Super Science
Ch 22: Last(?) Confrontation
"We are so so sorry for what has happened! Truly!", Nezu exclaimed while bowing on the floor with the other heroes as all three of them attempted to make Bakugou now, all before a very angry-looking Egon.
Next to him in a smaller seat was Izuku who was trying to look away from them, while Egon looked down on them with a repressed expression of rage. The result of all the drama was two destroyed doors, damaged walls, a wrecked office, and a battered-up Bakugou.
Egon drummed his fingers on the desk as he asked, "Oh, and just what exactly are you sorry for, hmm? The destruction of my property, or the harassment and attempted assault of my employee who just so happens to be the vice president of N.I.P!"
"All of it! We're sorry for all of it.", Present Mic told him.
"No, I'm not!", Bakugou yelled while ripping his head up, only to have it slammed back into the floor by the three adults.
Egon glared at the teen and told him, "Just so you know, I'm about two nerves away from making a police report and having your self-entitled ass arrested for what you've done. I have cameras everywhere in this facility! Do you think you'll get away with this? Then try me!"
"Shut up!", Bakugou yelled back in defiance.
"Is that all you can do? Scream, curse, and attack! You're not a person, just a wild animal! Though I shouldn't say that since it's an insult to wild animals!", Egon yelled at him.
"Why you-!", Bakugou tried to defy him again, only to have his face smashed into the ground.
All while Eraserhead hissed, "Bakugou shut up!"
"We are so sorry for his behavior!", Blood Vlad apologized again.
Egon then stood up, put one foot on his desk, and pointing a finger at the boy exclaimed, "I don't wanna hear an apology from you! I want him to show he's remorseful for his actions and beg for my forgiveness. But so far I can't see him capable of such things."
Finally, they allowed the teen to bring his head up and Eraserhead whispered to him, "Say sorry and mean it or you're going to jail!"
Bakugou growled as he tightened his fist, shot up to his feet, and demanded back, "I won't say shit until I get some damn answers!"
Egon groaned in aggravation as he sat back in his seat and rubbed his temples, and listed off, "Oh for god's sake. A wolverine can kill an adult moose. The color of the universe is called a cosmic latte. Apples, peaches, and raspberries are all members of the."
"Not those answers! I'm talking about him! I want answers from him!", he yelled while pointing at Izuku who was trying to stay out of it.
The two of them looked at one another, then Egon looked back at the irate teen and replied, "Well since you two have a history I can see that you would, but that's entirely up to him. After all, no one owes you a thing."
All eyes were on Izuku as he looked down at the desk. He thought it over for a bit, tightened his hands and told them, "Fine, I'll hear you out. But keep it civil. One more outburst and I'm getting the elephant again."
"Honestly I think that's the better option here.", Egon said vexingly.
Before Bakugou could go off and do anything else, Eraserhead pulled him close and whispered, "If you mess this up, it'll be your fault. I'm warning you now, we won't help you."
Bakugou, surprisingly, calmed down as he sat on his chair by the desk with his anger under control. Once everyone else was seated and things were as calm as they could be, Bakugou asked in an aggressive tone, "How the fuck did you get this position at this job!"
"Yeah, I'm a bit curious about that myself. Why is a 16-year-old working for a 30-year-old adult and as a vice president.", Present Mic interjected while narrowing his eyes and leaning right into Egon's face.
Egon twisted the man's nose hard making him back up and Blood Vlad asked seriously, "Is this even legal?"
Egon sighs and assures them, "Yes, it is legal. Izuku has every possible credential he could need to work for me legally. On that note, he's the main reason this place could even be made at all. I might run things, but he's the real brains."
"We're gonna need to see some proof of those 'credentials'.", Eraserhead stated.
Egon sighs and makes a hand motion to Izuku. The teen leaves the room, comes back a few minutes later, and sets a framed degree before them. All the adults look down and their eyes widen in shock!
"Wow! An Honorary Degree!", Present Mic exclaimed.
"It's legitimate if you weren't sure.", Egon told them with a smile.
Bakugou was the most surprised of all of them as the wheels began turning in his head. Once he finally figured out what he was questioning, he looked at Izuku and asked, "Is that what you were doing all along?!"
