Disclaimer: No I do not own Gundam Wing or any of it's characters, though I
wish I did!
Warnings: Um, there are none.
Other stuff: This is my very first fic. Please read and review and tell me
what you think.
What If By: fyre_faerie_gyrl
The alarm clock buzzed for the fifth time. A graceful hand gently picked it up and then promptly hurled it across the room. A young girl sat up and rubbed her eyes and yawned. A waterfall of dark chocolate colored hair covered most of her face. She threw her legs over the side of the bed and stood up, stretching as she went, her long dark hair swirling behind her.
"Oh brother. Why do mornings have to start so early anyway? What time is it?" She glanced over at the dethroned alarm clock that was still faithfully buzzing from it's upside down position. It read 7:59 and then almost as though it was getting her back for it's rough treatment earlier it switched to 8:00. Her school happened to begin at 8:15.
"OH MY GOSH! I'M GONNA BE LATE!" She ran swiftly to her closet and threw open the door (which wasn't a very smart idea) and everything from clothes to a rubber chicken fell down on her.
"Ow. I guess I forgot I 'cleaned' my room yesterday." she rubbed her head gingerly as she grabbed a pair of jeans, a white peasant shirt, and a jacket. In less than five minutes she was dressed and running out the door while frantically brushing her hair and shoving her books into her backpack while attempting not to choke on the piece of toast in her mouth. Her aunt just sighed, shook her head, and shut the door behind her.
"If I'm late again Mr. Myers will kill me!" She ran all the way to school, which, thankfully, was only a couple blocks away from her house. Gasping, she ran up the front steps to the school and launched herself through the door.
"Made it!" she laughed as she reached her first class. She was about to open the door when the bell sounded. She froze in disbelief and then fell over.
"Ugh. After all that running." with a deep sigh she opened the door. Mr. Myers glanced up at her and sighed, while gripping the bridge of his nose.
"Just take a seat Miss Kudo." She gave a slight bow of apology before slipping into her desk. Her best friend gave her a reassuring smile before turning back to the teacher. For the next hour the class was subjected to a long lecture of how to treat their school duties with proper respect. They only time the class was really listening or paying attention was when he performed his amazing feat where he put on chapstick while he was still talking. Without even pausing he would pull out chapstick from his pocket, uncap it, apply it, recap it, and place it back in his pocket. The class found it amazing. But that was all that he ever did that was worth their attention. He was one of those teachers who would drone on and on, lose his place, and then start all over again. Everyone sighed with relief when the bell rang.
Once outside the young girl was heavily relieved. Her best friend, Keiko Bandaio, laughed at her and gave her a friendly poke. The girl smiled up at her taller friend and marveled at her ability to make her smile. "So why were you late this time, Lorelei?"
"My alarm clock stopped working.after I smashed it a few times." Keiko rolled her eyes. "I think that might be bad for it."
"Really? Wow.there's a news flash." She slumped down on the closest bench and Keiko just grinned. "What?" Lorelei demanded. Keiko's grin widened.
"You'll see in.3,2,1."
WHAM! Lorelei was knocked off of the bench with a messy haired boy landing on top of her. Keiko was laughing so hard she was red. Lorelei pushed the offender off and stood up.
"Matsu! What is wrong with you?" the boy grinned sheepishly and then picked up his glasses that had been dislodged in the impact. She studied him and sighed. This little kid had always been around ever since she had saved him from receiving a potential beating from the local bully. For some reason bullies did not take well to people smarter than them, especially a genius. Matsu was in the advanced program because he was too smart for normal teachers. Lorelei didn't mind him being around and thought he was adorably cute but she didn't like the fact that he often used her as the guinea pig in his experiments without gaining her consent beforehand.
"I just wanted to see what would happen if a fast moving object, me, were to run into a stationary object, you, without the use of any type of machinery or padding." he explained. For a genius kid, sometimes he was pretty dumb.
