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up with this idea. I make no profit everything's just for Fun! Remember
this takes place after Endless Waltz, but it's AU only in the fact they
still own their Gundams.
And Then There were Six. By: Msmelanie
Chapter Eight: Things Aren't Always What They Seem.
Duo just whistled. "That's bad, Heero. Any change?"
Heero looked suspiciously around the room again.
"Guess not." Quatre replied.
Back to the girls...
"I knew this would happen." Relena began. "I told Heero to stay away, but he didn't listen."
Dorothy looked at Relena. "How are things going now, Miss Relena?"
Relena sighed. "Father's always been difficult. Mother told him last night though if he kills Heero, he had to explain to the baby why 'grandpa shot daddy'."
Hilde just laughed.
"It doesn't matter what anyone says, he'll still torture Heero." Relena sighed.
"I don't understand." Hilde asked. "Why? If he knows it's not Heero's fault, why?"
"Simple." Relena sighed again. "He's a boy and he's my age. That in father's eyes makes him dangerous."
"That's it? He's a boy that's your age?" Dorothy asked in disbelief.
Relena frowned. "Before father fell into a coma, only one boy was allowed within 50 feet of me, and only because he was 'pre-approved' by my father himself."
"Ouch." Hilde replied. "So basically your father is torturing Heero just because he's there?"
Relena nodded. "Mother has always given me independence, but father..."
"Gives you a life of imprisonment." Dorothy finished.
Relena sighed yet again.
"I wonder if Heero's just going to kidnap you soon!" Hilde laughed.
Relena didn't reply.
Back to the guys...
"So Quatre? Have you thought of anything yet?" Duo asked.
Quatre shook his head no. "How about you two?"
Heero and Duo both shook their heads no.
"Man, if only we could invent something like Old Geezer B Gone we would have no problems." Duo replied as he started to slouch on the couch seat. "Hey, did you have any luck locating them, Heero?"
Heero growled. "No."
"Whoah, Heero. I was just asking. You don't need to growl." Duo replied. "By the way, where is your laptop? Don't you always have it in a vicinity of fifty feet or less?" Duo looked toward the floor underneath Heero's chair. "That's it sticking out, isn't it?"
Heero portrayed a sad look for a moment before he plastered his emotionless mask on. He picked it up and lied it on the tea table. It's top was covered in stickers that said things like PRINCESS, 100% ANGEL and even DADDY'S GIRL.
Duo scratched his head. "Mr. Dorlain?"
Heero just growled.
Duo tried to open it up.
"Ugh!" Duo shouted in disgust. "There's chewing gum all over the home keys!"
Quatre sighed. "Your laptop's no good anymore, is it?"
Heero just ignored the statement.
"Well, I haven't found anything either." Quatre said trying to change the delicate subject.
"Well, I'm not exactly sure what we can do." Duo replied eyeing Heero's laptop. "Heero, your computer's starting to emit sparks."
Heero tried to shut the laptop and shoved it back underneath his chair.
"..."
"Uuhh...yeah, okay." Duo replied as he watched Heero. "Do you think we could talk them out of taking them?"
"Not...not very likely Duo." Quatre replied.
"Okay, well..." Duo scratched his head. "Maybe we can attract them to a certain spot and set a trap for them the same way they did for us."
Quatre was quiet for a second. "You know, that's not half-ad Duo. But how, it can't be too obvious."
"You mean like getting the girls together, hanging a sign that says 'Free for the Taking!' on them and walking away?" Duo asked.
Quatre laughed. "Yeah, Duo. It needs to be simple, yet not completely obvious."
"Getting the girls together?" they suddenly heard from behind them. "Free for the taking, but don't be completely obvious?!"
Duo and Quatre turned around, but Heero didn't have to. He knew who was currently growling at them.
"It's not the way you heard it sir." Quatre replied. "It's just that we were..."
"We plan on setting a trap for the scientists." Heero replied as he stood up and met the glaring eyes of Mr. Dorlain with his own.
Mr. Dorlain just growled at Heero, while Heero started growling back.
Quatre stepped between them. "Mr. Dorlain? I'm sorry I haven't introduced myself yet. I'm Quatre Raberba Winner." he said extending his hand.
