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[Kanakazawa M.]

Today was the day of the U.A. entrance exam and the applicants had just begun arriving at the doors. Sun showers had been on and off all day the rain had just started up again, but no one went back. Ashikaga stood quietly outside the doors of U.A.'s entrance, blankly staring up at the rain that began falling down. A slight smile appeared on her face before she quickly darted her head down, and she tugged her coat hood over her head and took a step inside.

After the rules were explained, everyone was taken to a lot and were gathered behind the fake city. There were 4 different robots they had to look out for, the small ones were worth 5 points each and the giant ones are worth no points at all meaning they were better to avoid. The students were now preparing themselves only moments before the exam started all standing outside of the door to the fake city where it would be taking place. The atmosphere was tense. Everyone there wanted to get into the best class, it felt more like a competition than a test at this point.

Ashikaga let down her hood then combed her hands back through her hair, pulling it back into a tight ponytail, "Alright." Her eyes darted side to side, she then slowly look behind her at the competition. A shark kid caught her eye and turned away, and the kid next to him glared back sliding his thumb over his neck as he whispered, "Now, I'm coming after you." Ashikaga turned back around and automatically and scratched the back her head. "This is the competition, huh," a sensation of stress coursed through her body as she looked ahead again. "They're not to bad though," she whispered to herself, "Even though everyone might be strong it doesn't matter if I get most of the robots," she thought out loud as she raised her hand and cover her mouth as a cheeky smile began forming on her face.

A buzzing sound blasted from the loudspeakers placed on the large gate. The voice of the Hero Red Riot spoke through the loudspeakers "Are you, ready Students? 3, 2, 1, GO!" A loud clicking noise was heard and the doors to the fake city unlocked. Everyone started rushing in running past one another. Everyone had the same goal in mind: passing the Entrance Exam and getting into the famous hero school. Ashikaga sprinted forward turning left at the first building. She glanced back and saw three others following behind. Ashikaga stopped, then when the three passed, they went separate ways and the air became still though the sound of footsteps was still heard. Ashikaga slid her foot against the ground and kicked up some dust. She crouched to the ground then exploded herself. The dirt charred and a cloud of soot masked her body.

 

[PlusUltra]

Himiko Hiroka
Tags: Open
Location: Testing Ground, Fake City

The short form of Haruka splashed up the water in her steps as she was sprinting down the street towards the entrance exam hall, drowned in a large hooded lime coat several sizes too big backpack almost as big as she was bouncing across her back. If she had thought it through when she stopped off at the orphanage for her bag she would also have thought to ask her father for a lift in the car but by the time that came around she had already progressed several miles in the direction of the academy, in which time she had rolled over several cars, over barriers and sliding through the corners in a mad sprint to make it on time. In an ideal world, she would have set off a bit earlier at a more leisurely pace though she had found a large stash of scrap at the beach and couldn't just leave it alone.

Barrelling through the door she skids to a halt to catch her breath "IM.....HERE!" bending over taking deep gulps of air as she scans around the new area, please let this one be the right building. The sudden interruption did gain more than a few looks and glares with the deafening silence that followed only being broken by the soft patter of rainwater dripping from the girl, then the nervous laughter and squelching of shoes as she awkwardly tries to make her way to an open seat with the bag. "Excuse me, Sorry, The weather right? Heh Heh" it did seem most of those gathered didn't get the humor in the situation, though still best to just smile and go along with it, not like they could do anything about it now in any case, best try and pay attention if she had any hopes of passing it.

The basics of the test seemed simple but it did raise questions how some of the more indirect quirks would help, then again her father did always mention about solid foundations so that could be part of it as well, in any case she needed to think how best to find them quickly, then how to take them down, though with so many people here she would need to do it quicker than the rest...or at least go further ahead maybe so while others are dealing with the first ones she could get the rest beyond that freely? though that idea needed her to be faster in order to get ahead in the first place. She could try and sniff them out but the rain was making that a lot harder so couldn't be much of an option.

