THE SHOP
By: Cory B.
Gundams, highly advanced mobile suits made from gundanium. They were probably the most if not THE most important factor in winning the Eve Wars of AC 195. Then came the incident where some more rebel colonists wanted to drop a colony on the earth, and captured relena peacecraft, even worse, the world had been at peace before hand and the gundams were on their way towards the sun. But it had been about 2 years since the eve wars and Endless Waltz, so what happened to the gundams between then and now?
The shuttle was approaching peacemillion and docked with it in it’s hanger bay. "I don’t know why we need our gundam repaired, the wars over! Why don’t they just get put in a war museum or something?" Said Duo.
"Because peace is just starting, who knows what might happen between now and when it’s tightly established?" Said Quatre as he exited the shuttle.
"Yeah right, you just made us come here so Wufei wouldn’t feel bad about his EPS (Extreme Possessiveness Syndrome)" Said Duo. Wufei walked up behind Duo and hit a pressure point with his index and middle finger. Duo fell limp to the ground, very slowly.
"He’ll be awake in an hour with a bad headache" Said Wufei.
"Hey, that rhymes!" Said Quatre
"Quatre, shut up." Said Wufei, he went and opened the door to the inner ship, and was hit by a wave of humidity and steam. He reeled back a few steps and then looked in.
"Um, what’s with all the palm trees and tropical crap?" Asked Trowa. Heero stepped out and looked in as well, he didn’t say anything.
"Hmm, maybe this place didn’t churn out any profit after wartime and was converted into a luxury space cruiser and spa." Said Quatre
"Quatre, I thought I told you to shut up." Said Wufei
"Well, it’s just a hunch." Said Quatre
"I said…SHUT UP!" Yelled Wufei.
"I’m getting tired of that!" Yelled Quatre.
"Will you just…" "Make me!" Quatre interrupted
"OK!" Wufei said as he reached for his sword.
"RIGHT!" Said Quatre as he reached for his sword.
"What?…you don’t have a sword Quatre!" Said Wufei
"Hey, that’s right, who’s the author here?" Said Quatre
"Umm, I am." I typed.
"Well I don’t have a sword remember?" Said Quatre
"Oh, yeah that’s right." I typed, and then deleted the part in bold about Quatre reaching for his sword.
"Ha! Now I’ll kill you." Said Wufei as he was about to pounce on Quatre.
"Ack! GIVE ME THE SWORD BACK GIVE ME THE SWORD BACK!!!" Cried Quatre.
"Will you two just knock it off!" Yelled Trowa.
"KEEP OUTTA THIS!" Quatre and Wufei both yelled.
"He said , knock it off." Said Heero grimly. They both put away their swords, er, I mean Wufei put away his sword.
"Thank you." Wufei said to me.
"Hey! Why didn’t you stop when I asked you to!" Asked Trowa
"Cause Heero is the only one who ALWAYS packs a gun." Said Quatre. They all finally went in (with Trowa carrying Duo over his shoulder), after looking for a while in the tropical halls they found Howard in a spa with two other bikini clad babes.
"Umm, Howard?" Said Quatre, Howard looked over.
"Oh, hi boys!" Said Howard with a smile on his face, he was about to get out when…
"Howard, you are of course wearing something?" Said Wufei. Howard nodded and Wufei let out a sigh of relief. Howard got out of the spa, and the boys looked in horror (Even Heero, wow this must be bad!)
"OH NO! SPEEDO!!!!" Screamed Quatre and they all looked away. (NOOOO!!! MY EYES!!!!!)
"Oh, hang on a second." Howard walked over to a changing room and went in. One of the girls in the spa looked over at Trowa.
"Hey, who’s the good looking guy?" said one of the girls.
"Oh, my name is Trowa." Said Trowa, smiling.
"No the guy on your shoulder! Ick! What girl would like those bangs!" replied the girl
"Hey shut up about my bangs! I had a freak accident with some experimental hair gel when I was three!" Replied Trowa, he had a flashback about how his mother had submitted him to science when he was two, he had another flashback about how some punk had run past him and pushed him into a vat of experimental "Big O Bangs" hair gel.