Mr. Dorlain looked at Quatre suspiciously as he shook his hand.
Quatre just tried to smile back. "That fellow over there is Duo Maxwell."
Duo gave a light nod.
Quatre looked at Duo. "Duo? Perhaps you should come and shake Mr. Dorlain's hand?"
"Uuuhh...that's alright, Quat. I'm fine right here, thanks." Duo replied.
Mr. Dorlain still gazed at Quatre suspiciously. Quatre tried to continue to smile. "Sir, may I say you have a lovely home."
Mr. Dorlain didn't flinch.
Quatre just smiled back at Mr. Dorlain, but a drop of sweat was beginning to form over his left brow. 'Come on. Okay, please stop looking at me like I'm a criminal. Come on, Duo. Come on, Heero. Somebody please make him stop staring at me! Anybody?!' Then he noticed Heero trying to creep back up the stairs slowly. "Heero, why are you going back upstairs? Do you have urgent business?"
Heero just growled back at Quatre.
"Yes, why are you slithering back up the stairs Mr. Yuy?" Mr. Dorlain asked in a definite tone of unfriendliness.
Heero and Mr. Dorlian just glared at each other.
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To the girls...
"Ummm...knock knock ladies?" Mrs. Dorlain interrupted the talking women. "Relena, I believe your father and Heero have bumped heads again."
Relena bit her lip.
"Oh, this I gotta see!" Hilde said as she followed Dorothy towards the living room.
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Back to the guys...
"Heero and Mr. Dorlain. One with intentions of protecting his daughter and the other trying to stay out of complete humiliation. Who will survive the deadly glare game?" Duo whispered in a dark and deadly tone between himself and Quatre. "Heero slowly creeps down the steps while Dorlain is moving to the right. Both are displaying the behavior of a savage animal, each determined not to give into the other."
Quatre frowned at Duo. "Duo, please stop that!" he harshly whispered. "Stop telling me what's going on like it's a Tales From the Crypt scene!"
Duo just put his hands behind his head. "You ruin all the fun." he whined back softly.
Just then the women entered the room with Relena in front. She gracefully bowed her head to Mr. Dorlain. "Excuse me, father. I would like to introduce you to my new friends."
Mr. Dorlain turned around and his demeanor suddenly lifted. He smiled at her with bright eyes and laughed. "New friends Relena? My, that's wonderful." He walked toward the ladies.
Relena smiled. "This is Ms. Hilde Schbeiker." She gestured toward Hilde.
"How do you do my dear?" Mr. Dorlain said bowing down towards her.
Hilde smiled. "Great."
"This is also Ms. Dorothy Catalonia." Relena said as she gestured toward Dorothy.
"Hello." Mr. Dorlain smiled.
Dorothy smiled back. "It's a pleasure."
Duo and Quatre just stood there. Stunned.
"I don't get it." Duo said to Quatre scratching his head. "How could he be so cruel to you, but so delightful to those girls?"
"I don't know..." Quatre replied as Duo watched Mr. Dorlain make pleasant conversation with the girls. "...but Heero's heading up the stairs again."
Duo looked at Quatre, then toward the stairs. "Sure is. Should we follow him?"
"I'm not sure." Quatre replied. "Maybe we should." he said as he started walking toward the stairs.
"Okay, but if he gets mad, I'm blaming you." Duo said following Quatre's lead.
They went up the stairs and saw him sitting at the top. "Heero, why'd you come upstairs?" Quatre asked stopping about four stairs away from Heero.
Heero looked at them. "We should use a low-class location where there is constant motion."
Duo sat down next to Heero. "Low-class location? What, to get away from your future dad?"
Heero glared at him.
"The ladies, Duo." Quatre explained.
"Oh." replied Duo. "Oh, you mean like a fast food place or somethin'?"
Heero nodded his head yes.
"Fast moving atmosphere with low security." Quatre thought out loud. "That makes sense. It'd be a great place to talk, but there wouldn't be a way to trap us inside. That's perfect." Quatre smiled.
"Yeah, but how are we going to let the scientists know we're there?" Duo asked.
Quatre smiled. "Heero can take care of that Duo. Heero, you know what to do, right?"
Heero just glanced at him signifying a yes.
