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Randy and Amy are racing down the hall as fast as they can, running towards an open door. Once again, they're barely making it on time for class. They trip from Jerry's skeleton and Amy falls face-first on the floor while Randy hits two tables like a pinball. The bell rings as Mrs. Driscoll bumps the door closed. Amy stands up, dusting herself off as she takes her seat behind the boys.

"Ah," Randy pops up next to Howard. "Just made it. That was rough."

"Ninja fight?" Howard whispers to them.

"Bathroom," Randy answers instead.

"Howard's homemade breakfast was trying to escape for me," Amy groans slightly as she holds her stomach.

"Ha ha, my secret recipe always goes right through you," Howard laughs from in front of her and she rubs a temple.

"Which wouldn't have happened if you didn't eat my own breakfast this morning..."

"All right, class," Mrs. Driscoll approaches the front of the class while moving a baby stroller. "We've reached the point in the school year where you must learn to take care of a baby." She places down a large piece of bologna in front of Randy, confusing everyone.

"Hmm? This is a bologna," He holds it up.

"Turns out real babies miss their real parents," She remarks, earning a wide-eyed look from Amy. She feels very skeptical of that statement and where this assignment could've gone. "So you will be raising lunch meat." She hands out bologna to all of the students. "Amelia, as usual, you will be paired up with Randy and Howard, not that it will do anything to save their grade..."

She slightly rolls her eyes. Practically any teacher in this school pairs her up with them just to help their grades, which are...lacking to say the least.

"Mrs. Driscoll's finally lost it," Randy comments while scratching his head. Howard takes the bologna with a puppy eyed look. He cradles it like a baby. "All those times we thought she lost it, she still had it."

"Aw, let's name him Sylvester Bolone. We can call him Sly for short."

"What?" Randy asks in confusion, turning around to the brunette, who just shrugs cluelessly. "So, Ames, it looks like we're the mom and dad," He smirks, rubbing his chin.

"If you wanna put it that way," She chuckles at him in amusement.

"Aren't you guys already the mom and dad of the group?" Howard asks, earning red-faced looks from both. Amy clears her throat, looking away.

"I-I wouldn't say that..."

"I don't think about it like that..." Randy rubs his neck sheepishly.

"At the end of the day, your bologna has a checkup with our resident meatiatrician, Dr. Fleischwurst," She brings the skeleton forward, and he's wearing a doctor's outfit, complete with a stethoscope.

"If the baby is in good condition, you get one hundred, otherwise, nein!" She makes Jerry say.

"No way we're getting a nine!" Howard exclaims from the front of the class. "I got this."

Amy facepalms at him, not even bothering to correct him. Then she snickers and Randy laughs along with her. He takes the bologna as Howard crosses his arms, glaring at them both.

"Why are you laughing?" He demands them.

"Because it's funny! That thing...that thing you said, 'I got this'. You never got this," Randy shakes his head in disbelief.

"When have you ever committed to anything? Especially when it's school-related...well, besides lunch," Amy glances away.

"I'm serious," He informs the two and they laugh again.

"A-ha! He's serious," Randy turns around, placing a hand on top of Amy's as she giggles.

"I mean it!" He elaborates, slamming his fists on the desk. "I was awesome at being a baby," He literally crawls onto the table and throws a tantrum like an actual child, to the shock of the two. "I got this! Let me show you."

"Ah! You're gonna show us? That is so funny."

"Ha! That'll be the day," Amy smiles behind them.

An inhale is heard and they look towards Howard. "Are you holding your breath?" Randy examines him as he's holding his breath, his face red.

"Yes, until you let me got this," He manages to say. He inhales again, keeping it up.

"Howard," Randy rolls his eyes with a sly smile.

"You know, this technically does make you the mom and dad of the group if I'm acting like this-"

"OKAY, you know what? Our Nomicons are ringing!" Randy exclaims quickly, and they just happen to buzz after he says that. "Why don't we get that?" He glances between her and Howard, whose face has gone entirely red at this point.

"Yep, let us answer that right now!" Amy smiles sheepishly, and they pull out their textbooks, disguising the Nomicons in front of them. They shloomp out and Howard exhales, pulling out his phone and playing with it.

The two wake up in alarm to find themselves sitting in the lotus position side-by-side. "Aw, class to class," Randy complains as a screen is at the front of the room. "So wonk."

