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The walk to the support course studio was mostly an uneventful affair. It was mostly just Izuku catching up with Iida, Tsuyu and Uraraka about their internships and about school, which somehow got turned into a debate that truthfully Uraraka half listened to. The rest of the time she was quiet and just committing Izuku's broad shoulders and strong back to her memory without even noticing her froggy friend walking beside her and following the brunette's gaze. Tsuyu sighed and shook her head as they continued to walk.
Soon the quartet of friends stood before the steel sliding doors of the support studio. The bubbly brunette remembered the first time she stood in front of these doors, although they were blown off the frame by the manic pink-haired inventor working on God knows what. Ochako watches as Izuku walks up to the door and gives it a hard knock.
"Finally! You're here, valued test subject!" Mei Hatsume boomed as she slid the doors open after Izuku's single knock startling all those present.
"I see you've brought an audience." She deadpanned with a smile on her face. "Well, whatever. The more people that get to see my sweet baby in action, the better!" She announced with her eccentric smile plastered on her face as she leads the group over to a lone table at the center of the room.
The table was a resting place for a rather large looking ray gun sitting on top of it. Judging by the design, it's supposed to be mounted on a large mechanical arm that would've extended from the ceiling.
"Mei Hatsume proudly presents baby #66! Lazarus Canon!! With this new baby, bone-related injuries will be a thing of the past! First, it will scan the subject for any weaknesses in the skeleton, then using a similar effect to the yakuza kid's quirk that you guys saved, the Lazarus Canon will hone in and rewind the damage 'til it's non-existent! Then, as if my sweet baby couldn't get any cuter; it will rescan and enhance the skeletal structure and make it 20% denser, making future fractures less likely to occur~" Hatsume practically sang the last bit as she swoons over her own work, which the gathered semi-pros all wondered about the implications of such a device.
"Enough ogling my baby, it's time to test it! Strip!" She commands as she points a gloved finger at Izuku, whose face turned redder than a tomato. "Huh?"His eyes were wide as saucers as the pinkette tinkerer came over to his side and started to strip his clothes off by force. Tsuyu and Iida both agast by her actions, rushed to get the crazed mechanic off of their friend, Ochako meanwhile glared daggers at Mei.
It took a bit to get her off of Midoriya, but Tsu and Tenya managed to do it. They managed to get Mei off of Midoriya, but not before Mei got him down to boxer briefs and a muscle shirt that clung to his well-toned chest. Uraraka felt her cheeks get more flush the more she stared "What am I doing?! don't think about him like that!" She chastised her mind on letting it wander into dangerous territory. She looked away before Izuku could catch on.
"Alright head to testing room two, while I and billboard go set up my baby~"
"My name is Tenya I–"
"Don't care! Now, are you gonna help me or not?" Iida grumbled as he grabbed on to the back end of the Lazarus canon while Mei held onto the front of it.
By 6:45 am, they finished setting up in testing room two. Midoriya, for the most part, handled being half-naked in front of his friends a lot better than expected, as he was strapped to an operating table that was raised and tilted at an angle with the Lazarus Canon angled and aimed directly at him. If he had to admit something, it's that this was nerve-wracking. One look at his arms, though, gave him all the resolve he needed.
{"We are all good to go on our end. How about you?"} asked the inventor. He gave her a curt nod and a thumbs up as he looked over at the large window where his friends watched over him. They all waved at him through the large window looking into test room two. He rested his head back into position and tried to relax as the Lazarus Canon lowered itself from the ceiling and leveled itself with his head.
His friends watched in silence as Mei's fingers flew across a holographic keyboard staring directly at them; the screen that had all of Izuku's vitals. Tsuyu was the first to voice what had been on their minds.
"This is safe, right?"
"Huh?"
"The Lazarus canon, it's safe, right? kero"
"Yes, yes it's safe." The young support tinker muttered in a lackluster tone as she waved the frog user away from the main console already focused on what was on screen.
"Tsu is right, Mei. Maybe we should run a few more-"
"Test start!" Cried out Mei not even noticing the gravity user walking up to her friend to voice concerns.
Izuku turns his head away as to not be blinded by a bright blue light coming from the barrel of the canon as the arm it's attached to lower itself to fully scan and determine the problematic areas of his body. His friends balk at the dedicated mechanic and simply turned back and watched the thing at work.
Elsewhere, The U.A. traitor cackled and snickered as they watched the experiment live. With a few keystrokes, they had brought up the V.I. code to the Lazarus Canon.
"Hmmm, rewind, rebuild and strengthen, ey? Let's take care of that, shall we?" The grin that grew on their face threatened to split itself in two. Their obsidian goggles reflected the new directives they had just set for the Lazarus canon.
