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AN: Sorry for the delay, once more. I hope to have some sort of schedule for this sometime... but don't count on it. Hope you like!
DISCLAIMER: No, sadly enough, I don't own Gundam Wing. I also do not own the petting zoo idea, that belongs to Family Guy. I don't own any brand names or such either, HOWEVER! Rebi owns the label Rowena's Closet. Tis our band (which is non-existent as of now), so do not steal. Thankies.
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"Ung..." grumbled what appeared to be a lump of blankets.
"Come on Mia! Wake up!" Em yelled, poking the lump, which was now identified as Mia.
"Mshnawphuck..." Mia grumbled, throwing in a few select morning swears for good measure.
"It figures. The one time I'm up, you're not," stated Rebi, sipping coffee gratefully.
"Mishamsheta..."
Rebi glared at the blankets. "Up now or I jump on you."
"Msmarn..."
Grinning, Rebi set down her precious coffee and leaped onto the bed, repeatedly jumping up and down.
"GACK!" Mia screamed, shoving the hyper-active brunette off her. "Mornings are hell..."
"Coffee?" asked Duo, holding a big black mug out to her.
"Kiss me, I'm dreaming..." Mia mumbled sleepily.
"No way morning-mouth!" Duo laughed, setting her coffee down on the bedside table.
Mia grumbled. "Why in hell do the people in movies always wake up with mint-fresh breath in the morning... Damn television..." she growled, wandering off to brush the offending teeth.
"So what's the plan for today?" Duo asked, wandering back into the kitchen where the rest of the gang was eating breakfast.
"Ooooh! The zoo!" squealed Rebi excitedly, jumping up and down in her seat. "Big animals! And the giraffes!"
Kio rolled her eyes. "The zoo has a group rate today. 25 for five or more people. It's the middle of August, and the zoo is nice right now, that's why we're going."
"...You take the fun out of everything..." mumbled Rebi, sitting down with a pout on her face.
Mia walked into the kitchen, her coffee mug in one hand while she brushed her teeth with the other. "Wha's go'n on?"
"We're going to the zoo," explained Quatre.
"An' th's happ'n wh'n?"
"Just now," said Kio, taking another sip of her own coffee.
"Meh," Mia grumbled, spitting in the sink and setting down her toothbrush before taking a big swig of coffee. "Bleh... gross... I'm gonna go get dressed..." she muttered, dragging herself down the hall and to her room.
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About an hour later, the gang had finished breakfast and were piled into Rebi's huge-ass ten-seating van.
"Why in hell do you have such a huge van!" yelled Wufei, squashed in the back seat with Em, Heero, and Kio.
Rebi shrugged from her spot in the driver's seat. "If you take out the back seat, it makes room for the band equipment."
"Band equipment?" questioned Duo as Rebi started the van.
"Oh yeah! We didn't tell you guys about Rowena's Closet!" Mia called from her spot in the middle of the van, along with Quatre, Lisi, and Duo.
"Not really..." mumbled a confused Trowa, seated in shotgun.
"It's our band," stated Rebi, pulling onto a main road. "We do gigs, but not too often. Kio's on bass, Mia's on power chords, I'm on backup guitar, Li's on keyboard, and Em's on drums. We kind of rotate lead singer, depends on the song and who wrote it, but most of the time it's me, sometimes Mia or Em too."
Duo's eyes widened. "COOL! Can we come watch!"
Mia grinned. "Sure! Our next gig is tonight, I think, and-"
"Stop yakking and keep your eyes open for a parking spot!" screamed Rebi, swerving into the parking lot.
Mia shaded her eyes with a hand and began humming the Mission Impossible© theme.
Kio glared. "Shut up will you! You do this every time we look for a pa-"
"THERE!" screamed Em, pointing to a fair-sized spot that had just opened up.
"AH HAH!" Rebi yelled, swerving the van into the spot, nine passengers falling heavily against the right side of the vehicle. (AN: Rebi left me a note in the margins here. It reads: Mia can't spell!)
Rebi jumped out of the van, opening the sliding door and Quatre, Li, Mia, and Duo all fell onto the pavement with a rather large 'thud!'.
"Ow... Damned ground..." Mia mumbled into the parking lot floor.
"Your foot is in my face!"
"That had better be you Mia..."
"Could someone kindly remove their foot from my ribcage?"
They finally managed to get up, after being stepped on by everyone in the back of the van.
"Now then..." muttered Rebi, pulling a map out of her bag; which could easily hold a small elephant. "We should split up, we don't ALL want to get kicked out of the zoo at once," she explained, laying out the huge-ass map on the front of the van.
"So who's going where?"
Kio grinned evilly, pointing to the reptile house.
