This chapter is looong. Over 12,000 words. Lotta random storylines put into one chapter. Skips around a lot.

Hibiki is tired. Last night was a long late into the morning kind of night. She was spread thin. Many clone pairs ran around the city, saving civilians and whatever other trouble they could find. Last night was a busy night. Very busy and bursting with criminals. Plus before that, she had a dinner date with Fatgum where she was planning to break it off but couldn't bring herself to do it.

Then add on getting up early to teach martial arts. Then come up with the lesson plan for the next few days. She was getting home after dark, and Eri was hanging out with her while doing her homework.

But those aren't the only reasons she's tired.

She's been busy avoiding Aizawa. Ever since learning about their future together, she's been stressing about everything. She's realized her feelings, and they aren't for the person she's currently dating. Which makes her feel awful.

She's also been in some kind of pain. Like period cramps but without the cramps just pain in the exact place cramps would be. At first, she figured it was just her period, but her period came and went and the pain is still there. It's not a constant pain though, but it's usually there. She just wants to sleep it off all the time. She has an appointment with her doctor about it soon.

Again, Hibiki is tired and her head hurts. She had another date with Tashiro for lunch and still couldn't break it off. She doesn't want to hurt him, and it's stressing her out. She decided against patrol tonight to sleep instead. Tomorrow is Sunday, so she'll get to, hopefully, sleep in a bit. She's zoned out of hearing anything further than making sure Eri's behind her.

She walks right into her dorm with Eri happily following. She blinks at the puff of purple hair sitting on their couch. The boy stares at her with a subtle mix of emotions. Emotions that Hibiki is too tired to figure out. She pauses in the doorway with her hand still on the doorknob and scrunches her face in confusion.

"Uh, hi? Who are you?" She squints her eyes, trying to make her blurring vision focus. She takes in the eyebags and grey scarf on the kid. She cuts him off before he can voice anything. "Wait... Aizawa? Why is your hair purple and fluffy? You're also smaller... Did you get hit with a quirk?!"

The boy shakes his head. "No, Ai–"

Eri gets impatient and pushes her way around her mom to get into the room. Her eyes light up at the stranger. "Hitosan!"

"Hitosan?" Hibiki echoes confused as she watches Eri drop all her things to bolt straight toward him.

Eri jumps into his arms with a happy giggle. She buries her face in his stomach happily shuffling her head back and forth.

He gives a small smile as he holds her and pats her head. "Aizawa sensei's been training me. I'm Shinso Hitoshi from the general ed department."

She blinks. "That... would make sense... Oh yeah! You're the kid who made it to the final round at the sports festival. ...He never told me he was training you..."

"Hitosan, what're you doing here?" Eri asks, looking up at him.

"Aizawa sensei told me to wait here for a moment while he changes. We're heading out to patrol. I'm tagging along to see what it's like but not actually do anything."

Which means she can't pin Eri on Aizawa for tonight. This means she needs to make dinner and get Eri settled in bed before she can pass out.

She tiredly sighs. "Fun. Eri, let's go find something for dinner before cleaning up for bed."

"Okay!"

~~~

Hibiki is woken up by the obnoxious ringing of her phone. She groans, twisting her arm around to search for the damned thing before looking at the time. 3:49. She doesn't even realize it's who she's avoiding by the overwhelming emotion of annoyance taking over her.

"Ughhhhhh! Do you...have any idea what time it fucking is?" she grumbles.

A surprised pause. "...Noizu-san," Aizawa's voice comes through the phone, his voice sounding a smidge higher than usual.

She immediately perks up at the sound of his voice. "Aizawa-san?"

"I know it's late, but neither Hizashi nor Nemuri are answering their phones. You were the best option. We need you to come get us."

"Why?"

"Because... something happened, and we can't get back," Aizawa replies. He sighs. "Also... bring as many clothes and shoes of Eri's... Licca dolls as you can..."

"...What?"

"Also a pair of real socks. Preferably fuzzy and soft."

"Okaaaayy?"

"I sent you our location. It'll make sense once you get here."

He hangs up after that.

"Guess I gotta get Eri up..."

~~~

Hibiki lands on the sidewalk near the location sent. Eri tiredly slides off her back, grumbling with a yawn.

"Aizawa-san? Shinso?" Hibiki calls out, taking Eri's hand in hers and walking around the corner into an alleyway. There she finds Aizawa's hero outfit along with what Shinso was wearing, piled up on the ground. "No!" She lifts the clothes to her, finding no sign of blood or mishap. "What?!"

"Noizu-san."

She whips around to find the two crouched down, waddled in a bit of Aizawa's scarf. She squats down to get a closer look at the two. "The doll clothes are starting to make sense now. You guys are so tiny! So cute! Shit! You're small! What the hell?" She shakes her head and opens a compartment of her suit, dumping a pile of doll clothes and shoes in front of them. "Sorry, most of them are dresses."

"Better than be naked," Shinso sheepishly replies, grabbing a purple dress with kittens on it before Aizawa could.

Aizawa grumbles as Shinso gives him a shit-eating grin before he grabs the pink kimono.

While they get dressed, Hibiki gathers their original clothes, neatly folding them and placing them in a grocery bag that was scrunched in her belt pouch.

"Eri?"

Eri blearily opens her eyes in acknowledgment as she continues to teeter back and forth. "Hai...?"

"Hold onto this bag, okay?"

"Okay..." She grips the bag between her fingers, arm dropping by her side immediately after. She closes her eyes again, body rocking back and forth as she tries not to fall asleep.

"We're dressed."

Hibiki turns around and giggles. "Cute."

"Don't antagonize me," Aizawa grunts.

She chuckles. "Who's a little doll now?"

"I'd still say you," Aizawa answers honestly.

Shinso looks between the two of them confused as she laugh-scoffs.

She places the rest of the doll clothes back into her pouch before scooping the two into her hands. She takes out the pair of fuzzy normal-size socks, giving one to each. They take them sliding into them like they're sleeping bags. She manipulates the nanotech to make a little pocket bubble on her chest. "Here, you'll be secure on the ride back. Even made a window, so you can see."

