Chapter 4: The (Basic) Strength of Class 1-S!

Sonic was trying not to freak out in front of his classmates. Longclaw, his own guardian, was his teacher for the next year. Not that it bothered him in the slightest, but at the fact she hadn't dropped any hints regarding it when he said that he was applying for the UA Entrance Exam that one day in his past. Glancing around, he was slightly thankful no one had seen his eyes bulge upon her entrance. Nonetheless, Longclaw continued her introduction.

"You all have your own unique quirks and abilities, I understand that. I reviewed each and every one of your performances in the Entrance Exam and I must say, you all are amazing in each of your fantastic ways." She pulled out a small disk device and placed it on the podium in front of her. "I will now share the Class 1-S leader board with you all. You may have noticed that your scores weren't shown on the regular leader board, but that was for a reason. Class 1-S is a new elite class for those who scored one hundred or more points in the exam." With the press of a button, the hologram for Class 1-S's score appeared. "We didn't want the other students to feel as if they were missing out on your training." Sonic's eyes scanned the board for is name. When he found it, a slight annoyance filled his chest.

First: Kazuto Kirigaya: 150 Points

Second: Sonic: 140 Points

Third: -/-

Fourth: Hana Song: 134 Points

Fifth: Miles Morales: 132 Points

Sixth: Suguha Kirigaya: 128 Points

Seventh: Ahri Vastayan: 124 Points

Eighth: Daniel Hugo: 121 Points

Ninth: Roxanne Green: 119 Points

Tenth: Razor Andrius: 116 Points

Eleventh: Bea Saitou 115 Points

Twelfth: Amy Rose: 100 Points

The smirk Kazuto was giving him made him realise he'd have to find some spare change somewhere. How could he be beaten by ten points? Amy on the other hand was having an existential crisis in her seat.

'Holy shit! I just barely made it into this class!?'

"As you can see, you all did well during the exam. But don't let this list make you think you're better than your classmates!" She gave the class a glare. "That is something I won't tolerate. That, and anyone against having two Humanoids in the class." Everyone nodded, not wanting to get on a Pro Hero's bad side day one. Longclaw gestured to the door. "Orientation will begin shortly, so we should make our way over to the auditorium now."

"Hey Ms Candice?"

The hand of the girl with the strawberry earing was up for Longclaw to see.

"Yes Green?"

"Who is the third person on the leader board?" Longclaw let out a sigh.

"Apparently, she came to the exam behind her parent's back. Principal Nezu is looking into it but as of now, we are a class of eleven." The girl called Green nodded, satisfied.

"Thanks. I was just curious."

"No problem. Shall we?" With that, she ushered her class out and into the hall, before walking walked in the direction of the auditorium, her class following close behind. Amy brought Sonic to the back of the pack before whispering to him.

"You didn't tell me Longclaw was a teacher at UA!" Well, hissed more than anything.

"Because I had no idea! She didn't say anything to me. Like, ever." Amy stared at him, as if trying to find out if he was lying or not. After a moment, she sighed.

"I suppose it doesn't really matter. This should be fun!"

"Oh no doubt! Longclaw will make an awesome teacher!"

The class of eleven reached the auditorium with no issues and made their way inside. The place was already packed to the brim with new students from all departments. Sonic and his class took their seats near the back and the blue hedgehog ended up with the brown-haired girl sitting on his left and the timid grey-haired boy on his right. Once they were seated, the lights dimmed down, and a spotlight shone down onto someone on the stage.

"Am I a bear? A dog? A mouse?" That someone turned out to be a tiny creature in a suit. "It doesn't matter. What does matter though is that I'm the principal of UA! Nezu is my name and I welcome all of you to the new year of teaching!" He waited for the clapping to die down before he continued.

"Congratulations on passing the different exams that you had to go through. Whether it be for the general studies, support course or the ever-popular hero course." He looked around the room before leaning in to one of the teachers closest to him. There was some hushed talking before he returned to the microphone. "Let us begin the orientation of UA shall we? If you would turn your attention to the screen…"

It was a very detailed talk, but Nezu knew how to prattle on about anything and everything…

"My ears felt like they were going to peel off."

It had been about an hour and a half that orientation had gone on for and the brown-haired girl voiced her opinion on the matter.

"Sure, he may have gone on forever with his speech, but now you know where everything is, right?" The boy with the dark skin (Sonic was going to have to learn everyone's names sooner or later because this was getting ridiculous!) counteracted her.

"Yeah, I'm sure. You look like you're the type to be a stickler for the rules." He raised his eyebrow at her.

