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In a planet light years away, we see a small grey frog preparing some sort of device and adjusting it, making sure it wouldn't be misused like how it had previously been.
This was Azmuth, he was setting the coordinates for the pod containing the device that was supposed to be his masterpiece, instead was used by his very own assistant to assist in world conquering efforts. For his part in the device's creation, Azmuth was to be imprisoned on the Null Void by not only the Plumbers, but also his own choice after letting such event happen.
The coordinates were set to a planet that was still far from developing interplanetary travel, a primitive planet of level two technology at best. Research on the human race was scarce as their quirk gene made the planet one of the least desirable in the galaxy, any warmongering species thought the planet was too much work for conquering considering the chaos. Others saw humans as something better left alone as the genetic brewing pot of disaster they were saw as.
Azmuth didn't care what they were, he only wanted the device to be sent away to the most uncivilized species that would cause the least amount of problems, if the device falls to the planet's ocean and is never found would be ideal. But he doubts these creatures would even know how to use the Omnitrix for more than just brute strength.
Still he had to make sure the more powerful and dangerous DNA was locked away, no species deserves the ability to turn into a celestialsapien if they aren't intelligent enough to be a voice of reason.
With the capsule's shell ready, he sends the Omnitrix far away in hopes it will never bring so much destruction ever again, Azmuth takes a final look at his lab before moving on. Incursian guards ready to take him for the trial he already knew the sentence of.
Meanwhile outside the orbit and hidden from the many ships above the planet, a badly damaged warship ship watches the device being sent away on the green comet.
"Go, bring it to me." A frail voice spoke to a large robot before it locked eyes at the green capsule, determined to reclaim what was rightfully his.
"What am I doing here?" A young boy with green hair thinks to himself, he was Izuku Midoriya and he always wanted to be a hero, but being born quirkless meant he could never achieve this goal accord to his society's expectations. He was currently looking at the gates of U.A. which was the most prestigious hero school in the country, the greatest heroes of Japan were once students here and Izuku hoped he could be one of them.
Usually, in most universes Izuku Midoriya meets his idol All Might months before the entrance exam and is chosen to carry his legacy, but in this reality things went differently. Izuku had taken a different path home, thus never meeting the number one hero, who already came to find a different candidate to inherit the torch of OFA.
"I'm not prepared for this at all. There's no way I can pass the exam... but that doesn't mean I shouldn't try, right? I know what I can do at least..." Doubt weighted heavily in the boy, even he wasn't sure if a quirkless person could actually pass the test, but he would never forgave himself if he didn't try, maybe things would play out in his favor.
As he walks thinking and mumbling about the exam, he bumps into Katsuki Bakugo, who turns around to see Midoriya and frustration is clearly visible on the blonde's expression.
"What are you doing here you damned Nerd! I thought I told you not to come!" He scolds the boy, his gaze practically knives. At first Midoriya cowers in fear of the bully, but he manages to muster what little of his resolve there was, trying to stand his ground despite how anxious he looked.
“Kacchan!! G-good to s-see you! L-let’s a-all do our b-best t-today!” unfortunately his voice crack didn't help convey that resolve, nor the fact he was avoiding eye contact with the ash blonde.
"Whatever... You can't do anything, you're going to need all the luck in the world just to not die, damn nerd." Bakugo walks away leaving Midoriya there. He takes a deep breath to calm his nerves, really glad the situation didn't escalate with how the blonde usually is
'That went better than expected.' Izuku thinks to himself, praying he wouldn't have the exam alongside Katsuki. He takes a step forward, ready to start the day that would change his life. But he trips over himself, falling over. He closes his eyes as he falls, thinking
'I'm gonna die before the exam even starts.' Before he hits the ground he feels a slight touch on his shoulder...
After a moment of hesitation he thinks he should've hit the ground by now, but instead he felt a bit... weightless? He opens his eyes to see that he's floating, momentarily flailing his legs rapidly before stopping as it did nothing. A girl then sets him straight, preventing him from falling.
"T-thanks..." Midoriya mutters, blushing a bit from embarrassment at the whole thing.
