Pastimes of the Invisible Girl

Yuki Onna

So, the worst had happened. He'd seen her spying on him naked outside his window and more or less shouted it to the rooftops by calling her 'ginger tits' at the top of his lungs. He thought her a creepy pervy stalker and she still thought he was the cat's meow. But, then, she had never considered having a 'chance' with him, though her little crushing girly heart didn't give a rat's ass what logic thought, so yeah, it was depressing.

Point was, life was supposed to continue on. They'd get wrapped up in hero studies again, especially the passionately dedicated Bakugo, and her trespass would be more or less forgotten.

But, Bakugo ended up, through some sadistic twist of fate, in her group during natural disaster rescue practice. They ended up in the snow and ice section specifically because the cold was both of their weaknesses. Their other two members included Koda and Tsuyu, both of which were nearly helpless in the cold. The whole exercise was about coming up with a strategy for one's weakness.

Tsuyu was already slipping into hibernation when the jeep dropped them off.

Since Toru was the one holding her up and slapping her in an attempt to keep her conscious, she gave the first cuss.

"How do they even have a frozen section?" She looked around at the walls enclosing their area, along with the mini-Mount Everest in the center. Ceiling fans mimicked blizzard-like winds next to snow-making machines. "Just how much did this all cost to make? Come ON, Tsu!"

"Just push the rescue button for her, she's a goner," said Bakugo, looking right cozy in his winter hero costume.

Toru shuddered. She hadn't had a winter costume, so only her boots protected her from the snow. The air gnawed on the rest of her. "I have to at least give her a chance. Effort counts."

Bakugo rolled his eyes and his shoulders. "Whatever. You and Dolittle get going, I can handle this by myself." Bakugo took the first step off the road and into the snowdrifts. His foot sunk to his knee.

Koda, teeth chattering, just looked about. "I g-guess m-m-my quirk was never much use i-i-n this building..."

"Maybe they put, like, snow foxes in here for you, they'd have to give you that much for this to be fair-"

"Or the Yeti," said Bakugo, who hadn't gotten too far ahead. "Buzz off already, I don't need to rescue you extras on top of the victims."

Toru just groaned. Her jaw ached from the effort to hold still.

"Oh, come on, Tsu!" And she was even wearing more layers than her. Not hard to do when you wore nothing.

"It-t-t-t's okay, I can at l-l-least go with him," said Koda in his ever soft voice.

Toru dropped her head back. "This is so unfair..." then a thought occurred to her. When light bounced off a mirror, it could warm up stuff. That's basically how solar ovens worked. Lightbulbs, the sun-though those things probably had something more than light. But light was energy, wasn't it? Maybe if she reflected as much light as possible into a point, kind of like her flash, but focus it more inward instead of just outside her body...

Koda waded after Bakugo through the snow and Toru pressed her froggy friend's rescue button. Then, she hunkered down for warmth and did her best to focus.

Her first attempts just made more flashes. It brought out the details of the megalithic walls of the enclosure quite well. Them were some big bolts. Yep.

If her teeth chattered any harder, she was going to lose brain cells as her brain got smashed against her skull in jackhammer fashion.

More flashes. At this rate, she'd just have to let herself be picked up with Tsu.