"Mineta has been expelled." Kan declared. The students of Class 1B almost stopped breathing. The classroom was deathly silent.

"What?! How?!" Itsuka Kendo exclaimed.

The class errupted with voices that demanded more information.

"Quiet down!" Kan bellowed.

The noise almost immedately lowered to a murmur.

"Thank you. Mineta was expelled on the grounds of him hiding in the ladies' locker room. There is spot open in A Class for the Heroics Course. Does anyone know what this means for you?" The students erupted into half of them into whispers and the other half into loud whoops and cheers.

"Hush! Raise your hand if you want to answer." Kan scolded once again.

Kan looked around the classroom for a raised hand. Neito Monoma raised his hand lazily, as if he had all the time in the world.

"Yes, Monoma." The blond teen smirked smugly. "Why, it means an all out battle for the top."

"Correct. As of right now, the method of choosing the new student is undecided. Be prepared for anything."

A brunette raised her hand. "Yes, Kendo." "I have two if you'll oblige me Mr. Kan. Would you give us an estimation of when the decision will be reached?" She asked politely.

"The offical decision will be made between the end of this semester and the begining of the next. Unofficially, teachers will be making decisions throughout the semester on who they will promote. Second question if you still remember it, Kendo." The teacher said the last part teasingly.

Several of the other students chuckled. Kendo was infamous for forgetting questions. Kendo flushed slightly at the laughter, but kept her composure. "Which teachers decisions will carry the most weight?"

"Eraserhead, All Might, and Principal Nedzu." Kan said. Several of the class quickly wrote down the three names in their note books.

"Will the students of the class have a say in who is accepted?" Setsuna questioned.

"They will undoubtedly influence AllMight's and Aizawa's decision. And if you get into the class, you will be their classmate and subject to consequences of your previous actions and peer pressure." Kan explained.

"Makes sense," several of Kan's students muttered.

"Is there anything that we can do to make ourselves more likely to be chosen?" Kinoko asked. Her face mostly covered by long bangs as usual.

"I would suggest to study more than usual, to get your grades up. Also to train combatives harder then you ever have before. Considering that the students have a say in the matter, try not to be as... agressive towards them as some of you usually are." Kan took on a lecturing tone as he advised his students.

The bell rang. "Alright everyone, lunch time. Don't break the walls or floors as you head to the cafeteria."

The class joined the steam of students that were heading to the cafeteria. Once they escaped the jostle of elbows, they started hatching their individual plans to rise to the top.

1A Class trooped into the cafeteria and immediately felt uneasy. The other students kept glancing at them secretively, like A Class were the guards in a POW camp.

Many of them began cozying up to the 1-A students, buying them cookies or offering to help with homework.

All the students outside of 1A avoided Bakugou like the plague. The reason was simple, if someone who wasn't his classmate tried be overly friendly to him they'd at least end up with a broken nose and need therapy (if the human bomb felt charitable that day).

"So what do you think about the students trying to bribe us? Personally, I think that it is very unlike a hero to bribe someone for a position that you want. If you want something that badly, you should work for it." Tenya said, in his typical short monologue fashion.

"I agree, Iida. You should work for what you want so you appreciate it when you do receive it." Momo replied.

"I-I can see why theyre doing it. They'll do almost anything to get into the Heroics Course. And if they do make it, they'll be with us as classmates." Midoriya said carefully. "If they have enemies in 1A, it could be a reallly big problem for them. From their point of view, we could purposefully trip them up in exercises, or gossip and ruin their reputation, or-" Midoriya's mumbling was cut off.

"STOP MUMBLING, DEKU." Bakugou shouted in annoyance.

"The cookies are a bonus though." Uraraka cheerfully declared as she ate another chocolate chip cookie. The rest of the students gave her a look of 'really, Uraraka'.

"Who do you think would be most compatible with the class?" Tenya questioned.

"Kendo from Class B?" Uraraka suggested. Tsuyu nodded in agreement.

"She is very nice!" Mina said.

"How about that copycat guy from the cavalry battle? He's pretty smart." Sero chimed in.

"Although he does have a habit of making our ticking bomb explode." Kirishima said with a laugh.

Bakugou glared at Sero for the suggestion of the annoying ' annoying smug blonde' (as Neito had been nicknamed).

"What about Shinsou?" Midoriya unconfidently proposed.

