Super Science
Ch 42: A Strange Find
"Izuku! Izuku!", Chopper exclaimed as he bounded into his office one morning.
"Oh, good morning Chopper.", Izuku greeted him as he turned around in his chair.
"Let's get Breakfast together!", Chopper offered in excitement.
Izuku smiles and replies, "That sounds great. I forgot to eat before coming here. What did you have in mind?"
"Cotton candy!", Chopper exclaimed excitedly without missing a beat while jumping into the air, thinking of his favorite food.
Izuku sweat drops but keeps smiling as he tells him, "That's not…that's not a breakfast food, Chopper."
"Ice cream!"
"No."
"Candy."
"Nope."
"Chocolate?"
Izuku sighs as he puts on an exhausted expression, telling him, "You can't have sugar first thing in the morning.", Chopper looks down in disappointment but Izuku quickly changes his tune and informs him, "But you can cheat it with donuts."
"Donut!?", Chopper asked back inquisitively.
Seeing he had no idea what he was talking about, Izuku explained, "Yeah, they're like little tire-shaped pastries with just about anything on or in them. I know a place that sells American-style meals. We can get donuts there."
"YAY!", Chopper cheered while jumping up into the air.
Before leaving the facility ground, Izuku dawned a simple disguise since he was afraid of being spotted by any more quirk activists. Forgoing the lab coat and wearing some of his more plain clothes while wearing sunglasses and a sick mask. After some time, the two boys made their way to the restaurant that Egon frequents. Once they had a seat and got their food, Izuku was surprised by what Chopper got. While he had a plate of eggs, bacon, sausage, toast, hash brown, and a pancake; Chopper on the other hand had over two dozen doughnuts, pancakes with chocolate chips, chocolate syrup with whipped cream, and a huge glass of chocolate milk.
Izuku was equally impressed and disgusted by the amount and how fast he ate it all. It was like watching a shonen protagonist scarf down food after a long battle. From the amount of sugar alone he was consuming, his orange juice looked too sweet to drink. But no matter what, the reindeer didn't slow down.
"Easy Chopper, you're gonna choke.", Izuku tried to warn him until he stopped and made a face. Izuku sighed as he watched his little friend chug down the chocolate milk to help pass the food down. "Told you so.", He groaned.
After taking a breath from the food going down, he gasped before exclaiming with tears in his eyes, "But it's so good!"
Izuku just sighs as he picks at his food, watching the little animal continue to scarf down the remains of his breakfast. After a bit of silence, Izuku inquired, "Hey Chopper. Why did you wanna become a doctor?"
At this point Chopper has polished off all his plates and looked down at the table while answering, "It's a bit personal, but I'll tell you if you tell me.", Izuku nods and Chopper tentatively sips his chocolate milk while saying, "It goes back to my earliest memory.", Izuku almost regrets asking now, knowing he was in for an origin story. "I was once a normal wild reindeer when a strange gas hit my herd. I found out later it was the government trying a bioweapon that could potentially cause the awakening of Quirks inside a dormant body. Out of everyone in the herd, I was the only one affected…at least until I hit four.", Chopper tells him.
Stopping him for a moment he inquired, "Four in human years or reindeer?"
Chopper blinks twice, thinks, then says, "Yes? Anyway, I gained self-awareness one day and my body changed. With this, plus my small size, I was kicked out of my herd. But being able to take a human form, the local people tried to hunt me down. Until I found someone…special.", He trails off with a sad nostalgic smile before continuing, "His name was Hiriluk. He was my mentor and father. He gave me my love of medicine and my goal. But that goal was only strengthened when something awful happened.", Izuku leaned in, more curious than before as Chopper withheld his emotions and explained, "Hiriluk…became ill with a disease that had no cure. I was young and dumb as I tried to find a cure and accidentally stumbled upon a medical book on poison plants. So I went out to find it, found my old herd, nearly died, and brought him the mushroom. He cried, hugged me, ate it, and…and…", he trailed off while tears ran down his face.
Izuku saw this, almost panicked, but told him "You don't have to finish that. But…why did you think a mushroom would be his cure-all?"
Chopper sniffed back his feelings as he told him, "Hiriluk showed me his stamp of honor, a Jolly Rodger, called it his calling card of health. So that when anyone sees it, they'd see only their health on the horizon."
"A skull and crossbones.", Izuku realized where the mistake was.
Chopper nods then finishes, "Then Doctrine took me in as her apprentice and we came here.", After breathing deeply to calm himself he asks, "What about you."
Izuku laughed dryly and admitted, "Not half as bad as yours. But I wanted to be a hero since I was little, but I couldn't."
Chopper blinks in confusion then remembers, "That's right. You're quirkless, aren't you?"
Izuku nods sadly and explains, "I was picked on and bullied mercilessly by all. Even by my own best friend.", This fact surprised Chopper and his mouth went open in shock as Izuku continued, "But I never gave up until….I did and tried to end it all.", This shocked him again but he didn't dare say anything, winded he had no idea what to say. "But Egon found me, and saved me, and gave me new hope! I'm grateful to him…forever.", Izuku told him with a sad nostalgic smile.
