The beginning mini part 3- (Canon path) Breaking the bank.
~A few hours later~
The two thieves had passed the time with idle chit chat and some minor planning on where they were going to try to get in the bank, it was decent but Henry was definitely having trouble thinking now that the room was completely overwhelmed with the intense….savory….delicious smell of the apritadas that Fox was cooking up.
“Hey Fox..? How much longer until the uhh…apri…apir…”
“Apritadas.” Fox lifted a finger up filling in the blank Henry was drawing in his head.
“Yeah! That, how much longer until it’s done? I’m almost drooling from the smell… it’s so many flavors and scents all at once….” Henry slowly began to quickly giggle in excitement just imagining how good the food must taste, it was like…a sea of meat and vegetables ….
“Gotta give it a few more mins, gotta let it all marinate together and slow cook to really get the flavor, buuut since I’m pretty much done cooking and cleaning.” Fox slowly in a nonchalant manner walked up to Henry keeping a arms length of distance between the two.
“Why don’t we do some practice huh? Basic hand to hand combat stuff, I wanna see if you can handle yourself in case we gotta deal with a guard or two.” Fox stretched a bit before gesturing Henry to come at him with his fingers. “Just try to take me down to the ground, by any means with your bare hands.”
Henry looked a bit baffled at the idea of a bit of suddenly trying to take Fox down, even gulping a bit as the idea of taking Fox down seemed….Crazy, cause as far as he could tell, Fox seemed like he was pretty experienced with this sort of thing and had no idea how good fox was at fighting.
But considering he could learn a thing or two he decides to give it the good ole try and began to think of how he could take fox down, seeing as he was just standing there not remotely worried so maybe he could catch him by surprise or quickly get him off balance, so Henry lowers himself almost like a football player and the moment he charged at Fox it sounded as if a retro video game character said Hut as Henry went to tackle fox.
Fox managed to completely stop Henry once he made contact not even moving him a bit and got Henry in a head lock with one arm and simply tossed him to the side, making Henry Yelp as he flew like a football game character got punched and quickly got up seeing fox telling him to come at him again with just his hands. So Henry couches down and starts glowing and jumps in the high in the air like Mario and tries to land on fox as if trying to drop kick him but…Fox grabbed Henry’s leg and moved to the side as Henry felt himself immediately fall down wards, finding himself dangling upside down at Fox’s mercy holding his ankle.
“Hmmm…you definitely could use some practice when trying to get someone down from a distance, but I like how you went in for it. Try again but this time, start right in front of me, or behind me, whatever you prefer.” Fox gently put Henry down on the floor helping him up, and Henry thinking for a moment chose to try to take fox down from behind so chose to start from behind the now obviously more experienced and tougher partner.
Henry process to grapple with Fox as if they were in a wrestling game but as Henry was about to pick fox up, he noticed a reversal button icon above fox’s head that was…Yellow, the moment the prompt was clicked Henry gulped as Fox effortlessly hip thrower Henry, getting a Yelp out of the poor stickman as he felt one of Fox’s arms wrap around his neck, getting him in a one armed sleeper hold and felt himself sitting on Fox’s knee.
Fox gently flicked Henry’s nose chuckling as the stickman slowly looked up at him a bit flustered and embarrassed from failing so bad. “I think we got some training cut out for you after we’re done eating dinner Huh?”
Fox was about to respond before realizing…Fox’s face was…pretty close to his own from how he was holding him, the sudden realization made his face go red which Fox definitely noticed. “Hey man you alright? Your face is all red.” It took a moment before fox realized why Henry’s face was like that and his face proceeded to get slightly red as he gently let Henry go and helped him to his feet.
“Alright…why don’t we go eat now huh?” Fox casually pats Henry’s back as he walks over to the pot of apritadas, Henry just slowly nods walking to the mini dining table a bit shyly now. “sure…so uhh…where did you learn how to fight? From how easily you managed to it seems like your pretty experienced with fighting or…Close quarters combat was it called?” Henry tried to change the subject from their little awkward, unintentionally intimate stare down.
“Yeah your right in the nail there, I’ve been practicing since I started middle school, was always interested in stuff like gymnastics, and some combat sports so I kinda just got into some clubs, and when I was better then everyone else I began to practice on my own and kept going from there.” Fox chuckled a bit, he wasn’t sure why, but something about Henry made him feel like he can talk about his past a little bit. He came to the table with two big bowls full of apritadas and white rice setting them down as he got comfy in his seat.
“Alright partner, dig in.” Fox did a little jazz hands before he began to eat as if giving the food a little pahzaaz.
Henry stared at the food in awe, there was so much goodness in this one bowl, meat vegetables and white rice made to perfection…Henry began to drool a bit but eventually snapped out of his trance before digging into the food, loving every bit of it.
Seeing how…intense Henry was eating his food, Fox pulled out some napkins putting them between him and Henry and ate quietly but glad his new partner in crime was enjoying their little dinner.
Once they were all done, and after they both had seconds and Henry going for thirds even, the two were changed in some PJ’s and laying in their beds. Henry looked like he was on the verge of a food coma. “That…was the tastiest thing, I’ve had in a long time…maybe even…my life! Thanks a bunch fox! Where’d you learn to cook so well??”
“Heheh, was self taught mostly, did pick up a few tricks along the way that definitely helped when I had to experiment, buuut I just went with whatever seemed interesting to me and my tastes. So probably not as skilled as I could be but eh. It’s not like you with your video game pop culture powers.” Fox turned his head to Henry tiredly with a little smirk.
“I’m a little jealous how good you are with that, but you better be careful, like you saw with our little spar/training session, you could accidentally do something that’ll let the enemy use it back on ya, so be careful man.” Henry seemed to take that to heart as his eyes widened a bit. He got a compliment, aand Fox is a little jealous of his pop culture powers, Henry smiled a bit, a little proud of himself as the two slowly yawned.
“Alright…let’s call it a night, should
probably check that bank out tomorrow, maybe we can break in right then and there huh?” Fox winked as Henry winked back and the two went to sleep for the night.
The end
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Remember how, in the Touden party, everyone had to swap clothes when they changed races, since that was the only way they could feasibly find clothing that fit them in their new body types under such short notice?
Kabru and Mithrun had to do the same thing, and for the same reasons. They had to swap the bottom halves of their outfits to be able to accommodate to their new forms. Normal enough, right?
Normal enough until you realize that Kabru is still wearing his armor, which looks inordinately large on him. Which begs the question: why didn’t they swap the top halves of their outfits?
It’s because…oh god, I can’t even say it with a straight face…it’s because Mithrun’s upper body is too buff to fit into Kabru’s plate armor. Poor Kabru has to lug that thing around like a huge metal circus tent because Mithrun’s too fucking jacked to fit into it himself.
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