One of those silent and deadly ones...

[sailorDH]

Relena absentmindedly slid her hand through her tangly locks and grimaced when she reached a knot. It was a most long and tiring day for the princess. She could hardly describe the joy she felt when it was finally time to leave the formal conversations, and the dry surroundings of her office building. As she approached the elevator of the 50th floor, she heard some loud noises coming from a nearby room. Out of curiosity, she peered into the open doorway, and was greeted with a Chang Wufei, red in the face, clutching a stack of papers.

"Take this elsewhere! What is wrong with you?" he yelled at a woman dressed in a preventer's uniform.

"Wufei. Please understand, there is no other solution, and there was absolutely no way of preventing it." Sally retorted. "Now, would you calm down so you can complete your task?"

He grumbled and muttered that he was going home, and began to pack up his stuff.

Sally happened to glance up at this point and spot Relena.

Oh no, she was spotted. Damn her curiosity.

"Why, Relena! What a pleasant surprise!"

Relena forced herself to smile and exchange a few pleasantries with Sally before turning around and dashing into the hallway bumping into Quatre Raberba Winner in the process.

"Ah! Relena! Going home?"

She was really longing for that hot bath she promised herself. They walked together to the elevator, and waited for it to descend from the 50th level.
30 seconds later, it revealed Heero in a suit. A disgruntled Wufei stepped in with them. On the 23rd level, a girl in a brown sailor fuku, with brown hair tied into buns at the sides of her head trailed in along with a monk with blue hair. The door opened once again at the 21st level to reveal a Duo in shades and Dorothy looking way to smug for Wufei's liking. He lost his temper again.

"Can't you see that there is no room in here? Take the next one!"

Duo shrugged while Dorothy paid him no heed.

"Yes, I am talking to you, woman!"

The doors slid behind them, and the elevator began to descend again. Relena sighed and shifted the documents in her grasp. At this rate, she'll miss her favourite TV show. She turned her eyes from the blue shirt three centimeters away from her nose and stole a glance at Heero beside her, who had his arms crossed, patiently waiting for the 1st floor, 20 floors away. Wufei complained to himself about being squished against Dorothy.

Quatre started to say something but was cut short when the elevator suddenly stopped, jolting everyone out of their reveries. All of the lights also flickered out, leaving everyone in pitch darkness. Relena noticed a small blue flashing light in the room.

"Hey..." she started, "who's light is that?"

A voice answered, "Oh, mine. It's from my watch." said a deep voice beside her she recognized to be Heero's. For a full minute, everyone stared at the flashing light.

"Hey um..." Duo finally said as he removed his shades, "shouldn't we try to get help?" Taking them off didn't help, so he put them back on.

"Let's wait for a while longer. I am sure the electricity will come back in a few minutes." said Quatre.

"Your hair is suffocating me!" a certain person said.

Dorothy tossed her head just to annoy him even more.

"Who?" she casually said, feigning so much innocence that it sounded almost sarcastic. Wufei clenched his fists, ready to yank the offending strands of hair, but then decided against it. He was above hurting weak women and children anyway. So this stupid little wench decided to be difficult. Let her be. Her weakness will shine through someday, and the world will know eventually. He shrugged to himself, and gently brushed the hair out of his face. He was such a charming gentleman sometimes he surprise himself.

"It's getting stuffy in here." someone observed.

Relena inched backwards to get more breathing space, but lost her balance in the process. She tried to grab at the light, but missed, crashing into someone else, sending that person's and her documents sprawling across the small elevator floor.

"I'm terribly sorry!" she said as she crouched down to retrieve her important papers.
"No, no. It's alright!" Quatre said as he crawled on all floors and over people's feet, even bumping into a soft round object by accident in order to collect his documents. Suddenly, he was hit with a warm blast of concentrated foul air. Choking, he scrambled up, and fanned himself with his stack of papers.

Relena tried unsuccessfully to resist the urge to cough. Her hands flew to her face, whacking someone in the process.

"What is that smell?"
"Someone farted." Duo stated as a matter of factly.
"I didn't hear anything."
"It's obviously one of those silent but deadly ones." Duo responded with his "duh-how-stupid-can-you-get" voice.
"Well, who did it?"
"...."
"Don't look at me!" someone retorted.
"I can't see you! Shows how smart you are." the other person snickered.

