A/N: yeah yeah yeah, I know I'm like 2 months late, but since I was gone for 1 month on vacation and these past few weeks working my ass off for exams, I can hardly be blamed. Also, a constant supply of video games kept me busy for a while, so sorry. Anyways, enjoy!
Disclaimer: don't own Gundam Seed, 'nuff said
Chap 8: Mobile Suit Strawberry Lingerie
"Oh, Milly, be careful!" Dearka exclaimed, quickly reaching out for her as she stumbled a bit.
"I'm fine Dearka, I may be pregnant, but I'm not a handicap, you know." Miriallia said. The group had left the café, shortly after Dearka's little outburst.
"Well, Miriallia, have you thought of a name for the baby yet?" Shiho asked curiously.
"Of course not, I just found out I was pregnant and you expect me to come up with a name already." Miriallia exclaimed.
"Calm down Milly, besides, it's never too early to think of these things." Cagalli said.
The group was now walking around leisurely to nowhere in particular, enjoying themselves but they were unknowingly led by Kira to a particular place in the mall. The place Kira was leading them to was actually on the other side of the mall and they were only halfway there, but they were making their way steadily there. However, they passed a video arcade and Cagalli couldn't help herself but get excited.
"Wow, look Athrun, a mobile suit simulator! I didn't think these were out yet." Cagalli said, pointing excitedly at the machines.
"Cagalli, haven't you fought enough battles to last a lifetime?" Athrun asked.
"This is different. So, you up for a game?"
"Nah, video games aren't my thing." Athrun replied.
"You pansy, fine, then I challenge you Yzak Joule!" Cagalli pointed her finger at Yzak with a smirk on her face. She knew he wouldn't pass up a challenge.
"Hah, you wouldn't last two minutes against me." Yzak scoffed.
"Oh yeah, bring it! I bet I could kick your ass five times in a row!"
Athrun sighed, "Cagalli, can't you be a bit more lady like?"
"What did you say!" Cagalli hissed menacingly. She whacked him in the head and proceeded to the machines, with Yzak behind her.
"And I thought pregnant ladies were aggressive." Miriallia said. Shiho and Lacus giggled.
The rest of them trailed behind the two into the dark, loud and crowded arcade. The machines themselves were quite impressive. At first glance, they looked like some sort of weird pod, but inside was quite impressive. There was a 180 degree screen, surround sound and a lot of buttons and control sticks with a pair of pedals on the bottom. They almost resembled military mobile suit simulators. There were two machines side by side, and on top was a giant screen showing the action, so that spectators can watch. Yzak and Cagalli got behind the controls and put in some money.
"Good luck honey." Shiho called out.
"Thanks, but I don't need luck to beat her."
"I heard that!" Cagalli said.
The game started and they chose the mobile suits. There weren't any fancy stuff, just the standard units of OMNI, ZAFT and ORB, meaning, Strike Daggers, several types of GINNs, DINNs and BuCues, the Guaiz and Orb's Astray M1.
Cagalli chose the Astray while Yzak chose a custom Guaiz, which was dark blue in color. They chose the battle field and the game started.
"Go Cagalli!" Lacus, Miriallia and Shiho cheered for her
"Hey! You're supposed to be cheering for me!" Yzak said to Shiho.
"Sorry, Yzak, girlfriends before boyfriend." Shiho replied.
"Come on Yzak, you don't want to lose to a girl, do you?" Dearka smirked at him.
Kira and Athrun didn't know to root for. In their opinion, either choice would be the same result. If Cagalli won, she would be bragging for the rest of the day and if Yzak won, he too will be gloating. Also, if Cagalli lost, she would take her anger out on them and vice versa. So it was really a lose-lose situation.
Yzak flew at Cagalli, hoping to slash her with his beam claws. Cagalli dodged him and fired her beam rifle. Yzak quickly maneuvered and returned fire of his own. And so it was for a while, the two of them exchanging fire, dodging, blocking and slashing each other. However, Cagalli got a luck shot in and took out one of Yzak's arms. She then quickly flew in and slashed the cockpit with her beam saber, before Yzak can retaliate.
"Ha, one-nothing." Cagalli yelled out.
