You Must Be This Tall.....
(Disclaimer: I do not own anything that has to do with Gundam Wing, it's owned by Sunrise, Bandai and about a billion other people, not me! So back, lawyers, back! I don't own Astroworld either, it's a real park and it's rides are real. I'll let you guys know if I made up a ride.)
Warning: This is a stupid story from an AU I'm currently making. The Tendo Organization of Monarchy is something I made up, so it's not real. This story takes place in Houston, Texas, since that's where Six Flags Astroworld is. Next Warning: no foul language
Chapter 1: Please Give Your Tickets At The Gate
Duo woke up with a start. He smiled maliciously when he remembered why he had actually set his alarm-much less this early. He, the other pilots, Milliardo, Catherine, Dorothy, Relena, Hilde, and Sally were going to Six Flags Astroworld today! He jumped out of bed and got dressed quickly. He bounded out of his room and to the cluttered kitchen of his apartment. He made his way to the vid-phone and dialed Heero's number. He looked through the refrigerator while waiting for Heero to answer the phone.
"Hello?" came the monotone voice of former Gundam pilot 01, Heero Yuy, "Heero Yuy speaking."
"Hhhhheeeeeyyyyyy, Heero!" Duo exclaimed, jumping to the screen. Heero cocked an eyebrow as he saw Duo with a half eating pickle in his mouth. "Hey....ya know, the jar said these expired last year, but they still taste fresh and sour to me..." Duo said.
Heero gave Duo a disgusted look. One reason was for the pickles that were supposed to be 'sweet' pickles, and the other was because Duo had the room in the Red Raven Inn across from his, there was no reason to call.
Heero had—at least—loosened up a bit, but who would blame him? They had fought against the Tendo Organization of Monarchy: Taoists.
"It's going to be a FINE day!" said Duo in a sing-song voice as he stuffed another pickle in his mouth.
—Yeah, fine day my foot. This is going to be the worst day of my life.... Heero thought. "That's gross Duo, but not only gross, that's also very idiotic. You're going to vomit—" Heero said, but Duo interrupted him in mid-sentence.
"I doubt I'll throw-up, but if I do-which is very unlikely-it'll be on the Serial Thriller!!!!" Duo shouted gleefully.
Heero groaned. Duo hadn't forgotten about going to Six Flags, like he had been so much counting on. –Not like it'd make a difference, anyways, Noin and Milliardo are still coming to pick us up....
"When are we leaving, again?" Duo asked, still eating his pickle which—Heero now noticed—had brown and white spots with hairs on them. Heero shuddered.
"At 10:00, it takes about an hour to get there from the suburbs of Houston from what this Houston guide has told me." Heero held up a blue, yellow and black book with the words: 'Travel Book: Houston' written on it. Duo cocked an eyebrow. "And Hilde seems to know her way around since she's been living here since the war ended."
"You've seen her?!?!?! Man, I haven't seen her in like-forever!" Duo said. "Wow.... I get to see Hilde again! Cool! She'll get on the Serial Thriller with me for sure since no one else wants to...." Duo then started rambling on about the Serial Thriller, the Viper, Thunder River, Taz's Texas Tornado, and other rides at Astroworld when Heero interrupted him.
"Shut up, Duo."
"No!"
"Omae o korosu!"
"Okay...okay....jeez, don't get your spandex in a twist." (A/N: *laughs at the quite disturbing, yet quite amusing thought*)
Duo glanced at the clock. 9:59. "Hey....who's picking us up, again?"
Heero sighed. "Noin and Milliardo should be picking us up anytime now." Someone then started pounding on Duo's door.
"Duo!!!" Duo recognized that voice, but he was in shock since he was expecting the maid's or even Noin's. But it was Hilde.
"Hilde!" Duo breathed. "See ya with Noin and Mill, Heero!" he said. He shut off the vid-phone and ran to the door. He opened it to see the familiar violet/black haired girl known as Hilde. "Hilde!" Duo exclaimed. He hugged the girl and she hugged him back. It had been five months since they last saw each other that had been at the celebration for the first year marking period of peace being achieved, which had been at Las Vegas.
—Man, did we have a blast then, Duo thought. He grinned in Hilde's beret when he thought of the spiked punch that Wufei drink seven cups of, thinking it was Kool-Aid.....
"Good to see you again, Duo!" Hilde said. She smiled at Duo, her dark, blue eyes glittering. Duo saw Relena greeting Heero across the hallway. They heard footsteps on the stairs, a couple of people talking, and saw Noin and Milliardo standing there.
"Hey, Noin....Milliardo!" Duo greeted them. Heero acknowledged their presence with a nod and an aloof wave.
