Hey everyone, sorry that this took longer than expected to be ready to post, I am going to try to be updating a bit faster. I also want to thank my beta reader who helped make sure this was more coherent.

Chapter 2:

Tsuyu had put the call in: Deku had missed his check in. She had tried to reach him twice more after the initial missed check in, but after hearing nothing, she became more concerned. She contacted Gunhead, the closest Pro Hero, and sent a message to Aizawa. Bakugo's capture a few months ago and other attacks had led to new rules being put in place. Upon receiving provisional licenses, they were instructed to keep patrol partners during the initial provisional period. There was too much ground to be covered for it to be practical to move in groups, so they were told to have regular check-ins every twenty minutes. Midoriya was extremely good about checking in on time; the only person likely better than that would be Iida. The fact that he hadn't checked in was worrying. It could have been a fight or something similar, but he usually mentioned if he was going to engage in anything just to make sure that whoever he was partnered with knew. She assumed the experience with the Hero Killer made him a bit more cautious.

However, the situation seemed to be even worse than they had feared or at least their reaction would imply that. It may have just been that after what happened before, they needed to make sure that everything possible was done to ensure that any student grabbed was recovered. The administration also wanted to stay ahead of the media; it would have to be announced eventually, but there was hope that it could be resolved beforehand. There were other messages flying between students as they heard about it. They remembered what happened to Bakugo, remembered his abduction from the summer compound, remembered that Izuku had organized a rescue team of his fellow students. Like the last time there was a push to work together to try to rescue Izuku, even more and even more enthusiastically than they were for Bakugo. This wasn't a surprise to some of them, Midoriya was preferred by many of them.

Toshinori paced. He hated the feeling of helplessness. He had been the Symbol of Peace for years, had been able to protect others. And now…now he paced helpless, unable to do anything other than think and worry. His protégé had been captured, he assumed by the league of villains. He looked out the window, clenching his fists, and he was able to summon up a dying ember of One For All. Just as quickly, it guttered out, returning him to his scrawnier form.

Tsuyu stared forward, not speaking just croaking. Her gaze was the same slightly flat glassy look it always was. Her face looked equally impassive, though to those that knew her well they would see a slightly downcast look to her lips and might be able to hear a slightly angry and sad inflection to her croaks. Her fault. She'd found out that the distress call came from the area she was patrolling, and whoever did it apparently managed to mimic her voice and mannerisms. Using her voice had been bad enough, but it felt even worse when this had happened where she was supposed to be, where she had been patrolling. She should have been there to help him, should have been able to come to his aid or have noticed whatever they were doing beforehand.

They had managed to evade her, hide from her. And because of that a classmate, a fellow hero and friend, had been abducted and was in danger. She thought back to when she had told her classmates that rescuing Bakugo the way they had was no different than what the villains would do. Those words echoed in her mind again and the same guilt that came afterwards threatened to swallow her whole.

"That isn't going to help anything. Right now, we need to determine what happened to Midoriya and more importantly we need to determine how to recover him." Nezu sat, appearing like a stuffed animal, yet he was still able to somehow keep from being viewed as comical. He looked over the notes taken by police and pro heroes that had arrived on scene.

"My main concern here is that we need to determine if this is a capture with the intent of turning him as they did with young Bakugo, if we are looking at something akin to a hostage situation, or if they are intending to simply kill young Midoriya."

"Why would they want to kill him?" Iida was pacing manically. His arms were flailing somewhat wildly as he seemed to ponder his own words. It was a horrid idea to contemplate, someone wanting his friend dead, and it was harder still to think of it in such a raw way especially as it brought memories of what happened to his brother to the forefront.

Todoroki spoke up his voice calm, "He was the impetus behind our attempt to rescue Bakugo from the League of Villains. They may have come to view him as a potential threat that they wanted to remove."

Uramaki shook her head, her normally cheerful demeanor now far more staid, "Really I think it might be more their leader, Shigaraki, that creepy hand guy. I was there when he tried to corner Deku before the summer training camp. He said he would kill him next time." She sounded more and more concerned as she spoke, admitting to herself the situation that Deku could be in.

Bakugo finally spoke up, sounding almost irritated "If they wanted him dead we would have found his corpse. They didn't want to kill him or he would be dead already and we'd know it." The others turned to him looking a bit shocked. He sighed, looking at the surprised expressions like they belonged to idiots.

"Think about it. There wasn't any blood, any pieces of torn costume, any sign of ANYTHING. So either Deku was grabbed immediately and they managed to move him or they got him to come with them peacefully. Either way they set up an ambush that took him. If they could do that then they could also kill him just as fast, so they didn't want to kill him, so quit crying about that and worry about something relevant."

Toshinori stared, horrified that Nezu would say it so baldly, but it seemed to push the other pro heroes to focus more completely on the situation at hand. Snipe was actually the first one to break the uneasy quiet. "I don't think this is to kill him. Frankly if that was their goal, they would have just killed him and left the body. Or left the body and called the media to give us another black eye and show the public we can't protect our students."

Power Loader spoke up, "The problem is that this was fairly well organized. We were able to determine that someone broke into our communications system with a fairly specialized device. Two other 1-A students helped verify, the device was highly specialized and would take some resources to make. This means that he was most likely a direct target either as Izuku Midoriya or as Deku, the real question here is why."

