Well everybody...Happy Valentines Day and I happen to get a cold and before I was going to get a blood test, I'm probably gonna feel too crappy to do it tomorrow and we'll have to reschedule, but I was unsure weather I would be able to add any story today, but you know what I've slept most of the day I might as well post love related chapter to honor the Day of Love. I kept putting this chapter off because I felt I add to have the musical sequence in what would already be a long chapter but then I realized what I should have done and divide this chapter in two parts. Also since this is a Punch Out fanfic and it is clear Rocky had some influence on this series RIP to Carl Weathers Apollo Creed himself among many other classic roles.
So a lot of the Boxers were stunned by Cat-Girl's words the two boxers who knew anything about reincarnation Piston Hondo and especially Great Tiger were at first intrigued but then remembering the precarious position they were in with the Humanimals turned an 'Oh yeah!' into a potential 'Oh no…' with this news they had no idea what this meant for Dana and potential other Mutants like her.
"So like I said I started having these dreams," Marzipan said "Each time a little more detailed than the one before, and I saw before me...A scene of Humanimals from my home planet of Mizzer, from the time period of about three thousand years after the Earthlings first landed and well...It's better explained if you see it for yourself! An Alien Friend has shared with us the gift of memory sharing through skin contact, if I'm touching you and concentrate real had on what I saw, you'll be able to see my dream too!"
"Can...others be included?" Von Kaiser asked
"Sure if you want to…" Marzipan said "...You guys can tucks my arms and head while I hold Dana's hands and as many as you want can come along for the ride…"
But then she remembered the warning Morgan gave her should this situation arise as she looked at the boxers from many different nations meaning many different beliefs
"I should warn you two things…" Marzipan said "...Once you do memory sharing with one person the ability to memory share is no passed onto your flesh, our Alien friend learned it in his childhood when memory sharing with different species of aliens, so you'll be able to share your memories with others, though my friend warned me it seemed 21st Century humans were more private than Humanimals being able to give others such intimate knowledge of your own head might not be a superpower you ever wanted...We Humanimals thought it was great because we have much less shame than humans, only thinking of how it would make for better intimacy and trust…"
And the very private boxers like Von Kaiser and Piston Hondo did realize that such a superpower would probably be something they would never want to use not even with a significant other! Maybe people in the future were just fine with other people knowing what went on inside their heads, but today there was a reason why Mutant Animals with telepathy mostly don't use it...A mind is a terrible thing to read...Tuning in you'd find a bunch of dirty thoughts!
"Also…" Marzipan sighed "...This memory of the vision I had, is a glimpse into the afterlife, and I was warned that what keeps the peace between most humans with their different beliefs is most can't say for certain what's on the other side! However what you'll see is mostly the afterlife for ordinary animals not the afterlife for humans and other intelligent creatures and I will add to that that Humanimals are not subject to the same rules as humans and other naturally evolved creatures we were created by Fairy Magic for a specific purpose so don't assume anything that applies to Humanimals will apply to you…"
The Boxers looked at each other Great Tiger was perhaps the most religious out of all of them, most of the 'Westerners' were at most agnostics didn't really regularly attend church but when questioned on their beliefs would shrug and be like 'Who can say for sure?'
So other than Glass Joe and Von Kaiser who wanted to know because they were so deeply invested, Bear Hugger volunteered because he was kindhearted and wanted to help, and Piston Hondo and Great Tiger, Piston Hondo being Japanese had a very different view of spirituality than the West and wasn't bothered by the idea if the spirit world was different than human culture imagined the truth was the truth...It was a similar thing with Great Tiger, he knew he should not fear the truth even it might be different from what he was taught…
The rest held back out of the warning Marzipan gave about seeing the afterlife, Disco Kid and Don Flamenco were spooked about the idea of seeing what lays beyond but afterwards after being told it wasn't really scary at all, they regretted their choice and wished they had participated others like Bald Bull, Soda Popinski and Aran Ryan felt a deep spiritual dread that seeing the world of beyond might put the Fear of God in them and they would have to give up their vices…
So kind of exploring weather modern day humans would want the ability to memory share, Humanimals like it because they are much more emotionally intimate and also the humans of First Earth like it, because of the generational trauma of being emotionally stunted by the Wranglers even if some groups have broken free for several generations