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If you asked Takeru Miyamoto at this point why he always wore dark glasses lately he would tell you 2 things a good fuck you ,or the second most likely....the flash of the cameras would make him feel pain after so many pictures...letting out a sigh Takeru walked down the stairs without haste but without delay , followed by his two bodyguards...he stopped as he felt his phone vibrate for the sixteenth time in the day he looked down to see another crappy Japanese news notification
"Hero public safety commission in crisis over Nagant case, the dark undercurrent that led long-distance heroin to collapse"
Takeru was frustrated....he had been promoted just a week ago when the previous administration had been suspended from his duties for unethical amoral behavior unethical emotional abuse of staff and forcing heroes under the previous administration to crimes to keep the image of everything in order....and the worst thing is that despite all the effort they still did not know exactly the extent of these practices....
He resumed pacing leaving his phone put away and saw the back doors ..on the other side were 2 sure things ...well 3 , a car waiting to get him out as fast as possible, 2 a bunch of reporters who knew kami knows how about this exit and 3rd lights off so their photos were fuzzy and ineffective
On the other side of the gates his predictions proved be accurate as his bodyguards opened the door to his car and he finally got in, letting out a weary sigh as he looked at his driver.
"Take us to the Tokyo offices...I have a long series of meetings ahead of me" the driver an older man named Yoshi nodded , revving the sound of the engine before driving onwards.
"You know sir I have been moving commission chiefs for 30 years and I am glad you are the new chief here".
Takeru looked at him intrigued
"What's that about?"
"For all those years part of my contract were total confidentiality of what I hear....I'll probably be called to testify one of these days when that clause becomes public....I've heard the men I was transporting organize as a mafia organization...the commission ....control over certain individuals...you're the first one I've seen honestly try to change how this agency does things."
Takeru nodded at the driver's reflection in the interior rearview mirror
Finally after 3 hours their last emergency meeting was over....but there was one more left with the ad agency....department that was on fire since all mighty boy had decided that lady nagant should get a reduction in her sentence for actions the HPSC had covered up....if he was honest Takeru knew they deserved it...this whole place could have rotted for him...if it wasn't for the fact that they were indispensable to the proper legislative functioning of heroes in Japan....
A woman running down the hallway appeared at the sight of his tired eyes with a stack of papers in her hand.
She stopped to fix her skirt and bowed to greet him, to which he reciprocated.
"Nice to meet you Mr. Miyamoto , you see we know you are exhausted so if you join me we can get this over with faster "
Without responding with more than a slight nod Takeru proceeded to follow the energetic young woman to a downstairs meeting room where 3 other marketing managers from the commission were waiting for him all looking as tired as he was, a brief hand shaking session with the 2 men and the second woman and he sat down to see what they had to say to him.
"It is a pleasure to have you here sir...we..we..believe we have the solution on how to stop the drop in support for the commission" he said pointing to a graphic on his screen.
"This is the popularity point of the commission after the crisis against all for one was seen it turns out..it was showing signs of rebounding because of the quick action in allowing the heroes more liberties....but since young Midoriya...made public the... "circumstances" of miss nagant...things have gone from bad to worse..." That was something obvious to Takeru who raised an eyebrow...which made the young woman who brought him react in alarm
"That's why we think a new hero under our leadership and with a radio support team would be the solution...if we prove to the citizenry that the new administration is investing in hero technology and supporting research our popularity should rebound" Takeru nodded wearily.
"Legally we're not in the best position to ask for support or less that kind of collaboration with an active hero and if we approach a rookie they'll see what we did to nagant and run away."
Undaunted the girl nodded
"We're not going after a hero...." she looked at her companions who nodded in support of her.
"we believe this agent should be a pilot who handles a power suit and through this logistical support team with access to real time cameras can attend to crimes with an efficiency that would leave All Might's numbers a joke"
For the first time Takeru looked graciously involved in the conversation.
"Interesting..but do we have the means to design something like this?"
