I'm not gonna lie, I'm not sure which fanfic I like working on more this or the other one. I hope that you all are enjoying it as much as I am. If you haven't read any other fanfics about Izuku then I'll admit that I draw inspiration from them. One of my favorites is one where Izuku has a copy quirk. Anyway enjoy the chapter!
Chapter 7: Unexpected Truths
Izuku is sitting at his desk researching the concept of having multiple quirks. He kept tossing and turning in his bed while trying to figure out why his abilities are so different from each other. He reads articles about some rare occurrences where people have more than one quirk due to genetics and evolution. What's interesting is that most if not all the multi quirked people have abilities similar to their parents or other family. His quirk is not even close to being similar to his mother or father which is puzzling.
He sighs tiredly and looks around his room while rubbing his temples. It's the weekend and he has the apartment to himself because his mother was called into work after somone else called out sick. On his desk lay different pieces of trash...tech that he managed to find at Takoba beach. There are also sketches and plans on paper for his web shooter support items. The only thing missing are the plans on how to create the substance for said web shooters.
'Hmmm, what am I going to do about creating the...web fluid?'
He thinks to himself while nodding in satisfaction at the name. If he's going to keep up with the spider mojo than his hero name may need to be similar. He thinks of how he can sneak the chemicals needed to create the web fluid from his middle school. Would the school even have the chemicals that he needs to create a substance that is changeable on the fly? His phone beeps and vibrates telling him that someone sent him a text.
'Will be working late tonight. There's money in my dresser for lunch and dinner.'
He reads the text from his mother with a grin forming on his face. Looking at the All Might clock on his desk and seeing that it's barely twelve adds to the grin. His mother usually gets home just before midnight when she works late. Deciding not to spend the whole day in doors he gets up from the chair and changes into a pair of blue jeans, a white shirt with All Might on it, and his beat up red shoes. He looks down at his shoes and notes that he'll need new ones made of stronger material.
Before leaving the apartment he takes a chocolate work out bar from the kitchen to snack on. Once outside he makes sure that no one can see him before climbing up to the rooftop. A yellow backpack is sitting by the entrance of the fire escape which he picks up and swings onto his shoulders. Just out of curiosity he tries to activate the camouflage part of his quirk to see if anything happens. His body flickers in and out of the camo frustrating him slightly that he can't do it like before in the alley. He shakes it off and thinks about training it later while getting a running start and leaping to the next building.
-Aldera Middle School-
After jumping from building to building to get to his school Izuku rests on a nearby rooftop. He sees the school and remembers where the chemical storage room is located. The weekend calls for no other kids being there but the teachers and custodians may still be around. He leaps from the roof top and lands on a tree close by. Jumping off the building he walks to the gate and looks around seeing no security. He shrugs and jumps over the gate easily and runs towards the back of the school.
'Chemistry lab is on the second floor. Just need to get around anyone that's inside the building.'
He thinks to himself while looking around to see if anyone is there. After seeing that no one is around he quickly climbs up the building to the second story and to the window of the chemistry lab. Once at the window he sticks his fingers to the glass and slides it open thankful that no one locked it. He crawls into the lab room making sure that no one will see him and closes the window. Izuku closes his eyes while using his spider sense to see if he can feel anyone around.
When he doesn't feel any disturbances he makes his way to the chemical storage room. The room door has a lock on it making Izuku roll his eyes a bit. He easily breaks the lock open with his barehands and opens the door. To his surprise there are a few shelves with glass doors revealing different kinds of chemicals. The boy can already spot out a few of them that he could use to make his web fluid. He opens his backpack and takes out a few of his own viles with lids.
'Good thing I asked for that chemistry set for my birthday a few years ago.'
