Kevin

The smell of coffee woke Kevin up. The boy groaned and sat up slowly.

"About time the psychopath woke up." A voice said.

Kevin turned to see Matt watching him. The boy wasn't alone standing next to him was Maryanne, Victoria, Alice, Kaleb, Aerolynn, and Cleo.

"Is this the normal Kevin we're speaking too?" Cleo asked.

"What do you mean by that?" Kevin asked.

"You tried to kill us." Cleo yelped.

Kaleb chuckled. "She's being dramatic, it wasn't that bad."

Alice pointed to Kaleb's shoulder. "He literally took a bite out of you."

"He just took a little sip of my blood." Kaleb reasoned.

"That's not normal!" Cleo yelled.

Kevin gulped and looked down at his feet. "You don't have to defend me, Kaleb, she's right."

He should have done better at controlling his quirk. Instead, he hurt people again. All he did was hurt people.

"Where are we?" He asked quietly.

"Captain Cincinnati's office. He went to tell the teachers something." Victoria explained.

"So, did we all lose?" Kevin asked.

Silence fell upon the room.

"This my first time losing, I don't particularly like it." Cleo sighed.

You get used to it. Aerolynn sighed.

"Well, we wouldn't have lost if Kaleb didn't lose our civilian to a boy that he can literally bench press." Alice snarled.

Kaleb blushed. "I can't fight a tornado."

"Excuses." Alice snapped.

"So, it looks like Team Lex and Team Hunter are in the lead. However, the hell that's possible." Matt grumbled.

"Imagine being the first person knocked out." Victoria chuckled.

Kevin turned to Victoria. She seemed surprisingly calm, the last time she lost she was throwing shadow knives at everything in sight.

Matt growled. "Sarah surprised me okay. It won't happen again."

"I'm sure your dad is going to love that," Victoria said.

Matt raised an eyebrow. "You aren't worried about your mom?"

"That bitch can bite me." Victoria hissed.

"Come on guys losing isn't that bad," Maryanne said.

"You weren't in the Black Church. As the year goes on, Ms. Morningstar is going to have worse punishments laid out for us." Victoria said.

"So what happens now?" Kevin yelped.


Jake

"Fuck no." Hunter spat.

He looked down at Jarret with cold eyes. Jake hadn't expected the class clown to have so much venom in his heart. Jake shoved Hunter out of the way.

"Screw you." Jake chuckled in an attempt to lighten the mood.

"Jarret you keep getting us wins I can forgive whatever you do." Jake grinned.

Jarret blushed, while Hunter growled. "He didn't abandon you."

"Hunter this grudge isn't helping anyone." Alexander reasoned.

Jarret looked up at Hunter. "I'm willing to do anything to make it right?"

"How about you take your apology and go shove it up your ass?" Hunter snapped.

"Kinky." Sarah chuckled.

The four boys turned to see Lex's team walking towards them.

"I'm a little surprised you guys won." Faith snickered.

"Right back at you Ritter," Jake smirked.

He expected Maryanne's team to win. With powerhouses like Victoria and Matt, he expected them to demolish half the class. However, he was pleased Maryanne lost. He was going to prove she wasn't better than him. His eyes went to Sarah. He wondered if she was impressed with him winning. Granted he didn't do much, but he was still on the winning team. That should be all that matters. God, she was hot.

"Why the fuck are you looking at me?" Sarah asked.

The others turned to look at Jake, causing the large boy to blush. "I was just wondering how you won. Your quirk is lame."

"Well it turns out being a bitch comes in handy," Sarah said with a yawn.

"You should have seen the way she took out Matt. It was crazy impressive." Fouzia grinned.

Alexander raised an eyebrow and looked between the two girls. "Since when are you two friends?"

Sarah and Fouzia's face fell. Both girls crossed their arms and said in unison. "We're not."

"So what happens now?" Lex asked.

"Hopefully Captain Cincinnati brings us donuts as a reward." Hunter grinned.

A low chuckle was heard causing the teens to frown. They turned to look at the civilians laughing at them. Jake had forgotten that they were there.

"What's so funny?" Jake demanded.

"It's just that you guys thought this was over. This is just the first part of the exercise." The man said.

Hunter's face fell. "Fucking Sato."

