California or Bust! - Chapter Eleven:
Universal Fun!
Everyone woke up early the next morning so they got there when the theme park opened.
Mia and Duo were especially perky. "I had such a good sleep!" Mia yelled.
"Sure you did," Em said sarcastically.
Mia 'hmphed: "For your information, we kept our clothes on!"
"Well at least our pants…" Duo muttered quietly. Mia elbowed him in the stomach.
"Come on you guys. We'd better get going," Li said, trying to change the subject.
The gang all piled into the van and drove off to Universal.
"First we're going on the tram!" Em yelled, running across the crowded parking lot.
They spent about half an hour getting through the front gates and getting through the tram line.
"Keep your hands and arms inside the moving vehicle at all times," the intercom boomed.
"That means your hair to babe," Mia warned Duo, whom had his hair leaning out of the car.
Duo pulled his hair onto the seat. "Why?"
"You'll see," Mia sang.
They began to go through an underground parking lot when the ceiling collapsed and vehicles began to slide down the broken roof and towards the tram.
"Ahhhhhhh!" screeched Duo as the area around the tram set on fire. "We're all gonna die!"
"Oh shut up," Kio grumbled. "It's just a ride you baka!"
They continued through the ride and came to a small pond.
"It looks so peaceful," said Quatre.
Mia snickered. "Not for long. Watch the boat," she pointed to a small boat with a manikin in it.
Quatre watched horrified as a huge white shark ate the boat and the manikin and splashed the tram with water as it was going over a rickety bridge.
The ride finally ended and they headed off for "ET". They loaded onto the bicycle - type seats after they had given the attendant their names.
"Why did they want our names?" Heero asked.
"You'll see!" Mia sang yet again.
"I hate it when you say that…" Quatre mumbled.
The ride went calmly enough until the end. And ET statue was standing there and was waving.
(This is how he's pronouncing them, not how their spelt) "Goodbye Keeeohh, Heeeeeroh, Meeeahh, Duuohh, Reeeebeeee, Trowwah, Leeee, Qwatway, Eeem, Wuffie."
Heero reached for where his gun would have been but then remembered that Mia made them leave them all at home.
Next they headed off to 'Jurassic Park'. A woman at the front gates was selling ponchos.
"We should get some," Li suggested.
"Why?" Questioned Quatre.
"Because it's a water ride," half explained Rebi
Everyone, except for Wufei, bought a poncho and they all piled into the little floating car.
As they were drifting down the river, Quatre was pointing out all the herbivores. "They're so cute!" he cooed.
Mia grinned evilly and pointed to a car half-hanging over a cliff. "We could be next!" Quatre gulped and Mia laughed manically as they approached a door that had signs like 'Danger' and 'Caution' written on them. The doors opened and Quatre, Li, and Rebi screamed (Rebi just for the heck of it) at a 50 foot T-rex.
"It's going to eat us!" Quatre screeched.
Kio rolled her eyes as they passed the T-rex ripping apart wires and came to another door. The door opened and all you could see was blackness.
"Hoods up!" Mia yelled as the car tilted and was hurled down a 60 foot drop at about 350 miles per hour.
"OH MY GOD!!!! KUUUSOOOO!!!" screamed Heero.
When they came off the ride, everyone was laughing at Wufei, who was completely, totally, and utterly drenched.
"YOU ONNA'S NEVER SAID I'D GET WET!" Wufei screamed, his white T-shirt dripping on the ground.
"Well we did say it was a water ride," informed Mia. "We just neglected the 30 foot water spray at the end."
Wufei twitched. "Baka onnas…."
The gang headed off next to a photo gallery where you could dress up and get your pictures taken.
"So what are we going with? Medieval or old western?" Li asked.
Mia shrugged. "Since we went with Medieval all the past times we've been here, maybe we should go try western."
Everyone agreed as they entered the photo studio. Unfortunately for them, they didn't look at the pictures of former customers to see how the outfits looked."
"What will you have?" the attendant asked.
"We'll have the old western themed photos please." Announced Em
"Aright. Ladies, follow me. Gentlemen, I'll be with you in just a minute," the attendant announced, bustling the girls off to the changing rooms. The guys were shuff led off soon after, while the girls continued changing. The guys only took about five minutes to change from their normal outfits to their cowboy-type clothes. "Looking good guys!" the attendant said, knocking on the doors to the girls' change rooms. "Everything okay in there ladies?"
