-1Welcome to Chapter II of Taking Back Sundaes!
Continuing from where we left off…
"It's hopeless." Yugi said. "Joey could be anywhere by now."
"The idiot." Yami said.
"How can we be sure which way to go?!"
"Oh, that's easy! Give my your puzzle piece that's identical to my missing puzzle piece."
"Uh, here." Yugi did as he was told.
"There we go." and in a flash (no, really, it was so fast it flashed a bright light) Yami put his puzzle back together with Yugi's identical piece in it. Suddenly, a steady beeping noise began to sound from the newly arranged puzzle.
"Yami…"
"Yes, Yugi?"
"What's that beeping noise?"
"That's a tracking device, Yugi. I recently installed it to keep track of Joey."
"How does he not know about it yet?"
"I put it in the one place that is never touched… or washed… or combed…" he shuddered, "… his hair! Plus, it has an itch-sensor so that when Joey wants to scratch his head, it'll scratch it for him. He likes the luxury so much that he doesn't even wonder what the fuck is doing it! Ha!"
"Pretty smart, Yami!"
"Did you ever doubt?"
Yugi refused to respond to that last comment. Instead, he left Grandpa's shop and after Joey as fast as his short, feeble legs could carry him. Yami followed.
(A few hours of tracking later…)
"He hasn't moved for hours." Yami said, worried a little.
"You're right. Maybe he ditched the tracker."
"According to the tracer, Joey's right around this alley corner."
They turned to see… Joey! What… not surprised? Fine, but this'll surprise you… maybe. Joey was sleeping! What, still nothing? Fine, but this'll REALLY surprise you. Joey was sleeping in… a dumpster! STILL NOTHING? Geez, you guys must think really little of Joey.
"Uhhh… Yugi."
"Yeah, Yami?"
"Why is Joey sleeping in a garbage dumpster in the back of a downtown alley?"
"I … don't know, Yami."
Yami grabbed a nearby pebble and threw it against the dumpster. It clinked, then nothing. He then grabbed a rock and threw it against the dumpster. It banged, then nothing. Yami grabbed Yugi, who was screaming from the moment Yami picked him up, held him by his legs, and banged his head repeatedly against the dumpster. Joey still didn't wake up. Yami began getting impatient.
"THAT'S IT!!" he screamed. Then he threw the unconscious Yugi in the dumpster. A few hours later, while Yami slept in his puzzle, Yugi woke up, whimpering, "My head. Ohhhh, … the pain. Yami, why'd you do that?!"
Yami woke up and got out of the puzzle. "Do what?"
"Hit me against the dumpster and then throw me in there."
"Oh, yeah. Ha! That was funny!"
"IT WAS DEFINITELY NOT FUNNY!! HOW CAN YOU LAUGH AT MY PAIN?!"
"I laugh at everyone's pain other than my own."
"Hn…" Yugi said as he started to get out of the dumpster.
"Wait, don't get out just yet…"
"Why?"
"Get the puzzle piece from Joey."
"Fine." Yugi checked Joey's pockets and the palms of his hands. Nothing. He checked his shirt, pants, undershirt… but he feared it too much to check his underpants.
"What, Yugi? Are you scared his penis might be bigger than yours?"
"NO!!"
"Then check… Joey's underpants!" Just then thunder clapped and lightning flashed. Yami and Yugi stared at the sky and then at each other. Then Yami broke the silence.
"It was probably coincidence."
"Yeah." Then Yugi began to, slowly, check Joey's underpants.
Hmmm… Yami thought. I wonder if that wasn't coincidence. He thought long and hard about it, and eventually said, "Then check… Joey's underpants!" Thunder clapped and lightning flashed again. Yami was amazed.
"Cool. Check… Joey's underpants." Thunder clapped and lightning flashed.
"Joey's underpants." Same result. Yami did this many times over.
"Joey's underpants, Joey's underpants, Joey's underpants!! MWAHAHAHAAA!!"
"Stop it, Yami! It's gonna rain if you keep doing that and the garbage will get all wet and soggy and it'll begin to smell even worse than it does now."
"Fine… Joey's underpants." Just then a downpour started after a flash of lightning. It was raining very hard.
"Yami…"
"Yeah?"
"I hate you." Yugi noticed something about Joey. Even the thunder and lightning didn't wake him up, and the puzzle piece wasn't on him. Something was weird. He also noticed that Joey was face down in the dirty garbage. He flipped him over. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!"
"Yugi! What's wrong?!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!! SOMEONE KILLED JOEY!!"
"What're you… AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!! MY EYES!! MY EYES!! HE'S NAKED!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!! Oh, hey look! He's got a knife in his chest. Hahaha!"
