The Stark Cypher

Chapter 4

{ Original and all cred goes to Sunnylover Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/34320298/chapters/85393648#workskin }

As the weeks passed Bakugo was released from the hospital fully healed. He had been suffocated by a villain, that was made out of sludge. As the weeks became months midoriya continued her quest to decode the cipher figuring it out character by character. When high school applications were due in, she did hers. UA was her first choice either the heroics course or support course because although the hope may have dimmed with age, she still wanted to help people and she could help people by helping the heroes. Her analysis could surly help at least a little..

Sadly her second and third options were pretty crappy schools, most high schools don't even allow quirkless people to take the entrance exam. UA was the only hero school, in the whole of Japan that allowed quirkless students to apply, so if she couldn't get in there then there was truly no hope of her ever becoming a hero.

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There were 3 more months until the entrance exam and Izuku was sitting at her desk again. It was pretty late, she had started staying up later recently. The less time she sleeps the sooner she could finish decoding the cipher.

She was getting close; she could feel it, she now had a full notebook dedicated to the project. It was full of which characters she had worked out and which ones she hadn't. As well as theories on how the grammar worked. Although she had not deciphered all of the characters she now know enough to start writing out the decoded message so, beginning with the first line she opens up a new notebook and begins.

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Izuku had made a mistake. She could hear the birds chirping outside his window, It was 6:36 am and she had not slept a wink. Worse of all it was a Wednesday and she knew that her mum would not let her stay home.

Getting up she stretched her back and heard her bones pop. She still felt awake from the 3 coffees she had had throughout the night but she knew that the caffeine drop she will have in a few hours will NOT be fun. Looking over her workspace it was a mess the two notebooks were open and so was her computer, pens were all over the desk and her half-finished coffee sat in the corner.

Firstly she shut down her laptop and put it on charge it had been on all night and was practically flat. Next, she sculled the last of her, now cold coffee, mmm coffee. Finally, she looked over the decoded cipher and it read.

'Good job on making it this far, Before I tell you the secrets of my inventions I would first like to set some ground rules
This information is not to be given to any form of government under any circumstances.
Build machine one first, that will explain everything.
Do not immediately access the money, Build machine one first.'

Ok so judging by that she should probably build machine one first. luckily the instructions for it began just under the ground rules. It looked rather complicated but the materials looked like they would be easy enough to find.

A quick google search told her that all of the materials could hopefully be scavenged from the nearby dump. the dump is illegal so hopefully cleaning it up a bit will bring her some good karma and it should help with her strength so it's a win-win.

She would go check it out after school, But for now, she should probably get ready she had a long, tiring day ahead of her.