Lost Friend Found
Duo: Found behind the outhouse.
My standard disclaimers: The usual, I don't own Gundam Wing or any of it's characters. They belong to companies like Sunrise and Bandai.
Theresa: Oh, finally looked 'em up, eh?
If I own them, I would have put in more Heero and Relena scenes.
Duo: If I owned them, I would have killed Relena.
However, I do own the new character Misako Otani and the new Gundam DeathHell.
Theresa: (Author) And you can't have her, even if you beg.
With that done, on to the story!
Duo: *Braces himself*
Wait, I forgot something.
Duo: Aww, jeez, you got me all worked up for nothing!
I have included a glossary at the end on every Japanese word I have used, if any.
Theresa: (Author) I also have a glossery of all the Japanese words I didn't use.
Finally, on to the story!!!
Duo: Wait! I wasn't ready!
Chapter 3: Dealing With the Past
Theresa: While suffering through the present.
By Silver Wing
What happened? Where am I? Misako thought to herself as she fought to regain consciousness.
Duo: (Misako) And why am I surrounded by fuzzy little sheep?
She could feel the impatient sunlight tapping on her face and the cool breeze blow across her skin where it's exposed.
Theresa: (Sunlight) All right, time to wake up. No sleeping allowed on my watch!
It must be morning.
Duo: You could tell because the sun was out.
I wonder how long I have been out. Misako opened her eyes slowly, then shut it again from the bright sunlight that had invaded the room.
Theresa: (Sunlight) BWA haha! I have successfully inflitrated the Gundam Pilot's safehouse! Prepare to be invaded!
Too bright! The Chinese youth opened her eyes again, this time she turned her head away from the bright sun light instead of shut her eyes again, which wasn't such a good idea for it give her a terrible headache.
Duo: Aww, boo hoo. Her existance gives me a headache.
Pulse the pain from her wounds; it was unbearable, even for her.
Theresa: Since, you know, robots weren't supposed to feel pain and all...
Ignoring the pain, Misako carefully viewed her surroundings.
Duo: (gushing) Oh, she's such a brave girl, she's ignoring the pain!
She is currently lying on a bed in a rather small, but familiar room.
Theresa: (Misako) How dare this small room be familliar! I demand a large familliar room!
The room didn't have much furniture.
Duo: Just the cot she was laying on, a small stool and a chamber pot.
An well-organized desk by the open window, a nightstand to the left of the bed in which she was laying on. A small digital clock, which showed 10:42am, was placed on top of it.
Theresa: (Misako) What is the meaning of life?
A closet in the farther corner
Duo: As opposed to the nearer corner
of the room, plus a chair in front of the said desk
Theresa: "Said"? Is that like...a color?
and one at same side of the bed as the nightstand was all the room contained.
Duo: That's actually quite a bit.
This room looks like the one that I had in Quatre's mansion, except for the chair by the bed.
Theresa: Ooh, she's a quick one.
Upon closer inspection, Misako open her eyes wide in realization.
Duo: (Misako) Oh GOD! I'm a Mary-Sue!
It is my room! How did I get here? What had happened? As if on cue,
Theresa: Heero pressed the little red button that was wired to set off the small bomb located under Misako's bed.
the event of the previous night rushed back into Misako's mind like a violent whirlwind.
Duo: Must've been some event.
~ Flashback ~
Theresa: Aww, crap, these things always make me nausous.
Misako ran down the dark corridor that led to the exit, a gun in hand and an important information disk in her short's left pocket.
Duo: In her short's right pocket she had a makeup compact and a crumpled picture of Heero.
Every so often, she would turn and fire behind her,
Theresa: Blindly
to keep the soldiers that are following her at a safe distance.
Duo: (Soldiers) Come back! We just wanted to know if you were up for a game of Yahtzee!
She ran though the base,
Theresa: Fleeing the friendly overtures of her fellow Ozzies
taking what seem to be random turns, but always heading towards the outside of the base.
Duo: Well then, they're not very random, now are they?
She cursed as a wild shot whizzed by her, barely missing her left temple.
Theresa: She had been this close from a peaceful death. *measures a millimeter with her fingers*
Misako had been downloading the last piece of information from the new OZ base's center computer that the Gundam pilots and she needed,
Duo: The new "in" colors for the upcoming season were teal and neon orange.
when she was detected by a solider, whom had the misfortune of been order by the commander of the base to go look for her.
Theresa: (Random Soldier) But I don't wanna go looking for the Mary-Sue!
Although she had managed to annihilate him,
Duo: "Kill" is such an ugly word.
but not before he tapped the alert button on the wall panel.
Theresa: (Random Soldier) Red alert! We have a 'Sue!
She had hurriedly taken the desk and ran down the various corridors
Duo: Carrying the desk on her back as she ran
as she set off numerous of explosives that she had planted earlier.
Theresa: (Misako) La la la~ I'm planting explosives, I hope they grow up to be strong and healthy!
And now, Misako is make her way out of the base while dodging all the bullets that are being aimed at her.
Duo: The desk on her back helped to deflect a great amount of the hostile fire.
When did I become so careless! And I'm supposed to be the Perfect Soldier!
Theresa: No, Heero is the Perfect Soldier. The only reason you haven't been hit by any bullets yet is because the Ozzies have bad aim.
Misako smirked at her own comment as she was near the exit of the base.
Duo: (Misako) Tee hee! I'm ripping off all the Gundam pilots, one by one!
I can just imagine Dr. J's face if he sees me now!
Theresa: Five bucks says he'd be laughing his ass off.
Misako almost laughed at this if not for the current satiation.
Duo: Silly girl, she ate too much pizza at the Ozzie party.
She could hear the soldiers' shouting and ordering behind her.
Theresa: (Soldiers): Plain Ramen for table 2! Oi, don't slice the pork so thick! Table 5 wants dessert!
She couldn't catch anything they are saying in particular.
Duo: Not that it would matter.
Not that she tries to. At least I got what I came here for.
Theresa: The desk she was carrying on her back was a valuable, 18th Century antique that had belonged to her father.
Misako turned and shoot behind her,
Duo: Despite the cumbersome piece of office furniture strapped to her back
smirked as few soldiers fall down on the floor, dead.
Theresa: They had caught sight of her deadly, Medusa-like gaze and promptly expired.
However, her smirk soon disappeared when she turned back, and saw
Duo: A giant spider!
a soldier ran out from one of the corridor left of Misako and started shooting at her.
Theresa: The head! Aim for her head!
"Damnit!" Misako cursed out loud, as she dodged a bullet that was aimed for her stomach.
Duo: What is she, some sort of super-hero? Stop defying the laws of physics and dodging bullets!
However, she didn't move quickly enough.
Theresa: Or in the right direction. Thus, the bullet hit directly between her eyes, and she fell down, dead. The end.
The bullet missed its intended target. Instead, it buried itself into Misako's
Duo: (hopefully) Head?
left side.
Duo: Phooey!
Pain flared to life from her left side as
Theresa: Her kidney exploded.
Misako returned fire instinctively and shot her attacker between the eyes.
Duo: That man will be given a hero's burial...for standing up to the all-powerful 'Sue and actually wounding her.
Stepping over the corpse, Misako exit the base and immediately jumped into the shadows.
