Super Science

Ch.114: An (Un)honorary Date

"Izuku. I mean, doctor Midoryia.", Melissa called out from Izuku's open office door as she moseyed on in with a bright smile and pleasant demeanor.

Izuku, who had been looking at his papers spread across a new, larger desk placed in the center of his office space, told her, "It's okay, Melissa. You can call me Izuku. What's up?"

The girl nodded in agreement and placed several large manila envelopes in front of him while saying, "I got those documents for you."

"Thanks a bunch. I really needed them," Izuku said with a big and sparkling expression as he wasted no time ripping them open and organizing them amongst the mess on the table.

Just before leaving, Melissa stopped and turned around to ask, "Do you mind if I ask what you're doing? I kinda thought you were doing stuff to help heroes, but what you got seems a bit…complicated." She said this while trying to wrap her head around all the nonsense scattered about the table.

"Aiding heroes is one thing that's easy for me. Plus, I kinda realized that I have to think bigger and not just for heroes but for everyone!", Izuku explained with his arms up and waving around whimsically.

Melissa took a shocked expression and stated, "That's quite a goal. What exactly are you trying to do?"

"Here are the cliff notes," Izuku told her while handing her a folder with about five pages in it.

Looking through the folder, Melissa's eyes grew wider and wider with each sentence read. Finally, she had to pull her face away and close the folder to keep from getting her mind blown any further.

After shaking off the initial shock, she told Izuku, "Oh wow! You really are trying to make something big! Do you think you can actually do it?"

"If we can do what we've done so far, then this should be no different. It'll just take longer.", Izuku explained, making Melissa think about it for a while.

He was right. They were able to do some crazy stuff here; they just had to plan carefully so no accidents would arise. So, what Izuku was planning was completely within the range of possibilities. They just had to figure out how to do it. Doing stuff on earth was one thing, but this was far outside the parameters of that.

So she made up her mind and asked, "Do you mind if I help you?"

Izuku looked at her with surprise before shaking her head and saying, "Of course not. I'm always happy to have a second opinion."

With that, she sat down, and Izuku walked her through what everything meant, what he needed help with, and other such stuff. It was hard to take in all at once, but if Izuku could navigate this, then she could, too!

A Few Hours Later

Izuku and Melissa finally finished the set of papers they were working on and decided to take a break. There were now three hours until closing hours, so no one would mind them needing a little downtime, especially after all they had done—doing more work in one sitting than most could do in a week.

Melissa stretched out her arms and legs as she stood up and complained, "Wow! That was a lot of work! It didn't even feel like we did anything."

Izuku, who was also doing some stretches after being so stiff and still, said, "That's normal. And I got so much more done thanks to you." Melissa didn't look too convinced, so he followed up, saying, "Besides, this is just the planning phase. Then we have to do the setup and the testing."

But before he could rant on and on, Melissa, shocked by the amount of stuff, interjects and says, "Geeze, and I thought working in the interdimensional department was a pain."

"Hey, don't downplay your work. You helped a great deal in opening the way to interdimensional travel. You should be proud.", Izuku praises her.

"Thanks," Melissa says with a smile and a slight blush on her cheeks. It was then that the two of them realized how close they were, especially near the face, and they both stepped away in embarrassment. Deciding not to let the tension set in, Melissa offered, "Say, would you like to…get something with me?"

"Sure.", Izuku agreed while trying to keep his eyes away from her as his face grew hotter.

The two teens then went to the cafeteria, where they shared a small Japanese dinner together before having dessert. Izuku had a large cone of chocolate, while Melissa had a small bowl of vanilla with every possible topping.

"It's been so long since I've had ice cream. I almost forgot what it tasted like.", Izuku said with a contemptuous sigh.

Melissa licked her lips, held her cheek, and sparkled with joy. She said, "Dad always limits the amount of sweets I eat, even on I-Island."

"Didn't you have machines like this to give you all the sweets you wanted? " Izuku asked in confusion.

"Yeah, but my Dad had them on lockdown, and only he knew the code. He was always a step ahead of me," Melissa said with a small nostalgic chuckle.

"I see where you get your intelligence from," Izuku said back with a small chuckle, making the girl smile at his praise.

Just then, Melissa saw something that would give her the chance she had been looking for all day. Taking the opportunity by the horns, she said, "Hey, Izuku." Izuku stopped eating and looked at her as she told him, "You got a little something on your face." Izuku felt around his face but got nothing, so Melissa offered, while holding a napkin, "Here, let me get it."

