Long ago, two brothers of light and dark shaped the world of Remnant, both for good and for ill. All things were connected to this balance of creation and destruction between the two, most of all their joint creation, humanity. When the moon shattered, this force echoed throughout the realms of the brothers' creations and, too, shattered them. This old legend is considered to be early man's explanation for the phenomena in persons where, in a select group of the population, a person is incapable of manifesting their Aura. While no longer as commonly seen or as devastating to one's social standing as it was in the day when most humans had their Auras unlocked, it is still considered an odd and somewhat embarrassing condition to be known to have. To be 'born of the moon', or flat out 'Broken' if you want to be crude, is the colloquialism used to describe it.

Sorry kid, it's not gonna happen.

I'm the one to blame.

Do you really think they'd let someone Broken like you in when they've got me?

HE'S THE COOLEST IN THE UNIVERSE!

Most Grimm can't be beat unless you have Aura. So no, I honestly don't think you can become a Huntsman without it.

Kacchan!

I'm sorry Izuku... I wish things could be different...

...

Young man. You too can become a hero.

... Oh wow, he must've dozed off. As he shook his head to force himself awake, he thought it was weird that the other prospective students milling about and the airship's engines hadn't managed to keep him from falling asleep.

Izuku Midoriya yawned as quietly as he could so as not to draw too much attention to himself while he tiredly rubbed at his eyes. He didn't get much sleep last night. I mean really, how could he? Ten long months of training had left him pretty much sore to the last inch of his bones. Heck, he was and is still surprised that he'd found any sort of comfortable position to sleep in the night before with how badly he stung all over... new Aura notwithstanding. That was the point of the entire training though, what made it necessary he supposed. He'd been born of the moon, born without the capability of producing an Aura, and so needed to train his body in preparation for it.

Now though? Now it was a different picture. Now, he felt his Aura rushing through him, relieving the tension through his body and somehow easing his poor muscles. Of course, this was only possible because of the strange Semblance he had so recently received. Izuku smiled warmly; thinking of his semblance only brought his attention back to the man who had given it to him.

Toshinori Yagi. The Greatest Huntsman alive, who had ever lived, and who ever might live. The Symbol of Peace and Hope whose fearless smile inspired anyone who saw it and banished the negative emotions the Grimm fed upon. Izuku's hero.

The man he'd met just ten short months ago and who had helped make Izuku's dreams possible. Yeah, at first he pretty much crushed his hopes and dreams into a fine powder with such efficiency that even his own mother's previous attempts now seemed lackluster, but well, he was being honest with what he thought at that moment. When he saw what Izuku was capable of... okay, not "capable" of but willing to do, Toshinori had taken him under his wing.

That hard work, ten months of Hell, had all been geared to make Izuku into the Huntsman that the young man had wanted to be; a hero who could save people and lift their spirits just by smiling. Because of whatever faith his hero had in him, he worked Izuku to the bone to ensure he'd finally see his dreams come true...

He stared down his fist, playing with his fingers as her again felt the wonder of his Aura wax and wane. Or, almost come true. The rest really was up to Izuku now. If he didn't impress at the Initiation, he was going to let him down. Like, really let him down. It seemed like he had a lot of hopes as it concerned his own legacy pinned on him.

...

Okay, so maybe it wasn't just the sore muscles that had kept him up last night. The expectations, the important legacy that Izuku now had to support through his own efforts… they kind of piled up, forming a boulder that had felt like it was about to crush Izuku's chest. What if he failed? What if he embarrassed himself completely? Would Toshinori still care about him? After all, what was the point of him having faith in Izuku if the green haired young man was just going to screw it up?

He sighed, and thrust his arms out in a stretch, and almost let out a pained yelp as he felt a small pop in his left arm. He was still in awe of how sore he was. Still… the pain was a good way of snapping him out of his own nervous thoughts. To give him a moment to think...

Though to be honest, he didn't know what to think really. Of course he was this sore, of course his body ached this badly. That was just how it was going to be, right? He hadn't been born normal, hadn't been born with the capacity to do what every other person on this ship could do. He had had to work this hard just to deserve a chance at seeing his dream come true.

