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Jack tied his shoelaces before getting up from the couch just his mom walked into the apartment
Evelyn: Where are you going?
Jack: Practice.
She nodded and kissed him on the forehead before he walked out the door and over to his car and got in started her up before driving it out the complex
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Tory punched away remembering her fight with Amy at the house before she stopped er assault on the dummy when she heard the other students laughing
Kyler: Yo, I'm telling you man, when I get to ASU, honeys will be lining up for this snack, you know what I mean?
She stopped punching the dummy walked over to the others
Tory: You guys are pathetic, if you handled your business, we would have won that fight.
Kyler: *Scoffs* Okay, whatever. Hawk, he switched sides.
Tory: Yeah, and you got your ass kicked.
Kyler: You know what at least I'm still here. Half the squad quit.
Jack walked in with Robby carrying their duffel bags and Tory looked over to them.
Tory: Well, look who showed up
The brothers looked at each other before nodding and parted ways with Jack walking over to Tory and kissed her on the cheek and Robby walking into the back dojo.
Kyler: That fool doesn't even practice, but he gets to stay? I don't get it.
Jack: Watch your mouth, Park. Or I might snap your arm in half like a twig and shove it up your ass.
He kept quiet from the threat and Kreese walked out his office and into the back dojo to see Robby changing into his workout clothes
Kreese: You're late.
Robby: I'm not here to practice karate.
Kreese: Well. if you want to be a Cobra K---
Robby: I never said I was joining. I'm only here to train with Jack.
Kreese: Well, you can always--
Robby: Look, this was a bad idea. I know Cobra Kai helped when I was getting jumped in juvie, but I am not going to be a pawn in this bet you've made with my dad and LaRusso. I know Jack isn't a pawn in this bet, his too smart for that.
Kreese: I don't think of Jack and you as pawns. I think of you as kings. Your father had all the talent in the world, but he squandered it. I gave him every opportunity to come back, but he chose Diaz. And he left you with that mark on your head. And Jack. Trust me, you two have got even more talent than your father. You just need to show it to the world.
Robby: After everything that's happened you think we care about a stupid trophy?
Kreese: It's not about the trophy. It's about being a champion. Win or lose, that reputation will follow you for the rest of your life. Ask your father and LaRusso.
Robby: Yeah, well, they have a pretty good chance at winning, now that they have teamed up.
Kreese: *Smirks* They're not the only ones teaming up.
He walked away leaving Robby in his thoughts before he looked towards the door and saw Jack walk in and looked at him confused
Jack: What'd the old man want?
Robby: Talk about me joining Cobra Kai.
Jack chuckled and set his bag down took out the white tape and started taping his hands and nodded walking over to the punching bag and started punching while Robby walked over to stand next to him
Jack: Look, join or don't join. We'll always have each other's backs no matter what.
Robby: No matter what.
He repeated the words to himself before he nodded and smiled and walked to stand behind the punching bag and held it in one place as Jack punched away
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Jack lifted the weight up before bringing it down and Tory walked in smirked seeing him here and walked over to stand over his head and looked down to him
Tory: You're supposed to have someone spot you, you know.
Jack: I don't need a spotter.
He set it down on the rack and sat up Tory handed him a towel and he wiped the sweat off his face and stood up grabbing his water bottle and drank from it. Before he sighed at what Tory said next and set his bottle on the bench
Tory: Looks like your brother upgraded from running away to hiding.
Jack: He's not hiding.
Tory: Could've fooled me. I don't remember seeing him at the fight.
Jack: He was here with Kreese. And why are you so obsessed with him?
Tory: I'm not.
Jack: Then stop with the questioning about where he stands, all right?! *Sighs* He'll come around. But until then, why don't we go out tonight. And get you relaxed because I know you're still pissed off about the fight, hmm?
He pulled her towards him by her wrist and kissed her deeply holding onto her waist before moving back so their foreheads touched.
Tory: *Softly* Yeah.
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Jack got out his car and started walking towards the apartment before he sighed when he saw Miguel and Johnny
Johnny: Look, I tried. The only thing LaRusso and I have in common is hating Kreese and that's it. I thought that was enough but it's not.
Miguel: There's got to be a way to make it work. You guys just have to connect.
Johnny: It's not going to happen. We're too different. There's too much history. Forget it, kid. We'll take Cobra Kai down on our own. But right now, you have to heal up. Your arm's in a brace so no hard workouts
They looked over and saw Jack walk into his apartment. Jack walked into his room before sighing taking out the packet of cigarettes from his nightstand and got up walking back out and picked up his skateboard which was leant behind the door on the wall and walked out
And got on it skated away and towards the skatepark
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He got to the park to see Sam sat in her car and skated over to Robby and tapped him on the shoulder and pointed at the girl and Robby sighed, Sam got out the car and walked over to the two boys and looked at Robby
Sam: Robby.
Jack chuckled and skated to the ramp while Robby got off his skateboard and sighed before he looked at Sam
Robby: What do you want?
Sam: You know, I came here every day after you ran away, hoping I would find you here.
Robby: So, what do you want?
Sam: I was really angry at you for what happened at the school. But believe me, I never stopped caring about you.
Robby: Like you never stopped caring about Miguel either.
Sam: I know. I thought that that was over, but it was more complicated.
Robby: There's nothing complicated about it. It was a choice, and you chose him.
