Mei woke up back in her room.
She was pretty sure Izuku had taken her back there after tinkering with him in the studio, but couldn't really remember much at this point.
Not that it mattered. She rolled over and checked the clock in her room. The earliest she could remember was about 10 pm, and it was 6:30am now. Once again, Izuku had made it so that she got around 8 hours of sleep.
She would never admit it to him, as it might as well be surrendering, but she loved the feeling of being well-rested. Her brain moved at a million miles a minute, and her thoughts were so clear.
She knew that he didn't have such issues. He got to go at 100%, 24/7. It made her a little jealous. She knew that he spent the extra time he had in a day inventing, and wondered if there was a way she could minimise the amount of sleep she needed in a day.
It would allow her to make so many more babies, like Izuku does!
She yawned, stretching herself as she got out of her bed. She was still in her workshop clothes. They might have been in a relationship for a while now, but there was no way Izuku was undressing her, even for her comfort.
It was something that she liked about him. He was so pure. She wasn't much of a teaser, but whenever she felt like it, it was easy to fluster Izuku. And he was cute when he was flustered.
She quickly had a shower to get some of the workshop grime off of her. That was another habit she had Izuku to thank for. Long, warm showers were amazing.
Before she had met him, she had avoided the shower like a plague, opting instead for quick baths, or even just splashing her face with water and getting back to inventing.
But Izuku had successfully converted her into the church of warm showers, and she would be forever in his debt for that fact.
She finished her shower and got dressed in her school uniform. She had the distinct feeling that Izuku liked it on her if his reaction the first day was anything to go off. That reason alone was good enough for her to wear it when required.
Most of the time she wore her workshop gear anyway, so she guessed that it couldn't hurt to wear the uniform when she wasn't able to be in the workshop.
She got her stuff ready and headed off towards Nezu's office. They had some private lessons with him first up in the morning, then they would move onto either normal classes or workshop time.
Unfortunately, yesterday had gone straight into workshop time, so she would have regular classes after the private ones today.
She reached Nezu's office and headed inside. Nezu was already sitting at his desk, waiting for her, but she noted the lack of Izuku in the room.
"Nezu? Where is Izuku? He's never usually late." Nezu nodded and pulled up a camera feed on a monitor on the side of the room. It showed Izuku putting the final touches onto a large, black and gold suit of armour with green lights on the chest, hands and eyes.
Mei recognised it immediately. "Is that an Iron Man suit?!" she asked Nezu incredulously. The Iron Man suit was one of the most famous suits of armour in all of fiction, and here Izuku had created his own.
She knew he was smart, but she felt herself fall for him a little more watching him work on this marvel of engineering.
She then noticed the way he was moving, and the look on his face as he worked. It was almost overflowing with focus, and through the super-powerful camera's in the design studio, which frankly creeped Mei out a little bit, they got a good look at his eyes.
Darting around his creation with a manic-like speed. She recognised the state he was in, it was something she found easy to slip into herself.
She knew that at this moment you could be talking to him and he wouldn't hear it. That you could try to rouse him in any way, but the only thing that would work would be getting between him and his creation.
He was in complete sync with his mind, and it was beautiful. The way he moved was efficient, fast, effective. Every minute movement in his body was intended to help create a masterpiece.
Nezu switched the camera off, shocking Mei out of her focus. Whenever she got like that, the only way she ever stopped was usually passing out from exhaustion or by having her creation taken off of her.
Izuku had no such problems. With his Quirk, he could keep it up until the suit was done, and as Nezu's personal student, Power Loader wouldn't take it off him without his permission.
Nezu then laughed. "As you can see he is a bit indisposed right now. Honestly, I would like to see this suit in action after he completes it, so you could say that I'm enabling him a bit."
He pushed a few buttons on his keyboard and printed out a few sheets of paper. "And since I'm letting him skip this lesson, you can just do these, then go down to the workshop until your other classes start."
Mei looked them over. They were equations, but like, grade 6 level maths. She smiled knowingly and nodded to Nezu, before throwing her hand to her forehead dramatically.
"Oh, however am I going to finish these in time to get to the workshop!" She said as she ran out of the office, already writing the answers as she went. She didn't want to disturb Izuku, so she started heading down to the support course workshop, not their personal one.
'Thank you Nezu!'
Izuku felt amazing!
