Izuku opened his eyes slowly. Everything seemed...blurry to him for some reason.
The lab...what happened? Izuku thought. Need to...get back to the lab. Figure out what went wrong.
Izuku tried to sit up but found it was significantly harder than normal.
With enough effort, he did manage to sit himself up, and he looked around at his surroundings.
I'm in the medical wing? That's right the explosion! Izuku remembered. I need to see if All Might's ok!
Izuku moved his legs over the bed and tried to stand.
The minute Izuku was out of bed he noticed his legs felt weaker, he was shaking from just standing.
He tried to walk and after a few steps, he fell over.
"Ow," Izuku said What's going on? Why do I feel so weak? How long was I in that bed?
Izuku tried to stand up again but he kept falling down.
After a couple of minutes Recovery Girl walked in and saw what Izuku was attempting to do/
"What are you doing!" Recovery Girl scolded. "Get back in bed! You shouldn't be moving yet!"
"Recovery Girl. What happened? How long was I out?" Izuku asked.
"We can talk about that later! Get back in bed!" Recovery Girl ordered.
After Recovery Girl helped Izuku back into his bed, she explained.
"Your lab exploded. However luckily neither you or All Might were killed or even particularly injured." She said.
Izuku sighed with relief.
"Both of you were knocked out, and...weakened." Recovery Girl said.
"Weakend?" Izuku asked in a concerned tone. "What do you mean?"
"Well All Might can still use his power up from, he can't use it for as long and he's not as strong as he was before." Recovery Girl said.
"Yes that's what we expected would happen. But...what do mean by I was weakened?" Izuku asked.
"I was just about to explain that. Have some patience." Recovery Girl complained. "Your body is much weaker than it was before. Your muscles, your bones, your eyes, your immune system, basically everything but your brain."
"O-Oh," Izuku said with wide eyes.
"That's it? That's all you're going to say after hearing something like that?!" Recovery girl said.
"W-well I wasn't really using anything but my brain all too much anyway," Izuku said optimistically. "Will I still be able to walk, and use my arms right?"
"After some physical therapy yes, although don't expect too much out of your stamina." Recovery Girl said. "Also, you'll need to take pills to strengthen your immune system. Speaking of with."
Recovery Girl took out a bottle of pills and a bottle of water from her pocket and handed them to Izuku. "Take two every six hours. When you run out make sure to come back to me immediately! Understood!?"
"Yes, ma'am!" Izuku said, before opening up the bottle and taking two pills.
"Lastly, you're going to need these." Recovery Girl said, handing Izuku and a pair of glasses.
Izuku took the glasses, looking at them for a bit before putting them on. He blinked repeatedly as the world suddenly became less blurry.
"I'll inform the principle that you've woken up. But first I'll inform your family." Recovery Girl said. "They've been very worried about you. You've been out for about a week after all."
Izuku felt as if a knife made of guilt stabbed him in the stomach. He could only imagine how they must feel, his mother was most likely drowning in tears.
And Sukui, well Izuku had a feeling he knew how she would react.
Five minutes later
"You idiot!" Sukui shouted, giving her father a light slap to the back of the head.
"Ow!" Izuku respond.
"How could you do something so stupid and reckless! I don't even know what you did! But I know it was stupid!" Sukui yelled.
"WAHHH! Izuku! I'm so happy your ok!" Inko cried as she embraced her son.
This is about what I expected. Izuku thought, unable to keep the smile off of his face.
"I'm sorry for worrying you two." Izuku apologized.
"You better be!" Sukui pouted. "I had half a mind to shake you out of your coma! Luckily my logic sensors told me that would do more harm than good."
You shouldn't need your logic sensors to tell you that, but I'm glad you're using them at least. Izuku thought.
Suddenly Izuku felt Sukui envelop him into a tight hug.
"Sukui!" Izuku cried.
"This is what you get for making us worry! Accept your punishment!" Sukui said. She wasn't even hugging him all that tight, but his weakened body made it feel a whole lot more forceful than it really was.
After a few seconds, Izuku managed to find comfort in the twin embraces of his mother and daughter.
Izuku struggled his arm's out from the hug and wrapped them around the two of them.
"Thank you." He said sincerely.
Recovery Girl smiled as she watched the Midoriya family embrace each other.
A few hours later
It took a while for Nezu to convince Sukui and Inko to leave, but after much insistence from both himself and Izuku.