"I’ve never been the same since!" Continiued Trowa.
"Whatever, the guy on your shoulder?" Asked the girl.
"His name is Duo." Said Quatre
"Well…" she got up out of the spa and got some paper and pencil, wrote down something on it and stuffed it in Duo’s pants pocket.
"Remind him it’s there when he wakes up." She went and got back in the spa. Howard then came out of the dressing room in his usual hawaiian shirt, brown pants and sunglasses.
"So, what’s the occasion?" asked Howard
"Well, we want to get our gundams repaired, especially Nataku, put all the work into him and fix him first!" Said Wufei, Trowa and Quatre were both holding back a laughs.
"Sorry, no can do." Replied Howard.
"What?! WHY!?" Asked Wufei desperately.
"Because since this ship isn’t churning out any profit after wartime I’m turning into a luxury space cruiser and spa." Said Howard.
"HA! I told you!" Laughed Quatre, Wufei put him to sleep like he did Duo.
"Wufei! Why do you have to go and do that everytime someone gets the better of you in an argument.
"Umm…well…I…" Stuttered Wufei, he put Trowa to sleep too.
"Poorsport." Said Heero, Wufei was running at him to do the same.
"I still have the gun." Said Heero, Wufei stopped dead in his tracks.
"Good, now Howard, are the repair bays still up and running?" Asked Heero
"Nope, they have already been turned into lavish dining facilities, comfortable sleeping quarters, and recreational areas." Replied Howard.
"Hmm, guess we’re gonna have to go to one of those repair places on Earth." Said Wufei grimly.
"Okay then let’s go." Heero started walking away
"Hey Heero, what about the others?" Asked Wufei
"Deal with it" Said Heero without looking back.
"Aw man!!!" Wufei dragged all three of them to the shuttle, carelessy throwing Duo on the floor and putting Quatre and Trowa in their seats, Heero was flying the shuttle.
"Now, what’d she write on that note…" Wufei said as he got the note out of Duo’s pocket.
Hey Duo, Call me at 468-7588
-Veronica
XXXOOO
"Hmm…" Wufei smirked, ripped off the phone number and was putting the rest of it back in Duo’s pocket when…
"Umm..Wufei, what are you doing with your hand in my pants pocket?" Asked a recently woken Duo. Wufei began to sweat.
"Umm, nothing, why do you ask?" Wufei immidieately retracted his hand.
"I’m just gonna go…umm, burn something…" Wufei walked into the kitchen of the shuttle.
"Hmm, did he put something in my pocket?" Duo grabbed the note out of his pocket. He was immidieataly grabbing for the phone, but then he noticed the phone # was gone.
"Hey?! Where’d it go…………………………… (lines represent time it took for the situation to register.) WUFEI!!!!!" Duo ran into the kitchen, needless to say there was a fight.
Back on Earth (After the two weeks of hospitalizing Duo) the boys were driving a caravan of trucks carrying the gundams. They stop at "Sally’s last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last last Chance Mobile Suit Repair Garage".
"I think this is our last chance." Said Duo. The other boys (Except Heero) fell down in anime fashion. Heero was about to walk in when Duo walked in front of him.
"Leave this to me Heero, I’m part of the sweeper group so I should be able to get us a discount here." Duo said and strutted in confidently.
"I say we go in now." Said Trowa.
"Nah, let’s wait till he starts yelling, this is gonna be good." Said Wufei with a smirk on his face. He walked closer to the door and leaned his ear on it, after about 2 minutes…
"LOOK, I’m a sweeper group member, YOU’RE a sweeper group member!!!! How bout some professional courtesy here!!?!?!?!?!" Yelled Duo.
"Now…" said Quatre,
"No, let’s let him squirm a little while longer." Said Wufei, enjoying this immensely.
"Listen, you pay full price or else no service! Got me?" The clerk was starting to get angry.