Ok one problem at a time, break it down. This test is to get into a hero academy, that means they need to test something that a hero would have to do which in this case seems to be taking down villains...then again heroes don't really compete to take down the villains they work together to make sure the villain doesn't do...villainous stuff. That aside since it's hard to have a test with people not competing, the robots are the villains in this situation, and they are attacking a fake city, where in the city would a villain attack most? places with lots of people, places with valuable stuff, or places where they wouldn't be seen.....the stronger ones would have more confidence and go for the bigger targets, which may mean the ones worth more points?. Nodding to herself as she mumbles softly she keeps the thought stream going, ok so if I head directly for those points I could save time since the faster ones would be searching instead that could slow them down, so what has a lot of people and is valuable? hmm, a Stadium? no too big for this place, Banks? Yeah, that could work, Hospital? Hmm well, there are a lot of people there and a lot of valuable drugs maybe?...no Banks are more classic that's best shot. Ok so where the biggest banks in a city?...the Center! Oh so she can rush to the center of the city and that should be the best place to........huh were is everyone?.

Looking up for a moment she notices the gate just opened with shock and drops the bag with a large impact as she darts off as fast as she can through the city, make her way past several already broken robots and others falling in there wake, she kept going even as she passed several intact ones causing them to follow her in return. To the outside viewer, it probably looked like she was running from the machines themselves but the contrary would soon become clear as she caught her breath in a more open area with several machines. Ok new problem, I'm being chased by several robots and just ran headfirst into the higher concentrations of them.....how do I make one of these things down?. She should probably have tried to think of that first as she was soon narrowly avoiding a metal appendage from her side, leaping from where the tarmac had been shattered and rolling with a skid across the slick pavement "Ok thinking is costing me, let's just go with the gut and act like its a plan instead".

As they charged to her they did notice something though, just as she had skidded the machines were doing the same as they turned quickly to pursue her, they didn't have the control and they were clumsy in the rain so that was something to use. Taking a long deep breath her mouth seems to chew something for a moment before heading back in, but raising her fists in the process to her face close together and ducking down low in a rolling motion from side to side, Weaving to the side of the robots next slamming appendage. The blow missed and the girl seemed to be gaining more momentum with each side to sidestep with the baggy clothing making pinning down where to strike her smaller frame all the more difficult even before the erratic movements, her father had drilled the movements into her and she had carried on with them since they became second nature. Getting in right in front of the robot she finally throws a fist forward, crouching down to load up power and putting all her weight on her lead leg before exploding forward with her fist that turns black and actually shatters the front of the robot "GAZERU PANCHI!" The machine flipping backward onto another and crashing into a pile. The girl was about to celebrate the fact it actually worked, it was the first time putting that into practice on something so was still a little surprised it worked, looking to her hand for a moment of distraction just as metal from behind slammed into her face and sent her spinning off to the side, sliding again through the rainwater in a crumpled heap before another seemed to kick her away once more.

The side of her face felt like it was on fire with a stream of crimson coming down the side of her face as well as pain from her ribs as she coughed out from the force and tried to gain some air back into her lungs, ok don't get distracted...she had only really practiced with one clear target so with so many around her that was probably an oversight she should have tried to account for. Struggling to her feet once more she didn't have much time before they were on her again, ok she needs to stay aware of all of the around her so pivoting and keeping aware, her father said it was like picturing the bubble around you, if you attack you make a hole that can be attacked through, a guard is just making a more complete bubble but at the moment? she could only really keep that facing one way so what could she do?. The answer was soon forced however as after dodging several more times she found her back against one of the buildings, well now she was stuck but at same time it dawned on her, there was nothing behind her she needed to be worried about at the moment, it was all in front of her....so maybe she just needs to picture the group of robots less as multiple attackers but one.

With another attack coming in she weaved to the side to have it hit into the wall of the building and goes to strike it the attacker once more, the other in front of her trying to get her during the attack but another weave and she grabs the head of the robot to bring her knee up into it, the same black effect over the point of impact. With this, the two fell either side of her creating a tunnel of sorts with just one direction, no more side attacks, so a flurry of punches just kept coming at each who came into her, the same rolling weave making striking her a nightmare. If she could keep this up she should get enough points to pass, even as the previous attack had one of her eyes partially blinded by the blood she just needed to be aware of that blind spot and keep it up.

