Disclaimer: Blah blah blah...is that good enough?
Heero: I think you actually have to say something!
Silver: What really? I didn't know that. Total sarcasm
Heero: You're even dumber than I thaught!
Silver: Duo's right you need help!
Heero: What's that supposed to mean?
Silver: Oh nothing. Backs away slowly

Anywyas:

Serenity Maxwell: Have fun reading it, i took your advice and it was very fun to add link in there.

LadyMeko: Well there is one explosion in this chapter but there are a lot more to come.

GundamPilot03: lol I'm glad you noticed how annoying Duo really was. I tried my best to keep him in character.

Raizard333: I'm glad you found it interesting.

Thank you everyone for reading my story and for all the kind reviews. I look forward to them in the future.

Chapter 4: Heero Vs. Duo

No one ever thought it would take Duo two hours to clean up from falling in a mud puddle but once the two hours passed all the other pilots started to wonder what happened to the braided pilot.

Marching up the stares Quatre banged on Duos' door. "Are you still alive in there or do I have to send Heero in to get you out?"

From hearing Quatre threaten to do the unmentionable Duo poked his head through his door. "What's up, I'm just finishing."

"Duo it's been two hours. We're wondering if there was something wrong?"

"Wrong? Nope just me trying to braid my hair and get dressed at the same time, that all. It's harder than it looks." Duo leaned on the door. He knew his cover up stunk and that Quatre saw right through it but it didn't bother him in the least. "Just give me five more minutes and I promise I'll be down okay!" Duo whined.

"Sure bu…" Quatre couldn't finish, the door had shut right on his face. It wasn't anything new so he just smiled to himself and walked down the stairs. Rashid had found it odd that he had let the boys stay with him, and even give them rooms, especially Duo. But it was the least he could do for them at this time. They wouldn't accept anything else. He felt better sharing his home with them than giving them money and a boot out the door like Rashid had offered in Duo's case. Although on occasion Quatre wasn't too sure if the Arabian man was joking or if he was serious.

Walking down he saw that the other three were looking at him with concerned faces.

"Is he okay?" Trowa asked still leaning against the wall.

"Yeah he's just taking his time." Quatre laughed.

"He takes longer than a woman!" Wufei snorted.

The other two laughed at the comment. Often someone would mistake their long hair friend for a girl. It bothered Duo greatly but he made no changes to his hairstyle. Instead he would tell them he wasn't a girl and then shrug it off.

Moments later Duo came down the stares dressed in a black hoodie and blue jeans.

"Wow now that's a change." Quatre commented.

"Maxwell was there a rock in that mud puddle?" Wufei joked, or at least the others thought it was an attempt at a joke.

"Wufei, that was lame!" Duo chuckled as he sat down and grabbed the controller. "You ready for me to kick you ass Heero!" Duo greeted with a look of defiance.

"Duo!" Quatre scolded giving him a swift kick in the side.

"Ouch, you know you can't throw a very good fist but man you can kick!"

"Maxwell, watch it or I'll stuff your foot in your mouth." Wufei warned.

Duo cringed at the image and then looked at Heero who came over and sat next to him.

"I won't go easy on you." Heero murmured. He was worried since Duo had skills when it came to games, and he always thought outside the box, unlike Heero. So there was reason to be careful when playing a game with the braided pilot who often called himself death.

"Hey Heero anytime, I'll beat you so bad one day." Duo boasted. The chances were slim but he would put up a good fight.

Quickly Heero turned on the game so he didn't have to hear Duo try to distract him. It was really starting to grate on his nerves.

Heero made his way to the character select screen and choose Ivy. An older woman dressed in what looked like leather clothes. He chose her for her agility, flexibility and of course the sword.

Duo on the other hand chosen Link. A young man dressed in odd green clothes with a sword and a funny hat.

Before they started Duo paused the game and stared at Heero.

"You picked the ugliest chick I've ever seen!" Duo frowned.

Quatre was laughing his head off in the background as Trowa moved from the wall to get a closer look at the two characters.

"What's with the pointy h..hhat?" Quatre laughed. "It's so funny."

"Hey! Don't mock the pointy hatness! He's cool." Duo pouted.

"Duo? Is he wearing tights?" Trowa asked almost laughing himself.

"Yeah! So?" Duo felt pretty bad that he picked Link but he knew the green clad character was really useful for evading, so why not?

"It really doesn't matter what they look like it's what they do that matters." Wufei added in calming the odd atmosphere the two friends had unknowingly created.

"You're so going down for this." Duo announced at Heero.

"Try, but I doubt you'll succeed!" Heero glared.

The battle began very shaky for the two young men. Duo managed to hurt Heero's character a lot giving him at least a sliver of life left before he felt he was going to deal the final blow. Heero had also done much the same to Duo's character, and both had their characters as far back from each other as they possibly could.

"Okay I've had it!" Duo exclaimed as he made Link do a mad dash at Heero's character. Of course Heero did much the same, just without saying a word.

