A New Challenge by Lady Ryu
Chapter Two
Duo
took a deep breath and closed his eyes. He pressed the button waiting
for an explosion or the alarm, but nothing happened. He pressed it
frantically. He opened one eye and looked around.
"Great now you won't even self-detonate. I guess you want us
both to live longer and enjoy that cappuccino. Alright Deathscythe,
let's rock and roll!"
He stood back up and fired fiercely
at the pilot. The pilot was unaware that Duo had gotten back up and
was firing at him.
"Oh no!" said the pilot
before Duo said, "See you in Hell! And I don't mean the
island. Have a nice day!"
The pilot and the mobile suit blew
up. Duo wiped his forehead with the back of his hand. He took his
gundam and went back to its hiding place.
He
soon found Trowa and socked him in the jaw. He was talking to
Catherine when Duo arrived and after saying,
"Hey
Duo what's up?"
He got socked in the jaw. Trowa rubbed his
cheek.
"That's what you get for bailing out on
me, buddy!"
"Sorry, I figured you had it
under control."
"Why I oughta…"
Catherine stood between them.
"Duo stop acting
like a brat and sit down." She ordered.
He sat down
obediently and pouted. Wufei and Quatre came back and Wufei asked,
"Duo?"
Duo looked up attentively like a little
puppy,
"What is it this time?"
"Your braid's coming out."
Duo got up and took off
the rubber band and let his long brown hair fall.
"Do
you have any idea how long it took me to get my hair done this
morning Wufei?"
He shook his head.
"You
should grow yours out. I'm tellin' you; it's worth it. Chicks
dig the braid."
Wufei shook his head and rolled his eyes.
"And you look like a girl." Trowa said nonchalantly.
"Hey!" Duo replied angrily.
Catherine laughed.
"You do look a little girlish," she said.
Duo ignored them and started brushing it. It was sorta crimpy since it had been that way for a month. Catherine went to get a Band-Aid for him because he had a scratch on his face. He re-braided it and put a new rubber band on the end. Catherine put the Band-Aid on his cheek and smiled.
"You
know, you're somethin' else Duo."
"Hey a
complement. That's the first one I got all day."
"Oh
and Duo?"
"What?"
"Don't you ever hit
Trowa again you big jerk!"
"Another complement. Hey I'm
starting to get more popular already!"
Trowa spoke up.
"No
Catherine, I deserved it. I bailed out on him and I shouldn't have.
Sorry Duo."
"Apology accepted."
They
decided to go out to the new Italian restaurant on Newbury Street.
Duo was inhaling spaghetti.
"Where are you
manners?" asked Quatre.
Duo shrugged his shoulders and
continued inhaling.
"Well pardon me it's a
custom in my country and we are in my country so there!"
He
looked up when he saw a waitress giggle at him and he winked at her.
"Hey baby," he mouthed, "What's your
name?"
She held out her nametag and motioned for him to come
there with her finger.
He excused himself and walked up to her.
"Hey babe, how about I take you on ride in my hot
wheels?"
She smiled and said,
"Is that
your best pick up line?"
"Could be, cutie. I
don't know, maybe we can find out."
She smiled and
replied,
"I get off in half an hour. See you then,
fly boy!"
He sat back down.
"I saw you
talking to that waitress over there." said Quatre.
"Oh, yeah. She wants me."
They sat staring at him
seriously with no expression on their faces.
"Man!
You guys need to lighten up a bit. I'll see you guys later."
The waitress walked by with the check and walked away. Duo
checked out her ass and said,
"I'd love to get my
hands on a piece of that!"
Trowa kicked him in the shin from
under the table.
"Ow! What was that for?"
"You don't say that when a woman is present."
"Sorry," he said rubbing his shin.
They
soon left and the waitress met Duo waiting outside for her.
"Hey baby, ready for that ride?"
She smiled and
responded,
"Where's your quote "hot wheels"
unquote?" she said sarcastically.
"Don't get
sarcastic with me babe. Here, I bought these for you," he said
handing her a bouquet of roses.
She was taken by surprise.
"Thanks, but I'm allergic," she said sarcastically.
"Well I'm not Superman! Geez! There's a lot things that
you don't know about me babe." (pause) "Oh yeah," he
said before pulling a little car out of his pocket, "here's
my "Hot Wheels™"!"
She laughed before grabbing
him.
"Whoa, slow down babe! I make the first moves."
"Duo! Why do you have to act like all the other guys I
used to know!" she whined.
"Whoa, how'd you
know my name?"
"Gee, I only sit behind you in
third period retard!"
"G-Gina?"
"Yup."
He was still in a bit off shock because he
really thought that he really had hit it off with a hot babe and soon
he shook it off. He took her hand and walked her down the street to
his motorcycle. He handed her a helmet and they took off. He took her
to the park. They sat down on the grass and looked at the moon.
"Wow it's so beautiful isn't Duo!"
"Yep."
He yawned and fell asleep. She snuggled up beside him and played
with his braid hitting him in the face with the end of it and watched
him talk about getting it out of his face.
"Trieze,
where are you going?" Une asked her husband.
Trieze was
putting on his boots and replied,
"To the base, to
check out those mobile suits."
"Oh Trieze, don't
you want to spend time with your son?"
"I'll
spend the weekend with him at Manchester Beach."
He kissed
her gently before leaving. She sat back and put her hand on her
belly. She had a worried look in her eye.
Gina thought that
she saw a shooting star. She shook Duo to get him up. He woke up
unaware where he was.
"Duo, Duo! Look, there's a
shooting star," she said pointing to it.
It was going
towards the base.
"Why that sneaky devil?"
"What?" she asked.
"Uh—You look real pretty
tonight. I gotta go babe."
He took her to her apartment.
"Where are you going?"
"I'll explain
later."
She looked in his eyes and he looked into hers.
"See you tomorrow, babe."
"Okay, bye."
Gina replied and watched the boy run away.
She shook her head in
disbelief.
Duo went to the base and met the barrel of Heero's
gun face to face.
"Heero, its me Duo."
"Oh,
sorry. Oz has taken over 6 space colonies overnight and my gundam
needs to be repaired."
"Well I hope you know that I was
on a date with a really hot babe."
"And you were asleep
the whole time, weren't you?"
"Well—I was resting
my eyes."
"Sure you were."
"Hey! How did
you know anyway?"
"I'm not blind. There's a thing
called a telescope."
"You were spying on me?"
"No, I thought you were an Oz soldier and I came here to
kill you, if you were one."
"Oh. Don't kill Gina.
Please Heero!"
"I'm not. But how are you going to
explain yourself?"
"I got it all planned out buddy. I'm
going to tell her that I was picking up my brother at the airport and
when she woke me up I just remembered that. You think she'll buy
it."
Heero gave a shrug, gave a small grin, and walked away.
"Where's the others?"
"At Trowa's place."
"Where's Relena?"
"I don't keep up with
your girlfriend or your life. I got a life of my own here. I think
she's at her house. Her birthday's next Thursday."
"Good.
I made it back in time. Duo where's your mechanic?"
"Oh
Howard, he's working on Deathscythe. He needs to work on the
self-destination system and he also put in a cappuccino machine. But
I'm sure he could work on yours if you drop it off."
"Thanks."
He said walking off.
"Hey I'm
a mechanic too!" Duo said while running after him.
Heero
ignored that last part and said,
"Let's go to Trowa's."
They left and met the others at Trowa's.
