Perseverance

Persevere Part 2

The written portion of the exam was fairly easy, Izuku had studied hard. He knew that he would have to sharpen not only his body but also his mind if he wanted to make it into U.A, and that's just what he did. Now it was time for the fun part: the practical. All of the students attending were filtered into a large auditorium where the vocal hero Present Mic was delivering the information about the exam to the students. It was simple enough, just destroy robots until the exam was over. Izuku was paying attention attentively until a large and rather overbearing blue haired boy raised his hand and practically surged out of his seat.

"Sir! You said there are three robots, but on this sheet that you distributed there are clearly four! If this is an error then the prestigious image of this academy will surely be severely tarnished!" The boy exclaimed.

"Right you are!" Present Mic responded. "That fourth robot is the zero pointer, there's no merit in defeating it so you should just view it as an obstacle! Now, everyone to your battle areas, pronto!"

Upon arriving at his area, Izuku found that he was grouped with the blue haired boy and Ochako. Under normal circumstances he would have gone to say hi to her, but now they all just needed to focus. The blue haired boy noticed his lengthened gaze on Ochako and approached him.

"You! You shouldn't disturb her, do you intend to sabotage her efforts? Clearly she is trying to focus!" he exclaimed in a rather scolding manner. Izuku turned his gaze to the boy and explained himself.

"You need to relax. I was staring off into space while thinking up strategies for the exam, if anyone is doing any disturbing, it's you." He responded coldly. The bespectacled boy was shocked by this, and he turned away and walked off somberly. Izuku cursed inwardly, he hadn't meant to be that harsh. He would have to catch up and apologise later.

Suddenly the doors opened, but Izuku was ready. He dashed forward at easily three times the speed of all of the other examinees besides the blue haired boy, rushing towards a group of three pointers he spotted. In one fluid strike, he destroyed all three of them, continuing his mad dash for more targets. He found a group of one and two pointers and dispatched them in a similar manner, leaving some of the students in awe, questioning his quirk briefly before returning to their own mad pursuit of points.The exam continued and things were going swimmingly for Izuku. He found an additional party of three pointers next, electing to use his other style this time. He whirled his hands around rapidly in front of him and pushed forward, causing wind pressure to slice the robots into circular pieces.

He had already racked up about sixty-three points when the ground began to rumble and shake. Izuku gazed up to see a massive metal behemoth, the zero pointer. He was about to start running when he heard a faint cry for help in the distance. Unwilling to ignore the plea, he sprinted towards it, finding his new friend Ochako trapped under some debris as the zero pointer approached. He had no idea what her quirk was, but she looked like she needed help regardless. Izuku was still quite far away and the zero pointer was encroaching rapidly on its target. Right as it was about to crush the young girl, its motion was stopped. All of the examinees had looked away, expecting to hear a final cry, or anything else pertaining to the girl's untimely demise, but no sound came. When they finally turned they saw an incredible scene. There, standing above Ochako, was Izuku Midoriya, blocking the giant foot from squashing her.

Every single cell in his body was screaming at him. This was a terrible idea, he should have just ran faster and picked her up and dashed off. He knew deep down that that wasn't an option though, even with his enhanced body. He couldn't make it there that fast, but then how was he holding this thing up? Simple: adrenaline.

Ochako glanced up a few seconds after the delay of her untimely demise to see her new friend Izuku holding up the zero pointer. Every single vein in his upper body and face was heavily pronounced as he strained under its colossal weight. The pavement beneath them cracked and crumbled as he struggled against the robotic structure. He screamed at the top of his lungs as he finally managed to tip the giant backwards, much to the astonishment of the teachers observing.