Just to warn you, Yugi, Heba, Jou, Ryou, and Malik might seem to be a little out of character. I'll try to keep them as in character as possible, but this story will call for these five to be a little OOCish.
Chapter 2- Military Men
A soldier walked into an office and said, "Colonel, there's a general here to see you."
"Thank you, Corporeal." Yugi said.
"Lieutenant Colonel Mutou, it's a pleasure to see you again." the big man said.
"General Tanaka, always a pleasure. What can I do for you?" Yugi asked, feigning politeness. Deep down, he couldn't stand this man.
"Did you hear about my latest victory?" General Tanaka asked.
"Yes. I heard that you took over the city of Kanish." Yugi said.
"Yes. A bloody and costly battle, but we did take it." General Tanaka said."So I heard." Yugi replied. He glanced down at the memo he had just received. He was expecting someone and hoped that the general would leave before then.
"Have you had any major battles lately, Colonel?" General Tanaka asked.
"As a matter of fact, I have. My fighters just returned from the city of Tanish. We were able to clear the way for General Mahinko to get through and take the city." Yugi answered.
General Tanaka was flabbergasted. He had not expected Yugi to be able to answer the question positively, so he had no way of responding.
"Yugi, I-" Heba stopped when he saw that there was someone with him. "Sorry, Colonel. I was not aware that you had someone in here." Heba said.
Even though Yugi and Heba were brothers, they maintained military courtesy toward each other by calling each other by rank in the presence of others as well as with Jou, Malik, and Ryou.
"It's all right, Major. What is it?" Yugi asked.
"I was just informed that General Mahinko's car just pulled up. I knew that you were expecting him, Colonel." Heba said.
"Thank you, Major Mutou. I will be out in a moment." Yugi said.
Heba saluted before he left the room
Yugi turned to General Tanaka and said, "If you will excuse me, General, I must go."
"Of course." General Tanaka said, still stunned that Yugi had helped win such a major victory.
Yugi walked out of his office and down the hall of the base before he arrived at the front where Heba, Jou, Malik, and Ryou were waiting for him. Yugi motioned for them to follow him, and the four walked to where General Mahinko stepped out of his car.
Yugi and the other four saluted.
"General Mahinko, welcome to the 3058th Airborne." Yugi said.
General Mahinko saluted back. "At ease." General Mahinko said.
All the three stood at attention when he said that with their hands behind their backs.
"I trust that you and your team are all right, Colonel?" General Mahinko asked.
"Yes. Congratulations on your victory, General. I'm sure that the commanding general is pleased." Yugi said.
"Come now, Colonel. Without you and your crack air team, I would have been unable to win that battle. The real heroes are you and your team. Without your bombing expertise, we would have had a major loss." General Mahinko replied.
"Sir, if you will follow me, I will show you to your quarters. Captain Ishtar, get the General's bags." Yugi ordered.
"Sir, yes, sir." Malik before he went and got the bag from the car.
"You need not make a major fuss over me, Colonel. I am merely here to observe you and your team." General Mahinko said.
"Sir, you are a visiting officer, and this is protocol." Yugi said.
A private came up and said, "Lieutenant Colonel, sir."
"What is it, Private?" Yugi asked.
"There seems to be a problem in supply. Request that you come and aid us." the private said.
"Very well, Private. I will be there momentarily." Yugi said.
"Yes, sir, Colonel." the private said and saluted before he left.
"Major Mutou, you will see the General to his quarters and make sure he has all that he needs." Yugi said.
"Yes, sir, Colonel Mutou." Heba replied, saluting.
"Major Bakura, come with me." Yugi said.
Ryou nodded and followed Yugi as he walked off to tend to the problem in supply.
"Right this way, General." Heba said, leading the man down through the buildings.
"Tell me, Major. Is it coincidence that you and the Lieutenant Colonel have the same last name, or does the theories of genetics apply considering the fact that you look like him(1)?" General Mahinko asked.
"Yes, sir, General. The Lieutenant Colonel and I are twin brothers, sir." Heba answered.
"Why the major and colonel then? Do you not address each other by name?" General Mahinko asked.
"We prefer not to let familial ties influence us on anything. In private, we will refer to each other by name, but we keep up the professional courtesy. Some of the brass may not approve of such things." Heba explained.
"I see. Most would not approve. I myself have no problem with it, but if it is what you prefer to do, then I have no right to say otherwise." General Mahinko said.
"These are your quarters, General." Heba said, stopping in front of the small building.
"Thank you, Major." General Mahinko said. He walked into the building which was no bigger than a regular sized room.
The room had a single bunk in it along with a small desk that had a chair as well as a small mirror and basin.
"If these quarters are not to your liking, General, I am sure that the Colonel can find you quarters that will satisfy you." Heba said.
