Android 18's window incident

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Android 18 darted through the dim alleyways, her boots pounding against the pavement as she desperately tried to escape the range of a powerful, enhanced EMP device. She could feel the buzzing in her circuits, the slight tingling as the pulse caught up to her—but before she could find cover, the EMP washed over her like a wave, shutting down her systems in an instant.

Her legs buckled, and her momentum carried her forward in a lurching stumble. Just ahead, a glass storefront loomed into her path, and she slammed right into it, face-first, in a dramatic splat.

Her nose hit the window with a squishy, flattening crunch, bending and smushing upward as her forehead pressed down against the glass just above it. Her cheek was pancaked against the window, her skin squished and spread out in a silly, almost cartoonish fashion, as if she were trying to kiss the glass with her entire face. The force pushed her upper lip upward, exposing her teeth slightly in an unintentional, lopsided snarl.

To make things worse, a thin trickle of drool slipped from the corner of her mouth, leaving a small, smeared streak as it slid down the window. Her eyelids fluttered slightly, her body frozen in shutdown mode, oblivious to her surroundings and the scene she was creating.

Inside the store, several people stopped what they were doing, turning to stare at the unexpected display. Confusion turned to amusement as the hilarity of the scene set in. Giggles rippled through the group, some of them stifling laughter behind their hands, while others couldn't help but outright laugh at the strange, yet oddly endearing sight.

"Look at her nose!" one person exclaimed, pointing at the way it squished upward, nostrils flaring wide against the glass, creating a comically flattened pig-like shape. Another bystander chuckled, pointing out her lip, which had curled up in such a way that she almost looked like she was snarling at them.

Slowly, as her systems rebooted, Android 18 began to slide down the glass in an agonizingly slow descent, leaving a streaky trail of fogged-up drool as her face dragged down the window. Her cheek squeaked slightly against the glass, and her nose smushed even further before finally popping free, causing her face to settle into a relaxed, blank expression as she slumped down.

The onlookers couldn’t contain themselves, doubling over with laughter at the entire scene. One of them even pulled out a phone, snapping a quick photo to immortalize the moment of Android 18, the famously stoic and fierce fighter, reduced to a drooling, window-squished spectacle.

When she finally rebooted and shook herself awake, 18 shot the crowd a lethal glare, wiping the drool off her chin with all the dignity she could muster. But the laughter and the memory of her squished face against the glass were already ingrained, destined to be an ongoing joke for everyone who witnessed it.

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