"Okay. . ." Akkiko looked around. "So, where are we now?"
"You don't know?" Kat asked. "Miracle of miracles, Akkiko doesn't know something about Gundam Wing.
"Shudup!"
"I think we might be in another bomb shelter," Meg observed.
"How-" Akkiko was abruptly cut off when Duo ran by screaming. Heero ran after him, waving his gun.
"You stupid braided baka!" Heero was yelling. "I'm going to *BEEP*in' kill you!"
"Hey!" Meg frowned. "Kat, why is your boyfriend attacking MY boyfriend?"
Kat bristled a little. "He is not my boyfriend. . ." she muttered darkly.
Akkiko rolled her eyes again. "Kat's in denial again."
"I am NOT IN DENIAL!" Kat yelled, her face an inch from Akkiko's.
Akkiko sweatdropped. "Kat . . . You're scaring the demon, here."
Meg sighed. "Kat, relax."
Kat turned. "I AM RELAXED!!" She yelled. Meg collapsed onto her back, her eyes squiggles. Kat took a deep breath in and let it out.
"Kat?" Akkiko hazarded to approach the hyperventilating teen. "Are you going to be okay?"
"Just give me a moment, I will be fine," Kat gasped.
Duo ran by once more, Heero chasing after him. Behind Heero was Wufei, yelling, "HEERO! Give me back my katana!"
"But I need it to kill Duo!" Heero hollered back. "He touched my laptop!"
Akkiko raised an eyebrow. "Can't you use your gun?"
Heero shrugged. "Trowa's using it . . . I don't want to know."
Suddenly Trowa dropped down from the rafters and raised a gun at Duo's head. "Maxwell, what did you do with my mask?"
Duo sighed. "Okay, I'll admit that I touched Heero's laptop, but I don't KNOW WHERE YOUR FRICKIN' MASK IS!"
Trowa didn't lower the gun. "Maxwell. . ."
Quatre appeared behind Trowa, holding his mask. "Hey, Trowa, I found this in the laundry basket with your costume. You might want to be more careful with it." He handed the mask to Trowa.
Everyone stared at him. He blushed and lowered the gun. "Ahem," he coughed. "Sorry, Duo."
Duo blinked. "Trowa's . . . apologizing?" His eyes went all glassy. "This is too much for my brain to handle." He proceeded to go into 'Brain- Overload' Mode.
Heero sighed and handed Wufei his katana. "It's no fun if he doesn't run."
Wufei grabbed the sword, nodding. "Yeah, I know what you mean."
Suddenly Wufei found Akkiko's arms around his neck. She was hanging from behind him. "Hey, Wufei?" she said in an innocent voice. "Can I borrow your sword?"
Wufei stared at her. "One: It is a katana, not a sword. Two: No one touches my weapon of honour. Three: Don't touch me."
Akkiko sighed, irritated. She walked back over to Kat. Meg was getting over the sonic boom that had occurred to her ear lobes, and was struggling to her feet.
"Told you," Kat said dully.
"Damn you." Akkiko pouted. "Now where am I going to get a sword?"
"KAT!" Meg was shouting because, of course, she can barely hear. "YOU MADE ME DEAF, YOU BAKA!"
Kat grinned. "And it's just another day with the GW gang!"
~~~
Later on, the eight of them were lounging around in the bomb shelter's recreation area. Heero, Quatre and Trowa were playing pool, Duo and Meg ping-pong, Wufei and Kat were reading, and Akkiko was all by herself. Not a good thing.
Akkiko drew little circles on the carpet. 'I am so boooooooooored,' she thought. 'Can't there be SOME kind of chaos I can cause?' She sighed loudly. Kat heard the sigh, and frowned a little, not looking up from her book.
"Akkiko?"
"Yeah?"
"No."
"No what?"
"No, you can't cause mass destruction."
Akkiko sweatdropped. Kat turned the page of her book. Akkiko scowled, muttered, "Kisamaa," and walked out of the recreation room.
Wufei blinked at Kat. "You can read each other's minds?"
Kat shrugged. "Not really. But I know that whenever you leave Akkiko alone, all kinds of disturbing things can happen."
Meg hit the ping-pong ball back at Duo. "So why don't you go after her?" she asked Kat.
Kat blinked at her. "It's your turn to make sure she doesn't hurt herself."