"No problem, sorry for using my quirk without permission. You know it's bad luck to fall down on such an important day. Good luck." The girl says before leaving, Izuku stands there for a moment happy he finally talked with a girl. (He didn't actually hold the conversation at all)
After that, all the examinees are escorted to an assembly room, where the pro hero and UA teacher, Present Mic appears. This hero is a tall, slim man with long blond hair, which he wears spiked upwards in a large tuft behind his head when working, and a small brown mustache. He has rectangular eyes with concentric pupils and greenish-yellow irises (red in the manga), he is almost always seen with a large smile on his face, and is almost never drawn with nostrils.
His hero costume consists of a black jacket with a very tall collar, upturned and complete with studs, and matching black pants and knee-high boots. He sports tan shoulder pads and a red belt and elbow pads, all studded, and black fingerless gloves. His neck is always obscured by a directional speaker which he uses with his Quirk. He always wears a pair of headphones with the word "HAGE" written on the headband and a pair of orange-tinted shades.
"What's up, UA candidates?" The pro hero loudly asked the audience examinees as they whispered amongst themselves
"Woah! Is that present Mic?!" A teen with red hair and shark like teeth asked surprised
"Yeah, he's one of the teachers here!" Another with pink skin and horns responded excitedly at the prospect
'So cool!!!' Izuku was so happy to see the hero, the young boy always tuned in to hear his radio from time to time.
"Thanks for tunin' into me, your school DJ. C'mon. And lemme hear ya!..." The silence in the auditorium is practically complete aside from a scoff from the ash blonde Katsuki
"Keeping it mellow, huh? That's fine, I'll skip straight to the main show. Let's talk about how this practical exam is gonna go down, okay? Are you ready?" This time not a single sound is heard, all the examinees are silent as the hero moves on
"Like your application said, today you rockin' boys and girls will be out there conducting ten‐minute mock battles in super‐hip urban settings. Gird your loins, my friends. After I drop the mic here, you'll head to your specified battle center, sounds good?" Present Mic asked hoping for some response but once again the examinees didn't shout anything in unison, they were still excited for the test.
Looking on his paper to see he was in a different battle center than Bakugou (who was assigned a seat by his side) despite their numbers coming after the other, the blonde told him to stop looking or he would blast him.
"Okay, okay, let's check out your targets. There are three types of faux villains in every battle center. You'll earn points based on their level of difficulty, so better choose wisely. Your goal in this trial is to use your Quirk to raise your score by shredding these faux villains like a mid‐song guitar solo. But, check it! Make sure you're keeping things heroic. Attacking other examinees is a UA no‐no, ya dig?" Present Mic explained the exam with a video in a pixelated style of him moving through a city battling the silhouettes of villains, each giving him a point.
Just then, a very tidy, studious-looking boy with navy blue hair and glasses stands up and raises his hand.
"Excuse me, sir, but I have a question!" The boy politely requested despite how intense he seemed to be
"Hit me!" Present Mic allowed the kid to get his question out of the way
"On the printout, you've listed four types of villains. Not three. With all due respect, if this is an error on official UA materials, it is shameful. We are exemplary students. We expect the best from Japan's most notable school. A mistake such as this won't do." He concluded with upmost determination, this was Tenya Iida and he was quite the intense person with how he seemed to follow the rules so meticulously.
"Additionally, you in the back!" Iida turns towards Izuku who is caught off guard by the other teen.
"Huh? Me?" Midoriya doesn't know why he was being called out, did he do something?
"You've been muttering this entire time. Stop that. If you can't bother to take this seriously, leave. You're distracting the rest of us." Iida told and immediately Izuku felt ashamed for letting that happen, he didn't even realize it.
'I should probably leave that for my notebooks...' the boy thought to himself
"All right, all right. Examinee number 7111. Thanks for calling in with your request. The fourth villain type is worth zero points. That guy's just an obstacle we'll be throwing in your way. There's one in every battle center. Think of it as a hurdle you should try to avoid. It's not that it can't be beaten, but there's... kinda no point. I recommend my listeners try to ignore it and focus on the ones toppin' the charts." Present Mic explained the kid's question.
"Thank you very much. Please, continue." Iida responds, already Bakugou is getting annoyed at someone other than Deku in the school already.
