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Once they were all off the bus Izuku looked around, he could see a lot of other schools and students, not to mention with infrared he could see dozens of people in the building.
“I’m starting to get nervous.”
“Me too,” Izuku turned to Shinsou and tilted his head “I’m worried whether I’ll get it or not.”
“Don’t say that Shinsou, say you will get your license,” Shinsou jumped a little when Aizawa appeared next to him “I expect you all to do great.”
“Izuku!” The teen turned just in time for Inasa to lift him into the air “It’s fantastic to see you!”
“You too Inasa.” When he set Izuku down the winged teen could see Shouto perk up in interest at the name.
“Found him!” They looked over to see another group running over to them “Oh! Hey Izuku!” The girl waved enthusiastically at him.
“Hi Camie.”
“You know them?” Denki leaned on Izuku’s shoulder casually.
“Correct! Izuku and I met during the recommendation exam! He helped me pass it!”
“I hung out with them a couple times.”
“You would have passed fine by yourself Inasa.”
“Maybe! But you were a true friend and ally!”
“Inasa! Camie! We should go!”
“Sorry! Good luck Izuku!” The two teens waved goodbye while everyone stared in shock.
“Jeez Izuku you really make friends with everyone.” Mina teased, Izuku just shrugged, she wasn’t exactly wrong.
“Eraser is that you?!” The hero paled for a moment, almost trying to hide behind Izuku’s wings, though it didn’t work “It is! I remember seeing you on TV but it’s been so long since we’ve been in person!” A woman with a pirate like outfit and green hair walked up “Oh, and this must be your kid Nem told me all about~”
“I keep forgetting Aizawa Sensei and Izuku are related.” Izuku turned, about to correct them but Katsuki just shook his head with a glare.
“Let’s get married!”
“No.” Now Izuku was really confused, he assumed everyone knew Yamada and Aizawa were married.
“You would love me as a step mom wouldn’t you?” Ms. Joke turned to Izuku who hunched in on himself a little.
“Um...I don’t know you?”
“HAHA! He even has your sense of humor!” Izuku turned to his classmates who all just shrugged, seeming just as confused, though Mina and Tooru were giggling as they watched the two heroes interact.
“If you’re here, that means…”
“Yep! Over here guys! This is UA class A!”
“Whoa really?!” “I can’t believe it, it’s 1-A! I’ve seen them on TV before!”
“Hi! I’m Shindo!” The older teen walked up and grabbed Izuku’s hands before anyone could stop him, though he did see the teachers and his classmates all freeze in surprise “You guys have had a tough year huh? Must have been interes-”
“Back up asshole,” Katsuki growled, him and Todoroki making the teen back up while Shinsou checked on Izuku “Don’t get all fuckin touchy feely.”
“Ah Bakugou Katsuki! You had an especially hard time! I’ll do my best-” Katsuki smacked his hand away.
“How about you stop with the fake shit, the words out of your mouth don’t match your eyes.”
“Get your costumes and go to the orientation room!” The students quickly followed Aizawa’s orders, walking past the group without another word. Ms. Joke quickly leaned over to Izuku.
“I am so sorry, I would have stopped him if I had known.”
“I-it’s ok Ms. Joke, thank you.”
“No problem kid, good luck!” He nodded and quickly joined the others up the steps, in the back of his mind he could hear Ms. Joke mention something about warning them, but Izuku already had a pretty good idea of what was going to happen.
He had talked to Inasa and Camie not long ago about the license exam and what was going to happen. The two had told him that it was obvious the other students would be gunning for 1-A and would need to watch their backs. Though they both said they wouldn’t go after Izuku, and he agreed to do the same, they also made it clear that they would go after the others, especially Todoroki, though that was mostly Inasa while Camie didn’t seem interested.
Once they had changed and went to the orientation room Izuku had gotten a few looks from some of the students, though he wasn’t sure why.
“You look a little scary.” He turned to see Camie next to him, her hero costume hadn’t surprised him much.