He felt like he was working on autopilot, and he loved it. He was darting around his new suit, adjusting parts, adding programing, fixing mistakes, like a god adjusting his creations.
This new suit was one of the coolest things he had built. It was a near-perfect replica of the [Mark XX Iron Man suit], including the fact that its energy systems were extremely efficient.
His simulations of the power cells estimated that the suit could work for upwards of 6 hours at a time without needing recharging, and it was capable of recharging through multiple means.
It passively grabbed solar energy, which was one of the ways its power lasted so long, and it had the capability to absorb electrical attacks as well, meaning it was practically immune to them.
It was beautiful, a masterpiece, something that he could save lives with, or give to others so they could save lives with it. It wasn't even overly complicated. It was basically just an armoured exoskeleton with flight capabilities, it wasn't rocket science.
Ok, maybe it had a little bit of rocket science.
But that was fine by him. Rocket science was child's play when you were dealing with the completely bullshit types of energies that Quirks could emit, something he studied near-daily.
He was so close to finishing, he could feel it. He had been working all through the night, a common occurrence, and after a while had fallen into this state that even he couldn't describe.
He wondered if this is what Mei felt when she got really invested in a baby.
He was almost up to the testing phase. He estimated that with the rate he was going at, he would get the suit operational before lunch, and he was excited.
Sure, he could sort of fly with his [Telekinesis Module], but he never went too high with that due to fear of falling. With this suit and all future suits, he had made sure that the emergency procedures for a system shutdown would protect him from virtually any height.
That meant he could FLY. One of his dreams, since he was a kid, was to fly through the air, getting a birds-eye view of his home city. And he was about to be able to!
Before he even knew it, he was finishing up the final piece of the suit. His body took a step back from the suit and he felt the trance-like state he had gone into fade from his mind.
He looked over what he had made. The suit was built specifically to his dimensions and was detailed in black and gold panels. All he had to do was sync up [MUM 2.0] to the suit, and it would take care of all the automatic procedures.
"MUM, please sync with Iron suit Mk1, and open suit." There was a beep, and the rendering of Inko in his goggles HUD gave him a smile and thumbs up, before vanishing for a few moments.
As soon as the digital version reappeared on his goggles, there was another beep, and the suit opened up like intended. "Iron suit Mk1 ready for testing Izuku, have a safe flight!"
Izuku smiled at that, he had basically copied his mum's brain for [MUM 2.0], and it made both him and his mum happy to know that she was literally always there for him, helping him out, even if the physical one didn't really understand everything Izuku did.
Izuku stepped forward and spread his arms, taking up his "boarding position". One day, he wanted to make a suit good enough for him to just turn it on and have it appear around him, but for now, he would have to enter it manually.
He stepped forward and into the suit, and felt his shoes click into place in the feet of the suit, and leaned forward, pressing himself up against the front, and hearing the suit shut behind him, sending him into darkness.
It was only dark for a few seconds though, as a HUD appeared in front of him, showing him a feed of what was in front of him in real-time, with practically zero delays.
He moved his arms and felt the suit move with him. He laughed and spun in a circle, feeling the suit respond to him every movement fluidly and quickly.
He jumped and was delighted to see that the extra strength from the exoskeleton of the suit made him jump higher than normal, so much so, he almost hit his head on the roof.
He started cackling. It was a trait that he had picked up from his time with Nezu, and it always made him feel better. There was just something about laughing like a madman that made him feel like he was on top of the world, that he could do anything.
He sprinted out of the design studio and out towards his testing grounds. The suit had a weapons system that was probably not safe to use indoors at this point, so he would have to do the stress tests outside.
He was surprised when he was notified of the time by [MUM 2.0], as it was almost 7 am. He knew he spent a while on this, but wow, he must have been really out of it.
He passed a few people on the way down to the testing area, who looked extremely concerned about him running around in a suit of armour.
"Don't worry! Just testing a new creation!" he yelled at a few of the 2nd years, who saw the Ins0mniac logo on the suit and just accepted the fact that he was doing this.
He had taught them well.
He reached the courtyard that he wanted and started setting up targets for his suit to blast. He walked over to the line he was shooting from and turned up the blaster's power to 100%.
Hopefully, he didn't break anything important.
Nezu couldn't help but laugh as he saw the wall of the gym near the courtyard explode.
He knew what Izuku was doing, he had a discreet connection into the suit via his computer, something that [MUM 2.0] had come to him about adding for Izuku's safety.
