He gently laid Mirio on the ground, far away from where he'd landed. 'Just above us, right?' He squatted and sent the power of One For All through his whole body. The next floor was roughly 30 meters up. He was confident he could make the jump.

He leapt into the air, soaring at breakneck speed toward the ceiling. When he was two meters from the top, he flipped his body so that he was parallel to the ground. "SMMAAASH!" He gave a mighty kick and the power from his leg combined with the extra force from his boot easily broke through the concrete. Huge slabs went flying up before falling back down and he was relieved he'd set Mirio down a ways away.

He didn't calculate the force of his kick into the jump however. Before he knew it, he was falling back down. 'Crap! I'll lose precious time if I have to land and jump again,' he thought. It was time to put his new quick thinking to the test. He hit a slab of concrete as he fell and an idea came to him. He quickly adjusted himself so that his feet were on the slab and jumped up. It flew to the ground even faster but he'd gotten almost no upward thrust. 'There are other slabs just like that one. I can do this!' He propelled himself from one falling slab to the other, sometimes having to use his arms to launch himself instead of his legs.

It took 13 jumps, but he made it through the new hole in no time. As he landed he got his bearings. 'Now which way is east?' He asked himself. Before he could decide on which way to go, he heard what sounded like an explosion followed by a powerful and heartbreaking scream. It was faint, like it was far away, but he knew which direction it was coming from. Without thinking, he took off full speed in that direction, blue sparks flying around his body as he ran. "Don't worry, Eri! I WILL save you this time!"

Episode 2: Rescued

*Earlier*

A loud roar shook the earth as the pro hero, Ryukyu had finally been hit. The enemy had brought out someone with some kind of explosion quirk. He flew around so fast that the dragon had no hope of following him.

"Ryukyu!" Uraraka yelled. The giant dragon had been hit. They were getting their serious players out to fight. She barely had any time to think. Almost before she took out one enemy, another was there to take his place. Froppy had been hurt already and was resting behind the front lines. Given the nature of Uraraka's quirk, it was nothing short of a miracle that she hadn't been seriously hurt yet. She was feeling nauseous though. Maybe she had enough. She finally caught a break after dispatching one more villain. She looked up at the people she had fought already. Eighteen in total. They were all hanging in the air, completely helpless since they couldn't propel themselves. She'd made sure to give them all a good shove forward before she sent them flying.

They were all hanging above their comrades, trying to get their attention. But with all the noise of the battle, they either couldn't hear them or didn't care. They'd care in a minute. "RELEASE!" Uraraka tapped her fingers together and pink light glowed from them. Suddenly they weren't floating. Unmanly screams filled the air as they fell. Right onto their teammates. Cries of shock rang out in the courtyard as the gang members on the ground were crushed by their comrades.

That attack alone was enough to devastate the enemy team. Only half of them remained at most. Now the only real threat was flying around Ryukyu. Uraraka took a moment to congratulate herself as well as work some of her stamina back up. Eighteen bodies was a lot to handle. She took the chance to step away from the battle and take one of her mints to push the nausea back. She heard footsteps behind her and turned around to find Nejire smiling like an idiot.

"Woah! That was some attack! I didn't know you could use your quirk like that, Uravity! That's awesome! That's the same kind of attack you used in the sports festival right? Is that hard to do? 'Cause if it is, then you're probably really tired. But I just have so many questions!" Uraraka giggled softly. She was just as talkative as ever even in the middle of a fight.

Uraraka turned to watch how Ryukyu would handle fighting the explosion guy. The dragon kept trying to grab him out of the air, but every time a clawed hand got close, he blasted himself away. His quirk was very similar to Bakugo's, but he obviously didn't have the right training. And he wasn't nearly as good at using it. But good or not, he was still a pain to deal with.

Uraraka wondered for a moment if she could help the dragon take him down. She immediately shot it down. If she got hurt she would just be in the way. Ryukyu would beat him. And if not, she would keep him occupied long enough for Deku and the others to finish the mission. She would just have to trust that they were okay.

Fat Gum eyed the villain carefully. He'd shown that he wasn't one to pick unfair fights, but he didn't want to leave anything to chance. He continued to keep careful guard over Kirashima. He was worried about Tamaki, yes. But he couldn't leave the man vulnerable to attack to search for him. He'd resigned himself to dealing with the worry. But he honestly hadn't expected Tamaki to stumble through the doorway.

The villain perked up too. "Someone else to fight?"

Tamaki looked Fat Gum in the eye, and with every ounce of strength he could muster, he uttered two words. "I won." He collapsed. Fat ran over to him. He kneeled over him and held his hand in front of his mouth. When he had confirmed he was still breathing he checked his pulse. It was faint, but regular. He scooped the boy up and laid him on the second bed in the infirmary. He got right to work on patching him up.

"I'm proud of you, Tamaki." As Fat bandaged his wounds, he made sure to keep checking that the villain was staying put.

Suddenly everything was shaking. An ear deafening crash shook the whole place. Cracks were forming in the ceiling and dust fell on them. "An explosion!?" Fat yelled. Kirashima was jolted awake by the noise

"What was that!?" Kirashima yelled. He took a moment to survey his surroundings. He was surprised to see the villain docile. Then his eyes landed on Fat and the person he was tending to. "Tamaki!" He hopped out of bed almost collapsing with the effort. He made his way over to his friend. "Is he gonna be alright?"

"He'll be fine. We should probably get out of here though. Looks like this place is about to come down," Fat explained. He finished bandaging Tamaki's wounds and scooped him up. "We need to find a way out of here. It'd be great if we could come across the others too."