"I'm not out yet! I still got one life left!" Yzak yelled back. Soon people gathered around to watch the intense battle. Some were cheering for Cagalli while some were going for Yzak.
Yzak respawned and fired at her without mercy. Cagalli blocked his shots and flew back at him with her beam saber, but Yzak was ready this time. He did some fancy evasive skill, got behind her and fired his beam claws at her. Both found their targets. Cagalli's machine exploded.
"ARGHHH" Cagalli yelled out.
"Come on Cagalli, you can still win" Kira called out to her.
Cagalli came back and both attacked each other relentlessly. It was turning out to be quite an exciting match. The crowd of people was now going crazy. This was the most exciting match they've seen in a long time, even some of the seasoned players were watching in awe.
Yzak and Cagalli were now at the peak of their performance. They were battling flawlessly, neither wanted to lose to the other. But in the end, Yzak managed to slash off one of her legs. Cagalli quickly moved back. She fired her beam rifle, hoping to hit him, and she did, bringing his HP down some more. Yzak charged, hoping to end the battle with this final slash.
"oh no, I'm gonna lose, I can't lose to him." Cagalli panicked and blindly pressed some buttons. Luckily, she pressed the right one and impaled her beam saber into Yzak.
The words "GAME OVER, YOU LOSE" appeared on Yzak's screen
"YESSS! I WIN!" Cagalli screamed.
""NOOOO! GOD DAMN IT! I HAD YOU!" Yzak was punching the screen in anger. He was not a graceful loser.
"Well, you didn't." Cagalli said to him as she stepped out of her machine, with a huge grin on her face.
"Great match Cagalli, I knew you would win." Lacus said cheerfully with Kira by her side.
"Yah sis, I wasn't expecting you to do so well." Kira said, ruffling her hair playfully.
Shiho was dragging a pouting Yzak out of the machine before he broke it.
"You did your best honey, don't worry about it."
"I can't believe she beat me, that's impossible." Said Yzak, still extremely pissed off.
"Well, considering that Cagalli plays video games every day for at least an hour, even though she's the head representative of Orb, it's not that improbable." Kira said knowingly.
"Hey Yzak, you were beaten by a girl." Reminded Dearka, who was smirking madly, "looks like the great Yzak Joule is a bit rusty if he can't even beat a Natural.".
"Shut up."
Athrun came up behind Cagalli and hugged her from behind, "That was great Cagalli, you could probably beat me."
"Thanks Athrun, I knew I had your full support and I can always beat you."
"Hey Athrun, you owe me 5 bucks." Dearka said from behind him.
"Not now."
"Why do you owe him 5 bucks, Athrun?" Cagalli asked, suspicious.
"Well, you see…"
"I'll tell you why," Dearka cut it, "It's because he betted against you. He was betting on Yzak and I was betting on you. You won, so he has to pay up."
"Shut up Dearka…" Muttered Athrun as he back away from Cagalli.
"YOU BET AGAINST ME! HOW DARE YOU!" Cagalli jumped at him and chased him around the arcade.
"HELLPPP MEE KIRAA!" yelled Athrun.
Kira shrugged and turned back to Lacus who was oblivious to them because she was currently immersed in this electronic basketball game, trying to score as many baskets as possible.
Meanwhile, Yzak gave Dearka a light punch to the head.
"OWW, what was that for?" Whined Dearka.
"You were supposed to be supposed friend and you bet against me too, you back stabbing traitor." Yzak growled.
"What about Shiho? She was supporting Cagalli too."
"Hey, I was supporting both of them." Shiho defended herself.
"She I can forgive, you I can't."
Kira, Lacus and Miriallia were watching everything from a distance, since they didn't want to get involved. They watched Yzak beat up Dearka, and Athrun running for his life from Cagalli.
"I'm not helping you Athrun. I told you not to do it." Kira called out.
Lacus put her head on Kira's shoulder and sighed, "When will this end?"
Dearka ran up and quickly ran behind Miriallia while Yzak and Shiho calmly walked up to them.
"Protect me Milly."
"Using your pregnant girlfriend as a shield, how noble of you." Miriallia said.
As Athrun and Cagalli ran past them, Kira stuck out his arm and grabbed Cagalli by her collar.
"That's enough Cagalli; I think Athrun has learned his lesson."