Theresa: Yes, that's a nicely vague description.
However, because of her condition, she didn't move fast enough as she ran into the forest near the base.
Duo: Being eight months pregnant with an illigitimate love-child'll do that to a girl.
One of the soldiers that were pursuing her took this opportunity and shot her in the right leg.
Both: *cheer*
Misako didn't even bother to return fire as she disappeared into the depth of the gloomy forest.
Theresa: She's just been shot in the leg, but she still manages to run deeper into the forest.
"What do I do now?" Misako asked no one in particular as she dressed her wounds in the forest that surround the new OZ base,
Theresa: Why not strike up a friendship with a cute, fluffy forest denzien? Every 'Sue needs a fuzzy companion.
while she searched her mind for a plan.
Duo: There wasn't much there - just a big, miserable pile of angst and some miscellanious dust bunnies.
Misako know that if she stays in the forest any long,
Theresa: The hair on her legs would grow back and she'd have no means with which to shave it back off.
the search party would find her, and she would be captured.
Duo: It's like a game!
She doesn't want that.
Theresa: Then what does she want?
Looking up at the night sky, Misako noticed the sky has lost its usual beauty.
Duo: It was now a yellowish-puce color.
Black clouds costume the night sky, disguising it behind its darkness.
Theresa: Oh, good, yellowish-puce is really a frightful color to look at for too long.
"I wonder what time is it?" Misako looked down at her wristwatch, 11:34pm Wednesday AC 195.
Duo: Wow, I wish my wristwatch told me what year it was. I can never remember!
"Shat! I have to report in with the boys today!"
Theresa: (Misako) Quatre'll be angry with me if I don't clean the bathrooms again...
Misako jumped up from the rock she was sitting on only to fall down on to the ground again.
Duo: She had momentarilly forgotten that she was wounded. Fortunately, her body kindly reminded her it was in no condition to go jumping off of rocks.
"Damn those wounds! Damn those franking soldiers! If I ever get my hands on them, I'll ma..."
Theresa: Marry them?
Misako mummer as she stand up from the ground, slowly this time, and started making her way towards the safe house as fast as her body allows her to.
Duo: Which isn't very fast...at all!
The trip was longer then usual because of her wounds,
Theresa: (sarcastically) No, really?
which is getting worse and worse as Misako forced her body to move.
Duo: Why does this have to be a flash-back? It makes me sad to know that she's not going to bleed to death.
The wound on her side and on her leg is blooding very badly, and waves of pain consume her mind with every step she took.
Theresa: I wonder how painful "blooding" really is.
She can feel her strength leaving her, and she feel like she was going to pass out any time now.
Duo: (sarcastically) I'm sure she'll somehow fight through the pain and make it to safety before collapsing.
Got to bring back the information, I just... got to.
Theresa: This is one of those points where I really have to wonder...where does her loyalty come from?
After what seems like eternality, the outline of Quatre's mansion appeared in Misako's line of vision.
Duo: If the safe-house is as far away from the base as it's supposed to be, walking there from the base *should* seem like an eternaty!
Using her remaining strength, Misako made her way up to the front door and ring the bell.
Theresa: After walking for hundreds of miles, leaving a nice trail of blood, she just didn't have the energy to go around to the back like Quatre had asked her to.
Then she leaned on the door and passed out from all the pain she had to endure. The last thought on her mind before she surrounded herself to the darkness was, Mission... accomplished.
Duo: Stop ripping off Heero's lines!! (rages quietly)
~ End of Flashback ~
"Oh yeah." Misako exclaimed at the memory, and then winced as a wave of sharp pain shot up from her side, reminding her of her injuries.
Theresa: She sure forgets that she's wounded easily.
Misako looked at her wounds and realize that someone had already cleaned and bandaged them with extreme care.
Duo: Whoever had done this obviously wanted her to be in perfect condition when they tortured her to death! BWAhahah!
It must be Trowa. Misako thought to herself and made a mental note to thank the European boy later.
Theresa: Jeez, even the 'Sue is slipping in and out of character.
She was in her under cloth, covered by a thin blanket to protect her from the cold.
Duo: (Misako) Oh my gosh! Those perverted boys stripped me out of my clothes! They saw my panties! Eeek!
Her blood stained OZ uniform is neatly folded on the nightstand beside her bed.
Theresa: None of the boys had really felt like trying to wash it.
The Chinese youth struggle to sit up, but fall back again on the bed.
Duo: What does she expect to accomplish by sitting up anyway?
Misako was expecting another sharp pain to shot up from her wounds as she felled hard on to the bed. Instead, a pair of strong hands had caught her just before she hit the bed.
Theresa: I guess Heero was hiding under the bed waiting for her to wake up.
Then she felt being laid down on the bed very genteelly as if the person who's doing this care deeply for her.
Duo: Or maybe they just didn't want to re-open her wounds and get blood on themselves.
Curious, Misako turned her head to see who's the person that had helped her.
Theresa: And snuck into her room without her noticing.
What greeted her were a pair of violet-blue orbs that stared into her own cold black ones,
Duo: Holy crap, what am I doing in there!?
and a handsome young face full of concern and something else that Misako couldn't make out. "Duo!?"
Theresa: (Duo) That's Shinigami to you, young woman.
"Yea, it's me. And I don't think what you were trying to do would be a good idea." Duo said as he laid the DeathHell pilot down on the bed genteelly, fearing that the wounds would reopen if he wasn't careful.
Duo: I mean, I didn't want her to bleed all over me, or something.
Duo was walking into the room to check on Misako with a cup of water,
Duo: Which he had been planning to splash in her face as a sort of light-hearted prank
when he saw her tried to sit up and failed, falling back on to the bed. He had rush to her side in an instant and caught her just before she felled hard on her back.
Theresa: Well, that explains how you got in the room, though how you did it without her noticing I'll never know.
"You were hart pretty bad. You need to rest if you want your wounds to heal."
Duo: So we can kill you when you're in perfect health.
"Who asked for your opinion? And what do you care?" Misako reply in her usual cold tone,
Theresa: This from the girl who was making a mental note to thank Trowa for dressing her wounds. I wish she'd pick a character and stay with it.
shaking Duo's hands off her forcefully, and giving Duo an annoying glare.
Duo: Damn, I hate it when people glare at me annoyingly.
Then she trying to sit up again, but failed, again.
Theresa: Haha, Looooser!
"Because you are a valuable ally." Duo said, speaking half the truth as he watched worriedly at Misako as she tried to sit up again, but failed.
Theresa: He didn't want her to kill herself before he could do it for her.
"And I...I...sort of like...y...Will you stop trying to sit up! Your wounds will reopen if you don't!"
Theresa: *stares in horror* You're confessing your love to her.
"No." Misako said simply, then trying to sit up, again and again. After some effort, she successfully sat up on the bed and lent back on the head broad, tired out.
Theresa: "Head Broad"? So did they hire a nurse or something?
Duo shook his head at Misako's display of stubbornness, and sighed in pure frustration.
Duo: Why didn't she just *die*?
"Stubborn as ever." Exclaimed Duo more to himself then to the girl in front of him. Then he handed Misako a cup of water,
Theresa: Which had remained miraculously unspilled throughout the entire ordeal
then sat down on the chair beside her bed, his eyes never leaving the wounded girl.
