A/N: Thank you all for your reviews.. I really appreciate your enthusiasm and encouragement!
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And for those of you who are concerned: of course I INTEND to continue this fic until the boys are home again, throughly traumatized and ready for Endless Waltz...
(Minna, understand it's a work in progress... I'm making it up as i go along... fear not. I'm not hoarding chapters and holding out on you)!
Love, Your Jane
CHAPTER 6
Camouflaged in the shadowy cover of leaves, Pan silently took skillful aim with his slingshot. With a crack a large coconut snapped off it's place on its tree and plummeted into a bush below and caused an explosion of leaves and a scrambling of small hands. A skinny little boy burst out from the bush with leaves in his messy hair. Peter greeted him, "Ha! Found you, Heero!"
Pan stood proudly with hands on his hips and a grin on his face. Heero looked like he wanted to protest, but then he thought of a better plan and smirked mischievously. Pan began laughing triumphantly, impressed with his own cleverness, but stopped abruptly when he realized he had been shot.
"OUCH! HEERO! THAT'LL LEAVE A WELT! NO FAIR!"
Pan rubbed his aching temple and shot Heero a squinty glare. Heero ran off, tucking his own slingshot in his shorts. As he ran, Heero absentmindedly wondered when he had learned to stash a weapon so instinctively but the attempt to remember was as futile as trying to clearly remember why things happened in a dream. Pan took off in hot pursuit of his japanese playmate. The two boys blazed through their jungly surroundings, ducking and weaving like wildfire. Heero skidded to a halt and ducked past a big beech tree, careful not to trip on the roots, before he began sprinting down a sandy path to the beach. Heero slowed to a jog as he approached the water. It was too quiet. Moments later Pan was upon him and holding him in a headlock. Pan crowed in victory as Heero dropped to his knees in submission. Peter pulled Heero back to his feet ad tussled the Japanese boy's brown hair. Heero swatted Pan's hand away, "Get off, Peter, Listen!"
Both boys silently turned to face the water. A confused Peter Pan furrowed his eyebrows, "Strange.. There are no birds calling.."
"Peter, what's that roaring sound?"
"I hear it too..this way..." Pan moved toward the place where the lagoon met the ocean, and motioned for Heero to follow. Pan led Heero past the trees, and both boys froze in their tracks. Standing "waist deep" off the shore was a huge humanoid robot. Without warning the water around it erupted, rising up as if there had been an underwater explosion. The enormous structure lurched, before sinking into the water. Both boys had been startled, but Heero was especially embarrassed to find that he had been so scared, he had grabbed Peter's hand. Releasing the other boy immediately, Heero thought he remembered part of the dream... a crooked grin...it was gone. Peter blushed and Heero shot him a frightened glance. The robot disappeared under the water with a satisfying slurp.
"Put your hands on your heads," a calm monotone instructed, and two soft clicks were heard.
Peter and Heero put their hands on their heads.
"Turn around."
Pan and Heero obediently turned to find to tall, thin men towering over them and holding them at gun point. One of the men used a long sword to gently knock the slingshots out of each boys belt and out of reach.
"Since when do pirates and indians work together?" Heero sneered.
The "pirate" arched an eyebrow from under a thick unibang. The "indian" with the sword appeared to falter for a moment, "Yuy?"
"We know you speak English!" Heero glared.
Pan scoffed, "I've never seen them before, but these two smell like a couple of cowardly codfish!"
"On your knees, boys." The "pirate" continued to instruct them. Heero and Pan obeyed, but continued to comment on the appearance of their captors with insolence.
Wufei addressed Trowa in Japanese, "Here's a riddle for you, clown boy."
Trowa frowned "Clown boy? I have a name."
"No you don't."
"Oh. right."
"What dresses like Heero, glares like Heero, wears his hair like Heero, and carries a weapon like Heero.. but doesn't look much like Heero, or sound much like Heero?"
"Uh...Chibi Heero."
"STOP TALKING ABOUT ME!" Chibi Heero looked quite pissed, from where he knelt in the sand beside Chibi Pan. Trowa and Wufei suddenly remembered that when you say 'Chibi Heero' in japanese, it sounds like 'Chibi Heero'.
"Oh my gods.. Barton you're brilliant."
"I'm an enigma."
"Trowa! Wufei! Find something!" An obnoxious american voice called across the beach.
"We found Pan and Yuy!" Wufei called.
Quatre and Duo joined the others.
Quatre moved his goggles up onto his head and gave Trowa and Wufei a confused look, "Where are they then?"
"Hn."
"Trowa," Quatre frowned, "Those are just little boys."
"Look Heero," Chibi Pan spoke very loudly now, "They need four MEN to handle us."
Chibi Heero smirked, "Only four? They UNDERestimate us!"
"HA" Chibi Pan winked at Chibi Heero.
Quatre gasped, "It IS Pan! He's smaller than i remember.. Duo, what do you think?"
Duo regarded Chibi Heero suspiciously "... it glares like Heero..."
"Hey Pan," Chibi Heero spoke loudly now too, "Ever notice how SLOW and STUPID grown ups are?"
"Shut up," Wufei hissed,"both of you."
"A lil defensive Wufei?"
"No. I have a bad feeling that they're signaling the others."
"The other chibis?" Duo snickered,"Oh no. whatever shall we do."
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"OH MY GOD THEY"VE GOT QUATRE!"
(a fierce battle ensued).
When the dust settled, 4 teenage sized gundam pilots found themselves bound, gagged and taken prisoner. Fierce looking chibi's wearing war paint and brandishing wooden swords, small knives, and sling shots spererated the pilots from one another while Chibi Peter Pan let out a triumphant crow and led the troops back to the treehouse.
