The class all changed into their hero costumes and arrived at the waiting room where the challenge was being held, the gang was sitting in silence for a little bit while they all got their gear together. While this was happening, Harrison was cooking up a plan to make them win.
"So Harrison, do you actually have a plan like last time?" Sabrina said as all the students were sitting around in a circle.
Harrison scoffed.
"Fool how should I know, unlike Rex, I don't know how these peoples powers or how they work" Harrison said looking down.
"What I can say however… We stick in groups!" Harrison demanded.
The rest of the class all listened to this as this was the most important part of their plan.
"The Support course numbers are bigger, about twelve people, so it would be best for us to he in 5 groups of two!" Harrison exclaimed.
"Wouldn't it he generous to assume that they would send all their forces at once?" Orion questioned.
"A good theory, but a irrelevant question, my statement was only used so we would have the best chances at winning, not to answer every possibility of what would happen" Harrison said.
Rex got up going to the starting door.
"And where do you think you're going?" Harrison said with a eyebrow raised.
"Look Richie Rich, as much as I love jumping people, I don't really trust you one bit, if your plan couldn't even work against someone as weak as me, what makes you think it'll work on people we know nothing about!" Rex said.
Harrison got up and grabbed Rex by his collar.
"You're being unreasonable! If you consider yourself weak then why the hell would you go off alone!" Harrison said.
Rex grabbed Harrisons arm tightly.
"Look if anyone wants to stick with me that fine, but testing out the limits of what I can do on my own is how I can become a good hero Harrison, being a good hero also means teamwork I know that, but if I can't fight on my own how the hell can I he a pro?" Rex said.
"This isn't the time for infighting guy!" Owen said.
"He's right! If we can't work together in private, how can we work together in a fight!" Jake said.
D-Jay grabbed their arms and shook his head, Rex and Harrison looking him and letting go.
"Fine then, be that way, I have eight other people that would be willing to cooperate!" Harrison said walking away.
M1cheal got up and got everyone's attention.
"Alright Classmates, according to Roughouser, we have exactly fourty-five seconds to be out and ready" He said out of his speaker.
Everyone begins to leave out the room all except two, Rex and Yui.
Despite Rex wanting to go off alone he was a bit nervous about the challenge, thinking that he wasn't good enough and would fail.
As Rex sunk deeper into his insecurities, he received a hug from Yui, it was warm and tender, coming from a place of genuine care and concern.
"Y-Yui…" Rex whispered.
"Rex… There you go again not thinking of the people rooting for you" Yui says quietly.
Rex didn't say anything as he felt bad, he was ignoring everyone he held dear to him.
"This isn't the Rex I know! Calling yourself weak! Please give me the Rex I know back!" Yui said tears coming down.
Rex got up and patted her shoulder.
"Calm down with the waterworks Yui" Rex said smiling.
Rex fixed his gloves and walk up to the door opening it.
"It's time to fulfill a heroes duty, come on Yui, you're coming with me!" Rex said smiling.
Yui was speechless but she wiped her tears and nodded.
Yui and Rex were the last team to head out.
Rex and Yui traveled the city area together as the beginning of the challenge was starting, the collective time to finish the challenge was 3 Hours, which was a pretty generous amount of time in Rex's mind.
Rex and Yui finished exploring the outskirts of the city area and made it to the lake.
"Man there wasn't shit in the city, that's surprising." Rex said.
"Maybe we have to check more in the forest area…" Yui said quietly.
"You kidding? Do you know how many people are probably lurking there? We'd be lucky if we could even catch a breath over there!" Rex exclaimed.
"Well Well Well! Look who it is! Two hero course people just waltzing around off guard!" A voice said from the top of a tree.
Rex and Yui stared at the guy, for some reason the support course students were only wearing their gym outfit.
"And you are?" Rex said skeptical.
The guy jumped down from the tree and landing on his feet by gliding through the air with wings.
"My Names Aaron! Aaron Wildheart!" Aaron said as he stared at the two students.
"My lord this guy is corny" Rex said in his head.
"Rex did you see that his power can actually cause some trouble!" Yui said.
"What do you mean?" Rex said.
"His ability… he can turn himself into animal parts, any that he desires!" Yui said.
"Ding Ding Ding!" Aaron said.
"Wait so does that mean like, a dragon!" Rex said.
"Uhhhhhh no… dragons don't exist" Aaron said.
"Lame…" Rex said kicking his foot.
Aaron stretched and looked at Yui and Rex.
"Well if we're done with the formalities, let's get to it!" Aaron said changing his feet into kangaroo legs jumping and throwing a punch at Yui.
Rex reacted quickly and blocked the punch, protecting Yui as he immediately connected to water.
"A powerful punch, I don't think Yui is safe fighting this guy even if we tag team him" Rex thought.
"Yui! You may have to stay out of this one! This guys too strong!" Rex yelled.