“I do?”
“Its all the dark colors and wings,” He looked down and nodded a little in understanding, he did also have a knife on him “But your hair makes it look cute~”
“Thanks Camie...I don’t think I could pull off your outfit.”
“You couldn’t~” They both laughed before looking to the front and listening to the man. “This guy reminds me of you dad.” Izuku rolled his eyes a little, he couldn't argue though, both were pretty over worked and exhausted.
He stiffened though when he heard the mention of Stain, he was surprised the commission even wanted to acknowledge the man.
“Only a hundred of you will pass.” He looked around to his classmates and saw a few of them look scared, he focused on Shinsou and grabbed his hand.
“You’ll do fine Hitoshi.”
“Thanks Izuku.”
“Aren’t you two cute~” Izuku turned to Camie and glared at her, though the girl only laughed at them.
Once they revealed the area and started passing out the targets Izuku took a moment to trying and think of where to place them. He thought about in between his wings but quickly ignored it, unpleasant memories from the USJ appearing. After some thought he put them on his right shoulder, left hip, and one on his thigh.
“We should stick together,” Shinsou spoke up as other students began to ran off “The best plan is to work with people we already know the quirks off and help each other pass.”
“As if!” Katsuki already started leaving with Kirishima and Denki following after, complaining about the blond as they went.
“I’ll be leaving too, my quirk works better alone.” Izuku wanted to argue but he knew the other wouldn’t listen.
“I agree with Hitoshi, UA is at a disadvantage, let’s move,” The class followed as they began moving from the orientation room “Unlike other schools and classes our quirks were broadcast to everyone, all they had to do was watch the sports festival and know our strengths and weaknesses.”
“So they’ll be gunning for us.”
“They will be, Inasa and Camie told me about it when we hung out last, they wanted to warn me.”
“Very smart Izuku!” Momo praised just before the buzzer went off. As soon as it rang through many of the other students appeared, all of them throwing the balls at the group.
Izuku acted quickly and drew his wings back before lighting them on fire and flapping them forward, creating a wave like fire that knocked all of the balls aimed at Hitoshi and him away.
“Thanks.” Izuku only nodded, letting his wings stretched out behind him before activating the blades, he watched his classmates all defend themselves and the others, somehow able to avoid the onslaught of attacks.
He saw some of the other students try to use their quirks and surprise them but Jiro was quick to stop them, disrupting the ground with her quirk. Any stray projectiles were quickly taken care of by Mina. Tokoyami took some of his own balls and began targeting some of the students while everyone dodged or waited for an attack.
Izuku watched them all closely, it was obvious the group wasn’t expecting 1-A to be so different from the sports festival, so they at least had surprise on their side for now.
“They’re to strong together,” Izuku zeroed in on Shindo, who slammed his hands to the ground “Everyone get ready!” Izuku felt the tremor before it took over.
“Everyone run!” Some of his classmates were able to get away before the wave hit them, Izuku had flown up, trusting his classmates to help themselves or the others. He saw a few of them grouping up in different areas before he landed out of sight.
“A hundred people were taken out by one person?!” He looked around using infrared and smiled, seeing Inasa standing on top of a building while cackling.
“He’s doing good isn’t he?” He wasn’t surprised to see Camie again “How angry would you be if I took you out now?” She was casually tossing one of the balls up and down but Izuku knew she was ready to attack. Looking around them he didn’t see anyone else close by, so she was alone.
“I don’t think you could take me out.” His hand lit on fire, also ready to attack.
“But I know a lot about you don’t I Izuku?” He tilted his head a little.
“About as much as I know about you.” She smiled.
“I guess that’s true,” She offered her hand “Temporary alliance?” Izuku stared for a moment before nodding and shaking her hand.
“Temporary alliance,” He looked around again “We have a class coming up on us.”
“How goods your fire control?”
“Pretty good,” Soon enough the two were surrounded by other students “What do you need me to do?”
