One Fair Day

by Maria Rocket

***

One cool and sunny summer's day, the gundam pilots and friends decided to go to the fair. They took Heero's car, with Duo, Hilde, Quatre, Trowa, Catherine, Wufei, and Sally crammed into the backseat. Heero parked outside the fence, and they had to walk through the vast desert-like wasteland of the fair grounds parking lot.

"Too cheap to park any closer?" Duo grumbled at Heero.

"You could all use the exercise," Heero replied.

Everyone grumbled at him.

Speaking of cheap, Catherine had Trowa and Quatre lagging behind the others for some reason. Looking back, Sally could see her struggling with them. She couldn't make out what was going on, but she could hear Trowa and Quatre both complaining.

Finally, they made it to the fair entrance. They went through pair by pair, paying the booth lady. Then Catherine approached, towing along Quatre and Trowa. The two boys were slouched as they walked behind her, trying to hide their faces beneath the big red baseball caps she'd given them to wear. Both were wearing oversized t-shirts with Barney on them. Catherine pushed cash at the booth lady.

"One adult ticket, please!"

The booth lady looked at Quatre and Trowa suspiciously, then frowned at Catherine. "Your two friends have to pay too."

Catherine gave a big smile. "Oh, those are my two little brothers! Kids under ten get in free you know!"

"You expect me to believe those two are ten!?"

"They're just big for their age!"

Quatre and Trowa groaned.

"Please! I wasn't born yesterday you know!" The booth lady snapped. "They both pay up now, or leave!"

"Catherine, just let me...!" Quatre stepped forward, but Trowa quickly pulled him back, putting a hand over his mouth. He shook his head very fast.

Catherine threatened the booth lady with a knife, an insane gleam in her eye. "Let them in now! I'm really realllly stressed here!"

"Security!" The booth lady screeched.

At the moment, security was too busy trying to hold down Heero over at the metal detector. It was taking everyone on hand to keep him from attacking, and Relena was trying to pull him away.

"He's got something on him!" One guard shouted.

"Where the heck!?" Another asked.

"Got me!"

"Hands off the spandex!" Heero yelled.

In the confusion, Catherine rushed on in dragging Trowa and Quatre by their Barney shirts.

***

As they walked in, Duo noticed the cotton candy stands right away. He tugged anxiously on Hilde's shirt. "Hurry up, Hilde! They've got pink 'and' blue cotton candy!"

Hilde shook her head. "Duo, that stuff's pure sugar. Are you sure..."

"YEAH!" Duo rushed over and bought a big cloud of fluffy sugar. "Yum!" He took a big bite out of it.

Hilde looked nervous.

Duo bounced past her towards Heero and Relena, who had finally gotten past security. "So, you guys gonna go on some rides? The tilt-a-whirl? The ferris wheellll!!??" He jumped onto Heero's shoulders and grabbed onto Relena's hair with a big grin on his face. "Or maybe you guys just wanna head straight over to the tunnel o' love an' get it on!?"

Heero smashed Duo facefirst into the pavement. "Stay off, Duo."

"WAAAHH!!!" Duo hid behind Hilde with his arms around her waist, and the big puffy cotton candy still in his mouth. "Hilde, Heero is bein' mean to me!" His eyes got big and teary. Then he shot straight up. "Oooh! I think I see some candy apples!"

"Duo, I don't think you...AAHH!!" Hilde found herself being picked up by the waist and whisked away a moment later.

Heero and Relena just looked at each other. Relena shook her head, and Heero just twitched the corner of his mouth slightly. Then he took her hand and led them after the escaping sugar fiend and his girlfriend.

***

"Isn't this fun, boys?" Catherine smiled.

The music of the carosel was still playing as the trio bobbed up and down on the assorted animals. Catherine was on the purple unicorn, Trowa was on the blue lion, and Quatre was on the pink pony. Catherine was in a very cheerful mood now, but Quatre and Trowa looked rather bored. They were glad to be back in their normal clothes again though.

"Cathy...can't we do something else?" Trowa sighed.

"But this is so fun! The circus really should get one of these."

Quatre smiled weakly. He liked the carosel...but it was getting rather dull after the tenth time around. "Maybe you should stay here while me and Trowa look around for something else to do..."