"Excuse me?" The girl let out a sigh.

"Nothing. Sorry. That was uncalled for. I'm just really tired. I was too excited to sleep last night." To prove her point, she put her head onto her desk with a thud. "Thank god it's only a half-day today." Sonic could relate. He'd almost fallen asleep back there, had someone not sneezed in the row behind him.

Class 1-S were back in their room, waiting for Longclaw to come back after being called out of the room for something. Kazuto had pulled out his phone and was quietly listening to his music while Leafa had gone to Amy's desk to talk. Sonic was leaning back in his chair, staring at the ceiling. Don't ask why, he just was. While he stared at the ceiling, he remembered the boy that was sitting behind him. Propping his chair back into an upright position, he swivelled around to face him. The boy stammered to himself when Sonic gave him his signature smile.

"Hey. My name's Sonic. Nice to meet you." The boy nodded nervously at him.

"Razor Andrius."

"…You alright? You seem kinda nervous."

"I'm not used to so many people in one place."

"Really? I hate to break it to ya, but you're going to be surrounded by people a lot more now that you're at UA."

"I know." Sonic couldn't help but sweat drop. This kid wasn't much of a talker was he?

"Well, if you ever need something, don't hesitate to ask me okay?" Razor nodded his head in affirmatory.

"Thanks."

The door rattled back open and Longclaw stepped back into the room. She held a clipboard in her wings.

"Ok so here's the deal." Leafa quickly went back to her seat before she continued. "Because we're a smaller class than the others here, we're going to do your quirk assessment now. Aizawa has already put his students through it when they were supposed to be at orientation, so Nezu felt as if we should too. Any questions?" This gave Sonic the chills. He was going to find out his classmate's quirks. This was exciting! "Good. Go and change into your PE uniforms and meet me out on the field out there." She pointed out the window to the large dusty field that had chalk lines everywhere.

Wasting no time, Sonic made his way to the changerooms, closely followed by the other guys. He grabbed his clothes from his bag and changed into his PE clothes in a flash. He and Kazuto were the first to finish changing, so Sonic decided to follow the black-haired boy.

"So, your sister said you were a bit of an Otaku right?" Kazuto rolled his eyes.

"Not really. Sugu just says that to annoy me. I prefer games over anime any day of the week."

"Oh? What games do you play?"

"All sorts. But my go to game is ALFheim Online. I practically live in there some days." Sonic put a finger to his chin, thinking.

"ALFheim Online. Isn't that one of those fancy Full Dive games that interrupts your senses to play? That kinda seems a little dangerous. What if someone locked you in there?" Kazuto laughed.

"No chance of that happening. The Amusphere is designed to not have any effect on your brain that could harm or kill it. It's perfectly safe."

"If you say so." A smile formed across Kazuto's face.

"So about our scores…" Sonic grumbled to himself.

"A bet's a bet. Just say the word when you want me to get your meal."

"I already have an idea on where, but I'll leave it until later."

"Works for me!" Sonic and Kazuto were the first out onto the field where Longclaw was standing. She smiled as the two approached.

"Good to see you two are quick." She commented. Sonic couldn't help himself.

"Quick is my middle name!" Longclaw shook her head.

"No it's not." A few minutes later, the rest of the class had assembled on the field. Longclaw held up her clip board.

"Alright. We will be doing seven different tests in which you can use your quirks to help you get a better score than you would have gotten in middle school. We'll start with the 50-meter dash."

'Oh you did that on purpose didn't you?' Sonic thought to himself.

"First up, we'll have Daniel Hugo and Hana Song." The teen with the mohawk stepped out of the group and up to the starting line with the brown-haired girl following close behind.

"You ready to go down mohawk?" Hana questioned. Daniel raised an eyebrow.

"This isn't a competition is it?"

"Why not?" Everyone was taken aback when a large pink mech-suit fell out of the sky and landed right in front of Hana. She hopped into it with a tired smirk. "Things are more fun when you're competing, no?"

Hana Song!

Quirk: Meka!

Hana can summon a drivable mech that she can use to do whatever destructive mechs do. For example, shoot bullets, rockets, and explosives. She can also create energy shields and fly using the mechs thrusters. If it is destroyed, it will explode, and Hana must wait a full minute before she can summon it again. She also has full creative freedom to make whatever upgrades she wants.

Daniel blinked rapidly before shrugging.

"I guess not. But I highly doubt I can beat that thing. With or without my quirk."

"Never say never!" Longclaw cleared her throat.

"Ready?" She earned two nods. "Set… Go!"

