My Hero Automata

Chapter 12: Testing Limits and Decompressing

Nedzu nodded and gestured to Eraserhead. The man, who had thankfully been rather silent thus far, quickly activated his Quirk...and Izumi smiled as she saw the QE loss measured by her visor actually slow to a near stop. Just to prove a point, she lifted Nedzu's tea set with her telekinesis, putting it down quickly when Eraserhead cut off his Quirk.

"That's actually the closest to pure Quirk energy I've ever encountered, interestingly enough. I was actually converting it at something like 96% fidelity. There wasn't enough getting through to affect me at all."

That wasn't entirely true. The sparks One for All created when it overflowed Momo's control were actually 99.9% pure QE. Which was both fascinating and meant that Momo could technically recharge Izumi quickly in an emergency. Since they didn't want to draw attention to One for All with Aizawa present, she refrained from mentioning it. The Dean was looking ecstatic enough as it was, anyway.

"Quite incredible! In particular as it means you may have only the second ever Quirk that can't be copied or stolen. Though, sentient Quirks are rare enough that we aren't sure if it would work on them, either. Having their own will might well prevent them from being stolen. In your case, that only makes it doubly likely you may be safe from a certain villain we still hope is dead."

Izumi nodded, having already considered that. They were also bordering on topics she didn't really want to talk about with all company present though. With that in mind, she depowered and brought up another point.

"Actually, Momo and I had a thought about how to use QE manipulation to create a jammer. We'd had the thought before, but quickly discovered trying to block all QE frequencies was beyond any energy storage for Quirk Energy that we could come up with. However, if we were only trying to block a specific frequency, one I happened to have recorded when it tried to teleport me..."

The Dean's eyes lit up, immediately getting where she was going.

"An excellent idea! We've been attempting to come up with a counter for just that. Would you care to join me in my office and talk over what you've come up with?"

Conversation sufficiently redirected, Momo and Izumi quickly agreed to do just that...

... ...

The moment the door to their small flat closed, Izumi about-faced and strategically face planted into Momo's breasts. Her girlfriend, just exactly enough taller than her to make this new position perfectly comfortable, oofed in surprise for a moment, then wrapped Izumi in a hug with a giggle. For a long couple of minutes, they simply remained that way, with Momo carding her hands through Izumi's fluffy hair. Eventually, Momo broke the silence.

"Too many people?"

Izumi nodded into her emotional recharge station. Also known as Momo's Momos. Reluctantly, she pulled back just enough to murmur a response.

"Too many people, too little Momo time."

Momo hummed her agreement, continuing to pet Izumi's fluffy hair. The two of them had been separated right after Izumi was dismissed from the nurse's office after the USJ, each of them going home to their families to reassure them they were alright. While staying with their families was still the norm for both of them, it was rare that they stayed alone with their families, usually rotating which home they slept in. With, it had to be said, random days where they stayed at their current location instead. Said location was a small flat located above their shared workshop space. They'd bought the workshop several years ago, and it technically belonged to the company they owned together. The same mostly-existed-on-paper company through which they filed patents related to their shared inventions. Most of which were admittedly simplified redesigns of YoRHa technology that could be manufactured with current methods. That wasn't the case for everything, of course. A few bits and pieces of the support gear they had patents for were genuinely original creations, particularly a few they had come up with to handle unusual Quirk needs for people they'd met through Nishimura & Croft.