The shadows scatter away with each step you take, looking ahead you could hear the voices whispering, but the words were muffled. You had to find the villain fast. Had to stop them. You hurry forward, the shadows shifting aggressively around you in response. 

        'Hurry, hurry.' 

        Something leaps up in front of you and you jerk awake, right hand pressing down on your desk and making it burst into a cloud of particles. You gasp and tumble forward, clenching your right hand into a fist. Laughter erupts around you and you frown to yourself in embarrassment.

         "Again ___?" The teacher questions with a disapproving tone. You stand up keeping your gaze down. 

         "S-Sorry sir." You manage. 

         "This year is almost over, can't you last until then without destroying school property?" He sighs shaking his head. "Alright, you know where the replacements are, go on." He shoos you out so he can continue class. 

          That's right in a week the final exams will take place and after that the entrance exams for the high schools will take place. You had originally planned to go to an average high school, but lately your dreams have been whispering for you to try a Hero school. Raizu High wasn't a top hero school, but it was good enough for you. 

          You stop in the supply room, putting your left hand on the desk before picking it up with both hands. You start back to the classroom, pausing as the bell rings. 'Ah… Today's over already…' 

           Some of your classmates as you pass them with the desk. You ignore them, frowning slightly. Who were you kidding? You? A hero? You couldn't even keep your desks safe from destruction.

           "You look like your thoughts are not going in a good direction." A hum sounds and you look over at the redhead as he leans to peer at your face. You meet his curious gaze before looking away with a huff. 

           "I don't even know where my thoughts are going anymore." You grumble.

           "Oh? What's on your mind ___?" He smiles. You glance between him and the desk.

           "I.. How's high school Tendo?" You ask him as you near the classroom.

           "I like it, they have a lot more to offer and I get sent on tasks to other schools so I can come check on you often." Tendo says in thought. "Are you asking about high school because you have an idea about where you wanna go?"

           "Raizu. I was thinking Raizu." You murmur as you enter the classroom.

           "... Eh? A hero school?" Tendo manages in clear surprise. "What made you think of that?"

           "I don't know." You frown, pausing as someone shifts nearby. You look at your classmate as he gives you both an uneasy glare.

           "You're blocking the doorway…" He informs when you freeze.

           "Ah… Sorry Sakusa." You hastily move out of the way so he can get by and leave without another word.

           "I keep forgetting that guy's in your class…" Tendo mutters. 

            "I forget sometimes too.." You set the desk down, pausing when you look at your books and belongings piled up neatly in your chair. "Huh? Who did that?" You ask.

            "One of your classmates probably, why do you look confused?" Tendo shakes his head.

            "Because you're the only one that's nice to me." You murmur, opening your desk to put everything inside. 

             "... Hm… Well, I don't think anyone dislikes you ___… Maybe your quirk just scares them." He points out with a head tilt. You look at your right hand quietly at that. "I mean… It scares you sometimes too, no?" He adds lightly, taking out a black glove, slipping it over your hand. "There you go. That should last you another hour." He smiles. "Now lets go, the new Jump is out today."

             "Alright. Thanks Tendo." You breathe following him out. 

×*×*×*×*×

        'So, are you nervous?'

        "Of course I am, I don't have a backup plan Tendo." You grumble with a frown, looking about the train uneasily. You were currently heading to your entrance exam. You had ended up calling Tendo in hopes of calming your nerves.

         'I knew it. But don't worry, today I'll be your hero.' He hums and you can imagine him smiling happy. 

          "That's… Kind of a weird statement coming from you." You comment as the train stops and you are pretty much swept out with the crowd. You nearly fall over but someone catches your waist.

          "Its a good thing I'm only saying it once then." Your savior chuckles as you pause and look up at Tendo.

           "Tendo. What are you doing here…?" You blink, taking a step back in confusion.

           "I'm not sure, I woke up really early and remembered today you were doing the exam here…" He looks toward the school briefly before looking at you again. "So I came here to wish you luck! Oh! And I got you some breakfast because I know you forgot to eat." He chimes, holding up a paper bag. 