"The outfits are kinda small!" yelled Em from inside one of the change rooms.
Li coughed from inside another. "Um… I think Em means revealing…"
"Just slightly!" squeaked Mia from inside the far left change room.
The attendant sighed. "Don't worry. I'm sure they're fine. Now would you please come out so I may see?"
The girls slowly came out of the change rooms warring the old-style bar maid outfits.
Duo wolf-whistled and Mia hit him over the head. "Ow……….." he muttered.
"Okay everyone!" shouted the attendant. "Let's put you all into poses, ok?" he yelled excitedly, holding up a box of props.
The girls all groaned and the guys just looked confused ast o why they were so upset about poses.
The attendant continued telling the gang which poses to get into. "Do we have any couples here?"
Li grinned evilly and whispered something into the attendant's ear the attendant nodded and continued placing props on the set.
Mia looked at Li worriedly. "Li…what did you tell her…."
Li winked. "You'll see!"
Mia gulped as the attendant finished setting up. "Okay! We'll take a few couple shots first!" the attendant peered around the group. "Ah! You two first!" she exclaimed, pointing to Em and Wufei.
Em looked nervous and Wufei glared at LI. "Baka onna…" he muttered as the attendant decided on a pose.
After they had finished with the couple shots, they decided to go with a group shot.(don't worry I'm getting to the poses. ^~^ You don't have to eat me.)
"Okay! Let's get the gentleman with the braid and the lovely lady with the long blonde hair over there!" the attendant shouted, ushering Mia and Duo onto the set. The attendant put Mia and Duo in a pose that they both agreed on. Mia was sitting in Duo's lap with his hair twisted around her finger. Duo was tilting his black cowboy hat up with a gun he held in the other hand.
After they had all gotten onto the set, the attendant took some shots from different tangles. The gang was set up was as follows. On the far left was Em and Wufei facing back to back. Next was Li and Quatre. Quatre was sitting on a barstool and Li was standing behind the counter, her arms draped around Quatre's shoulders. Then came Mia and Duo (same pose as was mentioned before). After came Kio and Heero; Kio looked as if she was kissing him on the cheek and Heero had one arm around her waist. Last was Rebi and Trowa. Rebi had her arms around his neck and Trowa had his arms around her waist.
After the pictures had been taken, the gang decided to go out for lunch while they developed.
"Okay, who's having what?" Rebi asked.
"I'm in the mood for pasta," claimed Mia.
"Same here!" spoke up Duo.
"I think I'm going with Chinese here," Rebi said. Trowa nodded to agree.
"Tea house for me," answered Li
"I'll join you too if you don't mine," Quatre sid politely.
"Not at all," Li replied.
"I'm having Greek!" yelled Em.
"That sounds find by me," said Wufei.
"I'm going for BBQ. You coming Hee-chan?" Kio asked.
"Affirmative," was Heero's dull reply.
"Okay then!" exclaimed Rebi. "Lets meet back here in two hours!"
Mia and Duo walked around Universal, searching for a pasta place.
"Arg! Where is it?!" screamed Mia.
"Where is what?" Duo asked, confused.
Mia looked lift and right. "The pasta place around here! It was great and I'm sure it was right- AH HAH!" Duo barely had time to argue before Mia was dragging him into a restaurant. "Here we are!"
A waitress with short, slightly curly dirty blonde hair came up to them. "Hi! My name's Cassi and I'll be your waitress today!" she said with a cheery grin. "Follow me please!" Mia and Duo followed Cassi to a two-person table in a corner. "Now then! Can I start with your drinks?"
Mia pondered for a second. "I'll have a glass of Pepsi tm please."
Cassi scribbled on her notepad. "Uh huh. And for you sir?"
"I'll have a Pepsi tm too," Duo replied.
"All right then!" Cassi said, leaving to get their drinks.
Rebi entered the Chinese restaurant and took a deep breath. Trowa followed behind her.
"Come on, we'd better get a seat!" Rebi exclaimed as they went and sat down at a table be the window.
"So what are you getting?" Trowa asked.
"Wow! A whole sentence! I'm going with the buffet," replied Rebi.
"I think I'll go with that too," commented Trowa.
Their waitress came up and took their orders. Next, they went to get their food. (If you don't know what a buffet is what rock have you been living under?!)
"Thank you again for the hospitality," said Trowa
Rebi spooned some rice onto her plate. "It's no problem! It's fun!"
Trowa smiled and kissed Rebi lightly on the cheek. "Thank you."