Meg sighed. "Fine," she snapped, and hit the ball savagely. It zinged past Duo, and she slammed her racket on the table. "Match point." She started to walk out of the room.
"MEG!" Kat yelled suddenly. Meg stopped. "Make sure Akkiko doesn't hurt anyone ELSE, either."
Meg sighed. "Why do I always get the tough jobs?" She walked out of the room.
~~~
(Five minutes later)
KABLAMMO!!!!
Kat sighed irritably. "What did I say?"
Heero ran out the door. "We'd better make sure they didn't do too much damage to the shelter."
"Geez, Heero," Duo said sarcastically, following him. "That's, like, soooo compassionate."
Heero shrugged. "Hey, I can be compassionate. The point is-this shelter is the only thing that keeps OZ, Zechs, and-" he shuddered. "-Relena out." They continued to run through the hallways, followed by Kat, Trowa, and Wufei. Quatre had stayed behind, God knows why.
The pilots, as well as Kat, ran down several hallways until they came to a door. Smoke was leaking from the corners.
"Shit!" Duo said. "That's where I keep my extra bombs!" Everyone stared at him. "Ahem," he coughed and tried *note-tried* to look innocent.
"That's also where I keep the extra guns and ammunition for Heavyarms and the other Gundams." Trowa walked forward and typed in the access code for the room. The door opened and black smoke spilled out.
As the others hacked, Kat walked forward. "Explosives, guns, ammunition-it all adds up to one thing." She peered around a corner and discovered confirmation for her theory. "An Akkiko paradise!"
Akkiko was sitting on the floor, surrounded by wiring, bombs of every shape and size, several guns, and several crates of ammunition. She was grinning like a maniac *which she is anyway*. Meg was lying on her back on the floor, covered with ashes.
"Akkiko-what did we say about playing with explosives?" Kat asked. Akkiko glanced up at her, then at her miniature store of weapons of mass destruction.
She laughed nervously, and stood up, walking away as if nothing was wrong. "What? I didn't do anything."
Wufei looked at her, an annoyed look on his face. "You're found surrounded by explosives, with a burnt match in your hand, and you say you didn't do anything?"
Akkiko dropped the match. "Meg lit the fuse!"
Trowa sighed. "What a mess," he said. "I just cleaned this storeroom, too."
Heero looked around. "Yeah, I was wondering where all the spare parts for the Gundams got to."
Trowa went up to a shelf of boxes. Pulling one down, he opened it to find a box of giant bolts.
"Hey, this is some stuff I got from Doktor S!" he said. "I can't believe it's still here!"
"Yeah, there are some parts for Wing Zero I got from Doctor J." Heero's eyes travelled along the stacks of boxes in one corner.
"Same for Nataku." Wufei pointed to a box that had Chinese written on it. "That must be from Master O."
"You know, if I didn't know better, I would think those old fogies planned to send us to earth from the very beginning," Duo said.
The boys realized that Kat and Akkiko were looking at them funny (Meg was still unconscious).
"What?" Heero finally asked.
"You don't KNOW?" Akkiko said. "They never TOLD YOU?"
"Who never told us what?" Wufei snapped.
"The scientists that built the Gundams!" Kat said, as if it was obvious. "They never told you they knew each other?"
The pilots stared blankly. The two girls sighed, irritated.
"Why should we believe you?" Trowa asked. "I mean, we don't even know you."
Akkiko glared. "So, you don't believe us . . . ?" She growled, and reached behind her.
The boys tensed for a moment, thinking she was going to pull out an axe, but. . .
. . . There was a moment's tension. . .
. . . And she pulled out. . .
. . . a book. . .
The boys fell over. Kat, however, looked like she had been expecting it. She grinned.
"And what, pray tell, is that?" Wufei finally managed, dragging himself up off the ground.
"Gundam Wing: Episode Zero!" Akkiko and Kat said together gleefully. "The best graphic novel in the world!"
Duo blinked at the cover page. "Hey-that's us!"
Akkiko whacked him over the head. "Of course it is, you ding-dong! This book is about you guys!"
"Say WHAT?" The pilots looked stricken.
"Well, to be more specific. . . It's about your past." Kat grinned at them as Akkiko opened the book and began to flip through it, reading random parts.
