The Hero Exam
The testing building of the Heroes Association, a grand and spacious piece of architecture that boasts the world’s best and latest advances in technology and magic. Easily able to hold two thousand individuals of varying races alongside space for testing equipment.
Kevin absentmindedly scratched an underwear covered butt cheek as he stood in one of the many lines inside the main testing building of the Heroes Association. His mind wandered around, not giving much thought to the many colorful individuals near him. Sunny stood behind him, looking bored as she watched some of the other applicants perform their tests.
"It's been a few days since that weird pillbug attack. Nothing really interesting happened since then. I almost expected something similar to the House of Evolution come up since my life has recently started to more closely resemble Saitama's," Kevin thought to himself, staring ahead with a blank and expressionless look. "Well, I guess all of this could've just been a weird coincidence. No need to overthink things."
Kevin pulled himself out of his thoughts as many of the other applicants started murmuring to each other.
Kevin looked around confused, "Eh? What's with everybody all of a sudden?"
"Master," Sunny spoke up. Kevin looked down at her and she pointed with a metal hoof, "I believe everyone must be talking about that."
The bald man looked to where she was pointing, seeing a dark blue figure with a wavy and ethereal blue mane standing on one of the metal walkways overhead that helped the figure overlook the testing grounds. It took him a few moments to finally piece together who she was, one of the princesses of Equestria, though her name escaped him.
"Princess Luna," Sunny spoke up, reminding Kevin of the Princess's name. "One of the co-rulers of Equestria and the current head of the Heroes Association. She doesn't normally come out to witness the testing for new heroes, I wonder what she wants."
Kevin only paid half attention to Sunny, but he did feel like he had to ask, "Head? You mean she is the one in charge of this place?"
Sunny nodded her head, "Indeed. But she wasn't always the one in charge, that honor went to another for at least twenty years, she came into her position relatively recently actually. About a year ago if I recall, approximately three years after her thousand year absence. She has adapted to modern life quickly, in fact with her in charge the Association has made several breakthroughs with responses to monster attacks. Though even with that said, there has been a notable rise in monster attacks ever since her return. Some of the conspiracy theorists have tried connecting that with her, but that's just a ridiculous thought."
Kevin thought about that as he and the rest of the line moved forward. Then he finally noticed something Sunny had said. He looked at her and asked, "Wait, you said the previous head of the Association led it for twenty years right? The Heroes Association didn't form three years ago with some sort of rich guy starting it off?"
Sunny looked at Kevin oddly, "No, Master. Although the Heroes Association was not always called such, it started out as a special and secretive Equestrian unit for monster hunting. But recently, as the monster attacks increased dramatically, they were forced to become much more open, prompting more recruitment. Eventually they needed good PR, and what better way than having the faces of the organization be well known heroes? The only important event with a rich pony that happened three years ago was the grandfoal of one of the CEO's of a major corporation being traumatized while playing in a park."
"Eh?" Cold sweat trickled down Kevin's neck.
"Yes, apparently that while the foal was saved by a 'strange creature he had never seen before', witnessing the impalement and death of the monstrous minotaur caused him to have severe nightmares. The CEO said that if he ever found that one that caused his grandfoal so much emotional trauma he would shake his or her hoof for saving his life-"
Kevin started to breath out a sigh of relief but quickly stopped when Sunny continued.
"-but would also 'Sue their flank so hard they couldn't afford a room in Tartarus'."
Kevin gulped at the thought of being in debt for the rest of his life, there would be no way he could afford a lawyer good enough to protect him from that.
Sunny remained quiet as she scrutinized Kevin, eventually she asked, "Do you know something about this, Master?"
Kevin was saved from answering by the blowing of a whistle. One of the test instructors yelled out, "Next applicants! Line up and prepare for the side hopping exercise!"
Kevin breathed a sigh of relief as he and Sunny took their places and readied themselves.
High above the testing grounds Princess Luna watched the crowds of potential heroes perform what was asked of them. She, to be honest, was really only here for two of the applicants, and as luck would have it they stood right next to each other conversing as if they already knew one another. Luna didn't have much faith in luck, but she didn't question a good stroke of it.
"Our two interesting applicants are down there, testing area eight," Luna said to Fine Thrust as he appeared to be searching for them.
Fine snapped his eyes to testing area eight, observing the cybernetic mare and the bald creature, "Thank you, Princess."
Luna hummed in acknowledgement to Fine's thanks as she watched the tall bald one take his place, she briefly flashed her horn to cast a spell that allowed her to hear what was going on down there.
"First test! Side hops! Begin!" The minotaurian instructor shouted.
