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It didn't long for Haruka and Usagi to make it to the mall. Since they were far in front of the others, Usagi went ahead and used the Mind Meld on the Senshi of Uranus. After seeing all that her princess had been through, Haruka embraced the smaller girl and swore to protect her. It was then that Michuru and Hotaru caught up, and the four girls went into the large building together.
While Michuru and Haruka were busy with Hotaru, Usagi snuck off to the weapons store. Needless to say, the three men working there were past surprised to see her there. Dressed in a light blue cotton skirt and a white tank top, she was the picture of everything opposite of the violence caused by the contents of the store. They were shocked when she came up and asked them questions about the guns; she appeared to know what she was talking about. Stuttering profusely, they answered her questions and even flirted a bit. Usagi purchased two identical guns like the one Hiiro used and a set of ten throwing knives. Thanking them, she left the store, ducking behind a fake tree to stuff the items into her subspace pocket before heading back to join the other three.
"Where have you been, Koneko?!" Haruka demanded when Usagi reappeared.
"I had to pee." she said sheepishly. "Sorry." Michuru put her hand on Haruka's wrist, and she calmed.
"Okay. Just tell us when you're going to run off like that. We don't want anything to happen to you the day we're here." she said, smiling slightly.
"Yeah Usagi!" Hotaru cried. Usagi laughed and ruffled the shorter girl's black hair.
A few hours later the girls returned to find four very disgruntled teenage boys guarding Duo, who was gagged and tied to a chair. Usagi and Hotaru immediately set to teasing the poor braided one, tickling his feet and pulling his ears until he turned blue with rage and laughter. Haruka and Michuru just watched the two, hoping that nothing would ever happen to the two younger ones to make them change.
(AN: blahblah is Haruka and ~blahblah~ is Michiru. Got it? Good.)
~You would think that with everything those two have been through they wouldn't be able to act this happy~
You have to remember that they are both very special people. They aren't exactly- normal.
~True.~ Haruka decided to take pity on poor Duo- kind of.
Do me a favor and go fill the nearest bathtub up with the coldest water possible.
~You are evil, Haruka, but I'll do it. Give me two minutes.~ Michuru excused herself and ran off.
Two minutes later, Michuru sent the signal.
"Come on Usagi, Hotaru. Leave the poor guy alone." Haruka said, pulling on their arms and away from Duo. She picked Duo up- still tied- and walked down the hallway. Duo, envisioning his precious braid being chopped off, squirmed and made pathetic noises. Watching, the others followed her.
*Splash!*
A muffled scream echoed through the house. Duo had been dunked into a deep bathtub filled with water so cold it actually began to freeze around him. Usagi, Haruka, Michuru, Hotaru, Quatre, and Wufei laughed their heads off. Trowa and Hiiro smirked and chuckled a bit.
A BEEEP interrupted their fun. With that sound, Duo was immediately untied and given two minutes to run to his room and change. The other four pilots made their way to the hangar and their Gundams. The four girls stayed in the living room. As soon as they were gone, Usagi got ready to leave, too.
"I don't see why you insist on doing this. They can handle themselves." Haruka complained as Usagi read over the details on her communicator once more. She had used the Luna Pen to change her outfit.
"They're pretty good friends, but they don't fight very well together. They all fight for their own reasons, and have different enemies, though they fight against the same organization. I'm just giving them a common enemy." Usagi said, standing and walking out the door. Haruka growled and slammed her fist into the wall, leaving a dent in the hard wood.
Meanwhile, the guys were having difficulty with completing their mission. Hiiro had disappeared into the base, leaving Quatre to protect his Gundam. Wufei, Trowa, and Duo were not having any luck in fending off the attacking mobile suits.
Then Unmei showed up.
Duo, being the one with the largest mouth, spoke up first.
"Man! We don't need your help!"
It looks like you do. How many times must I tell you, I'm on your side.
"We don't know you and we don't trust you." Duo retorted.
"You are a coward to not let us talk to you. You act like a weak onna." (AN: Please tell me you know who said that.) Wufei said.
I am not a coward, nor am I weak. Now shut up and fight. Usagi said, waiting as another group of mobile suits attacked, three times stronger than before.
Dammit where's Hiiro? she demanded a minute or so later as she guarded his Gundam.
"He went in to retrieve files." Quatre replied.
"We need his help!" Duo exclaimed. Usagi watched as a lone figure ran across the ground.
