As Izuku and everyone continued with classes, they were told of the final exams and how they would be different for them. In Izuku's case, he was forewarned he was to be faced with a Marine of Vice Admiral status at the bare minimum due to Akainu's interference. In addition, Izuku was given a chance to meet with Marco the Phoenix a former Division Commander of the Whitebeard pirate. Thanks to this, he was able to learn a little of his father. Now that a date is set for a battle, Izuku and his friends prepare for the worst.

Izuku POV:

The week before the finals passed by as if it was nothing. Momo had made a study session for our group with those that were still not exactly certain I was 'ok' to be around not invited. As such, people like Kaminari and Ashido were given Kaachan to ask. I don't know what he did, but I regularly saw them panicking and trying to study as hard as they could while also smelling what I thought was burned bacon coming from where they studied from. Honestly, I didn't care as much since my main concern was what they planned to do during the physical part. It scared me more because Akainu had it changed last minute because of his grudge against me. I just hoped it wasn't something like he did during the Sports Festival.

"Pencils down." The written part of the exam finally ended for us with Mr. Aizawa explaining what was next. "Get your hero costumes on and meet me by the buses for your physical half."

"Dammit. Why do we have to face something besides robots? It's Portgas they have a problem with, so why are we dealing with this?"

"I'm with you there, Kaminari. I'd rather him just leave so I can enjoy Baby 5's delicious body with her failing to understand what's right and wrong to just follow my command-" Momo stopped this with a book hitting the little perv over the head and Kyoka using her jacks to puncture Kaminari's eyes. I wasn't exactly ok with them going to violence, but I was also not angry they did due to what was being said about Baby 5.

"Shut up and get your fucking costumes, losers. If you wanna complain, then that just means you're not gonna succeed in life. So shut the hell up and just do what you're supposed to do." Kaachan tossed me my costume for us to walk out along with the rest of our class in tow. "So, did you hear that braided princess is gonna be doing the final exam with us?"

'Braided princess?' "You mean Rebecca? I heard that they're doing this as part of her pre college credits to hopefully get her up to speed."

"I heard she was told to because of the shit they're putting you through. Something about trying to level the field a little more or something."

I stopped for a second while thinking about this. 'They told Rebecca to do this because of something they were throwing me into. Why not make my life feel more threatened why don't you.' I walked towards the changing room to start getting ready, afraid of what the final exam was going to hold for our physical half.

Near the buses

As we arrived at the buses, we noticed Rebecca and Kyros sitting down near them. "Hey! Izuku! Momo! Ochako! Everyone!" Rebecca noticed us to run up and talk with us. "So how did your final exams go for the written half?"

"I can't say I scored a perfect grade, but I don't think I'll have to worry about failing."

"Same here."

"Yeah."

"Yaomomo's teachings really helped." Everyone started laughing a little before I felt something to jump out of the way and see great grandpa Garp punch the ground and make an indent.

"WHAT THE HECK!?"

"Haha! Your senses are as sharp as they should be. Nice job on your end, Izuku."

"Sharp my ass! You just tried to turn my head into paste!"

"Aw, c'mon. You think I'm that dumb enough to knock my own great grandson's skull in?" We all stared at him knowing his antics and how that wouldn't be so far off.

"Ok, so why are you here?"

"I'm helping with the exams, kiddo." I froze a second hearing this with the UA staff coming out.

"Garp is right." Nezu popped out of Mr. Aizawa's capture gear and spoke up. "Thanks to the Marines giving us some hassle, we decided to ramp up our final exams." A lot of people looked at me with a thought that this was my fault before our principal continued. "Before any of you go into this mindset, Portgas was only a final deciding factor. Due to the events that have happened thus far this year and the aspect of heroes as of lately, we as the staff of UA have thought you facing robots would be far too easy. So as such, we decided that you all will be facing the teachers. Isn't that exciting?"