"Oh, I get it. So they're kinda like traps you have to get by in games." A kid with yellow hair and what seemed to be a black lightning streak on his hair said
"The whole thing's kinda like a video game, huh?" A girl with what seemed to be a earjack in each ear added
"That's all I got for you today. I'll sign off with a little present. A sample of our school motto! As General Napoleon Bonaparte once laid down. "A true hero is one who overcomes life's misfortunes." Mm‐hm. Now that's a tasty soundbite. You ready to go beyond? Let's hear a Plus Ultra!" The examinees shout the school's motto and are escorted to their respective battlefields.
"Good luck! Hope you practiced hitting more than just books." The pro hero said as he was waiting to see the reactions of each participant
Right now, Midoriya and a number of other examinees are gathered in front of a giant metal doorway that’s supposed to lead into a fake empty city. According to Present Mic, the pro hero that oversaw the explanation of the exam, they’ll be battling against faux-villain robots that give them a certain number of points when they’re destroyed.
"This is nuts." One of the other exam takers said shocked at the sight
"It's, like, a whole city." A girl joins in equally amazed
"Can you imagine how much it cost to build this?" A buff teen with what seemed to be a drill for hair comments
"UA is amazing!" Another one concludes the conversation as Izuku himself is trembling a bit far from the large gathering of students
The young green haired boy doesn't know how to respond, but Izuku takes a breath before slapping his cheeks to focus. He can’t afford to get distracted now not when the U.A. Exam Entrance is going to start.
Just then Izuku spots the girl he met earlier and thinks of going in to thank her for saving him from that fall t-
“You!” A loud stern voice calls out his attention, Izuku turns around to spot the tall navy blue-haired boy with glasses striding towards him, swinging his arms out at his side like a robot. Seemingly taking notice of how Izuku was going towards the girl.
“Tell me why you are here? Are you hoping to interfere and prevent the rest of us from passing?” He karate chops the air demanding an answer, having misinterpreted Izuku's intentions.
“Eh? No no, of course not.” Izuku internally gasps, is this how everyone sees him?! Well as it turns out most of the other examinees were underestimating him as a potential threat to their chances of passing, they almost felt lucky to have him there because Izuku didn't seem to pose a threat at all.
“You ought to know better, this exam is for those that strive to earn the great honor of becoming heroes. I will not stand for a ruffian to interfere with anyone’s chances!” the stern Iida claims as Izuku isn't even sure if they were talking about the same person, he would never go out of his way to harm a person's chance of-
“AND BEGIN!!” Present Mic’s voice rings out in full force, although it’s difficult to say if that was over the intercoms or he shouted that out loud instead.
Izuku blinks, looking towards the radio tower the pro hero is currently stationed in. “Huh?”
“What’s wrong? There are no countdowns in real battles!! Go! Go! Go young listeners! You’re wasting your time here!!" It finally dawns on them, without a moment to waste the entire group of examinees charges forward into the fake city, including Izuku, the girl he met earlier, and the stern blue-haired teen.
He is left scrambling around, trying to find a target he could take on, but even the basic 1 point robots seemed way out of his league, he mostly keeps dodging and gets 'saved' by other students scoring points like a teen with a laser on his stomach, or the teen with tape dispensers in his elbows.
As this was happening, the green comet begins to enter atmosphere and it seems to be in a trajectory course to the same training ground. Followed by quite the large looking missile of sorts
Eventually he finds a place to hide in an alleyway, painting as Izuku realizes how hopeless his chances of winning were. He hadn't destroyed a single robot so far and all he did was run away, it would take a miracle for him to pass...
As if hearing this, a loud crash is heard behind him as the boy is sent to the ground. Quickly recovering from the fall, Izuku made his way towards the sphere cautiously, as he got closer it let out a loud hit as it seemed to open up releasing a green glow.
Looking in Izuku saw a... A watch? Granted it was a cool-looking watch.
The device looked like a large wristwatch with a wide band, primarily black and grey in color. It had a dark grey faceplate in the middle (like a watch dial) that had a green hourglass shape on it. The faceplate was part of a cylindrical tower. The band had an activation button on the side facing the user if on their left hand. The ring of the faceplate had four symmetrical lights that would glow with the hourglass symbol. Finally, the band had two rings of white tubing, that would glow green under special circumstances.
"What's a watch doing here?" It didn't look like a support item from the looks of it, it didn't look like anything he'd ever seen before in his life.
