Monday
"Wow, the dorms are really taking shape, huh?" Hiroshi said, as they looked at the construction through their classroom's windows. True to form, Cementoss was among the construction workers, helping with shaping the cement and bricks to use for the dorms.
"Yep!" Ochako said, grinning wide. She waved to a brown haired man, who waved vigorously back at her.
"It's great that Principal Nezu decided to hire your dad's company to help out with the dorms!" Izuku said, as her dad went back to work.
"It is!" Ochako said. "This is the biggest paying project he's gotten in years! And if he does a great job, he and his company's gonna be making the rest of the dorms!"
"Hopefully the payout's big," Kyoka said.
"Yep! My parents are gonna be living a comfortably for a while! After, you know, they put part of it into their savings," Ochako said.
"Settle down, everyone," Aizawa said, with everyone in their seats already. "We're having a special full-day hero class today. Follow me to the big classroom."
"Wow, must be really special if we're going to spend the entire day for a hero class," Hiroshi said, as they got up and picked up their bags. As they walked out, they met up with 1B and intermingled.
"You'll all be participating in a special exercise with a class from a different school. This class had been in planning for a while, even before all of the unexpected events in the past few days," Aizawa explained. "It was hard coordinating with the other school, so we couldn't move it to a different day."
"Another school?" Sen said. "Which one?"
"Class 1A from Isamu Academy High School," Aizawa answered. Hiroshi, Fuka, and Setsuna looked at each other with surprise.
"Isamu? You don't think-" Hiroshi said, opening the door, only to be greeted by the sight of an unfamiliar class of students with one familiar face.
"Hey you guys!" Tsubasa said. The petite short white-haired girl was waving at the three. "Got you all by surprise, didn't I?"
"Tsubasa!" the trio said, grinning at the sight of their friend.
"You know her?" Denki said, awestruck by the cute petite winged girl in front of him.
"She's our friend from middle school!" Setsuna said, detaching her right hand to give her an excited fist bump. "Well, actually more like childhood friend, we've been friends for years."
"So why didn't she come to UA?" Yosetsu asked bluntly.
"I... didn't think I'd make it in," Tsubasa admitted, looking to the side. Hiroshi, Fuka, and Setsuna all smacked Yosetsu on the back of his head.
"Be a little more sensitive, Awase!" Fuka scolded.
"Nah, it's alright! I'm just excited that you get to meet my new friends, too!" Tsubasa beamed. A girl with round orange hair bounced up and down like a ball, as she ran to Hiroshi.
"You must be Hiroshi Furinji!" she said, sparkles in her eyes as she looked him up and down before setting them onto his Hero Hand. "Tensou talked soooooo much about you! I can't believe I actually get to meet a real life alien! I'm Makino Tamayama!"
"Well technically it's Hero who's the alien, but yea," Hiroshi laughed.
"Still, you're one rockin' dude!" a boy with a blond musical note-like cowlick said, headbanging. "I'm Fuon Ongaku!"
"If we're introducing ourselves, I'm Sun'ichi Kamio," a lean white haired boy with bangs over his right eye said.
"I am known as Seiji Hoshimiya," a boy with purple hair with five small white specks on his bangs said, bowing.
"Machiko Toyoda," a tall, muscular, curvy girl with royal blue hair said. Her eyes were narrowed at Minoru, Kosei, and Denki, who were staring at her. "Are those three okay?"
"Don't mind them," Fuka said. "They're dumb around attractive girls."
"I see," Machiko chuckled.
"What are you all doing?" a slouched boy with bluish gray hair and a toothy sneer hissed. "They're the enemy-"
"Pipe down, Fujimi," Machiko said, smacking the boy on the head with a punch.
"I guess they got a Monoma too," Itsuka whispered to Yui, who chuckled a bit. Neito narrowed his eyes at the boy.
A girl with a snake head peeked around a mountain of a teen with a flattop haircut, and stared at Tsuyu. The two entered a stare off.
"Mm!" Tsuyu said, her froggy smile more excited than ever before.
"Mm!" the snake headed girl said, sharing the excitement.
"Is something the matter, Tsuyu?" Ochako asked.
"Nothing's wrong. Just that it seems like those three aren't the only ones who got a surprise visit," Tsuyu said, looking at her. "She's also my friend from middle school."
"I'm Habuko Mongoose!" the snake headed girl said. "It's true, Tsuyu and I are best friends too!"
"Wow, a mini reunion, that's fun," a slender girl with long seafoam green hair said. "I'm Kaira Narumi."
"I'm Takeo Yamashiro!" the mountain of a teen said, pointing to himself. "Gotta say, that Muscle Hercules form of yours... that's got to be the epitome of manliness in aliens!"
"Actually there are far more muscular Ultras than me, like Titas," Hero said in Hiroshi's head.
"Natsui Harukawa," a boy with green hair and red eyes said. His limbs were wooden, which reminded Izuku of Kamui Woods, making him wonder if his Quirk was like the pro hero's.
"Saaya Hamasaki!" a petite girl with a brown pixie cut said.
"Reika Kumorizora," a girl with white cloud-like hair said, smiling (Aizawa looked at her, feeling something tug at his heart because she reminded him of someone).
"Gumi Marukawa!" a girl with pink hair and slightly pink skin said, stretching her arm out to shake hands with the UA students. Setsuna responded with her own detached hand to shake her stretched out hand.
"Umatarou Yasuda," a horse-headed boy said, his muscles second place to Takeo's. He looked at Fumikage. "I see I'm not the only animal-headed guy here..."
"Takekage Kuroda," a boy with long black hair with a single white streak on the back of his head said. He eyed Fumikage as well, and at Shihai as well. "I feel... I feel a kindred darkness..."
"Indeed..." Fumikage said, as he and Shihai nodded at him.
"Akio Hino is the name!" the third most muscular teen boy said. He was bald with a square nose and square eyes. "And before you ask, I shave my head!"
"No one was wondering, Hino," said a short girl with short hair with one long right bang and one long left bang, both shaped like arrows. She became upbeat after the deadpan comment. "I'm Tokimi Wadokei!"
"Kashiko Sekigai," a white-haired bespectacled girl said, giving a polite bow to the UA students.
"D-Dadan Tadan," a beady-eyed teen with large hands said.
"... Geh, Romero Fujimi," the slouching boy from earlier said, annoyed.
"Teh, annoying," Katsuki grumbled. Romero shot Katsuki a nasty look before Aizawa came in.
"If you all are done introducing yourselves, I'll go ahead and explain the exercise," Aizawa said, making the teens sit down for this. "This will be a basic team survival exercise. We'll split you into teams of four. For the UA students, they'll be split into teams of two 1A and two 1B students, with two student choosing whichever team they want. The Isamu students will only have teams comprised of their own classmates. You'll be using Training Field Omega, a forested mountainous area. You'll have the entire school day to do this exercise. You will all be given rolls of capture tape to wrap around anyone you capture. Any team left standing will be guaranteed a passing grade. The rest will be determined based on how long they were uncaptured."
"Hmph, so I'm not going to be included on this, right?" Katsuki grumbled.
"Actually, you are," Aizawa said, to Katsuki's surprise. "This is technically not a combat exercise, but a survival one instead. Emphasis on 'survival'. Fighting isn't the point."
Katsuki grinned. Good, a loophole! Sure, he'll have to make sure he doesn't go 'overboard', but he'll take this chance to beat that Furinji and Deku. He won't let them best him again.
Hiroshi sighed softly. Katsuki must be glad that there's a loophole for him to participate in this exercise. Hopefully he'll take Aizawa's advice to heart and not actually go overboard. He shook his head a bit; no more thinking like that for him. He had to let this go.
"Since the last big hero exercise you were the one working with Setsuna, it's my turn!" Fuka said, crossing her arms.
"Fair enough. I think I'll work with someone else this time around, since I think I wanna see how I do against you two," Hiroshi said, shrugging. "Hey Ashido, is it cool if I join-"
"YES!" Mina said, excitedly. "It's about time we worked together!"
"Hahaha, and I am here now with the boxes for lots!" All Might said, carrying four large boxes, giving Aizawa and Vlad King one each. The Isamu students whispered to themselves, excited to see the Number One Hero for themselves, Romero apparently the most excited. "Now come here and get into lines based on your classes, you sprouts! Isamu students, make two lines in your case!"
Soon enough, everyone had gathered into their teams.
