Chaos Wars.
Chapter One.
"Alright, Yugi, this is it. We're finally going to decide which of us is the better duelist." Seto Kaiba said as he stood across from Yugi/Yami. They were atop the Kaiba Corp. Towers and from far below on a large screen, their friends watched as once again the two life long rivals did battle with their Egyptian God Cards and Blue Eyes Shining Dragon. "Shining Nova, go!" Kaiba declared.
"Not so fast Kaiba, I activate Card of Safe Keeping!" Yugi said. "This card sends my three Egyptian god cards out of play for one turn, and that activates my face down card, Gateway to another Dimension. This card brings back my monsters from out of play and sends one of your monsters out of play for the rest of the duel."
"NO!" Kaiba couldn't believe it, he'd saved his god cards again.
"YES!" Yugi/Yami cried. "Now I play polymerization to fuse my three god cards together to form Ra the ultimate sun god! Go my ultimate creature, destroy his life points!"
"You can't attack on my turn, what is this awesome power?" Kaiba Demanded.
"This is the power of Ra the ultimate sun god. He can attack on my opponent's turn." Yugi/Yami informed Kaiba. The great monster rose up and destroyed not only Kaiba's life points, but it destroyed the top of the tower. Kaiba and Yugi/Yami fell from the devastated upper level and landed safely on Kilala's back.
"Good work." Sango praised her cat as she flew the defeated and demoralized Kaiba, and his victorious opponent back to the ground.
"Nice going Yug." Joey said giving his friend a high five.
"Thanks Joey, it was nothing though." Yugi/Yami replied.
"Maybe not to you, Yugi, but to me it was yet another crushing defeat. You're not even the world champion anymore and yet I still can't beat you." Kaiba said. "What hopes have I of beating Kagome if I can't even beat you?"
"Don't worry big brother, you'll get him next time." Mokuba said. "Right now we've got more important business to take care of, like rebuilding our Corporate Headquarters after you and Yugi trashed it. Kaiba looked up at the damaged sky scraper and frowned.
"What do I care anymore?" He asked. "My one goal in life is to be the best Duelist in the world. I must prove myself in battle before I do anything else. Otherwise, these humiliating defeats will haunt me forever." Kaiba started to walk off but then suddenly there came a thunderous roar and a brilliant flash of light came from the sky which knocked everyone down.
"What was that?" Miroku asked rubbing his eyes and scrambling to his feet.
"Was it an explosion?" Kagome asked.
"I don't think so, we'd all be toast if that were what you think it was." Mokuba said and looked up at his brother who suddenly had a horrified look on his face. "What's wrong bro, is this something to do with Kaiba Corp.?"
"I'm afraid so." Kaiba replied and started running for the glass doors. Suddenly though there came another shock wave and brilliant light knocking them off of their feet again but this time it shattered the every window around them for five miles.
"Kaiba what was that?" Yugi/Yami demanded to know.
"There's only one thing that it could be!" Kaiba replied as they all got back up and ran as fast as they could for the elevators. "I've only ever seen something like that once in my entire life." He told them as they loaded into the elevators and made their way down to the underground research lab.
"Kaiba, has it something to do with the research that your company has been doing?" Yugi/Yami asked.
"Yes, we've been developing it for quite some time, ever since I found out about that well of Kagome's." Kaiba admitted.
"My family's well?" Kagome asked. "What did you do with the secret of the well?" She demanded to know.
"I've been trying to duplicate it's effect ever since the first time that I traveled through it with you. You see Kagome, I'm a scientist, and everything must have a scientific explanation. The world simply doesn't work any other way. So for as long as I've known you, I've been trying to recreate the same conditions that exist in your well, in my lab. Now just before the tournament last week, I managed a breakthrough, and was able to send an object five minutes into the future through a vortex." Kaiba explained.
"Kaiba, are you telling us that you've invented a Time Machine?" Tea asked.
"That's exactly what I'm telling you." He replied. "And if I'm right then something very big has just traveled through into our time." When the elevator doors opened they ran down the corridor into the Kaiba Corp. Labs and found them in shambles. All the equipment was damaged and one great machine in the center of the room was sparking and sputtering. "This is it!" Kaiba exclaimed. "This is my time machine and it's…"
"A piece of junk." Said a voice from the far right corner of the room. The entire group turned to look and they saw a young man who was the spitting image of Kaiba only he was a little younger.
