straight through the center of the robot. It took a few slow steps toward its opponent before fizzling out and powering down. The shell of the robot hit the ground, a few sparks coming from its body.

Fūjin let out a small sigh of exhaustion upon seeing the robot fall. "This really is just one pain after another," Fūjin muttered to himself as he riffled through the scraps to find the core. When he found it he put it in his belt with the others and ran off to find more robots. Over the course of the exam, Fūjin was able to get many more cores and when he felt he had enough he walked into an abandoned building and spent the rest of the exam sleeping.

### The Suns Wrath

Toby smashes his way through numerous robots with his fists glowing in a bright light. Smashing his fists straight through them, leaving large holes into them that they deactivation moments after and fall to the ground. With no other competitors in sight, Toby took his time collecting the cores while smashing and blasting every robot that came after him. He took advantage of the brightness of his attack as well as all the commotion he causes to draw the robots attention and bring them closer to him. His belt quickly climbed to fifteen cores with more to come however with the large amount of cores strapped to his belt the harder it became to carry the cores attached to his belt, however that was the least of his concern as more robots came charging in by the minute, not giving him time to stop and think.

Though Toby had noticed the lack of other examinees around him, he had not figured out how far his rampage had brought him. Toby had reached a corner of the training field where he was completely isolated. After smashing another robot, a shadow was cast over Toby. What was unsettling was the size of this shadow. Toby discovered that the owner of the shadow was none other than a robot that was about twenty five stories high. It looked pretty much like a giant version of the basic robot type. It was still about four blocks away from Toby, but its massive height lined up perfectly with the sun's position to cast a very long shadow. "Oh yeah, by the way I forgot to mention that I was under no obligation to show you all the robots in the orientation, I was just being nice. If you see any other robots they probably have cores, as for scoring that's a secret so fight them at your own risk. But, if they're within a few feet of you they probably won't let you get away so good luck," the voice of White Knight rang throughout the field on a speaker. Normally a robot of this size would have trouble locking on to the minuscule examinees, but Toby's flashy path of destruction gave the robot a nice lead. The robot used its right arm to knock the building next to it over, sending a domino effect of falling buildings toward Toby.

Through the debris it was hard to tell whether Toby had made it out or not, but a calm, yet loud, voice rang out in the vicinity of the massive robot. "Finally! A strong opponent!" said the voice. From within the debris emerged a small figure, a boy wearing country bumpkin clothes was flying directly toward the robot. When the boy reached the apex of his jump, just above the robot's head, he let out a "HIYA!" and karate chopped the robot on the head.

Angel Knight, who was watching the display from a web of strings high above the field, but quite close to the robot's head was thoroughly confused. That is, until the boy's chop made contact. At that moment the robot's head (about the size of a modern high-middle class home) split in half, the impact of the attack releasing an enormous gust of wind which rattled Angel Knight's perch. "W-w-w-hat the hell!?" exclaimed Angel Knight, very flustered.

"Woo! Finally a good hit!" exclaimed the boy as he plummeted to the ground, becoming lost in the dust lifted by the robot's previous attack and current collapse.

### One Thing After Another

Haiiro sighed as he picked through the metal scrap. Once again he had lost his chance at salvation due to his lack of experience. "I guess I'll have to just think of a way to get at least one core." He sighed to himself.

"Aaaaaaah!" a girl's scream rang out near Haiiro. Haiiro turned to notice the source of a scream, a girl who had gotten stuck between the ground and a robot's killer grip. "Please help!" the girl cried helplessly.

*"Oh no oh no oh no"* Haiiro screamed mentally as he noticed the trapped girl. It was one thing to take out a bunch of robots with an uncontrolled blast but to precisely harm it and not the girl would be nightmarishly difficult. However he couldn't just run from this he had to take chances now. He dashed towards the robot with determination plastered on his face. However his mind was elsewhere. *"You really think you can save her? What if you can't? Robots can be stopped but if you hurt her it might be irreversible. A permanent stigma you'll carry forever."* A voice inside his head whispered. "No I'll do it stop it." He fought back. *"You'll just cause another catastrophe, You'll be a damn villain."* The voice went on. "N-n-NO." Haiiro gripped his head as he ran. "I won't stop I can't. I won't live in fear." He cried as he slammed into the robot, using the force of his entire body to hopefully at least knock it over. *"It's not you living in fear that you have to worry about."* The voice laughed, fading into his head.

The robot barely budged after being slammed by Haiiro. Luckily for the trapped girl, the robot's cocky personality program kicked in and let go of the girl to focus all of its attention on Haiiro. The robot, much larger than the boy, brought its arms up and slammed down towards Haiiro, hoping to crush him.