'That ten months was just enough for me to get where I needed to be to inherit his Semblance and it was Hell... This really isn't going to be easy. Still, I rose up to the challenge before, right?. This was my dream I'm working for and, finally, I have a chance at it. Even if it's going to be hard. Even if it means that I had to work three times harder than anyone else to succeed! If that's what it takes, I'll do it!

'I'M GONNA BE A HERO!'

A smile ran across his face, a giddiness overcoming him. His hard work was what brought him here… and it'd be his hard work that would keep him moving forward. At least… that had been how Toshinori had put it.

"Young Midoriya, someone once told me that there is a difference between being lucky and being deserving. The first is an accident, the other a reward. Never get the two confused."

Though honestly, Izuku thought he was pretty darn luck to be here anyway. After all, that was the best word to describe being taken under Toshinori's wing in the first place. Now he just had to make sure he was deserving... and he would. No matter how much hard work he had to put into it.

HIs excitement had almost got the best of him as his right leg kicked out a bit, threatening to topple over one of his cases. With a bit of a panicked jerk he reached over and kept it from falling over, sighing in slight relief. Two cases and a bag; these contained his worldly possessions now. It had been so weird to just pack everything up from his little room in his family's apartment and see, save for most of the posters, furniture and toys that he'd decided he wasn't going to bring along, how little he actually owned. Some workout clothes, some 'normal' change of clothes and his notebooks, 'Huntsman Analysis For The Future' and 'Grimm Analysis For The Future'. Add in some toiletries and basic necessities that his mother had made sure he wasn't going to go without and that had been about it for the bag and the suitcase.

But that had left the other suitcase. Izuku patted it slightly as he nodded; while he was working out and making sure he passed well enough at your combat school, he didn't have much of a time for a job. He had got some help when it came to the... other gear that he'd be expected to have, at least in part, going to the most prestigious Hunter Academies in all of Remnant. For the rest, well, his family wasn't doing too bad for itself, between his mom and dad. Heck, Izuku had grown up with his own computer in the apartment. Between his own allowance and what his mom had been willing to kick in, he'd been able to put something together when he'd first gone to his primary Combat School, Birch Academy.

Toshinori's image had been so set in Izuku's mind when he started Combat School that he had done everything to model himself on the Hero. In particular, he had been inspired by Toshinori's Smashes, said to rip Grimm to shreds even when he missed by the wind generated by the strike. Izuku however knew this was false.

Toshinori never missed.

But in order for a kid without an Aura to reproduce something like that, he'd have to take a little round about way to get that kind of power. Of course, now he had One For All, the Semblance that Toshinori had passed down to him that had made this all possible, so the point had been made somewhat moot. Still, he cracked open the case and rubbed his hand over the weapon.

Unfolded they were pretty simple; armored gloves with thick bracers that, from certain angles, it could be told what they were covering up. There was a handle that was pulled into the bracer as well that, as part of its Mecha-Shift, he'd grab to help control the pace and rhythm of the pump shotguns he had attached to these weapons. Sure the setup made doing any kind of complex tasks with his hands nearly impossible but all Izuku had to do in that case was Mecha-Shift them back into their bracers.

The boots were even more simple; safeties were set up in the heels that he could trip to let the shotgun components loose. With a strong kick he'd activate the pumping mechanism and 'bang' there you had it.

Toshinori had been really amused when he'd gotten a look at them. Even though he called Izuku a fanboy, the younger man could see that on some level he was actually pretty flattered. He even said this worked out pretty well; the practice Izuku had over the years in mastering the blowback and recoil from the shotguns would lend some experience in dealing with One For All... though, and he'd made certain to underline this fact, the first times using it would still produce some nasty blowback considering he couldn't control it yet.

He'd gotten them fixed up and repainted by one of the smiths in his town. He figured that since now he was going to become a real Huntsman that he needed his weapons to look like those of a real Huntsman. He'd asked for them to be colored Forest Green, which just seemed to fit Him. After all, Izuku didn't want to hint too heavily at exactly where he'd gotten his Semblance.

The sound of the screen that had, previously, been playing news of a foiled heist stopped and caught Izuku's attention, causing him to snap the case shut. As he looked up...

"HOLY WOAH! Glynda Goodwitch?!" Reaching into his bag and pulling out Huntsman Analysis For The Future Vol 11. He flipped through the pages and yeah, there's no mistaking it, "that's Glynda Goodwitch!" Izuku'd heard she taught at Beacon but he didn't imagine that she'd actually be the one to greet the students.