The thrusters on Hana's mech blasted out in full throttle, leaving her spot like a pocket-rocket. Daniel stumbled slightly before throwing his hands down to the ground. Lightning sparked from his hands and feet as he sorta-flied after her. Obviously, Hana crossed first with Daniel following not too far behind.

"Song, 3.647 seconds. Hugo, 4.246 seconds." Everyone was in awe at the display of quirks. Sonic especially.

"What was that!?"

"Hugo, you shot lightning out of you!"

"That was cool. Is that your quirk Song?" Questions galore were thrown about before Longclaw cleared her throat.

"Come on. You can go home when we're finished here, let's keep going." Longclaw reined them back in to focus.

Daniel Hugo (Drift)!

Quirk: Lightning!

Drift is capable of creating electricity from his body. Whether it be from his fingers, his feet or even his ears, he can shoot it off his body from wherever he likes. However, Drift needs to eat a lot of food to keep his hunger to a minimum, as using his quirk uses whatever he has in his stomach as fuel. The more Drift eats, the longer he can throw lightning at his enemies.

"Next up, Razor Andrius and Sonic." Sonic glanced to Razor and gave him a thumbs up.

"Do your best Andrius!" Razor nodded.

"You too." Both boys lined up at the starting line.

"Ready?" Another pair of nods. "Set… Go!"

Sonic had dashed off the second he was given the all clear, while Razor dropped down onto all fours and chased after the blue blur. Obviously, he was nowhere near as fast as Sonic, but he did get a good time.

"Sonic, 0.501 seconds. Andrius, 3.463 seconds."

Sonic couldn't help himself as he gave Razor a gentle pat on the back.

"Not bad. You did better than I thought you would. Did you use you quirk to help you out?" Razor shook his head, a little sweat falling off his brow.

"No. My dad taught me how to run like that."

"Your dad?" Before he could ask about it, Longclaw called for the next two. The others had their goes, but no one came close to Sonic's time.

Unsurprisingly.

The next test was the Grip Strength Test. The one who shone there was the quiet girl who no one saw coming. Bea topped out at 106kg. The closest that came to that was Kazuto with only 89kg. Bea blatantly ignored everyone's questions, only giving them a small explanation of what her quirk was.

Bea Saitou!

Quirk: Enhancement!

Bea's quirk is rather plain compared to her classmates, allowing her to move quicker than a regular quirkless human. On the bright side, she is more agile and flexible than most of her classmates. To make up the lack of power behind her quirk, Bea was trained in material arts at a young age by her parents. Present day, Bea is a force to be reckoned with, being the highest rank in most material arts known to mankind. Don't get on her bad side!

The long jump came next. Everyone did their best, as they should've, but the one who left everyone in the dust was Leafa, who simply flew across the sandpit. Hana tied first with Leafa, her Meka's thrusters keeping her afloat for about the same time as the wind mage. Amy came in a close second, using her hammer as a springboard.

Suguha Kirigaya!

Quirk: Fairy Flight!

Sugu's quirk allows her to use wind and stealth magic whenever she pleases. She has a multitude of spells and tricks up her sleeves and isn't afraid to use them to their fullest. She can also fly with a pair of fluorescent green wings that she can materialise on her upper back.

The tests continued with everyone's quirks amazing Sonic to no end. They were finally on the final test, the ball throw. Hana was in the ring, placing the ball into the gun of her mech. Sonic watched with curiosity and perhaps, just a sprinkle of admiration.

"What'cha thinking?" Sonic jumped.

"Gah! Amy, don't do that!" Amy blinked.

"Do what?"

"Appear out of nowhere and scare me like that!" Amy looked back out to Hana, who shot the ball high into the sky. A few seconds later, the device in Longclaw's wing beeped.

"Six hundred and eighty-nine metres."

"Is that all? Looks like I need to adjust the gun on this thing." Amy saw the sparkles in Sonic's eyes before chuckling. Said hedgehog looked back to her.

"What?"

"Oh nothing."

"It is not. Tell me!" Amy gave him a pat on the cheek.

"You have something for our little mech driving friend don't you?" Sonic's eyes widened in surprise.

"What!? Amy! No way! I don't even know her!"

"You sure?" She dragged out the "sure," as if to annoy him. Sonic rolled his eyes as he put a hand on her face, shutting her up.

"Positive. Don't jump the gun on my love life will you? How would you like if I prodded at yours, huh?" Amy batted his hand away and pouted.

"Party pooper."

"Uh huh. You keep telling yourself that."