Duo pounded his fist into the inside of his palm in excitement. "Alright, this time we'll nail the scientists! So...where we gonna eat at? I mean-uhh- where are we gonna set the trap? Pizza Hut?"
"No." Heero said. "Bad seating."
"Well, we could order out." Duo replied.
"..."
"Duo, what were we talking about?" Quatre said trying to jog Duo's memory.
"Uhh...yeah, nevermind." Duo replied sheepishly.
"I think Burger King's the best choice." Quatre replied. "They could eat comfortably behind the bar."
"Good choice." Duo agreed. "So, who's gonna inform Wufei and Trowa?"
Suddenly, the guys started to hear a thundering sound coming up the stairs. They saw Relena's father stop two steps down from where Quatre stood. "What are the three of you discussing so mysteriously at the top of my stairs?" he asked staring down at them suspiciously.
"Uhhh...how uhh..." Duo began. "How Heero should be less insensitive to the needs of a father-in-law?"
Quatre hit his head.
Mr. Dorlain growled his dissaproval at the comment right before Mrs. Dorlain came up the stairs. "Honey, please settle down. They're good men and I trust them. Now, come downstairs. I've just finished making tea." Mrs. Dorlain slowly dragged her husband back down the stairs.
"Wow, that was lucky." Duo replied as he watched the event take place. He looked back at Heero and smiled. "Mrs. Dorlain's like your knight in shining armor, isn't she?"
Heero glared at Duo. "Go home." he replied walking the rest of the way up the stairs. "I'll take care of everything, just get the women at the location by 5:00 P.M."
Duo looked back at Quatre. "Was it something I said?"
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Later on that same day...
Everyone meets at Burger King at 5:00 p.m. As they came through the door they recieved strange expressions from the staff and customers.
'What's their problem?' Duo thought to himself.
"Hello and welcome to Burger King. May I take your order?" the girl behind the register asked sweetly.
Heero felt around his pant pocket and took a piece of paper out that was marked in scribbles. He held it up to his face and tried to read it. "..."
"Sir?" the lady prompted. "Your order please, sir?"
"...three..." Heero looked at the chicken scratch. "Thirty one?"
Duo hit his forehead. "Man, why'd you guys insist Heero be the one to order? I doubt he's ever ordered here in a day in his life." Duo walked up to Heero and read the piece of paper. "We need three number one's, four number two's, three number three's, four large fries, and six large Dr. Peppers."
The lady quickly took his order, told him the total and gave him a waiting number.
"See, was that so hard?" Duo asked as he led the way to the bar stools. Heero just glared back at him.
After everyone had sat down for a few minutes, Heero's laptop started to beep.
Duo looked at Heero. "You already fixed that thing?"
Everyone just glared at Duo.
"So, Heero? Is it important?" Quatre asked.
Heero shook his head yes. "Trowa. Quatre. Emergency."
"-but Heero, we need to figure out a way to trap the scientists. Is this really that important?" Quatre asked impatiently.
Heero glanced at Quatre. "Yes. We must leave immediately. Duo. Wufei. Stay here, we'll be back."
Heero, Quatre, and Trowa all went out the door.
Ten minutes later...
"Maxwell, shutup!!" Wufei yelled. All the customers started to stare. "That's it! I can't take your endless nonsense anymore! Mae Linh, we are leaving!!"
"I want to stay!" Mae Linh shouted back at Wufei. "I don't want to go through another two hour flight so fast!!"
"Fine onna! Maxwell, watch Mae Linh!" Wufei shouted as he went out the door.
"Hey, no fair dumping everyone on me!" Duo shouted after Wufei.
Twenty minutes later...
"-so then I said- Duo!" Hilde shouted in mid conversation. "Are you listening to me?!"
"Uuuhhh...what?" Duo asked not even turning around to face her. he had been preoccupied with the lovely assortment of ladies that had walked in only five minutes ago.
Outside secretly hidden away...
"Okay, Heero, I, and Trowa are off on an emergency, Wufei took off to get away from Duo, and Duo's preoccupied with the other young ladies. The moment is right, the scientists must strike soon." Quatre explained to the group.
"Do you really think they'll show upWinner?" Wufei asked.
"Why wouldn't they?" Quatre commented. "Heero left a trail well enough to be followed without being suspicious. This has to work."
