Chapter 13: She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped

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He had walked to the support department after lunch. They still had a day and a half before classes started, so it was supposed to be in lockdown, but Mei had told him that Power loader gave her permission to enter the lab to work on her project, after the brief hug they shared yesterday. And told him to swing by the next day.

Well, it was the next day now and he was at the door, knocking on it gently. He didn't want to get caught up in an explosion as they were a staple in her work environment.

"were you expecting someone Hatsume?" came the voice of Power loader from the other side and the giant steel door slid open

"Midoriya?" She looked up at the young man's face

"Hello, Maijima sensei" he greeted, bowing a little "It's been a while"

"that it has- how was the move-in?" She asked moving out of the way and letting him get in

"It was... something alright- but my classmates seem nice" Power loader nodded

"Izuku is that you?" Mei asked popping out from the side, hands holding one iridescent green gauntlet, it looked heavier than before, yet she was lugging it around with ease.

"You know him?" Hitomu asked confusion echoing out along with her voice from under her helmet

"Yeah we are best friends" Izuku answered as Mei made her way to the two

"Try it on, try it on" She chanted, practically forcing the gauntlet over his right arm

He couldn't help but to smile at her enthusiasm "Ok ok- start up still the same?" he asked as the support gear clicked around his right arm

"Yeah!"

He tensed his fingers in order again, and the device hummed softly; booting up, the screen above his wrist made itself known as a dot appeared, then drew a circle the UI blinking to life "User input accepted, good afternoon Izuku" it hummed

"It keeps track of time?" He asked laughing, he couldn't help it.

This was just amazing.

"Mhm~" Mei nodded her head fast enough to make him worry that she was giving herself a concussion "with your parameters I could add so much more stuff- tense your pinky 3 times to open up the help menu"

Power loader looked at the two. Nemuri you got some competition

"where is Mecha-might by the way?"

"Oh still carrying the stuff from my old workshop to here and my room"

Meanwhile in Mei's Room

"w̯͑h̛ͅy ̻̔a̞͋r̙e͋͟ t̰̆her͔̎e sǒ͟ ̺̌m̗͡a̺͆ny picturė̙s͇̑ of Ŷ͕o͎͛ung Mid̤͆o̘͠r̭͗iyǎ̘?͇̉""

He tensed his index and ring finger in sequence "Bio-sonar" the machine announced, the fingers of the gauntlet splitting in half and folding away revealing his fingertips

"Hatsume- how did you even fit that amount of moving parts there- wow" he mumbled flexing his fingers with ease- the machine was a work of art. He knew Mei was talented, but this was something completely different.

Even Power loader looked impressed bio-sonar? she kept her questions to herself for now "she is gonna become one of my best students- if I can still teach her something that is"

Mei just got more hyper with the praise smiling wider "The announcements are just to guide you for the first few uses- you can turn it off whenever you want, switching it to icons on the main screen" she muttered in excitement "cmon, cmon try the Grenade launcher "

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