Gundam Roleplay

Oh my Jesus Yamato, I can't believe I started this fun, freestyle roleplay with a colleague/friend from work. Well, here's one way to get the creative juices flowing after so many years, amirite??? O_O

Errel Wilson was a Shaw Gundam Pilot. He was a tough and no-nonsense individual. One of his colleagues, Karen Yuen, was tired of being forced into the Shaw Leos. Because of this, she started coming up with plans to "off" herself, in the attempt to escape from the abyss foreverrrrrrr. Karen's plans did not bode well for Errel, who always found unorthodox ways to stop Karen's insane kamikaze missions.

One day, Karen hatched up a devious plan to ask out Duo Maxwell in the hopes that "seeing" him would result in her... death.

"Errel, you can't stop me!" she exclaimed, and threw on her headset to make an outbound call to 1-800-GODEATH.

"H-hey, is this Duo?"

"Sure is!"

Karen took a deep breath and blurted out, "WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO ON A DATE WITH ME?"


There was a pause on the other line and then Duo started laughing. He was not the type of guy to turn down a lady, even if he had no clue who she was or what she looked like.

PERFECT!, Karen thought as she hung up. Now is my chance to finally escape the Shaw Leo and the Shaw Foundation forever!

The plan was to meet Duo at the Shaw Tower Starbucks for an afternoon of strolling along the seawall. Karen rubbed her hands together and grinned maniacally. It was going to be a greatttttttt plan... And nothing Errel did was going to stop her!

When Duo arrived at Shaw Tower, he was surprised to see the small figure of a ... was it a boy or a girl? He couldn't quite tell. The person had a black cap on and glasses and a black hoodie. "HELLO," Karen-disguised-as-a-boy greeted him, in a deep booming voice.

Unluckily for Karen, Errel was there to spoil her plans once more. He climbed into his Shaw Leo, determined to save Karen's life and prolong her suffering for another day!

Using his Shaw Leo, Errel took off to the sky and caused a huge gust of wind to come flying at Duo and Karen.

"Shii--!" Karen exclaimed, as the gust of wind blew off her hat and caused her long hair to fall out of it. "Uh, would you believe if I told you I was a dude with long hair like you or perhaps Zechs Merquise?" Karen laughed nervously.

Duo blinked at the shorter girl before him. 'Wow,' he thought, 'she's pretty cute. Not the cutest I've ever seen, but I could have a bit of fun with her.'

"So, how about we get going on that date?" Duo grinned as he sauntered up to Karen and casually slung an arm over her shoulders.

"D-Duo... You're only 15!" Karen stammered, but Duo wasn't phased by her protests.

He leaned in close and whispered into her ear, "I could definitely show you things, to have you saying I can't be 15..."

Karen covered her face in embarrassment, "D-DUO... shiitake mushrooms, this isn't going the way I thought it would..."

She finally decided enough was enough, she was just going to ask Duo to outright to 'off' her.

"Hey, Duo... I'm having a great time meeting you and all, but... Do you think you could do that thing with your scythe and just split me in two already?"

Now it was DUO'S turn to blush. "Wha... but we just met! Man, girls from earth are so bold nowadays!" But he wasn't actually upset over that or anything... ... ... ... ... .. ... .. AND SO HE AGREED TO 'SPLIT HER IN TWO' WITH HIS 'SCYTHE' BUT, not in the way Karen intended...

So anyway Karen brought Duo back to her place because, well, after killing her he would have to also kill her dog, since her dog obviously would be too upset to live without her too. Imagine her surprise when Duo started... uh, lifting up his shirt and taking it off??????????? She assumed it was because he didn't want to get blood splatters on his clothes, but uh... it definitely was getting awkward AF.

"Uh, Duo! What are you doing!"

FORTUNAAAAAAAAAAAATELY, ERREL WAS OUTSIDE IN THE SHAW LEO and he came smashing into the building just as Duo was... accosting Karen.