"Who?" Faith asked.

Hunter tilted his head back and groaned. "I have a cousin that goes to UA, it's this superhero training school in Japan. He was talking about a test like this for his entrance exam."

"What do you mean? What happens next?" Lex asked.

A loud explosion was heard causing the eight teens to yelp. Jake growled and stepped forward, if someone was going to cause a fight, they picked the wrong person to do it with.

"Whoever is out there bring it!" Jake yelled.

Sarah rolled her eyes. "He's yelling at an explosion, how macho."

Jake frowned. She was totally digging it.

"Hunter is right." Captain Cincinnati said over the speaker.

The eight teens looked up and frowned. Based on the Morning Star Academy's track record they were sure that something really painful was going to happen.

"I'm sure you are familiar with your teachers Mr. Ross and Mr. Morrison aka the heroes Conduit and Nomad. Today they have agreed to help me with this assessment. They will be acting as villains, your job is to make sure they don't get the civilians. Good luck."

Soon a figure emerged from the smoke. It was a man who seemed to be in his fifties, his hero costume was a brown aviator jacket, with white fur lining, to match that he wore blue jeans. He wore brown boots and a brown cowboy hat on his head.

"Mr. Morrison." Alexander squeaked.

The old man grinned. "Call me Nomad in the field, sport."

Jake didn't have any classes with Nomad and he wasn't high enough in the rankings for him to care about. Jake cracked his knuckles and grinned.

"I'm going to kick your ass." He said.

Alexander gulped and turned to Jake. "Jake we need a plan, his quirk is-"

"Hit now, ask questions later." Jake chanted.

The boy charged towards Nomad, he pulled his fist back prepared to punch the man. A part of Jake felt guilty hitting an old man, but winning this competition would be worth it.

Just as his fist was close. Nomad held up his arm and swung his fist towards Jake's hand. Their two fists collided together giving off a soft BOOM, with Jake's strength he was expecting to shatter the man's arm. However, the opposite happened it was Jake's arms that felt like they were going to snap in half. Jake yelled in pain and collapsed to the ground. It felt like every muscle in his arm was tearing itself apart.

"His quirk is Shotgun Tendons," Alexander whispered.

"What the hell does that mean?" Faith asked.

Nomad

Quirk: Shotgun Tendons- His arms are spring-loaded making every punch feel like a shot from a shotgun.

"Well, that's just fantastic," Sarah said sarcastically.

Fouzia turned to the girls and Lex. "Get the civilians out of here. I'll take care of this."

"My quirk can slow him down," Lex said.

"If anyone tries to attack the civilian you and Sarah are our best bets at slowing them down." Fouzia reasoned.

She stepped forward. "I'll show this cowboy who's boss."

She turned to the others and yelled "Run!"

Fouzia walked over to Jake and helped him up. Jake was surprised by the gesture.

"Since when are you nice to me?" Jake asked.

"Right now we're on the same team," Fouzia said.

The two turned to Nomad who was approaching him.

"You guys aren't alone," Alexander said.

He walked up next to them and got into a fighting stance. "Let's see if he can take us on three to one."

Jarret got up slowly. "My legs feel like they're on fire after that last cyclone, I don't think I'll be much help."

"Useless as always," Hunter grunted.

He picked up the man and hoisted on his shoulder. "I'll get the civilian out of here. Jarret come on."

The two boys ran off. Leaving the trio alone.

"Bring it jackass." Jake snarled.

Nomad and the three teens charged.


Alexander

They needed a plan. Alexander looked at Nomad and activated his quirk, there had to be some weakness they could exploit. 10. 9. 8. 7.

Alexander yelped as a punch was thrown at his chest. He yelled in pain and stumbled backward. A couple of hits from Nomad, and Alexander would probably end up in a coma. How could they fight someone who's punches felt like bullets?

Jake grunted and swung his fist towards Nomad's head. However, the man rolled under his fist with such ease almost as if he predicted the attack. He made it obvious he had a lot of fighting experience. Alexander remembered he used to be the Number One hero before Captain Celebrity came on the scene.

He grinned like a madman as he decked Jake in the face. The boy grunted in pain and fell backward.

"Jackass." Jake coughed.

Blood fell from his lips.

