Heyo everyone and welcome back to Adrenaline!

First things first, thank you all so much for the support. 120 followers for 3 chapters? That's just... Wow. Seriously, thank you. Yeah, I just wanted to say that.

Also, it looks like this will be updated roughly every Saturday (today is Sunday as an example) so, yay? I guess?

Anyway, reviews!

LightningBlade49: To be honest, I hadn't really thought about headaches cause I thought that his Quirk would help deal with it but to be honest, it's actually a pretty good idea so thank you for said idea. As for his stutter, I'll make him more confident definitely but I always thought that his awkwardness was what made Izuku, Izuku so I'll keep his stutter but it will be less noticeable later on.

MaaTouk.K50: Sorry, the harem is pretty much absolute at this point and to be honest, I don't think I'd enjoy writing older characters like Midnight or Mt. Lady cause... I dunno, I just don't like it I guess. Once again, I apologize.

AnimeDrummer: Don't worry, Inko will show up soon and... They'll be having talks.

Now onto chapter 4!

Idly, Izuku began to trace the scars on his hands underneath their linen wrappings.

Watching with an intense gaze as his fingers smoothed over the creases in the bandages, patting them to his skin until he felt the jagged patch of raised flesh, hardened and cool against his normally hot body. It was soothing somehow, to know that his efforts would always be with him, that he could just look down and remember both his power, his strength, his strife and his weakness, his downfall, his fragility with a few scratches; somehow… Somehow it filled him with a tiny amount of glee.

Interlocking his fingers and pulling, he let the loud cracking sound shoot out into the environment before Izuku looked around the environment. Dragging his field of vision around the classroom, he noted that they were still on the English question that they were on a few a few minutes ago, (when he had first started playing with his hands) and that most the class was still working on their question. It was some simple translation, nothing too difficult for Izuku so he had just been daydreaming for a while, letting his mind escape and re-cap what had been happening to him recently. Present Mic was quiet for once, allowing him to think clearly and the only sound surrounding him were the little grumbles of Bakugo alongside the tapping of pencils against the desks, which helped the rhythm in his head a surprising amount.

Gazing across the sea of seats once more, his eyes caught onto the sharp gaze of Tsuyu Asui who was staring at him with a certain level of seriousness and concentration that the green haired boy swore he could see lightning shooting towards his face. Tilting his head, he quirked an eyebrow in her direction hoping that she could see it and subtly tell him what was wrong. Instead, when she saw his confusion, she simply blinked once, smirked, wrote something down on a ball of paper and threw it at him. Due to him being a row behind her, it wasn't that hard for him to catch. Unwrapping it, he leaned forward a bit to try and see what the Frog-Quirk user had written, her scraggily writing hard to read. Eventually, however, he got it.

'Just trying to figure out where all the muscle goes.'

Like a pandemic of red across his whole form, Izuku recoiled at the comment with his chair following his movements, resulting in a sick screech. Glancing down, he noted how his body had gotten back into its 'messing with bandages mode' where his arms were bent and subconsciously flexing, straining the material of his shirt slightly. With a quiet, jumbled stutter he looked up to see the triumphant and smirking face of Asui, her tongue out of her mouth in a sort of mocking fashion before returning to her work. Meanwhile, Izuku just found himself rooted to the spot by his own body's lack of movement as he tried to figure out what to do.

In fact, now that he thought about it, a bunch of people had been acting weird around him today. It was only one period before lunch, meaning that they had had three periods before this, and during that time he noted himself being stared at a bunch, by both males and females alike. First, in homeroom, it was Mina and Ururaka who both turned away as soon as he clocked them. Then it was maths and during that, he noticed Iida examining his hands as he sat next to him while also asking him about his condition (which wasn't actually that out of the norm) but he also saw the stare of Kirishima, Kaminari and Mineta as they talked in the corner of the room, with two of the group glaring at him for some unknown reason while the other just looked perplexed and confused. Finally, there was modern literature with Cementoss, in which he caught sight of Ururaka once again, this time alongside Jirou and Momo, the latter two not hiding their appearance when they noticed his presence. And now there was Asui. What was with everyone today?