One of the men nodded and walked over to drop him a folder which Takeru opened immediately
"We have the resources, until the government decides on any legislative changes it is at least 3 months...we believe that if we can rebound the public image any initiative to disband or refound us will be undermined...however we don't have a technical team smart enough to design this..." with a sigh Takeru rubbed his eyes
"However we know who can and has the credentials for the project..." said the other woman leaving a last folder open in front of him ...the picture made him open his eyes
"It's a joke...." none of the young men looked back at him
"How can I convince a young millionaire who has more money than we could ever offer him and to top it off he is an older brother of the hero who put us in this situation?"
"With all due respect sir , Izuku Midoriya may be Deku's older brother...but they haven't seen each other in at least 3 years and he graduated from UA in support with an A from Nezu...he has created at least 2 mechanical suits for mining and salvage work....plus he has been a mentee of David Shield....he is the only one who would be able to do this in the time we have , any other advertising strategy would be shouting into the wind people will just watch and say, oh...it's the agency that has lied to us for years...we need actions not words."
Takeru looked at the photo of the curly green haired young man at a party in Monaco 2 days ago next to a museum car
"Well....but you will be the one to bring it to me Miss Yuuki."
Backstage behind black curtains Izuku caught his breath as his assistant put the finishing touches on his suit.
"I just hope it goes well...."
Sachi his assistant laughed softly
"It always turns out well Izuku , you are going to amaze them and there will be another 1.2% rise in the stock in the next 2 months."
Izuku looked at her and laughed
"I'm glad that you have so much confidence in me"
Sachi rolled her eyes as she finished her arrangement.
"You pay my salary and have given my marriage more travel than honeymoon."
"Say hello to Myles."
"Off you go" nodding Izuku turned and grabbed the curtains before opening them and stepping onto a giant stage in complete darkness not counting the lights from the cameras recording from the stage itself or those in the audience
"It's been a long journey for M-tech since it's been only 4 years we announce our opening" a series of applause filled the stage.
"No one believed that a young man with no quirks whatsoever could understand what heroes needed, or a miner or a policeman or a rescue worker..... but we proved it to them!" Applause "we proved to them that by collaborating we could design and create wonders like the real time holographic projection system" he said showing an apple that appeared as soon as he opened his palm "or the 0 pulse radar built into special ops police cases or rescue suits... nobody believed it but at M-tech we made it happen" more applause "but what I come to show you today is part of a new way to prevent crime...everyone here knows that a minor activation of your quirk in public is not a problem or something to be concerned about but being able to know when someone is using their quirk in real time could be the difference in how long it takes the police to tell a pickpocket from the rest of the crowd or it could alert a hero when the villain in front of him is going to use his quirk....with that in mind I would like to introduce the prevention glasses: signal, now I need a volunteer someone with a simple quirk" from the crowd a few pairs of hands were raised and Izuku picked one at random.
"Well come up here gentleman , tell me what is your quirk?"
"...eh it's folding paper at will.." Izuku smiled excitedly
"Normally I would tell you all the questions in my head but today I have a request, can you make paper airplanes and steer them in the air?" The man nodded
"Very well...please I will ask you to watch while I scan this good man" in the air behind them appeared a root like net that conformed into a human silhouette
"My signal detector works like the nose of some sharks it tracks bioelectricity and is able to differentiate the signal associated with the activation of the quirks" the holographic nerve net is illuminated and a light more intense than the rest went down from head to back at the same time 5 paper airplanes were formed .....y the whole stage erupted in applause and Izuku signaled to lower the volume as he thanked his volunteer, who returned to his seat
"This technology will not be used for some sort of total control of the civilian population..it was not created in that and I will never allow it to be used in that.... it was created so that law enforcement agents can react with advantage to attempts by the forces of chaos to surprise them in a few years you will look back and know that a relative of yours was saved by this technology and you will say hey...thank god there is....now if you see under your seats there is one of these and those who want to will be free to try them out in the expo hall next door I am Izuku Midoriya and I thank you for your participation tonight...enjoy Monaco!" He said bowing in front of the ovation to turn around and walk away towards the curtains as the hologram made him disappear into the air provoking more applause from the people.
Izuku walked down the stairs behind backstage towards an exit to the expo when he saw a young woman who appeared to be arguing with her bodyguard as he approached her and she stopped her argument and focused on him when her bodyguard stopped her from approaching Izuku.