"Though that shouldn't have been a surprise ImeanI'dheardthatGoodwitchhadbeeninvolvedwith thwartingtherobberyonthenewsfromlastnightanbecauseoffeatslikethisthatsherepeatedlypullsoffintheValeareashe'sactuallyaprettywell-respectedandmoderatelyfamousHuntress,nottomentionthepowerofherSemblance,Telekinesis,whichisprettycrazywhenyoufactorinthatnotonlycansheholdobjectsstillbutwithsomeapplicationofherAurashecanevenfixinanimateobjectsbackintoplaceplus,well,asmuchasshe'spopularforherstrengthanddemeanorasaHuntressthere'sobviouslyotherfactorslikehowdropdead-"

"DEKU, SHUT UP!"

His hands almost instinctively shot up to his mouth when he heard 'that' voice yell out. At this point it's become such an ingrained part of his lifestyle that he does it without thinking...

Both slapping his hands over his mouth and muttering out of control.

His green eyes chance a glance around at the rest of the people on board the ship and he rapidly realized two things. One was that everyone was looking at Him with slightly off looks and, two, was that... he had just missed pretty much everything Glynda had just said before her little video blinked out.

Great. Just... just great.

"Man, talk about word vomit. Hopefully I didn't get any on my shoes. Eh? Eh?" A groan quickly followed that poor attempt at a joke as he just sighed and lowered his head, the airbus coming to a halt. Okay, so maybe missing out on whatever important instructions were on Glynda's videos and then showing off his muttering to all the potential classmates before him even got off this airbus wasn't exactly a great first step to becoming a Huntsman. In fact, maybe it was super embarrassing and made him want to crawl inside his suitcase for a moment…

But...

But he wasn't going to let it stop him! He'd stood on his two feet with a burst of energy, grabbing his bag and two suitcases as he puffed chest out. Like he kept telling himself, he's going to be a hero! He's going to get off this bus and attend the Academy of his dreams; Beacon! Where heroic Huntsmen like Toshinori and Enji Todoroki graduated from to become the respected Huntsman they are now! Where he'd graduate and become a hero worthy of succeeding Toshinori! Where he'd make him and everyone who had faith in him proud... that was limited to just Toshinori and his mother right now, but still, PROUD! As he stepped off that airbus and took a look at Beacon Academy's grounds with its massive arches, towering buildings and almost fantastical appearance, he couldn't help but smile.

Today is the first da-

Trip.

... You know what, never mind. He could just die here. That would be fine too

He hit the ground face first with a bit of a thud. Really, he'd tripped and fallen over before, so he'd come to expect a certain sensation; a little bit of stinging pain that a little time would just let wear out on its own. What surprised him this time, however, was the utter lack of pain. Sure he still felt the concrete beneath his face rubbing coarsely against his skin as he lay against it but there's no pain; there's no sign that the skin broke or that he actually hurt himself! He was perfectly fine! His Aura tanked it all and, judging by okay he was feeling, he didn't even take an actual hit to it!

'Holy woah, this Aura stuff was amazing! How did I live without it before?!' He smiled as his potential faux-pas gave way to the fact that he didn't even hurt himself. He was still well on his way to having an amazing first-

"Come on! Let's go see the campus! This is Beacon we're talking about, the most presti-WAAAAH!"

In his moment of internal celebration, someone stepped on the back of his head, lost their footing and then promptly tripped and fell in front of him, landing flat on their face as well.

'Welp, this just became a conga line of embarrassment.'

"Oh crap! I'm so sorry about that! She tends to get really excited and just stopped looking where she was going! Here, come on you two." He let out a groan as he felt someone grab him by the shoulder. Whoever it was had helped him to his knees whereupon he shook his head and reached up to take their offered hand. His face was a bit red from the fall and being ground into the concrete by the misstep, but he tried to be good natured about it.

"N-No, it's okay... I really should've gotten up off the ground before anyone ran into me. I'm really... really... r-really." Izuku swallowed a rapidly developing lump in his throat as he saw who exactly it was that he caused to trip. Two young women one roughly his own age and the other... actually looking a year or two younger than him. They didn't seem to have bags, maybe they sent their things ahead to be taken care of by Beacon, and they're looking right at him. Immediately his face goes red and he loses what little ability to speak that he had, stumbling over his words as he tries to work out an apology. The girl in red seems to be as uncomfortable as he is, scratching at her arm slightly as she seems to move slightly closer to the blonde. The blonde in question seemed more amused than off-put, seeming to at least find this situation pretty funny.