"Ooh!" squealed Duo, sounding much like a giddy school girl as he pointed to the primate building.
Em giggled insanely. "Ooh! Night creatures!" she laughed, pointing out the nocturnal creatures area.
"Penguins!" yelled Li, pointing at the Antarctic building. (AN: I have recently decided penguins are evil beasts. It is simply wrong that a bird should swim instead of fly... shudder)
"All right! And I'm going to the performance ring, they have a show in about twenty minutes," said Rebi. "What about the rest of you?"
"I'm going with Kio," replied Heero.
"I'd better make sure Duo doesn't do anything stupid..." Was Mia's answer.
"I'm going with Em to avoid people's stupidity," answered Wufei.
"You sure you'll avoid stupidity?" Em grinned. Wufei began to look worried.
Quatre smiled. "I think I'll go with Li today."
Trowa put an arm around Rebi's shoulders as his reply.
"Okay then! Now that that's settled!" Rebi called. "We'll meet back here at five pm, so if it's eleven am now... That gives us six hours! Don't get lost," she stated, folding up the map and stuffing it back in her bag.
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Kio poked at the tank where tons of snakes were curled up sleeping. "Usually they have SOME sort of interactive display or - OOOOH!" she squealed excitedly, pointing to a crowd of people gathered about an orange-decked zoo worker. "Let's go see!" she yelled, dragging Heero over to see what the commotion was about.
Heero's eyes widened as he stared at the HUGE boa constrictor the zoo worker was holding.
"Any volunteers?" asked the worker. "Anyone want to hold a snake? I need two people."
"Us! Us!" yelled Kio, raising her hand and forcing Heero's into the air.
"Oh god..." mumbled Heero, staring into the snake's beady eyes.
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Duo had his face pressed up against the glass on the gorilla cage. Not really a smart thing to do, but hey, haven't you always wanted to?
"You're lucky there's glass, or you'd be pretty much dead now," Mia stated, pointing to a huge alpha male sitting only a few feet away from her braided idiot. "Let's go see the chimps! Sometimes you can hold them!"
"Sure!" yelled Duo, abandoning his staring at gorillas for a more interesting topic.
The two walked to the chimp area, where another orange clad zoo employee was working, explaining the chimpanzee's eating habits while holding one. Mia and Duo moved to the front of the crowd, listening intently about chimps eating ants with a twig.
Duo was just beginning to lose interest and fall asleep, when the worker lost control of the chimp and it leapt on Duo's head, pulling at his hair.
"ACK! OH MY GOD!" Duo screamed, running in circles and trying to pry the chimps' fingers from his hair. Mia, on the other hand, began laughing hysterically.
The worker finally got the chimp back and Mia and Duo left the building quite promptly after, one laughing, the other grumbling about primates.
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Rebi and Trowa got to the show arena early, getting front row seats. "This should be cool," said Rebi, reading the show schedule. "First there's the large cats, then the elephants, the clowns," she shuddered at this. "And stuff, then intermission, then the final act!"
"Sounds good," replied Trowa, wrapping an arm leisurely around Rebi's waist. "It'll be nice not being the one performing for once..."
Rebi smiled at him, leaning in for a kiss, but the lights dimmed and a drum roll went off just as they got close. "Dammit! Gotta watch!" she swore, leaning her head on Trowa's shoulder and getting comfy to watch the show.
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"Ooh! Polar bears!" squealed Lisi, peering into the icy pen.
"Look!" Quatre pointed at a worker throwing fish into the pool and watching the bears dive for it.
"They're so cute!" Li chirped, clapping her hands together.
They watched the huge bears eat, play, swim, and dive for quite some time before anything interrupted them.
"Yikes!" yelled Quatre, backing away from the glass as a polar bear swam by abruptly.
Li laughed. "He can't hurt you Quatre!"
Quatre frowned. "Well it scared me!" he complained, moving back to the glass cautiously.
"Quatre's a scaredy-cat!" giggled Li in a sing-song voice, pulling him by the wrist back to the glass.
Quatre stared at the bears for a while before suddenly sticking out his tongue at the next one that swam by. Li just laughed.
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Wufei and Em wandered through the nocturnal house cautiously, as to not trip over anything in the darkness.
"You can't see anything in this damned building!" grumbled Wufei audibly.
"Maybe if we feel our way along the walls we might find something..." Em muttered, her fingers running over a button on the wall. "Ah! Here we go!" She pressed the said button, immediately screeching as she did so.
Before them now fluttered hundreds of bats in their cage which had become illuminated with a black light.
"Holy shit!" screamed Wufei, drawing his katana, which he had somehow managed to smuggle past zoo security, and began running at the bats.
