The Thief King's Mishaps with Technology

By: DNL

Mishap 1: Microwave

It was an average day in Domino city. Nothing unusual was going on, it was a rather slow day to be honest. To most people there was nothing special going on, everything was as it usually was. However, to one person in particular out of the whole city and even the world at the moment the world was still very different. That one person was living with Ryo Bakura in his apartment. After regaining his body from the shadows and regaining his health the Thief King, Akefia Bakura… was still adjusting to the new world around him. Namely the technology.

The Thief King was currently lying on the couch looking bored as he could possibly be at the moment. He sighed through his nose, as much as he liked not having to look over his shoulder every other second his new life had its very dull moments. Hearing his stomach growl demanding food he sat up grumbling to himself, "Alright, alright I'll get something to eat…"

His stomach was the only thing he couldn't tell to shut up, it won every argument eventually…

Pulling himself up off the couch Akefia sauntered into the kitchen. He went up to possibly his favorite invention of the new era, the fridge. Something that could keep food fresh and edible longer just by sticking them in there!? Genius! At times Ryo would walk into the kitchen just to see his older brother grazing from the fridge, with his head stuck into it eating the food right then and there.

Opening the fridge door he looked through the shelves for something of interest to eat. Finding nothing he remember the delicious roast Ryo had cooked last night. Licking his lips he recalled Ryo had wrapped what was left of the meat in some sort of silver shiny stuff that looked like thin metal. Foil? That's what he thought Ryo called it when he asked.

Looking for the shiny foil covered bundle of goodness he soon spotted it on the top fridge shelf. Snatching it from where it was Akefia closed the fridge behind him. He frowned, it wouldn't be very tasty cold. Turning his head he spotted the solution to his little dilemma. Mounted above the stove sat the black box thing called the microwave.

Akefia had seen Ryo use it to heat up cold food before and even cook with it. Curious he'd watch Ryo use it before. Seemed simple enough. Stick the food inside like with the fridge, put in the time then wait. An annoying beep would let you know it was done. Akefia didn't know what sorcery caused the food to cook or warm up but he always heard a humming noise when it was working.

Popping open the door Akefia put his soon to be meal in the microwave before turning his attention to where the numbers were. He stopped…there were no buttons. He scratched his head…how did this work. He glanced over to Ryo's game room where his little brother was hard at work on a new project.

He….could ask him….

No. He could do this on his own! Only way to learn was to do it yourself!

Besides, it seemed simple enough.

Akefia looked at the numbers for a moment. He only remembered seeing Ryo press them. Then again how long would it take to heat up the meat? It wasn't too big a chunk. A minute and a half seemed enough. Akefia pressed the one, there was a beep and a one appeared on the screen, then he pressed the three to indicate half a minute…which was thirty seconds for some reason. Looking back to the lit up numbers he saw thirteen.

'Guess I need to press zero now?' He did so and the number changed to 1:30. There, he got the time. Akefia grinned proudly to himself for achieving this much. Looking at the pad he tried to find the button to activate it. Akefia recalled Ryo always touched a button at the bottom. He furrowed his brow seeing 'enter'. How the hell did 'enter' turn it on!? Enter what? He sighed, how some words were used didn't make sense anymore. For the hell of it he pushed the button and much to his surprise it worked.

The humming started out low but soon enough grew to its typical pitch. Akefia looked over to where his meat was. Eyes drawn in by the compartment lighting up. He watched as the plate the bundle was placed on began to turn around and around at a steady pace. It was almost hypnotizing making him continue to watch.

Then. A spark was seen. Akefia arched a brow…that wasn't what usually happened.

Then there was another and another. Akefia began to grow worried. The light in the compartment start to flash on and off. A loud pop was heard making Akefia jump back then there were more sparks and pops soon turning into bangs. The hair on the back of the Thief King's neck stood up and he went on full alert.

"It's turning on me!" Akefia yelled in panic trying to find the off button on the panel, 'How did Ryo get it to stop!?' Another loud bang made the high strung thief jump away out of instinct. Akefia looked around frantically like a frightened hare looking for something to destroy the machine. Meanwhile the bangs were getting more and more frequent.

BOOM! Akefia all but froze seeing the door fly open and the contents of the microwave were ejected out. The Thief King let out a yell and jumped up onto the counter top behind him for safety.

"What in the world is going on!?"

Akefia snapped his head and saw Ryo standing in one of the entrance ways to the kitchen looking shook up from all the noise. Immediately he spotted Akefia standing on the counter and knew his adopted brother had done something, "What did you do Akefia!?"

"That thing tried to kill me with my own food!" Akefia protested pointing accusingly at the microwave.

Ryo stopped…what did he just say!? He looked to the microwave which to his shock had a bit of smoke coming out. "The microwave!" Ryo yelled running over to it. Looking inside there were scorch marks all over the walls on the inside. Remembering Akefia saying something about his food he looked around and saw a scorched piece of food covered in burnt foil.

Picking it up Ryo sighed, "Akefia…you can't stick metal in the microwave…it makes it…" He gestured to the smoking microwave, "Do that."

Akefia looked to the microwave. Metal made it do that? He hummed, "It messes with its magic…somehow?"

Ryo sighed, "Yes, let's go with that." He really didn't know how to explain it so best leave it at what his brother said for now. Ryo looked back to the undoubtedly broken microwave, 'Guess I'll have to get a new one…' He scratched his head, though Akefia was improving he still had issues with technology often ending like this….

He'd try to do something on his own and end up causing a mess or breaking it…then Ryo would have to come in and explain, and then make him cleanup said mess. Then he'd have to replace what he broke.

"Why don't you just ask me how things work?" Ryo said tiredly, this was at least the third thing he broke in the current week alone.

"I can do things myself." Akefia huffed defiantly, "Besides…it was going well until the foil interfered with the microwave's magic…." He grumbled, he'd almost managed to accomplish cooking for himself for the first time since he regained his body.

Curious he looked to the bundle of meat Ryo had in his and peeled some of the meat off eating it, "Not bad…" He said to himself, "It's still good." With that he took the meat from him using a paper towel to shield his hands from the still hot metal. Ryo staring all the while as his older brother walked into the kitchen, "I count this as a success~."

Ryo stared…sighed…then face palmed.

Living in his house was anything but normal.

This is the firs of a series of short humor stories about the Thief King's run in's with modern technology XD

I'll do these when I need a laugh or come up with an idea. Might do one soon to get these going. This first one kind of sets up on the idea and was the first incident I thought of at the moment that seemed the funniest. Keffy loves his food so naturally the first one has to deal with it XD

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