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Mr. Aizawa faced his students, though he'd rather be asleep. Midnight threw another faculty rager that All Might dragged him to the night before. Thankfully, rescue missions were pretty easy for him to throw together, and he could usually sneak a nap in while the other students watched the screen. So he stood in front of the building for trial one, hungover, tired, and patience thinner than usual.
"Alright. You two. You know, the green ones." He grumbled, pointing to Midoriya and Asui. "You're on team one. Hero Team."
The two turned to each other and smiled awkwardly, Tsuyu blushing lightly. She didn't get the chance to team with Deku often, but now that they were dating, the timing seemed serendipitous.
"Alright, so," Aizawa continued, head throbbing, "you, the angry one." He pointed to Bakugou, who grunted. "You're going to team with that red guy you hate the least as the villain team."
Kirishima fist-pumped while slapping an arm cross Bakugou, "AW YEAH, our manly bro-bond will take Deku and Froppy down."
"I DON'T NEED YOUR HELP TO TAKE DEKU DOWN!"
Aizawa cringed, the shouting making his head pound. "SHUT UP!"
Midoriya turned to Tsuyu and smiled again. She smiled back, and said, "I hate it when he gets like this towards you. Let's kick his butt."
Midoriya laughed. "You got it, Asui."
"I told you to call me Tsu."
"Right, sorry Tsu." He replied, blushing. Adorable, she thought, sneaking her tongue out and booping his nose while no one was looking.
"Alright, we don't have any pretend hostages," Aizawa explained, handing a sheet to Bakugou and Kirishima. He then presented a watermelon from his cloak, "So once again, the heroes will have to rescue Stanley the Watermelon."
For reasons unbeknownst to Class 1-A, Mr. Aizawa had taken to naming a watermelon Stanley, and having it be the rescue target in missions lately. A few of them suspected this had something to do with the smackdown Nomu had laid on him, but no one was going to ask him about it. He handed the watermelon to Kirishima, and advised, "so go to the room on your paper. You have five minutes before I send those two in to come get you. If they get the watermelon, you lose. If you keep them away from Stanley, you win."
"Aw yeah! We'll show them the true power of Team Rock Hard Ex-Bro-sion!" Kirishima whooped, charging into the building with Bakugou stomping angrily behind him.
"I NEVER AGREED TO THAT NAME!"
"It's not a bad name. Kero." Asui remarked, tapping her chin "Can we have a team name?"
Deku scratched his nose, "How about Ribbit Smash?"
Froppy beamed. "I like it!"
Deku blushed, smiling happily. He would never admit that he'd been thinking about team names for them since their first date, but he was glad she liked that one; it had been his favorite.
"That's perfect!" Ochako agreed, overhearing them. "Me and Iida picked Gravity Boost."
"You can call yourself whatever, just don't enter the building until you hear the buzzer," Mr. Aizawa grumbled, leading the others to the observation room, "good luck out there."
The two heroes stretched out as they prepared, focused on the task ahead.
"I've never faced off against Bakugou before," Asui pointed out, "Sorry, I mean, King Lord Explosion Death Murder Killer Deathcore 5000. Any pointers?"
Izuku erupted into a fit of giggles. It was no secret Asui was not a huge fan of his childhood friend, but kept her comments limited to sarcastic jabs like this, which always cheered him up and reminded him that while he always admired Bakugou's strength, he no longer needed to strive to be like his rival; he was a hero in his own right.
"Well," he replied, managing to regain his composure, "drawing out a fight with him is not in our best interests. The more he sweats, the more he can use his Quirk, and the better he can use it at range with his suit. Which makes him a good match for Red Riot, because he works best in short fights."
"So focus on dodging Kirishima first and taking out Bakugou," Asui reasoned. "Got it."
"Right," her partner agreed, before smiling and adding, "It's nice to be able to bounce this off a partner and not just mumble it to myself for a change."
She stood on her toes and ruffled his hair, "that's what I'm here for; making sure you're less creepy."
He rolled his eyes, "Thanks, Tsu."
The buzzer went off, and the hero team charged into the building. "Any ideas on how to figure out what floor they're on?" He asked.
"Kero," She nodded before, to his surprise, hopping over to the elevator. She hit the button, and the single elevator's window display above the door showed a, "B," before transitioning to, "G."
"The elevator is coming from the basement, so if they took that, I'd say that's a good start," she explained.
Deku followed her over to the lift, grinning, "anticlimactic, but good thinking."
She shrugged. "The simplest solution is usually the best."
As the elevator dinged, they heard a loud explosion from the floor below, and exchanged quizzical glances. "Think Bakugou went rogue already?" Asui asked.
Izuku shrugged. "I don't think so. Usually he can tolerate Kirishima."
They took battle stances as the elevator opened, but relaxed to find it was empty. Deku shot an arm out in front of Froppy, and said, "Wait. They might have rigged it. Let's take the stairs."
