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Izuku Midoriya grit his teeth and spread his legs. One for All's power spread throughout his entire body, and his muscles began contracting. 24% was his current max, and Midoriya was testing his limits and attempting to keep it at 30%.

His body seemed to triple in weight, and his vision began to fade in and out, and to top it all off, a burning pain began to surge through his limbs.

In spite of these three facts, he knew exactly where everything around him was situated just as accurately as if his vision was completely unhindered, if not more. In addition, the illusional weight didn't effect the amount of strength he received from One for All, and he felt as if he could fly.

He felt like he could fly, but in reality, he was beginning to doubt he could even make the jump fortyfive-meter jump in front of him. But regardless of such thoughts, Midoriya flew toward his objective.

How a class trip to the woods began was somewhat of a mystery; it started as a simple request from Ayoyama to train their quirks together, but when Kirishima heard their plans, he explained that he and Katsuki had similar plans and requested that they all train together. Eventually they started to invite other class mates, until it was basically a class trip.

With only a handful of students missing, (namely Koji, Touru, Momo, Ochako, Asui, and Jiro) and class 1A was training in a small wooded area just outside the town.

Although the area technically wasn't a park and was actually private property that, through a series of wills, donations, claims, and stock-rights, basically was regarded as public property since no one wanted to spend half a life time figuring out and separating just who the land actually belonged to.

Since the strip of land was outside of town and, technically speaking, "illegal" to enter, it was a lot less populated then other actual parks (like the one Eri likes to visit), making it the perfect place to practice a quirk.

Knowing this, the group decided to hold the training there, and the only other thing they had to worry about was who was showing up. Almost everyone was invited, and so everyone except the afore mentioned six showed up at the "park".

Koji, Froppy, and Momo said they had something else they had to do that was important (but, honestly, Ojiro probably didn't show up because of his fear of bugs and social interactions, and Momo because of rich-girl-things), and couldn't make it. Jiro also had something to do, but she said she'd finish it pretty early, and would probably just arrive late.

Ochako, on the other hand, had volunteered to babysit Eri for the weekend after Midoriya volunteered to train with Ayoyama. Although it technically is babysitting over the weekend, Eri still spent most of the day and all of the night at UA under the teacher's supervision; she only needed someone else from about 10:00 to 4:30, when the teachers are too busy to watch her.

Uraraka should be taking care of Eri during the training, but Midoriya invited her anyway. After all, she was covering for him. The reason they couldn't simply bring Eri with them was because the two schedules collided. They soon decided to shorten the time Eri spent at the park, so like Jiro, Uravity was simply going to be late.

Midoriya suggested that he take Eri to the park since it was his job originally, and before the training was a group event it was a personal request made by his friend which was the reason he wasn't able to watch her in the first place. With the event no longer being personal, he saw no reason to have Ochako to be late instead of him.

She, of course, stubbornly refused, and so things ended up the way they were now.

Anyway, Deku prepared for the course of trees spread out in front of him. He dashed foreword until he was five meters from one of the trees, then leaped into the air. His hand reached above his head as he flew, grabbed a branch hanging from the tree, and swung his entire body up, landing in the tree itself.

The tree branches themselves shouldn't have been strong enough to hold all of Midoriya's weight, but Izuku had some tricks up his sleeves. Using One for All, he dashed from branch to branch with such incredible speed that his weight, rather then being focused on one branch, was evenly spread out through a large series of branches, similar to how some fast heroes were able to run on water.

Theoretically, Izuku may be able to run on water using this power too.

But anyway, Izuku approached the third obstacle in the course, which was the forty-five meter jump.

As he approached, Midoriya took deep breaths and focused a little more of One for All's power to the balls of his feet. After confirming the strength surging through his body, Izuku bent his legs, and flew over the gap between the trees. He leaned into the fall, decreasing the air-resistance and increasing his chances of reaching the other tree.

But in the end, such preparations were utterly futile, for Midoriya simply didn't have enough momentum to reach the tree. As such, he came tumbling down to the floor. He missed.

