Super Science

Ch 34: A New Home

"Okay, drop the package.", Izuku spoke over a radio as he, Egon, and Hollyhock oversaw the dropping of the tweaked Reset Bomb, now called the Island Bloom, on a boat in the ocean.

Egon and Hollyhock watched as the boy stood unsteady on the ship, despite it not rocking at all, and rubbing the newly formed dark rings under his eyes as he yawned. The two adults look at one another and Hollyhock motions with her eyes. He nods and walks over to the boy. He jumps when the man places a hand on his shoulder and turns around with eyes full of adrenaline like a surprised animal.

"Izuku…are you sure you're okay to be out here?", Egon asks in concern.

Izuku bushes off his hand, waves him off, and replies nonchalantly, "Don't worry Egon, we've taken every precaution possible. Were thousands of nautical miles from any sort of continent and hundreds from a human-inhabited island. Sure the Reset Bomb is much bigger than the last, but we're over a hundred nautical miles from it and pointed in the opposite direction, so if it does get bigger than anticipated we can easily move out of the way. We're literally in the middle of the Pacific Ocean."

"That's not what he's referring to, sugar, and you know it.", Hollyhock interjected with a firm tone.

Egon breathed and tells him, "Izuku, you nearly got killed by some quirk enthusiast. Your mother was crying while holding you for hours as police and heroes investigated the whole thing. It was such a big scandal that every news station is covering it."

"Not very well I might add.", Hollyhock rolls her eyes at remembering how a few news outlets reported on it.

"Aren't you in any way affected by this? What are you feeling?", Egon adds, looking at him with worry and fear.

Izuku looks off the side of the boat, his gaze distant as he replies, unconvincingly, "I feel….fine, just fine. Better to get back in the saddle than let the horse run off on you."

"You didn't have an equestrian accident, you almost died!", Egon exploded, making Izuku jump and look like a frightened rabbit. Egon calms down, breaths deep, and tells him, "Izuku, I'm just worried about you. Most people would be freaking out or trying to hide away after such an event. But not you."

Izuku thinks it over, shrugs, laughs, and tells him, "I guess I'm just built differently? I gotta keep an eye on these readings. 1 minute before sea bottom impact."

Egon and Hollyhock walked out of ear shit as Izuku had his eyes glued to the tracking screen. Once on the other end of the ship, Hollyhock stressed to him, "Egon, I'm worried about him."

Egon nods while putting his hand on his cheek and saying I'm stressed, "Me too Pam. That kid went through a whole lot before I found him. I thought that by redirecting his interests and energy I would be able to help him. But I'm not sure if that's helped completely."

Hollyhock sighs as she looks over at him and says, "We all have to keep an eye on him. I think that the villain's attack might have changed something in him."

Egon nods and replies, "I think so too."

"Uh, professor?", Izuku suddenly calls, making Egon walk over to him where he tells him, "The Island Bloom has reached the sea floor and is quickly expanding up and out."

"That's great to hear! That means it's wor-.", Egon tried to say congratulations before he was cut off.

"I said it was expanding out.", Izuku stated with more firmness and exaggeration.

Egon raised an eyebrow and says back, "I heard you the first time, Izuku."

"Expanding out and fast! We gotta go!", he yells at the man while grabbing him by the collar.

Surprised and then aback by his sudden and rough actions Egon pulls him off and assures him saying, "Go? Izuku, we're over a hundred nautical miles from the drop point, so we should be perfectly safe. The island should be no bigger than 75 to 89 miles wide or long-.", but before he could continue, something forces him to look off the boat a before his eyes he saw an ever-growing and expanding land mass coming towards them! Egon panics and yells, "HOLY SHIT! Punch it, captain! Punch it!"

The captain sees what he's yelling about, panics himself, and kicks the boat up into the fastest gear possible! The boat rocked hard and the scientists on board had to hold on for dear life to keep from being thrown off! The boat pushed through the waves as fast as it could, but with its size, that was easier said than done.

So eventually the rapidly growing island catches up and swallows them up! The boat makes landfall and crashes into the forming land! Causing everyone to black out.


After some time, Izuku wakes up from his blackout session and sits up from the cold deck of the boat to rub his throbbing head. He looked around, seeing darkness and assumed he was dreaming, still blacked out, or his vision hadn't returned yet.

"Oh god, my head. What happened last night?", he asks himself before remembering what happened and shooting his eyes open to look around. From there he tried to find his friends but can't, so he calls out to them in a panic. "Egon?Hollyhock? Captain? Where are you?!", he yells with increasing volume on each name, becoming more and more terrified.

"Right here!", Egon's voice calls out as he pulls himself out from one of the cabins.

"Man that was a ride!", Hollyhock complained as she pulled herself out from some boxes.

Once Egon pulls himself up and out of a cabin he helps the other two. From there he cracks his back and tries to look over the boat to see where they are, but doesn't see anything. Just black darkness.

Had they been unconscious until the middle of the night? Then his nose picks up on two things: dirt and pollen. He looks up and sees bits of light peaking out from something covering them. Then he realizes that they aren't at sea but underneath the canopy of a thick forest. Eventually, the other two realized this and look out with him as he stares in wonder.

"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, wow.", is all Egon can say.

"I think it was far bigger than 89 miles there, professor.", Hollyhock says in a snarky tone.

Egon raised a finger to her and says firmly, "Don't even start, Pam."

"My boat! You brainiacs owe me!", the Captain, who burst out from the control deck, yells at them.

Realizing what their experiment did, Egon assured him, "Don't worry, we can easily compensate you."

"So does that mean we can transport Torch Wick?", Izuku asks.

Egon looks around at the new environment, seeing it still grow in several smaller parts, and tells him, "I'd say we should wait for this place to…ripen a bit before doing anything. For now, let's try and get back to the mainland."


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