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Ep. 12 Punches
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I'm skipping about half of the chapter, honestly if you don't want to read it— basically you passed out during the time Daniel's chub body shows up to retrieve other body and you. Everybody is disgusted by him yada yada and at the end they're convinced that he is some sort of gangster underling or something.

'Hng..." You groaned as your head starts pounding viciously, you advert your eyes as you took quick glances around to see where the actual hell you were.

'Huh?' You pulled up your upper lip in a confused expression 'Which dimension is this? Where am I?'

"Are you finally awake?" A voice from under you spoke as you jolted up, finally realizing you were being piggy backed this entire time. "Damn, stop moving so much."

You only swung your arms around his neck, yawning loudly as you just enjoyed not having to walk on your two feet. "This is nice."

Zack immediately felt a shiver shoot up his spine as he lets go of you. You held your breath as you grabbed the back of Zack's hoodie, pulling him back with you.

"Bitch, let go!" He yelps as he basically got strangled and lost his footing.

"I'm dead bro." You slurred out, releasing his hood when you managed to land on your feet.

"Fuck!" Zack coughs out violently as he grabs the collar of your shirt, ears basically fuming. "What the hell was that for?!"

"Triple dog dare you to punch me right now."

Zack's eye twitched as Daniel was trying to think of ways to break up the fight. But it was sorta hard since he was also piggy backing his other body as well. So he was flustered to the point he just dropped his other body and grabbed onto both of you.

"H-Hey stop it guys!" He pleads as you only turned your head, giving Zack a small chuckle.

You only stayed silent before pulling away from his grip as you fixed your stretched out collar. Zack only cursed at you again as he turns away from you.

Daniel sighs, succeeding in breaking up the fight as he looks up to you.

"You feeling better Y/N?" You heard his words were lace with worry. "I was scared you'd be hungover, so I was gonna get you some medicine at the store."

You sniffled before rubbing the bottom of your nose with your finger, 'Damn, he forreal a real one.'

"I feel—"

"WE WERE SO WORRIED Y/N!" One of the stupid trio spoke up as he grasped your hands together.
"How are you feeling?!"
"Do you need anything!?"

"..." You only strike as you hit him across his temple, making him yelped back like a wounded puppy.

"Ouch!" Jackie Chan cried out as you looked around to see an unfamiliar setting.

"Where tf are we?" You asked, grabbing onto Daniel's other body and easily swinging it over your shoulder. This made chub Daniel freak out a bit, saying that he'll carry it instead. And not to exhaust yourself anymore.

"Oh we're at the arcade" Robbie smirked as he jabs his thumb at a building with a few arcade machines on the outside, most likely to advertise. Zack suddenly turns to a strange machine you'd never seen before.

Pushing in a coin in the slot, the Maine bleed to life as a mechanical stick with a plush round red pillow sat upwards.

Was it a punching machine?

"Pay attention and just watch closely at my genius little guy-" He bragged towards Daniel as he turned his body into the basic guard posture, "Just Guard your cheek with your hand like this, your stance is wider than your shoulders. Bring your arms parallel and center your butt."

"That is a basic posture" You and Zack both said in unison on accident. This caused Zack to chuckle a bit to himself, only for him to cough and catch himself when you stared with your arms crossed.

"So funny~" Zoe chirps up as you flinched at the sound of her voice.

'Holy shit she's still here, didn't even notice her' You looked at Zoe in the corner giggling girlishly.

But turning back to the punching machine, Zack holds his fist up "From here take one step ahead, put your weight in the order of pelvis-shoulders-fist. Then push your shoulders and stretch out your arm"

"That... Is a straight" Zack says as he clenches his fist, the punching machine singing as the score displayed on the board.

892

"Wow a new record!"
"He's still alive and well!"

"Now you can defend yourself against those gangster guys!" Zack smiles at little Daniel, which was... very unexpected "Although if somebody keeps fucking dodging them you're screwed..." He turns over to Daniel's skinny body, glaring at him.

"Piggy now you—!" Zack makes a burping noise before retching all over the place "Shit! I shook up my insides!"

Everybody gave him a disgusted look before we all decided it's about time to get home and possibly forget about this night.