"Anything's better than Howard teasing us," Amy pouts slightly, her cheeks flushed in embarrassment.

"Hey, you'll make a great mom, I just know it," Randy smiles softly at her. "Don't let Howard doubt that. I-I mean, not that I think about that, because I don't!" He smiles nervously, sweating a little. Both of them chuckle awkwardly, looking away from each other.

A samurai appears in front of them, gaining their attention. He pulls out a sword and starts demonstrating. "Sword class? So Bruce!"

The advice appears next to the samurai. "Only when the student is willing to learn will the teacher appear. Exactly. Howard has to be willing to learn before I can teach him anything. Up high, Nomi-teach!" He holds out his hand for a high five but is only earned with a sliced desk, and the page slices in half along with it. They yell as they fall backwards.

They vloomp out and Howard looks up to see them awake, with no one else around. He holds his breath, quickly putting his phone away. The two glance at each other before looking at him.

"Were you holding your breath the whole time?" Randy asks skeptically.

"Yep."

"Or did you use your phone while breathing when we were in the Nomicon?" Amy crosses her arms, giving a knowing look.

"How'd you figure it out?!" He whines at her.

"Because if you really held your breath the entire time we were in the Nomicons, your face wouldn't be red, it'd be a different color. And you wouldn't even be alive right now."


"Inside this box are the greatest inventions of all time!" McFist declares in his office, lifting it and revealing old toys such as a rubik's cube or Newton balls. He moves the other games away so he can play with the Newton's balls. He removes one end and then they start moving. "Can you believe it? Marci was gonna throw these out."

"You wanna see the for real greatest invention of all time?" Viceroy replies smugly, holding up a glass orb with purple liquid in it. "I call it mood juice. An energy source of unlimited power."

However, McFist doesn't seem to really care as he's not even paying attention. "It just keeps clapping. It's a miracle. You can't explain it."

"Ugh," Viceroy rubs a temple, shaking his head. "Mood juice powers any Ninja/Kunoichi destroying robot by feeding off hostility. The more 'grrr' it absorbs, the more 'grrr' it becomes!" He clears his throat and opens up the compartment to a tiny robot fly. He inserts some mood juice into it, and closes the compartment. McFist eyes the robot fly, and waits, but nothing happens.

"Look at it. It's just sitting there. It's not even clicking. It's not even clacking!"

Viceroy stops the Newton balls from moving. "What have you done?" McFist demands him in horror. "You killed it! You killed the magic!" Upon hearing his screaming, the fly bot activates and takes flight. McFist screams and throws a tantrum like Howard did at school. He then sees the fly and jumps onto his desk, trying to get it away. He jumps off the desk and runs around screaming. He slides behind his desk and the fly bot smacks into the window.

Viceroy pulls out a remote and presses the button to let out the fly bot. It flies out into the open, heading towards Norrisville High.

"He's buzzing to the school as we speak," Viceroy reports to his boss. "And thanks to mood juice, we will finally destroy the Ninja and Kunoichi! Hmm?" He finds the business man once again playing with the Newton balls.

"Click one of them and they all started clacking. This takes me back," He watches it with a fond smile. Sometimes it's even a wonder why the Sorcerer relies on him to destroy two common enemies...


The fly bot reaches the school, where it's lunch time. It lands on some tater tots, and a boy swats it away out of annoyance. It flies up to Bucky, who is practicing the triangle. He's so focused on this that he doesn't even notice the fly.

It goes over to Julian's tarot cards, and he swats at the fly bot with narrowed eyes. It flies past Bucky, growing larger. It reaches a girl with brown hair, flying around her. She swats at it with an irritated look on her face.

Once the fly goes through his triangle does Bucky finally notice it. It flies away with his triangle, right past the trio at a table. Randy is trying to put a diaper on Sly, and when he does, there's nothing to hold it together.

"Ah, that's too loose," Howard gestures to the bologna. "He's gonna chafe. I always did."

"It's fine," Randy rolls his eyes with a deep frown.

"It's gonna fall off," Howard informs him.

"Boom!" The taller boy cheers in front of Amy. "Diaper on." However, like Howard says, it slips right off.

"Here, let me do it," Amy takes the bologna from him. She then takes the cloth and starts wrapping it around the bottom.

"See? I told you! This is why the women always do the chores," Howard gestures to her. "And this is the thanks I get for working overtime."