           "... You are my hero today." You smile as he opens the bag for you to reach in and pick out a breakfast sandwich. Tendo chuckles, smiling to himself. 

           "Told you…" He breathes as you both start for the school, you start to eat as he peers at you briefly. "Gonna be a hero huh… Never saw that coming. And I have a quirk that can see ahead…" He shakes his head. 

           "You think I can do it..?" You ask lightly. 

           "Nope. I know you can." He says looking ahead. "You're going to be alright." You look at him and smile a bit. That coming from Tendo was high praise. 

           "Alright then…" You lean on him, relaxing a bit. You finish your sandwich as you reach the school, taking in a deep breath, nervousness bubbling back up. 

           "Not a lot of people here- oh! Sakusa!" Tendo calls cheerfully, pulling you along as he approaches the other guy. "Look ___, Sakusa is taking the test too! So you don't gotta worry, You're not alone." He nudges you forward as Sakusa stops to look at both of you. 

           "Ah… Um, Good morning…" You greet awkwardly. He blinks at you before checking his watch.

            "Good morning. We have five minutes so compose yourself." He says before walking on. You and Tendo watch his back.

            "He greeted me…" You mutter.

            "That was a surprise. I didn't see him as a Hero type… Curious.." Tendo puts a knuckle to his chin. "Anyway, go on. I'll be in this area for a while. Have fun." He waves you on. You nod and hastily follow after Sakusa, peering about uneasily. As you both enter the building, your foot catches the door frame and you fall forward, reaching out your right hand without thinking, fingertips grazing Sakusa's hoodie making it burst into particles. You tense, swiftly clenching your hand into a fist. He catches your wrist and pulls you back from your fall. 

            "You." His voice comes out in a low hiss. "I told you to compose yourself." He glares at you, unease reflecting in his dark eyes. He lets go of your wrist. "Get away from me." He says moving away as he digs into his backpack to pull out a long sleeved shirt.

             "I-I'm sorry Sakusa." You manage shaking slightly. This was a bad idea after all, maybe you should just leave. You look to the exit carefully, debating. 

              "Its fine. Are you hurt..?" His voice knocks you from your thoughts, the edge in his voice was gone again, making you look back at him as he adjusts the sleeves of his replacement jacket.

              "I- no I'm okay… Are you…?"

              "No. Now come on, lets get a seat before more people contaminate this place." He murmurs, tilting his head to the testing room, not moving to go ahead.

              "Ah… R-Right." You glance at the exit before moving to the testing room, Sakusa following after you.  

              After the written exam, the participants are taken to a large heroic testing site. The test was to gain points by saving decoys or be destroying the android enemies. You swallow, hanging at the back of the crowd with Sakusa. 

             "Ah… I'm so nervous." You breathe, looking at your right hand, the special glove you were to lessen your quirk's strength was steadily breaking apart like it was turning to dust. The fact that you could see it happening meant that your quirk was a bit hyperactive because of your emotional state. "That's not good…" 

              "Then you should focus on the androids. You'll be fine once you get started." Sakusa says looking ahead.

              "So you're going to be rescuing?" You ask looking to him.

              "My toxins won't affect them efficiently enough. So yes, rescuing is what I can do right now." He nods.

               "Then… Lets team up. I can't rescue any one. But I can cover you." You breathe, taking off what was left of the glove.

               "... Alright." He glances at you as the whistle sounds. The crowd disperses immediately and you run for a nearby building with Sakusa, androids run onto the streets, two spotting you both and charging before you reach the door. You glance at Sakusa before bursting forward, right hand finding an android's chest, making it's chest burst into particles. The other android swings at you but you manage to dodge it, touching it's arm to make it burst. You steady your footing, hand reaching it's chest and eliminating it. 

            Letting out a breath you feel yourself finally relax and look toward the door as Sakusa comes out with a decoy, giving you a nod before taking it to a nearby safe zone before you both move for the next one. 

            Ten androids for you, seven decoys rescued for Sakusa. You didn't know what the point system for it was, it was never explained. But you guessed rescuing was worth more because it had more steps to it than taking out the androids. However the androids were getting bigger and faster the longer the exam went on. 

