The Monster's Contract
Ugh… why do I keep blacking out… where…
Izuku woke up with those thoughts as he felt constraints on him, as Izuku squirmed to see that he was tied to a chair, he looked up that he was in some sort of small penthouse room and a familiar figure was seen across the table, who grabbed a nearby case and slammed it in front of Izuku on the table.
“Do you know what is this?”
“Uh… can you explain to me, why am I here?”
The woman known as the vigilante Knuckleduster scoffed and grabbed a syringe from the case which Izuku’s eyes widen in realization, and that seemed to make Knuckleduster smirked in victory as she stood up and made herself look bigger in the dark room lit only by one lightbulb.
“So you do know, now tell me, man---”
“Hey Knuckleduster! I got more information…… uh, why is he like that?”
The vigilante known as Crawler said as she entered the room, Knuckleduster ignored her as she put the trigger syringe on the table and grabbed Izuku’s hoodie collar alongside of her raising a punch aimed at Izuku’s face.
“Tell me right now, where did you get your dose of trigger from!”
“I don’t use trigger! It’s a very unstable and dangerous psychiatric drug that has way too many side effects in high dosages!”
“Uh, Knuckleduster, I don’t think trigger has an effect on men?”
Crawler said from behind Knuckleduster as she let go of Izuku and faced Crawler before looking back at Izuku, still with her suspicions, Izuku took the small window of time to try to get free but then he was met with Knuckleduster’s fist to his chest, making him fall to the ground as he saw that Crawler was trying to get him released.
“You still need to answer a few questions.”
“Uh, why?”
“Not everyone knows about trigger, let alone a man.”
“You’re asking me if I’m affiliated with any villains.”
Izuku replied as he was set free from his constraints of ropes while Crawler rolled the ropes into a circle and hanged the up, Knuckleduster kept her frown as Izuku stood up and faced her, she looked around first before sighing while Izuku grabbed the trigger in his hand.
“How about we make a deal Knuckleduster, you seemed to be in trouble with, this type of trigger, I’ll help you stop the spread and you’ll give me a place to stay for a while.”
“Why should I trust you, how can a normal person, as you claim to be, help us stop this drug?”
“Because I know a way to negate the effects!”
Izuku said and smirked inside as he caught the attention of both vigilantes, Knuckleduster grabbed the syringe from Izuku’s hand as she dragged Izuku to a table and a laptop she set in front of Izuku, as Izuku took a step back he accidentally activated echolocation and saw the room’s layout.
“Okay boaster, you say you know to negate trigger effects, show me.”
“I need to see first what type of trigger it is.”
“There are multiple types of triggers?”
The Crawler asked while Izuku grabbed a nearby cup and emptied the trigger into it, as Knuckleduster looked carefully, Izuku grabbed another cup and a small tube as he stationed the main trigger cup on a small pan over the stove, Izuku took a small glass pane from the mirror that made Cralwer slightly panic but Izuku ignored it as he positioned the mirror above the cup while it boiled.
“Do you have gasoline?”
“There.”
Knuckleduster pointed as Izuku grabbed the gasoline and poured a small amount to the fire, making it more ferocious as Izuku positioned the tube’s end towards the empty cup, while the trigger began to evaporate, Izuku grabbed a thermometer and made sure that the temperature of the flame was controlled, as Izuku collected the now condensed compound on the mirror’s surface onto the extra cup, as Izuku turned the fire out, he grabbed the hot cup carefully and set it beside the other cup.
“Here, cup one is the quirk enhancing drug, it is more biological than psychiatric, while the other one is targeted towards the brain, un-enabling the brain to think rationally and logically, this is ideo trigger from Asia.”
Izuku said proudly as he saw Crawler look interestingly at the two cups before Knuckleduster grabbed the quirk enhancing cup and drank it, which surprised Crawler for a split second before Knuckleduster slammed it to the table and letting a sigh of relief that it didn’t gave her the side effects of illegal trigger as she looked at Izuku.