Izuku looked away and refused to elaborate, feeling as though he didn't deserve confirmation from him. Except for Egon who stated, "That's right bucko. In your last several months of school while you were stomping around acting like the big man you think you are, Izuku was working his ass off to get certified and work with me to get this place off the ground. And all right under all your noses.", he told him while bopping his nose.
"You little-!", Bakugou began to raise his voice.
"Bakugou!", Eraserhead loudly warned him, causing Bakugou to clam up.
"Seriously kid, what's your deal anyway? Sure he managed to accomplish all this under your nose in such a short time. But why is that such a problem for you?", Present Mic asked the angry teen.
"Because someone like him shouldn't be able to accomplish this! EVER! Especially with what he has or rather doesn't have!", Bakugou finally exploded while pointing a convicting finger at the green teen.
Egon raised an eyebrow and asked, "You really are an angry little shit, aren't you? Nothing in life will ever make you happy. You'll just be bitter till the end.", to which Bakugou growled at him.
"Are you talking about his quirk? Is that what this whole thing is about?", Present Mic asked aloud, trying to figure out the reason and upon seeing the teens strange expression at his guess, he asked him, "Don't tell me you're under the notion that a quirk should match the job they do. I mean, what's wrong with it? Is it something useless like- oh I don't know-a crystal creation quirk?", at that moment, Egon, who was holding his coffee mug, broke it into several fragments as crystals began to grow out from his palm. Seeing this, Present Mic turned down his insensitive joke and said in a small shameful voice, "Oh….um…sorry."
Earning him a cold ired glare from Egon's strange eyes .
"Mic. Go stand in the corner.", Eraserhead told him, making the man stand up and walk face first into the nearest corner of the room.
Egon sighed to replace himself and told them, "That was my favorite mug."
"We'll pay for a new one to replace it.", Nezu offered.
"It's the last thing made by my late mother.", Egon replied in an unamused tone.
"Oh….then we really can't.", Nezu stated while trying to hide the nerves in his voice.
"Mic. Stand harder!", Eraserhead shouted as the DJ hero pushed himself harder into the corner.
Blood Vlad sighs and asks Bakugou, "Getting back on track. You think he can't do and accomplish all that you see because of his quirk?"
"I don't think so. I know! And it's not because of his quirk. It's because he doesn't have one! He's a quirkless loser!", Bakugou exposed with a proud shit eating smile to all of them, making all the adults turn their heads to stare at Izuku.
The teen turned his gaze away, feeling embarrassed and making the blond teen smile at seeing his old weakness. Only for the adults to feel a sense of dread as they saw the repressed anger of Egon who was drumming his fingers on his crossed arms. The adults forced Bakugou to sit back down and turn their eyes from the green teen.
"Some 'hero' your training here.", Egon told them in a displeased hum. He then turned his ire to Bakugou and asked, "And what exactly does his quirklessness have to do with anything, hmm? You realize that quirks are more recent in human history than you think and people without them created the modern world that you take for granted?", he groaned in anger as he rubberized head pain and ted at him while stating, "People like you are the whole reason that we as a species haven't evolved past violent monkeys."
But Bakugou wasn't paying attention to him, instead, he was staring directly at Izuku who was still looking away. Their eyes met for a moment, but Izuku looked away with a sour expression which caused Bakugou to explode once more and yell, "I knew all this time you were looking down on me! Weren't you! Admit it you fucking-!"
"Bakugou!", Eraserhead tried to stop him.
Egon finally looses his temper and command, "That's it! Mimicutie, capture mode!"
Without a moment to spare, the large lock box behind them opened up, shot out a long sticky tongue which wrapped around the teen, and caused him to get pulled into it before anyone could blink! The box snapped shut, licked its lid, and burped. Everyone stood in shocked silence at what they saw and didn't dare move or speak!
Until Present Mic did and screamed, "WHAT THE FUCK! You killed him!"
After getting the ringing out of his ears, Egon assured him and explained, "Calm down, he's not dead! Just imprisoned. It's no different than stuffing him in a locker."
"That thing was alive! It had teeth and everything! How is he not dead!?", Blood Blade exclaimed looking ready to fight the box.
"He'd only be dead if was in there for an hour.", Egon told them nonchalantly.
"An hour!", Mic exclaimed.
"Then he'd be nothing but bones in another three.", Egon explains more.
"B-B-B-Bones.", Mic stammers out in fear.
