《Darkest Hero》Omake 3
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The students of Aizawa's class could only groan in annoyance as they found themselves woken up at 5am in the morning to the sound of excited and somewhat creepy giggling accompanied by the sound of small feet rushing around. Naturally some students took offence at that if the loud explosion and swear was any indication.
"His damages bill is going to be big." Charlie yawned tiredly as she untangled herself from Vaggie and Izuku who she had clung to her in sleep. At the foot of the bed Ibara was curled up, her vines forming a ball like nest around herself, Momo, Toga and Mina while one arm was around Izuku's leg and the other was clutching what was very clearly a pillow stuffed inside one of Eri's spare dresses with a crude face painted on and a ice-cream cone and mop head taped on-top of it.
"On no." Vaggie sighed in irritation as she yawned and rolled back over to get some more sleep. "Too early."
"Where's Loona and Eri?" Izuku asked tiredly upon noticing a lack of a certain hellhound and hyperactive tiny cenobite.
The sound of a scream of joy caused everybody to shoot up in confusion. That certainly sounded like Loona and not Eri.
"C'mon." Charlie yawned as she swung her legs over the edge of her bed and into a waiting pair of slippers. "25th today, so BBQ day."
"What?" Izuku asked in confusion as the girls started to untangle themselves from Ibara.
"Coal day, every 25th December in hell Santa gives out a load of coal for a huge dinner thing, normally I don't get coal for some reason, I just get toys and things which is weird honestly." Charlie hummed to herself.
"You don't know what Christmas is?" Izuku asked with a raised eyebrow. "Santa brings gifts for good people while the naughty ones get coal."
"Hey I tried to tell her in the past." Vaggie replied with an eye roll. "She tuned me out when I tried explaining it."
"Coal day!" Loona cried as she literally booted open the door, a pile of coal clutched in her arms, uncaring that it was gonna stain her fur. On her shoulder Eri was giggling like a maniac while she also clutched at her own smaller pile of coal.
"I even got a bunny toy!" Eri chirped happily as she lifted the pile of coal up, sitting atop it was a simple plush rabbit toy which was now stained with soot from the coal.
"Happy Loona is scary." Ibara whimpered softly as she wrapped herself in her own vines.
"CHRISTMAS!" Mina screamed with a manic grin before she shot out of the room like a bat out of hell.
"Breakfast first I think." Momo uttered softly as she pulled her hair into a messy ponytail and tied it off with a hair tie made with her quirk.
As they made their way out into the main area of the dorms the few students and teachers who had stayed during the holidays were tiredly gathering around the various tables and chairs in the room. Goose, who was still asleep somehow, was curled up on the star atop the Christmas tree and Inko was humming to herself as she pulled a sheet of steaming hot brownies out of the oven and sat them on a long tray covered in various types of food.
"Anybody heard from chako and Jirou?" Charlie asked as she practically vibrated with energy.
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"Nope, CHRISTMAS!" Mina shrieked.
"Apparently they went to meet their parents over the holidays." Aizawa sighed as he rolled into the room in his sleeping bag which had been wrapped up in gift paper.
"Uh sensei...?" Sero trailed off uncertainly.
"You certainly look...festive?" Toru finished hesitantly.
"Part of the conditions for getting a raise, nothing more." Aizawa grumbled as he made his way across the room. Eri giggled as she noticed a card taped to his back reading "For Miss Joke" in fancy red writing.
"Anyway, coal barbeque time." Charlie grinned widely. "I say we have enough to cook a basic meal for the entire class with what Eri and Loona have."
"" Bakugo screamed from upstairs. The sound of a door being booted open followed by the sound of multiple small items tumbling down the stairs and Bakugo hitting everything on the way down was heard moments before a massive pile of coal plowed down the stairs and part way into the main sitting room.
"Caine damn that's a lot of coal." Vaggie uttered.
"I don't think even my parents got that much." Charlie uttered in shock.
"That's pretty much normal for Kaachan." Izuku sweatdropped.
