Made To Fight! The Story Of A Trans Superhero!

Our story begins with someone stepping out of a bus in front of a school. Lev Hart, a young man with blonde hair that goes down to his shoulders and is swept over his right eye walks out onto campus on his first day of college.

This isn’t just any college though. This is specifically the Superhero University for the Preparation of Evacuation and Rescue (otherwise known as SUPER for short). It is a prestigious school that trains young superheroes to hone their powers, expand their skills, and overall just learn all of the ins and outs that it takes to save the day.

Lev didn’t really care much for any of that though. Sure, he does love superheroes and he does have his own power, but that isn’t why he chose to come here. To be honest, he didn’t know what he wanted to do with his life. All he knew was that he wanted to get away from his parents and this was the only way that he currently knew how to do that.

Lev is currently looking for the auditorium for the opening ceremony, but something (or more accurately someone) runs into him and they both fall onto the ground.

“Golly! I am sorry about that mister!” A girl with atomic blonde hair reaches out for Lev’s hand. She currently has a huge smile on her face. She is wearing a track uniform with mismatched colorful socks and is also covered in glitter and sprinkles.

“...D…Don’t worry about it…” Lev awkwardly responds back. He didn’t really have a lot of friends (or much human interaction in general) because he liked to spend a lot of time in his room.

Lev, feeling responsible for the situation by not paying attention to where he was going, walks over to try to help her pick up her things.

“By the way my name is Candi Kane! What is your name?” She beams while she waits for a response.

“...Uh…m…my name is…L…Lev…”

“What a unique name!”

“...T…thanks…I…guess…”

For some reason Lev never really liked his own name. He didn’t think that it suited him at all. He doesn’t really know why this is though. His best guess was that it is because it is the name that his parents gave him and he didn’t like being connected to them even by name.

“Well it was nice meeting you Lev! See you at the assembly!”

Before Candi bolted off again Lev tapped her shoulder.

“...Um…actually…I am…kind of lost…Do you happen to know…where the auditorium is?”

“Absolutely! I have already scoped out the school over the summer! Follow me!”

Candi grabs Lev’s hand and speedwalks to the auditorium while humming. By the time they get there Lev is winded. He knows that he is really out of shape, but he didn’t know it was this bad.

“Here it is! Since we got here together we might as well sit together!”

“...Thanks…but why are you being so nice to me…I made you drop your backpack?”

“Why wouldn’t I be nice to you?”

“...I mean…I am basically still a stranger to you…”

“A stranger is only a friend that you haven’t made yet!” Candi said with the biggest smile you can imagine.

“...Huh…”

‘A friend’ Lev thinks to himself. It would be nice to actually have a friend for once.

Lev and Candi filed into the auditorium while they waited for the ceremony to begin.

After a couple of minutes a person walked on stage in front of the microphone. It was an old man wearing a magician’s suit with a big top hat that had an exclamation point on it.

“Wait a second! I know who that is!” says a young black man with red dreads who is now on the edge of his seat with excitement.

“Greetings new students. Welcome to SUPER. I am the dean of this institution. My name is Issac Quentin, but some of you may know me better by my alias, Sir IQ.”

The young man from before raises his hand with great enthusiasm.

“I am sorry young man. It isn’t time for questions yet.”

“You are THE SIR IQ! I am so honored to meet you!”

“I am flattered, but may you kindly let me get back to my introduction?”

“OH! I am so sorry! I didn’t mean to interrupt! I was just very excited to meet you! That’s all!” the man says while rubbing that back of his neck with an embarrassed expression and sitting back down.

“Now where was I?...Yes, that’s right. I was introducing myself. As some of you may know, I am Sir Issac Quentin. I used to work for the Central Hero Society before I retired just a few years ago to run this fine school. I may be getting old, but I still want to help this world in any way that I can. That is precisely why I decided to come here. To train the up and coming generation to be the best heroes that they can possibly be. Just to let you all know this school has the reputation of being one of the best hero schools for a good reason. Not just anyone can graduate. You need the strength, wit, and courage to be able to get your diploma and hopefully join a hero association of your choosing when you graduate. Well…if you graduate that is. We aren’t going to be tough on you without reason though. We just need to make absolutely sure that the future of this world remains in good hands. So in a way I suppose this school is also a test to see which of you have the greatest capacity for good in your hearts. Well…I suppose I am starting to ramble and should probably wrap this up, but I'll leave you with this! I can’t wait to see what you all are capable of.”

Soon after Sir IQ dismissed the new students and they all filed off to find the locations of their first classes.

Lev and Candi just so happened to be walking in the same direction, but they also encountered that kid who talked during the beginning of the assembly.

“Hiya!” Candi waves to him.

“...Um…Hello…” the young man waves back awkwardly.

“You are very passionate about superheroes!”

The young man rubs the back of his head again.