Duo: Just in case she, you know, decided to oblige and die on her own.
He sat there in the chair, unmoving, slouching forward with his elbows braced against his knees, chin propped over laced fingers. It was an ungainly, graceless pose, but he wasn't interested in how he appeared.
Theresa: O_o That...is the first well-written set of discriptions I have seen thus far.
Instead, his eyes trained themselves on the silent girl on the bed who looked like an angle in his eyes.
Duo: An obtuse angle.
An angle of Hell to be exact.
Theresa: Well, duh, all angles are from hell...as is all geometry.
A small smile can be seen visible on Duo's tender, young face as he said that to himself mentally.
Duo: I speak to myself mentally.
She looks so cute when she's helpless!
Theresa: Helpless and in her panties! Mwahahah!
Arrg! Duo, What's with you and unemotional people? First Heero, then Trowa, then Wufei!
Theresa: Wufei has emotions!
Now, this....this....GIRL! And to think you are begin to falling for her!
Theresa: Uh, oh...this isn't looking good for you now, Duo. Heero's already established a platonic love for this 'Sue...
Duo, you ARE hopeless! A small voice said in the back of Duo's head,
Theresa: He can hear us!
but Duo merely ignored it, and continued to watch the Chinese pilot.
Theresa: *sighs* We're just no competition for the vision of perfection that is the 'Sue.
Putting down the now empty cup on the nightstand, Misako turned her head to face Duo.
Theresa: (Misako) What was that crap? I demand only the finest purified, bottled water!
She could feel his gaze on her and it's starting to make her feel very uncomfortable.
Duo: She is only in her panties, after all.
"What are you staring at?" Misako hissed, inquiring of Duo, eyeing him suspiciously.
Theresa: (Duo) your panties...duh.
"You. And how innocent you look in your under cloth." Duo said jokingly, a hint of teasing in his voice, while he examined Misako from head to toe, admiring her well-built body.
Duo: It would be so much fun to torture later on...
Then grinned as a faint blush spread across the female pilot's tender cheeks.
Theresa: (leers) which ones?
"Asshole!" Yelled Misako as she garbed the blankets to cover herself up, defensively. This made Duo's grin become wider, if possible.
Theresa: She didn't realize that she'd flashed him in her violent effort to cover herself up.
"Now, now. It's not good for you to yell in your delicate condition. You should save all of your strength." Duo said in a mocking tone.
Duo: Now that sounds more like me!
"Just what are in you implying?" Misako said in a dangerous tone, staring at duo with a killer look in her eyes, her left hand reaching under the pillow for something.
Theresa: If he didn't lay off, she was going to whap him with her diary!
This caused Duo to think twice before he smart-mouthed back.
Duo: What if the diary was frilly and pink?
"Nothing...eh, eh....nothing at all." Duo answered, smiling innocently, too innocent.
Theresa: There's no such thing as too innocent.
Just as Duo expected, Misako didn't believe him, but she dismissed it nevertheless after a few unpleasant moments, much to Duo's relief.
Duo: Being beaned in the head with a frilly pink diary would've been incredibly embarassing.
"So.....I guess I should leave you to rest. Yell if you need anything." Duo said standing up from the chair, then added. "I'm sure that won't prove to be a problem for you."
Theresa: I am duely impressed with the correct characterization of Duo at this point in the story.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY!?" Misako sniped at Duo, the killer look resumed in her tense black eyes.
Duo: If only she weren't so scantily clad, she would leap from the bed and give him what-for!
"Oh, nothing!" Duo said, laughing nervously, stepping away from the bed.
Theresa: He didn't want to be within smacking-range when she discovered the rubber snake he'd placed under her pillow.
"Nothing at all! Now I should be going. So, sayonara (1)!" The America pilot said in one quick breath, picking up the now empty cup from the nightstand, and nearly ran out of the room, closing the door behind him. .
Duo: And locking it, so that she can't escape when the crocodile beneath her bed awakes from its nap.
"Longhaired baka (2)!" Misako growled as she watch the Deathscythe Hell pilot backed out the door and closed it behind him.
Theresa: When did Deathscythe get upgraded?
Then a wave of sleepiness and tiredness seized her.
Duo: (sleepiness) Ahahah! I have you now!
Maybe I should get some rest like Duo said. Then she thought of the male pilot. That bustard!
Theresa and Duo: *bust up laughing*
I'll deal with him tomorrow. Letting go a yawn, Misako drift into a restless sleep.
Theresa: Little does she realize that she won't be alive tomorrow...dot dot dot
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
That was close! Duo thought to himself as he walk down the stairs led to the kitchen.
Duo: She almost had me falling for her!
Note to self: Never, EVER
Theresa: (Duo) Make fun of the 'Sue. She'll get angry and beat you up.
piss Misako off when she's injured.
Duo: Actually, that's the perfect time to piss her off. She can't attack you if she's bed-ridden.
Duo walked into the small kitchen and ginned at the display in front of him.
Theresa: (hopefully) Trowa and Quatre necking?
"Aren't we a noiseless crowed today!" Duo said in his usual cheerfully tone, popping into one of the chairs by the round kitchen table, flashing his famous grin.
Theresa: What were you expecting? Those boys never talk.
In the small kitchen of Quatre's mansion,
Duo: The mansion was also small; more like a house, really, but Quatre can't own anything as common as a house
the five gundam pilots were sitting around the round dinner table, all engrossed in their own litter world.
Theresa: Trowa's Litter World was full of the kind of debris you find after a circus performance, Wufei's Litter World was a bunch of empty Chinese take-out boxes, Quatre's Litter World was...
Heero was typing furiously on the laptop in front of him, as usual.
Duo: He'd be typing furiousy on a laptop that was behind him too, just for the record.
Wufei was sitting on the opposite side of the table, facing the Perfect Soldier.
Theresa: Stareing at him and thinking, "Why is *he* the Perfect Soldier? I do all the work around here.
He's currently reading some Chinese book on battle tactics.
Duo: Actually, that's just what the cover jacket said. It was really just an old, dirty hentai manga I'd loaned him.
Quatre and Trowa were sitting next to each other
Theresa: (hopefully) Necking?
with the blue paint of the new OZ base sprat out on the kitchen table.
Duo: (Quatre) With the secrets contained within this paint, we can determine how long it will take the soldiers in the base to die from lead poisoning!
They seem to be discussing a plan on how to destroy the base successfully.
Theresa: (Trowa) ...
The four pilots were temporally pull out from their concentration when Duo had entered rather noisily.
Duo: Because even though I'm a ninja, I'm the loudest damn ninja you'll ever meet.
"Hey! Aren’t I gotten get a 'Hello',or 'Good-morning'?" Ranted Duo
Theresa: (Duo) Or a "Go to hell, Duo!" or a "Learn some grammar, Duo?"
as he walked to the kitchen conter, and poured himself a cup of strong, black coffee.
Duo: As opposed to a cup of strong, white coffee.
"Good-morning, Duo." Said Quatre with a smile as he
Theresa: Came up for air.
stood up from his chair, and walked to the coffee machine to get a cup of coffee himself.
Duo: Here, you can have mine. It's white.
Trowa merely nodded in acknowledgment of Duo's presence while his face remained blank.
