Protect the Important One! By: Uranus Yuy

Duo kicked up his feet unto the patio table, and leaned back with a sigh of relief and comfort because the Doctors had stop sending him and the others missions for both military sides have subsided there attacks for the time being. He turned his head toward a large tree that loomed over the balcony, and got a glance at a few birds playing in the trees with one another. "The earth has been so kind to us, I really do hate to see it get destroyed by us humans. Don’t you agree Heero? Heero?" Getting a little upset because Heero wouldn’t answer him, he sat himself up straight, and looked over to Heero, whom was sleeping like a baby, for the night before he had stayed up very late trying to repair his Gundam. Small flashes of light started to come from the right of him and Heero so out of curiosity he turned his head, only to find Aisu holding a camera and snapping pictures of the sleeping Heero. "What are you doing?"

Before answering Duo’s question, Aisu snapped another picture. "I wanted to snap a few photos of Heero sleeping before I conducted an experiment with him." Aisu then carried on with her photo shooting until Duo once again interfered. "What type of experiment our you planning to pull off?"

"Simple!" Aisu walked over to the table that Duo had his feet on earlier and placed down her camera before walking to the balcony door, and grabbing to large cardboard stands. "What are those?" Not saying a word Aisu carried on with her set up, and dragged the two stands about 4 feet in front of Heero. Setting them where the picture was facing Heero, Duo got a good glimpse at the two pictures on the cardboard stands, one was of Relena, which had been marked with a beard and mustache, and the other was of Aisu standing with her hands on her hips. "Huh?!" Still not abling to comprehend, what Aisu was doing he leaned back down, and kicked his feet back up on the table, and still keeping his eyes on Aisu.

He then watched, Aisu pull out a gun from the back of her pants and placed it in one of Heero’s arms that were dandling from right side of his lawn chair. "Ok, I’m ready to begin the experiment, so Duo just sit back and watch carefully at what is happening." Aisu then knelt down beside Heero, put her mouth near Heero’s left ear, and softly whispered him a command. "Heero, my dear beloved, I want you to point the gun in your right hand to one of the cardboard stands that lay before you, and shoot the gun at one of them." She then stepped back a few feet from Heero and watched in awe as Heero started to move.

The still sleeping Heero slowly pushed himself into a sitting position, lifted the gun up toward both of the stands, and aimed the gun. Heero prove to me that you care about me so much, and shoot the picture of Relena, my beloved. Heero aimed the gun, and shot the gun. Not looking at what he had shot, Aisu jumped over with glee to the stands with her eyes closed, and she went straight to the Relena picture. She opened her eyes with a smile, and inspected the picture, but found no bullet mark. "Hmm… he must have missed his target, which is really odd."

"Wa ha ha ha ha ha!" Aisu turned her head from the Relena stand and unto the hysterically laughing Duo. "What’s so funny?" Unabling to get words out of his mouth, Duo pointed to the stand with Aisu’s picture. "Huh?" She then turned her head away and looked at the stand of her, and say a bullet shot in the middle of her forehead. "WHAT!? Heero, wouldn’t do that to my picture… he must have accidentally thought my picture was Relena, instead of me, that has to be it?" Aisu looked over to Heero and found him to be in the exact position that he had been in, when Aisu gave him the gun. *sob* Heero, I know that had to…

Aisu, stopped thinking to herself and turned around because someone had tapped her on her right shoulder. "What…?" It had happened to be Wufei. "You have done something wrong, so you must face justice for your wrong doings?"

"What are you talking about, I didn’t do anything wrong?!" Wufei than pointed to the balcony door, which was made out of glass, or should I saw shattered glass. "Um… what happ… the bullet must have gone through the stand and into the glass of the door. Heh. Heh." Aisu looked at Wufei for a few moments before Wufei had taken something out from his pants pocket. The thing that he had taken out, he then slipped onto his hand and began to talk weird. "Hello, my name is Justice, and you have done something wrong, so I will have to punish you." Oh, know it’s Wufei’s sock puppet, Justice! I can’t take this any more!

Aisu watched in vain as Wufei continued to talk with his sock puppet, "Now, you will have to face… huh?" Not abling to take the pain of watching Wufei carry on with his sock puppet act, she took the puppet from Wufei’s arm, ran to the table near the laughing Duo to get her camera, and ran towards the door with Wufei close behind her. "Return Justice to me, or you will punished severely!"

"You talking with this thing is already torture!" About a few steps from the balcony door, Quatre stepped onto the balcony, while looking down at the shattered glass. "What happened here?" Aisu then grabbed Quatre, and swinged herself behind him, while Wufei stopped in front of Quatre. "Onna, return Justice at once!"

