And We're back from our week long commercial break. This weekend's schedule has Chapter 10 of Electric Heart on the docket. Last time the media somehow broke in and caused a panic in the lunch room, Izuku panicked and didn't handle it so well. Causing his quirk to overload and disintegrated everything a class room. In this chapter we get to see the aftermath of that and if effects Izuku's future in UA High school.
As always I do own the rights to Marvel of MY HERO ACADEMIA or any of their characters.
With that, let's begin.
With most of the students having already returned to their classrooms, Mei and Powerloader didn't dump into anyone as they carried Izuku to the medical office. Only passing Eraserhead in the hallway, who most have thought it was a new record for how quickly a student got injured at the start of a class period. Yet Eraserhead said nothing, only had a curious look on his face as he let them pass and then continued walking down the hallway Once they arrived at the medical office Powerloader knocked on the door with his foot and called out, "We need some help.
"What is it this time? I just got done with the mess caused by the students." A voice yelled. It didn't sound too pleased to be disturbed, especially after having to deal with the injuries that students had given to each other during the panic. They were high schoolers, they should act like it.
Powerloader continued to kick the door and called out again, "Recovery girl. This student needs your help."
"Powerloader, if any student of yours exploded their invention. I'm not helping. They need to learn from their mistakes. I told you so last year and accidently went down by 200 percent. You students got smart and started wearing protective gear" Recovery girl said.
"I swear to you, this is not like that," Powerloader said. A few seconds later the door opened. Standing in the way was an elderly woman with a large syringe that acted like a crane. Recovery Girl took one look at Izuku and sighed.
'Well, most certainly looks like it. Unconscious, burnt hair, clothes and skin and he has bruises forming. All typical signs that someone's invention blew up. I told you at the end of last year, I'm not healing any student that disregards safety so easily." Recovery Girl said, staring down Powerloader.
"I promise it's not." Powerloader shoved his way past Recovery Girl, earning him a new nickname, of Bolthead and a whack on his head. Ignoring Recovery Girl, Powerloader and Mei lifted Izuku onto a medical bed, then quickly stepped back as Izuku's body convulsed and a green bolt of lightning arc jumped from Izuku's chest to the IV stand.
"Loss of quirk control." Recovery Girl said.
"Quirk overload." Mei corrected, "Midoriya body generates a high amount of biostatic electricity, but when he becomes panicked his body generates too much."
"Well he's here, I might as well heal him." Recovery Girl said with a sigh as she walked over to the bed and got ready to use her quirk. However, she was stopped before she had the chance.
"Wait," Mei said. One thing she had picked up from Izuku was learning about different pro heroes' quirks. While Izuku was fascinated by them in all aspects, Mei looked at them in terms of what support equipment she could build for them. Nevertheless, she knew a bit more about heroes than the average person, "Your quirk uses a person's energy and stamina to heal them. By that standard Izuku is running on empty."
Recovery Girl stopped and looked at Mei, surprised a young girl such as Mei was so informed of her quirk. She had been out of the limelight for years now and was only called from UA from a disaster struck and civilians and heroes needed heavy medical attention, "What do you mean?"
"Izuku's quirk is Static Cell. Like I said his body generates a high amount of biostatic electricity, which can be used to power devices. But he can't discharge like other quirks, but in situations when he becomes panicked his body will overload itself with bioelectricity. That his quirks's fight or flight response, but his body can't contain all the electricity and it is forcibly discharged. This caused him great pain through extreme muscle stimulation and drained all of his stamina." Mei explained as she thought back to the last time this happened. It wasn't as bad and Izuku was still out for a whole 24 hours, though the worst part was making sure Inko didn't have a panic attack herself.
"You're well informed about Midoriya's medical condition." Recovery Girl said.
"I build support equipment for Hero, I have to understand what can go wrong if the equipment harms someone. And Izuku is my best friend, he didn't fully understand or work on his quirk when he was a kid. So when he came to work for my parents, he and I spent many night tests on his quirk." Mei said.
"I thought Midoriya wasn't able to discharge his electricity, that's why he wore the device on his chest," Powrloader said, tapping the middle of his chest. The light blue glow was noticeable when Izuku wasn't wearing a jacket and Powerloader only knew the function of it from meeting Izuku during the entrance exams
"Yes, normally that's true. He must have removed the arc reactor during the panic, while it had contained most of Midoriya's quirk. It becomes overloaded faster than Izuku's body so he must have removed it to pay for time." Mei explained. During the panic, she felt her mouth start to taste like metal, something most of the other students probably didn't notice as they were focused on running from the villains. But similar to the real life tell of lightning, Mei knew that metallic taste in her mouth was from Izuku's arc reactor about to overload. So when the feeling suddenly disappeared only to return a few seconds later Mei knew precisely what Izuku had done and knew he needed to get out of the building.
