ENTER: HIFUMI TAKEDA, stepping out of a lift. He's dressed oddly, and his parents said so when he left the house today.

CUT TO: HIFUMI's home. He steps out of his room and approaches the door, pausing as his mother calls.

MRS TAKEDA: Why are you dressed like that?
HIFUMI: What's wrong with my outfit?

MRS TAKEDA squints. HIFUMI's Japanese sounds off. Different. Something's different.

MRS TAKEDA: I don't know. It's just not something that you'd usually wear.

She shrugs.

MRS TAKEDA: Where are you going?
HIFUMI, guardedly: I'm going to meet Hailey.
MRS TAKEDA: Have fun! Remember not to -
HIFUMI, hastily: Got it. Love you, mom!

CUT TO: HIFUMI, knocking on the door. There is only one door on this floor. He pauses, takes a breath, and knocks on it again. He's muttering in Polish under his breath. The door opens, and he sees FAITH KANG is standing in the door. She looks him over, eyes wide, and takes a few steps back, beckoning him in. MINERVA KIM, HAILEY CHANG, MAXINE NGUYEN and EDITH LEE are seated beside one another on her immense couch, eyes blank, bodies limp, staring at nothing in particular.

HIFUMI: ... Spherethirst?
FAITH: Yeah. Yeah, why not. Have a seat, dude. Get a drink. Hailey's - uh, my kitchen's well-stocked.
HIFUMI: So, you're a hivemind?
FAITH: Laugh it up, faggot.

The slur sounds odd coming out from the mouth of a skinny waif of a girl.

FAITH: I'm having enough trouble adjusting to one body, and now I have five. It's a nightmare. Have you used your quirk yet?
HIFUMI: No.
FAITH: Me neither. I haven't used any of my quirks.

She cracks a smile.

FAITH: Fuck, five quirks. That's... kinda insane.

There's another knock on the door. FAITH crosses the floor to the door and opens it, revealing CHRISTOPHER CAIN and SALLY MCCATHY. They both seem to start as FAITH answers the door, but file in gamely. FAITH makes as if to close the door, then shakes her head.

FAITH: Fuck it. Might as well leave it open.
CHRIS, uncertainly: Who else is here? I got a message from Inigo-anon. Uh, Inigo, I guess. He said Hoge is here too.
SALLY: Noah's here, too.
HIFUMI: I got Bobby. He confirmed Chihiro, Imai, Sandatsu, Jugo, and Kaylee. Shinkan asked him if he was okay, so not him.

HIFUMI looks at his phone, swiping through his contacts.

HIFUMI: I have all of 1-D in my contacts, actually.
CHRIS: You should contact the others. If Sally's here, then the android should be here too.
FAITH: She never writefagged any connections.
SALLY: I don't even remember what her name is.

The beating of wings catches them all off-guard as a massive green dragon lands on HAILEY's balcony, disgorging INIGO MYOGA, IMAI SOUJYUURO, YUI SAGARA and ASHLEIGH KATSURAGI. The green dragon shrinks, collapsing into a much smaller silhouette which then flops onto INIGO's shoulder. Its eyes are disturbingly human-like. Forgetting himself, CHRIS elbows past YUI and stares down at the dragon, which looks back, befuddled. It has a shell-shocked demeanour.

CHRIS: Holy shit...
INIGO, laughing: I know, right?
SALLY: You're going to get written up for unauthorized quirk usage.
INIGO: We'll cross that bridge when we come to that. I need to go and get Saber-chama. Fuck! Chihiro. I meant Chihiro.

As INIGO disappears into the distance again, HOGE NYORO shimmers into view. IMAI whips around and receives a thumbs-up from her.

IMAI: You good?
HOGE, panting: This was much more fun to writefag.
YUI: Did anyone get run over by a car? I got run over by a car.
FAITH: Not me. I just went to bed one night and woke up like this.
HIFUMI, interrupting: They are alive, aren't they?

He's staring at the four catatonic teenage girls.

FAITH: Yeah, they're breathing.
YUI: I got run over by a car.
SALLY: Shit, that sucks.
YUI: You're saying I'm the only one who had to go through a traumatic experience to get isekai'd?
CHRIS: I think I might have had a stroke.
HIFUMI: Stabbing pain in my chest.
IMAI: We probably shouldn't be talking about this.
ASHLEIGH: Mio needs to be dealt with.
SALLY: Is it just Class 1-D that got, y'know -
HIFUMI: Isekai'd? Yeah. I think so. Only not all of them got, I dunno, overwritten. Shinkan is the same as he always was. Does anyone want to try contacting -
ASHLEIGH: I tried the rest. Hiro, Tame and Sora aren't.
FAITH: Okay, twenty out of twenty-four, sixteen if you discard the four dead weights on the couch.
CHRIS: How's that work, though?
FAITH: I have no idea. I can only operate one body at a time right now. Don't even have the capacity to use any quirk. Don't want to try.
YUI: We'll table that for later. Has the Night Parade -
SALLY: I don't think so.

The lift doors behind them open. BOBBY SAMSON, SANDATSU OWARI, JUGO SON and KAYLEE SUZUKI walk in. BOBBY is in his pyjamas. Most of them look visibly disheveled. Glances are exchanged as everyone sizes one another up.

BOBBY: This is so, so fucked up.
IMAI, almost to himself: And we need to get Sandatsu out of his mother's clutches -

A small boy with massive wings alights on the balcony. More heads, turning. The lift doors open again, revealing a girl with several hissing snake-tails. As NOAH ABRAMS stumbles indoors, visibly adjusting to his greatly decreased stature, INIGO lands as well, a red-eyed girl in tow.

CHIHIRO MITSURUGI: Hi, anons.