Chapter 3
Izuku carefully held the injured girl as Venom's black tendrils returned to their home underneath his skin. He shifted the girl in his arms once he lost the strength that given him.
The girl's warm brown eyes looked at him widening in surprise.
"You're that boy from the entrance." She choked out past the pain that coursed from her leg.
Izuku nodded giving her a smile. He could feel the eyes of the other test takers on him as they whispered.
"Man what a creepy quirk." One said to another looking at Izuku.
"Yeah but he totally saved that girl." The other responded looking at the girl in Izuku's arms.
The clacking of a cane hitting the street came as a old woman dressed in a hero costume walked down the street. She handed gummy bears to the uninjured students as she did.
"Oh dear." She said as she spotted Uraraka's broken leg. "They shouldn't use such a dangerous machine on the entrance test." She said looking up from Izuku to the zero pointer that had frozen in place when the test ended.
The woman shook her head and looked at the injured girl. And her lips extended towards her landing on the girl's forehead. Making her leg twist and shift as the bones set themselves and healed returning to their natural state.
Uraraka let out a tired yawn as her leg returned to it's natural state. Before she blinked and rested her head against Izuku's chest as she feel asleep.
Izuku blinked and looked at her.
'Uhhhhh what?'
'Hm is this how humans relationships start?'
'No!'
The greenette blushed slightly at the words of his "quirk" as he looked at the old woman.
"Is she alright?" He asked quirking a green brow. While Venom was still questioning about human relationships in the back of his head.
The old woman nodded. "She'll be just fine. My quirk drains of person's stamina so she'll be asleep for awhile but otherwise she's fine."
Izuku nodded and looked at the girl. "So." He began before he looked at the woman. "Where should I put her down?"
Ryuko had requested to watch the events of the entrance exam with her intern. She had hoped to see some new talent and possibly a new intern to teach in the future.
And she most certainly did see some talent.
She was the most interested in one of the few students who actually tried to save one of their fellow examinees.
He had a strange quirk. Black tendrils that grew from his skin and worked like a second set of muscles. Wrapping around him acting as both a suit of armor and a weapon at the same time. The boy saved a girl whose leg was trapped.
Not only that but he also stayed with her until Recovery Girl had managed to heal her heavily injured leg.
Ryuko looked at her intern as she gained a smile. This boy definitely had promise.
He may even one day be one of the top ten when he became a pro if his quirk was as powerful as it seemed.
Izuku took the long way home. Walking instead of using Venom to quickly traverse the area. As he walked he thought about the test.
He didn't look where he was going. The boy worked entirely on autopilot as he walked down the street.
Izuku muttered as he walked and almost couldn't hear a woman's voice calling out to him.
"Hey! Hey kid!" A woman yelled running after him. With a teenage girl not much older than him trailing after her. "Wait up!"
Izuku turned slightly looking at her. Before his eyes widened in surprise.
'No way... Ryukyu!?!'
'Who?'
'She's one of the top ten Japanese heroes.'
'...I don't care.'
The greenette shook his head in slight exasperation before he looked at the No. 9 hero.
"I... how can I help you Ryukyu?" He asked in total shock that a hero was talking to him.
The girl who had followed the ninth ranked hero looked at him with her wide curious eyes. "Ryukyu wants to talk to you about your work in the exam and I, I'm Hado Nejire by the way, want to ask you about your quirk." She said rather bluntly before she made a bum rush to the boy. "How's it work? Does it work like your regular muscles?" At this she squeezed the lean muscles on Izuku's arm. "Why does it give you those sharp teeth and big white eyes?" She pried open his his lips looking at his teeth and then at his eyes. "Why do you say we when you're fully using your quirk?" The girl asked inches away from Izuku's face.
Izuku blinked and blushed at the girl's closeness. "I, um, uh, well." He began at a loss for words. "I say we because my quirk has a mind of it's own." He said making the girl look at him with surprise.
Her surprised eyes widened when she saw the black tendrils that began growing from his shoulder. Quickly forming a long neck and head with similar features to Izuku's when he fully used his "quirk".
