Animals***

I placed the police report and left the station. They couldn't do much about it even though it was suspicious. The report however may help them I don't know. It was all just really shady and strange. It actually got me multiple victories though.

The first was the help for Jess. She had an active court case against her mother. The legal battle was a tad wonky, but the information about a DNA test should prove useful. The second and third victories were both related to my quirk however.

Due to that shady guy who seemingly used his quirk on me I could feel my own quirk activate to block it. It gave me an idea on how to possibly increase the power of my quirk. So I headed to the library. This might not work, but perhaps a better knowledge of animals and such, maybe I can increase the power of some of my sub-quirks. 

Once I arrived at the library and Pulled out to find my long forgotten card. Using it to get in I looked around. I guess I should start at the animal section, move on to the sciences, ending in the section about quirks?

It felt a little weird just entering the library to do this, but why not try it. My search actually started with a book called the Grand Anatomist. It was written before the discovery of quirks however it contained the anatomy of thousands of animals. However just to be sure I grabbed some other books of similar nature. There was actually a book misplaced in the section about the biology of some mythical and fictional creatures. I had doubts that it would help me, but I'll read it and put it back in the right section.

Reading the books, I read about the nervous system of animals first. Creatures like sea sponges had no nervous system, but other creatures either had the standard nervous system or some form of bundle of nerves that either lack a brain or are literally bundles of nerves. I couldn't see how it could help me other than possibly sea sponges. I skipped the rest of the section and got to more systematic breakdowns of certain animals. 

The first thing that piqued my interest was arachnids. They had a wide variety of interesting traits. Spider silk was an incredibly strong material made from enzymes. As strong as steel, but as flexible as any other fiber. Humans were still trying to reproduce their own mass production of the stuff. However that was only the silk the spider will hang from, not the webs themselves. Sadly all the other physiology likely wouldn't help much.

After arachnids were Ants. They were one of the widest variety of creatures on their own with a matching population bigger than that of the human race. They did a lot of stuff, and acted as an entire language. I took special note on how ants treated other ant colonies. Like how a colony can produce a second queen that breaks off from the original colony and eventually turns into two variants of the same family of ants. They share the same original ant family, but they no longer recognize each other. Like extremely distant cousins. Ants also had super strength compared to their size, varying to a few degrees. Some ant bites had extreme force too. Making some of the stronger bite forces for smaller creatures. The best ant with this trait would be the Trap-jaw ant. An ant that literally uses its jaws to launch itself around.

Arthropods in general were extremely interesting. Bombard beetles create chemical reactions to breath fire. Mantis shrimps have claws that can move as fast as a bullet. This causes a shockwave that can kill most creatures and cause deafness in humans. Truth be told if I absorb energy I might be able to reproduce this if I am able to absorb sound waves. Another arthropod along this adaptation was the horseshoe crab. It had natural antibiotics within its blood. I was pretty sure I was immune to most illnesses already. However perhaps that could turn my regeneration into something to help others? The problem was my blood had a pH level of bleach. 

I skipped ahead and arrived at the section about reptiles, amphibians and fish. They all had similar, but unique traits. Komodo Dragon Saliva was something of note, but useless to me mostly. Snakes had two interesting traits though. Spitting cobras and snake muscles in general. Something that grossed me out, but also interested me due to my blood was the Short-Horned Lizard which could shoot blood from their eyes.

That was mostly the unique reptiles. Most reptiles had survived millions of years. Adapting a variety of minor details shared among many species. The ability to climb, mucus membranes, as well as skin strength. Recently though I recall an Alligator in America making waves in the news for showcasing a quirk. I decided to skip through the rest. Fish were a lot, so even if they could have useful information it was a small portion of their variety as a whole.

Besides plants and Fungi which I had no plan to research. I was left with only mammals left. Sadly the books I chose failed me on this front. So I sighed looking at the last book I had picked up. The book appeared to be about mythical creatures, but as I picked up I realized the title was deceptive. 

It was about real animals, however it talked about animals like the Cuddle-fish and its camouflage . However they could use such camouflage to induce hypnotism, paralyze and even epilepsy. This last book was just what I needed. I continued to read on.

The second was less an animal and more a microscopic critter. The Tardigrade, which wasn't that great at survival. However, it had a hardiness unseen in other creatures. Almost resistant to just about everything. Even the cold vacuum of space couldn't really kill them.

I flipped through some pages about the deep sea. Bioluminescence, ocean gigantification, complexity of self-sustenance. One specific species caught my attention. The giant tube worm and its Chemosynthesis. A short and extremely simplified summary of this ability would be deep sea photosynthesis. They fed on volcanic vents, in fact it stated there was a whole ecosystem based solely on the vents.

The next animal was the Platypus. As I read on I had to perform a double take several times. This creature was literally something like a godly mistake. From there obviously strange looks with the tail and bill, which didn't just end in the daylight they also glow under blacklight. They also were one of the only mammals that laid eggs, on top of their egg laying they lactate not from nipples, but from their armpits. They had poisonous barbs on their webbed feet that acted like cowboy spurs. When hunting they use electroreception and squirrel checks to eat. They also lacked a fucking stomach, like wtf? So they just ate all day, it was nuts. The electroreception was a good trait to take note of, I knew sharks had that ability too. Overall they were a menace of biology.

In fact all of Tasmania was like this. This book actually had a section dedicated to Tasmania alone! The Tasmanian devil and its unholy bite force. The trees that only bloom on fire, on an island that rains 24/7. Animals like the Emu, Wombat and the elephant seal. None of those had anything extreme going on, but compare them to other creatures and they certainly are strange.

I finally stopped reading the book when I got to Orcas. The reason I stopped here was Gang Orca, and his quirk Orcinus made him a great hero because of it. Echolocation was a powerful ability. If I had that I could absorb all the light in an area and rely solely on sound. Funny thing about that though, Rumi was higher on the hero charts than an Orca man. It made sense the hero charts were more about physical power. However it was funny to see an Apex predator like the Orca below that of a rabbit.

I closed the book and yawned. That was enough with the animals. I moved onto the next section. I wasn't looking forward to energy dynamics and application. Though I knew I'd learn something and I would likely get an immediate result.