Within the lecture hall, there were hundreds upon hundreds of kids just like me, just waiting for what was to come. I took a seat in the middle of the huge auditorium-like room, and made myself at home. 'I'm actually a bit thirsty,' I thought, so I went to grab my water bottle, which I had brought in my bag.
I took a sip, and sighed with relief, the iciness of the liquid quenching my desert-like throat. However, my peaceful enjoyment of the water was suddenly interrupted by a boy. He stood to the left of me, and didn't walk past me, as if he was waiting for me to move out of his way. 'But I was here first! ' Oh well, better move...
"Here, I'll move, sorry," I apologised as I gathered my things to stand up and let him pass, even though he had enough room.
"Yeah, you better be sorry, you damn extra." His voice was so aggressive that it caused me to turn in shock to face him as he passed by.
He was taller than me by at least half a head, and the ash blond spikes that sat atop his head brought an even greater height to his intimidating personality. I also noticed his eyes, and how unusually red they were. Not a bright, fire-engine red, but a ruby red. A red that sparkled under the hall lights, and I suddenly thought of how quite beautiful they were.
"What are you staring at, huh?" His aggressive voice brought me out fo my stunned stupor. It really was quite unnecessary how aggressive he was to you, considering you had done him a favour.
"Um, I'm sorry, but I was just a little taken aback," I replied with a calm voice, not allowing him to intimidate me. "A little 'Thank you' would have sufficed." The boy turned around to face me, annoyance scrunching his face up even more so than before.
"What did ya say, you brat?" I could practically see the venom dripping off of his sneering lips.
"You heard me, and don't call me a brat. If anyone is acting like a brat, it's you!" I was now getting fed up with this guy's behaviour. It was absolutely disgusting.
'Who does this guy think he is? '
"Everyone please make your way to your seats. The introduction will start soon."
I gave the angry boy one last annoyed grimace before turning away and sitting in my seat once more. 'Whatever, I can't let him get to me,' I thought, taking a deep breath to calm my nerves. 'I've been waiting for this day since forever, and I'm not gonna let some asshole of a kid ruin it for me.'
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After the incident, the pro hero Present Mic introduced us to what our exam would be about. We would be fighting four different types of robots, but only three of them equaled points when we defeated them. The fourth was going to be a diversion, so I needed to stay clear of those ones.
After quickly separating every participant into two large groups to take the entrance exam, we all made our way towards some change rooms to prepare ourselves for the exam. Every minute that went by, I could feel adrenaline pumping through me faster and fiercer. Still not sure if it was nerves or the energy overload I had from this morning.
Before I could dwell on my thoughts further, a familiar voice sounded right in front of me. I looked up from my seat on one of the benches, and saw Uraraka.
"Hey," I greeted her cheerily, standing up to properly talk. "Looks like we're gonna be in the same group. What do ya know?"
She smiled and nodded her head enthusiastically in response. "I know right, how coincidental is that? I'm just glad that I could see a familiar face before heading into the exam. I'm beyond nervous."
Looking at her now, the poor girl had even redder cheeks than when I first saw her, and a slight shiver was zooming throughout her body. 'Poor thing.'
"Here, let me help," I placed my hand onto her shoulder and focussed on the nervous energy flowing through her body. It was a little overwhelming to begin with, but I quickly used my quirk to convert that energy into me, and gave her a little bit of the adrenaline I felt pumping through me.
After a moment or two, Uraraka visibly calmed down. The shiver was gone, and her cheeks didn't look so red anymore.
"Wow, Y/N," Uraraka exclaimed, "I feel way better now. What did you do?"
As much as I liked her, I still had to compete against her in this exam, which meant any give away to my power prior to the exam could be a potential threat against me. Instead of sharing my quirk with her, I just smiled cheekily and placed my pointer finger against my lips in a 'shushing' motion.
"Can't tell. It's a secret."
Before I could be questioned further, an announcement was made for our group to make our way towards the arena. This was it.