Quatre and Li were sitting in the small tea house, a lavender candle burning on the table.
"This is a really cozy place!" Quatre exclaimed.
"Yeah, I love it here!" Li replied taking a sip of her chamomile tea.
Quatre sighed deeply. "We may have to leave soon…"
Li set down her cup rather roughly "WHAT?!"
Quatre nodded sadly. "Yeah Heero said it probably wont take them much longer to fix our gundams…"
"How long?" Li asked.
Quatre shrugged. "I'm not sure, but I don't think we should tell the other girls. It might upset them." Li nodded in agreement.
Em and Wufei were sitting in a Greek restaurant while Wufei went on and on about the 'weak onna' decorations and paintings.
"Oh shut up Wufei. Women were goddesses in ancient Greece. That's why there's all these decorations," explained Em angrily.
Wufei continued grumbling while Em went on explaining about Ancient Greek Mythology.
Kio and Heero went to an outdoor KKQ where you got to cook you own food. (Not much else can be said. Kio nearly burned down a tree…)
The gang met back in front of the photo studio.
"I'll go get the pictures!" Li yelled, running to get the photos.
Li retuned five minutes later wit a bag containing their photos. She winked. "These'll look great in our photo album!"
Mia looked pale. "You wouldn't!"
Li smirked. "You know I would!"
Kio and Em had to quickly hold Mia back before she decided to kill Li.
The gang decided to go shopping at the thrift stores for a while before heading back to the hotel.
"Oooooh! Dragons!" cooed Mia, running over to a rack of jewelry with dragons, crosses, pentacles and such. Duo, Trowa, and Rebi quickly joined her.
Li and Quatre spent their time looking at an assortment of teas and candles. Kio was looking gat skull-type jewelry and statues while Heero watched, confused. Wufei had found some swords tucked away in a back corner and Em looked at them, wishing she could get one.
Everyone ended up buying a lot of things, leaving the store with at least two bags each. Next, they headed to the sweets shop.
The smell of sugary candy over-whelmed them-as they walked into the store.
Rebi took a deep breath. "You know what?"
"No, what?" questioned Kio.
"It smells like happiness," replied Rebi.
Mia laughed. "You know what's funny? You're right!"
End Chapter Eleven
Universal Fun!
Everyone woke up early the next morning so they got there when the theme park opened.
Mia and Duo were especially perky. "I had such a good sleep!" Mia yelled.
"Sure you did," Em said sarcastically.
Mia 'hmphed: "For your information, we kept our clothes on!"
"Well at least our pants…" Duo muttered quietly. Mia elbowed him in the stomach.
"Come on you guys. We'd better get going," Li said, trying to change the subject.
The gang all piled into the van and drove off to Universal.
"First we're going on the tram!" Em yelled, running across the crowded parking lot.
They spent about half an hour getting through the front gates and getting through the tram line.
"Keep your hands and arms inside the moving vehicle at all times," the intercom boomed.
"That means your hair to babe," Mia warned Duo, whom had his hair leaning out of the car.
Duo pulled his hair onto the seat. "Why?"
"You'll see," Mia sang.
They began to go through an underground parking lot when the ceiling collapsed and vehicles began to slide down the broken roof and towards the tram.
"Ahhhhhhh!" screeched Duo as the area around the tram set on fire. "We're all gonna die!"
"Oh shut up," Kio grumbled. "It's just a ride you baka!"
They continued through the ride and came to a small pond.
"It looks so peaceful," said Quatre.
Mia snickered. "Not for long. Watch the boat," she pointed to a small boat with a manikin in it.
Quatre watched horrified as a huge white shark ate the boat and the manikin and splashed the tram with water as it was going over a rickety bridge.
The ride finally ended and they headed off for "ET". They loaded onto the bicycle - type seats after they had given the attendant their names.
"Why did they want our names?" Heero asked.
"You'll see!" Mia sang yet again.
"I hate it when you say that…" Quatre mumbled.
The ride went calmly enough until the end. And ET statue was standing there and was waving.
(This is how he's pronouncing them, not how their spelt) "Goodbye Keeeohh, Heeeeeroh, Meeeahh, Duuohh, Reeeebeeee, Trowwah, Leeee, Qwatway, Eeem, Wuffie."
Heero reached for where his gun would have been but then remembered that Mia made them leave them all at home.
Next they headed off to 'Jurassic Park'. A woman at the front gates was selling ponchos.