"Oh hey, I recognize you now. Yeah, stood out a bit back there on the ship with that word vomit." If his face could've gone anymore red at that moment, it would have. The blonde girl just had a bit of a laugh as the girl with black... or red, black-red? Hair seemed to just awkwardly look off to the side. It seemed she wasn't exactly great with strangers.

He could sympathize.

"Your name's Deku, right? Well it's... good to meet you." The blonde couldn't help but chuckle as she reached over and placed a hand behind the girl in red's back, pushing her forward a bit. "I'm Yang Xiao Long and this is my dear sister, Ruby Rose. Come on Rubes, it's impolite to not at least say hi to the guy you stepped on."

"Yang... can we just... I'm really not."

"Well you se-" he stopped in mid-sentence. Those names… they sounded quite familiar.

'Rose? Xiao Long?' Izuku mentally flipped through his notebooks as he tried his best to recall, 'HOLY WOAH! Are these two related to Team STRQ!? That-NO Stop. Focus…Okay.'

Izuku was...known in his class to go off on nerd outs. Massive tangents describing Huntsman, Tactics, History and other tiny minueta that most people didn't know and didn't care about. Doing this now, to people he'd just met...well that wouldn't exactly make a good first impression. He put a clamp on that upcoming outburst, and looked forward.

"A-A-Actually... my name isn't Deku..." he managed to stammer out as he reached up to scratch the back of his head, lilac and silver eyes blinking slightly as Yang crossed her arms.

"Really? That one blond guy called you by it and you seemed to answer pretty quick." Yang asked, her head tilted to the side as Izuku sighed a bit.

"Well you see, it's..."

"Stupid Deku..." Izuku flinched slightly before turning around and see Kacchan approaching from behind, a sour look on his face. "Get out of my way before I set you on fire."

Immediately he hopped out of Kacchan's way, hands held slightly defensively as he nervously chuckled. "Oh hey good morning! Look, sorry about the airbus on the way over here, let's just get in here and do our best to-" He doesn't even let Izuku finish as he just strides right on by him, Yang and Ruby, the latter of whom nervously stepping to the side herself as his... friend? Bully? Rival? Walks on by.

The green haired young man released a sigh of relief as Kacchan just passes him by. Honestly, he hadn't bullied him nearly as much ever since Izuku ran in during the incident with the Ursa Major, but he's still been... well, Kacchan.

"A-A-Anyway-"

"It's okay. I get the picture." Yang seems a bit sour as she looks over her shoulder to watch Kacchan walk off, Ruby meanwhile having starred on ahead at Izuku as she appeared curious about something.

"Kacchan? Seems like a pretty weird name." The question snaps Izuku out of his own Kacchan-induced panic as he shook his head.

"Oh, it's not his name either... his name's Katsuki Bakugo and, w-well, I just call him Kacchan." At this both sisters seem to curiously tilt their heads to the side.

"... Seems a little weird to give your bully a funny nickname..." Ruby muttered to herself as Yang snerked slightly, clearly finding it a bit amusing.

"W-Well you see.. Kacchan and I used to be friends, but..."

But then he decided he was going to be a Huntsman, same as Izuku, and his parents went to have his Aura manifested. Meanwhile, he and everyone else found out Izuku was... Broken. It seemed like such a weird reason for a friendship to have fallen apart; one day Kacchan, while boisterous and very much the leader as always, was fine counting Izuku among his friends. The next… after coming back from a hike through the woods around Mountain Glenn, he didn't think of Izuku as a friend anymore.

"But... I dunno. Maybe he changed or... I dunno. Point is that somewhere along the way, we just stopped being friends and he..."

"Decided to be a bully instead." Yang folded her arms slightly as she frowned, a similar frown found on Ruby's face as she looks up to meet Izuku's eyes.

"So why do you keep calling him by his nickname then? I mean, I get that you used to be friends but..."

