None of the U.A students knew exactly how it had happened.

After the teachers left, they all went back into their rooms to get ready.

Midoriya, Uraraka, Todoroki, Bakugou, Kirishima, Kaminari, Yaoyorozu, Asui, Sato, and Aoyama were the fastest ones to finish, as their appearances fit the

normal

criteria. As for Shouji, all he needed to do was to retract his extra limbs. Iida, Mineta, and Jirou took a bit more time, but their

unique

characteristics were simple enough to cover.

The rest had to look through the boxes of clothes Kunikida left them, seeing what they could use to mask themselves. The ones who had it worst were undoubtedly Ashido and Hagakure, for the two girls needed to smear foundations on their faces. They didn't know what to feel when they found that the blond-haired man had even prepared

make-up

in the box of clothes '

After they finished dressing up, the group headed off to begin their first exploration of Yokohama.

However, the moment they stepped out into the busy street, all of them froze. The first thing their eyes laid on wasn 't the people or the shops around them. It was five, sleek buildings dyed in black towering over the city.

'Woah! What 's that? ' Kirishima said in awe as he stared at the building that looked completely out of place in contrast to the retro feel this city was giving off.

'Where did those popped out from?! ' Sero gapped.

'We must have been driving away from those buildings, that 's why we didn't see it," Yaoyorozu explained, remembering back to the path they were talking. They had been going straight after all, so those buildings had been behind them the entire time?

'Ah! ' Uraraka clapped her hands as a thought came to her. 'Could those be the government buildings? '

'It 's possible! ' Asui nodded, agreeing with her friend.

'Truly magnificent, they are overseeing the city itself! Look at how each of those buildings faced each part of the city! ' Iida praised with stars in his eyes.

'Government buildings? ' Midoriya looked over those towers. There was an odd feeling in his heart as he looked at those dark silhouettes. A call of his name snapped him out of thought as he looked down to see his classmates walking off.

Being surrounded by Old Humans was another very interesting experience. It was completely different from just observing from the bus. Just standing there within a crowd of people all having the same characteristic was very '

strange

.

It was a weird feeling none of them could describe, and it would be a lie to say that they felt comfortable.

When the girls saw some beautiful kimonos being put on the display window, they wanted to go in and check it out, only to remember how none of them had Yokohama currency. So they continued on their journey, deciding to leave shopping for another day after they got the money.

That was when they came across a library.

The library wouldn't require any money and there won't be any clerks trying to introduce their products to them. ' Thinking that perhaps they could find more information on Yokohama 'especially Ability 'everyone agreed to go in there.

And then it happened '

'

'Mineta-kun?

'

None of them could react in time. They didn 't know

how

it even happened.

'Hey, bitch! What did you do?! ' Bakugou was the first to jump out as he screamed at the girl.

'Wait, Kacchan! ' Midoriya quickly stopped his childhood friend by jumping between him and the girl. That girl 'she definitely did

something

, but

what

?

What exactly happened that could make a person disappear within a blink of an eye without alarming any of them? Midoriya could only think of one 'no, there was only this

one

possibility, but to think they 'll meet one so soon?

'

Ah?!

That disgusting pervert was looking up my dress and you got the nerve to question

me

?! ' The girl said through gritted teeth.

'You 're an Ability user. ' Todoroki calmly spoke out the thought that was going through everyone 's head.

'So what if I am? ' The girl 's eyes narrowed as she slowly looked through each of them.

'We 're very sorry! ' Midoriya hurriedly apologized with a bow. After all, they can 't make a scene, especially after Kunikida specifically told them not to use their Quirks. Without Quirks, how could they stand up to the girl whose power was still unknown to them? And for all they know, she could be an ordinary civilian!

'Hey, Deku! What are you doing apologizing to that bitch?! ' Bakugou roared behind him.

Iida also thought of the same thing as Midoriya and stepped up as well. 'Mineta-kun didn 't mean it! He was just ' '

'

Didn 't mean it?!

' That was apparently the wrong thing to say.

The girl whipped around and pointed at the old ladder leaning against the bookshelf. 'I was standing on

that

ladder trying to reach

that

book and

he

was standing right

under

me looking

up

and

drooling

! '

'Stupid Mineta! ' Hagakure crushed her scream into a hush whine like many others. Though as much as they all wanted to shout at Mineta right now, they have to get him back first.

'Uh 'I could get that book for you? ' Sero tried helpfully.

'Who asked you?! '

The girl exploded. Sero instantly raised his hands and backed away. This girl 's temper was as bad as Bakugou!

'Then what can we do to have you give him back to us? ' Jirou hastily cut in before the situation could worsen.

'You want him back so much? ' The girl smirked as the air around her suddenly changed. The anger she was displaying on her face was gone in a blink of an eye, replaced by abnormal calmness. The sudden change in her was unnerving and had all the students unconsciously raised their guards against this one girl who couldn 't be that much older than them.

'How about you tell me who the hell are you and what do you want from me? ' The girl spoke in an icy tone.

'W-what do you mean? ' Yaoyorozu swallowed as her heart pounded. It can 't be that they 've been found out already?

'Do you think I 'm stupid? You 've been following me for the past half an hour and into this book shop. '

'Hah?! ' Ashido exclaimed, nearly exposing her face as she clumsily grabbed her scarf and pulled it up. Unfortunately, her gesture only made the girl 's eyes narrow.

'Why would we follow you?! ' Kaminari shouted. 'We don 't even know you! '

'Hold up! This is all a misunderstanding! ' Kirishima tried to convince her.

