The actual training took a while to get organized with so many students. It didn't help that they all wanted to look around the place more.

To Aizawa's annoyance, Shine and Wally did nothing to rein them in. Finally Midnight cracked her whip, and the students fell into line... Well, it couldn't be said that Shiketsu really understood what was happening, but it freaked them out.

"I can't believe we got the R-rated hero to train us," one guy said.

"It's disgraceful..." muttered Shishikura.

Before the teachers could announce what the activity would be, Shine walked up to Aizawa. "So, what are you going to have them do?"

"It's going to be a basic rescue scenario," Aizawa said.

"So, you'll change it half way through and call it a logical ruse," Shine said.

Aizawa frowned. "Likstar, what did I say about sass?"

"I earned it-- I participated in those dumb drills for weeks," Shine said.

"And you think you know what it means to be a hero after that?" Aizawa said.

"How many times have you saved the world?" Shine replied.

Silence.

"That doesn't win the argument," Aizawa said, "and I don't have to discuss my teaching philosophy with you."

"You don't have a philosophy," Shine said, "You want a tip?"

"No," Aizawa said.

"When it comes to really being a superhero, it's how fast you can learn to work with anyone-- no matter who they are-- who might show up to help. I believe you teach that at UA... ostensibly. But what's the use if the students only work with people they know?"

"Hence the joint training. Glad you caught up," Aizawa used one of his rare killing sarcasm lines.

Shine ignored it. "But I was thinking, it's a little too basic... I was sure you had some twist in mind, like, some villain is going to show up... kind of like the licensing exam... Of course, the Shiketsu students might remember that a little too well... I mean, it is where one of them failed pretty miserably before."

"Do you have a point in all this?" Aizawa said.

Shine shrugged. "I have to say, it's just nice to see you taking it a little easier on the kids. That was what I expected, but just a basic rescue mission might be good. It's more relaxing, less stressful-- more true to life, you could say. And reminding the kids of the past failures is pretty discouraging for them, too. Some might say they'd have to learn to recover from it, but you know that way of thinking really doesn't fly with me."

"Are you being sarcastic?" Aizawa said.

"I am surprised," Shine said sincerely, "You are pretty hard on them, you know. But hey, if you think it's too easy, you could have a point too. For joint training, I did expect more of a challenge. I mean, why come all this way for so little? But I think you'd need more than just 3 teachers for that. I can't believe Shiketsu only brought 1."

"Maybe that's all they need. They don't have problem students," Aizawa said.

"Oh, they 100% have problem students. I can name two," Shine said, "That Shishikura kid too. He's such a pill. Talks a big game, but I wonder how good his actual cooperation skills would be if he really had to rely on other heroes."

Aizawa wasn't stupid, but it could be said he lacked the kind of subtlety it would take to realize what Shine was doing. He was a bit more direct than that. 

"Yes, he is lacking in that area," he admitted, "Perhaps it would be useful to add a few twists to his training. But to really pull it off, you're right: we'd need more players."

"You know, 13 and Mic would be great for this," Shine said, "and Ectoplasm and Snipe too. But Midnight really is scarier than all of them, only I don't like her style, so I'd much rather they participate."

She shrugged. "In fact, if you swap out, I'll even play nice with her. Is that a deal? It's worth it to me."

"It's worth it to you for one hour?" Aizawa said.

"Any embarrassment I can save the students is beneficial in my mind," Shine said, "but I won't force you. After all, I can't. But, I mean, you have me here. Why not use my talents? Isn't it more efficient that way?"

"And what if I said you should play the antagonist?" Aizawa said.

"Well, I can never bring myself to hurt anyone I care about really badly, Aizawa, but I can be very competitive if you push me." Shine shrugged. "Wally is better at it though." She smiled. "Your call."

"And why are you so eager to help?" Aizawa said.

"Because if you can't beat 'em, join 'em," Shine said, "I'll never get you to stop testing these students, so I might as well join in. Let me give feedback too. I promise you it'll be useful for them, and if it's not, you never have to let me participate again. How's that?"

