It was Sunday morning. For most, a day of work, for others, a day off. Students weren't required to be in class, so they were free to study, go out, or stay in.

For some of the students of UA, they chose to go out.

Eijiro Kirishima, Shouto Todoroki, Hitoshi Shinso, and Denki Kaminari chose to workout early in the morning, but their style of workout was much different than others would expect.

They chose to do cardio.

"Dude," huffed an exhausted Kirishima "I told you attempting to bust that drug ring was a bad idea!"

Shinso snorted. "Says the guy who beats up criminals every other night!"

The redhead scowled. "Not drug lords!"

Todoroki looked behind them. "Guys, I think Kaminari is falling behind."

They all turned. Sure enough, the electric teen screamed as a crowd of angry men stormed their way.

"Hey! A little help here!"

Todoroki looked towards the others. "I forgot he isn't as trained as we are."

Shinso chuckled. "So did we." He promptly turned his heels towards the blond, his weapons at the ready. On his he held several sticky grenade, foam bombs, and guns with tranquilizers installed. He refused to use the few actual bullets that were carried in a hidden pocket unless the need to brute force arose, but he doubted he'd use very much of them.

He slammed his legs into the ground and leapt towards a man with a lizard quirk, throwing a sticky grenade at his torso, and smirked as he landed near Kaminari, the goo activating as he landed.

"The hell is this?! It won't come off!"

Not having much time to relish his victory, he placed Kaminari onto his shoulder as he sprinted away, his eyes brimming with panic as he heard a gargantuan woman shoot towards them.

Todoroki took this time to fire a glacier towards the woman, frowning as she front flipped over it, and broke the ice into fragments as she body slammed into it. He immediately fired a stream of fire towards her, saying nothing as she cried out in a panic as the flames burnt her arms.

Kirishima grinned as he rushed towards her, his body hardened to the point of diamond as his head launch into her gut in a devastating headbutt, but dodged when a sword came in contact with the air in front of him.

Grabbing the blade in his sharpened fingers, he crushed it into pieces as he laughed. "Gotta do better than that!" Seeing the opportunity, he did the best thing anyone could do.

He ran off.

Shinso stared at him in disbelief. "Why didn't you arrest them?"

Kirishima opened his mouth to retort, then paused. "I don't know."

"You don't know."

"It slipped my mind."

Kaminari also stared at him in disbelief. "You're the only one qualified to do so!"

Kirishima sheepishly grinned. "Sorry guys."

"Hey guys, I don't wanna spoil this break, but they're starting to recover. Let's dip."

The others scampered off.


"You idiots!"

The last thing they expected to hear from their mentor were those two words. "You fucking idiots!"

Kirishima, Todoroki, Shinso, and Kaminari looked down in embarrassment. Kaminari had the gall to play with his bracelets.

Izuku was livid. Not only did he instruct his two apprentices and partner not to go after the ring, but they chose to involve Kaminari.

The same Kaminari he'd just started training.

"If anything," started the vigilante. "Explain to me why you chose to involve Denki. You know he isn't trained like you two are." He looked at Kirishima. "You know I told you that the ring was much too dangerous to go on your own. I could've had a couple of pros with us."

Kirishima nodded. "I know, I know. But I figured it was good training for the three of them! Like you did with me!"

Izuku shook his head. "As much as I approve of the honesty, you four could have gotten yourselves killed. As a result, I'm tripling your training, and you aren't patrolling with me for a week." He ignored any refusals.

Directing his attention to the other three. "You three. Listen up. I'm going to make sure Aizawa doubles down on any homework you have coming up for the next week, on top of grueling endurance training with him and myself." He looked towards the redhead. "You know what? That goes for you too."

He sighed in exasperation. "That's final, and all from me. I appreciate what you guys are trying to do, but please let me know where you'll be at least in case of emergencies the next time you do something like this." And with that, he went back to his papers.

The four all shared a guilty look and proceeded to walk out of Izuku's room, all with their heads down with shame.

They all walked to the front door, and all four of them started to giggle. Kirishima grinned like a madman. "Totally worth it."

Shinso stared at the redhead. "Kaminari almost died."

Kaminari laughed. "But did I die?"

"If you four don't get out of here in two seconds I'm going to start limiting your hangout time with Eri." Called out an irritated Izuku.

Needless to say, the three self-proclaimed uncles and Kaminari booked it.

{noon}

Kyoka and Tsuyu were walking away from the station and to the shopping mall that had opened up a month ago. They talked excitedly about music, something that surprised Kyoka to know the common interest.

"Ribbit, so you mean many notes on the guitar can be played on all six strings?" Asked a curious Tsuyu.