Both characters ran at each other full force and just before impact they both swung their swords.

'DRAW' the screen called.

"What!" Duo sounded upset but also surprised. "You mean I have to restart the match?"

"Is that even possible?" Trowa asked.

"Not normally…I've never seen a draw like this one before." Duo answered. "I've played this game hundreds of times with Quatre but we've never had a draw like this!"

"Hey why don't we take the opportunity to take a break? How about lunch?" Quatre offered. From the way Heero sat still looking at the screen, he was worried about his TV being intact, or the game. Either way he wanted them to stay in one piece.

"Hey, I am a little hungry." Duo smiled. "Heero…Hey Heero! Earth calling Heero."

"What" The stoic pilot snapped.

"We're having lunch, want some?"

"Hmmmm…." Heero responded in his usual manner. It was difficult to determine if that was a yes or a no but Duo guessed it was a yes of some kind.

Lunch was very quiet, as Quatre had expected. Smiling he turned to Duo who was eating a sandwich. No one ever asked Duo exactly what was in the sandwich, for all they know it may be really disgusting.

"So, Duo what do you think so far of the competition?" Quatre was trying hard to get the braided pilot to talk, he was still silent.

"Huh? Oh yeah it's pretty fun" Duo frowned as he looked back at his meal. "I just don't get how the computer said that was a draw, it was odd." Duo mumbled. He really wanted to win against Heero but he knew there had to be a miracle or Heero would have to make a big mistake during the match.

"So you have new orders."

"What?" Duo looked up.

"I knew you were checking to see if we had gotten any more missions when you were upstairs."

"I guess nothing can get past you." Duo laughed as the other three looked up in surprise.

"Yeah I do." Duo frowned. "And sure enough tomorrow at midnight I have to go bomb a base, alone."

"You'll be fine, none of us can die now, it would be useless to waste our lives this far in the game. They know what they're doing, you'll make it."

"Yeah I guessed that." Duo sighed as the other three moved uneasily.

"What's going on?" Trowa asked. To Trowa it seemed the braided pilot was a little quite, and usually that was a bad sign.

"Oh nothing I'm just thinking it through." Duo smiled. Trowa didn't like that. Duo must have still been angry about that morning.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes Trowa I'm fine!" Duo laughed, "Hey so you lost pretty fast." Duo smiled

"Yes I did." Trowa answered as the corners of his lips tilted upwards a bit. The loss wasn't a surprise but he was hopping to go further.

"Well," Duo stretched as he stood up. "Heero, you ready for me to kick your ass?"

Heero looked up and glared. "Duo you aren't fighting 'me'" Heero sighed.

Duo's arms slumped at his sides as his face changed to one of sadness. "Heero it's a figure of speech! Yesh you'd think the guy had a stick up his ass."

Heero quickly turned and glared at Duo. Both stood there in utter silence.

Duo sighed and slapped his forehead. "Heero, it was a figure of speech, it means your up tight!"

Heero just stared at Duo for a moment and sighed. There was no way he would ever understand his best friend, it was as though he spoke in some odd dialect he would never learn.

Quatre laughed a moment and smiled at Duo. "I think you confused him even more."

"I wouldn't doubt it" Duo sighed. Even though they all spoke the same language there was still some sort of language barrier. "Well we should get this thing going again, and Heero I promise this time there will be no draw." Duo laughed as he left the room.

Wufei watched after Duo, "Hmmm…Sometimes I wish Maxwell wasn't always in a good mood."

Quatre frowned. "He's in a good mood for you guys, none of you give him much credit." He was getting annoyed with the others; they didn't really see that Duo wasn't much different from them. He still worried about failing, and he was always concerned for everyone else. It was the way he dealt with the war and all that was thrown at them all that made him who he was and sometimes the best suited to survive anything.

Heero slowly stood up. "Duo has a point we might as well get this over with." The other three nodded in agreement as they left the room to continue the contest.

The contest started again. Heero chose Ivy again and Duo chose Link. From the way the two were acting a draw was never going to happen, and if it did no one was too sure if Duo would make it out alive.

Heero waited patiently as the screen timed down to the beginning of the match, while Duo fidgeted like a four-year-old child waiting for a candy.

"Hurry up already!" Duo growled.

"Maxwell, you'll cloud your judgement if you get upset!" Wufei stated.

"Humph…show off." Duo muttered as he slouched in protest.

Suddenly the match began.

Duo made Link move across the screen quickly. This move confused Heero quite a bit, and Duo noticed.

"Ha ha ha. Take that Heero." Duo laughed as he made his first hit on the character Ivy. Half of Heero's health decreased quickly.

Heero wasn't too sure what to do. Duo was more familiar with the game but if he knew his friend as well as he thought he could confuse him more.

Moving Ivy closer but guarding against Duo's attacks Heero made a final attempt to win. Throwing away strategy Heero lunged Ivy full force into the other character, slashing and dealing out more damage without regard for his won character's health meter.

