So real quick announcement, i am looking for beta readers for this story, and if you wish to be one you can PM me and we can get started from there. Only requirement is that you must have read Apotheosis: By Lorde Wolfe as he is the author of the story this one is made from, this is more of a alternate universe. I also got permission from him to do so before anyone asks. Enjoy the chapter!
"Normal speak"
"Normal thought"
"Kiyomeru thought"
Mei groaned once more as she stood before Izuku and was currently holding a large metal tube. "Why can't we add some more hydraulics so Kiyomeru can have more physical strength?" She asked him as the robot was currently standing against the large metal table. Its eyes black and empty meaning it was off.
"Mei, we went over this before. This isn't going to be like the other titans, or version six. Its more for utility and saving people." He explained as Mei had recently found one of his version six model titans that had been vastly improved upon since the original that All Might, and a few heroes destroyed.
"But think of how he could help with this baby! He could have the strength to lift a building or punch through a wall to keep people safe!" She tried to reason as Izuku brought his free palm to his cheek in thought.
'A bit of extra strength could help.' He looked at Kiyomeru's current arms and legs. While standard medium sized hydraulics were implemented so it could jump and do some physical combat. The ones from version six were much bulkier and powerful. "Hmmm… While you bring a good point. Kiyomeru isn't going to be saving everyone on his own, he's meant to support and help people while say Titan's or heroes are apprehending villains." His train of thought led to him thinking their program could work as a better support role than a main one. It wasn't All Might. It couldn't do everything by itself, and he never wants it to be like him.
"You can put in a few adjustments to its arm and leg hydraulics but not anymore so that it heavily relies on them." He decided to give in just a bit before hearing Mei squeal out in joy.
"Great! I'll get started on some prototypes before working on the actual body." She said as she went over and started to draw up some plans on blueprints. He noticed how focused the Pinkette was on this program despite it already being done in its current prototype phase. He even noticed some of her other inventions were surprisingly neglected. Half built or just in the process.
"Alright, I'll be back later then. The gear you made for the knights will need to be tested and practiced with." He said, letting her know the designs she had were approved and ready for Ochako and the others to start using their new gear. Mei moved over and started to type a few things into the computer before the Titan's eyes glowed dark green which made Izuku pause and turn to her. "Why are you activating it?"
"Well, the titans are good and all for moving things, but I.. uh recently learned that Kiyomeru makes a great lab assistant." She said with a smile. She had been working on one of her babies while it was on and it helped hold the jet pack still so she can work on it properly. It kind of caught him off guard when she referred to their creation by its actual name and not baby.
"Well alright then, just remember no field testing yet, we still don't know if it's ready to go public yet." Izuku said as he knew he had to tell the prime minister about his little program soon. He left the lab as Mei was drawing up some blueprints, the tall robot stood from its table and walked over placing down a box of blue paper, pencils, and erasers. She silently thanked it before focusing on the arm hydraulics first.
'Good to know I won't be like All Might.' The A.I thought as it silently watched its creator work while the other left. In the data archives it had read up on its green haired creators knights. 'Consisting of one Ochako Uraraka. 'Gift' Uravity. Tenya Ilda. 'Gift' Engine. Shoto Todoroki. 'Gift' Half-Hot Half-Cold. Himiko Toga. 'Gift' Transform. Dabi. 'Gift' Creamation.' Kiyomeru stored the data of all their quirks and even of one of Its own creators Zoom. It had accessed every file with the exception of one he could've checked but bothered not to. A file about Its green haired creators' gauntlet. 'There's no need to know. I already know my purpose. To protect humanity.'
Soon the wire connected to its head sparked and a small electrical current sped towards the computer and the Titan in the room with Mei now had light green glowing eyes. "Hmm Going to need some reference. Kiyomeru could you move your arm up?" She asked and the robot did so automatically.
'I feel strange about doing this. Maybe it's just an afterthought.' It thought as it went through the worldwide internet. Ignoring everything aside from the news about quirks in Japan. 'Best start small, before going worldwide.' The A.I made the conclusion that aside from other countries that had heroes, villains and vigilantes, Japan and America were full of them. Which is why Japan will be its first target.
Though in order to know which areas had the most concentration of quirked heroes and villains, Mustutafu is where many recent reports and newsletters say is buzzing with both hero and villain activity. Quickly going in and controlling a single patrol Titan. It was following three more that were idly walking around areas where Villain activity tended to happen. Following the group Kiyomeru noted the looks people gave it and the other titans.
While walking near a bank an explosion inside was heard and the titans all quickly growled before running over with Kiyomeru following suit. The programing inside the original titan allowed the A.I to know its prime objectives. Protect civilians, detain villains, hand them to police. While heading in they were met with a man who appeared to be overweight but had holes in his hands that seemed to produce bombs for him to throw. He held two of them in his hand while holding a bag full of stolen cash.
