Sliksick: Yeah I guess I could have been a little more subtle.

Harleking31: Oh yeah

Dragonlord001: I got plans for that.

Shin: Yeah you pretty much summed a good chunk up but I got a few surprises for yeah.

ER-47: You ask and you shall recieve.


Chapter 8 Quirks and Particles

Izuku met up with his friends at the Ant hill. He had dusted off a table in one of the garages and put the computer on it, he spent the rest of the day on the computer going through its files. Soon all of his friends were in the garage asking him if he was all right. "I'm sorry guys, it's just I have no idea what just happened. Why was that guy getting torn apart when he was shrunken down? I've shrunken down several people and nothing like this happened to them."

"What exactly happened?" asked Sarah.

"I shrunk him down trying to stop him from exploding a city block but when I shrunk him down it was as if his quirk was tearing him apart." explain Izuku.

"Maybe it was," said Hanah as she sat down on a tool bench. "I've seen several idiots at the school and around town blow themselves up because they were stupid with there quirk."

"That would make sense," said Benta. "Think about it, maybe his body couldn't contain all that power at such a small size."

Izuku thought it over, "Yeah I guess that mak-"

THUD

They all turned to Kenta's car. "Kenta….What's in your trunk?"

Kenta's face turned to shock as he remembered. "Oh shit the guy!"

"The guy, what guy?"

"Oh yeah, we kind of forgot about him." chimed Genta.

Izuku gave them a look of disbelief before turning to Benta. "What?"

Benta took a deep breath."Remember that guy you asked us to get, the man talking to Timebomb."

"Timebomb!" yelped Sarah. "The guy who worked for the sex slavers?!"

"Yeah that guy," said Kenta. "We grabbed his friend and kind of forgot he was in the trunk of my car."

Izuku 's eyes couldn't go any wider, as he looked at the three, not fully believing what they just told him. Hanah on the other burst out laughing her ass off, she clenched her stomach as she fell off the tool bench.

THUD

Izuku looked at the car as it became clear the guy was trying to get out of the car. "Actually this works in our favor." as he grabbed his suit and told him his plan.

Soon the trunk of the car opened. "Finally," said Playback as he fell out of the trunk, landing on the ground with a thud. He groaned before looking up face to face with a giant ant. "AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH".

"Shut up," Yelled Ant-man. "Stop screaming, we need to talk."

Playback got to his feet and noticed he was surrounded by a bunch of giant ants, before he refocused on Ant-Man. "Look man, I'm sorry okay, they hired me to do a simple job, man. I couldn't even do it."

"Explain."

"Your quirk, it messed with my quirk, I couldn't track you."

"Track me? Who are you?" Asked Ant-Man but noticed he was hesitating. "Please don't make me threaten you."

Playback gulped. "They call me Playback, cause my quirk allows me to see where people have been. Timebomb hired me to track you down but I couldn't, whatever your quirk is, it messes with mine and other people's quirks. I couldn't track you and Timebomb's people are not people you want to fuck with, okay. I have zero combat ability."

Izuku thought for a moment. 'Timebomb didn't seem like the guy who wants revenge, no he's a henchman, he's working for someone and he has people working for him.' "Who else is working for Timebomb?" asked Ant-Man.

"I don't know exactly," The ants stepped forward. "I'm being honest, he has several people and I only saw four of them, I never got any names but with the bounty on your head he should have a lot more."

"Bounty?"

"Yeah, you pissed off a good chunk of the criminal underworld and I'm not just talking about japan. I don't know how they did it but several crime syndicates used this area for dealing, local and international, they had some sort of system to keep this place quiet until you came along. They are pissed and a lot of them ain't going to rest until you are in a grave."

'Shit! This is bad, I always knew there were worse things here but if the shit hole I've been living in this whole time is a cover up, then what the hell is underneath all the shit?'

"Um look man, I promise I won't try and track you down again, can you please just let me go." asked Playback hoping the vigilante would just let him go.

"Don't worry, I'm not going to kill you, but" Izuku then threw a shrinking disk at Playback, turning him tiny. "You aren't going anywhere yet." As Izuku shrunk himself enough to grab Playback and put him in a jar covered in magazine clippings so that he couldn't see out of it."