"Awww! You're no fun!"

"Quatre!!!" Came a shrill squeak from the nearby crowd.

Immediately, Quatre's hair stood on end, and his eye began to twitch. "AAAAAHHH!!!!" Ignoring the fact that the ride was still moving, he snatched Trowa from his seat, and jumped off the carosel. "Hide me! Hide me! She's here!!!!"

As Quatre ran off screaming with Trowa, Catherine continued to ride the carosel, giggling madly. "Onward my fair steed! Onward!"

***

"Hey you! Want to play?" A man at one of the game booths jumped out in front of Wufei and Sally. "Win a prize every--OOF!" He went crashing back into the booth.

Wufei put his extended foot down, clenching his fists and his jaw. "They're around every corner!!! Like predators! Will they never leave us in peace!??" Behind them was an entire line of unconscious people in silly striped uniforms.

Sally snickered. "Oh, c'mon Wufei. That one looks fun." She pointed to the basketball game. "You can shoot hoops, can't you?"

"Of course. Child's play."

"Then let's see you try." Sally grinned and put her own money down on the counter. She took one of the basketballs and tossed it to Wufei.

"Make a basket, win a prize..." The man mumbled from behind the booth.

"Fine then." Wufei narrowed his eyes at the basket. Then he tossed the ball. It hit the edge of the hoop, and flew back to smack him in the face, landing him hard on his back.

"AAGH! I'm going to try that again!"

Sally smiled and put more cash down. "Alright."

Wufei tried again. This time the basketball hit the guy in the booth instead, knocking him unconscious again. Wufei pulled at his hair. "Inn...argh!" He went to try again.

"Come on Wufei...go go go!" Sally cheered.

Wufei stood poised. "This time it's going in. I will not fail!" He shot the ball. It curved beautifully. Up and up it went. It made a perfect basket. Into the next booth.

Wufei and Sally stared over at the other booth with disbelief. The ponytailed boy threw himself to the ground with his hands over his head, kicking his feet on the ground. "Injustice! Injustice! Kill me now, Sally, I haven't the right to live! I am WEAK!"

Sally sighed and rolled her eyes. The other booth threw the basketball back at her, which she caught. "Maybe we should try something a little easier." She pulled the sniffling Wufei to his feet, tossing the basketball back into the booth behind them. As they walked away, it fell perfectly into the basket.

***

Meanwhile, Catherine was still riding the carosel.

"Wheee! Hiho Silver, away!"

***

Flash! Flash!

"Oooh...Trowa..."

Flash! Flash!

"Hey!" A stern voice came from outside the enclosed photo booth. "You guys gonna stay in there all day? I have other customers you know!"

"Just a couple more..." Trowa moaned, tossing a wad of bills out under the curtains. Then Quatre grabbed him by the bang and pulled him back down into a fierce kiss.

Flash! Flash!

They were so busy making out, that neither noticed the pair of high heels that stepped in front of the curtains.

"Quatreeeee!!!" Squealed a female voice.

Both Quatre and Trowa froze in mortal fear. Fears which were confirmed when Dorothy sprung through the curtains with an insane grin on her face. Trowa boggled, then gasped as Quatre caught him against himself with a deathgrip. Quatre just started screaming in terror. "She's found meeeee!!!!"

"My precious little Quatre!!!" Dorothy giggled and jumped upon them.

Flash! Flash!

The photo booth owner just ignored all the screaming and commotion coming from behind the curtain. Meanwhile, the little black and white photos clicked out of the machine one by one. Joining all the pictures of Trowa and Quatre entwined in various positions and liplocks, came the pictures of Dorothy forcing kisses upon a hysterical Quatre, and Trowa looking as though he might pass out from a lack of air as Quatre squeezed him until his eyes seemed to bulge from his head.

***

"Ooh, look, a fortuneteller's booth!" Relena pointed out the stand filled with little zodiac trinkets and candles. She dragged Heero over before he could even turn around. Hilde followed, with sugar high Duo in tow.

"Try out the miracle fish's fortune?" The woman behind the stand asked, holding out a little fish that looked like it was made out of red plastic wrap.

