Tanaka-Listless: Eh, Milktorch was kinda a call back to her mom who's quirk was bakeneko, and also her name Kasha, which is a yokai in cat form. It's bad I know lol. And yes, I do catch your drift. I like Marvel more myself as well.

Sauce-Kun: Thank you for the innovative names, they sound really cool and I'll definitely put them to good use.

Thank you to everyone who helped me decide Kasha's hero name. When the time comes she'll be:

Shatterstar

Any ideas given by you awesome peeps will be the names of some of her special moves.

I don't own My Hero Academia.

Kasha paused in her stride, stopping as three villains caught sight of her.

'Here goes.' She thought.

"What's this?" Hissed a man that was more mouth and teeth than anything else. "Lookie lookie boys, fresh meat."

"Were you the one who made that noise a while ago?" Asked another, looking like a human scarecrow.

The last one was extremely round in body and incredibly stout, drooling profusely as he stared off into space.

"That was me." Kasha intoned, the winds of the Squall Zone blowing her hair about. "I just finished blowing some of your stupid little friends to kingdom come."

Of course that was a blatant lie, since she'd simply blown a hole in the side of a building to get Ochako out of the troublesome winds. But the villains didn't know that, and their reaction was more or less the desired effect.

"That doesn't sound very heroic." Mouth snarled, beady eyes flashing with rage. "But I guess it'll make it easier to cut you down if you're a complete bitch."

Kasha took two lazy steps back, her silver eyes half lidded and disinterested.

"You bore me." She stated. "I'm leaving."

"Oh that's it, cut this little shit to pieces boys." Mouth growled, pointing at the slim teen.

'And that's my cue.' Kasha thought, turning tail to run.

Scarecrow and Butterball rushed after her, their footsteps loud and quick.

'They must not have quirks that help with speed. But I won't hold my breath for it.' Kasha thought, sprinting through the windy, lightless streets of the mock cityscape.

"Don't follow me." The teen tossed over her shoulder. "I'm not into geriatric farts."

"YOU LITTLE SHIT!"

'I should try and give them a little run around and pick up a few more villains before I go back to Ochako.' Kasha thought, hearing something quick slice through the air behind her and dodging right. Silver eyes went slightly wide when a mass of tiny scythe blades attached to gray tentacles tore a large gouge out of the concrete she had just vacated, only to be dislodged and reeled back in to whoever had thrown them from behind her.

"Where ya going bitch?" Mouth jeered from behind. "You were talking so big a second ago and now you're running like a coward!"

'Are they really so dumb that they don't know I'm leading them to a trap?' The teen wondered. 'It can't be this easy…'

Even so Kasha pushed herself to run faster, quickly bending a corner, just missing a large black ball whizzing down the street attempting to run her over.

Kasha caught sight of two more villains leaning against the buildings on either side of the street she'd cut onto, and at the sound of the commotion they startled, looking towards the teen and her pursuers.

One had a huge claymore on his back and the other was covered in what appeared to be tan bandages.

'That's five villains.' Kasha thought, activating her quirk and bursting into the sky. 'That's enough for now.'

"Don't let her get away!" Mouth bellowed.

Kasha flew just out of reach over the villains, flying so they could at least keep up with her but not so slow that it seemed suspicious.

The teen took them on a short wild goose chase, dodging the tentacle blades, the swiping broadsword, and tan bandages that struck like snakes.

Finally Kasha made it back to the alley where she had fallen with Ochako a little while ago, and as she sharply turned right, a bandage wrapped around her right ankle and snatched her out of the air. With a gasp Kasha was slammed onto the concrete, her quirk deactivating on impact as she grimaced with pain.

Kasha writhed, turning on her back as the bandage around her leg tightened and slowly began dragging her away from her objective and hidden classmate, towards the five angry villains that she had lead there.

'No…!' Kasha thought, but then she wrangled the shrill feeling in. 'There was no time to panic.' There was still a chance to fix this.

Denki watched as Yaoyorozu pulled out a metal bō staff from her bare abdomen to defend herself and then a thin double edged sword for Jiro.

They were stranded in the Mountain Zone, backs against a large rock.

'Damn, what I wouldn't do for Kasha to be here to calm me down right now.' He thought, his pulse slightly erratic as he used measured breathings techniques to remain as calm as possible. At his right he could see a line of sweat trickle down from Yaoyorozu's temple.

"Hey, don't I get a weapon too?" Denki called, ducking under a large slab of rock some villain tossed at him.

Did he forget to mention they were surrounded by adversaries? Oh. Well, they were.

"You're the electric guy!" Jiro yelled, a small tremor in her voice. "Be electric!"

"I can't control it that well!" Denki blurted, gold eyes darting from villain to villian. How were they supposed to get out of this? "I'll just shock you guys too!"

"And here I thought you couldn't be any more useful." Jiro joked sardonically, eyeing the villains.

"Go on Jiro, you're great for the ego." Denki chuckled, hiding his nervousness behind his quips.

"I'd hate to interrupt bonding between peers, but perhaps we should figure out how to get away from these people?" Yaoyorozu proposed.

Nodding, Denki lifted his hand to his Communication Earpiece, he'd been trying to link to a signal as requested by Aizawa-sensei before everything went to misty hell courtesy of "Kurogiri".

"There's interference." Kaminari reported after a moment, though he'd expected that. "So that's a bust."

