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Of all the times to reach his limit.
Yagi could hear people panicking, the young man trapped letting off explosions, the other heroes around him unsure of what to do.
They needed All Might, he needed to-
The noise around him abruptly stilled as something crashed in front of the crowd. Yagi looked up as the smoke cleared to see it.
Standing in front of the crowd was a mech, its dark green plating glistening in the light. It stood just about his height when he was in his muscle form, its legs very pronounced compared to the rest of its body, with two antennae coming from its head that imitated rabbit ears.
Down the side of its arm in bold text read, rA-2Bt.
Before anyone could react further the mecha leaped into action.
rA-2Bt launched itself through the slime villain, grabbing the boy as it passed through. It landed a good distance away, setting down the boy and patting his back as he coughed up slime.
“You little-“
The villain tried to attack the vigilante with its back turned, only to be repelled with a sonic blast coming from the mech’s back.
rA-2Bt then turned, shooting a capsule that stung the villain’s eyes as tear gas seeped from it, before reaching to its thigh and retrieving a metallic disc.
With the villain distracted it tossed to disc above him, a forcefield forming around the villain to contain him.
This was his first time seeing the mechanical rabbit in person, but it was far from his first exposure to it. Even with his recent return it was hard not to hear of the mechanical vigilante roaming Mustafu.
He was told to keep an eye out for it, but…
rA-2Bt turned to face the crowd watching it, the slime villain trying in vain to escape its confinement next to it, and raised its fingers in a peace sign, its face lighting up to emote [^ ^].
Afterwards it took off, leaping to the nearest rooftop, the other heroes finally shaking off their shock.
“Hey, wait!”
——
There was a knock on her door.
“Izumi, your food is done! Come out and eat!”
“I’ll be out in a minute!” She just needed to get rA-2Bt somewhere-
“Izumi, you’ve been in your room since you got back. You can’t just sit in the dark all day playing your games.”
Mountain Lady reached out to try and grab her, but with some precise movements she was able to get rA-2Bt to weave through the new hero’s fingers. Once she hit the roofs she got it to start hopping between rooftops, quickly escaping Mountain Lady’s grab range.
“I’ll be done in a minute, I promise!”
She spotted Kamui Woods trying to sneak up on her on one of the monitors. Just as he was in range, rA-2Bt’s torso swiveled around to face him, took aim, and fired a fast acting foam solution at him from its wrist. It was, luckily, able to hit him, pinning him to a nearby building.
“…Okay, just… Please before your food gets cold. I know you didn’t eat breakfast…”
Izumi cringed. It's not that she meant to skip breakfast, it’s just that there was that bank robbery on the news and…
She removed her hand from her keyboard as she bit back a yawn. Okay yeah, she should… probably take a break…
Once the mecha had hopped down a few dozen blocks she scanned the radios and rA-2Bt’s external cameras to confirm everyone had lost sight of her. Once she was certain no more heroes were following her she commanded the rA-2Bt to return to its “burrow” (a small cave built from the scrap and junk on the beach).
With that done, she finally got up to leave her room.
—
Inko turned around, relieved at the sound of Izumi’s door opening, to see her daughter shuffle into the kitchen and take a seat.
There were dark bags under her, her skin even paler than it normally was, and the sweater she was wearing seemed to swallow her.
Inko knew her daughter was smart, she’d once hacked together a galaxy light from parts she found in the trash after Hisashi refused to buy her one, but god. Why couldn’t her baby take care of herself?
Inko placed Izumi’s plate in front of her, leaning down to place a kiss in her hair.
“Thanks, mama…”
Inko went back to her chores, watching Izumi out of the corner of her eye. She felt her heart break after Izumi stopped eating before even making it halfway through her meal.
“Izumi…”
“M’m not hungry…” Izumi mumbled in reply.
“Please, sweetheart…” Inko begged, “Just… just half and you can stop, okay?”
Izumi stared down at her plate for a few seconds, grimacing, before hesitantly picking her fork back up. Inko sighed in relief.
“So…” Inko started, “do you know which schools you want to apply to?”
Izumi froze for a second at the question, before shoveling more food into her mouth to muffle her reply.
“What was that?”
Izumi swallowed her food.
“…U.A….”
This time, it was Inko’s turn to freeze.
“U.A.?”
“I just-“ Izumi started, “They have the support course so, I just- I thought-“
“Hey, hey,” Inko said, kneeling in front of her daughter and taking her hands, “It’s okay, I’m not… I just worry, okay. But if you really want to go to U.A. I'm not going to stop you, okay?”
Izumi stared back at her for a moment, before giving her a small nod.
“I know you’ll do great things sweetheart, no matter what you decide to do.” Inko said, pressing a kiss to Izumi’s hands, “But… if you really want to go to U.A. you have to eat more okay? Give your big brain more energy to work with.”
Izumi blushed, her whole face heating up like a furnace, before nodding and taking more bites from her plate.