fic - two chances : 10

Two Chances : 10

"Hey, you've got a free minute, right?  Can I get you to try out this game with me?"  Duo waggled his cell phone.

Heero lifted an eyebrow at him, but held out his phone so Duo's could send over the necessary install.  "Can't you play someone over the network?"

"Sure, but I don't want to matchmake with some rando.  Especially since I don't know how to play yet.  It'd be really embarassing to lose, yanno?  Even if I have a valid reason for losing."

Heero was about to ask for more information, since he knew Duo didn't normally have such a fear, but then the game finished installing and booted up and he blinked at it for a few seconds.  "Well.  You could play as a Taurus or something, while you learned the controls.  Then you wouldn't feel bad."

Duo grinned as he set about getting themselves into a match.  "Oh, come on, you always say only losers blame their failures on their equipment.  Besides, I have to imagine that, as a matter of good game design, they wouldn't have put such an obviously inferior machine up against Gundams without some way to balance its disadvantages.  Like, maybe you get a hundred lives or something... Aha, here we go.  Why, hello 'Scythe, ol' buddy.  Not an entirely accurate portrait, but they did you justice."  He looked over to Heero expectantly.

Heero was buttoning through the character options with a critical eye.

"Oh, come on, Heero, don't tell me you're not going to go with Wing?"

"I don't think the abilities assigned to each of these characters is really a meaningful reflection of --"

"Oh, come on, Heero."

He knew the experience would disappoint, but he supposed there really wasn't any other choice besides Wing.  He locked in his selection and they went back to a brief load screen before their characters appeared in what seemed to be the sky over a generic military base.

"Ho hum," Duo muttered to himself as he fiddled with his controls.  "How do I...?  Oh, okay.  You ready?"

Heero huffed softly before nodding, a small indication that yes he was ready to deal with this thing that obviously did not meet his standards.

They got started.  "Oh, hey, nice soundtrack," Duo murmured, the music seeming to ramp up in intensity as they clashed.  The battle was, perhaps, not quite as epic as the music made it out to be.  There were plenty of misfires and fumbles on both sides, but Heero managed to stumble upon the button combination to trigger his ultimate first and won the battle.

"Hmm," Heero observed.  "Not embarassing at all."

Duo snorted.  While technically true, he wasn't about to just take that.  "You just got lucky button mashing --"  He stopped to chortle at the victory pose Wing just pulled.  "Okay, that was embarrassing.  For you."

Heero had a funny look on his face.  Maybe it was agreement.

"Oho, look at this."  The level had just reset for round two.  Seemed he had another chance to win the day.  "I gotta beat you so I can see my victory pose."

"Much as I don't want to see Wing dabbing again, you're going to have to earn it."

"Expected nothing else."






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