"WHEEE!!!" Akkiko shrieked as she made Heavyarms fly through the air faster
and faster.
Meg and Kat sweatdropped. "Was it really a good idea to put a demon inside a machine with Vulcan cannons, machine cannons, homing missiles, and micro missiles?" Meg asked.
"I- " Kat was cut off as Akkiko whizzed past screaming, "All will kneel before me!" The demon proceeded to laugh in her scary Wicked-witch-of-the- west voice.
"I don't think so," Kat finished. "What were we thinking?"
She fiddled the joystick in her lap, making Wing Zero go faster. Catching up with Akkiko, she flipped the switch that turned on the communications system. "Akkiko no baka?" she said calmly as a picture of her insane friend popped up on a little screen.
"Eh?"
"Can I ask you to please set down?"
"Awww. . . but why?"
Meg appeared on a separate screen and began counting off her fingers. "You pose a threat to the world as we know it, you're driving without a licence- "
"And I'm not the only one!" Akkiko snapped.
"-You're disturbing the peace, you're crazy-"
"But we're ALL crazy!" Akkiko pouted.
"And, most important of all-YOU'RE FREAKING ME OUT!!"
Silence. Kat and Akkiko stared at the screen.
"Uh. .. Meg? We always scare you. You're very . . . scareable." Kat pointed out.
Meg glared. "Then YOU come up with reasons to make her stop flying the *BEEP*in' Gundam!!" Meg's screen switched off.
Kat sighed. "Akkiko, you're switching suits."
"Why?" Akkiko whined.
"Because I said so. And if you don't, I'll start using Heavyarms as my puppet-you won't be able to drive it at all."
Akkiko was shocked. "Not . . .able. . .to drive. . .Heavyarms .. . ?" she whispered, beads of tears forming in the corners of her eyes. "But-but-I WANNA DRIVE!!" She started bawling.
Kat relented quickly, in an effort to protect her eardrums. "Okay, okay, OKAY!!" She rubbed her ears. "You can keep driving him, but ONLY if you quit acting like a total moron."
Akkiko perked up. "OKAY!!" She said, and took off at light speed.
"Uh . . . Akkiko? We're here." Kat pointed to the bomb shelter five feet below them.
Akkiko turned Heavyarms around. "Already?" she said, surprised. "Wow."
Kat and Meg sighed in unison.
~~~
"When are you going to let us go?" Duo asked dully.
"When those three little girls show up," Erikson said casually.
The five boys were still in the cage, Relena staring adoringly at Heero from two feet away. Heero, likewise, was staring at Relena, and praying the bars wouldn't suddenly disintegrate. Duo, Trowa, Wufei and Quatre were all bored, as was Dorothy, who was cleaning her nails. Erikson was leaning against the wall patiently.
"Do you really think Kat, Meg and Akkiko are going to fall for any trap your puny mind comes up with?" Trowa asked Erikson.
Dorothy cackled. "Oh, with the security measures we've installed, there's no way in hell your little girlfriends are getting near this room."
"Hi, guys!"
"Hello!"
"Yo."
Akkiko, Meg and Kat stood in the doorway of the room, looking evil (Akkiko), hyper (Meg) and bored (Kat).
Kat took a step forward and sighed. "Erikson, what the hell were you thinking, kidnapping the GW boys? Were you on cr-what the hell?"
The reason for her scream of shock was the fact that the cage the pilots were in, as well as the image of Relena, crackled and disappeared.
Meg swore; Akkiko scowled. "A 3D digital image," the demon mused. "Clever work, Erikson. It even fooled me."
The image of Erikson laughed. "Well, thank you very much. I couldn't have done it without Miss Catalonia's technology, though."
Dorothy smiled. "Thanks to the technology my fortune bought, it is us that will have the last laugh!" She began laughing manically as the images of her and Erikson crackled and disappeared.
The three girls were left to stare. "I . . . cannot . . . believe. . ." Kat began.
"That . . . one . . . of . . . Erikson's plans. . ." Meg continued.
"Actually WORKED!?" Akkiko screeched.
Suddenly the floor opened beneath them. The three of them hovered for several minutes, where the girls looked very bored.