Nezu was still impressed at how well Izuku had copied his mother's personality with [MUM 2.0], it was almost like Inko was just sitting at a computer desk face-timing with him.
He sent down some fire fighting bots to the training area and called Izuku. He didn't want his students panicking because they thought they were being attacked.
"Izuku? Are you there? Are you okay?" Nezu asked as the call connected, and was greeted with laughter that made him kind of proud. Nothing is more Nezu-like than blowing up half a gym and then cackling madly.
"HAHAHA What? Yea I'm here, Nezu! I think I might have gone a little overboard with the weapons systems! 100% is amazing!" Izuku replied, still laughing.
"Did you see the explosion, Sir? It was beautiful! Kachaan would be so proud of me!" Nezu could see Izuku dancing from his window. He smiled.
"I'm sure he would Izuku, but you know your other classes start soon? You need to get inside and put that suit back into storage." Nezu then heard knocking at his office door. "I have to go now. Do not be late for your classes, Izuku."
"Yes, sir!" was the last that he heard from the call as he hung up the phone. He placed it on his desk and buzzed in Present Mic, who looked like he had sprinted to his office from the teacher's dorms.
"Nezu sir! Are you under attack? I can alert everyone if we are-" He stopped as Nezu raised his paw up, chuckling slightly. Nezu shook his head.
"No, Hizashi, we are not under attack. In fact, there is nothing to worry about. Izuku was testing a new invention and went a bit overboard with the power distribution, everything will be fine."
Present Mic nodded as he talked, then seemed to realise something. "If I tell Aizawa that it was Izuku that woke him up, he might kill the kid, got any good lies I can use?"
Nezu laughed, writing down a few options for Mic before sending him off. They ranged from believable lies like 'a gas line exploded', to things like 'aliens have invaded and taken over all of our bodies.'
Nezu didn't really care which one Mic told Aizawa.
Katsuki was excited for today.
Turns out having a friend as one of the most influential people in the school gave you access to a lot of useful information. Like the fact that they would be doing battle training today with ALL MIGHT!
Now, Katsuki was totally not flipping out on the inside. He definitely wasn't incredibly anxious to meet All Might. To see if he was really as strong as they say he is.
He would never admit it to anyone on the earth, but Katsuki was a massive All Might fanboy. He had almost the same amount of actions figures that Deku had, he just never let anyone into his room so that they could see them.
So when he heard heavy footsteps coming towards the door, he could only just hide his excitement under a smirk. Didn't want any of these extra's to think he was a nerd.
"I AM… COMING THROUGH THE DOOR LIKE A NORMAL PERSON!"
All Might flung the door open and strode over to the podium while the rest of the class whispered about him.
"Woah, All Might really is a teacher here!"
"This is so freaking cool!"
"Is that his silver age costume? So retro!"
"ALL RIGHT EVERYONE! WELCOME TO BASIC HERO TRAINING! THINK OF THIS CLASS AS HEROICS 101!"All Might's voice boomed through the classroom as he flexed in front of them.
He then flung a card up in front of him. "TODAY WE WILL BE DOING BATTLE TRAINING!" He then pushed a button on the podium.
"AND AS THE OLD ADAGE SAYS, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PARTS OF BEING A HERO, IS LOOKING GOOD!" Katsuki realised that these containers must be holding their costumes.
"GO PUT THESE ON AND MEET ME AT TRAINING FIELD GAMMA!" Katsuki almost knocked the desks around him over and he used his Quirk to reach his case first, sprinting down to the change rooms.
He already knew what his costume looked like. He had been wearing versions of what his official costume would be his entire life thanks to Izuku.
But that's what made this costume special. This time around, when Katsuki put on the costume, it wasn't just to show others how confident he was about becoming a hero, it was to officially show that he was a hero student.
He reached the change room quickly and started changing into his gear. He briefly wondered if Izuku would be joining them for the battle trial, but dismissed the idea. He was just a "support liaison". He wouldn't be part of the Hero courses battle trials, right?
Although, Katsuki wasn't really sure what Nezu intended for Izuku's future. Could he be grooming him to be a hero with his tech? Or maybe he was making a replacement for himself as principal?
He shook his head, shrugging off those thoughts. It was time to focus on the battle trials now. After all…
He had to show these extra's how a real hero fights.