Rule #8a: Never assume. You'll make an ass outta you and me.

When the second week finally rolled around, Toru found herself standing on the curb, outside the school grounds early on Monday morning. The light cotton blouse and pleated school skirt did nothing to deter the early morning breeze and Toru bounced on her toes as she tried to warm up, rubbing her arms to rid herself of the goosebumps protruding there. She knew it would warm up later, but that did nothing to help her now.

All around her, her classmates were gathered in similar poses as they tried to conserve heat in the early morning. Some leant against their bags, whilst others bounced around in barely concealed excitement and anticipation for the upcoming camping trip. Of course it had been advertised as a training camp, but it was still a camp so many were expecting bugs and s'mores and ghosts stories told 'round bonfires despite what they had been told.

Currently, Aizawa stood in front of 1-A with his sleeping bag slung over his shoulders like a shawl as they gathered together like penguins and waited for him to address them. "…Don't think that these weeks will be ones of rest for you heroes-in-the-making. At this camp, we'll push you to go beyond your limits; you're aiming to become plus ultra"

"Yessir!" Chorused the class as they drifted off into little groups to chat and wait for the 1-B students to arrive as well.

"Ooh! I wonder if we'll get to do like survival training or something!" Toru gushed as she re-read the pamphlet for the umpteenth time.

"You're really looking forward to this, aren't you Toru? Ribbit" Asui tilted her head in question at the bouncing girl.

"Uh huh!" Toru beamed, bouncing up and down a little and making the cat ears on her beanie wiggle as she moved, "We did this stuff all the time during Junior High! It was so much fun! Ooh! I can't wait! I wonder if we'll do a test of courage?"

"Really? I never did anything like this Junior High" Yaoyorozu admitted a little worriedly, "I hope I don't get left behind…"

"You'll be fine, Momo" Toru assured her, "It'll be just like camping…you have been camping before, right?"

"I've stayed in hotels nearby to campgrounds, does that count?" Momo replied.

"Uh, not—not quite…"

Just then Ochako—quite loudly—fled from her conversation with Midoriya, her face burnt pink as she started up a cheer for camp, drawing in a couple of their classmates. "Uh…Let's hear it for camp! Camp! Camp! Camp!"

"I HEARD SOME OF CLASS A ARE TAKING EXTRA COURSES!" Monoma suddenly declared his arrival and the arrival of his classmates in a rather overly dramatic and arrogant fashion. "DOES THAT MEAN THEY ACTUALLY FAILED THE FINAL EXAMS? HUH? THAT WOULD BE SO EMBARRASSING! ESPECIALLY SINCE YOU'RE S'POSED TO BE SO MUCH BETTER THAN MY CLASS! ALL OF YOU MUST BE WALLOWING IN SHAME—!"

"Does he have an off switch?" Toru mumbled as Kendo appeared behind the blonde and knocked him out with a well-placed chop to the back of the neck. "Oh, there it is"

"Don't mind him" Kendo apologised as she turned to haul the blonde drama queen onto their bus.

"Oh! The rest of Class B!" Midoriya noted as the rest of their peers arrived.

"Hey!"

"Nice to see ya outside of the Sports Festival!"

"I guess now, we're not technically rivals" Greeted a couple of the students.

"Time to get on the bus!" Kendo called, as she boarded dragging Monoma behind her.

"Okay!" Chorused 1-B as Mineta drooled over the swishing skirts that passed him by. Next to him, Kirishima appeared grossed out by the grape-haired hero's perverted antics.

"ATTENTION CLASS A!" Iida called out, outrageously waving his arms from in front of their bus, "OUR BUS IS HERE! EVERYONE LINE UP IN SEATING ORDER!"

