MHA/BNHA react to For The Want of A Nail by Clouds part 2

Izuku may have looked calm on the outside, but inside he was panicking. On the one hand, it was super good to have found the hive because that meant that he could capture one of the bees and see if he had any more luck hacking them, but on the other... he hadn't actually been expecting to find the hive!!! The first day he'd looked, sure, he'd been expecting to find something and so had brought along a bento box to hold the bee in, but then Mom had lost hers and needed something to put her lunch in and Izuku hadn't even really thought about it before handing her his, which meant that even though he had written a program that basically acted as virtual honey to attract a bee, he had no way of actually containing one.

(everyone snorted but the ones who knew where Queen Bee put her bees in got worried and Aizawa peeked out of his capture weapon to look at the screen as he really hoped that no one was going to get hurt)

But, well, he hadn't actually ever had the tools to be successful as a vigilante, had he? He'd basically just gone out and figured it out as he went using whatever he could find, so... Izuku looked around the diner. What could he use? It needed to be strong, since the bee might try to escape and since it was quirk-made it was most likely quite a bit stronger than a typical bee, so anything plastic was out. He could trap the bee between the table and his milkshake glass, but then he wouldn't be able to take it anywhere else, which wouldn't be good if the hive somehow registered him as a threat. He wasn't stupid enough to take it home, those things probably had trackers, but if he could at least put a little bit of distance between himself and the hive, it'd be better than nothing. So what...?

Izuku's eyes caught on the small glass salt and pepper shakers sitting next to the napkins and he groaned internally. Mom would be so mad! If he did what he was thinking, he wouldn't be a very polite customer, but if he didn't, he wouldn't be a very polite vigilante. Why did he have to make these kinds of decisions? And he couldn't just dump it out all over the table! Denki, the waitress, everyone in this diner would think he was crazy. And however true that might be, it probably wasn't the best idea to just admit it!

Bakugo(snorting): Well at least he knows he's crazy.

"Uh, you okay there Izuku?" Denki's voice knocked him out of his thoughts and he glanced up to see Denki looking at him with concern. "It's okay if I was boring you! You know you can tell me to shut up, but uh, you're looking at the salt like it personally offended you..."

"No! You're fine! I'm fine!" Izuku waved his hands frantically. "It's just... uh... it's not, well... it's an experiment?"

Mt. Lady: Good save.

Tetsutetsu: Oh right aren't there some science experiments involving salt and electricity?

"Looking at the salt is an experiment?" Denki cocked one eyebrow skeptically.

Izuku grimaced, "No? But uh... I was just thinking about how um, like you were saying, with the ions and because water is polar, it uh, the salt will conduct electricity? Maybe? I'm sorry, it's probably really dumb."

Denki grinned, "Nah, you're good. Let's try it! Wait, what are we trying again?"

(everyone giggled except for the ones involved with the trigger case who were still pretty tense)

"Um, I'm not really sure." Izuku trailed off and grabbed his water and the salt shaker. "But let's start by..."

He unscrewed the top off the salt shaker and upended it into the water, sending an apologetic smile toward the waitress, who thankfully wasn't paying attention as she served another table. With any luck, they'd be gone before she noticed that he'd pocketed the salt shaker. Oh, he was such a bad customer, he'd never be able to come here again and then he'd have to tell Denki that he couldn't flirt with the waitress anymore because he'd stolen a salt shaker!