"Gundam War Chronicle . . . Operation Meteor . . . assassinate Minister Darlian . . . Heero and Doctor J . . .Trowa Barton killed by Doktor S. . . 'No-name' becomes Trowa's stand-in. . .Master O and Wufei. . . Duo 'steals' Deathscythe from Professor G . . . Quatre defies pacifist father and helps Instructor H. . . ."
The boys looked more and more stricken the more Akkiko read. Kat casually looked over her shoulder at the book, very interested.
"Ah-ha!" Akkiko said finally. "Here it is! Ahem. 'And so the five boys descend to Earth through completely different circumstances. Although they didn't know each other, the same can't be said of the old scientists. A different take on the story might be that the boys were manipulated by these old geezers, and deliberately set into a trap! Maybe we should feel sorry for the boys.'"
Kat and Akkiko looked at each other, then at the boys, then at each other again. "NAW!" they said in unison.
"Where did you get that book!?" Wufei demanded.
"Yeah-hey, let me see it!" Trowa lunged for Akkiko, who dodged out of the way and began running around the storage room, Trowa in close pursuit.
"LET ME SEE IT!" he kept yelling.
"NO!" She yelled back.
Finally Trowa was out of breath. Akkiko, however, was still fresh (being a demon, after all), and continued to run around. Trowa hunched over, hands on his knees, panting.
"Hey . . . Kat? Know how to stop Akkiko?" he gasped, looking over at the other girl. He sweatdropped.
Kat was reading a book, and he could see the title: Gundam Wing: Episode Zero.
"Did you have that all along?" Trowa burst out. Kat looked up at him innocently.
"Yeah," she said. "Akkiko and I each have a copy."
Trowa scowled, a vein twitching in his temple. He snatched the book from Kat's hands.
"HEY!" she said, and ran to tackle him. She found his hand on her forehead, his arm stretched out, so that she could only flail her arms around. "HEY! No FAIR!"
Trowa flipped around, holding the book one-handed. "EEK!" He said suddenly. "I'm in here!" He looked closer, then dropped the book. "I knew Lady Une when I was a kid? And I didn't even kill her?!" He ran out of the room, screaming.
Wufei picked the book up before Kat could reclaim it. He flipped to Trowa's part again. "Whoa-Lady Une's real name is Middie?" He snickered. "That's hilarious!" He flipped to Heero's story. "Um . . . Heero?" Did you know you *almost* succeeded in killing Treize?" He cast a dark look at Heero. "Looks like the perfect soldier isn't so perfect."
Heero grabbed the book *Kat desperately trying to snatch it back* He flipped to Duo's story accidentally. "Duo-you look like a girl! I mean . . . more than usual. . ."
Duo grabbed it, by mistake flipping to Wufei's story. "Wufei-you wear GLASSES??"
Wufei scowled and pulled out his gun, aiming it at Duo. Duo pulled out a gun and aimed it for Heero. Heero pulled out a gun and aimed for Wufei.
Kat sweatdropped. "All this for a book?" she muttered.
Meg, who sometime during this had revived, grinned. "Oooh-a gun triangle! This should be interesting!" The pilots all aimed for her. "Eep! Shutting up!'
Suddenly Quatre walked in. "Hey, guys, Trowa ran down the hallways screaming. What's going on?" He saw the book in Duo's hand. "Hey, Duo- what's that?"
Duo looked into the book, which was turned to Quatre's story. He read the part about Quatre's mother, and went "EEP!" He closed the book, hiding it behind his back. "Nothing."
Quatre looked at Duo, suspicious. "Duo, you're hiding something around your back. What is it?"
"N-N-n-n-n-n-n-n-nothing!" Duo stuttered. Kat took this chance to get one of her favourite books back. Darting forward, she grabbed the book from behind Duo's back and deftly hid it behind her own.
Quatre frowned. "Kat, show me your hands."
Kat obeyed, shrugging. Her hands were empty. Meg raised an eyebrow at her. "Where'd it go, Kat?"
"Back into the no-where." Kat grinned and walked off, whistling.
Everyone looked after her sweatdropping. Akkiko ran over, clutching her own copy of Gundam Wing: Episode Zero. "Hey! What'd I miss?"
Meg sighed. "Kat brought out her own copy of that book and all heck broke loose."
Akkiko's eyes filled with tears. "And I MISSED IT??!!" She plopped down on the floor, and began bawling.
The others sweatdropped. "Um . . . . . . .. . . .okay."
~~~
The day progressed without anything else happening. Of course, everyone knew the peace couldn't last for long.