"We should get some," Li suggested.
"Why?" Questioned Quatre.
"Because it's a water ride," half explained Rebi
Everyone, except for Wufei, bought a poncho and they all piled into the little floating car.
As they were drifting down the river, Quatre was pointing out all the herbivores. "They're so cute!" he cooed.
Mia grinned evilly and pointed to a car half-hanging over a cliff. "We could be next!" Quatre gulped and Mia laughed manically as they approached a door that had signs like 'Danger' and 'Caution' written on them. The doors opened and Quatre, Li, and Rebi screamed (Rebi just for the heck of it) at a 50 foot T-rex.
"It's going to eat us!" Quatre screeched.
Kio rolled her eyes as they passed the T-rex ripping apart wires and came to another door. The door opened and all you could see was blackness.
"Hoods up!" Mia yelled as the car tilted and was hurled down a 60 foot drop at about 350 miles per hour.
"OH MY GOD!!!! KUUUSOOOO!!!" screamed Heero.
When they came off the ride, everyone was laughing at Wufei, who was completely, totally, and utterly drenched.
"YOU ONNA'S NEVER SAID I'D GET WET!" Wufei screamed, his white T-shirt dripping on the ground.
"Well we did say it was a water ride," informed Mia. "We just neglected the 30 foot water spray at the end."
Wufei twitched. "Baka onnas…."
The gang headed off next to a photo gallery where you could dress up and get your pictures taken.
"So what are we going with? Medieval or old western?" Li asked.
Mia shrugged. "Since we went with Medieval all the past times we've been here, maybe we should go try western."
Everyone agreed as they entered the photo studio. Unfortunately for them, they didn't look at the pictures of former customers to see how the outfits looked."
"What will you have?" the attendant asked.
"We'll have the old western themed photos please." Announced Em
"Aright. Ladies, follow me. Gentlemen, I'll be with you in just a minute," the attendant announced, bustling the girls off to the changing rooms. The guys were shuff led off soon after, while the girls continued changing. The guys only took about five minutes to change from their normal outfits to their cowboy-type clothes. "Looking good guys!" the attendant said, knocking on the doors to the girls' change rooms. "Everything okay in there ladies?"
"The outfits are kinda small!" yelled Em from inside one of the change rooms.
Li coughed from inside another. "Um… I think Em means revealing…"
"Just slightly!" squeaked Mia from inside the far left change room.
The attendant sighed. "Don't worry. I'm sure they're fine. Now would you please come out so I may see?"
The girls slowly came out of the change rooms warring the old-style bar maid outfits.
Duo wolf-whistled and Mia hit him over the head. "Ow……….." he muttered.
"Okay everyone!" shouted the attendant. "Let's put you all into poses, ok?" he yelled excitedly, holding up a box of props.
The girls all groaned and the guys just looked confused ast o why they were so upset about poses.
The attendant continued telling the gang which poses to get into. "Do we have any couples here?"
Li grinned evilly and whispered something into the attendant's ear the attendant nodded and continued placing props on the set.
Mia looked at Li worriedly. "Li…what did you tell her…."
Li winked. "You'll see!"
Mia gulped as the attendant finished setting up. "Okay! We'll take a few couple shots first!" the attendant peered around the group. "Ah! You two first!" she exclaimed, pointing to Em and Wufei.
Em looked nervous and Wufei glared at LI. "Baka onna…" he muttered as the attendant decided on a pose.
After they had finished with the couple shots, they decided to go with a group shot.(don't worry I'm getting to the poses. ^~^ You don't have to eat me.)
"Okay! Let's get the gentleman with the braid and the lovely lady with the long blonde hair over there!" the attendant shouted, ushering Mia and Duo onto the set. The attendant put Mia and Duo in a pose that they both agreed on. Mia was sitting in Duo's lap with his hair twisted around her finger. Duo was tilting his black cowboy hat up with a gun he held in the other hand.
After they had all gotten onto the set, the attendant took some shots from different tangles. The gang was set up was as follows. On the far left was Em and Wufei facing back to back. Next was Li and Quatre. Quatre was sitting on a barstool and Li was standing behind the counter, her arms draped around Quatre's shoulders. Then came Mia and Duo (same pose as was mentioned before). After came Kio and Heero; Kio looked as if she was kissing him on the cheek and Heero had one arm around her waist. Last was Rebi and Trowa. Rebi had her arms around his neck and Trowa had his arms around her waist.
