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Title-Mission Improbable
A Quiz?
By-Moon Prynces
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Quatre lived the next two days in constant fear, especially everytime the phone rang or doorbell was heard. The other gundam pilots noticed his odd behavior... but they had their own things to worry about. Like who used all the hot water in the shower... or who was to control the remote when watching TV. These situations far outweighed Quatre's crisis.
Anyway, Quatre was currently sitting in the living room, staring off in space.
"Hey Q-man!" Duo greeted, walking into the room.
Quatre almost jumped to the ceiling. "Is that you Duo?" He said, feeling around like a blind person.
Duo stared at him. "What's up with you?"
The blonde snapped out of his moment of stupidity. "Nothing!"
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"Finally." A blonde sighed loudly, quietly moving to the hallway while her guest and friend was in the shower.
Relena picked up the phone and dialed a number, waiting for someone to pick up and hoping Dorothy wouldn't find her here.
"Hello?"
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"Relena?" Came Heero's surprised voice.
A moment of silence passed.
"Hello?" He tried again.
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A loud sound and then nothing. Relena stared at the phone, which was now back on its cradle, in horror.
"Uh oh..." She muttered. She hadn't actually meant to hang up the phone, even if it was Heero. But it was kind of startling that he had answered and not Quatre, like she had been expecting. That, and she hadn't talked to him since she fought with him at the last political gathering they had both attended, and she ended up 'aciddentally' spilling wine on him before making a quick getaway. Obviously that encounter was still on her mind.
Sighing, Relena resolved that she had to call back. She was wasting time and Dorothy would probably be downstairs soon.
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Heero raised an eyebrow as everyone heard the phone ringing. Trowa looked pointedly at him, seeing as he was closest to the door leading to the phone.
"I'm not answering it." Heero answered slowly.
"Why not?" Trowa questioned. The phone was still ringing in the background.
Heero didn't answer, only looked around the kitchen, uninterestedly. Fortunately, Quatre had finally mustered the courage and got up from his place in the living room and answered the phone.
"Hello?" He answered lamely.
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Relena sighed in relief, at least it wasn't Heero. "Hi Quatre, how are you doing?"
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Quatre also sighed in relief, glad it wasn't Dorothy who was going to give him another test. He had the feeling that the next one would be more humiliating.
"Relena, it's so nice to hear from you. Everything's fine over here." He replied politely.
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Not for long, she thought smirking. "Well, I'm sorry about this..."
"About what?" Was Quatre's confused reply.
"I'm not calling for a pleasant conversation..."
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A few minutes later, Quatre hung up the phone with a horrified expression.
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"Who were you talking to?" A voice behind Relena made her jump out of her skin.
She whipped around to see Dorothy standing there, looking at her suspiciously. "Wha- Nothing!" The quick, sharp answer only made her more suspicious.
"What was that phone call about?" She asked again.
Then, through luck, Relena regained her composure. "It's a surprise!" She sang, skipping off to the kitchen.
"What?" Dorothy blinked, still staring at where her friend had been. Then she whirled around to follow her to the kitchen. "A surprise? What is it?"
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Wufei was coming down the stairs (after using all the hot water in the shower, though nobody would figure it out, or so he thought...) to find Quatre sulking by the wall in the hallway. In fact, the blonde was standing there, his nose an inch from the wall, staring at it in a brooding type of way.
The dark-haired boy just raised an eyebrow in question. "What are you doing?" He asked cautiously.
The blonde slowly turned to give his friend a deadpan expression. The other jumped back in surprise at the uncharacteristic emotion from the blonde.
"I need to find a costume store."
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The five gundam pilots were now crammed in a car Quatre was using to drive to the nearest town.
"Where are we going again?" Duo asked in a whiny voice from the backseat of the car. He was sitting in the middle between Trowa and Heero, who were looking out their respective windows. Wufei had beat them to getting the front passenger seat.
"To find a costume store." Wufei said, snickering, as he had cut off Quatre from coming up with another response.
"Why are we all going then?" Heero asked in his less than chipper tone... actually, of course it wasn't chipper! It was monotone!
