War Week

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[A week has gone and past, as has the first of your number. The Researcher revealing himself, more or less, by punishing Patches, the Trusty, for pushing an unclear boundary.]

[And yet, routine seems to have returned. The Researcher makes morning and evening announcements as if nothing has happened. Meals are served in the dining hall. The copies of Oregon Trail in the computer lab now have a text-only mode for some reason? Penny has not been seen since Friday, and attempts to access the Security Room have been fruitless.]

[But overall, life in the Facility has remained unchanged. But the atmosphere is getting tenser - sooner or later something is going to break.]

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[mightdoriya]

[Despite feeling like he didn't really do a whole lot in the grand scheme of things, Izuku feels a small bit of pride over being acknowledged. Though it seems it didn't make much difference, given...what's happening here. He's not at all surprised that the Researcher stepped in to change rules around again, and he's about to say something in light of that...but then photos for Team A are displayed and... Izuku stares at the picture of him when he was a child, sitting prone in the middle of the floor at preschool. To anyone unaware of what's even going on in the photo, it literally just looks like him as a child sitting there with an expression on his face that's largely blank and unreadable. All of the other children around him are sneering or laughing. All of a sudden, there's one too many variables for him to point out here.] What kind of information are you supposed to gather from an experiment where you're just short of demanding that we try to kill each other? [He doesn't say force because, really...the incentives here are shaky at best, at least in a few areas.] Also...how did you get those pictures? [At this point, Izuku is nearly certain someone with a Quirk is behind this. Being able to fabricate photographs that shouldn't exist from real, actual events that happened...unless the others claim theirs to be doctored or untrue in any way, it pretty much confirms that their memories have been looked over.]

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You have all begun forming new bonds in your time here, correct? I wish to test the limit of those bonds.

[See, totally legit and within the boundaries of the experiment as they were first described to you, sort of.]

And the temporal scooping technology used to collect you all is hardly limited to gathering physical items or beings. It is also a perfectly serviceable window into any given point within your personal timelines.

[mightdoriya]

[Izuku grits his teeth, his hands balled into tight fists at his sides.] So you resort to blackmail and bribery. [It's not even a question, it's just a statement of fact. Izuku can't say that the incentives are useless, exactly...not when he doesn't know the lives of his peers.] Temporal scooping technology? What is that supposed to mean?

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I do. They are historically quite effective.

[Sorry Izuku, can't shame the shameless.]

And I believe the proper answer to that question is "physics".

Or more accurately, a long series of equations for which you lack even the proper language to understand. All you need to know is that it is the mechanism by which you were brought here, and through which your entire existence may be viewed.

[mightdoriya]

[Oh well, it was worth a shot.] So what you're saying is that we were brought here by a mechanism? Like...a device of some sort?

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That is a simplistic reduction, but correct.

[mightdoriya]

[Listen not all of us can be smartypants robots, okay. But this means, at least in Izuku's mind, that...the possibility of a Quirk doing all of this is growing slimmer by the day. Quirks were abilities, not devices...unless it was created by someone's Quirk, in which case it feels like it would be too complicated to even begin to comprehend.] How else would you describe it, then?

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[Well maybe you should try it.]

A practical application of highly advanced quantum physics, built and engineered to be able of isolating precise instants in space and time and pulling the individual targeted therein from then and there into the here and now.

Quite the fantastic piece of technology, even to my own intellect.

[mightdoriya]

Did you create this technology, Researcher?

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[There's a bit of a pause.]









I did not.

Do you find that relevant?

[mightdoriya]

I do. [Maybe it doesn't make a lot of sense on the surface, but...Izuku is actually surprised that he's told him this much.]

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If you wish to believe so.