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Your Past, My Future - Bunnie & Antoine

Just as there are two sides to every coin, there were also two sides to Antoine D'Coolette. One side had a proud ego boasting that the D'Coolette line would last forever, with him as the greatest hero that ever lived. The other side had a crushing lack of self-confidence that believed he was little more than a cog in the machine of life. These two sides often did battle with one another, with the victor depending on the mood he was in.

His mood was terrible lately. His bad luck was worse than usual, as every other day, he felt like destiny was trying to kill him. Cars dodging him on the road by a hairlength, accidents from the sky only missing him because a friend shouted, poisoned food someone else ate when he wasn't hungry... Now that night, he'd heard noises in his own house, despite the fact he had KNOWN the door was locked.

Terrified, he slipped out of bed, and fumbled to grab his sword from his scabbard hanging off of his chair. Was he being robbed? Did he have anything of value to be stolen? Gulping hard, he opened his bedroom door, knees knocking.

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"Shoot. Of all the times to not leave a spare key out by the front door.." Bunnie gave a light punch to the locked door in front of her.

Oh, she didn't have time for this. Locked doors were such a nuisance when it came down to it. Though she needed to gain his trust, and breaking into his place probably wasn't the best way to get said trust, she didn't have a choice. The Robian Machine's would be there soon.

"You'll thank me later, Sugah.." She arched back her hand and punched the window near the door so she could reach around and unlock the door.

He let out a yelp as he heard glass break, though he quickly covered his mouth with his hand, hoping the intruder hadn't heard that. Bad enough to die in silk blue pajamas, he didn't need his robber thinking he was cowardly.

He inched out into the living room, and saw something in the darkness going after his door. He rolled his shoulders, steeling his courage, and jabbed his sword forward. "Frozen!"

He meant 'freeze'.

Bunnie wore a dark black hooded shirt and some matching black pants so that the people in the time period wouldn't be able to pick her out of a crowd. The last thing she wanted was for her target to get the jitters once he saw her.

She froze when the 'target' approached her and tried looking intimidating. Heh. He looked so cute when he was trying to look tough. He looked so young, too! (Though she was more fond of a more mature-looking Hunny-Twan.) Bunnie couldn't help but smile. "Ah think you mean 'freeze'?"

She grabbed the blade nonchalantly with her metal hand. "We gotta scoot, Antoine. Ah don't have time to explain. Get your things."

He blinked a few times. This was a very unusual robbery, and he found himself taking a step backwards, trying to yank his sword back. That metal hand - that couldn't be good!

"So, a keed-napping, ees eet?" He guessed, still not getting the hint. "While I'm sure I'd make for a very good ransom, zis coyote will not be taken so easily! Be putting up your dukes, and I shall be making you regret your life of crime!" Just because she was a woman - the voice was a giveaway - didn't mean she should be treated as any less of a threat.

Even if she respected Antoine's skill, Bunnie wasn't about to waste time trying to figure out how far along he was with his training back in the past. The Metal Android would be there soon! She'd have to go right for the surprise attack to end it quickly so they could leave.

She crouched down, "Sorry, Sugah." She launched herself forward with the help of her rocket-like metal feet.

Antoine had been expecting some sort of etiquette to this battle. Tackling someone wasn't along those lines, and so he didn't see it coming, and so it landed successfully, flopping Antoine backward like a house of cards. He yelped once more, sword dropping out of his hands in shock.

That knock back looked like it sure smarted... Bunnie cringed and approached with her hands up non-threateningly. "All right, we got that fightin' outta the way, now we gotta get outta here, hon! You gotta trust me!"

Antoine groaned, struggling to sit up despite being dizzy. "... Trust you?! You broke eento my home, attacked me, and are trying to keed-nap me, and you want me to trust you?! Why een ze WORLD would I trust you right now?!"

"You just gotta for now, Antoine." She couldn't think of a good reason to counter any of those (extremely valid) points. Bunnie cringed. "If you don't then--" There was a high-pitched metal clank from outside, a sound indicative of the metal monstrosity she had been trying to avoid.

She lept forward and tried to grab Antoine to force him down. "Get down and be quiet!"

