"I want that part over there, that part over there, wait! Don't attach that yet, it's not ready," Midoriya commanded, directing so many different people who were building his massive arc reactor. They were currently underground in a sub-basement, further down then the green-haired man's lab. It was very spacious, about half a football field's worth of room to build in. They had been building the arc reactor for a week now, and they were about to finish installing it soon. It was huge and donut-shaped in design, the middle part of it being a huge glassy ring that stuck out like a sore thumb. It was currently offline for now and thus no blue glowing emanated from it.

"Are you the dude who came up with this?!" came a spirited words of a young woman with pink dreadlocks. She had yellow sclera and black cross-like irises. She came within hugging distance, which is to say was too close. "I saw the blueprints for your device and I gotta say it's impressive! If it was smaller than it would solve all the energy problems all my babies are having!"

"Wow! Way too close! And babies? Oh wait, her inventions," the inventor thought, close enough to smell an oil and machinery smell on her. "Yes, I am the 'dude' who came up with it. Who are you? And how'd you get down here?"

"Hatsume Mei, future CEO of Hatsume Industries, at your service. I'm an intern following Power Loader around before U.A., which allowed me to follow him down here to build your—what was it called?"

"An arc reactor. Power Loader, a word, please?" Midoriya requested, making the woman stop installing the industrial-strength electrical wires.

"What seems to be the problem?" the pro heroine asked.

"I had no problem with letting you help build the arc reactor, in fact I felt at ease that a fellow developed mind would be working on it, but her," he gestured to Hatsume, who was currently reading over the blueprints of the massive device, her eyes seemingly zooming in to get a better look, "I do. I can tell that's a liability risk."

"She's not. She's an aspiring inventor, just like yourself," Power Loader argued.

"Aspiring? Yes. Stealing corporate secrets, MY secrets? Also yes," he easily countered, folding his arms together in a disapproving way. "I don't want to see MY tech in the hands of another without my express approval. And she does not."

"Look, I swear, Mr. Midoriya, Hatsume will not, in any way, shape nor form, copy your inventions. I swear," she promised.

"Ooh! Look at how this baby runs! I gotta get that man to let me copy it!" Mei shouted, disturbing the women around her.

"You were saying?" he asked rhetorically, sighing and dying a little inside.

"You! The man!" Hatsume yelled, running right up to him, getting too close again.

"I have a name."

"Doesn't matter! I think with a little tinkering of your design I could make it even smaller!" she announced.

"Now, Hatsume—" Power Loader began.

"Hold on," Midoriya interrupted, intrigued by the pink-haired woman's proposal. He already knew he could shrink it, but he wanted to see what she came up with. "Explain."

"If you were to make the palladium ring roughly basketball-sized, and then you made the core…" she fully devolved into intellectual talk, too sciencey and complicated for most of the other women to follow. She talked at length for five minutes straight, much to the delight to Izuku.

"Hatsume, is it?" The girl nodded rapidly, a big smile on her face. "I like your idea. Text me later so we can build it," Midoriya scribbled down his phone number and gave it to Mei, who took it excitedly, who then skipped away back to the blueprints of the massive arc reactor.

"Isn't there a smaller arc reactor already?" Power Loader asked after a moment, having looked at all the patents this Midoriya Izuku man had patented before taking the gig.

"Yep," he replied, putting emphasis on the "p."

"Then why let her nerd out?" the adult asked, confused.

"Simple: I wanted to see what she could come up with, and she certainly has the right ideas," he admitted, a happy smile on his face. "But enough of that. Back to work!" he declared, going back to directing everyone to finish the massive arc reactor.

It took another ten hours, but finally it was finished. Midoriya flipped the "on" switch, watching the power generator turn on and provide the starting energy to begin the power up process. The arc reactor began to glow a bright blue, slowly increasing in color and noise as it finally stabilized. Everyone in the room began to clap, knowing how big of a project it was.

"Congratulations, Mr. Midoriya," the CEO of Geonosis Tech greeted, walking out of the elevator as she looked over her smart pad, seeing the readouts of the building and the surrounding city. "You did as you promised."

"I'm a man of my word, Miss Hisoka. My check, please?" he requested, getting handed the check in question.

The next day

"Okay, testing flight capabilities of the DeLorean in 3. 2. 1…and liftoff," Midoriya counted down before engaging the repulsors in the car, the vehicle lifting up off the ground by five feet. It stayed steady in the air, making the young man nod in happiness. "Perfect, it's working!"

"Congratulations, Sir."

Midoriya lowered the DeLorean down to the ground in his lab before leaving the car and taking out his SDT, shrinking the vehicle down to the size of his palm. He then put on his JARVIS sunglasses and left the building, going to the back of the facility. "JARVIS, loop the cameras, please."

"Done, Sir. You're clear to go."

