Hello my dear readers again! I am hoping that you all enjoy this chapter, and I am sorry for the light delay in chapter postings. Luckily it was better than last time and I do hope to get on a better schedule from now on. Anyways onto responding to the reveiws.
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Power Loader let out a small sigh as he finished up setting up the testing machine for speedsters in the lab, Izuku and his friend were helpful with setting it up and all but it was still a long and annoying job that he had to set up as the only one with the right qualifications in the whole damn school to get it up properly. Though once it was all set up he wouldn't need to actually do any real tune-ups for a while, which was good he supposed. Standing up after tightening the last needed bolt on the treadmill, the teacher stood up and gave his student a thumbs up.
"Alright kid, you are all good to go for today with this little test you want to do. Call me if you need anything alright? I don't want my student to get into any trouble now." The redhead smiled at his student before he heard a small explosion go off behind him and a certain mad scientist's cackle of amusement at what her invention did. Letting out a groan at that, the teacher just nodded at the kids before dashing off towards Mei's location to stop whatever she was doing before the school went up in one large fireball.
"Alright then Iida, are you ready to start testing? I need to hook you up to the running machine real quick and have you spend all your remaining gas in the tank right now so we can have true and standardized results. Get us a base control ya know?" With a nod from the stalwart boy, Izuku went about hooking up his friend to the machine, simply getting a harness around his body on top of the treadmill with a few sensors here and then to determine his speed and heart rate, as well as providing an oxygen mask for the best performance from the runner.
"Before I start though, may I ask why Ms. Mei is not joining us in this? You two are usually always working together on these projects and support ware are you not? The girl certainly likes to discuss such matters with you during lunch it seems." Izuku chuckled from his friend's question, he did suppose that they kinda had the habit of working on everything together since he got into UA before shaking his head, knowing that Iida meant to possible insult behind it as he was just way too straightforward for any sort of backhanded insult.
"It's simple really, I and Mei are most of the time partners in whatever we work on yes. She has a lot of areas of expertise that I do not and vice versa and that helps us make things we probably never could have dreamed of on our own. But Power Loader said we needed to submit a few individual projects as well, making sure we can function without each other around and all that. So she is working on her own things while I am helping you with the turbo." Getting a curt nod of understanding from Iida as he finished with the gas mask. Izuku took a step back to the console that would record all the needed data, giving his friend a thumbs up to start running while Izuku gathered the rest of what they would need for the testing today.
"So Iida, once you are done with using the rest of your fuel I am going to be giving you enough juice to fill a standard drink can. Do you think that will be enough to get good results or should we double that?" Pouring out the fruit juices into their containers carefully the young measured out 350ml exactly for each drink before turning back to his friend who was running at his highest gear to burn as much fuel as possible in as short a time as possible.
"I...Think that should be...Fine Midoriya! Is...Is there a gear you would prefer...Me to use?" Chuckling at his friend's little talk to him while he was running Izuku thought about that for a moment. Everything needed to be standard as possible assumed, and looking to the clock if they wanted to get good results it should be swift, at least for today. Bringing out his notebook, the young man started drafting up a few new tables in his Iida Section, making a label for each of the gears before nodding.
"Perfect, now, yes Iida I would prefer it if during the testing today you stick to first gear and we can move up the gears as we go on testing this and figuring out the perfect way to make this into a useful piece of support gear." Seeing surprise in Iida's eyes Izuku let out another small laugh while his friend's running started to run down as the fuel ran out for him until he was clearly just running on his own speed now.
"What? You thought that such a piece of support gear would be done in one day, Iida? Especially one as complex as one that specifically works with your own biology to improve quirk function? No, this sort of thing needs a lot of testing and refining to get exactly right so that it is safe for you to use over a long time you won't need to come three days in a row mind you just like..Once per week? That sounds good enough time to make it for ya. Now, onto this, right now I want you to run at the fastest pace you can keep up for a long distance without your quirk." Cracking his knuckles as Iida started, Midoriya went about recording how fast his friend was running, marking down his speed every thirty seconds for five minutes of straight running.
Doing a quick few calculations in his head to get the average Izuku noted his friend was running at a nice 22 kilometers per hour much faster than the average person but not even near the peak of what a human could do based on recorded history though Izuku supposed that didn't matter right now in the grand scheme of things. Letting Iida rest for a bit, Izuku went about getting the orange juice before presenting it to his friend.
"Thank you but...Are we not supposed to be testing other fuels for my engine Midoriya? I already know that Orange Juice is an effective fuel for my engines, heck all of the Iida Family knows that it's the fuel for all of our quirks." Pushing up his glasses a bit, the young man looked to the cold orange drink, right from the fridge, tempted to drink it all down but afraid of ruining his friend's tests to help him.
