Chapter 2: An important discussion
In the year 2050, people started to develop strange abilities. 4 generations into the future, they are known mostly as a blessing, but in 2050, it is only the opposite. Those who gain these "quirks" are treated with nothing but discrimination and hate. In the United States, quirk use of any kind is treated with automatic jailing, and if they're unlucky, shipped to a testing facility for experimentation. This is the story of how a group of quirked people rose up, overthrew the president, and became the heroes that changed the world. The story of Saiaku Mono!
Current members:
Name:Kari Age:15 Gender:Female Quirk:Leech palms
Through the circular leech mouths on her hands, she can absorb energy from the living things she places them on. She can control whether or not that energy goes to speed, strength, both, or if she just wants to store it for safekeeping. She can also sense a person's energy by using her mouths to look for energy, but the farther away they are the harder it is to sense them, so she usually goes after powerful energy signatures. She can use her leech tongue like a frog can, and can stretch it out to about 4 meters. Because of its strength she can also use it to grapple(swing like spider-man). She has an upbeat attitude and rarely cares what other people think and also rarely thinks things through along with believing she's in the right most of the time, though she can be shown that her ideas are bad if the person either puts a lot of effort into showing her that, or she's attached to them, however she's quite self conscious of her quirk, and becomes less outgoing to a person once they see it, which is why she wears gloves, along with not wanting to absorb the energy of any living thing she touches. If the person stays with her despite knowing of her quirk, she goes back to normal and becomes very attached to them. To use her quirk to its maximum effect, she taught herself hand to hand combat.
Name:Neran Age:16 Gender:Male Quirk:Crystals
He can produce crystals from body, and through training he can produce them so fast he propels him self forwards. He most commonly creates poles from his hands and feet to properly combat foes(similar to Gajeel from Fairy Tail). To produce crystalline structures such as the spherical he must clap his hands together and slam them down to create them in the area around them. His crystals and eyes change color depending on his mood. Similar emotions are grouped into one color. Happy is pink, red is annoyed and angry, purple is embarrassed. He wears shades to hide emotion but when he's around friends he puts them away. He considers Kari an ally because they'll be working together and a friend in the near future, so he puts his shades away. He can make his structures take on different colors with some time and effort and make them disappear into a dust cloud with the snap of his fingers. Kari's quirk can easily destroy them because they're made from his energy. Because they're made from his energy, he and the crystals are linked and he feels the damage they take, this drives him to be quick to avoid battle at times. After living in the forest alone for 6 months, he's socially awkward, which is one of the reasons he disappeared when people saw him in the past.
In the last episode, Kari had come in contact with Neran, and although they got off to a rocky start, she convinced him to join her group. However, a new problem has now arisen…
"Nope,Nope,Nope,and one more Nope for good measure, you know I'm serious because the nope's are capitalized." Neran said as he walked away with red eyes from the she who will not be named because of her insane ideas!
"Wait, you agreed to join my group, you can't just back out now!" Speak of the devil.
Kari ran right up behind him, out of breath from having to run after him after he had used a crystal leg pole to boost his jump to launch himself away from her.
"Oh ho, really? Watch me!" He quickened his pace in an effort to get away from the mainiac behind him.
"What are you even upset about? It's not like it'll make you any more wanted than you already are"
"That's only a small part of the problem, though it is indeed a part of it." He retorted.
Oh and what a problem it was. Just 1 hour ago, he was peacefully sleeping in his crystal bed, uncomfortable as it was, when Ms. Mainiac over there decided to punch him in the stomach! After he got away from her the first time, she had the stupidity to fall off a cliff, and he had the stupidity to save her. And then, oh ho then, she has the audacity to call him the rude one and demand he join her, one member group.. And that's not even mentioning that the goal of this group is to kill the goddamn president. The man that is watched by everyone and guarded in his fortress of white house! They'd be killed before they got through the front door and dissected like frogs!
Fortunately, he had gotten away from her and her insane ideas. Sure it would be a pain to find a new place hid-live, but he'd manage.
"NO YOU DON'T!"
'WHYYYY?' He thought as he turned around to see Kari pouncing at him from above, with her hand ungloved.
'Crap'
She landed near him, and grabbed his left arm…
… only for it to disappear in a flash of light.
…..
What had she done!? Sure, she had planned to drain his energy enough so that he wouldn't be able to run away from her, but she hadn't meant to take his arm off. What would she do? What could she do? Say 'Hey, sorry about your arm, but you didn't join my crew so it's kinda your fault?'? She couldn't even say it in her head without ending it as a question. 'Wait a second, now that I think about it, it is pretty much his fault for not coming with me when he agreed to do so. Meaning that it's not my fault so much as it is his, kinda'. Okay, good game plan, blame it on him and tell him he should know better, that should work! She turned around to tell him as much only to find he didn't seem that bothered about losing his arm. If anything, he seemed to be waiting for her to finish with her mental freak out.
