When summer vacation was just beginning, Izuku found himself, Ochako-san, Kacchan, Iida-san, Asui-san, and Todoroki-san all called back to U.A. so that they could attend the special class that all of 1-A had been signed up for at the beginning of the year, though there was an option to opt out. Not that he really thought anyone would take it; not in a class of over-achievers like 1-A, anyway. If there'd been a chance of talking to anyone from 1-B – even Monoma, if his sort-of friend was actually interested in talking to him rather than trying to feel him up for Quirks – he'd have asked if they had had anything like this to deal with.

It was a possibility, since both of their classes were aiming to become heroes; Izuku just wished he knew someone from 1-B he could actually have a normal conversation with.

As the six of them all sat down at their desks, Izuku found himself wondering if Tenko-nii would show up in his capacity as Aizawa-sensei's teaching assistant, or if he was still working on whatever case he'd been assigned to by Tsukauchi-san.

"We'll be running this course multiple times, with small groups from your class," Aizawa-sensei said, and Izuku found himself more than a little surprised not to see 1-A's Homeroom teacher being dragged in by Tenko-nii; still, if his older brother was off investigating something, then Aizawa-sensei would have to do a few more things by himself. In that light, Izuku figured this kind of thing made more sense. "Today, it will be the six of you. Just so you know, this will be harder than a regular class," Aizawa-sensei continued, raking the six of them with his calm, assessing gaze; Izuku met his eyes firmly when their respective gazes locked. "Prepare yourselves. In this master-class, you'll be tasked with saving innocent bystanders, and capturing a Villain."

Izuku tried to keep himself in his seat during the following, excited outburst – since he knew that Aizawa-sensei wouldn't really appreciate that kind of thing – but he didn't bother trying to stop himself from grinning.

"This should be obvious," Aizawa-sensei continued, once he'd pretty much glared the rest of the class back into submission. "But Villains commit many different types of crimes. You six will be dispatched to a scene, and will need to determine what happened there; whether or not a Villain was at fault, whether or not you should fight. We will be judging your ability to assess the situation, as well as how well you defuse it. Welcome your instructors."

When Uncle Toshi, Midnight-sensei, and Cementoss-sensei all came in through the back door of the classroom that the six of them had been gathered in for this advanced class of theirs, Izuku grinned widely as he waved to them all. Well, mostly Uncle Toshi, really.

"I am here! Sneaking in through the back door!" Uncle Toshi shouted loudly; which pretty much spoiled whatever stealth he'd actually been trying to use, but that was Uncle Toshi for you.

Well, Uncle Toshi when he was being All Might, anyway.

"You're looking extra muscly today!" Ochako-san exclaimed, flexing her own arms in the same way that Uncle Toshi always did when he was being All Might. "Yowza!"

"Zuzu, your girlfriend's being weird."

"Kacchan, she's not my girlfriend!" he exclaimed, blushing all the deeper when he heard Midnight-sensei laughing.

"Well, well, is this the sweet melody of young love I hear?" Midnight-sensei – who was kind of a little crazy about anything and everything involving romance, even if it wasn't even real – asked, grinning widely and wiggling in the way she always seemed to do when she was excited about something or other.

"It's nothing like that!" he exclaimed, and could kind of hear Ochako-san doing the same.

Midnight-sensei actually cackled after the both of them had said that, but Aizawa-sensei quickly cut in.

"That's enough of that, Kayama," Aizawa-sensei said, an annoyed look on his face as he turned his glare from Midnight-sensei back onto all of them. "Now, Cementoss, Midnight, and Present Mic will be assisting All Might. They'll be acting as special trainers. Let's get going; head out to Ground Beta."

"Aizawa-sensei, would it be best if we got there as soon as possible, or do you need time to set up?" he asked, half-activating Warp Gate as he rose from his seat. "I mean, I can get us there right away, if you need me to."

"By the time you make it to the training ground normally, we'll be all set up," Aizawa-sensei said, indirectly answering his question. "Thanks for the offer, though, Class Rep."