"Shinsou would be a good person to fill Mineta's spot, he is quite powerful, and he doesn't seem have any large grudges against any of our classmates." Tenya reasoned.

"Other than Midoriya." Momo reminded him.

"He only ignored me. He didn't put me down outside of the match." Midoriya protested.

"I am concerned for him as well, he is always so tired. If he joins our class, I- er, we can help him." Tenya stated.

"He also doesn't really seem to have friends." Mina said, her bright voice was unusually sad.

"Well...Bakugou doesn't have any friends." Sero half joked.

"Shut up! I don't need friends." Bakugou yelled.

"What am I then?" Kirishima muttered.

"Bakugou has friends, he just doesn't want to believe it. Some did go after him when the league of villain captured him." Tokoyami quietly said. The entire table went silent.

Bakugou glared at Tokoyami for the reminder but remained silent as well.

"This isn't a charity case, we need to select the next student of class 1-A based on skill and their ability to mesh with the rest of us." Todoroki reminded them with a frown. "That said, I agree with your choice of Shinsou."

"But let's not tell anyone just yet, because, you know, cookies and free lunch." Ukaraka piped up.

"Also, people will mess with him if we say anything now." Kirishima agreed.

"So it's settled, Shinsou it is!" Mina declared happily.

"If he is who the teachers choose as well." Todoroki muttered.

There was an uncomfortable lull in the conversation, but it was quickly broken by Ukaraka. "What's your favorite kind of cookie, Tenya?"

"I enjoy sugar cookies, my mother makes the best I've ever had!" He smiled. "How about yourself?" He asked her.

"The chocolate chip ones they make here are delicious! What about everyone else? What do you guys like?" Uraraka asked with a smile.

"I love snickerdoodles!" Mina offered.

"Me too!" Toru piped up.

"Ginger snaps are nice too." Kaminari added.

"I like shortbread cookies." Midoriya quietly said.

"You guys have probably never heard of them, but I love empire cookies." Kirishima exclaimed.

"What are those?" Jiro questioned, twirling one of her jacks.

"It's like a...sweet thin biscuit? They're from the U.K." Kirishima explained.

"Oh, I've eaten one of those. They're good. I like eating raisin cookies." Momo said, a small smile on her face at remembering many holidays she spent baking for herself and her family.

"I used to try and convince my mom to let me eat oatmeal cookies for breakfast. She never let me, she always said it would give me a stomach ache." Sero laughed at himself.

Several of the students chuckled at the story.

"My siblings and I used to make peanut butter cookies when we were younger." Todoroki offered.

"Hey Bakugou, what's your favorite?" Sero asked.

Bakugou rolled his eyes. "Gingerbread with an added five jalapenos per cup." Came the flat answer.

"Only you could like that atrocity." Kirishima teased.

"That's just a vehicle to get peppers into your mouth, why don't you just eat the pepper itself? It'd be way easier then baking them into the cookie." Mina suggested, shaking her head.

"Jalapenos go well with gingerbread and chocolate. Don't diss my baking skills or I won't make extra food tonight." Bakugou angrily threatened.

"Okay, okay, sheesh, no need to threaten us!" Kaminari exclaimed, putting his hands up in mock surrender.

"Oreos are good too, I get them a lot." Ojiro said.

"Do Oreos really count as cookies?" Ukaraka pondered.

"Yes." "No." Came several replies from the rest of A class.

"Why wouldn't they be?" Ojiro demanded of his classmates. "The package says they're cookies!"

"But they get produced in mass quantities. They have lost the heart of what being a cookie means." Uraraka replied dramatically. "Hear, hear." The students who agreed quietly.

"Being a cookie means getting sugar into my mouth in a delicious manner!" "Hear, hear." Students who agreed with Kirishima muttered.

"Sato! What do you think? Cookie or not?!" Mina excitedly asked.

"Well-" Sato began.

A low ring clashed through the thoughts of the A class students who anxiously had been waiting for Sato's answer. All of the students in the cafeteria sprung to their feet and ran to class.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Sorry for not having Shinsou in this chap. XD Just wait, he'll get some story time soon.

To SoulMatter:XD, I completely agree. Ps. Plz tone down the cursing tho

To SaltyCandy:Sorry for the current lack of Shinsou, just wait for him to get here.

-Silver