Chapter 0.5: Robots and Secrets

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A/N: Thought I should make this chapter. I planned to make this chapter one, but I didn't know what to write it until now.

It was a Saturday morning. Laura looks up at the large school building, frightened. She turned to her right to look up at Mariko. Mariko saw Laura's staring and smiled at her.

"You'll be fine, Laura," Mariko says in a comforting way.

Laura looked back at the school and gulped. "T-The written test should be easy, but I'm not so sure about the practical test." fretted Laura as she started walking towards the building, shaking nervously. She turns around to look back at her guardian.

"I'll be right behind you." Mariko gave her a thumbs up.

Laura looked at Mariko and smiled before turning around and continued walking as Mariko followed from behind.

Later

Laura was in an empty classroom, sitting at a desk with an exam paper on the table as she held a pencil in her hand.  A tall, slim man with long blond hair, which he wears spiked upwards in a huge tuft behind his head, and a small mustache, stood at the front of the classroom.

"OKKKKKKKAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY! YOOOOOUUUUU MAYYYYYY BEEEEEGIIIIIIIIIIIN!" The teacher, known as Present Mic, shouts aloud.

As Laura started writing on the piece of paper, Mariko was watching from the window of the classroom door. The Japanese woman looks down at a small white bear-mouse-dog-looking creature. "Principal Nezu, there's something I need to tell you about Laura."

"I already know, Mariko-san... she's Logan's daughter, correct?" Nezu stated in a polite tone. Mariko nodded as a response. "I could smell the blood from her knuckles, like blades pierced through her skin."

Mariko sighs as she holds her hands tightly. "If you can, can you keep her background and claws a secret?" she requests from him.

Nezu looks up at her with a confused look. "Why?"

"Laura doesn't want too much attention on her... and I'm afraid people will come after her?"

"I assume this happened before?"

Mariko nods again at the school principal. She cares deeply for Laura and cares about her safety more than anything. Mariko was alone for a long time, but with Laura--she doesn't feel lonely anymore.

"Please take care of her, Mr. Principal."

After the Exam

When Laura completed the exam, Present Mic immediately marked it, giving her a 98% before immediately taking her to a large city-like arena. Laura was confused and a bit frightened when looking around.

"Wha-What am I doing he-" She turns around to look for Present Mic, but he was nowhere to be found.

"LET ME EXPLAIN THE RULES BEFORE WE BEGIN!" shouted Present Mic, sounding like his voice was coming from an intercom. "FOR YOU, LAURA-SAN, YOUR GOAL IS TO GET MORE THAN 60 POINTS TO PASS THE PRACTICAL EXAM!"

When Laura looked up the sky, a holographic projection showed four robotic-looking silhouettes that were worth 1-3 points. Present Mic continued to speak, "THE FOURTH ROBOT WON'T BE WORTH ANY POINTS, SO AVOID IT AS MUCH AS YOU CAN!"

"I have a que-"

"LETS BEEEEEEEGIIIIIIIN!"

He does not listen, does he? Laura sighs to herself. She started running to look for the robots.

Later

Somewhere in a room with a large computer screen on the wall, Nezu, Aizawa and Present Mic was watching Laura in action.

"Wolverine's daughter, eh?" Present Mic stated with a big smile. "I can see why Mariko-senpai wanted to keep her claws a secret. She'll have to much attention at the school."

"It's not that," Aizawa sighed with a tired voice. "Unlike other people with quirks, Laura has multiple abilities like Logan."

"Only few people in the world possess more than one superpower." Nezu commented.

Present Mic looks around the room before scratching his head. "Hey, isn't All Might supposed to—"

The door slams open as All Might came in with a dramatic pose. "I AM HERE, IN A DRAMATIC POSE!" He shouted greatly.

Aizawa groaned. "You're late. Kinney-san is already at 50 points."

All Might walked up to the computer screen and watched Laura tearing through the large robots. "The young miss is strong."

"Of course she is," Nezu nodded. "That's what she was trained to be."

Back in the arena

Laura breathed heavily as she sat down on the roof of a building. She has five minutes left before the practical exam is over. Since Laura counted how many points she gained, she realized she has 75 points.

"Guess I'm way beyond passing now," Laura chuckled softly. "I'm sure it'd be fine if I rest a bit until the time is up."

"Target locked."

"Huh?" Laura turned to see the large robot and it's three glowing red eyes staring at her. "Oh no..."

Multiple rockets flew towards Laura. She quickly got up and unsheathed her claws. She sliced the first missile that flown towards her in half as it splits in two. As the rocket she cut blew up behind her, she starts running towards the other rockets, dodging the first two before jumping onto the next one before leaping towards the robot's head. Laura  used her claws  to stab through the metal to hang onto before climbing on top of the head. When climbing up to the robot's head, she saw two other bots that started firing missiles at her.

"This is becoming too much..." Laura panted heavily as she saw the rockets come toward her. She looks around for a safe place to land. She saw another building the robot she was on was walking towards. "Ah, screw it." She walked back a bit on the robot's head before sprinting and jumping off the bot. While in mid air, she saw the rockets explode into the 0 point robot as she landed onto the edge of the building, almost falling off.

"Holy crap..." Laura looked back at the robot that collapsed.

"AAAAANNNNNND THERE GOES THE TIIIIMMMMEEEE!" Shouted Present Mic.

"Thank God," Laura sighed and wiped sweat off her forehead. "I preferred the guys with robot arms than actual robots."

The Next Day

"Laura-chan!" Shouted an excited Mariko who invited herself into Laura's room, holding an envelope. "You got mail!"

Laura was lying down on her bed, reading an X-Men comic until she turned to her guardian and sat up on her bed. "I-Is it here?"

Mariko tossed the envelope to Laura. Laura catches it before opening it. She pulled out a hand-written letter. As she read through it, her eyes widen and her mouth gaped as she looked at Mariko. "I-I got in!" She cheered excitedly. She jumped out of bed and hugs Mariko tightly. The Japanese woman giggled at the happy teenager and hugs her back.

Laura can't wait for school tomorrow.

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