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Ten months of training in a dojo with Izuku is fine, after a couple of months, Katsuki is basically on the same level as Izuku. The beach is cleaner than before. It still has a couple of meters of trash, but for the most part, it’s cleaner. Other than that the beach is Katsuki and Izuku’s training ground, even though they like to train there, they sometimes get caught for using a quirk in public, this happens for a couple of time, so they normally spar with each other only in the night. They normally spar once a week.
Just as Izuku blasts a wave of fire Katsuki, he dodges and then covers his body in metal and then rushes to sweep Izuku’s legs. Izuku jumps back while firing another blast of fire, then charges at Katsuki behind said fire.
Katsuki shield drops, so he rolls out of the way of the fire, just as he is out of the way of the fire he is punched in the stomach. Katsuki falls back down, so he quickly covers his torso and hand, just as another punch is coming to his head. He blocks the punch but then hears a pained “Fuck!” from Izuku.
He trades his covered torso to his left arm then charges at Izuku ready to punch him. Izuku is still bothered because his right hand is hurting like a bitch. So he quickly flicks his lighter with his left hand then gestures the fire to cover Katsuki’s body. Katsuki widen his eyes then grins, he runs through the fire without hesitation then comes out reeling back his arms with intent to punch Izuku in the face. Izuku still checking his hand and holding his hand out is shocked, but he doesn’t have enough time to dodge, then POW! He gets punched in the face, Izuku falls then yells “I yield!”
Katsuki stops, then extends his hand, Izuku grabs it and gets up.
“You’re getting better at this! I didn’t expect you coming out of my fire,” said Izuku.
“Well, my skin is as cold as ice and you’re fire isn’t very fucking hot. You need to make it hotter if you want to get past my skin!” said Katsuki, it was normal after every spar that the victor will give advice as to who’s lost.
“Let’s just hope I can’t make it hotter,” Izuku said, somewhat sadly. In actuality, Izuku knows a way to make his fire hotter, but something happened.
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“Izuku, stop it!”
There was a fire. Its heat was off the charts, it was colored blue.
“Make it stop!” Someone said, he was an adult, green hair, taller than Izuku, his arm was covered in burn scars. Probably from his own quirk
“I-I don’t know how!” Izuku shouted he was sobbing. He tried again, this time controlling every fire in the room then balling his fist. The fire went out instantly. He’s still sobbing, there is someone’s body in the corner of the room.
“Mama?”
Those memories flashed before his eyes, he cringed trying to repress those memories again. It has been a while since that happened, he is happy that it didn’t end worse. He is aware that it could’ve ended up worse.
“Hey, you okay?” Katsuki asks, Izuku was zoning out.
“Hm? Oh, yeah, I’m fine.” Izuku answers.
“If you say so, let’s go home you little shit!” Katsuki said, throwing his arm around Izuku.
Near the beach was a man who wore a black hoodie and a glove that covered some of his fingers, he walked away into an alley near some of the houses and disappeared.
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Late at night, Izuku is wide awake still thinking about the repressed memories that he remembered at the beach. It’s 1 a.m. and he can still remember the fear, the stress, and the anxiety. He tries to sleep but he wakes up an hour later. Always.
It was the next day, the day of the entrance exam, Katsuki and Izuku are walking together to U.A. Izuku is kind of sleepy. He has bags on his eyes. Some of the other students are looking at them weirdly, just as Katsuki was acknowledging them, Izuku tripped on some pebble on the ground, and on accident flicks his lighter and activates his quirk.
A small flame flared from Izuku’s pocket to his right hand, then to the ground in an attempt to stop Izuku from falling, but it failed. So he landed face first on the ground, while the remaining fire flew up from his hand towards Katsuki and a girl near them.
“Oh, Katsuki are you hurt?”
“I’m fine, but she’s probably not.” Katsuki answers, he was aware that the fire flew toward him, so he activated his quirk, but he also saw someone else getting burned.
The girl has brown hair, light skin, and strange pads on her fingers.
