(Some of the events in this chapter are true, scarily enough, and I thought
it would be amusing if I incorporated them into the story. BWA HAHAHAHA!!!)
Meg and Kat woke up to find an empty bomb shelter. Actually, it wasn't entirely empty. . .
"I . . . feel . . . dead," Quatre said, dragging himself out of his room. Meg looked at Kat.
"Worst case of sugar hangover I've ever seen," she said.
Kat grinned. "Not really. Remember Akkiko's birthday?"
Meg shuddered. "Not really. I missed a few parts 'cause I blanked out in terror."
"So where is everyone?" The two girls went into the kitchen. On the table they found a note.
"Dear Kat, Meg, and Quatre (if he's conscious),
Went into town to get some supplies. At 2100 tonight, we're locking down the shelter. Relena is coming! Be afraid-be VERY afraid-
Kat turned to Meg. "Three guesses who wrote this."
Meg started to count off her fingers. "Akkiko, Akkiko, and, let's see- Akkiko."
"See you tonight, love from Akkiko and Gundam pilots."
BOO-YA!" Meg said. "I am SOOO good!"
"So whaddaya want to do now?" Kat asked.
A groan reached their ears. "EEK!" Both girls shrieked. "What the HELL?"
A certain blonde Arabian dragged himself into the kitchen. "Coffee-coffee!" he pleaded pathetically.
The two girls grabbed all coffee cans available. "No coffee for you!!" they shrieked.
Kat noticed the glimmer in Meg's eyes and snatched away all of her coffee cans. "No coffee for you either!!" Meg pouted and went into a corner.
Kat ran off to hide the coffee, leaving Quatre and Meg to their own devices. "Quatre? Are you . . . alive?"
Quatre didn't say anything, kind of. All that issued from his mouth was unintelligible babble that sounded kind of like this: "Humina humina humina . . ."
Meg sighed. "Yeah, I know, it sucks that Kat took away all the coffee, doesn't it?"
More babble.
"No, I don't think we should gang up on her."
Kat entered the kitchen once more. "Meg? You understand Babble?"
"Yeah, I'm, uh, fluent in it," the brunette said. Quatre mumbled something.
"So what did he just say?" Kat asked.
"Uh . . . coffee is our friend?" Meg grinned. "Maybe we should humour the poor boy."
Kat walked back out of the kitchen, expressionless mask in place. "Nice try, Meg. You aren't getting the coffee that easily, though."
"DAMN!!" Meg picked up the note Akkiko had left and scanned it again. "Hey, Kat-"
"Eh?"
"What did they mean, Relena's coming?"
Kat rolled her eyes. "Don't you remember the meeting we had last night?"
Meg thought for a moment. Enter cheesy 'flashback' music where the screen goes all wavy-
*flashback*
"GUYS!!" Heero screamed as he burst into the room where the others were waiting. Everyone jumped, except Akkiko, who was being strangled, and Kat, who was doing the strangling.
"Stop-teasing-me-dammit!!"
"But-it's-soo-easy-ack-loosen the grip!! Loosen the grip!!"
Duo stared at Heero, scared. "You aren't going to kill us, are you?"
"Maybe-later," Heero gasped. "Until then, we have an emergency!!"
"What emergency?" Meg asked, sweatdropping at her two insane friends.
"Dorothy's coming!"
"So?" Akkiko said, dusting her hands off. Kat lingered in the corner, unable to move.
"Relena's with her."
The Gundam pilots and Akkiko stiffened and started for the exit. Meg and Kat blocked their way.
"Oh, come on, you big babies! You drive homicidal machines of death every day and save the world-"
"Not to mention that you, Akkiko, are a demon-"
"And you're biggest fear is one loud-mouth girl?!"
The Gundam pilots (and Akkiko) contemplated this for a moment. "YES!!" they said, so loudly that Kat and Meg fell over, little squiggles for eyes. They turned to the door to find it boarded up with planks.
"What the HELL?" they shrieked. Kat hid a hammer behind her back. Meg threw a bag of nails in the corner.
"KAT!! MEG!!"
"Heh heh." The two girls waited for the insanity to abate . . .
(Two hours later)
"RELENA'S COMING AND WE CAN'T GET OUT!!" The pilots screamed.