"Master, what are you planning to do?" Desiree asked, in the dark on what he was planning to do since she wasn't reading his mind. Izuku was silent as he enlarged his shrunken DeLorean back to full size before entering the car, gesturing for her to join him. She did as he asked and sat in the passenger's side, turning human and putting on her seatbelt. "Where are we going?"

"To space, Desiree," he answered as he turned on a couple of switches before the car began to rise off the ground. Midoriya then turned the wheel to point the vehicle in the right direction and then clicked on a covered box, the DeLorean humming like a tesla coil as energy surrounded it. It hummed louder and louder until the two were whooshed out of there in a blink of an eye, almost as if they were never there.

"Take a look at that…" Midoriya commented as he got close enough to the planet. It was beautiful looking, having yellow rings around it and it having a yellowish hue to the planet. It was colored yellow with splotches of red mixed in, making it quite a sight. Izuku directed the DeLorean to get into the planet, breaking through the atmosphere and arriving at a lush and thriving forest filled with yellow-tinged trees. They landed in a clearing that was devoid of plantlife, as to avoid damaging the car. Izuku, along with a thoroughly impressed Desiree, got out of the vehicle, the man turning on his Energy Gauntlet and passing a laser gun (set to lethal) to his partner. He had his school backpack on his back for some reason, secured lightly against him.

"Wow, master!" she said, breathing in the alien air. "It smells and feels so different here!" she remarked happily, looking happily around.

"Yeah, you're right, Desiree. It's quite a sight," he agreed, pulling the wrist band over his hand to engage his repulsor blast.

Just in case, of course.

"Follow me, the crystals we're looking for is deeper in," he commanded, walking further into the trees, his sex genie right behind him. "Not that you asked, but this is planet Amoxi, the homespace of the green Sillin crystals, which are a crucial ingredient in portal fluid; the last part I need," he further clarified, smacking a tall leaf out of his way as he and his partner trekked in search of those crystals. "Hey, Desiree, just as a random thought but couldn't you fly up and find the Silin crystals more easily?" Midoriya asked politely, curious on how far and high she could potentially fly.

"Of course, master! Smart thinking," she praised before turning back into her genie form and flying high above in the sky. She started to scan the surroundings below her, flying this way and that until she rejoined her master, a smile on her ghostly neon green face. "I think I found some, master! Follow me!" she commanded, taking him by the hand and leading him in a completely different direction. They stomped their way past some foliage, moving them aside until they stumbled upon it: A field full of green crystals, on almost every surface in front of them.

"Hell yeah! Good job, Desiree!" Midoriya praised, shooting her a thumbs-up in appreciation as he proceeded to collect the Silin crystals, throwing them into the pouch of his backpack. "Aw, yeah, ba-bee! This is it, Desiree, I'll be able to build portal fluid after this!"

"Yay! I don't know how important that is, but yay!" she celebrated, turning human again to help with collecting.

They collected for the next ten minutes until the backpack was completely full, almost bursting over.

With his objective complete, the two of them went back to the DeLorean and headed home, using concentrated dark matter to get them back to his mom's house within a minute instead of the (at least) potential centuries in would've taken using present day technology. Midoriya landed the car in a parking spot that conveniently was next to his mother's, hovering over the spot until he killed the repulsor tech and landed with a bump.

Izuku (with an invisible Desiree) walked back into his home, said hello to his mom, and then went to his room, taking off his backpack and getting a nearby mortar and pestle that he bought with his newfound money from Geonosis Tech. He started crushing up the Silin crystals into a fine powder, depositing the stuff into a specialized small glass container. When added the glass container began to act like a green tesla coil, the "electricity" bouncing around erratically inside.

"There it is," Midoriya said, holding the glass container between his fingers. "Portal fluid, after all this time," he murmured before opening up a drawer at his desk and pulling out his portal gun, which was missing its fuel. He installed the portal fluid like putting a magnet against a metal wall, sticking together as if magnetized. The device powered on, showing a display of "A-001" near a dial. "And finally, one of my dreams is complete."

"Is that your portal gun, Sir?" JARVIS asked, looking through the cameras installed on the sunglasses.

"Yes it is, JARVIS. I can go anywhere I want in the multiverse now."

"Don't you mean universe?" Desiree asked, lounging naked on his bed in her human form. "What's a multiverse anyways?"

"JARVIS, would you mind?"

"The multiverse is the 'hypothetical' set of all universes. Together, these universes are presumed to comprise everything that exists: the entirety of space, time, matter, energy, information, and the physical laws and constants that describe them. The different universes within the multiverse are called 'parallel universes', 'other universes', 'alternate universes', or 'many worlds,'" the AI quoted from Wikipedia.

"English, please."

"It means that there's a universe where I never met you, Desiree. There's a universe where I got quirk somehow, a world where I became the number one pro hero. Stuff like that, my dear."