“Oh! I’m fine really, you don’t need to worry about me!” She said, her middle, index, and thumb has been burned slightly by Izuku’s fire.
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After Izuku has treated her fingers, they go their own ways and enter U.A. Katsuki and Izuku find themselves in a giant auditorium with Present Mic in the middle-back of the room. Both Izuku and Katsuki are fanboying over the fact that there is a pro hero in the room. Because of this, they didn’t really hear much from his explanation except for about destroying robots. Just about the end of explanation they see a boy in the front row say something to Present Mic then turn to them and shouted something about “being quiet, and pay attention” after this the screen began to show six different silhouettes of zero-pointers
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When Katsuki arrived at Battle Center A, he was greeted with a crowd of people wearing different equipment and a variety of different clothes. He noticed people that stood out in the crowd like a boy with spiky red hair, a tank top, leggings, and some disgusting red crocs. Another examinee was invisible and was wearing close to nothing, they were wearing some gloves and shoes. This caused the other examinees to look at them weirdly.
He was going to win this.
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Izuku was in Battle Center B, he saw many people getting ready for the mock battle, like the girl that he accidentally burned in front of the gate of U.A, and the tall boy that scolded both him and Katsuki. The girl is looking concerned on the state of her bandaged hand, because of this Izuku tried to approach her and ask “what’s wrong?” but just as he tried to approach her, the tall boy from the auditorium that was scolding him, stopped him.
“What are you doing? Don’t you see that she is dealing with some injuries right now? How could you rob her of time to recover from her injury?” He said accusingly.
While Izuku is trying to tell him that he was not trying to rob her of anything, Present Mic suddenly shouted out “Okay, start!”
Everyone looked at the Pro Hero confusedly when he screamed again “What? There are no countdowns in real villain battles!”
Just as the Pro Hero said that, everybody began running into the battle arena.
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All the battle arenas has opened, and now all of the examinee has begun rushing in to try to destroy as many faux villains as they can. Everyone has begun to destroy every faux villain in sight by either burning, smashing, crushing, electrifying, or other different ways.
In Battle Center A, Katsuki is smashing most of the mock villains that he has found in the ten minutes, but he has also saved some of the other examinees that have been in danger of debris by being a literal wall between the debris and the examinee. Meanwhile, in Battle Center B, Izuku has been burning or melting every single faux villain that he came across but in terms of saving people he… has some trouble. Once, a faux villain tried to punch one of the examinees from the back but when Izuku tried to destroy it he accidentally burned the examinee lightly. Another time, Izuku tried to blast a robot in the back but he accidentally burned another examinee that was also trying to destroy the robot. Another time, Izuku tried to
This resulted in Izuku having the mentality to prove to them that he is a good person and not some reckless 16-year old that likes to burn people. So to prove this, he tries to save most of the people that he sees most of the time… he fails. He also hears something that sounds like tank tracks, large ones.
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Katsuki is destroying most of the robots while he does this, he sees the red hair boy is destroying the robots while making his way towards Katsuki. As he looked around he spotted someone with some quirk that made them break apart of their body to use as a throwing weapon, he noted him then looks back and sees the red hair boy is just behind him.
He says “Hey, man! Why don’t we work together?” The boy was sweaty, his arm is looking rough and jagged and some of his shirt is destroyed but his pants are fine.
Katsuki thinks on it for a moment then immediately agrees, because why destroy robots alone when you can have a buddy!
Just as he nods and grins he hears skittering, lots of them.
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“All the students appear to be ready for the… final test, “a high pitched voice said.
“Yes, well the variety of zero-pointers this year are amazing,” an echoing voice said.
“Now, let’s release them, shall we?”
Everyone in the room nodded, then proceeded to press six buttons together labeled: swarm, titan, airborne, mole, duo, and lurker. Not every zero-pointer is the same. Just as the button is pressed the gates in every battle center open up.
In Battle Center A, a large amount of bug-like swarm comes out and begin to skitter towards the examinee. One examinee was trampled by the robots after this, some of the robots began to make cages out of their body. Up on the rooftops, a bigger version of one the swarm is observing them.
