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Author Note: All right everyone, another random idea for a fic that just kind of struck me while I was at work. I know it's a short chapter but it's kind of like a test drive to see if this story will get much attention. And, don't worry; I'm working just as hard on all of my other stories. I am trying to get as much writing done this summer as I can possibly dream of or hope to accomplish.

Enjoy!

Seismic Drama

Chapter 1

Pushing himself from the ground, Wufei coughed as dust flew all around him. Slowly, the Chinese teen stood and looked at the remainder of his surroundings. He could see all the way to the other end of the house due to some of the walls ahead of him having collapsed into the hallway. Taking a moment to simply breathe, Wufei thanked the heavens that he hadn't been a few steps forward a few minutes prior.

-------- (Flashback, a few moments earlier (and my attempt at describing the house))

It was any old day in the former Gundam Wing pilots' mansion of choice. After the war, the five had nowhere to go but back to one of the many safe houses Quatre had provided, and insisted, for them to stay in during the war. Even though Quatre was busy with keeping up with his family company, he still firmly pressed the others to consider his home as their own and told them to stay for as long as they like. The mansion was larger than most of the others which the pilots preferred just simply to have the space. Walking into the front door, the foyer immediately opened up to a sitting room. The kitchen and dining room were located to the left and to the right there were a staircase leading straight back (up still but towards the front door) and a large doorway leading to another hallway. This hallway led to various rooms such as the gym, the lab, the laundry room and a supply room for medical and other supplies for emergencies. All of the bedrooms and guest rooms were located at the top of the staircase and to the left whereas turning right at the top of the staircase led to an open walkway with a view over the sitting room. Beyond the walkway were Quatre's personal office and another guest bedroom and bathroom. Of course, other bathrooms were scattered throughout and beautiful furniture adorned every room to a point where some of the pilots felt uncomfortable. Despite their differences (and better judgment), the pilots all stayed there and lived well all together day-by-day.

On this particular day, everyone was at home keeping themselves busy on their days off from work or, in Quatre's case, was working from home. Wufei had been procrastinating an intense workout session all week long but when he finally worked himself up to do it, he realized he had nothing appropriate to wear so he asked to borrow something of Heero's.

"No problem Wufei. I've got some other sweatpants in the dryer now so just feel free to borrow those for as long as you need." Heero called back to Wufei as he walked up the luscious staircase. Standing at the bottom, Wufei held the mentioned sweatpants in hand and again looked to Heero to thank him.

"Don't worry I'll clean them before I get them back to you unlike some people in this house." Raising his voice at the end of his sentence, Wufei looked to his right towards the kitchen where Duo was standing and making a sandwich. Duo only rolled his eyes in return and turned around to open the refrigerator door.

Shaking his head and wondering why he even bothered sometimes, Wufei turned again seeing that Heero was almost to the top of the staircase and then took a few steps forward. He reached the doorway that led to the far wing of the house when suddenly the ground shook beneath him. Instinctively, Wufei grabbed the doorframe to keep from falling down but knew that it was in vain, as the shaking did not cease. Wufei dropped to the floor and rolled putting his hands over top of his head to protect it. His whole body shook along with the house and all of its inhabitants as he heard things falling down and crashing on the floor; Wufei braced himself.

--------- (End flashback)

Raising his hand to his forehead, Wufei was still taking it all in; there had just been an earthquake…and if he hadn't taken that moment to poke fun at Duo, he probably would've been trapped beneath the debris ahead of him now. Wufei didn't dare look behind him at the state of the rest of the house but remembered that Heero and Duo would be there; he took a deep breath and turned.

Glancing across the large living room area, Wufei saw pieces of the ceiling that had fallen down onto the couches and chairs. What stuck out the most though, was Heero's body lying halfway down the stairs. Instinct kicking in, Wufei carefully made his way toward his friend and kneeled at his side. Quickly glancing him over, the raven-haired teen couldn't see any noticeably broken bones or severe injuries other than a nasty gash on Heero's forehead that could definitely imply Heero had a concussion. Just as Wufei was about to wake him, Heero groaned and his eyes trembled open, causing dust to flutter from his eyelashes. Finally focusing on Wufei, Heero furrowed his brow.

"What happened?" Heero began to sit up but, upon losing his balance and realizing that he was laying the wrong way on the staircase, Wufei lent a helping hand to get him into a sitting position on the stairs.