"Why not?" Relena let the woman place it in the palm of her hand. Her eyes widened as the little fish moved all by itself in her hand, until it curled up entirely into a little roll.

"According to the fish, you are very passionate," the woman smiled. She looked over to Heero, who was watching the fish very suspiciously. "Would your boyfriend like a try?"

Heero just glared. Ignoring this, the woman took the fish from Relena's palm and flattened it out again. Before the boy could protest, she took his hand and set the fish in it. She and Relena stared at it.

Nothing happened. The fish just sat there.

The woman frowned, and gave Heero a very wary look.

"Why doesn't it move for Heero?" Relena asked.

"Umm..." The woman snatched the fish away from Heero, who was grinning evilly, and grabbed Hilde. "Maybe the young lady would like a try as well?"

"Yeah!" Hilde smiled. In Hilde's palm, the fish's head and tail curled up until they met each other.

"Ah, according to the fish, you are in love," the woman said with a wink towards Duo, who was bouncing excitedly in the background. Hilde blushed.

"Lemme try! Lemme try!" Duo bounced up and down, holding onto Hilde's shoulders.

"Okay," Hilde made Duo stand still for a bit, and stuck the fish in his palm.

For a moment, the fish did nothing. This drew a surprised look from the woman. "This boy too?" Then the fish quivered. Heero and Relena drew in closer behind Hilde to watch it. As they did, the fish jumped around on Duo's hand on it's back flippers as if dancing. But gradually the fish began flopping around wildly in Duo's palm, as if going into seizures. Duo's head drew back in fright.

"What's with this thing!?"

Then in a burst of overly dramatic pyrotechics, the little fish exploded in a flash of red plastic stuff. Everyone stared. Especially the woman.

"Umm..." Hilde blinked.

The woman's eyes were near ready to bug out of her head. Then collecting herself, she grabbed Duo roughly by the shoulders, turned him around, and shoved him away from the stand. "Go away! Stay far far away!" Then she ran into the back of the stand screaming.

Heero, Relena, Duo, and Hilde stood there staring.

"You killed the miracle fish, Duo." Heero's eyes shifted to give Duo an amused look.

Duo brushed the fish's remains from his hands. "Stupid fish. Let's go, I want some lemonade!" He wandered off with Hilde close behind. Heero moved to follow as well, but glanced back to see Relena being led into the fortuneteller's booth.

"Hn." Heero trailed after her.

He found Relena sitting in a chair at a small folding table opposite the fortuneteller woman. Between them was a small smudgy crystal ball. He went to stand behind Relena, who looked completely into it.

"Now place your hand on the crystal ball," the woman told her. "And I shall see your future."

Relena did so. The woman stared into the crystal ball. "Aah...I see. Very interesting. You're going to live a very long life..." She blinked and paused. "No...wait. You're going to die very soon." She paused again. "Huh? No...you're going to live...but now you're going to die...wait, you're still going to live...now you're going to die again..." She woman pushed back from the table in bewilderment. "And now you're going to live?"

Out of view behind Relena, Heero lowered his gun from her back once more. He grinned an evil grin as he tucked his weapon back to wherever magical place he had retrieved it from.

The fortuneteller took the crystal ball and shook it very hard, until the fake snow floating inside was swirling all around. Then she set it back down on the table with a bang, putting Relena's hand back on it. Then she narrowed her eyes into the crystal ball again. "Now, let's see if the reception is a little better..."

Relena's eyes widened as the fortuneteller leaned towards the crystal ball. She was so caught up in it, that she didn't notice Heero lean against her shoulders with his crossed arms. He was still watching the fortuneteller with a look of suspicion.

"Ahh...a small dark stranger will sweep you away in his passion..."

Relena blushed. Heero just continued staring coldly at the fortuneteller, but an unmistakable hint of color came to his cheeks.

"You'll travel far and wide, and be a very important person. You'll marry and raise your own personal army to rule the world."

A look of confusion crossed Relena's face. Heero's brows lifted slightly in interest.

"Then as your power grows, you'll finance bigger and stronger weapons of mass destruction, just for the fun of it. And your most loved one will test them all, even if it results in self-destructing them."

