"BEGIN!!" Ayano burst forward along with all the other examinees. However, instead of just rushing forward on the clear and open path, she chose to veer towards the side, going through alleys and between the buildings.
She heard some rumbling on her right side and quickly stopped her movements. A one-point villain burst from the building and turned its head towards her. "Target locked! Prepare for termination!"
It rushed at her, raising its claw in preparation to strike. It was fast, but it seemed to be very straightforward in its attack. Ayano used the grappling hook from her arm to quickly pull herself to the side and avoid the claw. She retracted the hook and took aim at the neck of the robot. She blasted off its head with a burst of high pressure air, successfully disabling it and earning herself one point.
"Quick, but fragile...especially on the joints connecting its limbs." Ayano examined as she walked closer to the dismembered machine. She looked around the empty alleyway, hearing the distant sounds of screaming and the clanging of metal. Deducing that she was far enough away from danger, she acted quickly.
Reaching the head of the robot, she crouched down to it and extended a wire from her electronic wristband. "I'm most likely wasting a lot of time but if I'm successful, it will be worth it." She plugged the wire into a compartment within the head and her watch projected screens and screens of information. As she quickly skimmed over it, she hummed in thought.
"It has rather simple programming, detecting movement and attacking being the main points. I suppose they wouldn't want to waste too much effort on an entrance exam that they hold every year with thousands of participants." Her wristband projected a keyboard onto her arm and she began tapping away at it, the three disks that she made prior to the exam lighting up.
"SIX MINUTES REMAINING!!"
Ayano retracted the wire and the screens turned off. She started running in the direction of all the noise, knowing that most of the robots would be there. Reaching the source of it all, her eyes darted around to examine the situation. People were scrambling and scraps of metal flew about. She heard other examinees mumbling their points, realizing just how behind she was.
She encountered a three-point villain, one that was much bigger than the one-pointer from earlier and looked more like a tank. From what she observed of the other people battling the villains, three-pointers were slow but strong and durable. "My air cannon isn't going to put a dent in that armor. I'll have to use one early." Ayano thought as she pulled out one of the three disks.
"Target locked!" Reaching into her utility belt, Ayano pulled out a white pill and threw it to the ground. A screen of smoke billowed out from the pill and masked her movements, causing the robot to lose sight of its target and lock on to another.
As it moved towards another examinee, she rushed behind it with a disk in hand. Clicking it once to activate it, she slapped it onto the robot. It stuck onto the surface and released some electric shocks. The robot stilled and ceased functioning.
Ayano slowly walked in front of the villain and pressed a button on her wristband. A holographic screen popped open and the robot's head turned up. "Activated. Awaiting further instructions." At that moment, Ayano revealed a devious smile.
Hatsume Mei was having the time of her life. Oh, to be able to use her cute babies to the fullest and show them off to all the people here!
She had just dodged a villain's attack with her hydraulic attachment bars, when the very same villain was rammed into by another. The frail one-pointer exploded and burst into flames. Mei turned her head around to see that the attacker was a three-pointer. Her eyes widened when she saw that Ayano was riding it like she would a horse.
"My apologies, Hatsume-san, but I am a bit behind on points. I hope you'll forgive me." Ayano shouted down to her as she commanded the three-pointer to use its homing missiles to target nearby robots. She jumped down to blast another one-pointer with her air cannon.
Mei gave a wild smile and laughed. "Amazing, Sasaki! You turned the villains into your own babies!" She then used her wire arrow to shoot through another one-pointer, successfully gaining the point. "But my super cute babies won't lose to yours!!!"
Ayano smirked. Despite how hectic everything around them was, the two had a friendly competition going on. Each of them trying to defeat more villains and seeing who's support items were better.
Just as they each destroyed a two-pointer, the ground rumbled. The zero-point gimmick mowed its way through the buildings, destroying them. While everybody else was running away from the rampaging robot, Ayano and Mei had wicked smiles on their faces.
Ayano was the first to take action. "Sorry, Hatsume-san. This one's mine." "Heh heh heh, not if my babies get to it first!"
"Those two know that thing gets them zero points, right?!?" Some examinees shouted in confusion.
