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Opposite Day
By Loki

Chapter 6: More Squirrels and More Accidents! Oh my!

"Pick one!"

She walked behind a tree to watch, as Heero sat on the ground, and opened his arms into a hug. "Squirrel-ies!"

The one squirrel who had been taken captive by Heero before, saw Heero and jumped, clutching onto his face. Heero screamed, and fell into the growing pile of squirrels. Danni sat back and watched, enjoying every minute of it. She started humming a tune of her own, but stopped to listen to the beautiful music of payback.


Danni watched as the last squirrel left, and bound into the dense forest. Sighing, she stood up and brushed the dirt from the bottom of her school uniform. She then proceeded to look for Heero.

Looking to her left and right, all she could find of him was a strip of his green tank top, that had been ripped. Danni's head will with worry as a new thought emerged. Did.. Did they eat him?

"I-Impossible!" Danni said, half laughing. "Squirrels are carnivorous! They eat plants! Well… I've never seen them gather like that before and attack someone.. Oh god!"

She started to pace back and forth, trying to calm down. "Okay.. No one saw. No one saw this. No one. No one."

Danni was about to start screaming, when she heard a footstep from behind her. "Oh my god, I didn't kill him!" she yelled, and stared at the person.

Heero looked at her tiredly. He smiled and raised his hand slowly. "Hey."

Danni felt her body go limp. She looked at his scratches and bruised body. "Did the squirrels do that?" she asked slowly.

"Nah, this was when I was trying to get away! Haha!"

He laughed, but stopped suddenly and fell down. "Heero!" she yelled out, and ran to him. Checking his pulse, she sighed. "Good, he's only asleep," she reassured herself.

Having established the fact that she was dealing with a sleeping person and not a dead body, she shook him. "Heero! Get up! We have to keep going!"

"Mmm.. Five more minutes.."

"No five minutes!" Danni huffed. "Come on, Hee-"

While she was talking, Heero brought up his hand and swiftly hit her in the stomach. She fell onto of his fallen body; unconscious. He knew that she wasn't really hurt, because he could control his punches. Heero smiled. "Sorry," he said, and fell asleep.


Rori was still sobbing on Wufei's shirt, who appeared to have given up. He just stood there, waiting for her to finish. How long do you intend to cry, woman? Wufei thought to himself. He was getting very impatient, and turned to Lexi, who was still laughing. "Hey, woman! She's YOUR friend! How do I get her off?"

"W-What?" Lexi asked in between laughs.

"How do I make her stop crying?

"I.. I guess you have to… comfort her!" Lexi's laughs started up again.

Wufei looked up and groaned. He did NOT want to do this. Slowly, he raised up his hand and patted her back gently. He listened to Rori's sobs, and didn't hear them letting up at all. "Now what?" he asked impatiently.

"Well, maybe hugging her back. Treat her like a child, since she acts like one now," Loki giggled, which earned a smack from Elizabeth.

I can't believe I'm doing this! He brought both of his arms around her, and tightened his hold. Then, he lowered his head and rested it on her shoulder.

Her sobs came to an immediate halt, but she still held her face in his shirt. He could feel her body stiffen, and he hoped that this was all her had to do. He tried to back away again, but she was clutching onto his shirt tightly. "Wufei," whispered Elizabeth. "Act caring towards her."

"Easier said then done, woman!" he growled.

Taking another breath, he raised up Rori's face until she was looking straight at him. He wiped away one of her tears and said, "Stop crying, everything is going to be okay.."

A blush appeared on her face, and her hold loosened. Immediately using this opportunity, he pulled away and ran as far as he could, leaving a dazed Rori on her feet. Duo walked up to Wufei and congratulated him, and Wufei screamed that he would kill him. Elizabeth walked up to Rori, who was still staring up. "Rori?" she asked.

Lexi and Loki walked up as well. Lexi waved her hands a couple times in front of Rori's face. Loki turned and yelled, "Wufei! I think you made her heart stop!" and she started to laugh.

Wufei muttered curses to her in Chinese, to show his annoyance in her comment. "Rori!" yelled Lexi, who patted her cheek.

Immediately coming out of her trance, her childish grin appeared on her face, and she ran towards an unsuspecting Wufei. "Wuffie-kins!" she yelled happily, and latched onto his arm.

"W-What?" yelled Wufei as he tried to unlatch her.

Then, to much his displeasure, Rori began to hold his hand. "Let go of me, woman!" he yelled.

"Nope!" she happily said, and continued her grasp.

Everyone around him started to laugh. "Oh man!" gasped Loki, "Where is Danni? She needs to see this!"


