Chapter 44: Unexpected Changes

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The day of the final exam had finally arrived. For the written exam, every students were brainstorming to at least passed after going through so much to study for the exam. Everyone seems to be doing a great job so far. After three days, the written exam finally over.

"Pencils down, everybody. The last person in each row collect the answer sheets and bring them here." said Aizawa.

After the exam, Kaminari and Mina quickly thanked Yaoyorozu for the lessons she taught as they could answer some of the questions. Even Boboiboy was very thankful that the questions are not as tricky and difficult as he thought. He was sure he could pass the written exam... but what about the practical exam?

'For the past few nights, I remembered almost every fights with the villains I had encounter. Just like the elements said, most of the memories they have shared with me are about my fights. Some of it about helping out an elderly which I assume is my grandfather with his shop. Thanks to those memories, I felt like I had learnt a lot of things when it comes to combat, strategy and teamwork during battles. Maybe that's enough for the practical exam... I hope.." thought Boboiboy.

Now, every students of class 1A who already in their hero costumes were all gathering in front of UA teacher. No, wait... teachers.

"Right, the practical exam will begin shortly. Obviously, you can fail this test too. So if you want to head to the training camp, then don't make stupid mistakes." said Aizawa

On the other hand, Jirou seems to be counting the amount of teachers.

"5... 6... 8 of them? Why so many teachers?" asked Jirou.

Boboiboy seems to be having the same question. After his observation towards Aizawa before the exam, he knew for sure that the practical exam is not as easy as destroying robots. Of course, he tried to discuss this matter with Midoriya, hoping the teen have any possible theories. But until now, they could only conclude that it definitely not as easy as they thought.

"I expect that you all have gathered information ahead of time and have some idea of what you will be doing." said Aizawa which Kaminari and Mina quickly replied.

"We're fighting robot warriors like at the entrance exam, right?!" said Kaminari confidently.

"I can just see the fireworks! The curry! The dare sessions-"

"Sorry, I'm afraid not! Due to various reasons, we're changing the contents of the test starting today!" said Principal Nezu as he suddenly popped out from Aizawa's binding cloth around his neck and stopped them from celebrating.

"Principal Nezu!"

"What do you mean sir?"

The students gasped in surprise by the sudden change. On the other hand, Boboiboy was surely already expected that. Looking back of how many times Aizawa went to UA with similar answers.

"Meeting."

"I have meeting."

"I'm not paid enough to attend this many meetings."

Which he can conclude that the teachers already considered a lot of things to change the ways of the exam.

"Well, from now on we'll focus our tests more on person-to-person battle activities and emphasizing a teaching environment closer to the real battle! We will have you form pairs to engage in combat with one of us, UA's teachers." explained Nezu as he coming down from his hiding place. Of course, everyone was more than surprised hearing the news.

"With... with our teachers...?!"

'Okay... I didn't really expect that...' thought Boboiboy, trying not to freak out by the news.

Students, who is still learning and basically amateur in real battle, versus the teachers who basically pro heroes with a lot more experience? Yeah technically, it's totally a great lose for them.

"Furthermore, this year's practical exam will be totally different since we decided to invite external examiner to evaluate your performance! He will determine whether or not you should pass the exam since we're short-handed and in need of assistance." Nezu continued.

"Since he hasn't arrive yet, I will start with the pairing. Now, who all of you are paired with and which teacher you'll be fighting have already been decided. Fighting style, grades, and interpersonal relationships, we personally judged how you'll be pairing up based on all sorts of things, and we'll list the matchups now. Since there are 21 of you, there's also going to be a team of three against a teacher." explained Aizawa.

Meanwhile, instead of worrying wether he could pass the exam or not, Boboiboy was more concerned of who he will be pairing and who he will be fighting. Either he will be in the group of two or three.

"Let me start with the team first. The team of three will be Midoriya, Bakugo and Boboiboy." said Aizawa which surprise all of his students.

"Huh?!" Almost all of the students were saying the same thing.

Who would not? Of all possible teams, you can say their team has the worst combination of all.

"And their opponent..."

"I... WILL DO IT!" All Might appeared before them, surprising Midoriya, Bakugo and Boboiboy.

Midoriya and Boboiboy were glancing with eachother before looking back at their other team member and their opponent.

'Yup... we have the worst fate...' both of them thought at the same time while sighing.

As Aizawa was about to continue, someone suddenly showed up.

"Sorry I'm late. Got to deal with something first."

All attention was on the adult who just arrive. The students couldn't help but to gasped in surprise after recognising the new comer identity.

"Armoured hero, Mechamato!" the students yelled in surprise.

"It's nice to meet all of you." said Mechamato.

