A/N: Since KagamiPINKAgreste is into Kacchako, I decided to do a double date fic with my favorite pairing TodoDeku.
It was a cold Friday night in Musutafu City, but Izuku "Deku" Midoriya and Shoko Todoroki were burning with excitement on this double date with Katsuki "Kacchan" Bakugo and Ochaco Uraraka as they went to the Musutafu Pinball Museum & Arcade. Built out of a converted office building, the building had a host of pinball machines from the 1950s to the present day, including some rare one-off prototypes. There were also a smattering of conventional arcade games. Regardless, one could play any machine as much as they wanted after paying a flat fee of 1,000 yen. Once Deku, Todoroki, Kacchan and Uraraka paid their fees, they proceeded to peruse the machines, which Uraraka was amazed by:
"So many pinball machines…I can't decide which one I should try…"
Kacchan gave Uraraka a hard pat on the back. "Just pick one, Pink Cheeks! As far as I'm concerned, they're all the same to me!"
"Not necessarily, Kacchan," said Deku. "A lot of these machines have different features."
"NO ONE ASKED YA, NERD!"
Todoroki gave Kacchan a Vulcan Nerve Pinch. "Bakugo, I WILL NOT tolerate you treating my sexy little Deku that way." She smiled. "Besides, don't you think that's making a bad impression on your girlfriend Uraraka?"
Kacchan growled, and then inadvertently looked at Uraraka's smiling face. As much as he hated to admit it, Todoroki had a good point:
"OK…you win, IcyHot." Kacchan braved the pain and brushed Todoroki's hand away. "Come on, Pink Cheeks, let's play some goddamn pinball."
"OK!"
Kacchan and Uraraka broke off from Deku and Todoroki to go deeper into the building. Having been here once before, the green bean and the bicolor babe didn't spend too long looking for a table to play. Deku chose an Elton John-themed pinball machine from the 70s called Captain Fantastic, while Todoroki chose a Roaring 20s-themed table called Old Chicago, and she'd brought some record with her as well for the record player upstairs.
Since the tables were already set for free play, all they had to do was hit the "START" buttons, and one of those famous silver balls popped up, ready for pinball action. Deku and Todoroki gave the plungers on their machines a good, solid yank and quick release to get the balls going, and the game was on. Within seconds, Deku and Todoroki were fully engrossed as they stood still like statues, watching as lights flashed, bells blinged and the balls shot every which way but loose, hitting the flipper buttons as they tried to keep the balls in play and rack up as many points as they could. While Todoroki enjoyed pinball in and of itself, she couldn't help but make this a competition with Deku and try to get more points than him. Of course, he took notice and returned the competition. Of course, it was all in good fun. Both of them played as furiously as they could, although at one point, Deku's ball got stuck, so he had to jostle the machine to get it unstuck. However, doing so caused the machine to "tilt" – that is, the flippers and other mechanisms on the table became inoperable, so the ball could only helplessly roll down the field and into the drain. Partly because of this, he only scored 76,180 points to Todoroki's 125,330. However, owing to the fact that machines from the 1970s only had five digits on their score counters, hers only showed 25,330, though both of them knew this by now.
"You played well, Deku, but this round belongs to me. Wanna try again?"
"Sure!"
Deku and Todoroki were about to start another game when…
"Deku! Todoroki! Look at this!"
Uraraka came running over, much to Deku and Todoroki's curiosity:
"What's up, Uraraka?" asked Deku.
"Yeah, what do you want us to look at?"
Uraraka smiled. "Oh, I saw this really awesome thing on one of the tables and I wanted you two to check it out?"
Kacchan was just behind Uraraka: "Sorry, you two; I didn't get what her excitement was about."
Deku smiled. "Then why don't we go see?"
Uraraka led everybody upstairs to the table that had aroused her attention: a Bally Star Trek pinball machine from 1978.
"Oh?" Deku tilted his head slightly. "I think I remember this machine, but I don't…"
Deku paused when he saw what exactly it was that had aroused Uraraka's excitement regarding the table: it had signatures from William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei and Walter Koenig. He smiled:
"Ah, I remember this one now!"
