One by one, the third-year students who were chosen got up and followed the detective and pro-hero. Walking down the hall, their footsteps filled in the tense silence. An eerie sound of shoes squeaking and echoing as they made their way to their destination. No one spoke as they went straight into one of the free conference rooms, already set up for them.

Once inside, they were all seated in a square formation, facing each other. Detective Tsukauchi and Fatgum closed and locked the door, getting straight into business. The young heroes in training were given a red folder with their names written in gold lettering.

Detective Tsukauchi faced a white board at the front of the square formation and turned it around. Showing photos of different people and red strings connecting them to a club that was in the center. Each photo with a name, their quirk, and job title.

"As you can see, each folder has your name. These are the roles we expect each of you to partake in this case, should you continue to move forward after we go over everything. Do know this case could take more than a couple of weeks. We've gathered intel and are ready to start phase one." Fatgum, explained to the students as they each gave curious glances to the board in front of them.

"Can we discuss these roles with each other?" Tsuyu wanting to know if she could ask for some advice, should she get stuck in what she had to do. Was the first to break the silence from the students.

"You can discuss the details with each other privately. However, not to anyone who is not in this room. Other than Aizawa of course." Fatgum answered with a quick nod. "Any other questions?"

"Will there be any other heroes involved?" Shouto the two-toned haired young hero asked hoping his father, pro-hero Endeavor, won't be on this case.

Their relationship is somewhat better now, though, still rocky. Shouto preferred to learn from other heroes for his third year even if he was still interning with his father.

"For now, it's only Fatgum and his agency for phase one. Once we move forward to phase two, Gang Orca, Best Jeanist and Gunhead have agreed to assist us. We would've asked Endeavor. However, this threat is not considered major enough to have the number one hero involved at this time. Should the occasion change he has been briefed about the situation."

At hearing this Shouto only nodded once. His heterochromia eyes glazing over with troubling thoughts regarding his family drama and history.

Izuku, sitting next to his aloof best friend, patted his back in reassurance. He knew Shouto's relationship with Endeavor was not a healthy one.

Shouto's grown to be a better person since Izuku helped him in their first year – after their one-on-one battle in the sports festival. Still, he had a lot to learn. Their first and second year of high school, Shouto began to open-up more. Taking the initiative to openly speak with his classmates instead of ignoring them.

Though he was very blunt with his thoughts. Izuku saw it as progress and took it as a win. He was learning from the kind gentle man after all. Shouto only trusted him and Katsuki since the three of them have been interning a lot together with the number one hero.

However, Shouto still had a hard time connecting with those around him because of his upbringing.

"Is there a reason why we were chosen instead of sending the pro's right away." Katsuki asked suspiciously, sitting on the other side of Shouto.

There had to be a reason, why students were being involved in the first place. If they had hero agencies already waiting, why would they need to have random third year's join in?

Not that he cared, he would still do the job and gain the experience. Something like this would be great for his record. He was planning on starting his own agency right away after graduating. He had no intentions in being a sidekick to anyone.

"Yes. We have intel but not concrete evidence to raid this club. Without this evidence we cannot get a warrant to infiltrate the club." Tsukauchi answered Katsuki and looked over to each student. "This club is only open at night and the type of services they give after hours is not legal. What we want to know is what happens to the people that go in and go missing only to be found a week later, miles away from the club and with their quirk gone."

At hearing this Izuku and Katsuki tensed up, they briefly made eye contact then looked away from each other. Already having an idea of what this meant.

"We need to know first how these people, or should we say men are disappearing in the first place. Men are the main target here. That is why we are sending two groups of you young men at a time to this club. To gather more intel and evidence."

"So, the rest of us will be needed after for rescuing I presume?" Ochako asked politely, worrying for her male classmates. A green haired male specifically, since he tended to be in the center of where trouble was at. She quickly glanced at him, catching him staring at her already, then looked away nervously. "Will they be safe? What will happen if they go missing as well?"

"They'll only go for an hour or so. We've noticed if men stay past midnight they go missing. We've concluded that someone's quirk comes into play during this time. Married men, men in relationships or men that have jobs don't stay past a certain time because they have obligations. The main target here are single men. Some women have gone into the club but have never gone missing. They always come back out."

Fatgum got up and handed pictures out of the missing men, that have yet to be found. "These men you see here, from their medical records are single and live alone. The only reason we know they are missing is because some of them have not paid their rent or their neighbors reported them."

"Then what you need for us is to go into this club in disguise. Since most people know about the pros. The pros wouldn't be able to get any incriminating information. However, since it's younger males that you'll be sending instead, it won't be too suspicious." Shouto concluded, coming back into the conversation, and forgetting about his past for the meantime.

He gave Izuku a reassuring nod, letting him know there was nothing to worry about.

"Precisely..." Tsukauchi nodded. "The first group to go in, will be Bakugou, Midoriya and you, Todoroki. Should any of you be in trouble, you three have powerful quirks to fight back, while we infiltrate to rescue you. However, only if it comes to that, please try to not use your quirks. Aizawa stressed that your safety came first over anything else, and we agree. We don't want to lose any future heroes."

"If you are willing to let go of this villain if things don't go our way. Then why are we working on this operation?" Izuku asked genuinely confused.

