Awkward Energy - MinaDeku

Acid Launchers

It was easy to think of a full week of training as being tiring, or slow, or painfully dragged out. There were only so many times that one could punch a wall, or kick some dirt, or destroy something with a Quirk until the users started to question if they were actually gaining anything from the affair.

Mina found herself enjoying the work though. She was physically exhausted beyond all belief, and almost always, without exception, collapsed into her bed once the day was over, and found herself covered in muck and sweat, skin sore with how much she'd had to push her Quirk, over and over again, experimenting with how far she could push her range without the need of additional apparatus, and pushing herself to experiment with the new special moves she was working on. Some days felt like she was just bashing her head against a wall, while others were a bit better.

Her Acid Veil technique was coming in leaps and bounds, and she couldn't be happier with how it had come out. Altering the viscosity of her Acid had given her an entirely new method of attack and defence, and one she was certain she would be able to make the most out of in the coming trials.

Exhausting, but enjoyable. Maybe because anything was enjoyable after what they'd just gone through. Like some kind of shift in reality, she just somehow felt better about pretty much everything that she was doing over the last few days. Like she was improving, and doing something that was honestly worthwhile. Like with each time she fired off her Quirk, she was getting better and better as a Hero, and could do more and more if she needed to defend herself again.

The ache felt good, in a weird sort of way. It was like a confirmation that she really was pushing herself, and that her body was going to feel the benefits of the hard work.

To use an analogy that she knew her brother would like if he were here, she felt like she was levelling up a character before taking on a boss in a video game. Only in this case, the character was her.

Of course, in video games, it wasn't only the levelling up that would help the player against bosses. There was also the constant search for new and better equipment that would help the player utilize all of their newfound skills against greater challenges.

And that was something that Mina had found in her latest addition to her Hero Costume.

"So, what d'ya think?! They're cute, aren't they?!"

The devices were fairly large for what they were – Taking up most of the space on her forearms, and were more akin to a cross between doctors' gloves and gauntlets than anything else. The actual contraption of the devices was about an inch or two of some kind of black-coloured acid-resistant metal, which ended up resting on the top of her forearm. It was attached to a piece of durable fabric, which sported the same blue and purple camouflage that her leotard was made from, equally resistant to her Quirk.

At the end of the fairly streamlined material, there was a nozzle, designed to increase the range of her Acid, and give it direction.

She'd already decided on the name for them – Her Acid Rangers.

A smile made its way onto the pink girls face as she looked towards Hatsume. "You are an amazing mad genius, Hatsume. These look incredible!"

Lowering her head to her shoulder, Mina did the closest thing that she could do to looking down the sights of her Acid Rangers. The nozzle, and the rest of the device, was scaled back so that no matter how much she bent her fist back, she wouldn't have to worry about jabbing it against the metal. It was also designed so that when she wanted to fire, she just had to lower her lower her fist, and tuck it downwards, which would give her nozzle a perfectly clear line of sight against whatever she wanted to shoot at.