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MHA: Slipstream - Chapter 3

Published at 25th of January 2023 07:38:54 AM


Chapter 3

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The school was... well an ordinary school, though not quite, the school was divided into two buildings, one to teach the children who hadn't awakened their Quirk or didn't have one, and one for the children who had already awakened it.

The schools in Japan worked a little differently than in the United States, while in the United States the children would always see the classes together no matter if they had Quirk or not, Japan separated them so that there would be less discrimination towards people without Quirk, although it didn't help much, in fact, it just made it worse but everyone seemed to turn a blind eye to the matter...

Lena stood next to her father looking at the building in front of her.

Fumikami Elementary School.

Today was the day where Lena was taking her first step in that long mountain of studies, for the first time, Lena was going to school, and she was a little nervous... okey very nervous, but she hid it with her characteristic smile even if she looked a little looser than usual.

"Well I'll come pick you up when school's out, about 3 hours-"

"THREE HOURS?! THAT'S A LONG TIME!!!" Lena shouted in surprise that at school it would take so long, well, a long time for her.

Some parents looked at the commotion Lena was causing with faces sympathetic to Winston since they had been there before.

"*Haa* it's not as much as you think Lena, it's only three hours it's not much, you might even have fun" Winston sighed as he told Lena to calm down as in his perspective three hours wasn't much.

Little did he know that for a child three hours is like three whole lifetimes?

After Lena tried to convince her father to look for her earlier, failing very strongly, she entered the school with a grim face, prepared to spend three lifetimes in one classroom....

Walking through the main building she met a teacher who told her which classroom she should go to, thanking the teacher with a smile Lena shot into the classroom using her Quirk, Lena disappeared from the teacher's sight to be replaced by a blue trail that soon vanished into thin air.

With the help of her father, Lena found a name she liked very much for her Quirk, Goddess of Tim-

Okay no, her Quirk was simply called, Time Entropy, since she could control the Entropy of Time, although according to her father she shouldn't speed up her own Entropy too much since bad things would happen... but backing it up or speeding it up just a few seconds wouldn't do any harm, other than feeling a little hungry.

Arriving in front of the classroom, she entered through the door to see that...

...it was empty...

Lena was surprised that she was the first to arrive and went to the seat closest to the door, so that when the bell rang she could rush uninterrupted to her freedom.

After a few minutes that seemed like hours, the students began to arrive and before long almost the entire room was full, some of the kids were uncomfortable, some were crying and screaming for their parents to come back, and some were calm as they talked to the person next to them.

And Lena... well she was sleeping.

After the teacher came in and slammed the door (which woke Lena up), she proceeded to introduce herself by writing her name and explaining the rules of the elementary school.

Lena as she already knew the rules thanks to her father paid no attention to her....

"Now... you, the brown haired girl who was sleeping, come introduce yourself to your classmates" Said the teacher as she pointed her finger at her and beckoned her to come.

Lena quickly got up from her seat and stood in front of the class, looking around she could see several weird things with the kids possibly their Quirks.

One had horns and a demon tail, another had green skin, another had his eyes closed but could see, another had pencils for ears, and the list goes on and on....

"Good morning, my name the Oxton Lena!!!, I'm from the United States so please call me Lena, I like to run, sleep and eat, my Quirk allows me to...ehhh...become the fast one or slower for a few seconds...or so I think, I still don't quite understand it...anyway, my pleasure!!!" Lena said with a bright smile on her face before returning to her seat to let the next student pass....

 

 

"So... how was school?" Winston asked as he looked in the rearview mirror at Lena who was in the back of the car with a bored grimace.

"Well, it wasn't that- LIE IT WAS INCREDIBLY BORING! AND THE KIDS ARE WORSE!!!" Lena shouted with a look of frustration on her face, as if she had just returned from a prison with the worst criminals.

"You are a kid..."

"THAT'S NOT THE POINT!" shouted Lena pouting at her father's response.

"AHHAHAHAHAHAHAA!" Winston laughed out loud at his daughter's expression.

After the two calmed down a bit Lena explained what she didn't like about school....

"The classes are boring, most of the things I see this year I already saw with you and the worst without a doubt without the kids..." Lena said as she looked out the car window.

Winston has been educating his daughter since before she got her Quirk, because he is a scientist he has been able to teach her a variety of things even if they are too advanced for a child Lena adsorbed the knowledge like a sponge, essentially getting a little (a lot) ahead of kids her age.