Theresa: Oh no! Someone's stolen Trowa's face!
Wufei took off his glasses and looked up from his book for a moment to look at the American pilot, then went back to read again.
Duo: His attention cannot be diverted from the hentai manga.
When all of this was going on, Heero stayed indifferent.
Theresa: Quatre's gotten up for some coffee, and both Trowa and Wufei have looked up momentarily. Wow, but that Heero sure can concentrate!
Still typing away furiously at his laptop, ignoring Duo's presence. .
Duo: I demand that my presence be acknowldeged!
"Hey, Mr. Perfect Soldier! Are’t you going to say 'Good-morning' to your friend?" Duo yelled, a bit annoyed by the Japanese youth's ignorance. .
Theresa: (Duo) We've known eachother for how long and you still refuse to learn English?
"Hmm." Heero humped in response.
Theresa: *spasms*
Didn't even bather to look up from his computer. .
Theresa: That's because he's not done getting it on!!
"Well, good-morning to you too." Duo said annoyingly.
Duo (around a mouthful of M&M's) When do I ever speak "annoyingly"?
Some times, he just wants to take that boy's laptop, and hit the Wing pilot with it. .
Duo: So I'm ruining a child's computer *and* hitting Heero! It's like a buy one, get one free sale!
"So, Duo, how’s Misako doing?" Quatre asked, trying to brake the tension in the room. .
Duo: Oh, well, you know. She tried to hit me with her diary, but I was too quick for her!
"Well, if you call being shoot twice as fine. But she’s doing alright. After all, She is a gundam pilot." Duo said in his happy-go-luck tone as he sipped his coffee. .
Duo: Why are there two periods at the end of each sentence when just one would suffice?
"I do have to admit. She is pretty strong for a woman." Wufei admitted, closing the book he was reading. .
Duo: Welcome to the department of redundancy department.
"Wow! Mr. Women-hater actually didn’t call a woman weak for once." Duo uttered in mocking astonishment.
Duo: (To Theresa) Are you quite done?>
" Too bad Misako isn't here to hear this. Hey, Heero. Aren't you going to say something?" .
Theresa: (wiping tears of perverted mirth from her eyes) Or give all those poor extra periods a good home.
"No." Heero replied simply, never looking from his work, or whatever he was typing away on his laptop. .
Duo: Haha, tricked you, I made you say something!
"Jeez, if I didn’t know better, Heero, I would have thought that you and Misako were related or something." Duo said jokingly with a devilish grin plastered across his face.
Theresa: (Duo) Get this grin off my face! I can't breathe!
However, the grin soon disappeared as Heero looked up from this laptop for the first time all morning, and glared the cheerful pilot with a killer look in his eyes. .
Duo: (Heero) Omae o Korosu.
"App! Just forget that I ever said that, Heero." Duo said nervously, trying to avoid Heero’s death glare.
Theresa: I'm confused as to why that made Heero angry.
To get of the topic, Duo turned his attention back to Quatre. "So, what have you and Trowa been up to? Got a plan ready yet? Mind telling us?" .
Theresa: (Trowa)...
Quatre took his time to look at Trowa for permission, then declared the plan after Trowa had given him a nod.
Theresa: Well well well, now we see who the uke is in this relationship! Hey! What happened to my M&M's?
"From the information that Misako had provided for us, me and Trowa had been able to create a plan, as you can see before Duo here interrupted us." Quatre said given Duo a look.
Theresa: (Quatre) Here, Duo, have a look.
"Hey! It’s not my fault! Stop looking at me like that!" Duo yelled, looking at each of the gundam pilots, especially Quatre.
Theresa: I'm sure they were right here...(is still searching for her missing M&M's)
Ignoring the Deathscythe Hell pilot’s comment, Trowa continued where Quatre left off. "The plan goes like this." Trowa refer to the blue paint on the kitchen table
Duo: What the crap!? Get that paint off the table before it stains the wood!
as the other four pilots gathered around, even Heero.
Theresa: I would think that "even Heero" was a given if "the other four pilots gathered around".
"Wufei and Duo will be the decoy, while Heero and Misako goes into the cen....................."
Theresa: Hey, Duo, what's 2x5?
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Misako walked silently down the crowed streets by herself, oblivious of what goes on around her.
Duo: She's magically healed from two bullet wounds and is now in the process of getting lost.
From time to time, she would pause, and lift her head up to look at one of the pasting family, carefree and happy.
Theresa: Then she would kill them.
She envies them, envies their happiness, their ignorance of the meaningful, yet meaningless war, envies their freedom.
Duo: Hey, no one's forcing you to pilot that rip-off Gundam.
Then she would continue on walking. Where to? She didn't know, nor does she care.
Theresa: Where did the tense go? I didn't know, nor do I care.
Misako found herself once again engulfed in the memories of the past as she walked on.
Duo: Particurlarly painful were her memories of the 'Sue Robot assembly line.
No matter how hard she tried to forget them, they would always come back to hunt her.
Theresa: With knives.
The childhood that she never had,
Duo: Boo hoo. I didn't have a great childhood either. Get over it.
the people that she killed,
Theresa: But that's okay, because they were in the opposing army.
the now dead childhood friend of hers, and, of course, her adopted father, and the father that she never knew.
Duo: (Misako) Oh, woe is me! Pity me, for I angst!
To her, her life was, and still is, as meaningless as the ongoing war.
Theresa: So she decided to end it, by jumping off a bridge.
She never had a choice in her life. Almost every decision was made for her, from the arranged marriage with some boy who she, fortunately, never got the chance of being married to.
Theresa: She also bemoaned the fact that she'd never had the opportunity to attend grammar school.
To being trained as a perfect soldier for OZ starting at the age of 10.
Duo: I thought it had started before that...
The only decision that Misako ever made for herself was becoming a gundam pilot.
Duo: (Misako, pushing the intended pilot out of the way) No way can you pilot this! I want to!
Even after that, Dr. J had taken up the responsibility of making decisions for her.
Theresa: Right down to the brand of underwear she purchased.
Misako was so engrossed in her own thoughts that she didn't even notice that her surroundings had changed from the crowed city to a battlefield.
Duo: (Misako, skipping merrily) La de da, I'm so oblivious I walk right into large areas filled with leathal, deadly combat!
It was only when she looked up did she realize that she's in an OZ base,
Theresa: No, she's in a battle field! Make up your mind!
looking out on to the battlefield though a glass window.
Duo: How did she get inside? She was wandering around outside before...
The sight that greeted her was no less then shocking. On the battle field two mobile suites were fighting each other, furiously. One's a Leo, which she instantly recognized as her dead adopted fathers.
Theresa: It had been painted pink to discern it from the real Leos.
The other was a Gundam.
Duo: Five cents says it's her Gundam.
Her gundam to be more precise.
Duo: Woo hoo! Called it!
Misako closed her eyes and shook her head, trying to clear her mind.
Theresa: Shouldn't be too difficult, as all she's got in that head of hers is a few dust bunnies and bits of fluff.
However, when she opened them again, she found herself inside the cockpit of her gundam, the one that's fight with her dead adopted fathers Leo.
Duo: They'd been having an argument about who got to have the remote control for the TV.