Once all their bags and gear had been tucked away in the compartments of the bus' undercarriage, the rowdy teens slotted themselves into their assigned seats, only a little annoyed at Iida's constant pestering. Seated behind Aizawa, Toru and Mina (her seat partner) were able to hear everything that their teacher was saying as they began to play a game of cards, although the same could not be said for the rest of their chattering classmates. "All right, here's the deal" Aizawa addressed his rowdy students as the bus puttered down the road, "We'll be on this bus for about an hour before our first stop, make sure you stay focused…" When he turned around to find no one was paying him any attention , the teacher simply slouched into his seat and snuggled down, attempting to sleep for the hour they were on the bus. "Eurgh! Why do I bother? I s'pose this is the only time they'll get to fool around…problem children"


An hour or so later, the class had dismounted from the bus with a few of the passengers looking a little pale from all the windy roads, whilst others simply stretched and popped their limbs, relishing in the relief it gave them. "Mm! Ah!" Toru sighed happily as she stretched. Now devoid of her beanie, the invisible girl stood amongst her classmates as she breathed in the fresh mountain air with an unremovable smile spread across her face. It feels just like home!

"Gotta pee! Gotta pee!" Mineta chanted as he rushed around trying to find somewhere to relieve himself.

"This isn't much of rest stop" Kirishima noted, looking around at the dirt patch that was fenced off from the forest below. A single black car was the only other vehicle that shared the spot with them.

"I know" Jiro agreed, "And where's Class B?"

"You don't think we stopped here, just so you could stretch your legs, do you?" Drawled Aizawa.

"Huh?"

"Please sir, the toilet…!" Mineta whined, holding his crotch like it was the last defence against the floodgates spilling open. Just then, the doors to the black car swung open and out burst two women and a kid.

"Heya, Eraser!" Called one of the feline women.

"Long time, no see" Aizawa bowed in greeting as the women introduced themselves. Toru recognised them as Mandalay and Pixie Bob—two of the four members of the feline Pro hero group. A quick glance towards the black car from which they had emerged, revealed the bored face of a young boy. Who's he? Toru's attention soon turned towards the feline heroines, however.

"You're feline fantasies are here! Say meow!" Mandalay began.

"Purrfectly cute and catlike girls!" Pixie Bob continued, "You can call us the Wild, Wild Pussycats!"

"Er…" 1-A stared at the poised women with wide eyes and disbelieving gazes, not quite sure what they were seeing.

"These are the heroes you'll be working with at the summer training camp" Aizawa lectured. Of course, that was all Midoriya needed to start fanboying over the pair. Gushing his praises he was eventually cut off by the blonde who reprimanded the teen, telling him she was actually 18 years old. "Everyone, say hello"

"Hello!" Chorused 1-A, "Nice to meet you!"

"We own this whole stretch of land out here, everything you can see" Mandalay pointed off into the distance, "The summer camp you're staying at is there, at the base of the mountain"

"Uh, then why did we stop all the way up here instead?" Questioned Ochako.

"I'm afraid we both know the answer to that, ribbit" Asui replied.

"That can't be right…" Sato denied.

"Hehe, um, back on the bus, quick let's go…" Sero mumbled nervously.

"Good idea" Agreed Kaminari, following after the tape hero, "L-load up!"

"Ah! Are we doing survival training?!" Toru asked bouncing up and down excitedly with her arms up in the air; she was the only student to do so. Mandalay merely smirked, her tail swishing back and forth as she smugly replied.

"The current time is 9.30am, if you're fast about it you might make it there by noon" Mandalay stated.

"No way! Guys—!" Kirishima stumbled back a step or two.

"Holy crap!" Mina cried out.

"—SAVE YOURSELVES!" Kirishima bellowed as everyone turned and fled, everyone that is except for Toru who was practically buzzing with excitement.

"Kitties who don't make it there by noon won't get any lu~nch!" Mandalay sang.

"You should've guessed students, the training camp has already begun" Aizawa scolded, eyes glinting evilly in the morning sun. Whilst the others retreated towards the bus, Toru merely spared a glance and wickedly gleaming grin towards the feline heroes before she sprinted towards the wooden fence overlooking the canopy.

Bypassing a slightly startled trio of Pros, Toru laughed easy and carefree. "LAST ONE THERE'S A ROTTEN EGG!" She laughed, easily jumping the fence and launching herself off of the cliff without a care in the world, even throwing in a flip for good measure.

