Today was to be an exciting day. After she had turned four years old, she was supposed to manifest a quirk. It hadn't appeared yet so, her mother set up an appointment with the Quirk Specialist to help discover her quirk. Izumi was practically bouncing off the walls. Today she was going to get her quirk and be one step closer to being a hero.

"Come on mommy let's go!" Izumi said jumping up and down. "Is Uncle Mirai going to meet us there?" She asked.

Her mother, Inko, sighed. "Sadly, he can't make it. He's got a lot of work he as to do. But he promised that he come see us after work, okay?"

"Yay!" Izumi cheered pumping her fist into the air. Inko giggled at the cheerfulness of her daughter. Such a beautiful little angel. Inko helped her daughter get her shoes on and they left the apartment afterwards. Izumi followed her mother while keeping an eye out for heroes who might be patrolling the area on the lookout for trouble.

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"I am terribly sorry." Said the Quirk Specialist. "But your daughter doesn't have a quirk. Her body wasn't able to manifest a quirk." Izumi felt her whole world shatter. Her mother began asking if it must have been a mistake that the machine must have scanned wrong, but the Specialist nodded his head in disagreement and explained that Izumi's body couldn't manifest a quirk because it was too weak. Izumi was crying a river at this point as she followed her mother outside the office.

"M—Mommy…" She reached out for her mother's support.

"Don't touch me!" Snapped her mother jerking a few feet away from her. Izumi looked frightened and confused. What was going on? Why was her mother behaving like this. "I should have never listened to him." She began to say. "Get lost freak!" She barked.

"B—But M—Mom—,"

"I am not your mother!" Inko snapped loudly making Izumi cower from her. What was she talking about? Of course, she was her mother. Why was she saying that? Inko began to walk off and Izumi went to follow her. She was able to follow her mother up to the park despite her mother having longer legs. However, Inko turned back sharply and pushed Izumi away making her fall backward. "I have no daughter." She said then vanished leaving Izumi there crying. When Izumi looked up, she couldn't see her mother anymore.

"Mommy? Mommy?" Izumi called out standing up. "Mommy, where are you? Mommy!" Izumi looked around. She had no idea where she was and kept searching for any sign of her mother. No luck. She tried looking out for heroes who might be willing to help her, however there wasn't a single hero insight. Izumi fell to her knees tired from all the walking and broke down. She cried and cried until her throat hurt. Where was she now? There was no sun in sky, and it was deadly cold. Noticing an alleyway Izumi took a peek seeing if anyone was there. There didn't seem like anyone, so she walked down the alley and looked around for something to eat and something to use to keep warm. She found an empty box that was freshly dumped with papers inside. She climbed inside the box and got comfortable maybe tomorrow she could find her mother and something to eat.

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Izumi woke to a chiming sound coming from deeper in the alley. The rats, and stray animals from deeper in came running. They all seemed to be scared of something. Izumi got out of the box her curiosity getting the better of her. She walked deeper into the alley as if she was begin called by the chime. She reached a dead end but saw a small white light flicking in the wall of the dead end. Standing about a foot away from the flickering white light it got smaller making her jump back slightly. Had she scared it? The little dot moved around a little like a firefly. When she moved closer it moved back.

"It's okay." She said. "I won't hurt you." She reached out to the tiny little dot of light. She grabbed it and held it in her palm. "See? I'm not so bad." The tiny dot suddenly jumped and hit Izumi in the forehead she didn't even get to scream as the pain caused her to immediately black out. But she could still hear around her.

"Is everyone okay?"

"Oh, we're just fine Cap. Can't you tell?"

"What the hell happened Stark!?"

"Believe it or not I don't know!"

"Well that's great!"

"Shut it Quill."

"Oh god! Kid you okay?"

"Is she alive?"

"She's breathing, hang in there little lady."

"I had FRIDAY call a Quinjet it's on its way."

"Strange?"

"She's suffered a concussion to the head, and looks like—hold on…"

"What?"

"Look!"

"I—Is she…" Izumi didn't get to hear what the voice said next. It drowned out and Izumi felt herself full deeper into darkness.