章 2: Chapter 2: acceptance

''Robby, what have you done?!?!''

"Call a doctor, he isn't moving!" The shouts and screams echoed through the chaotic scene, filling the air with panic and fear. Everywhere, people were caught in a frenzy of distress.

Robby was clutching his head in despair as a severe migraine surged through him, compelling him to drop to one knee. The moments dragged on, stretching into what felt like hours. His mind swirled with vivid images and voices moving as if trapped in a fast-forwarded movie.

Breathing heavily, Robby felt the pain gradually subside, and the fragmented memories of two distinct lives began to merge in his mind. With effort, he raised his head and looked around, dazed and refusing to believe the reality before him. He kept repeating to himself that this had to be some sort of hallucination or mental breakdown. The memory of his death in the underground fighting arena was still painfully fresh in his mind.

Without any further thought he dashed out of area, wanting to remove himself from this place as soon as possible to regroup and get his mind straight,.

without realizing it, he navigated his way though school halls as if it was second nature, knowing exactly was door to to enter or exit, where to turn and finally making it out of building.

He stopped for a moments outside. Taking a deep breath while closing his eyes, hoping the fresh air would relive whatever was happening, however it turned to be fruitless. As he breath out and opened his eyes he found himself in a place he never been before, and yet felt so familiar. He knew where each road would lead and locations and names to building and shops popped in his head.

He muttered curses to himself as he pushed on. The first thing he needed was to get away from here—to find a secluded place where he could be alone and piece together his thoughts, to understand what was truly happening.

He ran towards a direction he believed was the best choise from the memories he had received. According to them he had been homeless, sleeping on street and scamming people. While his current state is or rather was better, it allowed him to become familiar with several locations he could hide out for while.

3 days later

Robby grunted in discomfort as he awoke to something jabbing into his back. He sluggishly shifted to the side, discovering it was a rock that had caused his unrest. Frustrated, he tossed it aside. Rising groggily, he felt tired, annoyed, and above all else, hungry.

In the last 3 days he has been sleeping on the ground, in a park witch was filled with bunch of bums and hooligans.

''Sleeping'' may not be the right word for it, since one must be a complete retard if he was to close his eyes and drift off with the company he was surrounded by.

Fortunately after the first night where few idiots thought they could sneak up on him. He ended up beating 4 men to near death using whatever means necessary. Since that incident everyone started to keep their distance from him, but he still refused to let his guard down.

He picked up a sandwich baguette he had stolen from store and took a big bite from it as he sat down and leaning on a tree.

In the last 3 days he had come to terms with what had happened. While he could not know if he was granted a second chance, if he was reborn or even if this was afterlife, it made no difference to him.

He was here and there was nothing he could do about it, so he accepted it. No point in crying over spilled milk as they say.

He has spent the last 2 nights going through his memories and once again he was shocked to find out he was in Cobra kai as Robby Keene, Johny Lawrence son.

While he felt a sting of anger and annoyance that he had become this person at the worst possible time. Cursing why he could not have woken up here few days or weeks before, but once again no point in crying.

It is what it is.

This realization also came with some relief. Atleast now he knows where he is and what to expect witch would greatly help him navigate the situation he found himself as best as possible, hopefully avoid ending up in juvie.

He also made some interesting discoveries about this world and humans.

First thing was that the station and timeline here was almost identical to his world, in terms of politics and sport. This would offer plenty of opportunity to make money as he currently found himself a few years in past before his original death.

The second thing that amazed him was the vitality of people here. Their strength and durability was far beyond the norm of his world.

You were far less fragile here and one could take several beatings that would result in drain damage and knock out in his world, but here you could just brush it off and keep going.

Their time of recovery was also impressive, almost twice as strong compared to his original self, witch explained how people could so easily recover after after being bodied and bones broken.

The third and final thing was more subtle but they seem to have more enhanced perception or rather higher potential in training their senses.

From his memories when he looked back to many fights he noticed how one can see and predict movements of others, where it almost feels like time slows down. He even remembers how Daniel was able to fight several people at once with his Miyagi crap easily dodging and defending their attacks.

Robby found he himself could achieve similar feats after minimal training, further proving the vast potential of humans in this reality. While experienced fighters in his original world were skilled in reading opponents, the level of intuition and precision here were extraordinary.

This all made him smile excitement was building up with all the future possibilities, but he had to force himself to calm down as he still had to deal with his current predicament before eyeing anything ahed.

There was no easy way out of this and he would most likely need some help from Larusso but he another idea came to mind of a person who both had means and power to completely get him off this.