"TORU!" Ochako panicked when she looked back in time to see her friend disappear over the side. Rushing back over to the fence, Ochako stared down afraid of what she would find. Instead of the broken body she thought would be hanging amongst the trees, she found Toru happily leaping from outcropping to outcropping like she was playing hopscotch.

"WHAT ARE YA WAITING FOR?!" Toru called over her shoulder.

"YOU'RE CRAZY, HAGAKURE!" Kirishima shouted down, having joined the gravity girl alongside a couple of others.

"C'ME ON SLOWPOKES!" Toru's laughter travelled back up to them.

"She's insane!" Mineta breathed, eyes blown wide at what just happened and still holding tight to his bursting bladder. With the students a little preoccupied, Pixie Bob slammed a paw to the floor and liquified the earth beneath their feet. The earth surged and rolled, sending the rest of the class over the edge in a less than dignified manner. Screams followed them all the way down, until they landed in a groaning pile at the bottom of the cliff.

"Have a nice trip?" Toru grinned landing a little more gracefully next to her classmates, and holding out a hand to pull Mina to her feet.

"Oh shut up, Toru!" Mina playfully shoved the invisible girl once she was her feet once more.

"Don't ever do that again!" Ochako interjected, jumping to her feet and shaking the girl like a ragdoll, "You nearly gave me a heart attack!"

"I make no promises" Toru grinned.

"GOOD NEWS!" Mandalay called down, "SINCE THIS IS PRIVATE LAND YOU CAN USE YOUR QUIRKS AS MUCH AS YOU WANT TO! YOU'VE GOT THREE FULL HOURS! YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO MAKE IT TO THE FACILITY IN THAT TIME…THAT IS IF YOU CAN GET THROUGH THE BEASTS' FOREST!"

"THE BEASTS' FOREST?!" Midoriya exclaimed.

"That sounds like a name right outta a fantasy game!" Complained Kaminari as the class turned to stare up at the gigantic trees towering over them.

"Why do we keep falling for Sensei's little tricks?" Jiro whined.

"I guess there's no use complaining" Kirishima muttered as he rose to his feet and turned to see Ochako furiously shaking Toru, who seemed unperturbed by their situation. "Hagakure! Why'd you jump off the cliff?"

"It was the fastest way down" Toru replied nonchalantly even as she was shaken. " 'Sides, you guys came down too"

"Yeah, but not willingly" Kaminari muttered, brushing dirt off of his shirt.

"Might as well get going, then" Kirishima sighed as Toru slipped from Ochako's grip and danced towards the eerie forest.

"Well c'me on, then" Toru turned to her classmates who still stood at the base of the cliff, "Let's go!"

Without another word, she disappeared into the dark woods, hopping from root to root like she was playing a game. She hadn't made it very far before Mineta zoomed passed intent on finding somewhere to pee. Bushes rustled and the scent of urine permeated as the small boy hurried to relieve himself. "Well, are you guys coming or not?" She called through cupped hands. Toru hadn't gone very far, maybe a few steps, but the tall leafy trees easily blocked her view of the cliff. Whens she received a reply, it was not from her classmates, nor was it one she had expected.

A large shadow stood over her and she could hear worried calls come from her classmates. Slowly turning around, she was met with a large dirt-coloured beast that either hadn't noticed her (she hoped) or was too focused on her classmates. "Well, hello" Toru softly greeted as she heard Koda try to communicate with it, "Aren't you just the sweetest little thing?"

"PLEASE CALM YOURSELF, MY GIANT FRIEND!" Koda ran forth, practically screaming at the creature, though his voice reached no louder than a shout, "YOU DON'T WANNA HURT THEM!"

"…Please don't eat me" Toru murmured, her eyes blown wide as the enormous monster raised a clawed limb to bring down upon her. It wasn't quite fear that coursed through her, more like the acknowledgement of a larger predator. "Time to move" Toru squeaked as the fist grew closer and the sound of unnatural buzzing echoed in her ears.

Jumping up, she latched herself onto a piece of outcropping armour that protruded from its knees and pulled herself upwards, easily scaling the monster in a matter of mere moments. Moving like an ant up a wall, Toru made her way towards the back of the beast and sat herself down near its head. Once she was situated atop the beast, she found pulled her hands back to see that they were covered in red dust, which was odd. Dust? Is this… Raising a palm to her mouth, she licked a line of the dust from her hand as she tried to decipher what her hands were coated in.

