Toga: Oh right we're watching other Izu-kun evade me! This is going to be so fun! (Inko and Midoriya gulped)

Izuku eyed Toga suspiciously, even after she let him get up. He was just supposed to evade her? It sounded easy enough, but at the same time, she'd been able to tackle him relatively easily before, so...

Twice: Yeah, Toga's amazing! She's horrible!

"Deku, here's how your exercise is going to work." Eraserhead sounded amused, so Izuku stuck his tongue out at him, but it didn't do any good. "You are going to look for your targets. Each of these little marbles has a tracker inside, you can see them on your phone, but that will only get you so close. For the rest, you'll have to rely on clues from your environment. Toga's weapon of choice is knives. Now, we've taken away her sharp ones, but she'll be trying to tag you with the dull ones."

Toga: Oh come on I wanted to see him bleed!

"They look something like this!" Toga brandished a knife in his face, forcing Izuku to take a step back. "They're made out of this blue chalk stuff that's almost as pretty as blood when I slash you!"

Dabi(snorting): Well, nice to see her being adopted by a hero doesn't make her completely different.

Uraraka: I'm concerned...

"B-blood?!" Izuku stuttered. "Um, Eraser, is this safe?"

Vlad: Hopefully... it'll be my fault if it isn't...

"Toga's been taught to manage her quirk-enhanced blood lust, so she's not as obsessed as she was before I caught her." Vlad King said. "But be warned that she is extremely capable with a knife."

Compress: Yes, quite capable with knives.

"Okay, blood based quirk." Deku muttered. "Good to know."

"Basically, if Toga manages to tag you with one of her knives, it will leave behind a mark. These will cancel out the targets you find. So if you find 20 trackers before dinner and come back with 27 marks from Toga, you would have negative 7 points." Aizawa said. "And before you ask, the chalk isn't water-soluble, so you won't be able to wash them off before they're counted. Any questions?"

Midoriya: Is it just the marks or number of times she finds me?

Izuku's mind raced through the limitations of the exercise, "Is it just marks, or the number of times she finds me? So, if she finds me and slashes me five times one right after the other, would that count as five marks or one?"

"Five!" Toga said proudly. "But that's no fun, so I'll try to only cut you once for every time I find you!"

"Thanks." Izuku dryly. "I really appreciate the effort."

(everyone snorted)

"I'd say take what you can get." Eraser said. "Toga lived on the streets for a while and evaded Midnight for a while before Vlad got on the case, so she's got just as much real world combat experience as you do, if not more. You're going to have to work hard if you want to avoid her."

"I guess that's the point, right." Izuku stretched and got ready to run. "Stretch us to our limits, right? Plus ultra?"

"That's right." Aizawa grinned. "You've got a fifteen minute head-start. I suggest you use it wisely. Go!"

Toga: Oh this is going to be so fun to watch!

Izuku ran through the forest. He wasn't quite sure whether it was smarter to pace himself, since he'd be running all day, or try to find as many targets as he could before Toga caught up with him. He also had to keep in mind that Toga would be tracking him, so he couldn't just crash through the forest, otherwise he'd be too easy to follow. Eraser sure did want to keep him on his toes today, huh?

He glanced at his phone. There were several targets close by, so he chose one and ran toward it. He ended up in a clearing, with no marbles in sight, but his phone said he'd reached the location and wouldn't zoom in anymore. Izuku squinted and looked more closely at his surroundings. There didn't appear to be anything out of place... except that pile of grass clippings in an area where no one should be mowing the grass!

Setsuna: Found one!

He ran up to the pile and scuffed it lightly with his foot. Sure enough, he saw the tell-tale blinking of his target and bent down to pick it up. That hadn't been hard at all! Even with a former villain chasing him, he could do this!

Izuku smiled and ran off toward his next target. What had he even been worried about?

(Toga, Nezu, and Aizawa started chuckling manically and everyone looked at them in concern)

When Aizawa waved her over, Ochaco gratefully released her quirk and wiped at her mouth. It was hard enough activating her quirk on herself, but keeping it activated while spinning in a hamster ball was pushing her more than she'd anticipated. It was necessary to be a hero, so she'd do it, but that didn't mean that it didn't suck.

Uraraka: Yeah...

She didn't recognize the girl standing next to Aizawa, but she seemed nice enough, and she was certainly excited if the way that she practically bowled Ochaco over in greeting was any indication, "Hello! I'm Toga! It's nice to meet you!"

Toga: Oh yes other me gets to meet Ochaco too!

Tsu: This is much better than being almost stabbed, ribbit.

"Um, hi?" Ochaco looked to Aizawa, who just huffed tiredly.

"This is Vlad's daughter." He explained. "She's helping with some of the trainings."

"Oh, cool!" Ochaco smiled. "It's nice to meet you, I'm Ochaco Uraraka!"

(Toga waved cheerily at the screen)

"We're going around to each of your classmates and seeing if you'd be willing to give Toga a few ounces of your blood." Aizawa said. "She needs it to activate her quirk and it'll help her train you all more effectively."

