"What?" Inko squeaked out. "Sweetie, it's me, mommy." Izuku stared at the woman with a blank expression.
"I know what a mother is, and I should have one, but I just, I don't know who you are?" Izuku looked around the room as his vision cleared up and normalized, with one side still in the infrared but the detail made it easy to pick up the fine details of a person's face. "Momo, what happened, I remember the fight and losing but I don't, everything else is a," as he gripped his head with his new metal arm. Feeling the cool touch of it on his skin he looked down at it and shouted, "What the, how, when?"
Momo quickly moved up to the opposite side of Izuku and attempted to calm him down. "Izuku, wait please, listen." She struggled as he moved the sheets off his legs and shouted again when he say the right one was also covered in the same metallic substance.
Izuku pushed off the bed and stumbled to the floor cracking it with his metal arm as he caught himself. He awkwardly stood up and stumbled over to a metal pan to see his reflection and he screamed again, his left eye was silver in color with a blood red iris, then as he blinked in panic the red became green and his vision was blinded by intense color, then when he opened it again it turned gold with it showing a halo around object, "What, help" when he next opened his eyes everything was normal but the iris was glowing blue.
Momo cautiously walked behind him, "Izuku calm down, please." She extended her hand out to him. He reached for it almost instinctively and let her lead him back to his bed, the other people in the room watching silently. "Izuku what do you remember of today?"
Izuku thought and brought up the memories from earlier, "I remember climbing out of a river, Kaachan and his friends through me in." Inko gasped, she knew Katsuki wasn't her son's friend after everyone else's quirks developed except for his, but to think he was a bully.
Momo wasn't happy to hear that either and it would explain why Izuku was wet when they met. "And then what."
"I remember you, you looked so sad, but I wanted to help you." He silently said, making Momo blush.
"Do you remember the villains?" Izuku nodded.
"The big guy, the lady called him Bearhead," Izuku started pointing at his limbs, "They did this, the whip got my arm and the guy bit off my leg. Did," Izuku asked, "Did they get you too?"
Momo shook her head. "No, I got out of the alley way and some passing heroes heard me scream they chased off the villains."
Izuku smiled, "I'm glad," he said simply. "I'm really glad you didn't get hurt." Making Momo blush deeper. "But what is, this?"
"Your injuries were severe; the doctors gave up." Momo started, "But I, I wouldn't give up after everything you said and did for me, you are right, I should save everyone I could, and it starts with you." She glanced over to her parents, who were still livid but listening intently, "My parents are or were working on a new technology, nanomachines, micro"
"scopic robots that can self-replicate into any at shape or form needed, intent to replace the need for specialized equipment and the near infinite uses for them allow endless possibilities in their application." The occupants of the room were stunned, "That's, how do I know that?" Izuku looked around the room for an answer.
One of the scientists spoke up, "It's possible that if his head was also injured that his memories and knowledge might also have been affected which would also explain why he might not remember Mrs. Midoriya, it could be a temporary aspect, or it might be permanent."
"My son might not know who I am anymore." Inko cried out.
"We don't know, we were just barely starting tests for the nanomachines and we never planned for human testing until at least a decade from now." Said another scientist.
"Which is why you shouldn't have done this, young lady." Her father said accusingly at her. "Who knows what it has done to this boy."
"He is alive because of the machines father." Momo justified her actions.
"That doesn't give you the right to make a decision like that." Her mother spat back.
"QUIET!" Inko screamed, she got up from her chair and prostrated herself in front of Momo. "Ms. Yaoyorozu, you saved my son's life. For that I can never thank you enough." She got up and turned her gaze to her parents. "As Izuku's mother, please, accept what your daughter did as something truly heroic, Izuku is all that I have left and he's alive because of what your company made."
"That doesn't change the fact that, over one hundred billion yen was lost, and we won't get results from any future testing. This could tip the board over the edge and we could lose it all." Nashi Yaoyorozu responded.
Izuku didn't like the tension in the room, "Um, Mrs. Yaoyorozu, I, um." He tried to choose his words right, "I could be your test. The machines are in me, so can't you get something from that?" he offered.
"Izuku no, you can't just become a test subject," Momo gasped, "You didn't have a choice in the decision, it's not right."
"But Momo, your parents are right, this might I don't know what it might do or be, but if I have these now, I should let your parents know what they do to me." Izuku pleaded.