Everyone slowly brought their hands to their noses. Just then, Dorothy remembered about the perfume she received from the mail that day. She rummaged through her purse and quickly found the packet. She ripped it apart violently in the middle and the scent of Channel 5 wafted into the contaminated air.

Relena physically gagged, and slumped to the floor. It was her least favourite scent. Channel 5 smelled like sweaty athlete lacking deodorant with a hint of the dump behind her local Macdonald's, in her opinion. Mixed with the fart, it became a potent gas weapon good enough for chemical warfare.

"I...can't...breathe..." a high-pitched whiny voice choked out.
"Miaka! Are you okay? Hold on!" The girl continued to waver, muttering about the intolerable smell. The monk chanted in incantation and in a puff of smoke that nobody saw, both disappeared.

"Okay! Who did it?!" Wufei sputtered.
"Yeah, Wufei's right. 'fess up! Everyone farts sometime or another. It's nothing to be embarrassed about." Duo said.
"Yeah, Wufei." said a smirking Dorothy.

Duo whispered something nasty about Wufei to Dorothy and the two began to snicker. Wufei overhead the remark and abstained with great difficulty the desire to inflict grievious bodily pain on the snickering pair. Quatre continued to hide behind his stack of papers, hoping that the smell would abate.

"Relena. Are you alright?" Heero said with as much concern as his monotone voice would allow. He felt her slumped form beside him. She nodded yes, even though he couldn't see her. He dropped his eyes and let them wander across the dark room. There was nothing to see so he closed his eyes, and sat on the ground, gently pulling Relena down with him, urging her to rest. Everyone sensed them on the ground and so they followed suit.

"Can we get some help? Does someone have a cell?"
"Oh yeah! Cell!" Quatre dug through his pockets, and pulled out his fancy Sony Ericson.
"Out of service?! No...it's all my fault."
"Quatre." Duo sighed, "It's not your fault...can I play with your phone?"
"Okay." Quatre gingerly passes the object over to Duo, who grabs it happily.

Time passes. The only sounds are that of the phone. Everyone continues to cover their noses with documents, hands, and sleeves.

After what seemed like an eternity, the lights flickered on one by one. A humming could be heard, and the elevator jolted to a stop at the first floor. Everyone stretched, and adjusted their eyes to the light.

A collective sigh of relief was heard when the door opened...to reveal Trowa. He took one look, pulled out a camera from out of nowhere, snapped a picture and ran away. Wufei ran out after he recovered from the flash after the acrobat, yelling a string of colourful curses. Duo threw the Sony Ericsson back at Quatre, and walked out casually.

"Oh, Relena, I'm sorry. We swapped documents in the darkness by accident." Quatre said apologetically as he hastily handed her back her now crumply and wrinkly documents. She blinked, shook her head in disbelief and headed home.

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Soo....who was the cause of the smell?

[sailorDH]

Darn...I had wanted to include a POLL, but didn't know how.

But yeah, anyway, the question of the poll is:

WHO DID IT?
choices:
- Dorothy
- Duo
- Wufei
- Heero
- Relena
- Quatre
- It wasn't a fart

[Kaili Charmer]

~snicker~ HAHAHAHAHA....gotta love those caught-in-the-elevator-with-smelly-fart scenes. It couldn't be Quatre, unless when he was "hit with" the "foul air" it meant that he was hit with the urge to let go...I think it was Duo, he didn't seem to complain as much as the others did, or go to cover his nose as much.

[stormwind16]

Hmmmm, maybe it was Relena? Maybe she's not so innocents as she seems....

I love your fic please tell us who did it

Greets

Stormwind16

[Wingnut]

Hmmmm, maybe it was Relena? Maybe she's not so innocents as she seems....

I love your fic please tell us who did it

Greets

Stormwind16

Yes, please tell me too. Use the PM system here if you don't want to post the answer for all to see.

[Raspberry]

Well, I think it was Duo. When he said it was something natural...Hahaha! That must be good, in that elevator...Hah aha!

[Katy-did Bug]

I think it was Heero. Just because he really didn't have a response to it and kind of avoided the subject.

[Raspberry]

Heero?.. Nah, it's not him. His just the silent one guy, nothing else. And he wouldn't do such THING next to Relena...

[Katy-did Bug]

He might've been nervous...?

[Raspberry]

No... Remember that he is Perfect Soldier , and he is neither nerveous nor he shows his emotions. Althought Heero is nervous ONLY when he is alone with Relena... Maybe it was that other preventer girl?