The episode started out with Class 1B outside the main building, also being told they were going to strengthen their quirks. Vlad King lead them away from the building, saying that 1A got a lot of attention before, but soon it would be 1B's turn. A couple students looked downtrodden and apologized for being disappointing students.

"Really Kan?" Aizawa muttered. Healthy competition was generally encouraged, but to him Vlad King's tone had sounded more petty than challenging.

"Most of our attention has come from us almost dying." Tsuyu pointed out. "Are they sure they want that?"

"It is understandable that they would want to show their own merits. Hopefully they can accomplish it without the hardships our own class has gone through." Iida said.

The kids asked for more specifics about how they would be developing their quirks, since they all such different ones. Vlad King explained that quirks are like muscles, they get stronger by being used. So they would use their quirks and push past their old limits.

"Wait, so out quirks get stronger just by using them a bunch? Then why haven't I gotten stronger after using my big attacks so much?" Kaminari asked.

"Muscle growth needs to be done gradually if you want it to help rather than hurt, the same holds true for quirks. You can't run yourself into the ground one day and expect your leg muscles to suddenly be much stronger." Recovery Girl explained.

The atmosphere of the room started to grow excited again, everyone eager to see how much they could grow and if they would unlock new abilities. The teachers just hoped the League took long enough to organize their attack that the students could get some real progress in before it happened.

They were shown, in quick succession, what various students were doing to train their quirks. Bakugo was using hot water to open up his sweat gland to make bigger explosion. Todoroki was switching between ice and fire rapidly while maintaining the temperature of the water he was in. Sero was producing tape constantly.

Bakugo grunted, and his shoulders automatically hunched as waves of pain went through them. Todoroki suddenly felt exhaustion dragging at him, and Sero started yelling just like his on-screen counterpart did as more and more tape was produced.

Thankfully, each of these instances was short, and therefore the pain came and went quickly. The shock of the quick change was almost more of a problem than the pain itself.

"I wonder if they're gonna make Sero pick up all that tape when he's done making it." Mineta wondered.

"I hope they can use it for something at the facility, I'd hate for so much of it to go to waste." Sero said after his scene passed and he regained his wits.

Kirishima and Ojiro were working together, with Ojiro hitting Kirishima with everything he had while Kirishima used Hardening to keep himself from being hurt by it.

"Oh my gosh that's a great idea! And totally something we could do in the school gyms!" Kirishima gushed. "Ojiro! Do you wanna train together when we get back?"

"Yeah, I'd be up for that." Ojiro's smile was only slightly ruined by the little flinches he did each time his tail hit Kirishima on screen. Kirishima was feeling the force of the impact too of course, but he wasn't gonna let that stop him from planning new training routines.

Kaminari ran his electricity through a high powered batter to increase his tolerance for his own electricity. Koda was doing voice exercises to strengthen his vocal chords, which sounded a lot like just yelling.

Kaminari shrieked when his scene came up. His muscles reflexively jerked, which made him catapult out of his seat. Thankfully the scene was short enough that his pain ended just after that. He let out a shaky breath, blushing a little. Despite the fact that Sero had done something similar, it felt embarrassing to suddenly yell and jump around in a room where no one else was currently moving.

"Here's hoping doing that will let you get away with big attacks without drooling everywhere afterwards." Sero said as Kaminari sat back down, giving him a soft punch on the shoulder.

"Heh, yeah, just hope I'm not too out of it to eat afterwards."

Jirou let out a good-natured laugh when she saw Koda yelling. "Go for it Koda, learn how to project!"

Koda, who had been been bashful about being so purposefully loud if front of the class, stopped hiding behind his hands to give her wobbly smile.

"I certainly know a few things about voice based quirks. I could give you some pointers if you want to get an early start on this." Mic offered. Koda nodded at him gratefully.

Aoyama was shooting his laser repeatedly into the sky, learning to increase it's ranger and power while also increasing his pain tolerance for when it hurt his stomach. Tokoyami was not shown, but he could be heard yelling in a dark cave as he learned to keep control of Dark Shadow even in complete darkness. Uraraka was shown tumbling down a hill in some kind of bubble, learning to increase the weight limit as well as her tolerance for the nausea.

Aoyama suddenly pressed a hand to his mouth and stomach when his scene came on. He curled up into a ball to add more pressure against his stomach, and Mineta rubbed his back until the scene changed.

Tokoyami's scene left him feeling...strange. Wrangling Dark Shadow when he did not want to be controlled had a way of making him feel tired while also overly charged, exhausted and restless at the same time. The feeling was even stranger when Dark Shadow wasn't actually doing anything. Thankfully it didn't last long.