As the Gundam dive forward with its double-sided beam suber at the Leo,
Theresa: (Misako) Myahahah! Fear the small Japanese automobile!
Misako's mind screamed out for her to stop, but some how, her arms and legs wouldn't obey her commend,and the deadly weapon imbedded itself into the Leo, destroying it.
Duo: Hey, it was kill or be killed. And now she can always have the remote.
All the while, Misako sat in her gundam, feeling vulnerable and helpless.
Theresa: Despite the fact that she's surrounded by several tons of Gundanium.
Misako jumped out off her Gundams cockpit and
Duo: fell to her death.
run to the now ruined Leo. She knee down in front of her adopted father's dying body,
Theresa: Which had miraclulously survived the explosion that always happens when Leos have large holes jammed into them.
and hold it close to her, letting a single tear slid down her cheek.
Duo: (Misako) All of you other tears stay put, I don't want my eyes to get all puffy.
When she looked down at her adopted father's face, she noticed that he was mouthing something to her.
Theresa: (Misako's Dad) Don't mind the smell, I just farted.
Unfortunately for Misako, she can read lips, and what her father was saying made her mind screamed again.
Duo: How sad, one of her many fantastic skills is now making her unhappy.
"Misako, you did this to me. You are the one who had killed me because you didn’t save me. It’s all your fault." Her adopted father had said before dying in her arms.
Theresa: He couldn't have loved her very much if he blamed her for killing him when he'd also been activaly participating in the fight.
Misako got up on her feet, backing away from the dead body as she shook head nonstop.
Theresa: (Misako) No I didn't! I did not kill you!
An unbelieving expression across her beautiful features. "No. No! NO! THAT’S NOT TRUE!" Misako shouted at her adopted father's corpse.
Duo: Because dead corpses can hear when they're being shouted at.
However, her father’s dying words ringed in Misako’s mind, driving her mad.
Theresa: Then she ran into the nearby plot-hole induced forest and was eaten by a bear.
She clipped her hands to her ear to keep the voices out of her mind as she sink down onto her knees again, shutting her eyes tight.
Theresa: (Misako) If I can't see and hear, the voices in my mind will go away!
"That’s not true. That’s not true." Misako repeated the sentence over, and over again as she rocked back and forth.
Theresa: (Voices) Yesss...Cable TV now costs $50 a month!
Letting the tears steam down her face like an endless river, forming a small pool of water on the ground around her knees.
Theresa: Eventually the puddle became deep enough for her to drown herself in. The end.
When Misako looked up again, she found herself no longer in the battlefield, but among the ruins of the L1 colony after the massacre.
Duo: There was no L1 colony massacre.
Wiping away the tears, Misako got up again and headed down the ruined streets.
Theresa: Twenty cents says she sees Heero and the Litter Girl romping in the stinging grass.
She didn't know where she’s headed, but she decided to go wherever her emotions take her.
Duo: First she had no emotions. Now she does. I'm so confused.
After walking for some time, Misako stopped in front of a caved in house.
Theresa: It looked just like all the other caved in houses on the block.
Half of its ceiling had already falling in. Although the house lay in ruins, Misako still recognized it.
Duo: Santa's house!
It's Odin's house.
Theresa: Nooo...Not Odin.
I wonder why my emotions took me here?
Duo: Her emotions are like small dogs that yap happily and lead her to and fro.
Misako asked herself as she walked into the building carefully.
Theresa: Duh. They want you dead at least as badly as we do.
Stepping over bits of rocks that had falling from the roof and dead bodies lying on the floor.
Duo: Because Odin lived in a stone house with a large number of people.
Misako made her way into a small, massed up bedroom. As she entered the room, Misako let out a small gasp at the sight.
Theresa: (Misako) They killed Santa!
There, on the floor near the bed, laid a boy about the age of 6 with brown hair and cobalt blue eyes in a pool of chrism red.
Duo: (Misako) Damn brat, what have I told you about painting in here? I'm never going to be able to get that stain out of the rug!
Blood, his blood. The boy's head was bleeding badly and there was numerous deep cut on his arms and legs.
Theresa: Which he had painted on himself to fool her.
"Odin!" Misako gasped, rushing to the boy's side in an instantly, and checked for a pulse.
Duo:...
A wave of relief washed over her as she found one, though it was very weak.
Duo: (Misako, to the pulse) You're weak! You have no right to fight!
Picked up the fragile body carefully as not to make the injures worse,
Theresa: Too late, there goes his spine.
Misako walked out of the house. She had already decided to take the boy to the nearby hospital for medical treatment so he could heal.
Duo: As opposed to medical treatment so he could die, I guess.
However, when Misako got out of the house, five-OZ soldiers immediately surrounded her.
Duo: (OZ soldier) You are under arrest for the incorrect use of a hyphen.
She tried to escape, but one of the soldier's hand shot out and grabbed her left arm in a dead grip,forcing her to halt in the middle of her step.
Theresa: (OZ soldier) We are here to execute you on the grounds of your being a Mary Sue.
Usually, Misako would just use her hands and snap those soldiers’ necks in two, but now, with Odin in her arms, it's just not possible.
Theresa: Damn you, Odin, for preventing the 'Sue from using her unbeatable combat powers!
"We are here for that boy in your arms." One of the soldiers said, looking at Misako face with an evil grin on his face.
Duo: (OZ Soldier) Hi, I'm affiliated with OZ, therefore I am evil.
"So hand him over, or else...." The second soldier demanded, taken a step closer to Misako with the same grin on his face.
Theresa: (Soldier 1) Hey, that's my grin! You stole it!
"Over my dead body!" Misako growled, backing away from the approaching soldiers, tightening her hold on Odin, narrowing her eyes dangerously.
Duo: Didn't one of the soldiers have a "dead grip" on her arm? Rendering movement impossible?
"Fine then. Be that way. You are asking for it." The third solider said, already standing in his fighting stance. The four other soldiers followed.
Theresa: Then they all concentrated their chi and transformed into Super-Sayians!
Then they all attacked Misako at once.
Duo: (Whiney child's voice) Hey, five against one's not fair!
Misako counter attacked them with mostly her feet and legs, avoiding most of the punches and kicks.
Theresa: But not all of them. I hope she gets punched in the face.
After much struggle, although Misako had mange to bet three out of five soldiers to the extent where they can't even get up from the ground.
Duo: (Sarcastically) Wow, I sure didn't expect that to happen.
However, she was pretty bet up too. There were small bruises and cuts on her face, arms, and legs.
Theresa: But nothing life-threatening. Keep fighting!
But the boy in her arms stayed unharmed during the whole fight.
Duo: Except for his pre-existing injuries, of course.
Tiredly, Misako fought on with what's left of her strength.
Duo: (Sarcastically) Oh, she's so brave.
Just then, one of the soldier took out his gun and shot Misako in the leg.
Theresa: Now that's just plain mean. But effective.
This caused Misako to lose her balance and dropped Odin. As she falls hard on to the ground, Odin slipped from her firm grip and landed a few feet away from her.
Duo: Couldn't've been that firm if he flew several feet away.
"Now look what you have made me do." The solider that had shot Misako said mockingly as he walked toward Misako.
Theresa: (Soldier) You made me make you drop that innocent boy! How could you?