"For now let's try and fight our way out!" Jiro gritted, using the flat side of her sword to knock away the blade of another adventurous villain. "Kaminari, just fire yourself up!"

The villains bristled at the threatening words, some moving to attack.

"Rodger!" Denki called, allowing a few thousands volts to skitter across his skin in a defensive manner. Thankfully Yaoyorozu was smart enough to inch away from him. She switched places with Jiro, who roughly spartan kicked a villain into the blonde teen, causing the guy to spasm violently upon contact and begin foaming at the mouth.

Luckily it didn't take long for him to drop in unconsciousness.

"Guys, I have an idea." Yaoyorozu suddenly piped up, shoving the butt of her bō into a tall man's adam's apple and then slamming it into his chest, knocking him back and the breath out of his lungs.

"Now would be perfect to let us know what that is princess." Jiro gritted, dropping into a squat, blasting sound waves into three impatient villains and sending them back.

A bearded villain jumped up behind them, but Denki dodged the clawed attack and Yaoyorozu jabbed her bō into his face, knocking him out.

"Kaminari-san, you said you'd shock us as well, yes?" The ponytailed girl panted, getting into ready position again, daring the villians on her side to come at her.

"Yeah. Indiscriminate Shock is my most powerful attack, but it takes out everything." Denki explained, glad that the guys on his side stopped trying to assault him once they realized touching him was hazardous. It gave them time to think.

"Hence the 'indiscriminate' I guess." Jiro grumbled.

"Exactly." He nodded, pursing his lips a little. A support item to help out in this situation would definitely be appreciated.

"Not to worry then you two." Yaoyorozu assured. "I can create something to keep myself and Jiro-san safe, but it'll take a few moments since it will be big. Can you two buy me some time?"

"Doesn't look like we have a choice." Jiro pointed out, stepping in front of the creation girl. "So what do you say Kaminari?"

"I'm always ready to rock." Denki replied, smirking insolently and stepping protectively in front of the creation girl as well, shoulder to shoulder with Jiro.

"What are they doing now?" A reptilian villain rasped.

"I don't know, but how sorry are we that they're actually picking us off?" Another complained.

'Yeah, he has a point.' Denki found himself thinking. He valiantly fended off a few villains alongside Jiro while Yaoyorozu worked on their ticket out of trouble. 'It's actually kind of sad, even more so 'cause we're super nervous kids pulling all of this out of our asses. Aren't the villains professionals at this type of thing?'

"Okay! It's done!" Yaoyorozu called, pulling him from his thoughts. She sounded slightly short of breath after large gray sheet burst out from her now bare back.

'That was faster than expected, but better for us I guess.'

"This is a special insulation sheet a hundred millimeters thick. It should almost perfectly negate your voltages." She explained. "So now Kaminari-san, you're up!"

Jiro took her cue and dived back beside the taller girl. They both flopped underneath the sheet and curled up, waiting for what was to come.

"All right!" Denki grinned, feeling his confidence skyrocket. He could do this, he would do this.

So he did, he let it rip.

The blonde teen called upon his power, feeling the warmth of it skitter over his skin erratically as he stepped forward, closer to the gaggle of villains that remained. His feet slid apart and his shoulders set as he extended his hands out in front of him, palms towards his enemies.

"W-what's he doing…?" Someone stuttered.

"I don't like this…"

"Get dumped on!" Denki roared. "Indiscriminate Shock: 1,300,000 volts!"

His electricity sparked out in every direction, screeching like thousands of chirping birds as it electrocuted everyone in the vicinity. Howls of pain and incoherent gurgles filled the air as the blonde boy gave the villains everything he had and dared to in his most lethal attack.

When he ran out of steam they dropped like flies, and silence reigned supreme.

"Whew." Jiro sighed, pushing the insulation sheet off of herself and sitting up, looking around at the rocky graveyard around them.

"He really did take them all out." Yaoyorozu said, standing up, dark eyes alight with awe.

"Wait! Your clothes!" Jiro yelped, flailing her arms to sensor the taller girl as Denki extended his thumbs cheerfully and smiled.

He wanted to assure them that he was okay so he offered his trademark thumbs up, but as usual in this state he felt a little sluggish and everything came out as, "Yaaayyyyy…"

"What the hell?" Jiro snorted, looking at the absolutely moronic expression on the boy's face as a bit of drool trickled out of the corner of his mouth.

"Just give me a moment please... I can remake my costume." Yaoyorozu smiled assuredly.

Denki shuffled closer, giggling a little at his classmates, though his vision was a little unfocused. Unfortunately before he could get any closer, a hand erupted from the ground, making grab for him. He was understandably not in any condition to defend himself when the calloused appendage clamped onto him with a vengeance.

"Don't move or he's fried!" The newly revealed man snarled, shoving his hand right in Denki's drooly face, it glowed threateningly with electric power.

"Oh crap!" Jiro cursed.

"No…!" Yaoyorozu cried, holding the remains of her costume up to cover her modesty.

"Not so tough now. Are you, you fucking brats." The man growled, a hideous delight stretching across his expression.

Things weren't looking so good for them now.

"Yaaayyyy!" Denki slurred.

Midoriya crashed into water, his eyes narrowed blearily as he peered through it.

'Flood Zone.' His mind supplied.

There would definitely be some water enemies here. Not wanting to give them a chance to spot him, he kicked his way towards the surface, expression focused and cheeks slightly puffed as he held his breath.

