SmokyGhoul - That's quite a large plan you're imagining :P For as much as Midoriya is dangerous, he still isn't playing in the same league as Nedzu, Sir Nighteye or Re-Destro. So, I'm willing to say that he's a bit too short-legged to try something this grand, although... well, few next chapters might change that perception.

Walkmanapprenticewordsmith - Well, who knows? Let's just say that on Ao3 there is a 'and you won't believe who that is' tag right after 'UA has a Traitor' tag :P

PokeKing Charizard - Who doesn't love it? :v

AngelFallenDemon - I assure that's no red herring. But you'll have to wait for the answer for a looong time. Almost until the conclusion of the fic...

Detrametal - Yes, those tea parties have to be... interesting.

Syn1 - Who knows, who knows.

Trixuny - Don't you think that it would be too simple of an answer?

(***)

Shoto Todoroki shared the words of All Might with his siblings. Considering the fact that they had to deal with their father for years (and the concept of him changing his mind on something was absolutely alien to them), it was probably unsurprising that they didn't believe him.

Fuyumi seemed hopeful (was that the right word?) at the concept. Natsuo, in the meantime… he noticed his father's odd behavior, but saw that as some sort of long-term scheme. He had no idea what Endeavor wanted to achieve with that, but still was adamant about all of it being a set-up.

Shoto has a faint suspicion that Natsuo was paranoid. And hated their father too much for it to be healthy. But he decided to ask Izuku for confirmation when he goes back to school.

As a result of this belief, the Todorokis were utterly taken aback when their father announced that he is moving out during one of the very awkward family dinners that Todoroki family excelled in.

"You WHAT?" Natsuo was the one to reply to that, as Fuyumi was too busy staring at their father, and Shoto was too focused on his soba.

"I'm moving out." Endeavor says. Very little emotions are visible on his face, but he isn't looking at them. But at his food. That says a lot.

Shoto isn't what, but certainly a lot.

"You don't need me here." Endeavor ads. Natsuo inflates.

"Oh, so that's the game that you're playing." Natsuo glares at their father. "Well, if you think that we're going to suddenly decide that we actually need you for something here, then you're in for a rude awakening. We're going to do just fine without you."

"Great." Endeavor says, his eyes still on the food. "You do that."

Natsuo opened his mouth, clearly unsure how to respond to his suspicion of reverse psychology falling flat. And maybe slightly taken aback.

(***)

"You know that you could simply apologize?" Shoto decides to confront his father in front of their house entrance. Endeavor is leaving, and his son isn't sure for how long. Forever, maybe?

Few months ago he would be overjoyed. Now, the concept is giving him some nuanced feelings that he isn't sure how to name. Or respond to.

"It's not that hard." He adds, remembering the time when he apologized to Yoarashi. Sure, he still wasn't sure what exactly he apologized for (he barely remembered what he did during the recommended student exam), but he did make a vow to not do that again. Izuku was very helpful in that.

Apparently it tied to Todoroki's general interest in interacting more with other people.

"That depends on how much you have to apologize for." Endeavor replies promptly. "What I did can't be shrugged off with a simple 'I'm sorry'."

"Probably." Shoto certainly wouldn't forgive his father after that. "But isn't that a good start?"

"I think…" Endeavor says, his hand on the doorknob. "That I found a better way to start making up for what I did."

Then he leaves.

Shoto is deeply confused. Fuyumi and Natsuo are confused as well, when he tells them about the exchange.

They think that their father's idea of apology is to run away. They think wrong.

The confusion finds its answer three hours later, when Endeavor's agency car stops in front of their house. And (also confused, it's really a running theme among the family nowadays) Rei Todoroki steps out of it.

Shoto thinks that his father is in for a good start. He is looking forward to seeing what happens next.

(***)

In the end, all members of Class 1-B have also passed their exam. Monoma considered this his victory, due to him being alone and his enemies (namely, Yaoyorozu and Midoriya) having twice his numbers. Yaoyorozu was unconvinced (mostly due to how crushing 1-A victories were).

