A door sign is turned from closed to open, as it is a crowd is heard cheering as they enter the building, one by one the students go to the front desk, fill out a form and collect their numbers, they put their numbers on and walk through into the evaluation hall where hundreds of students are sat down and entering into the assessment booths. Several students are completing the different tests to show off their powers. A door opens and Titan enters, a well-dressed individual greets him and begins to introduce himself. “Titan San it’s a pleasure to meet you, my name is Tamasaburo Kita and I’m the event holder at this facility, I’m in charge of overseeing all assessments that are done here. We’re so happy to have you in our evaluation facility, we know you are here to see some fantastic candidates for your academy. Luckily we have one right now who is about to start his test that you must see for yourself.”
They all enter a room and watch through a large tv screen, Titan speaks to Tamasaburo “I’m correct in saying that any student deemed powerful enough will take their test in a simulated environment right?” He replies “that’s correct and here comes one such student now, his name is Takuyaki Kikuchi, his power is called overcharge, it allows him to travel at lightning speeds. Similar to a certain S class hero we all know”. The tv turns on and inside is a boy aged 16 with light blonde hair, his body begins giving off electric spark then suddenly disappears he is seen in the distance of the simulation having sliced a dummy into multiple pieces within the blink of an eye, everyone seems very impressed by this, Titan speaks out “he’s incredible, possibly even has the potential to Rival Toshia” The gentlement in the room begins to applaud, Titan continues “but he’s not what I’m looking for” Tamasaburo looks shocked and starts to question Titan “what do you mean not what you are looking for, he’s amazing you said it yourself”. Titan replies “that’s correct, but I’m not looking for someone that’s already amazing I’m looking for someone who right now needs some help but has the potential to be the best” Titan turns and walks out as, “thank you for the suggestion but I’ll take it from here with regards to the search” the gentlemen look gobsmacked and Tomosaburo utters to himself “but how are you going to find 10 students better than him”
Yuka Yoshida enters with the number 421 on his back, he walks into a booth and is greeted by a moderator, the moderator asks him some questions “so I’m correct in saying you have a strength power yes?”, “that’s correct”, “ok if that’s the case you’ll see over there a power dummy please hit the target with as much force as possible. In your preliminary testing it was classified that your power is within human strength so this dummy should be suitable for you”, Yuka smiles, takes off his jacket stretches out his arm and prepares to punch the dummy, he takes a big breath and swings at the dummy he hits it with his full power and the dummy reading says 150 psi. “Ok thank you that’s great, I’ll mark that as your score if you could head on over to the…” Yuka jumps in and interrupts him “I’m sorry do you mind if I quickly pop to the toilet and try again I was kinda worried I was going to have an accident so I had to hold back” the moderator rolls his eyes “ok but hurry, don’t take too long”
Yuka starts walking towards the toilet, as he does so he pokes his head into a booth. Inside he sees Kame Okada getting blasted with a variety of weapons and being completely unaffected, the entire time not changing his emotionless expression. Yuka turns to continue walking but as he does so knocks into a fairly large man, he looks up to apologise before realising it’s Titan, “Urm Urm hi Urm sorry Titan San” Titan laughs and helps him up, “no need to apologise it was my fault as I wasn’t looking where I was going, I was too busy keeping my eye out for future heroes, who knows maybe I bumped right into one”. He laughs out loud. “So, what’s your name” Yuka continues to look at him in both awe and admiration, he beings to reply asbut stutters as he does, “Oh Urm Hi I’m Yuka Yoshida but my hero name is Double” “that’s interesting” replies Titan “does that mean you can make copies of yourself”
Yuka composes himself and clears his throat “not quite it's hard to explain, my punch becomes twice as strong for each minute that passes, it’s not very good because I have to wait quite a while before my power is very useful” Titan laughs “sounds like it has promise to me, I’m sure with the right training you’ll make a great hero” Yuka nervously laughs before taking out his phone “Urm Titan would you mind if I took a photo with you” Titan grabs the phone and pulls Yuka in, he takes the photo and passes the phone back to him as he does so Titan grabs Yuka and looks him directly in his eyes “remember, believe in yourself, don’t let anyone else tell you your power isn’t great, everyone has the power to be great” Titan smiles and walks away. Yuka continues to stand there for a minute in a daze, he says back to reality, opens his phone and looks at the photo, he calls his friend and speaks to him on the phone “Hey man you aren’t going to believe who I just met”. He continues speaking to them for a while and eventually finishes the conversation “As soon as I get home I’m printing this photo and posting it everywhere, I know right, anyway I gotta go, ok bye” as he puts the phone down he looks at the time, realising he has been away from the test for 20 minutes. “Oh crap”. he runs back to the test site.
