Super Science

Ch 37: Research Log, Update.

This is Doctor Izuku Midoriya reporting from the *Yawn* my office. Anyway, a lot has happened here at the laboratory, and *Yawn* man, I need more coffee. It would be best to report on it. So going in no order, as I've already stated in another log, probably, we were attacked when the League of….the….the leagues of….I don't know. Some villains came in when UA went for a trip of some kind, and we weren't prepared. Everyone got out alive except the villains. And we killed the giant monster they brought to kill All Might. It was a whole mess.

We carved up the monster and found out….a bunch of stuff, and…yeah. Oh! Another thing: we found something on the monster's body—a calling card or signature of the person who made it, going by DKG. We're trying to figure out what it meant, but it's not much to work with.

After that, we went on a full-scale modeling of this place, and now it's ten times more secure than before. We have turrets on the roof, new types of plants out front for hidden defenses, an anti-warp quirk generator, defense animals, silent alarms, super locks, sound-based weapons, chemical traps, rail guns, wall spikes, and just about anything you can think of. At this rate, even if we get broken into, they'll be in for a whole world of hurt. Hankoyo is even trying to develop a sound-based forcefield.

Hatsume even perfected his robot designs for all the grunt work and even a small armada of droids used for fighting a small army. He's even started production on a few special ones he called the Assassin droids. Robots have far more human flexibility and lethality, with the downside of very little defense. Still, he has trouble since recreating the human body in a machine is difficult.

Once things were set up, everyone could return to their devices and continue on their previous projects. I haven't had time to do anything since I've been busy with….stuff and things…and giving pointers or helping out with other projects and developments. I really want to work on my stuff, but I always find myself helping someone else or writing down notes on an idea I have and then expanding upon it. Then it becomes too much, and I give it to the rest of the team to see if they want it.

After that, we then set a meeting to discuss the problem with Torch Wick. In short, he's gotten way bigger, way faster than any of us thought. We discussed termination, but in the end, Professor Hollyhock gave us an alternative. She made something called a Reset Bomb, a small device the size of a really big watermelon covered in flora and highly unstable, using a piece of the original Singularity Soul. In short, when this thing hits any area, it'll cause a massive and sudden growth of indigenous plant life.

After that, we tested it in the fallout zone of Hokkaido, and it worked. It worked so well that we decided to scrub clean the radiative zone thoroughly, and now it's safe for rehabilitation. Of course, this caught the government's attention, and they called for a meeting with us. We had prepared for this kind of event, and things went better than expected. Then we decided to go public, and….and….and….

Things didn't go so well. During my speech, a quirk enthusiast tried to kill me but failed to do so. For some reason, he found out I was quirkless. I have no idea how, but he did. I have a hunch it wasn't a coincidence, but the gunman isn't so keen on talking to the police…it was terrifying. It was like looking at K-K-Bakugou again; this time, he was out for blood and more.

After this, Hollyhock made a new Reset Bomb that was more defied. It looked about the same but was far larger. It is around the size of a small car with a larger fragment of the Singularity Soul inside. This one was dubbed the Island Bloom, and as the name suggests, it causes an Island to form in an open space of water. If we had used a normal Reset Bomb to do this, we would have just made a huge coral reef, which could be used to revive the coral reefs worldwide.

We were supposed to throw Torch Wick on there when it sprang up, but Egon said we shouldn't as he noticed, even hours later, that the new Island was still developing. So it needs to "ripen", as he says. It should be ready in a week or so, but I hope it's sooner because Torch Wick is already getting to be the size of Gammoth. As for the island itself, it is quite possibly one of the most geographically marvelous places in the current world. It has so many different biomes in just 4,000 miles. There's a deciduous and evergreen forest, a jungle, a savanna, a desert, a swamp, a wetland, a high mountain with snow, a volcano with active lava flow, and some more I can't remember. From all this, we decided to name it. Atlantis was immediately out since it wasn't located in the Atlantic Ocean. So, instead, we decided to name it Pacifica after the Pacific Ocean.

Anyway, back to what I was saying…what was I saying before? I forgot. Where should I go from here? Oh! I know! I'll report on what everyone did when this place became more fortified.

First is Cho, who I have already stated before about how she outfitted the facility with far more dangerous methods. She's even starting to make a laser gun with Doctor Cluck. Then there's Hatsume, who, as I already said, is creating new and improved robots. Honey Lemon has produced a whole host of different materials from several chemical compounds, such as super adhesive concrete for buildings, an instant air cushion for people who attempt to jump from high places such as suicide and trapped on top of burning buildings, and even a super dissolvent to speed up demolition.

