05.05.2023

It is I, the Absolute Madman and I'm back with your weekly dose of Stranded! But first, some comments!:

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And now, the chapter!:


There was no way this was true, right? No way. The pure-hearted green-headed boy-wonder landing himself a harem of four girls? Absurd. Utter bullshit if you will. But, as hard as it is to admit, it does make some sense in the grander scheme of things, especially once you get over the initial shock and disbelief and really give it some big think.

How they all looked way more in sync than they were back in Japan. How they seemed to vanish from time to time only to reappear a couple of minutes later with their breathing labored or clothes just slightly disheveled. Actually, after you gave it one really big think, it's actually quite surprising that none of them caught onto that secret on their own and needed Tokage to open their eyes for them.

"That… that's gonna take some time getting used to…" Kendo mumbled out as she blinked rapidly to reboot her brain from its current confused state.

"Are they hiring?" Kodai immediately asked with hope dripping off of her every word. Actually, that might not be hope and it might not be dripping off her words, but it's better not to dwell on it too hard.

"Should we let them know that we know?" Kendo asked out loud, wanting to get some opinions on the issue at hand.

"I don't think it's a good idea." Tokage chimed in. "I mean, I basically eavesdropped on their conversation, so we're not really meant to know about this at all. And they probably have a good reason for wanting to keep this thing a secret. Telling them that we know about it might spark some tensions." The lizard-loving girl analyzed.

"I get that, but I'm not convinced whether or not keeping quiet about this is the right thing to do either…" Kendo responded, clearly conflicted about what their next move should be.

"Didn't you say that they want us to join in anyways? We might as well be proactive and approach them with this knowledge in mind without actually revealing that we know everything." Kodai proposed and the other two stared at her dumbfounded. "What?" She questioned, confused.

"That was probably one of your longest lines in the entire fic." Tokage explained, breaking the fourth wall for a moment.

"I'm very serious about this development so it only makes sense for me to try and push us all in the right direction." Kodai defended herself.

"It's more like YOU want to be pushed down and-" Tokage went on to tease, but was abruptly interrupted.

"Sets!" An offended Kendo cut her off.

"What?! I'm right!" This time it was Tokage's turn to defend herself.

"She is." Kodai chimed in.

Kendo could only groan in response, dejected at having to fight this asymmetrical battle on her lonesome. Wait, actually, this should be a 2v2 like usual, so where are her reinforcements?

One look over her shoulder answered that question.

Shiozaki was currently in what is best described as a catatonic shock. Her right eyebrow is twitching like crazy and there's that weird, empty look in her eyes as she just stares forward and mumbles constantly.

"Ibara?" Kendo asked cautiously, worried by her friend's current state. "What's wrong?"

As she approached the vine-haired woman her words became just a bit more coherent, though Kendo still had a hard time making sense of them as she was only able to catch a few of them. Words like 'angel' and 'debauchery' and 'sin' were being thrown like curses in a sailor's jargon. But even though Kendo had no idea what this was all about, she knew exactly what caused it. Or rather who.

"Sets…" Kendo looked over her shoulder once again and her eyes immediately zeroed in on the other greenhead in the room who was currently trying to make her escape.

"So… maybe I shouldn't have said all of this with Ibara around?" Tokage guessed, trying to make herself seem as small as possible. Itsuka wouldn't hit someone weaker than her, right? "Wait, she beats up Monoma all the time! I'm dead!" She suddenly realized and was almost ready to start praying for forgiveness.

"Help me put her on the bed. We can't exactly leave her on the floor." Kendo groaned but ultimately decided not to get physical with either of her friend's and instead asked them for help. It was a good thing that they were currently inside Ibara's house or else they'd most likely need to ask for help in transporting her. "You're lucky this happened inside her house." She decided to comment as the three of them got ready to haul their catatonic friend onto her bed.

"We could always ask Midoriya for help-" Kodai began, but one poker-faced glare from Kendo was enough to shut her up mid-sentence. "I'll stop talking now." She announced and made a show of zipping up her lips.