She nodded, and they entered the stairwell, charging down and kicking the basement door open, hoping for the element of surprise. They blinked in shock to see that, indeed, Stanley the Watermelon was sitting in the basement floor, but Bakugou and Kirishima were nowhere in sight. Creeping in to the basement, they looked around, back to back for an optimal field of vision, but saw nothing but their target and many, many large cobwebs.
They made it to Stanley, shrugged to each other, and Midoriya picked up the fruit.
"Man, Stanley, for a watermelon, you sure do get into a lot of trouble," Izuku remarked, prompting his girlfriend to laugh at his bad joke.
They listened for the buzzer or the announcement that they won, but it never came. Now they were beginning to get concerned.
"Do you think something went wrong?" Midoriya asked.
Tsuyu shrugged and gave a worried, "Kero."
They walked up the stairs, a little bit more briskly than they might have on any other day, and left the building without incident, looking for their two classmates. Alas, there was no one in sight.
"Let's get to the observation room, should know what's going on," Asui suggested, and Izuku nodded in agreement.
Running inside, they burst into the observation room and gasped; the room was empty and covered in cobwebs, with a large industrial air vent cover torn off the side of the room.
"M-Midoriya...Asui..." A voice muttered from the side of the room. They looked over to see Mineta had been wrapped in a spider-web cocoon and placed in a cobweb in the corner.
"That thing...took everyone down the vent." He muttered, weakly.
"Kero! Let's go, Deku!" Tsuyu croaked, terror rising in her throat as she leapt towards the hole in the wall. Izuku wasted no time chasing after her.
"W-wait! Save me first!" Mineta whined, but they left him in the web, forgotten.
Peering into the large vent, Midoriya crawled in first, following the trail of cobwebs through the labyrinth of the building.
This probably isn't the right time, Asui thought, following him, but he's got a great butt. Better make him train those jumps more.
Her admiration of her boyfriend's hindquarters was interrupted as the vent creaked and gave out, sending them hurtling downwards towards a ceiling ventilation grate in the basement.
Thinking quickly, Asui spread her hands and feet apart, catching the side of the vertical shaft and sticking in place. Then she shot her tongue out, wrapping it around Izuku's waist, stopping him from crashing into the grate.
He breathed a sigh of relief, looking up at her and whispered, "Thanks, Tsu," up at her.
She gave him a small smile as she scooted her way down the vent, until they could both peer through the slits in the ceiling grate; they could hear voices coming from below. Squinting down, they could make out the form of other students, wrapped in web cocoons, all over the floor, struggling weakly against the webs. Something had sapped them of their strength. They squinted into the darkness, as a large figure appeared in their field of vision, dragging Sensei Aizawa along behind him in a cobweb cocoon. The web was coming from the small of his back, through a hole in the figure's shirt. It appeared to be a large, six-armed man with long red hair.
Izuku held in a gasp. "That's...that's Arachnia!" He whispered to Tsuyu, in terror.
Tsuyu met his gaze...and...shrugged.
"Oh, right," he explained, "He's one of Eraserhead's old foes from like...twenty years ago. Not many people have heard of him since Mr. Aizawa rejected the spotlight, but his Quirk is a mutation. Mr. Aizawa has no effect on him."
"You get let out on good behavior, and this is what you do?" Mr. Aizawa groaned. "Look, I know your plan. You got us all off guard. Just leave the kids out of it. Kill me and go back to jail. Then I at least won't have this stupid hangover."
The large six-armed man let out a cackle. "Oh, Shouta," he replied with mock compassion, "I've waited decades for the chance to get my revenge on you. That's why I'm eating you last."
Arachnia grabbed a student-cocoon from the side of the room, and Izuku and Asui gasped as they recognized Uraraka struggling against his grasp.
"You rat bastard!" Aizawa shouted. "Leave my students alone!"
Determined, Froppy and Deku nodded to each other; the frog heroine released her partner, and he kicked open the vent with his Full Cowl. The two of them fell towards Arachnia, hoping to land a pre-emptive strike, but with superhuman reflexes, the villain noticed them, dropped Uravity, and jumped backwards, clinging to the basement wall. The floor shook as the two heroes landed in a joint smash and stomp, but they looked up to glare at their foe.
"Ohhhh, did I miss two of the little piggies you sent to market?" Arachnia sang, crawling up the wall.
"Careful with that man," Aizawa coughed. "He can do anything that a spider can."
"Sounds familiar," Froppy remarked.
"His bite causes a low level poison," Aizawa added, ignoring the quip, "It won't kill you, but you'll be sapped of your strength for hours. It's how he got all of us."
"Look out!" Ochako yelled, "here comes a spider, man!"
"Looks like my salad arrived!" Arachnia cackled as he scuttled across the ceiling, "I always knew I should be eating more greens."
