The Art of Disappearing

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It's Day One of our little forest adventure, and while everyone else is gearing up for an all-out brawl, I'm gearing up for something much more... interesting.

The group's moving through the woods like a pack of lost puppies instead of trained and well teamed up wolfs, how ridiculous, all wide-eyed and serious, as if Aizawa-sensei and Vlad King are going to jump out from behind every tree. 

Please, we're not even out of sight of the drop zone yet. 

Relax.

The teachers ain't that mean to attack us immediately.

They gonna watch us a bit.

I hang back, letting the "leaders" do their thing. Bakugo's already trying to blast his way through the trees because, of course, he thinks that's how you scout an area. And Iida's busy giving orders no one's really listening to.

...and here I'm just waiting. Biding my time.

After all, chaos doesn't just happen. It has to be... orchestrated.

Iida: We must maintain a tight formation! Aizawa-sensei could be anywhere!


He's waving his arms around like we're in a tactical briefing. Seriously, I think he's watched too many military movies.

Yeah, sure. 

Aizawa-sensei's totally gonna jump out from behind that bush and start shouting 'surprise!'

Cause that is just his thing.... you know.... that's how our teacher did train us....... 

Jumping out of a bush like a dog and bark at people.....

Hey Kacchan, wanna learn something from the man?

No?

Why?

You would be a fine Pomeranian tho....

No?

Alright....

I let them do their thing, not really listening. I've already scouted the area in my head, mapped it out from day one, I am not stupid like the others not to look around while we got here by bus....., and—more importantly—figured out how I'm going to make my exit without anyone noticing.

Kaminari: Yo, Midobro! You got any big-brain ideas for how we take down Aizawa-sensei?

Oh, I've got ideas all right. 

Me: Uh, yeah, let's... stick to the plan for now. We'll fan out and search for traps. After that try corner them.... Stay alert!

Kaminari nods, looking like I just dropped some tactical genius on him. Poor guy.

Now, for the fun part.

I ease back, slowly letting the group get ahead of me. The key to disappearing is to be invisible in plain sight. You don't run off like some cartoon villain cackling into the trees. No, you wait. You let the others get distracted.

And as luck would have it, there's my distraction.

Monoma: Of course, Class 1-A is so disorganized! If I were in charge—

Oh, Monoma. 

The gift that keeps on giving.

You asshole can never shut up but hey, this time I am appreciating it so keep going....

Go on...

Go on and real up Kacchan...

Let the dog bark and bite this time too!

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