However, a quick refresh of his memory alongside the message on Asui's note told him everything in a matter of seconds; his fight with Todoroki and all the repercussions that had come about from it. Pulling his hand to his face, he roughly sighed into it, relishing at the movement of the soft linen on his skin as he began to reminisce about sad event. How it had put him in this state… He could only think about how the train-ride home was going to be, or even how lunch was going to be in a few minutes.

Glancing back down to his books, he took note of the small notebook that he had acquired from Recovery Girl before he left. He picked it up. Inside, it held a vast number of ideas and tasks that he had appointed for himself; there was the long list of alternative Hero names that he had thought of during homeroom, several medicine names provided to him that would help with pain if he felt any, and then a longer list of new discoveries about 'Adrenaline.' Humming to himself, Izuku smiled at his notes before quirking an eyebrow once more at what lay on the next page.

New Costume Ideas.

Ever since the discovery of his new side effect, he had been pondering about what changes to make to his costume. Yes, he still had One for All and as a result still was part of All Might's Quirk so the change wasn't needed, but the idea of having something else of his own just spoke out to him and made him feel some small sense of glee at having come up with some ideas. Also, he was thinking of ways to deal with his bone breaking problem, how to make sure it didn't affect his body too much even during the small healing boost he got from using Adrenaline. He had thought of a simple arm brace, one that would trail down from his more easily damageable ligaments but he then relented, arguing that this could limit movement and that he could simply rip it off during his weird, Devil-May-Care phase seen in his fight with Todoroki. Then, it was grips that attached to his elbows but the same problems arose. Sighing once again, he leaned back into his chair, thinking of how to even customise his costume; after all, he didn't know anyone that could effectively alter it…

…

…

Wait. Yes he did.

Leaning up, he began to think back to the games, to the round with the head bands and how him, Ururaka, Tokoyami and… And Mei had gotten into the next round. Going back on his knowledge, he could recall that was in Class 1-H and had a Quirk that let her eyes zoom in and out to allow her to see better. However, what he was most focused on was the fact that she used machines and mechanical properties in her suit and gadgets to help her through the competition. If there was someone that could help him out with his costume, it was her.

Going through his head, he recalled her telling him that she usually hung out with Power Loader at the workshop they had on school grounds and they had lunch next so he could visit her then. Nodding to himself, he spent the last two minutes just staring at the clock, all the while trying to ignore the feeling of eyes running up and down his body.

*RING* *RING*

Letting out an involuntary sigh, he watched as the rest of the class stood up and stretched from their translations before turning to their friends to begin casual conversation that was always around during lunch. Present Mic gave a quick notice to place the papers on his desk if you were leaving, which everyone practically was. Following suit, Izuku stood up and made his way to the door, giving his teacher a quick goodbye as he did.

Now in the hallway, he suddenly found himself very lost… W-Where was the workshop? Freezing in place directly outside the room, he started to focus on trying to figure out where it was leading to his habit of mumbling under his breath to come back, causing the few students that were left to turn to him in confusion.

"Uh, Izuku? You alright?" At the sound of his name, the boy's head shot up to meet the eyes of Mina, a sense of daze and amusement in her tone as she looked upon him. Also, judging by the floating mess of clothes standing next to her, he quickly deduced that Tooru was with her.

"M-Me? Oh yeah, I-I'm good, just trying to figure out where the workshop is." Standing back up from his hunched position, he placed his hands on the back of his head, smoothing his hands over his cracked head again, causing him to grit his teeth when he did so. However, he did miss the subtle shift in the yellow iris' of Mina as she glanced at his curled arm with a smirk.

"The workshop? Why do you need to go there Izuku?" Turning to his side, he quickly noted that now Tooru was speaking, her softer voice feeling quite close to his ear. And as it turns out, she had moved from her spot next to Mina and was now standing next to him, her skirt swishing alongside her blazer's sleeves.

"I-I, uh, need to upgrade my costume. My new… 'thing' doesn't really work with my old suit." He replied sheepishly, letting a thin veil of red dust his cheeks as he spoke, subconsciously turning away from the invisible girl.