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The moderator looks incredibly angry as he welcomes him back “you were gone for 20 minutes I was just about to take your last reading as your score” Yuka replies “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I urm, had some dodgy Sushi last night, can I still take the test” the moderator winces and then looks at his clipboard and rolls his eyes “go on then” Yuka walks up to the dummy and starts muttering to himself “ok it can’t be that bad I was gone 20 minutes, it was at what 15 psi before and it doubles every minute so that’s what like 4500 psi, that should be fine,” he takes his stance towards the dummy and performs the action of punching it again, just before his fist hits the dummy he releases his power. Suddenly the dummy flies at phenomenal speeds crashing through the wall, blowing out the side of the building and going through 10 crop fields to the side of the building, completely destroying them. Yuka turns to see the moderator with all his hair blown back. He looks at his clipboard which no longer has any paper on it, Yuka looks to the side and sees Titan there looking shocked.
Later Yuka is sitting at his house watching tv when a news report comes on. “hi all, I’m outside evaluation centre 24 where you can see behind a large amount of the building has been destroyed due to one candidate accidentally blowing a hole in the side of the building and taking a large number of crop fields out as well. Luckily he was in the final booth and no one was in the fields so there were no casualties, however, Titan was luckily on the scene to make sure everything was ok, he had this to say “Fortunately everyone was ok, I think this goes to show the importance of the accuracy of the pre-evaluations before the main evaluations are held, I don’t blame the kid responsible for this and I am sure he feels awful about it as well, on one hand, this student shows great power, on the other hand at the current level his power is incredibly dangerous, one thing I do know is this proves there are some fantastic students out there with the potential to be the next best hero”. The tv turns off to show Yuka is sat with his head in his hands. “Well, there goes my chances of getting into any Academy, let alone the top one, not even Titan thinks I have a chance in hell. Good luck to everyone else I hope their evaluations are going better than mine.
Ryota is seen holding the 6 of diamonds in his hand “is this your card” one of the moderators looks very impressed and starts clapping, the other moderator shakes her head and marks down on the clipboard. Shuichi is seen standing there looking at his stats, “Ok but like most of my stats are higher than an average person, except of course magic I don’t know how to do that, but anyway here goes”. He starts doing push-ups and sprints back and forth and finally swings his sword around a little. The moderator looks moderately impressed and then marks on their board. A pencil is seen slowly floating across the room, it finally lands in Hiro's hand as she grabs it she yells out with joy “yeeeees did you see that, wanna see me fly next” the moderator looks displeased. Tatsuo is standing in a booth and shrugs his shoulders, the moderator looks confused. Kenikai speaks to his moderator. “Ok my power is a little random but let me see what I get”. He activates it and suddenly grows gills he turns around and sees a fish tank and walks over, sticks his head in the tank and holds his thumb up whilst smiling.
Mizo is standing in a booth looking shy “I can’t really do much unless I’m angry” the moderator replies “aww that’s ok maybe think about what makes you most angry” suddenly Mizo's eyes burn red “all bullies shall pay” she goes on a rampage destroying the entire building. A news report shows again. “another evaluation centre has been destroyed as an unsuspectingly powerful student goes on a rampage.” Etsuko is seen in an evaluation centre “ok I’ll just make a small wind sphere and shoot it at the target”. A news report shows “the third accident has occurred within he week as a devastating tornado ripped through evaluation centre 4 behind me”. Lastly, Daisuke is running naked from his test, screaming and holding his clothes. “Not again”.
Titan is seen on the tv. “As I said my main reason to be here this week was to select the 10 students to join Titan academy however it is also clear that the standards of the pre-evaluation check have got to get stricter as does the security within the evaluation centres. One thing I must also say is good luck to all the students that have done their academic or power evaluations I hope you all receive the academies you’re hoping for”. The tv turns off and Yuka is seen once again on the couch “I know I did well in the academic evaluation but I think the wholeblowing out the side of a test centre kind of messed it up for me”. A few days later he is sat on the sofa and he hears a ping on his phone, he sees an email reading ‘academy application results’. The other 9 students all receive the email at the same time and open it up.
Yuka scrolls down to see his top choice Oni academy has rejected him. “Damn it I knew it”. He sighs and continues reading the email, it continues to say. ‘All academies you have applied for have declined your offer, due to recent incidents and your inability to control your power around other students. Good luck next year'. He puts his phone down and takes a big breath. “I can’t believe nowhere has accepted me, I didn’t make it. He turns and looks at his phone and sees another email pop up entitled ‘congratulations’ he opens it up “wait… what’s this”. ‘Hi congratulations on your special acceptance into Titan Academy please reply if you would like to accept your placement’ he looks up and speaks out loud. “ I'm going to Titan academy”.