He's back. She stated simply.
"Let's go." Hiiro commanded. The others finished off the mobile suit that they were currently engaged with and retreated far enough away that Hiiro could blow up the base. Usagi took off first, and was almost immediately traveling faster than they could catch up to.
"Arrrgh!" Duo grunted. "I wish that guy would stop disappearing!"
When the guys came back into the house, the four girls were lounging around the living room, talking about various things that had happened to them in the Silver Millenium.
(AN: Sorry to interrupt, but that's my power as author. I just realized something- If Usagi had gone back in time to beat Dimando, or Diamond, then she wouldn't have met Neptune or Uranus yet. She would have met Chibi-Usa and Hotaru, but not Haruka or Michuru. I'll find some way to explain this later on in the plot.)
"Oooh, I've got one! Remember the time we put out hot sauce instead of shrimp sauce for Endymion?" Hotaru asked. The girls cracked up again.
"Hey guys, welcome back. How'd the mission go?" Usagi asked between laughs.
"Not good. The clown showed up again." Wufei replied.
"You haven't figured out how to track him yet?" she asked. The three other Senshi just listened, knowing exactly what they were talking about.
"No. We've been working on it, but he comes and goes so fast, it's hard to get to know anything about his Gundam." Quatre explained.
"Trowa and I are working on a tracker to place on him the next time he shows." Hiiro said.
"It will feed a virus into his computer that will track him wherever he goes." Trowa added.
"We'll get that son of a-"
"Duo, you will not use that language around Hotaru." Pluto warned, appearing from out of nowhere.
(Once more, *blahblah* will mean Usagi is talking. blahblah is Haruka, ~blahblah~ is Michiru, and {blahblah} is Hotaru, and now, ^^blahblah^^ is Pluto.)
*Do you guys really have to leave already?*
^^Yes, Hime, they must return to their own time.^^
We can come back and see you sometime soon.
{Yeah, Usa-mama, we'll come back soon!}
"Alright, you three." Pluto said aloud. "Time to go." Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn said goodbye to their Princess and her friends, and disappeared through a portal.
"You people like to make quick exits, don't you?" Duo asked. Usagi giggled, a sound that immediately lightened their moods.
"Yes, but it comes with the job." she joked. "So when do we leave for Sanq?"
"That's right, we have to leave in the morning. I almost forgot." Quatre said.
"Everyone needs to be packed before they go to bed. We leave at 6." Hiiro added.
"Alright I'm gonna go pack now!" Usagi exclaimed, standing and running off, leaving the guys to argue about Unmei and its pilot.
Usagi dug through her things, pulling large duffel bags out of her subspace pocket, filling each one and then stuffing it back into thin air. It took her only an hour to pack all of her things. She was sitting cross-legged on her bed playing solitaire on her laptop when Hiiro came in. She looked up and smiled at him.
"Hey Hiiro, what's up?" Usagi asked.
"Is there any way you could use your abilities to track the new Gundam?" he returned. Hiiro actually cringed inside. He usually couldn't stand asking for anyone's help. Usagi's smile didn't fade, though she was panicking. She was used to Hiiro's inability to acknowledge her 'magic', but she definately wasn't ready for him to ask for her help.
"I don't know, Hiiro. I don't know the extent of my abilities yet. I can try though." Usagi said, trying to be optimistic.
"Hnn. Good." he replied, and then abruptly left. Usagi comically rolled her eyes and then flopped backwards onto the bed.
"Craaaaaap." she mumbled to herself.
Usagi awoke early the next morning. No one else was up- yet. She snuck out of bed and down the hall, planning her attack. She threw open the door to Duo's room and jumped onto his bed, hands seeking out his sides and tickling.
"Ah-" Duo began, but she stuck her hands over his mouth. Usagi ceased to tickle him.
"Shut up unless you want to wake the others and ruin the fun." she warned. He nodded excitedly, and she removed her hand. Usagi climbed off of Duo and the two went on to the next room- Quatre's.
3...2...1... They counted down silently. They jumped onto the bed.
"Ahhh!" Quatre exclaimed. He too was silenced, and the two tornadoes had left almost immediately, seeking out Trowa. Trowa, however, wasn't in his room. Assuming that he was spending time with his beloved Heavyarms, they went on to Hiiro's room. Bursting in, they jumped on the bed- only to find it empty. Disappointed, they turned to leave, but were faced with the barrel of Hiiro's gun.