Aizawa, despite his outer sheen of not caring, was one of those people who had a hard time resisting intrigue. He liked to push people to see what they would do too much to pass this up. And he figured the worst that could happen was Shine would offend some students, and they'd just have to submit a formal apology for it.

"Very well, you can join in, but if you start crossing a line, you're removed, no questions asked," he said.

Shine nodded.

The students were suiting up and getting ready while that was going on-- and wondering what the exercise would be.

Bakugo cast a look at Shine when they came back into the area, and Shine nodded at him, then raised her eyebrows as if to say "you asked for this."

Well, no one was happy when Aizawa announced they'd be working in teams of Shiketsu and UA combined-- in groups of 2-4, sort of like the Calvary Battles. "Try to pick people you're compatible with, quirk-wise, as this is going to be a complex mock rescue mission. There must be at least one student from each school on it. You have 30 seconds."

"30 Seconds!" everyone yelped.

"You have a problem with that? Pros often have less than 5 to determine who they can work with in an emergency situation." Aizawa pressed a button, and mock siren sounds began playing over loudspeakers, making a lot of the students jump.

Shine sighed and rolled her eyes.

"This is going to be fun!" Midnight said excitedly.

The Shiketsu students began coming up to 1-A, and they seemed anxious to just get on with it. Not all of them particularly resented UA, but Shishikura was not very quiet about his reluctance.

Monasa rebuked him sharply for being rude. "If you would do us the honor, we could try to team up," he said to Iida, "I believe our quirks would be compatible."

Iida agreed.

The others teamed up somehow.

Camie didn't seem to have too many people in her class offering to team up with her.

One nicer girl said, "Uh, Camie, maybe you could be in our group."

"Oh, that's okay." Camie tossed her hair. "I already have my eye on something better."

The girl stared at her. "Uh... everyone else in our class is already in a group, and we have 10 seconds."

Camie glanced at Bakugo, who was purposely hanging back, scowling at the Shiketsu students.

"Ah, man," Kirishima was saying to him, "We should work together, but Kaminari already teamed up with someone else. And we need a Shiketsu student, and no one wants to work with us because of Shishikura..."

Camie slid over. "Yo, fahm, we should team up. It'll be lit."

Kirishima stared at her. "Uh... what?"

"We need someone who can keep up," Bakugo said.

"Yo, me too!" Camie said, with a totally oblivious smile, "We're already totally in sync. Who are you, spiky-haired boy?"

"Uh... Kirishima Ejiro," Kirishima said.

"Oh, cool," Camie said, "You must be Angry Man's best friend."

"Oh, yeah, we're tight," Kirishima said, "Oh... wait... are you that girl--?"

"Time's up!" Aizawa said.

"But who are we rescuing?" Mina wondered.

"Start!" Aizawa said.

"I bet it's a mannequin again," Kirishima said, "We have to spread out and find it. Ah, but none of us are good at scouting. We should have got someone who was."

"Bro, why bother?" Camie shrugged. "We can just follow someone who is."

"Uh... is that allowed?" Kirishima said.

"No one said it wasn't," Camie said, running after the rest of the students, who were spreading out already.

After some searching around for a few minutes, the students discovered that the people they were rescuing were indeed mannequins, hidden at various locations all over. Apparently HOC people were too expensive for regular training.

Things seemed to be going well. There were a lot of effects of fire and flooding in this simulation... somehow. But nothing too bad. It had been a whole 5 minutes with nothing disastrous really happening, and the students were starting to wonder if Shiketsu just did things a little more simply than UA... until...

Aizawa announced blandly that villains would now be arriving on the scene. The storyline to this was that they were a gang trying to take over the city. A bit old fashioned, but... considering the current political climate, it wasn't so far fetched.

"Geez, why do they always gotta make it extra hard?" Kaminari said.

"But who are the villains?" Jiro wondered.

The Shiketsu student with them looked equally puzzled. "We didn't bring any more students. Robots maybe? Why didn't they debrief us beforehand?"

"Oh, does your teacher do that?" Kaminari said with a straight face.

They looked at him in some surprise.

"Whatever, we better just be on the look out." Jiro put her jack to the ground. "I hear someone coming."