"Oh yeah, we haven't asked you, have we?" Mina spoke up, turning to Tooru as she did.

"Ask what? Oh! Yeah, about that super cool, awesome thing that he did at the Games! What was it izuku, why did you suddenly go all 'RAW! I'M SUCH A BADASS!', huh?" Quickly forgetting her confusion, the invisible girl quickly shuffled back to the front of him and began to jump up and down before him, causing her clothing to begin to fly and jostle.

"W-Well… It would take some time for me to go through it all…" Trying to ignore the slight jab at his 'not badass-ness', he chuckled slightly.

"Oh, well I know where the workshop is so I can take you there while you explain your new… 'thing' to us, alright?" The pink skinned girl next to the duo quickly spoke up once more, excitement about his new side-effect leaking through her words. Thinking it through, Izuku quickly agreed to go through his new side-effect, making up a cover that it was just some new aspect of a regular strength Quirk so that he wouldn't reveal anything about One for All on accident.

As they were walking, with the only boy in the trio making his over the top hand signs and arm waving as he went through the new abilities he had procured, he found out that the girls were actually really interested in the topic, more so then he actually had previously thought of. Over the last term, Izuku hadn't really spoken to them much, instead choosing to stick with Iida and Ururaka for much of it as that was generally what was easiest for him, but on the few occasions that he had he found himself enjoying their company. Like right now. They were completely different from him; both were some of the most extroverted and 'out there' people he had seen in his whole life, and that was pretty hard to do with the ever-evolving world of Quirks and the like, while he was one of the shiest kids in the whole class with a Quirk that he couldn't even use properly. Plus, the fact that he looked like he had been copied and pasted from a very plain background from an anime didn't help, while both Mina and Tooru stood out from the crowd in their own way whether that be with the bright colour of their body or their lack of a body. They were just so different to him that he felt sort of… sort of entranced when they talked and spoke to him; they were giving him an insight into life that he definitely couldn't be a part of in his current state.

"So… your power practically relies on you beating yourself up to get a power-up? That's harsh man, like real hardcore." Mina quietly quipped as they walked, whistling to herself at the end after Izuku had finished his explanation. One thing that he had noticed about Mina was her use of broken up use of language and slang, which was something that he really didn't experience a lot, but it was a nice break from his usual stutter-y nonsense.

"Y-Yea, pretty much…" He laughed along with her as he thought about her words, how it was probably the tamest way that it could be described without being painful.

"Wow…. You're really cool now then, huh?" Tooru spoke up once again, reminding Izuku of her presence.

"I-I wouldn't say that…"

"Oh, come on, man! You're super cool now! You got this awesome Quirk that absolutely rocks, you've got this real sweet personality, and not to mention your muscles! You are so cool Izuku, and don't you forget it!" Leaping before him, Mina began to act like some sort of army drill sergeant about 'being cool', waving her hands in front of Izuku's face alongside the raising of her voice made the boy go bright red. Well, that and the fact that she mentioned his muscles… Again.

"W-W-Well, I-I – "

"Oh yea! You have all these muscles don't ya? Where the Hell have you been hiding these all this time, huh Izuku?!" Now it was Tooru's turn to have a go at him, her swaying clothes stopping abruptly to poke her finger into his upper pectorals, prodding them as if to test that they were actually real with a tone of voice that sounded genuinely offended at the fact that he hadn't ripped off his shirt and told the whole damn class about his muscles. And somehow, all of this just made Izuku melt into a tsunami of red blushes and stuttering as he tried to find a way out of this situation. However, fate seemed to smile on him as the two girls began to giggle at his incompetence.

"Ah well, here we are Muscles, the workshop!" Pausing in her stride, Mina gestured to large two doored room to their left where a lot of noise seemed to be accumulating from the inside. Funny how he didn't notice it earlier. Ignoring his previous embarrassment, he turned to the two.

"W-Well, thanks for showing me here, it means a lot."

They both shrugged him off.