"Only Erikson," Akkiko commented, and then screamed with Kat and Meg as they fell into oblivion.
~~~
The Gundam pilots sweatdropped as they watched the three girls fall through a trap door in the floor. They were in a secret chamber underneath the bomb shelter, locked in with Erikson, Dorothy and Relena. The room the digital images had been in was under surveillance, and that was how they could see what was going on at all times.
"I can't believe that worked," Quatre commented, stunned.
"Me neither," Duo muttered. "I would never have thought that jack-ass's half-baked idea would work."
"I heard that!" Erikson snapped.
"So where are they now?" Trowa asked.
Dorothy looked at her watch. "They should be dropping in in three . . . two . . . one. . ." Across the room, three separate cages were waiting. On cue, three trap doors opened above them and deposited Kat, Meg and Akkiko.
Erikson grinned. "Voila!" he said. "I have finally succeeded in capturing them!"
Akkiko growled. "You're going to die as soon as I get out of here; you realize that, don't you?"
Erikson shook a finger at her. "Aren't you forgetting something, Miss Demonchild? Look around you!"
Akkiko glared around her cage and blanched. She shuddered and curled up into a little ball. "I. . .I'm in. . .a pink cage!" she whispered, and started to whimper, squeezing her eyes closed.
~interruption~
Akkiko: HEY!!
Lily_Among_the_thorns_89: Kat, there's no need to be getting cruel.
Dark-Angel-Shui-17: Oh, it gets better!
Akkiko: I am very afraid now. Are you afraid? I'm afraid. We're all afraid.
~end interruption~
Meg sighed. "Well," she said. "I'm not afraid of pink, so it won't work on me. And I don't see the point of locking me in a glass box."
Dorothy grinned. "Oh, that's because we thought of something even more heinous for you, Miss Sorceress."
The top of the cage closed overtop of Meg, and after a few minutes she began screaming. No sound issued from the glass cage, though.
"It's airtight," Erikson explained. Kat raised an eyebrow at him.
"And. . .What are you doing to her?" she asked as Meg huddled in a corner, hands over her ears.
Erikson held up a little remote. Pushing a button, the room filled with music.
'My loneliness/ is killing me/ I must confess/ I still believe/ When I'm not with you/ I lose my mind/ Give me a sign/ Hit me baby/ One more time!!'
The pilots all hunched over, hands on their ears.
"What in the name of Nataku is that?!" Wufei demanded.
"Actually, it's quite catchy," Relena commented, dancing a little to the beat.
Dorothy and Erikson sweatdropped, taking off earmuffs as the music switched off.
Kat yawned. "Death by Britney Spears music. How diabolical," she said dully. "But neither pink nor trashy music is going to affect me. Sorry, Erikson."
Erikson grinned. "Oh, I now you're made of sterner stuff than that, Kat. That's why I have a plan H."
"Plan H?" Dorothy raised an eyebrow.
"Plan H?" the pilots took their hands off their ears.
"Plan H?" Relena stopped dancing and looked very confused.
"Plan . . . H?" Kat stared at Erikson, her eyes widening. "Waitaminute! Are you thinking what I think you're thinking?"
"Oh, yeah!" Erikson pushed another button on the remote control. "Time to come out, Mr. Yuy!"
A huge mechanical hand reached into the cage the GW pilots were in. It grabbed Heero and deposited him outside the cage. Relena squealed and immediately glomped him.
"ACK!!" the perfect soldier made frantic movements to get away.
Kat paled, hands tightening on the bars of her cage. "Why . . . you. . ." she seethed, shooting death-glares at Erikson.
Erikson shrugged, grinning. "Hey, whatever works. Well, I think I'll leave you three to your various tortures. Miss Catalonia, will you escort me to the cafeteria?"
"Of course." Dorothy opened the door and the two left.
Heero continued to struggle in Relena's clutching, and after a few seconds succeeded in knocking her out.
"Well," he said quietly. "It seems . . . that it is up to me!" And with that he held aloft . . . his pocket computer!!
"Uh . . . Heero?" Duo asked.
"What is it Duo?" Heero muttered absently, already tapping away at his little contraption.
"You wear spandex and a tank top . . . where were you hiding that?" There were several minutes of silence. "On second thought, I don't want to know."
