Awesome / Super Powereds

Year One

• Vince despite losing to Michael, does well enough to be placed 8th in his freshman class.

Year Two

• Vince calmly thanks Michael for taking away his need to lie by outing him. He then makes it clear he won't hold back with Michael or take his shit anymore.
• Any time Alice proves that she does in fact have what it takes to be in the Subtlety class. First, she gets over twenty points on a five point assignment by manipulating Nick into leaving her unsupervised on the boy's side of the dorm, using her father's access codes to get into his room, and taking pictures of his work. When Professor Pendleton calls this cheating, Alice points out that he told them to cheat on the very first day, she demonstrated skill, and she pulled off her plan without Nick noticing. Then in the tailing challenge that Alice and some of the others get to take in place of the final, not only does Alice correctly deduce how Pendleton will be disguised, but when she loses sight of him, she tells security that he's been taking upskirt photos of girls all day. This gives her access to the security cameras, letting her find him within the time limit and win the game. Pendleton is pissed that he had to spend four hours in a security station, but he's more pissed that he can't fail Alice out of spite, since she really did earn her win.
• Before the final battle begins in earnest, we get this lovely paragraph:
  Many of the students would one day look back at this day, their final match of sophomore year, as the moment when they finally understood what it was they were aspiring toward. The matches they’d had previously, while difficult, had been controlled by their very nature. There were always safeguards, always rules, always a set number of variables to be accounted for. In the last five minutes of this match, none of that was true. It was their first taste of true battle. There was no order, no simple objectives. There was only chaos, and fear, and violence.
  And fire. All of them would remember that quite clearly. There was so very much fire.
• Nick's plan to win the year final and keep Vince from getting washed out. He blackmails Rick using a video of crimes Rick committed months ago (crimes which Nick himself bribed him into committing) into trapping Vince in a walking dream where he sees the objective as someone innocent who needs his protection, and all the other students as inhuman monsters. Vince starts the fight with a lightning bolt that levels half the forest, wreathes himself in flame, sets fire to all the ground within reach, and then starts getting serious. His accomplishments during the fight include outputting enough heat to kill any normal human who gets within ten yards, fighting Chad on an even level and then hitting him with enough kinetic force to throw him a couple miles away, absorbing a sonic attack (an ability he had never demonstrated before) and then unleashing a perfectly calibrated lightning bolt to knock someone out, and absorbing Thomas's energy tentacles, which should have been impossible. The rest of the team spends the fight trying to keep people away from him—not because he needs help, but because that way only the strongest will face him, and actually have a chance to survive.
  Nick: HEY, YOU FUCKING SUITS WATCHING THE SHOW! This is Nicholas Campbell. The silver-haired demon I've mind-controlled into beating the shit out of everyone who gets near him is Vince Reynolds. Former Powered. Adopted son of the villain Globe. Ass-kicking machine. My best friend. You all just watched him knock back several top ranks, including Chad Taylor, our current king of the combat mountain. So I just wanted to ask you a quick question, while I had the opportunity. WHO'S MIDDLE OF THE PACK NOW, MOTHERFUCKERS?
• Nick's Memory Gambit to get around the school erasing his memories with his expulsion. He's been keeping detailed journals of everything that happened for the past two years, in code, and sending them to his place in Vegas on a regular basis, knowing that he'd be able to break through the memory blocks with enough information. The best part might be Dean Blaine and Professor Pendleton basically saying "Yep, we should have seen this coming."

Year Three

• After Professor Fletcher forces Camille to use her power to the fullest in a 3-on-1 match against Chad, Roy, and Vince, what would be a Curb-Stomp Battle for the boys turns into a near-win for Camille, who manages to quickly dispatch Chad (the top combatant in the class), Roy (despite him being aware of her true power), and nearly manages to beat Vince.
• Roy gets one when he fights Chad to work out whether he should be in Close Combat or Weapons - aside from Camille (who jumped Chad with powers he didn't know she had) and Angela (who was a badass and far more experienced), he comes closest in the series to defeating Chad - getting him to pass out after knocking him down during the weapons fight.
• One for just about everyone during Lander's Crucible, but especially the teaching staff. The bad guys assume that the school won't be able to defend against the amped-up powers they have. They're wrong, turns out experience and skill beats pure power. Particular points go to Impact taking bad guys out from nowhere, Emerald Hydra taking on an amped-up telekinetic, Wisp casually torturing information out of the bad guys, and Zero taking out a powerful blaster. Blaine's narration makes it even more awesome: 'There was no way they’d accounted for him. Aside from his presence being a highly guarded secret, it was a realization dictated by simple logic. If they’d known Zero was at this school, they’d never have come in the first place.'
  • Another one for Roy being saved by Titan. He's getting beaten down by a boosted Super, who claims to be the strongest man in the world, and who Roy can't even knock off his stride. One punch from him demolishes Roy's shoulder. Then Titan arrives, takes a punch from the guy easily, and proceeds to knock him around and break most of his bones.
  • Angela gets one too, after showing just how horrifying and deadly the Desoto sibling with the supposedly less terrifying ability can be. Shane's been shot, he's crawling away from the bad guys, unwilling to use his power lethally. Then Angela arrives, tears them to pieces, and gets him to a healer. She even notes that he is a nicer person, which is shown by the effort he takes to be non-lethal.