He thought to himself while taking various labeled chemicals and pouring them into his viles. He fills about a dozen of his viles before feeling his spider sense warn him that someone is coming. In a hurry he puts all the chemicals away and zips up the backpack carefully. The door to the class opens with a janitor entering the room to clean. The man notices the door to the chemical storage open and inspecrs. He peaks into the storage and sees nothing but the shelves. Before leaving he sprays the glass with cleaning solution and wipes it dry.
When the janitor finished cleaning the room Izuku skillfully falls back to the ground from the ceiling. He looks at his hands and sees that they are invisible again. Closing his eyes he focuses on what his body is feeling to activate the camouflage. His body is slightly shaking and his heart is rapidly beating. He takes a shaky breath and tries to calm himself. Looking back at his hands they come back into view.
'Fear is what makes me go camo on instinct. I need go learn how to do it on command.'
He thinks while opening the window that he came in through just enough to peak outside. He let's a staff member walk by before opening the window and crawling to the roof of the school. Making sure the viles in the bag are safe and the backpack is secured he leaps off the building heading home.
-Midoriya Apartment-
The whole trip took Izuku a little over an hour which surprises him. There is still plenty of time to test out chemical mixures for his web fluid. He takes the viles out of his bag and puts them on a small stand on his desk. Thankfully he had the time to label the viles before leaving the storage. He goes to his closet and takes out the rest of his chemistry set to prepare the experiments. The amount of different chemicals he is looking at fills his head with all kinds of ideas.
Hours pass with Izuku trying different combinations of chemicals to no avail. Each substance came out either too weak or too hard to move with no in between. He also kept a notebook near by to write down what happens to each substance upon air contact or created. He analyzed each one to see how his web shooters would be able to wove the chemical into webs that are strong enough to both swing on and restrain enemies. The calculations are making Izuku appreciate all the hours he's spent studying and developing his gift for analysis.
There is a loud growling sound as Izuku is wearing his mom's cooking apron and oven mits. His face is covered by sunglasses and a medical mask while slowly driping two chemicals into a mixing beaker. He tries to ignore the noise from his stomach and watches the chemicals bubble and turn into a clear liquid. Taking a mixing stick the boy slowly stirs the liquid and pulls out the stick. There is a stickly line connecting the stick to the rest of the liquid. The liquid then starts to harden into a rock like material making him sigh.
He decides to take a break and use the money his mother left to get food. After leaving the apartment he takes to the rooftops and watches the sun set for a moment. The time went by without him knowing how long he was experimenting. He leaps to the next building getting into the rhythm of travel. The sound coming from his stomach is like a battle cry as he wonders what to get for dinner. Suddenly his spider sense goes off making him jump over a bandage like rope flying at him.
He pulls up his hood and uses the darkness to keep his face hidden. There is another person standing on the rooftop next to him. Izuku immediately recognizes the yellow goggles the man is wearing and gulps. The underground hero Eraser Head is standing before him ready to capture him for public use of quirk without a license. Without thinking the greenette starts to run from the man making him groan. Izuku is able to gain some distance thanks to his super human stamina and agility.
Izuku leaps from one building to the next and jumps down into an alley. He sticks to a wall waiting to see if Eraser Head will run past. The tingle in his head tells him that he's not alone so he looks around. He sees glowing red eyes and floating black hair from the hero hanging from the bandage that is wrapped several times around his neck. On instinct Izuku leaps away barely dodging the bandage flying towards him.
'Crap, I should have known I'd get caught sooner or later.'
He thinks to himself while running on walls and jumping to different buildings. He makes it to a different alley and leaves to blend in with people walking around. He ditched his hoodie in the alley taking a risk that it'll throw off the hero. He sees a place that has different kinds of food and snacks making his stomach growl. Entering the store he makes sure to keep his senses open. Deciding on getting pork dumpling to go he makes his order.
While waiting for his food to be made he looks around for snacks and drinks. He grabs a few sweet treats and energy drinks making sure to keep an eye out for Eraser Head. Suddenly he realizes what just happened. He's read the very little articles there are about Eraser Head because of his hate for media and popularity. His quirk allows him to erase the quirk of anyone he keeps his eyes on. The red glow in his eyes and the affect it had on his hair must be the activation of his quirk.