It figured that just as he had gotten up, this mystery woman smacked him down to the floor again. He was going to get a concussion at this rate. Despite his head spinning, he had noticed the horrifying sound from outside of his house.

"... What was zat?" He mumbled in a low whisper, having an idea that whatever it was, it certainly wasn't a friend.

"That's what we're tryin' to avoid. If that thing catches you, Jaques, Belle, an' you are done for." She began to glance around. They'd have to try and make a break for it; there was no reason for it to leave quietly, It was going to destroy any potential place Antoine could be hiding in order to accomplish its objective.

Bunnie crept over to the nearest door and cracked it open to peek out. She motioned for Antoine to follow.

"... I am feeling my choices are limited..." He meant he felt he didn't have a choice about this. He grumbled and growled - who were Jacques and Belle, and why should he care about them?! ... All right, he didn't want anyone to be 'done for', even if they were complete strangers, but this still didn't make an iota of sense.

He began to crawl towards the door until he could find the strength back in his feet. Once he was up, he sprinted for the door, hoping to get away from the noise, and from this crazy woman.

"Ah promise, it'll all make sense sooner rather than later--" If he felt his choices were limited before, it would become extremely apparent how little choice he had as a red laser peeled clean through the house The beam of light cut the entire residence in two horizontally, and Bunnie had to clamp one hand over her mouth to make sure she didn't yelp from surprise.

Maybe it had heard them already?

Antoine skidded to a halt and as he saw and heard what had happened to his house - HIS HOUSE! His beautiful house! He had worked so hard to earn that place - his letters from his parents were in there - everything he owned was in there - and so was the crazy lady.

He clenched his teeth and rolled his eyes, loathing what he was about to do, as he partially blamed her for this whole mess - but he could not, in good faith, leave her behind to get hurt. He jerked back and grabbed her hand, resuming the run with her in tow. "Coming on! Eef your feet are fast enough to tackle me twice, zey are fast enough to get away from zis disaster!"

Bunnie glanced over her shoulder. She would have preferred to outright sneak away without being noticed, but it seemed like that might not be the case. The twisted Metal-Sonic-like creature with spikes coming from everywhere and beady red eyes shifted in the darkness over in their direction.

"We ain't gonna be hard to outrun 'em like this. C'mon now." Bunnie lurched forward, wrapped her hands around Antoine's waist, and took to the air. She could carry him and try to get a good headstart on the monster. She'd have to keep low so she wouldn't draw attention.

Earlier, Antoine had believed her 'thrust' was just a powerful jump. But hey, it turns out she had actual thrusters in her legs. Who knew?

He let out a particularly cowardly shriek as he was zoomed up into the air, clutching the woman in case she dropped him somehow. As they got further away from his demolished house, his eyes rolled around, and his mind went into delusion. "I am getting eet now! Zis ees all a very very bad dream! I shall be waking up any second, and zen go out to train, and vow never to eat sweets before bed again..."

"Dream?" That made her chuckle in spite of how...like him that excuse was. "Oh, Antoine, Hon, this ain't no dream."

Bunnie glanced back over her shoulder at the small house behind them "That thing is a Hyper Metal Drone. It's tryin' to destroy the Future Freedom Fighters' by makin' sure Belle and Jaques ain't ever born." She looked forward again while adding, "It's mission is to kill their Paw."

"What does zat have to do with me?!" Antoine huffed, trying not to look down lest his fear of heights make him ill. "I am no one's Papa! I have not even married a Mama! I have not even kissed a - " Okay she didn't need to know that. Nobody did.

He cleared his throat before speaking again. "I am thinking you both are having ze wrong man, and eet has cost me my house!"

"Naw." She said with a laugh. "Ah'm sure Ah've got the right person." No doubt about that! "You ain't a Paw now, but you're gonna be one some day."

On some level, he was still convinced this was all a dream, because it was far too strange to be reality. Yet... this mystery woman seemed to be very sure of these facts.

He swallowed hard, reluctant to say it but still speaking. "... You are saying zat... I will be having zese children? ... A boy and a girl?" He made the guess based on the names. She was free to ignore the smidgen of hope in his voice. Because it's not like he wanted children someday. It's not like he wanted both a boy and a girl. It's not like he had those names already in mind ever since he himself was a child.