Ayano found a damaged, but mostly intact, three-pointer as well as another one-pointer. "I need you and you." Using the remaining two disks, she slapped one on each and programmed them to do her bidding. She now had two three-pointers and a one-pointer in her possession.
She tapped away at her wristband. "You two, distract the big one." She said, referring to the three-pointers. "You, come with me." She instructed the one-pointer. "Roger." The three robots answered.
Ayano hopped onto the one-pointer and held her hand out to Mei. The pink-haired girl gave a toothy grin and jumped on. As the three-pointers distracted the gimmick as much as they could with their limited weapons, Ayano and Mei sped off on the one-pointer.
They went around to the side of the gigantic robot at its blind spot. They both jumped off the one-pointer, and Ayano commanded it to go elsewhere to destroy more villains. The two girls hooked onto the gimmick, Ayano using her grappling hook and Mei using her wire arrow.
As they reached the top of its head, Ayano pulled out some orange pills. She pinched them and let them fall onto the surface. The crushed pills began melting away at the metal, allowing her to pull a panel loose. She performed the same process as before, connecting a wire to it and her wristband.
"It appears that this zero-pointer uses the same mechanisms as all the others. The problem is that I don't nearly have enough power to reprogram something of this caliber." Mei began her usual maniacal laugh. "Fu Fu Fu! If its power you need, say no more!"
She pulled out two objects of what looked like defibrillators, something doctors would use to administer shocks to a patient's heart. Ayano could see the lightning streaks surrounding them. "These are my shock blocks! These babies can pack ten kilowatts each! They'll get you all the power you need in no time!"
Mei rubbed them together and pushed them against the robot's open panel, administering an incredible shock and deactivating it while Ayano quickly reprogrammed it. The two girls laughed as it was brought back to life under Ayano's command.
"TIME'S UP!!!" Ayano clicked her tongue in annoyance. "Just as we were getting to the best part..." She looked at Mei who pushed her goggles up onto her forehead. "It was a pleasure working with you, Hatsume-san."
"Call me Mei! See you at school, Sasaki!" With that, the pink-haired girl jumped into the air and flew with her jetpack.
Ayano's eyes followed the girl. She smiled. It wasn't arrogance that she had, it was just complete and utter excitement about the support course and finding somebody with the same passion.
Ayano was waiting for Midoriya outside of the U.A. gates when Bakugou exited the school. He stopped to see her with her back leaning against the wall. She had her eyes closed, waiting patiently. Draped over her arms in front of her was the top part of their school's sailor type uniform, leaving her in her black, racerback tank top. She had shed the uniform to cool off, having worked up a bit of a sweat during the exam.
Feeling a presence beside her, Ayano opened her eyes and looked at Bakugou. The two looked at each other in silence, Bakugou not entirely sure what compelled him to stop. The brown-haired girl noticed that his right cheek had a cut that was slightly bleeding.
Without a word, she unhooked the white, flattened sphere from her belt and walked up to him. Holding her uniform in her right hand, she held the sphere up to his cheek with her left. Surprisingly, Bakugou just stood there and let her.
He felt the cool metal of the object and heard its gears turning. "Laceration detected. First aid initiated. Administering two milliliters of isopropyl alcohol." Bakugou clicked his tongue at the stinging sensation.
He hadn't looked away from Ayano though. With her tank top, her arms were completely exposed. He saw, for the first time, the extent of the scars that ran along her left arm.
Noticing his stare, Ayano gave a small sigh. She picked up his right hand and placed it on the sphere, forcing him to hold it himself. Now having both hands free, she took her uniform and slipped it back on, concealing the scars again.
She could never be too sure since Bakugou almost always had a scowl on his face, but she could have sworn that his brows furrowed deeper when he noticed the scars.
"Applying bandage. First aid complete. Feel better." The robotic, monotone voice finished. Bakugou removed the sphere from his face and a bandage was in its place. Ayano took the device from his hand and hooked it back onto her belt.
She was about to say something when she heard the tired mumblings of Midoriya. She turned her head to see her green-haired friend, seeing his slightly disheveled state. She turned back to look at Bakugou, but he had already started walking back home.
Ayano gazed at him with his hunched up back and hands shoved into the pockets of his baggy pants. She sighed again and walked towards Midoriya, congratulating him on his safe return.