"I'll show you what happens." She raised her fists menacingly and the little boy swallowed hard and then ran away. Lorelei would have been right behind him, but Keiko held her back. "Leave him alone. You should be flattered he likes you enough to use you in one of his experiments." Lorelei growled something unintelligible in reply. "Cheer up Lor. Endless Waltz is on tonight remember? How many times have we seen it? Five?" Lorelei smiled.
"And counting! It's not really our fault Keiko. We can't help it if Gundam Wing is the best show ever, can we?" Just then the bell rang.
"See ya!" the two girls said at the same time.
The rest of the day seemed to crawl by but eventually it had to end. Didn't it? Lorelei locked her eyes on the clock just to make sure time continued to move and sighed with relief as the minute hand moved and the bell sounded, signifying the end of another school week. She and Keiko met back the bench so they could walk to Lorelei's house and watch the movie together. When Lorelei arrived at the bench Keiko was smirking and holding up a book and a slip of paper. She held it out to a very puzzled Lorelei. Lorelei took it and glanced down at it. It read:
Lorelei,
I borrowed your Gundam Wing book for my newest experiment. Hope you don't mind. Besides, I left my physics book as collateral so you know I'll give you your book back. Thanks a lot.
Matsu
Lorelei looked at Keiko with an exasperated and defeated look.
"Keiko, I have to go save my book before he disintegrates it or something. You go on ahead to my house and I'll meet you there all right?"
"Okay. That'll give me some time to finish some homework anyway."
"Thanks Keiko."
"Don't mention it. Oh and try not to trip the alarm system again." Lorelei shuddered at the memory. It hadn't blown her up or anything, but it had covered her in thick and gooey blue dye. She was blue for a month. Luckily her principle counted that as a viable excuse for not showing up at school. With a heavy sigh she headed for Matsu's house.
~
Lorelei looked over the huge house looming before her. Then she proceeded down into the underground lab Matsu's parents had built after he had tried to invent a new type of gasoline. When she arrived at the door she knocked. Suddenly, a snakelike tube with a large silver eye on the end shot out at her and leveled itself at her eye level. The eye looked her over and then a red beam shot out and ran over her entire body.
"Access approved, welcome Lorelei." The door swung open and the eye slid back into a slot in the wall.
"Wow. I didn't know Matsu had invented something like that." she mused as she walked through the door," Matsu? Matsu, are you here? Matsu? Hello? Wha? OUCH!" It was dark and she ran into something hard.
"Ow! Where are the lights?" Bright lights flashed on almost as if on cue. Lorelei stared in shock at what she had run into. It was a huge machine at least twice her size and connected to it was a large screen and keyboard.
"Wow. I wonder what it is," she said as she glanced around. As her eyes swept the room she spotted her book lying open under a strange metal tube that came to a dull point. She hurried over and picked up the book. Upon examination it didn't seem damaged at all. She quickly tucked it inside her backpack then Lorelei laid down the physics book on the nearest table and headed for the door. She tugged on it but it wouldn't budge. She tried looking for a button, but there wasn't one.
"Hey! Let me out!" she yelled," come on! Help! Great. Now I'm stuck here until Matsu decides to come. This is just perfect." She sullenly walked over to a chair, sat down and dropped her backpack with a 'thud'. After a few minutes of sulking she got bored. Lorelei looked down at her backpack and pulled out her Gundam Wing book. She shrugged her shoulders, and opened the book. To her surprise, she found another slip of paper with Matsu's handwriting sitting on the first page. It read:
gniw madnug
"G-new mad nug? That's wier." she didn't finish her sentence because the huge machine suddenly hummed to life. She watched in horror as the metal tube with the dull point began to move and then pointed itself directly at her. That's when she noticed it was hollow and that something deep inside it was glowing and getting brighter.
