Hey everyone! This is my first piece of writing on here, so I don't expect too much. Reviews would be great.

This story is set in canon, a few years after the dimension war.

That said, welcome to 'A Very Lancer Holiday'. I hope you enjoy.

"Yuzu," Yuya complained to his friend. "Why is the queue so long?"

"We've been here for five minutes Yuya. Stop being a baby."

The ragtag group of Lancers were in customs at Maiami City International Airport (or, as Yugo insisted on calling it, the MCIA), on their way to Sawatari's island resort (why was he not surprised that Sawatari's family owned an island?). They would fly to Sydney, Australia, then take a private plane to the Sawatari family's island. Reiji had agreed to fund the plane trip, saying it would be a good way to 'relax' and 'unwind'. He couldn't have been more wrong. A holiday with his fellow Lancers was Yuya's very definition of stress. He and Yuzu were behind Reiji and his little brother Reira, perhaps the most responsible of the group, along with Yugo, Rin, Crow and Sawatari. Their group (much to Yugo's disappointment) has been forced to go through manual check-in because they were with Reira. The other group of Yuto, Yuri, Ruri, Serena, Gongenzaka, Dennis and Sora, led by Shun, were going through the automatic check-in.

This was a sore point for Yugo. He had been looking forward to having an AI scan his face, but Rin had forced him to come with her. Sawatari too, had wanted to go through the automatic check-in saying that "the cameras will be dazzled by New Neo Mega Ultra Super Sawatari Shingo!", but he had been kicked out of Shun's group because they thought he would hold up the queue by preening for the AI.

Yuya looked at their companions in the other queue. Come to think of it, why hadn't he gone with the automatic check-in? Half their group was already through and waiting for them. Sora was poking his tongue at Sawatari, who trying to give Sora the rude finger without being noticed and was failing dismally. Several people were staring at him, looking shocked.

Dennis was making a big show of posing for the camera. He kept moving so the robot would be unable to finish scanning his face, apologising to the people behind him and explaining that he needed to show his 'best side'.

Gongenzaka appeared to be too tall for the AI to pick up on his face, so he was stooping over and staring directly into the camera with his nose millimetres away from touching it.

"Yuya," Yuzu said from beside him, "we're through."

"We are?" said Yuya, rubbing his eyes. "Wonderful."

They joined up with Shun's group and progressed through the retail area of the airport until…

"Hey!" said Sora loudly, causing a couple of heads to turn their way. "Yuri, can I have some of that chocolate?"

Yuri had been quietly eating a bar of seventy percent cocoa chocolate since they had got through customs. "No," he said bluntly. "Buy your own."

"C'mon… we're fusion buddies!" That turned a few more heads; people were still wary of the word 'Fusion'.

"How about me?" interjected Dennis. "I'm from Fusion too. Can I have some?"

"I wasn't giving it out in the first place," said Yuri though gritted teeth.

"Pretty pleeeease?" squealed Sora, causing everyone within a hundred metre radius of the group to stop and stare, and Reiji to bury his head in his hands.

"Argh!" Shun shouted, attracting even more attention and smashing the chocolate out of Yuri's hand. "I swear to God, if I hear one more thing about this goddamn chocolate I will shove it directly up your"—

Yuto cut Shun off by punching him in the stomach. "Sorry Shun. You were causing a scene."

"And those idiots weren't?" he growled, more quietly this time.

"Big brother, you were making us look stupid," Ruri commented. "Not to say that you weren't." She looked at Sora and Dennis pointedly.

"Hey!" said Sora. "I just wanted some chocolate."

"That's precisely the problem," chimed in Rin.

"Everyone, everyone," Reiji made a placating gesture with his hands. "We are in an airport. You are all legally adults, so try to behave like adults. Why don't we find a café, and everyone can buy their own food?"

Yugo, who had picked up Yuri's smashed chocolate and was biting into it without a care, nodded his head vigorously. "Yes," he said happily. "Food."

The Lancers moved into a coffee shop next to a book store and put two tables together for all of them. Sawatari immediately began ogling and the sandwiches on the counter, picking them up and comparing their weights, much to the annoyance of the cashier.

"Hey Sawatari," Serena called. "You're supposed to buy before you put your hands all over them, dumbass."

"Ssshhh," everyone put their fingers to their lips, eyeing Reira, who didn't appear to have heard Serena. He was scanning the children's menu.

Yugo strolled up behind Sawatari just as he picked up a BLT.

"Aww, c'mon Sawatari, I wanted that one," he said.

"Nope," said Sawatari, throwing his wrapped sandwich into the air and catching it.

Rin walked over and stared at the cabinet from behind Yugo. "Just get that one," she said, pointing at a BLAT. "It's nearly the same thing."

Yugo pouted. "It's got avocado though. I hate avocado."