'We just came in here because we wanted to look at some books! ' Uraraka added. 'We weren 't following you! Really! '

'Yeah, we 're not anyone suspicious! ' Hagakure frantically said.

'No matter how I look at it you 're the most suspicious one. ' The girl deadpanned as she glared at Hagakure who was currently the very definition of

suspicious

. 'You 're Ability users, aren 't you? '

'

Huh?!

'

Of all things the girl might accuse them of, they were not expecting this.

'Why would you think we 're Ability users? ' Yaoyorozu carefully questioned. She needed to approach this carefully. The girl's temper was short and currently, none of them has any idea what happened to Mineta. Without knowing anything, they can 't protect themselves if the girl suddenly uses her power on them.

'Don 't try to avoid my question. I 'm going to ask you one last time. ' The girl 's face twisted into the perfect balance of annoyance and anger. '

Who. Are. You?

'

It was at this moment that the gravity of the situation finally hit them.

This girl was an Ability user 'an Old Human with powers that they know nothing about. What 's more, the murder bleeding from her eyes was real. Having all experienced Villains first hand, all of them could tell that this girl wasn 't just a normal civilian. She was someone who could kill them without blinking an eye.

It was at this moment that they truly began fearing for Mineta 's safety.

'Yeah, we 're Ability users, what 's it to you? ' Bakugou 's sudden declaration made his classmates looked to him in surprise.

Midoriya almost stumbled when Bakugou shoved him to the side. With his hands tucked in his pocket, his childhood friend began walking up to the girl.

'Bakugou-kun?! ' Iida looked at the explosive boy as if he had lost it.

'Wait, Iida-kun! ' Midoriya gasped, carefully standing behind Iida 's larger frame and gave a small tug on his shirt to stop him.

Iida paused in his step, but sensing that Midoriya didn 't want to draw the girl 's attention, he didn 't look back.

At the same time, Todoroki also discreetly positioned himself before his other classmates, using his body as a barrier to stop them from doing anything. The entire time, his eyes were on Bakugou who was getting closer and closer to the girl.

'You look so weak I wouldn 't even peg you for an Ability user! ' Bakugou taunted as a vein on the girl 's head throbbed. 'I don 't see why those

bastards

wanted us to bring you in! '

All of the students stared at Bakugou with a mixture of confusion and disbelieve. But even so, none of them stepped up to do anything, because they knew Bakugou must have something in mind 'especially when he began talking nonsense.

'That 's right! ' Kirishima joined in. Although he has no idea what 's going on, he was going to support Bakugou. 'Let 's just hurry and just bring her in! '

'What did you say? '

The girl glowered at Bakugou who now stopped right in front of her.

Midoriya swallowed. This was the best chance they got right now.

From what he had analyzed, to be able to make Mineta disappear without even so much as moving could only mean that this girl 's power was something similar to teleportation. The girl must have moved Mineta to somewhere and confined him.

In other words, if they could also get the girl to use her Ability on them, then they will find Mineta.

'What a moron. ' The girl snorted, the anger on her face lessened as she gave Bakugou a condescending look. This sudden change took them all off by surprise. "Whichever organization you're from, they must be desperate. I didn 't think amateurs like you would exist in Yokohama. '

'What? ' Bagkuou gritted his teeth and he glared down the girl who didn 't even flinch.

'You want to taunt me into using my Ability and let you reunite with your

friend

, right? '

'Eh?! Was that right?! ' Hagakure gasped as she looked at Bakugou. If they were capable of seeing her face, it must be one of pure shock right now.

'And then, their surroundings suddenly changed.

There was no warning at all. To Midoriya, it only felt like he had blinked and all of the sudden, the scene before him became foreign. He blinked a couple of times, staring at the magenta sky over his head before to the checkered floor he stood upon. It took a full five seconds before his brain reacted as chill crawled down his spine.

' 'Eh? ' Sero blinked as he did a double-take at the sudden change in their environment.

'What the heck?! ' Kirishima frantically looked around.

'What is this? ' Uraraka whispered as she stared at the gigantic blocks, presents, ribbons, and balloons decorating the place. There was even a table and tea set. It was as if they arrived in a gigantic dollhouse or something.

'Hey bitch, where did you bring us?! ' Bakugou snapped at the girl who was sitting on top of a stack of blocks, looking down upon them like tiny ants.

'This is my

Kingdom

. ' The girl replied as she stood up with her hands laced behind her back. 'Welcome to Anne 's chamber. '

'Could this be 'Ability?! ' Midoriya 's eyes dilated as he took in this space. Was this is an Ability? If so, then does that mean this girl 's power was to manifest an entire

dimension

and pull people in? Can something like that even

exist

?

'An Ability? But that 's '! ' Yaoyorozu looked around in disbelieve.

'Impossible! There 's no way ' ' Iida couldn 't believe it as well.

"No, it's possible," Todoroki said as he carefully observed his surroundings, refusing to let go even the smallest bit of details. After all, Abilities aren 't Quirks. These are powers they 've never heard of, it was only natural the effect would be something out of their knowledge as well.

Bakugou was putting on a confident smirk, but the droplet of sweat rolling down the side of his face betrayed what he was actually feeling.

How could one person have the power to tear apart space and create a new one? Just who in the world was this girl?

'G-guys! Look at this! ' Hearing Ashido 's shout, everyone turned to see Ashido standing by a white door. The door was designed elegantly, like those ancient western doors the kids remembered seeing in oversea movies. Despite its beauty, it was an odd place for a door to be, considering how there was nothing but the sky behind it.