"Sure," he said, deactivating his copy of Warp Gate as the rest of his classmates began filing out of the room alongside him.

He still couldn't help wondering, as they all made their way onto the bus, if the students of class 1-B were really going to have a class like this one.

~MHA~

When all six of them made it to the training ground where they were going to use for the extra class they were taking, Ochako looked around at her five fellow classmates. Each of them was wearing their Hero costume for this exercise, but the sound of Aizawa-sensei making his way over to them drew her attention before she could wonder too much about what they were all going to be doing for this class. Still, the sight of so many cardboard cutouts in the shape of police officers – not to mention the soft sound of Deku muttering to himself – gave her at least an idea about what might be going on.

Aizawa-sensei started speaking not long after the six of them had all gathered together.

"I'll brief you on the situation: there's been an attack in this jewelry store; the employees and customers have been taken hostage, and are barricaded inside. The number of Villains and bystanders is unknown. As Pro Heroes, you've been asked by the Police to intervene, and resolve this situation to the best of your abilities."

"Excuse me, Aizawa-sensei!" Iida-san exclaimed, right hand snapping into the air with the same kind of enthusiasm that he seemed to have for everything he did. "Our teachers: will they be playing the role of hostages or Villains?"

"I won't be answering questions," Aizawa-sensei said quickly, almost cutting off the end of Iida-san's sentence. "Verify the situation yourself, and act accordingly," Aizawa-sensei paused for a moment to let them acknowledge him, before continuing. "With that, let the capture-training begin."

Turning at the sound of a loud siren, Ochako took a deep breath as she made her way over to the side of the building they were all standing behind; there was a pretty big crowd of Police cutouts, all arranged in front of the jewelry store that was meant to be under attack by the Villain they were here to bring in.

"Uraraka, you head up to the windows and take a look," Bakugo said, and she turned back to see that he was giving her a considering look; really, it was the same kind of look that he was always giving Deku, when the both of them would work together. "You'd have the best chance of determining how many Villains are in there, without the risk of being seen the way most of us would end up having to deal with."

"Right," she said, nodding even as she wondered what the sidelong look Bakugo had aimed at Deku might have meant.

Nodding in response to Deku, when he told her that she should let the rest of them know how many hostages there were on her right hand, and how many Villains there were on her left, Ochako turned her attention back to the gathering of Police cutouts. Touching the pads on her fingers together, even as she took a deep, steadying breath so that she wouldn't have so much trouble with nausea as she would have otherwise, considering what she was going to be doing, Ochako levitated herself upward with the help of a push from Deku; behind her, she could hear the sounds of her fellow classmates discussing how they could distract the Villain.

Looking in through the large, second-floor windows, Ochako quickly caught sight of All Might; though he was wearing a dark, spiky outfit, and was clearly playing the Villain for this class. Just as she was about to turn away, so she could report how many Villains there were, the sight of another, sinuous shape – almost out of sight behind the row of jewelry displays at the back of the store – darting from behind an empty display case over to one that was still full.

Narrowing her eyes, as the reflective visor of the smaller Villain's matte-black costume was raised up to where she could see it better, as the smaller Villain looked toward All Might. She didn't know just what passed between the pair of them, but the smaller Villain nodded, and Ochako turned away to make her report. Deku and Iida-san both nodded as she held up her hands – three fingers on her right hand for Midnight, Present Mic, and Cementoss; two on her left for All Might and the smaller Villain that seemed to be helping him – and she could see Todoroki-san talking on the phone.

From the look on his face, Ochako guessed he was talking to All Might; she kind of wondered how All Might was doing, having to play a Villain and all.

The sight of the smaller Villain turning to run out the back of the store drew Ochako's attention before she could spend too much time wondering what All Might was saying to Todoroki-san, and she narrowed her eyes as something about the way the smaller Villain was moving began to seem more than a little familiar to her… Wait, I saw that running-stance before, back in the Sports Festival! It had to be Deku's sister.

