Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Acidic Allies. Enjoy the 4800-word chapter. I do not own MHA Shonen Jump, Kohei Horikoshi, and a few others do.
If there was even a second of what to try and do? he would be a lot more to try and deal with, not at all knowing what to try and figure out as she hummed before she looked to herself before now.
There are a lot of things that could keep being dealt with for now, utterly amused more and more… Such things about it all bothered him. Aace sighed and thought of what to try and deal with it all, for now, he could only relax once more.
Yet? The amusement on his face was lit up by the acidic hero seeming to fall silent as she hummed, utterly unable to do much more than relax. Whatever needed to be dealt with? would be dealt with.
"You almost done with training? Because I'm going to need your science stuff soon." Mina said to which Aace hummed.
"Depends on what you want to do for training. There is a lot of training I need to keep dealing with it all for now." Aace stated before he sighed and rubbed at his temples and looked to the side, amused more and more as he hummed.
He did not at all know what to try and deal with it all for now, a relaxing little measure of peace and wisdom which needed to be answered for now… everything fell into place, such amusements that he could be dealt with it all the time being.
"All the fancy tech words you want to talk about, you keep running tests, right? Then what's going on?" Mina asked before Aace hummed.
"You mean judging you based on what is going on? Oh, let me guess? Do you mean that I am honestly trying to do it? Study your power and see if I can fix it? Because I think you mean me studying the limits of your acidic powers." Aace said before he clicked his tongue against the roof of his mouth.
He would not be able to try and say as she relaxed, he knew that if he was not able to try and figure out what to try and figure out what to see and deal with it all as he hummed to himself.
Aace hummed to himself and cracked his fingers. he sighed and then seemed to fall utterly unable to do much more than point out flaws in her heroics for now.
All of it would need to end and it would need to end now. He clicked his tongue against the roof of his mouth as he hummed and sighed before he looked downwards at the ground, a measure of perfection that would need to grow.
"You, ok?" Aace asked before he looked to himself and then looked to the ground once more.
Aace crossed his arms before he slowly yet surely figured something out for now. He would need to surpass what had happened, not ready to try and deal with all such measures in place to study her power and apply it to everything that was going on, knowing what trying and training would bring.
It was worth it, a measure of mercy upon his face as he clicked his tongue against the roof of his mouth.
"You, ok? You're a big dork." Mina stated as Aace rolled into one giant ball before she looked downwards now.
Aace hummed before she looked downwards at the ground and then upwards and into the sky once more as he hummed to himself before he clicked his fingers.
There was a whirling and crackling of metal as it seemed to all fall to pieces, something that he clicked into place. There was a lot more to try and end as he clicked his fingers against one another.
Mina watched as metal flew from across the way to fly to his hand, it balled itself up into it became an orb the size of a beach ball, rusted and new metal all whirling around his hand as he hummed and slowly made it dance, knowing that if he was able to be of use to it all in ways that did not matter.
He hummed as he sighed to himself and watched as Mina reclined, resting on the ground before spinning into a one-handed handspring that would put most people to shame. He would snort at it if he was able to… Unable to relax, not knowing what was coming.
Yet? He knew Mina and trusted her to a degree he might scoff at sooner or later. It was very hard to imagine that he would be off put by her with everything he knew more and more to try and figure out before he sighed and clicked his tongue against the roof of his mouth as he hummed once again.
He would be able to relax as he hummed to himself, unable to try and deal with it for now, not able to do more than relax, unsure of himself as metal flowed to his hands.
"You are doing good at this, very good. I am sorry if I cannot express that in the best of ways, I have always had that problem and I will always have it I believe, a terrible bit of snark I can't get rid of for the life of me." Aace said before he sighed, rubbing at his head with his other hand as he did so.
The pain ebbing and flowing in his mind seemed to only make him more annoyed, knowing that he could and would be able to relax again and again if he had enough patience. He knew he did not for a good number of reasons and that? All of it? it bothered him in ways he truly could not or would not be able to react to now.
