Everyone milled around the house, finished their breakfast, and readied themselves to go to the theater. Duo grabbed a cup of coffee and got in the car, waiting for everyone else to get ready. Quatre got in the driver's seat, last time they let Wufei drive, he almost ran them into a telephone pole, and last time Heero drove, they made a twenty-minute drive in five minutes. No one except Heero had driven with Trowa, and for some reason, no one wanted to. Trowa, Heero, and Wufei all got into the backseats; occasionally arguing over whom should sit in the middle. Finally, Trowa sat in the center, glaring at Wufei for even starting such argument.

DD

Duo grinned at Quatre and got that hyper puppy dog gleam in his eyes, "Quatre, can I drive?" Suddenly all movement in the car stopped as everyone looked at Quatre hoping to all the seven hells and beyond that he would say 'no'. Quatre stared at Duo for a moment before nodding, "I suppose you can. I mean you haven't ever before." Duo let out a cry of joy before jumping into the driver's side and grinning into the rear view mirror. Heero, Trowa, and Wufei all stared in shock at Quatre for being as stupid at to allow Maxwell to drive, oh well; it was Quatre's car after all. If Duo wrecked, they could always replace it. What they were worried about was themselves. Duo started up the car almost the second Quatre had the door shut and was going down the road as fast as he could which was at a steady speed of 98 miles per hour. The other boys sat there in total fear, ever Heero looked mildly afraid with Duo behind the wheel, all the sudden about 20 feet in front of the car, still going at 98 mph, the stop light changed and turned red. Duo slammed on the breaks as fast as he could leaving a burning skid mark behind them as they came to a stop just behind the street line.

Duo grinned at Quatre who was shaking by that time as a man in his early 50's in this old beat up car rolled up beside the driver's side of Quatre's car. Duo took a drink of his coffee before noticing that the man also had a coffee cup in his hand. The man looked over at Duo and smiled. Duo smiled back looked at the man's coffee cup back at his and with that evil little gleam in his eyes shouted through the window, "MY COFFEE CUP IS BETTER THAN YOUR COFFEE CUP!!" (A.N. For some strange reason, I really did say this to someone once, but I don't think she heard me.) The man gave Duo a look of mild annoyance and in a pure British accent said, "I believe that your mistaken sir for my coffee cup is no mere coffee cup but one of purely made china made by special order that-" Duo cut him off by yelling again, "MY COFFEE CUP IS STILL BETTER THAN YOUR COFFE CUP!!" The, he preceded by speeding off again at top speed screaming at the top of his lungs about insane coffee cup's that took over the world.

VSO

Wufei glared at Duo. "Your coffee cup is weak. I could beat it."

Duo slammed on the brakes, causing the cars behind him to swerve out of the way to miss him, sending several in the ditch. Anger burned in his eyes. "WHAT?!?!?"

Wufei glanced back at the other cars behind him and saw the massive destruction that he had just caused. He grinned. "I said-"Trowa and Heero slapped their hands over his mouth to keep him from finishing the sentence. "Eh-heh… nothing, he didn't say anything at all." Duo looked at both Trowa and Heero with a critical expression on his face. "Are you sure?"

"Hnn."

"Okay." Duo continued on his way to the theater

DD

 Going at his…normal speed of 95 mph. Duo got to the theater and slammed on the breaks again parking perfectly and stepped out of the car grinning triumphantly at Quatre, Heero, Trowa, and Wufei at the shakily got out.

VSO

"Why aren't there any other cars in the parking lot?" Duo asked as he glanced around the lot.

Quatre looked down at his watch. "It's only ten o'clock, the theater doesn't open until noon."

"So you two hurried us out into public for no reason?"

"Weak jerks who can't tell time."

"Hnn."

DD

Duo grinned and ran across the street to the candy store with a large check in hand.

"MAXWELL GET BACK HERE I WANT TO GO BACK HOME, AND YOU DON'T NEED CANDY, YOU ALREADY DRIVE LIKE A MANIAC!"

VSO

Wufei shook his fist in the air. "Get back here!"

Heero shook his head. Duo didn't listen to Wufei and everyone but Wufei knew it. "Duo get back here and I'll buy you some candy when the movie starts." Heero stated in his familiar monotonous tone.

Duo turned on the dime. "Really?"

"Hnn."

Duo ran back toward Heero at full speed. When he got to where they were all standing, he began jumping up and down yelling out the names of countless candies that he wanted.

"Okay, okay. Just shut up."

Quatre looked around, hoping to find a plan in the empty parking lot. Finally, he glanced across the highway (in the opposite direction of the candy store) and saw the local mall. "Well, we, uhh… we could go walk to the mall and look around for a while."

"What are we, a bunch of weak women?"

Suddenly, from out of nowhere, a woman with short, dark violet hair wearing a yellow leather halter-top, matching shorts just barely held on by a pair of suspenders, a red sweated looped around her elbows, and a pair of white boots appeared and grabbed Wufei by the collar of his shirt and lifted him into the air. "Weak women? What do you mean, weak women?" Only Faye Valentine would take this topic to this extreme… okay, maybe any other self-respecting woman would too. (A.N. Okay, okay, we all want to kick his a. I just needed a way to introduce Faye into the paragraph.)

"Only a woman would wander around a mall with no specific purpose but to waste time and money."

"Oh yeah? What do you think sporting goods stores are for?"

Heero looked up, with a slight gleam in his eye. "Wufei, you really have no room to talk, I've seen you drooling in front of the Victoria Secret store in the mall."

Wufei blushed a deep scarlet. "INJUSTICE!!!" Wufei squirmed and tried his best to elude Faye's grip, but he could not. "How is it that a weak woman could hold a warrior like myself so that he may not escape?"