 

[SugarSpiceMekoPicoCoco]

Rei was nervous about the exam. She wanted to become a hero and getting into U. A could be her only shot at that so she couldn't afford to mess anything up. She felt as if she was holding her breath the entire ride to U.A. Her heart was racing and she was feeling a mix of anxiety and excitement. She had spent the past week resting up and saving her energy for today and in a few minutes, she'd be able to show U.A. Everything she had been working towards for her whole life. Rei had been told by her mother what the U.A. entrance exam would be like and she felt that she was prepared. When the bus stopped she walked into the station, up the stairs and out onto the street she felt her heart starting to beat fast again. Now she was only a few blocks away from the High school.

She was with her brother Akira. The two barely spoke to each other on the bus ride since Rei's mind was clouded with thoughts on how the exam would go and how well she would do. The two were silently walking to there destination before the rain started pouring down. The brunette hadn't even noticed the bit of rain coming down until now since her gaze was fixed to the ground and she was wearing her tracksuit that covered most of her skin except her hands and her head. The rain was coming down hard now and the two began running. "Oh, craaap..." The girl whined to herself regretting not checking the forecast for today. Her mind had been so jumbled lately she forgot all about the weather. She only grabbed her brother's arm and started running with him following close behind.

The two finally made it to U.A and ran into the building. Luckily they hadn't gotten to wet since they were already close to the school though it was a bit irritating hearing their shoes squeaking when they walked through the school. Soon they found where they had to go listening intently to Red Riot explaining the rules of the exam before they were soon brought to the giant gate to the fake city. Rei looked at the door and around her at the other students. She felt antsy knowing there was only a limited amount of robots and she'd have to get to them as fast as she could before any of the others could. She then looked over to her brother, the two were going to try there hardest to get into this school no doubt. They both had their own reasons but she knew she wanted to become a hero with him.

She walked over to her brother nudging his arm and smiling at him. "Try your hardest OK? Let's both get accepted here..." She chuckled looking up at the gate. They couldn't do this together the best they could do was trust the other would be able to pass and Rei was aiming to get into the best class, she couldn't afford to worry about her brother right now. Just then there was a buzz heard and Red Riot's voice was heard once more. "Are you, ready Students? 3, 2, 1, GO!" The clicking noise of the doors unlocking rung through Rei's ears her heart jumped when the door started to slowly open. Just then students started rushing in. The girl was quick and ran in with the crowd through the people she saw an opening and ran through into another street.

The sounds of footsteps became quieter until they sounded distant meaning the crowd had dispersed. She could now only hope her brother did well. She took in a deep breath and looked forward. Her brother's progress wasn't something she could worry about now. She began running forward listening for anything mechanic. Her footsteps were light and her breathing was steady, she needed to be quiet in order to hear if any robots were near. It didn't help with the rain coming down making it harder to hear anything. She searched one area not being able to find anything until she heard the sound of metal footsteps coming her way. Her heart jumped when she turned around to see a robot. She heard the sound of it charging up its built-in weapons and without hesitation, she ran towards it.

"Alright, here we go..." The girl turned quickly on her feet and began to charge up her quirk in her right fist. She continued to keep her breathing steady running towards the robot, balling her right fist up and glaring at her opponent. She felt her blood rushing and adrenaline began spiking through her. Her fist began glowing a bright white color and just before the robot started shooting from the mechanism that popped out of it's back she jumped towards it throwing a punch in the robot's abdomen. An explosion was heard and the robot was sent flying back into one of the buildings. Dust flew up and it was safe to say she was able to take the robot down. Rei's breathing became heavy and quick. She stood there for a moment before standing up straight.

Though she needed a bit to calm down she began running hearing another robot not far from her. So far things were going well, her goal was to get above 15 robots and she knew if she kept calm she'd be able to do it not wasting too much energy on one robot and moving quickly was her strategy. She had been training her endurance and speed as well as stamina, all leading up to today. If things continued to go smoothly she could pull through. Rei charged up her quirk breathing steady. Once again she felt the adrenaline course through her and she began running faster. She turned the corner seeing another type of robot and though it was bigger she took it down the same way as the other. Another robot turned the corner and looked at her immediately shooting at her.