"Sonic. You're up." Glaring at the tongue Amy stuck out at him, Sonic stood in the chalk ring. He was the last to go, so he wanted to make this count. Longclaw tossed him the ball. "Don't hold back."

"Ha! No chance of that!" Moving into a more comfortable position, Sonic began to move his arm in a circular motion. He increased the speed slowly at first before going faster and faster. His arm was a blur, but he kept pushing himself until finally…

BOOM!

Sonic's rotating arm shattered the sound barrier. That meant he should probably let go. With one final push, Sonic lobbed the ball high into the sky. The ball shot through the sky, bursting a hole in the clouds, and disappeared from sight. He wobbled on his feet a little but remained upright. The seconds ticked by, everyone waiting for the beep. It was almost deafening when it did. Longclaw eyed it for a moment before writing the score down on her clipboard.

"One thousand and one metres."

"ONE THOUSAND AND ONE!?" Everyone practically shouted while Razor winced at their shouting. Sonic dropped down to the ground with a tired flop.

"Yep. I think I broke it."

"T-that's got to be the highest score in the entire school!" Ahri exclaimed. Longclaw shook her head.

"Actually, someone in Aizawa's class got infinity."

"WHAT!?"

Inside the main building overlooking the field, a girl with long blue hair stood watching with sparkles in her eyes.

"Wow. That's the elite class? They're so amazing!"

Sonic waited outside the girl's locker waiting for Amy to appear. The half-day had come to an end and the others had headed out. Sonic only stuck around because he had to wait for Amy. He kinda wished he would've bumped into Izuku or something today but that didn't happen. He knew that Longclaw wouldn't be home until later, so he'd have the house to himself when he got back. He felt his phone buzz in his pocket, so he opted to check that out instead of focusing on the awkward stares he was getting from people walking past. When he unlocked it, he was met with a text from Kyouka. He opened it immediately.

Jirou: Hi. So I didn't see you or Rose today, but that's ok. How'd your day go? My teacher almost gave me a heart attack earlier.

Sonic's fingers danced around on his phone as he typed his reply.

Sonic: Really? How so? My day was fine btw.

Jirou: We skipped orientation for a start. He made us do our quirk assessment first thing. But as a motivator to get us to do well, he joked about expelling the student who placed last! How messed up is that?

Sonic: Yikes. Whoever was last must've been relived when they found out it was a ruse.

Jirou: It was Midoriya. And yeah, he's ok. Amy was right, his quirk is pretty cool.

Sonic: Is your teacher someone called Aizawa? My teacher mentioned that name a few times.

Jirou: Yep. Little gruff around the edges but I think the other students in my class can soften him up a bit.

Sonic: Not you?

Jirou: Hell no! That's not my forte.

Sonic: Well Amy and I have Longclaw as our teacher. She's really cool!

Jirou: The owl hero? Lucky. Hey, but did you hear an explosion about ten minutes ago? Nearly made me jump out of my skin!

Sonic: Uh… Yeah? That… That was me tossing the ball for the ball throw. Sorry. I forgot you had sensitive ears.

Jirou: THAT WAS YOU?

Sonic: Yep. Broke the sound barrier with my arm and got one thousand and one meters. Although, someone in your class I believe, got infinity?

Jirou: Firstly, WOW. Secondly, yeah. It was a girl called Uraraka. That was kinda cool though, not going to lie.

Sonic: If you don't mind me asking, what kind of quirks do your class

"Hey."

Sonic nearly dropped his phone when he was addressed in the real world. Looking up, Sonic's green eyes met Hana's brown ones.

"H-hi. What's up?" Hana gave him a cute grin.

"Just wanted to say that your ball throwing score was really impressive. You had so much power behind it."

"I… uh… Thanks." Sonic puffed out his chest proudly. "My arms aren't the only limbs I can break the sound barrier with. I can break it just by running too."

"Wow! Really?"

"Yep. I'm not called the fastest thing alive for nothing." Hana gave him a cheeky smirk.

"And who would call you that if you can't use your quirk outside of school?" Sonic felt himself falter at the jab. Hana giggled before she turned and gave him a wave over her shoulder. "Welp. I'll see you tomorrow then."

"Yeah. Hey, make sure to get enough sleep tonight. Can't have you not at one hundred percent for whatever we do tomorrow can we?" Hana chuckled kind-heartedly.

"Sure. Thanks for that Spikes. See you tomorrow!" With that, she headed down the hall. Sonic let out a groan.

"Why is the first nickname people give me always "Spikes?"

"Gee. Maybe it's because you have spikes on the back of your head?" Sonic didn't jump as much as he had earlier, but it was still visible.