"Well Carlos tell me who is this stranger that torments you" she said with a smile, which made Carlos laugh before regaining his posture
"She's been trying to get in to talk to you for half an hour when she didn't give up reception I sent her in with me..and truth be told I understand why...she's exhausting."
The girl in question was offended by this comment.
"Hey I've been trying to talk to your assistant for at least 3 days and all I get is evasions."
Izuku looked amused at the scene before the young woman approached him with a folder.
"I'm from the public safety commission of heroes in Japan."
Izuku took the folder and raised an intrigued eyebrow.
"You mean the one that crosses a political crisis? I don't know what you want with me but I don't think it's a good idea" he commented making a gesture of wanting to give her back the folder but she promptly denied
"My boss is the new head of the commission..please read it now I assure you he is not in any kind of trouble I didn't come to accuse him of anything just read it please" she said putting her hands together in prayer , Izuku sighed opening the folder and....
"This is a very high quote....well......ok ..you have my attention"
The girl sighed in relief
"We need you for a technical development team...this project is beyond anything ever built before..I assure you I wouldn't be here if I didn't believe you could pull it off...in fact I nominated you."
Surprised Izuku looked at the chart in the folder...it pointed to the almost obscene funds for a project...he turned to Carlos for a moment....
"Tell Sachi I need a flight to Japan today...never mind the time.... and you " he pointed to the girl "come with me" then started back with her following close behind him
Yuuki had never traveled in a private jet before.... of course the commission plane that brought her might be a similar concept but it was a working one after all...but this was a different level in terms of luxuries...Midoriya had dragged her along and she had to tell her team that she would fly with him and they would leave on their own to meet again in Japan....... speaking of Midoriya being successful as he was Yuuki couldn't understand why he would be so far away from his family...3 years was a long time.... she looked at the door through which Midoriya vanished a while ago.... maybe taking a look would be good...she stood up and walked to the door that opened in front of her, and a few meters away was Midoriya next to a pool table holding what looked like glasses identical to hers.... she didn't seem to have noticed her she was very concentrated....
"Disassemble and expand" in that instant the glasses so solid dissolved into a pile of parts now semi-transparent revealing their true state as holograms...they were complex...so many pieces of different sizes things Yuuki didn't understand it was then that he noticed it
"Oh hi Yuuki-san...I was just analyzing my design of the glasses one last time...production starts next month and there are details left to be fine tuned."
"It's amazing glasses that detect the activation of peculiarities..."
Izuku nodded
"Eraserhead was my self-defense teacher...it was an after school activity...I asked for the details of his quirk and after 3 years...........
I never got anything out of him!"
A drop appeared on the back of Yuuki's neck as he saw Izuku's smile as he admitted his failure.
"It was my last day he told me the details , that's where these glasses and their sensors come from...I plan a static design for alarm security systems, some government buildings will appreciate this technology "
Yuuki watched him as he went back to touch up the hologram on the glasses.
"I...I had to do some research on you in order to nominate you for this project and I was struck by one thing...if I may ask about it?"
Without looking at her Izuku replied.
"Eh? Oh yeah sure ask?"
"You..you haven't been to Japan in years...and there was no reason that people know of for that."
Her question made me blink a couple of times before processing what I had been asked...a bitterly familiar feeling filled me....
"it's not common knowledge...in fact most people don't know that Kohaku has an older brother....I'm just a different story than his one."
Yuuki looked at me with an even greater curiosity and despite my greater instincts to leave it at that I couldn't help but resume my explanation , why did I during so well mom!!!?
