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It was a cold day in the middle of autumn and the cleaners HQ was booming with the noise of Zanka and Rudo fighting and riyo trying to convince Enjin to let her use some of Rudo's thrash so she could practice her accuracy and hitting targets Enjin hadn't been feeling so great all day but the amazing and so very humble Enjin wouldn't admit that he thinks he's coming down with something. Zanka was chasing after Rudo because he ate all the pancakes Gris had made for breakfast and didn't save any for him. Zanka was so pissed “RUDO I SWEAR GET THE FUCK BACK HERE”.
Zanka chased rudo to his room where Rudo slammed his door behind him and then took a swan dive into his trash pile swimming not so gracefully in the giant mound of garbage. Zanka ran full force into his door and let out the sharpest and highest screech that even a train's whistle would be jealous of him.
Meanwhile back in the mess hall Riyo was trying to convince Enjin to let her have some of Rudo's trash because it's not like he's using it right now “PLEASE let me use his trash Enjin” Enjin was distracted by the sight of Zanka's face covered in blood that seemed to be spewing out of his nose while he was banging on Rudo's door so he lowkey dosn't care “Sure whatever you didn't have to ask me” plus he couldn't care what happens to Rudo's trash so “Just aim above the waist and below the neck if you can Riyo”.
Riyo sees what Enjin is looking at so distracted.”I think I'll just grab some later and they look busy”. As the day goes on Enjin feels more sluggish he has huge eyebags and lowkey just wants to sleep “Im gonna go to my room for a bit” he says to Riyo "Don't wait up” before he goes, Riyo says “I'm gonna go clean up some trash beasts or help Bro with the rest of team child” “yeah yeah just be safe i cant have Semiu yelling at me for getting you guys hurt again” then Enjin just goes to bed because he can't let the best cleaner who is always so humble look like he's gonna pass out which is exactly what happens as soon as Enjin gets in his bed he collapses and gets KO'd.
In his room Rudo is still squatting under his trash like a little garbage goblin when he realises that he never locked the door “oh shit” and this is exactly when he sees an embarrassed looking Zanka come through the door. He had been banging at the door for twenty minutes and not once tried to open it. He shouts for Rudo to come out but Rudo already gives himself away from the sound of him laughing” Y- y YOU N-N NEVER TRIED TO OPEN IT HAHHAHAH”. Zanka runs into the trash pile but for some reason Rudo is really talented at swimming in garbage and Zanka is no match for him.
During the fight Riyo walks in on the boys and Shouts “All right shut up and listen dipshits” “OI who you call'in dibshit” she ignores Rudo and rolls her eyes and explains that she's gonna go help out with some trash beasts and she invites them to come “FUCK NAHH” Rudo says looking like hes planning something and just when Zanka was about to say he'd go he gets interrupted by an old red shoe that was currently bouncing off his head he turns around and completely forgets about Riyo as he starts to chase Rudo for his unforgivable crime “RUDO!!” Riyo just walks away and thinks to her self “these idiots are fucking crazy” as she picks up her choker and heads off out of the HQ.
When the two boys cool off and stop yelling they go to the mess hall and realise that Enjin has disappeared. Zanka starts to wonder where he could be and Rudo tries to butt in and say that he's probably gone to his room but Zanka tells him to “shut up and let him think” so Rudo just walks out of the mess hall and leaves Zanka behind, Rudo walks up the stairs and stops in front of Enjin's room. He realises that Zanka followed him. He's slightly pissed looking but Rudo says to himself “Now who's smarter” he ignores it for now but he will definitely say something later. Rudo raises his fist and knocks at the door a few times.
*Silence*
Rudo got a bit nervous; he didn't think Enjin would have gone out of the HQ without saying anything. Zanka looked at the back of Rudo's face and said “I knew he wouldn't be here plunger boy” “SHUT IT BRO” Rudo shouts back at Zanka as he walks into Enjin's room “WHAT ARE YOU DOING” Zanka whisper shouts scared for some reason. Rudo ignores him because he sees Enjin sprawled out across his bed. “He realises he's never been in Enjin's room before and he didn't realise how messy it was” Rudo walks over to Enjin being careful not to trip on the random stuff on the floor he stops next to Enjin and just pokes him like a five year old child who just threw up and is trying to get his dad to get out of bed to clean it. Enjin just mumbles something about Gris and turns around. Zanka walks over and tripped on Umbreaker he hits the ground with such velocity that a loud BANG echoes out the door and down the hallway “OW ENJIN WHY IS YOUR ROOM SO MESSY” Enjin wakes up looking like he just shit himself and sees Rudo looking down at Zanka collapsed on the floor “Zanka the floors dirty you shouldn't be lying on it” “I can tell” Zanka grumbled as he stood up. “Why are you going to bed so early though” “Nothing just feeling a bit sick” Enjin didn't care if the best cleaner who is also humble and never brags looks sick anymore. “YOUR WHAT” Rudo cries “Chill out kid it's not a big deal” “Well why didn't you say anything then” Zanka walks over and puts his hand of Enjin's fore head “ZAMN you're burning up” “HE'S ON FIRE” Rudo looks and sounds like he's about to spontaneously combust into tears Zanka just looks at him and thinks “what is wrong with you” before turning back to Enjin and saying is there anything we can do to help. Enjin is already basically asleep again and just says “soup” before locking in and falling asleep.