Now Nezu and Izuku were alone.
"This is quite troubling," Nezu said. "With your body in such a weakened state, it will surely slow down the progress of your work."
"No-no it's fine," Izuku said. "My brain was unaffected so I should be able to work just a well as before."
"You and I both know that's not true," Nezu replied. "While your work doesn't require much physical strain, use of your arms and legs are still required, and with how your body is, walking and lifting things for any extended period of time, would be problematic."
Izuku couldn't say he was wrong, but he didn't want to admit he was right.
"We will have to have that competition sooner so we can get you an assistant as soon as possible," Nezu said. "On top of learning from you and assisting in minor projects, they will have to look after your health and perform various tasks for you."
Izuku didn't like that. He didn't like that at all. Having someone help him with every little thing. It made him feel useless. Like a Deku.
"Is that...is that really necessary?" Izuku asked. "A-and what are we gonna do about the secret projects? If my assistant is a student then they can't know about those projects let alone help me with them."
"Yes, that will be a problem. Perhaps you could build yourself an assistant in addition to the contest winner." Nezu said, before shaking his head. "Well we can worry about that later I suppose. For now, you'll be taking a few days off so you can recover, and no this is not optional. Recovery Girl will bring you a wheelchair so you can move around, please don't overexert yourself."
"Yes, sir," Izuku said.
Nezu nodded and walked out of the room, leaving Izuku to think.
"Build an assistant," Izuku muttered before his eyes widened with realization.
Later that night.
Nezu walked into Izuku's workshop to see Izuku doing exactly what he expected him to be doing. Working, hunched over a table trying to draw up some blueprints, although due to his weakened body the sketches were not very good.
"Midoriya. I told you that your days off were not optional." Nezu reminded
"This is a personal project," Izuku said, not turning away from his work. "You said I could build my own assistant. So I am. In a manner of speaking."
Nezu walked up to Izuku's table and hopped up on it so he could see what was on the blueprints.
"Ahh. I see." Nezu said, before hopping back down. "Very clever Midoriya, please continue."
"Thank you, sir!" Izuku said, before going back to focusing on his blueprints.
A day later
After classes were done, a good amount of students gathered around Sukui, with one question on their minds.
"Did your dad wake up yet?" Ochaco asked her friend with concern.
"Yup! He's fully awake and out of the medical wing!" Sukui happily reported.
"Yeah alright!" Said Mina and Kaminari.
"I am glad to hear that your father is well!" Iida said.
"Same," Todoroki said from his seat.
"Hey, we should pay him a visit!" Mina suggested.
"That sounds great! But not all of us should go at once." Sukui suggested. "Dad's body was weakened after the accident. He can't even really walk right now."
"Och. Poor Doc." Kaminari said.
"What happened that left him in such a condition?" Iida asked.
"I don't know!" Sukui said, her tone showing her frustration. "Everyone keeps telling me it's top secret and that I can't know!"
"What! That's such bull!" Toru said.
"Well to be fair. Midoriya is probably the last person you should tell a secret to." Jiro added.
"Hey!" Sukui said.
"No offense, but you literally gave away that you were a robot, before the first day of school." Jiro pointed out.
"Hmph!" Sukui pouted.
"Anyway! Who's going to see Doc right now!?" Toru asked. "I can wait."
"I'll probably see him around at some point," Jiro said.
"Give him my good wishes," Tokoyami said.
"Same," Todoroki said before exiting the class.
Soon it was narrowed down to Sukui, Ochaco, Iida, Mina, Kaminari, and Momo.
"Alrighty then, let's go!" Sukui said to her group of friends.
At Izuku's lab.
Sukui and her friends stood outside of Izuku's lab, in front of the door.
"It's locked," Sukui said. "That's weird. Normally it's not locked."
She shrugged and pressed the doorbell.
After about half a minute, the door unlocked.
"There we go. Come on, guys!" Sukui said.
She opened the door and walked into the workshop. "Hey, dad I bought some friends. The door was locked for-"
Sukui stopped when she saw her father.
"What the hell!? Kaminari said.
"Woah!" Mina said.
Ochaco, Momo, and Iida were too shocked to say anything.
"Oh. Hi. Sorry about the door. I've been busy." Izuku said.
Attached to Izuku were four mechanical arms. (They look like Doctor Octopus's arms in the spider-man PS4 game.) Two of which he was using to hold himself up, and the other two were free in the air.
