He blinked his eyes groggily.
Everything was so...so...so...
...hazy.
Someone was shaking him worriedly. Someone else was roaring in rage at a person. The person being roared at was silent.
That was the extent of Dark Ace's knowledge on his surroundings.
Oh, and the fact that he was lying on a cold, hard, floor. Did I mention it was cold? And hard? And his head was hurting like no tomorrow? Strangely enough, he remembers getting shot in the shoulder, but there's no pain. Where's the frickin' pain?!
The person shaking him stops when they realize his eyes are open.
"Dude...duuuude...Dude," someone says, "Did I shoot you?"
Dark Ace sits up and feels his shoulder. No blood. No pain. Not even a bruise. He shrugs, then clears his throat. "I don't know. And who the he-"
"OH! He's up!" The person who had been screaming in rage rushes over. The first face he sees. It's one of the Storm Hawks...that girl, Pi-
His chain of thought is cut off by another chain of thought. Only the second one is strangely...strange. She's...she's...beautiful, he finds himself thinking. She turns and points at another woman, sulking in the corner.
"Look, Venus. I don't know what happened, but it's definitely-"
"Oh, it's bad, alright. It's bad because Eros shot...him," she growled, pointing at the Dark Ace, "...instead of Aerrow."
"Which means...? Oh, no..." Piper whammed her head into the wall. "Pleeaaase, no..."
"Oh, yes. It means he'll start dancing around you like a lovesick puppy in a couple of minutes. And things will escalate, and escalate, and esca-"
"SHUT UP! You've just ruined my life, made my second worst enemy fall in LOVE with me, wrecked the ship, gave my friends nervous breakdowns to last them lifetimes, and to cap it off...to cap it off...Well, actually, I think that's it." Piper pointed an accusing finger at Venus, then at the Dark Ace, who was still situated on the floor, looking at Piper with a suspicious glaze over his eyes. "You're going to make him stop. NOW."
"I can't take back true love-"
"It's NOT true love, it's induced love, caused by your kid's stupid little sticks! Make him stop...stop...looking at me like that!"
"Darling, what part of 'I can't' do you not get?" Venus hissed. "The 'I', or the 'can't'? He's stuck like this, he's going to be stuck like this, until you...well..."
"Well, what?"
"Kiss him, I suppose."
Piper blinked a few times, trying to let the words sink in.
And then came the second boom of the day.
"WHAT?!"
Venus just sighed...No one appreciates love nowadays. Absolutely no one, she thought to herself.
OOO
A/N: BWAHAHAHAHAHA! The plot bunny returns...to KILL!
This should be good.