Izuku rolled out the large piece of paper emblazoned with the name "Battle Plan". Mei and Izuku had both contributed equally, with Mei even complimenting Izuku's dedication to the battle.
"This look good?" he asked.
Mei nodded. "Yes. Perfect. Great job!" she said, clapping him on the back. "I knew you'd do what was needed for my babies!"
He nodded at her. "They're not winning."
"Let's go."
The two went to work, building, moving, and even destroying, all to turn Mei's house into their castle. Because as Izuku's dad once told him, in real life, castles were death traps. Windows were either blocked, or strategically trapped. Doors primed. Even the sidewalk was sprayed with some highly slick zero-friction liquid.
"How much time do we have?" Mei asked.
Izuku looked at the clock. "Five hours."
"We're running out of time. Here." She handed him the saw. "You handle the stairs to the basement. After that, focus on that side." She pointed. "I'll handle it here."
"Wait," Izuku said. Mei always told him what to do. She'd never just… "You sure I can–"
Her smile was different from her normal mania. Warmer. "Of course! You've shown yourself more than capable of this, lab partner!"
Izuku opened his mouth to speak. When no words came, he settled for a nod. He walked toward his station, stopping only to say, "Watch out for anything dangerous! And get out of the way if it's about to explode!"
"I will, I will!" she said.
Izuku nodded, then ran off to his work.
Hours later:
Compress stopped his car a few blocks away and walked through the woods. The Hatsume house would have some fine objects to take. Unfortunately the trade secrets were a bit too traceable for his taste. Besides, the police were far more likely to shrug off standard burglary than corporate espionage.
He couldn't be too careful, especially with those morons lurking about…
It's time.
Dabi and Tomura both crept around the back. "Any sign of parents?" said All for One from their earpieces.
"Nope," Dabi said. He and Tomura reached the door and paused.
"Who goes first?" Tomura asked. "They might have alarms. You should go first."
They heard small footsteps and voices inside.
"Kids," Tomura hissed.
"Wait, I have an idea. Kids are stupid, right?" said Dabi.
Tomura grinned. "Yeah." He knocked. "Kamino Pizza service!"
"This isn't Kamino," a girl said inside.
"Oh? It's not?" said Dabi. "Oh my…we must have taken a wrong turn at–"
"Albuquerque," said All for One.
"Albuquerque!" said Dabi. "We're so sorry. Could you let us in so we can find a map? Our phones died."
"Sure," the girl said. "Just stand right in front of the doggy door."
"Wonderful," Dabi said with a grin. He stood right in front of the door and– "Why did she specify the–"
A small hand lifted a pot of boiling water out the door and poured it on Dabi's foot. "AEEEIIIII!" Dabi screamed, jumping up and down.
"Show some dignity will you," Tomura said, shoving him aside. He grabbed the door with his crowbar, reading to just pull it open. Another pot came out. Tomura effortlessly kicked it aside, spilling the water. "Ha! Take that you stupid–"
The pan slammed down on Tomura's toes. While still boiling hot. "AHHHH!" Now Tomura jumped up and down.
"Take that! Death to those who try to steal my babies!" the girl said from within.
"Oh that is it!" Tomura said. "You get through here! I'm going around front!" He grabbed his walkie talkie. "Boss!"
"Oh I heard," All for One said in a voice suspiciously similar to someone trying to hold in laughter. But that couldn't be it. Surely Sensei would never laugh at their pain. "Go in and good luck. I have full faith in your abilities. And remember as always, snitching on someone, even an outcast, is considered the ultimate offense in the underworld."
"Of course. Why are you saying that?"
"No reason."
Tomura went around the front. The door was right there, his for the taking. Inside, he heard a boy cry out. "Come and get me!" There was the sound of the door…unlocking?
Wow this kid was stupid. "With pleasure brat!" Tomura said. He took a step onto the porch…and immediately fell on his back. "Ow!"
"What's that?" the boy said. "I thought you were going to come get me?"
"Oh you little… That's it! I'm gonna remind you why brats like you are scared of the dark!"
"I doubt that."
Tomura got up on the porch only to faceplant again. The porch was covered in a layer of green slime, which seeped into Tomura's hair. Every time he tried to get up, his limbs slid out. Tomura was forced to drag himself forward on his belly. Worst of all, one of the brats actually laughed!
"Mei, this is serious."
