WHY YOU SHOULDN'T HIT THAT BUTTON THAT SAYS, "DON'T PUSH THIS BUTTON!"

DISCLAIMER: We don't own Yu gi Oh! or Pokemon. But, you already knew that, right?

Ever had someone tell you, "Don't push that button!" right after you've pushed it? Yeah? Then this is the story for you!

WARNING: It should be noted that the authors of this story were high on sugar, sugar, and MORE sugar when they wrote this fanfic.

Chapter One

The Pushing of the DON'T PUSH ME Button!

The morning was bright and cheery, very contrary to the not-so- cheery event that was soon to happen. Clock Tower Square was full of anxious people, waiting for Kaiba Corps exposition to begin.

Yugi Muto stood with his friends Joey Wheeler, Tristan Taylor and Tea Gardner near the front of the crowd. "Dis is gonna be coo'!" said Joey excitedly, "a whole buncha techno stuff all in one place!" His brown eyes scanned the many booths ten feet away, impatient to see what goodies they held.

"Joey, I can't see!" Yugi exclaimed, bouncing up and down to get a good look. But, because of his....vertically challenged condition, all he could see was a forest of legs.

"Not my problem," Joey replied absently as Yugi tugged at his shirt to get his attention. " Hey, let go, ya little parasite!" he exclaimed in irritation as Yugi continued to tug at his shirt.

Tea looked over at them, a disaproving expression on her face. "Joey, that wasn't nice!" she said angrily, but Joey ignored her quite well. She sighed in exasperation and looked up at the clock, which read 9:45. "Great, only fifteen more minutes!" she said happily as Joey calmly picked Yugi up and thrust him into a passerby's arms.

"Here, free parasite," he said smugly. "Yours forever. Enjoy!" He smiled goofily at Yugi, who was glaring angrily, just like that passerby holding him.

"Joey, you ding dong!" Mai exclaimed, setting Yugi down and getting right in Joey's face.

"Hi, Mai....hehe," Joey said, slowly backing away from the taller and older girl.

"Just what do you think you're doing?" she asked arrogantly, appraising him as she would a speck of dirt on her polished new shoes. Joey didn't reply, but merely squeaked shrilly and ran behind Tea for protection.

"You big baby! Hiding behind a girl, are we?" Tristan asked, poking Joey in the ribs with his elbow.

"Hey, knock it off!" the blond replied as he pounced on the taller brunette. They then began brawling noisily in the square, drawing much attention to themselves. People looked at them, shaking their heads and saying patients of the psycho ward shouldn't be given such long passes. Unfortunately, Joey happened to hear someone express their opinion on the matter.

"SAY THAT AGAIN!?" he shouted in the person's face, waving a manic fist under their nose. "Unless you wanna be in the psycho ward for permanent brain damage, you'll take dat back NOW, won't you?"

Just then, Joey noted that the man he was insulting had extraordinarilly large muscles, was well over 6 feet tall, and was in the process of cracking knuckles the size of Joey's eye. "Hehehe...hi?" Joey said in an extremely small voice. Immediately he turned to run away, but no matter how fast he ran, he didn't go anywhere. He looked back and found the giant man's hand firmly attatched to his shirt. "Hehehe...big...parasite?" he squeaked as the man picked him up and held him up in front of a giant fist.

"Gonna make me braindead, huh? Big parasite, huh? You little twerp! The one doing the brain damaging is gonna be ME on YOU!" the man roared, pulling his fist back. Joey squirmed to get away, but found he couldn't, and covered his face with his hands, preparing for the worst.

"PLEASE don't punch my friend!" a voice called out, stopping the knuckles right in front of Joey's nose. The man looked around for the speaker when a small hand from far below tapped him on the leg.

He looked down and stared into the big, watery purple eyes of little Yugi, who had his hands clasped underneath his chin, gazing up innocently. "Please, mister!" he said in the most innocent voice he could manage.

The man's eyes softened and a little tear rolled down his cheek. Yugi blinked those huge eyes, and the man stifled a sniff. "Oh, all right!" he said, dropping his fist and allowing Joey to squirm out of his grip. The man patted Yugi on the head, apologized, and walked away, sniffling to himself.

"The cute routine always works!" Yugi said with a wink, then turned back to Joey, who was sitting on the ground. "Hey, Joey!" he said, but his friend didn't lift his sagging head. The smaller boy frowned, knelt by his friend and tapped Joey on the nose.

"What's wrong, Mr. Grumpy Gills?" he said in a mother-talking-to- baby voice. Behind him, Tea face faulted.

"You've been watching too much Finding Nemo," she said wearily, but Joey began to laugh.

"Ah...I'm sorry, Yug. I...I didn't mean to call you a parasite," he said after calming down.

Yugi cocked his head and gave the blond a huge grin. "That's okay!"

At that moment, someone rang a huge gong. The sound reverberated throughout the crowd, causing everyone to become silent. All eyes turned to the booths, where a tall young man with brown hair and a long blue trenchcoat stood.

"Kaiba," sniffed Joey insolently.

"Shush!" Tea commanded with a glare that silenced him.

"Welcome, people of Domino City, to the first annual Kaiba Corps Technology Exposition!" Kaiba exclaimed, drawing excited cheers from the crowd. "In a few moments, my brother Mokuba will cut the ropes and everyone will be allowed to look!"

True to his word, Seto Kaiba's brother Mokuba soon cut the ropes and the crowd flooded the area, anxious and excited to see the new marvels of modern technology.

"Let's go see the new Duel Disk prototypes!" Yugi exclaimed, dashing through the forest of legs and between tiny gaps that only he could fit through.

"Hey, wait for us tall people!" Tristan called out, shoving his way through the crowd to keep Yugi in sight. Not that he needed to; Yugi's signature spikey pink, black and blond hair stood out like a beacon wherever he went.