"What are you doing?" Hiiro demanded.
"We just wanted to wake you up." Duo whined.
"Ummm, we'll be leaving now." Usagi said, grabbing Duo's hand and dragging him out into the hall.
"I think it would be safest for your braid if I woke Wufei up alone." she informed him. Duo nodded.
"I'm going to the kitchen, where the world makes sense." he said, skipping off. Usagi grinned as she silently opened the door and ran in.
"Aiiie!" she cried the Usagi-War-Cry, jumping through the air and landing perfectly, pinning Wufei down with one knee on either side of his stomach.
"Ah!" Wufei exclaimed, bolting upwards. "What are you doing up so early?" he asked, glancing at the clock. "Usually we have to pry you out of bed with the jaws of life." She giggled.
"Well, it's a beautiful morning, I just had a blast waking you guys up, we're going somewhere new today, and I'm with you. I'd say it's a great day so far." Usagi said, grinning. He returned the look.
"Well I better get up so we can get all of our stuff packed."
"Okay."
"Umm, Usagi?"
"Yeah?"
"Can you get off me?"
"Oh, ooops. Sorry." she said, blushing. Usagi rolled off of him, and layed down. Forcing herself not to watch as he changed into some black pants, she soon busied herself with watching one of the ceiling fan's blades go around... and around... and around... and around... and around... and around... Until she was thoroughly dizzy.
"Uuuughh." she moaned.
"Dizzy?" Wufei asked, kneeling over her, pinning her in much the same way as she had pinned him.
"Yuppers...." Usagi replied, rubbing her forehead.
"Aww, poor 'wittle 'Sagi." he said in a baby voice. (AN: Can you imagine that? How CUTE!)
"Yuppers...." she said again.
"Silly onna. Did you wake everyone up like this?"
"Only Duo and Quatre and you. Hiiro was already awake and Trowa wasn't in his room." Wufei smirked.
"So you and the braided wonder woke up Quatre and disturbed Hiiro, but you wouldn't let him help you wake me up because I would take his precious braid off?" Usagi giggled.
"Exactly."
"So you ready for breakfast?" Wufei asked.
"When am I not hungry?"
"That's a good question."
"So can we go eat now?"
"Sure." he replied, standing up over her on the bed.
'Uh-uh buddy, you don't get off that easy.' Usagi thought wickedly before pulling him back down. For just a minute, allow us to direct our attention to some meaningless spot on the wall. (AN: Get your minds out of the gutter, people!)
Soon the two were up and walking down the hall.
"Good morning, Usagi, Wufei." Quatre greeted as the two entered the kitchen.
"Hey babe!" Duo called. A knife flew through the air and hit the wall about two inches from Duo's head, pinning his braid to the wall. It took Duo about .0000002 seconds to react.
"AHHH! My baby! My manhood!" he cried, carefully extracting the knife from between the strands of hair.
"Wufei!" Duo screamed. The Chinese teenager smirked.
"Don't look at me. It's not my knife." he replied. Indeed, Duo saw that it wasn't one of Wufei's. Those were engraved with the Chinese characters for loyalty, honor, and truth. This knife was carved with intricate vines and leaves, like overgrown kudzu, only more elegant.
A grunt came from the doorway, alerting Duo to another's presence. Quatre, Usagi, and Wufei had known that Trowa was there all along, but when Duo wasn't in "mission mode" he was extremely stupid and unalert.
"Trowa! Buddy, how could you?!" the stupid one asked.
"Oh, shut up for once." Trowa said as he sat down at the table. Usagi cracked up, Duo paled, Wufei laughed a little and Quatre just flushed bright red.
Trowa's unusual statement was eventually forgotten, and the five of them moved on to the pleasant, friendly silence that accompanies eating.
"Trowa, will you play a game with me?" Usagi asked after they had finished. Wufei had excused himself and was working with Hiiro on a tracking device for Unmei. Trowa sighed inwardly and put down the book he was reading.
"Sure, Usagi."
"Okay, can you lay down on the floor for just a second?" she asked. Knowing that this could be very dangerous, Trowa complied. Before he could say a word, he was somehow handcuffed to the floor.
"Having magic powers can come in handy sometimes." she explained.
"What are you going to do?" Trowa asked.
"I wanna play ring-toss." Usagi said, giggling and pulling a bunch of slim plastic rings out of her sub-space pocket.