"That's exactly it Iida, we already know that Orange Juice works so we are using it as the baseline comparison of the others and how they interact with your quirk. The first test of your speed over five minutes was made to see how much Engine affects your speed. This will give us a good control to see how much your speed increases and how long it lasts. So feel free to down it and start running for as long as your quirk lasts in first gear." Humming a bit as Iida followed his instructions to the letter, the runner started right off using his engine and the results could not be more noticeable. Iuzku spent the next time excitedly putting the data into his notebook. His speed had doubled to a solid 44 kilometers per hour! Just mildly superhuman that could last for three minutes, the green-haired young man was ecstatic about this! It was all great data. To take in before he started to line up the various juices they needed to test and dove into this with his friend.
The next few hours went along just like that, Izuku providing his friend with an appropriate juice, testing its effects on Iida's Engine until it ran out and repeating the process, being very meticulous with his recording of the data and taking the occasional breaks when it was needed by the time Izuku noticed the time it was already nearing dusk! Blushing a bit at having dove so deep into this little experiment the young man took to his notes again to see what their results were. He had used six different kinds of juices, Clementine, Grapefruit, Kabosu, Lemons, Limes, and Mandarins. Unsurprisingly the Orange variants did provide slight boosts to either speed or stamina but there was nothing significant enough to make a whole piece of support for it. The other four, however, were quite a bit more promising. The Kabosu did provide a significant boost in stamina and Grapefruit, while it was only marginally better than the orange juice as fuel, Iida did note that his engines did seem to run a lot cleaner after that was run through it. Making a note to explore that later, the young moved onto the next two.
"Alright, Iida, the fruits that produced the most significant change were the Lemon and Lime juices. Lemon increased your speed from 44 kilometers per hour to sixty-five! That is well into the superhuman level with just that, you could actually outpace plenty of cars going that speed. The downside, as you probably noted, was that it could only last for around a minute and a half, which is not the most ideal. It would likely cause a bit of stalling if you took too much at once, then on the other end of the spectrum, Lime juice provided you a slight speed decrease to just about forty kilometers per hour. Still, peak human mind you, but not as impressive, but it did double the running time from five to ten minutes." Izuku let out his statements while gathering the two respective juices and a beaker, looking between them with a smile on his face.
"So you are saying that I should have a supply of lemon juice on hand for when I need a really tight burst of speed Midoriya? That sounds reasonable enough to have something with that added to my costume, and are you going to try to mix the juices now?" Iida was a little worried about the look in Izuku's eye as he nodded, they were just messing with harmless fruit juices right now of course but still, he did not want to be in the lab when Izuku started to mess with more dangerous chemicals despite how proficient he seemed to be with them.
"Of course, we need to try and find an ideal fuel for your engines now that we have what is needed! Though I suppose this can be saved for another time... Thankfully we can run a few simulations using the data we gathered here today and I can get back to you sooner rather than later before we move onto testing your higher gears but in the meantime..." Trailing off, Izuku put away his little bottles before wandering over to their miscellaneous parts and machinery, looking throughout the small pile of normally useless stuff with a purpose.
"Come on...I knew I saw that here somewhere, ugh...Oh, here it is!" With a small inward cheer, Izuku pulled out a clear bottle from the pile and walked over to his friend, the thing itself having a clear plexiglass container and a metal spout sticking out of it to let the liquid flow out when it was sucked upon.
"We can just drill a small hole in our helmet to add this with a bit of welding to make a harness and then it's good! Though maybe for the prototypes hot glue would be better...That's easier to undo if we screw up. Oh um anyways if you let me use this you can have the needed lemon juice on you at all times. Might look a little lame halving a hamster bottle on your head though...I will need to fix the design in future iterations."
"Nonsense! This looks completely fine for me to wear proudly on my costume Midoriya, this will help me function and save many lives, get to needed victims faster than I ever could before if it works. Looking a little silly is nothing in comparison to the lives that additional speed will save. If you wish, I can give you permission to work on my helmet tonight to have this prototype for tomorrow."
"That would be perfect then. If you are alright with the way it looks like, nothing will change in that way...I will get better material for it though so it can't break or shatter easily. And sure, we can even fill it with some lemon juice at my house, Or maybe I need to visit Bulu's her mom grows the things after all... Anyways yeah I can get this all perfect for you tomorrow and we can test during heroics." Izuku let out a sigh after that, not wanting to deal with Ryozanpaku's training when he got to there but he knew he had to. Hearing someone cry his name from behind him, Izuku's arm shot out to grab the projectile thrown at him without a thought.
"There ya go Izuku! I made a few small tweaks after hearing about today's performance. Should work even better than before!" The Cheery voice of Mei made the young inventor chuckle before he put the grenade in its appropriate place before releasing Iida from the speed tester and biding him adieu and got his own stuff ready to leave for home, proud of his productive day in hopes that the next would be just as enjoyable.