'Come over here! Quick! '

'What is it? ' Hagakure ran over, looking out the window on the door only to yelp in surprise.

One after another the students gathered by the doorway. When they peered out the window, they saw the library they were in just seconds ago. But that wasn 't what shocked them. The library has huge window panels, and through the glass, they were able to see the street and people beyond.

Everything 'the car, the people, the birds in the sky 'they were all

frozen

.

'Time 'stopped? ' Midoriya whispered in disbelieve.

'What is going on?! First, we're in a weird place that 's not even real and now the time stopped?! ' Kaminari furiously scratched his head, unable to wrap his head around any of this nonsense.

'Hey! I thought this was the sky but it 's just a wall! ' Sero 's scream had everyone looking over to see that their classmate got a hand against the eerie

sky

. To them, it looked like the boy was just hovering his palm in midair, but when they stretched out their hands, they were soon met with an obstacle. It was as if there was an invisible wall there, preventing them from going further.

Midoriya gasped as he looked around the rails surrounding this place, noticing how it was forming a square. This wasn 't a floating platform like he had originally thought.

This was a

room

, with the sky being the wallpaper!

They were

trapped

in a room.

Uraraka reached out, about to grab the door handle when the Ability user 's voice came from behind them.

'I wouldn 't do that if I were you. '

They all turned to see the girl standing up from on top of those blocks.

'That door will take you back to the real world. '

Real-world '

Midoriya committed those keywords into memory. He needed to hurry and figure out just what this girl 's power was.

'But once you go through that door, you will lose all memories of what happened in this space, including your little

friend

there. ' She smirked, left hand resting on her hip while the other jabbing a thumb over her shoulder to another door on the other side of the room.

That door was like the polar opposite of the white door. It was the same western-themed door, except it was black. Also, the wall around the door looked like normal walls made out of ordinary bricks instead of the reddish-pink sky.

'Mineta-kun?! '

They all rushed for the other door. When nearing the girl, they were all wary, but the redhead just watched them as they passed by. Once they arrived safely without meeting any obstacles, they peered through the window and saw their lost classmate Mineta.

"Mineta-chan! '

'It is Mineta! '

'Mineta-kun! '

'What 's up with that creepy room?! '

Shouts resonated through the space as everyone called out to Mineta who was separated from them by a metallic door. The room behind the door got no walls, no ceiling, it didn 't even have floors! It was just pitched darkness with wooden hands stretching out of the abyss, gripping onto Mineta and suspending him in midair.

The boy 's eyes were wide with his eyeballs completely rolled to the back of his head. White foams were slowly flowing down from his open mouth, disappearing into the shadows beneath. Mineta was out cold, and by the looks, he had fainted from some sort of shock.

'I can 't open! It 's locked! ' Iida gritted as he pulled the door 's handle with all his might.

'Move! ' Bagkuou snapped impatiently. Tiny sparks dancing on his palm were the only warning before a strong, but carefully controlled explosion blasted against the door.

'Hey, Bakugou! ' Kirishima gasped.

'Bakugou-kun! ' Iida shouted. 'Have you forgotten ' '

'Shut up and use your brains, moron! Right now we 're trapped in that woman 's fucking power, you know what it means, don 't you? ' Bakugou smirked widely despite his fingers twitching at the irritation of how the girl had insulted him before doing exactly what they wanted.

The woman had brought them in here to taunt them, but she just dug her own grave.

This space isolated from the rest of the world meant no one else but them are in this space and knows what happened here.

In other words, they can activate their Quirks without the fear of being found out!

Fortunately, the smarter students caught on fairly fast, though the dumber ones still looked rather clueless.

'Try as much as you like, but it won 't work! ' A snide remark reminded them that the girl was still there, enjoying their futile attempt to save their friend. 'The only way to open that door is with the key. '

The students looked down and indeed saw a keyhole on the door.

"Give us the key," Bakugou demanded, his tone leaving no room for argument.

The girl didn 't look pleased by Bakugou 's attitude, but she snapped her finger as a golden key appeared, hovering in front of her.

'Here you go. ' The girl waved her hand at the key. She smirked when no one made a move to take it. 'What 's wrong? You wanted the key, didn 't you? '

Something was up. They all knew the girl wouldn 't give them the key so easily. Why would she pull them into this place otherwise?

'I 'll do it. ' Iida stepped forward.

'Dude, this is obviously a trap! ' Kirishima warned.

"Don't worry, if anything happens I can run," Iida muttered just low enough so the girl wouldn 't overhear as he began to approach her.

One step '.two steps 'three steps '

Twenty-seventh step.

Iida stood in front of the key and the girl. He watched the redhead carefully as he slowly reached out his hand before he felt Goosebumps crawling over his skin.

What was this feeling?

It was as if he was being watched, but it wasn 't the girl. He had kept his eyes on her the entire time! He didn 't see her do anything, so what '

'IIDA-KUN! '

Urgent cries of his name snapped him out as the engine in his legs roared. With breakneck speed, he darted to the right, aiming to get away from the girl.

However '

'Too slow. '

Iida only saw shadow covering his eyes before what felt like walls slammed into him from both sides, completely immobilizing him.

'IIDA-KUN! ' Midoriya, as well as many others, rushed forward towards Iida the instant they saw that 'that

thing

materialized out of nowhere.

BAM

The black door that wouldn 't open no matter how hard they tried now slammed open on its own.

'KYAAAA! '

Koda 's high pitched scream was what made them risk glancing away from Iida, looking behind just in time to see Koda 'engulfed by wooden hands 'got dragged back into the darkness.