The guys wait patiently outside... Another hour rolls by...then another...then another..
Quatre yawned. "Okay, this isn't working."
Wufei gritted his teeth. "I knew it wouldn't work. It was too simple."
Everyone watched as Duo and the women all started exiting the place while an employee put up the closed sign in the door.
Quatre and the others walked over to them.
"Not a single trace." Duo replied. "They didn't try anything."
Quatre sighed. "I don't get it. It was a great plan, why didn't it work?"
"Whatever." Duo sighed shrugging it off. "Well, at least we had a little fun, right Hilde?"
Hilde didn't reply.
Duo looked at Hilde. "Hey Hil, what's wrong?"
Hilde still didn't reply.
The other guys looked at their girls and noticed something was wrong. The girls weren't talking back.
"Hilde, what's wrong?" Duo asked concerned. "Is it the baby?" He asked as he felt her stomach. "..."
"What? What is it Duo?" Quatre asked concerned.
Suddenly, Duo frowned with seriousness that none of the pilots had ever witnessed from him before. He grabbed Hilde and lifted her shirt.
"Duo, what are you doing?!!" Quatre shouted until he saw what Duo knew...
Heero grabbed Relena. "You're wearing something that made you look pregnant?!"
Relena smiled.
Heero reached in back of her head and felt something peculiar. He ripped the mask off.
Standing before him was a young woman with black hair and brown eyes. "Hello." she replied smiling back.
Heero dropped the mask...
Then, all the women simultaneously took off their masks.
"What's going on?!" Duo shouted.
"What? Don't you know? Quick 200 bucks to put on these disguises."The imposter Catherine answered.
"What?!" Wufei shouted. "How?! When?!!"
"Whenever they went to the bathroom, duh!" the imposter Dorothy answered. "Didn't ya know?! You're supposed to pay the other half!"
"..."
"Oh, so we're not gonna get paid?" the imposter Hilde asked. "How unfair!"
Duo gritted his teeth. "Where's Hilde?"
"How should we know?" the imposter Mae Linh replied. "We were just paid to act like them!"
The guys looked warily at the women. Then they looked hopelessly at the ground.
No one dared to speak...
And Then There were Six. By: Msmelanie
Chapter Eight: Things Aren't Always What They Seem.
Duo just whistled. "That's bad, Heero. Any change?"
Heero looked suspiciously around the room again.
"Guess not." Quatre replied.
Back to the girls...
"I knew this would happen." Relena began. "I told Heero to stay away, but he didn't listen."
Dorothy looked at Relena. "How are things going now, Miss Relena?"
Relena sighed. "Father's always been difficult. Mother told him last night though if he kills Heero, he had to explain to the baby why 'grandpa shot daddy'."
Hilde just laughed.
"It doesn't matter what anyone says, he'll still torture Heero." Relena sighed.
"I don't understand." Hilde asked. "Why? If he knows it's not Heero's fault, why?"
"Simple." Relena sighed again. "He's a boy and he's my age. That in father's eyes makes him dangerous."
"That's it? He's a boy that's your age?" Dorothy asked in disbelief.
Relena frowned. "Before father fell into a coma, only one boy was allowed within 50 feet of me, and only because he was 'pre-approved' by my father himself."
"Ouch." Hilde replied. "So basically your father is torturing Heero just because he's there?"
Relena nodded. "Mother has always given me independence, but father..."
"Gives you a life of imprisonment." Dorothy finished.
Relena sighed yet again.
"I wonder if Heero's just going to kidnap you soon!" Hilde laughed.
Relena didn't reply.
Back to the guys...
"So Quatre? Have you thought of anything yet?" Duo asked.
Quatre shook his head no. "How about you two?"
Heero and Duo both shook their heads no.
"Man, if only we could invent something like Old Geezer B Gone we would have no problems." Duo replied as he started to slouch on the couch seat. "Hey, did you have any luck locating them, Heero?"
Heero growled. "No."
"Whoah, Heero. I was just asking. You don't need to growl." Duo replied. "By the way, where is your laptop? Don't you always have it in a vicinity of fifty feet or less?" Duo looked toward the floor underneath Heero's chair. "That's it sticking out, isn't it?"
