"Your spider silk is strong enough to hold this guy, I know it is." Katsuki tried hard not to sound like he was pleading, "I just need someone to hold him. I can get away after that. "

"Really? With two broken legs?" Arakune crossed her arms skeptically. "You know, I'm half tempted to help you just to watch you fail."

Iida: Not even to avenge her brother?

Tsu: Apparently not, ribbit.

"Not to avenge your brother or anything?" Katsuki grumbled under his breath. "Fine. If I get out, great, and if I don't, you get some entertainment, all while proving to these villains that you're in control and they shouldn't mess with you. It's a win-win for you, alright?"

Arakune smirked, "Deal."

(everyone breathed a sigh of relief. She was helping)

Her hair shot out and Katsuki launched himself away as soon as he felt the Nomu's weight decrease. He really shouldn't be jostling broken bones like this, but staying where he was would be worse. Flying wasn't as easy as he had anticipated, his balance had been thrown off by both the pain and his useless legs, so he hit the ground far sooner and harder than he anticipated, landing right on his shoulder, which made a suspicious popping sound and caused him to black out again for half a second.

Recovery Girl: Be careful!

Bakugo: I'm in the middle of a battlefield!

Katsuki grit his teeth and waited for the Nomu to attack him again, but nothing happened. He forced himself up on one elbow so he could look around, and the monster was just sitting there, dead-eyed as ever. He didn't even make any move to attack Arakune as she retracted her hair and rushed back to fight Aizawa again, sending a satisfied smirk in Katsuki's direction. He wanted to flip her off, but somehow he suspected it wouldn't have the full impact if he could barely even move. The Nomu must have decided that Katsuki was sufficiently incapacitated, and since Shigaraki hadn't given him any other orders, he was just waiting.

It was relieving and creepy at the same time.

Shigaraki: Eh, you get used to it.

When Toshinori arrived at the USJ, the students saw him before he saw them. There was a swarm of bees at the front door, just as young Iida had described, so instead of at the entrance, the escaped students had congregated on the side, half-hidden in the trees. Over half the students must still be inside, but the rest were gathered and treating each other's injuries as best they could. Todoroki had created a miniature glacier against the side of the building and Kouda stood back, looking upward with a bird on each shoulder toward where Tokoyami and Dark Shadow were perched on the roof next to a section of shattered glass, a handful of other birds circling them. As Toshinori watched, a gust of wind blew through the hole, carrying Yaoyorozu with it. Dark Shadow caught her before she flew too far and dropped her onto the glacier, which upon further observation was, more accurately, a slide that allowed young Yaoyorozu to reach the ground safely, where she immediately began creating first-aid supplies. He couldn't help taking a moment to be proud of his students, despite the urgency of the situation.

(the teachers all looked at Aizawa who masked his pride a little too late and they smirked at having caught him)

"All Might!" Mina called out to him and waved him over, tears in her eyes, "You came!"

All Might: Of course.

"Yes, young Ashido." All Might smiled. "I am here."

"The best way in and out is through the roof." Todoroki reported. "According to Koda, the bees at the entrance aren't normal, so we decided it was best to give them a wide berth, especially considering that bees had sometimes to do with my father's disappearance. Koda has birds taking care of any stray bees that try to block our escape here."

Koda(wincing): I hope those birds don't get sick afterward from eating those weird bees...

"Good work. Keep handling evacuation until the other heroes arrive." All Might said, popping his knuckles. "I'll take care of the rest."

"We need to get out of here." Mineta cried. "Sure, we got off that stupid boat, but there's still villains everywehre!"

"Where do you want us to go?" Ochaco huffed. "It's not like we can go out the entrance, not with all those bees blocking the door. What do you want us to do?"

Mineta: I just want to get out of there!

"Just get us out of here!" Mineta screamed.

Tsu smacked him with her tongue, "Quiet. Let's go toward the plaza. Maybe some of the other students will be around too."

Ochaco nodded, "And we can see if Bakugo and Aizawa need any help!"

Kirishima: Well Bakugo definitely does!

Bakugo: No I don't!

"Are you crazy?" Mineta whisper-yelled, which was a minor improvement. "We can't fight the leaders! You're gonna get us killed!"