Between the three of them it was easy to lift Shiozaki off the ground and put her in bed, though she was still as broken as before. Hopefully her brain would reset itself and wipe out the last half an hour from her memory to make all of their lives easier. What she doesn't know about won't hurt her. Although if she were to relearn about Midoriya's harem in the future then it'd mean another catatonic episode… There really isn't a good scenario this time.

After making sure that Shiozaki was at least somewhat okay, the other girls decided to give her some peace and quiet so that she could recover without any unnecessary distractions. All three of them headed back to their own homes to try and deal with the new discovery themselves, either hoping to forget about it or scheming ways of using this knowledge for their own (ig)noble goals.


The weather continued its well-known trend and decided to add some spice into the mix, exchanging the constant drumming of the rainfall for the shiny deathrays of the twin suns, asserting its dominance over everything that they could see from their position up in the sky. At least the nights are much calmer now without the downpour and with the breeze blowing away the heat accumulated by their bodies over the course of the day. Whilst going out in the rain was mostly annoying and you could end up catching a cold, it was somewhat safe health-wise. Especially with their hefty supply of medicinal berries. The heat though - completely different story.

Heatstroke, skin cancer, ruined complexion and uneven tan are all very serious dangers that one must keep in mind before leaving the shade. And whilst Izuku might want to argue that having an uneven tan or a few patches of darker skin is nowhere near equivalent to skin cancer, he has spent enough time around the girls to know that he'd be dead and gone before he even has a chance to finish his first argument. And so he decided wisely to keep his mouth shut.

The change in weather was of course abrupt and it threw the class B girls for a loop almost as much as the news that Tokage had relayed to them a few days ago.

It was so sudden and unexpected that it actually caught the entire gang in the middle of preparing for an emergency project that they were hoping would save their crops and limit the dangers to their homes - a drainage system.

Shiozaki already made it pretty clear that their crops (not corpses) might soon rot if they don't find a way to get rid of the water that turned their fields into marshes, as it was futile to hope for the weather to let up anytime soon. Or so they thought. But as expected, the weather had almost no regard for their comfort and decided to switch up its approach just to annoy them some more. Sometimes it felt as if the omnipotent being in charge of the weather on this planet was just a rebellious teenager desperate for attention to the point of actually causing problems just so that someone notices her. Why she's regarded as a female is a complete mystery and totally not a spoiler of future events that will never be resolved, don't get your hopes up.

So… a change in weather. Good news - they don't have to install a drainage system for their valley and the risk of their homes getting flooded is no more. Bad news - they now have to install a melioration system to distribute water to their farms if they don't want their entire harvest to deteriorate due to the lack of water. The situation may have changed completely, but one problem was simply replaced by another. Just another day in this strange paradise-ish world.

Thankfully they could simply alter the plans that they'd already drawn and it's not like they were going to use something other than wood for the project, so they had this taken care of already as well. However, Momo refused to settle for a half-assed solution and now that they knew that the weather was capable of swinging both ways, preparing for just one of those eventualities sounded perfectly half-assed to her. As such she postponed the construction for around a day just to make yet another couple of changes to their plans and eventually came up with a drainage system that could be easily repurposed when needed to provide water instead of getting rid of it. Pure genius.

It required just a tad bit more resources however so off into the woods Izuku went and Kendo was more than happy to accompany him. A bit too happy if you were to ask his girlfriends.


This… was a mistake. A big one.

Kendo was generally known as the very composed, mature woman that liked to help people out when possible and was very passionate about martial arts. What people didn't know was that she wasn't great at dealing with feelings. Not stuff like anger of course, seeing as she was taught very early in her life what to do with her anger and the best punching bags to wail at to let it out of her system. Anger was not the issue. Crushes were the issue.

Mastering a martial art, forming a fighting style around it, training your Quirk and studying to get into the most prestigious hero school in the country didn't leave her with a lot of time on her hands, so relationship experience is not something that she got a lot of in the past. There were a few boyfriends she had before coming to UA, but the closest she got to dating ever since were crushes. And there weren't that many of them too.

She used to have a thing for Tetsutetsu in the beginning but she quickly learned that he was not at all interested in anything that he didn't consider to be 'metal' and dating was on that list. Perhaps it was for the better since she'd later develop a crush on a few other guys before eventually settling for the resident greenhead of class A - Midoriya himself. Although now she really wishes she didn't have a crush on him, because that interest coupled with his impressive displays of strength and raw power multiplied by the knowledge that Tokage imparted upon her was making it really hard to keep her fantasies at bay.