"UNHAND THE MAIDEN!" came Errel's booming voice from the Shaw Leo. It was all thanks to the GPS tracking chip that Errel had secretly planted on Karen's back when she had given him a big hug earlier that day.

"Errel! Get me out of here!" Karen yelped, squirming away from Duo's embrace. Errel reached down with the Shaw Leo's massive hand and Karen jumped up onto it. Together they turned and flew away from the fallen debris of Karen's house, leaving Duo there very, very confused and Karen very much still alive. (She tried to jump from the Shaw Leo's hand while they were in the air, but Errel clamped the two hands together and trapped her inside so she couldn't leap off and fall to her death.)

When they were safely back at Shaw Tower, Errel set Karen back onto the ground. "You're no fun... not letting me jump and all, it's like you don't even CARE about me!" Karen pouted, but Errel didn't care. His mission was COMPLETE!!! Karen was alive and safe to live another day.

Unfortunately, Karen's house was partially destroyed by Errel's Leo crashing into the building. Which meant that Karen didn't have a place to stay for the time being...

THE VERY NEXT DAY...

Duo Maxwell woke up in a terrible mood. He couldn't stop thinking about how Errel Wilson, the Shaw Gundam Pilot, had basically cock-blocked him.

"Who does that !!! Shaw guy think he is?" Duo grumbled to himself, as he poured himself cereal for breakfast. He slammed the box on the table angrily. "Who goes around ruining other people's dates?!"

Duo Maxwell was a firm believer in fairness, the balance of good and bad in the world. And since he had been wronged, it was time to get... REVENGE!

Oh yes, he would definitely make Errel Wilson pay for ruining his date with the girl-- or boy? -- Karen. He really honestly couldn't tell. It was another case of Tieria Erde all over again...

MEANWHILE, IN SURREY...

Errel Wilson was having a much better morning than Duo Maxwell. He woke up early to visit the walk-in clinic, and when he walked in through the doors of the clinic, lo and behold!!! Heero Yuy was sitting there in the waiting area!

Heero wasn't a man to show much emotion, but he smiled a little when he saw Errel approaching.

"Yo, Heero!" Errel greeted him with a bro fist. "What's up?"

Heero gladly returned the bro fist. "Nothing. Came down with a terrible cold. I blame Relena. I should really kill her already."

"My friend Karen would love to meet you," Errel said. "Recently she's been into the whole 'tryna kill herself' thing."

"I've been there, done that," Heero replied.

The two men sat in the waiting room and continued chatting, and the time flew by like it was nothing. They both got to see Doktor, and got their prescription forms.

"By the way, you're welcome to borrow the Wing Zero anytime," Heero offered. "When you gonna take it for a spin?"


As Heero asked that Errel perked right up! "Hell yeah I'll take it for a spin right now!" He then ran outside and hopped into the wing zero, leaving his shaw leo for heero to use in the meantime.

While Errel flew off in the Wing Zero, Heero had to use the Shaw Leo to pick up his girlfriend Relena. Relena took one look at the Shaw Leo and started complaining about how Heero never picked her up in anything nice...

Meanwhile, Karin had to pack a small bag and move in with a roommate she found off Craigslist... some guy named T. Barton... At first Karen was a bit skeptical since the ad was posted by an email called: NoName3@gmail.com, so Karen was afraid it would be a scam. But the place turned out to be legit.

Karen walked up to the door and knocked on it. She was greeted by a handsome young man who looked like he was 15 but clearly was 38. "Hi I'm Karen, I'm here about the room! My apartment is under repairs ever since a mysterious incident with a Leo coming through the wall."

Karen adjusted her glasses and took a closer look at the handsome young man. Upon closer observation she wasn't quite sure he was clearly 38, something about him gave off the vibe that he was actually only 15. Of course she couldn't really tell because half his face was covered by the long bangs of his gravity defying hair.

"Please come in," Trowa instructed. "Your room is down the hall."

