Author: Merula
Rating: PG
Pairing: 1x2
Warnings: fusion with 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'
Disclaimer: I don't own GW.
The Gundam Nightmare Before Christmas Part 1
The day after a holiday is always a letdown, isn't it? All the whirlwind excitement, the plans, the parties- all leads to simply a mess to clean up the next day.
Ah, my apologies. I was so happy to be back that I jumped right in without introducing myself!
A small bunny in what appears to be a badly made zombie costume bows. I of course, am Plotz the Bunny, teller of holiday tales and as always accompanied by my assistant, Ponder the Hamster.
A pause.
Ahem. Ponder? Where are you? The silly girl finally put us back in a fic! Now is not the time to go missing.
A small sign pops up from behind a tombstone. I'm here.
Well, come out here.
A pumpkin with a sign sticking out of the top waddles around the tombstone. This costume bites. I thought we were the Christmas Storytellers!
This year we get to be both.
@!#! lazy writer!
Just go with it. Where was I? Oh yes.
The day after a holiday is always a letdown, isn't it? All the whirlwind excitement, the plans, the parties- all leads to simply a mess to clean up the next day.
Well, at least here in our world it does. In other worlds the holiday itself is the focus of everything. In these worlds all they do is work on creating a unique holiday just for us. And once it's over?
It's their turn to party....
That sounds really ominous.
Well, we are in Halloween Town, I think things are supposed to be scary.
Gee, what makes you think that? The tombstones? The jack o lanterns? The cast of what looks to be every horror movie ever made hanging out on something that looks like the set of Frankenstein?
Shush. Let me finish.
As I was saying- it's the morning after Halloween and I think the residents are just starting their party- shall we go look?
Cool. This is when we do one of those fades right?
Right.
Heero ducked out the front door of the lab. He'd managed to slip deadly nightshade in the doctor's soup again. Just in time too! J had refused to let him attend the Halloween awards. Heero didn't understand why. It was bad enough that the doctor had locked him in the lab over the holiday. 'Too much excitement for you!' He'd said, but Heero wanted excitement. He wanted something different. He was tired of being locked up in the lab all the time. It's not like he had a lot to do other than learn how to create explosives and sew.
Why does Heero have stitches all over? Is this one of those hurt comfort fics again?
No, he's a rag doll. Kind of like a Frankenstein but with cloth.
Ooookay.
The square was already full of celebrating Halloween town residents, joyously congratulating each other on a holiday well done.
"You were frightening!" "You were simply awful!" "The screams were soo much louder this year!"
Heero ducked around them. He hadn't seen what anyone had done. He couldn't join the conversations, couldn't do anything but watch... Still it was better than being stuck in the lab!
Coming down the main street was a large horse, a pumpkin headed scarecrow tied to the back. Heero watched wide-eyed as the scarecrow leaped to his feet, grabbed a torch and set himself on fire.
Wow! Special effects!
Shhh!
The crowd gasped as the scarecrow leapt high in the air and then dove into the town fountain.
"Duo!" "Our Pumpkin King!" "What a night!"
The Pumpkin King rose up out of the fountain, shaking water from his long braid as the crowd applauded wildly. Heero crept closer, fascinated. He'd only seen Duo from a distance, but he'd heard all the stories. The Scariest of Them All, Shinigami, the Pumpkin King... he had a dozen names, had stories all over the world... He was a little surprised to see just a good looking young man with luminous purple eyes. This was the famous Pumpkin King?
Wait- isn't he supposed to be a skellington?
No. Duo just being Duo is scary enough.
Good point.
The Mayor was waving frantically for silence. "Great Halloween everybody!" He said with his politician's smile.
"I believe it was the most horrible one yet! Thank you everyone!" Duo smiled and waved to the crowd.
"Ah, we couldn't have done it without you Duo!" The mayor insisted, pushing a lock of blond hair out of his eyes.
"Not at all Quatre! We all worked very hard!"
Heero noticed that the Pumpkin King looked tired. He thought of the huge celebration to come and wondered how Duo would make it through.
The crowd was pressing close their king. "You were terrible!" "You made walls crawl!" "Walls crawl? You made mountains crack!"
"Ah, really, thank you..." Duo was backing away from the crowd. "Really, couldn't have done it without all of you..." Heero thought he looked a little panicked. That couldn't be right. What would panic the Pumpkin King?
Pumpkin pie!
If you don't shut up you'll be hamster stew!
Right when Heero was sure Duo was going to bolt, the Mayor grabbed everyone's attention again.
After all, that's what a politician is really good at.
"It's time to announce the awards!" Quatre pulled a large cup out and waved it around. "The first prize goes to the Lachrymose Leeches- for most blood sucked in a single night!"
Heero wasn't paying attention to the awards. He was watching the Pumpkin King slide to the edge of the crowd. Was he actually going to slip away? Miss the awards?
Something grabbed Heero's wrist.
"The deadly nightshade you slipped me wore off!" Dr. J frowned at Heero as he yanked on Heero's arm, trying to pull his creation away from the celebration. "I told you that this was too much excitement for you!"
Crap! What the hell is that thing?
Dr. J.
Are you sure he's the creator and not the creation? He's all... metal-ish. And not in a cool Wolverine kind of way.
Pretty sure.
Heero tried to pull his wrist free of Dr. J's claw. "Let me go!"
"No." Dr. J pressed a button, putting his wheelchair into reverse. "You're coming home with me!"
"No I'm not!" Heero reached up with his free hand and pulled at the thread that bound his arm to his shoulder. The arm pulled free and he tumbled backward, safe from Dr. J's clutches. He took off running as the arm in Dr. J's hand began to pound on the good Dr.'s head.
"Come back here!" Dr. J yelled as he tried to dodge the blows- but Heero kept running. He was not going to give up his freedom so soon.
So, Heero's body parts can move on their own?
Yes, apparently they can.
Wow. Imagine what he could do when...
Stop right there. We're a PG fic this time.
Yeah, that won't last long.
~*~
Duo headed out the gate, past a clown playing a melancholy tune on a tarnished flute.
"Nice work this year," the clown said.
"Thanks Trowa. Just like last year. And the year before that. And the year before that..." Duo walked through the gate of the graveyard and paused at a tombstone.
He tapped his knee and whistled. "Scythe?"
A dark swirl rose from the ground, a shadow of a dog with a glowing jack o'lantern for a nose. It yipped happily and floated after Duo as he found a seat on one of the tombstones.
"Oh Halloween? It went fine this year. Just like before," Duo said to the dog. "It always does. It never changes. We spend all year getting ready for it- and I don't know. I just want it to be something wonderful... and it is good... but it's always the same. I want... I don't know... something different."
Scythe whimpered.
"I don't know. Just different." Duo touched his chest. "I feel so... empty inside. Like something is missing- but I don't know what it is, or how to change it."
So Duo's kind of emo.
Just relax. It won't last for long.
Heero listened, hidden behind a large tombstone. The Pumpkin King felt like this too? He thought he was the only one. Wanting something, missing something... but not knowing what it was.
Though Heero now thought he knew what he was missing. He carefully got to his feet, but the graveyard was empty... Duo was gone.
He looked around but he couldn't tell where the other had gone. Sighing he turned and headed towards Dr. J's lab- stopping on the way to gather more deadly nightshade.
After all, he'd need to use it again soon. Hopefully...
TBC...
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