'This is it,' I thought to myself, following Uraraka and the other members of my group towards to the entrance. 'Time to take the first step into my career as a hero.'
Once outside the front of the doors to the huge test area, Present Mic started to instruct us as to how the test actually ran. However, my eyes caught a flicker of emerald green, and I turned around to see Midoriya. 'Wow? He's in our group, too. Awesome!' I started to make my way over to wish him luck, but an all too familiar snarl caught my ears' attention.
"Well if it isn't the brat again. Didn't think you were actually for real, but now I see you're just as dumb as Deku."
I turned my attention towards the smirking ash blond boy I sat next to in the lecture hall. Back in the lecture hall, his eyes seemed beautiful, but now I only saw them as scary. It was like an internal fire combined with the natural light of the sun to create a sinister flame that burned in his eyes. Just because his eyes had changed, didn't mean his attitude had as well. And it certainly had not.
"Hi, nice to see you again," I replied as politely as I could. Just because he wanted to be nasty to everyone, didn't mean I had to be nasty back. Maybe if I was civil - even going far enough to say friendly - he'd figure out how stupid he looked and sounded.
"Shut up, ya damn extra," He retorted, "I'll definitely beat your weak ass in this exam, whether it's against you directly or indirectly. I will win." His confidence was certainly inspiring, but I still couldn't understand his ferocity towards everything.
'He's one special kid.'
"Whatever you say, spike-boy," I replied nonchalantly, turning my back to him to get ready for the test. "Just wanted to say good luck, that's all." All I could hear from him was a mixture of non-cohesive words and sounds put together to try and make a comeback. If he did, I didn't hear it. I didn't hear anything as I set myself up for the start.
We all lined up along a line, and waited for Present Mic to call for the start. I turned to both my left and right to see Midoriya and Uraraka set into a running position like myself, determination set like stone upon their faces. I smiled at them, not minding that they didn't see me, but knowing that they were here and they were going to try their best, made me want to do my best too.
"Ready. Set... GO!"
My legs powered straight into a sprint, knowing that I had to find some bots straight away or I'd get behind real quick. Not long after we started, our massive group split up into the many alleyways and streets the testing area provided. I took a left off of the main drag we ran on, and straight away found a bot. A one-point bot, but it's a good start.
Knowing that I already had pent up energy from the sun and the food I'd been eating all day, I straight away blasted a pillar of white energy at the bot, cutting straight through it. Before it even fell, I had started running again. I knelt before the fallen robot and started to absorb its electrical energy. Just because I'd killed it, didn't mean it's system had fully crashed, meaning it was still useful.
I felt the electricity pumping through me quite distinctly, and it urged me to keep running and running. 'I only have half an hour,' I thought as I found another one. 'I have to be quick and find as many as possible.' I engulfed my fist with pure energy and slammed the two-point robot in its chest, sending it flying down the alley way that we were in.
I continued to run, searching and defeating robots one after the other. Each time I'd either absorb their lingering electrical energy, or I'd let the sun sink into my outfit to keep my energy levels up.
When I expelled pure energy, I used different forms of energy to fuel me back up. I couldn't rely on just the one type of energy for long periods of time, otherwise I'd overdo myself. I still couldn't control how much I took in, so I needed to be careful as to how frequently I was absorbing, and also how often I was expelling.
As I continued to run, I checked my watch. 'Crap, I've got ten minutes to go. Gotta hurry.' So I kept running, now joining the rest of the group in the main streets fighting the big three-point bots. I happened to see amongst the other participants many amazing quirks at work - like a guy with what seemed to be engines in his legs; another girl was slinging balls of... acid? Another boy was actually punching a robot head on, but I saw his hands and arms weren't the same as mine. They looked... hardened.
