They had the same uniforms as the boy she'd met earlier. That either meant that the whole school had the same uniform, or he was in Gen Ed too. The latter theory was pretty unlikely. Inko let it go in favor of something that made rational sense.

Shirota-sensei herded everyone into the gym. He was still wearing the same outfit from the classroom. Inko supposed it wouldn't make sense for him to change. It wasn't his quirk being assessed.

The gym was housed in a separate building from the main campus, but not inside the construction boundary. Shirota-sensei had said the school had commissioned an architectural project for future classes to practice in, but it wouldn't be complete for their class. Although, Inko did spot a mock-battle area, complete with a real-size building and craters from past practices.

Their destination was a concrete box closer to the building. It was much bigger than her middle school gymnasium, and it looked about a thousand times sturdier. On the ceiling, there was some sort of mesh covering the lights, and below that was a mess of ropes and lattices. That was probably more for students with flying quirks or some sort of airborne abilities. The walls had all sorts of holes and protrusions. Inko prayed climbing them would be optional.

The class crossed over a wide trench that surrounded the whole gym floor via a retractable bridge. There was a layer of plastic covering the top, but it was clear and Inko could see that whole area was filled with water. So, UA could facilitate water-based quirks as well. It seemed like they'd thought of everything!

"I'd like everybody to line up." Shirota tapped his clipboard against his arm. The tethered pen came loose and swung out to the side. He picked it up from where it dangled and poised it over his roll sheet. "We've got some equipment in here. I can see you're excited to show off your quirks, but let's try not to damage school property, all right? Most of the walls and floors are concrete, so take that into account. If you want any special equipment, we've got a storage room off to the side. It's got all the gym basics as well as a ball launcher, a low-power Tesla coil, some lights, and a few surprises you'll get to use later in the semester."

He scanned the line of students. "Let's switch it up. I'll go through the roll backwards. Yokomizo, you go first. I have everyone's quirk written down here, but I'd like to see what you can do for myself."

Yokomizo stepped forward. Her hair glittered differently under the gym lights. She expected Yokomizo to have a flashy quirk, but it could be anything. Honestly, Inko was excited to see what all her classmates could do.

After pausing for a moment, Yokomizo bent down and placed her hands on the floor. Suddenly, the concrete disappeared, and the class found themselves floating above a huge pool of water. A couple students yelled, but when no one began falling, they figured out what had happened.

"My quirk is Glass Touch." Yokomizo explained. "I can turn any object I touch invisible, but just that object. It doesn't work on connecting pieces or adjacent objects."

It was true. Inko could see all the metal supports, the plastic cover, and the bridge. Only the concrete block was invisible. It was kid of funny. Now her whole class appeared to be floating.

"That's really impressive, Yokomizo." Shirota-sensei scribbled something on his paper. "Do you have any plans for it?"

She shook her head. "It doesn't make the object disappear, and you can see through it both ways, so I don't think it would be useful. If I wanted to help the police see criminals through a wall, the criminals could see through too." Yokomizo released the floor and it changed back to normal. "I can't think of a good use for it."

"What about medicine?" A girl at the end of the row spoke up. "You could make somebody's skin transparent, and then doctors could see what was wrong with them!"

Shirota chimed in. "That's right. You could be that doctor yourself, too. With a quirk that allowed you to bypass an x-ray or some incisions, you could help save lives. Healing quirks are rare, so the medical field has to rely much more heavily on unconventional techniques. But with creative quirk application, you can do anything."

"You could see through boxes!" Another kid called. "If somebody sent a bomb in the mail, you could find it that way. Or catch smugglers!"

Yokomizo looked like she was blushing. It looked like she hadn't seen a wider range of applications for her quirk. Inko grinned. It was like Shirota said. All quirks are good for something. You just had to believe it, and have the drive he was talking about to achieve it!

"You're all on the right track. Don't all shout out at once, but if you have an idea for someone's quirk, you can speak up when they're finished demonstrating." Shirota finished making his notes. "That's what my class is all about: learning how to look at quirks differently. Since a majority of the population uses quirks, it's highly beneficial to know how to adapt to other people's abilities. Pro heroes do this on the fly, but it's also applicable in the workplace."