"O...okay?" Uraraka said. "Um, I guess that's not the weirdest quirk activation I've heard of. Stain's quirk activated the same way, right?"

Toga(gasping): You don't think it's creepy?

Uraraka: Well there have been weirder quirks.

Toga: Oh you're so nice Ochaco! I knew there was a reason I want to be you.

Uraraka: Uh thanks?

"Mmhmm!" Toga nodded. "But my quirk doesn't affect the person I take the blood from, just me! Are you willing to help me out, pretty please?!?!?!"

She looked at Ochaco with the biggest puppy-dog eyes she'd ever seen, which made Ochaco giggle, "Ok, ok! No need to pout like that! So, uh, how do you do this? Do you have a needle or...?"

Joke: She is very adorable actually...

Endeavor: Don't forget she's also a serial killer.

Toga nodded excitedly. "Yep! Vlad gave me all these needles and they're even sterile and everything! This'll only take a second!"

Vlad: I gave her needles? ...I guess it's better than her using her fangs...

Toga grabbed her arm and within seconds and apparently found the vein she wanted. Ochaco didn't even have a chance to be scared of the needle or anything before Toga had stuck it in her arm and attached a vial to catch the blood. Three vials later, she took out the needle and grinned at Ochaco, "Oh, this is gonna be so much fun! Thank you so much, Ochaco!"

She bounded off before Ochaco could say anything else and for the first time she noticed that the belt Toga was wearing was absolutely covered with different plastic vials. Most were empty, but a good number of them were already filled with blood. She turned to Aizawa, "So, she's really getting samples from everyone?"

Aizawa shrugged, "Everyone willing. Excuse me, I have to go before she tries to tell Tokoyami that his blood tastes like a dead bird."

Tokoyami: Well I do have a bird head...

Toga: Oh, dead birds! Those ones always give me a sense of nostalgia! The first time I ever drank blood was from a bird! Course that was when mom and dad started calling me a demon child but the blood was still delicious...

He hurried off and Ochaco blinked a few times before shaking her head and going back to her training. She had a lot of work to do if she wanted to keep up with the rest of the class.

Izuku heard the snap of a twig behind him and immediately dodged to the side just in time to avoid Toga's knife. She pouted at him as he fell into a fighting stance, "Aww, you're too fast! I was hoping to see you covered in my cuts!"

Toga: Ah drat it!

"Well then, you're gonna have to do better." Izuku challenged. "I've already found three targets."

"Ooh! That's so fun!" Toga grinned. "Alright then! This was a practice round, but if you want me to pull out the big guns, I'm ready! See you soon, Deku!"

Spinner(suspiciously): She's just leaving?

Dabi: She'll come back.

She bounded off into the trees and Izuku watched her leave suspiciously before grabbing the target he'd been after and running off in the opposite direction. He'd heard her coming, so he shouldn't have too many problems avoiding her, but there was something about her next time that rubbed him the wrong way. She was acting like she knew something he didn't, which was 100% true. Izuku still didn't know her quirk.

Midoriya(faintly): She's going to stab me dressed up as everyone isn't she?

Shouta watched his class and sighed. He was mostly here to make sure the kids were taking breaks and didn't accidentally kill themselves, but for now, that just meant that he was kind of bored and his mind kept wandering back to the text Deku had sent him sometime in the middle of the night when he should have been sleeping instead of worrying about everyone else around him.

Hey Eraser, I know it's late, but I was wondering, if you have time this week sometime, would you consider taking to Kota? I doubt he would listen to me at all, but I know you've lost people to heroism too. I'm sorry if that's pushing too far, you don't have to do anything if you don't want to , but I was just thinking that you're familiar with a lot of the darker aspects of heroism that people don't talk about and you might be able to get through to him and maybe give him a healthier perspective on thing? Sorry, I'll go to bed now.

Inko(chuckling): Of course Izuku writes a whole paragraph to help Kota.

It was just like the kid to text a novel like that and try to meddle while also making logical points and apologizing. He had to admit that Deku did have a point. Everyone else that Kota had talked to probably put heroes up on a pedestal and only talked about the good parts, which he'd obviously learned through experience weren't everything. Kota probably could benefit from talking to someone who was willing to acknowledge both the good and the bad of the heroics industry, but Shouta shouldn't be that person. He wasn't good with kids.

Absentmindedly, he pulled out his phone.

Group chat

12579: (Eraserhead)

Hey, after the training camp is over, there's this kid one of you should talk to. Not one of the students, just a kid who's seen too much of the bad side of the hero industry. He could probably use a shoulder to lean on.

Snipe: And why are you not doing it yourself?

72598: (Sir Nighteye)

And you're not doing it... why?

12579: (Eraserhead)

I'm not good with kids.

Everyone: Excuse me what?!

Mic: Oh no Shou you are quite literally a homeroom teacher of kids who call you 'Dadzawa', you are not not good with kids.

Several people are typing

72598: (Sir Nighteye)

You're joking right?

Midnight(disappointed in her best friend): Unfortunately he's not.

