"Nitroglycerin..?"
Izuku took a breath in and out as he reads the same word again.
"Nitroglycerin!?"
Izuku shouted last time, Tsubasa turns around with the mug in his hand
"Izuku, why're you-" Tsubasa sees him holding the police report, he quickly drops the mug, it shatters on the floor. "Izuku. Don't read anymore of that."
It was too late though, Izuku puts his hands on his head, it felt like his head was about to explode as a switch in his head flipped.
"NITROGLYCERIN!?" he screams at the top of his lungs as he punches down on the desk with all of his force, the desk dented and knuckle bloody.
"Izuku, please just-" Tsubasa tries to say as Izuku holds a hand out in his direction and before he knows it, he's swept off his feet and flies into Izuku's outstretched hand, which was now tightly gripping at the scruff of his lab coat. Izuku's usually calm emerald eyes now blazed with fury.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU SHOW ME THIS!? YOU DON'T THINK I DIDN'T DESERVE TO KNOW HOW MY OWN MOTHER DIED!?" hollers Izuku. The good doctor holds onto the once timid boy's fist as it tenses with fury as it strangles the lab coat. The extent of Izuku's power with Attraction had been noted in his mind, but for now there was something else he cared about more, or more accurately, someone.
"I didn't want to show you, I was worried it would hinder your attempts to grieve... I know now that I was wrong, but-"
Izuku's fist grips tighter, his knuckles a mixture of white and red from tensing and blood.
"You didn't want to tell me because you thought I'd figure it out! Right!?" Izuku shouts. Tsubasa holds his hands up, letting Izuku grip his lab coat. Izuku exhales heavily as he lets go of the doctor as he screams in anguish again.
"F-figure what out Izuku?"
"Ka-Chan. He did this."
Tsubasa readjusts his lab coat, bringing some form of order back to his appearance.
"Ka-Chan?" asks the doctor.
"Katsuki Bakugo. He has an explosion quirk... He secretes Nitroglycerin from the pores on his skin to make the explosions... IT WAS HIM! HE DID THIS TO ME!" Izuku this time punches into a cabinet with the same fist, leaving a bloody indent.
"How can you be so sure? That's a very bold accusation, even if the facts line up."
"He's always tormented me. Everyday since he got that quirk. Called me everything, did everything. But this... this..." Izuku's eyes start to water as he realises the sum of what's happened. The sum of what his supposed friend, his brother, his hero, had done to him. He'd crossed that line.
"I'll kill him... I'LL KILL HIM!" Izuku screams as he instinctively turns towards the door, the feeling inside him was surging, the normal feeling he had when he used the quirk was dialled up to eleven. Tsubasa moves to intercept Izuku before he can go to the door, not that would've done anything considering Izuku extends his arm out as he rips the door off of it's hinges and discards it onto the floor in front of him as he walks over it. Izuku striding ahead, Tsubasa shouts for his understudy in an attempt to snap him back to his senses.
"IZUKU! STOP THIS NOW!" bellows the doctor. Izuku stops in place, looking at the horizon, he'd not been shouted at by Tsubasa before, so he didn't really know how to react.
"Why. He killed the only person in this world that cares about me." bluntly says Izuku. Tsubasa grimacing hearing that.
"Izuku... I care about you, kid."
Tears roll down Izuku's face, he sharply sniffs in through his nose, trying to keep his composure, trying to stay focused on his mission.
"I... I need him to pay for this. I... I..." Izuku falls to his knees before he can finish as the surging feeling inside him leaves. He pants and cries. Giving Tsubasa the time to walk over and gently rest a hand on the boy's shoulder.
"Izuku. You're not strong enough. Not yet. But..." Tsubasa bites his tongue, was this the time? Was this the moment to finally unveil what came next?
"I will be. I'll master this power... Then I-"
"Which one."
Izuku sniffs as he looks towards the naturally calculating eyes of the doctor, confused.
"W-what?"
"Which power do you intend to master?"
"Attraction- Wait. I'm so sorry I held you like that... But why- why was it strong?" Izuku inquires, the doctor readjusting his glasses.
"You weren't just given your power kid. You were given more. By the looks of it, one of the quirks you were given was some kind of amplification quirk. Hence why you grabbed me like a toy, heh." evaluates the doctor.
"Why... Why me?"
"Truthfully kid? It's because we saw something inyou. Something this world has lacked. Morality and standards."
Izuku holds his head, this was all too much, wasn't it? But, at the same time it felt strangely certain to him.
"I... I just want to make the world a better place. Where... shit like this doesn't happen." Izuku murmurs as Tsubasa walks around and kneels down in front of the boy.
"Izuku. I'm telling you this now. If you accept this proposal. It won't be easy. It may cost you a piece of yourself. But, you will change the world."
Izuku looks up into his mentor's eyes, with tears and dedication flooding out of his emerald ones.
"I've already lost a piece of myself. I'm not afraid to lose anymore. I want to save this world, from people like HIM." Izuku declares.
Tsubasa takes his glasses off, and finally, his civilian persona as he outstretches his hand.
"Garaki Kyudai. That's my true name. But in this line of work I'm also known as Daruma Ujiko."
Izuku looks into the man's eyes, they had something inside them, a stoic look to it. Izuku stretches out his hand and shakes it.
"Are you sure this is really what you want?" Garaki asks Izuku. Izuku takes a deep breath in through the nose and out through the mouth.
"Yes."
Garaki holds his hand up to his ear.
"Kurogiri. The time has come." he states as a purple void appears behind the doctor as he rises to his feet, pulling Izuku up with him. "Well then. We'll be coming back of course, but for now... Let's take a look into the deepest side of things."
Garaki walks through the purple void as Izuku looks into it, remembering it as the same portal that took him from the hospital that fateful day. He remembers what he'd been through and who had caused it... and those who had failed to stop it. He takes a step, as all great journeys start with one, and then another as he passes through the portal. Into the next phase of his journey to change the world.
Garaki and Izuku enter what appears to be a dimly lit bar, as the gust from the portal disperses. Emerging behind them a serious voice.
"Sir. I entrust the young man accepted" it inquired.
Garaki turns and nods.
"Indeed he did. Izuku, meet Kurogiri. He's our warpgate user."
"A pleasure to meet you Izuku Midoriya... my deepest condolences regarding your mother." Kurogiri declares, Izuku nods at the phantom man in response to this. A sign of respect.
"Thank you,,, Kurogiri."
Garaki scans around the bar, like he was looking for something he'd misplaced.
"Where is... he?"
"He went to... powder his nose. Sir." replies the purple phantom. Garaki acknowledges this as Izuku wonders as to who they're talking about.
"Kurogiri!" shouted a raspy voice. The three of them turning to see a door handle clunk and the source of the raspy voice stepping out. "Where are we gonna go to get food-"
The taller young man with blue hair and a hand on his face scans the bar to see the young man with green hair.
"... Who the hell are you?"
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