Mina whimpered as she felt cold, her hands blindly searching for her blanket to cover up but all she felt was clumps. With bleary eyes opening she found herself completely naked, a small pool of corrosive liquid pooling at the end of her modified bed and what remains of her clothes, pillows, and blankets slowly melting in them.
She was so glad she gave her parents her favorite blankets and pillow so she wouldn't melt them.
She got off her modified bed, slightly tilted so the pool of acid could run to the foot instead of drowning her in her own quirk expulsion. The rubber floor mats that were placed ensured she wouldn't accidentally melt through the wooden floorboards and end up in the living room one night. The house wasn't spared as there was a couple of tanks hooked up outside, allowing trucks from Daddy's job to come in and suck up all the acid she made. She was worried that the tanks would melt, but Daddy told her that those tanks were made to hold really strong acid, so they won't melt at all.
She rubbed her eyes as she made her way to the small corner of her modified room, turning on the light that thankfully had a low intensity setting and began to prepare her morning acid wash off.
Mina's room has changed from a room filled with toys to a room filled with plastic and acid resistant metal. Thankfully most of her stuff was safe from her random acid dripping, but on occasion she would feel one coming on, and race towards the nearest water source to dilute it before it became harmful.
Usually it just results in Izuku just hosing her down with a waterhose, half of the time it was just a false alarm. Though Mina felt like she was getting a handle on the feeling of her quirk, usually there was a sensation in her skin that made her feel odd. She described it as if her skin felt bloated and was 'gooey'. When her body decided it was a good time to release the ooze, it felt like her skin felt like it was 'sighing'. One time she jet an entire gallon of acid from her elbow and only her elbow, a few days later she looked like an Ooze monster as the acid stuck to her like glue.
It was frustrating, but Izuku was doing his best to coach her whenever the acid releases in trying to control it. He even got a notebook and wrote all the details he seen, and his writing skills grew from all the notes he took on Mina's quirk. Mina had seen him writing quirks of heroes, or people he seen with interesting quirk while they went out.
Mina was just happy she had a pink notebook with her name on it, it made her feel special and that she had a notebook dedicated to her and her quirk. She sometimes tried to write some passages in it, but she mostly put down her feelings, what she seem capable of doing, and how hard it become to control her quirk.
Mama Inko said it was her diary, one where she puts down her feelings and thoughts of the day and keep from prying eyes… All eyes except Izuku's.
As the water cascade down onto her, she was staring at her hands with some concentration. Focusing everything on her palm and the feelings of her quirk. She began to make connections on how her quirk, what feelings applied to what kind of acid.
The feeling of being full usually meant it was going to be gooey, sticky as the stickiest glue she can imagine and just as hard to wipe off. The feeling of slimey was the exact opposite, usually very slick to the point where she can glide across pavement with absolute ease. Then there was just how strong the acid could be, which was just as odd in her opinion as she was. A cool feeling would usually just have the 'acid' be as tame as possible, usually just irritating the skin with little to no issue for anyone to handle it, as close to baseline diluted water. It was the opposite that made Mina worried though. A hot or 'spicy' feeling usually made the acid extremely strong, strong enough to melt concrete and solid steel with troubling ease.
Then there was her body itself, aside from her horns and pink skin. She also learned that most acids and the powerful toxic fumes have almost no effect on her. The black and gold eyes gave her an almost alien-like appearance, though Izuku said she looked very pretty instead of ugly like she feared.
No, she knew what true fear was nowadays… after that trip to her Daddy's job.
She went with Daddy to his job last week, where she got to see all the weird stuff he works with and cool looking tubs of colorful gunk, he had a bottle of her acid so they can test it safely and figure out a safer way in containing if she used it public. While her Daddy and other smart people were working on her acid, she was looking at everything with bright wide-eyes, but made sure to keep her hands to herself.
No need to get her parents and Izuku upset with her.
It was at that point that life decided it needed to throw another curveball at the Ashidos.
===++Shin-Etsu Chemical Company, one week ago++===
"Amazing Ashido… Simply amazing!" one scientist stared at the dish with awe, watching as the piece of steel was being dissolved in a rapid manner. "And your daughter makes this on command?"
