Chapter 3: The Fool
Disclaimer: I don't own the show!
Ace and Trowa sat in the trailer the man shared with his sister. After receiving their new gundams, Trowa brought Ace back to his trailer. There, Ace had explained to him who she was and the new threat, basically going over the information Doctor S had given him.
Ace, however, explained in more detail the capabilities of the latest gundam models and the power of the new threat.
Originally, the threat had been though to be a rumor or a hoax. The doctors had heard ideas of communities joining together to reform a new version of White Fang or Oz.
After a while, what had been known as terrorist bombings now became further suspicious. There were no signs of plastic explosives, nor had the bombs been planted inside the building. The most several damages were to the roofs and around the buildings and conveniently, there were no surviving eyewitnesses.
The general public was informed that the bombings were terrorists until the doctors and specialists discovered the true cause of these attacks to keep the conspiracy under wraps. It soon became near definite that the attacks were as they suspects; from some form of suit.
It wasn't definite if it were by a mobile suit, doll or what. All the doctors were sure of was it was an aerial attack of some sort by a suit.
Studying the sites further and going into detailed background checks, they pulled up files of old activist soldiers. Most left soon after the war but after three months, almost all of the former soldiers had gone missing.
Their wives, children, husbands and families left dumb founded and confused by the disappearances. Some names did pop up, purchasing weapons and tools. The evidence piled more and more and soon it was definite the gundams would have to fight again.
Ace explained this to Trowa until 3 in the morning when she fell asleep mid sentence on the couch in front of him and his sister. Trowa carried her out of the trailer and brought her to her own and tried to open the door. He shifted the unconscious girl over his should like a sack of potatoes and tried kicking the trailer door down.
After trying to break into her home for half an hour, he gave up and dropped her quiet literally onto the couch of the Barton trailer. Of course, his sister had to laugh when he dropped, the girl hitting the couch, bouncing off and hitting the floor. Once on the floor, she put her thumb in her mouth and hugged his legs like a teddy bear. It took Trowa another half and hour to get free.
Ace woke up two hours later, having being used to getting up at 4:30, now thought being lazy was when she woke up at 6:00. Catherine woke up half and hour later and the girls' laugher was what woke a very sleepy and grumpy Trowa.
The three had talked for a while and at 8:00, Catherine left to go make sure everyone else was awake for the last practice before that nights show. Now Trowa was left eating breakfast burritos with the strange Hawaiian girl.
After finishing his two burritos, he watched in near horror as the girl down five burritos, seven strips of bacon and down half a quart of milk. The sad thing was she was still hungry.
"So you see," Ace was explaining to Trowa. "Cards have changed over time. Originally, for example, the Spades were Swords and the Joker was the Fool. Surprising, the Fool card is still used in modern Tarot."
"You're gundam is called Joker." Trowa pointed out. "Fool?"
"Nah!" Ace laughed as though she were a little kid who'd just proven her guardian wrong. "I was thinking Batman!"
Trowa blink twice, the only sign of his confusion and again Ace laugh.
"You've never heard of Batman!?"
Before Trowa could answer, the microwave sounded and Ace ran over to retrieve her sixth burrito. She was shoving half of the beanie and cheesy delight into her mouth when the door opened and Catherine stoke her head in.
"Excuse me, Trowa?" she began, her brother looking up and Ace waving, her mouth formed around half of her meal, the dripping burrito hanging out of her mouth. "There's some guy here with really long brown hair. Says he knows you."
Trowa nodded, insuring he'd be out in a moment. Ace cocked her head to the boy in clear confusion, the burrito still hanging out of her mouth. He rolled his head back to look at her.
"The fool." Was all he said for Ace to catch on.
She slurped up the rest of the burrito and grinned. She'd finally meet a pilot who would talk far more than once in a while.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Duo was leaning against the snack bar on his left elbow, head down to the ground with his bangs hiding his eyes, his left leg curled behind his right with this right hand on his fist. All that could be seen of his face was his cocky smirk.
He still wore his infamous priest like clothing. When he went to the doctors for a new suit, he'd barely missed meeting Ace. She had been in hiding at the time and Heero had forbade her from leaving the room and from being seen.
She had come out only two days after he'd left to do his own research. He had picked up some new information on the new threat, using his new cloaking device on the gundam.
Duo was mainly here to report his information to Trowa originally. He was also coming to meet the new pilot.