Danni groaned and lifted up her head. Around her, nearly leafless trees bobbled up and down rhythmically. "What the…?"

It took her a moment to realize that she was being carried. He was humming another cheery tone as he walked through the forest, carrying Danni piggyback. "Heero! Wh-What are you doing! Put me down!"

She started to kick a little, and Heero fell down. "Ow! What'd you do that for?" he complained, rubbing the back of his head.

"Y-You were carrying me! Why were you doing that?"

"You were sleeping," Heero stated, ".. so I thought that I would let you continue!"

"I wouldn't have fallen unconscious if you hadn't of punched me!" Danni bellowed back, her arms crossed over her chest.

Heero sniffed. "But I wanted to sleep! And you wanted to wake me up!"

She sighed, and closed her eyes. "I swear, its like raising a two year old.. Where are we anyway?"

"About a mile away from the city limits!" he said matter-of-factly. "I can see the road that we were on in the police car, but I decided that it would be best to keep a low-profile."

Danni nodded at the knowledge in that fact, and started to walk along side Heero. She began to notice how much taller he was then her. Being tall herself, most of the boys in her class were either perfect height, or shorter. That always made her feel awkward, but as she walked next to Heero, she felt better about it. Danni shook her head fiercely. What am I thinking? I can't be thinking of stuff like that now!

Heero saw Danni as she hit her head a little, and noted on how strange it was. A rustle of the leaves behind him gained his attention and he turned around. Danni heard a muffled "eek!" from him, and she turned around too. Standing on top of a fallen tree was a squirrel. Heero hid behind her, remember his last experience with squirrels.

Having about enough of squirrels for the day, Danni picked up a reasonable sized stick, and threw it at the rodent. "Get out of here!" she yelled.

The squirrel jumped on the trunk of the nearest tree, where it chattered in a manner vaguely reminiscent of cursing before disappearing into the foliage. "T-Thanks…" stuttered Heero.

"No problem."

The continued their walk to the city, until Danni heard a far-too familiar rumble behind them. She looked back once again. Cursing under her breath, she placed her face in her palm. "What?" asked Heero quizzically. "What is it?"

"Squirrel Wars: Part II"

"Wha-?"

Danni grabbed his hand, and began to run. "Hurry!"

Soon enough, another entourage of furry gray rodents quicken their pace to the two teens.


Despite his frequent attempts to detach from Rori's hold, she persisted enough until the point where Wufei gave up. Everyone else grew bored of the lovey-dovey couple, and went to explore that portion of the city. The explosion of the truck had burned several other buildings, and for some reason that the teens could not fathom, had left that part completely deserted.

Loki and Lexi began to poke around at the burnt remains of the restaurant, Elizabeth went across the street to window shop at a designer outfitters, and Trowa and Duo went to search for some food, leaving Quatre to his own devices.

He looked over at Elizabeth and wandered over towards her. He saw that she was eyeing an expensive, but pretty pink dress thoughtfully. He scoffed and said, "I can't believe that you actually like girly stuff like that.."

She glared at him for a second before smiling, "Actually, I was looking if they had any in your size."

She sauntered off to Loki and Lexi, leaving a dumbstruck Quatre behind her. Since Loki had been deemed 'irresponsible' to tending to the gun, Lexi was charged with watching it. She slung the weapon over the left side of her body, and used her right shirtsleeve to rub the ashes off a burnt section of the wall. Elizabeth picked her way through the rubble, careful not to touch any hot embers that were not extinguished by the firefighters. "Hey you kids!" called a firefighter.

All three girls turned around to see a fireman walks towards them, wearing a yellow fire-retardant suit. While he walked closer, Loki looked around his waist, seeing if he had a gun or something. Lexi noticed her gaze, and smacked Loki again. "That's what a cop has, moron."

Loki laughed meekly, and looked back at the fireman. "You kids should be in here. This place is unstable, and could collapse. We don't want anything happening to you guys, alright?"

The three girls sighed and began to walk back to the entrance. Along the way Loki saw a foot-long piece of ash-gray wood. Thinking that it looked interesting, she picked it up. As soon as she touched the wood the smoldering ember at its center re-ignited, burning her hand and lighting the sleeve of her shirt on fire.

"Ow ow ow!" she yelled, and threw the wood at the wall.

She immediately began beating her hand and shirt against her skirt to put out the fire, so she didn't see what happened next. The piece of wood hit an unstable support beam with just enough force to shift the precarious balance of timber. The entire structure groaned and a few boards fell from the ceiling, scattering ash through the air. One of the rafters teetered back and forth for a second before it tipped and fell straight at Loki.

