Everyone stared as the large body crossed the door, the gentle and shy smile on Koda's face as he waved to everyone. By his side, three small cats came meowing, one brown, one black and one gray. The 12 students greeted him and the girls got up to look at the cats. The cats then noticed the small boys on the table. A shine went through their eyes.
The cats rushed the table hissing. The boys saw the imminent attack and started fleeing.
The gray cat went after Todoroki. The boy started creating ice trails to skate around the cat's advances, just like he did with Momo before. He skipped, flailed and dashed around the cat. The cat hissed impatient and attempted to pounce him, but hit the wall the boy lead him towards. Taking advantage of the stunned cat, Todoroki quickly created a stairwell, rising along it until he reached an open window where he sat down to melt the stair. The water of the melting fell in the cat's face and Todoroki let out a small smile followed by a sigh of relief.
Meanwhile, Kaminari and Kirishima runned for a hole in the wall with the brown cat following them. They were not fast enough and got cornered before getting inside it. "Let's go cat!", they chanted as the cat lunged forward. Kaminari charged up and shocked the cat while Kirishima picked it up and threw him aside. Kirishima grabbed Kaminari's arm and they got inside. The blond boy let out a weak "Yee!" and raised his thumb while the red haired boy sighed in relief.
Tokoyami and Ojiro ran towards the kitchen while the black cat dashed after them. The cat was too fast and was going to catch them when Tsuyu dove for the cat. He narrowly dodged her advance and continued after the boys. Once in the kitchen, Tokoyami poked Ojiro and pointed towards the top of the fridge and Ojiro nodded. They jumped out of the way of the cat's pounce and took their chance. With Ojiro's tail and Dark Shadow, they reached and hanged from the handles in the cabinets, launching and climbing towards the top of the fridge. They sat down and looked at the angry cat, smiling and fist bumping each other. The cat soon gave up and ran back to the lounge, once more avoiding the girls and Koda trying to grab him.
The cats gathered around the table in the middle of the lounge where a small green broccolli was attempting to hide behind one of the table legs. Izuku gulped as the cats stared at him.
Bakugo blew up the makeshift bed on the abandoned room. Sero, Sato and now Iida had found a small abandoned warehouse that served as the thief's home. He was nowhere to be found and everyone decided to try and find some clue of where he could have left to. Everyone except Bakugo who became thrashing the place in anger.
- Bakugo! Please stop this behavior! You could end up destroying our clues! - Iida firmly scolded the blond boy. Bakugo kicked a bucket towards him and kept yelling angry. Sero noticed the bucket.
- Hey guys, there's some paper inside of that bucket. - He kneeled and picked it up. Iida and Sato came close to him to read. - Huh, just some receipts of convenience stores... - Sato took a paper from his hand.
- Hey, this is handwritten! There's an address and a time range.
- Let me see this. - Sero picked his phone and typed the address on the search engine. The address got a match. - A cheap motel, two hours from here. Do you think our guy went there?
- It's a possibility. - Bakugo overheard them, stopping his rampage.
- Let's go, we know where he is.
- We should inform the pro heroes and the school! We shouldn't be...
- Oh my god! Why are every single one of you so whiny? We know where the guy is, let's go before he gets away again! - Bakugo exploded at Iida.
- But it's way past the school curfew and we are still not pro heroes! We have to do this right!
- Then GO! I'm going after him before he manages to vanish for good.
- Why do you need to be so hard Bakugo! - Iida estated. Bakugo turned to him, staring him in the eyes.
- Because if those useless bunch were better heroes then WE wouldn't need to clean up their messes! And besides, in case you forgot master nerd, we are still in the academy's influence range, there's no hero agencies around, when we manage to get to one and explain everything, it will be late already. So just shut up and come with me.
Iida closed his eyes, evaluating the situation. He couldn't disagree that Bakugo had a point.
- Fine, we'll go after him. - Iida gave up and turned to the other two boys. - Can I leave it to you guys to get pro heroes and the school informed? We can't let him escape, but I don't want everyone to be in trouble for this. Please.
- When you're so worried with us, we get the feeling of doing what you say Iida. Leave it us! Now go get that son of a bitch! - Sero ended, Sato nodding with him.
- Thank you, I leave it to you. Bakugo, let's go. - Bakugo dismissed his words and they left towards the station, the fastest way to get to the address.
Izuku started sweating at the sight of the three cats staring right at him. The cats hissed and the boy screamed, running away through them. The girls and Koda once more tried to grab the cats. Tsuyu and Kyoka dove into them, but they dodged. Mina was laughing distracted at the scene and wasn't helping. Ochako manage to slide her fingers along the black cat and he started floating around. Momo made a ball of yarn and whistled to the last two cats following Izuku. The brown one looked and happily meowed to grab the ball. Izuku got cornered by the gray cat and got ready for the incoming pounce, but the cat was stopped mid-jump, also floating in the air. Toru's sigh of relief warned him that she had grabbed the cat.
Koda received and held all three cats firmly on his arms. Tsuyu helped Ojiro and Tokoyami off the fridge. Momo reached for Todoroki, who jumped on her hand. Kyoka went to the hole in the wall and picked up the blond and the red-haired boys. She went back fighting back a laugh because Kaminari was still giving a thumbs up and moaning his typical "Yee". Mina controlled herself and picked up Izuku off the ground. Koda blushed and shylly let out a "I'm sorry!" and rushed upstair to put his cats away in his room.
Everyone gathered once more in the lounge. This time the girls kept the boys with them, in case of another accident. Kyoka was now outright laughing as Kaminari slowly recovered from his fried brain.
- Damn that "Yeeee" Koda. When I'm back to "Yeeee" normal, I will have a little "Yeee" talk with him. - Kyoka burst out laughing at how his sentence kept being broken by his signature sounds. - What's so funny "Yee" Kyoka? - Kyoka was crying at this point, she couldn't resist when he got stupid from overusing his quirk. Her laughter was contagious and soon everyone was laughing too, more at her reactions than at the actual source of her laughter. Mina's phone rang and broke the laughter.
- Hey guys, calm down, it's Sero. He just texted me. - She showed the text to everyone.
"Hey Ashido, quick update on the search. We found some leads of where the thief may be. Me and Sato are going back to find a pro or a teacher and pass the address while Bakugo and Iida are going to the place right now. Soon we'll be there."
- Yeah! - Tory started cheering, picking up Ojiro and hugging him. - Soon everything will be back to normal! We need to celebrate! What time is it?
- 7PM, why Toru? - Ochako answered and asked
- Let's order some pizza! - The students looked at each other and felt their stomachs growl, the hunger came and they haven't noticed.