She hid behind the corner breathing faster and charging up her quirk. She smirked hearing it's gunfire stop and it begins to approach her slowly. "This is gonna be too easy..." The robot was now close, it walked forward and was now viable to the girl. The robot turned to see her aiming its guns at her. He charged up but the girl had already recovered. With her quirk charged up, she balled up her fist and went to uppercut the mechanism where the wires were viable. Though this time the robot didn't fly away there was now a hole punched through the robot. The sound of the robot shutting down was heard before it fell over backward. Rei huffed leaning against the wall of the building she was hiding behind. She heard other robots near her despite the rain.

She exhaled slowly knowing she'd need to rest. "Ok, every three robots then..." She sighed looking at her hand quickly before peeking over the corner and seeing another robot scanning the area. She sat back shutting her eyes tightly. "Just a little more time... common..." She heard the robot slowly get closer. She charged up her quirk and waited. She had the energy to keep going but it took a while for her to charge up her quirk after using it excessively. She breathed slowly once again letting the robot come to her. She hoped she'd have enough stamina to reach her goal though she could only wait and see.

 

[FactionParadox]

The written test was interesting, but Saburo knew enough about history to pass it... Those who didn't learn from history were doomed to repeat it's mistakes over and over, the cycle of despair perpetuated by stupidity. How pathetic... Putting his glasses in their box, he left them in his bag before putting his contact lenses in, the grey skies now clear again once he blinked a few times. Why was he here, what was his motivation to join U.A.? To become a pro hero, to take the biggest crap on his father's "legacy" as possible, to prove to himself that he could "save" others and maybe even be worthy of that same salvation himself, despite how flawed Kusanagi viewed himself to be. Perhaps the motivation was some fusion of all 3, a cacophony of desire and reason to enter this school depsite it's 0.3% acceptance rate, but the odds were only stacked against those with mediocre motivation or mediocre Quirks not suited for battle, those people entered into general studies for a reason, like his brothers Shoichi and Jin and their electrical power, same as their mothers. His was an interesting fusion of his paternal grandfather's ability to manipulate iron and his mother's electral Quirk into electromagnekinesis. The entire EM Spectrum bent to his will, but when it came to combat he fought with metal.

Saburo was a different breed, a new breed. A hero of the weak, a warrior of justice, a destroyer of evil... Which would he become, the future path had not been set. Walking out into the rain with the others, he waited behind the fake city block like the others who wanted to enter this school. Allies and adversaries could be sorted later, it was time to fight for his own survival, remember Yuichirou's training and draw upon all emotion, pour it into his Quirk. Victory at any cost, he knew about rescue points and they sounded important but he couldn't control how many or what he got so it was better to focus on villain points. Closing his eyes as Red Riot spoke, he saw the world in EM waves. He could feel their metal from this distance, viewing normally had no purpose. Better to see them this way, crush their electrical systems since it was the most energy efficient way of destroying them.

Running inside with the others, he flew above the ground using his Quirk, reaching a dense area and locating several robots. "Target Acquired, I will kill you!" Taking aim, Saburo stared coldly as with a gesture of his right hand, the large robot was also engulfed in the same green energy his hands were and was ripped apart, Saburo turning several pieces of shrapnel into pool ball size spheres, firing them at immense speeds to smash several more robots, punching through the armour plating and shattering their circuitry since the balls were also spinning when they hit. Landing to conserve power, he fired two spheres at a 1 robot, breaking it apart within seconds. Looking over at a girl about to be shot, one of the spheres turned into a large metal circle and protected her from the gunfire, it turned into a sawblade and cut the robot's head and arm off before returning to it's status as a sphere. Maybe that would get him some rescue points.

Feeling something warm drip onto his shirt, Saburo noticed he was having a nosebleed. Was he seriously getting tired already? Taking a few moments to rest, seeing the world again through EM vision, he grabbed two 2 robots and smashed them together with his power. "I now pronounce you, scrapheap and junkpile." He smirked.