Ringo Yaoyorozu pondered, "We couldn't just take you. Too many witnesses."
Momo shrieked, "Father you can't be serious about abducting him."
Ringo threw his hands up, "Not what I'm suggesting but, those machines did things to his body, to what extent we don't really know, so it would behoove us all, for his own safety to be studied and to determine what level of change those nanomachines had on his physiology."
Nashi interjected as well, "Additionally he's a teenager and will be going on to high school soon, so what were your aspects before today young man?"
Izuku blushed, "I uh, I wanted to be a hero."
"But honey you're quirkless." Inko said to her son.
Momo quirked her eyebrow, "Wow not even his mother supported his idea, just like mine.". Then she had an idea. "That's perfect." She shouted, getting everyone attention.
"What do you mean perfect, the boy doesn't have a quirk and wants to be a hero." Her father scoffed.
"Yes," she whined, "He doesn't have a quirk, just the nanomachines and wouldn't that be the absolute best-case scenario to showcase and test them out, against heroes." She spread her arms out. "If he can without a quirk use the machines to keep up with the best this country has to offer or better yet, surpass them, where else are you going to find a better way to sell it to the world."
The scientists mumbled to each other, the mister and missus looked at them, "Well would that really work?" they asked.
"Theoretically there would be no better place besides a highly designed lab, U.A. has some of the best staff at training and drawing out a person's potential, and it is more capable than us of creating unique scenarios to test new and experimental equipment." One scientist shrugged.
"Our only complaint is that while there he would have many hours where his actions could not be seen firsthand or have a method to easily and quickly contact us if there are sudden changes to his body or the machines. So, I would prefer we had someone on the inside. Like a teacher or…"
"A student." Momo quickly asserted. She looked hopeful, "The plan was to get Izuku into U.A. so he could be a hero, but with this I might be able to convince my parents to let me go as well." Nashi got a knowing look on her face.
"No, absolutely not, you are not using this to sneak your way into U.A. to be a hero." She said.
Momo stomped her foot on the floor, "Well what are you going to do, hiring a teenager who might not get in anyway or let it be known to some other teen that Izuku is technically the result of illegal human experimentation. Who else but me could do it and understand what changes could be happening to his body, who else would understand the structures of the human system and be able to help him through this, it's not like he knows anyone else," She shouted. "He even forgot who his mother is. He needs someone there that he knows."
Her mother and father huddled together for a few minutes and quietly argued back and forth, "Fine, but he needs to be under observation for the year leading up to his entrance exam at the academy."
"How will Izuku do that, he goes to public school and we live down in the neighborhood?" Inko asked, the conversation having gotten away from her. But she at least knew Momo was not necessarily on her side, but she was on her son's and that was all the mattered right now.
"We will obviously have to move you and your son into our home, it's equipped with its own laboratory which will allow us to monitor anything that happens to Izuku during his time and we will have him enrolled into Aichi Private Academy, he will be in Momo's classes."
"What about his frien" Inko was about to say before she was saddened by her own realization. "My son has no friends, even the person who was his best friend as a child threw in him the river like trash." She grit her teeth, "I accept, this is the best for Izuku."
This stunned everyone in the room, no one had expected Mrs. Midoriya to agree to such a drastic lifestyle change with such a meager fight. "Are you certain Mrs. Midoriya," Momo asked concerned. "This is a big change for you and Izuku."
"If he doesn't remember me, then he won't remember all the bad he went through, sending him back to his old school he'll just go through it all again. And I won't let that happen, not this time." Inko stood up proudly, "When should we begin packing?"
Ringo laughed, "Well I always did like a woman who knew what she wanted," as he pulled out a phone, "I'll have movers begin packing up your home and everything will be sent over this weekend, how does that sound."
As the adults shared information on how the move would go, Izuku shuffled close to Momo. "Thank you." He said.
"For what?" she looked down at him.
"For being safe," Izuku mumbled. "I don't know if I would have been able to live with myself if you had gotten hurt."
"You almost died Izuku how can you be worried about me?" Momo asked.
"Because at least I know I was strong enough to save one person without a quirk," Izuku smiled, "For a few minutes I got to be a hero. Thank you." Before he slumped into her, causing her to cry out.
The scientists rushed over but after checking him noticed he had just fallen asleep. As Izuku was placed back in the hospital bed, he dreamed of a field of flowers and a beautiful woman in a yellow sundress waiting for him.
