On several monitors were some news articles. Having lost contact with each of his creations he had waited until they showed up in the headlines. So far he found four of them. The last one made themself known not long ago. A new update caught his attention. All Might was spotted taking out a villain with a Sludge Quirk.
"All Might," Distaste was within his voice. The Symbol of Peace had put him in this mess. "You will get your due soon."
He stopped as one of his Trojan programs had finished a sweep. These were decided to locate any strange Quirk registrations. It was one form he had in hopes of finding his creations. The program pulled up several files. "Midoriya Ruby?"
According to the parameters the Trojan program was supposed to locate any suspicious anomalies with Quirks that matched one of the eight combinations he had designed. To also help with the search it looked for medical reports that seemed rather off especially for the world they lived in. An image appeared on the screen of her with a few of her strange medical anomalies. Anomalies that were due to her Quirk altering her DNA as the official statement goes.
These anomalies were not all due to a Quirk. A smirk formed as he now knew that five of his creations were running around.
"Seems Subject Six is doing well." Despite the alterations to her genetic structure, it seemed she was fine medically speaking. A few of the doctor's notes on this made him want to chuckle. "Likened to a Vampire?"
He'll admit he had planned a theme for each of his creations. Subject Six was in simplest terms based off of a vampire along with a few other things that he really shouldn't tell others. A part of him wondered if she had any bit of the combat and personality indoctrination within her mind. With his system down and the years that have passed it likely was buried within her subconscious. Who knows she probably would
Looking at the rest data from the stolen medical reports he found a location of the doctor's practice. It was a pleasant surprise really.
"So she likely lives somewhere nearby as well?"
For a moment he actually felt a bit of joy at the prospect. He had to lay low and couldn't move to any of his facilities. When he finally tried, All Might had tracked him down. Needless to say, he couldn't go about finding them.
'Perhaps I will keep this to myself for now.'
He could work on finding out about subject six, or Ruby as her caretakers had decided to name her, at a later time. Right now he had other things to worry about. His position in the underworld was under fire by upstarts. You get critically injured one time and suddenly everyone who you kept down wants your spot.
***
Sitting at her desk trying to ignore the other students, Ruby continued to write in her notebook. Their teacher had gone on about their future before just tossing away the test papers. He knew that most of them wanted to become heroes so it was kind of pointless. Ruby didn't look up knowing that her class had basically used this time to show off their Quirks. All except for her and one other person.
Their teacher waved his arms to get the class to settle down.
"Alright, I know you all have some impressive Quirks but unless they are a Mutation Quirk then you can't show them off in class."
Most of the class stopped using their Quirks at this. Near the front row one of the students in the class at a cocky grin at the teacher's words.
"Don't lump me with these extras, they'll be hard pressed to be sidekicks."
The rest of the class save for Ruby looked at him annoyed. Ruby drowned out the resulting argument. Bakugo Katsuki had possibly one of the most versatile Quirks in the class. His ego tends to match that and as such, he called his class extras and even forgot their names. All except for one of them.
"Ruby, aren't you also trying for U.A.?"
No sooner as those words left their teacher's mouth did everyone turn to the black-red haired girl. Katsuki turned to her with annoyance and anger on his face. The rest of the class seemed to take a step back. Her and Katsuki relationship was best described as an intense rivalry. When they were younger they were friends, thanks to their mother's being friends, until Katsuki's Quirk appeared. He turned into a bully and treated his friends just short of garbage. The last straw was when he decided to pick on another student.
That was the day Ruby Quirk activated. Well, at least part of it did. Everything was a blur but when she came to Katsuki was unconscious while the taste of blood was on her mouth. To this day Katsuki still had the scars, though faded over the years, of where her lamprey-like mouth had bit him. That wasn't the only thing she was able to do as other powers started to manifest over the years. Some of which she was a bit hard pressed to use.
A few of the students whispered to their friends as they felt the tension between the ash blond and the black-red haired girl. The sound of the bell was heard overhead and a few of the students chose to get out of class. Katsuki slammed his hand on Ruby's desk. He had a hardened glare on his face. "So shitty vampy, are you trying out for U.A.?"
It was a promise back when they were friends. Katsuki made her promise to get into U.A. with him. Before he got his Quirk and their friendship nearly decayed to a rivalry. One which Ruby kind of didn't want. "We did promise each other Katsuki." The ash blond picked up her notebook and looked at it. Written on it were theories on her Quirk. His hands seemed to be smoking from small explosions building up. "Hey, give that back now!"
Katsuki had already burned one of her notebooks already. A small part of her wanted to grab him by the neck and while that was a tempting thought she pushed it aside. "Whatever," Katsuki tosses the notebook back at her, "Stay out of my way, you walking corpse."
She could feel her right eye twitch. It was a little insult he had created. After she revealed she didn't need to breathe and her skin light lavender shade something Katsuki noticed happened to dead bodies. That insult was occasionally dropped by him because of it. It wasn't the only insults he tended to give her. The temptation to grab him and start strangling Katsuki crossed her mind.
'No, remember to banish the dark thoughts.'