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The day hasn't been normal since. During math lecture, Midoriya was called out of class. When it was time to head for training, he returned. "What happened, you look down." I jogged up to him. His large round eyes met mine with a hopeful look but it failed.

"Deku-kun, what are you upset about?" Ochaco joined us. Midoriya reluctantly shook his head. "I'm fine," he raised a fist to his shoulders. After getting dressed in my sports uniform, I headed with the class to the bus. All Might stood in front. "Class, we are heading to the Unforeseen Simulation Joint. This training exercise will be about rescue training. Again, this will be a team assignment. Bakugo and Todoroki," He looked at the two at different corners of the bus. The blond scoffed and looked away and Todoroki paid attention. "I hope the two of you can put your practice to good use." Todoroki nodded at All Might.

The bus reached the dome-shaped building. Aoyama shrunk into his arms, hugging himself tightly. "I don't want to relive that moment."

Iida rested a comforting hand for him. We all gathered inside. The building was spacious and was segregated into eight zones. "So for your assignment, you will divided into teams of four. As a team, it is your job to locate and rescue the hostage from the disaster zone. Of course, the villain will not let you that easy. Defeat the villain and bring the hostage to safety." He pointed to 'here'. "Meet me after half an hour. Complete the objective in time and you pass."

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The downpour zone was gloomy, dark and eerily abandoned. There wasn't any sign of life, except the moss growing in the cement. "I'm glad to be put here - kero." Asui trotted ahead of me on all her fours. "I wish I had brought a spare umbrella," Jiro hugged her body. She was shivering in her drenched clothes. "There's no one far in the distance. How are we going to find the villain?" Sato surveyed his environment. Jiro sneezed. "There are so many buildings here, it will take us forever to find the hostage - kero" Asui hopped on all her fours, surveying the small alleyways as we passed them. "There has to be a clue somewhere." I furrowed by eyebrows.

"Jiro, can you scan the buildings?" I combed the drenched tresses off my face. She nodded. She squatted on the cement, the cords on her earlobes snaked to the ground. She bore a little hole to fit the audio jacks into the ground. We waited silently, only hearing the rain-drops hit our heads. "I can't hear much. The rain is too noisy." She lifted her face up at the team. Sato, who was munching a strawberry glazed donut, swallowed the rest in his mouth. He approached an SUV parked on the side of the road and lifted it with his bare hands to shelter Jiro from the rain. "Thanks," Jiro closed her eyes and concentrated on her quirk.

We waited for ten minutes in silence, patiently listening to the patter of the rain-drops. She removed the audio jacks from the cement and rose to full height. "Somewhere way ahead in the distance, there is a faint sound of shuffling. As if, a body has succumbed to the floor." She extended a finger down the road. Sato rested the SUV back to the ground. "Let's go - kero." Asui commanded. She wall-jumped on the verticals of the sky rises, surveying inside the windows carefully before proceeding. We ran after her. "Stop, let's scan again." I said after we had covered a kilometer down the road. Jiro extended her cords to the ground again, feeling for any sounds resonating beneath our feet.

"Rylie, can you scan and locate the enemy's data or something -kero?" Asui stood on her two feet. "There is nothing for me to feel the pulse on," I looked around at the pure gray urban concrete in the city. The rain had stained the cement for good.

"There are cables running above the buildings." Sato raised his head to the sky, shielding his vision from the heavy downpour. Indeed, there were cables running far above our heads. "I need a way to get up there." I realised. "I can handle that. Follow me - kero." Asui hopped on all hero fours, directing me into a narrow alleyway. The two buildings left a thin gap which formed the alleyway. It only had room for a few bins.

I watched as Asui wall-jumped between the vertical walls of the two adjacent buildings, landing perfectly into the balcony of the second floor. A long slimy tongue dropped from the top and curled around my waist. The powerful muscle lifted me off the ground an swung me onto a height. I barely gripped the edge of the third floor window with my fingers. "You okay - kero?" Asui called from the balcony of the second floor of the other building. "Yea, barely hanging on."

I heard her hop and climb a few more floors while I hung onto the the window frame for my life. The slippery surface slowly began peeling of my grip. Soon, she flung me with her tongue on the terrace of the other building.

I finally managed to pull my weight on the flat ground. My cheek landed onto a pool of water. "Shall we proceed - kero?" Asui peered over me. "Just give me a minute to breathe" I huffed, enjoying the cool cement against my face. "That was the first time I hung by the edge of a window three stories off the ground. I haven't feared for my life before" I slowly stammered to my feet.