Em winced as Wufei ran face-first into the glass in front of the bat cage. Wufei slumped to the ground, rubbing his bruised nose. "Ow... Damn it all..."
"You moron!" Em called, bursting into laughter and pulling a grumbling Wufei off the floor.
"Shut up!" Wufei growled, rubbing his nose. "...Is it broken?"
Em stared at him. "No... I don't think so... Let's find somewhere with more light," she giggled, dragging Wufei out of the darkness.
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Heero looked extremely nervous as the huge snake writhed and squirmed in his arms. Kio, on the other hand, looked perfectly happy. "Don't be such a chicken!" she chided him.
Heero clenched his teeth as the snake's tail made it's way unnoticeably up his leg. "Kio, I don't like big snakes..."
"What are you talking about?" Kio questioned, baffled. "What's wrong with them?"
"I. Don't. Like. Big. Snakes..." he muttered, trying to move the snake's tail away from his inner thigh, to no avail, as his arms were full of, well, snake.
Kio now looked VERY confused. "What on Earth are you talking about Hee-chan?"
Heero had to bite the inside of his mouth to keep from yelling as the snake tried to find something to hold onto... "I. DON'T. LIKE. SNAKES!" he yelled, motioning with his head to where the reptile's tail was currently residing.
Kio began laughing and she beckoned the zoo worker to take the snake as she helped detach it from Heero's more delicate areas. The two left the building; Heero very red and embarrassed, Kio laughing her ass off.
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"They're so cute!" squealed Mia, petting a rabbit.
Duo rolled his eyes. He'd had enough of furry animals for one day. "Are we done yet?"
"Shut up! This is fun!" Mia stuck out her tongue at Duo, turning back to feeding the animals.
Duo grumbled and decided staring at Mia's ass was the most interesting thing of the moment. He then noticed her back pockets and the bag of animal food in his hands.
"Whee! Here ya go Mr. Goat!" Mia yelled childishly.
Duo grinned inconspicuously, putting a handful of the food pellets into Mia's back pocket, moving back and sitting on the wood fence to watch his plot unfurl.
Mia continued, unknowningly, feeding the animals when a duck bit her ass. "Ow! Hey! My butt is not food!" she scolded the mallard as a goat bit her from behind. "Ow! What the hell!" Mia yelled as the animals closed in on her. She squeaked and ran like hell, leaping over squatting children and sleeping animals, a barrage of furry creatures following her.
When she finally managed to get away by leaping the fence, she glared at a certain braided youth, sitting on the fence, laughing so hard he was crying.
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Rebi was sitting by herself, waiting for Trowa to return with drinks. She tapped her watch impatiently. "C'mon Tro... Intermission's nearly over..." she cursed silently as the lights once again dimmed, signalling intermission was over.
The spotlight swerved all around the stage as the ringmaster announced the next act in his sparkly red coat. "Tonight we have had a special request for a finishing act! A former circus acrobat would like to give you all a very special performance! Introducing... No name!"
The crowd burst into applause as the spotlight centered on the middle of the tightrope, where a unibanged, half-mask wearing, poofy green pant clad 'no name' was standing.
"Oh no... Not again..." mumbled Rebi, hiding her face in her hands. "I can't believe this..." she quickly raised her head as the audience gasped, watching Trowa land safely on the tightrope after an elaborate flip.
Rebi, along with the rest of the crowd, watched in awe as Trowa went through a number of acrobatic tricks, many-a-stunt on the high wire, before finishing with a few of the animals doing tricks. Trowa bowed deeply as the elephants were led out of the ring. Trowa stood on the back of a particularily large lion as it walked towards the audience. Or was it a certain /person/ in the audience?
The lion stopped about ten feet from the audience, leaving Trowa to do a flip off it's back and landing gracefully, kneeling on one knee in front of Rebi. Rebi blushed furiously as she stared at the man kneeling in front of her.
Trowa smiled at her, taking one of her hands in his. "Rebi... I've known you for only a short time, but I fell in love with you the moment I saw you... Even though the random hugging did kind of scare me... I know I don't say it enough, but I love you. So if I may be so bold..." he reached into his pocket, pulling out a tiny velvet box and opening it in front of her, revealing a shimmering silver ring set with a deep blue crystal. "...Rebi... Will you marry me?"
(AN: Oh! Let's stop right there! Nah, I'm not that mean...)
Rebi's blush turned a deeper shade of red and she threw her arms around his neck, tears burning in her eyes. "Of course I will!"
The entire audience clapped and 'awed' as Trowa returned Rebi's hug.
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Quatre and Li were watching the penguins leap and dive in their icy pool when another orange-clad worker walked onto the ice and began throwing fish into the water. It was only when the worker turned on a microphone, tapping it twice to check if it was working.