Heero pushed a final button and went over to Akkiko's cage. "You can look up now," he said. Akkiko raised her head.
"The . . . the pink is GONE!!" she said gleefully, and broke the bars without even breaking a sweat. "But . . . how?"
Heero raised one eyebrow. "It wasn't really pink. It was an optical illusion caused by more digital technology."
Akkiko fumed. "Okay, I need to go break something." She stalked over to the cage where the other pilots were being held and proceeded to break all the bars one by one.
Heero sighed and went over to Meg's cage. He pushed a few more buttons on his computer and. . .
"YES!! The evil music has ENDED!!" Meg sang, breaking out of her own cage. She glomped onto Heero. "Thank you thank you thank you!!"
Heero sweatdropped. "Uh . . . Duo's over there," he said, pointing.
Meg squealed and ran over to glomp her braided goofball, who glomped her back.
"Heh. . . Erikson took away my teddy bear," Duo said. "Can I sleep with you instead?"
Meg flushed. "Ah . . . the wonders of having a crush on a lech," she murmured, and the two of them started snogging.
"Ew. . ." Akkiko said, then looked at Trowa. He paled. Akkiko sighed. "Can't you even pretend to like me?"
"Uh . . . let me think." Trowa went into a 'thinking' position for a second. "NO!!"
Akkiko looked crushed, then scowled. "Well . . . I hate weaklings!"
Wufei blinked and stared at her. "You know, all of a sudden I see you in a whole now light."
Akkiko grinned and glomped onto him. "Well, okay then!"
Trowa flushed. "But-but-I LIKE HER!!"
Akkiko and Wufei stared at him. "You DO?!"
Trowa looked slightly flustered; he looked away. Akkiko looked at Wufei, then at Trowa, then at Wufei again.
She shrugged. "Sorry, Wuffles!" she said cheerily, and went to glomp Trowa, who glomped her back.
Heero watched these goings-on with a large sweatdrop on his head, then went over to Kat's cage. He opened the mechanical lock on it with his pocket computer and tapped her shoulder.
"Kat?" he asked hesitantly. "Kat?"
"She's-um . . . She's in shock from when she saw Relena glomp you," Meg said, pausing for a moment from her snog-fest with Duo.
Heero sighed. "So how do I get her out of the shock?" he asked, prying Kat's hands from where they were clamped around the bars.
Meg shrugged. "You might try the Sleeping Beauty technique."
A question mark appeared over Heero's head. "Sleeping . . . Beauty?"
"She means kiss her, you idiot," Akkiko called, pausing in her own . . . antics concerning Trowa (Wufei was huddled in the corner, looking disappointed).
Heero paled, and then flushed. Then he leaned in and hesitantly kissed Kat on her lips. When he leaned back, she was completely red.
"Whoa. . ." she said. "You . . . kissed me. Wow . . . you'd think I'd be used to it by now, after what happened with Bakura."
Heero flushed. "What?" he said in a dangerous tone.
Kat glanced at him; she got a mischievous gleam in her eyes. "Oh, didn't I tell you? We were at a dance and we went off to make out."
Heero scowled, then got an idea. "Want to see which one of us is better?" he asked.
Kat grinned. "'Kay." They went off to . . . uh . . . um. . .
~interruption~
Akkiko: Kat, you're doing it again.
Kat: What?
Akkiko: You're focusing on yourself too much.
Kat: Alright, alright, picky, picky!
~end interruption~
Akkiko looked over at Wufei, who was still looked disappointed. "Oh, come here, you big baby!" she said, and grabbed him into one huge kiss.
When she let go, Wufei stumbled away. "I think . . . you made me go brain dead," he commented.
Akkiko smiled. "Yeah, I have that effect on guys."
In the mean time, Meg and Duo were . . . er . . . the same thing Kat and Heero were doing!
And so the afternoon progressed, peaceful as ever.
# # #
Ooh . . . almost finished! One more chapter! Erikson is going to get his! BWAHAHAHAHA!! Unfortunately, I can't finish it this week. I'm going to a writer's camp, and then Semester two is starting . . . grr, life isn't easy for a high school student.
Oh well-later days!!