"Not… yet. But she will inform me if she is about to drench herself in acid. She has been getting better at figuring out how to control it." Tamoyo said quietly, turning to see his daughter staring at the chemicals with wide eyes.
"She is probably one of the few people on this world that can make acid on command, Ashido." The older scientist turn to him with an incredulous look, clearly trying to convey his shock to the father before him. "And in such large amounts too. Look at this."
Tamoyo turn to see another batch of steel being melted, but at a far far slower rate compared to Mina's acid. "This is Nitric acid, strong enough to melt steel, but only if there is enough added to completely dissolve it. I have to keep adding if I want the same results of your daughter's quirk. Her's dissolves it at almost fifty times faster, and it also melts concrete too? Your daughter's quirk is completely unheard of!"
"Oh come on, surely there is-"
"No Ashido. There isn't." The man interrupted, a frown on his face. "At least not a level your daughter shows. The corrosive nature of your daughter's quirk is far beyond anything I seen or heard before. Remember, you asked me to check through the registry in hopes that someone can help you in training your daughter, but there isn't."
Tamoyo grimaced as he remembered asking his job to check to find someone to try and train Mina after they lost the family van. They lost said van when Mina's quirk activated and melted the van when they were stuck in traffic, Mina cried for several hours thinking she was going to punished for the accident. Thankfully his company helped clean up the mess and provided another family vehicle for them to use, though in this case, the interior was specially treated for fact there wasn't anyone that has a similar quirk to Mina was disheartening to hear, but Mina seem to be doing her best in controlling her quirk, with Izuku behind her pushing her ever forward.
"Mina is a class of her own." the man said, shaking his head as he turn to see the steel fully dissolve within Mina's acid. "I also tested this on concrete, iron, and various other metals and building materials. It just eats through, and the fact that it is even pushing the acid resistant materials to the limits is nothing to scoff at either. We may need to check the items we placed in her room to ensure it isn't being worn away too quickly."
He walked over to the computer, typing quickly onto it before turning the screen towards him. Tamoyo blinked at the dozens of emails from various corporations and even governments.
"What the hell is this?" Tamoyo asked as he stared. 'Department of Agriculture? Isn't that a branch of the United States?'
"I sent a few videos to some fellow co-workers and contacts across the world, see if there was anything they can do to help." The man explained, rubbing his head with some trepidation. "To see if they can come up with anything on their end, sadly there is nothing, so they expanded it outside of the chemical companies. They got hits, but not in the way they were looking for. People want her Tamoyo, her and her quirk."
"What!?" Tamoyo turn his head to the man with shock. "Did you just sell my daughter!"
"Don't be stupid." The man chided, a look of annoyance. "You think I will survive your wrath? Hell, your wife would make me look like a pincushion with those horns of hers. No, they are interested in her quirk and sending requests. You know how the corporate world and governments works. Hell, this company spent millions just getting you, and thank God you came to the Shizuoka branch instead of the branch in Chiba Prefecture."
Tamoyo grimaced, remembering the time when he was finding himself in a literal bidding war between various companies vying for him. His quirk allowed him convert chemicals, to change from one chemical makeup to a completely different makeup, no company worth their salt would pass that in a heartbeat.
In a world of superpowers, there are those that are highly valued for their seemingly useless quirks, and worth a lot of money in the right hands.
Tamoyo rubbed his face, unsure on what to do with this information, he turned to see his daughter looking around with an inquisitive look on her young face. Could he really put his daughter through such a whirlwind of politics that was the corporate world? To be used as a valuable commodity rather than a person, like he went through?
"What do you want to be when you get older Mina?"
"I want to be a hero!"
He turn back, shaking his head. "No. Tell them no, and not contact you or me or anyone in the company. I don't want my daughter to be raised as a farm animal or a test subject."
The man gave a grim nod, but understood. No child deserve that kind of life, and he would not be a man that sells someone daughter to corporate greed. The man quickly began typing up a mass of emails to turn down their offers. Some of them quite generous to anyone who look at them.
A mulit-million yen generous offers was almost every email and that was the low-ball offers.
"Sul… p.. p...hu? Ick?" Mina sounded out as she read it out loud? He tensed a little, realizing the chemical Mina was reading was sulphuric acid, though he saw his daughter was keeping her hands behind her back in an effort to keep herself from touching anything.