... Honestly, he'd never given it much thought. If he really had to sit down and give a solid answer, in the end, Kacchan is still one of the coolest people Izuku knew. He was driven and strong and his own Semblance, Izuku thought, was really, really cool. While Toshinori stood, and would always stand, at the pinnacle of what Izuku thought a Huntsmen should be and how they should act, there were always aspects of Kacchan's drive and self-confidence that he admired, even as he relentlessly bullied Izuku for being Broken. Maybe that was why he still called him by that old nickname or... or maybe he still wanted to be his friend. It was hard to say...

So instead of giving a solid answer he just chuckled and scratched at his mop of messy green hair, a wistful expression on his face.

"I dunno... maybe... maybe I-I'm a bit sentimental. He was one of my only friends and..." He really didn't want to sound lame by admitting that he basically had no friends after Kacchan decided to turn on him.

"I'm still not sure I understand but, if you say so." Ruby responds with a slight shrug of her shoulders, her sister just nodding slowly as she scratches at her chin a bit. That's alright. He barely understood it himself; he wouldn't readily expect others to get the very... odd dynamic that existed between him and Kaachan.

"A-Anyway... my name's actually Izuku Midoriya. I guess it's nice to meet both of you."

"You guess?" Yang asks with a bit of a grin as he floundered a bit.

"I-I mean you both seem really nice but, w-well, you really don't know how things are going to get off with people y-you meet by having them step on the back of your head and..." Yang's laughter cut him off from running his mouth anymore as she shook her head.

"No worries, I wasn't offended and I'm sure my darling little sister can sympathize. She's not so good with the socializing either."

"Yaaang!" Ruby bemoaned her sister's teasing especially after said sister reached up to pat Ruby on the head. Even though Izuku was an only child he could still sympathize with Ruby's embarrassment, though at least Yang seemed to mean well ,"It's not that I'm not good at socializing, I just... don't know anyone here except my sister." Yang grinned nice and wide as she pat Ruby's shoulder.

"Yeah; you see Izuku, my darling baby sis here actually managed to get the higher ups to notice how awesome she was and decided to drag her up from Signal Academy to come to Beacon two years early! As you can tell, my sis is the bee's knees."

'That really is impressive!' Izuku thought as he looked over at the younger girl with a sudden appreciation, 'Being a hunter is a dangerous career path and usually the regulations over age and how one advances along the career track are strictly regulated. To have made an exception for someone two years younger than either myself or Kacchan must've meant she had a lot of potential.'

"Can you please stop calling me that." At this point the discomfort that Izuku had previously guessed was Ruby just flat out not liking him around starts to become clear; she's probably just as nervous and afraid as he was... and embarrassed by her sister's attention.

"That really is impressive though," he said, almost without thinking. The two sisters turn their attention back to him as Yang grins.

"See Rubes, even complete strangers know it!" Ruby just groaned slightly as she shook her head, the blonde having turned her attention back to him. "So what about you? I'm guessing you're my age...though you're kind of on the short side so…" he just nodded to confirm; he was seventeen and… yeah, he was short. Being Broken all your life could do that a person. "Where're you from? How'd you end up here? Cause, not for nothing or anything, but you seem a bit... skittish? For this whole hunter thing, I mean."

Well she wasn't entirely wrong, but... but she wasn't entirely right either.

"W-Well... you see, I grew up in Mountain Glenn, a-a-and yeah, before you ask, that one." Both Ruby and Yang's mouth's snapped shut as he helpfully answered their question before they would even have a chance to ask it, "It's... kind of a whole different experience. Living somewhere that only exists, that's only still going because someone... a hero stepped up to save it."

It was the most widely told story in Remnant. Mountain Glenn had been on its last legs by the time that Toshinori showed up. The people had been forced into tunnel systems they'd had dug out for defense, the Vale Council had collapsed most of the tunnels leading directly to Vale itself. It had seemed like the Vale Governing Council had pretty much given up entirely on Mountain Glenn.

But then-

"Fear not citizens, hope has arrived! Because I am here!"

The scars of Toshinori's battle against the Grimm were plain to see across the entire city. The tunnels that had once been the last line of defense, the potential tomb of an entire city, now were used solely to give people a way to get down to the railways that connected Mountain Glenn to Vale. When he was a child, he hadn't understood the full potential horror of what the people were about to go through, the desperation that must have eaten away at them.