Being prepared for this situation, (because it happened several times already today) Izuku spread out his arms and legs, slightly slowing down his fall. Just as the floor started approaching, Izuku leaned into a roll as he touched the ground, spreading out his fall's velocity and sparing him from any significant fall damage.

Izuku Midoriya rose to his feet and dusted off his hero uniform, before looking back up at his fellow classmates still practicing their respective quirks.

Yuga Aoyama was still puking in the bag Izuku had brought for him "just in case", evidence of excessive overuse of his quirk. Midoriya's rival, Katsuki Bakagou, was just outside the forest practicing his pinpoint explosions on a couple of targets he had set up. Katsuki had been worried about fires from practicing his explosion quirk in the forest, so had chose to stay in the small empty lot outside the forest.

Eijirou Kirishima had chosen a tree near the edge of the forest and began punching away. The trees in the forest were abnormally large, and thus required an equally large amount of time for Kirishima to punch through. Since he had started punching quite a while ago, the tree was on the verge of collapsing, and could do so at any moment.

Denki Kaminari and Mashirao Ojiro were goofing off again rather than training, and after finishing his fourteenth sprint about the forest, Izuku's friend Tenya Iida had stopped to lecture them, waving his arms around menacingly (yes, that's a jojo reference)

Mina Ashido was melting a bush with her slime, obviously bored, and Minoru Mineta was spying on her from behind a tree. He was definitely Iida's next target.

Tokoyami and Todoroki, some of the classes strongest students, were engaging in a mock battle, and Todoroki seemed to have the upper hand. Mezo Shouji and Hanta Sero were engaged in a similar fight, and tape and tentacles seemed to be everywhere in their area.

The last student, Rikido Satou, was watching Kirishima punch his tree. He had probably ran out of sugar to enhance his strength and had nothing better to do.

Midoriya chuckled to himself after confirming the class's versatility.

"What's so funny?" Inquired a new voice behind him.

Izuku turned about to see Kyoka Jiro standing behind him. She had pre-informed them that she would be late to arrive at the park, and had probably just arrived.

"O-oh, nothing, it's just that I was thinking about how different everyone in our class is" Deku stuttered, an ever present reminiscent of a somewhat anti-social childhood. In short, he was a little awkward.

"Huh, well, I kinda' like it. Plus, just 'cuz we're different doesn't mean we don't get along..."

Jiro trailed off at the end, and Midoriya nodded in reply. He completely agreed; just because some people are different doesn't mean they won't get along.

As a matter of fact, several of the classmates were already best friends. If anything, the diversity added a constructive and beneficial variety to the group of friends.

"Oh yeah, I saw your girlfriend on the way here. Eri said she she wanted to see you train, so they should be on their way"

"Wuuh?!"

Izuku's face turned bright red at the word "girlfriend", and he desperately began denying it. Watching him wave his arms around and stutter, saying things like "w-wait, w-we're not, n-no it's not like t-that!", Jiro couldn't help but smile.

If only Mina was here.

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"Speaking of the devil..." Mumbled Jiro, noticing Ashido approaching the duo with Mineta being strangled in her arms.

"What, are we teasing Izuku, 'cuz if we are I don't wanna be left out!"

And so, with highly malicious intent, the two girls harassed Midoriya until he was on the verge of tears, all the while Mineta was occasionally mumbling "lucky bastard" under his breath, the jealousy incredibly evident in his voice. For some reason he sounded horrifically threatening for once.

This scene continued for what seemed like ages for Midoriya, until the person in question arrived at the scene.

"Sorry I'm a little early guys, Eri wanted to watch everyone training so we left a little early. Deku? Why are you so red? Did you get sunburned already?"

Naturally, for Midoriya no doom could be any clearer, and Ochako herself, who had just arrived, was in for a similar fate. But the two bullies simply smiled at each other.

"Well, we'll leave the rest up to you, Izuku!"

"Yep, we won't want to get in the way of true love!"

Jiro gave her regards to Midoriya, and Mina shot him a thumbs up. Mineta on the other hand, could be heard crying "it should have been me!" into his shoulder as the girls dragged him away.

Izuku, who had at some point or the other fallen onto his knees and clenched his head, looked up nervously and tearfully toward Uraraka. Ochako tilted her head innocently and Midoriya climbed to his feet and sighed.