When Uraraka was shown training, both Iida and Midoriya were quick move her between them. One steadied her while the other rubbed her back until the scene was over.

"Thanks guys." She said when the scene changed.

Iida was doing long runs to increase his stamina. Tsuyu was shown climbing up the side of a mountain, with her tongue near the top as an anchor, training all the muscles in her body. Sato and Momo were shown to be eating at the same table: Sato so he could fuel his quirk with sweets as he worked out physically, Momo so she could fuel herself while learning to increase the speed and output of her Creation quirk.

Iida felt strain in his muscles and heat from his engines, but once again in was gone in a flash.

Tsuyu's mouth twitched. The feeling of her tongue being stretched while she wasn't actually doing anything was very odd, but it served as a good distraction from the muscle burn.

Sato could feel the strain in his own muscles, along with the bit of head fog that came from using his quirk a lot.

"Aw man, you guys get to chow down while you train, lucky!" Ashido said.

"Just because we are eating does not mean are training is any less strenuous. Our bodies simply require more fuel than others to keep up that level of output." Momo said, sounding much more tired than did before the scene came on.

Sato chuckled. "Yeah, and eating cake constantly isn't as fun as most people think it is. You can get sick of the taste fast."

Jirou was jabbing her earphone jacks into a rock wall. It was meant to strengthen them, and make her sound attacks better as a result. Ashido had her hands pressed against the same wall as she used her quirk, learning to increase her output as well as skin's durability.

Jirou rubbed at her ears, which had become sore from the constant movement shown on screen.

"Ow ow ow ow ow!" Ashido whined, shaking her hands as if to flick off the acid her other self was producing.

Mineta was constantly removing the grapes from his head, hoping to increase the amount he could use before he started bleeding. Shoji and Hagakure we training together. Shoji would quickly shift his Dupli-Arms in attempts to find her while she did her best to evade him.

As soon as Ashido stopped saying 'ow!' Mineta started doing the same. He was relieved when the scene quickly changed.

"Hmm, I hadn't thought about how to train your quirk, it's not like you can become more invisible than you already are all the time." Shoji said to Hagakure.

"Nope, but I can work on hiding other signs of my presence. I was always trying to be louder and stuff when I was younger so that I didn't get overlooked, so it can be hard to try and reverse that. I'm glad we get to work together though! If I can hide from you, I bet I can hide from anybody! I mean, as long as they don't have heat vision or something."

"We could try training together when we get back too. Maybe we could join Ojiro and Kirishima sometimes, since background noise could make it more of a challenge for me."

"I'd love that!"

Class 1B gazed fearfully at the chaos happening before them. Vlad King explained how each type for quirk user was going to train and that normally their quirks would strengthen as they grew. Aizawa came in then and said they didn't have time to wait like normal, and told 1B to hurry up and get started.

"Ha, they want all the attention in the future but they can't even show up at the training grounds as early as we did." Bakugo sneered. "Our class has clearly been going at it for a while, and they're just showing up!"

Kendo worried if so few teachers would be able to properly supervise all 40 students. To assuage her fears, the WWP suddenly appeared, all four members doing a showy introduction. When they were done, a blue haired woman called Ragdoll explained that her quirk let her to get information on up to 100 people at a time after just getting a look at them, allowing her to find their locations as well as their weaknesses.

"Ragdoll's quirk is so amazing! She really makes up the back bone of their search and rescue missions!" Midoriya started raving. As he continued, Uraraka leaned back so she could whisper to Iida over Midoriya's head.

"Just imagine if Deku had the power to tell weaknesses just by looking at someone. He's already so good at analyzing stuff; if he had a quirk like that he'd be unstoppable."

Iida nodded seriously. "Heroes and villains alike would fear him."

Pixie-Bob said she could use her quirk to make individualized training areas. Mandalay said she would use her quirk Telepath to give advice to multiple people at the same time. Tiger proclaimed that his job was punching and kicking, and quickly called all the 'power up types' to come train with him.

"Ah, Pixie-Bob can use her quirk in the same way Cementoss uses his at UA, I hadn't considered that..." Midoriya's ramblings hadn't ever stopped, but he did abruptly switch tracks as each new member was introduced.

"You gotta respect a man that buff who can pull off a skirt that well." Kirishima said with serious nod.

Bakugo briefly wondered if he himself could pull off wearing a skirt, but shoved the thought aside. Either way, adding a skirt to his hero costume wouldn't add anything helpful and it would make his pockets harder to access. He could try it more casually, but if his Mom managed to see it he knew she'd rope him into a photo shoot and he hated doing those.

