@sillykiko-art This was going to be something completely different, but then the second trailer came out and I realized them going on a normal walk to see more of the area of the world they're in wouldnt work for them. So fully changed that, I hope you enjoy, even if some parts are a bit rushed. Its long, and they sure are messes!
Wpnz wanted to show Puzzles his hideout, the fact it was a good reason to get him out of his trashed excuse for a house was a bonus he was going to use for all it was worth. He'd seen the eviction notice, it wasn't his house for much longer, it gave him the perfect opportunity to get him to live in the warehouse with him instead.
The warehouse at least was cleaner, and had better lightning, despite the debris from it's abandonment. The house was just depressing as fuck, and Puzzles didn't belong there, not when they had each other again and a place they didn't have to pay for.
Wpnz had made the mistake of reading one of the crumpled up papers left all over the floor, while attempting to clean them all up into the one shitty trashcan Puzzles had in the house. It looked like a good beginning to a script for a movie, to him, but it had caused Puzzles to freak out when he saw him reading it. He'd had to tie Puzzles up on the rattiest chair Wpnz had ever seen to stop him from attacking him over it, but at least he'd been able to be distracted and calmed from attempting to escape, when he turned on a TV show for him.
He didn't know why he bothered cleaning the mess, when whoever the new owner was could have dealt with it later, but he didn't like the idea that Puzzles had to see that all the time. So he cleaned the rest up without trying to look at what he'd written on them, and went over to lean on the chair as he watched him stare intently at whatever was on the screen.
"We're heading out now." Wpnz said, getting his attention by shutting off the TV.
Puzzles looked at him, wrists tied together with a heavier rope around his back and torso to keep his wrapped up arms pressed to his chest, legs bound up just above the ankles, "Is this a hostage situation or will you untie me so I can walk wherever your kidnapping me to with dignity?" he asked in annoyance, flexing his fingers to keep circulation going. Puzzles knew how to get out of zip-ties, and could use his powers to untie the ropes if he could move more, the amount of restraint was needed.
He shrugged, leaning a little further into his space, "Depends, are you going to try and attack me again over some random papers? Are you going to actually come with me or refuse in favor of brooding more in this shithole like you've been since you showed me here? I'm taking you either way, it's your choice how it happens." he didn't care if he had to put him in a burlap sack and drag him back, he'd do that if it was required to get him out of there and with him.
Puzzles glared at him, leaning away as he struggled against the restraints again at the reminder, "Those weren't worth being seen at all! You needn't have touched or even looked at them, they're wholly insufficient and unworthy of even reading a single word written on those worthless pages!" he stopped trying to wiggle himself out of the ropes when Wpnz grabbed the ones around his wrists, freezing instead to look at where he was touching him, "I only meant to stop you from having to sully your eyes of such drivel, that's all."
"You'd have tried to bite me over it if you had a normal mouth Boxhead, and the script looked fine to me. C'mon." he cut the ropes around his legs and dragged him to his feet by the wrists. He'd let him walk, he didn't trust him to have his arms or hands free yet, it'd be easier to lead him this way, when he was less able to shoot him.
He resisted against walking anywhere for the first few minutes, but after stumbling a few too many times when Wpnz had to pull and drag him along, Puzzles finally begrudgingly started walking after him on his own. Wpnz still kept a hold of the rope around his arms, just to prevent him from doing something stupid like leave him again or something, but other than his sullen silence and having to make him walk hunched over so he could hold him like that, the walk was fine.
They were nearly to his warehouse hideout when Puzzles finally spoke, looking up at the dark clouds, "Wpnz, it's going to rain." he said nervously.
Wpnz pulled him forward when he tried to back up, "Yeah, looks it. We'll be home soon though. Little rain can't hurt us, unless this universe has some sort of acid rain sometimes and I didn't fuckin notice the entire time I was figuring out where we ended up."
"That's ridiculous, and not at all the issue!" Puzzles huffed, straining more against Wpnz as he tried to keep pulling him along, refusing to move even as he was forced forward a few steps.
He stopped pulling and turned to face him, seeing he was genuinely worried as he kept looking up at the clouds, "What's wrong then?" he asked, concerned.
