It didn't take too long for the students to exit the changing room after they were done changing into their hero costumes. Some of the students, like Uraraka, had made some alterations to their hero costumes, and the others were busy gushing over the changes as they walked out of the changing rooms.

"I am... making cotton candy!" Yagi yelled, holding up a pot as he stirred around some sugar inside of it.

"Huh? All Might-sensei?" Uraraka raised her eyebrow, and Iida looked around, "Where's Aizawa-sensei?"

"Hey... how are you guys just going to ignore my almighty gag like that? I was pretending to say "I am here"..." Yagi sighed, "Due to emergency reasons... Aizawa-sensei had to leave just a few moments ago. I'll be watching over you guys today!"

"Aw yeah!" Kaminari cheered, "Former Number One Hero for the win!"

"Alright then." Yagi nodded, grabbing a couple of wooden sticks and scooping up the thin, sweet strands of sugar, before he started handing them out, "So, today, you will be showing off your Super Moves. Whether it be a team move, or a personal move, just go wild. We have plenty of robots for you to use them on. And if your classmates have any ideas on how to alter or improve your moves, feel free to just say them as well. Right now, we're just striving for improving and polishing up your abilities!"

It had started off a bit slow, but once the 1-A students had started, they were on a roll. Aoyama fired off his Navel Saber, shaped like a sword, and Hagakure immediately used her diffraction abilities to change its direction and directed it right into a robot. Ashido had finally mastered her Acid Man Super move, turning up the viscosity of her acid to the very maximum, creating a gigantic glob of acid that completely destroyed a villain robot.

Sato and Ojiro were bashing through robots much more efficiently than before, while Shoji and Jiro were able to use their quirks much more efficiently in identifying where the villain bots were coming from and what kind of robots they had to deal with. Sero and Mineta had easily restrained several villain bots with tape and sticky orbs respectively, allowing Kaminari to easily short circuit them in a matter of seconds.

Somehow, Mizushima had gotten Iida to adopt a much more flexible and less rigid mindset, and he and Shinsou both destroyed a bunch of robots, with the lavender haired boy tangling them up and Iida kicking them apart with ease. Tokoyami and Koda were using their quirks much more efficiently, with proper and smooth communication expediting the process of the exchange of information.

Yaoyorozu was easily creating new items that would be most effective for combat, and Asui and Uraraka had improved their decision making skills, quickly deciding what to do and what course of action to take. Kirishima was bashing through villain robots with vigor, and the two powerhouses of 1-A, Todoroki and Bakugou, ended the entire session by completely destroying an entire hoard of villain robots with ease and efficiency.

Midoriya kept a close eye on everyone, hastily scribbling down on his notebook with his ridiculously neat, font-like handwriting, and Yagi leaned over his shoulder, taking a sneak peak at the boy's notes. Overall, Midoriya had written down the basics of his classmates' new skills, taking down additional notes where it might be improved or tweaked, but it seemed like the boy didn't have much to add in terms of improvements.

Yagi did hear about some of Midoriya's notes being passed around in the common room sometime after Christmas, and it wasn't a stretch to think that the improvements in the students were partly due to practical, hands on experience during the now-cancelled internship and training sessions, but also due to Midoriya's concise, and clear notes about their quirks.

"Yo! Bakugou! Did you finally conquer the winter?" Kirishima jokingly asked, and the hot-headed blonde just shot back, growling, "Wouldn't you, dumbass!? These are compression shots, you fucking idiot!"

"Todoroki finally became a quick hottie, huh?" Hagakure laughed, and Todoroki turned to her with a deadpan expression on his face, "No... I still can't hold a candle to Endeavor..."

Letting the other students chatter among themselves, Yagi turned back to Midoriya.

"Young Midoriya... do you have anything to add?" Yagi leaned down, softly asking, so as to not startle the green haired boy, but the greenette just looked up and shook his head. Yagi wasn't going to force the boy to do anything he didn't want to do, and Aizawa had also explicitly stated that if Midoriya didn't have anything to show off, he didn't have to participate.

Unlike his peers, Midoriya didn't have a quirk to show off. His choice in moves was very limited compared to his classmates, and Yagi knew that Midoriya knew as well as he did that there was a limit to what the boy was capable of. His ability to analyze and break down quirks, allies and enemies alike, combined with his adaptability and ability to easy come up with counterattacks, were his greatest strengths, and could be huge game changers, but he wouldn't be able to properly showcase it with classmates he was familiar with and robots that the students had fought countless of times.

"Alright then." Yagi nodded, before he turned to the students, "You all seem to have been educated well. I recorded it all and will pass it on to Aizawa! Keep going on and continue to work hard! And grow even more!"

His phone beeped, and Yagi waited until the students were dismissed and were heading back to the changing rooms before fishing his phone out of his pocket.

Much to his surprise, it wasn't Tsukauchi who messaged him, but it was some other person from the Hero Commission whose name he didn't really recognize. Though, to be honest, Nezu had already informed him that Tsukauchi was working with Gran Torino at the moment, and they were busy with something regarding Kurogiri.

