Cocoa Whumptober 2021

No. 1 - ALL TRUSSED UP AND STILL NOWHERE TO GO

A/N: I hope you enjoy this! Prompt: "You have to let go"

Every weekend in the U.A. dorms two students would be chosen to get groceries for the week- this week it was Midoriya's and Shinsou's turn.

Midoriya had woken up and going through his normal routines before meeting up with Shinsou in the common room.

"Hey Shinsou! Did you get the money?"

Shinsou gave a single nod to his head, waving the money around in the air. The two of them were quick to get out the door, hoping to get the trip done quickly so they could be back at UA sooner.

They would have normally went to the store close by but Ashido had insisted that they go to the mall instead. Once she explained that a new dessert shop had opened up and she really wanted to get something from the place; she was quickly backed up. With the rest of the class begging along with Ashido, the two were quickly persuaded to bring back something from the shop.

Which is why they were walking around the mall trying to find everything on the list. At first everything was going well- they had split up the list and headed in different directions as soon as they entered the store promising to meet at the registers once they were done. Most of the stuff was easy to find, but a few of the needed stuff required them to search around at other stores to find. After about two hours of running back and forth the two had their arms stuffed.

"I don't know how we're gonna bring the dessert back with us." Shinsou's voice startled him out of his thoughts.

"Me neither.... But I would rather not face the girls if we failed to bring their desserts back."

"Agreed."

And with that thought they headed towards the giant map, and located the shop. The shop was on the third floor, so they started their walk to the escalators. He tried to remember what everyone had wanted but sense they had never been before and the shop didn't yet have an online menu to look at, they only had ideas of what the other wanted. He knew Eri wanted something apple related but for pretty much everyone else he only had a list of stuff they didn't want and his past knowledge of flavors his classmates enjoyed. He hoped the place had bags to put the food in, otherwise they might have to call another student out to help them- something they should have thought about beforehand.

When they finally arrived at the shop they saw a decent sized line waiting to order. They walked over to the booths placing down the groceries before joining the line. Midoriya ignored the strangers talking around him in favor of staring at the menu upfront. He continued to stare at the menu, trying to figure out what to order everyone before they reached the front. The line had been moving at a decent pace, so they were almost at the counter when something went wrong.

Screams...

Screams of terror-

The conversation around him dimmed when more screams of terror came. He took a deep breath before getting in a battle stance. He had to figure out what was going on and stop it. He wouldn't let anyone else get hurt. As he pushed past the people to the shop doors, he noticed Shinsou in a battle stance as well.

"Shinsou watch them! I'll go see what's going on! Call for back up!"

Before the other boy could protest he let the familiar power of one for all crawl across his body, using it to dart out the door. Greeting him was a crowd of people pushing past each other. He rushed in the opposing direction as them hoping to find the supposed villain soon. Within a minute he had stopped seeing people all together.