"I feel the same about Hiriluk and Doctrine.", Chopper agreed with him.
After a very long session of silence between the two, Izuku finally finished his food and offered, "Let's go back to the facility. It has been a while."
"Yeah.", Chopper agreed, looking and sounding just as sad as he.
After Izuku paid and the two began to walk back to the facility in silence at the reemerges of their old wounds, mixed with regret for asking about it, they were stopped in the street out of nowhere.
"Hey you!", A voice called out, causing the two to turn around and see a guy approaching them as he asked, "You're that Midoriya Doctor guy. Aren't you?"
Izuku got a bit nervous but he played it off as calmly as he could, waving his hands and cracking his voice, answering, "Ha ha. Sorry, I think you have mistaken me. Well, I gotta-."
Before he could run off with Chopper, he ran into someone who was directed behind him and found three other people blocking their path and surrounding them. One of the people turned their hands into a blade and sliced off his sick mask and sunglasses, revealing his face.
They all sneered at him with sinister smiles as the blade guy said, "Nah, you're the guy. The quirkless little rat who thinks he can have such a high station in our society."
"Look, I don't want any trouble.", Izuku said while putting his hands up defensively.
"But we do, see?", One of the other guys said while turning their hands into guns.
"What do you even want with me? What have I ever done to you?", Izuku exclaimed.
"You exist, simply as that. Your whole existence is a complete abstract of nature!", the gun-handed man told him in a half yell.
"And we, card-carrying members of the MLA, have a duty to get rid of scum like you!", said the sword-armed person.
Chopper jumped in front of Izuku and proclaimed, "Keep away from Izuku! He's a great person! You're the one who's scum! If you wanna get to him, you'll have to go through me first!"
"Chopper-.", Izuku attempted to dissuade him.
But one of the thugs told him, "That's the plan. The MLA also deals with unnatural mutants like you, tanuki."
Chopper looked down at the ground as the gun-handed man pointed his weapons at them. Gripping his hooves and saying with an angry, shaky voice, "I'm…I'm a reindeer!", just before the gunman could fire at them, Chopper yelled, "Guard Point!"
And suddenly Izuku was swallowed up by a sea of light brown fur as he heard the gunshots go off only for the sound of something bouncing being heard! Managing to get his face out of the fur he saw Chopper's face sticking out of it. Pushing against the fur body, Izuku noticed how springy it was, but dense.
"Woah! I didn't know you could do this?", Izuku exclaimed in amazement.
"I can do way more.", Chopper told him as the huge fur ball receded into him while putting his hooves together in a small opening shape, looking through it he called out, "Scope.", Chopper looked over at their assailants and then stated, "Ah ha!"
The gunman shook himself out of his shock and pointing his weapon at them he announced, "You'll pay for that, raccoon dog!"
Chopper ran up to the man and suddenly changed forms again while yelling, "Heavy Point!"
From a small reindeer human to a huge man-like creature that vaguely resembled Bigfoot with a more human version of a choppers face formed with bulging muscles. Catching the man off guard by his transformation, he turned his hand into a fist and bringing it down on his head yelled, "Heavy Gong!"
The man spat out blood from the crushing blow to his head and passed out! Chopper quickly turned around and ran to two of the men, making them cower by his huge form! Chopper then transformed again and called, "Walk Point!"
Chopper then turned into what looked like a normal reindeer and charged at the two men at top speed! Launching off his feet he transformed again, this time into what looked like a teenage version of Chopper with antlers three times the size of his body! He yelled out while crashing into the men, "Horn Point! Horn Cannon!"
Ramming into the two of them with great force they flew across the street before slamming into a wall where they both passed out!
"How the hell is he doing that!?", one of the goons announced as he turned his head into an old cannon and yelled, "Take this!", the shot was fired and the shocked Chopper appeared to be sucked into the attack! "Got it!", cheered the man at the smoking spot.
Suddenly the smoke began to stir and out popped a very unusually shaped Chopper who kinda looks like an egg. Taking a familiar fighting stance he said, "Kung Fu Point."
Chopper then bounces towards the cannon man and begins to hit him with a flurry of Kung Fu attacks until he falls over in seconds from the flurry of blows. However, he didn't notice another goon coming from the side.
But Izuku does and yells, "Chopper, look out!"
Chopper turns his head and sees the man fast approaching with malicious intent until a spider web comes from nowhere and tarps the man against the building, saving the reindeer's life!
Surprised by this, he looks around to see who saved him, only to see Izuku standing at the opposite end of the attack with his hand stretched out with webs coming out of it.
His mouth shot open in surprise and babbled, "Izuku! What's-?"
"Spider Web Splinter. Egon told me to not leave the lab without a Splinter.", Izuku explains quickly before pointing behind him where a giant person was caught in the webs and trying to free himself. "But listen, this guy is too big to take down. But I have an idea.", Izuku quickly says as Chopper smiles.
The giant troll man finally breaks free from the webs and looks around to see an idly standing Izuku he looms over him while stating, "Ha ha! All alone, just like any quirkless runt!", he then quickly surveys the area and asks him, "Hey where'd the raccoon go?"