Divide. Weaken. Kill
Izuku was in a blissful state as he could feel his ligaments heal and regrow, 'til he noticed the canon stutter, which he had a gut feeling that wasn't supposed to occur. He didn't have time to ponder this as his vision filled with red light and he felt an intense heat...then all he could hear was his own screaming.
Outside of testing room two, the three friends were pleased to see the experiment going so smoothly. Uraraka had planted herself slightly near Mei, watching the holo-screen that had an x-ray of Deku's skeleton and all of his vitals. She was impressed by how much one scan did. It was, however, odd. When looking over the x-ray, she saw Midoriya had an extra joint in his pinky toe, but she thought nothing of it. It wasn't until Iida spoke up that she started to pay attention to what was happening around her.
"Um, Hatsume, i-is the canon supposed to shake like that?" He questioned as he got his answer in the form of the emerald hero, who started screaming and thrashing against his restraints.
"AAAAAAAAH!! TURN IT OFF!! TURN IT OFF!! AAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!"
Tsuyu Asui couldn't move. Couldn't breathe. Her hands clasped over her mouth as her pupils were nothing more than pinpricks as her eyes were wide with abject horror.
The scene in front of her was bone-chilling, the screaming was ever piercing. Yet she couldn't look away as Izuku thrashed and activated Full Cowl repeatedly to break himself free. She noticed that his skin was breaking and peeling in certain spots on his body.
Iida was racing around the studio, looking for any type of power doubling support item to help him kick the door down.
Ochako was in tears, begging and screaming at Hatsume to stop the experiment. "Please, Mei, turn it off! It's going to kill him if this goes on any longer!!"
"Wait, there is something odd about these readings that I must invest-"
"Fuck your readings!" Tsuyu could hear Uraraka made a move for the console but was repelled.
Mei had her custom goggles over her eyes and her smile never left her face as it appeared to have some hint of glee but the corner of her lips twitched in a bit of anger, as she slammed down a button as the room began to fill up with a familiar-looking purple mist, Izuku broke free, but was swallowed by the purple mist. A pause...Bursts of emerald light exploded and peeked through the mist. A tussle over by the control panel broke out between Ochako and Mei, the sound of one of the girls getting tossed like a sack of bricks before the Lazarus Canon, and Izuku's screams, were silenced.
Tsuyu chanced a look to her left. Ochako was hovering over the console, her hand firmly pushing down a large red button, tears still streaming down her face "No..No, dammit!... I'm not letting you die here!" She hissed looking at the holo-screen with her tear stained face. Mei looked like she was roughly tossed onto the floor. Tsuyu was about to say something when she heard Iida behind her and she jumped to the left on instinct.
"Recipiro burst!"
Iida rocketed right by, and within one swift motion, kicked the door down. Ochako pressed some more keys on the console and managed to ventilate the room out. A brief, pregnant pause and the three girls watched as Iida pulled out an unconscious Izuku Midoriya. And the second one. Then a third one. Then a fourth one. He was about to go in or a final time before Power Loader-Sensei rushed in, yelling. "The Hell happened in here?!"
The students were too busy relaying what had happened frantically that no one noticed Izuku Midoriya opening his eyes as he heard a small child cough before seeing a blurry silhouette of one dressed in something he faintly recognized getting scared, proceeding to sneak around the frantic teens and leaving the support studio. He was about to speak, but immediately fell back into unconsciousness along with his three other clones.
Ochako Uraraka was beginning to hate hospitals. Well, not really; she was starting to hate seeing a certain freckle-faced boy in a hospital bed. Now, there were four of him in separate beds.
It had been about an hour or so since the whole Lazarus incident. Iida, Uraraka, and Asui were in attendance, heads hung low as Recovery Girl and Power Loader both called in Aizawa and All Might.
The former of the two teachers was currently chewing out his three students not stopping the experiment as soon as trouble started though he did show some gratitude that it was stopped at all, he also made a point that such a procedure needed an adult present and chastised them for not notifying himself or power loader.
All Might ignored what was around him and just focused on Izuku he noticed little changes in each of them but it was mute changes nothing worth noticing until one of them started to groan as the one in the middle most bet bed started to get up, "ugh...my head…" he moaned as he slowly opened his eyes.
Mei was enduring her lecture with power loader, she kept a smile plastered on her face yet her eyes, underneath her signature goggles were knitted in a look of pure rage. It was one thing for her inventions to fail but this wasn't a failure no. Someone tampered with her baby and she was going to find out who! Then everyone froze as one shout rang out and silenced the two scolding teachers.
"What in the holy fuck Me! You promised that it was safe! you over bloated tech slut!!!"