"Hmpf, he'd better, or else I'll really give him a beating." Cagalli said, glaring at Athrun, with her fists raised.
"So are we done here?" Shiho asked with annoyance.
"Yeah, let's go." Cagalli said, stilled peeved, "Unless Mister hothead here wants a rematch."
"You're on! I am going to destroy you this time." Yzak hissed.
"No, you're not." Shiho dragged Yzak out of the arcade by his ear.
"And you're coming with me." Cagalli said, grabbing Athrun roughly by the arm as the other four followed them out, shaking their heads.
"Finally we're out of that loud stuffy arcade" Miriallia said as she walked out of the arcade, placing her hands on her stomach, "I don't think that place is good for my baby."
"How'd you come up with that?" Shiho asked.
Milly shrugged and turned to Dearka, "I want a strawberry smoothie, now!"
"But there isn't a smoothie store around---."
"I don't care, the baby wants strawberry and I don't care if you make it yourself, you get it to me, NOW." Miriallia demanded.
"You know Dearka, I think there's a desert shop up ahead, why don't you go there first and we'll catch up." Kira said thoughtfully.
"You hear that? Now GO!" Miriallia scolded.
Dearka got out a "Yes, ma'am" before he ran ahead, almost falling head over heels.
Miriallia giggled, "I'm going to have a lot of fun with Dearka with this baby. I'm sure he'll be kept very busy." Everyone laughed.
"That's a bit mean, isn't it?" Lacus asked.
"Not at all, the more stuff you guys have to do, the less time you have to get in trouble." Cagalli said, now dragging a squirming Athrun by the ear.
"In fact Miriallia, you should make Dearka carry you around everywhere as well." Yzak said smirking.
"That's not a bad idea, I just might do that." Miriallia answered with a mischievous grin.
The group made their way forward to see where Dearka has gotten to. They saw him through a window to a small desert shop tucked between two massive stores. Dearka saw them and waved to them rather stupidly. They looked away, pretending not to see him and waited for him to finish up. He came out shortly after with a cup of strawberry smoothie.
"Here you go, honey."
Miriallia took a sip, "Hmmm, I don't think my baby likes this; I think it wants a peach smoothie now."
"WHAT! Bu-but..but..I just..I got… strawberry… and now you want..." Dearka stammered.
Milly giggled at his weird babblings. "I'm kidding Dearka, calm down. You don't have to get another one."
Dearka sighed, "Whew"
"However," Milly started.
Dearka stiffened.
"You have to carry me, carrying this baby is tiring."
Dearka's mouth dropped open and his eyes widened in disbelief.
Miriallia burst out laughing. She was laughing so hard she was clutching on to Cagalli for support, who was also giggling madly, along with the rest of them.
"Hahhahahahah-you should have seen the -heeheehee- look on your face!" Miriallia choked out.
"Yeah, it was priceless." Shiho chuckled along with Yzak.
"God dang it, I'm going to go crazy these next few months." Dearka pouted.
"You got that right, mister." Cagalli said, "And if I even catch a whisper of you not treating her good, OFF WITH YOUR HEAD." She made a cutting motion with her arms.
Dearka tugs at his collar nervously while Lacus and Milly giggled.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, we've heard enough of your empty threats Attha, can we get going now?" Yzak asked impatiently as he walked ahead with Shiho.
"Hey wait up." Athrun said, catching up to them along with the rest of the group.
The group continued their walk, looking at this and that and joking around. Athrun saw something up ahead and his face lit up in a wide smile, but the others took no notice. They were laughing at a story Cagalli told about Andy Waltfeld, who accidentally spilled a cup of his famous coffee all over Murrue's chest. He then quickly tried to wipe it off her chest with a napkin, not aware of what he was doing. The next thing he knew, he was lying on the ground with a mild concussion. As they walked past this particular store, Athrun pulled a surprised Cagalli away and into the store. Her cheeks flushed instantly when she saw what kind of store it is. The others turned and looked as well, their reactions the same.
Cagalli turned to Athrun, "What is the meaning of this?" She hissed as she pointed to a lingerie store.
"I just thought you might want something." Athrun said, trying to feign innocence, as he pulled Cagalli in, "come on, it'll be fun."
