As we headed down the street, Denki pretended to shoot his gun—reenacting a Storm Trooper.

"Pew! Pew!" he squeaked.

"Shut up now!" Katsuki yelled. "You've been saying 'Pew! Pew!' ever since we left!"

"That's because you stink," Denki countered.

"Coming from the guy who hasn't brushed his teeth in a month!"

"Guys, my back is dead," Mina casually uttered.

Katsuki glared at all of the guys and ordered, "ONE OF YOU BE A MAN AND TAKE HER BACKPACK! I'VE ALREADY GOT TWO! QUIT BEIN' WIMPS!"

"Here ya go, Mina!" Eijiro lifted her backpack off her weary shoulders and slung it over his own.

"Thank you~" she chirped.

Yuga, who was passing out again, cooed, "Can someone carry my satchel as well. . .?"

"ALL MEN CARRY TWO BACKPACKS!!" Katsuki instructed, just to get everybody to shut up.

"But there's four of us guys and three girls including Yuga!" Hanta objected.

"I HAVE SPOKEN," Katsuki retorted and walked off.

"Can we please take a break? I left my spine back at the military base!" Denki exaggerated.

"FINE!" Katsuki sat down in the middle of the street, placing the two backpacks aside. He then pulled out a Fig Nooter that was the dessert in one of his MREs. He took a big bite out of it, leaving it down to the nub.

I walked over to him and sat down beside him on the filthy asphalt. I offered him a sip of my coffee which I found in a dumpster somewhere—still warm (possibly from the baking sun).

"Is this Dollar Tree brand?" he questioned.

I replied, "No, it's dumpster brand."

"I'll take it." He took the cup from me and gulped it down.

Hanta shot us a disgusted expression. "Yeah. You know what would go good with that? A nice, hot cup of dirt!"

Katsuki raised an eyebrow. "Gross, is this decaf?"

"I found it in a literal dumpster yet that's the only thing you care about?"

"Caffeine gives me will to live."

As Katsuki and I chatted about the garbage coffee, all of the sudden, a manhole cover lifted up off the ground and was thrown aside and two slime monsters appeared from the hole.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" we all screamed, except Katsuki because he was casually drinking his cup of dirt.

"SWAMP MONSTER!!!!" screeched Denki.

As we got into our fighting stances, one of the monsters said in a very feminine voice, "Guys! Stop! It's us!!"

"Why does that swamp monster sound like a teenage girl?" Katsuki wondered, still sipping his coffee.

Eijiro gasped, "Wait. . .Uraraka!?"

Was it really her? She looked worse than Katsuki after getting out of juvie!

"Oh, my gosh! I can't believe we found you guys!!" Ochako ran up to us with tears streaming down her face, grabbing us all in a bearhug. Her slime started oozing all over us.

"Ew, what is this stuff?" Denki gagged.

"We've been living in the sewer for weeks now," the other swamp monster said.

"Wait—JIROU!?" Denki gasped.

"Yup, it's me." She did a peace sign. I finally noticed her earbuds hanging off her shoulders. I had mistaken it for seaweed.

Denki rushed over to hug her—but hesitated since she was covered in who knows what.

"It's been a month!" Ochako cried. "Where have you guys been!?"

I answered, "We were staying in the gym/hobo shelter since the beginning of the fallout. But we left a few days ago because they resorted to eating rats. Since then—we've been trying to find everybody else."

"Why we're y'all in the sewer?" Katsuki sneered.

Ochako looked sullen just thinking about it. "Well, originally, Jirou and I were with Deku at first—but we got separated because Nomu started to attack us. Deku told us to run away while he fought them off, so we abandoned him and jumped in the first manhole we could find."

"Wait, so Deku died?" Katsuki lit up suddenly, becoming very interested in the story.

At this, Ochako burst into tears and wailed into Eijiro's jacket. "What if he did!? I never got to tell him how I feel!"

Katsuki handed her his cup of coffee. "I think this will cheer you up."

"Oh, really. . .?" She accepted it and I knocked it out of her hand. "What?"

"I saw a bug in it," I lied.

"But it had a closed top," Hanta blurted.

"You're a bug, Sero," Katsuki snidely remarked

"Wait, where did you last see Deku?" I asked.

Kyouka replied, "Flying through the air like a football being passed from Nomu to Nomu."

Ochako sobbed even more.

She continued, "But I think he ended up at the League of Villains' hideout because I've been listening through the walls of city with my ear jacks."

"How did you hear him from so far away?" I wondered.

She replied, "He cries so loud, anyone could hear."

"Let him stay there," Katsuki smirked.

"But he saved you!" I reminded.

"I saved myself!"

"But I was there too!"

Seeing he was getting nowhere; he finally gave up. "Fine! We'll get the brat in the morning. For now, I'm hittin' the sack. Girls, take us to your Shrek swamp so I can get some sleep."

"I don't wanna go back down there!" Ochako cringed.

"Then stay out here and get eaten by a Nomu, gosh!"

With that being said, he gracefully swan-dived into the manhole as if he were on his way to a Andalasia. "TO THE VALLEY OF CONTENTMENT, I GO!"

A few seconds later, I heard a loud thud and a squishy, splashy sound.

Hanta said, "Well, I could wrap everyone in my tape and lower us down carefully!"

