Spacetime Anomaly: MHA Fanfic

Chapter 8.2: Ruse

Izuku, now with the ball in hand, blinked before concocting a most horrifying pitching attempt. He'd never really attempted this, so there was a chance it could go terribly wrong, but since he had Aizawa's permission… Within a fraction of a second for his decision being made his eyes light up with overwhelming suppressive potential. Golden and cyan colored chains manifested as phenomenon due to him locking the ball from both time and space and as it rested on his hand it was gradually infected by a blurring purple glow.

Around ten seconds passed before Izuku audibly went, "Anymore and I think the ball might implode..." Then by willing gravity to supplement his physical strength and space to contract, he through the ball as hard as he possibly could. With time at this point being perceived dozens of times faster than normal, Izuku waited for the moment right after the ball left his hand to release the ball from his locked state. With all the gravity he had stockpiled on the ball adding on to his own superhuman throw, the object leaving his hand could better be described as a missile as it blasted away with hypersonic speeds. To those unfortunate enough to blink at the moment of his throw, they wouldn't even be able to see the faraway silhouette of the ball in flight.

Dust was kicked up on the ground around Izuku and clouds were pierced by the winds that followed the ball in the sky. Nearly a minute later, even Aizawa was shaken as he displayed the recording device in his hand to the students which showed an absurd 20 or so kilometers. Quickly enough, any fluctuation in his emotions was quelled as he said, "It's important for us to know your limits. That's the rational first step in figuring out what kind of heroes you'll become."

Mina, both highly excited and consumed with zeal couldn't help but cry out, "That was friggin epic, Midoriya!" Some others started sharing similar sentiments, commenting recklessly, until one such comment of these events today becoming fun by an unsuspecting Hagakure, landed the class in hot water.

"Fun, you say?" It seemed that was the final straw that broke the camel's back as Aizawa turned demented. He reprimanded the students for their childlike naivety and established a rule to immediately expel whichever student placed last overall in all the eight tests for the Quirk Apprehension Test.

Some students professed the unfairness of their situation, it was, after all, only the first day; and not even the first school day. However, Aizawa fired back with the mention of natural disasters, cunning villains, and the general unfairness of life. As aspiring heroes, this bit of unfairness shouldn't be enough to hold them back, else they'd never last a day in the real world of heroics. Leaving the students a bone in the form of some encouraging words, everyone became fired up to try with all their might, lest find their hopes of becoming U.A. graduates ruined before they even had a chance to prove their worth.

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With Izuku's throw ending up being a simple demonstration, the true tests began with the 50-yard dash. Right away things were kicked off rather well as Iida, the boy with the Engine Quirk which endowed him with integrated engines in his legs, sprinted across the track and finished his trial run in just over three seconds. He was followed by the holder of a Frog Quirk, Tsuyu Asui, who finished two and a half seconds later, through the impressive hops.

Next, the girl with the impossibly voluminous bob-cut, who Izuku learned was called Ochaco Uraraka, and a boy with a tail known as Mashiro Ojiro both completed their trials at precisely 7.15 seconds. The boy used his tail to slap on the ground and propel himself forward, while the girl caused Izuku to blink excitedly for the second time today. Somehow, she had negated the gravity of everything she wore; a truly fascinating technique and one Izuku wouldn't mind learning.

The following group consisted of Mina and the boy with a wicked magnifying belt perched on his navel. Mina simply ran for the first quarter of the track before making some acid to skate atop, while the boy Izuku later came to know as Yuga Aoyama, used an unorthodox approach. Yuga faced the opposite direction, jumped, and used the recoil of the lazers he shot from his navel to propel himself towards the finish line; though, he did crash and have to fire a total of three times to cross the whole fifty yards…

From then on, most of the other students simply ran like normal, after all, not everyone possessed a Quirk that would necessarily increase their speed. Those worth mentioning consisted of the second girl Izuku saw when he arrived earlier in the morning, Momo Yaoyorozu, who simply pulled out skates from her torso, Katsuki Bakugo, whose Explosion Quirk granted him quasi-flight through constant rapid-fire explosions, Shoto Todoroki, who belonged in the same camp of social recluses Izuku had been consigned to before Mina arrived and had used his ability to generate ice to launch himself across the field, and well… Izuku himself who contracted space and took a total of three steps to complete his fifty yards in less than a second. It was disorienting watching someone travel through contracted space as you could see them take each of his steps but logic dictated it was impossible to travel in that fashion.