"Overtime?!" Amy clenches her fists, peeved. "All you've been doing is acting like a baby. Like cheese you work overtime," She grumbles the last sentence to herself, putting on the diaper properly. "There, how's that?"

"Wrong! Let me do it," He snatches the cloth off the bologna and Randy takes it from Amy. He holds it up over Howard's hands, and he attempts to do it, but he just ends up tying it around his hands.

"Harder than it looks, huh?" Randy asks smugly. "Ames had it right, she knows these things."

"Ahh, more like just seeing my mom do it to my cousins," Amy shrugs at him. "I'm only doing what she did."

Howard yelps in frustration, untying himself. "I can only do it on me. I'll diaper myself, then put it on Sly," He lies down on top of the cloth. "Hold still, little Howie gonna put a diaper on nowie," He swings, wrapping the diaper around himself. The two bust out laughing at the display.

"I can't look!"

"And I thought it was funny when you had to wear a diaper for losing a bet," Amy smirks slightly and he groans.

"Let's not talk about that...please."

Several students suddenly run past their table and Amy's eyes widen at something since she's across from Randy.

"Uhh, Ran?"

He turns around and sees the fly bot fly right past them. Stevens turns around and plays a note, trying to get it far away as possible. This just seems to make it angrier as it grows at least 2 times larger. They all scream as it continues to chase after the group of students.

"Fly bot? Swat's up with that? Nailed it."

"I don't know what's more painful to me, that Howard thinks he's doing overtime, or that you just said that..." Amy rubs a temple, shaking her head.

"Come on, Sly! It's take your bologna to work day!" They duck underneath the table and transform.

"So snug it won't droop, and now you get to poop~" Howard sings, failing to notice that he's alone. "Poop! Now that's how you put on a diaper. Now gimme Sly and I'll do it right. Hmm?" He looks around the empty table, gasping in terror. "You took him!" He narrows his eyes, clenching his fists.

A limo skids to a stop as the students are still running away from the fly bot. Viceroy is watching them from the car, using his McPeepers to observe.

"Mood juice. Up close and in action."

"It's incredible!" McFist exclaims, and he turns around to see his boss playing with another toy (A/N: I don't remember the name of it, and I'm not gonna bother getting a brain fart to look it up XD). "Just when you think it's gonna stop rolling...Ha! Science! They really should teach this in school."

Viceroy heaves a sigh, rolling his eyes and turning back outside.

Slimovitz is trying to swat the fly bot with a newspaper, and it just gets bigger. "Shoe, fly! Shoe!" He then screams as it comes back around, flying towards him. "But I said shoe!"

He ducks and the fly takes out the roof of the car, much to his dismay. "My car!" He screams again as he sees the fly coming towards him, and he ducks into the car to hide.

"Smoke bomb!"

Ninja and Kunoichi appear on the side walk, him holding sais and Kunoichi holding her nunchucks. He has Sly wrapped around in a makeshift sack made from his scarf.

"Huh?"

The fly heads straight for them.

"With each attack, their anger and frustration will make fly bot grow bigger and bigger until finally, it will be so big-"

"They're not swatting," McFist interrupts him from behind. "Why aren't they swatting?"

Viceroy turns towards the duo as the fly is crawling around Ninja's head. "They just don't bother me. I don't know what it is. Flies are the one thing that don't bother me."

"I don't really mind them," Kunoichi agrees with her partner as it flies over to her hair, crawling up the braid. She takes a moment to examine the fly, seeing the purple liquid inside. "What is this stuff?"

Slimovitz comes out of hiding from his car and Ninja chuckles as the fly has come back to him. "Okay. Okay, now it's starting to tickle."

Kunoichi giggles at him in amusement and he reaches up his hand.

"Ninja sai fly stab!" He stabs it right through the bottom and Slimovitz shrieks, fainting in his car. The boy slides off the sai and ends up on Sly. "Whoa! Got a little purple on you," He wipes it off the bologna and Kunoichi lifts up the hand holding the stained sai.

"I wish I had time to study this purple liquid, but we've got an assignment to do..."

"The one thing...you send in the one thing that doesn't bother them!" McFist scolds Viceroy, who crosses his arms in annoyance. "You've let me down again, you-oooh!" He picks up another toy. "Marble maze. I'm really good at these."

He moves the marble around, but keeps missing his objective each time. "Gah! Gah! Gah!"

"Home, please," Viceroy instructs the driver wearily.

