Title: A Los Angeles Tale
Inspiration(s): Not based on anything in particular, but here are many inspirations...
Author: Miss Rei Faun
Anime: Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
Type of Fanfic: Alternative Universe; set in LA in the present (high school drama)
Genre: Drama/Comedy/Romance (some chapters have more comedy then drama)
Couple(s): OC x HS; DM x HS
Yaoi Yuri or Het: Yuri and later Het
Original Characters: A lot...
Notes/Warnings: Well...it's a Gundam Wing story and my first fanfic with an NC-17 rating (but I'm a slow writer so by the time I get to THAT part, I'll probably be almost 18...). But this is an edited version...so it's rated R. This stars my favorite couple (but nothing happens between them until the middle of the story...). Many of the characters of GW will be here and there are some small subplots. Despite the content that will be in it (look at the rating), the story's not that dark. A bunch of humor's in it. Think of it as "Great Expectations" (the movie) mixed with "Not Another Teen Movie" and "Family Guy."
So it's a high school drama with me making fun of high school stereotypes (well, some anyway).
Then there's the bunch of songs featured...
Most of the OC are the characters' family members and friends (and you'll be seeing a lot of them...)
I don't know when schools and breaks began or end in LA, so I'm just making that up...A
nd if Duo's more serious than he needs to be (aka OOC), I'm sorry
Rating: R for lime, angst, some drugs, sadness, and a bad flashback. (Edited)
Chapter Rating: PG-13 (for language)
Disclaimer: GW belongs to Sunrise/Bandai; and all my inspirations come from their respected owners...
April 4th...
Spring break sadly had ended. Now everyone was to go back to school.
School buses would rein the streets once again.
Then there's homework...
"All right!" A little red-haired girl shouted with triumph. She held up her typed paper and smiled. "I finally finished my paper about spring break!"
"But Ana! Spring break is over," a smaller red-haired boy replied.
The girl known as Ana—one of the many names short for Anastasia—turned to him and smiled. "Mrs. Harrison wanted us to write about it while we're experiencing it. I just wrote what happened yesterday."
"...Oh." The eight year old boy looked down at the paper for a moment. "But I dun wanna go back to school!" He whined.
"I know, but look on the bright side, Nikolai. We only have seven more weeks to go..."
"Yeah...seven more weeks..." Nikolai —Nicholas—sighed miserably...
Suddenly the eleven year old girl stood up and cheered, "Now repeat after me!"
The boy looked at her with naïve, beady eyes. "Okie..."
"I, Anastasia O'Malley Trotsky!"
"I, Nicholas O'Malley Trotsky..."
"Will survive!"
"Will sufive..."
"These last seven years of school before summer break!"
"The last seven years o' school before sum'r break." The boy looked up at her. "Now what?"
She then pointed up in the air and shouted, "Now let's go kick some last-seven-weeks-of-school booty!"
"...Yay..."
At another house...
Down at the house's basement, the alarm clock went extremely off at exactly 7:15am.
And then that very clock was thrown at the wall, smashed into about a dozen pieces of scrap metal...
Suddenly a red-haired lady opened the door and yelled, "For god sakes, Duo! It's freakin' seven!"
"I wanna stay home!" came out a muffled reply...
The lady scoffed. "Well maybe you should've stayed home all last week instead of who knows where...and getting stoned—again!"
"Blah-blah-blh-blh-blh-blah!" That voice babbled... "Bitch bitch bitch..."
The lady quietly shut the door. "Okay...well...I got that CD of—what was that band you like? Oh yes! KoRn! That's their name. Well, it seems it wants to run right to the trash bag..."
All of a sudden, there was muffled large stomping on the stairs, followed by a crash, followed by explicit cursing...
...And out crashed in a very fucked up guy with a very fucked up long braid...
This guy is Duo...Duo Maxwell...
...You know...that guy...he rides on a large, spooky-looking robot (gundam) on the anime Gundam Wing...