A drop of rain landed on an antenna, which twitched and flicked down and back as the other flattened the other way across his head. His eye twitched from the sensation, bodily pressing against Wpnz to try and make him move forward, "Rain can hurt me, my head isn't waterproof." He admitted unhappily, eyes shifting up uneasily as he watched more drops fall as the rain slowly picked up speed.
Wpnz growled and turned away, checking the road and where they were, knowing it'd take a few minutes to get there, longer than usual because he chose the slower route to mess with Puzzles a little longer.
Rope being cut made him turn around, and he saw Puzzles had cut his wrists free with a familiar knife. He looked down at his chest and raised his brows finding his tie gone, "When the fuck did you do that?" he asked, looking back up.
He flexed his freed hands, knife dangling as he gave up attempting to reach the ropes keeping his arms bound, "When I pushed you, can you get the rest of this off me please?" he asked, frustrated, tossing the knife back to Wpnz with his newfound less restricted mobility.
The rain was hitting his head more, small tapping sounds with every impact, and he looked distressed enough that Wpnz decided not to argue with him about it and be impressed by it only. He cut the rest of the ropes and watched him shake and stretch his arms out, "You'll have to show me that move again sometime, I didn't even notice." he said, putting the knife back where it belonged.
The compliment apparently wasn't wanted at that moment, because he got a glare in return, "Where on Earth are we going?!" Puzzles demanded, throwing his arms up.
"We aren't on Earth." Wpnz started, looking around quickly to try to map out the quickest route to the warehouse, glancing back once he'd figured it out.
Puzzles expression darkened at the reminder, but Wpnz grabbed his hand before he could start yelling and ran.
By the time they actually got to the warehouse, it was pouring down hard and Wpnz practically threw Puzzles through the door just in time before the rain somehow started pelting down harder, accompanied by thunder and lightning.
"Shit." Wpnz moved away from the door, and looked back to where Puzzles had fallen onto his ass. They were both dripping with rain they couldn't avoid, but he looked alright besides being soaked and momentarily disoriented from the fall.
He went over and helped him stand, only just seeing the sparks that danced along his frame up close, limbs jerking without him doing anything, making him have to lean against Wpnz to stay upright, "Got in my vents." he managed to say, screen half static and scared, voice cracked and glitching as he twitched uncontrollable.
Wpnz glanced quickly over in the direction of the shrine, "Will changing which TV your head is fix that?" he asked. There was a bunch to choose from, he didn't exactly know how that even worked, but he knew he could change where his head was.
Puzzles' laugh was pained and cut off as he shook his head, leaning more heavily into him, "Same head, different place. Need to... shut down...let the wires...heal..." he slumped forward and Wpnz caught him before he slipped off him and onto the ground.
Then he had to scramble and lunge forward to catch his head before it hit the ground, when his body stopped existing altogether. He saw his face blue screen, the brief argument he had with his own reboot system, before a black screen overtook it with a brief 'Back Soon' message that dissolved into just an empty screen after a few seconds.
Wherever his body had gone, it had still been wet, and so was his head as Wpnz stared at it in his hands in equal befuddlement and fear. He knew the stupid trick to help with phones, but that wouldn't work with a fucking TV.
If he had to wait for the internal parts to dry, so that whatever wires and shit were inside his head could heal from the damage done, he could help that along better than some damn rice or leaving it to dry from the air.
He carried his head carefully through the hideout, grabbing a towel on his way, and sat down in front of the shrine. He crossed his legs and put the soaked TV in his lap, wiping it down with more care then he'd ever done with anything in his life until it was outwardly dry, then changed his hand to a flamethrower.
Not as easy to handle as a blow dryer, but fuck if he had one of those, he used it at the lowest it could go, where it was just heat instead of flames, aiming it sort of at the vents without being directly there. Melting the inside of his head would make it worse, this was just to help dry it a little faster, then he stopped and his hand returned.
He didn't know if that helped much, but once Puzzles got back he'd offer to help fix him up some more, whatever the shut down hadn't managed to fix on its own. It was the least he could do.
Wpnz sighed and hunched forward, hugging the TV close to himself as he looked at the shrine, watching the candles flicker as he waited for his Boxhead to wake up.
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