The wind whipped through the car, causing the clothing and hair of the unwilling companions to fly about; unruly. Duo leaned forward and adjusted the volume of the radio. Flame glanced over at him and frowned.

"What?" Duo asked, noticing the look.

"What time is it?"

"What does that have to do with the glare?"

"What is the time please?"

"If I tell you the time, will you explain the look?"

"Yes."

"It's 8:35"

"For real?"

"Yup."

"Ok…" she sighed, and turned to face Duo. "The look was for causing us to be late."

"Late for what?"

"Late for the alibi."

"I'm not following you."

"Look, the alarm at OZ went off last night. There are cameras everywhere. It is likely that they may have footage of the perpetrators."

"Uh… why does that cause us to need an alibi?"

"Why do you think we're going to DisneyLand?"

"For a fun, fun day in a magical world of childish entertainment?" he asked with a note of hope in his voice.


"Nice try. Here's how this goes down; DisneyLand is about an hour away, by a certain route. The highway is more equivalent to 6-10 hours. Hardly anybody knows of the back route, or, in layman's terms, shortcut. There is a more likely probability that when OZ questions us, they will believe we were at DisneyLand the whole time."

"Why would OZ question us? I mean, I get the part about the video images…"

"You, my friend, are a Gundam pilot. They already are searching for you in hopes to extract information from you, finding you guilty of treason and war crimes, and using you to test other mobile suits."

"How could they find me? They haven't had an OZ officer or spy on me in months."

"Don't be too sure of yourself."

"Why? Do you know something about OZ that I don't? I don't think so."

"Your cockiness will end up killing you."

"But it's true!"

Flame glanced at him with a dubious face. "Whatever Duo. Live in your fantasy world if you wish to be killed."

"Why would I be killed? I am the God of Death, after all."

"Don't be so ignorant!" Flame scoffed.

"Will you just tell me? Then I may be able to grasp the whole picture here!" Duo answered irritably.

Flame exhaled loudly and looked back at the road. Spotting a small cave- like entrance, she swerved towards the rock. Ignoring Duo's cries that she was going to end up killing both of them, she deftly maneuvered through the tunnel. "To answer your request, I-"

"Which request? The one to live or the one to explain?"

"The reason that I know so much more of an OZ official, er… officer, following you around, is that I…"

"Oh… so you're an OZ soldier. Right."

"Not really."

"What? What do you mean?!"

"I'm… an OZ official- officer."

Flame heard a sharp intake of breath and turned to glance at Duo. He was blinking rapidly, mouth open in disbelieving horror, and he was clutching his chest. The sight was unsettling yet… amusing, to say the least. A small smile reached her lips and a glimmer entered her eyes.

"What are you smiling at?" he asked, sitting back against the chair unhappily.

"I'm sorry. It's just that…"

"Scaring me amuses you."

"Well… yes."

"Gee, that's wonderful to hear." He replied dryly.

"Glad you have some humor left in you."

"What are you going to do to me? And why aren't you taking me to OZ if you've been spying on me? Oh, you have orders to kill me don't you? Great."

"Of course not. Why on Earth would I want to kill you? That would defeat my entire purpose."

"Then why are you spying on me and not killing me? Are you going to take me to them?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"Well, I'm sort of, how do you say, defying OZ orders and…um… rebelling against OZ."

"What?"

Flame sighed. "Look, I'll explain this all to you later. But now, I have a few laws to break, ok?"

Duo blinked, confusion written across his face. "Uh, ok. Wait a minute, what laws are you going to --- AI!!!!" he yelled, forced back into his seat by the sudden and rapid acceleration Flame made.

Flame grinned evilly, skillfully maneuvering through the "shortcut" tunnel. If there were no other cars, no cops, and no patrols, then she could get them into DisneyLand by 9:05…

Other than a few road-kill run-overs, red light runs, stop sign runs and, of course, speeding accelerations, the trip was overly uneventful and dull. But, true to her word, Flame was at DisneyLand by 9:05… They arrived in the park at 9:03.59 to be exact…

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Whee! I updated/ edited this chappie! Ha! Much satsifaction in editing and adding more things that affect and add a more comprehensive approach to the plot. Yes, I used a quote from the show. Find out if you know which one it is!

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Kudos.