Chapter 23. Class President

After All Might went to talk to Bakugo I came up behind Midoriya, and gave him his bag. He was surprised to see me. “Let’s hope he learns to be a bit more humble, and understand that if you don’t work for something, then people you look down on will surpass you.” He looked with a hopeful expression towards Bakugo. ‘Man even after all his bullying he still wants the best for him. I guess this just shows I’m not deserving of One For All.’ I ruffled his hair and walked to my house alone.

That night I decided to take a step forward in my nerve control. I took a stroll in the park with just nerve control. After about an hour I could walk perfectly. My battery consumption was minimal in comparison to 2nd gear in it’s high form. What I mean by that, is that it takes a minimum amount of electricity to go second gear, but I can amp it up, and give it more juice. However, that consumes battery faster than normal. 2nd gear can last for about an hour to 1.5 hours.

Amping it, can make it only last for a minute or two before psychological side effects happen such as what I talked about before going too low battery. The whole time I use that speed my brain can’t really keep up so I’m essentially wasting battery while my whole body is overheating from the energy release. Anyway, back to nerve control. I can keep it up for hours a day, or possibly the full day if I want however this has never been tested. 'I should test it tomorrow, go the whole day on nerve control. I already have enough experience feeling electricity in my nerves, but this will just prove to myself that I am ready for 3rd gear.'

I ran back home to test how well I could do that on nerve control. While thinking of the brain. Every area is specialized, however I can’t just be accelerating one portion above others or I will just be locked in my head. Say I speed up my frontal lobe. With thoughts happening so fast the rest of the brain can’t keep up so I would be unable to move, at best this could be a thinking move done outside of combat, at worst I could develop Locked in syndrome. Look it up, it’s terrifying.

Once in my room I lay in my bed thinking of all I have to do tomorrow until I drift off. I woke back up in the morning, and made breakfast. Which as it happens is very difficult to do when I’m controlling electricity both in my nerves, and sending it to my hotplate. I was able to pull through, and left my house using only nerve control. It seems that it is internal enough that I won’t shock people or things I come in contact with, so that’s good.

I make it to the school only to be bombarded with questions. ‘Right today is that day.’ I groan internally as I push reporters out of my way. Getting past most of them, they bugged me enough to where I almost hoped I would shock anyone I touched, but that only happens in 2nd gear. Finally making it inside I waited for class to start. Sitting down I took a look out of the window at the copious amount of reporters I had a scowl on my face. ‘Making a dime off of ruining people's privacy. Almost as bad as lawyers in my opinion.’

I just rest my body on my desk for a second. Nerve control doesn’t take too much power, but it is something I have to be constantly monitoring, so for one I’m actively using it, and not just moving normally on instinct. And two, it all has to be planned. Ever try to think of breathing, and take manual control, it's kinda like that. Hearing someone coming up to my seat I took a quick peek with my right eye while turning my head a little. I see Deku jump a little out of fear, or surprise. But he gathered courage to talk.

“Are you ok? You normally aren't sleeping at your desk.” I closed my eye as I thought it was making him uncomfortable. “Yea it’s just my training is mentally taxing.” Trying to be vague yet let him know I am fine. A multitude of emotions were flying through Midoriya’s head however one stood out on top, Confusion. ‘Why does he keep training so hard? What are the limits of his quirk? What training is he doing?’ I could feel the questions radiating off of him.

Then Aizawa came into the class to start his lesson, causing Deku to take his seat. “Today we will be picking a class president.” The whole class cheered at the idea of being the one in power. Until Ida educated them on the position. ‘No way I wanted to be class president, I’m not a leader, nor do I have time to be working with documents, and talking to the teachers about school projects.’ After the class decided to put it to a vote something changed. Momo had 3 votes, while Midoriya had 2. ‘Guess I know who the original Denki voted for huh?’