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Considering apping into MASK OR MENACE? Want to dip your toes into the setting and get a feel of whether your character will fit into it? Or maybe you're just cruising and want to play around? Then you've come to the right place!

Pick any of the following scenarios below or feel free to make up your own, but don't be afraid to throw yourself at someone else's thread, either!

And remember there's only one rule in Test Drive Meme Club: HAVE FUN ON THE TEST DRIVE MEME!

01.The city of Heropa is what one might expect from a small, bright and cheery place, where locals are friendly enough and local shop owners might offer a free drink to welcome you to their fair city.

Unfortunately, tragedy has struck today. It seems like the entire Heropa PD is parked out of a local, popular grocery chain. A huge crowd is amassed in the parking lot despite the best efforts of officers to get them to leave. They whisper about excitement and shame, and you don't have to ask if you just listen in a bit...

"What do you think he'll do to the employees? He sounded so serious..." "He really wants that pussy, huh?" "If I left my man for cheating on me, I'd take the damn cat, too!" "How does he think taking her and her coworkers hostage is gonna make her change her mind about him being a bad boyfriend?" "My wife is pregnant, please - if I don't get her favorite deli sub I might as well not go home!"

Domestic disputes! Tragic. The police aren't too sure how to handle this hostage situation, claiming the man only has a box cutter and isn't actually waving it around at the moment, but...are you an imPort? They'd really appreciate the help, okay. Get in there and counsel the unhappy couple. Or not!

02. De Chima, Virginia, is a large city with a healthy economy, with large numbers of citizens waiting to be awed by your very presence. Look at you! Organic wonder! Synthetic wonder! Whatever you might be, those words have meaning here. Science and technology are the lifeblood of this city, so you're likely to come across a good many locals taking your picture with the newest of devices. The imPort craze remains high here, and you may find yourself cornered by overzealous imPort fans, media wannabes and opportunists alike, shoving cameras in your face.

Today, a company that manufactures tech-based educational toys—"Where Science Meets Fun!"—is running a demo of its latest project, Quincy the QuizBot. Filled with information taken from the curricula of many grade levels, Quincy is whirring through the streets to conduct pop quizzes! Answer a question right, win a prize, ranging from a coupon for a free soda at the local fast food joint to a $100 gift card, based on difficulty!

Except...something's gone wrong with Quincy's programming. An hour or two into the demo session, he starts to approach passersby and demand answers. "WHAT IS THE SQUARE ROOT OF 47284? CAN YOU LIST THE PHARAOHS OF EGYPT IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER? ANSWER-ANSWER-ANSWER-ANSWER!"

03. Maurtia Falls, Pennsylvania has carried a reputation for ups and downs ever since imPorts began reappearing again, just those few years prior. Several imPort heroes have put focused efforts into cleaning up the streets of this somewhat infamous city, while a handful of others had swooped in to help the criminal industry thrive. More so here than the streets of any other imPort city, the battle between good and evil looks more like a war of escalation than a heroic tale. Everything from the classic bank heist to brutal bloodbaths can happen around the corner. You have to keep your eyes open and your mind sharp when you live in Maurtia Falls, and hostility against imPorts can spike. The emergence of locals with superpowers is hardly helping...

Despite the lack of gratitude that's in it for you, you may want to step in once you see a very, very sad supervillain wandering Maurtia Falls' streets. Dressed in a cape that appears to be a large swath of fabric purchased from a nearby sewing store, galaxy-themed leggings and no shirt is a man who runs right into your vicinity before striking a pose and yelling, "Everyone, stop before me and my wrath! I am Mister Mars, and provided you give me what I ask for, nobody needs to get hurt!"

At which point Mister Mars snatches an old woman's purse, loudly laughs in her face, and begins to float upwards. By the time he reaches the height of the tallest building in the area, he's beginning to look slightly panicked as he fails to really be able to move anywhere but up. Meanwhile, the old woman has begun shaking her cane at him and screaming quite an assortment of alarming expletives.

Maybe you should help one or the other out? If not, just lean back and enjoy the show.

04. Nonah, North Carolina, is the liveliest of all cities; loud, busy and there's always some kind of energy in the air that gets everyone buzzing with excitement.

Today there's a big lemonade stand on one busy sidewalk, staffed by a group of industrious kids. Aww, isn't it sweet? Wait...is that a cookie stand a little ways down, also run by elementary-to-middle schoolers? Heck, the entire block is full of kid-run mini-businesses — a gathering of pint-sized entrepreneurs! And they have their eyes on you, hero, because as a celebrity imPort, your pockets are full of $$$, right?

05. Jeopardy, Nevada by all rights shouldn't exist. A glowing neon city smack in the middle of the desert, the only reason it's still here is that the central nuclear power plant has tapped half a mile down into a subterranean lake for its water supply. So though the desert around it may be barren, the occupants of this small city are happily self sufficient. Those weird figures you see out of the corner of your eyes? Don't worry too much. Probably just weird radiation after effects. Jeopardy has a lot of those.

