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Hitoshi didn't tend to sleep well in new places, but today was the exception. He was exhausted from the fight with the pussycats, had a stomach full of good food and his crush had agreed to go on a date with him. It was like the perfect recipe for a good night's sleep. 

Until his adults ruined it completely. 

"Wakey Wakey little listeners!" Loud Dad screamed. "Everybody pack up!"

Hitoshi jolted out of a deep sleep and looked around at his classmates, who were in a similar state. Todoroki was blinking slowly, while Mineta looked almost enraged at being woken up and Kaminari just looked absolutely bewildered, "What's going on?"

"Training." Dad answered shortly, picking up Kirishima's half empty backpack from the floor and throwing it at him. "Get everything packed up. In heroics, you never know when the next fight is going to happen and you have to be ready to get going at the drop of a hat. Bus leaves in five mintues, and you all better be on it when it does."

His adults left and everyone exchanged confused looks for half a second before the room erupted into a flurry of movement as everyone scrambled to grab everything and stuff it in their bags as quickly as possible. 

Hitoshi groaned and flopped back onto the floor, "I'm revoking their parental privileges."

Izuku tried to sleep, but didn't do a very good job. Nedzu still had his laptop, and his other computers were locked up in the lap alongside mei's inventions. He'd just expected Nedzu to be more excited and less worried and it was giving him anxiety. Was there something special out in that part of the woods? Was he accidentally stumbling across yet another state secret that he wasn't supposed to know? It was frustrating, but Mei was more than happy to ramble and distract him and that was how they tried to fall asleep.

They'd added their sleeping bags onto a giant nest of all the blankets they'd found around the tunnels and had basically buried themselves in an attempt to battle the anxiety and boredom that came with not being able to work on their projects. His mom would probably be concerned that he wasn't worried about sleeping basically right next to a girl like other boys his age would have been, and Powerloader probably didn't want them sleeping in the same space either, but having Mei right there was comforting. It felt like home in a way that even his house didn't. He was still worried and bored out of his mind, but at least he wasn't alone. He'd have to get some games from Nedzu tomorrow and stash them up here so they didn't have this problem the whole week. 

Mei nudged his arm, "Are you getting lost in your own head again? You said that Nedzu's taking care of that ping, so don't worry so much about it. I can tell you more about my babies, if you want?"

"I didn't even know you were up." Izuku groaned and stretched. "What time is it?"

"Just past six am." Mei said, sitting up. "The labs unlock at seven at the earliest, so do you wanna just head down there and wait?"

Izuku nodded and they pulled on their work clothes before making their way to the nearest exit and dropping down into the halls of UA. They weren't in any rush, since there was no way Powerloader had unlocked the labs yet, so they were just kinda wandering in the right general direction when they heard a commotion down the hall and turned to see the entirety of the first year hero course coming toward them. 

They all looked exhausted. Everyone was still in their pajamas and most of them were bleary eyed and dragging their feet as they made their way down the hall. Izuku glanced over at Mei, who shrugged, so he just turned back to the hero course and started looking for Hitoshi and Ochako. 

"Go put your stuff in the classroom." Aizawa instructed. "Then meet in the cafeteria. Lunch Rush should have breakfast ready pretty soon anyway."

Mei facepalmed, "Oh right, breakfast!"

"Oh yeah." Izuku blushed. "I forgot about that too."

By this point, Hitoshi and Ochako had made their way over and Hitoshi groaned as he dumped his duffel bag on the floor, "I hate my adults. Can you two kidnap me again?"

"What even happened?" Izuku asked. "I thought you were in an undisclosed location?"

"We were. " Ochako whined. "We were just in the woods somewhere until the teachers all came in at way too early in the morning and forced us onto the bus. I thought we were only supposed to have, like, three heroes there, but they had a whole crowd of them to be taskmasters if we weren't moving fast enough. Ugh, and that was after having to fight our way to camp in the first place."

Izuku froze, "You were in the woods? Just...in the middle of nowhere?"

HItoshi frowned, "Yeah. Does that mean something to you?"

Izuku shared a look with Mei, "Uh...no reason. Glad you're ok!"

"Ok…?" Hitoshi looked at him skeptically. "You guys forgot to eat breakfast, didn't you?"

"Inventing is more important." Mei insisted. "But the labs are still closed so onward to the cafeteria!"