"If you're gonna continue to repeat everything I say, then we'll be here all day.", Egon tells him, already fed up with the gag. After he goes silent, Egon sighs and commands, "Mimicutie, eject."
The box listens and regurgitates the blond teen into the floor, causing it to cough a bit before returning back to normal. Bakugou lays in a heap on the floor in a shock and seemingly unresponsive state.
As Blood Vlad and Eraserhead go to collect him Egon leans towards Nezu and tells him, "Listen Nezu, I don't have the time or patience to deal with things legally so I'm gonna make this real simple for you. Go collect yourselves, your students, that halfwit egotistical future villain you are training and gearing up to legally kill, and get the hell out of my Laboratory!"
Nezu bows before him again and says apologetically, "We understand. Well, compensate you for the damages. Again we are very sorry."
Egon turns away to speak with Izuku as the heroes scrap up Bakugou and make their way out of the office. However, the already-open open automatic door slides shut in their faces. Taking a moment to wait, thinking it was on a sensor or timer, they realized it wasn't.
To which Present Mic brought up and stated,"Uh, Professor Egon. You've made your point, we're going."
"What?!", Egon asked while turning around in his seat.
"You can unlock the door now.", Present Mic told him as nicely as he could.
Egon got up from his seat, marched up to the door, and stated irritated, "It's not-." When he realized the door wouldn't open he dropped off by saying, "Locked?"
He then tried several methods of getting it open, but when it didn't he had to use the manual security code to get it open, where it finally did. Scratching his head he said confused, "I didn't do this."
But before they could question why this happened, red lights filled the room with a loud siren striking their ears.
Warning! Warning! Warning!, Sounded off a prerecorded voice over the speaker system.
"What's that!?", Blood Vlad asked over the loud siren.
"The security system! Something has set it off.", Egon shouted as well while entering the manual alarm shutdown code.
Once the alarms stopped blaring loud enough to split your skull, Egon took the mic for the PA system and announced, "Attention everyone, please calmly make your way to the auditorium, this is not a drill. I repeat this is not a drill."
After a few minutes, everyone in the lab had made their way into the huge and empty auditorium, with the pro heroes and slimy Bakugou, who were talking very loudly over one another in a full blown panick! The pro heroes and the staff of the lab were trying to get the young heroes under control, but that only seemed to make the panic even worse until the echoes caused it to make the empty place even louder than before! At this point, Egon jumped into the stage with Izuku to attempt to grab their attention.
"Everyone. Everyone! EVERYONE!", He tried to shout over them only to get tired of this and yelled as loud as he could, "...QUITE!"
When that didn't work, a gunshot rang through the area, causing everyone to shut up and ducked their heads for cover. When they looked up, they saw Hatsume holding shotgun into the air with a hole in the roof of the auditorium. Cho yanked the gun from his hands and glared at the smiling man.
Izuku was the one to speak and cleared his voice while saying, "Thank you, Hatsume.", The pink-haired man smiled with giving a thumbs up a d Izuku told the crowd, "Now then, I know you're all very confused as to what is happening, and trust us we have everything under control. It was just a slight malfunction in the system so there's no need to panic."
The two owners of the Laboratory were then befuddled by the sight of the crowd looking not at them, but in their direction. The two of them looked at one another, then behind them where they saw a small black hole begging to grow. The two of them backed away from it and off the stage where the pro heroes joined them in defense.
"Professor, is this part of the security system?", Eraserhead asked him.
"I was gonna ask if it was from you guys.", Egon prompted back.
A few moments later and the black hole expands tenfold with glowing yellow eyes. Then a man covered in severed hands, greasy grey hair, red eyes, scratched up neck, and shaggy black clothes emerged from it alongside a whole arm of other weirdly dressed people and a huge monster. The monster was built like a mountain, wearing ripped pants, black skin, an exposed brain, a yellow break, and unblinking eyes. The black hole was the last to show himself as a human-like figure with a head that moved like a flame, yellow eyes, and wearing a bartender suit.
The person covered in hands glared at them and said in a crackling voice, "Hello, heroes."
"Villains!", Exclaimed one of the young heroes, making the pros step in front and ready for a fight.
So I figured it out...yeah. But it was super hard. Oh, and a little tip for all you writers out there. If you have grammarly on your phone, absolutely do not use it! It will mess up everything you have! On the computer is fine. Anyhow, please Review and have a Plus Ultra day.