Kyoka smiled. "Yup! Although all notes are in different octaves, there are some notes that sound identical to others. For example, if you press your finger on the fifth fret of the second string, B, you'll hear the same E note that can be played on the first string without pressing anything! That E note on the E string is called an open note."

The frog-like girl nodded. "So how do I know which instrument is for me?"

"You just have to experiment and find out! There is no do or die method, plus it's wayyy more fun!"

The vernadette nodded as she mentally logged that information. "Good to know, ribbit. Oh look, there are the others!"

True to Uraraka's word, every student of 1-A was in front of the mall, including…"

"Why is Bakugou here?" Dryly inquired Kyoka.

Ochako quickly stepped in front of the ashen blond. "I invited him!"

The purplette rolled her eyes over to Bakugou, then to the brunette, then back to Bakugou. "Okay, but why?"

This time Mina stepped next to the duo. "Because this is a class outing, and he has every right to be a part of it! Isn't that right Uraraka?" The brunette nodded with determination.

Kyoka shrugged. "I guess, whatever." She then walked further into the group.

Uraraka nodded, placing an arm on Bakugou's shoulder. "Don't let her get to you. She's just not used to you being around."

The blond rolled his eyes. "She didn't, round face." He said in a bored tone. "But thanks." Was added rather quietly. He pointedly ignored her surprised expression.

Mina snickered, nudging the brunettes side. "Hunch hunch wink wink!"

Ochako blushed profusely with her hands covering her face. "Oh can it!"

"So what's the plan?" Asked Todoroki, scanning over the mall map. "I'm okay with anything, but if you all have something in mind…"

"There seems to be a cinema here…" mused Tenya. "Mayhaps we'll watch a movie?"

"How about we do that closer to the end of the outing? Leave on a positive note!" Cheered Hagakure.

"I concur." Added Tokoyami.

Mina beamed. "Okay, so that solves what to do later! But what about now?" As if on cue, her stomach growled. "Ha ha, how about something to eat? The food court is over on the east wing."

Kirishima pumped his fist. "I could eat!" His mood brightened as the class nodded. "Yeah! Let's go!" He walked over to Mina, gripping her hand as they all walked, the class delving into their own separate conversations.

Mina playfully skipped at a slower pace, giggling at the stumbling Kirishima, who laughed after regaining his footing. He blushed as he gazed into her eyes.

She wiggled her brows. "Like what you see?" She lightly snickered when he turned his head. "Aw, cmon Kiri! It's not like we're starting to date!" She beamed as she clutched onto his arm.

He glanced at her. "I know, it's just that you still give me butterflies, Mina. And what you're wearing looks so good on you!" She blinked as he said that. Snuggling into his arm, she smiled contently.

click*

Both teens glanced at the sound, which turned out to be Hagakure's phone. "This ones a keeper!" She exclaimed.

Mina's eyes brightened. "Lemme see!" Parting ways from her boyfriend, she squealed as she looked. "Send this to me!"

The redhead only smiled at the sight of the two as he looked towards the food court. He then glanced towards Todoroki and Shinso, who stared at their phones, wide eyed at a new Soba recipe.

'I am so blessed with them.'

Looking over at the others, he noted Sero and Kaminari chuckling at a joke they told to Fumikage (who was currently trying to rack his brain of what the joke meant), he saw Tsuyu and Ochako nodding along to a conversation Tenya and Momo were discussing, Kyoka was showing some music to Shoji and Masahiro, and Bakugou was currently looking like he'd be somewhere else.

He walked over to the blond, noticing how rigid he was as he placed an arm over his shoulder. "Bakugou! Hey! Having a good time?"

"Piss off hair dye."

The redhead laughed. "Oh come on! At least talk to someone that isn't me! What about Ochako, huh? I heard you two got along pretty well."

His arm was shoved off. "And so what?"

Kirishima grinned. "It means you're friends now! So between me, Sero, and Ochako, you have a grand total of three friends! Way more than you had at the start of the year!"

Bakugou scoffed. "Thanks for the encouragement hair dye."

His eyes widened, just more a moment, as the brunette waved him over. He subtly pointed to himself, and scowled as she nodded.

The expression dropped when he saw her mood visibly change to hurt, so with a sigh of defeat, he walked over (much to her elation).

Kirishima pumped his arm in victory as he watched the ordeal go down. He glanced at Mina, and nodded. He shot her a text (mission in progress) and beamed when she struck a victory pose.


A hooded figure weaved his way through an energetic crowd, his eyes narrowing at an ad for a fashion magazine featuring hawks. He scoffed, electing to look away as he walked.

His cracked skin glowed slightly as he approached a magazine stand that was lit. He grabbed one and pretended to read. He scanned the shoppers, hoping that maybe one of them would be who he was looking for.