"Ah!" The man chuckled as he began to make his way towards her. "I left that out after last testing, better put that back before-"
The very ground beneath seem to jump, causing the entire lab to shift, scattering all the equipment and chemicals. Tamoyo barely avoided getting crushed by the one of the refrigerators as it fell over. The alarms began to ring out loudly, a voice telling everyone to leave the building immediately.
"Ah!" His eyes snapped towards his daughter at her cry, watching in horror as she was covered in the dangerous acid. "Ew! Sticky!"
He stared as his daughter sat up and was trying to wipe the dangerous and lethal chemical off of her like it was nothing more than a sticky menace.
'Right… her quirk is acid. Her skin is corrosive resistant.' He mentally chided himself at forgetting his daughter's unique quirk. "Hold on Princess."
He pushed by his co-worker, who was shaking his head and staring at his lab in shock, gently running over his hand daughter, activating his own quirk.
Chemical Conversion, a rather unique quirk much like his own daughter. To be able to convert liquids of various bases or acids and change their very components to something else. Mina watched in fascination as the sticky stuff that was covering her was sucked up into her Daddy's hand, while he held out the other hand was flushing what look like water out of it. She looked at his face to see a grimace on his face, hissing slightly in pain.
"Daddy?"
"Its okay, Princess. It's been awhile since I had to use my quirk on something this strong." He reassured her, though internally he was groaning in pain. Just because he can convert chemicals didn't mean he was completely immune to them. "Look at you though, you are stronger than Daddy it appears."
"Hm?" Mina tilted her head in confusion before the sound of an explosion and the room shift slightly again, causing Tamoyo to hold onto Mina tightly.
"What the hell!?" he turn to see his co-worker staring outside the window. "Why are villains attacking the facility!?"
Tamoyo breath hitched in horror, quickly picking up his daughter and stood by his co-worker. He stared as he saw several unknown people rushing down the road, shoving cars and trucks aside like it was nothing more than mild inconveniences. His eyes centered on a man that was trailing after them, looking far more refined with his pressed jet-black suit, grey-silver hair, and clean shaven look compared to the people leading the charge. He was massive however, almost as big as All Might, but with a presence seem to call everyone's attention to himself. The man paused, slowly turning around and looking up, staring directly at the three of them.
Fear.
Absolute and drowning fear filled Tamoyo, clutching Mina tightly as he felt dread filled him to the core. He felt his legs weaken and took several steps back while his co-worker collapsed and crawled away from the window with an ashen face. The man smiled and turned back around and continued on his way, following the trail of destruction of his companions was wrecking.
"Daddy…" He felt Mina buried her face in his neck in terror, quickly sucking his breath when he realized he stop breathing from the fear.
"W-w-who the hell was that?! WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!?" his co-worker screamed as he crawled away on all four.
"I...I don't know. We need to get out of here." Tamoyo struggled to move, his legs felt like lead but the bundle in his arms, his very pride and joy clutching onto him like a lifeline depended on him getting them to safety. "We need to get out of here before he comes back. I don't know why, but I felt like I was a piece of burger when he set his eyes on me."
"Don't need to tell me twice… Just give me a minute to get use the shit in my pants… " The man moaned as he tried to get up, legs shaking as he tried to stand. "I hope the heroes get here quickly. Who knows why he is here, but I am not going to stick around to find out."
===++Ashido's Home++===
"Mina?"
Mina jumped a little, turning to see her Daddy standing in her room with a towel in hand, a kind smile on his face.
"Another accident?"
"Hmph!" Mina pouted at his teasing tone but quickly rush towards to the open towel with gusto. "Daddy!"
"Heh, nightmares?" He asked as he dried her off, but the firm shake of her head gave him some relief. "That's good."
'She doesn't understand… I don't want her to understand. She is too young to understand what is happening… I wish I can forget…'
"Daddy?" Mina look up to her father with a concerned look on her face. "Are you okay?"
"Daddy just have trouble sleeping, Princess. Nothing to worry about." He gave a small sigh as she gave him a tight hug.
"Its okay." She said as buried her head into his chest. "Mommy can make it better?"
"She's trying." He said as he lean down and kiss her head. "Mommy is trying her best."
