The Emperor's Dragon

Subjective Truths

Izuku poked at the tablet despondently. He really didn't know what to do with it. He knew Doctor Garaki was running several experiments but right at the moment he wasn't interested in them. He was only interested in things that would heal his dad. He tapped his way through Doctor Garaki's files without any real purpose.

Eventually, Izuku put the tablet down and just sat with his back against the tube. He listened to the liquid in it bubbling and watched as Gigantomachia paced around the room. He let himself feel his dad again. His quirks were still there, glowing like a beacon above Izuku's head. It was a comfort, in and of itself. All the little coloured lights gathered around his dad. He let his eyes unfocus and just watched them with his quirk for a while. His Dad had so many. He felt proud of that. It meant he'd helped so many people. Under all of them, Izuku knew his Dad's quirk was there and he focused, trying to get a glimpse of it.

Except when he did that, he saw other quirks. The little points of light weren't in the room. They weren't the Doctor or Gigantomachia, they were outside. Not that far. Izuku used the distance to the Doctor to estimate the distance these quirks were. They were probably in the next room, or maybe a little further. Some of them were really close together, as if the person had multiple quirks.

"There are others here?" He asked softly.

The question came as a bit of a surprise given the way it startled the Doctor. With his eyes unfocused Izuku didn't see the details of the look the Doctor gave him. "There are," the old man eventually answered. "But you don't need to worry about them."

"Okay," Izuku replied, somewhat dreamily. He was still focusing on the quirks around them. He stretched out further and this time felt quirks moving around. There were only a few of them and they didn't seem to be coming closer. Izuku concluded they were people outside the building. He felt thankful that there weren't that many. It was safer.

He brought his attention back to those who were closer. There really were several which had to be in the same person. Excepting his dad, and Gigantomachia, Izuku had never seen anyone with two quirks before. "Why do the close people have more than one quirk?" He asked.

"Those are my experiments," the Doctor told him. "They aren't something you need to worry about Izuku."

"Why do they have quirks?" Izuku asked.

The Doctor chuckled. "Izuku, I perform research into quirks, so of course, my experiments have quirks."

The boy nodded and didn't notice when the Doctor heaved a sigh of relief that there were no follow up questions. Izuku sat for several more moments before he lifted the tablet. He released his hold on his quirk and looked at the screen. He flicked back and forth, going into the Doctor's server.

There were lots of folders there. Izuku had seen some of it before, during his summers and he just wasn't sure what he should look at. He knew it was the Doctor's way of distracting him but all he could think about was how to get a look at a quirk registry. He had no idea how to do it without Nasutto. And yes, he felt bad that Nasutto had died but he hadn't really known the man that well. He was more concerned about his dad.

Though... Izuku frowned as a thought occurred. He knew the Doctor did research into quirks but he'd never really thought how. It made sense that he worked with quirks if he was researching them but maybe he had a link to a registry. He looked at the tablet and typed 'registry' into the search.

He was somewhat surprised when there were several results. A couple were registry papers, but there was a folder in the results. Izuku clicked to it. There was a list of subfolders. His eyes widened when he recognised a list of countries. The Doctor didn't have a list of the registries, did he?