The sun was making its decent as Abel and Katsu began their walk towards the dorms. The skies above them were beginning to change from their normal blue to beautiful pinks and oranges and curfew was getting close. Both boys carried Styrofoam containers with straws, Abel carried a drink mix of cherry limeade sherbet and sprite and Katsu had a chocolate milkshake, and were sipping from the containers as they continued an important discussion.
"I think that it might be a bit of a stretch to assume that Deku would steal someone else's quirk, he is still a hero after all." Katsu was currently saying before taking another large drink of his shake. Abel shook his head gesturing wildly with his free hand careful not to spill his drink.
"I'm not saying he would steal it, but maybe someone gave it to him. I'm just pointing out that the leader of the League of Villains came out with the ability to transfer quirks while they were in school. Plus the League was pretty dead set on not hurting Deku from what I've learned about their encounters."
The boys approached the door Katsu opening it for Abel and allowing him to walk in before him as they entered Katsu finished off his milkshake shrugging expressively.
"I don't think Deku would work with the villains, but even if he did, would it be so bad? He may have initially gotten a quirk from a villain but he ended up using his quirk to become the best hero of our age"
Abel walked past the couch situated in the living room heading towards the kitchen in the dorm rooms taking a large drink of his cup he thought for a long moment thinking carefully of how to respond.
"I know that some people would consider the ends to justify the means, but that would still mean he took a quirk from someone else, and that wouldn't be okay would it? What if he got a quirk from a different hero?"
Abel was met with silence as his response, blinking in confusion he turned around to see where his conversational partner had went "Katsu?" his eyes widened in shock as he saw the bottom of Katsu's uniform pants and his shoes disappear around a corner. Abel stared in utter confusion for a moment, wondering what was going on. He didn't feel any like anyone was truly in danger, and part of their training lately was learning to trust their instincts so he decided to wait and see what would happen.
Moving to the fridge Abel made himself a quick snack, then carrying his drink and his food over to a darker part of the living area he sat and waited to see what would happen. Turning on some music that was far softer than what he usually listened to he settled in and got comfortable. His wait wasn't a long one as suddenly he saw Austin come back into the room, glance around 'stealthily' before moving back under the couch.
'What the hell?' Abel stared in confusion at Austin as he got comfortable under the couch 'What is he doing?' he saw movement coming from the hallway about ten minutes later as Leo came into the living area glancing around nervously before going towards the kitchen. As soon as Leo got near the couch Abel saw Austin's arm dart out, his spines cutting a shallow line across Leo's ankle. Moments later Leo's body spasmed before crashing to the floor where Austin quickly darted out grabbing him under his arms and dragging him out of the living space once more.
Abel watched Austin perform his same thing with four more classmates; Hunter, Megan, Robyn, and Anton before he finally decided to come and say something about it. He approached the couch after Austin had hidden again, quickly pulling his ankle out of the way of the spines that swiped at him, before kneeling down and making eye contact with Austin.
"Hey Bud, what's uh… whatcha doing?"
Austin jerked as he was caught, hitting his body against the bottom of the couch and almost causing the piece of furniture to flip. Mumbling under his breath Austin removed himself from his hiding spot and sat on the couch. "Uh, recruiting people?"
Abel just stared at him for a moment before removing his headphones and sitting next to Austin on the couch. "Recruiting people? Recruiting people for what? You've been paralyzing everyone too so that's awfully suspicious"
Austin rubbed the back of his head before fixing his glasses focusing his gaze on the floor in front of him "Well, what had happened was…"
Austin was walking back towards the dorms from school enjoying the weather now that it was finally starting to cool off a little bit, he couldn't wait to get home so he could take off his school uniform and relax for the weekend. He loved his heroics classes, and the school was everything he had hoped it would be, but his classmates could be… difficult… to get along with sometimes. He was trying his hardest to get better at communicating, and having Abel as a friend was certainly helping him get better at socializing at the very least.
Currently though, he had a very specific problem, a very noisy problem, a problem that seemed like it hadn't breathed in over twenty minutes. Blake was walking next to Austin bouncing in excitement as he talked to the quiet giant beside him "I'm just saying it would be fun to play some games, like hide and seek! We should totally play hide and seek! I'm great at it; my parents taught me how to play it when people came into the house that weren't invited. I was so good at it my parents couldn't find me a few times and I had to come out of hiding so they wouldn't worry anymore, and I'd like to see if any of you guys would have better luck finding me than my parents did. Also I think it would be a fun way for all of us to get to know each other a little bit better, don't you? I would love to make more friends and this seems like a great way to!"
