Day 23
Waking up to the sound of the laughter of kids in the street, Akiza could feel herself more restored them ever before, she felt that she was ready for whatever challenge would be thrown in her way, taking a bath and putting her clothes prontly, she prepared a breakfast for herself and now was ready for the final test and final documentation : The Quirk Regulamentation.
Apparently this was something that everyone on this world had to make when they reached the age of four, being quirks a form of power that would manifest into one, as far as Akiza was capable of gathering, this earth had an almost twenty billion humans living in it, considering cities under water, floating cities and even satellite cities, thanks to the immense evolution of the technology, and from those twenty billion, around sixty billion had quirks ; She also explored the past of this world, after all the tests.
This world was totally a copy to hers, one to one, until the years two thousand, when one event changed the entire timeline, the birth of a glowing baby, the first quirk, after this one, many more began to born and have powers, even if slowly ; The resistance was there at first, many humans fighting agaist those that had the power until the year two thousand and ten, when the first vigilante's showed up, on this world, many events never happened, many wars were avoided and many others happened in their place, a lot of blood was spilled, she had read many terrible acts that would make some people question reality for days, but thanks to her Though Acceleration, she could keep it up with the learning in the same day, all that she had to do was keep eating.
One of the weaknesses learned by Akiza during this period of time was the hunger of her quirk, apparently her brain needs a lot of calories to work the way it works during the Accelerated state, if she didn't feed herself, her thought become slower and slower to the point of almost sleeping, it was an interesting fact when it happened on the first time.
But now she had to focus, this was the world of the show that she watched, even being so weird of seeing it from 2D to total reality in front of her, she had to take an hour of her day just to process how the realistic All Might looked like, those black scelera's really scared her at first, no one normally thinks how terrifying some figures would be until they see it, even more than she though about some simple things that never came to her mind while watching the show, if the population of people with powers is so absurdly big, then the number of quirks that must repeat or have similar must also be absurd, in other words, there's must be an unlimited number of dangers, it was quite impressive to notice how this society was developing in a good way and not totally dystopic, at least for what she could see and remember of the show.
Before she could think more, she could see the handle of the door slowly moving, noticing that her quirk was activated, she decided to think on stupid things, like videos of pets, shorts of people fixing things, slowly calming her mind and making the speed of her surroundings go back to normal ; The person opening the door was Rebecca, she was using the same cardigan as always, with a smile going ear to ear on her face, while she spoke after seeing Akiza. -Hello!, are you ready for your quirk test?, just try to not be nervous, it is as easy as to take a medical check.
Akiza was a little worried by this last test, after all, she was an anomaly, possessing so many quirks and being conscious, for the explanation of the show that she could remember, this was incredibly rare and dangerous, she din't want to end as Lady Nagant or Hawks, so she had to hide some of her quirks, 'I mean, if they truly believed that the protagonist had a hidden quirk all of that time...' she thought to herself, while accompanying Rebecca and speaking a little slowly. -I would not say that I'm ready. -Akiza slowly gave herself two small claps on her own cheeks, opening a great smile. -Now I'm ready!
The vision of Akiza smiling was unsettling for those that saw her for the first time, because of her splited lower-jaw mechanism, the smiles would time to time reveal the hidden teeth of the lower opening and also let some normal saliva escape, but for those that lived around her and began to talk to her on the daily basis, it became something rather common and easy to accept.
Walking for some minutes, it was completely different to see people's faces now, Akiza was well-dressed and even with her appearance, she could cause some disgust or annoyance to some that she saw the expressions but the majority look indifferent towards her, it was a nice feeling to feel, not the feeling of being ignored but the feeling of being normal, still, she couldn't stop thinking about her old life and the way that she had passed, she couldn't stop thinking about all things that she desired to do and all things that she did, she only wished that on this life, she would have the opportunities ; Reaching the Center of Research and Cataloging of Quirks, there were two lines of people waiting, the first line was the bigger one having a bunch of moms and dads holding their kids, in their majority they had about four to six years, some had a little more than eleven, on the second line, almost empty, there were other teenagers, it was a really small line.