Relena raised an eyebrow with a very doubtful look. "Yeah...right." Behind her, Heero had draped his arms close about her neck, and his eyes had become very big and wobbly with joy.

"Ah, and you shall have fifty-two children...my, what an active love life you'll live. And all with the same man. How sweet."

Relena became very pale. "F-Fifty...two?" Suddenly a big stupid smile came over Heero. He hugged Relena.

"Relenaaaa!!!"

"AAAAHHH!!!" Relena's eyes grew huge. "Noooo! I won't risk it! No kids! No! No! Stay away from me Heero!" She bolted from the fortuneteller booth screaming.

With a scary, happy smile, Heero charged out after her.

***

Sitting for a bit in a grassy clearing, Duo was busy eating his third caramel apple. He had the sweetest look on his face as he enjoyed himself, but Hilde pouted beside him. She leaned against him.

"Duooo...aren't you done eating yet?"

"Sugarrrrr!" Duo sucked on the caramel apple.

With a tear in her eye, Hilde turned away from Duo. "If that's all you want to do, I'm going to find Relena and Heero." She moved to get up, but found herself held down. She looked over her shoulder to see Duo grinning at her with narrowed eyes. He had her firmly by the wrist.

"Sugarrrr!" Duo tossed away the caramel apple and jumped her, laying her flat on her back. He grabbed her other arm and leered down at her. "Sugarrr." He nestled down on her and kissed her hungrily.

'Sweet,' Hilde thought to herself as she put her arms around him.

***

Catherine stood upright on her pink unicorn, laughing insanely into the wind as she bobbed up and down. The kids on the other multicolored metal animals stared at her.

"I'm queen of the world!" She cackled.

***

"Hey, that's supposed to be me!" Relena whined as she ran by.

Finally, Heero caught her, wrapping his arms firmly about her waist and pulling her against him. "Relena."

As much as she wanted to get away, Relena was helpless against that sultry voice of his. She melted into his arms. "Heero."

"Relena."

"Heero."

"Relena."

"Heero."

"Relena."

"Heero."

"Relena."

"Heero."

"Relena."

"Heero."

"Rele--" Heero was suddenly smacked soundly in the back of the head with a plastic squeaky mallet. Dazed, he toppled over, taking Relena with him.

With a sigh, Trowa, the wielder of the squeaky mallet, walked around them. "That was really getting annoying." He walked on by, Quatre in hand. They had to keep moving, to keep Dorothy from catching up with them.

"Sorry," Quatre added, as he followed Trowa.

***

Duo was busy with his nose in Hilde's hair when he happened to notice one of the fair ground's bars nearby. "Hey, Hilde, let's go in there," he whispered.

"Duo, we're not old enough to get in there," Hilde said, glancing up.

"Aw, who'll notice? C'mon!" He kissed her mouth good and firm once more, then got up.

"Well, you can try, Duo. I'm just going to lay here in the grass for a few minutes more." Hilde smiled as Duo strutted off towards the bar. "I have a feeling you'll be rejoining me shortly..." She snickered under her breath.

So Duo walked into the dark and scummy fair grounds bar. Surprisingly, there weren't a lot of people in there, just a few lowlifes and bar maids. In the corner sat Zechs, Noin, Treize, and Lady Une.

They watched as Duo went over to the bar and attempted to buy a beer. The bartender just shook his head down at him. "No kids allowed in here. Go back out to yer mommy."

Duo pouted with a deep frown. He was so annoyed, his braid flipped out behind him. "I don't have a mommy! I'm the God of Death, not a kid!"

"Tough, kid. Now git."

"Grr..." Then Duo noticed the four laughing at him in the corner. "Hey! I didn't know you guys were here!" He jumped over to Noin. "Think you could help me out here? Pleeease?"

"Now Duo, you know that's illegal," Noin patted his shoulder. "You should go and see what your friends are doing."

"Aw, c'mon!"

Noin shook her head.

"Bocckk!!" Trieze squaked in the corner.

"Umm...is he okay?" Duo looked over a little uneasily at Trieze, who was eating birdfeed out of Lady Une's hand.

Noin just looked over blankly, then up at the ceiling innocently. Zechs had an evil smile on his face. "Sure, he's fine."