They had a LOT more to try and deal with for now… A measure of peace that would be dealt with personally dealt with for now and for good.
Mina watched as Aace hummed and sat down on a concrete block, watching as of now, what he could not deal with for now… Knowing that if anything? He had a lot of measures to try and figure out what to do.
Mina hummed and plopped down to her, kicking her sandals off and kicking her feet back and forth as Aace rolled his eyes.
"Acid is very dangerous if you insist on spinning it around and throwing it all over the place." Mina heard as she paused and looked at Aace. "It takes a lot of skill to do that, though. It is making me wonder if the quirk is affecting your biology… Besides the pink skin due to the acid." Aace said as Mina hummed.
"You're really smart science-wise, eh?" Mina asked as Aace shrugged.
"I read a lot of books… Didn't help me make friends." Aace stated, pausing for now as he looked to the side, there were a lot of options for now.
It would need to be dealt with for now, a lot of these things would be dealt with for now…. All of it was going to be amusing.
"So… I'm like your first friend?" Mina asked before Aace shrugged.
"First friend I've made since we moved," Aace said before he looked at Mina. "First one who has not been a jerk to me because I'm smart… Also, the first one who isn't a crappy dancer who trips over her own feet despite having ZERO style that isn't flashy." Aace joked only to be elbowed.
Aace smiled, knowing that she was a good warrior, a noble hero that could or would be able to try and relax, knowing what would be dealt with for now and knowing that it was something beyond the pale.
Perhaps he could admire that… But it would mean something beyond passible logic… An idea that needed to be utterly unsuited for now, it was a lot of madness that even he of all people could not be dealt with… He had a lot more to try and figure out.
Something about it all seemed to make him laugh, he would need to keep growing more and more tiresome.
Perhaps he would need to relax, perhaps he would keep growing more and more.
This was not going to be something that he had experience with. being a hero was something that he had to try and figure out, a measure of time and effort that he did not know about such beings.
This was not going to be something that was utterly beyond him, that would need to be persuaded to relax, something that would be dealt with perhaps within such a measure of idealism that could be dealt with for now.
He yawned, utterly more amused by it for now than anything, an idea that was utterly thrown for a loop, so much more that it was going to crack, fracture under the weight that had been heaped upon it. He was not going to relent for now and neither was she, a perfect team?
Perhaps just had a bad reason and had to take a break, knowing what was coming and dreading it for now at the end of the day.
There were a LOT of things that he could deal with for now and he would not be able to hold back just how odd it was, how often he would be doing this. He looked ready to laugh and she guessed that he might have.
He paused, looking downwards at the floor while he hummed, utterly unable to contain the vapid amusement on his mind. He paused to try and relax as he hummed before he looked over at her.
"You, ok?" Aace questioned before he raised an eyebrow at the time being. "There is a VERY large number of things I want to ask about… There is a lot more to figure out, a LOT more." Aace said as Mina poked him on the nose.
Instead of doing anything vocally, she casually laid herself across his legs like a sunbathing crocodile. He said nothing, only rolling his eyes as she did so, it was not new ground for the acid-shooting girl and he knew that because she had done this before.
"You do realize how old this has gotten, right? Because it has… And it is going to be something." Aace said as Mina poked his nose.
"I have got a question… Am I one of your first friends ever? You've been pretty silly and shy around me and the way it sounds? I've been the first girl to get under your skin…" Mina said as Aace sighed, pausing to let her speak.
"It is not entirely right but it's not entirely wrong as I told you… You are one of the first." Aace stated before he sighed as he seemed to relax for now.
He paused and let Mina look at him, making her hum as she sighed, unsure and unable to fathom it. the very idea would allow himself to amuse herself for now… There was something else to try and figure out.
There was a lot more to this than he would ever admit, yet? He did not want to bother her and everyone else.
