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a good punchline (blitz) [tom] Jan 9, 2021 12:41:15 GMT -5

Post by grant on Jan 9, 2021 12:41:15 GMT -5

S O U N D

A GOOD PUNCHLINE
This time, baby, I'll be bulletproof...

Burnout. It happens. Not to me, but it happens. I love work, it's thrilling. It's a challenge. I hate being out of use.

That's why I hate days off.

I'm going somewhere new today. Adventurous for me. Ruso at the factory invited along to some function. I'm not entirely sure what it is, an event? He's into fighting, that's all I've figured out. But, he's meeting me there. Or I'm meeting him. I hope he shows.

I swing open the door to a building I sort of recognise. The kind that you see every day on the way to work but never know what happens inside. Maybe it's a gym, I can hear some loud noises, grunting and the like. My heart ticks away, almost normal for somebody in strangeness.

I scan the room as I usually do, and I don't see Ruso anywhere. Bastard, he's probably not even going to turn up. But I don't waste a journey, or my time. I guess I can find something to do...

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a good punchline (blitz) [tom] Jan 9, 2021 14:05:25 GMT -5

Post by Tom on Jan 9, 2021 14:05:25 GMT -5

Klein is an asshole.

That's all there was to it. The boss decided he needed to open up their doors to look for more natural talents in Eight for the ring. Guy's tired of all of this, he's going to be champion of the league anyways. They don't need any new talent to come in and be more competition for him. With Iris in a grave now, Guy had to make his own money from all of this. Klein had been the one to decide for him to teach a whole course for people coming in. And yet, he still hates the way Klein laughed at him when he complained about the other day when they first started this and Guy had been paired up with some large man who didn't know how to do anything at all.

Snap like a rubber band, he kept pushing himself to do this and now he's here with a halfway eaten sandwich forgotten next to him and an empty gym for him and his course that he's meant to be teaching. Silence fills him as he stares at the matt and bags lingering around the room, the silence of a lazy day filling his mind with an annoyance of wanting to be anywhere but here. At least, he had a match tomorrow and could forget about the teaching aspect of his job soon.

A swift punch and a grunt leaving his lips. One strike. Two strikes. Three strikes. Anger building from his stomach, until he could hear the sound of squeaking shoes and turning around to see a girl, younger than him. Strange, but Guy's never underestimated his opponents. For a second, he almost wants to dare to tell her she's got the wrong area based on her stature, but he sighs, letting his hands fall before he speaks.

"Welcome. What'cha here for?"

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a good punchline (blitz) [tom] Jan 9, 2021 14:15:23 GMT -5

Post by grant on Jan 9, 2021 14:15:23 GMT -5

What am I here for? That's a question for the brains. Well, mine. But I'm here now, and I'm not about to admit to being stood up by a colleague.

I can see him giving me the once over. An analysis. Now that I see that this place is most definitely a fighting ring, I can only imagine the longer I stay the more likely it is I head into there myself.

Fuck it.

"I'm looking for a spare set of gloves, you got some?"

She who dares wins. Even if the competition is a million times my size, I'm giving it a shot. I've got nothing to lose except maybe a tooth, and some collateral facial damage. That's still a thrill. I'll take it.

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