"Hey...so, how's it going? Doing good with your studies? Having a blast with your friends?...
Oh? What about me? Well... I'm actually not on my best shape right now...
Considering I've still got a heavy rocket bomb on my shoulder that's about to blow any second now.
So, I'd say I'm in a pretty big predicament right now.
Well... I'm guessing you're wondering how it got to this, aren't you?
Let's turn the story back a few months before this place was terrorized by villainy."
____________________________________________________________________________"I'm Matt, you're run-of-the-mill average old college student, except this academy... was a 'liiiiittttllleeee' different than you're average old university.
In this place, everyone... had superpowers."
"Unlike you're typical 'hero training schools' you see in television, this university wasn't really focused on creating justice-hungry battle warriors.
This is Rivals University.
This is a university that offered various courses like 'Cultivating Superpowers for the Culinary Field', or 'Building Infrastructures Made Simple with Superpowers', stuff like that.
As for me, I was aiming to become one of the superheroes who once undergone the same course I'm taking right now.
Just around the corner, you'd see students running with the speed of sound, students playing pranks on other students with liquidification, students using their powers to fix their appearance and other sorts just hanging around."
"Hey... did you see that?
That guy who just passed by?
He's Charles Velwick, the son of the most famous superhero in the whole world, Connor Velwick, also known as the Ice Fang.
He has the power to create, release and absorb ice out of thin air.
People look up to him, and believe he's gonna take over the legacy his father left behind."
"After that whole monologue, now you're probably wondering...
'Who am I?' 'Am I also a son of a famous hero?' 'Did I also take this course to take over my father's legacy and become a superhero with a strong sense of justice?'
If that's what you thought then the answer would be...
No.
I am Matthew Raylark... the son of the most infamous villain... the one who slain and was slain by the well-known hero, Connor Velwick, Markus Raylark, the Flame Fang."
"Okay class, take your seats.
I'm gonna be your homeroom teacher for the whole year, and it is my job to bring all you losers up to your feet and kick some ass without getting yours kicked back.
If anyone here has any plans to not attend my class even once, I'm gonna personally be teaching you an important lesson on how superheroes should act.
This isn't the 19th century, do not act like you have any excuse for being absent.
If you're sick, get the healers to heal you and get your act back. If you're done, come back. Any complains?"
""No, sir""
Our homeroom teacher was a retired superhero who fought alongside the most famous superheroes.
He's the Almighty Fist, also known as Mr. Streak, the now boring old middle-aged who has the ability to deliver super strong punches with his humongous fists.
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Raylark and Velwick
Short StoryThis is Rivals University. A prestigious academy made to turn younglings with superhuman capabilities into promising superheroes that will protect the world from villainy. Here, we meet Matthew Raylark, a so called 'average' teenager, who seems to n...