Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing! I didn't create it nor am I making a profit off of it. I simply enjoy writing stories about it.
Sorry for the looooong wait. I realize I haven't updated in god knows how long (more than 2 years maybe?) I just lost sight of how much fun this is along with busy college life and having a job…But I'm feeling motivational today so here goes!
Chapter 6: Reactions…at last!
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"Hmmm, I'm so sleepy." Relena yawned as she climbed the stairs to the second floor of her mansion. Her friends, Noin, Sally, Hilde and Dorothy were walking alongside her, in varying degrees of sleepiness.
"Honestly Relena. You're not supposed to fall asleep! This is a sleepover party, we're supposed to stay up all night, gossip, eat, etc, etc" Hilde replied, nudging a sleepy Relena. "And we've only watched one movie so far!"
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A few miles away in a crowded get-away vehicle, some mischievous young men were heading home for a good night's rest…or at least a few hours of sleep. "Yes! I can't wait for morning and the reactions of the girls to all the pranks we left behind" Duo Maxwell shouted, pumping the air.
"You must be tired; I've never heard such a lopsided sentence before." Zechs replied, steering around a curve in the road.
"You can hear something being lopsided? What?" Confused, Duo turned his head to the side, struggling to figure out what Zechs meant.
"Never mind."
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Promptly at 8am, the boys snuck back and parked just beyond the gates of the Peacecraft mansion as they did before. This was it. This was the big day, where they finally got their revenge. Heero had logged back into the security system, and displayed 4 screens at once. It looked like they had got back just in time. The girls were all over the mansion, busy with their individual activities. Currently Relena, Noin and Dorothy were starting breakfast in the spacious kitchen. Hilde and Sally were busy making the beds and tidying up the mess the girls had left upstairs.
"Well that's as neat as it's gonna get" Sally said, smoothing out one last wrinkle from the bed sheets. "If you girls hadn't insisted on pillow fights, I'm sure I wouldn't have had to clean up after you."
"Aww Sally don't be like that! We were only having fun…you know Fun right? It lives next door to Annoying and Humorous." Hilde replied with an impish grin, imitating her silly boyfriend well, Sally noticed.
"Alright then, have your fun. I'm going for a shower. My hair is a mess and is crying for a good shampoo job." Sally grabbed a towel and headed for the room's adjoining bathroom.
"Wait! Before you go in, hand me the hair removal lotion please? My legs have peach fuzz again." Hilde asked, examining her legs at close range. Chuckling at Hilde's inferiority complex concerning hair where it shouldn't be, Sally tossed her the bottle.
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Back at the stake out, the boys were barely able to contain their chuckles. Their plan would go off without a hitch and right off the bat they had nailed the two most wanted girls. Sally and Hilde were repeat offenders when it came to annoying and humiliating the guys.
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As Sally turned the tap on, Hilde grabbed a magazine off the side table and sat down on the bed. The hair removal lotion took about ten minutes to work and she didn't like the idea of being bored for ten minutes. Taking the bottle, Hilde turned it upside down and shook. Nothing happened. She shook it again. Nothing happened. Faintly, Hilde noticed Sally humming off key in the shower. Giggling, Hilde suddenly realized she hadn't uncapped the bottle. Rolling her eyes at her own stupidity, she uncapped it….and all hell broke loose.
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The boys couldn't help but roar with laughter. The look on Hilde's face was priceless, and any second now Sally would realize it too.
"She's gonna kill me later" Duo said, shaking his head.
"Kill you!?!" Quatre replied. "I was the one who put the grease in there. I'll be lucky if she doesn't figure it out"
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"Ahhhh"
"What the hell?!?"
Two simultaneous female screams shook the second floor of the mansion. Hilde was sitting on the bed, covered in a splatter of grease. The bed, the magazine, her legs and clothes were all covered in slippery, black ooze. It was her that had screamed out "what the hell?" since Hilde had worked in repair shops and garages, she immediately identified the substance.
"I'm gonna kill whoever did this!" Clearly, her clothes were ruined. Suddenly recalling that Sally too had screamed, Hilde, concerned now, got up and tip-toed over to the bathroom door.