"Oh? And you can go to these other worlds now?" she asked hesitantly, unsure of her question.

"In the simplest of terms yes. Emphatically, yes!" he declared, a wide smile on his face. "But I need to know what universe to go to first, otherwise it's going to be a crapshoot."

"How so, master?"

"Think of it like this: Shooting a portal to a random universe is like walking out on the street blindfolded, you don't know where you're going or how safe it's going to be. But I have an idea to offset that risk by a fair margin with a device called Interdimensional Goggles."

"What does it do?"

"It allows the user to observe realities across different dimensions by matching it to the wearer's DNA. I need to find/make some Crystallized Xanthenite, also known as Time Crystals, to use first to build them. I can make some if I combined Purified Fleeb with a Dark Energy Ball. But to get that I need to…"

Desiree tuned her master out, not out of malice or hate but because her master had the tendency to go on long intellectual tangents about the most benign things, this being one of them. She turned on the television and clicked on to a American drama called "Breaking Bad," finding herself hooked within the first ten minutes of the first episode.

Sometime in the near future

"Add some wiring there, a touch of copper there, and presto! A smaller arc reactor!" she shouted, having an arc reactor the size of two basketballs on the table (it was still donut-shaped). The device was surrounded by unused mechanical parts and a still-hot soldering iron, and there was a faint oil smell in the air. The two of them were in the young man's personal lab at Geonosis Tech, having music playing in the background that wasn't too loud, but loud enough to inspire them.

"First we gotta test it, Hatsume, see if the damned thing wants to work this time," Midoriya corrected her, finding his building session with the pink-haired girl fun and stimulating for the mind as he hooked up the large arc reactor to a mini power generator, connecting the positive and negative ends to their respective places.

"Come on, turn on the generator already! It's keeping me in suspense," she admitted, urging him to do as she asked.

Izuku huffed good-naturedly as he pressed the on button for the generator, watching as the giant (but not massive) arc reactor on the table began to glow with blue, almost white, light, humming slightly as it powered up. After a couple seconds of unsureness the power generation stabilized in the big arc reactor, showing that Hatsume's guesses on how to miniaturize it by a large margin was successful.

"Oh my god, we did it! I'm so happy, Greenie!" she whooped, bringing him in for a hug. At first he was stiff from the sudden contact, but soon he relaxed and reciprocated the hug back, finding that he quite enjoyed a friendly (non-sexual) action.

"We sure did. I do wonder if we could make it smaller though," he alluded, hoping maybe she would get the hint that they could go smaller.

"Hmm, probably," she said, pulling away from the hug as she went deep in thought, bringing a hand to her chin.

Midoriya smiled before asking, "You do?"

"Maybe? Maybe! Getting it this small took two weeks of hard work and spitballing ideas. Getting it even smaller than this is gonna be a challenge…"

Izuku grinned, proud of her for thinking ahead and thinking for the (seemingly) impossible.

Suddenly his JARVIS sunglasses that he almost constantly wore alerted him that someone was coming down in the elevator. The doors opened, revealing a greasy black-haired female teenager holding a large flat white box with a logo on it and also a liter full of soda. "Uh, yeah, I have a delivery for a woman named Midoriya?" she said, unsure if she was in the right place.

"You bought us food?! Thanks, Greenie!" Hatsume thanked as she grabbed the pizza box and the soda, leaving the young delivery woman empty-handed. She took that as her cue to depart and left them as she went back through the elevator.

"JARVIS?" he whispered into his sunglasses, wondering if he was behind this, as he certainly didn't remember buying them any food nor drink.

"I'm always looking out for you, Sir," his AI answered, "And also your friends."

Huh.

Was Mei his friend?

They did hang out frequently. They worked together, listened to each other's ideas, and were two aspiring inventors.

So were they?

"Thanks, JAR," his creator fondly whispered before calling out, "Hey, Hatsume?"

"Mmhat?" she asked, her voice muffled by a mouthful of a slice of pepperoni pizza.

"Are we…friends?" Midoriya asked hesitantly, not knowing if he'd like the answer.

Mei quickly downed the piece of food in her mouth as she pondered the question. It seemed simple, but for the life of her she didn't know the answer. She held up a finger in the "one moment" gesture as she typed her question on Google. After reading what the definition of a friend was she answered, "Do we have mutual affection that's not sexual or familial?"

Midoriya responded back, "Yes?"

"Ditto! So yes, we're friends," she said as if she answered a math equation.

Heh.

It was official, as official as coming from the horse's mouth:

They were friends.

That made the lonely part of Midoriya Izuku smile.

Author's Note: Go watch Breaking Bad, it's a good show. The ending scene with Hatsume came to me at 12:30 in the morning on the eighth day of June of 2023, then fixed up to fit better within the story when I was more awake.