To his right, a shark villain swam at him, grinning from ear to ear.

'Oh no…!' Midoriya thought, he had no way to defend himself in this situation. Was this really going to be his end? Before things really even started for him? What would All Might think?

'It can't end here!'

"I don't have anything against you, but you're chum kid!" He bellowed, baring his monstrous teeth.

Like a torpedo, Asui slammed her webbed feet into his side, damn near caving his chest in and sending him careening away. Midoriya would have breathed out a sigh of relief if he wasn't completely submerged, so he settled for gaping at her as her tongue ejected from her mouth and wrapped around his middle.

She skillfully and swiftly swam to the surface with him in tow, and then they finally breached, dragging sweet sweet air into their lungs. Midoriya gasped out a thanks as the solemn faced girl hauled him up onto the boat alongside Mineta.

"Thank you so much Asui-san. That was definitely close." Midoriya breathed.

She made her way over the side of the boat so that she could stand beside her two male peers.

"Don't mention it, and call me Tsuyu, kero."

All three of them stared at the water, where they saw a multitude of villains swimming around, glaring at them.

"Oh no guys, what do we do!?" Mineta whisper-screamed. "We're so freaking dead! We're not ready for something like this, we haven't even been properly trained!"

Midoriya felt a little guilty after he realized he'd been happy when Asui slapped the shorter boy across the face with her tongue.

"Even so, I don't think panicking will make us better equipped to deal with this." Asui deadpanned, looking away from him to instead stare at Midoriya. "Do you have any ideas that might help us Midoriya-chan?"

'Wow, she's so level headed…' He found himself thinking, his expression slightly slack with admiration. 'And she didn't even hesitate to save us both back there. I don't think I could have asked for anyone more reliable to be here with me right now.'

And so, Midoriya nodded firmly, green eyes darting between his peers. He pointed to the villians in the water, mind working a mile a minute for something that could get them out of there. Just as he thought they were still swimming around or remaining afloat, talking amongst themselves, but giving no indication of scaling the boat to get to them.

"I'm guessing they're being that cautious because they don't know our quirks." Midoriya told his peers. "If they did, no way they would of put Asui-san here with us. She'd have been dumped in the fire zone."

Asui nodded with, "I'm right at home in the water. What about you two?"

"Yeah, let's tell each other our quirks." Midoriya proposed. Only then could he create a plan that would save them.

And he would, or his name wasn't Midoriya Izuku, future Symbol of Peace.

Roaring, Bakugou smashed his palm into an enemy, detonating a mini explosion into the turd's solar plexus and sending him careening across the room.

Kirishima charged two more villains and mowed them over like blades of grass. Both of them were in the Ruin Zone, trapped in a crumbling building and surrounded by cannon fodder.

"DIE!" Bakugou snarled, blasting another enemy away. "Is this really all the fight you have? You're so fucking weak!"

"Alright." Kirishima faced the explosive teen as he smashed another villain down with a fist to the gut. "We're good for now, so we should go help the others. If we're still in USJ, everyone else should be too. Some of the guys with less offensive quirks might need our help!"

"I'm gonna murder that warp gate!" Bakugou growled.

"Now isn't the time to be childish dude. It's so unmanly!" Kirishima reprimanded, exasperated. "We gotta back our classmates up."

"I only saw three of these fuckers that might be worth my time. Handsy, the Birdtard next to him, and that Warp Gate jerk off. If the others are facing side characters like these, then they shouldn't have a problem." Bakugou declared, just as a guy with a chameleon quirk attempted to sneak up on him, only to get an explosion right to the face.

He was out in a moment.

"Go help the extras if you want to, Hair-for-Brains. I'm definitely going to kill that warp fucker."

Kirishima paused, looking at the ash blonde for a long moment before his eyes shimmered with newfound respect and his razor teeth were put on display as he grinned.

"I think everyone misjudged you Bakubro." Kirishima chuckled, tightening his hardened fists and pumping one into the air. "You're alright with me man, believing in our friends is super manly!"

"They're not my friends!" Bakugo snapped, left eyebrow twitching in irritation. "I don't give two shits about those worthless side characters."

"You can't fool me anymore man, I'm definitely going to follow you!" Kirishima grinned.

"Tch." The blonde tutted, turning around to leave the room with a begrudging, "Do whatever you want, stupid shitty hair."

"Alright!" Kirishima crowed.

It was time to kick more ass and take names.

Todoroki stomped his foot onto the ground, and a shimmering sheet of ice spread out from beneath his boot, encasing the villains around him up to their chests. They were effectively frozen in place.

"It's pathetic. You ganged up on and lost to a singular child." He intoned, cool gaze surveying his surroundings. "You should be ashamed of yourselves, you're adults aren't you?"

From what he could see, he was somewhere in the Landslide Zone, and he'd heard a loud explosion go off somewhere.

'Probably that fool, Bakugo.'

Still, Todoroki hoped his classmates were alright. Even if he didn't show it, he did care. He wanted to be a hero after all, and he didn't want anyone to get hurt.

'Though if they're facing people as uncoordinated as this, they're probably fine.' He thought dryly.

The half hot half cold teen took a step in the direction of one man who was doing his best to writhe out of his icy prison.

"Scatter and kill us? I hate to say this, but you just look like a bunch of randoms with quirks and no idea how to use them."