“Fine, I’ll let you stay here---”
“Don’t I get a say in this?”
The Crawler said as she raised a hand but Knuckleduster ignored her as she continued her conversation with Izuku, “With a few conditions, one, you tell us where you’re from, second, you’ll make us the antidote, and third, I want your real name.”
“I can oblige with those terms, uh, handshake?”
Izuku asked as he held his hand out, Knuckleduster sighed before grabbing Izuku’s hand and held it firmly, as the two did a handshake, Izuku went to the laptop as he searched a few names on the browser and showed it to Knuckleduster and Crawler, it was a few common drugs and lab equipment.
“I need these to start making the antidote.”
“Uhuh, Crawler, get those items.”
Crawler nodded as she went out of the room and possibly penthouse while Izuku and Knuckleduster were alone, Knuckleduster went to turn the lights on as Izuku went to make himself a cup of coffee, he felt Knuckledusters eyes on his back as she tapped her foot, seemingly waiting for something.
“Are you going to explain everything now.”
“Fine, I’m Izuku Midoriya, I work for the Q.T.F., happy?”
“That organization? You specialize in research and medicine, am I right?”
“How did you?”
“Just a guest.”
Knuckleduster replied as Izuku drank his cup of coffee while Izuku suddenly heard rustling from the outside and instinctively activated echolocation and sensed different presence right outside of the window, Knuckleduster seemed to be unaffected by it as a girl with pink hair in two fluffy pigtails jumped through the window and entered, as Izuku got a glimpse of the slightly revealing costume and instantly turned his sight away and went to face the opposite way of the newcomer.
“Hello! Koichi told me that---”
“Code names Pop step.”
Knuckleduster said as she went to the, presumably bathroom while Izuku went to the laptop and inserted the USB he gotten from Nagant and opened it’s contents, as Izuku saw the folder inside the USB drive, he clicked on it and saw multiple documents but one caught Izuku’s interest instantly, the folder titled: Project Q.I.
That project, how in the world did Leo know about that!?
“Ohh, what do you have here new guy?”
Izuku almost jumped if not from his slight exhaustion that just kicked in, he looked to see the vigilante Pop Step right above his shoulder, Izuku tried his best to not look at her, less covered back and other parts as he searched his way through the folder and found a letter, Izuku opened the text document as he looked through the contents.
“Hey, new guy, what is that?”
“Confidential information.”
“Well, it’s not now I’m seeing it.”
Pop Step argued but Izuku ignored her as he made his way to find the recipient of this letter, and right at the bottom, alongside of Leo’s signature, was the receiver’s name, Yotsubashi Rikiya, Izuku couldn’t quite remember who it was although Pop Step did.
“Isn’t he the CEO of the Detnerat Company?”
“Yes, something’s up, looks like he’s funding this program, what type of idiot would invest money……… he wants to be the first participant!”
Izuku realized as he stood up, Pop Step still was confused as Izuku paced back and forth while trying to make sense on what Leo was trying to do, Izuku knew that Leo wanted to give the oppressed a chance, but what did he meant by oppressed? Or give a chance? From the letter it seemed that Leo wanted Rikiya to fund the Quirk Implanting program, but why would a man who already has it all want a quirk? Society seemed to like him as the current CEO of the Detnerat company.
“What’s this? ‘Rikiya-san I am very honoured that you’re helping to fund this program to help make the world a better place, I realized that we both can be great partners and don’t you worry, our visions of the future a very similar, I hope thanks to this partnership we can reach higher heights’ aww, that sounds nice.”
Pop Step said as Izuku went to the web and tried to find what the Detnerat Company stood for as he looked through multiple articles and interviews but he almost could find anything, he only stumbled upon one interview that Rikiya slipped up and gave his vision of the world, that he wanted men and women both have quirks which they could use freely, that is what Izuku deduced from his speech but Izuku could be wrong though.
“Pop Step, guide Midoriya here to a nearby store, he’s going to stay here.”
“Wait what!? Crawler didn’t say anything about him staying! She told me that we found a counter-drug for trigger!”