Izuku then grew back to his regular height as his friends came out of hiding. "So what are you going to do with him?" Asked Sarah.

Izuku sighed as he put the jar down on the table. "I'm going to have to talk to Turk to let me borrow his memory wiping guy." He then looked to see his friends' faces. "What?"

"TURK! As in the TURK!" said Kenta in a very loud voice.

Izuku looked away and scratched his head. "Yeah, I may have done a few jobs for him a few years ago."

"I thought you said don't do anything too illegal," said Genta.

"Those were not my words and second, this was years ago, back when me and my mom were still knee deep in debt." explained Izuku. "Besides he owes me a favor as long as he doesn't figure out it was me who hacked his computer."

"Why the hell did you hack his computer?" asked Benta. "He's probably killed for less."

"He has and I needed the locations for traffickers' warehouses." As Izuku started taking the suit off, leaving him in his t-shirt and shorts. "Besides that, we have other things to worry about." as he held the suit. "This suit has given me the opportunity that I only dreamt of when I was a little kid, but now it's gotten me a bounty on my head from the underworld. I don't care what they throw at me but it's going to put the rest of you guys in dang-"

Izuku didn't finish as Kenta slammed his fist on Izuku's head. "SHUT UP." yelled Kenta as Izuku rubbed his new bump on his head. "If you even think about giving us a speech about us having to run away, think again, bro. You've stuck with me when we were caught by the cops and even got me out. I ain't leaving you hanging and I doubt anyone else here is leaving."

"Yeah, you've always been a good bet." Genta said simply.

Benta nodded. "I'm pretty sure I would have been killed if it wasn't for you."

"That would have been me if you didn't come to my rescue, if there's anything you need help with just say the word." Sarah offered.

"Yeah we're with you." stated Hanah.

Izuku couldn't help but look at his friends with a warm feeling in his chest. "I don't know who's crazier me or you guys wanting to stay near me." He then glanced at the suit. "But it still might be dangerous being too close to me. I still don't know the full effects of Pym particles on a person."

"Are you in any danger?" asked Sarah.

"I don't think so, I've been using the particles for nearly three weeks and nothing has happened to me."

"What about that Hank guy?" asked Hanah. "Did anything happen to him?"

"No I don't think so, all of his and Lang's notes say that their experiments they conducted were all successful." as Izuku went back to the computer and looked at the notes. "And the notes were made years apart."

Kenta looked over Izuku's shoulder, not really making heads or tails of the english. "Well maybe they had the same quirk as you."

Izuku got annoyed at that. "For the last time Kenta I'm quirk..less…." Izuku's eyes widened as he realized something. "That's it."

As Kenta puffed out his chest. "See I can come up with science stuff." As he received looks from the others.

Izuku. quickly returned to the computer and started typing away until he found what he was looking for, he then turned to Kenta. "Kenta, how would you like to try on the suit?"

"Really?" As he gave Izuku a goofy grin. Izuku handed him the Ant-man suit. "Hell yeah."

"Is this really a good idea?" asked Genta.

Hanah nodded in agreement. "Yeah, I don't know how I feel about Kenta wearing that suit."

"Just watch," said Izuku as Kenta put on the suit.

"Oh wow this is a lot more comfortable than I thought." said Kenta, feeling the suit.

"Yeah it changes size depending on the wearer." As Izuku stepped forward checking the suit. "Okay how are you feeling?"

"I feel good." said Kenta before Izuku asked him to shrink. "Okay, here I go." as Kenta hit the button but nothing happened, he pressed it again, nothing. "Uh I think I broke it."

"No you didn't." said Izuku before he told Kenta to take it off and switch with him. As Izuku put the suit on he switched out the Pym Particles with fresh ones. "Okay let's try this now." As he hit the button and shrunk down.

"What!" shouted Kenta as he saw Izuku shrink. "How come it worked for you and not me?"

"Cause you have a quirk," said Benta. "That's the whole reason the radiation dude had problems in the first place. Those particles don't work for people with quirks."

