「Quiz de Pon」
BkDk, AU (Quirkless Deku), age gap (rookie pro hero × high school student, 2yrs)

"They're cheating," Ochako whined from the plush couch she was laying down on.

"Yaomomo wouldn't do us dirty like that," Mina pouted from her spot on the armrest.

"Yeah sure, Team Idaten wouldn't, but Jirou?" Denki pointed out, "yeah she totally would."

"But she's our friend!"

That was Eijirou, always looking for the best in people.

"Friends yes, but we're up against her girlfriend and the category choices were... less than ideal."

Katsuki snorted at Froppy's statement. The whole quiz show combined physical fitness with the ability to answer random

questions was, in theory, a way to showcase proheroes, and it was a special rookie heroes episode, meant to let them show off before their first official hero rankings would go out.
In theory, everyone should have had an equal chance at doing well but... when the fashion category

pitted Momo vs Tsuyu vs Eijirou, and the math category required mental math that Tenya excelled in and Ochako and Mina struggled with well...
It was heavily skewed towards one trio of rookies and made the others look very bad.

Katsuki personally thought it wouldn't be as bad if

teams could answer cooperatively - he was good enough in all categories, but had been regulated to only physical tests. The only time any team but theirs received trivia points was during the pop culture round which was Shouto (YaoIiTodo), Denki (UraKamiAsu), and Eijirou

(BakuAshiKiri) and even then, the half and half bastard was able to give enough correct answers in his deadpan way to keep his team solidly in the lead.

It was infuriating. It was the final commercial break before the last round, which pitted the team leaders against in each

other in a test of both brawn and brains, and Katsuki was going to smoke the others, former classmates or not.

Once their break ended, the competing heroes went back to the main stage, Kyouka trailing behind. The moment the cameras came to life, the Hearing Hero twirled around

to face them, smirk playing across her features. "And~ Welcome back everyone to the final round in today's show! It's time for the Last Grabbag, a list of questions that our last three contestants have to run to answer! Who shall come out on top, the Explosive Hero: Ground Zero,"

she paused to let the crowd cheer and boo as Katsuki stepped onto the treadmill, "Our friendly neighborhood hero, Uravity," Ochako took her place to many cheers, "Or the Everything Hero: Creati?" Momo by far got the most cheers, along with some wolf whistles, as she stepped up.

Kyouka read aloud each team's points (Katsuki inwardly bristled by how far behind his team was) before explaining the rules - each hero had to run on a treadmill to light up a lightbulb to answer the question. Those who answered incorrectly were given a penalty, making it harder.

While Ochako gave her all, it was hard to match Katsuki and Momo for their sheer breadth of knowledge. Katsuki still trailed behind though which made him seethe from his treadmill.

"And for the final mystery question, points are triple and would take the win!" Kyouka announced.

Katsuki looked downright feral as the blond crouched over the handles, ready to run.

"Despite his youth and origins in the doujin scene, this author has won a dozen awards since-"

Kyouka wasn't even halfway done with her question when Katsuki starts to sprint, surprising both

Momo and Ochako at the intensity. Even as he sprinted, he was muttering under his breath, "the first author to win both the Edogawa Ranpo and Naoki prize in thr same year, with a preference of writing about flawd characters looking for redemption and all around nerd-" his light

came on, "MIDORIYA IZUKU!"

The moment he yelled into his mic, balloons and streamers started falling. Kyouka stood dumbfounded for a moment before giving her former classmate a grin, "That's correct! Congratulations to Team Bakugou-Ashido-Kirishima! That means your charity will

be receiving the 100 million yen prize! Who were you playing for today?"

Katsuki was being glomped by his laughing teammates and was the only one available to answer her question, "We played for Nippon Quirkless Aid Society."

As the heroes leave the stage, Eijirou put Katsuki

in a headlock. "How do you know about this author?" He laughs, "you always complain when I give you book recommendations!"

"It's 'cause your suggestions are always shit."

But Katsuki smiled and failed to answer the first question.

/.../

Hours later, Katsuki returns to his apartment and sees that the TV is on, showing a recording of the show, obviously recorded by their DVR.

"I can't believe you," the pile of blankets on their couch says. "You're a dork."

"Yeah your dork," Katsuki laughs, flopping onto the sofa

and nearly squishing his boyfriend.

Izuku huffed, grabbing onto Katsuki and nuzzling his face against the man's neck. "You know the mics picked up you calling me a nerd too."

"Yeah well, it's not like I fucking lied about it, did I?"

3+ tweet mini thread for the first 2 peeps who figure out what this was inspired by lol