"Yes, sir!" Karen took her bags and followed him inside. Unbeknownst to her, Errel had planted a GPS tracking chip on her back and was flying the Wing Zero over to check out her new digs. Unbeknownst to Errel, Duo was also heading over to Trowa's to complain about the guy who had the nerve to ruin his date...

While Karen was getting herself settled in the new room there was a knock at the door. Trowa went to the door and looked through the peephole and sighed loudly as he said "Ugh this guy again?" Under his breath. Opening the door Duo barges right in past Trowa and plops down on the couch, doesn't even say hi and just starts complaining loudly. "Man I am so pissed off. I was out on a date with this girl..I think it was a girl.. who called me out of the blue the other day. She told me she wanted me to split her open with my Scythe! Things were just starting to get good when this blue mobile suit came crashing through the wall and took off with her!"

Trowa rolled his eyes but Duo didn't appear to notice. That was one good thing about having half his face covered with hair.

"Look, you can't barging in here every time you're having a bad day," Trowa said sternly, "you've been over every single day for the past month."

"Oh my Yamato, you know I don't have a family and that everyone I loved died when Maxwell church blew up!" Duo cried. "Where else am I supposed to go? I thought we were friends!"

"We are, but seriously, this is a bad time," Trowa explained. "I got a new roommate and she's moving in today..."

As if on cue, Karen walked out of new room and froze when she saw Duo sitting on the couch.

"Hey, it's you! The boy-girl!" Duo leapt to his feet. "What are you doing here?!" 

"She's my new roommate," Trowa said.

Karen turned 10 shades of red before running back into her room and slamming the door shut.

"She didn't even answer me, this is the worst day ever" said Duo, sulking on the couch. "Hey you got any snacks around here?"

Trowa rolled his eyes again as his eyes drifted towards the window. "Hey, did you ask Heero to come over?" He asked Duo, who replied "No I think he was stuck hanging out with Relena again today. He keeps saying he's going to kill her but he always bitches out at the last second."

On a hunch, Trowa looked out the peephole and he saw a strange masked man standing out there with some kind of small computer device in his hand. He opened the door and the man looked surprised. He awkwardly scratched his head and said "Uhh is Karen here?". Hearing the voice that came from the blue mobile suit before Duo jumped up off the couch and ran over angrily.

"HEY PUNK, what are you doing here?" Duo ran over and shouted at the mysterious masked man, "You try'na steal my girl again?!"

Trowa ignored Duo, pushing him out of his way to keep talking to Errel who was still standing awkwardly by the door.

"Yeah, her room is down there," Trowa pointed to the closed door at the end of the hallway. But before Errel could step inside, Duo threw open the screen door of the balcony and hopped outside. He climbed into Deathscythe and took off into the sky to challenge Errel to a duel!

Once Duo was safely inside the cockpit he flew up into the sky to survey his surroundings. He didn't see the blue mobile suit anywhere. "That's strange..he must have come without his suit, and where is Heero?" He landed in front of the building and on his speaker he shouted "Hey you from the blue suit, show yourself and fight me like a real man!!." But there was only silence.. he kept looking around further and further away looking for the blue suit when suddenly wing zero came flying at him from below machine guns blazing. He barely had time to react but managed to slip past the bullets just barely.

"HEERO, WHAT THE F!!!" Duo yelled. "What's gotten into you man!"

"Guess again," Errel taunted, smirking behind his mask(where did he get the mask anyway??!)

"Grr, I'll make you pay for that!" Duo rushed at the Wing Zero and swung his scythe. Errel skillfully blocked the attack and the 'BOOM!' from the collision echoed through the air.

"What in Yamato's name is going on out there?" Karen opened her room door slightly to peek outside. Through the window she could see the Wing Zero engaged in close combat with Deathscythe. "Uhh... why are two gundams dueling outside our apartment?"

Trowa shrugged. He walked into the kitchen and opened the fridge. "So what did you want for dinner?" he asked, completely ignoring the explosive fight happening outside. Karen guessed he was used to this sort of thing happening.

