"Stupid... Damn... Body!" Leizcio yelled, repeatedly throwing his fist at the punching bag in the training room. He got up earlier to do anything to make up for the lack of speed. However, it seemed that Blink had felt that this would happen. He heard someone down in the training room and it was his relentless intern training.
"Calm down kid. We'll get there alright? One step at a time." Blink said trying to calm him down. The last part of what he said didn't sit well with Leizcio given the situation right now. He looked at Blink with slight annoyance. And Blink just realized that it wasn't really the best thing to say.
"Okay that's on me. My bad. But let's get to working on the electricity all right?" Blink apologized, quickly shifting the topic. Leizcio started to take off his boxing gloves and nodded. Spectro suddenly walked in holding some strange... suits?
"Alright, I got a few weird looks buying these but here you go Blink!" Spectro said tossing a suit over to Blink who started putting it on immediately.
"What's with the suits?" Leizcio asked.
"To protect me and Spectro from your quirk. We want to try and develop your ability in a different manner. Uhm, What's the name of that one kid with anger issues?"
"Bakugo?"
"Yeah that one! You ever see how his explosions are able to propel him?"
"Yeah... What does that have to do with me?" Leizcio asked, wondering where Blink was going with this.
"Your electricity! You've been able to mix it with your punches to make them stronger right?" Blink asked as he started putting on the suit. Leizcio nodded in response.
"Now you did a thing against that Bakugo where instead you expelled energy from your whole body. Now, we want to try and replicate that, but on a small scale. I was thinking maybe your hands?"
Leizcio looks down at his hands and ponders the possibility of using his ability like this. He puts his hands out in front of him and began concentrating. Blink quickly got behind a table dragging Spectro along with him as they watch from 'safety'. Leizcio tries, but only a few sparks come out, not giving the desired result. Leizcio tries again but fails as small sparks fizzle out. His face started to show irritation and frustration and Blink tried to stop him.
"Hey kid! Don't-"
Blink is quickly cut off as a flash of light fills the room and the sound of something breaking is heard. The place is filled with dust, leaving the two pros wondering where their intern went.
"Spectro! Where's the kid?!"
Spectro started using his quirk, causing his eyes to glow a light orange. He uses his thermal vision and quickly finds what was hopefully Leizcio somewhere in the dust. He points to where Leizcio is to Blink and they both go over to him.
"Kid! Are you o-... kay?" Blink was about to ask, but as the dust cleared, whatever Leizcio had done, it had caused a wall to be broken and hopefully not Leizcio having broken something.
"Cough Yeah, my hands just sting a little bit." Leizcio said as he got up with the help of Spectro and Blink. His eyes quickly widen and worry settles in as he notices the damage he's done.
"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to-"
"Ah don't worry about it kid! We'll just have it repaired later! Go outside to the track so we can continue training there!" Blink told Leizcio as he patted him on the back. Leizcio leaves for the tracks, and Blink walks back to where Spectro is. The two look at the wall that Leizcio had destroyed in his strange malfunction.
"We got enough money to fix this right?" Spectro whispered to Blink while he was still staring at the wall in awe.
"Yeah, we'll be fine."
"Oh thank god. I'll go join the kid outside then." Spectro said as he headed out to the field. Blink nodded and just looked around the former training room.
'Something is definitely up with that kid. Even if someone's determined to do something, there's got to be another factor to this.'
Blink heads out to join Spectro and Leizcio as he finishes his thought. He sees the two of them sitting on a bench and asks for them to move over a bit so he could join them.
"Alright Esperanza. That was a good start, but you should probably lower the amount of electricity you're using, that way we don't end up with any damage being done to you."
"Actually, I was thinking that we do the same thing, but I apply it to my feet. So that way it's kinda like a super jump?" Leizcio offered. Blink just imagined the thought of a character charging up and jumping twice as high, which was surprisingly what Leizcio thought of as well.
"That's a good idea! I'll go get out a trampoline!" Blink said as he ran back off into the agency. Leizcio looked in confusion but Spectro's face remained neutral.