'Why didn't my quirk get erased?'
He thought in confusion. He turns around and sees the man that was chasing him moments ago. Izuku's eyes go wide in shock at being found so quickly that making him almost drop his groceries. The hero looks down at him with a bored almost annoyed expression. The boy doesn't feel his spider sense telling him he's in any danger so he plays the fanboy card.
"Woah, no way! You're the underground hero Eraser Head! Can I please have your autograph?!"
The man looks surprised that someone his age would know who he is. Izuku puts down his groceries and takes out a small notebook from his back pocket. The older man takes the notebook and a marker from the boy, signing a blank page. The boy smiles widely at that and puts the notebook back. He bows to the hero and picks up his groceries. The hero nods and is about to say something but the cook comes out from the kitchen shouting Izuku's order.
"That's me sir. Thank you again so much! I'm training to be a hero too!"
He says to the man before turning and leaving to get his food. The man stares at him running off and shrugs it off. Hero enthusiasts aren't that uncommon nowadays but the boy is the first to know who he is. Izuku takes his food and pays for the rest of the stuff. He quickly leaves the store and makes his way to the train station. His legs are shaking and his breathing is slightly higher than before.
-Midoriya Apartment-
The train ride back was uneventful with Izuku eating one of the dumplings quickly. He put the snacks, drinks, and food away while taking another dumpling and a energy drink. The time is eight in the evening leaving him a couple hours to get some more work done. Deciding to work on the web shooters instead of the web fluid he goes through the scraps he got. The plan is to create a chamber that will weave the fluid into a strand of web with enough PSI to launch it far distanced. Also using small cartridges to change out on the fly will be good too.
He is able to create the chamber with many trial and errors being made. One of the fails led to the whole mechanism overheating and exploding. Thankfully he was able to throw it into the toilet before it went off leaving minimal damage. He takes a green work out arm band and attaches the web shooter to it so he can put it on. When putting it on he notes the design is a bit clunky but should be able to weave and send a good amount of pressure for the web fluid.
'Ok just have to get the right formula for the web fluid then I can take these on a test run.'
He thinks while taking off the band and going back to the different viles. He is nearing the end of the supply that he took, annoying him. The thought of going back to his school and stealing more chemicals passes his head but he shakes it away. Especially not after getting chased by... Eraser Head. He remembers seeing glowing red eyes that had no effect on him. Maybe cause it was dark and the hero didn't see him clearly?
'I should have fell when he saw me. I was still sticking to the wall when his eyes were glowing. And I managed to get away.'
Izuku is very confused on what is happening with his abilities. He seems to have more than one quirk along with it being able to negate Erasure Head's quirk. His projects lay around the room with him gazing at them deep in thought. He closes his eyes and leans back into his chair with a sigh. There's no doubt in the boy's mind that his quirk isn't normal.
There is still a couple hours until his mother gets home from work. He gets up and heads to her bedroom feeling conflicted about snooping around. The feeling that his mother hiding something may be related to why she's been so weird every now and then. Even staying away from him as long as possible it seems like. He looks around the room to see that it's completely clean. Looking around he opens a drawer close to the bed and finds a picture of his mother and father with him as a baby together in a nice portrait.
Before he puts down the photo he can feel something inside the portrait sticking out. After opening the portrait he finds two folded papers that are his quirk registration papers. He looks at them both and notices they are the same paper but with different information. The first one he reads has his quirk labeled wall crawler with all the information and testing that Dr. Tsubasa did. It's what is on the second paper that makes Izuku's stomach drop in shock.
'Why does it say quirkless?'
Haha, cliffhanger ending suckers! I hope that you all enjoyed the chapter as much as I did making it. Hopefully the twist to Izuku's abilities caught some of you off guard. Make sure to leave a review and see you in the next chapter!