"Lets go home"
"Piggy said he got Daniel"
"We'll take care of Zack"

"What about Zoe?"
"I gotta go home I have a curfew..."
"What? You have a curfew?"
"If Danny wasn't passed out through I would've stayed hehe"

"So where you going Y/N?" Goon 1 asked
"Home"
"What? Really!"
"If you follow me or I see you near my home I'll throw you off the school roof."
"..."

"Then lets split up"

"Bye bye Y/N~!" Zoey waves at you.
"See ya later Piggy and Y/N!"
"See ya tomorrow Y/N!"
"Later Y/N"
"Take care of Daniel"

"Okay bye!" Daniel's chubby form waved them off as you turned away in silence, ignoring their farewells with another yawn.

As they were out of range, Daniel gives a small sigh as you glanced back at him.

"Welp, that's enough going out for the rest of the year." You nodded to yourself.

"What?"

"Anyways, your body. That was a close call wasn't it?" You motioned over to his other body's unconscious form on your back.

"Oh yeah... It was"

Awkward silence

'Damn, this is awkward' You thought, scratching your cheek before looking back at Daniel. You noticed his eyes were staring intensely at the punching machine "You should try punching it" You pointed out.

"W-what? Me?" He asks in surprised, clearly wanting to try once

"Do it, you might even get a new high score."

"Okay..." He says shakily as he walks up to the game, he tried replicating Zack's pose awkwardly "Arms parallel, lift the right heel, center over butt''

"You're doing it" You watched, crossing your arms before he takes a deep breath. He pulls out a fast one as he tries hitting straight. Your eyes widens for a quick sec as he punches the machine, missing it almost entirely.

"Uummm...." He blushes furiously red as he didn't dare turning back at you "Air punch..." He looks down in shame before waddling right pass you to pick up his other body, carrying him on his shoulders "C-Come on Y/N"

"I'll stay back for a quick minute, I'll meet you up soon" You spoke nonchalantly as you gave over his other body. You started to stare back at the punch machine. Your eyes narrows as you saw the part he didn't miss, the side of the punching machine. And on closer inspection there was a rip, stuffing spewing out of it as a small smirk plays on your lips.

'He has a powerful punch. I wonder what'll happen if he didn't miss it' You thought before standing in front of the game.

You stepped back, holding your fist in front of your eye as the other guarding your cheek. Lunging forward- your fist collided directly onto the soft, red material of the punching bag.

On impact the red material had ripped, the seme undoing itself. The stuffing inside exploded as the punching game started malfunctioning, the score band displaying '999'— the highest score possible. The digital board started blinking, glitching on and off.

You took a step back, turning towards the direction of your home as you started walking. You stuffed your hands inside your pockets 'I wonder if I have any noodles back home', you thought.

You left the scene behind you.

"Hey check it out!" Some bystander spoke as they caught sight of Vasco and his buddy
"Burned Knuckles!"
"What is that babe?"
"You know J high right? It's the group of Architecture dept guys"
"Hey let's just go"

"Oh what are you—" His big eared friend turns to follow Vasco's intense gaze. As his eyes lands on the machine, his eyes widens, his mouth dropping down as he soon as he saw the smoke rising from the punching machine. Pieces of metal, stuffing, and red leather material scattered around the sight.

"Oh god what happened to that thing?"
"The punching machine is broken!"
"Who in the world could've did this?" Civilians gasped as they walked by the broken machinery

"What happened to that?!" Big ears gasped "There's no way somebody punched that! They probably threw something at it!"

Vasco turns back to the direction you headed off in, he could see your silhouette from a distance as you walked away. He adverts his eyes back at the broken machine as he was stuck in deep thought

'She only punched it once and it broke?' Vasco thought 'That girl...'

After barely making it home, you fell back on your 'bed'. As you laid there your eyes held a dreamy gaze to them. Maybe it was the alcohol, but everything you had done flashed through your head. Remembering the embarrassing things you have done when you were drunk.

You held onto the zipper of your hoodie as you zipped it up all the way, pulling on your hood's drawstrings as you hid your red face.

"I want to die"
You thought as you huddled up in the fetus position, eventually falling asleep.