Heero portrayed a sad look for a moment before he plastered his emotionless mask on. He picked it up and lied it on the tea table. It's top was covered in stickers that said things like PRINCESS, 100% ANGEL and even DADDY'S GIRL.
Duo scratched his head. "Mr. Dorlain?"
Heero just growled.
Duo tried to open it up.
"Ugh!" Duo shouted in disgust. "There's chewing gum all over the home keys!"
Quatre sighed. "Your laptop's no good anymore, is it?"
Heero just ignored the statement.
"Well, I haven't found anything either." Quatre said trying to change the delicate subject.
"Well, I'm not exactly sure what we can do." Duo replied eyeing Heero's laptop. "Heero, your computer's starting to emit sparks."
Heero tried to shut the laptop and shoved it back underneath his chair.
"..."
"Uuhh...yeah, okay." Duo replied as he watched Heero. "Do you think we could talk them out of taking them?"
"Not...not very likely Duo." Quatre replied.
"Okay, well..." Duo scratched his head. "Maybe we can attract them to a certain spot and set a trap for them the same way they did for us."
Quatre was quiet for a second. "You know, that's not half-ad Duo. But how, it can't be too obvious."
"You mean like getting the girls together, hanging a sign that says 'Free for the Taking!' on them and walking away?" Duo asked.
Quatre laughed. "Yeah, Duo. It needs to be simple, yet not completely obvious."
"Getting the girls together?" they suddenly heard from behind them. "Free for the taking, but don't be completely obvious?!"
Duo and Quatre turned around, but Heero didn't have to. He knew who was currently growling at them.
"It's not the way you heard it sir." Quatre replied. "It's just that we were..."
"We plan on setting a trap for the scientists." Heero replied as he stood up and met the glaring eyes of Mr. Dorlain with his own.
Mr. Dorlain just growled at Heero, while Heero started growling back.
Quatre stepped between them. "Mr. Dorlain? I'm sorry I haven't introduced myself yet. I'm Quatre Raberba Winner." he said extending his hand.
Mr. Dorlain looked at Quatre suspiciously as he shook his hand.
Quatre just tried to smile back. "That fellow over there is Duo Maxwell."
Duo gave a light nod.
Quatre looked at Duo. "Duo? Perhaps you should come and shake Mr. Dorlain's hand?"
"Uuuhh...that's alright, Quat. I'm fine right here, thanks." Duo replied.
Mr. Dorlain still gazed at Quatre suspiciously. Quatre tried to continue to smile. "Sir, may I say you have a lovely home."
Mr. Dorlain didn't flinch.
Quatre just smiled back at Mr. Dorlain, but a drop of sweat was beginning to form over his left brow. 'Come on. Okay, please stop looking at me like I'm a criminal. Come on, Duo. Come on, Heero. Somebody please make him stop staring at me! Anybody?!' Then he noticed Heero trying to creep back up the stairs slowly. "Heero, why are you going back upstairs? Do you have urgent business?"
Heero just growled back at Quatre.
"Yes, why are you slithering back up the stairs Mr. Yuy?" Mr. Dorlain asked in a definite tone of unfriendliness.
Heero and Mr. Dorlian just glared at each other.
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To the girls...
"Ummm...knock knock ladies?" Mrs. Dorlain interrupted the talking women. "Relena, I believe your father and Heero have bumped heads again."
Relena bit her lip.
"Oh, this I gotta see!" Hilde said as she followed Dorothy towards the living room.
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Back to the guys...
"Heero and Mr. Dorlain. One with intentions of protecting his daughter and the other trying to stay out of complete humiliation. Who will survive the deadly glare game?" Duo whispered in a dark and deadly tone between himself and Quatre. "Heero slowly creeps down the steps while Dorlain is moving to the right. Both are displaying the behavior of a savage animal, each determined not to give into the other."
Quatre frowned at Duo. "Duo, please stop that!" he harshly whispered. "Stop telling me what's going on like it's a Tales From the Crypt scene!"
Duo just put his hands behind his head. "You ruin all the fun." he whined back softly.
Just then the women entered the room with Relena in front. She gracefully bowed her head to Mr. Dorlain. "Excuse me, father. I would like to introduce you to my new friends."