"Nah, it was no biggie, really." The pink skinned girl retorted, crossing her arms under her bust.

"Yep! We're happy to help!" The invisible girl added, her clothes swaying once more.

"Seriously though, thank – "

"Oh yeah, you ain't too worried if we tell everyone about your Quirk's new shtick, right? No? ~ Okay, thaaaaaanks! ~ Bye!" Before he could even respond, he noted that the two had run off to the cafeteria, giggling the whole way there. Slumping over, Izuku sighed as he knew that he was going to be getting a bunch of questions during the Hero activity that they had last period. Cautiously, he wandered over to the doors.

Judging from all the noise of machines and tools from inside, he knew that the girls had actually taken him to the workshop and not just some random place of the school to make fun of his incapability to socialise. Walking up, he was about to knock on the door when suddenly, all the previously erupting from the room stopped abruptly. Quirking an eyebrow, he was about to open the door to check what was up.

"What the- "

BOOM!

In about 5 seconds, Izuku realised that he had been thrown clean across the corridor by some unknow force, landing flat on his ass with a thud. His ears were ringing too, a loud piercing sound that he could help but wince from a new-found weight that covered his body. From his squinty eyes, he could also see that there was smoke wafting around the air alongside the swinging of doors. Eventually, his ears stopped ringing just in time to hear the crackly voice of Power Loader.

"- this is why you have to be careful, God Dammit! This is like the 5th time this week!"

Shaking his head, he tried to push himself up but Izuku found his body trapped beneath something… Or more accurately, someone. Glancing down, the green haired teen felt his whole body freeze up for the umpteenth time today as he stared down a head of messy pink haired, curved and cutting into his chest with their softness. There was also a pair of goggles staring back at him, the dark lenses reflecting his eyes back at him like a distorted mirror world before continuing to gaze at his 'attacker.' This person was female… He could clearly tell… And the fact that he could feel it didn't help. Decked out in a loose tank top and some sort of working pants and boots, the figure began to shift in his lap.

"Hehe, Loader Bot this is just a happy accident, cause now I know not to-"Pushing her own body up, Izuku soon found himself face to face with the piercing yellow eyes of Hatsume Mei, the criss-crosses being a clear give away as well as the smirk that adorned her face.

"Oh hey! It's you! Welcome Izuku!" Smiling at the boy, she began to rise from his form, giving Izuku an unfortunate glance as he chest as she did so, causing him to recoil and begin muttering under his breath as he tried to calm himself down while Mei finished rising from her human seat. Suddenly, he found a hand thrust into his face. He stared at it, confused.

"What? You wanna stay on the floor or somethin'?" Even in her voice, the inventor's smirk was present in her tone as the boy looked up to see the same smirk adorning her pretty face. Quickly he took up the offer. As he stood, he saw the small form of Power Loader skulking off further into the back of the lab as he stood with Mei.

"T-Thanks." He muttered quietly, removing her hand from his as he stood.

"So, what brings you to this humble abode, hey Hot Shot?" She asked, placing her hands on her hips as she stared him down with a smirk.

"Hm? Oh yeah, I-I'm here to talk to you …. About a possible costume upgrade?" In an instant, he saw as her eyes lit up with wonder and curiosity.

"Oh! And upgrade? Yeah, yeah I ca help you with that! Come in, come in!" In a matter of a few seconds, Izuku found himself ushered into the workshop via a slight push to his back by the girl before she ran ahead into the shop.

Following her lead, he started to look around the place. All around him, Izuku saw different cut up parts of machines and robots with wires and cables hanging out haphazardly from each one alongside a few fully built models that were blinking lights of varying colours or rotating in circles on the desk. Paired with this was a lot of loud banging of metal and cutting of scrap that the boy would consider painful… If he wasn't the owner of One for All. Eventually he made it to the centre of the room with Mei,

"Alright bucko, what are you lookin' for?" Pulling himself out of the daze he was in, he began to address her.

"W-Well, I recently just learned about… You know, what I did at the Games right?" He quickly questioned, quirking an eyebrow at her.