'Koda-kun! '

'Kero! ' Asui croaked as she 'who was second last in the group and closest to the doorway 'got caught by those hands as well.

'Tsuyu-chan! ' Uraraka shouted as she jumped back and grabbed her friend 's ankle just as Asui was being pulled back. Like snakes swarming into prey, wooden hands snaked around her boy, gripping onto her limbs to immobilize her with another hand grabbing her by the throat, causing her to choke.

'Uraraka-chan! Tsuyu-chan! ' Midoriya shouted, digging his heel into the floor as he sharply changed direction 'only to be met face to face with Iida.

The green-haired boy's face twisted between horror and shock as he stared at the class president who was being tightly squeezed between a pair of giant wooden hands. And right there, hovering in front of him was an ugly doll with hair similar to the Ability user girl.

'Midoriya! ' Seeing how their target had disappeared, Todoroki spun around to find Midoriya coming face to face with that weird floating doll. However, his attention was soon grabbed by the screams coming from the far back.

Stomping his left foot down, a pillar of ice shot across the room and towards the endless hands coming out from behind the door. To his shock, his ice barely held those hands stilled for three seconds before it shattered, leaving behind no damages to those wooden hands as they reeled in Asui and Uraraka.

At the same time, Midoriya had leaped up, first thrusting towards the doll 's face as he screamed, 'Let him go! '

The loud sound of impact practically shook the room.

But 'that was all. Just the sound that indicated the amount of strength he had used.

Midoriya stared in horror at that doll whose face didn 't even have the slightest bit of scratch.

How?

Even if he held back in fear of Iida getting caught up, he still used quite a bit of his strength. So

how

?

'Get away! Don 't worry about me, Midoriya!" Iida managed to choke out before smaller wooden hands grabbed onto him. The doll let go and instantly Iida was pulled towards the door. Being pulled along were Ashido, who was screaming as she kept releasing acid over the hands, but her acid only rolled off them like harmless water.

'I got you! ' Sero shot out his tape, wrapping it around Iida 's ankle as Sato grabbed Sero 's tape and pulled with everything he got

.

From another, Kirishima and Kaminari were grabbing onto Ashido 's hands as they tried to pull her free.

Tokoyami was using his dark shadow, desperately fending off the hands while protecting Hagakure who was hastily peeling off the layers of clothing on her body.

Shouji had grabbed onto Jirou, running from the hands with Jirou constantly trying to counter the hands with high-frequency sound, but that too was useless.

Forgetting that he had a trench coat on, Ojiro tried to flick out his tail only to be restricted by the large coat. This moment of delay led to his swift capture along with Aoyama who was screaming at the creepy hands grabbing him.

'Think, there must be some way! ' Yaoyorozu told herself repeatedly.

With her Quirk, she could easily conjure a metal cuff over where the area where the hand grabbed her. By enlarging the cuff, she could easily slip out of those hands ' grasps, but if this continues she will reach her limitation very soon. She has to think of something before that happens. There must be a way for them to escape this place!

'Everyone! ' Midoriya gasped, deciding to ignore the doll for now as he ran to save them. That was the biggest mistake. Midoriya had been way too confident with his speed. With Full Cowl enhancing all of his body 's physic, he hadn 't considered the fact that the doll would still be faster than him, given how when the doll went after Iida it was still at a speed he could follow with his bare eyes.

Midoriya was halfway across the room when the doll just appeared in front of him as if it had teleported. The green-haired youth tried to dodge, but he was too slow. He could only manage to free his right arms just before the doll 's hand came down on him, holding him within its iron grip.

'SMASH! ' He roared, this time putting his all as his fist slam down into the hand gripping onto him. The sound of impact was deafening as the force of his punch created a blast of wind throughout the room.

The result was the same as before. Midoriya couldn 't believe his eyes as he looked down at the perfectly undamaged

wooden

hand. How was this possible?!

'BASTARD! ' Bakugou roared, evading the hands trying to snatch him from midair and with a blast of explosions, he shot down like a rocket. He was aware of Midoriya 's predicament. Pretty much everyone was after the boy made a ruckus like that. But Bakugou 's priority at the moment was the save the others first, as they were the ones in danger of being locked away.

It was fortunate that whatever that disgusting doll was, it was preoccupied with Midoriya. He held out his hands, about to blast those wooden creeps into charcoals when a strong force slammed into him from behind.

'Kacchan! '

'Bakugou! '

Midoriya 's and Todoroki 's shout sounded distant as Bakugou 's eyes spun from the impact. His head felt faint, there was even a weird ringing in his ears as the air was forcefully knocked out of his lungs. When Bakugou looked up, he came face to face with that disturbing doll. Its large hands were holding him so tightly that he couldn 't even budge an inch.

'The fuck?! ' Bakugou painfully twisted his neck, managing to get a glimpse behind him to see that Midoriya was still being held by the same doll.

'Two dolls?! ' Midoriya was equally as shocked as he stared at an identical doll gripping onto Bakugou.

'Damn it! ' Bakugou growled as explosions began to go off from beneath the doll 's hands. At first, Bakugou had assumed with these explosions, even if the doll refused to let go he would still be able to blast its fingers off. It was wood, after all, and wood 's weak against fire. However, as time passed and explosions were repeatedly fired, the doll 's hand was perfectly fine without any hint of damages.

That was when realization dawned on Bakugou.

That this monster was immune to his attacks! No, no just his 'perhaps this thing is immune to all of their attacks. But how the fuck was that possible? It didn 't make any sense!