Is this…? It is! It's dirt! Wait! Does this mean this guy is made of dirt? Can't be…dirt's not durable enough, mud maybe? No, too dry…so clay? Some kind of earth anyway. She shook her head, clearing the train of thought from her mind. "Y'know, if we had some rope or something, we could probably ride you to camp" She petted the beast beneath her like she would a horse, only her internal monologue was soon cut short by the appearance of her classmates, who didn't appear to realise she was there.

"Eek!" Toru squeaked as she jumped to her feet and launched herself up into the canopy just in time to miss Midoriya, Iida, Bakugou and Todoroki's incoming attack. The hetrochromatic teen sent a trail of ice towards the dirt creature that froze it in place, Iida moved next launching an engine-powered kick towards one arm whilst Bakugou took out the other. When all three were clear of the creature, Midoriya emerged to finish it off, encased in green light, the boy landed a powerful punch which completely obliterated it.

"Okay, new plan" Toru clapped her hands together from where she hung upside down from one of the trees, her legs curled around one of its branches like she was on the monkey bars.

"Wow! You guys took that beast down in seconds!" Sato praised, as the rest of 1-A joined the others in the forest.

"That was awesome!" Sero agreed as Mineta stumbled out of the bushes looking both highly embarrassed and relieved.

"You sure showed that thing who's boss!" Kirishima complimented. Just then, Toru spotted another one of the creatures off in the distance, although it was rapidly coming closer. Sticking her thumb and forefinger in her mouth, the invisible girl let out a loud whistle which startled her classmates from their conversation.

"Wha—what was that?!" Midoriya spun around, trying to dine the source of the noise.

"OI!" Toru called down through cupped hands.

"Toru?" Yaoyorozu shielded her eyes as she peered up into the canopy where her classmate was hanging.

"WE'RE NOT DONE! THERE'S MORE INCOMING!" Toru pointed towards the beasts before free falling from the trees and landing with a roll next to Asui who jumped a little at her sudden arrival.

"Aw! Hey! C'me on!" Kaminari whined as they became surrounded by numerous creatures, "Don't you think this is just a little unfair?"

"What now? Do we run?" Mina questioned.

"Not good. If we don't make it to the camp fast enough, then we won't get anything to eat!" Sato complained, eyeing up one of the spindly ones.

"Well, then what's the plan?" Kirishima asked.

"It's not just the earth creatures we need to worry about…although, smaller targets are harder to hit" Toru thought aloud, "We need to split up, form small groups—pair off"

"And what makes you so sure?" Bakugou snapped, "Who put you in charge anyway?!"

"Well let's see, there's the wildlife, the plant life, the idiotic notion that you believe you rule nature when it's in fact the other way around, cliff drops, weak tree limbs…Oh! And let's not forget the sky-high robots hellbent on hunting us!" Sassed Toru. "And as for who put me in charge? Well, why don't you ask Rio?"

"Grr!" Bakugou snarled but made no more move to complain. Taking the win, Toru turned to the rest of the class."Alright, who here has been camping before?" She questioned. Ochako, Asui and Koda hesitantly raised their hands. "And who knows their plants?" This time, Momo, Tokoyami and Sato raised their hands. "Alright, good, good. Find one of these people and stick with them. Then maybe we'll al get outta here in one piece"

"She's right!" Declared Yaoyorozu, "We have no choice but to cut through these woods with the shortest possible route!"

"Ribbit!" Croaked Asui.

"All right, LET'S GO, CLASS A!" Iida cried.

"YEAH!" Crowed the class.


Working in tandem with Aoyama, Tokoyami and Kaminari, Toru was able to mow down several of the earthly beasts that came their way. Wiping away the sweat that beaded on her brow, Toru hung out of a tree as she paused for a moment to watch Aoyama skewer a beast with his navel laser alongside the followup provided by Tokoyami's dark shadow. They had been going for a while now, the sun having climbed higher in the sky and their time limit drawing dangerously close.