"To suffer with me." The Winner heir muttered under his breath. But it was obvious that everyone in the car heard him clearly, as shown by the wide eyes they now sported. And we all thought seeing that expression on the faces of Trowa Barton and Heero Yuy was a one time thing...
Finally, after twenty minutes spent in the stuffy car, it came to a stop. Three doors opened simultaneously before Quatre put the vehicle in park and literally threw themselves out. And Heero and Trowa, forgetting about Duo who had been in the middle, both slammed their doors shut (thus injuring Duo) right after getting out.
Quatre also jumped out (Duo had learned to use the door himself) and looked around. "I don't see any place like that around here." He said examining the shops nearby.
"Why are we looking for a costume store again?" Duo asked, looking at Quatre and then Wufei, who seemed to be the fountain of knowledge all of a sudden.
"To make you look like an intelligent human being." Wufei muttered sarcastically after receiving the look.
Duo huffed while Heero and Trowa snickered. Quatre was still stressing over the simple fact that...
"WHY DON'T THEY HAVE A DAMNED COSTUME PLACE IN THIS STUPID TOWN?" The blonde was now yelling randomly, cursing inbetween and pulling at his hair in a very frustrated way.
The other four noticed that people were starting to stare. They all looked to each other and nodded heads.
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Half an hour later, followed by some shots of alcohol everyone was relatively calm. At first the only thing they could do to stop Quatre from scaring innocent pedestrians was to tie him up and throw him in the back of the car. If you were wondering, they didn't use rope... Duo ran into the nearest store and bought a bunch of long scarves. After that Heero and Duo split up to go look for a costume store while Trowa and Wufei waited in the car with Quatre in the back seat.
And then, instead of sticking to the task, Duo came back with a bottle of alcohol and some plastic cups. So four gundam pilots were now sitting in the parked vehicle, drunk. Heero was still out searching and hadn't returned to join in the fun...
"Dude, what's with your hair anyway?" Duo asked in a wobbly voice.
Trowa, who he had been talking to, was already asleep in the driver's seat. Wufei, next to him, was looking through all the compartments in the car. Then he finally pulled down the overhead mirror and open it to see his face looking back at him.
"Fine! Be like that!" Duo huffed, trying to remember why he was supposed to be mad without realizing the other pilot was already snoozing.
"Ya know what?" Quatre asked, then tried to drink some more from his cup (which was empty, though he didn't notice it).
Everyone ignored him. Trowa snorted in his sleep. Wufei had found a flashlight and turned around to point it in the face of Duo, who was being whiny about it and threatening he'd tell Hilde about this.
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An hour later Heero reported back to the where the car was parked... or at least where it should have been parked.
He blinked and looked around. Where was that damned car? It should have been right in that spot he was standing.
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"He he he... do you think he'll notice?" Came an unusually high-pitched voice. Surprise surprise, it was only Trowa!
"I don't know... who are we talking about again?" Duo asked after a moment.
Wufei rolled his eyes and suddenly jerked his head to stare out the windshield. "Isn't that a cow?"
"Where?" Quatre and Duo both leapt to look out a window in the back of the moving car and collided heads. Then Duo remembered he had his own window and moved to the other end.
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The next day Heero came downstairs from his morning shower and heard a bunch of groans coming from the living room. He walked to the doorway and raised an eyebrow.
Wufei and Trowa were each lying on their own sofa. Trowa was still asleep. Wufei was massaging his head with two fingers. Duo was peacefully sleeping on the coffee table. And Quatre was lying about a foot from the doorway on the floor. From the look of it, he had just thrown himself down, too tired to find a proper resting spot. He was groaning and muttering something about hating alcohol and how he was going to try and swear it off. Obviously because he was the one to drink the most of it, in the other's attempt to stop him from panicking about his problem which was...
"Mission completed." Heero stated, and then moved in the direction of the kitchen.
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Another day went by, in which the four pilots involved, chose to never bring up the painful experience and to never have all of them drinking at the same time, cuz really, they needed someone who wasn't going to start hallucinating about cows.
So finally, Quatre, with the help of Trowa, had cornered the recently elusive Heero Yuy so they could extract very important, vital information from him.
"You have something to tell me." Quatre stated in a low voice.