"GRWAAA!" The clawed hand came down at lightning speed. Suddenly he was shot out of the sky. She had him pressed against the ground trying to ignore the pain in her hand from the explosions. "Finally got you, you little bug," she growled.

Pro Hero: Ryukyu! Her quirk, Dragon! She can transform her body into a giant fire-breathing dragon! The change doesn't last for long though. The transformation causes immense stress on the body. Therefore, she can only hold the form for about nine minutes at her best!

"Yeah, Ryukyu!" Uraraka and Nejire called.

"Damnit! How'd you know?" He grunted. Little explosions continued going off around him in an effort to get the dragon to release him.

"It was easy after watching you for a while. Your quirk is powerful, but you don't know how to use it," she growled. "You've had no training, you use the same patterns over and over again. All I had to do was figure it out."

"Arg! Damnit!" He was throwing a tantrum. "Damnit! Damnit!" The explosions he was giving off were getting more powerful. "If I go down, I'm taking you heroes with me!" His whole body started glowing from the inside. The dragon's eyes widened.

"What's he doing," Uraraka asked nervously. She subconsciously backed away.

"Get to cover!" Ryukyu yelled. Keeping her hand held down on him tightly, she wrapped her body around him as well. "He's gonna self destruct!"

All the heroes took just a second to process her words. Before carefully panicking. Suddenly every hero was moving at once. Some moved to the street to grab civilians and get them out of harms way. Others tried to build up barricades to guard the wounded. And all this happened within the span of thirty seconds. Right before the explosion, the air went silent. Everything happened in slow motion. The air around them was dragged toward Ryukyu and the villain the same way water is dragged underneath a tsunami before striking. In a fraction of a second it was all released at once.

The dragon tried her best to contain the explosion, but her limbs went flying out. She was thrown away like a ragdoll. The ground under the heroes feet shook violently and cracks formed from the epicenter leading out towards them. It was the longest ten seconds of any of the heroes' lives.

Uraraka slowly stood up, gripping her aching head and covering her ringing ears. Fire. Fire and destruction. That was all that greeted her when she opened her eyes. At her feet lay her mentor, Ryukyu, motionless. The whole front of her body was covered in horrific burns. And she was out cold. Uraraka gasped. She stared down in horror at the hero she thought unbeatable. It didn't take her long to react. She made the hero weightless before pushing her back to the ambulance.

Uraraka slowly walked toward the center of the blast. She didn't get very far though. Just past the blazing ring of fire was a ginormous hole. It had to be forty or fifty meters wide. To think that someone could cause this kind of destruction. As she stared into the abyss that had been opened up she realized that several floors below the ground had been made visible.

'I hope Deku and the others didn't get hit by that,' Uraraka thought. She checked through the floors to see if there was anyone stuck under the debris. Her eyes narrowed in concentration before widening in shock. There, two floors down, she saw two figures. A little girl in a white dress and a man with a bird mask. 'That's- that's Chisaki. So that girl must be Eri,' she thought. 'But there's no one else around. Did they just not find him in time or did he..?' She shook her head. 'No, I cant think like that. More importantly, he's right there. I can stop him!' It didn't look like he'd noticed her yet and he was still getting over the effects of the explosion.

Uraraka floated herself and grabbed the now destroyed ground under her. She pointed her floating body right at him. With all the strength she could muster she propelled herself at him. As she flew through the air she noticed the girl was looking at her. And was desperately trying to get her to stop. Seeing the way she reacted to the prospect of getting rescued lit something inside Uraraka. She suddenly felt an intense, burning hatred for the man holding her

She stopped herself short of hitting him in favor of grabbing the broken ground above him. She swung with all her might, landing a kick squarely on his head. He went flying back from the force, screaming profanities as he went. While he was recovering, Uraraka floated Eri and threw her to the other side of the crater. Once she was sure the girl was safe, she released her quirk and turned back to Chisaki.

He slowly stood, gripping his aching, and now bleeding head. "There's just no end to you is there," he asked. He locked eyes with Uraraka, and she felt a terrible chill down her spine. "You must all be cured." Her eyes widened in fear. Then narrowed in fury.

"And you'd use your own daughter to do it?!" She was livid. To use someone like that. Your own flesh and blood. The thought was disgusting to her. She couldn't help but think of her own parents and how they treated her. There couldn't be a more polar opposite.

Chisaki looked puzzled for a moment before realization dawned on his face. "Huh? That old story? I made it up to get those heroes off my back. She's only a pawn. A useful one, though. If she breaks, I put her back together." He said it like it was the simplest thing in the world. Like it was common knowledge.

Uraraka stood her ground. "You're a psychopath."

He shrugged. "Maybe. But I'm the psychopath that will cure this world of it's sickness." He lunged. Time slowed down again. Uraraka couldn't even move. When had he taken his glove off? When they were talking? Before that? It didn't matter now though. She was going to die, and this little girl would be taken again.

"SMAAASH!" A gloved fist flew in from behind her, glowing with blue sparks. It connected with Chisaki's cheek, sending him flying once again. Deku landed right in front of her. In that moment, to her, he looked like the symbol of peace himself. "Don't worry, Uraraka." He turned back to face her, a determined look on his face. "I'll save you!"

Midoriya: Now the preview! Looks like I arrived just in time! I found you, Chisaki! I won't let you hurt this girl anymore!

Chisaki: I'll tell you just like that other hero, I threw away that name. I am Overhaul!

Midoriya: I don't care what you call yourself.

Uraraka: You are SO gonna get what's coming to you!

Midoriya: Next time, 'Final Boss.'

Uraraka: Deku's showing his resolve to protect everyone!

Midoriya: Go beyond!

Midoriya and Uraraka: PLUS ULTRA!