Aio sat down in his home room class, Jake sat next to him with Clarissa on the other side. The whole class grew quiet and looked forward as the teacher walked in.
"Let me get one thing straight; you will not speak unless spoken to you will listen to everything I say and you will obey every order I give. If you disagree with these rules you can walk out now, but if you do don't bother coming back. But if you stay I will make you, mold you into the best hero that you can be." He said in a serious and direct tone. He still had his uniform on with his mask.
"Whoa he has a stick way up his butt." Chase whispers to Merry. A small shape metal projectile flies through the room and goes through the desk and lands in-between his legs close to his crotch.
"And there will be no disrespect!" Pinpoint yells while walking towards Chase. He leans in and whispers into Chase's ear. "Speak out of turn again and I might aim a bit higher." Pinpoint straightens and walks to the front of the class leaving behind a terrified Chase. Merry giggles a bit, and Pinpoint turns and throws a knife straight at her throat and it stops midair, hovering just centimeters from her neck. " Keep laughing, charlatan, I dare you." Merry looks at Pinpoint with both terror and confusion. She then looks down now showing defeat and Pinpoint pulls the knife back into his hand from the air.
A girl stands up and yells at Pinpoint. "You can't treat us like that, we are heroes not some common criminal!" Pinpoint looks over and walks over to her desk.
"What is your name?" He asks. The girl shifts trying to hide her fear.
"Addilee, Addilee Allimae." She responds, then six knives comes out of Pinpoints coat. Four cut the legs off of her chair and she starts to fall. Pinpoint grabs her and pushes her to the ground. One knife hovers above her forehead, Pinpoint grabs another one, and holds it to her throat his other hand is holding Addilee hands down. The other four knives carefully go back into Pinpoints coat.
"You insolet little girl, I could kill you now and no one would ever shed a tear for you. You are who I say you are, and right now you are less than human. You're no hero, and the way you are too now you will never be a hero until I make you one. Now shut up and listen up." Pinpoint begins to release her when she starts yelling back.
"My parents won't stand for this one word out of my mouth and you'll be off to jail!" She is yelling with terror and anger.
"Your parents signed a document saying I can do what I want, when I want. You're in my world now little girl." Pinpoint responds back. He lifts his knife in the air as if to stab her, Addilee starts to scream as he brings the knife down. The knife lands on the floor next to her, blood starts to drip from her ear, he cut her ear. It was nothing major, just enough to show her he can. He pulls the knife out of the ground saying, "You can leave if you wish, but know that if you do, you will never be a hero and always a failure." Pinpoint stands up and walks over to his desk and pulls the knives back into his coat with the others.. Addilee is still on the ground, she curls up and starts sobbing quietly. A girl stands up to comfort her. "SIT DOWN. Don't help her, if she can't handle it, she can leave." The girl sits back down.
"Okay, roll call. When I call your name say present, and your gifted ability" Pinpoint said as he pulls some papers out of his desk. Pinpoint starts to read off names.
"Addilee Allimea"
"Present, my gifted ability is to secrete acid from my hands and mouth at will" She's still trying to gather herself from her experience with Pinpoint and is now standing with no place to sit.
"Franklin Arken"
"Present, I can turn things into glassthat I touch."
"Clarissa Blair"
"Present, my gifted ability is to make crystals and pull them from the ground."
"Aleecia Brook."
"Present, and my ability is to shoot hot steam out of my hands."
"Lexi Caressa."
"Present, and I can nullify all powers that try and affect me."
"Dark Void." Pinpoint gives a curious look at him hoping to find something out.
"Present, energy manipulation."
"Brian Dawn."
"Present, I can turn into a snake and talk to snakes."
"Merry Eden."
"Present, and I have super strength for my gifted ability."
"Jay Fowler."
"Present, and I have the most fascinating and excellent and awe-inspiring gifted ability of them all. it shadows over every other ability, I have ostrich legs." he lifts his legs up showing off his ostrich legs. a knife comes flying through the room and cuts the nails off of his legs. He jumps halfway across the room scared and screaming out in terror "you could have taken off my leg."
"Maybe next time I will." Pinpoint says. Jay walks back to his desk and terror sits down and shuts up for the first time in a long time.
"Aurora Fox."
"Present, and I can turn into thin air."
"Chase Grogan."
"Present, and I can turn into a metal beast."
"Simon Holden"
"Present, My gift is I can pull metal out of my body."
"Ami Ito."
"Present, and I can sense what a person does before they do it."
"Celia James."
"Present, and I have two cables that come out of my back that I control."