“Well, you know, I am just a fanboy. What can I say…”

“No. It isn’t a bad thing. I think that your passion is awesome! I love it when people love things wholeheartedly! It is the best trait that a person can have! It just means that you have a very high capacity for love in your heart!”

“Well…Thank you miss…”

“Candi Kane! But my friends call me Candi!”

“Thank you miss Candi Kane! My name is Ash Burns.” Ash looks down at his schedule. “Crap! Class is about to start. I gotta get going!”

“Who is your teacher?” Candi replies.

“It’s Jack Dionysus for basic training. Why?”

“No way! I have him too!” Candi shows Ash his schedule.

“Alright! Let’s go then!”

As they walk to class Ash finally notices Lev.

“...Uh. Hey Candi? Do you know who this guy is by any chance?”

“Of course! This is Lev Hart! He is also one of my new best friends!” Candi gestures for Lev to introduce himself.

“...Oh…um…hi…I’m Lev…but you…already knew that…”

“Don’t sweat it! It’s cool man.” Ash waves off his awkwardness with a smile. “Do you also have the same class.

Lev just nods.

“Awesome!” Candi yells as she puts her arms around Lev and Ash. “I can’t wait to have class together with my two new friends!”

They finally get to class and take their seats.

A middle aged man with shoulder length black hair and a thick stubble who is wearing a turquoise sweater vest is seen sleeping at the front of the classroom with his legs up on the desk.

Candi walks towards him and starts poking him.

“Hey Mister! Are you our teacher! If you are, you better wake up because CLASS STARTED FIFTEEN MINUTES AGO!”

“...Huh…wha…Oh…Hello students…sorry about that…”

He rubs his eyes and stands to introduce himself.

“My name is Jack Dionysus and I will be your teacher for this semester. It will be my job to teach you all of the basics of super hero stuff. With that being said it is only our first day and I feel like we should at least get to know each other a little bit. So let’s start off this first class with introductions. I will call out your names and I want you to introduce yourself and also tell us your power. We will be going in alphabetical order so we will be starting with…Ash Burns.”

“Aight. As Jack just said, can I call you Jack? I’m gonna call you Jack. As Jack just said my name is Ash Burns and instead of just telling you my power…why don’t I give you all a little demonstration.”

Ash proceeds to snap his fingers and a flame appears in his hand.

Jack pulls out a clipboard and writes something down.

“Fire powers. Got it. Next.”

“...BUT…but…you gotta admit that was cool right?” Ash says bewildered.

“If you’ve been in the hero business as long as I have you’d know how common fire is as a power, kid. Who’s next.”

Ash sits back down in his chair with a thud while grumbling to himself.

“Alright…Calder McHail. You’re up.”

Calder walks forwards. He has snow white skin, light blue hair, and has a blue shirt, white jacket, and a beanie and also has a smirk on his face.

Calder proceeds to put out his hand.

“...Uh…what’s this?” Jack says with a confused look.

Calder just looks over to his hand.

Jack lets out a sigh. “Fine…I’ll play your game.” He shakes Calders hand.

Calder proceeds to freeze Jack’s hand using his ice powers.

“Dammit kid…you some sort of class clown or something?”

Calder just shrugs, the smirk still on his face.

Ash walks up to Jack.

“Need a light?”

“...Be quick…”

“Not so useless now, huh Jack?” Ash says with a smug grin.

“You aren’t going to let that go. Are you?”

“Nope!”

Jack sighs again. “Take your seat.”

“With pleasure!” Ash says as he struts back to his seat after restoring his honor.

Jack holds his coffee cup in one hand to warm it up while looking at his clipboard while scribbling down Calder’s information.

“Okay…Candi Kane.”

Candi stands up incredibly quickly and bolts to the front of the room.

“Hiya Jack! My name is Candi Kane! What’s your favorite restaurant in Central City?”

“How is this relevant to your introduction?”

“You’ll see!” Candi says excitedly.

“...Ugh…fine…Dragon Palace I guess…”

Candi proceeds to take a vile of sugar out of her fanny pack, chugs it in one gulp, and sprints out of the room.

After a minute or two she bolts back in with a takeout box in her hand.

“Here ya go Jack!”

Jack looks down on the box on his desk.

“...Candi…”

“Yes, my new favorite teacher in the entire world?” Candi says with an innocent expression.

“Did you pay for this food?”

“...Um…whaaaat…of course I did. Why would I have?” Candi says while sweating bullets. You know, sweat from the run she was just on. It isn’t there for any other reason.

“...Take your seat, please…”

“Okie dokie!” Candi zips back to her desk.

Jack writes down Candi’s information and reads off the next name on the list.

“Okay…Lev Hart.”

After a moment of silence Jack repeats the name.

“Is there a Lev Hart present?”

Lev shakes his head and raises his hand.

“...Oh…here…Sorry sir…”

“Name and power kid.”

“...Sorry…” Lev stands up “...Uh…hi…my name is…Lev Hart…It is nice to…meet you all…”

Jack stares at him.