They nod as she holds them up to slide into the pocket bubble. She scoops Eri onto her back, the nanotech securing her to Echo's back like a baby carrier, and blasts up to the top of the nearest building.

~~~

They enter the common room of the teacher's dorms. Hibiki releases her suit, catching everyone. She sends a clone to carry Eri back to bed. A different clone goes to run a load of clothes including the boy's smelly hero suits.

"For tonight, let's just head to bed," Aizawa says, stepping out of his sock sleeping bag. "We can deal with the arrangements in the morning."

"That sounds like a good idea," Hibiki nods.

"What about me?" Shinso asks, following Aizawa out of his own sock sleeping bag.

"You'll stay with me," Aizawa decides. "At least for tonight being as early as it is. We'll see if we can get a classmate of yours to watch over you."

Hibiki nods with a yawn. "I'll get some smaller blankets for you two." She holds her hand out for them, letting them climb up before setting them to perch on her shoulders. She decides to take the short elevator ride too lazy to go up a few stairs.

She drops off the boys on Aizawa's bed after getting some doll bedding. She grunts, hand quickly moving to her stomach as her eyebrows scrunch.

"You okay?" Aizawa asks, eyeing her gripping her stomach.

Shinso chooses his bedding, setting it all up on top of one of the cat pillows Hibiki gifted Aizawa.

"Mmfine," she responds. "Just some occasional pain and a huge headache. Vision has been blurring. Just need some sleep." She yawns.

"Have you seen Recovery Girl?"

"No."

"You should."

"It's likely nothing. Goodnight. Don't let the bedbugs bite 'cause they're probably bigger than you now."

"Haha," Aizawa sarcastically replies, rolling his eyes. "Goodnight, thank you for coming to get us."

"No problem." She gives them a small wave before returning to her room.

"Sooo, what was the whole doll comment thing?" Shinso asks after a few seconds.

"Midnight," Aizawa replies as he adjusts. "She says that Echo is a realistic, picture-perfect, flawless little doll. Like an angel. It's a reoccurring nickname the UA staff uses for her."

"Oh."

...

"NOIZU! NOIZU!" Two tiny loud and distant voices are what wake Hibiki up.

"Huh?"

"NOIZU-SAN! GET TARO AND DAIKI!"

"THEY'RE GONNA EAT US!"

Hibiki springs up, tumbling to the floor as her leg gets caught in the bedsheets. She fights with the sheet as they keep screaming. She finally gets free and rushes into Aizawa's room. She finds the two backed against the wall cornered by Aizawa's two cats. Daiki immediately skitters off as she enters, and Taro keeps his wide eyes on the two. Hibiki chuckles, scooping Taro up and coddling him. Taro melts in her grasp, purring up a storm. She plops him on the bed before squatting down to the tiny people catching their breaths.

"Guess we should've thought about this last night," Hibiki laughs, holding her hand out for them to get onto. "You're like little mice to them."

Aizawa huffs as he climbs up after Shinso. She places them on her shoulders, them holding on by her hair.

"No kidding," Shinso huffs. "I saw my life flash before me..."

"Don't be so dramatic," Aizawa replies.

"Well, that was a fun wake-up call," Hibiki chuckles.

"Speak for yourself," Shinso grunts.

"You should be safe on the table. Let me get Eri and myself ready then I'll come for the two of you." She sets them down on the table in front of the couch before disappearing into her room.

Shinso groans, falling back and spreading his limbs out, and catches his breath. "I... can see why you love her."

Aizawa whips his head around with widened eyes. "What?"

Shinso turns his head to look at him with a sly grin. "Don't 'what' me. You totally have a thing for her."

"You have no idea what you're talking about."

Shinso snickers, sitting up. "Oh come on!"

"You're delusional."

"I didn't tell you this, but your students have bets on the two of you ending up together. They made a whole mission to get you together, but it's kinda ruined now with the whole she's dating Fatgum thing. You can blame Kirishima for that too. He encouraged Fatgum to ask her out."

"Sounds to me like they have too much free time and need more homework to me. Gossiping about their teachers. Don't they have anything better to do? How do you know all this anyway?"

"Your students aren't exactly the quietest bunch."

Aizawa's sigh turns into a long annoyed groan. "Train them in stealth. Noted."

"Yeah, but now they know you two definitely end up together."

"And why's that?"

He becomes quiet as his eyes widen. "...Oops, shouldn't've said that."

"What's that suppose–"

Hibiki exits her room with a yawn and stretch. "Eri's getting dressed. It's 10, so we got a little sleep. Sounds like..." Her head lightly quirks to the side as she listens. "Hizashi... Ishiyama... Nemuri, and Kan are eating breakfast. Shall we join them then go find Yaoyorozu to see if she can make the two of you outfits?"

"Yeah."

She nods with a quick pained grunt as she holds her stomach. "Be right back then." She goes back into her room to get dressed.

"Now, what were you saying?" Aizawa asks, glaring at Shinso.

"Oh, I am so not gonna be the one to ruin everything."

"Papa!"

Both men stiffen at the shout before Shinso snickers at the face Aizawa is making from being called papa.

Eri races around the couch to the two on the table and releases a loud gasp.

"Eri..."

"You're so tiny!" she squeals, lifting the two up in each of her hands and giggling. "Like dolls!"

"Eriii! We aren't your new dolls!" Shinso shouts, trying to push himself out of her grip.

It's a few minutes later when Hibiki comes into the room. "Let's go then shal– Eri! Put them down!"

Eri flinches before hastily setting them back down on the table. The two fell to their knees to catch their breaths. She holds her hands behind her back, lightly twirling her foot with the tip of her toes and looking up at Hibiki with her big eyes. "I'm sorry, momma..."

Hibiki sighs. Who taught her the puppy dog eyes? ...Definitely Midoriya. Probably not intentionally... "You could've hurt them. Be careful and gent–" Her cheeks then puff up with a 'uump' sound, and she rushes off to her bathroom, covering her mouth.

The three could hear the sounds of Hibiki throwing up.

"Gross," Shinso mutters.

More and more and more vomit splattering is heard.

"Eri, take us to Noizu," Aizawa says.

"Ew, no thanks," Shinso grunts, shaking his head.

Eri nods, gently setting her hands down for them to climb onto. Shinso reluctantly follows with an eye roll. They sit down then she heads into Hibiki's bathroom. "Is momma okay?"

Another round of vomiting. Hibiki is sitting on the floor resting on the edge of the toilet on her arm.

"Noizu-san? Are you okay?" Aizawa asks concerned.

She pants. "I don't know. Gotta get it outta... my system. Likely something I ate... Looks like I won't be of much help like this..." She closes her eyes as she takes a shuttering breath. "Eri looks like you'll be taking care of them today. Can..." She pauses feeling another wave of nausea that quickly resides. "...Can you do that for me?"

Eri nods with a worried look.

"You sure you'll be okay by yourself?" Aizawa asks. "Need anything?"

"My phone. I'll need something to entertain myself with in between emptying my stomach."

Eri goes to get that as she leaves the two boys behind.

"I'll have Eri take my phone," Aizawa says. "Call if you need help. Want us to get Recovery Girl?"

"Will do and no. This'll pass in a bit."

Eri returns with Hibiki's phone before scooping the shrunk back into her hands. "Feel better, momma."

Hibiki tightly smiles, weakly patting Eri's head. "Take good care of them. Don't lose them."

Eri nods in determination as she leaves with the two, closing the door. Hibiki sighs in relief quickly getting on the toilet.

"Eri, let's head downstairs to find Mic or Nemuri," Aizawa says after they get his phone.

They take the elevator down to the kitchen where only Nemuri and Mic are left eating.

"Little Eri! Where's Hibiki?"

Eri becomes sad. "She's not feeling good... throwing up."

"Aww, poor thing. I'll go keep her company," Nemuri says. "Where's Aizawa?"

Eri presents the two shrunk to them.

Mic gasps. "Yoooooo! You're so tiny!" He blinks. "...Are you wearing a dress?"

Aizawa sighs. "Eri's doll clothes are all that would fit us."

Nemuri laughs, taking pictures with her phone. "So, what happened?"

"We were hit by a criminal's quirk," Shinso says. "Last night on patrol. Noizu-sensei picked us up."

"You could've called me!" Mic complains.

"We did. Both of you. Neither of you answered," Aizawa deadpans.

"Oh."

Aizawa rolls his eyes. "Just get us breakfast then get us to Yaoyorozu."

Eri skips over to the TV to turn it on while Mic makes her something.

"It was probably good that we didn't answer," Nemuri hums. "It's about time the two of you made up."

"You can't avoid her forever," Mic continues, heading into the kitchen to find something for them to eat.

"Oh?" Shinso grins, making Aizawa huff in annoyance.

"To be fair, she's been avoiding him too," Nemuri adds.

"She has?" Aizawa asks, perking up. That's why it's been so easy lately to avoid her.

"Yup, ever since her future kid left," she says. "When I confronted her she said she couldn't talk about it in risk of the future or something." She shrugs. "Whatever that means."

Shinso's eyes widen in realization. "Oh, she knows..." he mutters to himself.

Aizawa hears it though. "Knows what?"

Shinso forms an 'x' mark over his mouth with his fingers. "Not telling. Can't. Promised not to tell."

Aizawa sighs before taking a slow breath. "Nemuri, has she told you about the pain in her stomach?"

"Oh, yeah. She's going to see her doctor sometime soon about it," Nemuri answers. "She thinks it might be an old hernia reopening."

"Why doesn't she just go see grandma?" Mic hums in thought gathering the info about her health the past couple of days then gasps. "Wait a minute! Throwing up, headaches, tiredness, stomach pain. Guys! Don't you see?! She might be pregnant!"

All the color in Aizawa's face drains which Shinso snickers at. Mic places small pieces of food in front of the shrunk two before taking a bowl over to Eri.

Nemuri's mouth drops open. "Oh shit. Those are definitely signs..."

Shinso digs into the food, watching the shit show before him. It's not like he can tell him that it's not true. They aren't allowed to know.

Aizawa is frozen. He can't think straight. It's too late. He's too late.

"Sorry, man," Mic coughs.

Shinso gives Aizawa a shit-eating grin. "So you do like her."

Aizawa grumbles. "Shut up."

"Wow, Hibiki might be pregnant," Nemuri nods with a hand to her chin.

"Pregnant?" Eri looks back at them with a tilt of her head.

"It means that you might be a big sister," Nemuri says.

Eri gasps as her eyes sparkle. "Momma's having a baby?!"

"Maybe, but probably," Nemuri shrugs, standing up. "Anyway, I'm gonna go check up on her." She heads up the stairs after putting her bowl in the sink.

Mic sucks in a breath. "Dude."

"Just stop talking," Aizawa threatens before he starts eating.

It is silent after that only the sounds of the TV program that Eri is watching playing in the background.

Mic ends up taking Aizawa, Eri, and Shinso over to class 1A. He sends Eri in to distract them with her cuteness before he flags down Yaoyorozu to come outside. Aizawa didn't want the rest of the class to know yet. He's so tired.

"Mic sensei? What do you need me for?" Yaoyorozu asks confused.

"Don't worry, you're not in trouble," Mic says. "Just need the use of your quirk. It's a little rude to ask but... could you make some doll clothes?" Mic lifts his hands to show her Aizawa and Shinso.

"Oi, we're not dolls," Aizawa huffs.

"If anything we're action figures," Shinso adds.

Mic chuckles. "You don't dress up action figures."

The two shrunk slump as Mic chuckles again.

Yaoyorozu gasps, hands covering her mouth in shock. "What happened? The two of you are so small!"

"We got hit with a quirk last night," Aizawa explains. "Would you be able to make a few clothes for us with your quirk?"

"Of course!" Yaoyorozu agrees quickly. She creates a soft tape measure to measure them before making outfits. Shinso got a UA uniform and a gym uniform. Aizawa got his hero costume. They both got a bit of sleepwear, shoes, and a few casual clothes. "I'm sorry. I'm... I'm not quite familiar with men's boxers or underwear..."

"That's alright." Aizawa holds up a hand to stop her. "I don't think we'd be comfortable with you having to make any for us anyway. We... can survive a few days without. We appreciate what you have given us."

"Thanks," Shinso mutters.

"You're welcome!" She smiles at them.

"And Yaoyorozu, don't tell your classmates about this," Mic says. "We don't know when the quirk's effects will wear off. Hopefully, they'll be back to normal before tomorrow. I would rather your classmates just be oblivious to the situation."

"Hai, sensei!" She bows before returning inside after being dismissed.

Mic sighs. "I feel like it would be better if we keep Shinso in your place until he's returned to normal."

"Please," Shinso adds. "My classmates would not be fun to be around. They wouldn't know how to handle this."

"That's fine," Aizawa says. "You can stay in my room again. Noizu can keep my cats in her room for the next few nights. Eri will enjoy that."

"I'll grab Eri, so we can take you somewhere you can change into actual clothes," Mic says.

"Let her stay," Aizawa says. "She's wanted to hang with Midoriya and the others for a little while."