Now that Mei thought about it, she didn't remember seeing the arc reactor as she pulled Izuku out of the crowd. He must have accidentally dropped it, probably being hit out of his hand as Mei dragged him through the crowd. Mei would need to find it and see how recoverable it was.
"But what happened in the classroom? He disintegrated everything, he didn't leave ashes behind." Powerloader asked, calling the state the classrooms had been in after Izuku's lost control over his quirk.
"When Midoriya's body can no longer hold the electricity in, it begins to discharge as lightning. Imagine an electric plant overloading, this causes Midoriya great pain and can easily kill him if he doesn't release the energy quickly enough. That's why Izuku discharged all that energy at once, to save himself." Having explained the situation, Mei flopped down onto a chair next to the bed Izuku was lying on, "My family, we've known about the issue for a ... year now and we've been trying to improve the arc reactor so Izuku doesn't have to worry about overloading it. However, we haven't figured out a better element than Palladium."
"Palladium?" Powerloader asked as palladium was infamous among engineers. Very few had a chance to work with it as it was extremely rare and difficult to come by. Powerloader himself only had worked with it a few times in the past. And with only little he had, there wasn't any project that seemed worth the price tag that came along with using Palladium.
Mei pulled her spare lighter and pulled out a core of palladium, she tossed it over to Powerloader. Powerlaoder caught the palladium and looked it over, it was the same size he had been given to work with. With the size and purity Powerloader was holding it couldn't have cost anything less than 720,000 yen ($5000). How could Izuku be so feely using palladium at that cost? And who was Izuku's supplier and how were they getting so much? As Powerloader continued to overlook the palladium core, he did a few quick calculations in his head. The numbers he was coming up with were impossible, no electricity-based quirk could be that powerful. He turned to Mei and said, "Palladium this size can easily withstand 10 Gigajoules a second. How much electricity was Izuku producing to overload the core?"
"Last time we checked, Midoriya can naturally produce well over 15 gigajoules per second." Mei said and saw Powerloader was sceptical, "As we've said, Midoriya's quirk is powerful, more than any other electricity-based quirk. I guess to balance the scales, he can't use his quirk in the conventional way. However, when in a state of panic his body will begin to produce 100 gigajoules." Mei said, then again that was two years ago. Chances were his quirk was much stronger now.
"I'm not an engineer, but isn't 1 gigajoule the equivalent of a single lightning bolt?" Recovery Girl asked. While working at a prestigious high school, one could learn a lot through mild conversation in the hallway. But then a noise drew her attention.
One second, the Powerloader was standing. The next he felt his knees grow weak and then give out, causing Powerloader to fall to the floor. When Izuku had demonstrated his repulsors after the exam, Power Loader figured he was maybe producing a million joules, but Mei's explanation just blew that number out of the water. Powerloader looked at the palladium core in his hand, guess that explains why Izuku was using it and not some other kind of metal.
Powerloader looked at Izuku. The student he had allowed into UA. He had allowed the equivalent of a freak lightning storm into UA. He couldn't imagine the power the kid had before him and he let the kid in because of a promise to an old friend.
"Well, this explains why the cameras in the support department are longer working." Principal Nezu said walking into the room. He looked at Izuku then over at Mei and gave a simple nod.
"Principal Nezu." Powerloader and Recovery Girl both said, almost as if getting ready to stand at attention. Principal Nezu had a horrible habit of popping into a conversation, and not telling how long he had been listening. By the sound of it, it seemed he had been listening for a while.
"If I'm not mistaken, Powerloader, this is the student you plan to transfer to the hero course." Principal Nezu said, magically producing a cup of tea and taking a small sip, then looked at Powerloader.
"Yes," Powerloader said. Powerloader wasn't afraid of Izuku being expelled, but if Mr Aizawa knew what happened and feared it happening again. It could easily hurt Izuku's chances of getting transferred.
"Wait, transfer to the hero course. What do you mean?" Mei asked, looking behind the principal and her homeroom teacher. Izuku's acceptance letter hadn't made any kind of reference to Izuku having the chance to transfer.
"Something that can be explained at a later date." Principal Nezu then pulled something out from a hidden pocket, "Oh I believe this belongs to you." Principal Nezu held out Izku's arc reactor to Mei. Mei got off her chair and grabbed the arc reactor. She looked it over, the glass was cracked and using her quirk she saw the palladium core was fried.
"I had received the warning about a large electricity discard in the support department and managed to pull up the security camera, though only for a few seconds before Midiroya's quirk fried them. Impressive, yet destructive display of power. Remind me why this student failed the hero exam." Principal Nezu said, taking another small sip of tea.
"His quirk doesn't allow him to discharge his electricity, so he uses a device called an arc reactor to siphon the electricity out of his body and to power his equipment. He failed because said equipment got destroyed early in the exam." Powerloader said.