Fatgum and Tsukauchi glanced at each other before answering honestly. "If our suspicions are correct. The person who is helping take these quirks away are extremely dangerous. They may not even know it either. Some of the men we were able to find, had traces of DNA left on their skin. Either done purposely or by accident, we are not sure."

Tsukauchi took a moment to pause, adding suspense to the already tense room. For the young heroes to really take in how serious this next part was.

"This DNA was a mixture of Aizawa, Midnight and Present Mic. However, we know it was not them. This DNA was a mixture of the three of them combined with another foreign DNA that was not on our database."

"Woah, they have a child?!" Denki yelled, making Hanta snicker quietly beside him from the outburst.

"A secret love child..." Shouto whispered to himself quietly. Earning a face palm from Izuku who heard him and an annoyed eye roll from Katsuki.

"We don't believe it's that simple." Fatgum added nervously, shaking his hands in front of him. A silent gesture to ask the young heroes to slow down on their crazy hypothesis. Not wanting to have them believe their teachers had a long-lost child. "From the sample we were able to get, we concluded this DNA was added to the host later in their life. We're not even sure if this person knows how powerful their quirk is, or if they know they were truly not born with it."

Fatgum at seeing them calm down a little, sighed out before continuing.

"Should this person fall into the wrong hands, they could be deadly. So far it shows they did not harm the people who've gone missing, but rather sort of saved them. We want to believe this person does not have an ill intent in mind, but we don't know yet. We advise you all stay diligent..."

"I have a question. What type of club is this?" Eijirou asked, not wanting to get off-topic from what they needed to know.

Fatgum scratched his head nervously. "It's called Mama's Hosting Club... They specialize in dancing for entertainment in..."

"A strip club!" Denki got excited, cutting off Fatgum. Which earned him a reprimand from Tenya for being so vulgar and insensitive. However, Denki didn't care, he was finally going to see one in person.

His eyes jumping with excitement met with Hanta who only chuckled and shook his head from his antics. Patting his friends head and attempting to calm him down.

"Woah, is that even legal Fatgum? Can we students be there?" Eijirou asked, sweating nervously from just the thought of seeing naked women in all their glory.

"It's not a strip club perse, it's more of a Burlesque show. We made sure to ask permission from Aizawa and principal Nezu first. Since you're in your third year, we figured you were mature enough to handle this situation." Fatgum explained, not wanting to make them more nervous than necessary.

"What illegal deals are they doing then?" Katsuki asked wanting to get as much knowledge to be prepared for this mission. He, however, did give a deadly glare warning to his friends to settle down.

"They are selling a drug called 'Dreamscape'. This drug makes people hallucinate and create their own pleasurable fantasies. However, after taking this drug multiple times, it makes people kill themselves because of how badly they want to be in the world they've created. They become crazy and start to lose their mind." Tsukauchi answered solemnly.

"Unfortunately, we don't know how this drug is being made, and we want you to figure that out as well. We found out Mama's club is the main supplier for this drug, but like we mentioned we need evidence to prove this. They are very sneaky and good at hiding their dirty doings. Every connection we have found, brought us to a dead end." Fatgum handed pictures of the victims this drug's touched.

Making the students almost bolt out of their chairs for how each victim met their end.

It was gruesome and unnerving. Some had nail indented markings on their face, dark lines running from their scalp all the way down to their chins and neck. One of them had missing hair in some spots of their skull. A sign of the person pulling on their own hair from desperation.

"The trace of this drug is very minimal. What we extracted from the bodies, disappeared like smoke once it left the corpse. The only reason we know it's this club, who is supplying it and the name of the drug, is by word of mouth. And unfortunately, the intel shared with us by those people cost them their life or have gone missing as well." Tsukauchi saw remorse flash through the students faces.

"In simpler terms, you want us to infiltrate this club and pretend to be horny teenagers to get intel on the drug killer supplier and possible genetically made child of our teachers?" Katsuki concluded for his classmates.

"Yes, that's exactly it." Tsukauchi nodded his head towards the ash blond, impressed by his deduction skills.

"When do we start?" Izuku's emerald eyes burned with determination.

Everyone in the room thought of the little girl with red eyes and white hair, who was dear to them and who suffered since the day she was born.

If there was another suffering child out there like Eri, Izuku wanted to save them right away. He didn't want someone else to suffer the way she did. She was in a safer place, but she was forever mentally scarred. He still remembers the mornings, Aizawa and Hitoshi could barely stay awake, due to Eri screaming at night from the nightmares. It died down drastically. Still, she did have episodes. He just hoped the child they were going to save wasn't too far gone, and if they were – he would do everything in his power to bring them back to the light.

Though Katsuki scowled and looked calm and collected, his vermillion eyes blazed with a new purpose. He was angry. Another child going through something so horrible, had his insides burn with rage. He also has a close relationship with Eri. He'd gotten attached to her and spent almost every Sunday with her, teaching her how to bake cookies – since she loved them so much and he loved to see her smile. He would deny profusely of the relationship he built with her, if ever questioned – even if no one believed him. He did have a reputation to uphold. However, not in front of her, she was too important to him to lie to her.

His eyes gliding around the room, noticed how his other classmate's desire to do their very best in this mission radiated from their very core. They were going to save this child. He looked over to Izuku and Shouto, the two men he's worked close with these past two years. A silent agreement passing between them. No one would suffer like Eri did. Not if they could do something about it.