*SLAP*
"OWWWWW!!!"
Duo
held his face in pain and looked up at an angered Koree. She ground out through
gritted teeth. "My Nightcat is *not*
a sex toy and it *certainly* isn't
here for your amusement!"
Jack
and Tin fell onto the floor rolling back and forth on the ground as they
laughed. Tin was red in the face as she said, "Maybe it's a good idea 'Kinky',
and it could make us some extra money on the weekends!" She howled.
Koree
clenched her fists first in controlled anger, before letting go of her
frustration by throwing up her hands and yelling in outrage at the braided boy.
"*AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!
You're driving me insane and we just met!!!*" That said, Koree stormed away
without another word to anyone.
"Don't
mind her, she's just really sensitive about her Gundam." Jack giggled. "By the
way, my name is Jackie. You can't use
my nickname until I've decided if I like you or not."
"Names Duo, and you are?"
"Tina." She stuck out her hand and shook with him
briefly.
"You're Gundam is pretty cool looking," Jackie said,
as if reading Tina's thoughts as the two comrades stared up at Shinigami.
"Thanks,
I can understand her being protective of her Gundam, I'm the same way about
Deathscythe Hell here. Don't know what I'd do without him…"
"Well,
I'm going to go check Deathangel over for scratches." And if I find any, I will keep my promise to that
chauvinistic hot-tempered Chinese baka…
(Gundam
Safehouse / Saturday / Breakfast time)
Heero
sat at the head of the table with his plate of food before him and the gun
beside that. His thoughts drifting absently to the three new housemates staying
with them. Particularly the one called Koree…
Right
at that moment the object of his thoughts entered the kitchen, followed by
Tina. "Good morning everybody." They
both greeted cheerfully.
Tina's
eyes drifted to the gun next to Heero's plate and her eyes widen in shock. "Ah…
eh… excuse me but… uh… do you have that gun *everywhere* you go?"
Koree
turned to look at what Tina was talking about and her jaw dropped. "You
actually eat with a gun?"
Heero looked up at Koree. "Hn."
"What are you afraid the food might try to run
away?"
"……"
"Talkative aren't we?" Koree grinned sarcastically.
"Don't
mind him. He's always like that. You just have to get used to it." Duo smiled
at them from his seat as Quatre took Duo's empty cup.
"Where is Jackie?" Quatre asked politely.
"The
kid is still asleep, as always. She won't be down till twelve or later." Koree
smiled at him.
The
girls sat down and Quatre placed two mugs of coffee in front of them. Tina
looked at him curiously. "It's good. Duo made it, he has a knack for making
coffee."
"It's
the *only* thing Duo can make.
Anything else is to be eaten at your own risk."
Tina
looked at Koree uncertainly and Koree started to chuckle. "Actually, I don't
drink coffee. It makes me too hyper."
"And believe me, she's scary when on a sugar or
caffeine high."
Koree turned to glare daggers at Tina, suddenly
getting an angry frown on her face, so angry, that Duo could practically make
out the steam coming from her ears. He leaned forward on his elbows as he
turned his attention on Tina. "This sounds interesting. So, what kind of stuff
does Kinky do when she's on a sugar high?"
"Duo…" Koree growled warningly at her fellow
American, but the braided boy simply smiled at her and turned back to Tina
patiently.
"Well,"
Tina began, a smirk already forming on her lips. "she most likely will hurt
herself or someone else in the attempt to get rid of her trip. Last time she
broke her wrist when she tried to skate down a stairway on inline-skates."
Trowa
choked his coffee. Quatre pounded his back. Duo was all but rolling on the
floor, tears in his eyes.
Koree
scowled. "Did you really need to tell them *that* story? I'm perfectly capable of embarrassing myself without
your assistance Tina!"
"Koree
just shut up and let me eat breakfast. Later you can complain as much as you
want."
Everyone
chuckled at the two girls morning antics, Heero's face, however, remained stoic
as he continued drinking his coffee. But, the outside was only a mask to hide
the thoughts going on inside. Those two are worse than Duo and me, but I
have to admit Koree is cute. Especially with that blush on her face. Heero
watched from the corner of his eye as Koree sat down with a scowl on her heart
shaped face, glaring at the German girl and muttering away under her breath.
Tina made another comment and Koree's scowl turned to a sarcastic sneer. And
she's pretty cute when she's pissed to.
Everyone turned when the door swung open and Jackie
walked in looking ready and fit to kill anyone attempting to make conversation
with her.
"Morning Kiddo!" Koree smiled brightly at Jackie,
obviously ignoring the warning look on the French girl's face.
