Hello there everyone, I hope you all had a great New Years and life is treating you well. Sorry about the last chapter but I just couldn't wait to get to the next chapter so it is now-

Cortney- It's time for a recap! Let's retell what happened last season.

Axel- After the School Festival, we interned under a pro hero for a week.

C- During which me, Peace, Dekuy, Shoto and Tenya fought against the Hero Killer and managed to win however we broke the law but got let off the hook.

A- And after that my old friend Himiko joined U.A. For our final exams we fought against the teachers with everybody besides Neito.

C- We finally got some time to ourselves which we spent by going to the beach. By the way Axel.

A- Yeah?

C- Forget what you saw. Otherwise, I'm beating the memories out of you.

A- Alright. But for now, we've reached the end of the recap.

Chapter cover- Cortney in her hero costume fighting against Jeremiah Cross.

Ch.27- Level up

July 12

Today is the day of training camp, we're packing up and getting ready to go.

"This is going to be fun!" Pony shouts in excitement as we stand in front mom.

"Remember that training camp you'll be pushing yourselves past your limits and beyond, I'll give you a minute to chat before we get on the bus," Mom says before leaving and I immediately see Neito taunting Class A which is swiftly ended by a chop to the neck from Itsuka, Chibi then drags Neito into the bus so he can't embarrass anymore.

"Goddamnit Neito." I say while facepalming, "Sorry for Neito's behavior, I don't know why you guys bring out that crazy side of him, don't worry we'll try to keep him under control." Apologizing for Neito's taunting.

"Good luck, come on guys, get on the bus." Stopping anyone else from something stupid. After about two hours, the bus comes to a sudden stop on the side of the road.

"Alright everybody, get out," Mom tells us, we look at her confused but still do as she says. I'm the last one to leave and as I do Mom pushes me out.

"What's going on?" I ask after falling on my face.

Mom takes out her phone, "You're training starts right now, it's currently 9:30 if you're fast enough, you make it to the camp by noon. If you don't make it there by 12:30, you can forget about lunch."

"The camp is about another 30 km from here...good luck," Mom says before the bus takes off without us in it, leaving stunned at what's happening. A second later Axel takes flights with his wings and makes off for the camp.

"I don't think she was bluffing guys, yep, she's gone and not coming back." Axel relays what he just saw.

"I say we can make it to camp if we pace ourselves-" Jurota infers, but we already left.

Some time later

We started at 9:30 am, it's now 5:30 pm. All our legs are screaming bloody murder, I think everyone, even Pony, threw up on the way here and Class A beat us here by ten minutes but looking much worse for wear.

Mom and Aizawa are standing in front of the cabin we'll be staying in and they tell us we missed lunch and to get our stuff from the bus then we can get dinner, where all of us stuff our faces. After that, we take a dip in the hot springs, but they're not mixed baths, so a giant wooden wall is separating the boys and girls, however not like that gonna stop us from trying to take peek.

"Ahhhh, this is amazing," I say to no one, in particular, feeling the springs heal my aching muscles.

"Right back atcha Cort." Pony chimes in, submerging herself in the spring water. Looking over the edge of the wall, I see some hair starting to poke out.

"The boys are trying to peak on us." Peace half-heartedly announces, before igniting her foot and dripping it in the water covering us in steam.

"Come on!" Axel of all people yells out annoyed of Peace cock-blocking his sight, only to be grabbed by the throat. Itsuka swings her enlarged hand to blow away the steam, revealing that Axel wasn't the only one, Tetsu, Neito, and Kosei were also trying to get a peek and that I'm the one holding Axel's neck. Axel in his frog form while holding Tetsu with his tongue, Neito and Kosei on the other hand, I can't tell right now how they got up here due to my position.

"You were the last one I would expect to do something, so I'm letting you off easy. Pony." Pony fires one of her horns next to me making a thuk sound as it strikes the wall.

I grab the horn by the tip and yell, "FORE!" Slamming the horn over Axel's head with enough force that the horn breaks in my hands and sending all four of the boys crashing back down to their side.

