A/N: Okay, weirdest chapter (probably) is this one, and if I needed to put a title for this chapter, I'd call it "Mwu's Secret…The Game…" Anyway, please don't take my previous note very seriously, I was just kidding. ; anyway, additional notes. In this AU of mine, coordinators EXIST, but they're not half as brutal as ZAFT.
Another day at work, Kira had no paperwork for the first time in days. He finally got the chance to play a game on his PC. Lacus was on Kira's desk, asleep and dreaming about something. It was very silent in the room, the only sound present was from the game. It went on for a few minutes until Mwu ran into the room shouting Kira's name.
"KIRA!" Mwu shouted. Kira was so surprised, he crushed the mouse.
"What is it? What's wrong? Where's the fire?" Kira asked.
"No! Nothing's wrong! I just wanted to show you something."
"Why did you have to scream?"
"I just felt like it."
"That's not a good sign, Mr. LaFlaga…"
"I know… if I don't stop doing that, all the girls will move away from me…" he sighed.
"What do you mean?" Kira's head tilted.
"I know… you can't relate to what I'm saying, right?"
"Yes."
"Well, that's because you've got a girl following you everywhere." He points at Lacus.
"She's my secretary."
"I know… but… where have you seen a secretary sleeping on the desk of her boss?"
"Umm… she's waiting for phone calls… yup, that's it… isn't it?"
"Stop lying, Kira! I'm like a big brother to you… you can tell me anything!"
"Well… let's put that aside, shall we?" he moved his hands from left to right, acting as if he was physically moving the topic aside.
"Oh boy…"
"Tell me, what was it that you wanted to show me?"
"Oh, right. Would you please go to the AVR? We need to do some testing. The president said he'd follow in a few minutes."
"Alright. I'll be there as well. I'll wake up Lacus and we'll be on our way."
"Alright." Mwu left the room.
After Mwu left, Kira went to his desk to wake up Lacus. He tried to wake her by shaking, but once he put his hand on her, his body refused to move and so much blood was rushing to his head.
"This is weird…" Kira sighed. He stared at the sleeping Lacus and he entered a trance.
"She's beautiful…"
His imagination was going wild and he could imagine him and Lacus in a lot of different situations. His face moved closer to Lacus without him noticing. Suddenly, a bird crashing into the window broke his trance and he realized that he was millimeters away from kissing her. He tried to move away but his body refused again. From that range, he could hear Lacus mumbling in her sleep.
'Come on, stupid body! Move! If Lacus sees this, I'll get a smoking palm mark on my face… and that's putting it mildly…' he thought to himself.
He tried again, but to no avail. He sighed. Then, Lacus started to move and her eyes opened. Kira was in so much shock, his heart nearly stopped. His face was so red, the only thing missing was a glow.
"Oh… hi, Kira." Lacus smiled at Kira.
"Umm… hello…?"
"What are you doing?" Lacus asked Kira.
"Umm…well…I…uhh…" Kira tried to explain. Lacus just giggled.
"Hey! What's so funny?" Kira raised an eyebrow, still keeping the same distance.
"Nothing." Lacus smiled again.
"…Anyway… Can you tell me something Lacus?"
"What is it?"
"What were you mumbling about in your sleep? I swear I heard my name more than twice." Kira asked.
"Well… it's nothing… don't mind it." Lacus turned into her hair color.
"Are you sure?" Kira tried to get the answer out of Lacus.
"Well… what are you doing this close to me?" Lacus stares at Kira. Kira just stared back.
He still stayed at the same distance when Mwu came barging in, nearly breaking the door.
"Hey, kid! The testing's starting…" he blinked in disbelief, "Whoa! Kira, get a hold of yourself! This isn't the time to do that with your girlfriend!"
"With my what?" Kira yelled as he finally got himself away from Lacus.
At the Audio-Visual Room(AVR), Mwu had two PCs connected to a server computer with a projector. Athrun was already on one of the seats when Lacus and Kira entered, still blushing after their close call.
"Kira? What's wrong with your face? And Lacus? Why are the both of you blushing?" Athrun asked suspiciously.
"It's nothing." Lacus directed her look downward.
"Yeah… it's nothing…" Kira answered.
"Is it true, Mr. LaFlaga?" Athrun raised an eyebrow.
"Well…umm… maybe…" Mwu said, "so, what about the testing?"