"I've been itching for a good fight." Nomad grinned.

He sighed. "With my age, it often feels like the pro-hero community has forgotten about me."

He pulled his fist back and walked over towards Jake. "But there's a reason why I was the number one pro hero."

He charged towards Jake just as a wall of flames rose in front of the boy. Alexander turned to Fouzia who was shooting torrents of flame to protect the boy.

"Was being past tense," Fouzia grunted.

Beads of sweat were covering her face. What was going on with her?

Sometimes I can burn out. Fouzia's voice rang in his head.

Alexander gulped when he remembered how much flames Fouzia used to trap him. She was pushing her body to its limit. Eventually, she would burn out and have to go into a cool-down period.

Nomad smirked and turned to Fouzia. He must have came to the same conclusion as Alexander.

"How much flames do you think you can produce, before you have to go into cool down?" Nomad asked.

Fouzia growled. "Enough to set your ass on fire."

Nomad chuckled. "Let's test your theory."

He charged towards Fouzia, running with the speed of a bullet. Alexander growled in anger, he jumped into action before he even realized what he was doing. He knew he couldn't let him hurt her. Alexander grabbed the man's wrist and pulled it towards Alexander, a loud popping noise being heard.

Alexander winded his eyes in shock. Did he just snap his wrist? Nomad howled in pain and pulled his arm back.

Nomad looked up at Alexander and chuckled. "That was hardcore man."

He turned and delivered a roundhouse kick to the boy's head, causing him to fall to the ground. Alexander grunted in pain as he collapsed. If he kept getting hit like this he would be out of the match for sure.

Jake howled and charged towards Nomad. His throat glowed orange as he spat out a blast of energy. Nomad smirked and jumped out of the way.

"So predictable Mr. Hyde." Nomad said.

Fouzia yelled in frustration and threw a fireball towards the man. He dodged again and rolled under the flame. Using his non-broken arm he punched the girl in her gut. Fouzia gasped and stumbled back. Her eyes went wide and she started to pant.

"Stay away from her!" Alexander grunted.

He got up slowly and turned to Nomad. "You want a fight, come and get it."

Nomad turned to Alexander and sighed. He swung his fist towards Alexander, Alexander jumped backward, just nearly missing his fist.

"Following your emotions instead of your brain in a fight, will get you killed." Nomad said.

Nomad delivered an uppercut to the boy's jaw, his head flying backward. Alexander wished it hurt, but his body was so numb he didn't even feel the hit. Something wet was on his lips. Crap, he was bleeding.

"Come on! You three go to the best superhero academy in the country! Show me what you got!" Nomad yelled.

Fouzia stepped forward, she seemed like she was about to do another fireball, however, she collapsed to the ground with a thud.

"Fouzia," Alexander called.

No answer. The girl was out like a light.

"Worrying about her is going to be the death of you." Nomad said.

He punched Alexander again in the chest. Causing the boy to grunt. Alexander growled and swung his fist to the man's neck, his fist sinking into the man's throat. Nomad let off a throaty gasp before falling backwards.

Just before he fell, Alexander saw a swift hand grab him by his neck. Jake. Jake howled like an animal and flipped the hero body slamming him into the ground.

A loud thud was heard as the man fell. Jake coughed and looked up at Alexander. Blood was running from his mouth and nose like a water fountain. He was covered in bruises and his uniform was ripped.

"You look like shit." Jake coughed.

Alexander groaned in pain. "You don't look much better."

The two boys turned to look at the unconscious Nomad.

"Do you think we got him?" Jake asked.

"I think we need to get the hell out of here." Alexander wheezed.

He turned to the unconscious Fouzia. "Do you think you're strong enough to carry Fouzia?"

Jake coughed again, blood flying from his mouth. "Sure. Pass me that rock. I need to feed."

Alexander raised an eyebrow at the boy's request. He tossed a rock to the boy. Jake smirked and opened his mouth and swallowed the object whole.

"Crap I was hungry. Let's go help Hunter and Jarret." Jake coughed.


Hunter

"Run faster." Hunter barked.

Hunter was carrying the civilian on his shoulder (something he found frustrating since the man wouldn't stop smoking), yet Jarret was still several yards behind them.

"That cyclone damaged my legs!" Jarret called.

