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Hero was twelve years old. He had been dealing with constipation lately.
At the moment, it was three A.M., and he had been sitting on the toilet for what seemed like hours but it was really only like ten minutes max.
Finally, it was the moment he had been waiting for, but all he could let out was just a tiny fart. Hero was frustrated. Nevertheless, he angrily flushed the toilet, still seated on it.
But alas, Hero had flushed the toilet so aggressively and with such force that he accidentally took himself down with the toilet water! Suddenly, he found himself being flushed down the toilet with everything else! Still in his pajamas, he found himself swimming through the sewers of Japan. As he breaststroked through the dirty waters of Fujioka, he came across a posse of poop. “Hi, Hero” one of them said, sounding a bit like Bob the Tomato from VeggieTales, or really any character from VeggieTales for that matter.
Hero smiled and waved back at them before swimming further upstream. Somehow, he was able to breathe perfectly under this filthy water.
As he swam further, he noticed all kinds of filthy things in the water: blood, urine, toilet paper, band aids, you name it. It was all so fascinating to him, until suddenly, everything started shaking, and all of a sudden, he popped out through Mount Fuji onto Honshu Island, somehow completely unscathed!
“Hey, Hero!” a voice snarled.
When Hero looked up, there was a boy with messy, blond hair in a schoolboy uniform. The boy picked up Hero by his collar and got in his face. “Dude! You smell like crap!” he said before punching him.
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That’s when Hero woke up. At first he was shocked about the punching, but soon enough he enjoyed the feeling of having that recurring dream again, the one where he gets flushed down the toilet and is subsequently exposed to the wonders and glories of plumbing. He knew some higher power was trying to call him, and he knew what was being called of him; he decided right then and there that when he grew up, he wanted to be a plumber.