Despite the weird constant hum and the creepy cultish bingo, Jeopardy is usually a pretty calm place. A safe place. But not today. Today, someone has released a couple hundred tiny praying-mantis-like robots into the city, and the place is in chaos. Shops are closed up early because though these little destructive creatures don't have bullets, they do have some weird arm appendages that like to just crunch everything in existence. Like a locus swarm of cockatoos, anything made of wood or plastic is being crunched up and left for scrap. But at less than six inches high apiece, rounding them up is proving extremely difficult. Luckily, the mayor in her wisdom is giving out titanium nets to any imPort who wants to help round up the trouble makers. And, in the spirit of the city, she's offering the imPort that catches the most robots a free meal for two in the swanky Radiation Galley - Jeopardy's top tier, five star restaurant.

Get catchin', imPorts!

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[ Momo had seen the would be villain rising up into the sky, and is on her way to assist, when suddenly there's the familiar sound of explosions, and-- is that Bakugo-san???

She gets there just in time to catch the thrown Mister Mars, nearly toppling over backwards with the force of him, but thinking quickly enough to create a pair of handcuffs and slap them on his wrists. ]

Ah--! Good save!

[Ponytail! He never thought he'd be excited to see his classmates in this world, and yet. Katsuki descends to the ground and runs up to Momo, looking at the captured villain smugly.]

Let's torture him before we turn him in!

[ Ehhhhh... Typical Bakugo. Momo supposes she should't be surprised that's where his mind went right off the bat. ]

N-no, I don't think that's a good idea. Why don't you just watch him while I call the police?

[ Let Bakugo watch Mister Mars while she watches Bakugo. That works, right? She gets out her cell phone and dials 9-1-1. ]

If they don't get here in ten minutes, I'm doing things my way!

[He'll watch Mister Mars. He'll watch him while he insults and cuts down any shred of dignity he has left.

This isn't just! I'm a powerful supervillain, I deserve better! I will make my justice!]

Shut up! The only thing you'll be making is a lot of people happy when we don't have to see that shitty costume anymore!

[The old lady, upset by her stuff being thrown around, starts to approach.

Young man, I thank you for your help, but perhaps next time you can be more careful with other people's belongings. My pills are-]

YOU SHUT UP TOO!!

[ Thankfully for everyone involved, Momo's 9-1-1 call doesn't take very long. She gives them her name and their address, even throws in a namedrop for the Justice League to hopefully make them get there sooner. She turns back to the scene just in time to see Bakugo yelling at the old woman. ]

A-ah! Please, let me help you with that.

[ Quickly, in a shower of pink and blue sparkles, Momo creates a broom and a dustpan and starts sweeping up all the fallen pills. It's perhaps not the cleanest method, but it does the trick. She gathers them all up and then deposits them neatly back into the pill bottle they fell out of. ]

Here you are. I would recommend wiping them off before you take them, though. Or... Maybe if you go back to the pharmacy and explain what happened, they'll give you new ones?

[ The American healthcare system works like that, right? ]

[What are they, the cleanup crew? Katsuki scowls as Momo intervenes to attempt to sue the old lady. At least the ancient artifact has shut up, briefly, as she gawks at Momo not unlike a goldfish.]

You can make it up to us by grovelin' for forgiveness! What are you waiting for? GROVEL!!!

[The old lady seems to snap out of it, screeching about something health insurance.]

How's that our problem? You should have gotten better insurance to pay for any med damages!

[Because American health insurance is like car insurance, right???]

[ OH MY GOD, WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS.

Momo makes a "WILL YOU PLEASE JUST STOP" face at Bakugo behind the woman's back, then tries (once again) to diffuse the situation. She doesn't remember Bakugo's last time on this world being this bad, but then... he hadn't been here for very long, then. ]

Ma'am, I'm sorry. I really don't know anything about your health insurance coverage. But the police will be here soon, if you would like to stay and file a report?

[ Maybe that could help. The old woman doesn't seem satisfied, however, she just turns on Momo and starts yelling again, this time about how horrifically rude her companion is being. ]

Y-yes, I'm afraid that's just the way he is, ma'am.

[Katsuki just glares back, clearly she's challenging him. And why is Momo trying to reason with someone who's too senile to be reasoned with? He's about to shut up and let Momo suffer when the old lady goes off and blames her. As if she's responsible for his behavior. Who the hell does that hag think she is?!]

Hey, old hag! [He walks up to the old woman, looming over her diminutive figure, murder in his eyes.] Why are you screaming at my classmate? I'm right here. Or is your memory not what it used to be?

[ Oh... Oh no. Why does he just have the greatest knack for making things worse? Is it some kind of secondary quirk or something? ]

Bakugo-san, please. It's fine. We can all keep level heads here until the police arrive.

[ If he starts another altercation they're going to want to arrest him, too, and Momo doesn't have the same kind of funds she has back home in order to bail him out. ]

MY HEAD'S PERFECTLY LEVEL!

[The old lady starts screeching about how rude kids are these days, and how Momo should know better to associate with a delinquent like Katsuki.]

She's the one talking shit. You really going to take that?

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