Impress Your Crush - Antoine & Bunnie - Play post With Crim

[mon_dieu]

 It's only natural that you'd want to impress the person you're crushing on or having feelings towards. You want to win their favor, for sure, and you want to spend time with them. So you have to get them wanting to spend time with you. You'll do anything!

The best way, of course, to go about it is to not try too hard. You can do that, can't you?

...can't you?

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[mon_dieu]

A job well done, all things considered. The mission had went without a single mistake, and the group had felt they earned this victory. But Sally, just to be on the safe side, had ordered the small team to split up in different ways in order to go home. It was a fair request, as one could never tell when a machine monster was laying in wait to strike.

Antoine himself couldn't be happier with his choice of partner. Bunnie Rabbot was always a great ally to have, and when they worked together in battle, they left no foe unscathed. But for the coyote, it was lately becoming more than that - it was if they were in sync, in harmony, almost able to read each other's thoughts and able to work off each other's attacks. He had always admired her resilience, how she kept moving forward despite her changed body, and for the past couple of weeks, admiring turned into...

Really admiring. Really, really, REALLY admiring. Or, to put it in simpler terms, he was falling for her hard, and he knew it. It was different than the feelings he used to have for Sally, if you could call those feelings - this was on a whole different level. Which made him frightened of screwing things up like he had with Sally. He had to do this right. He had to win her over, show her that he wasn't just a pompous fool who was afraid of his own shadow. Just how to do that remained to be seen.

The sun had started to set, casting long shadows from the trees. "You..." Antoine started with a squeak, desperate to speak for the sake of speaking. Say something cool. Say something impressive. Say something daring. "You are really saving my hide back zere!"

Dammit.

[rabbot]

Bunnie kept an eye out on the path ahead and expected Antoine to watch her back. It was the most sensible way to carry on in their path back home. Some friendly conversation was normal between the two of them as they started in that direction, and Bunnie found herself looking forward to it more and more.

This time his attempt at conversation was clumsy at best made her giggle to herself. "Oh, Ah don't think ah can take all the credit for that, Antoine." She said with a wink, implying that others on the team had saved his hide on occasion.

They all did though. That's what working in a team was about.

[mon_dieu]

He was watching her back all right - unfortunately, he was taking that duty too literally. Instead of keeping his guard up and paying attention to their surroundings - like, say, that faint rustling from the treetops above - he would occasionally glance at the muscles formed in her back, and her fluffy little tail.

In the conversation proper, he winced at the implication, mostly because it was true. "... I am admitting... I should have, perhaps, done more of ze fighting instead of ze bragging." To his credit, lately his ego had been shrinking and he was realizing the cost of his arrogance. "B-but next time, I will use none of ze mouth, and all of ze force! After all, you are having more important things to be doing zan to be saving me so much."

[rabbot]

"Ahm sure you'll give them robots what-for next time they--" Before she could finish the sentence one single robot emerged from some nearby brush.

It was a terrifying, menacing, angry looking Crab Meat robot. If Antoine wanted to impress Bunnie with his skills on this ultra terrifying enemy, now was his chance!

[mon_dieu]

"EEK!"

... Well, screaming like a young schoolboy wasn't going to win him any points, that's for sure. But after the few seconds of being startled, it hit him - this was fate! Destiny! If he could take down this one robot - and surely he could win against just one - this could change Bunnie's opinion of him! It might make her want to spend time with him, or even admire him! Why, it could...

Oooh, Antoine, you're so cool! The way you took that nasty ol' bot down was so manly and brave! I just feel so safe with you near~! ♥

... Okay, he was getting ahead of himself. He cleared his throat, whipping out his sword from his scabbard and taking a step forward. "Stand back, mademoiselle! I'll take care of zis pesky thing!"

[rabbot]

Having a Badnik suddenly pop up shocked Bunnie as well. She drew back and gasped with her hand to her mouth. "Ah!" It wasn't that the Badnik was dangerous or scary, but it did just pop in outta nowhere!

Rather than take the moment to shoot it, she trusted that he would be true to his word.

[mon_dieu]

"En garde!" He shouted, running forward, and before the Crab Meat had a chance to beep or boop, he slammed his sword down hard on its right 'arm' - severing its pincer right off. He then stepped back, and blinked once - wait, he actually did it?

Er, he meant, OF COURSE HE DID.

[rabbot]

The crab laid there flailing about without its arm, a lone set of frayed wires and tubes where the menacing pincer used to be. It tipped over uselessly at the uneven distribution of its weight.

Bunnie giggled and looked to her comrade and friend; Best friend. "Looks like that makes us even for the day."

[mon_dieu]

Antoine was overwhelmed with the urge to take that compliment and run with it - brag about how easy it was, daring any other robots to come and challenge him, claim his might to the high heavens...

... And he suppressed it. He placed the sword back in its scabbard, turning back to her. "Hardly." he finally said, deciding to be honest. "One victory here cannot come close to ze great things you have accomplished... Maybe next time."

[rabbot]

Bunnie looked off towards the bushes in light of that compliment. Great things that she'd accomplished?

She felt her heart skip and a warm smile cross her face. "..Thank you, Sugah." She took a few steps back and gave him a quick peck on the cheek. Even if he could stand to choose a few less words in a fight, he was still her greatest hero.

That's all that mattered.

[mon_dieu]

The peck on the cheek couldn't have lasted longer than two seconds. The reaction was longer.

Antoine's ears shot up, as did his tail, and his cheeks flushed a deeper shade of red than any Crab Meat could ever be. Even his deluded fantasy hadn't included anything as sweet as that! "I... ah... Y-You are being welcome!" He squeaked, and quickly walked ahead, hoping she wasn't noticing how utterly flustered he was -

And tripped right over the damn crab. Because of course he did.

[rabbot]

Bunnie giggled to herself as she turned and trotted off further into the forest. They had to still meet the others at their destination, but that didn't mean that she couldn't secretly hope that he'd have more chances to be 'heroic' along the way.

[mon_dieu]

That made two of them.

"W-wait for meee!" He stammered, rapidly crawling at the ground - and in the process kicking the Crab Meat profusely - in order to get up and jog after her.