When he was only a few steps away her, he bend down, and tilted her chine up with a finger, and said. "Now I have to kill him in front of you. If you have given him to us peacefully, we would have spared you the pain of watching him die."
Duo: So...confused...why do they want to kill a small child?
"YOU FRANKING BASTEREDS!" Misako shouted in the soldier’s face as she lunged toward him, but failed as the other solider that’s standing beside this one garbed both of her arms in a dead grip, and pulled her back.
Theresa: I love how she censors herself, and then mis-spells the bad words she intends to use.
The solider that had bend down in front of Misako smiled wickedly as he stood up and walked more closer to Misako, running his index finger down the side of her face and along her jaw.
Duo: So is he going to eat her or rape her?
" Now watch carefully, this is a moment that you will never forget. I promise." The soldier said, aiming his gun to the boy on the ground, and fired.
Theresa: It's uncool to kill a man when he's down.
"ODIN!!"
Theresa: (Misako) You bastard, you owe me twenty bucks!
Misako gaped awake, her body jerking up only to fall back down on to the bed because of her injures.
Duo: Oh, I get it now! It was all a horrible, horrible dream!
Absentmindedly, Misako’s left hand flow to the base of her neck and grabbed the golden cross necklace that she always had on as her mind repeating the name of the boy in her nightmare.
Theresa: I love how she now randomly has a cross that she *always* wears.
"Odin, why do you always come back to hunt me?" Misako asked her already dead childhood friend.
Duo: (Odin) Because you didn't protect me, you stupid Suuuue!
"Odin Lowe Jr., answer me!"
Theresa: He can't, silly, he's dead!
Misako shouted to the air around her. No one answered though, only silence and darkness greeted her in response.
Duo: (Silence) Hello there, lovely weather today, eh?
Staring up at the ceiling, Misako asked the question over and over again in her mind as she drifted off into a dreamless sleep, her hand still holding on to the cross.
Theresa: And her secret is revealed...She's scared of Vampires!
To be continued.............
Duo: Please tell me that's just some sort of cruel joke.
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1. Sayonara: Good-bye.
Theresa: Good bye sanity after having read this.
2. Baka: Stupid, idiot.
Duo: Fool, ass-hole, moron, half-wit...
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Author's note: I'm SO sorry that this chapter came out so late. But with the end of school and all, I was just so busy.
Theresa: (Author) Busy skipping class!
I would like to thank the following people for review my story. You guys have no idea how much you helped. Thank you so very much! Demo arigatuo!
Theresa: *winces* Please honey, if you can't spell your own language properly, don't mangle other languages as well.
Pixie Wing: As to if you are right about Misako being Heero's childhood friend and all, I think this chapter answers some of your question. If not, wait for the next chapter! I'm bad, am I? *laughs evilly in the background.*
Duo: (Author, laughing shrilly) Mwehehehehehe!
Jadet: Thank you for review! I would have write more, but you didn't write anything, so......
Theresa: (author) You silly!
Heero_Yuyz: Thank you for reviewing!
Calla Bridgestone: Misako being the girl in Heero's dreams? Will, read on and you'll find out!!! Ha! Ha!
Duo: (author) I'm so clever and witty.
Lily Sonia Dragonheart and Silky: Thank you for reviewing! Hope you'll do it for this chapter too!
Both: AAAAUUUGGGHHHhhhhh!
Raven: I'm sorry that I haven't Email you for so long. It's just that I'm so busy with school,
Theresa: skipping school, you mean.
and this chapter and all. Sorry! And thank you for reviewing.
This is a thanks to some one who didn't leave their name, you know who you are.
Duo: Or do they?
So, here are my thanks, and please put your name down next time, so I can thank you by title.
Theresa: My title is Gundamkiwi: Mistress of the Kiwi Birds and Keeper of Many Things Bishounen. Think you can remember all of that?
I guess that's all my thank notes. I'll have chapter four up as fast as I can. So, until then, keep on reviewing!!!! Yea!!!!
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Duo: How much longer does this last?
Author's notes: So, so sorry that this had came out so very late. I have no exacuse, so forgive me?
Duo: Actually, we'd be more inclined to forgiveness if this had never come out!
Please! Don't make me beg!
Theresa: Hey, you're the one who's begging. We're just sitting here.
Chapter 4: The Plan in the making
Duo: Plan for Torture.
By Silver Wing
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"But Trowa, the central computer is bound to be heavily guarded.
Duo: And they'll probably have locks on the doors leading to it!
Sending only Heero and Misako just isn’t going to be enough!" Duo argued, shouting in the 04 pilot’s face.
Theresa: Because Quatre couldn't hear him if he was talking normally.
"Besides Misako has only woke up the morning, she is in no condition to fight!"
Duo: (Quatre) Duo, weren't you listening? The whole point of this plan is to kill Misako!
Ever since Misako had returned barely a life four nights ago, the pilots, with the exception of the injured pilot,
Theresa: Who else is injured?
had been trying to form a battle plan in relations to the new OZ base with little to no success. Mainly because Duo would always start a meaningless argument whenever Misako is involved.
Duo: I keep telling you, the more dangerous stuff we let her do, the more likely it is she'll be killed! It's a fool-proof plan!
Like right now.
"Then what do you suggest, Duo?" Trowa inquired calmly.
Duo: Let's just send her out by herself.
"We could wait until Misako is well enough to fight again." Duo said.
Theresa: That could take days. She's sure to heal up before too much longer.
"No. That wouldn’t do." Heero said coolly. "From the information that Misako has provided us, that base harbors a large number of Mobile Dolls, it must be destroyed ASAP. We are already four days behind schedule as it is. We cannot afford to waste any more time."
Duo: I'm not sure whether it's laughable or sad that the guys can't concieve of a plan that somehow doesn't include Misako.
"Then I suggest that we don’t make her a part of the plan at all. I would gladly take her place." Duo said stubbornly.
Theresa: Oh, hey, there we go! Duo Maxwell, the voice of reason!
"There’s NO way I’m letting her in a battlefield in that condition! She just regained consciousness this morning, for crying out loud!"
Duo: The thing that irritates me the most about this particular story is that there is no character development to speak of, and no explination of my sudden infatuation with this dratted 'Sue.
"That’s not going to work either." Trowa said after doing some thinking. "You are needed outside with Wufei to act as decoys.
Theresa: (grinning) Yess...."Decoys"...
And before you ask, none of us can fill in for Misako. Quatre and I are responsible for planting bombs though out the base, while that only leaves Heero, who’s responsibility is to hack into the central computer to download any needed date before we annihilate the base.
Duo: Actually, Heero could pull this entire mission off by himself.
Although he could manage very well on his own, however, as you have pointed out earlier, the central computer is bound to be under heavy guard.
Theresa: (Trowa) So...he could manage very well on his own. Hey, why do we need Misako again?
If Heero is on his own, it will take him a valuable amount of time. And time is something that we don’t have right now. But with Misako with him, it would be much easier.
Duo: She could distract them by pretending to be a sleazy hooker.
One of them would deal with the guards while the other hacks into the central computer and downloads any needed information."
Theresa: Yes, the sleazy hooker idea just might work!
"But Misako can’t fight with two unhealed gun wounds! She could die!" Duo shouted, concern flashing in his violet eyes.
