The G-boys play Trivial Pursuit 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 dizziness, 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 ignored 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 Pursuit box. "We play this!" he told them.
Everyone, including Trowa and Heero, were looking at him now. Although neither Trowa nor Heero said anything. Apparently their Quiet Contest hadn't ended yet. They all looked rather unconvinced.
"Here's how we're going to 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 privilege of knowing that he can kick everyone else?s butt at Trivial Pursuit."
"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 Pursuit table looked around in confusion. They're eyes finally settled 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 piece, 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 commission 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 category 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.
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A half an hour later the Western music started to play again.
"Barton! Turn that damn thing off!"
"Sorry."
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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 Shakespearean character played by both Laurence Olivier and Mel Gibson."
Duo shrugged.
Quatre sighed. Wufei had all the pie pieces but two. He needed green and pink. Duo only had two pieces so far...the orange one he got at the first question and a green one.
"Your turn Wufei."
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Ten minutes later the phone rang, Trowa answered. "Hello?"
"Oh, hi, Catherine. Yeah, we're okay...we decided to stay in. Playing Trivial Pursuit. 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 Pursuit 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 Pursuit."
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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 presently munching on a candy bar and glaring at Wufei.
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Fifteen minutes later:
"Bob Dylan."
"Duo!"
"What?!"
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Ten minutes after that:
Wufei had landed on pink the last pie piece he needed. At some point Duo had managed to pick up a blue piece, 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
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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 separate 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 regarded 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 continued, "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!"
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"Fifteen minutes into the game..." Duo was saying as Quatre brought them each a can of soda, "Heero Yuy already has two pie pieces. 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 a hold 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 protectively 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."
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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 opponent.
"Danielle Steel." Wufei mumbled.
"He also watches _All My Children_," Duo added.
"INJUSTICE!!!!"
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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 sweat dropped, Catherine chuckled and Relena giggled behind her hand as Hilde sprayed some more hair spray into his hair to keep it standing up.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?"
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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 pieces 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 Spielberg," Heero answered, ignoring Duo's antics.
"Right. You get a pink."
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Fifteen minutes after that:
Heero and Trowa had each collected five pie pieces. 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
