The G-boys play Trivial Persuit
Part 1:
Duo Vs. Wufei
It was Friday night. The
Gundam boys had all
gathered at Quatre's place for a good old fashioned
guys night out, or more accurately, in.
*Man*, Duo thought, *this is
boring*. He looked
around the room at his fellow pilots. Quatre was at
the piano, plunking away at it, playing classical
music. Duo sighed and looked at the person to his
left, Trowa, and the person to his right, Heero.
Those two had been staring straight ahead and saying
nothing for the past ten minutes. Duo was beginning
to think that they had some sort of contest going on.
Who could be the quiet longest. *Fun game*, Duo
thought, sarcastically. He looked from one to the
other several more times before stopping due to
dizzyness, and the fact that they took absolutely no
notice of him whatsoever. He then looked straight
ahead at Wufei, who was sitting on the floor
meditating. *Good Lord, he could keep that up for
hours*, Duo thought.
Duo couldn't even remember why
they'd decided to stay
in. There was nothing on TV, and they hadn't rented
any movies. *I have to do something!* Duo thought
desperately, *I thought dying because of lack of air
was lame, dying of boredom is even worse!* He thought
about it for a few more minutes, then got an idea.
"I'm bored," Duo
announced to the group.
Quatre stopped playing the piano
and looked at him,
Wufei opened his eyes and looked at him, rather
annoyed that his meditation had been interrupted.
Trowa and Heero pretty much ingnored him.
"Well, what do you want to
do?" Quatre asked.
"Something besides having a
staring contest with the
wall," Duo stated looking at Heero, then Trowa. Trowa
continued to ignore him, Heero seemed to be regarding
him out of the corner of his eye.
Quatre smiled, "Any ideas?"
Duo grinned, "I was hoping
you'd ask! As a matter of
fact, yeah!" He got up and dashed from the room. The
rest of them waited in silence.
A couple of minutes later Duo
returned with two large
shopping bags and a Trivial Persuit box. "We play
this!" he told them.
Everyone, including Trowa and
Heero, were looking at
him now. Although neither Trowa nor Heero said
anyting. Apparently their Quiet Contest hadn't ended
yet. They all looked rather unconvinced.
"Here's how we're gonna do
this. We play one on one,
head to head. The winner challenges whoever in the
group he wants to play. Whoever has beaten everyone
else by the end of the night, wins."
"What does he win?"
Quatre asked.
"Uh...Candy!" Duo said
plopping the two bags he was
carrying on the floor.
"Maxwell, you'll have eaten
all that before the
nights out," Wufei said, flatly.
Duo looked indignant, "Do you
think I have no self
control?"
Wufei didn't answer. Neither did
any of the rest of
them.
Duo rolled his eyes, "All
right, well, I guess the
winner wins the privledge of knowing that he can kick
everyone elses butt at Trivial Persuit."
"Why don't we all play at the
same time?" Wufei
asked.
"Because that's the way
everyone does it! Let's dare
to be different!"
"I'll participate,"
Quatre said, smiling.
Duo took this as an affirmative
from the rest of the
group, as well. "All right! I'll challenge first. Oh,
and the loser has to ask the questions," Duo looked
around the room. At first he wanted to challenge
Heero, but he was really starting to get curious as to
who could go the longest without saying anything, so
he turned to Wufei. "I challenge you!"
Wufei nodded at him, "I
accept your challenge."
"No one's lost yet, so I'll
ask the questions in the
first game," Quatre told them.
"Thanks, Quatre," Duo
said, grinning.
They set a card table up in the
center of the room,
and proceeded to set up the game.
Suddenly western theme music begins to play, (you know
the kind you always here just before the big shoot
out). There's a close up Duo's eyes looking intently
at Wufei. There's a close up of Wufei's eyes glaring
daggers at Duo. There's a close up of Quatre's eyes
looking back and forth between Duo and Wufei. There's
a close up of Trowa's eye (whichever one isn't
obscured by his bangs at the moment), looking
impassive, as always. There's a close up of Heero's
eyes, looking rather cold and uninterested. The close
up goes back Duo's eyes.
