CAMPING

Bakugo furiously rubbed two sticks together. He still had splinters in his hair from when he had tried exploding the wood. A tent stood limply in the clearing, leaning precariously as the frail metal rods bent under the weight of the fabric.

Behind him, a veritable palace of canvas loomed over the treetops, with nightclub music and flashing lights pushing back the dreary, chill night. Bakugo scowled as a fresh wave of laughter rose over the din. The fury in Bakugo's glare spontaneously ignited the branches.

"Ha! Take that, robots! Your insidious plan to leave me out here to freeze to death alone has been thwarted by my finely-honed survival skills!"

A raincloud swooped in, sprinkled rain over Bakugo's campsite, and left the moment the embers of Bakugo's fire gutted out. Thoroughly drenched and so furious that steam rose from his spiky hair, Bakugo stomped off to find some dry wood. As he walked back with a bundle, he bumped into another student carrying their own bundle of firewood.

"Fancy seeing you out here, Bakugo," Monoma sneered as he picked up his wood. "Too good to slum it up with the rest of your 1-A classmates?"

Bakugo looked Monoma up and down. "You haven't fallen for the robot's lies. Guess you're smarter than I thought you were."

"That almost sounded like a compliment. So nice to see someone from 1-A humbling themselves to acknowledge their lesser brethren in the truly superior 1-B class."

"If they're so superior, why are they all in the Deku tent with my classmates?"

Monoma's smile turned brittle. "I'm sure that my classmates are merely indulging yours."

"We should work together. The robots are less likely to slit our throats and grind us up into spam that way."

"Right…" Monoma gave Bakugo the elevator stare and locked on to his head. "Any reason why you're wearing your sombrero in a goofy fashion?"

"I ran out of tin foil."

"That doesn't even… no, not going to say it. You do realize that attracts sea bears, right?"

Bakugo grinned. "I was counting on it. Once they arrive, the sea bears will be drawn to the noise, lights, and cubed cheese platters in Deku's tent, thereby tearing down the devious fortification and liberating our classmates inside!"

Leaves crunched and twigs snapped as a lumbering beast made its way into the clearing. Monoma dropped his twigs in fright while Bakugo rubbed his hands in glee. "See? It's happening."

With a wet plop, the sea bear, a bear-sized fish with a bear's head, flopped into the clearing. It gasped for air as it writhed on the ground.

"Oh, right, sea-bear," Monoma said. "Don't know why I was worried."

Bakugo lined up his kick. The bear shook its head and gave Bakugo a pleading look before Bakugo booted it towards the tent. Izuku's face grew out of the canvas, opened its mouth, and swallowed the sea-bear whole.

"You win this time, gadget!" Bakugo shouted. "But next time, you won't be so lucky!"

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Let's gather round the campfire, and sing our campfire song, our C-A-M-P-F-I-R-E-S-O-N-G song.