Chapter 4 - Martial arts

Michael had already ended his first year of preschool, he had been training both his body and quirk at home after school. He knew he wasn't making much progress with his control however, especially over such a small body, while with his quirk he was able to activate and deactivate it at will, as well being able to focus on enhancing either his strength, or his speed, more than the basic enhancement his quirk gives him when it's activated. He called them Speed mode and Strength mode, however, he made no progress in using both at the same time.

Michael bȧrėly knew the basics of the basics when it comes to fighting, aim for the face and don't get hit. That wouldn't be enough to combat villains, who would exploit his weaknesses and use his strength against, so he asked his parents to enroll him in a martial arts dojo. The excuse he used was that he heard one of his classmates talking about it and thought it would help him become a hero. His parents couldn't argue much because it might end up saving his life when fighting villains.

After searching for a good martial arts dojo, Logan found a dojo with a very strong reputation of only taking the most talented students and making them some of the strongest people in the world, once they arrived there, Michael was told he shouldn't use his quirk at all during the examination by receptionist.

Once Michael entered with his parents, he saw many different types of people practicing almost completely different martial arts, ones that seemed completely suited to their quirks and body shapes, they were then greeted by a white haired man, one that looked to be in his early 40's. "Welcome to our dojo, my name is Haruto Riku, follow me for the entrance examination."

"Alright, my name is Logan Steele, we spoke on the phone, my Wife's name is Aika, and my son's name is Michael."

"Good to know, there's another family waiting for their son to take the examination, their last name is Ojiro." Says Haruto

"Its always nice to meet new people, maybe you can make friends with their son Michael" Says Logan

Once Michael saw the family, he noticed their son was blonde, with a large tail, as well as their last name being Ojiro, he remembered Mashirao Ojiro, one of the students of class 1A, at UA. He remembered that Ojiro was a really competent martial artist, and realized this is probably where he trained to get so good at martial arts. He wasn't too sure about this martial arts dojo as he had never seen it in the anime but after seeing the skill of the fighters training in the dojo and how good Ojiro got at martial arts, he decided he would do his best to enter the martial arts dojo, remember his vow to master his body and powers.

As Haruto introduced their parents to each other, Michael walked up to Mashirao and thought making friends with him would be a good idea too, with his noble personality from the anime, he would make a very good friend to have.

"Hello, my name's Michael Steele, it's nice to meet you."

"My names Mashirao Ojiro, its nice to meet you too."

"How do you think you'l do in the entrance examination, I heard they only accept the most talent people as students."

"That sounds cool, my quirk lets me glow golden and enhance my body, making it faster and stronger, as well as shoot lasers from my eyes."

"Wait, lasers out of your eyes? That sounds so cool! You have to show me that when this is over."

"Sure, maybe we could get our parents to let us hang out more?"

"That sounds great, ill try to convince my parents and you try to convince yours."

After that, Haruto decided to cut in

"I think it's time to start the examination, lets go to the other room, we'll start with you Ojiro, since your family arrived first."

Haruto and the Ojiro family entered another room in the dojo to conduct the examination, around five minutes later, a jubilant Mashirao exited the room, beaming with pride. "I made it into the dojo Michael, I can't tell you what happened inside but good luck Michael, I hope you make it in too!"

"Thanks Mashirao"

Haruto then called in Michael and his family as the Ojiro family left the dojo.

Hearing this, Michael charged Haruto and did his best to land a hit, but all of his punches were redirected and he was thrown to the ground each and every time, then Haruto started using his quirk, he grew four extra arms, leaving him with 6 arms and 2 legs. This left Haruto in shock as seeing such a quirk.

"Stop standing there dazed and attack me Michael"

Michael went back to attempting to hit Haruto, but he couldn't hit Haruto when he had two arms, much less six, this was frustrating to Michael and he wound up nearly using his quirk, but decided to keep following the rules and refused to. He started using his legs, trying to kick Haruto, hit him, he tried every move he could think of, at least the ones he could pull off, he tried getting behind Haruto, but nothing seemed to work.

"The test is over, Michael."

"I failed didn't I?"

"No Michael, you passed, the test had two components to it, the first was to test your talent, which was to have you attempt to attack me and for me to gauge your capabilities, your body is much stronger than any four year old I've ever seen, you had the strength of an 11 year old and if I didn't know about your quirk from your file, I would have ȧssumed you were using your quirk.

The second, more important component of the test, was to see if you would stick to the rules, we don't want to pass down our martial arts to someone who would use them for evil, I refuse to have someone I taught my martial arts become a villain and use them to hurt people. If you had used your quirk anytime during that test, including after I had used mine, you would have failed the test. While it isn't always the right choice to follow the rules specifically, you followed the rules even when you saw other people weren't. Villains create villains, they notice other people breaking the rules and copy them, to earn money, fame, or anything else. They believe that since one person got away with it, they would be able to as well.

True heroes are the ones who would never trivially break the rules, break the law. While I will not require anyone to be a hero, as that would be unfair to them, I absolutely refuse to teach any villains. You have passed both components of the test, you fought in a way that would make it hard to believe it was four years old, making use of strategy and never giving up, while also having much higher physical capabilities than anyone your age, that is more than enough talent to enter our dojo, you also never used your quirk, I would have noticed you glowing gold very easily if you did, and you shooting laser eye beams would be even more obvious. Therefore, Welcome to our dojo Michael Steele, here you will learn how to defend yourself, and other in combat, as well as using your quirk effectively during combat.