"Think it's time to call in the navy yet?" Meg asked Kat dully. They were playing dominoes in the corner.
"Nah, give 'em another half hour."
(One hour later)
"Ready to formulate a plan yet?"
The G-Wing pilots sat around, exhausted. Akkiko was still bouncing off the walls, though. . .
"Sure-why not? We're screwed anyway." Duo said, biting the end of his braid.
"So, how do we keep Relena out of here?"
"I suggest a barricade!" Akkiko squealed. She had abandoned all traces of being scared, and was now merely hyper . . . God help us all.
"Barricade sounds good!" Heero said, and got up, wrenched the door open (despite the nails and boards), and went into the hallway.
Everyone sweatdropped. Kat stood up, her eyes little hearts. "That's my boy!"
*end flashback*
"And after that, we decided that we would grab some supplies, and then completely shut down all communications with the outside." Kat finished.
"Ah," Meg said, and glanced around at the passed-out Quatre. "And so they left us with HIM?!"
"Yep." Kat took out a deck of cards. "Poker?"
"Sure."
~~~
And so, for the rest of the day, Meg and Kat played poker (regular poker, not the striping type).
At about seven o'clock, they heard a CRASH!! from the hall.
"They're ba-ack!" Kat said dully, and laid out a royal flush.
"Damn!" Meg said, and pushed over an artichoke they had found in the freezer. "You know, playing with fruit sucks."
"Yep." Kat nodded. Suddenly, Akkiko bounced in, grinning like a maniac, which she is, anyway.
"Hey, Akkiko," Meg said. When there was no reply, the two girls looked up. Akkiko stood there, grinning. Meg and Kat sweatdropped. "Why are you smiling like that?"
Akkiko blushed. "The Gundam Pilots took advantage of me while we were gone."
"WHAT?!"
"Well, for lunch I had two cans of iced tea and some brownies, so I was already on sugar high."
"Oh . . . THAT kind of taking advantage of. Heh heh." Kat and Meg sweatdropped.
"Yep! Then . . . Duo thought it would be funny to get some more sugar into me. He went over to the pop machine, and came back, a can of iced tea in his hand. Being naïve, I drank it. Then I proceeded to. . ." Akkiko counted off her fingers. "I hugged Heero; I hugged Trowa; I ran down the streets, screaming, 'the world it going to end'; I kissed Wufei, Zechs showed up, so I kissed him too; I kissed Duo on the cheek; I hugged Duo; I went up to a complete stranger and said, 'HI! I'm Insane.' BTW, now I know a guy named Mark. And . . . yep that covers it."
Kat raised an eyebrow. "So . . . what did we learn?"
Akkiko thought for a moment. "Next time, try four cans."
Kat sighed and whacked her forehead. (A/N: This was a true incident, scary as that is. BTW, 'Mark' is a real guy-no, I have never met him . . . nor do I have any wishes to)
Akkiko continued grinning. Meg waved a hand in front of her face, and our favourite demon spontaneously collapsed. Kat and Meg blinked.
"Great. Now we have two people in this shelter suffering from sugar hangover," Meg said.
"Yes, fun, isn't it?" Kat sighed, and the two of them resignedly dragged the snoring Akkiko into their room.
~~~
Not too far away from the bomb shelter, Relena sat with Dorothy. "So, Mr. Ominous Figure," the vice-foreign Minister asked a cloaked figure (who, by the way, was ominous!) "How can you help us?"
"I can get the Gundam pilots for you very easily, miss." Had Meg, Akkiko, or Kat been around, they would have recognized the voice right away.
"And how is that?" Dorothy asked, holding binoculars to her eyes. "They've completely shut down the bomb shelter. Not even a fly could get in there now."
"Oh . . . I have my ways." The figure stood up and pushed his hood back. The moonlight shone off glasses, and Erikson chuckled . . . ominously.
(A/N: This was a terribly short chapter, but anyways-until next time!
Akkiko: NOOOOO!! You can't just STOP!!
Kat: Wanna bet? Good-bye!)
(Author's Note 2: For those of you who are confused by who Erikson is, he is one of my muses! For more material about him, check out Akira_Yai_Hiro's 'Travels of the Trio' *the first one*!)