"Not exactly," said Izuku regrowing. "Do any of you guys know where we can find three plants that I can use?"

Sarah raised her hand. "Right here, each room of the motel had a small potted plant near the window. Some of them were dead but I think a few should still be alive."

"Great, can you go and get them for me, please and thank you." As the sisters went to get the potted plants Izuku asked the others to help him set up some equipment. Soon the sisters brought back three potted plants and Izuku printed two new shrinking disks. "Okay this should explain what's going on. While the suit doesn't have a proper screen, it does have a computer in it, also note to self had screen or hud to the suit and helmet. The computer will only activate the particles if it deems it safe. It also records the biometric data of whoever is wearing it." Izuku then held up the two disks each in one hand. "The one in my left hand is made with my data and the particles I used, the one on my right is Kenta's."

Izuku threw the one in his left hand, shrinking one of the potted plants, they all moved closer to see it really did shrink down. "Now let's try Kenta's." as Izuku threw the right disk at the potted plant, they all backed away in horror as they saw the plant turn into a tiny ball of slug falling to the ground.

"WHAT THE FUCK!" shouted Genta.

Sarah's face twisted in disgust. "Okay that's gross."

Hanah leaned forward. "It's like it melted."

"Could that have been Kenta, if he shrunk down?" asked Benta causing Kenta freeze in horror at the idea of turning into a big ball of goo.

"If it wasn't for the suits safety features then yeah, this might have been Kenta." said Izuku causing Kenta to turn green ready to throw up. "Lucky Dr. Pym was prepared. This is also why no one was able to replicate his work." Izuku grabbed a third disk from his bag and threw it at the third plant, shrinking it just like the first one. "He was quirkless, just like me."

"Wait, I'm confused here," said Sarah. "You've used those disks to shrink people before, why didn't they turn to slug?"

"Because they were based on my biometric, the disks don't have a computer or safety features, to make sure the disks work right and shrink everything evenly, they need a biometric base."

"You." said Benta as he thought over the information. "Then that means there is something that we as quirked people have that does something to the particles."

"Quirk factor." Izuku said simply.

"Quirk factor?" siad Kenta confused.

Genta shook his head. "Okay, you're going to need to explain it like we stupid."

"It's pretty much a theory that we just confirmed." as Izuku thought of a way to explain it. "In all of you is something that allows you to have a quirk, but no one had any idea what it was because of how small it was and how different it was in every person. Pym particles shrink the space between atoms, think of your bodies as a container and your quirk as the liquid, the pym particles shrink the container which may cause the liquid inside to change."

The others were silent for a moment. "Oh I get it." said Kenta.

Genta looked at him. "No you don't."

"No I don't."

"I think I do," said Benta. "So when you use the disk on the radiation guy, he shrunk down and since his container changed so did his quirk, he lost his immunity to his quirk when he shrunk down."

"Yeah, he did scream and yell that his quirk was hurting him," said Izuku. "His quirk was powerful but only because he was immune to it. The second he lost it he was torn up inside."

"Then what about us?" asked Sarah "What would happen if we shrink down?"

Izuku looked at her. "Uh I don't know and I'm not sure how to test it."
"Well just shrink me down."

Izuku gave her a look that said 'are you crazy?' "Did you not see what happened to the plant? We have no idea what could happen to you."

Hanah stepped forward. "Well we won't know unless we find out and our quirk is literally us changing our hair color. What could possibly happen if we shrink down, our skin changes color."

Izuku thought it over for a moment, before reluctantly agreeing to shrink the two. "Okay fine, but the second something goes wrong I'm growing you two back to regular size." He then turned to the guys. "Do you guys also want to shrink?"

Kenta turned to the tiny slug on the floor. "I think I'm good for now."

"Yeah, we'll stay tall to make sure things go alright." said Genta.

"Would you like me to monitor the computer or write notes?" asked Benta, he and Izuku quickly set up the camera and formed a quick testing zone.

"Okay you two ready?" asked Izuku.

"Yep." said Sarah.
"Let's shrink," said Hanah. Izuku took two disks and shrunk the two down to the size of the ants, they both were in awe as they looked at their surroundings. "Whoa everything is huge!"

