The students started moving towards the top of the hill, but the incline was steep and most of them were near the bottom, plus a lot of the slop had loose dirt that made getting footholds hard, still they started the climb upwards.  Iida used the engines in his legs to make it to the top and dash away, leaving everyone behind as much as he didn't want to. A few of the classmates looked across the ravine to see Aizawa facing off against the villains. He was holding his own against them, but they were putting up a fight. 

The sound of breaks above caused the class to look above them as a black van pulled up to the cliff side.  They strained their eyes, trying to see if the van was friend or foe. Was it filled with camp trainers trying to collect them or enemies ready to fight?

The back doors of the black van were thrown open and multiple long black cases were thrown from the back and sent tumbling down the hill towards the students. 

"What the hell?" Bakugo shouted in annoyance as he tried to analyze the tumbling cases as they hit large rocks and collided with trees that caused them to bend and fold into weird shapes. 

"Gods! They-They're body bags!" Yaoyorozu nearly screamed as she realized, and each bag thrown down seemed to hold one.

"You don't really think there are bodies in there do you?" Uraraka asked, though none of them were sure that they really wanted to know the answer.

One of the bags slid to a stop just a few feet away from Rikuto and Todoroki. The boy with red and white hair took a step towards it but paused as the bag began to move. The students took defensive stances as hands began to reach out of the bags and rip themselves free.

"Those hand are bloody. Are they injured?" Tokoyomi asked, seeing wounds on the limbs. Were they injured from tumbling down the hill and colliding with the environment?

"Looks that way, but are they friend or foe?" Kirishima asked, remembering that they were probably thrown at them by villains. As they debated, the stench of rotting flesh hit them A few of them gagged and covered their faces.

"What the hell is that?" Jiro choked in disgust. The bags were torn open and their contents inside began clawing their way out. As the people became more visible, it became clearer that they were already dead, and had died pretty gruesomely. Some were missing limbs and parts of their faces. They groaned and gargled strange noises as they rose to their feet.

"Z-Zombies?" Mineta wailed in fear.

"They're all wearing school uniforms. I wonder who they were," Tsu noted sadly.

Deku's eyes widened in recognition, "T-those are school uniforms!" More specifically, the uniforms worn at Terra's old school. He looked over to Rikuto, who's gaze was transfixed on the nearest body. Terra's gauntlets that she had prepared to fight with had crumbled to dust and she took a clumsy step forwards, completely transfixed by what she saw. 

"What are you doing?" Todoroki asked her in shock. He reached out to stop her but froze when he saw the tears in her eyes.

"H- Haru? Hey... Haru... Is- is that you?" Rikuto asked, stepping forward. The figure had it's back to her, but was still so familiar. It's frame was that of a smaller girl, with a mess of short, curly, light purple hair. Dried blood was flecked on her arms, and clothes, but Rikuto was unable to see anything but the girl. The purple haired girl tilted her head back to look at Rikuto. The half of her face that was visible had scratches, and a purple eye that didn't' seem to focus and was a bit clouded over, but Terra couldn't see through the tears starting to drip down her face as she recognized the face of her old roommate and close friend.

"Haru, it's me. It's Terra. Can- Can you hear me?"

"Rikuto, you idiot, stop!" Kacchan shouted in warning, but she didn't hear him. The body of Haru turned fully around to face Terra, revealing a half removed face. The skull, now visible without the skin, had been crushed in from the attack of the cement ball from Terra's memories, bits of her brain had leaked out the cracks of her fragmented skull. 

Rikuto let out a choked sob and collapsed to her knees. She jerked her head to the side, suddenly unable to look at the thing, but as she did she saw the other bodies and was able to recognize each of the mangled corpses as her previous classmates. Her friends that trained with her, that stood by her when the villains attacked, and died defending the rest of their class, most of which she had personally been close with. She hugged her sides and sobbed again as the body of Haru stumbled closer, now reaching out for Terra. 

In her mind, Rikuto saw herself sitting on her bed across from Haru. The memory of her telling Haru to stay at school and become a hero. She remembered her promise to have this girls back. She also remembered that when it had come down to it, Haru had died for her. Terra's heart squeezed, suffocating her. It was all her fault. 

""I'm sorry," Rikuto told the corpse as it shuffled closer, "Haru I'm so sorry."

With a snarl, the body threw itself at Rikuto, who didn't bother to move out of the way. A line of spiked ice shot forward, pushing the body back and trapping it in ice.

"Rikuto, you need to snap out of it," Todoroki said urgently, grabbing his classmate by her arms and pulling her to her feet. "It could have killed you." 

 As he spoke the rest of the bodies reached the group below and clashed with Rikuto's new classmates. Terra was still frozen, unable to process what was happening. It was a nightmare worse than she had ever been able to imagine, worse than any of the ones that caused her to scream herself awake. 

The body of a boy used it's quirk to light itself entirely on fire. It was a boy with dark hair that was missing an arm but Rikuto recognized him too. He was boy that tended to sulk and be by himself, but was a good friend overall. He had been her partner in their very first team exercise. When she had fallen to the ground back then he had helped her up with the arm and hand that was now missing.

Todoroki turned his back to Rikuto to try to blast the flaming body with ice, but it didn't have a lot of effect due to the heat coming off of the corpse. Terra couldn't possess what she was seeing. Two of her friends were fighting to hurt each other, to end the other, and it was tearing her apart. She knew Shoto was doing what he had to in order to keep himself and their friends safe, something in her still cared for the other boy. Even dead, this was her friend. 

