— General POV —
Professor Brink's Crime Fighting Classes were notorious throughout the Godolkin as it was the only class that actively pitted students against each other.
Students would spar, and those who performed better, would receive a higher grade, and there are some who were dropped from the program just because they had lower win rate.
So far, the spars had gone without a major injury, as Brink was experienced enough to know when to stop a fight.
There have been a couple of students who stood out amongst the pact.
Adem and Luke were in a league of their own, they usually spar against each other, but Adem holds back just enough for them to both benefit from the training.
As for the others, Cate was the third place , Andre had done surprisingly well for himself, followed by Steve, and then Jordan.
Despite being the 6th highest ranking Supe in the class, right now, Jordan Li was sweating. He felt an enormous pressure as he stared at the monster in front of him.
"Come on Jordan, is that all you got?" Adem asked as his eyes began to glow red.
The next moment Jordan was blasted away by the notorious Heat Vision. His shirt had burned to a crisp but he still managed to get back to his feet quickly enough. 'Too much fucking energy… I can't absorb anymore!' he thought as he felt uncomfortable due to absorbing such potent heat energy.
Adem rushed towards him, he was about to punch him in the face when suddenly Jordan's body turned into that of a woman's. She released a massive blast of energy that managed to make Adem take several steps back.
"Oh, so you're finally done holding back, huh?" Adem asked as his eyes wandered to Professor Brink for a moment who had a large grin on his face at this second. "Well, I suppose I should do the same!"
Adem attacked her, only for her to quickly shift back to her male counterpart. He took a punch from Adem, and even stood on his feet despite the fact that he had doubled over. However once Adem blasted him with his heat vision on his back he was down for the count.
Adem then flew next to Professor Brink, "So, how was it?"
"Good enough. But your acting is quite unpolished. I and half the class could tell you were holding back greatly. Although you did manage to force Jordan's hand. So good work" He said as he pointed towards Jordan. Using their first name.
"So I did win the bet,"
*chuckle* "Yeah… Yeah you did."
— Yesterday, Professor Brink's Office, General POV —
"Come again for big fudge."
"I need your help with Jordan Li," Professor Brink said to Adam "He doesn't want to use half her powers because he is uncomfortable with the idea of turning into a woman."
"No offense professor, but, um look I am a centrist- I believe as long as it doesn't hurt others or involve kids people should be allowed to do what they want- that means I don't go out of my way to convince someone they should or shouldn't do something or use a power that is, frankly speaking is a little weird."
"And I would agree with you if it was not for the fact Li's case is unique" Brink argued
"Every Superabled is unique, every child is unique and they need to be treated accordingly." Adam recited
"You read my book, I see." Brink said with a smirk
"Well, I listened to the audio book. But as you said so yourself. Every case is unique so why should I change my way because of him/her/they or whatever Jordan prefers to be called."
*sigh* "Look son, I get where you are coming from but Li needs a different approach. He needs to see that his powers alone aren't enough, she needs to use all of their powers if they want to reach their full potential." Brink said, but seeing Adem wasn't swayed by his speech he added "How about a bet then?"
"What kind of a bet?" Adem raised an eyebrow.
"If you can force Li to change into their female form and back to male form during tomorrow's spar, I will see what I can do about the curfew for you and Dunlap. If not… well I will just have to bring into Dean Shetty's attention about the blatant cheating in your other classes using X-Ray vision."
"Now that I think about it. It is important for me to help out a fellow student to reach their full potential."
"Good lad,"
— Back to Present —
Jordan was knocked unconscious during the spat. This was the first spar where Brink didn't finish before any injury this year.
Adem was watching over him until he woke up.
"Hey Jordan… You did good, really good. Better than anyone in the class, except Luke," Adem said as Jordan woke up.
"Thanks… but I feel like I was run over by a freight train." He said as he sat up straight
Adem rubbed the back of his head, "Yeah, sorry about that. I'm trying to get a better hold of my powers but you are quite strong when you use your full powers, I actually had to try. You might even have a shot against Luke."
"But not against you." Jordan said as he sat completely upright.
Adem just gave a small nod at that,
"And if the entire class came after you in a 1 on 19? Then would we beat you?"
"Well… let's see. There are 19 of you. Rufus is pretty much useless, so are Alexander, Stewie, and what's his face. The rest of you are pretty strong. So if you all banded together and worked in perfect cohesion then that might be draining even for me." Adem said with a thoughtful look on his face.
"But would you lose?"
"Nah, I'd win."
(AN: While I was writing this chapter I learned that the Indian actor who played Tyler Oppenheim passed away. That was a shocker since Andre's actor also passed away.)