The excitement in the room was palpable. Everybody on the bottom of the list was getting prepared to show off their quirks. Some of them even showed off their quirks in pairs, like Sakurako Ueno and Yuuto Udea who were next to each other. Udea was the boy with dragonfly wings (with a quirk aptly named Dragonfly), but Ueno announced her quirk as 'Gravity Reverse'. Inko was starting to worry if the class would start floating again, but Udea picked up his partner and took off into the air.

The whole class watched as he flew all the way up to the lattices. He dropped Ueno off and did a few air maneuvers before stopping to hover. It was Ueno's turn. Inko's stomach dropped as she watched her classmate hook her knees on top of the beam and flop back. She was hanging upside-down nearly 15 meters off the ground!

Ueno let go.

Several students gasped before she yelled "Gravity Reverse!" All of the sudden, Ueno was falling the other way. She landed on the beam and spread her arms in a 'ta-da' pose.

"I can only reverse the gravity on myself and anything I'm holding. It won't work on anything heavier than I am, or we'll both fall the wrong way."

Ueda flew over and they linked arms before Ueno deactivated her quirk and they glided back down to the ground. The whole class clapped for their performance. Not only was class participation encouraged by Shirota-sensei, but also it was fun. With some quirks, it was even part of the act!

They got close to the middle of the roll sheet. It was Takashi Nagano's turn. A short, plain looking boy stepped out of the line and went over to stand closer to Shirota-sensei. He turned to face the class and addressed them in a loud but monotone voice.

"Will you please group together, like you are fighting or in a mob?"

Someone giggled, and the whole class started shuffling closer together. The students who knew each other got more creative, some linking arms, some mock fighting. Ueno put Ueda in a headlock.

"Thank you." Nagano inclined his head. "Now," he held out his hands, "please disperse!"

Inko felt a jolt before being yanked bodily from the girl she'd linked arms with. The students gasped in surprise as they were all shot away from each other. Soon, everyone was equidistantly spaced across the gym floor. There was a round of applause for Nagano as well.

"That's a very powerful quirk." Shirota-sensei commented. "Do you have plans for it?"

Nagano looked up at him, still small but now puffing his chest out with pride. "Riot control."

Inko went soon after, having gotten a crazy idea during the other demonstrations. She stepped out of the line, stretched out her arm, and floated Shirota-sensei's clipboard right out of his hands. She kept it facing outwards out of respect for other students' privacy, but the whole class 'oooooh'd and Inko found herself blushing.

She hurried over to her teacher and returned the clipboard. "I can float small objects towards myself, but I can't send them back with my quirk. It doesn't matter how heavy the object is, only the size. I can't float anything much bigger than a metal pot, and anything heavy takes a lot of energy."

"It's a very versatile quirk." Shirota accepted the clipboard and made his marks. "I bet you never lose your keys in the couch cushions, do you?"

The comment put Inko more at ease. She was finally starting to feel like she belonged.

Further down the line, Kyou Hisakawa stepped forward. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a rock. "Can I get some help for my quirk too?"

Shirota-sensei nodded. "Anything you like."

"OK." Hisakawa nodded. "Yamasaki and Kawakami, can you both come here?"

Inko nodded and stepped out of the line with the second student to have gone, Kyoshi Yamasaki. His quirk was Purification, which meant he could separate non-living substances from each other, as long as he understood the composition. Inko didn't know what they could both do to help.

Hisakawa handed the rock to Yamasaki. "Can you separate this? It's sandstone my mom got from Germany."

Yamasaki took it. "How do you want it separated?"

"All the way."

"All right." Yamasaki squeezed the rock and sand started pouring from his fingers. It was making a mess. Inko watched the grains fall to the floor and started to get an inkling about why she was called up to help.

Once the stone was totally separated into different sands (she didn't know how Yamasaki managed to get them to fall into piles), Hisakawa turned her way.

"Can you gather them all up for me please?"

Inko nodded and began floating all the sand up into her palms. She could feel the exertion from pulling on so many grains, but it wasn't too taxing. In a moment, she held them all in her hands.

"Thank you." Hisakawa was tall, so he had to lean down just a little to cup his hands underneath hers. "Just drop them here."