"Who are you?" Kaiba demanded.
"I'm Ichiro and this," he pointed over in the corner behind the machine, "is my girlfriend, Yoko." Then a young girl sporting a wild hairdo and gogoboots came from around the back of the time machine and stood with him before the group. Yugi/Yami looked and dismayed to see the Millennium Puzzle hanging around the girl's neck.
"Yoko, your pendant, where did you get it?" He asked her.
"My dad gave it to me for my 13th birthday." She said. "Cool isn't it?" She asked sporting it like a fashion item.
"Never mind that, Yugi, where does this little punk get off calling my time machine a piece of junk?" Kaiba demanded.
"Well to make it perfectly clear to you," Ichiro said, "It's nothing compared to the time machine which exists in our time. It's more like the prototype for ours but still primitive. Hell, I'm surprised that it worked. I mean, my father said it would, but just look what two people coming through did to it."
"Who's your father?" Serenity asked.
"I'm not allowed to reveal that, but I can tell you that he's the greatest genius in the entire world in our time and in any other." Ichiro said. "But now back to more important matters, I'm here for a duel." He informed them.
"A duel?" Yugi/Yami asked.
"Yes, with the great Yugi Mouto." Ichiro said. "In my time you're not around anymore to duel with me so I've come back all these years to find you and duel you to avenge my family's honor."
"Why a duel though?" Tea asked. "Why does this always happen to you Yugi?"
"Because, I'm the Pharaoh." He replied.
"I don't know about that." Said Ichiro. "All I know is that I can't marry my girl, Yoko, here until I've beaten my father's greatest rival in a duel with my father's deck."
"Well far be it for me to stand in the way of true love." Yugi/Yami said and stepped forward with his duel disk at the ready.
"You're not actually going to duel this little runt, are you Yugi?" Kaiba asked.
"He's obviously come a long way to duel me, Kaiba, and I won't deny him what he's obviously wanted for such a long time. Besides, you heard him, they're in love. They want to get married and they can't until he's beaten me in a duel. Now I must give him a chance to do so." Yugi/Yami said. "I'll let you go first."
"Fine." Said Ichiro. "Duel disk activate, load deck, and commence duel." The duel disk on his left arm began to beep and activate following his every command. "What do you think, it's voice activated so that it follows all commands and it's solar powered batteries last for fifty years."
"That is impressive." Yugi/Yami said, "Now lets duel." Just as he said the words though, the time machine behind them began to sputter and spark again. "Kaiba, what's going on here?"
"There's something else coming through!" Kaiba warned. "Everyone get down." They all ducked down on the floor just as there came another flash of light and sonic boom then suddenly there appeared in the center of the room a gigantic robot with what looked like a duel disk on it's arm.
"Targets acquired." The Robot said and pointed it's duel disk at Yugi/Yami and Kaiba. "Initiating dueling systems. Loading deck. Duel commencing."
"Duel commencing? What's it talking about?" Serenity asked.
"It wants a duel huh." Kaiba said. "Fine then, I'll give it a duel."
"Hold on here, time out!" Inu-yasha cried. "Just what the hell is going on here?"
"Uh… well…I umm." muttered Ichiro.
"I knew it!" Inu-yasha grabbed Ichiro by his collar and pulled him aside. "Just what is that thing and what's it doing here?" He demanded.
"That is a Techno-Duelist." Yoko said pointing up at the robot.
"What's a Techno-Duelist?" Mai asked, intrigued.
"It's one of many cybernetic organisms created by Kaiba Corp Systems in the year 2010 to hunt down the world's top duelists, engage them in battle, and then once they've lost the machines absorb them into themselves to become stronger duelists." Ichiro said. "It's been after me for years but it keeps loosing and so it can't complete it's primary programming until it's absorbed me and Yoko together."
"You mean that if Seto looses, then it'll absorb him?" Serenity asked.