"Sally! Are you alright?" Hilde knocked on the door. Once. Twice. On the third knock, Hilde was ready to break down the door.
"I'm alright, but I'm covered in sugary stuff." Sally replied, opening the door. "It smells like-" Sally stopped at the sight of Hilde.
"Oh my! What happened to you? Quit, jump in the shower I'll get you some clean clothes.' Sally instructed.
Smiling, Hilde nodded. Over the shower she asked "What were you saying? Something about smelling…like what?"
"Oh! Don't use the shampoo, I don't think it's honey flavour, I think it actually is honey" Sally replied, ruffling through the dresser. Everything piece of clothing she pulled out was either ripped or stained. Odd, what is going on here?
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"Owww, I can't breathe." Duo gasped for air. Beside him, Trowa, Wufei and Heero were quietly chuckling. Quatre was trying not to laugh but was unsuccessful. They had never seen Sally more confused then she was now.
"Quick, let's see what's going on in the kitchen!" Zechs had just remembered that there were bugs in the flour and Noin was bound to be in the process of making pancakes or something.
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Meanwhile, the occupants in the kitchen below were totally unaware of the problems that were occurring upstairs. In fact, they were dealing with their own. Relena was busy making coffee and tea, laying out the sugar and creamer respectively as well. "Noin, would you like some sugar in your coffee?"
"Oh yes please, I definitely can't drink coffee without sugar." Noin responded. She was currently spooning flour into a bowl for her specialty pancakes, but she wasn't paying attention to the flour or she would've seen dark lumps fall into the bowl.
Dorothy meanwhile, was rummaging in cupboards, looking for something chocolate. "Aha! I knew you were a health nut Relena, but low fat, low everything, no sugar cookies? You really know how to-" But she was cut off by an ear-splitting scream as Noin threw the bowl of would be pancakes halfway across the kitchen.
"What? What happened Noin? Are you alright?" Relena asked trying to comfort a sobbing Noin who had flung herself into a chair as far away as possible from the bowl.
"B-b-bugs! Tons of them, they, they're so gross! They're everywhere"
Dorothy, the every calm and curious girl that she was, walked over to the bowl instead. Leaning over, she studied the bugs for several seconds. "Funny. They're not moving around or anything." She noticed.
"Ewww. That's probably because they're already dead! Oh we need to decontaminate the house, call exterminators, set up traps." Noin would've continued except Dorothy did what most girls would not do. She leaned down and pick up one of the bugs off the floor. This made both Relena and Noin freeze. It would be just like Dorothy to fling the grossness at them for a good laugh. However, Dorothy just stood there examining the bug, stretching it, twisting it.
"It's a fake."
"What?!?" Noin and Relena asked, shocked. But at that moment Hilde and Sally came running down the stairs. Having finally cleaned up and found some undamaged clothes just as Noin screamed, the girls hurried to find out what else had gone wrong.
"What happened? Did someone else get covered in grease?" Hilde asked, out of breath.
"Grease?" Now even more confused, the trio in the kitchen exchanged looks. "I think we should have a cup of tea or coffee and calm ourselves down." Dorothy announced, taking charge of the situation.
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"This is better then I would have hoped!" Duo exclaimed, leaning over his seat in the car to get a better look at the laptop screen.
"Yeah Maxwell, I'm as surprised as you are." Wufei replied calmly.
"They will find out about the switched sugars and salt next." Trowa predicted as the girls all pulled out mugs and poured out hot beverages.
"Five bucks says Noin throws her cup halfway across the kitchen as well." Heero finally spoke up. He'd been quiet this whole time, silently amused at the goings on in the mansion.
"You're on!" Four other voices replied. All except for Trowa, who didn't like to bet against Heero. He'd seen the effects of that first hand.
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"Are you joking? I used the hair removal lotion just yesterday and it was fine." Relena replied, taking a sip of her coffee.
"No, I'm serious." Hilde opted out of coffee for tea, and was reaching for the sugar.