Rebbeca gave some documents to the attendant and without waiting on the line, Akiza was allowed to pass to the interior of the place, being asked to enter a strange white room, this that had various white metal plates on the walls and some speakers, she closed the door behind her and waited to see if someone else would come, until a voice came to life on the speakers. -Akiza Miko? -The male voice asked tiredly.
-Oh,that's me, yes. -She spoke with decency, while looking for some camera to focus her attention on, once she found, she stood still looking at it, waiting.
-Alright, I need first a general description of your quirk, don't need to overdo, just speak how would you explain to someone on simple terms and don't demonstrate yet. -The man asked and waited.
She had to think for some seconds, putting her fingers together in front of her belly, concentrating and thinking more in how to avoid being detected with many quirks. -Well, first, my body is really weird, I can regenerate some damage that I receive but It is painful, very painful, also I have more than one tongue, in total I have three tongues that are more similar to tentacles. -She was explaining slowly so all could be caught by the man and at the same time to think each word carefully. -From this tongues I can secrete small amounts of acid, but it also burns me when I use it, but it doesn't burn the tongues. -She now paused and waited to see if it was sufficient.
Hearing the sound of paper being written in, Akiza soon heard the voice of the man again. -And you make some kind of exercise or sports? -He asked and waited for an answer, while Akiza frost a little nervous.
-Well, you see, I always had to make some exercises out of the city,like, taking... -Akiza had to think fast, with some drops of sweat beginning to form. -... Trash and taking it home! -Akiza wanted to die internally.
The man however din't sound judgemental over it, speaking with tranquility. -No need to feel shame, I was informed of your situation by Rebecca, just relax and let's go to the next thing.
The floor began to open, this revealing a strange mechanic doll in the shape of a human, this doll looked similar to a test dummy from those commercials about cars, it was just there, standing in front of Akiza, the man began to speak once more. -Please, utilize your acid on him, I shall not test your regeneration, since it is painful, but if you can use your acid carefully on it, so we may have a better understanding.
Akiza was surprised and really surprised by the nature of the test, but if it was only to test her acid, why a dummy with human shape?, they could have used plates of some kind of maybe some jelly. She opened her lower jaw, revealing the vision of nightmare, while the three tongues began to sprout out of her mouth, they stretched to the dummy's head, since it was the nearest part that they could reach and each tongue left one drop of acid fall over it.
In instants Akiza could see the reaction beginning, the head of the dummy began to melt over itself, collapsing in instants, she them saw the drop falling in the shoulder of the dummy and the entire arm was being damaged but after just some instants, the acid was totally evaporated, having melted the entire cranium of the dummy and large portion of the shoulder, she waited the acid on the tongues to evaporate before retreating them back to her mouth and close the jaw.
The silence was palpable while the dummy was retracted back to the floor, Akiza was a little dead inside after seeing what her acid could do to a person, sighing deeply.
After a while the man spoke once more, now a little less tired on his voice and more serious. -Did you ever used your quirk on daily basis?
She was aware of how quirks worked, thanks to the show, she could remember about quirks becoming stronger with use, just like muscles, however, this was a catchy question of his, if she spoke 'Yes', then she would have violated laws for years for all that they knew and maybe even could be doing some terrible things that she could't be caught by, however, if she answered 'No', then it became a whole new problem, about how her quirk was so powerful if she never trained with it, never ever had the chance to make it evolve even more ; In both cases she would be in immense trouble, in both cases she would lose, however... -Well, yes, I used quite a lot to do some meaningless stuff...
The voice of the speakers was curious. -What kind of 'Stuff'? -He asked a little puzzled.
-Well, you see, trash would get everywhere, I couldn't just let it in the forests and in the parks, even more with some of these things bein very... -She putted her hands together, looking down with her eyes, she was not an actress but this had to pass thanks to her apperance, at least she could hope for it. -... Personal, over time of course, the quirk became stronger to melt more garbage and, well, it solved my problem for a while, but I swear, I never used on a person or in any type of living being.
The vision of what she just did to the dummy was now craved on her mind, she couldn't never use such a thing on another living being, it would be beyond cruel and inhumane, while all that she wants is to be humane.
