HALLWAYS

"Now that we have the upper floors unlocked," Ochako said, "It's time to go and rescue Izuku!"

"Alright!" Sato smacked his hands together, then winced as he drove the point of his drill into his glove. "This'll be easy!"

He opened a door. Shigaraki sat on the other side, playing on his Switch. He looked up, looked back at his game, and said, "Five more minutes. I'm almost done with this boss."

Sato spun up the drill. The Switch shattered into a hundred pieces. Shigaraki stared down at his broken Switch and said, "I'd say this is my villain origin story if I didn't already have one."

Shigaraki turned and ran. Sato and the others chased after him, and Shigaraki ducked into a door. Sato threw it open and shouted, "Got… you?"

Another hallway greeted him. As he looked both ways, he saw Shigaraki leave a door further down. Sato chased him to the next door, only to find the same hallway yet again unoccupied. Mina appeared five doors down, Kurogiri poured drinks at the minibar ten doors to his left, and Shoji opened a door inexplicably in the ceiling.

Sato ran after Kurogiri, only to bump into Wolfram. Himiko chased after Ochako while waving around a syringe, and Mineta waited outside a door hoping for a girl to trip into him. Re-Destro strode out of one room, only to get rammed into another door by a runaway trolley cart. Izuku wandered out one door and disappeared before Wolfram, Samuel, and David could dogpile him, leaving the three of them in a heap in the hallway.

Shaggy and Scooby came out of another door and watched the chaos unfold. "Zoinks! I think we got the wrong door, Scoobs!" Scooby giggled, and canned laughter played in the background as the two of them left.

Sero opened a door and leaned through it. He leaned back and forth, then held his head halfway through the door frame. He saw himself staring at himself six doors down.

Sticking his tape to one doorframe, Sero walked through the door. Then another. And another. Each time he criss-crossed the hall, he left a web of tape in his wake. Eventually, Sero came through a door and found a strand of tape waiting for him.

"Cool! Hey guys, check this out!"

Sero looked down the hall and saw everyone tangled in his tape. Heroes, villains, and random bystanders alike squirmed and struggled.

"I'm going to disintegrate this," Shigaraki seethed.

"But you'll kill us if you do that!" Spinner wailed.

"Your noble sacrifice will be remembered."

"Hold on," Sato said, "What if I use the drill?"

Sato pressed the drill against the tape. As it spun, the tape got caught in it. The drill whined, and the walls creaked as everything and everyone got pulled tighter and tighter together. Then, with a resounding crash, the walls collapsed inwards, revealing the author's bedroom.

"Do you mind?" he asked. "I'm trying to get this chapter done."

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It kind of scares me that I can't even remember if I've done the Scooby Doo hallway skit before or not.