~~~

Eri is sitting on the couch beside Midoriya, happily answering questions.

"Eri, where's Aizawa and Noizu sensei?" Deku suddenly asks as he remembers she entered on her own.

"Mama's sick and Papa's tiny," she answers.

They all coo at her calling them her parents before following what she said.

"Huh?"

"Mama's throwing up uncle Mic says she's perg... pergerant... preagerant... no..."

"Pregnant?!" the class shouts.

Eri's face brightens. "Yeah!"

"What?! How's that possible? She and Aizawa aren't together yet!" Mina shouts. "Ditto is their's!"

"He did say he has a big family. He never said that Fatgum wasn't a part of it," Sato says.

Kirishima gasps loudly. "Fatgum's gonna be a dad?! No way!!"

"Everyone shut the fuck up!" Bakugo shouts, slamming a fist down on the table he's working at. Everything on the table jumps before landing a bit more messy than before. "You're all so fucking annoying! I'm trying to study dammit! Gossip somewhere else!"

"I'm still on the whole Aizawa's tiny thing, what's that mean?" Sero asks, ignoring the blond.

"He's a doll!" Eri grins. "He's small!" She uses her hands to show his size. "Like this small!"

Yaoyorozu blanches. "Uh, Eri, you shouldn't tell them!" She shushes her. "...Why do you think Noizu sensei is having a baby?"

"Uncle Mic says so!" She nods with a proud look on her face.

"The future is ruined!" Mina screams.

"What do we do?!" Kaminari yells.

Bakugo swears it's like watching chickens with their heads cut off.

~~~

Nemuri lets herself into Hibiki's room, knocking on the door to the bathroom. "Hibi? How you doing?"

"In the worst pain I've ever been in!" she cries out. "Food poisoning and cramps suck!"

"Oh, doll," Nemuri sighs leaning on the doorframe. "You want anything?"

Hibiki groans. "Some... ice water would be nice. All I'm doing is dry heaving at this point and uh shitting out my guts."

"Ew." Nemuri scrunches up her nose. "Are you sure it's just food poisoning?"

She grunts. "What else would it be?"

Nemuri hums, walking into the bathroom and sitting against the sink. "Mmm. I don't know maybe something along the lines of you possibly being pregnant."

"Pregnant?! No! No, I'm not pregnant!"

"You sure?"

"Yes. I'm sure. My period literally passed a few weeks ago, and Tai and I haven't done anything since then. We're also safe. Okay?"

Nemuri holds her hands up. "Okay, okay. Got it." She then smirks. "So... is he big?"

"Nemuri!"

She laughs. "I kid. ...Not really. I'm curious."

"I'm so not having this conversation with you..."

"Aww, come on!"

"If you really want to know find out for yourself."

Nemuri blinks. "...Uh, you're dating him. I'm not... I mean unless you're both into that."

"Fucking... shit, Nemuri! Stop!"

She cackles. "Alright, I'm gonna go get you some water then be right back, so we can continue with the deeper meaning behind that one."

...

Today was Hibiki's visit to the doctor to find out why her stomach is in so much pain. She was able to get off this Monday. The previous day, she tried to get in contact with her older brother to teach her classes. He wasn't able to as he was busy with other things, so she called her dad.

Papa Noizu is teaching UA students today. Nezu was totally on board. He's even going to come watch a class and maybe even try to join. He'd like to compare father's to daughter's skills.

Hibiki didn't want to call her dad. He was a big overprotective grizzly bear. Super intimidating to others, but to Mom, Eri, and herself, he was a giant teddy bear. He worries. So when she asked him if he would train her students, he was immediately asking why and what's wrong. She didn't want to worry him, but she told him anyway.

He also went in the pregnant direction like Nemuri did which led to her older brother, who was in the same room, to join in on the overprotectiveness. Mom also was there but got excited instead talking about more grandbabies.

Her family is embarrassing. Her younger brother, Akio, was her favorite. The most chill of everyone.

Nemuri kept the whole discussion, Hibiki isn't pregnant, to herself. One, because it's amusing to watch Aizawa and Mic stress about it, and two because she genuinely forgot to tell them.

Aizawa and Shinso are still small, so they have to go to school today. Much to both of their annoyance.

Eri is Aizawa and Shinso's handler today. It was decided that Shinso stay with Aizawa until the whole shrunk thing was over.

Class 1A is going to be in for it this week it seems.

Eri walks in 1A's classroom with Shinso on one shoulder and Aizawa on the other.

"Eri!" Midoriya calls out, giving her everyone's attention.

"What are you doing here?" Asui asks.

"She's our person today," Aizawa speaks up.

"Waaah! Sensei's tiny!" everyone shouts.

"We were hit with a quirk a few days ago that shrunk us," Aizawa explains.

"Shinso!" Midoriya yells, seeing the fluff of purple hair.

"Yo."

"Shinso will be with me until we return to normal," Aizawa explains. Eri takes him over to the podium for him to climb up on. "Change of plans for your first class. Noizu-san isn't going to be here today, so her father is taking over your class today." Shinso climbs up to stand beside him.

Kaminari raises his hand as he speaks. "Why is Noizu sensei not gonna be here?"

Aizawa sighs. "She has a doctor's appointment."

"She okay?" Hagakure asks.

"I'm sure she will be."

Kirishima can't take it anymore and bursts up from his seat, slamming his hands on his desk. "Is Fatgum gonna be a dad?!"

"Yeah!? Sensei isn't pregnant is she?" Mina yells.

"Yeah!" most of the class shouts.

Aizawa's eyes widen. "How did you–"

Masahiko enters the room. "This where I should be?"

Aizawa sighs, eye twitching before he closes them for a second to gather his thoughts. "Noizu-san. This is the class you will first be teaching today."

The class sucks in a breath except obviously Ojiro. The guy was huge. Not as big as All Might, but definitely more intimidating. This was really their sweet tiny sensei's dad?

Masahiko blinks, looking down at Aizawa. "You shrunk."

His voice shakes the room with how deep it is. It made most of the class shrink into their seats.

"Was hit with a quirk."

His gaze moves to Eri and a giant smile lights up his face. "Sweet Eri!" He spreads out his arms as he rushes up to her.

"Sofu!" She jumps into his embrace.

He scoops her and props her up on his shoulder. A large grin adorns both their faces.

"Oh yeah... almost forgot sensei adopted her," Mina mutters, sweatdropping.

"He's-He's like a completely different person..." Kirishima and Sero mutter.

"Well, so you're the class I'm teaching first today." Masahiko grins which is more terrifying than Aizawa's. It makes the class gulp. "We're going to have some fun. Ah! Mashirao! Good to see you."