No. What he had understood from watching that video countless times through was no less meaningful. That in a moment devoid of hope, a giant of a man with resounding laughter arrived and smiled for everyone who was too afraid to. He fought for those who'd already counted themselves out and who'd been counted out by everyone who knew the situation. Even if it wasn't his problem, he did what he felt his duty was as a Hunter and saved everyone.

And he did it with a smile on his face.

"Ever since I was a little kid... i-it's been my dream to become a Huntsman. My entire life, I've thought the coolest thing you could do was save people." As Izuku spoke he felt his insecurities melt away for a moment and a bright smile grace his features. A small, wimpy coward he may be, but when it came to his dreams...there was no doubt in his mind, "I want people to see my smiling face and feel safe. It's really all I ever wanted... so I had no choice; I had to come to Beacon. It's my dream!" He excitedly finished as be looked back. That sense of certainty and self-confidence begins to fade again, but not from anything done by either of the two young women.

Ruby looks like she practically has stars in her eyes while a wide grin stretches across Yang's face.

"OH MY GOSH, THAT'S SO COOL!" Whatever worries that Ruby Rose had about speaking with this boy before had melted away, "I wanted to be a Hunter my entire life too! Sure it wasn't cause I grew up where the second greatest Hunter first showed up, but well, I grew up with the absolute best one ever!" He flinched back slightly, Ruby's sudden burst of enthusiasm having been a bit much for him to handle. "It's why I was so excited about being accepted to Beacon early, right before I got nervous, but like you said, it's still my dream and it's really cool I get to be here!" He chuckled nervously; her enthusiasm obvious, to the point where Izuku thought for a moment that it might even surpass his own.

Only for a moment though.

He quickly gathered that once you manage to get Ruby going, it can be a bit hard to get her to stop. So he looked over to her sister for some help and... she was gone? When she noticed his odd look, Ruby turns her shoulder as well. The two think they can distantly see Yang as she ran off with a group of friends, a faint call of 'Well have fun with your friend Ruby, I'll see you at the Main Hall' could be heard.

"... I think my sister just ditched us."

"Y-Yeah..."

"... Do you know where the Main Hall actually is?"

"I-I was kind of hoping you would. I-I... kind of muttered over everything Ms. Goodwitch said so I don't even know what we're supposed to be doing..."

Crap.

He swallowed a small lump in his throat as he scratched the back of his head. His own inattention ended up getting the best of him this time and now neither he nor Ruby knew exactly where to go. Yang appeared to be a way off. That left only one option.

"I think we should try and see if anyone is still around here, and if they know where to go."

"Yeah, that sounds good," she said, shutting herself off slightly again. It took a moment of searching, but soon they spotted another person; a girl with long black hair with a black ribbon on her head. Before Izuku even had a chance to really say anything Ruby started running off toward her and he, after a moment's hesitation, followed.

'Man, what is today,' he began to contemplate everything that had already happened to him, 'I'm going to need to talk to another girl,' a slight blush, 'I'm really not good at that. I mean, I'm not sure I've ever actually completed a conversation with a g-'

The realization hits him like a sack of bricks.

'HOLY WOAH, I'VE BEEN TALKING TO GIRLS!'

Perhaps this wasn't the best thought to go into this conversation with because the mere thought that he, Izuku Midoriya, have successfully bridged the gap of talking to the fairer sex has immediately sent his face a bit red and twisted his tongue into knots. So much so that when Ruby finally got the girl's attention and she turned around to look at the two of them with a pair of amber eyes, he practically froze up.

"U-U-Uh... hi! I'm Izuku! Uhhh... nice to meet you!" Izuku's attempts to control his own stuttering by speaking in bursts seemed to have surprised both Ruby and this girl, both of whom stared at him incredulously.

'Oh Gods, this is going horribly! I just want directions, just ask her for directions!'

"L-L-Look, I just, I mean, w-w-we just saw you hanging out over here and I-I-I was wondering if you'd be so kind, i-i-if you'd maybe..." The girl's eyes seemed to be slowly going wide as her own impressions of where this conversation is going seemed to form in her head.

Izuku's attempts to put his foot in his mouth were thankfully cut off by Ruby as she stepped forward.

