Class 1A and the Quirk assessment test

( Third person view)

" Oh honey, you look absolutely dashing in your uniform. I'm sure Itsuka would like it ". A mother could be seen gushing over her son while the father nodded with a proud smile on his face

" We couldn't be more proud of you, champ ". They boy, known as Max, gave them grateful smile for their praises.

" Thanks mom. Thanks dad. See ya ". He then walked to Itsuka's house and waited for her.

Itsuka: " Morning Max, ready to go? "

Max: "... Hn. Morning Suka "

Hearing her old nickname, she paused for a moment before pouting at him.

" Suka? You promised not to call me that. Remember Maxie? ". Seeing her bringing in his old name, Max decided to bring up various embarrassing moments of their childhood. The both of them walked with their arms linked while trading quibs at each other.They also attracted a bit of attention and praises from the people on the train due to their UA uniform.

Walking in the wide school hall and spotting the lager door with the class 1A symbol on it. They stopped in front of the door to observe it for a bit.

" The class door is huge. Makes you wonder how large the people here are huh? ". Itsuka absentmindedly asked. Seeing her like that, Max gave her a soft look and said:

"... Last week, you wanted to find out how the insides look right? Let's find out ". Sliding the door open, they could see some their new classmates already steated. The first person has a black bird head with his eyes closed and arms crossed. The two in the back of the class was a pretty girl with a black pony tail and a boy with evenly slipt colors, red on his left side while white on the other side.

Once they found their seat ( Itsuka's behind Iida and Max is behind her in an extra seat), Itsuka started to converse with the black haired girl, who introduced herself as Momo Yaoyorozu.

" Wait, you got in by recommendation? ". Momo hesitantly nodded, fearing that Itsuka might say something about it.

" Wow, you must be pretty good. What's it like? ". Cleary, she was not expecting her to be so casual about it as she blinked in surprise before answering her question.

" Well, it consists of a written test, practical test, and an interview. For the practical exam, we had to race six at a time through a three-kilometer long obstacle course using our Quirks. We receive numbers and our time is recorded by Present Mic. Todoroki also did the test with me." The dual haired boy, now identified as Shoto Todoroki just calmly nodded at the statement. Itsuka then turned towards Max:

" Well, it seems like you made the right decision to decline the recommendation. You would have been bored to death. " making him shrugged a bit. Hearing that someone actually declined the recommendation, Momo set her curious stare towards the person behind the girl she was talking to and Todoroki also looked at him. Before Momo could actually asked him his name, a sudden yell from the classroom's door attracted their attention.

" You! You're that guy that saved us from the giant robot and punched it to bits " A boy with spiky red hair and a pair of floating clothes both exclaimed in shock. That gathered some mix reactions from the group, Kendo merely raised an eyebrow at the new information while giving him a sly look like she was saying ' You did well enough hug? ', Momo widened her eyes in shock, knowing that the robot they were talking about was as tall as a building from her conversation with Kendo and yet the unassuming (intimidating) boy managed to destroy it. Todoroki just looked at him with a narrowed gaze, like he was trying to figure out something.

" Yeah! That was so manly of you! My name is Kirishima Eijiro and this is Toru Hagakure. Thanks for saving us bro! ". Kirishima said with a big smile on his face while Toru nodded along ( even if nobody can see it ). Max just looked at him with a blank face, making the red haired boy and the invisible girl nervous with how stoic he's looking, before giving them a small nod. " ... No problem " letting the two sighed in relief. While this was happening, the others sweat drop at the situation.

" Please remove your feet from the desk! You are disrespecting the great men and women who're our upperclassmen by placing your feet on the desk they used. ". A certain blue haired boy with glasses could be seen scolding an ashy-blond spiky haired boy, only to be sneered at.

" Like I care! What middle school are you from, EXTRA! ".

" I-I'm from Somei private academy. My name is Tenya Iida ".

" Somei ?! A stuck up elitist, then? I should blow you to bits! ". Iida was visibly shocked and disturbed at what the rude teenager said.

" You're awful. Do you really wish to become a hero? ". Causing the boy to scoffed at him. He then moved towards the mop of curly green hair that just appeared at the door and started a conversation with him. Max looked at the scene with a small sense of relief.

' ... It looks like everything is the same. I'm lucky that a butterfly effect didn't happen. '. He was cutted out of his musing when a yellow caterpillar of a man entered the room anoucing that he's their homeroom teacher and told them that a quirk assessment test will begin.

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(First person view)

After we were given a quick rundown of the test, Aizawa called out:

" Max, how far could you throw in middle school? ".

" ... A hundred and two meters ". While this wasn't surprising to him since he trained me and all, the others were more than surprised at me achieving that high of score without a quirk.

" Great, now try it with your Quirk. Do whatever you need to. Just stay in the circle ". He passed me the ball then made eye contact with me ' do your best ' his eyes were telling me. I just rolled my eyes at this.

Playing with the ball in my hand, I stood there contemplating to myself for a moment. After I was done, I cocked my hand back and enveloping the ball with a small barrier. Leaving barrier 1 alone, I launched the ball flying with a boom due to my enhanced strength and a second barrier pushing it immediately after it leaves my hand. Once the ball entered the max range I can create a barrier, I threw up a third barrier and pushed the ball forward causing a second boom.

Using barrier 1 to sense where it is, I immediately push the ball when it started to slowdown. We can't even hear the third boom when it happened due to how far it is. Once the ball actually landed, Aizawa showed us the result.

