Midoriya, Kirishima, Uraraka and Asui were all stuck in remedial lessons because of their work studies, but the rest of class was talking with a great deal of excitement about the upcoming festival as we went home that day.

"We got lots of decisions to make!" Ashido gushed. "What's gonna cheer everyone up the most?!"

"Hm…" said Jirou, looking pensive.

"The school festival is exactly one month away!" Iida was saying as we got back to the dorms. "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?" Silence. We all stared at her. "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 shouted "Ah! You mentioned that you took some music lessons at one point, right?"

To our surprise, he was looking at Bakugou. Really? "Huh?" he snapped. "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.

"Oh yeah!?" he snapped, stomped over to the drum kit of Jirou's we'd set up in the room, kicked his shoes off, grabbed the sticks out of Sero's hands, and played what seemed, based on everyone's reactions, very well.

Jirou cried "P-perfect!"

"Wow!" Ashido was throwing her fists in the air. "The Talented Mr. Bakugo strikes again!"

"So it's settled, Bakugo on drums!" Said Kaminari

"Huh? No way am I doing that stupid crap," he told them, and turned away 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. What are you going on about?

"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.

"He's right," said Iida, turning to Yaoyorozu. "Perhaps we didn't think this through…" She looked rather distressed.

I glared at Bakugou. "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!" Our classmates all yelled.

"AS the one who got kidnapped, Bakugo himself is bearing quite the burden here," Iida said quietly.

Oh. I see. Is that why he's behaving this way?

"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," Jirou said after a moment, and smiled.