"The instant we warped here..." One villain spluttered. "Seriously!?"

"Is he really a kid?" Another trembled.

'It's no good, these guys are idiots.' He thought. But just then, he caught sight of someone sneaking about. 'Perfect.'

Todoroki seemed to carelessly begin trudging down the iced over terrain, ignoring the pained complaints and groans of his defeated foes. He deliberately turned his back for a moment, and just as he thought…

A villain lunged at his 'unprotected' back, brandishing a staff and belting out a battle cry. Todoroki pivoted smoothly on his foot to face him and grabbed the weapon's end with his left hand, freezing the man in place with his right.

'These guys are just common thugs. There's only a few strong ones here.' The calm teen thought. 'The man covered in hands… Shigaraki, Kurogiri the warp gate, and the hulking bird-like man. I think I should probably get some more information.'

"Hey." The teen called emotionlessly, letting his eyes rove over the villains around him as he addressed them. "Currently the cells in your bodies are slowly freezing and will eventually die. I still want to be a hero, so I'd prefer not kill anyone. So, why do you think you can kill All Might? What're you planning?"

Of course this was a bluff, the ice would melt before they could get so terribly frostbitten that they'd need to get things amputated.

Even still, when the teen didn't get an immediate response, Todoroki extended a freezing hand to the most recently captured villain's face.

"You help me, I help you." He intoned, glacially watching the man as he began trembling from more than just the cold. "Tell me the truth, and I'll ensure you don't lose any limbs from frostbite today."

"Shit! He's quick as fuck!" A villain yelped.

Ojiro descended with a swift flip, bashing his tail against the panicked man.

Upon landing he shifted quickly and whacked two more guys into unconsciousness before he straightened his back.

Shrewd dark eyes darted from point to point, surveying the current situation.

The fire in the Conflagration Zone was blazing around him in a controlled inferno, and he wiped a bit of sweat from his forehead as more villains came to take the place of those he'd knocked out.

'I need to make sure I'm not caught.' He thought keenly. 'I'm in this alone and they already have control over the USJ communication systems. Definitely shouldn't hand over more leverage over us.'

With those thoughts in mind, he leapt onto a lamp post, using his tail to swing himself to the top of a building with a bit of nimble acrobatics.

He'd do what he had been, slowly picking them off from the shadows as swift and cutthroat as he dared as a blackbelt in karate.

'Here's to making it out of this alive.' Ojiro thought.

Iida got up after depositing Sero and Ashido to the side behind Thirteen. He'd grabbed them before they could be taken under the effects of the villain's warp gates.

Kurogiri, the mist villain had dubbed himself, was not playing around with them. The class rep stood beside Sato and Shoji, wondering what they should do now. Shoji tooka bit of initiative and turned his extra limbs into ears, surveying the USJ facility. After a moment he let his arms drop.

"Everyone's been scattered but they're all still here." He reported.

Everyone, including Iida himself heaved a sigh of relief.

Thank goodness.' He thought, once again squaring his shoulders. Even if that was good news they were still in a pinch.

"Physical attacks won't work, and he can warp things." Sato muttered.

"He was clearly avoiding Kirishima-san and Bakugo earlier though." Iida found himself murmuring. "He must have some sort of physical body if he felt the need to do that."

"He's right." Shoji agreed quietly. "Earlier I managed to hear a heartbeat from him with one of my dupli-arms."

"Class rep." Thirteen called for attention, using their own stout form as a barrier between the villain and the remaining students. "I know it's tough, but I entrust this duty unto you... Run to the school and report what's happening here. We know they have someone interfering with our signals so no one will come with help if no one brings it here. It will be faster to alert the school directly instead of trying to find the perpetrator."

Horror and equal amounts of disagreement swelled within the young Iida heir. He couldn't… he couldn't possibly…!

"It would be a disgrace to leave everyone behind!" Iida protested, his pulse racing as the situation really started to bore down on him.

"Just go!" Sero yelled, sliding into a ready stance. "We can handle things here. We're all dead if you don't, so help us out a little, eh class rep?"

"If you can get out, there'll probably be alarms. That's why they're only attacking in here." Shoji added. "If you go, they won't follow."

"We wouldn't let them anyway!" Ashido chirped, fist pumping. "We got your back class rep!"

"Blow him to kingdom come with your engines!" Sato cheered. "I can keep him off your back with a little tough love!"

"You guys are the height of foolishness to talk of your plans in front of your adversary! You don't even have the strength to back up such gall, golden eggs or not." Kurogiri hissed, glowing eyes narrowing.

He expanded again, threatening to swallow everything within his blackened mass.

"Oh no you don't!" Thirteen huffed, activating their quirk and sucking the mist into the trapdoor hole on their hero suit's fingertip. "And it doesn't matter if you heard, because we will succeed!"

But it was all for naught, much to the teens' despair.

"You have a magnificent quirk." Kurogiri complimented grimly. "However, you are a rescue hero, not a battle hero. Compared to even the likes of Eraserhead, the amount of experience you have in a fight pales in comparison."

With that, Kurogiri opened up a portal behind Thirteen, disintegrating their back as they unintentionally used their quirk on themselves. Iida's blood chilled as Thirteen screamed in agony and collapsed like a house of cards, appearing all the world as if their back had been completely obliterated.

"Iida run!" Sato roared, charging at Kurogiri. "Hurry!"

