7


In a brilliant spark of dazzling white light the six gundams and the people inside, now adding up to ten all
together, flew threw the sky only to find something that made the everyone ecstatic… well, almost
everyone that is…

"All right!!!! A beach party!!!" screamed Akiko as she automatically lost all of her clothes revealing the black
and red bikini underneath.

"Hey, Akiko, we don't know where we are, but, from the looks of it, we still ain't home." He said, eyeballing
her instead of the surroundings.

"Yeah! But people, and a beach! Ahh..." she sighed and leaned back, using Milliardo as a backrest. "Finally
I can get some rest, doesn't look like anything to be afraid of here, now, its fun."

"Oh goody. Look, it's a beach party with lots of people. Great!" Amy muttered sarcastically. "Skin cancer
anyone?" she added going into a totally preppy mode, then going back to her slumped position without a
smile on her.

"Onna! You drive me crazy, keep the moving to a minimum in the cockpit!" WuFei tried to hide his
excitement by yelling at her, but it didn't work, he was ready to see some chics in bikinis.

"Yes master."
* * *

"Ohh, what's this? A beach party? Score!" Sarah said as she brought out a brush from what seemed like
thin air, brushed her hair and then started to put sunscreen on what you could see of her body.

"What are you doing?" Heero asked.

"What does it look like, I'm getting geared up for some much needed rest and laying out. I need a tan, look
at this white skin!" she held up her arm to show him her pail skin. "I've been training so much that I haven't
really done anything fun. Train, train, train, train, train! All the time, I'm just glad a got the body to lay out in
my bikini." Heero rolled his eyes, but looked at her figure and imagined that scantily clad and he smiled to
himself.

The monitor came up at this instant and it was Akiko. "Hey Sarah, you got any sunscreen on ya? I'm out."

She held up the full bottle and smiled. "Sure do, I always come prepared. And by the way… how did you
get dressed? I mean, he is right there!" she gestured to Milliardo.

"Oh do you really think I got undressed in here? Such a small space, and well, he's here to." She laughed.
"No, like you, I come prepared." She held up her empty bottle of sunscreen for Sarah to see. "But, I ran
out, the suit was on under my clothes. Too bad about no lawn chairs or blankets or anything, I'm sure we
can find some or buy a few." She held up some cash and winked.

Just then monitor screen split and another face appeared, this time it was Heather. "Umm, hello y'all. Ok,
well that answers my question I guess. " She said after she saw Akiko. "I was gonna ask if yall were going
to the beach too, but that seems kind of stupid now doesn't it? Oh well, I shall leave yall be, Quatre is
looking for a space to park, I mean land he gundam at. Man! I just cannot get used to saying the right thing
when it comes to these gundams!" she started to laugh and the other girls laughed with her. "Ok, well I'm
gonna get off and leave yall be, I want to keep talking with Quatre."

"Ok then. Ja ne Heather!" Akiko and Sarah chimed in together. After she left, Akiko thanked Sarah kindly for
the sunscreen and left her and Heero alone.

"Oh good, she does have some, Milliardo…"

"Huh?" he said dumbfoundedly

"Well, she has sunscreen, but I won't be able to put it on my back, could you do it for me? I'm not asking
this as a sexual favor, but just as a general favor. I'd ask another one of the girls, but personally, I don't
think they would want to." She smiled sweetly at him, trying desperately to get her way.

"Sure, ok then, if that's all I have to do." She nodded in approvement

Meanwhile Duo was having a blast already, he opened up communications to the outside and instead of
hearing a bunch of noise, he heard wonderful music and saw some real babes out there. Of course the only
girl that stood out from the crowd was a red head. She was the only red head in a crowd of blondes and
brunettes. That was what drew his attention as he kept telling himself that he would find her, I mean, she
shouldn't be that hard to spot, should she?

Trowa was the first person to spot the nearly empty stretch of grasslands. So, they took up most, if not all
of that space and landed there. It was the ideal spot for landing. It had no trees, and it was close to the
beach, so the girls wouldn't have to walk across the hot, white sand for a very long distance. Sarah
refrained from using her power of flight for fear that would cause panic among the people here. She looked
around and immediately loved the song playing. When they got to the main part of the beach, they found
out that the band on stage at the moment was Petty Booka and they were doing their cover of "Itsy Bitsy
Teeny Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini".

Duo automatically set out to look for the red head he saw from above. He liked original girls who did not fall
into a category, so, this girl was his kind of girl. He set off to search for her, whatever her name was. He is
just calling her "beautiful"

As the girls went off to buy a large blanket for them to lay on, the guys sat in the sand and started talking.

"Man, look at all these women!" Duo said happily, even though he wanted to find Beautiful.

"I know what you mean, but…" Milliardo paused, staring strait ahead of him. "Look at our three girls, they
sure do look good in that, don't they?" he slowly turned his head until his ear was near his shoulder. The
other guys sat in a row, doing the same thing and smiling.