Ochako rolled her eyes and fell into step beside them, "How has inventing been?"

"Um...I got my program to work." Izuku shrugged.

"Oh?" HItoshi asked. "Congrats."

"Yeah…" Izuku looked forward. "I think I might have already stopped an attack."

Mineta was seething. So far he'd been able to pass it off as waking up on the wrong side of the bed and being grumpy from lack of sleep just like everyone else but if things kept going wrong, he might not be able to keep that up. He couldn't imagine how things could have gone more wrong. First the mall attack, then the teachers moving the camp and all the hero reinforcements that had come with that. They had known about the attack somehow and considering how Midoriya and Hatsume were the first ones to greet them, Mineta was betting that it was all Cheat Code's fault. He needed to get his hands on Shinso and soon. See how they reacted to having their precious little extra credit project fall into the hands of the villains.

"Alright kiddos!" Present Mic yelled over the crowd. "So yesterday you guys were training your quirks with the Pussycats, right? Well we're gonna get you whipped into shape real quick right here at UA! It may not be as pretty as the woods, but you're gonna be doing the same things here as you would have there, ya dig? Oh, and Todoroki, Eraserhead wants to talk to you real quick in Nedzu's office. Let's go!"

Hitoshi was almost completely certain that Izuku knew why the camp location had changed, but for some reason, he didn't want to tell anybody yet. That was fine, he'd probably hear all about it tonight anyway. It tended to be like that, even when Mei and Izuku were supposed to keep information confidential, he ended up in the know anyway, so he could be patient. He just hoped that the attack that Izuku had mentioned wasn't on them. Oh, who was he kidding, they were the problem class, of course it was. 

But then who had tried attacking them? The league had just attacked a few days ago, so there was no way they'd be able to mobilize again this quickly, right? 

He sighed as Mina came bounding up to him, "Hey Mina, how are you?"

"Running on caffeine and sugar!" Mina said cheerfully. "Mandalay said we're supposed to help you with your quirk on our breaks!"

Hitoshi nodded as he felt his quirk connect and pulled a small notebook out of his pocket, "Write down some questions you're ok with me asking. Oh, and before you start scheming, I already know Ochako likes me and I'm taking her out next week, so don't bother putting those questions down."

The squealing was so loud that Hitoshi almost lost hold of his quirk. It was gonna be a long day.

Aizawa glared at Todoroki's phone as it started vibrating again, "Shigaraki again?"

"Yes." Nedzu hummed. "He's been calling and texting quite frequently since we evacuated the camp, most likely as a result of said evacuation. Unfortunately, none of the texts have had any relevant information to the attack. Most of them simply tell him to call or have a...colorful variety of insults. It's quite entertaining, even if it is highly concerning and incriminating."

"He doesn't know we're onto him though." Tsukauchi said quietly. "So he won't be prepared for my quirk. That's a silver lining at least."

Nedzu suddenly pressed a button and the door swung open to reveal Todoroki, his hand raised to knock, "Hello. I was told you wanted to see me?"

"Ah yes, young Todoroki." Nedzu said pleasantly. "You're right on time, come sit down."

Todoroki glanced around suspiciously as he entered the room and the door closed behind him with a click as he sat down, "What is this about?"

Nedzu set his phone on the table in front of him, "Would you care to explain why Tomura Shigaraki, excuse me, Dusty, has been calling you nonstop for the past four hours?"

Todoroki stared at the phone on the table, "I...I don't know. He doesn't usually call me."

Tsukauchi blinked in surprise and nodded. Shouta frowned in confusion. So Todoroki was telling the truth, but that meant that he didn't know why the camp had changed locations, which just didn't make sense considering he's the one who told the league their location in the first place. 

"So you did not know that the league planned to attack our training camp last night?" Nedzu asked. "I find that hard to believe."

"The league was going to attack?!" Todoroki said. "Ok, so I guess you already know about the streams, and I know you probably won't believe me, but we never talk about hero and villain stuff. I would never give him information on the camp."

Tsukauchi confirmed that he was telling the truth and Shouta groaned, "So Cheat Code was right about there being two traitors."

"I'm not a traitor." Todoroki shook his head, "I promise you, I haven't been giving out any information."

Nedzu hummed, "Then why does he keep calling you?"

"I don't know." The phone on the desk started vibrating again and Shouto reached toward it with determination and put it on speaker. "But I can find out."