"Hm… Oh! You mean when you went and messed that lovely body of yours up and then you got back up and screwed it up even more? If so, then yea I remember." He couldn't help but sigh. After a quick explanation of his abilities, he saw that she went into a comatose of thought for a few seconds.

"So… What are you actually looking for?" It should have been a simple question… It wasn't.

"H-Honestly… I have no clue. I just want something to compliment my powers, honestly… Maybe something to reinforce my body, I guess?" He just shrugged his shoulders at her as she continued her thoughts.

"You thought about braces?"

"Arm braces? Yeah, but they'd restrict my movement too much and even if they weren't, I'd probably just rip them off it I get too serious."

"Hm, yeah your right, you did get real aggressive in that fight…. How about full body armour? I got a sample if you want a test run." Walking away, she quickly wheeled in some heavy duty looking armour, with heavy patches and panels that would efficiently cover his entire being in defence.

"Looks a bit too much for me, if I'm going to be honest." Scratching the back of his head, he began to look around the room for inspiration as Mei quietly listed off options in the background. All around him, he saw clamps and grips that could work, but nothing solid. However, soon his eyes landed on a suspended piece of gear that caught his attention.

It was a golden frame by the looks of it, for a similar battle suit to what Mei had just bought out. However, this one was just the wire frame. It was simple, with only one thin wire leading down what would be the arms down to a bendable section at each elbow then to a palm sized circle in the centre of where the hand would be on each side, with five other wires leading off it where the fingers would be. It didn't have legs, however, only containing a metal line that would go down the spine. To be honest, it looked exactly like the wire frame of a drawn character, like a manga character or something but there was just an aspect of it that caught Izuku's eye. Walking closer to it, he reached out to touch it before Mei caught him a little too late.

"Oh, you might want to be careful of that. It has- "

"Ouch!" After encountering the material, he found a section of his linen cut by something, as a few drops of blood started to poke out through his skin. Alongside this, he felt the heated skin and rush of energy before they subsided. Holding his hand, he examined the material a bit closer with his eyes; along the outside of the wire were hundreds of tiny grips and clamp looking materials made of sharp metal.

"Yeah, I tried to warn ya. This is a skeleton that we put inside the suits; the grips secure it to the inside of the suit and give it extra protection so they usually aren't exposed like this and they are never facing the skin. Sorry 'bout that." Then, that sparked an idea in Izuku.

"Y-You said that these clamps and grips attach it to the suits, right?" She nodded. "How deep would they go if they were to go into human skin?"

Mei flinched.

"O-Oh… Um… If we go with the longest model, to the bone?" I think?"

To the bone, huh? Hm… That's it! Turning to Mei with a face full of inspiration and concern, he spoke of his idea.

"Um, theoretically these grips could secure a broken bone while sacrificing the skin to make contact, correct? So, what if I had a similar schematic for my own costume, because if I'm going to be using my power then it will just heal after coming out and even the initial burst of pain would help boost me to that initial boost of power." Looking up from his hand, he saw the concern on her face.

"S-So are you saying that you'd be willing to have something like this on your body to achieve your boost? You sure you're okay with that?"

Looking back at the frame, he clenched his hands.

"If I'm going to overcome this power and be a truly great Hero, then I have to do anything. I have to overcome this pain and this will help me do it." Twisting his body, he stared right into her yellow eyes with such determination and conviction that it made Mei shudder. "Can you help me do that, Mei?"

She paused for a few seconds… Then giggled.

"Alright then Hot Shot, let's get to making your 'Scar-Suit.'"

Scar-Suit? Heh, not a bad name.

And that's a wrap! Well... That's a new one. Anyway, thank you for reading and I hope that you enjoyed it. If you wanna know what the metal thing looks like, imagine a drawing frame. What do I mean by that? I mean the lines and circles that people use at the start of drawing a character, you know like the basic lines that create the skeleton before any full on body shapes are put on? Yea, those. And I also hope that you enjoy my interpretations of Tooru, Mina and Mei; all of them are out there in different ways so I wanted to make it unique. Now then, I will see you all next chapter! Goodbye!

-Jack