Chapter 10: Development

Returning home from I-Island had been harder than he expected, his parents had relentlessly 'harassed' him about his time on the island, it had been all over the news. They were especially interested in the part where he had led Melissa out of the building by her arm. He wasn't sure how to handle it, there had definitely been something between them, but she was so far away. "Oh well. Synapse how's the upgrade going?"

"The device is nearly ready to accept my consciousness for the seventh iteration."

Endo smiled, "Excellent, alert me when it's ready."

"See! He's smiling, I bet he's thinking about her now!"

"Dad! Would you both please give it a rest, I have no idea what really happened between us." Endo shook his head, "And I was not thinking about her."

His mother nodded knowingly across the table, "When I and your father met each other we had no idea where it was going either." They were all enjoying a nice lunch, Endo only had a few days before he had to head off to training camp, only a few more days to relax.

"You have received a text from Eijiro Kirishima."

Endo interfaced with his phone, the text read, 'Hey bro! We're all going to stop at the pool for some training, and maybe have some fun with it! You should join us!' He set down his fork and knife, standing rapidly, explaining the invitation to his parents.

"Oh, that sounds like so much fun! Have a good time sweetie!"

Endo landed in his silvery white armor with a clank as the metal boots collided with concrete. "Is Kirishima not even here yet? He was the one who told me." As his armor retracted his body caught the attention of those who hadn't really known about Synapse.

"Damn I knew you were working out to not be scrawny, but have you been living at the gym?"

Endo looked actually uncomfortable with showing off his body, he hadn't exactly earned it through hard work, so he felt odd with it. He had always been bullied for being weak, so getting admiration for being ripped was a new experience for him.

"Alright everyone let's start with some stretches!" Despite Endo being the class deputy Iida still tended to take leadership with these things. "As uptight as ever."

After about twenty minutes everyone was taking a break, Iida and Midoriya were talking when Bakugo walked in, obviously screaming. Kirishima tried holding him back with a smile on his face, "Sorry we're late I kept trying to convince this guy to come with!"

Endo smirked, "You tried to get him to come with, I think that was a bad idea."

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!" But Endo just laughed and shook his head, "YOU THINK YOUR BETTER THAN ME!"

With that Endo had an idea, "Hey Bakugo, let's have a competition, who can hold their breath the longest underwater."

"YOU'RE ON!" This sent several of the class into fits of laughter, Bakugo was one of the class to not know about Synapse. "WHAT ARE YOU EXTRAS LAUGHING ABOUT?!"

Kirishima held back giggles, "It's nothing Bakubro, just beat him!"

Endo held his head just above water, waiting for the signal to start, "You know what Bakugo, I'll give you an extra ten seconds." He dove under, making a big show of taking an unnecessary breath.

"I don't need no damn handicap!" Bakugo took a huge breath and fell under as well.

Ten seconds pass, then thirty, then a minute, then two. Endo smiled at Bakugo's red face and determined expression, but was beginning to get worried that the guy would go so far as to drown himself in an attempt to win. At four minutes Bakugo relented and swam up for air, Endo was enjoying his time under, Synapse augmenting his eyes so he could see perfectly clear, and decided to see how long it would take before someone jumped in to 'save' him. After being underwater for eight minutes straight Asui jumped underwater and stared right at Endo, who waved back at her. She inspected him vigorously as if looking for a hidden air tank. He decided enough was enough and popped his head out of the water, "Hey guys. Did I win?"

"You aren't even out of breath!" Mina did the same as Asui inspecting him all over.

"That isn't human." Bakugo stomped over to him.

Endo smirked back, "You're right, it isn't." Synapse formed a pillar to push him out of the pool and he walked onto dry land. "Because I'm not entirely human anymore."

Bakugo scowled, "Your stupid machines."

And so Endo explained the whole story to them, his diseases, how he no longer had a beating heart, how he no longer had the need to breathe, and how the thing inside him was a living, evolving organism.

Mina looked at him like he was crazy, "This is an elaborate joke right?"

"Nope, I can officially be declared cardiopulmonarically dead."

The pink-skinned girl walked over, placing a hand on his chest, causing her face to turn even redder, but it quickly turned from embarrassment to fear, "Oh my god."

Kaminari scratched the back of his head, "This is really weird, so Melissa was the girl who helped build them?"

"Yep."

"Who's Melissa?" Several of their classmates glanced at them curiously.