But instead of wiping the ice cream from his face, Melissa began to lean in. Izuku only caught onto what was happening when their faces were inches apart! Was this happening? What's this really happening? Was Melissa about to kiss him? Did she like him? Was he supposed to be the one who initiated it? Was he supposed to lean back? Should he kiss her? What should he do!? But Izuku just ignored his thoughts and closed his eyes, letting it happen.

But before anything could happen, a voice called out from the cafeteria, yelling, "Ice cream!" "Ice cream, Ice cream, Ice cream, Ice cream!"

Both teens turned away from one another in surprise and looked out to see Chopper happily bouncing inside the cafeteria and grabbing himself a large serving of ice cream with more toppings than Melissa. Once he had his food, drooling and sparkling with joy over it, he saw Izuku and Melissa at a nearby table with red faces.

Walking over to join them, he greeted them, "Oh! Hi Izuku. Hi Melissa."

"Hi, Chopper.", Izuku said a bit too fast with a face as red as a tomato.

"Hello, Chopper," Melissa said in frustration with an unpleasant tone between her grit teeth.

Chopper, none the wiser to what he interrupted, set his ice cream down and began to inhale it in front of the two. Seeing that the moment was gone, Melissa changed her tactics. Turning to Izuku, she asked, "Izuku, could you help me with something?"

The teen nods, and the two leave the cafeteria to get into another…situation. Unfortunately, no matter what the two did or where they went, every time they were in the perfect…position, something or someone would come along to ruin the whole thing, only to restart the cycle over and over until the end of the day.

First, it was the interdimensional department where they got caught in a scene of kaboton, with Izuku being pressed against the wall. Only for the moment to be broken when Wily, who was trying to fix something, had a eureka moment and began to laugh loudly.

Then it was the Robotic department where Izuku had fallen on top of Melissa, only to be blasted off as Hatsume tested his newest hovering technology device.

After that, it was the sound department when the two of them got caught very closely in wires. Hankoyo, testing his hover technology, blasted them apart again, much to the detriment of their eardrums.

Last came the animal department, where Izuku caught Melissa before she fell off a high place. Holding the girl up was the perfect moment to embrace, only for Gammoth to come out of her enclosure and grab up Izuku with joy at seeing him again.

So, the two went back to Izuku's office, where they sat at the big desk with exhaustion and frustration on their faces. Then Melissa noticed something. They were all alone. There was no secondary party to interrupt them again. They could finally have their moment.

But just before Melissa could try anything, Izuku's office door flung open, and a familiar figure burst in, yelling, "What's good, you guys!"

Melissa slammed her hand on the table while Izuku jumped in his seat at the suddenness of the entry. Looking at the door, the teen saw it was the half-demon, or Ophilim, Angelo, the one who had broken in earlier in the month and tried to kill Dante.

"Ah! Angelo!? What are you doing here?", Izuku exclaimed in fright with a bright red face after Melissa tried to make another move on him.

"Can't a guy just pop in to say boo?", Angelo said coyly.

But before Izuku could open his mouth to say anything else, his phone rang in his pocket. Picking it up, he heard Egon on the other end telling him to meet him in his office. Disconnecting the line, he put the phone away and said, "I've gotta go. It was fun, Melissa. Let's do this again."

She quickly brought her head up and smiled at Izuku while nodding and waving him off as he left. Once gone, she turned her expression to ire and glared daggers at the demon. Something that didn't go unnoticed by him as he looked over at her hateful glance and smiled mischievously at her.

She snorted and growled at him, "What do you want, devil?"

"Demon. Not devil. People really need to know the difference. There is only one devil, and he's a prick.", Angelo corrected her with a defiant huff.

'Then you two must be close.', she thought in her head.

"I heard that!", Angelo angrily yelled at her, as if reading her mind.

After blinking in confusion, she asked in a serious tone, "What do you want? Like, what do you really want?" She made her hands into duck shapes and pointed them at the teen.

"I want a whole bunch of things, but I'm sure none of you can provide them. No, I'm here on business," Angelo told her while making several hand gestures and body movements.

It was apparent he couldn't sit still.

"Business?", Melissa questions.

He explained further, measuring his fingers, "The angelic council has decided to make a slight change to the situation regarding your pet Cambion."

