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We gotta make it to the lunchroom quick before anyone else, then get out of there. We still have to eat something." I said

"Right." He replied and followed me down to the lunchroom.

The place was already pretty full. There were way more people than I thought there would be. I guess a lot of people thought it would be a good idea to get there early.

'Here we go again' I thought to myself.

Since Kirishima and I didn't bring a lunch, we stood in the lunch line. The line went quick, we grabbed our lunch, and yeeted out that bitch.

"Well that was easier than I thought it would be." I chuckled and sighed of relief.

"Yeah, almost toooo easy." Kirishima mentioned. He sounded like he was suspicious of something. "Wasn't it a little quiet for it being a lunch room? And wasn't everything going too smoothly? I mean, when has it ever only taken 3 minutes to get through the lunch line?"

"You're right. Something definitely seems odd." I agreed. "You wanna check it out?"

"Sure, but if things go to shit, just know we're probably the only two normal ones in that whole room.

"Deal."

Me and Kirishima walked back into the lunch room. Everyone was completely silent. They were just looking at each other, but not like they were confused. It was like they were communicating with their eyes only.

"I don't know what the freak is going on here but we have to blend in so that we don't get wrapped into this too." Kirishima whispered to me.

"Yeah, okay." I whispered back.

From then on, me and Kirishima didn't say a word to each other. He signaled with his hands that he was going to take the side of the room that had the third years, I was going to take the side with our class and the rest of the first years, and we'd meet in the middle where the second years sat. I don't know how I got all of that from a couple of hand signals but I understood and gave him a thumbs up.

I tiptoed around the tables trying not to disturb whatever process was going on between the students. Is it even fair to call them students anymore? It definitely looked like them, but it wasn't the class 1-A that I knew.

"(Y/n)! Please tell me you can speak!" Deku said as he stood up and grabbed me.

Everyone in the room turned our way.

"Run Kirishima!" I yelled across the room. I grabbed deku's hand and headed towards the exit.

I was being pulled by (y/n) but I couldn't help but look back at the hundreds of student who were chasing us. I swear the lunch room wasn't this big before. Where did they all come from.

Suddenly, (y/n) stopped pulling me and we stood still.

"Uhhhhh (y/n), why'd we stop? They're still coming towards us you know." I said nervously.

"I know that. I have a plan. Just keep holding my hand." She told me. I blushed a little because I got to hold her hand longer, but she didn't look scared at all. I took a deep breath and trusted her. "Kirishima, go through the door before us." She yelled out to him.

"I was already planning on it." He said as he ran by us. You could hear the fear in his voice.

"You ready deku?" (Y/n) asked me.

"Yeah." I nodded.

"Time freeze!" She yelled. I could see the bubble around us, but I wasn't frozen because I was holding her hand. "Come on let's go."

"Ok— Ahhhhhhhh!!" I screamed mid sentence." One of them had grabbed my leg and started pulling me back towards them. (Y/n), who was still holding my hand, grabbed onto me with her other hand and pulled as hard as she could.

Other than when I was sitting at the table, this is the closest I had ever gotten to 'them', whoever they are that took over my friends, bodies. Before, I was trying to avoid making eye contact because everyone started acting weird but now, looking into their eyes, it gave me a warm feeling, like everything was going to be okay.

"Stay with me Deku!" (Y/n) yelled. I snapped out of it and kicked 'them' in the face so that 'they' would let go and we ran away.

"Couldn't you just have put the whole room in a time freeze?" I asked.

"Yeah, but then I would have a headache and I wouldn't be able to run as fast as we're running now." She replied.

We caught up to Kirishima in front of the school.

"I think we should go lock ourselves in the dorms." I said. "Luckily, it doesn't look like 'they' can use the quirks of our friends."

"Good idea." Kirishima said.

We headed towards the dorms, locked the doors and boarded up the windows with anything we could find. This was our new headquarters.

We all sat on some of the chairs and couches that were left in the common room.

"Wait, they were able to grab deku through my time freeze." I said. "They can defy space and time!"

"Wait, if they can do that, then aren't our quirks useless against them?" Kirishima asked.

"Maybe quirks like mines, but maybe not every quirk." I reasoned. "Dek—" I stopped.

Deku was just looking, at nothing, like 'they' were in the lunchroom.

"Deku!" I called out to him louder.

He turned his head toward me. Then shook his head as if something had taken over him.

"Sorry. I'm fine. I'm fine." He smiled.

I looked at Kirishima and he gave me the same look.

They got Deku didn't they?