There in the middle of the terrace, there was an electric room above which stood a small utility pole. I climbed the ladder and Asui waited at the bottom. "Is it working?" she asked from below. "Yea, it's hot enough," I felt the heat emanating from the metal. I put my palms on the alloy. I tried to match the frequency of my quirk with the signals it received. The electricity through the cables traced every activity from the buildings nearby.

My quirk allowed me to travel against the current of the negative ions. There was a building from where the pulses were a bit erratic. I was able to trace the pulse to the switch board from where it appeared. "What is it?" I climbed down the ladder and met with Asui.

"On the second floor in a building two blocks down the road, there should be room with lights." I told her. "We need to figure out a way to reach there now."

"Wait here, I will inform the others." She nodded and fell on all her fours. She trotted to the edge of the terrace, parkoured over the railing and jumped off. I ran after her and leaned over the railing. I watched as she elegantly parkoured down the fire escape stairs to the other members below. They were involved in some conversation for a moment before she joined back up with me. "What happened?" I asked.

"Jiro says she can hear the hostage as well. Let's go-kero." She jerked her head to the next building. "Wait, wait... Jiro and Sato won't join us?" I gulped. "They will try to infiltrate through the ground and we will try to breach from the top." She ran ahead of me. I watched as she perfectly landed on the other terrace. Her tongue reached across the large gap, flinging me beside her. 

"Uh... I am not used to being flung multiple stories off the ground." The height from the ground horrified me. "Itsh regula heeoh whok -kewo. Geth use thu it." Asui wasn't very clear when her tongue gripped me.

"I hope the others are okay," I tried to distract myself. The tongue retracted back into her jaw. "Sh, that's the place right?" Asui peered from the edge of the building. I followed her gaze. Between two distinct multistory buildings, there was a small three-storied warehouse visible in the gap. The terrace was sloped down and covered in a corrugated metal sheet. A small thin vertical row of windows peered into our vision. The frosted glass window on its second floor flickered with yellow light. If it wasn't such a gloomy and dull place, anyone would miss it. "Yea," I nodded.

We saw Jiro and Sato below hiding behind the edge of one building, surveying the ground to investigate. Jiro pointed to the cover lid of a manhole a little in the distance. We followed their movement as the two ran to it. Sato lifted the lid with an arm and two soon disappeared inside it. "Let's go," Asui beckoned me with a palm after watching two of her comrades find a safe exit. We waltz on the terrace to the next building closer to our target. "Now carefully survey the area. We don't want to alert the enemy" her eyes scanned the floor for guards. "Find the hostage," She ordered.

I peered hard into the frosted glass window of the warehouse. Apart from the flickering light, the building looked lifeless. There was small dry smoke chimney on it's side. "If we climb down that, where will we reach?" I pointed to the thin chimney. "Sh, let me think" she fidgetted with her lower lip.

While I waited, my vision traced a clothes line drying outside one window, hanging inches above the corrugated roof of the warehouse. The fourth floor window of the sky rise was a few inches higher than the three-storied warehouse. "We can use that dryer to land silently on that roof," I suggested. "I think Jiro was able to hear the hostage. Let's wait for her to give us some signal -kero." Asui waited patiently.

"Where do the underground sewers go?" I asked again. "Into the basement of the building I believe" Her eyes were glued to the warehouse. For a moment, I noticed a flash of white on the sixth floor of the high sky rise on the right. There was body cornered to the window. It's hands were tied to the back by a rope. "Asui, look!" I nudged her toward the window I watched. The body collapsed to the floor. Her eyes widened. "Oh no! We don't have much time - kero" Her tongue grabbed me by the waist, tugging me along with her as we hopped onto the roof of the warehouse. I was flung into the sixth floor window of the adjacent building. The glass shattered on impact. I rolled into the floor of the dark empty room. The human below me muffled in pain. I looked up to see the villain keeping the human hostage.

"Ectoplasm, you!" I wiped the rain off my face. "Not bad, you found me." He replied menacingly. "Should have avoided signalling us with that light" I retorted. 

"Light?" He chortled loudly. We kept glaring at each other until the major flaw in our plan struck me. "Go on, you found me. Now what will you do?" He grimaced. He was right, I  didn't know how to fight.

"You'll be begging for mercy in no time!" I readied my fists in front of me. "That's not even the correct stance" A heel met my jaw and dropped me to the floor. My vision became momentarily fuzzy. "What an unprepared hero," the hostage sighed. "Shut up, act afraid!" I barked back. the blood spilled from the sides of my lips.