“And he’s going to make us some, Crawler’s getting him the ingredients.”
Pop Step reluctantly nodded as Izuku went to grab his phone and saw that he still had no internet connection while he stood up and saw that Pop Step was already at the door, and that Knuckleduster was still in the bathroom giving orders, Izuku went out alongside of Pop Step as he saw that it was already turning morning, Pop Step sighed and pointed at a block as she let out a sleepy yawn.
“There, that’s the nearest and cheapest convenience store, and don’t worry, it also serves men without discrimination, I’ll watch from above.”
“Okay, uh, I think you should take a rest, I can take care of myself.”
Izuku said with concern as he went down a ladder to the ground carefully and it did take a slight while, Izuku used echolocation once more as his surroundings turned into fog once that formed the surroundings once again, Izuku sensed no one and cancelled his echolocation right as he strayed from the path to the convenience store to the nearby bank and entered it.
After Izuku grabbed enough money to last him a few weeks, he went to the convenience store next and bought his essentials, although right as he was paying for his items, he saw a supplement for blood needing quirks and he grabbed it as well, Izuku left the store with two medium bags as he went back up the ladder and saw that Pop Step was half asleep who Izuku shook her shoulder, waking her up.
“I’m done, sorry it took , uh, about half an hour.”
“Ah wha! Oh, okay, and here I thought only women shop that long.”
“Uh, do you need help getting back?”
Izuku asked as he saw Pop Step yawn again, she wiped her eyes and yelped as Izuku grabbed her hand and carried her by his shoulder, Izuku made his way towards the penthouse again as he ignored the weak sounding complains from Pop Step and stopped in front of the door while Izuku went to open the door as he entered.
Izuku walked into the main room and saw that a school girl was preparing to get ready as Izuku laid Pop Step on the couch who seemed to be asleep, Izuku looked that the equipment and ingredients that he needed to make the antidote for trigger on the table as the school girl went to try wake up Pop Step, Izuku went to work as he set up the equipment and looked back to see Pop Step rushing to the bathroom while the school girl froze as she made eye contact with Izuku.
“Uh, I won’t say anything, I’m Izuku Midoriya, you are?”
“I’m Haimawari Koichi, nice to meet you too.”
The girl said as Izuku nodded and went back to work as he saw a bigger female exit another room, probably Knuckleduster but she was wearing a medical mask and a hat, probably to hide her identity from Izuku who shrugged it off and went back to start making the trigger antidote.
“Kazuho! We’re going to be late for the bus!”
“Yeah hold up!”
Izuku ignored the shouts and rustlings behind him as well as whatever chaos there was as Izuku started to extract the main compound from the drugs he got and also fixing the molecules with chemical reactions and filtering unwanted elements, as Izuku focused on the work he was doing, he stopped as he turned on a flame to heat up the third mixture he had and looked back to see that Knuckleduster in her mask was sitting on the couch, looking at the news.
“So, uh, those two, are they your kids?”
“……..No, they’re my students.”
“Oh, okay………. are there any interesting news?”
“None, just the same old stuff again, and whatever this press conference about, with Leo Harvard as its speakers.”
What!?
Izuku attention was got up as he looked up and went to walk closer to the TV and saw that there was Leo standing behind a podium as he seemed to be giving a speech, Izuku grabbed his phone and recorded the entire conference while Knuckleduster seemed intrigued by Izuku’s attention, as the conference was about to wrap up, Izuku looked back to see that his concoction was almost done, Izuku went to continue his work and after a few more hours, Izuku dripped drops of the antidote into five syringes as he set them beside the equipment and Izuku cleaned the table from the spills.
“Here Knuckleduster, five syringes of Trigger Negater.”
Knuckleduster nodded and grabbed one as she went back to the other room while Izuku went to the laptop and opened it to view his USB again, and as he saw that Knuckleduster was back in costume, she walked out without saying anything as Izuku began browsing through the USB contents alone in the room.
Let’s see what else Leo has gotten his hands on.