The three eventually caught up with Yugi and found him staring at the Duel Disks with glazed eyes and a string of drool dripping out of his grinning mouth. "Uh, you okay, Yugi?" Joey asked, giving the smaller boy a poke. Yugi ignored him and continued to gaze at the Duel Disk.

"Geez, look at the price! $50,000!" Tristan exclaimed, catching sight of the price tag.

"Maybe we should get him away from it before he depletes his savings account buying one," Tea suggested sagely, and the two boys agreed with her.

"Okay, Yug, time to go!" Joey said nonchalantly, grabbing onto Yugi's arm.

"Nn," grunted Yugi in reply.

"COME ON!" Joey exclaimed, grabbing him around the waist and slinging him over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. Naturally, this did not please Yugi in the very least, especially since all the people were giving him strange looks.

"PUT ME DOWN!" he squawked indignantly, pounding on Joey's back with his fists.

"Maassaaaaggee!" Joey said, quite content with what Yugi thought would annoy him.

"Come on, let's check that out over there," Tea said, pointing to a large object surrounded by a crowd of curious people.

"But I wanna see the Duel Disks!" complained Yugi, panting from his noneffective efforts at irritating Joey.

"I guess I'll get a free masage all day then!" Joey said, giving Yugi a smack and commanding him to pound harder.

"All right all right all right! Let's go see it, but put me down first!" Yugi consented, ready to bend to his friends' wishes, but not prepared for the abrupt meeting with the hard cement. "O...ow."

Tea turned around and saw Yugi rubbing his head, and Joey, who was rocking back and forth with his arms behind his back, whistling off key and purposefully not looking in her direction.

"JOEY!" she screamed, smacking him across the face.

"Hey, what was dat for?" he exclaimed, rubbing his red cheek.

"You KNOW what it was for!" Tea fumed angrily, helping Yugi up and asking if he was all right. "It's a wonder he still considers you his friend, after all the stuff you've done to him today!" Joey raised his hands and backed away from Tea's wrath, but not far away enough that she couldn't grab his collar and pull him back.

"I think Yugi should get to sock you good!" she said dangerously, slamming Joey on the ground in front of Yugi. "Go ahead, Yugi!" she said sweetly. "AND YOU STAY PUT!" she roared as Joey attempted to crawl away unnoticed.

Both boys stared at each other for a moment, but when Yugi suddenly raised his hand, Joey threw himself onto Yugi and began bawling for mercy. "I'msorryIididn'tmeanit! Pleasedon'thurtmeYugi!" Yugi blinked and rubbed his head with the hand he had raised.

"I wasn't gonna hit you, Joey," he said soothingly, awkwardly patting the blond on the head. Joey looked up at him with watery brown eyes.

"Really?" he asked, wiping away the tears on his face. "You're sucha pal!"

"Well, if you're not going to hit him..." Tea said, with her eyes closed and fist shaking, "then I WILL!" She slung Yugi out of her way and landed a punch in the middle of Joey's face. He fell backwards with swirling eyes and tongue lolling out of his mouth.

Tea briskly wiped of her hands and took Yugi's hand. "C'mon, let's go," she said cheerfully, as though Joey was not sprawled out before them.

"But, Tea...Joey...!" Yugi protested as she began to drag him away.

"For-get-it, Yugi!" Tea said through clenched teeth. "He's not worth your time at the moment."

"Lover's stroll?" a cold voice asked with amusement. Tea and Yugi whirled around to face Seto Kaiba, looking very smug and amused. Noticing Joey, he smirked. "Had to beat up the competetion, did you, Yugi?"

"Crawl under a rock, Kaiba!" Tea snarled, though there was a hint of pink on her cheeks. Yugi's entire face, on the other hand, was entirely red.

"Nyaaa...bleh?" Joey said confusedly as he rose from the ground, rubbing his face. Kaiba gave him a scornful look.

"Some competition you've got," he said wryly as Joey swayed drunkenly towards them. "You know, Yugi, it isn't very nice to pick on idiots who can't defend themselves."

Joey happened to hear that last comment, and immediately flew into a rage. "WHAT DID YOU SAY, KAIBA? SAY IT TO MY FACE!" he screamed, jumping circles around Kaiba, flinging punches randomly at him.

Kaiba sighed. "You are so....NOT intimidating," he said, hitting the hyper blond squarely in the chest and sending him flying into a nearby table, narrowly missing Mai.

"Thank you, Kaiba!" Tea chirped merrily, jumping up to kiss him on the cheek before dashing away with Yugi trailing behind. Seto Kaiba stood there in shock. Mainly, because she wasn't mad at him for hurting Joey. And secondly, she had actually REWARDED him for doing it! Could this day get any better?

No, but it COULD get a lot worse, he noticed. As Joey was picking himself up off the ground, his hand was straying near a red button. THE red button. The red button that you AREN'T supposed to push anywhere at any time. EVER.

"Ow, my head!" Joey complained, propping himself on the table with his elbows. "This just isn't my day."

His head ached so much that he could barely hear anyone around him. "DON'T TOUCH THAT RED BUTTON!" someone shouted behind him. It sounded oddly like Kaiba. Nah, he wouldn't be talking to me, he thought, putting out his hand to support getting up.

"NOOOOOO! IT'S NEVER BEEN PUSHED BEFORE, NEVER! DON'T YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT IT! DON'T PUSH THAT--"

Beep!

"--button...oi." For a moment nothing happened.

"Eh, what? What were you talking about, Kaiba?" Joey asked stupidly as a large explosion wracked the square and a strange aura surrounded the people gathered around the table. In a brilliant flash, all who had been standing there disappeared into thin air!