The duo remain there, the father drying his daughter while he hum a tune. Last week was terrifying, running down the halls of his workplace while explosions rang out in the distance. The precious cargo in his arms holding onto him tightly while he ran for safety, and the only thing he can think was his wife. That if he failed in protecting Mina, he couldn't stand before his wife and tell her he failed to bring Mina home.
That he failed in his duty as a father.
"Daddy, no cry." He blinked as he felt small hands wipe away the tears he didn't realize was falling. "Everything is okay."
"Yeah, Daddy. Everything is okay." He jumped as tan arms wrapped around him, a kiss on his cheek. Kokoro lean close to his ear, whispering as quietly as she could. "It's okay. Everything is okay. It's not your fault. You made it out okay. You both came home."
He lower his head, holding tightly to his daughter as she hugged him while his wife held him from behind. Everything was okay, his family was safe and away from danger.
"Come on." He finally said as he stood, holding his daughter, finally feeling the strength to stand. "It's a bit early, but let's see if Inko and Izuku are up, maybe we can ask them come out with us for breakfast?"
"Yay! Breakfast with Izu!"
===++Somewhere in Japan++===
"Doctor Ujiko, I take it this will suffice for your project?" the large well-dressed man asked the portly doctor, large tankers of chemicals being loaded to a secret facility showing on screen
"Of course, All for One." The portly man said excitedly. "How is young Tomura? Still wearing his family?"
"Of course he is." All for One stated, looking at the screen with amusement. "How goes your project for Gigantomachia?"
"Almost complete. Though he is a tad aggressive and full of himself. Perhaps you may need to bring him down to make him loyal to you." Doctor Ujiko stated, typing away on his computer. "Still, this Nomu project will be highly intensive, it excites me to know that I will finally have the funds and the chemicals needed for it. Of course, they will be at your command, after all, you funded this."
"I am a patient man, so just let me know if anything comes across that requires your attention." All for One at turn to leave, only to pause as he heard the Doctor cough.
"Oh but there is something that did interest me." The Doctor pulled up a video and showed on the screen.
"It's okay Mina, it was just an accident!"
"Waaah! I'm sorry! I did-*hic* didn't mean to melt the car!"
All for One watch the video of a very familiar pink girl wailing, with a van melting in a puddle of powerful acid, powerful enough to even eat through the concrete and pavement with troubling ease.
"Well well well, what a small world." he chuckled, causing the Doctor to look at him funny. "I saw this little girl when I was… "Borrowing" the chemicals for our research. What a powerful quirk."
"She would make a good basis for a Nomu that deals with acid." The Doctor said as he rubbed his chin. "The horns themselves can be used for another offensive attack, and the eyes can be changed to see through various wavelengths if done correctly. A boost in strength and endurances and she can probably be a powerful tool if I correctly do the process!"
"Oh? Perhaps I should look for this child while I was there." All for One said with a sigh of regret. "It would be a hassle to find her now."
"Don't be too sure. I have this video due to a college of mine from America, he sent it to me in hopes of finding someone to train the girl in her quirk. The family lives in Musutafu, just a short jump for you, All for One. In fact, I even request that he put in an offer to 'help' the child, so we can have her brought to us with little trouble. A hit on the funds, but nothing we cannot recover from easy enough." The Doctor exclaimed, but he began to relax in his seat. "Even if they don't take the offer, we will know where she is. Its bit too soon for testing on her as is, due to her body being to young to survive the process, so we may have to wait if we wish to use her body as a Nomu."
"Hmm… Shame. Still a beneficial find for the future." All for One's eyes glowed with desire, watching the acid eat away at the vehicle. He found himself chuckling as he turned to leave. "Good day, Doctor."
"Good day, All for One."
A/N:
Hey everyone, sorry for the long update. Between last chapter and this chapter, I lost my job due to reasons I am really unable to discuss, though I am to come back to said job after some time.
Still, I hope this chapter gives some comfort and some anxiety. Mina gotten the attention of powerful and very nasty people, but she will be okay…
For now.
As some of you notice, Mina's life isn't grand. She has trials and tribulations to go through, even if she doesn't notice most of them. Don't worry, it won't be all doom and gloom, even if super simple to do.