Heero just stared at him, not even blinking.
"Don't try to resist." Trowa added after a moment.
Silence.
"Where is it Heero? I know you know. We can do this the easy way, or the hard way." Quatre threatened carefully.
Silence.
"TELL ME DAMNIT!" The blonde finally snapped and started shouting.
Heero gave his stare a few more seconds before turning left and walking right out of the living room.
"It wore him down, I can tell." Quatre said, staring after the japanese boy.
"We'll get him next time." Trowa replied.
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Elsewhere Dorothy was stalking around the house she was a guest in. Relena had said she was going to the grocery and Dorothy declined to join her. Instead she was pondering on the so-called surprise Relena had given no clues about. It'd been three days since she said that and neither of them brought it up again. She was really starting to wonder who that phone call was to.
And then it hit her. She suddenly bolted for the hallway and picked up the phone.
Relena had made no other calls since that day she caught her up to something. So that meant...
The redial button! It was so simple. And yet such a godsend.
She hit the button and tried to patiently wait to see who would pick up.
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"Hello?" Came a gruff, monotone voice. Hm... now who was? Trowa? No, it was Heero!
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Dorothy stared at the wall for a moment, not saying anything. Heero?
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Heero paused, knowing that someone was there, even though no one was answering.
"Relena?"
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Dorothy jumped, forgetting that she still held the phone to her ear. Why would he think it was Relena? Was this his private number or something? Did he have caller ID and knew Relena's number? Had Relena actually been having a conversation with Heero Yuy? Or at least trying. Maybe that's why she got so freaked out when Dorothy stalked up behind her that day.
Things were starting to fall into place, as a smirk appeared on her lips. Well, at least some kind of conclusion was made to Dorothy, though not actually the right one.
Then, just to be mean, she slammed the phone down in time to see the front door burst open as Relena walked through the doorway.
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"What are you doing?" Wufei asked, stopping next to Heero who was holding the phone and staring at it.
Heero looked up at him, back down at the phone, and then just put it back on its cradle. He turned to walk and was about to head upstairs. Except that there was an ambush planned.
"We've got him!" Duo yelled triumphantly.
"I'm sorry we had to resort to such methods." Trowa stated solemnly.
"JUST TELL US WHERE THE DAMN-" Quatre was cut off.
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An hour later the five boys were inside a very scary store indeed. After supposedly extracting the valuable information from Heero... actually he said that he was going to tell them when they stopped behaving like lunatics. Anyway, after finding out the location, Quatre once again made them all accompany him to the store to purchase the ridiculous request.
While Quatre was desperately looking around the small store, Duo and the others were loitering around and pretending they didn't belong there. Except then Duo found this really funny costume and couldn't help but grab it and disappear into a fitting room.
And seven minutes later someone tapped Heero on the shoulder. And expecting it to be some customer thinking Heero was an employee, Heero turned around with a glare only to jump back away from the person in surprise.
"What the hell is that?" Wufei asked, not moving from where he was standing. After hearing Heero make a shocked sound he had looked up from twidling his thumbs.
Trowa had been staring out the window and also looked over to the bizarre sight.
"Luke! I am your father!" The person shouted from behind his mask and black clothing.
Heero growled at the person and made a move that clearly said he would attack soon. Wufei just folded his arms and watched. Trowa, being the only one who had any knowledge in the entertainment area, started cackling at the display of stupidity.
"Hey, don't do anything you'll regret, buddy!" Duo said nervously and jerked off the helmet to show he wasn't some psycho killer or maniacal thief.
Instead, Heero dropped to the floor and slid around with a foot out and stood back up as Duo fell over on the floor.
"Ow... what was that for?"
"Finally! Let's go!" Came the ecstatic voice of Quatre, who had just walked up to his friends with a package in his arms. Then he looked confused. "What happened you guys?" He asked as Duo let out a groan holding his head.
They all ignored the question and Trowa quickly sent out another question, one that they had all been pondering on since the day this search started. "What's in there?" He motioned to whatever it was Quatre was holding.
"Ehehe... it's getting late! We should buy something to eat for dinner and then head back!" The blonde said quickly and rushed out of the store.