'She better have good aim.' Trowa thought. 'Or my face is going to be very sore after this.'
"Is the wiring ready?" Hiiro asked. Wufei made one last adjustment, and then nodded. They had been programming for neary two hours together, adding onto the programming that Hiiro had been working on all night.
"How much more programming do we have to do?" Wufei asked. Hiiro sighed. Usually that was behavior unbecoming of a Perfect Soldier, but somehow the two had become friends. Not best friends, but friendly enough for Hiiro to relax a slight bit around him.
"It would take a few more hours for one person. With both of us working this part of it should be completed in an hour or so."
"Good, because I left Usagi alone with Duo."
"That's not smart."
"No shit."
Trowa had to admit, Usagi had good aim. He had only been hit once, and that was when Duo burst in, startling her. She had released him only a few minutes ago and had disappeared immediately afterwards with Duo.
Smirking a little, he rubbed his wrists and tried to imagine what a day in Usagi's head would be like. Hearing a bang from somewhere in the house, he shuddered and decided he didn't want to know.
"NO you BAKA!" Usagi exclaimed as a fine layer of dust settled over the once-clean room. She and Duo had been working on a practical joke. While working with some of the chemicals, Duo had misunderstood her directions and nearly blew up the room.
"This is gonna be FUNNY!" Duo exclaimed excitedly.
"Yeah, I know. It's not my finest work, but it'll be funny anyways." Usagi replied, putting all of their supplies into a big cardboard box. When they had gathered everything, she would hide the box away in her sub-space pocket.
"Ready?" Duo asked as Usagi screwed the little onto a few little bottles. Duo was completely in the dark when it came to what they were, but Usagi had explained what they would do, and he couldn't wait. The only thing that Duo didn't know was that Usagi didn't plan on leaving him out of the fun. She had a plan for him, too.
"This is starting to get very, very boring." Wufei said. He wasn't whining or complaining, he was just making a statement. A very true statement.
"But seeing the look on that idiot's face when he realizes he's caught will be well worth it." Hiiro replied.
"You know that explosion we heard earlier?"
"Hnn."
"It's been too quiet. Those two are up to something. Keep an eye out when we go up."
(AN: They're in the basement/hanger, in a computer workroom attached to the room where the Gundams are kept. Just FYI.)
"Good idea."
Two hours later, they had all made their way to the kitchen for lunch.
"So what were you two up to this morning?" Usagi asked. She needed to get details on their tracking device so she could make sure that Unmei wouldn't be affected by it.
"We've finished the tracer." Hiiro said simply.
"Really?" she replied, carefully masking her voice. Hiiro nodded. "So you figured out how to catch that S.O.B.?"
"Yes. We've created a tracker that contains a radioactive isatope. We'll put it in each of the Gundams, and each of us will take a shot at Unmei. We're counting on one of the bullets to lodge itself in the metal. The bullet will explode once Unmei takes off at full speed like it usually does, contaminating the gundanium alloy with the isatope. We can track it for sure, then." Wufei replied.
"Awesome, I hope it works out for you guys." Usagi said cheerfully. 'Holy crap.' she thought. She rubbed her forehead as if she had a headache, and pushed her sandwich away.
"I'm not feeling so hot. I'm going to take a nap." she announced, standing up and leaving the kitchen. She heard Wufei calling after her but she ignored him. Her mind was racing.
'Omigosh, omigosh, omigosh. How the hell am I supposed to counter that?! I can't fight off mobile suits and the other Gundams at the same time!' Other thoughts running along these lines, along with everything Usagi had ever picked up in chemistry or from Ami raced through her mind as she locked the door to her room behind her, put a tiny bit of her magic on it so the lock couldn't be picked, and then collapsed onto the bed and fell fast asleep.
(Duo appears.)
Duo: That wasn't a very good cliffhanger, Aka.
AKA: I could have Wufei throw you off a cliff and let you hang by dental floss. Would that be a good cliffhanger?
Duo: Eeep! What's the next chapter about?
AKA: (rolls eyes) It's called "The Peacecraft Academy and Usagi's First Encounter with Tequila"
Wufei: What! If you get her drunk, onna, you better be careful! Or else the wrath of my katana will descend upon a certain baka American.
Duo: Whaa?
Wufei: DIE!!!!!!!
AKA: Whaddya think, should I save Duo's butt (and braid) or watch the fun?