Sam: You're right. But that doesn't mean you have to make the wrong choice. You're a good person. My dad knows it, your dad knows it---
Robby: My dad had a choice, and he chose to become a drunk loser who still hasn't figured out his own life. And now he wants to make up for lost time so he can feel better about himself? It's not going to fuckin' happen.
Sam: Please. Your dad is trying to change. Mine is too. If you could just come back, maybe Jack will follow you and you could really help bring everybody together. That's all that I want.
Robby: *Scoffs* Well, then it looks like I get to be the first person to ever tell you this. *Walks closer* You're not getting what you want. Go back to your one-armed boyfriend and leave me the fuck alone.
Sam: Okay. Just remember, this was your choice.
He looked behind him and nodded at Jack before skating away and Jack followed him and got to his side and patted him on the shoulder before they skated back home.
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Jack pulled up into Golf N' Stuff and got out and Tory got out as well and looked at the place before looking at Jack and chuckled
Tory: This is what you call relaxing?
Jack: Yeah, this the best place to help relax a person.
He walked over to her and wrapped his arm around her pulling her into a side hug and they walked in
Jack: It's got games, food, prizes. And also, mini golf
Tory: *Giggles*Not bad.
They walked over to the golf club rentals.
Jack: Two please.
The woman handed two clubs and golf balls and they walked towards one of the mini golf sets and Jack went first setting his ball down and looked at Tory wiggling his hips causing her to giggle
Jack: Watch and learn, Nichols.
He looked back and tapped the ball forward and it rolled through the windmill and both Jack and Tory followed it and watch it roll to the hole and miss and Tory laughed
Tory: You missed.
Jack: *Sighs angrily* I know.
He stepped back after picking up his golf ball and walked back to the start before she taps it and watched it go through the windmill and they walked to the other side to see it roll slowly into the hole and Tory cheered while Jack grumbled
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They sat on a bench and Tory looked over to Jack while licking her ice cream and giggled looking at his upset face
Tory: Are you OK?
Jack: Those balls were defective.
Tory: *Giggles* Sure, they were.
Jack: I'm gonna sue this place. They ripped me off with that defective club and ball.
Tory giggled looking at him as he slurped from his slushie
Tory: At least you won me a prize.
He looked at the giant teddy bear and grumbled a little before his face brightened when she kissed him and pulled back smiling at him
Tory: Thanks for bringing me here.
Jack: Uh, yeah.
He looked up to the night sky and smiled while Tory hugged into his side, and he wrapped his arm around her
Jack: You know I love you, right?
Tory: I love you, too.
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The next Jack walked into the dojo in his Gi his arm around Tory's shoulder and looked over seeing Robby in a Cobra Kai Gi and nodded at him with a smile on his face receiving a nod in return while Kyler walked up to him
Kyler: Get a load of this chump. What are you doing here?
Robby: Sensei Kreese isn't back yet. So, I'm going to get you warmed up
Kyler: You've never been a part of this team, and you think you're our Sensei? Get the hell out of here, man.
Tory: Who says we even want you?
Jack moved to the side and watched things go down before Robby looked at him and Jack nodded, and Robby turned back to the others.
Robby: Ok, hit me. Any of you. If any of you can land a hit, I'll go.
Kyler: All right.
Kyler went first looking for a kick and Robby dodged it and swept his legs sending him to the ground and he stood back up and looked to the others.
Robby: Who's next?
Red went next but was kicked away and he did the same to Mikey before taking down the other three before Kyler and Mikey got back up and Jack leant forward watching this intrigued. The two looked at each other and nodded before rushing at Robby who dodged a punch from Mikey and deflected a kick from Kyler and swept Mikey's legs and stood back up catching Kyler's leg and pulled him towards him and punched him in the chest twice before tripping his other leg sending him back to the ground. And kicked another Cobra back down before turning to Tory
Robby: You just gonna watch?
Tory struck first going for a thrust kick and Robby blocked it pushing her back before she turned and went for an elbow with her right and he blocked that one and blocked another one before shoving her away.
And she walked back to him, and he got into a stance before she went on the attack and Robby blocked all her attacks and held onto her arm after the last one and hit her pressure point paralyzing her left arm and flipped her to the ground and looked at Jack who clapped his hands and Tory kicked his leg before kicking him in the face sending him to the ground.
Jack: *Chuckles* That was a hard one.
Robby got back up and so did she and they looked at each other breathing heavily
Robby: A deal's a deal. I'll go.
He turned to walk out the door before she stopped him
Tory: No. Stay.
Jack chuckled clapping his hands and they looked over to him and saw him smiling at them and he walked over to them
Jack: Finally, you're getting along.
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The Cobras all stood in line as Jack and Robby stood up front looking over all of them
Jack: Over at Miyagi-do, our enemies are uniting against us.
Robby: They think by working together, they have the advantage.
Jack: They think that they are better than us.
Robby: And I should know because I used to be one of them. *Looks at Jack* That officially ends today. I'll admit at first, I didn't want to join Cobra Kai. But eventually we all need to look ourselves in the mirror and realize who we really are
Jack: Now, we may have taken some losses, but it's not about how you start. It's about how you finish. And to defeat the enemy.
Robby: It helps to know the enemy's playbook. So, I'm going to teach you Miyagi-do Karate, so we can beat Miyagi-do Karate.
They all exclaimed, and Jack and Robby looked over to see Kreese standing there smirking looking at the two brothers
Robby: They're warmed up for you, sensei.
Kreese bowed with a smirk and Robby and Jack bowed as well
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