Once Rudo had collected himself from his minnie crash out they go to the kitchen in the mess hall. “how do we make soup” “uhh i lowkey dont know we should probably get a big pot though..” The two boys look in every cupboard but can't find a big enough pot for Zanka's genius idea “WAIT RIGHT HERE” Rudo runs off and Zanka is left wondering how he got stuck making soup with him. Rudo gets to his room and tries to dive into his trash but misses and hits the floor “ouch” he cries out as he flops to the floor when he gets up he walks to the trash pile and finds a huge pot that's way too big for making soup but it's the only other thing the have. He runs super fast to Zanka and shows his pot like a dog that brought home a stick to his owner. “WHERE THE FUCK WAS THIS” Zanka shouts in utter disbelief as the pot that was half the size of rudo was placed on the floor. “What now” “I don't know ” they stand there in silence for a while longer, both of them not knowing what to do next.
“Mabey we should ask Enjin” Rudo says over his shoulder as he's half way to the stairs “NO ENJIN NEEDS TO SLEEP”. The two boys fight about it for a while until they notice something watching them. Enjin had come down to the mess hall and was watching them fight. “Enjin you should be in bed” “yeah dumb ass get back to bed” Rudo and Zanka tells him “We were making the soup” “I don't want no soup i jus told you that so you'd leave me alone” “YOU WHAT SHIT FACE” “Chill Rudo yall were jus being really annoying and I wanted to get back to my dream” the three of them stood silent in the kitchen “by the way where the hell did you get a pot this big” Rudo had it in his room “Ayy short stack coming in handy”
Enjin laughs as he walks away, probably back to bed because he has to make sure the amazingly humble and totally never boastful Enjin isn't sick tomorrow.
“We should get revenge on Enjin” Rudo suggested with a look of scheming in his eyes “What should we do?” They looked at each other and decided in unison “marching parade” they ran off super fast to Rudo's room to grab as many pieces of absolute trash they could. When they left the room Zanka had an old rusty piece of metal, a saucepan on his head and a large weathered pipe, Rudo was armed with a giant rusty box, a metal chain and a weathered and dirty tambourine.
The slow sound of metal scraping against the concrete echoed across the hallway as they approached Enjin's door “one” “two “three” the two boys make so much noise right outside Enjin's door that the whole HQ is booming with the sound They hear a bunch of noise from Enjin's room then crash which was followed by a “ahh shit Zanka was right i gotta clean this room” he opens the door and the sight in front of him makes him laugh “W- W- WHAT ARE YOU DOING HSHAGAHA aww man this is too good” Enjin retreats back to his room and the two just stand there basking in the glory of their win when Enjin comes out again all powered up with Umbreaker in his hand “I'll give you both a headstart” Enjin says as he wipes a tear from laughing to hard from his eye “ten, nine, eight, seve-”. They don't stay to hear the rest; they bolt down the hallway to Rudo's room. Really Rudo's retreating to his trash and Zanka's following him because he doesn't know where to hide. Rudo gets there first and slams the door behind him; he gracefully dives into the trash and swims deep into his garbage den. Zanka runs head first into the door, getting another bloody nose. He starts banging on the door “RUDO LET ME IN I CANN SEE ENJIN HELP BRO” “FUCK NO GET LOST” rudo yells but it's to late Enjin caught him he grabs Zanka by his ankles and drags him away “Rudo shead a tear knowing that it would be the last time he'd see that shit head” Enjin left Zanka in his room and locked the door then he sat outside and started singing a lot of Too Lillie's songs off key and painful bad that it it made himself wince. Zanka screamed for him to stop because his singing was genuinely that bad.