"Is this part of the test? Present Mic didn't say anything about… this." Izuku tried to rationalize this, was this some form of secret part of the exam? Would he get points from interacting with the watch? This all seemed very dramatic and non standard, but this was U.A. after all so he couldn't be sure.
"Maybe this is a quirk support device, what if it's some kind of prototype battle enhancer for heroes?" Curious, Izuku reached towards it with his left hand cautiously, only to immediately freak out when the watch seemed to unfold into a slime-like appearance and launch itself onto his left wrist.
"AHH GET OFF ME! GET OFF!" Swinging his left arm like a madman and spinning around in circles before slipping once more, this time falling on his butt.
'Why'd I just decide to grab a watch from out of nowhere, am I an idiot?!' Green lines pulsed along his arm, spreading warmth that sank deep into his bones. Izuku practically didn't feel any of that, he was too distracted by his hand struggling to claw the watch out from him
The boy was scared as the thing wouldn't budge out of him. But he tried to calm down, if this was part of the exam then surely he would find a way to take it off, maybe one of the heroes would do it for him once the whole thing was over.
Looking closer at the strange device he noticed the couple of green buttons, also taking note of the lack of time displayed by this 'watch'.
'Is this a puzzle? Do I have to take it off like this to score a point or something?... what exactly is stuck to my wrist?' With seemingly no way to get the watch off, Izuku tapped the green button, the watch in response let out a very Sci-fi noise before the cylinder in the middle popped up along with the hourglass symbol inverting into a diamond shape with a humanoid silhouette on it.
'Huh?!' the green haired kid was caught off guard by this, still he wasn't sure what it would do. Taking a quick glance around, Izuku slowly pushed the cylinder back down with his index finger.
Suddenly his body begins to change, bones changing, muscles swelling and his skin pigmentation changing into red. Before long an extra set of arms grows from his abdomen, Izuku growing in size as his clothes change into a more athletic and form fitting shirt while his tracksuit is on the lower set of arms.
Upon the transformations end, Izuku takes one good look at his hands before screaming in a much deeper voice
"W-what happened? Did the watch do this?" Midoriya wasn't sure what to say, he just looked at his arms and felt like they belonged to a different person, using the reflective shell of the pod he could see his face had grown two extra eyes and alien like
But the sense of fear isn't as big as the kid's curiosity over the whole thing.
"Could it have activated a dormant quirk gene? Is this to help those without a quirk to get a leg up? I'm so confused and amazed right now, I have to take notes on-" it clicks for Izuku that now he is transformed into this large and muscular form, the kid actually stood a chance at scoring points and he had to make this quick before the exam ended
"I am going to spend the entirety of tomorrow on that, right now I need to get smashing some villains" Izuku moves out of the alleyway ready to pick a fight, although he is still adjusting to the large size. He almost trips on himself again but the extra set of arms helps him prevent this, looking on Izuku can see a 1 pointer coming in hot.
He grabs the rushing 1 pointer by the head stopping its charge and bashes him into the ground, breaking it apart. Midoriya is excited by the strength of this form, he then jumps into the action to destroy a couple more. He smashes one then another, then another, helping some other students along the way by destroying robots who were going to attack them or just stopping by them to help get up from their own robot fight.
After a while of destroying robots he's accumulated 39 points. Just a couple more and he should be able to pass the exam, all Izuku had to do was find a couple three pointers or...
It is at this point that the ground begins to tremble, the people look on in the direction to see a massive smoke pile that is dissipated, revealing a large metal shell. That begins to reveal a head, arms and three blade-like legs.
This was the drone of the mysterious alien, sent to retrieve the watch. But for those taking the test, this was the 0 pointer being released into the Battlefield. Once the eyes of the robot begin to glow, he starts shooting lasers and wrecking the buildings around looking for something.
"Woah, that seems a bit extreme. You sure it's a good idea to release that thing against the contestants?" Present Mic asked since the whole thing seemed exaggerated, granted throwing a giant robot against the examinees wasn't that different in comparison, but it could risk hurting someone really badly with that laser.