After some consideration the man spoke again. -You may go and wait on the waiting room, your Qurik Card will be ready soon, if you desire water, food or anything, just ask someone of the staff.
Akiza was happy that her plan had worked and the man apparently believed enough to let her go, she preferred to maintain the sadding expression on her face, making a quick reverence to the camera, before going out of that room.
The staff brought some pineapple and strawberry juice to her and after some minutes, Akiza began to slowly enter on her 'Economy' mode, with her brain becoming really slow and the time passing faster, while her body was unmoving in the same pose for various minutes,at least until a hand touched her shoulder, looking towards the direction she could see the figure of Rebbeca, holding a card on her other hand, she noticed the confused expression of Akiza and stated. -It's your Quirk identification card, congrats, your quirk was named 'Acid Apex'.
-Now that's a really aggressive name. -She spoke out loud, being a little sleepy and din't even noticing, while taking her final document, with this, she was now totally integrated to society, with this, Akiza finally would be able to begin her new life, she only could wish to help to avoid some of the worst things on the future.
Day 24
Now being a fully documented citizen, Akiza was preparing herself to begin her new life, she had to wait some more days so the monthly money dropped on her bank account, and she could be safer to buy some things needed for a job.
Akiza waked up and immediately began to make exercises, watching some videos on the internet in how to do it alone at home, of course some of then were impossible, thanks to her psyque and already great strength, but the focus of this exercises wasn't some kind of 'I want to be stronger', it was a way to combat her emotions, her memories, her sadness of all that she had lost, it became very clear on the day before that she was suffering from it, she had to motivate herself to go through this and distract more her brain, one of the principal causes of her depression being that she din't fully understood her own new body.
After a hundred push-ups, a hundred jumping jack's, a hundred sit-ups and a hundred squats, Akiza was surprised to notice that her body could be full of the normal reactions, but it wasn't fully tired, there was some muscular pain, but it was healing as she tough about it, there was a lot of sweat, but she wasn't dehydrated, she decided to take a bath before continuing, after the bath, she preferred to make a walk around the neighborhood and once more, she noticed that her body apparently wasn't being pushed that much, she gave one lap, then two, then three, four, five, eleven, twenty, and nothing, even with her legs burning she wasn't reaching her limit, she could feel that she could continue forever.
This however all paid up during the afternoon, Akiza had reached home and after eating and taking a nice bath, her body simple could't move anymore for some hours, probably thanks to the regeneration having being pushed to the limit?, she never felt the side effect of the regeneration in particular, so this probably was it, immense fatigue to the point of being unable to move once the adrenaline drops, quite dangerous.
She preferred to wait, maintaining her mind clean, after two hours her hand was good to move again, even if with the motor coordination of a drunk, she used her hand to take her cellphone and watch some videos while waiting.
The social media of this world was a mess, there were people illegally using their quirks and showing off on videos and shorts, just for likes and views, there were people explaining how to use certain types of quirks, for example a boy explaining how his quirk could be better than other boy's quirks, it was entertaining for a while, but it just becomes weird and stupid the more she goes down, even more than she noticed why the criminality rate was so high, because people having this powers, if they thought that their power makes them somehow untouchable,they will commit crimes of various types with this thinking and only heroes may stop them, because only heroes are trained to deal with multiple types of quirks using their own.
After almost five whole hours, Akiza's body began to move again, being now a little dizzy, still better than not moving at all, she preferred to walk to her bed and sleep a little, touching her arm however, she could notice something, she could feel that her muscle was a little bit more solid than before, it was easy to know the reason, the regeneration accelerated the process of the muscular healing, in other words, if she did it every day until her payment, she would be ready to anything!, with this realization, Akiza sleep with a smile, knowing fully what she would have to do.
Day 25
Akiza woke up that day more ready than ever, she just gave a small check on her cellphone before beginning what it would become her routine, making a strong breakfast with salad and eggs, after that drinking some water and once more beginning the exercises, repeating the same series of exercises on the prior day.