"That's about the size of it." Yoko answered her. "It's really a big metal moron but it's already absorbed half the world's duelists. The only thing stopping it is my Ichiro." She grabbed his arm and held him close. Then Kaiba, not being one to ever turn down a duel, stepped up with his duel disk set for combat.
"Let's go." He said. "I'll start this off. I play one card face down in defense mode and another face down."
"Calculating stratagem." The lights on the robot's duel disk hand lit up, blinking. A slot dispensed a card into it's hand, and it said, "Conclusion: face down card is trap card. Counter with magic card: Remove Trap." The Robot said and then played it's remove trap card."
"What the-!" Kaiba said as his trap card, Deck Destruction Virus, was destroyed.
"Calculating stratagem. Facedown monster card is one in twenty. Calculation: less than 2000 Defense Points. Play King Tiger Wangu in attack mode. Attack face down monster."
"How did he- !?!" Kaiba cried as his Mystic Horseman was beaten by King Tiger. "I won't let a walking tin can defeat me! I play Familiar Knight in Attack mode."
"Activation of King Tiger's special ability confirmed. Familiar Knight destroyed."
"No!" Kaiba wailed. "How did he destroy my monster!?!"
"Duh," Yoko said behind him, "King Tiger's special ability is that it automatically destroys all monster that have 1400 or less attack points."
"You stay out of this!" Kaiba yelled back at her. He turned back to the robot and said, "I play the Dark Door and play one card face down then end my turn." He braced for the attack. The machine started to beep and lightup again then it's computer memory system began to calculat what strategy it should take."
"Datem absorbed. Calculating. Use of De-Spell magic card is recommended." The duel disk on it's arm dispenced a card then the machine played it. The card was De-Spell and it undid Kaiba's Dark Door magic card which was then sent to the graveyard. "Calculating, chances are now 1 in 18 that face down card is magic card. Conclusion, face down card is erelavent, continue with current stratagem. Now summoning second monster to field." The Robot said. His left arm dispenced another card and this time it was Guardian of The Throne Room with 1650 attack points that coupled with King Tiger's 1700 attack points made for a real nasty attack against Kaiba's life points. He lost 3350 points which left him with only 650 points.
"Hah, shows how smart this thing is, he let me slip right through his fingers." Kaiba said as he got up from the ground. "I play the quick play magic card Inferno Tempis which sends all our monster cards in our decks and our graveyards out of play." The Robot's lit's began to flash again and the beeping snd sputtering commenced.
"Now sending all monster cards in deck out of play. Calculating stratagem." It said. "Conclusion switck all monster to defense mode."
"A wise choice, but now it's my turn, and I play the magic card Miracle Dig which returns three of of my monsters from out of play to my grave yeard. Now I play monster reborn to summon my Andro Sphinx." Kaiba said. "Now I play my magic card Stop Deffense and bring your weakest monster back into attack mode." Guardian of The Throne Room's battle position was switched back to attack mode, leaving the Robot's life points open for Kaiba to take the Robot down a peg.
"Excuse me." Inu-yasha said to Kaiba and pushed him aside.
"What are you doing, I'm about to win." Kaiba said, outraged.
"That won't work." Ichiro said. "It'll just keep coming back again and again unitl it beats you. That's what it's programmed for."
"Right" Inu-yasha said. "So that means there's only one way to beat this thing." He drew the Tetsiga and with one mighty chop he turned the over grown machine into scrap mettal for the junk yard. Cards burst forth from the robot's left arm at which, Ichiro and Yoko began going through them. "Thank me later." Inu-yasha said and sheathed his sword.
"I didn't need you help!" Kaiba screamed. "I could have beaten this walking tin can all by myself."
"No you couldn't have." Yoko said, holding up three cards. "It was about to draw these three cards. "Pot of greed, Monster Destruction, and final turn."
"What does final turn do?" Tea asked looking at the cards.
"It brings the game to end in two turns and at the end of those two turns, whoever has the most life points wins. Monster destruction would have destroyed Kiaba's monster and then the game would have ended and he would have lost. Being that he had fewer life points than the Techno-Duelist." Yoko said.
"Wow, you could have been absorbed Kiaba!" Tea exclaimed.