"Hey! What the hell is that?"
Duo asked suddenly.
"What's what?" Quatre
asked.
"That music!"
The three at the Trivial Persuit
table looked around
in confusion. They're eyes finally setteled on the
stereo next to Trowa. Trowa suddenly realizes this
and turns to the stereo and turns it off. "Sorry,
trying to set the mood." Trowa said.
*Haha! Quiet Contest is over.
Heero wins!*, Duo
thought. He looked at Heero, who didn't seem to care.
Maybe it wasn't a contest after all.
Everyone turned back to the game.
Duo had grabbed
the blue peice, Wufei had chosen green.
Duo rolled the dice...three.
He handed the dice to
Wufei. Wufei rolled...five (how appropriate).
"Wufei goes first!"
Quatre announced.
Duo leaned back in his chair
waiting for Wufei to
finish his turn.
Wufei landed on orange, he looked
at Quatre, awaiting
his question.
Quatre pulled out a card from one
of the boxes.
"Orange, okay..." Quatre said, then looked at Wufei,
"'What commision does an Avon Lady average--10, 20, or
40 percent?'"
"What?!" Wufei cried,
"How should I know? What the
hell's an Avon Lady anyway? Sounds like some weak
woman's job."
Quatre looked around at the
others, Duo was having
trouble keeping himself from laughing, even Trowa and
Heero were looking amused. "Uh...does that mean you
don't know the answer?"
Wufei glared at him, but said
nothing. "Okay..."
Quatre said.
"What's the answer, Quatre?"
Duo asked.
"Forty percent."
"Just take your turn,
Maxwell," Wufei ordered.
"All right, all right. Don't
get your undies all in
a bunch."
Wufei glared.
Duo landed on orange as well.
Quatre pulled out a
card and asked a question, "'What's the most famous
six word phrase in Star Wars?'"
"Oh, I know this one! Easy!
'May the Force be with
you.'" Duo said, happily.
Wufei glared at him, "What
kind of question catagory
is that? One minute your asking about Avalon
Ladies..."
"Avon," Duo corrected.
"Whatever..." Wufei
glared at him, "And the next
about Star Wars?"
"Well...it's Wild Card...it
can be about anything."
Quatre explained, wanting to keep the peace.
"Injustice!"
"You're just mad because I
got my question right.
Here...you go." Duo handed the di back to Wufei.
A half an hour later the Western music started to play
again.
"Barton! Turn that damn thing
off!"
"Sorry."
Several minutes after that:
"Bob Dylan."
"No, Duo. Why do you keep
answering every
Entertainment question 'Bob Dylan?'" Quatre asked
"Well, he's bound to be the
answer sooner or later."
"Well, all right, but you can
bet that Bob Dylan was
not the Shakespearen character played by both Laurence
Olivier and Mel Gibson."
Duo shrugged.
Quatre sighed. Wufei had all
the pie peices but two.
He needed green and pink. Duo only had two peices so
far...the orange one he got at the first question and
a green one.
"Your turn Wufei."
Ten minutes later the phone rang, Trowa answered.
"Hello?"
"Oh, hi, Catherine.
Yeah, we're okay...we decided to
stay in. Playing Trivial Persuit. Duo was bored.
Yes...Well, kind of...Duo brought candy..." he paused
and looked at the two huge shopping bags of candy that
had spilled all over the floor near the Trivial
Persuit table. Duo had a Tootsie Pop in his mouth at
the moment, "A lot of candy. Well, Quatre probably
has something...sure, that would probably be okay. All
right. Bye."
Heero looked at Trowa, "What
was that about?"
"It was Catherine. She
offered to bring us some
pizza."
"She doesn't have to, we
could order some."
Trowa shrugged, "I think she
wants to play Trivial
Persuit."