"Oh my god. Mechamato is here in UA?!"

"Dude, I heard he's famous foreign hero working in Japan!"

"Didn't you know? I heard he almost the same level as All Might. It's a shame that he rarely appeared in TV."

The students were whispering among themselves, admiring the hero in front of them. Even Bakugo was slightly interested but chose to just listen to the conversation. On the other hand, Mechamato met eyes with Boboiboy who was smiling towards him. It's as if they can read eachother's mind despite the fact that they just reunite a few days ago after years.

'It's great to see you here, father.'

'Same goes to you. Do your best. Don't forget our deal.' Mechamato smirked.

'Heh, I know.' thought Boboiboy while smirking back at the hero.

Fortunately, the other students were busy gossiping about the hero until they didn't noticed the father and son moment. Well... except four people.

'What is their relationship?' thought Midoriya, Todoroki and Bakugo.

'These two... the least you can do is cover it a little... you both make it so obvious.' thought Aizawa.

"Please focus here or else I'm going to fail all of you." Aizawa threatened his own students which seem to be effective since they already quiet down.

"Anyway, Mechamato is here to observe and grading your test. The teachers will be grading 20% of your practical exam while Mechamato take the rest percentage. So, better do your best to impress him if you want to pass." explained Aizawa.

"In other words, even if your teachers gave full marks for their part, it's still isn't enough for you to pass the exam. So, I'm looking forward to see what you're capable of." said Mechamato.

"And now, we'll announce the teams and opponents they'll be up against at all once!" Principal Nezu continued the announcement.

1st Match
Sato & Kirishima vs Cementoss

2nd Match
Asui & Tokoyami vs Ectoplasm

3rd Match
Iida & Ojiro vs Power Loader

4th Match
Yaoyorozu & Todoroki vs Eraserhead

5th Match
Uraraka & Aoyama vs Thirteen

6th Match
Mina & Kaminari vs Principal Nezu

7th Match
Koda & Jirou vs Present Mic

8th Match
Hagakure & Shoji vs Snipe

9th Match
Mineta & Sero vs Midnight

10th Match
Midoriya, Boboiboy & Bakugo vs All Might

"The time limit for the exam is 30 minutes! Your objective is either to put these handcuffs on the teacher or to have one of you escape from the stage!" explained Principal Nezu.

"Capture the teacher or escape... It's kind of like the combat training." said Kaminari.

"But it'll be different from the combat training! Since you are up against someone waaaaayyyy better than you!" replied Present Mic.

"Better... than us? I can't really imagine it though..." commented Jirou.

"Dummy! Hey girl, watch your mouth! You hear?" yelled Present Mic, feeling offended.

"This time, your exam will be very similar to a real battle. Please think us as villains." said Thirteen.

"Thinking you come across the enemy, if you think you can win a fight against them, then that's fine." said Ectoplasm.

"In cases where there's too big a difference in your abilities, it would be smarter to run away and get help. Todoroki, Midoriya, Iida. I'm sure you three understand this well." said Aizawa while looking straight towards the mentioned students.

"Also, we have the support course to make these for us! Ultra-compressed weights!" All Might showed them the compressed weights bracelets.

"We'll put on about half of our body weight. It's to give you a handicap since it's hard to move and eats up stamina when wearing this! Oh shoot, they're heavier than I thought..." The hero continued, putting on the bracelets.

Meanwhile, the other teachers also started wearing the bracelets. Mechamato on the other hand, took one of All might's bracelets to see the products of the support course. You see, he had become a nerd for the passed few years of becoming a hero.

"Impressive. Such a neat work. The support course really did an amazing job." Mechamato praised.

"To allow us to consider fighting you, huh? You're underestimating us." Bakugo lowly commented.

Meanwhile, Boboiboy have his own thoughts for the practical exam.

'They are allowing us to capture them but escaping is a better choice, huh? Well, I guess that's what I was trying to do during internship... before that villain found me and the kids... But still, I wonder how this is going?' thought Boboiboy with a rather serious face.

"But I remind you. The main condition for you all to pass is either escape or capture the teacher. If you fail both, you automatically fail no matter how impressed Mechamato are. Alright, each team will take the practical exam in order on the prepared stage. Those waiting their turn can watch or think of strategies. That's all." said Aizawa.

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In monitor room

"Well, it looks like I'll have a lot of work today." Recovery girl sighed.

"Oh? You are watching too?" said Uraraka, entering the monitor room.

"Yeah." said Midoriya and Boboiboy.

"We don't have many chances to see other students and teachers fight. Besides, even if we wanted to talk about strategies..." said Midoriya, remembering Bakugo who just walked away once the teachers already left.