"That not even close to right," Neito calls out my bad joke while falling.

After hearing the sound of their body hitting the ground, I drop off the wall and dip back into the spring.

The next day

Mom woke us up early to start our actual quirk training, The Wild, Wild Pussycats are training us, Pussycats are a four-member team that specializes in mountain rescue operations.

Mom walks us to the area where Class A is training and they are going all out. Bakugo is dripping his hands in water then unleashing a huge chain of explosions into the air, Kirishma is defending himself against Ojiro, Denki is hooked up to a generator while using his quirk and that's only a few of them.

"The Wild Pussycats are making it possible to train both our classes with ease, here's the breakdown. Emitter quirks will be raising their limits, while transformations and mutants will be training their body." Mom tells us we will be doing, "You'll be breaking yourselves!" Most of us are weary from hearing those words.

"OW!" I am fighting against Tiger, a tall, muscular man with short brown hair and a small triangle shaped beard and the only male in an all-female team, for my training, but his Pliabody quirk is allowing him to bend out the way of my attacks. Jurota and Sen are training with me as for everybody else, Axel and Neito are working on increasing their time limit as well as their efficiency of borrowed quirks, Tetsu is training Itsuka increasing his durability by having Itsuka punch him increase the strength and power of her enlarged fists.

Peace is increasing her limits before she burns out by being surrounded by fire and using her quirk, Pony is running around to improve her stamina and strength and that's everyone who I can see. Everyone else is training just as hard.

After we're done training for the day, Pixie-Bob, another one of the members of the Wild, Wild Pussycats, told us yesterday that we will be cooking our own dinner tonight, we band together and get working, we're making curry by default, I'm made head leader since I'm one of the few people who know how to actually cook. I help make sure the food is actually edible, I actually find out Kachy is a really good cook as well. Peace tells me he cooks at home but I like to think we are even when it comes to skill.

The food comes out pretty well and no injuries to boot. The food smells so good and all that training made me extra hunger, we all dig in.

Poor Neito is forced to his remedial classes after we're done eating.

As we're about to head back to the cabin, Kachy whispers into Peace's ear, "Later, when everyone asleep, meet me back where I was training." He says before going inside.

3 hours later

Perspective switch Peace

I'm in a rocky clearing where Bakugo was training with no real idea why he brought me out here, but the ability to see a star-filled sky makes up for it. In the city, it's only possible to see the stars when there's a blackout, god, I could stare at the sky for hours.

I'm suddenly spun around and about to scream only for Bakugo to put a finger against my lips.

"Alright," I take a step back. "I'm here, what's going on? You almost never stay up this later, is something the matter?" Bakugo likes to go asleep early, usually around 8 o'clock, so he must have something in store.

"It's about Cortney," Bakugo says.

"What's about Cortney?" I ask.

"Back during Junior-High, I remembered seeing something in that book she always carries, notes for the future, it said. It matches up with the things that were happening to us. Since you're her friend, I suspect you might know something." Bakugo says, crap, I have to dodge the question because if they figure out what happened to Cortney, it could spell trouble.

"Nope, Cortney never let me look at her book. If that's all you wanted to talk about, I'm going to bed-" Bakugo pushes me against the stone wall.

"You're lying, you know something, you turned away from me that's how I knew you were lying. So what's going with Cortney?" Bakugo asks me to tell the truth, but Cortney trusted me with her biggest secret.

"I can't tell you, Cortney trusted me to keep that information a secret," I tell Bakugo, "I owe Cortney too much, to give away her secret even for you. If you want any more information, talk to Cortney directly." Is the last thing I say before leaving.

Perspective Switch Cortney

The next day we continue on with our training but later that night, The Pussycats have something planned for us, a test of courage and we start off scaring Class A, Neito would have enjoyed this but was taken for remedial class along with Mina, Kirishima, Sato, Denki, and Sero.

Kachy and Shoto are taking the trail through the forest and hear the screams of their other classmates.

