"God this is so tight." Geus sucked in his gut while his legs widened.
"If you want my baby then just keep my legs above your head!" Hatsume yelled back.
"Isn't there an easier way to do this?" Geus readjusted his arms around her waist and pulled her body slightly closer to his face.
Geus's face was bright red, afraid to look down in case of a nosebleed. With Hatsume's lower half of her body so close to his face, there was much more he worried about silently.
"I don't trust you holding any of my other babies. Do you're holding me."
Geus became even more confused and embarrassed. "Why am I holding anything?"
"Because my baby needs to be able to carry as much weight as possible to find any cracks. Man you ask so many questions."
"You way like 50kg, I flipped heavier villains over my shoulders before."
Hatsume's hands grabbed each of his knees and stretched her out. Her feet did the same and grappled around his shoulders to stretch out the rest of her body. She grabbed the bottom of her shirt and lifted it above her chest.
"I hope everything's going well." The door to the support class opened wide. Powerloader stopped after his back turned away from them and instead the hallway. His head was covered in his costume but Geus didn't need to see it.
"It's not what you think!" Geus shouted.
Hatsume looked up at her hero with a wide smile on her face. "See I'm wearing full body weights! Another one of my babies." She whispered right after she yelled at her sensei. "He doesn't believe anything I say." She released her shirt and allowed it to dangle however it did. Her legs and arms returned to their normal position around his body and continued to work on the legs of the costume.
"Sansei, I didn't realize you were here so soon. Midoriya and a few other classmates were here." The hero turned back to the door and signaled to enter. "Come on, it's fine."
Geus turned worried. 'Dear... God.' He thought as his face only turned worse. 'Kaminari, and, and, Jiro.' Under his mask was a weak attempt at a smile. "Hey, guys."
Kaminari ran to Geus's side and wrapped his arm around Geus's shoulders. "So you get to skip part of the day and this is how they reward you?" He nudged. "Digging the new suit."
"I am not okay with the situation what so ever." Geus whispered to Kaminari. "This is okay."
"Quit your whining." Hatsume rolled her body around and looked up at Geus. "The wiring to my baby is done." She lowered herself again so her arms got perfect placement around his feet. She clicked a small button on the side of his gray boots then again pushed herself up his legs.
Kaminari squeezed him tighter as Hatsume's butt got closer to Geus's face. He was frozen and didn't know what to do but stand there. Her legs swung around and broke his grip around her waist. Her twirl spun her body right side up and sat around Geus's shoulders.
"We did it!" She cheerfully patted Geus's armored shoulders like a drum. "My baby is complete!" Her arms shot up in the air with the same rhythm her hips gave. "Easy 240kg weight capacity, -10c cooling, my baby is as good as she looks!"
"You're such a lucky guy!" Kaminari tried to hold down his excitement. His body joined in Hatsume's cheer and became unison with the movements she gave off.
"This is more embarrassing than when my mother called me an embarrassment at every Christmas."
Kaminari stopped. "Dude, bummer."
"Well." Hatsume hopped off his shoulders and tugged Geus to a wall size mirror. "The Gas Chamber 2.0." The look of it changed completely from the old overall style costume he had. It fit his personality more; thick gray boots, a layer of clear polycarbonate under padded black pants, a jacket designed similar to a biker's pressure jacket with another layer of polycarbonate, plastic thickened gloves, and his slick gas mask with double ended ports, one end pointed forward and the other down to his humpback. "Click your boots and it turned on the system of wires that cools your entire baby, polycarbonate layers that won't bend to cool or freeze, pipeways through all the rubber inserts that allow gas to secrete anywhere, it's beautiful." Hatsume wiped a tear from her eye. "Oh! Almost forgot one more part." She reached down the back of his shirt and pulled over a baggy purple hood. "Now it's you."
"I look like an edgy teenager about to burn down this school."
"Ah!" Jiro's hands crashed down on his shoulder pads. Geus's eyes tensed up and jerked back into the smaller woman behind him. "Can't really see an anarchist if he's scared by a girl."Jiro held in her laugh with one of her hands.
Geus gathered up his composure. "It's not fair, you fit inside my body. Couldn't see you in the mirror."
"Boo, boo." She continued to mock.
"You know." Geus pulled down his hood. "I did see someone turn into a tomato with ear jacks a few minutes ago."
Jiro turned red and hid slightly behind him. "It's not funny when you do it."
Kaminari jumped between them, one arm around each of them. "I got to say, it's pretty funny to see you get that embarrassed."
Jiro didn't see the humor that both of them saw. Her face turned into a storm warning. A warning before all hell broke loose, and both of them recognized it. Her jacks pointed for their ears and dug them clean through the hole. Kaminari and Geus looked at each for one final goodbye. Then the electricity jolted directly into their brains.
"I can make so many babies with that." Hatsume awed from the side.
Power Loader joined into the mix and gently and casually separated the three. "You should really give Hatsume full thanks for this. She worked tirelessly after she made that mask of yours. Took her weeks just to figure out the materials needed not to melt under the stress of your quirk."
"I mean, I may never be a number one hero but, maybe I can become the scariest hero."