Lady Une glared over at Zechs and Noin. "This had better wear off!!!"

Trieze cocked his head to the side to look at the birdfeed, then at Duo. Suddenly he hopped onto the table and began to crow loudly, flapping his arms. Lady Une put her head on the table and began to weep. Zechs and Noin put their hands to their faces, but their stifled laughter was very clear.

"Hey, there's a very good hypnotist doing an act around here," Noin told Duo. "And he's having an encore act later on tonight. You should check it out."

Zechs nodded. "I definitely recommend it." He glanced up at Trieze, who had began to scratch around. He snickered.

"Uhh...okay." Wide eyed and throughly freaked out, Duo decided to get far away from the bar.

***

"Trowwwa..." Quatre glanced about nervously. He'd lost track of Trowa in the crowd a few minutes before. And he knew Dorothy was still stalking him out there somewhere.

He stopped next to a ride that looked like giant strawberries spinning around. As they circled around, he saw Trowa sitting inside one of them. "Trowa?" Seeing him, Trowa turned a bright red.

Quatre was about to laugh, when he saw Dorothy about to pounce.

"AAAHH!!!" He ran off as fast as he could go.

***

Heero stopped in front of a very loud ride. "Relena."

"Heero." Relena stopped as well.

"Rele..."

Relena quickly smacked him in the head.

"Thanks. I needed that." He pointed to the ride. "Let's try that one."

"It's loud," Relena covered her ears. "Why don't we try some games first?"

"Later..." Heero had an eager look in his eyes as the ride began to stop. With both hands on the back of Relena's shoulders, he started moving her towards the line. "C'mon. You might like it."

Before they got on, Relena noticed a sign saying something about the 'Himalayas.' She started to sweat. "Heero, I can't stand fast rides...this is going to be fast, isn't it?"

"Probably."

"Oh boy..." Relena's voice quavered, seeing the maniacal gleam coming into his eyes. Then the carts started to move.

The ride was screaming heavy metal music as it sped along the round track faster and faster. Most of the people were screaming along with Relena, who was clutching onto Heero for dear life.

As they approached breakneck speed, Heero held onto Relena, but remained quiet. Then the ride started going backwards, at the same speed. The music blared even louder, but now it sounded like gibberish as it played in reverse.

"Heeerrooo!!!" Relena yelled.

Heero just threw back his head and started laughing insanely.

That's when the strobe lights started up. Heero jerked back with a gasp. "We're under attack!" He threw Relena into his lap and pulled a gun from out of nowhere.

There was hardly a difference in the screaming as Heero started shooting wildly, sending sparks flaring out of the top of the ride. The strobing continued, and Heero's eyes glowed.

"This...this is just like the ZERO system!" He put his hands to his head. "But a million times worse! NOOOO!!!!" He began to get flashbacks of the time he'd killed that little girl and her dog Toto, and of the time he'd almost killed Quatre, and of the time he tried Catherine's cooking. Heero screamed.

"I'll kill you all!" He started shooting nonstop again, this time resuming his insane laughter.

For some reason, Relena didn't bother to remove her head from his lap.

***

"I am one with the unicorn! This is much better than that stupid goat the manager stuck a fake horn on a few years back! Yeehaww!" Catherine jumped up and down on her carosel unicorn.

The other kids riding were staying far away from her side.

***

Now lost, Quatre found himself wandering into an area filled with penned up farm animals. There was the sounds of horses neighing, and a donkey braying somewhere nearby. He stopped to pet one of the little lambs. "I wonder where Trowa is. Maybe I should try backtracking to that strawberry ride..." He looked over to see a camel in one of the stalls.

"Hey, you look just like my old camel, Jamal!" Quatre smiled. Next to the camel was a pen full of little bunnies. "Oh, how cute!" He kneeled down to pet them through the wire mesh. Then he blinked.

Trowa was inside the pen holding a a rather big tan-furred bunny. He turned it this way and that way, then twitched his nose at it. There was a tiny smile hidden behind his bangs.

"There you are," Quatre smiled, trying not to giggle. Trowa really did look very sweet in there. "Who's your friend?"