"Come on! Maybe just a litle bit of a discount!?" Duo was getting desperate
"NOO!!! Now pay up or leave or else I sic The dinosaur on you!" The clerk threatened.
"Now." Said Wufei, the rest of them strolled in and got a work contract for everything they needed and loaded their gundams in (But not after Heero memorized his contract and threaten to kill the mechanic if there was something added).
"Oh yeah? Bring ‘im on! I can take anyone!" Boasted Duo, the rest of the pilots were in the garages with their gundams, a scream was heard all through the garage, and Duo came walking in trembling uncontrollably.
"P..pu..purple…b..big…big dinosaur….gonna….k..kill….me…P…PB….PBS….No…no…get away from me!!!!"
Trowa slapped Duo.
"Ok..I’m alright now." Said Duo after shaking it off.
"What the hell did they do to you?" asked Trowa.
"They strapped me to a chair and made me watch Barney!!!!" Everyone in the room shuddered.
"Until you paid full price right?" Said Trowa
"Don’t remind me……" Shuddered Duo, Death Scythe Hell was loaded into a garage.
"But I’m ok now…" Duo said as he walked to the garage, they all got their work contracts signed. Wufei wasn’t gonna leave soon though, he wanted to see wo the mechanic was that would be working on Nataku.
"Ahh, they can’t be that bad…" Wufei was about to leave when he bumped into a girl that was lookin at his gundam.
"Ohh, sorry." Said the girl.
"You’re not the mechainc who’s working on Nataku are you?" Wufei asked nervously. She got a happy smile on her face.
"Yes I am!" She said. She looked over her clipboard…
"Let’s see..your name is……Altron!" She said
"No, My name is Wufei!!! See it over the line that has signature beneath it?!" yelled Wufei.
"Oh yeah, now I see it…" She said sheepishly
"Hi Wufei, my name is Mihoshi!" She said and shook his hand.
"I don’t care woman, just make sure Nataku comes out of this alive." He walked away, gritting his teeth. He walked into the waiting room and picked up a magazine and soda from the machine and sat down. He turned the name Mihoshi over in his head a couple times, he’d heard it before…but where? Suddenly his eyes open wide and he froze. Pictures of crashed cars and spilled drinks flashed in his mind.
"What’s wrong Wufei? You look like you’ve seen a ghost." Said Duo.
"Mihoshi is working on my gundam………" Said Wufei, very pale.
"I guess I’ll be able to sell the scraps for you." Laughed Duo, Wufei tackled him and knocked him out again.
"Wufei, tell me where you learned that technique, it does well to shut Duo up." Said Heero. Wufei walked out the door with Duo over his shoulder.
"Where do you suppose he’s going?" asked Quatre.
"Probably to do something unpleasant to Duo." Said Trowa. They all sat there for about an hour when Wufei came back with dusty hands.
"So what’d you do to him Wufei?" Asked Heero
"He’s in deep trouble." That’s all Wufei said before he sat down and read his magazine some more, he krinkled flinshed when he heard "Hey what’s this? Ooops, some one clean that up, uh oh, I hope that wasn’t important." Come from the garage Nataku was in.
"That’s it, I going in!" Said Wufei as he briskly got up from his couch and walked to the door, the clerk stopped him.
"Hey, we gotta rule here, no one goes back there unless you’re a mechanic after the work contract has been signed." The clerk said. An explosion came from the garage.
"Forget that rules!" Wufei said as he reached for the doorknob.
"I’ll sic the dinosaur on you if you don’t go sit down!" Threatened the clerk, Wufei sat down quickly. After about another half hour Duo came wlking in covered with dirt, his hair unbraided and dirty, a hole in his pants above the ankle where the skin was bleeding, and a white substance was running down the side of his head.
"So Duo, what did Wufei do to you?" Asked Trowa, stifling a laugh.