Haiiro bounced off the robot and fell to his knees. He grinned though as the robot focused on him. He quickly rolled through its legs as its fists crushed the ground behind him. Haiiro immediately stood and ran trying to get the robot away from anyone else before he could take it on.

The robot, very agitated at this point, chased the boy to great lengths continuing to dish out devastating melee attacks. The fact that the seemingly weak, but surprisingly nimble, boy eluded it made the robot's program very frustrated. This prompted the robot to do a very quick attack which put it right above Haiiro, who was in a compromising position. Before the robot landed its near fatal attack, it was interrupted by a random spray of bullets which hit it. After recovering from its daze, a drone, spiraling out of control, land on it and destroyed it.

"What the.." Haiiro marveled as a drone fell from the sky, crushing the robot that was chasing him. "That was really lucky."

As the drone crashed into the robot underneath it, Miku was conflicted. It wasnt that she didn't want this to happen, quite the opposite really. She always wanted to drop one robot on another throughout the entire exam. She was conflicted because she didn't get to collect the cores. But, it was perhaps a worthy sacrifice to crush one robot.....with another robot. Miku slowly floated downwards on her cloud following the drone to inspect the area, as her eyes began to show her a familiar figure. "Umm, Haiiro?" Miku tilted her head and waved at the figure still relatively high in the air, hoping to get a wave back in confirmation. She was looking for her friend during the entire practical test, hoping to break through the exams and smash some robot hulls together. She had almost took off, figuring that he still wasn't nearby when the drone had suddenly attacked her.

"Oh hey Miku." Haiiro waved back as he saw her floating down on her cloud. "Did you do that? Your quirk is really strong Miku." Haiiro shouted up to her, continuing his waving as he shuffled his feet nervously.

"Oh, it's not thaaaaaat strong, you're exaggerating.." Miku said, noticing that she was still a bit too high up when she heard Haiiro shouting up towards her, "..but yeah, I did it, it was pretty cool!" Playfully punching her friend on the shoulder after completing her full descent, Miku asked,"How's the test been coming along?", slowly realizing mid-question that the robot she took down was probably Haiiro's. "....Uhh, oh wait, I just stole that robot from you didn't I? I'm really sorry, maybe we should go find another one quick?" Miku looked around what appeared to be frantically while asking, as if trying to see if there was one nearby and speaking rapidly due to excitement and anticipation.

"Well It's still cool." Haiiro replied, rubbing his shoulder where it was hit. "The test has been alright I melted a bunch of robots, including their cores." He sighed, "I probably would have ended up melting that one too so don't worry about it. At least I saved someone, that's what's important to me." He finished with a soft but genuine grin. "How about you, it seems like you've killed quite a few now."

Haiiro's genuine grin was quite warming, as Miku beaming at him would quite clearly indicate. Atleast her friend had his priorites for becoming a hero right, didn't matter about your performance once you actually did what a hero was supposed to do. That alone was something to be proud about, and Miku couldn't help but smile about that. "Well, melting a bunch of robots means you still got a bunch of villain kill points right? Don't sweat it, I'm sure you're just fine. And saving people's the core of being a hero, if they dare say no to you the whole exam is flawed." Miku closed her eyes and shook her head assuredly as she spoke, as if imitating a professor or some other learned figure agreeing with her own statement. "I crushed a good few, but I've..got a fair share of times where I wasn't able to collect cores myself, like those two back there."

"Ya think so?" Haiiro beamed, his grin brightening. It was soothing to hear his new friend saying such kind things to him. "Thanks Miku, I'm sure you'll do just fine. I figured you'd get in from the day we met at that hero gathering. You've got a air of confidence to yourself that really speaks volumes. Not to mention you're skilled with your quirk and willing to help others. Them deny you would be the true criminal thing." His grin grew bigger. "Let's hope we both get in though, I'm sure the school will accept us." His voice was jittery but confident, however his mind was somewhere else. *"You really think they'll pick you when she's right here. Just look at her, she's everything they want, so is everyone else. You don't have the strength, the control, or the will to be a true hero. Your false bravado barely made a difference today."* His mind laughed at him.

"Huh? Of course I think so Haiiro, it's the truth." Miku would attempt to keep shaking her head and even crossed her arms to fully the complete the act before losing composure by giggling. "Aww shucks, don't use all your vocabulary on me." Miku teased as Haiiro started talking about her now. "I'm actually really happy you thought so, atleast I've got someone rooting for me...unlike at home." Miku's voice grew quiet and a bit muffled coming down to the end of the sentence indicating the fact that she was unsure whether or not she wanted her friend to hear her, but quickly picked up back. "Oh, and they'd better, unless they want a piece of this for both of us!" Miku joked, playfully flexing as if some sort of bodybuilder.