"Bakugo just doesn't want to cooperate. It's like he has a full hatred on you, Midoriya. You sure nothing unusual happened between you and Bakugo in the past?" asked Boboiboy.

"Well... as far as I know... yeah, there's nothing unusual, I guess..." said Midoriya who was unsure himself.

'Hmm... but that gaze... it showed a lot of emotions... hatred, anger and... envy...' thought Boboiboy.

"I understand. Well for me... It's like there's no point trying to talk to him..." Uraraka sweatdropped as she remembered her partner, Aoyama who was admiring himself in front of the mirror rather than talking.

"That's why I'd try to use everyone else's fight for reference." she continued while looking at the screen, observing their classmates battling their teachers.

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First Match

[Team Sato and Kirishima, practical exam. Ready, go!]

Both of them were running on the big road in training ground that looked like a replica of the real city. While running, both of them already spotted Cementoss a few hundred meters in front of them.

"Sato! Let's do our best!" said Kirishima while using his hardening quirk to make his body harder.

"Right!" Sato nodded as he consume 10 grams of sugar to active his quirk. Sato's quirk allows him to increases his strength five-fold within three minutes just by consuming 10 grams of sugar. However, the defect of this quirk is his cognitive function gradually drop, making him very sleepy afterwards.

On the other hand, Cementoss was ready to use his quirk to stop the students.

"Let's see what you can do." Cementoss said while creating square-like walls from the cement road.

Sato and Kirishima immediately went for a frontal breakthrough by busting through the cement walls in front of them. Both of them use their strength to destroy each of the cement walls with the mindset, capturing the teacher will score a higher marks. That idea had become their factor of determination to be on face-to-face fighting with Cementoss. Both of them did an excellent job at first, however, more and more walls were coming at them.

"This is not good." commented Boboiboy with a serious look towards the screen that shows Sato and Kirishima exam.

"At this rate, they can't win this. It's a matter of time in this battle. We have a limit of using our quirk but I don't think this apply to Cementoss sensei. He can continously use his quirk as long as he's in contact with the cement." Midoriya commented as he noticed that both Sato and Kirishima almost reached their limits by now.

"This practical exam is making the students to fight against the teachers so that they have a hard time to pass, huh?" Boboiboy said.

And just like they had observe, both Sato and Kirishima almost reached their limits.

"This is never-ending! No matter how many we break or destro, they just kept coming and coming!" Kirishima shouted, as he still kept trying to break a wall.

"I'm sleepy... I'm tired..." said Sato as he already passed his limit.

"Sato!" Kirishima shouted before he realised that he himself was already worn out and couldn't use his quirk anymore. However, everything was too late when they were already trapped and swalled in the cement controlled by Cementoss.

"Listen, in a fight, you have to see just how much you can push the things you're good at. Sorry but time to end this." Cementoss said, ending the students' hope to get a passing grade in practical exam.

[Team Sato and Kirishima retired due to both members losing consciousness.]

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"What? They lost?" Uraraka asked, couldn't believe what she just heard.

"Oh dear, it's only the first match and I already have work." said Recovery girl as she walked towards the two unconscious students.

"The possibility of us passing the exam is really low, huh?" asked Midoriya which Boboiboy nodded.

"It seems they aren't going to be easy on us. Not to mention... we have the toughest opponent of all." said Boboiboy.

It's when they realised... that the practical exam is not as easy as they think.

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Meanwhile, in the teacher's monitoring room.

"I must say... Their teamwork are excellent but their quite lacking when it come to strategy and quirk application during battle. Even if I want to give a passing marks, they already fail the moment they didn't escape nor capture the enemy before the time limit." Mechamato gave his opinion regarding his observation for the first match.

"Such a wonderful observation. It seems like picking you as the external examiner was a good choice then!" Principal Nezu jumped on Mechamto's shoulder while praising the invited guest.

"It's an honour to be examining the students. Changing the practical exam was actually an excellent idea indeed. We need the students to become stronger now that the crime is on the rise." said Mechamato while looking back at the monitor screen.

'But still, I can't wait to see the final battle. I wonder how will you handle the situation, son. Hope you didn't get pressured much by the deal.' thought Mechamato while plastering a small smile. Aizawa who saw this already know what's in the hero's mind.

'Geez... give that kid some slack, would you? If that kid hold a grudge towards you before he loss his memories, I could see why.' thought Aizawa.
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Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri to muslims out there and those who celebrate it with us!!! Maaf zahir dan batin... please forgive every flaws that comes from me ever since I became a wattpad writer... I'm looking forward to entertain you more with my story ^w^... THANK YOU FOR ALL THE SUPPORTS!!!

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