After the pictures had been taken, the gang decided to go out for lunch while they developed.
"Okay, who's having what?" Rebi asked.
"I'm in the mood for pasta," claimed Mia.
"Same here!" spoke up Duo.
"I think I'm going with Chinese here," Rebi said. Trowa nodded to agree.
"Tea house for me," answered Li
"I'll join you too if you don't mine," Quatre sid politely.
"Not at all," Li replied.
"I'm having Greek!" yelled Em.
"That sounds find by me," said Wufei.
"I'm going for BBQ. You coming Hee-chan?" Kio asked.
"Affirmative," was Heero's dull reply.
"Okay then!" exclaimed Rebi. "Lets meet back here in two hours!"
Mia and Duo walked around Universal, searching for a pasta place.
"Arg! Where is it?!" screamed Mia.
"Where is what?" Duo asked, confused.
Mia looked lift and right. "The pasta place around here! It was great and I'm sure it was right- AH HAH!" Duo barely had time to argue before Mia was dragging him into a restaurant. "Here we are!"
A waitress with short, slightly curly dirty blonde hair came up to them. "Hi! My name's Cassi and I'll be your waitress today!" she said with a cheery grin. "Follow me please!" Mia and Duo followed Cassi to a two-person table in a corner. "Now then! Can I start with your drinks?"
Mia pondered for a second. "I'll have a glass of Pepsi tm please."
Cassi scribbled on her notepad. "Uh huh. And for you sir?"
"I'll have a Pepsi tm too," Duo replied.
"All right then!" Cassi said, leaving to get their drinks.
Rebi entered the Chinese restaurant and took a deep breath. Trowa followed behind her.
"Come on, we'd better get a seat!" Rebi exclaimed as they went and sat down at a table be the window.
"So what are you getting?" Trowa asked.
"Wow! A whole sentence! I'm going with the buffet," replied Rebi.
"I think I'll go with that too," commented Trowa.
Their waitress came up and took their orders. Next, they went to get their food. (If you don't know what a buffet is what rock have you been living under?!)
"Thank you again for the hospitality," said Trowa
Rebi spooned some rice onto her plate. "It's no problem! It's fun!"
Trowa smiled and kissed Rebi lightly on the cheek. "Thank you."
Quatre and Li were sitting in the small tea house, a lavender candle burning on the table.
"This is a really cozy place!" Quatre exclaimed.
"Yeah, I love it here!" Li replied taking a sip of her chamomile tea.
Quatre sighed deeply. "We may have to leave soon…"
Li set down her cup rather roughly "WHAT?!"
Quatre nodded sadly. "Yeah Heero said it probably wont take them much longer to fix our gundams…"
"How long?" Li asked.
Quatre shrugged. "I'm not sure, but I don't think we should tell the other girls. It might upset them." Li nodded in agreement.
Em and Wufei were sitting in a Greek restaurant while Wufei went on and on about the 'weak onna' decorations and paintings.
"Oh shut up Wufei. Women were goddesses in ancient Greece. That's why there's all these decorations," explained Em angrily.
Wufei continued grumbling while Em went on explaining about Ancient Greek Mythology.
Kio and Heero went to an outdoor KKQ where you got to cook you own food. (Not much else can be said. Kio nearly burned down a tree…)
The gang met back in front of the photo studio.
"I'll go get the pictures!" Li yelled, running to get the photos.
Li retuned five minutes later wit a bag containing their photos. She winked. "These'll look great in our photo album!"
Mia looked pale. "You wouldn't!"
Li smirked. "You know I would!"
Kio and Em had to quickly hold Mia back before she decided to kill Li.
The gang decided to go shopping at the thrift stores for a while before heading back to the hotel.
"Oooooh! Dragons!" cooed Mia, running over to a rack of jewelry with dragons, crosses, pentacles and such. Duo, Trowa, and Rebi quickly joined her.
Li and Quatre spent their time looking at an assortment of teas and candles. Kio was looking gat skull-type jewelry and statues while Heero watched, confused. Wufei had found some swords tucked away in a back corner and Em looked at them, wishing she could get one.
Everyone ended up buying a lot of things, leaving the store with at least two bags each. Next, they headed to the sweets shop.
The smell of sugary candy over-whelmed them-as they walked into the store.
Rebi took a deep breath. "You know what?"
"No, what?" questioned Kio.
"It smells like happiness," replied Rebi.
Mia laughed. "You know what's funny? You're right!"
End Chapter Eleven