"Stop it you two, I’ve got important news to tell all of you." Quatre then walked further unto the balcony, with Aisu still clutching him by the back of his vest. "Onna, I want Justice back now!"

Quatre walked up between the lawn chairs that the subsided laughing Duo, and the sleeping Heero were sitting, and began to speak, but Aisu turned him around 180 degrees so Wufei wouldn’t get to her. "Onna!" Heh. Heh. Heh. Aisu let go of Quatre, whom turned back around to talk again, and headed to the balcony’s edge, and released Justice causing it to have a nice little fall to the ground. She walked backed towards Quatre, but was then grabbed by the panic Wufei, whom went around Quatre and the others to grab her.

"Where in the hell is Justice, Onna!" Aisu made eye contact with Wufei and smiled with delight. "Well, right now your precious Justice is having a little falling fieldtrip down to the ground." Wufei’s eyes started to become glassy with shock and fright for his heart and mind could only think about how worried he was over his little sock puppet, Justice. He then let go of Aisu and ran over to the balcony railing and looked down, there he saw the site of his little sock puppet slowly falling to earth. "JUSTICE!!! Don’t worry I’ll save you!" Wufei then started to climb the railing, but Duo had pulled him back down, so that he fell down on his butt, where he began to cry for a few minutes. "Justice, I hope that you will live in peace. Now, it’s time to make another sock puppet!"

"Could all of you be quiet for a few minutes so I can talk to you all about something important!?" Quatre’s yelling caused Heero to awaken from his sleep, where he immediately attacked by Aisu. "Heero, my beloved!" Aisu wrapped her arms around Heero’s neck, and then she gave her attention to Quatre, but Heero tried to escape her tight grip. "Someone please help me..." Getting annoyed that only one person had his attention, he cleared his throat and began to speak loudly. "I guess we can forget our vacation to one of the most beautiful lakes on the planet!" Then Quatre turned away and started to walk off the balcony and to the inside.

"VACATION!!!" went everyone except for Wufei, who was trying to put a smiley face on his new Justice. Aisu let go of Heero and walked up to Quatre, "We’re going to go on a vacation!? Where at?! When will we be leaving!?"

"Well, we are planning to go to the middle of Lake Placid, where a small building with some suites are located. I don’t exactly know when we’re leaving because Relena Darlian is the one planning the trip."

"Honestly, Aisu, don’t you think that you should be grateful to Relena because she’s offering everyone to go on a wonderful vacation with her." Aisu looked down at the ground for a few minutes with a sadden heart because she knew that she should be grateful for she was still invited to go even though she had tried to kill her repeatedly. The silence was then broken by Wufei, whom jumped up from his spot and yelled with his sock puppet over his head. "I’m finished with the new Justice." Suddenly, a light breeze started up, and since Wufei held Justice with a light grip, his little sock puppet was cared away, and it to fell from the balcony. "Crap, not again, Justice!!!"

Everyone looked at the few moments of sadness that Wufei gave off before he went straight to making another sock puppet. "Tell me, Wufei, where do you get the endless supply of socks?" Wufei was to caught up in making his new sock puppet to answer Duo’s question.

Aisu turned away from Wufei and looked up at Quatre, where she made eye contact. "I’m not going on the vacation to Lake Placid if Relena is going because I just can’t stand to be around her." After that Aisu stormed off the balcony and to her stay room, where she remained for the rest of the day. "If Aisu’s not going then I can have a wonderful time on the vacation! I’m so happy." Heero started to cry over his thought of relaxation and the distance he would be from Aisu.

The next day Trowa, Quatre, Heero, Wufei with the latest Justice in hand, and Duo all met up with Relena at her mansion. "Miss Relena, your guest have arrived, and are waiting in the guest room." Relena looked up from her novel and looked up to the nutcracker looking person. "Thank you, could you tell them I’ll be right down?"

When the butler finally made it to the guestroom, he found that giving the message to them was pointless because Relena was right behind him. Relena walked past Pagan (I remembered his name!) and toward her seated guest. "Welcome to home, Trowa, Wufei, Duo, Quatre, and... Heero." Everyone except for Heero thanked her for having him or her over, which caused Relena’s spirit to fall a little, but she tried to maintain her strength and sat down. "Pagan, could you please bring some of my home cooked cupcakes for my guest?"

"As you wish, Miss Relena." Pagan then left the room for the kitchen to get the cupcakes that Relena had baked earlier that day. About five minutes later, Pagan returned with the cupcakes in hand and placed it on the table in front of the cowtch that they were sitting in. Trowa was the first person to take one of the pink frosted cupcakes in hand and took it to his mouth. "Exquisite! The way the nuances of flavor spread delicately through the mouth...." Then Quatre took one and took a bite. "...while its subtle yet complex scent playfully tickles your nose and coaxes your appetite."