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing, or the Britney Spears Song "Baby One More Time".
Meg and Kat sweatdropped. "Was it really a good idea to put a demon inside a machine with Vulcan cannons, machine cannons, homing missiles, and micro missiles?" Meg asked.
"I- " Kat was cut off as Akkiko whizzed past screaming, "All will kneel before me!" The demon proceeded to laugh in her scary Wicked-witch-of-the- west voice.
"I don't think so," Kat finished. "What were we thinking?"
She fiddled the joystick in her lap, making Wing Zero go faster. Catching up with Akkiko, she flipped the switch that turned on the communications system. "Akkiko no baka?" she said calmly as a picture of her insane friend popped up on a little screen.
"Eh?"
"Can I ask you to please set down?"
"Awww. . . but why?"
Meg appeared on a separate screen and began counting off her fingers. "You pose a threat to the world as we know it, you're driving without a licence- "
"And I'm not the only one!" Akkiko snapped.
"-You're disturbing the peace, you're crazy-"
"But we're ALL crazy!" Akkiko pouted.
"And, most important of all-YOU'RE FREAKING ME OUT!!"
Silence. Kat and Akkiko stared at the screen.
"Uh. .. Meg? We always scare you. You're very . . . scareable." Kat pointed out.
Meg glared. "Then YOU come up with reasons to make her stop flying the *BEEP*in' Gundam!!" Meg's screen switched off.
Kat sighed. "Akkiko, you're switching suits."
"Why?" Akkiko whined.
"Because I said so. And if you don't, I'll start using Heavyarms as my puppet-you won't be able to drive it at all."
Akkiko was shocked. "Not . . .able. . .to drive. . .Heavyarms .. . ?" she whispered, beads of tears forming in the corners of her eyes. "But-but-I WANNA DRIVE!!" She started bawling.
Kat relented quickly, in an effort to protect her eardrums. "Okay, okay, OKAY!!" She rubbed her ears. "You can keep driving him, but ONLY if you quit acting like a total moron."
Akkiko perked up. "OKAY!!" She said, and took off at light speed.
"Uh . . . Akkiko? We're here." Kat pointed to the bomb shelter five feet below them.
Akkiko turned Heavyarms around. "Already?" she said, surprised. "Wow."
Kat and Meg sighed in unison.
~~~
"When are you going to let us go?" Duo asked dully.
"When those three little girls show up," Erikson said casually.
The five boys were still in the cage, Relena staring adoringly at Heero from two feet away. Heero, likewise, was staring at Relena, and praying the bars wouldn't suddenly disintegrate. Duo, Trowa, Wufei and Quatre were all bored, as was Dorothy, who was cleaning her nails. Erikson was leaning against the wall patiently.
"Do you really think Kat, Meg and Akkiko are going to fall for any trap your puny mind comes up with?" Trowa asked Erikson.
Dorothy cackled. "Oh, with the security measures we've installed, there's no way in hell your little girlfriends are getting near this room."
"Hi, guys!"
"Hello!"
"Yo."
Akkiko, Meg and Kat stood in the doorway of the room, looking evil (Akkiko), hyper (Meg) and bored (Kat).
Kat took a step forward and sighed. "Erikson, what the hell were you thinking, kidnapping the GW boys? Were you on cr-what the hell?"
The reason for her scream of shock was the fact that the cage the pilots were in, as well as the image of Relena, crackled and disappeared.
Meg swore; Akkiko scowled. "A 3D digital image," the demon mused. "Clever work, Erikson. It even fooled me."
The image of Erikson laughed. "Well, thank you very much. I couldn't have done it without Miss Catalonia's technology, though."
Dorothy smiled. "Thanks to the technology my fortune bought, it is us that will have the last laugh!" She began laughing manically as the images of her and Erikson crackled and disappeared.
The three girls were left to stare. "I . . . cannot . . . believe. . ." Kat began.
"That . . . one . . . of . . . Erikson's plans. . ." Meg continued.
"Actually WORKED!?" Akkiko screeched.
Suddenly the floor opened beneath them. The three of them hovered for several minutes, where the girls looked very bored.
"Only Erikson," Akkiko commented, and then screamed with Kat and Meg as they fell into oblivion.