~~~

Hibiki's doctor believes she found what is wrong but sent her home with an ovulation test to be sure. Her doctor didn't want to say anything and worry Hibiki until she was sure. They made another appointment for the next day.

The test was positive. Hibiki left it out on her bathroom counter, so she would know where to find it to take it back tomorrow. She couldn't figure out what the doctor meant.

Nemuri's whole pregnant idea crept to the front of her mind. What if she was pregnant? Cases where a woman is pregnant and continues with a period isn't completely uncommon. Very unlikely and basically nonexistent, but not totally impossible.

Hibiki sits down on her toilet lid. Oh shit. I can't be! We were careful and... and I no longer like Taishiro... Plus, what about Ditto?! Fuck I still need to message Taishiro...

She gets so lost in her thoughts she doesn't even hear or see Eri come in until she places her hands on Hibiki's knees. Hibiki flinches and blinks. "Eri?" She searches for the shrunk. Not seeing them she asks, "Where's Shinso and Aizawa?"

"They poofed back to normal!" Eri's eyes widen as she makes an exploding motion with her arms going out wide.

"Well, that's good."

"Yeah! It was so funny! They had to hide behind bushes!" She giggles with closed eyes.

"Huh? Where are they now?"

"Hiding behind bushes. They told me to come get you to bring them clothes."

"O-Oh..." She flushes, covering her face with her hand. "Um, okay..." She sends a clone out to go to Shinso's dorm and find a male classmate to pick out some of his clothes. "How about we... go pick out some clothes?"

"Okay!" Eri grins and races into the closet.

They grab a hoodie and sweats from the closet then head to Aizawa's room. Standing in the living room are Ashido and Shoji.

"Oh, didn't know you two were here," Hibiki says. "Clone or Eri didn't mention it."

"Aizawa sensei sent me," Shoji explains.

"No worries! We came with Eri! I volunteered!" Mina grins, happily petting Taro who's enjoying the attention. "Sooo, you and Aizawa sensei live together?!" She looks around trying to find any hint of naughty behavior.

Hibiki's face gets rosy. "We figured it best for Eri." She crosses the room to Aizawa's room.

After they gather clothes much to Hibiki's embarrassment of a drawer of his underwear, they're on the way to where Eri left them. The clone meets up with them along the way, giving Hibiki Shinso's clothes before vanishing.

"So... Echo sensei? We heard you went to the doctor. How'd it go? Find... out anything?" Mina curiously asks.

"I'll find out when I go to the doctor again tomorrow," Hibiki shares. "Sent me home with a test to see if her suspicions are confirmed."

Mina's eyes widen. "Are you actually–"

Shoji covers her mouth with extended hands and another forms into a mouth to whisper. "Invasion of privacy, Ashido. She'll tell us when she's ready."

She whines and slumps.

They arrive at the PE Grounds where class 1A is training and occasionally look towards the outskirts of bushes in the distance.

"You two go return with your class and go run around the school once. Get some stamina in. Eri go with and stay with Deku."

She smiles. "Okay!"

Mina groans. "Aww, man!"

Shoji nods. "Hai, sensei."

The three wander over, and they all depart, Iida shouting in front.

Hibiki watches them go, moving over to the bushes where she hears the two grumbling. "Shinso? Aizawa? I brought you two clothes. I'm going to set them here." She sets the piles of clothes near their respected owners and leaves.

They sluggishly creep out of the bushes when finished.

"This is the most embarrassing moment in my entire life," Shinso huffs, face completely red.

"You've got your entire life still ahead of you to embarrass yourself even more," Hibiki teases.

"Gee, thanks."

"I'm so fired," Aizawa sighs, pinching the bridge of his nose.

"So, I'm gathering from the ripped doll clothes over here that the two of you 'poofed' back to normal," Hibiki says. "...revealing..."

"Everything..." Aizawa sighs.

Hibiki's cheeks flush, keeping her eyes on her shoes. "Uh, well, uh, okay... I–"

"In the middle of a speech," Aizawa continues, running a hand down his face and looking anywhere but at her.

"Oh... that, uh, sucks..."

"It beyond sucks!" Shinso shouts irritated. "I can never look any of them in the eye again. Fucking mortifying. We need to find someone with a memory-erasing quirk right now."

"Calm down," Aizawa says. "Most of what they saw was likely our backside as we went into the bushes."

"That's just as bad! I don't need them talking about my butt."

Hibiki's cheeks puff up as she chuckles, making them whirl on her. "Sorry, sorry. I'm just imagining the scampering to the bushes." A light flush appears on her cheeks. She totally would've been ogling Aizawa's butt.

"Noizu!"

She quickly turns. "I'm going to get Eri and have a word with the class. You guys head back to the dorms."

~~~

Noizu dismissed the rest of classes for class 1A + Shinso that day, letting them off to do their own thing.

Aizawa took the time to get some chores done. Noizu had classes, so Eri was with him but watching TV.

A few of Eri's clothes ended up mixed with Aizawa's as she spent the night in his room a few times when Hibiki was over at Fatgum's. Eri didn't like to be alone.

He takes the few clothes of Eri's, walking through his and Hibiki's shared closet to her bathroom to set the now clean clothes neatly on the sink counter. He's quick to notice the plastic test sitting out on the other side. He picks it up after setting down Eri's clothes.

His eyes widen at the positive results. "Fuck. I'm... too late..." he groans, seeing the double lines. He sets it back down, making sure it's in the same spot he found it, before leaving the room. A heavy aura surrounds him as he shuffles back to his bedroom.

...

Thursday. Hibiki is free during 1A's 2nd part hero course training of the day. The hero class is for 5th and 6th period. Hibiki has to teach 3-B for 5th, but Aizawa wanted her help that day. Stealth training. She decides to leave an exact clone with her class then heads off to the city area, Ground Beta.

All the students were dressed in their hero costumes with Aizawa standing in front of them.

"Today we're going to do stealth training by playing hide and seek with Noizu-san and me as the seekers," Aizawa explains.

"We never got an answer!" Mina huffs, not caring about the lesson. "I wanna know if Echo sensei is having a baby!" She stomps with each word while throwing her arms down in a tantrum.

Aizawa thinks back to what he saw in Hibiki's bathroom. He must've made an easily readable expression by the collected gasp of his students.

"No way! Really?!" Kaminari shouts like the world is ending. "Nooo!"

"Should she really be heroing pregnant?" Yaoyorozu ponders aloud.

"Sensei! We were rooting for you!" Hagakure, Uraraka, Mina, Kaminari, Sero, and Aoyama shout.

Aizawa blinks. "What?"

They all freeze as his expression flares and hair raises.

"Uh-uh-uh, we m-mean that you two look-looked good together..." Kaminari stutters out, poking his fingers together.

Aizawa closes his eyes and takes a long deep annoyed breath. "Never mind that. ...From what I understand–"

"Did she tell you?!" Mina shouts.

"No."

"Then how do you know if it's true?!" Mina huffs. "Don't you wanna be with her?!"

"Enough. None of this is your business, Ashido. My relationships as well. She will tell everyone when she's ready," Aizawa cuts her off. "We're not here to gossip. We're here to train. You all have 15 minutes to find a good place to hide before we seek you out. You're out once you're captured, so you're able to run away if you're spotted or try and subdue us." He grins. "That is... if you can."

They all collectively gulp.

"Where's Echo sensei?" Sero asks.

"Your time starts now. I suggest you get a move on," Aizawa says instead of answering. They flinch before racing through the gates. Aizawa shakes his head watching them go. "What the fuck...?"

Hibiki makes that her moment to sneak up behind him with a boo. He flinches real hard as she starts to laugh. "I got ya!"

He rolls his eyes. "You're late."

"Sorry, 3-B was hard to get away from with that Togata kid. He's very perceptive. Saw me sneaking off. Anyway, I'm here now and ready to go."

"Are you sure in your condition?"

She blinks at him confused. "My throwing up and stomach pains? Don't worry, I'm all set now. Got the right meds and figured out the issue." She gives him a thumbs up. "So, what's the game plan?"

"We're going to do another stealth training for when night falls. Save the good stuff until then. Simple captures now. Terrifying them at dark." He grins sadistically.

She nods. "Got it."

They split up, covering more ground and nabbing their students up like flies in a spiderweb.

