In a room filled with various instruments a chid was lying on the bed with various devices attached to his body. Suddenly a frown appeared on the boy's face and a free a while the boy's eyes opened but the surroundings were still blurry for him.
"No. 17 has gained consciousness. No physical side effects noticed."
A group of men wearing a mask over their mouth along with a lab coat looked towards the boy while noting down the something in their notepads.
On the other hand the boy suffered from an extreme headache and kept on frowning from the pain and was clutching his head.
In the boy's mind a lot of information is being filled up at a very high speed causing him extreme amounts of pain. He started to roll around and feel from top of the bed pulling various machines which were connected to him.
The group of men when saw that stared at the turn of events seriously and one of them said, "Hmm, seems like the subject number 17 is suffering from a headache. A different side effect from the ones seen previously."
The boy didn't even heard what the man said and just kept on massaging his forehead trying to ease out his pain.
But all of a sudden a blue aura started to come out of his body seeing which the men wearing labcoats took a step back and one of them said, "If you would-" hearing which one of the men took out his glove and pointed his finger towards the boy.
All of a sudden a thin needle like thing appeared over the tip of his finger and he fired it towards the boy.
Just as the needle hit the boy's back all the movements that the boy was making stopped and he simply fell on the floor, though he was still conscious.
"Alright, No. 17 has calmed down now. We can now check for the other side effects in his body." The group of men then went towards the boy and picked him up and placed him back on the bed, only this time his whole body was strapped to the bed.
After making sure that the boy was strapped tightly, the men started placing various devices back on his body in addition with a few new ones and started checking out what they wanted to know.
Meanwhile the boy whose body was totally numb was still going through some excruciating pain in his head but was unable to do anything, but all of a sudden the numbness in his body disappeared and he soon started screaming in pain and tried to move away but was unable to as his body was totally tied up. The blue aura once again started coming out of his body seeing which one of the man said, "His quirk is getting out of his control, use the quirk suppressors and you(pointing at one of the men who was wearing the lab coat) numb him again."
The man nodded and once again a needle appeared at the tip of his finger which was soon shot at the boy making him numb once again.
The boy once again stopped struggling and the blue aura disappeared immediately.
A few men then came in with some sort of thick bracelets which were tied around the boy's hands.
The men in the lab coat gave a nod and then one of them said, "No other side effect aside from the severe headache, though it would be better if we lower the dosage a bit or there is a chance that subject number 17 will lose his life."
The men gave a nod after which one of them said, "Monitor his actions, his quirk is getting out of his control." and then left the room after freeing the boy out of straps.
The boy soon got rid of the numbness once again and started flailing around but this time no blue aura surrounded him.
After half an hour or so the boy calmed down and started to take deep breaths and clutched his teeth as he suddenly experience a huge amount of pain in his body.
After a few minutes the pain started to subside making the boy sigh in relief and once again take deep breaths. He then looked up at the ceiling and with a tired voice said, ".....So I still am in a white room,huh."
He then closed his eyes and lied for a while and tried to sort out the information that got combined in his head and after he was done only one thing came in his mind, '.... Isn't my situation way too fucked up?'
He then opened his eyes and looked around his surroundings and saw that except for the bed which was made up of metal without even a mattress, the rest of the things were all equipments which were either used by a doctor or a scientist.
He then slowly got up from the ground and tried to walk towards the bed, but the pain that he felt was way too much making him fall back on the ground.
He clenched his teeth and then once again got up and slowly tried to moved back towards the bed in a way which didn't cause him much pain.
After sitting on the bed he looked at the thick metal bracelets placed on his arms and thought, 'So they put back the quirk suppressors once again. Looks like my quirk went out of hand once again when they used 'that'.'
All of a sudden he heard something and slowly turned his head in the direction he heard the voice from.
There he saw the metal door open and a man wearing a brown suit with a white shirt underneath the coat coming towards him.
The boy looked at the man without any change in his expression and didn't say anything.
The man kept on coming closer to the boy and then noticed the iron bracelets on his hand and said, "Seems like your quirk got stronger once again. Hmm, the enhancers are working wonderfully I guess." He then looked at the boy and asked, "Any sort of discomfort? The others told me that the rest of the parameters were normal just you experiencing some headaches and bodyache."