"Shut up. Or I'll make you eat those words Thomas."
She growled and threw herself into a seat.
"Oh is the baby cranky?" Tina and Duo and Trowa
chuckled at Koree as she made fun of the blonde.
"I said shut up."
But Koree had one more she wanted to throw in.
"Maybe we'll go to the zoo today, it might cheer you up to see the widdle baby
lambs and duckies!"
"KOREE!!!"
(Gundam
Safehouse / Sunday / One p.m.)
"STOP
THAT!!!!!! KOREE IF YOU SAY ONE MORE WORD I'M GOING TO… TO…
AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
Koree
smiled at herself. It's great how easily you can piss her off when you make
fun of her age. "Ah come on, squirt. It wouldn't look to good on your rep
if you died throwing a temper tantrum."
"Ah,
like you can talk Kinky. You're no better, having a Gundam with adult themes
when there's a little kid around."
"DON'T
*CALL* ME THAT!!!!!!!!! And *DON'T* talk about my Nightcat that
way!" Koree shouted at the black clad teen.
Duo
grinned at Koree and winked at Jackie, "Why not? Does my calling you Kinky in
front of the fifteen year old embarrass you?"
"DUO!!!" Koree had taken a step
forwards, and was about to punch him when Heero suddenly burst into the room.
She froze and briefly wondered if she'd done or said something wrong as he
turned his cold hard stare on her and pointed at the two of them.
"You two come with me now."
Duo nodded but Koree remained a moment as Jackie
went to find Quatre so they could continue their earlier conversation from that
morning. "What's wrong?"
Heero
glared at her. "We have a mission." He began loading his gun, speaking as he
looked down at his work. "Now I just need to find Tina, she's also part of this
mission."
"Well that's simple enough to figure out. She'll be
in the hangar with Deathangel. Probably working…"
Heero nodded and turned around to leave. Koree
looked at a grinning Duo and narrowed her eyes. "I'll deal with you later,
baka…"
"Whatever you say Kinky…"
"*DUO!!!*"
(Base
Garil / Sunday / Three p.m.)
As
Duo and Koree fought off an oncoming group of mobile Virgo's, Tina stayed a
ways back, observing her new comrade's fighting style.
Duo,
meanwhile, was unaware of this as he sliced through doll after doll like they
were only butter. Only Koree's voice cutting through the intercom system made
him look from his handi-work of destruction. "I don't want to complain, but how
long does he need to get a damn computer file?"
*BABOOM!!!*
All three turned their attention, for a moment, to
the clearing smoke, watching as their fourth comrade emerged in his Wing Zero
Gundam. "I'm right here. Let's go home."
"Hey
Fonzie, could you drop the 'I'm too cool' act long enough to help us out here?"
Tina
growled into the visual link of Koree's left screen. "If you want help, just
ask."
"Well,"
The black girl smirked. "I wouldn't need to ask if you'd join on your own, you
miss out on all the group fun, moping by your self like that."
Tina
was about to give a reply, but just then Koree pointed up at the human controlled
suits. "In a second you're going to have to join this fight. What do you
say?"
"You're
grinding my nerves today Thomas." Tina growled and activated her fly mode and
as soon as it had readied, she took off. She didn't need much time to catch up
with the Aries.
Within
minutes the thirty Aries suits were down to two, one after Koree had taken out
the one she was fighting, but Duo wasn't having such luck as his suit fled from
the battle.
"That's
what I hate about human pilots, they never wanna stick around for the fun."
"Hey!
You can't escape from Shinigami! Or… maybe you can, Tina heads up!"
"I'm
way ahead of you Duo." Without even thinking twice she aimed at the suit. One
blast and it was gone, only leaving behind some really small pieces and smoke.
She smiled to herself but then she noticed that her fuel was almost gone.
"Damn, that stupid laser used up to much fuel…"
Tina
growled and brought her Gundam down to land delicately on the ground. When she
had planted both big boots on the pavement below Duo's face appeared on her
left screen. "Damn! You didn't say you had wings on your Gundam!"
"What,
these?" She spread out the large black and blue lined bat shaped wings, "You
never asked…"
Duo
sighed, "Even so, you could have mentioned it. They're great! We have to talk
about who made your suits when we get home." He smiled.
"Well if we don't get going now I won't be able to
get there."
"What? Why the hurry, let's take the scenic route!"
"We could try but I can't guarantee she'd make the
trip!…" Koree laughed, earning a death glare from her comrade.
Duo's eyebrow furrowed in visible confusion.
"Tina
is about to run out of fuel. See, the designer of her suit didn't put too much
thought into the plans and-"
"That's
impossible," Heero was shocked, he couldn't understand why he and the others still
had full energy when she was running
out. "You forgot to fuel up before we left didn't
you…?"