Duo: I don't want some random soldier to kill her...I want to do that personally.
His eyes pleaded as he stared at Trowa, but seeing that the 04 pilot was not going to change his decision, he turned to Quatre for help and support. "You agree with me, don’t you, Quatre?"
Duo: She deserves to be killed by one of us! It's our right as the upstaged main characters!
"Look Duo, I’m sure Misako-san (1) would be alright. She is a gundam pilot after all.
Theresa: A fake Gundam pilot.
Duo, don’t worry too much." Quatre said kindly to Duo as he got up to get his forth cup of black coffee.
"But Quatre…."
Duo: (whining) I wanna kill her nooooww....
"I’ll be fine."
Duo was cut off by an icy monotone, literally, before he could finish.
Theresa: Heero?
As he and the other pilots turned around, they found the subject of their discussion, the one and only Misako Otain,
Duo and Theresa both snicker
leaning on the doorframe, dressed in navy blue shorts and a black tank top, staring at them, her eyes and face expressionless.
Theresa: (Wufei) Hey! Those are my shorts!
"Daigoubu desuka, Misako?" Quatre asked, deeply concerned about Misako’s health.
Duo: "Daigoubu"?
"Daigoubu (2)." Misako answered, though her voice remained indifferent, her once expressionless eyes held a slight sign of gratitude but it quickly disappeared.
Theresa: Robots don't feel gratitude.
"And I’ll be fine. Include me in the mission, Trowa."
Duo: Because we were going to anyway.
"Like hell you are! What about your wounds!?" Duo yelled before the Heavearm's pilot can give an answer. "They are bad enough as it is! And what if yo…."
Theresa: Duo, stop yelling. You're giving me a headache.
"DUO!!" Misako yelled to get Duo to stop ranting and listen to her.
Theresa: Silly girl, yelling at the boy won't shut him up, it'll only egg him on!
Then winced as it caused a sharp pain at her side.
Duo: Her wound had re-opened and she proceeded to quickly bleed to death.
In an instant, Duo was by her side, helping her into a chair.
Theresa: (Duo) For the love of Shinigami, woman, don't bleed on the carpet!
She would have smiled if not for the pain, and for her reputation.
Duo: Ah, yes, it wouldn't do to let the guys think she was human too.
During the short time that she had come to known the 02 pilot, she had come to the conclusion that the always cheerful pilot was an interesting person.
Theresa: Short time? She's been living with them for months!
She just couldn’t figure out how he could be so light-hearted all the time no matter what situation he’s in.
Duo: Blame it on my astounding charisma.
And it amused her.
Theresa: But not for long.
When she first met him, she thought of him as nothing but an annoyance, however, as time passed by, she
Duo: Continued to think of him as an annoyance.
began to welcome his presence.
Theresa: Because he was bribing her with peanut M&M's. Speaking of which...
At the same time, she began to feel a longing that she had not since she met Dr. J and started training with him as a gundam pilot.
Duo: Eeew, she had a thing for Dr. J!
A longing, which she did not and still, doesn’t understand, whenever the Deathscythe pilot is near.
Theresa: A longing...for death! Dun dun dun!
A longing to hold him and never let go, to touch him, to kiss him.
Duo: Suddenly, all her pent-up emotions burst forth and she exploded!
However, she would always push that feeling away as if it never existed, and distant herself from the said pilot even more so then usual.
Theresa: (Misako) Must...remember...reputation...
It was a feeling, an emotion, a distraction.
Duo: Robots don't have emotions.
It was something that she didn't need.
Theresa: Damn straight.
And being the Perfect Solider as she is, she couldn’t allow it.
Duo: There is only one perfect soldier, and that soldier has a Y chromosome.
A distraction means an opening for mistakes, and she couldn’t afford that.
Theresa: She didn't have enough money.
One little mistake during a mission could mean her life.
Duo: But that's a good thing!
But now, seeing so much concern and worry in the 02 pilot's beautiful eyes made her want to reassure him somehow that she’s all right.
Theresa: She'll never be allright. She's a 'Sue.
And before knowing what she’s doing, the Chinese girl did something that she hasn’t done in years.
Duo: She farted.
She gave a little smile.
Theresa: (Misako) Here, have a smile. It's not very big.
Then it turned into a smirk when she saw all the surprised looks on all the pilots’ faces, including Heero’s, although it disappeared just as quick.
Duo: Like a flash of lightning, the expresion returned to the nether-realms from whence it came!
"Are you sure you are alright, Misako?" Duo asked, after getting over the initial shock that the silent girl actually
Theresa: Farted.
smiled, no matter how small it is. And at him too. That thought put a smile on his own face.
Duo: (to himself, deviously) Now the fun really begins!
"Yes, I’m fine." Misako answered her impressive mask slipped back in place.
Theresa: (Misako) I'm perfectly alright. See? All my wounds have miraculously healed!
"Trowa." Looked over at the gundam Heavyarm’s pilot, her face determined and serious.
Duo: (Misako) Those pants are way too tight on you.
"Put me in the plan, I’ll be ready."
Theresa: (Misako) I'm getting better!
This time the European pilot nodded in response.
Duo: (Trowa) Yes, these pants are a little small...
"But Misako…"
"No 'buts', Duo." Misako said stubbornly, cutting off Duo yet again. "I’m going, and that’s final. Nothing can stop me, nothing!"
Theresa: (Misako) For I am the omnipotent, plot-stealing Mary-Sue! I know no defeat or fear!
"But…" However, the 02 pilot froze at the death glare was sent his way from the girl sitting in front of him.
Duo: Death glare Dschmeath glare. Heero gives me worse looks all the time.
"Fine, you win." Duo said in defeat after a while, knowing that there’s no point in arguing with the female pilot sitting before him.
Theresa: Because even if they're dead wrong, women are always right!
"But on one condition only."
Theresa: (Duo) You must bring me...a shrubbery!
From the short time that he had come to know Misako, he had learned that if the stubborn girl had set her mind on something, there's absolutely NOTHING that can stop her from accomplishing it.
Duo: Short of chaining her to a post as a live sacrifice to whatever large predators lurk in the woods outside.
That, along with some few other things. Like he has helplessly fallen hook, line, and sinker for the girl.
Theresa: Despite the lack of any percivable character-development.
How? He didn’t know, and probably never would.
Duo: (sadly) and neither will we.
It just happened. At first, he just considered the feelings that he that held for the Asian girl was just a form of obsession.
Theresa: A passing fancy, like Pokemon or rock collecting.
Like the one he had when he first met Heero.
Theresa: *smirks*
A curiosity to find out more about the mysterious girl.
Duo: Like, what does she look like with bed-head?
But as time went by, he could no longer deny his feelings any more.
Theresa: He absolutely loathed the girl.
He loved her. He loved her for her courage, for her stubbornness. However, most importantly, he loved for the person that’s hiding beneath that cold mask of hers.
Duo: So I'm in love with a robot?
The kind and caring soul that she had hidden from the world.
Theresa: In a little box she kept in her room.
The caring soul would slip though her mask once in a while when she had least suspected.
Duo: Like when she was sitting up in bed wearing nothing but her panties.
While all this was going on between the Misako and Duo, the four other pilots merely watched them.