Spike Spiegel walked out from behind the movie theater with a cigarette pressed between his lips. "She's had practice, kid, lots and lots of practice."

Trowa snickered. "Perhaps it is not the woman who is weak, rather the warrior."

Wufei stopped all movement, suddenly crestfallen. "Then, I … I have no right to stay in the midst of stronger -" (blah, blah blah, blah blah blah, weak blah, injustice blah, injustice of the weaker, blah, strong, blah… It's Wufei, what do you expect?)

"What is this moron babbling about now?" Faye asked of the other pilots as she dropped Wufei to the ground.

"That's something even we haven't been able to figure out, and we've dealt with him for years." Trowa took a long look at Faye. "By any chance… Are you… uhh… are you single?" Trowa spit the words out while his face reddened. He wasn't very used to talking with girls, and certainly not girls that dressed in that revealing of an outfit.

"Huh?" Faye began to check Trowa out when Spike grabbed the collar of her halter-top and began dragging her in the opposite direction. "Sorry," he said, "We have a bounty to catch and we most certainly can't be chit-chatting with total strangers." Within a few seconds, the duo had disappeared behind the building, and soon after a zip-craft blasted off, flying overhead.

Trowa looked down on the ground. "Well, I never had that good of luck with women anyhow."

Duo rolled his eyes and grabbed Trowa and Wufei by their arms, dragging them to the mall, across the highway that Quatre and Heero had already crossed. After they had passed the first lane of traffic, the other two began walking voluntarily for fear that Duo may leave them in traffic to be hit by a speeding car. Duo skipped through, dodging the vehicles as if they weren't moving. Trowa practically flew through, using a series of acrobatics, gracefully dancing through the cars. Wufei crossed his arms. No REAL warrior would dance around like that. They're all fools. Wufei paid no mind to the traffic around him and walked in that cocky gait that only he can manage. However, when he reached the last lane of traffic, a black Dodge Ram narrowly missed hitting him as it swerved around the corner and into the parking lot of the mall.

Wufei looked after the truck a look of pure anger on his face. " THIS IS INJUSTICE! HOW DARE YOU TRY TO RUN ME OVER!! DON'T YOU KNOW THAT PEDESTRIANS HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY!!?!"

The black truck screeched to a halt when it got into the parking lot. Two teenage girls jumped out. One had long reddish-brown hair put up into a braid. She glared at Wufei as her friend headed into the mall. "Pedestrians DO have the right of way, as long as they're not in my way."

"INJUSTICE!!!"

"Fuck justice!"

Wufei stood, staring at her dumbfounded. He would have been in the same spot for longer, but Trowa pulled him out of the way as more traffic headed straight for him.

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Duo stood in the middle of the mall looking around for the other pilots, who had been lost to his sight as he had ran across to the mall in a rush. "DUO! OVER HERE!" Duo looked over in the direction of the bookstore where Quatre stood looking at him oddly. "QUATRE!! QUATRE!!" Duo ran over to Quatre with one of those odd grins on his face. "Whatcha doin' Quatre? Huh Huh? Whatcha doin'?!!?" Quatre continued to look at him oddly before answering. "Duo, do you know where the others are?" Duo got a very thoughtful look to him for a moment, making Quatre actually think he knew something important, well, that is until he said, "I'm a frickin' cucumber, whatcha got to say to that??" Duo grinned happily as Quatre assumed a look of complete confusion. Duo started to bound off happily. "MAXWELL!!! WHERE THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOUR GOING!!!" a sharp voice rang out from two stores away. Duo looked behind him to see Wufei standing there hands on hips glaring at him with Heero and Trowa next to him. "Hey, there you guys are! I was looking everywhere!!" Trowa gave Duo a disbelieving look, "No you weren't, we've been standing there for the last ten minutes looking at you waiting for you to notice." Duo just grinned and looked at him happily, "Really! You mean it!!" Everyone looked at each other with confusion. Quatre came over and looked at them, "Well, shouldn't we start heading back? It's about 11:45, and shouldn't we try to get to the theater early?" Duo grinned, "CANDY!!" Heero looked at Duo, "Yeah, you'll get your damn candy."

VSO

Duo grabbed Heero by his right wrist and began to drag him in the direction of the candy store. Wufei stepped in front of them. "No, we'll get your candy at the theater. We must go now."

"NO!!! Must… have… candy… now…" Duo took a dramatic pose and 'fainted'.

Trowa, Quatre, Heero, and Wufei leaned over the 'crumpled body' on the floor. Trowa poked Duo's cheek, expecting a reaction that he didn't get. "Maybe we should bury him."

Quatre shook his head. "No. I think that he's always wanted to be cremated when he died. Let's just go burn him."

"Hnn. Maybe we should throw the body in Deathscythe and set off the self-destruct mechanism by remote, destroying both man and Gundam."

Trowa shook his head. "I've got a better idea, let's get him stuffed and put him in the living room next to the fireplace."

Quatre nodded, drying a non-existent tear. "I'll do it. I'll brush his hair, and when the hair starts to fall out, I'll buy a wig for him."

"Hnn."

"INJUSTICE!!"

"Now what?"

"He still has my book on how to deal with women in the twenty-first century!! I wanted that back!"

Duo sat up, with a mildly zombified expression on his face. "You dumbfuck! I'm not really dead!"

Wufei turned white as a ghost. "IT'S ALIVE!!!"

Duo reached up and (softly) punched Wufei on the nose.  When he pulled his fist away, his knuckles were crimson. "Bleed easily, don't we?"

Wufei held his hand over his bleeding nose. "Shut up, Maxwell!" Wufei shook his head a little, then wiped his nose with a napkin he had stuffed in his pocket. "We need to go NOW!"