Chapter 66. Beginning of the Nomu Attack

I woke up in the morning to the receptionist girl coming into my room again. I held my new gun in my hand under my pillow steady. “You can just knock y’know?” She was stunned that I heard her come in, and could see her in the darkness again. She then regained her composure. “Well I had to bring in this box that the support division sent you. I can’t leave this in the hallway.” I was surprised, and quickly took the box from the blushing receptionist. ‘Did they come this quickly?’ I thanked her, but never got the reason why she couldn’t just knock on the door first.

I let it go and started to focus on my new ammo. ‘I gave the support the measurements of my new pistol, and asked them to make me new taser rounds for it, but I never expected them to be this fast about it.’ The rounds were just like the old ones. They had the same power as rubber bullets, but were made out of a different substance to allow my electricity to cling on, and allow me to electrocute those I shoot, rather than kill.

I loaded them up and counted how many clips they sent me. ‘They gave me 20 besides the ones that fit in the gun to start out with. That will be plenty as I can probably only carry that much on me at a time. I should now focus on just increasing my maximum battery the old fashion way. This will help me in the future with my crazy idea of charging my brain so much that it changes forever.’ “Ugh just thinking that gives me chills.” I sat on my bed, and started charging myself while focusing on the power, and where it gets stored.

‘The attack today happens at dusk, or even later I have to be out on the streets around then to find Ida to help him stay on the right, and bring in the hero killer together. Until then I should just rest psychically while training with my mind, and my quirk.’ That is exactly what I did. I took a quick break for breakfast and lunch, but that was about it. Around 3pm I left my room with my costume on. Electricity still arcing around me sometimes just from the sheer amount my battery was holding. Each cell was used to holding more than normal, but I pushed that to its limits right now at 130%. So much so that some was accidentally leaking out from time to time.

I went up to the receptionist who for some reason refused to look me in my eyes with her reddened face. “Why are you sparking like that?” I relented as the conversation wouldn’t go on without her finding out the answer. “I’m just holding in a bit more charge than normal, and it is sometimes going out as I’m having a hard time keeping it under control.” She looked at me for a second before quickly turning away. “Is that why your eye is glowing?” ‘I forgot to think about my eye when I was doing this. Excess electricity going through my eye is causing it to glow, like when I put slight power into it.’ I sighed and answered her. “Yes. Sorry if it scares you.”

She quickly shook her head. “Well no it doesn’t exactly…” Her voice trailed off the end, so I tried to put the conversion back on track. “So can I go around town, maybe with a side-kick to learn the ropes of day to day hero work?” She startled back out of her thoughts and quickly answered me while moving around documents in haste. “Yes of course! I have a group going around right now. They just left but you can probably still catch them. Here is a map of their route, just go through that and you should be able to find them in no time.”

I gave her my thanks and left out the door. ‘Ok now I have a perfect reason to be walking around aimlessly. Now to find Ida or the hero killer.’ I took out my phone and told Ida to send me his location to meet him. After walking around for a bit he never replied. This started to fill me with worry. ‘Could I have been late? No, calm down. It only really starts when the Nomu attack.’ And just as I said that I heard a massive explosion nearby. ‘Why do I jinx everything!!’ I quickly used my hooks to get me to the top of the rooftops.

I was greeted by the sight of billowing clouds of smoke covering the city-scape. I frowned. ‘If I had played my cards right I might've been able to just kill- No, stop. If I start killing then I won’t be much better than hero killer. Stop thinking of what-ifs and focus on helping Ida who is in need.’ I thought back to what Deku did. ‘Look in alleys, and somewhere off the beaten path. C’mon I have to do this quick!’