Target Problems (old)
(A/N: don't worry the song will make sense later on.)
(First Person: Harry's PoV)
So until a certain someone brings the motivation to begin my story again, I'll have to do with this odd story that happened to me about say a month went by if we are going canonical order. So I was doing my usual thing, waking up and going to school. It was Friday so a possible new show may be coming out or new episodes. If not, then I'll just have to watch whatever is on at the moment. Do I just watch Netflix all the time? No absolutely not. I have other problems on my hands. It's not like I wanted to have problems but ever since becoming This, it appears like problems are just following me around whether I like it or not. And believe me, I don't like it at all but someone has to do it. And out of all the superheroes that New York brings, I'm the one who has to deal with problems that hot shot heroes like the Avengers or something, think that are too beneath them. It's their secret identity that deal with those problems and not their hero identity. I may be still new around here, but my god does it take a toll on me. But I'm not here to talk about my hero problems. I'll save that for the main event. Nah instead I'm here to talk about something that happened to me at a certain retail store probably like a Target or whatever. So I stopped a man from stealing a purse and helped the woman out of the alley and stopped a couple of bank robbers you know the usual when I had the brilliant idea on going to a retail store to do stuff. I quickly changed from my suit to my regular clothes and slung on my backpack. I walked into a store and headed towards the food aisle. Not much other than fruits and vegetables so I headed towards the snacks. I grabbed a couple of sour gummy worms and some jelly beans. Nothing much. I went up to pay for my snacks and who the cashier was...shocked me.
(Anya's PoV)
All I asked for is to have a normal day. Just once. When I started working at the store not too long ago, I thought I managed to get some bit of normalcy. Apparently not because of the king of weird had arrived in a place that I didn't think was possible. It started off normal, I was just helping customers out and was doing cashier stuff. But then the final customer came and well it shocked me as much as I shocked him. "Anya?" Harry asked. Oh no why is he here? I thought. "What are you doing here?" I asked. "I was just getting stuff," Harry explained and set down some candy. "Stuff I see. Don't we have homework?" I asked, folded my arms. "Already finished it. Yes even my weekend homework so don't ask," he explained as he was looking through his backpack to pay for the snacks. I was staring down at him as he finally got the money out. Is is that hard just to get it out of the backpack? "Alright it'll be 3.50 for the worms and the jelly beans," I said. Harry set down the money and I gave him the change. "Now get out, I don't want to see your face until Monday," I snapped. "Ouch, harsh. Do you treat all of your customers like this?" Harry teased, rolling his eyes at me. He grabbed his snacks and put them in his backpack. He waved and walked out of the store and I scowled.
(Small Time skip the size of Harry)
It was finally my break. I went to the employee's room to get some M&M's from the vending machine. I grumbled to myself as the song that was playing in the break room was Happy Pills on loop. Not again, third time this week, I thought. "Phil why is this song stuck on loop?" I asked. Phil looked up from his crossword puzzle and replied with, "It's a thing we do. Every two weeks we pick a song to put on loop. We picked Happy Pills because Anastasia heard it on YouTube and we voted on it." "Why?" I asked but Phil shrugged, "Just something we like doing here." I went on an explanation on how that song would lower the self esteem of many listeners but he waved me off with a "Whatever." "Hey Anya, I know you are on your break but do you mind getting the panta from the back?" Sasha asked as she came in. "Oh sure," I said. I went to the back and saw the packages of panta of many flavors. Oddly enough, the grape one was the most popular. I wonder why. (Uncultured Anya 😀🔪 nah jk jk. I wouldn't do that to her). I picked up the strawberry flavor package and was about to leave when I saw a figure enter the storage room. I looked confused and I entered in as well. The figure was small and had their back turned. They seemed to be looking for something. "Crap where is it?" They asked, sounding very familiar. I was still holding onto the panta package when I said, "Hey!" The figure jumped and appeared to have slipped. They muttered a swear word and I could tell who they were. "Just what do you think are you doing here?" I asked, angrily.
(Harry's PoV)
Oh boy Anya sounded pissed. I faced her, trying to look small and meek (which wasn't hard in this form) but she still looked pissed off. "Umm well you see....," I tried to come up with a good excuse but came up with nothing. "You better have a good excuse on why you are here," she snapped, putting her hands on her hips. "Umm well... I th-thought I s-saw someone enter in s-so I thought I-I'd check it out," I said nervously. Please take the lie. Please take the lie, I thought. Anya raised an eyebrow. "If that were the case, then why didn't you tell an employee? We could have handled it," she snapped. "Not if it's dangerous person," I muttered. "Why you little-," Anya dropped the panta package and grabbed my shirt collar and lifted me up. "Whoa!" I cried. Just then, someone shut the storage door, with Anya and I still inside. "Wait...wait!" She cried and dropped me and started banging on the door. "Let me out!" She yelled. I grabbed my backpack and crawled to where the panta package was. Anya was screaming at the door to let her out. "Hey Anya I know you want to get out and all but if it's not too much trouble to please for the love of Asahi shut up," I said. She growled and attempted to punch me. I dodged it because I know first hand how hard she can punch.
