CHARGED

4-V | MENTOR

He yawned, walking over and handing the white haired boy a cup of tea. "Apparently my tired brain somehow registered the presence of guests.", he explained.

The boy stared at the warm mug in his hands, his face flushing as tears rushed to his eyes. "I— Momma said tea was reserved for good kids only."

Magma's eyes widened, "Really?", he asked.

The boy nodded, his face flushing as they realized they spoke without meaning to. He placed a hand to his throat, coughing a few times and taking a sip of tea. Myo yawned, taking another sip of the herbal beverage. "I-It.. It's good.", he smiled.

It was rare to see the boy make any other facial expression other than, 'I might be contemplating your murder at this very moment', so seeing the corners of his lips curve up felt like winning the lottery, even to Magma who had only known the boy for less than two weeks. "Hey.", he spoke up. "How do you feel about training?"

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The pair of twins were holding their hands together, a mixture of purple and cyan energy swirling around their arms. "My quirk is Positive, Myo's quirk is called Negative!", she explained. "We came up with that 'cause Papa taught us about magnetism, charge and stuff!" She held their intertwined hands up, "But together, it makes Charged!"

Magma furrowed his brows, "Your quirks combine?", he asked.

She nodded, "Positive allows me to heal, give energy, and enhance people's quirks. Negative allows Myo to hurt, take energy, and weaken people's quirks! They're like opposites.", she grinned. "But, for some reason, we can both take and give each other energy. It doesn't matter who has what quirk, we can use each other's abilities on the other. That includes harming, but only with intention.", she explained, her free hand waving all over the place. "When we hold hands like this, our quirks merge! Our energy stock is merged and doubled, we can use each other's abilities on anyone we have five fingers touching, and we can both enhance ourselves to a greater margin. All damage we take is halved, but we each take that halved damage, so the damage is really just split between us!".

The ginger man nodded, "What're the drawbacks of your quirks?", he asked.

"When I use my quirk, Positive, it uses my energy, so I pass out really easily! And afterwards, I go to sleep for like 12 hours." She grinned, "And the only way to wake me up is to have Myo give me energy. For Negative, they can take and use energy, but they use energy at a far faster rate than I do, and often Myo doesn't even remember things he does because he's running on pure stolen energy and adrenaline! Also, stolen energy isn't as efficient as his own energy, meaning if he uses all of his energy he runs out quicker. It takes time to turn stolen energy into his own, so in constant use his energy can go down reeeally quick. Also, when he runs out of energy, he can pass out for like three days if it's bad enough! If he doesn't pass out, he's forced to suffer through massive headaches and nausea. Same for me, healing people makes me reeeeally sick.", she smiled through the entire explanation, which was a bit eerie. "For Charged, if overused, we can pass out for like an entire week! Of course, that's only extreme overuse, and if we just use it a bit over the limit we get insomnia and intense headaches and nausea."

"Insomnia?", Magma asked, suddenly curious.

"Yeah! Apparently your brain really doesn't like foreign energy going through your system! So, if I combine energy with Myo, who commonly has a lot of stolen energy, I get the same nausea and stuff he does, though on a lesser scale. Also, his body has adapted to foreign energy more than I have, so generally when Myo transfers energy he mainly transfers his personal energy, not stolen." She spun around, hugging her brother.