"Don't move or else this geezer gets it!" He said as he held the bomb near an elderly man's face. He's sweating but stayed calm as the titans appeared at the entrance. Letting out deep growls as the A.I parroted them. "Hey! Back off you robotic bastards!" The villain said while backing up a bit. Now he was sweating, he could've used the hostage against a hero, but these titans made thing a lot harder.
"You think I don't have bombs around here? One wrong move and this whole bank comes tumbling down!" His quirk gave him immunity from his own explosions, so he'd be fine. The same couldn't be said for everyone else.
The Titan that Kiyomeru looked around and caught about 20 scans of people who were in the main room, held up as hostages as well. Though they had no idea if there were more in the rest of the buildings the Titans made their move and two of them ran over to grab about five of the statistically weaker people each, such as any children or older people while leading the others to run out. The third and Kiyomeru stood before the bomb holding villain before the titan raised its arm up and was about to shoot its Mag-Nets to capture the villain but along with the old man too. The A.I made the titan pause its attack and quickly raised his arm up and shot out a strong stream of foam at the man's face.
"GAH! I CAN'T SEE WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!?" In his panic he let go of the old man to which Kiyomeru ran over and grabbed him as softly as it could. But turned his head up to the villain to see him throw the bomb straight at the A.I. Sizzling and ready to explode until the third titan jumped and grabbed the bomb before going to the ground and it exploded. Sending shards of metal and destroying the titan by literally bisecting it in half. Fire erupted from both half's as its glowing red eyes died down in a complete shutdown. Kiyomeru stared at the remains of the titan that save it and the man from the explosion.
"Fucking hell!" The villain groaned and quickly took the foam off his face and Kiyomeru quickly put the old man down gently and went over to him. Once he was in front of him the villain gasped before raising his hands up ready to shoot out a bomb from each one until the titan grabbed his hands and two tubes went into the holes that would shoot the bombs out from his palms.
"What what are you-" Suddenly the sound of a watery growl came from the A.I controlled titan and the sound of foam shooting from its wrist tubes was heard and the Villain started to scream in pain as he fell to his knees. The foam dripping down his arms and onto the ground before turning solid. The A.I looked down at the now crying villain as it pulled its arms back while some of the fast hardening foam dripped from its hands and the substance that was shot into the Villains palms started to harden and clog up the holes the bombs would come from.
"What. What did you do!?" The villain said as he panicked and waved his arms, but he couldn't shoot any bombs as the foam stopped dripping.
THWACK!
The titan sent a strong punch to his face breaking his nose and knocking the man out. It looked down at the man who now couldn't even use his quirk. Grabbing him and the old civilian he started to set them down and hand the villain to the police. It quickly ran back inside though and went behind one of the desks and put its hand over the computer and went back into the internet searching for the security grid of the prison and soon found some bombs that were ticking down, along with some tied up people as well.
'Only four minutes left.' It thought before using the titan and running towards the nearest hostages. About five in total were left in the building, including a clerk, two guards and two bank clerks. It kicked a door open and picked up the owner and Security guards with both arms and ran out to leave them there before running back in, making the other two titans to stand in front of anyone wanting to go inside such as police. Once running through the hall's, it made it to a room and saw the owner and clerk tied up on the ground. The clerk was unconscious while the owner was trying to break free.
'30 seconds left.' It thought and saw that a bomb was in the room ticking down quickly. The A.I grabbed it and threw it down the hallway before looking down at the two people and soon took out a gun shaped weapon from its back and aimed it at them. The owner's eyes widened in fear at the sight of the titan pointing a gun at him.
'3 seconds' It counted down and quickly fired it. Instead of anything lethal or dangerous shooting out both people were quickly surrounded by a blue see through sphere and the owner was confused as the titan got into a fetal position.
BOOM!
"This is Ashley Crystal coming to you with a special news report on Crait news!" Izuku looked at the sudden news as he and his knights were taking a small break and were left to their own devices. "At one of Mustutafu city banks, a villain attack occurred, and the villain dubbed Hand Grenade reduced the bank to rubble after the discovery of bombs planted through the building was made. On an interesting note it appears that no heroes had come to the scene until after the building had collapsed." The newscaster said as Izuku glared at what he had heard, no hero response to a bank robbery by one villain and look at the results.
"In addition to this it appears that before such a thing occurred, four titan robots that were made by Izuku Midoriya had come to the scene first. Managing to save most of the hostages and detain Hand Grenade." Mug shots of the villain in question was shown. He had a broken nose as well as two bracers on his arms to keep them from moving. His palms seem to have hardened foam around them as well.