As Trowa began pulling items out of the fridge to make dinner, the battle outside became more and more intense. Duo kept coming directly at wing zero with his beam Scythe, but each attack was blocked in time by the beam saber of wing zero. He opened up the channel between the two suits as they fought.

"Pretty lame of you to come crash my party last night without even being invited!" He spat angrily in between saber clashes.

"A party? That's what you call it? You were way out of line there!!" Errel replied, while letting another stream of bullets loose from the shoulder gatlings.

"The lady.. I think it was a lady... was into it! She wanted me to split her open with my Scythe!! What else could that mean!!" As he said this he fired off the wrist blade which spiraled off and knocked the shield off of the wing zero. "Who are you to get in the way anyway!!"

Just then a bolt of lightning streaked the sky and it began to rain. Steam began pouring off of the gleaming beam weapons as they stared at one another.

Errel wanted to try out the beam cannons but he knew they were too powerful to be used in the city. He fired the gatlings at the ground and caused a ton of dust to obscure everything. "She wanted you to kill her, and I'm not about to let that happen!" Errel roared as he burst forth from the cloud of dust. Two flashes could be seen followed by a loud crash. After the dust had cleared wing zero was missing an arm as it hit the ground. The sabers light slowly becoming dim and turning off.

Duo laughed and exclaimed "This is the fate of those who see the god of death! What do you have to say for yourself before you meet your maker?!?" But there was no reply.. the two suits stared each other down both waiting for the other to make their move. But all that came was a laugh from the wing zero.. quiet at first but slowly increasing in volume until it was truly the laugh of a madman.

Errel kept laughing maniacally as the cockpit at the Wing Zero's torso lifted open and Errel stood there gripping the infamous detonation device Heero was so fond of. At the sight of this even Duo froze in his tracks and maneuvered Deathscythe away to a distance...

Meanwhile, back at the apartment, Trowa and Karen were cooking up a storm in the kitchen. Trowa was wearing a crisp white apron as he chopped potatoes on a cutting board. Meanwhile, Karen was wearing a frilly pink apron--it was left behind by Trowa's sister, apparently--and was frying up some steaks on the stove.

She threw open the window and called to Errel and Duo: "Hey guys, it's dinner time!"

She was slightly surprised at the sight of Errel standing there holding the detonation device. "Uhh... Errel... what are you doing?" she asked, suddenly very concerned.

Karen looked at the eyes behind the mask and she saw something strange in them. This wasn't the usual look he had, there was something else there. Smirking again noticing deathscythe having stepped back he jumped back into the cockpit and wing zero jumped into action, diving at the fallen shield and grabbing one of the beam cannons out of the back of it.

"HEY MAN YOU CANT USE THAT HERE!!" Duo screamed as he flew into the sky in a panic. Worried that the entire city may go up in flames if that were to be fired.

"Hahahahahah you idiot! You gave me the shot I needed!" Errel yelled as the beam cannons fired off into the sky, taking with it a chunk of the building in front of Karen's view, the left leg of deathscythe, and created a shockwave that shattered every window for blocks. Deathscythe quickly boosted away into the night sky as Duo yelled "you bastaaaaard" as he took off into the night sky.

From within his apartment Trowa could feel a headache coming on. He poured himself a glass of whiskey on the rocks and took a deep swig of the liquid. He definitely needed to make some new friends. These psychos were getting on his nerves...

Meanwhile, Karen was pretty upset at Errel Wilson for fighting Duo Maxwell in the city and almost destroying everything with the use of the beam cannons.

"I'm pretty upset at you right now," Karen admitted. "You risked all our lives to prove yourself over a stupid scrap with Duo Maxwell!"

"He started it!" Errel protested, but Karen wouldn't have any of it.

"I need some time to cool down, I'll message you later," Karen said solemnly.

At that moment, an unmistakable blue Shaw Leo descended from the sky and landed not far from Trowa's apartment. Heero Yuy jumped out of the cockpit and shook his head at the sight of his Wing Zero missing an arm.

