Apotheosis

CHAPTER 36: DEUS EX MACHINA

Todoroki paused in his training with Uraraka. They were working on ways to combine their quirks and abilities while Iida was busy on the other side of the training room testing out his new armored shin plates with a few practiced kicks. Every few minutes a rolling quake of thunder could be heard echoing all throughout the base. They all paused when the loud noise became too distracting for them to continue working.

"Is he still out there?" Shoto asked as another clap of thunder could be heard even from their location. This had been going on for the past few hours.

"Yeah." Uraraka sighed as another clap echoed from outside.

"What happened?" Iida wanted to know the full story. What could incite Midoriya's rage so much that he had to take it out on the sky?

"I'll talk to him." She stated. Uraraka made her way out of the training room to the elevator and once inside pressed the button that read 'Helipad'. The lift reached the level the doors opened and she winced seeing a blinding flash followed by another thunder clap. There at the other end of the helipads stood Izuku. He'd taken off his jacket and tie and was only wearing the gray slacks and black button down shirt.

Black and purple sparks covered his right hand as he waved it around controlling the very clouds with the weather dominator quirk. Another thing she noticed was the bright green glow coming from the gauntlet. Izuku was very secretive on how his invention worked, but one thing he did explain was that the power stone not only amplified the other stones, but could also greatly boost the quirks he had taken with the soul stone.

Bringing his arm down a bolt of lightning could be seen striking the water miles away, followed by another rolling thunderous echo.

Everyone handles anger differently. Some people let it loose uncontrollably. Some bottle it up until it explodes. Izuku was the type to channel it into physical training. Working out his frustration and aggression in a spar or practicing with his gauntlet was somehow therapeutic for him. Ochako wasn't sure whether or not that was healthy, but she wasn't a psychologist so who was she to say.

Izuku fired one last lightning bolt into the ocean, before stopping to take a break. He could hear and see someone approaching from behind. Uraraka of course. She was the compassionate one of the knights and would be the one to pick up on when he was feeling upset about something.

Midoriya didn't acknowledge her presence yet. Instead he thought back to the conversation he had with the good doctor a few days ago and the reason why he was feeling so frustrated.

FLASHBACK

"What was this about?" Dr. Higurashi asked. "You know you can't go around accusing people of abusing their children without more evidence than a hunch."

"He didn't know that." Izuku told her. Once he sent Lemillion back to his agency, he went with the doctor to her office to have a private conversation. "Beside that girl was without a doubt being abused. I could tell."

"She didn't have any bruises that would show otherwise." Higurashi argued. However she could agree with him that something wasn't right about the state Eri was in, both physically and mentally. "The scars on her arms and legs looked too erratic to be on purpose, but that could be what he wanted anyone that looked closely at her to think. Plus Chisaki claimed that it was accidental due to her quirk."

"Well then Doctor, what is your psychological diagnosis?" She was not only trained as a pediatrician, but as a child psychologist too.

"In my professional opinion." She paused with a sigh. "Eri was terrified of Chisaki, but what concerns me is that she wasn't crying or showing that many signs of distress that a child who is in her position should show."