Tiger declared that he'd already started his workout, and Midoriya was shown doing a strange exercise that included punching and kicking the air. Tiger moved beside him and told Midoriya to hit him hard. Midoriya powered up OfA, but his hit missed when Tiger did a very flexible dodge and smacked Midoriya into a tree. He declared Midoriya hadn't ripped up his muscles enough, so they had to keep going, which Midoriya painfully agreed to do.

Midoriya yelped when he was smacked into the tree. He'd already been feeling the strain on his muscles, but he was plenty used to dealing with that after his 10 months of training on the beach with All Might. Heck, of anyone here he was probably the one that had the most experience with the kind of fast paced hell training that was going on here. But getting smacked into a tree with that amount of force was gonna hurt no matter what. Still, not even that stopped him from praising the flexibility Tiger had just shown.

"Easy with those hits young man, he's broken enough bones already he doesn't need to break any more for the sake of training." Recovery Girl scolded, despite Tiger being unable to hear her.

It was explained to the students that the WWP were chosen because UA couldn't spare a lot of staff for just one class, and because their range of expertise made them good choices for training quirks quickly. Vlad King told his class not to fall behind class A and class B unanimously agreed.

Aizawa couldn't blame Vlad for that sentiment. He didn't want posturing to get in the way of real training, but it was true that 1A's various run ins with villains had given them a leg up. It was natural for Vlad not to want his own charges to get left behind.

Izuku fell back onto the grass, catching his breath. He thought about how All Might gave him a quirk that was 'more than he deserved' and how Gran Torino taught him to really use it. He gained a look of newfound determination, thinking about how far he had already come and how he needed to work hard to go further. He yelled with determination as he got back up, and Tiger told him to 'rip apart that weak quirk!'. Kota was shown to be eavesdropping behind a tree.

"Excellent reasoning Midoirya! I deeply admire your determination, and the inspiration it brings!" Iida shouted.

"My boy, you are deserving of One for All. Whether I saw you and was impressed by you that day or not, you would still be just as deserving of this power. Your actions show that you have the heart of a true hero beating inside you. I'm glad I ran into you that day, so I could see and realize that."

Tears streamed down Midoriya's face as he was once again overwhelmed by emotion. He was so overwhelmed that he didn't immediately think to question Kota's presence, but many other people did. After all, if the boy hated heroes so much, then why would he willingly spend any time around the training grounds?

The scene switched to evening back at the main building, where Pixie-Bob and Ragdoll were energetically explaining to the group of exhausted teens that they had provided the students with all the ingredients to make curry. Iida broke out of his tired daze when he realized that learning how to fill both stomachs and spirits were important parts of hero work. He mustered up his own energy to rouse his fellow students into making some great food. Aizawa was shown, thinking about how useful Iida was.

All the students around the room groaned and sank further into their seats, an aching tiredness pulling at every muscle they possessed. Despite that, Iida glowed at the unspoken praise.

Momo's self confidence issues tried to rear back up, but she shoved them back down. She didn't contest Iida's appointment to class president for this exact reason, because he was able to rally others even when exhausted himself. She couldn't do that nearly as easily...but she could act as a tempering force when Iida started going too far too fast. There was nothing wrong with playing a supporting roll.

Todoroki was shown using his fire side to light a cook fire. Ashido asked him for help with her own fire. Sero asked Bakugo to light their fire with his quirk, which resulted in a demolished stove top. Momo said they shouldn't rely on others and learn to build a fire themselves, before using her quirk to make a lighter for her to use.

Sero chuckled. "I guess I should have expected that to happen."

"Maybe they shouldn't make their shit so flimsy." Bakugo grumbled.

Jirou raised an eyebrow at Momo's words, then pointed out: "Saying that and then pulling a lighter out of your arm is a little hypocritical."

Momo hummed thoughtfully. "That's a fair point. I will make sure to learn how to start a fire from scratch when we get back. After all, there me be times when I need to save my energy reserves, even for small things like that."

Todoroki said he didn't mind helping, and lit the stove Uraraka and Ashido were working with. He sported a small smile as they thanked him.

The real Todoroki wore the same expression. When he'd vowed never to use his fire, he'd only thought about hero work. He'd never thought about using his fire in little ways like this, to help a friends and classmates. It made him grateful all over again that Midoriya had intervened in his life.

The food was prepared and everyone dug in with gusto. Ashido asked Momo if she had to eat a lot, and she confirmed that she did because her quirk worked by converting lipids into other matter. Sero commented that it was like poo, which caused Momo to become distraught, which caused Jirou to smack Sero while demanding an apology.