Hatsume's face lit up, she twirled around to Geus. She grabbed the hood and tugged it farther over his face. "If you want that, then spread your quirk through the back casing."
Geus turned to the people around him. "You may want to step back then." He warned.
He waited for the moments the few around him took their steps back. Geus looked back in the mirror. The silence allowed him to look at himself clearer, the resemblance to his villainous side trembled. If everything goes according to his plan, a couple of tears and that's that. 'Is this the path I laid out for myself? Is Iroh right?'. The hesitation became noticeable to everyone else, it wasn't like he tried to hide it to them. A warm hand tangled his own, and his eyes didn't look down. The owner of it didn't matter at a time like this. It was the thought that counted. It gave him the confidence he needed to avoid the down some thoughts. He changed his focus to his quirk and maneuvered it around the suit. As difficult as it was, he started to feel the workings. The purple fog escaped out the back. His eyes widened like Hatsume's as his gas rolled over the top of his hood and over his eyes.
"I do say if the hero work fails... You'd be a great villain artist." Geus chuckled.
"Isn't that a little too soon?" Kaminari asked.
Geus stopped the roll over the hood and pulled it down. In the mirror, he saw the sadness Jiro gave off. It made it worse that she was barely in the corner of the glass. It never crossed his mind on how impacted she was because of the attack. The villain of gas sent several students unconscious, and Jiro was o e of them.
"Come on." Geus punched Kaminari's shoulder. "We fought villains, again." He laughed. He grabbed hold of his friends and brought them into the center of the mirror. Both his arms clenched them in tighter to his body. "With these upgrades and we fight as a team again, we can't be stopped."
"Aw yeah, we need a sick team name for our team."
"Thunder Clouds."
Jiro's attitude broke out, she swung her hand over her mouth to hide her laugh. It made Geus smile and tap his forehead into her hair. "It's so bad." She tried not to choke on her laugh.
"It's awesome!" Kaminari fist pumped the air. "We got your loud sound, Geus's smoke, and my thunda!"
Geus patted their shoulders and spun to the door. "All of you already got a head start on me. I'll see you out in the gym." Geus waved.
Geus had time to think alone during the hallway walk. He knew everything that they had planned for today. A super move to be developed, and with this new gear, it was possible to finally do. The cuffs were off and all restrictions lifted. The plan was there in his head, now he just needed to put in action.
His gloved hands shoved the doors open to their gym. And all the chaos played through. Ectoplasm's clones were placed on a sky high pedestal with a student with them. Cementoss's creations were being blasted and destroyed by his classmate's attempts to perform their special move.
"Woah! Who let in the villain?" Kaminari joked as soon as he saw Geus's entrance.
"It does show the darkness in your soul that is trying to show the strength hidden inside." Fumikage gave his usual enlightening appreciation to Geus.
"You're late!" Ectoplasm's clone formed in front of the distracted kid and yelled directly into his face. Before Geus reacted, Cementoss's concrete launched them into the air. "I hope all that time delaying gave you an idea of how you intend to become stronger."
Geus lifted his hands and maneuvered his quirk through the costume's tunnel system. Gas emerged through his palm and fingers and flowed to the ground. "I've had a full morning to think about this. Little did I know that fight gave me the inside to what I need to do."
"That fight with the villain Twice? I saw in the newscasts of that scene. Show me what you got."
Geus observed the platform created for him. A wall of concrete to his left, a few step size bumps around the rest of the ground. The idea was there, except the execution. His work needed time to settle and no villain would just sit around for that to happen. He reached up to the front of the filters and pried them off.
His mind started to get to him. The idea of an ultimate move slipped from his fingers. The execution became blurry and impossible. Ectoplasm took notice too, the hesitation in Geus was something all heroes noticed.
"It's easy to think of a game plan all day long, it's one other thing to perform those actions. The duty of a hero is to remove all those insecurities that delay the plan. With everything that has happened to you today has to be set aside."
"I know." Geus couldn't look the hero in the eyes. His eyes watched the gas from his hands simmer down. "Just actually have to think this out."
"Young Sansei." All Might called out.
Geus looked down the pathway that led up to him. His eyes were broke open. "All Might." Seeing his regular form outside the almighty All Might form was near breathtaking. This made him feel like All Might was just another person. A true connection to his family that maybe would've been approved by his parents. Yet at the same time the destruction his family would've loved to see. His actions led to the downfall of the number one hero. A definite approval by his family. A downright cheer for days by them.
"I'm seeing a hesitation, the attack has probably taken effect on you but you must not let it change how you fight. Increase that way you charge in and destroy those doubts."
"Of course All Might." Geus turned to Ectoplasm and relaxed his body. 'I can't let you down.' He turned over to the small figure of All Might. He didn't look to be pained by everything that has happened to him. He was accepting the whole events well. 'Can't let you down again.'
"You finally ready? Hit me with what you got." Ectoplasm taunted.