Kaminari sighed, "Power loader basically made me go over EVERY…SINGLE..SIGNAL in the area over the last hour. I found three pirate radio stations, one guy trying to disrupt delivery drones, and after a LOT of work and boosting finally managed to find the signal."

Jirou spoke up then, "And I went over the sound, Jamming-wheey here managed to replay it after a few tries and I did sound comparison. And…the inflections were a bit less calm than usual but it sounded just like Tsuyu and she was calling for backup saying she was under attack. Power loader had us work with Mei to figure out what would be needed for all that, and even assuming whoever did it had a relevant quirk, that still would take a lot of specialized expensive gear." Kaminari muttered at the mocking nickname but decided it wasn't the time.

A few people looking at Bakugo would have noticed that suddenly he seemed far more focused. He wasn't paying attention to any of them but something seemed to suddenly have his attention and focus. In his mind he had had a revelation, he realized a very real reason that Deku would have been taken. By now he had realized that Izuku had told him the truth about inheriting his quirk from All Might. All Might who had burned the last embers of his power rescuing Bakugo from the League of Villains just a few months ago.

The league of villains may have known the truth as well, and if they did then they might have had other plans for Deku. They might have wanted to try to strongarm him into handing over the power of the symbol of peace. Deku being a damn idiot who got himself captured wasn't the real issue or problem. It was the fact that All Mights power and legacy could end up far worse than lost. He had sworn that he wouldn't tell anyone what he had discovered, and even if he was willing to break that oath trying to explain all of it to these idiots would take too long and he'd have to keep backtracking. No, he had to figure out a way for it to be dealth with.

Snipe looked up, "We know that the head of the League of Villains has a hate-on for All-Might, and he probably worked out that the kid is his protégé, so that might be why, that would make the most sense. Maybe their goal is to set him up like a hostage…" He didn't complete the thought before

Toshinori intervened, "If that's what they want then I'll willingly trade myself for young Midoriya." And at that moment Eraserhead slapped him on the back of the head.

"Please quit being stupid. For one thing we don't actually know if they have him, for another, we know they have a shapeshifter, the Izuku we get is probably not the real one. And we're not going to give them the victory of being able to say that they killed All Might once and for all. Besides, we're spinning our wheels here. It might be useful to know why they took him but I think we can agree that it wasn't to kill him. We also need to remember that we don't know it was the League. It could have been some independent or other criminal group looking to join them and plan to use him as a sort of resume. We can't assume that they have him, we need to focus on finding him and avoid making unwarranted assumptions."

Midnight sighed, "Speaking of assumptions, what do we do about class 1-A?"

"We're going to get him right?" Kirishima said it matter-of-factly, as if there was no question whatsoever. There had been some rumblings of discontent or unease when last time they had discussed rescuing a classmate, Bakugo. This time however while there was some minor hesitation everyone in 1-A seemed willing. Maybe it was because of the success at rescuing Bakugo, maybe it was because most of them had their provisional licenses but either way theywere far more willing to be active and try to recover their friend and classmate.

Bakugo suddenly spoke up, "Someone should check on his mom…" That got him more than a few strange looks. He didn't have a way to explain it easily as to why, but he had also made a promise. He thought he might be able to appeal to sympathy from Uraraka or one of the more emotionally linked ones. Fortunately apparently he managed to trigger a lightbulb in someone else.

"That would actually make sense. Maybe they were able to grab him by taking his mother hostage. From what I understand is her quirk isn't that powerful, and if they had her they would probably be able to convince him to come quietly. And if nothing else it might be worth checking anyway just to make sure she's secure." Momo looked contemplative as she said it, possibly trying to determine if there might be other reasons. Others began to agree, acting like the idea of to go check on her was Yoayorozus idea the whole time. Bakugo felt irritated but decided at this point it wasn't worth bringing up, and he didn't want to have to explain why he mentioned it. Shitty fucking Deku getting captured.

Iida spoke with strong conviction, "Before we start planning to do anything we actually should check with the teachers and other pro heroes. Like it or not we are still students and we want to avoid getting in their way. Not to mention the fact that we want to avoid duplicating when we should be working with them to find our friend. And if they refuse to allow us, then..:

Todoroki spoke simply, "Then we work around them."

Aizawa sighed, "If you forbid them from trying to help him they won't listen. There are close bonds, but in a more practical sense almost all of them have provisional hero licenses, we can't stop them from trying to look for him while on patrol. And frankly it would be exceptionally irrational to try. If this is the first step of a bigger attack the students would be targets, we're better off trying to have them in groups supervised by a pro hero, it lessens the risk of another ambush as well as keeping them directed in ways that won't impede us. Though if you want to threaten them with expulsion then you can but then it means that I will probably be expelling all of class 1-A. I'm not unwilling to do it, but I want to make sure that you are."

Nezu sighed. "Well, then we seem to have our work cut out for us with quite a bit to do, at this point we might be better off speaking with the students, and be willing to listen, they may have some useful ideas. Also, Toshinori, I need to speak with you privately once the others leave."