Luna could see Sunny Flare narrowed her gaze and her form flashed into a blur and she jumped from side to side. The others with Luna could only gape at what they were seeing from the mare, their untrained eyes barely seeing anything. Luna could see Sunny perfectly, noting her speed down in her mental files. Luna turned her gaze over to the bald one, the human if what she remembered of Twilight's stories about the other world was true. When she looked at him Luna couldn't help but start a little in surprise, it wasn't often that she was caught off guard.
Kevin Akiyama, as the application told her was his name, was moving fast enough to leave a constant trail of afterimages. Fast enough that even she could not keep well enough track of where he was at the moment. Luna licked her now dry lips, if this one wasn't the one who took down Lord Three Horns then she would eat her crown.
Luna watched as the applicants went from test to test, Sunny Flare performed extraordinarily well in every single one. Luna jotted down a few extra notes on the paper she brought with her, deciding that even without any great feat of strength before the test Sunny's talents would be wasted anywhere below S-class.
"Pass the word Fine, Sunny Flare is to become S-class when her testing is over and done with. I think it is obvious at this point that she'll pass with flying colors."
Fine Thrust didn't say anything and immediately started on his orders while Luna went back to observing Kevin. He too performed exceedingly well on all of his tests, breaking every record set before him by impossible margins. Soon it was time for the gravity pressure test, a test where you are put onto a small raised platform just above a magical rune that artificially creates the effects of gravity magic. The test itself is surrounded by a magical barrier to prevent the gravity rune from interfering with the rest of the building.
The purpose was to see how well one stacks up against ever changing pressures of gravity, users of such a skill have become more and more common. And it is not uncommon for some to use their ability to create gravity for more nefarious purposes. Thankfully, few of them are able to use their powers for more than minute changes in their surroundings, mostly on themselves to make their opponent guess on their next move with a subtle shift in direction or just to make themselves lighter. However, there have been several reports of users that can crush those that stand before them by simply increasing the gravity put upon them. It is wiser, in Luna’s opinion, to prepare for the inevitable worst.
“So I just stand here, right?” Kevin asked an instructor, pointing down at the platform with one of his digits.
The instructor held up a clipboard, jotting a few things down as he answered, “Yes. We will monitor how much gravity you can take and for how long, feel free to tell us to stop anytime it gets to be too much.”
“Ah, got it. Start whenever I guess,” Kevin said.
The instructor finished writing and nodded to the pony working the control panel off to the side. The pony lifted a few switches, pressed a few buttons, and slowly turned a knob. The rune under Kevin’s feet glowed a deep purple and gravity increased twice fold. Kevin didn’t notice, he was scanning the other potential heroes as they conducted their own gravity tests.
“Ah, sir?”
Kevin looked back down at the instructor as soon as he heard the voice, “Yeah?”
“How… are you feeling? Is the gravity too much or…?”
Kevin looked down at the his feet, “Ah. We started?”
Luna tuned out the rest of his conversation with the instructor and focused her attention on Fine Thrust, “Tell the operator to increase the gravity.”
Fine Thrust tapped his earpiece and relayed her instructions, “Gravity has been increased to ten fold, your highness.”
Kevin didn’t seem to notice as he animatedly conversed with the instructor, Luna narrowed her eyes, “Again, much larger increase this time.”
Fine looked unsure but hesitantly told the operator to increase it again. The pony down below looked up at Luna in shock but did so anyway. The bald man still did not notice, even as the gravity was increased to one hundred fold.
“That is enough, Fine,” Luna said. “It is clear we won’t see how much he can take. The gravity rune only goes so high.”
Fine nodded his head to his princess and told the operator to turn the rune off.
“I believe we are done here, let us reconvene and discuss what we have learned,” Luna said, she and the others with her trotting off the walkways above the testing grounds and into the inner hallways of the building.
“Ah, shit,” Kevin thought, sweating as he nervously tapped his pencil on his desk. “Half the written grade is an essay… Why can’t it be multiple choice?! I suck at essays!"
Kevin stared hard at the paper down in front of him, doing his best to glare a hole through the paper and the wooden desk. He grasped his head in his free hand as he tried to think about what to write. Cautiously he eyed the rest of the room without moving his head, trying to see if anyone else was having trouble like him.
Kevin spied his new disciple, already having finished her exam and was waiting patiently for everyone else to finish up. “Damn it, of course she would have no problems. She’s smart, and a cyborg! At this rate I won’t even finish the exam!”
Sunny smirked to herself, having spied her new master trying to destroy the exam in front of him with his mind in sheer anger, “That’s my master for you, you too realize that this whole exam is a simple waste of time. They made this far too easy.” She gave a small, soft laugh, “Indeed, you find this test so pathetic that you’re intentionally waiting until the last few minutes to finish it.”