Endo groaned this was a lot of explaining.

"Seventh iteration complete. Ready for integration." Synapse shrunk all of the Nanomachines, allowing them to escape Endo's body, leaving him weak and gasping for air as his heartbeat and breathing rhythm returned.

Endo used his powers to take hold of the new Synapse and push them into his body, relieving his struggling frame. He sighed as his heart stopped and breathing felt like a passing urge. "System diagnostic."

"Running at one-hundred percent capacity. New features downloading."

The pool had been tiring, his muscles were sore from such extreme use and for that one moment he had the bots removed from him he felt like taking a nice nap, but the desire passed quicker than a jet at Mach five.

"It's summer vacation, but for those of you looking to be heroes, there will be no rest. You'll have to try harder than ever at this camp."

The class responded as one, "Yes sir."

Endo liked Kirishima, he was a great friend, a nice guy, overall just made everyone smile, and yet, he had somehow developed a close relationship with Katsuki Bakugo, so it was kinda awkward for both Endo and Kirishima, who stood in between the two rivals. Suddenly Neito Monoma began to yell at them from class 1-B's bus. "What, your class is taking extra classes? Does that mean some of you failed the exam? Isn't that odd? Especially since you're supposed to be so much better than us."

Endo laughed out loud, "Look Bakugo, someone as rude and unapologetic as yourself!"

"I will fry your ass."

The technopath waved him off as Kendo, the orange-haired big sister of class B, gave Monoma a swift chop to the head, knocking him out. "Sorry about him."

Yaoyorozu raised her hand signaling the others, "All right everyone, time to get on the bus."

An hour later the bus pulled over and everyone was instructed off for a rest stop. "There's nothing here." Endo expertly observed, well there was a car, but its windows were seriously tinted, he couldn't see inside.

"Please sir, where's the bathroom?" Mineta was practically begging Aizawa for relief.

Suddenly the car doors opened, "Hey Eraser, long time no see."

"Hey good to see you again."

Two women, each dressed in a respective color, red and blue, popped out of the car. Their costumes were obviously inspired by felines. After doing an elaborate 'song and dance' introducing themselves as the Wild Wild Pussycats, Aizawa explained their importance, "They will be helping you train during this week."

Midoriya, true to form, began reciting everything he knew about them, from their specialty, to how long they had been around. The age brought the blonde-haired one dressed in blue to put a paw to his face. "I'm eighteen at heart!"

"Anyways, back to the matter at hand." The other dressed in red, sporting brown hair gestured to the forest ahead of them, "This whole stretch of land is ours. And right over there at the base of that mountain, is the training camp."

"It's so far." Uraraka looked around, "Wait then why did we stop here."

"They wouldn't… would they."

Sero gestured to the others, "Let's just get back on the bus."

They all turned around, but the brunette began to speak low and menacingly, "It's nine-thirty right now. Maybe if you're fast you can make it by lunch."

Everyone at that point began to run to the bus, but the blonde landed in front of them, "Training camp… has just begun." Her paw touched the ground, turning it into a quicksand wave, and shoving them all off the cliff.

Endo went over the edge screaming facefirst. "Self-preservation protocols engaged."

A large section of Synapse spread out from his back, forming a parachute and helping him land on his feet, he looked around, thankfully seeing no permanent or serious injuries. "Hey! Good news, since this is private land, you can use your quirks to your hearts desire. If you hurry you can make it there in time for lunch, about three hours."

"Fine, everyone get on." Endo created a hovering platform with Synapse, preparing to just float them all above the treeline.

"Endo, you have to go through the beast's forest, and you can't do it like that." Aizawa looked over the railing somewhat bored.

The technopath threw his hands up in the air, "Fine." As he morphed the platform into his armor, Mineta ran off into the forest, holding his crotch. And then, a roar turned Endo around to see Mineta being stared down by a large four-legged stone beast. It raised one giant paw to slam him into the ground, but Endo and Midoriya charged at the same, Midoriya snatched Mineta out of danger, Endo formed the jetpack on his back and rocketed straight through the beasts head, shattering it everywhere.

"Well done bro! You took it down in an instant!" Kirishima was walking over to meet Endo, but Bakugo stopped him.

"We aren't done yet."

Another beast formed from the ground, sprouting wings and taking to the skies above the tree line. "I got this." Endo formed two sledgehammers in his hands and shot up to fight it, showering the class below with stone and dirt bits.

