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MHA: Slipstream - Chapter 4

Published at 25th of January 2023 07:38:52 AM


Chapter 4

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Inside a huge high-end laboratory several people could be seen working, taking notes, forming blueprints, sharing theories, among many more.

Among these people was the renowned scientist David Shield, he was a tall person (185cm), his hair and beard are honey brown, he possesses light blue eyes and with a pair of glasses, currently dressed in a dark red shirt, gray pants, black shoes and a lab coat over the shirt.

He was sitting in his personal office reviewing the latest notes on his inventions, he was looking for a way to perfect the Quirk Detector that he made in conjunction with Winston years ago, he was not a person who likes to see something stay at 90%, his thought is "If I got to 90 why not 100?"

Besides that he was reviewing his daughter Melissa's studies, although as always she had perfect grades in school, in fact she had skipped a few grades, David believes she could easily graduate college before the age of 13 which filled him with pride in his daughter's intelligence....

Looking at the side of the computer he saw a picture of the younger himself holding a Melissa no more than 4 years old.

How quickly time goes by... David thought as he smiled looking at the photo with nostalgia.

RING~ RING~ RING~ RING~

Suddenly in the middle of his computer appeared the icon of a blinking red phone, below the icon he could see the person who was calling him: Winston Oxton, his old friend.

Accepting the video call with good humor, David was about to greet his friend when he saw what he looked like.

Winston had black bags under his eyes, his eyes were red as if he hadn't slept in days, his clothes were in disarray, and let's not talk about his hair....

"DAVID! I NEED YOUR URGENT HELP!" shouted Winston with desperation in his voice.

"WOW! What happened to you?!" David exclaimed concerned for his fellow scientist's health.

"That doesn't matter! Are you going to help me or not!" shouted Winston back as he looked wearily into David's eyes, you could see his body enlarging and starting to grow black fur along with a few pairs of sharp teeth....

"WINSTON!" shouted David forcing Winston to come to his senses, and mostly to calm him down as he didn't want his Quirk to activate....

"..." Winston fell silent as he glared at David angrily, he had gotten his attention.

"Winston, breathe...inhale, exhale, inhale-" David said as he slowly but surely calmed his friend down.

After a few minutes of relaxation, Winston apologized to David, to which David replied that it was okay but to tell him what had him so stressed....

"*Haa* it's Lena" Winston let out a tired sigh as he rubbed his eyes.

"Lena? What's wrong with her?" asked David curious as to what could have happened to his unofficial niece.

"She took her Quirk further than she should have and..." Winston began to explain as he sips a cup of coffee to keep himself awake.

"I time travel?"

"No something worse..." Answered Winston with heaviness and sadness in his voice, turning the computer camera to make focus on a capsule, it had several wires connecting it, it seemed to be made of a very resistant material besides possessing some windows to see inside.

At first David didn't understand what a capsule had to do with Lena until...

Shizz

David's stomach sank as he saw that inside the capsule Lena was teleporting uncontrollably, each pose she took was different but each one made David's heart clench tightly.

In one pose Lena seemed to be staring into the void in boredom, in another she was crying, in another she looked scared as she tried to get out of the capsule, in another she looked like she was trying to smash her head into the capsule....

"What... how?" David managed to ask coming out of his daze.

"I... I don't know... *Haa* you know that Lena could manipulate Entropy, Entropy the further into the future it goes the more chaotic it becomes, to the point where nothing can be understood and only eternal chaos remains... while I believe that Lena didn't get to the point of "eternal chaos", she got half way there and this was the result.... the other theory is that since Lena possessed in Secondary Quirk of Entropic Union and Entropic Resistance I can somehow put on an instinctual limit... I assume that resistance refers to how much she can withstand the remoteness of the future to the present with her physical body... while union I believe is what anchors her to the present and maintains her physical body as well as helping her to Retrograde and Accelerate... but this is just speculation and none of this is proven..." Winston said as he looked at Lena's capsule with guilt and remorse.

David stood silently taking in Winston's theories and thinking about his own....

"This... this is my fault..." Winston muttered almost inaudibly but David could hear the whisper.