"That's not funny, Yami. Somebody killed Joey, and I think it was to get our puzzle piece."
"What would they want with a piece to something they don't even know what's to?!"
"I think it was someone who recognized the piece. Otherwise, I don't think they would have killed him for it, do you?"
"I would."
"Either way, the piece is still out there somewhere and we've got to go find it. We find it, we find Joey."
"So… we start looking where?"
"That's just it. I don't know."
"You're supposed to be the smart one, Yugi."
"I AM SMART!! SMARTER THAN YOU!!"
"I highly doubt that."
"How can you say that when you're failing EVERY SUBJECT IN SCHOOL?! You're even failing HISTORY when we're studying ANCIENT EGYPT!! You LIVED during that time period!! How are you FAILING IT?!
"That was 5,000 years ago, Yugi."
"How can you not remember any of the stuff in our class, yet you remember Mauna perfectly?!"
"I had sex with Mauna. I DIDN'T have sex with any of the stuff we learn at school. Oh, wait. I did have sex with Cleopatra once."
"Then why couldn't you remember her?"
"It…uh…wasn't pleasurable, let us say." he said as he shuddered.
"That's no excuse!! Sex shouldn't be an issue!!"
"Well, it was back then, and it is now."
Yugi charged at Yami with all of his strength. Yami, immediately noticing how Yugi was determined to pulverize him, used his puzzle's magic to create his spherical force field, blocking Yugi's attack.
"Yugi… tsk tsk…"
"Grrr…"
"You forgot about my puzzle's infinite magic."
"No. I can still do this." Yugi gently grabbed hold of Yami's shield ball, as not to activate its repelling energy, and pushed against it.
"Yugi…"
"Yes, Yami?"
"Are you shrinking?!"
"No!" Yugi had to yell now because Yami was so far away. "You're going farther away!!"
"AHHH!!" Yami was going downhill so fast that he was rolling in it, and getting dizzier by the second. Yugi followed as closely as he could. He had almost lost sight of him when Yami unexpectedly crashed into Kaiba, who didn't even budge, as usual. Yami was about to get up to yell at Kaiba for breaking his shield when he noticed something in Kaiba's hand. He just stared at it. Kaiba began to get a little creeped out.
"What are you staring at, you idiot?"
"S-s-s-sundae!"
"Yeah, it's Sunday. So what." Kaiba continued eating his sundae, knowing what Yami meant. He began eating it slower to taunt him.
"No. SUNDAE!!"
"What's this weirdo talking about, Hologram?"
See, ever since Yami and Yugi were in separate bodies, Kaiba refused to believe that Yami was an ancient pharaoh, even after all he's been through. Wouldn't all that crap make a believer out of you? But, no, not Kaiba. He's too stubborn. He would rather believe that Yugi is some hologram that he can feel and talk to and listen to (if Kaiba ever listened to anyone but Mokuba and himself) and beat up occasionally who can feel pain and sorrow and other feelings than believe he's human. He would rather believe that Yugi is the next-best thing to being human, but still not human, than a real person. He thinks he's the best hologram ever created, but still a hologram. You'd think that he would believe that Yami was a hologram, since he had known Yugi for quite a while and knew his voice and height, but he refused to believe that he could lose a duel to a hologram (and that he could never beat a hologram in a duel no matter how hard he tried).
"My name's Yugi." Yugi said angrily. "It's not Hologram."
"Sure, whatever you say, Hologram."
"Wha? I'm confused. What's Hologram's name again?" Yami confusedly questioned.
"It's Yugi!"
"Shut up, Hologram! I'm trying to talk to Kaiba."
"His name's Hologram." Kaiba said answering Yami's question.
"IT'S YUGI!!"
"Wait a minute… today's Tuesday." Yami realized.
"It's Wednesday!" Yugi screeched.
(Did you know that screeched is the longest one-syllable word in the English language? Neat-O.)
"Sure, it is, Hologram." Kaiba replied.
Yugi twitched. If he heard the word hologram one more time…
"Ha! Hologram." That was Yami… and the last straw.
"…My name…isn't…HOLOGRAM!!"
"Whatever you say, Hologram." Kaiba said.
Yugi went crazy! He lunged at Kaiba with everything he had and tackled him. Of course, Yugi was the one who fell to the ground.
"You can't knock me down. I've got breasts of steel."
Yami shuddered, but then he noticed something in Kaiba's pocket. THE PUZZLE PIECE!!
He thought to himself, Kaiba? Why would HE take my puzzle pi… damn, that sundae looks good!