It only took about a minute for the students to realize their teachers were playing the villains. Then things began to get interesting. As in, they began to get wildly out of control.

The Shiketsu students had never fought Pros before, except at the licensing exam, and some of them felt it wasn't even good form to fight heroes and started to panic slightly that they might get in trouble. 

The UA kids had no problem with fighting the Pros, from a moral standpoint, but began freaking out because they knew their teachers weren't going to take it easy on them. To make matters worse, they had no time to plan. Present Mic attacked first, acting as a distraction.

Jiro covered her ears, and Shoji had to make his disappear in order to avoid passing out.

"This sucks!" Jiro yelled, "I can't scout if he's making all that racket! What do we do?!"

"I can't hear you!" Kaminari replied.

                                                                                * * *

"Well, this is a surprising turn of events," Yoarshi said to Todoroki.

"How did I get stuck with you, again?" Todoroki muttered.

Momo had her hands over her ears, and Present Mic yelled at them again. "GETTING BORED!!!"

I'm sure the other teacher--that is villains-- will be surrounding us while he has us distracted, she thought, They could sneak up easily enough. But how can we be on alert if we're going to go deaf from this?

She made some ear plugs and stuck them in her ears, then she handed the two boys some. She didn't know how she ended up on this team-- everyone else just seemed taken before she had a chance to talk to them... Perhaps it was that the 1-A students were still acting kind of uncomfortable around her, though most of Shiketsu would have been glad to work with her... but Todoroki kind of intimidated them, and he seemed disinclined to move.

(Todoroki privately just thought that Shiketsu were kind of snobs, based off the two he knew, and Camie, whom he didn't get-- and he wasn't anxious to work with any of them, but Yoarshi had forced himself on them before he could say no.)

"This is great," Yoarshi said. His voice was sort of loud enough to be heard between blasts. "Now what?"

Momo pointed to a building. "Perhaps we could get to a higher vantage point. One of us needs to get our civilian to safety. One of us should look out for villains. Maybe the other could guard."

"I could get a bird's eye view!" Yoarshi said.

Present Mic yelled again, but Yoarshi rose up.

"Wait, that will make you a target!" Momo called, but he couldn't hear her.

Todoroki looked around for any sign of  teacher/villain. But he didn't see one.

Then bullets started firing at them. They were blanks but clearly meant to imitate the real thing. They still looked real enough. Todoroki and Momo ducked, and he formed some ice to give them cover.

The only good thing was that Present Mic seemed to get tired of yelling. Momo deduced that that meant the other Pros had closed in on all the students.

She later found out that some of them got captured at once by the Pros, due to being distracted, and Shiketsu didn't do any better than UA at evading capture. But the people who reacted faster and could hide themselves got away, meaning that Hagakure and Tsuyu and their teammates were still in the game. 

Koda used animals to help him hide, and Tokoyami used Dark Shadow.

 Team Iida, Monasa, and Shishikura actually engaged with Ectoplasm, so they were busy.

Team Bakugo, Camie, and Kirishima would have been snagged by Aizawa himself, if Camie hadn't reacted real fast and covered them in a haze of Glamour.

They hid in some fake building wreckage.

"That was close," Kirishima said nervously, "Man, I can't believe we're doing this again... At least it's not Cementos though."

"That blockhead would be easy compared to Aizawa," Bakugo declared, "If he erases our quirks, we're as good as captured."

"Hey, that's quitter talk." Camie tossed her hair. "He can't erase our quirks if he can't see them, right? We'll just stay out of his sight."

"That's not gonna work, idiot," Bakugo said, "He'll find us for sure. The only way to avoid it is if he keeps thinking your illusions are actually us."

"That is literally what I just said," Camie said.

"Uh, guys, maybe you should just do whatever your plan is instead of arguing," Kirishima said.

"What arguing? We're agreeing," Camie said.

"Huh? Oh... yeah, I guess," Kirishima said weirdly, "Sorry, guess I'm just so used to saying that..."

"So here's the plan, right?" Camie went on not listening to him, "I make sure Eraser dude doesn't find us, and, Spikey boy, why don't you take our dummy to safety? And Explosion man here can attack Aizawa while he's distracted."

