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"I want out." 

Shouto froze for a brief moment before answering, "Out of the stream?

"No you idiot." Shigaraki hissed. "Out of the league!"

"O-oh." Shouto blue screened. "Is that why you've been calling me nonstop?"

He could practically hear Shigaraki rolling his yes, "I've been calling you nonstop because you wouldn't answer, you stupid noob!"

"They confiscated my phone!" Shouto defended. "I'm sorry!"

"Whatever." Shigaraki grumbled. "So what? Can't you talk to your stupid pro-hero teachers and work out some deal or something?"

"Uh…" Shouto glanced between Nedzu and Aizawa, "They're already here, actually. They thought I was the traitor, especially since you kept calling me..."

"Well, ask them if they want info!" Shigaraki said. "There's gonna be an attack on your stupid camp tomorrow, tell them that."

"We already know that." Aizawa cut in. "Cheat Code informed us last night and we've moved the students to a more secure location."

"Well if you brought Trapper too, then that's not gonna help you." Shigaraki said. "Sensei's using him to track your stupid class. Oh, and hi Eraserhead. I love your fighting style."

"I will try to take that as a compliment, considering that you've tried to kill me." Aizawa said dryly. "What else can you tell us?"

There was a long moment of silence, "Not over the phone. I dunno everything that All for One is tracking, but there's a good chance he'll find out about this burner. If he finds out I'm leaving...well, we'd have to discontinue the stream if I died and I don't wanna disappoint our fans."

Shouta rolled his eyes, "I think we'd have bigger problems in that case."

"Yeah." Shigaraki sounded like he was smiling. "Probably."

Nedzu and Aizawa turned to the cop, who looked shocked, "He's telling the truth. He really wants to leave the league."

"Of course I fucking do." Shigaraki spat. "Are you guys idiots? Sensei's a manipulative bastard and I just want to have a normal life, is that too much to ask?"

"Not at all." Nedzu said, a gleam in his eyes. "When can you get here?"

"Just give me a couple minutes to pack up my gaming consoles and I'll be there in an hour." Shigaraki said, then promptly hung up.

Shouto sighed, "He'll be here tonight. He's seriously underestimating the number of gaming consoles he needs to pack."

Hitoshi didn't think he'd ever get used to brainwashing Tokoyami. Being able to feel two people with one brainwash was just so strange that Hitoshi was left thinking about it even after the day's training was over. The sensation was eerily similar to what he'd felt inside Spinner's head and it was freaking him out. 

He dropped his quirk and rubbed his head, "Hey Tokoyami, you mind if I ask you a question?"

"You have asked me many questions already." Tokoyami's voice was laced with amusement. "But yes, go ahead."

HItoshi chuckled, "I was just wondering what it was like when Dark Shadow manifested."

"Strange." Tokoyami sat down and invited Hitoshi to sit down next to him. "I suddenly was not as alone as I had been, which was both an asset and a terrifying curse. It took a few years before I truly saw Dark Shadow as my companion and not some interloper, truthfully."

"But you knew Dark Shadow was there, right?" Hitoshi asked. "It didn't hide from you at first, did it?"

Tokoyami blinked, "It is a part of me, so until it became tangible for the first time, I suppose it could have been there longer than I was aware of it."

"I guess that makes things simpler." Hitoshi muttered. "Thanks for the help. You can let whoever else needs a break know that I'm free if they want."

Tokoyami nodded and walked away. Hitoshi groaned. Why couldn't brains be simpler?

"Listen up you gremlins!" Powerloader yelled. "I have an announcement to make and it's only gonna take a few minutes, then you can get back to your projects, alright?" 

Everyone mostly set aside their projects and Izuku stood by the doorway of his workroom. He shared a look with Mei. Did this have something to do with why the hero students had had to come back to UA so quickly?

As soon as he had everyone's attention again, Powerloader started talking again, "If you hadn't noticed, some last minute changes mean that the hero students are doing the rest of their camp here at UA, same as you. Well, tonight, they're going to have a test of courage and I think this will be a great opportunity to test your inventions against an actual audience. Remember, the goal is to scare them, not hurt them, but you've got a little bit to prep something, so go, have fun and do what some of you already do best: terrorize the hero students."

Izuku blinked. Ok, so that definitely had something to do with the ping he'd gotten last night, but...that didn't mean he and Mei couldn't still have fun with it. 

"I wonder what babies I should use?" Mei mused. "I could make spider babies!"

"We only have a couple hours." Izuku pointed out. " I think the point is to find new uses for our current projects."

Mei pouted, "Well, my current projects are all being used by the heroes!"

