GLITCH

Izuku stood in the middle of the sidewalk, moving one leg in front of another without moving an inch. Ochako stopped to watch him walk in place.

"A pleasant morning to you, Ochako. Have you done our homework for today?"

"Homework? Aizawa didn't give us any homework."

Izuku blinked, then turned back around. A few seconds later, he noticed Ochako again. "A pleasant morning to you, Ochako. The weather is very lovely today, isn't it?"

Just outside a ten-foot radius around them both, rain came down by the bucketful. Ochako asked, "Are you feeling okay?"

"We better hurry up, or we will be late for class."

Izuku continued to walk in place. Ochako looked around his feet and noticed a newspaper lying in his path. When she picked it up, Izuku finally moved forward. His head turned all the way around, and he called back, "A pleasant morning to you, Ochako. Have you done our homework for today?"

Ochako thought the weirdness for the day done until she approached the entrance to classroom 1-A. Izuku moved to open the door, but the knob slid right through his hand. As his arm moved back, the door twitched erratically, leaping from his hand to the frame until it ripped itself off its hinges and floated at an angle through Izuku's head. Izuku walked forward, but the door welded to his head kept him from crossing the doorframe.

Ochako examined the gap around him and quickly squeezed through. Izuku looked down at her and said, "We better hurry up, or we will be late for class."

"Okay, what's going on?"

Izuku didn't answer. Frustrated by the weirdness going on, Ochako grabbed him, angled the door through, and let him inside. When Izuku turned to sit in his desk, the door clipped Ochako in the side of the head. She went tumbling, landed inside a desk, and stood up. The desk went with her when she sat down in her seat.

"We better hurry up or we'll be late to class," Ochako said.

Kaminari yelped and leapt away from her. "Get back! It's contagious!"

Bakugo blew up Izuku and shouted, "They've started assimilating people into the mechanical hivemind! Attack!"

The explosion cloud around Izuku flickered in and out of existence. When Bakugo went to blast him again, the two blasts overlapped and glitched out.

"Attack!" Bakugo shouted again. And again. And again. Pandemonium spread across the class. Mineta tried jumping out the window and got stuck halfway through the glass, stuck in a walk cycle and perving at nonexistent women. Dark Shadow and Tokoyami traded places, their faces flickering across each other. Shoji's extra arms flailed wildly, sending everyone else tumbling into glitchy positions. Cowering in terror, Kaminari said, "Oh god. Reality is a Bethesda game!"

A desk went flying across the room and hit him in the head, and his vision went black.

When Kaminari woke up, Izuku sat across from him in a wagon.

"Hey you. You're finally awake."

"Hell yes!"

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I wrote an entirely different drabble, realized the perfect punchline needed something else to happen, and then wrote this one. So, I guess I get a freebie sometime down the line.