"You're changing the topic." Athrun's eyes narrowed.
"Hey! Relax! You came here for the testing! Not for Kira's love-life"
"Heh… guess you're right." Athrun sighed.
"So, what was it that you wanted us to test?" Kira asked Mwu.
"This." Mwu answered as he opened similar programs on both PCs.
"What the heck is that?"
"Just watch." The loading bar disappeared from the screen and the title screen. Athrun and Kira looked at their screens and read the title together.
"Mobile Suit Gundam SEED? What's that?" Kira asked Mwu.
"Just press enter and you'll see." Mwu pointed.
Both of them pressed enter. On Athrun's screen, a mini-movie was playing. A character which looked like Athrun jumped inside a cockpit. The system activated and a different scene started. On Kira's screen, he saw a character which looked like him being dragged into a cockpit by a woman with brown hair in orange uniform.
(A/N: if it sounds familiar, it should be. Those are scenes from SEED's 1st episode…)
After the scene changed and a few more seconds of mini-movies, they saw each other's suits and an HP and PS bar appeared on their screen. Seconds later, everything stopped moving on the screen.
"It stopped…" Kira blinked.
"Yeah, something's wrong with this thing." Athrun commented.
"No, nothing's wrong with it." Mwu explained.
"Then why aren't they moving?"
"It's a game. The characters won't move if you don't make them."
"Alright… What are the controls?" Athrun asked.
"Well…" Mwu explained everything to Athrun. When he was ready to start, the Game-Over message blinked on the screen, followed by the message:
WINNER! GAT-X105 STRIKE
"Well, I won." Kira said as if nothing happened.
"You never cease to surprise me, don't you, kid?" Mwu said.
"I guess I do." Kira scratched his head.
"What the heck just happened?" Athrun's jaw dropped.
"You're a coordinator, you should know." Mwu answered the question.
"Well, coordinators are capable of many different things, but that doesn't include playing a game with absolutely no knowledge of it, especially having no idea about the controls… It's technically, logically, literally, basically and scientifically impossible!" Athrun raised his voice.
"Guess that makes Kira more like me… a person who could make the impossible possible."
"Whatever… it's still impossible."
"Athrun…" Kira interrupted, "…are you up for round two?"
"Stop kidding, Kira, it's just testing. We've done enough for today."
"Alright, Athrun. No need to give reasons. Just tell me if you're afraid of losing."
"Me? Lose? No way!"
"Well, you just did." Kira teased.
"Alright, bring it on!" Athrun rolled his sleeve and restarted the game.
They fought again, this time, outside the colony.
"Whoa! The Strike's reacting too fast!" Kira yelled.
"Because in space, there's no air resistance."
"This game has that?"
"Yes. It even has an OS feature, so you can reconfigure your machine in-game."
"You went THAT far?" Athrun's jaw dropped.
"Well, you said we should make a huge breakthrough, and this is it."
"I didn't mean that kind of breakthrough."
"It's too late for changes. Nicol is already doing the RPG portion of the game and Dearka is in-charge of the AI. Everything else is up to my team."
"Just what are you're specifications on this game?" Athrun inquired.
"It's a First-Person/Third-Person game with RPG, adventure, fighting and strategy added to the game." Mwu let out a huge smile.
"To put it simply, you put a lot of genres together on this game. Is that it?"
"Precisely."
"You're insane…" Athrun sighed.
"Crazy, yes. Insane, no." Mwu shook his head.
"It's the same thing… so, how are you supposed to change the settings?"
"To change the OS settings, press F12."
Kira and Athrun did the same thing. Athrun was taking his time with the OS when the game stopped with the Game Over message written all over the screen.
"WHAT?" Athrun screamed.
The same message appeared on the screen:
WINNER! GAT-X105 STRIKE
"Oops… I forgot to mention. The game doesn't pause when you're typing the OS. I just turns you into a sitting duck." Mwu sweat-dropped.
"You should've told me earlier…" Athrun sighed as Chibi-Kira was jumping around celebrating his 'victory'.
To be continued…
A/N: Longest Chapter so far. Hehehe… anyway, if you're going to review, you may try answering these:
-How many times, so far, did Athrun's jaw drop?
-Do you think it's dislocated?
Anyway, I won't be able to update frequently, but I'll try to do it ASAP!