Uraraka smiled. "So cool, right? I'm such a huge Star Trek fan, and this is like a dream come true for me!" She pumped her fist, though afterwards, her look turned serious as she stroked her chin. "Although…I wonder why it's not signed by DeForest Kelley or James Doohan…"
Todoroki put a hand on her hip. "Based on what I know about Star Trek, DeForest Kelley died in 1999, and James Doohan died in 2005, so it's likely the machine was acquired and signed after 2005."
Kacchan crossed his arms. "Well, that's no skin off my ass. I hate Star Trek, and don't get me started on The Next Generation. I mean, why the crap is there a Klingon on the Enterprise? Aren't the Klingons supposed to be the bad guys?"
Deku nodded. "True, they were the bad guys in the original Star Trek, but think about this: Star Trek: The Next Generation takes place at least a century after the original series, so it's quite possible they could've made peace with the Federation."
"Hmph, sounds like a sucky idea if ya ask me. Still, I love Uraraka no matter what geeky shit she's into."
Uraraka smiled. "Love you too, big guy!"
Kacchan and Uraraka kissed each other.
"So Bakugo, wanna try out the record player?" asked Todoroki.
Kacchan smiled. "Ya don't need to ask me twice, IcyHot!"
Kacchan went to the Realistic hi-fi set up in the corner and pored through the selection of records, which was mainly 70s and 80s classic rock such as Aerosmith, The Who and Def Leppard, much to his chagrin:
"What the crap? Who listens to this old-ass shit?" He smiled. "Good thing I brought my own stash with me!"
Kacchan pulled out a vinyl copy of Cannibal Corpse's Torture album and put it on the turntable. After dropping the needle and turning the player on, the speakers let out the typical crackles and pops of a vinyl record before blasting out "Demented Aggression". While the blond bomberanian was all too happy to headbang to the death metal, everyone else covered their ears:
"Kacchan, what is this awful music!?" said Deku.
"Turn it off!" cried Uraraka. "My ears are bleeding!"
"Bakugo, I love metal too, but this is too much!" said Todoroki.
"What's wrong with death metal? This shit rocks!"
Kacchan continued to rock out while his friends tried their best to prevent their heads from exploding. Finally, after braving the metal storm, Todoroki took the needle off the record, earning Kacchan's ire:
"WHAT THE CRAP, ICYHOT!? I WAS ENJOYIN' THAT!"
Todoroki frowned. "You were, but not everybody was."
Todoroki gestured her thumb at Deku and Uraraka, who had just now found the courage to uncover their ears, plus some other patrons who were giving Kacchan weird stares. He grumbled:
"All right, IcyHot, if you think you're a metalhead, then show me what ya got."
Todoroki giggled. "As it just so happens, I brought a couple of records to donate."
Todoroki put the records she brought in the pile with the other records and picked up one of them: Judas Priest's Screaming For Vengeance. When she played this one, it greeted everyone with a gentler but still no less rockin' song: "The Hellion - Electric Eye". Deku and Uraraka were only too happy to rock out to this one:
"Good choice, Shoko!" said Deku. "Judas Priest is one of the best metal bands!"
"I don't usually listen to metal, but this is good stuff!" said Uraraka.
Kacchan crossed his arms at first, but then after a few head bops, he decided that Judas Priest actually didn't suck and started headbanging to it:
"I was wrong, IcyHot! Judas Priest kicks ass! Huh?"
Kacchan's enjoyment of the Bad Boys From Birmingham was interrupted when he caught a glimpse of Deku and Todoroki making out with each other:
"WHAT THE CRAP!? HEY, IF YA WANNA PLAY WITH BALLS, PLAY ONE OF THE PINBALL MACHINES!" He turned to Uraraka: "Hey Pink Cheeks, help me pry these nerds away from each other!"
Uraraka smiled nervously. "Um…Bakugo…I don't think anything's going to get those two apart! Once they start, they won't stop until they've had enough!"
Kacchan let out a frustrated growl. As much as he was getting used to the idea of having a girlfriend and hanging out with his rival Deku, he would never understand the green bean sometimes. Still, he did enjoy a good game of pinball.
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