With the exception of Dorothy, the others each took some sugar and were quietly sipping their hot beverages when Relena shuddered.
"Oh god that's terrible." Relena shook her head. "It tastes…salty or… something." She immediately put her cup down and grabbed a cookie from the package Dorothy had pulled out earlier.
The other girls proceeded with caution, but each also grabbed a cookie. Pancakes were long forgotten. Sally spoke up from her tea, "I think you're right, this doesn't taste quite right."
"Oh my god, what if there are bugs in this too!?!" And with that, Noin flung the cup as far as possible. It smashed onto the ground, shattered and spilled coffee everywhere.
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"Pay up" A calm voice demanded.
"Aww man" Several grumbles followed.
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"Bugs? What about bugs?" Hilde asked, jittery, she glanced around herself quickly.
Sighing with frustration, Dorothy stood up, slammed her fist against the table and glared all around her. "What are you, a bunch of silly little school girls? Get over it!"
Shocked, the girls sat quietly. Relena was still absently chewing on a cookie when it dawned on her. Dorothy only gets irritable when she eats anything sweet. But she didn't put sugar into her coffee, I know that for sure. Then what?…The cookies!
"It's the cookies!" Relena shouted out loud. All heads turned back around and stared at Relena as she pulled the tray of cookies from the package. "As I thought, these are not the cookies I bought. They're chocolate fudge with fudge icing and they're way too sweet."
Thinking along the same lines, Noin put her finger into the sugar container and tasted the white crystals. "Ugh! That's salt for sure. We've been had." Noin grimaced.
"And the bugs I spoke of earlier were rubber. All fake." Dorothy answered.
"And the shampoo was filled with sticky honey." Sally offered more evidence. "As well, several of our clothes were replaced with ripped or stained ones that looked identical but were not."
"And let's not forget the grease mess I was covered in." Hilde frowned. "It got all over the bed too so we'll have to replace those bed sheets. When I find the culprits I'll make them pay for new ones."
Knowing that their experiences were not accidents, the girls all looked around, and finally they all turned to stare at the kitchen surveillance camera.
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"Should we make a run for it?" Zechs said, his hand on the ignition key. "I mean, they're bound to figure out we had a hand in this."
"Actually," Duo started, Quatre chuckling along beside him, "We've had our hands in several things, including flour and sugar."
"Alright smartass, but when you're getting pummelled into a pulp, don't call me to save you." Zechs replied, starting the engine.
"Wait! In all seriousness, I think we should confess." Duo said, all traces of humour gone. Quatre and Trowa were nodding silently beside him.
"What!" Wufei exclaimed.
"They're right you know" Heero replied. "This will only go on forever otherwise and I have no wish to carry this any further. I have better things to do."
Sighing in resignation, Zechs turned the ignition off again. "We're dead ducks guys. You're never seen Noin and Relena angry"
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The girls were just contemplating their next move when the door bell rang. Each one of them glanced as each other and smiled. As one unit, they advanced together, side by side. Each girl had a handful of sugar, salt, flour, bugs and Hilde and Sally had the bottles of grease and honey.
Relena was the one that reached out to answer the doorbell, and pulled the large oak door open. There stood the 6 guys responsible for the pranks.
"Um, hi." Duo grinned sheepishly.
With a quick glance at each other, Dorothy yelled "Let them have it!" In one swift moment the girls dislodged their weapons, and the guys didn't even have time to blink before they were covered in all kinds of things.
"Well, I guessed we both deserved that huh?" Duo smiled, referring to the humiliation on both parties. Reaching over to shake the hands of the each girl, he said "Shall we call it a truce?"
"Deal." 10 other voices rang out
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Author's Note:
We'll I'm glad that's finally over. No doubt many of you thought I'd never bother to finish this. Well I did, even if it did take me over two years. Sorry I made the fic end in a truce, but I really have no desire to continue this plot. There are, however, other cool ideas that have been floating around in my head for other stories. But I couldn't write them when I knew I had to still finish this one. I have a thing about leaving my work undone. It just feels wrong. Anyway, let me know what you think. And stay tuned for more short stories from me later on this summer. Thanks