Another five minutes pass:
"'What's the Chinese art of
self defense?'"
"No fair! Of course he's
going to know that one!"
Wufei smirked, "Kung Fu."
"Dammit!"
"Wufei gets a green."
"The two of you are working
together, aren't you?"
Duo demanded. Wufei glared at him, and Quatre shook
his head, tiredly.
A smile crossed Trowa's face,
"This is more fun than
I thought it would be."
Heero glanced at him, "Yeah."
Duo had finished his tootsie pop
and was preasently
munching on a candy bar and glaring at Wufei.
Fifteen minutes later:
"Bob Dylan."
"Duo!"
"What?!"
Ten minutes after that:
Wufei had landed on pink the last
pie peice he
needed. At some point Duo had managed to pick up a
blue peice, but that was all, besides the previous two
that have been mentioned.
Quatre took a card out of the box,
"Okay, here it is:
'What folk rocker did Bruce Springsteen say, "Freed
your mind the way Elvis freed your body?'"
Wufei smirked again, "Bob
Dylan."
Duo glared at Wufei for stealing
his favorite answer.
Quatre glanced at Duo and then
back at Wufei and
nodded. "Right."
Duo choked, and looked back and
forth between Quatre
and Wufei in shock.
Wufei smiled, "I win."
Duo was sputtering and glaring at
Wufei.
"I...you...that...INJUSTICE!!!!"
Wufei stopped smiling and glared
at him, "That's my
line!"
Duo lunged at him. But was stopped
by Quatre.
"Stop!!" he looked at Duo, "Calm down. It's only a
game. And, besides, some one else will challenge you
and if you win you can challenge Wufei again. "
Duo looked at Quatre, "Okay..."
he said hesitantly.
He looked at Wufei, "Good game," he said trying to be
sportsman like.
Wufei nodded.
"Your turn to challenge,"
Duo pointed out, "Oh!" he
seemed to perk up "And I get to ask the questions!"
Wufei looked at the couch where
Trowa and Heero were
sitting. "I challenge Heero," he said.
"Acknowledged."
End of part 1
Next up: Wufei Vs. Heero
And the girls arrive!
The G-boys Play Trivial Pursuit
Part 2:
Wufei Vs. Heero
Duo was now sitting in the
designated QA's (Question
asker's) Chair, or, as Wufei decided to call it, The
Loser's Chair. He had his feet propped up on the
table and was, at present reading the Trivial Pursuit
question cards and placing them into two seperate
piles.
Trowa glanced up at the American
Pilot from his place
on the floor. He had gotten tired of waiting for
Catherine to arrive with the pizza and had resigned
himself to finding something suitable out of Duo's
pile-o-candy to snack on while he waited. He had no
idea what could be keeping his sister. He took a break
from his search when he noticed Duo. "Duo...what are
you doing?" he asked.
Duo shrugged, "Nothin'"
he answered and continued
with what he was doing.
"You're sorting the cards,
aren't you?"
Duo looked at Trowa, "Why
would I be doing that?"
Trowa said nothing, but regareded
Duo suspiciously.
Duo looked around. Wufei was
nowhere in site. *Most
likely gone to meditate before the big match with
Heero,* Duo thought, smirking. Heero wasn't around
either. Duo had no idea where he'd gone off to. After
seeing that the two opponents weren't within hearing
range he turned to Trowa, "All right, maybe I am. I'm
just...looking for suitable questions for Wufei..."
Trowa continued to silently stare
at Duo.
"You know," Duo
continuted, "like anything having to
do with Avon Ladies." He chuckled and turned back to
the cards.
"You're what?! Duo! You can't
do that!" Quatre said
as he stormed into the room.
"Why not?"
Trowa decided that he'd done his
part and went back
to looking for something to eat.
"Well, I could say, 'because
it's not right,' but I
don't think you'd care," Quatre said, "So, I'll
mention this for your consideration: Heero would kill
you if he found out that you were setting Wufei up
with harder questions."
