Newsies: A.C. 195
By: Trini

Brooklyn

"Heero!" I called as I looked around the metal corradors. The brown haired boy had totally disappeared. I sighed as I heard a beeping noise. After messing with a few buttons, a girl's face appeared on a big screen. "Who are you and where's Heero?"

"Who are you?" I asked her suspiciously.

She looked annoyed. "I'm Relena Peacecraft. Where's Heero?"

I shrugged a little. "I don't know, I was just looking for him. Why?"

"Because he promised to kill me!" She said in a whining voice.

I raised an eyebrow at her. "He did?"

She nodded. "Yeah... who are you?"

"Brooklyn." I said proudly. "I was trying to stalk Heero but he lost me."

Relena frowned. "Yeah... he always runs away when I try to stalk him too. You think maybe we could stalk him together?"

I frowned slightly. I didn't really like this girl, or the fact that she was trying to stalk my Heero... but maybe if I agreed to help her I could get her out of the picture.

~*~*~*~

Psycho

"Peacemillion has about anything you could think of." Duo said, motioning around and winking at me.

"Duo!!" I heard a girl's voice yell, entirely too happy.

I frowned. "What was that?"

He paled a little. "Hildre... run!"

"What's a hildre?" I asked hesitantly.

A girl with light black hair ran up and attatched herself to Duo, sqeeling in excitement. "Duo! Where have you been?"

I reached for my gun only to find I didn't have one. I shrugged a little and thought instead of the most enjoyable way to kill someone with a pencil as I found one in my pocket.

~*~*~*~

Dice

I stared at the chess board, plotting my next move but my train of thought was crashed by a ditzy girl's voice saying, "Trowa, there you are."

Annoyance briefly flashed across his face, the first emotion I had seen him show, as he looked at the girl with the curly hair and very little clothing. "Hello Cathy."

"Trowa, you look better when you don't frown. Smile!" She said in a cheerful voice, then her eyes narrowed into tiny little slits as she noticed me. "Who are you?"

"Dice, who are you?" I asked as politely as possible, holding out a hand.

Her eyes started glowing and she got very angry all of a sudden. "You stay away from Trowa! He isn't going to fight anymore!"

"But Cathy, we're just playing chess." He said, pointing to the board.

"Stay out of this Trowa!" She yelled sharply, then turned back to me. "Leave him alone! I won't let him fight with you, it's too dangerous!"

"How do you know Trowa?" I asked, slightly confused.

"That's none of your business!" She snapped, then added. "But I throw knives at him in the circus."

I stopped to think about this for a while... it was too dangerous for him to play chess with me, but she could throw knives at him... right.

~*~*~*~*~

Racetrack stares at his cigar... shakes it. "Huh... it smokes, and it's on fire... but it doesn't work." Shakes the cigar some more. "Huh."

~*~*~*~*~

Bouncy

"Weakling." Wufei said, glaring at me. 'I'll show him weakling.' I thought, rematching him at arm wrestling once again. I gave him the idea that he might win and then said casually, "That guy with the braid is painting your machine pink."

"WHAT?!?!" He yelled, allowing me to slam down his fist, then realized I had played a trick on him. "Injustice!" He yelled for the fiftieth time. "Only a weak woman such as yourself would stoop so low! I don't fight weaklings!" He yelled, standing up to stalk away.

"Rematch?" I asked, smirking a little.

He sat back down and nodded, glaring at me. "No cheating this time, woman."

~*~*~*~*~

Psycho

"I think we've lost her." Duo said, taking a deep breath. "Keep your eyes open though, Hildre has a way of finding me."

'Hmmm.... a firehose, and an ax.' I thought, smiling evily as I caught site of the objects on the wall. "Oh, I wouldn't worry about her."

"Hey! Duo!" Echo yelled, running up to us. "Glad to see you, there's safety in numbers, right?"

"Hildre found you too?" I asked, looking around for the annoying girl.

Echo shook her head, but looked confused. "No, uh... you seen the others? Maybe we could play poker or something?"

"Strip poker?" Duo asked hopefully.

Echo turned a shade of crimson. "Uh... let's just go find the others, okay?"

~*~*~*~*~

Brooklyn

"Heero!!" Relena and I shouted at the same time.

I glared at her. "I thought you said you were good at finding him."

"I am!" She said, frowning a little. "I'm always able to find him and then he always tries to kill me but never does." She paused and then yelled, "Heero! I am right here so come and kill me!"

(Around the corner Heero curses and runs away from the two girls who are looking for him, and runs into Duo. Relena and Brooklyn can hear Duo say cheerfully, "Hey, Heero!")

Relena smiled. "I told you I'd find him. Heero, I'm coming!" She yelled and we ran around the corner in time to see Heero glare at Duo and mutter, "Omae o korosu." (Note: Japanese, it means, 'I'll kill you.' Heero says it quite frequently.)

~*~*~*~

Jack

I followed Quatre with a pair of scissors carefully concealed behind my back. "So, do you gotta girl?"

"No." He said, still being as polite as ever. "But I have 29 sisters."

