Entrance Exam Part 2

Mirio was sweating bullets as the bus pulled up to the battle center. He was confident about passing the written portion but, was dreading the Practical Exam. His Qeven uirk was good at letting him avoid attacks even if it had it's downsides but, was completely useless offensively.

It didn't help nerves that the atmosphere in the bus was horrible. Everyone was silent and shooting glares since at this point everyone were enemies.

Miria was in awe of the massive concrete gate the surrounded the battle center and wondered just how much money it takes for them to build and maintain UA since he knew this was only a tiny portion of this massive campus.

The buses stopped and everyone unloaded.

People were unsure of what was going to happen next as there were no staff there to give them instructions. Mirio moved to a isolated area away from the main group to keep an eye on the other applicants, since he had read stories of people secretly using their Quirks on other to get an advantage in situations like this and didn't want to take any chances.

As he was observing everyone to try and identify who would be the toughest competition Mirio nearly jumped out of his skin when he felt an arm hook around his shoulder.

"You look like you're going to pee your pants" a voice joked.

Looking up Mirio saw a boy with dark cobalt blue hair and cat ears with a shit eating grin on his face.

"Are you sure you wanna go through with this" he asked?

"Yes" Mirio threw his arm off "This is what I want to do! And no matter how scared I am I won't let you bully me into quiting!" He'd read about intimidation tactics like this while prepairing for the exam. People pick out those who looked unsure of themselves and attack their confidence and get them to quit, thinning out the competition.

"Whoa" the boy waved his hands "Who said I was trying to make you quit? I was just asking because of how conflicted you looked."

"Oh, sorry" Mirio nervously rubbed his neck "I'm just tense right now sorry for snapping like that."

"No problem" the boy shrugged "but, judging by how your eyes looked a second ago I'd say you don't have anything to worry about."

Mirio was a bit happy about that the boy said that because very few people ever encouraged him but, then remembered his Quirk "I don't know about that my Quirk isn't very good."

"Oh, what's so bad about it" the boy tilted his head?

"I-I don't think I should be telling you that this is a competition after all" Mirio reminded himself that he didn't know this guy.

He rolled his eyes "Yeah, one where we're not allowed to attack each other. Besides if it's really as bad as you say then me knowing won't really give me much of an edge."

"That's true" Mirio shoulder slumped knowing that that was the truth "My Quirk is called Permeation it let's me pass through anything" he sighed.

The boys eyes widened momentarily but, returned to normal quickly.

"That actually sounds pretty useful though" he cocked his head.

"Only on paper" Mirio sighed "When I said everything I meant EVERYTHING!"

The boy held his chin "So you fall through the ground making it hard to move?"

"Yes" Mirio nodded impressed that the boy guessed that "I also pass through light and the air around me making it impossible to see or hear anything."

"Wow, that sucks" the boy nodded.

"Yeah" Mirio hung his head low before remembering his dream to be a hero "But that doesn't matter! I'll become a great Hero no matter what" he clenched his fists!

"Hey" the boy said with the same shit eating grin as before.

"Yeah" Mirio answered not liking the boys expression expression.

"I'm guessing that everything includes your clothes too?"

Mirio's face burned red and was embarrassed that the boy realized that too, and the boy broke out laughing.

"Well, when you use your Quirk in the exam try not to get excited thinking about all the pretty girls who are going to see you naked."

"Don't put stuff like that in my head" Mirio screamed knowing that that was all he was going to be all he could think of now!

"Why? Are you afraid you won't be able to keep calm, if you know what I mean?"

Mirio was getting pissed know and was thinking about punching the boy even if it meant he was going to be kick out of the test.

"Alright, calm down I was only joking" the boy motioned.

"well it wasn't very funny" Mirio scoffed.

The boy snickered again making Mirio glare "Look I'm sorry for messing with you like that but, I just couldn't help myself. To make it up to you how about I offer a piece of advice that might help you pass the exam?"

"What" Mario was a bit interested because the boy seemed so much calmer than everyone there maybe he really did know some secret about the test?