~~~

Night fell for class 1A's 2nd portion of stealth training to begin. They already left for the fake city, hoping they'll do better now that they 'know' how their teachers come after them, and that it's dark.

Echo grins evilly, rubbing her hands together. "Oh, we're going to have so much fun now."

Aizawa eyes her. "You're getting a little too into the villain role."

She shrugs. "You ready?"

He nods, grabbing onto his scarf and walking on the grounds.

Echo closes her eyes and takes a breath, opening them slowly to reveal them now glowing. She snickers, following behind him. She leaves her helmet down, but for dramatic effect, she forms a half-skull mask on her lower face. Two devil horns appear on her head for that extra flair.

Aizawa turns to her, eyes widening. "Really?"

She giggles at the exasperated comment. "Yep! You want a mask too?"

He continues walking as she skips up beside him. "I'm good. I... didn't know your eyes glow."

"Only when I want them to. Can't really explain why cause I don't even know. But they're good for dramatic effect and scaring the piss outta our kids."

Aizawa flinches. "Our?"

Her eyes widen as her cheeks flush. "We-Well I guess they're more yours than mine..."

He scoff laughs with an eye-roll. "I... guess they are."

She nudges him. "You know you love them."

"Don't push it."

"How much longer till we can chase them?"

Aizawa checks his phone. "5 more minutes."

She rocks back and forth on her feet impatiently. "We teaming up for this round?"

He thinks. "Two glowing eyes are scarier than one."

They snicker.

"You know... if we were villains... I don't think the world would stand a chance," Echo voices.

Aizawa hums in thought. "We'd make quite the evil team."

And for some reason that made Hibiki's heart skip a beat. "Te-Team?" She grins. "We're a team now? Thought you didn't do teams?"

For a split second, his face becomes somber before it returns to normal. "Well, I guess... you've changed my mind. Though you've been teaming up on patrol with Fatgum. I don't think he'd take it too kindly if we decided to be a team."

Her expression drops. "Oh... Yeah... I guess we are..."

Aizawa's quick to notice the mood change. "Is... everything alright... between you two?"

"Ah, yes. Tai is super sweet. He's the best boyfriend a girl could ask for."

"That's... great." He can feel his teeth grinding in annoyance.

She sighs as the conversation drops. She's missed their banter. "I feel... I should apologize."

"Why?" He looks at her confused.

"I've... been avoiding you." She sheepishly looks away.

"Then I should also apologize for the same thing. I'm also sorry for how standoffish I've been."

Her head whips to his face. She blinks confused, trying to remember. "...What?"

He chuckles. "You probably didn't notice 'cause you could always find me."

She flushes. "I didn't... Wait, why were... you avoiding me?"

"Why were you avoiding me?" he parrots.

"I..."

They both look away from each other. The timer goes off before either can think of a replied excuse.

"We can continue this later. Let's go terrify our kids."

She feels her face heat up as she follows behind him, patting her burning cheeks to calm herself. She takes a breath before listening.

The two heroes climb to a rooftop for a vantage point.

She quietly hums then whispers. "Sounds like... Midoriya and... Uraraka are together. Mashichan... Tokoyami, and Iida. Then Asui, Kaminari, and Kirishima. Then Mineta... Todoroki, and Jiro." She tilts her head back and forth. "Yaoyorozu, Shoji, Aoyama, and Sero. Bakugo is on his own. I believe so is Hagakure. Sato, Koda, and Ashido are together."

Aizawa nods. "How can you tell?" he curiously asks.

"Most of them are talking. Bakugo's grenades slightly clink. Jiro's quirk uses vibrations, so I pinpoint its frequency. Mineta likes to complain about how strong Todoroki's quirk is. Hagakure is a little more difficult. I trained her to be able to sneak around to my quietness. Her quirk makes her literally light reflection and light makes no sound. She's basically silent unless she talks. She'll be the hardest to find and not cause she's invisible."

He nods, loosening his scarf. "Let's go stalk. Who's the closest?"

"Yaoyorozu and the others, but with Shoji they'll be harder to sneak up on."

"Seems I've at least taught them something each group seems to have someone that can listen for us."

He silently starts moving across rooftops. She grins and follows after.

"Asui's group is on the move. They're close by."

"Lead the way."

She passes him, leaping off the roof and freefalling before spreading out her wingsuit to glide to the next one. She turns to him as if she's challenging him. He smirks using his scarf to grapple across. He lands next to her with a satisfied grin. She mirrors his expression and continues without a word.

They merge into the shadows as they get close to the group. It's a particularly dark night which is perfect for the two.

Asui has stuck herself to the side of the building with Kaminari below on the ground both peeking around the corner. Kirishima is against the wall further back.

Echo moves herself to be above where Kirishima is, making her suit shift to crawl along walls. She creeps down to the unaware Kirishima. Her eyes focus on the boy, making Aizawa think of a cat about to attack.

Echo taps the boy's head making the boy look up. His eyes widen and before he can make a peep, Echo covers his mouth and snatches him up. She wraps him in capture tape and hangs him by a cable.

Aizawa and Echo jump down into the alley, sauntering closer.

Aizawa's hair raises as his gaze is locked on Kaminari. Kirishima begins to make sounds of protests as his mouth is gagged. It gains the attention of the two students who see Kirishima before the heroes. Kaminari shrieks as Asui squeaks after seeing the glowing eyes.

"Kiri has been nabbed!" Kaminari screams, hoping the others will hear. "They're working together this time!"

The two turn to run only for Aizawa to hook his scarf around Kaminari's left ankle and pull.

"Kaminari!" Asui shouts.

"Run! It's too late for meeeeee!" Kaminari cries as he's pulled into the darkness.

Aizawa ties him up as Asui runs off.

Echo loudly cackles which scares the three. The cackles echo and bounce around from every direction.

Asui wildly looks around her, trying to pinpoint where Echo will come from only for said hero to drop in front of her. Asui ran straight into her arms.

Echo coos at her as she hugs the slightly shorter girl, petting her hair. "Better luck next time," she taunts, cuffing Asui with capture tape. Echo can feel Asui shake as she mockingly pats her head. Asui slumps to the ground defeated with a pout. Echo laughs, flipping her student over her shoulder to bring her back to the others.

"Three down, 17 to go," Aizawa says as they place the three students on a rooftop together.

"This is fun," Echo smiles, rocking back and forth on her heels.

Echo clones herself to leave with the students. If the other students find them they're able to release them as long as they aren't caught.

"Who's next?"

Echo listens around. "Seems like Bakugo is still on the move. Can't hear Hagakure yet. Some of them have moved spots after Kaminari's warning. But..." She hums. "Feels like Jiro's group is closest they're on a rooftop."

"Higher or lower?"

"Higher." She looks off in the direction to see Todoroki staring right back at her. She's quick to notice his flinch, and he hides behind the ledge. She smirks. "They know we're here. They're on the move."