"You guys coming?" Athrun asked as he walked in.
Dearka smirked and pulled Miriallia in. Kira and Lacus looked unsure, both blushing furiously, but they followed as well. The only one who made a commotion about it was Yzak.
"No way am I going to be seen in a store like that." Yzak said.
"Oh, come on Yzak, don't you have a sense of fun?" Shiho said as she tried to get him to go in.
"Fun is not part of my vocabulary."
"But if you go in, you can help me pick out some beautiful..." Shiho moved a finger up Yzak's chest and whispered in his ear, "…sexy…erotic…"
"Ok,ok, I give up. Damn you women." Yzak hissed and he slowly walked into the store with Shiho.
Inside the store, Kira and Lacus was with Cagalli and Athrun, while Yzak and Shiho joined Dearka and Milly.
"Hey Cagalli, why don't you try this on?" Athrun held up a black leather outfit which consisted of mostly straps and buckles. It was one of those dominatrix outfits. "You know how you like to be controlling." Athrun said seductively while Kira and Lacus giggled in the background.
Cagalli raised her fists, but released it and took the outfit from Athrun, which surprised him. "That's right Athrun, and if you're not good, I'll make you wear it and then tie you up and whip you all night." Cagalli whispered seductively in his ear.
Athrun face drained and laughed nervously. He knew that she would do it since it wasn't the first time she'd done something like that. But on the record, he had let Cagalli do it to him willingly, but Kira and Lacus didn't need to know that.
Lacus on the other hand, was holding up a set of pink lingerie and a set of baby blue lingerie in front of herself, modeling it for Kira. Kira, however, was blushing madly and was trying to avert his eyes. Lacus giggled at his shyness.
"Kira, why are you so shy? You've even seen me naked befo-"
Kira clamped his hand over Lacus's mouth, "Not here Lacus!"
"Oho Kira, you've been a naughty little brother." Cagalli said, poking Kira in the ribs.
Athrun laughed at Kira, "So, tell us all about it."
"It's not what you think," Kira said quickly, waving his free hand, "and—Oww!"
Lacus bit down playfully on Kira's hand.
"That hurt, Lacus what did you do that for?" Kira said, rubbing his hand.
"Heehee, I couldn't breathe, and I didn't bite you that hard, you big baby. Here let me see it." Lacus said. She took his hand and inspected it. Then she kissed it, "All better now?"
Kira smiled and took her hands in his now, "Of course, your kiss will heal any wound on me. Now, I think I like the pink one better."
'Dearka, you have the worst taste in fashion ever!" Milly exclaimed, putting back another set of tiny, black bra and panties, "why do you choose the sluttiest ones there are!"
"Cause he's a pervert and why do you even let him pick?" Shiho asked, putting a hand on her forehead, "I don't let Yzak pick anything, he's there to pay and hold things."
"Hey!" voiced both Dearka and Yzak.
"But it's true, sorry boys." Shiho said while Miriallia giggled.
"Alright now, can we get going? You've chose more than enough." Yzak said impatiently.
"Why? You don't want to see me in lingerie?" Shiho asked seductively.
"Of course I do-wait… I don't… I mean I do, I do….GUHH-LET'S JUST GO!" Spluttered Yzak while Dearka was laughing hard beside him.
Shiho nodded and walked off to pay for the merchandise. Yzak followed her, but gave Dearka a punch in the arm before he goes.
"Alright Dearka, let's go too, I'm done." Milly said.
"But you've only picked two. I want to see you in more." Whined Dearka.
"I don't think I should give you too much incentive since that was how I ended up pregnant in the first place." Miriallia glared at him.
Dearka grinned sheepishly, "heheheh, I forgot."
"Yeah right. Let's go, you oaf, YOU have to pay for these!"
A/N: and we're done. I'll probably be finish this fic off in the next couple of chapters and maybe come up with a valentine one-shot. That is if I can think of an idea and keep myself from being distracted while writing it. And my exams are over, YAY! But unfortunately, school is still in session. Stupid school. Anyhow, till next time.
And I think a THANK YOU is in order to all my gracious and patient readers and reviewers. THANK YOU! And don't forget to Review! Don't care what you write, one word's fine with me.