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Chapter 2: Crack a few Eggs
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So it's been a month, and there are some things about my quirk that bother me.
Namely it is VERY weird. I have no idea what constitutes as an 'Attribute' in Monarch's eyes. Mainly because I've been playing around with a banana and applying three attributes to it. These attributes are 'Floating', 'Spinning Clockwise', and 'Durable'.
Aside from the first two, I would have thought only Durable is an attribute, but the fact that Floating and Spinning, which are actions by the way, are capable of being assigned as an 'Attribute' pretty much throws my brain for a loop. Oh, after I gave the banana the durable attribute, I threw it at the wall and kind of cracked it. I had to hide my little oopsie behind a poster I had, hopefully no one finds that little accident.
But right now? Now I was staring at the banana as it spins in place. "Bananas... rotat EH."
I watch as the banana spins slowly and placed a finger on it. "Banan-ah, rotato FASTER banana."
Another thing I noticed is that attributes that are similar enough will simply overwrite an existing attribute I placed on the object. Things like 'Spinning Clockwise' into 'Spinning Clockwise Quickly', again how that is an attribute I have no idea. I've even tried phrases describing something and some work and some don't which is very very weird.
"Go... Go-Ooh..."
Lastly, Monarch's Attributes can synergize. I added 'Fast' as a single word Attribute, and it was applied to the banana, making it spin even faster. This whole sight was making both Chloe and myself fascinated at the banana and the attributes we were placing onto it. From what I can tell, I can apply up to five attributes... per object, so yeah. I don't know if five attributes is a hard limit or if it will grow over time but yeah that is still a lot, especially I can apply five PER OBJECT.
"Can you feEL IT?! Ba-Ah-N-Bah-AaH. YeES FEeEl teh SPED! We have reached maximun velocipy!" I jolted when I heard loud knocking on my door, I wiped the attributes from the banana let it flop onto the desk.
"Hey sis? You ok in there?" Cathy called out with a muffled voice. Ok, I may have been a bit too loud with my current testing... that and I think I might have been too enamored with the sight of a banana spinning like an item in a game.
"I'm fine! Is something wrong?" I call back as I got off the chair and walk over to the door, opening it with a confused look on my face.
Cathleen was right there, huh, she's in her PJs. "Not really, but I was just wondering..."
Oh Cathy you know how Chloe is, I can feel her needling me to respond to that. "Careful, your head might go up in flames."
I almost smirked at seeing our older sister roll her eyes. "Hardy har har, nice joke. But can we take this in your room little sis? There's something I want to ask you."
Blinking slowly, I nod my head and let her into my room. What does Cathleen want to talk to me about? Any ideas Chloe? I could feel the equivalent of a mental shrug from her. Closing the door, I skipped over to my bed and hopped onto it, turning around to sit at the edge while Cathy sat on the chair- she was eating the banana.
"You know it's rude to eat something you didn't ask for."
"Well, I know you're not gonna eat it sis. You always seemed to hate the taste of bananas for some reason." You know what? Fair enough.
"Ok, so what is it big sis?"
"Do you want to be a hero too?" I blink slowly as I registered what Cathleen just said. Wow, no hesitation at all with asking that question. But it is a good question, mainly because I've changed my mind on the whole hero thing, and the frankly stupid idea that is trying to integrate myself into All For One's inner circle. It's insane and utterly moronic.
"I mean, at first yeah. But I changed my mind, I want to be a Support Hero, and support you big sis." Though I will still make a Villain-persona so that I would have more freedom to prepare for All for One.
"Support Hero? Like the ones who make costumes and gadgets and stuff?" I nod my head at her words smiling.
"Yeah, I know Aspect Warrior is strong enough to be a quirk I can use in heroics. But someone has to be there to help you behind the scenes." In more ways than one of course.
Cathy blinked before she placed a hand to her chin in curiosity, she was actually surprised at me wanting to be a Support Hero of all things. But the thing is really that Support Heroes would get access to resources to make stuff, as well as the lessons to help them learn how to make support gear, how to make it better, how to fit them for a certain hero and such.