"And you'll be facing me, Izuku. Don't worry, I'm not gonna kill ya. But I'm also not gonna go easy on you just cause your my great grandson. HAHAHA!" I was afraid now with principal Nezu explaining the confines of the test. Long in the short, we were going to all be first responders to a villain attack with the teachers as villains. We were placed in teams that were hand picked already and told to either subdue the teacher we were fighting, or flee from the designated area. To help with this, everyone was given a set of weights to slow them down about halfway to make passing a little more realistic. After the information was told, the teams were made

Kirishima and Sato vs Cementos
Asui and Tokoyami vs Ectoplasm
Iida and Ojiro vs Powerloader
Ashido and Kaminari vs Nezu
Mineta and Sero vs Midnight
Jirou and Kota vs Present Mic
Uraraka and Aoyama vs 13
Shoji and Hagakure vs Snipe
Rebecca and Bakugou vs Kyros
Portgas, Yaoyorozu and Todoroki vs Garp

"Father. You're helping too?" Rebecca was shocked with her father nodding.

"This is a way for you to become strong, Rebecca. You do wish to help others, but that does not mean you can be kind hearted to everyone. One day you will have to fight someone and when you do, you will have to handle them in a way that is needed." I was scared. I was facing off against the hero of the Marines with Shoko and Momo.

"Alright. Everyone get on the bus." Mr. Aizawa mentioned this for us to all head off where we needed to. While sitting, Garp pulled out a bag of rice crackers to open up.

"Hey, creation girl. Any chance you can make me some tea to go with my crackers. Hahaha!" He started shoving a handful in his mouth for this to somewhat annoy Momo. "Aww, c'mon. I was only kidding. You don't gotta be angry for that."

'Who wouldn't be angry for you saying something so crappy to them?' We continued to sit in the bus with us trying to go over a plan. Unfortunately, what we did come up with would go right out the window when we saw where the exam was being held.

"Alright, kids. Your job is gonna be to get to the center of the battle area and get past this gate you came in from. Piece of cake sounding, right?"

"HOW THE HECK ARE WE SUPPOSED TO GET TO THE MIDDLE WHEN WE'RE LITERALLY ON A GIANT LAKE WITH NEXT TO NOTHING TO GET THERE WITH!?"

"Easy." Garp grabbed my head and got into a throwing stance. "Fire one!" I went flying into the sky before falling right on a boat a notable distance away.

"OW! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THAT GU-OPH!" I was cut off by Momo going head first into my gut and Shoko doing a similar thing when Momo moved. "...Well, that wasn't the highlight of my day."

"I genuinely don't wish to think this way about someone like Vice Admiral Garp, BUT IS HE SENILE IN HIS OLD AGE!?" Momo shouted with some anger for Shoko to glance back towards where we came from as well as smell the water.

"This is sea water."

"Huh?"

She splashed a bit on me to have a little weakness come to my body. "The water, it's salt water. But why?"

"Probably the marine's way to possibly kill Izuku. Since his powers by nature are derived from a Devil Fruit, it's only natural that salt water would weaken him."

"That's most likely why. It's no surprise that I'm weak to it. If it was fresh water, it wouldn't have as much effect I'd I were to dive in." The buzzer rang for us to begin with it now making me think how we can work with the situation. "Shoko. Can you make a-"

"IN COMING!" I glanced up with Momo's shout to see a cannonball. Shoko made a glacier of ice to make it explode above us before it could destroy the boat we were on. "WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT!?"

"Yeah...my great grandfather throws cannonballs as a hobby."

"...That's messed up." Shoko looks up to go pale before making more ice to cover us for a bombardment of cannonballs to come at us. "This isn't going to work forever! We need a way to go on a counter attack!"

I tried to find a way to help Shoko before remembering we're on the middle of the water. "Shoko. Can you freeze the water?"

"On it." She froze the water before all of us ran on it to see the ice we had for cover get destroyed alongside the boat we were on. "That was insane."