"These quarters will suit me just fine, Major. Captain, place my bag on the bed. It will be fine there." General Mahinko said.
Malik did as ordered and set the bag on the bed.
"If that is all General, we will go on. Someone will come get you at 1700 hours. Colonel Mutou has set up the meeting for then." Heba said.
"Very good. You're all dismissed." General Mahinko said.
Heba, Malik, and Jou saluted before they left.
Yugi and Ryou walked to the supply building.
"What do you think they messed up?" Ryou asked.
"I don't know, Major, but I suppose we'll find out soon enough." Yugi answered.
The two reached the supply building and went in.
"Sergeant Reedington, what seems to be problem?" Yugi asked.
"Colonel, we ordered five sets of missiles for each plane for the nest air raid, but we only received three sets for each." Sergeant Reedington said.
"Where is the supply log?" Yugi asked.
Sergeant Reedington picked up and book and said, "Here it is, sir."
Yugi took the book and looked through it. "We did requisition the amount you said. I'll call headquarters and see what happened. For now, we'll just have to make do with what we have." Yugi said.
"Very well, sir. There was another problem, sir." Sergeant Reedington said.
"Yes." Yugi said.
"We also requisitioned ammunition, grenades, rifles, and side arms since we have been told there's a possibility that we will be in a ground battle, but I'm afraid that we only have enough for half the battalion." Sergeant Reedington said.
Yugi looked at the requisition and saw that the sergeant was right again. "You're right. I'll look into this." Yugi said.
"Thank you, sir, and I'm sorry to have bothered you." Sergeant Reedington said.
"Sergeant, you needed help with a problem, and you followed protocol by calling me. You did the right thing, and that's what matters. You're job is to make sure that we get what we need, and you noticed that we didn't get all that we do need. You have nothing to apologize for. Carry on." Yugi said, handing the supply logs back to him.
Sergeant Reedington saluted before leaving.
Yugi and Ryou left the supply building.
"How do the idiots in Tokyo expect us to fight a ground battle without the right equipment? It's not like when we have air strikes. We don't need as much then." Ryou said.
"I don't know. I'll have to call and see what they say. Although it's going to take a while. I certainly do hope that we are not called into a ground battle any time soon." Yugi said.
"Do you need anything from me?" Ryou asked.
"Yes. Would you see about getting the others sets of missiles that we ordered? I need to look into the missing ground assault materials." Yugi said.
"Certainly, Colonel." Ryou said, taking the requisition from Yugi.
"Let me go, and see what they say at headquarters." Yugi said.
Ryou watched Yugi leave. 'Whoever messed up the requisition is in for it. Yugi's not one to take things like this lightly.' Ryou thought.
Yugi sat at his desk on the phone. He was getting in touch with Hitomi, the Japanese headquarters.
"Hitomi." an operator said.
"This is Lieutenant Colonel Yugi Mutou. I need to get in touch with central supply." Yugi said.
"Yes, sir. Colonel. One moment please." the operator said.
After waiting a few moments, a voice said, "Sergeant Hillshy. Central Supply."
"Sergeant, this is Lieutenant Colonel Yugi Mutou, CO of the 3058 Airborne Battalion." Yugi said,
"Colonel, what can I do for you sir?" Hillshy said.
"Sergeant, I put in a requisition for armament in a ground assault on 5 October. When we received our allotment, my supply sergeant brought it to my attention that we only received half of what we requisitioned." Yugi said.
"Colonel, I can assure you that you received all that you requisitioned." Hillshy said.
"Sergeant, I spent the last two hours with my supply sergeant going over everything that we received in out latest supplies. Of the things that we requisitioned, only half of the armaments needed for a ground assault was among them. With what we received, only half of my Battalion would have anything." Yugi said.
"Colonel, you're an airborne division. You do not need such things." Hillshy said in a smug voice.
"Do not use such a tone with me, Sergeant! Or should I say corporeal!" Yugi snapped.
"I'm sorry, sir." Hillshy said.
"Sergeant, although my battalion is an airborne assault group, we have been trained in ground assault as well. We are preparing for a ground assault, something that my battalion cannot do without the proper equipment." Yugi said.
"Colonel, there's not much that I can do." Hillshy said.
"Really? Tell me. How would it look on your permanent record if it were stated that a major battle was lost and many lives lost for the simple fact that you were unwilling to give my battalion the proper equipment that was needed?" Yugi said in a threatening tone.
"Well, I-" Hillshy started.
"Do not forget that I am well above you in rank and can easily have you demoted." Yugi said.
"I-" Hillshy stammered.
"General Mahinko is the one who is ordering this assault by my battalion. Would you like to say that my battalion does not need the equipment for this ground assault?" Yugi asked.
