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Midoriya had heard about the weirdo with a strange quirk who messed with random people for the fun of it. Actually, they all heard about it with how Aizawa-sensei stressed about it, warning them "Not to do something stupid and get caught up in their mess" but here they well, just a few days after the warning, trapped in the aforementioned weirdo villain's quirk.
"Just because of a fucking class shopping trip?" Shinsou echoed this thought, sitting up from his spot. Midoriya feels bad for him. He's probably not used to getting randomly attacked by villains on innocent class outings.
"Welcome to our class." Uraraka offered her sympathy.
"Fucking-"
***
"I mean, it's not that bad, it's not like we know nothing about this dude's quirk or something," Kirishima shrugged. Iida stood up.
"THAT'S RIGHT! EVERYONE STAY CALM! ALTHOUGH THE ROOM CANNOT BE BROKEN WITH OUR QUIRKS WE CAN STILL BREAK FREE AS LONG AS WE SATISFY WHATEVER RANDOM REQUIREMENT THIS ROOM OFFERS AS A CONDITION-"
"-Yeah, like folding 1000 paper cranes!" Ashido jumped in.
"-Or eating 100 peppers." Satou shuddered.
"-Or kissing each other." Kaminari wiggled his eyebrow.
"-Or killing each other." Jirou rolled her eyes.
"AND EVEN IF WE CAN'T ESCAPE, THE QUIRK WEARS OFF IN A FEW DAYS TIME-"
"-Without food." Shouji commented.
"-And water." Kouda whispered.
"-Is there a washroom somewhere?" Sero looked around.
"-But, we have a test on Monday!" Yaoyorozu gasped.
"-EVERYONE STAY CALM!!!!"
Before Iida could continue, a loud beep of a screen turning on cut him off. The class collectively turned toward the TV screen. It read [Escape Condition: ----- ]
Everyone tensed up.
And blinked.
***
[Escape Condition: Full name of everyone in the room called by the one that is alone.]
Midoriya blinked again, taking the words in. Oh no. The others all chatted amongst themselves in the background.
"Oh thank god it's not battle royale or something!"
"But that's a very odd requirement, isn't it, kero."
"Eh, who cares. As long as we're getting out in no time."
"Oui! Tout est bien!"
"But who does the one that is alone refer to...?"
"Is there anyone missing right now?"
"....It's Kacchan..." Midoriya whispered.
"Hmm, what was that?" Uraraka blinked at him.
"Bakugou?" Todoroki spoke up, as if just realizing that one of their classmate was missing. "You're right. He is not here."
Midoriya spoke. Louder this time. "It's Kacchan..."
As if summoned, at that moment the TV screen splited, displaying the conditions on one side, and a scowling blond on the other.
"What the fuck?!" Bakugou's voice echoed through the screen.
Oh no. Midoriya wanted to cry.
***
"Well, I guess, yeah Bakugou-kun never really calls anyone by their names but when push comes to shove, he does what he has to do, doesn't he?" Hagakure spoke up.
Midoriya shook his head. "That's not the issue..."
"Don't worry about it Deku-kun! I mean like, it's not like Bakugou-kun doesn't know our names or something!"
Midoriya turned his gaze. "..Deku-kun?" He closed his mouth. "...Right? Deku-kun..?" He doesn't reply. "....Right....?"
Midoriya closed his eyes.
***
Meanwhile in another room.
"Fucking hell!!!" Bakugou screamed, glaring at the display screen with the words [Condition of Escape: Say the full name of everyone not in the room at the moment ]
Bakugou growled before throwing another explosion towards the once-white walls which is now covered in soot. They don't break though. Fuck!
Fuck the villain and their fucking class shopping trip!! He gritted his teeth and narrowed his eyes in concentration. Everyone not in the room,.... That's got to mean his fucking classmates which means 19 names to go...
Bakugou squints at the screen. Fuck.
What was the fucking extras' names again?
***
"Kacchan meant every word when he said he doesn't care about the so-called extras in his life." Midoriya explained. His classmates all blinked at the screen, taking in the sight of their classmate spurt names such as 'Uraraka Roundface', 'Tokoyami Birdhead', 'Satou BigLips', 'Ojiro Tails'. Oh god.
"He honestly can't think that that's peoples real names, right." Shinsou deadpanned.
"I- I am both amazed and offended."
"Ditto."
"I am not sure whether we ought to be glad that Bakugou-kun at least remembers half of our names." Yaoyorozu commented and Iida nodded in agreement. Bakugou choose that moment to yell names such as 'Square Pres' and 'Ponytail VicePres'.
"I, I don't understand anymore!" "BAKUGOU-KUN!!!"Ponytail VicePres and Square Pres yelled at the screen in sync.
"Damn, Bakubro." Kirishima whistled. All heads whipped towards him. "Um, what" he said.