"We're not gonna fight the leaders." Ochaco insisted. "But maybe we can help lighten Aizawa's load a little."

Aizawa: Problem children!

They kept low to the ground as they crept around the plaza and Ochaco had to hold in a whistle as she watched Aizawa fight. He was holding off six villains like it was absolutely nothing and it was the coolest thing she had ever seen. Someday, she'd be a hero just like that.

Mineta let out a squeak beside her and Ochaco turned to see him covering his mouth in horror as he pointed to something on the ground, "I-is that Bakugo?!"

She followed his gaze and gasped. Aizawa may have been doing well, but Bakugo sure wasn't. He was moving, but from the grimace on his face, he was in a lot of pain. Before she had time to think, Ochaco was running to him, ignoring the whispered shouts from Tsu and Mineta to be careful.

Bakugo: I'm fine-

Inko: You're not fine.

Bakugo: I'm not fine.

"Bakugo?" she knelt down beside him, wincing sympathetically as she took in his injuries. "How can I help?"

"I..." Bakugo grit his teeth. "I think my shoulder's dislocated, so you could pop that into place. I'm fine."

Uraraka: No you're not!

Ochaco rolled her eyes, "You're obviously not. You..."

She froze as the main villain started speaking, his rasping voice sending chills down her spine, "I thought you were cool before, Eraserhead, but this is something else! I'm curious to see how much you can really do. You started fighting even harder when I hurt your precious little student, so let's give that another try, huh? Nomu! Kill Kacchan!"

Midoriya: Kacchan!

Ochaco didn't know what to do, but she didn't have time to do anything besides share a terrified glance with Bakugo before there was a rush of wind and dust started flying everywhere. It took a moment to clear, and when it did, Ochaco started crying.

All Might stood a few feet in front of them, blocking the path of the most terrifying villain she had ever seen and for the first time ever, he wasn't smiling, "I am here... to make you pay!"

(everyone breathed a sigh of relief)

"All Might!" Bakugo yelled. "Be careful! These @#$^& are with the villain factory! That guy you're fighting has multiple quirks!"

All Might froze for a half a second before tightening his grip on the villain, "Thanks for the heads up, young Bakugo. We'll catch them and avenge your friend."

Ochaco wasn't sure exactly what all that meant, but the main villain did. He grinned creepily behind the hand on his face, "Nomu, change of plans. Kill the symbol of peace."

All Might: That didn't work the other two times and it won't now.

Dabi: Forgetting about Mastermind?

Gran Torino: More like conveniently ignoring.

All Might lunged forward to attack the monster, and Ochaco figured this was their best chance.

"Come on," She leaned down and whispered to Bakugo, "we gotta get you outta here."

"I can still fight." Bakugo growled. "These @#$&*( need to go down. Just pop my shoulder back in place and I can use my explosions for mobility."

Mitsuki: Katsuki just stay down already okay?! You're hurt and don't you dare argue!

Ochaco just looked at him in disbelief for a moment, then slapped him. He looked at her in shock and confusion as he started to float. Ochaco just grabbed his uninjured arm and started pulling him back toward Tsu and Mineta.

"You're being an idiot." she huffed. "I don't argue with idiots. Now how did All Might get in? We might be able to get out the same way."

(everyone snorted in disbelief at Uraraka slapping Bakugo and calling him an idiot. Bakugo just stared at the screen like a fish out of water for a second before he realized what happened and started screeching his head off. Then Mitsuki slapped him to be quiet and he got even louder and Jana had to pause the screen to wait out the shouting match. Eventually Inko stopped them)

Shouta breathed a sigh of relief. As much as he disliked All Might on principle, at least the oaf had done something right. He knocked the last of the grunts into the fountain and was finally able to charge Shigaraki, "I'm gonna make you regret threatening my student like that!"

"Careful, Eraserhead." Shigaraki was fast and dodged his blow. "If you care too much, you might just fall apart."

Shouta only had a split second to wonder what he was talking about before Shigaraki weaved under his capture weapon and grabbed his arm. The timing was terrible and he held out as long as he could, but he had to blink sometime. It was the pain that caused him to open his eyes to shoot back open almost immediately and he jumped back out of Shigaraki's reach.

1A: Sensei!

Mic and Midnight: Shou!