"We can't just take it easy! Who knows when they'll notice that I'm stuck here?" She cried. Yeah and she forgot to mention me. Great, I thought sarcastically. "We can for now. Here have some panta. Please tell me it's the grape flav- nooo it's strawberry flavor," I groaned as I held the panta package. "No we can't have panta and why is the grape flavor even popular?" She hissed. I rolled my eyes at her. "Uh Danganronpa duh. Kokichi Ouma? Grape flavor having the best taste? No? Geez you are a bit uncultured," I said. She tried landing a punch at me but I dodged it again. "We can't take it easy. We need to find a way out of here," Anya said. She started looking for ways out but I just sat there, knowing that the only way out was through the now close door. If I was on my own, then I would have phase through the door but I didn't want to explain to Anya how I can do that so that was out of the question. "Are you going to help or not?" Anya asked. I rolled my eyes. "Fine," I said.
And so we searched. All I really did was hit the walls with my fist which isn't a good way to find a way out unless I'm looking for something hollow. Which I guess it's also a good way to find a way out but who knows. I kept humming to myself to make some noise so I don't drive myself insane. It's a nice way to pass the time even after we stopped searching. Yeah even Anya gives up. My heart just wasn't in the searching since I know from experience being stuck in a room like this is that there is only one way out. The entrance. Blame Toni for that (Not Tony Stark. Just someone who shares the name). "We're never going to get out!" Anya wailed. I sat on one of the boxes, looking bored. "Stop being a drama queen. I'm sure someone is going to find us soon. Just be patient," I said, trying to sound reasonable. Not going to admit it to her though but I was also freaking out internally. How the hell are we supposed to survive here if they Don't find us? I thought. I continue humming. "Will you stop that?" Anya asked. "Stop what? Being a reasonable calm person in this frightening situation?" I asked sarcastically. "No humming! That's a terrible song!" Anya said. I blinked. "You know the song I'm humming? Happy Pills?" I asked. "Yes God! I hate that song. It's on loop in the break room and I have to deal with that for two weeks!" She explained. That gave me a brilliant idea. An idea that might make me cringe later on but would be worth it.
(Anya's PoV)
I should have not told Harry that I hated that song. I shouldn't have. Harry looked at me with an evil looking grin like he was planning something. Oh dear, I thought. He jumped off of the box that he was sitting on and began to sing at the top of his voice.
(Listen to the song. I'm not putting on the lyrics but I do recommend listening to Happy Pills. It's a nice song. Just don't do that irl. You are a beautiful person and I'll be here to support you no matter what)
Harry finished off with an air guitar and grinned at me. I wasn't quite sure what face I was making but it must have been priceless to him because he laughed. "Oh my god! Haha that was sooo worth it!" He laughed. "You're such a bad person!" I snapped. He kept laughing his head off. I wanted to hit him so badly. But then I heard the door open. "Oi Anya are you there?" Sasha called out. "Sasha!" I cried and ran towards her. "Oh thank goodness you are safe. The newbie umm Carlos closed the door not knowing that somebody was there. Sorry we didn't know earlier. And who's this?" She asked, noticing Harry who grabbed his backpack. "I'm off bye," he said waving and was walking out but Sasha held the back of his shirt collar. "What were you two doing there?" She asked. "I was doing the task you asked me to do when I saw him walk in so I confronted him," I explained. "You could have called for one of us," Sasha said. I looked down at the ground, feeling ashamed a little bit. "Uhh can I go now?" Harry asked. Sasha let go of his shirt collar and he walked off. I went over to the panta package and picked it up. "Hey hang on, there is a rip here. Oh my- he did not!" I yelled. "He did what? Oh...." Sasha said as she noticed the rip. I yelled Harry's name but he was long gone.
(Harry's PoV)
Yep, I took a panta. Why? Why not. "Well it may not be grape flavor but it's better than nothing," I said and drank some. I whistled Happy Pills as I walked farther away from the store. I'll have to deal with Anya on Monday. Hopefully she'll forget about it. Until then...
"Hey my purse!" A voice cried. There was a man running away with a purse in his hands. I pretended not to look and when he ran my direction, I stuck out my foot and he tripped. I grabbed the purse and ran towards the woman. "Here," I said and she thanked me. See I can still save people outside of my suit, I thought. I drank some more panta.
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