Aizawa POV

The second I saw that smoke, I knew there was going to be a problem. I could see a few faces in the class realize it too, after a bit. I sneak out after seeing things are settled and the kids are escorted out of arena, and make a phone call.

"Eraserhead, do we know what's going down at the exams right now?" I hear some scrambling on the other line before I receive my answer.

"It was illegal selective quirk suppressant smoke. Those kids were sent by someone, and we have a guess as to who. Based upon one candidate's lineage. A candidate by the name of Holly, with the quirk 'Perfection'. Her biological parents were the villain couple by the name of 'Unhappily Married'. Otherwise known as Siren and Autolycus, with the quirks of 'Thrall' and 'Foolproof'. They may be targeting her and her friends in an attempt to convert her to villainy, with a quirk like hers... She could probably walk into, and right back out of the prison with them in tow, and no one would stand much of a chance unless they knew she was coming. However, one of them tried to speak to her and she went off. So.. I think I know where she stands as long as whoever she was talking about stays alive." I raise an eyebrow.

"What'd she say?" There's some shuffling and talking on the other end.

"I'll send you the recording in just a second. I've got to go, we're trying to get the exam back up and running now." A few seconds later, my phone pings, and I play the clip.

It's a little staticky, but the first voice is distinctively male.

"You're wasting so much potential! You could be a great villain! Think of how disappointed your parents must be." There's a moment of silence before a female voice responds.

"I wonder how disappointed yours are in you. You're right, I could be a great villain. Who knows, it could happen someday. Life hits us all differently. But I have a promise to keep, as long as my closest friend lives- I'll walk the path of a hero and help her make the world a better place. No matter what that takes. Even if a day comes where she can no longer pursue the path of a hero, if her heart still beats then I'll walk it in her name. If it doesn't... Then whoever caused it will fall, and we'll see where the broken pieces land. For right now, I'm going to be a hero. And you can tell my parents I said that. No matter how much it disappoints them. I have better people to impress."

Well, I guess that means we probably won't be having to worry too much about that. For their sake though, I'll make some calls to try and keep her identity the others hush-hush in concern to any reports done on the attack. Though I'm sure the exam officials will want it to blow over quickly as well. What a pain.

Akira POV

After everything got sorted, they started the exam back up. They rearranged the remaining teams- twice, to make sure we couldn't also be targeted if there were others in the midst. Though apparently the information they gathered didn't point to anything of that nature.

As time continues passing, we're one of the last teams... Then the second to last, until finally- we're all that's left. That kind of sucks, we'll have the least amount of recovery time before the next portion of the exam begins. Not to mention the late hour of the day we're approaching... As we follow the proctor through the tunnel, Haruto slaps a hand firmly onto my shoulder, giving me a bright grin in the low light.

"Hey, we've got this! You guys killed it in the first round, as long as we stick to your strategy, we're bound to do well. I've got your back, no matter what." I smile and bump his shoulder gratefully, that's good. Several teams of villains had taken the clever route presented by the real villains and separated the heroes. Our plan was for Fumi and Kimiko to be teamed up, not much could get past them and together they were pretty good at both suppression and hand to hand. Haruto is with me, even with getting a lot better with my ink hardening, I'm not much of a heavy hitter when it comes to dealing with other quirk users. I'm a quick thinker though, which is important when your quirk requires a lot of sneakiness and outsmarting the people that are stronger, and Haruto had confided that his struggle often lies in strategizing.

When we reach the gate, I prep myself to send out ink scouts. No need to dally when the situation is supposed to be realistic. When the timer starts, we begin our patrol. It doesn't take long to find two of the team members underground, in the dark and damp tunnels I can't gather much information on them. Following their movements is easy enough though, and by communicating with the others using ink, we're able to run patrols that continuously mean one pair is crossing near their location as 'suspicious individuals of interest', while still maintaining adequate patrolling of the surrounding areas of our jurisdiction. As time ticks down I get frustrated, I can't locate another member. All teams had to have at least three members, there has to be at least one more, if not two of them- where are they? Haruto notices my frustration.

"What's wrong?"

"I can't find any others, in a real-life situation we might not know exact numbers of the opposition, but here we know that there should be 3-4 of them. I can only find two, which means that one or two more of them are... Invisible essentially, which is weird, because I go to school with an invisible girl, and it's hard but my ink usually manages to find her after a while because it's pretty sensitive to variations in the air and sounds. Yet now, there's nothing."

