When the pair of them arrived in the Landslide Zone, Shoto looked over at Hagakure, or at least at the gloves that she used to show her position when she was out in the field; the costume that she had chosen for her Hero work. He wasn't really sure just how someone whose Quirk only seemed to grant her invisibility would be able to help him find Midoriya's sister, particularly when she could have been dropped anywhere in the environmental Zone by the Warp Gate she'd walked through earlier. Of course, his Quirk wasn't much better suited for search and rescue.

No matter how big a fuss his old man had made about his masterpiece of a Quirk, there were still some things that Half-Hot Half-Cold couldn't manage. Still, given how badly his old man would have done with anything Rescue oriented considering the nature of the Quirk he was so damn proud of, Shoto was all the more determined to prove the worth of the Quirk he'd inherited from Mom.

"Come on," he directed to the invisible girl walking next to him. "Let's start searching."

"Right!" she said, a cheerful tone to her voice that Shoto took note of, though he wasn't quite sure how to react to it.

Or even if he should.

~MHA~

Watching as Bambaa-chan made her way back out of Kurogiri-sensei's latest Warp Gate, Izuku chewed the inside of his lower lip as he thought back over what Dad and Kurogiri-sensei had been talking about. Sure enough, the subject of the all too aptly named Fire Zone had been brought up, but just as he'd been expecting from Dad, he was determined that whatever was going to happen next would be entirely up to Bambaa-chan. If she didn't feel up to waiting for one of his fellow students to rescue her in a place that would inevitably remind her of the worst night of her life, then Dad wouldn't let anyone send her into the Fire Zone.

No matter what anyone else said.

Making his way over to where Dad, Kurogiri-sensei, and Tenko-nii were all standing, even as Bambaa-chan made her own way over to their small group. Clapping his right hand on her left shoulder as the pair of them fell into step with one another on their way up to where Dad was standing. After she and Dad had talked about where Kurogiri-sensei was potentially going to send her next, in a way that didn't suggest any hint of their relationship except to the most paranoid kind of person.

Or else someone who already knew what they were to each other, but none of them were going to say anything.

/All of that aside, I think it's time I started getting over that,/ Bambaa-chan said, looking over toward the elaborately-painted dome that housed the Fire Zone.

"Bambaa-chan, are you sure?" he asked, knowing just how badly she'd been affected by the fires that had consumed Rosaru Ward during the massacre and not wanting her to go through anything like that when she didn't have to.

/I'll do my best,/ she said, turning to give him a determined sort of thumbs-up as she made her way up to Kurogiri-sensei's Warp Gate.

Mashiro Ojiro followed in her wake, alone.

~MHA~

The first thing to hit her, when she came out of Uncle Kurogiri's Warp Gate, was a wave of sheer heat as she took her first step out into the burning city, massive clouds of low-hanging smoke blotting out the stars… The second was the smell of ash, stinging her nose as she ran through the streets of Rosaru, trying to escape the fires eating the Ward whole… Pressing the back of her right hand against her mouth and nose as she tried to regain her bearings, Bombalurina raised her left hand to cover the lower half of her face, as well.

Taking slow, deep breaths as well as she could manage in the environment she was currently making her way through, Bombalurina tried to calm herself down in the way that Mr. Midoriya and Uncle Kurogiri had taught her to do when she was scared or dealing with things that seemed too big for her. Once she'd managed to calm and center herself, and to stop seeing the remnants of Rosaru Ward all around her whenever she spent too much time looking at the fires rather than the unfamiliar buildings, Bombalurina turned her attention to the street in front of her.

With the fires out of sight for the most part, even though the road itself was uncomfortably similar to the ones she'd found herself running – and then being carried – down during her escape from Rosaru, Bombalurina pressed her hands against her face again to filter out what heat and particulate matter she could manage, breathing deeply to center herself again. Whipping around as she heard the sound of the street exploding behind her-

"Whoa!" Ojiro yelped in surprise, jumping back, his tail standing straight up in a way that Bombalurina could remember her own doing almost reflexively when she was startled.

Relaxing her left hand, claws retracting as the relevant muscles loosened up, Bombalurina sighed. /Sorry about that./

"Yeah," Ojiro said, though he didn't sound like he blamed her for overreacting or anything. "I heard about Rosaru; coming here couldn't have been easy for you. Let's get out of here."

/Yeah,/ she said, purring softly in lieu of the smile that her face wouldn't really let her make. /Thanks, Ojiro./

The pair of them left the Fire Zone together.

~MHA~

Narrowing his eyes slightly as he looked over at the large, double-doors of the USJ, Tenko folded his arms, narrowed his eyes just that much more as he watched whoever was opening them pull back a bit, then headed over to have a brief chat with Kurogiri. It looked like someone thought he was being sneaky…

"Hey, warp me back over to the front doors, will you?" he asked, after bumping the walking Warp Gate's right shoulder to get his attention. "Someone thinks he's being clever, so I'm going to go kick his ass."

"Of course, Tenko Shimura," Kurogiri – who might have been a man of few words, but was more than formal enough to make up for it – said, opening another Warp Gate just for him.

Pausing for a couple seconds, to hug Bombalurina and ruffle Izuku's hair in passing, he made his way through the Warp Gate and directly through to the place where Idiot Toshi was standing.

"Ehh, ha ha, hi?" Idiot Toshi said, squirming slightly – though not many people would have noticed, since they'd all bought into his whole Symbol of Peace routine and didn't realize just how much of an utter moron he was so much of the time – as Tenko stalked up to him.

