Chapter One: Ahh, The Sweet Taste of Revenge...Until You Try the After-Taste!

Chapter One: Ahh, The Sweet Taste of Revenge...Until You Try the After-Taste!
by Honor Harrington


"Hm..." Heero looked at the computer screen through his glasses. All of those nights staring at the computer screen had given him headaches until he found he had a vision problem.

"Mission accepted." Heero really didn't want to sound redundant, it's just his extra-secret computer always sent an automatic reply to the sender of the mission saying that the mission was accepted...it was voice-activated.

"Hey, aren't you ever going to stop saying that? It gets annoying," Duo tried to appear as if working on his Deathscythe, but Heero knew he was actually playing some dumb video game.

Heero politely ignored Duo's question and glanced at his chrono. He had a couple of hours to waste, so he decided to hack into the game Duo was playing and crash it just for fun. Stepping into Wing, he got onto his computer and found the server Duo was playing on. A wicked grin spread across his face...

"Ooohhh, gotcha' now!" Duo was on the tail of another online player and was locked on to his signal, "Incoming mistle, 6 o'clock, buddy!"

Heero grinned as he heard Duo's taunting..maybe he'd just log on to the game and show him how it was done...

"Hey, who's the new player? They're racking up points too fast! Hm...let's go find him, shall we, Deathscythe?" Duo was using Deathscythe's joystick and controls to play the game.

"Hmm..Duo's pretty good at this game. Let's go try to kill him, shall we, Wing?" Heero flew across the map in the cyber game and found Duo.

"Howdy there, dead man!" Duo tried to kill the unknown player, "Hah! Gotcha'! Not as good as you thought, eh?" Heero's character died.

Hearing Duo's taunting and bragging from his Deathscythe, Heero suddenly exited the server and put his hacking skills to work. He crashed the game and sent a virus to Duo's computer.

"Hey! What just happened?! Man! Now I have to reload the game! What?! My computer has a virus?!! I am totally steamed! Heero, can I use your computer for a while?" Duo looked up.

"No," Heero glared at Duo.

"Ah, man just for a little while..I have to get back on the game!"

"I have a mission."

"Bummer!" Duo slacked back into the cockpit then suddenly sat up, "Hey, I wanna come!"

"No."

"C'mon, please? What is the mission? Bet I could help!" Heero groaned inwardly as he double-checked his Gundam and prepared for take-off.

"I never get to have any fun!" Duo moaned and groaned until Heero finally took off. The Gundam left a dust trail in its wake.

Duo started coughing and wheezing, "Man, he's no fun!"
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A couple of hours later, Heero returned from his mission.

"Hey, 'stone-face'! How ya' doin'? Did the mission go well?" Heero's heart sank. The talkatively annoying pilot was still awake. "Bummer!" he thought.

"You talk too much," Heero looked at his chrono, "I'm turning in."

After Heero had gone to bed, Duo's face broke out in a wicked smile. Nothing like a little practical joke to get Stone-face awake and in a talkative/killing mood!
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"—Duo, I'm going to kill you." Heero was standing with shaving cream smothered on his face.

"Ha, ha, ha!!! Heh, heh! *Gasp*" Duo was wheezing, this time with laughter. He was literally rolling around on the ground, "Yeah, but let me die happy!"

Heero wiped his arm across his face and slowly started walking toward the long-haired pilot. One step, then the next; carefully measured and self-controlled steps. His eyes burned.

Duo looked up... "Uh, oh...RUN!!!" Duo sprinted out of the GW cave. Heero smirked and slammed the cave's metal doors shut. Then, turning on his heel, grabbed a towel and wiped his face. Looking up, he saw Deathscythe. A gleam appeared in his eyes.
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"No! Deathscythe!! What happened!! Heero, how could you?!" Duo was shocked out of his mind. He was gawking at his Gundam, which was painted cutely with smiles, flowers, hearts, and rainbows. The fierce look of his Mobile Suit now was changed into a cute, giant doll, "I'm going to get you, Heero Yuy." Heero half-smiled as he ignored the annoying pilot and continued typing on his laptop.
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Duo was out on a mission when Heero woke up. He heard a tapping on his door and rose out of bed, running his fingers through his unruly hair. Walking to the door, he opened it and squinted out. A figure was standing in the doorway.

"Heero! Hello, and how are you on this bright and fine morning? Duo said you'd be here, and he said to just stop by, so I'm just decided to, and, well, seeing that you just got up, let's go out for break--" Heero's eyes widened as he recognized Relena Peacecraft. He slammed the door shut...

"Duo Maxwell, you've got something else coming to you..."

*boom, boom, boom!* "Heero!!! Hey, come out! Let's have breakfast..or you could show me around this very nicely decorated cave..I like the computers and Mobile Suits...strewn, um, everywhere! Nice touch...!" Heero seethed.
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Duo grimaced as Hilde saw Deathscythe, "Ohhh, Duo! He's so cute! You should keep him this way! How nice of Heero to paint it for you! I should thank him! Wow! This is quite the surprise!" Hilde was ecstatic. It was bad enough that she liked Deathscythe's new paint job, but NOW she wanted to THANK Heero for it?! This was too much!

"Hilde, do you think you could get it fixed?"

"Duo, I really think you should keep him this way. It makes him sooo *cute*!"

"Grrr..." Duo summoned all his strength, "Hilde, I'm the god of death! This 'cute' Gundam is my partner! We're not supposed to go around acting like Trowa in his dumb clown outfit! What are we supposed to do: make the enemy LAUGH to death?! Deathscythe can't go on any missions like THIS!

"Duo Maxwell, don't you take that tone of voice with me! You should be thankful that I don't charge you full price for your Gundam maintenance jobs! And don't look at me like that! You know very well that I don't like you sulking about! Now go away before I really get mad!" Hilde shook her finger at Duo.

Duo scrammed outta' there, not wanting to get himself beaten down by his girlfriend.
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"...?..." Heero stepped into the unusually dark GW cave after one of his missions. The cave was pitch-black. There was something wrong. Blab was usually here to greet Stoneface with racket. Heero continued walking, "ugh!"

Heero was now convinced that God invented shins as a device to find unusually sharp objects in the dark, "Ouch!!"...make that double-convinced.

Reaching for the lights, Heero flicked them on, and when he did, he saw over one hundred cardboard boxes, each marked "Fragile: Handle with Care." Opening one, Heero's eyes almost popped out. There was a bill inside charging him $1,000 for an order of 150 Relena-autographed pictures. (Hey! She's the Queen of the World: she's gotta have fans!)

He slowly looked at all the boxes, and seeing some sort of pattern there, he climbed up to the second story. They were arranged into two words: "Ha Ha". Heero tightened his lips, "Someone's getting a hair-cut."
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Stay tuned...Duo kinda looks like Quatre without his braid!!



Chapter Two