Ice cream is a savory, sweet dessert that is loved by many on Heavenhold. The Ice Cream Parlor, a pink and white truck, would be parked on the sky fortress. It was legendary at satisfying the inhabitants' collective ice cream cravings, providing many flavors to satisfy the wide array of tastes. Operating the vendor was one of Heavenhold's many androids, who mostly run establishments to provide more opportunities to enter sleep mode in an act of laziness.
One night, Dolf was fast asleep, yet Amy was nowhere close to sleeping. In fact, the maid was waiting specifically for Dolf to sleep first, as she had a craving for the delicate dessert. If she ever asks Dolf for ice cream, the purple-haired bastard will not let her hear the end of it. Dolf is the type of person who would make fun of her for ordering, say, something childish like strawberry ice cream with chocolate syrup and sprinkles... and Amy wasn't going to subject herself to being babied as a cruel joke, even if she could just get angry at Dolf to make him stop.
Upon arriving at the ice cream parlor, Amy would be surprised at who she saw there: the desert mercenary himself, Marvin, currently eating from an ice cream that was even smaller than his hand. Amy was pleased that even tough and intimidating men like him eat ice cream, as it gave her some confidence to eat ice cream and not feel embarrassed.
"Good evening... m-mister Marvin," Amy quietly greeted, bowing.
"Ah. Good evening to you too, maid," Marvin responded, taking a gentle bite out of the ice cream. "I heard about the window from the other day. Sorry that has happened after all your hard work."
"Well... the chances Dolf and I will make another window shattered to pieces with that window..."
"Hah."
Both of them would exchange their separate looks. Marvin, with his passively intense look, and Amy, with her timid expression. The maid then looked away, moving to look at the flavors and smiling gently. There were plenty of flavors still in stock, and she had some trouble trying to figure out which one to get.
"So, what is a woman like you doing here?" Marvin then asked, looking back over to her.
Amy would then look back at Marvin. "... what do you mean?"
"I never took you for an ice cream eater, that's all. I don't see grown adults coming to get ice cream. This place does sell a mean cactus flavored scoop, though."
Amy would freeze in place, eyes widening as she shook her head. "Oh, no, no, I'm... getting this ice cream for Dolf. He's really into ice cream. Yeah. He's really insecure about his ice cream and... asked me to get some for him."
Marvin would be silent for a few moments before looking away and nodding. "I see. That is very kind of you. What flavor are you getting him?"
Amy would internally sigh, keeping her reactions silent as she turned back to the ice cream. The maid thought heavily about what flavor to get. Once she decided on one, she looked up at the android that was running the vendor...
... and proceeded to widen her eyes at the android already scooping ice cream into a cone.
"U-Uhm... wha... why are you...?"
"You mentioned getting ice cream for Dolf. This unit has been informed by the owner to give him a special deal to repay a debt." The android walked out to hand the cone to Amy, making sure it was secured in her hands as it got to work on scooping.
Amy would just blankly stare in horror as five scoops turned to ten, ten to fifteen, fifteen to twenty... and, in the end, she ended up with a twenty-four scoop ice cream cone that made it so the parlor was now out of ice cream. The stack was neatly balanced upward at a height, and Amy was now forced to remain still with the six-foot stack of ice cream.
"Unit will now activate sleep mode. Goodbye." The android entered the ice cream parlor, closed everything, and then turned herself off.
Marvin would finish up his ice cream, crunching hard on the cone as he stared at the massive ice cream tower with eyes focused on the top scoop that was cactus flavored. "That is a lot of ice cream."
Ten seconds of silence. Marvin would redirect his gaze to Amy, wiping his mouth with his wrist. "It is lucky that you got the deal. You did not have to pay for any of it."
Thirty seconds. Amy wasn't moving for some reason. "... hey. You should be going now. The ice cream will start to melt, maid."
Eventually, Marvin would walk over, checking to see if Amy had fallen asleep by looking at her face. He would put two and two together when he saw her eyes glowing purple with a stressed glare, her body frozen stiff so she didn't make any sudden moves that would drop all of the scooped ice creams. Marvin would then gently put his arms on Amy's shoulders, securing her in place and causing her to look back at him in confusion.
"Why the hell are your hands on me?!" Amy shouted, acting like a completely different person from the timid maid most of Heavenhold knew her as.
Marvin calmly explained that he's offering to hold her shoulders so her body wouldn't shake and tremble from walking. If they began walking like this, he could steady her in place so the ice cream tower wouldn't wobble. Once the explanation was finished, Amy's gaze would return to her soft, blue eyes and she gave a nod, starting to walk. It was pretty much too late to come clean about why she really went to the ice cream parlor, so all she could do was deliver all the ice cream to Dolf.