***
"No but, like, think about it." Someone said. The class decided to take a breather to just stay calm and think while Bakugou from the other room scrunched up his face in deep thought in order to complete his extremely difficult task - trying to recall the names of his own classmates.
"Bakugou at least gotta know some names, right?" Ojiro shrugged. "Like Midoriya for instance."
"Ahahahaha......." Midoriya shut his mouth.
"...Or any of his other... friends..." Shinsou frowned at him and muttered. "He has friends?" Valid.
"But hey! He does have friends, he just would never admit it voluntarily!" Ashido screamed.
"Or at gunpoint." Sero scoffed.
"Same difference."
"True dat."
"Yeah like Kirishima for instance! Bakugou gotta have to know his name, right?"
"Bakugou-chan does call you by your name the most, kero."
"Man, I dunno." Kirishima scratched his neck. "To be honest I sometimes feel that my full name is Kirishima ShittyHair." He let out sheepishly.
"Bro, you too? I sometimes forget my name is Denki, not Dunceface or Pikachu."
"Bro-"
"Bro-"
Ashido shrugged ignoring the bro-hug in the background. "I mean, I guess I wouldn't mind changing my name to Pinky legally at this point."
"Yeah, I guess Jacks aren't too bad either." Jirou and Ashido fist bumped.
"THAT IS NOT THE POINT, EVERYONE!!!" Iida screamed.
"Oh, maybe Bakugou-kun would know Todoroki-kun's name!" Yaoyorozu exclaimed. "They did spend a lot of time together for their remedials and had gotten closer, and not to mention that, Todoroki-kun's hero name is his actual name, isn't it? Shouto!"
A couple heads nodded in agreement. That would make sense, Midoriya thought as well and looked towards where his friend was sitting. Todoroki merely stared at nowhere in particular. "Todoroki-kun?" Yaoyorozu tentatively asked.
Todoroki blinked.
"Oh, right. Were you talking about me? Sorry, I tend to think my full name is Half-n-Half IcyHot CandyCane Peppermint DaddyIssues when Bakugou's concerned." He said nonchalantly.
Dammit Kacchan!!!! Midoriya screamed in his head.
***
"How long have we been here?"
"Dunno..."
"You guys think the heroes know what's going on?"
"Probably..."
"...You guys think Aizawa-sensei knows what's going on?"
"Yeah..."
".....We're so getting an earful after this, aren't we."
"Yeah....." Midoriya looked around the small, white room as his classmates murmured in resignation.
"Is Bakugou still quiet?"
"Wow, that's such an oxymoron, but yeah..."
"Is they absolutely no other ways in which we could escape this diabolical enclosure?" Tokoyami's feathers bristled. "These walls are too... white."
"Like, the conditions are literally just there and just that, but it's just, it'sBakugou-" Satou emphasized.
Hagakure yelled in frustration. "Ugh, can't we just like, do anything? Like help?"
"Well we have been screaming at him for what, ten minutes? Half an hour? Anyhow Bakugou didn't seem to be able to hear us and it doesn't seem like he can see any of us or know where we are and-"
"-Yeah and it's not like we have any method of communicating with him to tell him our names, again, to get out and holy shit-"
Sero abruptly stood up. "Guys, guys we have hope-"
"What?"
"-Call, call him or text or whatever, we can contact him and-"
"We can't."
"What??"
"We can't." Kirishima repeated, sniffling. "Bakugou doesn't have his phone with him. I have his phone."
"What??! Why do you have his phone?"
"He threw his whole bag at me before we got separated."
"Why?"
"Said not to come any closer to him if I was gonna wear crocs with socks-"
"Crocs and socks?!"
"What's wrong with crocs and socks?!"
"Bro-"
"Bro-"
Sero slowly sat down again, ignoring the bro-fight in the background. "Guys, we have no hope.."
Todoroki shrugged. "Phone signal's not working anyway." he offered as consolation.
They all looked at him for a moment. "We have no hope..."
***
"Nah, I mean, come on, we have hope, we're heroes-in-trainings, right?" Someone said, breaking another round of silence as Midoriya looked up from the screen where he was observing whether or not his childhood friend was dead with how quiet and still he was for the past god-knows-how-long.
"Yeah, it's fine. It could be worse, right?"
"Yeah, nothing to worry about, we have Todoroki for warmth and water-"
Todoroki blinked.
"-and I'm sure we can all last a few days without food-"
"But, but our test on Monday..."
"All the better."
"Gasp-"
"We could think of this as some form of training, right?"
"TRAINING?! ACTUALLY THAT IS A RATHER CLEVER-"
Iida went on his speech about how fabolous of an idea of seeing the silver lining of the situation. Midoriya moved and sat down next to Shinsou. "You're rather calm in this situation, Shinsou-kun."
Shinsou huffed. "Not as much as your weird classmates."
"Our classmates."
"....There's no way that maniac childhood friend of yours would know my name so I just gave up on escaping. Not worth panicking about it."
Midoriya had nothing to offer to that. Oh, Kacchan...