"FUCK YOU!" The blonde snarled.
"Yay! Bakago got enough coal to make a big dinner party!" Eri cheered. "Mr Squishy! We need help!"
Like per normal, the sound of a window smashing was heard as the Nomu entered the room in the least normal way possible. What was not normal however was the fact that Nomu was dressed up as a giant elf and Nezu who was dressed as Krampus was sitting on its shoulder, under it's arm was the intern Yagi who was dressed in black jeans and a simple red Christmas sweater with a white Christmas tree outline on it. The Nomu quickly let go of the man who slunk off to the corner as quickly as possible.
"I'm honestly not surprised." Iida deadpanned as he entered the room with a few dustpans and brooms. "Now as this is a mess and we are upstanding members of the heroics class we must endeavour to clean it up post haste!"
"...wow... Stick in the mud." Mei grumped as she absently picked up a chunk of coal and loaded it into a random device and pushed a large red button.
"Oh no... Duck." Todoroki deadpanned as he calmly squatted behind a chair right before a flash of red and green washed over the room blinding everybody.
"Huh. The instant holiday 3000 seems to need improvement." Mei chuckled nervously as everyone regained their vision and started to look around the room.
Random decorations for Chinese New year, Christmas, Halloween, Easter, Hanukkah, Myan Death day, thanks giving and even Diwali dotted the room.
What everyone was wearing was also a horrifying mishmash of Halloween costumes, rabbit ears, face paints, Myan jewelry, itchy and ugly sweaters, pilgrim hats and for one reason or another Bakugo was dressed as a clown while tied and gagged with handkerchiefs.
"What the fruit baskets?" Eri uttered in confusion. "Uh... Trick or Treat?"
"Wrong holiday my dear." Nezu chuckled softly from his spot atop the Nomu. "But given miss Hatsume's invention, you're excused for the confusion."
"HAPPY COAL DAY AND MERRY CHRISTMAS!" Inko called as she booted open the door with a large squirming sack on her shoulder before she paused and blinked in shock at the sight before her. "Oh my."
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"Happy Easter!" Eri chirped.
"Nice try but again wrong." Charlie smiled encouragingly as she tried to ignore the itching sensation from the sweater.
"Mum...why is that bag moving?" Izuku asked nervously.
"Oh family reunion." Inko smiled as she dumped the bag onto the floor revealing several being tied up and gagged, each wearing a ugly Christmas sweater that wouldn't look out of place on a certain ugly pink toad who worked for the ministry of magic.
The first was a gaunt woman with short gelled hair covered in bubbles and a skin colored leotard, tied up with her were two demonic looking dogs. Next to her was a blonde man with a large wrinkly forehead and glowing yellow eyes. The third was a lizard like man who actually looked happy to be there despite being bound and gagged. Next was a Hizashi who had all his limbs removed and a pineapple shoved in his mouth. Another was a woman made of dirt who looked to be sleeping and wasn't gagged at all. Then there was God in his Morgan Freeman guise who hadn't been gagged and was already sitting off to the side enjoying some waffles. Finally tied in a group of six was Ochako and Jirou with their parents. None of whom looked pleased with Inko.
"Mum!" Izuku shouted in shock as he and Momo spring forth to untie Ochako, Jirou and their families.
"Sorry I couldn't get your parents to come Yaoyorozu-san, they were a bit occupied given its the first Christmas they've had without company responsibilities but they send their regards and orders to not visit for the next four days." Inko hummed aloud.
"Gozer it's been a while " Nezu chuckled before glancing at the blonde with the large forehead. "Vigo. You owe me $50 you little shit."
"Mummy Nezu said a bad word." Eri spoke up.
"Don't worry Eri, I'll be confiscating one of his teabags for that." Inko smiled happily causing Nezu's jaw to drop in horror.
"WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?!" Ochako's mother demanded the second her gag was off.