After Heero's final attempt the game ended very quickly. Heero was right in thinking it would confuse Duo. Actually it made it worse. Duo was now more determined to win and he now knew Heero's last resort. For Heero it was a bad thing, since Duo now knew every trick the Wing's pilot could deal out at him.

Heero was astonished at his easy win but winning the next time wasn't going to be easy if at all possible. He knew Duo well enough to remember how many times he'd seen Deathscythe's pilot stare at a screen like a zombie as he beat every game in a singleday. Duo absorbed the games like a sponge and this game was no exception.

"Wow Heero that was amazing." Quatre smiled congratulating the pilot.

"You caught him off guard!" Trowa stated a matter of fact.

"Okay okay, there's still two more matches left, let's just wait to see what will happen before we congratulate Yuy!" Wufei corrected. "But I agree that was pretty good, I still think you'll win!"

"Of course you do it's in your nature to go along with him, he's just as up tight as you." Duo retorted for not gaining any support.

"Maxwell shut up or else I'll cut that braid off!"

Duo whimpered as he reached for his hair and held it protectively. "If you do I'll make sure you pay." Duo growled.

Wufei made no reply he was sure Duo was very capable of dealing out a justifiable punishment or one that rivalled his.

"Why don't we let them continue" Trowa added trying to end the hostility.

"Yes lets."

"Fine" Duo grunted. He was really getting into the argument but he could always drive Wufei crazy anytime.

The match began much like the one before but this time Duo was winning. Heero was very worried the God of Death was going to win, but he couldn't allow it. There was no way he, the perfect soldier, would lose to Duo!

"Duo you're being cheap!" Heero called out calmly trying his best to distract Duo.

"Nope if the game allows it then I can do it." Duo smiled as he continued.

"It's still cheap!" Heero retorted. He knew his comment had gotten to Duo easily.

"Fine take this then." Duo called defiantly as he made Link pull out a bomb. Now this'll take you out and I'll win."

"That's great Duo but you still have it!" Heero pointed out.

Duo's eyes grew to huge orbs. "Oh damn! I need to throw this but…where's the button for it." Duo was concerned. Heero watched in utter and total amusement as the teen started to mash down random buttons. "Great he's not doing it!" Duo was now frantic.

Link still stood there holding a sparking bomb. "Nooooo I can't get him to let it go!" Suddenly a small explosion shook the screen. At first Duo watched in silence as his character flew across the screen.

Duo lost the match in only three minutes.

"Nooooo." Duo wailed as he slumped over and fell over onto his back. "I can't believe I blew myself up!"

"It's a fitting end if you ask me." Wufei smiled.

"Shut up Wufei!" Duo glared.

Quatre laughed, "You deserved it Duo. You went into the game cocky and now you lost because of a mistake you made. You misjudged Heero's abilities…"

"And over estimated your own." Trowa finished. "You were trained not to do the very thing you did in the game."

Duo stared at the Heavyarms pilot and sighed. "Thanks for that wonderful bit ofnews there Trow'. But let me remind you…IT"S NOT REAL LIFE!" Duo yelled. He was really annoyed that the others took the game so seriously. "It's not like I'm going to die if I lose. I can do what ever I want in that game and it has no affect on reality. Don't you guys get it it's a game not real!" Duo sighed as he sat up and grabbed a hand full of popcorn.

Heero looked at Wufei a moment. "I can change that." Heero muttered as he reached behind him.

Duo sat up straight and stared at his friend. There was no way he would pull out the gun. But to Duo's surprise Heero did just that. "Oh man you're crazy!" Duo screamed as he looked over to Quatre.

Quatre smiled but shook his head. "You got yourself into this one. You have to get yourself out."

"Gee thanks a lot." Duo muttered as he noticed Heero move the gun up to aim for Duo's head. "Look Heero it was a game okay, there's no need to homicidal here okay." Duo said as he held his hands up at chest level and started to back up.

"Does it really matter? Either way you're a dead man." Heero said with no emotion.

"Well not yet I'm not!" Duo said as he bolted up the stairs with Heero hoton his heals.

Wufei watched as the two pilots ran. From the sounds he heard, Duo had managed to hide in his room. The others knew Heero wouldn't shoot the young pilot but Duo wasn't going to get away without paying for it.

"I hope this doesn't get out of hand." Quatre sighed as he looked over to Trowa.

"I'm sure they'll be fine. Duo can handle this situation well."

"Hmmm…I'm starting to think this was a bad idea. This competition." Wufei sighed.

"I don't think so. We're all enjoying ourselves and not worrying about our missions."

"You do have a point Winner but will we all live through this?"

"Honestly Wufei! I'm not to sure."

A/N: Okay i know i added a bit of serious stuff in there, but there needs to be a happy medium lol. Well I hope you all enjoyed it. There's one or two more chapers left to go (i'm not to sure if I'll add another after the next one).

So what will happen?

Please review:D