"No," she begged to no one in particular. A flash of green to the right drew her attention. As she looked over she saw Deku kick the head of another body so hard that it spun entirely around. Terra knew her well too. She had been her previous class rep, the smartest person Terra had ever known. Her intelligence and combat tactics would have been too much for even Deku if she were still alive.

"Stop this," Rikuto sobbed, not wanting to see anymore. She saw steam rising from another body as Ashido's acid began melting it's flesh away. He'd been the super obnoxious type, but he really just used his jokes to cover up his own insecurities. He could be serious when he wanted too, and was really sweet underneath. Even in death his body had a smirk, but the acid was melting it away. 

"Please," Rikuto sobbed, turning her head to look away, only to see Bakugou with his sparking fist lunging through the air at- no. She couldn't believe it. She blinked rapidly, praying that it was the tears blurring her vision. But there was no mistaking him. Reiji. Her closest friend, even closer to her than Bakugo and Deku had been. 

It had been his dream since middle school to attend UA, but then he changed his mind and followed her into another school with another hero program. He would follow her anywhere, and she died a little each time she realized he wasn't by her side anymore. How stupidly ironic that now that he was gone, she attended UA. If he had just gone there in the first place, he would be alive, and they would be together now. 

His quirk kept him alive through nearly anything. While it wasn't super flashy, it was strong. He could regenerate any part of his body. Still his body needed certain organs to function and maintain the quirk, even then he could usually survive long enough for those organs to regrow. The giant gaping hole in his chest revealed how he died.  A villain had thrown him onto a spike that pierced through his back, taking out his heard and most of his lungs and leaving him impaled. His body had tried desperately to regenerate, but couldn't because of the stone spike. It kept him alive for who knew how many long agonizingly long minutes. it healed a perfect circle through his chest that could be seen straight through now. 

If only she'd been with him, she could have pulled him off the spike and defended him while he healed. He could have recovered from even that. If anyone, if she had been there for him, he would have lived. 

To see Kacchan lunging at him with an almost murderous look in his eyes was enough to break her.

She had hoped to introduce the two of them some day. Even though Kacchan had an abrasive personality,  Reiji somehow found a way to be friends with everyone. A few times she'd dreamed about bringing the four of them together Reiji, Kacchan, and Deku fighting villains and hanging out together. Yet if that couldn't happen, if she ended up not finding Deku and Kacchan again, then she though at lease Reiji would always be by her side.

"Die you piece of rotten meat!" Kacchan snarled, his fists sparking with small explosions as he readied himself for an attack.

"No!" Rikuto shouted, unable to hold herself back. She couldn't stop herself. She couldn't let him harm Reiji. She slammed her fist onto the ground creating a wall in front of the orange haired boy's body. Kacchan noticed at the last second that there was a wall. If it had been anyone else they would have collided with it pretty hard, enough to do serious damage. He used an explosion to change his course and flip backwards, narrowly avoiding broken bones.

"What the hell?" He shouted, looking to Rikuto, knowing it was her wall. "What are you doing you idiot?" Rikuto's eyes widened, realized that she had stopped Kacchan from attacking an enemy, someone that was trying to kill him and the rest of their friends. Still, Terra couldn't let them tear each other apart. Not her friends. Not Reiji. 

"Stop this! They're not villains! They're my friends!" she shouted, tears streaming down her face. Bakugo stormed over and grabbed her roughly by the shoulders.

"You damn idiot! They're not your friends. They're corpses. Dead bodies. And they're attacking us. Aren't we your damn friends? Huh? Don't you care about us? Look at 'em! Whoever they were, they're long gone." Reiji's body broke a hole through her wall. She could see his face, and through the hole in his chest. It was odd, seeing him not smiling. His blue eyes didn't light up, they were clouded over. 

"This is my fault! I should have protected them. I was supposed to have their backs!" Rikuto cried.

"It's too late for that. Think for a second. Who's back's do you have now? Ours? Or theirs? You'd let them tear us apart?" Rikuto's eyes widened at his words. What was she doing? Who was she protecting?

"I- I'm sorry," Rikuto said, her eyes tearing up again

"Stop being sorry," he growled at her, "Do what needs to be done." He readied himself as Reiji started breaking the rest of the way through the wall.

"Right," Rikuto nodded, she wiped her tears away and took a stance. She couldn't let more friends die. Reiji came close and she still hesitated. She wouldn't stop her friends again, but could she hit him? Could she put an end to him? She was stiff, unable to move.

"Terra if you need to, hang back. None of us would fault you for it," Todoroki said, coming up behind them. "But you shouldn't view it as trying to defeat your friends. Try to see it as helping them rest and find peace. If they were in a hero course, then I doubt being used to attack people is what they would have wanted. You should try to stop them for them."

"Of course," Rikuto agreed, ashamed of herself. She shook her head, clearing her mind. Of course they were right. "This isn't what any of them would have wanted. Kacchan please, give me this one. He is... was... one of my closest friends. I need... I need to put him to rest myself."

He paused for a moment, looking her up and down and trying to gauge if she could really handle this.  "Fine," he snapped, turning his back on them,"but don't you dare lose! You hear me?"

"I hear you," she nodded.

"We've got your back," Todoroki said, also turning to face another opponent.

"Thank you," Rikuto told them, then squared up to face Reiji. 

===== AUTHOR'S NOTE: =====

Sorry this chapter took so long to share! I had a bunch of exams plus work and other life drama. Thanks for your patience!