Episode 89

The morning after the High-End fight, the classroom is still replaying Endeavor's finishing move. Shoto arrives and tells Izuku his father is fine, and shrugs off Minoru's suggestion that he should be proud. Eraser Head walks in surprised to find everyone already seated, and starts by reminding the class that a provisional license still obliges them to behave like heroes, which is why he intends to raise the pressure. An alarm cuts him off: a drill, hypothetical intruders at Ground Beta, costumes on, move.

Smoke greets them. Anima, Earphone Jack, and Tentacole read the ground and report a collapsed building burning by the river, so a firefighting group assembles around Can't Stop Twinkling, Sugarman, Tsukuyomi, Shoto, and Ingenium, while Froppy and Grape Juice take the civilian being swept downstream. Creati builds a cart, Ingenium tows it, and the rest follow on foot. Katsuki drags a half-asleep Chargebolt in the opposite direction to hunt villains instead, with Red Riot trailing after them. The victim turns out to be Mirio, and a bridge is coming down on him, so Dark Shadow and a sugar-boosted Sugarman launch the rescue pair into place: Grape Rush holds the rubble, a tongue takes the target. A second blast forces improvisation on the fire, with Uravity floating Pinky, Cellophane slinging her in by tape, acid cutting a firebreak, Yuga's laser collapsing the structure to smother the flames, and Shoto sealing it under ice.

Then the villains show themselves. Nejire Chan blasts the ground team and snatches the weightless Pinky, while Suneater, cast as the second villain, gets stage fright and starts to wander off before Nejire reminds him of the job. A Nejire Wave scatters the responders behind Shoto's ice, the earth trembles on cue, and Mirio drops back into the river, pulling half the team away again. Suneater commits, sprouting wings, talons, tentacles, and a shell. Uravity releases Pinky's weightlessness to drag Nejire down, Invisible Girl blinds them both with Warp Refraction, and tape and a net gun finish the capture. Tailman gets grabbed but signals Deku, who charges a Smash and then deliberately misses, asking Suneater to surrender because he cannot make himself land the hit. The answer is a lunge. A car arrives, electrified by Chargebolt with a hardened Red Riot on the hood, who is blasted into Suneater's back, and Katsuki leaps off to pin the startled third-year. The drill is over, which does not stop Katsuki from detonating a blast that knocks out everyone nearby, earning him a robot escort to the faculty lounge. That night Enji dreams in his hospital bed of what came after his victory: Hawks catching him as he stumbled out of his pose, and Dabi stepping from the smoke. In the present, Dabi and Hawks meet in a warehouse with business to discuss.

Eraser Head raises the standard for Class 1-A now that they hold provisional licenses, then throws them straight into an unannounced rescue drill at Ground Beta.

Mirio, Nejire, and Tamaki play the bystander and the villains, giving the Big 3 a hands-on role in the exercise.

Deku pulls a Smash rather than strike Tamaki, admitting the blow would have meant hurting someone he cares about.

Katsuki blasts Suneater after the drill has already ended and is hauled off to the faculty lounge.

Enji's dream fills in the aftermath of the High-End fight, including Dabi's arrival, and the episode closes on Dabi and Hawks meeting in secret.

Season five opens here, and the episode is built almost wholly from anime-original material, drawing only a couple of pages each from Chapters 190 and 191. No.1 becomes the opening theme and Footprints the ending.

The "Team Rainy Day" grouping, with Mezo, Koji, and Kyoka scouting while Ochaco, Mina, and Hanta run a combination attack, was first floated back in Episode 80.

Katsuki's mushroom-cloud blast on Suneater nods to the running gag that ends every villain trio's defeat in Tatsunoko's Time Bokan franchise.