Team A: Mina Ashido, Tsuyu Asui, Hiroshi Furinji, Yui Kodai, and Reiko Yanagi
Team B: Hanta Sero, Fumikage Tokoyami, Juzo Honenuki, and Shihai Kuroiro
Team C: Koji Koda, Yuga Aoyoma, Togaru Kamakiri, and Manga Fukidashi
Team D: Denki Kaminari, Minoru Mineta, Kosei Tsururaba, and Neito Monoma
Team E: Mezo Shoji, Eijiro Kirishima, Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu, and Jurota Shishida
Team F: Kyoka Jiro, Momo Yaoyoruzu, Itsuka Kendo, Setsuna Tokage, and Fuka Furinji
Team G: Tenya Iida, Toru Hagakure, Kinoko Komori, and Ibara Shiozaki
Team H: Mashirao Ojiro, Shoto Todoroki, Kojiro Bondo, and Nirengeki Shoda
Team I: Ochako Uraraka, Izuku Midoriya, Pony Tsunotori, and Sen Kaibara
Team J: Rikido Sato, Katsuki Bakugo, Hiryu Rin, and Yosetsu Awase
Team K: Kashiko Sekigai, Romero Fujimi, Dadan Tadan, and Habuko Mongoose
Team L: Tsubasa Tensou, Saaya Hamasaki, Takeo Yamashiro, and Takekage Kuroda
Team M: Akio Hino, Machiko Toyoda, Makino Tamayama, and Sun'Ichi Kamio
Team N: Gumi Marukawa, Reika Kumoriza, Fuon Ongaku, and Natsui Harukawa
Team O: Kaira Narumi, Tokimi Wadokei, Seiji Hoshimiya, and Umatarou Yasuda
"Nooooooooooo!" Minoru screamed, falling to his knees and slamming his fists onto the ground. "Not again!"
"Dammit, what were the odds of this happening again!?" Denki cried, tears falling from his face.
"Big man in the sky that Shiozaki prays to, please have mercy for me next time," Kosei whispered, his hands grasped in front of his face.
"Oh thank god I'm not on their team this time," Sen whispered, pinching his forehead. Neito, on the other hand, sighed, annoyed that it was his turn to be with them. At least from what he could tell, he could copy Denki's and Kosei's Quirks. Minoru was useless with his mutant-type Quirk.
"Yeeeeeea, it's my time to shine with Furinji!" Mina said, leaping into the air. "The A in Team A stands for alien!"
"I guess it does," Hiroshi said, laughing.
"Wait, is she an alien!?" Fuon asked.
"No, she's human," Fuka said. "She just says that she looks like a movie alien."
"I... guess she does," Tokimi said, crossing her arms.
"Now that you've all formed your teams, go to the locker rooms and change into your hero costumes," Aizawa said, as the classes got ready to head out. "Meet us at the buses outside when you're done so we can go to Training Field Omega."
"Hmph, it's time to show you the superiority of 1B!" Neito said, smugly.
"Monoma our classes are mixed again you know," Itsuka said, shaking her head while smirking at the over-the-top teen.
"Tch, seems like there's more punks in UA than I thought," Romero grumbled.
"Excuse me!?" Neito said, overhearing the slouching teen.
"Hm!? Why don't you say that to my face!?" Katsuki said. The three teens slammed their heads against each other, glaring at one other.
"Oh god we have three of them," Hanta said, looking at the scene.
"I swear this better not blow up in our faces," Fuka muttered.
"Knowing Bakugo, it'll be literal," Setsuna said, shaking her head.
At Training Field Omega...
"Now that we're here, we'll begin the exercise with letting each team in one a time, with five minutes between each one going in, to ensure that you're all not too close to each other. We'll set off a flare to signal the official start of the exercise once the last team enters and five minutes passes," All Might said, after every student had gotten out of their buses. Denki, Kosei, and Minoru were busy ogling at the Isamu girls, though Neito kicked them both to get them to focus. "Team A, go ahead and enter now."
"Alright guys, let's do this!" Hiroshi said, as they rushed into the field, running as fast they could to get as far as they can from the entrance. Soon enough, they found themselves an area covered with thick bushes and foliage. "This seems like a good place to hide."
"So what's the plan, mighty leader?" Mina said, looking at Hiroshi.
"Mighty leader?" Hiroshi asked.
"Well you are the one with the super strong alien," Tsuyu pointed out.
"I guess... for now, we'll just hide out here and wait it out," Hiroshi said. "The point of this exercise is survival, right? We just have to lay low and not draw any attention to ourselves."
"Wouldn't that be most difficult with your ability to shift into unearthly forms beyond our realm of reality?" Reiko asked.
"Not if I don't change at all," Hiroshi said. He paused for a second, before the visor lit up with green eyes. "But if we need to, I can take over for Hiroshi before resorting to our actual transformation."
The green eyes disappeared. "The biggest concern I have right now honestly are the Isamu students... we know each others' Quirks by now, but they're unknowns to us right now..."
"So we're really just going to sit here and wait it out?" Ochako said to Izuku, as they sat in a thicket of bushes and trees. Sen was tapping his fingers against the ground, deeply annoyed by this choice of strategy.
"Yea, the point of this is to survive to the end, right? We'll be able to do that if we don't draw attention to ourselves," Izuku said. "I'm sure that Hiroshi or Fuka have thought of the same thing."
"Makes sense to me!" Pony said, nodding.
"Gaaaaah, this is the worst!" Sen muttered. "This is going to be the most boring shit until the end!"
"You lost rock-paper-scissors fair and square, Kaibara," Ochako pointed out. "So we gotta go with Deku's plan."
"I can't believe I lost again..." Pony said sadly, remembering her embarrassing loss at sixth place for class representative.
"I swear, I hope someone finds us..." Sen said, crossing his arms.
"That's kind of missing the point..." Ochako said, sweating a bit.
Earlier, on the Isamu bus...
"So we're all sticking to our plan of taking out Ultraman Hero's host's team first, right?" Machiko said, crossing her arms. She wore a baby blue swimsuit-like leotard with thigh high boots and a headband-like mask.
"Yea, he's the biggest threat we've got right now," Takeo said. His costume was a purple wrestler's leotard and headgear. "I feel bad for it, but I wanna win!"
"Same, dude!" Fuon said. His costume was a black bodysuit with gold outlines, and a hole that exposed his chest's speakers. A black visor/headset rested on his face.
"I... I feel bad that we're doing this to Hiroshi," Tsubasa said, biting her lip. She wore a sleeveless white bodysuit with holes for her large white wings, and a halo-shaped belt and a halo-shaped hair tie. "But I wanna show him that I've gotten strong, too!"
"We shouldn't forget about the other UA teams, though," Saaya said. She was dressed with big poofy white pants, a purple tube top, a veil, and a domino mask, making her resemble a belly dancer. "They're gonna be real tough to take care of."
"Not like we don't know what they can do," Sun'Ichi said, as he spun his hat around his right index finger. He had styled his costume on those old newsies from New York, having gotten a taste for the aesthetic, with a messenger bag on his shoulder. "The Sports Festival was some solid intel."
"My powers are more than a match for those two fellow men of darkness," Takekage said. He was dressed in a black bodysuit with white gloves and shoes, several flashlights strapped to his arms and waists, and a black mask over the lower half of his face. "Those two won't stand a chance."
"I need to take down that explosive delinquent and that smug ass blondie!" Romero growled. He was dressed in a black double coat with large gray cuffs and black gloves, with plastic tubing running along his body. A purple translucent mask was over his mouth. "They're gonna pay for underestimating us!"
"Nuh uh uh uh!" Gumi said, stretching her arm to put her finger against his mouth, though it was blocked by his mask. She was dressed in a midriff-baring sports top and bike shorts, slip-on shoes, and a wristband on her right hand. "Your Quirk's gonna ruin everything if you let it go all willy nilly!"
"Yea Fujimi, please save yourself as a last resort," Umatarou said, grimacing. He was dressed like a horse jockey with missing sleeves to show off his massive biceps, and a blinker hood-like mask for his horse head. "It's gonna be a pain in the ass to deal with."
"I know, I know!" Romero grumbled. "Don't remind me!"
"Come on, guys, let's lighten up!" Makino said. She was dressed like a basketball player with a blue jersey and blue athletic shorts, though her jersey was form-fitting to show off her curves. "We have the edge! And we gotta have fun, too!"
"She's right," Natsui said, his face serious and focused. He was dressed in a sleeveless black bodysuit, exposing his wooden arms and legs, with a wooden belt and goggles. He looked very much like Kamui Woods in this way, though he had began to grow some small fruit on his arms and legs. "We need to have fun."
"Your face says otherwise, Harukawa," Kaira said, poking him in the face. She was dressed in a sports bikini with slippers and sunglasses on.
"Stop it!" he said, trying to push her hand away, though it passed through, as her body turned into water.
"I'll make sure to find Furinji first," Kashiko said. She wore a red visor that replaced her glasses. She wore a tight dark blue bodysuit with white shoes and big gauntlets. "He should be easy to track."
