"Alright Reg, got any leads?" Izuku asked as he plopped down on the cheap bed.
He and his brother were holed up in a motel, looking through case files from the past week to find anything suspicious.
"Maybe, take a look at this." Reg turned his computer to him.
"Holy fuck!"
A sharply dressed man was crumpled on the ground, seemingly paralyzed in a pose of gasping for air. His face was pale and his veins were disgustingly pronounced.
"He's some eco-terrorist, was found with poisonous spores floating around his lungs," Reggie explained.
"Someone pissed off mother nature," Izuku said.
"That's an understatement. There were six other people just like him killed, all of their death's...plant related." Reggie flipped through all of the case files, showing him the locations.
"Well with the D.U.P. swarming Seattle, it's a bad idea to stray far from a place a conduit deems safe. So if we take the location of all these bodies—" Izuku took the computer, a map of the city, as well as a pen, and began to make small marks at the locations of all the deaths, "—Then we find our guy. This park is in the center of the bodies, all we need to do is search this place, and we find the conduit."
"So what are we waiting for?" Reggie asked, grabbing his jacket."
Alright, let's split up, we can cover more ground that way," Reggie ordered once they arrived at the park.
"Got it, I'll go left, you go right."
The two went in opposite directions, and wasn't long before Izuku began to see a glowing orange light through the trees. It was some kind of make-shift camp; a simple fire and tent.
Izuku was about to call Reggie, when something slapped his phone out of his hand, he spun around and met face to plant with a large blue blub, with purple outlining each of it's petals. The bulb opened up and hissed, revealing a long black tongue like appendage, the sprayed a noxious green gas in his face.
Izuku fell to the ground clawing at his face, and two pairs of feet walked over him. His vision cleared and he realized that his biological parents were standing directly over him, Hisashi and Inko Midoriya.
"No no no no no no no, stay away from me!" Izuku fired a sound pulse at his father, who dispersed into mist, only to reform a second later.
"How would your brothers feel of they knew that you've been lying to them the all these years about what you are?" Inko asked.
Izuku stood up and swung his fist wildly, yelling like a madman, when suddenly a puff of blue gas hit his face and the visions went away.
He fell down again and a short girl with brown hair that hung over her face squatted down next to him. She wore a big red sweater, and a skirt of the same color, a pair of puffy red socks, and some light pink sneakers.
"I'm so sorry, all that was supposed to do was knock you out and give you a mild case of amnesia. I don't know what happened!" She apologized profusely.
"I'm fine, really. But that's one hell of a plant you got there," he chuckled, "Izuku Rowe, sound conduit." His hand stuck out to the conduit.
She cautiously shook it, before introducing herself, "Kinoko Komori, eco conduit."
Reggie came crashing threw the trees, "Izuku? I heard a sound pulse come from here, are you ok?"
"Hey Reggie, I'm fine, and I found the conduit we're looking for."
"And I'm guessing you're not gonna let me take her in?"
"Nah."
"Then I have better thing to do. I'll see you back at the motel," Reggie sighed as he walked away.
There was a long awkward pause, before Izuku attempted to break the tension, "So when did you learn you had these powers?"
"When I was a little girl. I was on a camping trip with my girl scout troop, and these girls, they were just...hurting the forest, I could feel it crying out to me for help. I didn't kill them, but let's just say that they would definitely run if they saw me again," Kinoko explained.
Izuku noticed her face drop, and he stood up, picking Kinoko up with him, "Come on, let me take you on a date. There's plenty of mischief two conduits without adult supervision can get up two in this city."
Izuku and Kinoko had settled on eating at some cheap food truck, before going to the botanical garden. The second one was her idea, he had wanted to attack a D.U.P. convoy.
"See this is why I love food trucks, because for thirteen bucks you can get food that some of the most expensive restaurants can't beat," Izuku hummed as he inhaled about a fourth of his burger.
"You are so gross," Kinoko giggled.
"Hey if you think I'm bad, you should stay away from my brother Delsin. One time he managed to get peanut butter stuck to the back of his neck, it was there for like three days, we were waiting to see how long it took for him to notice."
"My little sister was the same way, although I guess she gets a slight pass because she was a baby. But to this day I will never be able to explain how she managed to throw her plate into the kitchen from the other side of the house," Kinoko said as she took a bite of her own food.
"So you said you control plants right, what's that like?" Izuku leaned closer to her.
"I don't really control plants, it's more like I'm their queen. I ask them to do something and they do it," she answered.
"So you're saying you can talk to plants?"
"Pretty much yeah, it's part of the reason why I killed those men. I could hear the cries of anguish from the plants they were killing. I tried to reason with them, but they were more concerned with their own wealth than the planet they live on," Kinoko scowled.
"Ok, while I agree that those guys are shitheels, the only way I'm gonna keep you from jail is if you don't kill anybody else, deal?" Izuku asked in a stern tone.
"Alright, I won't kill anyone else. Now let me ask you a question, why are you really here?" Kinoko leaned over the table and locked eyes with him.
Izuku grinned, "I'm here to take down Augustine. See, Delsin is a conduit like you and me, one that can copy the powers of other conduits. Augustine tore our town up when you guys escaped and most of our people are dying because of her, so we plan to get some good old fashioned revenge."
"And you want me to help?"
"You don't have to, it'd be nice if you did though. But we're on a date, let's not worry about the—" a truck screeched to a halt in front of them, cutting Izuku off as D.U.P. soldiers piled out of it.