"And afterwards he came to the support department to fix them and give you a demonstration." Principal Nezu said, stirring his sea before taking another sip, "I remember you wanted to enroll Midoriya because of a favor and promise you owed to an old colleague. What was his name? I don't think you ever shared his name in the meeting."
"Hisashi Sutāku." Powerloader said, and suddenly Mei bent the hospital bed rail guard she was holding. Principal Nezu noticed and was quite impressed at the feat of strength. Mei's face was narrow and looked like she was ready to kill something. The display of grip strength told Principal Nezu that whoever she felt like attacking should fear for their life.
"Are you familiar with the name?" Principal Nezu asked, after taking a sip of tea. It was a small cup, how much tea could it hold? And why did it still look like it was full?
"I learned about him before I was supposed to. Hisashi Sutaku is Inko Midoriya's ex-husband. He abandoned Midoriya because of his quirk, even after making a promise to help him become a hero. The only good thing the man left behind was the blueprints to Midoriya's equipment. What kind of man makes a promise like that, how to disappear one day and not give a word until after he's dead." Mei didn't take her eyes off Izuku. His shallow breath was the only thing that told her he was still alive. Mei allowed her hand to drift to Izuku and try to rub his knuckles, however, when she got near, a small spark of static electricity jumped from his hand to her. Mei wanted to coil in pain, but the shock felt pleasant and seemed to provide her with comfort.
"Deary, I need you to step back. His quirk is out of control and I don't want you to get hurt." Recovery Girl said. She had noticed the green spark and if Mei's explanation was correct, Izuku could easily kill someone without even trying. With the green electricity that shot out of his chest only a few minutes ago, he had some electricity left in his body.
Mei gave a small nod, not wanting to step away from Izuku. Yet she stepped back and sat down in a chair further from the bed, but still only a few steps away. She looked back at Powerload and Principal Nezu, noticing they were discussing something new.
"I assume you were not aware of the relationship when you made plans to hand over the information." Principal Nezu said, turning his attention to Powerloader.
"I knew he had a son, but I didn't remember his name, that was several years ago. And no, the information hasn't changed my mind. Hisashi was Midoriya's father, a father he thought had abandoned him. I think Midoriya would like to learn what his father was doing all those years after he left. We both know Hisashi had more plans than he ever told anyone and if he left Midoriya the blueprints for his repulsors, then clearly he had more in store. Those plans now belong to Midoriya." Powerloader pulled out a flash drive and looked at it before shoving it back in his pocket, "I was hoping to give it to him once school was over, but I might have to wait a bit longer."
"Unfortunate, but Midoriya will need to recover." Principal Nezu said, placing his cup of tea on the edge of Recovery Girl's main desk. She looked a bit annoyed, but simply flicked it, causing it to fall off the edge and into the trash bin. Principal Nezu made no move as if he didn't see it, "If I remember correctly, Sutāku used Classroom 6-G."
"Yes, he did, but it's all boarded up. It would take me half a day to pull all the wood off the door. Then there were whatever surprises he left on the other side of the doors." Powerloader said, not realizing what he was saying.
Principal Nezu opened one of his vest pockets and pulled out a key of some kind, "While I agree you should give Midoriya his father's notes. The information will help him become a great hero. However, information can only tell part of the story. If Midoriya is to learn what kind of man his father was, I believe it would be best to also give him this."
Powerloader realized what Principal Nezu was insinuating as he looked over at the key Principal Nezu held out, "Wait, that's the key to Hisashi's office. Why do you have it?"
"As you said Mr Sutaku never told any one person everything. In his last months in this world, understood the knowledge he held and what was possible with it. He gave you his flash drive, yet he never believed one person should have all of his work so he left me the key to his office. The only person he trusted with his full inventory was his own son. Because the father knew his son was strong and would one day come to UA and become a hero." Principal Nezu said as he nodded to Izuku, "It's now on him to decide who to tell."
"Wait, Izuku's father worked here at UA?" Mei said, the piece clicking in her head. It made sense, Hisashi having the recourse to blueprint and build the repulsors. He won't have that at a normal job and there was no indication he worked for another support company. Or Her parents would have heard about it. So working at UA within the support course was the only avenue left.
"He just didn't work here, he was one of the best engineering teachers. He challenged his students to build things only they could think of. He was always able to properly motivate his students." Powerloader said, reminiscing about some of the amazing things they had planned to create together.
"Well this is great and all, however, Midoriya does not seem like he will be waking up for the rest of the day. Might I suggest as his homeroom teacher, you inform his mother about the situation." Recovery Girl said, always having to switch the IV bags. It seemed Izuku's body was greedily taking it all in, replacing all that he had lost in the break-in.
Powerloader looked at Recovery Girl for a bit, before blinking and chuckling a bit, "Yes that sounds like something that needs to be done."