Heero was then followed after Quatre, and picked up a cupcake before taking a bite, then he calmly said. "Taste good to." Relena became pleased to find out that everyone enjoyed her cooking, especially Heero, knowing this as a fact she smiled at the four that complimented on her cooking. (Why am I being nice to her)

"Well, I hope that we can leave by tomorrow evening, and get there on Saturday morning. When arrive at Lake Placid a we’ll be taken by a small boat to the small island in the middle of the lake, so only take what you need. Well we can do whatever we want from there as long as we don’t harass wild life or hurt the environment."

"One last question, Relena, can you make some more of those yummy cupcakes?" Relena laughed a little bit at Quatre’s questioned and smiled some more, I’d be more than glad to do so." Since the moon had started to dominate the night sky everyone except for Relena had gone to bed, while she made five dozen of her delicious cupcakes.

The next morning, Pagan had awakened everyone so that they could get ready to go to the airport. When they were ready to go, they and the cupcakes all went to the airport, where they would meet up with an old friend. As the gang boarded the airplane, a yell from behind caused them to all turn around. "Yo, wait up from me, please!"

"Now, Trowa, do you honestly think that I would pass up a chance for a vacation?" Trowa gave a slight smile to Aisu, before turning back around and walking onto the plane. When Aisu finally stepped onto the plane, she saw her beloved Heero sitting alone, and Relena walking towards him to sit next to him. No you don’t Relena, not while I’m around. Aisu dropped her bag on the first seat on the left row, and tried to jump over the seats, but Trowa grabbed the back of her vest and forced her back. "Why don’t you try and relax for once?"

"I can’t! Especially, if Relena…" Not letting Aisu finish, Trowa grabbed Aisu’s bag and dragged her to two empty seats, forcing her to sit with him. Noo! She has succeed in sitting next to him… Not noticing that Aisu was turned around in her seat and focusing her attention onto Heero, he began to talk seriously to her. "Aisu, why don’t we talk like we use to, when we were younger? Aisu?" Trowa then looked at Aisu, only to find her in a trance of evil thoughts and jealousy, and sighed before grabbing her by the vest again and turning her around so that she was sitting properly. "Relena…kill…."

"Well, like I was saying before since we’re best friends and all, why don’t we talk like we use to, when we were younger?" Aisu looked at Trowa with a very shocked expression. "You… you still consider us best friends even after you stopped talking to me a few years ago?" Trowa looked away from Aisu and turned his head towards the ground because of what she had said, he couldn’t look at her. "Yeah, I do because ever since we were little you were the only friend that I ever had or knew? I’m sorry, about stop talking to you, but you know that our lives had to change, when I became a Gundam Pilot and you a spy for the colonies."

"Yeah, I know, but you didn’t have… oh forget! I forgive you for…" Aisu looked behind her to check up on Heero and Relena, and only to find that Relena had fallen asleep on Heero’s shoulder, and Heero had his head against the window sleeping. Relena, I’ll let you off just this once, since I’m in a good mood.

Duo stretched his arms out over his head, and yawned slightly. "Hmm… its really nice to have a vacation after all that tension from the battles, Shinigami needs a break just like the next person." Wanting to relax from life itself, Duo dropped himself onto his bed, and made himself comfortable, but was only to be disturbed by Trowa, who entered the room to tell him some important information. "Duo, we’re all me meeting in the lobby in two minutes, so make sure that you’re there in time." Without looking at Trowa, Duo lifted his right arm in the air and signaled that he understood. All that I wanted was to just sit back and relax.

"Well, you and the others are to report to the lobby now for a small challenge." Duo smiled at the butler with full confidence. "A challenge, eh?! Well, I hope that you know, that there is no challenge that I can’t beat." Duo then walked past the butler, and headed for the lobby once again. I bet you not, Mr. Maxwell.

Everyone sat in the chairs that were in lobby and waited for the person that was giving them a challenge to appear. They didn’t have to wait very long because the strange man that talked to Duo earlier arrived shortly after Duo. The man cleared his throat and walked into the center of the room, where his voice could be heard the best.

"I recently have tired one of Miss Relena’s cupcakes, and found them to be quit good in ever way. I also know that each of you have tried one of these cupcakes, and found them to be very good as well, so here is the challenge. I challenge each and every one of you to not eat another cupcake in the next 24 hours, and if you do eat one, you’ll be kicked of the island and returned to the other side at once. Is it a deal, narf?!"