Whatever could be done would be done and it would be too funny for him to admit otherwise, he had little to no reason not to admit it and something like it for now.
She did not even know how to feel, not being able to do much more than look at her friend, utterly thrown off for now, he would be pausing for now so that he could be able to relax again and again and again.
There was a lot more to try and figure out as of now, something that would be utterly thrown off for now and for a good reason at the end of today and every single day.
It paused, it seemed to be relaxed, an utterly insane madness to be sure, something that would be dealt with at the time being… Mina was too much of insanity to just seem to relax more now.
Such a thing was something that Mina could deal with; a madness that seemed to be grown through to completion.
"There are a lot of things I should be focusing on… Like if I can affect things that are not purely made of metal." Aace stated as he paused to look downwards at the ground.
"You are smart, aren't you?" Mina stated before she paused to look more and more at him.
"I have my moments of intelligence. It comes with trying to deal with a metal quirk like this." Aace said, pausing to look to the side. "Why? Afraid I will outgrow helping you? I do not mind… Your acid quirk is without a doubt the most fascinating one I have ever seen, Mina." Aace said before he crossed his fingers.
There was a lot more to try and deal with, something that he dealt with for now. She smiled, drumming her fingers on her knees and hands before she paused and then smiled, utterly relaxed for now.
"You, ok?" Mina asked as Aace nodded.
"I'm at peace, something to try and deal with when it's all over," Aace stated before he paused to try and figure out something to try and figure out something to deal with.
Aace watched her poke his nose before he seemed to relax and leaned back, utterly thrown off by her and by it all. She looked at him, leaning on her friend.
There was something else, something far beyond their understanding to relax for now.
It was awkward, very well so in their cases how it would be dealt with for now… Something about it all seemed to be nice, and serene as both paused to look downwards at the ground.
"We should probably seem to get going… The more we wait around? The more my parents are not going to be happy." Mina heard.
She paused to look downwards at the ground, unsure of what to say next. She would not be able to deal with it for now, it would be utterly maddened to deal with for now and she knew it.
"We need to seem to keep dealing with training, remember what you said about training?" Mina stated before Aace hummed and looked to the side.
Mina seemed to keep growing more amused, tired at the end of the day. She would require something to balance the equation when all of it was said and done, a desire that both seemed to share and one both would fight together for now.
What she did not know was if he was telling the truth for now… It was all going to come to an end sooner or later and she wanted it soon, not later. The idea it would be fun was just a bonus for now, chaotic, or not? It ended soon.
Yet? Not soon enough, there was too much on the end of the line, a cut through which he could not have allowed, it made little sense to break, to die out. An idea he hated, figuring that if he went down the road? It would be utterly done again and again.
It made little sense. But then again? Aace was beginning to think that all the sense within it was easier to swallow than not even knowing anything. He was shifting through the chaos and it all seemed to be making lines in the sand.
Mina poked at his nose as she hummed and kicked her feet in the air like a bicycle rider. It was more adorable than he would admit and he did not believe it was just too much for her. It felt like he was trying to dig through the sand and find some remains of an idea.
"You good? You are all… Eh." Mina stated as she paused, thinking for now.
"Just trying to think if I am honest. I do not know what I don't even know is what's going to break it all." Aace stated before he sighed. "That means I have no clue what I'm thinking and it hurts my brain to think," Aace stated.
"Finally, something you cannot just science away? Good, you know what it is like to have a weird brain? Bad, you constantly must worry about things that hurt and then try and figure it out… It is too much." Mina stated as Aace hummed.
"Which one of us can't properly do something like their science homework?" Aace asked as a raised an eyebrow and then paused to let it all sink in now.
It felt like it was carving deeper and deeper into his skin as she rolled his eyes, her eyes seemed to expand like those of a shark that was getting ready to feel its prey. Such a thing only seemed to be done when the girl paused to think for but a moment lost within her ideals.
It was odd but it was Mina, he did not expect anything less from her or anyone else now, tying him down was just to be expected from someone.