~MHA~

Narrowing his eyes as he watched Rocketeer signaling that something serious was starting to happen with the pair of faux Villains they were all facing, Katsuki folded his arms and turned his attention to Fire-n-Ice as he locked his phone after finishing his call to All Might.

"Looks like there's more to this whole thing than we first thought," he said, narrowing his eyes as he turned to look back over at the rows and rows of freestanding cutouts, all standing in front of the jewelry store that All Might, and whoever was apparently working with him, were playing at trying to rob. "Zuzu, you take Legs around back; see if the both of you can head off that other Villain. We'll go in from the front."

"Wait," Todoroki-san said, grabbing Bakugo's right arm as he started to make his way out from the alleyway the six of them were all hiding in. "There are still hostages inside the store."

He grinned. "You'd be surprised how good a distraction I can be."

~MHA~

After the six of them had decided on their next course of action, with himself and Midoriya-kun positioning themselves outside the back of the building so that they would be better able to intercept the smaller Villain whose presence Uraraka-kun had reported to them, Tenya found his attention drawn by the sound of heavy footfalls pounding on the tarmac. He and Midoriya-kun quickly ducked out of sight, allowing the Villain – who turned out to be All Might-sensei – to run away from the shop that he and his partner had been robbing.

"I'll keep an eye on him from the air," Midoriya-kun said, narrowing his eyes as he extended a large pair of webbed, green wings – wings that were the same shade of green as his hair, Tenya noticed – from his back, fluttering them briefly, seemingly to stretch them out. "I'll signal you when he stops, so you can come meet me wherever he stops."

"Yes," he said, nodding sharply. "And then, we can signal the others."

"Right," Midoriya-kun said, fully opening his wings as he took off into the air.

Looking up for a moment, as Midoriya-kun took off, Tenya followed in his wake as Midoriya-kun kept pace with All Might-sensei. The three of them ended up stopping outside a large building, which Tenya realized was a hospital after a moment spent studying the environs he and Midoriya-kun had ended up in. Narrowing his eyes as he watched All Might-sensei furtively making his way into the building, Tenya signaled his intentions to Midoriya-san, following All Might-sensei into the building once Midoriya-san was aware of what he was doing.

It was only slightly more difficult than he'd been expecting, keeping up with All Might-sensei even as he stayed out of the faux Villain's line of sight, but Tenya soon found himself just outside a room that All Might-sensei had ducked into. Carefully concealing himself, Tenya managed to sneak himself into the room where All Might-sensei had seemed to be the most interested in. Wait, this is a long-term care ward, he mused, then gasped as he turned to the front of the room.

There was a man there, laid out on the bed he was now standing in front of; however, the sound of someone starting to open the door prompted Tenya to throw himself under the bed itself before he could spend too much time contemplating just what was going on.

"Looks like they haven't caught on yet," All Might-sensei said, and as he watched their teacher – who he sternly reminded himself was playing the part of a dastardly Villain; the quaver in his voice as he spoke was, therefore, more than likely part of an effort to confuse him – make his way over to the side of the hospital bed and sit down in a chair beside it. "I… I bought another pack of cherry gummies." All Might-sensei paused for a long moment, and Tenya tried to quietly shuffle farther under the bed, so that no part of him would be visible if All Might-sensei chanced to look down. "We can eat them together when… When you wake up."

Biting his lower lip as he heard the sound of All Might-sensei standing up suddenly, Tenya watched as their teacher rose abruptly from the chair he'd been seated in, moving out of sight, and then exiting the hospital room nearly at a run; he expected that Midoriya-kun had been responsible for All Might-sensei's sudden departure. Given that the pair of them had arranged to stay in sight of one another, and considering how long he had been inside the room, Midoriya-kun was bound to have been concerned.

