Author's Note-N-N-N-NEW S-S-S-STORY! WOOP WOOP! Enjoy and Review.
Chapter 1-Get Together
"JACK! GET BACK HERE JACK ATLAS!" Crow Hogan followed blond friend towards the coffee shop they had been frequenting since they arrived to duel for the gold. Their runners came to a stop and both of them walked in and greeted Geoff, the owner of the shop who had taken a liking to the two and their "crazy, fire arguments, Yah?", before taking a seat at their own reserved booth.
"So what were you yelling about earlier?" Jack said as he took a sip of the heavy scented coffee.
"We need to go and visit everyone else." Crow spoke slowly as he emphasized each word carefully,
"Why would we do a stupid thing like that?" Crow's eyebrow twitched with his friend irritating façade of being too good for the world all the time.
"Because…"the orange haired man looked down and fiddled with the handle of the cup, something he rarely did. Jack softened visibly,
"You miss Yusei, don't you?"
"Don't YOU? I mean, we all took off and decided to do our own thing and sure it's good for us to go out and "expand our boundaries", but I just felt like…maybe we need to take a break for a while. Y'know, I heard Carly is still refusing to date anyone else since you gave her that "secret" good-bye kiss in the airport." Jack choked on his coffee and glared at his smirking friend, about to erupt with questions and denial, until he saw that the smile didn't reach the familiar gray eyes. Jack slowly smiled back and took another, slower, sip of coffee.
"As if yours with Sherry was absolutely hidden my friend." Crow's mouth hung open. "Oh yes, I'm not blind Crow. Not blind at all," a smile returned to both of their faces, "We can send out the message to everyone and meet back at Yusei's apartment, sound good?" Crow's smile got wider,
"ALRIGHT! WE GET TO SEE HOME AGAIN!" he thrust his fist towards Jack and the tall man struck it with his own.
POV CHANGE (Rua and Ruka)
"RUKA! RUKARUKARUKARUKA!" the green haired teen ran as quickly as he could through the large rooms and down the hall to where his sister would practice her gymnastics. Barging in the room, still repeating her name over and over, he caught her off guard and she fell from the beam she was balancing on and into the thickly padded floors below.
"Rua! What are you doing scaring me like that?" she rubbed her shoulder and sent a weak glare over to her twin who grabbed her arm and ecstatically rushed her back to the large screen on the wall where the message Jack and Crow had sent was waiting idly.
"LOOKIT! WE HAVE TO BE READY RUKA! THEIR ALL COMING BACK AND WE ARE GOING TO HAVE FUN JUST LIKE WE USED TO!" the boy was like his old self again, bouncing up and down with excitement as the girl tried to ignore him and read the whole message.
"It says that they will come in during our class to "be completely irritating!" and bust us out for the rest of the week!...but they have no idea how to get away with us yet…"
"WHAT DOES THAT MATTER? WE GET TO BE OUT OF SCHOOL WITH EVERYONE AGAIN!" The young girl now joined her brother in their "happy bounce" around the apartment, not caring how childish it made them look to the no one that was around.
POV CHANGE (Aki)
"Well, well, Jack and Crow finally write something that doesn't tell a biography of what's going on." The red haired woman shook her head with a light laugh as she continued to read on. "We will bust the twins out of their classes in full uniform to be completely irritating to the teacher and any other authority figure present!...Wow, they haven't changed a bit." She wrote back her acceptance and then typed in "Means of escaping with our fugitives? I have no idea. Sorry" and clicked send.
"What will they come up with next? Taking Rua and Ruka out of their classes with no idea of how to get away with them! Oh, I've missed those two!"
POV CHANGE (Yusei)
"No idea of how to escape huh?" the raven haired man sat thinking quietly in his tent, after he sent a message that he would be able to be at his apartment to see everyone, before an idea came to him. Pulling on his hat and shades, he limped out into the blistering heat and approached a group of men that he knew very well. They nodded when he got close and he feigned aggravation only to give in at their shocked expressions and attempts to give more respect. He laughed out loud at them and pulled one of them away by the arm.
"Sir?"
"Churchill, you are my best chopper pilot…can you do something for me?"
"Um, we're all on break sir."
"I know, I'm sorry but this has nothing to do with what we're doing out here." The younger man raised an eyebrow as Yusei told him his plan and in the end the Churchill smiled widely.
