My Hero Automata

Chapter 5: The First Day

Summary: Someone else makes an impression...but it's a bad one.

A/N: Events will now slow down, a lot, as we've finally really gotten into canon. You'll also be seeing a lot fewer perspective and time jumps. The early ones were there essentially to speed things along and get us relatively quickly to this point!

Chapter 5: The First Day

Izumi and Momo arrived together. Mostly because Momo had taken a loss in one of her frequent battles for more freedom from her parents' security concerns. They accepted her choice of career. They'd let up on spontaneous outings with Izumi and active visits to disaster zones. Indeed, they were even quite proud of their daughter for the latter. But outings where a lot of police and pro-heroes would be in the vicinity, or random unplanned trips that would be virtually impossible to intercept, were a very different animal to a daily ride along a known route between specific locations. In the grand scheme of things, if Izumi hadn't been aware of just how powerful Momo was now that she had One for All, she honestly would have been inclined to agree with her girlfriend's parents. After all, between being the heiress of a megacorporation and having a Quirk that could produce everything from gold to nuclear weapons out of nothing but cheeseburgers...

Suffice it to say, none of them were unaware of just how much of a target Momo was. It was, in fact, part of the reason that her parents had actively supported her desire to become a professional hero in the first place. For all the dangers that heroes faced, very people were stupid enough to target them for the sort of Quirk exploitation that they most feared. It was simply too difficult to make a 'limelight' hero disappear and too risky to try keeping one under control long enough to exploit for their Quirk. Short of spending her entire life stuck in a constant security cordon, which her parents didn't want to force on her, training to be a heroine was the best career path available to their daughter. They all knew that...but Momo wasn't a hero yet, and her parents were intent on protecting her as long as possible.

Which is how Momo and Izumi arrived at school together, in an unremarkable but heavily-armored car, a good forty minutes before class started. Even with the map of the campus essentially loaded into Izumi's brain, it had taken ten minutes to reach the Group A classroom, where they'd found only two other people already present. A silent boy with dual-colored hair and heterochromatic eyes regarded them cooly, but didn't bother greeting them. The other, a blue haired boy Izumi recognized from his extremely rude behavior before the exam, popped up out of his seat like some sort of jack-in-a-box. He moved with stiff formality as he greeted them with a loud voice.

"Hello! My name is Iida Tenya, from Somei high school!" he paused, seeming to recognize Izumi. His voice was slightly sheepish as he continued. "I feel I must apologize to you, miss. I misjudged you before the exam, only for you to go on and completely obliterate the previous record! You also bested me by realizing the true nature of the exam, earning so many Hero Points!"

Izumi, who had cringed a little at his approach, blinked a bit and looked him over. He seemed...very serious. Was he not an asshole? Just someone...overly rule-abiding? Well, he was apologizing. So she supposed he deserved a chance!

"That's okay! I understand everyone was a bit high-strung before the exam! Also, I'm afraid I didn't actually figure out the Hero Points thing. I was simply acting how I always do..." Izumi trailed off for a moment, then remembered she needed to actually introduce herself. "Oh! And my name is Midoriya, by the way! Midoriya Izumi."

Thinking quickly, she summoned up an extremely simplified Pod, with no weapons systems.

"And you already met my Quirk! Or, well, part of my Quirk! Say hello, 2B!"