"But–but he looks so funny!" the girl said. "The zero friction liquid worked!"
Tomura was going to kill her. Tomura was going to kill both of them!
The door had a sign saying, "Kids are here. Open door."
"Cute," Tomura said. "When I get in there I'm going to–AIIIII!" The moment he put his hand on the door, electricity seared through his body. He spent several seconds writhing there before he finally let go, lying on his back.
"Ow."
Dabi pried and pried at the door, trying to open it with his crowbar. Alas, the door held. He tried again and again, but the door wouldn't budge!
His hand slipped and pushed down on the doorknob. The door…budged? Dabi grabbed the handle and pushed. The door was unlocked. Ha! Dabi opened the door. Stupid ki–
The moment he entered, a blowtorch went off. On his head. Dabi's resulting scream was very dignified, as was his mad rush out to shove his hair in the snow. Dabi got up. He was going to– Why was the snow black?
Dabi felt his hair, only to see dye smeared on his hands. Those brats! They'd exposed his real hair color! He'd sworn no one could see his hair until he revealed it to his father! "I'll kill those kids!"
"Hahahahaha!" Mei rolled over laughing. "You're right! The blowtorch did work!"
Izuku nodded. They had repelled the first wave. Now, they'd have to repel another. They'd move with caution. These criminals were big and strong, as expected. On the other hand, Izuku admitted he hadn't expected them to be such idiots.
Mei looked to him. "You ready your part, and I'll get mine."
Izuku nodded. "Got it!" He ran to the door to the basement, priming the trap by the open door, after making sure Mei's sign was there.
Dabi charged at the door and threw it open, pulling the blowtorch from its perch. "I'll murder those–" He stepped on a rake and slammed himself in the nose. "Kidff," he said. He marched forward. "Oh no, don't come in here!" said a boy's voice from the basement.
The basement door was open and barricaded with–was that a pillow fort? "You kids are out of luck!" he said. On the door was a sign saying, "Do not enter."
Smirking, Dabi barreled through the pillows. As they fell away he found himself on a sled braced on the stairs. At his steps, the sled was knocked off balance, slipping off its brace and going down the stairs with Dabi on it.
Dabi did not scream the entire way down, and certainly not when he slammed into the wall at the edge of the stairs. Fortunately, a light pillow was there to slightly break his collision. As Dabi lay there he saw a sign saying, "I warned you."
Rage stewed. Next to the pillow was a sign saying "Sometimes my conscience kinda bothers me."
Dabi tore it down. "Mine won't with what I'm going to do with you!" He looked up and saw a walkie talkie on the top of the stairs. Dabi stepped on the stairs, only for his shoe to catch. Was that…tar? He struggled to get his shoe free, eventually leaving it on the stair. Along with his other one. And his sock. And–
Dabi's foot sunk into a nail. He fell backward, screeching like Fuyumi when she was mad at him. Dabi hurried back up, this time taking note of a sign saying, "Stay off the center." When the tar was on the sides. Like that would fool–
Dabi got to the non tar portions, only for the steps to collapse under his weight, having been sawed in the middle. He fell to the floor of the basement, slamming into the ground right next to another mattress.
Another sign said, "Not this time!"
Izuku had been scared when the first robber made it inside the house. But behind his fear lurked a self-righteous fury. How dare these two try to kidnap Mei, his first and only friend? Crouched at the top of the stairs, he listened to the distant screams with a grim satisfaction.
Next to him, Mei took notes and muttered in glee about testing her babies. She seemed to have no fear at all. That was just like her.
A creak alerted Izuku to the other person in the hallway: an adult man dressed like Santa with the trademark red suit and obviously fake white beard. The only odd touch to his outfit was the black magician's hat on his head. It had a white tassel glued on. How had this man gotten past all the traps? The fake Santa removed a painting from the wall and shoved it into the black bag on his back.
Izuku grabbed Mei's arm and pointed. "Look!"
Mei turned around. "Go ahead, as long as you don't touch my babies. Mom always hated that painting."
Izuku hissed, "Uhh Mei? Shouldn't we be against Santa robbing your house?"
Mei shrugged. "Don't worry. Mom always hated that painting."
"Why, thank you," the fake Santa said. "Here are some toys for the good children who don't report Santa to the police." He muttered, "Not that they'd believe you anyway." He placed down a doll, a puzzle, marbles, and…did he just give them a grenade?
