Ransom of Duo Maxwell
by Madam Blue (madamblu@hotmail.com) and Lady Douji (ladydouji@pdq.net)

Sorry for the crossposting again. And you thought it was over, well it's not, and probably won't be for a while depending on you people, interested, see the author notes at the end of the fic. Also I would like to thank Emily for telling who wrote The Ransom of Little Chief so I can give proper credit<send chibis and pocky) Disclaimers:We don't own the Gboys, they are owned by Bandai. This fic was based off of Ransom of Littled Red Chief by O Henry. Also this fic is not endorsed by Starbucks Warnings: Extreme silliness all around cruel and unusual punishment

PART 3

Dawn was just beginning to break when Heero woke up. It had been a month since Duo's kidnapping and the other pilot had yet to do anything in retaliation for his 'You can keep him.' comment. By his calculations, today would be the day. He didn't know how and he didn't know exactly when, but sometime today he would be 'pranked'.

As he walked into the kitchen for breakfast, (after checking the toothpaste for explosives and shampoo for hair dye in the bathroom,) Heero only saw Quatre and Trowa at the table.

"Good morning Heero! Did you sleep well last night?"

Giving Quatre a nod, Heero carefully opened the refrigerator, keeping well behind the door incase anything was set to launch at him from inside. When nothing was triggered, he grabbed the milk and sat down to eat. (They had a long-standing agreement not to tamper with food because getting sick would interfere with a mission.)

Quatre passed the sugar and mentioned Wufei and Duo had left the night before. They weren't due back till tomorrow. Finishing breakfast, Heero went out to work on Wing.

"Something's wrong. This is too easy... I know something's going to happen today, but what?"

Mumbling to himself, Heero hit the overhead lights and stopped dead in his tracks. Wing stood just where he'd left it, except now it was covered with streamers. Thousands and thousands of neon pink ribbons clung to his Gundam's hull, making the machine look... furry. Further investigation revealed that each and every streamer had been cemented in place and simple pulling would not remove them.

Grabbing a sandblaster, the now quite irate pilot got to work removing those horrid pink things. Hour after hour, keeping at it through lunch and well into the afternoon, Heero managed to scrape off all traces of cemented ribbon.

Weary, sweaty and pissed, he climbed into Wing's cockpit and saw a note waiting for him. It was written in Wufei's handwriting.

Heero ~

By now you have been able to remove the streamers from your Gundam. Before you blame Duo for this prank, you should know that I am the one who placed them there. This has been in retaliation for the date that was ruined when Duo was kidnapped. It could have been something more permanent, but I took pity on you after that incident with the pink flamingo lawn ornaments. In the future, I would appreciate it if your pranks did not interfere with previous commitments.

~ Wufei

Heero just sighed. It made sense, Wufei's justice. An eye for an eye, an inconvenience for an inconvenience... (And he still wanted to know just where Duo'd managed to find 385 pink flamingo lawn ornaments, let alone fit them all into his room!)

Shaking his head, Heero punched up the diagnostic program on his system computer, only to hear the hydraulic bolts snapping into place. Jerking up, he hit the emergency release lever, but nothing happened. He was locked inside of Wing! Searching his system for an explanation, a video of Duo popped onto his screen.

"Hey Heero! Gotcha! You are now stuck inside there, and I give you 45 minutes to undo my rewiring to get out. Maybe 30 minutes if you try real hard! But I wouldn't want ya to be bored, so here's a little mood music while you work! See ya!"

<BOOM> LIVIN' <BOOM> LA VIDA <BOOM> LOCA! <BOOM>

"DUO! OMAE WO KOROSO!!!!!!!

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Authors Notes: Hello, Lady Douji here, me and Madame Blue had waaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy too much fun writing this fic, and there were a couple things we wanted to share now that's it done.

1. The was an extensive amount of research that went into this fic. Madame Blue went out of her way and braved the reaches of Starbucks to determine which highly caffinated beverage would give Duo the caffeine high he was on, as well as determining exactly what goes into plush toys. While I study the ingredients and flavors of Starbuck's ice cream, to see which would mantain Duo's high. Unfortunately we both lost our souls to Starbucks during this research.

2. I want to go on record as saying I did not mean to name the kidnapper who got his hair burned off Harry. We started out just refering to them as K#1 K#2 K#3 and K#4, but found that too confusing went back and named them, after that segment was written.

3. Madame Blue wishes to state that not all self inserts are bad, as noted by her insert as the poor pizza delivery woman.

4. All plushies mentioned in this fic were pokemon. No pokemon were harmed in the creation of the fic, only their plushy stunt doubles.

5. The entire 2+5 subplot was the result of a sudden inexplicable desire I had to see Wufei tuck Duo in to bed (but isn't such a lovely image)

That just about covers it except for the fic challenge which is One, Two, Three, Four I declare a Gundam Wing Prank War! As you can see from this epilogue we see the gundam boys as constantly playing pranks on each other (especially Heero and Duo) and we want to see what kind of pranks all of you can think of them pulling. Any one can prank anyone else, and naturally you can bring the Oz people into it to. Have fun folks.

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