### Split Tails

Sighing is slight frustration after having destroyed her nineteenth Easy Villains robot, Kaguya carefully glanced around towards the rest of the area spotting all the other student hopefuls before ducking under the fist of another robot that attacked her while she was distracted. "Oh no you don't" muttered Kaguya as she uses her tails to grasp the outreached arm of the robot pulling it forward herself before bending her body in a very flexible way utilizing the momentum gained from pulling the larger robot towards her to boost her self up towards the head of the robot, flexing her clawed hand running it straight through the head of the bot destroying it before twisting her body round midair to launch a medium size ball of foxfire into the air that scattered in coordinated attack all over the battle area striking multiple robots at once even accidentally stealing kills from other student's.

Watching the mini destruction she caused Kaguya couldn't help but smile in satisfaction as she angled her body to land softly on the robot who's head she just destroyed which brought a bright smile to her face as she notices it was her first Hard Villain Bot. "Yay, that brings my total Villain Kill Point's up to Twenty-two and that's not counting the other robots that i just destroyed with my last attack" spoke Kaguya as he jumps around in joy as she estimated villain her points to be roughly bout thirty-three thou she could't be sure without going to examine the damage she caused. "I need to make sure" yelled Kaguya as she took off toward the central area where the majority of her damage occurred.

Stopping in the middle of an intersection, Kaguya began to feel the ground rumble. From all four streets a mob of enemy robots emerged. This was very abnormal, even for the robots since they were not really programmed for teamwork. Despite this, the robots seemed to be grouping up with a single target. What was even more peculiar was that their eyes shined blue instead of the typical red. Before Kaguya could think more robots began to flood into the intersection where she was.

Jumping over one of the robots utilizing her flexibility to the max in order to avoid being grasped by the robots. *"What's with these robots, their moments and behavior are different from the others"* she thought as she uses the head of one of the robots to boost herself upwards to one of the surrounding roof tops. *"Ok lets try something"'*. thought Kaguya as her nails lengthened as began to glow a greenish-blue before she jumped down towards the robots slicing at the head of the nearest one before dodging the others that tried to attack her. *"There lets see how you like that"* she thought as she glanced towards the robot only to be shocked as the robot only suffered a slight scratch. "Aww come on you have to be kidding me," she spoke aloud as she once again was forced to dodge again.

Using her tail Kaguya grasped the extended arm of one of the robots before using the momentum to throw it into a group of on coming Robots causing a massive pile up before looking as one of the robots arms pierced straight threw another. *"That's it"* she thought as she began to use her superior reflex and flexibility to dodge and move at perfectly timed moments which caused the robots to accidentally attack and destroy each other, this would go on for a few minutes until only five of the blue eyed robots remained, however instead of attacking they chose to remain in the back. "Well come on then I don't have all day." called out Kaguya getting tired of waiting for the robots to make a move.

Instead of attacking however the robots instead began to pile on each other and began to fuse, creating a gigantic version of the robots. "No way, Unreal" muttered out Kaguya as she glances up towards the gigantic robot in both disbelief and slight irritation before once again resorting to dodging and maneuvering her around the attacks of the giant robot which was beginning to take a toll on her as she began to barely dodge the attacks as she jumps from building to building to land a few feet away from the robot. "I was really hoping I wouldn't have to use this now but i have no choice" muttered Kaguya as her body suddenly lit up with flames as her tail multiplied to a total of four before she took off a high speed creating a slight shock wave behind her that slightly destroyed the building she was standing on. Due to her increased speed she reached the robot in a matter of seconds which was faster that the robots reaction time enabling her begin to rotate her body and creating a large buzz saw made of flames and bisecting the giant mecha with ease.

Hitting the ground hard Kaguya watched as the robot exploded sending debris all over the city. "I....Wo..Wonder.. how...many .... that counts...as" panted out kaguya as she sits up and leans against a building hoping to catch her breath.

### Cloudy With A Chance of Robots

As if the return of the Monkey King of mythology, a figure could be seen speeding through the arena on some sort of nephalous substance, a cloud that was floating at a level that could perhaps be considered impossible to naturally occur. However, as the figure came to a halt in a seemingly unpopulated area of the battlefield to scout the positions of any incoming opponents, a silk-like golden sash for hair that billowed with the wind seemingly inseperably attached to the figure's head, alongside their rosy, almost foreign skin would automatically indicate to anyone of her former classmates her identity. The now identified Miku sat on her cloud, visibly perplexed about the apparent silence of the perfect street model she was hovering over, and most importantly, was supsicious of such a region. Rarely should an area in such an exam be so completely silent and inactive, and Miku's already perhaps overly-analytical mind went to work, observing the area around her.