"My grenade!" Mei said. She glared at the fake Santa. "What were you doing with my baby?"
"I only stumbled on that and thought it was a treasure. It's all yours. I don't have any use for them."
"Ok!"
Fake Santa winked. "Good luck. Quite the crew, aren't those two? Pro tip: the two of them are easy to turn against each other, and the scarred one fears water like a cat." Then he slipped out the window and vanished into the night.
Dabi crawled out of the basement, swearing and vowing revenge. From this day forth, his hatred of Shouto had been expanded to all children!
Just as Dabi flung open the basement door, he heard a piercing scream. He'd opened the door at the same time Tomura had broken a window and crawled through. Tomura had gotten his coat caught on the tar on the windowsill, slipped, lost his shoes to the tar on the floor, stepped on multiple mousetraps hidden by balloons and other stuffed animals along the floor, before running his face straight into the door as Dabi opened it.
The door rebounded on Dabi's foot. He hopped, swearing up a storm.
Rolling on the floor, still clutching his bleeding nose, Tomura shouted, "What was that for? You just got me worse than the evil brats!"
Dabi sneered. "You shouldn't have gotten in my way."
Tomura slowly climbed to his feet. "Since it's come to this, we need to work together. We can't let a pair of elementary-schoolers defeat us. As a team, we can disable the traps, grab the loot, and murder those two brats."
Dabi considered. Tomura would make a great meat shield against the traps. "Sounds like a plan."
Little did Dabi know that Tomura was thinking the exact same thing.
Tomura approached a door that said, "Emergency hiding spot."
"Kids are stupid," he said as he turned the doorknob. He opened the door, only for a robot to smash its arm down with a hammer. The hammer slammed into Tomura's foot, who screamed higher than Shouto as a baby.
Dabi laughed at his partner's misfortune…until the robot fired its flamethrower, causing him to hit the dirt.
"Crush, kill, destroy," a girl's voice said from the robot as it moved forward. Tomura and Dabi both bravely ran in the other direction as fast as they could while the robot hit a wall.
"Darn it! I didn't check its mobility!" the girl's voice said. "Oh well, at least its flamethrower worked."
What was wrong with kids today? Such violent brats!
The two of them approached the stairway leading to the second floor, moving slowly because they both wanted the other one to go first. Waiting at the bottom, they both glared at each other.
"What? Scared of some stairs?" Dabi taunted.
"Of course I'm not scared." Tomura sneered. "You're the one who's scared of children."
"I'm not scared of children! I hate children!"
"According to your story, your little brother basically kicked your butt as a baby."
"That's not what happened at all!" Dabi scowled and put his foot down on the first step. "They're just weak brats. You really think some dumb kid can–"
A paint can hit Dabi in the face, sending him falling.
Tomura screeched, "Watch where you're–" Dabi landed on top of Tomura, sending them both crashing onto the ground. Maniac giggling from the devil children drifted down the stairs.
"I meant to do that," Dabi insisted, cross-eyed.
Tomura shouted, "Get off me!" Shoving Dabi off, he started walking up the stairs. "Thanks for finding the trap, you idio–"
A second paint can beamed Tomura on his injured nose. Arms flailing, he fell on top of Dabi.
Voice muffled by the idiot lying on top of him, Dabi growled, "You were saying?"
"Shut up!" Tomura snapped.
Their earphones from All for One had gone oddly silent, but a distant noise could be heard on the other end…like static or someone choking with laughter.
In a fury, Dabi and Tomura leapt up and ran back up the stairs. Tomura stepped on a stair that went click. "Ah-ha, another trap! Not today!" He leapt away and pushed Dabi onto the suspicious stair instead.
Alas, by avoiding the fake trap, Tomura landed on the real one–a bear trap.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Tomura screamed as the metal clamped around his leg. As he fell, he grabbed Dabi and dragged him down with him. Dabi elbowed Tomura so he would end up on top. They once again landed in a pile of twisted limbs at the bottom.
At least the devil brats had (slightly) padded the bear trap. That way Tomura could still walk.
A bear trap had seemed a bit too far to Izuku–at least until the robbers had shouted about killing Mei. Izuku had persuaded Mei to set up the click on the step to make it seem trapped. He'd also carefully filed and padded off the edges of the trap, hoping it wouldn't maim them. At least, not permanently. Although judging from the screams below, they hadn't appreciated his kindness.