...He was unfortunately paired with some other dude in fanfiction...
...Never mind...
Anyway, the lady shouted a very fake squeal of joy... "Well, if it isn't my only druggie son! Wheee!"
Duo just looked at the lady (his mom) like she was completely fucked up...or something...
Half an hour later...
Duo was out of the bathroom, fully (...) groomed and dressed with his black hoodie and his baggy pants. He was just walking though another room in which his young fifteen year old cousin was sharing.
And then some corny song from Gwen Stefani ended up piercing his eardrums enough to make them bleed...
If I was a rich girl...
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-naaa!
I would get all the money in the world,
If I was a wealthy girl!
Duo heard this song for the umpteenth time from his cousin...
"Ey! Cut that down, will ya!"
The dreaded song kept going...
"I SAID shut that damn thing down!"
And suddenly, a red-haired (see the pattern here?) girl with bleached strands, flower-decorated nails, and...glitter...peeked out. "I don't have to!" And quickly went back...pissing off Duo...
"You WHAT!"
His next resort: banging the door down...
"If you don't turn that damn thing down, I'm gonna rip our fuckin' head off and feed it to those damn monkeys!"
"You're not gonna do SHIT, so you can just go and TALK to the hand!"
"WHAT!"
"You heard me you mother fuck—"
Duo's mom and grandmother were sitting downstairs in the dining room, drinking coffee...
...And hearing the shouting from the teenagers.
"Oh my," sighed the worried grandmother. "They awfully fight a lot, do they?"
"Heh..."
"Strange music, too..."
"That's what you said about the music I used to listen to, mom..."
"Well, Lizzie. You and your brother used to fight a lot—him fighting over—what was that band called again?"
"AC/DC, mom."
"And you liked..."
Lindsey (Duo's mom, by the way) O'Malley Maxwell groaned exasperatedly, "Mom! It was George Michael, mom! George Michael! I don't care if he's gay! He was straight to me!" And then she sat back down, getting ready to cry...
Mrs. Sarah O'Malley (grandmother), no more than fifty-seven, sat there, staring at her thirty-eight year old daughter... "Well!"
All of a sudden...
"MOM!"
"AUNT LIZ!"
Duo and his cousin, Nellie O'Malley, both red in rage, stood there...
"Well hello, children!" Mrs. O'Malley smiled. "Are you two ready to go back to school?"
"...No..."
"I'm very sorry, children, but look on the bright side!"
"What bright side, granny!" Nellie whined.
"Well—" The elder lady thought for a moment, "You guys now only have a few more weeks of school left."
Duo grinned. "Yep! And it's my last few weeks of school EVER!" And then he turned to Nellie, "And YOU have three more goddamn years of hell to go!" And then he started laughing, being as cruelly to her as possible... (the poor girl's tears were welling up...)
"Well, see you later, everybody!" He grinned before grabbing his book bag and skedaddled out of there.
"Hey! Wait for me!" Nellie cried.
As they left, Lindsey grinned and ran to the radio.
"Lizzie! What are you doing!" Sarah cried.
Lindsey put on one of her tapes and:
Do you really want to hurt me?
Do you really want to make me cry!
"Don't you see, mom! The kids are gone and now I can dance to my tune!"
"Lizzie?"
"Yeah?"
"You have to go to work, you know..."
"Shit!"
The red car (often being compared to a "little red corvette"...) was like a treasure to Lindsey and Duo. It was his dad's before he was killed and Duo convinced (and it was hard work, too) Lindsey to take it.
Well, today, Duo ended up having to pick of his little cousins (the two kids at the beginning) and drop them off.
And THEN he had to pick of his three friends (well, two of them...one is more like an "arch enemy.")
"Hello Duo and Nellie!" A red-haired woman greeted as the car stopped by Anastasia's and Nicholas' house.