Unfortunately, Sunny did not realize that Kevin was not having an easy time, and was not intentionally waiting until the last few minutes to finish the exam.
“I only have three minutes left…” The clock ticked down to two minutes remaining and Kevin’s features sharpened as he grew serious, “Ah screw it, I’ll just wing it with one of my ultimate moves.”
Kevin took a deep, calming breath as he readied his pencil. He softly released it, and with his eyes widening dramatically he mentally shouted, “Super Moves - Serious Series: Serious Bullshitting!”
Kevin’s pencil flashed across the paper, most of the utensil and his arm becoming a blur. Lines upon lines of words flooded onto the page as Kevin wrote what he felt was best to answer the question before him. The bell that signaled the end of the written exam dinged just as Kevin finished his exam, his arm stopping at the bottom of the page. His pencil still smoking, Kevin placed it gently down on the desk as he handed his test to the instructor walking down the aisles collecting tests.
Sunny walked up to Kevin, “I see you finished your test just in time. It was so easy that you couldn’t help but wait until the very end eh?”
The bald man chuckled nervously as he looked at his apprentice, “Eh hehe… Yeah, I guess.”
“We finally have our results, master,” Sunny said as she started to open her folder, the two sitting in a hallway on a bench between two vending machines.
“Yeah,” was Kevin’s reply as he started to open his exam results as well. He looked over at Sunny’s and saw that she was given S-class rank seventeen.
“Oh, S-class right off the bat, nice job,” was Kevin’s reply.
Sunny smiled at him, “Thanks, what about you, master?”
Kevin licked his lips and gulped, now was the time of truth to see if his bullshitting managed to get him through the written exam. He pulled the paper halfway out of its manilla container and stared at the results.
He turned his head jerkily at Sunny, an etched expression of shock on his face, “I made sixty nine points… I failed.”
A dark expression overcome Sunny’s face, “I will have words with... eh?” She stopped her rant when she looked down at the paper again.
“What?” was Kevin’s reply, all shock was gone as he looked at his pupil confused.
Sunny pointed a hoof at a small red piece of paper sticking out of the manilla container. Taking it out, Kevin picked the small rectangle up and read what was on it.
Please see me as soon as you receive this, Mr Akiyama. We have much to discuss.
~Princess Luna
“Eh?”
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Fuck the testing system! Is has no weight is actual ability!
He's back boys:0
The strange thing is that I can actually see Saitama using this move.
Very nice chapter.^^
good job
Good to see that this story is still being updated. I loved the testing scene in the show and you did a good job in capturing that scene here!!
7869557 same
I love that this story is getting updated again and i love that the story is taking it's own initiative and not being the exact same to the manga. Can't wait to see him talk to luna.
I was worried for a moment there, I thought you were just gonna ponify One Punch Man to the tee. Glad to see I was mistaken
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7872040 Indeed, glad to see that this won't take the route of the One Punch Derpy story.
Can't wait for the next chapter!
*sees the cliffhanger*
7878390 Hehehe
7878443 update?
What i like is the fact that your following the main (sorta) storyline while also making it unique in its own way... God I sounded shophistacated. ☹✌☝?✌☼?✋?? ☹✌✞✋⚐?✌
ok
update?
Continue working hard on that update, I'm looking forward to it.
8136079 one year after the last update....... Aw come on!!!!!
7878443 my thoughts exactly
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please tell me there is more i want to hear what luna will say
Yes more!
MOOOOOOAAAAAAAARRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sad that this fic is dead.
Please continue this!!!
Dang it, it’s dead.
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Nah, just waiting for season 2 of the anime so I can get into the groove again.
I only came here for my master. Saitama
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What if your thought is carefully worded enough to the pint where it fools the scientists but not the computer?
Also pls m ore
MORE RIGHT NOW
MORE, YOU TRASH CAN, MORE
9255909
he ded boi
9484128
FUCK
Can we expect an update soon?
9802803
Been 4 years since the first chapter
and 3 since the last.
What do you think? I always check the dates to make sure it's a story that isn't canceled. It may not say it but I've seen storys from 2011 still not updated and still "incomplete"
I hope this story updates, but I don’t have the most amount of hope for a fic with a 3 year long cliffhanger.
10417 most stories that haven't updated after a year are dead you can like and follow to see if something pops but honestly I wouldn't get your hopes up
Continue com essa história por favor tá muito legal mesmo eu amei essa história por favor
More good
don't let such an interesting story die like this i beg you to continue