"What?" Heero said from
the doorway.
They all turned to Heero, who was
glaring at Duo,
"Duo..." he said.
"Ah, come on, Heero, I'm
trying to help you!"
"Omae o korosu!"
"See?" Quatre said to
Duo.
"All right! All right! Quatre...shuffle
the cards,"
Duo handed Quatre the cards, "Now they won't be sorted
anymore."
Heero continued to glare at Duo as
Quatre shuffled
the cards, but made no attempt on Duo's life.
Wufei came back in a few minutes
later, and sat down
at the table, waiting for the game to get underway.
Heero followed his example, and took his seat across
from Wufei, while Quatre seated himself in a nearby
chair, with a bag of cookies, to watch the game. Trowa
found a bag of M&M's and sat back down on the sofa.
Trowa slowly reached for the
stereo...
"Trowa..." Heero said
warningly.
Trowa sighed and contented himself
with opening his
bag of M&M's and eating a handful.
"All right!" Duo said
cheerfully, "Let the games
begin!"
"Fifteen minutes into the
game..." Duo was saying as
Quatre brought them each a can of soda, "Heero Yuy
already has two pie peices. One yellow...one green.
Chang Wufei, has none. We are now waiting for Wufei to
hurry the hell up and answer the question he was just
asked."
Wufei glared at Duo, none too
happy with Duo's
impression of a sports announcer during this game.
He'd been giving an almost non-stop play-by-play since
the first five minutes of the game.
"Will he answer? And will it
be correct? The clock is
ticking..."
"Maxwell..."
"He's speaking! Will it be
the...AHHH!"
Duo was interrupted by Wufei
tackling him and
knocking him smack out of his chair and onto the
ground. Duo and Wufei struggled for several seconds as
Wufei grabbed Duo's braid "Hey! Let go of the hair!"
Duo cried. His hand felt around frantically for
something to defend himself with. It finally came in
contact with an unopened can of soda that had been
knocked down in the struggle.
Trowa and Heero were up and were
trying to get ahold
of Wufei who was trying to wrap Duo's braid around his
neck and strangle him with it. Duo pointed the soda
at Wufei and opened the can, spraying soda all over
Wufei and himself as well. "ARGH!!!" Wufei screamed as
Trowa and Heero used the distraction to pull the
Chinese pilot off of Duo.
Duo was holding his braid
protectivly as Quatre
helped him up. "Geez..." Duo mumbled, "Some one in
this room needs to have a very large stick removed
from his a..."
"Duo!" Quatre
interrupted.
"We won't be able to stop him
from killing you
again," Trowa stated as he sat back down on the sofa
with his M&M's.
Heero forced Wufei to sit back
down as he glared at
Duo. "Behave, Duo." he said coldly.
"You people need to learn how
to take a joke."
Ten minutes later:
"'Whose Number One books
include _Daddy_, _Fine
Things_, _Jewels_ and _Wanderlust_?' Oh, this should
be an easy one for you, eh, Wufei?"
"What? Why?"
"Huh? I thought you read them."
"What?! Why the hell would I
read those weakling
books?!"
"Well...Sally said..."
"WHAT?! That woman needs to
learn to keep her mouth
shut!"
"So, you admit it, then?"
"I admit nothing."
"Wufei, if you know the
answer, answer the question."
Heero said, glaring at his oppenent.
"Danielle Steel." Wufei
mummbled.
"He also watches _All My
Childern_," Duo added.
"INJUSTICE!!!!"
Several minutes after that:
"Okay, Heero, 'Who said,
"When I'm good I'm very
good, but when I'm bad I'm better?'"
Heero looked up suddenly. "Relena."
"What?!" Duo said,
confused.
Quatre choked on the cookie he had
been munching on
and Wufei looked as if he'd just swallowed something
that didn't taste quite right.
"Umm..." Duo was saying.
"No, he means, she's here,"
Trowa said as Relena
entered with Catherine (who was carrying pizza) and
Hilde entered the room.
