The Evolution: Rise Of The Heroes

Author's Note: I've actually changed the word "Program" to "Department" So from now on it's gonna be like Hero Department. Very sorry about that. Anyways, Enjoy!

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Clark didn't wait for their voices, because he knew how ridiculous this task is gonna be. After all those "death threats" by the Director, they were thinking of something nearly impossible to do. One of them even thought of saving the world! But a Homecoming party?

Clark immediately continued, "1 week from now, we will hold the biggest Homecoming party this University has ever seen! We will join with the Year 2 Department Leaders at planning the..." BAM! Someone cutted him off. He stood up and both his hands were on the table. His expressions were dark and looked down at the table. He was the representative of the Military Department.

"Is this a joke?" Then he looked up at Clark, who didn't even flinch and just glanced at him with a normal expression. He already knew this is gonna happen, that's why he's prepared for this. The other representatives were all waiting for Clark's reply. Jon was also surprised and was quite mad, but when he thought of this, he began thinking deeply.

There was a small silence before someone finally spoke. "I think this is a good idea for 3 good reasons. 1st is that it will give time for the students to actually relax before the hellish school year starts. 2nd is that new students can socialize with others, making the bond of the school stronger than ever. 3rd is that..." He hesitates and looked at everyone and said "if we can't even do this small of a task, what will other people think..."

The words that he said made everyone think of it deeply. Clark nods and glanced at the person who said it. "He's right. The Director is just testing us, and It's already started. Right now in this meeting. Thank you..." He was waiting for a name in which the guy responds

"Its Jon, Jon Storm". Clark again nods and stared at the Military Representatives who's currently standing up. All of them were also staring at him, waiting for his reply. "Got no other choices, Do I?" He sighed and so does Clark but with a sigh of relief.

"We only have 1 week left, That's enough time to prepare everything. Plus, the Year 2 is gonna help us..." That's when Clark received a message from his iChip. "Excuse me." He looked at the message so seriously and that's when he cursed. "Shit!" They were all surprised, after all this is the Top 1 from the Hero Department.

"What's wrong?" seeing that he seems problematic, the girl from the Entertainment Department asked.

"The Year 2 Department Leaders won't be helping us. Looks like the Director really wants to test us. Alone. Urghh Fine. We'll just have to do it by ourselves." It was this time that panics can be seen at their faces, without the influential help from the Year 2, they would have to think of how to advertise this to everyone. If they fail to meet the Director's expectation, it will be hard to actually get his trust back.

Jon was also problematic, but he immediately calmed down. Hosting a party is easy if there's 10 Best students to handle it. They just need someone to actually lead them and distribute the task. This was the time when Jon looked at Clark, he can still see his panicked face. He couldn't let the Director down, that's why he was about to speak when someone beat him to it "We can do this, just tell us what to do." It was the Space Department representative. She looked at Clark, although you can see at her face that she's afraid of failing, she couldn't just give up.

"Right, I'm sorry." he finally regained his composure. "Alright, each of you have something to do. I'm gonna leave the advertising to the Social and Hero Departments. Development and Entertainment will design the party. The General and Business Departments will plan out and take care of the Financial cost. Also the General Department will take care on the food, make sure they're enough for thousands of students. Dont worry the University will handle the cost. Robotics, Space and Science, make something that will "lure" the students or anything that keeps them going. And The Military will be act as our support, if you need any help just ask them. But when the party starts, you guys will be incharge of the security."

The plan were distributed, and slowly they regained their confidence. Clark went at it again but this time, its more detailed. Making the other 9 finally dropped their panicked faces and were anticipating the outcome of the party. They can already see the praises that the Director and the students will give.

"The only ones that's gonna help us is the other scholars that's outside of the room. As of now, they are still in meeting regarding their scholarship. So the other 24 scholars will help you accomplish your individual task. The Director probably already explained it to them. This is the first task he gave us, whether we can actually lead a small group of people with no proper connections to them whatsover. That's why I'll give you this day to know each other and discuss the task together." Clark warned them.

They pondered it for a while, before nodding their heads. Although Jon would prefer to avoid socializing, if it's really necessary, he would not hesitate.

The door was suddenly opened and the older lady came in. "Mr. Stanford, they're ready." Clark returned with a nod and glanced at each of them before saying "Let's do this."