But it was the little girl holding Uravity's hand that spoke first.

"Wassup Deku!"

"U-um have you been hanging out with Kaminari, Eri? Because you don't usually talk like that..."

"Actually that's how Yamada taught me to say hello! He says that's what friends say!"

"O-oh, that's not really surprising..."

The person Eri was referring to was Present Mic Hizashi Yamada, a pro-hero and teacher at UA High. Due to his obnoxious behavior, some of his outgoing vocabulary and tone was rubbing off on Eri.

Izuku the turned to Ochako.

"Hi, u-um I'm just glad you could make it"

"Yep! I wouldn't miss it for the world! You feel this same, right Eri?"

"Yep! I'm soo excited!"

The little girl began to jump and spin on the spot, her soft white hair bouncing up and down. Ochako then released Eri's hand and put a finger to chin, making a confused expression.

"I am a little curious though. What were you, Jiro, and Mina talking about?"

Midoriya shuttered and his face, which had just started to cool down turned red again. He quickly looked away to hide his embarrassment, and then tried to change the subject.

"O-oh, e-erm, it wasn't anything important... Actually maybe we should start training... We shouldn't keep Eri wai-"

At that moment there was a loud crash, followed by the sound of something tremendous falling. The tree Kirishima had been using as a punching bag finally gave way, and smashed into the ground.

Because of the loud noise, everyone's attention turned toward Kirishima, who scratched the back of his head, embarrassed. And as usual, Iida, being Iida, ran toward Kirishima and began to discipline him by lecturing him about "consideration", "the safety of others", "attentiveness", and, of course, property damage.

After the interruption, everyone's attention returned to what ever originally occupied it. This didn't last long however, because only a couple seconds later, Kaminari, who had been playing on his phone rather then training, began waving his arms around and yelling loudly for everyone to come over.

Of course, no one really would take him seriously, that is, until they saw his expression. The thunder hero's yellow hair was ruffled due to him scratching it out of confusion, and in his eyes were an emotional mixture of fear, sorrow, and confusion.

Deku, worried something may be wrong, gestured for Eri and Ochako to follow him as he ran toward his trio were the first to arrive, and Kaminari didn't bother waiting for the others.

"G-guys! I don't believe it! It's all over the news and everything!"

"What the fuck are blabbering about!" Bellowed Katsuki, who arrived next. He at some point had stopped his target practice and was wondering about the forest when Kaminari made his out burst.

"It's really bad! I-I don't know what we're-"

"Just fuck'n tell us!"

Kaminari froze and looked to the floor after Bakagou's bellow, and then entire forest seemed to hold its breath, waiting to hear what he'd say next.

"All Might is-"

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"dead"

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He said it in a voice almost quieter than a mouse, and yet to everyone that did hear it, it was the center of their attention.

"All Might is- if your pullin' my fuckin'.leg I'll kill you!"

Repeating Kaminari's words, Katsuki grabbed the thunder hero by the collar and yelled in his face. While Izuku was to stunned by what he heard to even move, Uraraka pulled out her phone to check the claims legitimacy herself. The speed at which she found the truth was almost unnerving.

"H-he's really- All Might's..."

Ochako turned tearfully to Deku, who still couldn't believe their claims.

This was the worst possible situation. While they were practicing and goofing off, their teacher was...

Bakagou was the first to take action.

"K-kachann, what are you-"

"What do you think loser! I'm going to UA! And you should be going too!"

"R-right! I'm going too!" Interjected Ochako.

Eri nodded, knowing she'd have to go with Uravity, and Kirishima, who arrived after Katsuki, and heard enough to know what was going on, also volunteered to head with them to UA

What was their strategy? What was their endgame? Truth be told, no one there had planned that far ahead, and their current course of action was simply a childish denial of reality.

Merely the inability to accept the truth.

And so, full of denial, the group, Izuku Midoriya, Katsuki Bakagou, Ochako Uraraka, Denki Kaminari, Eijirou Kirishima, and Eri set out for UA High, hoping and praying for their teachers safety.

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