Of course, I can also go to the local trash sites and clean that up while using it as a scavenge and salvage site for myself. Annoyingly enough, there are a few beaches here absolutely overflowing with trash. Like, if you thought Dagobah Beach back on Japan was bad, get a load of California. Like just California in general, how many damn Landfills they have. Not even that, a few of their beaches were also given the Dagobah treatment.
It's kind of sad really. Like, the garbage collectors seem to be content with leaving those beaches alone as garbage sites.
There's even one within fucking walking distance. Which actually to be honest is kind of good since I can scavenge close to home.
"Can't you just do both?" Wait what? I look at Cathleen with an inquisitive look, she stared back at me and realized that I was silently asking my question to explain what it was she meant. "There is no rule saying that you can't be both a Hero and Support Hero... right?"
Uhh... I was shocked actually, I never thought about that. I was more focusing on the fact that I may be only able to choose either to be a Hero or a Support Hero. I never thought of the idea of trying to learn how to do both.
But then again, it might be best to choose being a Support Hero, as I would have to split my time up with doing that and being a Villain.
Man, the idea is really tempting though. Learning to be both a Hero and Support Hero on one side, and also building up to become a Villain on the other side. I'd getting lessons on Heroics and the like while also learning how to track down Villains so I can do my best to hide my own Villainy.
Granted, putting one foot in both worlds is going to be really dangerous. As that meant that I would not only be engaging heroes, but also villains. I'd need to make an alternate persona for my Villainous Ventures, the Eggman aesthetic would fit there honestly. But that is for the future, I should answer Cathy now actually.
Looking into Cathleen's eyes, I tilted my head to the side. "That... might work, but I don't know if it will take up time though. I don't want to spend a lot of time to take both classes and take too long to join you sis. You're much older than me, and you'll probably get a huge head start already since you're fourteen and I'm just six..."
My 'reason' seemed to make Cathy happy, as she grinned and hopped over and sat on the bed to give me a hug and a pat on the head. That's nice. "Well we can ask mom and dad later, they know a lot of things. Don't worry so much little sis, I'm not gonna go anywhere any time soon."
Smiling back at Cathy, I nod at both her and mentally nod to Chloe. We will make sure Cathy survives against All for One, by any means necessary.
I hugged Cathy, burying my face into the crook of her neck and touched my own hand behind her back, applying some Attributes to myself as I/Chloe basked in the warmth of our older sister.
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Waking up with a yawn, I blearily looked at my surroundings and saw quite a few of my unfinished gadgets. Ah, right I fell asleep in the garage again. I got off of the couch and stretched, letting out a few cracks as I slipped into my flip flops and got up. I felt a bump against my leg, looking down I saw my first foray into robotics.
A small robot shaped like a ball with two little dots for eyes, I may have plagiarized the Haro from Gundam a bit, but hey those little things are cute and no one will stop me. Of course I gave them a different name so that copyright lawyers won't try and eat me alive. It's pretty dumb, like the dumbest of AI because I'm still learning programming and how to make AIs in the first place.
I very much unimaginably called him Boll. Cathy did slap the back of my head for giving it such a simple name. But I like Boll, he's like a pet and acts like one too, just replace feeding with maintenance times and sleeping with charging times.
Anyway! It's been a two years and if I remember right, big sis is just waiting for the results in a letter. She applied to the best Hero school in the West. Apex Rising Corps Highschool, or ARC High. It's one of the best heroics schools in America, there are five prestigious Hero Schools in America surprisingly enough when we asked our parents a few years ago.
ARC High to the West, Snowguard Capital to the North, the Isle of Keys Hero Complex to the East, Battlemind Hive Center to the South, and Rushmore High smackdab in the Center of America. Each of these hero schools are more or less unofficial rivals, they were all really good. It's like the Shiketsu and UA situation in Japan to be honest.
Cathy chose ARC High mainly because it's closer to home, that and ARC High is on a small island complex off the coast so she can let loose with her quirk a lot. At least those were her words, put to be honest I think she just likes the numerous gyms and amenities in ARC High.
I on the other hand, was planning on going to Rushmore High in the future. Mainly because they offer the option of taking both Hero Class and Support Hero Classes at the same time, which means I won't have a lot of free time but I can cram both of those classes in the same amount of years.