"Oh nothing, he just BURIED UP TO MY NECK!!!! Then while I was trying to dig myself up a small bird came and plucked the rubber band off my braid and then came back and started picking at my hair, then I got crapped on by a vulture, then bit by Tortoise!!!!!" Duo was fuming as he went into the men’s room. Everyone started laughing.
"SHUT UP!!!!" Yelled Duo from the men’s room, he came out 20 minutes later with his hair clean and braided. He picked up a magazine, sat down and started reading. Time passed as they continued to wait, Duo was never this quiet before. Wufei was starting to get suspicious.
"So anyone wanna play cards?" Asked Duo
"What’s the game?" Asked Trowa as he set set down his magazine and walked over.
"Poker, hope you’re ready to lose your money!" Duo said.
"Hang on a second! No gambling" Said Quatre, as he got up as well.
"How about Go Fish?" He suggesed.
"Umm, let me think..no!" Said Duo
"Ok, then how about Old Maid?" Quatre Said.
"No"
"Speed?"
"No"
"Spoons?"
"No"
"Solitare?"
"That’s it, I can’t take it!" Duo got into another chair.
"You can play any crappy kid game you want now Quatre." Said Duo as he picked up another magazine. Another half hour passed, Duo was finished reading his magazine and very bored, he was getting thirsty too. He got up, got a dollar outta his pocket and went over to the soda machine. He inserted the dollar, it came out again, he put it back in again, it came out again, he smoother out the dollar and put it in again, it came out again.
"Well son of a…hmm.." He went outside to the truck he was driving, put the dollar and the truck bed and got a plate of gundanium and slammed it down on the dollar repeatedly. He brought it back in and put the dollar back in the machine, it came out again, he smoothed it out on the side of the table and put it in again, it came out again.
"WORK!!!!" He yelled as he put the dollar in yet again, it stayed.
"Finally!" He pushed the button for A&W Root Beer (Quatre wouldn’t let them drink either) and nothing happened, he presses the button five times, nothing happened.
"CRAP! This $%#$^%^^&#@#$%&*%*$#@*$%*@$#@%@#$%@#$ thing ate my dollar!!!!" Duo was now thouroughly annoyed and punched the machine giving it a good dent. Wufei walked up with his dollar and put it in, it stayed, Wufei hit the button for root beer and picked it up out of the slot and sat down.
"I HATE you Wufei!" Yelled Duo, he got up.
"Screw this machine I’m going to 7-11, how far is the nearest one clerk?" Asked Duo
"It’s about half an hour walk from here." Answered the Clerk.
"Good, I’ll be back in about an hour." Said Duo as he walked towards the door.
"So I know how long I have to be sane?" Said Wufei.
"Shut up Wufei." Duo walked out. Another Explosion came from Nataku’s garage and Wufei Cringed again, various clanging sounds rang out and another explosion, followed by, "I don’t think that goes there…". By now Wufei was gripping the arm to his chair so tightly his knuckles were white, his eyes were bloodshot.
"Uh, Wufei? Are you ok? You look a little stressed." Said Quatre.
"Oh, I’m not stressed!!!!!" Said Wufei sarcastically, another explosion and Wufei broke off the arm of the chair.
"Umm, ok then, I’ll just, be…over here." Quatre went and sat down to resume his ‘Thrilling’ game of Go Fish with Trowa. After about an hour Duo came back in with a bottle of root beer and a straw and some paper napkins.
"So, did you miss me?"
"No." The rest of them said at once, Duo sat down.
"Fine, I’ll just enjoy my root beer then." He said before gulping some down and burping the Alphabet, but before he got to H Wufei threw a phone book he got off the table at him. After getting back up again Duo sat at the other side of the room.
"I get the hint." Said Duo as he shot a look at Wufei. About five minutes later Wufei was reading a magazine called ‘Mobile Suits Weekly’ when he heard something hit the back of it, again, again, he put down the magazine and looked at Duo, he was reading a magazine too, so Wufei just started reading again. Then they starting hitting again.
