Summary: The aftermath of the USJ is here! A talk with a mammal of uncertain origins...and some tests that finally give us a better glimpse at just how powerful Izumi and 2B actually are!
Chapter 11: Aftermath
Izumi was not normally slow to wake. Under ordinary circumstances, she woke quickly, more like a computer booting up rather than a young woman struggling out of the embrace of dreams. Which meant that, on an instinctual level, Izumi knew something wasn't right when she woke gradually, her body seeming to let go of its rest state only grudgingly. As more awareness crept in, slowly but surely, memories filtered with it...and when she got to the last memories before passing out she jerked fully awake with an adrenaline surge!
Only for Momo's firm hand to push her back down in the bed.
"Stop that. You're fine and so is everyone else. Only Midnight and Thirteen were seriously injured. Both are expected to make full recoveries."
Her adrenaline surge had come with an unconscious boost to her cognition speed, which meant that Izumi actually managed to process the meaning behind her girlfriend's words swiftly enough to relax into her touch and let Momo push her back down onto the bed. It did not mean, however, that she didn't have questions.
"Seriously injured? There were other injuries? And...what about the villains?"
A normal person might also have asked how long it had been or where she was. But Izumi had already reflexively reached out with her cyberpathy, getting the time and her location from the various smartphones around her. It had been four hours. And comparing her geo-location to the maps in her head, she knew she was in Recovery Girl's office. That made perfect sense, given that she'd passed out from QE depletion and shock, rather than injury.
"Bumps and bruises only, for the most part, for our side at least. A few mild burns on those that ended up in the fire zone. Nothing Recovery Girl wasn't able to immediately treat with her Quirk. The villains weren't so lucky...though there's two complications there."
Izumi grimaced, already suspecting one of those complications.
"That Nomu thing died, didn't it?"
Her girlfriend sighed but nodded.
"Yes. Given Midnight woke before you and attested to its bioengineered, mindless nature, they aren't planning to charge you with anything. Triply so since it was justified self-defense...and would actually mean charging 2B, which is a complicated mess from a legal standpoint." Momo smiled at Izumi's amused snort, but barely paused as she continued. "It will likely be noted in your file, however. A villain death so early in your career stands out. On the flip side, your actions are largely being considered exemplary, even if—"
A new voice made itself known, cutting Momo off.
"Even if, technically, you shouldn't have returned to the USJ after escaping to alert us. We convinced the authorities to mark that as use of your fully licensed first responder status. After all, now that the jamming is gone, we recovered full footage that shows your immediate action was to attend to an injured Thirteen. That makes your return, at least, somewhat legally justifiable."
The new, high-pitched voice had come from a very recognizable source. Dean Nedzu was standing in the entrance to her little cordoned-off area of the medical wing. There was a mix of sadness, anger, and interest in his eyes and expression. At least, that's what Izumi thought she was seeing. He wasn't as easy to read as a human. Still, that mixture was one Izumi was very leery of at the moment...
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My Hero Automata
Fanfiction2B was not expecting to wake up after dying. Not this time. She was expecting the opportunity offered to her even less. Meanwhile, Izumi Midoryia was late getting her Quirk, her Doctor about to declare it hopeless, when she telekinetically punched h...
