The Pink Tourbus is What Goes 'Bump' in The Night.

Prepare of chaos…

Prepare for terror…

Prepare for… kareoke?

That pretty much sums it up. That and a rude landing and a sparkly pink tourbus. The writer still owns nothing of Gundam Seed, obviously. Goodness, another short chapter. I think that's it's a phase.

"OOOOklahoma, where the winds go sweeping down the plains-"

"Wrong state idiot." Yzak slapped Dearka upside the head. Both to emphasize his 'idiot' statement, and to just make him quit singing.

"Alright then." Dearka's brows creased in thought. His face suddenly lit up- and everyone knew the inevitable was coming.

"Duck and cover…" Nicol muttered lightly as he pulled the pillow over his head.

"All I see are miles and miles of Texas- "

"What the hell do we have to do to get you to shut up Dearka? Tape your mouth shut and lock you in a closet." The can of Sprite that Yzak had slammed onto to table began to fizz menacingly.

"Anti-American now? Alright then…" Dearka again struck his 'thoughtful' pose.

"Nicol… run for it." Athrun whispered from the bridge. Nicol followed Kira's gaze up to a white-lipped Yzak. "Uh-oh." Was all he managed to get out before Dearka jumped up to begin another song.

"Ooooooooooooooh Canada-" Nicol sprang from his perch and into the aisle. He skidded and made a mad dive for the safety of the bridge. Athrun and Kira were doing the same; trying to squish into the small navigation area at the front of the travel trailer.

"What's the rush?" Mwu looked up at the three teens panting and cowering behind his seat.

"Yzak is going to explode." Athrun stated, his tone laced with a mix of fear for their safety, and pity for Dearka.

"Then you should probably shut the door." Uzumi chimed in, reaching back to point at a small sliding door carefully hidden in the wall. Nicol reached up and grabbed the handle and pulled the clear barrier close. Just in time.

Yzak's eye twitched. But nothing more. The spectators in the bridge- except for Uzumi because he was driving- all looked back to see what pieces of Dearka were left. To their surprise…Yzak and Dearka were…laughing? Nicol, Athrun, and Kira stared at them in disbelief. How had Yzak gone from raving mad to perfectly fine in two seconds flat? The hysterical duo looked over at their companions and burst out laughing again.

"Oh.." pant, pant, "My God. You guys so fell for it!" Dearka fell onto the sofa laughing, clutching his sides and trying to wipe the tears from his eyes with little luck.

Athrun pulled the door open and crawled up. After standing up and brushing his jeans off, he gave Yzak and Dearka a withering glare. Nicol was next to emerge. And Kira soon followed.

"Yeah… what was that all about?" Kira finally asked. Yzak, now sitting on the table, shrugged nonchalantly.

"We wanted to see how good my acting was. And now-" He turned to look at Dearka smugly, "you own me twenty credits." Dearka pulled a can of soda from the fridge. "Yeah well, you did do a good job. I actually thought you had gone homicidal on me."

"Anyone ready to go outside?" Uzumi called from the bridge.

"It's been two hours already? Wow." Yzak brushed past Kira and walked to the bridge. "Hold on everyone, we're going to be stopping soon." Mwu added. Not even five seconds after he said it, the trailer jolted to a stop.

"Guwah!" Dearka fell on top of Athrun who in turn knocked over Kira. Like giantdominos. Nicol, on the other hand, had hopped up onto the table and gripped the cabinets overhead as soon as Mwu made the announcement.

"All ashore that's goin' ashore!" Mwu yelled before jumping out of the trailer. "Well that paid off…" Nicol nimbly leapt off his perch- careful to avoid stepping on one of his fallen comrades. "Hurry up." He called over his shoulder.

"Be there in a minute.." Kira waved from his position on the bottom of the pile.

They had pulled into a desolate truck stop somewhere in the outskirts of the townof Mojave, on the Mojave Desert. The old neon sign flickered haphazardly against the cobalt blue sky. "It's only three in the afternoon. It feels like we've been in there for a week." Dearka took a deep breath and looked up at the sky. "It's nice to actually get a chance to walk a descent distance!" Everyone cheered his agreement. The rocky terrain stretched for miles in every direction. With the occasional Joshua Tree, sage bush, or cactus dotting the horizon. To the south east, distant mountains were tiny sienna dunes on the horizon.

"What the?" Mwu shielded his eyes from the sun as a distant shape began to grow larger. It seemed to shimmer- even though the usual dry heat of the desert had receded. "Do you all see that?" He motioned for Uzumi and pointed to the box shaped thing. "I think it's a.."

"It's Lacus!" Dearka cried happily. This time six heads turned to look at him. "Hey- you're right!" Yzak propped a hand on his hip and pointed at the oncoming object. "It's her tour bus. I heard that she's got one placed in every major city." Now it was his turn to be on the receiving end of several incredulous stares. "But that's just a rumor… God." Yzak turned and headed back into to the trailer, a small trail of dust following him.

"She's early." Uzumi looked at his watch, blinking when it only read '3:30'. "Very early."

The box shaped object steadily grew closer. And soon it was clearly a bright pink tour bus, which happened to shimmer, because it was coated in pink glitter. Yzak, Nicol, Dearka, Kira, Athrun, Mwu and Uzumi all stared as the pink bus rolled closer. "Oh…" began Dearka. "My…" added Athrun. "GOD" finishedMwu emphatically. "Yeah." BothKira and Nicol said in unison. Lacus had arrived.

Chapter 4 Teaser

"Like a giant…pink…menacing….something… Yzak screwed up his face in an attempt to compare what he was seeing to something he actually knew existed. There were simply no words to describe how the light bounced off the acidic pink glitter and created prisms of equally mutilated rainbows on the ground and in the air. Now he seriously wished that he hadn't eaten all that food earlier…"

A Western Theme