After she deposited all the grains in his hands, Inko took a step back with Yamasaki. Hisakawa folded his hands together.

Inko expected some of the sand to fall out, but none of it did. Hisakawa opened his hands and there was the rock, good as new.

"Whoa!" She couldn't contain her excitement for a moment. "What do you call that?"

Hisakawa's face lit up. "It's Combination of Substances! I can make minerals of certain molecular varieties come together. I can also recombine any preexisting solutions that have been separated."

The class clapped and the three of them returned to their spots in line. This almost seemed like a talent show instead of a quirk assessment. And even then, there hadn't been a single negative comment towards anybody.

"Rina Fukui. Do you-"

"I have something to show, sir." Fukui stepped out of the line. Inko hadn't paid much attention to her so far, as she was fairly ordinary looking. Of course, a lot of ordinary looking kids had powerful quirks, but it was easier to be distracted by the likes of Tachibana Kazuo, the kaleidoscope boy.

Fukui had medium-length black hair, which she'd pulled into a ponytail for the exercise. Her face looked serious, and Inko was plenty intimidated.

"Do I have permission to engage in combat?"

Shirota-sensei nodded. "So long as your opponent agrees to fight and neither of you are injured. Would you like mats? This is a gymnasium after all."

"That would be safest. Thank you, sir." She gave him a quick bow and hurried off to the storage closet. Fukui single-handedly hauled out a stacked mat and stretched it out on the floor. She positioned herself at one end and swept her arm out to choose her opponent.

"Hachirou Matsumo! Will you fight me?"

The loud summons made Matsumo jump, but the boy with six arms didn't back down from the challenge. He stretched out his extra limbs and took his spot at the other end of the mat.

"What do you want me to do?" He shrugged out his multiple shoulder joints. "All my arms are only regular-strength, and I can't do any… you know… spider stuff?"

Fukui took up a stance. "Come at me with everything you've got!"

Inko wouldn't have accepted the challenge if she were Matsumo. Fukui looked terrifying, even without a body-modifying quirk or huge muscles. It was easy to see she was fit, but she wasn't physically imposing. Inko was starting to wonder what Fukui's quirk could possibly be.

"Fine by me!" Matsumo charged her with all six arms flared out. He struck out, aiming to push her over, but Fukui dodged. She grabbed one of the middle arms, twisted around, and in a few more moments had Matsumo pinned with all the arms behind his back.

Fukui paused before letting him up. She offered him a single hand up and he accepted. The whole class was locked in on the fight, but nothing seemed to have happened. It was a regular- albeit scarily well executed- takedown. Fukui turned to address Shirota-sensei.

"I am quirkless and I came to UA so I could learn how to combat all different kinds of quirks. When I graduate, I am going to become an officer of the law to defend citizens from villains and common criminals alike!"

Matsumo was the first to applaud. He had all six of his hands going together. The rest of the students joined in. Fukui looked like she was about to stop them, but she saw the genuine appreciation on Matsumo's face. Once the applause died down, he spoke up.

"That's really cool, Fukui. Police officers are the most important heroes of all." It sounded like a cliché statement, something everyone told quirkless kids who wanted to be heroes, but Matsumo followed it up. "My mom's a police officer. I've seen how much work it takes."

He held out one of his hands. "It's an honor to be in class with you!"

Fukui reached out and shook his hand. Matsumo helped her put up the tumbling mat, and the class finished up the assessments.

"Great work, everybody. I think you're starting to get it." Shirota-sensei stuck his clipboard under his arm. "All of you have demonstrated creative thinking and a good understanding of how different quirks work. There are important to know, regardless of the job field you're going into."

He glanced down the line of students. "This is an interesting world we live in. You're growing up in a society where everyone from bus drivers to politicians has a quirk, and you'll all have to learn to work with quirk users. Remember today's assessment when you're thinking about your future. You don't have to be an island. Using quirks in combination can be more powerful than any quirk alone. Now…"

He pulled up his clipboard and tapped it against one knuckle. "It's time to get changed. You have math next!"

A/N: Don't talk to me or my 20 OCs ever again. ha ha. there are so many