"Don't move," McFist orders in determination. "We're not going anywhere till I...Gah! Gah! Gah!"

It seems as if they won't be going home any time soon...


Randy and Amy transform back behind a tree, stepping out of hiding. They see something up ahead and laugh at Howard in the diaper.

"You left. I got this and you left," He accuses them.

"Hey, it was Ninja business," Amy giggles, holding up her phone and snapping a photo.

"You're wearing a diaper!" Randy laughs along with her, gesturing to Howard.

"To prove to you guys I'm mature enough to take care of our bologna baby!" He gestures to himself.

"Yeah, that's real mature right there!" Amy holds her stomach.

"You're wearing a diaper!" Randy exclaims hysterically as they both fall onto the ground, laughing. He throws yet another tantrum.

"Stop laughing!" He whines, none of them noticing that Sly is growing two yellow eyes. Howard grunts at them as they stand up.

"How can we take him seriously when he's wearing a diaper?" Randy wipes away a tear. "Right, Ames?"

"And yet we're supposed to believe that he's 'got this?' Ha!" She giggles uncontrollably.


Now they're back in science class, where they're to present their bolognas to Jerry. Flute Girl and Stevens are standing in front of Mrs. Driscoll.

"Good weight und the casing is pristine," Jerry evaluates the duo. "One hundred for you."

Flute Girl jumps and hugs Stevens in glee. "Are you really mad?" Randy asks the pouting Howard. Theresa is standing nearby, glancing at the brunette and boy in front of her. "I thought it was a goof. I thought you were wonking us off," He places a hand on Howard's shoulders, and they have yet to notice their bologna.

Howard shrugs his hand off, turning around to glare at them. "It wasn't. I was wonking serious and you two were wonking me off." He walks forward towards the teacher and the skeleton.

"Howard, you were wearing a diaper," Amy places a hand on her forehead. "You really expected me not to laugh at that?"

Randy looks down at the bologna and when he sees that there's now a mouth is when he finally notices that something is off.

"Uh, guys?" He runs up to them. "Uh, did Sly always have a mouth?" He shows him to Amy and she gasps.

"How would I know? I wasn't allowed to 'got this.' Remember?" Howard turns away from them.

"How is that possible?" Amy examines the bologna. "Hmm..." She rubs her chin, trying to think back. The bologna had been normal up until some point after their fight—well, she can't really call it that since they didn't really do anything. So sometime during that, what could've happened?

Mrs. Driscoll takes the bologna from Randy, alarming Amy. "Wait, Mrs. Driscoll, don't-!"

"Hmm. Ohh. This looks very bad," She makes her husband say. "We must take its temperature." Mrs. Driscoll sticks it into the bottom, and the bologna shrieks, growing legs now. Randy chuckles as the three give concerned looks.

"Is this normal behavior for a bologna at his age?"

They yelp as it then grows arms, all of them stepping back cautiously. "Shoulda let me got this," Howard murmurs as they get far away from it as possible.

"What the juice is going on?!" Amy whispers in disbelief.

"Ohh. This one is acting like a real brat...wurst." The bologna then grabs the skeleton and throws it out the window!

"Almost. Almost," McFist mutters while still playing. Viceroy is playing with the rubik's cube when Jerry falls onto the back window, alarming Viceroy. "Ahh! Missed it." He turns around and sees the skeleton. "Whoa! How long we been sitting here?" He looks at his watch and Viceroy raises a brow, looking out the window.

He takes the McPeepers and looks into Mrs. Driscoll's classroom, where she's holding up the colicky bologna.

"You are in big trouble, mister." It grows taller, to the point where it towers over her, to the shock of everyone else. McFist gasps as he can see it from his seat.

"Why's that salami so mad?"

"I think it's a bologna," Viceroy corrects him.

"Why's that bologna so mad?" He questions again.

Viceroy puts down the binoculars with a knowing smirk. "I'm thinking mood juice."

Stomping is heard from the cafeteria and they all stop to listen. It gets closer to the cafeteria, and the wall starts to crack. The rogue bologna breaks through, holding Mrs. Driscoll with one hand. She screams in fear and everyone pauses...because it's hot dogs today for lunch. Bash stops chewing and Doug looks between his food and the bologna, which does look like a hot dog. He opens his mouth, dropping the pieces he chewed.

Sly lets out a roar and everyone screams, running off.

"Put me down!" Mrs. Driscoll slams her fists. "Naughty! Naughty meat baby!"