The older lady seems to be the one who were leading the orientation for the scholars. It was the Director at first but he only came to tell them that in return for giving them scholarship, the school had to give them task in which they have to complete. The old lady then proceeds to fully explain the details about it. She seems to leave out the fact of the first task that the director gave to them. Giving Clark and the rest of the Representatives time to explain it to them.

The room was fairly quite. They were waiting for their Department Leaders. And then they came out, the 10 Students who scored the highest on their Scholarship Test. They saw first Clark Stanford who was holding a clipboard, and followed by 9 others who seems confident and stood firmly. Jon was the last one they saw entering the room, seems he was still thinking about how to fit in the schedule that Clark gave him.

"Alright listen up, I'm guessing you already know me, If not, I'm Clark Stanford the Top 1 from the Hero Department and these students are my fellow Top 1 holders of their own Departments." Clark immediately began, time is essential and they would rather finish early than finish late.

The 200 scholars sitting in the room quickly tried to examine these 9 students. These 10 students standing infront of them right now are their year's Student Council if no problems arise. 3 years of their time in the University will be handled to them.

Seeing that everyone is following, Clark continued "There are 10 rooms available in here and each Department will use this to discuss their task. I already distributed the task and your Department Leader will tell you themselves. Please proceed." The last 2 words were ordered by Clark to the Representatives.

They began leading their own Department scholars to each room, until there are only 6 people remaining on the room. It was the Hero Department and chose this room as their meeting area.

Jon's room was the same as the other 8, with the exception of Clark's room which was the room where 200 scholars had their meeting. The room was circular, with the audience forming a "U" shape, facing the whiteboard and just underneath the whiteboard is Jon.

He was holding a clipboard that Clark gave to each of them. It was the information about the 24 scholars in their Department. He began saying to others while still looking at the clipboard. "The first task that the Director gave us was hosting a Homecoming Party." followed by a surprised expression to others, it was the same expressions that the 9 representatives made. "Clark Stanford gave us a task that best suited us, the Robotics Department, in which to create something to entice the students to the party. I already have an idea on what to do, I just wanna hear yours, maybe you have a better one." at the last words, he looked at everybody.

They were still speechless but the last words that Jon said woke them up and immediately searched for ideas. Then somebody started to voice out their ideas; A fog machine, Self powered rockets, their ideas ideas were rejected since the Science Department will handle the latter and the Space Department of the former.

"Since you guys are still searching for ideas, I'll tell you mine. A Laser Formation machine, we will take advantage of the fog machine that the Science department will make and use it to project our lasers at the night sky, where everybody can see. And the rockets that the Space Department would fit perfectly. It can be anything from the Logo of the school, symbols from different houses or departments will form from the sky. Don't worry you just need to make the regular machine and I'll modify it to atleast make it more... fun." Although these scholars were knowledgable about technology, most of them wasn't practicing or making their own themselves, unlike Jon who had been making his own gadgets from scratch since he was a kid.

All of them agreed and they stopped thinking of other ideas. "I'll give you guys 3 days, it should be done by then. Just pass it to me and I'll handle the rest. After that we will use it to help the other departments to Advertise..."

Jon was suddenly interrupted. She stood up and said. "3 days? That's impossible!" Jon just looked at her and sighed. "Don't worry, when we were in a meeting earlier, I already made a list of instructions. You just need to follow it. Like a blueprint."

She still wanted to speak but Jon continued "As for the resources, Clark will obviously handle about that. He'll give us a place where we can work. Oh and you're excused from your clubs just for this week." She finally gave up and sat back down.

Seeing that the situation is getting tense, Jon said "We're scholars, we don't have a choice. When we were on the meeting earlier, we were mad but we knew we had to do it. We had to. It's a big pressure for us too, so I hope you'll cooperate from now on."

The mood was now fair, although he wasn't as charming as Clark but Jon has his own ways to handle people. He distributed the instructions and began planning with everyone. He grouped them and they all went into separate ways.

An hour later, almost everybody is gone. The Representatives were the only ones left at the meeting room. They all discussed the final draft and went on to their own ways. Clark recommended that the 10 of them would take lunch together to atleast socialize. The 9 of them agreed but Jon was hesitating, if he were to refuse now he would distance himself from them. He couldn't take that chance that's why he accepted.

As they left the Admin Building, they saw 2 students, one with wings. They flew up to the air holding a banner that says "HOMECOMING PARTY"