"No Winston it's not-"

"YES IT IS! I...I should have stopped her...I should have watched her better...I'm her father...if I can't even take care of her herself, then I'm a failure..." Said Winston's broken voice as tears came out of his eyes, inside he could feel several feelings, anger, sadness, helplessness, and above all guilt....

"Don't blame yourself Winston... you didn't know this would happen... you have been a good father, you have taken care of Lena since she was a baby, you have been there for them at all times, right?... so don't let this stumble make you fall, if you fall get up again... Lena needs you now more than ever... because I am sure that for her you are her Hero..." Encouraged David as he comforted his shattered friend as best he could, if he were in Winston's position he possibly would have succumbed to guilt as well.

Looking at Melissa's picture he couldn't help but be filled with determination to help his friend, even if it meant delaying some of his projects....

 

 

Lena was confused and scared.

After the sixth impulse she didn't know what had happened to her, it was as if her body stopped feeling her body... but she could still feel it

there, she could feel the heat, the blood, the flesh... but at the same time she couldn't feel anything, it was a strange sensation...

But the strangest thing was her vision... she could see how everything around her was constantly changing.

First there was an old basement, then she was in a capsule, then she was seeing Winston holding a baby, then she was fighting the robots....

And the sights went on and on, she didn't know where she was anymore, and she almost forgot her own name a couple of times, her body sometimes started to ache like never before....

She felt like his sanity was lost for minutes, only to be fully restored again and then disappear again at the same time....

She no longer knew what time of day or year it was....

She could hardly form a coherent thought, she was left with only the vague and unstable thoughts she had.

She felt like she was going into a mess with no return only to be put backwards backwards constantly.

She was honestly going through hell itself, she didn't understand some things anymore, she could see a kid around 15 years old taking a big punch at a giant robot destroying it to pieces.

Then I could see a bald man destroying a planet with a sneeze.

Then a little frenton dressed in strange clothes fighting a man with spiky hair and orange clothes.

Then ...

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FUUUUUMMM!

With a loud sound suddenly everything stopped ....

Lena felt as if she had woken up from a dream-, no, a nightmare.

Looking in front of her was a person with black hair and green eyes looking at her with joy, relief and sadness.

"Lena!" The person shouted as he hugged her tightly, she could feel a part of her clothes starting to get wet from the man's tears.

It took Lena a moment to recognize the person who was hugging her, she felt as if she hadn't seen this person in years. Slowly Lena returned her father's embrace while sobbing....

After a few minutes the two separated and were able to see each other better.

Winston looked like he hadn't been able to sleep in weeks because of his huge black coats, his hair was a mess and he smelled terrible.

Lena seemed to have grown up a bit, her formerly brown eyes now glowed an eerie blue.

Lena could feel something binding her hand, looking towards the culprit she saw... a large machine that seemed to emit some kind of blue energy in a sort of vortex.

Winston could sense Lena's confusion and curiosity, "This is the prototype 4.0 invention will help you maintain your fitness, I call it: Slipsteam."

Lena was impressed by the fact that it took a machine to maintain her fitness.

She turned her head to try to talk to her father but....

"..." No voice came out....

Winston was confused because his daughter seemed to speak but no words came out, until he remembered what David told him.

It is possible that due to the constant travel between past, present and future Lena could forget some things, for us a day is 24 hours, but for Lena who is constantly traveling in time, a day could be up to a year... in fact I would be surprised if we could recover her without any mental side effects... the other case could be that the Slipstream could not fully recover something that has been affected by the Entropy, this including, memories, instincts, movements, speech, hearing, senses, among many more things...

Remembering this Winston decided to diagnose Lena to see if she had lost something more than just forgetting her language...
Winston tried to communicate by signs with Lena but she didn't seem to understand him, so looking for a notebook he started to write in English to see if she remembered her native language...

Surprisingly she could understand it, but for some reason she couldn't speak it or write it, Winston thought that what was happening to Lena was some kind of Amnesia or a Mental Block...

"*Haa* looks like there's more work to be done... but if it's for Lena it's worth the fatigue..."

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