"Just like Kohaku I was born without a quirk...despite everything I wanted to help people and I thought the best way to do that was to build something cool that would make everyone's life easier I quickly got involved in the world of mechanical engineering, electronics etc and when I finally got into the UA support course I found something similar to what I always saw in my life...contempt"
I knew my face showed a melancholy that would contrast with the way he usually acted in public
"In the world about 20% are born without a quirk...but that's globally , less than 4% the population of people are from Japan that means...even lower of people..like us was low .....the early days of every school were great until that question comes..and it always came...but you know...I never let it stop me you could see better than me jumping higher destroying things even beat better...but never be more motivated than me..I worked my way up in whatever I did in my life UA was no different ......but Kohaku didn't have that in him...he was always more shy...I guess it was because he was bullied from a younger age than me...I was always there to support him...but when I graduated...I got a unique opportunity...in i-island...I had to leave them...and when I heard he got a power that could make his dream come true...i was happy for him...but to be honest i think i left him..i still wonder why but i never went back i was so engrossed in my success that...i didn't want to look back i guess i just got carried away...i had everything i wanted that approval already in my hands...i guess that makes me a bad person sometimes"
I turned around when I felt a hand on my back.
"I don't think that makes you a worse person Midoriya-san no one knows how to handle fame in the first instance, if you end up accepting this project maybe you will have time to mend your ties with your family."
I smiled at her wolfish look
"Taking advantage of my moment of weakness to convince me...damn that was low."
Yuuki-san started laughing with me
I felt a brief jolt that woke me up from my restful sleep .... The tingling in my back revealed the situation to me instantly...we had landed in Japan, I got up and dressed quickly before going to the main hall of the plane where Yuuki-san was waiting for me while the plane was taxiing and slowing down.
"My team landed half an hour ago , they left before we boarded they should arrive at the headquarters in 15 minutes about 30 minutes before us."
I looked at her with my classic, rehearsed look of arrogance which made her frown in anticipation of my next sentence.
"Not if I have anything to say about it...you know even though I wasn't planning on coming soon years ago I bought a private garage next to the airport...it cost a fortune but I keep...some good stuff."
I laughed at her look of concern before watching the service girl on board open the door to the stairs down from the jet as she held out a key ring to me with a familiar H on it , Yuuki's eyes widened as she peeked through the window , as she did that I took the keys and started down the stairs only a few seconds later I heard her footsteps
"You have a Honda nsx from the year 2023?!" her surprise was obvious.
"The truth is I'm not a big fan of electric cars and this retro model was completely updated to the most modern neutral fuels, this car have a charm I have one in every country I visit always a different color plus ....,I will not drive a European Ferrari in the most nationalistic country in Asia " the doors to opened as soon as I jingled the keys I settled into my seat before my brief safety checklist.
"Keys, seat belt, exit located , co-driver...Yuuki-san!" I turned to see her still out of the car.... "hum you're getting in Yuuki-san?" She blinked nervously and vehemently denied.
"I'm afraid of high speeds! Plus I'm sure I'll be seen with you and I'll be in 6 gossip magazines ruined my reputation!" I looked at her with amusement...this always happens to me with girls that wasn't famous ...okay maybe it wasn't the best precedent that had already happened 3 times but at least I have experience in the area ...the area of lying piously
"I promise we won't go over 80" he looks at her as honestly as possible and that seemed to calm her down.
After leaving the airport Izuku had kept his promise as long as he could however the route Yuuki had suggested had worked out.....a shit and....
ok Izuku promised it wasn't on purpose but he had to pass a fucking news truck..... they were on red light and standing right behind the reporter broadcasting her segment live.... by the time he realized she had seen him and just as his cameraman focused on him he accelerated from 0 to 100 in 4 seconds....Yuuki had yelled at him for 10 minutes but finally they were in front of the commission building...and as he told him there were his people waiting for them
She...got down with a lot of enthusiasm touching the ground with her hands....Izuku couldn't stop laughing
"Are you okay Yuuki-san?!" she looked at her with her childish hatred.
"I'll never get in another car with you!" A few meters away her companions also looked amused ,so Izuku decided to keep teasing the , pretending to be hurt Izuku put a hand on his forehead.