"Long and short? Welcome to the family. I'm Inko, the black haired lady is my sister Gozer goddess of destruction, hunting, sacrifice and architecture, the blonde idiot is our nephew Vigo who is Gozer's brat, the scaly man the current form of our sister Tiamat who never seems to stick to one face per day, they're the god or godess of war, famine, the elements, the afterlife, boundries and cooking." Inko added with a glare at the unrepentant reptilian entity. "Lady made of dirt is the goddess of the earth and our sister Gaia, she's slept around with so many pantheons if I didn't just bring direct family we'd have most of the mythical world crammed into this room and I in no bloody way want to try and keep Zeus from banging the bloody Christmas tree again. The zombie is my ex husband Hizashi I dumped his ass after he tried to kill me and my son, honestly he's only here to be the piñata."
At this Hizashi's eyes went wide as he let out a muffled scream of fear.
"That over there is the biblical God and you all know each other I assume?" Inko finished. "Jirou is a recently ascended among the deities and our pantheon had dibs on the next music god since the Hawaiians got Elvis so we nabbed Jirou."
"You crazy woman let us out of here!" Jirou's dad snapped.
"Oh right, sorry forgot." Inko uttered as she facepalmed. "I'm Leviathan, goddess of pain, torture, unusual punishments, debutchery and families. Anyway, this is more to do with your daughter's than you sorry, the others are on their way already it's just because you were all so far out of area and this meeting would be impossible to manage without stringing together a bunch of portals which aren't exactly my speciality given mine are usually point A to point B."
"Mum, it's ok." Ochako tried to reassure her parents.
"" Ochako's mother screamed before she slapped the girl. ""
"Leave her alone!" Jirou snapped, her wings bursting out casing menacing shadows behind her. "Chako's probably the nicest girl I've met and the whole reason she's doing all this is so you can have a better life!"
"And what do you know you brat? You dress like that slut Midnight not some hero!" Ochako's father butted in.
"That's my daughter you jerk!" Jirou's parents snapped at the same time.
"Leave my girlfriend alone!" Ochako snapped back in anger.
"Girlfriend?" Ochako's mum asked softly before a look of disgust fell over her face. "WE DIDN'T RAISE A FUCKING DYKE!"
"YOU WILL STOP THIS SHIT NOW YOUNG LADY OR WE'LL SEND YOU TO STRAIGHT CAMP!" ochako's dad snapped right before he copped a fist to the eye from his pissed daughter.
"Okay fuck this." Inko growled before several chains shot out of the shadows, binding and gagging the two parents who were moments away from being ripped to shreds by the class and their own daughter. "They can have fun with Mr Giggles the clown, he may like kids but he loathes people like them."
With that the two struggling adults were dropped into their own shadows into a tank half full of water.
"Oh ho ho, what's this? Coochy coochy coo!" A clown could be heard laughing from the darkened pit immediately followed by screams of the two adults as the portal closed.
"I'll let them out after dinner, they should of learnt their lesson by then." Inko shrugged before turning her attention to the horrified class. "What? I'm the goddess of cruel and unusual punishments not death, they'll be fine if a bit traumatised."
"Hey, where'd the drunk zombie go?" Kendo asked making Inko notice her husband has slunk off somewhere.
"Nomu, please find my husband and beat his ass?" Inko requested. The hulking creature nodded before bounding away, Nezu cackling like a madman as he clung to its shoulder. "Oh well, atleast we have the backup piñata."
"I'm probably going to regret this, but what's the backup?" Yagi asked nervously, having tried to stay the hell out of what was going on from the corner of the room.
"Oh don't worry, nobody important, just some upstart brat with dilusions of grandeur who wanted my powers for himself." Inko waved it off as with a snap of her fingers a man in a suit with a face that looked like a wrinkly baked potato dropped to the floor, tied up in rope and quirk suppressant cuffs, a gag made of old socks in their mouth and a cactus shoved up their ass.
"Question...can I have first swing?" Yagi asked with a malicious tone. The bound man, having recognised that voice started to relax slightly before he heard and recognised the second voice.
"Of course." Inko smirked. At this, All for One knew he was about to have a very bad day.
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