"Hey, you can't tell me what to do!" Bakugo said.

"I didn't," Camie said without missing a beat, "but you know what'd make it even better is if I knew something about Mr. A that would totes distract him. You don't know any weakness he might have, do you?"

"Uh... Camie, I hope you don't mean anything inappropriate," Kirishima said. He couldn't help but think of her previous encounter with Midoriya, even if it wasn't real.

"Idk what you mean by that, bro," Camie said.

Bakugo snapped his fingers. "Hey, that little brat's here. I bet that would be a real distraction."

"Oh, totes," Camie agreed.

"Which brat?" Kirishima said. 

"Just shut up and take the dummy, you moron," Bakugo said, "We'll handle the villain."

Kirishima almost felt a little hurt by that-- not the insult (he was used to it), but by Bakugo not wanting to fight the villain with him instead of some strange student. But the plan did make sense. So he started to sneak off.

Camie blew some more smoke. "This'll totally work---" She stopped. The smoke dissipated. "What?"

"There you are," Aizawa said in his best villain voice (which wasn't that different from his regular voice). They turned. He'd found them. He was perched above them on a ledge. Bakugo found he couldn't use his quirk.

"Oh, s---" Camie summed it up. Aizawa tossed his scarf. Camie jumped out of the way, doing some kind of handspring, and just barely avoided getting caught with it. Bakugo only dodged because he was so fast. 

Camie jumped behind a piece of concrete. Now out of Eraser's line of sight, she blew a big cloud of smoke that burst into flashing lights. Aizawa blinked at it and pulled out his eye drops.

Camie grabbed Bakugo's arm and yanked him off down the street. "Hurry up, slow poke! Now's our chance."

"Let go of me!" Bakugo yanked free. "I don't need your help, got it?"

"Sure you do," Camie said carelessly, "You're kind of no good without your quirk, but lucky for you-- I have a few tricks even without mine, since it's not combat-oriented like yours. We gotta plan it right though, cause he's tricky." She tilted her chin. "I got nothing."

"All that and you don't even have a d--- plan?" Bakugo said.

"Not like you had one either, bro," Camie shrugged.

"He'll be here in a sec," Bakugo said, "Why don't you make that stupid illusion just in time to make it seem like we didn't plan it? Then, I'll get him while he's not focused on erasing our quirks."

"Ok, that's a legit plan," Camie agreed.

"Well, do it!" Bakugo said.

"Yo, don't yell at me to do stuff. I'm not your slave," Camie said.

She made another illusion, then rubbed her throat. "Sheesh, I've already made a bunch of these, and it's not even been 20 minutes..."

Bakugo yanked her behind a  corner as Aizawa came running over the rooftops to find them.

"I can still see you--" He stopped. "Eri? How did you get out here?"

It worked like a charm. Aizawa never thought of Eri being an illusion because her lost look was so convincing. He came to a stop and turned toward her.

Camie was really almost devious: She could even make Eri turn and say, "Mr. Aizawa?" real scared like.

Bakugo was almost more freaked out than impressed by this, but he didn't waste his opening. Aizawa wasn't looking at them. He blasted.

Aizawa realized just a second too late it was a trap and got sent sprawling. Bakugo blasted him again-- using a mini bomb and aiming carefully.

Camie hid him behind smoke before Aizawa could erase their quirks.

Then she dashed up. Aizawa was still able to guess where Bakugo was, even without his sight, and tossed his scarf at him, catching him by the arms despite Bakugo's best efforts to get out of the way.

But Aizawa didn't have the benefit of knowing Camie's fighting style or abilities as fully as his own students, and he wrongly assumed she was going to keep providing cover rather than attack.

Camie used her illusions to hide herself so she could get in close. She also had more stealth than most of the UA kids did, save perhaps for Hagakure. She chopped Aizawa in the back of the neck.

Aizawa was KO-ed. Or at least, he had to pretend to be according to the rules.

The smoke cleared.

"Wow, that was not as hard as I thought it would be," Camie said with a straight face, "Hey, Baku, you're all tangled up."

