Ahh, here we are once again. I get another idea into my head and feel the need to do a one shot and surprisingly for me it's not a romance.
Disclaimer: If I owned Gundam Wing then why would I be posting this on Been reading a lot of puppyshipping lately, so I'm worried that my Duo sounds like Jou. Also, if you know what I'm talking about, feel free to ignore the footnotes.
Sidekick
So here I am, Robin to his Batman. Superboy to his Superman. Bucky Barnes to his Captain America, which is weird; 'cause Quatre looks more like Cap than either of us. But where was I? Oh yeah, Bucky Barnes to his Captain America. Silver Surfer to his Galacticus. War Machine to his Iron Man. Maybe even worse, maybe just Rick Jones to his Cap.
Yeah, I've got sidekick written all over me.
People tell me I'm cute, with my long hair and big bishonen eyes.
People tell him that he's handsome, with his sharp features and intense gaze.
Don't get me wrong, he is handsome. Drop dead gorgeous even, but I digress.
The point is, I'm not his frickin side kick! Ok, I know I just said I am; but what I mean is, I don't wanna be. You know what makes this even worse? I'm even acting like one. Take last week for example…
(Flashback, in third person)
It was a long and hot day at the beach. Heero, Duo, Trowa and Wufei were baking under the hot sun, and Quatre was taking refuge under a parasol.
A small child of no more than four or five had walked up to Heero and was looking thoughtfully at him with an ice-cream cone in her hand. Unsurprisingly he was glaring at her in response. She seemed to find this amusing, and promptly dumped her ice cream in the middle of his chest before walking off with the satisfaction of a job well done.
The rest of the pilots laughed and Duo croaked out,
"Holy 99 flake(1) Heero! How are you gonna get that off?"
(End flashback, now back to Duo's pov)
You might as well stick me in a pair of tights and call me Robin.
Man this sucks! It's like, just 'cause I'm 02 I'm automatically his sidekick. I bet even the others see me that way. Well, Quatre and Trowa keep looking at each other so I don't think they notice, and Wufei makes jokes about it, which scares me a bit; he keeps calling me 'Graysen'(2), the really worrying thing is how he knows stuff like that.
I'm not sure what Heero thinks of all this, if he had a sense of humour I'm sure he'd find it hilarious. Y'know what? I'm gonna ask.
"Hey He-chan!"
He looks up from his laptop and raises an eyebrow at me, "what?"
"Do you think I'm your sidekick?" There, I asked. Now all I gotta do is wait until he decides to kill me.
He looks thoughtful for a moment.
"Like Batman and Robin?" I nod.
"No," I'm just sighing with relief as he continues, "I'd say you're more like Captain Blue to my Captain Scarlet (3)." And he picks up his laptop and leaves.
'Course I'm left thinking 'Who the hell is Captain Scarlet?'
The End
(1)For those of you not in the know, this is an ice cream cone with a Cadbury's Flake in it. If you don't know what that is do a Google search, it's not my job to tell you about chocolate.
(2)Dick Graysen, the first Robin.
(3)Captain Scarlet, an old TV program made with puppets. Captain Scarlet was indestructible, and Captain Blue was his American (or at least I assumed he was American) partner.
Well, that was fun. If you would kindly review I would be eternally grateful.
Hmmm, I may just turn my hand to an AU fic set where the G-boys are in Spectrum… If you like the idea, tell me and I'll give it a shot.