"It looks very different from the other robots, what did you think when building that, Power Loader?" Midnight asked her fellow teacher only to see him shaking in his seat
"... I didn't build that... Whatever that thing is... It was not made here in the U.A. support course!" The hero teacher shouted as he pointed at the scream, scared about the machine as it was something seemingly more advanced and dangerous than the 0 pointer, worst is the fact it was invading while they were doing the test.
"What?! You're saying we are being invaded?!" Vlad King and the rest of the staff were in disbelief at this, a villain attack right now? Who and why would they do this? Didn't matter they had more pressing matters
"We have to evacuate the premises immediately and shut down that robot." Eraserhead speaks as he gets up from his seat, only to realize All Might was already moving in to leave
"I'll deal with it" the number one hero affirms while steam comes out of his body as he is getting more muscular.
"That might not be necessary..." Nezu comments curious as he watched the live video
Everybody starts running away from it and Midoriya is about to do the same, wanting to focus his attention on earning some more points before the test ends, but before he can leave, he hears a scream.
He looks to see where the scream came from, only to see a girl trapped in the robot's grasp as it brought her closer to it's bug eyes scanning her for something.
"It got someone!" Midoriya exclaims before his body begins running towards the robot almost on instinct.
He arrives just as it's about to aim its other laser hand on the girl, she was struggling to free herself and was genuinely terrified of the robots murderous red eyes
"Hey!" A loud yell catches the attention of the girl and robot, Izuku standing in the ground close to them holding up a large piece of the ground to throw at the robot.
"Pick on someone your own size!" Upon scanning Izuku, it locks eyes on the watch's symbol as the robot begins to move towards Izuku. Dropping the girl as she used her quirk to stop the fall, before vomiting on the ground. Izuku threw the larger building piece in the to stagger him, however the android used its laser to destroy the object before it hit.
Izuku moves to plan B, he leaps up into the air using his legs incredible strength, hitting the robot over and over and over in the face with his four hands. He manages to hit him 8 times before gravity takes hold, pushing the robot back a bit. The other examinees are watching the whole thing unfold, shocked.
He lands on the ground a bit awkwardly considering Izuku wasn't sure his knees would take the force, he then goes to the girl that had been captured by the robot, pulling her off the ground and cleaning the dirt from her clothes.
"Thanks... I was so scared, that thing came out of nowhere" the girl couldn't believe the U.A. test would be so brutal and unforgiving, no wonder their acceptance rate was so low.
"No problem. You know it's bad luck to get crushed by a giant robot on such an important day." Says Midoriya, scratching the back of his head as the girl pieces together his identity.
"It's you..." The girl says, realizing he was the same guy from earlier in the U.A. entrance, he looked completely different thanks to what she assumed was his transformation quirk, suddenly the ground shakes again as the android gets back up.
"Don't worry about him, get away as far as you can." Midoriya comments to her before walking forward
"What about you?" She asked and truthfully, he didn't know how to respond. But the adrenaline he was feeling, the flexing of his muscles at every move and the weight behind his every step just made Izuku feel... Confident, something he rarely felt before.
"I got this." Izuku now with Four arms speaks before jumping away
'Or at least, I hope I do.' Izuku thinks to himself, preparing a punch until the robot suddenly grabbed his entire body with one hand while he was distracted.
The robot lifts Izuku up and clinches him tightly, it stares at his arm where the watch would've been before moving its other hand to pinch the watch symbol in the shoulder. Four arms struggles to free himself but is able to overcome the robot's strength as he opens the grip of the giant android while slightly damaging its fingers hydraulics, so the robot simply shoots Izuku away with the other hand.
"Ugh... need to destroy him before things change into something possibly worse, but I gotta do it before it can react..." Izuku says before noticing the electrical glow coming out of the robot's chest plates where the core was likely located in, which gives Izuku the perfect idea as to where to aim for in order to defeat the robot
"Let's see you handle this!" Midoriya shouts as he picks up debris around him to throw at the robot while running towards the giant android, who retaliates by shooting lasers at the launched materials as Four arms jumps up towards its chest area, grabbing on the metal with two hands as he begins to tear out the protective plates to expose the energy core with the others.
The robot grabs him with the already damaged hand and lifts him up to prepare a blast but Izuku breaks the entire hand entirely this time as the giant android misses it's shot, falling down the young hero quickly grabs on the exposed core of the robot as he positions himself to remove it with brute force, before the giant android can do anything, Four arms removes the core with great effort as he lands on the ground with the robot beginning to lose its balance as all it's systems began to lose power drastically.