"Shut up..." Bakugo said grumpily.

Camie pulled the scarf off him. "This is such a weird weapon, but I stan a fashion statement that doubles as a capture tool. I should get me one of those. We should probs catch up to that other kid, huh?"

"Duh." Bakugo didn't waste any time taking off.

"You're welcome!" Camie called.

But before they could fully exit the scenario, they ran into someone else.

Wally, who had Kirishima by his collar, so to speak, and was holding him out of range... It was really kind of funny-- because Wally was so much taller than him with such long arms, Kirishima looked like a kid.

"Dang, that guy's a whole lot of hero..." Camie said unabashedly, "He's, like, 6 feet tall..."

"Crap," Bakugo muttered. He wasn't sure how to win this one. Wally's speed was greater than any Pro's on the planet probably, if he used it fully. How far was he going to go in a training exercise?

"Looking for this, guys?" Wally said, in not a very convincing villain tone, "Sorry, he's a little hung up right now."

Kirishima frowned. "Was the pun really necessary?"

"Quiet, you. You're my prisoner," Wally said, "Now, you two better surrender, or I'll... run this guy off the face of the earth. And his little puppet too."

"Uh, Mr. West, that's supposed to be a real person," Camie said.

"Oh, right," Wally said.

"You're not very good at this," Camie said.

Wally suddenly got a more serious gleam in his eye. "Oh no?"

Bakugo said a word not to be repeated right then.

Wally moved too fast for them to even see, but suddenly they were both on the ground, the feet knocked out from under them, and Kirishima was tied up in his own costume, which added insult to injury, and the mannequin was lying on the ground as if the hypothetical person was passed out cold.

Wally reappeared, blowing off his knuckles. "Too easy, like taking candy from a baby. I don't even have to try to stop you two-- you're so dang slow I could do it in my sleep. Man, I'd think you'd be more of a challenge."

"Shut up!" Bakugo blasted at him.

Wally dodged easily. "Was that supposed to hit me?" he said.

Bakugo blasted again. Wally dodged again.

"Dude, that's not doing anything," Camie said.

"Just shut up," Bakugo said. He blasted again. "Die, you red-haired clown!"

"Now that's just insulting," Wally said.,"What's my hair got to do with it? Is it the MacDonalds thing?"

"What's that?" Camie said blankly.

"You know, 'Macdonalds: I'm loving it'?" Wally said, dodging again.

"I got no clue, bro," Camie said.

"Oh, come on," Wally said, "Don't tell me they don't have that here."

"We have WacDonalds," Camie said, "Is that what you mean? You're saying it wrong, fahm."

"What? No-- actually, that's funnier though," Wally admitted.

Kirishima finally broke out of his impromptu bindings. Wally turned. "Wow, that didn't take long--" Bakugo blasted. Wally dodged-- Kirishima managed to stick out one foot and trip him mid-step. Wally went sprawling.

"Run, idiot!" Bakugo yelled. 

They all ran for it.

Wally scrambled back up. "Hey! That's no good!"

Camie blew a cloud of illusion and formed a sort of maze look around him.

"Uh oh..." Wally said, "Gee, what'll I do...? I know,. he started moving his arms really fast and blowing away the smoke.

But that at least took a few seconds. They were already around the corner by then. Camie blew some more smoke to make a false dead end on their street. Wally ran right by it. They kept going.

"Sorry, man. He caught me off guard. I didn't know he'd be participating in this," Kirishima said.

"How much time do we have?" Bakugo said.

"I don't know," Kirishima said.

Camie took out her phone. "It's been, like, 18 minutes. How long do you usually have?"

"Idiots. They said we had 20 minutes," Bakugo said.

"That's it?" Camie said, "That's, like, impossible!"

"That's pretty normal for us," Kirishima said.

"Your school is so cray-cray," Camie said. She coughed suddenly. "Uh oh..."

"What's the matter?" Kirishima asked. 

"Oh, it's nothing," Camie waved nonchalantly. "A little too much smoke can just dry me out, you know. No big deal."

"Oh, yeah, well, hey, I've barely gotten to fight at all. I wish we'd run into a Pro we could actually fight, instead of one we have to run from," Kirishima said.