"Yeah, I know. Kinda weird he has a trampoline. But he says it's a good thing to have when you're practicing mobility stuff like this." Spectro shrugged as he explained it to Leizcio. He just nodded in agreeance.
"Actually, I'll be back in a bit, I need to go get something that might help." Spectro said as an idea came to him. He got up and left to go into the agency. Leizcio was there on the bench on himself but didn't take long for Blink to come back with a trampoline at the ready.
Leizcio moved close to where the trampoline was and started to get himself mentally ready.
"Remember kid, small amount. Don't stress about it, let it come to you." Blink said as he watched from the bench.
Listening to his advice, Leizcio takes a deep breath and closes his eyes for a second. He starts to feel his energy flowing to his feet. He opens his eyes and breathes deeply one last time. He jumps up and at the peak of it, he releases the energy from his feet.
He looks down and to his surprise, he launched himself twice as high from where he stood. Now the problem would be landing. His perception sped up as he tried to see if he could make it onto the trampoline.
'I might hit the edge but that's fine. Rather have my foot hurt than break it hitting the track.'
He tries his best to maneuver himself to the trampoline and he manages to land.
For the most part...
"FUCK MY FOOT!" Leizcio yelled as he jumped off from the trampoline onto the grass of the track. He curls and holds onto his foot, bracing it from the pain.
Blink was ready for something like this as he used his quirk to get it as fast as he could. He jogged over to Leizcio and gave him the ice.
"Sit down kid, it should take just a minute. I have gotta say though, that went really well! Uhhhh, except for the last part but that's fine! You just barely got the hang of the jump!" Blink said as he sat down with Leizcio. Leizcio just nodded in response as he winced from putting the ice on his foot.
"You take a small break while that heals all right? You'll get it down fast!" Blink encouraged as he got up.
"I'm going to move the trampoline over. Just come over when you're ready!"
Leizcio just nodded as he held the ice to his foot. As he felt the pain finally dissipate, he got up and started to head over to where Blink was. As he was about to try again, he noticed that Spectro returned but now with a... generator?
"I went to go and get a spare generator we had to charge your quirk! Unless you can't absorb electricity like that?" Spectro said, realizing he didn't really confirm that part.
"I think I can? We'll just have to see I guess." Leizcio said unsure, getting up from where he sat.
Spectro walked over to the two and put down a generator on the floor next to Leizico. Leizcio looks at the generator but now wants to see if he can recharge energy this way.
"Ready to try kid?" Blink asked Leizcio. Leizcio just gave him a nod and Spectro handed him some wires to grab. As Leizcio took them in hand, he gave a thumbs-up to Spectro, letting him know it was okay to turn on the generator.
The generator turned on and electricity was being surged into Leizcio. He could feel himself suddenly feeling a rush as it entered his body. The generator then ran out of power, having left Leizcio with a charge.
"Guess that answers our question." Blink said as he looked at Leizcio with curiosity.
"Sure does!" Leizcio said as a bit of electricity escaped his hand, now learning of a way to charge himself or even boost. Looking at the trampoline, he gets ready to start training again.
A few hours passed, there were a few curse words being yelled and plenty of ice packs taken out of the refrigerator today. However, it seems that Leizcio has a grasp on how to use his newfound ability to jump and land for the most part now. Unfortunately, it used up all the energy he had in him. Both his electricity and his physical energy. After he hit the showers, he limped over to his room and closed the door.
His body had gone into autopilot and Leizcio just plopped himself onto the bed. It had only taken a few minutes for the speedster to fall asleep. However, someone else was up and going deep into their thoughts.
Blink was in his room and was looking through some old newspapers he had from his time in America. The former home he had left behind to continue his life in Japan. He chose Esperanza to be his intern since he could see the similarities in their quirks. But he fears that they share a burden that hurt Blink himself back in the past and if what he thinks is true, then it might be worse for Esperanza.
"Maybe we're more similar than I thought..."
Chapter 32
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