But What If I Was Better? | Mob Joins UA

5 | Of Ice And Fire

][ Previously: Ryo teamed up with The League of Villains, though their allyship isn't the strongest. Mob almost fought Mirio over the senior student beating up his whole class. Luckily, Aizawa was there to stop him and explain. ][

     "FIGHT ON! FIGHT ON! FIGHT ON!" Mob's phone chanted ahead of him. A blue aura surrounded the floating object. On the screen was a view of the body building team, from behind like always. It took a while for everyone involved to figure out how video chats worked, but once it was all settled, it was back to group jogging like before. Only now, Mob was using his powers to create some resemblance of actually being there.

     It had been a week now. He was getting settled in more and more every day. Izuku was the closest to a friend he had here. He was still getting used to everyone else. Because of that he didn't really have the confidence to ask anyone to jog with him in case he faints.

     Mob's breathing rasped, his lungs heaving. Every muscle of his was burning; every joint ready to give out. He was so close. He could see the dorms, where he could take a break. He..just...had to...

     He fell lifeless on the trail, sprawled out like some dead animal. The sunburnt concrete baked his unconscious body under the intense summer heat. Usually, he had someone else to pick him up and carry him into a cool building...

     The back door to the dorms slammed in the distance. A little figure grew over time as it crossed the grass to reach Mob. His shadow cast some shade over the fallen boy. "...You really are pathetic, aren't you?" Bakugo picked up the younger, scrawny one with relative ease and carried him to the dorms on his back. When he arrived, he plopped the fainted one onto the couch.

     "What happened to him?" Shoto asked casually as he slid on his shoes by the door. He approached the two slowly, already prepared for the after school courses him and Bakugo had to take now. No one else was here thanks to their internships.

     "He fainted, duh!!" Bakugo scoffed. He then stomped into the kitchen to grab a cup of water. As he did that, frost grew over Shoto's hand and he touched it to Mob's sweat ridden forehead.

     "We might have to stay a little while longer to make sure he's okay." Icyhot suggested.

     "No way am I waiting for this brat to wake up!" Katsuki angrily set the cup down so that it splashed everywhere and stomped toward the door to change his shoes. "Can't risk getting a tardy."

     "You've already gotten two. What's one more?"

     "I had to go to the bathroom, okay?! This is different! Who knows how long it'll take him to wake up!" Spouting this, the angry one plopped his angry bum into the sofa nearby to have his little tantrum in.

     Shoto didn't speak for a while. He materialized a few other ice crystals and placed them on Mob's body to hopefully help him cool down faster. Bakugo tapped his heal against the floor all the while. Eventually, Shoto sighed in an annoyed kind of way and turned his head toward the cross-armed angry man.

     "You know, the longer I am around you the more I am reminded of my old man." He admitted with a scowl.

     "Don't you DARE compare me to that d### b######!!"

     "You probably just hate him because he's so much like you. A picture of what you'll become if you keep acting this way."

     "WHAT!? I'LL KILL YOU FOR THAT!!" That comment ticked him off more than any other he could remember. In a moment, Bakugo tackled Shoto beside the couch and pinned him to the ground. Ice spat from Shoto's hand, freezing one of Bakugo's in place. The two tussled uselessly, neither trying to cause enough damage the dorms and hurt Shigeo.