"Are you done freaking out yet?" Huh, guess she was right.
"Yeah? Why are you so nonchalant about losing your arm? And why aren't you bleeding?" Sure he had another one, but it was still kind of weird to be so easy going after losing one of your main appendages, especially since he should be gushing blood.
"To answer your question, I'm okay because that wasn't my actual arm."
'What?'
As she questioned this, a red glow came from where his arm would connect to his body. From it, a crystallized arm of the same color grew. He then clenched the arm with his hand and slowly it changed to match his actual skin tone. It then appeared to gain fingernails and tiny wisps of hair along the fore and back arms. He then reformed the black sleeve that disappeared along with the arm.
"Aaah, good as new." He said throwing stretching it along with his other arm.
"What the hell was that!?" Kari said in shock."I thought your ability was to make crystals?"
"It is, I'm just putting it to good use."
"I request elaboration."
'Sigh'"Okay, first I make the crystal in the shape I want it to be, then by forcing energy into, I can change it to be more specifically shaped the way I want to, finally I alter the crystals so that they reflect the light I want them to reflect. In this case, the colors were brown, black, and white."
"That… is actually pretty cool, a shame it's so flimsy."
A tic mark appeared on Nerans head." FLIMSY… YOUR IGNORANT MOUTH WOULD DARE DESCRIBE MY WORK, MY ART, AS FLIMSY?"
"…You're getting oddly protective of this."
"How else should I act? The structures I make I put my heart, soul, and energy into, every detail,every facet, every inch, every molecule, is made under my eye, so for it to be flimsy is an insult to me and my workmanship!" 'Pant''Pant'
"You good?" Kari said with a concerned look.
"Yeah… just give me… a second."
"Cool, because I think I figured out why me using my quirk on it caused it to disappear, you said you put your energy into it right?"
"Yes, that is indeed what I said."
"Well I absorb energy and since your crystal arm is made from pure energy, that explains why I was able to absorb, here let me show you."
"Wait, nononono…" He said desperately as he backed away from her. She was still able to touch it and…
…
… nothing happened.
"Okay I think I've got performance anxiety let me try again."
…..
One hour later…
"Okay, I'm beginning to think what you did was a one time thing."
"Ugh, well why did it only work then?" Kari complained.
"Probably because you were, oh I don't know, desperately trying to get me to stay!"
"Woah," she said, backing up, `` You got mad."
"Well why wouldn't I be? You were gonna drain me and then carry my nonmoving body with you on your suicide mission!"
"Whaaaaaaaaaaat? Meeeee? Nooooo. And what do you mean suicide mission?"
"I mean your plan will fail."
"No it won't"
"Oh, really? Ever since his election, the president has made the white house into a fortress. It has walls 100 feet high and 50 feet thick, 1,000 guards each with the latest in weapons technology and armored head to toe in steel. So I rest my case, your plan will fail"
"Okay fair point, but I have a way to get by all of that."
"Okay, well on the slim chance you get past all that, there's the president himself, who has trained for so long in the martial arts that his hands are legally considered weapons, has mastered every weapon known to man, and on top of all that, he's ex-military, who only retired so he could run for president, after serving in the army for 30 years from the age of 11. And even after all that, he's still the military's secret weapon, who can still be called in times of emergency. So, while I hate to sound like a broken record, your plan will fail."
"Okay, how do you know all of this, but not know his name?"
"Okay,that was a one time thing, I was just disoriented because a certain someone had punched me in the stomach while I was sleeping." He said seething with anger.
"Wow, you are never gonna let that go are you?"
"Would you?"
"Eventually, but if we work together, I know we can kill him." She said confidently.
"Wow, a maniac girl with mouths on her hand and a boy with a prosthetic arm vs all of what I just said, we totally got this."
"See! Now you're getting into it and you were being sarcastic weren't you?" Her happy tone quickly dropped into one of dryness.
"Wow, how could you tell?"
"Okay now you're just being mean."
"Look, is there even a reason for you to even want to kill the president? Aside from him sending the army after you, which is kinda your fault in the first place."
"Well… Look at what he's doing to the world!"
'Woah, what's got her so mad?'
"This place used to one of equality(more or less) and peace(more or less), but ever since the appearance of quirks everything he's done has been the exact opposite of that. Oppression for those who are different, ostracizing those born a different way, imprisoning those for something they can't control! I can't just stand and watch history repeat itself once again! Though I wouldn't expect someone like you ,who hid away from the world, to understand even a fraction of that!", who hid away from everything in a house, to understand even a little of that!"