"Errel... I'm not even going to ask what happened here," Heero said coolly. "Just take the Wing Zero back to your skilled mechanic and get this repaired before you return my Gundam to me."

"No worries, Brad is the best mechanic on the face of the earth. He'll patch this up in no time at all," Errel reassured his friend. He felt a little guilty for making Karen upset, but it was what it was--Duo was a jerk!

"Hey listen, do you wanna come over to my place and play video games tonight?" Heero asked Errel. "Relena wanted me to go to this stupid family dinner, but I told her I was busy."

"Sounds like a plan, I'll just drop this guy off at Brad's place to get fixed up!" Errel replied. He waved sadly at Karen as he jumped into the wing zero and flew off, holding the missing arm and detached shield.

Heero went inside and knocked on the door. Trowa answered the door and nodded to Heero, who nodded back and walked in without saying anything and sat down for dinner.

Karen was furious. Those two stupid guys fought for no reason and the entire city could have been destroyed.

"Can you guys believe those two? They were fighting within the city. We could have all died!!" Karen exclaimed as they all ate dinner together.

Heero looked up and simply said "It was Zero. The suit has a system in it that allows absolute victory, but it comes at the cost of your humanity." He said this as if it was a simple fact of life and couldn't be avoided. "The system can easily get the better of anyone, isn't that right Trowa?"

Trowa scowled at the mention of the system. "It's a system that allows one to overcome any obstacle. But it doesn't care who or what gets in its way. It only cares about victory." He explained.

Karen however was not impressed. She quietly kept eating with the two.

Meanwhile at Brad's garage Errel had shown up with Zero. "Hey man. So I got to borrow this thing and I fucked it up a bit. Mind patching this guy back up for me?"

Brad sighed. "Again? How many times do I have to patch up your usual suit now you're breaking other people's? The fuck man."

Errel explained what had happened, and that he had seen the future that were open to him and how to achieve them. And that these mysterious word had come up just before that started happening... Zero system. Brad told him that he would see if he could figure it out as Errel paid and thanked him, and took off in his backup Shaw leo.

As Errel flew off in his backup Shaw Leo he stopped by the nearest 7-11 to pick up some snacks and smokes for him and Heero's guy's gaming night. As he parked the Shaw Leo in the 7-11 Gundam parking lot, he saw a familiar green Gundam already parked there. Errel was surprised to see it there, but nonetheless he walked into the 7-11 and was not surprised by who he saw.

"I thought it was you," Errel said as he walked up to the cashier to buy his cigarettes. It was none other than Lockon Stratos, aka Neil Dylandy. "What are you doing here Nei--I mean Lockon?" Errel asked. "Dynames is hard to miss, you know."

"I came in to buy a pack of smokes. I've been on edge ever since I had to fake my death and enter the witness protection program. They moved me to Vancouver because of this evil guy, Ali al-Saachez," Lockon explained.

A sultry female voice suddenly spoke up from behind Errel: "Well if it isn't Errel Wilson!"

Errel turned to see Trowa Barton's sister, Catherine Bloom, sauntering up to him. She wore an elegant dress that hugged the curves of her body, a bright outfit befitting of an entrancing circus performer. She smiled warmly at him, because she'd always had a crush on him since the day they met, but Errel was dead-set on liking Sally Po, so there wasn't much Catherine could do.

"Long time no see," she said. "Still working for the Shaw foundation?" She walked right up to him and slipped her arm into his arm. "How've you been, big guy?" she asked, battling her eyes at him.

"Pretty good. Just broke every window in your brother's apartment by accident. Some jerk decided he had to fight me right outside." Errel said sadly, expecting her to be upset with him.

"Well I'm sure you had a reason to fight him. You wouldn't just do that for fun." Katherine replied. She looked at what he was buying and asked "going to a party tonight?" To which Errel replied "not really, I was just going to go game with Heero. He's really good at Gundam extreme vs. and we have a great rivalry."