"Watch out!" Lexi yelled.

Loki looked up from her fire-extinguishing activities just in time to see a huge wooden rafter plummeting straight for her head. Her eyes widened with surprise and fear, but before she could react in any other way the firefighter grabbed her around the waist and pulled her out of the way.

He slung Loki over his right shoulder and dashed through the exit. "M-My friends!" she yelled, remember that Elizabeth and Lexi were still inside.

Once outside, he dumped her on the sidewalk and turned as though to run back into the building. Before he could get there a large wooden beam fell across the doorway, effectively blocking the fireman out and the girls in.

"No!" yelled Loki, as she began to run back to the collapsing building.

The fireman stared at the rubble in dismay. Then he shook himself out of his stupor and grabbed the radio that was attached to his belt. He walked a little way away from Loki, passing Duo and Trowa on their way back as he spoke into the radio. "I need some assistance down at the burnt restaurant! The building collapsed and there are some kids trapped in there! GET DOWN HERE NOW!"

Rori stared at the destruction, finally releasing Wufei. He stood and stared as well. She started towards the building, but Wufei held her back. She turned and looked into his face, her eyes welling with tears. She buried her face once again into his chest to cry, but this time, Wufei didn't push her away.

Loki quickened her pace towards the building. She broke into a run. Duo grabbed her arm as she passed, stopping her in her tracks. "Duo! We.. We have to help them!"

"Loki," Duo started, staring into her eyes. "You can't go in there."

"I-I have to! This is my fault!" she pulled her arm, but Duo wouldn't let her go. His grip was strong and unrelenting. She spun back and angrily began to hit his chest with her free hand. "Let me go! Please, Duo!"

"Don't worry," he reassure her with a smile, wincing as she hit him with an especially hard blow to the ribs. "Trowa and Quatre will get them out."

It took a second for what he said to register, but her hitting stopped, and she turned around. Sure enough, Trowa and Quatre were in the process of removing debris, careful as to not shift anything. "Thank you," Loki whispered.

Duo, knowing that Loki wouldn't run anymore, let her go, and placed a comforting hand on her small shoulder.

"I can't believe I'm doing this," grumbled Quatre, as he tossed aside a piece of wood.

"Be careful, Quatre," Trowa warned. "We don't want to cause another inundation of rubble and wood.

Quatre huffed and was more vigilant of where we placed his retrieved wood. "Can you guys hear me?" Trowa called out, hoping for a response.

"Yea, we're down here, Trowa!" called out Lexi. "We were both able to get underneath a metal table the restaurant had, but I don't know how much longer it'll hold!"

Loki's eyes lighted up. "Lexi!"

"Umm.. Could you guys hurry a little? Its getting a bit cramped down here," called another voice.

"Elizabeth!"

Loki broke away from Duo, and rushed over to help Trowa and Quatre. "Thank god! You're both okay!"

"Loki, when I get out here, I am so going to hit you! This is all your fault!" scolded Lexi from beneath the rubble.

Loki rolled her eyes, "Yes, mother."

Rori began to drag Wufei to the wreckage. "They're alright! I'm so happy!"

Wufei looked down, and saw the bright smile on Rori's face. He couldn't help but smile as well. Suddenly, Elizabeth shrieked out loud. "What happened?" asked Quatre, worried for a brief second.

"I'm okay.. I just sat on a hot piece of metal…"

Quatre sighed and called her a clumsy idiot. Lexi accidentally switched positions, and her shoulder bumped into an already weak wooden beam. The beam slipped a few inches, and landed on top of the metal table. The table - already being pushed to its limits - could not take the pressure. The metal legs slowly began to bend, causing the two girls to scream in fear as they were slowly crushed. "Lexi! Elizabeth!" Loki screamed.

Their cries- coupled with the fact that she could do nothing to help- caused her almost more pain than she could handle. Rori made no noise, but resumed to her crying on Wufei's shirt. Wufei grimaced at the noises of the screams, but kept a straight face, as to not scare Rori anymore. Quatre and Trowa began clearing the rubble away as fast as possible, abandoning finesse for efficiency. Duo and Loki joined in the frantic digging as well.

Miraculously, the girls were still alive. The legs were somehow still intact, and it was this that had kept them from being flattened. As it was though, they could hardly breath, and their rib cages felt like they were about to snap. It was a race against time now, and everyone acted post haste.

Lexi felt the ground beneath her give way just a bit, and she opened her eyes in shock. At first not believing in what she felt, as it continued, she yelled as loud as she could, "I-It's sinking!"

