Another day of classes down, and another few hours of relaxation for Deku. Today, he was relaxing by playing Final Doom on his laptop, more specifically, the second episode, The Plutonia Experiment. Even more specifically, he was playing it via the GZDoom mod, which also had the Brutal Doom mod attached to it. Brutal Doom was a special mod that allowed one to play with enhanced graphics, more blood, more weapons…in short, more of everything. While he was enjoying this game, he heard knocking on his door, so he paused the game and got up to answer it.

"Shoko!"

Deku and Todoroki greeted each other with a big hug and kiss. No matter how many times they did this, it never got old.

"Glad to see you too, Deku!"

"Come on in!"

Deku led Todoroki into his dorm.

"So, what's up?" asked Todoroki.

"Not much. I was just relaxing by playing some Doom."

Todoroki gasped and put her hands over her mouth.

"OH MY GOSH!" she exclaimed. "I LOVE DOOM! Tell me, do you create your own WADs for it?"

Deku smiled. "I do, as a matter of fact!"

"Super cool! You HAVE to show me one!"

"OK, just let me save my game here and I'll show you one I created."

Deku saved his game, exited Final Doom and opened up Doom with one of the WADs he'd created for the game.

"OK, so what's this WAD called?" asked Todoroki.

"It's called Operation: Bloodfeast, and it adds a whole new challenge to the usual Doom game."

Todoroki stroked her chin. "Sounds intriguing. What sort of challenge?"

"Why don't we find out? Here, have a seat."

Todoroki sat in Deku's chair, and she proceeded to start the game. For the first level, she was in a small room, so she opened the door immediately ahead of her and stepped out into a large arena, where she heard the sound of a door opening. She went to investigate, only to get a nasty surprise…

"OH MY GOD! WHY ARE THERE FOUR CYBERDEMONS!?"

Having only a pistol, Todoroki did her best to dodge the Cyberdemons' rockets while trying to blow them away with just a pistol. Soon enough, she came to the realization that she was going to need more firepower if she was to have any hope of stopping those Cyberdemons, so she looked around the room, trying to open whatever door she could find, only all of them were locked.

"NO! How am I supposed to defeat those things!?"

Despite Todoroki's best efforts, she eventually ended up getting killed by the Cyberdemons. All the while, Deku was laughing at her, much to her chagrin:

"Deku, that was mean! Why would you do something like that to somebody!?"

Deku continued to laugh. "I'm sorry; I just like messing with people sometimes!"

Todoroki glared at Deku and growled before putting him in a headlock and attempting to tear his head off, much to his dismay:

"Hey, what are you doing!? Shoko, stop that!"

"Yeah, you think it's funny to mess with your girlfriend now!?"

"OK! OK! I'm sorry! Stop doing that!"

Todoroki let go of Deku, and she gave him a look of concern:

"Deku, promise me you won't do anything mean like that again?"

Deku nodded. "I promise. I didn't intend for it to be so hurtful; I just like creating prank WADs like that as a joke."

"I understand. Next time, please warn me before you do anything like that, OK?"

Deku smiled and gave a thumbs up. "OK!"

Todoroki smiled as well. "Now then, why don't I show you a WAD that I created?"

Deku's look turned serious. "This isn't gonna be revenge for pranking you, is it?"

Todoroki gave a dismissive hand flap. "Relax! It's not mean or anything, but it is challenging."

"I can't wait to see it, then!"

Todoroki took a flash drive that she wore as a pendant around her neck, and then she plugged it into Deku's computer before loading a WAD called Bloodlust Maze. Deku then sat down at his laptop.

"OK, let's see how this goes…"

Deku proceeded to play the WAD that Todoroki loaded. Unlike the prank WADs that he usually made, this one was more intricate in its execution, requiring the player to solve elaborate puzzles in order to advance. Both episodes of Final Doom were challenging enough, but this one made it look like a cakewalk, not because of the enemies that were present, but because the solutions to the puzzles really required the player to think. With a lot of sheer determination, though, Deku managed to beat the first level.

"Phew, that was tough! Shoko, how do you manage to come up with something like this?"

"I often daydream level designs while in class, and then I sketch them out and spend time refining them in SLADE3."

Deku smiled. "Sounds like you put a lot of thought into it."

"It's not always easy, but I find it's very rewarding."

"I'll say! And I'm glad we found something new to bond over!"

"You and me both!"

Deku and Todoroki continued to spend time not only talking about and playing Doom, but also thinking up new ideas for WADs.

Criticism is gold. Negativity and nitpicking are pyrite.