dperson3569: Whoa, that was brutal. I would probably develop a fear of cockroaches.

NeoNazo356: Yep. Nothing quite like inducing fear like thousands of roaches marching upon you when you stink of "Attack Pheromones".

Phenomenal Ultra Instinct: LOL! Oh no! Their reactions to so many cockroaches swarming them was absolutely hilarious. Iida's sudden retreat didn't make it any better. Bakugo's explosion was no use against them as these guys were known to survive nuclear fallouts. The girls, barring Tsuyu, were losing their collective ***. Would the cockroaches really have eaten any of them if Genki didn't nudge them away? Regardless, pheromones are a nasty and dangerous superpower.

NeoNazo356: It just seemed right that the normally-stoic Iida, especially him, would lose his shit over something straight out of a horror film.
As for Bakugou's explosions, it isn't that cockroaches can survive the explosion, it's that they can survive the fallout better than humans; radiation can still kill them. The reason Bakugou's [Explosion] got slowed down once the horde swarmed him was because their collective [Oilpiration] ability retarded his Nitroglycerin Sweat's ability to Oxidize. No oxidation, no ignition; no ignition, no explosion.
As for whether the roaches would've actually eaten any of them… Remember that scene from Jurassic Park: Lost World where those teeny tiny dinosaurs (Compsognathus) ate that one guy in the riverbed…?
As for the [Pheromone] Sub-Quirk, it's only a powerful ability if it's used properly. "Useless" powers CAN be lethal in the right hands.

Ultimate-Zelda-fan: Genki should try telling you can't own words to Donald Trump!You're fired!")

NeoNazo356: Well, given MHA is implied to take place in the year "22XX" (8 "superhero generations" of [One for All] don't mean the same thing they do for regular people), Trump would've been dead for well over a hundred years before then.

*MHA*

To say that things were tense in the locker room after the somewhat-early conclusion of Capture the Flag would be an understatement.

Most of Red Team were good sports about it, despite the cockroach-induced fits of terror they were sure to experience after the ravenous horde had been sicced on them. Bakugou on the other hand… did not share his team's sentiment.

Then again, since his body was riddled with teeny tiny bite marks from the horde's mandibles, his consternation was somewhat understandable.

It also didn't help he was still butt-hurt from getting beaten by him in the Sports Festival; never mind the fact that the entire country had borne witness. His peers from middle school mocking him for it at every opportunity didn't help matters either.

Todoroki, who'd been carted away after receiving a picture-perfect unconsciousness-inducing knee to the chin hadn't been aware of the whole thing, but given he could've frozen all of them solid, Genki choosing to concuss him made an amount of sense.

Since the exercise had ended the day a little early, Red Team had ample amounts of time to wash the oil (and arthropod viscera as-applicable) from their bodies, so in a way they appreciated that Genki had ended things so-quickly instead of dragging it out; even though the defeat had stung so much.

Suffice it to say, no-one would underestimate the arthropodal teen ever again.

Or no-one from 1-A at least.

The Hero Course students cleaning up after an arduous Hero Basic Training exercise, after a rather thorough showering-off, the students began making small chat amongst themselves; one topic of which elicited a somewhat confused response.

"Uh… Could you run that by me again?" Genki asked confusedly. "I think I had something crazy in my ear."

"I said… Who is your waifu?" Sero repeated.

"And once again I reiterate… HUH?!"

"He's asking which girl you like the most," Kaminari stated.

" . . . Okay but whyyyyyyy?"

"Duh, because it's just us guys here and you're part of the group," Kirishima stated.

"Yeah, this is totally the sort of thing guys talk about in their off-time," Sero added. "What, did you never have chats like this in middle school?"

"Everyone always thought I was filthy, so I never got to talk to people so-casually like this," Genki replied somberly, his antennae drooping at the memory.

"Yeesh, tough break, dude," Sero said consolingly. "Anyway, for me it would totally be Midnight. I would kill to make her my waifu," he said changing the subject with a grin on his face.

"What about you? What's your poison?" Kaminari asked. "It doesn't even have to be a pro, it could totally be another girl at school."

"What, like the vine-haired girl who kicked your ass?" Genki asked flatly. "What, you into BDSM? Want her to whip you some more?"

"He-Hey! That is too personal!" Kaminari said with a blush.

"Come on, spill, who do you think's the cutest?" Sero asked. "You aren't gay are you-"

"No, I'm one-hundred-percent straight," Genki said flatly.

"Just checking, dude," Sero said holding up his hands. "So… Who is she? Is she a pro, or one of your classmates? A crush from middle school?"

"What's your fetish?" Kaminari said straight-out. "Come on, we're not trying to kink-shame you or anything, we really want to know what your tastes are."

"Complete honesty…?" Genki asked with a slowly reddening face. "I'm into Mutant-type girls."

"Wait, is this because your mom's a total MIL-"

"Finish that sentence and they'll never find the body," Genki hissed at Sero, the [Tape]-user jumping out of his skin in terror. "And no, it has nothing to do with my mother… Okay maybe not nothing-nothing… But I don't have an Oedipus complex if that's what you're getting at."

"Is it Mutant-type girls exclusively, or is that just your preferred flavor?" Shoji asked.

"Yeah, what's wrong with hotties like Yaoyarozu?" Sero asked.

"Well, I mean, objectively, I can say that Yaoyaorozu-senpai is attractive, it's just… On a biological level I'm just not attracted to her in the same way you guys would be," Genki elaborated.