Izuku pouts and then tells him off, "He's not a tanuki. He's a-."
"Reindeer!", Chopper announces as he bursts from the ground with Horn Point.
Suddenly the ground gives out under the giant man and he falls to his chin where he knocks it hard, stunning him. From there Chopper turns into Walk Point and grabs Izuku on his back where he runs around the giant while Izuku secured him down with more webs. After going around twice they finally stop. Izuku jumps off Chopper as he turns back into his Brain Point.
"Now you hold tight until the cops get here.", Izuku tells the roll before turning to Chopper and telling him, "Chopper, we did it!"
Chopper seems a bit perplexed by this until he realizes it and gets just excited as he is, exclaiming, "We did? Yeah! I guess we did!"
Chopper then jumps into Izuku's arms while they both dance and spin and laugh and cheer at their victory while the troll just looks at them in frustration.
Izuku puts the reindeer down and praises him, "And you were amazing! How'd you do all that?"
"You thought it was amazing?", Chopper asks in confusion before he starts to get giddy and dances while curing him, "Ah don't be stupid you idiot. You can't praise me. I won't be affected at all by your affections, you big dumb-dumb."
"Yeah, you are showing it.", Izuku sweat drops as he watches his tone and body not match his words.
Just then the troll person broke free from his web restraint and picked himself out of the hole, looming over the two while boasting, "That wasn't half bad, kids. But it'll take more than that to keep me down."
"Oh crap!", Izuku yelled while cowering.
"Any last words.", the troll asked them as he smiled with his sharp teeth.
Chopper then reached into his hat, pulled out an orange collared ball, and popped it into his mouth he said while crunching down on it, "Rumble Ball."
At that moment, Chopper began to grow and grow and grow until he outsized the troll man. His antlers grew large and twisted, his body shaggy, and his form like that of a twisted depiction of a wendigo.
"Wha-! What the!?", the troll cried in shock while looking up at the monster.
Chopper roared and reeled his hand back while yelling, "Cloven Rose Palm!"
Chopper hit the troll square in the face with his open hoof hand and knocked him so hard he went down in one blow! The huge monster then turned around and loomed over Izuku who was starting and standing idly in a mix of shock and horror!
Gulping, he asked cautiously, "C-Chopper?"
Chopper smiles and says back, "It's okay, Izuku."
Quickly calming down he gets excited and calls out, "Woah! I don't even know where to start! But you look so cool!"
Once again his eyes light up and he begins to get all giddy and dances while insulting him, "Oh stop it you fool. You can't make me feel all giddy over your compliments."
Izuku laughs awkwardly before he feels the ground underneath him start to crack and give in. He looked down seeing the fast forming cracks and exclaimed, "Uh, Chopper. I think we should go."
Chopper stops his dancing and looks down seeing the ground give out under him! He panics and turns back into his Brain Point! Even with the weight reduction, Chopper landing on his feet was enough to finally make the ground break apart and send the two of them falling into the sewer system of Japan! Luckily the fall wasn't very hard or long so they didn't get hurt, especially since the sweet water below broke some of the fall.
Izuu got up while rubbing his back and complaining, "Well that was unpleasant."
Chopper also arises from the water and shakes himself off apologizing, "Sorry. I always forget how much Monster Point weighs."
Izuku tries his best to wring out the sewage and tells him, "Well let's get out of here and back to the lab before Egon freaks."
"I think he'll do that anyway when he finds out.", Chopper tells him before his ears perk up and he says, "What was that?"
"What?", Izuku asks back.
"I heard something.", Chopper tells him, making Izuku stand on edge as the reindeer looks around with his ears before pointing to a spot and shouting, "There!"
Izuku took hold of the Splinter and called out while holding his hand and demanded, "Come out! I don't wanna hurt you!", just then a small child peaks around from behind a corner, her face wet with tears as Izuku calms down and says, "It's just a child."
"Thank goodness.", Chopper sighs with relief.
Izuku puts his hands down and holds them out while going down to her level and saying in a calmer tone, "H-Hey, it's okay. I'm not gonna hurt you. You just scared me. That's all."
Bit by bit the girl comes out of her hiding spot and walks towards Izuku through the sludge until she finally rests her tiny hands on his larger one. There she tears up and asks, "H-Help me."
"Of course, I'll help you. Don't be afraid.", he tells her while taking her into his arms and asking, "Did you lose your mommy?"
"If she did, I think Doctrine would like to have a word with her foot to her face.", Chopper tells him while looking over the girl's less favorable condition.
"What's a mommy?", the girl asks back.
The two boys' eyes widened with shock and Chopper states, "That's not a good sign."
"Then what's wrong?", Izuku prompts her further.
She sniffles a bit before saying vaguely as she looks behind her, "He…he's coming."
"Who?", Chopper inquired.
"The bad man with the mask!", she exclaimed.
Izuku pets the panicking girl's head and tells her reassuringly, "Don't worry. I'll protect you from that man. We'll take you to a safe place."
"We will!?", Chopper exclaimed.
"Yes of course we will.", Izuku stated back firmly. "What's your name?", he asks the girl gently.
"E-Eri.", she answers.
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