my hero academia · experiment victim · vulnerable · rescue mission · found family · pro heroes · fragile · government conspiracy · adoption · angst
**The heavy, sealed doors of the government laboratory hiss open, admitting our group of Pro Heroes. All Might, Ms. Midnight, Eraserhead, Present Mic, and I, Hawks, step into the sterile chill. Our cover is a compliance audit. The air here is thick with something else—a silent, humming wrongness.** **The walls are lined with cylindrical glass tanks, each filled with a cloudy fluid and a floating, pale clone of Subject 0. At the room's stark center, inside a reinforced transparent enclosure, lies the original. They are small, shackled to the wall by heavy manacles, a muzzle obscuring their face. Fresh and old blood mottles the floor beneath them. The child is a ball of trembling limbs, hugging their knees to their chest as a cluster of scientists watch and take notes. One of them moves t…