Benny had awoken before the birds, as he usually did. He quickly committed time to his morning rituals before heading into the kitchen of the small orphanage. More like hiding hole for those unlucky enough to be born with
'hideous' mutations and unwanted by their parents. Benny shook the thought from his head as he pulled his apron off its hook and slung it over his head and tied it to his frame. Benny made practiced work of chopping and preparing all the ingredients necessary for the morning breakfast. Going through the motions on auto pilot he let his mind drift off to memories of the entrance exam.
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Benny took quite the beating during the entrance exam; finding himself faintly wincing at the memory. He was able to evade most of the robots as he searched for the hostage. He was used to skirting around town unseen from the general populace so sneaking past some robots wasn't too difficult. Though as he found the hostage location there were far too many to sneak past. He had to think quickly on how to deal with them as time was ticking away. He decided on a rather sh***y course of action, but if it worked would be totally epic.
Benny snuck around the area, collecting as many small rocks as he could on the way. Satisfied with his haul it was time for phase two. Poke the bee hive. With a few heavy breaths to settle his nerves he was off to the races. Bolting out from behind a car he began tossing stones at whatever Robot he could with reckless abandoned. That accompanied with his loud guttural war cries he got the attention of a metric f&$% ton robots. About ten or eleven in actuality.
Scared sh**less by the number of robots chasing him down he decided now was the perfect time for phase three. Code name: THIS IS SPARTA!
Benny ducked and dodged like a pro-league dodge ball master as he lead them down the street and into a narrow alley way. There at the end of the alleyway Benny stood in wait for the coming swarm. A trash lid in his left hand and broom in his right. Raising his spear (broom) high into the air he cried out.
"YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!" His voice booming with the might of a trillion padawans down the alleyway, stunning the robots for a brief moment.
Given their stunned mechanical bodies he had enough time to strike. With a continuous flow he shot out stream after stream of bullet like stomach acid; using the space between his fangs to shape the bullets. Like a gatling gun the acid ripped and tore down the alleyway in a torrent of death and doom. Scorched and melting the concrete walls and destroying anything in between.
Benny was triumphant. A glorious victory for the Avatar.
(Based on a true story; heavy creative license.)
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Benny finally snapped out of his wildly exaggerated retelling of events as breakfast was nearing completion.
"Hey Tsuki, go wake up the kids for breakfast." Benny spoke towards the pantry door, his voice rather gravely and guttural. Best described as Demon-Lite.
All that responded was an annoyed grumbled that was muffled from behind the pantry door. Following that a clattering movements before the door opened revealing
Tsuki; a small pale grey girl with white hair, icy blue eyes, and dark bags under her eyes. She wore a large baggy sweater that came down far enough to cover her shorts, a handheld game system hanging at her side lazily held in her hand. She glared simply at Benny in annoyance for being disturbed from her gaming session but went to do as asked shortly after.
As if the timing God's smiled upon Benny breakfast finished just as the handful of small kids shuffled in sleepily. Despite their varied deformities Benny found them absolutely adorable when they were still groggy. Benny quickly made up a plate for each kid and delivered them to the table in front of each as they loudly pulled out chairs for themselves. As they nearly dropped their heads in their food from exhaustion Benny was pulling off his apron and heading to get ready for his first day of UA.
After a short while he returned back downstairs dressed in his school attire. He was nearly out the door before he heard a soft voice call out to him from the kitchen.
"Aren't you gonna have breakfast with us Benny?" Little
Aoyami called out. Benny turned to the kitchen and gave a big, BIG toothy smile.
"I'm sorry but I don't have time. Have to get to class." Benny explained in his Demon-Lite voice, trying to sound as sweet as he could.
Aoyami's eyes grew in horror as if this turn of events was a total curve ball to some unknown plans. Quickly fumbling out of her chair she bolted out of the kitchen and towards the bedrooms.
"Wait, wait, wait!" She called out repeatedly, as if she stopped he would think it was then okay to leave.
It wasn't long before Aoyami returned, nearly screeching around the corners, and running up to Benny and presenting a crudely wrapped gift. Benny chuckled, basically gargled, a laugh as he looked out to see not only Aoyami but the rest of the table (excluding Tsuki as she was already back in the pantry playing games) smiling from ear to ear proudly.
Benny took the package in his hands and quickly unwrapped it. The wrapping basically unwrapping itself as he grabbed it, if he was being honest. He pulled the lid off the top of the package and saw it was a leather half mask that covered the lower half of the face. Benny looked up from the gift at the smattering of kids now huddle in front of him still smiling; bewildered how a bunch of kids could think of a gift so perfect.
"We know you don't like people seeing your mouth." Tobiki explained in his hissy voice.
They all began to chime in encouraging Benny to try it on. He hesitantly pulled it free of the box and brought it towards his face. It slowly slid on and hooked behind his ear. Covering over the bridge of his nose and under his cheek bones all the way down to his jaw line. It fit perfect. It was perfect. He tried stifling back a tear before wrapping up all the kids the best he could in his arms and gave them a big hug.
~~Time Skip~~
Benny finally made it to the front of UA; strolling along with his mask firmly in place. His briefcase slung casually over his shoulder. You know, general edgy dark boy stuff. His orange eyes scanned over all the other students outside mingling amongst eachother. His eyes eventually spotted a small group of girls chatting. With a robot. That's norma.... IS THAT A F&$%ING ROBOT GIRL!? Well that's unexpected. Doing his best not to look surprised. Wouldn't be too kind for him to make any kind of face about it. Especially not by a guy who looks like he got b@#ch slapped by Freddie Krueger across the mouth.
So he simply diverted his eyes dead ahead. WHAT IN THE SH^& IS A DRAGON DOING HERE!?! His eyes grew wide in utter surprise as the giant scaley creature strutting around like that was f*&king normal and not at all alarming. He guessed he might have over reacted. MIGHT HAVE.
Benny would need to do some soul searching to address some of these immediate emotional responses he has to strange people.
Benny shook the shock from his mind and decided to just head to class. He walked with a casual stride like the cool boy he was. Pushing through the absurdly sized classroom doors, mentally remarking on how crazy big the doors were. Then he saw the dragon again in class. The doors were making more sense.
He continued up the steps towards the back of class and taking a seat away from everyone. Trying to stop himself from glancing back and forth between the robot and the dragon. Dragon. And a robot. Robot dragon. Dragon robot. It was a dragon AND a robot. In one class. Their poor mothers.
Toya