"Little one can we go? I'm quite bored with these two." Venom said his words dripping with boredom as he looked at Izuku.
Ryukyu looked at Venom's manifestation with some curiosity. "That's a interesting quirk you have." She said rubbing her chin as she did. "A transformation type with a mind of it's own. Must have come in handy during the exam."
Izuku nodded clamping a hand over Venom's mouth as he did. "Yeah Venom usually handles the physical portion of our fighting and I handle the tactics."
Hado nodded. "You did tear through those bots really easily." She said looking at Izuku and Venom's manifestation. "Though you won't be able to use your quirk all the time."
"True." Ryukyu agreed with her intern. "Every quirk has a weakness. You do have a plan to account for yours, right?"
Izuku nodded. "Yeah I'm planning on having a support item to compensate for my lack of physical abilities without Venom."
Ryukyu nodded. "Hmm well anyway Midoriya-Kun myself and Nejire need to go." She said gesturing to the blue haired girl. "But I would like to say this before we go." The No. 9 looked at the boy. "If you do get into U.A when you get to the internships." Ryukyu gave the boy a bright smile and handed him a card. "Please consider my agency."
Izuku even a week later still marveled at the card he had been given. His mother had reacted similarly to himself when she saw the card.
With shocked silence.
But their shared amazement did eventually fade to where they simply went about their days like they had before Izuku had applied.
At the moment Izuku was doing pull ups on a bar he had installed in his barren room.
'I don't see why you do this pointless workout when I give us all the strength we need.'
Izuku continued the pull ups despite the words of his symbiote. "If. I. Get. Stronger. I'll. Be. Able. To. Fight. When. You. Can't." In between each word he pulled himself up. Letting himself become subject to gravity once more as he spoke.
'Tch whatever.'
Izuku shook his head and continued his workout. But stopped as his door slammed open.
"Izuku!" His mother called out to him. Breathless as she held a letter with a old fashioned wax stamp. "The letter!"
Izuku let go of the bar and landed on his feet. Approaching his mother and carefully taking the letter. Looking at it with both anticipation and hesitation before he turned away from his mother. Quietly closing his door leaving his mother to fidget in worry outside his room and walked to his desk.
He sat down and looked at the letter. Running his thumb over the wax stamp Izuku looked at it worry in his eyes.
'Venom... what if, what if I didn't get in?'
'You won't know if you don't open it.'
Izuku nodded running his thumb over the stamp once more.
'I... I know but I don't want... what if I'm not accepted because they found out that we're a vigilante!?'
'Ugh! YOU WON'T KNOW IF YOU DON'T OPEN THE DAMN LETTER!'
Venom yelled at him making the boy flinch.
"You're right."
He said before he tore apart the envelope. Letting a holoprojector disk fall onto the desk.
It flashed and a holographic screen appeared showing-
"ALL MIGHT?!"
'Who?'
'Goddammit Venom.'
All Might looked at Izuku through the holographic screen.
"Young Midoriya!" All Might said giving his trademark smile. "You passed both the written and practical with flying colors!" He said making Izuku smile. "And not only did you easily get plenty of points to pass by defeating more than your fair share of villain bots. But you also saved a fellow examinee!"
A picture appeared on the screen that showed Izuku in his and Venom's combined body holding the injured girl.
"Making you take the place of number 1 ranked examinee! With sixty rescue points and seventy villain points!" All Might have Izuku his ultra bright smile. "You're in Young Midoriya." He said extending one of his massive hands to the screen. "Welcome to your hero academia."
Izuku stood straight up his chair clattering to the floor.
"I'm in." He whispered joy filling every word. "I'M IN!!!"
'Hooray.'
Izuku could almost hear his other half giving him a slow clap.
'Y'know you don't have to be such a sarcastic bastard about this.'
'I know. I just want to.'
Izuku sighed and shook his head. Placing his hands on the table as he stared at the disk.
"I'm really in."