~~~
The Gundam pilots sweatdropped as they watched the three girls fall through a trap door in the floor. They were in a secret chamber underneath the bomb shelter, locked in with Erikson, Dorothy and Relena. The room the digital images had been in was under surveillance, and that was how they could see what was going on at all times.
"I can't believe that worked," Quatre commented, stunned.
"Me neither," Duo muttered. "I would never have thought that jack-ass's half-baked idea would work."
"I heard that!" Erikson snapped.
"So where are they now?" Trowa asked.
Dorothy looked at her watch. "They should be dropping in in three . . . two . . . one. . ." Across the room, three separate cages were waiting. On cue, three trap doors opened above them and deposited Kat, Meg and Akkiko.
Erikson grinned. "Voila!" he said. "I have finally succeeded in capturing them!"
Akkiko growled. "You're going to die as soon as I get out of here; you realize that, don't you?"
Erikson shook a finger at her. "Aren't you forgetting something, Miss Demonchild? Look around you!"
Akkiko glared around her cage and blanched. She shuddered and curled up into a little ball. "I. . .I'm in. . .a pink cage!" she whispered, and started to whimper, squeezing her eyes closed.
~interruption~
Akkiko: HEY!!
Lily_Among_the_thorns_89: Kat, there's no need to be getting cruel.
Dark-Angel-Shui-17: Oh, it gets better!
Akkiko: I am very afraid now. Are you afraid? I'm afraid. We're all afraid.
~end interruption~
Meg sighed. "Well," she said. "I'm not afraid of pink, so it won't work on me. And I don't see the point of locking me in a glass box."
Dorothy grinned. "Oh, that's because we thought of something even more heinous for you, Miss Sorceress."
The top of the cage closed overtop of Meg, and after a few minutes she began screaming. No sound issued from the glass cage, though.
"It's airtight," Erikson explained. Kat raised an eyebrow at him.
"And. . .What are you doing to her?" she asked as Meg huddled in a corner, hands over her ears.
Erikson held up a little remote. Pushing a button, the room filled with music.
'My loneliness/ is killing me/ I must confess/ I still believe/ When I'm not with you/ I lose my mind/ Give me a sign/ Hit me baby/ One more time!!'
The pilots all hunched over, hands on their ears.
"What in the name of Nataku is that?!" Wufei demanded.
"Actually, it's quite catchy," Relena commented, dancing a little to the beat.
Dorothy and Erikson sweatdropped, taking off earmuffs as the music switched off.
Kat yawned. "Death by Britney Spears music. How diabolical," she said dully. "But neither pink nor trashy music is going to affect me. Sorry, Erikson."
Erikson grinned. "Oh, I now you're made of sterner stuff than that, Kat. That's why I have a plan H."
"Plan H?" Dorothy raised an eyebrow.
"Plan H?" the pilots took their hands off their ears.
"Plan H?" Relena stopped dancing and looked very confused.
"Plan . . . H?" Kat stared at Erikson, her eyes widening. "Waitaminute! Are you thinking what I think you're thinking?"
"Oh, yeah!" Erikson pushed another button on the remote control. "Time to come out, Mr. Yuy!"
A huge mechanical hand reached into the cage the GW pilots were in. It grabbed Heero and deposited him outside the cage. Relena squealed and immediately glomped him.
"ACK!!" the perfect soldier made frantic movements to get away.
Kat paled, hands tightening on the bars of her cage. "Why . . . you. . ." she seethed, shooting death-glares at Erikson.
Erikson shrugged, grinning. "Hey, whatever works. Well, I think I'll leave you three to your various tortures. Miss Catalonia, will you escort me to the cafeteria?"
"Of course." Dorothy opened the door and the two left.
Heero continued to struggle in Relena's clutching, and after a few seconds succeeded in knocking her out.
"Well," he said quietly. "It seems . . . that it is up to me!" And with that he held aloft . . . his pocket computer!!
"Uh . . . Heero?" Duo asked.
"What is it Duo?" Heero muttered absently, already tapping away at his little contraption.
"You wear spandex and a tank top . . . where were you hiding that?" There were several minutes of silence. "On second thought, I don't want to know."