"Hatsume, thank you for your help, but I suggest you return to class, as the grace period will be over soon." Principal Nezu said, tapping his watch.
Mei looked at Izuku. She wanted to spend the rest of the day by his side. She knew he would do the same, she also knew that he would say she shouldn't waste her time and focus on school. She hated how much of a hypocrite he was, but she knew that was the Izuku she had begun to fall in love with.
Mei looked towards Principal Nezu as she stood up and nodded. She walked out of the office and headed towards her class. She tried to focus on her classes, but her mind would wander back to Izuku for the rest of the day. Luckily it was only the second day there was much going on, even less so with the break-in being on everyone's minds.
Back in the nurse's office, Powreloader was still sitting on the floor, so Recovery Girl whacked on his head, stating, "Don't you have some stuff you need to do."
"Yeah, yeah, I'm going." Powerloader said, standing up. He brushed himself off and walked out of the room. His mind was still trying to wrap around all the information he had been given in less than an hour. Izuku Midoirya was Hisahi Sutaku's son, a man Powelroader had come to deeply respect in the field of engineering and being human. So as he walked to the support department, he had more than just a phone call planned.
"So Midoriya gets to learn who his father was. One of the greatest inventors of our times. Able to solve any problem in front of him and make it look like simple addition and subtraction." Principal Nezu looked at Izuku with his hand behind his back. With his quirk, Principal Nezu rarely came across someone who could match his intelligence and Hisashi was not the closest, Principal Nezu enjoyed making conversation with him.
If there was one thing Principal Nezu would admit that Hisashi was the best at, it was making puzzles. Whether it is to give a hidden lesson to his student or give Principal Nezu something to think over for days. Hisashi always said it didn't matter whether a puzzle had one answer or multiple, it always changed depending on who answered. Gave a perspective on how to get the answer, something Hisashi said more engineers need when working on a project.
"Yes, Sutaku was extremely smart, I'm sad he was killed early in his career. The question is when will you tell the boy about how his father died." Recovery Girl said, checking on the IV and making sure her patient was comfortable.
"Powerloader was a close friend of Midoriya's father and is Midorya's teacher. I believe he should be the one to tell Midoriya the story of how Hisashi sacrificed himself to save the world." Principal Nezu continued to look at his student. It wasn't exactly a record for having a student in the recovery office so soon, yet it was a record for how quickly damage was done to school property. The previous one was nine days. And Izuku was pushing the record for the amount of damage too.
Principal Nezu recalled an old fight the support course used to have with All Might when he was a high schooler. All the third years tested their invention against the now #1 hero and one fight resulted in the new record of two of the fake cities being destroyed. So while one classroom seems small, it only being on the second day if Izuku kept his pace, he could easily beat the record.
Principal Nezu looked down at the floor, he didn't think about pressing charges, he knew it was an occupational hazard when dealing with such a powerful quirk. Damage wasn't inevitable, just limited. And from what Mei said, Izuku's priority was minimizing damage.
And in the end, it was the media's fault for breaking in, something he still didn't understand the circumstances of it happening. Principal Nezu looked back at Midoriya, it was the media's fault and maybe somewhat the third year's fault for how poorly they handled the situation. He would leave that punishment to their teachers. Maybe he could give some suggestions.
With that thought, Principal Nezu turned around and walked out of the room. With everything handled, Principal Nezu thought about tracking down Izuku's supplier. Having that much Palladium and using it freely, either Hatsume Industries was a bigger company behind the scenes or Izuku had an extremely wealthy relative that covered the expenses. Though Principal Nezu was not willing to rule our black market just yet, the supplier might just be fooling Izuku and Izuku was none the wiser.
This could be a fun process for Principal Nezu, and maybe in the end he could find out more about one of his close friends's son
And that's chapter 10 and we are officially on page 56 of this story. At this point posting this chapter that is a total of 556 pages of this story (That was not planned, I was just curious how many pages I've added since the first chapter was posted). And yet I've barely gotten to the end of season three, oh boy this story has a long way to go.
This chapter was heavily edit, Izuku actions during the break in were changed a bit and his reason it were more flushed out. And the conversation within Recovery Girl's office was changed up a bit and some was stuff was added that was brought upon with a thought Powerloader and Principal Nezu have. An issue that I never really thought of touching upon but with a character is introduced later and what I have planed for them in the future. The issue arose and I felt like I need to bring it up now as this was where it really statted.
Next chapter Inko learns about the break in, along with secret information being passed around. Then we get to see the true surprise out classroom 6-G.
Next time: Promise Fulfilled, Mostly
(P.S Update on Project Velocity, against my better judgement I sent a few night staying up late working on the story. If I continue my current progress, hopefully without the lost sleep, I will post the first chapter next weekend on the 9th)