            "___." Sakusa says suddenly, knocking you out of the way as an android leaps down from a rooftop. You tumble but swiftly get back up, right arm plunging through it's head. It falls but the shaking ground catches your attention.

             "We need to hurry out of this area Sakusa. Go check that building quickly." You tell him pointing behind him.

              "Keep your head on a swivel." He responds, running inside. You glance about, now keeping an eye on the rooftops as well. The tremor grows stronger and you look over as a massive android peers around the the corner of a nearby building. It's head was just above the third story window. 

              "Ah…" Your voice seems to shrink back into a full at sight of it and you take a step back, which makes it suddenly look at you. Panic rushes through your veins and it feels like your body has gone cold. 'what do I do? Can I fight that?' You wonder worriedly. It's head jerks slightly, something else getting its attention. Following it's gaze you find that Sakusa had just left the building with another decoy. 

            Sakusa's eyes widen at sight of it before he looks to you in alarm. You blink, the panic washing away as an objective presents itself. "Go Sakusa! I got this!" You shout, running for the android. No plan, just an objective. Cover Sakusa, just like you said you would. He hadn't hesitated before so you knew he was already on the move as the android locked on you now. You can't reach the head so the legs will have to do.

            It leans over, long arm slicing the ground as it moves to hit you. Quickly holding out your right arm to meet it, you're momentarily blinded be the dark particle cloud, barely dodging the rest of the androids arm as it sweeps over your head, scraping against your head. You grit your teeth leaping forward as the other arm swings by. You reach your right hand out, grabbing one of the legs and making it burst. The android falls toward you then, covering you in a shadow. 

            'Uh oh.' Yoh think, trying to get up and out of the way. You're swept up by a pair of arms and look to meet a grinning face. 

            "Hey hey hey! You're safe now!" He declares happily. 

            "Ah… Thanks." You manage and pause when you realize you were soaring through the air. He tilts his large gray, white and black speckled wings, circling back to set you on the ground not far from the large android. 

             "No problem miss, that's what a hero does." He grins, putting his fists on his hips and looking up and away in a dramatic fashion that made you want to chuckle. 

             "Thanks for being a hero then." You smile before looking around for Sakusa. "I need to get back to my friend now." You tell him giving a wave before taking off.

             "Ah! But…." His shoulders droop as you leave earshot. "I didn't get to introduce myself…" 

             You turn the corner, nearly colliding with Sakusa. "Oh good! Did you get it to the safe zone?"

              "Yes. Did you win?" He tilts his head looking at the side of your face.

              "Yeah. What're you looking at?" You ask, looking over your shoulder.

              "You're bleeding. Did you hit your head?" He shuffles through his pants pockets, pulling out a small first aid kit.

              "Eh? It only grazed me- oh…" You touch where you had been grazed finding part of your head wet. 

              "Stay still." He says spraying your wound when you take your hand away. "But also watch my back." He adds starting to wrap up your head.  "Are you dizzy at all?" 

             "No, didn't even know I got hurt. Must be the adrenaline." You breathe, tensing slightly as there's a trimmer. "Another one already?"

             "We'll leave this area, I saw some other buildings further down that way that probably haven't been cleared." He says briskly finishing up. "There. Lets move." He adds moving on quickly. 

             "Right." You follow after him again, peering about as you near some other buildings, nearly running into someone as they come out. The blond pauses, gold cat-like eyes shifting between you and Sakusa. 

              "There's one more in this building on the third floor, and two in the building there." He manages, looking away to take the dummy away. Sakusa hesitates for a moment before looking at you. 

             "Go I got this." You give a nod. He nods and rushes in. You peer around the block, vision slightly fuzzy when your eyes moved too fast. 

             "Oh. You're not looking too hot." Someone comments from your blind spot and you quickly look to see a taller guy with black hair and dark eyes. "There's a medic nearby, I'll go-" He breaks off, looking behind him as a fast moving android zips around the corner, blades coming out as it charges you two. "Uh oh." 