On the ground, Todoroki was captured as well. He had been skidding across the rooms, sending blasts after blasts of ice at the hands coming at him to stop them momentarily. He had already found out how fire does nothing to these wooden hands. As he ran, he also used his ice in an attempt to slow down all the other hands, to buy his classmates some time.

In the end, he too was captured. He froze his left his foot firmly against the floor, stopping the pull of his hands as he let his continuously flow at the hands, doing whatever he could to stop them.

On the sideline watching the ruthless battle, the red-haired girl who was seemingly forgotten by the entire class watched the battle unfold. Instead of looking pleased or happy that she was winning, the girl had a really deep frown on her face. Her brows were furrowed as green eyes scanned over these kids.

A boy had '

tapes

for arms '

Fire and ice '

Explosions '

Sound '

Enhanced physic '

Aside from the elemental and explosion that are somewhat mediocre, what kind of useless Abilities were the rest of those?! Actually, were those even Abilities? She has never seen anything so pathetic in all of her life, and that was a lot considering how useless her own Ability was.

' '! '

Sensing something approaching her, the red-haired girl speedily jumped to the side, just as she felt

something

flew right past her, creating light wind brushing against her cheeks. And then 'that invisible attack came with a weird sound effect '

'Hiyaaa! '

The girl took half a second to get over her surprise before instantly reacting. With a spin, she thrust her leg out and felt her foot sinking into something that weirdly felt like the flesh of a human.

'Geeeh! ' The

thing

was only able to grunt out this much before wooden hands wrapped around it and immobilized it.

The red-haired girl stared at the wooden hands gripping onto her invisible attacker. The wheels were slowly turning in her head as she noticed a pile of clothes discarded in the corner of the room.

The girl 's turquoise eyes widened as something she neglected to consider hit her.

'

Quirk?!

'

????????????????

'Seriously, ' The red-haired girl 'whose names was Lucy 'slammed down a mug of matcha latte in front of Midoriya. 'If you just told me right off the beginning I wouldn 't have to go through all that trouble! '

'S-sorry ' ' Midoriya muttered meekly. He wrapped his hands around the warm mug and took a shy sip.

Lucy crossed her arm, letting out a huff as she looked over the quiet group of kids filling the small pastry shop. All the tables in the shop had to be pushed together just to fit all of them in. There was a dejected atmosphere around them 'so much that Lucy didn 't feel like lecturing them anymore.

'Well 'I

suppose

I 'm at fault as well, so let 's just called it even. ' She sighed before her eyes sharpened and glared daggers towards a particular boy with

balls

as head huddled in the corner. 'Be

grateful

I didn 't lock that

thing

with Anne for the rest of the week! '

Ever since getting out, Mineta hadn 't spoken at all. He just curled up in the corner, hugging his knees close to his chest with his eyes practically budging out as he mumbled a string of incoherent words. No one dared to ask the boy just what in the world happened during their short time of separation, so they all just let him be.

"We're very sorry about his behaviour! ' Iida 'the ever so responsible class president 'immediately shot out of the chair and bowed a perfect ninety-degree to the girl. "We 'll be sure to give him a stern talking after! '

'We 're sorry! ' Yaoyorozu 'the vice-president, followed as well.

With the two representatives setting an example, the rest of the students hurriedly followed 'all but Bakugou who was

fuming

as he stabbed at his pancakes.

'L-Lucy-san! ' Midoriya spoke up hesitantly. 'About what happened back there 'about our Quirks ' '

'Ah? ' Lucy looked over to the timid boy 'who hadn 't looked so timid before when facing Anne. It wasn 't hard for her to understand what he 's asking.

'Don 't worry, ' She said flatly. 'I don 't make it a habit to blabber. What goes on here isn 't any of my business. '

'Thank you so much! ' Uraraka let out a breath of relieve.

'Thank you, kero! '

'Yes! Thank you! '

'Thank you, Lucy-san! '

'Enough with the thanks. ' Lucy snapped impatiently. The girl didn 't seem like she was used to having so many people thanking her. She walked behind the counter and began piling different kinds of cookies onto a plate.

'So uh 'Lucy-san, is this caf ' yours? ' Uraraka asked as she looked around the cute d 'cor of the store.

"No, I just work part-time here," Lucy stated flatly.

"Then is it okay for us to be here?" Hagakure wondered worriedly. After all, the moment Lucy brought them in, she had locked the door and closed all the blinds, making it impossible for anyone to see what 's going on inside the shop.

'The shop was closed for the day anyways. ' Lucy set the plate in the middle of the table, earning a round of thanks. 'And you 're all paying, so why would I have a problem with it? '

The redhead then went back to the counter, returning with a cup of steaming tea and a large Daifuku, cleanly cut in half to reveal the red bean and the deliciously ripe strawberry inside. She set it in front of Todoroki, taking the boy by surprise.

'I didn 't order this. ' He told her.

'It 's on the house. ' Lucy gave Todoroki a look before she grabbed a rag and began wiping the counter.

'What?! ' Kaminari 's jaw dropped at the unfair treatment. 'Is it the face?! Is that it?! '

'Yo! The pretty boy got charms!" Sero teased, though the person being teased had no idea what that meant.

To the corner of the room, Mineta 's mumbling got a tad louder, though no one but Jirou notice as she gave him a weird look.

Bakugou grumbled from the end of the table as he shoved another piece of pancake into his mouth.

The other students may not have seen it, but Todoroki did.

Although the girl 's eyes were seemingly meeting his, the half-fire half-ice Quirk holder felt her gaze lingering on his burnt scar. He almost touched his scar out of reflex but caught himself in time as his hand paused halfway. Changing the direction of his hand, he reached out, gently picking up the wooden fork and stabbing it into the soft Daifuku.