"Tsuyu's gotta watch out! I'm gonna show her how I've grown!" Habuko said. She was dressing in a blue bodysuit with scale-like spots, and yellow glasses over her eyes. "We'll beat you and Furinji!"
"UA might be the best, but we're not far behind!" Akio said, crossing his arms. He was dressed in a pair of swimming briefs, a vest, and slippers. "Aren't we, guys!?"
The Isamu students all yelled shouts of agreement, as the bus came to a stop.
Present
"Alright, that's five minutes," Aizawa said, checking his watch after Team O had entered the training field. He had been standing on top of a tower with a pair of binoculars in his hand. Vlad King nodded, picked up a flare gun, and fired it. All Might had jumped up into the air and landed near Aizawa, before releasing his muscle form and returning to his skinny form.
"So why did you and Vlad King insist on doing a survival exercise? It's not particularly exciting to do," he said to his two fellow teachers.
"It's to remind them all that heroes need patience and self control," Vlad King stated. "Heroes aren't always about action, remember?"
An explosive went off in the distance.
"Sounds like someone's forgotten that," Aizawa sighed.
"Maybe we should've been stricter on enforcing the punishment instead of letting him participate through a loophole..." Vlad King replied.
"I was hoping that this would teach Bakugo patience. Guess I was wrong," Aizawa grumbled, as he looked through his binoculars to see what was happening.
Katsuki sneered as he ran through the forest. He was worried that he would get rusty with that punishment in place. His visits with Hound Dog were... 'working', he supposed. He was getting used to talking to him about his... 'issues'. Still, nothing beat letting off some steam by using his Quirk.
"Found you!" Togaru shrieked, springing from the trees. "Now prepare to get sliced and diced-"
Katsuki fired off an Explosion into Togaru's face, sending the mantid teen flying backwards into a tree. From the side, Katsuki saw the glint of metal, and immediately flew into the air, letting Yuga's Navel Laser scorch the ground before flying towards the flamboyant teen, kneeing him in the stomach.
"Two down, where's-" Katsuki said to himself, when a "BANG!" onomatopoeia bubble flew towards him. Katsuki blasted himself to the side before launching himself towards the hidden Manga, slugging him in the face with a right hook before setting off an Explosion. He looked behind Manga, and saw Koji, who was shivering and stuck his hands out to let Katsuki wrap the capture tape around his wrists.
"That's one team down," Katsuki smiled to himself, as he wrapped the tape around the downed Team C. He sped off, leaving his teammates to clean up after him. He had to find Furinji after all. He'll get that fight one way or another.
"Sekigai, have you found Furinji yet?" Romero said, as Kashiko held her left arm up with a holographic screen floating over her gauntlet, while pressing some buttons on her visor's rim. Team K was standing on a cliffside, with Team O next to them.
"I found his teammates, but..." she replied, squinting as her Chart Quirk did its magic. "I... I can't find him at all."
"What do you mean?" Dadan asked. He was dressed in full mecha armor, with only the top of his head popping out of it.
"I mean like, he's not here. At all," she clarified. "I see his teammates looking at a space next to them and talking to it, so I'm assuming he's there, but... I just can't see him."
"What!? How's that possible!?" Romero said. "Your Quirk can see anyone!"
"Is... is he dead!?" Habuko said, her tongue flicking out.
"Maybe. Tensou did say that Furinji was resurrected by Ultraman Hero upon becoming his host," Kashiko thought aloud. "I guess my Quirk's registering him as dead as a result..."
"So he's a real zombie!?" Umatarou said, jaw dropped.
"Would Fujimi's Quirk even work on him, then?" Tokimi said. She was dressed in a steampunk-esque costume, with a big poofy dress that had a clock face pattern on it, with an umbrella with a clock pattern, goggles, and dozens of wristwatches.
"A true undead... truly a befitting opponent for us," Seiji said. He wore a sleeveless bodysuit with a hakama that ended at his knees. He wore a small wooden breastplate with short wooden shoulder armor and a samurai-esque helmet. A wooden sword hung off the back of his waist.
"There's no one who can resist my Quirk! I'll-"
"Don't. Use it," Umatarou said, stopping his classmate from finishing his sentence. "Again, you're our last resort, and we can't risk shooting it off too early."
Romero grumbled as he crossed his arms. As frustrating as it is, his classmates had a point. Still, he was confident that there isn't anyone immune to his Quirk's power. Not even an alien could possibly stop it. "Whatever, let's get started. Head to the spots that Sekigai marked and prepare to take those UA students down!"
"How's it looking up at the front and behind us, Setsuna?" Fuka asked, as Setsuna's right eye flew around ahead of them, and her left eye flew around behind them. Only the bottom half of her face and ears were on her neck, so that she could hear her teammates talking to her while she could hear what her eyes are seeing.
"So far, so good," Setsuna replied, as she was being guided by Itsuka. "We're in the clear."
"I wish we could find a place to lay low, but considering how many people are around, I doubt that everyone's going to stay still," Itsuka sighed.
"I know. Hiroshi and Midoriya might've come up with the same sort of plan. I wouldn't doubt it," Fuka mumbled. Kyoka had inserted her Earphone Jacks into a special sound sensor that Momo had made, using it to scan the area.
"Yea, I think we're in the clear-" Kyoka said, before pointing it to the left. "Shit, spoke too soon!"
All of a sudden, Machiko had flown at them like a rocket, her arms covered to the shoulder with lizard scales.
"Got you!" she yelled, grinning as she swung her fist down at Kyoka. Momo intercepted the attack, blocking her with a shield, though it immediately snapped in half from the impact. "Sorry, but my Knuckle Scales are stronger than steel!"
Fuka inhaled and released a strong gust of air from her mouth, knocking Machiko away, though Gumi caught her by stretching her torso and acting like a net. "Weather Girl, you're up!"
"Gotcha covered!"
Team F looked up to the sky, and saw Reika above them. She was wearing a dress that gave off the appearance that she was wearing clouds, especially with her poofy white skirt and poofy short sleeves. She had a wand in her hands, and clouds on her feet. She picked a cloud off her right foot, a new forming in its place, before throwing it down at the girls, knocking Kyoka backwards. Before she could recover, she saw Fuon nearby, who blasted a strong soundwave from his chest, hurting her sensitive ears.
"What!? They're not on your team!" Fuka said, remembering the team formations. "Are your teams working with each other!?"
"Duh! Kinda have to so we can take down your brother! But we'll gladly take any of you guys down first!" Machiko said, cracking her knuckles. "Besides, there aren't any rules about cooperating, right!?"
"Damn, she's right," Setsuna said, as her eyes and ears returned to her. "We should've looked for another team to work with!"
"Too late for that," Sun'Ichi said, walking out from the shade as he spun a ball around on his finger. "You girls are outta the game now."
"What do you mean?" Kyoka said as she got up, rubbing her temples from the headache she now had. Just then, Akio jumped out from behind Sun'Ichi, and a bright light radiated from his body, blinding the girls for a bit. They regained their sight just in time to see Sun'Ichi throwing the ball he was spinning towards them. Team F jumped out of the way as the ball collided with a tree.
"Nice try! This isn't dodgeball!" Itsuka said, when Makino came out of nowhere from behind them.
"Or is it!?" she said with a grin. She slapped Itsuka, Fuka, and Setsuna across their backs, their bodies beginning to bend in ways they didn't know they could. Before Momo and Kyoka could process what was happening, Sun'Ichi ran towards them, and touched their arms. The two felt their bodies becoming tighter and tighter, before they fell to the ground.
"I've found you, my dark kin," Takekage said, as he and his team faced off against Team B. Hanta and Juzo were facing off against Tsubasa and Saaya. "You have no idea what you're facing against."
"You challenge us, yet have no understanding of our true power," Fumikage said, as he and Shihai prepared themselves to fight.
"Takeo, I acquire your assistance! Lend me your muscles!" Takekage shouted.
"You got it!" Takeo said. His fists turned into stone, and he began to plow down tree after tree, letting more sunlight into the area.
"You think that removing the foliage of the forest will-" Shihai began to say, when he felt his arms being pinned to his sides. "What!?"
"Dark Shadow-" Fumikage shouted, when Dark Shadow wrapped itself around him, bounding him. "What are you doing!?"
"I don't know!" Dark Shadow cried.
"You have lost against my power," Takekage stated, as Takeo ran towards them, capture tape out and ready to wrap around the two bound teens. "My Shadow Bind has trapped you."
"Tokoyami! Kuroiro!" Juzo shouted. He softened the ground around them, making Takekage and Takeo fall into the soft ground while Fumikage and Shihai were left on a patch of solid land.