Izuku entered the classroom once again while his muscles were aching and screaming at him fully after yet another grueling run with his teacher that morning, though he didn't head right for his desk at this time, instead opting to head to his fiend's with a smile while he swung the backpack around and got out the helmet he had worked on for Iida, the pure white material having the hamster bottle sticking out of the head with the harness around clearly hot glued onto it and prefilled with the lemon juice.
"Here ya go Iida, this should work until we get everything all figured out for you in the final product. Just try not to fall or anything cause the container might shatter and that wouldn't be very productive now would it?" Sighing after this and taking Iida's thanks, the tired young man stalked over to his desk and sat down, setting down his backpack to his side with a loud thud, for some reason Sensei insisted he takes the weights with him to school from now on. Something about not wasting a single moment of time that could be spent being productive, Izuku saw what he meant. But this was just brutal on him and his muscles! Grumbling a bit as he lay on the desk he noticed the approach of a few of his classmates and gave them a curt wave before sitting up to talk.
"Hey Midoriya, we were wondering how the hell you got those sick moves of yours? Like, they are all super cool and some of us want to use em as well!" Mina's cheery attitude was only slightly undercut by the implications of what she was saying, that the class wanted to take some of what made him a unique hero and use it for themselves and the young man was tempted to keep quiet about it before he relented in his mind. They were not meant to be foes in this whole hero business, everyone had to work together to make their world better as heroes right? With that mentality in mind, he nodded to himself before speaking up.
"I learned it from my sensei. I take martial arts in a dojo obviously and have been kinda working at it for the past eight years of my life, I don't think anyone here can match that sadly but getting a style never hurt anyone. As for my strength well Sato, try to pick up my backpack would you?" The young man chuckled inwardly as the fellow teen leaned down to lift it up, struggling a bit form the weight, his muscles straining alright but it was clearly nothing that he couldn't handle.
"Oh jeez Midoriya, how much weight is in here? It feels like I am lifting a kid or something like that." Letting down the stuff with a thud Sato took a small peek into the slightly unzipped bag to see the large weights in there along with all the textbooks and notebooks that were in there as well.
"It's around half my weight in there along with all my school stuff. While that itself is new I have been doing morning runs with weights on for all those years, I have been constantly pushing my body to the edge of breaking in half on me in order to get strong as possible. Because well, its the only way I could keep up without a quirk." He smiled at the other students who only looked mildly surprised with the revelation before most of them shrugged and Izuku chuckled again. Hoping that they didn't think he had just attained what he had in a few days of training or anything like that. He was surprised when Sato stuck around for a moment though, in some sort of internal debate before he spoke up.
"Well could you ah, introduce me to your weights guy? I can tell your packing a ton of strength in that more lean body of yours and well, my quirk can only enhance my natural strength so as I get stronger naturally so does my Sugar Rush... I don't think I can handle your whole workout but maybe I could at least do that." That surprised Izuku, though he supposed it shouldn't have considering what the young man's power was, though the new bit of information would need to be recorded later.
"Sure I can talk to Sensei about getting you a good routine, you might need to come in for a checkup beforehand though. Sensei never really gives out generalized workout plans to those that ask for me. He insists on making one suited for each person's body." He sighed at that idea a little embarrassed by his teacher's habits. Sato however, gave him a curt nod of appreciation before moving off to his own seat once more as Aizawa entered the room and demanded everyone's attention.
"Today it only took you all a second to get quieted down...Your improving if only marginally. Anyways, today we are having a special day so everyone head down to get changed into your costumes. You won't be doing much normal studying today so get ready for that." Aizawa punctuated his little statement with a yawn, his eyes drooping a bit before he took a sip of the apple juice in his hand. Nodding when Kirishima raised his hand.
" , mind if I ask what we are going to be doing all day if we are not going to be studying at all? It seems pretty abrupt to throw this all at us like that, and will this take longer than normal for class? I know Midoriya has the stuff to do after our class normally and I don't want anyone to be in trouble because of it." The class president spoke up with a small bit of confidence, knowing it was kind of his job to ask these questions but not too comfortable in the role just yet.
"Ah fine queries Kirishima, the answer to your second question is no, we are not going to go longer than normal so you do not have to worry about that end from us. Midoriya's class has been notified beforehand just in case we do end up staying later than we should for whatever reason. As for what we are doing, well class, we are all going on a field trip." Aizawa then slunk himself back into his sleeping bag and began his special little hobble towards the bus.
"Everyone meet in front of the gym for bus load up in twenty minutes or less! Anyone late will get a penalty on one of their upcoming grades, the longer you take the worse said penalty will be!" He practically barked out the word before the class headed off to the changing rooms as instructed eager to see where this field trip would take them.