SUS

"It was him!" Bakugo, spattered with bloodstains and holding a crimson knife, pointed at Izuku. "He killed Todoroki!"

Everyone else around the table crossed their arms. "You and Izuku are both impostors, aren't you?"

"So what if I am? Vote Deku out, he's clearly evil!"

Everyone exchanged looks and unanimously voted Bakugo out. As he drifted into space, Kaminari dusted his hands. "Welp, guess we win this one. Please don't kill me Midoriya."

"Noted. You shall be spared."

As the crewmates split up, Izuku analyzed their paths and calculated the optimal strategy for incapacitating them all. The camera lights lit up, and Mineta hovered around the meeting button.

"Ha!" Mineta sneered at him. "As soon as the cooldown's up, I'm going to get you voted out!"

"Understood."

Mineta counted down the seconds. Five, four, three… He slapped the button repeatedly as the timer wound down. It hit zero, and yet, the button remained covered.

"What? Wait, you called-"

Izuku sliced him in half, then went to hide in the admin room. Just out of camera sight, he watched Iida run up the hallway, vented back into the cafeteria room, and sliced him too.

Kirishima was busy blasting asteroids as Izuku lurked behind him. He just got off the console and turned around to see Izuku watching him.

"You're not getting me dude! Time to hit the button!"

Kirishima ran for it, but the doors slammed shut. He pounded on them, leaving dents in the metal. He tried hardening himself, but Izuku's knife cleaved him all the same.

Shoji walked into navigation, in clear view of the cameras. He never walked back out.

Ochako, lingering around comms to get the jump on the next sabotage, got sliced as the lights went out.

While Sero fixed the lights, Izuku hopped into the vent behind the panel, leapt into the security room, and silently stalked behind Kaminari. While he watched the cameras, he clapped a hand over Yaoyorozu's mouth and stabbed her until she fell still.

When the lights came back on, Sero turned and saw Izuku watching him. In a blind panic, Sero ran out towards storage, only to find the way locked. Izuku walked after him, only to have the door slammed in his own face.

"Thanks, Baku-bro!" Sero called out. "Gotta hurry…"

He ran through the engine rooms. The doors snapped shut a hair behind him. He saw into security and briefly saw Yaoyrozu's body lying on the floor before the door slammed shut.

"Kaminari!" Sero yelled. "Get off of freaking cams!" He wriggled and moved erratically around, but Kaminari had AirPods in, and he couldn't hear him.

Izuku popped out of the vent in reactor and stalked across the short hallway between them. Sero died still pounding on Kaminari's door, and the victory screen flashed for Izuku.

"Good game, Bakugo."

"Wait, we lost?" Kaminari asked. "But how? I was on cams the whole time!"

Momo and the others all glared daggers at him as the new round began.

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Just imagine, if you will, an AI perfectly designed to play Among Us and murder everyone like a horror movie monster. Hopping out of vents the moment two people split up, playing perfect vision to sneak past unsuspecting crewmates, closing doors with frame-perfect precision, and hiding every body so immaculately that no one ever finds them. Who knows? That might be a thing in ten years.

In other news, I'm leaving for vacation, so there won't be any posts next week. See you all when I get back nice and crispy.