Technically Wally hadn't been a Pro, but Bakugo didn't bother to point that out.

In fact, Kirishima's wish was stupid anyway, had it been a real emergency.

But they did run into one more person. This time, it was...

"Likstar?" Bakugo skidded to a stop.

Shine was just leaning on a wall looking bored.

"Aizawa made me participate," she said. Then, "Oh, right... uh, fear me, oh heroes. I'm going to level this city into the dust!" She swung her sword half-heartedly.

"Okay, that was lame, but is that a reala-- sword?" Camie sputtered, "We're not supposed to use real weapons!"

"That's a stupid rule in real life, sister," Shine said, "Villains use real weapons. Don't tell me none of you have any."

Bakugo pulled out a grenade. "I'm gonna blow your a-- up!"

Shine blinked. "Oh... is that a legit grenade...? Well, shoot, then I surrender." She held up her hands.

"What?" Kirishima said, "Just like that?"

"It's definitely a trick," Bakugo said.

"No, I'm surrendering," Shine said, "You can just arrest me. I'm not crazy enough to let you throw a bomb at me. Unless you're just bluffing, hero."

"Of course not!" Bakugo said.

"Uh... okay, I guess you're arrested then..." Camie said, confused. She grabbed Shine's arm. The sword disappeared from her hands.

"Uh... how...?" Kirishima shook his head. "Nevermind... This is kind of anticlimactic. Why didn't you fight us? You could handle Bakugo."

"If I'm a villain, then I'm probably a coward," Shine said, "and I doubt I'd want to die just to pull this off, unless I'm the boss villain, but I wouldn't be running around the outskirts of the city picking on a few kids rescuing citizens then, would I? Unless it was a trap," she smiled, "and I wanted to get arrested. In which case, this plan is working perfectly."

They stopped. "So... uh... we shouldn't arrest you?" Camie said.

"Should you?" Shine said.

"That's just trying to get us to question it until our time runs out," Bakugo said, "She's bluffing."

"Am I?" Shine said innocently.

"Yeah, you are!" Bakugo snapped, "You can't talk your way out of everything, Likstar!"

"What if we make a deal? I'll give you information on the other villains, if you'll let me go," Shine offered.

"No way! You have to to be brought to justice!" Kirishima said.

"But suppose you could save more people that way?" Shine said, "Wouldn't it be worth it?"

"It wouldn't matter what you said," Kirishima said, "We couldn't trust a villain."

Shine's eyes seemed to intensify. "Is that so? You can't trust a villain, huh? Not even if it could mean winning the larger fight? You'd not even try?"

"Nope," Kirishima said.

"Uh, wait, this kind of sounds like it might be a good idea, fahm," Camie said.

"I'm pretty sure it's against the rules to make a deal with a villain," Kirishima said, "and we have like one minute."

"I could take you right to the ring leader," Shine offered.

"Oh, gosh, Bakugo you need to decide," Camie said, "We need a tie breaker, bro."

"Yeah, man. Tell her we can't do that," Kirishima said.

Bakugo stared at Shine. Then he said, "How do we know you wouldn't just lie to us? This could be a trap."

"I guess that's what you have to decide," Shine said, "Is it worth it to you to risk it?"

A pause.

Bakugo shrugged. "Fine, take us to the ringleader."

"Oh, I can't do that," Shine said, "I'd get killed for sure. You'll have to let me go. I'll point you to him."

"What, but you said..." Kirishima said.

"I may have overstated it slightly," Shine said, "There's no time to argue, is there?"

Camie let go of her. "Fine, whatevs. Where's the big bad?"

Shine pointed. "Tallest building here. Where all the hostages are."

"Hostages?" Kirishima said.

"All your friends," Shine said, "The ones who've been captured already... You'll have to rescue them. That is, if you clear this level." She smiled oddly. "Good luck, heroes." Then she ran off.

The three of them looked at each other.

"Well, we're screwed," Camie said. Then, "Ah! We've got like 45 seconds to get back to the exit."

They booked it and made it just barely in time with Bakugo using his quirk.