Shoji extended his tentacle arms, "We've got more coming."

Endo landed next to him, "Then let's take em out!"

It was five-twenty PM when the class finally left the forest, all worn out beyond belief, Endo was no longer wearing his armor and was clutching his head, apparently, Synapse didn't help with headaches, at least it stopped his nosebleeds. "You said three hours!" He shuffled his legs closer to the pair of feline heroes.

"Oh, well that's how long it would've taken us to make it."

Sato groaned from his spot on the ground, "You were trying to boast how much better you were? That's mean."

The blonde, named Pixie-bob, laughed, "I thought you would take much longer, you destroyed my stone beasts pretty easily, but I was especially impressed with you five." She pointed at Midoriya, Todoroki, Iida, Bakugo, and Endo, "I'm looking forward to where you'll be in three years! I call dibs!"

"What the hell is wrong with this bitch!" Bakugo tried to push her away after she had dove at them.

Midoriya pointed over at a kid near the brunette, called Mandalay, "Who's that kid?"

Mandalay smiled, "Oh this is my Nephew… say hi Kota."

When the child didn't respond Midoriya approached him, "Hi there, I'm Izuku Midoriya, I'm from the hero course, it's nice to meet you."

Endo realized what was going to happen a second before it did, the kid pulled back his arm, "Midoriya watch o-" Kota drove his fist straight into Midoriya's crotch, nearly felling the teen, thankfully Iida was there to catch Midoriya and yell at the child. "Well Uraraka, you may not be able to have children with him now."

"What was that Endo?" Uraraka leaned in trying to hear the muttering technopath.

He just shook his head, "Nothing."

"Enough." Aizawa looked over them, "Get your bags off the bus, after that, you can eat, bathe, and then go to sleep."

Despite his migraine, he sent Synapse out to grab his bags from the bus, mentally controlling and pushing him to the room where everyone would be sleeping. Well everyone but Endo himself.

"Ahhhh…" Endo let out a sigh of pleasure as he used Synapse to lower himself into the hot springs. He laid his head back, using Synapse to support it, and just relaxed all his muscles.

While he was relaxing Mineta began using his quirk to rapidly scale the wall separating the two genders. As he was about to climb over Kota popped up from between the two walls, slapping him away, and sending him falling down. "Thanks, Kota!" Endo could hear the other girls from over the barrier. Kota, probably by accident, looked over the wall at them, sending him tripping backward and falling down the wall. Thankfully Midoriya was there to catch him, quickly taking him away to Mandalay just to be safe.

Endo sent two Synapse particles over the wall, both too small to see with the naked eye. He smiled faintly, Mineta had the right idea, he just went about it a little too obviously. As he closed his eyes, he began to see through the machines. "Just a quick peek." He was a teenager after all. I mean can you blame him? Wouldn't you do the same at his age?

"Endo it's time for bed, you should probably get out of the springs." Iida was doing his signature arm chopping.

"I don't sleep anymore remember?" Endo had nothing else to do really so he had remained in the springs longer than anyone.

"Oh… right. My apologies, I'll leave you to your own devices." Iida began to walk away, but stopped just before the door, "Endo, you are still yourself right? You haven't allowed Synapse to control you?"

"I can control them Iida, even if they went off the rail, which I doubt they would, I can put them back in line."

He nodded, accepting the answer.

Endo had once had bad ears, he would constantly have to say what just to understand what people were saying. But ever since Synapse, his senses had been dialed to eleven, well except his touch. That was how he had heard both the door to the girl's and boy's rooms begin to open. Endo slunk beneath the water, an excellent hiding place, and used Synapse to see what was happening. "Todoroki?"

"Confirmed and on the other side of the wall is the one called Momo Yaoyorozu."

As both escaped the hot springs, Endo rose from the water, they were heading for the forest. Synapse covered him as he stepped onto dry land, not as the armor, more as a thin layer to shield his bare body from view.

He followed them for several minutes, eventually, they stopped, apparently finding an acceptable place. They began to talk, Yaoyorozu was awkward with it, stumbling over her words, trying to confide that she was in love with him, but when she couldn't get the point across she simply leaned over and kissed Todoroki. Not a friendly peck, not just a kiss with the lips, no this was a full-blown kiss. Todoroki looked uncomfortable at first, swapping spit with a classmate, but eventually, he seemed to let it happen.