Heero pushed a final button and went over to Akkiko's cage. "You can look up now," he said. Akkiko raised her head.
"The . . . the pink is GONE!!" she said gleefully, and broke the bars without even breaking a sweat. "But . . . how?"
Heero raised one eyebrow. "It wasn't really pink. It was an optical illusion caused by more digital technology."
Akkiko fumed. "Okay, I need to go break something." She stalked over to the cage where the other pilots were being held and proceeded to break all the bars one by one.
Heero sighed and went over to Meg's cage. He pushed a few more buttons on his computer and. . .
"YES!! The evil music has ENDED!!" Meg sang, breaking out of her own cage. She glomped onto Heero. "Thank you thank you thank you!!"
Heero sweatdropped. "Uh . . . Duo's over there," he said, pointing.
Meg squealed and ran over to glomp her braided goofball, who glomped her back.
"Heh. . . Erikson took away my teddy bear," Duo said. "Can I sleep with you instead?"
Meg flushed. "Ah . . . the wonders of having a crush on a lech," she murmured, and the two of them started snogging.
"Ew. . ." Akkiko said, then looked at Trowa. He paled. Akkiko sighed. "Can't you even pretend to like me?"
"Uh . . . let me think." Trowa went into a 'thinking' position for a second. "NO!!"
Akkiko looked crushed, then scowled. "Well . . . I hate weaklings!"
Wufei blinked and stared at her. "You know, all of a sudden I see you in a whole now light."
Akkiko grinned and glomped onto him. "Well, okay then!"
Trowa flushed. "But-but-I LIKE HER!!"
Akkiko and Wufei stared at him. "You DO?!"
Trowa looked slightly flustered; he looked away. Akkiko looked at Wufei, then at Trowa, then at Wufei again.
She shrugged. "Sorry, Wuffles!" she said cheerily, and went to glomp Trowa, who glomped her back.
Heero watched these goings-on with a large sweatdrop on his head, then went over to Kat's cage. He opened the mechanical lock on it with his pocket computer and tapped her shoulder.
"Kat?" he asked hesitantly. "Kat?"
"She's-um . . . She's in shock from when she saw Relena glomp you," Meg said, pausing for a moment from her snog-fest with Duo.
Heero sighed. "So how do I get her out of the shock?" he asked, prying Kat's hands from where they were clamped around the bars.
Meg shrugged. "You might try the Sleeping Beauty technique."
A question mark appeared over Heero's head. "Sleeping . . . Beauty?"
"She means kiss her, you idiot," Akkiko called, pausing in her own . . . antics concerning Trowa (Wufei was huddled in the corner, looking disappointed).
Heero paled, and then flushed. Then he leaned in and hesitantly kissed Kat on her lips. When he leaned back, she was completely red.
"Whoa. . ." she said. "You . . . kissed me. Wow . . . you'd think I'd be used to it by now, after what happened with Bakura."
Heero flushed. "What?" he said in a dangerous tone.
Kat glanced at him; she got a mischievous gleam in her eyes. "Oh, didn't I tell you? We were at a dance and we went off to make out."
Heero scowled, then got an idea. "Want to see which one of us is better?" he asked.
Kat grinned. "'Kay." They went off to . . . uh . . . um. . .
~interruption~
Akkiko: Kat, you're doing it again.
Kat: What?
Akkiko: You're focusing on yourself too much.
Kat: Alright, alright, picky, picky!
~end interruption~
Akkiko looked over at Wufei, who was still looked disappointed. "Oh, come here, you big baby!" she said, and grabbed him into one huge kiss.
When she let go, Wufei stumbled away. "I think . . . you made me go brain dead," he commented.
Akkiko smiled. "Yeah, I have that effect on guys."
In the mean time, Meg and Duo were . . . er . . . the same thing Kat and Heero were doing!
And so the afternoon progressed, peaceful as ever.
# # #
Ooh . . . almost finished! One more chapter! Erikson is going to get his! BWAHAHAHAHA!! Unfortunately, I can't finish it this week. I'm going to a writer's camp, and then Semester two is starting . . . grr, life isn't easy for a high school student.
Oh well-later days!!
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing, or the Britney Spears Song "Baby One More Time".