Every time she saw his muscles flex and bulge as he swung his axe into another ancient tree she couldn't help but imagine what it'd be to be embraced by those powerful arms. Each time she got a glimpse of his chiseled chest she couldn't help but wonder what it'd feel like to trace lines along his pecs. And each time she saw him smile she was ready to pounce him even if he was still being his innocent self. Well, as innocent as he could be with a harem of four girls, one that might end up expanding in the near future.

"I'm going to strangle her…" Kendo mumbled out, trying to imagine herself inflicting several kinds of pain on her flirty friend to block out the more frisky fantasies that were living inside her head rent-free for a while now.

"What's that?" Izuku asked with that damn smile of his that almost caused Kendo to forgive that lizard for what she's done. Almost being the keyword.

"N-Nothing!" Kendo hurriedly responded, hoping her stutter went unnoticed. Thankfully that's exactly what happened and Kendo breathed out with relief. "Maybe I can do this after all?" And then he took off his shirt. "I can't do this!"


Contrary to how they first met, this time they heard him before they saw him and by the time they went out to greet him, Martin was already landing in that very same suit that he used the first time. Although there were some changes. It looked somewhat sleeker and despite having the same colors, the accented details seemed different then they remembered.

"'Sup fellow inhabitants of planet Earth?" He asked as his feet touched the ground and his helmet folded to reveal his face. At least it didn't change as well or they'd be having words right now. And his eyes were still sparking. Great. "I saw you're having a tough time with the weather down here so I came to check if you're still alive and kickin'!" He announced with a grin.

"Well, we're about ready to kick whoever is controlling this weather in the arse, but we're still alive." Ashido stated.

"What's the commotion about?" Shuusa, who was the last person to join the group, asked.

As soon as she came into view Martin's entire posture changed. His eyes flew open similarly to how theirs did when they first spotted his spaceship and the sparkle in them doubled - if not tripled! - in intensity. He rushed forward, his suit no doubt augmenting his movement for he covered the distance between them before anyone even noticed him move, and then started inspecting Shuusa closely, a bit too close for some of their taste. To her credit though, Shuusa didn't seem weirded out by this at all.

"Can I ask what you're doing?" A slightly irritated Izuku asked.

"Admiring my own genius with a healthy dose of madness sprinkled in for spice." Martin responded, his eyes not leaving Shuusa for a moment.

"Is there even such a thing as a 'healthy dose' when it comes to madness?" Someone in the crowd wondered, but the question was dismissed without acknowledgement.

"I'm pretty sure I'm right, but let's do one last test. Gaia Project Midas-class Automaton, what is your purpose?" Martin asked in a very theatrical manner. The group was about to ask him what's that all about, but then Shuusa responded, though she didn't sound like her at all.

"This unit's primary function is to alter the mineral and chemical composition of a Gaia Project terraforming candidate and make it more suitable for the next step of the Gaia Project." Shuusa's lips were moving, but the sound that came out of them was more akin to a robot than a human.

Needless to say it creeped everyone out. Everyone except for Martin who simply laughed in glee with a manic frenzy in his enchanting purple eyes.

"It's you! Holy shit it's actually you! I was pretty sure that you perished when you failed to respond to my attempts at hailing you, but you're still in one piece!" Martin exclaimed. "Although you look somewhat different than I remember building you, but that's not a problem!"

"What did you do to her?" Izuku asked, a threatening growl in his voice.

"I should be the one asking that question!" Martin exploded. "How did you find my automaton? And how did you manage to alter her appearance? Her clothes feel like actual cloth and not the nanomachine synthetic material that I used to craft her."

"What do you mean by 'craft her'? Are you her biological father?" Momo asked and Martin looked quite puzzled by the question. The mania in his eyes died down and he seemed to calm down from his geek-out outburst.