"Yes, and there's no way of bringing him back?" Yugi/Yami asked.
"Once the Techno-Duelist absorbs someone they're gone forever." Ichiro replied. "There's no way to bring them back."
"That's what happened to my father." Yoko said. "He challenged the Techno-Duelist Cyber One and lost."
"What's a Cyber One?" Serenity asked, scared of what she might be told.
"It's the Kaiba Corp Super computer which controls the Techno-Duelists. It's computation capacity is nearly infinite, but until it absorbed my father too, it lacked the human intelligence to feed it's capacity. It's a cybernetic orgainism which requires human brain tishue to function." Ichiro explained. "It keeps a few of us alive to breed and make more duelists for it duel and make itself better."
"Some of us though, have formed an underground resistance movement, and we've been fighing the Technos ever since we could walk, talk, think, and duel." Yoko said proudly. "I myself have beaten seven Technos and Ichiro has beaten Ten. That one there just kept coming back for him though. We don't know why, but it seems to have him zerod in. Or at least it used to."
"Find anything good in there?" Ichiro asked Yoko as they got up from picking through the robot's deck.
"I found some good ones." She replied. "How about you?"
"Nothing much, but better than nothing." Ichiro said. The others looked at them in confusion. "Oh, this is how we all improve our decks now." He explained. "You see Pegasus and his company were the first to be overthrown so production of cards has stopped in our time. Now our resistance movement collects cards we take off of broken down Technos. When one of them breaks down, they throw it out, cards and all."
"That doesn't matter, it's still wrong to take another player's cards." Yugi/Yami said. "Those cards don't belong to you, you didn't win them, and they won't work for you if you play with them."
"What are you talking about?" Yoko asked. "Oh wait, don't tell me, are you one of those believers in the Heart of the Cards?"
"That's Yugi's whole philosophy!" Joey said angrily. "We're all believers in the heart of the cards, it's done more for us in our past duels than you two kids could ever dream of!"
"That's silly, we've been dueling for years without that silly heart of the cards nonsense, and we've won all our duels." Ichiro stated. "Now back to business, I want a duel with the great King of Games himself. I want Yugi. Now let's Duel!"
"This is sencelss but very well, I will duel you, but hopefully you'll learn something from this duel that will carry over to your world when you return." Yugi/Yami said.
"Who says we're going back?" Yoko asked, timidly. "Ichiro, you said we wouldn't be going back." She turned to her lover and looked at him with deep concern in her deep purple eyes.
"No one says we're going back there sweety." Ichiro told her, comfortingly. "No one is sending us back to that hell hole. We're staying right here and starting a new life for ourselves! I'm going first Yugi, now prepare for have your precious heart of the cards stuff turned up on it's head. Cause I'm going to take you down and marry my Yoko!" Ichiro stated most predominantly as he drew his five cards from his deck. "I play one card face down on the field with two cards face down and end my turn."
"Fine," Yugi/Yami drew and played Breaker the Magical Warrior. "I now lay one card face down on the field and end my turn.
"This isn't going to be so hard after all." Ichiro said to himself as he drew his next card. "I place another card face down on the field in defense mode now flip over my Banisher of the Light which has 2000 defense points and his special ability states that any card sent to the graveyard is removed from play instead. Your move." Yugi/Yami was kind of confused, this guy seemed to be toying with him. He hadn't made any kind of overwhelming moves or anything. He just laid four cards on the field and that's it.
"Very well then, I play the magic card Race Competitor. This allows me to draw three cards from my deck. However, if I don't use them in three turns, I must discard my entire hand." He drew the cards but he got nothing good that he could use right off except for maybe his Dark Magician if he could summon him to the field right now. "Now I play the magic card Single Sacrifice which allows me to summon a monster to the field which requires two or more monsters to play." Breaker the Magical Warrior disappeared then the Dark Magician appeared in his place. "Now go, dark magic attack! Destroy his Banisher of the Light!" Yugi/Yami ordered.