Suddenly the doors of the bomb shelter were blown up with a big, "KABLEWIE!!" And OZ soldiers began running in. The GW boys drew their guns. The girls, however, stood there, looking bored.
Then a shadowy figure entered the room. It was noticeably female. Taking off her helmet, the boy's jaws dropped.
"Lady UNE!?" they screamed in disbelief.
Wufei grinned. "Your first name is Middie!" Everyone stared at him, sweatdropping. Lady Une developed a twitching vein in her temple.
"How . . . did . . . you know that?" she asked through gritted teeth.
Akkiko and Kat grinned. Simultaneously they reached behind themselves and brought out. . .
A book!
"Gundam Wing: Episode Zero!" they shrieked "The best graphic novel in the world!"
Lady Une (a.k.a. Middie) scowled. "Little girls, give me those books-now!" She whipped out a gun. "Or else I'll shoot you!"
The grins on Kat's and Akkiko's face disappeared. "Did she just call us what I think she called us?" Kat growled to the others.
Meg and the pilots nodded. "Well then," Akkiko said pleasantly. "Kat, shall we teach the woman that we are not little girls?"
Kat nodded. "Yes, let's. Meg, want to join us?"
Meg, who was standing in a dark corner, her head surrounded by a huge sweatdrop, shook her head. "No thanks, I'll be over here if anyone needs me."
Kat and Akkiko grinned. Then . . . they went into full-blown demon mode (come on, you had to be expecting that)
Poor Middie . . . she never had a chance.
(A/N: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! I leave you with another cliff-hanger!
Akkiko: NNNNNOOOOOO!! DAMN YOU!!
Meg: Kat, you should know better than to cut this stuff off like that. Akkiko can't handle it.
Akkiko: OH THE HUMANITY!!!
Kat: Whoops.)
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing, nor do I own Akkiko or Meg. I DO own Gundam Wing: Episode Zero, though!! *clutching book to her chest* I love it! If you haven't read it-do yourself a favour! Read it! It's awesome!!
Akkiko: What's with the promotion of literature?
Kat: Because it's fun, and it's a good book, and-
Akkiko: I get it, I get it *clamps hand over Kat's mouth*
"You don't know?" Kat asked. "Miracle of miracles, Akkiko doesn't know something about Gundam Wing.
"Shudup!"
"I think we might be in another bomb shelter," Meg observed.
"How-" Akkiko was abruptly cut off when Duo ran by screaming. Heero ran after him, waving his gun.
"You stupid braided baka!" Heero was yelling. "I'm going to *BEEP*in' kill you!"
"Hey!" Meg frowned. "Kat, why is your boyfriend attacking MY boyfriend?"
Kat bristled a little. "He is not my boyfriend. . ." she muttered darkly.
Akkiko rolled her eyes again. "Kat's in denial again."
"I am NOT IN DENIAL!" Kat yelled, her face an inch from Akkiko's.
Akkiko sweatdropped. "Kat . . . You're scaring the demon, here."
Meg sighed. "Kat, relax."
Kat turned. "I AM RELAXED!!" She yelled. Meg collapsed onto her back, her eyes squiggles. Kat took a deep breath in and let it out.
"Kat?" Akkiko hazarded to approach the hyperventilating teen. "Are you going to be okay?"
"Just give me a moment, I will be fine," Kat gasped.
Duo ran by once more, Heero chasing after him. Behind Heero was Wufei, yelling, "HEERO! Give me back my katana!"
"But I need it to kill Duo!" Heero hollered back. "He touched my laptop!"
Akkiko raised an eyebrow. "Can't you use your gun?"
Heero shrugged. "Trowa's using it . . . I don't want to know."
Suddenly Trowa dropped down from the rafters and raised a gun at Duo's head. "Maxwell, what did you do with my mask?"
Duo sighed. "Okay, I'll admit that I touched Heero's laptop, but I don't KNOW WHERE YOUR FRICKIN' MASK IS!"
Trowa didn't lower the gun. "Maxwell. . ."
Quatre appeared behind Trowa, holding his mask. "Hey, Trowa, I found this in the laundry basket with your costume. You might want to be more careful with it." He handed the mask to Trowa.
Everyone stared at him. He blushed and lowered the gun. "Ahem," he coughed. "Sorry, Duo."