"That's about the size of it. I was sent back from the future, where the two of them lead a Freedom Fightin' army." Should she be giving such details away? ..Ah, it shouldn't matter.

"The big bad guy has been doin' all he can to take them down." She smiled to herself, perhaps trying to be subtle about how she was hugging Antoine close. "But their daddy trained 'em right and they ain't gonna go down so easy."

So the enemy decided to be cowards and go after their Maw and Paw here in the past. I came back to take care of you, and someone else came back to look after their mother."

Antoine was becoming more and more invested in this story, even as some part of him said this had to be nonsense. It was just too addictive to stop now, especially since it was making his pride swell larger and larger.

"... Eef what you are saying ees true..." He looked away, oblivious to the tenderness of Bunnie's embrace. "... Not zat I am saying I am accepting any of zis, of course... But... you would be knowing ze Mama, zen?"

Bunnie lowered them both towards the floor, hoping that she'd put enough distance between them and the drone. Hopefully they had.. but there was only one way to tell.

"Ah...well.. Ah now it might sound a little crazy hearin' it like this." She looked off. Oh, why did she feel so embarrassed by that question. "Yeah..." Bunnie held her wedding ring out to where it could be seen. "Ah'm your wife some years from now."

If Bunnie had been expecting some sort of mushy, overly romantic reaction to this latest bombshell, she'd be sorely disappointed. Antoine already had a woman in mind for the 'mama', and he'd been expecting the words "Why, Princess Sally Acorn, of course!" to come out of Bunnie's mouth. With his eyes almost popping out of his skull, he looked at the ring, back to her face, back to the ring, back to her face...

"I don't even know who you are!" It was loud, but it was the only thought he could process at the moment. "I am not even knowing your name!"

Hm! Oh, she'd make him pay for that reaction when she got back home.

Bunnie put both hands on her hips and frowned, miffed by the lack of positive reaction at the idea. "You don't know it now, Antoine. We probably ain't met yet." She looked off, "And with that kinda attitude, you'll be lucky if'n I give it to ya!"

"Give eet to - !" The nerve of this woman! Maybe this was some gigantic, elaborate ruse for her to snag him as a boyfriend!

... No, even his ego said that was a ridiculous idea.

"You make eet sound as eef I am begging for eet!" All of his previous fears were put on pause, as the argument took hold. He crossed his arms, huffing and puffing like a big bad wolf. "I'll be having you know I can be having any woman I am wanting, at any time! I've just been..." A considerate pause. "Choosy."

"Well, Ah never!" Bunnie made a noise. "Ah forgot how aggravatin' you can be sometimes with that bullhead of yours!" He'd pay for that comment too! The nerve of this younger version of Antoine. It was good that he matured and became a classy gentlemen in his advanced age.

"Zat ees some attitude, to be treating ze one you are supposed to be protecting!" Anotine turned away from her, feeling haughty and superior. Indeed, in the great timeline of things, this was before he had more of his snottiness kicked out of him. This was made evident as he continued to speak to her in a dismissive tone.

"So, eef I was assuming zat zis ees all true... What am I to do now? Run and hide for ze rest of my life?"

Though she was miffed at his attitude, she wasn't about to let it interfere with her mission of keeping him safe. "Ah haven't figured that out yet. Ah can't stay here and protect you forever, so we're gonna have to take that drone down eventually." She considered it, "You'll need to know how to protect yourself just in case."

"I know very well how to protect myself!" He slapped a hand to his chest. "I am a master swordsman! ... You just caught me by surprise before."

He rolled his shoulders, sighing. "But eef you want to teach me one or two things, I am supposing ze polite thing to do would be accepting."

"So stubborn..." Bunnie huffed, though she was glad he'd at least accepted the idea of taking some pointers. She couldn't bear the thought of anything happening to him or the kids.

"The best way to defend yourself is gonna be knowin' how to deal with one of those drones. If'n you think ah don't play fair, you're gonna hate what they do." She held a hand out to him. "What're you gonna do if some big robot comes after you with guns? How're you plannin' to use a sword to get past somethin' like that?"