"-And besides, we should have faith in the Pro-Heroes, they'll catch the villain and we'll be set free!" Ashido's voice cut through Iida's speech.
"Yeah, trust Aizawa-sensei! He's probably hunting down right now!"
"Hunting down the villain or us?"
"Same difference."
"True dat."
"Yeah, so let's just relax until they rescue us, like, it's not like there's a time limit or whatever."
"Yeah, no big issues, I mean, at least we're not in any mortal danger or whatever."
Beep!. A loud noise came from the TV screen turning on cutting everyone up. The class collectively tensed and turned toward the TV screen. It read [Escape Condition: Full name of everyone in the room called by the one that is alone. ] and under that ....
Midoriya held his breathe.
[Time Limit: 3 minutes]
[Penalty: Death]
Everyone screamed.
***
"Noooooooo, we're all gonna die-" Kaminari cried into his hands, Ashido following. Jirou pat a tearful Kouda with Shouji on the other side.
"Au revoir, mes amis." Aoyama cried, hugging what looked like Hagakure and Ojiro. "Ravi de t'avoir connu-" Satou muttered "What does that even mean?" from his spot.
"I'm sorry, Bakubro." Kirishima sniffled. "I'm sorry I wore crocs with socks-"
Asui looked at him with kind eyes. Sero looked at him funnily.
"EVERYONE, STAY CALM-!!!" Iida shouted in a very not-calm manner with smoke coming out of his engines. Yaoyorozu produced a piece of paper and started writing a will. .
"Death, huh.." muttered Todoroki. Tokoyami nodded in response. "Death, yes.."
Shinsou stared at them for a moment before closing his eyes in an attempt to escape this hellhole. He was so done.
"Deku-kun?" Midoriya snapped out of his daze from the ticking counter of the screen towards Uraraka who looked at him with sad eyes.
Midoriya's about to answer when a voice cut him off.
"Kirishima Eijirou."
Everyone froze. All heads slowly turning towards the TV screen as they watch their familiar classmate speak with an unfamiliar tone, of familiar names, but for the first time.
Bakugou's calm and even voice continued.
"Kaminari Denki. Sero Hanta. Ashido Mina. Jirou Kyouka -"
One by one.
***
The class listened as Bakugou's voice carried out their names through the TV screen, pronouncing their names one by one without yelling, correctly.
Midoriya watched quietly as his childhood friend call Todoroki Shouto, Uraraka Ochako, Iida Tenya, Yaoyorozu Momo and the forth without falter and pause as the timer keeps ticking from the bottom of the screen.
Midoriya watched as Kacchan call upon their classmates names, one by one.
"-Shinsou Hitoshi." Bakugou's voice finally finished as the last of their classmates stilled from his spot but no one opened their mouth as Bakugou closed his.
A minute left on the clock.
The room remains present.
"Wait, what?" Someone breaks the silence as they all start to murmur by themselves, noises just above a whisper as Midoriya fixed his gaze on the screen as Bakugou remained standing there, too staring at the timer on the screen. "Who's missing-" Somebody says before the silence comes back.
The counter reaches 30 seconds before Uraraka's voice whispered, "Deku-kun.." before more noises arose with panicked hushes and hustles gets louder and louder but his eyes remained fixed on the screen.
Through the screen, Midoriya stared at his childhood friend standing still in silence watching the seconds go by. Midoriya stilled the moment Bakugou raised his hand, slightly. Slowly.
Towards the camera.
"-----," Bakugou's lips moved but sound unheard, and Midoriya tried to tune out all the outside noise before -
BOOM-
***
"Wait, what?!" Someone exclaimed in the background as Midoriya quickly pulled himself off the ground, taking in his surroundings.
They are back where they started, the shopping mall they all decided to visit and were enjoying themselves before the villain got them. Midoriya looked around through the crowd of confused classmates, missing villain, number of Pro Heroes and -
"Problem child." Midoriya snapped his neck to see his teacher standing in front of him.
"Aizawa-sensei." he blinked.
"The villain had been caught, if that's who you're looking for."
"Oh...."
"And I've heard everything you guys were up to if that's what you're wondering." Aizawa sighed, looking very done. "There was a dual TV here as well. Quite a show you all put up for everyone to see."
"Oh....." Midoriya fidgeted. "Um..."
"And Bakugou went ahead, claiming to "fucking beat the weirdo" himself if that's what you are dying to ask." Aizawa sighed. "Go and prevent him from committing murder if you'd must."
"Yes sir!!!" Midoriya answered before taking off in the other direction, chasing after his childhood friend who already left without him again.
As he runs, Midoriya recalled his last memories from the room before the camera exploded. The last thing shown on the screen the flickering lights of Kacchan's explosions and the counter reaching 00:00:01.
The panicked classmates.
The smoke and noise filled room.
And the inaudible whisper of Midoriya Izuku.
*
Did you call my name?