Nothing of different that day until the afternoon, instead of her body stopping completely like on the day prior, she could still move her hands, but the pain, the burning lacerating pain on her muscles was still there, still, the regeneration was being trained to for what she could remember of how quirks work, so this was a very good progress for her entirely.
During the pain moments she once more stood watching things on her cellphone, noticing the marketing of the heroes as always, but now one thing came to her mind 'I'm not seeing any heroes from the show beyond All Might', she decided to try to look a little deeper but this would need an entire research to get and it would be weird if the people monitoring her researches saw her looking for names of heroes that don't exist, like 'Midnight, Eraserhead, Mount Lady', she had to make a plan to study about this and understand better her situation but while thinking an ad began to play ; The Ad displayed a sturdy large man with a spiky, red hair making three triangular points, one pointing forward and one behind him, while using a strange metal mask covering his mouth and nose that made Akiza remember about other anime, he was using a red cape that spreeded herself all around him, it looked very unpractical but considering that it was a commercial, probably it was just aesthetic.
The man began to speak with seriousness and education. -Hello my friends, I'm Crimson Riot! -Akiza's mind paralyzed for a bit while she processed the name, she already heard that name before, it dinnedn't take long to her to remember that it was an old hero that one of the protagonists idolized, so he existed, but looking at him at the screen, he was a little young. The Ad resumed on Akiza's vision after her brain calmed down. -... And I'm here to present you all with my new nutritious Crimson Cereal Bar! -Akiza lost all the interest, skipping the ad.
At least it served her to make research without looking suspicious, looking for Crimson Riot, she could read about him, apparently he was a great hero, 'The Fearless Hero, Crimson Riot', an interesting title, looking for news about him Akiza had stumbled over another important information, 'Crimson Riot and Lady Nagant save the day!' it was only some weeks old, but this gave Akiza what she needed to understand better her situation in part, the heroes that she knew in the show din't existed yet because they probably were all teenagers or kids at this point in time.
Another memory came to her mind, the small boy when she was crawling away from the hospital, his green hair, his mother, could it be?, she dinsn't notice at first because of the immense difference of seeing something from a two dimension point of view being realistic in front of her, but, now thinking about it, that probably was Izuku and his mother, and he just learned about being quirkless.
After the realization, she began to move, even with the pain she took a shower and prepared to get out once more, even being almost night she needed to do something, she needed a safe place without monitoring to put the thoughts in order, she needed to understand the timeline that she was in and what she was working with.
Walking out of her house she made sure to avoid make any contact with her cellphone, avoiding looking for maps or even looking things on social media, turning off the data consumption and now being only to receive calls, she wanted to avoid any detection and on a world were robots existed and technology had jumped so many thanks to quirks, any care was little but important ; Akiza began to walk to the city center, what she was looking for was something that she was sure that it would't be easy to erase, a model of business that feeds of poverty and maintains itself with comfort and discretion, a NET Coffee, there she would have the access to a free internet away from the restrictions of the people around her at the moment.
After taking a metro she was on the city center, she knew that her bank account was also monitored, so she had to make a sack of some money, so she dinsn't had to use any type of card, once with the money in hand, she began to look around walking the streets, it was already dusk, and she could feel some eyes over her in a very dangerous way but this was the perfect scenario to find a Net Coffee, she began to follow one homeless person and surely she found it, it was hidden in an alley way, but it had a giant neon sign 'Night Eel' with the symbol of an eel with sunglasses and a cup of margaritas close to the mouth ; Akiza walked in, seeing that the place was very dark, there was no way to see the faces of other people with the low light, and she felt almost camouflaged and mixed with the environment, once Akiza located the reception desk she approached.
The person behind the desk had a very small frame, a child?, no, Akiza could see some wrinkles while her eyes adapted to the dark, it was an old woman, she looked right to Akiza's eyes and opened a warm smile while a tender voice left her old lips. -Hello darling, good night, are you looking for some nice rest? -She asked Akiza, while her eyes glazed upon her exposed brain for some instants.
Akiza preferred to bend a little to be able to speak with her without having to speak loudly, while nodding with her head. -Yes, I would like a room to stay the night please. -She waited the price but...
