"Deku! Do you have all your shit ready? We have to go soon!" Izuku heard Katsuki yell at him.
Izuku was currently double checking to make sure he had everything packed for the trip. Once he was sure he had everything he scooped up his bag and left his room. He spotted Katsuki impatiently waiting for him in the living room along with Shinsou on the couch. "Well?" he asked, eyeing the bag that Izuku was carrying.
"I'm good to go Kacchan. I have everything Aizawa said we'd need." Izuku said as he placed his bag on the floor and waved a list in front of Katsuki.
Katsuki snatched the list, looking it over carefully and occasionally glancing down at Izuku's bag. "Fine, I'm choosing to trust you this time Deku. But if you forgot something don't come crying to me."
"I thought he was about to go full mom on you there." Shinsou said as he got off the couch to join them.
Katsuki simply rolled his eyes at Shinsou. "Let's get going idiots. I'm not gonna be late cause you two made us miss our train!"
They had barely made it out of the building when they heard a low "Hey."
Katsuki whipped around, quirk active, to face where the noise had come from. Dabi stared back at him with a grin on his face. "Oh for fucks sake Scarface. What the hell are you doing here?"
Dabi shrugged and joined them as they walked. "Haven't seen you three in a while and figured I'd drop by to see how you're doing."
"How the fuck do you even know where we live!?" Katsuki demanded. Dabi only shrugged in response.
"Eraser has been keeping us in after we got our licenses. Plus he wanted to make sure we're well rested for our trip." Izuku explained.
Dabi hummed. "So you three are legal now huh? Congrats I guess. Where you going?"
"On a training trip with the hero course. Now that I think about it Eraser never mentioned where it was…" Shinsou trailed off.
"He didn't tell us shit either. Because of all the villain incidents they're being careful." Katsuki piped up.
Dabi nodded. "Makes sense. Well we're almost at the train station so I'll get out of your hair now." He turned to leave. "Oh one more thing." He turned back to face them. "You three have been a common topic of conversation in the underworld as of late. I think the league has been active again. Take care of yourselves or whatever. I'll let you know if I hear anything concrete." With that he left; slipping into a nearby alleyway. They glanced at each other. Well this was somewhat concerning.
Despite the unexpected appearance of Dabi the three were actually early for their train and chatted amongst themselves till it arrived. The train ride was the same as usual and soon they arrived at their station. The three checked their phones and saw a quick text of "Have fun!" from Hatsume before heading over to the meeting area. Izuku would be lying if he said he wasn't excited to properly meet the rest of Katsuki's class. Sure he'd had some encounters with them and hung out with Todoroki all the time but it wasn't the same. Soon the class came into view. It didn't take long for them to notice the approach of the three.
Eijiro was excited for this trip. He'd get to spend a bunch of time with his class and get to improve his quirk! There were also these two mystery students that Aizawa had said were coming along. He hadn't said anything about them except that they were first years like the rest of them. Eijiro figured they weren't from the hero course since both classes were going anyway. He hoped they were nice though; not like Monama from class 1-b.
He looked over from where Kaminari was telling a story to see Katsuki along with two other students. He actually recognized the two much to his surprise. They were the two general studies students that had made it to the final round of the sports festival. In fact the green-haired one had made it to the final match and went toe to toe with Katsuki of all people. No wonder Aizawa was bringing them along on this trip.
He decided he wanted to make a good first impression on them. He turned and started to walk over to Katsuki, waving and ignoring Kaminari's protests behind him. "Hey! Bakubro!" He stopped in front of the group. "Are these two the other students who're joining us?" Katsuki crossed his arms but nodded. Eijiro turned to look at them with a smile on his face. "Hey! Name's Kirishima Eijiro! It's nice to meet you." He held out his hand.
The green haired one took it first. "Midoriya Izuku. It's nice to meet you as well Kirishima." He smiled back.
Eijiro let go of Izuku's hand and looked at the other student. "Shinsou Hitoshi." He nodded his head instead of taking Eijiro's hand.
"It's awesome that you two are gonna be joining us! I look forward to training with you." Eijiro said as he noticed some other members of the class eyeing the interaction with interest. "Oh! You guys should introduce yourselves to the rest of the class. Since we'll all be spending a week together."
"O-ok." Izuku said, nervously. He glanced at Katsuki and Katsuki simply shoved him forward towards the rest of the class. Shinsou chucked and followed Izuku as he started walking on his own. Eijiro couldn't help but smile as he watched the two introduce themselves to the rest of the class. This trip was gonna be a ton of fun.
During the bus ride Hitoshi and Izuku were bombarded with questions. Well mostly Hitoshi since Izuku shamelessly hid behind Todoroki to avoid the most of the barrage. Though him seeming so familiar with Todoroki simply had the class flinging more questions his way. Hitoshi watched as Katsuki did absolutely nothing to stop the class; not that he was expecting Katsuki of all people to do anything. In fact Katsuki seemed to be enjoying watching them suffer; only occasionally breaking his amused look at the two when the red head next to him spoke to him.