It didn't long for Haruka and Usagi to make it to the mall. Since they were far in front of the others, Usagi went ahead and used the Mind Meld on the Senshi of Uranus. After seeing all that her princess had been through, Haruka embraced the smaller girl and swore to protect her. It was then that Michuru and Hotaru caught up, and the four girls went into the large building together.
While Michuru and Haruka were busy with Hotaru, Usagi snuck off to the weapons store. Needless to say, the three men working there were past surprised to see her there. Dressed in a light blue cotton skirt and a white tank top, she was the picture of everything opposite of the violence caused by the contents of the store. They were shocked when she came up and asked them questions about the guns; she appeared to know what she was talking about. Stuttering profusely, they answered her questions and even flirted a bit. Usagi purchased two identical guns like the one Hiiro used and a set of ten throwing knives. Thanking them, she left the store, ducking behind a fake tree to stuff the items into her subspace pocket before heading back to join the other three.
"Where have you been, Koneko?!" Haruka demanded when Usagi reappeared.
"I had to pee." she said sheepishly. "Sorry." Michuru put her hand on Haruka's wrist, and she calmed.
"Okay. Just tell us when you're going to run off like that. We don't want anything to happen to you the day we're here." she said, smiling slightly.
"Yeah Usagi!" Hotaru cried. Usagi laughed and ruffled the shorter girl's black hair.
A few hours later the girls returned to find four very disgruntled teenage boys guarding Duo, who was gagged and tied to a chair. Usagi and Hotaru immediately set to teasing the poor braided one, tickling his feet and pulling his ears until he turned blue with rage and laughter. Haruka and Michuru just watched the two, hoping that nothing would ever happen to the two younger ones to make them change.
(AN: blahblah is Haruka and ~blahblah~ is Michiru. Got it? Good.)
~You would think that with everything those two have been through they wouldn't be able to act this happy~
You have to remember that they are both very special people. They aren't exactly- normal.
~True.~ Haruka decided to take pity on poor Duo- kind of.
Do me a favor and go fill the nearest bathtub up with the coldest water possible.
~You are evil, Haruka, but I'll do it. Give me two minutes.~ Michuru excused herself and ran off.
Two minutes later, Michuru sent the signal.
"Come on Usagi, Hotaru. Leave the poor guy alone." Haruka said, pulling on their arms and away from Duo. She picked Duo up- still tied- and walked down the hallway. Duo, envisioning his precious braid being chopped off, squirmed and made pathetic noises. Watching, the others followed her.
*Splash!*
A muffled scream echoed through the house. Duo had been dunked into a deep bathtub filled with water so cold it actually began to freeze around him. Usagi, Haruka, Michuru, Hotaru, Quatre, and Wufei laughed their heads off. Trowa and Hiiro smirked and chuckled a bit.
A BEEEP interrupted their fun. With that sound, Duo was immediately untied and given two minutes to run to his room and change. The other four pilots made their way to the hangar and their Gundams. The four girls stayed in the living room. As soon as they were gone, Usagi got ready to leave, too.
"I don't see why you insist on doing this. They can handle themselves." Haruka complained as Usagi read over the details on her communicator once more. She had used the Luna Pen to change her outfit.
"They're pretty good friends, but they don't fight very well together. They all fight for their own reasons, and have different enemies, though they fight against the same organization. I'm just giving them a common enemy." Usagi said, standing and walking out the door. Haruka growled and slammed her fist into the wall, leaving a dent in the hard wood.
Meanwhile, the guys were having difficulty with completing their mission. Hiiro had disappeared into the base, leaving Quatre to protect his Gundam. Wufei, Trowa, and Duo were not having any luck in fending off the attacking mobile suits.
Then Unmei showed up.
Duo, being the one with the largest mouth, spoke up first.
"Man! We don't need your help!"
It looks like you do. How many times must I tell you, I'm on your side.
"We don't know you and we don't trust you." Duo retorted.
"You are a coward to not let us talk to you. You act like a weak onna." (AN: Please tell me you know who said that.) Wufei said.
I am not a coward, nor am I weak. Now shut up and fight. Usagi said, waiting as another group of mobile suits attacked, three times stronger than before.
Dammit where's Hiiro? she demanded a minute or so later as she guarded his Gundam.
"He went in to retrieve files." Quatre replied.
"We need his help!" Duo exclaimed. Usagi watched as a lone figure ran across the ground.