"I figured out your tell!" Shigaraki said gleefully. Shouta stared at his crumbling arm in shock. "You're going to have to do better than that if you want to protect your students!"

Denki counted his classmates for the third time, but still came up with the same number, "Nineteen. And no one's seen Hagakure? Or, well, not seen, but..."

"I can't hear her out here." Shoji said. "She must still be inside, but there's so much background noise..."

Hagakure(curling in on herself): Queen Bee must be around here somewhere...

Denki frowned for a moment, then strengthened up and clenched his fists, "I'm gonna go find her."

Momo: Kaminari no!

"Are you crazy?!" Mineta screamed. "The heroes are coming! Just let them save her!"

"Thirteen is already injured." Denki pointed out. "And even if they can't see her, she's outnumbered. I can't just leave her like that!"

Bakugo tried to sit up, "Then I'm coming with..."

Everyone: No you're not!

Uraraka shoved him lightly back down, "No you're not. The adrenaline is gonna start wearing off any minute and what'll you do then? Faint in their general direction?"

"Shut up, cheeks!" Bakugo growled.

"Guys, we're wasting time. I'm doing this and you can't stop me." Denki said, putting his hand on a metal section of the wall and activating his magnetism. "Send the heroes our way when they arrive."

Everyone: Kaminari!

His classmates yelled at him to stop, but Denki ignored them and ran inside. He'd last seen Hagakure at the entrance, so he should head that way first, but he should activate his quirk just in case he ran into any more of those robot bees. He knew he'd have to be careful passing the plaza though, he didn't want to end up like Bakugo... except for then he actually passed the plaza and saw All Might being pulled through a portal by that weird Nomu monster that Bakugo had described about and all rational thought apparently flew out the window.

All Might was All Might! He always saved the day and he always won! But... Denki guessed it kinda made sense that things weren't always what they were supposed to be. All Might, who should be strong, was skinny and weak-looking in his head, and Izuku, who should be weak because he was quirkless, was one of the strongest people he'd ever met. So while he was surprised to see All Might in a pinch, Denki took it in stride and didn't let it throw him off too badly. Even heroes needed saving sometimes.

Aizawa: Yeah... we do...

Aizawa was too busy fighting the hand guy to help, so Denki knew he needed to do something, but what could he do? The Nomu was trying to pull All Might through a portal, so maybe things would work out if Denki could distract the portal guy? It was worth a short, at least, and he'd seen something glint like metal underneath all that mist earlier, right?

Kurogiri(realizing): Uh oh.

Denki took a deep breath and magnetized his arm, reaching out toward Kurogiri, "I really hope that's actually metal."

There wasn't any more time to worry about it though, before Kurogiri was flying through the air towards him. He didn't even have time to deactivate his quirk before the guy was barreling into him, which meant the villain got the full shock of Kaminari's quirk as soon as they connected, which was enough to make him spasm and lose control of his own quirk. There was a weird squelching sound and Denki almost threw up as he realized that the portal had closed with the Nomu still halfway through it. Had... had he just accidentally killed someone?! What if that had been All Might?!

(a lot of people had to swallow down vomit after looking at the screen. Why did almost everything have to have an accompanying picture?)

"Enough." Kurogiri's voice echoed with anger and Denki had barely enough time to register the fact that the Nomu was regrowing half its body before he was swallowed up by that weird purple mist again. "Nuisances should be eliminated."

Denki prepped himself for a harsh landing, expecting to be warped back to the mountain zone like last time, but when the mist cleared again he was submerged in cold water. The villain had teleported him into the flood zone. Denki tried to gasp on instinct, only to get a lungful of water instead of air and he panicked. His last coherent thought before shorting out was that he really needed to stop activating his quirk whenever things went wrong.

Bakugo: Dunceface!

Sero: No no Kaminari!

Mina: Don't die!

Shouta would have stopped and stared in shock as the Nomu regenerated half its body, but he couldn't afford to take his eyes off Shigaraki even for a moment, not even when one of his idiot students was warped to god knew where. He hadn't even had a breath to evaluate the damage to his elbow, but he knew it was bad. One wrong move, one blink at the wrong time and he was dust and to top it all off, he was starting to get tired. At least All Might was here now, which meant that the other teachers and heroes were on their way as well. He just had to hold out a little longer.