"He's not a pet and-wait, you're not gonna kill him, are you?!", Melissa suddenly exclaimed in fear, looking at the panic button from across the room.

Luckily, Angelo knew what she was thinking and blocked her off while further explaining, "No, no, no! They just want me to check up on him every once in a while to make sure he's not doing anything funny and to take care of it how I see fit."

"Dante is not going to do anything.", Melissa vehemently argued while crossing her arms.

"Like it or not, he was born a demon and was raised in hell for his entire life. He's not all sunshine and rainbows up in the attic.", Angelo argued while pointing to his head and making a coo-coo sign as his eyes spun.

"Self-projecting much?", Melissa shot back while leaning up at him.

Angelo lost his coy and playful demeanor as he said, "Okay, what's up with you, girly? Your tubes in knots or something?"

"I'm not PMSing!", Melissa yelled at him while trying to get up to his face.

"Well, you sure look like someone who's been massively cucked...oh my God.", Angelo began to say until he realized something and exclaimed with excitement, "You and greenie were having a moment, weren't you! I thought I smelled sexual frustration!", he stated while tapping the side of his nose.

Melissa's face grew red as she slapped her hands over his mouth and exclaimed, "Will you shut up!"

But Angelo pulled her hands off and said, "Hey, I get it, Blondie."

"What? What do you get!?", she asked in confusion.

Angelo smiled devilishly, and with whimsy in his honeyed voice and finger wiggles, he began to spin with his silver tongue: "You want to run your fingers through those luscious green locks, stare deeply into those two round gems in his face, caress his plump freckled cheeks, and those perfect pink kissable lips."

As Angelo began to describe each and every one of these things, Melissa couldn't stop her mind from iminating before her mind flew away. Looking more and more lost with each word and every picture that formed in her mind. A blush and smile grew ever bigger as she fantasized about doing all he said.

Seeing her caught in his trap, Angelo went in for the kill with a toothless smile and quickly added, "Makes you wanna shove your tongue down his throat and-!"

Angelo then watched in delight at seeing Melissa imagine exactly as he said, her blush turning from pink to red and her mind coming back to reality as a stream came out of her ears! She whipped her head to Angelo, and before he could go any further, she pulled a zipper from her pocket, threw it over his mouth, and zipped it closed!

"Zip it! What's wrong with you!?", she yelled at him while trying to get the image of her and Izuku tongue wrestling out of her head.

Angelo then tried to unzip the zipper from his mouth but couldn't. So he tried to pull it off but ended up putting his whole mouth away. He pealed his mouth off the zipper, and holding it in his hands, he explained, "I like him too." Hearing this, Melissa made a horrified expression as Angelo fixed his mouth back to his face, where he inquired, "Is it so hard to believe?"

"Yes! You're an adult, you pedo!", she yelled convincingly while pointing a finger at him.

But Angelo looked unimpressed by this display and slapped her finger aside while stating, "I'm 19 tits for brains, and he's almost 17. It's not that weird." Melissa still didn't look impressed, so Angelo argued back, "Besides, you're one to talk. Aren't you also 19?"

"I only turned 19 a few days ago. It's not the same!", Melissa yelled while shaking her fists.

"It sounds like double standards to me. And I turned 19 a few weeks ago," Angelo said in a sing-song tone while vexing the girl.

Melissa snorted in anger at him, pouting her cheeks as she demanded, "Why do you even like him?!"

Angelo then took a nostalgic expression and said with no shame, "Because he reminds me of myself not so long ago. And because of that, I want to give him all sorts of things! Like hugs, self-esteem, and blow jobs. Lots and lots of blow jobs."

"Please stop talking.", Melissa said with a small, horrified expression.

"I wanna suck all the self-doubt out of him until only the self-respect remains and-!", Angelo began to double down with a thirsty expression as Melissa stopped him once more.

"I said shit up!", she yelled while slapping the same zipper to his mouth again. Once quiet, she asked in a half-yell, "Geez, what is wrong with you?"

Instead of removing his mouth from his face and the zipper, Angelo sucked it in and swallowed it up. There, he said with a sarcastic tone, "Where should I start?"

Melissa rolled her eyes at his quirky repertoire and told him, "Listen, I know your game. I know your kind too well!"

"That's quite homophobic of you," Angelo shot back in a playful tone, shaking his hips.

"I meant as a demon.", Melissa said in an unamused tone.