“...Oh…my power is kind of…well…it’s complicated…” Lev says while rubbing his arm.

“We don’t have all day, kid.” Jack replies with a bored sounding voice.

“...Okay…well…you see…” Lev looks at the floor. “...My…power only activates when I am in a heightened sense of emotions…sorry…”

Another student quickly gets out of her desk and walks over to Lev. She has spiky light blue hair tied back in a long ponytail, an x shaped scar on her face, and has a tattered long black sleeveless leather jacket on.

“Now this is interesting.” She proceeds to pick up Lev and put him into a headlock.

Jack leans forward in his chair.

“Miss, what are you doing to that boy?”

“Don’t worry, teach. Just helping him show off his power. That’s all.”

“Put him down.”

“Fine.” she drops Lev and thuds back to her own desk.

Lev is now down on all fours and is hyperventilating. Suddenly his eyes turn red.

He manifests and bow and arrow out of light. The bow is gold and glowing but the arrow is red like his eyes.

He turns around and aims the arrow at the girl with the blue hair.

Jack gets up from his desk and runs to get between them.

As Lev fires the arrow Jack just got there in the nick of time to redirect the arrow so that it doesn’t hit the girl. He lifts the bow upwards and Lev shoots through the ceiling.

Lev’s eyes go back to normal and he collapses on his knees again.

“Boo! No fun!” The blue haired girl says with a disappointed look on her face. It seems like that…she wanted to be shot with the arrow for some reason.

“What the hell was that?” Jack says with a concerned look on his face.

Lev is now crying.

“...I…I am so…so sorry sir…it won’t happen again…I’m sorry…I’m…” his tears cut him off as he started to bawl his eyes out.

“Don’t worry kid. Take your time.” Jack leans down and puts a hand on Lev’s shoulder.

After Lev stops crying and sits back at his desk Jack is waiting patiently for an explanation.

“So, are you ready to talk yet?” Jack says.

“...Yeah…” Lev wipes his eyes one more time “...My power…is that when my emotions are in a heightened state I am able to generate a bow and arrow out of energy. Each different arrow color has a different effect. Green arrows that heal. Blue arrows can make people cry. You know…that sort of thing…”

“What do the red arrows do?” Jack says curiously.

“...Let’s…just say that they are the…most dangerous ones…”

“Okay. I think I have what I need, kid.” Jack writes Lev’s information down on his clipboard. “Very interesting.”

“Alright. Next is…Maka Sharktooth.”

The blue haired girl from earlier stands up again.

Jack slides his hand down his face. He really wants to get this day over with.

“Sup. The name is Maka Sharktooth and this is my power.” She takes a bottle of water out of her backpack and opens the lid. She uses her powers to guide the water out of the bottle and makes it float in a sphere. “Cool right?” Maka says to Jack.

“Water powers. Got it.” Jack says and he jots the info down.

“Oh! So that’s how it is!” Maka yells and proceeds to turn the sphere of water into a saw blade and launches it towards Jack.

He jumps out of the way, but his clipboard is cut in half after he drops it.

“Are you impressed now?” Maka gloats.

Jack just takes out another clipboard.

“This is why I buy spares.” He proceeds to jot down Maka’s information again.

“...Whatever…not like I care or anything anyways…” Maka says as she sits down with a loud thud.

“Okay…Lastly we have Violet Newton.”

“Why thank you for the kind introduction Mr. Dionysus. As our instructor has just stated, my name is Violet Newton. I am the daughter of King and Queen Newton and am the heiress to the Chess Company. It is nice to meet you all.” The young woman with bright purple hair tied back in two pigtails curtseys towards Jack. She is also wearing the chest plate to a suit of armor.

“Sir, do you mind if I borrow your desk for just a second?”

“...Sure, whatever…Let’s just get this over with…”

She proceeds to lift up the desk with one hand.

“So…super strength…”

“Oh no Mr. Dionysus. My power isn’t as civilian as just mere superstrength. There is so much more to it than that.”

She proceeds to put the desk back down and puts her hand on top of it. Shortly after this the desk starts to rock back and forth before collapsing.

“...What…why…did you do that?”

“Since it wasn’t very clear before, I thought my power needed some further demonstration. As you can see my power isn’t just mere superstrength. I am in fact able to change the weight of any object that I come into contact with. What just happened was that I made it to where the top board on your desk was so heavy that the rest of the desk underneath it could no longer support itself.”

“...That’s…not what I meant…Why did you break my desk?”

“Oh hush. I can simply just buy you a new one.”

She proceeds to pull out her phone and quickly dials a number.

“Hi daddy! Oh my day is going quite well so far…Anyways I was wondering if you could buy me a new desk. My other one is getting quite old…Thank you! Love you! Bye!” She hangs up. “See. Already taken care of. You can thank me now.”

“...Okay, I think that is enough class for today…”

*Scoff* “Um! You’re welcome!” Violet replies in a disgusted tone.

“...Class dismissed…”