requested by Psychokatze_

an arcade

a place that buzzed and beeped with the sounds of pixilated games and claw machines, where you could collect a large number of tickets to win prizes, usually found in malls and restaurants

which is exactly where the members of 1-A found one

"point me to the closest pac man" hagakura cheered happily as she and her classmates ran to their favourite games

"it's too bad tokoyami couldn't join us," midoriya said glumly

"he said it was a personal emergency, nothing serious but still alarming" shoji responded as he began to put his money in a claw machine

but as the class continued to play they all found something most interesting

"you died" the screen that sato was playing on (candy rush) announced

his score was quite high, but the highest score stayed put

the letters TF appeared with the highest score at the top of the screen

"TF ?" he questioned aloud

"hey, it says it on yours too?" the voice of kiminari asked coming over to Sato's side

one by one the students came together, enjoying a slice of pizza before getting back to the games

but the question remained

who was this TF person that had beat the highest scores

on ALL of the games in the arcade

"whoever they are, they are a total games geek" sero commented

"try as I might I couldn't even get close to that score" midoriya mumbled

"It was even on the dance machines!" mina said with outrage, not able to believe that she couldn't beat the score on the thing she was the best at

"I'm going to kill those high scores!" bakugo shouted in anger

"It seems you're ego was damaged seeing the truth that someone can be better than you," shoto said blankly

this made bakugo growl and go back into the arcade

when they had all returned

filled up and ready to go

they had found bakugo with the most determined face they had ever seen

he was playing a game that had just been released

it was named megalovniatothemax, it had the best music for a game they had ever heard along with the hardest manoeuvring skills ever

the students watched in awe as the blond played the game

in the end, he had the highest score of 3768

making bakugo shout out how amazing he was and did a victory blast

it was then they finally decided to leave and go back to the dorms

(the next morning)

"Oh shoot I forgot my bag back at the mall," Jiro said embarrassedly

but since it was a Sunday and no one had any internships or such they decided that another day out in the arcade wouldn't be a bad idea

plus many wanted to beat "TF's" high scores

shoji went to see if tokoyami wanted to come but he got no answer from the door

"he must still be out" shoji muttered to himself, hoping that his raven friend wouldn't be too long

soon they were all back ready to enter the arcade

but once they had retrieved Jiro's bag from lost and found they heard the familiar sound of their latest victory

"Someone must be trying to beat your high score bakugo," shouto said bluntly

"hah fat chance, like anyone's going to beat-" bakugo began to boast before the alarming bells of a new victory rang

"NEW HIGH SCORE"

all the students began to run to the sound

and there stood the last member of their party

tokoyami fumikage was inputting his initials "TF" that was next to the highest number 6879

he wiped the sweat of his brow and whistled in happy relief

"tokoyami!" an angry voice yelled making tokoyami's happy attitude not so happy

"uh oh" tokoyami muttered as he saw the entirety of class 1-A stare at him

it was like his fight or flight instincts kicked in as he began to leg it out

only his classmates weren't going to let him go that easily as they all began to chase him

"The first one to catch him challenges him to the dance machine!" mina declared