She's even been working closely with Anima on creating a new form of bacteria that eats inorganic matter like plastics, glass, and metal. We finished that one and have purchased Takoba Municipal Park Beach for experimentation.

Hankyo has figured out how to turn a primarily positively or negatively charged Splinter into a base. I'll spare the details, but it doesn't have any effect on causing evolution or quirks. It just gives off the radiation that allows for extra energy when near a living being. When we turned it into a quirk Splinter, we discovered it was far more potent than before. A typical quirk Splinter will allow a person to utilize around 40 to 50 percent of a person's copied quirk, but this one allows the use of 80 to 95 percent. So, we've decided to scrap all our current quirk Splinters and make new ones.

Luckily, Doctor Cluck's intervention now has a foolproof method and machine for producing them in mass stock. What took me months of work can now be done within only a few hours. We've completely remade and restocked and are now making new Splinters by the dozen. This gave me so many ideas that I've given to Cluck, and now she's going absolutely bonkers with it, which, in hindsight, wasn't the best idea.

Pamela has been restocking the greenhouse since the last attack, which is why the outside of the facility is so easily concealed. She made a Willow tree that grabs anything that gets too close. A tree that appears dead at first glance but, when agitated, will reveal a horrifying face that can produce a paralyzing gas and throw homing fruits that can latch on with sharp teeth and explode after a few minutes. Another tree, which I can't remember, makes flowers of different colors with different effects. Several defense cacti and bushes, a rose plant that can cause extreme and uncontrolled aggression, grass that trunks into blades, shrieking flowers, and so much more. Unfortunately, many of the plants she made have been deemed too unsafe to be controlled without her, so they have either been discontinued, destroyed, or are to be sent off to Pacifica.

Speaking of the island, Egon has given Anima full reign to do with it as he pleases. Since it's an island with no indigenous life, it's a blank slate for anyone to create a whole new ecology. You can imagine how he took that; by that, I mean he fainted. Otto was pretty excited, too. He has so many new animals he can put on the island as a way to keep it balanced and protect it alongside the killer plants that will be placed on it. As of right now, the only creatures that will inhabit it in the near future will be Torch Wick, alongside a horde of Dodos and the evolved sheep, which are being used as food for him.

We recently discovered that the new Dodos I made months ago have a rapid lifecycle. After an egg is laid, the chick will hatch in 24 hours and mature into a full-grown adult in a week. How Peet has lived for so long is beyond me. Thanks to this, we can breed and cultivate more dodo meat to be sold.

Anyhow, before this news was given to the Creature Division, Professor Genus had discovered and proved the Aquatic Ape theory. He created a living mermaid by testing some of the Evolution Splinters with a host of different primates and subjecting them to environmental stimuli. Currently, a small pod consisting of a dozen is swimming in a large pool in the facility. But since we don't have the heart to kill them, they, too, will be sent off to Pacifica with another new aquatic species.

Genus also decided to investigate the Terrestrial Fish theory and created Sirens from a group of lungfish. I have the descriptions of both creatures, but….I think something is wrong with my eyes. I can see the paper.

… I think I'm going to end it here. End of…whatever.

Izuku turned off the mic and put the papers he was holding down on the table. He rubbed his eyes and tried to look at them, but no matter what distance he looked at it, short or long, he just couldn't make them out. What was happening to him?

He felt his stomach twist into painful knots that nearly made him double over in pain, and he threw up into a nearby trash can! He tried to sit back up in his chair but found his limbs so weak that he couldn't even pull himself up. He tried to look at the computer screen but only saw a fuzzy light.

His head began to spin, and the sound of his heartbeat began to block out all the noise! At that moment, he could only rationalize that he just needed more coffee.

So he stood up with all his might, legs that felt like they were stung with needles and made of jelly. He looked over to the other side of the desk, where he saw his half-finished coffee. He tried to walk over to it, one arm on the desk and the other stretched out to try and grab it. But the few feet felt like yards, and waves of pain and nausea hit him with even a slight movement until he looked up and saw the room spinning.

He saw everything and nothing simultaneously and then blacked out!

That's where Honey Lemon found him. He sprawled out on the office floor, his face pale as a sheet. Then, she altered the rest of the facility when she screamed.