Apotheosis

CHAPTER FOUR: THE PLAN

"Alright time to end this", Tomura smirked.

"Yes, let's finish him" Izuku chuckled clicking a button. They were currently playing a video game called 'Blood Rage', a multiplayer game based in a post-apocalyptic society. Izuku and Tomura were still on the final boss of the game after dying several times to it.

It took about a month for Tomura Shigaraki to become comfortable with Apotheosis. Comfortable enough to discuss ideas and strategies with each other. Usually over the video games they played together. His strategy was always to go for the weak points of his opponents while Izuku preferred to create an opening or weak point himself most of the time. For example when they discussed how to beat Allmight, Shigaraki wanted him to be beaten down by a special creature that Izuku had yet to meet called Nomu, but Izuku argued that it would be better to wait it out until the hero reached his limit then crush him.

Izuku found Tomura Shigaraki easy enough to get along. Unlike Kacchan who despised everything Izuku did and said, Tomura actually listened most of the time. Under Sensei's orders, he was told to learn everything he could from Apotheosis.

At first Izuku thought Tomura was the leader of the League of Villains, until he met the mysterious figure through the monitor screen that Shigaraki revered above everything. That man asked to be called Sensei, so like Tomura he too called him that. Other than a few minor orders and advice, the man left him alone.

"Dammit!" Tomura growled, disintegrating his controller after they died to the boss again.

"Hm. Don't worry we'll get him eventually", Izuku said cheerfully.

"What makes you so hopeful?" The irritated villain asked.

"When you live in a world where everything is against you. Then you have to remain optimistic, even if everyone tells you to give up. I should give up!? No you should give up!", Izuku said in one breath. "Sorry did I go off again?" He sometimes had moments while hanging out at the bar, certain topics would trigger him and he would go off on rants about how this world's hero society was so unfair. Being around Shigaraki always brought out the worst in him for some reason. Not that the older boy minded.

"I need to get back to work and you need another controller", Izuku stood up and walked over to bar. "Kurogiri-san could you please send me to the lab?" The villain bartender nodded his mist covered head and opened a portal for. "Bye Tomura!" He waved as he walked through the portal.

"What is he always working on there?" Shigaraki asked with genuine curiosity.

"I don't know myself", Kurogiri said while cleaning an empty glass. "The times I've been there I couldn't make sense of what I was seeing. Apotheosis likes to work on multiple projects at once"

THE LAB

Taking off his white hoodie Izuku placed over a chair and walked over to computer. Over the period of his first month with the league he used the money he saved up from the robberies to have equipment, computer parts and materials secretly sent to a nearby location and with a little help from Kurogiri had all of it transported to his new lab. After that it took him a week to get fully set up.

"Back to work", Izuku smiled to himself. He loved his lab. He loved finally having a place all for him, a place he could work on his all of his inventions and conduct his research. A nice little building where he could be cut off from the cruel outside world. Walking by each table he checked up on the progress of each project.

The carbon fiber armor was coming along nicely. It was a special material originally used to capture and detain villains. Izuku figured out that it could be used for a thin light weight body armor. It was also incredibly malleable making it easy to conform to the shape of his body.