"What's going on?" she whispered in shock. Suddenly the light got blindingly bright and shot towards her. Lorelei shrieked as she felt herself being sucked down. She squeezed her eyes shut as she felt her body push and pull in all different directions. Just as she was certain she was going to explode that feeling ended and was replaced by a new feeling: free fall.
Her eyes shot open and she saw she was about ten feet above a group of trees and closing. She wrapped her arms over her head and face to protect them and braced herself as much as she could in that split second. Lorelei fell hard through the branches of the trees. Each branch seemed to relish slicing her skin and she tried to curl into a ball. She finally cleared the trees and headed for the ground. 'This is it,' she thought. Whump! Thud! Silence. Lorelei opened her eyes slowly.
"I'm okay," she gasped in disbelief. She heard a dull thud and turned to see her backpack and the book sitting there. She just stared. That's when she realized she had landed on something soft, something that had broken her fall. She rolled onto all fours and then looked down at what she had landed on.
"Omigosh, a person!" She had knocked down the person from behind so the person had landed on their stomach. Lorelei gently rolled the unconscious form onto its back. It was a young man who let out a pained groan but did not come to. A cap covered most of his face and he was dressed in a uniform of some sort. After a short examination she was relieved to find he was okay, just unconscious. Her eyes went to the half- covered face. Out of curiosity she reached over and pulled the cap off and let out a shriek of utter shock and disbelief.
"It can't be.it's impossible." she gasped as her eyes moved over the familiar features of the young man's face and the long chestnut braid draped over his shoulder," D-Duo? But.he's not real.he's." She was silenced by the sound of a gunshot.
~Owari~
Fyre_faerie_gyrl: Well what did you think?
Wufei: Why have you only put Duo in it? This is an injustice.
*fyre_faerie_gyrl whacks him*
Fyre_faerie_gyrl: You'll be in it later. Now do your job or my next fic will be one where you are locked in a room with Duo and all of his 'toys'.
*Wufei swallows hard*
Wufei: This stupid onna *whack!* ow! I mean, wonderful authoress, would like to thank you for reading her story and hopes that you will read and review.
Fyre_faerie_gyrl: Great job! *puts down her mallet*
What If By: fyre_faerie_gyrl
The alarm clock buzzed for the fifth time. A graceful hand gently picked it up and then promptly hurled it across the room. A young girl sat up and rubbed her eyes and yawned. A waterfall of dark chocolate colored hair covered most of her face. She threw her legs over the side of the bed and stood up, stretching as she went, her long dark hair swirling behind her.
"Oh brother. Why do mornings have to start so early anyway? What time is it?" She glanced over at the dethroned alarm clock that was still faithfully buzzing from it's upside down position. It read 7:59 and then almost as though it was getting her back for it's rough treatment earlier it switched to 8:00. Her school happened to begin at 8:15.
"OH MY GOSH! I'M GONNA BE LATE!" She ran swiftly to her closet and threw open the door (which wasn't a very smart idea) and everything from clothes to a rubber chicken fell down on her.
"Ow. I guess I forgot I 'cleaned' my room yesterday." she rubbed her head gingerly as she grabbed a pair of jeans, a white peasant shirt, and a jacket. In less than five minutes she was dressed and running out the door while frantically brushing her hair and shoving her books into her backpack while attempting not to choke on the piece of toast in her mouth. Her aunt just sighed, shook her head, and shut the door behind her.
"If I'm late again Mr. Myers will kill me!" She ran all the way to school, which, thankfully, was only a couple blocks away from her house. Gasping, she ran up the front steps to the school and launched herself through the door.
"Made it!" she laughed as she reached her first class. She was about to open the door when the bell sounded. She froze in disbelief and then fell over.
"Ugh. After all that running." with a deep sigh she opened the door. Mr. Myers glanced up at her and sighed, while gripping the bridge of his nose.