"Oh!" Duo looked
relieved as did the rest of them.
Heero was glaring at all of them for thinking what
they were thinking.
"Did we miss anything?"
Hilde asked.
"Not a thing, the fun's just
starting," Duo said
happily.
"Maxwell lost," Wufei
said, "That was the real fun."
Duo glared at Wufei, but then
turned back to the
girls. "Make yourselves comfy. Where's everyone else?"
"They'll be along. I called
Noin. She's going to pick
up Sally and Dorothy. Zechs might be with her too,"
Catherine said.
"Okay. Now...Trowa said
something about pizza?" Duo
said hopefully
Catherine put the five boxes of
pizza down on another
nearby table, "Yep, help yourself."
Half an hour later, just after the Pizza break:
"Duo, can we play with your
hair?" Hilde asked
suddenly.
"Hell no! Sorry Hilde, I have
to ask the questions,
since I lost my match with Wufei...besides, last time
I let you mess with my hair you put it up like Sailor
Moon's."
Wufei mumbled something about
weaklings and Duo
glared at him. "Let's get back to the game," Heero
said from his seat next to Relena. Changing the
subject before Duo and Wufei could try to kill each
other again.
Catherine grinned at Hilde, and
motioned to Trowa.
"Oh, Trowa!" Catherine
said cheerfully, joining her
brother on the couch.
Trowa looked at Catherine,
suddenly afraid, he then
turned slowly to Hilde who sat on his other side,
smiling. "Yes?" he asked slowly, with a sinking
feeling he wasn't going to be able to escape.
Meanwhile, Heero, Wufei and Duo
sat themselves back
down at the table. Relena joined them, sitting
herself next to Heero.
"Sorry, Relena. Players only,"
Duo said.
"You're not playing,"
Relena pointed out.
"I'm asking the questions."
"I don't see what harm I'll
do."
"You'll distract Heero..."
Duo said, as Heero glared
at him, "And I need him to beat justice-boy, here."
Wufei glared (Wufei really hadn't
stopped glaring at
Duo since the whole Danielle Steel incident).
"Now, if Sally were here to
distract Wufei, then
maybe..."
"Hah! I wouldn't let myself
be distracted by a
woman!"
Duo smirked, "Oh, yes you
would."
Relena sighed, "All right,"
she said and got up to
join the other girls at the sofa with Trowa.
Ten minutes later:
"'Gwat wibsby is swimbry
wigwamed 'whed'?'"
"Idiot! I can't understand
anything you're saying!"
Wufei snapped.
"Duo! Swallow your caramel
before asking a question,"
Hilde ordered him from the sofa.
"Sahwee."
Twenty minutes later:
"'What element has an atomic
weight of one?'"
"Hydrogen."
"Right! Heero gets a brown..."
Duo trailed off as he
glanced toward the sofa where the girls were giggling.
His eyes widened, "Who the hell is that?!" he cried.
On the sofa with them was a
stranger. He had reddish
brown hair done up much like Vegeta's. Quatre, who was
nibbling on a cookie, followed Duo's gaze and stopped
in mid-nibble, looking at the sofa in confusion. Heero
and Wufei both looked as well. Heero looked impassive
while Wufei narrowed his eyes.
"Is that...?" Quatre
began.
"...no, it couldn't be..."
Duo said slowly.
"..but it is..." Wufei
said.
"Trowa..." Heero
finished.
"Yeah," Trowa said,
"What? Guys?"
"Whoa! I've never seen both
your eyes at once
before," Duo said, "I didn't recognize you."
Trowa sweatdropped, Catherine
chuckled and Relena
giggled behind her hand as Hilde sprayed some more
hair spray into his hair to keep it standing up.
Another 25 minutes pass:
"'What desert has an area
larger than the continental
U.S.?'"
"The Sahara."
"Is that your
final answer?"
Heero gave Duo the
death glare.
"Right-o, Heero!
You win!" Duo said
cheerfully.
