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You were walking in the park wearing a red shirt, listening to music minding your business. when out of nowhere you hear commotion to your left, as soon as you turn you see what’s happening an all star tackle you. You and the all star both fall to the ground, landing on your stomach and he lands on top of you. You both start to get up and you can hear him udder small apologies.
As you turn around, from being on your tummy to your back you see him on top of you. Really getting a look at this guy he’s not that bad for a zombie. there’s a moment of silence in between the both of you, but it’s interrupted by the other all stars laughing. He quickly looks at them then back at you, quickly scrambling to his feet and brushing himself off. You can swear that he’s blushing under his helmet.
You’re mad at the rude interruption to your day. But yet questioning what to do next, getting body slammed wasn’t on the to-do list.
“Are you going to help me up?” You snark up at him as you start to sit up. He lifts his head slightly from the ground and gives you a hand up.
“Sorry, no brainz” he says looking off to the side like a sad dog. as you get to your feet he helps you brush off. He grumbles softly asking if you’re ok or if you need his help for anything. You brush him off saying that you’ll be fine and to watch where he’s going next time. As you walk away he’s catches himself watching, he shakes his head.
He walks back to his friends as they all start to group around him laughing and patting him on the back.
“They’re not a dummy, you are!” One all star pokes at him, and the others laugh. “Next time get your eyes checked” “brainz” the others start laying into him left and right but he cannot start to think of a reply. The only thing in his mind is you, he’s both flustered at the sight of you under him and the thought of getting to know you better.
He gets benched from practicing for that blunder, but that gives him time to think on what he can do. Should he bring you flowers? No, they’ll just attack him. Maybe some food? That could work, but what exactly? Maybe he could take you out to brain burger! Yes that would work, he could take you out to brain burger as an apology. Kinda like a date,
When practice is done his team throws a few quips and teases but otherwise leaves him alone. He walks around the park hoping to see you, and that he does. On a park bench he sees you scrolling on your phone slightly unbothered. Taking a deep breath he starts to walk towards you. Very nervous he sits next to you trying to act nonchalant, he clears his throat.
“Erm hm, er want to eat brains?”
“What?” You say out of both confusion and caught off gard.
“Uh, as a sorry—apology. I want to take you to brain burger”. You both full turn to each other. You’re mostly unaware of his nervousness, the only physical sign is him twitting his fingers in his lap and not making eye contact. After a couple of minutes he opens his mouth to speak but you cut him off.
“Like a date?” You look at him in his eyes and he looks at you for a couple of seconds before turning away. the cogs in his mind start to turn, then over heat. a date, It takes him a second to fully process.
“Erggh…. Date-?” He squeezes out, looking at you for some kind of reaction.
Going on a date with the all star that tackled you sounded like a bad idea, but there was a voice inside you screaming to say yes. Looking at him you smile, “sure—”. There was an interruption before you could slip the words out. There was an engineer on a jackhammer coming your way. You both look at the engineer and back at each other. Standing up, The all star grabs you and pulls you to his side quickly and moves you both out of the way. There’s a big crash of the engineer braking the bench and landing on his head and abandoning his jackhammer. But you could barely pay attention when the all star is holding you at his side, holding your hip. You’re practically hugging him, one hand on his chest and the other on his back.
It takes him a moment to realize how he’s holding you, he doesn’t want to move. He doesn’t want to ruin the moment or upset you. He looks at you, still wondering if you’re available to go on that date. You look up at him, and smile.
“That was unexpected, am I right?” There’s a big groan from the engineer and you start to feel bad for not helping the engineer. You pull away from the All star to help the engineer.
“Hey are you ok?” You peak over the broke bench to get a look at the engineers face. “Ow, err.. brains” he groans, slowly sliding down so he’s lying on his back.
“Your head hurts? Here” you hold out your hand to help him up but his eyes widened
“Human…brains-!” He stumbles up. Pants sagging lower than they should. You step back, you did have a ‘plan b’ if the zombies decided to get aggressive. You subconsciously pat your pocket and your heart sinks. It’s not in your pocket, it must of fell out of your pocket when the all star tackle you.
The engineer steps over the broken bench and grabs his jack hammer in both arms. Like a kid holding their favorite plushy. The all star steps up “eat and defeat plants remember?”. Zomboss’s instructions clearly got miss understood.
Zomboss’s scope really narrowed on crazy Dave and his plant army. When yelling commands, he gave simple instructions so they didn’t get distracted or miss understand. Unfortunately it was inevitable, when telling his army to ‘only focus on the plants’ they didn’t focus on humans as much. A manageable amount of zombies fully understood, and you took them out easily.
The all star crosses his arms like he cracked the code. The engineer looks at the two of you, then slowly nods his head. Slowly putting down his jack hammer. He suddenly grabs your hand and shakes it, misunderstanding why you offer your hand in the first place.
“Hi, brains” he points at his name tag that’s smudged beyond repair.
“Hello? Uhh.. I cannot read that” you offer a apologetic smile. He looks at his name tag and mumbles to himself. He turns and waves good by and hops back on his jackhammer.
There’s a strange slight hit of jealousy all star feels watching you talk to the engineer. Still with his arms crossed he stares at you, trying to see if you really want to go on a date with him. You turn to look at the all star realizing he’s been looking at you.
“Well, were where we?” Giving him a smile and now your attention. He melts slightly at your look. “Erh.. date?” He starts to lean to
Side to side.
“Sure, does tomorrow work for you?” He nods, and you guys set a time.