"What?" called Trowa. "Sinking? But ho-"

He stopped in mid sentence, as he horrifying thought of something. The explosion.. The explosion must have weakened the ground under the restaurant, and now because of the wreckage, the ground had given way. "There must be some sort of opening.. An underground cavern of something!" he explained to the girls.

"WHAT?" screamed Lexi.

Before anyone could say anything else, Lexi felt the sickening lurch of freefall for an instant before she splashed into water. She struggled to the surface, where she tread water and watched the last of the boards finish their dives into the water. She looked all around her. It was a cavern, and by the looks of it, some sort of natural-filled water cavern.

"Elizabeth?" she called, hoping that her friend was alright.

No answer. Full of fear, Lexi breathed in a gulp of air, and dived into the water. Thankfully, the sunlight from above was illuminating her way, and she saw Elizabeth at the bottom, trapped between two pieces of wood. She pointed to the beam, and Lexi nodded.

She lifted the wood easily, and watched as Elizabeth wriggled herself free. Both girls pushed off the bottom, and shot for the surface. They floated for a few seconds gasping for air.

"Thanks," said Elizabeth, a little shaken by the experience.

Lexi patted her on the back. "No problem…"

"Cannon ball!" Loki yelled, and jumped into the water, barely missing her two friends.

"Nicol-" Lexi started, but was cut off short because of Loki's powerful bear hug.

"Oh! I thought I would never see you guys again!" she grabbed each of their head, and gave them a major noogie. "You guys are something else!"

"Yaaay!" yelled Rori, as she jumped into the water, landing a belly flop. She made an audible impact.

Loki hid a laugh, as Lexi swam over to see if she was alright. "Owwie!" cried Rori, rubbing her stomach. "That burns!"

The girls laughed at her, as the guys from above found a safe and non-wet passage to the bottom of the cavern. They say down and watched as the girls swam back and forth, splashing each other. Eventually, Duo joined them, and they had even more fun. Loki snuck up behind him, and proceeded to dunk him under, but he sensed her, and dunked her in instead. "No fair!" she complained after resurfacing, and splashed him in the face.


Danni ran faster, still holding Heero's hand tightly. "This is SO not my day!" she complained, as they reached the city.

"Do you remember where the restaurant was, Heero?" she called back t him.

"Yeah! Once we're in the city, I'll be able to lead us there!"

Danni glanced back at the rodents. They wouldn't follow them into the city… would they? She felt pavement underneath her feet. Danni looked up and saw the familiar tall buildings. "We made it!" she said happily.

"They're still chasing us!" Heero whined, referring to the squirrels.

"No way!" Danni gasped, and started running faster. "Which way, Heero?"

"Uhh.. Left here! And then another right!"

Nodding, Danni turned left, and then made a right. She smiled as she saw a familiar street name. "We're he- WOAH!" Danni stopped abruptly at a large hole in front of her. "What the-?"

"Danni!" Heero whined, tugging on her shirt.

She turned around, and a smile appeared on her face. This was what Lexi referred to as her 'vampire smile'. Danni had already thought of a plan. She stepped in front of Heero, and stuck her arms out. "We're right here! Come and get us!" she taunted.

"What are you doing?" Heero asked, fearfully.

"Just wait for it…" she muttered, as much to herself than to him.

Just as it seemed inevitable that the two teens would be devoured, Danni dodged to the left, pulling Heero with her. "Take that, you evil rodents from hell!"

The 'Evil Rodents from Hell' could not react in time. The entire pack skidded over the edge like so many lemmings.

Down in the cavern, Loki heard a plop in the water next to her. "What the-?"

As she turned to look, a squirrel sprang out of the water and latched onto her face. "Aiee!" she screamed, clawing at the furry creature in an attempt to get it off her face.
The rest of the rodents landed in the water with a series of plops. Deprived of their original victims, the 'adorable woodland creatures' turned on the other eight teens.

Danni and Heero peered at the scene from the top of the cavern.

"Whoops.."


A/N: I would personally love to thank.. My thesaurus for helping me through this chapter. You don't know how BADLY I needed it! And also for Nameless Waif (Danni) for going though this chapter previously and editing some stuff around. (All of the really, really big words are stuff that she put in)
:3

Loki: -hobbles on crutches- Damn squirrels..
Heero: Tell me about it..
Danni: I still say chipmunks are worse!
Wufei: Injustice! This rodent won't let go of my leg!
Lexi: That's not a rodent! That's Rori!
Wufei: Exactly! -shakes his leg- Let go of me, woman!
Rori: Wuffie-kins!

Loki