The Lightning Strikes And The Laughter Rolls
"My mind works like lightning – one brilliant flash and it's gone!" Zechs read off the camouflage green T-shirt in his hands.
Treize coughed and manfully choked back his laughter.
Glaring at his friend and former superior officer, Zechs snarled, "Do you think this is funny, Kushrenada?"
"Oh, no," Treize denied, chortling slightly. He grinned widely. "I think it's hilarious."
"Just you wait, Treize; it'll be your turn soon enough," Zechs said with certainty as he balled up the irksome shirt and threw in a nearby trash receptacle.
"As if it wasn't bad enough that Maxwell painted Epyon to look like a ballerina," Treize groused. "Now you want him to do something else to me?"
"As Chang would say, 'It would be only justice,'" Zechs said dryly.
Treize snorted. "You're probably right," he admitted grudgingly.
"Thankfully, Tallgeese was spared the humiliation," Zech said. "And I still don't know how you convinced me to beg that braided menace on your behalf to help you get that computer virus off your viewscreen."
Looking slightly sheepish, Treize admitted, "I heard that the same thing happened to Chang's Gundam, and I was worried he might take it personally and try to thwart my efforts."
Rolling his eyes, Zechs said, "And who beat whom in that duel, General?"
Treize gave a disdainful sniff and tuned away. "At least Noin isn't here," he pointed out. "She'd be laughing her head off and telling you that this shirt was right."
Zech frowned sourly. "You're probably right," he said, echoing the other's words from moment's past.
"So…what do we do now?" Treize asked, once it was apparent that their verbal sparring had come to an end.
"What 'we,' Kushrenada?" Zechs snorted. "I'm getting revenge on my own. You want payback for Epyon, that's your problem, but I will get the last laugh." And with that, he stalked out of the room, mumbling under his breath about rewiring the electricity of the WEI building to blink out 'Duo is Dumb.'
Heaving a sigh, Treize mused contemplatively, "Maybe I should have been a bit more compassionate." Remembering that Zechs had almost gone into convulsions when he'd seen Epyon's new paint job, he smirked. "Nah."