I choked. "29?!?!?!" I thought it over for a moment. "None of them are named Sarah, are they?" I asked, thinking of my ditzy ex-girlfriend and shuddering.

"Uh... I can't remember all of their names." He said, looking rather embarrassed.

I shrugged and seeing my opportunity, reached up to cut part of his hair. I was interrupted by the sound of Echo's voice. "Jack! Quatre! There you are!"

I quickly hid the scissors and turned to smile at her and the rest of the group that was with her. "Uh... hi?"

She looked at me askance. "What were you doing?"

"Nothing. Just talking about Quatre's sisters, he's got 29 of them you know." I said, hoping she would buy it.

She accepted the answer and we started walking until we came to the area where Wufei, Misty, Catherine, Trowa, and Dice were sitting. "Great! We're all together again!" Echo said cheerfully, glad to be away from Sandrock.

"Yeah, great." I said, glaring at Quatre. Spot glared at Heero, who in turned glared at Relena, who was attached to his arm. Brooklyn watched on angrily, plotting ways to kill Relena. Bouncy was smiling smugly while Wufei sulked in a corner, ashamed he had been beaten by a weak woman. Trowa sat silently at the table, still emotionless... and Dice was... reading I suppose, while Racetrack continued to inspect his cigar diligently and Catherine glared with those creepy glowing eyes of hers. Duo winked and nudged Psycho who took her eyes off of a knife long enough to smile at him.

"You know, I'm really not feeling the love in the room." Echo said, clearing her throat a little.

Spot rolled his eyes. "With braid boy looking like a dog in heat?"

"Mad because Heero is moving in on your territory Rover?" Psycho asked in a sweet voice.

He looked angry for a second but pointed to Echo to divert attention from himself. "What about her and that blonde kid? Talk about puppy love..."

Echo and Quatre blushed furiously. "Not funny Rover." Echo muttered quietly.

Bouncy grinned evily. "You guys know what's really fun? Seeing how fast you can get Echo to turn beet red."

Wufei raised an eyebrow. "Probably not nearly as fast as Quatre would."

Both parties in question turned a light shade of red at these comments and everyone else smiled. "Why don't we have a contest?" Duo said cheerfully.

Psycho grinned. "Ya know Echo, the other day Jack got wet.You wouldn't know why, would you?"

Echo turned a shade of crimson and buried her head in her hands as she let out a weak whimper.

Duo laughed. "I can do better than that. Hey Quatre, I saw a certain girl with some funky eyebrows the other day. She was in Victoria's Secret... said she couldn't wait to get a hold of you." Duo said, causing Quatre's eyes to widen and his face to turn a shade darker than Echo's.

Bouncy grinned. "Say Echo, you been drinking any white milk lately?" Echo's face darkened once more and she seemed to sit a little lower in the chair.

The others laughed at the two blushing kids and Duo leaned over and whispered something to Quatre, who seemed to be hyperventalating. Spot smiled evily and turned to Echo. "Say uh... I know we used to call ya Pony an' everything cause a da whole thing about da roof... but I won't do that no more. I think Sandrock would be more appropriate, if ya know what I mean."

Echo let out a high pitched squeal and laid her head on the table, then covered it with her arms which were starting to turn crimson along with her face. I started to jump up to run after Quatre but tripped over Spot who was rolling around on the floor. After recovering from laughing so much, Duo whispered something to Quatre once again. Quatre's eyes shot up to Echo in complete mortification and he dropped into a dead faint.

Echo shot to his side and tried to keep me from killing him until Quatre finally came back around and declared, "Stop it you guys! We shouldn't be fighting at all!"

"Yeah, we should be fighting Oz." An old man wearing a hawaiian shirt and sunglasses said, sounding something like a hippy. (Note: *sighs* Oz is a government, and no, it has nothing to do with the emerald city.)

"Who are you?" I asked, noting he looked a little like Kloppman... aside from the way he dressed.

"I'm Howard." He said, and he was introduced to all of us. And so we all continued to glare at each other, or stare at each other with puppy dog eyes, depending on who you were, until everyone gradually split up.

Later that night... (In other words, I didn't know where else to go with that)

Trini

"Thanks for showing me around." I said shyly, and kissed Quatre's cheek, causing us both to blush. He smiled meekly before he walked away. When I was sure he was gone I ran to the place the gundams had been with a bag holding everything I would need. I smirked up at Sandrock. "You asked for it, now you got it." I said, pulling out the wires and explosives I would need to blow this thing up. I attatched the bomb to the mobile suit and ran a safe distance away. I cowered and plugged my ears, counting down. "Five, four, three, two..."

~*~*~*~*~

Brooklyn

"Where is Heero?" Relena whined. She was starting to get on my nerves.

"He's gone." I said through grit teeth.

She pouted. "Well, he shouldn't have left!"

"Maybe he wouldn't have if you hadn't been hanging all over him!" I yelled.

"Haven't you ever stalked someone before?" She looked indignant. "That's what you do! Anyway, he said he'd kill me. He promised!"

"Well, maybe I'll just do the job for him!" I said and wrapped my hands around her throat.

