The Immortal Hero: Phoenix

Chapter 14: Declaration of War

Class 1-A chattered excitedly as Aizawa-Sensei led them to the P.E grounds where they had performed the Quirk Apprehension Test on their very first day. Some had been pleased by their performances while others were annoyed that their quirks weren't the sort to assist them in physical challenges. A few, such as Toru and Kirishima doubted that their new powers would really help much in this case, while others feared the stamina drain of Plus Ultra Mode would cause more trouble than their improved quirks could make up for, but since they were all certain they wouldn't be a threat of expulsion this time around, the class was more relaxed. As soon as they arrived, Aizawa set up the results screen from last time, which still displayed all their old times and their class ranking:

1. Izuka Midoriya

2. Momo Yaoyorozu

3. Shoto Todoroki

4. Katsuki Bakugou

5. Tenya Iida

6. Fumikage Tokoyami

7. Mezo Shoji

8. Mashirao Ojiro

9. Eijiro Kirishima

10. Mina Ashido

11. Ochako Uraraka

12. Koji Koda

13. Rikido Sato

14. Tsuyu Asui

15. Yuga Aoyama

16. Hanta Sero

17. Denki Kaminari

18. Kyoka Jiro

19. Toru Hagakure

20. Minoru Mineta

"Let's get started. The rules for this test will be the same as the first; use your quirks and Plus Ultra Modes freely. You can't use your quirk to sabotage others or disguise your cheating. If I catch you, it'll be automatic bottom ranking for you." Aizawa warned, before turning to Izuka, "Midoriya, you'll be participating too, regardless of not evolving yourself. Now, to get you all fired up and working hard, I've got a little reward scheme for this test, and naturally, punishment too.

The Class gulped as Aizawa pointed to the results board: "If your score in an event is higher than last time, the new result will appear in green. If it's lower, it'll appear red. Rewards and Punishment will be issued based on your final ranking. Now, because of your recklessness at the USJ, you have a lifetime of detention, Midoriya. The rest of you also have a week of detention for using your blood to heal me earlier. Don't get me wrong, I'm thankful, but it was an unnecessary gesture that could have led to health problems for you. However, those detentions will help me here." Aizawa grinned, "Every position you rise in the leaderboard, I'll knock a day of detention off. If you rise more than five positions, I'll put an extra 10,000 yen in your Hero Gear Budget for each rank over five that you rise. If you go down a rank, I'll add a day of detention too. Whoever is at the bottom of the league will be joining Midoriya with her life time of detention." Aizawa's grin turned predatory, "You'll need to work hard! Midoriya, since you were at the top already, if you maintain the top spot, I'll knock your detentions down to just a week." he wasn't willing to let her off completely... despite knowing of her Quirk before hand, her death had terrified the man.

The Class looked determined, especially Izuka and Minoru, who were at the top and bottom of the leaderboard respectively.

As before, they started with the 50-Metre Dash, and the improvements were apparent from the very beginning. Without his stomach hurting, Aoyama was able to rocket across the finish line in four seconds, beating Mina who had previously beaten him. Mina was a bit faster, but only shaved a few points of a second from her time. Other than Aoyama, the only noticeable improvements were from Iida, Uraraka, Ojiro, Shoji, Todoroki and Bakugou. Iida uses his Plus Ultra Mode to absolutely blitz across the field, narrowly failing to beat Izuka's record of 2.01 seconds, but managing to outdo his old record by reaching 2.34 seconds. Personally, Izuka thought that if the track had been long enough for Iida to shift all the way to sixth gear, he'd have wiped the floor with her, but at only fourth gear, her lighter and smaller body gave her a slight advantage over the muscular and somewhat blocky Iida. Ochako was another person to obliterate her old score, going from 7.15 to 4.55 by making herself weightless then shifting the effect of gravity on herself to make her rocket across the track. Ojiro shaved a second off his time, resulting in 4.49 seconds by continuously (and painfully) switching his tail between Limber and Muscle Mode. His Muscle mode tail was able to launch him further and his Limber tail made him lighter and more aerodynamic as he soared through the air. Still, it was painful to transform his tail every half second. Shoji lowered his time fractionally, by shedding all his arms, making him lighter, plus without the webbing getting in the way, he didn't experience much wind resistance. Todoroki improved his time by icing the floor and using his fire to propel himself, giving him a good score of 3.56. Katsuki, determined to beat Todoroki, used his newly reinforced arms to launch a much bigger explosion than last time, coming third in the test with a time of 3.01 seconds, only a second behind Izuka's.