Shigaraki, oddly enough, seemed absolutely delighted that All Might had arrived, "See how powerful Nomu's regeneration is? He was designed to beat you at your strongest, All Might! There's no way you can beat this boss!"

While he was ranting, Shouta took a moment to blink and tried to follow up with an attack, but even though he managed to kick Shigaraki in the chest and knock him off balance, he recovered before Shouta could restrain him. What was it with these stupid brats that focused on being too quick too catch?! First Viridian, now this guy? It was really starting to get annoying.

Iida: Yes... I'm starting to wonder if they have latent speed quirks or something...

Shigaraki: I don't think so...

Midoriya: I think I would've noticed if I had a quirk...

Out of his sight, All Might growled, "If this monster was created to beat me at my best, then I'll just have to go beyond that! Plus Ultra!!!"

Suddenly, it was like the plaza had been hit with a tornado and Shouta was almost blown off his feet as All Might and the Nomu exchanged blows. He saw Shigaraki reaching toward him though the clouds of dust and he braced himself for a counterattack, but before he could do anything, a strong gust of wind and dirt blew straight into his face and as much as he wanted to, he couldn't stop his body's instinctual reaction.

1A(worriedly): Oh no...

Shouta blinked.

1A: Sensei no!

Nezu led the charge to the plaza as the rest of heroes they'd called in started spreading out to restrain the villains and look for Hagakure and Kaminari, who according to the other students should be the only two children remaining inside. He could barely see Yagi as he fought with a giant villain faster than the eye could see, but Aizawa was looking worse for wear. One of his arms hung limply at his side and the first thing Nezu saw when he arrived at the plaza was him jumping back from a villain and activating his quirk as blood started flowing down over the entire right side of his face.

1A(panicking): Sensei!

Aizawa: I'm fine, I'm alive.

Recovery Girl: You're not fine!

Nezu signalled to Snipe, who nodded and shot Aizawa's opponent through the shoulder right as Yagi launched his own enemy right through the roof with a crash. Aizawa immediately ran forward with his capture weapon at the ready and Yagi turned to him, but instead of allowing himself to be captured, the villain was rapidly being swallowed by the purple mist young Iida had described, "Game over... for now."

"No!" Yagi lunged forward, but his hand and Aizawa's capture weapon both closed on empty air as the mist disappeared. "Get back here you cowards!"

"They're gone, All Might. They can't hear you." Aizawa hissed and grabbed his injured arm as he turned to Nezu. "The students?"

Toga: Kaminari's in trouble!

"All are safe and safe and accounted for with two exceptions." Nezu answered.

"One exception." Midnight cut in. "Hagakure was treating Thirteen's injuries near the entrance. The villain must not have seen her when he was scattering the other students."

Hagakure: Oh. That's where Queen Bee was.

"Very well." Nezu nodded. "Then the only student still missing is young Kaminari."

"But the villain warped him away, so..." Yagi coughed, a drop of blood leaking from the corner of his mouth. "So where could he be?"

As soon as Cementoss opened an entrance large enough for everyone, Manual ran straight to the flood zone, expecting a fight, but instead, he was met with silence. The entire pool was full of villains who were either unconscious or too dazed to fight, which made his hair stand on end. It was creepy.

Tsu: Kaminari must've knocked them out when he short circuited...

He shook his head and took a deep breath. It wasn't his job to get creeped out, it was his job to be a hero and that currently meant saving a bunch of villains from drowning. Sure, from the looks of it, most of them could probably breathe underwater, but they still needed to be taken in and receive medical attention from whatever had knocked them out in the first place. He manipulated the water to wash everyone ashore and almost dropped his quirk when he realized that one of the bodies was far too young to be one of the villains.

Throwing caution to the wind, he threw the rest of the villains to shore with one giant wave and ran to the kid, desperately using his quirk to pull water out of his lungs. How long had he been underwater?

Todoroki: Too long.

"No, no, don't do this." Manual muttered. "Don't die on me kid! I found a student! Just hang in there, kid. Hang in there."

All Might: Please be okay, young Kaminari...

Bakugo: Dunceface if you die I swear I'm getting someone with a reviving quirk and killing you again.

Kaminari(breathlessly): Yeah I get the memo I'm not going to die.