Traitor Hunt

v.

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Lights out.

The security alarms blared.

At once, all the students in the common area jumped to their feet and looked around frantically, not knowing what exactly was happening. The dim red emergency lights flashed across the room and were enough for them to know where everyone was standing, so they weren't completely blinded.

"Hey, what's going on?!" Kaminari was the first one to cry out, still holding his pen in his hand as he was doing his assignments before the lights went out.

Asui pondered, looking around, "Do you think it could be related to the training exercise, ribbit?"

"But what if it's villains? Real villains, you know?" Ashido suggested, her brows furrowed.

"We shouldn't ignore it either way." Yaoyorozu said, "Let's investigate the cause and report to our teachers if something really is wrong, though I doubt that if it was they wouldn't have noticed it till now... But still, I think it would be better if we search in teams. One team would look whether or not this is a villain attack and the other should see if it's a part of the training."

"Sounds reasonable enough to me," Sero shrugged before he fished out his phone from his pocket, "We can just contact each other if something's wrong, 'kay?"

The others only nodded silently. The fact that all of the students weren't present in the common area easily chalked up some suspicions against a lot of their own classmates. The teachers hadn't yet made a move even after they had went off in groups of varying numbers. It was most likely to be a part of the hunt, they all realized that but then again, this was Class-1-A we're talking about. One could never be too sure.

And that was how Midoriya found himself between Aoyama and Uraraka as the three of them ventured their way to the main campus. The path outside was as dark as it could be in a cloudy night. There were no emergency lights there to guide them so their only guidance was the pocket torchlight Aoyama kept with himself for situations like this.

The way to the main campus was dark and quiet, eerie would describe it best. The only sound that reached their ears was of the grass crushing under their steps and the crickets in the distance. No student from the other classes was out nor was any faculty member in sight. It was as if they all had vanished under a spell. The disturbingly quiet nature of the situation only proved the fact that this was indeed a part of the exercise. If it were the League of Villains, there would've been more burning trees and stuff like that.

So, was it safe to assume that the entire school was roped into this exercise to provide a perfect atmosphere? Midoriya thought that the probability of that assumption being true was higher than the other unworded ones in his head.

None of three spoke anything as Uraraka pushed open the huge door to the entrance of UA. With the help of the torchlight, they confirmed that the hallways were devoid of all life. The dim red lights were there but exclude that and it looked positively like an old abandoned building were a murder was bound to happen if it hadn't already.

'Mental note:' Midoriya thought to himself, 'Look out for traces of blood just in case...'

The three of them further confirmed that there was, indeed, no one on the first floor at least. So, they took the staircase and wordlessly began to search the second floor. The first closest thing to possible evidence the group of three found on the second floor was a small folded note taped on one of the classroom's doors. They all looked at each other, silently debating who would go ahead. In the end, the green haired boy reached out a shaky scarred hand and ripped off the note with an undescribable urgency. The boy then brought the note closer to him and his friends and unfolded it to read it's contents,