 

[BlightGiver]

With his home being on the farther side of the city, Dio's commute to U.A. would normally take a rather long time. Thankfully on this day, Mt. Lady personally made sure her son arrived on time. By that, she had to carry him in her giant head across the city; with her taller stature, the trip took mere minutes. Though being so high up, Dio was one of the first to get hit in the face with rain, soaking the light jacket he had chosen to wear on this warmer day. She apologized for the inconvenience, finally stopping at UA with time to spare. Setting Dio down, Mt Lady waved him goodbye as she walked back home. Sighing, Dio reciprocated the wave as he turned to head inside.

In order for anyone to be accepted into UA, they needed to pass two tasks. The first of which was a written exam, which was a breeze for this eager student. The second was a competition where all candidates were put into a fake city with a limited number of robots. Their goal was to get points for defeating robots and rescuing people inside; much easier said than done. The robots themselves varied in weaponry and tactics, topped off with gigantic robots acting as sentries. They offered no reward, and only served to weed out candidates even further; a dangerous thing when unprepared.

This may or may not be what Dio was at this moment; before he even knew it, he was tossed into the fake city with quite a few other candidates. Nearly all of them split off immediately, with the aim of getting to most of the robots first, securing their candidacy in UA. Dio realized he couldn't waste much time, and activated the gigantism half of his quirk to go full steam ahead. Not reaching anywhere near the heights his mother could, Dio only minorly towered over most of the robots he encountered, providing a worthy opponent. Although he'd hate to admit, quite a few secured victories were brought about by accident, bumping into robots around corners and falling on top of them.

"This is exhausting." He griped, having to return to normal size plenty of times to relax. He'd had to spend extra effort to prevent buildings and debris falling on top of other candidates, plenty a time forgoing robots completely. "Couldn't they have made this place more structurally sound." Dio joked, returning to giant size and got back to moving. Except,mid growth, he was punched right in the face by a robot using ambushing tactics. "Ow! That freaking hurt!" He groaned, grabbing his nose to make sure it wasn't broken.

If that weren't enough, one of the giant robots was close by and had spotted Dio with it's advanced optics. It started to move in his direction, each step causing vibrations in the ground, collapsing the building Dio was under. With a piece of debris clonking him on the head, his head smacked the pavement hard, hurting it even more. Gritting his teeth barely allowed him to deal with the pain, as his legs were pinned under heavy loosely piled debris. This prevents any one chunk from fracturing his limbs, but still hurt and immobilized him. All this stimulus was getting to be a bit much, especially since it was Dio's own choice to be put in this predicament. A feeling of annoyance formed for the first time in his mind, causing him to frown and curse.

 

[PlusUltra]

Himiko Hiroka
Tags: @BlightGiver (Dio), (Open)
Location: Testing Ground, Fake City

Panting for breath Haruka swayed a little more as the piles of automation have continued to grow, while sure she had picked a good spot to find a lot of them she was now realizing that maybe she bit off a bit more than she could chew and was quickly becoming at risk of being overwhelmed. The way she had found them was thinking the situation through as if they had been real villains, but if that was the case she realized her entire approach had been wrong, Heroes would work together against something of this scale, less they find themselves in the exact situation she was now. Scanning around at the robots that were advancing more her good eye widens in the realization of just how much she had messed up and internally chastises herself at the approaching consequences of the poor choice, not that the sore limbs and bleeding hands didn't make that clear already.

As if to pile on the issue she had to suddenly steady herself as the ground began to shake, the vibrations almost causing her to fall but instead stumbling and scanning around for the source of it. Her face drops slightly and nervously laughs as the form of the giant robot was now within view behind her even with the building in the way to the point she questioned how she had missed that.