"After all this time together...Yuuki-chan you break my heart..." Izuku smiled as he saw her blushing and ignored the next batch of insults directed at his person before greeting Yuuki's classmates
"Midoriya Izuku it is a pleasure to meet you" Izuku shook his hands before he was invited inside the building itself was white with a large facade of glass window segments led him to the reception desk to give him an access badge and escort him to a meeting room....it was much larger on the inside a gray floor so clean you could see his reflection at the back of the room there were .... a couple of people he recognized .... he had heard of her...not always good things but she had enthusiasm and had become his sponsor because of her potential
"Well well but if it isn't Mei whirlwind Hatsume!" The girl turned to see him and though she sharpened her eyes to see him they opened to their normal enthusiasm as she recognized him
"S-sir Midoriya?!....this is going to be great!!!" The girl grabbed him by the shoulders and began to shake us with joy.
"I can't believe I will be working with you personally!!!!! ....wait... I couldn't ask you all the questions I have" seeing where she was going ,Izuku fixed the wrinkles on his shirt.
"I guess you're talking about the team we sent you to incorporate your ...babies..."
His eyes sparkled and he immediately regretted bringing it up when she shook him again
"Exactly!!! It docked with no problems and your software required no installation it worked right away and I can't figure out how it did no matter how many tests I do" already tired Izuku broke free.
"It's okay Mei if everything goes well there will be time to talk about it" the girl nodded happily before turning her attention back to her tablet one of Yuuki's companions came up to whisper to her
"What just happened?...." in the same volume he answered her.
"She's eccentric too cheerful..she loves technology and apparently she was 14 when I made me....known in the technological milieu."
The other person known to him was none other than the person Izuku assumed had authorized everything, and ahead of the introductions he took a step forward offering his hand in greeting.
"It's a pleasure prime minister" Satoshi Tendou had been elected after the liberation front crisis and shared a similar political career to his college classmate Takeru Miyamoto the new chairman of the HPSC
"It's nice to see you agree to come Midoriya , as you know Takeru was the one who agreed to take this idea to action and put me the folder you may have already seen also on my desk it will be a pleasure to formally introduce you ...Takeru?" a man in glasses a few meters behind the minister stopped chatting with a couple of technicians and walked towards them, both he and Izuku formally greeted each other
"Glad to see you agreed to come Mr. Midoriya....you don't know how glad I am."
Izuku laughed
"I didn't get details but seeing the investment in the project did enough to get my attention."
Both men nodded before gesturing for him to escort them to a large table just like the one Izuku had at his....
"It's one of my tables right? ...model 3...from 6 months ago....fiuu( hiss) they are upgraded..."
Once at the table Takeru's and Satoshi's faces hardened.
"Midoriya let's be frank , you know how bad the reputation of the HPSC is it's no secret to anyone that what was done by the previous administration not only hurt the institution but is also part of the security crisis that followed their own paranoia allowed abuses and their complacency in knowing everything allowed a national revolt to brew under their noses...if everything continues at this pace..." Takeru glanced at Satoshi sideways.
"The commission will be reformed within the next year leaving Japan with a serious problem in the regulation of heroes and their legality.... at this moment there is a populist wave advocating to relax the laws regarding the quirk use.... if the HPSC loses its independence from the political world regulating these laws will triumph and despite itself destruction the terrorist group that started the case will have triumphed.... we cannot allow it" the prime minister's face was stony.
"That's why marketing started thinking of ways to regain the public's trust...no publicity campaign will work with the time we have....we need something to show them that we can and will protect them...legally we can't put more professional heroes in the service of the HPSC...but we can authorize a field agent for security operations..."
Izuku blinked in confusion
"I understand...but then we are here to design this person service equipment based on their quirk?"
Satoru denied
"We need you to build it completely....."
Izuku opened his eyes in shock
"What do you mean sir?"
"What we need is a symbol of the power of this institution to teach the public that we can control the crisis we go through and intimidate the politicians with an agent that will always be there...if you were to choose a person no matter how skilled they are...,they won't be around forever ...no, we need you with the team we have assembled for you together to design a battle suit capable of performing heroic work without a quirk....so that the pilot can be replaced when they reach their retirement age...this agent will be the eternal guardian of Japan......" Satoru stood with his hands resting on the table.
"If we learned anything from All Might..it's that no matter how great you are time or injury catches up with you and when you fall the void will attract trouble....this suit ...this agent will never go away ...nor leave a void....Mr. Midoriya I am inviting you...to the project
Metal Hero: Fortress....
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