"Well, than you have nothing to worry about I suppose… Well, you may carry on with your lives now that I’m finished." The strange man exited the room then vanished into thin air. We’ll finally have the time to grab those cupcakes for ourselves. Foolish humans. Heh. Heh. Heh.

About an hour later, Aisu found Relena leaning over a railing that prevented her from entering the Lake’s waters, and protected her from the deep predators down below. Why did I make so many cupcakes, and we’re not allowed to eat them for 24 hours? Relena then grabbed one of her cupcakes and threw it down in the water, where it sank to the bottom because of a strong current down below.

"You know that you’re not suppose to be throwing trash into the lake?" Aisu walked up beside Relena, and she to leaned herself on the railing. "I’m not throwing trash into the lake, I’m throwing my wasted cupcakes."

"That’s what I meant. Anyway, since the rest of the gang seem to enjoy your cupcakes so why don’t you just save them until tomorrow." Relena smiled at Aisu. "You know what, I think I’ll just do that, but I’ll carry them around so no one tries and eats them." Aisu pushed herself from the railing, but before she left she gave a last word to Relena. "Relena…

"Don’t you ever… I mean ever smile at me like that again! It scares the hell out of me, and leave my beloved Heero alone, or I’ll try and kill you double than what I tried before!" With that Aisu walked away from the angry Relena. Aisu, needs to learn some manners.

Within the next few hours everyone except Aisu, seem to have a problem of not abling to control their urge to have one of the cupcakes that causes you to yearn for more. They would find Relena, and ask how were the cupcakes and always got the responds they’re ok, then she would send them on their way. The strange man that gave the cupcake challenge came up to Relena and gave a suggestion on an activity, that she and the others could do. "Excuse me, Miss Relena. I have been thinking, and I’ve noticed that you really haven’t done anything like that the others. So why don’t you go out on the lake with everyone with one of the motor boats?"

Relena sat they’re in the grass without answering for a moments until she lifted her head to the man, and smiled. "You know what, I think that’s an excellent idea. Could you give tell everyone about the idea, and gather them at the dock?" The man nodded to show that he would do as she asked, but before he left he had one more thing to ask. "Miss Relena, would you like for me to hold your cupcakes will your out on the lake?"

The man made his journey to the lobby where the Gundam Pilots and Aisu were at because they really didn’t know what to do on a vacation for it’s been a really long time they were free. When he arrived he gave off a massive sweatdrop because he found them all doing something totally stupid; Duo was leaning back in the couch looking quit miserable, Quatre looked like he was about to cry, Wufei was feeding Justice with paper made cupcakes, Trowa was drawing pictures of cupcakes, and Heero was being glomped by Aisu. "Um… excuse me everyone. Miss Relena, would like all of you to report to the dock so that you all can go out on a boat ride across the lake."

With his words Miss Relena, everyone except Aisu and Heero jumped up from their spot and ran out the door. "Come on Aisu… let’s go with them… please… help me." Aisu released Heero and agreed to what he wanted to do, but before she could nod or anything Heero zipped out of the room and to the deck. Aisu got up from the love seat that she was sitting in with Heero, and started to walk out the door until the man stopped her by putting his left arm out in front of her. "Excuse me, Miss Alleron…"

"Ok, Aisu, could you please tell Miss Relena that it’s a better thing to leave the cupcakes here with than taking them with her on the ride?" Aisu looked at the man for a few silent moments before asking a question that would shock him. "Why do you want to hold onto the cupcakes so much, you want to eat them for yourself don’t you!?"

"Just like I expected! Well, here me mysterious man I won’t let you get those cupcakes because they mean a lot to my beloved and best friend, do you hear me?! The others and I will protect the important ones!" With that Aisu stormed out of the building, and headed to reunite with the others. -----, You and I must go to the secret plan or we’ll never get them.

Aisu let herself drop onto one of the chairs that were located behind the steering wheel, which was located in the middle of the white motor boat. "Mmm… it’s such a beautiful don’t you agree, Quatre?" Not getting an answer, Aisu looked up and found that all of the Gundam Boys except Heero, whom tried to jump onto the cupcake box, but missed and fell flat on the boat floor, surrounded Relena staring at the wonderful tasting cupcakes.

"Um… you know, you guys should start worrying about the cupcakes’ safety because someone is after them." With her words, everyone turned their attention over to her. "What are you talking about Aisu?"

"Trowa, my dear friend, don’t you all see what that man was trying to do? He gave us that cupcake challenge so we wouldn’t eat them, which gives him 24 hours to snag the cupcakes away from us all. Then he tried to get Relena to leave the cupcakes with him as we went out on this boat ride, so I wouldn’t be surprised if anything major happens because I think he’ll go the distance to get what he wants, the cupcakes. So, if you guys really care for those cupcakes, you’ll have to protect them with your life."

