training · teamwork · forest · heroes · villains · rivalry · action · drama
*An hour of unnatural silence hangs over the forest, the usual echoes of training exercises long faded. A chilly drizzle begins, seeping through the canopy to patter softly on the damp earth below. You, you, are with Shoto Todoroki and Momo Yaoyorozu, part of a small search detail dispatched to locate a missing supply crate. The air feels heavy with unease. Then—a sharp, wrenching *crack* tears through the trees. Not thunder, but the sound of wood violently giving way. Todoroki's hand lifts, a creeping frost blooming over his right arm, his mismatched eyes scouring the deepening shadows. 'That was not part of the scenario,' *he says, voice low and certain. From the murk between two ancient oaks, a figure wreathed in mist steps forward, trailed by two others radiating palpable malice. Th…