Surprised, Trowa blinked up at Quatre. "Oh! Sorry, guess I got lost. This...is...well, I don't think it has a name."

After walking around the cage, Quatre climbed in and took the big bunny from Trowa. "Well, I'll just call him Trowabunny then." He put it down, letting it hop over towards another little tan bunny, who quickly hid its bunny nose in the other's side. A little black-furred bunny hopped over a bit, trying to get away from the little white bunny with black spots that had a black stripe down its back. In the far corner, a dark grey bunny lay quietly by itself. Quatre grinned. "Cute, aren't they?"

"And strangely familiar," Trowa said with a curious tilt of the head.

"C'mon Trowabunny," Quatre laughed and kissed Trowa's nose. Then he led him out of the bunny cage.

They continued walking through the stalls, looking at some weird birds and a few miniature ponies. Then they came to a stall with a little black pig in it. It looked back up at them with pleading eyes.

"Look," Quatre pointed to the black piggy. "I've never seen a pig that small before." He paused. "Well, actually, I've hardly seen any pigs before in person."

"It looks unhappy in there."

The little black pig seemed to shake its head in agreement.

"Well, no wonder, it has no water!" Quatre looked around for a hose and found one. "And I've heard that pigs can't sweat. I'll cool it off a little." Quatre sprayed the little piggy.

"...."

A bewildered boy with black hair was suddenly sitting where the little black pig had been a moment before. And all he was wearing was a yellow and black bandana. He blinked for a moment.

"Whoa... Thanks! I'm outta here!" With that, he jumped over the stall fence and ran off in a cloud of dust and hay. Somewhere off in the distance, people started screaming.

Trowa and Quatre just stood where they were, with shocked, wide eyed looks on their faces. Quatre was still holding the running hose slackly in his hand. Finally, he just dropped it.

"Trowa," he said flatly. "I think I just had another ZERO system side effect. Maybe we should go find somewhere to sit down for awhile."

Trowa nodded. "Yeah."

***

"I can't believe you talked me into this." Wufei mumbled.

"Hey, you got the black pony, so stop complaining," Sally said, behind him on her own brown pony. At the command of the pony driver, all the ponies started walking around.

"Don't forget your cowboy hat," the driver smiled, putting a white ten gallon hat on Wufei. "An' let's hear ya say 'Yeehaw!'"

"Yeehaw." Wufei grit through his teeth.

***

After leaving the bar, Duo was now in a line for popcorn, while Hilde bought ride tickets for them. When she returned, she found him talking to a cute teenage boy with blue hair and a strange white uniform. She narrowed her eyes suspiciously. Was this stranger a member of some new faction?

"Oh, yes," the blue haired boy nodded. "Just because I'm infinitely more beautiful than anyone else, man or woman, people just assume that I'm gay! Hah! The only one who could ever compare to me is my Jess."

Duo nodded also. "Same thing happens to me all the time. Sheesh, do I hafta do Hilde in public to make it clear she's the only one for me?"

"Duo!?" Hilde quickly ran over and put her hand over his mouth. She looked over at the other boy. "Just who are you anyway?"

"James!" Yelled a girl with impossible red hair. Casting an evil glare towards Hilde, she jumped over and grabbed James by the back of his jacket. "Stop messing around! Pikachu is getting away!" With that, she dragged James away, in the direction of a vendor walking about with a bunch of Pikachu balloons.

"Uh...bye!" James shouted as he went. "Thanks for the Magikarp mecha advice, Duo!"

Duo grinned and waved. Hilde just stared. Then Heero, Relena, Wufei, Sally, Quatre, and Trowa showed up. They had all decided to go on the Tunnel of Love ride at the same time. While everyone else got tickets, Duo and Hilde ate popcorn. Except for Heero, who had his little ride bracelet.

Heero and Relena started making out in line. Wufei scowled at them. "Wait until you get on the ride so you don't make the rest of us sick!" Without turning his attentions from Relena, Heero raised a huge rifle out of nowhere and pointed it at Wufei. With an 'eep!' Wufei jumped and hid behind Sally, who rolled her eyes.