Wufei was fuming. "Injustice!
If Maxwell hadn't been
acting like the fool he is, and distracting me..." he
started to say.
"Oh, come on, Wu-man! Don't
be a sore loser," Duo
said happily.
"Don't call me, 'Wu-man!"
Heero didn't say anything while
this was going on, he
just sat back in his chair with his arms crossed.
"Heero you get to challenge
somebody...Wuffie, you
get to sit in the 'Loser Chair', as you call it, and
ask the questions." Duo hopped up from the chair
before Wufei could hurt him. He headed to the other
side of the room and started digging through one of
his piles-o-candy.
Heero scanned the room looking for
his next opponent.
End of part 2
The G-Boys Play Trivial Pursuit
Part 3:
Heero Vs. Trowa
Heero's eyes scanned the room,
searching for his next
opponent. His eyes finally came to rest on Trowa, who
was still surrounded by Catherine, Hilde and Relena,
and, for once he actually did have an expression on
his face. An expression of desperation and of
fear...in fact, some might say that he looked like a
cornered animal. The girls were chattering about what
to do with his hair next, and he was sinking further
and further into the sofa...or at least, he was trying
to.
It could be concluded that what
Heero did next was an
act of mercy. "I challenge Trowa," he said calmly.
Trowa's head snapped toward Heero
and the Trivial
Pursuit table. He bolted from the couch, with
unnatural speed. It's described as unnatural because
no one actually saw him move. One second he was trying
to become one with the sofa and the next he was in the
chair across from Heero.
Wufei was sitting in the Loser's
Chair (of course,
now that he was the Loser in question he was insisting
on calling it the QA's chair), and glaring back and
forth between the two of them.
"I can't ask you questions
with your hair up like
that," Wufei stated, turning his glare to Trowa's
ridiculous new Vegeta style hair-do.
A smile actually started to pull
at the corners of
Heero's mouth (Duo noticed this and suddenly wished
desperately for a camera). "He's right, Trowa. None of
us would be able to concentrate properly."
Trowa nodded, and turned to the
girls. They seemed
rather unhappy with the situation, but they handed him
a hair brush and some supplies with which to fix his
hair, and he quickly left the room.
A few minutes later Duo had joined
the girls on the
sofa, under the condition that they not touch his
hair. His hair had been through quite enough tonight,
already, thank you, he had told them. They had
reluctantly agreed and were presently sharing several
bags of candy amongst the four of them. Wufei was
glaring at Heero, still none too happy about getting
beaten. Quatre had stayed pretty quiet through
everything, he was still content to sit in the chair
near the Trivial Pursuit table he had taken up
residence in, while he continued to munch on his
chocolate chip cookies.
The door suddenly burst open and
Noin, Zechs, Sally
and Dorothy entered. "Sorry we're late!" Noin said.
"That's quite all right,"
Quatre said, after
swallowing a cookie. "We're glad you could make it."
"What have we missed?"
Zechs asked, sitting himself
and Noin on a love seat.
"Wufei got his butt kicked by
Heero! Oh, it was
beautiful! I'm so glad I was asking the questions,"
Duo said cheerfully.
Wufei turned his glare on Duo for
what was probably
the 200th time that night, "Maxwell..." he said
slowly, "Could I see your braid for a moment?"
"Hell, no! You don't come
near it!" Duo cried,
holding his braid protectively for the second time
that night.
"You also missed Wufei trying
to kill Duo, " Quatre
said before popping another cookie into his mouth
"They've been like that all
night, then?" Noin asked
indicating to Wufei and Duo, who were glaring at one
another.
"Yep. Pretty much,"
Quatre answered.
"Now, Wufei, behave yourself,"
Sally said, now
standing next to him.
"And you, woman!" Wufei
was glaring at Sally now,
"What the hell do you think you're doing, telling
that idiot Maxwell about what I read and watch on
TV?!"