Midoriya wanted to settle for a tie. If anything, learning about the Endeavor/All Might situation from Shoto made him realize that there is a difference between being generally competitive and having a rival. And Monoma felt too much like someone who wanted to be his rival.

Izuku didn't want to have rivals. He wanted to have friends.

Classes 1-C and 1-D had different exams, ones that were more about teamwork. In all honesty, they resembled a quirk-toting version of old Quirk Suppression Units of the Japanese police. Although rather than use riot shields and guns to deal with powerful quirk users, they used (as stated) quirks. And some support items.

In the end, classes 1-C and 1-D were a rather recent addition. Wherever the standard UA summer camp was going to happen, they weren't going there. Instead, the school organized them something else, elsewhere.

All of that still led to class 1-A and 1-B gathering up in their school, with backpacks and suitcases, waiting for their buses to arrive.

If someone expected that to be uneventful, they were going to be surprised. 1-A side of the courtyard was especially rich in happenings.

(***)

When the unfamiliar green haired woman exited the school building (wearing a long dress, and with a large suitcase next to her) and began to walk towards them, it provoked numerous reactions. Midoriya looked happy. Hitoshi looked tired. Eraserhead looked very Hitoshi. Most of the kids were confused at the unknown face.

Himiko waited until she got close. Then she suddenly turned to face her and bared her fangs at her, while letting out a grossly exaggerated 'RAWR'. The woman responded in kind, clearly showing them all a set of fake, plastic, vampire-like teeth.

After a few seconds of mutual teeth-baring, Himiko leaped forward with a loud laugh and hugged the new arrival. Who hugged her back.

"Eraserhead!" The woman added, looking away from Himiko for a moment. Aizawa sighed painfully. "Marry me!"

Ashido almost choked in the background.

"No." Eraserhead deadpans before turning towards the shocked students. "Due to security reasons and the existence of Villain Rehabilitation Course, the school decided to add an additional hero to our little trip. Meet Emi Fukukado, known also as Ms. Joke. The eternal scourge upon my existence."

Ms. Joke made a thumbs-up gesture towards them, accompanied with a wide smile. Himiko (still occupying the heroine's other hand and still hugging her tightly), bent herself a bit and mimicked her gesture.

"Privately the adoptive mother of Shinsou and Toga." Eraserhead ads. Shinsou does a really good impression of him, including the tired and pained sigh. If anything, Ms. Joke looks amused at that.

Uraraka thinks that she and Himiko really look alike, even if it's just the smile. Especially with the false teeth. Very convincing. It's almost as if they were biologically related!

Then she feels her phone vibrate. She got a private message from Izuku!

Izuku: Do you want to hear something funny? But you can't tell anyone.

He is standing right next to her, so clearly this is something that cannot be spoken aloud. So she only nods (it's one more secret that he doesn't have to keep to himself). He spends a short while pushing the buttons on his phone. Finally, the message arrives.

Izuku: Emi Fukukado asking Aizawa-sensei to marry her is a joke. Because he can't. As they are already married.

Uraraka somehow manages not to drop dead out of excessive laughter over that, but she has no idea how that miracle occured.

Aizawa glares at them, as if suspecting what just happened. Nevertheless, he does nothing about it.

At least now she knows that she actually heard Himichan correctly back then, when Aizawa-sensei showed up as a walking mummy after the USJ.

(***)

Second event also includes a green-haired woman, although she doesn't arrive alone. But with her husband, a group of kids and Principal Nedzu.

Nobody expected the Midoriyas. Even Izuku. Considering the fact that Asa, Eri and Aiko were all geared up for a trip (and somehow, Izuku didn't know) that said a lot about the secrecy of the preparations.

"Wait, are you kidding?!" Izuku says to the new arrivals, utterly slackjawed.

"Surprise!" Inko says, grinning at him happily. There is (almost) a riot behind her eldest son, as the class 1-A begins to realize that they are facing the Dreaded Aiko herself. Especially Dark Shadow seems to be ecstatic.