"Very funny!" Deku grunted as he leapt for the ceiling, ready to smash this guy up to the next floor. But the spider villain was fast, using two of his left arms to punch Deku back down to the floor. Froppy dived and grabbed him out of the air, and rolled along the ground to avoid the web that Arachnia shot at him out of his back. She shot her tongue to the ceiling, using it to punch the villain across the eye before he could react.
Deku rolled to his feet as Arachnia took to the opposite wall. He's playing defense. He looked to Asui. "You can secrete a stinging poison, right?"
She nodded. "Yeah, but it's kinda gross."
"Go for his eyes, I'm going to draw him in," Deku replied.
She gave a determined nod as he took off. He made a beeline for Arachnia, but as he drew in towards the villain, he kicked to the right, dodging another attack from their foe, and kicked off the wall so he was shooting himself above Arachnia. The enhanced spider senses of the villain allowed him to keep up with Midoriya, and he shot a web towards the smaller hero. But Deku flipped himself upside down and kicked off the ceiling, going left of the villain and dodging the web altogether.
"Hold still, you stupid broccoli-haired rodent!" Arachnia grunted as Deku zigzagged all around him, doing his best to randomize his movements and be unpredictable. Finally, the villain roared in frustration, and lunged forward, grabbing Midoriya with all six hands, pinning him to the ground. He bore his fangs, ready to chomp down -
"Kero!" Froppy shouted, spitting a wad of venom into the eyes of their foe.
Arachnia roared in pain, desperately trying to wipe the gunk off his face. The distraction gave Deku the opportunity to gather his legs to his chest, and used his Full Cowl to plant his boots into the villain's midsection, sending Arachnia flying up and off of him, landing on his back.
Froppy jumped to her partner's side. "Combo move?"
He nodded. "Combo move."
The two locked arms and with the power of One for All he could control, Deku spun and tossed Froppy towards their foe, who had clumsily gotten to his feet while blind. Froppy, before being tossed, had wrapped her tongue around Deku's arm, did a flip in mid-air, and kicked Arachnia as hard as she could across the face, forcing him off his feet and flying onto his back. As she landed, she swung her head down, using her tongue to lift Deku into the air, swinging him like a mace down towards Arachnia.
"RIBBIT SMAAAAAAAAASH!" Deku screamed, driving his fist into Arachnia's face, caving in the floor of the basement slightly, and knocking the villain out.
Izuku and Asui both wiped the sweat off their brow and grinned at each other. They were interrupted as Aizawa spoke up from his cocoon. "Hey, good job, now get me out of this."
"O-oh, right," Izuku responded, and between he and Asui, they were able to finally tear open the webbing.
Mr. Aizawa promptly wrapped up Arachnia in his restraining scarf, and called in to the front office. Within minutes, the faculty was on site, helping the others out of their cocoons and apprehending Arachnia.
Recovery Girl (with the help of some of the other teachers) grumpily took the rest of the class to get treated for the toxins that Arachnia had injected them with, everyone groggily thanking Izuku and Asui for saving them. Except Bakugou, who mumbled something to the tune of, "When I recover, I'm going to punch you in the face for saving me, you damn nerds."
"Kero, can you heal him last?" Asui asked Recovery Girl.
She only winked and chuckled as the students were wheeled out, leaving the two heroes in training outside of the building with Mr. Aizawa.
"Well, I guess if only the four of us are left, you two are dismissed for the day. That's probably enough training for now." Mr. Aizawa sighed, though he was happy he could recover more from his hangover.
"The...four of us?" Midoriya asked.
Mr. Aizawa picked up Stanley the Watermelon and gave a glare.
"R-right, sorry." Midoriya apologized.
"Well. See you kids tomorrow," Aizawa said, waving them off as he left with his watermelon, "Don't let me catch you out of the dorms after hours."
"Yes sir," they replied, bowing, and then laughed with each other as they made for the dorms.
As they walked hand in hand, Asui told Izuku all about her internship; his eyes shone with excitement as she told him about stopping the drug smugglers with Captain Selkie. It made her laugh, they had just had a super villain encounter, but he was practically fanboying about her other villain encounter.
"Think you'll try and work with him after graduation?" He asked.
Tsuyu shrugged. "I don't know. I'll see what other internships I'll get here. Might find something better. It's nice to have the option open, Kero."
"I hear you," Deku nodded and yawned, "What a morning. I could use a nap and a shower since we have the afternoon off." He turned to her and smiled. "Then we should spend the day together! The others shouldn't be back for awhile."
Asui smiled, and booped him on the nose with her tongue; she had taken to doing that as sort of her acceptable public display of affection. "A shower, nap, and a day in with Deku sounds like the perfect day off to me."
When they reached the dorms, Midoriya was surprised when Tsuyu turned to follow him back to his room. "Tsu?" He questioned, "I thought you were going to go shower first?"
She just turned red and winked at him.
Oh. Izuku thought, realizing she was intent on following him, OH. Oh damn.
Yes, it ended up being quite a good day for Team Ribbit Smash.
