Summary: While many quirks keep heroes ground, very few allow them to take advantage of the forgotten skies.
Over the years many have risen with a quirk to assume control of the skies above the world of heroics yet almost all have turned to villainy.
Now a new generation is getting ready to take their first steps on the road to becoming the next wave of heroes, and among them is the first new quirk in twenty years that can take the skies.
This is the story of Izumi Midoriya and her rise to become the Ace Hero.
Chapters: 9
Word Count: 31,389
Status: Ongoing
Link: https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/quirk-arieal-supremacy-mha-x-ace-combat.62358
Chapter 1: Discovery of a Ace
In all his time announcing the goal of each entrance exam U.A held every year Hizashi Yamada had seen potential students prepare themselves in several different ways, ranging from meditation to overly checking support items they had brought to allow their quirks to function properly nothing surprised him much anymore with watching the young listeners prepare.
Yet something this time had surprised him, a young female listener with green hair and large angular protrusions growing them her back almost in resemblance of manufactured clipped delta wing and angular jet engines, had zipped around just after he had given out the exam's guidelines handing something to every examinee heading tot he same test area as her, well all those willing to take one. He'd noticed a few examinees take whatever the greenette and simply leave it behind, intrigued by what the greenette listener had been handing out Hizashi waited for the auditorium to finally empty before making his way to were one of the things was sitting.
To his surprised Hizashi found it was an earpiece, rather unassuming if he was being perfectly honest, it was a small black angular earpiece with three green markings running down the side, clearly something that had been painstakingly put together. Holding it in his hand he moved to another discarded one and finding it to be a perfect match, this was confusing as something like this, a machined and well put together device was not just handed out on the fly.
While he doubted the greenette listener had any ill-intentions and there was nothing in the entrance exams rules against giving things to other examinees, Hizashi still didn't want to take the chance of one little listener sabotaging the chances of others. Making his way towards the exams observation tower Hizashi entered the main viewing platform before reaching the roof, drawing the attention of his fellow U.A staff members.
"Is something the matter Yamada?" the voice of principle Nedzu, a small white bear; dog mouse-like animal the held the position of U.A's principle, asked his large swivel chair turning to face the blonde-haired Voice Hero, "It is nearly time to announce the start of the entrance exams."
"Well, that's what I wanted to see about sir," Hizashi spoke up, his naturally loud voice earning a groan from his permanently sleep-deprived colleague, ignoring the groan Hizashi pulled the small earpiece from his pocket holding it out, "One of the listeners taking the exam was rapidly handing these out as everyone was leaving the auditorium, didn't feel it right to call anything out until it'd been looked at. Green hair with possibly a mutant type quirk giving her metallic wings, not hard to miss."
"Oh?" Nedzu hopped down from his seat walking towards Hizashi gently taking the offered earpiece and turning it over in his paws, "Well this certainly is unique isn't it, we have nothing in the rules against giving anything to your fellow examinees but that's not why you are bringing this up now, your worried this device will interfere with the other examinees." with a chuckle Nedzu span around on the balls of his feet before heading over to the support departments teach Higari Maijima; the Excavation Hero: Power Loader. "Maijima if you would," Nedzu spoke before holding out the earpiece.
Nodding once Higari took the earpiece before looking it over for any sign of an external connection port, "Doesn't look like anything externally is malicious about it," pausing as he found the connection port, Higari opened it and plugged the earpiece into a nearby laptop to see what it heled within.
Once connected to the laptop data streamed across its screen drawing the attention of every pro-hero within the room, the data scrolled past faster then most of the heroes present could process only Nedzu, Higari and Shota Aizawa able to follow what the data was showing. Eventually, the data came to a stop on a display showing the number of active earpieces being worn as well as one-way audio flowing from the earpieces to something.
Seeing this Nedzu began to chuckle, his chuckle slowly turning into full-blown maniacal laughter earning concerned and frightened looks from the other heroes present. He'd realised what the earpieces were, nothing dangerous or worrisome yet something that would provide an advantage to those that hard taken and worn them. Finally calming down enough to speak Nedzu reached out and closed the laptops screen before returning to his seat, not bothering to tell anyone what he found so funny, "Oh, this really will spice the exam up this year."
