Present

**Present** is the fourth episode of second season of Metal Family.

## Plot

It's Heavy’s 14th birthday so it's time for him to carry on with the family tradition of getting a piercing.

## Summary

The episode starts with Heavy trying to sleep while multiple people are sending him messages on his phone. Only after he hears the last person calling, he gets up to answer it. Heavy chats with the person about a test that is happening in the second period. Victoria yells at Heavy for not coming down for breakfast. After he gets ready, Heavy goes downstairs and greets everyone, but the only person there is Dee. Dee explains that Vicky got too mad and left and that he’d better sit down before he makes Glam angry too. Heavy sits down sadly and asks what’s for breakfast but before Dee can answer, Glam scolds Heavy for not coming down faster and making his cake bad. Calmly and smiling, Glam holds up Heavy’s cake and greets Heavy happy birthday. While Heavy admires his cake, Victoria jump scares Heavy and hugs him. She then said that Dee hasn’t fell for that joke for five years. Dee replies with “More like since I was five.” and wishes Heavy a happy birthday. While Vicky and the boys eat the cake. Glam holds up a red box which Victoria points out was Heavy’s first present. Inside was rectangle were titanium piercings. Heavy looks confused at first but then becomes nervous when he found out that he was getting his first piercings today. Glam mentioned that they were his first piercings that Chive gave him, which were also used by Dee, and now they are Heavy’s. Dee ‘reassures’ Heavy that piercing isn’t painful…almost. Heavy tries to avoid getting piercings by walking out saying that he is already late for school. Just as Heavy was about to leave, Victoria tells him that they already signed him up for the 9:00am slot. Hearing this, Heavy asks if it was really 9:00 am, worried about his test. Victoria then assumes he doesn't have anything important like a test but Heavy doesn't answer.

The next scene cuts to a girl with her mother, the girl picking out piercings to have. After the mother refuses to let her daughter have a tongue piercing and they are about to leave the store, she spots Heavy and asks if he was there to try to convince his parents to get one too. After Heavy replied that it was their idea, the girl didn’t believe him. Then, Victoria interrupts their conversation and tells Heavy that if he wants to get his tongue pierced then they would buy him another piercing if he needs. When the girl hears this, she impulsively cries out to Victoria to adopt her as her mom drags her out of the store. Ignoring the situation, Victoria then asks what holes Heavy is going to mark. Heavy nervously asks what the longest piercing the dentist can make. The dentist makes a joke about the longest piercing, which causes Glam to laugh uncontrollably. As they walk into the piercing room, Victoria asks Heavy if he wants eyebrows or ears. In the room, the dentist rolls out a tray of utensils in front of Heavy and grabs a scalpel. Victoria, surprised, asks what he needs a scalpel for. The dentist said it was just for "scaring dorks" and reveals that it is actually a pen. When the dentist marks the holes on Heavy’s eyebrows, Heavy asks him to move it a little bit to the center. The dentist does this, but Heavy said he wanted it further. After the dentist moves it, he asks to move it in between the previous position and the one before that. The dentist suspects that he is wasting his time, but Heavy declines. The dentist said to leave it to the professionals and that he pinkie swears that he will do his best. Then we see the dentist grab a syringe and suck up a clear liquid inside. Seeing this, Heavy passes out from fright. Victoria alerts the dentist that their losing Heavy, but the dentist said it was good because he just ran out of lidocaine.

The last scene cuts to Dee holding up a cotton ball up to Heavy’s nose to wake up in the car. Vicky congratulates him and says she would be frustrated if the school doesn’t call her. Dee holds up Heavy’s phone to show him his new eyebrow piercings. Then Victoria jokes that Heavy should speak less because his tongue is pierced too, but it really isn’t. After, she asks Glam how long until they get to the school. Glam replies with 11 minutes, maybe 12. Heavy then panics and asks Dee what the time is, Dee says he won’t make it to the test since it’s 9:32. Dee said “don’t cry now”, then Heavy starts taking pictures of his new piercings. Dee assumes that Heavy is going to post on his instagram account, but Heavy said it was for Lif. Annoyed, Dee stared at Heavy while he talked about how Lif followed him and that she’s coming to his party that day and the episode ends just before Dee can curse at Heavy.

## Trivia

* It is revealed that it's a tradition in the Metal Family to get a piercing once you turn fourteen, as well wearing the same piercings Chive got for Glam in Who Are Those Freaks On Stage?.
	+ Oddly enough, Vicky doesn't seem to have any piercings (or at least not visible ones).
	+ It is also revealed that Heavy is afraid of piercings.
* Apparently Vicky takes having calls from the school as an archievement given how she said she did be disappointed if she and Glam don't get called from the school for Heavy's piercings.
* The episode's ending with Dee ready to yell at or at least curse at Heavy is similar to "Lif".
* Among the people who sent happy birthday wishes to Heavy there were the Card Girl and a fan character named "Noise".