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Warioware drabble pt1

Title: None at the moment
Fandom: Warioware
Rating: PG-13 for later stuff
Characters/Pairing: 9-Volt/Penny
Summary: Just me writing. Takes place when they're both older.

Penny Crygor wasn't the kind of girl 9-Volt expected to end up with. He had always thought he'd meet his dream girl in the midnight release tourney for Brawl. Boy, was that a disaster. Maybe he should have played as a character he was actually familiar with, but no, he just had to get a taste of the new ones...

He covered his wet hair with a towel and curled up under his Mario blankets with The Legend of Zelda and Philosophy, taken from a bookshelf crammed with strategy guides and beat-up copies of Nintendo Power. The walls were plastered with posters of Samus, Zelda and Peach in pinup style, and a sealed copy of Earthbound lay on the ground next to a Super Nintendo. Earthbound being Penny's favorite Nintendo game, 9-Volt felt he had to play it before he even tried to ask her out. He would have played it sooner, but copies were extremely hard to come by, especially ones with the air freshener still intact.

About a half-hour later, 9-Volt put the book down on the end table next to his bed and picked up the phone. His hands shook as he dialed the area code for Diamond City. After a long pause, he quickly pushed seven more numbers, pulled his headphones off his head, and put the receiver up to his ear.

"Hello? Nine, is that you?". The voice from the other end of the phone was a familiar one; smooth and deep.
9-Volt sighed. "Yeah, Eighteen. It's me"
"Hey man, it's a little weird to call this late at night. Something wrong?", 18-Volt said.
"I guess. Remember two years ago? When Penny liked me?"
18-Volt's voice broke the silence. "Yeah?"
"Do you think she still does?", 9-Volt asked. He dug his fingers into the bedsheets, awaiting a yes or no answer.
"I don't know"

Even worse. Uncertainty. 9-Volt thanked his friend, and gently placed the phone back into the receiver. He slid his headphones back on, and the sweet melody of Metroid remixes lulled him to sleep.