"Best to get them on the move when Jiro can't plug in," Aizawa says.

"Agreed." Echo nods, parkouring off the roof with Aizawa following. The two move as one, talking was unnecessary. They read and played off each other with just a glance as they snuck up to their next victims.

Todoroki first noticed them, swallowing him and his other two classmates in a giant orb of ice before Aizawa could stop him.

The heroes land on top of the orb.

"They have to come out at some point," Aizawa says.

She pulls out some earplugs and hands them to him. "Cover your ears."

He takes them, putting them in his ears before cupping his hands on top. Echo knocks on the ice to find the right frequency before she sucks in a deep breath. She releases a perfect pitch to completely shatter the ice.

They flip onto the revealed roof to find it covered in purple sticky balls and a giant burned hole in the middle. Aizawa whips his scarf to Echo as she glides them through the hole.

"They know how to trap," Aizawa proudly says.

Inside the building, the floor was again completely covered in sticky balls but with a layer of ice underneath. Echo shifts her suit's boots to be pointed stilts so as to not hit any sticky balls. Aizawa adjusts to sit on her shoulders to steady them both.

"They're running down the stairs of the building."

"Let's go meet them then."

The exits to the room are frozen off. Echo carefully makes her way over to a window, shattering the ice and window with a sonic blast. Aizawa jumps out first then she follows. They dive down, falling by floors fast. Once close she grabs Aizawa and lifts them for a soft landing. They race around the building, getting into a vantage point in the darkness.

Jiro is the first to race out into the bottom floor lobby followed by Mineta and Todoroki.

Aizawa immediately has the three's quirks cancelled.

"Ha! We totally got 'em!" Mineta cheers. His head was slightly bleeding.

"We should get outta here and regroup with Yaomomo," Jiro pants. "Plan isn't working. I feel like I'm in a horror movie." She taps her earpiece. "Yaomomo! We–"

"Guys, my quirk isn't working," Todoroki says right as Mineta is snatched up.

Mineta screams as Aizawa scoops him in his scarf like a bug in a spider web. Todoroki and Jiro dive away from Echo's attempt and run for the door. It's locked. All exits are kept that way with the extra nanotech that make up Echo's suit.

"It's locked!" Jiro shouts nervously.

"Of course it is," Todoroki replies, accepting his defeat.

Red and yellow-green eyes light up the room around them.

The students nervously turn, backs against the locked front door, and hold up their fists.

"N-Not going down without a fight!" Jiro shouts as her voice shakes. She tries to plug her earjacks into her amps, but her quirk is off.

The two pro heroes cackle, making Jiro shiver.

"They're toying with us," Todoroki says. "Earlier was nothing like this. They kept their skills for nighttime. We don't have a choice. We won't win. The two of them together are a force to be reckoned with."

Jiro gulps. "Not helping Todoroki!"

Aizawa and Echo land next to each other stalking over to the two.

"Mineta's been captured," Todoroki reports to his earpiece. "Jiro and I are about to be."

"Giving up so soon?" Echo taunts. She tsks. "That won't do."

The wall beside them explodes. Another explosion is shot at the pros, throwing them back. "Don't just fucking stand there! Fucking run!" Bakugo's voice shouts through the large smoke cloud. "Hurry up, icyhot! Ears! I'm not gonna save your asses again!"

"Bakugo!" the two say relieved, running out.

"How'd you find us?" Todoroki asks.

"Shut up!"

Aizawa's scarf is thrown out, wrapping around Jiro's waist and pulling her into the smokescreen.

"Nooo!" she screams.

"Jiro!" Todoroki shouts.

"She's gone! Too late! Keep moving!" Bakugo shouts.

Echo coughs. "Well didn't get all of them, but two more down." She releases another two clones to take the students where the others are. "That was unexpected."

"Not very stealthy," Aizawa grunts. "But it'll do. You okay?"

"Yeah. I also already have another stealth training idea we can use that'll be more effective."

He nods, getting back on track. He pulls his eye drops from his belt, leaning his head back as he uncaps it and drips some solution into his eyes. "Sounds like Yaoyorozu is the one we should focus on."

"Luckily, she's nearby in an office building, watching everything from the window. Well, at least trying to. They all have earpieces to communicate. If I listen well enough I can hear each piece buzzing. Problem is I only hear 19 of them. Hagakure doesn't have one."

He hums. "We'll worry about her later."

They walk out back into the street, melting into the shadows and slinking up the building to Yaoyorozu's group. They remain silent as they enter the building and creep up the stairs.

Shoji is on the roof, using his quirk every which way to pick up movement. Sero, Yaoyorozu, and Aoyama are inside directly under him.

Aoyama and Sero are guarding Yaoyorozu's back, watching the doorway. The doorway is covered in tape.

Echo pops an eye around the corner, peeking through the tape. She rolls back against the wall. "We could go in 'guns blazing', but there's a vent between them I could manage to squeeze through."

"I'll head up and take care of Shoji," Aizawa decides. "I'll leave them to you." He passes her to the stairs.

"Computer, show me how to get into the room using that vent," Echo asks her A.I. Schematics for the floor appear on a wrist screen. She follows, opening the vent cover and crawling through.

"Shoji says he can't hear them," Yaoyorozu says.

"Where you think they went?" Sero asks.

Echo is on the opposite side of the vent grate in the room. Her nanotech's working on the screws to open it.

"This is très terrifying!" Aoyama cries, legs shaking.

"They're just our teachers, Aoyama. They aren't gonna hurt us," Sero says amused.

"No, ami. The way I was taken earlier..." He shakes.

Echo slides into the room, making two clones for the boys as she goes to Yaoyorozu. Each Echo gets close behind each student.

"You scared yet?" the clone whispers into Sero's ear before each Echo grabs them. Echo covers their mouths, flipping them over and slamming them to the floor. Her eyes glow more mischievously as she smirks though they could only tell by the squint of her eyes. Their eyes widen. "Gotcha."

Aizawa comes into the room a moment later, tearing through the tape on the door. Shoji trudging along behind him. "Finished?"

"Yep!" she replies. She creates a few more clones to take the four new students to a new location with the first few captured.

"11 left. Who's next?"

"Mashichan."

"You're enjoying this too much."

She laughs. "Yeah, probably, but I could say the same to you. You're being just as dramatic as me and going along with the crazy."