Endo realized it was now weird how long he had been watching and stepped back, planning to leave silently, but as if the universe wanted a conversation between the three to happen, he stepped on a large branch, his metal coverings snapping it loudly. Thanks to Synapse he could still see them, but they couldn't see him. Yaoyorozu immediately pulled away from the heterochromatic boy, looking around rapidly trying to hide her face. Todoroki was more direct, "Who's there?"

"Sorry… I didn't mean to intrude." Endo stepped out from behind his hiding place.

"Endo! What are you doing here?" Yaoyorozu had a bright red covering her face that, despite the dark, Endo could still see thanks to his enhanced sight.

"I don't sleep." He was ironically getting tired of restating it.

"H-How m-much did you see?"

He shrugged, "Pretty much everything, I was about to leave, but accidentally stepped on a branch."

"I… um… we… would appreciate if you kept this between us." Yaoyorozu stood bowing to Endo desperately.

He chuckled, "I'm not just going to go around talking about it, it's up to you two to keep it secret. Now, I'm going to leave, don't let my intrusion stop you." Endo turned and began walking away.

"Thank you Endo!" Yaoyorozu called after him.

He smirked, "Todoroki's one lucky bastard."

Everyone was woken at five-thirty the next morning, bright and early for training camp, most of them yawned and stretched with tired eyes. Endo couldn't help but notice both Yaoyorozu and Todoroki at the back of the group, pretty close to each other.

"Good morning everyone. Today we will begin your quirk strength training. In order to combat the rapidly appearing dangers you need to be stronger." He tossed a softball to Bakugo, "Throw it."

Bakugo regarded the ball with familiarity, "It's from the fitness test.

"Your old record was 750 meters, try and beat it."

"Oh I get it, we're checking up on our progress." Mina clapped her hands together excitedly."

Bakugo pulled back his arm, "GO TO HELL!" As the ball left his hand it was propelled by a massive explosion. He smirked smugly, certain he would surpass all expectations.

"755.4." Aizawa raised his phone, showing off the minimal increase. "In the past three months, you've all improved in some ways through experience, but it has mostly been technical or mental, with a bit of stamina thrown in. As you can see, your quirks themselves have not increased much." A sinister grin crossed his face, "This is going to be so difficult you'll feel like you're dying. Try not to."

Training was a bitch, Endo had realized just as he started the work that it wasn't going to be easy. Thanks to his quirk's multitasking abilities, he had been tasked with, moving around full-sized vehicles with his quirk, while at the same time controlling Synapse to defend from another part of the Pussycats team, called Tiger.

"Come on! Is that all you've got?"

Training lasted until the sun began to set, everyone was sore and exhausted beyond belief. Most of all, they were hungry. "Remember when we said we wouldn't help you anymore? Well, it's time for you to make your own food, curry!"

Everyone was having trouble lighting their fire, either they had no idea how to, or they were Bakugo and just exploded the whole damn thing. Endo on the other hand, along with Yaoyorozu and Todoroki made it look easy. Endo formed a device on his hand, similar to the jetpack, just on a much smaller scale, it shot out blue flames igniting the wood with its Zero-point energy.

The food itself overall didn't taste too great, but everyone enjoyed it due to their empty bellies. Endo sighed as he set down his bowl, watching an interaction between Mina and Yaoyorozu, Mina was exclaiming how much Yaoyorozu was eating.

"Well, I need lipids to create things, so the more I eat the more I make."

Sero looked at his bowl, "Oh it's like poo."

Yaoyorozu cringed at this analogy and Jiro straight up punched Sero in the face, "Apologize!"

"Ok, I'm sorry!"

That night Endo was relaxing in the hot springs alone, everyone else was asleep, or so he thought. The boy's door opened, and Endo cracked open his eyes, "Hey Todoroki, going to meet Yaoyorozu again?"

The boy looked down, "No… I came to… ask for advice."

Endo's brow furrowed, "From me?"

"You're the only one who knows, and who is up late enough to talk about it in private."

The technopath chuckled, "So I'm the only choice."

"Kinda."

"What do you need advice for? Yaoyorozu?"

He nodded, sitting on the stone next to Endo, who was still in the water, "I don't know how to handle it… the confession I mean."

"You seemed to be enjoying yourself when you two were kissing."

The teen rubbed the back of his head, eyes remaining as neutral as ever, "But, I just don't know why she chose me? Why so suddenly?"