He leaned closer to whisper in Mirio's ear "Destroying robots isn't the only way to earn points."

Mirio's eyes widened "what's the other way" Mirio asked in excitement because his Quirk didn't have much offensive power? So being able to get points without having to fight robots was definitely a good thing for him.

"Just be a Hero" was all the boy said.

Mario deadpanned at the uselessness of the information "you know that doesn't actually help me much right?"

He shrugged "I have one more piece of advice if you want it?"

Mirio was eager again because every little bit helps, right?

"Since you going to lose your clothes anyway you might as well own it. If you get in other peoples way they're probably going to avoid you not wanting to touch the weird naked guy, making them lose focus and get less points."

"Fuck You" Mario screamed as the boy ran off!

Mirio cursed the boy and had to force himself to calm down so his emotions wouldn't effect him during the test.

"Creak" a sudden sound caught his attention it was the gate opening. Mirio waited intently because an instructor was probably about to enter and give them more information about the test.

A blue blur raced passed everyone and into the battle center and Mirio realized it was the boy from before. And shook his head at the guy's impulsiveness, he was probably going to get kicked out due to his impatience.

But, as the moments passed and nothing happened accept for the other applicants cursing the guy.

"Sorry" a voice spoke up over the intercomms which Mirio recognized as Present Mic "but, the exam started the second those gates opened! In a real battle there isn't going to be any starting sign!"

Mirio's eyes widened! Did the guy know that the test started as soon as the gates opened? If he did the maybe the advice he gave was genuine . . . well maybe the first one was.

He was woken from his thoughts as people started stampeding through the gates.

"Shit" Mirio cursed not wanting to be left behind!

As he entered the battle center he noticed how there were only low point robots nearby and how everyone was stopping to fight those. Did that guy destroy all the three pointers in the small space of time he had as a lead? If he did then he had to be taken seriously because there were people struggling even while fighting the one pointers.

Ignoring the small fry in the starting area especially since he didn't want to fight with other people over them Mirio ran deeper inside.

When suddenly a two pointer bursted through a wall and attacked him. Having no other choice Mirio activated his Quirk and phased through the attack. Everything faded to black and he felt like he was floating in infinite nothingness. Hoping he got his timing right an instant later he popped back into reality feeling quite a bit colder than before.

Not letting his nudeness hinder him Mirio grabbed one of the robots legs and flipped it over, the robot smashed into the ground as it started sparking and smoke billowed from it. He froze for a moment at how it was defeated so easily, especially when he saw people struggling against this exact kind of robot earlier.

There was something strange going on Mirio thought but, he could think about that later after he had gotten enough points.

He ran through the training area looking for a knew target he observed everyone else fighting and realized what was happening! The robots had weak spots! If you fought the full on using a powerfull Quirk then the robots were actually Quite tough but, if you were careful and attacked their joints or flipped them over they were lightweights.

It must be for people like me Mirio smiled realizing that UA cared about more than just powerful Quirks.

With his new found knowledge he started tearing through the robots though that might be a bit of an exageration. Even knowing their weakness Mirio wasn't strong enough to take out the three pointers since they were too large to flip over and he couldn't hit their weak points hard enough. Regardless he still defeated around fifteen robots earning about 30 Points.

He wasn't confident in his score though especially when he saw the people around him mowing through the robots like they were nothing.

At this point the people who stayed behind to fight the one pointer at the begging had caught up and the number of robots dwindled making competition alot fiercer. Mirio was sure that if the rule about not fighting was in place there would be a bloodbath.

Spying an alley with three two pointers that no one had seemed to spy yet Mirio jumped in excitment about to rush in to score those points but, stopped when he heard a scream. Turning towards it's source Mirio saw a girl with short red hair fighting against a three pointer and losing.

The tanklike machine was bombarding her with missiles and she was barely managing to defend herself with some sort of energy emitting Quirk.