This just makes him grow even bigger and she lets out another scream.

"Smoke bomb!" Ninja and Kunoichi appear in front of Sly. "Okay, Sly, time to trim the fat." He pulls out his sword while Kunoichi lets her fans slip from her wrists. She opens them up and they charge together towards Sly. He knocks away tables and they jump, attacking him. "Ninja stab! Ninja stab! Ninja—why are you growing?"

"And I thought the potatoes were weird," Kunoichi murmurs as they watch him get bigger. He smacks both of them away, but they land on their feet. "This is insane! Bolognas don't just grow!"

Sly growls and reaches his hand forward, but Ninja stands in front of Kunoichi, stabbing his sword through the hand. Sly screams in pain, acting as if he got a boo-boo, and sucks on his hand, growing so big that he creates a hole in the ceiling, growing a tail even.

"Why's it so hard? Every time I smack this bologna it gets bigger," He puts his sword back into his suit. Sly slides forward and they step back, and it spins around to roar in their faces.

"I knew we shoulda stuck with real babies!" Mrs. Driscoll slams her hands on the arm. "They never turn into rampaging monsters when they get upset!"

"He's upset," Ninja's eyes widen. "Is that what's doing it?"

"Wait a minute," Kunoichi turns to him. "Maybe it was that purple stuff you wiped off of him! Because he was fine until after you took it off. Whatever it was, it must feed off hostility! If it experiences that kind of emotion, then it gets bigger!"

"You really think that's it?" He asks her curiously.

"It makes sense, do you see any other bolognas acting like this?" She shrugs at him.

"Good point."

"Put me down!" Mrs. Driscoll shrieks from the shoulder of Sly, and he grows to go through the ceiling. She screams again as Sly wiggles around.

"Mrs. Driscoll, I think your screaming is making him grow," Ninja calls out to her.

"What am I supposed to do about that?" She retorts back.

"What are you—Stop screaming!"

However, it's his scream that makes Sly get even larger as he lets out a roar, dropping Mrs. Driscoll.

"Ninja!" Kunoichi hisses at him quietly.

'Okay. That one's on me," He admits sheepishly to her as she releases her hair. Ninja swings his scarf and captures the science teacher, swinging and landing on a table. He places her down as Kunoichi grabs an arm from Sly, swinging towards the roof. She lands as he crawls upwards, only to get his tail grabbed by a chain. He roars and attacks Ninja, but he jumps over it and lands in front of the bologna. Kunoichi jumps on his head, landing by Ninja's side. "So how do we stop it?"

"I-"

Sly raises a fist above her and Ninja grabs her waist with one arm, jumping backwards. "Hey! That almost hit her!"

Sly gets even larger than before and Kunoichi smacks his arm. "Will you stop making him grow?"

"Easy. I'm not yelling at you. Nobody's yelling," Ninja replies in a quiet voice, trying to calm him down. Sly roars again and Ninja spins his scarf, swinging upwards with her. However, her hair gets caught between the fist and the roof, dragging her down. She lands roughly in front of Sly.

"KUNO!" He cries out. "How do you fight something that only gets more dangerous when you fight it? Where's the Nomicon lesson for that? Only when the student is willing to learn will the teacher appear." Sly continues tearing up the roof and Kunoichi slowly lifts up her head. "Okay. I'm ready, Nomicon. I'm ready to learn. Show me the teacher!"

Sly smacks him through the roof, and he falls through one floor before landing in the science classroom, where Howard had been watching the fight. He turns around to see his friend.

"Uh, Howard? You're the teacher?"

"Uh, what?" Howard turns to him in confusion as Sly lands behind Gene and in front of Principal Slimovitz. Ninja gives a look of relief as he sees Kunoichi swinging in and kicking Sly. He barely takes the hit as he's jumping up and down on a car.

"Nomicon said when I was ready to learn then the teacher would appear. I'm ready. Teach me!"

"Oh," Howard laughs at this. "So you're saying you and Kuno need me to got this," Howard gestures to himself, then at Sly. Kunoichi flips to a stop in front of him, throwing her hair around him.

"Yes. I need you to got this, but just because you get to be smug doesn't mean you can call her that," Ninja gets a defensive look on his face. "When you were a baby and you got upset, what calmed you down?"

"During my bad tantrums, when I really spun out, Mother used to sing to me," Howard reveals to him as Sly throws Kunoichi off and then grabs her, shaking the poor girl slightly.