In Battle Center B, a gigantic robot is driving forward and cracking the ground beneath it. It seems to just move around and damage the surrounding building, looks like it doesn’t have a goal.
In Battle Center C, a flying dragon-like robot flies out and dart forward to grab an examinee by the body. It flies off, then smashes the examinee into a building
In Battle Center D, a mole-like robot comes out and begin to dig the ground in front of it. This causes quakes and pitfalls on the ground.
In Battle Center E, two robots crawl out, one has two spring-like limbs on the bottom and a hole on the top of the body, while another one began to shoot a grappling hook at the buildings and has a pole-like part on the bottom of the body. Both of them are trying to find each other.
In Battle Center F, a robot grabs and speeds past an examinee then ties them to a wall.
These are the different types of mock villains that have been created over the years. Each made different challenges for the examinees. Swarm traps examinees by overwhelming them, then putting them in cages made from a part of the Swarm. Titan just walks around and crushes building, only scaring the examinees. Airborne takes an examinee then slams them into a wall. Mole makes pitfalls and generates quakes. Duo like Titan is only meant to scare the examinees, but they do it by having two-parts of it self, start on different part of the Battle Center, then combining. Lurker grabs an examinee quickly then tie them to a wall, preventing from doing anything until another examinee finds them.
“Now let see how our heroes are doing,” a gaunt skeleton-like man said
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“Holy shit! It’s huge!” Izuku yelled, near Izuku someone muttered “That’s what she said…” he quickly chuckled then focused again on the robot.
Izuku thinks on it when he sees the girl-that he burned in front of the gates-being trapped under rubble that the zero-pointer made and the zero-pointer is coming straight toward them, just as he thought that an examinee shot some needles at the eye of the robot, the eye begins to short out then it explodes.
The examinee that shot it gave a quick arm pump then looks at the robot again and is horrified. The zero-pointer is still moving, while he destroyed the eye it was programmed to still keep moving until it hits a wall, but the eye was giving it the best route to avoid examinees but this resulted in the zero-pointer to just roll on forward and crush anything in its path.
“Perfect! This will prove me as a hero!” Izuku thought almost happy “No! That’s not what heroes think, but still, this will prove me as a hero”
He began to formulate a plan but seeing a lot of fire he has got an idea.
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Katsuki was not having a good time.
Many of those little shits are trapping both him and the other guy, they always get out sure, but then almost immediately they get trapped again. And he was getting fucking tired of this shit.
Every time they get captured Katsuki always notice a bigger robot watching over them then disappearing and now he was suspecting that it was the brain of the swarm. So now he needs a plan, if he could just hide from it then- Katsuki was struck with an idea.
“Shitty hair can you cover me while I get close to that fucker?” Katsuki shouted to the other boy.
“Yeah, I can do that man!”
“On three we’ll break of this cage then bolt into that alley, ready?”
“One, two, three!” They both shouted, they broke out of the cage then sprinted into the alley.
While some of the Swarm was following them, the boy quickly destroyed them buying Katsuki some time to the brain of the Swarm. He quickly hardened his hands then begin scaling the fake building. When Katsuki is scaling the building he didn’t see a gigantic blue flame erupt from Battle Center B.
When he finally reached the top he surveyed the area then found The Brain surveying the area below and doesn’t seem to see him. He covered his whole body in metal just in case the situation gets rough. As he got closer The Brain noticed him, it looked like it was doing nothing but then The Swarm came by using their body as makeshift ladders, he also sees that The Brain has lots of antenna on its head. He looks back and sees The Swarm quickly coming for him so he jumps on the rooftops getting near The Brain, but just as he was going to jump and smash the robot’s head in, he can’t move his legs.
“What the fuck! How did it trap me!?” He thought, but because he was near the edge he can see that every part of the Swarm has focused on rescuing their Brain.
He cursed then tried to think on how to get out of this situation “I’m not like Izuku, I don’t know have any ide-” He was cut off by a memory of the kid with the breakable skin quirk. He has got an idea but it’s gonna hurt like hell.