"Ronin Kage."
"Present, I can create beasts made of shadows."
"Lily Kalinda."
"Present, and my gifted ability is to shoot focused rays of radiation out of my body."
"Miku Kazami."
"Present, and I can control the wind "
"Avilasa Leto."
"Present, and I can turn invisible."
"Ros Miller."
"Present, and I can shoot sound waves from my hands."
"Aio Nelson."
"Present, I can create and control force fields."
"Tak Richards."
"Present, I can create electricity and make it flow into things."
"Kenneth Ward."
"Present, I can create any gun that I have touched last."
"Taylor Williams."
"Present, I have hydraulics in my bones which give me super strength."
"Chet Wilson."
"Present, I have many features of a water dragon lizard."
"Okay now that is done, let's get started." He passes out uniforms, they are grey with some armor and black leather boots, and they have the schools crest on the left breast which was chevalier's old symbol. The uniforms were so dirty that it was gross and they smelled like five month old moldy cheese. "I want these cleaned by tomorrow and I want to see my reflection in those boots. Goodbye see you tomorrow." Pinpoint walks out of the room. It is completely quiet for about a minute, they wanted to make sure that he was actually gone before they erupted in anger.
"How could he do that to us!"
"I will not be treated like that!"
"I came here to learn not to be a laundry service!"
Aio, Jake, Ros, Dark Void and a few others were cleaning the uniforms. Some were cleaning out of fear, others for admiration of Pinpoint and lastly some were cleaning because they were told to. Jake leaned over to Aio and started talking.
"What do you think of Pinpoint? He is really extreme but I think he knows what he's doing. I mean he teaches here so he must know something."
"He will be the fastest way to my goal." Aio says focused on cleaning.
"Ok that's cool, but did you see some of the girls? Oh man they are smoking hot! Like the surface of the sun hot!" Jake says " Like Aurora, she's probably the hottest one or maybe Lexi or Clarissa."
"Seriously, can you think of nothing else?" Aio asks.
"I'm a ladies man, and I can be nothing else. The real question is why aren't you that way. You're the weird one for not noticing girls, and maybe Darky over there." Jake says.
"Does he still scare you?" Aio asks
"HE FREAKS ME OUT MAN!" Jake answers
" Okay, whatever." Aio answers calmly still focused on the uniform.
Outside Aren is walking with Lisa out in the courtyard.
"So how did Aio do in the tests, really?" Aren asks.
"He did really well." Lisa said
"Oh, that's good." Aren said quietly and solemnly
"What is wrong?" Lisa asks.
"It's nothing." Aren answers
"It's never nothing." Lisa presses gently for him to answer and she places her hand on him affectionately. Aren sighs and pauses
"You know." Aren finally answers looking at her in the eyes.
"Will you tell him?" She asks.
"I don't know. He's too hurt right now and holds too much anger. I worried about what he might do." Aren closes his eyes. Lisa can see his hurt and conflicted feelings and hugs him. Aren hugs her back, and Lisa goes to kiss him. Her lips barely touches his before he breaks the hug and kiss and looks down.
"I can't." Aren says almost ashamed.
"I'm sorry." Lisa says backing off.
"It's not you, I just can't right now." Aren turns and walks away as Lisa stares hurt and confuses.
Pinpoint walks into his classroom and turns to face his class. They were quiet and all but one has their uniform folded, cleaned and out in front of them. Pinpoint walks to the student who didn't have his uniform out and ready.
" Frank Arken, correct?" Pinpoint asks.
"Yeah, what can I do ya for? Frank asks.
"where's your uniform?" Pinpoint ask
"The assignment was stupid and wasn't worth my time. I came here to learn how to fight not to scrub a uniform."
"Get out, you're expelled if you can't do this I can't trust you do anything else." Pinpoint said
"What you can't do this to me I passed the tests! I won't leave and you can't make me!" Frank starts to shout.
"Your uniform is not just for show it helps you, protects you and assists you. I can't trust you to clean the uniform I cannot trust you in any other place, and I don't need that in my classroom." Pinpoint said as he throws Frank out of the window and closes it. Pinpoint turns to address the class.
"The uniform that you have before you is a symbol, it stands for what Chevalier stood for and it stands for what the school stands for. When you wear that uniform you represent the school, not just yourself you represent the person beside you, you represent the future of heroes. I had you clean it to show discipline and patience and you showed that. Now when you wear that uniform you can wear it with pride because you help make that uniform what it is right now. And now the real training begins..."
Next Time, Chapter 14 Training...