The robbers seemed like gluttons for punishment. Even though the blue-haired one still had the padded bear trap around his leg, they went for the stairs again.
Izuku raised the grenade the thief had given them, pulled the pin, and threw it. The two thieves hugged each other and screamed. After several seconds the screams faded. The grenade had failed to go off–a dud.
"Sorry, I can never get my grenades to explode," Mei said with a little shrug.
"But everything else you make–" Wait. Izuku grabbed Mei's custom fire extinguisher off the wall, shook it, knocked it into the wall, and threw it down the stairs.
A loud BOOM rocked the stairway. The thieves tried to ducked behind each other, but the impact of the foam was strong enough to send them both flying down the stairs. The blue haired one landed on top this time because Hair Dye had tried to use him as a shield.
"Why are her grenades the only thing she made that doesn't explode? Even the fire extinguisher does it." Izuku muttered.
"What do fire extinguishers have to do with my hand grenades?" Mei said with a smile that was a tad too excited for Izuku's taste.
"Never mind."
Next to Izuku, Mei fired a stream of tennis balls from her handmade gun. The balls rained down on the robbers. Between the slippery, wet floor and the endless stream of projectiles, the robbers kept falling down every time they tried to get up. They both looked ridiculous, with foam covering their heads and faces like Santa hair and beards. The two morons kept trying to use each other to climb up, so that every time one of them got to his feet, the other one would grab him and drag him down.
One of Mei's balls hit Dabi's forehead, and he wailed. Jotting a note in her notebook, she said, "When he saw the attack coming, he made a sound similar to what Dad made that time I mentioned Mom's birthday was yesterday. Afterwards, he squeaked like my babies before they explode!"
Izuku sighed. At least one of them was having fun.
Sitting in his car, All for One howled with laugher. Fortunately, he'd thrown a towel over his microphone to muffle the sound. Even if he didn't care whether the two inept idiots heard him, he didn't want to discourage them from continuing through the trapped house. Not when this was so much fun!
Truthfully, All for One had only assigned Dabi and Tomura to rob houses to get them out of his hair while he planned more elaborate and profitable scams and white collar crime. Neither of them were particularly good robbers, somehow missing all the valuables every time. But he had to admit, they were entertaining. And this? This was the best entertainment he'd had in years.
When the boiling water had first fallen on Tomura's foot, All for One had crowed. Simple but effective, using only household materials. He gave it a solid seven out of ten. On the other hand, Tomura's anguished scream had been only a two out of ten. It had been loud, but it had lacked the bone-deep terror that All for One preferred in his victims. Thus it had failed to warm his evil heart.
When Dabi and Tomura had split up, All for One had considered telling them to stay together…but he really wanted to make sure he got to see every single trap in the house, so he'd better let them enter separately. Even though they were more entertaining together. The success of their mission had never once factored into All for One's calculations. Good thing too, because it was increasingly obvious was little chance of success anyway.
Tomura's screams when electrocuted were slightly better, a three out of ten. But Dabi reacting to his cheap hair dye falling out? That scream had been a spectacular eight out of ten! Oh, the delicious anguish of someone who'd lost years of planning to a pair of kids!
As amusing though the signs had been, All for One only gave the pillow fort and toboggan a six out of ten because he did not approve of leaving cushions for the trap victims. How was he supposed to properly enjoy their anguished screams?
Now the bear trap…the bear trap had been magnificent! A solid nine out of ten. All for One was especially impressed at how the boy had padded the edges of the trap just to make it even more slowly painful. What a sadist! Clearly there was another person enjoying their pain too. It was everything a criminal mastermind could want in an heir. All for One felt extremely jealous of whoever had such a cruel son.
Toshinori sneezed. Shaking his head, he continued thinking about what he'd do for Christmas with his kind, gentle, rule abiding boy.
Removing the towel from the microphone, All for One ordered, "Dabi, Tomura, stop moving." He'd trained them well enough that they obeyed him. "Good. Tomura, put a hand over your nose. You're making the floor even more slippery with your blood. Every bear trap has a release button. A little more to your right. Found it? Good. Stop! Dabi, the stair guard is covered in honey. Don't be a fool. There's a dent in the wall that you can use as a handhold instead. Stand up."
Even if he had to coax those two idiots up the stairs, it would be boring if this ended too quickly. All for One wanted to keep enjoying the show.