58726: (Ms. Joke)

Shou, I am literally so disappointed in you right now.

Joke: I definitely am!

87657: (Mr. Brave)

Wait, he wasn't saying that just to be funny?

Dark Shadow: When does he say anything to be funny?

12579: (Eraserhead)

I look like a hobo and have the personality of decaf coffee. What about that screams children like me?

Shinso: I don't know, the fact that your entire class considers you to be a father figure?

87657: (Mr. Brave)

I'm sorry to break it to you, Eraser, but you are literally a teacher.

Aizawa: There have been bad teachers.

Bakugo: Yeah, my entire middle school can attest to that.

12579: (Eraserhead)

What's your point?

58726: (Ms. Joke)

You wouldn't be such a good teacher if you weren't good with kids, you idiot.

(everyone burst into laughter at Joke calling Aizawa an idiot)

12579: (Eraserhead)

I'm a good teacher because I don't take it easy on them. I treat the students the same way I'd treat anyone.

Recovery Girl: Exactly.

All Might: That was mostly how Gran Torino taught us too.

72598: (Sir Nighteye)

Exactly.

Shouta rolled his eyes and stuck his phone back in his pocket as he heard Tokoyami's yelling get a little more panicked. No matter what the others said, he wasn't good with kids... but maybe Kota was sick of being treated like a little kid anyway.

Midoriya(softly): Yeah, he is.

Izuku stopped at a river to cool down for a minute, splashing cool water on his face and letting it drip down his neck. Toga was keeping him on his toes so far, which was good, even if it was exhausting, but he'd managed to find ten targets and didn't have a single mark so far, so that was good.

Toga(giggling): For now.

He heard someone crashing through the brush behind him and he jumped to his feet, even though he knew Toga was a lot quieter than that. He relaxed a little when he realized it was just Kacchan, "Hey Kacchan! Are you taking a break or did Eraser change your training?"

Kirishima: That's Toga isn't it?

"The hobo told me to go cool down, whatever that means." Kacchan huffed. "What about you?"

"I'm training right now." Izuku shrugged. "But if you see any knife-happy blonds, let me know."

Mina: I see one right there.

Kacchan rolled his eyes, "Sure thing, Izuku."

Monoma: Okay, definitely Bakugo.

Tetsutetsu: I think we all already knew that. There's no way Bakugo slacks off on training.

Shishida: Or his homeroom teacher even lets him.

Izuku froze.

"Izuku, you good?" Kacchan looked concerned, which only made the alarms in Izuku's head blare louder. "Is something wrong?"

Toga: Okay, yep, I ruined it.

"You..." Izuku looked at him. He looked like Kacchan, even down to the scowl lines on his face, but it was just wrong somehow. "You're not Kacchan."

Baukgo: Hurry up and run away already!

Suddenly, Kacchan's face morphed into a wide grin that looked completely unnatural on his face and before Izuku could recover from that mental image, there was a flash of blue. Izuku cried and stumbled back, a blue slash mark cutting across his chest. He looked up in shock, but Kacchan was still there, pouting as he played with the knife.

(everyone cringed. That looked so unsettling)

"Aww, that's no fun, Deku-kun." Kacchan whined. "What gave me away?"

"Kacchan never calls me Izuku." Izuku said, tense. "He's called me Deku since we were kids."

"Aw, so I did guess wrong." Kacchan's face started melting away, which was somehow less creepy than him grinning or pouting. "Eraser told me you two were childhood friends, so I thought it'd be dumb for him to call you by your hero name!"

Iida: Well it wasn't originally a hero name...

Kacchan finished melting away and Izuku hurried to look at the ground as he turned bright red, "T-Toga! Are you naked?!?!"

(everyone immediately looked away from the screen and Twice threw something at Mineta's head before he could see)

Dabi(covering his eyes): Toga for the last time stop doing that!

Toga: Hey it works to incapacitate heroes sometimes! They're too busy gawking or being weird to fight back!

Kurogiri: That does not mean you should continue to do that...

Toga laughed, "My transformation includes clothes, so wearing my own on top would just be weird!"

"I think this is weird too." Izuku gulped. "Um, I, uh, I'm just gonna go..."

Inko: Yes please leave already...

"Okay!" Toga sounded excited. "Catch you again soon, Deku! Hmm, I wonder who I should be next time?"

Toga(dreamily): Ochaco would be good... or maybe the bird boy, his blood must taste so sweet...

Dark Shadow(threateningly): Don't you dare drink Fumi's blood!

Toga: Oh, Fumi, that's a cute nickname...

Tokoyami(his feathers ruffling in disturbance at being called cute): You do not get to use that name.

Izuku ran, trying to not think too hard about anything besides his next objective. Seeing Kacchan like that... and she could be anyone! He made a mental note to yell at Eraser next time he saw him. A little heads up would have been nice.

Aizawa(snorting): Like I would've given you one.

Vlad: Let me guess, in real life heroes don't always know a villain's quirk so it's logical to pit them against opponents like that during practices?

Aizawa: Exactly.