"I don't think so!" Saaya cried, as she began to swing and sway her hips around, moving like a belly dancer. The ground around them became sandy, and particles of sand began to fly around. Takekage and Takeo were lifted out of the sand, while Juzo attempted to soften the ground, but the sand only became muddy as it smacked against him. The sand dragged him down, weighing his arms down.
"Dammit!" Juzo grunted. The sand was constantly moving, not allowing him a second to actually soften it.
"I got you guys!" Hanta shouted, shooting out tape to save his teammates, when Tsubasa flew into the sky, and launched a powerful bolt of static electricity from her hands into Hanta. He convulsed for a second before collapsing onto the ground.
"Sorry! You seem like nice guys," Tsubasa apologized, as she and her teammates wrapped their capture tape around them. "But we wanna win! Especially me! I want to show Fuka, Setsuna, and Hiroshi how much I've improved!"
Katsuki grinned as he finished tying up the Team E members. He missed this. He missed the action!
"Dang it, Bakugo, you really should wait up for us!" Rikido scolded, as he, Yosetsu, and Hiryu caught up with him.
"If you want to stick around me, keep up!" Katsuki barked, as he propelled himself forward, looking for the next team to take down.
"Bakugo really likes making things harder than they should be, huh?" Yosetsu grumbled, as they resumed their running.
"Guy loves to be on the move," Rikido grumbled.
"Hey... Hey Mineta," Denki said, stuck laying down on the ground on his back. "Can... can you move?"
"N-nope," Minoru replied, his face on the ground and his butt in the air. Both boys had a strange countdown timer on their foreheads. "Just what did she do to us!?"
"Time Freeze!" Tokimi said, smiling, before becoming serious. "It lets me freeze people for a maximum of 2 minutes. But I can always just refresh the countdown by touching you again."
Neito was being drowned by Kaira, having transformed into water and putting his head into a bubble of water, with his hands pinned down onto a tree by horseshoes.
"Brlbrlble brlbublebrub!" he said as air escaped his closed mouth. He dared not to use his copy of Denki's Quirk or else he'll electrocute himself, and Kosei's Quirk was completely useless when he was being drowned like this. And that's not even getting to Minoru's useless mutant-type Quirk.
"You done yet?" Kaira asked dryly. Neito was forced to nod or else drown completely. She released him and turned back into her regular form, and Neito took the chance to breathe in the air he had been denied for two minutes.
"Man, you really need to work out some more," Umatarou said, tossing the unconscious Kosei next to Denki and Minoru. He had a nasty bump on his head from Umatarou's fist. Tokimi skipped to Kosei, and touched him, a countdown timer appearing on his forehead.
"Guys..." Kosei said, starting to regain consciousness. "I... I can't see! Oh god, did they blind me!?"
"Sorry, you got Time Frozen with your eyes closed," Tokimi explained. "If they were opened, you'd be able to move them around and see, but since they're closed, you're aren't gonna be seeing anything for a while."
"Aw man!" Kosei yelled, lamenting that he was temporarily unable to the cute girls of UA and Isamu.
"I wonder how the others are doing," Kaira said, as Seiji grumbled.
"I did not have the chance to show my swordsmanship against any of them..." he sighed, crossing his arms.
"We can show off when we get that Furinji guy!" Umatarou assured him.
"I wonder how the others are doing," Mina said, her knees to her chest. "It's been like, hours now. I'm getting bored..."
"I know what you mean," Hiroshi said, resting on the ground. "I'm glad that our plan's been working out so far, but right now I could use some excite-"
Hiroshi stopped short when he saw rockets flying in the air, and coming towards them. "Everybody MOVE!"
He sprung up from his position, pushing Reiko and Yui away from where they were sitting, while Tsuyu grabbed Mina around her waist with her tongue. The rockets crashed into the thicket they were hiding in, causing a large explosion that pushed them all away. "You two alright?"
"Y-yes..." Yui said, her face slightly red.
"I am unperturbed as well," Reiko replied.
"Good, we-"
"There you are, Ultraman Hero!"
Hiroshi looked up, and saw the Team K members walking towards them. "We'll be capturing you!" Romero shouted. "Mongoose, NOW!"
Habuko sprung forward and her eyes flashed. Reiko and Yui both slumped over, paralyzed. Hiroshi, on the other hand-
"AW HOLY SHIT!" he shouted, clutching his head in pain. "Geez! What's your Quirk, Instant Migraines!?"
"What the-!? Why aren't you paralyzed!?" Habuko said.
"Paralyzed?" Hiroshi said, when he noticed Yui and Reiko on the ground, unmoving.
"I'm... I'm stuck," Yui said, embarrassed about how she slumped over with her butt in the air.
"I as well," Reiko replied, struggling to push herself up.
"So do Quirks just not work on you the same way as us?" Kashiko asked, checking her Chart again. "You're right in front of me, and yet my Chart Quirk isn't registering you..."
"Maybe?" Hiroshi said, recalling the time that Tomura tried to disintegrate him, only for it to just hurt a shitload. But that was when he had transformed into Hero. He didn't realize that it extended to him as well. "Either way, I guess I have an advantage now!"
"That's what you think! Mongoose, again!" Romero commanded, noticing that Yui and Reiko were beginning to move.
"Right!" she said. Her eyes flashed at them, and Yui and Reiko fell back onto the ground.
"OW HEY QUIT IT!" Hiroshi screamed, clutching his head.
"Hiroshi!" Mina shouted, as she and Tsuyu began to ran towards him.
"You guys, stay back!" Hiroshi shouted. He pulled a canister from his jacket, and threw it onto the ground. It exploded into a big cloud of dust, obscuring the surroundings.
"Damn! Figures that he'd have something like that!" Romero shouted.
"Don't worry, I got his teammates on my Chart!" Kashiko assured him, seeing them run away. "We'll be able to-"
"Hey you guys!"
They turned to their left, and saw Hiroshi, waving his arms around.
"Try and catch me!" he shouted, running away from them.
"Gah! Don't let him escape!" Romero said. "We can find his teammates later! We can't risk him being around, especially since Sekigai's Quirk doesn't work on him!"
Team K ran after Hiroshi, allowing the rest of Team A to escape without issue.
"I guess you were right about them being focused more on you than the entire team," Hero said, as Hiroshi ran through the forest.
"Yea, but who knew that Quirks wouldn't work on me the same way now? Guess that's a perk of being an alien host."
"I wasn't aware of it, either. I just thought it was Shigaraki's that didn't work on us the same way."
"Well, either way we'll need to lead them to an open area. It'll be tough to fight them with all these trees in the way. And we can't afford to waste time trying knocking them down."
"Indeed..." Hero muttered, as they managed to come across a clearing. "This should be good enough."
"Alright, let's do this!" Hiroshi said.
"Hold your hand and call out-"
All of a sudden, Hiroshi was hit in the head with a ball, following by one to his back and one against his shoulder blade.
"Ow! What the heck? Balls?" Hiroshi said, picking a blue ball up.
"Whoa whoa whoa, be gentle!"
"What the-!? Setsuna!?" Hiroshi said, looking around where she was. "Where are you?"
"In your hand, idiot!"
Hiroshi flipped the ball over, and found Setsuna's face square in the center. "Hey Hiroshi."
"AH! Setsuna! What happened!?" Hiroshi said, startled by his best friend's spherical shape. The more he looked at her, he realized that the 'lines' of the ball were just the thin spaces between her body parts.
"It's not just Setsuna..."
Hiroshi looked down, and saw that the green and teal balls next to his feet were Fuka and Itsuka.
"Fuka!? Kendo!?"
"Yea, they... they got us," Itsuka said, shifting her eyes as much as she could away from Hiroshi.
"I guess you could say that they... dropped the ball!"
Hiroshi looked in the direction where his friend-turned-balls came from, and saw the Team M members walking out of the forest.
"... Dropped the ball!" Makino repeated. Hiroshi stared at her. "Drrrrrrropped the-"
"I heard you the first time," Hiroshi said. "I just wanna know what you guys did to them! And where are Jiro and Yaoyoruzu!?"
"It's my Quirk! Ball Roll!" Makino said, smiling as she poked both of her cheeks. She turned into a ball, and bounced up and down on her own accord before turning back to normal. "I can turn myself and anyone I touch into balls! That's why they call me Ball Belle!"
"Not gonna lie, this would've been fun, if the circumstances were different," Setsuna admitted.
"Agreed," Fuka replied.
"Alright, that makes sense..." Hiroshi said. "But where are Jiro and Yaoyoruzu!"