He sighed, it was tiresome that who could try to fix something that did not at all have an answer, it would cut deeper and deeper like the blade of a knife to fix and deal with. all of it? All of it seemed to be too hard to deal with. It meant nothing and it would always mean something at the end of the day and all such days.
The fun he had with trying to deconstruct it all seemed to be something that could be utterly managed now and for good reason at the time being, relaxed only within his only little bubble that had been put up to fix it all for now.
It would be fun to deal with now, he had a LOT more on his mind, something about it all seemed to be done with for now, too awkward, too interested in results over it all again and again… Too much in exchange for so little… Too much would come as a result of it.
Her golden eyes, so full of mirth, of energy, glanced at him… She was tired, too exhausted to do more than glance at him.
He would laugh if he could… Not just because she amused him, but because she did so again and again, exhausting only the options he had on his mind. He would laugh if he could and simply let her poke at his face playfully.
She looked at him before she seemed to look downwards at the ground, exhausted by it.
"You, ok?" Aace asked, raising an eyebrow rather than smiling at her as he did so.
Mina hummed, poking at his face as he did so, she laughed as did he, rolling his eyes at her antics. She had been tired, too interested, too relaxing for now. She felt exhausted and too interested as the pink-haired woman, too curious for now and unwilling to do something for now and for good reason.
He hummed, raising an eyebrow at her, wishing to see it for now, too unwilling to do something for now… There was a LOT more to this, too unsure of what was coming…
And yet? She had been too disturbed, too unwilling to deal with it for now. There was a LARGE part of their logic on his mind as he paused, thinking of what he was going to throw at them. And yet? He would not be able to fight for now. And he would claim victory, wishing to deal with it.
He seemed to think…. And he would think, too relaxed, too interested in what was coming next. He had a LOT of ideals, a LOT of things to see through, to see at the end of the day. All of it would end… All of it would come crashing down.
"Your weird, you know that? You are weird, you want to pretend you aren't silly, but you are… You will always be silly. There is a LOT of stuff you need to deal with… I don't know you, Aace, but you're funny." Mina stated to which Aace hummed.
He did not know him, did not know her, didn't know a LOT of people. She was amusing, she pushed him at the end of the day, there was to be an amusing little chaotic thing, something about which he could not relate, he could not falter. There was just too much, too much beyond the chaos…. And it all crashed down on him.
All of it was going to tear him apart, he wanted it over… He wanted more to keep growing, and he would not want to keep thinking of something when it came down to it, too interested in it all, yet? Too much was to be left in the dust.
She had been too much for now… This was too chaotic for now; he had been willing to try and deal with it for now… This was too much of a threat to personally need to happen for now.
He had been too interested in now, she had been thrown off for now … There was too much to try and deal with such an idea for now as she paused.
"You, ok?" Aace asked, pausing to think, to understand her.
"Are you?" Mina asked, tapping on her feet, and then yawning. "You are all tense and stuff, it isn't healthy, you know," Mina said while she looked around, shrugging as she did so.
"Maybe, but it's fun. You can't always deal with the little stuff. Sometimes you have to roll with the punches and that means trying to deal with stuff you can't control. You can't always think your way through life because life is always going to throw punches you can't control." Mina stated.
"I do think you just can't understand your homework and are using that as an excuse," Aace stated before he paused.
Mina jacked at his face only for him to turn her, almost falling to the ground as she seemed to think of something while trying to try and fall to the ground.
She had not the ability to deal with something like this, Mina had been unwilling to think, to try and understand such a tactic, she had to try and grow beyond it all. She had not the best goals as she paused to grow more and more bored.
Even then? Even when it came down to it, not too much had been thrown for a loop… There was chaos upon which she thrived in. It did not help her but it did help him as he yawned and then tapped on his legs.
She had been too exhausted, too bored for now as she looked off now. Aace drummed his fingers on his legs before he hummed and looked back at her, raising an eyebrow as he paused.