Which is good, especially since there was an option to finish the Support courses earlier to give me back my free time. That and they also have dorms, free cafeteria and support kids get their own labs.
Basically if I go there, I have to score high and breeze through the support courses as fast as I can, especially since I might try to make an Eggman debut when Cathy graduates.
But... that is for the future. For now? I pick up Boll and pull out the phone I made to look at the date, I nod and knew that if my calculations were correct, the mail should be arriving soon. I can put my current projects on hold, after all this is going to be the big reveal on whether ARC High accepted her or not.
I felt and heard the door bash open and felt myself get scooped up into a hug, the amount of force behind that slam nearly made me drop Boll damn it! But I very much knew who this was.
"Chlooooooooeeeeee!!! My letter is here! Come on! We're going to the living room where mom and dad are waiting!"
Quickly, I applied the strength attribute to myself and pinched her arm. She yelped and dropped me as I turned around with both an amused and unimpressed look. "I got it, I got it, just hold your horses big sis. The letter's here, it's not going anywhere. Just let me close up shop. Here, hold Boll." I handed the definitely not a Haro to a pouting Cathy and walked around the garage to check up my half finished projects and make sure that nothing running needed my attention.
Turning around to a very excited looking Cathleen, I giggled along with Chloe in my mind as I spread my arms. Letting Cathy pick me up into her arms while I now held onto Haro as we sped into the living room. I was sat on the couch beside Katherine while Jared scooted over to the side to give Cathleen the space between me and dad.
She excitedly tore into the letter and a card fell out along with a small disc shaped object. Blinking a few times, Cathleen picked up the disk and clicked on the one button that was right on it. The room lit up as a hologram shone into existence, forming into a window as it played a video. Huh, this was just like the one UA sends funnily enough.
Oh, I think I recognize this guy. Not from the series but more so I see him on the news a lot, Just Desserts, a guy whose quirk lets him generate and control different kinds of sweets. Kind of on the nose for a hero name but he's actually one of the top fifty heroes in America, don't know his actual rank though.
His quirk is also his hero name which is a little funny but it is very accurate. He kind of reminds me of Katakuri from One Piece with the way he generates mochi, edible cookie dough, and cake frosting to fight enemies. Personally, I don't like him simply because he likes making way too many puns about sweets.
"Hello miss Cathleen Bate, I am Just Desserts and I am here to give you your results. You've passed the written portion of the exam at the top of the applicants, good job on that!"
I felt Cathleen fist bump the air and rolled my eyes. She was so lucky I was the one helping her study for that exam, Attribution Monarch is absolutely bullshit when it comes to academics. It's why I keep two Attributes active on me at all times, maybe I might add a subtle attribute to Cathy before she leaves for the school.
"As for your practical exam? I'm happy to say you passed with flying colors! You've completed the fitness exam, the obstacle course, the battle system, and even the optional Senior Gauntlet. I've been told to pass Miss Jenny's message to you that she will be excited to see you in the future. You currently rank the first in all of the exams! A new record for ARC High applicants for sure!"
Now THAT was impressive, Cathy was very very creative with her quirk. I've seen her grab air with her quirk and turn it into a weapon, so she's pretty much never caught without one. But to get first in all categories? Man, Cathy's a beast.
"Now kid, welcome to your Hero Academia." Ah, the fabled title card, said in real life. I almost giggled at the joke, and Chloe is not holding back her own giggles in my head.
Just as he finished his statement, the hologram dissipated and the disk machine turned off. Silence spread throughout the house for a few brief moments as I counted down in my head, three, two, one.
A squeal of happiness erupted from Cathleen as she threw her hands up into the air before hugging me, I hugged back of course just as Jared and Katherine hugged the both of us together. We congratulated Cathleen for absolutely demolishing the application and mom said that she'd be making chicken pot pie for dinner with gravy and potatoes.
I basked in the warmth of the family but I noticed the TV was still open and saw some breaking news about several places in Japan had unfortunate industrial accidents. Our parents and sister were too distracted at Cathleen's happiness, but I narrowed my eyes at the news.
So, you've started your assault huh All Might? Good luck. You're going to need it.