Adaptation

Chapter 55 : Arrogance

Finding himself a few floors underground in Tartarus Midoriya sits patiently waiting for someone to "meet" him. Getting bored he decides to hack into the prison to see what he can change in the room. A screen appears in his vision showing his cell. He looked like he was staring into thin air with his hand slightly tensed on the armrest. Poking around with hacking he finds that he had complete control over the entire prison and its servers. Looking through the registry he finds many villains defeated in the past and surprisingly people he had taken quirks from like Overhaul.

After copying the data to UA Midoriya flicks through the cameras to see who will be meeting with him. He stopped on one camera showing someone he recognised. A woman with indigo hair with pink streaks in an orange prison jumpsuit lying on her bed awake and staring at the ceiling. The prisoner is Lady Nagant once a great hero until she was imprisoned for killing the previous president of the HPSC a while back. Looking through the servers they all attest that she had merely gone mad but knowing the HPSC that was definitely a fabrication.

A room next to his own opens letting someone in. That someone was Madam President. She walked to the wall in front of him and seemed to be looking straight at him. The wall drops away revealing her behind a glass wall alone with a headset microphone on her head.

"Invincible glad to have you back."

Fact

Midoriya answered with a smile.

"Glad to be back though the welcome has been a bit restrictive. Why the specialised transport room?"

"You have absorbed the ideo trigger from the bombs we were taking extra precautions for the safety of the public."

Fiction

"Oh how considerate but I've been here an hour and you have done nothing but cuff me to this chair. I do wonder what kind of data you got from the sensors in here."

Her face scrunched up slightly as she looked at Invincible who was unfazed by her presence. Pressing a button on the console in front of her four panels in the room opened to reveal guns sticking out of them. Getting a closer look the guns were loaded with red darts.

"Nice. I assume. Nighteye doesn't know of this."

Fact

"Of course he is aware. What hero would hide such a marvel from the world?"

Fiction

"Oh, how thoughtful of him but I think it's time you speak your mind. What do you desire from me?

"What the commission requires is that you be more open to our guidance."

"And if I do not appreciate such "guidance" what will you do to incentivize me."

A panel opens on the floor and from it, a screen is raised. It turned on to show Inko at home watching the news. The camera panned to the side where a barrel of a gun was shown. Midoriya's smile slowly faded. The camera then cuts to Miruko jumping through the city on her patrol the camera keeping her in frame. Midoriya looked away from the screen and straight at Madam President.

"Will you do as we ask?"

Midoriya continued to stare right into the eyes of Madam President making her slightly uncomfortable but she hid it well.

"No, I don't think I will."

Madam President pressed on her headset.

"Fi-"

But all she heard was a small grunt and the gun falling onto the ground. The screen to her side showing the assassins was pointed at the floor until it was picked up and shown a green construct of Midoriya with a smile on his face. Midoriya in the cell spoke.