Yui was hesitant but nodded as she ran to a safe space.
"Since I'm by the lake, that means I don't have to waste water from my bottles on my belt" Rex coated his hand in water.
Rex threw a punch straight to Aaron's face, it connected, a good punch.
Unfortunately before Rex could truly connect the hit, Aaron transformed his face into a turtle shell.
Aaron snickered as he seen Rex's surprised face.
Rex immediately did some acrobatics and flipped backwards getting some distance.
Rex immediately focused water into the tip of his finger.
"Water Gun!" Rex said as he shot the beam of water at Aaron.
Aaron expected this however, transforming his arms into wings and dodging the beam by flying in the air.
Rex seen his wings, it wasn't any ordinary wings, it was the wings of a Peregrine Falcon, the fastest bird on the planet.
Aaron swooped down at incredible speeds crashing into Rex.
Rex coughed up spit as he was flung through the air.
Before he could even react however, Aaron using his wings hit a barrage of strikes on Rex while he was in the air, using his talons to cause major damage to his costume, when it was all over, Aaron used his talons to axe kick Rex into the water.
The water felt like concrete as Rex fell down, he held his breath trying to reach back to the surface, however, he had a plan.
"Well looks like that's that!" Aaron said landing to the ground.
Yui looked at Aaron getting ready to fight.
"I would love to see what you can do fair maiden, unfortunately, I would never strike a lady!" Aaron said smiling.
"Rex… where are you…" Yui thought as she adjusted her voice modulator to the higher setting.
Before Yui could even do a attack, a barrage of chains of water came from the lake, wrapping Aaron and trapping in the spot he stood.
Aaron was shocked and couldn't escape from the strong hold.
As he stop there, Rex appeared from the water, drifting through the air by using strong water pressure under his feet.
Rex rolls onto the lush green grass, gliding across the ground by coating his feet in water and connecting a jet punch right in Aaron's nose.
Aaron got sent flying as the chains disappeared.
"Impressive power, the information I got from you must've been wrong, you pack a punch!" Aaron said.
"Information?" Rex said coating his fist in water.
"Oh yeah, there's been some rumors of you having no control at all, a amateur!" Aaron said provoking Rex.
"Amateur huh…" Rex said.
"I'll show you a amateur!" Rex said running towards Aaron at full speed.
Aaron sees Rex going in for a punch and quickly reacted by transforming his entire right arm into that of a gorilla.
The two clashed fist creating a shockwave around them and causing the ground beneath them to break apart causing cracks in the dirt and grass.
Rex quickly seen a opening on Aaron's body and kicked his ribs then immediately using his other hand to punch Aaron in his face.
Aaron flew back but catching himself on his feet, he responded to Rex by creating his arm into that of a Squid, whipping Rex in his ribs.
Rex tanked it and with all his strength pulled the tentacle and Aaron's body to him.
Rex seeing Aaron's momentum, used one arm, gathering the water around him infront of his fist and unleashing a shotgun that hit Aaron inside out.
Aaron coughed up blood and got sent into a neighboring tree.
Rex's arm got some nasty recoil as he held it.
"Rex are you okay!?" Yui ran up to him yelling.
"Y-Yeah, just a little recoil" Rex said getting up from his knees.
Yui and Rex looked at the snapped tree that was left from the impact of Aaron's body.
"Is it over?" Yui said.
Rex looked at her and smiled.
"There's no way you could've survived something like that right?" Rex said.
The unassuming Rex and Yui began to walk away from the lake until a angry Aaron got up, Rex caught on looking behind his back and putting his guard up again.
"What the hell? How are you not down yet?" Rex said.
"You really think… I would go down from that… I haven't even begun to go all out!" Aaron said.
Aaron's body was changing, changing to a incredible degree, his face grew, his legs doubled, tripled in size, his arms got shorter but the car sized tail nearly made up for that, be became the size of a skyscraper and towered over both Rex and Yui to a incredible degree. Aaron had transformed into a dinosaur, a T-Rex to be exact and it sent fear into both Yui and Rex as they were paralyzed in fear.
"Uh Yui?" Rex said turning to her.
"Yes Rex…" Yui said quietly hesitant to even speak.
Rex quickly grabs Yui, putting her over his shoulder and turning his back.
"R-Rex what are you doing!?" Yui said turning bright red.
Rex coated his feet in water and starts skating at high speed away.
"NOW WE RUN!" Rex yelled.
The Dinosaur Aaron roared loudly, cashing Rex as they approached the city area of the facility.
On their way there, the dinosaur stomped on the ground, creating huge footprints that disrupted Rex's escape.
Rex tumbled with Yui in his arms but landing on his feet and looking at the dinosaur in the eye.
"What the hell!? How am I supposed to beat a T-Rex!?" Rex thought.