But if it was the Hero Commission... he supposed that it had something to do with All for One. The text just told him that he had to visit Tartarus the very next day.

Yagi didn't want to talk to All for One. That man knew how to take facts and turn them from white to black, twisting every single word that came out of anyone's mouth to his own gain. He rambled on and on about things, and he never knew if he was actually being serious and was giving him somewhat useful information, or if he was spouting nonsense, just to waste his time, or to rile him up and piss him off.

He didn't really have a choice, though. He was the one with the most experience with All for One, and the only one that the villain was even remotely interested in talking to. He supposed he would just have to get there and see for himself just what All for One wanted this time.


Aizawa and Yamada stalked into the 1-A dorms, completely silent. The Erasure Hero plopped himself down in an armchair, while Yamada just flopped down onto the couch face-first.

Neither of them were in the mood to talk. Their best friend, who had died during their internships in their second year, was a Nomu. They did everything together, from studying, to breaking the rules in their second year and eating lunch on the school roof, where they had met Kayama, who was a year older than them.

They had even been planning on founding their own agency when they graduated. Heck, they had even found a kitten one day and had been taking care of it until it had eventually been adopted by Kayama. That bloody idiot had tried to feed the kitten Sushi, and had even decided to name it Sushi, much to Aizawa's disdain.

They were even called the "three stooges of Class A", though Aizawa really had no idea what on earth had transpired for them to acquire that title.

Then, Shirakumo was caught under a collapsing building, and died an all too early death. Gran Torino suspected that All for One had somehow managed to swap out the corpse before the cremation process, and turned him into a Nomu, and all the while, everyone in UA had assumed that he was dead.

After sitting in uncomfortable, suffocating silence for so long that they could hear a pin drop, Aizawa slowly raised his head, and asked, "What will you do?"

Yamada pressed his face further into the couch, grumbling, "We should probably eat something... maybe udon or-"

"Listen." Aizawa scowled, "They were always like that... even during our work studies... the Hero Commission clearly knows something."

"Probably..." Yamada muttered, and Aizawa sighed, "When we find out who manufactures the Nomus... what will you do?"

"I will head over there, and challenge them to a karaoke contest, and use that opportunity to blow their ears right off. I'm boiling with rage." Yamada pressed his cheek against the couch so that he could look up at Aizawa, but before he could say more, a loud shout rang out, "Sensei!"

Aizawa turned around, facing Amajiki and Togata, raising an eyebrow, "Yes?"

"Sorry to interrupt your break..." Amajiki muttered, "Eraser... it's Eri."

"What's wrong?" Aizawa immediately shot to his feet, and Togata tried to explain the situation, "We were playing with her after training... and, you know... her horn's grown rather large now? And suddenly it started sparking with energy, and she started crying and we don't know what to do. Hado is taking care of her right now, and we came to find you."

It didn't take too long for the two third years to lead Aizawa to the room where Eri was. Hado was sitting on the ground, gently wrapping her arms around Eri, with small tears rolling down the smaller, horned girl's cheeks as her horn crackled with energy.

"My... horn tingles..." Eri squeaked out, and Aizawa hastily activated his quirk on her, erasing Rewind temporarily, as he gently patted Eri's head, "It's alright. This is UA High School. We'll find a way to help you handle Rewind, alright?"

Eri slowly looked up, and nodded slowly, letting Hado gently wipe her tears away. After patting her head one more time, Aizawa stood up, and turned to the students, "If this happens again... call me immediately. I'll find some time later on to try and help Eri with training Rewind."

"Gotcha!" Togata nodded, "But are you okay, sensei? It seems like we were interrupting your talk with Mic-sensei..."

"I'm fine. Just tired. The usual." Aizawa sighed, before trudging out of the room. He couldn't put his burden on them. They didn't deserve to know about how terrible some criminals could really be.


Aizawa and Yamada made it a point to leave the common room before the students came back, just so that 1-A wouldn't have to see them brooding. They already had enough things to worry about; it wasn't fair for two fully grown adults to inadvertently push their burdens onto a bunch of teenagers.

After returning to Heights Alliance, most of the students went back to their rooms to shower and do their homework. Shinsou was still behind for a day's worth of lessons, and Ashido and Kaminari were seemingly struggling with the exact same topic.

Ectoplasm had told them that they were going to have a mathematics test on that topic in a week's time, so Midoriya offered to tutor them, since Yaoyorozu, who was usually the one helping them with mathematics, had to go for a mandatory doctor's appointment. Yaoyorozu always had these appointments once every two months, so there were times where she had disappeared in the middle of lessons, and she was very open about the circumstances of her appointments.

She had explained before that, due to her quirk, she eats a lot of fatty foods, and while her quirk does use up most of those resources to create objects, there was still the usual health risks associated with eating too much fatty food, like high cholesterol or gallstones, or even heart disease, so she regularly had checkups in order to get these problems treated and eliminated before it got too late.

It didn't take too long for Shinsou to understand the topic at hand and finish up his homework, but it took a bit more time with Kaminari and Ashido. With Iida's help, after he had finished his evening jog, they had managed to get Ashido and Kaminari to understand the bare basics of the topic, and Iida was currently nagging at them to take some notes, or they wouldn't be able to remember any of it by the time the test rolled around.