At some point the group had been separated from the others, somewhere around mid-morning, not long after they had passed by a line of melnut trees, the fruit on which she was munching on right then. It was a rather odd fruit, with a hard outer casing and squishy fruit inside—like a cross between a coconut and a melon. Y'know, Toru slurped at the sweet juices in thought as a dazed Kaminari sat next to her munching on an apple with his legs swinging, It's kinda like a sea urchin—hard outer shell, soft squishy, oogly-thing on the inside. But it tastes soo good! Mm!

Uh oh! Toru quickly swallowed her current mouthful as she caught sight of yet another creature emerging from the treeline beyond the pair of boys. "DUCK!"

"I AM NOT A DUCK!" Dark shadow snarled, quickly twisting above Tokoyami's head towards her just as her classmate took her advice and dropped to the forest floor, only barely missing the beast's clubbed tail by mere centimetres. Toru face palmed at the response and dragged her hand down her face in an over-exaggerated motion.

"I didn't mean it like that…" Toru drawled as she dropped from the tree and chucked the melnut shell over her shoulder. Coughing and waving away the dust cloud that accompanied the beast's attack, Toru made her way over to Aoyama and Tokoyami who lay on the forest floor to help them up.

"Merci, ma cherie" Aoyama thanked her, brushing off the dirt from his pants as he did so.

"Are you, al-al—" Toru stuttered as she tried to cut off the sneeze that was building up in her nostrils. Helping Tokoyami to his feet, she had all but a few seconds before the sneeze ripped itself free. "—Achoo!" The kitten sneeze was accompanied by a quick succession of little ticks with her Quirk; first she became ignited in blinding light, which quickly dissipated to lightning dancing across her form, before ending in two beams of light that fired from her eyes in much the same manner that Aoyama's did.

At the sneeze, Tokoyami, quickly dropped her hand and the blonde Frenchman in question quickly launched himself to the floor once more, only just missing the light that sailed over him and skewered the approaching beast right through the head and out the other end. "Bless you" Tokoyami murmured, his eyes wide as the earthen beast fell at their feet.

"Th-thank you" Toru sniffed, her own eyes equally wide.


Dusk was beginning to fall when all the students of 1-A emerged onto the campgrounds, tired and hungry. "You said it would take, like, only three hours!" Sero whined, speaking the group's mind as they all but collapsed at their tutors' feet. Toru and her group had regathered with the others not far from the campgrounds, having taken a seemingly wrong turn near a path of wild berries.

"I guess we timed it based on how long it take us, sorry" Mandalay replied.

"Now you're bragging about how much better you are?" Sato complained. "That's so mean!"

"Well, they are Pros" Toru replied, laying like a starfish on the ground. Sure it hadn't been a Karasuma-Sensei or Koro-Sensei exercise, but that didn't mean she wasn't tired—she just wasn't as exhausted as her classmates.

"I'm starving! This is hell!" Kirishima howled, gripping to his stomach like a dying man.

"Meow! Meow! Meow! Meow! Meow!" Pixie Bob praised, "I thought it would take you kits even longer! But you did much better against my dirt monsters than I thought you would! You guys are seriously great! Especially…the four of you!"

Propping herself up onto her elbows, Toru saw that Pixie Bob was pointing to Iida, Midoriya, Todoroki and Bakugou who appeared confused by her declaration. "It seems like you've had quite a bit of experience!" Is she…licking her lips? Toru puzzled. Just then Pixie Bob launched forth and began to pepper her classmates with over-enthusiastic pets and cuddles. Uh…What?

"…Uh, speaking of people's ages—" Midoriya interjected, cutting of Mandalay who was explaining how the blonde was at the age to take a mate. Ooh, don't do that again, Midoriya. Toru winced as Pixie Bob shoved her paw into his face, effectively cutting him off.

"Choose your words carefully, kit!" Pixie Bob warned.

"I've just been wondering, who's that kid? What's he doing here?" Midoriya pointed over to the kid that Toru had noticed at the rest stop earlier. He was short—barely coming up to Mandalay's waist and wore a red horned cap with his shirt and shorts.

