Chapter One: Vacation

It was a little bit after school had ended at Domino High. After enduring yet another day of teachers, homework, and cleaning duty, the six teenage heroes were gathering up their things and preparing to go home.

Joey slammed his school books onto his desk and said to the others, "Okay, dat's it. I'm sick of doin' all dis work an goin' tru all dese useless facts about dese stupid tings dat everyone under de sun knows we'll never need whatsoever." He picked up his books and started shoving them into his bag. "I'm ready for a vacation."

"Hey, we're not just ready for a vacation-we need a vacation," Tristan replied. "We don't just go to school and do our homework day after day-we save the world once or twice every week!"

"Must you people always whine so much?" Kaiba asked the two. "No one ever really needs a vacation-if you become unmotivated to work, you just need to improve upon your mental discipline and force yourself to continue on with your duties."

"Or just remember you have a complete lack of an actual life outside of a job," Joey muttered.

"What was that, Wheeler?" Kaiba glared at him.

"Oh, notin'," Joey replied, giving him a sweet smile.

As the teens walked outside, Joey continued, "We need ta get outta here and go somewhere nice…somewhere dat we won't hafta do any sort a school work, or listen ta any lectures, and especially not hafta save de world from anodder evil, psychopathic freak."

"I don't know, Joey…it seems like evil is always able to find us no matter where we go," Yugi said.

"Oh, great," Joey sighed. "So we're pretty much screwed."

"Well, let's at least try to get a good rest during this weekend," Téa replied. "Maybe we could go to a movie, or out to dinner, or..."

"How about just a nap," Joey let out a fake yawn. "I'm goin' home an goin' ta bed. See ya guys later."

Everyone bid each other goodbye and went walking their separate ways back to their homes (except for Kaiba who, of course, just had to take his limo).


Unbeknownst to the teens, the three gods had been watching over them closely as they spoke to each other. Hmm, so they desire a vacation, huh, D.M. telepathically said to the others. Well, we might not be able to give that to them exactly, but it could at least be a start for our intended plan…All we need is to plant that little idea into a certain someone's mind…


As Yugi walked down the streets towards his house, his thoughts strayed to the many villains they'd beaten in the past. The Pharaoh spoke to him in his mind: Yugi, how many different adventures have we had now since we've received these powers?

Yugi considered that for a moment. Let's see…Queen Kaosu, Copycat, Susiros and Resheph …wow…I think that by now we've had about sixteen different ones.

Perhaps Joey's right, the Pharaoh thought. After saving our world and Spencer's world so many times, we just might need to take some time to relax.

Maybe, Yugi replied, but how would we find the time to do that? And where would we go?

Suddenly, Yugi heard a voice call out from behind him, "Hey, Yug! Wait up!"

Yugi turned around and saw that a young man who looked just like the Pharaoh, save for his orange-tan skin, was running up towards him with a wide grin on his face.

"Spencer!" Yugi cried.

Spencer skidded to a stop right next to Yugi and said, "Nice to see you, amigo mío. And I have good news: I'm not here to announce that yet another nutcase has come to your world with plans to take over or destroy you or anything like that."

"So then you have a problem in your world which you need help with," Yugi concluded.

"Nope," Spencer shook his head. "Not at all."

Yugi stared at him. "How come you're here, then?"

"Well," Spencer said as the two continued walking down the street, "while I was just hanging out in my mansion, I came to realize that I was kind of bored and lonely in there with nobody to be with and no one to fight against at the moment, so…the thought came to my mind that maybe you guys could come over to my place and hang out there for a little while…you know, like a miniature vacation of sorts."

Yugi stopped dead in the middle of the sidewalk. "Are you joking?" he cried out.

Spencer blinked. "Um, no. It's not a problem, I hope."

"No, of course not!" Yugi cried. "My friends and I were just talking at school about how we needed a vacation from battling evil and such." He paused. "Wait…but how are we going to get away without our parents noticing?"

Spencer grinned. "I've already got it all figured out-tonight you guys can pack your things and come to a special custom portal which I'll set up in the warehouse; then, once all of you have come through, I'll just completely freeze time in your world, and you all can stay as long as you want without anybody even noticing that you're gone!"

"Gone where?" a voice suddenly said.

Yugi and Spencer looked up to see that they had reached the Game Shop and Yugi's Grandpa was standing right outside of it, leaning on a broom he'd been using and eyeing them with suspicion.

"Oh, uh, nowhere, Grandpa," Yugi quickly replied.

"Yugi, you know this young man?" Grandpa said, looking up at Spencer.

Yugi stared up at Spencer. "When did you meet Grandpa?"

"A little bit ago," Spencer replied. "When he came back after doing a bunch of errands even though he was dead tired and I finally convinced him to go back upstairs and get some rest. You were out at that moment."

As in out in the dream world, he told Yugi telepathically.

"Oh," Yugi replied as casually as possible. "Okay, I gotcha." He looked back at his grandfather and said, "Grandpa, this is a friend of mine from school. Spencer, my Grandpa."

"Pleasure to meet you personally, sir," Spencer said, holding his hand out to Grandpa Muto.

"And you too, young man," Grandpa said, shaking Spencer's hand.

Suddenly, he took a small step backwards, and a slightly contorted look crossed his face.

"Sir?" Spencer cried.

"Grandpa, are you all right?" Yugi asked with great concern.

"Oh, uh, yes-absolutely," his grandfather replied, shaking the sudden shock out of his head. "Sorry, just felt a little dizzy there for a moment, that's all."

"Well, we're going to go upstairs in my room, Grandpa," Yugi said, stepping through the door of the shop.

"Yeah, we need to go upstairs and pack," Spencer said.

"What?!" Grandpa cried.

"TALK! Go upstairs and talk! That's what I meant!" Spencer quickly replied before he dashed inside, flustered.

What the flip was with me? he thought to himself. Since when do I blab like that?

Grandpa stared at Yugi and Spencer as they walked through the back of the shop into the house. Hmm…what exactly is going on with those two…he thought to himself. They're certainly acting suspicious…perhaps I should keep an eye on them for the rest of today…


Ah, good-so we can be pretty much assured that all of them will be coming tonight.

"Mmm-hmm."

And when they do, most of the other parts of our plan can simply fall into place…