"Duo, knock it off!" He yelled as he put down his magazine and a spit ball hit him between the eyes. Wufei got up and ran after Wufei who was now out the door, shortly there came sounds of a fight outside and Duo yelling "I’m sorry ok?! GET OFF ME! Ow!". Soon Wufei came in dragging a battered Duo by his braid behind him, he was heading for the bathroom.
"Wufei?! What are you doing?!" Said Duo as he struggling to get out of Wufei’s grasp, now they were in the bathroom.
"What?! No not that! Plea(Splash) glub…gurgle… (Flush)." Was heard outside, Wufei came out dragging Duo and went into the garage, he came back shortly and sat down. Followed by Duo covered in a black substance.
"So what’d he do this time?" Asked Quatre.
"First I beat him up, then gave him a swirly, then dropped him in a barrel of oil." Said Wufei, looking proud.
"Hey, Clerk, got any place I can wash up?" Said Duo.
"Yeah, there’s some showers at the back of the building." Answered the Clerk.
"Thanx, at least someone is being helpful to me today!" Duo walked out leaving a trail of black footprints behind him.
"Hey Wufei, why haven’t you gotten back at him THIS bad before?" Asked Heero
"Well, I figured I’d save it all up for one big shabang…and it’s not over yet." Said Wufei with an evil grin on his face, after he was sure Duo was out of earshot Wufei started following the footprints.
"One more game? Please!" Whined Quatre.
"No Quatre, I’ve beaten you 12 tiems in a row, it’s boring." Moaned Trowa as he went back to his chair and picked up a Sports Illustrated.
"Ok then, Heero, you wanna play?" Asked Quatre
"No." Heero said without looking up.
"Umm right, I’ll just get a magazine then." Said Quatre, he did and sat down beside Trowa. Wufei came walking back in.
"So what’d you do?" Asked Heero.
"You’ll have to ask him when he gets back." Said Wufei as he sat down and got a magazine. All was peaceful for about five minutes, then.."WHY!!!! WHY ME!!!!!!" came from the showers, Duo came in wearing a robe and holding a very flat article of clothing.
"So what did he do?" Asked Heero.
"HE FROZE MY CLOTHS WITH A FIRE EXTINGUISHER!!!!!" Yelled Duo.
"Well, before you ask I’ve got an extra set of clothing back here." Offered the clerk.
"Thanks again, maybe not everyone is out to get me!" Duo said and followed the clerk.
"I’m done now." Said Wufei. A few minutes later duo walked in wearing VERY baggy pants and an oversized tiedie shirt. Wufei fell over laughing.
"Aw shut up!" yelled Duo as he sat down, he was totally quiet for the next hour. Then a mechanic came in.
"Heero Yuy, your mobile suit has been repaired, but one of our mechanics screamed ‘I AM THE RULER OF THE UNIVERSE, BOW BEFORE ME!!!!!’ when he was working on the cockpit. But that was all, come on back and get it." He said, Heero followed him back. One by one each of the mechanics came and got the pilots until only Wufei was left. Meanwhile Duo was driving away with DeathScythe Hell full throttle, Qautre came out.
"Hey Heero, why did Duo leave so quickly?" Asked Quatre
"Something about dodging the storm." Replied Heero. Back in the waiting room…
"Umm, Wufei, I think your gundam is done." Said Mihoshi.
"Fine, let’s go see that damag…I mean how you did." Said Wufei as he walked out and followed her into the garage. "WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!" Was heard from about a mile away.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!?!?!" Yelled Wufei, Altron was now colored pink and had a red bow on it’s head.
"But, I thought I was supposed to paint it like that." She said innocently.
"What gave you that thought!?!?!?!" Yelled Wufei.
"Well, the guy that was covered with oil said so." She responded. Wufei had fire in his eyes, he ran out and yelled…
"DUOOOO!!!!! I’M GONNA KILL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" He jumped into his truck and took off after Duo.
"Betcha Wufei actually kills him this time." Said Trowa. They got in their trucks and drove off after Wufei and Duo (Obeying the speed limit of course).
THE END