Once All Might-sensei had left the room, pausing for a moment at the door for a long moment, before slamming it on his way out, Tenya climbed out from under the bed he'd been concealing himself under. Looking down at the bed, Tenya found himself almost involuntarily shuddering as he caught sight of the blond man on the bed that All Might-sensei had apparently come to visit. The breathing mask clamped over the lower half of his face and the fact that the blond man seemed to be completely comatose was, unnervingly enough, seemingly the least of the problems that the man All Might-sensei was visiting was having.

With the maze of wires, monitors, and medical machines monitoring him, it was clear that – whoever this man actually was – he was playing the part of someone All Might-sensei cared deeply about; someone he was willing to step into the dark, twisted ways of villainy to protect.

~MHA~

The sight of the blond man in the hospital bed, the one that Uncle Toshi had been visiting, stuck in his mind even as Izuku dove down to harry Uncle Toshi away from the entrance of the hospital. All of the medical equipment in the room, combined with the way the man in the bed had been laying so still, not to mention how frail he looked… It was clear that – whatever kind of Villain Uncle Toshi was actually supposed to be – he had someone to protect.

Of course, that kind of thing would only make him even more dangerous; Izuku remembered how scary Dad could be, when anyone had been stupid enough to threaten their family, and he was a Hero.

The sound of his phone going off brought Izuku's attention back to the exercise he and the others were all participating in.

"Midoriya."

"Todoroki-san," he said, narrowing his eyes as he kept pace with Uncle Toshi from the air, using the wings that Hayato-kun had given to him then they were all kids; well, Hayato-kun had given him some of his hair, and then he'd been able to absorb his Quirk from that, but that wasn't important at the moment.

"While we were talking to Midnight and the others, we found that the Villain we're tracking has a brother," Todoroki-san said, and Izuku found his thoughts almost snapping back to the blond man in the hospital bed.

"He's sick," Izuku muttered.

"Midoriya?"

"Sorry," he said, feeling a bit embarrassed that he'd let his old habits get the better of him, even at a time like this. "What I meant to say was, Iida-san and I tracked All Might-sensei… Um, the Villain, after he escaped from the jewelry store. It turned out that he was trying to visit his brother, who looks like he's been on life-support for… Well, I don't really know how long, but he didn't look good when I saw him."

"That does sound like the kind of motivation that would drive someone to even fake their death, the way he did," Todoroki-san said, and Izuku found himself more than a little curious about what exactly had been going on while he and Iida-san had been tracking Uncle Toshi.

"Is that how he managed to escape from the store?"

"Yes," Todoroki-san said, sounding like it was hard for him to admit that kind of thing. "He managed to escape while we were all distracted interviewing the civilians."

Just as he was about to answer, to try to reassure Todoroki-san about what had happened with Uncle Toshi, the sight of Uncle Toshi whipping around to toss a knife in his direction drew his attention. Raising a small shield to deflect the weapon, since he knew it wasn't a good habit, to start thinking of this as just training when it was supposed to be as realistic as possible, Izuku folded his wings and dove down. Uncle Toshi turned to run, tossing a last knife that Izuku swatted aside with a telekinesis Quirk, and Izuku spread his wings wide to brake, while at the same time grabbing Uncle Toshi under his arms and around his waist using his telekinesis so that he could lift him off the ground just high enough that he wouldn't be able to run away.

He couldn't help wondering if Uncle Toshi was playing a Quirkless Villain for this exercise; some people without Quirks could end up like that, in the same way that some people with Quirks that people thought were scary or dangerous could end up that way. Dad and Uncle Toshi tried to help as many of those people as they could, but even they couldn't be everywhere at once. Izuku always thought it was sad, finding out about the people that Dad and Uncle Toshi couldn't get to in time to help.

He wondered if that was the kind of Villain that Uncle Toshi was playing now.

"Good work, Midoriya. You've earned credit for capturing the Villain," Aizawa-sensei said, drawing Izuku's attention, even as he flapped steadily to remain in the air. "However, whether or not you earn full credit for this assignment depends on how well you understood the situation."