"Gah! Amy!"

"That was too easy." Without waiting for him, she skipped down the hall towards the exit. With another grumble, Sonic finished his text to Kyouka before catching up to his best friend.

It was very dark by the time Sonic heard the doorknob twist. He stood at the bottom of the stairs in the darkness, waiting for his guardian to come in and turn the lights on. Then he'd ask his question. He vaguely saw Longclaw come through the door before closing it. He waited for the lights to come on, but they never did, which confused him. Why wasn't she…

"Why are you standing there in the dark?"

Right. She had god damn night vision.

"Waiting for you." Longclaw chuckled as she flipped the lights on. "Thanks for ruining my element of surprise."

"I assume you have questions?"

"Why didn't you say anything?" Longclaw's beak curved with a smile.

"Because I wanted it to be a surprise. Don't give me that look! It wasn't set in stone until the other day." Sonic pouted.

"Still would've been nice to know beforehand."

"I'll tell you what happened. Just stop pouting."

"Fine."

"Good. So, when you were about three or so…"

Longclaw brought herself done for a landing in an urban park. After landing with a clawed thud, she walked over to the nearby vending machine. While she was waiting for her drink to fall, her phone rang. Finding a seat below an overhang, she answered the call.

"Hello Laura speaking."

"Longclaw, hello! It's been far too long."

"Nezu? Is that you?"

"It is I, yes. How have you been? Doing well I presume?"

"Oh yes. A hero's work is never done." She paused. "Recently, I… Became a mother."

"A mother? That's incredible! Forgive me though, but who would the father be?"

"No. Not a biological mother. I recently took a Humanoid in under my wing."

"Figuratively or literally?"

"Ha ha. Very funny."

"I thought so." She heard Nezu sigh on his end. "It's such a shame really. I just don't understand why it's so hard for some people to accept Humanoids. People accept you and I, yet we are like animals."

"Neither do I Nezu. Neither do I."

"But onto a brighter topic." She heard Nezu perk right back up to his usual self. "I have a proposition for you. Would you like to hear it?"

"I mean, you're probably going to tell me anyway."

"Correct. I would like you to become a teacher at UA. I believe that with your field experience and calm demeanour, you would make a fine teacher."

"First of all, wow. Second, I have absolutely no knowledge in teaching. I don't even have a teaching degree."

"No problem at all. I can take care of that if you want to take the job. Of course, you will still have to do an interview with me, but I have a strong feeling you will get the job." Longclaw rolled her eyes.

"Fine. I'll do it."

"Splendid!"

"But I want to pick which class of students I have."

"Hmmm. Bring it up in the interview and we'll think about it." Longclaw let out a laugh.

"You're such an oddball Nezu."

"Indeed I am."

"When Nezu asked me to handle the elite class known as 1-S, I agreed. Which brings us to now." Sonic's face was unreadable for a moment before he let out sigh.

"Still would've been nice to know." Longclaw pulled her little blue hedgehog into a hug.

"I'm sorry. I didn't realise that you did. If something like this happens again, I'll let you know beforehand. Deal?" Sonic chuckled, returning to his old self.

"Thanks. This year's going to be great with you as a teacher!"

"Don't go thinking that I'm going to go easy on you just because you're in my care Sonic!"

"I wouldn't dream of it."

They stayed in the hug for a little while longer before Sonic had to go to bed. He left Longclaw to make her own dinner in favour of flopping onto his bed and falling asleep. Today was fun.

And they were only going to get better.

Much better! At least, I hope.

This time, I am going to introduce each character so there isn't any confusion on who some of the characters are like last time. Hopefully this helps.

Sonic and Amy are from Sonic the Hedgehog (Shocker, I know.).

Hana Song is from Overwatch.

Kazuto and Leafa are from Sword Art Online.

Bea is from Pokémon Sword.

Drift (Daniel Hugo.) and Rox are outfits in Fortnite.

Miles Morales if from Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse.

Ahri Vastayan is from League of Legends.

Razor Andrius is from Genshin Impact.

And our mystery student (Who is still the same character from the original.) is from…

What? You thought I'd spoil it already? Nice try.

Obviously, some of these names aren't their canon names, aside from Sonic, Amy, Hana, Kazuto, Leafa and Miles. The others didn't have family names, so I needed to come up with my own. Hopefully this doesn't bug anyone but if it does… Tough tiddies.

Hopefully you enjoyed this chapter and I look forward to hearing from you all in the next chapter.

Next time: Foundational Hero Studies! Supersonic vs Solaris!