"Ow! I'm sorry! I'm sorry okay?! Dang you hit hard!" Sero cried. Momo just pinched her nose and hoped her embarrassed flush wasn't too obvious.

"It's your own fault for bringing up such unsavory topics at the dinner table while also disparaging a classmate's quirk!" Iida scolded.

"I didn't mean it like that!"

Kota was shown watching the chaos. He scoffed and started to walk away. One of the WWP called to him that it was time for supper, but he kept on walking. Midoriya was shown watching him.

'He really took that meddling advice of mine to heart it seems.' Yagi thought. The look on young Midoriya's face made him think the boy would try to intervene with young Kota somehow. He wondered if he would be as successful as he was with young Todoroki.

"I wonder why they try to get him to eat with all us students if they know he's got hang ups about hero stuff." Tsuyu said.

"Maybe they just wanted him to come over and get food and would have let him leave with it if he wanted to." Uraraka said. "Or maybe they don't want him to be alone too much. I mean, we haven't seen anyone except the Pussycats here, and if he avoids them because they're heroes too then he might be alone a lot."

The pensive look Midoriya had been sporting became deeper after hearing that.

Kota was shown sitting on a rock outcropping with a cave behind him. Midoriya's voice startled him by offering some curry. Kota demanded to know how Midoriya found him and Midoriya admitted he'd followed him.

"I know you're all about saving people Deku, but that doesn't mean you gotta stalk every sob story you meet. He's already surrounded by heroes, and they do rescue for a living." Bakugo said.

"I know, I just...I have to try at least, if I'm in a position to do so." Whether or not he was really in that position or not was the question.

Midoriya tried offering the food again. Kota refused it and told him to get out of his secret hide out. He went on to say that going all out in training just to show off how powerful you were was gross.

"By that logic, no one should practice and try to get better at anything because they're just doing it to show off." Ojiro said.

"He's five, I don't think he's big into logic." Shoji pointed out.

Midoriya asked if Kota's parents were the Water Hose duo. Kota got angry and asked if Mandalay told him. Midoriya said he'd heard about some of the details and figured it out from there. He called the incident unfortunate. Kota just told him to shut up.

At this point it surprised no one that Midoriya had figured out the identity of Kota's parents with so little to go on. It also didn't surprise them that he was trying to talk to the kid about his issues. Even if Kota had punched him below the belt when they first met, an angry five year old was probably nothing compared to dealing with Bakugo or the other kids from his school on a regular basis while growing up.

Kota said everyone was crazy, calling each other dumb stuff like 'heroes' and 'villains' and killing each other. It was because everyone was so obsessed with quirks and showing off that things ended up like this. Midoriya realized that Kota didn't just hate heroes, but quirks and the whole society that surrounded them.

"Ah yes, humans do so love putting everything and everyone into boxes don't they. Labels can be very helpful, but they can also be very restricting and cause people to view things as simpler than they truly are." Nedzu said.

Before they started watching the future, most of the students would have rebuffed Kota's words, maybe even called it a villainous line of thinking. But now, they could see where such thoughts could come from. Society being so obsessed with quirks played a major role in how badly Midoriya was treated growing up. Endeavor was given the label 'hero' but that didn't stop him from doing some very bad things. Shinsou was given the label 'villain' despite not having done anything deserving of such a title.

Still, it was a very cynical view for such a young child to have. Even if he had some points, they couldn't help but worry about him.

Kota tried to get him to go away again. Midoriya started talking about his 'friend' that wasn't able to inherit a quirk from his parents. How he wanted to be a hero but couldn't do it without a quirk. Still, he kept hoping and practicing. Images of a very young Izuku trying to get one of his parent's quirks to work for him were shown. But it never worked. Midoriya admitted this might not apply to everyone, but his experience with his friend gave him the belief that rejecting his quirk, a part of himself, would just make things more painful. Kota yelled at him again. Midoriya apologized for rambling, and left the food for him before leaving.

"Awww, baby Midoriya's trying so hard." Ashido couldn't help but coo at the images of her classmate trying to get a quirk to appear.

"Hm, I think I see what you are trying to do, exposing some of your own darkness in attempts to better connect with Kota's. Howerver, I think he is too far in his darkness for your light to reach." Tokoyami said.

"It does seem that way, for now at least." Midoriya admitted, discouraged that he didn't seem to make any headway during that first conversation.

"With just words, it will probably stay that way." Todoroki said. Midoriya looked at him curiously, but the other boy didn't elaborate.