"Hey guys, I'm gonna go scope out the other chics around here, k?" duo stood up and started to leave.

"Ok, but hey! You have to be back soon, and watch the sky, don't go off with a hot chic and forget us."
Heero said.

"Oh guys, don't worry, its me!" he smiled and turned around, leaving the other guys worried. "Now where
are you Beautiful?" he whispered quietly, looking for a simple strand of red hair in the distance. Duo walked
around in a dazed state, dodging people here and there, bumping into a few of the dancing people. He
looked a little out of place in his black priest-like outfit. A little hot too, you could tell as he took off his shirt
and started sweating a bit. By this point, as he hung his shirt around his neck, women started to look at
him, and linger around him a bit. They stared at his toned upper body that was lightly sweating. He noticed
this, he noticed that he could now have just about any girl on this beach that he wanted, but instead he
searched for his Beautiful.

"Where could she be?" duo whispered under his breath to no one but the wind, carrying his voice out to
sea. He stood on the shore and dug his toes into the breaking water. He put his hands in his pockets and
sighed in defeat, he had been looking for what was it, two or three hours? He looked at the water, hoping
to see that red hair again, he didn't.
* * *

"Hey handsome." Someone said behind him, bringing Duo out of his thoughts and back to reality. "Hey,
what's your name?" the voice asked.

Duo turned around to find a tall, leggy, busty brunette in his view. "Hi." He said sweetly. "My name is Duo
Maxwell, and you are?" he added.

"Oh, Duo, that's a nice name. Oh, my name is Elspeth, only people call me Tenshi. It's a nick name." She
smiled rather alluringly at him and stuck out her hand.

Duo shook her hand and then kissed it gently. "Hello Tenshi. How are you today?" Well, if I can't find
Beautiful, she'll do. He thought.

"Duo?" she asked. "Or, what should I call you? Do you have a nick name or not?"

"No, I'm just Duo. Plain and simple." He had no intention about telling her about Shinigami.

"Ok, so, how are you?" she asked, trying strike up a conversation.

"Oh, I'm loving it here. The beach feels so good under your feet as you walk along, the music is great, and
there are lots of people here." he listened to the song which was now playing. It was Evolution by Ayumi
Hamasaki.

"Oh yeah, I love her! She's got an awesome voice and her songs are so great." Tenshi added
enthusiastically. Duo and Tenshi started to walk around together, talking and smiling and being happy, but
still Duo searched, almost unconsciously, for his Beautiful.

After a while, they headed toward the middle of the beach where all the dancing was going on. They danced
to Ayumi's last song before the other band came on. They laughed and enjoyed each other's company.
After their dance they leaned up against each other for support because their legs felt like rubber.

"Hey, you dance pretty good to this kind of music." Tenshi said while breathing heavily.

"I basically just followed you." He managed to get out of him between breaths. They sat on the sand, still
using each other as support, back to back they sat, leaning on each other. "So, who is the next band
coming on?"

"I think it's GLAY, I don't know though. Not to sure." Tenshi gasped for breath and wiped sweat from her
head.

"GLAY? Cool!" he said, trying to sound like he knew who they were.

"Yeah man! I love them!" she managed to say excitedly. "My favorite of them is…" Duo lost his conscience
as he suddenly saw his Beautiful.

"There she is…" he whispered in quiet awe. He stared at the red hair that seemed as if it was just floating
behind her as she made her way through the hot crowd. A roar of the crowd and screaming girls made
there way up to the stage as the opening lines of "Survival" was played.

"Kowadaka ni jidai wa survival dato commentator…" sang Teru. The crowd went wild for his voice and Tenshi grabbed Duo's
hand and tried to pull him toward the group. Only, he wasn't there anymore. She looked around for the Braided Boy, but he was
no where to be found.

"Oh well, there is always Takuro." She said as she made her way toward the popular band singing the song with Teru like
mindless drone.
* * *

Still following the lock of red hair that sometimes went out of site, Duo could only hope that she would not think of him as a
stalker. Not be frightened away from him, and certainly not hit him. He hadn't heard the song fully, but he figured it suited this
state of mind he was in. it was like warfare to him. He was silently stalking Beautiful like she was an enemy, in which she was. She
had invaded his heart and took over completely.

The song ended and after all the screaming, yelling, applauding and even a flying bathing suit top or two,
they started another one. This one was slow, "Will Be King" started up and the crowd got quiet. The
melodic music with Teru's angelic voice had calmed them down enough to hear this soft song. He looked
back at the abnormal silence and saw the crowd swaying to the music.

The song had ended signaling the crowd to come out of their trance like state and yell and scream some
more.

"This song is dedicated to Nirvana, Kurt-sama, we miss you." he looked above at the clear blue sky. "About
a Girl" was played and Teru, with some slight English problems, began singing it.

