Lightning Serenade: Halloween Special
**This chapter is just a bonus and has no influence on prior or upcoming chapters. Just for funsies!**
"Why are we starting on this end of the city? Over by Neito's is where they give out the full-sized candy bars," Hitoshi complained, dragging his feet as Denki excitedly led the way to their first stop of the evening.
Hitoshi's eyes trailed after Denki's stupid little devil's tail for his devil costume. It was cute. Really cute. And it was hard to stay annoyed, so he made an effort to look away, only for his eyes to trace the outline of the halo affixed to the top of Neito's head, streetlights dimly glinting off of the metallic material as they walked along the sidewalk. Damn it all to hell.
"We're meeting up with some friends!" Denki chirped. "I told you already!"
"Why didn't we just meet at UA?" Hitoshi groaned, pulling at the collar of his priest costume. "It's where we meet any other time."
Neito smiled, but remained silent, letting Hitoshi figure it out on his own.
Hitoshi gasped.
"There you go!" Neito chirped, joyfully swinging his candy bucket as he walked.
"We're going trick-or-treating with villains?!" Hitoshi hissed under his breath, ducking his head down to whisper more quietly, even though no one was in earshot of the trio.
"We've done worse," Denki said, shrugging.
Hitoshi opened his mouth to argue, promptly shut his mouth, then nodded in agreement. "Yeah, sure. I'm in."
"Good, because—" Denki said as he, without warning, burst in through a street-facing door, to finish the sentence in a yell, "we're here!"
Seeing the villains all decked out in their official attire made the heroes' adrenaline spike, even though they all knew they were in good company. Or maybe it was seeing Hawks again, who wasn't declared an enemy of the nation in so many words, but also wasn't not.
"You're going as yourselves?" Neito asked.
Hitoshi hummed and narrowed his eyes at Neito because it wasn't judgment in his voice, but inspiration. "Why? Are you going to rush back and change your costume? You want to go as Phantom Thief instead?"
"I was thinking more like Chargebolt," Neito quipped back without hesitation, making Hitoshi's jaw drop.
Denki laughed. "You'd make a great Chargebolt! I'd love to try out Mindjack, and I think Hitoshi would look great as Phantom Thief. Maybe we should do that next year!"
"Where's Dabi?" Hitoshi asked, looking around, trying to change the subject in hopes that maybe Denki would forget about this idea by the time next year rolled around. "And Toga?"
"They're getting ready," Spinner said.
"They'll be out soon, and then we'll be ready to go," Hawks said. "We're just waiting on them. Slow pokes!" he said, yelling out the last part.
"We're coming, we're coming," Dabi said as a door opened from the hallway.
The heroes and villains alike stood in open wonderment as two Dabis stood before them. One dressed in the traditional Dabi garb, the other in a maid costume. With stockings. And cat ears.
"What?" maid-Dabi asked. "It's suspicious if there's exactly one member of the League in the group and they are all accurate, but if there are two Dabis and no Togas, then the suspicion fades away. Which is kind of stupid, actually, now that I think about it..."
"I think," Hawks started, "and correct me if I'm wrong, that it's because one of the Dabis is wearing a maid dress."
"And looking fabulous!" Twice chimed. "Maybe I should—shouldn't." The group paused, waiting for Twice to finish his sentence, but he must have thought better of it because he just shrugged and leaned back against the wall.
"My question is," Shigaraki started, "is why Toga is the normal Dabi and Dabi is the maid."
The Dabi dressed in villain garb squealed and jumped in place. "See! I told you someone would know, Dabi!" Toga said.
"I didn't think anyone would get it that quickly," Dabi said. "Could you tell?" he asked Hawks.
Hawks had been nodding in agreement with Shigaraki's question and quickly changed to shaking his head. "Uh—no?" Hawks tried.
Dabi sighed. "You could. What gave it away?"
"Just—I don't know. The way you stand. The energy that wafts off of you. The cadence of your speech," Hawks listed, trying to pin down what exactly gave him away.
"We just know you," Shigaraki said. "I bet you'd be able to tell the difference between Toga and me, or Toga and Hawks. I think it's just a... familiarity thing?"
"An intimacy thing," Hawks tried.
"Yeah," Shigaraki agreed easily with a nod. "That's it."
The group did end up making their way over to Neito's area, because Hitoshi was right: They did give out the full-sized candy bars.
"Trick-or-treat!" the group belted as the door started to open, only to reveal Endeavor decked out in all brown.
Endeavor scowled. "That's so insensitive," said the master of sensitivity himself. "Dressing up as active villains," he paused, narrowing his eyes at the back of the group, and growled, "and having a Chargebolt in the mix? Very poor taste."
"Hi, Endeavor!" Denki chirped, waving. "What are you supposed to be?"
"Oh," Endeavor deadpanned. "Of course, it's the real you. Isn't it obvious what I am?" he asked, gesturing to his plain, brown attire.
"Ah! I know!" Dabi exclaimed. "You're a flaming pile of shit!"
The group burst into laughter; Denki tried to refrain for the sake of his boss. Endeavor frowned, looking down at his clothes.
"I'm figgy pudding," he muttered.
The group had enough tact to nod sympathetically, barely holding in their laughter.
"Oh!" Denki said. "You need some holly or something to make it obvious that you're going for a Christmas type thing," he supplied helpfully.
Everyone knew as they stood there, though, that it was Shouto's suggestion, and that he left out the idea of adding anything red and green on purpose so that people would come to the exact same conclusion that Dabi had.
A/N: Hi readers! Just something short and sweet (like all of the candy I hope you're all getting!) for you for Halloween! The costumes for the trio were inspired by @denki.darling on TikTok! This is just a bonus, so we'll be following the schedule like this post never happened, so the next chapter will be posted tomorrow! Also, it's my birthday (technically my removal day because I was born via cesarian section), and it is also Satan's birthday according to some people. We are totally twinsies, further evidenced by my writing, as I have been called evil multiple times... >:) Tomorrow will just further prove how true those accusations are! Love you! <3 I hope you had a fun and safe night!
Fun fact: The League in this special went trick-or-treating without anyone dressing up as Toga, and coincidentally, I'm went as Toga this year! I thought that was kind of funny and wanted to share! If you wore a costume, what did you wear?
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