Without a second though Mirio rushed in to try and save her. Unfortunately his Quirk didn't allow him to turn other people intangible and he couldn't stop the missiles so the only way he could help her was by destroying the robot. Buy, it was far too large for him flip over and he couldn't think of any way to deal lasting damage to it.

He gripped his knuckless so hard that his nails pierced his skin making him bleed. Was it really impossible for him to be a hero? If a situatio like this happened in real life would he tell the family of the person he couldn't save that there was nothing he could do since his Quirk wasn't suited to that kind of situation?

No! He refused! Because that's what Heroes do! They win even when it seems impossible! Running forward he grabbed a piece of rebar that was lying on the ground and rushed the robot screaming.

The robot hearing his screaming looked towards him while still launching its missiles at the girl. Scrambling up a piece of ruble Mirio jumped trying to land of the robots body, anticipating this the robot swung one of its massive arms at the bot.

Gritting his teeth Mirio was about to turn intangable but, realized that if he did he would drop the rebar the only thing that might give him a chance of hurting the beheamoth. No! Mirio screamed refusing to lose and flew forward as the robots arm harmlessly passed through his chest yet, the rebar remained in his hand.

Having no time to think about what just happed he ran up to the robots face and stabbed the rebar into the single camera that it used to see. If he blinded it even if it wasn't defeated it wouldn't be able to shoot missiles at the girl anymore.

Completely out of Mirio's expectations the robot started to fizzle and shake, he stood there dumbfounded until he realized what was about to happen and ran for his life jumping off to safety the second it exploded into a million pieces.

Mario sighed in relief before he realized he was far from safe. The three pointer was at least 15 feet tall and a fall from that height wouldn't tickle, it wouldn't kill him but, he would definitely be too injured to continue with the exam.

Just as Mirio had given up the red haired girl used her Energy Quirk to launch herself into the air and catch him. The force of the explosion and Mirio's jump was a bit too much though and the two of them tumbled back. When they came to a stop Mirio was laying on his back with the girl sitting on his chest. They stared awkwardly at each other before the girl realized that he was naked and squealed slapping him in the face and running off.

Isao who had watch the who situation unfold landed gracefully on the ground before walking up to Mirio and offering him his hand.

Mirio looked up and saw the boy from earlier offering to help him up and took his hand and Isao pulled him to his feet.

"You're more of a pervert than I thought you were" the boy chuckled.

"I'm not a pervert" Mirio screamed "why are you even saying that you know about my Quirk!"

The boy nodded with a smirk on his face "If what you told me before was true then how were you able to hold onto that rebar earlier when you phazed through the robots attack?"

Mirio blushed unable to come up with an answer to that question since he really had no idea what happened then.

"You know what I think" the boy continued? "I think that you just wanted to tumble around naked with that girl."

"What! No way I'm not like that! I didn't have a choice then! If she didn't catch me then I would have crashed into the ground!"

"So you're saying that the pretty girl 'had' to catch you when you could have easily turned intangible again and phased through the ground?"

Mirio realized his mistake "Shit" he facepalmed!

"Well either way" the boy shrugged you probably scored some good Points there.

"I don't think three Points is going to be enough" Mirio sighed looking back down the alley and seeing all of the robots destroyed, and looking around further not seeing any robots in the immediate area.

"I wasn't talking about that" the boy shook his head "do you really think that a school as good as UA only takes peoples combat ability into consideration when accepting students?"

"I don't?"

"Of course not" the boy inturrupted "they also look at peoples personalities and willingness to sacrifice their wants to help others. I saw you give up on those robots in the alley to save that girl, and the school definitely saw it too. You'll probably get a decent amount of Rescue Points for that."

"Rescue Points" Mirio was about to ask when the ground started to shake.

"So it's finally here" the boy let out a malicious grin.

"What's here" Mirio asked?

"The Zero Pointer" the boy stated before running off.

"Wait what's your name" Mirio called!

"It's Isao, Isao Iga" the boy yelled without turning back!

"I'm Mirio Togata" Mirio yelled back hoping the boy heard.