“Think they’d be scared if they thought they were on fire?” Camie breathed out a mist just as Izuku dug his hands into the ground.
“Hellfire.”
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“I totally heard Izuku over here!” Sero shouted as they ran over to a collection of rocks. They had been able to sneak by a group of students who all seemed scared of the little flames in the ground.
“I wonder what happened,” Uraraka looked around before spotting Izuku and Camie standing face to face with his arm on fire “Sero!”
“On it!” He began shooting tape between them, forcing the girl back while Izuku only watched them.
“Looks like our alliance ended Izuku,” The girl landed away from them before pointing to Izuku’s thigh where his target had been hit “Too bad, I think if I had more time I would have gotten you out.”
“Or I would have gotten you.” She looked down to see two of her targets lit up.
“What?!” She groaned before waving “Bye Izuku! See you this weekend!” Sero and Uraraka could only watch in confusion as the two parted.
“Izuku! Are you ok?!” Uraraka asked, looking him over while Sero joined them on the ground.
“I’m alright, I got one person out though.”
“Were you the one who created those flames? Why did the students look traumatized?!”
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“Forty spots left.” Izuku listened as the two talked, making his own plans and trying to find where the others were.
“It would be better if we hadn’t gotten split up.”
“There’s a difference between us and the other students,” Izuku spoke up “As time goes they’ll begin fighting over spots, even near the beginning one of them was panicking about getting points.”
“So they’ll start turning on each other.”
“Exactly, but I don’t think we will,” The two smiled at him and nodded “We just-”
“Wait, doesn’t it sound like they’re getting closer?” Izuku activated Survival, listening and looking for the other students, between the time they had been talking they had gotten closer.
“I’ll act as a distraction, you two stay low and look for openings, get points.”
“What about you?”
“I already took one person out, I just need one more before I can pass, I’m not worried about it at the moment.”
“We’ll need five all together for us to pass.”
“Let’s do this!” Sero sighed but agreed.
“Good, get ready.” He stretched his wings out before taking off, immediately grabbing everyone's attention, he curled his wings into himself and shot closer to the ground like Hawks had shown him.
“Izuku! Grab me and get high!” The teen nodded, diving down and grabbing Sero before hovering “Now Uraraka!” She smiled and released the rocks with tape, trapping many of the students.
They all tapped the others targets, ignoring the older students pleading.
Once they started walking back to the waiting area they ran into Katsuki, Denki, and Kirishima. Four of them cheered and celebrated while Izuku got next to Katsuki.
“You ok?”
“Don’t wanna talk about it.” Izuku laughed a little, getting a glare from the blond.
When they entered Izuku was revealed to at least see half the class had passed, though he was worried about Iida and Camie, not seeing either of them.
“Izuku!” The teen wasn’t surprised when Inasa barreled over and picked him up again “I knew someone as passionate as you would pass easily! Have you seen Camie?!”
“We teamed up earlier, but by the end two of her targets had been hit.”
“Shame! I hope she passes!” Inasa looked over as some of his classmates called “I must go! But we shall meet up later!”
“You two are close,” He turned to see Shouto “Did you become friends after the exam?”
“Something like that,” He looked past the other and saw Shinsou glaring at the energetic teen “Is he ok?” Shouto turned to where he was pointing, only shrugging.
“Not sure, do you know why he doesn’t like me? He glared at me earlier.”
“You did ignore him at the exam and declare war on me...it wasn’t the best first impression.” Shouto looked guilty for a moment.
“Sorry, I never apologized for that or the sports festival.”
“It’s fine Shouto.” The teen nodded as the two joined their group of friends and waited for the others.
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“For the hundred that passed, please look to the screen,” They all watched in confusion and slight horror as the area was destroyed by bombs “Now we begin the second test, Rescue Procedures.”