As the two made it up the stairs, Izuku and Mei fell back. However, they'd run a bit too late and the thieves were bearing down on them. It was odd how fast the thieves had moved, almost as if they'd suddenly gotten smarter. Izuku shoved Mei through the door to the attic and ducked in the bathroom. "Lock yourself in!" he said. To his relief, he heard the sound of a lock turning.
Izuku looked around the bathroom for something he could use to fight. He'd gone off plan! But they'd been about to catch Mei, so he'd obviously had to adapt. But now he was stuck! The two thieves loomed in the doorway. "Out of options, kid," said the one who'd dyed his hair. "Right Tomura?"
"Yeah," said Tomura, the scruffy one. "Dabi, I do believe he is trapped. Face it kid, you're just a child."
Izuku's legs shook. Behind the attic door, he heard Mei yell, "You're just teenagers!"
"We're over twenty!" they both said.
"I thought only teenagers dressed like that?"
Both growled.
As Dabi approached Izuku, he looked back and said, "I'll murder that little–"
Izuku saw red. Grabbing shampoo, he threw it in Dabi's eyes. Dabi fell back, rubbing his eyes while Tomura lunged forward with his hand extended. Izuku grabbed the shower and sprayed it in Tomura's eyes.
"Really kid? You really think–?"
It was in that moment Tomura noticed that Izuku had run while his vision was obscured by the water. Izuku slammed the bathroom door behind him. "Mei, we have to use the last resort!"
The attic door burst open. Mei sprinted out, grabbed Izuku, inserted a key into the bathroom door, turned it, then dragged him up the attic stairs.
"Come on!" she said. "We have to both be there for the plan! I'll prep for takeoff!"
"Right!" Izuku said. They were a team. This plan needed both.
As Mei did her job, Izuku grabbed an untraceable cell phone she'd built, then dialed. "9-1-1, what's your emergency?"
In a fake deep voice, Izuku listed off the Utsushimis address, then said, "Come quick! They–"
"Sir, if it's the explosions next door you should know there is no risk at all. Please just–" They thought he was calling about his and Mei's experiments!
"No, you don't understand–"
"Is the house an inferno?"
"No!"
"Has it burned to the ground?"
"Wha–of course not!"
"Has a child been injured–"
"NO! I just need–"
"Then you have nothing to fear. Please–"
"I'm being robbed!" Izuku said.
"What?"
"Yes, my house is being robbed. My name is Utsushimi. My address is–"
After Izuku finished, the responder said, "Police will be there in a few minutes."
Izuku was about to celebrate when he heard the door to the attic burst open. They were here. He got up and ran to join Mei out the window.
Just earlier:
"They locked the door!" said Dabi.
"Break it down!" said Tomura.
Dabi started kicking when All for One said over the radio, "Aren't bathroom doors built to be unlocked from the inside?"
Dabi stopped. Tomura turned the locking knob on the door, then opened it. "Oh."
The two burst out and slammed into the attic door. They found the brats at the window preparing–was that a glider? No wait, the pair of wings had a cobbled together motor attached to a primitive propeller and a crude, but functional, tail. Was that a plane?!
More specifically, there were two planes side by side at the window. As the two piled into one, the green-haired boy loudly proclaimed, "I sure hope we picked the right one!" The two then launched themselves into the air.
Dabi and Tomura looked at a second plane, then glanced at each other.
"Mei! Ours is going down!" the green haired boy said.
"I can land it!"
Ha! They picked the wrong one!
"Quick!" Dabi said. He and Tomura got into the other and pressed the same button for take off. By the throttle, a post-it note said, "The right one." Morons, they couldn't even find the right one when they labeled it!
The engine screamed to life as the plane took into the air. Wind whooshed by Dabi and Tomura as they went after the kids. The kids' glider had pitched down and was leveling above the snow. It hit the ground, kicking up a cloud of powder before stopping.
"I'm fine!" the girl said.
"Not for long!" said Tomura. "Now we–why's our plane smoking?" Also it was shaking too. Almost like–
Dabi and Tomura exchanged looks before the engine exploded into a small fireball. The two shielded themselves, only to notice the plane's tail had also snapped off. The only thing that could make this worse was if–Oh they were about to hit a tree.
"Oh crud."
