Sky High
Chapter 4 - Power placement

"YEAH!" Joey cheered, but everyone just looked at him while Ishizu rinsed her eyebrow and glared at him at him. Joey lowered his head in embarrassment before Ishizu continued.

"In a few moments, you will go through Power Placement," Ishizu told them. "And your own heroic journey will begin."

"Power placement?" Yugi wondered out loud as Ishizu continued on talking to all of them on top on the platform.

"Sounds fascist!" Tea replied.

"Power Placement: it's how they decide where you go," Tristan informed them.

"The hero track or the loser track," Mai commented.

"T-T-There's a loser track?" Joey nervously replied

"I believe the preferred term is 'hero support'," Tristan told him.

"…For now, good deeds and good luck. Let the adventure begin," Ishizu finished. "Comets away!" she yelled as she suddenly rinsed up turned into a ball of white light again and zoomed out of the hall. As the students watch her leave, they noticed a man with brown spiked hair, blue eyes, a blue and white track-suit on and a clipboard in his hands, come out of the new rinsing platform in the middle of the hall.

"All right, listen up!" He said as the platform came to a halt and the students gathered in front of it. "My name is Valon Boomer, but you will address me as Couch Boomer, understood!. You may know me as 'Sonic Boom.' You may not. Here's how Power Placement is gonna work. You will step up here and show me your power. Yes, you will do so in front of the entire class. I will then determine where you will be assigned. Hero or sidekick. Now, every year there are a few student, or as I like to call them, 'whiner babies' who see fit to question and to complain about their placement. So let's get one thing straight. My word is law. My judgement is final, so there will be no whiner babies. Are we clear?" Valon asked as the some of the students just nodded as quietly agreed. "I said, are we CLEAR!" Valon yelled sending out a huge sonic-boom out on the students, blowing them away a little.

"Yes, Couch Boomer!" they all yelled back as Valon then blew on his whistle.

"Go-time!" Valon replied as three metal steps appeared next to the platform and Valon pointed to one of the students in the crowd. "You, what's your name?"

"Weevil," the boy with yellow glasses and blue/green hair.

"Little Weevil, get up here!" Valon commanded as the boy called Weevil rushed up the stairs and stepped onto the platform.

"What's humiliating him in front of the class going to prove?" Tea said to her friends. "This is so unfair!"

"If life were to suddenly get fair…" Yugi replied, standing next to her. "I doubt it would happen in high school."

Meanwhile, on the platform. Weevil stood in the middle of the stage, took off his glasses and took a deep breath. But before he could exhale out again, he suddenly turned into a huge stone-man! The all the student's eyes suddenly widened as their mouths dropped in shock of the sudden transformation. Although, Valon just stood there unfazed and took a control out of his pocket.

"Car," he said as he pushed a button on the control, making a car come flying down from the ceiling, of which stone-giant-Weevil easily caught and held above his head.

"Big Weevil!" Valon replied, sounding a little more impressed. "Hero!" he said a she wrote it down in his clipboard in his hands.

"So he's good…" Joey told Yugi. "But I'm better!" Joey then ran up to the stage and stood in front of Valon, who was still writing.

"Did I say you were next?" Valon questioned after he looked up from his clipboard to see Joey standing there.

"Name's Joey, Couch Boomer. Try not to drop your clipboard," Joey told him as Joey took the centre stage and got ready for something…suddenly he clapped his hands and spreading his arms out to the sides and remained still.

"Any day now, superstar," Valon said after a while had past and nothing was going on.

"I'm doing it!" Joey replied.

"Doing what?"

"I'm glowing!"

"I don't think so!"

"Well…it's easier to see in a dark room. Maybe we could turn off these lights. You could cup your hands around your eyes and look real close…"

"Sidekick," Valon said.

"Ah, err…Are you sure you don't want to…?" Joey whispered.

"SIDEKICK!" Valon yelled, sending out another sonic-boom, making Joey go flying off backwards, off the stage. Valon then looked out onto the crowd of students again. "You! Front and centre!" he said, pointing to Tristan. Tristan immediately went up to the stage and up to Valon.

"Let me say what an honour it is to…" Tristan complemented him before he got cut off. "

Is that your power? Butt-kissery?" Valon asked.

"Very funny, Sir! I heard you had a…"

"Shut up and power up!"

"Right away, Sir!" Tristan instantly replied before taking a few steps back, closing his eyes and suddenly he turned into a puddle of light brown liquid (similar to the colour of his jacket) on the stage floor, Valon then leaned over him.

"Say, that's pretty impressive…for a Popsicle! Sidekick!" Valon said, sticking his thumb down at him. As time went on, other students got to show-off their powers.

First there was a student called Brian…

He suddenly shot out four new arms, making it a total of six, as he stood on the stage in front of Valon and the others.

"Hero!" Valon replied.

"Yes!" Brian cheered, punching all six arms out in victory.

Next there was a girl student named Mana, when she was on the stage, she flipped up and suddenly turned into a blue, pink and yellow beach ball.

"Side-KICK!" Valon said as he literally kicked her off the stage.

Next, Valon picked a boy with long, tied back, dark blue, spiked hair, blue eyes and a scar on his right cheek. He suddenly spat out, sending it flying over to the other side of the hall, hitting one of the stone pillars.

"Super spit? Sideki…" Valon replied as he began to write it down. But before he could, the boy redirected him over to the pillar of which he spat on to see that part of it was eroding quickly. "Acid spit! Hero!" Valon corrected.

Next, another boy was called up to the platform and stood next to Valon. He had short brown hair and brown eyes. But suddenly his eyes suddenly changed to blue, his hair went big, darker and more spikier, and his clothes changed into a blue and white track-suit, making him look just like Valon.

"Wow, hero!" Valon replied, smiling at the other version of him. "And a handsome one at that! Good job, Jaden," he commented as the boy, now known as Jaden went off the stage, morphing back into his normal self in the process. "Purple kid let's go!" Valon said, referring to Mai, as she walked up the stage and stood in front of him. "What's your shtick?" he asked her.

"I'm a shape-shifter," Mai replied.

"Ok. Shift it," Valon said as Mai rolled her eyes, bent down and morphed into a small blonde and purple guinea pig. Valon then bent down and looked over her. "A guinea pig?"

"Yep," Mai replied a smaller (and much more cuter) version of her voice.

"Not even a swarm of guinea pigs?"

"Err, no!"

"Sick kick, shoo!"

"Bite me!" Mai replied as she went off, still in her guinea pig form. Valon then looked out into the crowd again.

"You, flower child," Valon said to Tea as she looked up. "Let's go!"

"I believe in only using my powers when the situation demands it," Tea replied to him.

"Well, you're in luck! This is the situation, and I'm demanding it!"

"But…to participate would be to support a flawed system," Tea informed him. "I think the whole hero-sidekick dichotomy only serves to…" she went on before Valon stopped her.

"Let me get this straight. Are you refusing to show me your powers?"

"Well, it's a little more complicated than that, but…"

"SIDEKICK!" Valon sonic boomed yelled before she could say another word. After he did that, the school bell went off, signally lunch time. "All right, well pick it up right after lunch, starting with you!" he said pointed to Yugi as he gulped.

Author's notes: okay, I hope you've enjoyed the chapter! How will Yugi get on with his power placement? Find out next time! Until then, please review!