"Ooga Booga Booga!" I scream popping out from the tree-tops hearing someone approach while Itsuka and Tetsu hold my legs to make sure not to fall on my head. We manage to get a reaction from Kachy and Shoto, they don't scream but instead stop in their tracks.

"Gotcha!" I say managing to secure a once in a lifetime chance of seeing their scared faces.

"You didn't scare me, Cortney, you just caught me off guard," Kachy states trying to keep his tough-guy demeanor but I don't buy one second of it. We let them go on and reset for our next victim but we start to smell smoke. Chibi starts barking like crazy while using his quirk to move the air as some purple gas comes in. We don't know what's going until I get a text from Axel.

"SHIT! This is knockout gas don't breathe it in!" I warn Tetsu and Itsuka forcing all of us to cover our mouths and noses.

"How did villains find us?" Itsuka questions seeing as we are in the middle of nowhere, we then feel Mandalay telepathically tells us villains are attacking the camp.

Class

Ms. Tan just got the message as well, which causes Aizawa to rush back to the others while she stays back to protect the students.

Back to Cortney

After Mandalay's message we got everyone from our class together, about 80% of us are down for the count including Pony, leaving me, Tetsu, Itsuka, Axel, Yui, and Yosetsu. We met up with Momo who made gas masks for everyone to prevent any further damage but left help more people with Yosetsu backing her up, Peace must have joined with Kachy when everything went down. Axel sent me a message saying that he's helping Ochaco and Suu.

"I have no idea how the gas is affecting them but they should be ok," I say after checking on everybody, the gas doesn't seem to be all that dangerous, it mainly just knocks you out if you breathe it in.

"Good. If these villains think they can get away with attacking us they have another thing coming." Tetsu states hardening his arm.

"Chibi, guard." I say to Chibi getting into guard mode before turning back to Tetsu, "Tetsu, I know how you feel but you're not fighting a villain alone, let me and Itsuka help you." Either me or Itsuka would back Tetsu up so why not both of us.

"Any objections Itsuka," I say seeing if Itsuka has other plans but at that moment. Yui should be able to defend herself and Chibi is here to give Yui back-up if she needs it.

"Everyone in Class A and Class B, in the name of the pro hero Eraser Head has granted you permission to engage in combat." Mandalay gives us the good to go.

"You heard Mandalay, we can fight! We don't time to be standing around!" Tetsu then runs into the forest in search of the gas villain with me and Itsuka following close behind.

"Listen, everyone, we found one of the villain's targets, someone by the name of Kacchan and Cortney," Mandalay adds, giving me a reason to hurt these villains, even more, I know why want Kachy but why me?

Class A

Bakugo and Shoto are having trouble fighting a villain in a black straitjacket because of the terrain. His quirk gives him the ability to turn his teeth into long sharp blades and he's using them to keep himself high in the air.

Bakugo and Shoto are prevented from using their quirk since there's a chance for them to set the area around them on fire.

"Bakugo, Shoto. Get back." Peace tells them before activating her quirk but now something is different, her fire isn't static anymore it's moving around on its own and causing the air to shimmer while causing Shoto's ice to steam away.

"Wildfire Mode!" Peace calls out, every step she takes leaves a flaming footprint.

"Peace you can't use your quirk, you'll cause a forest fire." Shoto reminds Peace but keeps walking towards the villain.

"Shut up! I'm never letting myself be a hindrance again!" Peace declares turning her back to the villain.

"Pretty flesh. Such pretty flesh." The villain says before attacking with his teeth blades. Peace side-steps using her gauntlet and is just being close enough to cause the blades to glow. Peace grabs one of the blades melting it down instantly.

"You bastard hurt my friends and trying to kidnap my boyfriend? I will make this a very painful day for you." Peace says before taking a deep breath, "Fire Dragon Roar!"

Peace melts down all the villain's blades causing him to fall, Peace uses her gauntlets to catch the villain by the face mid-air and flying higher in the sky, "Die." Peace then fires her gauntlet one last time smashing the villain into the ground.

