Quest for the Foot Popping Kiss - Chapter 1
By West Wind

Disclaimer: I don’t’ own Gundam Wing or the characters.

Author’s Notes: This idea came to me one night and I thought it would make a cute Valentine’s day story and a comedy, or more like a humorous story. I fear I am not very good at comedy, but I at least hope you find the story amusing.

Chapter 1 - The Quest Accepted

It was Friday evening, and Relena had planed a sleepover with the other girls. They were going to spend the evening watching sappy romance movies and talking about guys, and tomorrow they would shop. It promised to be a fun time.

Catherine and Hilde were the first to arrive and Relena greeted them with hugs.

"This will be so fun," bubbled Hilde as she lugged her bag behind her.

"What do you have in there?" Relena asked wide eyed at the luggage Hilde was struggling with.

"Stuff," came the dark haired girl’s reply.

"Here," smiled Catherine as she shouldered her own duffel bag and grabbed the other end of Hilde’s luggage.

"Where to?" Hilde asked.

"I’ll show you," Relena offered but was interrupted by the doorbell. "Um… take it up the stairs and to the fourth door on the left," she threw at them as she moved to the door.

"Alright," the two girls called back.

Relena let Dorothy in and directed her to the upstairs room. she waited at the door because Sally pull up in a Preventer jeep as Dorothy entered the house..

Relena showed Sally up to the room to dump their things.

"Pizza alright with everyone?" Relena asked calling down the hall.

A chorus of yes’s came from the other two rooms.

Relena placed the order and sent Pagan to pick up the food.

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"There it is again!" pointed out Hilde as the foot of the woman being passionately kissed slowly popped up into the air.

"They had that in the last movie too," Dorothy agreed.

"Is that something that happens in real life or just the movies?" asked Relena.

"I have had some great kisses, but none of them ever had a foot pop," said Catherine and all eyes focused on her. "What? Haven’t you every kissed anyone?" she asked of the others.

Hilde blushed a bit as she answered, "Duo and I have kissed, but never like that."

The other girls smiled at her admission.

"Details," demanded Dorothy with murmurs of agreement from the other three.

The movie forgotten as the credits rolled on the TV, the girls settled in a circle on the floor to grill each other on their kissing experiences.

"We have always exchanged a farewell peck on the cheek," Hilde started. "Last Christmas he caught me under the mistletoe," she smiled. "It was a simple sweet kiss. Lips touching lips. I was a bit light headed afterwards, but no foot popping."

"What happened next?" pushed Relena.

"Nothing," Hilde said. "Duo released his hold on me and went on about his day," she shrugged.

Disappointment showed on the others’ faces.

"Catherine, your turn," said Hilde pointing a finger at the curly haired woman.

All eyes focused on Catherine, and she smiled at them and started her tale.

"My first was Kiel. We grew up in the circus together," she explained. "We were behind the main tent when he leaned over and kissed me. It was not passionate but in many ways means more to me because it was my first."

What happened to him?" asked Hilde anxiously.

"Well, we were in our early teens and sort of went out for a while before breaking up," Catherine offered. "It was young love and simple," she sighed happily at the memory.

Catherine stretched out on her stomach tucking her pillow between her arms and resting her chin on the soft item before continuing.

"Then there was Gerald. He worked for the circus one summer, and we had a whirlwind summer fling. He was a great kisser," Catherine said with eyes closed and almost melting.

The other girls watched enviously at the obvious pleasure the experience brought Catherine.

"His kisses sent me to another world, but no foot popping," she finished with shaking her head. "The last one was Saul. We dated for a while and shared some moments. His kisses were nice but nothing more."

"Have you kissed Trowa?" asked Sally.

The look of disgust wrinkled Catherine’s face.

"No! At least not like that. He is like a brother to me. It would be weird."

Relena and Hilde smirked at Catherine’s reaction.

"Sally, your next," announced Catherine tagging the girl beside her. "Have you ever kissed Wufei?"

Sally snorted, "Can you imaging anyone trying to kiss Mr. ‘High and Mighty,' onna hater! Although, I wouldn’t mind if I could get clear of him before he reacted. Ever notice how nice his rear looks in the tight Preventer pants."

"Sounds like someone has a crush on her partner," sing-songed Relena intently looking at Sally to deny it.

"I think your right," added Hilde. "So why don’t you ask him out?"

"Do you truly think he would go?" Sally asked.

"He seems to get along with you better than any other woman," Hilde pointed out. "He might."

"We are suppose to be talking about who we have kissed not who we haven’t," said Sally changing the subject. "I have only kissed my high school boyfriend, and there was no foot popping. Dorothy?"

"I have never kissed anyone in that way," she boldly stated unashamed. "I was too busy playing political games and starting wars. Relena?"

"I have not either," she answered coyly. "Although, there was the time on the Peacemillion with Heero that I thought we might kiss," she trailed off.

"Really?" said Hilde with an upward inflection and propped her chin on her hands and looked at Relena expectantly.

Every one leaned in to hear Relena’s tantalizing story about the Wing pilot.

"I was on Libra trying to talk Milliardo out of it, and Heero boarded the ship and freed me from my room. We returned to Peacemillion and Heero headed for Wing Zero. Before he went after Milliardo in Zero, I tried to talk him out of it. He pulled me so we were face to face, almost close enough to kiss, as he told me why he had to fight," she paused and scanned the very interested girls around her. "He shut my helmet visor and told me to believe in him before pushing me to float away from Zero. Then he took off."

Hilde and Catherine let out large sighs at the romantic story.

"But we still have not definitely answered my original question," Relena pointed out. "We had discovered none of us have had such an experience, but is there someone out there that has?"

"Do you think it matters who initiates the kiss?" asked Hilde.

"Maybe it has to be just the right person that you are kissing and the right moment," suggested Sally.

The others shrugged or muttered maybes.

"Well, how do we find out for sure?" asked Relena in a very businesslike manner.

"Obviously, we run tests," pointed out Dorothy.

"What kind of tests?" asked Catherine.

"Tests where we go around kissing guys," Dorothy smiled deviously.

Eyebrows raised around the circle.

"I think we should start with a specific list of guys and not just start kissing strangers on the street," said Sally.

"Good idea," agreed Hilde. "We can start with Duo. I know he would still be awake and would come over to help us with our research," she giggled mischievously.

"We can start with all the pilots," Dorothy agreed. "That will be our starting list."

The others thought that was a good idea, and Hilde went off to call Duo.

"I think we need to set up the experiments parameters," said Sally. "Each guy will kiss each girl who has not had a foot popping experience."

"So, once a kiss causes a foot pop, we don’t kiss any of the other guys," verified Relena.

Sally nodded.

They agreed to the suggested stipulation.

"He is on his way," announced Hilde bouncing back into the room.

"Did you tell him why we want him here?" asked Catherine.

"Are you kidding? Of course not, that would ruin the fun. I just gave him enough to make him curious and get him here," she smirked.

The girls continued plotting out how they would proceed on their quest while they waited for their first challenger to show up.