"So you're saying you can understand her appeal from a purely aesthetic point of view, without the biological factor influencing your decision?" Izuku questioned seriously.

Being the "Quirkless loser" he was in middle school, he was never really included in interpersonal dialogue like this, so he was still a bit formal.

"Pretty much, yeah," Genki anwered. "It's like… Any girl that could pass for 'normal' in the Pre-Quirk Era just doesn't do it for me, you know? It isn't that they all 'look the same', it's just, they look kinda… bland, I guess. When it comes to Mutant-Type girls, obviously there's going to be differences between whether or not they're animal-based, or if their archetype would fall into the 'Harcore' or 'Softcore' demographic."

"You sound like you already have your eye on someone," Kaminari said with a grin as he stroked his chin.

" . . . Alright, I'll talk, but it never leaves this room," Genki ordered.

"C'mon, spill the beans. Who do you got the hots for?" Sero asked.

" . . . The girl I like the most is Tsu-chan," Genki answered, causing eyes to go wide at his rather unique choice, since "conventionally" she wasn't as objectively attractive as her peers, at least from a purely aesthetic standpoint. "It's just… She's the perfect blend of softcore and hardcore Mutant-type… Those big expressive eyes you could get lost in… that adorable curve of her lips as she smiles…" he trailed off wistfully. "I mean sure, Ashido-senpai is cute too, but she doesn't make my kokoro go doki-doki like when I look at Tsu-chan," he said geeking out with a dopey look on his face.

"Kokoro…?"

"Doki…doki…?" Sero and Kaminari asked with a confused tilt of their heads as they processed what just came out of his mouth.

"The only reason I'm saying this out loud is because the locker rooms have a foot of solid concrete between them and there's no way any of the girls will ever know about this," Genki sighed. "That is literally the only reason I'm saying this."

"Actually, Kyoka-san's [Earphone Jack] would allow her to do exactly-that," Izuku said matter-of factly. "By piercing a solid object with her earlobes, she's able to sense sound vibrations through solid objects similar to a stethoscope, or a high-definition ultrasound."

" . . . "

"Ah, what I meant to say was-"

"Ultimate Move: Goki Blast!" Genki raged as he suddenly blasted the aforementioned wall.

"EYAAAAAAGH!" a shrill voice cried from the other side.

*MHA*

"I cannot believe you would do something so depraved!" Iida chastised a minute later once the girls were out of the locker room.

"I don't see what the big deal is. I was just making sure no-one was trying to dig a new peep-hole through the wall," Kyoka muttered as she nursed her ears.

"Do you honestly have so-little faith in your comrades you'd even entertain the notion that we would entertain such a notion?!" Iida demanded. "That such a thing would happen when Mineta is no longer a part of our class!?"

"Well… When you put it that way…"

"Just look at what you've done to our newest comrade! He's absolutely traumatized!" Iida raged as he ripped Kyoka a superfluous new… you know what I mean, as he rapidly gestured to Genki at the other end of the hallway, his knees tucked into his chest as he buried his beet-red face in his hands.

While the others bickered about the merits of pre-emptive pervert-busting and trust between classmates, Tsuyu broke away from the group and walked down to the hall. The female members of Class 1-A looking around Iida's shoulder, the hall steadily grew quiet as more and more attention fell on Tsuyu as she approached the morbidly-embarrassed [Gokiburi] teen.

The oily-haired boy oblivious to Tsuyu's presence as he tried to make himself as small as physically possible, after a few moments, Tsuyu tapped him on the shoulder, the teen nearly jumping out of his skin at the contact.

"A-Asui-I mean-Tsu-chan!" Genki stammered as he looked up at her.

"Did you really mean all those things you said about me?" Tsuyu interrogated, her voice a mix between stern and even… hopeful?

"H-Hai…" Genki replied nervously. "Since I thought it was 'just us guys', I didn't really see a problem with making my thoughts on the issue known. Not after the others opened up to me like they did," he continued.

" . . . "

"I-If you aren't interested I-I understand-"

"Genki."

"H-Hai?!"

"Would you like to go out after internships next week, kero?" Tsuyu asked with a tilt of her head, jaws dropping around them while Mina's eyes went wide and she squealed with glee.

" . . . "

*Creeeeeeeeeak*

*Thud*

"Aaaaugh! He fainted!" Izuku cried as his classmate tipped over, frozen in place like a lawn ornament with a wide-eyed look on his face.

"Way to go, Tsu!" Mina cheered.

"Talk about girl power!" Ochako said enthusiastically.

"Yeah, don't let the good ones get away!" Kyoka added.

"I knew I saw you blushing when you looked at his butt!" Toru giggled.

"Ugh, so vulgar," Momo hummed with a hand to her lips, the grin she had perfectly concealed.

"Huh… Maybe he's on to something," Sero hummed as he looked at Tsuyu in a new light.

"Hey, back off! She's taken!" Toru said clapping her hands over his eyes; for all the good it did her.

"Yeah! Don't get in the way of my shipping?!" Mina cried shaking a fist at him.

"Ne, Genki, you alright?" Ochako asked as she poked him in the cheek.

"Hn. Unresponsive," Shoji hummed.

"Should we take him to Recovery Girl?" Izuku asked worriedly.

"Don't worry, I'm sure he'll snap out of it in a couple minutes," Ochako said as she pat him on the back with all five fingertips, the insensate teen listing into the air like a balloon.

*MHA*

AN:
WHAM! Didn't see that coming, didja?

Guess we all know who Genki's "Best Girl" is.

GO BEYOND!

EXCELSIOR!