"Well that sounds like fun. But I was kind of hoping you might be interested in accompanying a lady for the night instead." She said, batting her eyelashes once more.

Errel was pleasantly surprised by the fact that she wasn't mad at him like Karen was. In fact he was expecting her to be disappointed, especially since he had broken all of her the windows in her brother's building. But she was understanding and even being somewhat flirtatious--not that Errel fully picked up on this since let's face it, guys are dumbbells most of the time.

"I don't know Cat, I already told Heero I would come over to play games with him tonight..." Errel trailed off at seeing the pouty face on Catherine's face. "But maybe I could come over for a bit?"

"Great!" Catherine smiled brightly at him and leaned closer, pressing her body up against him. "My place isn't far from here, and my complex has a hot tub! Why don't we go for a dip? I just got a new bikini and I'm dying to show it off."

Catherine Bloom definitely wasn't the type of woman to be shy. She was a skilled circus performer and great at putting on a show, too. The only issue was if Errel was game for her to show him what she was all about...

"I'm... just gonna fuck right off now," Lockon stated, and snuck his way out of the 7-11 and fucked right off in Dynames with his Haro.

"Sounds like a good time me me Cat, let me call Heero and tell him I'm not gonna be able to make it. I'll meet you over at your place in a few! Just gonna go get some swimwear!"

Errel paid for his purchases and jumped back in his Leo. When he got inside he had a message waiting. It was from Brad.

Hey man, I found that Zero system of yours. It seems like it's a system to analyze a battle and provide solutions to different battle situations. I've updated your Leo firmware with it so you should be able to be a lot stronger going forward and hopefully break your fucking mobile suits less so I don't have so much work. It activates automatically when you get into a fight so try it out!

Errel was excited by this. His Shaw Leo was a strong piece of equipment and he was very comfortable with it. If he could bring out it's power that would be ideal, compared to the overpower of the zero itself.

He shifted his attention back to Catherine and flew home, grabbing some clothes and swim trunks as well as a bottle of wine and the snacks before flying back off to her place.

Unbeknownst to Errel. The message had already been altered by the zero system. There was a bit more info that seems to have been edited out.

"But the system, it seems dangerous. It affects the pilot greatly and can cause hallucinations poor judgment and loss of control. It doesn't seem to care how but it seems ultimate victory. Be careful if you're going to use it."

Leave it to Brad to update Errel's Shaw Leo with the Zero system's firmware. Brad must not have known much about the harmful effects of the Zero system; although he was the Shaw Foundation's best mechanic, he had never watched a single episode of Gundam anime. He assumed that downloading the zero system's firmware into the Shaw Leo would benefit Errel and result in less work for him, but Brad couldn't even fathom the huge amount of damage and headaches he had caused by doing this "upgrade"... Oh boy Karen was in for a world of headaches, though she wasn't aware of it yet. "Dinner was amazing, thank you Trowa!" Karen beamed at the 15-or-38 year old Gundam pilot. "I'm really glad I got to move in with you. I was worried I wouldn't be able to find a place, since it is the end of December and all." "The timing was quite impeccable. My sister just moved out recently to her own place... she said she wanted more independence to do her own thing," Trowa said. "Apparently, she got tired of me being so overprotective of her." "That's understandable. The world nowadays is pretty scary for a woman, isn't it?" Karen replied. "Not if you're Relena..." Heero mumbled under his breath, though no one heard him. After everyone had cleaned up in the kitchen, Karen decided to take a bath. Heero said his goodbyes and headed home in Errel's Shaw Leo, looking forward to a night of video games with his BFF.