'You honestly think I know nothing of the struggles those with powers face?' He thought in a fit of rage with his blood boiling as images of peoples bodies on the floor and in a puddle of blood, he looked up to tell her as much when he saw a drop of water fall. 'Is it raining? didn't look like it was going to earlier.' He looked up to see her wiping her eyes.'No way.' He thought as he asked, `` Were you…?"
"No, the thing you thought I did I promised never to do until Odin was killed, and I shall not break my promises." A grim look of determination on her face.
'Oh boy, what am I getting myself into?'
"For the record, I still think your plan will fail-."
"Oh come on you stubborn-."
"JESUS YOU HAIR TRIGGER WOMAN LET ME FINISH!
'Pant''Pant''Sigh'
"-But I do, however, believe in your motives. However, as much as killing the president would be deserved and justified, the ramifications would be catastrophic. Think about it, a man who is watched by all, and people with quirks killing him. Quirks would only become more oppressed, feared, and discriminated against than ever before."
Kari paused in mid sentence, her mouth left agape in shock It was apparent she hadn't had thought that far ahead.
'What happened to her to make her hate the president that much?'
"Gonna take a wild guess and say you didn't think that far ahead?" A smirk appearing on his face as he talked.
"Well…."
"You really thought killing the president would end all hate?"
"Look, I just really don't like the guy and he hurt… a lot of people."
'Sigh'"In a perfect world, you could do that and only you would be punished. However, since people are constantly looking for an excuse to oppress us and make our lives a living hell, that would only make things worse for everyone else and completely counteract your goals. Please tell me you understand this."
'Siiiiiiigh' "Yes"
"You still want to kill him don't you?"
"Desperately yes"
"Well as long as you don't actually do it or make any public statements about it, our new plan should work."
"Wait, our?"
"Yep, our. You gave me the idea when we fought together, we were able to work really well as if we had been teammates, which got me thinking, what if we formed a team that protected the people instead of killing their leader?"
"…We'd be able to show them how cool quirks are, and get people to stop fearing them!"
"Now you're getting it!"
"This still feels like your idea more than anything, how exactly do I fit into this?"
"Well, someone needs to be the positive, upbeat one here, to let people know they can run away safely because someone else they trust is there to handle things, right?"
"You think I could be someone like that?"
"You convinced(Forced in every way possible) me to join you even though I was adamant on staying away from all this, and you opened my eyes to the fact that I was indeed hiding from the world's problems because I didn't want any part in them, and it's because of you I was able to see how bad things have gotten and that I want to prevent it. So trust me, you're already someone like that."
"Sorry."
"For what?"
"For this."
All of a sudden, Neran found himself wrapped in a hug by the same girl he had dubbed a maniac.
"You don't seem like someone who enjoys skin contact."
"I'm working on it."
"Wait, I was right?"
"That's what I said."
"Huh, neat."
"But seriously though, before we go any further, I must say that I don't expect your hate for the president to subside in anyway, shape, or form. It's clear he's done something horrible to you, and it's selfish to ask you to put it aside, and it's also unrealistic to think that your wrath can be put aside just because of a man you just met an hour ago. In all likelihood, you will never get to kill him because humans are stubborn, selfish, prideful, and judgemental by nature, and even the slightest misstep by us would mean instant backslide should we become symbols. However…" He bowed down on his knees"… even if it takes a thousand years, I will defeat your hatred!"
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…
'Snore'
"ARE YOU F*CKING KIDDING ME!? I MAKE YOU A BINDING PROMISE AND YOURE SLEEPING, I SHOULD LEFT YOU WHEN I HAD THE CHANCE!"
"Hey, hey, I was joking, and you were making every thing so serious, I already agreed to go along with your plan so let's just leave it at that, Kay?"
'Sigh' "Kay"
"Though, thanks for truly taking into consideration my feelings for the situation, you're the first person in forever to do that."
"Anytime friend, anytime."
"Oh so we're friends now?" Kari raised an eyebrow.
"We kinda have to be, if we're going to change the world together."
"Fairpoint, wait, what do we call our group though? I can't believe Saiaku Mono would be a good hero group name."
"Actually, I kinda like the name."
"Then as the still leader of Saiku Mono, I declare our firsts order of business is to-"
'BOOM!'
"-GTFO the rain! Get to a cave or something!" She said running for cover
"How did we not notice the pitch black storm clouds!?" He said following her.
"It was your stupid ass speech!"
"Oh really?! And your reantings were just a minute long?!"
Somewhere, outside the universe…
Okay, I might've actually stayed with this series had it been more vengeance-like, but Imma head out now, oh wait I can't leave. Guess I'll keep watching, who knows? It might get interesting.