BNHA Fics

Burnt Popcorn | A Comedy of Quirk Bloopers

A/N OK so this is none of those three I posted about, I'll get to those later, but first a totally silly comedic break just for fun!! I'm definitely better at tragedy than comedy so this is a little out of my comfort zone but if you need a little bright spot with all my dark stuff then this is for you.

Premise: quirks can come in handy for all sort of non-heroic day-to-day stuff... except when they don't. Class 1-A just wanted some popcorn. Many tried to make it happen. Many made a mess of the common room. Hilarity ensues.

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"Guys, I brought us all some popcorn!" came Hagakure's seemingly disembodied voice as the door to the common room flew open and in bounced a box of popcorn kernels. "All I we have to do is put in the... oh. What happened to the microwave?"

Uraraka sighed from behind the sink where she was washing a plate. "Bakugou blew it up yesterday when it was taking too long to heat up his breakfast," she said, pointing to the scorch marks on the countertop. "They haven't bought us a new one yet. Can't imagine why." She rolled her eyes.

"This is easy!" Yaoyorozu chimed in. "I'll just make us a new one!"

It took her a few minutes, but sure enough, soon there was a new microwave standing at the ready. Hagakure put in the first bowl of kernels, and the class eagerly awaited as it spun around.

...and spun around, and spun around, yet the popcorn remained unchanged.

"Oh dear," Yaoyorozu frowned. "I confused the wattage of this with the wattage of the curling iron I made the other day. This is all wrong. I'm so sorry."

"Stand back," said Kaminari. "I've got this!"

But he did not got this. He did not got this at all. What he did get was a face full of half-charred popcorn kernels when the microwave erupted into a hot but short-lived fire and showered the room in popcorn bullets.

"OW!" he shouted, stumbling back from the burst appliance.

"Is everyone alright, kero?" Tsuyu was surveying the damage, and Tokoyami was entangled in her tongue after she'd slurped him out of the way of the flaming microwave shrapnel.

A chorus of "yeah, I'm fine"s rang through the group, and meanwhile Iida was standing over the wreckage with a fire extinguisher, making sure no fiery aftershocks would spring up.

"Aww, man, but what about the popcorn?" Kirishima lamented. "You can almost still smell it!"

"There's still more," said Hagakure, holding up the box.  "We can try again!"

"I could make another microwave," said Yaoyorozu, "but I'd need to eat something first."

"The chicken and egg dilemma," Tokoyami mused, staring intently at the unpopped kernels.  "Who else has a quirk—"

"Where's Todoroki?" Yaoyorozu chimed in.  "His fire should do the trick!"

He wasn't in the common room, so the girls began bickering over who would go to his room to ask for his help. After a mini-quirk battle that resulted in Yaoyorozu's expensive bracelet getting melted by Ashido's acid, Ashido won out and left in search of the handsome boy.

"You want me to what?" he asked, looking up from the book he was reading.

"Pop the popcorn!" Ashido repeated, bouncing on the balls of her feet. "Bakugou kablammed the microwave this morning, so Yaomomo made us a new one but she messed up the wattage and so Kaminari—"

"I think I see where this is going," said Todoroki, setting down his book and standing up.  "I could use something to eat.  I'll come pop your popcorn."

Soon all eyes were on the popcorn bowl once again as Todoroki began to heat it with a handful of fire. It seemed to be going well, until, like marshmallows toasting on a campfire, the nearly-perfect popcorn became blackened and charred, a few pieces catching fire.

"Shit!" said Todoroki, quickly dousing the fire with a little ice. "Hmm. No good. Some of it might be eatable, but..."

Hungry enough not to care, the class started eating it anyway.

"Dude, this is terrible," said Sero. "It would have been fine if you'd just let it burn, but now it's all soggy and gross."

There was a general mumble of agreement around the room, to which Todoroki shrugged apologetically.

Later that evening, after a much better dinner and when the popcorn disaster was all but forgotten, several of the group decided to wind down in the baths. Midoriya and Ojiro were in a lively discussion about the nuances of one of the new rookie hero's quirk, and in the excitement, his tail swished, sprayed the group with water, and smacked Bakugou in the face.

"HEY!" he shouted, "Watch it, ya moronic monkey!"

"Sumimasen!" Ojiro cried. "It was an accident!"

"I'll show you an accident!" Bakugou yelled, sending explosions a little too big for a bath towards Ojiro and Midoriya. "And you too, you damn nerd, getting him all excited about nothing, we're supposed to be relaxing in here!"

"So the pot calls the kettle," Tokoyami murmured under his breath.

"What'd you say, bird brain?"

Before Tokoyami could respond, Bakugou let off another round in his direction, and the explosion was suddenly followed by the sound of... popping?

The group looked around, and to their great surprise, a bunch of perfectly popped popcorn line the floor around the bath.

"How the hell did that get there?" Kirishima wondered.

Sato looked around the room at where the trail of popcorn lead. "I think some of the unpopped kernels must have rolled in here after the explosion when Kaminari fried the microwave earlier," he observed.

"Must be," said Kaminari, picking up a piece and tossing it in his mouth. "Unlike that batch, this one is perfect!"

Kirishima laughed. "It all works out. Bakugou's the one that cost us the good microwave, but after all that, he's the one to pop us the popcorn right!"

"Tch!" Bakugou scoffed. But he ate the popcorn anyway.

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Okay yeah that was completely ridiculous but kinda fun tbh. Back to your regularly scheduled drama. Up next: sick Bakugou in "Die Nausea Die" (probably not because of this popcorn LOL)