My Hero Automata

Chapter 2: Growing Up

Summary: Time Skips about as we watch Izumi grow up! Let's see some critical moments of her development...

Chapter 2: Growing Up

-Izumi: Age 6-

"Wait, I can dataize normal things? Not just summon ones you already have a blueprint for?"

"Of course. It should be easier, in fact, since the object is real. Also, I believe the correct term is 'digitize.'"

"Why didn't you tell me I could do that! That would make carrying my school stuff so much easier! Ohhhh and I bet I could do hero stuff with it, too! Like carry extra cookies to give sad people when they're hurt!"

"You didn't ask. You seemed intent on training with basic telekinesis and your partial-transformation strength. As both are core assets to your future skill set, focusing on them made sense to me."

Izumi froze as a thought occurred to her.

"Wait. 2B. How many things other than telekinesis and transformation can I do?"

"Well. Since I was given comprehensive blueprints for all YoRHa models when I became your Quirk, you should be able to do anything any model can do. In theory. Such as..."

Izumi's eyes grew wider and wider, the juice glass and snack she'd been consuming forgotten. She was going to be so awesome! Oh...but she was also going to have so much training to do...

-Izumi: Age 7-

"Ugh! 2B, why is this material so hard to understand!"

"According to my research into human learning. It has to do with the fact that you are seven years old, and this material is usually not covered until a human is in middle school. The enhancements to your memory and processing speed only go so far. Particularly as they are still ongoing."

Izumi pouted at the wall. She really wanted to understand some of the words the Quirk specialists had used about her Quirk. But, when she'd asked, they'd explained that she'd need a serious grounding in biology, engineering, materials sciences, and nanotechnology to truly understand it. That even they were consulting with experts to understand what was happening to Izumi's muscle and bone when she transformed. Let alone to understand the slow process by which those changes were becoming part of Izumi permanently.

They'd indulged her when she'd asked to learn, loading her down with more advanced math books and basic engineering texts. But, as Izumi had been finding out over the last several days, understanding something wasn't the same as memorizing it. She'd already memorized much of it, but she didn't understand very much of it yet. 2B was helping her by providing practical examples for lessons, but it was still going so slowly. She might be old, like twenty or something, before she figured all this out! Sighing and glancing at her favorite poster of All Might, one that featured him working alongside several other heroes at a disaster site, she summoned up her will to be like all of them someday and got back to work...

-Izumi: Age 8-

Izumi scowled at her former friend, standing between him and the boy he'd knocked to the floor with his explosions. It was a surprisingly intimidating scowl, coming from an eight-year-old. Though it was possible it had something to do with the way her school uniform was moving and flowing in a non-existent wind.

"Heroes don't beat people up, Bakugo. Take your minions and leave."

Those minions looked more than ready to flee. But, predictably, Bakugo Katsuki did not. He snarled at her, firecracker-sized explosions popping in his palms, even if there was a hint of wariness in his eyes. He already knew that this wouldn't end without a lot of pain if he pushed things. Yet...Izumi pissed him off. They both knew it. And it had only gotten worse now that he knew Izumi was about to escape his immediate orbit by essentially skipping grades. Katsuki, despite being the top of his year now, still had three more years of middle school. Izumi, with the ever-increasing benefits of her Quirk, had qualified for a program meant to deal with those that had intelligence-boosting Quirks. This would be her last year of middle school. In another three months, she would be moved into a private school system that would let her start on high school material, alongside others whose Quirks gave them some sort of academic boost.