Can't win a war unless you know your allies are. Duo thought to himself. He then paused a second. Damn with everyone flopping around in the last one we got lucky.
He looked up through his bangs as the sound of approaching footsteps to see Catherine with Trowa and a strange Hawaiian girl in a tuxedo. Well, not a full tuxedo.
She dressed as she had the night before, leaving her coat off, though she still wore the cloves, the sleeves of her shirt rolled up and her top hat. Amazingly, her tie was still done as though she'd just fixed it.
Duo then had to laugh as he noticed the girl was walking casually with the others, hands in her pockets, burrito dripping out sauce as half of it hung out of her mouth. It just added to the affect that her head was lowered, her eyes and nose hidden under the top hat.
In a way, she looked like a cowboy in old western movie, walking casually, mysterious by the lowered head, eyes can't be seen though you know they are piercing straight through you.
On the other hand, she looked like a complete nutcase loon, snacking on a cheese and bean burrito, looking at you as though you were the odd on, eating with silver wear as apposed to your fingers. For shame.
He straightened as they approached, keeping his right hand on his side. He smirked in his infamous Duo style. Catherine nodded to him and he returned the gesture as he walked past him, having completed her delivery job of the pilots.
Trowa stopped in front of him, behind the strange bangs boy Ace stopped off to the side a bit. She kept her head lowered and chewed the burrito silently.
"Hey!" Duo greeted, slapping Trowa on the shoulder. "Long time no see."
Trowa just gave him a nod. "Duo."
Duo looked around the man at Ace who was still chewing on the burrito, hands still in her pockets.
"And you are?" he asked, hoping for a formal introduction from the girl.
"Hearts." She said, around the burrito in her best Sean Connery accent, raising her head and tipping her hat. "Ace of Hearts."
"Duo Maxwell! The God of Death!" he said, holding out his had around the unnoticing Trowa.
Ace dropped her tipping hand to her side and snapped up her head, flinging the burrito into the air, opened her mouth and caught the rest of it. She chewed and swallowed it and once and held her hand out to Duo.
"Nice ta meet yah!" she grinned before letting out a great belch.
The two shook hands and Trowa glanced back at the alliance. Duo then turned back to him.
"I've come to discus my findings with you. The threat is bigger than we thought." Duo explained.
Trowa nodded and Ace spoke up.
"Well, why don't we discuss it over lunch or something?" she suggested.
At this, Trowa looked back at her in almost complete shock and horror.
"You just had six burritos, seven strips of bacon and drank all of my milk" he told her.
"You're point?"
Trowa sighed, knowing it was no argument. If Ace weren't still hungry, Duo would be and with two sugar bombs bouncing around they were bound to form a food alliance against the man until he gave in.
~*~*~*~*~*~
The three ended up going to a McDonald's down the street from the circus. Trowa refrained from ordering anything while Ace ordered two number twos and Duo ordered a number seven.
Halfway through her third cheeseburger, Ace spoke up and said, "So you said you have some new information on this new threat?"
Duo nodded chewing and took a sip of his drink and swallowed.
"Yeah, did some spying." He said, examining his Crispy Chicken Delux before taking another bite out of the sandwich.
He shoved some fries into his mouth and took another drink. After a moment, the boy spoke again.
"Turns out," he paused to swallow, "They've got bases scattered all over earth and on L1 and L4."
Ace's ears went back a little. "Dang."
"And 'dang' is only an understatement, a big one. They've got almost every kind of suit, though they don't use dolls. New recruits secretly sign up at locations everyday. It's some scary shit!" Duo nearly shouted.
"Damn."
"Duo." Trowa finally spoke, scaring the other two who'd forgotten he was there. "Where are these recruiting locations?"
"Why?" Duo asked, curious.
"They know you and I. But they don't know Ace." He said.
Duo still looked confused and Ace explained it to him.
"Duo, send me in as a 'potential recruit' to gather some info." She explained and he nodded.
"Won't the tux give you away?" he laughed a bit.
"I'll change!" she stuck her tongue out at him and he lowered the skin under he eye and stuck his tongue out.
"Do you know when the next meeting is?" Trowa asked as though he hadn't heard the last few statements.
"Tomorrow night at six at the ware house near the docking bays."
"Ok, so Duo can stay with you Trowa and Duo, tonight you're coming with us." Ace laid out the plan.
"What am I doing?" Duo asked.
"You're watching the Circus." Ace grinned.