Watching the screen with a newfound intensity, Nedzu focused one of the various testing ground cameras on the girl in question, green hair tied in a straight ponytail that flowed down her back stopping at her waist the hair was clipped to the dark grey jacket she wore to stop it blowing about in the wind. Hizashi had been right about the mutation of her quirk giving her metallic-like wings, yet from what Nedzu could see the mutations didn't stop there, she had two large diamond-shaped blocks that if Nedzu had to guess based on the red hot streams of air being expelled towards the ground were engines, along with these two engines sat a pair of smaller wings and unlike the larger ones which stuck out either side these two were much lower down and pointing straight out her back, almost like stabilizers on old military fighter jets.
Likewise, her feet had a similar mutation to them standing as if she was clad in high heels the back of her foot raised off the ground by a small wheel with two smaller stabilizer wings poking out the back. Her outfit also stood out as were every other examinee had turned up wearing comfortable clothing they could easily move in, she was glad in a predominantly dark grey dress uniform with a black shirt, white tie and light grey highlights. Nedzu hummed at the sight of what she was wearing, a very professional outfit it made her stand out all the more adding into the serious look in her eyes as they flicked back and forth across a barely visible green hologram in front of her eyes led Nedzu to believe she was taking the entrance exam much more seriously than any other student currently taking part. Even going so far as to face away from the testing ground entry door and ignoring another examinee trying to yell at her.
Nedzu couldn't help but again start laughing as he caught sight of that test sights gate opening, only for the girl to begin sprinting in the opposite direction a hot fiery red trail streaking behind her before kicking into the air, it was like watching a jet take-off oddly exciting in its unique way.
"Doesn't she know the test grounds the other way?" Ectoplasm questioned watching as the girl took the sky before not only making his eyes widen but the eyes of every single staff member in the room. Watching on the screen as the green-haired girl rapidly shot upwards vertically climbing high into the air before the glowing red burn died down, causing the girl to begin falling, only to reorientate herself mid-fall to face towards the ground as the red glow kicked back into life propelling her towards the ground at a much faster rate before sharply jerking vertically again to become parallel with the ground, roaring past the other examinee's who had yet to realise the test had begun as she shot off down the test sights city streets banking hard around a building.
The entire room save Nedzu where left shocked at such a manoeuvre, even heroes with ariel quirks like Hawks couldn't pull off feats like that. Nedzu was still laughing at the sight finding the shocked expressions of his fellow staff an enjoyable sight, oh he truly hoped this girl would pass if she could cause this rection before the exam.
Nedzu, however, wasn't the only hero within the room not shocked into silence by the impressive quirk display Toshinori Yagi the worlds number one hero and symbol of peace was stunned at the familiarity at how the girl moved. "The Lomcovak manoeuvre," he muttered under his breath, seeing someone so young mimic something that he had not seen in nearly twenty-five years, an advanced ariel combat manoeuvre that a villain had used to great devastating effect to reign death upon countless heroes from the sky. A villain that commanded the air, like a king untouchable by those locked to the ground his reign of terror only brought down by a combined effort or All-Might and the ingenuity of his long time friend David Shield had they been able the bring the King of the Skies to his knees.
Toshinori was shaken out of his memories as a grunt from Shota, glancing over Toshinori saw that Shota had kept his eyes firmly following the cameras for signs of the green-haired examinee. Watching with it a half lazy expression as the girl through the test city at a truly impressive speed, if Toshinori had to guess she was moving close to a thousand kilometres an hour, peppering the one and two-pointer villain bots with machine-gun fire if he had to guess only doing minor or superficial damage to them. It was how she was dealing with the three-pointer villain bots that got his and Shota's attention, screaming in hard and fast towards any three-pointer the greenette would thrust her hand out as something shot out of her wrist slamming into the three-pointer turning it into a pile of scrap metal.