“Yoarashi,” The teen turned and glared at Shouto “I wanted too-”
“I can’t help but hate you, son of Endeavor,” Izuku felt his own flames react to the words “After all, you have his eyes.” With that Inasa walked away, leaving the other teen to stew in the words.
“Shouto? Are you-”
“A large scale villain attack has accrued at random city name, with buildings collapsing there are many injured,” The walls began falling away again “The first responders have been delayed, until they arrive the heroes in the area will deal with the rescue efforts.” Izuku deactivated the blades on his wings, he felt someone near him and turned to see Shinsou looking a little pale.
“Sorry, it just looks…” Izuku looked over the destruction and nodded in understanding.
“Team up?” The purple haired teen seemed surprised but nodded, not that it meant much since most of the class seemed to be sticking together again “I can use Survival and find people faster.”
“Think you can do that Hellfire thing to lead people back to the safety area?” Izuku looked back to the area and nodded “I’ll let everyone know,” Shinsou pulled his mask up while Izuku dug his hands into the ground “FOLLOW THE BLUE FLAMES BACK TO THE SAFE AREA!” 1-A instantly agreed while the others seemed more hesitant.
“Hitoshi, I hear someone over here.”
“Let’s go,” Some of the others followed them, they could see what looked like a child crying with what looked like a head wound “What happened?”
“My grandpa was crushed!”
“This looks bad!”
“This looks bad?! Why would you say that?! And-” Izuku cut the man off and kneeled down.
“Can you tell me your name?” The man seemed genuinely caught off guard.
“Um…”
“The head wound might make it difficult to remember,” Shinsou joined him “Are you feeling any other pain?”
“My breathing feels strange and my head hurts!”
“Is it ok if I carry you to the recovery area? I don’t want to risk the wound getting worse or not realizing you could be more hurt.”
“POINTS FOR BOTH OF YOU!” The man let Izuku pick him up and fly him to where some other students were setting up medical treatment. Once he was sure the man was taken care of he flew back over and saw Shinsou using his capture weapon to move some rubble.
“Izuku, do you see any signs here?”
“Yes, two under that piece right there,” He summoned the blades and broke the rock apart while Shinsou dealt with the victims, asking them the same questions and trying his best to assure them, though Izuku was having better luck “You two will be just fine, we’re going to get you to safety.”
“Do you know if anyone else was nearby?”
“No, there wasn’t.” Shinsou looked to Izuku who nodded, not seeing another other signatures.
“Let’s get them to the recovery area then, are your flames still up?”
“Yes,” They each grabbed a person, rather than flying ahead Izuku stuck next to Shinsou, continuing to look around “We should let the others know this area’s clear, no one else.” Once they got to the area they told the woman what they could see wrong and the victims responses.
“Good job both of you, put these two over here.”
“Hitoshi,” Izuku grabbed his arm “Somethings wrong.”
“What is it?”
“Over there,” He pointed to one of the arena walls, he saw the actors break character for a moment “Somethings coming, be ready.” Shinsou nodded and tugged on his capture weapon before securing his mask.
“You trust his word?” They both looked over to see Shindo.
“With my life.” The older stared at them before nodding, also seeming ready for a fight. Just as others began to get ready explosions went off around them, proving Izuku had been right.
“It’s part of the exam,” The speakers announced another villain attack “If a villain wants destruction they’ll attack a second time when the heroes are busy saving people.”
“That’s Gang Orca! He’s ranked number 10!” Izuku looked around and saw the actors begin to act scared, looking around widely at the ‘heroes’.
“We have to trust the other students to fight the others, they’ll be heading right for us,” Izuku crouched and dug his hands into the ground, after today he was more than glad his costume had gloves “This’ll hold them off for now.” flames errupted from the ground, surrounding the first aid station.
“Is he crazy?!” Shinsou sighed and activated the mask.
“No one worry, the flames wont burn anyone!” To prove his point he waved his hand through part of the walls and showed that not even his clothes were singed.
