Wufei: You're on a role this month!
ZT: Told ya I got inspired by the new environment!
Wufei: (Raises an eyebrow)…Where're you at now anyway?
ZT: College.
Duo: (Pops up) Which happens to be in the middle of nowhere and has nothing going on at the moment.
Wufei: Oh, that explains it.
ZT: (Glares at Duo) There's stuff to do!
Duo: Other than go to class and watch TV?
ZT: Okay so there's nothing to do…Well, that's what I have you guys for!
Wufei/Duo: Great….
ZT: Well anyway, on with the show! I don't own Gundam Wing. Enjoy!
Fate Sucks II: Clash of the Moon and Star
Chapter 11
The next morning the group hung out at around the kitchen counter as Allison, Kyle, and Sai brought them whatever they had requested for breakfast. As Kyle handed Duo his plate, the braided-haired pilot shoveled a pancake into his mouth, swallowed, and grinned with a thumbs up, "My compliments to the chef!"
"Well, thank you darlin'!" she beamed before returning to the kitchen.
"So why are they catering to us anyway?" Wufei asked Vanessa.
Vanessa shrugged, "It's nothing special; it's just their day to cook. The other three are in charge of cleaning. The jobs will change tomorrow."
"Sfeaking of fa ofwer fwee, where're Lauwy an' Aweksf?" Duo asked between a mouthful of pancake and eggs.
Wufei cringed, "Swallow before you talk, Maxwell!"
Vanessa rolled her eyes, "And once you do, ask your question again; I couldn't understand you."
Duo swallowed his food, "I asked where Laury and Alex were."
"Laury's asleep still and Alex is playing mad scientist with her makeup," Sai answered for Vanessa as she came out with two more plates.
"Really? What's she working on now?" Vanessa asked, knowing that Alex's makeup experiments were usually something to give her a hand when on missions.
Sai shrugged, "She didn't say what it was, just that it would definitely give us a hand if we ever needed to infiltrate someplace if she got it right."
"And if she gets it wrong?" Trowa asked.
"Then we look good when we're shot down," Vanessa and Sai answered in unison, obviously having been asked this before.
Just then Allison came out of the kitchen with the last plates along with Kyle. As they came out, they kept a close eye on their feet. Looking down, the others noticed that there was a chicken stalking around the two girls' feet.
Sai sighed and walked over, "Leave them alone; they're not poultry." She picked up the chicken just as she was about to peck Allison's foot. Allison mouthed a thank you to Sai as the blond tossed the chicken in a closet.
"That wasn't Bobo…" Wufei thought out loud.
Allison sighed, "No, that was Lala. Personally, I PREFER Bobo to that disturbed chicken. She thinks she works for Foster Farms and has no clue what a chicken is…so as you can guess the only ones spared from her attacks are Laury, who she thinks is her employer, and other chickens."
"Prefer Bobo to Lala? You make it sound like she's a lesser of two evils; Alex and I broke her of her pick pocketing habits back in the Sanc Kingdom," Wufei pointed out.
"Yeah, and she was doing great…that is until Lala came into the picture. Now we have a pick pocketing chicken dressed as a French maid," Sai answered.
Wufei stared at the three, "You're kidding."
As if on queue, there was a loud crash from one of the rooms followed by loud cursing. "BOBO!" Alex's voice roared, followed by fast footsteps in their direction, "Stop that floating bottle!"
"Floating bottle?" everyone asked at once. Their confusion was answered…somewhat, as a bottle floating about six inches off the ground came flying down the hall, into the kitchen, and towards another hall. Alex came rushing in after it. Seeing where the bottle was heading, she grabbed a cup off the counter and threw it at the floating bottle. The group blinked when they saw the cup bounce off air and heard a squawk, at the same moment of the squawk, the bottle dropped.
For a long while, everyone just stared at where the bottle had dropped, trying to figure out what just happened. After realizing that there was no way in hell an answer was going to just hit them, they turned their attention to Alex who was picking up the bottle. "What was that about?" Heero finally voiced their opinion.
Alex sighed, "Bobo."
"…How? How'd she make that bottle float?" Sai asked, confused as everyone else.
"She didn't make it float; she just took the bottle," seeing the look on the other's faces, she sighed, "Bobo got into the lab. I happened to be away from the table at the moment, and apparently the idiotic bird thought that my solution was flavored water."
"'Flavored water'?" Kyle asked, making sure she heard right.
Alex nodded, pulling out what looked like a body spray bottle and opening the top before handing it to Sai who was closest, "I gave it a scent so I would know if it got on anything."
Sai took a whiff, "Hmm, cherries…" She screwed back on the lid and handed it back to the other blond, "So Bobo drank this stuff; what does it have to do with the floating bottle?"
"She didn't drink it, she took a bath in it," Alex corrected. She picked up the cup she threw and placed it on the counter away from the group, "And this is how she made that bottle 'float'…" Making sure that everyone was out of the spraying range, she squirted the cup with the cherry scented liquid. As she spray settled, the cup vanished.
Everyone save for Allison and Sai blinked in shock. The said two were smacking their foreheads for not getting it sooner. "Where'd it go?" Duo asked, looking at the table, then under and around it.
"Where do you think it is? It's right where I put it," Alex answered with a grin.
Duo looked up at her from his spot on the floor, "Now I'm completely lost."
"It's invisible," Allison explained, "Alex made a liquid that makes things it touches invisible."
Duo looked at her in shock, "You're shitting me."
Sai walked over to the table and felt along the table top until she brushed a solid, sightless object. Wrapping her fingers around it, she placed it in Duo's open hand. Even though he had been told that it was invisible, the fact that he could feel the object in his hand but see nothing but his open palm, it threw him for a loop, "Shit! It's invisible!"
Vanessa sighed, "Thank you for repeating that for us…"
Alex shrugged, "Actually, it's not technically invisible, it's just- you know what, never mind; I'm not even going to TRY to explain it!"
"…Okay, so this stuff makes things invisible; does it wear off over time?" Kyle asked.
Alex shook her head, "No, if it wore off there would be a chance of it wearing off in the middle of a mission; that would suck if a soldier all of a sudden spotted a finger moving around much like that bottle did…"
"Good point," Allison agreed, "But how do you get it off then? My 'invisibility' is worked by microchips that I can turn on and off, how do you plan on 'turning off' chemicals?"
"With this," she answered, holding up the bottle that Bobo had almost gotten away with, "It's a solution which breaks down the chemical bonds. Watch," she opened the bottle, revealing the cap was an eyedropper of sorts, and placed one drop of the solution in the invisible cup. Within 10 seconds, the whole cup was visible again.
"So it causes a chain reaction," Trowa concluded, impressed by what he was seeing.
Alex nodded, "Yep. However this is all I have right now, which is why I needed to get it back from Bobo before she broke the bottle or hid it."
"What about your notes?" Vanessa asked; she knew just as well as the other girls that Alex always had her recipes written down in her glittering pink book. One look at Alex gave her an answer though. She sighed, "She knocked over her 'bath tub' didn't she."
Alex nodded, "Yep, since she was invisible, I didn't see her when I went to put a lid on it. She freaked out and, well now half the lab is missing."
"Oh I gotta see this," Kyle said amusedly, and headed towards the lab. The others turned to follow her... that is until Wufei made his presence known again.
"Hold on, am I the only one who realizes the problem here?" he asked the group.
"What problem?" Duo asked.
"We have a pick pocketing chicken, which was next to impossible to catch when we could see her, and now she's invisible," he pointed out. The group groaned; life around here was going to be interesting, that was for sure.
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