"Did someone say avocado?" asked Crow, strolling up behind them along with Shun, Yuto and Ruri. At this point the cashier was practically cowering behind the sandwich cabinet. "I love avocado. I'll take it."

"Hold up," interjected Yuto. "I like avocado too. Why can't I have it?

"I got here first."

"So? I thought it first."

"Hey, is that a BLAT?" asked Dennis, walking over with the rest of the Lancers and pointing at the sandwich. "I'll take that."

"Two people already want that Dennis," replied Crow, motioning to himself and Yuto. "You'll have to find something else."

"Oh." Dennis looked dejected. "Alright then. I'll take the turkey one."

"Wait a minute, is there turkey?" called Serena from the back of the group. "I'll take that, thank you very much." She pushed her way to the front of the line and pointed at the sandwich.

"Five… five dollars please," said the cashier timidly, handing the sandwich to Serena as she gave her the money.

"Thank you!" Serena said loudly, flicking Dennis on the arm as she walked back to their table.

Dennis looked slightly miffed. "How rude." He had moved to the front of the line after Shun, Ruri, Crow, Yuto, Yugo and Rin had bought their food. Shun had ordered the last croissant and Ruri had a salad. Crow and Yuto had agreed to split the BLAT between them, and Yugo was still unhappy about Sawatari taking the BLT and had settled for plain ham.

Dennis gave the cashier his most charming Broadway smile. "I'll have the"—

"Hey Dennis!" Yuya interrupted him from behind. "Do they have croissants? I can't see, Sora's blocking the cabinet."

This was true. Sora had his face pressed up against the cabinet, staring at the variety of sweets and cupcakes on the top shelf.

"No," Dennis called back. "Shun took the last one."

"Aww." Yuya made a face and told Yuzu.

"As I was saying, Miss," Dennis gave the cashier another of his most charming smiles, "I'll take the"—

He was interrupted by Yuri walking straight past him. "Dennis, stop flirting with the cashier." Then, turning to the flustered attendant, he said, "I'll have a salad."

"O… of course," mumbled the cashier, handing him a salad cup as Yuri handed her the money.

Finally, Dennis finished his order, picking up a chicken and mayo sandwich. Sora grabbed a chocolate muffin and Yuya and Yuzu ordered their food without incident. Reiji got himself a coffee and Reira a milkshake, before profusely apologising to the flustered cashier. Soon they were all sitting around the table eating (relatively) happily. Except for Shun.

"So Reiji," asked Yuya. "What exactly is this place we're going to? And where's Kaito? Wasn't he supposed to come with us?"

"We're going to Daydream Island," replied Sawatari. "My family's private resort."

"And Kaito said he couldn't come," continued Yuto.

"Good thing too," muttered Yuri.

"Hey," said Shun. "What's wrong with Kaito? He's not that bad."

"Don't you remember what happened last time you were with Kaito, brother dear?" Ruri smiled sweetly.

"No." Shun looked confused. "What happened? Was I drunk?"

"You could say that," said Rin. "You nearly killed each other playing dodgem cars."

"Kaito fell out of his car and you tried to run him over. We had to mount a rescue mission." Yuzu finished up the story.

Shun seemed pretty annoyed at not being able to remember his drunken incidents. "Maybe that's a good thing, then. So, where are we going again?"

"Daydream Island," said Sawatari. "I explained this already."

"It's an island?" said Shun, looking even more annoyed now. "Couldn't we have gone anywhere else?"

"Yes!" said Sawatari, exasperated. "I've said this about 3 times now."

"Shun can't swim," said Ruri with a wicked grin. "He always ends up flailing about and nearly drowning."

Everyone else snickered and Shun looked mortified.

"Aww," said Sora in a mock baby voice. "Does the little birdie not know how to swim?"

"Sora," said Reiji in a warning voice. "This is supposed to be a relaxing exercise. I do not want you winding up"—

Shun interrupted him by leaning across the table and stabbing a spork into the table beside Sora's hand. "I swear to God Shuin'in…"

Sora scrambled backwards, causing his chair to make a scraping noise across the floor, like nails on a chalkboard. "Okay, okay… jeez."

Yuya leaned over to whisper to Yuto. "Shun seems more annoyed than usual. Like… really uptight."

"Yeah, he's been like that all day," Yuto replied. "He nearly knocked the guy at baggage check-in unconscious before because he looked at Ruri."

"Yep," Yuya smirked. "That's Shun alright."

Reiji checked his watch. "Alright everyone, we have twenty minutes until our flight leaves so we should get going. We're at gate 89."

"Why do we need a gate?" asked Yugo, confused. "Can't we just get on the plane?"

"Yugo, a gate is the place where we board the plane from. We need to be there or we'll miss our flight," explained Rin.

