Note: Alrighty, this is the last chapter before It's caught up to AO3!

Nezu pressed down the red button that he held in his paws, any members of the faculty that hadn't been paying attention to the screens so far all turned towards them now, 'Let's see how this years examinees react.' Aizawa thought as he swept a lock of his hair out of his eyes.

On the screens, the teachers could already make out the slight rumblings of the buildings, though they knew it'd take a little bit more for the teens on the ground to realise what was going on. "Oh Ho Ho!" Nezu laughed, "Some students in battle centre A have already realised what's going on." He exclaimed as some of the screens switched over to show the faux city in question.

Aizawa sighed, "Simply knowing what's going on won't help them Nezu. The very moment that they sense something off, they should all understand. They were briefed about it earlier after all." Aizawa flicked through the screens a few times for each other battle centre. Students in E and C had realised what was going on but most of them had kept near the starting area so they weren't going to be too affected by it.

"Right you are Aizawa. Ah, It seems that some of the other centres are getting affected too!" Said Nezu.

"Lookie here at all that chaos." commented Snipe, pointing out the mass of of teens running away from the gimmick in centre B.

"Poor kids, some of them are getting stepped on left and right!" Said Midnight, "I know we told them to avoid the thing but this behaviour just isn't heroic!"

Around her the other teachers nodded in approval, there were many opportunities for the examinees to gain rescue points even if they had no idea that they were a thing but most of them seemed to be causing more damage and definitely increasing the panic.

As the rest of the cameras switched to other angles and battle centres periodically, Aizawa switched his one over to battle centre D as All Might, with Nezu back on his shoulder, walked over. "I'm curious to see how Midoriya handles this scenario, I purposely set Centre D's gimmick on a bit of a delay to give you some time to check on the other examinees and still catch his performance in particular." Nezu said quietly as they approached.

Aizawa turned towards the small mammalian before answering, "Yea well I don't really care about how All Might is considering the kid as a successor, I'm interested in how much he relies on those 'Ether powers' of his. Chances are he's gonna have that sword on him no matter what, so I'm glad to see that he CAN rely on that, but those powers? I've seen plenty of heroes limit themselves because of their over reliance on their powers and choose to not train themselves and get killed because of it." He turned back towards the screen before continuing, "Though you'll be happy to know that so far I personally think he deserves a CHANCE at proving himself to me in person, regardless of the points he earns today."

All Might smiled widely and the principal chuckled before pointing to the slightly pixelated form of Midoriya, the teens eyes having taken on a bright blue colour as he just stood completely still for a few seconds after assisting a girl. "I'm happy to hear you have such praise for the kid but we as heroes were given Quirks to help people, " Midoriya's eyes quickly changed back to their natural green colour, no longer glowing brightly as his head snapped in a seemingly random direction that he took off in, "and it seems that Midoriya here is one hundred percent willing to use his for that purpose, whether you like it or not."

A new glow, completely undocumented in the green haired teens file, covered Midoriyas body and in less than a second, he had become a blur of blue sparks, green hair, and then had vanished.

Uraraka pressed her fingers together, "Release!" she whispered as another robot crashed down into the ground. She panted heavily for a second and held her stomach with one hand, "That...That should be 27 points… I think" She looked around and saw that there weren't many more robots around her. "Mic's announcement was about a minute ago so I should still have 3 minutes left to get points!" she said as she ran further into the city, hoping to find some stragglers.

That's when the first shock hit.

The ground beneath her feet shook violently as cracks began to form around her. Looking up, she saw it. The monstrously sized Zero point robot.

"HOLY SHIT THAT THINGS HUGE!" she heard someone nearby shout as she turned tail and ran back towards the entrance. She was near the other side of the fake city so getting back all the way to the start may not be an option, but by then, the exam would finish and the robot would be called off.

Not paying enough attention, she tripped on a rock and fell. She grunted upon feeling the impact, the force of which forced the breath from her lungs. "NoNoNoNo gotta get up!" she said, but a sudden tremor caused her to lose her balance and fall down again, a sudden weight settling on her legs. She looked back at them to see a slab of slightly cracked concrete weighing her down.

The realisation of what was keeping her pinned triggered the pain to cut through the panic and adrenaline and she screamed.

Tears burst from her eyes at the pain she was feeling as fear began to escalate within her, 'Oh God I can't die here!' she thought to herself, the pain and fear making her forget that she was currently in an exam. As far as her brain was concerned, this was all real and she was in danger.

She threw her arms behind her and tapped the slab of rock, a faint pink glow encased it and lifted it a tiny bit before dropping it again. She was on the verge of throwing up, now of all times! In a last ditch effort, she breathed in deeply. "HELP!" she shouted.

She witnessed some people run past her, completely ignoring the cry. Others that were further ahead turned around, but didn't stop. She tried to lift the block up one more time, being able to turn herself around so she could push it away easier but to no avail.