"You tell me. There was an earthquake and before you were at the top of the stairs but now you're at about the middle." Heero, idly rubbing his forehead in pain, acknowledged that he remembered.

"Yeah…I got to the top stair but everything started shaking…I lost my balance and hit my head but I don't remember falling all the way down here." Heero flinched in pain as his fingers ran over the gash on his forehead.

"Well, I'm sure you knocked yourself out. I think that you probably definitely have a concussion but does anything else hurt?" Wufei looked to Heero for a response and watched as Heero slowly stood, flexing his limbs.

"I don't think so…" Heero paused for a moment to walk around. "My head definitely, but other than just being sore, the rest of me seems fine." Wufei nodded and stood as well. Heero glanced around the mansion thoughtfully before turning back to Wufei. "What about you? Are you hurt?"

Wufei shook his head but pointed beyond the doorway where he had been. "No, I'm just fine. Just sore and shaken…I could've been under that." Heero's eyes grew wide at seeing the collapsed walls but his attention was drawn away from it by a noise behind the two teens. Looking to each other and confirming that they both heard the noise, they slowly began to creep towards the kitchen.

"Shit!" The cry was followed by the loud clang of a pot dropping and the two former pilots immediately remembered that Duo had been in the kitchen at the time of the earthquake.

"Duo? Is that you? Are you okay?" Heero called to their friend as they carefully made a path towards him.

"Yeah…" They heard as Duo hissed in pain, contradicting himself. "On second thought, I'm pretty sure my ankle is broken." Finally making it to the kitchen, Heero and Wufei looked to Duo who was lying on the floor, his arms covered in blood. Wufei knelt down and took a look at his wounds.

"That's nothing, trust me. I just fell on that glass. Just, look at my ankle and tell me it's not bad." Wufei nodded and complied, shifting away to look at Duo's ankle. It was noticeably swollen already, but Wufei deduced that it seemed more like a sprain than anything else. Noticing that the fridge had fallen and dumped all its' contents out onto Duo's legs, Wufei could only imagine what could've fallen on top of it to make it swell that badly. Sighing in relief that Duo was even still alive, he turned back to his two comrades and spoke.

"Good news, I think it's only a sprain. Bad news, I can't be completely sure until you try to walk on it. If you can't put any pressure on it at all, I would then assume it was broken." Sighing heavily and not wanting to be patient, Duo held his hands up for Heero and Wufei to grab and help him to his good foot.

"Alright…moment of truth..." Slowly taking a step, Duo applied pressure to his swollen foot, grimacing in pain. "It hurts like hell, but it's not extremely bad so I don't think that it's broken." Heero helped Duo walk to the nearest chair as Wufei went to retrieve the first aid kit. It was in that moment that Duo actually took in the damage.

"Holy shit…" Duo looked up and found that he could see straight through to the gray sky above but flinched as Heero began cleaning the small cuts over Duo's arms. The braided teen pulled his arms away gently. "I got it…thanks." Heero nodded and looked over to see Wufei returning with the first aid kit. Heero also looked around at the damage; all three jumped at the sound of another pot falling to the floor in the kitchen.

"Thanks Fei…" Duo pulled his arms close after Wufei finished bandaging them and gave him a smile. "Are you guys all right?" The other two nodded to him.

"We're fine compared to you." Wufei then began cleaning Heero's forehead. "We need to find Trowa and Quatre and get out of here though. Duo, do you know where either of them could be?" Duo began to look more worried with the second.

"Quatre, I don't know. I know that Trowa-bear was headed for our room though." Trowa and Duo had been dating for three years now and even though they seemed like an odd match, they balanced each other out perfectly.

"Dammit…" Wufei glared and muttered under his breath. Duo's eyes grew wide.

"What? Why do you say that?" Wufei shook his head and pointed again toward the doorway in which he had luckily survived.

"The walls are collapsing all through that hallway… I could've been killed by one."

"But me and Trowa's room is upstairs not down that…hall…" Duo stopped mid-sentence as he realized; the collapsing hallway was just below the upstairs hallway where all of the bedrooms were located. He cursed under his breath.

"So, we have to go up there and find him and Quatre too before the whole freaking house collapses…just perfect…"

End

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