He smirks.

~~~

"They're here," Tokoyami says.

"What? How do you know?" Iida asks.

"He's right," Ojiro agrees.

Aizawa and Echo found the three inside a building. They crawled through onto the rafters from a broken window.

"The darkness has blackened considerably in the area. It's cold and sinister," Tokoyami continues, eyes narrowing. "It's no longer welcoming here."

"Uh, yeah..." Ojiro sweatdrops. "I... guess."

Cackles begin to echo around the area, making them shiver. Deeper chuckles follow. The heroes watch them go from normal to scared.

Aizawa's scarf snakes out from the darkness and captures Iida, pulling him into the shadows. A clone takes him to the other prisoners.

"They've taken Iida," Tokoyami reports.

"What?!" Ojiro shouts, scanning for the taller boy.

"I recommend we use what we've been taught about the shadows," Tokoyami says. "Dark Shadow." No response. "Damn. We're captured in his gaze."

Ojiro takes a breath and focuses to calm himself. "Got it."

The students, one born with darkness and the other born how to hide in it, both merge into the blackness.

Echo and Aizawa look across the rafters at each other. Aizawa can tell she's swelling with pride. It's her family's legacy after all. They're good teachers in the art of ninjutsu. But Echo has more years and skills, so she's not worried. She can still hear them breathing... Her eyes glow brighter as she darts across the metal rafters excitedly.

Dark Shadow clamps down on the spot she just occupied, Tokoyami following. Aizawa refocuses his gaze on the raven boy.

Echo searches for her favorite student, listening for his light almost nonexistent footsteps. It's hard to hear over the quick steps of the other two fighting.

She turns. "Found you." She leans back to avoid the swipe of his tail. "Will have to try harder than that." She spins to knock out his legs in one fluid movement. He's quick to dodge.

"Just wanted your attention," Ojiro responds, bouncing off the walls into the rafters and swinging around it by his tail. Using the momentum he releases and bullets straight at Echo, foot first.

In one quick movement, she grabs his ankle and sidesteps, pulling him by her. He rolls along the floor as she releases and back on his feet whirling around to block her punch with his tail.

Ojiro may be bigger, but Echo is faster. A smaller target to hit, and she knows exactly how to use it. She darts around him, locking her arm around his neck and swinging herself onto his shoulders. She uses her weight to fall back and flip him over, flipping herself back to her feet. Echo releases a sonic scream to keep him on the floor a second longer as she wraps him in capture tape.

"Better luck next time, Mashichan." She looks to Aizawa pulling over Tokoyami with capture tape like a dog on a leash but in this case a bird.

"8 left," he says.

Echo lets clones take the two boys to the others.

They exit the building, and Echo immediately tackles Aizawa. Tons of debris falls where they once stood.

Echo can hear a quiet girly 'dang it' nearby.

"Ambush," Echo whispers, pulling Aizawa to his feet.

"Shit..." Aizawa grunts, rubbing his head.

Midoriya comes falling from above straight at Aizawa too fast for either to react. He tackles Aizawa to the ground, splitting the teachers up and releasing a flash bang after. Echo's suit moved to block her vision and filtered out the flash, but Aizawa wasn't as lucky. With Aizawa temporarily blinded, Midoriya heads for Echo. Uraraka moves in behind him, tapping Aizawa with all five fingers and throwing him upwards.

Echo is able to keep up with Midoriya's heightened speed. She smiles, seeing how far he's come from the beginning of the school year. If he gets any faster there's no way she'll be able to keep up.

When an opening arrives, she looks up to see Aizawa's situation. He's still elevating and still seeing black. Uraraka joins in on attacking Echo. Echo continues to dodge both students. They both go in to attack, she grabs their arms and smashes them into each other.

"Well as much fun as it is toying with the two of you, I'd like to finish this quickly," Echo says, cloning another of her. The Echo's suck in a breath and release a sonic scream. The couple remains standing though wincing and holding their ears. They don't go down. Echo hums. "Ear plugs. Good idea."

Aizawa sends his scarf to Echo as he locates her general direction. The original grabs it as the clone heads back into battling the students.

Echo pulls Aizawa down by his scarf. "I still can't clearly see," he says as soon as she grips his elbow. "A lot of dots."

A scoff laugh is heard behind them before a loud boom is heard and they're blown into the nearest building. The two crash through the glass window and roll along the floor together.

The heroes groan in pain. Aizawa feels his weight return to him, lifting himself with his arms into a plank. They open their eyes at the same time, finding each other's. His vision is dark around the edges but she's clear. Echo looks up from underneath him. His arms are on either side of her head. The two heavily breathe, breath fanning each other's faces, noses almost touching. Echo's eyes widen as she feels her body get hot. Her eyes dart back and forth between his as his lock on hers. They both simultaneously look down at each other's lips. Aizawa sucks in a breath biting his lips. He starts to dip before another blast in the distance breaks them outta their trance.

He clears his throat and sits up, rolling off her and turning away. "Are... you okay? You hurt?"

She takes a calming breath. "My... My suit took the force and absorbed it," she sheepishly replies, sitting up. "Are... you okay?"

"Nothing Recovery Girl can't easily fix." He stands up, pushing off his knees. "You sure you're okay?" He glances at her stomach warily.

She nods not catching where his gaze lingers but notices the green racing across her suit. "Ready to see the results?" Her suit is glimmering green. She stands, walking out and looking for Bakugo.

Aizawa follows behind her curiously.

The clone has been keeping the three students busy. Uraraka managed to get caught and is now being taken by another clone to the others. The first clone grabs Bakugo's ankle as she slides under his legs, making his face almost smack the ground if he didn't catch himself with his explosions. Midoriya lunges as she twists just enough to evade him.

Though blurry, Aizawa can make out Midoriya and Bakugo's forms and activates his quirk. Bakugo cusses which earns him a smack from the clone. The clone then disappears, replaced by Echo who snuck up. The two students get closer.

Echo grins, sending the glimmers to her fists, and punches. The explosion that follows sends the boys towards Aizawa who captures them in his scarf.

"What the fuck was that?!" Bakugo screams.

Echo smirks. "Language boy. That was something my suit can do. There's a lot to my skills that your class hasn't even scratched the surface of."

Aizawa was a little freaked out as well. Just what else can she do? Who made her suit? What was that exactly?

Midoriya's eyes seem to shine and is about to ask a question until the area is blinded by a billion swarming bats. Midoriya and Bakugo are taken from Aizawa's grasp. Aizawa and Echo's feet are frozen to the ground up to their knees.

Echo hums, listening. Sounds like the remaining students are all here. Todoroki, Koda, Ashido, Sato, and even Hagakure. Bakugo and Midoriya get released.

"What fucking took you so damn long?!" Bakugo yells, shoving Todoroki off him.

"We were trying to find the others," Hagakure admits. "Echo sensei hid them really well."

"How can you lose that many people?!"

"Uh, guys," Midoriya speaks up.

"Whaat?!" Bakugo yells.

"They're gone."

"Whaaat?!" everyone but Midoriya shouts.

Everyone whips around to find the bats gone and ice broken.

Koda nervously gulps loudly.

"What happened to the bats?!" Bakugo shouts, getting in Koda's face.

"I-I... I'm-I'm sorry!" Koda stutters.

Bakugo scoffs.

"Ashido and Sato are also gone," Todoroki comments.

"How do they do that?!" Midoriya shouts. "So scary!"

Todoroki holds his left hand out and lights it with fire. "I still have my quirk."

"Which means he's still suffering from the flash bang," Bakugo grins, moving back to back with the others. "We need to move quickly."

"Hagakure, you still here?" Midoriya asks, moving back to back.

"They haven't got me yet," she responds overly happy beside Koda.

"Koda, where did they go? Did your bats see?" Midoriya asks.

"N-None... of them... will... reply," Koda answers sadly, shuffling his way next to them.

They all make a small circle back to back.

"She likely released a sonic pitch that scared them all away," Midoriya decides, looking around them to see if he can spot the pros.

"She can do that?" Todoroki asks.

"I can," Echo responds, seemingly from behind them.

They all whirl around immediately on defense. She's standing in the middle of their circle. Midoriya has his finger ready to flick, Bakugo and Todoroki have their palms raised, and Koda and Hagakure have their fists up. Echo somehow snuck her way between them without anyone noticing.

"How?!" Midoriya squeaks.

Echo grins. "It's a special stealth technique."

Bakugo grins. "We have you trapped. Stupid plan."

"I think you forget what my quirk can do. I'm never alone. Also, I have a partner, remember?" She sweetly smiles, giving them a thumbs down. "Game over."

Covering each student's arms is capture tape with Aizawa twirling the roll around his finger behind them.

"Better luck next time."

"Whaaaaaat?!"

"How?! That's impossible! Not unless you're invisible like me!" Hagakure shouts.

Echo washes away her villainess outfit with a grin as her helmet stays off. "I move in a way that no one notices. It's more of a hiding technique. It's once someone turns away from my presence. Clear the mind, hold your breath, hide, and vanish. It's a very difficult technique."

Midoriya's eyes widen as he makes a sound of acknowledgment. "At the licensing exam... there was a girl that did that. Or I guess now we know it was Toga Himiko that can."

Echo hums. "Good to know."

The clones bring the rest of the students to each other.

"Finally got caught, huh?" Sero jokes.

"Shut up!" Bakugo huffs.

"Alright, let's go over what you all could work on!" Echo says with a clap.

...

Hibiki finally worked up the courage to go out for the last time with Taishiro. She messaged him the night before.

She looks down at her hands in her lap. "I... Taishiro..."

The final arrangements for one final date with Taishiro to finally break up with him. She feels so guilty and awful about it with all that's been going on. She should've done this earlier but hasn't had the time or courage.

He quickly reads her body language, automatically knowing where the conversation is heading. He sadly deflates a bit, hunching over slightly. "You're... breakin' up wit' me, aren't you? I've heard this befor–"

Her head jerks up quickly with widened eyes. "What? No! I mean... yes... I am, but... it's... not that I don't like you. I do. You're an amazing, sweet, wonderful guy, and I love you." She looks back to her lap. "It's just... not romantically. I... figured out I was in love with someone else. I think I have been for a long time... just never noticed it till recently..."

"I's okay."

She looks up at him with a puzzled look on her face. "Huh?"

"I's okay. You're a beautiful and talented an' strong woman. You deserve to be with the one who makes you happiest, an' if tha' inn't me then tha's okay. I'm no' gonna be mad at you for that. Yo're just being honest with me, and I 'preciate it."

Her eyes tear up and her lip trembles. "Taishiro!" She tackles him in a hug. "You're awesome... Maybe if I met you earlier, you would've been who I fell in love with. You're such an awesome guy. Who wouldn't want to be with you?"

His face flushes a bit as he returns the hug. "Ah, jeez... Ya makin' me blush, Hibiki."

She releases him, stepping back a bit. "Sorry."

"There's nothin' to be sorry about. I understan'. I had a feelin' this wa' gonna happen anyway. Ya've been off the las' few dates," he sniffles a bit, obviously a little sad. "Could I... a' least know who this guy is?"

She smiles lovingly, earning a light blush to coat her cheeks. He smiles at the sight. "It's Aizawa... Ah! That's Eraserhead."

He grins, seeing how happy she is makes him happy. "He's a great guy. I can see why you fell in love wi' him. He may not show how much he cares or es'presses it as much as I do, but he prob'ly cares more than I ever could. He'll make you happy. At least I hope he will."

"Thank you, Tai."

"I'll just have to be your wingman then!" He points to the sky in determination.

She laughs at his antics. "Thank you."

"I also should've gathered that..."

"Huh?"

"When I first met you, the two of you seemed really close. I know I shouldn't've interfered. I constantly told myself tha' I shouldn't be wi' you because of tha look he gave ya. It wa' pretty obvious."

"You... wait, what?"

He smiles. "Guess you haven' seen the look he gives ya yet. I'm sure you'll see it 'ventually."