They all entered the Tunnel of Love in pairs. Heero went with Relena, Duo went with Hilde, Quatre went with Trowa, and Wufei went with Sally. As they entered the ride, it became so dark, no one could see a thing. Once they each got in a boat though, everyone settled down nicely. A few minutes later, the boats floated out the other side of the ride.

In the first boat, the couple was still on top of each other, making out like crazy. Heero tightened his arms around his partner with a giddy little smile. He stroked braided hair, only mildly wondering why he couldn't find the matching braid on the other side... "Relena..." he whispered as he finally pulled back from their kiss.

"Hil...wait a minute..."

Heero's eyes popped open at the sound of Duo's voice. "Relena...!?" He looked down to find Duo in his arms, with his legs wrapped around him. Duo bug eyed back at him.

"Heero, you aren't Hilde." He blinked in shock. 'Damn, Heero and Hilde's hair is the same length!' Then the two boys freaked out and pulled away from each other, smacking their heads on opposite sides of the boat.

"Omae o korosu." Heero glared at Duo before jumping back and decking him so hard, the braided one was knocked out of the boat.

The next boat floated out. In this one, Trowa and Hilde had their arms about each other, smiling sweetly. Then they opened their eyes. And stared at each other.

"...."

"Trowa...!?"

In one swift movement, they sat away from each other and looked away. They both looked beet red.

The third boat floated out. Wufei sat scowling as Relena and Sally sat on either side of him, kissing the cheek nearest to them. "Injustice! This ride is weak!"

The girls just giggled at him. Wufei was even less amused when Relena pulled the soggy and slightly swollen Duo out of the water and into their boat.

Then the fourth boat floated on out. Inside Quatre and Dorothy had their hands all over each other. Once while kissing, Quatre opened his eyes slightly... Then widened once in pure fear, then suddenly frowned a bit. Then a creepy smile came over him, and he just pushed Dorothy further down in the boat, continuing to kiss her.

They had to be pulled out of the ride. Trowa looked ready to go ZERO system. "Quatre! How could you!"

Quatre threw himself at Trowa's feet. "Have mercy! It was dark! I couldn't see!"

"How could you mistake her for me with hair like that!?" Trowa grumbled.

"I...I thought your bang came loose?" Quatre stammered.

Trowa stared at him incredulously.

Dorothy snickered. "You enjoyed every minute of that Quatre, just admit it."

"Allah!" Quatre cried. "Forgive me, Trowa! I was weak!"

Rolling his eye, Trowa sighed. Quatre looked so pathetic, he just couldn't stay too mad at him. "Just don't let it happen again."

***

Meanwhile, the carosel was going way faster than it should. Laughing insanely, Catherine threw her knifes at the controls again and again. The guy controlling the ride was cowering in terror. The music went faster and faster along with the ride.

Children were being flung everywhere as Catherine held on tightly to her unicorn. "BWAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!! We'll ride like the wind!"

***

Ducking out of the way of the speeding children, Heero, Relena, Duo, and Hilde came to a dart throwing game. Hilde looked over at the wall of balloons. The object of the game was to pop a balloon everytime to win a prize. She smiled.

"This doesn't look so hard."

"Hey, I wanna try!" Duo jumped up to the counter. He winked back at Hilde. "This is gonna be a snap."

***

Since it was getting dark, and they were getting tired of walking around, Heero, Relena, Duo, Hilde, Quatre, Trowa, Sally, and Wufei sat down in a place with a lot of chairs and drank some lemonade. Duo kept fidgeting in his chair, but Hilde held him down to keep him from running off again. The place with a lot of chairs was actually for a stage. Since the gundam crew had arrived before anything was going on, they had sat in the front seats. They watched as many other people began to gather to the seats as well.

"Hey, I wonder what's going on here," Quatre looked up at the stage, clutching his giant plush Pikachu. Soon his question was answered when the curtain parted to reveal...

"Howard!?" Duo blinked. "He's the hypnotist!?"

Sure enough, it was Howard, in a tuxedo and a cheezy top hat. He called Heero, Relena, Trowa, Quatre, and Wufei up to the stage. Very reluctantly the four trudged up to the stage. Duo might have been called as well, but he had ducked under the chair to retrieve his bag of cotton candy.