Disclaimer: Gundam Wing does not belong to me . . . once again.
Meg and Kat woke up to find an empty bomb shelter. Actually, it wasn't entirely empty. . .
"I . . . feel . . . dead," Quatre said, dragging himself out of his room. Meg looked at Kat.
"Worst case of sugar hangover I've ever seen," she said.
Kat grinned. "Not really. Remember Akkiko's birthday?"
Meg shuddered. "Not really. I missed a few parts 'cause I blanked out in terror."
"So where is everyone?" The two girls went into the kitchen. On the table they found a note.
"Dear Kat, Meg, and Quatre (if he's conscious),
Went into town to get some supplies. At 2100 tonight, we're locking down the shelter. Relena is coming! Be afraid-be VERY afraid-
Kat turned to Meg. "Three guesses who wrote this."
Meg started to count off her fingers. "Akkiko, Akkiko, and, let's see- Akkiko."
"See you tonight, love from Akkiko and Gundam pilots."
BOO-YA!" Meg said. "I am SOOO good!"
"So whaddaya want to do now?" Kat asked.
A groan reached their ears. "EEK!" Both girls shrieked. "What the HELL?"
A certain blonde Arabian dragged himself into the kitchen. "Coffee-coffee!" he pleaded pathetically.
The two girls grabbed all coffee cans available. "No coffee for you!!" they shrieked.
Kat noticed the glimmer in Meg's eyes and snatched away all of her coffee cans. "No coffee for you either!!" Meg pouted and went into a corner.
Kat ran off to hide the coffee, leaving Quatre and Meg to their own devices. "Quatre? Are you . . . alive?"
Quatre didn't say anything, kind of. All that issued from his mouth was unintelligible babble that sounded kind of like this: "Humina humina humina . . ."
Meg sighed. "Yeah, I know, it sucks that Kat took away all the coffee, doesn't it?"
More babble.
"No, I don't think we should gang up on her."
Kat entered the kitchen once more. "Meg? You understand Babble?"
"Yeah, I'm, uh, fluent in it," the brunette said. Quatre mumbled something.
"So what did he just say?" Kat asked.
"Uh . . . coffee is our friend?" Meg grinned. "Maybe we should humour the poor boy."
Kat walked back out of the kitchen, expressionless mask in place. "Nice try, Meg. You aren't getting the coffee that easily, though."
"DAMN!!" Meg picked up the note Akkiko had left and scanned it again. "Hey, Kat-"
"Eh?"
"What did they mean, Relena's coming?"
Kat rolled her eyes. "Don't you remember the meeting we had last night?"
Meg thought for a moment. Enter cheesy 'flashback' music where the screen goes all wavy-
*flashback*
"GUYS!!" Heero screamed as he burst into the room where the others were waiting. Everyone jumped, except Akkiko, who was being strangled, and Kat, who was doing the strangling.
"Stop-teasing-me-dammit!!"
"But-it's-soo-easy-ack-loosen the grip!! Loosen the grip!!"
Duo stared at Heero, scared. "You aren't going to kill us, are you?"
"Maybe-later," Heero gasped. "Until then, we have an emergency!!"
"What emergency?" Meg asked, sweatdropping at her two insane friends.
"Dorothy's coming!"
"So?" Akkiko said, dusting her hands off. Kat lingered in the corner, unable to move.
"Relena's with her."
The Gundam pilots and Akkiko stiffened and started for the exit. Meg and Kat blocked their way.
"Oh, come on, you big babies! You drive homicidal machines of death every day and save the world-"
"Not to mention that you, Akkiko, are a demon-"
"And you're biggest fear is one loud-mouth girl?!"
The Gundam pilots (and Akkiko) contemplated this for a moment. "YES!!" they said, so loudly that Kat and Meg fell over, little squiggles for eyes. They turned to the door to find it boarded up with planks.
"What the HELL?" they shrieked. Kat hid a hammer behind her back. Meg threw a bag of nails in the corner.
"KAT!! MEG!!"
"Heh heh." The two girls waited for the insanity to abate . . .
(Two hours later)
"RELENA'S COMING AND WE CAN'T GET OUT!!" The pilots screamed.
