SLIPPERS

"While I appreciate your ingenuity," Aizawa began.

"You bet!" Kaminari scooted his feet along a massive woolen rug, rubbing his fuzzy slippers deep into the fabric. "This is the most ingenuityousness thing I have ever done!"

Aizawa rolled his eyes. "While I appreciate you have enough of a grasp on physics to replicate an experiment meant for toddlers…"

"Hey!"

"Where are you going to get a giant rug every time you need to perform your Hero move?"

"Eh, details. There's rug stores always going out of business everywhere you look."

Kaminari's hair stood on end as he chugged along the carpet. His legs shuffled faster.

"You could tap into power lines, or drain a car battery."

"Yeah, but all that electricity tastes icky. It's processed, man! I only want that all natural zap juice."

"Ignoring that nonsensical detail, you hardly need more power, Kaminari. What you need is a way to target your power, or to at least keep yourself from zapping your own brain. Fuzzy slippers won't help with either."

"But a hero move is all about going Plus Ultra."

Kamnari shuffled as fast as he could. Sparks danced up his hair as it stood like porcupine quills. His feet were pink blurs zipping across the carpet.

"Plus! Ultra!" Kaminari shouted as wisps of current bled from his eyes.

Aizawa's scarf drifted towards Kaminari, and he firmly wrapped it around himself. Other odds and ends not nailed to the floor crept across the floor and stuck themselves to Kaminari. Within seconds, he had a collection of paperclips, newspaper pages, socks, and a grumpy Gran Torino stuck to him.

"Uh, Kaminari?" Aizawa asked. "I think it's getting a bit much."

"I - can't - stop!"

Kaminari zipped straight off the rug. He shot like a rogue Roomba across the room, and slid straight up the wall. Across the walls and ceiling, Kaminari blurred past, picking up more charge with every second.

"Kaminari, use it! Use it now!"

A blinding flash made Aizawa look away. When he finally blinked stars out of his eyes, Kaminari floated. His eyes glowed bright blue, and a nimbus of crackling sparks enveloped him. Thunderclouds rose in a spiraling veil around him, and the air reeked of ozone and static.

"I am the Alpha and Omega," Kaminari intoned, his voice reverberating like an electric bass. "My primordial spark galvanized the first whispers of life, and an ionic supernova shall herald the universe's rebirth. I am Zeus. I am Thor. I am every divinity worshiped across time and civilizations. Now, witness my power!"

Kaminari pointed. The practice dummy exploded in a shower of sparks, smited into oblivion by a bolt of lightning thick enough to cleave the planet in twain.

The glow subsided, and Kaminari drifted to the ground. Aizawa said, "That was incredible. A perfect score - with extra credit, and I'll hand-write letters to Endeavor and All Might, and-"

Kaminari stared blankly at Aizawa, mumbled unintelligibly and blew a raspberry at him.

Aizawa sighed. "Nevermind, you still fail."

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