Koji Koda ran a hand along the horse's mane. The soft black hair slid easily along his palm, and the horse snorted in contentment. Koda smiled at the horse.

There, there. Nice horse.

The horse bent to accept a carrot from his hand, chewing methodically. It was so quiet at the corral today. So wonderful. Koda enjoyed these moments most. The teachers had allowed the class a week to themselves. Schoolwork had been especially tough.

"Hey. Animal Crossing!"

Koda flipped about to see Bakugo stomping towards him. He immediately began to sweat. "Bakugo! Don't yell, please. You'll scare her." Bakugo scoffed. "A horse this big? I should be scared of her." Koda nodded desperately. "That's true, but horses don't know that. They're sensitive and kind creatures. So we have to be empathetic to them." Bakugo sighed and looked behind him. "Hurry up! You idiots!" Koda immedietely grasped the horse's reins as it began to back away from Bakugo.

Perhaps it too sensed that the explosive teen was a few slices short of a loaf. In perhaps the most dangerous way possible.

"Bakugo! Hey-!"

Kaminari stopped yelling as Koda waved him down, shushing him with his fingertip. "Shhh!" Jiro and Sero appeared from around the barn. "Aww, Koda. This is so cute." Jiro looked up at the horse. "What's her name?" Koda smiled, glad to finally meet someone he could teach.

"Her name is Ame. It means "rain," and she's about ten." Jiro gently extended her knuckles to the horse. It bent down to sniff her hand, and pushed its face into it. "Aww. How sweet." Jiro began to stroke the horse's mane.

Kaminari snorted. "Dude. Bakugo, a horse even likes other students more than you. Perhaps it isn't as brainless as some say." Koda was completely affronted. But Bakugo seemed to take Kaminari's insult to heart, because he lunged into Kaminari's face.

Kaminari's face screamed the fact that his brain immediately regretted what he said.

Bakugo elbowed her aside and thrust his fist into the horse's face.

The horse immediately snapped at him, kicking with its front legs. Bakugo was startled, but soon his eyes narrowed. Koda felt the end of the world approach, deep in his heart.

"What?! What, horse?! What did I even do to you?! You think you're better than me?! You think that just because I'm cool, you can just try to ignore me or scare me off?! Well, screw you! Lemme tell you something. Koda's bunnies over there seemed to think so too. So I taught them a lesson, good and proper. I hope that hutch is still burning! I'll kill you. Just like I killed those fucking rabbits!"

The horse jumped back and whinnied in fear as explosions began to pop out of Bakugo's palms. He growled menacingly, staring at his enemy with a fierce desire to maim. Koda reached out to push Bakugo back. "Bakugo, please! That's not even what she thinks. She's scared!" Bakugo's eyes twitched. "So she's a coward, then. She can't take my awesomeness. That's fine. I'll just make her see it. Wait, no. This horse is so stupid, she'd miss it even if I created the cure to fucking cancer."

The horse stopped moving and looked at him. It slammed one hoof on the ground and pointed it at Bakugo.

"What was that, horse?! Hey, Fluttershy! Translate!"

"Um…It's best I not say it out loud."

Bakugo's mouth was a Cheerio for about ten seconds.

His facial expressions morphed madly as he attempted to claw apart the context.

And suddenly the insult clicked.

Bakugo's face could be compared to the face of one who just had their Pop-Tart stolen.

"..!"

"Wow, it took him longer than I thought to get it."

Bakugo ignored them all.

Koda shook. Bakugo was calm? After the horse practically flipped him off?

Bakugo released a breath. "Let me…ride the horse."

Koda shook his head. "Bakugo, I'm afraid that might not be a good idea." Bakugo stared at him, his eyes ablaze. "Let. Me. Ride. The. Damn. Horse." Koda nodded reluctantly and pointed to the saddle on Ame's back. Bakugo smiled sadistically.

"Oh, yeah. This is gonna be fun."

Bakugo vaulted into the saddle, expertly grasping the reins. "Let's go." He kicked the sides of the horse harshly. The horse looked at him with a harsh glare. It sat down, to the surprise of all. Bakugo looked at the horse dangerously. "Let's. Go." He hissed.

Koda held up a hand. "Perhaps it's best that you ride her later. She's irritated."

Bakugo's forehead twitched. "What?!" Koda ran forward. Jiro covered her eyes. But it was too late.

Bakugo had slapped his hand on the horse's backside. An explosion popped. The horse's eyes bulged and it whinnied. In a huge blast of dust and grit, the horse set off at a groundbreaking pace. Bakugo laughed madly. To everyone's surprise the boy had somehow stood up, balancing and blasting explosions behind the horse with one hand. "Hah! How you like me now, horse?! Now, off into the sun! Like the Croods!"

