Is That A Dragon? (II)

"Wha-What happened?" I heard the head matron's voice from the observation room, but her voice wasn't muffled in the slightest even though she wasn't speaking through the mic. I realized that all of my senses have been enhanced too… However, I quickly realized that there was a problem too. I was insanely angry and I was finally starting to feel the urge to act on it.

I was still in control, but I wasn't sure how long I would be able to handle my current state… The urge to attack anything and everything around me was getting stronger and stronger. I clearly needed to do some conditioning training, but I had no idea where to begin…

"Everything is alright. His flames were much hotter than expected. It simply triggered one of the safety measures" The doctor quickly explained, but I knew that he wasn't talking to me since he wasn't using the mic. Then I heard him press a couple of buttons and the room started to clear. "Reo-kun, are you alright? How are you feeling?" The doctor asked as soon as he saw me through the smoke.

"I am alright" I answered simply. I decided not to tell him about my mental state as I was worried that he might assign me a minder or something like that. "Uh… Sorry for destroying the equipment though" I apologized, trying to act as sincere as possible.

The doctor dismissively waved his hands in the air… "No need to worry, young man. It is not your fault" The doctor quickly shrugged off. "Since you are alright, shall we move on to the next tests?" The doctor asked and since I had no complaints, I happily agreed. "Can you return to your previous size?" The doctor asked me and I immediately tried to decrease my size, but I didn't know how to.

"Ummm… I am not sure how to do that" I pointed out timidly. This could be a serious problem…

The doctor seemed to ponder for a moment while rubbing his chin with a thoughtful look on his face before he finally started to speak. "Your trigger is anger, right? Then why don't you try thinking about nicer things?" The doctor suggested helpfully.

Hmm… That could work. So, I started to think about nicer things from my memories. At first, nothing happened, so I started to try harder and after a few seconds, the anger finally started to dissipate and I started to shrink down. When I was finally as small as I was during the initial tests, I stopped thinking about the nice things and I stopped shrinking when I did that.

"Good. Very good" The doctor nodded his head, looking impressed. "There are a few more tests we need to conduct to determine the full extent of your powers, so should we get started?" The doctor asked and I gave him a nod. The doctor pressed a couple of buttons and a piston-like machine came out of the floor. 

"Now Reo-kun, I want you to punch the red side as hard as you can" The doctor instructed.

"Alright" I answered as I walked up to the machine and pulled back my fist. After taking a deep breath, I punched as hard as I could and some numbers popped up on the screen. I had no idea what the numbers meant, but thankfully, the doctor helpfully explained.

"1237 psi, that is quite impressive, considering you are still quite shorter than an average human. Young man, you can already out-punch average boxers" The doctor explained as he gave me a thumbs up. "Now, let's see… Jump as high as you can, Reo-kun" The doctor instructed and I lowered my body before making the jump. "6-60 cms already… You can already jump as high as trained athletes" The doctor exclaimed cheerfully.

After that, it was the grip test and once again my score was close to trained athletes. Then it was the flexibility test and I scored pretty low on this test, but it was alright because the next was the dash test and this time I managed to beat even trained athletes. The tests carried on and I managed to score on par with trained athletes on almost all of them.

"Now, Reo-kun, I need you to turn off your Quirk, but before that, you need to get something to wear" The doctor explained with an amused tone before pressing a button. One of the walls opened up and a wardrobe slid out of the wall. "These shorts are made from very special fabric. They can withstand flames up to a certain temperature and they are quite elastic in nature" The doctor finished his explanation and pressed another button.

An opaque screen rose up from the floor, covering the view from the observation room. I grabbed one of the shorts from the wardrobe and walked behind the screen. I was glad that the doctor cared about my dignity. I quickly put on the shorts and walked out from behind the screen. Just like the doctor said, the material was extremely elastic and now that I was dressed, I decided to turn off my Quirk.

Once again, I started to think about nice things and soon I was shrinking… Soon I was back in my human form. "Reo-kun, can you breathe flames now?" The doctor asked. 

Hmm… I wonder too… I took a deep breath and decided to feed on my anger, but not enough to start transforming. Even though I transformed only once I could already tell how much anger I needed to channel to start transforming which was a good thing. I felt the heat well inside me and as soon as I breathed out, flames spewed out of my mouth, but these flames couldn't be compared to the flames I could spew out in my transformed state.

I could feel the heat, but it felt somewhat uncomfortable to spew flames out of my mouth, but it wasn't hurting me or anything… 

"Good. Good. Now, can you use flames from your hands?" The doctor and this time I wasn't sure if I could do that, but I still decided to give it a try, but nothing happened. I could feel the heat welling inside me, but I couldn't bring it out. I decided to try for a minute before I finally decided to give up. The doctor wrote down something in his notepad before he decided to speak again.

"Alright. That should do it, young man. You were amazing, but there is still something we need to discuss…" The doctor trailed and at my curious look, the doctor decided to elaborate. "We still need to decide the name of your Quirk" The doctor revealed before a frown appeared on his face. "'Dragon' would have been the most fitting name for your Quirk, but it is already in use, so we need to come up with something else" The doctor added, looking disappointed.

"Young man, any ideas?" The doctor asked me after a moment, trying to humor me.

After thinking for a bit, I came up with a fitting name, at least according to me. "Escalation" I suggested after thinking for a bit. They might call Taylor Hebert the Queen of Escalation, but it was Lung, who escalated in reality. The more he fought, the stronger he became, the bigger he grew, and he would keep escalating until the conflict ended one way or another… I hope escalation is not in use.

"...That is… quite fitting" The doctor admitted after checking something. "I suppose, Escalation it is" The doctor nodded his head with a grin on his face. "That would be all, why don't you get dressed?" The doctor suggested and another wardrobe slid out of the wall…

~~POV Narrator~~

Dr. Akunji stared at the back of the retreating head matron and the young boy… The young boy had managed to impress him quite a lot with his Quirk and he tested Quirks for his daily living. The doctor gave the duo another glance before he pulled out an ancient-looking phone from his pocket and dialed an unsaved number. The line rang exactly a couple of times before the call was accepted.

"Yes, it's me" The doctor said, but the person on the other side didn't say anything so he decided to continue on his own. "I might have found someone useful" The doctor added.

"...I am listening" A voice finally answered from the other side after a bit of silence…