            "I got it." You breathe stepping forward and raising your right hand. He hums, staying put and watching you. The android moves to swing one of it's blades at you. Maybe it was adrenaline or the blood loss but you could clearly see the path of the blade. Jumping and flipping over the blade, you calmly reach out and touch it's arm, making it dissolve. It's gaze locks on you as you look to the head, kicking off the ground and grabbing it's head, making the layers burst as your hand meets each. 

             "Wow, that's quite a quirk you got there… Are you okay?" He asks when you stagger. 

             "Feels… Fuzzy.." You slur, looking at your right hand. It looked a bit fuzzy to. You grab it with your left hand and it returns to normal. "Nevermind."

              "... Okay…" He frowns slightly before looking over as Sakusa comes out with a dummy. "Hey, take this one to the safe zone too, I need to get a medic." He tells Sakusa, pointing to you.

            "Alright. Come on," Sakusa says, nudging you with the dummy's arm.

            "Kay." You breathe going along with him as he moves briskly.

            "Ten minutes left." Sakusa comments when you both reach the safe zone. "I'm going to that building over there. Don't move until you're healed." He adds before moving on.

            "Careful." You hum after him. 

            After a few moments a beautiful raven haired woman rushes up. "I'm Shimizu Kiyoko, I'm going to heal you." She breathes before hugging your head. 

             "U-Uh… Okay…" You manage in surprise, blushing lightly. The air around her starts to glow and sparkle. The throb in your head steadily fading as your vision sharpens again. "Thank you." You say when she lets go.

              "Eight minutes left. Good luck." She nods. 

              "Right thanks again." You tell her before running for the building Sakusa had motioned to. Before you reach it, two small shapes burst out of the other building. You blink in surprise, pausing at sight of the two foxes, one grey, one red. "Why are foxes running around here?"

               The red fox seemed to have a hurt leg, and the grey one nipped at him anxiously as everything starts to shake. Something makes you run toward them as a giant android crashes through the building they had left. You reach them, hitting your knees and scooping up the red fox with your left arm. 'Not fast enough.' You realize as darkness comes over you. Swiftly bringing up your right arm you feel metal smack into it but bursts. "Stay close little fox." You say after hearing the grey one let out a slight bark. The particle cloud was dark and dense, for a moment you couldn't see anything. You wave your right arm to clear the particles, finding yourself in the center of the android's chest. You look down at the grey fox before kneeling down.

          "Good, you don't look hurt." You smile a bit. "Come on, lets get your buddy here healed." You add before clearing the way out of the android, getting out as Shimizu runs up. "I'm okay, but can you heal this guy?" You request, passing her the fox.

          "Oh sure. Be careful." She tells you as you take off to find Sakusa again. You spot him going around the downed giant, looking at it warily as he carries two decoys. 

           "Sakusa!" You wave to get his attention before joining him. 

           "You do that?" He inquires, tilting his head toward the android.

           "Yep. There were some cute little foxes running around that it nearly squashed so…" You smile a bit to yourself.

            "Foxes…" He echoes, eyes narrowing briefly before he checks his watch. "Five minutes." He breathes before you two pick up the pace, dropping off the decoys. A large tremor makes you both stagger a bit and look at each other. At the center of the arena a colossal android appears, towering over the buildings intimidatingly. "Looks like the final boss… You going?" 

             "Well, anyone that takes that thing down would be guaranteed entrance…" You look at your right hand before clenching it. "Worth a shot. You should check out the furthest buildings. That'll be safest."

             "Alright… Good luck." He nods heading off as you run for the threat. Two others join your sides and you all peer at eachother. One was a shorter guy with dark hair and a tuft of blond in the front. The other had a monk cut and his arms were currently covered in reddish black scales.

               "Going for the big guy two huh?" You guess.

               "Yep! Hey Ryuu!" The shorter guy waves to the monk cut.

               "Hey Nishinoya! This test is awesome." Monk cut laughs.

               "So what's your quirk?" Nishinoya glances at the android before looking at you.

               "Its called burst. Whatever I touch with my right hand bursts into particles, but that thing is big so I don't know what good it'll do." You admit, looking up at the android.