The rider and animal blasted off into the distance, the horse's terrified screams growing louder as each pop of explosions grew fiercer.

Koda raced to the corral to get another horse. As he slung himself onto the saddle, Jiro offered to accompany him. The pair set off at a gallop, desperately trying to catch up with the terrified Ame and her apparently deranged rider.

After much tiring struggle (their horse was going to need more than a beauty rest) the horses were finally parallel with one another. The terrified horse was unreachable, even when affected by Koda's Quirk.

"Bakugo! Get off the horse!"

Bakugo laughed insanely. "No way, dude! This horse needs to learn who's boss!" He grinned. "See ya!"

Koda and Jiro looked to each other in confusion. What did he mean? They were in the same place.

Bakugo angled his hands down by the horse's sides. His veins bulged. Koda knew what would happen before Jiro could realize, and he steered the horse to the side, faster than a whip. A huge explosion rocked the clearing. Koda looked up to see Ame and her rider shoot up into the sky like a rocket. Jiro gaped as the horse screamed like a stuck pig, the sound growing fainter and fainter.

Koda growled.

Hear me, birds of the air! Stop Bakugo and that horse! Bring them back to us safely!

Almost instantly a flock of birds appeared from the right. They soared expertly, angling towards Bakugo and Ame.

Jiro looked up, shielding her eyes with a hand. "Combustion Man's airborne! I repeat!" Koda looked back at her. "Jiro? Can you send a sonic wave into the air? We may be able to usher the birds towards them faster."

Jiro shoved her goggles over her eyes. "Sure."

She raised her jacks, inserting them into the mechanical gloves on the back of her hands. With a swing of her palm she sent a blast of wind into the sky.

The idea did work.

However, no one expected a plane to be passing by anytime soon.

"Now, then, folks. To the left you can see the beautiful Hokkaido work ranch, over 37,000 acres."

All the passengers clamored over to see. One boy flinched back. "Mommy, there's a fireball coming towards us. Right there." The mother sighed. "Tom, we talked about this. There's no such things as fireballs hitting the Earth. You've been watching too much Avatar - OHDEARLORDTHERE'SAFIREBALL!" The woman screamed and flung herself away from the window. She grasped the cabin call phone and began to scream into that.

"PILOT! I REPEAT! THERE'S A BALL OF FIRE HEADING THIS WAY! DIRECTLY BELOW US!"

Little did she know the pilot was dealing with a problem of his own.

The flock of birds had flown directly into the path of the plane and smashed against the pilot window. The pilots screeched as their sight was blocked, the plane beginning to nosedive.

Jiro screeched. "They're all gonna die!"

Koda bent down, clutching his face in his hands. However, he could not tear his eyes from the horrid scene in the sky.

Kaminari and Sero had set up lounge chairs and were watching from the ranch, noisily munching popcorn.

"My money's on the plane." Kaminari mumbled.

"I bet they're gonna circle that plane in midair. Ten bucks." Sero said.

"You're on!"

The plane rushed forwards. It was on a near perfect collision course with the rocket-horse.

Jiro and Koda hugged one another, shrieking. "No! Ame! You had so many years to live!" Jiro sobbed.

The plane rushed by as if in slow-motion. Koda and Jiro gasped at the sure detah that was about to occur. Well, more like two. Sero and Kaminari would be explaining Bakugo's absence tomorrow, that was for sure.

To everyone's amazement, that plan wasn't necessary.

The rocket-horse flew in a perfect arc,technically performing a half-pipe and going over the plane. The plane's occupants screamed in terror, mingling with the horse's howling screech.

Bakugo's silhouette shook. "I'm king of the world!" He howled as the horse plummeted towards Earth.

Kaminari spat out his soda.

Sero held out a hand. "Pay up."

"Oh. I left my wallet at home."

"…Along with your brain."

Koda and Jiro stared, shaking, as Bakugo halted his insane descent with a series of explosions. The horse's feet landed safely back on the grass, only for the animal to flop over and gasp like a fish.

"Ame! You're alive! Bakugo, you make me so mad! You could have gotten her hurt!" Bakugo shrugged, panting. "Oh, well. I wanted to scratch that off my bucket list, and now I have."

Koda froze. "Your…bucket list?!" Bakugo pulled out a piece of paper. Koda took the piece of paper and read it over.

Ride a horse into the air and half pipe a plane.

Koda looked at Bakugo, his eyes lowered and simply saying, "I'm done."

Bakugo patted Ame. "Thanks, horse. You're not bad." He stalked off, Kaminari and Sero in his wake, still arguing about the bet.

Koda patted the horse sympathetically. "It's OK, now. Right, Ame?" Jiro patted the horse's head.

The horse instantly fainted.