"Hey listen, sorry about that, Izuku here's... well he's kind of a nervous guy. We were just wondering if you knew where the Main Hall was. He was... well you were on the ship right, so he didn't hear what was going on and I've never been here!" The black haired girl opened and closed her mouth a couple times. Between Izuku's stuttering mess and Ruby's own very quick sentence, she seemed to have needed a moment to catch up. After a few seconds Izuku watched her look both Ruby and himself up and down, her amber eyes watching both of their faces carefully. After a moment she sighed and turns toward Ruby.

"Odd friend you seem to have gotten yourself here." Ruby blinked for a moment before she chuckled.

"Oh well we actually only just ran into each other. We're kind of just stuck without knowing our way around." Some of the initial nervousness Ruby showed when they first got introduced still seemed to be lingering, even if it's been lessened somewhat by their interactions. Moving on from that Ruby turned back to the girl. "Anyway, uh, he gave you his name, my name's Ruby. We could really use your help!" The black haired girl just thought to herself for a moment before she just nodded.

"I guess I'm on my way there anyway... and you don't seem like too much trouble at least." The black haired girl spared an odd glance at Izuku, which caused him to lock up a bit before she sighed. "Just follow me. The crowd went off this direction and it shouldn't be too hard to find the Main Hall." As she turned to lead the two off toward the Main Hall, she stopped and considers something, turning her head to look at both of them over her shoulder. "The name's Blake... nice to meet you." Ruby and him both sighed in relief, before he offered Ruby a very much appreciative thank you which was returned with a ready 'your welcome' before the three of them wandered off toward the Main Hall.

As the three all walked along, went by mostly in silence. Blake still seemed wary of Izuku from his little show from earlier, but she was hardly hostile. Though, she didn't seem like the talkative type; she hasn't offered up much to break the silence. Of course, neither had Izuku... though that's mostly because he had been pretty sure he'd messed all this up. Again. Ruby on the other hand seems to be fidgeting and, before long, she pulled out a folded up red piece of metal from her back.

"Sooo... I have this." She unfolds the bit of metal with a flick, the Mecha-Shift Weaponry slowly forming into a-

"HOLY WOAH! That's a High-Caliber-Sniper-Scythe!" Izuku's neck nearly snapped as he looked at the fully unfurled weapon.

"Got it in one!" Ruby seemed genuinely excited as she brought her weapon out, eyes sparkling as she hugged it. "This is my baby, Crescent Rose and you're right on the money there Izuku, she's a High-Caliber-Sniper Scythe!" Blake watched the pair with some disbelief, a surprised look on her face as she looked over to him.

"How did you even guess that? I don't even know what that thing could've been from looking at it." he can't help but smile as he drops his suitcase and bag before reaching into his other bag, pulling out the right Volume of Huntsman Analysis For The Future.

"The HCSS is one of the most powerful tools a Hunter can have at their disposal. Great at clearing away large number of Grimm in either of its Scythe forms and with the Sniper Rifle being able to nail targets from so far away, it's a great weapon! The only problem is that it's crazy hard to use and a bit expensive to maintain and upgrade but, once you have a handle on it, it's deadly." Blake and Ruby looked over his shoulder to see the prodigious amount of notes he'd taken. Blake seemed rather astonished while Ruby's eyes glimmered.

"Wow Izuku, you weren't kidding, being a Huntsman must really have been your dream if you took all these notes." Izuku sheepishly scratched the back of his head as he put the book away. "With notes that good, you must have a crazy amazing weapon stored away! Can I see it? Please?! What's her name?!"

"O-Oh... they're nothing really all that special compared to what you've got but... well, Emerald Gust are fine for me, I guess." Blake arched an eyebrow as she watched Izuku set down the case. Ruby, with an excited look at seeing a potentially new weapon, watches as he popped open the case and immediately set about setting the weapons up on his arms, leaving the boots inside of the case. When he settled them Izuku took a steady breath as he deactivated the safeties on the weapon, whereupon he gave a bit of a forceful shove with both arms.

Immediately the mechanisms within Emerald Gust tripped into action. Izuku opened his hands as best he could so that the handles from the underside of the gauntlet can slip right into his grip. They're just small enough that the fist he'd make won't break his fingers when he threw a punch but... well, before he actually got an Aura and got onto Toshinori's training program, he was too weak to actually handle the full brunt of the kickback from these. Next the pump shotgun itself slid into view as it curved right over his arm, almost like a small cannon. The entire color scheme fit together well with the name and, having fully exposed the machinery, he flipped the safeties back on.

