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TEST DRIVE MEME: JANUARY 2021

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MENACE WITH YOUR MASKS

01. HEROPA, FLORIDA 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.

It’s an average day in the life here! Go to school, go to work, maybe test drive a new car! There’s a sprawling sidewalk sale going on with the promise of fifty percent off all merchandise for any imPort willing to show off their abilities! Now’s your chance to show your stuff.

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. 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.

De Chimans have decided to celebrate the new year with a photo campaign of all the newest imPorts! Welcome to their little city, new friends! Hopefully you weren’t too fond of privacy or personal space. Duck and dodge around your adoring fanbase and hope whoever you’re hanging out with doesn’t give them any fanfic ideas!

That being said, some fans are offering a handsome paycheck if you post to the ImPort network and work in a little shout-out for them.

03. MAURTIA FALLS, PENNSYLVANIA has carried a reputation for ups and downs ever since imPorts began appearing. 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...

The joy of the holiday season has passed and Maurtia Falls is as unfriendly as ever. ImPorts can expect the cold shoulder being given to them by nearly everyone they meet. The stress of making eyecontact with so many unfriendly faces may make you look up, and that’s where you see it - a man scaling the side of the most famous art gallery in the city! Just as you see it, he dives in through the window.

Pocket Dimension Pete is at it again, and you’re going to need to work fast to stop him from making off with all those valuable paintings. Once it goes into his void, it’s not coming out! Get there quick and save the day!

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.

There’s a demo today in town square for Mayoral Candidate Bing Hardscruff’s personal pet project, one that promises to usher the world into a new era of prosperity and peace! The Friendinator will immediately match you with your perfect bestie. Just slap it on your wrist, turn around three times, and let it guide you to the friend of your dreams.

Only it’s being a little… insistent. The magnetic pull of the device is dragging you to your new friend! And it may hasn’t been calibrated to your specific interests. You crash bodily into them and -

Oh dear.

It looks like you’re stuck together now. The team seems to believe that this is a temporary issue, at least, but it’s going to make doing any kind of heroing (or shopping) pretty hard. Hopefully Bing didn’t plan this to put all the heroes out of commission!

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.

The Web Mistress sleeps and so the eccentric town seems almost… normal. Well, normal if you can ignore all of the decorations of spiders curled up on big cozy sheets. Those seem to be everywhere! But there’s a strange chill in the air today. Literally.

It seems that an intense arachnophobe has decided to use a snow machine to wipe out the spiders of the city once and for all! A snowstorm has moved across the desert and the people of Jeopardy are terrified for their lovely little leggy friends! Better move quickly, else the entire city be buried underneath a mountain of winter mayhem!

06. The HEROIC HALL is a state of the art combat dome in De Chima. Engineered by the best and brightest on the planet, its futuristic holograms are as real as they come. There are safety features in place to keep things from getting out of hand, and they usually work. Usually. But any scenario you could possibly dream of is at your disposal to use. There are a number of pre-programmed options for you to choose from, ranging from the mundane like saving a cat from a tree, to the extreme such as stopping the apocalypse. There are even convenient scripts so you don't have to come up with your own zingers, and every session is recorded so you can watch your own greatness!

Uncertain? Well, the hot ticket this month is SCENARIO 34. Have you ever wanted to explore the stars? Here’s your chance! Scenario 34 features the greatest hits. You are now captain of the SS Starjammer and are fighting the birdlike alien species called the Greymauls and their planned bodysnatcher invasion, a (poorly programmed) love interest is there to sass you at every turn, and a (equally poorly programmed) AI keeps trying to shoot your ship down! Of course can’t do this on your own, this script was written for two! Collaborate with your crewmate and stop the menace!

Once it’s over, don’t be surprised if you’re approached by the eagle-eyed talent scouts that refuse to take not interested as an answer.

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4. Nonah, South Carolina
[Awkward. This was very awkward. First of all, Shoto already has best friends. He doesn't really see the need to get more of those. Second? Being literally stuck to someone is anything but comfortable.

Depending on which side someone is stuck to, irritation might come off physically as something too cold or too warm. Sorry! He really would like this to stop.]

Are we stuck by our clothes...?

[Because that might be easily remedied.]

5. Jeopardy, Nevada
[That was a lot of snow(?). Snow machines weren't too overly familiar to Shoto since snow making quirks and his own could do the same thing. Was it real snow? Was it fake? There really wasn't much time to check that out since people were in danger. And spiders, too?]