"I..I didn't," Sally
said, slightly taken aback, then
she turned to Hilde, "I might have mentioned it to
Hilde once, though," she gave Hilde a glare of her
own.
"Sorry...it kind of slipped
out..." Hilde said, now
glaring at Duo.
"I...um...well...er...uh...Candy?"
he held up a bag
full of miscellaneous candies, looking hopeful.
Hilde continued to glare, but took
a lollipop out of
the bag. He tossed the bag to Sally who searched
through it before deciding on a peanut butter cup.
Dorothy had made herself
comfortable sitting on the
floor next to the sofa, occupied by the rest of the
girls (save Sally and Noin) and Duo, she had been
watching Duo, Wufei, Sally and Hilde, looking
expectant, hoping that a fight would break-out between
them. She sighed, disappointed when nothing happened,
and contented herself with looking at Quatre.
Trowa finally re-entered the room,
his hair back to
normal, although perhaps somewhat limper that usual.
He looked around at the new arrivals and nodded in
greeting. His customary expressionless mask was back
in place now.
"Jeez...you took your sweet
time, Trowa..." Duo
muttered as he munched on some M&Ms.
He turned to Duo, "They put
two full cans of hair
spray and a full can of moose on my head, to make it
stand up like that," he pointed out, "takes awhile to
fix something like that."
"Sorry, Trowa," Duo
said, hastily, realizing that if
Trowa said that much at one time, he must have been
pretty agitated.
"What happened?" Zechs
asked.
"You don't want to know,"
Heero told him.
"I see."
"Can you all please start
now?" Duo pressed, "This
should be interesting."
Trowa was sitting across from
Heero again, now. They
were staring at each other, both of them
expressionless and not saying a thing.
"That would be a 'yes,'"
Duo said.
Wufei looked back and forth
between the two players,
"Oh this is going to be fun," he muttered
sarcastically as he handed the die to Trowa to roll.
Trowa had rolled a five, and Heero
rolled a four, the
game was finally underway. Trowa went first. Trowa
landed on yellow, and turned silently to Wufei for his
question, "'What M&M's color was discontinued in
1976?'"
This attracted Duo's attention
because he was sharing
a bag of M&M's with Hilde, at the moment. He looked at
Trowa waiting for the answer.
"Red," Trowa answered.
"Right. Barton gets a yellow,"
Wufei announced.
"Damn! These must be old!"
Duo exclaimed suddenly as
he looked at his handful of M&M's, several of which
were red. "I knew I shouldn't have trusted that guy at
the store. He seemed kinda shifty."
Everyone, except for Heero and
Trowa (who just stared
at each other across the table, still expressionless
and still silent), turned to look at Duo.
"What?"
"Well, Duo, they brought the
red ones back," Hilde
said.
"Oh! Good!" he said
relieved and continued to eat the
M&M's.
Fifteen minutes later:
"Relena, do you think you
could reach over and turn
on that stereo?" Trowa asked.
"No! You will not play that
music!" Wufei snapped.
"It helps me think."
Relena, who really had no idea
what their problem
was, reached over to turn on the stereo.
"Don't you do it, woman!"
"Don't you talk to her like
that, Wufei! Omae o
korosu!"
All hell broke loose at the
Trivial Pursuit table.
Heero and Wufei fought on the floor, knocking the
table over as they did so. The table almost knocked
Trowa over as well, but he was able to quickly get out
of the way. He watched them, his face expressionless
as ever, and then turned to Relena, "On the other
hand...don't turn it on."
Relena nodded.
Dorothy said, rather happily, as
she watched Wufei
and Heero: "Who would have thought Trivial Pursuit
could be this much fun?"
Five Minutes later:
Relena and Zechs helped Heero set
the table up again,
while Noin, Dorothy, Hilde and Catherine argued about
where on the board the peices had been.
Duo, Trowa and Quatre were tying
Wufei to his chair.
Duo was loving every minute of it.
"INJUSTICE!!!"
"Well, this is the second
time you've caused a fight
to break out," Quatre said. "I would like this house
to still be standing by the end of the night."