They had to get out of here before the teachers caught up with them.

"Jarret hurry up!" Hunter yelled.

He turned to look at the boy, however, he was surprised to see he was on the ground. Hunter frowned, had he fainted? Was he as tired as he complained?

"Jarret get your ass up," Hunter called.

Hunter tried not to, but he couldn't help but worry. As much as he hated the boy, he didn't want him to be seriously hurt. Well unless of course, he was the one hurting him. Hunter looked up at the man on his shoulders.

"Did you see what happened to him?" Hunter asked.

"No, there was too much smoke in my face." He coughed.

Hunter rolled his eyes. "Then you should probably stop smoking."

Just as Hunter said this a blur of blue light slammed into him. Knocking him and the civilian over. Hunter grunted as he landed on the ground. They were being attacked, he realized. Was that an energy blast? No. What slammed into him felt tangible. It must be someone with a speed quirk.

Hunter looked up at the source and gulped at what he saw. Mr. Ross. He was here. Blue sparks of electricity rippled over the man's body.

"Hello, Hunter." He said calmly.

Hunter gulped and got up slowly. "Mr. Ross."

"Let's make this quick shall we?" He said.

"You're not leaving here with that civilian. Paper is an insulator." Hunter grinned.

He flattened his hands and charged. "Know what that means! I'm going to kick your ass!"

Mr. Ross jumped out of the way in a flash, his body a blur of blue. Hunter growled as he landed on the ground. He was too fast.

He held out his hands and another bolt of electricity shot towards Hunter. Hunter stood his ground and turned his body into paper. He yelped, even though the lightning did hurt he could still feel the sparks dancing across his skin.

Using his weightlessness to his advantage the boy leaped into the air and soared over to his teacher. He slashed the man's cheek, causing the teacher to hiss in pain.

"If you would have paid attention in my class you would have known that enough lightning can overwhelm anything." Mr. Ross grinned.

He held up his hands and closed his eyes. Hunter gulped; the man seemed like he was planning something. Soon Hunter felt a sharp spark hit his body. The boy howled din pain and fell backwards. Soon lightning bolts began to slam into Hunter with a furious intensity. Hunter screamed; he was starting to feel it.

"You're going to yield. I have the intensity lowered, so to human flesh, it would probably just be a mild stun. But to your paper form, it will cause you to burst into flames." Mr. Ross said.

Daniel Ross aka Conduit

Quirk: Electrokinesis- He can charge his body with electricity and use it to charge, absorb things or to fight. He can charge his muscles with electricity allowing him to move so fast that he cannot even be seen by the human eye. When he fires a lightning bolt the electricity builds up a magnetic field that has a kinetic energy discharge similar to that of a bullet.

Hunter hissed and gritted his teeth to push through the pain. Mr. Ross was right, he wouldn't last much longer. Lighting was raining down on his like it was a storm.

Hunter sighed. "I'm sorry." He whispered to the civilian.

Hunter willed his body to return to flesh and then everything went black.


Faith

"Come on guys we got this." Faith said.

"Where are the teachers? Are they distracted by the others?" Sarah asked.

Faith gritted her teeth and kept running. They just needed to stay out of sight, and they would be fine.

Soon the speaker was activated again. A loud boom was heard above them.

"Unfortunately, Hunter's team is out of the match. Conduit was able to capture their civilian. That means Lex's team is the only left!" He cheered.

Faith gulped. Hunter was great at combat, she wondered who would be able to take in him out in a couple of minutes.

"We are so fucked." Sarah coughed.

The trio kept running until they heard a ruffle in the bushes. Faith growled and held her arm out to the noise. A bone blade emerging from her wrist.

"Jesus Faith, but the weapon away," Jake said.

Faith raised an eyebrow and pulled her arm back. Emerging from the bushes was Alexander, Jake, and Fouzia. Fouzia was unconscious and draped over Jake's shoulders.

"What happened to you guys?" Lex asked.

The three were badly beaten and their skin was covered black and blue.

"Captain Shotgun made us his bitch. We pulled through in the end." Jake coughed.

"Barely." Alexander whimpered.

"Looks like you guys are out of the competition," Sarah said.

"Hunter had one job!" Jake groaned.