Duo blinked. "Trowa's . . . apologizing?" His eyes went all glassy. "This is too much for my brain to handle." He proceeded to go into 'Brain- Overload' Mode.
Heero sighed and handed Wufei his katana. "It's no fun if he doesn't run."
Wufei grabbed the sword, nodding. "Yeah, I know what you mean."
Suddenly Wufei found Akkiko's arms around his neck. She was hanging from behind him. "Hey, Wufei?" she said in an innocent voice. "Can I borrow your sword?"
Wufei stared at her. "One: It is a katana, not a sword. Two: No one touches my weapon of honour. Three: Don't touch me."
Akkiko sighed, irritated. She walked back over to Kat. Meg was getting over the sonic boom that had occurred to her ear lobes, and was struggling to her feet.
"Told you," Kat said dully.
"Damn you." Akkiko pouted. "Now where am I going to get a sword?"
"KAT!" Meg was shouting because, of course, she can barely hear. "YOU MADE ME DEAF, YOU BAKA!"
Kat grinned. "And it's just another day with the GW gang!"
~~~
Later on, the eight of them were lounging around in the bomb shelter's recreation area. Heero, Quatre and Trowa were playing pool, Duo and Meg ping-pong, Wufei and Kat were reading, and Akkiko was all by herself. Not a good thing.
Akkiko drew little circles on the carpet. 'I am so boooooooooored,' she thought. 'Can't there be SOME kind of chaos I can cause?' She sighed loudly. Kat heard the sigh, and frowned a little, not looking up from her book.
"Akkiko?"
"Yeah?"
"No."
"No what?"
"No, you can't cause mass destruction."
Akkiko sweatdropped. Kat turned the page of her book. Akkiko scowled, muttered, "Kisamaa," and walked out of the recreation room.
Wufei blinked at Kat. "You can read each other's minds?"
Kat shrugged. "Not really. But I know that whenever you leave Akkiko alone, all kinds of disturbing things can happen."
Meg hit the ping-pong ball back at Duo. "So why don't you go after her?" she asked Kat.
Kat blinked at her. "It's your turn to make sure she doesn't hurt herself."
Meg sighed. "Fine," she snapped, and hit the ball savagely. It zinged past Duo, and she slammed her racket on the table. "Match point." She started to walk out of the room.
"MEG!" Kat yelled suddenly. Meg stopped. "Make sure Akkiko doesn't hurt anyone ELSE, either."
Meg sighed. "Why do I always get the tough jobs?" She walked out of the room.
~~~
(Five minutes later)
KABLAMMO!!!!
Kat sighed irritably. "What did I say?"
Heero ran out the door. "We'd better make sure they didn't do too much damage to the shelter."
"Geez, Heero," Duo said sarcastically, following him. "That's, like, soooo compassionate."
Heero shrugged. "Hey, I can be compassionate. The point is-this shelter is the only thing that keeps OZ, Zechs, and-" he shuddered. "-Relena out." They continued to run through the hallways, followed by Kat, Trowa, and Wufei. Quatre had stayed behind, God knows why.
The pilots, as well as Kat, ran down several hallways until they came to a door. Smoke was leaking from the corners.
"Shit!" Duo said. "That's where I keep my extra bombs!" Everyone stared at him. "Ahem," he coughed and tried *note-tried* to look innocent.
"That's also where I keep the extra guns and ammunition for Heavyarms and the other Gundams." Trowa walked forward and typed in the access code for the room. The door opened and black smoke spilled out.
As the others hacked, Kat walked forward. "Explosives, guns, ammunition-it all adds up to one thing." She peered around a corner and discovered confirmation for her theory. "An Akkiko paradise!"
Akkiko was sitting on the floor, surrounded by wiring, bombs of every shape and size, several guns, and several crates of ammunition. She was grinning like a maniac *which she is anyway*. Meg was lying on her back on the floor, covered with ashes.
"Akkiko-what did we say about playing with explosives?" Kat asked. Akkiko glanced up at her, then at her miniature store of weapons of mass destruction.
She laughed nervously, and stood up, walking away as if nothing was wrong. "What? I didn't do anything."
Wufei looked at her, an annoyed look on his face. "You're found surrounded by explosives, with a burnt match in your hand, and you say you didn't do anything?"
Akkiko dropped the match. "Meg lit the fuse!"
Trowa sighed. "What a mess," he said. "I just cleaned this storeroom, too."