"That is odd, maybe they're just staying outside your range? This arena is pretty big." I shake my head, I can hold continuous information relay control for almost 1,000 meters, and my snap control- like during the quirk assessment test is a little bit further, but that's not good for much...

"No, it's not that big really. From the central position, I'd be able to scan an area nearly double this size. It's really getting to me."

"Maybe their hiding somewhere they know you won't look? Like in an apartment they broke into?"

"I've been scanning for disturbances like that... I don't know, maybe I'm just missing something. I'm not really that good at this stuff-"

"Hey! You're great, let's keep working, we'll figure it out soon." I sigh, hopefully, he's right.

As time ticks down I get nervous, there are only three minutes left in our time. Why haven't they struck yet? Running out the clock would technically mean we won- since they won't have been able to capture the civilian. However, soon enough, the two people in question rip through the floor of a building with a sign that says 'Executive Meeting on Penthouse Floor'. Of course. I snap all of my ink back to myself and throw up solid walls around the villains, blocking their escapes and preventing them from causing any more damage than they already have. When Fumi and Kimiko arrive, we let them head in to deal with it, as they subdue the villains I let the walls down so that they can assess the damage and calm the civilians. I take my time to look at the surrounding buildings.

"Hey, Haruto, how tall would you say that building over there is?" Haruto hums beside me, squinting at the building with a confused look.

"Well, it actually looks a lot like pictures I've seen of the Burj Khalifa which was like..."

"2,717 feet tall. Which is 828 meters, without antennae. We're down from it about 100 meters actually, the entire arena is on a pretty bad slope. That building also looks like it has a slighter wider base than the original, so it's probably a couple of hundred feet taller as well. Say someone perched on the top antennae, how much higher than us do you think they'd be?" Haruto gives me an odd look.

"I dunno? 100 and 828 makes 928 I know that much... So maybe like a thousand meters?" I shake my head.

"My math says... 1,023 meters, eyeballing it of course. Just out of range of a continuously looped connection with my ink." I don't give Haruto the chance to say anything else, as I harden ink underneath myself and propel into the air. I can see them now, a dark blur suddenly rapidly approaching the building as the clock ticks down. I barrel straight into them, causing them to tumult in the air, but they stay on their path. Throwing up a protective barrier against the smaller skyscraper, I wince as my back hits it. The girl I've collided with screams, grabbing my arm in a panic. Has she never fallen while flying before?

The clock is ticking down the last seconds now, and as we tumble towards the ground, I cringe. I don't think she has, shoot. Thinking quickly, I use ink in the air to slow our fall, but I don't have enough to slow and then catch both of us- not with the level of control I have over hardening anyway. I throw most of it her way, it's my fault we're falling like this, I should have factored in the stun factor for someone who flies. There's no guarantee they'll have practiced how to get their bearing mid-air. I stop her fall a few floors before the ground and find myself caught by someone else. We land in a tumble of limbs, and I know I'll be a little bit worse for the wear, but it's better than my plan. I'd just layered a solid layer of ink over some of my skin, and put the small amount of prototype impact ricochet ink that Mei made for me over that...

Looking up to thank whoever caught me, I smile when I realize it's one of the 'villains' we'd caught, and she rubs the back of her neck sheepishly from her position next to me on the ground next to the building and the chaos that just got done.

"The uh... The cuffs time out when the timer goes off. I figured that you probably had a plan not to die in that fall... But I figured better safe than sorry. I'm Yuzuki." Standing up stiffly and finishing lowering her teammate to the ground, I call all of my ink back into it's holder.

"Thanks, I did have a plan, but it probably still would have hurt a lot more than that did. I hadn't thought someone with a bird quirk wouldn't know how to get their bearing midair... My name's Akira Grace, or just Akira. That's what most people go with." She smiles as the rest of our teammates run up to check on us.

"This is Suzume, the girl you knocked out of the air. And that's Kenichi, the kid who busted a hole in the floor." I gesture to my own team.

"That's Fumi and Kimiko, the ones who cuffed you guys. And this is Haruto, we just met him today." Everyone nods, and we walk together companionably out of the ring.