The others blinked at him. Duo groaned some more.
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And then when Wufei, Trowa and Heero were about to leave without waiting for the other pilot. Duo pushed over a rack of princess costumes so that the other three fell over on the floor in a pile of bright and sparkly, pink and purple dresses with wands sticking in places they didn't belong.
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Once the five pilots were back at Quatre's house, they settled for pestering him about his package. None had a chance to check it while they drove back home because the blonde heir had threatened them all in a very serious manner and said that none would be able to ever experience the joy of intercourse (and in Duo's case, never again).
"Well, I gotta go run an errand!" Quatre suddenly said and jumped up from his seat at the table as they had been eating.
"But you haven't even finished your fries!" Duo argued.
"You can have them, Duo-"
"OKAY!"
The other three gave the blonde suspicious looks (well, Heero and Trowa tried to, but Trowa's hair was in the way and Heero wasn't too fond of showing emotion).
And soon Quatre was making his way to his car with the package in his hands. What he didn't realize was that four heads were crowding around the windows trying to get a look at him and trying to figure out what he was doing. So... they took another one of Quatre's cars and followed him...
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"Why'd he stop?" Wufei asked, mostly to himself.
"We don't know!" Trowa said in an exasperated voice.
"Why hasn't he come out yet? He's been in that car for at least twenty minutes. Maybe something happened..." Duo said unsurely.
"Hn." Was Heero's response.
"Where are we anyway?" Trowa asked, looking around outside the windows.
Everyone shrugged. And then suddenly the car they had been tailing started up again and drove off in the same direction it had been headed.
It was too dark to tell exactly where they were headed but obviously Quatre had some place in mind as he parked and turned off the car. The others tried to stay a good distance away and parked the car behind a bunch of trees and bushes. Since this wasn't exactly a neighborhood (well, actually it was another rural area like where Quatre's house was) they couldn't get too close.
"We're in the middle of nowhere. Maybe Q-man's finally lost it." Duo stated as they watched the car door open.
Heero narrowed his eyes and made out the shape of something through the darkness. "There's a house nearby."
"He's going to see someone?"
Without realizing it, all four of the pilots slowly and quietly got out of their car to watch as the dark figure of Quatre made his way to the house. It was so dark, and there was only one light on inside the house but it seemed to be at the back end.
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Dorothy jumped up in surprise as the sound of bells reached her ears. 'Who in the world would be coming over to visit at...' She looked at the clock on the wall and sweatdropped. 'It's only 10:30? ...wonder why I'm so tired...' She thought getting up and moving down the stairs.
Then she paused in thought. "Why am I the one answering the door? Where's Relena? That girl..." She muttered.
"AAAAAAHHH!" A scream soon followed as she opened the door and saw the figure of a huge, goldish colored dog, standing on two legs, staring at her.
Then, not knowing what else to do, she grabbed the only thing nearby, which happened to be an umbrella and began bashing the thing in front of her, not even looking up once.
"AH! OW! STOP THAT!" The person, obviously Quatre, shouted a billion times trying to block the attacks and backing away.
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"Oh crap! Someone's attacking Quatre! We should-"
Duo was abruptly cut off and pulled by the back of the collar on his shirt.
"Hey! What was that for?" Duo said, massaging his neck with one eye peeking open at Trowa.
Heero was the one to answer. "We can't go help him. We risk being caught. Not only by his attacker, but by Quatre himself, who will probably make good on his threat." He stated, making them all shudder and Duo had a fearful look upon his face.
They all stood there for a few moments watching the struggle from a good distance away.
"So what about now?"
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It was too hot. He couldn't breathe. And now he had a headache that would keep all the bruises on his body company for the next week.
So instead of trying to get up from the ground, he lay there in a heap while someone was poking at him with something.
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Relena jumped up at the sound of someone screaming. Of course it took a while for her to find the source. First she had to get out of the wonderful bath she had been taking and then put on clothes. And the things that were closest happened to be the sleepwear she set out on the bed. After hastily pulling everything on, she decided to grab a weapon in case... and the only thing she could think of grabbing was the blow dryer on her dresser.
Relena tried to make her way downstairs quietly but quickly. She didn't want to arrive too late to find her friend's body unmoving.
