Ch. 3 Trials

Aqua5512: Well, I hope I dilute your fear a bit.

The Seven Deadly Sins is owned by Nakaba Suzuki and My Hero Academia is owned by Kohei Horikoshi.

I hope you enjoy

20 minutes later

U.A. Auditorium

"Welcome to today's live performance!! Everybody say "Hey"!!" The voice hero President Mic tries to build excitement with the students but the silence that proceeds proves otherwise.

As if President Mic was somewhat expecting it, he continues "I've got shivers down my spine, too, listeners! All right, examinees...I'm gonna give you the low-down on how this'll go down! Are you ready!?" The continuing silence is deafening as the students don't respond to his attempt to increase the excitement and energy. Although for some students, they have different reasons for their excitement besides simple awkwardness. For example, Izuku Midoriya is quietly murmuring his excitement over seeing another famous hero. On another part of the stands, King and Diane wait in anticipation of what their exams are about, although Ban shows more excitement than the others as he is nearly bouncing in his seat. On the other side of the stands, Gowther sits with a blank look on his face which makes it hard to tell what is on his mind at that current moment. Sitting about three rows behind Izuku is Escanor looking on with nervous anticipation and trying to make small guesses about what they need to do to pass the test.

President Mic explains "Now pay close attention, listeners! We'll be testing your mettle by running a ten-minute practice run at our replica city-district! You can take whatever you like! Everybody gather at the designated meeting area after the presentation, ya dig?" President Mic then explains the villain point system and the rule that the contestants can't attack each other

A student stands up and asks out loud to catch the hero's attention "Excuse me, may I ask a question!?" The student who asked wears a white formal uniform, most likely from a private school, with black hair and glasses. From at first glance he appears to be the picture of honor student that takes a lot of subjects seriously, whether they should be or not.

The student asks about how President Mic didn't explain the fourth type of villain that is shown on the handout and how embarrassing it is that the school would make that mistake and the importance of why the students are here today. The student also calls out Izuku for being too excited to the point of being a distraction, which Izuku then apologizes that makes Escanor sweatdrop at the ridiculousness of the past minute.

President then explain that the fourth kind of villain is a "arena trap" and that it's worth zero points. These hazards are suppose to be a distraction and cause trouble to the other contestants trouble.

As President Mic finishes his explanation, he ends it with "Now let's move to the main event!! "Plus Ultra!!""

U.A Imitation City - Entrance

After the written half of the test, the many students dispel to their different groups in front of the entrance, they get ready in their various exercise clothes and get their items ready for the test. Ban, wearing a dark red tracksuit, gets his three section staff out and practice with it for a few seconds. King, wearing a simple white t-shirt and black track shorts, gets his big green floating pillow out and proceeds to transform it into a lance, it floats next to him, ready for use. Diane, wearing a female brown tracksuit, puts on her blue gauntlets swings them a couple of time to feel the weight of them before actual combat use. Gowther, wearing a white button up dress shirt and brown slacks, looks around and analyzes the other students and their quirks while clenching his fists.

Escanor, wearing a green tracksuit larger than his own body that it almost looks like it'll fall off, looks around nervously, seeing all the various students with a wide variety of quirks and wonders about his chances to pass this test. He checks his watch to see it's a half hour past noon and is slightly relieved as he is less likely to rip his clothing when he takes off his glasses. Ban looks back to see the nervous Escanor and tries to talk to him until…

President Mic yells out "Aaaand start!" which surprises a large portion of the students. He explains "What's the matter!? There's no such thing as a countdown in a real battle! Run! Ruuun!! Consider the baton tossed!" The students show surprise at first and them immediately scramble past the gates, ready to confront the challenge ahead of them.

Escanor immediately takes off his glasses and feels himself growing in muscle and emitting heat and his personality begins to change as he starts taking out any robots that cross his path. His weaker side is still glad that he isn't big enough to rip the clothes as this was the biggest he could get on short notice. Ban, due to his speed, is alone on a street and is lost due to running in a random direction but continue to destroy robots left and right with his staff.