He's back. She stated simply.
"Let's go." Hiiro commanded. The others finished off the mobile suit that they were currently engaged with and retreated far enough away that Hiiro could blow up the base. Usagi took off first, and was almost immediately traveling faster than they could catch up to.
"Arrrgh!" Duo grunted. "I wish that guy would stop disappearing!"
When the guys came back into the house, the four girls were lounging around the living room, talking about various things that had happened to them in the Silver Millenium.
(AN: Sorry to interrupt, but that's my power as author. I just realized something- If Usagi had gone back in time to beat Dimando, or Diamond, then she wouldn't have met Neptune or Uranus yet. She would have met Chibi-Usa and Hotaru, but not Haruka or Michuru. I'll find some way to explain this later on in the plot.)
"Oooh, I've got one! Remember the time we put out hot sauce instead of shrimp sauce for Endymion?" Hotaru asked. The girls cracked up again.
"Hey guys, welcome back. How'd the mission go?" Usagi asked between laughs.
"Not good. The clown showed up again." Wufei replied.
"You haven't figured out how to track him yet?" she asked. The three other Senshi just listened, knowing exactly what they were talking about.
"No. We've been working on it, but he comes and goes so fast, it's hard to get to know anything about his Gundam." Quatre explained.
"Trowa and I are working on a tracker to place on him the next time he shows." Hiiro said.
"It will feed a virus into his computer that will track him wherever he goes." Trowa added.
"We'll get that son of a-"
"Duo, you will not use that language around Hotaru." Pluto warned, appearing from out of nowhere.
(Once more, *blahblah* will mean Usagi is talking. blahblah is Haruka, ~blahblah~ is Michiru, and {blahblah} is Hotaru, and now, ^^blahblah^^ is Pluto.)
*Do you guys really have to leave already?*
^^Yes, Hime, they must return to their own time.^^
We can come back and see you sometime soon.
{Yeah, Usa-mama, we'll come back soon!}
"Alright, you three." Pluto said aloud. "Time to go." Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn said goodbye to their Princess and her friends, and disappeared through a portal.
"You people like to make quick exits, don't you?" Duo asked. Usagi giggled, a sound that immediately lightened their moods.
"Yes, but it comes with the job." she joked. "So when do we leave for Sanq?"
"That's right, we have to leave in the morning. I almost forgot." Quatre said.
"Everyone needs to be packed before they go to bed. We leave at 6." Hiiro added.
"Alright I'm gonna go pack now!" Usagi exclaimed, standing and running off, leaving the guys to argue about Unmei and its pilot.
Usagi dug through her things, pulling large duffel bags out of her subspace pocket, filling each one and then stuffing it back into thin air. It took her only an hour to pack all of her things. She was sitting cross-legged on her bed playing solitaire on her laptop when Hiiro came in. She looked up and smiled at him.
"Hey Hiiro, what's up?" Usagi asked.
"Is there any way you could use your abilities to track the new Gundam?" he returned. Hiiro actually cringed inside. He usually couldn't stand asking for anyone's help. Usagi's smile didn't fade, though she was panicking. She was used to Hiiro's inability to acknowledge her 'magic', but she definately wasn't ready for him to ask for her help.
"I don't know, Hiiro. I don't know the extent of my abilities yet. I can try though." Usagi said, trying to be optimistic.
"Hnn. Good." he replied, and then abruptly left. Usagi comically rolled her eyes and then flopped backwards onto the bed.
"Craaaaaap." she mumbled to herself.
Usagi awoke early the next morning. No one else was up- yet. She snuck out of bed and down the hall, planning her attack. She threw open the door to Duo's room and jumped onto his bed, hands seeking out his sides and tickling.
"Ah-" Duo began, but she stuck her hands over his mouth. Usagi ceased to tickle him.
"Shut up unless you want to wake the others and ruin the fun." she warned. He nodded excitedly, and she removed her hand. Usagi climbed off of Duo and the two went on to the next room- Quatre's.
3...2...1... They counted down silently. They jumped onto the bed.
"Ahhh!" Quatre exclaimed. He too was silenced, and the two tornadoes had left almost immediately, seeking out Trowa. Trowa, however, wasn't in his room. Assuming that he was spending time with his beloved Heavyarms, they went on to Hiiro's room. Bursting in, they jumped on the bed- only to find it empty. Disappointed, they turned to leave, but were faced with the barrel of Hiiro's gun.