'Thank you. ' Although he wasn 't sure what the girl's action meant, she gave him free food, so he must thank her. Lucy just kept on cleaning, showing no acknowledgment that she had heard him.

"Lucy-san," Yaoyorozu called. When Lucy just continued with her work without even lifting her head, the raven-haired girl realized that she was listening and waiting for her to continue. 'Your Ability is really amazing. I 'm wondering if all Ability users are as strong as yourself? '

'My Ability 's amazing? ' That made Lucy paused. With her back turned to them, none of them could see what expression she was making.

'Yeah, it was super awesome! ' Kirishima shouted in excitement. 'I 've never seen anything like it! '

'To make a whole new dimension like that is unreal! ' Kirishima added.

'And you can even stop time! ' Hagakure added.

'Your dolls were really strong as well! None of us could even damage it and there were two of them! Does that mean you got more of them?!" Midoriya greedily asked, wanting as much information as he could get with stars in his eyes.

The redhead straightened, dropping the rag before she turned around to face them. All of their praises died on their tongue when they saw the deathly stoic look on the girl 's face.

"There's nothing amazing about my Ability." She finally said, turquoise eyes tainted by a mixture of anger, sadness, and jealousy. 'I envy you kids. I bet your Quirks are considered top-notched in your world. '

'How can that be?! ' Iida looked offended that Lucy was selling herself out so short. "I've never even imagined a power like yours could exist in this world! With a power like that amazing, you could '! '

'Abilities aren 't the same as Quirks! ' Lucy cut him off angrily.

Silence filled the room as everyone stared, shocked by her outburst.

'For you to be able to say something like that must mean I 'm the first Ability user you 've come across, huh? '

The students nodded mutely, not daring to speak, fearing it might anger the girl even more. Lucy almost wanted to laugh at how carefully they were behaving. She stared at those na 've and clean gazes 'something that doesn 't exist in her world.

This was why she hated those outsiders.

'How did you guys even get to Yokohama? ' She finally asked the question that 's been bothering her the entire time. At first, she thought these kids might have secretly snuck into Yokohama, but now that she thought about it, with their weak powers and low brain cells, they wouldn 't even be able to get in let alone survive a second within Yokohama.

"We're here on a field trip," Jirou answered.

'Field trip? ' Lucy blinked. That was not what she had expected.

'We 're from U.A High School. Er 'it 's a school for Heroes. ' Ojiro explained.

'I know what U.A High School is. ' Lucy retorted. She looked around the kids before her eyes landed on a certain explosive boy. ' 'I thought you looked familiar! Weren 't you that brat that got kidnapped by those Villains? '

'AH?! '

Bakugou hollered, the fork in his hand

bending

from the force he was applying.

The rest of the class tensed up, ready to jump on Bakugou the moment the boy loses control and jumps out to scream in the girl's face. After all, this topic was a sore spot for Bakugou, and for people to constantly bring it up to his face like this 'they wouldn't be surprised if Bakugou literally explodes in rage.

To their surprise and relief, Bakugou just gritted his teeth and kept his bottom glued to the chair. His body was body shaking in rage but he just continued to stab his pancakes with his mutilated fork.

'W-we 'll pay for that! ' Midoriya hurriedly said to Lucy whose brow had twitched when the boy had ruined the fork.

'Wait, how did you know about that? ' Iida gasped once he reacted to what the girl had said. 'With Bakugou and ' '

'TV of course. ' Lucy arched a brow as she pointed to the flat-screen television hung on the wall.

'

TV?!

' The group shouted.

'So? You 're telling me the Port Mafia let you in because of a field trip? ' Lucy asked, having no interest in explaining to these kids how television works.

'Uh 'yes. ' Uraraka nodded, still trying to get over the fact that there are televisions in Yokohama possibly broadcasting news from the outside world.

Lucy almost wanted to retort and tell them how it 's impossible, but when she saw those honest gazes staring at her, she felt every single hair in her body standing up unpleasantly.

'You 're kidding me. ' She muttered.

These kids were serious.

These Quirk holders 'Heroes-in-training 'came to the city of Ability users 'a city filled with criminals 'with

zero

knowledge of what they 're in for?! Are they stupid?!

'Is something wrong? ' Midoriya looked at the girl in concern, feeling that something wasn 't right.

'Is something

wrong

? Are you idiots?! ' Lucy looked at them in disbelief. 'You should consider yourselves lucky you 're still alive! '

'W-what do you mean? ' Hagakure asked.

'Since you outsiders just arrived, you wouldn 't know, but the underground is a mess right now! '

'By

underground

do you mean the Port Mafia? ' Tokoyami asked.

'Did you really think the only criminal organization in this place is the Port Mafia? ' Lucy huffed. 'Seriously, you guys don 't know anything and you still dared to come in here? '

The students couldn 't say anything back to that. They knew coming in here was dangerous, but after everything they saw, they sort of just brushed the danger aside despite knowing that this place was controlled by the Port Mafia.

'There are two worlds in Yokohama. ' She stretched out a hand, gesturing to the blinds protecting them from the views of the outside.