"Dad. Mind explaining why you look like something out of Mina's special books." Sukui asked.
"Hey!" Mina said.
"Well is she wrong?" Kaminari asked.
While Kaminari was getting slapped, Izuku just looked at them confused. "Special books?"
Sukui sighed. Her dad was too innocent.
"How is it that your daughter knows about this before you do?" Mina asked.
"This is a highly inappropriate discussion!" Iida said. "Mina's personal taste is such things should not be discussed in a public conversation!"
"Why does everyone assume I'm into tentacles," Mina muttered.
"I think what she meant to ask was, why exactly do you have four metal...appendages, attached to your body," Momo asked.
"Oh, these? Well since my body is significantly weaker than before, I needed something to help me move, and do my work. So I created these arms to help me. I call them, the Octo Arms. Because I got the idea from an old comic book." Izuku explained. "They are fully functional robot appendages that can handle everything from precise, delicate task, to combat."
"You can fight with those things?" Sukui asked.
In response to that question, two of Izuku's arms shot out at amazing speeds, and picked up and heavy looking machine, and ripped it apart, before smashing it into the ground and crumpling it.
"Woah," Kaminari said.
"That's so cool!" Mina said.
"Impressive as always Midoriya!" Iida applauded.
"How does it work? It doesn't look like there are any manual controls." Momo asked.
"Ah yes, you see it actually receives orders directly from my brain, via needles in my spine," Izuku explained.
"Needles in your what now?" Sukui, Ochaco, and Mina asked.
"Well, it takes the messages coming from my-" Izuku was interrupted.
"You put needles. In your spine." Sukui said, bluntly. "You did something stupid and reckless...again!"
"W-well, I made sure it would work beforehand via some simulations." Izuku weakly defended.
Sukui didn't look impressed and walked up to Izuku, before motioning for him to come down.
Izuku lowered himself to the point where his feet almost touched the ground, and he was face to face with Sukui.
Sukui then flicked his forehead.
"Ow!" Izuku reacted.
"Stop messing with your body!" Sukui ordered.
"But-" Izuku got another flick. "Ow!"
"No buts! I want you to promise me you won't mess with your body anymore!" Sukui said.
"But I-" Izuku got, yet another flick. "Ok, ok I promise!"
What is this family dynamic? Everyone else wondered.
"Well I was going to ask for one of those things, but I think I'll pass on the needles in the spine," Mina said.
"Well, I probably wouldn't have been able to make you one," Izuku said. "The transceiver that allows this to take orders from your brain is made of rather rare materials, and each set of arms would only be able to take commands from the person it was made for."
"So it can only be used by one person?" Ochaco asked.
"Yes," Izuku confirmed.
"Welp, Mina it looks like if you want your real-life tentacle hentai. Your gonna have to come to Doc." Kaminari teased, before getting elbowed by Mina.
"What is tentacle hentai?" Izuku asked.
"Anyway!" Momo said, desperately trying to change the subject. "Are you feeling ok Midoriya? You just got out of the medical wing, so is it wise to be working right now?"
"Yeah, shouldn't you take it easy after that?" Kaminari asked.
"I agree! After being in a coma you should be resting!" Iida said, with Ochaco nodding in agreement.
Happiness surged in Izuku's chest, never in his life had this many people cared about him. It just warmed his heart. And made his face scrunch up.
"Uh, why did your face get all gross?" Ochaco asked.
"I'm fine. I'm fine." Izuku sniffed. "I-I was just finishing these arms today. After that Nezu is making me take a mandatory day off."
"It's a good thing you have a boss like him. Any other boss would be happy to let you work yourself to death." Ochaco said.
"Yeah," Izuku said. "But, um. Thank you for coming. And thank you for being friends with Sukui. I worried that due to her...differences, that she wouldn't be able to make any friends. Thank you so much for proving me wrong!"
"No problem!" Mina said. "And don't forget we're your friends too!"
"Yeah, both of you are really fun. Weird but fun." Kaminari said.
"It is a pleasure to be friends with both of you!" Iida said.
"Indeed," Momo said politely.
"I'm glad I met you two! Even if you seemed a bit odd at first." Ochaco said.
Izuku was crying now with how heartwarming this moment was for him. "T-thank you so much!"
The U.A. students then spent the rest of their visit, trying to get Izuku to stop crying, their concern for him, only making him cry more.
Just for the record, Izuku is not going to become Doc Oc this is just a fun reference