"I think it's better if I show you everything rather than try explaining only some parts." He stated and the left shoulder of his armor opened up to throw a metal disc towards the center of their semi-circle. It landed and then didn't do anything for a split-second before suddenly lighting up and projecting a holographic image of something that looked very similar to Shuusa. "First off the planet you're currently on used to be a desolate rock floating through space until I came along and deemed it fit for my Gaia Project which is the general name for all of my terraforming operations that I've conducted among the stars. Everything you see around you has been changed to allow a human-like species to not only survive but thrive on this planet. Judging by the fact that you're still alive and living quite comfortable lives I deem the project quite successful."

"How did you manage to make such a drastic change? I'm pretty sure that even the most optimistic takes on terraforming estimate that it would take a good couple of decades to change as much as you did and you don't look that old to me." Momo, being the smarty that she was, questioned with genuine curiosity.

"Excellent question. I didn't do it alone." Martin clicked a couple of things on his gauntlet and the holograph changed to display two more schematics that shared many features with Shuusa but were ultimately easy to distinguish from her and each other. "They did it. I'd like to introduce you to Midas-class, Zeus-class and Pan-class automatons designed specifically for the Gaia Project. Each one of them was created for specific tasks." With a few more clicks the display went back to display only the schematic most similar to Shuusa. "As you may have already overheard, Midas-class is meant to alter the chemical and mineral composition of a planet - forming ore veins, getting rid of radioactive materials and creating an atmosphere." Then the display switched to showcase the second schematic. "Pan-class automatons are meant to create and nurture animals of all kinds. From the smallest microbes to the most gargantuan creatures. Although I'm still working out some bugs in their programming so they are not nearly as active as I'd have liked them to be." And finally the design switched to display the final model. "Finally Zeus-class, the most advanced out of the three."

"There's something more advanced than creating life and breaking multiple laws of physics just by existing?" Tooru moaned out in pain.

"You have no idea." Martin responded with a grin, but decided to spare them the details and went back to his presentation. "Zeus-class is kind of a control unit. Each Zeus-class automaton is tasked with controlling the weather in the region that it's assigned to as well as monitoring and coordinating the Midas-class and Pan-class automatons to create a coherent ecosystem."

"So basically you're responsible for the terrible weather?" Kyouka asked with a blank stare.

"Well, you can say that. You can also say that if it wasn't for me then you'd have been transported to a post-nuclear wasteland ridden with radiation and deprived of an atmosphere where the twin suns above would fry you to a crisp in a matter of moments." Kyouka was no longer staring and actually seemed ashamed of her petty reaction. "Oi, no hard feelings, alright? The weather is absolutely awful in this zone so I definitely understand your reaction." Martin reassured the punk girl with a smile.

"Can you do anything about it?" Kendo asked, hope easily noticeable in her voice.

"Sadly no. I've lost all contact with the Zeus-class automaton assigned to this area. I was trying to find it, but so far failed to do so. If I find it I'll be able to fix it and probably get this under control, though my main focus right now is getting you guys back home, so I'm not making any promises." Martin explained, bringing down their hopes somewhat but not destroying them completely.

"And what about Shuusa?" Izuku asked, anxious about the answer he might receive.

"I've taken all the scans I could ever want. I'll analyze them back in the Harrier's labs to try and figure out what went wrong with her." Martin said. "You can keep her if you want. I have an entire army of spares back on the ship anyways." He added, dispelling the anxious atmosphere and filling the teens' hearts with joy. "Alright, since you're still breathing and stuff I'm gonna head back to my crib. Later guys!" Martin said his goodbyes, the helmet unfolding once again, before taking flight back to his ship.

Whilst everyone's eyes were on the departing man, Momo's were firmly glued to the ground.

"What's wrong?" Izuku asked once he saw that Momo was staring at something very intently.

"I'm going to study it!" Momo declared proudly, showing everyone the circular disk that Martin used during his presentation.

Izuku and his girlfriends (sans Momo) spotted the spark of mad genius in her eyes and a shiver ran down their spines as they thought what she might end up discovering with just this small piece of advanced technology.


I originally thought about putting some class B smut in this chapter already but it seemed a bit too sudden so you get this instead. Don't worry though, I'm pretty sure the next chapter will start off a smut train! Who are you rooting to see first?!

Have a great day and I'll catch y'all in the next update!