"Ah," said Yugo. "I knew that."

The motley group stood up and left the café, leaving sandwich wrappers all over the table. Reiji led them through throngs of people as the moved slowly towards their gate. Progress was slow because Yugo had to check every vending machine on the way for an orange-coloured Powerade and Sawatari had insisted on stopping at the gift shop to get a stress ball, which he kept squeezing vigorously.

"You seem to love playing with balls, Sawatari," said Serena, as he gave the ball a particularly forceful squeeze.

"Yes," said Dennis, never missing an opportunity to cause trouble. "You seem quite practised with it, dear Sawatari."

Sawatari narrowed his eyes. "What are you insinuating?"

"Oh nothing," chimed in Sora. "Merely your proficiency when handling small, round objects."

"Yeah," said Yugo, clearly not as subtle as everyone else. "One might even think that you're"—

"Yugo!" Rin slapped him on the cheek. "You're practically shouting!"

"Oh." Yugo looked dejected. "I was just saying"—

"Go on." Sawatari glared at Yugo. "Say it." He gave Yugo the most threatening hair flick he could muster.

"Hey, guys, calm down," said Yuzu. "I'm sure no-one meant anything."

"I totally meant what I was saying," exclaimed Sora.

"Not helping, Sora," growled Yuzu, brandishing her fan.

Sora wisely decided to back off.

As they walked on, Crow decided to bring up a more appropriate conversation topic. "So," he said. "Who's actually been on a plane before? I've never even been near one?"

Reiji raised a hand. "It's not that special, really. Just like a car trip."

"Yeah," said Serena. "Except you can't get off and if the engine fails we all die."

Reira grasped his bear a bit tighter and Gongenzaka turned slightly green.

"Thank you, Serena," said Reiji in a tone that suggested he wasn't thankful at all, "for pointing out that there is a risk of death when flying on plane. Extremely helpful."

"Wait, we could die?" exclaimed Yugo. "Shouldn't we just take a boat? This seems like an unnecessary risk."

"Oh yeah!" said Sawatari sarcastically. "Let's spend weeks on a boat and waste our entire holiday. Idiot."

"Hey, I'm just concerned with my own health and safety."

"It'll be fine Yugo," said Rin calmingly. "I'm sure we won't die."

"Yeah Yugo, the chances are pretty low," said Yuya. "I've been on a flight before and I didn't die."

Reiji held up a hand for them to stop and ushered the group into the queue for gate 89. The Lancers became relatively silent, most of them buzzing with excitement to be on a plane for the first time.

"Hey Yuya?" Gongenzaka stooped down to whisper to his friend. "This might not be the best time, but I get sick on boats. And cars. Do you think I'll get sick on this plane?

Yuya winced, getting a vivid mental image of Gongenzaka throwing up. "Uhh… we can't really do anything about that now. You'll have to deal with it, big guy."

Gongenzaka went silent, apparently trying to prepare himself for the plane trip as the group walked through the gate.

The trip through the air bridge, although short, was just about as hectic as the rest of their airport experience. Yugo kept jumping up and down, causing the whole bridge to shake until he got told off by Rin. Ruri and Yuto had ended up holding hands somehow, and Kurosaki was stalking along only centimetres behind them. Yuya was sure that if anyone other than Yuto had been holding Ruri's hand the air bridge would've become a crime scene. Dennis kept trying to trip people over, but this stopped when he tried to trip Serena and got kicked in the crotch.

Reiji handed their tickets to the flight attendant, who quickly counted them and sent the group through in single file. Sawatari gave the attendant a smile and smoothed back his hair, which gave Sora the opportunity to steal to steal the stress ball from his open backpack.

The Lancers walked down the aisle, Gongenzaka having to stoop because of the low roof. Yuya quickly found a seat between Yuzu and Yuri and immediately began checking through the selection of movies on his mini TV screen. Yuri settled down with a biology textbook and Yuzu started gazing out the window.

Yugo set about trying to squish his backpack into the storage and just barely avoided setting off an avalanche of baggage. Yuto had struck up a conversation with Reiji about how to improve his deck (Reiji was a pro duelist, after all). Crow, Reira, Ruri and Shun were playing a go fish on a tray table, Rin was trying to complete a crossword with Sora giving her hints ("Annoying in eight letters… Sawatari!"), Dennis was browsing through sitcoms, Serena was eating a bag of chips and Gongenzaka was looking extremely green.

Yuya was about to lean back and put on his headphones when a familiar voice rang out;

"Hey, where's my stress ball?"

For anyone who's wondering, Daydream Island is a real place. It's an actual holiday resort in the Whitsundays, which are a group of islands on the Great Barrier Reef. They're famous for snorkeling and stuff.

I've no clue when this will next be updated. Hopefully soon.