"Don't let Thirteen-sensei's sacrifice be in vain!" Shoji said, following after Sato.

With tears welling in his eyes and gritting his teeth to the point of pain, Iida activated his quirk and blasted off, sprinting towards the door. Kurogiri appeared in a swirling mass of darkness before him, but Ashido spewed diluted acid from her palms, causing the villain to lose his balance as he slipped in the gelatinous sludge, only for Sato to crash his shoulder into the warp user and force him away from Iida.

"He has a physical body, you're the one who said that. So we can handle him… go!" Shoji yelled.
Kurogiri warped Sato off of him and above the stairs, causing the boy to grunt in pain and tumble down them violently.

"Bastard!" Sero spat, tape unfurling from his elbows to wrap securely around his classmate's arms and save him from a dangerous spill down the concrete stairs.

Again, while his classmates did their best to keep the villian off of him Iida raced towards the door. Kurogiri stubbornly expanded towards the speedster, only for Ashido to swiftly spew slightly more dangerous acid at the metal plate that she assumed to be hiding his neck. Startled, Kurogiri's form shrunk again to a more manageable size.

"They were right, you really do have a body if you're wearing something like that!" The pink girl said, glaring at the man with the now sizzling and distorted neck piece.

"Wretched brats…" The villain hissed.

Thankfully during all that Iida finally made it to the door, and with all his might he began to pry it open. Before Kurogiri could get any bright ideas, Sero spammed his spiffy form with tape, wrapping the villain up in a manner likened to a predatory arachnid. Shoji grabbed the two trailing pieces of tape after Sero broke off his hold. Using the formidable strength of his dupli-arms, Shoji began spinning the warp gate around before finally flinging him in the direction of the plaza with a gruff grunt.

"And it's clear outta the park." Sato cheered, high fiving Shoji.

"Iida can call for support now!" Ashido breathed, offering her classmates a thumbs up and relieved smile, just as Iida got the door open and bounded out the USJ, dust clouds kicking up in his wake.

"Yes, we did it!" Sero smiled.

It looked like they had some hope after all.

Koda watched innocently as the villains he lured were slammed into a wall by Tokoyami's Dark Shadow, immediately knocked out and slumping down to the ground.

The winds of the Squall Zone whistled around them.

The cloaked, bird headed teen made his way over to his temporary partner in crime, making sure the more soft spoken boy was alright.

"There aren't any animals here, but there's not much light either. We should be fine." Tokoyami reassured the mute. "As long as we stick together, we can hold them off."
He was right of course, as that ha been the fourth batch of villains they had taken out with their lure and ambush tactics.

Before anything else could be said, another two villains rushed them from around a corner, having heard the commotion. Koda grimaced as they reared up for an attack, but Tokoyami smashed them into the opposite wall of their last opponents.

"That makes five groups. They mostly seem to be working in pairs so this could work." Tokoyami observed, sharp eyes darting this way and that for any indication that they weren't alone. "If we can reduce the enemy numbers as we have been until help arrives, we'll make it."

Koda nodded in agreement. He was scared, but they were getting along with how things were pretty well, so he'd trust in Tokoyami's judgement.
They'd make it out.

Heroes always won after all.

Kasha was caught, but these villains really were about as smart as cannon fodder if they thought grabbing her leg was enough to keep her "well behaved".

"Now," Mouth spat, panting in exertion. "We finally caught you, you little bitch. Whaddyou say about ending this?"

"Great idea." Kasha breathed, her pulse rapidly fluttering in her chest from the adrenaline roaring through her body. With that, she activated her quirk with a blinding flash, tongues of flame shooting from the vents on the side of her boot and immediately incinerating the bandage around her leg. The one responsible for the restricting appendage howled in pain, reeling in its remains.

Kasha didn't waste any time thinking about why he'd yell from cloth being burned, simply scrambling up while the villains screeched curses and shielded their eyes. The teen hurried into the alley and towards the mouth of the hole in the building she'd created.

"Oh no you don't!" Butterball huffed, slurping at a bit of drool before curling into a ball and revving up in place.

Kasha paused, watching him do this for a moment before she took a step across the threshold of the hole.

The other four villains came to their senses and prepared to give chase once more.

"Just give up." Kasha deadpanned. "You losers won't catch me again."

"Why you…!" Broadsword gritted, charging at her just as Butterball took off like a rocket across the ground.

Kasha ducked into the building and sprinted across the large room, absently noting there was a significantly smaller amount of rubble on the floor since she'd left.

'Perfect.'

The other villains were hot on the trails of their comrades and Kasha remained still, crouching in the dim lighting, waiting. She was against the far wall, a corner that had almost no debris floating above overhead. No… most of the hazardous cement chunks were over the center of the room.

'Even better…'

"What the…?" Scarecrow hissed. "It's dark. Where did she go?"

"No clue." Bandages said. "We should spread out and look for her."

"When I get my hands on that mouthy little bitch I'm gonna rip her guts out with my teeth while she's still squirming." Mouth growled.

Kasha winced, remaining still and quiet, her eyes darting over the shadowy figures of the villains stepping or tripping over the small amount of debris still on the floor.

The silver eyed girl quieted her breathing as much as she could, but her pulse was still a little irregular from all of the running and flying she'd been doing.

