16 Ch 16 – A New Goal

As the crack of dawn hits the horizon, multiple residents of Musutafu wake up including a certain man who was putting on a tracksuit colored black along with white lines around it.

Crouching down on the ground while on his knees, he ties his shoelaces and after a few seconds, he stands up now that his shoes are tied and glances at the window beside him showing the sunrise.

"I wonder what UA's sports festival would be like? They're one of the best schools around worldwide, but it seems like this world's power level is pretty high, probably national or continental at max," Braun mutters, glancing at his modified watch to show it was around 5 am.

Nodding his head, he puts his hand on the doorknob and twists it open with one hand, opening it to be greeted by the fresh morning breeze that directly hits his face, his hair fluttering with the cold wind while rays of light illuminate his body.

Taking a deep breath, he walks through the open door only to see the door right behind him opening too, a fluffy green morning hair meeting his vision as his new neighbor, Izuku Midoriya, came into view.

"Oh, good morning Midoriya-kun! You up to work out too?" Braun said, startling Izuku who just got out of his house, but as he turns around to see Braun wearing a black tracksuit while a big grin was on his face, he sighs and smiles.

"Yes, Braun-san!" Izuku responds with a smile, noticing how muscular Braun actually was now that he was wearing something that was somewhat tight, his eyes gawking at Braun's defined body even through all that fabric.

"Mmm, young uns like you should work out, working out gives feel-good chemicals to the brain and would give you a happier life overall. So, where do you work out? Do you go to the gym or just work out in the park? Do you do calisthenics? Weights?" Braun asks with a smile, putting his arm around Izuku's short stature.

"U-uhhhh…" Izuku responds, his brain going overdrive trying to find an answer.

"Oh, you must do a mix then. From your muscles, it seems like you've been moving heavy things around from how it is built, mmm, an unorthodox form of training but still training," Braun said, nodding his head as they walk down the stairs while Izuku continues to be flustered.

As they reach the ground floor, Izuku finally regains clarity.

"Braun-san, if you don't mind me asking, what is your quirk?" Izuku asks, turning the rail of the conversation to the topic of quirks.

"Oh? My quirk, well you could say I'm quirkless," Braun casually said, causing Izuku's eyes to bulge out in shock at that unexpected answer.

"Y-you're quirkless?!" Izuku asks, disbelief clearly showing in his eyes as he felt weirded out to see someone of the same fate as his.

"Indeed, I'm quirkless!" Braun said, a grin donning on his face, an unexpected answer compared to the one Izuku expected, an answer that has a darker tone, but instead, Braun didn't seem to mind being quirkless.

"T-then are you sad about it?" Izuku asks, his eyes gleaming for answers while they walk down the street.

"Not really, even though I'm quirkless, I received something much more beautiful and wondrous compared to a superpower," Braun said, catching Izuku's attention at how optimistic the man was.

"What is it?" Izuku asks, his eyes glowing, trying to find what the man has that is special.

"It's this," Braun said, pointing at his head causing Izuku to raise his eyebrow.

"Your mind?" Izuku inquires, confused at how that was special.

"Indeed, instead of being born with a quirk, I was born with a grand mind. You see Izuku, we humans have reached the apex of this world not because we have quirks, no no no! Instead, it's because we have the ability to learn, to learn faster and better than any other species on this planet! Just look at this!" Braun said, taking out his phone and launching an app.

"What is it?" Izuku asks, confused about what the app is supposed to be for as an assortment of letters that were foreign to him appears.

"It's a translator app! Made this thing by myself in a couple of months, and I'm currently staying in Japan to learn the language more in-depth to make the app better," Braun said.

"Oh, so that's why you move here. How long do you plan to stay?" Izuku asks while they cross a street.

"A couple of months, so expect me to be here for a long time!" Braun said, Izuku chuckles in response until Braun suddenly gasps.

"Oooh! A gym!" Braun said, looking at the gym in distance.

"It seems like my stop is here! See you later Midoriya-kun!" Braun said, quickly crossing the street and leaving Izuku all alone.

'Whew, I thought Braun-san was going to follow me all the way to the beach, then I'll have to make an excuse on why he can't follow me there or something else.' Izuku breaths out a sigh of relief as he continues to walk all alone.

'But… Braun-san is quirkless? Huh, I didn't expect that from him.' Izuku thought, the figure of Braun reappearing in his mind and how different he was compared to him, even though they were both quirkless, Braun didn't seem to lament his fate and instead even appreciates it, a thing Izuku couldn't wrap his head around, clouding his mind until he reaches the beach where All Might in his skinny form was sitting on top of a broken fridge.

Shaking his head, he clears his mind and prepares to continue his training with All Might.

But while that was happening, Braun enters the gym and signs up for a membership while grinning in his mind, another line of defense and deceit was made for any time manipulators to be trapped in.