-Alright, all I need is your documentation. -The old lady reached her hand forward. -You need to be eighteen years to stay on this type of place.
'WHAT THE HELL, SINCE WHEN?!, oh right, I'm literally on another world and in a future of another world, of course laws would change!, also...Oh yeah, there was a margarita...' Akiza though with herself, frustrated with the fact that she din't considered this for a single instant, she however had another plan, beginning to reach for her documentation, at first holding it on her pocket and then making her hand left her pocket empty.-Oh, sorry, I must have lost it or left it at home, are you sure that you need a document to say my age?, I mean, look at me. -Akiza took a step backwards so the old lady could see her better, trying not to show her nervousness.
The old lady opened a smile to Akiza, seeing her better, truly she had a very developed body, the muscles were all solid, and she could also see the exposed brain a little better, the old lady spoke once more with her tender voice. -Very well, very well, you may stay, but please if you do something improper in the room, try at least to clean it.
Akiza got worried about an instant with that warning and request, a place like that being used for something improper?, that made too much sense and at the same time, none at all, at least until she began to put the pieces together, that place was a little hidden, too much hidden, maybe she was in the nest of snakes and wasn't even aware of it, but now it was too late, she began to pay for her stay and was given a room key, once inside she could say with certainty that this was the future ; The room was not that wide, however there was a bed on the wall and a space under it to put stuff, clothes, bags, shoes, she also could see the computer being right on the side of the bed with a support held by an arm similar to a tire iron, the keyboard was very similar to what she knew and din't emanate any light from it and the bathroom was apparently very economic with the shower giving in directly into the toilet that was on the bathroom box, apparently it was an electrical shower. It looked way more like a motel room then a net coffee that she could remember.
She locked the door and putted herself on the bed, being sure to left her things on the bed with herself and not under it, after all, she dinsn't want anything to be out of her reach in case of an emergency,she looked at her cellphone and din't had any calls at the moment, a good sign, she left her cellphone under her bag, making sure that it was on the silence mode, so she would't call any attention, she wasn't aware of how tin or thick those walls were and once she was prepared, she began her research.
At first looking by Lady Nagant, the results were very interesting, she was a mid carrier hero, she probably was on her high point and for all that Akiza could gather, there weren't any weird assassinations yet, in other words, she was still clean from being asked to kill people, what is good. Looking it more, she began to see that All Might only recently was on Japan, however she was part of the Noumu project, making her ask herself 'How old was this project?', well, apparently she was one of the first models what was strange to say the least, but also good because the army or noumus din't existed yet ; Looking further, Endearvor was still a hero, but a 'rookie' at the moment, at least for professional standards, many villains din't show up yet as also, many heroes were in ascension or din't even were in their careers yet.
All of this presented Akiza with the oldest conundrum of Time-Travelers, if she altered something major, what would be the chance to make everything, absolutely everything, worse?, yes, of course, she could save Lady Nagant from her terrible fate but... Would this bring peace to the future?, Lady Nagant was used to kill many people, from villains to heroes, what would be the chance of letting those people live, bring more chaos?, maybe Lady Nagant had to be broken, the same could be with another situation, she could save Twice from himself by what she could see, maybe even turn him into a hero, but, this would better or worse the timeline?, saving Twice could make the league of villains takes someone way worse and more powerful to take his place, this without counting the biggest issue on her opinion, All Might.
She could save All Might from losing his organs, she was sure of it, but this would make him not desire to pass his will forward and surely he would end up dead by the hands of Tomura Shigakari, also, this would mean that Midoriya would never gain a quirk and probably end very badly, with him trying to be a hero without a quirk and ending up dead or with him ending up on a dark place.
It was difficult to consider all the possibilities, her mere presence might change things, she already escaped the lab where she was before, she was sure that problems would come her way she wanting or not, becoming a hero wasn't just a way to grant herself that her life choices would be on her own hands, but also, grant that she have a choice, she has agency on her own life.
Akiza could feel the burns out of her brain, she was thinking to fast, taking a protein bar and eating it, before laying in bed and sleeping.
