Chapter 1: Worth Everything
Hundreds and thousands of years of scientific and medical innovations. Hundreds of names, in a list where they recognize the people who helped humanity in a lab to solve problems to help humankind.
Names like Frederick Banting, Paul Ehrlich, Karl Landsteiner, David H. Hubel, Jean Dausset are some few names of the many in that list. People who revolutionized medicine and improved the world.
When I was a child, I never pictured them as heroes. After all, when being a hero is a job now, people who don't seek the spotlight, just want to help without recognition, are left behind.
But when my mother, Inko, got sick I was forced to grow up. And when she died because of that disease, I decided there and then, I would be in that list, to save people.
I grew up in the Bakugo's home after that. Mitsuki a close friend of my mother did everything for me to go with them. When I arrived there, she and her husband Masaru had their first and only child, Katsuki, that I still consider my brother.
Now that I think about it, I haven't introduced myself. My name is Izuku Midoriya, currently 24-year-old, recently graduated from college. I am quirkless, but I that doesn't matter, after all, I am quite smart.
I have an IQ of 220, graduating early from school and getting a scholarship in the University of Tokyo, graduating with honors in the career of biochemistry. From here, I have a lot of job options to choose.
But the one who caught my attention, was the one from the Hero Public Safety Commision, as the assistant of Dr. William Birkin, an American virologist, quite known.
He accepted, the opportunity to work next to a man like Dr. Birkin, in a lab with the best equipment with the backing of one of the biggest organizations in the country. It was almost too good to be true.
And it depends on how you view it.
The HPSC methods and ethics can be... questionable. Their policy of neutralizing possible threats is just as it sounds, and it doesn't discriminate between men, women, children or elderly. It can be as simple as a black mark on their record, so authorities can keep an eye on them since childhood or eliminating their entire family line.
Brutal? Yes. Extreme? Definitely. Effective? Absolutely.
Working under the HPSC taught me something important; the means, justify the end.
Sadly, not everyone could see it that way.
Dr. Birkin wasn't pleased on how the HPSC operated, many times butting heads with the president and some of the hero working here.
In that same line of thought, he got some supporters, like Lady Nagant, that seems to be one operation away from quitting.
But being honest, that worked to my favor. Because unlike William, I see the bigger picture. And unlike William, I am well liked by the higher-ups.
So well liked in fact, that they gave me my own lab for my own projects, while still working with William.
What William and I work, is how to improve the safety of heroes while on duty. Trying to neutralize any quirks that can cause damage to their body in anyway or form.
What I work alone, is in the same line, but going in a different direction. If the work I do with William, is to avoid any harm to the organism, what I do alone, is to create it.
William might be a lot of things, but he is a genius in his area and isn't shy to teach what he knows. He taught me how to isolate viruses, contain them and even neutralize them.
I learned by my own, how to create them.
You might be thinking, why you want to do that? After all, you want to help humanity. And I am doing that.
While I am creating viruses to use as weapons for the HPSC, I know exactly how to contain them and neutralize them. But it is not the only thing I am working on. I am working on a virus to help the people.
The Progenitor Virus. A family of RNA retroviruses created by yours truly. While a conventional retrovirus will only target certain cells of the body, the Progenitor virus will target them all.
My hypothesis here is the following; if Progenitor can target every single cell of the body, if you manage to make a variation of Progenitor into something that can enhance the body... we will not have to wait another thousands of years for evolution.
We can create evolution.
Sadly... not everyone can see the bigger picture.
"This is inhumane Izuku!" Izuku sighed as William barged into his lab.
"What exactly is, inhumane, Dr. Birkin?"
He threw papers at him and Izuku saw the images of the results of the field test. He nodded "So you know..."
William nodded "I do, and I have the data of the weapon you are creating. This will not go unpunished!" He screamed and Izuku nodded.
"I can imagine. Something so... idiotic can't be ignored." He said as he pulled a gun from his lab coat as William eyes widen.
"What are you-"
A gunshot interrupted as he fell the blood flowing from his wound. William put pressure on the wound as Izuku pressed the button to call security.
"Why... why are you doing this?" Izuku raised an eyebrow before giving him a small smile.
"I could ask you the same Dr. Birkin. After all, I was forced to this, because of you attempting to steal valuable and confidential documents of the HPSC." The doors opened as William eyes widen "Just in time, please, take him and make sure his cell is comfortable."
The guards hit William on the back of the head with their weapon and dragged him out. Izuku turned to the files of his work. He smiled to himself. Oh William...
That was just the tip of the iceberg.
He threw the papers back to the table, the pages showing mutated beings, eating prisoners.
Next Chapter: Evolution Today