Hitoshi had to admit he wasn't used to this much positive attention. The class hadn't even flinched when he finally conceded his quirk to them. Though some of them had already known what it was because of the Sports Festival. Many of them shared the same sentiment that Izuku had; that his quirk would be great for hero work. Hitoshi would be lying if he said he didn't like being around people that didn't hate him.
"Alright all of you settle down." Aizawa's voice suddenly came from the front of the bus. The class all quieted down and turned their attention to the front. "We're going to be stopping for a moment before going the rest of the way to the camp. This will be the only break you get so use it wisely."
A couple minutes later the bus pulled off and stopped. Most of the students made their way eagerly out of the bus. Izuku, Katsuki, Shinsou, and Todoroki all hung back. Aizawa gave them a brief smile, one of his creepier ones, before getting off the bus himself. "He's definitely up to something." Izuku said after Aizawa had left.
"No shit. I was suspicious as soon as he said that we're stopping." Katsuki said as he looked out the windows.
"I wonder why he didn't drag us out though? Since he's gonna do something." Shinsou wondered.
Todoroki furrowed his brows. "I don't get how you are so good at reading him. I didn't think his intentions were anything but genuine."
Izuku patted Todoroki on the back. "When you've been around him for as long as me and Kacchan have you learn a lot. You'll get there." Izuku smiled at him.
Suddenly the four felt the earth lurch and they all rushed to get a look outside. They watched as class 1-a was thrown over the cliff by the ground itself. Izuku looked over to see a couple pros he recognized. "Oh! It's part of the Wild, Wild Pussy Cats! That's Mandalay and Pixie-Bob." Izuku said as he pointed out the two pros.
"Do we know why they just threw most of the class into the forest?" Shinsou asked.
"Probably training of some kind. Seems like something Aizawa would fucking do." Katsuki reasoned.
Aizawa then came back on the bus and got their attention. "You're all probably curious as to why you're not out there with them." The four simply nodded. Aizawa gave them one of his "creepy" smiles. "That's because I want you to help slow them down. You'll essentially be playing villain. You four up to it?" He asked as he held out a bag. The four looked at each other; this should prove to be interesting.
Ochako panted as she put her fingers together sending another one of the earth beasts hurtling towards the ground. She couldn't really find it in herself to be surprised that they'd been thrown into training before they'd even arrived. The only thing that was confusing her at the moment was that Katsuki, Todoroki, and the two general studies students were nowhere to be seen. She hadn't remembered them leaving the bus and they weren't with them when they'd been thrown off the cliff. So where were they?
She whipped her head around when she heard a pained grunt from Iida and saw him hit the forest floor. "Iida! Are you ok?" She asked running over to him.
He glanced around confused but nodded. "Yes. I'm not sure what I tripped over. But I'm not hurt."
Ochako nodded, glad that he was ok. It was then she noticed the murmurs from her class. She looked around and quickly noticed why they were doing so. The earth beasts, which had previously kept coming giving them little time for any sort of break, were completely absent now. "There's no way Aizawa sensei is giving us a break, is there?" Sero piped up, a small amount of hope in his voice.
Momo looked around and shook her head. "Considering the circumstances in which we were thrown into this training it's unlikely that's the case. There has to be something else going on."
Suddenly a resounding boom sounded from nearby and several members of 1-a had to scramble out of the way of a falling tree. Thankfully no one was caught by it. "I don't think we should stay here. Clearly the training isn't over yet." Ochako said as she looked in the direction of where the tree had fallen. She swore she saw movement.
Iida nodded. "You're right. We should continue heading to the camp." The class moved far slower down the path now. They continued to hear noises and rustling coming from around them and it was putting them all on edge. They were all tense and waiting for something to happen.
Meanwhile the vigilantes, plus Todoroki, watched from up in the trees as the class walked into a clearing. "Alright. Show time Todoroki." Izuku said, turning to the boy. Todoroki nodded and carefully made his way down the tree he and Izuku had been perched in. Izuku swore that he would give him some parkour lessons once the camp was over.
Izuku watched as ice quickly surrounded the clearing as soon as Todoroki made it to the ground. He was glad they'd managed to herd the class into the clearing from noises alone. That was something they'd need to work on. Just as they'd planned the entire class was surrounded by the ice in the clearing. Izuku knew this wouldn't really stop most of the class, he'd seen enough of their quirks to know that a trap as simple as this wouldn't really stop them, but it would give the four of them the opportunity to engage them in a more controlled environment. Sure he, Katsuki, and Shinsou had experience working in the field and going after real villains, but they were still outnumbered and against a class of hero course students. If they wanted to win they'd have to play it smart; brute force would get them nowhere.