"Right here," Sun'Ichi said, pulling out two rolled up scrolls from his bag that were tied with capture tape. Hiroshi noticed that they were wiggling, as if they were trying to unroll themselves. Sun'Ichi pulled the capture tape off, and unrolled the scrolls, revealing poster versions of Kyoka and Momo.
"Oh my god, is your class full of transformation-type Quirks!?" Hiroshi asked.
"Yep! Call me Paperboy," Sun'Ichi said, tipping his hat while Makino took the two flattened girls and paraded them like flags. "My Paper People Quirk lets me compress people and objects into paper-thin versions of themselves. Can't work on me like my girl Makino, though."
"Aw, Sun'Ichi you rapscallion!" Makino said, blushing at her boyfriend while punching his arm lightly. "Don't worry, we can undo their transformations anytime we need to. Just not right now 'cuz we need to win!"
"And it's not just these two," Sun'Ichi added, pulling out three more wiggling scrolls. He unrolled them, revealing Kinoko, Ibara, and what Hiroshi thinks is Toru, considering that only her flattened gloves and shoes were visible. "That speedy guy was too fast, though."
"I always wanted to be on a poster, but not like this!" Kinoko whined, as Sun'Ichi waved her around.
"This is certainly the strangest experience I've ever had..." Ibara muttered.
"If I could be seen, I think I'd have made for a cute poster," Toru said, unfazed by being turned into a poster.
"Sorry, Hiroshi," Momo apologized, crying tears of embarrassment. "They... they totally got us by surprise."
"This is the worst," Kyoka said, struggling to move her paper body of her own violation. "At least Kaminari isn't here-"
"So this is where we're meeting for the showdown, huh?" Umatarou said, as Team O joined them. He tossed the frozen Neito and Kosei onto the ground, with Kaira dropping Denki on top of them and Seiji dropping Minoru next to them.
"Ow! Be gentle will you!?" Denki asked. "I can still feel pain, you know!"
"Oh no..." Kyoka said, seeing Denki's face. Denki's eyes rolled up to see the flattened punk girl and vice class representative.
"Jiro!? Yaoyoruzu!?" Denki said, before a shit-eating grin spread across his face.
"Don't say it-"
"Looks like-"
"DON'T!"
"- You've found a new definition of flat-chested!"
"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU WHEN I'M 3D AGAIN!"
"What the-!? You guys are paralyzed too!?" Hiroshi said, looking at the four boys.
"Nuh uh, 'Time Frozen'," Tokimi clarified. "Paralysis and Time Freeze aren't the same."
"I see that our allies have gathered around," Takekage said, as he and Takeo dragged Juzo, Hanta, Fumikage, and Shihai by Hanta's own tape.
"Wait... are all of you-"
"Working together? Yep!" Machiko said, cracking her knuckles. Soon enough, the rest of the Isamu teams had gathered in the clearing.
"But why? This isn't a class-" Hiroshi said.
"No rules against working together with other teams, right?" Romero sneered.
"... Damn, that's right," Hiroshi said, slapping himself in the head with the hand that wasn't holding Setsuna. "We could've done that!"
"Sorry, Hiroshi!" Tsubasa apologized, clapping her hands together. "But everyone pretty much agreed that we needed to take you out as soon as we could!"
"Yea, it's just that we found the other teams sooner than we thought!" Reika said, as the Isamu teams surrounded him.
"So I guess you got everyone else then..."
"No, Teams C, E, H, I, and J are all unaccounted for now, as well as your teammates who left you behind," Kashiko said, though her Chart Quirk was active. "Not like we don't know where they are, anyways. My Chart can track everyone. Well, excluding you."
"Well, I guess I'll have to try and take you all out before you can beat me!" Hiroshi said, gently setting Setsuna down. "Because I'm not about to go down gently!"
"Hold your hand and call out-"
An Explosion went off nearby. Everyone turned to look, and saw Katsuki flying in the air before propelling himself towards Hiroshi. "THERE YOU ARE FURINJI!"
"Bakugo!?" Hiroshi said. Before he could dodge, he kicked Setsuna, Fuka, and Itsuka away before jumping out of Katsuki's way.
"Ow! Hey, I said be gentle!" Setsuna said, as the three girls bounced away.
"You thought you could escape from me forever!?" Katsuki sneered, as sparks went off in his palm.
"Not really, no, I'm kinda busy right now-"
"- Busy with fighting me!" Katsuki yelled, swinging a right hook at Hiroshi who moved backwards. "I ain't letting you escape from this fight! Out of everyone here, you and Deku are the ones I need to beat!"
"Bakugo, come on! Can't you see that the Isamu students are teaming up-"
"I don't care! I'll handle those second raters after I'm done with you!" Katsuki said, as Hiroshi went on the defensive.
"What!?" Romero said, gritting his teeth. "You... You fucking delinquent! I can't believe someone like you is in All Might's alma mater! You're tarnishing the name of UA!"
"HUH!?" Katsuki said, turning his attention to Romero. "WHO'RE YOU CALLING A FUCKING DELINQUENT, SLOUCHY!?"
"SLOUCHY!? MY POSTURE IS PERFECT!"
"Bakugo!" Rikido shouted, as he and the rest of Team J caught up with him. "You need to slow- Whoa what's going on!?"
"Sato! Awase! Rin! Get outta here! The Isamu guys are working together!" Hiroshi yelled at them. Katsuki leaped away from his attempted brawl with Hiroshi, towards Romero.
"I don't mind taking one of you out before Furinji!" he shouted, rearing his hand back for a powerful Explosion.
"It's you that's going to be taken out!" Romero said, pointing his hand at Katsuki.
"Fujimi, you idiot, no-!" Machiko shouted, as the Isamu students forewent surrounding Hiroshi and went to stop their classmate.
"What's going on-" Hiroshi said, when Romero released a pink gas from his cuff. Combined with Katsuki's Explosion, the gas went everywhere.
"Fujimi you GIANT JACKAAAAAAASS!" Umatarou screamed.
"Ack! Hold your breath in, guys!" Rikido said, but the gas had entered their lungs already.
"Hahahaha! What do you think of my Quirk!?" Romero shouted, watching the pink gas spread throughout the forest. "None of you UA students stand a chance against-"
"AHFROO!"
"Huh?"
"AHFROO!" Hiroshi sneezed. "AHFROO! AHFROO! Gah, what is this pink gas!? AHFROO! Ugh, it's giving me hay fever! AHFROO!"
"B-But how!? How are you immune to this!?" Romero said, his jaw agape. "No one's immune to my Zombie Virus!"
"AHFROO! Zombie Virus!?" Hiroshi said, looking around. True to the name, everyone around him had turned into a sickly pale white, their jaws slack and open, their eyes lifeless as they staggered across the field. The students that had been transformed had returned to normal, but were also now zombies as well. "Holy shit! AHFROO! Why did you use it here!? AHFROO! Your classmates were all around you! AHFROO! They were right, you are an idiot! AHFROO!"
"N-no matter! All that's needed is for you to get bitten-" Romero said, trying to regain composure when his zombified classmates began encroaching upon him. "Um, uh, wait, guys, go to him! Bite him! Not me! Please?"
His zombified classmates began biting him.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAH CURSE MY HUBRIS!" Romero cried. Hiroshi watched as Romero succumbed to his own Zombie Virus Quirk.
"Oh fuck," Hiroshi muttered.
"What's wrong? We can cure them-"
"Without the Quirk user, we can't! Quirks usually stop working only when the user wants them to!" Hiroshi stated. "AHFROO!"
"What!?"
"We gotta find the others! We gotta warn them!" Hiroshi said, letting Hero take over. "I swear to god, when we find a cure for them, I'm kicking that Fujimi's ass!"
"Mr. Midoriya, Miss Uraraka, everyone... be safe!" he said, as he sprinted away from all of the zombified students, as they gave chase to him.
"Well, this isn't good," Aizawa said, as he watched the pink gas go spreading throughout the forest. "The papers I was given on the Isamu students talked about this particular Quirk."
"What's the matter?" All Might asked.
"Romero Fujimi. His Quirk's Zombie Virus, and it lets him turn people into 'zombies' for a set amount of time."
"Should we end the exercise now, then?" Vlad King asked.
"No," All Might said, turning into his muscle form for a bit. "Think of this as an advanced version of the survival exercise! It won't be too bad, right-"
"Oh, looks like Fujimi's been turned into a zombie," Aizawa said dryly, looking through his binoculars.
"What!?"
"This is bad! Without him, we can't reverse his Quirk's effects!"
"Don't worry, I just said-"
"I'LL BE THERE YOU SPROUTS!" All Might shouted, as he leaped into the air.
"You idiots..." Aizawa said, pinching his forehead. "I just said for a set amount of time, remember? They'll be back to normal soon enough..."