Get people inside!

[For those who don't want to go right after the source this would be a good option. Shoto will be heading straight for what he assumes is the center of all of this.]

6. Heroic Hall
[What?? Why?? Shoto is far from sure about any of this. He knows that participating in media things was something a hero could do back home, but... what exactly was this? Space? He's a space captain? Was he supposed to take this seriously or not...

The script is badly written as he scans it.]

Ah... So we fight these Graymauls with this ship.

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[Feel free to throw anything at me!]

There was so much more to be excited about these days, even with the loss of One for All from this world completely. It also meant that "Deku" and his skeletal friend who should have just stayed in the closet were literally no more. In fact, what a weight off his shoulders that the heroes seemed to be clearing out. As long as certain heroes didn't go, he could careless. It made his moves easier and all the more confident.

The non-heroic ones done in shadow, not the confident walk that looked more like his usual gait with his hands hidden in a hoodie covered by a long black coat that he got for Christmas. Weather? What weather? It was a cool coat. Living in the excitement that anyone of actual threat could be manipulated here, Shigaraki's good mood was short lived. He knew what two toned hair meant and he knew what that dumbfounded look meant.

imPorts, new or not, being ushered into fame shouldn't be new to heroes but at least Shigaraki had a nice reputation for not wanting people to follow or take his picture. Alright, time to play as dumb as dumb got. Since he was a registered hero here, he meant to play that to his advantage. Also knowing people didn't come from the same time as him, the curiosity got the best of him instead.

Approaching from the side, he chided the press already harassing someone just super fresh here and let out an authoratative: "Enough. Get going and leave, you're a fire hazard." One or two turned around and since Shigaraki never kept a schedule of where he was going to force himself to patrol, there was a familiar face or two. "Go." There were taps on shoulders to others and quickly, one by one, they started peeling off. Once there were only a couple idiots that he could four finger turn around and usher away, he glanced over his shoulder at Shoto. "You don't have to thank me, stranger. This shit happens too often here."

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It wasn't too bothersome to be harassed by people. Shoto kept rather calm and admittedly spaces out for part of this. This just gets some people to try harder to get his attention, and this newly arrived imPort just doesn't care. He'd be hearing an earful back home about his lack of professionalism in the wake of all this.

But if Endeavor could get away with not saying a damn word, so could he. Some questions do get a nod or shake of his head when he does catch what someone says to him. There was just so many people here... Shoto does register that someone was shooing the press away. He catches sight of a hoodie, and then-

It was like being doused by a bucket of cold water. The neutral expression goes momentarily panicked as he stares at someone he knows shouldn't be here. Couldn't be here? He's not entirely sure about the rules of this place. If Shiragaki was here, who else was? Shoto forces himself to take a deep breath through his nose. This man had called him 'stranger'... it still felt wrong to try and relax, but something was off here. "I'm used to it," he composes himself a bit more, though still wary. "Thank you." There wasn't a need to cause a scene until he fully knows what's going on here.

Ah. There it was. There it was. So he knew. That didn't shave down the time frame, but it also at least gave him that much. "Of course, what else are imPorts for if not to save everyone. You're lucky I was in the area, ignoring them won't make them go away and it won't make the tabloid conspiracies any easier, either."

With another glance or two to make sure that they had at least dispersed, if not just hung around further away, his attention situated on Shoto this time. He knew there'd be at least one person upset with him over pretending, but caring didn't seem in his vocabulary. "Are you new? You seem lost." No he didn't seem lost, but it stood to reason a conversation could at least have those elements to it.

What kind of conspiracies would there even be about Shoto. He doesn't really want to know. It would probably be something dumb, like about how his hair got this way. Yet what Shiragaki said was true. Even back home the press tended to have to be shooed away before heroes could take a breather.

"... I just arrived recently." So very new. As oblivious as Shoto could be, Shiragaki was doing something that he feels maybe he should follow along with. It would be bad to have people coming closer. He still doesn't fully know everything that the other man was capable of. "I don't know where they want me to go."

There have been some interesting ones go around, maybe not about the person he was standing with but good lord. Even poor Twice.

Regardless, Shoto was correct. Having people be close to Shigaraki wasn't a good idea, nor was it good to have them within a certain range vicinity either. "For imPorts? Anywhere we want, mostly. If you're looking for your home, I can help you find it if you want. Or your place of work if they assigned you." He gestured in a non descript way, along with a nonchalant shrug. "Lucky us. On top of being heroes we get to work day jobs."