Endo shook his head, wow this guy was dense, "I can think of a couple reasons. First, most of the girls in the class think you're hot I bet. Yaoyorozu is no exception. Second, the practical exam."

"What do you mean by that?"

"She had obviously lost her confidence in herself, but you helped her build it back up." Endo shrugged.

"But don't you apply to both of those as well?" Todoroki stared at him with those unblinking, unmoving eyes.

"Don't rub salt in the wound, dude." Endo just shrugged again trying not to convey any hurt at his sentence, "You could just be her type."

"Her type?"

Endo rubbed his temple, his headache coming back on, "Look, Todoroki, I'm really not the best to talk to about this thing. Everything I know about a relationship is from a book, tv show, or my parents. I've never experienced one myself." He looked up at the stars, "Do you like her?"

"I-I guess, she's nice and beautiful, and smart."

"Well then just be happy she went for you and go from there. I'm sure you'll learn as time goes on."

"Hmm." Todoroki mumbled in acceptance. "How would you do it?"

"Do what? Confess that you like her back?" He nodded, "Todoroki, I'm sorry to have to ask this, but have you ever even had friends before?"

"I was not allowed the distraction."

Endo didn't even know what to say, despite his constant bullying in middle school he had still always had one or two good friends. "Who said that they were such distractions?"

"My old man." The bitterness in Todoroki's voice was unmistakable.

"Well, unfortunately, I can't tell you what to say to her, because then it would become my confession, not yours." The technopath shifted to the middle of the pool, "To mean anything, you have to be the one to come up with what to say. She obviously likes who you are, so just be your blunt self. But, for her sake, do it while you two are alone, maybe after the camp ends."

"Huh, ok… thank you." And with that Todoroki went off to bed.

Endo tried not to laugh, "I'd say I did ok."

The next day was more of the same, extreme training, then cooking their own meals, but there was one special event. "A test of courage!" At the same time it was announced, Aizawa began to drag off the five who had failed the practical.

Mandalay held out a hand of slips of paper, "Time to draw lots!"

"Ok so who has four?"

"Looks like we're paired again Endo."

He spun around to face Yaoyorozu, "Oh, cool."

Unfortunately there was an uneven number and Midoriya got put by himself. Todoroki and Bakugo got paired together, which prompted the explosive teen to come over screaming, "Ponytail, Twig! One of you, switch with me!"

Endo at first thought to himself that it would never happen, but the more he thought about it, he realized it would be a perfect time for Yaoyorozu and Todorki. He decided to be a good guy and just take the hit, "Yeah sure whatever."

"Actually, I think it would be best if we retained our current partners." Yaoyorozu stopped Endo from taking Todoroki's paper and vice versa, "In the field, we will have to adapt to whoever is closest, so we should do this as training." She gave Endo a firm look.

He just shrugged, "Ok then."

The mountain rescue hero team continued, "The challenge is simple, class B will be scarers first, class A will go through the path, picking up tags with their names on it at the middle point. Then you will switch."

Tiger appeared glowering, "The class that causes the most people to piss their pants wins!"

"Why on earth did you do that Yaoyorozu?" Endo was walking the path with her, hands in his pockets. So far the attempts to scare them had been pretty tame.

"Well, I… wanted to ask for advice."

Endo practically stopped in his tracks, "You're joking right?"

"W-Why would I?"

Endo shook his head, "Nevermind, let me guess, you want advice about Todoroki."

She nodded, "I just… I don't know if I sprung it too suddenly on him, what if he just kissed me back to appease me?"

"Yaoyorozu let me ask, why did you come to me? To be perfectly honest, I'm not always that great with people, I'm much more comfortable with machines, on top of that, I've never had a relationship outside of friends."

Yaoyorozu put her head down, "If I went to the girls, the news would spread like wildfire, and I wouldn't get anything out of it really. Besides, you were there during the practical, you would probably understand better than anyone." She glanced at him sideways, "Have you really never had a relationship with a girl?"

He smirked, "Skinny and nerd don't exactly scream ladies man."

"What about a crush?" The smirk turned to a frown, she noticed, "Who?"

"Just two." He decided not to mention that one was on a floating mobile island, and the other was literally the person he was talking to. "Look, you've already confessed to him, and from what I saw, he kissed back. Just give it time, I'm sure it'll end up fine."

"Self-preservation protocols initiated." Synapse said this as Endo's armor appeared on his body.

Yaoyorozu looked at him confused, "Why self-preservation? What's happening?"