I also happened to see a massive explosion out of the corner of my eye, and it had come from none other than the ash blond asshole from before. 'Of course his quirk involves blowing shit up,' I thought, shaking my head as I continued to hammer down the robots. I looked at my watch again, and it said I only had eight minutes left. 'Come on, Y/N, stop getting distracted.' However, before I could continue fighting, a huge rumble shook the entire city, causing everyone to stop and stare up to the sky.
It was a robot that stood over all of the buildings in the test area. It was beyond huge, and so beyond terrifying. 'That's a zero-point robot. It means nothing.' Even though I thought that, I couldn't figure out why it had to be so big. It seemed as though others had worked out what it was too, and decided to run away and find more robots to gain a few more points.
I stood in an alleyway as it rolled past, knocking some concrete from the buildings as it passed. Once it was gone, I stepped out to watch - alongside other spectators - what it was going to do. It didn't seem to be doing anything so I turned to go. However, I heard a familiar voice cry out in pain.
"Help me, I'm stuck!"
'That's her...' I turned back around, to face the back of the robot, and although I couldn't see, I knew that Uraraka was the one who called for help.
"Uraraka!" I cried out, immediately sprinting towards the robot. 'I've gotta help her,' was my only thought as I drew nearer to the giant mechanical beast. But before I reached it, a sonic boom sounded through my ears, and a ground shockwave caused me to stumble to a halt. 'What the...' I looked up in the sky to see something flying towards the bots face. Wait, no, not something. It was someone...
"Midoriya?"
Before I could contemplate why the scrawny kid was very high up in the air, he punched the robot so hard that another shockwave was sent through the air and ground, knocking my ass to the ground. Midoriya had punched the robot so hard, that it's face had dinted like a crater.
"Whoa..." Midoriya really surprised me.
However, the momentum of the punch had caused the robot to start falling backwards. Onto to me. Not just me, though, I realised quickly, but to the other bystanders I was watching with earlier. 'Oh no,' I scrambled to my feet and started running back towards them. 'They're gonna get crushed! ' I looked up and saw the back of the robot still falling, inching closer and closer to all of us. I was still too far away though. 'Think, Y/N. Think! '
I had no time to think. As much as I would've liked to think it through, the situation required pure instinct. I suddenly felt an impulsive urge - an urgent energy - flow through me. It was so intense, I thought my body was going to explode from the raw power I felt within me. I'd only ever felt this once before... 'The day that I got my quirk.'
So, even though I was still a fair bit away from the small group of people - who seemed to be frozen in fear of the falling robot - I flung out my hand and shot a bright white beam towards them. A small dome of transparent white energy - almost like glass - appeared above them and acted as a barrier against the falling robot.
Just as the robot was about to completely fall on top of us, I'd managed to reach the dome just in time to slide under and brace.
"Everybody, get down!"
The boom that resounded throughout the ground and the air was loud enough and strong enough that it could've probably been heard from the other side of Japan. The aftershock of it all still ran through us all, and none of us dared to move, or even breathe, until we couldn't hear it anymore.
Once I felt the last shake of the ground disappear, I turned to face everyone.
"Are you guys okay? Is anyone hurt?" No one spoke, but a lot of people just nodded their heads in response.
'No one is hurt, thank goodness.' I allowed myself to breathe, and closed my eyes to gather my thoughts. The intense power I felt before started to fade, and with it, my energy to stay awake.
'Damnit, I used energy I didn't have...' I rubbed my eyes, trying to keep myself awake. If I didn't, then the barrier would fall, and then we'd all be crushed. 'Gotta stay awake until we find a way out.' Fortunately, I didn't have to come up with that plan, too, as I suddenly felt a major weight lift off of my shoulders. Literally.
I looked up to see the giant robot being lifted up above us and shoved to the side. I saw Present Mic, and another man, who I recognised immediately despite my tiredness.
"All Might..." I muttered in disbelief, finally dropping my barrier and collapsing to the ground in utter relief and exhaustion. As soon as I hit solid ground, my consciousness faded away, and I was met with darkness and shadows.