Kasha had no idea where Ochako was, but she had to hope the other girl was prepared, because when the silver eyed girl counted five villain silhouettes in total in the room, she snarled, "NOW!"

"Release!"

Kasha breathed a quiet sigh of relief at her hidden accomplice's immediate reply.

A shower of large cement chunks rained down on the villains, knocking three of them out immediately and disorienting the beefy one with the huge sword. Bandages had spread his apparent not banging out and slapped aside most of the offending objects raining down on them.

"What the hell?" Broadsword roared, whirling around to look for the offending children.

He turned his back and caught sight of Ochako, who Kasha had just noticed was crouched near the entrance of the hole in the wall.

Kasha charged at Broadsword's back, activating her quirk and supercharging it into her legs, white flames shot out of the vents running down her boots and her heels crunched into the back of Broadsword as she drop kicked him. She heard and felt something snap and he howled as he was sent clear out of the darkened room and across the alley, slamming against the building on the other side and slumping down where he stayed, unconscious.

Kasha pushed herself to her feet, eyes alert, catching sight of Ochako's shadowy form rolling away from four darting appendages hanging off of Bandage's body. While he was distracted Kasha started at his back and swung her leg up, kicking him with half of her might in his temple. He crumpled to the floor, out like a light but still breathing. If she'd put everything she had into that he'd be brain damaged or dead.

"Is it over?" Ochako panted, standing up and brushing herself off a bit.

"At least with these guys." Kasha answered, stepping towards the door.

"Awesome, 'cause I have no idea how I would've fought them if most of them weren't knocked out from that trap." Ochako said, laughing a little.

Kasha shook her head and made her way back into the alleyway and into the chilled winds.

"Nice job in there." The silver eyed girl said, looking at her partner who stepped out behind her, wiping sweat from her brow.

"Thanks, you too." Ochako said. "Stretchy Guy almost had me there."

Stretchy? Well, it would make sense if those "bandages" were actually his skin wrapped around him several times. He had yelled when Kasha burned one of them.

Gross.

"No problem." Kasha said in response.

"So what do we do now?" Ochako asked. "Should we set up the trap again? You did say we should take out as many villains as we can while we're here."

"Hm, but I'm not sure about staying in the same area." Kasha admitted. "I think we should move."

"Okay." Ochako nodded once. "Let's do it."

The duo left the alley and quietly but purposefully made their way through the winding, dimly lit streets of the Squall Zone.

They rounded a corner and with a gasp Ochako suddenly bellowed, "DUCK!"

Kasha didn't hesitate to drop into a crouch, silver eyes wide as her pink garbed partner suddenly vaulted herself over Kasha's head with one hand, the other extended so she could slap the villain that had appeared out of nowhere across the face and send him floating into the air.

"Wh—what the hell is this!?" He spat, writhing in the air.

But Kasha was already standing up by this point, and she rounded Ochako as the other girl held her hands in that strange triangular position she often did when her quirk was in effect.

"Thanks for the save." Kasha murmured, grunting as she pivoted her foot and executed a wicked roundhouse kick into the man's gut, sending him flying across the street with a trail of saliva bursting from his gasping mouth. He crashed into the opposite wall where he slumped down, knocked out cold.

"And release." Ochako breathed, letting her hands fall to her sides, offering Kasha a smile. "No problem."

They two girls took off again, this time keeping a better look out.

'Can't afford to be that sloppy again. What if Ochako wasn't here? I'd probably be dead.' Kasha chided herself. 'Pull yourself together Yūrei! You can be better than that. You will be better than that. Otherwise everything will be all for nothing.'

"Hey Kasha?" Ochako called quietly, pulling the taller girl away from her depreciative thoughts.

"Hm?"

"Do you… do you think our classmates are okay?"

Kasha paused, ducking behind a corner and pressing her back against the wall, the pink and black garbed girl doing the same.

"I don't know." Kasha answered honestly. "We just need to believe that they are until we find them again."

"Yeah, you're right." Ochako murmured, sounding oddly subdued. "I can't help but worry though."

"There's nothing wrong with that." Kasha found herself murmuring, feeling the need to reassure the other girl.

"Thanks Kasha." Ochako said, giving her a subdued smile.

The silver eyed girl nodded, looking away from those earnest yet worried brown eyes and peeking around the corner. Kasha's breath hitched when she caught movement, swiftly ducking back out of sight.

"What's wrong?" Ochako whispered, reading the atmosphere.

"There's another lone villain on the street around the corner from us, he'd be facing me if I stepped out." Kasha whispered back, turning her head slightly to catch her classmate's now serious gaze.

"So how do you wanna do this?" Ochako asked. "If you want me to use my quirk out in the open with these winds remember I can probably only hold stuff still for ten seconds."

Kasha hummed a little under her breath. Yeah, there was that, which was part of the reason Kasha had the gravity user set up that trap in the building. But she wasn't sure if they had the luxury of doing something like that several times. They were bound to draw attention that way eventually, and Kasha didn't want to risk them getting caught with their pants down. They should probably try something more stealthy.

And that would definitely be easier with just one target like they had right then.

"He's alone, wanna try getting some info out of him?" Kasha asked. "He might know something more about the attack on us today."

"That couldn't hurt." Ochako mused. "You go first I go around?"

Despite the circumstances Kasha felt her lips wanting to curl into a small smirk. The white haired girl had sort of known already, but she liked Ochako. She was crafty under that happy go lucky demeanor of hers, and Kasha couldn't have asked for a better person to be separated with in such a situation beside Denki.