'Sigh, I really need to gain an anti-divination system right now but that would be pretty hard to do with my current materials. Sigh, infiltrating the 4th dimension would be a momentous task for me right now. A thing to take care of later, for now, I still have my cheat as a last resort.' He thought, grabbing some weights to train for the rest of the morning and going home when the sun was already high in the sky, his whole body coated in sweat.

Opening his door, he went to take off his clothes once he was inside the bathroom and throw them into a pile, turning on the showerhead, a rainfall of cold water douses his whole body, reinvigorating his rapidly regenerating muscles with his regeneration turned all the way up to the max now that he was home, fumes of steam shooting out of his pores like a kettle storing boiling hot water.

'If I want to build the miniature nuclear reactor, I would still need the smallest hint of uranium to start the process but once that is done, then I won't need any more uranium. Hmm, maybe I could buy it at an antique shop that holds some radioactive glass. Hmm, or maybe I could go the fusion-fission reactor path? Hmm, it is possible if I make it efficient enough to essentially produce infinite energy if I use those alien species that can control nuclear energy as a basis… If I were to add a magnet here and use the natural electromagnetic field to fuse and divide it with a zero loss in energy! Holy shit! This could work!' Braun thought, his eyes widening in shock at what he has done.

'I made a perpetual motion machine! Now I only need some uranium to start the process and make the machine! Then I could have essentially 10 gigajoules being produced per second for the rest of eternity! Then if I were to change some things with better materials, I could easily raise that to 20! Holy shit!' Braun thought, his hands shaking at how ridiculous that was, literally defying the laws of physics after a few days of getting Rick's memories.

'No, this isn't defying any laws, my understanding of them has just risen that allows me to manipulate the laws to my whim. But still, this is terrifying, if any other being out there has Rick's mind… then I fear how powerful that being has become already.' He thought, his paranoia further rising with his heart growing further colder.

'It seems like I'll have to accelerate my plans of gaining some portal fluid. I could have made a collider but it seems like I would have to turn the whole moon into a buttload amount of portal fluid for myself in the future. Sigh, that's for the future, for now, I'll still have to build the reactor which should take a few days to a few weeks to make due to how intricate the design is. Just making an electromagnetic field weakener is already hard enough. But then I'll also have to make a casing strong enough to handle such absurd forces and more, fuck, let's just start this project.' He thought, rubbing his head with a towel and walking out of his bathroom, entering his room to put on some clothes and start to make a plan in his mind on how he will tackle this project.

'First is the materials. I would have to make some special alloys or maybe non-metal materials, maybe I'll have to even make a few elements from scratch myself but those are already in Rick's memories so I don't have to worry about discovering them myself. Then next would be to build it which would be another huge task. Then finally, use that reactor to make the next thing which is the enhanced version of the forcefield maker in my watch. Welp, no time like the present to get some radioactive glass.' He thought, grabbing his portal gun and laser gun and pocketing them inside his pants, and walking out of the house after searching for the nearest antique shop that was here.

After a few minutes, he finally arrives at the place and glances at the store that was pleasing to look at with many ancient pieces of stuff being on top of shelves and displays for all to see.

Entering the store, a ding sound appears above him and he sees a golden bell prop right in front of the door, a classic thing to alert that somebody has entered the store.

Glancing around the area, the young lady over the counter watches him with a bored gaze, probably the granddaughter of the owner who works park-time here in the summer.

"Hey kid, you got any radioactive glass around here?" Braun said towards the young girl with shoulder-length black hair, a pair of dark brown eyes wearing a blue shirt, and black shorts.

"Mmm-mmm," the girl nods, pointing at a section in the distance where green glassware was propped on in the distance, and it seems like the concentration of uranium is above average which was nice, but he still has to extract the uranium from it which would need something like a molecular divider or material sorter to do but it's no big deal compared to the other parts he has to do like make a small amount of adaptive molecules that is non-metallic and could handle the huge amount of nuclear energy he would be making with the reactor.

Walking over towards it, he glances at them, acting like he was inspecting them, and after a while, he nods his head and walks back to the counter.

"How much is this?" Braun said, pointing at the tea set in the distance.

"That would be 25 thousand yen in total. But I could give a discount due to it being radioactive," the girl said, nodding his head, the price was deducted to 23 thousand and he takes out a wad of cash from his wallet and gives it to the girl who puts the tea set into a storage device that would shield him from the radiation.

Grabbing it, he nods his head to the girl and walks out of the store, with uranium in hand, he takes one step closer to making an absurd creation of science.

AN: This is 2058 words, you're welcome.

To show how powerful that reactor is, a nuclear power plant usually produces 1 Gigajoule of energy per second, now, he was able to design a machine that can produce 10 times that amount with the size of his palms and requires zero effort to maintain, and it also uses no uranium to keep it up and running, it will just continue to produce energy for years to come.

Though it would be irrelevant in B-1.

Writing is hard, so give me powerstones.

(May 22, 2022 – 179th day of writing)