               "Sounds like you need to aim for the head… I can get ya up there." Nishinoya gives a thumbs up.

               "Eh? You sure?" You huff in surprise.

               "It'll be fine. I'll go up with you. Sis says they take into account teamwork too." Ryuu gives you a thumbs up as well.

               "Really? Okay." You smile more. You all come within range of the Android, Nishinoya moves ahead, a cyclone leaving his back and turning into a wind deity.

               "Here we go!" Nishinoya chimes as the deity grabs you and Ryuu, tossing you up at android's head. 

               "RAAHHH!" Ryuu roars, dragon claws coming out as you both reach the head. You swing out with your right arm, turning part of the head into particles. Ryuu's claws tear gashes into the other side. You both land on the androids shoulders. Your stomach sinks as you glance downward. 

                'Im so high up here… Scary…' You think as Ryuu claws at the neck.

                "It's still moving! Don't stop now!" He calls to you. 

                "Right!" You manage, hand taking out part of the neck. The giant head rocks, falling toward you but Ryuu swiftly slashes through the rest of the neck, making the head tumble off.

                 "Yeah! We won!" Ryuu throws up his arms victoriously. You grin but the android starts to rock. "...It's gonna fall! We gotta destroy it!"

                 "How!? My quirk can't take out the whole thing!" You gasp in alarm. You both look at each other lost for a moment.

                 "We still gotta try!" He gasps. You look around at the body and everything below.

                 "We'll manipulate it's fall path then! Over there looks safe!" You point behind the android at a few empty lots.

                  "Good idea. But we gotta make sure we don't crush anyone-" Ryuu breaks off, looking behind you. Something comes over your ear and you tense, pausing as the winged guy from earlier glides by, passing something to Ryuu.

                   "There you'll be able to talk to people on the ground now." He grins. You blink and touch the earpiece over your ear.

                  "Hello?"

                  ' This is Akaashi, do you have a plan?'

                  "The safest place for the android to fall is backwards. Can you make sure its clear to do so?" You ask as the android starts to rock again, a bright spark bursting from the neck making the three of you jump.

                   'Hold on.' Akaashi responds before going silent.

                   "The arm's moving!" Ryuu points making you look over as the arm lifts up. 

                   "Its probably malfunctioning." You say, crouching a bit as the shoulder jerks. "Akaashi, its getting worse up here!"

                   'We're getting a few others out of the way. Just remain calm.' He responds. 

                   "Isn't time up yet?" Ryuu scoffs, jerking when the neck sparks again. 

                   "Listen Ryuu, once we get the clear I'm going to go down the front and take the weight from there, it should get it to fall back. You should go down that arm and get off while you can." You tell him.

                 "Wait-wait-wait… You're going to FALL?!" He gasps.

                 "It'll be fine. The owl guy circling us will probably catch me." You assure.

                 "Talk about a leap of faith." Ryuu huffs.

                 'You're clear.' Akaashi's voice sounds and you meet Ryuu's gaze. He gives a nod and runs down the arm you had indicated. You swallow and jump toward the androids chest, right hand carving through the chest, making a large gash, the android rocks back and falls away from your hand. A moment later you're caught in the air.

              "Hey hey hey! That's twice today!" He chimes.

              "You're amazing and I'm so lucky you were here today." You manage, trying to pull your soul back in.

              "Hey you okay?" He asks landing with you. 

              "Yeah. Just did something incredibly scary don't mind me." You say, sinking to the ground as you're set down and a siren sounds, concluding the test. 

            Leaving the school you feel relief crash over you and slump forward. "I can't believe that was a test…"

             "It was extreme." Sakusa agrees. You look to him as he adjusts his mask. He meets your gaze as you straighten up. "What?"

             "Wish I could've seen you fight…" You hum before looking around. You spot Tendo coming up and smile, waving at him. "See you later Sakusa. I'm sure we'll get into the same class again…" You add before going to greet Tendo, giving him a hug.

            "That's a heavy sigh, the test was that stressful?" He chuckles.

            "I'll tell you all about it over lunch."