And here we are in the next arc, where we take a quick step back from the larger scale of the conflict at hand and peer back into the world of My Hero Academia, to see how twisted the world has become and how the former members of U.A. are doing...

As it turns out, not very well.

I present to you: Time Runs Out!

Two years ago, in the first opening moments of the Anti-Venom outbreak, the new U.A. grounds would find itself under attack from the newly created swarms of Symbiote-infected zombies. The teachers and local heroes would try the best that they could, but they are demoralised by the loss of All Might and the overwhelming toll of the last year and all the chaos that has taken place.

Things only get worse when the Symbiote-infected All Might, now known as Knull, takes to the battlefield.

That is enough to crush the morale of many heroes and the entirety of hero society itself. They had placed all their hopes on All Might, and now that he was corrupted into an unstoppable monster bend on destroying them all? Many lost the spirit to fight and fell utterly defeated, some of them surrendering and accepting the inevitable, allowing themselves to be infected and turned into Anti-Venom zombies.

The rest of those who stood and fought did so valiantly, and to their best extent, but it was almost no use. From Midnight to Present Mic to Vlad King and all the rest, they were all either cut down or turned into Anti-Venom zombies.

However, not all hope was lost for the students inside U.A.'s walls. Nezu, having foreseen that there would be some type of event in the near future - and having learnt from all the chaos of the last year - has had Power Loader and Cementoss constructing a bunker under the school which their students can shelter in. Now that said apocalyptic event was upon them, Nezu orders every remaining student into the bunker. By now only the hero students are left in U.A., and about twenty of them quickly pile into the bunker before it is sealed shut, preventing not just them from leaving but anyone else from getting inside. The rest of the students are turned into Anti-Venom zombies in turn.

Then, Nezu is confronted by Knull, who - under orders from Cindy Moon - kills the headmaster, having judged him as too dangerous to keep alive.

Two whole years has passed since then, and the former hero students in the bunker are beginning to go stir-crazy. They have no way of contacting the outside world, they have no idea what's going on, and now they're beginning to run out of supplies thanks to the bunker being designed to facilitate short-term stays instead of two year entrapments.

It doesn't help that the bunker was supposed to house over a hundred and more people inside. For the twenty former students trapped inside, they have nothing but each other's company to deal with the isolation, and even that is beginning to fail as tensions rise between them and the loneliness begins to get to them. Mirio had been the glue that had been keeping many of them together, but recently he had used his quirk to phase through the doors and find some help, and he hasn't returned since, leading to the rest of the group beginning to fracture. Meanwhile, Tsuyu's nowhere to be seen - she hadn't been able to get into the bunker before the door closed - and there are more than a few in the bunker that want to give her a piece of their mind.

Even worse, some of them swear that they can hear knocking on the bunker's main door...

Here, we finally get to see things from the perspective of those who have chosen to remain in U.A., and how they have been affected by the story's various happenings. Much of this arc is told through flashbacks detailing alternate perspectives on specific story arcs throughout this story, from the Battle of Kamino to the fall of the HPSC to even the two Wars of the Symbiotes, and especially Aizawa's transformation into Mister Negative and his brief takeover of U.A. and the minds of its students, all from the hero students and how they react to these events.

As it turns out, the extended amount of attacks and attempts on their lives and all the damage that it has inflicted upon them, either directly or indirectly, has been taking a massive toll on the students. They are battered and bruised from the countless battles and their psyches have been scarred by what they have experienced.

They are tired and worn out, desperately searching for any semblance of peace whilst they pray and hope that their families are safe outside. This is a continuation of the general deconstruction that rolls through this story, as the trend in comic book stories of constant comic events and crossover stories depicting massive crises is picked apart and looked at through the lens of regular people, which shows how damaging these events and endless crises actually are on the mind and how much they can affect a person. Many of the students in particular begin to experience mental breakdowns due to the accumulated stress of the last year, and others begin to react violently due to the tension in the bunker and the extra stress that the last year has brought onto them.

The students are tired from the constant changes to their world. They are tired, miserable, scarred, traumatised, and they are blaming anything that they can (U.A., the HPSC, Spider-Man, his villains, everything) and lashing out at anyone they can find to try and calm the constant nightmares stealing away their sleep.

The knocking on the door isn't helping their rampantly growing paranoia.

Eventually, those same tensions begin to boil over. With their food supply finally running dry, the remaining students begin to turn on each other. Loud personalities such as Monoma and Mina begin to rally some of the students to them, whilst others like Ibara and Ojiro attempt to keep the peace in the bunker.

Ibara and Ojiro in particular have found comfort in each other over the last two years, and have become especially good friends with each other. Whether or not they are in a relationship will be left ambiguous, but they do serve as the anchors of sanity in the bunker amongst the remaining students alongside Tamaki, the only third year student in the bunker, and Mawata, who had been planning on taking up a place in Shiketsu before the Anti-Venom outbreak.

But eventually, the situation becomes untenable and the students in the bunker finally explodes. Monoma and Mina, their stress and anger setting them to rage, engage in a fistfight that escalates into Mina breaking Monoma's arm and burning him with her acid so hard that it severely wounds him. Mina is horrified by what she has done but it is too late. The students begin to attack each other in a fit of rage-

And the knocking on the bunker door begins again.

That is when the students stop fighting each other, look around, take stock of their wounds, and then realise what they are devolving into.

That is when the students finally lose the last shred of hope they had left. They are so tired, they've no hope that any of their families are still okay, or if they're even alive, and now here they are, trying to kill each other, abandoning every principle that they ever had - abandoning every moral that made them heroes - and staining each other in their own blood out of anger.

They've nothing left to live for.

So, the students simply flop down in place, wounded and battered and covered in their own blood, waiting for the bunker to be breached and for them to all be killed...

It is all that they can do now. They're too tired to even put up a fight anymore.

When the bunker finally does open, the students are almost relieved to see the end...

And then are filled with immense confusion when their former classmates Mineta, now operating under the name of Trapster, and Hagakure, using the codename Ghost, steps inside and asks them what happened in here.

This arc is meant to be more of a character study of the remaining students of U.A., by which I mean examining their reasons as to why they wanted to be heroes, how they reacted to all the events that have taken place throughout this story, and how they are affected by it.

Essentially, the students in the bunker are meant to be a stand-in for the average civilian in comic franchises such as Marvel and DC and how they might logically react to all the awful things that are happening around them.