"What's this pink gas!?" Mina said, as she, Reiko, Yui, and Tsuyu ran and ran. "Is it a Quirk from one of those Isamu students!?"
"I don't know, but we should get to a safe place," Tsuyu said, when they ran into Team I.
"Ack! Team A!" Ochako said, before she realized that they were one down. "Wait, where's-"
"No time to explain! Let's get to somewhere high!" Mina said. The Team I members looked at them with raised eyebrows, before seeing a cloud of pink gas behind them.
"What's that!?" Izuku asked.
"We don't know, but it must be bad news," Tsuyu said calmly. Team I nodded, and the two teams ran and ran, until they found a rock wall that they could climb up onto. Upon reaching the top, they found Team H and Tenya running towards them.
"You guys! What's going on?" Mashirao said. "We saw that explosion of pink gas!"
"I don't know! We were running away from one of the Isamu teams, and Hiroshi acted as a decoy," Mina said, breathing heavily from having ran so much.
"They were focused on capturing our most valued member, no doubt due to the threat he posed to them," Reiko said.
"I had gone uncaptured thanks to my speed, but one of them managed to turn my teammates into posters of themselves!" Tenya explained.
"We've been laying low so that we'd make it through," Shoto stated.
"Oh you guys thought of the same thing, huh..." Sen grumbled.
"Do you think Hiroshi's alright-" Ochako said, when Hiroshi landed from a big jump near them. The green eyes on his visors dimmed, and he turned to his classmates.
"You guys! You're all alright! AHFROO!" Hiroshi said, sighing a breath of relief before sneezing again. "This is bad, that Fujimi guy's Quirk- AHFROO!- it's called Zombie Virus- AHFROO! And it turns people who breathe in that gas into-"
"Zombies!?" Pony said, paling at the words.
"Yea- AHFROO! And he got bit, too! He's not immune to his own Quirk's zombification!"
"This is bad, without the user, we can't reverse it!" Izuku said, biting his thumbnail.
"Wait, how did you know this?" Sen said cautiously. The others caught what he said, and began backing up.
"For some reason, their Quirks weren't working on me- AHFROO!" Hiroshi said, looking at his hands. "Mongoose's gave me a massive migraine instead of paralyzing me- AHFROO! And Fujimi's is giving me- AHFROO! A bad case of hay fever."
"How can we be sure!?" Mina said. "For all we know, you're just a sleeper agent!"
"Come on, guys- AHFROO! If I was a sleeper agent- AHFROO! I think I would've bitten you by now-" Hiroshi said, when Setsuna, Fuka, and Tsubasa all bit him on the shoulders and arms.
"HIROSHI!" everyone shouted.
"OW! FUCK! AHFROO!" Hiroshi yelled. On instinct, he punched his zombified friends and sister across the face.
"Ow!" Setsuna said, rubbing her cheek.
"Why'd you punch me like that?" Tsubasa said, tearing up.
"Yea, Hiroshi, what the hell!?" Fuka grumbled.
"You guys! AHFROO! You're alright!" Hiroshi said, grabbing the three in a hug. "AHFROO! But how!? Fujimi's a zombie, he couldn't have-"
"Fujimi!?" Tsubasa said. She turned to look at the ground below them, and saw the zombified students clambering about. Hiroshi looked, and noticed that Teams C and E, who were missing earlier, were now zombies as well. "That doofus! We told him not to use his Quirk unless for a last resort!"
"Wait, how did you guys turn back to normal!? We just saw you bite Hiroshi!" Sen said, pointing at the three girls.
"We did?" Setsuna said, scratching her head. "I guess that explains why you punched us like that..."
"AHFROO! Maybe when they bit me- AHFROO! Whatever's making me immune to the Zombie Virus- AHFROO! Spread to them too," Hiroshi sniffled.
"Hm... This must make you the cure, Hiroshi!" Izuku said. "Your alien nature must be dispelling his Quirk's effects! If we get everyone to bite you-"
"I'm not about to let everyone bite me, Midoriya," Hiroshi said. "AHFROO!"
"Alright... What if you bite everyone instead-"
"Not interested in that, either. AHFROO!"
"We're running out of options here, Hiroshi-" Mashirao said, pointing to the crowd of zombified students climbing the wall.
"Eugh, I think we need to run-"
"HAVE NO FEAR!"
Izuku smiled, the familiar voice bringing him comfort. A cloud of dust kicked up from the impact of the landing. "FOR I AM HEARGH!"
All of the UA students paled at seeing All Might having released his muscle form amidst the dust. "Did I stay in muscle form for too long!?"
"AAAAH! A STRANGER'S BEEN ZOMBIFIED!" Tsubasa shouted, as she ran off.
"Tsubasa, wait!" Fuka said, when she remembered that only the UA Hero Course students were the ones in the know. "Sorry All Might, but we gotta catch up with her! Stay safe!"
The teens ran off, following the winged girl. "Wait, I can still-"
All Might stopped when he felt the presence of people behind him. He turned, and his heart dropped when he saw his zombified students approaching him.
"Oh no! Don't come any closer, you sprouts, I- Huh?" All Might said, when the students all walked past him. Rikido patted All Might's shoulder before resuming his walk.
"Oh god, they think I'm one of them!" All Might thought. "I mean, I'm glad that I'm not being bitten, but the others-!"
"We should be safe for now," Shoto said, erecting an ice wall to block the entrance to the cavern they found themselves in. Everyone collapsed, having been exhausted by the running.
"Agh, I think my hay fever's gone," Hiroshi sniffled. "That was a pain..."
"Poor Habuko..." Tsuyu said, worried about her friend.
"Poor everyone," Mina said. "We're the only ones left!"
"It's just like all the zombie movies I've watched!" Izuku said, pacing around.
"Wait, you watch zombie movies?" Setsuna asked. "Did not peg you as someone who'd be a fan of that genre..."
"So how'd those movies end, Deku?" Ochako asked, hoping to lighten the mood.
"Well, usually by the end there's only one survivor..." Izuku said, trailing off as they all looked to Hiroshi.
"Oh sure, get upset with me, why don't you?" Hiroshi deadpanned. "How was I suppose to know that I'm immune to a zombification Quirk? Or that Quirks just don't work on me the way they should?"
"What do you mean?" Tsubasa asked.
"Well, your classmate- Sekigai, I think?- She said that she couldn't see me with her Chart Quirk," Hiroshi explained, crossing his arms. "And before at the USJ, that Shigaraki guy's disintegration Quirk just hurt a lot. No disintegration whatsoever."
"What!? But her Quirk can see and track everyone!" Tsubasa said, eyes wide. "She'd even know if you're alive or dead with it!"
"I mean, I guess I technically did die," Hiroshi said, remembering how he was killed by Tyrannion's Lighterror Beam, only to be resurrected immediately by Hero. "Maybe that's what's making hers go wonky on me."
Suddenly, there was a pounding on the ice wall. They turned and saw the silhouettes of the zombified students punching the wall, with Eijiro's and Tetsutetsu's fists breaking through. Shoto immediately covered the ice wall with a new layer, though that didn't deter them from pounding at the wall.
"Damn! We're pinned down!" Sen said, looking at the ice wall and to the back of the cave. "And I can't drill a way out fast enough!"
"So this is why it all ends, is it?" Tenya said, closing his eyes. "I'm sorry, Tensei..."
"I never imagined I'd go out zombie style!" Pony shouted, covering her eyes.
"Is there anything you can tell us about Fujimi's Quirk!?" Fuka asked, looking at her winged friend. "There's gotta be something we can exploit!"
"I-I-I need time to think!" Tsubasa said, gritting her teeth and clutching her head. "Come on, Tsubasa! Think think think!"
"Midoriya!" Hiroshi said, getting his attention. "I think I have an idea."
"Me too," Izuku said. He let One for All flow through his body, green electricity sparking around him. He crouched down low, ready to run. "Todoroki! Melt the ice with your fire! If we can't go back, we can only move forward!"
"Hold your hand and call out-"
"HEROOOOO!"
Hero appeared in his Flash Hermes form, and prepared himself the same way. "Mr. Midoriya and I will make a path for you all! Take that chance and run as fast as you can! We'll distract them all!"
"Alright, I get it," Shoto said. Fire coated his left arm, and he pointed it at the ice wall, blasting it. "Get ready you two!"
"Stand back everyone!" Hero commanded, as everyone obeyed him. "We're going to break through!"
"... Wait, I remember now!" Tsubasa said, looking up from the ground. "Fujimi's Quirk is-"
"DETROIT SMAAAAAAAAAASH!" Izuku yelled, springing forward and slamming his fist against the ice wall.
