JUMANJI

Kaminari blew dust off an old wooden box and read the faded inscription. "Jumanji? Never heard of this one."

"Dude, you think it's from before the dawn of Quirks?" Kirishima asked.

"Only one way to find out, right?" Kaminari unfolded the box. Two dice clattered to his feet, and a piece slid into place.

"Oh, sick. It still works. You think it uses magnets?"

"How do you even play it?"

Kaminari breezed through the flavor text. "Just roll dice and move on the path. Easy."

Kaminari threw the dice, and his piece moved five spaces on its own. A card spat out of the side. "Need a hand? Why don't you wait? We'll help you out, we each have eight. Weird. I wonder what it means."

A spider descended from the ceiling. Kaminari yelped and ran screaming. "Koda! Get it off! Please, I'm too young to die!"

Koda calmed the spider, and the three of them went back to the board. Kaminari threw again, but his piece did nothing.

"Huh. It knows it's not my turn?"

"Guess I'll go!"

Kirishima threw. His piece moved forward, and the card said, "Twists and turns tangle the jungle floor, find the way out or stay trapped forevermore."

The dormitory erupted into a shroud of leafy trees, hanging vines, and thick undergrowth. Bird calls echoed in the distance, and the leaves rustled ominously.

"Okay," Kaminari said. "The board game's cursed. Got it."

Koda nervously whispered, "Do I need to roll?"

Kaminari smiled. "Actually, I have a better idea."

Koda quivered and cuddled the spider closer.

"No seriously, I do!"

They followed the sounds of metallic chewing and found Izuku eating a tree. Kaminari handed him the dice. "Mind beating this game for us?"

Izuku rolled two sixes. His piece advanced, and a card popped out. "Don't be fooled. It isn't thunder; Staying put would Be a blunder."

A rhinoceros rushed forward. It took one look at the ominously glowing green plasma at the end of Izuku's cannon and promptly ran in the other direction.

After two more sixes, Izuku's next card read, "You better watch where you stand, the floor is quicker than quicksand."

"That one doesn't even make any sense," Kaminari said. "Quicksand isn't quick!"

He yelped as he immediately sank past his waist. Izuku pulled him and the others out and hovered as he made his next throw.

"All your doubles have sealed your fate, you shall not escape until another rolls a five or an eight."

Izuku vanished into dust. The others looked around, and Kaminari said, "Welp, we're screwed."

Izuku reappeared in a flash of green light. He took off his tiger pelt and said, "Sorry I'm late, had to take the time machine." He rolled two fours, reached the end, and said, "Jumanji!"

The jungle disappeared. Kaminari slammed the game box shut, sealed it with Sero's tape, and had Todoroki set it on fire.

Later that night, Bakugo found the Jumanji board under his bed and grinned.

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Bakugo, sitting atop an elephant and sipping drinks out of a coconut: oh no, looks like I rolled another three, now Deku gets hurled into a chasm!

Jumanji may be a bit salty at how easily Izuku won.