"No. Of course not." Hillshy said, a bit of fear in his voice.
"Then I expect to have the rest of our supplies for the ground assault here within the week or you will be having to talk to the General about your lack of cooperation." Yugi said.
"Yes, Colonel. I'm sorry for my ignorance." Hillshy said.
"Good." Yugi said before he hung up the phone with a slam.
"Problems?"
Yugi looked up to find Heba in the room. "Come in and shut the door." Yugi said.
Heba did as he was told and sat down in one of the chairs across from Yugi. "What happened?" Heba asked.
"Supply decided to short us by half on the equipment that we needed for the ground assault being planned." Yugi answered.
"What?! How do they expect us to fight a battle without the proper supplies?" Heba demanded.
"I don't know, Heba, but I just talked to a smug and stupid Sergeant who seemed to think that we didn't need the supplies because we were an airborne unit." Yugi answered.
"I take it that you ensured he would give us what we needed." Heba said.
"After threatening him with demotion and having to threat to have General Mahinko talk to him, he became rather cooperative." Yugi said.
"Would you have went to the General?" Heba asked.
"If need be." Yugi answered.
There was a knock.
"Come in!" Yugi said.
Ryou walked in and said, "We should get the other sets of missiles in a week. Ten days at the most." Ryou said.
"Good. Are Jou and Malik getting the General?" Yugi asked.
"Yes. They should be here momentarily." Ryou replied.
After a few minutes, Jou and Malik arrived with General Mahinko in tow.
"Before we begin, with whom am I with?" General Mahinko asked.
"General, this is my second-in-command, Major Heba Mutou." Yugi said, motioning to Heba, who nodded. "This is Major Ryou Bakura." Yugi said, and Ryou nodded. "This is Captain Katsuya Jonouchi." Yugi said, and Jou nodded. "And Captain Malik Ishtar." Yugi said, and Malik nodded.
"Very good. I'm here to inform you about the ground assault. We're hope to take some enemy guerillas by surprise. They have a base that we have located here, at the village if Taikesh." General Mahinko said, pointing to a place on the map. "We suspect that all of the villagers are a part of the guerillas or at least aid them. I have a group handling that. While the guerillas are distracted, your team is to go in and rescue some of our boys that are being held hostage." General Mahinko explained.
"A rescue operation." Yugi said.
"Yes. You have done one before that was successful. That's why I'm entrusting this mission to you, Colonel." General Mahinko said.
"General, we won't let you down." Yugi said.
"I know you won't. You have a good group of soldiers, Colonel. I trust that you and your team will bring our boys back to safety." General Mahinko said.
"General, where will we be taking the rescued soldiers to?" Malik asked.
"We'll be bringing them back to this base because it is the closest one. We'll have several medi-vac buses waiting here to take the soldiers to one of the MASH units." General Mahinko said.
"Do we know how many captives the guerillas have?" Jou asked.
"No, captain. All we can do is estimate. Our reconnaissance team has estimated that there are at least a dozen soldiers imprisoned. Maybe more." General Mahinko said.
Yugi stood up. "General, you have my word that my team will do everything possible to rescue our comrades." Yugi said.
"I have no doubt. I will remain at this base until the mission is complete. I'll be with the communication group. You'll need to remain in contact with us at all times so we'll know whether or not to abort the mission. I'm warning you that the mission will be bloody, dangerous, and possible fatal to many." General Mahinko said.
"General, we knew coming into the military that there would be a chance that we could get killed. That does not worry us. All we care about is getting in a rescuing our allies." Yugi said.
"Very well. The mission will take place at 0400 on 25 October." General Mahinko said.
"Sir, yes, sir." all five said.
That night, the group sat in Yugi's office.
"A rescue mission. This one could get us killed." Jou said.
"Well, we'll just have to be careful." Heba said.
"We have our guardians watching out for us." Malik said.
All five raised their scotch glasses.
"To Yami." Yugi said.
"To Atemu." Heba said.
"To Bakura." Ryou said.
"To Marik." Malik said.
"To Seto." Jou said.
"For our loved ones." the five said as they clinked their glasses together in what was customary for them to do every night. Remember their lovers and what they were fighting for. And to honor the four Yamis that had left them twelve years before.
That was chapter 2. I wanted to give you a look at Yugi and the others in the military. I hope that you liked this.
(1) The thoery of genetics joke was something said by Captain Hawkeye Pierce from the TV show M*A*S*H. If any of you watch it, you'll know who I'm talking about. It's an old war-based TV show.
The military type terms are actual terms used. I also know these terms from watching M*A*S*H.
The next chapter will be back to Domino to see how the Yamis are making out in the modern world. It'll be about the Yamis alone.
R&R.