As Kota continued to look down in anger, the camera moved to show a small crater in the wall, hidden around a bend.

The watchers frowned in confusion. How did that get there? Kota said this was his secret hide out, so presumably only he went up there regularly, and five years seemed pretty young to have a quirk powerful enough to make a crater like that. Though, with all the anger fueling the boy, maybe it wasn't as unbelievable as they thought.

The scene changed to a different rock outcropping overlooking the trees. Toga was wearing a mask over her mouth, and complaining about how it wasn't cute to a boy with a whole face mask on, as well as a bulky backpack. More people started showing up then: a muscular woman carrying something large and wrapped, a man who had his whole body covered except his teeth, a person with a reptile mutation quirk. When the shot took in the whole group, Dabi was there, along with a tall figure with a mask and cloak covering the whole body. The cloak covered man wanted to get in there right away. Dabi, the apparent leader of the group, said they would wait until all 10 of them were there.

"They're already there?!" Mineta asked, trembling. "We've only had a day and a half to train! That's not fair!"

"You say that like villains are known for playing fair." Sato said, glaring at the screen.

"Still though, only 10? I mean, I know that's more villains than teachers, but there's also 40 students around. That still seems like it's in our favor." Sero said.

"We'll be 40 exhausted students though, if they time it right. And we aren't expecting an attack at all since the location was kept so secret." Midoriya pointed out. His pen tip tapped against the paper, wanting to make plans but knowing it would be pointless. It's not like he could use them to help those he was watching.

Bakugo cracked his knuckles. If the villains thought him being tired would stop him from kicking their asses he would be happy to correct them.

Aizawa frowned. If there really were going to be 10 villains in all, then the pro-heroes would be outnumbered by four people. He'd been plenty outnumbered at the USJ, but this felt different. This didn't feel like a group of thugs Shigaraki had thrown together, these people felt dangerous. With that many villains attacking, and having the element of surprise, things could go badly very quickly.

Yagi cursed the fact that he'd decided to stay in the city. If he was there, he'd surely be able to even the odds even with his time limit. Of course, if they'd found out he was going they might have just ended up sending more people, or sent others to attack the city while he was away.

Nedzu focused on memorizing all the features of the villains that had showed up so far. Hopefully, they could do something about them before any of them ever became a problem in their own timeline.

Dabi declared that this time they would be attacking with a small group of experienced elites, and the heroes would be made to see that their peace rested in the villains' hands. As he said this, images of the sleeping students were shown, as well as Aizawa and Vlad sitting at a table together.

This is when it sunk in for the students that this wasn't going to be like the USJ. At the USJ, the only 'elites' had been Shigaraki, Kurogiri, and the Noumu, and the students that faced them had much more trouble than with all the other villains. They'd needed a group of people working together just to get Kurogiri out of the way, and Shigaraki had went toe to toe with Aizawa.

Anger and fear weighed down on them as it started to sink in just how badly this could go.

Unaware of the danger, the students continued with their training the next day. Those who had failed the final exam practical were especially tired, because they had lessons until 2 am on top of everything else. Aizawa reminded them they had to make up for their failings during the exam as well as grow stronger in their quirks.

Those who failed the practical slumped as tiredness suddenly weighed on them once again. It was almost enough to distract them from the villains they'd just seen. Almost.

"I know you've gotten used to functioning on very little sleep Aizawa, but you have to remember that these are children who are still growing and need more of it in order to keep up. Especially if you want them to actually remember what you're teaching them at night." Recovery Girl reminded him. She might not be able to do anything about the attack that was going to happen to these kids, but she could try and get their teachers to set healthier training practices for them.

Aizawa proceeded to give other directions to students, such as reminding Aoyama and Uraraka to train harder too because they only barely passed their final, and telling all the students to remember where they came from so they can continue to improve. Bakugo, Todoroki, and Midoriya were all shown repeating the words to themselves.

The three boys became lost in thought for a moment, remembering what all they'd seen since they came to this place. So much had happened, and much had been learned, perhaps even more than they would have learned if they'd lived these experiences rather than watching them.

Then there was the next question, where did they want to go next? Taking into account who they had been, who did they want to become?

Midoriya stopped training for a minute to ask Aizawa if All Might, or any other teachers, would be coming later. Aizawa reminded him that they kept knowledge of the location to a minimum, and that All Might stood out to much not to attract attention, not to mention he was a known target for the villains, so he couldn't come.

"If only we'd known how much of a target the rest of the class had become." Mic said regretfully.

