Worlds Apart
Part 34
By Mieren
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Once again…. The worlds used….
Girl with dog, woman with sword in hand – X
Miniskirts and a flying kick – Sailor Moon
Gorilla climbing a skyscraper – King Kong
Licking an unknown butt – Naruto (and man was Tsunade ticked)
World of weird critters that Tsunade blew up – Wheel of Time (awesome series)
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Duo sighed heavily, trying a combination of numbers for more than the thousandth time. It was well after midnight and most of the others still in the shack with him were snoozing. He too was exhausted, but refused to give up, ornery as he ever was as a Gundam pilot. Yawning widely, he scribbled down the coordinates in one column and prepared to jot down a description of the world in the next. Only partially coherent, he stuck part of his face through the portal only to be greeted with a mortified squawk.
On the other side of the gateway was a small metal cell containing four individuals, specifically the four other pilots, all of them in shackles. It had been Quatre who had cried out in a breathless squeak at the sight of a disembodied head of a friend and comrade he long assumed dead. Duo snapped awake at the whimper and then whooped with joy, waking the other three boys in the cell.
"I found you!" he squealed, his smile threatening to split his head in two. His rapture faded a bit when he finally registered the confinements. "The hell? I told Treize to surrender!"
"The honorless dog only waited until you pulled back before having us all arrested for 'treason' and locked us up," Wufei spat, not caring that he could only see half of Duo's head since he knew what contraption the insane brunette was using.
"Is that so?" Duo asked in a dangerous tone.
"Hn," Heero answered as an affirmative.
"I'll be right back."
Retreating through the gateway, Duo let out a piercing whistle, awakening the few who had remained in the shack with him that night. That only included Naruto, Tsunade and Jiraiya, but that was more than enough for his purposes.
"Wakey, wakey!" Duo called loudly, eyes glittering dangerously.
"What do you want, brat?" the Hokage growled at him.
"I found my home and I need a few people to help me kick a couple of asses," the brunette pilot answered menacingly.
"Baka!" a new voice roared. Four heads turned to face the still open portal, Heero's head sticking through it. "What in the hell are you doing?"
"Collecting reinforcements!" Duo snapped right back. "Do you want me to kick Treize's ass or not?" Grunting, Heero pulled his head back, vanishing from sight.
"And that's your ally?" Jiraiya asked disbelievingly.
"He's no worse than Sasuke," Naruto chipped in. The sannin had to concede the point to him. The cobalt-eyed brunette did indeed act surprisingly like the Uchiha.
"Don't bother gathering an army like last time," Duo interrupted before Tsunade could suggest the idea. "The four of us can more than clearly make our point. The war is damn well over. The ass even agreed to it the last time I ran into him and he surrendered unconditionally. If Treize doesn't like it, he can find a hole and blow it."
"The three of us can take care of ourselves, but what about you?" Jiraiya asked. Duo gave him a flat look.
"No problems there, old fart. I wasn't designated the most annoying of all of the pilots for no reason, you know," he sniggered. "Besides, I have learned a few tricks after staying here, thanks to Naruto."
"Anything you learned from him is not a good thing," the frog hermit muttered.
"You taught me too, geezer!" Duo returned. "So did the old hag." Tsunade promptly smacked him upside his head. He made a face, eyes narrowed. "Are you saying that between you three, I can do nothing?"
"You're an idiot," Jiraiya retorted.
"Maybe," Duo hedged. "But I'm an idiot with things that go 'boom' as you well remember."
"And you think that just four of us can beat an entire army?" Tsunade broke in.
"Yes," the self-proclaimed Shinigami said smugly. "I said that if he didn't surrender, which he didn't, I'd come back with my people. If I so much as return with even one of you, I can do some serious, immediate damage. If all three of you come, we can wreak absolute hell, even if only for a few seconds to make our point."
"Your point," the Hokage huffed.
"Either way. Who's in and who's out?"
"I'm in!" Naruto enthused, beaming. The imbeciles in their stupid armor were no match for him and he knew that Duo could at least block himself if nothing else. Jiraiya grumbled and ultimately sighed.
"Me too," he huffed, knowing that the blond didn't stand much of a chance without him. It seemed to be a chain reaction. Naruto followed Duo. Jiraiya followed Naruto. That only left one player in the shack to give in. Grumbling vulgarities under her breath, Tsunade stuck by her teammate.
"I'll go too."
"Great!" Duo enthused. "We can all but bet that in a few seconds, Treize will mess himself and surrender!"
"And if he doesn't?" Tsunade asked wryly.
"Then we really kick his ass," Duo answered, still grinning like a madman.
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To Be Continued…
I know I've taken forever to update and I'm sorry. Life got in the way. On the bright side, I landed a good job! On the down side, this is going to eat up any time I may have had left to type at all, because I still have to remain a fulltime student while working a fulltime job. Sigh. I really am doing my best. Please R&R. I know I'm a hog for it, but I really like it and I want this story to break a thousand. ^_^