Heero looked around. "Yeah, I was wondering where all the spare parts for the Gundams got to."
Trowa went up to a shelf of boxes. Pulling one down, he opened it to find a box of giant bolts.
"Hey, this is some stuff I got from Doktor S!" he said. "I can't believe it's still here!"
"Yeah, there are some parts for Wing Zero I got from Doctor J." Heero's eyes travelled along the stacks of boxes in one corner.
"Same for Nataku." Wufei pointed to a box that had Chinese written on it. "That must be from Master O."
"You know, if I didn't know better, I would think those old fogies planned to send us to earth from the very beginning," Duo said.
The boys realized that Kat and Akkiko were looking at them funny (Meg was still unconscious).
"What?" Heero finally asked.
"You don't KNOW?" Akkiko said. "They never TOLD YOU?"
"Who never told us what?" Wufei snapped.
"The scientists that built the Gundams!" Kat said, as if it was obvious. "They never told you they knew each other?"
The pilots stared blankly. The two girls sighed, irritated.
"Why should we believe you?" Trowa asked. "I mean, we don't even know you."
Akkiko glared. "So, you don't believe us . . . ?" She growled, and reached behind her.
The boys tensed for a moment, thinking she was going to pull out an axe, but. . .
. . . There was a moment's tension. . .
. . . And she pulled out. . .
. . . a book. . .
The boys fell over. Kat, however, looked like she had been expecting it. She grinned.
"And what, pray tell, is that?" Wufei finally managed, dragging himself up off the ground.
"Gundam Wing: Episode Zero!" Akkiko and Kat said together gleefully. "The best graphic novel in the world!"
Duo blinked at the cover page. "Hey-that's us!"
Akkiko whacked him over the head. "Of course it is, you ding-dong! This book is about you guys!"
"Say WHAT?" The pilots looked stricken.
"Well, to be more specific. . . It's about your past." Kat grinned at them as Akkiko opened the book and began to flip through it, reading random parts.
"Gundam War Chronicle . . . Operation Meteor . . . assassinate Minister Darlian . . . Heero and Doctor J . . .Trowa Barton killed by Doktor S. . . 'No-name' becomes Trowa's stand-in. . .Master O and Wufei. . . Duo 'steals' Deathscythe from Professor G . . . Quatre defies pacifist father and helps Instructor H. . . ."
The boys looked more and more stricken the more Akkiko read. Kat casually looked over her shoulder at the book, very interested.
"Ah-ha!" Akkiko said finally. "Here it is! Ahem. 'And so the five boys descend to Earth through completely different circumstances. Although they didn't know each other, the same can't be said of the old scientists. A different take on the story might be that the boys were manipulated by these old geezers, and deliberately set into a trap! Maybe we should feel sorry for the boys.'"
Kat and Akkiko looked at each other, then at the boys, then at each other again. "NAW!" they said in unison.
"Where did you get that book!?" Wufei demanded.
"Yeah-hey, let me see it!" Trowa lunged for Akkiko, who dodged out of the way and began running around the storage room, Trowa in close pursuit.
"LET ME SEE IT!" he kept yelling.
"NO!" She yelled back.
Finally Trowa was out of breath. Akkiko, however, was still fresh (being a demon, after all), and continued to run around. Trowa hunched over, hands on his knees, panting.
"Hey . . . Kat? Know how to stop Akkiko?" he gasped, looking over at the other girl. He sweatdropped.
Kat was reading a book, and he could see the title: Gundam Wing: Episode Zero.
"Did you have that all along?" Trowa burst out. Kat looked up at him innocently.
"Yeah," she said. "Akkiko and I each have a copy."
Trowa scowled, a vein twitching in his temple. He snatched the book from Kat's hands.
"HEY!" she said, and ran to tackle him. She found his hand on her forehead, his arm stretched out, so that she could only flail her arms around. "HEY! No FAIR!"
Trowa flipped around, holding the book one-handed. "EEK!" He said suddenly. "I'm in here!" He looked closer, then dropped the book. "I knew Lady Une when I was a kid? And I didn't even kill her?!" He ran out of the room, screaming.
Wufei picked the book up before Kat could reclaim it. He flipped to Trowa's part again. "Whoa-Lady Une's real name is Middie?" He snickered. "That's hilarious!" He flipped to Heero's story. "Um . . . Heero?" Did you know you *almost* succeeded in killing Treize?" He cast a dark look at Heero. "Looks like the perfect soldier isn't so perfect."