'Run' was the first word that came to mind, but this was another thing he wasn't willing to admit. He held up his sword, and began to spin it around, trying to be a showoff.

"I shall deflect ze attack like zis! Ha! Ask me a hard one!"

She gave him a smile. "Your sword ain't gonna be able to stand up to lasers for too long. You've gotta know other ways to keep yourself safe, Hon." She knelt down and drew a large oval in the dirt with her finger. "Like how these big ol' tin cans have blind spots on their back sides. You can use to get in close enough to shut 'em down for good."

Antoine paused, and leaned over to see the circle better. Huh... that wasn't such a bad idea, actually. "... I am supposing I could roll underneath them, since zey are often too heavy to kneel or too slow to catch up, and then get ze back..."

Oh boy, they were actually working together. There was no going back and saying he didn't believe her.

"You'll wanna be careful with that. It's got lasers, saws, and a whole bunch of other nasty weapons. Gettin' up close means that you gotta deal with them." Though it wasn't an outright 'no', she wanted to make sure that she forewarned him about any problems he'd come across. "But they got one big weakness; and that's the machine parts inside short out easy. So if you can find a way to get water inside of 'em, you're good to go."

Problem being that their outer shell was an inch of solid steel...

That little tidbit struck him as terribly funny. Antoine couldn't help but smirk. "... So even een ze future, zey cannot make zese things completely waterproof. Some things are never changing." He shook his head. "But eet ees quite obvious one person alone cannot defeat such a monstrosity."

"It's only a couple years in the future, Antoine." It wasn't like it was terribly different between then and now!

"If you can avoid these things, you need to do that. If'n ya can't, then don't give 'em a chance to hurt you." Her look turned sincere. "Do whatever you need to do to keep yourself safe. I couldn't bear the thought of anything happenin' to you."

He glanced at her, an eyebrow raised. Despite how insane this all still sounded, she was at the very least sincere in her words. He could feel a hot blush coming to his cheeks and could not fight it off.

"... Zis ees going to make meeting ze 'present' you very awkward." He couldn't help but comment. "Eef I truly am going to marry you... her..., zen I am supposing I will have to know what eet ees zat wins her over. You over."

He slapped a hand to his eyes. "Zis ees going to be confusing."

She put a hand to her mouth to stifle a laugh. "Are you askin' me for ideas? Antoine." Oh, that was adorable for him to want to take notes on things that she liked. She leaned over and gave him a peck on the cheek, forgetting how presumptuous that may be if he hadn't met her yet. For her, doing so was a matter of habit. "You just worry 'bout bein' your charmin' self. You're what won me over, Darlin'."

Actually, Antoine just wanted to make sure he wasn't messing up the timeline. If he offended the 'other' Bunnie or weirded her out or anything worse, then it didn't matter if the metal monster killed him because those kids wouldn't exist anyway. He was going to bring this up as a matter of great importance, ready to stress how they need to absolutely sure about things -

And then she kissed him and his mind went blank.

Keep in minds, minutes ago he had accidentally admitted he'd never kissed a girl before, and the other way around was true too. He'd never gotten a kiss, and something as simple as a smooch to the cheek was overwhelming him. For once he had completely shut up, unable to speak or think beyond uhhhhhhhhh.

"....?" The change in demeanor was so noticeable, Bunnie looked around to see if there was anything around that was a threat. Monsters? Robots? No..

So then wh---

Oh.

Right.

Antoine used to be such a shy little thing when it came to any displays of affection. She'd almost forgotten! "Sorry." She said with a light chuckle. "It's just become a such habit back home, you know? It won't happen again."

Antoine suddenly became desperate to claw back some scale of pride. "W-w-w-w-we should get going!" He turned hard from her, cheeks red, trying and utterly failing to act like he was cool. "We have to... to... to... inform ze princess! Yes! And everyone! We must be informing everyone about ze robot from ze future and everything! Yes! Oui oui!"

He then began taking extremely rigid steps, still feeling his heart pound rapidly.

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Your Past, My Future - Bunnie & Antoine

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fkjdksl JACQUES AND BELLE ;-;

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