"Not so fast there." Ichiro said. "You activated my trap. Negate Attack, and now your battle phase comes to an end, along with your turn." Ichiro laughed and then drew his next card. "Now I play the magic card Dark Core which removes your monster from play automatically. Oh yeah, and that activates another of my traps. Graverobber's Retribution will cost you 100 life points for each monster card removed from play during my standby phases ."
"Clever move, but I've seen this sort of thing before." Yugi/Yami said defiantly as his friends all watched him playing against this Kaiba Copycat. He'd imitated his style, his hair, and even his deck it appeared now. Kaiba had used this very same strategy once before to duel him. Yugi/Yami could handle this or so he thought.
"Oh, then you'll recognize this then, I play another magic card. Pot of greed to draw two more cards." Ichiro said and drew his cards then he looked at the and began to laugh even harder. "You're finished Yugi, I've got some cards here which I'm sure you'll love to see again. Now I play the Lord of Dragons in attack mode, and with him, The Flute of Summoning Dragon. This allows me to summon two dragon type monsters from my hand without having to sacrifice for them."
"So, nothing you've got can stand up to Yugi's dark magician." Joey boasted. "Only Kaiba's dragons are more powerful."
"Think so. Well you're right, sort of, but my father put together this deck specifically to duel the best duelist ever. Sadly he never got to defeat Yugi himself in battle. My father's name shall live on in me though. For now I summon the worst monster you've ever seen! GO MY BLUE EYES WHITE DRAGON!"
"What!" Everyone exclaimed. "Impossible!" Kaiba yelled as before him the Blue Eyes appeared.
"What trickery is this?" Demanded Yugi/Yami. "There were only four of those cards ever made and one of them destroyed. The other three belong to…" Then he realized the terrible truth. "Ichiro, you said that your father built your deck specifically to defeat me. Does that mean that in the future your father is…?"
"Yes Yugi, my father stands there beside you now, and though he doesn't know it, I am his son. I am Ichiro Kaiba and I have come for you!" The Blue Eyes White Dragon roared and with a burst of fire, he smashed Yugi/Yami's Dark Magician. Sending him out of play and costing Yugi/Yami another 500 life points. "Now that you have no other monsters to defend your life points, I'm going put my other two monsters into attack mode and attack you with them. Go Banisher of the Light, and Skull Dog Marron." Yugi/Yami's life points went down another 1450. He was down to 2050 and was about to loose another 200 points for Ichiro's last standby phase.
"This is impossible, my son?" Kaiba asked. "How? When? With whom?" He demanded to know.
"We'll get to that in a second. Right now I'm more interested in knowing something else." Tea said. "Yoko, if Kaiba is Ichiro's father, then who's your father?" As if she didn't already know.
"Why, Yugi is." Yoko said sweetly. "Isn't it cool mom?" She grabbed Tea by the arms and pulled her close to hug her.
"MOM!?!" Everyone exclaimed.
"Yugi, we've got to have a long talk about all this." Tea said after a minute.
"Anyway, it's your turn Yugi." Ichiro said. "Not that it matters but I'll forgo my second standby phase."
"What?" Kaiba screamed. "What are you doing you foolish boy, you have an opportunity to do even more damage to Yugi's life points. If you really are my son, then you'll not make this critical mistake!" "Relax, I've got it, just sit back and watch Father as finally your life long dream comes true. The Defeat of Yugi Mouto at the hands of a Kaiba. Your turn Yugi so hurry up and let's get on with my victory."
"There is more to this game than winning or loosing Ichiro, there is persistence and determination. There is the will to do on even though things may seem hopeless." Yugi/Yami said then drew his next card. "I play Harold of the Angels with 2400 attack points but to summon this monster, I must discard a card from my hand."
"You fool, if you discard a monster, your life points will go down 300 more points on my turn." Ichiro was confused. Why would Yugi want to risk 100 life points on one card?
"Thankfully, the card I'm discarding is not a monster, but it is still going to help me win." Yugi/Yami said. "Now my Harold of the Angels will gain 500 attack points for each of my magic cards that have been removed from play and since all my magic cards so far have gone out of play instead of to the graveyard, this powers up my monster considerably. Ichero flinched, then he looked at Yoko, and at Kaiba. His father was there, right there, and watching him. He was dueling for Yoko and for love. He had to win. He had to.
