Taniko POV

Kirishima and I were waiting outside of the building as Asui and Tokoyami prepped as the villain team. In order to best prepare for the concoming battle, I was talking about possible strategies and attacks with our quicks to counter the opposing team's.

"Time manipulation on your striking power and speed would take you the obvious choice to lead a frontal assault given your increased durability with your quirk. The two of us would easily be able to take out Asui… but Tokoyami's Dark Shadow poses a viable threat. Damn it! Cletus would have been a good counter. Perhaps the direct approach is better for a last case scenario. Therefore, a stealth advance would be the most beneficial to the task at hand!" I declared.

Turning around to Kirishima, only then I noticed his expression was a mixture of confusion but awe as well.

"Well, if you think it'll work, let's try it!"

"R-right! Unfortunately, we don't have the means for a flashy entry like Cletus, so we'll just have to use the front door,"

Kirishima marched towards a large padlocked metal door. After hardening his arm, he broke it down with two quick punches. As the two of us stepped inside, we took notice of our surroundings: a branching and dimly lit corridor, where nearly every sound echoed ominously.

We continued exploring the area for ages. Even though time was running out, we had deemed that it was safer to stick together until we encountered either Asui or Tokoyami.

And speak of the devil! Kirishima turned around a corner, when a pink ribbon shot out of nowhere, wrapped around his leg and dragged him forward. Recognizing it as Asui's tongue, I dashed after him. I could just make the two of them out in the dark hallway.

With a snap of my fingers, I sped up time. My quirk builds up its effect over time, which is why I usually vibrate to reach top speeds as quickly as possible. But I didn't have that luxury right now. I was gaining on Asui, but not fast enough. Luckily, Kirishima hardened his arms and dug them into the floor in order to create enough friction to slow them down. On the other hand, it sent a shower of sparks in my direction.

"Watch it!" I yelled as I leaped over him.

Using my momentum to leap from wall to wall, I tackled Asui, sending us both to the ground. As we landed, I sped up time to increase the force of the impact while holding Asui so that she would hit the ground first. We collided with a loud "thunk!". I slowly got up. Asui was out cold. Feeling bad, I told myself that I would apologize later.

Kirishima walked up behind me and said, "Come on, let's find Tokoyami,"

Tokoyami POV:

Damn… They must have gotten Asui. Our comm lines suddenly cut off.

"Dark Shadow! Come forth,"

The bird-headed shadow being flowed out of my chest.

"Hey hey Tokoyami,"

"Dark shadow… destroy the light sources in this corridor and the room with the toy bomb,"

This caused an evil grin to spread across his beak.

"Finally, some action around here!".

But he made no move for a couple of seconds.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

After a moment's pause, he added, "If we win, can you introduce me to Kasady's symbiote?"

"Just get a move on…,"

With a sigh, he glided forward and slashed three lights above us. As the hallway dimed, I could feel Dark Shadow growing in size and ferocity.

"Let's get those suckers," he cried in a deeper voice.

Acting quickly, I retreated back behind a column next to the paper-mache bomb. After waiting for another five minutes, I heard a pair of footsteps coming closer.

Kirishima POV:

Man...this building is gigantic. The stairs seem to go on forever! As we approached the top floor, I noticed that the lighting had changed from dim to nearly pitch black.

"Crap…," Hiraki murmured.

She had stopped in her tracks and got into a fighting stance. I followed her line of sight to see two large yellow eyes glaring at us.

"I see that the two of you have arrived here while Asui is not responding," Tokoyami's voice called, seemingly further back than the eyes were.

"I assume that you don't plan on letting us pass," Hiraki responded.

"Enough of the chitchat. You're dead, bird boy!" I yelled charging forward after hardening both of my arms.

"Very well. Dark Shadow! Attack!"

"MWAHAHAHAHA! Die puny Human! Die to Dark Shadow!" a new voice sounded.

The glowing eyes dashed forward and I could just make out a large serpentine body with a bestaial face and enormous clawed hands. I brought down my arms in a double karate chop, but Dark Shadow dived under the attack and countered with a backhand that sent me flying.

I crashed into a wall head-first and got lodged with my feet sticking out. While I clawed myself out, I heard Hiraki continuing the fight.

"Time bubble!" she yelled.

A strange "snikt" sound came from behind me when blades shot out from either side of me and cut through the metal like wet paper. Crawling out, I saw that the metal studs on her knuckles had grown to ten-inch long blades.

"Hurry up!" she cried. "I can't hold him for much longer"

Fumikage had his arms extended and Dark Shadow was rocketing towards us. Or rather, it would have been if Taniko's quirk hadn't taken effect.

Dashing forward, I delivered multiple punches in rapid succession to Dark Shadow while Taniko slid under it and used a flurry of kicks on Fumikage. She rolled behind him and pulled out the roll of tape that All Might gave each team and snapped her fingers. The two were thrown back… right into the tape. The moment Fumikage's back touched the tape, Taniko dashed around both him and Dark Shadow, encasing them in tape before slapping them into a wall to stick them.

"That was amazing," I told her.

Blushing, she replied,"Dark Shadow operates not too differently from Carnage,"

I stared at her confused.

"The name of Kasady's symbiote," she clarified.

