Ch 3. Mind Explosion

AN:

"Example." Speaking out loud

'Example.' Speaking inside the head

It should be self explainitory, but I just want to cover my bases.

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Today is the day my quirk awakens, six months after my third birthday. I can feel it brimming on the surface of my mind, like water rippling before something breaks the surface.

People don't usually feel their quirk awakening, during times where I'm alone or able to sneak off I usually go to my moms office where her computer is to do research specifically on this new society and it's quirks. One of the things I found out is that quirks awaken almost randomly with little warning during the ages of zero to four. I think I'm different because of what my quirk is, a powerful psychic quirk, and the fact that I was reborn. Now, this is mostly speculation, but I'm sure it's correct.

With my quirk about to awaken, I'm very glad I asked my mother if we could go sit under the sakura tree today because I have no idea how my quirk will awaken. I know it's happening now, but not the way it's going to, which is kind of terrifying. My mom, whose quirk is Empath, which allows her to feel others' emotions, feels my sudden spike of euphoria, then fear.

"Aki, what's wrong? Is everything ok?" - Mom

Since I'm still only three years old, I can't exactly explain that I'm scared because I know my quirk is going to awaken, and it may be capable of leveling the house. So I just say with a slight grimace, "Momma, my head feels all tingly."

I try to emphasize that it's not just a headache by blasting out a heavy emotion of fear that's only a little bit fake.

When she feels my pulse of fear, I think she understood because she stood up, grabbed me off the bench, and rushed my to the center of the backyard. All the while, she's soothing me and explaining what's happening in a calm, if not slightly worried tone.

"It's ok Aki everything is ok. This is your quirk awakening." - Mom

"Q-quirk?" - Akiko

"Yes, sweety, now I'm going to put you in the middle of the yard and wait with you until it's over, ok?" - Mom

"O-ok mom." - Akiko

When she sets me down, she taps her smart watch, calling Marc to the backyard, but it is unnecessary as he is already running out. Likely seeing the commotion from the kitchen where he was making dinner. With a quick look at my mother, who nods just as quick, he kneels down to place a hand on her shoulder. With his hand on her shoulder, a blue force field erupts around the both of them, clinging tightly to their bodies. His quirk is aptly named Force Field. He can create a barrier around himself and two other people that can stop mild threats easily and moderate threats a few times without breaking.

"Akiko, everything is going to be okay. Just look at Mommy, ok?" - Mom

I nod my head and stare at her worried face. With my focus on her, I can feel my quirk pushing out, trying to extend out of my mind like a person swimming to the surface, desperate for air.

"Breathe Aki its OKAY. Just focus on the feeling and let it out, I promise everything will be fine." - Mom

'Oh, I didn't even realize I was holding my breath. Deep breath in, deep breath out. Okay, I can do this.' Listening to her advice, I imagine letting the barrier I didn't even know I had up fall from my mind, and the effects are instantaneous. With the barrier gone, my senses explode out, literally. Both Marc and my mom are blasted back, but thanks to the barrier, they're unharmed. With the explosive force also comes an awareness of the minds around me.

'She's in pain. What am I supposed to do? I have to help her, but her quirk is blasting out at us, stopping us from getting closer.' - Mom

'She blasted us back even while under my quirk. We have to get her to calm down.' - Marc

'Calm down right, calm down. This is fine. This is natural. Bring the senses back in, idle my mind, no need to fear. This is nothing compared to my future problems, so this should be easy.'

With my mind calming, I can feel my psychic hands pulling back, and the resistance that my mom and Marc felt disappears. With the resistance gone, my mom runs to me and holds me in her arms while Marc quickly takes out his phone, likely calling some kind of doctor. Even though I "turned off" my quirk and the area of effect of the mind reading is gone, when my mom touches me, I can hear her thoughts loud and clear again.

'Oh my goodness, my baby almost just died. I'm never letting her go again.' - Mom

"Oh baby, are you ok? Are you hurt? I'm sorry I couldn't help you more!" My mom is basically crying at this point, so I pat her on the back and say,

"I'm okay, Momma. I'm not hurt at all," I say.

"Are you sure, baby? Nothing hurts?" My mother is obviously very worried right now. I mean, who wouldn't be she just felt her child's mind get bombarded by hundreds of different sensations in a span of twenty seconds. Thankfully, I'm not actually hurt except for a head ache from the release and the near constant stream of thoughts my mother is pumping out.

"No, I'm okay Momma sorry I scared you." I didn't expect it to be this powerful right away. I'm very glad I let her know something was wrong earlier because I could have thrown her into the wall around the yard. This means I'm gonna have to train myself to control it right away, or I'll hurt someone. Why didn't it just start at low-level telekinesis and go from there?

While my mom was fussing over me, Marc had made a call to the Emergency Quirk Awakening Service (EQAS). They are an emergency response unit specifically for quirk awakenings. They were made for the obvious reason of a child who awakens super powers out of the blue and could possibly hurt themselves. With the call made, they arrived quickly and began to ask my mother questions and look me over. They asked both her and me the questions, me, I guess, so I didn't feel scared while they ran the tests trying to find out if I'd explode or something. The other EQAS workers asked my mom what happened and what her and my gathers quirk were.

"My quirk is Empath. It allows me to feel others' emotions. Her fathers quirk was Stop, it allowed him to stop anything moving towards him if he reacted fast enough." - Mom

"Alright, thank you ma'am can you tell me what your daughter did?" - EQAS worker

"She told me before her quirk awakend that she felt something in her head and then after moving her to the yard I told her it was her quirk and to breathe and then we we're pushed back away from her and I could feel her emotions going all over the place. Then, the pushing force stopped, and she calmed down." - Mom

"Thank you ma'am you can go see your daughter now." -EQAS worker

When both my mother and Marc finished their accounts and the workers finished making sure I wasn't a bomb, the EQAS said I should go to the quirk evaluation center as soon as possible. After that, they left, and my mom basically forced my inside to snuggle on the couch.

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AN: I'm sorry there's not more. It's really late here (4am), and I'm tired, so I'll try to get another one out today since I also want to know what happens. Also a lot of dialog I dont know how to feel about it.—Vex