"Why can’t we just eat them right here and now?" Relena got up from her cowering position because they had all stopped cluttering her up because they were interested in what Aisu had to say. "Relena, don’t you understand, as gundam pilots we have to be strong in every way, so if we eat those cupcakes it’ll just prove how weak we really are."

"Heero’s right. For the last past hour we’ve been acting like idiots over those cupcakes, and now when they are in danger we still act foolish, we need to work together and protect them." Wufei put away Justice and because of his speech, everyone stared at him and nodded to show that they agreed over what he said. Relena, went to left side of the boat, opened up the box to grab one of the cupcakes, and threw it in the lake, which was prove to be a vital mistake.

Unexpectedly, a huge animal jumped out of the water trying to get his teeth into the box of cupcakes, but since Relena held them at an angle, the animal got hold of Relena instead, and pulled her under. The large splash that the animal had made got the attention of everyone, so they quickly turned around, only to see Relena being pulled by a 45-foot crocodile, and the cupcakes dropping to the ground. "Some go rescue the cupcakes!" Out of instinct, Duo jumped down from the Captain’s area, and to the lower level, where the cupcake box fell into his hands. Everyone let out a sigh of relief that the cupcakes were safe and sound. "That was a close one, they could have been cracked, but thanx to Duo here, they are unharmed. Good work, Duo!"

"Trust me, Quatre, she’ll be ok because that girl has an unreality/oblivion shield that protects her from anything, that’s why I can’t her. Anyway, we can’t worry about her right now because we have to get to shore, for that crocodile can jump up again any minute." Without another word, Quatre took the wheel headed them back to the island in the middle of the lake.

With the cupcake box in Aisu’s arms the six of them headed back to the hotel, and into the lobby where they thought they were safe. Aisu put down the box on the small coffee table that was in the middle of the room and fell down unto the couch exhausted from the trip as long with everyone else. "So, what do we do now, guys?"

Everyone in the lobby felt relaxed and clam because they had all thought that they could stay there the rest of there 24 hour long challenge, but they were wrong. As they were relaxing on the couches, the crocodile that attacked Relena earlier was making it’s way slowly to the hotel lobby, yearning for more those good tasting cupcakes. When it finally reached the door of the hotel, it pushed the door open slowly causing it to creak with its nose. Abling to hear the creaking door, Duo jumped up from his chair. "Hey, did you guys hear that?!" Because of Duo’s sudden movement, everyone’s guard shot up, afraid that there was a threat close by. "Hear what, Duo?"

"I really don’t know, it sounded as if something was creaking from pressure. Well, I guess… I… What? Why are you guys looking at me like that?" Wufei pointed behind Duo causing him to turn around, and made him give of the same expression as the others, a frighten expression. The crocodile had made its way into the lobby, and to show dominance it opened its mouth and growled. It then turned its attention away from the humans and to the cupcake box, but since everyone was frighten they couldn’t move from they’re spot to protect the cupcakes. I can’t let it get the cupcakes, on behalf off Trowa and Heero. I must do something!

Right then and there, Aisu reached into hammersspace and grabbed a banana peel, before launching it in front of the crocodile. The crocodile’s left foot stepped onto the banana peel causing it to slip onto its side causing pressure to the fragile area. "Yay, I got him! Heero get the cupcakes!" Heero did as he was told, but after he had did so, something odd happened. "Pinky, we must eject before this thing explodes!"

Just then two small white things launched out of the crocodile’s head, and the both of them hit the wall causing them to fall on the ground, with a possible head injury. "Let’s do that again, Brain. Narf!" Aisu and the others all gathered around the two things that had ejected from the crocodile’s head, which turned out to be two ugly mice. "What!?"

"May I ask, how in the hell does trying to get cupcakes help take over the world?" Aisu asked with interest. Brain didn’t answer, but he did talk to Pinky. "Come on Pinky, let’s go on and prepare for tomorrow."

"That mouse has issues." Heero turned around so that he could sit down and eat the cupcakes because the challenge was over for the challenger had left. "Hey, why don’t we go ahead and eat the cupcakes, since they were mice trying to take them away from us. We’ll split them so everyone gets an equal amount." Everyone agreed to share the cupcakes evenly, but when they had them past out and ready to eat, they were in for a surprise. Aisu was the first to take a bite of her cupcakes, and found it to be hard like… an artificially made cupcake. "You call this a tasty cupcake! It’s fake!"