New Century Class

The New Century Class was the first School batch of the 21st Century, based within a School facility on the northwestern side of Alola's Poni Island opposite the cliffs surrounding the Altar of the Sunne and Moone.

History

As part of their plans, Dr. No Heart and Orlando Rosa designated a few Schoolchildren of particularly notable lineages as part of the Noble Metal set. Unbeknownst to everyone but No Heart and his personal Templars, the New Century Class was actually made for the purpose of creating "Aurics of quality" to be used in a ritual for reaching the Prime Node.

The first Schoolchild of the class to be liquidated was Mercury following him and Gold getting into an altercation after he was caught bullying Silver, and Orlando Rosa spotting it. From that point onwards, a particularly petty liquidation was referred to as "getting Mercury'd" amongst the New Century Schoolchildren.

Rhodium, Brad the Freeshooter, and Adrian the Stalwart would work together to expose Orlando Rosa as a pedophile, with a scientist managing to catch him in the act of attempting to once more sexually assault the Batch's Palladium. It would be soon be discovered that she had become pregnant by Rosa, and No Heart had her sent away to the School facility in Lavarre City due to it being the last one still equipped to deal with birth.

Sometime in mid-2001 following this, six Schoolchildren, the Iridum who would one day be known as Chiyo amongst them, attempted a breakout from the School. This followed the suicide of the Batch's Gold following the liquidation of their Silver. They succeeded, but at the cost of their Gallium's life when he accessed The Gates in order to secure their escape. After escaping they would then all go their separate ways because as a group, they were simply too big a target to be ignored by the School. Sometime after, Diamond, the Carbon of the batch, managed to escape as well despite the best efforts of Adelinde the Scythe. The Batch's Ruthenium would follow soon afterwards. At an unclear time in 2001 relative to Diamond's escape, Yuka, the Batch's Flourine, managed to escape around August while on mission, but ended up committing suicide alongside her Torchic starter in order to protect Akari from School reprisal.

Following the departure of Orlando Rosa from the School in July, the Batch's Bohrium was liquidated on No Heart's orders due to Rosa's perversions no longer delaying their death, a fate they were almost happy to have happen to them due to how much they'd suffered in their short few months of life. Knowing that she would likely be next due to her power being deemed too weak, the Batch's Unununium enlisted Rhodium's help to find a secluded spot to climb over the sheer cliffs surrounding the facility and escape. The Batch's Dubnium is believed to have been liquidated herself not too long afterwards. The Batch's Antimony, Seaborgium, and Ununnilium, and Promethium all died of Curse-related maladies sometime before Unununium's escape.

The Batch's Helium managed to escape at one point, but ended up committing suicide to kill both herself and the Templars persuing her in the badlands north of Levincia, being eventually reborn as a Bramblin.

The Boron of the Class would eventually become an Alumnus, but was killed by Chiyo in 2006, while their Curium succumbed to complications of GI cancer caused by her creation in 2011. Chiyo would later find out that the Cadmium of their group had been liquidated sometime prior to 2022, with the samples taken from his body placed in a Sinnohan School tissue bank, having been killed by Brad the Freeshooter. Hydrogen, Silicon, and Ununquadium would end up becoming Alumni and working under Dr. No Heart. As part of their "graduation", Hydrogen would end up killing the Batch's Neptunium in an Aura duel. The Batch's Mendelevium would simply disappear following a mission, and reemerge as "Dimitri the Dragon", a major underworld figure and member of Neo-Flare.

The Platinum and Copper of the Batch managed to escape sometime before 2006, but parted ways shortly after destroying the templates of Gold and Silver that they stole during their escape. During Tapi Fini's attack on the Poni Facility, the Batch's Meitnerium and Tungsten would use the chaos to escape.

Diamond mentioned to Chiyo and her group upon their reunion in 2022 that he attempted to show the way to escape to the remaining members of their Batch, but until Ruthenium and Helena revealed themselves, whether or not anyone else managed to escape and survive into the 2020s outside of himself, those under No Heart's control, or Chiyo's group remained unknown.

Organization

The Class was comprised of 114 Schoolchildren, all based within the Poni facility under the watch of a School scientist known by the nickname Dr. No Heart and his Templar second Brad the Freeshooter, among others, most prominently Orlando Rosa. The conditions were particularly harsh, even by School standards, due to No Heart's experiments and Rosa's abuse, which was the main reason why Chiyo, Zee, Chloe, Abe, Gallium, and Curium tried escaping a relatively short time after their decanting.

A common theme in the Batch was the usage of doublets, Schoolchildren who may or may not have been derived from the same templates, but had similar powers, for use in comparative testing. The known doublets included:

• Chiyo and Helena (Shared Templates)
• Penelope and Neptunium (Shared Templates)
• Diamond and Promethium (Similar Abilities)

Known New Century Class Schoolchildren

†= Deceased

• 001 Hydrogen
• 002 Helium† (Kali)
• 005 Boron (Penelope) [Revived]
• 006 Carbon (Diamond)
• 007 Nitrogen [Status unknown]
• 008 Oxygen†
• 009 Fluorine† (Yuka)
• 010 Neon [Status unknown]
• 014 Silicon (Rei)
• 017 Chlorine (Chloe)
• 029 Copper (Tombak)
• 031 Gallium†
• 039 Yttrium [Status unknown]
• 044 Ruthenium
• 045 Rhodium (Rody)
• 046 Palladium
• 047 Silver†
• 048 Cadmium†
• 051 Antimony†
• 053 Iodine [Status unknown]
• 054 Xenon (Zee)
• 061 Promethium†
• 064 Gadolinum [Status unknown]
• 074 Tungsten (Matthieu)
• 075 Rhenium† [Reborn as Dusknoir on Ruthenium's team]
• 076 Osmium (Abe)
• 077 Iridium (Chiyo)
• 078 Platinum (Helena)
• 079 Gold†
• 080 Mercury†
• 087 Kalosium [Status unknown]
• 093 Neptunium†
• 096 Curium†
• 101 Mendelevium (Dimitri)
• 103 Lawrencium [Status unknown]
• 105 Dubnium†
• 106 Seaborgium†
• 107 Bohrium†
• 109 Meitnerium (Meital)
• 110 Ununnilium†
• 111 Unununium (Rina)
• 114 Ununquadium (Fleur)

Trivia

• As of 2026, the New Century Class has the second largest amount of introduced Schoolchildren after the Freshman, beating out the Phantom Class.