"Hey, Aunt Marie!" Nellie shouted. She's their mother (and as you will find out later, the only normal child of Sarah O'Malley)
"Well they should be here shortly—"
"Nellie!" Nicky shouted. "Guess what happened in Yu-Gi-Oh, yesterday?"
"...Do I care?" she simply asked. "I don't watch cartoons anymore!"
"Well, you should!"
Marie giggled.
"C'mon, Nicky! We gotta go!" Ana shouted as she ran to the car.
"Hey, Nastasia," Duo said.
"Hello!"
And so the car drove off.
And then that hamster dance song came on the radio.
"All right!" Ana cheered. "It's the Hamster Dance Song!"
"Yay!" Nicky shouted.
Duo and Nellie looked at the children as if they were retarded...
"Hey! A truck!" Nicky shouted.
Duo turned around and a truck was headed straight for them!
"Oh SHIT!"
"OH GOD!" Nellie shouted!
The car immediately screeched back to its right lane.
"Why don't you watch where you're fuckin driving!" She screamed,
"SHUT UP!" He screamed back!
The kids however were too busy jamming to the hamster dance song to hear their older cousins cussing each other out...
Finally, the car reached the kids' elementary school.
"All right! Hop out kiddes," Duo simply said.
"We're not kiddies!" Ana protested.
"You are to me."
"Whatever...c'mon, Nick!"
"Coming!" Nicky quickly hopped out and the two ran off.
The hamster song kept going...
As soon as the kids were gone, Duo quickly shut of the radio!
"Oh thank fucking god!" Nellie groaned.
"Song was fucking weird..." Duo muttered.
"Was that Nick and Ana running off just now?"
The two turned to see a blond boy.
"Quatre!" Nellie shouted in a sing-song voice...
"Hi, Nellie," Quatre R. Winner smiled.
"Quatre, what are you doing here?" Duo asked. "I mean, your driver usually takes you..."
"Well, I wanted to hang out with you guys," he answered. "The others are coming over."
"Well, that's just great!" Nellie grinned. "Like, I'll finally get to see what's inside crazy head of Heero's!"
"Oh I'm afraid it's not that simple," Quatre giggled.
Duo stared at his cousin, and then he muttered, "Excuse me." He walked out the car and walked to a bush.
And the he threw up!
Three other guys walked to them. (Which are Heero, Trowa and Wufei...)
"What's wrong with him?" Trowa asked.
Wufei looked at Duo for a moment and then he turned to Heero. "I think your name was mentioned..."
"So, Trowa!" Nellie began, facing back. "I see you're doing some Shakespeare play or whatever the hell it is..."
"Well, it's just an audition..."
"Oh..."
The car was almost there to Mitchell High School (I made up the name...) ...their school...
"How was your spring break by the way?"
"It was peaceful..." Wufei answered. "...until just last Saturday..."
At that, Trowa glanced at Heero, and then at Duo. "Yeah."
"YOU guys must be excited about having only a few more weeks of school left before college..." Nellie stated.
"Yep." Wufei simply answered...
"I feel bad about Relena, though," Quatre's face fell. "She's a junior and she'll be all alone next year..."
"She'll be all right," Trowa reassured him. "If anything happens, Heero will come down and kill the harasser."
Heero glared at Trowa, slight blushing...
"Hmm..." Nellie sat back. "I wanna listen to Nelly..."
"Hell no!" Duo protested.
"Why not!"
"Because he's stupid!"
"You know what? I think Fred Durst is stupid!"
"And thing's just got chaotic..." Trowa smiled.
Duo smirked. "Well, I think Usher is a retard!"
Nellie gasped. "You take that back!"
"Nope!"
"Take it back!"
"Hell no!"
"Take it!"
"N-O!"
"Take it back goddamn it!"
"NO!"
"Duo?" Quatre interrupted.
"What!"
"You've just passed the school..."
"...Fuck..."
(A/N: Well, that was fun...well stay tuned to the next chapter.)