"I am not singing to a bologna," Ninja denies just as Sly runs up, breaks through the ceiling, and grabs Ninja.

"Hey, who's the teacher here? Me or you?" Howard calls out to him.

Sly crawls up to the roof, wrapping himself around the clock, letting out a roar. He brings Kunoichi and Ninja up to him, the girl looking a bit sick. Ninja glances to her nervously.

"Kuno, sing with me."

"What, why?" She asks in confusion.

"Howard's the teacher! He said to sing to calm Sly down."

"Ohh," She then looks up at Sly.

Go to sleep

Giant meat

"Ugh, I feel like a shoob!" Ninja complains to her and Sly roars in her face, shaking them both.

"Just do it!" She snarls at him.

I mean, I'm sorry

I don't know words

Howard then bursts out of the entrance to the roof.

"Doesn't matter, that's what I heard~ Follow my lead!" He whispers the last part to the two.

It's sleepy time, close your eyes

Mouth

Rest your head and stop your

Senseless

Cries

But before you go to sleep, set us down gently on the-

Sly, having calmed down, drops the two instantly, both of them crying out. Kunoichi throws her hair around them so that the ball of hair can protect them. They bounce off a tree and then land on the sidewalk, the hair releasing them once they touch the ground.

Sly turns smaller and then falls. Ninja hears it, looks up, and then catches Sly in his arms.

"Singing?" McFist asks in disbelief, throwing away the game and knocking away the McPeepers. "What kind of monster calms down when it gets distracted?"

Viceroy digs into the box, and then pulls out a ball in a cup just to answer the question. "Here's the thing..."

"Oooh." He grabs it and starts playing with the toy. "Almost in the cup. Almost in the cup. Almost in the cup."

The car finally drives away this time and Kunoichi looks over her partner's shoulder to stare at Sly. He opens his eyes to look at them.

"Aww, it's actually kind of cute...in a weird way," She glances away briefly.

"Yeah," Ninja turns to look at her. "I told you that you make a good mom."

She blushes behind the mask and Sly winks at them, turning back to a normal bologna. "Whoa." Then it squirts out the mood juice. "Schnasty!" It reaches out towards them. "Yikes!" It then attempts to attack them both, but Ninja throws Sly into the air, both of them powering up.

"Ninja Tengu Fireball!"

"Kunoichi Lightning Strike!"

Together, they destroy what was left of the mood juice and Kunoichi catches Sly in her arms.

Smoke bomb

And with that, they smoke bomb away.


Randy and Amy sit with Howard after it's over, the taller boy with a hand on his cheek. "We shoulda let you got this. If we did, none of this woulda happened."

"Sorry, Howard," Amy frowns slightly at him. He just stares at them and they glance to each other, turning back to him.

"...Why aren't you saying I told you so?"

"Cause you just did," He reveals with a smirk. "Smith, say it too."

"No, but you did help out a lot today," She admits with a small smile.

"Oh, Jerry, your leg's broken," Mrs. Driscoll walks past them, having found the skeleton on the road.

"You're telling me something I don't know," Jerry states as she drags him away.

"I'm sorry we didn't take you seriously," Randy tells Howard sincerely. "But in our defense, you're never serious. About anything."

"Can't argue with you there, Amy said it too. Another Sylvester sandwich?" He brings over a slicer, holding out a bologna sandwich with a big smile.

"Don't mind if we do," Randy states as he gives Amy one too.

"Ha. They sure do grow up delicious, don't they?"

All of them laugh, take bites, and then laugh again, enjoying their food.


"Sooo..." Randy starts off awkwardly as he and Amy are leaving the Game Hole, having left Howard to the games, not that he minded. "That was...some assignment, huh?"

"Yeah..." She chuckles sheepishly, rubbing the back of her neck. "Well, except for Sly coming to life. I never wanna look after another bologna again."

"I meant what I said," He rubs his arm, grabbing her hand. "About you being a good mom."

"...Thank you," She smiles softly, interlocking her fingers with his. "But we're only 14, Ran. We still have the rest of high school to deal with before we dive into more serious relationship stages."

"Yeah, you're right," He admits, kissing her cheek. "But just so you know, I definitely see us still being together after high school."

She blushes at that, laughing giddily. She then clears her throat and they continue to talk as they walk down the sidewalk, the moon in front of them.