Aizawa grit his teeth. It grated on him that, despite all their precautions, it hadn't seemed to do any good. The villains still knew where they were, and not telling more people just resulted in them having less pros around to help with the upcoming attack.

Yagi felt the urge to sigh. He'd become a symbol for a reason, and part of that reason was so he might be targeted instead of others. After all, he had the power to deal with most attacks, so wasn't it better that villains targeted him instead of others? Though, when he first started on this path, he hadn't truly realized how lonely that would end up making him. He lost his connections to Gran Torino and Mirai over the years because of the affects that targeting had, and now the attention on him made it so he couldn't care for his students as much as he would like. Still, seeing that the on-screen Aizawa seemed annoyed at the reminder of himself, he tried to smooth feathers where he could.

"Yes, the roll I've chose to play makes stealth missions difficult for me. I'm glad young Midoriya and the others have someone like you to teach the value of such skills." he said to Aizawa.

The man just hummed in acknowledgment, but it seemed like he was a bit less tense than before.

Pixie-Bob announced that, at the end of the day, there would be a test of courage they could do that would pit the classes against each other, as a reward for their hard work. Jirou said she hated scary things. The camera suddenly zoomed in on Tokoyami as he said 'Revelry in the dark'.

"Aww, it's okay Jirou! If we do something like this for real, I'll team up with you and help keep things lighthearted." Ashido promised.

"I don't trust you not to try and scare me more for the fun of it."

"Oh come on, I'm not that mean!"

Several students looked at Tokoyami questioningly when he said that phrase, but he ignored them.

A member of class 1b said that they were gonna do normal summer camp things too. Monoma said he liked the idea of the classes competing. Koda called out a 'yes sir' from on top of a cliff that was loud enough to be heard from far away.

"He would like that." Hagakure groused when Monoma spoke.

"Hey, good job listener! You're already improving how loud you can be." Mic praised when Koda yelled. The boy blushed at that, and it turned deeper when some of his classmates echoed the sentiment.

Midoirya thought again about 'where I come from' before Tiger called him back into training. The scene changed to evening meal prep once again. Bakugo chopped vegetables super fast, which Uraraka was impressed and surprised by, and her surprise angered him.

Those watching had already seen Bakugo do meal prep, so this scene didn't surprise them. They certainly had been when they first saw it though.

"Why is everyone always so surprised by me doing that? It's just chopping things." Bakugo said.

"Chopping stuff may be easy, but I don't know many people who can do it that fast without worrying about chopping their fingertips off. Not to mention how even those slices look." Kirishima replied. He could chop things fast if he wanted too, but that was because he could just harden his hand to make sure he wouldn't get hurt.

"Oh, so they're wusses then."

Kirishima sighed.

Midoriya was working on getting the wood stove set up when Todoroki came up to talk to him. He asked if Midoriya needed All Might for something, since he'd been asking about him earlier. Midoriya admitted he wanted advice about Kota.

It warmed Yagi's heart to see that Midoriya thought of him when wanting advice about such things. Still, given Kota's current mindset, he wasn't sure talking to or receiving advice from the number one pro-hero would be something the boy would be up for.

'Deku's so sweet.' Uraraka thought, seeing how Midoriya still wanted to help Kota, despite being rebuffed multiple times.

Todoroki asked who Kota was, and Midoriya explained that was the name of the little kid who was Mandalay's cousin. He looked around, and realized Kota wasn't anywhere nearby, and that he was probably hiding from them again. He told Todoroki about how Kota hated heroes and quirks, and how he wondered what All Might would have said since his own words didn't seem to help. He asked Todoroki what he would have said. Todoroki pointed out that having a stranger butt into your business would just be annoying, and that actions would be more powerful than words to Kota. The words would have to be pretty powerful if they were going to do anything on their own. That made Midoriya remember that it was his actions during the slime villain incident that inspired All Might after they first met.

"Oh...oh I think I get it. It's kind of like what happened between us at he Sports Festival too." Midoriya said.

"Hm?" Todoroki looked at him.

"Well, if I'd just talked to you about your quirk being your own power and everything, that probably wouldn't have convinced you to use your fire right? It was because of what I did during the match that gave the words such an impact."

"Ah, I see, I think that's accurate. Well, that and the fact that we already knew each other a bit. We'd been in class together, and I felt connected to you because of your connection to All Might. So we weren't complete strangers like with you and Kota."

"That's a good point." Midoriya admitted. Now the question was, what actions could he take that would break through Kota's walls? What could he do to make Kota think about his words rather than just dismiss them?

