Of steel and plasma

Entrance Exams

Izuku's POV: It felt a bit weird at first. Just a bit. Destroying robots one after the other when you're one yourself isn't the best experience to undergo, but the world isn't gonna wait for you to adapt, you are supposed to follow its pace. So I did what I was asked to. Destroy some bad bots, again and again. It's still weird though.

One pointer on the left? A quick, blind hook and it's over. Three pointer upfront? Front flip with a kick from upward and the story's finished. Rocket incoming? Grab it, redirect it toward another if possible. If not, just trash it. No trouble at all. No need to freak out, I can do this.

Until the big bad bot showed up that is. Okay, that one was scary. And a waste of time for me to deal with. So I thought about leaving it alone. Decided...I didn't. This poor, nice, cute girl was about to get crushed. That's cliche now that I think about it. But Eri wouldn't be happy if I let her down. I promised her I would be the best hero in the world.

So I dealt with it and ran straight to her, lifted the piece of concrete blocking her and carried her (under my arm, you little players) all the way back to the entrance, to a safe place. I lost a good minute doing so. But I destroyed a few poor robots on the way so... it wasn't a total waste of time I guess?

Anyway, that zero pointer thingy was huge, and, nope, I didn't deal with it. But I did stay around it, making sure no one was in big trouble, destroying pointers here and there.

"Aaaand time's up! bellowed Present Mic, Thank you for your hard work listeners, now please let the injured rest while the medical staff deals with them. Have a nice day!"
'I hope I didn't do too bad. It should be fine, I still got a solid 52 points after all. From what I heard, most people were around 20-30 by the end of the test. So I'm good, yeah, I'm good... I hope.'

As I got off the school ground, I noticed most people looked tired. Welp, can't really blame them. The day was rough. But, eventhough I wasn't tired at all, I decided not to look too fine, that would probably be perceived as arrogant, and the last thing I needed was making ennemies out of my potentially future classmates.

They said we would receive the responses in a week, so that they can sort out everything. Why would they need a week for this kinda stuff? It was a mystery at the time.

'Oh wait, probably making sure they didn't miss any points... considering the number of participants, it's a plausible explanation. And there're probably the other courses's entrance exams.'
Because yes, UA also has the support, general and direction departements.

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Why the hell was I worried about this stuff anyway? It doesn't (totally) concern me.

I just got back home, thinking Eri might have been waiting for me. I knew she was an intelligent and responsible girl, but she would have gotten worried had I come back too late.

Timeskip to a week later (obviously)

Still Izuku's POV: It's damn stressing, waiting for the one letter which will change the course of your life, in one way... or another.

3:30 p.m... I guessed the time was right. So I went to check the mailbox, and sure enough, there it was... the water bill.
And the UA letter right underneath it!

I took it with shaking hands (it's not because I'm an android that I move with perfect accruacy at all time. At the end of the day, I'm still human), completly disregarding the first paper. I made my way to my desk, and opened it.

And All Might himself appeared! As an hologram, yeah, but to think he was really working at UA and making the acceptance letters! Maybe I fanboyed a bit over him, yeah maybe.

I listened to him as he explained how I got one of the highest villain points (52,remember?), which would alone have been enough fo me to enroll at UA, then admitting that there was a secret examination parameter. The rescue points system, which allowed an examinee to be recompensated based on how heroic said examinee was during the practical test. So that's why they needed a week, it was for those heroics points. Mystery resolved.

Awesome, so saving that girl wasn't a waste of time? (not that It was critically important, I destroyed enough robots to pass anyway, and as long as I got into the school, it was fine) So thanks to this system, I got a whoopin' 48 bonus points... Which put me into 2nd place, with an exact 100 points.

''Well that's nice.'' I said calmly, absolutely not freaking out on the inside (note that at the time, I didn't talk like I do today).

''What's nice?'' I almost had a heart attack on that one (I don't have one by the way). I was so focused on the letter that I forgot she was here.

The very reason I wanted to be a hero.

The most precious being I have in my life.

The one I consider as my little sister, Eri. We're not related by blood, but neither of us remember such people in our lives, so I took care of her, and she gave me all the love and support a sweet and innocent child can give to her only family. Which was (and still is) A LOT.

And I would do whatever I could do and even more if needed to keep her safe and happy.

And at that time, I did expect this task to be a hard one.
But seriously, the bar was set far higher than what I expected. I never imagined protecting her sweet bright smile would be so hard (though it's totally worth it). I passed the first and second steps easily, so maybe my vision of stuff was a bit biaised, but as far as I know, I did pretty well up till now.