~*~*~*~*~

Racetrack

I was walking down the hall, inspecting my cigar when I noticed fighting. Heeero and Spot were trying to kill each other and Quatre was attempting to stop them. "We shouldn't be fighting at all!" He said desperately.

I clamped a hand over his mouth. "Two to one Heero skunks him!" I yelled, and continued to cheer, getting some nasty looks from Spot.

~*~*~*~*~

Spot

I glared at Heero once again... and he continued to glare back. This was getting a little repetative. "She's mine." I muttered angrily.

He continued to glare. "I don't care as long as you take Relena."

I raised an eyebrow. "I ain't takin' that girl nowhere!!"

He stepped forward and glared even more fiercly. "Oh yeah?"

"Yeah." I said, but gulped as he pulled that gun out again.

~*~*~*~*~

Psycho

"Duo!!!!" Said a high pitched voice as a form blurred past me and latched onto Duo's arm once again.

Hildre, who else? That girl was really starting to annoy me. Apparently Duo felt the same way, or at least that was what I concluded from the pained expression on his face as he laughed nervously and replied in a weak voice, "Oh, hey there Hildre."

I glared and thought I might scream... and then I Then I caught site of a shiny, sharp object. I grinned as I picked it up and hid it behind my back. "Oh, Hildre!" I said in a sing song voice, approaching the girl with an evil smile plastered on my face.

~*~*~*~*~

Dice

Catherine smiled as sweetly as possible at Trowa, then glared at me and hissed, "You stay away from him!"

"Why?" I asked, confused.

Her eyes started to glow again and before I could comment, lazers shot out of her eyes. I dodged and turned to run, still being shot at by Catherine. (Trini: Stupid, ne? Sorry, I ran out of ideas.)

~*~*~*~*~

Bouncy

"Ha!" I yelled, beating Wufei at pinball once again. "You loose!"

He started to turn red. "Injustice!"

I stuck my tongue out at him. "Sore looser."

"That's it. I'm going to my room, woman!" He said, and stalked off. I followed him and watched as he walked into his quarters. A few minutes later Jack walked up with a pair of scissors. "Have you seen Quatre?"

I smirked and nodded, pointing to Wufei's room. "In there."

~*~*~*~*~

Jack

I snuck into one of the dark rooms, holding a pair of scissors near. I couldn't really see who was asleep in the bed, but I was sure this one must be who I was looking for. I stayed as silent as I could as I cut the hair and then laughed maniacally.

"NO!!! INJUSTICE!!!" I heard someone yell, and then realized I had cut Wufei's hair, and not blond boy's.

"Oops." I said quietly, starting to back away. The boy pulled a katana from out of nowhere and started to attack me. I ran.

~*~*~*~*~

"Hurry up! Sell the papers sell the papers!" The boys heard as they sat up for another glorious day of carrying the banner. Jack and Spot (who had stayed for a poker game the night before) let out a sigh of relief in unison upon realizing they were back in Manhattan.... and then Brooklyn walked in wearing black with her hair in a braid, Psycho was in a pair of tan dress pants, white shirt, and blue vest, Bouncy in white pants and a blue turtleneck, Dice in a blue tank top and funky white pants, and Echo wearing a green tank top and black spandex shorts (Echo/Trini: She can get spandex shorts in 1899! Well... maybe not, but it's MY fanfic so nah!). The two boys went pail, and then screamed and ran out of the room as Kloppman walked in wearing a brightly colored shirt and sunglasses. Bouncy raised an eyebrow. "What's wrong with them?"

Psycho frowned, looking hurt. "That wasn't very nice of them."

"Weaklings." Dice muttered sourly.

Brooklyn shrugged. "Who cares, lets party!"

"Yeah, a party." Kloppman said in a hippy voice.

Echo glared at... air. "Sarah, I'm going to kill you."

The newsies all turned to stare at the five girls, and then at Kloppman. "Dang." Blink said, shaking his head slightly. "I told you to keep them away from Sarah. I knew what she had was contagious... Someone really needs to get rid of that girl before she spreads it any farther."

"Nimn kandu." Echo said in a monotone voice and left the bunkroom (Note: Japanese again, it means, 'Mission accepted', another one of Heero's frequently used sayings.)... five seconds later she walked back in. "Uh... what was I doing?" She paused. "And why am I wearing... this?"

"I dunno." Race said from his bunk. "But then again, I don't know why I look like Medda either." He said, motioning to a red and pink skirt like a circus performer might wear (Catherine's circus costume). He then eyed Snipeshooter, who backed away nervously. "Hey! That's my cigar!" He said, then added. "Leave it alone, it just wants to live in peace!"

"Here, take it!" Snipeshooter said, throwing the cigar at Race and then running away. Everyone stared at him in shock, but he just picked the cigar up and started puffing on it, propping his pink stockinged feet onto the bed.

The uh... End


(*looks at herself askance* Oooookay. I think I'll go to my padded cell now. Bu-bye.)

Fanfic
"I'll run from thee!"
*raises an eyebrow* Fine then, just leave. *Chibi Trini bursts into tears* You painted maypole, you! *smacked upside the head* Uh... sorry, I'm better now, promise. :)