Midoriya agreed there wasn't much he could say at this point, because he was a stranger. Todoroki suggested it might be better to keep out of it, though Midoriya showed he didn't mind butting in to such things in the past. They both thought about the sports festival, and Midoriya apologized while looking abashed.

"I guess I never really asked but, were you okay with me doing that? It was a little hard to tell with how much pain I was in during the even itself, but things seemed okay when we talked after it was all over."

Todoroki hummed thoughtfully. "I'm okay with it, at least I am now. It gave me a lot of complicated feelings at the time though, there was a lot going on."

"I see." 'Things worked out with Todoroki, but I guess I should try to remember that not everyone will take that kind of interference well.'

The conversation was cut off by Iida insisting they get back to working on the meal.

The scene skipped ahead to nighttime, where Pixie-Bob announced that test of courage was about to start. Those who had failed the practical cheered in excitement, until Aizawa announced that they would be doing their lessons instead of participating. Ashido freaked out and made a very outraged expression before being dragged away by Aizawa.

"Oh come on! We need break times too!" Ashido complained, though it almost couldn't be heard over Jirou's laughter.

"Look at it this way," she said while snickering "you keep your promise this way. If I'm scared during the test, I just have to remember the face you just made and I'll be too busy laughing to be scared!"

"Jiroooooou!" Ashido whined as more of her classmates started laughing.

Even as the others laughed, Midoriya frowned. Something about this was giving him a bad feeling.

The WWP explained that class 1B would hide in the forest along a looping path, and pairs from class 1A would go in every few minutes. 1B were supposed to try and scare the pairs using their quirks but without making direct contact, and after the whole class had gone through the classes would switch and 1A would be the ones doing the scaring. Tokoyami said revelry in the dark again at one point.

"Oh no..." Izuku said, the two words filled with dread. Uraraka looked at him in confusion.

"What's wrong Deku? Do you not like this kind of scary stuff either?"

"That's not it! There are villains nearby, ready to attack at some point, and we're all about to go do an activity that splits us up and spreads a bunch of us out through the woods. An activity where we're supposed to get scared, so if people near the main building hear screaming they won't immediately know anything is wrong!"

Uraraka's eyes widened as Midoriya talked. "Oh no." she breathed out when he was done.

The students around them heard all that too, and the oppressive air started to return to the room. It had been all too easy to forget about the villains for a bit, since they hadn't done anything yet and the daytime scenes were so bright and distracting. But now it was night, and as Midoriya pointed out, the test of courage would be a great time to catch them off guard.

The teachers watched the screen warily. If the villains did attack right now, did it mean there was someone at the camp keeping them appraised of when would be the best time to strike? Or could it just be a coincidence?

Tiger declared that the class that made the other piss their pants more would win. Iida enthusiastically praised UA for using even a fun activity to foster creative uses of their quirks through competition.

A minute ago, these comments would have made the students laugh, but the sudden fear of how this event would end made it hard for anyone to do so.

Pixie-Bob had them draw lots to see who would be paired up with who for the test of courage. Midoriya drew his lot, then remembered that they had an odd number of students due to some of them being in lessons. It didn't take long for him to realize he was the odd man out, the one person who didn't have a partner.

"Alright, it's official. Something is going to happen." Bakugo declared.

"Huh? What do you mean?" Kaminari asked.

"The nerd's got shitty luck when it comes to villains remember? We all were at the USJ, but Deku's also had to deal with Stain during his internship and Shigaraki at the mall. Now Deku just laid out why now would be a good time to try attacking us, and he's the only person without a buddy. Shit is definitely about to go down."

"And Midoriya will likely be alone for part of it." Kirishima said grimly.

Izuku gulped. Uraraka and Iida began to wonder if it might be a good idea to get him a towel and sit him down on the floor ahead of time.

While Midoriya despaired over not having a partner, other people tried to switch. Bakugo tried to get Ojiro to switch with him so he wouldn't have to be with Todoroki. Mineta creepily tried to persuade Aoyama to switch with him so he could go with Yoayorozu. Tokoyami said 'revelry in the dark' again.

"Okay, assuming we don't get attacked during this whole thing, I honestly would feel bad for whoever tries to scare a pairing of Todoroki and Bakugo." Sero said. "I mean, Todoroki is super stoic, so even if you scare him a bit you're probably not going to be able to tell, and if you manage to get Bakugo he'll just get angry at you and blow something up in your face."

"I'm not gonna get scared by the pansies in 1B!"

"I rest my case."

Mineta watched his on-screen counterpart, and the reactions to it. "Um, I'm gonna guess this is another thing I should mark down as something I shouldn't do in the future."