Sarah looked around at the garage. "So this is what it's like for you." As Sarah was looking around she noticed something. "Hanah can you check my hair for a second?"

"Uh sure," as Hanah looked at her sister's hair. "It's looks-whao!"

"What's wrong?" asked Izuku on alert.

"Her hair, its longer."

"What?"

"My scalp does feel a little weird," said Sarah before her hair started to get longer and longer. Hanah quickly had to grab her sister's flowing hair. "Wait, stop, stop." The hair stopped leaving Sarah with several feet of hair around her.

"Sis, are you okay?" asked Hanah.

"Yeah I'm fine," said Sarah as she tried to move with her new long hair. "I'm not in any pain but my head does feel weird."

"Did anything else happen at all," asked Izuku. "Like hair growing on other places on your body?"

Sarah patted herself. "No, I think it's just my head."

"Can you still change the color of your hair?" asked Hanah.

Sarah focused and her hair changed to a shiny gold. "Yeah, I still can but did my hair get heavier?"

"Whao," said Kenta as he looked closer. "She looks like that long hair princess girl."

"Rapunzel." corrected Benta.

"Yeah, but she is tiny like Tinker Bell," said Genta. "She could be like a cousin or sister."

"That's Periwinkle." said Benta before everyone slowly turned to him. "Periwinkle, Tinker Bell's twin sister." They all just kept looking at him. "My mom only has Disney movies, that's all I watched as a kid, stop judging me."

Izuku held Sarah's hair in his hand. "Sarah, I think you literally turned your hair into gold."

"WHAT!" they all yelled.

"I wish I had a knife or something to-" before Izuku could finish Sarah's hair fell off, leaving the girl hair down to knees. "Huh?"

"Sarah, how'd you do that?" asked Hanah.

"I just imagined my hair shortening to my legs, I thought I could try and retract it, but instead it just disconnected?" she guessed.

"Izuku," said Genta. "Can I see some of that golden hair?" Izuku grew a strand for him to check.

Hanah dropped the hair she was holding and grabbed a bit of Sarah's hair. "Can you try and disconnect the hair I'm holding?" Sarah focused and her hair cut itself, leaving Hanah holding a clump of Sarah. "Whoa."

Sarah turned her hair to black , seemingly to normal hair. "How about you can you do anything with your hair?"

Hanah focused slowly turning her hair red. "I don't think my hair's doing anything." Before anything else the top of Hanah's head caught fire. "AAAAAAHHHHHHH!" she screamed before she started running. "MY HAIR'S ON FIRE, GET IT OFF, GET IT OFF!"

"Hold still, I'll grow you back." yelled Izuku running towards her, before he reached her the fiery hair fell off her head.

Kenta grabbed a water bottle he had in his car and put out the glup of hair. "You guys okay, down there?"

Izuku looked to see the hair was out and Sarah was checking Hanah. "Yeah I think so."

"NOOO," yelled Sarah. "MY HAIR!" Sarah was left with very short hair on her head, causing tears well up in her eyes. "Izuku can you fix it?"

"Just relax for a second, are you in any pain or burnt anywhere?" asked Izuku.

"I don't know?" muttered Hanah.

Sarah checked her sister's scalp. "No she doesn't have any burn marks or anything, I don't think the fire hurt her at all." This news relieved Izuku and Sarah. "Hanah, breathe and focus, think of your hair growing to the middle of your back, okay?"

"Okay, I'll try." Hanah closed her eyes and breathed. Her hair slowly began to grow until it reached her back. "I did, my hair's back."

Izuku blew a sigh of relief. "This could have been bad." Before he looked up at Genta. "So what's the verdict?"

Genta held up the hair. "This is one hundred percent real gold."

"Wow," muttered Sarah.

"Looks like there's more to our quirk than we first thought." said Hanah as she wiped the tears from her eyes.

"I think this has something to do more with the particles, right?" as she turned to Izuku.

"Yeah, it's official. Pym particles can alter people's quirks." said Izuku before regrowing the three. "This is going to take a lot more research than I thought."