"Traces of poison gas detected." As Synapse replied a purple mist began to drift towards them.

"Yaoyorozu! It's poison gas!"

She quickly formed a gas mask, securing it rapidly. As she was about to ask a question, they felt a chill creep down their spine, "Everyone! We are being attacked by two villains! There may be more! If you encounter any, do not engage, retreat to camp if possible!"

"Shit. That was Mandalay. What should we do?" Endo began to send out Synapse to asses the situation.

"The others could be in trouble, we're the only ones right now with immunity, we should go help." They ran the path, coming across Jiro and Hagakure, both on the ground, unmoving. Yaoyorozu gasped, "Are they…"

Endo opened his gauntlet, and checked for a pulse, "Just asleep. We need to hide them." Synapse formed a dome around them, lifting them into a tree, making them practically invisible with the darkness, "It'll carry them back to camp when it seems safe."

"Yaoyorozu! Endo!" Almost instinctively Endo created two sharp blades, with a wave of Synapse behind him. But it was just Tetsutetsu, and he was carrying Ibara, with another kid following close behind. "Got any more of those masks?"

The creation student immediately popped out a bunch of masks for him to take. The kid Endo didn't know introduced himself, "I'm Awase, I can lead you to the other class B, we need to find them."

As Awase led them to one after another, Endo would use Synapse in the same way he had with Jiro and Hagakure. It was beginning to put a strain on him though, thankfully after he had secured them Synapse would take over, lessening the focus Endo needed for them. "Students! In the name of the pro hero Eraserhead, you are granted permission to use your quirks to fight. Use your training and defend yourselves."

"Well at least we can-" Faster than any person could think Synapse went through a dozen scenarios as it saw a sledgehammer-like limb approach the armor. He could send Endo up with a burst from the jetpack, but it would leave the girl he cared about next to him to the mercy of it, and she wouldn't be able to survive it. Synapse knew what his host would want.

"I'm sorry Endo." A wall came up as fast as it could to try and defend from the blow, but Endo was still struck in the chest and sent flying.

The two students with him cried out, "Endo!"

Yaoyorozu's gaze came up to meet the monster's eyes, and she took an instinctive step backward, it was one of those monsters from the USJ, a Nomu. The beast took a swing at her, she tried to jump backward, but it was too late, the fist was still a glancing blow, and it opened up her head. She began to leak blood down her face, her mind was groggy and she couldn't focus. Awase grabbed her by the arm and started to drag her away as fast as he could. "Yaoyoruz! Please wake up! We need to run!"

She coughed weakly, "I'm… sorry."

Endo came to on the forest floor, he could feel one arm broken, one of his legs was bent unnaturally, and his chest felt too tight. "You broke three ribs."

"Well then heal me! Double time!" Despite the pain, Endo stood, forming the jetpack on his back, and charging in the way the Nomu had gone.

When he reached them, he saw Awase begin to shield the unconscious girl with his body as a drill descended on them. But it suddenly stopped, Awase looked up, hundreds, if not thousands of long spiked silvery tendrils had burrowed their way through the Nomu's flesh, holding him in place. The beast struggled in place for a couple seconds, before stopping altogether. It began to turn around and Endo couldn't hold him anymore, dropping to his knees. But the creature just started walking away. He could hear Yaoyorozu telling Awase to attach something with his weld quirk. Once it was done Endo staggered out from under the bushes, his leg was still popping back into place, "Let's get the hell out of here!"

Awase lifted Yaoyorozu onto his back, "Are you ok?"

Endo brushed him off growling, "I'll be fine." He grabbed onto them and took to the sky.

Authorities arrived as fast as they could and when Endo set down his unconscious friend and Awase as gently as he could, medics raced to him, but he brushed them off, forcing their attention onto Yaoyorozu. "Endo!"

"Kirishima." Endo muffled a cry of pain as all of his bones simultaneously popped completely back into place, "You guys ok?"

"Yeah, what happened to you three?"

"It was a Nomu, that thing from the USJ. It got me in the chest and I'm guessing Yaoyorozu in the head." He looked around noticing the absences of several people, "Where's everyone else?"

"A lot showed up unconscious in those domes you made, but they were safe. Midoriya was taken to the hospital and Bakugo… he was taken."

As Endo would later find out, fifteen of forty students were unconscious and in serious condition from the gas. Eleven had major or minor injuries, thirteen were unharmed, and one was missing.