Disclaimer: If I owned Gundam Wing, the series would have gone through the entire life of the Gundam Pilots and Heero would have kids, cause he deserves them. Unfortunately, I probably would have stuck to reality too, and Heero would end up having Post Traumatic Shock Disorder... which would be sad... very sad...
Intrigue
by Kagura
Sally's Kamikaze Plan
The crystal palace... Noin had only dreamed of coming here, and had suggested the restuarant as a joke when Heero asked her where she wanted to go for dinner. Heero, as always, hadn't caught on to the little twinkle in her eye as she told him her idea. So Heero had unknowingly called the restaurant reserving a table for four. When he got off the phone, he found Noin laughing her head off in the bathroom... under the wondering gaze of Quatre and Relena.
"Why aw you waughing, Noiwn?" asked Relena, completely and utterly confused.
"Your foster father... just called... the Crystal... Palace... for reservations..." Noin managed to gasp out to the small child. Relena's eyes went wide. Really wide.
"The Crystal Palace?" It was the first sign of the day that the month was almost up. Relena had lost her any sign that she had trouble saying 'L' and 'R'.
"That place is really fancy..." said Quatre, also without speech impediment. Niether child was heard however, as Heero walked in to say that he had made reservations.
All three stared in aw. And then...
"You're joking..." both Relena and Noin said at the same time. Quatre just stared.
"What? You said you wanted to go to the Crystal Palace. And they had open reservations." Heero was blatently confused.
"They..." Noin gulped, "They had open reservations? Like there were free spots on the reservations list?" Heero nodded, still confused.
"Heero, no one can get reservations to that place." That was Quatre. "Not even I can get reservations to that place..." Heero and Noin stared at Quatre... were his memories coming back?
"Quatre, you're three... of course you can't get reservations..." Noin stated cautiously. Quatre just blinked at her. Everyone continued to stare at him, including Relena who was quite confused.
"What?" asked Quatre. Everyone stared more.
"What? What did I do? It wasn't me who spilled the orange juice in the kitchen, that was Relena's fault!" Quatre tried desperately to get out of the hot seat. Everyone continued to stare at him. Quatre sat on the floor and shifted nervously... wetting his pants in the process. This was only made worse by the fact that Relena started laughing at him. Quatre started to cry.
Heero, of course, was still confused as to why everyone seemed to think it was impossible to get reservations at the Crystal Palace.
"You know what? Why don't we just get dressed up nice, and go to the Crystal Palace? I really have been dying to go, although I never imagined I'd be going with you, Heero, and two kids. It's a little weird, but we can manage. Besides, Relena and Quatre can be good kids right?" She looked stearnly at the two three year olds. They nodded obediently. "Okay then, Heero find a suit or something for Quatre, and I'll find something for Relena, and dress him. Then find a suit for yourself." Noin left Heero and Quatre, leading Relena away.
"Okay then, Quatre. You want to get ready to go?" Quatre nodded.
Sally stood at the front desk of the Crystal Palace talking to an old buddy of hers. The Crystal Palace was origanally designed as a tea room, but it's menu soon increased to include dinner and brunch as well. Getting reservations was nearly as hard as finding a needle in a haystack. The Crystal Palace had also been remodled recently so that each dinner would have a private room. The reason Sally was so greatful that she had a friend who worked there. Sally had never told Noin about her friend at the Crystal Palace for two reasons. One, Noin would have wanted to go. Two, this was the place where Sally liked to relax. The Crystal Palace had a room researved for Sally's relaxation time after work because she came so often. And, well, lets say that Sally's relaxation room had also been used by Une so that she could create a wall for Treize. It was hidden in a closet so that Sally didn't have to look at it. A closet hidden by the wall.
Not only was this room officially Sally's, Sally had placed the idea of going to the Crystal Palace into Noin's head earlier that day. And about half an hour after Sally arrived at the Crystal Palace to talk to her friend, Marcia, Sally was interupted by the phone ringing. Checking the Caller ID, Sally had seen Heero's number. She told Marcia to give them her room. Hence the reason that there were available reservations.
The foursome stepped into the front door of the Crystal Palace, at least three of the faces showing excitement and awe at the glass walls. Heero just followed, awe echoing in his head, but not being betrayed on his face. He stepped up to the seating hostess. "Yuy party of four," he told the lady.
"Welcome to the Crystal Palace. My name is Marcia." Marcia looked down her list, then nodded. "Right this way please."
Sally rushed around the room. Everything had to be perfect. Everything. Sally checked the special piping in the room that she had gotten special permission from the owners of the restaurant to install. Sleep gas. The perfect weapon of choice for "Operation Nighty Night".