Izuku browsed through the multiple programs and saw that most of them seemed to be related to either A. Install quirks to a quirkless host, or B. Enhance the quirks biologically, Izuku read the letters and some other documents, he saw that the funders either were men owing big companies, or some messed up people in Izuku’s books, as Izuku spent about an hour to revise the letters and their important contents to a separate text document which Izuku hide to a new folder inside of another folder in another folder which he did it three multiple times over again.
Okay, Leo seems to be getting a group of people to help him, ‘change the world’, mostly by giving them quirks, or any sort of ability, and the other women by helping them……
Izuku deduced as he yawned and cracked his knuckles but then he realized something, he looked around that the three vigilantes were doing their stuff, so Izuku grabbed a piece of paper and wrote a little note saying that he’s going to come back later and that he was going for a walk to get fresh air, Izuku left the note on the kitchen table as he was about to leave but the door was locked, Izuku sighed and opted for the second option, the window.
Alright, time to get some answers.
Izuku made his way quietly out of the window and used a metal pin to close it back, as Izuku put his hood’s hoodie on, he went to get to the ground by a ladder as he looked at the afternoon sun, Izuku made his way towards a nearby secluded alleyway and opened his phone which he had gotten internet now and called Nagant, who picked up instantly.
“Midoriya, what a pleasant surprise knowing you’re alive, you didn’t bother to inform me?”
“*Sighs, the phone didn’t have a number Nagant, I had to get a new one.”
Izuku could already feel the embarrassment of Nagant from his spot right now as she went quite for a solid one minute before she began to talk again, “So, did you look into the information I gave you?”
“Yeah, I think I got a better picture of what Leo wants, uh, where are you now?”
“I’m with the wolf right now, we’re going to meet some info-broker or underground dealer, I don’t know exactly where we are going but I know it’s somewhere near you, be careful Midoriya, Leo’s still trying to track you down, saying something about you being a perfect subject, that’s all, bye.”
“Thanks Nagant, stay safe.”
Izuku said as he ended the call and put the phone back into his pocket and went to the nearby abandoned warehouse that’s scheduled for next week, so Izuku could use it for himself, not legally but as long as nobody knows, Izuku made sure he was alone first before walking to the centre surrounded by darkness, Izuku took a deep breath and put down his blood supplements for blood needing quirks alongside of a water bottle as Izuku began to let his other side take control.
If I’m going to not hurt people, I’ll need to control this.
Izuku convinced himself as his breathing began to start going erratic and Izuku feeling his sanity fading while he stood on his four limbs, Izuku focused his sight on a pillar as he hissed and charged at it, Izuku scratched it as he circled it before he went up to two limbs shakily and punched the pillar, leaving a crater from Izuku’s punch and Izuku knuckles bled, Izuku waited a few seconds and saw that his knuckles were starting to heal.
Enhanced healing factor, strength, speed, and vision, this seems to be simple enough…… now flying.
Izuku spent the rest of the three hours trying to replicate the same feeling as he jumped, tried to clear his mind, and others but to no avail as he still fell down every time, only once he managed to get the same feeling again, and Izuku felt that he was instantly hungry after he let himself take 100% control again, and Izuku saw that it was almost evening as he took almost half of the entire blood supplement package.
It’s already this late, at least I can control it for about five minutes fully, and progress is made on the ‘other’ aspect.
Izuku thought as he made his way out of the warehouse and back to the alleyway, Izuku made his way towards the penthouse again as he went through multiple turns and alleyways, after a few multiple failed attempts, Izuku concluded one thing, he was lost.
Oh no…… well, I can track the wi-fi and find it.
Izuku looked at his phone as he tried to find the wi-fi again while walking around mindlessly but not that mindlessly as he walked around the area he was, and finally Izuku found the wi-fi and looked up to find the penthouse but as he used echolocation again, he sensed a figure behind him and as he looked back, he was met with a very familiar set of eyes, one that he had helped for his first experiment.
“Chizome?”
“Fancy meeting you here, doctor Midoriya.”