Disclaimer: I don't own the show!
Ace and Trowa sat in the trailer the man shared with his sister. After receiving their new gundams, Trowa brought Ace back to his trailer. There, Ace had explained to him who she was and the new threat, basically going over the information Doctor S had given him.
Ace, however, explained in more detail the capabilities of the latest gundam models and the power of the new threat.
Originally, the threat had been though to be a rumor or a hoax. The doctors had heard ideas of communities joining together to reform a new version of White Fang or Oz.
After a while, what had been known as terrorist bombings now became further suspicious. There were no signs of plastic explosives, nor had the bombs been planted inside the building. The most several damages were to the roofs and around the buildings and conveniently, there were no surviving eyewitnesses.
The general public was informed that the bombings were terrorists until the doctors and specialists discovered the true cause of these attacks to keep the conspiracy under wraps. It soon became near definite that the attacks were as they suspects; from some form of suit.
It wasn't definite if it were by a mobile suit, doll or what. All the doctors were sure of was it was an aerial attack of some sort by a suit.
Studying the sites further and going into detailed background checks, they pulled up files of old activist soldiers. Most left soon after the war but after three months, almost all of the former soldiers had gone missing.
Their wives, children, husbands and families left dumb founded and confused by the disappearances. Some names did pop up, purchasing weapons and tools. The evidence piled more and more and soon it was definite the gundams would have to fight again.
Ace explained this to Trowa until 3 in the morning when she fell asleep mid sentence on the couch in front of him and his sister. Trowa carried her out of the trailer and brought her to her own and tried to open the door. He shifted the unconscious girl over his should like a sack of potatoes and tried kicking the trailer door down.
After trying to break into her home for half an hour, he gave up and dropped her quiet literally onto the couch of the Barton trailer. Of course, his sister had to laugh when he dropped, the girl hitting the couch, bouncing off and hitting the floor. Once on the floor, she put her thumb in her mouth and hugged his legs like a teddy bear. It took Trowa another half and hour to get free.
Ace woke up two hours later, having being used to getting up at 4:30, now thought being lazy was when she woke up at 6:00. Catherine woke up half and hour later and the girls' laugher was what woke a very sleepy and grumpy Trowa.
The three had talked for a while and at 8:00, Catherine left to go make sure everyone else was awake for the last practice before that nights show. Now Trowa was left eating breakfast burritos with the strange Hawaiian girl.
After finishing his two burritos, he watched in near horror as the girl down five burritos, seven strips of bacon and down half a quart of milk. The sad thing was she was still hungry.
"So you see," Ace was explaining to Trowa. "Cards have changed over time. Originally, for example, the Spades were Swords and the Joker was the Fool. Surprising, the Fool card is still used in modern Tarot."
"You're gundam is called Joker." Trowa pointed out. "Fool?"
"Nah!" Ace laughed as though she were a little kid who'd just proven her guardian wrong. "I was thinking Batman!"
Trowa blink twice, the only sign of his confusion and again Ace laugh.
"You've never heard of Batman!?"
Before Trowa could answer, the microwave sounded and Ace ran over to retrieve her sixth burrito. She was shoving half of the beanie and cheesy delight into her mouth when the door opened and Catherine stoke her head in.
"Excuse me, Trowa?" she began, her brother looking up and Ace waving, her mouth formed around half of her meal, the dripping burrito hanging out of her mouth. "There's some guy here with really long brown hair. Says he knows you."
Trowa nodded, insuring he'd be out in a moment. Ace cocked her head to the boy in clear confusion, the burrito still hanging out of her mouth. He rolled his head back to look at her.
"The fool." Was all he said for Ace to catch on.
She slurped up the rest of the burrito and grinned. She'd finally meet a pilot who would talk far more than once in a while.
~*~*~*~*~*~
Duo was leaning against the snack bar on his left elbow, head down to the ground with his bangs hiding his eyes, his left leg curled behind his right with this right hand on his fist. All that could be seen of his face was his cocky smirk.
He still wore his infamous priest like clothing. When he went to the doctors for a new suit, he'd barely missed meeting Ace. She had been in hiding at the time and Heero had forbade her from leaving the room and from being seen.
She had come out only two days after he'd left to do his own research. He had picked up some new information on the new threat, using his new cloaking device on the gundam.
Duo was mainly here to report his information to Trowa originally. He was also coming to meet the new pilot.