Heero grabbed the book *Kat desperately trying to snatch it back* He flipped to Duo's story accidentally. "Duo-you look like a girl! I mean . . . more than usual. . ."
Duo grabbed it, by mistake flipping to Wufei's story. "Wufei-you wear GLASSES??"
Wufei scowled and pulled out his gun, aiming it at Duo. Duo pulled out a gun and aimed it for Heero. Heero pulled out a gun and aimed for Wufei.
Kat sweatdropped. "All this for a book?" she muttered.
Meg, who sometime during this had revived, grinned. "Oooh-a gun triangle! This should be interesting!" The pilots all aimed for her. "Eep! Shutting up!'
Suddenly Quatre walked in. "Hey, guys, Trowa ran down the hallways screaming. What's going on?" He saw the book in Duo's hand. "Hey, Duo- what's that?"
Duo looked into the book, which was turned to Quatre's story. He read the part about Quatre's mother, and went "EEP!" He closed the book, hiding it behind his back. "Nothing."
Quatre looked at Duo, suspicious. "Duo, you're hiding something around your back. What is it?"
"N-N-n-n-n-n-n-n-nothing!" Duo stuttered. Kat took this chance to get one of her favourite books back. Darting forward, she grabbed the book from behind Duo's back and deftly hid it behind her own.
Quatre frowned. "Kat, show me your hands."
Kat obeyed, shrugging. Her hands were empty. Meg raised an eyebrow at her. "Where'd it go, Kat?"
"Back into the no-where." Kat grinned and walked off, whistling.
Everyone looked after her sweatdropping. Akkiko ran over, clutching her own copy of Gundam Wing: Episode Zero. "Hey! What'd I miss?"
Meg sighed. "Kat brought out her own copy of that book and all heck broke loose."
Akkiko's eyes filled with tears. "And I MISSED IT??!!" She plopped down on the floor, and began bawling.
The others sweatdropped. "Um . . . . . . .. . . .okay."
~~~
The day progressed without anything else happening. Of course, everyone knew the peace couldn't last for long.
Suddenly the doors of the bomb shelter were blown up with a big, "KABLEWIE!!" And OZ soldiers began running in. The GW boys drew their guns. The girls, however, stood there, looking bored.
Then a shadowy figure entered the room. It was noticeably female. Taking off her helmet, the boy's jaws dropped.
"Lady UNE!?" they screamed in disbelief.
Wufei grinned. "Your first name is Middie!" Everyone stared at him, sweatdropping. Lady Une developed a twitching vein in her temple.
"How . . . did . . . you know that?" she asked through gritted teeth.
Akkiko and Kat grinned. Simultaneously they reached behind themselves and brought out. . .
A book!
"Gundam Wing: Episode Zero!" they shrieked "The best graphic novel in the world!"
Lady Une (a.k.a. Middie) scowled. "Little girls, give me those books-now!" She whipped out a gun. "Or else I'll shoot you!"
The grins on Kat's and Akkiko's face disappeared. "Did she just call us what I think she called us?" Kat growled to the others.
Meg and the pilots nodded. "Well then," Akkiko said pleasantly. "Kat, shall we teach the woman that we are not little girls?"
Kat nodded. "Yes, let's. Meg, want to join us?"
Meg, who was standing in a dark corner, her head surrounded by a huge sweatdrop, shook her head. "No thanks, I'll be over here if anyone needs me."
Kat and Akkiko grinned. Then . . . they went into full-blown demon mode (come on, you had to be expecting that)
Poor Middie . . . she never had a chance.
(A/N: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! I leave you with another cliff-hanger!
Akkiko: NNNNNOOOOOO!! DAMN YOU!!
Meg: Kat, you should know better than to cut this stuff off like that. Akkiko can't handle it.
Akkiko: OH THE HUMANITY!!!
Kat: Whoops.)
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing, nor do I own Akkiko or Meg. I DO own Gundam Wing: Episode Zero, though!! *clutching book to her chest* I love it! If you haven't read it-do yourself a favour! Read it! It's awesome!!
Akkiko: What's with the promotion of literature?
Kat: Because it's fun, and it's a good book, and-
Akkiko: I get it, I get it *clamps hand over Kat's mouth*