"We're up in 5 minutes" Izuku announced as he walked into the waiting room "everyone line up in order of seat numbers."
"Midoriya."
Izuku turned around to see Todoroki-kun walking towards him.
"Considering your powers and analytical ability, you are the most likely to win this."
Izuku's head tilted to the side in confusion.
"And…?"
"And All Might has his eyes on you."
"He just gave me some pointers on avoiding collateral damage" Izuku said casually "Not all of us can just make big ice walls after all"
"I don't plan on prying" Todoroki said " but it just means that I have all the more reason to beat you."
Izuku actually chuckled at that.
"There was nothing funny in what I just said" Todoroki said with a frown
"You're gonna have to reach me first Todoroki-kun" Izuku said before turning his gaze towards their annoyed classmates "Believe it or not, there are more than 2 people in our class. Not to mention the entirety of the first-year population."
"Ah" Todoroki said as if he understood his mistake "I apologize. I did not mean to disregard everyone here. I will beat you all before beating Midoriya."
The distinct sound of palms hitting foreheads was what rang throughout the room.
"Welcome to the UA hero festival!" Present Mic's voice called out as 1A finally reached the tunnel's opening "To start off, let's cheer on the fledgling heroes!"
"First, the stars who overcame a villain attack all on their own! Class 1A!"
Amidst a storm of cheering and clapping, Izuku led his class to the middle of the stadium.
"Next are the hidden gems! They haven't gotten much screen time, but if you ignore them you'll regret it! Here's Class 1B!"
After that, Present Mic introduced classes C to K (flamboyantly).
"Time for the pledge" Midnight-sensei announced "Representing the students is the top ranker of both the hero and the general test, Izuku Midoriya!"
"Everyone here…" Izuku began " Is sure to be strong. The ones from the Hero course. The ones from the Support course. The ones who were put in the general course. I don't think the business course really cares about the fighting but them too. Everyone here knows that it's not easy to get into UA."
"But we all made it here. And I'm sure we'll all go ahead with the same drive as we had to get here."
With that he raised his right hand "I vow today to fight with everything I have, and I hope to see us all go Beyond, Plus Ultra!"
At the ending of his speech, the whole student body raised their arms to match his and yelled out the school motto
"PLUS ULTRA!"
"You're good at speeches" Kirishima said with a chuckle.
Izuku nodded "took me 5 hours to come up with that."
"That's enough!" Midnight-sensei's voice rang out, and the ones who had been talking turned to see her pointing her whip at them "Now, let us begin the first event: The Obstacle Race!"
"OY!"
"STOP PUSHING"
"OW"
Amidst all the pushing and shoving stood Izuku, hands in pockets as he stood at the back area of the crowd.
"Looks like we had the same idea"
He turned to his left to see Momo walking towards him.
"Great minds think alike after all" he replied with a smile.
She let out a small giggle before standing beside him.
"So" she began "How do you plan to get ahead?"
He pointed at the gap between the students and the roof of the tunnel "I can be there in a...flash"
Momo just stared at him for a second.
Izuku rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly "Kaminari-kun suggested I use more puns"
She nodded "You can come up with something better than flash though"
"you do one then" he challenged
"Don't underestimate me Izuku, I can be quite….crafty."
A beat of silence.
"I give up" he said as he raised his hands "once the festival is done I'm asking you for a list of these."
"Anyway, how are you planning on getting up front?"
"rocket roller skates" she said casually.
"rocket what now?"
"START!"
In a flash of light, Izuku sprang up into the air and kicked off.
"AND THEY'RE OFF!"
It was a tight fit, but Izuku was able to do it.
He launched himself through the gap above the students and landed in a roll to see Todoroki freeze the zero pointers from the entrance exam.
'These guys again' he mused 'well, they're easy to blast through so…'
He closed his eyes, channeling one for all and glint through his body.
[15% one for all, full flow.]
[FLASH ARROW]
In another flash of light, he launched himself straight through a falling zero pointer before batting away a couple of 3 pointers with a single swing of his left arm.
'Since Mic-sensei just announced the second obstacle, I guess Todoroki-kun's already there'
'Well,' he thought to himself as he hopped in place to warm up his legs before crouching 'nothing to worry about'
Rather than a quick burst of energy, he went forward at a constant speed so fast it looked like an arrow made of light launched from a bow.
[FLASH ARROW, LONG VERSION]
Truly, his moves naming sense was like no other.
He completely skipped the whole tightrope thing and most of the minefield before finally slowing down.
And then, because he felt like giving his classmate a migraine would be fun, he sent out flicks of light energy from his fingers on all the mines in front of Todoroki.
Obviously, they went off.
Todoroki (+ Katsuki, Momo, Iida and a blonde 1B guy whose name Izuku didn't remember)'s form were all hidden in a spectacular explosion of pink smoke.
Due to the rule of ' +aura when not looking at explosions', Izuku didn't see that.
What he did see, was the entrance back into the stadium, and the crowd cheering him on as he ran in and got his first place.
He turned around to see Todoroki, then Katsuki followed by Iida and then Momo follow him through like 20 seconds later.
"THE WINNER OF THE FIRST ROUND IS IZUKU MIDORIYA! What did he even do, Eraserhead!?"
"He used his quirk for a simple rush through the whole thing. Some would call that unflashy, but getting from point A to point B as fast as possible is a very important factor for being a hero."
"good to see you actually giving commentary!"
"I had 11 shots of concentrated coffee earlier."
"what the hell is concentrated coffee?"
"Ask Lunch Rush, he's the one who made it."
"Izuku"
Izuku turned around to Hitoshi approaching him "doing crazy things as usual, eh?"
Izuku just gave him a wry smile.
Rather than take offence, his friend just chuckled.
"yeah, I figured you wouldn't fall for that."
"Katsuki might, depending on what you insult" Izuku said with a grin as he looked at their friend, who was arguing with Todoroki about…something. "he's been complaining that he's shorter than me since middle school"
"where the hell does he get the energy for that?" Hitoshi 'aizawa's secret love child' Shinso muttered as their blonde friend started yelling.
"you just have zero energy" Izuku said with a shake of his head.
"Not my fault I'm an insomniac" he muttered.
"I've offered knocking you out multiple times."
"I prefer my face looking like a face, thank you very much."
'I'm screwed' Izuku thought to himself as he saw everyone give him looks of hunger when they heard the whole million points thing.
'Couldn't have been a thousand or something? Directly jumping to a million feels excessive.'
Well, he honestly didn't mind doing it alone, but figuring out a way to stay in the air the whole time might be tricky since he can't use the 7th's [float] yet.
"You! Number one! Let me into your team!"
He turned to see a pink haired girl approach him while decked out in equipment.
"Um, could you tell me who you are first?"
"Mei Hatsume, support course. I came here because being with you could get my babies a lot of attention!"
While Izuku internally wondered if she had a baby in that bag that she planned on throwing or something, Uraraka came up to him too.
"Midoriya-kun, lets team up!"
"Uraraka-san?" he said with slight surprise "You did hear that I have a target the size of Mount Lady on me right?"
"It'll be fine" she dismissed "besides, it's best to work with people you can get along with!"
"True enough" he muttered.
One more then.
and he knew just who to bring.