"And what about the kids? Did they bother you or something?" asked Winston concerned that something might have happened to his daughter.

"Nah, they're just...idiots."

"Lena, vocabulary."

"But-"

"No buts."

"Well, they're dumb, I mean they don't know how to answer a simple subtraction or multiplication and worst of all they only talk about how awesome their Quirk is and try to brag about it to others... but the most annoying thing is that they only talk about being heroes... I mean I like the idea of being a hero like Nana Shimura or All Might who protect people with a smile, but I don't go down the street yelling every few seconds "You see how I walk? It's my dream to be a hero" or "Did you see my super powerful Quirk? It's that my dream is to be a hero" IT'S SUPER BURDENING!" Lena said in an angry tone as she recalled the annoying situation.

"Well, that's the dream of many I'm not surprised they shout it at every turn, but they don't know the risks and dangers of being a hero yet... when they know about them let me tell you many of them will stop trying to become Heroes..." Explained Winston with a bitter smile.

After that conversation, they both went home to prepare food and get ready for Lena's daily practice.

According to Winston, Lena shouldn't speed up her own Entropy too much, because the further into the future you push Entropy, the messier and more chaotic it becomes.

The limit Winston set for Lena was that she should only accelerate her Entropy by a maximum of 3 times per minute, or she could use the 3 accelerators and then roll back her entropy to get the 3 accelerators again, but the rollback should then not be used for 2 minutes.

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Accelerators: 3 Jumps - Cooldown 1 minute (Reset if you use Backspace)
Backspace: 1 Backspace - Cooldown 2 minutes

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If Lena went beyond the set limits... in truth Winston had no idea what would happen since no one could know the future and even less with an energy as strange and unstable as Entropy, but one thing he was sure of was that it could not be good, and he did not want to risk his daughter's health because of his scientific curiosity.

After lunch, father and daughter went down to the basement where a large room awaited them, half of it was a scientific research site with various technological artifacts and the other side was a sparring area where Lena usually practiced.

Lena went to the sparring area while Winston stood outside with a control in his hand.

"3..2..1.. BEGINNING TRAINING" Said a robotic voice.

After that robots of different sizes came out to face Lena.

This training was to increase Lena's resistance towards Entropy, Winston had a theory that if Lena had more resistance she could do more Accelerations or reduce the cool down time.

Lena dodged the robots that tried to hit her without using Entropy, after all she only had 3 Accelerations and she didn't want to waste them,

1 minute of cooldown in a fight can be decisive for victory or defeat.

While Lena was dodging a robot that tried to hit her from the front, another one appeared to hit her in the back. Lena jumped into the air to dodge the blow, falling near the robot's head, confusing a robot that tried to hit Lena but only ended up destroying its partner.

Lena at this point was very sweaty, she may have a higher resistance than most normal people but at the end of the day she was still a child.

After 5 minutes since she started training, she was forced to use the first accelerator.

After 7 minutes from the start of training, I use all 3 accelerators.

After 15 minutes from the start of training, I use 3 accelerators and a recoil.

After 30 minutes from the start of training, she used 3 accelerators, a recoil and another 3 accelerators, putting her entire arsenal on cool down.

But Lena was determined to go beyond 30 minutes, she wanted to make it at least 45 minutes before giving up.

Winston, who was filing some research notes, didn't realize that it was past the 30 minutes of every day and that Lena was about to make the biggest mistake of her life....

Lena used the fourth accelerator, putting tension in her muscles.

Then the fifth accelerator, pushing her body to the limit making her feel a lot of pain, but she was determined to break her record.

Then the sixth accelerator, making her spit a little blood from her mouth.

Then the seventh throttle...

BOOOOOOM

A surge of blue energy shot out all over the basement of the house.

Winston quickly turned around to see a horrific sight.

All the robots had been wiped out there was no trace of them left, not even the metal plates... as if they had been erased.

And in the center of the sparring area stood....

A ghost that disappeared and reappeared in different places and positions, but each and every one of them raising its hand towards Winston with a frightened look....

At that moment it was as if Winston's world had collapsed, he watched in horror as his daughter tried to ask him for help... he knew what was happening as it was a possibility but he didn't think it possible as it was simply absurd, he thought that in the worst case scenario Lena would travel to the past or future, but this, this was even worse....

Lena had been unanchored from the present, to become a ghost that has no physical form and should not and cannot exist in the present time, nor in this reality....

 

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