Then Sally slipped out of the room.
Relena and Quatre were being good, fortunately. Noin looked at the menu deliberating her choices outloud.
"Oh my, this Salmon dish looks really good, but so does the Sushi... ah, maybe the pork tenderloin... or I could share the kids chicken fingers... yikes... I don't know! Sally would say, when in Rome do as the Romans... so a tea plater maybe, but that's not dinner... ack... I don't know..."
"Sushi..." Heero said blatently, sick of all Noin's deliberating.
"Hm... Heero, what do you think I should get?"
Heero rolled his eyes, since he had just said it. "Sushi," he repeated.
Relena looked at Heero. "Sushi's gross! Mr. Annoying ate it all the time and made really gross noised with it."
"You're brother ate it all wrong..." Heero said, annoyed, but of course, not showing it.
"They'll just get chicken fingers anyway," Noin said.
They waited for the waitress to come back.
Two minutes later, their watress came back. Noin was helping Relena color something in.
"The kids will have chicken fingers, and the two of us will have a Sashimi and Sushi Plate," Heero said. The waitress nodded, setting down their drinks, then left the room. Little did they know...
Quatre was being taught how to use chopsticks properly, since he wanted to try a California Roll. Heero was teaching him, of course. Heero was the resident Japanese in the room. Noin knew how to use chopsticks, but she was Italian, spagetti eating her forte in the food department, not chopsticks. (A/N: This is not stereotyping, this is what I believe to be true in this particualar case, this particular case being Noin. ) Relena was delicately eating her chicken fingers. Sally wanted to laugh.
They looked like a family. You would never guess that Noin was four years older than Heero, or that the two kids were the two important diplomatic figure heads that had gone missing, or that Heero was not what people would see as the standard father figure. And yet, the foursome looked like a family. It was weird thinking that Heero had the potential to be a father. Very weird.
Sally looked at her watch... it was time.
She released the invisible, odorless sleeping gas into the room.
Quatre had just fallen asleep. He had said he was a bit tired, so it made sense to Heero. But when Relena conked out without warning, Heero know something was wrong. That's when he realized that he was holding his breath, and that Noin was trying to get over to the two kids, without breathing. Then Noin took a chance. "Heero, there's sleeping gas in this room!" And she went out like a bulb.
Heero couldn't hold his breath anylonger... but dizziness from not doing anything this severe in a long time, took over, and he passed out without the help of the sleeping gas.
Sally waited for the room to clear of the gas before entering the room. The nice thing about this room was that it doubled as a hotel room... perfect for Sally's plan. Getting the bodies of the "family" out of the way, Sally set up the bedroom, which involved the push of a button, because the walls were like the kind we've all seen in Dexter's Laboratory and Jimmy Neutron. (A/N: I have seen way too many little kid shows... and I don't even get cable anymore... wow...)
Setting up the room to look like a hotel room with a queen bed and a pull out couch, Sally put the kids on the pull out couch and the adults on the queen. She giggled as she placed the 20 and 24 year olds like dolls on the bed, purposely putting Noin in Heero's arms. She giggled a little, snapping a picture with her camera phone before shutting the door and leaving.
All across the colony L2-04495, the home of Preventer Headquarters, something strange was going on. Five little chibis were changing fast. The rips of toddler cloathing, and the growth of bodies could be heard all over the colony. But those who were sound asleep heard not a thing. And when Sally crawled in to bed that night, she didn't realize that she had set up more than one couple that night.
One of you asked why the Maguanacs and Quatre's sisters not informed of Quatre being chibized.
For a couple of reasons... one being that that is WAY TOO MANY PEOPLE to inform, and way too many people to track down. Sure, the Maguanacs might be easy to tell, but as to easy to find? Nah. Anyway, Quatre has 29 sisters. 28 of these sisters are still alive. 28 sisters! Come on! Quatre's only going to be chibi for a month, what's the point? Secondly, Heero isn't that smart. He would only think of his mission as making sure Quatre had some place to stay. As far as I'm concerned... Heero got a bit lazy after a few years of peace. That's that.
Oh, and by the way, I made up most of that on the spot, cause I don't really know, but seeing as I just wrote all that, why don't we stick with it as being the truth for this story, shall we?
Another one of you asked how the five characters got chibized.
I know, you don't. Why? Because that comes in a later chapter when Duo recounts to Hilde what he remembers. Actually, that's the next chapter. So you should know by this weekend. But if it's a question of why, it's because I like Zechs bashing. And with a chibi Relena, anything is possible to bash Zechs with. Mwahaha! So, don't worry. More Zechs bashing soon!
Kagura