Just as Faith was about to say something lighting struck the tree right next to her. Causing a large explosion. Faith grunted as the force knocked her off her feet.

"What the hell." She coughed.

The six teens turned to look at the source. Conduit was standing before them, blue bolts of lightning dancing around him.

"Hello, students. I'm proud that you made it this far. Alexander and Jake, you can step aside. Since you're out of the competition, I don't have to fight you." He said.

Faith gulped. This was bad. Mr. Ross was powerful, and her quirk didn't work long-range. She was screwed.

Jake took a step forward. "So, since we're already out it doesn't matter what we do?"

"Essentially, yes." Conduit said.

Jake grinned. "Good to know."

He opened his mouth and a massive beam of energy was launched from his lips, slamming into their teacher. Faith widened her eyes in shock, was he actually helping them? Alexander turned to look at the trio.

"You three get your civilian out of here, you guys still have a chance to win!" Alexander yelled.

Faith looked back at the two with admiration. Even though they lost they were willing to fight, to help them. She would expect an act of kindness out of Alexander, but the fact that Jake would step up surprised her.

"You guys are real heroes." Faith said.

With that three teens grabbed their civilian and bolted.


Sarah

"Do you think they got it?" Sarah asked.

They could hear sounds of someone fighting behind them, causing the girl to gulp. She was surprised and grateful that the boys stayed behind to fight Conduit. She frowned, she wasn't sure if the roles were reversed if she would have done the same thing. Did that mean she wasn't a real hero?

"I can't believe we have to fight the hottest teacher," Sarah grumbled.

Faith rolled her eyes. "That's what you're worried about?"

"Well, you have to admit with all those muscles and the glowing blue eyes. Mr. Ross is a yummy snack." Sarah chuckled.

"Sarah we are about to die, salivate over our teacher some other time." Lex barked.

Sarah was about to say something when a loud boom was heard. Lightning strike. The fighting from before went silent. Sarah gulped. Did he electrocute them?

"Did they win?" Faith asked hopelessly.

A tree shattered next to them causing the three to jump back.

"You guys are fucked." The old lady croaked.

"You're not helping Karen!" Sarah yelled.

Approaching from the shattered tree was Nomad. Bruises painted the man's flesh causing them to raise an eyebrow.

"How are you still conscious?" Faith yelped.

"Don't be surprised, I was the number one pro hero for a reason. There's nothing I can't bounce back from." He smirked.

Lex's eyes glowed with a heavenly light. "Bounce back from this."

The tree branch above the man snapped in half, falling right on the man's head. Nomad groaned as the tree slammed into his face.

"Run!" Lex yelled.

The three teens sprinted away from the old man. Sarah frowned if he could get back up form Jake's punches a tree wouldn't stop him for long. They needed a plan. A way to take out Conduit and Nomad. Sarah suddenly remembered her fight with Addy. She was able to slow down just her leg while she in motion, making the girl trip. What if she did something like that for Nomad?

"I have a plan!" Sarah yelled.

"It better not involve you sleeping with Mr. Ross." Faith sighed.

"Well that's Plan B, but Plan A is pretty good too," Sarah smirked.

Sarah sighed and turned to Lex. "How much bad luck do you think you can generate."

Lex frowned. "I've been using my quirk too much, eventually the karma is going to bite me in the ass."

"Just one more time, Dayton. We'll distract them while you conjure it up." Sarah said.

"Conjure what up?" Lex asked.

Daniel Ross

"Where are they?" Nomad barked.

"No idea," Daniel said.

The two teachers were walking through the woods, searching for the sign of the teens.

Daniel held up his hands, blue sparks jumping from his fingertips.

"We'll find them." He said.

"You don't have to look far stud, I'm right here!" A voice yelled.

Daniel and Nomad turned to look at the source. Standing in front of them was Sarah a smirk on her face.

"Hey, there sugar." She smirked.

Daniel raised an eyebrow, he heard stories of Sarah's…personality. He pointed his fingers towards Sarah and prepared a bolt of lightning. He grunted and hurled the energy blast towards the girl. She yelped and did a cartwheel out of the way. Daniel smiled, he predicted that. He lunged towards the girl, the electricity boosting his speed. He slammed into the girl and pushed her to the ground.

