The next morning, Katsuki had woken up in his bed alone, he remembers having sex with someone last night but he can't seem to figure out who or remember their face for that matter, but he decided to drop it, figuring that it'll come back to him later as he stumbled out of bed still hungover as all hell, "Fuck me, I need to stop drinking." he thought to himself. "Mina, anything important scheduled for today?" to which he got no answer, meaning one of two things, the first being whoever he was with last night shut her off to delete any evidence of her being there, the second being the AI decided to be a little bit more bitchy today, neither options worked for Katsuki and he was not in the right state of mind to go check if either one of those things were happening.

So for now he elected to head to the kitchen and whip up a batch of anti-hangover juice, which was literally just some blended asparagus with blended strawberry and banana mixed in and a little bit of whiskey, why would you mix in alcohol if you're not trying to be hungover anymore you may ask, your answer may lie in the fact that it just simply tastes better with whiskey, it tends to drown all the flavor out so he didn't have to taste it.

He then began his shuffle towards the bathroom, meeting against the wall to make sure he didn't fall, once at his destination, he turned on the lights to see that it was a complete mess in there, the shower curtains for torn off, there was what he thought was water all over the floor and what appeared to be under the sink lacey black panties, obviously whoever he was with last night had the time, but as he reached down to grab them, he felt a sudden strain in his chest as he practically tore his shirt off to see that the miniature arc reactor with blinking on and off, it was failing. "I should have seen this coming."

He thought to himself as he began collapsing. "MINA! EMERGENCY, PROTOCOL 4, CALL IBAR-" he passed out before he finished, but luckily, since Kirishima wasn't in the country at the moment, Mina autodialed her anyway.

"You have a literal battery in your chest that you made out of scraps in a cave and you didn't think to replace it earlier?!" Shiozaki lectured, clearly not happy to walk inside her boss's house and find him half dead on his bathroom floor. "Honestly Katsuki, tell me, are you suicidal? Because normal people don't do something to save their lives, then turn around and do some dumb shit that could cause them to lose it."

While listening to her ranting, the ashy blonde limped across his lab and grabbed a black box off of one of the shelves, which caused her to stop talking in shock, to which he immediately shot down all her hopes and dreams. "Calm your tits, Mother Teresa. It's just another Arc reactor, but this one won't punk out like a piece of shit like this." he explained taking the metal piece out the box, "but I need you to… well… put it in."

She instantly froze, as it wasn't exactly what he said that threw her off but it was how he said it doesn't usually stutter on those types of sentences, they're actually his bread and butter, "Does he remember last night?" she thought, she was starting to freak out before the heavens answered her prayers in the form of Katsuki saying, "y'know, because it's kind of sticky and gross in there." He pointed at his chest, signaling that who's going to have to stick her hand in and attach it.

"I would do it myself, but my hands are kinda too big." He finished, grabbing his work stool and placing it next to a recline chair so she could have an overview on what she was actually doing, as he did such, Ibara turned on the TV to help ease her senses, but as she should have guessed it was nothing good.

'Bakugou Industries! I've got one recommendation! Ready? Ready? Sell, sell, sell! Abandon ship! Does the Hindenburg ring any bells?' They heard the newscaster say, to which made Bakugou say "Oh fuck me!" in his head as this was the last thing he wanted to hear today, well-the second to last thing. 'Let me show you the new Bakugou Industries business plan! Look, that's a weapons company that doesn't make weapons!'

"Say how big did you say your hands were again?" She acknowledged his question but didn't answer as she looked at his bare chest completely confused on what to do, Katsuki sighed in disappointment, "Alright, look now pay attention, see this? Ya grab it and just hugh-" He said before he twisted the Arc Reactor and pulled it out.

"Jesus! That's what's keeping you alive?! It's asinine, who did this to you?" Asked Ibara, as Katsuki used her moment of confusion to drop the old disconnected piece in her hands.

"It was, my green haired assistant. It is now an antique." He said. "This is what will be keeping me alive for the foreseeable future. I'm swapping it up for an upgraded unit, and I just ran into a little speed bump."

That part confused her. "How the hell does a magnet have a speed bump?" she thought before asking aloud. "Speed bump, what does that mean?"

"It's nothing. It's just a little snag. There's an exposed wire under this device. And it's contacting the socket wall and causing a little bit of a short. It's fine." he assured her.