"She's impressive." Sekijire Kan the Bloode Hero: Vlad King hummed glancing over to view the greenette, his gaze being pulled from an orange-haired girl picking up two one-pointers with her hands and slamming them together, "She has impressive control of her quirk and a scene of battlefield priority most active heroes lack."
"Rightly so," Nedzu spoke nodding in agreement watching as the girl banked hard rocketing upwards parallel to a fake skyscraper, a trail of concussion missile launched from a three-pointer before it was brought down trailing behind her, before once again climbing high into the sky and cutting the red glow from her engine mutation rotating her body to fall back towards the oncoming missiles before spraying them machine-gun fire, now clearly visible as coming from her shoulders, "It seems like we might have two contenders for the top spot in villain points this year," Nedzu chuckle before gesturing to a screen showing a spiky-haired blonde boy tearing his way through villain bots with explosions emanating from his outstretched palms.
"Oh, that's what those earpieces are for." Nemuri Kayama, the Eighteen plus only Pro Hero: Midnight, grinned watching as an examinee ducked behind a large piece of rubble under fire from a mixed group of villain bots holding a hand over his ear speaking into it, before being greeted by the sight of the greenette rocketing past overhead unloading a salvo of two of her arm generated explosives into the group of villain bots before banking hard to the right and roaring off towards another target, "It seems she's giving her fellow examinee's a helping hand and not at their expense to gain points." Nemuri gestured to the screen showing that while the greenette had destroyed the larger point valued villain bots in the group she had left the smaller ones still functional, giving the other examinee a chance to continue to rack up points.
Slowly a comfortable silence filtered across the observation room the staff members individual gaze flicking between various view screens watching all the potential candidates, the odd comment being made about their skills and quirk use many of the heroes impressed by the bumper crop they had this year. Yet both Toshinori kept his gaze firmly locked on the screen showing the green-haired girl astounded that, even after near on six full minutes of rocketing about at a truly breath-taking speed and performing high-G manoeuvres that would cause almost every pro-hero present to pass out, she wasn't slowing down if anything the opposite was happening. She was speeding up, her point total racking up faster and faster as well as weakening targets for anyone wearing an earpiece so they top could bring their point total up.
"Well, I do believe its time to unleash the obstacle." Nedzu grinned maniacally as he pressed down on the big red activate button to unleash the zero-pointer arena traps, it always sent a shiver down the rest of the staffs whenever he grinned like that.
All of their attention turned back to the viewing screens after a few moments watching as the examinees paused hearing the loud earth-shaking rumble looking about for wear it could be coming from, only to be greeted in almost an identical way by the zero-pointer tearing its way through a building sending rubble hurtling everywhere. In almost a hive-like manner every examinee took off running in the opposite direction from were the zero-pointer within their testing grounds had emerged.
As the timer ticked down a red warning light began to flash in the observation room as a warning klaxon started blaring getting the attention of the entire U.A teaching staff. "Higari, what's causing this alarm?" Nedzu asked the normal jovial tone he held replaced with one of utter seriousness.
"One of the zero-pointers knocked rubble down trapping one of the examinee's" Higari answered bringing the camera feed of the trapped girl, a round face auburn-haired girl with rosy cheeks, desperately trying to pull herself free as several other examinees ran past leaving the girl trapped. "It's still seeing her as a target, not even leaving her somethings wrong with the programming."
"Can you shut it down?" Nedzu asked catching out of the corner of his eye several of the teachers rising from their seats in quick order, he knew what they were thinking but the distance to the testing ground from the observation tower was too great, they'd never make it in time.
"It's not responding to the shutdown commands!" Higari frantically responded typing away rapidly trying everything he could to shut the zero-pointer down, "If I can't get it to respond, it'll crush her!"
At this information, every hero rapidly moved towards the door. All save Nedzu, Higari, Shota and Toshinori, their gazes turning back to the main monitor watching as the camera view split between focusing on the trapped girl and the same green-haired examinee that had attracted so much of their attention. They watched as greenette shot across the street heading towards the zero-pointer at breakneck speed, halfway towards the zero-pointer a the girl shot forward doubling her speed as a shockwave of air pressure erupted behind her shattering the windows of the nearby buildings and knocking the few examinees below her to the ground as the shockwaves overpressure slammed into them.