"Not bad thinking, kid." Garp came over to us with him cracking his knuckles. "Now, who wants to have their skulls beat in first?"

"What's the plan?" Shoko asked for Garp to come at us for me to activate OFA and try to give a punch with my Haki infused. This was by far, my worst decision. My fist felt like I was smashing solid metal without Haki active or any form of protection.

"AHHHH!!"

"You ain't bad at Haki, but you're not anywhere near some of the top users. And this is the example!" He went back at me to use my flame powers to push him back.

"IZUKU! THE ICE ISN'T THAT SOLID! DON'T USE YOUR FIRE ABILITIES AS MUCH OR ESLE YOU'LL DESTROY WHAT WE HAVE TO STAND ON!" Realizing this, I shut off my powers for Garp to come at me again and force me to jump away and see a large crack happen and nearly destroy the ice on top of the water. Shoko fortunately stopped this from turning south by using her ice powers to solidify it again.

3rd person POV:

"What are you gonna do now? Your power ain't strong enough to beat me and you can't use your fire to fight me. However..." Garp turned towards Shoko before jumping from the ice towards her. "I take her down, then the ice won't be able to get repaired anymore!"

"DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH HER!" Izuku went towards Garp to punch him into the ice. This failed as Garp prepared for this with grabbing Izuku's head and slammed it into the ice.

"Sorry about this, kid. But I gotta do my job." A blast of fire came at Garp for him to deflect it with Haki and see Shoko holding her left hand out.

"LEAVE HIM ALONE!"

"Heh. Not bad, kid. But this little pain in the neck is more powerful with his fire than you." Garp got up to attack Shoko with Izuku using Shave to jump towards Garp and attack him. However, the former vice admiral slammed him into Shoko to send them flying towards the ice and shatter it. 

"SHOKO! IZUKU!" Momo ran towards them with Garp turning towards them and crossing his arms at her. "S-Stay back!" she created a staff to point it at the man. "I'M WARNING YOU!"

Garp didn't do anything and allowed her to go past him and get into the water. She dove down to see Shoko struggling to move while Izuku was sinking down with only the white of his eyes seen. She swam down quickly to get Izuku while also helping Shoko get towards the surface and help get air for them. "*GASP* *pant* *pant* Shoko. You ok?"

"*cough* *cough* Yeah. How's Izuku?" Momo turned to Izuku to see him still looking unconscious before struggling to wake up again.

"He looks like he's ok. But let's get him out of the water." They got out of the water and onto the ice with the cold feeling of it making them shiver a bit. When they placed him on the ice, Izuku turned to go on his hands and knees and vomit out a notable amount of sea water. "That's...disgusting."

"*hack* Thanks."

"Seems you're a tough one. Not bad for my great grandchild."

Izuku pulled his head up and glared at Garp. "WHO THE HELL TRIES TO DROWN THEIR GRANDCHILDREN!?"

"I had no plan to drown you. I let the girl save you knowing that you couldn't survive and the girl was probably struggling as well. It's not that I wanted to drown you, I just need to handle you seriously in a way that won't kill you or possibly hurt you to a point it's irreversible."

Izuku got up and let out a sigh. He glanced at his great grandfather and cracked his neck. "I guess we're going to have to take him on before doing anything. Momo. Shoko. I'm gonna take him on. Can you keep the ice stable while I use my fire while also looking for a way to take him down or incapacitate him long enough for us to beat him?"

Shoko nodded at this while keeping her ice going with Izuku activating his Flame quirk. Meanwhile, Momo looked at the situation and prepared to figure out what was going to be the best route for this. "I guess you're all going to try and take me on seriously. Then the gloves are gonna come off now then."

"This is gonna be a serious fight right now. We're facing someone that went toe to toe with my grandfather and Whitebeard himself. He's not someone to be taken lightly even if the situation is different than normal."

And that finishes this chapter. See how Izuku, Shoko and Momo tries to handle Garp next time. Hope you all enjoyed and thanks for reading.