"Oh yeah dude, no girl is gonna wanna go near you if you look or sound like that." Kaminari confirmed.

"You keep saying that, but what does it mean?" Shoji asked when Tokoyami said that phrase again for the third time.

"If you had experienced it for yourself, you would understand. I'm not sure I could adequately explain it to someone who has no experience with such things."

Shoji looked at Sato and Koda to see if they understood that at all. Sato shrugged and Koda looked away.

12 minutes later, there were screams coming from the woods and Tsuyu and Uraraka were being sent in as a pair. Uraraka admitted she was scared and Tsuyu offered to hold her hand, which Uraraka took her up on.

"Thanks Tsuyu, I'm glad you're there with me." Uraraka said.

"Same here, kero."

Uraraka had been shown to be pretty reliable so far, Tsuyu thought, and she was nice, so whether or not they got attacked, she thought Uraraka would be a good person to be paired with. Similarly, Uraraka also thought Tsuyu was pretty reliable and cool headed, and felt she would be a good partner both for the test of courage and if the villains attacked.

Elsewhere on the path, a group of 1B students were set up. The zombie looking boy with the softening quirk, Juzo, complimented a dark haired girl, Kodai, on scaring everyone so far. Kendo was also there and complimented her. Juzo laughed, remembering their encounter with Todoroki and Bakugo. It briefly flashed back to the event, showing Kodai's head popping out of the ground while the 1A boys froze and said 'oh'.

There were a few giggles at the strange and underwhelming reaction. Bakugo scoffed. He was just startled, not scared, there was a difference!

"Gotta admit, that is a pretty good set up they have going." Ojiro said. "I know I'd get spooked if a head just appeared out of nowhere."

Kodai suddenly asked if the others could smell something burning. Juzo admitted it was getting smokey, as some sort of haze wafted into the area. He wondered if Bakugo or Todoroki had started a fire by accident, before he suddenly trailed off and passed out. Kendo quickly realized this was gas, not smoke. She warned Kodai not to breath breath it in, before holding her own breath and using her enlarged fist to cover Kodai.

The traces of levity that had sneaked in to the room were abruptly chased back out.

"Do any of the 1B kids have a gas quirk like that?" Momo asked. Though she felt she already knew the answer. Kendo was a leader in her class, if this quirk was from one of her classmates, she would know it.

"Not that I can recall." Aizawa answered tersely, staring hard at the screen, as though trying to glare this alternate timeline into submission.

People back at the main area started to smell smoke as well, and saw it rising above the trees. Dabi was shown to be setting the forest on fire, blue flames dancing all around him as he said it was time to begin.

While the class fretted and became even more worried, Todoroki frowned at the man on screen. Something was bothering him about Dabi, and had been for a little while now. He felt familiar somehow. He'd dismissed it as deja vu before, because there was no way he'd forget meeting someone with such a unique look. But now, seeing his face so close up, and surrounded by fire, that feeling came back in full force. But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get the feeling to connect to an actual memory. He felt like he was trying to remember a song from his childhood, but could only come up with the melody, not the lyrics or where he'd heard it.

A glow surrounded Pixie-Bob, and she was sent flying away from the group. The boy with the full mask and backpack was shown surrounded by the gas. Toga was shown watching Uraraka and Tsuyu. The villain with only his teeth showing wandered through the woods. All the while Dabi could be heard talking. He ordered his comrades to 'take them down' and the false brilliance of the title hero with them. Magne and Spinner had arrived at the main area. Pixie-Bob's was being pressed into the ground by Magne, and looked like she might already be passed out. Midoriya tried to rush to Pixie-Bob's aid, but was stopped by the other WWP members. When Midoriya caught sight of Mandalay, he suddenly remembered that Kota had run off earlier. The boy was shown at this hide out, fearfully watching the forest burn. He was so focused on that, he failed to notice someone approaching him from behind.

There was no question to it now. The placement of the villain producing the gas that knocked out Juzo, the quick take down of Pixie-Bob, and even someone sent to Kota's hide out; these all pointed to the villains knowing what the pros had planned for the night.

The only thing that might be considered a 'bright side' was the appearance of someone at Kota's secret place. It seemed doubtful that someone leaking information to the League would have bothered with a five year old's whereabouts. That meant the information was likely gathered by outside spying rather than an internal leak, but that still didn't give them any idea on how to stop the information from getting out. Nor did it change that a little boy was left alone with a villain, on top of everything else going wrong that night.

Once again, no one even thought of taking a break. They needed to know what was going to happen, and how to defend against it. So they forged ahead.