"No, but my laser takes up a lot of fuel."
"Will you be able to make it back?"
"I-"
"She'll be fine, we all have a small amount of
backup fuel in case of emergencies."
Tina glared again at her over-excitable comrade, but
the black girl ignored this as always with a cocky grin in Tina's direction.
"I prefer not, to use my backup fuel." Tina
commented tonelessly as she glared at her grinning friend.
"The
mission is done, do what you choose."
"Well, I don't know about you guys, but, I'm going
to go for a ride before I head back. See you at the safehouse."
"Hey wait up, I'll go too. Tina? You coming?"
"No. I've had enough excitement for one day."
Koree shrugged. "If you say so, come on Maxwell,
I'll race you."
"I guarantee you'll loose Kinky."
Koree growled into the intercom at Duo. "I'll make
you eat those words."
*ZOOM*
*Sigh* Kids…
(Gundam
Safehouse / Sunday / Eight twenty p.m. / Dinner)
"We're
WHAT?!"
"You're going, to school, with us."
"No, WAY! NO *FREAKIN*
WAY AM *I* WEARING A SKIRT!" Even
Trowa jumped at Tina's outburst, they stared at her from their seats while
Koree continued as though nothing had happened.
"Onna, women are supposed to wear skirts and
dresses,"
Say what? Koree looked up from her eating to
glare at Wufei with narrowed eyes.
"only men should wear pants."
Oh
that's it. Koree was out of her seat in a second, glaring down at the
Chinese Altron pilot with sudden contempt. "*WHAT* did you just say you chauvinistic baka?!"
"Um," Jackie and Tina quickly followed Koree's
example, and now Wufei was looking up into not one, but three enraged faces.
"Answer wisely," Jackie said coolly. "your pride
depends on it."
"I said, only men should wear pants."
"Some people never learn."
Tina scowled. "Only guys can wear pants huh? We'll
just see about that."
"*AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!* PUT ME
DOWN ONNA! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU TAKING ME!" Wufei's screams disappeared down
the hallway where a door slammed shut in Koree's room. Heero, Duo, Quatre, and
Trowa all stared after them blankly as silence slowly filled the whole house.
When
a few minutes had passed after the screams were muffled, Duo turned back to the
others and asked cheerfully. "Soooooo, did any of you catch the game last
night?"
(Moments
later)
Koree
smiled as she and Jackie looked Wufei's new look up and down. "Hmmm, the skirt
really highlights his legs don't you think?"
"Yeah,
but not as well as it brings out his make up."
Wufei
glared at the two, vowing to kill them both when he was finally free of this
getup. "I WILL *NOT* GO OUT THERE
LIKE THIS! I DEMAND *JUSTICE*! I
DEMAND *RESPECT*! I DEMA-"
Koree
rolled her eyes at Chang's ranting and didn't hesitate to cut him off. "Well I
want a lot of things too but you don't see me whining about it, now shut up and
walk!" Koree shoved him forward while Jackie went ahead of them and entered the
living room where the others were watching a game on the TV.
"And
now, for your viewing pleasure… The girls' of Gundam Team bring you the spring
fashion show!"
Quatre
turned off the T.V. to give Jackie their full attention, grinning at the
mischivieous look in the young girl's eyes that served as a promise of the
entertainment that would follow.
Duo's
eyes were already wet with tears of mirth, even before the show had begun. He
could only imagine what they must
have done to the annoyingly pig headed Chinese pilot.
Jackie's
voice rang out and you could practically /hear/ the smile she wore, cutting off
Duo's thoughts as she gave the introduction. "Our model for today is Chang
Wufei, so give it up, as he models our Britney Spears Catholic school girl
outfit!"
"*NOOOOOOOO!!!!! LET ME GO! I WILL KILL YOU
ALL IF YOU DON'T RELEASE ME AT ONCE!!!*"
Tina
growled at Wufei's squirming in their arms, and quickly shoved him away. "Stop
your whining and get your ass out there!" He won't have /any/ respect left from his comrades when
this is over!
"*ONNNNNNNNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
PUT, ME, DOWN!!!*" The room went quiet with shock as Koree dragged out a
reluctant Wufei to the living room where everyone's jaw plummeted to the floor.
"Wufei!
You… you look so… haa ha haha ha!"
Even
Heero was laughing his ass off. Duo made catcalls, Quatre tried to hide his
laughing for Wufei's sake, and Trowa, he too was laughing too hard to speak.