"We've decided to add your younger siblings to this excursion." Nedzu announces. "They could certainly use a change of air, but the nature of their quirks makes them potential targets. Since we already have a highly secured place prepared, we've decided to include them."

"We are…" Asa says, trying not to look at the large group of people that are looking at him.

"...going…" Eri says, throwing her hands up and giving them all a heart-melting smile.

"...to die." Aiko finishes, with an absolutely emotionless expression on her face.

There is a dead silence in the courtyard. It lasts until Asa and Eri look at Aiko questioningly.

"It was supposed to be 'with you', I know." Aiko replies. "But that's boring. So I made it better."

One thing was certain. She made quite a first impression on all 1-A students for whom it was the first time meeting her. Then again, if there was one thing Aiko truly excelled in, it was the first impressions.

(***)

In the end, the 1-A students swarmed the Midoriyas' family. At least no one recognized All Might (small mercies), except for those who already knew that it was him. Thankfully, it lasted for less than thirty minutes before the buses arrived and Eraserhead could start herding them inside.

And then, they departed.

(***)

"So…" Inko said to her husband on their way back home. All Might was driving. She was sitting on the seat next to him. "Children won't be at home for a few days."

That was an accurate observation, but All Might wasn't exactly sure why she was saying it right now.

"And I'm sure that you are very stressed." She continues. Once again, right on point. He really looks forward to retirement… although for as long as not many people die in the process. "And you probably can take a few free days from the heroics, right? You need to take care of yourself."

"True." He WAS getting too old. Oh, he loved helping people, it's just… his body wasn't doing very well, and it was showing. If anything, it has been getting better recently - less stress (family life really helped him in that field), better diet and so on.

They still weren't ready to risk having Eri rewind him before his wounds happened. They didn't know what that would do with the remnants of One for All that he was carrying. What if this energy was used by the rewinding process? That was a very real possibility. What if it made the process go too far? What if the energy would be extinguished?

All Might was still needed. At least until the last remnants of his quirks were gone from him, and only Yagi Toshinori was left. Then… yes. Then they could risk it. Only a few years, enough to give him his lung and stomach back. But….

Wait. Is she…

Inko leans towards his ears and whispers.

"And I'm still young enough to get pregnant, you know?"

He manages not to swerve into the opposing lane (which would probably cause a major car crash), but he gets close to that.

Oh, yes. He certainly needs to take those few days off. He really needs to take better care of himself. And he has an idea on how to start doing that.

(***)

After something like an hour, there was a bus stop. They got to stretch their limbs a bit, and look at the rather scenic views. They also met the two Wild Wild Pussycats. Thus finding out who was going to host them very soon.

Mandalay and Pixie-Bob gave Izuku some rather nasty looks. Izuku's hero outfit had some distinct cat themes, a homage to his mother's suit. Sure, he didn't wear it now, but… they knew.

He once threw his own photo into google and looked for similar outfits. There were a lot. It's not like he wanted to be super original. The closest equivalent was Cat Noir from some pre-quirk French animated series. Except, no tail (he thinks he should add one, it would really fit the aesthetic), no rod, there was some dark green to his black (the colour of his hair), and his cat ears were white.

One thing was certain. He wasn't telling anyone why the cat ears were white. Ever. Because then the Holders would know. And that would be awkward.

Then again, he also wasn't telling anyone aside from his nearest friends and family why his suit was so distinctly similar to the one of Mischief. That was going to be their little secret. Never to be shared with the greater world.

"Onichan." Aiko, naturally, figured it out on her own. Asa as well, given his scarce nod and thumbs-up gesture. Yaoyorozu looked resigned in the background. "Good luck."

"Huh?" Uraraka looked at him questioningly. Well, she is about to find out the truth herself.

"The place you'll be staying is at the base of that mountain." Mandalay says while pointing to the far-away end of the forest.

"Then why did we stop so far away?" Someone asks. Oh, poor, unaware souls. Some of them are already beginning to realize that something's wrong. Some even try to get back to the bus. Oh, as if the teachers would let them.

