HELLDIVERS

Four shuttles and one Kirishima plummeted through the atmosphere of an empty, forlorn planet on the forgotten edge of the galaxy. Kirishima landed in a hero pose atop an alien, crushing its spine like a rotten banana beneath his knee. The four other pods opened, and the 1-A students gawked at the blasted landscape.

"I thought Nezu said we were going to help with humanitarian aid!" Ochako shouted.

An armored soldier slapped a rifle into her hands. "This is humanitarian aid! We are spreading managed democracy across the galaxy for the greater good. For humanity!"

The soldier charged. An alien leapt up and eviscerated him, and Ochako gunned it down.

"Girls, c'mon!" Ochako shouted. "We need to get moving!"

Tsuyu kicked hers open. Mina also tried kicking hers open, but in the end, she settled for melting herself out. "Door's stuck! Hey Hagakure, need help in there!"

"I'm already out!" Hagakure called from behind her.

Mina yelped and fired wildly. Hagakure crossed her arms and said, "Rude! You're lucky there's no friendly fire."

"What's our objective?" Tsuyu asked.

"Kill everything."

"And this is supposed to help democracy how, kero?"

"They'll open a Wal-Mart out here."

Tsuyu sighed. "Nezu better give us an A for this."

Tsuyu fired on one group while her tongue snagged another. She immediately let it go and scraped off her tongue. "Blegh! Tastes like a very angry lime."

"Don't worry, I got it!" Mina flung acid at an alien. It tentatively licked the white goop coating it and made a delighted shrieking noise. It ran up to her, tail wagging, begging for more with big alien puppy-eyes.

"Aww!" Mina said. "Can we keep it?"

A soldier ran up. "Excellent work! You have the foul beast distracted. Now allow me to-"

The soldier died screaming as a humongous alien eviscerated him from behind. Flinging the soldier off its claw like a disgusting booger, the alien rumbled as it sauntered up to Mina.

"Hey, big mama alien," Mina said nervously. "Is this your kid? I didn't mean to-"

Mina yelped as the alien scooped her up. Mid-scream, the alien regurgitated breakfast into her mouth.

"Blegh, disgusting!" Mina sputtered. She licked her lips. "Actually, that tastes pretty good! More please!"

The alien froze. It dropped Mina and scurried back into its den. Every alien ran and hid for cover, leaving the battlefield eerily silent.

"That's weird. Why did they run?"

The Helldivers dropped their guns. "Run! The robots are coming!"

"The what?"

A spaceship exploded overhead. Multiple ships blinked into existence, and robots fell like rain. Helldivers died in droves to a deluge of laser blasts.

A lone pod descended from the heavens and landed in the heart of the robot army. It exploded open. Bakugo stomped a robot head to pieces beneath his boot while blasting in both directions.

"For democracy!" Bakugo roared.

As Bakugo cackled and annihilated the robots while they ran screaming, Hagakure asked, "Should we do something?"

"Nah, let him have his fun, kero."

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Maybe they shouldn't give their Helldivers red shirts.

Also, pretty sure Bakugo's the one person who would want to fight the robots.