As she had given up hope, the faint sound of electric sparks and someone running filled her ears. A cloud of dust was kicked up and the weight on her legs seemed to be lessened. As the dust settled, she looked up to see who had rescued her and saw him. "Izuku!" she called to him. He was the same as before, but covered entirely in a solid blue aura with blue sparks arcing off of him occasionally. He was looking at the slab of concrete, It was smaller than before and looked like it had been cut. She made it weightless and pushed it off of her, then he sheathed his sword and looked down at her, a reassuring smile on his face. Something clicked in his body language and she suddenly found herself being carried in his arms, his movements as well as the world around them blurring slightly as the wind picked up and they found themselves back at the entrance.

"TEN MINUTES ARE UP! THE EXAMS OVER!" Present mic called, and Izuku knelt down, clutching his head a bit as the aura around him dissipated.

Izuku clutched his head and held his eyes closed for a bit once he arrived at the entrance. Everything after he activated Monado Speed had been a blur, everything around him going a mile a minute, he could feel everything much quicker and his whole body had increased it's pace.

Once it was over, he had a headache and was feeling a bit drowsy, 'Did that accelerate my internal processes as well? I guess it might have if it makes me faster.' he thought.

"Izuku?" a voice called, pulling him out of his thoughts. Opening his eyes, he realised that he was still carrying Uraraka.

"S-sorry about picking you up w-without asking. Everything was going so fast and the robot was approaching and your legs looked like they were broken and OH MY GOD YOUR LEGS!" he shouted, if the two weren't already being stared at by the other examinees, they were now.

Ochaco laughed at his fast ramblings, "Don't get me wrong, they hurt! But I think I'm in shock, and you speedily saved me so I'm extremely thankful!" she said.

Izuku smiled, "I'm happy to have helped, though you said you're still in pain? I don't think I can heal you, sorry." As he said this, he let go of the excess Ether that he still had built up within his system as his mind lingered on his words. Suddenly, he felt a warmth in his hands and he thought he may have channeled some Fire Ether but instead he found a green light emanating from them, made entirely out of Ether.

"Woah." Ochaco breathed out as the light travelled from his hands over to her, the warmth following as well. Her injuries seemed to slowly heal, the cuts stitched themselves back together, bruises that were forming simply faded away and she could feel the broken and damaged bones in her legs fix themselves with no pain at all.

"I...I didn't know I could do that…" said Izuku, breaking the stunned silence between the two as the crowd of teens dispersed and an older lady approached.

"My My! That was quite the show! I wasn't aware we had an examinee equipped with a healing quirk!" she said as she quickly gave Uraraka a once over.

Izuku just looked down at his hands before reiterating, "I didn't know I could do that…" eliciting a laugh from Uraraka.

"Well, whether or not you COULD do that, it seems the young lady is doing just fine now that you DID do it, and other than a few scratches that I can easily patch up, you'll be fine," she said, just before planting a kiss on Izuku's forehead, the scratches he'd received soon fixed themselves. "With that, you can head over to the coaches again." and she moved onto the next patient.

Izuku coughed nervously and began blushing slightly when he realised that he was still holding onto Uraraka which caused her to look at him with a confused face before she realised that she still had her arms wrapped around him. After pulling her arms away from him and standing up, the two teens laughed and got onto the coach together, remaining in a comfortable silence brought about mostly by the fatigue of the exam.

Once they arrived back at the main UA building and gathered their things, Uraraka turned to Izuku. "Thanks again for saving me in the exam, here's my phone number! We can keep in contact while we wait for our results!" she smiled at Izuku as she passed him a bit of scrap paper with a phone number on it, "Anyway, I'd love to hang out at some point and we can text each other about it later but I've got to head home quickly cuz I promised to skype my parents, see ya Midoriya!"

Izuku stood there at the front gate in shock as he clutched the scrap paper, 'I-I-I got a g-g-girl's number!' he thought, before finally snapping out of it and heading home.

1 week after the exam

"IZUKU!" Inko called as she knocked on Izuku's door, "There's a letter from UA! Also your friend is here!"

Izuku shot up from his bed, 'THE LETTER FROM UA! ' he thought excitedly as he got dressed, stopping only to consider the last part of what his mother said, 'Friend? But Uraraka's back home with her parents for the results.' he opened the door and walked out into the living room to find Alvis sat down on their sofa.

"Ah, good morning Midoriya." called the silver haired man as he placed a cup of tea that he had been holding onto the table.

"Good to see you Alvis!" replied the younger greenette, "What brings you here though?" he asked, taking a seat beside him as his mother brought him breakfast.

"It just so happened that I was coincidentally in the area and thought I'd drop by, it also just so happened to be the day that your results arrived." Alvis replied as he took a few bites out of a biscuit.