Not lucky at all, but at least he had found one to suit himself and didn't make him want to break bones of frustrated customers.

[ Momo should really know by now not to try out whatever newfangled tech they're trying to push on unsuspecting buyers in places like Nonah or De Chima. Nothing ever goes as planned with them. But, the salesman had been so enthusiastic! And Momo did just lose a significant portion of her friendbase during the recent wave of port-outs. Even if true best-friendship was only forged through things like shared interests and time spent enjoying each other's company, using a handy dandy gadget to make new friends couldn't be that bad of an idea, right?

Wrong.

Momo knows something is wrong as soon as she is yanked bodily sideways after engaging the Friendinator wristband, and she doesn't have a chance to do anything to stop it, before she's crashed together with-- ]

Todoroki-san?!

[ Here she was, trying to make a new friend, and she's run into an old one instead! ]

Well, this really isn't the sort of reunion I would have preferred... Let's find a way to get unstuck, shall we?

[Oh. Well. This was less awkward when Shoto actually stops to look who it is.]

Yaoyorozu.

[He nods and looks down. Was it the weird technology?]

Can you make something to break this? I can't use my quirk without hurting you this close.

I can try...

[ It would be easier if she understood why or how the device was keeping them stuck together. It feels like a magnetic pull, but she doubts it could be that simple. Still, probably best to start by trying to remove the wristband. She creates a small pair of pliers in her free hand and starts prying apart the casing of the wristband, trying to disconnect its power source. ]

Just... one moment...

[ It's much easier for Momo to create complex circuitry from whole cloth than it is for her to manipulate it once it's already in existence, but after a minute or two of uncomfortable fiddling, she manages to disable the Friendinator's magnetic pull feature, freeing them from each other.

Momo steps back, pulling the Friendinator off her wrist and throwing it on the ground, stomping on it just to be safe. She would feel bad for the wanton property destruction if the thing hadn't just malfunctioned so horribly. ]

Sorry about that. These inventors don't always do their proper product testing before releasing their inventions to the public.

[Good. The pliers would make easy work of this. Shoto watches her work and feels relieved when the magnetic pull goes away. He also ditches the bracelet. But not after freezing it so it would shatter once it hit the ground.

Sighing, he rubs his wrist now that it was free.]

They're just as bad as some of the engineers back in UA. At least it was an easy fix.

[Hatsume would have probably added something to it that would have made the pliers useless.]

[This may be a harsh lesson Ochako has to learn about personal space, honestly. It's no lie that she's among the friendliest girls in their class, as well as one of the most...erm, 'hands on' in terms of showcasing that friendliness. Boundaries don't really exist with Ochako once she gets to know someone, and especially not when she considers them a dear, dear friend. Adding onto that...she hasn't seen some of those dear, dear friends in literal months so.

Suffice to say, when Ochako saw the two-tone hair of her friend, she practically leapt at him with a holler of "TODOROKI-KUN!!" and the rest is history. Friendliness detected, the wristband smacked them both together, and Ochako is still trying to tug herself free of her friend's right side. She loves you, Todoroki, but this is a bit more than even Ochako bargained for.]

...If it is, that's going to be a problem.

[Ochako has on a sweater, yes - it's still winter, after all - but it's a sweater dress and underneath is just a thin white tank top, her sports bra, and....some tights over her underwear. So thanks but no thanks, she's not going to remove her things, and isn't keen on ripping or destroying her clothes, either.]

[Oh. It was Uraraka. At least it's a friendly face, though this predicament might have been cause by shouting his name? Who knows. Shoto does not consider himself tech savvy when it comes to things like this.]

We could test some things.

[Like how far they can pull apart. Taking off clothes is a very, very last resort. Try other solutions first.]

Let's try and move away from each other.

[Yes, removing clothes should absolutely be a last resort, because there is absolutely no way Ochako wants to take off anything in public...o-or in a private area, even if she trusts Todoroki perhaps more than most of the boys to be a gentleman.]

Right!! Then let me just... [Attempting to move in the opposite direction of Todoroki, Ochako makes it about as far as her arm reaches before the resistance begins to kick in, like being chained or shackled to something by the arm.]

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TEST DRIVE MEME: JANUARY 2021

Shoto Todoroki | My Hero Academia | OTA

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