"Wait, weren't we supposed to-"

"AND TIME IS UP! The villain team wins!" All Might's voice came over the speakers.

"Damn it! After fighting Fumikage, we forgot to find the fake weapon!" Taniko cried.

"Shit… Well let's head back to the main room,"

"Uhh guys. You mind getting me down first?" Fumikage called from the wall.

"Sorry!" the two of us exclaimed.

Kasady POV

"So ya won the battle but lost the war, huh?" I teased.

Taniko groaned, "Yeah…"

I gave her a small hug, "Don't worry about it. But, your battle did want to make me have a one on one with Fumikage,"

She smiled, "Perhaps another time. Let's watch the next match,"

All Might reached into the boxes and pulled out a new set of balls.

"All right, our next teams are… Midoriya and Uraraka for the heroes versus Bakugo and Iida as the villains,"

TimeSkip

The next week was a bit of a rush, especially with a stampede of students when some news reporters broke into the school, causing Iida to pull of an impressive stunt to calm everyone down. He later was rightly voted as Class President.

The next day, Aizawa Sensei spoke to us with special news:

"For today's hero training, All Might, myself, and another hero will be overseeing the class. We will be preparing you for disaster relief, from forest fires to floods. Welcome to rescue training. All of your get into your costumes. By the way, the training site is a bit remote so we will be traveling by bus. That is all,"

After he left, the class buzzed with conversation. After a few minutes, we had all gotten suited up and headed outside.

I placed an arm over Midoriya and asked, "Why are ya wearing your gym clothes?"

"Oh, Kasady! Well, my costume isn't in the greatest condition after my fight with Kacchan, so I'm waiting for the school's support company to repair it,"

Hiraki spoke up from behind us, "That may be a blessing in disguise, Midoriya. Your costume was… well… Let me just say it would be better to have a few modifications,"

The three of us stopped and looked forwards as Iida directed us into the bus in an orderly fashion and demanded that we order our seats by name or something… to find out that it was just a sideways seat bus.

Snickering at his predicament, I sat next to Hiraki, in the same aisle as Bakugo and Jiro. We all soon broke into a group conversation that started with Asui.

"Hey Midoriya, your quirk seems a lot like All Might's,"

Midoriya jumped a little at the remark and stuttered, "O-oh… You t-think so?"

Kirishima retorted, "But All Might doesn't get hurt from his quirk like Midoriya. In any case, a simple strength enhancing quirk is awesome. You can do a lot of stuff with it. Unlike my hardening, it's way more flashy,"

"I'd say its got its own perks. You were pretty much a defensive tank in your hero training round," I replied.

"Well if you want strong and cool, you'd want Bakugo, Todoroki, and Kasady" Ojiro said.

"But Bakugo has such a shitty personality that he'd never be a popular hero," I said.

"What did you say, freak show?!" Bakugo yelled.

He tried getting up, but a small web line from my wrist kept him in his seat.

"See what I mean," I chuckled.

When the bus finally came to a stop, we all got down and entered a large stadium. Inside were several arenas of different types which made the whole place look like a giant amusement park.

A new voice called to us saying, "I built this facility myself to train heroes for every disaster and accident you can imagine. I call it the Unforeseen Simulation Joint. The USJ!"

I turned to see a large figure in an astronaut suit, the Space Hero, Thirteen.

"All Might was not feeling to great so he is in the waiting room taking a quick rest. Now on with the lesson. As many of you know, I have used my quirk, Black Hole, to save many people. But it can also be used to kill people. I have not doubt that many of you are the same,"

Those words made my stomach drop. I suddenly remembered a flash of scenes from my previous life. None of them pleasant. Hiraki noticed a change in me.

"Are you alright?" she asked in a concerned voice.

"I'm fine," I whispered.

Thirteen continued, "As heroes, we must never forget that all it takes is one wrong move with a quirk for someone to die. You have already learned about your hidden potential and how your quirk can pose a danger to others through the lessons of Aizawa and All Might, respectively. Now, I will teach you how to utilize your quirks to save lives. I hope you leave today with the understanding that you are meant to help people. Thank you,"

Thirteen finished the speech with a bow to our standing ovation. I was still a little woozy from the memories so I turned to the right to stretch for a second. That's when I noticed a small black circle that was growing larger at a rapid rate.

"Uh, Sensei… What's that?" I asked pointing to the circle.

Aizawa looked up suddenly and rushed over to me. He followed my line of sight just as a figure covered in hands stepped out. Shortly after, dozens of figures were pouring in, including a being who looked like it was made out of darkness.

"Huddle up and don't move!" Aizawa cried. "Thirteen, you protect the students,"

"Sensei, what's going on," Uraraka asked.

"Those are villains," he responded.

We all backed up behind Thirteen, but not before I noticed a final figure emerge. It had bulging muscles and pure black skin. But what set me on guard was the white spider pattern on his chest, incredibly long tongue, and eyes that only a symbiotic can have. I was looking a a person that thought I would never see again.

"VENOM?!" I cried.

Hello readers. It is I, the Fnafer. I have returned from the depths of a difficult personal life and am back to this story. And before someone says, "Oh, Carnage just confused Nomu for Venom,", let me just say that this is actually someone with the Venom Symbiote. We are going to have a symbiotic smack down in the next chapter! See you all, next time.