"It's 9:30 AM." Mandalay says. "If you kick it into high gear, it'll be about 12. The kittens that won't make it before 12:30 won't get anything to eat."

Then the whole mountain comes off.

(***)

"UA has no idea what 'moderation' means, huh." Ms. Joke says when the landslide ends. Mandalay yells the last instructions at the kids stranded in the forest below.

"Is that some British cuisine?" Eraserhead asks dryly. One of the reasons why he generally dislikes established team-ups with powerful recovery quirks is that they make people way too callous about bodily harm. Recovery Girl's presence made the UA way too callous about health risks, really.

Of course, with Pixie-bob controlling all the fine details of the landslide, there was no actual risk. Despite how scary it looked.

"So, how long will it take them, Eraserhead?" Pixie-bob asks. Probably while unleashing her magical beasts on the kids down below (at least judging from Mineta's horrified scream). She can multitask just fine.

How is he supposed to reply to that? Probably by being brutally honest. Nothing else will make any sense whatsoever. Although it will make them doubt his judgment for a while, at least until the kids prove him right.

"They might actually make it in time." And they probably will. Those kids were absolutely scary when they put their back into something. And getting food sounded like some reasonable motivation.

Pixie-bob and Mandalay look at him like he lost his mind. Oh, well.

(***)

They did it.

Somehow, just somehow, a bunch of first years managed to perform up to ridiculously unachievable time estimation given to them by Mandalay. They told them to reach the base by 12PM (an estimated time of arrival if Wild Wild Pussycats were the ones attempting the journey).

In fact, they expected them to arrive around 5-6PM. Or at least the Pussycats did (Eraserhead more or less knew what to expect from the 1-A). Kids went Plus Ultra and arrived at 12:17PM.

Aizawa wasn't even surprised. Pussycats clearly were.

Midoriya (and his deputy, Yaoyorozu) immediately took command, reorganized their class into a combat formation and began to push forward like an advancing army. Disposing of the magical beasts with humiliating ease.

Koda, Jirou and Shoji as scouts predicting the arrival of new enemies. Class heavy-hitters (sans Midoriya, Yoarashi and Yaoyorozu) were divided into pairs and sent to engage the incoming hostiles, while given time to recuperate between their fights - while the main group proceeded towards the objective.

And if they were growing tired, then the main group temporarily engages, drawing the attackers away for a while, letting them catch their breath.

All of that while Yoarashi with his flight ability (and Yaoyorozu with some 'Hatsume Industries' patented recon drone) ensured that they were progressing the shortest route to the base.

Midoriya was either heavy-hitting or issuing orders, depending on what was needed the most at that very moment.

Of course, there were twenty four of them. Instead of four Wild Wild Pussycats. But they still made it according to the timetable that Pussycats considered impossible to achieve. Needless to say, the plan to lightheartedly make fun of the students for not making it in time went through the window.

"Wait, what about that kid?" Midoriya decides to ask while his class is doing victorious cheers in the background. Eri (standing next to the other young Midoriyas and Ms. Joke) seems to have joined the cheers. "Is that one of yours?"

But there is another, unfamiliar kid. Midoriya saw him up the slope, before the landslide happened. But he didn't say anything. Which was quite odd considering how skilled Eri was at pulling people from their shells.

"No, that's my nephew." Mandalay says. "Kouta, come say hi. You're going to be living with them for the next week." Izuku was almost certain that he was going to be Eri's (and maybe Aiko's) best friend by then. Those two took no prisoners when it came to friendship, although Aiko had a bit of a unique approach to it.

Midoriya Izuku promptly introduces himself. While avoiding a punch that would probably make Uraraka very sad further down the line.

"Tsk." Kouta says. He is clearly saddened by the fact that he didn't hit the target. "I'm not going to fuck around with a bunch of losers who want to be corny ass heroes." Then he leaves, with Mandalay running after him.

