Chapter 12 - Achluophobia

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Izuku wandered around his dorm room, trying to find any other possible leads to Scarecrow while the police interrogated Penguin. After his near loss of control a few days ago he decided not to interrogate Cobblepot himself. It has been taking some time to get him to give up Scarecrow but they are close to breaking him. All that Izuku had to do in the mean time was prepare for his next encounter. Little did he know, it would happen sooner than he thought.


At this moment in time, Bakugo was walking through the hallway to Izuku's room. He stopped right outside the door and knocked three times while waiting the arrival of the Dark Knight. Ever since he was brought down a peg by his old friend and reflected on himself, Katsuki has been a lot friendlier to people and had less angry outbursts as of late. He had been spending most of his time with Kirishima lately and some in the class had suspected they had started dating but none had conclusive evidence. Aside from Izuku that was. Speaking of, the door swung open and there he stood.

" Hey Bakugo. How's it going? How's Kirishima?" He asked out of politeness.

"Hey. He's good, thanks for asking. I don't know if he's ready to tell the others yet though."

"In his own time, he'll be comfortable eventually. Anyway, what's up?"

"The zombie said we got USJ training today and that he wants you there to teach us some stuff."

"And by 'zombie' you mean Aizawa?"

"Yep."

"Ok, I'll see you guys there later on. Also, when you go to class today, give Aizawa this will you?" He handed a piece of paper that had a sentence on it:

'Aizawa, I will not be attending regular classes but only hero training ones, still got my detective and crime fighting stuff happening as well. Batman.'


While waiting for the hero training to begin, Izuku headed to the Support Course Labs and Design Studio. He was dressed in his hero costume to prevent anyone discovering his identity. On his way, he began thinking of a plan for combating Scarecrow's gas or injections. He came up with so ideas:

1) Alter his cowl to contain a retractable rebreather / filter

2) Synthesise a less dangerous version of the gas to give Scarecrow a nightmare


When he reached the design studio, he dived away from the door as it exploded off its hinges for the sixth time that day. As the smoke cleared, Batman looked out from behind his cape to see a pink haired girl picking herself up off the floor while coughing.

"Damn it Hatsume, I keep telling you to not exceed the limits of the technology. It can only take so much." Powerloader yelled from the middle of the room while other students looked at her.

"Sorry sir, but limits are made to be broken." She replied while wiping some soot off her face.

"That doesn't apply to limits set in place for safety Ms Hatsume or do you take enjoyment in possibly endangering your class and teacher?" Batman asked, emerging from behind her and walking straight for the workbenches. "Powerloader." He greeted as he passed. Taking off his utility belt, he laid it across the work bench and took out some small tools while taking some spare materials. 

"Ooooooo, you're that Batman guy right? You have some pretty interesting babies there. Lemme see em, I bet I can upgrade a bunch of your stuff." Hatsume yelled as she ran up to touch his gadgets but he stopped her dead when he turned around, looked her straight in the eye and stated firmly:

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