~~~

Hibiki enters the door to her shared apartment/dorm with Aizawa and Eri.

Aizawa glances at her from the couch before returning to grading papers. "What're you doing here so early? I thought you were on a date with your boyfriend. I put Eri to bed an hour or so ago because I figured you would've stayed the night at his place. You–"

His voice brings her out of her thoughts. "I broke up with him," she blurts out to cut off his talking.

He blinks once then twice before turning to her in shock, dropping the pen in his hand. "You... Wait, you what? Why would you leave him? Aren't... Aren't you..."

She looks at him confused as he mumbles to himself. "Am I what?"

"Uh... p-pregnant...?"

She blinks once, twice. "WHAT? Why?! Why would you think that?!" She slides her hands over her stomach, pouting. "Do... Do I look pregnant?"

"Well, no... but... You're not?"

"No!"

"But I... you've been showing all the signs. Fatigue, morning sickness, cramps, smell sensitivity, headaches, and even a positive pregnancy test."

She looks at him with furrowed brows then chuckles. "No. There are reasons for all of those. The fatigue is cause I haven't been getting much sleep lately. The morning sickness was because I got food poisoning from the lunch place Tashiro and I went to. The smell sensitivity and headaches were because of the migraines from lack of sleep." She giggles. "And the pregnancy test wasn't a pregnancy test... it was an ovulation test for my doctor. Which leads me to the cramps... I uh, have swollen... ovaries... from an overproduction of eggs... My quirk..."

He holds up a hand to stop her from talking with slightly flushed cheeks. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to assume or pry. No need to explain further. It's not my business to know. Just forget I said all that. Sorry...." How embarrassing... He puts his hand over his face in shame, looking away from her. He internally slumps with relief. "So, uh, I..." He tries to think of a quick topic change. "I... thought you loved him. Why'd you do that?" He picks his pen back up to continue, trying to cover his embarrassment. Anything would've been a better topic change! Asking about this isn't my business either.

It takes her a second with the topic change before she sighs then huffs out a quick chuckle. "Because I realized I was never in love with him, at least not romantically."

"What?"

"Because... I... I realized I'm in love with someone else."

His head swings around to look back at her. "Who?"

"I..." Hibiki trails off, thinking for a second before she walks over to him, moving in front of him. She places her hands on his shoulders before climbing onto his lap, straddling his waist.

His eyes grow wide as she does, dropping his pen again. "What are you doing?! Noizu? You–"

She moves her hands up to cup his cheeks, effectively cutting him off. "I broke up with him because of you. I'm in love with you, Aizawa. You."

His mind and body freeze, taking in the information. 'I'm in love with you' repeats in his head like a broken record. She carefully watches him, waiting for his next move. Before he even realizes, he pulls Hibiki's face to his and roughly and hungrily kisses her on the lips, flipping her and pushing her to rest on her back against the couch.

"You..." he mutters through kisses, "...have... no idea–"

"Aizawa?"

He shakes his head, his daydream dispersing. "What?" He sees Hibiki worriedly looking at him from the same spot when she entered the room. He repeatedly blinks. Did I really just imagine all that? Fuck me.

"You okay?" she asks, tilting her head at his spaced-out look.

"You're... in love with someone else?" he questions, thinking that's the last thing that happened before he went off into a fantasy.

"Um... yeah. I am..."

"Who? Do I know him?"

She hugs herself, glancing away from him as she sheepishly rubs her arms. "Yeah... he actually... works... here..."

Aizawa's face whitens. That could be anyone. All Might, Vlad, Cementoss, Snipe, Ectoplasm, Hizashi... Inui? ...Nezu??? "Could you be more... specific?"

"He's... handsome, funny, ...has long hair..." Her face gets more pink as she goes on. "Loves his students... even if he won't admit it..."

Depending on her idea of 'hot' and who she's describing, it could either be Mic, Snipe, Maijima, Inui, or All Might. His figure seems to slump. "So, Hizashi? I mean that'd make sense considering the old rumors you guys had."

Her eyes widen. "No! I'm not in love with him! And no offense, but I don't find Mic attractive..."

"All Might?"

"Dude could literally be my dad or maybe grandpa? Honestly, how old is All Might? He's gotta at least be 60. Whoa, he is kinda old now that I think about it."

"Then who?" he cuts off her rambling. "Snipe?"

"No!"

"Running out of people..."

She pauses for a second, contemplating whether or not she should tell him. She sighs, deciding she may as well tell him. It's a perfect opportunity. "...You."

Did I hear her correctly? I'm not imagining it this time... right? "...What?"

The door to Eri and Hibiki's room opens and a sleepy Eri walks out. "Momma...?" she yawns, rubbing her eyes.

The two adults immediately turn to her. Hibiki's face is completely red.

"Erichan!" she squeaks, heading over to the girl happy about the interruption.

"I thought I heard you come in..." she mumbles, still rubbing her eyes.

Hibiki smiles at her cuteness and picks her up, poking the girl's cheek. "Come on, let's get you back to bed." She turns to Aizawa. "Goodnight, Aizawa."

"Shota."

"Huh?"

"Call me Shota."

She blinks then blushes. "Th-Then call me Hibiki. Good-Goodnight, Sho-Shota..."

He feels himself basically melt when she stutters his name. He releases an amused puff. "Goodnight, Hibiki, Eri."

Hibiki's face flushes as she shuffles Eri into their room.

"Niight..." Eri yawns.

The door closes behind them, leaving Aizawa to his thoughts.

His brows furrow. "She thinks I'm funny?"

Hibiki crumples to the floor as soon as the door closes, flushed from head to toe. She covers her face as she leans back into the door.

Eri quickly kneels in front of her worriedly. "Momma!"

She pats Eri's head to reassure her. "...Get in bed. I'm okay... just need a minute to myself."

...~~~...

Bahahaha sorry. I know you hate me for that last part. Aizawa is horny I stg he's been holding himself back for too long

Fuccckkk it's been so long!!!! I'm sorry! 😢 I've been busy and also have no motivation. Been playing waaaaay too much Hogwarts Legacy and reading fanfics for it. Also wanting to write my own 😩😩😩

Anywaaays
Weeereee progressinggggg so closeee yet so far