SCREW

Momo grunted as she carefully hoisted the massive oil painting onto the wall. Once the hooks on the back caught on the nails in the wall, she carefully eased the painting's weight onto them.

Dusting her hands, Momo took a step back and inspected her work. One corner of the painting jutted out, ruining the lighting. She took the painting off and saw an offending screw jutting from the wall.

"That's odd. Thought I pulled them out. Well, no matter."

She pulled pliers out of her cleavage and pulled. The screw remained stubbornly put.

Jiro poked her head into the room. "Hey, you know that's a screw, not a nail, right?"

"Uh, I knew that." She tried twisting, to a similar lack of results. Jiro rolled her eyes and said, "Use a screwdriver."

"A screwdriver. Right. One of those. Which I know what it is." Momo surreptitiously checked on her phone and made a flathead. She put it against the screw and tried turning, but it slipped out.

"Let me see that." Jiro peered at the screw and said, "That's odd. Six points? I don't even know what to call this."

Momo pulled out another screwdriver, one matching the screw. It fit snugly inside, but it resisted all efforts to turn it. "It's still not working."

"Must be really stuck. Maybe we should get a power drill."

Momo pulled an entire tool rack out of her walk-in closet and picked out her largest power drill. Jiro looked at it in shock and said, "You have all that and still don't know what a screwdriver is?"

"You have an entire digital keyboard and don't know how to play a harmonica?" Momo shot back.

The drill sputtered and whined as the bit dug into the screw. With a snap, the drill fell apart.

"This calls for a professional," Jiro said.

Ochako, in a bump cap and safety vest, revved up a circular saw. The teeth were ground down to smooth nubs within seconds. The girls all exchanged looks and said, "Let's get Midoriya."

Izuku gnawed on the screw. Half his teeth fell out. His eyes zoomed in and out as he examined the offending piece of metal. Rummaging around his chest, Izuku took out a fitting screwdriver and turned. The floor tilted as the entire building swung up. Izuku turned again, and the floor went perpendicular. Two turns more had everyone standing on the ceiling. With another four cranks, the floor was down again and Mineta stumbled out of the bathroom covered in toilet water.

Izuku drew a lightsaber and cut a circle into the wall around the screw. Then he pushed. The entire building slid backwards, while the circular chunk with a screw sticking out of it stayed suspended in place, hovering outside as Izuku slapped Sero's tape over the hole.

"Screw removed from premises. Have a nice day."

Iida, running around the building, smacked head-first into the floating screw, went head over heels, and crashed into Mineta.

497

In honor of that one screw that absolutely refused to come out of my bathroom wall so I had to paint around it.