Mr. Dorlain turned around and his demeanor suddenly lifted. He smiled at her with bright eyes and laughed. "New friends Relena? My, that's wonderful." He walked toward the ladies.
Relena smiled. "This is Ms. Hilde Schbeiker." She gestured toward Hilde.
"How do you do my dear?" Mr. Dorlain said bowing down towards her.
Hilde smiled. "Great."
"This is also Ms. Dorothy Catalonia." Relena said as she gestured toward Dorothy.
"Hello." Mr. Dorlain smiled.
Dorothy smiled back. "It's a pleasure."
Duo and Quatre just stood there. Stunned.
"I don't get it." Duo said to Quatre scratching his head. "How could he be so cruel to you, but so delightful to those girls?"
"I don't know..." Quatre replied as Duo watched Mr. Dorlain make pleasant conversation with the girls. "...but Heero's heading up the stairs again."
Duo looked at Quatre, then toward the stairs. "Sure is. Should we follow him?"
"I'm not sure." Quatre replied. "Maybe we should." he said as he started walking toward the stairs.
"Okay, but if he gets mad, I'm blaming you." Duo said following Quatre's lead.
They went up the stairs and saw him sitting at the top. "Heero, why'd you come upstairs?" Quatre asked stopping about four stairs away from Heero.
Heero looked at them. "We should use a low-class location where there is constant motion."
Duo sat down next to Heero. "Low-class location? What, to get away from your future dad?"
Heero glared at him.
"The ladies, Duo." Quatre explained.
"Oh." replied Duo. "Oh, you mean like a fast food place or somethin'?"
Heero nodded his head yes.
"Fast moving atmosphere with low security." Quatre thought out loud. "That makes sense. It'd be a great place to talk, but there wouldn't be a way to trap us inside. That's perfect." Quatre smiled.
"Yeah, but how are we going to let the scientists know we're there?" Duo asked.
Quatre smiled. "Heero can take care of that Duo. Heero, you know what to do, right?"
Heero just glanced at him signifying a yes.
Duo pounded his fist into the inside of his palm in excitement. "Alright, this time we'll nail the scientists! So...where we gonna eat at? I mean-uhh- where are we gonna set the trap? Pizza Hut?"
"No." Heero said. "Bad seating."
"Well, we could order out." Duo replied.
"..."
"Duo, what were we talking about?" Quatre said trying to jog Duo's memory.
"Uhh...yeah, nevermind." Duo replied sheepishly.
"I think Burger King's the best choice." Quatre replied. "They could eat comfortably behind the bar."
"Good choice." Duo agreed. "So, who's gonna inform Wufei and Trowa?"
Suddenly, the guys started to hear a thundering sound coming up the stairs. They saw Relena's father stop two steps down from where Quatre stood. "What are the three of you discussing so mysteriously at the top of my stairs?" he asked staring down at them suspiciously.
"Uhhh...how uhh..." Duo began. "How Heero should be less insensitive to the needs of a father-in-law?"
Quatre hit his head.
Mr. Dorlain growled his dissaproval at the comment right before Mrs. Dorlain came up the stairs. "Honey, please settle down. They're good men and I trust them. Now, come downstairs. I've just finished making tea." Mrs. Dorlain slowly dragged her husband back down the stairs.
"Wow, that was lucky." Duo replied as he watched the event take place. He looked back at Heero and smiled. "Mrs. Dorlain's like your knight in shining armor, isn't she?"
Heero glared at Duo. "Go home." he replied walking the rest of the way up the stairs. "I'll take care of everything, just get the women at the location by 5:00 P.M."
Duo looked back at Quatre. "Was it something I said?"
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Later on that same day...
Everyone meets at Burger King at 5:00 p.m. As they came through the door they recieved strange expressions from the staff and customers.
'What's their problem?' Duo thought to himself.
"Hello and welcome to Burger King. May I take your order?" the girl behind the register asked sweetly.
Heero felt around his pant pocket and took a piece of paper out that was marked in scribbles. He held it up to his face and tried to read it. "..."
"Sir?" the lady prompted. "Your order please, sir?"
"...three..." Heero looked at the chicken scratch. "Thirty one?"