'Ordinary people, ' She then brought her outstretched hand and gestured to herself. 'And Ability users. Ordinary people know the existence of Ability users, but that's it. Unless it 's those who have ties with the underworld, Ability users never interfere with them. '

"What do you mean they don't interfere?" Iida frowned, not understanding what she meant. After all, they lived in the same city, how could they

not

interact with one another? 'Wouldn 't there be Ability users using their powers for evil? '

'There 's no good or evil in battles with Ability users. ' Lucy scoffed. 'Don 't put us on the same level as those Villains of yours. '

'But evil is evil and good is good. ' Asui pointed out. 'There 's always a difference, kero. '

'Oh? ' Lucy looked down on them like looking at some five years old. 'Then what 's evil? '

'Like robbing a bank! ' Ashido shouted, eager to bring up the first example. After all, bank robberies were extremely common in their world. It was one of the most frequent crimes. "If you have so many Quirkless 'I mean, ordinary people, wouldn 't it be easy to rob a bank? '

'And? ' Lucy didn 't look impressed as she put her hands on her hips. 'Why would anyone rob a bank? '

"Uh 'because they want money," Kirishima replied as if it 's the most obvious thing.

'Why? '

'Get rich of course. ' The lightning boy gave the girl a weird look. Why she was asking such obvious things?

'Ability users have no interest in such materialistic things as only getting rich," Lucy replied. 'If they do want money, they get it through their own powers, not something as petty as robbing a bank. Do you really think robbing a bank would give you

that

much money? There 's no Ability user anywhere in the world that would do something so stupid. You brats live in an easy world. You 're all pampered the moment you 're born, that 's why you have Villains going after something so pointless. '

Midoriya 's eyes widened at Lucy 's use of words.

Ability user anywhere in the world '

he was certain that was what she had said.

'Lucy-san. ' Midoriya didn 't know why it never occurred to him before. Her name and looks were obviously not Japanese. Yokohama has been sealed for centuries 'even if there were foreigners at that time, it was unthinkable that there would still be any left after so many years. 'Where are you from? '

That grabbed the rest of the class's attention as they looked at Lucy with a mixture of confusion and shock.

"North America," Lucy replied, not even going to hide the fact that she was not from Yokohama.

'Wait, you 're American?! ' Kirishima gasped.

'There are Old Humans and Ability users in the United State?! ' Uraraka shouted in surprise.

'I'm Canadian, actually. But I did moved to the United State for a while, ' Lucy shrugged. 'As far as I know, we 're one of the few remaining ones over there. '

'Did something happen? ' Yaoyorozu was hesitant to ask, fearing she might have asked something improper.

'No, our populations declined, that 's all. ' Lucy sighed. 'There are still some organizations surviving in other countries with strong Ability users holding the organizations together, but sooner or later they 'll be wiped out through time. Not all of us were able to preserve an entire

city

like Yokohama, it 's only natural we 'll slowly die out. '

'If population is a problem 'why not just live in the open? ' Yaoyorozu asked. 'I 'm sure the governments of any country will be glad to have you! '

" 'Are you serious?" Lucy's eyes were dilated as she stared intensely at the ponytailed girl. "Do you even know what

you

people will do to us when we reveal ourselves in the outside world?! '

Lucy didn 't give Yaoyorozu the chance to respond. She just continued on.

'I 'll tell you what! We 'll be captured, experimented on and those with Ability will be used by your governments as tools! '

'We wouldn 't do that! ' Iida immediately argued.

Lucy laughed. 'Are you stupid or are you just ignorant of how the world works? You 're all what,

sixteen

? Are you seriously telling me that you don 't think your government will try to capture an

alien

species if they suddenly appeared within their arm 's reach?

'Alien? ' Ashido looked at Lucy weirdly. 'What alien? '

'It 's a metaphor. ' Lucy deadpanned. 'I 'm saying that to your people, we might as well be aliens 'although it 's you people who are the aliens. '

'What are you talking about? ' Kirishima asked, unable to follow her words at all.

'You kids kept calling us

Old Humans

. Did you seriously think after so many years, we're still the same species?"

"Lucy-san 'could it be that you know how Quirk came to be?" At Uraraka 's question, everyone looked at Lucy with surprise in their eyes. After all, this was humanity's biggest mystery of all time. Through years, there were only speculations, but no scientists have ever confirmed the truth behind the appearance of Quirks.

"It's not some secret," Lucy replied.

'Then can you tell us?! ' Uraraka pleaded.

'Yes, we want to know too! ' Yaoyorzu nodded frantically.

"It was a virus brought into earth by a meteor," Lucy explained. 'A meteor entered the earth 's atmosphere, but it dissolved into pieces from the force so the people at the times didn 't think much about it. In truth, that meteor was carrying a weird type of virus from outer space. When the meteor dissolved, the virus quickly spread throughout the earth 's atmosphere and became the air people breathed. I 'm sure you can imagine what happened after breathing in these viruses for five continuous years. In those five years ' time, the virus spread through the body and that was what sparked the first change in humans and caused them to develop mutations. '

The students listened with their jaws hitting the floor. Outer world virus?! That was where Quirk came from?

"Wait, so we've been breathing in these viruses our entire life?!" Kaminari shouted in horror.

"They don't exist anymore," Lucy told him. "The viruses disappeared eighty-six years after its appearance 'presumably absorbed by your ancestors. The outside air right now isn't much different than in here...save for some pollution issues. '

'What happened? ' Uraraka couldn 't help but wanted to know. What exactly had happened in the past that separated people like Lucy from the rest of the world?

'You can 't count on the governments to do much," Lucy sneered. It was clear she harboured no love for governments. 'The only ones that acted were different Organizations scattered around the world in the underground. Whatever those viruses were, they got no effect on Ability users. Being the only ones still able to maintain order and with Ability users that have immunity, each organization separated themselves from the rest of the world. Some created a literal underground world while others sealed themselves within a barrier like Yokohama. '

'But wouldn 't you still breathe in the air, kero? You said it took five years before the mutation fully started, correct? ' Asui asked.