Wufei's face, grew redder than the reddest shade of crimson imaginable. Tina
and Jackie rolled on the floor in a laughing fit while Koree was busy with a
camcorder, by the time Wufei realized he was being taped he turned his death
glare on Koree. "Onna, you're a dead woman."
Laughing
all the while, Koree slowly backed away. "Now wait a minute, you had this
coming Wufei. The way you dissed our Gundams, called us weak, told us we
weren't allowed to wear pants… This is payback, and we got it all right here on
tape."
"Woman, I assure you, you won't live to show that
tape to anyone else. *KIYAH*!!!"
Koree
yelped sharply and ran out of the house with Wufei in hot pursuit. "*TINA!!!!!! JACKIE!!!!!!! GET OFF YOUR ASSES
AND HELP ME!!!*"
Tina looked at Jackie. "Think we should help?"
"To be perfectly honest…NO."
CRASH!
"Ah! Watch it you nearly took my head
off with that damn thing!"
"Next time I won't miss!"
Everyone chuckled as they could hear
the two arguing from the garden. "But on the other hand, we are as responsible
as her for this mess." Jackie winked at Tina wickedly. "Let's go!"
And with that, the chasing began.
(Craftford
High School / Monday / Seven a.m.)
The five Gundam boys had already taken their seats
as the teacher and the three new girls entered the small classroom. As the
teacher began speaking Koree gave a wink to the five boys, making a few heads
turn and a few whispers start.
"Quiet
everyone. Quiet please. I want to introduce you to your three new classmates. I
trust you will all be friendly to them and show them, the utmost of respect."
The
boys in the class all made noises of agreement, a few of them making some
comments and laughing wickedly as the teacher turned towards the girls.
"Ladies, would you please be so kind as to introduce yourselves to the class."
Jackie
was the first one to step forward, the classmates began to shush each other as
she smiled and she acquainted herself with the class. "My name is Jacqueline
Brandes. I'm from the colony L1. It's a pleasure."
Koree
was the next one. "My name is Koree Thomas. I'm from the colony L5. Pleasure to
meet you all."
Tina was last. "My
name is Tina Elkins. I'm from L2. Nice to meet you all."
"I'm sorry but it seems like
there are only the seats in the front where you could possibly
sit."
"Not a problem at all,"
Jackie smiled, and with those words the girls took their seats.
"Hey, Heero listen, you hear
that?"
Heero
nodded, letting Duo know he could hear very clearly what the other boys were
talking about.
"Mm mm mm! That
Koree chick is hoooot!"
"Yeah boy, but I'll
be damned if Tina isn't too. Maybe more…"
"Oh man, did you
see the way Koree's legs looked in that skirt?"
"Well, see I think
Jackie is more my style."
"Man whaterver,
that's because she's probably a sophomore just like you."
The
third boy got quiet as the other three began to laugh and poke at him, before
finally settling back in on the conversation.
"She may be young, but I bet she handles' just as
good."
"I don't know, Koree looks like she might know what
she's doing if you know what I mean…"
Duo was about to jump in and tell all four of them
to shut up if they knew what was good for them, but just then the teacher did
him the favor and saved him the trouble by saying to them; "Quiet in the back
row or I'll give you all detentions till next week."
Where do these guys get off,
calling kinky a slut, and splitting them up like some kind of door prizes? I
outta just teach them a lesson right now.
I hope these guys aren't planning
anything suicidal… Heero thought angrily as he stared ahead at the
chalkboard, where the teacher was teaching the lesson, Duo leaned over,
expressing aloud what Heero had been thinking all along.
"If this keeps up it's gonna be a
problem. I only hope for the boys' sake they aren't dumb enough to try
anything."
"Hn… in which case, we'll have to take
matters into our own hands…" Heero was only slightly aware that what the boys
were saying about his comrades was upsetting him, for what reason he wasn't
sure. The two less mature girls had somehow managed to get on his good side,
and Tina, well he related to Tina in a lot of ways involving their training and
discipline levels. He respected the German girl. And in a lot of ways, Jackie
was like Quatre, and it showed in how well the two had hit it off and got
along. The two were always talking together, both were polite though Jackie was
more on the playful side. And then there was, Koree. The 08 pilot resembled Duo
in more than one area of similarities. Loud mouthed at a lot of times,
arrogant, flirtatious, and always trying to make sure the others were in a good
mood. But there was something else about her, something dark that he'd often
sensed from Duo before the American had enlightened him, something about his
past that made him responsible when it really did count. Something he could
tell she didn't share with just anyone… Heero wondered, just briefly, if Tina
knew about that something, and even more fleetingly, he entertained the
thought, would she ever willingly tell him?…
(Craftford High School / Monday /
Twelve p.m.)