"... right… well I guess it's lucky that Fate seemed to bring you here then." Izuku said as he picked up the parcel that was addressed to him. He sat still for a little bit, simply staring at it. It was completely white, except for the very front which had the UA crest drawn on it and the words 'For Mister Izuku Midoriya' printed in the top right corner.

"Well then sweety? You should probably open it." Inko said softly. She had pulled a chair up to the sofa beside her son.

Izuku nodded and steeled his nerves, he gently cut the paper that covered the parcel in such a way that the front remained completely intact, and opened the box inside. There were a few things within it, including a stack of papers and forms, his hero analysis notebook and a slim metal disc.

Izuku picked up the metal disc to move it when the device suddenly came to life, displaying a hologram a few centimetres in the air above it. "Whoa!" Izuku shouted as he dropped the disc onto the table in front of him. On the screen, a recording began to play out of Principal Nezu standing straight with his arms behind his back.

"Greetings Izuku Midoriya! It is I! The mammalian principal of UA! NEZU! Under normal circumstances, I would not be presenting, however due to our previous meeting and your subsequent performance on the exams, I insisted on recording your personalised message myself!" the holographic form of Nezu shifted and a screen popped into view to his side. With a flick of his wrist, it came to life. "Now, onto the main purpose of this message, why, it's your exam results of course!" the screen next to him displayed Izuku's details; his name, age, Quirk, middle school and student number that was used in the exam, as well as some other data.

"Firstly, The Written Exam! Overall, you got a score of 89%" Principal Nezu said, as the screen beside him showed a chart with the percentage Izuku had gotten, as well as the areas that he had dropped marks. "Overall, It was a magnificent performance! One of, if not THE highest score on the exam!"

"W-wow." was all that Izuku was able to say, the UA entrance exam was always known for being the hardest hero course exam in all of Japan. Both parts of it, the written as well as the practical both held that title, so for the principal to have told him that he had been one of the top scorers? It was insane! He looked towards his mother who had begun to sob quietly at the praise her son was receiving, even she knew just how tough the exam would have been.

"I was originally joking around when I told you that I should make the exam a bit tougher, but maybe I should…" continued the pre-recorded Nezu, "Anyway, as you can see here, your general studies are where you got the majority of your points. However, you also managed to obtain many points in the more analytical portion of the exam, I would have been surprised had I not looked into, and subsequently binge read through, your hero analysis notebook. It was quite the read and I couldn't bring myself to stop reading it." Nezu laughed heartily, "I thank you for lending me it. Moving swiftly onwards, The Practical Exam!" Nezu shouted, the screen by his side changing to a stylised logo before showing clips of Izuku's actions throughout the exam. It showed a few moments where Izuku had sliced through some robots and a few other clips of him being surrounded by them before quickly dispatching them, causing his mother to gasp and hold onto him arm.

"Not only did you do well in the Written exam, but you were able to procure a good amount of points in the practical! Totalling up the score you received from fighting off villains, we get…" a drum roll played as the screen started counting upwards quickly, finally landing on a number. "Twenty Four points!" called Nezu before his face shifted to a slightly more solemn expression, "Sadly, you barely missed the benchmark to pass the practical."

Izuku's smile dropped, 'I...I failed? Even WITH my Quirk I'm just no good then…'

Inko hugged her son, "Oh, Zuku… Don't worry, you still did great! You heard the principal praise you earlier right?"

The hologram Nezu continued on, a smile suddenly morphing onto his face, "However! What kind of HERO school would we be if we only considered villain points? After all, fighting the villains is only half the battle!" the graphic on the screen beside him shifted once more, cycling through numbers from 0 to 100 and returning back to 0 to begin the cycle anew. "That's right! We weren't just looking for Villain points, Instead, we also looked for rescue points! These could be earned through multiple methods! Such as:" he flicked his paw and the screen displayed a clip of Izuku running towards a blond boy, stopping the arm of a robot from coming down onto the unsuspecting examinees back, "Directly assisting another examinee!" a number 5 appeared in the middle of the screen before the clip changed to another one.

This one showed Izuku running towards a black haired student

"Ya gave me a Power boost? Aw yea dude, that shit is manly!" the student called to Izuku, as he hit his fists against one another.

"N-no problem! I'll keep it up for about a m-minute and a half, should be more than enough time to destroy these!" Izuku answered back as he continued running.

The clip paused, "Those with more support based abilities can gain them by boosting others!" The number 10 appeared in the middle of the screen before it flipped to another clip. This one was of Izuku carrying Uraraka to the entrance, Izuku blushed as he remembered it and continued watching, a light spread from him to Uraraka and her injuries healed. "Healing others!" another 5 appeared in the middle of the screen once more. "And finally," Nezu said, as the screen flicked over once more. This time, it showed Izuku as his head snapped to a seemingly random direction within the battle centre and he sped towards it. He was confronted with a colossal robot but he ignored it, in favour of rescuing Uraraka. The clip paused for Nezu to continue speaking. "Finally, the act of choosing to run in and rescue another examinee instead of fleeing to safety!" this time, a large number 30 appeared in the middle of the screen.