'I guess every cloud really does have a silver lining.'

Kasha nodded, and without another word Ochako stood up and snuck around the building so that she would be behind the villain.

Kasha waited around two minutes, and she saw her partner's head peek out down the street from around the corner. The gravity user offered Kasha a grin and thumbs up, and Kasha took that as her cue.

She stood to her full height and rounded the corner, catching the attention of the lone villain. He stiffened, a snarl forming on his face.

"Hello there, I'm new here." Kasha deadpanned. "Mind showing a stranger around?"

The man released a battle cry and charged at her, swiping his claws through the air. Two blades of wind sliced through the air and headed straight for Kasha, and she neatly dodged and ducked around them both. Just as the man was upon her she shifted her left leg back, her right knee coming up before her leg snapped out in a brutal kick.

Her boot crushed into the man's chest, causing spit to spurt from his mouth as he gasped in pain and alarm, sent flying back. He landed on his butt and Kasha strode over to him. She stomped him in the same area to knock the breath out of him before reaching down and lifting him up by his shirt, forcing him to stumble to his feet.

Before he could completely regain himself she whirled him around and shoved him forward. The villain stumbled right into Ochako, who had snuck up on him from behind. The pink garbed girl shoved the heel of her hand into his nose swiftly, breaking it with a loud crunch while her other slapped him across the gut with all five fingers. He screamed in pain and ascended from the effect of her quirk.

"Now." Kasha said, reaching out to snag him by his ankle and slam him with absolutely no effort back into the ground. "We have a few questions for you."

The man lifted a hand to possibly use his quirk, but Kasha booted it aside before simply stomping on it and leaving her foot there, ignoring his yell of pain.

"Sorry about this." Ochako grimaced, stepping on his other hand to keep him still, holding her own together in a triangular formation.

"What were you villains hoping to accomplish by coming here today?"

"F—fuc—aaagghh!" He cried when Kasha stomped down on his hand again.

"Keep joking around and next time I'll break it." She intoned.

She didn't look at Ochako but she could imagine some of the thoughts the girl was having about her behavior despite not verbally reacting.

"You're n-not sounding very heroic t-there kid." The villain mocked, sneering up at her with his scornful beady eyes.

Kasha wasn't sure she could care less. As if she could feel anything but contempt for some scumbag looking to mortally wound or kill a bunch of kids. People like him and his little friends deserved to be locked up in a box of a room before being lead to a table with their last memory being a needle in their arm. That was justice.

Two villains had told her that day that she wasn't heroic, but at least she wasn't villainous.

"You can't blame me for my actions today." Kasha returned, emotionless. "I'm stressed and frightened, just doing my best to survive this unexpected turn of events. So let's both help each other out here, hm? Tell us what we want to know and you'll be knocked out swiftly."

"How about no?" He mocked, looking all kinds of stupid pinned down with a crooked and bloodied nose. "I could smell the bullshit on that garbage you just spewed a mile away. You're a lying, cocky little brat and you'll get what's coming to you when my friends find you!"

"You don't seem to understand what situation you're in." Kasha observed in a dead tone. She allowed her quirk to engulf her form, setting it alight with dangerous white flames.

She crouched down, watched the man inch away in discomfort at the heat her body emitted.

"Tell me why you and your friends are here, and how you expect to kill All Might, and I promise I won't turn anything of value attached to you into ash."

She heard Ochako's breath hitch at her side, but her glowing white eyes simply continued to bore into the man she had pinned.

He didn't take long to cave under the pressure her presence radiated, quaking before her. Kasha admittedly felt nothing in the face of the fear she invoked within him. Why should she? He had been determined to hurt her mere moments before. And he probably would have enjoyed it.

'Scumbag.' She thought venomously.

"Okay, okay! I'll talk, just cool your jets alright?" He sputtered.

"After you tell me what I want to know." Kasha ordered coldly.

"Okay!" He yelped, shying away from her merciless gaze. "Honestly, I don't know shit, I got hired for this gig like yesterday. All I know is, the big guy with the beak is supposedly as strong as All Might. Shigaraki, the guy with the dead people's hands on him is the only guy he'll listen to. The guys that are here to fight you kids are just to keep you guys out of the main fight. I swear that's all I know!"

'As strong as All Might?' Kasha thought. 'That's… worrying. A villain that strong wouldn't be stopped by a bunch of kids. And what does that even mean? Literally as strong as him? Or just as fast as him? Is he a perfect combatant for All Might or are these villains just delusional?'

They really didn't have the luxury of making assumptions like that, so they should just probably proceed under the assumption that the bird faced man really was as strong as All Might. In all the ways that statement implied.

'Someone with that much power but… evil?'

Kasha shivered.

'What's worse, a monster that monumentally strong or the man that controls him?'

"Kasha?" Ochako broke her out of her bleak thoughts.

The white haired teen shook her head slowly and deactivated her quirk. Not giving the man a chance to blubber out in relief she stood up again and kicked him in the side of the head, knocking him out.

"Wow… you were kinda… intense there, huh?" Ochako offered, giving the taller girl a shaky smile as she removed her boot from the unconscious man's hand.

"I had to be." Kasha stated blankly. "People like that only respond to what they know, which is violence."

Kasha's head tilted ever so slightly to the side as Ochako studied her with something unreadable in her eyes.