So when she found that no one was there, she blinked in confusion.
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Dorothy suddenly stopped pounding the umbrella and swiveled around just as the last of light was cut off.
"No!" She cried out.
A moan from the thing sprawled on the floor brought the blonde's attention back from almost running up to the door and breaking it down. Of course when she turned to look for the thing she'd defeated she couldn't see a thing through the darkness since it was late at night.
So she tried to creep over to where the victim lay while complaining. "This is all your fault... whatever the hell you are. Now I'm locked out-" And she was abruptly cut off when she tripped over something that moved.
"OW!"
"AHH!"
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Narrowed blue eyes turned sharply towards the front door. Relena stalked her way towards the door holding the 'weapon' steadily. Previously she had been searching around the living room and hallway for any sign of an intruder. But the door had been closed when she came down and no one was in sight.
But now there seemed to be suspect. So she took in a deep breath, held her hands high and pulled open the door.
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"Ah..." Dorothy silently gasped and shielded her face as a bright light suddenly opened up right in front of her face, still lying on the floor. "What are you doing with a blowdryer?" She asked in a confused voice.
"Dorothy! What are you-" Relena cut herself off. "Quatre?" She squeaked out, and then seeing the position they were in, made a sly face.
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"I don't get it! What the hell's going on?" Wufei grumbled.
Duo stared. "Are you guys sure-"
"YES!" All three opposing forces yelled at him.
A moment later.
"Who turned out the lights?" Duo asked.
"Someone closed the door!" Wufei hissed.
"Now we can't see anything." Heero mumbled to himself.
Although this was true, they heard quite loudly as Dorothy launched into a speech of whose fault this was. They also heard when she was cut off and the sounds of a struggle but no one moved, since they didn't know where exactly to head to.
Then, a few minutes later someone swung open the front door and the outline of a slender figure was made as a female stood there in her tight tank top and a pair of shorts that had obviously shrunk in the wash.
"Relena." Heero stated in his usual monotone voice.
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"Oh, you guys, I thought you'd at least have the sense the get into a room before doing that." Relena said with a smirk.
Dorothy gaped. Then looked over to the person next to her, their limbs still entangled. "Quatre?"
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"You gotta admit, Heero-buddy, she does look great in that top, and the shorts are nice. Hey, how come you're not saying anything-" Duo promptly shut his mouth and jumped behind Trowa who only shook his head at the glare Heero was sending all three of them.
"Well, it's not like he can stop us from looking." Wufei said carelessly.
And that's when someone lunged for someone else and a brawl started.
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"Wait- What are you-" Relena cut herself off and stared as she finally realized what Quatre was wearing. Then she scurried over and dropped to the floor. "Oh no! Dorothy! What'd you do to him?" She yelled at her friend who was still in shock, and unmoving. Then she turned to look at Quatre who looked too tired to get up from lying on the ground. "Oh my god! Are you okay? Quatre!"
The said blonde looked over to the two girls out of the corner of his eyes, not even attempting to move. He didn't even bother to smile, which screamed that something was horribly wrong with this situation.
Relena moaned in frustration and made a face. "Quatre, you were supposed to serenade her! Not scare her to death!"
At this Dorothy quirked an eyebrow. "What was that?"
"Uh..."
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Because this fight involved four gundam pilots it was inevitable that it would turn ugly quite soon. And now since the four were only about three yards away (thanks to their rolling around on the ground trying to strangle and stop each other) it caught the attention of the other three persons sitting (or lying) on the ground near the house.
Well, we can all only guess how this turned out...
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Disclaimer-I do not own Gundam Wing or the characters.
Er... sorry about this chapter. I thought it was doing pretty okay in the beginning but towards the end it started to sink. I don't think it was that great this time. And I have to say, for once I'm not writing this just because people are reading it. I've barely gotten any reviews and from checking the stats on this story. This doesn't really bother me though. I'm writing this story because I want to!
Anyway, I'm gonna put up the rating just a bit, in case I curse too much in this fic or something. Sorry.
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Ciao! I must start writing the next chapter to 'Are you stalking me?' tomorrow!
9-20-05
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