"What are you doing?" Hiiro demanded.
"We just wanted to wake you up." Duo whined.
"Ummm, we'll be leaving now." Usagi said, grabbing Duo's hand and dragging him out into the hall.
"I think it would be safest for your braid if I woke Wufei up alone." she informed him. Duo nodded.
"I'm going to the kitchen, where the world makes sense." he said, skipping off. Usagi grinned as she silently opened the door and ran in.
"Aiiie!" she cried the Usagi-War-Cry, jumping through the air and landing perfectly, pinning Wufei down with one knee on either side of his stomach.
"Ah!" Wufei exclaimed, bolting upwards. "What are you doing up so early?" he asked, glancing at the clock. "Usually we have to pry you out of bed with the jaws of life." She giggled.
"Well, it's a beautiful morning, I just had a blast waking you guys up, we're going somewhere new today, and I'm with you. I'd say it's a great day so far." Usagi said, grinning. He returned the look.
"Well I better get up so we can get all of our stuff packed."
"Okay."
"Umm, Usagi?"
"Yeah?"
"Can you get off me?"
"Oh, ooops. Sorry." she said, blushing. Usagi rolled off of him, and layed down. Forcing herself not to watch as he changed into some black pants, she soon busied herself with watching one of the ceiling fan's blades go around... and around... and around... and around... and around... and around... Until she was thoroughly dizzy.
"Uuuughh." she moaned.
"Dizzy?" Wufei asked, kneeling over her, pinning her in much the same way as she had pinned him.
"Yuppers...." Usagi replied, rubbing her forehead.
"Aww, poor 'wittle 'Sagi." he said in a baby voice. (AN: Can you imagine that? How CUTE!)
"Yuppers...." she said again.
"Silly onna. Did you wake everyone up like this?"
"Only Duo and Quatre and you. Hiiro was already awake and Trowa wasn't in his room." Wufei smirked.
"So you and the braided wonder woke up Quatre and disturbed Hiiro, but you wouldn't let him help you wake me up because I would take his precious braid off?" Usagi giggled.
"Exactly."
"So you ready for breakfast?" Wufei asked.
"When am I not hungry?"
"That's a good question."
"So can we go eat now?"
"Sure." he replied, standing up over her on the bed.
'Uh-uh buddy, you don't get off that easy.' Usagi thought wickedly before pulling him back down. For just a minute, allow us to direct our attention to some meaningless spot on the wall. (AN: Get your minds out of the gutter, people!)
Soon the two were up and walking down the hall.
"Good morning, Usagi, Wufei." Quatre greeted as the two entered the kitchen.
"Hey babe!" Duo called. A knife flew through the air and hit the wall about two inches from Duo's head, pinning his braid to the wall. It took Duo about .0000002 seconds to react.
"AHHH! My baby! My manhood!" he cried, carefully extracting the knife from between the strands of hair.
"Wufei!" Duo screamed. The Chinese teenager smirked.
"Don't look at me. It's not my knife." he replied. Indeed, Duo saw that it wasn't one of Wufei's. Those were engraved with the Chinese characters for loyalty, honor, and truth. This knife was carved with intricate vines and leaves, like overgrown kudzu, only more elegant.
A grunt came from the doorway, alerting Duo to another's presence. Quatre, Usagi, and Wufei had known that Trowa was there all along, but when Duo wasn't in "mission mode" he was extremely stupid and unalert.
"Trowa! Buddy, how could you?!" the stupid one asked.
"Oh, shut up for once." Trowa said as he sat down at the table. Usagi cracked up, Duo paled, Wufei laughed a little and Quatre just flushed bright red.
Trowa's unusual statement was eventually forgotten, and the five of them moved on to the pleasant, friendly silence that accompanies eating.
"Trowa, will you play a game with me?" Usagi asked after they had finished. Wufei had excused himself and was working with Hiiro on a tracking device for Unmei. Trowa sighed inwardly and put down the book he was reading.
"Sure, Usagi."
"Okay, can you lay down on the floor for just a second?" she asked. Knowing that this could be very dangerous, Trowa complied. Before he could say a word, he was somehow handcuffed to the floor.
"Having magic powers can come in handy sometimes." she explained.
"What are you going to do?" Trowa asked.
"I wanna play ring-toss." Usagi said, giggling and pulling a bunch of slim plastic rings out of her sub-space pocket.