"How am I going to ask the
questions if I'm tied up?"
"Sally will hold them for
you," Duo said, and turned
to Sally, "Right?"
"Sure."
Wufei continued to mutter angrily
under his breath.
Ten minutes later:
Everything was back in place.
Trowa and Heero were
sitting in there respective chairs and Sally had
pulled a chair up next to Wufei so she could hold the
questions for him. Relena had pointed out that
somebody besides Wufei could have asked the questions.
Duo insisted that it had be Wufei...he lost fair and
square, therefore, he had to ask the questions.
"You're loving this, aren't
you?" Hilde had asked.
"Oh, yeah," Duo answered.
Fifteen minutes later:
"'What's a funabum...funnybunny...Uh...a
funa...Dammit!'"
"What?" Trowa asked.
"Stupid word!"
"Funambulist," Sally
said.
"Repeat the question."
"'What's a...'what she said?"
"Funambulist."
"What weakling used his spare
time to come up with
these stupid words?!" Wufei growled, glaring at the
card Sally was holding in front of him.
"So...the questions is:
'What's a funambulist?'"
Trowa asked, trying to keep everything straight.
"Yes!" Wufei said and
continued to mutter about
stupid words and annoying weaklings.
"A tightrope walker,"
Trowa answered.
"That's right, Trowa. You get
an orange," Sally
replied for Wufei, who was still muttering.
A few minutes later, at the sofa:
"I'm a butterfly."
"I'm a dog. Woof!"
Duo and Quatre were playing with
shadow puppets on
the wall.
"Now I'm a bat," Duo
said.
"Can you only be things with
wings?" Quatre asked.
"Um..yeah."
"Well, I'm a cat now. See?"
Suddenly another shadow
materialized. It looked
remarkably like Wing Zero.
"AAAH!" Duo and Quatre
screamed at the same time, and
their shadow puppets retreated.
"What the...Relena?!"
Duo said, turning to see Relena
making the shadow puppet.
She grinned at them.
"You two need to lay off the
sugar," Noin said, as
she observed them from her place on the love seat with
Zechs.
Duo, who had a tootsie pop in his
mouth at the moment
looked at her as if she'd just said the foulest thing
that had ever come out of anyone's mouth.
Quatre just shrugged and continued
to eat his
cookies.
Ten minutes later, back at the Trivial Pursuit table:
"'Who directed _Raiders of
the Lost Ark_?'"
"Ooh! Oh! I know! I know!"
"Shut-up, Maxwell, you aren't
playing right now.
"I know the answer, though. I
just thought I'd let
you all know."
"We don't care."
"It's not Bob Dylan, Duo,"
Quatre told him.
"Huh? I know that!"
"Steven Speilberg,"
Heero answered, ignoring Duo's
antics.
"Right. You get a pink."
Fifteen minutes after that:
Heero and Trowa had each collected
five pie peices.
Heero needed a blue, Trowa a brown. Everyone was on
the edge of their seats (except Wufei, who was still
tied to his chair), waiting to see the outcome.
Heero and Trowa were looking
calmly across the table
at one another. "Looks like they're having a staring
contest too," Duo whispered.
There was silence as they waited
for Trowa to go.
Trowa rolled, and landed on brown.
Sally held the card up for Wufei
to read, "'What's
the meaning of: Veni, vidi, vici?'"
Everyone moved even closer to the
edge of their
seats, to look at Trowa, waiting expectantly for his
answer.
Was that a smile pulling at the
corners of Trowa's
mouth? Everyone edged closer, to see. Duo moved a
little too far, though, and fell off the couch, almost
taking Hilde with him. He cursed under his breath and
quickly sat up to watch.
"I came, I saw, I conquered,"
Trowa answered.
Everyone let out a huge sigh, and
looked at Wufei.
"Yeah. Barton wins," he
said, "Now let me out of this
damn chair!! Right now!!!"
End of part 3