In the next trial, the test of grip strength, everyone in Class 1-A was handed a device for them to clamp down on as hard as possible. Here, the powerhouses of physical strength made themselves aware in Mezo Shoji, a teen who looked more like a full-grown a.d.u.l.t with six arms webbed together, and Rikido Sato, whose Quirk, Sugar Rush, quintupled his strength for three minutes after eating 10 grams of sugar. Though Rikido's score was eclipsed by Mezo's, both were well above the 400 kg range. Tokoyami Fumikage, the boy with a black bird's head and an otherwise regular human body, called for his sentient Quirk, Dark Shadow, to assist in this trial and he too managed an impressive score in the 350 kg range.

Though no one could compare to Momo, who literally conjured up a miniature hydraulic press to surpass the calculable range for grip strength, and Izuku, whose sheer gravitational augmentation nearly crumbled up the recording device in his hand into a pile of scrap metal.

During the Long Jump, Aoyama, Katsuki, Ochaco, Shoto, and Izuku outperformed most everyone else. Aoyama with his Navel Lazer, Katsuki with his quasi-flight, Ochaco, after eliminating the force of gravity on her body and withholding the urge to spill her guts, Shoto, by making a literal bridge of ice, and Izuku by literally flying with his Gravitational Manipulation; his score for this test was determined to be infinity…

Most people performed as they did without the use of their Quirks during the trial for Side Stepping. Though this was the area in which the class pervert, who'd long since been dropping lecherous comments, Mineta Minoru, to reign nigh-uncontested. With the use of his Quirk, Pop-Off, he created masses of purple balls that spawned from his head to bounce back and forth from. Sadly, the trial for Side Stepping was within Izuku's very limited range for controlled teleportation. When compared to Izuku's teleportation, simply bouncing back and forth became a joke.

Finally, when the fifth trial came around, the Softball Pitch which Izuku had already completed, more impressive showings were made by the students of Class 1-A. Momo made a literal cannon to shoot her softball out of, while Katsuki added a terrifying blast to his pitch. Ochaco, after negating the effects of gravity on her ball, received the second infinity score as the ball simply wouldn't come down lest she will for it to happen; it simply kept steadily trekking on towards the final frontier, otherwise.

Following the highly anticipated softball pitch, the last three trials were hardly worth getting excited for. Yet all of Class 1-A continued to try their hardest, lest they get dropped at the end of the day. For the sixth trial, flexibility was measured through the Trial of Seated Toe-Touch. Rather impressively, Izuku hung around at the of the scoreboard for this test but he didn't get first place, as Toru had surpassed him despite being otherwise normal in physique like him. But even she couldn't hold a candle to Asui who could contort her body in night-inconceivable positions.

Following the Seated Toe-Touch was Upper Strength Endurance, wherein the students did as many chin-ups as possible and even without the support of his Quirk, Izuku steamrolled the others through the prowess of his cultivated physique. On light days, he would do several hundred chin-ups without the use of a gravitational assist.

Finally, the last test consisted of Endurance Running. Needless to say, Iida and Izuku were having a field day. The one with Engine Legs rejoiced at being able to shift to gears higher than were allowed during the short 50-yard dash, while the Spacetime Esper was like a fish in water as he cruised through track field under contracted space. Momo didn't run at all, instead opting to make a small solar-powered bike which she rode, while the rest of the class could only run on helplessly.

With all the tests completed and the student's physical abilities assessed, Aizawa gathered everyone to announce their final rankings. With Izuku standing in first place as expected, Momo, Todoroki, and Katsuki followed in that order; on this first day, they cemented their positions as the best within the class.

Mineta Minoru was at the bottom of the scoreboard, ranked 20th, and it wasn't even close to unexpected. As a short boy, barely over three and a half feet, and with an utterly untrained physique, even middle school girls would outperform him when it came to physical evaluations. Fortunately for him, after having his aspirations utterly crushed for about a minute, Aizawa let it be known that he was merely deceiving the class and that no one was truly in line to be expelled. Of course, only Aizawa and some of the staff would know that he would expel anyone in his class in a heartbeat, so somewhere somehow, he must have seen potential in the otherwise contemptible teen.