As one tries to attack him from behind the hit it made barely made a dent as Ban looks back with a smirk as he says "I was lucky enough to steal your strength before you made contact, no how do you like THIS!?" and breaks it in half with his staff with one swing vertically like the robot tried to do to him. Ban seems to be glowing with a purple energy that seems to be be boosting his natural strength, speed, and agility. After a couple of minutes of breaking more robots, Ban almost collapsed in an alleyway as it looks like he is nearly and completely exhausted. He continues to try and gain as many points as he can, in worry that he might not pass.

As Ban destroyed another robot, before he can recover, another robot behind him tries to attack him when he is trying to catch his breath. Suddenly, a spear pierces through the semi large robot that tried to hit Ban from the back. He looks back to find King with a smile on his face floating in the air with the spear returning to his side.

Ban, with a smirk on his face asks "Let me guess, Elaine asked you to guard me?"

King chuckles and answers "Yeah, but I think she meant only if you're in your "weakened" state."

Ban chuckles himself for a bit and quickly bashes a robot that was about to jump on King from behind, King looks back in surprise as Ban says "She also asked me the same to you, I guess we're just the subjects to her whim haha." This causes both of them to chuckle until the both of them were surrounded by a bunch of various robots.

Ban asks "So, where's Diane?"

King answers "Taking care of her side, getting plenty of points, she saw some other students being surrounded and decided to help."

Ban chuckles and says with growing excitement "Good, now she has a better shot at getting in." They both then look at each other and nod with smirks on their faces and nodded at each other before continuing to take care of the dozen robots.

Speaking of Diane, at her section of the city, she smashes another robot with her large boot. Apparently she has grew to a large size, about as tall as a small building. She next smashes another robot with her left gauntlet before slightly breathing heavily. Diane then shrinks down and runs into a thin alleyway in order to take a small rest. After taking a good couple of breaths, she looks outside to see if there are any enemies around. Finding nothing around she takes a couple of steps only for a robot to appear in her surprise which makes her fall backwards in surprise.

She tries to quickly get back up while the robot is about to attack only for a purple energy arrow to pierce it in its eye which immediately destroyed it.

Diane then hears in a monotone male voice "Do not fear…" Diane then sees Gowther appear over the broken remains of the robot he destroyed and makes a pose with a peace sign with his right hand in front of his right eye as he finished "...Gowther is here."

This makes Diane sweatdrop a bit until she bowed slightly and says "Thank you for saving me, that caught me by surprise."

Gowther nods and replies with his continuous monotone "It seems that a good note to take is to also look above, these robots seem to be built to attack the contestants from all sides, luckily not below."

Diane sweat drops again and replies "Okay, good to know. Well, I hope to see you sometime, hopefully in UA." She then begins running in a direction to find more robots to destroy. Gowther looks on with curiosity and says to himself "It could be possible that I can continue my observational studies with her, I'll add her to the maybe list." A robot then appears behind him from above, which Gowther notices, and is about to attack.

Gother then adjusted his glasses and holds his hands out, which purple energy comes out as he says "twin bow Herritt." and begins to attack it at its weak point.

Meanwhile, Escanor is easily dealing with the robots like they are bugs being swatted, even if his strength is slowly being depleted as time goes on. Escanor hears a sudden scream and looks to see two students being surrounded by a group of robots. Even at a distance Escanor can see that one of the students is protecting another that has been injured heavily, not lethal of course. Before the robots could attack and render the students unconscious, Escanor smashes through them with very little difficulty. The students were surprised by the sudden appearance so they weren't able to say thanks when Escanor continues onward to find more enemies to destroy.

Suddenly, vibrations catches the students attention as they take notice of the giant robot the size of the larger building, even taller than Diane's giant form. A lot of the students decide to stay away for two obvious reasons. Escanor decides to jump to a nearby tallest building to take a good look, and also to see if there are some students that might need help.

Something that grabs Escanor's attention is the flying spec that is flying nearly above the large robot. At closer look, Escanor can nearly see that it is Izuku that is flying above the robot which surprises him. Suddenly, Escanor can hear Izuku yelling "SMASH!" in which the giant robot was immediately destroyed.

For a few minutes all of the students are shocked and wondering what has occurred and who destroyed the robot until President Mic yelled "The test is over?!?!!!!!" This allowed everyone to finally relax as most of them deactivate their quirks, including escanor who only had to put on his glasses to change back to his weaker self after he made it to ground floor. Escanor looks on in worry about Izuku and how he faired in the test.