As the two were walking along to the inn, they would walk past the brown-haired and blue-dressed vampire - Karina - who was looking at them in mild confusion as she was relaxing on a bench. "My, what are you two doing? That looks like fun."
"We're taking ice cream to the inn. I'm helping to make sure the ice cream doesn't fall," Marvin calmly responded, not breaking his focus as he was determined to keep the visibly concerned Amy stable.
"Nice. I'll help~!" Karina would walk over, safe in the night's embrace as she got behind Marvin and put her hands on his hips. The vampire would quietly lick her lips, flying up a little to align her mouth with his neck as-
"Don't even think about it."
-she lowered back down, letting out a "hmph" to control her vampiric urges. She was too invested in whatever this was to risk being kicked out of this. Plus, only the Knight's blood was good enough to directly drink anyway.
The three would keep walking, encountering two of the smartest people on Heavenhold: the Teatan Engineer, Marianne, and the Prodigal Scientist, Sohee. Both of them were on their way back to the inn after their respective activities, Marianne currently in her exosuit as she was the one to notice "... what in the world are you three doing?" the blonde Teatan asks, a little dumbfounded at how ridiculous they looked with that twenty-four scoop ice cream cone.
"They're apparently transporting this tower of ice cream to the inn, and I'm helping by making sure they're less likely to drop it," Karina answered.
"I... there must be more efficient ways to transport that," Marianne spoke with her arms crossed.
Sohee would shake her head, walking over to stand behind Karina with her hands on the side of the vampire's arms. "Unfortunately, you apes do not have the time to wait for our solution. This will be the best I can do."
Marianne would just stare at them for a moment before sighing. "Welp. I suppose since you are already on the way back to the inn..." The exosuit would then walk to stand behind Sohee, gently putting its robot arms on Sohee's shoulders.
"... this is progressively turning into something more and more entertaining~" Karina delightfully spoke, letting out an amused laugh as the five would start walking in an impromptu conga line.
The line would only expand from here.
Ranpang, the world-conquering leader of the Dragon Talon Clan that wore a stuffed dragon costume, started lending her aid to the conga by holding the sides of Marianne's mech.
Elvira, the red hooded gang member, would help because she had nothing better to do tonight and the conga line strangely intrigued her as she put her hands on Ranpang's shoulders.
Girgas, the tomato soup loving dragon, didn't even contribute to the conga line as he was in the back proceeding to do what can only be described as a Russian squat kick dance that the Knight taught him out of boredom one day.
This eight-person conga line even attracted the attention of Admiral Marina, the youngest member of the Adela Navy, who had her hands tucked into her pockets as she followed from behind with a nonchalant look on her eyepatch-covered face.
Amy would start to feel concerned that more and more people were getting involved. This was supposed to be a secretive action to make sure Dolf couldn't make fun of her for getting ice cream. Why did she have to get an entire conga line involved in her blunder?!
Eventually, the group made it to the inn, entering in conga line fashion as Loraine, currently pouring Knight Captain Eva a drink, looked at the line in absolute confusion about why they were even conga-lining in the first place.
Marvin would let go of Amy's shoulders, at least getting her to her inn room as he opened it up for her. "Alright. This is as far as I shall go. Finish the journey, maid."
"Yeah, bring that ice cream to your boyfriend!" Karina exclaimed, REALLY into the festive conga line right now as she turned the line around and started leading everyone out of the inn.
"Wha- h-he's not my..." Amy sighed, then gave a thankful nod to Marvin before carefully starting to walk, the 24 slightly melted scoops of ice cream still stacked as she had a slightly easier time carrying them.
With the door closed behind her, she would sit down with the 24 scoops, looking up at the tower as she had a discomforted look on her face.
"Nnh... Amy, why are you holding a massive tower of ice cream...?" Dolf groaned, rubbing his eyes.
"U-Uhm... the ice cream is for you, m-master..." Amy gently spoke.
Dolf would take a moment to look up and down the ice cream, get out of bed, casually pick up the 21 top scoops, and use fire magic to warm all of them up to drink as much as he could. He would then let out an audible groan, holding the side of his head in intense brain freeze-induced pain as he stared at Amy. "Ugh... alright, enjoy your ice cream, Amy..."
Amy would widen her eyes, shocked as she was left with the strawberry and chocolate scoops at the bottom. "D-Dolf, I-"
"No, no- hngh... I get it. I also like ice cream. Now, goodnight, Amy..." he groaned, walking back to get into bed.
The maid would just stare at him quietly, look back at the modestly sized three-scoop ice cream, and smile as she began eating it. It felt nice to know it was socially acceptable to at least Dolf for her to get ice cream.
Though, she'll have memories of starting a conga line for the rest of her life.