"Think it's time to call in the navy yet?" Meg asked Kat dully. They were playing dominoes in the corner.
"Nah, give 'em another half hour."
(One hour later)
"Ready to formulate a plan yet?"
The G-Wing pilots sat around, exhausted. Akkiko was still bouncing off the walls, though. . .
"Sure-why not? We're screwed anyway." Duo said, biting the end of his braid.
"So, how do we keep Relena out of here?"
"I suggest a barricade!" Akkiko squealed. She had abandoned all traces of being scared, and was now merely hyper . . . God help us all.
"Barricade sounds good!" Heero said, and got up, wrenched the door open (despite the nails and boards), and went into the hallway.
Everyone sweatdropped. Kat stood up, her eyes little hearts. "That's my boy!"
*end flashback*
"And after that, we decided that we would grab some supplies, and then completely shut down all communications with the outside." Kat finished.
"Ah," Meg said, and glanced around at the passed-out Quatre. "And so they left us with HIM?!"
"Yep." Kat took out a deck of cards. "Poker?"
"Sure."
~~~
And so, for the rest of the day, Meg and Kat played poker (regular poker, not the striping type).
At about seven o'clock, they heard a CRASH!! from the hall.
"They're ba-ack!" Kat said dully, and laid out a royal flush.
"Damn!" Meg said, and pushed over an artichoke they had found in the freezer. "You know, playing with fruit sucks."
"Yep." Kat nodded. Suddenly, Akkiko bounced in, grinning like a maniac, which she is, anyway.
"Hey, Akkiko," Meg said. When there was no reply, the two girls looked up. Akkiko stood there, grinning. Meg and Kat sweatdropped. "Why are you smiling like that?"
Akkiko blushed. "The Gundam Pilots took advantage of me while we were gone."
"WHAT?!"
"Well, for lunch I had two cans of iced tea and some brownies, so I was already on sugar high."
"Oh . . . THAT kind of taking advantage of. Heh heh." Kat and Meg sweatdropped.
"Yep! Then . . . Duo thought it would be funny to get some more sugar into me. He went over to the pop machine, and came back, a can of iced tea in his hand. Being naïve, I drank it. Then I proceeded to. . ." Akkiko counted off her fingers. "I hugged Heero; I hugged Trowa; I ran down the streets, screaming, 'the world it going to end'; I kissed Wufei, Zechs showed up, so I kissed him too; I kissed Duo on the cheek; I hugged Duo; I went up to a complete stranger and said, 'HI! I'm Insane.' BTW, now I know a guy named Mark. And . . . yep that covers it."
Kat raised an eyebrow. "So . . . what did we learn?"
Akkiko thought for a moment. "Next time, try four cans."
Kat sighed and whacked her forehead. (A/N: This was a true incident, scary as that is. BTW, 'Mark' is a real guy-no, I have never met him . . . nor do I have any wishes to)
Akkiko continued grinning. Meg waved a hand in front of her face, and our favourite demon spontaneously collapsed. Kat and Meg blinked.
"Great. Now we have two people in this shelter suffering from sugar hangover," Meg said.
"Yes, fun, isn't it?" Kat sighed, and the two of them resignedly dragged the snoring Akkiko into their room.
~~~
Not too far away from the bomb shelter, Relena sat with Dorothy. "So, Mr. Ominous Figure," the vice-foreign Minister asked a cloaked figure (who, by the way, was ominous!) "How can you help us?"
"I can get the Gundam pilots for you very easily, miss." Had Meg, Akkiko, or Kat been around, they would have recognized the voice right away.
"And how is that?" Dorothy asked, holding binoculars to her eyes. "They've completely shut down the bomb shelter. Not even a fly could get in there now."
"Oh . . . I have my ways." The figure stood up and pushed his hood back. The moonlight shone off glasses, and Erikson chuckled . . . ominously.
(A/N: This was a terribly short chapter, but anyways-until next time!
Akkiko: NOOOOO!! You can't just STOP!!
Kat: Wanna bet? Good-bye!)
(Author's Note 2: For those of you who are confused by who Erikson is, he is one of my muses! For more material about him, check out Akira_Yai_Hiro's 'Travels of the Trio' *the first one*!)
Disclaimer: Gundam Wing does not belong to me . . . once again.