"Well how about we put that aside for later," suggested Kenta. "Cause we still got other stuff we should be doing around here."

"Yeah we need to clean this place up and figure out what we're going to do with it." said Genta.

"I have a few ideas," said Benta. "But we should probably clean this place up first."

"Yeah but first," Izuku took out his phone. "I need to give Turk a quick phone call."

~o~

In the back of prison transport sat two villains in chains with guns pointed at them. Flame Elephant and Rad Volt. "What the fuck happened to your face?"

Rad Volt glared at Flame Elephant. The result of shrinking left lightning burn marks on his face and body. "Ant-Man."

"Shut up, both of you." said the officer. "No talking until we get to Tarturus."

"I'm afraid I need a word from them."

The officer went on alert as they looked around for the new voice. "Who's there?"

"Me," They all looked down on the floor to see a shadow holding two guns before it pulled the trigger, killing the police officers.

The transport screeched to a halt before gunshots and screaming were heard. The Shadow man pulled himself off the floor and opened the doors revealing Timebomb. He looked at Rad Volt, "You look like shit," and then turned to Flame Elephant. "You just look like crap."

Rad Volt ignored the comments. "Hurry up and get me out of here," he hissed. "I need to find Ant-Man and rip his throat out."

"No, release me." yelled Flame Elephant. "I need to crush that bug."

Timebomb took out a roll of tape and put a few pieces on the restraints of both of them. "I don't care which one of you does it, I just need him dead." The pieces of tape exploded destroying the restraints. "Now hurry up before the heroes get here."

The two walked out of the transport to see several bodies of police officers on the floor and a patrol car turned over. "Oh look, the loser has a friend." They turned to see the man in a unitard step on the corpse of an officer. "Why are we rescuing the failure?"

Rad Volt looked at the man ready to kill but stopped when Timebomb stepped between them. "He's powerful and his fight with Ant-man may give us some useful intel."

"Who is this man?" asked Flame Elephant.

The man in the unitard smiled before quickly kicking his leg causing a massive slice on Flame Elephant's stomach. "I'm Sir Dazzle, and you will show me respect, you brute."

Flame Elephant burned as he looked at Dazzle. "You will regret that puny man."

Before they could clash a knife landed between them. "Knock it off," said the woman in the military get up. "The heroes are coming, it's time to move."

They all quickly ran away from the scene as they did. Timebomb got a call on his phone. "Hello, Lady Aka."

"What happened, I thought you had a person who could track Ant-Man?" she said over the phone.

"I'm sorry ma'am I didn't talk to you sooner but fighting Ant-Man might be more difficult than we originally thought." as he went on to explain what happened over the day. "I just got done getting Rad Volt back and we're currently moving away from the scene."
"So that's why, foresight wasn't able to track him."

"Foresight? Uh what's Foresight?" he asked hoping he didn't cross a line.

Lady Aka hummed for a moment on the phone. "I'm sending you a location, I want you to go there and wait for further instructions and make sure Rad Volt is with you, I have a few friends that would like to hear this."

~o~

Izuku slowly made his way home after a long day on top of dropping Playback with Turk's man. 'Man we did a lot today,' thought Izuku. 'Found a new base of operations, fought a villain and discovered that only a quirkless person could operate the suit.' that made him chuckle slightly as he entered his apartment. 'It's nice to think that only someone like me can have this power, like my quirk.'

"It looks like you had a good day today." said Inko who was sitting on the couch.

"Oh hey mom," Izuku looked at the clock. "You're home early today." Inko gave him a look. "What?"

"Izuku we talked about this, do you remember where we are going tomorrow?" she asked, receiving a blank look before signing. "Izuku, I know things have been crazy the past few weeks but we agreed to go see Mitsuki tomorrow."

"Oh right," said Izuku. "Katsuki got attacked, that's right, I'm sorry mom, I totally forgot."

"It's alright, a lot has happened."

Izuku then remembered just how much had happened. "It's been crazy."

"No kidding, you looking forward to seeing Katsuki again?"

"Sure, I wonder if he's changed at all?"


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