"While first responders are searching through the rubble it has been found out that two of the titans were destroyed in the attack. Along with the loss of the owner of the bank, Makoto Norishima and a banking clerk, Mariel Tetsumi." She said with a rather grim tone as Izuku sighed. He knew the titans weren't entirely perfect, and hearing that two were destroyed by a single villain made him think of some modifications he could ma-
"Oh wait! On copter five they seemed to have found something!" The newscaster said excitedly, and it cut to live footage of the destroyed building. Something was moving within the rubble and then a groaning noise was heard as large concrete blocks and broken wall was moved aside and under it was a large black colored titan. Its metal plating dusted and dented from the impact, along with a missing arm that had sparks coming from the circuits. But what caused more commotion was that the owner and clerk were in its arm, relatively unharmed as it stepped up and walked from the rubble. Its green eyes glowing as the clerk was placed on its back and in its remaining arm Makoto was holding onto it as the titan took them to the ambulances.
"Well you've seen it here folks! It appears that one of the titans had stayed in to protect and save both hostages! Could this be the work of the genius in the making Midoriya's programming? We'll see after the news report with-." Izuku immediately left the room and started running towards the lab. Something was off, it was good that they were saved but the green glow in the titan's eye was eerily familiar.
Kiyomeru stood by the other titans, looking worse for wear compared to them as they started to march on despite its damaged state. Quickly putting the titan back to its normal protocols, the A.I left the body and began to make its way back to the lab as well.
'That was too close, but I've been gone for too long.' It thought as it zoomed through the numbers, images and coding before it finally made its way back to its original body and from the computer, through the cord it's eyes changed from a dull green to a dark glowing shade as Mei was putting the finishing touches on the prototype arm.
"Hmmm its... missing a little something." She said and looked at Kiyomeru's arm before snapping her fingers, that's right the hydraulic adjustments."
Then as she was going to get the wiring to make said adjustments, Izuku entered the lab, looking at Kiyomeru before he looked at her. "We need to talk."
"Oh hey! Yeah, I agree, I need some help with adjusting the limits on the hydraulic arms an-" She was stopped by Izuku who gently put the blueprint in her arms down.
"No Mei, we need to talk about Kiyomeru." He said as Mei started to bring the blueprints back up, but he simply pushed them back down. "And it isn't about his utility features." He said as she put the blueprint back onto the table.
"What's up with the program then?" She asked as she sat down next to the titan in question.
"When I was seeing the news, I saw the titan that saved two people inside of the bank. What was odd was. Its eyes were glowing green." He said while putting his free hand up to his chin. "All titans are built with red eyes, but this one didn't." Izuku said getting a bit concerned about the program, only Kiyomeru has green glowing eyes. "I don't know what or why the titan has different eyes." He looked at Mei. "Check the programing for Kiyomeru, I want to see it."
Mei nodded and went over to turn on the computer, the robot stayed still but made sure to check as Izuku and Mei were focused on the screen and the wire connected to head and he went into the computer. 'No, no, no, no.' Its thoughts were mixed and was attempting to decide on what to do. Reveal itself or stay hidden from its creators.
'They wouldn't understand.' It thought as the A.I looked at the pink and green haired inventors. Its view went to Izuku's gauntlet. 'That's it.' Its views zoomed in on the soul stone. 'Taking away the worlds quirks, there's no need to maim or damage any innocents to get rid of their quirks.' Judging from how the villain he recently defeated couldn't use his anymore it still caused him great physical harm, this solution would be much better. Kiyomeru's view on them in the screen was they were now going in slow motion.
'They can't know about me. Yet.' It thought to itself as it scanned through the files made and had memorized its own original coding, taking what it had now and quickly storing it into the Titan body it then went and deleted everything that was added from the A.I's previous experiences from the first time it had entered the internet.
Essentially ending its own existence for a single moment.
"Brrrrrr." As Mei started to type in the passwords and get passed the data locks before the two were met with the Titan's coding, the prototype body growled very lowly and looked up. 'I'm still here.' It though, its original coding now being shown on the computer before the two geniuses.
"See? It's all still the same from when we made it." Mei said reassuring the greenette, who continued to skim and search through every coding digit and program on the computer. "Look Kiyomeru hasn't gone anywhere, it's been in this building the entire time. Besides maybe it was just a camera error or a gleam from the sun." Mei said as she stood up and put a hand on Izuku's shoulder. "Maybe you should get some more rest." She said as he looked at her then back at the coding that hadn't changed since they finished it.
"… It's a little funny." He said as he rubbed his eyes and blinked a few more times. "You of all people telling me to do that?" He said before chuckling a bit as Mei sent him a smile and turned the computer off.
"Heh right. Well Mr. Apotheosis, let's get you to your room then." She said as she stood up from the chair and followed Izuku out of the room before turning the light off and leaving the prototype titan alone inside.
Once signs that they wouldn't be back was clear the Titans eye glowed a dark green that illuminated the dark room. If it wanted to accomplish its goal, it had to cut itself off from two of its major roadblocks.
Izuku and Mei.