"Hi, Idiot Toshi," he said, grinning as he made his way up to the oversized dumbass.

Firmly grabbing Idiot Toshi's left ear, Tenko dragged him determinedly down the stairs and into the main lobby of the USJ, ignoring each and every one of the moron's excuses, yanking him along whenever it felt like he was trying to slow down or stop. This was his punishment for being an overzealous idiot, using up so much time when he had prior engagements. And especially considering that they were on a pretty tight schedule for this whole USJ thing.

It was so annoying, but it was also just like Idiot Toshi to do that kind of dumb shit.

Once he'd made it to the bottom of the stairs, Tenko found himself almost reflexively smirking as Shouta turned a scathing glare on Idiot Toshi as the pair of them made their way up to where he, Thirteen, Sensei, and Kurogiri were all standing. He'd have given a fair bit to see the look on Sensei's face, as he turned to look at Idiot Toshi, though he knew that it'd probably be just the same kind of unimpressed look that Sensei gave anyone who said or did something stupid in his presence; the kind that let anyone on the receiving end know that they were in for a scathing, comprehensive lecture on the subject of how dumb whatever they'd just said or done was.

Hell, Sensei was probably preparing one as they spoke, but it'd at least have to wait until Sora-jiji had finished knocking sense into Idiot Toshi's big, empty head.

~MHA~

Pressing the knuckles of his right fist against his mouth, in an effort to stifle at least some of the laughter he could feel all but clogging his throat as he tried to regain his composure – though a lot of his classmates weren't even bothering with the pretense, especially when Tenko let go of his ear, dodged around so that he was standing behind Uncle Toshi, and then kicked him in the butt hard enough to make him stumble forward and nearly fall flat on his face – he could hear Bambaa-chan purring loudly as she came to stand beside him. As Aizawa-sensei caught Uncle Toshi up on what was going on, sounding more annoyed than Izuku had ever heard him sound before though under the circumstances he could understand the sentiment, Izuku looked over at Bambaa-chan for a long moment.

She'd just managed to compose herself again, when Uncle Toshi came over to stand in front of them.

"Aizawa informed me of how you faced your fears, going into the Fire Zone after the kind of experience you had," Uncle Toshi said, reaching out to rest his hands on Bambaa-chan's shoulders. "I'm so proud of you, young Midoriya."

/Thanks, All Might,/ Bambaa-chan said, purring as Uncle Toshi reached up to ruffle her hair, rubbing between her ears for a moment, before turning toward Kurogiri-sensei, who'd just started preparing another Warp Gate.

~MHA~

Shivering as she found herself wandering through a cityscape that was all but drowning under a deluge of icy water, Bombalurina ducked under the nearest shelter she could manage to find, even as the frigid winds cut right through her fur. Still, once she'd pushed the fact that she wished more than anything for a nice, warm raincoat aside, Bombalurina searched for the pair of Izuku's classmates who'd been sent out to find her this time.

The both of them seemed to be pretty interesting, if only because they seemed to have the same kind of heteromorphic-type Quirks as she did, if to a somewhat lesser extent.

~MHA~

Lightly touching the tips of his right thumb and pinkie finger together, activating and deactivating the Support gloves that helped him to handle his Quirk, Tenko watched as Bombalurina went off into the Environmental Zones of the USJ for the last four times that this particular assignment had called for. After that, it was all over but the discussions of how each of the Heroes-in-training could have done better, considering the conditions and what they'd been working with.

Though Tenko still found himself impressed by Bombalurina's composure; just about half again as long, and he didn't do nearly as well with tight spaces as she'd seemed to do with the Fire Zone.

Once all of them left the USJ behind, Tenko raised an eyebrow as he heard the familiar, soft ping of an incoming text, then smirked as he read it: step right. Taking a large step in the indicated direction, Tenko grinned as he turned his phone's camera so that he'd be able to catch the action about to be taking place.

"Toshinori!" Sora-jiji – though anyone else who saw him would know just why Gran Torino was a name feared by the Symbol of Peace himself – shouted, right foot slamming into the back of Idiot Toshi's head and nearly sending the oversized moron rolling and tumbling into a nearby tree before he righted himself. "Did you forget everything I taught you about responsibility?! Looks like Tenko called me just in time! You clearly need more training!"

Laughing as Idiot Toshi – the Symbol of Peace, the Number One Hero, All Might himself – yelped in sheer terror as Gran Torino hauled him off by the collar, Tenko raised an eyebrow as he felt someone land lightly on his back.

"Granny?"

Sure enough, Nana-baba had clearly decided to pay him a visit along with Sora-jiji, or else he'd invited her along for whatever they were going to be doing to Idiot Toshi in the hope of at least knocking some sense into his empty head.

"No time to stand around talking, Tenko-chan!" Nana-baba laughed, as she held onto his shoulders and actually nudged his right hip with her foot on the same side. "You need to be fast, if you're going to keep your promise. Now, let's run!"

"I'm not a horse, Granny," he muttered, rolling his eyes even as he set off in the direction that Sora-jiji had just disappeared in, dragging Idiot Toshi along with him.

Still, Nana-baba was an old lady, and really she wasn't much heavier than some of the supply-packs he'd carried during his tenure as a Sidekick. Besides, the chance to catch Sora-jiji putting Idiot Toshi through his paces wasn't one that came along every day of the week, no matter how many times Idiot Toshi earned the nickname Tenko had given him.