Sarah grunted and brought her knee to his crotch causing the man to gasp in pain. She grinned.

"Sorry about that." She grinned. "I'm just the decoy."

He grunted as he felt a rough fist collide with his temple. He looked up and saw Faith was smirking at him.

"Come on Mr. Ross you should have been able to dodge that." Faith chuckled.

He smirked and jumped over the girls landing right next to Nomad.

"Thanks for helping." He said.

"It looked like you had that under control." Nomad shrugged.

"Which one do you want?" Mr. Ross asked.

"That's cute, they thought that they got to pick who gets to fight who," Sarah smirked.

The two girls charged, Sarah lunging towards Nomad and Faith charging towards Mr. Ross. Faith held up a spiked arm towards Mr. Ross. The man grunted and rolled out of the way, she had to be quicker than that. However, the girl seemed prepared, while he was dodging her arm she kicked her leg backwards, the bones slashing into his thigh.

He gritted his teeth and touched the blood. "Clever."

He growled and pointed his fingers towards Faith, a beam of electricity shot towards the girl. Faith grunted as it made contact, however she didn't seem too fazed. Faith yelled in pain but kept walking towards the man.

He grunted and turned up the intensity. How was she still standing? Anyone else would be unconscious. This was bad, he already used a lot of electricity he didn't know how much more he could produce without needing to recharge.

"There's a reason why I decided to take you on sir." Faith grinned. "My muscles are always ripping apart due to my quirk. Do you know what that means? I developed a healing factor and a very very high pain tolerance." Faith said.

Daniel charged towards the girl, the increased speed making him a blur. He grabbed Faith by her arm and flipped her.

"Even without my electricity, I'm still a great fighter," Daniel said.

He swung at the girl's face, however, a bone blade shot from her cheek, slashing into his knuckles. She growled like an animal and created a bone blade on her wrist. She grunted and stabbed the man in his shoulder.

He screamed in pain once the blade penetrated his skin. His lightning wasn't slowing her down. He turned and saw Nomad and Sarah were still trading hits. He swung his fist towards the blond girl, just as he did she held her arm up to block. The rest of his body moved with remarkable speed, however, his fist slowed down. Sarah smirked and snapped her fingers. Nomad yelped in pain and stumbled backwards. He massaged his wrist, which was currently crocked. What did she do? She hadn't even touched him.

Sarah's quirk was slowing things down. Daniel realized. With the amount of power, Nomad had in his fists, slowing them down suddenly while his body was still in motion would probably shatter his muscles. And judging by how the man was screaming in pain it did.

Daniel was happy that the students were thinking out of the box and that they made it this far, however, he wasn't going to make this easy for them. He turned to Faith and grabbed her by her neck. He wasn't sure how much electricity it would take to knock her out, but he would use as much volts as humanly possible.

He yelled and blasted her with full force. She howled in pain and her body began to thrash. However, she still displayed a look of determination of her face. She gritted her teeth and looked up at the man.

"Like Sarah said, we're just the decoy." She coughed.

Just as she said that the man heard a loud thunderclap. He frowned; he didn't cause that. He looked up and gasped at what he saw. Sitting on top of the tree trunk was Lex. His eyes bright gold and his body pointed to the sky.

He yelled out of what sounded like exhaustion and put his hands down, following his command rain began to pour from the clouds. The stream of water slammed into Mr. Ross like a fire hose. The rain was the last thing he remembered after that everything went black.


Lex

Lex gritted his teeth as he tried to control the storm. He never tried something this drastic with his power. Once Sarah realized the only way to take out electricity was with water she asked Lex to make a storm. Sure, Lex had influenced the weather here and there depending on if he wanted to go outside. But a full-on tropical rainstorm? That was pushing his quirk behind luck and into magic territory.

Yet here he was throwing a storm cloud at their teacher. As soon as the water hit his electricity covered body, he passed out, causing Lex to sigh in relief. He turned to see Sarah and Faith were getting up slowly.

"We did it." Faith cheered.

"Congratulations to the winning team! Alexander Dayton aka Jinx, Faith Ritter aka Valora, Sarah Smith aka Stopwatch, and Fouzia Zambiea aka Cyclone." Captain Cincinnati said over the speaker.

Lex smiled. It was over. They won.