"Testing, testing, one, two, three..." spoke the worker into the mic. "Okay! Now if we could get some people down here who would like to feed the penguins. That's right, be careful now."
Li grinned at Quatre and the two headed down to the frozen pen along with a mass of other visitors.
"Here you are," said the worker, handing a pail of fish to Quatre and Li.
"Thank you," the pair chimed, walking off cautiously on the slippery ice.
"CUTE!" squealed Li, throwing fish to the penguins, squatting on the ice.
Quatre, though, was standing as he fed the swimming birds. Unfortunately for him, as he took a step foreward, he stepped onto a thin sheet of black ice. "GACK!" he screamed, slipping into bone chilling waters.
"Quatre!" squeaked Li, going as quickly as she could to the side of the ice.
Li tried to help him out, but whenever she tried, the penguins would only pull him down by his pant leg.
Eventually, with the help of a worker, they managed to pull the shivering Quatre out of the water.
"Are you okay?" Li questioned, putting a towel around Quatre's shoulders.
Quatre sneezed, pulling the towel closer around his shoulders. "I will be, but we should be heading back... It's almost five..." Quatre sneezed again.
"You're hopeless..." Li mumbled, walking off with a rapidly sneezing Quatre.
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"Oooh!" Em pointed. "Look! Let's go!" she yelled tugging at Wufei's sleeve and pointed to a sign which read 'Elephant Rides: FREE'.
Wufei glared. "There is no way I'm going to sit on a smelly old elephant!"
Glaring, Em pulled the complaining Wufei off to go ride and elephant. She finally managed to get him climbing the stairway leading to the elephant, with much bribing.
Wufei was grumbling and cursing under his breath as he sat on the elephant's back behind Em. "I'll have you know," he whispered in her ear. "This is NOT comfortable!"
Em giggled. "Sorry Wu, too late now!" she chided as the elephant began to walk around the ring.
They walked away from the elephants quite promptly afterwards, Wufei walking with an odd stride.
"Sorry Wu, really am," Em apologized, though snickering as she did it.
Wufei grumbled. "/I/ get to pick where we go now..." he stated, looking around for something to do. He grinned almost maliciously when he saw a sign that said: 'Tigers -'.
"Cute!" Em squealed, waving at the tigers.
"They don't look so tough," commented Wufei, scaling the wall and landing perfectly inside the tiger cage.
"Wait for me!" yelled Em, climbing clumsily over the wall, sliding down it and into a tiny river. "I don't think we're supposed to be in here..." Em mumbled, trying to keep her white blouse, which was now soaked, from sticking to her.
Wufei laughed at Em sitting in the river. "HAH! ONNA!"
Em glared, grabbing his angkle and dragging him into the water as well. Just as they had started a water fight, one of the orange-decked workers started yelling at them for scaring the tigers (which were cowering from the crazy people on the other side of the pen) and got them hauled out of the cage and out of the zoo.
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"Okay... nearly five... everyone should arrive right about... now!" Rebi calculated, staring at her watch. As if on que, eight bodies made their way to the van.
Rebi giggled. "What the hell happened to you two!" she asked Wufei and Em, as they were the first pair approaching the vehicle.
"We got kicked out because we went in the tiger cage and landed in the water," Em explained, trying to dry off her hair with her hands.
"And I am NEVER riding an elephant again!" Wufei complained, still feeling sore.
Mia laughed as Duo and herself walked to the van. "Hah! You're a moron 'Fei!" Wufei glared and Mia gave him a look that could probably kill rocks.
Rebi backed away, scared. "What's your problem?"
"Duo's an ass."
"Mia's an ass," Mia and Duo replied at the same time, turning away from eachother in the process.
"What happened this time?" asked Kio, sitting on the van hood, Heero standing beside it. The two went into a spell about monkeys and petting zoos before Kio yelled," ENOUGH! I don't want to hear it. Just get in the van, and try not to kill eachother."
They grumbled and climbed into the van as Li and Quatre approached the vehicle.
"Li! What did you do to him!"
Li pouted at Rebi. "He fell in some water, let's just get him home and into some dry clothes."
"I'm sure you can help him with that," winked Rebi, climbing into the drivers' seat.
"REBI!" screamed Li, helping Quatre into the van.
Rebi just giggled, allowing everyone to get in the van before starting the drive home.
END CHAPTER TWO
AN: Reviews are appreciated! Thanks! And most of this nonsense has actually happened in real life, to me or someone I know. So please, no stealing my own stupidity, ne? 'Cept the Family Guy bit, but I love that part! Stewie reminds me of a little Lord Voldemort... -snort- Anywho, review, yeah. See the button? Go? Yeah, that one.