“How long can you hold that?” Shindo asked, Izuku looked to him for a moment before crouching lower and making his wings disappear.
“Probably all day, but they’ll notice sooner or later, my classmates know my fire wont burn them if I’m using it like this.” Shindo nodded and got the other hero students attention trying to quickly come up with a plan while they had the time.
“We need to get everyone ready to move!”
“If you can walk on your own please help someone else! If you need assistance then get a hero!” It was difficult to use infrared when fire surrounded them, but between the flickers he could see the ‘villains’ hesitating to engage. Though Gang Orca looked ready.
“Izuku, we got everyone ready, drop the back wall,” He took a deep breath and made the back fire disappear, letting the victims and heroes out while the villains were focused on the front “We need to move quickly, they’ll notice soon.”
“I’ll take out the henchmen in one second intervals! Will it affect the fires?” Shindo joined him on the ground, his hands also in the ground.
“No.”
“Good,” Shindo activated his quirk “Drop the fire!” The walls dissipated as the henchmen fell from the quake. “This should-” He was cut off as Gang Orca appeared in front of him, knocking him out in one move.
Before he could touch the ground Shinsou used his capture weapon to grab the fallen student and put him with the others. Suddenly ice appeared racing towards the ‘villain’ but he used the same attack and destroyed it.
“Izuku!” Ojiro ran over, leading some of the others “Are you evacuating? We’ll help!”
“Thank you, the others are further back, we were able to move them quickly but I think this fight will get bad,” They looked over, feeling a breeze “Really bad.” Ojiro nodded and began ordering some of the others around.
“What’s the plan?” Shinsou had joined the teen near the fight, letting out a low whistle when he saw the two teens fighting Gang Orca “Think they’ll need help?”
“I’ll stay near if it gets out of control, if they’re done moving people Mina mentioned survivors on the outskirts, take down any villains you see.” Shinsou smirked.
“Don’t gotta tell me twice, see you on the other side Seraph.” Izuku smiled back before turning back to the fight, reappearing his wings and activating the blades, he had a feeling he would need all of his quirks for this.
Then again he didn’t need a quirk to hear them already arguing with each other. While Gang Orca was distracted Izuku took the chance to take down the smaller ‘villains’. He snuck up on most of them and took them out quietly while the two kept yelling at each other.
“Behind us!” One of the villains tried to hit Izuku with the cement gun but he easily dodged, grabbing the gun and melting it almost instantly before taking the villain down. When he was about to take down another villain a column of fire raced towards them. Izuku jumped in front of the villain, waving his hand up and forcing the fire to go around them before burning out.
“Would you stop fighting?!” Both teens looked surprised at Izuku’s outburst and he couldn't blame them, there wasn’t much that could get him to shout other than when he was fighting with Katsuki.
Sadly Gang Orca moved quick, taking the two teens out while more of his henchmen ran towards the still evacuating victims. Izuku got ready to fight them off when someone pushed him aside.
“Guys a bit of an asshole,” Shinsou caught him before he could hit the ground, both watching as Shindo shouted about ‘stupid first years’ and took out the henchmen with his quirk “But he gets the job done.”
“I tripped them up! You two make sure they stay down!” Both teens nodded and ran to the henchmen, knocking some out or trapping others.
“Back ups arrived!” They watched as Mina, Tokoyami, Tsu, Tooru, and Ojiro appeared.
“Everyone's evacuated!” Shinsou pointed to where Gang Orca was.
“Go make sure those two idiots aren’t dead!” Izuku didn’t need to be told twice.
Flying into the air he saw Gang Orca escape the fire tornado they had created, while their powers combined together was amazing and a good show of strength, it wouldn’t do much to the hero, but Izuku could go further than they could.
Making sure his blades were ready he dropped down and spun before he slammed into the hero, stopping his movements.
“Back. Up.” White flames danced around his arms and legs, the hero looking nervous as his body began to steam. He was ready to attack the man when the buzzer went off, signaling the end of the test.