Duo hit his forehead. "Man, why'd you guys insist Heero be the one to order? I doubt he's ever ordered here in a day in his life." Duo walked up to Heero and read the piece of paper. "We need three number one's, four number two's, three number three's, four large fries, and six large Dr. Peppers."
The lady quickly took his order, told him the total and gave him a waiting number.
"See, was that so hard?" Duo asked as he led the way to the bar stools. Heero just glared back at him.
After everyone had sat down for a few minutes, Heero's laptop started to beep.
Duo looked at Heero. "You already fixed that thing?"
Everyone just glared at Duo.
"So, Heero? Is it important?" Quatre asked.
Heero shook his head yes. "Trowa. Quatre. Emergency."
"-but Heero, we need to figure out a way to trap the scientists. Is this really that important?" Quatre asked impatiently.
Heero glanced at Quatre. "Yes. We must leave immediately. Duo. Wufei. Stay here, we'll be back."
Heero, Quatre, and Trowa all went out the door.
Ten minutes later...
"Maxwell, shutup!!" Wufei yelled. All the customers started to stare. "That's it! I can't take your endless nonsense anymore! Mae Linh, we are leaving!!"
"I want to stay!" Mae Linh shouted back at Wufei. "I don't want to go through another two hour flight so fast!!"
"Fine onna! Maxwell, watch Mae Linh!" Wufei shouted as he went out the door.
"Hey, no fair dumping everyone on me!" Duo shouted after Wufei.
Twenty minutes later...
"-so then I said- Duo!" Hilde shouted in mid conversation. "Are you listening to me?!"
"Uuuhhh...what?" Duo asked not even turning around to face her. he had been preoccupied with the lovely assortment of ladies that had walked in only five minutes ago.
Outside secretly hidden away...
"Okay, Heero, I, and Trowa are off on an emergency, Wufei took off to get away from Duo, and Duo's preoccupied with the other young ladies. The moment is right, the scientists must strike soon." Quatre explained to the group.
"Do you really think they'll show upWinner?" Wufei asked.
"Why wouldn't they?" Quatre commented. "Heero left a trail well enough to be followed without being suspicious. This has to work."
The guys wait patiently outside... Another hour rolls by...then another...then another..
Quatre yawned. "Okay, this isn't working."
Wufei gritted his teeth. "I knew it wouldn't work. It was too simple."
Everyone watched as Duo and the women all started exiting the place while an employee put up the closed sign in the door.
Quatre and the others walked over to them.
"Not a single trace." Duo replied. "They didn't try anything."
Quatre sighed. "I don't get it. It was a great plan, why didn't it work?"
"Whatever." Duo sighed shrugging it off. "Well, at least we had a little fun, right Hilde?"
Hilde didn't reply.
Duo looked at Hilde. "Hey Hil, what's wrong?"
Hilde still didn't reply.
The other guys looked at their girls and noticed something was wrong. The girls weren't talking back.
"Hilde, what's wrong?" Duo asked concerned. "Is it the baby?" He asked as he felt her stomach. "..."
"What? What is it Duo?" Quatre asked concerned.
Suddenly, Duo frowned with seriousness that none of the pilots had ever witnessed from him before. He grabbed Hilde and lifted her shirt.
"Duo, what are you doing?!!" Quatre shouted until he saw what Duo knew...
Heero grabbed Relena. "You're wearing something that made you look pregnant?!"
Relena smiled.
Heero reached in back of her head and felt something peculiar. He ripped the mask off.
Standing before him was a young woman with black hair and brown eyes. "Hello." she replied smiling back.
Heero dropped the mask...
Then, all the women simultaneously took off their masks.
"What's going on?!" Duo shouted.
"What? Don't you know? Quick 200 bucks to put on these disguises."The imposter Catherine answered.
"What?!" Wufei shouted. "How?! When?!!"
"Whenever they went to the bathroom, duh!" the imposter Dorothy answered. "Didn't ya know?! You're supposed to pay the other half!"
"..."
"Oh, so we're not gonna get paid?" the imposter Hilde asked. "How unfair!"
Duo gritted his teeth. "Where's Hilde?"
"How should we know?" the imposter Mae Linh replied. "We were just paid to act like them!"
The guys looked warily at the women. Then they looked hopelessly at the ground.
No one dared to speak...