The boy's expression didn't change and he said, "No discomfort at all.... 'father'."
The man showed a 'smile' on his face and patted the boy's head and said, "Look at 'you' 'growing' right in front of my eyes. It must be because of how much we love each other that 'you' are 'growing' so wonderfully."
He then crouched down to the boy's eye level and gripped his head a bit tighter and said in a low voice, "You must feel happy having such a loving 'father', right? And don't you want to use your quirk only for your father? 'You' must grow up nice and strong and make your quirk so strong that your father would be happy about it."
The boy's expression didn't change after he heard all that and he didn't say anything but just stared at the man in the eyes.
The man then stood up from the ground and said, "You must be feeling tired after all this 'growing' up. I will send someone with food for you. After which you should go and undergo the regular physical routine. Afterall a healthy quirk reside in a healthy body." and then took out a Walkie talkie and said, "Send some food for my dear 'son' and did you recharge the 'batteries'? How much were you able to extract from him this time around?" and then walked out of the room.
The boy stared at the closing door and once it was closed he lied back on the bed as he was feeling a bit pain while sitting.
He then thought, 'This body is going through a lot right now. No wonder the previous one died....combined with me? Whatever so the current situation is the man who is my father.... probably is experimenting on me to make my so called quirk stronger and then extracting something out of it.'
He then stared blankly for a while and then thought, '.....I should've never watched that cartoon.'
But all of a sudden the door opened once again and this time a man wearing a lab coat came in with a tray in his hand.
He placed the tray in front of the boy, and then lifted his body up in a sitting position and then took out the metal bracelets off his hands.
The boy stared at his hands for a while and then looked at the man who took off the bracelets.
The man then took out a notepad and wrote something on it and said, "Seems like the quirk is under control." He then looked back at the boy and said, "Finish the food soon. A call for the physical training will be heard shortly." and then walked out of the room.
The boy then looked at the tray and thought, 'Even for a 9 year old, isn't this food pretty...bland. It seems like this is made to make sure to provide the perfect nutrition to the body while ignoring the taste.'
He didn't think anything after that and soon started eating the food and even though he thought it was way too bland he was still accustomed to it and soon finished his meal.
Once he was done eating he got off his bed and placed his tray at the corner of the room from where the tray will be taken away and got back to his bed so as to rest for a bit before the training. Soon a buzzer was heard and the metal door opened automatically.
The boy then got off from his bed and then walked out of the room.
While going towards the place where his physical training will start the boy or more precisely subject no. 17 thought to himself, 'That screen gave me something like farewell gifts, right? Where are they currently? Hmm, if I remember correctly the first one I got was called customize create....or something like that.'
But just as he thought that a blue screen appeared in front of him making him surprised. He stopped walking and stared at the screen for a while but then once again started walking while he checked out the screen.
'Hmm, so first I need to select the item I need to customize a d then choose the properties that I want to Customize and add to it, huh.'
He then looked down and stared at his clothes and thought, 'My body is still in a bit of pain, let's try this on my clothes.'
And just as he thought that the screen changed and his clothes appeared on the screen with its stats alongside it.
'Hmm, just like a game it's showing its stats, there is a skill slot as well, along with quality...so the change which I am able to make to the item must depend on the quality of the item as well.'
He then started go through the menu screen trying to see what all he was capable of and noticed a lot of things like changing colour of the item, adding skills, etc. But since he didn't want to gather any attention by changing the colour of his clothes he simply made his clothes a bit more durable and then added a self healing(passive) skill to the clothes though it only boosted the healing by 2x because of the poor quality of the cloth used, any more than this and the clothes will be destroyed. He also noticed that adding a skill to an item took some amount of an unknown energy from him which decided to just call it mana as it was called in the games he played in his previous world.
He then kept walking but all of a sudden he heard a voice, "17, you awakend so soon? Isn't it just three days since the last 'growth'?"
He turned his head and saw a green haired guy, who was a bit taller and more muscular than him. Probably a year or two older than him.
