Iida wakes, bleary-eyed and groggy, when the lights brighten the next morning. Bakugou's still asleep, so he rises as silently as possible and heads to the other room. True to form, there are new clothes and fresh food, and he divides it all, this routine feeling almost normal to him by now.
He's sitting on his cot eating when Bakugou comes in, rubbing his eyes. "Spar?" he asks Iida, still looking half-asleep.
"Later," Iida says, mouth full. "Eat first."
Bakugou nods and tears open a bag of chips.
Iida's cot is against the wall where the bathroom door is, and he's sitting with his back to it. He is looking down, focusing on his food, when he notices a flicker of something out of the corner of his eye.
He lifts his head. The others are all still on their cots, oblivious. But in the middle of the wall in front of Iida, the wall directly opposite the bathroom, there is a door.
There wasn't a door there ten seconds ago.
Iida leaps to his feet and runs over. The others look up and, as soon as they see it too, join him.
The door looks identical to the one that leads to the bathroom, seemingly ordinary in every way. It was not installed overnight: Iida would have noticed it instantly, had it been there when he'd emerged from the bathroom. It has only just appeared - he can think of no other explanation.
Iida's torn only a moment, and glances at the others once, just to make sure they are at his side. Under normal circumstances he might hesitate to go through a door not knowing what lies on the other side, but he's terrified that this one might disappear, leaving him trapped; the unknown and all its risks are better than the same old two rooms.
Iida puts his hand on the knob and is relieved to find it's not an illusion. Then, shaking with excitement and nerves, he opens the door.
The door opens onto the foot of a staircase. It only leads up. To one side, before the staircase starts, is another door. He hesitates, wondering whether he should go up or to the side, when Bakugou reaches past him and throws the door wide open.
The room is small and empty - and very clearly a laundry room. There's a washer, a rack for hanging clothes, and an empty laundry basket on the floor.
"What the fuck," Bakugou mutters.
So up they go. Iida leads the way, more or less just because the stairs are narrow and he was the first one to step out of the door to begin with. There aren't that many steps, probably no more than twelve, but while climbing them the world seems to slow down until it feels like the trip up them has lasted for hours. As they climb they hear noises - indistinct voices and the muffled sound of what might be fighting in another room.
At the top of the stairs there are people - half a dozen or more police officers. As Iida watches, they lead three people out of a different room, one at a time - two men and one woman, their hands bound and eyes covered with tape, and that's when Iida realizes from whom that tape came, and feels a surge of joy.
"Sero?" he calls out, caution thrown to the wind.
That gets everyone's attention. The officers look over, and out of the other room darts Sero, dressed in his hero costume, eyes wide with surprise. "You guys!"
That's when it hits Iida, hits him for real - this is it, they're being rescued.
"Are you hurt at all?" Sero asks them, looking up and down each of them in turn.
"No," Iida says instantly. "None of us were injured."
"Good. Let's get you out of here." Sero turns toward the door. They are in someone's house, Iida thinks; it all looks so bizarrely normal. There's a couch and a television and a fridge and stove, and police officers swarming everywhere. "Follow me. We'll take you back to headquarters and explain everything."

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Days in a Crucible [BakuIida]
Fanfiction[Complete] While working together as pro heroes, Iida, Bakugou and Todoroki are taken captive. The situation is strange: none of their Quirks work, and they aren't tortured or killed - in fact, they never see their captors. There is nothing to do bu...