Theresa: All of what? Are they confessing their love for each other?
Quatre was smiling to himself, while the other three stayed indifferent.
Duo: (Heero) So, anyone up for a game of poker?
Although Wufei would roll his eyes from now and then at the Deathscythe pilot’s comments.
Theresa: Yay Wufei!
"Hmm. And what will that be?" The Asian girl inquired with questioning eyes, pulling Duo out of his thoughts.
Theresa: (Misako, grabbing Duo and tugging him) Get out of there and start paying attention to me again!
"Uh?" Duo questioned.
Duo: You know me with my five-second memory. *mutters*
"You said that you would let me go on one condition only. What is it?" Misako said, more then a little annoyed.
Duo: Oh, right. I want you to bring me a second shrubbery, which you will place here, beside this shrubbery, only slightly higher so you get the two-level effect with a little path running down the middle...
"Oh, right. I’ll let you go only if you promise me one thing." Duo answered.
Theresa: (Duo) Promise you'll stop hijacking the story.
"Just say it already."
Duo: (Misako, thinking) I'll just agree to whatever he asks then convinently forget it!
"Promise me that you won’t get yourself killed and that you will come back to…us." Duo uttered his eyes pleading.
Theresa: Oh, real smooth. There's a promise that she can keep.
"I’ll try." Misako said. "But I’m not promising anything."
Duo: (Misako) I'm really planning to go to my death on this mission, you see.
"You have to promise me, or I’m not letting you go."
Theresa: (Duo) Promise me you'll always do my laundry, or I'm not letting you go.
"Duo, you know as well as I do that I can’t do that."
Duo: Actually, we all know that you can do that, because no matter how hard everyone tries, they just can't kill you!
"Then you are not going."
Duo: I thought I was being reasonable...it's not like my laundry is that difficult to do, or anything...
After a few minutes of unnerving silence, Misako finally said, "Fine, if that’s what it’s going to take for you to stop annoying me."
Theresa: (Misako) I'll just promise now, and if I die later, I'll say I forgot.
"Say 'I promise'." Duo persisted.
Duo: Pinky swear!
"I…." Misako stumbled, then let out a heavy sigh at Duo’s cute, pleading look.
Duo: Myahaha, can't resist my pleading looks!
Who can turn down that face?
Theresa: Heero.
"Fine. Fine." Misako finally said. "I promise."
Duo: (Misako) I'll get you your damn shrubbery.
"Good!" The 02 pilot yelled happily.
Theresa: (Duo) I've always wanted a shrubbery!
"Now if you’ll all excuse me, I should be going." Misako declared as she got up from her seat after the whole scene, and walked toward the front door.
Duo: Convinently forgetting her injuries.
"Hey, where are you going?" Duo inquired, getting up from his chair also.
Theresa: (Misako, coldly) The bathroom.
"Out." Misako answered simply without looking back as she walked out the door and shut it behind her.
Duo: Again, I say, completely ignoring her injuries.
After staring at the door for a few minutes, Trowa said "So, I guess we have got ourselves a plan. It’ll take affect the day after tomorrow at 1800 hours. Get ready. I’ll brief the plan to Misako tomorrow. Any more questions? Duo?"
Duo: I've got a question. How much longer does this bloody story last?
"Hun? Oh, no. Well, if there’s nothing else left, I’ll be going now." Duo said as he, too, walked out the font door.
Theresa: (Quatre) Servants are supposed to take the back exit!
"Where is that baka hurrying off to?" Wufei said, mentioning to the front door, which Duo and Misako just went through
Duo: I'm out of shampoo.
"I’ll give you one guess." Quatre said, smiling to himself as he turned to go. Duo, my friend, you have got it bad!
Theresa: (Quatre, releaved) I'm so glad the 'Sue doesn't want me!
Tsuzuku.....................
Duo: Hurray for randomly inserted Japanese!
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1)...-san: Mr, Ms, etc.
2)Daigoubu: It's fine, or I'm fine.
Theresa: "Daigoubu" is a nonsense word. It doesn't mean anything. Now, if it were spelled properly, then it would be okay.
My standard disclaimers: Now, do I really have to do this?
Duo: Yes.
Duo: (Alarm Clock) Forty-Twoooo
Duo: Further proof that she's actually a robot.
Duo: Hee hee...
Duo: I must be part ninja or something.
Duo: (worridly) Am not!
Duo: I'm impressed.
Theresa: Me too.
Duo: Angry emotions, but still! Emotions!
Duo: Meep. >_<
Duo: (to himself) Don't give in to her! Don't do it!
Duo: (Whaps Theresa)
Duo: (whaps Theresa again)
Duo: (whaps Theresa)
Duo: (Whaps Theresa)
Duo: (Quatre) Oh, that's an excellent idea! I couldn't have put it better myself!
Theresa: Naruto's louder.
Duo: If you don't stop that, I'm going to have to do something drastic.
Duo: That's it, no more M&M's for you, Missy! (he steals Theresa's candy)
Theresa (doesn't notice right away because she's burst out into a violent fit of perverted laughter)
Theresa: (Still giggling slightly) Sorry...yes, almost.
Duo: As am I.
Duo: (Quatre) Yes, what Trowa said.
Duo: (smirks and says nothing)
Duo: Oh, why thank you ever so much!
Theresa: (Trowa, muttering) Too late.
Duo: (muttering) Ecchi...
Duo: Pointy knives.
Theresa: That burn with the fire of a thousand evils.
Duo: The end.
Theresa: Plot-hole!
Duo: 'E probably knew she was a 'Sue.
Duo: Who, sadly, died a few hours later from horrible indegestion.
Duo: (Misako) Noooo...and after I just won un-contended remote rights!
Theresa: Odin was an old man. WTF?
Theresa: Welcome to the department of redundancy department.
Theresa: Wasn't he bleeding profusely? So shouldn't Misako have blood all over her?
Theresa: For her, and for us!
Theresa: (Darkness) Oh, I don't know about that...sun's too bright for me.
Theresa: It's HER!
Duo: She would like this story.
Theresa: I'm sorry to say we're not quite half-way through.
Duo: Holy crap! You're a masochist!
Theresa: And a sadist, since I'm also inflicting this upon you as well.
Duo: Well, you can stop now.
Theresa: Sorry, I can't do that. I started this, and I'm commited to finishing it. Besides, the door's locked, so we can't get out of here anyway.
Duo: (muttering under his breath) masochistic psycho
Duo: I think they mean Misako.
Theresa: Oh. She doesn't count.
Duo: (kicks the stolen M&M's further beneath his seat)
Theresa: So could you. You're so good at being all stealthy and stuff.
Duo: Well, I am a ninja!
Duo: She's even misspelled her own character's name!
Theresa: (looks it up) Not in my dictionary. Perhaps she meant to type "Daijoubu".
Duo: Sorry.
Duo: You're not fooling anyone, you know.
Theresa: (Misako) I think I'll go for a walk!
Duo: Emphasis on "dead" in this case, I hope.
Theresa: She's like a cockroach.
Theresa: Author's whim!
Theresa: Yey, we're half-way through!
Duo: Really?
Theresa: Really. Want to take a break before we continue?
Duo: That's the best idea you've had in ages!
Theresa: Let's go.
(Both stand up and exit)
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