'She better have good aim.' Trowa thought. 'Or my face is going to be very sore after this.'
"Is the wiring ready?" Hiiro asked. Wufei made one last adjustment, and then nodded. They had been programming for neary two hours together, adding onto the programming that Hiiro had been working on all night.
"How much more programming do we have to do?" Wufei asked. Hiiro sighed. Usually that was behavior unbecoming of a Perfect Soldier, but somehow the two had become friends. Not best friends, but friendly enough for Hiiro to relax a slight bit around him.
"It would take a few more hours for one person. With both of us working this part of it should be completed in an hour or so."
"Good, because I left Usagi alone with Duo."
"That's not smart."
"No shit."
Trowa had to admit, Usagi had good aim. He had only been hit once, and that was when Duo burst in, startling her. She had released him only a few minutes ago and had disappeared immediately afterwards with Duo.
Smirking a little, he rubbed his wrists and tried to imagine what a day in Usagi's head would be like. Hearing a bang from somewhere in the house, he shuddered and decided he didn't want to know.
"NO you BAKA!" Usagi exclaimed as a fine layer of dust settled over the once-clean room. She and Duo had been working on a practical joke. While working with some of the chemicals, Duo had misunderstood her directions and nearly blew up the room.
"This is gonna be FUNNY!" Duo exclaimed excitedly.
"Yeah, I know. It's not my finest work, but it'll be funny anyways." Usagi replied, putting all of their supplies into a big cardboard box. When they had gathered everything, she would hide the box away in her sub-space pocket.
"Ready?" Duo asked as Usagi screwed the little onto a few little bottles. Duo was completely in the dark when it came to what they were, but Usagi had explained what they would do, and he couldn't wait. The only thing that Duo didn't know was that Usagi didn't plan on leaving him out of the fun. She had a plan for him, too.
"This is starting to get very, very boring." Wufei said. He wasn't whining or complaining, he was just making a statement. A very true statement.
"But seeing the look on that idiot's face when he realizes he's caught will be well worth it." Hiiro replied.
"You know that explosion we heard earlier?"
"Hnn."
"It's been too quiet. Those two are up to something. Keep an eye out when we go up."
(AN: They're in the basement/hanger, in a computer workroom attached to the room where the Gundams are kept. Just FYI.)
"Good idea."
Two hours later, they had all made their way to the kitchen for lunch.
"So what were you two up to this morning?" Usagi asked. She needed to get details on their tracking device so she could make sure that Unmei wouldn't be affected by it.
"We've finished the tracer." Hiiro said simply.
"Really?" she replied, carefully masking her voice. Hiiro nodded. "So you figured out how to catch that S.O.B.?"
"Yes. We've created a tracker that contains a radioactive isatope. We'll put it in each of the Gundams, and each of us will take a shot at Unmei. We're counting on one of the bullets to lodge itself in the metal. The bullet will explode once Unmei takes off at full speed like it usually does, contaminating the gundanium alloy with the isatope. We can track it for sure, then." Wufei replied.
"Awesome, I hope it works out for you guys." Usagi said cheerfully. 'Holy crap.' she thought. She rubbed her forehead as if she had a headache, and pushed her sandwich away.
"I'm not feeling so hot. I'm going to take a nap." she announced, standing up and leaving the kitchen. She heard Wufei calling after her but she ignored him. Her mind was racing.
'Omigosh, omigosh, omigosh. How the hell am I supposed to counter that?! I can't fight off mobile suits and the other Gundams at the same time!' Other thoughts running along these lines, along with everything Usagi had ever picked up in chemistry or from Ami raced through her mind as she locked the door to her room behind her, put a tiny bit of her magic on it so the lock couldn't be picked, and then collapsed onto the bed and fell fast asleep.
(Duo appears.)
Duo: That wasn't a very good cliffhanger, Aka.
AKA: I could have Wufei throw you off a cliff and let you hang by dental floss. Would that be a good cliffhanger?
Duo: Eeep! What's the next chapter about?
AKA: (rolls eyes) It's called "The Peacecraft Academy and Usagi's First Encounter with Tequila"
Wufei: What! If you get her drunk, onna, you better be careful! Or else the wrath of my katana will descend upon a certain baka American.
Duo: Whaa?
Wufei: DIE!!!!!!!
AKA: Whaddya think, should I save Duo's butt (and braid) or watch the fun?