"Attention conduits, surrender now or we will be forced to open fire," one of the soldiers yelled through her mask.
Kinoko let out an annoyed sigh, "Izuku, sorry in advance."
"For what?"
A thick vine broke out of the ground and wrapped around his torso, lifting him up and tossing him at the soldiers.
While spinning in mid-air, a smile spread across Izuku's face as he realized what Kinoko wanted him to do. He curled up into a ball and let loose a sound blast from his whole body, flattening the D.U.P. agents against the pavement and pushing their truck into the middle of the road.
Once he landed back on the ground, he sprinted over to Kinoko and picked her up bridal style, her short-stack frame making it easy.
"Come on, before more of them show up," Izuku joyfully laughed as he rocketed the two of them upwards.
"Are you sure it's a good idea to be here after the D.U.P. attacked us?" Izuku quietly asked, making sure not to interrupt the tour guide.
"I'm not gonna let them ruin my fun," Kinoko huffed.
"—And here we have the extremely rare Bluewood pine, named for its pale blue heartwood. Unfortunately, this species is now dying, in fact this is one of the last in existence, and it too will soon die. It just can't sustain itself with how polluted the air has become. Come along now, the tour continues this way."
The group moved forward, but Kinoko stayed back, staring at the tree, her hands hovered over it, and the once droopy and near dead tree began to heal.
"What are you doing?" Izuku asked in wonder.
"I'm helping it grow," Kinoko answered simply.
Her hands went back to her sides and she smiled, satisfied to know that she had saved the tree. When she turned around and saw the big dopey grin on Izuku's face, she couldn't help but laugh a little.
"What's with the grin?"
"Nothing, you're just... really pretty when you smile."
That stopped her laughter real quickly, replacing it with a blush that might as well have set her face on fire.
"W-well you don't look so bad yourself," Kinoko said, trying to hide her face in her sweater.
Suddenly, her head popped back up, and a worried expression warped her face, "Izuku, something's coming."
The walls of the botanical gardens exploded and D.U.P. soldiers rushed through the hole, a bald man in a leather trenchcoat bringing up the rear, large shards of concrete floating around him.
Kinoko cried out and crumpled to the ground, holding her head and mumbling something about 'So many deaths'.
Izuku scowled as he pivoted to the soldiers who began to open fire at him. His hands shot up and a low, long sound pulse stopped the bullets and sent the clattering to the ground.
"For fuck's sake, do you dicklips ever take a nap?!" Izuku slammed his hands downwards and floored all of the agents.
"Imbeciles, I shall handle this myself," the bald man walked up to Izuku and was lifted into the air by a concrete pillar.
The man didn't even get a chance to attack before a sound wave shot him upwards, towards Izuku, but before the two collided he was suspended in mid-air, his body surrounded entirely by soundwaves.
"Listen baldie, this is my first date, and I don't mean with this girl, I mean this is my first date ever, so I really want it to go well. But you guys being here is really fucking it up, so if you could just not..." Izuku paused so he could blast the man out the glass ceiling, "THAT'D BE GREAT!" Izuku yelled just to add insult to injury.
A static sound coming from the ground stole Izuku's attention. The bald man had dropped a walkie-talkie, and clearly someone was talking on the other end.
"Delta squad, report. I repeat, Delta squad, report," Augustine yelled out the speaker.
Oh this was gonna be fun. Izuku leaned down and picked the device up, bringing it close to his face, before softly whispering, "Hey bitch."
"Izuku Rowe?" Augustine's static voice asked.
"The one and only!"
Augustine sighed, "And I assume this means that the squad I sent to contain you and your little girlfriend has been wiped out?"
"Come for her again, see what happens." Izuku crushed the walkie-talkie in his hand and let the broken bits fall to the ground.
The sound conduit quickly turned on his heel to help his date up, wait was she his girlfriend now? No that might be moving too fast, he should definitely just stick with date.
"The plants, they're all—" Kinoko's laboured breaths stopped, "Fine? But a fight with the D.U.P. should have destroyed most of them?"
"Yeah well, when they blasted a hole in the wall you fell down saying something about death so I figured that you could hear the plants dying. I didn't wanna put you through that so I made sure to deal with them all at once," Izuku explained, sheepishly rubbing the back of his neck.
"But, why do you care so much about the plants?" Kinoko sounded just as confused as she did earlier.
"Because you care about them so much."
Kinoko paused for a few minutes, before she began to seemingly try and even the height difference between them, but even on the tips of her toes she oy reached his chin.
"I don't understand, what are you trying to do here?" Izuku asked, shrugging his shoulders.
Kinoko pouted and put her fists on her hips, "I'm trying to kiss you, you dense nerd. Now lean down!"
Izuku did as he was told and instantly knew that it was the best decision of his life. Immediately her tongue invaded his mouth and started fighting for dominance, a fight that he fully intended to win, even with his inexperience.
Kinoko pulled back first, they were both panting heavily and a trail of saliva connected their mouths.
"Y'know, there is a much better way I could thank you for protecting these plants," Kinoko coyly trailed off.
"Oh I definitely like where this is going!"
I don't have much to say here other than I hope you enjoyed, and that I Am Thou is next. I shall link the two discord servers that I frequent the most if you would like to talk to me about my fics directly.
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That's it for now, peace.