"Lex look out!" Sarah yelled.

Lex looked up and gasped at what he saw. Suddenly he remembered that he hadn't received karma in a very long time. Just as he had this thought a giant bolt of lightning slammed into the boy knocking him off the tree.

He heard faint voices in the background asking if he was okay, but everything was muddled. Voices became lost in the background. His whole went numb as his world went black.


Two Days Later

Faith

"Are you sure you're okay?" Faith asked.

Her eyes looked at Lex up and down, the boy was currently in crutches and his normally long blond hair was burnt at the ends.

"Never been better. A little lightning never hurt anybody." Lex smirked.

It was two days after the Rescue assignment, Lex spent all of yesterday in the infirmary recovering from the lightning strike. Faith felt bad that he had to push quirk to its limits just so they could win, however, the boy didn't seem to resent them for it.

"I wonder how we did on the rankings," Lex admitted.

"You're probably still going to be number one." Faith sighed.

She did a dramatic pout. "All that winning is getting to your head."

"Relax Faith, I've only won two assignments. And besides, I couldn't have done it without you guys." Lex smiled.

The two walked to the common room, with a smile on their face. They felt good about the rankings, and even though it didn't matter as much to them as it did to the rest of the class, it still felt good to get recognition for their work.

The entire class was there already, waiting for Mrs. Zambiea to post the rankings.

"The suspense is killing me," Jake said.

"I'm a loser again, so it doesn't really matter as much." Kaleb sighed.

Cleo sighed. "I'm definitely not number six anymore."

Sarah sat next to Fouzia, something Faith found unusual. When did they become friends? Sarah yawned dramatically.

"Boring. Can we rush this along so I can get pizza?" Sarah asked.

Lex laughed and sat right to Sarah, causing Faith to frown. Don't be jealous. Faith said to herself. So what now both of her best friends wanted to spend more time with Sarah than her. It wasn't that big of a deal she told herself. She sighed and sat down to Lex, who was laughing at something Sarah said.

Soon Mrs. Zambiea walked into the common room, bright smiles on her face.

"Hello, all!" She said.

There was a chorus of hellos, however, they were all halfhearted, everyone was too focused on what the rankings were going to be.

A pink piece of paper was in her hands and she sighed. "I just want you all to know that no matter what this paper says I think you all are winners."

"Sounds like something patronizing to say to the losers." Alice sighed.

"I'll explain to you how the grading works. The winning team, Lex, Faith, Sarah, and Fouzia each got sixteen points added to their total score. The second-place team got eight points added to their score. While the other eight students got sixteen points deducted from their score." She explained.

Everyone's face dropped. To lose that many points for one assignment was drastic. Faith felt bad for the others that didn't win, it made her victory bittersweet.

"The class ranking are as follows." She said.

Faith walked over to look at the sheet. She smiled at what she saw.

1. Lex

2. Fouzia

3. Sarah

4. Hunter

5. Faith

6. Jarret

7. Alexander

8. Jake

9. Maryanne

10. Alice

11. Cleo

12. Victoria

13. Kevin

14. Aerolynn

15. Matt

16. Kaleb

"I'm last." Kaleb frowned.

Alexander patted Kaleb's back. "Don't worry buddy, you'll be up top in no time."

"I'm number fifteen! That's bullshit. I've been working my ass off." Matt said.

Sarah flipped her hair. "Apparently not hard enough."

Matt turned to look at Sarah a look that was a mixture of anger and longing. Faith raised an eyebrow, she heard that she had beaten him in the competition, something that she found strange. Why would Matt and Sarah even be fighting? Even though they were technically broken up it seemed like they both really liked each other. Whatever happened in the arena seemed to have change them?

Hunter clapped his hands. "At least I'm still number four, the ladies love a winner."

Victoria rolled her eyes. "Yet they don't love you."

Lex turned to Fouzia, Sarah, and Faith. "Congrats on now being int the top five."

"Congrats on still being number one." Fouzia chuckled.

"I can't believe I'm third!" Sarah grinned. "I always thought the rankings were bullshit, but it feels nice for everyone to look at me with jealousy."

