Sound returned in full force. A steady beep flickered in and out. Someone else's breath was also there, it was faint but still there. Then the feeling came back into his arms. A soft bed with a thin solid blanket. He gripped into the sheets and pulled up his chest.

His crusted eyes broke through the enclosed shell. At first, the brightness of the white lights closed them again. It took a few extra seconds to fully adjust to being open again. A clean room free of any contamination and imperfections. monitors read things he understood nothing of.

Geus looked around his body, bandages wrapped any exposed would be skin. He started to wiggle around his body parts. His hands and arms were fine, along with his chest.

He moved his arms slightly to the sound of rattling metal. A pained sigh knocked his head back into his pillow. He followed the restraints up his arm to the reflection of glossy reading glasses. A metal T shape bar from his shoulder, up his neck, and held in place a breather.

The man looked up into the top edge of the frames. Heavy bags layer down his eyes into a ragged white, gray stubble.

His upper lip was raised slightly enough to dry out one of his K-9 teeth and show how yellow the rest possibly were. The book in his hands audibly snapped shut and found its way onto the floor.

Geus tugged as hard on the restraints. Even the bandages and padded guards simmered. Smoke curved around the ends and rose into the air. First started as nothing more than a white thin trail. But soon turned dark and burned to the smell.

The beeps of the monitors became frantic and blared red lights to the sides of their faces. Metal banging became louder than the monitors, small dents formed along the bar, only to be fiercer after each hit.

Seconds later the door rolled open with two men in white labcoats entering the room, followed by a man in blue with a heavy black vest.

Immediately the vested man slammed his forearm against Geus's chest and forced him down onto the bed. The second man ran across the bed, grabbing one hidden strap and quickly the other. At the same time the third man grabbed similar straps around Geus's neck and clamped them together.

His movements became next to nothing. The more he struggled against the resistance made no difference to the world. His head straightened out and up to the ceiling.

"I'll burn through this mask." Geus huffed.

"Geus Sansei, do you know where you are?" One of the men calmly asked.

Smoke began to fizzle around the mask as his rage burned on. "Like hell I do! Nothing can hold back my smoke!"

"With the collaboration of the U.A., there is no way you will be able to destroy the mask." One of the men answered as he injected a needle into Geus's arm. A sigh left the man's mouth as he pulled back what was left of the needle. "You're in room 316 inside Musutafu, Japan. September 3rd."

"He shouldn't be here. He can't be here." Geus growled. Geus forced his head to the side to look at the man in the chair.

"You lost a lot of blood, and with your unique condition due to your quirk. We had to look at all living relatives to donate blood."

"Could've gotten anyone of my blood type. Or just let me recover on my own will."

He lifted up the melted needle in front of Geus's face. "Not only are we restricted to your specific blood type, but the heat your body also produces narrows down the search to people with higher blood heat levels from their own individual quirks."

"Body temperatures spiking to 200 Celcius." The other one warned.

The third jumped off Geus's bed, shaking his arm while he swore silently. He pulled up his sleeve and turned his arm. "Could've warned me before I jumped on his neck." He hissed."this burns."

"This old bastard doesn't hold a quirk, I wouldn't have to go to school with bruises if I did, my bed wouldn't have been a rug with a torn sheet, mom wouldn't have resorted to others for attention, I wouldn't have forgotten my best friend,"

"And I regret none of it." The old man closed the book and placed it on the empty nightstand. "You are nothing except a murderer, a disappointment, a special case to prove a terrible person is in fact terrible. The fact that we carry the same blood means nothing to me."

"Then why didn't you just let me die here."

He leaned into Geus, his hand tight around Geus's restraint. "Giving you back to the whore mother and alcoholic father for a chance in their domain is too good for you. Earth is your hell to suffer in." He leaned back in his chair. "And I'm the devil."

"He just admitted all of this!" Geus flexed on his arms, forcing and flexing his forearms. A straight darkened line showed through the cloth. "An abuser!" Geus's right arm snapped clean through the layers of restraints. It clung around the old man's neck before the guard smashed at the grip. "Why is nothing happening?"

"Geus that's enough!" Aizawa shouted into the room. "As a hero with a provisional license, and a representative of U.A. in and outside the school, stand down."

