It's a Plan(et)

Chapter 8

Izuku decided to keep his eyes closed and gather as much information as he could before letting his captors onto the fact that he was awake. Despite his adrenaline increasing, his blood rushing to his extremities in preparation for him to fight, Izuku forced himself to remain still, lax, taking deep breaths as if he was still unconscious.

"It was the correct decision taking this green-furred Terran over the blue-furred one for the first attempt," one voice insisted.

It was never a good idea to assume things, Izuku knew, but he was pretty sure that he could clock himself and Shigaraki as "Terrans" in this instance, all evidence considered, as there were two of them and Shigaraki had light blue hair and he himself had green.

"I still disagree," another said. "Sure, this one seems more cooperative, but if this attempt does not work, we should have saved him for the next attempt that might be more successful. It would have been smarter to use the less cooperative Terran for our first attempt in case it is a failure."

That further indicated that they were the "Terrans" the aliens were talking about because Izuku could indeed be seen as the more cooperative of the two, seeing as how Shigaraki withheld the food trays and water bottles given to him and Izuku always gave them back. That would make it easy to see Izuku as being more cooperative, especially if you add in how loud Shigaraki could get when he yells. Izuku hadn't seen any other species carrying on like that, so it was probably very out of the norm to make a scene like Shigaraki tends to do on a whim.

"I don't think it will be a failure," the first voice contested calmly. "We have had first-time successes for multiple species. It's been five gigaclicks since we've had a failure."

If they were talking about the fact that Izuku could now somehow understand every word they were saying, Izuku would call it a definite success.

Not that he had to let them know of this fact.

Izuku's mind whirred with the different possibilities that were now open to him.

"But this is the first time we're implanting a Universal Translation Device into the brain of a deathworlder. There might be some unforeseen difficulties. I mean, look at the technology we had to revert to using! It's not even a complete implant! It sticks out so grotesquely!"

Izuku stopped himself from reaching up to see what might be sticking out of his body so grotesquely and forced his breathing to remain steady. He could worry about that later.

"All in the name of science. Improvements can be made once we are sure it is a success. Then we can improve our deathworlder specific technology before we implant into the blue-furred Terran."

Izuku decided that he had heard enough when it was mentioned that the same is going to be done to Shigaraki. His most immediate goal became to prevent that exact thing from happening, with a concurrent goal of getting the hell off this planet.

Izuku decided that it was time to open his eyes and do what he does best.

Without warning, he shot up, hands flying to his head to continue to try to get that damn mask off his face before they could put him under again. He allowed his breathing to come faster as he felt around, wondering where that grotesque thing might be sticking out of him from could be as tears filled his eyes as he allowed his panic to take over.

"Hello, Terran! I'm glad you're awake! We did a procedure while you were out and now you should be able to understand us," one of the aliens said to him. A dreto, he was able to identify through blurred vision of his tear-filled eyes.

He let out an incomprehensible sob in response, flailed backwards until he fell off the metal table he was on, and landed hard on his hands and knees on the metal tiled floor with a grunt. Reeling back as some of the aliens stepped forward, trying to calm him with words he pretended to not understand, he quickly moved back to get away from them, crashing into the shelving units behind him, sending jars and bottles scattering to the ground, the fragile material often shattering on impact when it hit the floor and crunching under the feet of the aliens as they still tried to approach Izuku.