"Pff…" Bakugou finds it funny. "Look at him, thinking that swearing makes him an adult."

Todoroki gives him an emotionless stare. Uraraka gives him a questioning stare. Shinsou gives him a wry smile. Himiko chuckles as if he heard a very good joke. Yoarashi laughs like a madman. Tsuyu ribbits smugly. Yaoyorozu let out a dignified chuckle. Jirou gave him a shit-eating grin. Iida was suddenly so expressionless that it counted as an answer to what he was thinking about it.

Midoriya decides to not escalate, so he stays quiet and does his utmost to not even look at Katsuki's direction.

Bakugou promptly erupts. But before he manages to say something nasty (or destroy anything substantial), Eraserhead tells them to go take their luggage from the bus.

(***)

There is tasty food, made even tastier by their live combat exercise. Then there are the baths.

Mineta denies all expectations. He doesn't try to scale the wall. Instead, he sits next to it, cross legged, looking like a monk busy meditating. His eyes are closed.

"Dude, not gonna lie, I kind of expected you to misbehave." Kaminari decides to inquire while others are soaking themselves in the warm water.

"Fool." Mineta replies. "I have achieved enlightenment. Do you want me to share it with you?"

Kaminari Denki decides to play ball. Mineta was actually pretty much a friend of his. He was really curious about what it was all about.

"Teach me, sensei." He says, while sitting next to Mineta.

"Do you know why there are so many types of clothes that make girls look sexier than if they were simply naked?" Mineta says, starting with a bomb. Kaminari doesn't know how to reply to that, so he simply nods. Cosplay's a thing, and sexy lingeries are a thing and… so on, right?

"That's because, my young padawan, the mind triumphs against flesh." Mineta says, his eyes closed and his finger raised. "If you see everything, there is nothing to make your mind race, to make your imagination fill all the missing details with images too perfect to exist in our imperfect world."

Oh. So that's what it is about.

"I could scale that wall." Mineta continues. "I truly could. But then, the beautiful images of the bounties behind that wall that my imagination conjures would be reduced to the crude certainty of flesh."

That sounds reasonable.

"Also I believe that there is someone standing guard at the top of the wall." Mineta adds, his eyes still closed and his face still looks up in surprise, just in time to see Kouta's face disappearing behind the edge.

That was an unexpected change of subject. He naturally isn't the only one to witness it. In the background, Kirishima leans towards Midoriya before whispering into his ear.

"Is Mineta getting better or worse?" He asks.

"I have absolutely no clue." Midoriya honestly replies.

(***)

"What happened to him?" Mandalay finds herself startled by one of the Midoriya children suddenly appearing out of nowhere and asking her a question.

"Who?" She asks. The kids are busy in the baths. So it's a rather calm moment for her and Pixie-bob.

"Your nephew." The girl (Aiko, Mandalay remembers it now), says. The stare accompanying it is quite intense.

She isn't sure if that's a good idea, but she and Pixie-bob end up explaining what happened to Kouta's parents to the girl. Of course, with some rather expansive censorship. For some reason Mandalay gets the feeling that she might have as well not bother censoring anything.

"I see." Aiko nods. "Thank you for your help. Will it be a problem to you if I'll have a talk with him about it?"

"I…" Mandalay isn't sure what to say to that. "Fine, just… don't push him too far, alright?"

And now Mandalay feels like she just made a deal with the Devil. That girl really has an intense stare.

(***)

It's here, people. Get ready for the wild ride. The storm won't end until ~chapter 35 (so after Kamino Ward battle, because yes, it's happening, but it'll play out... very differently).

Also Inko Midoriya seems to really like having children, especially once things started going nice and she didn't have to rely on Stain and Mr. Compress to be their replacement paternal figures. Which is probably for the best. And what's exactly her age is left up to guesswork, besides it's probably that Eri rewinded her at some point per few years, if only as an accident.

Also, yes. The Training Camp attack is going to happen. But Aiko and Asa are there. It's going to be hilarious, all things considered.

And also F_ck Russia, people.