However, Miku's mind was tackling several tasks at once. Looking down at the ten cores attached to her belt, Miku couldn't help but worry about perhaps the only friend she had going to her school, or atleast, trying to enter the school alongside her. "I hope he's alright, I still haven't found him yet and I feel like I've been everywhere.." Miku thought to herself. Haiiro seemed absolutely terrified of using his Quirk in here, and while she hoped that her show of her Quirk would help in, she still wasn't sure if he'd be able to push through the exams.

"..."

"Wait, what am I thinking? Haiiro needs me to have faith in him, not doubt his capabilities..what sort of friend would I be if I did!? He's got this." Miku hovered off at a decent pace so as to continue to get an idea of her surroundings using her altitude to her advantage, as well as see if she could find any vulnerable robots nearby, making sure to keep her guard up.

Miku was caught by surprise by the firing of a laser that hit her cloud. Looking to the ground for the source of the shot. Another barrage of lasers began being fired by a robot that looked like a large quad-copter with a gun to fire lasers.

Having been looking for robots, Miku managed to barely make out what appeared to be a large, helicopter? However at that moment, Miku caught the glimpse of a laser heading directly in her direction. Quickly reacting to the threat being posed to her by this fast-moving projectile, Miku didn't have the opportunity to create a special layer of defence. However, it didnt mean she was incapable of defending herself.  As the laser approached her, it would suddenly find itself coming against an incredibly dense wall as the cloud it was aimed at, the one she was now standing on resisted the momentum and impact of the laser, serving to defend her. "..Seriously?" As the bullets rushed towards her, another cloud appeared to suddenly stream off of her hands and form a solid wall in front of her again, now bent and similarly dense, attempting to defend against if not deflect some of the lasers back into the trajectory of the robot in question. Taking her defense as reason to press onwards, Miku sped forwards, moving towards the robot instead of maintaining a distance, seemingly having something planned.

The robot's sensors was unable to keep up with the lightning fast girl's speed so it began flying backwards away from her continuing to fire lasers blindly and recklessly. The robot's course seemed to be coinciding with another one of our examinees struggles...

Breathing in deeply, Miku noticed the behaviour of the robot, and likened it to someone panicking. She never asked the question, but people always wondered if robots such as the ones in the entrance exam knew what fear felt like. Apparently, they did. Tapping her cloud wall as pieces of the fortification broke off and began to simply hover around her, Miku continued to bolt forward before managing to catch up with the robot due to her superior speed. Coming to a sudden halt, Miku hovered upside down above the robot by sticking her feet into the cloud carrying her, allowing her to maintain her balance. "Pace yourself, pace yourselllllf..." As Miku calmed her own nerves, several orbs of condensed cloud mass would rocket themselves towards the robot at blistering speeds augmented by the pull of gravity, ever increasing the acceleration of the orbs to the point that they appeared to be terribly powerful weapons aiming to pierce the hull of the robot. Maintaining her hydration levels, instead of creating additional nephalous matter, Miku instead opted for the more conservative approach; utilizing clouds she had already made to allow her to last longer in the exam. "Uhhh, badabing badaboom?" Underestimating her own power, Miku had hoped for the additional pull of gravity on her orbs to  enhance the destructive power of her **Snowballs** by increasing the force it had impacted with, which it would do, but perhaps a tad bit unnecessarily.

The drone had taken fatal damage and began spiraling out of control, using whatever remaining energy it had to randomly shoot around. The robot spiraled down to the ground, before Miku could stop it to salvage its core. It began falling particularly close to someone else's battle...

## The End of the Beginning

"BEEEEEP!" A loud sound rang out through the whole training field, signaling the end of time. Many frustrated examinees groaned, while others sighed sighs of relief, and some almost collapsed of exhaustion. Angel Knight's voice could be hear over a loudspeaker, "Alright that's the end of the exam. Please proceed to the entrance of the training field where we will guide you to where you can be picked up by your parents. I look forward to seeing some of you here at the beginning of the semester, and good luck to the rest wherever you end up, or whatever."

The students began funneling out of the training field and were guided back to where they were dropped off that day. It seemed the other exam sections had not finished. While some talked, our "heroes" were too exhausted to speak to anyone and just wanted to get a good rest. This marked a crucial moment in their lives, the first step on their journey to becoming heroes. Though they all had different experiences in this exam, they would all soon receive letters of admittance to the most prestigious hero preparatory academy in Japan: U.A. High school!