Can't win a war unless you know your allies are. Duo thought to himself. He then paused a second. Damn with everyone flopping around in the last one we got lucky.
He looked up through his bangs as the sound of approaching footsteps to see Catherine with Trowa and a strange Hawaiian girl in a tuxedo. Well, not a full tuxedo.
She dressed as she had the night before, leaving her coat off, though she still wore the cloves, the sleeves of her shirt rolled up and her top hat. Amazingly, her tie was still done as though she'd just fixed it.
Duo then had to laugh as he noticed the girl was walking casually with the others, hands in her pockets, burrito dripping out sauce as half of it hung out of her mouth. It just added to the affect that her head was lowered, her eyes and nose hidden under the top hat.
In a way, she looked like a cowboy in old western movie, walking casually, mysterious by the lowered head, eyes can't be seen though you know they are piercing straight through you.
On the other hand, she looked like a complete nutcase loon, snacking on a cheese and bean burrito, looking at you as though you were the odd on, eating with silver wear as apposed to your fingers. For shame.
He straightened as they approached, keeping his right hand on his side. He smirked in his infamous Duo style. Catherine nodded to him and he returned the gesture as he walked past him, having completed her delivery job of the pilots.
Trowa stopped in front of him, behind the strange bangs boy Ace stopped off to the side a bit. She kept her head lowered and chewed the burrito silently.
"Hey!" Duo greeted, slapping Trowa on the shoulder. "Long time no see."
Trowa just gave him a nod. "Duo."
Duo looked around the man at Ace who was still chewing on the burrito, hands still in her pockets.
"And you are?" he asked, hoping for a formal introduction from the girl.
"Hearts." She said, around the burrito in her best Sean Connery accent, raising her head and tipping her hat. "Ace of Hearts."
"Duo Maxwell! The God of Death!" he said, holding out his had around the unnoticing Trowa.
Ace dropped her tipping hand to her side and snapped up her head, flinging the burrito into the air, opened her mouth and caught the rest of it. She chewed and swallowed it and once and held her hand out to Duo.
"Nice ta meet yah!" she grinned before letting out a great belch.
The two shook hands and Trowa glanced back at the alliance. Duo then turned back to him.
"I've come to discus my findings with you. The threat is bigger than we thought." Duo explained.
Trowa nodded and Ace spoke up.
"Well, why don't we discuss it over lunch or something?" she suggested.
At this, Trowa looked back at her in almost complete shock and horror.
"You just had six burritos, seven strips of bacon and drank all of my milk" he told her.
"You're point?"
Trowa sighed, knowing it was no argument. If Ace weren't still hungry, Duo would be and with two sugar bombs bouncing around they were bound to form a food alliance against the man until he gave in.
~*~*~*~*~*~
The three ended up going to a McDonald's down the street from the circus. Trowa refrained from ordering anything while Ace ordered two number twos and Duo ordered a number seven.
Halfway through her third cheeseburger, Ace spoke up and said, "So you said you have some new information on this new threat?"
Duo nodded chewing and took a sip of his drink and swallowed.
"Yeah, did some spying." He said, examining his Crispy Chicken Delux before taking another bite out of the sandwich.
He shoved some fries into his mouth and took another drink. After a moment, the boy spoke again.
"Turns out," he paused to swallow, "They've got bases scattered all over earth and on L1 and L4."
Ace's ears went back a little. "Dang."
"And 'dang' is only an understatement, a big one. They've got almost every kind of suit, though they don't use dolls. New recruits secretly sign up at locations everyday. It's some scary shit!" Duo nearly shouted.
"Damn."
"Duo." Trowa finally spoke, scaring the other two who'd forgotten he was there. "Where are these recruiting locations?"
"Why?" Duo asked, curious.
"They know you and I. But they don't know Ace." He said.
Duo still looked confused and Ace explained it to him.
"Duo, send me in as a 'potential recruit' to gather some info." She explained and he nodded.
"Won't the tux give you away?" he laughed a bit.
"I'll change!" she stuck her tongue out at him and he lowered the skin under he eye and stuck his tongue out.
"Do you know when the next meeting is?" Trowa asked as though he hadn't heard the last few statements.
"Tomorrow night at six at the ware house near the docking bays."
"Ok, so Duo can stay with you Trowa and Duo, tonight you're coming with us." Ace laid out the plan.
"What am I doing?" Duo asked.
"You're watching the Circus." Ace grinned.