Time for step two. Izuku made his way down the tree and briefly met up with Shinsou. Thankfully the two of them had gotten decent at using the capture weapon that Aizawa had gifted them. The two quickly split to wait on opposite sides of the trap. They'd jump in once Katsuki created a distraction for them. That distraction came a moment later in the form of another falling tree. Katsuki stood proudly atop it, dressed in the basic black clothes and mask Aizawa had given them to help them "get into the role". Katsuki created a flash grenade and Izuku and Shinsou rushed in while the class was distracted and blinded.
They two managed to take a few members of 1-a by surprise and bind them in the capture tape Aizawa had given them. They managed to pull the captured students outside of the ring of ice by the time the other members had recovered. They hadn't managed to get a lot of them but everyone they could take out was a big win for them; especially since they'd managed to get most of the ones they wanted out of the way.
Ochako rubbed at her eyes in an attempt to bring her vision back faster. At least her question as to where the other students were had been answered. Todoroki had likely been the one to create the ice, Katsuki was the one who had blinded them, and she assumed the other two were around somewhere. Aizawa must have put them up to this. No wonder they'd stayed back on the bus! They must have known this was going to happen.
Finally her vision cleared and she looked around to see that another 4 members of their class were missing: Jiro, Shoji, Koda, and Asui. If Ochako recalled correctly those four hadn't all been on the outskirts of the class which likely meant they had used that attack to take out specific people. "Everyone remain calm! This is part of the training but treat it as if it wasn't!" Iida yelled in an attempt to calm the remaining members of the class down.
"You should listen to him you know. Getting all worked up will only make it easier for us to pick you off." Ochako turned to see the purple haired student perched on top of the ice wall to her right.
"Like we're gonna le-" Kaminari stopped mid sentence and his eyes went blank.
"You don't learn do you? Gonna have to break that if you want to be a good hero. Let your quirk lose." Shinsou commanded.
Those farther away from Kaminari managed to get out of the range of his quirk, Ochako was thankfully saved by Iida; though he managed to catch about half of the remaining class before shorting himself out. Right, Shinsou's quirk was brainwashing. That was going to be tricky. Unfortunately when Ochako looked back up at the spot Shinsou had previously been he was gone. The class needed to find them before they could even the odds.
"I may have an idea." Momo said as she looked around.
"We're all ears" Ochako said, doing the same.
This was going a bit too smoothly Izuku couldn't help but think. Sure the four of them had managed to catch them by surprise and Shinsou had been lucky in snagging Kaminari but these were still hero course students they were dealing with. Even with their experience he and Shinsou hadn't gotten the same training as them and there should be some sort of skill gap between them. Yeah they'd managed to get their licenses but Izuku was sure had this class been given the opportunity they could have gotten them as well. They'd all shown amazing skill during the Sports festival so Izuku could only imagine how skilled they were now. Maybe they were tired from what they'd been doing before? Izuku wasn't sure but he couldn't help the feeling that something was wrong.
Izuku was interrupted from his thoughts when Katsuki landed beside him. "You ready to finish this Deku?"
Izuku frowned. "I think so but…"
"But?" Katsuki repeated.
"It feels like they're not putting up much of a fight. We're taking them out way too easily don't you think?" Izuku raised his concerns to Katsuki.
Katsuki glared at the clearing below. "Maybe." He finally conceded. "They might be up to something. They're not all completely useless."
Izuku nodded. "I think we should wait and see what they're going to do. Then go from there."
Katsuki grunted. "Whatever. I'll go let Eyebags and Icyhot know." With that he was gone.
It wasn't long till he heard a crash from the trees next to him. He watched, somewhat amazed, as dark shadow tore through the branches of the tree. Izuku blinked. He guessed they figured out that the four of them were using the trees surrounding the clearing to get around. It wasn't long that he was forced out of his own perch as dark shadow's claws ripped through the branches. He was forced to jump into the middle as he didn't have really anywhere else to go. His eyes widened as he caught sight of Uraraka above him holding what looked like a net. Everything seemed to happen in slow motion as she managed to press her fingers together and come hurtling towards him. The net fell over him as he felt himself get grabbed and looked down to see Iida gripping the corners of the net. He managed to get the two of them down safely to the ground as Uraraka floated down.
Izuku watched helplessly as similar things happened to Shinsou and Katsuki. Kirishima had to hold down Katsuki though so no one else risked being damaged from the explosions he was popping off wildly. Todoroki had simply surrendered when he realized there was little chance of beating them all. Even though they'd been taken out Izuku couldn't help the large grin on his face. Their plan had been smart but simple to execute and even though it resulted in his and the other's capture Izuku couldn't help but appreciate how it had worked. This was going to be a great week. Izuku was sure of it.