"Oh, then continue.", Angelo prompted her.

Giving off an irritated sigh, she body stated, "You just wanna use him once, and that's all. Get in your sick kicks and toss him to the side when you're bored."

Angelo considered her words for a moment but ended up informing her untimely, "Under normal circumstances, you'd be correct. But I'm not normal, and I don't want to just smash and dash. I want to smash smash smash smash smash, and smash some more!"

Melissa just looked at him in disgust as he diluted himself as a freak more and more and asked, "Have you no shame!?"

"No, it died alongside my sense of morality.", Angelo said as easily as any other sentence. Seeing her flash of thought and emotions, Angelo toned it down, and with a roll of his eyes and gestures of his hands, he said, "Look, sweetheart, I genuinely do like Izuku. Plain and simple. I want to be with him."

"And marry him?", she inferred.

Angelo made a shocked expression while waving his hands and telling her, "Oh God no! Marriage is off the table, especially for me. I'm a free spirit, and nothing can hold me down for long."

"That's one way of saying you're a slut.", Melissa chastised him.

Angelo smiled and, with a wink, said, "I never denied that claim. Plus, I'm immortal, so my time with him would be a flash in the grand scheme of my life."

Melissa just stared at him for several seconds before replying in a small tone, "That's…. actually kinda depressing."

"So that's why I want to make the best of it before he finds someone else.", Angelo finished off while trying to hide the depression in his voice.

Then Melissa informed him, trying to deter his fixation, "You do realize he's a Christian now. You're playing a dangerous game."

Angelo smiled wickedly while blushing as he flicked a forked tongue, zealously telling her, "That's why I find it so enticing. You can't say danger without saying excitement!"

Melissa sighs and drops sweat at him while stating, "You actually can't. Anyway, what makes you think you can get him? What do you have that I don't?"

"Do you really want me to say it?" he asked, leaning down to her with a raised eyebrow.

"Besides sexual organs.", she shot back while rolling her eyes with hands on her hips.

Angelo chuckles and explains, "Oh, lots and lots, sweetie. I'm just oozing with natural rizz for one. No man or woman can resist my charms.", he explained while doing several poses.

Melissa, not at all impressed or even allured by him, groans in aggravation and asks, "Why are you so freaking horney and sexual all the time? It's like you're some kind of succubus."

"You got that right.", he suddenly agrees

Taken off guard by this, she asks back, "Got what right?"

"I'm half succubus on my mom's side.", he explained simply.

Melissa blinked at him a few times, her mouth hung open as she said, "This explains a lot, but you do realize he likes girls."

Angelo shrugged at this reprimand and argued, "So did I until I got my first kiss, and everything changed! Also, that's not a problem for me." He said with an insisting tone before suddenly flipping his hair in front of her face and turning into a stunning young woman while still wearing his normal outfit.

Melissa stared at him for a long while, her expression aggravated, as she gripped, "Of course, you can change your gender."

Flipping his hair and gender back to normal, he comes close to her and offers, "Look, cutie, let's make a deal."

"No thanks.", she immediately denies while trying to walk away.

Only for him to move in front and explain in more detail, "Not a demonic deal. A regular one. You and I compete to see who can get Izuku to swoon for them more. First to hold hands, get a kiss, first to…you know.", he says with a knowing look and tone, making Melissa blush at the implications, where he followed up by asking, "What do you say? Sounds fun?"

Melissa thought about it for a while and almost wanted to deny it. But she knew to him that he was admitting defects and that he would pursue Izuku despite her efforts. She could do this, right? After all, she and Izuku already connected and spent time together. He's new, has no connection, and is nothing but eye candy. She had this in the bag!

"You're on! But I'm definitely going to win! I almost kissed him several times today," she boastfully bragged.

"Almost doesn't mean you did.", Angelo teased her back, making the girl pout. Angelo then turned around and flashed a peace sign while saying, "Tootles?" and vanished into smoke.

Meanwhile, from behind a wall just outside of Izuku's office, the talk of the topic himself was standing with his back against the wall with the door still open. He had come back as soon as he left to grab something he had forgotten, but he stopped from entering when he heard the two talking. Curiosity turned into regret, And regret turned into embarrassment as he heard the two people speak about their infatuation with him. Something he wasn't used to hearing, so he did the only thing he could in this situation and promptly overheated before short-circuiting and falling to the ground.