"And you know how people like that think?" She asked carefully, her eyes darting to Kasha's hidden arms, no doubt remembering the scars there as well as on her back before looking back into Kasha's eyes.

"Now really isn't the time." Kasha told her, giving her a dead eyed stare.

'It will never be the time, just forget you saw any of my scars.' She thought. 'Forget it Ochako!'

"Kasha…" The gravity user protested.

"No." Kasha huffed a little, turning away and walking off.

Just… no. They might be friends, but that didn't give Ochako the right to… to…! Just, no.

"Well what about later then?" Ochako asked quietly, following behind her. "After we get out of here? And you know Kasha… you know I'm your friend, right?"

"Ochako." Kasha said gravely, looking over her shoulder, her bangs casting shadows across the dark look in her silver eyes. "Drop it."

Kasha turned back around when she saw the other girl swallow weakly at her thunderous expression. The silver eyed teen sighed quietly, jets of smoke expelling from the vents in her face mask.

"I'm sorry." Ochako said suddenly.

"It's fine. Let's just not, okay?" Kasha murmured, hating to sound so defeated.

"Okay." Her friend agreed quietly.

The duo quietly made their way through the deserted streets of the Squall Zone, senses stretched and alert.

"This is weird." Ochako finally caved and whispered. "I thought there'd be more people here."

"Yeah. I wonder…" Before Kasha could finish that thought, a loud boom had her pupils dilating and Ochako flinching at her side.

The two girls traded a glance.

"That sounded close." Ochako pointed out.

"Let's check it out." Kasha said, nodding and creeping over to the corner of a building so she could use it as cover as she peeked around the corner. She felt Ochako's hand on her arm as the shorter girl peered over her shoulder to get a look as well.

"I think I figured out why there aren't that many goons around here." Ochako muttered, chuckling a little.

With a silent snort, Kasha stood up, watching Tokoyami reel Dark Shadow back into himself after tossing two guys against a wall and knocking them out cold. Koda was offering the bird headed boy a thumbs up for a job well done.

Kasha stepped out from behind their cover, Ochako following her head.

"Hey you guys!" The gravity user called, waving a little.

Startled, Koda and Tokoyami looked over.

"Yūrei-san, Uraraka-san." Tokoyami blinked, but sobered a moment after. "Well, maybe this explains why we weren't finding that many adversaries in this area."

"We took out a few." Kasha confirmed with a singular nod.

The two girls made their way over to the boys who had also been deposited in the windy zone.

"You guys okay?" Ochako asked.

Koda nodded enthusiastically.

"Yes, and you two?" Tokoyami questioned.

"We're good." Ochako chirped, looking incredibly relieved. "But man am I glad to see some more friendly faces."

"Mm." Kasha hummed softly in agreement.

"Likewise," Tokoyami began. "But since the four of us are here, what do you propose we do?"

"Well… Me and Kasha were slowly picking off the villains, but honestly I'm a little worried about our classmates." Ochako admitted, rubbing at the back of her head.

"I see." The shadow quirked teen said. "You seem like you have something specific in mind."

"Yeah, I kinda wanna go check on them, y'know? Offer people support that haven't made their way out of their zones or might need backup."

"Ah," Tokoyami nodded. "I suppose that's understandable. While I'd prefer us to stick together after just finding each other, I believe Koda-san and I can handle this zone from here. If you must, go ensure the safety of our peers."

"You don't wanna come with us?" Ochako blinked, looking between Tokoyami and Koda.

The Ani-voice user shrugged, looking to the boy he had teamed up with. Tokoyami shook his head, eyes closed for a short few moments.

"I feel as if we need to incapacitate the villains here before moving on." He explained. "Originally I felt we were just buying time until help could arrive, but…"

"You feel it's your duty to take out the villains?" Kasha supplied, eyeing the shorter boy shrewdly.

Tokoyami bowed his head.

"I'm sorry if that seems selfish…"

"No, it's alright." Kasha assured him. "Besides, if you take out all the villains here the cleanup for the backup that should be coming will be much easier. So, all I can say if you're staying is be careful."

"Kasha, you're coming with me?" Ochako looked to her, seeming oddly touched.

Kasha tilted her head to the side ever so slightly.

"Of course." She said. "We make a good team don't we? And I couldn't let you go off alone in a situation like this."

"Kasha…" Ochako said.

"Then I suppose this is where we part ways." Tokoyami brought the matter at hand back to the forefront. "Thank you for understanding, Yūrei-san."

Kasha's silver eyes bore into Koda and Tokoyami.

"It's fine." She intoned. "Just don't die."

"I wouldn't dream of it." Tokoyami said, offering a small snort as Koda nodded enthusiastically in agreement.

"That settles it then. Ochako, we're leaving." Kasha murmured, extending her hand to her partner in crime.

"Right!" Ochako nodded, fists clenching in determination. "Be careful Tokoyami-kun, Koda-kun."

The two boys nodded, and then Ochako reached out and took Kasha's hand.

It was time for them to go.

'I guess it worked out.' Kasha thought wryly. 'I have been worrying about Denki on the back burner of my mind…'

With this, she had an excuse to rush off to find him. Of course she would be helping anyone else that needed it too.

Because all reasonings put aside, Kasha was after all, a hero in training.

Thank you so much for reading, I know this chapter was all over the place.