"Just take a seat Miss Kudo." She gave a slight bow of apology before slipping into her desk. Her best friend gave her a reassuring smile before turning back to the teacher. For the next hour the class was subjected to a long lecture of how to treat their school duties with proper respect. They only time the class was really listening or paying attention was when he performed his amazing feat where he put on chapstick while he was still talking. Without even pausing he would pull out chapstick from his pocket, uncap it, apply it, recap it, and place it back in his pocket. The class found it amazing. But that was all that he ever did that was worth their attention. He was one of those teachers who would drone on and on, lose his place, and then start all over again. Everyone sighed with relief when the bell rang.
Once outside the young girl was heavily relieved. Her best friend, Keiko Bandaio, laughed at her and gave her a friendly poke. The girl smiled up at her taller friend and marveled at her ability to make her smile. "So why were you late this time, Lorelei?"
"My alarm clock stopped working.after I smashed it a few times." Keiko rolled her eyes. "I think that might be bad for it."
"Really? Wow.there's a news flash." She slumped down on the closest bench and Keiko just grinned. "What?" Lorelei demanded. Keiko's grin widened.
"You'll see in.3,2,1."
WHAM! Lorelei was knocked off of the bench with a messy haired boy landing on top of her. Keiko was laughing so hard she was red. Lorelei pushed the offender off and stood up.
"Matsu! What is wrong with you?" the boy grinned sheepishly and then picked up his glasses that had been dislodged in the impact. She studied him and sighed. This little kid had always been around ever since she had saved him from receiving a potential beating from the local bully. For some reason bullies did not take well to people smarter than them, especially a genius. Matsu was in the advanced program because he was too smart for normal teachers. Lorelei didn't mind him being around and thought he was adorably cute but she didn't like the fact that he often used her as the guinea pig in his experiments without gaining her consent beforehand.
"I just wanted to see what would happen if a fast moving object, me, were to run into a stationary object, you, without the use of any type of machinery or padding." he explained. For a genius kid, sometimes he was pretty dumb.
"I'll show you what happens." She raised her fists menacingly and the little boy swallowed hard and then ran away. Lorelei would have been right behind him, but Keiko held her back. "Leave him alone. You should be flattered he likes you enough to use you in one of his experiments." Lorelei growled something unintelligible in reply. "Cheer up Lor. Endless Waltz is on tonight remember? How many times have we seen it? Five?" Lorelei smiled.
"And counting! It's not really our fault Keiko. We can't help it if Gundam Wing is the best show ever, can we?" Just then the bell rang.
"See ya!" the two girls said at the same time.
The rest of the day seemed to crawl by but eventually it had to end. Didn't it? Lorelei locked her eyes on the clock just to make sure time continued to move and sighed with relief as the minute hand moved and the bell sounded, signifying the end of another school week. She and Keiko met back the bench so they could walk to Lorelei's house and watch the movie together. When Lorelei arrived at the bench Keiko was smirking and holding up a book and a slip of paper. She held it out to a very puzzled Lorelei. Lorelei took it and glanced down at it. It read:
Lorelei,
I borrowed your Gundam Wing book for my newest experiment. Hope you don't mind. Besides, I left my physics book as collateral so you know I'll give you your book back. Thanks a lot.
Matsu
Lorelei looked at Keiko with an exasperated and defeated look.
"Keiko, I have to go save my book before he disintegrates it or something. You go on ahead to my house and I'll meet you there all right?"
"Okay. That'll give me some time to finish some homework anyway."
"Thanks Keiko."
"Don't mention it. Oh and try not to trip the alarm system again." Lorelei shuddered at the memory. It hadn't blown her up or anything, but it had covered her in thick and gooey blue dye. She was blue for a month. Luckily her principle counted that as a viable excuse for not showing up at school. With a heavy sigh she headed for Matsu's house.
~
Lorelei looked over the huge house looming before her. Then she proceeded down into the underground lab Matsu's parents had built after he had tried to invent a new type of gasoline. When she arrived at the door she knocked. Suddenly, a snakelike tube with a large silver eye on the end shot out at her and leveled itself at her eye level. The eye looked her over and then a red beam shot out and ran over her entire body.
