While the four remedial students were stuck in their extra lessons, the rest of Class 1-A had an exciting new festival to prepare for.
"We got lots of decisions to make!" Ashido was saying as we all walked back to Heights Alliance from class the next day. "What's gonna cheer everyone up the most?!"
"Hm…" said Jirou, looking quiet and pensive.
"The school festival is exactly one month away!" Iida told the class in the common area. "With so little time, a number of decisions must be made today."
"Gotta pick the songs first! Ones that'll get people moving!"
"But they've got to be songs everyone knows, right!? Stuff you can dance to!"
"Four on the floor beats, then," said Jirou. "And some new-rave club rock. EDM is ideal if we're talking music you can dance to, but you guys wanna play instruments, right? Anyone ever played bass or drums?" We all stared at her in silence, and If elt rather awkward. "Right…First, we need drums to give this band some bones. I'm more of a guitarist, though. I'm still working on my drumming skills. If I've gotta teach a complete beginner while still practicing myself, pulling this off in one month's gonna be tough."
Kaminari suddenly shouted "Ah! You mentioned that you took some music lessons at one point, right?"
"Huh?" snapped Bakugo as we all turned to look at him. "WHOA! Talk about unexpected!"
"Try banging on the drums, Bakugo!" said Sero.
"Make me," he snapped, turning away.
"I hear it's really tricky," he grinned at him.
"Oh yeah!?" Bakugou promptly grabbed the drumsticks out of Sero's hand and sat down to tap out a pretty near perfect beat.
Jirou cried, blushing, "P-perfect!"
"Wow!" Ashido was throwing her fists in the air. "The Talented Mr. Bakugo strikes again!"
"So it's settled, Bakugo on drums!" Kaminari cried.
"Huh? No way am I doing that stupid crap," he said as he got up to leave.
"Bakugo, please!" Jirou followed him. "I mean, if you agree to this it could turn out really great!"
"Like hell it will!" he snapped. "The whole point's to help those other kids chill out, right? But what's stressing them out to start with is how caught up in our own world we are! They ain't gonna accept this coming from a bunch of people they hate!"
Everyone was silent and sullen looking.
"Hey now! You don't have to be so rude about it!" Said Hagakure.
"I'm saying it ain't gonna work just singing kumbaya!" he shouted.
I had a sinking feeling and Iida turned to me. "He's right. Perhaps we didn't think this through…"
But it was such a good idea...
Todoroki glared at Bakugo. "You can't dump on our plan when you weren't even there to begin with."
"It's so irritating," he vented. "We're the ones who keep getting dunked by villains. So why do we gotta be a bunch of sappy people pleasers? Stop trying to lick their stupid boots and hit em we're it counts! Don't make friends! Make 'em hurt instead! Gotta do this right. Take everyone at UA and murder 'em with music!"
"Bakugo!" We all yelled.
"AS the one who got kidnapped, Bakugo himself is bearing quite the burden here," I heard Iida say quietly. I suppose that's something I never thought of.
"His reasoning's a little off, but I'm glad he's on our side!" Said Hagakure. She jumped over to Jirou to hug her. "This is gonna work, Jiro!"
"I'll do my best," She said and finally smiled.