"HERMES HURRICANE!" Hero shouted, springing forward and spinning around, wind gathering around him as he drilled through the ice.
"Ugh, my head," Hanta said, rubbing his head. Everyone was doing the same, and were looking around. "What happened?"
Meanwhile, Makino was busy punching Minoru, who was on her backside while sticking to her with one of his balls.
"Get off me! I got a boyfriend already!" she shouted.
"Get of my girl, you deviant!" Sun'Ichi cried, joining her in punching the small teen.
"I swear, I don't know what's happening!" Minoru said earnestly as he let go.
"Last thing I remember, Bakugo and that guy used their Quirks on each other," Denki said, pointing to Romero and Katsuki.
Machiko and Umatarou punched the top of Romero's head.
"You idiot! We told you not to use your Quirk unless absolutely necessary!" Machiko scolded.
"Look what you did, dumbass!" Umatarou added. "We went absolutely nuts and we have no idea what's happening anymore!"
"But he started it!" Romero said, pointing to Katsuki.
"Yea, and I'll finish it-" Katsuki said, when Denki and Kyoka smacked him on the head.
"You idiot! Stop antagonizing him! Look what happened!" Denki said.
"Well, what did happen?" Kyoka asked. "Last thing I remember was that I was a poster..."
"Yea, it's this moron's Quirk, Zombie Virus," Sun'Ichi explained, pinching his eyebrows. "It's a pink gas that temporarily turns people into zombies. It temporarily negated our transformative Quirks when we lost our minds for a bit, which is why you're normal now. It's good for quickly subduing people, but en masse, very dangerous. And he's not immune to it, either."
"Oh man, I hope we didn't go too nuts while as zombies," Tokimi said. "That's not gonna be a pretty look..."
"That explains some things," Eijiro said, before pointing to the ice wall at what looked to be a cave entrance. "But what I wanna know is why one of Todoroki's ice walls is here."
"I guess we were chasing them?" Momo said. "But if that's the case, where're Tokage, Hiroshi, Fuka, and Tensou? They were with us when Fujimi's Zombie Virus went off-"
Everyone froze when they noticed a blast of fire heating up the ice wall, and cracks forming.
"Oh shit, do they think that we're still-" Yosetsu said.
"EVERYBODY SCATTER-" Itsuka shouted, but it was too late. The ice wall exploded, sending everyone flying into the air.
Hero and Izuku tumbled out of the cave and landed on their feet.
"Everyone!" Izuku shouted, looking back at the cave.
"Go! We got-"
"AAAAAAGH!"
Izuku and Hero turned around, and saw everyone falling from the sky. "Everyone!?" Izuku said, turning pale upon realizing that their zombification had worn off.
"But I thought-" Hero said, as Tsubasa and the others ran out of the cave.
"I remembered something about Fujimi's Quirk!" she said. "It's got a time limit, and depending on how long it's been, it should've worn off by now-"
"Damn you Fujimiiiii!" Machiko yelled, as the trapped 'survivors' watched them fall onto the ground.
"It's not my faaaaaaault!"
"This is so not rockin'!" Fuon cried out.
"I guess we're out of the game!" Makino said, holding onto Sun'Ichi.
"Sure feels like it!" he replied.
"This isn't anyway to treat an idol in training!" Kinoko whined.
"What did we do to deserve this!?" Kyoka shouted.
"Oh, so you two wanna fight!?" Katsuki said, as he used his Explosions to readjust his position. "LET'S FIGHT!"
"Nononono Kacchan, you don't understand!" Izuku said, panicking as Katsuki flew towards them in a fiery spiral. Hero changed into Burst Helios, and stepped in front of Izuku. He positioned his hands together, a small ball of light and fire forming in front of them.
"SUN GRENADE!"
"I cannot reiterate how sorry we are about what we did," Hiroshi said, as he and Izuku bowed to the nurse office full of mildly injured Hero Course students. Only Katsuki was heavily wrapped up in bandages, having been blown back by Hero's attack to protect Izuku. Recovery Girl was getting some candy from Lunch Rush to give to all of the students (she grumbled about how she didn't expect so many kids in her office before leaving).
"W-we should've been more patient," Izuku said, embarrassed by his mistake.
"Nah, it's not your fault," Machiko said, smiling before glaring at Fujimi and Katsuki, who were both glaring at each other. "It's those idiots' faults."
"No, I'm sorry for not remembering that Fujimi's Zombie Virus had a time limit," Tsubasa said, looking away in shame.
"I'm just glad that with Recovery Girl here, our injuries aren't so bad," Itsuka sighed. "This is definitely the weirdest experience we've had so far, excluding anything related to aliens."
"Yea, good thing..." Hiroshi said, getting distracted by his thoughts.
"Something on your mind, Hiroshi?" Setsuna asked, as she sat on one of the free chairs.
"Sort of... I'm just curious about myself now," Hiroshi said, to the confusion of everyone. "Like, how do Quirks work on me now? Can I categorize it into different reactions?"
"What're going on about?" Gumi asked.
"I think he's talking about how he's reacted to our Quirks in ways we didn't expect," Kashiko said, adjusting her visor. "For instance, I couldn't find him using my Chart Quirk."
"Wait, really!?" Machiko said, staring at her. "But your Quirk-"
"- can see everyone, yes," Kashiko said, her hands in her lap now. "But I think... I think Furinji's nature as an alien host is affecting how Quirks react to him now."
"Yea, like how Fujimi's Zombie Virus Quirk just gave me a nasty case of hay fever... hey, Mongoose," Hiroshi said, looking at the snake headed girl. Tsuyu was sitting next to her, holding her hand to cheer her up.
"Yes?"
"Can you try using your Quirk on me again?" Hiroshi asked.
"S-sure..."
"You can use it on me, too, as a control," Tsuyu said, moving next to Hiroshi. Habuko nodded, and her eyes flashed. Tsuyu fell to the ground paralyzed, while Hiroshi immediately clutched his head.
"Agh godDAMN! That is such a migraine inducer!" Hiroshi said, moving around to the surprise of the other Isamu students.
"That's so weird!" Ochako said. Hiroshi turned to her. "I guess you want me to try my Zero Gravity on you?"
"Yep," Hiroshi said, sticking his hand out. Ochako touched him, and Hiroshi yelled in pain.
"OW! UGH!" he cried, his hand recoiling from Ochako's grasp. "That's definitely not suppose to happen! Not a headache, but every single inch of me was in pain!"
"So do all Quirks just hurt you now?" Denki said.
"Probably ones that directly affect me like transformation or emitter..." Hiroshi answered.
"Hey, wanna try out mine?" Sun'Ichi said, holding his hand out.
"Alright, what could go wrong?"
Next Door
"I see, that's how it ended," Dash Slasher, the homeroom teacher of Isamu's Class 1A students, sighed. He had been called away to help out with a villain nearby, which was why he couldn't come and watch the interschool training exercise. "Honestly, that Fujimi needs to control his temper..."
"Bakugo as well," Aizawa said. "This exercise has definitely gone off track more than I anticipated. Teams A, H, and I did well enough to pass, and Team K technically did capture most of the students through Fujimi's Zombie Virus Quirk. Team J might've captured a number of teams as well, but because this is a team exercise and Bakugo left most of them behind, I suppose we can fail him..."
"My students all did well enough to pass, considering that you told me how most of them captured your students," Dash Slasher smirked. "Told you guys that broadcasting the UA Sports Festival was a bad idea, my kids knew more about them then yours did for mine."
"That's the point of this exercise," Aizawa replied. "Either way, I suppose that with the relative success this had, we can consider doing more interschool training exercises."
"Trust me, UA Class 1B will beat your students next time-" Vlad King said, when they saw a bright flash of light in the hallway and the screams of the students next door. They sprung into action, and opened the door, to see Hiroshi standing and Sun'Ichi sitting on a bed, with their flattened classmates laying and flapping around.
"What happened!?" Dash Slasher said, looking at everyone. "Did you do this, Kamio!?"
"S-sorta!?" Sun'Ichi said, looking around. "We were just testing out Furinji's reactions to Quirks, since Mongoose's and that Uraraka girl's Quirks didn't work the same on him, and he just got hay fever from Fujimi's! When I used mine on him, he acted like an amplifier!"
"So that's one type of reaction we can expect now," Hiroshi noted to himself. "Not something we can rely on, considering that it seems like it's a tossup on how I react to the Quirk..."
"So this is what being a poster feels like," Setsuna said. "Not gonna lie, feels like an all over body massage, it's kinda nice... you should think about becoming a masseuse on the side, Kamio!"
"I know, right!?" Makino said, managing to flop her head up to look at Setsuna. "It's a great way to get rid of all those tiny pangs in your body!"