Spotting green hair, he grinned. He set the magazine back on the stand and strides forward. He made sure to stay away from the vernadette, waiting for the person to break away…

"I'm going to call my siblings, ribbit." Seeing the girl wave to her friends, he reached his hand forward and latched onto her neck, his pinky being the only thing separating her from her death.

"Come walk with me, Tsuyu Asui. We have much to discuss." He cackled.

Forcing her on a bench, he looked towards the shoppers as she remained still, praying he wouldn't touch her with his last finger.

'It's one of the villains Izuku described! Tomura Shigaraki!'

{flashBack}

"Izuku! What's going on?"

The quirkless teen looked at the space in front of him with lifeless eyes, his mind replaying exactly what happened. He noticed a few of his students behind him, but refused to speak.

"Izu?" He barely registered Yui as she placed her hand on one of his own, her eyes full of concern while he just stared.

Tsuyu looked between Yui and her boyfriend with anxiety bubbling up. 'Why isn't he responding?' "Maybe we can just sit here in silence, ribbit. So he knows he is not alone." Yui just nodded at the suggestion.

The two had almost sat for a full minute before the vernadette spoke.

"Be careful when you go out."

Tsuyu and Yui just glanced at each other. The former looked to Izuku. "What?"

He turned to the frog-like girl, causing her to gasp as she noticed the hollow look he held. "Be careful of a man with blueish grey hair. He has scar tissue surrounding his eyes, with a crazed look etched on his face. He's dangerous."

Yui gripped onto his other hand. "How do you know him?"

Izuku turned back to the wall he was staring at. "I fought him. It was a hard won battle." He sighed when he felt Tsuyu lean onto his back. "If you see him or he approaches you, call for help immediately. I can't lose either of you, any of you. I just can't."

He sobbed as the two girls hugged him, worry etched into their eyes as they sat in silence with him.

{end flashback}

"We're old friends from school, Asui. Remember to say that or your siblings won't see their big sister again." He didn't bother looking to see her nod.

"W-what do you want, ribbit?"

"Tell me, you have heard of all the commotion your boyfriend is playing into the news, correct?"

She nodded.

"I've been thinking for months. About him, Stain," his voice growled. "All Might." He spat out that name in disgust. "What makes them so similar? Stain is making headlines based on his words, even if he hasn't been caught, and why is his mission so much different from mine? Why is Quirkless' goals so much different from All Might? It just doesn't make any sense! They are the same!"

Tsuyu's horror only grew as the villain raked his fingers over his neck, his agitation expanding as he ranted. Her eyes flitted to the crowd, desperately hoping her friends would see her.

All she saw were patrons of the mall excitedly rushing to their next store.

"Asui, explain to me how vigilantes and heroes differ." She only stared at him in abject fear, worried that whatever she said wouldn't come out wrong.

"It wasn't rhetorical, Asui."

She swallowed hard as she looked into his eyes. "Vigilantes follow heroic duty without being registered as heroes, ribbit. They follow their own code of heroism, going against both heroes and villains in seeing what they believe is right. They aren't restricted by any laws." She released a breath of relief as she watched him ponder over her words.

That relief froze into terror as his frown grew into a grin, an expression horrifying on a face like Shigaraki.

"I see. Vigilantes are on the brink of villainy, if only with the right push!"

'That's the opposite of what I said!'

He turned to the girl he held hostage. "So what you're saying is, since they have their own moral code, with the correct influence, they can easily turn from the heroes and into the villains they could aspire to be." He then cackled, a sound she would be haunted by for months.

"They could switch teams! The age of All Might is coming to a close!"

Her eyes were as wide as saucers at this point. If she wasn't gripped by the villain, she would have run there and then. 'Is he implying that he could turn Izu against us?!'

The villain chuckled as he turned back to the hero in training. "Thank you for the clear explanation. You've helped me today, my hero." Shivers ran down her spine.

Releasing her, he placed his hands in his pockets. "You've given me food for thought, Asui. I'll do you a favour and not kill you for now. Ta ta!" As he walked away, he shot her one final grin, leaving her shivering on the bench.

"Tsuyu! There you are!" She looked up to find Kirishima and Momo, worry clear in their eyes. Kirishima's expression dropped when he saw her crying. "What's wrong?"

"Shigaraki was here."

His blood went cold. 'The same guy Quirkless and I ran into on one of our patrols? Him?!"

He grabbed her arm and pulled her up. "We need to see Izuku now.

Momo was only confused by the departing teens. "Who's Shigaraki?"

The redhead shot her a look of anger. "I'll tell you later. What we need to do is get our classmates out of here. I'll call Izuku, can you round up everyone? He might come back for the others."

She didn't press, but did as he asked. She trusted Kirishima, and hoped he wouldn't leave anything out.