Izuku smirked with satisfaction as the two criminals smashed into a tree. Unfortunately they missed the trunk and just hit the branches. Or fortunately, since it meant Mei would avoid legal troubles for killing them. They were alive, right?
"Damn brats!"
Good, they were fine. Izuku turned to Mei. "I'll lead them to the Utsushimis. When they're gone, you double back where you can guard your babies." Granted, the two weren't going to be going after her inventions at this rate, but she didn't need to know that. Now that they were out of traps, Izuku needed her to go somewhere where the thieves weren't.
Mei looked hesitant.
"Mei?" Izuku asked, confused. She was doing this to protect her inventions in the first place.
"Ok," she said.
Izuku started running through the woods, circling around the thieves. He called out, "Hey morons! Come and get me! I'll call the cops!" He broke into a dead sprint as he heard them chasing after him.
He glanced back one more time at Mei, who for some reason hadn't gone back to her workshop yet. Instead, she'd ducked behind a tree, and stared after Izuku.
Mei watched her partner vanish into the woods, the thieves stumbling after him. She ran back to the workshop to protect her babies. As she arrived, she heard the three's footsteps in the snow, circling back toward the neighbor's.
She watched her partner run for the backdoor, using her lockpick device to get in. The thieves followed. Then they paused. One followed after him while other went around. They were setting their own trap!
Mei moved to pursue, then paused. She looked back at her babies. If she left, they would be completely defenseless. She then looked back at the neighbor's house. Where her partner was. Where the thief had already broken through the front door to catch him off guard.
Mei picked up the nearest shovel and ran around the front, ducking through the now open door.
Izuku darted inside the Utsushimi residence. He ran toward the front, pausing only to make sure they'd followed. He heard footsteps. They had. Izuku pumped his fist and kept running. As he reached the front, he staggered to a stop. In front of him stood Tomura, his hand outstretched.
Tomura's hand shot out and gripped Izuku's face. "Caught you, you little troll!" Tomura snarled. Another hand grabbed him from behind. "Finally have you," said Dabi. "You poor little runt."
Izuku tried to thrash. But the two grown men were too strong. Their grips dug into his face and arms with painful force. Izuku's eyes welled up. He might be about to cry again. How embarrassing. He squeezed his eyes shut to prevent the tears. He'd saved Mei. He was a hero. They couldn't take that away from him. He tried his best not to cry as he heard a punch headed toward his face.
OMAKE TIME!
Mei: Hey, Mister Hair Dye!
Dabi: How did you know? Are my roots showing?!
Mei: I can smell it.
Dabi: You smelled us? What do I even smell like?
Mei: Hair dye and desperation.
Izuku: And bad BO.
#
Compress: (Chewing popcorn) Quite the crew aren't they? They'd be better as a comedy set than robbers.
Izuku: Yep.
Compress: Well, you'd best get to your airplane. I'll wait down the hall to see how they bungle this up.
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Dabi: I once almost tried to use a hairdryer in the bathtub. But then I remembered I needed to dye it first. Sensei said I had a close save.
Tomura: I'll never die in such a stupid way because I never wash my hair.
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Tomura: We'll climb up the stairs and grab that pesky kid.
All for One: (In a narrator voice) They did not make it past the first step.
Tomura: (Anguished screaming as a paint can hits him in the face.)
All for One: I rate that scream of terror as a 3/10, it was funny but could have been more agonized.
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Izuku: We appear to have been invaded by a robber and his trained racoon.
Dabi: Hey!
Izuku: I don't believe in cruelty to animals so we'll trap the raccoon and safely release him from the house unharmed.
Dabi: Uh, I mean, arf arf! Do raccoons bark?
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Mei: I've been unable to lie from a young age, but it's less of a problem than you might think.
Teacher: Oh and what were you building?
Mei: A robot with a flamethrower.
Teacher: Kids and their imaginations.
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Twice: Aw, thanks you two, it was lovely of you to invite me along on your robbery. I always felt like you didn't want me around.
Tomura: We needed a meatshield.
Dabi: Twice, why don't you check the stairs?
Twice: (Walks up) Seems fine to me.
Dabi: (Starts walking up)
Izuku: (Throws paint can which misses Twice and hits Dabi right in the face.)
Dabi: Ahhh! My face!
Twice: (Runs down to help) Dabi! Are you alright?
Dabi: I. Hate. ALL OF YOU!
Twice: Ah thanks Dabi, I realize insults are how you show affection.