Austin groaned covering his face with his hands, no matter how fast he walked Blake managed to keep pace with him and never seemed to be out of breath in the slightest. He began to sweat heavily and his head swam as he tried to fight down the panic attack that was creeping up on him. Finally he stopped, put his hand up to quiet Blake down which amazingly worked, the smaller boy looked up at him expectantly a Cheshire grin on his face. "Yes, I think playing hide and seek would be a ton of fun, how about you go to the dorms and hide in your room and I'll get everyone else to hide and you can go seek them."
Blake nodded enthusiastically before sprinting back to the dorms, running up to his room and sitting on his bed as he waited for the signal. Austin took several deep calming breaths trying to figure out what he should do, he supposed he could always just leave Blake in his room the rest of the night, but that didn't feel like something a hero would do. He could always ask everyone if they wanted to play, he glanced up at Megan, Synaes, Robyn and Moxie in turn his face progressively turning brighter and brighter red before he shook that thought out. No way he was going to go ask his very attractive classmates 'even if Megan would have no interest in him, not that any of the others would either, just look at me' to play a childish game of hide and seek with him. He came to his conclusion then, he would make this game of hide and seek happen, maybe then Blake would go back to pestering Drake or Abel instead!
Abel just stared in wide-eyed shock at Austin as he finished his story before he began to laugh uproariously. He fell backwards off the couch as he howled in laughter "Oh, oh God" he snorted and laughed even harder "Good to know that if I ever need anything I can just send Blake after you to harass you into doing it for me."
Austin flushed a bright shade of red before he got an evil glint in his eyes; Abel noticed this and slowed his laughing fit backing away slowly "What… what's going on buddy? What are you looking at me like that for?" Austin suddenly lunged at him and Abel tried to scramble away, Austin grabbed him around his waist picking Abel up, and dropping both of them backwards. Austin's back was arched with his head buried into Abel's stomach, Abel's back had taken the brunt of the impact of the suplex and the breath had been forced out of him.
Abel gasped trying to get oxygen back in his lungs before he felt the telltale prick of Austin's spine which was closely followed by a searing burning feeling before he felt nothing at all. Austin straightened up and smiled apologetically down at Abel "Sorry man, you're the last person in the class I needed to catch; I'll give you the anti-venom as soon as Blake catches you. Or, if you don't want me to administer it the venom itself should fade without any lasting health effects in the next hour or two." With this Austin began to drag Abel to a hiding spot before going and knocking on Blake's door and informing him the game was on. Job done he retired to his bedroom to enjoy what little peace and quiet he could before all of this came back to bite him hard in the butt.
It took about forty-five minutes for Blake to find all of his classmates, them being paralyzed and unable to move actually made it much harder to find them in their hiding spots. He was able to move most of them into the living room to wait until Austin could treat their paralysis and was currently dragging Abel by his ankles towards the living room.
Abel glared up at Blake "You could at least move me by my arms or something man, I feel like my pants are about to get pulled off" Blake just gave him a wide grin in response. "I have a question though, why didn't you just ask Lloyd to play? He probably would have been all for it, especially if you said it was for class bonding." Blake just grinned even wider in response leaning close to Abel's ear before whispering "Where would be the fun of everyone volunteering to play?"
Abel just stared at the boy in front of him as he continued to be drug towards the living area "Did you… did you plan on Austin doing all of this!?" Blake again answered only with a wide grin and a laugh, he finished putting Abel in the living room dragging him next to Megan and leaving him.
Abel glanced over at Megan "So uh… how's it hangin?" she just growled at him to shut up, when Austin appeared a little bit later everyone began to yell at the large boy who flushed bright red and looked about ready to dash out of the room. Abel whistled loudly "Hey do you guys want freed or what, if we keep embarrassing him he's just gonna run off and not fix us!" everyone quieted down at this as Austin approached them again.
Abel glanced up at him in curiosity "How do you cure your venom anyways? I don't think I've ever heard" everyone else was rather curious as well, except Martel who began to shiver in disgust.