"You want to keep training or such?" Aace asked before he raised an eyebrow and then paused, tired for the moment.
He knew what was coming, he knew the next move and he could only wish to relent for now… There was something else as Aace hummed and then looked to the side, he had been through the wringer for now. That much chaos, that much on her mind was going to break her into pieces.
Mina simply sighed and then looked to the side, too unwilling to deal with it in this way.
"Ok, let's get to training for now, I don't want to try and do much today but if you want it that badly," Mina stated to which she could only sigh before she paused to think of it for now.
She only got off a sigh, knowing that she could try and deal with it beyond the pale for now. It would be too funny for now, too amusing, he had a lot more chaos on his mind, and he had a lot more amusement on the plate. Even then? He acted like he had been struck like he had been thrown across the room, she knew he was messing with her and he was trying his best to do so…
Perhaps the chaos was to be something too disorienting for now, too chaotic enough to have been dealt with for now… Too much had been lost for the moment.
"You always this snarky?" Mina questioned as Aace hummed and poked her on the forehead.
"Well, my best friend is a giant pink girl with alien-like features and her superhero name is probably going to be named Pinky…" Aace stated.
"Pinky is a VERY cool name, Mr. Big Time Superhero," Mina stated, punctuating it with a poke to his chest every letter.
"Maybe, but you are a VERY dorky woman, Ms. Ashido," Aace stated.
"Pff… Some friend…" Mina said a giant smile on her face.
"Your smiles are impossible not to smile at, you know that?" Aace asked as Mina smiled at him. "Oy, how do you make me feel bad so easy?" Aace asked before he raised his eyebrow.
Mina stayed silent, knowing that Aace was too silly to try and mess with, he was a cool friend and she enjoyed it. She enjoyed his tactics and his ability to train her. Perhaps among others would it thrive but she amused herself with it for now.
Perhaps it was because she knew deep down that Aace for all his flaws, cared. He was not a bad person, merely snarky and unwilling to admit things were not as perfect as they could be… And she was scared among other things by now to have been dusted, have been done for now.
Things were not as easy to fix as they could have been and it was clear more and more that such tactics that it might succumb to it, might crash and falter as such things could be better, could submit for now… She had to deal with it and she could not for fear of the chaos within its path.
She knew now that Aace was trying his best, that he was thrown for a loop, even then? Even at the end of said rope? He did not relent for fear of pushing too far, of pushing her to her limit, to her ideal fathoming of it for now… She would not be willing to deal with it for fear of going too far to have been able to do something, anything now.
Even if she did not stop? She knew what was going on was going to be something fun, something chaotic which she could handle for they all could at the end of the day, that much? That much was to be said and done for now, the chaos that could be dealt with.
Perhaps it was just bothering him because he could not for the life of him confirm what was going on… Then again? If he could? He would have screamed into the madness before she sighed before she wished to have to deal with it for now.
She looked to be too interested in what was going on… She hadn't been willing to try it for now.
She trusted Aace, she knew he was messing with her. If he had wanted something from her? She would have heard him say something and she knew him… There was nothing to have done now.
"Do you have to be a worry wart?" Mina asked before Aace paused to think.
"Because if I wasn't? You would be lost? I know you… You've been like this… It is not something you get over." Aace stated.
Aace wanted to say something else, he wanted to assure her he knew her and knew what would become of it all the more with each passing second. There was enough doubt, enough.
Perhaps along the way would become something better, something less chaotic than she had envisioned for now… Even then? She couldn't have allowed it to have been this way, not now and not when it was done.
"We're going to be dealing with something weird, you know," Aace stated before he sighed and picked himself up.
Author Notes
Phew. Another chapter is done! I want to point out next chapter will be delayed. The next chapter will be in 2-10 months and will be 900-6500 words and will show a bit of hanging up and setting up the school arc. Until then, Lighting Wolf is out!