"I'll go tell the others!" he started off, "And sir?"
"Yes?"
"Your friends have no idea what you do nowadays?"
"Don't think they could guess it in a very, very long time." Yusei returned to his computer and began to type to Jack and Crow. "Means of escape: acquired...see you guys soon!"
POV CHANGE (Jack and Crow)/TIME SKIP (2 DAYS)
"Ok so we all are ready to go and everyone will be there and-" Crow was checking the messages over again until a new one popped up from Yusei. Crow read over the short message again and again, even scrolling down to see if their friend had written anything else, so busy with trying to find something else that he didn't notice Jack had come from behind and also read the message.
"Way to be cryptic Yus."
"I know right?" they sat there staring at the eight words, debating internally whether to respond to Yusei or just go with it.
"Well," Jack clapped loudly, startling Crow, "If he wanted to tell us what he had planned he would have. Just tell the others to be ready f or anything and not to take their runners to the school if they can." Crow sighed as his friend left the room to start packing and began to type up the last message to the others before they left.
POV CHANGE (3RD PERSON)/TIME SKIP (2 DAYS)
The twins had been anxious and excited all day. They hadn't ridden their runners, they had taken the bus…something they both vowed to never do again unless ABSOLUTELY necessary and arrived in their uniforms. Rua in his duel team jacket and pants and Rua in her gymnastics sweater and sweat pants, neither caring that they received strange looks as they waited through a little less than half the day before they got to their last class before lunch.
"When?"
"I don't know Rua! Just be patient!"
"NO TALKING!" The older woman who taught the class with "precision and excellence", as told by her banner above the board, turned her cruel eyes to the students, "who was speaking?" no one moved. "Come now, if you don't come forward then the whole class will be punished for your insolence." She peered over her tiny glasses and scanned the room.
"BA-DA-BOOM!"A white boot kicked the door in and three people leapt in, Crow rushed in first and startled the teacher with his loud entry yell, Jack ran up and grabbed Rua and Ruka by their arms and Aki slung the large window open at the other side of the room. The three exited as quickly as they entered with the twins in tow, out into the large sports field, and broke into a dead sprint for the middle of the field. From the classroom they could hear the teacher screeching into the intercom for security to come and retrieve the runaways, and their white uniforms could be seen leaving the building,
"What do we do now?" Aki yelled to everyone else,
"Yus said he'd get us out of here!" Crow yelled back,
"We're gonna be in such big trouble if we get caught!" Rua paced nervously and Ruka tried to calm him down.
"Shh!" Jack froze them all as the security got closer and closer, "Listen!" The semi-distant beating of helicopter blades could be heard steadily getting closer and closer until a pitch black chopper came into view and it hovered over head.
"NO WAY!" Crow yelled even louder now to be heard over the helicopter, "HE GOT THE ARMY TO COME PICK US UP!" they watched as the security group froze a few hundred yards away in shock at the sudden appearance of the army 'copter.
"Hey!" a figure was seen looking over the edge of the bird and three rope ladders were tossed down to the waiting group, they hesitated for a moment and then started to climb up as quickly as possible. The ladders were reeled back into the helicopter and the group strapped themselves in to a soldier with a ski mask with a skull face painted on in white, he was clad in black, with sunglasses on, and wielding multiple semi-automatic weapons.
"THIS is the group?"
"Yes, Ghost it is." A voice from the front caused them to look up that direction but no one was visible due to wide chairs of the pilot and co pilot.
"Two pro duelists, one semi-pro duelist, a doctor, and a gymnast…you got some friends everywhere in the chain don't you Sir." The soldier smiled in a friendly way as he looked over the group of friends again.
"Ok we're clear from the school grounds and no longer at any risk…not that there was much risk anyway…being on the home front and all." The pilot's voice was clear and deep.
"Whatever Churchill, just fly this bird like I hope you can." The pilot called 'Churchill' laughed boldly and grinned at the man next to him.
"Don't worry Sir, I graduated at some point…I think." The two laughed again and 'Ghost' laughed along with them.
"Hey Ghost, switch seats with me, I'm sure Jack and Crow are about ready to strangle you for information." Ghost laughed again, unclipped his belt and stood as the one in front did the same and stepped through the narrow passage way to the back as Ghost stepped to the front.