17 looked at the boy and said, "Yes, 28 you are correct. It seems like my body is getting a bit used to 'growth' sessions since I was able to wake up earlier than before."
The green haired boy nodded and said, "Looks like it. So did something wrong with you after the growth was caught?"
17 shook his head and said, "Nothing. All parameters were normal and the only side effects noted were a severe headache and bodyache."
Suddenly he realised something and thought, 'Wait there was a gift called appraisal as well right?"
And just like earlier a blue screen appeared in front of him with a text written on it.
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NAME: 28
QUIRK: POWER STRIKE(UNLOCKED)
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17 looked at the screen which showed of the name and quirk of the green haired boy in front of him and thought, 'It's really low level. Well, at the very least it is telling me the name of their quirk.'
Seeing him spacing out the green haired boy thought that it was some kind of side effect from his early 'growth' and waved his hand in front of his eyes to gather his attention.
17 flinched a bit when he saw a hand waving in front of him and then looked at 28 with widend eyes and thought, 'looks like I was spacing out a bit....He must be curious about the screen.'
But 28 didn't even looked at the screen and asked, "Are you sure that you are fine after the 'growth'? You seem to be spacing out a bit."
Hearing that 17 got a bit surprised and said, "No, I am fine, just curious about what mission you went on this time."
Hearing that 28 gave a small smile and started telling him about his mission.
While 28 was speaking 17 made sure to keep his eyes on 28 so as to not make him suspicious while he silently closed the appraisal screen and thought, 'Looks like others cannot see these screens....Good, I don't want the people around here to know about these things. The things could difficult if that happens.'
After he was done dealing with screen both 17 and 28 had some 'normal' chat which mostly consisted of how 28's mission went and what he did.
"-So after sir fired his attack, I used my quirk to power up his attack which killed that guy in an instant. After which you know the usual stuff. Taking our loot, getting the contract money and then coming back without getting followed."
17 nodded and then asked, "Did your quirk improved during the 'growth'?"
28 nodded as well and said, "Yeah, just a bit though. But still my attacks are getting stronger so not much of a problem. I won't be given 'special treatment' anytime soon."
Just as he said 'special treatment' both 17 and 28 shivered a bit as their face turned pale just thinking about that. Both of them stopped on their paths and looked at eachother and gulped their saliva.
Both of them soon came to their destination and immediately both of them turned serious without any expression their faces and 17 asked, "How many do you think are still here?"
28 who was still serious said in a cold tone, "Don't know, all of us were given increased doses this time around. Just hope that they haven't gone mad."
17 nodded his head and said, "If they would have gone mad-"
28 then continued the sentence, "-then they must have already been taken care of earlier."
Both of them then went closer to the door which automatically opened once they were close enough and once they got inside they only saw four other people beside them seeing which a slightly sad expression appeared on third faces.
The other four people looked at the people who came inside and one of the three boys said, "So 17 and 28 are still here, huh. Only six out of fifty of us, the situation is getting pretty bad."
The boy who said that had blond hair with brown eyes. He had a neutral Look on his face like all the others but still a small mocking smirk could be seen on his face.
17 looked at the blond boy and then mentally thought of using appraisal and once again a screen appeared in front of him.
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NAME: 35
QUIRK: Danger Alert(Unlocked)
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17 and 28 looked at the people for a while and then went to change into their training clothes.
While walking towards his locker 17 saw a mirror and stood in front of it to see how he actually looked. What welcomed his sight was a fair skinned boy with straight shoulder length black hair which parted above his forehead and narrow blue eyes. He looked at his figure for a bit and then once again started walking towards his locker.
He soon changed into his training clothes which consisted of a pair of black shorts and a white half t-shirt. He placed his old clothes which was just a patient's gown in the locker but not before removing the customisations that he had done to it.
He was then about to sit down and wait for the person in charge to begin but while walking he felt a hand on his shoulder and turned around only to see a white haired teenager with red eyes looking apathetically at him.
"17 if I remember correctly you just recently had your 'growth' session.....How come you are awake so fast?" and narrowed his eyes.
17 looked at the boy who was around 14 years old and used his appraisal.
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NAME: 50
QUIRK: OVERHEAT(UNLOCKED)
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