"What do you want me to do?"

"Put that on the table over there. That is irrelevant." He ordered, to which she complied, but not without throwing up in her mouth a little. "Now, I want you to reach in, and you're just gonna gently lift the wire out."

"Is this safe? I'm not going to accidentally kill you am I?"

"Yeah, it should be fine. It's like Operation. You just don't let it touch the socket wall or it goes "beep", or by realistic standards I go dead." Katsuki tried to explain to her confusion, but to no avail.

"What do you mean, "Operation"?" She asked.

"All your years on this goddamn Earth and you've never heard of opera-you know what? never mind, It's just a game, just gently lift the wire out." He said frustratedly, he was actually flabbergasted as to what childhood she had if not knowing Operation was her reality.

"Katsuki, I don't think I'm qualified to do this."

"No, you're fine. You're the most capable, qualified, trustworthy person I've ever met. You're gonna do great." He stated, she couldn't tell whether or not he was being sarcastic but if he was being serious then that would mean Katsuki Bakugou was praising her and that was just a first in general. "Is it too much of a problem to ask? 'Cause I'm…"

"Okay, okay I get it."

"I really need your help here…."

"Okay." She exclaimed as she gave in and slit her hand inside her Boss' chest, which was a first, in general, but as she finally felt some wires, she also felt some gooey and gross slime like liquid that smelled, really, really bad. "Oh, there's pus!" She threw up in her mouth a little once again, this time taking even more effort to keep down.

"It's not pus. It's an inorganic plasmic discharge from the device, not from my body." he clarified, though it didn't help.

"Katsuki, it smells!"

"Yes, yes it does, that means it's working,-well-was working, but now it's not, so the copper wire. The copper wire, you got it?"

"Okay, I got it! I got it!"

"Okay, you got it? Now, don't let it touch th-GAUHH-e it's coming out." He said as she did exactly what he just told her not to do.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry."

"That's what I was trying to tell you before. Okay, now make sure that when you pull it out, that you don't…" Ibara interrupts him as she then pulls out the wire with the magnet attached and the medical equipment starts beeping. "There's a magnet at the end of it! That was it. You just pulled it out."

It was obvious, this was not going well. "Oh, God!" She exclaimed.

"Okay, I was not expecting…"

"Okay, what do I do?" she interrupted him and asked as she went to put it back in before he yelled out before she could get the chance to.

"Don't put it back in! Don't put it back in, damn it!"

"What's wrong?" She asked.

"Oh Nothing, I'm just going into cardiac arrest-"

"What?! You said it was safe!"

"'Cause you yanked it out like a trout…" he explained, before getting an idea. "We gotta hurry. Take this. Take this. You gotta switch it out really quick." Handing her a new piece to replace the old one.

"Okay. Okay. Katsuki?"

"What?"

"It's going to be okay, okay?"

"Is it?" he let his skepticism show.

"It's gonna be okay, I'm going to make this okay."she reassured him anyway not hearing his skepticism.

"Let's hope. Okay, you're gonna attach that to the base plate. Make s-sure you-GUAHHH." This time finally not getting ahead of herself, she followed his directions and plugged it in with his yell being a sign of success. "Was that so hard? That was fuckin' fun, right? We should do this more often. Here, I got it. I got it. Here. Nice."

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I feel great, just peachy. you okay?" He said, ripping some wires off and attaching the new arc reactor, smiling as he watched it light up.

"Don't ever, ever, ever, ever ask me to do anything like that ever again."

"Sorry, I don't have anyone but you…"

"What do you want me to do with this?" she said, holding the old reactor in her hands.

"That? Destroy it. Incinerate it."

"You don't want to keep it?"

"Ibara, I've been called many things, "Nostalgic" isn't one of them."

"Hm, will that be all Mr. Bakugou?" She asked.

"Yes that will be all, Miss Shiozaki." He answered as she turned and walked away, making her way upstairs, Katsuki watching her the entire time, not helping but notice the missing panty line from her skirt. "Hm, well, isn't that peculiar." he thought as he turned to pay attention to his robot. "Hey, Butterfingers, come here. What's all this stuff doing on top of my desk? That's my phone, that's a picture of me and my dad. Right there. In the garbage. All that stuff."