"Access approved, welcome Lorelei." The door swung open and the eye slid back into a slot in the wall.
"Wow. I didn't know Matsu had invented something like that." she mused as she walked through the door," Matsu? Matsu, are you here? Matsu? Hello? Wha? OUCH!" It was dark and she ran into something hard.
"Ow! Where are the lights?" Bright lights flashed on almost as if on cue. Lorelei stared in shock at what she had run into. It was a huge machine at least twice her size and connected to it was a large screen and keyboard.
"Wow. I wonder what it is," she said as she glanced around. As her eyes swept the room she spotted her book lying open under a strange metal tube that came to a dull point. She hurried over and picked up the book. Upon examination it didn't seem damaged at all. She quickly tucked it inside her backpack then Lorelei laid down the physics book on the nearest table and headed for the door. She tugged on it but it wouldn't budge. She tried looking for a button, but there wasn't one.
"Hey! Let me out!" she yelled," come on! Help! Great. Now I'm stuck here until Matsu decides to come. This is just perfect." She sullenly walked over to a chair, sat down and dropped her backpack with a 'thud'. After a few minutes of sulking she got bored. Lorelei looked down at her backpack and pulled out her Gundam Wing book. She shrugged her shoulders, and opened the book. To her surprise, she found another slip of paper with Matsu's handwriting sitting on the first page. It read:
gniw madnug
"G-new mad nug? That's wier." she didn't finish her sentence because the huge machine suddenly hummed to life. She watched in horror as the metal tube with the dull point began to move and then pointed itself directly at her. That's when she noticed it was hollow and that something deep inside it was glowing and getting brighter.
"What's going on?" she whispered in shock. Suddenly the light got blindingly bright and shot towards her. Lorelei shrieked as she felt herself being sucked down. She squeezed her eyes shut as she felt her body push and pull in all different directions. Just as she was certain she was going to explode that feeling ended and was replaced by a new feeling: free fall.
Her eyes shot open and she saw she was about ten feet above a group of trees and closing. She wrapped her arms over her head and face to protect them and braced herself as much as she could in that split second. Lorelei fell hard through the branches of the trees. Each branch seemed to relish slicing her skin and she tried to curl into a ball. She finally cleared the trees and headed for the ground. 'This is it,' she thought. Whump! Thud! Silence. Lorelei opened her eyes slowly.
"I'm okay," she gasped in disbelief. She heard a dull thud and turned to see her backpack and the book sitting there. She just stared. That's when she realized she had landed on something soft, something that had broken her fall. She rolled onto all fours and then looked down at what she had landed on.
"Omigosh, a person!" She had knocked down the person from behind so the person had landed on their stomach. Lorelei gently rolled the unconscious form onto its back. It was a young man who let out a pained groan but did not come to. A cap covered most of his face and he was dressed in a uniform of some sort. After a short examination she was relieved to find he was okay, just unconscious. Her eyes went to the half- covered face. Out of curiosity she reached over and pulled the cap off and let out a shriek of utter shock and disbelief.
"It can't be.it's impossible." she gasped as her eyes moved over the familiar features of the young man's face and the long chestnut braid draped over his shoulder," D-Duo? But.he's not real.he's." She was silenced by the sound of a gunshot.
~Owari~
Fyre_faerie_gyrl: Well what did you think?
Wufei: Why have you only put Duo in it? This is an injustice.
*fyre_faerie_gyrl whacks him*
Fyre_faerie_gyrl: You'll be in it later. Now do your job or my next fic will be one where you are locked in a room with Duo and all of his 'toys'.
*Wufei swallows hard*
Wufei: This stupid onna *whack!* ow! I mean, wonderful authoress, would like to thank you for reading her story and hopes that you will read and review.
Fyre_faerie_gyrl: Great job! *puts down her mallet*