"Uh Rex! This is a little unnecessary!" Yui said over his shoulder.
Before Yui could say anything else, the dinosaur roared, sending a powerful shockwave that separated Rex and Yui into the city area.
Rex was getting ready to crash into the sidewalk until he recovered using his water chain to grab onto a nearby street light.
Rex stood on it, becoming eye level with the dinosaur.
Rex propelled through the air with burst of water, punching the dinosaur with a water coated punch and kick in the air.
The dinosaur staggered, quickly whipping Rex with his tail, Rex got sent crashing through a building leaving a gigantic hole in the wall of the fifth floor.
Rex barely got up, scrapes and scratches all over his body.
"I see, so he's mindless, I think I may have a idea…" Rex thought to himself.
Before Rex could fully recover, a tail came crashing through the floor he was on.
Rex barely saw the tail and grabbed onto it, the swipe made him crash into another wall, but this was the time to finally get the upper hand on the dinosaur.
Rex skated with his water on the tail, getting to it's back in record time.
The dinosaur felt this trying its best to shake Rex off, but Rex's plan was already in motion.
Rex quickly made it to the dinosaurs back then neck and when he was approaching the head, he jumped off the neck of the dinosaur and while he was in the air, Rex used a powerful Shotgun straight to the dinosaurs head.
Aaron transformed back to his human form as he was motionless in the air.
Rex propelled himself back into the air and kicked Aaron in his stomach.
As Aaron came coming down his life flashed, and before he could go down, he remembered why he was fighting in the first place.
Aaron had just came back from the entrance exam, passing with flying colors, the problem, he was deemed to be support course in a family full of top heroes, his dad, his older brothers, all were on the way to become pros, but not him.
Aaron arrived home with his head down not ready to tell his father what had happened, but unfortunately, he already knew.
His father looking at him on had one thing to say.
"Aaron, you're a failure" he said walking away.
These words echoed through his head at all times, even now as he's fading in and out of consciousness.
Aaron finally landed, standing on his feet.
"If I want to make my family proud, and become a pro, I can't lose to anyone like you!" Aaron said creating a huge tiger claw.
Aaron jumps at Rex with all his power, while he's in the air, Rex gets annoyed.
"Do you really think you're the only one that wants to go pro, get to the top!? I got news for you, when all this is said and done it's gonna be me who gets to the top!" Rex said gathering a ball of water in the palm of his hand and jumping in the air.
The claw and the water clashed in the air, both of the fighters not letting up.
Rex gathers another ball of water in his hand while they clash but Aaron sees this and begins to transform his arms into wings.
Before he could do this however, Yui comes from behind Aaron getting ready to attack.
"W-What!?" Aaron said.
While he was distracted, with no defense, Rex used the other ball of water and hit his stomach, the rapidly spinning ball of water was turning his stomach into jelly, it hurt, hurt really bad, but it wasn't over yet.
"Sound Manipulation: First Form" Yui whispered.
"Sound BLAST!" Yui said, the whisper transformed into a loud yell, a powerful sound wave that launched straight into Aaron's back, as he was getting damaged by the water pulse, the sound wave finished him off, sending him flying into a building.
Aaron was eliminated, being knocked out from the combo attack.
Rex fell from the air but surprisingly Yui caught him.
"Rex are you okay!?" Yui said hugging him.
"Yeah I'm fine lighten up Yui!" Rex said smiling at her.
Rex and Yui walked out of the city area, a little exhausted but still in fighting shape.
As he walks Rex looks at Yui and smiles.
"Yui you've gotten so much better, I'm proud of you" Rex thought.
Rex then looks back.
"Aaron, Don't let your loss to me get you off track from being a hero, keep training, and we'll fight again, in all honesty, if we fought one on one, I would've lost" Rex thought to himself once again.
Yui looked at Rex a little confused.
"Uh Rex… what are you smiling about?" Yui asked.
"Nothing much, you've just gotten so much stronger Yui" Rex said.
Yui turned bright red as she turned around.
"T-Thanks Rex, let's get moving!" Yui said.
The two continued out the city area as the first fight of Yui and Rex was complete.
Meanwhile in another area of the city.
Orion was standing on the highest mountain in the mountain area, he was scouting out the area and seeing who he could eliminate.
Orion sensed someone coming.
"I didn't expect you to be the one to help me…" Orion said looking back.
Sabrina walked up to him, giving a slight smirk.
"Well, sometimes I like to change it up you know?" Sabrina said winking.
"Whatever, but I'm glad you are here, I've been wanting to see what you could do for awhile" Orion said.
"Really? Well hopefully your Gravity doesn't disrupt my Shadows" Sabrina said confidently.
Sabrina and Orion were officially a team, as they both scouted out the entire facility, although, they didn't recognize that their next fight would be very very soon.
Time Remaining: Two Hours, Fourty-Five Minutes, and 37 Seconds.