"Well, it seems like – whoever the Villain was – he was more concerned with helping his brother than anything else," he said, grabbing Uncle Toshi with his hands, so even if he lost concentration he wouldn't end up dropping Uncle Toshi and letting him get away; this was still a capture exercise, after all. "Seeing someone you care about just… deteriorate like that, right in front of you while you can't do anything, it would drive anyone to desperation," he continued, finding himself wondering if the story of these two had been based on what Dad had told him about his past with Uncle Shiro; it sounded kind of familiar, that way. "And, well, I've heard that keeping someone in the hospital like that gets really expensive."

"Hmm, looks like you do get full credit for this assignment. Villains motivated by desperation or ideology are more dangerous than any other you might find yourself faced with," Aizawa-sensei said, looking like he was thinking about something else, too. "And I'm hardly going to dock you points for something you couldn't have known about, after all."

Izuku didn't have much time to wonder what Aizawa-sensei had meant by that, before he heard the sounds of his classmates approaching, and turned to them with a smile.

~MHA~

Once the special classes had ended for the day, and Toshinori could finally relax, he found himself completely unsurprised to find Hisashi – just shifting out of the form of the thin, frail blond that he'd said took more than a little inspiration from his younger brother, and so had left Toshinori wondering for a moment just what the first user of One For All would have made of it – lounging in the chair next to his computer.

"Looks like they used both our ideas for that class," Hisashi said, chuckling as Toshinori pulled out his chair and settled down in it.

"Yeah, looks like," he said, turning to grin at Hisashi, even as he booted up his computer for the second time that day. "You're so sentimental," he said, and was about to continue when the sound of Hisashi's laughter distracted him before he could finish his sentence.

"Oh, and I suppose you aren't?" Hisashi drawled, smiling amusedly back. "That silly love story was your idea, Toshi-kun."

Grumbling a bit, knowing that he couldn't really argue with what Hisashi was saying, not without his old friend laughing at him, anyway. Turning his attention to the email he'd gotten, back at the start of the day, Toshinori found himself more than a little surprised at what he found in the message.

"Well, it seems as though Melissa-chan is particularly eager to see us again," Hisashi said, smiling widely as he leaned over, obviously reading over Toshinori's left shoulder.

"Yeah, she's going to send the entire family invitations to I-Expo," he said, reading to the end of the message, feeling the smile on his face growing all the wider as he found his thoughts straying back to the time he'd spent with David Shield, and eventually with his family. "There's even a PS from Hana," he said, as he reached the last lines of Melissa's message and found himself reading more. "She's really looking forward to seeing Tenko-kun again."

"I expect she would be," Hisashi said, his smile just as wide and pleased as Toshinori had seen him; thoughts of the family he'd formed always did seem to draw out softer feelings from his oldest friend, something that Toshinori could fully understand. "Even though she is fond of her life on I-Island, anyone would miss their loved ones if they spent so much time apart."

"Yeah," he muttered, smiling as he composed a reply.

Considering Melissa's offer to invite their entire family – except for Kotaru-kun, who had the absolute worst case of motion sickness that Toshinori had ever come across; and Nao-chan, who didn't really like to travel – to stay at I-Island for the Expo, Toshinori knew that he and Hisashi were going to have a bit of work to do. Not to really convince the rest of their family to come with them to visit Dave and Melissa, but just to prepare for the trip that they were all going to take.

~MHA~

Once Dad had picked him and Bambaa-chan up and they'd all gone home with Uncle Toshi, Izuku couldn't help but notice that both Dad and Uncle Toshi seemed to have something on their minds; it was something they both seemed to be excited about, at least, so Izuku knew it wasn't likely to be anything bad, at least.

As he, Uncle Toshi, Dad, and Bambaa-chan all made their way back into the house, Izuku found himself more and more curious as Dad and Uncle Toshi called the rest of their family together to talk about whatever it was that they were so excited about. As it turned out, Cousin Melissa had invited them to come to I-Island for the I-Expo, as well as to stay with her, Uncle Dave, and Hana-nee for awhile. In the end, with the obvious exception of Uncle Kotaru and Auntie Nao, all of their family began making preparations to leave for I-Island.