"That's pretty good Yugi, but of course you know that Harold of the Angels can't attack in the same turn that it's summoned." Ichiro said. So it's my move unless you're going to do something else?"
"No, I'm done, so take your next turn and prepare to loose." Yugi/Yami told young Ichiro.
"I can win this, if I draw the right card, but I need to draw it right now." Ichiro closed his eyes and hoped against all hope that he would prevail for love, for honor, and for the future. "I play Card of Demise!" He cried as he drew. "This allows me to draw five new cards from my deck but if I don't use them in five turns, I'll loose them in five turns."
"What's this?" Yugi/Yami asked. "I've seen this move before, but how could he have drawn that card when he puts no faith in the heart of the cards?"
"Because I have faith in myself and in my own heart." Ichiro said. Yugi/Yami's life points when down another 200 points for Ichiro's standby phase. "Now I play the magic cell division which allows me to summon a card exactly like the one I have on the field. And now that I have two Blue Eyes White Dragons, let's go for broke huh. I play another cell division magic card to summon my third Blue Eyes white dragon to the field and now for the magic card polymerization which I already had in my hand. I summon to the field a monster that can't be beaten by a puny fairy card. I summon the Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon with 4500 attack points."
"This can't be!" Yugi/Yami said. "I've only lost to that card once before in my entire life. Now it's come full circle. Do it Ichiro. Finish me."
"Fine then, glad that you're such a gracious looser Yugi, I'd heard that you were a bit vain. Attack with blazing white lightning!" Ichiro cried and his three headed dragon blasted Yugi's monster out of existence and with it, Yugi's life points. Yoko leaped for joy then ran into Ichiro's arms and kissed him. The display disgusted Kaiba who could not believe that his son could fall in love with Yugi's daughter."
"You were great honey." She said to him.
"Thanks, it was nothing though, this Yugi's not so tough. Now I would have loved to have beaten him when he was older and more seasoned."
"Yeah, my dad was the best. Now you're the best though so it doesn't matter."
"Yes, you are the best I've seen so far." Kaiba said walking over to the two youths and placing his hand on Ichiro's shoulder. "So this is my son."
"Kaiba, we don't know anything about these kids." Joey pointed out. "Besides the fact that they look too much like you and Yugi to be anybody's relatives but yours."
"This deck of Ichiro's proves that he's Kaiba's son though, Joey." Yugi/Yami said. "No one else in the world has a deck like this one. Most impressive Ichiro. I thank you for the duel."
"You thank me, what is this?" Ichiro demanded.
"Nothing but my gratitude for reminding me that there is more to the heart of the cards than just friendship, faith, and trust. You also need love and a will to win." Yugi/Yami said.
"I don't know about that, but as for Yoko, and myself…" He said putting his arms around his girlfriend. "We're off to the nearest chapel."
"What?" Everyone exclaimed again. "You mean that you're getting married right now, today?" Tea asked.
"Sure are, we've waited for this day ever since we were kids, and now what we're here in a time where we can be safe. Ichiro and I are going off to make a life for ourselves." Yoko informed them all.
"Listen." Tea began. "It's not that we're not happy for you or anything, it's just that you're so young. I mean you're what, 15, maybe 16?"
"I'm 18." Ichiro said. "And my Yoko is 14. We're well within Japan's legal age limits."
"Yeah besides, we don't have anything better to do now that Ichiro's beaten my dad. We've been looking forward to this for such a long time and now that we're free from the Techno-Duelists, we're going to settle down." Yoko said. "You don't get to do that in our time. There's no one left there to perform marriage ceremonies and so most people just shack up with each other."
"I promised my Yoko more than that though." Ichiro said as he kissed her hands and held her close. "We're going to live here in the past where it's safe. The future is a terrible place, you have no idea of the devastation brought on the world by Kaiba Corp's horrible mistakes."
"What mistakes could our company have made?" Mokuba asked.
