My Hero Automata

Chapter 1: New Beginnings

Obvious Disclaimer: I do not own My Hero Academia or Nier! Both stories would be very different if I did...

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A few critical notes!

1) I almost didn't list this as a crossover because the Nier elements are actually pretty minimal. You do NOT need to know pretty much anything about the Neir series to read this. I myself have only played part way through Automata and am leaning heavily on the wiki for the bits I've taken from Nier. No characters other than 2B from Neir will EVER appear in the fic. Any of the very limited knowledge you need of Nier concepts should be explained within the fic itself. Or, at the worst, in a chapter note.

2) UA is a University. However, this is NOT just a handwave so that I can Lewd the characters (there isn't anything more than kissing in the first 40k+). This is a full-on conversion of UA into a University, complete with heavy-duty restructuring of how its courses work. It's never made any sense for 15-year-olds to be training as heroes. That's purely an artifact of the Shonen age group My Hero Academia is aimed towards. I've put a LOT of effort into restructuring my version of MHA around it being a University, which will cause some major changes in places. Though, YES, I will eventually include a few lemons for Izumi/Momo. And possibly for one other girl that might join them. I haven't actually decided on that yet. No, it won't go full harem even if I make it a trio.

3) Some canon events will happen. Do not expect them to play out the same. Do not expect the same people to be friends. Do not assume basically anything from canon will play out the same. Canon and I barely talk to each other most days, for any fic I write.

4) Izumi is NOT Izuku. Part of the reason I changed Him into Her was to make 2B riding along less awkward. However, the rest of the reason was as a way to make the difference between Explicitly clear. Izumi will still have some traits in common with Izuku, but she's going to grow up in a VERY different environment, with extremely different influences. She will be a hell of a lot more competent than Izuku ever was, and considerably less socially awkward. Though she's still hardly an extrovert.

5) Izumi isn't going to get One for All. The reason? She bloody well doesn't need it. When I first conceived this fic, I tried to get a handle on just how relatively strong 2B actually IS. Eventually, I was able to track down the work some very awesome (if also very obsessive) people have done over at the VS Battle Wiki. Which breaks down shown/known feats for various characters and attempts to rank their power level. To my surprise, 2B is actually THE SAME RANK as All Might. Possibly a little weaker, but certainly in the same weight class. Given that Izumi will eventually have all of 2B's strength, giving her One for All as well would have been hilariously overkill.

6) Despite appearances, Izumi isn't actually going to be that OP by MHA standards. At the start of canon events, she'll be a lot stronger than Izuku would have been for years...but she'll be suffering a similar endurance issue as All Might. Only even worse. She IS going to be stronger and more capable than canon Izuku. But I think I've kept her within reason, despite appearances at times.

Now, enough from me! Onto the fic...

FYI: This is being crossposted from fanfiction.net I also have a that always has a few early-release chapters (usually 15-20k words worth).

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Chapter 1: New Beginnings

---The Void??---

2B never expected to get an answer to the question, "Do androids have souls?"

Yet, as she hovered in darkness, awareness returning to her after she knew perfectly well she'd died for good, 2B was suddenly left wondering if maybe they did. She didn't know how long she wondered over that. None of her internal systems seemed able to calculate time in...whatever this place was. For that matter, she couldn't really access her internal systems. Probably, she assumed, because they no longer existed. However long the silent darkness lasted, it was finally broken by a tiny spark of light, a floating ember that hovered before her...face? She wasn't sure she had a face, in this place. But it hovered near something that approximated one. Then, only half to her surprise, it spoke.