Uncle Toshi and Tenko-nii, of course, just needed to call Uncle Mirai and let him know that they'd be gone for about a week or two, just in case they ended up being needed for the case they were both on. Dad had to let the rest of the Council know he'd be taking a short vacation, and of course he and Mom could just go and start packing for the trip. As Izuku made his way up the stairs to his room, he found himself wondering just what kind of new, cool Support gear the people who lived and worked on I-Island had made during the time he and his family had been away.

He also wondered how Tempest was doing, but he and Dad would probably be meeting up with him in the air.

Once they'd all finished packing the last of their stuff, both for the trip and for the time that they were going to be staying on I-Island to catch up with Uncle Dave and Cousin Melissa, Izuku caught up with Dad, hugging him and then Mom, as the three of them all made their way up to the car so Dad could drive them to the airport. Hugging Bambaa-chan, Tenko-nii, and Uncle Toshi as the three of them all made their way into the car, Izuku turned just in time to catch Granny Nana in a hug as she came out to the car with her own stuff.

"Hey, kiddo."

"Hi, Granny," he said, smiling back at her as she grinned back, then turned to put her suitcases and bags in the trunk with the rest of their luggage.

~MHA~

Once their family had all boarded the plane and were on their way to I-Island, Toshinori settled back into his seat and allowed himself to relax. Sure, they could have called ahead, so that either Izuku-chan or Hisashi-kun could use Warp Gate to get them to the island, but that would have blown the whole thing. Dave would have been able to find out that they were coming almost immediately, since there was a designated arrival-point for Warp Gates. No one wanted anybody arriving in an inconvenient or dangerous place, after all.

More than that, if there was an undocumented teleporter loose, everyone would want to be able to respond to that kind of thing as quickly as they could, so it was better for everyone if people knew what to expect when someone who was actually authorized teleported onto the island. Doing that kind of thing would have spoiled the whole surprise, of course, hence the need for the small plane and the relative hassle of using an airport.

The sudden sight of fog, fairly thin but still gathering around the body of the plane, brought a small smile to Toshinori's face as he leaned forward to look out a nearby window. Looks like Tempest just noticed we were coming.

~MHA~

After he'd received notification that an aircraft was approaching the outermost edges of the domain he presided over, Tempest called the winds to him, and then proceeded to layer a thin barrier of fog between the transport and the island; the place where he and his had been able to make happy lives for themselves, and hence the place he had dedicated himself to protecting. However, when the black mist emerged on the right side of the plane, Tempest found himself pausing in midair. And then, when the Little Dragon and his Elder emerged from the mist, Tempest smiled softly.

It seemed that those paying a visit to his protectorate island did not need to be driven off, in the end.

Lending the winds he commanded to the Little Dragon, filling the child's large, green wings and allowing him to rise further into the air, Tempest turned to watch the Elder Dragon as he moved sinuously through the air. One of the many abilities within the Elder's hoard allowed him to pull the winds that were a part of Tempest's domain to him, allowing him to soar through the air alongside his child. Seeing the pair of them, each of them nearly dancing through the air in the same way that Tempest himself had done, ever since he'd taken up residence within the Spire…

It was the most beautiful, natural thing that Tempest had borne witness to; at least since the last time he'd seen the man who wished to touch the stars themselves testing one of his inventions.

Still, the pair of them were eventually forced to leave his side, returning to the vehicle that had carried them to the edges of the domain that he'd steadfastly protected for so long, and Tempest returned once more to his home within the Spire. Calling down lightning to fully recharge the storage batteries within the Spire, Tempest look back toward the transport that had carried the Little Dragon and his Elder into his domain for a last time. It was more than likely, considering those that he had seen accompanying the pair of them, that his Pioneer of the Stars had invited them to stay with him.

Tempest made a personal vow, to at least speak to the Elder Dragon, before he and his departed from his protectorate domain once more.