'I always wanted to say this...' With a smile, Izuku jumps up to the Robot's face holding the core
"Smash!" Shouted the kid as he uses the giant android's own battery to smash his face in as it explodes along with the core, Izuku is thrown away but is not hurt in the slightest. The examinees commemorate this as they watched the whole thing, the stern teen from before surprised the most by the 'troublesome' kid he scolded before.
"It seems the candidates of this year are really something else" Nezu comments as he and the other teachers watched Izuku defeat the robot, shocked that he was able to do it but ever so grateful he protected the other examinees 'I wonder who this courageous individual might be?'
All Might had just made his way to the area when he saw the robot being exploded, it would seem someone already beat him to punching this threat into oblivion. His only words for this, impressive.
While in mid-air, a ringing is heard from the faceplate of the watch, followed by a red flash that envelops Midoriya. Once the flash of light passes, Midoriya is back in his human form and naturally starts falling from high above uncontrollably.
"Ahhh!" The boy screamed as he desperately moves around, trying to activate the watch again to turn into the four armed transformation.
Before Izuku hits the ground, the girl he saved slaps Midoriya with her hand as she was floating in a piece of the broken ground, Izuku begins to float 30 centimeters above the ground right before kissing the pavement.
"Re.. release." She then struggles to put her hands together, once all together the effect of her quirk stops and she vomits
"Thanks." Midoriya says as he is on the floor, glad to not become a stain on the ground. "You saved my life."
"You saved mine first, so we are even." She says, awkwardly chuckling as she tried to hold back any further vomiting.
"Yeah." Says Midoriya laughing himself, before realizing he needs to get back at fighting the robots in order to raise his-
Suddenly they hear a loud buzzing followed by Present Mic saying the time was up, which only made Izuku feel horrible about losing the chance of getting more points... But he saved a life, which is more important at the end of the day.
Even the people that didn't seem like much were impressed, but had doubts on why he didn't transform earlier. Iida meanwhile realized that Izuku had figured out a secret element of the exam, one he didn't expect at first, Midoriya had gone out of his way to save another contestant instead of worrying about points. The stern teen admits that if this wasn't a simulation he would have done the same, he is impressed by Izuku.
Uraraka is healed back up by the school nurse, Recovery Girl's quirk helping deal with her bruises from when the robot held her and everyone goes their separate ways hoping to have gotten into the school. Izuku however tried to see if he could give back the watch, thinking it was U.A. property.
"I don't know what you are talking about, we don't have anything like that" The response he got from the heroine Recovery Girl confused him, she even asked if he hit his head during the fall because they can't just grant anyone a quirk with a device, when this realization falls on Izuku he quickly dismissed the whole thing and played it off being confused.
In reality he still had questions, but if the watch didn't belong to U.A. then he shouldn't get any of them suspicious about it, not until he figured out how remove the thing without cutting his arm off.
After the events of the day Midoriya returns home feeling exhausted, wanting to rest.
He doubts himself, thinking he didn't get enough points. But all of that doubt is thrown away by excitement, curiosity and wonder ove the true capabilities of the watch that he couldn't wait to test until he received that acceptance letter
[Author's notes]
Leave a review, I want to know your thoughts on this story as this isn't going to be like other Omnitrix Izuku fics (well, that depends on how many you have saw)
This is only being done for fun and hopefully won't affect the development of Wrathful Hero Izuku Midoriya, I did this more so to test the waters of the entrance exam and have a model to use as reference when writing.
This is my own take on this type of fic because I genuinely really like the premise and even I admit it has been saturated. But I got too many ideas and my impulsivity makes me write them down anyway, expect to see more of this and other Ben 10 related fics (I already have like four of them, what is a few more?)
One thing I want to get clear is that, to separate from other fics I plan on using the reboot as inspiration for this story more than the prime universe, you can already tell with the beginning but I also went with Four arms being Izuku's first transformation like it was with reboot Ben. The playlist will be the same as the starting one from the reboot with one exception
Also I hinted in this chapter, but someone else already got OFA in this fic, any guess at who could be? (Hint: is not Uraraka, Melissa or Momo)