inspired by A Hero Forged by RedGrowle (Ao3)

A four year old Luz was looking at the comic her father gave her in awe "Now Luz I know it isn't what yo-" Luz's father began to speak until he was cut off by Luz giving him a hug "I love it!" Luz had exclaimed as she tightly hugged her father. after this Luz began to go to the library everyday for two hours at a time and after a week Camila had noticed the rapid increase in Luz's grades. A few years later and Luz turned the garage into a sort of workspace, full of a bunch of small projects Luz had been working on in her spare time with an incomplete mark 2 in a reinforced/locked display case.

Seven years later (episode 1) we see a completed mark 2 with tones of mended scratches and gashes on it in the locked case, beside it was what looked to be a large clear storage container with what looked like a black liquidly substance inside (the container had the label "nanites" on it). Luz walked in having just talked to her mother about her going to reality check camp. Luz was explicitly told by her mother that she could only bring three projects so she unlocked the display case the mark 2 was in and grabbed a modified Sierra Madre vending machine (using the name for the sake of simplicity) along with her laptop and watched as the nanites packed it into a small to medium sized luggage bag. She grabbed the handle and wheeled it out to the sidewalk with the rest of her stuff.

End of episode 1

Luz made up her mind, she was going to stay and she told Eda but she refused but King persuaded her "one last thing, I'll be building a lab in the backyard if that's ok with you and Hooty" Luz asked Eda and Hooty. Hooty instantly agreed while Eda thought about it "I don't need any help with it and I'll help at your stand" Luz persuaded "Alright kid, but you got to help with the stand along with the potion deliveries" Eda agreed and put her hand out which Luz took.

Luz opened the door to what's going to be her room for the summer and got her sleeping bag unrolled and hid her mark 2 (which the nanites repaired) and the modified Sierra Madre vending machine then started to work on the blueprints for her lab until King came in asking to sleep with her which she agreed and went to bed.