INCEPTION

As the dreidel slowly wobbled on-screen and the end credits started rolling, Momo said, "I'm glad you guys talked me into watching movies. This is almost as good as seeing the actors perform it live."

"Right…" Ochako hurriedly smothered her money-envy and said, "So, what should we watch next?"

"A shadowy night demands equally sinister material." Tokoyami held up Nightmare at Elm Street.

Dark Shadow held up his own choice. "My Little Pony! You guys have no idea how much we used to watch this when-"

Tokoyami lunged and started strangling Dark Shadow while the sentient Quirk reached for the DVD player. While that went on, Todoroki presented a nature documentary. "This looks interesting."

"Right…" Ochako held out Wolf of Wall Street. "Or we could watch this. Not for any ideas," he said hastily, "Just, you know, for fun."

"Ooh!" Kaminari waved a movie around. "Robocop's such a classic. C'mon, let's-"

Bakugo crashed through the ceiling and gave Kaminari the people's elbow. He snapped the movie in half and blasted it to dust for good measure.

"Robot sympathizer propaganda!" Bakugo roared. "Trying to convince us all to replace our organs with machines so we're even further at their mercy!"

Snarling, Bakugo went back to bed. "Jeez," Kaminari said. "It would be nice if we could do something about his… robot problem."

"Why not?" Momo asked. "Can't we do an Inception on him?"

"Like in the movie? That stuff isn't real. Who the heck would be able to make…"

All the movie watchers simultaneously came to the same conclusion. With innocent smiles, they asked Izuku, "What's your mom's phone number?"

In the dead of night, the movie watchers smuggled in the Inception device. As Bakugo slept, muttering in his sleep about sneaky robots, Kaminari inched closer.

"I just put this on his head, right? What if he wakes up?"

"If you're going to be a wuss, just give it to me."

"Right, I'm going. Don't rush me."

With his tongue sticking out, Kaminari concentrated with all his brainpower as he lowered the ring of metal millimeter by millimeter towards Bakugo's brow. The moment the metal made contact with Bakugo's skin, his eyes snapped open.

"Robots!" Bakugo bellowed.

"No, wait!"

Bakugo swung his pillow. Since his pillow was filled with tin foil, magnets, and a written copy of the Terminator script, Kaminari went flying through a wall.

As Bakugo wound up for a second swing, Momo made a rag and shoved it over his face. Bakugo struggled for a moment, before his eyes rolled back into his head.

"Couldn't we have done that first?" Kaminari asked, nursing a swollen lump on his head.

"Come on, we don't know how long this will last." Momo set the crown upon her head, and everyone else did the same. When she turned on the device, everyone else nodded off. In the silence of Bakugo's room, Dark Shadow opened his eyes and said, "Hey, it says the lobby's full! No fair!"

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Off to Bakugo's dreamland we go.