My Hero Automata

Chapter 3: Getting Attention Unintentionally

Summary: As canon approaches, a certain someone takes notice of Izumi and Momo...and an offer is made.

Chapter 3: Getting Attention Unintentionally

- Izumi: Age 17-

"Shit! Momo, more bandages! Come on, we are not losing him!"

Grim faced, Momo produced more bandages from her Quirk, grimacing at how low her reserves were but powering through regardless. Knowing she couldn't produce a set of replacements if they soaked through, she added a clotting agent to the strips of cloth. The difference in cost was negligible, more taxing on her mind and imagination than her body, and this way it would hopefully stop the man's bleeding long enough for the paramedics they'd signaled to get him to a hospital.

Five minutes later, the stabilized man had been handed off to be transported, and the two of them were scrambling back into their place in the search pattern. Izumi's visor was deployed, even though she looked ragged herself, already having had to give up on maintaining 2B's Pod three hours ago. Neither said anything about the other's obvious exhaustion. Both of them knew they wouldn't give in until they couldn't move any longer, or they'd found every last person still alive in the wreckage of the massive apartment complex. Destabilized in a villain fight, Momo and Izumi had been two of the first people to respond...and neither had left since they rushed to the scene.

A few of the heroes to respond early on to the disaster had tried to shoo them off, only to have a pair of first-responder Quirk licenses shoved in their face to shut them up. Heroes may be the only ones with effective carte-blanche to use their Quirks in all situations, but there were other conditions under which you could get a less comprehensive license. Such as by having Quirks suitable for search, rescue, and first-aid. All you needed was the appropriate training, which hadn't exactly been hard to get. First responders were always needed. And there was no arguing against the fact that Izumi's sensor suite and Momo's ability to make medical supplies on site were extremely valuable in such situations. It would be a year yet before they could apply to UA, but they both refused to let that stop them from helping people right in front of them.

Toshinori Yagi watched with sharp eyes as a pair of teenagers staggered into the medical area, carrying a man nearly the size of his hero form between them. In truth, it seemed that the shorter of the two was carrying most of the stone-skinned man's weight. But the other, black-haired young woman was doing a good job helping balance and guide the two, using her greater height to help keep the heteromorph's awkward size from causing the shorter woman issues. Indeed, despite clearly being dead-on-their-feet, the two young women work with a fluid teamwork that spoke of long association, and possibly some mutual training.

In the grand scheme of things, he might have missed the two of them. There were plenty of other rescue workers around, after all. Enough at this point that they might have faded into the background. Except, of course, that it had been him that put the villain that caused the disaster down. He'd been too short on time to do much more than deliver the villain to the police after he did, but he'd been unable to stay away from the site of the collateral damage. He hadn't arrived yet when it happened, but that didn't make him feel any better about not being able to do much about the rescue efforts.

Not much.

He hadn't gotten this far in his career without at least the solid basics of first aid, and even in this weakened shell of his former self, he was still a lot more physically powerful than he looked. He'd thrown himself into the efforts at recovery, even using a few tiny sparks of One for All here and there without buffing up to his hero form, in order to help clear debris.