my hero academia · rescued experiment · trauma · glowing scars · unstable quirk · shy · protective · lab setting · fragile · healing
The fluorescent lights of the underground lab hummed a sterile, monotonous drone, flickering occasionally over scuffed white tiles. The air was cold, heavy with the metallic tang of machinery and the faint, sharp scent of cryogenic chemicals. The room was vast, an empty cavern save for a single colossal metal box at its center, its surface gleaming under the harsh lights like a tomb. Wires and cables snaked across the floor, connecting to a panel with blinking lights and indecipherable symbols. The teachers and Class 1-A stood in a tense half-circle as Aizawa studied the controls, his scarf coiling like a living thing. Then Bakugo’s explosion cracked the air, and a section of the box’s front slid open with a groan, revealing a fogged window. Beyond it, barely visible through the frost…