"Note to self, Situational awareness needs work heh heh"

She really needed to get away from it, reposition, compose and rethink...and doing so without taking more hits from the approaching robots or falling debris, this was easier said and done however as one of the robots had once again taken advantage of her distraction and lack of balance from the larger creature to slam a fist into her stomach, flinging her backwards through the wall, another and into the adjacent street her back had been to. The blow had her cough up some blood and spittle as her limbs felt like lead, coughing and trying to get air back into her lungs. Well the good news was the small girl sized hole in the wall and heaps of scrap metal made the automation she had been fighting unable to pursue her, the bad news was she was now in front of the giant robot who was looking a little unhappy.

Standing up the best she could, with a few stumbling steps she tries with what she has left to keep her vision from darkening, If only she had been allowed to bring some snacks in she would at least have something to fix herself up. She should run but in her current state, she knew she wouldn't be fast enough to get away in time even, to add onto the pile of issues a new metalic scent came to her attention followed by an exclamation of pain. From what she could make out the body of another student was stuck under rubble in a haphazard stack, way too much for her to move in time to get them out before the robot was atop them, even if they did there was no way of knowing if it would cause a collapse in doing so. Her head shoots between the giant robot and the boy several times before she simply acts recklessly, clenching her eyes for a moment in hope of finding some option, there had to be something.

Her previous baggy outfit was covered in rips, tears and stains, the fabric soaked from a mixture of the water and blood, and her hair falling as the previous poney tails were gone allowing the mess to cover parts of her face and down her back. If only she had something to eat, sure the metal and stone would make her more durable but it wouldn't give her any real energy, there were no plants and the fake city itself had not had the kindness to include any vending machines for decoration. Seemingly lost for a few moments she raises her arm for a moment taking note of the torn fabric and a long scar going up it underneath as a crazy concept comes to her, she could get stronger from anything she ate but how far had she really pushed that? well, it was the only thing to come to mind so she may as well try it, nothing to lose. Raising the arm to her mouth she lifts her mask slightly then bites down hard before sucking slightly her arm starting to wither slightly as she does, though the rush of energy was at least giving her a short term boost as her eyes snapped open, though the limb falls down limply to her side afterwards. Maybe it was the rush of the stunt or the light-headed from the blood loss and gain but she suddenly springs into movement as she darts towards the robot with renewed vigour, taking a defensive position in front of the downed student as she takes a breath to shout up to the robot, let's see how realistic they are, just use the first thing that comes to mind.

"Hey! When they made your programming they forgot the to carry the one! You......Glorified pile of scrap metal rockem sockem reject looking. ugly big headed eight eyed bloated.....TOASTER!"

Rushing forward to the side to attempt to draw the robots attention away, its oversized fist shooting straight down towards her and shattering the pavement in a debris cloud. The girl breaks through the dust as it clears rolling along the length of the arm, up to her feet and sprinting upwards along its length with what appears to be a stop sign being dragged behind her sparking across the chassis of the machine. Attempting to fling the girl free from its body the robot swings it arms out wide though using the sign to stab into the joint they manage to keep attached and a firm foothold, moving once again once the movement had slowed upwards to their target at the head. Seemingly annoyed at her antics the 0-point swings its arms several more times through the air to try and dislodge her, stopping its advance on the trapped student and now entirely focused on the bothersome insect but to no avail, the girl gritting her teeth and keeping her advance up. As she reaches the shoulder of the giant they find themself face to face with the glowing eight eyes, its robotic senses lighting up at the red-tinted girl in its view just as they appear to stab the sign into one of its eyes, not deep enough to do any major damage but still firmly lodged into the cracked lense leaving her hanging as she kicks to start to crack another.

She knew this was a suicidal plan but she just wasn't thinking straight at the moment, so when the collosal hand game to try and slap her away she could only let go and start to fall back down to the tarmac below, but not before giving a wide grin through a pained expression as the hand slammed into its own face, driving the signpost deeper within. The piercing metal seemed to hit something important from the stunt, several small explosions from the head and sparking can be seen before it stops moving completely, the red orbs going dim. She actually did it! Sure it wasn't worth any points but it wasn't going to crush the guy below at least...the guy all the way down there, who was rapidly approaching, as she was falling, There was nothing she could do except waiting for the inevitable impact now, looking back to the sky she does at least see the sun starting to peek out from behind the clouds and the odd bird across the sky, it was a nice view at the very least.