"It's about time, guys. See, I told you they'd be up!" Relena said, smiling. Hilde nodded as she stood by Relena's side.
"Are you sure it wasn't your voices, Relena?" Milliardo asked.
—I hope he's kidding.... Hilde thought.
"Whatever," Relena said, rolling her eyes. Hilde smiled for no reason and faced Duo and Heero.
"Well then, we better get going!" She led the group down the stairs and to two cars, one black, and the other red. Duo and Heero stopped in their tracks when they saw the people in the parking lot.
Wufei, Trowa, and Quatre were leaning against the two cars, talking placidly to each other. They didn't look that different from when they last saw each other five months ago. "Guys!" Duo exclaimed. He and Heero strode up to them and the greetings were exchanged.
Once the greetings were finished they piled into the two cars. Hilde driving in one care with Duo, Wufei, and Trowa; Noin driving in the red car with Heero, Quatre, Relena, and Milliardo.
"So...how long is this going to take, Hilde?" Duo asked.
"Uh....about forty-five minutes to an hour, depends on the traffic this morning," she responded.
"Oh. So, Trowa, what have you been doing since we last saw you?" Duo asked, looking at Trowa in the backseat.
"When was the last time you saw me?" Trowa asked.
"About....uh....five months ago," Duo responded.
"Oh....well, working at the circus with Catherine, really," Trowa replied.
"Oh....that's...uh....good, I guess....how about you, Wu-man?"
"It's WUFEI!" Wufei hissed, but responded back, "I've been building my home on L5 colony with Sally."
"And a better relationship, too, I hope...." Duo muttered under his breath as Hilde swerved to get into the next lane. She ignored the yells people were giving her outside of the car. Hilde laughed and Wufei and Trowa just cocked their eyebrows.
—She's changed, sorta..... thought Duo. –Good!
Duo and Hilde were the only ones speaking on the way to the theme park, and when they arrived, they met the others and the rest of the ladies (Dorothy, Catherine and Sally) in the parking lot.
"Let's go," Hilde announced when everyone had gotten their tickets (Hilde had a Season Pass). She led them to the lines and waited while the people argued with the assistants taking tickets/Season Passes. They were in the line for about thirty minutes (it really does take that long, but it takes an hour to get tickets at the park) when they were finally able to go through the metal detectors and the turnout booth thing (you know, that thing that goes in circles that counts how many people go in).
When the pilots got the metal detector is where the problems started.
Heero walked through.
BEEEEEEEEP!
"Will you please remove any metal articles please, sir?" asked the assistant (whose name was Bob) there.
Heero rolled his eyes and took off his keys and watch and put them in the small bin Bob handed him.
"Will you please go back the way you came through the detector and go back through?" Bob asked. He wiped his forehead. He hated this.
Heero grumbled something but went through again and it beeped (again).
"Why the heck is it doing that?!?!?!" Heero growled.
"Take out any 'other' metal articles please, sir," Bob said. Heero took out more metal things and put them in the bin. He went in two more times and it beeped him every time. The pile in the bin was getting bigger, and the bin was getting heavier.
Finally, after the fifth time, two police came and gave Heero a pat down. They found nothing so they just let him through where he waited with Hilde, Noin, Milliardo and the other ladies.
Duo passed by with no trouble, so did Trowa and Quatre. But Wufei......
"Take out any metal articles that you may be carrying, sir," said Bob. He was getting tired of this.
"INJUSTICE!!!!!!"
"Just do what the man says, Wufei!" barked Sally.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever, onna," grumbled Wufei. He took out his keys and his watch and put them in the bin (Heero took back his stuff). He went back through five times before the officers came and patted him down. There they found a dagger in his pocket!
"What is this for?" asked Officer #1.
"To make people stay away from me!" said Wufei.
Officers #1 and 2 looked at each other but shook their heads.
"This will have to stay here until you exit the park, sir," said Officer #2.
"UNJUSTICE!!!!!!!!!" shrieked Wufei but Sally pulled him out of the gate.
And so began their 'fine' day at Six Flags Astroworld......
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BJDIII: How'd you guys like it? I know it's really boring right now, but I had writers block and this was really just to clear it up....I PROMISE the next will be funnier! But I'm not sure when I'll get it up.....
Shilion: I liked it!
BJDIII: you're saying that to make me feel better, koi.
Shilion: how'd you figure out?!?!?!
BJDIII: *shrugs* *in sly voice* I have my ways....
Shikitty: freaky.....
Shikitten: the carousel! Do the carousel in the next chapter!!
BDJIII: we'll see, Kitten, we'll see *patpats*