"Oh? This little guy? He's just my cousin's son, he lives with us now" Mandalay explained.

Oh. Toru's expression softened as she realised what the feline was implying.

"Don't be shy Kota, say hi to everyone. You're gonna be around them for the next couple of weeks" But the kid simply glared at them like they were the scum of the earth, or gum on his shoe. Taking the initiative, Midoriya strode forth to introduce himself.

"Hey there, my name's Midoriya. I'm from the UA High school hero course, it's nice to meet—" Midoriya started only to be cut off by Kota suddenly punching him in the nuts.

"Haha!" Toru flopped back onto the ground, sending up a small dust cloud as Iida raced to help his friend, "I like him!"

"That brat's got spunk!" Bakugou agreed, smiling.

"He's like a mini version of you" Todoroki deadpanned making the blonde turn on him with a snarl and causing Toru to giggle harder.

"Enough playing around" Aizawa cut in before things could get too outta hand, "Get your stuff off the bus. Once your bags are in your rooms, we'll have dinner in the cafeteria, after that you can bathe and sleep. Tomorrow your training starts in earnest, you'd better get a move on"

After dragging her bag from the bus to the girls' cabin where she nicked a bed by the door, Toru made her way over to the cafeteria with her stomach growling and feet aching. "Ah! I'm so hungry!" Ochako cried as she hugged her stomach.

"I feel like I could eat a whole cow!" Mina agreed.

"My stomach feels like it's eating itself!" Yaoyorozu whined.

"Mm! Wish I'd grabbed more of those melnuts!" Toru added.

"Melnuts?" Ochako furrowed her brows in confusion, "What are those?"

"Oh! They're like a cross between a coconut and a melon—they're soo good!" Toru drooled. "Especially grilled! Or boiled! Or raw! Mm!"

"There—there was food in the woods?!" Mina demanded turning to her.

"Well, yeah" Toru shrugged, "It's why I asked if anyone knew their plants and stuff. Didn't you guys eat?"

"No!" Mina whined dishearteningly.

"Oh well, we're eating now…" Slotting herself in between Asui and Ochako, Toru's chopsticks floated from all manner of foods as she loaded and reloaded her plate. From dumplings to rice, to crumbed chicken and curry. Dinner passed by in flurry of chopsticks and hurrying felines who did their best to collect and fill the empty plates that appeared on the tables. Kota was set to work moving boxes of vegetables—Toru assumed they had eaten earlier—and Aizawa sat huddled in the corner already half-asleep. With a quick message from Pixie Bob about meals for the rest of the camp, the students were let out after dinner to bathe and sleep.

"Ah! This feels amazing!" Mina sighed as she sunk into the hot pool, the steam rising in twisting curls.

"I'm so glad they've got a hot springs here!" Jiro agreed joining the pink girl in the pool. It didn't take long for the rest of the girls to join them, each sinking in with similar feelings of relief. Hair tied up in dos that left their necks bare, the girls happily relaxed into the steamy water.

"Who wants to bet that's Mineta?" Asui blinked open one eye when the girls heard the—likely perverted—commotion occurring on the other side of the wooden wall, parting the two genders in the springs.

"No bet" Toru replied, sinking up to her shoulders "That's too easy"

"Before you become a hero, you should learn how to be a good human" Kota popped up from the top of the wall and knocked a startled Mineta back to the ground on his side of the wall.

"I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS!" Mineta decreed as he fell, falling ass-first into Iida's face.

"Told ya so!" Asui sighed, "Mineta really is the worst, isn't he?"

"Thanks so much, Kota-babe!" Mina called out, making the boy peer over the other side of the wall where the girls were bathing. "We owe ya one!"

"Ah!" Kota burnt scarlet and dropped over the other side, into the boys' side when he gazed upon the girls.

"I think we broke him" Toru commented as if she were talking about the weather.

"Well, who wouldn't when gazing upon our gorgeous curves?" Mina joked, pushing her pink breasts forward in a joking manner.

"Mina!" Toru splashed the girl, thus enacting the first act of water splash war.