1 week later

Escanor's home

Escanor in his natural attire, a simple white t-shirt and sweatpants. Eating a beef bowl with noodles to the side, is still worrying about Izuku and his performance on the test. At the entrance to U.A. he saw Izuku with a few bandages on his arm and legs, but with a discouraged face. Escanor can tell that Izuku did well on the written test like himself, but the practical exam is probably what he had trouble in.

"You're still worried about Izuku, aren't you?" Escanor looks back to see a woman with a kind smile that matches her warm orange eyes behind strands of her light orange hairs. This woman is wearing a blue t-shirt and blue jean knee shorts that accentuate her decent figure.

Escanor replies "Y-yes Rosa, I know he did well on the written half, but the practical exam is something he may had some difficulty in."

Rosa nods and says "Even though I'm not sure if you did well, I know you both did your best, and I think that's an amazing accomplishment in of itself." She then hugs Escanor which relaxes him, although a little bit. Knocking from the door catches both of their attention, Escanor quickly heads to the door.

Escanor opens the door to see a smiling Merlin, wearing her same attire, and says "Miss Merlin! What brings you here!?"

Escanor allows Merlin inside the apartment and answers "I came to give you some good news."

Rosa takes a peek down the hall and asks "Would you like a drink?"

Merlin nods and enters the kitchen and asks "So, you must be Escanor's mother, right?"

Rosa shakes her head and answers "Unfortunately no, not technically, I'm his guardian." Escanor looks to the side with slight sadness in his eyes, that Rosa seems to notice as Merlin nods in realization.

Rosa hands Merlin a glass of water at the table in which Merlin says "Thanks." as Rosa sits down and nods in acceptance of the thanks.

Merlin takes a sip from the glass and says "It seems that congratulations are in order, you seem to have made it to U.A." Escanor's face was in surprise and Rosa's was in unimaginable joy at this amazing news as she jump from her seat in excitement and hugs Escanor with joy.

Escanor then smiles and says "This is amazing news, thank you miss Merlin."

Merlin nods and says "It really shouldn't be a surprise, you made a good score on the written exam, and you gathered plenty of points on the practical exam. Not only from the villain's you defeated, but also the surplus of rescue points that you accumulated."

Escanor asks with curiosity "R-rescue points?"

Merlin nods and explains "That's right, its an unspoken point system to the students as it's the other half of what is important in being a hero. Not only do heroes have to defeat the villains that plague our society, but we also must protect the civilians and each other." Escanor nods in acceptance as he remembers all the times he helped the other students when they were at a disadvantage against the robots. If that was the case then that would mean that Izuku would still have a chance at entering U.A if there was someone being attack by the large robot.

Merlin then explains "since 54 students made it in, there will be three first year classes, you will be in 1-C, which will be taught by a friend and associate of mine, this will be his first year teaching, like All Might."

Escanor asks out of curiosity while being slightly surprised about the All Might news "What kind of teacher is he?"

Merlin answers in a thinking pose with her legs crossed "He might be a little different than normal teachers, especially since this is his first time teaching. He is also very…"Unique" if that makes sense." Escanor nods at the explanation, but is slightly nervous at the "unique" comment and is understandably worried.

Merlin stands up and adds "It's also to note that I'll be on U.A staff in the scientific department, it will help with my research in assisting heroes with the use of their quirks." This seems to help improve Escanor's mood, even if just a little.

Merlin heads towards the door and says before she exits "I hope you have a great first day, I'll be seeing you soon." Merlin sees Escanor off with a big smile on his face which makes her smile as she exits and closes the door behind her.

April 11

Rose asks loudly from a distance "Escanor, did you get everything?"

Escanor replies just as loud "Yes Ma'am."

Rosa appears from the hall wearing the same clothes with an added apron and says "Escanor…" Escanor looks towards Rosa who has a soft and warm smile on her as she finishes "...I'm proud that you have made these accomplishments, your going to be amazing. I hope you make plenty of new friends with Izuku."

Escanor smiles to Rosa and replies "Thank you Rosa, and I will do my best." Escanor then exits the apartment wearing the U.A school uniform and the glasses that Merlin gave him. His excitement slowly grows with every step at what the school will bring. A school full of heroes in training being trained by famous heroes, this is only the beginning of a long journey in this crazy world of superpowers.