Geus closed his eyes and built up his power. The gas he produced rushed through the system of tunnels and out of his hands. His eyes shot wide open with a purple tint to them. Geus sprinted to the clone and jumped off of one of the humps. He landed on the clone's chest and crushed his hands around Ectoplasm's temples. The amount of gas increased sevenfold and enveloped them both into a cloud of smoke. Which quickly hardened and trapped them in a perfectly molded cacoon of gas. Another hardened layer surrounded them as the original layer started to transform back into gas.
It became noticeable of how much power this move took. With a clear conscious this time, the energy it required was almost a burden. The new realization of his lungs and the utilization wasn't anywhere near bested and the outcome showed. Multiple chambers slammed shut while other parts couldn't suck in enough oxygen. His hands became wobbly in the shell of the gas and decreased the vitality of his layers. Ectoplasm's movements became more and more powerful. Small sounds of cracks echoed around the shell until one large seem broke through.
Ectoplasm broke through the major crack and surrounded around Geus's frozen backside. His shoulder rounded to his center point and pressed forward. Ectoplasm didn't need to put much effort into the attack, his shoulder broke through on impact and into Geus's back. The boy flew forward and tumbled off the platform.
'I failed.' Geus thought as he plummeted down to the ground. 'This is going to hurt.' Geus closed up his body and prepared himself for the crash. Yet he didn't feel the pain strike through his body at all. He opened his eyes, instead of the ground he was lifted higher into the air. "Thanks Uraraka."
She released her fingers and dropped Geus back on his platform. "You're welcome!" She shouted back.
"Now." Geus turned to his teacher. "Your ultimate move needs works. For starters, start small and don't overdo yourself. Your body can't handle it."
"I did it before." Geus pushed himself back up and brushed off his jacket. "I just need to get used to the suit."
"Tell me, were those times before when you were just exhaling or inhaling?"
"Exhaling."
"Your body is built better for using gas instead of solid. If science has anything to do with anything, a property using its original form takes a lot less energy than changing forms. Until you can get used to the form changing, go smaller."
"I can't afford to go slower." Geus glared over at Bakugo's platform. He was easily twice as powerful as him and the League of Villains also wanted. Yet Geus is still miles away from his strength. Watching him for the minute he did, he killed two of Ectoplasm's clones. The anger that built up inside him flowed through his fingers. The more he watched Bakugo, the angrier he got. "I'm going to do what I want."
Geus fixed his shoulders and held his arms back behind them. 'If I can at least build it up before.' The flow of the gas hardened up his arms. 'I can easily entrap my target. Attempt number two.' He charged at the clone and jumped. The hardened quirk changed over to gas mid-air and redirected to Ectoplasm. His hands grasped hold of his skull and pressed down his gas. The entrapment around the hero was faster this time. And since Geus was out of the hold, it was easy to see everything. He was entirely wrapped around in the gas. 'Got him.'
One side of his ports hardened the gas as the other end wrapped another layer around. The early prep didn't help. His lungs didn't hold the capacity to use this much gas. The hardened layer started to give before the overlayer surrounded it. Ectoplasm broke free from Geus's grip and slid right out of his imprisonment. "Wrong!" He shouted and collided with Geus. His arms destroyed the rest of the shell and smashed into the rock wall. It became clear his mental state was out of it. His body rejected the idea to produce enough of his quirk for his move.
"The machine." Geus huffed. His arms felt like they were broken as he pried himself out of the hole. At the rate his body declined, the ultimate move strayed away. Geus clapped his boots together and started the tiny generators. The coolness the machines made felt drastically colder, and better. "It just wasn't working."
"Finally using your suit to your advantage. Let's see if you can finally do something with it."
Geus held his forearms up and concentrated his quirk through them. "Give me a break. I just got it a half hour ago."
Geus sprinted and bounced off the wall. He landed on the back of Ectoplasm. His hands clawed into his head and once again went into the process of trapping him. With the decreased heart rate and lung contractions, the smoothness of his quirk flowed out. The ultimate move was also revised with the added support. A little wiggle room was created in the shell with the mold being mostly solid with rapid changing spots of softness.
"Iron Maiden!" Geus shouted. The sounds of flesh being torn apart entered everyone's ears. He jumped back off the creation for a better view. The model was trapped in a perfectly shaped outline of him. And inside, hundreds of little spikes slashed through the body and connected with the other side. Geus closed his eyes and tilted his head into the air. The top of the head opened up and poured with overflown gas. "Complete."
Another clone of Ectoplasm's gathered next to Geus. Geus severed the connection of his gas with a sloppy hand. Almost instantly his ultimate move collapsed and faded into the air. He looked up to his teacher with a wide smile under the mask. But the exhaustion of his breath was noticeable either way.
"See." Geus's shakey arm pointed over at the emptiness of the platform. "That's what I wanted to do."
"It's a great start to the design, counted with the help from your suit. Eventually we'll get there."
"What?" Geus collapsed to the ground. "Isn't the point of this to create an ultimate move with the suits? What hero won't have his suit with them?"
"Your entire move relies on the fact your suit's cooling system working. If the villain takes that out, it's useless."
Geus tisked at the thought of himself being useless. "It's just a first run." Geus flung up his body and up to his feet. "I got plenty of time to revise and improve it."
"I sure hope you can."