"Quite a show was it not?" Nezu asked before chuckling, "Surely, you noticed those numbers did you not? Well, those were in fact the amount of points that a panel of teachers voted should be awarded for your heroic actions! These weren't all the rescue points that you gained, however they were collectively added to your Villain points, bringing your total all the way up to!" The numerical graphic played again, this time shooting further than the original 24 and going all the way up to, "Eighty Nine Points!" Nezu exclaimed.

"WHAT!" Both Izuku and his mother shouted as Alvis simply sat back and sipped his tea with a smile on his face.

"As is customary for the Exam, we release the top 10 scores for everyone who gained a spot within the Hero course, so here they are!" Nezu continued, the entire hologram changing to display a kind of leaderboard.

10th place - Yosetsu Awase. VP: 50 RP: 6 TOTAL: 56

9th place - Fumikage Tokoyami VP: 47 RP: 10 TOTAL: 57

8th place - Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu VP: 49 RP: 10 TOTAL: 59

7th place - Ochaco Uraraka VP: 32 RP: 28

6th place - Tenya Iida VP: 52 RP: 9 TOTAL: 61

5th place - Itsuka Kendo VP: 25 RP: 40 TOTAL: 65

4th place - Ibara Shiozaki VP:36 RP: 32 TOTAL: 68

3th place - Eijiro Kirishima VP: 39 RP: 35 TOTAL: 74

2nd place - Katsuki Bakugou VP: 77 RP: 0 TOTAL: 77

1st place - Izuku Midoriya VP: 24 RP: 65 TOTAL: 89

"FIRST PLACE!?" both greenettes shouted once more, with Inko fainting briefly against Izuku's shoulder.

"That's right!" Nezu said as he reappeared on screen, "From being unranked, to being on top of the leaderboard! All it took was some heroic spirit. With that being said, my closing words for you Izuku Midoriya is that you have been accepted at UA High. I expect great things from you young man! Enclosed in your parcel should be the acceptance papers that you must sign as well as papers for your costume which must be sent in at least 2 weeks before the start date. This is it! Welcome, to your hero academia!"

Hi y'all!

What's this? An actual chapter? It's an update? AND it's not Improvise Adapt Overcome? Yup! That's right!
I apologise for the slow updates on both fics, lifes been really getting in the way recently lol.

Anyway, let's go through the chapter then shall we?

Starting off! Aizawa doesn't want Izuku to be a one trick pony, he thinks that Izuku might rely soley on his powers (Even though he still isn't that good at using them) but is willing to accept that from what he saw of the exam, that Izuku's been training more than just them.

Yes, All Might is still considering Izuku as a possible candidate for One for All, buuut he won't be getting it! don't worry.

Uraraka verbally says she has 27 Villain points but later, it says she has 32? How is that possible? She simply miscounted lol, I don't blame her considering the exam she was in though.

I hope she doesn't come across too much as a 'Damsel in distress' cuz we all know that she is very much capable, I cant remember in the show if its shown that she tried to lift the block off of herself so i tried to show her attempts failing due to Quirk exhaustion.

Izuku healed her using 'Light Heal' It's one of Shulk's regular arts in Xenoblade and is Ether based, allowing him to heal himself/others! Izuku just came across it accidentally, much like Monado Speed.

Uraraka did give him her number, and the two do text in between the exam and the results, though they never really get the chance to meet. I had not planned on them really meeting and didn't think it was important to show them chatting, though it can be inferred by Izuku's comment about her being back home with her parents for the results.

some more Alvis, he's sipping tea because BRITISH... jk, just a morning thing tbh.

Nezu personally presents the Exam results this time, a fun little change!

Speaking of results, Izuku actually scored here! If ya went back and read last chapter, ya may notice that the amount of robots Izuku is shown destroying, doesn't match with his score, thats just cuz i didn't really show the whole exam lol.

Also, his RESCUE POINTS! I showed a few numbers in the explaination, but there were other times he was awarded rescue points which i briefly mentioned. the biggest change here is that in canon, Izuku got 60 RP for both destroying the robot and saving Uraraka, but here he only saves uraraka so i cut down the amount of points that he had.

Speaking of Uraraka, i cut the amount of Rescue points she got as in canon, she got most of hers for saving Izuku from falling to his death. I didnt wanna take em all away though so overall, she still got 60 points.

And yea, that's basically it! This chapter i R, I don't know when the next update should be but hopefully its not too far away.

Hope you all enjoy!