Geus's eyes maintained locked on his arm. A streak ran through the now broken bandaged. Melted skin pressed down ever so slightly below the rest of his skin. Like a heavy stroke of a paintbrush on a wet canvas.

"He's senile, Alzheimer's corrupted his mind and it progressed too far to know if anything he says he said is true or made up." One of the doctors grabbed a chart from the end of the bed and brought it up to his face. "It took a half-hour for his daughter to convince him of your existence."

Geus swayed to the old man. "Mother's profession came from you. She never drank, never slept around unless she heard your family was about to come back. She didn't love me, barely cared for me. But if we knew you to be gone, I at least got a chair to sit in. I was still her son, but you. You ruined her mind and yet you dare hide your evil." Geus looked down at his re-restrained arm. "What happened to me."

A nurse quietly walked in and grabbed the old man from his chair. The room was silent for that minute, watching the young woman help him out of the room.

"What you experienced was a forced evolution of your quirk." One of the men walked around the bed and pulled up a set of charts on the main monitor. "Scans of your body before the incident showed a enlarged set of lungs, a growth on the heart, and a mutated layer under literally every part of the body. Veins, major organs, muscle, fat. After your latest tests... The arteries doubles in size before the rest of your body adapted "

"So the trauma I went through expanded my abilities."

"There are many accounts that contribute to the next steps into each individual's quirks. Part of your body went through the evolution while the rest didn't. If you overdo it, your body will burst and eat away at your blood loss."

"How am I supposed to become stronger if my body is constantly trying to kill me?"

"Well through physical therapy and a special diet, bone growth and muscle rejuvenation will raise and retain your body to your quirk."

"At least get these restraints off of me."

The officer took a glance at Aizawa who nodded back. A second hesitation kept him frozen before he unstrapped Geus's arms. Geus flexed his fingers, wiggling them around until they returned their normal, functional blood flow.

"For now get some rest, when you're ready we'll get you scheduled for physical therapy."

Geus was left alone, only this time he didn't fear for his life. Other than the ambient noise of his room, it was quiet. Yet his mind didn't care at all, he was lost in his own thought. His wrists squeezed in and out to show the purple tint light in accordingly.

"No matter how strong I get. I still fail. I failed Eri, Keena... You." He mumbled to himself. His eyes drifted to the open and bright window that showed the lively city.

The silence was short-lived when a knock echoed from the door before it slid open.

"Geus. It's been a while."

His body snapped to the right side of his bed. He swung over the side rail and dropped dramatically into the ground. First the knees buckled under his own weight, his knees clanked into the tile, and finally, his upper body collapsed with the rest.

"Oh my god!" She screamed before she ran after the boy and wrapped her scrawny arms around his shoulders. "I thought you were supposed to stay in bed until you began physical therapy."

Geus desperately grabbed and clawed into her biceps. And at the same time struggled to find his feet. He was in a near squat position as he held onto the woman. His eyes clenched close in her shoulder brush of golden hair.

"I thought you were gone. Forever." Geus cried, forever tightening his grip around her. "I forgot about you, i let you down before anyone else."

She returned the embrace, her hand gently caressed his head and the other circled his neck. "Sssh, sssh, you never let me down. I'm not going to lie to you when I say I was disappointed in your actions. But you didn't deserve this. No one does."

"There was a girl I tried saving, Eri. Do you know what happened to her?"

"She's here, woke up the same time you did. I'm trying my best with her as I'm doing with you. Another boy from your school is here. Mirio, do you at all remember him."

Geus broke the hug and back stepped to his bedside. "Barely. He spoke to me." His eyes lowered to his hands. "Before all this happened, but I ignored him."

"I didn't know any of this would happen. I would've just stayed in that prison to prevent all this."

"None of this is your fault. From the reports you had a direct result of taking down Chisaki long enough to save everybody."

"But I went against"

"Geus just stop!" Beka shouted. "You chose to follow the path of the hero and no hero goes down the same road. I told Bailey to tell you the same thing before all this happened. You aren't going to be on the right side of things all the time and people are going to get hurt but it's up to you what happens with those people. You came back here to pursue your goal to show everyone up."

