Chapter 4: First day.
-A few days later.-
Madow walks into class-1 A, recognizing the students who took the test with him, while the other are new to him. He walks to his seat, leftmost on the first row. Only to groan in annoyance seeing his deskmate, Luxanna.
He doesn't have to wait long though, as Eraser King walks by the door saying "We'll be having a quirk exam today. To get to know each other's powers better."
Everyone walks out of class excited. Isaac getting overly enthusiastic to the point of pulling some classmates accidentally.
"So, class will start with a 50-meter dash, going by alphabetical order. Akali Jhomen Tethi you go first."
Madow is paying attention to the rest of the class, making mental notes of their quirks.
A girl with brown long hair, with yellow highlights, walks to the starting line, she throws a knife forward, teleporting to it and throwing another one at the finish line. 1.2 seconds.
Alex Fierro. A girl with green hair walks to the starting line. As she takes the first step a tear in space appears in front of her, getting to the finish in a single step. 0.8 seconds.
Alexander J. Mercer. A pale boy wearing a hoodie. His legs break into shape, going into a quadrupedal position. His arms follow suit. His flesh melting while blades and claws form. With a single leap, he reaches the end. 0.45 seconds.
Bayek Medjay. He starts running, then his eagle grabs him and flies him to the end. 1 second.
Delsin Rowe. He turns to smoke in a dash to the finish line. 1.1 seconds.
Isaac Northweast. He shoots out a glowing sphere while the rocks that make up his body follow it, reforming at the finish line. 0.9 seconds.
Katherine Cosmic. She throws webs to the ground to pull herself forward, then runs the rest of the way. 0.4 seconds.
Kevin E. Levin. He walks by a student with wings on his back touching them, growing a smaller pair of wings on his own back. He uses them to fly to the end. 3.1 seconds.
Luxanna Stemmaguarda. She walks with a grin, pretending to be bored but thinking to herself, 'They'll see how great my quirk is now! Eat dust suckers!'. She throws her staff at an incredible speed, then turns into pure light following it. 0.35 seconds. She looks extremely smug at the rest of the class.
Madow L. Bohai. 'Of course I go right next to this bitch.' He sighs. He gathers water around his body, turning it into a giant drill, and making it spin with water jets. Then makes a bunch of tentacles grab the drill to slingshot himself forward while launching water backward for propulsion, and moving the air in front away with the moisture in it. 0.35 seconds.
He walks back to the group as if nothing had even happened, Lux stares at him with pure hatred in her eyes. If you listened carefully you could almost hear the long list of curses inside her head. Madow looks back in kind with just as much hatred at how spoiled that 'bitch' is.
Markus Wayne. Runs with perfect form and superhuman speed. 3.5 seconds.
Maxwell McGrath. In a burst of light, his body is covered in armor and a motorbike appears underneath him. He rides it to the end. 0.36 seconds.
Nero Sparda. He throws his demonic arm to the finish and pulls himself towards it. 1.4 seconds.
Ratonhnhaké:ton, more commonly know as Connor Kenway. Starts running, then turns into a spectral bird. 1.1 seconds.
Rex Salazar. Makes giant turbines on his back and flies to the end. 0.69 seconds.
Lucifer Morningstar. Flies with his wings to the end. 1 second.
Samira Gypsum Rose. She throws a rose that simply appeared in her mouth into the air and starts running really fast. 2.4 seconds. She turns back to the crowd and throws her hair back with her hands, a giant heart briefly appearing behind her. Madow is absolutely disgusted.
Seraphine Song. She starts to sing as a small stage appears underneath her, her uniform changing into an idol outfit. Madow covers his ears with ice and looks away as the other students are compelled to sing together, Samira even dancing to it. Her stage flies forward with the music. 2.4 seconds.
Viktoria S. Wheeler. Her spine starts to glow as she runs as if time had slowed down for her. 0.2 seconds. Most of the class cheers for her.
William Butcher. He just walks to finish, not much he can do in this situation. 50 seconds. He then goes over to talk with the teacher.
"Now that were done with the running, let's move on to the next test." Says Eraser King.
Rex goes over to Madow who still had his ears covered and was looking away, poking him. Madow looks back at him, Rex points at his ears and Madow removes the ice. "Hey, man. the teacher told us that the next test is about strength"
Madow just replies with a thumbs-up and walks away. Leaving Rex thinking he was bit rude. Which he was.
They arrive at the gymnasium, the test is just a grip strength test using machines. A few of the students are able to break the machines, getting over 3.5 tons of force.
Madow is among them, being able to make a giant vice out of ice, crushing the machine, and getting a maximum score. Lux looks at him angrily again, but he just stares back with a deadpan expression.
The average score was over 1 ton.
"Now lest move on to the last test, which is a 3 in 1 test. You'll have to jump over the marking on the ground, go to a brief parkour segment, and attack the villain with a hostage at the end." The villain and hostage are just dolls.
The top 3 besides madow are: Katherine, 6 seconds; Alexander, 9 seconds; Viktoria, 10 seconds.
Madow uses water jets for propulsion, then tentacles for maneuvering over the walljump section. Throwing a tentacle at the monkey bars, swinging over to increase his speed. Then throwing another tentacle down the ramp to pull himself and slide on it. Running directly into the doll with a ball of water around him, the ball making ice spikes to dig into the villain, and absorbing the civilian softly into it. 8 seconds. Second best time.
"Very well done guys, especially Madow for the overall first place. You are now dismissed for lunch." Eraser king walks away with a sleeping bag in hand.
The students start to divide themselves into groups, while Madow just gets fish from the cafeteria and sits alone. Or at least he was alone until Lux started walking over to him.
She stands in front of Madow, hands in hips and a scowl on her face. "Get up."
"Any good reason?"
"Isn't me asking a good enough reason? Hurry up, I want to talk to you." Tapping her foot impatiently.
"Yeah, no thank you." He freezes himself in the chair, to sit down more somehow.
She sighs and sits down in the air next to him, making some solid light to hold her up. "I'd like to start over. You went so well on all the tests and I believe that my aggressive conduct was in the very least annoying, for lack of a better word." She says this while staring into his eyes, a cold and disinterested look of someone who has done this many times.
"No, thank you." He goes back to eating his fish.
She gets up angrily, and her seat explodes. She looks at him as if to say something, but nothing comes out. She just begins to scowl again and walk away.
"Just to be clear, this behavior was exactly what I expected from you."
"You moron! I tried to be friendly with you, from now on it's your fault!" She stomps away somewhere else.