' 3776 meters. Not bad '

" It's important for us to know our limits. That's the first rational step to figuring out what kind of heroes you'll be "

While he was used to these kind of results, the rest of class couldn't hold in their shock anymore.

" 3776 meters?! How can we even beat that?! "

"HOLY HELL! That was freaking manly! "

" We can use our Quirks freely? The hero course is gonna be fun "

While there were various of reactions to my performance, three of them caught my eyes. Deku was sweating way more than I've imagined ( this could be me just over thinking it ), Todoroki was looking at me with the same narrowed gaze from before but more... intense. The real eye catcher was Bakugou, he was looking at me with widened eyes, a disbelief look on his face before it was morphed into a frustrated angry look and his hands clenched.

' Hmm... That was certainly new... He probably didn't expect an extra to have this much power... Let's just hope it doesn't affect things too much '

"... Fun, you say? ". Aizawa said with a particularly dark look to his face.

" You came here to become heroes and you think this is fun. Right, let's make it more... interesting shall we? The one ranked last will be deemed hopeless and expelled ". Then came the indignant cries of unfair from my class.

" Unfair? Life is unfair. Natural disasters, highway pileups, rampaging villains, they're unfair. Yet, Japan is full of them ". He paused and sighed.

" If you were hoping to come here and hang out with your friends, I'm sorry to tell you that UA... Will run you through wringer. Go beyond, Plus Ultra ". That little speech had the effect of firing them up and I have to admit, Aizawa knows how to make a speech.

For the 50 meters dash, I was paired up with Ochaco.

" Um, good luck? " she hesitantly said, wanting to be nice to a fellow classmates. I just keep staring at her before giving her a small nod, wishing her good luck as well. Hearing the signal to start, I bolted through the field with barriers pushing me.

" 1.32 seconds! " "7.15 seconds! "

" Huff-huff, wow you're even fas-huff faster than Iida " Ochaco said, out of breath.

As for the grip strength test, ... I broke the dam thing. Looking at the piece of scrap metal in my hand, I was glad that nobody saw me crushing it since it would be quite embarrassing. Except for Itsuka, who was standing next to me. She said in a reprimanding tone like a mother would to her child:

" Oh my, you need to be more careful now. How can you touch something delicate like a girl in the future without hurting her. ". The corner of my mouth twitched at the comment before an idea to get her back appears in that instant. I started walking towards her with a dark look in my eyes and giving her a slight ( condescending ) smirk, I leaned forward and whispered in her ear:

"... Once we get back home, I'll show you how... Delicate I can be with a girl ". I then nibbled at her ear, making her shivered at the touch and blush bright red. Pulling away and checking if anyone saw that, I was satisfied with her reaction and my face was blank again. Walking up to Aizawa sensei and giving him my most innocent look ( ... Even though it's my normal face... )

" ... Sensei, I broke the testing machine ". His response was a deadpanned stare with the occasional twitch to his eye.

After we finished the rest of the events, the final ball throw came. Itsuka did well enough, 434 meters was her score. The incident with Deku still happened accordingly to canon. Though when Bakugou tried to confront him, instead of Aizawa sensei stopping him, I decided to do it for him to save him from the trouble ( and dried eyes). Bakugou, instead of actually touching Deku, was stopped by a grey force field. That certainly didn't deter him from his target.

" Huh?! What is with this shitty wall? I'll just blow it to piec- ". Instead of the barrier breaking, he was met with a faceful of his own explosion sending him flying back. He didn't hit the ground but was caught by Aizawa's scarf.

" ... Thank you Max. Bakugou, go back to your place now. I'm showing you the final results ". And on top of the ranking was me, followed by Momo. Itsuka was in 6th place and at the bottom was Izuku ( I could see him shaking in fear).

" Also, I was lying about the expulsion ". Aizawa casually said, making the rest of the class gasp in surprise and me letting out a sigh at the abruptness of it.

" That was a rational deception ( here he gave me a glance, I had to snort at the sentence). Meant to bring out the Best in all of you "

" Well of course it was a lie... Didn't take that much to figure it out " Momo said like it was an obvious thing. I only had one thought regrading that.

' ...You have no idea how wrong you are... '

After that, we went to back to class to look at our documents.

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( Third person view)

As Aizawa was leaving after the test, he was met with All Might who gave him an accusing stare.

" Aizawa, you big fat liar! "

Looking at the number one hero, Aizawa gave him a dull statement.

" All Might... So you were watching... Good to know you don't mind wasting time. "

" A 'rational deception' ?! April Fools day was over a week ago. You expelled an entire class of first years last year due to them not having any prospects. ". All Might paused dramatically before continuing.

" And yet, here you are, going back on your word?! Could it be... ! You sense the potential in young Midoriya as well, yes? ". Hearing this, Aizawa thought for a moment before saying:

" 'as well' ? You will be supporting him...? I understand that's not usually your style. ". All Might recoiled in surprise before saying back :

" I could say the same thing about you. You requested to have young Maxwell in your class despite him initially being in class 1B. That was unusual even for you, did you sense great potential in him for you to do so? ". Turning to face him, Aizawa had a small fond smile on his face, making All Might blinked in surprise at the rare occurrence.

" Hmm, I know that he WILL become a great hero ". He stated like it was a fact. He then promptly turned his back to the symbol of peace and kept walking.

" Regrading Izuku, he doesn't have... no chance. That's all I can say. Because if he had no hope, I would cut him loose. There's nothing crueler than letting someone chased their half-baked dreams. "

Looking at Aizawa's retreating form, All Might thought to himself:

' So this is you being kind then, Aizawa... To have that much faith from him, I wonder how young Maxwell is like... '