The man was shorter then Jack, but who isn't, and a little taller than Crow, he wore all black like Ghost but instead of a ski mask he wore a black turtle neck that covered his mouth and nose, he also wore sunglasses and a black ball cap covered his head. Strapped to his back was a large sniper rifle with the initials 'Y.F.' etched into the side. When he moved to sit he swung it off and strapped it to the wall above his head.
"Did Yusei send you guys?" Rua couldn't take the silence anymore even though the exchange had only taken two minutes. The man laughed as he clipped his belt on,
"You could say that Rua!" he pulled off his hat, revealing the black spikes with gold highlights, he pulled the turtle neck down, revealing deeply tanned skin and a marker on his left cheek, and lastly he took of the shades and the smile that was on his lips reached his deep blue eyes. No one spoke as they took in what they were seeing. Yusei had told them he would stay in Neo Domino city and watch over it…they didn't think that he meant that he would do what he said in this way.
"You…you're IN the army?" Crow's voice was low and filled with the shock he felt. Yusei's smile fell as what he feared the reaction would be was coming true. Ghost and Churchill had been chatting happily until they heard the last interaction. The whole helicopter was void of any conversation and the only sound was the beating of the blades that spun above their heads.
"Yeah, Crow. I joined the army a few years back…in fact, not to long after you all left." Jack recovered his voice now,
"WHAT IN BLAZES ARE YOU THINKING! OH WAIT! YOU ARENT THINKING! JOINING THE ARMY YUSEI!" Yusei held up a hand to stop his friend's tirade and fixed a stern glare on him,
"I joined to protect Neo Domino city in a way that dueling cant; I started from the very bottom and worked my way up the chain-"
"Very quickly, if I might add!" Churchill added from the front,
"Until I got to where I am today, I'm the top sniper in the army right now and my squad consists of-"
"YOU'RE SQUAD!" Crow screeched,
"Yes," Yusei spoke slowly, "Consists of Churchill, who is our pilot-"
"TOP pilot!" came his voice again,
"TOP pilot, Ghost whose my…TOP technician and second in command, Bulldog who is my shot gunner, Brains who is my Intel expert, Twitch who is my machine gunner, and myself. We are well rounded and can make good use of any weapon handed to us but we excel in our given titles." His friends remained silent and Aki had still not looked up from her hands which rested in her lap.
"Who are you then?" Ruka tried to smile and Yusei smiled back,
"They call me-"
"SNIPS! SNIPPITY-SNIP SNIPS!"
"YEAH-YAH! SNIPS IS IN DA BACK!" Yusei shook his head at his two men who were continually interrupting them from the front with random information.
"Snips?"
"Cuz he's our best sniper EVAH!"
"Oh dear, Ghost, did Churchill take his meds yet?"
"HEY!"
"I don't think so sir! Should I give them to him?"
"Wait till we land, might be a little safer to do that on stable ground…instead of this high off the ground in a helicopter." The silence filled the helicopter again as Yusei slowly met the gazes of each of his friends. Aki finally looked up,
"You…" she looked down and up again, searching for her voice, "You are careful out there…right?" they all looked to her and even the two up front sobered down. They had antagonized Yusei to no end when they saw Aki in one of the photos he had with him…they knew how he felt about her and vice versa.
"Of course I'm careful Aki."
"I just…don't want to lose you Yusei." She was blushing madly and Yusei looked out to the city they were passing over, the sun catching his eyes and lighting them into a brighter version of the blue they were already.
"Don't worry, I'm careful." He paused and Churchill suddenly laughed,
"Usually."
"Not helping Churchill." The signers looked at Yusei worriedly as they finally realized how he kept all of his weight off his right leg when he came to sit in the back and how his hand now sat protectively over his right knee.
"Well sir you can't hide it, even when you REALLY try to. Just admit that your leg is the reason that Overlord gave us this vacation." Yusei said nothing and Churchill knew to back off,
"Yus," Jack spoke quietly, rare moment for him, "What happened to you?" Said friend looked up and met the gazes of all of them. He opened his mouth to speak but looked out the window,
"We're here."
Author's Note- PHEW! SoooOoooOOooo? Should I keep going…I COULD leave it here….but I do have more to go off on. Please review? XDXD