"Our class can do better" the hostage was Chikuchi, Shinso's friend. "I should have just let you rot" I grumbled. Another heel met my belly and flung  me into a corner. "Pay attention to me. I'm the villain" Ectoplasm barked.

I hugged my belly, wincing in pain. "Rylie!" Sato broke down the door. Ectoplasm only growled. Suddenly we were surrounded by multiple of his copies. "Jiro, help!" the words barely left my mouth. She extended out a palm at the multiple copies of Ectoplasm. The cord of her earlobe socketed into a device on her wrist. A loud sound bursted from her palm.

"Remember children, this girl's life is in my hands!" A copy flung Chikuchi on his shoulder and hopped out of the window. Oh wait, that wasn't his copy. It was really Ectoplasm. "The hostage!" Jiro called out. Sato flung me on his shoulder, "Let's go." He was offering politely.

"Asui, after him!" Jiro peered out of the window, tracing his movements. The copies in the room faded into non-existence leaving the dark room in silence. "Asui?" Sato looked around the empty room. "She was with me all along..." I replied. "Oh god, someone has to do something!" Jiro was furious. She took a few steps back and ran towards the open window.

"No wait, you'll hurt yourself!" I called after her. "I don't want us to fail the assignment!" Was the last thing she said before climbing out of the window. She lept out of the window and outstretched her palm below her, plugging the audio jack into her bracelet device. A loud sound burst from her palm cushioning her fall. The impact of the wave threw her back on the corrugated sheet of the warehouse. I watched as she chased after the villain with Chikuchi.

"Sato, after them!" I demanded. He ran and lept out of the window too. I held onto his back tightly as I eyed the hostage. Asui was nowhere to be seen. Jiro, Sato and I followed him to the other building. Ectoplasm shielded Chikuchi by surrounding himself with multiple of his copies.

"Not this time sensei," Jiro blasted the copies into non-existence with the loud pulse of sound. Sato laid me on the floor and punched the hallucinations out of the way. Ectoplasm bolted for the door. I focussed my energy on the switch board beside the exit and jammed it. It burst into small flames, spitting out electric sparks toward the exit. The sparks burst erratically around the room. "W-what have you done?" Ectoplasm backed away from the space where the door should have been. "I can't make the same mistake twice." I was firm this time. "Nice one, Rylie!" Jiro threw a thumbs up at me. "You're drenched and you are cornered sensei. It's time to give up," She smiled.

Sato fought Ectoplasm. The supposed villain threw Chikuchi into Jiro's arms. I crawled to the hostage and undid the knot on her wrists. "You're safe now," I assured her.

"Took you guys long enough," She massaged her wrists. Sato hand-cuffed the villain. I flung Chikuchi's arm around my shoulder and helped her to her feet.

"I'll take her to zone safety. You'll should find Asui" I announced. I walked Chikuchi to the exit on the other side of the downpour zone. "Are you this useless?" She asked. "Yea, I guess" I hated to have to admit it so openly. I joined with the rest of my classmates. "Yay Rylie-chan, you made it!" Midoriya ran up to me. All Might followed him. "Where are your team members?" he asked. "Asui went missing during the training so Sato and Jiro went to find her" I waited patiently outside the downpour region.

"Man up and stop whining!" Bakugo dropped Monoma to the floor. Ochaco and Koda appeared behind All Might. Soon, the entire class was waiting for my team to return. Two fuzzy silhouttes appeared from the heavy rain. I squinted my eyes to get a clear view. Jiro and Sato appeared, Asui flung over his back. He gently lay Asui on the floor. She was bruised and cut, bleeding a little. She curdled in pain.

"We found her unconscious in an alleyway" Jiro removed her shrug and wrung the water out of it. "Asui," I knelt beside her. "Wh-what happened?"

"To-Toga..." She barely managed to say the words and Midoriya gasped. "The League... they're here to take Eri."

There was that name again.

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A/N:

JJ: Omg guys, thank you so much for 200+ votes!! :)))) I hope you are enjoying the book so far

Rylie: I'm so exhausted...

JJ: Training was rough?

Rylie: yeah, pretty much.. huh! Poor Asui.

JJ: Yeah, you should take care of yourselves. See you around...

Rylie: *crawls to bed*

JJ: So that's all folks. Until next time! ;) Plus Ultra!!