'They developed a vaccine," Lucy replied. "I don't know which country's organization developed it first, but one of them created a vaccine to counter the virus within a year after Quirk began to appear. In early stages, while the virus still hasn't taken root, it was still possible to kill it and revert humans back to normal. For a price, that organization sold the formula to other organizations. That 's why we 're still able to keep our genes clean from the invasion of viruses. '

'Wait, but if those people had the cure, why didn 't they give it to the government? ' Iida furrowed his brows in disapproval. 'Wouldn 't that save the world from falling apart? '

'

Hah?

' Lucy looked at the glassed boy as if he was stupid. 'Why would they do that? '

'What do you mean

why

? ' Iida whispered. 'For the sake of the world, of course! '

Lucy almost laughed at that dumb remark. No, actually, she did laugh. It was a sarcastic laugh as she looked at Iida as if looking at a moron.

'

For the sake of the world.

' She parroted. 'Here 's something to keep in mind while you 're here. Whether it is Ability users of the past or now,

we don 't care about the world

. '

She leaned close to Iida, towering over him and making him shrink back as maniac rolled off her body.

'Before the appearance of Quirks, Ability users were dangerous and deemed by the public as threats. I just said the

underground

. Do you think organizations with Ability users were lawful ones? If I was in your world I 'd be branded as

criminal

as well. '

'Did you do something bad, Lucy-san? ' Hagakure swallowed hard as she looked at Lucy.

'When we came to Yokohama, we also tried to burn this entire city to the ground," Lucy said so casually that no one would think there was anything wrong with her sentences until the words registered into their brains.

'

WHAT?!

'

'To be precise, the one who wanted to burn down Yokohama was my old boss. ' Lucy clarified. 'Well, lots of things happened. Right now I 'm just another resident in Yokohama. '

'Y-you tried to

murder

an entire city?! ' Aoyama was hysterical. No one could blame him though, as they were all reeling from shock.

'W-wait! If you 're some sort of terrorist 'shouldn 't you be arrested? ' Kaminari gapped.

Lucy arched a brow at how the boy called her a

terrorist

. That was a new one. 'I got their citizenship. '

'That 's not what I meant 'they gave you citizenship after you tried to burn their city?! '

'That was in the past. Besides, it wasn 't like the plan succeeded. The Port Mafia shut us down before we can get there. So anyways, do you understand now? ' Lucy dismissed the panicking kids, not interested in talking about the past.

'After so many years, the virus has merged with your DNA, creating completely new ones different from

real

humans. It 's only our appearance that looked similar, but we 're already two separate species. We had been since hundreds of years ago after the virus took root. Do you ever wonder why Abilities doesn 't exist in the outside world? Like Quirk that never manifest on Ability users, Ability will never manifest on Quirk holder. It doesn 't matter if they are Quirkless, because Ability only occurs in humans."

The kids fell silent after hearing the end of the story.

Sure, they were shocked at the origin of Quirks, but they were listening with the mindset of hearing just an old story 'a truth that no one in the outside world has discovered yet. The thought of being

aliens

never occurred to any of them or affected them in any way.

Perhaps it just hadn't fully sunk in yet, as the story sounded too surreal and distant for them to link it to themselves.

'Can we ask 'uh 'how did the Port Mafia '? ' Yaoyorozu began hesitantly. The moment the girl mentioned the Port Mafia, that had become the center of their attention. After all, this was a valuable chance for them to know the enemy.

'There 's nothing to talk about. ' Lucy picked up her rag and began cleaning again. 'We were completely crushed, that 's all. As far as I know, only me and three other people survived 'the rest were all killed. Though the other girl that was close to my old boss believed he was still alive and went off looking for him. '

To say the kids were more shocked by how she so casually talked about her comrades ' deaths than knowing the origin of Quirk was an understatement. How could she act as if she was just talking about the weather? She didn 't even show the slightest bit of remorse, anger or sadness over their deaths.

'Do you hate the Port Mafia? ' Uraraka whispered softly.

'No. ' Lucy still had that not-my-problem tone. 'It was our loss. That 's how things work in the world. There 's no point in resenting over anything. The loser dies and the winner lives. '

Her attitude and tone sent a chill down all the kids ' backs. How could she say this? What exactly did she go through to make her say something like that as if it was completely natural?

'Besides, ' Lucy continued, 'it wasn 't like we ever had a chance of winning. From the beginning to end, everything was in the palm of

that

person 's hand. '

'

That

person? ' Tokoyami spoke for the first in a long time.

"The boss of Port Mafia," Lucy replied.

'Did you meet them? The boss of Port Mafia? ' Midoriya wore a serious expression as he stared at Lucy. The shyness he had when he first sat down in the shop was all gone by now.

'Never mind the boss, we never even saw any of his executives. ' Lucy snorted as if mocking herself from that time. 'Not a single one of them appeared when we invaded Yokohama. He only sent out his successors and their underlings to deal with us. From the very beginning, we were used by the Port Mafia boss to train his successors. '

'Successors? '

The kids looked around one another.

'That 's why I said you guys got here at a bad time. ' Lucy turned to them with a solemn look in those turquoise eyes. 'The Port Mafia boss announced that he will formally choose a successor to take his place by the end of this week. There are two successors. This means the last to

stand

will become the next to lead Port Mafia. After that announcement, everyone in Port Mafia started choosing sides. The underground is also a mess right now with various organizations plotting to use this chance to overthrow the Port Mafia. A war is coming. '