"What about Uraraka's earrings?" Melissa wandered over. "She doesn't seem to need them anymore, so is there a way we can use that technology to give us an edge?"

"The gravity shifting, not so much…" Mei muttered. "But the tracking will be fun! We can each pick a student and just keep scaring them over and over and over again no matter where they go! And I can make them look like spiders!"

"So do you need me to go get Uraraka's earrings, or…?" Izuku smiled as Mei grinned. 

"Nah, they matched her outfit today and I got the blueprints. They're just little trackers, and I can make them look like spiders and scare everyone!" She lowered her goggles over her face and grabbed a blowtorch. "I'll be done in no time!"

Tomura pulled the hood more securely over his face and gripped his two massive duffel bags tightly in either hand. He almost looked like a terrorist walking up to the gates of UA, but thankfully Todoroki's stupid cat ruined that illusion. The stupid thing had been hanging around more frequently and as soon as she'd seen him leave with his bags, she'd immediately launched herself onto his shoulders and refused to leave. She hadn't stopped purring the entire time either, like she was gloating about something and rubbing it in. No wonder Icy Cat liked her so much.

He'd managed to sneak away without Kurogiri seeing him and All for One hadn't tried to follow him yet, so it was worth it. It had taken him a little longer than he'd planned to pack everything up and get out, but now that he was out...he was almost free. As soon as he got inside UA, he'd never have to go back to the league again.

He carefully set one of his bags on the ground and rang the intercom. There was a few moments of silence before that dumb rat answered, "Hello! We've been expecting you! Todoroki will meet you at the gates and take you where you need to go. If you leave his side, my teachers are prepared to swarm you."

"Noted." Tomura rolled his eyes. "I'm turning myself in, I get what happens if I step out of line."

"Good!" Nedzu chirped. "Then Todoroki should be right there to pick you up! I look forward to meeting you, Tomura Shigaraki."

Tomura picked his duffel bag back up and waited for a long moment before Todoroki came into view, "Took you long enough, you filthy casual."

"You can't say that to me, you noob." Tomura huffed. "So, uh...can i come in."

Todoroki nodded and gestured for him to follow, "Yeah. Everyone's waiting for you."

Tomura gulped and stepped into UA.

"Todoroki never came back." Mina pointed out. 

"Oh, I guess not." Ochako said evasively. It probably wasn't the best idea to tell everyone that he was likely being interrogated by the cops because of associations with the league. "Do you think we'll get a break tonight? I'm exhausted."

"I doubt it." Jiro groaned. "Aizawa's acting like a slave master! Waking us up in the middle of the night? It's sadistic."

"But we have to be doing something." Tsu pointed out. "The teachers have planned this whole thing out, so whatever we do, it will probably have a reason."

"You're exactly right!" Pixiebob popped up behind them and Ochako jumped, instinctively teleporting across the room. "Whoa! You really are a fast one, aren't you."

Ochako blushed and teleported back, "Sorry, you startled me." 

Pixiebob laughed, "Well you better get used to it! Tonight, you're gonna be trying to scare the pants off each other! It's not nearly as spooky as the middle of the woods, but it's up to you to make it as haunted as possible. What's the point of a test of courage unless it's actually challenging?"

"Test of courage?!" Mina grinned. "That sounds amazing!"

"Yep!" Pixiebob said. "And everyone gets to participate! We were gonna make the ones who failed sit out, but Aizawa and Vald are going to be...well, they're kinda busy, so everyone gets to come!"

Mina jumped up, hands in the air, "Yes!!!"

Jiro looked at pixiebob suspiciously, "Why change the plans? Were Aizawa and Vlad not supposed to be busy?"

"Oh, don't worry about it." Pixiebob dismissed. "Your teachers are working it out now and whatever it was is pretty much over now, anyway. It'll be fine. It starts in half an hour outside the cafeteria!"

Ochako frowned, but didn't have any time to argue with Pixiebob before she was off to tell the next group about tonight, "Well, at least the test of courage sounds fun?"

"Yeah, it will." Jiro said. "Just don't let Aizawa hear you say that."

"Oh, he's busy, don't worry." Mina waved her away. "This is gonna be a blast!"

Mineta was a fairly smart individual, but right now he felt like a total idiot. He'd only seen it out of the corner of his eye and at first, he thought his brain must have been playing tricks on him, but unfortunately, no. A very poorly disguised Tomura Shigaraki was walking alongside Todoroki and Mineta hadn't even known they'd started hanging out. The alarms hadn't started going off yet, which meant that there was only one possibility: Shigaraki had turned traitor.

Screw going to the test of courage, Mineta needed a phone. Now.