But before he could dispense his tape, I had already followed Katsuki's lead and attempted to do a beautiful swan-dive like him, but it was more like that moment when you dropped your Hot Pocket on the floor. I landed on Katsuki but he was already fast asleep from exhaustion.

Hanta lowered the rest of them down and we all pulled out our Pillow Pets and sleeping bags for the night and slept on the catwalk. Yuga glowed like a nightlight for everyone since he was so fabulous and sparkly. But before I fell asleep, I looked off into the night and I swear, I saw Mineta holding a cardboard sign that said, "The end is near." But when I blinked, he was gone. I must have been seeing things. . . .

The sound of someone rocking the slide of their gun woke me up. Of course, it was Denki. He kept doing it over and over because he liked the sound or something.

"Guys, listen to the echo of the clicking it makes in this sewer," Denki told us. "I just can't stop doing it—it sounds so good."

"Please stop that before you shoot somebody's eye out," said Kyouka.

I stood up and tried to carry my painfully heavy backpack. "Alright, where to next?"

"We gotta get to the part of the city the League of Villains' hideout is in," Eijiro answered. "I think I still remember the direction it's in back when we saved Bakugou. I'm pretty sure it's in Kamino, Yokohama city."

"Wow. You can read signs?"

I nudged Katsuki's arm so he'd stop insulting people.

"Let's just get there as soon as possible!" Mina squirmed. "This sewer gives me the creeps. . ."

We began our trek through the sewer system. It was so nasty, there were points I started to question if Deku was even worth it. But he was our friend. Afterall, he helped save Katsuki when he got captured—it's only fair we did the same for him.

"G-Guys, do you think that uh, sewer monsters do exist?" Hanta stuttered.

"Are you kidding me?" Kyouka facepalmed.

I laughed softly, "I seriously dou—"

Katsuki cut me off, "Yeah, I heard their mouths are as big as your head. Not to mention they have razor-sharp fangs and eyes that stare into your soul."

Hanta gulped. "R-Really!?"

"For the love of—" Kyouka rolled her eyes at the conversation.

"It'd be unlikely for us to run into one. But there's certainly a seventy-percent chance we will," Katsuki continued. He was obviously having too much fun scaring him.

"Well, I don't believe you!" Hanta shouted. "There's no such thing as sewer monsters!"

"Maybe not sewer monsters. But ya ever heard of the skunk ape?"

I walked over and put a hand on Katsuki's shoulder. "Give it a rest. Guys, there's no such thing as swamp monsters or Bigfoot."

Katsuki retorted, "I said skunk ape! Not that loser Bigfoot! The skunk ape is real though. It's just overshadowed by Bigfoot."

"Was there something in that garbage coffee?" I asked. "Or is the sewer gas just making you loopy?"

"The air inside here won't make a difference to any of us," he reassured.

"Hey there, sewer demons, it's me, ya boy," Denki spoke to the wall.

Katsuki and I exchanged a worried look, knowing we had to get out of this sewer as soon as possible.

Finally, we came across something tricky. Four tunnels each leading a different direction.

"How do we know which one to go in?" asked Mina.

Kyouka plugged one of her earbuds in the wall, trying to see if she could listen in and get any information. "Midoriya's not crying anymore, so. . ."

Eijiro gasped, "That can only mean one thing. . ."

"He became a man?" Katsuki interrupted.

"Let's all stop being pessimistic and just try our best!" Ochako encouraged.

"I already died inside years ago so I'm automatically pessimistic," Hanta remarked.

Katsuki started banging his head against the wall. "Can we just find that stupid nerd already and get this over with!?"

I looked at the four unlit tunnels and asked Katsuki, "Well, which one do you think we should go in, team leader?"

"Uh, I don't know yet—"

We all groaned.

"Maybe we should all separate," Hanta suggested.

"No way! We'll never find each other if we do!" Mina protested.

Katsuki held his finger to his chin and thought about it. "Actually, that may not be the lamest idea you've ever come up with."

"Thanks?"

Katsuki turned to us and said, "Alright. There's eight of us and four tunnels. If we pair up, there will be four search parties total."

"I can't believe we're doing this," I squirmed.

Denki asked, "Who's gonna pair up though? Can we pick?"

"Uh, who has the worst Quirk here?" Katsuki questioned, squinting at his teammates.

Everyone pointed at Hanta.

"Gee, thanks!" he scowled, crossing his arms.

"Okay, Tape Guy, you can team up with Calamari because I don't like either of you. Also, do me a favor and go in the tunnel farthest from mine."

Denki and Hanta stood together, whispering insults about Katsuki to each other.

"Uhh, and pink girl—whatever your name is—you can team up with Rock."

"You're our team leader. Shouldn't you at least take the time to memorize our names!?" she complained.

"I know (Y/N)'s name."

I blushed. How sweet of him.

"Uhh, and Sound Girl can be with Floaty Girl," our amazing team leader continued. "It seems like that leaves me and (Y/N) together~"

"Wow, you did that all on purpose just so you and your girlfriend could be together," scoffed Kyouka.

"I don't trust one of you nerds to protect her."

I did agree with Katsuki on that one.

"Is anyone gonna mention the fact he forgot Aoyoma?" brought up Eijiro.

"Oui, you did~"

"Uh, go with whoever—just not me and (Y/N)."

"I'll go with Kaminari and Sero, since I need protection~" He tagged along with them and they seemed pretty disappointed about it.

"Well, I guess we should get goin' then," Kyouka suggested.

And so, we all did.