Once Heero got into Errel's Leo he noticed a message waiting. Opening it he was greeted by Errel telling him where he could pick up Zero, and apologizing that something came up and he will have to take a raincheck on game night. Heero was a little upset but he understood and flew over to Brad's mobile suit repair facility. When he got there he spotted Brad at a terminal looking at something but seeming quite shocked. "I'm here for Zero." He said, in a matter of fact way. "That system in this suit.. just what is it capable of?!" Brad asked, incredulously looking at the screen. "Victory" was the only thing Heero said, as he grabbed the rope and got into Zero again. Taking off he wondered what that man had meant. But had no idea what had happened that night. Meanwhile Errel had made it to Catherine's place. He was pleasantly surprised that her little brother was nowhere to be seen. They were usually always together and while it was cute it was also a pain, and he had no idea how to deal with him. He was always so quiet, but not like Heero. He understood Heero. Trowa was a mystery and while he was unsure if Karen staying with him was a good or bad idea, he knew that she was in good hands. "Hey Errel, glad you could make it!" Katherine beamed from the doorway and invited him in. "I brought wine and snacks!" Errel said happily as he located an ice bucket and put the bottle on the rocks. "But after the day I had today that hot tub you were talking about seems like a really good idea." "I was hoping you would say that!" Kat said happily "let me go change and I'll meet you there! You better change too." She gave him a quick wink as she sauntered off to her bedroom to change.

Catherine felt a bit nervous at finally having gotten Errel over to her place, but quickly shrugged the feelings off. The truth was, she had always admired Errel ever since they had been introduced several years ago, though he was dating Sally Po at the time. She wasn't sure what became of that relationship, but her sharp eyes did notice that Errel wasn't wearing a wedding ring, so in her perspective he was fair game. Like Errel she was also relieved that Trowa a.k.a. Triton wasn't around; he would have flat out had a heart attack if he saw the sexy swimsuit she had purchased. She changed into a racy red bikini that left little to the imagination; Catherine was, after all, very confident in her body.

She grabbed two towels and walked back into the living room, shyly smiling at Errel. "Ready to go?"

Shocked by the beauty that just strolled out of her bedroom, Errel had a hard time saying anything. He had already changed into his swim trunks and managed to steel himself enough to stand up and link arms with Kat while carrying the wine and two glasses in his other arm. "Lead the way!" He said happily, as she brought him to a cozy but secluded area outside. The hot tub had already been prepared, undoubtedly in advance by Kat. The two of them climbed into the hot tub and got comfortable. Cracking open the bottle Errel poured two glasses and passed one to Kat who happily accepted. The two of then began chatting about their lives and the past few weeks as they shared each other's company as well as some fine wine. Kat was a pleasant and high spirited lady and Errel appreciated her company ever since the falling out he had with Sally, as well as the events of the last few days.

“It’s been a long time since we’ve chatted,” Catherine murmured. “We used to be so close… I’ve really missed hanging out with you.” She scooted closer to Errel, thoroughly enjoying the good soak in hot water after a long day. The steam left her skin wet and gleaming; she gazed at him happily between sips of wine. “Hey, I’m really glad you came over tonight." Her arms made their way around Errel’s neck. She pulled their bodies together in the water and was practically sitting in his lap now. Errel gasped in surprise as Catherine pressed her lips to his jawbone, planting a shy kiss on his sensitive skin... … … … Meanwhile, back at Trowa’s apartment, Karen hopped out of the shower and was blowdrying her hair when her phone lit up with a ‘Ding!’ She glanced at the notification – a text message from a number she recognized, but longed to forget. It was a message from Neil, a.k.a. Lockon. Her heart instantly sank and she resisted the urge to toss her phone out the window. Lockon was someone she had a crush on from the moment she laid eyes on him in his skin-tight pilot suit, but unfortunately for Karen, the Irish Gundam Meister decided to date some girl called Anew Returner. Since realizing her feelings for Lockon were futile, Karen began ignoring all his calls and messages. It was too painful for her to even talk to him; what was the point of hurting herself by doing so? Frustrated and starting to grow angry, Karen finished drying her hair and changed into her PJs. She planned to climb into bed and forget about all the disappointing things that had happened today. She tried to fight the tears welling up in her eyes and somehow succeeded. Tomorrow was a new day, and she planned to continue her plans for self-destruction then.