"Well, I'll tell you." Ichiro said and they all sat down on the floor of the lab to listen. "It all began when my father, Seto Kaiba created the Techno-Duelist Cyber One. It was supposed to be the most sophisticated super computer in the world. He created it to be his dueling partner in an upcoming tournament in which he believed he would square off once again with Yugi Mouto. That was how it usually was between the two of you guys. I remember how my father used to practice with it. He uplinked his own mind into the machine to make himself a better duelist and then that's when things got out of control. The Techno-Duelist Cyber One over grew it's own programming and absorbed my father into itself. Then it took over Kaiba Corp. and made Domino City it's headquarters."
"I remember the day that the Pyramid went up." Yoko said. "That was the day that my father, Yugi, went to go fight the Techno-Duelist Cyber One and he was absorbed as well."
"After that the company began producing the Techno-Duelists. The robots that we've been fighting since we were little kids." Ichiro told them. "Our world is a complete and total mess thanks to my father's need to defeat Yoko's father. We hated each other for a long time, Yoko, and I. Then one day as we were caught up in the midst of a double duel, we finally came to an understanding with each other."
"We fell in love." Yoko continued. "And we swore to each other that we'd one day escape the nightmare of our time, and so we made a daring raid on Kaiba Corp. Headquarters. We assaulted the Pyramid and took back control of the time generator that Ichiro's father had built. Unfortunately though a Techno followed us back as you've seen. Now we've got to destroy the time generator at this end or else more will come. Ichiro and I knew that this was going to be a one way trip, one way, or another."
"That's so romantic!" Tea, Serenity, Mai, and Kagome all said at once and praised the two star crossed lovers. Sango on the other hand was left wondering why they would just up and leave their companions behind. After all, if there is a resistance movement fighting the good fight back there in the future then surely they would need skilled duelists.
"Well that still doesn't explain one very important detail." Joey said crossing his arms.
"What's that?" Ichiro asked.
"If Kaiba is your father, then who's your mother?" They all leaned in close to hear Ichiro's answer.
"My mother died when I was born, so I didn't know her, and my father never spoke of her. I've never even seen a picture of her in my entire life. I have no idea who my mother is or even if she's one of you. All I know is that my father's heart was broken on that day and he never recovered from her loss. That's why he poured himself into his work and created the Techno Duelist Cyber One." Ichiro explained.
"Guys, I think that we're dancing around the real issue here." Yugi said then. "I think that we have an obligation to our kids to do something to help them."
"Yugi's right, we're their parents, so we've got to do something for them." Tea seconded.
"What though?" Kagome asked.
"We can't change the future for them, can we?" Miroku asked. They all looked to Kaiba who was their resident expert on just about everything having to do with science and technology. If anyone would know then he would.
"I don't think that it's possible to change the future now but we can go into our future and change their present. Besides, if what they're saying is true then I'm the one who's responsible for the entire mess. I have to do something to correct it."
"But the Cyber One has already beaten you, and Yugi once, how can you defeat it now?" Duke asked. Kaiba's answer didn't require much thought.
"We'll all have to go back to the future together and use every available resource to take down the Techno-Duelist Cyber One even if we must use our bare hands." He stated. "I won't allow the future of my company to be determined by a machine. Mokuba call Rebecca, get her, and her grandfather over here as soon as possible. Fly them here in our corporate jet if you have to. Just get them here. We'll need someone with intelligence to operate the time controls at this end while the rest of us go through the time generator to the future."
"Right Bro." Mokuba replied then ran off back to the lab's control room.
"Hold on!" Mai said. "Who volunteered all of us to go with you?" She demanded to know.
"Fine stay here for all I care, but I'm going, and I'm sure that Yugi's going to be tagging along again." Kaiba said.
"He's right." Yugi said. "I'm going too, so I suppose that whoever wants to go should go get their duel decks cause those are the only weapons we've got to face off against these techno-duelists."
"Then it's settled." Inu-yasha said. "We're in all in this together, except for Mai."
"Count me out." Bakura said.
"I've got a dental appointment " Added Duke.
"Oh great, scaredy cats." Inu-yasha grumbled.
"Another expedition even further into the future. This should prove most exciting." Miroku said.
"I agree, I'm anxious to find out what becomes of all of us in the future." Sango said.
"Right then it's agreed. All for one and one for the future." Yugi said holding up his hand in salute to his friends.