Katsuki quickly smashed some of the swarm then grab some of the titanium that it had, then carved some skin from his arm.
“Fuck! That hurt,” He cursed, then he saw that some of his skin has an outline, he pulled it off then threw it like a frisbee at the Brain. After the Brain was finally destroyed, the Swarm began to just move around randomly not having any coordination.
He fist pumped then felt as the surrounding skin around his wound crumble and expand. He quickly retracts the metal and saw a wound the size of a baseball. He needed a doctor. He also heard the Present Mic say “Times… UP!”
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A couple of minutes earlier…
Izuku was gathering every fire from the surrounding area and is compressing it into a tiny sphere the size of a tennis ball, the fire was colored blue and he was holding the fire a meter from his body. He then quickly launches the fire into the Titan, but it isn’t enough to burn through the titanium plating on the outside, but it was turning red after a while and Izuku doesn’t know what to do now.
Suddenly from behind Izuku, someone with blue hair slashed the red-hot metal. His body is covered in light blue scales with a hint of light green. Just as he observed the boy he forgets to focus on his fire and it results in the fire bursting out like a pipe filled with rushing water. This also results in the boy getting his arm burned.
Before Izuku has a chance to check on him the Titan’s body blows up and is crashing down on the three of them. Just as the body falling down Izuku’s glow blue with some blue flames at the edge of his eyes and yells “WATCH OUT!”
Then a gigantic blue flame erupted from Izuku’s whole body that melts the entire body of the Titan which saves Izuku, the boy, and the girl from harm.
Everyone can see the gigantic blue fire that just erupted from the boy’s body even the teachers are left with mouths wide open except some of them. Even the examinees from Battle Centers A and C can see the gigantic flame.
Just as the flames died down Present Mic finally said “Times… UP!”
Everyone was waiting for the aftermath large flame, just as they thought that a figure came from the fire carrying two bodies, one is Izuku while the other one is the girl. He breathes quite heavily just as he sets them down then began to walk away with lots of burn marks on his body.
He muttered “That was… good training,” as he leaves, the burn marks are being healed without any help.
Just as he leaves Recovery Girl walks in and says “Oh dear, it seems that you two really did a number on yourselves…”
Izuku’s body oddly only has 1st-degree burns while the girl’s arm has 2nd-degree burns, so recovery girl kisses them on the cheek then every injury that has been caused is healed. They have been carried away by four robots with a litter and is carried to the infirmary to let them rest after that event.
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After 30 minutes, Izuku woke up then left immediately, as he reached the outside he sees Katsuki sitting on the curb playing Spirit Nite -both Izuku’s and Katsuki's favorite games-then Katsuki shouts “Where have you been asshole?! I’ve been waiting for like a fucking hour!”
“Yeah, sorry Kacchan I was in the infirmary. Got knocked out,”
“Well, at least tell me what happened!” He shouts, he had paused the game and is walking with Izuku to go home.
“How about tomorrow? Today has been an exhausting day,”
“Hmph, fine but how many did you get?” Katsuki asks, they start walking and heading to the train, changing subject ever so often.
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When they finally reached Izuku’s house, Izuku greeted his father then turn the TV on, he and Katsuki are sitting on the couch talking about what happened at the entrance exam, but what they didn’t notice is that villain attacks has dropped significantly over the past few days, that should be good news right?
Well, in a bar someone walks through a portal. His skin is covered in green scales, his fingers have sharp claws and his face has the snout in the shape of a lizard. He has a lot of blood and bruises on his body.
He mutters “Goddamit, stupid fucking Gecko. Always getting up in my business,”
“Well, you seem to be still mad at that vigilante I would assume?” Kurogiri asks, the man has gone through the portal completely and is surveying the bar that he’s in.
“Yeah! I hate that guy's guts! I hope I can kill him someday!” He answers.
“Well, how about a deal, you help us then help you in the vigilante business. What do you say?”
“Hell yeah! Let’s do this!”
“It’ll be nice working with you, Leviathan,”