"Yea, this is kinda cool!" Pony said, having a blast as she floated in the air thanks to the shockwave from Hiroshi.
"Yea, I'm having fun!" Fuka said, as she used her Quirk to propel herself around.
"God, not again!" Kyoka complained, struggling to move. "And don't say anything, Kaminari! You already said the joke already!"
"Don't worry, I totally understand how you feel now!" Denki replied.
"This is the tightest feeling I've ever had!" Ochako stated.
"Y-Yep!" Mina said, through gritted teeth.
"I'LL KILL YOU!" Katsuki flimsly said, wobbing back and forth.
"Can you undo it?" Aizawa said, sighing.
"M-Maybe? If I touch Furinji again."
"Okay. We'll move out of the way for you to do it, since it seems like there's a radius to the shockwave."
The teachers moved outside of the nurses office, and another flash of light came out of the room. When they returned, every student had regained their third dimension.
"Oh sweet depth, I'm never taking you for granted ever again!" Minoru said, patting himself to make sure that he really did turn back to normal.
"Oh yea, there we go!" Setsuna said, stretching her limbs. "That was a great massage! Oh man, I'm definitely gonna keep that in mind."
"Ow," Fuka and Pony said, having landed on top of each other midflight.
"Can't lie, getting my depth back does feel like I got all those aches out," Ochako said.
"Well, now that you're all recovered, meet us at the big classroom," Aizawa said, as the teachers walked away, when another flash of light came out of the nurse's office and everyone screamed. They went back, and saw that everyone sans Hiroshi were balls now. Kashiko sighed as she wobbled around, Umatarou grumbled as he fell off his bed, and everyone was bouncing around, whether they wanted to or not. Katsuki was sputtering out a colorful string of expletives.
"Furinji-"
"Hey, I didn't touch anyone! Tamayama just came outta nowhere and poked my shoulder!"
"Hehehehehe," Makino giggled, as she bounced around.
"Makino, really?" Sun'Ichi sighed, as she rolled into him.
"Come on, it's fun being a ball!" she said.
"Yea, I think I'm kinda used to this now," Setsuna replied. "I think I can move on my own now!"
"Your classmates are weird, Tsubasa," Fuka said, struggling to look at her.
"I know..." the winged ball whined.
"Alright, undo this again, and meet us at the big classroom," Aizawa mumbled, pinching his forehead.
End of the School Day
"We're so sorry that things happened the way they did," Kashiko said, as Umatarou and Takeo forced Romero to bow apologetically.
"We're also sorry about Bakugo's behavior," Momo sighed, as Rikido and Hiroshi forced Katsuki to bow apologetically as well.
"And I know that Monoma might not have been a part of the fight that led to everything going nuts, but he did antagonize Bakugo and Fujimi early on, and I bet if you guys hadn't captured him before, he'd have gotten into the fight too, so we're sorry about him," Itsuka sighed, as Jurota and Sen forced Neito to bow.
"I'm sorry," the three boys hissed.
"Well, now that it's all over, I hope we can do something like this again in the future!" Hiroshi said, smiling. "You guys really showed us up!"
"Nah, we had the advantage, honestly," Tsubasa admitted. "We... we watched the UA Sports Festival during class, after all."
"Ooooh, that makes sense," Setsuna said, crossing her arms. "You got to see all of our weaknesses and strengths, and you knew three of us- Well, four if you count Mongoose's friendship with Tsuyu- so you already had a pretty good strategy of what to do."
"Yea, we were definitely in the dark when it came to you," Fuka said, chuckling. "You got the drop on a lot of us."
"The team formations were the only factor we couldn't take in account for," Machiko said. "Since, well, they're lot based."
"Still, you guys worked together pretty well to beat most of us," Izuku said, giving a small grin. "I guess this just means we'll have to work hard to beat you next time!"
"Yea, count on it!" Fuon said.
"I did not have the chance to showcase my abilities..." Seiji lamented. He shot a glare at Romero. "No thanks to you."
"I said sorry," Romero replied.
The three classes waved goodbye to each other (save for Katsuki, Neito, and Romero), as they all went their separate ways.
At the seedy bar in the suspicious alley...
"Shigaraki, is something the matter?" Kurogiri asked his young charge. Tomura snapped back to reality, and looked at the mist man.
"Yea I am, why?" Tomura lied. He was stuck on what Virus said to him a few days ago. About him being a puppet. It was frustrating to acknowledge that the alien had a point about how the Teacher and the Doctor hadn't been telling him everything that they're planning, and how their guidance was so hands off.
"Usually you're grumbling about Virus and his ilk, but you've been strangely quiet today," he explained.
"So I have something else on my mind other than that fucking alien, woohoo," Tomura grumbled. He looked to the wall, and saw Virus's and Illne's figures popping off. "Speaking of that fucking asshole..."
"Good morning, everyone," Virus said, cheerfully.
"What the hell do you want?" Tomura asked, turning away on his stool. "Thought you'd be grabbing an alien or something to stir up a shitstorm."
"Nah, I think for now we'll need to take a break." Virus pretended to yawn. "There's been quite a bit of excitement these past few days, so I think for now we'll hold off on causing trouble. After all, it'll get boring if I just send aliens every day, won't it?"
"I suppose that is fair," Tomura's Teacher said through the monitor. "If there's a pattern to alien attacks, it'll become routine. Just another part of this damned hero society."
"But don't you worry, I'm sure that we'll be having an alien attack soon enough! And of someone else's own accord," Virus chuckled.
"What the hell do you mean by that?" Tomura said. "Is there another group of fucking aliens here that aren't working with you?"
"Something like that," Virus said, shrugging. "Caught a quick pick at some shadows while moving here. Most of them are independent agents."
"So there are other aliens on this Earth, is there..." Kurogiri said.
"Yep! They're just hiding in front of all of your eyes," Virus said, taking a seat at a table. "Hell, some of them take on human disguises so that they can blend in better!"
"God, to think that there are more freaks around," Tomura muttered.
"What are they here for?" the Teacher asked.
"Some just want 'peace', some just want to fight, a whole variety of reasons, really," Virus said. "I did catch a few that were... intriguing. But I think you'll be hearing it all about it soon. Just check the news, it'll be there soon enough. It's gonna be the first of many."
Tomura grumbled, as he turned the TV on.
ORIGINAL AO3 NOTES:
- And now we've got the Isamu kids! I've been wanting to do this chapter for a while. Had a blast writing it. Pretty filler-y (especially since it's based on a questionably canonical OVA), but it's got some fun moments I think.
- We'll be seeing more of Isamu's Class 1A in UHA. Didn't come up with so many only to have them never appear again. And hey, Tsubasa is Hiroshi's, Fuka's, and Setsuna's friend, so she'll be playing some bigger parts eventually.
- I always liked the types of Quirks that were transformative. I find them very interesting compared to the more standard powers like Denki's or All Might's. It's one of the reasons why I ended up loving Setsuna so much. So I decided to make my Isamu OCs have a lot of transformative-type Quirks, both on themselves and on others.
- I'm gonna be releasing some special informational character bios soon for all of them, plus Fuka, Hiroshi, and Hero, since I spent quite a bit of time coming up with them, and I feel like it's only right to share it all. It'll be a part of its own separate 'fanfic', so as to avoid cluttering the actual chapters (This is for FFnet and AO3, Spacebattles it'll just be under the Informational tab).
- Hiroshi having different reactions to Quirks was something I always planned. In my mind, trying to use Quirks on aliens has different reactions than when on humans (the 'correct' reaction). And that since Hiroshi is Hero's host, it extends to him as well. I hope you all caught the early signs of Quirks affecting aliens differently with Tomura trying to use his Quirk on Virus and Hero.
- I'll explain now that Hiroshi's 'immune' to sight-based Quirks like Aizawa's and Habuko's (they only give him headaches), gas-based Quirks like Romero's and Midnight's (they give him bad hay fever), non-transformation touch-based Quirks that affect him like Tomura's and Ochako's (he gets violent body pangs), and transformation-type Quirks that'd transform him like Makino's and Sun'Ichi's (instead his body acts like an amplification device that spreads the transformation to others). Quirks like Katsuki's and Denki's where they generate something (explosions and electricity) affect him, and personal transformations like Tetsutetsu's and Eijiro's effect him normally (since it's them that it's transforming, not him). And I think it's a little obvious that physical enhancement Quirks can affect him via fists and feet. And Quirks that can track people like Kashiko's or Ragdoll's Quirks don't register him, making him an unknown variable in a lot of plans.
- I haven't necessarily taken in account ALL of the ways that Quirks can affect him, so when Quirks that come up that don't fall under any of the 'categories' come up, I'll be thinking on the fly about it.