The loud boom of the sonic shockwave caught the attention of every pro hero bringing their attention back to watching as the greenette closed the gap with the zero-pointer as it pulled its left fist back reading a strike on the trapped examinee. Before its fist could even begin to descend to strike, eight rapid moving projectiles shot from the green-haired examinee's outstretched arms and slammed into the entire left arm of the zero-pointer is several large explosions momentarily staggering the zero-pointer and crippling the arm. Seizing on the zero-pointers sluggish reaction, the greenette shot upwards a hand breath from the zero-pointers armoured body firing more bursts of eight explosive projectiles, that now thanks to the proximity to the cameras within the zero-pointer were correctly identified as a miniaturized aircraft missile.
As the explosions rippled across the zero-pointers body think black smoke tinged with the orange fires of explosions slowly filled the air around the zero-pointer, obscuring the camera's view of what was happening. The pro-heroes scanned the screen looking for any sign of what was happening, it didn't take them long to catch sight of the green-haired girl rocket out the top of the smoke heading directly up. Watching with bated breath the U.A faculty watched as she came to an almost dead stop, almost as if she was floating in a vacuum, spinning in the air the camera zoomed in on her face showing the same stoic expression she had held at the start of the entrance exam. With this new up close and personal view the U.A faculty noticed sparks of blue electrical energy streaming along her arms, not missing a beat the girl thrust both her arms out together the blue electrical energy coiling around the top of her arms before in the blink of an eye shooting down her arms and dispersing at her closed fists as a solid slug of something formed rocketing down causing another shockwave of overpressure to burst around her and follow the projectile down into the black smoke.
An earth-shaking boom echoed out from the testing sight as the smoke was blown away reveal the caved-in head of the zero-pointer, whatever the greenette had fired down at the zero-pointer head reduced it's head to nothing but molten slag locking the zero-pointer in its position overlooking the pinned girl. Across the entire body of the zero-pointer lay impact marks from explosions, some only being charred paint while others were giant sections blown clean off.
With a slow grace of a leaf caught in the wind, the greenette slowly descended to the street paying no mind to the wreckage of the zero-pointer behind her, nor shocked expressions of the other examinee's still on the street, her attention was focused squarely on the girl trapped under rubble. As her feet touched the ground the greenette made her way over to the trapped auburn-haired examinee, crouching down next to the piece of rubble trapping the girl before saying something to the girl.
It was rotten luck that none of the test sights had microphones able to pick any conversations being had by potential students. Watching with intrigued Toshinori felt a broad smile tugging at his lips, as he watched the auburn-haired girl use her quirk on the rubble while the greenette gripped the corner and used the force of her quirks engines to force it off her. Here right before him was a girl with the drive of a true hero, selflessly helping out a trapped fellow potential student not caring about the possibility of gaining more points.
"Whats that examinee's number?" Shota asked as he heard Hizashi scream out the exam had come to an end, his attention still on the greenette as she helped the auburn girl stand on a twisted ankle taking the bulk of the injured girl's weight before moving towards the entrance.
Pulling up the files Nedzu scanned through every examinee that had shown up today before coming to a stop on an image matching the greenette. "Examinee two-two-three-four, a late entry from the forms. Midoriya Izumi." Nedzu paused briefly reading further on her file, "The information on her quirk is sparse only listing it as a mutation/emitter hybrid and the name, Aerial Supremacy."
"With a quirk like hers, she'll be a powerhouse," Shota spoke narrowing his eyes as he watched the now identified Izumi gently lead the auburn girl to the arrived form of Recovery Girl. "She'll be a problem child so I'll take her in my class."
Not hearing any objections from the rest of the faculty, Shota kept his gaze on Izumi as something still didn't sit right with him about this. A quirk like hers should have come in from a recommendation, not the general heroics entrance exam. It would be something he'd get to the bottom of.