Dispatch punch up x profighter!&truehero! Reader. Leaning more fem!reader on this one but I’ll leave it mostly gn bc I want my punch up loving boys to get in on this action too<3
Like reader is actively working side by side with hero’s like blazer and phenomaman. They’re extremely well knows and lowkey famous. Reader is known for their insane super strength paired with their ridiculous charisma and character.
Reader unfortunately is put on babysitting duty when there begins being massive outbreaks of crime while the whole shroud debacle was going on. One thing leads to another and reader is grouped in with the Z-team for the following few days and Punch Up falls in love at first sight.
And it’s bad. The first encounter with you at least.
The first time he sees you is from across the flame riddled street among the piles of rubble and injured villains. You’re in your hero costume and beating the shit out of some chump who was apart of this sorry ass group trying to rob a bank. Something about you the light hits your worn form, or how fucking insanely strong you are, or the beautiful way you have with beating villains faces in, it’s all captivating to him.
He hadn’t realized he’d been standing in the middle of the active battle field like a scrub just starting at you.
It hits him all at a once as you begin to start charging at him. He thinks this is it. And that there’s no other way he’d rather go.
That is until he realizes that you’re aiming for the guy behind him trying to actively kill him.
Before he’s able to react fully you’ve already grabbed the guy and broken both of his wrists with a sickening crack so that he couldn’t hold a gun. Judging by the villains whole get up with the gun belts and and ammunition sashes you figured guns were his thing so you took the best feasible action of course.
And meanwhile Punch up is actively turning red
“Ya wanna fucking die short stack!” You yell at him.
“Not at all’ beautiful, not with a view like that.” He says mindlessly with a lovesick voice. Now it’s your turn to be flustered as he stares at you.
“If you’re gonna”- you interrupt yourself to punch another dude in the gut. “Flirt with me, then do it after the world’s not ending!” You finish.
“Of course beautiful!” He says mindlessly before launching himself back into battle, with more vigor than before.
God you were not prepared to deal with how persistent Punch up would be afterwards either…