"I don't feel the same as I did back then." Geus glared down Beka. "I attacked my friend and my teacher all in what I thought was right. I know I'm going to hurt people, I just don't want to be wrong. And when I am I'm not punished for that. The world is faulted by right and wrong."

Beka smirked. "I missed the double face you have when you feel sorry for yourself then hype yourself up into a sophisticated kid. Sometimes I wonder if you just have me around to make yourself right. I don't think you get the point of therapy."

"Call me the devil with a therapist. We both know I know the answer. I'm just scared of the realization behind me."

"Geus, I can continue our sessions. Give you a person to talk through all of what you're going through. I just need you to go back to school. Take the time and become the hero you promised to be."

"I will. Of course I have to." Geus looked past her eyes while he stared right into the crystal blue iris. 'I'm going to do it for Keena.'

She reached into the bag strapped to her side and pulled out a small orange package. Geus was confused but reluctantly grabbed it from her offering hands. He could hear a small crackle of plastic inside in the package which made Beka squinch. He stopped immediately and widened his eyes as much as her.

"This was found inside Iroh's desk inside a secret department. Authorities viewed it and determined it was safe for you to view." She nervously chuckled and moved the few lose strands of hair out of her face. "You know once we got you back of course."

"I'll give you time alone." Her arm slightly ran her hand down the bandage of his arm before shily walking out stiff and head down. "Oh excuse me, young one." Geus barely heard her say before the door slid completely closed.

The door came back open barely open to gain Geus's attention. Nobody's hands were there or even a head on the other side. He was confused before a weighted object smacked his groin, forcing him to drop the package and whipping his hand to pain. His hands grabbed a fluffy pad of hair instead of his gown.

A smile erupted behind his mask. He knelt down in front of the girl and fully embraced her. She wasn't shaking or scared eyes like the time they were locked up.

He pressed the small horn underneath her white hair and pressed on her forehead. "How you feeling? The horn okay?"

"I'm okay." She threw up her arms in front of her arms and extended out a small piece of shaped metal. The same metal he gave her long ago. "You were asleep for a while."

Geus grabbed the mask and attempted to switch out the masks. The realization hit when he didn't feel a quick release for the magnets embedded in his mouth. He tried to play it off by patting the main mouth piece of his current mask. "Yeah, my body needed healing and sleep always helps. I know when you were rescued you had a long nap."

"I did, they gave me juice when I first woke up. The people are nice, but scary."

"And you snuck away when you had the chance didn't you?" She nodded with puppy dog eyes. "I tell you what. Keep the mask, when you feel brave enough I'll take it back. And if you need a braver word." Geus grabbed Eri under her arms and placed her on his shoulder.

He walked through the door of his room and looked down to the end of the hall. His luck helped his plan with Mirio stopped with Beka at the end. He pointed to Mirio. "If I remember correctly that man, Mirio help you. Want a smile, always talk to him." He pointed to the other, Beka. "Talk to her about everything. Whether your scared or need help about clipping your nails, she will always have your back. She's super nice, kind, has the prettiest eyes. Doesn't help they're diamonds but you know, she's there for you."

"There you are, Eri." A voice shouted from the other side. A doctor of the building rushed to them both with his arm waved through the air. "I know you're scared of all this but we're here for you." He said when he reached them.

Geus reached up for her and placed her back on the ground. "She knows. It's just a lot for her." Geus grabbed the doctor's shoulder and pulled him in. "Give her sessions with Beka Irosh. It might help her adjust."

Geus released the doctor for him to nodded at him. "We'll look into that, thank you, hero." He grabbed Eri's hand and squatted down to her level. "Come on, I heard the nurse brought you a extra pudding cup."

Eri looked up to Geus for which he returned with a thumbs up. Geus snickered to himself during his turn back to his room. Instantly, he went towards the package on the ground and ripped it open. Inside was a small black phone with a small crack in the corner. It was bulky, three buttons on the bottom, plastic removable back, a device of the age.

"Huh." Geus turned on the device.

Only a single icon was left on the stock homescreen which was the gallery icon. A click to it showed again a single video inside. The video filled the screen, the lighting dark with a low orange-ish light source at the top of the screen. The blurriness stopped after a few seconds went by. The person in the video finally revealed when the highest quality showed itself.

"Holy shit."