"It's... well, it's just a pump shotgun integrated into some gauntlets and bracers and some armored boots. Nothing really all that fancy, just that whenever I punch-"

"The force of the blow will trip the shotgun's mechanisms, reloading them and firing them so that you can add a bit more bang to your punch." Ruby recited almost verbatim as he blinked slightly in surprise. he knew that his weapons were simple but he still didn't think they'd be that easy to pick apart. Perhaps noticing his slight dip in demeanor, Ruby chuckles as she waves him off. "Oh, don't worry I didn't just pick it up from looking. Yang's Ember Celica works very similarly. Though she didn't go for the gauntlet and bracer design, she went more for bracelets than what you did; says it makes it too hard for her to really grab onto things." Izuku nodded, knowing that as a weakness in his design. "But these do protect your hands really well! I bet you barely even feel any of the kickback from the mechanism or the brunt of the blow! Yang had to start wearing gloves because after a while even her Aura would get exhausted from protecting her hands from all the punches she'd throw! You circumvented that right there... and built in a pretty handy stabilizer to keep the recoil from throwing you off." He couldn't help but smile a bit as he listened to his weapons get complimented. Honestly, he'd made these partially to help feel like Toshinori; the blast of the shotgun giving him visions of performing his own 'Smashes' when he were younger. Everything else was just to compensate for him not having Aura and not being as strong as other kids in the program.

Though he kept that bit to himself.

"I'm guessing that the same's for the boots too?" Blake actually injects herself into the conversation to ask this but he just nod; this is his own field of comfort too. Not so much the weapons stuff, he barely knew anything about them really, but being a hunter and the tools of the trade.

"Yeah, it produces a similar effect for my kicks. Though I have to be a bit more careful with them... if I turn the safeties off on them, I better mean to use them, otherwise..."

"You might accidentally trip them." Blake finishes as she nods in understanding. "Not bad I guess, gives you more options... and I guess there are worse weapons for people who just want to get in and do damage."

Izuku nodded... in all honesty, that is the idea. He's not strong enough to go toe-to-toe with strong Grimm for an extended period, or at least he's pretty sure he isn't. If he can just get in one solid punch and finish them off… well that should be enough. At least until he got used to this whole Huntsman thing.

"What about you Blake, what kind of weapon do you have!? Does it have a name?!" Ruby asked, clearly having gotten pumped off of this talk of weapons. Blake seemed to think for a moment but it seemed Ruby's energy is infectious.

"I don't have it on me, but it does; Gambol Shroud. It's a... Variant Ballistic Chain Scythe. It's a Katana whose base can act as a pistol, with the sheath capable of acting as a cleaver... and when I wrap this ribbon around the katana and pistol component, I can make it into a kusarigama."

"Woah... that is SO COOL!" Ruby's energy practically vibrated out of her body as she spoke, Blake stepping back from the display though not without a small smile gracing her lips. It seems even she can't quite ignore her tool of the trade being greatly praised.

"That is pretty impressive. It'd pretty much let you engage from any range you wanted..." Izuku said to himself, his hand coming up to his lips. The only thing keeping him from having gone into one of his muttering spell is the fact that he don't have any of his Analysis notebooks right in front of him to write down notes on.

"That's... that's the plan, one hopes." Blake says with a bit of a sigh as she steps further back from Ruby. "We'd probably better hurry if we want to make it to the Main Hall in a timely manner." Izuku and Ruby snapped out of each of their states and nodded as they followed Blake again. For his part, He was just eager to get this day on track... though he couldn't say that it's been all bad all things considered.

A/N: So for those of you who don't peruse the thread over in Spacebattles, I've resumed work on BiU. However, with the fic getting close to its ending (15-25 chapters away) and with me wanting to spend as much time as I can on each chapter, I've decided that in order to make sure you guys have content while I'm working that I'd take on a couple editors in order to turn updates of my Quest over on Spacebattles, My Huntsman Academia, into the Fanfic you see before you.

So thanks to Shovern and Wind-Waker for making this possible. Be sure to send them good wishes if you can, as they're good folk and pretty talented for getting so much work done.

Hope you all enjoyed and that you all will enjoy this alongside BiU as it comes to a close.