Sarah's comment made Faith feel self-conscious. She remembered how Lex felt when he made the top five the first time. The rest of the class looked at him with hungry eyes. There kids in their class that would do anything to win. How far would some of them go? Was there a target on her back?

"Look there's Alexander and Jake." Fouzia said.

Sarah grinned and walked over to the two boys. She reached into her purse and pulled out two homemade cards. They were both bright pink and covered in detailed illustrations. Faith raised an eyebrow, she had no idea Sarah was so crafty.

"This is for you two." Sarah smiled.

Fouzia walked over to Jake and Alexander and grinned. "Sarah told me how you guys stepped up, carrying me and even defending the rest of my team. I just wanted to thank you, guys. You guys are real heroes."

Jake and Alexander blushed.

"It's nothing," Jake said.

"He's right you would have done the same for us," Alexander said.

Sarah leaned and kissed Jake on his cheek. She then turned to do the same for Alexander.

"I wouldn't have, but it's nice that you think so. Toodles!" Sarah smiled.

She walked off leaving the teens alone. Fouzia chuckled.

"She's lying, she would have. Anyway, we made these cards for you to thank you." Fouzia said.

Faith frowned, why hadn't they asked her to help? Suddenly Sarah was best friends with Fouzia? Faith wasn't a positive person, but lately, it felt like all her old friends preferred the school's mean girl. Was there something she was missing something?

"Faith." A voice called.

Faith turned to see Matt walking over to her. Faith raised an eyebrow, she couldn't remember the last time she had a conversation with the boy.

"Matt?" Faith asked.

"I need to talk to you," Matt said.

Faith. "Okay."

"I'm sure you've noticed Lex and Sarah have gotten closer lately." Matt frowned.

Faith gritted her teeth. She had been trying not to think about it.

"I haven't noticed." Faith lied.

"We both want the same thing." Matt reasoned.

"I doubt it." Faith chuckled.

"We both want them to stop spending so much time with each other, and more time with us. The way I see it, we can help each other." Matt said.

Faith gulped. A way to bring things back to the way they used to be.

"So what do you say?" Matt asked


Cyrus

"Do you want a beer?" Cyrus asked.

He looked at Panda, the young boy nervously sat at the table of the bar.

"I'm only fourteen sir." He said quietly.

"And? When I was your age I was downing a six pack. Anyway Verity-"

Panda cut him off. "Sir you don't have to call me Verity when we're not in combat."

Cyrus smiled. It was good the boy was feeling more comfortable around him. "No problem."

His quirk was a useful asset to his team, he needed the boy to feel like he could trust him.

"Sir why are we here?" Panda asked.

Cyrus smiled. "My spy is going to meet us here?"

Panda's eyes widened. "A spy?"

"Did you really think I didn't have someone inside of the Academy? I need to know every decision Amanda makes, which means I need someone to be my eyes and ears. Too bad I didn't have you apply to be a student. Having two spies would have been useful." Cyrus remarked.

Panda blushed. "You really think I could have been a hero?"

"You are a hero." Cyrus corrected.

He growled. "The MSA doesn't create heroes, they create frauds. Anyone who tells you otherwise is delusional."

He knew heroes like Shaman and Hell Priest didn't save people because they cared about them, they did it for the fame. The glory. Footsteps were approaching the table. He was here. Cyrus grinned and turned to face the boy.

His arms were crossed, and he was looking at Cyrus with a glare. He never seemed happy to see Cyrus.

"Hello, Hunter. It's so good to see you. What new information do you have for me?" Cyrus asked.


Ms. Morningstar's Files

Name: Jarret Han

Quirk: Spinning Top

Parents: Joshua Han (Father), Annabel Han (mother)

Medical Conditions: N/A

Notes: Jarret's one of those boys who grew up loving heroes and aims to become one. However, he's short minded and has no idea what being a hero actually entails. After observing him I can tell he's a coward and a hypocrite. He expects heroes to be perfect, yet he's too scared to jump into battle. However I do admire his self-preservation, that will be handy on the battlefield. Jarret has no idea what he's signed himself up for, he thinks being a hero is exactly what you see on the news, he isn't ready for how brutal it's going to be. As of now his tornados are a mere nuisance but if he keeps training, they may be devasting. I will not recommend for the advanced course, however his performance in the arena was promising.

Danger Level: Yellow


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