The cafeteria, it was already
lunchtime, leaving Koree and Jackie to wonder just where the whole day had went
so quickly as they entered the large facility to find seats. Beside them were
Trowa and Wufei, who'd had gym class with the two girls, and had also observed
the exact same problems that Heero and Duo had earlier that day. Koree and
Jackie quickly spotted their stone faced comrades and Quatre and Duo, and just
as soon as they'd spotted them, hurried over to the table to chat. Wufei and
Trowa approached with a bit more reserve and calmly sat at the same end with
Heero and Duo, while the three girls and Quatre sat closer at the other end
talking excitedly.
All four of the above mentioned male
pilots looked down at the others as they ate and chatted cheerfully. The girls
didn't seem to know anything was wrong, or that the topic of the four boys'
conversation was none other than themselves, and if they did, they didn't say
anything about it. "So, how did they take their gym class?"
"Don't you think the better question
is, how did the gym class take them?'
"Hn, explain."
"Well," Trowa began quietly, glancing
to see that the girls still weren't paying attention to their conversation.
"The males in the class were certainly impressed by the girl's physical
strength, I think a few of them were even intimidated."
"Try frightened. At least half the
class was afraid to go near them, the girls seemed to be more jealous than
afraid."
"Well it's not every girl who can keep
up a figure like that with seemingly no trouble," Duo grinned. "Its no wonder
they were jealous I'd feel threatened too if some new girls showed up and had a
body like that and the health to boot."
"Even so, I overheard a conversation
among some of the guys, I think there may be some people onto them,"
"Hn, we'll have to tell them to keep a
low profile with their showing off." Heero said calmly. "They probably don't
realize how much they stand out."
"Probably, but, then again they kinda
stand out already, after all they have the attitudes and confidence of Gundam
Pilots and the skills to show that off too."
Everyone nodded at Duo's words, then
returned to the conversation at hand at the other end of the table.
"… you liked school so far?" Quatre
looked at the girls with an inquisitorial gleam in his warm blue eyes.
"I love it here." Jackie beamed, her
blue eyes sparkling excitedly. "The teachers are friendly and the people are
great." Quatre nodded knowingly and looked down at a book in his hands to read.
"And the guys here are really good at flirting." She added with a sly grin.
This comment made Quatre's head snap
up. What did she just say?
"You can say that again." Koree
seconded with a playful wink at one of the passing boys, "And some of them are
really hot too. I got six different digits, all before the end of gym class
today." Koree smirked. "Before long I'm gonna have every guy at this school
wrapped around my little finger."
Tina looked at her, more than a little
annoyed. "You know we don't have time for something like that."
"Lighten up, Tin. Let me have my fun
with these guys."
Tina just shook her head as a sudden
headache struck her from nowhere.
Koree suddenly grinned wickedly,
nudging Jackie and giving a wink at the French girl. "Hmm, and most of them are
pretty good kissers too."
*COUGH* Heero almost choked on his coke.
Duo looked at him curiously.
Heero growled, I can't believe it!
She's as bad as the guys at this school!
"Come on guys" Koree suddenly looked
worried. "I'm kidding, I wouldn't go and kiss a complete stranger…"
"Right," Tina scoffed.
"I wouldn't!" Koree stared wide eyed at
first Heero, then Tina. "I can't believe you guys actually think I'd do that!
Baka!…"
Quatre sweat-dropped and, sensing the
sudden tension, tried changing the subject. "Well, looks like you guys had fun.
Maybe tomorrow will be a little calmer, so Duo who do you think will win that
basketball game tonight?"
This was not what Heero had had in mind
when he had enrolled them for this school. Maybe an all girl school would
have been better for them. At least for Koree and Jackie. It shouldn't bother
me. But, but behavior like that could endanger the mission. … But, Heero
began to wonder, was that really his only reason for being so upset?…
Duo watched the scene in front of him,
not really noticing what was going on. All he felt was relief that Tina didn't
seem interested in flirting, like Jackie and Koree. But why am I
relived? He sighed as he watched the girl eat. I guess… I… feel kind of
attracted to her. But… but that's crazy! I've only known her for four days!
Duo glanced up at the German girl from his mental arguing, as she rolled her
eyes at another of Koree and Jackie's comments. But then again, what's not to be attracted to?… All I know is,
things should be getting /very/ interesting around here the next few weeks…
If only Duo knew how right he was.
Stay
tuned! ^_^ Part two brings more chaos between 05 and 08, a few shared secrets,
a little romance, ::swoons:: Uh, just watch for part two! ^_^;;;