By that time, the evening news had already started, so several students were already in the common room, lounging on the couches and watching as the news person droned on and on about some villain attack or another.

Sato poked his head out of the kitchen, and yelled, "Hey, it's time for dinner!"

Shinsou turned his head, facing the kitchen, as several other students started excitedly chattering about dinner. Sato and Bakugou were great cooks, and neither of them minded cooking once every two or three days, provided that they didn't have to wash the plates and utensils, as well as clean up the kitchen and the dining table.

The other students really didn't mean doing the cleaning up, especially if it meant that they could eat delicious home-cooked meals, so they did have a chart of who does what, and when, and Shinsou knew that it was his turn to go set the table.

He moved to get up, but noticed that Midoriya wasn't budging. Sitting up slightly, Shinsou leaned forward, and while he was assuming that Midoriya was just lying on him and watching the news after tutoring his classmates, he realized that the smaller boy was fast asleep, using his chest as a pillow.

"Oi! Eyebags! Set the fucking table, asshole!" Bakugou stomped out of the kitchen, waving a spoon around angrily, and Shinsou just looked at his classmates, "Can uh... someone switch shifts with me for today?"

"You okay?" Kirishima asked, moving to stand up, "I can set the table."

"As you can see... I'm kind of stuck." Shinsou just sighed, resigning himself to his fate as a pillow. He didn't mind anyways; Midoriya was light, and Shinsou felt like he was sleeping under a weighted, electric blanket. Needless to say, he was very nice, warm, and comfortable.

"Aww, how cute." Ashido laughed, and squatted down, almost coming face to face with Midoriya, only for the greenette to remain fast asleep, completely dead to the world. He didn't even flinch when Ashido got so close to him, and the pinkette frowned slightly, before standing up, "Huh. I guess he's really tired."

"I guess." Shinsou commented. He knew that Midoriya was up to; the boy had never been able to sleep properly for as long as the students from the other schools were in UA, and after Yagi had asked for his help in research, the boy had spent several nights searching things up on the internet and only getting a couple hours of sleep, sometimes not sleeping at all, just to do what Yagi asked of him.

His insomnia had decided to kick back in, and Shinsou was just lying in bed, watching as Midoriya worked while trying to fall asleep, or even trying to help Midoriya with his research, and the only reason he could still keep up with lessons was due to several cups of coffee in the morning, most of them drank before Iida was down in the common room to berate him for killing his liver.

Shinsou was pretty sure that the Number One Hero didn't mean for Midoriya to stay up so late and only intended for Midoriya to spend the afternoons with him to do research, but he couldn't help but feel a little irritated with Yagi.

Kirishima ran off to the kitchen with a loud, "Bakubro! I'm going to set the table!"

They heard some muffled shouting from the kitchen, presumably from Bakugou, but even that ruckus wasn't enough to wake Midoriya up. Yaoyorozu sweat dropped and sheepishly laughed, "Well... let him sleep. Midoriya doesn't usually sleep much, we all know how much he needs it."

Midoriya ended up sleeping all the way through dinner, and only woke up at around nine, well after most of the students had finished dinner, cleared up the dining table, and had gone back to their rooms to rest. Sato had been nice enough to keep some food for them and reheated them, but Midoriya had nearly fallen asleep halfway through eating again, only to be startled awake by a loud wailing shriek from Kaminari about dropping some music box and a "stupid teddy bear" jump scaring him and Bakugou's roaring laughter at him for being an idiot.

"You okay?" Shinsou asked, quietly picking his plate up, and moving to the kitchen to wash his dishes, only to notice that Midoriya was barely halfway done with his dinner.

"I'm fine... Not hungry..." Midoriya muttered, rubbing his eyes, as he poked his fork into a small potato wedge, but the taller boy could tell that Midoriya was exhausted, and maybe a little burned out.

"Just eat a little more, okay? Then you can go shower and sleep."

With a little more coaxing, Shinsou got him to eat another quarter of his meal, which wasn't a lot in the first place; Sato knew how little Midoriya ate, and had saved an appropriate amount of food for him. Shinsou had to send him back upstairs for a shower while he dealt with the dishes.

After he was done washing and drying the dishes, Shinsou headed up back to his own room to take a shower, before he decided to finish up the last of his English essay before going to sleep. He was nearly done when Midoriya entered his room, his hair completely dry after most likely rubbing the hell out of it with his towel. He had also brushed his teeth, since Shinsou could smell the mint on his breath as he leaned over the taller boy's shoulder to see what he was doing.

It wasn't long until Shinsou was done, but by the time he was done putting his homework back in his bag and brushing his teeth, Midoriya had fallen asleep once again by the kotatsu in a very awkward position. Shirou was snuggled up next to the boy, as were Reiko and Ryuto, but the lavender haired boy was somehow able to get Midoriya onto the bed without waking him or the animals up.

Shinsou flicked the lights off before going to bed, feeling Midoriya shifting slightly to snuggle up with him, and he could feel his eyelids shutting almost immediately, allowing him to drift off into a dark, dreamless sleep.