"Hey! I know this song!" Duo shouted. "But, it's so old, it's like… a classic." He dropped his voice down to
a whisper so people wouldn't suspect anything. The people in the crowd who can speak English were
singing along, others were just dancing to it and yelling things like "Teru forever! Takuro is the best! Hisa is
hot! Jiro, look at me!" among other such things.

He had lost site of his red beacon. Sadly, duo turned away in defeat. He let his head drop in shame. When
he turned around there it was, out of the corner of his eye. Red hair! She was so close he could feel it, and
in fact, he did. The wind blew and it made her hair fly, his face was engulfed in the silky hair.

"Oh my gosh! I am so sorry!" she apologized and her face turned red with embarrassment. She took the
flame printed hair tie from her wrist and tied back her hair.

"No, no it's ok." Duo said, kind of out of breath. He ad found her and now he was speechless.

"Kiss kara hajimaru yoru wa atsuku because I love you!" she sang and danced, clapping with the beat that Toshi provided.

Desperate to spark up a conversation, Duo asked, "so, what is this song called?"

"Yuuwaku! It's one of my favorites. Have you been here long?" she asked.

"Huh? How do you know I'm not from here?"

"It's obvious. You apparently don't know who this band is and you look American, in fact, I would swear you were if you didn't
speak perfect Japanese."

"Well, you're right, my name is Duo, what about you?"

"Lisa, hi Duo, how are you?"

"I'm fine. Hmm, sounds like a new song, what is this one called?"

"Oh, this is 'Rain'. Very good song. It is the first song that these guys have ever played. Yeah! Takuro wrote it with Yoshiki." Duo
got a blank look on his face.

"Who?"

"Yoshiki! X-Japan leader!" another blank look crossed Duo's face. "You know…. hide… Toshi… Yoshiki… Pata…Heath…
anything coming to you?" duo shook his head like a little child who had been punished for some unknown reason. "really?! Well,
you aren't from around here then, I thought that even Americans knew about them! where are you from?"

"You can't tell anyone, but I come from the future.

"Yeah right, and I'm Utada Hikaru, I just died my hair red to be inconspicuous." Lisa said sarcastically. Again, the same blank
stare. "Aah! Your hopeless!" she shouted. "I give up!"

"I need to tell you somethin, but not here." he grabbed her hand and started to lead her away from the crowd that was now
dancing to "Groovy Tour". She pulled back though. "You don't want to come with me? It's just something I need to tell you." a
frightened look appeared on her innocent face. "Oh! You think that I'm gonna hurt you or somethin? Right?"

She shook her head yes.

"But I'm not, in fact, well, I can go find one of the girls that we brought with us here if you want me too."

"Wait wait wait, we?"

"Yeah, we. Trowa, Milliardo, Heero, Quatre and WuFei. So far we each have a chic with us, Milliardo has Akiko, WuFei has Amy,
Quatre has Heather, Heero has Sarah. I was lookin forward to having you accompany us, but if you don't even trust me, then I
guess you can't." the disappointment was obvious.

"Well, if I can pick the place we go to talk then."

"No problem! Just lead the way!" the happiness was back in his eyes. Lisa smiled and led him over near
where the gundams were.

He told her everything, even what he thought when he first saw her from above. Lisa was astonished.

"So, where are these gundams?"

"Right there, look up, don't you see them?"

"Wow." She whispered when she saw the immense figures towering above the trees. "It's a wonder no one
else has seen these."

"Oh, I'm sure they have, but paid no mind to them. So, you want to go meet the others, or would you like to
check out Deathscythe Hell?"

"Is that some sort of pick up?"

"What?!" a large sweat drop appeared on his head. "no! no! Deathscythe Hell is the name of my gundam,
that's all! Really!" a number of large sweat drops appeared on his head.

"Ok, if you say so, lead the way."
* * *

"This is good 'ole Deathscythe Hell." He leaned up against the left shoe of his buddy and looked up at the
sky, caught a glimpse of the discoloration in it and freaked out.

"Oh my gosh! There it is!" he yelled looking up at the portal.

Lisa looked up and saw it too, then she looked straight ahead and saw people running.

"Duo! Lets go!" Trowa yelled as he ran to his gundam.

"Get your ass in the cockpit Maxwell!" WuFei yelled as he lowered the rope down to let him and Amy in.

"Let's go Lisa, are you comin with me, or will you stay here?" Duo asked, he really didn't want to mention
leaving her if she didn't come, he didn't even want to think about it, but he had to give her that choice.

She stepped up to him, took his hand and he pulled her onto the lift with him. Oh, I love this. She's so
beautiful and she is holding on to me, oh, I love this he thought.

"Ok, let' go." Lisa said as the lift brought them up to the cockpit. Moments later, she was seated in his lap,
looking at the nearing warp. She didn't scream, but the energy rushed through her veins and she held her
breath when they went through.