Bakugo and Shoto stand speechless at Peace singlehandedly beating a villain that the two strongest people class were having trouble with.

Cortney

Itsuka was able to pinpoint where the gas villain is and Tetsu is making a beeline for them just as Tetsu is about to punch the villain, they counter with a bullet to the head completely destroying Tetsu's gas mask.

Tetsu tries to attack the villain again but is shot again, he then starts taunting us before taking a shot at us forcing Tetsu to take the shot for us.

"TETSU!" Me and Itsuka shout as blood spurts from Tetsu, that bastard somehow saw me charging up a Flush. I'm not letting Tetsu take any more hits.

"Itsuka, remember what you did during our spar on the beach?" Itsuka enlarges her hands and waves them around, moving the wind and negating the villain's quirk giving me and Tetsu the chance we need.

"This is for Pony!" I shout at the top of my lungs as our fist collide into the villain's face smashing his gas mask looking at him cheers me up a bit, knowing he'll have a fucked up jaw for the rest of life.

"Tetsu!" But I'm brought back to the situation we're currently in by looking at Tetsu's bleeding head, "Shit!" Luckily I was carrying a few medical supplies on me just in case.

"Your quirk stopped the bullets from penetrating but you might have a concussion," I tell Tetsu as I stop the bleeding until another voice from the past shows up.

*clap clap clap* "Well done, you managed to beat Mustard... impressive Cortney." Minxs applause our win standing on a tree branch. She hasn't changed much since the last time I saw her but her mask has gotten an upgrade making it look like the maw of a beast and a purple utility belt.

"Cortney it seems you and this girl have history." Itsuka infers.

"I don't see Jerome anywhere, so he finally dumped your sorry ass." I joke out to Minxs ignoring what Itsuka just said.

"I realize I didn't need him… but speaking of boys," A lever-action rifle forms in Minxs hands which she quickly proceeds to fire several rounds into Tetsu.

"Flush!" I try to attack Minxs but she counters by making a wall of mist and it doesn't even have a dent in it.

"I've refined my quirk so your petty attacks won't phase me now." Minxs states, "But how about a blast from the past… Mist Dragon." Minxs makes the serpent dragon from our very first fight as she does the fangs of her mask flip open allowing to breath out her mist. It circles around her.

"Itsuka… I'm gonna give you a chance to run when you do grab Tetsu and the villain and get out of here. They're after me, so you should be safe to run." In all reality, this is not a fight just me and Itsuka can win alone not at our current skill level.

"But-"

I activate Sixth gear and appear in front Minxs followed by a Stunner in her face, "Go!" Itsuka grabs Tetsu and Mustard before running back to camp.

As Itsuka makes a break for it, I try to make my escape but the dragon bites my shoulder before exploding and sending me to I was before. The mist reforms into restraints as try to break out of them, Minxs stands over me.

"Tomura better happy with slightly damaged goods then no goods at all," Minxs says to herself before sticking something in my neck, which I figure out is a tranquilizer and a pretty powerful one since it's putting even me out but before I pass out, I whistle.

"Welp, there goes Mustard… had a feeling he wouldn't last. I'll have to pick up Cortney, before heading off." Minxs decides her next plan of action as she's sending the message something comes to her mind, "What the fuck did she whistle for and why are you, Tan!?"

Thanatos- God dammit Cortney. I can't help you'll have to rely on your friends.

Delaila- Speaking of friends, today's power of the week is Peace's Dragon Slayer.

T- This quirk allows Peace to self-combust and makes her immune to all fire, also the ability to eat to restore her Stamina.

D- There are limits and from her internship with Endeavor, Peace has gained a few tricks.

T- Such as the power to fly by heating the air to float and Peace can turn up the heat if she's in a pinch.

D- Also the Wildfire mode Peace used is what her quirk did, just like actual fire it's very uncontrolled because Peace control how much heat is she producing.

T- Her flames can get as hot as 500,000° and get even hotter especially if she active her blue flames. Good luck fighting her.

D- Turn in next time to see if Cortney can get rescued before it's too late. Until late bye Souls.