Hooray! Second chapter of my first fic on this site!! I only got one review for the last chapter...which probably means only one reader. I wish I'd gotten more, but one's better than none! And as long as there is one reviewer, the story must go on!! So let's get to it!
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Chapter Anime: Yu-Gi-Oh!
Chapter Categories: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Humor, Mystery, Spiritual, Supernatural, Suspense
Chapter Characters: Haruhi Fujioka, Mary Misawa, Cherri Misawa, Yugi Muto, Joey Wheeler, Tristan Taylor, Tea Gardner, Duke Devlin, Ryou Bakura, Yami Bakura
Chapter Rating/Warning: T/Swearing, weapon usage, and inanimate object abuse by one royally pissed off Yami Bakura and a lazy-ass Mary.
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh!. If I did, Ryou would be the main character along with Yugi and Joey. Plus, said friends would pay more attention and help him. Since that didn't happen, I obviously don't own the anime/manga/merchandise.
Flames: Will be used to power the parallel-universe-machine-thing that Cherri and Mary use!
Thanks/Replies To Reviewer(s): Thanks to KeybladeAngel34 for the single review last chapter! I'm glad that I was able to make you an OHSHC fan!!
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The Adventures of Squirrelwoman
by Cherri Misawa
Chapter 2: Two Sides to Every Person: Part 1
Previously on The Adventures of Squirrelwoman...
Cherri and Mary went to the Ouran High School Host Club universe and met with the Host Club. They revealed that they were from a different universe, and that they had super powers. However, thanks to a mishap caused by Mary, the two had to make a quick getaway with Haruhi Fujioka in tow. Tune in now to see the aftermath of the event and see which universe those two nut-jobs go to next!
We now go to the current chapter...
Cherri flew out of the portal, skidding down the steps on her stomach before faceplanting the marble flooring of the laboratory. "Owwwwww!"she yelled, gritting her teeth. Haruhi then flew out of the portal, and landed on Cherri's back. Mary appeared beside the two, laughing her ass off as Haruhi quickly stood up. "That was priceless! Do it again!!"
"OH SHUT UP!!" Cherri shouted as she stood and dusted herself off. Both girls were in their regular clothes again, and the portal had disappeared when the gate closed. "Uh...mind telling me who you are, where we are, and why you kidnapped me?" Haruhi asked bluntly, causing both Cherri and Mary to blink.
"She's even more blunt than in the anime!" Mary stated. Cherri sweatdropped, grinning sheepishly. "Okay, to answer your first question, that's Mary and I'm Cherri Misawa. Mary is my evil side..."she began. Haruhi blinked and raised an eyebrow in her usual skepticism.
"Evil side? Last time I checked, evil sides couldn't come to life..."she stated matter-of-factly. Mary walked over and poked her in the chest. "Well, I'm real. And I'm evil. So get used to it Miss Cross Dresser,"she retorted indignantly. Cherri sighed. "I was struck by lightning on my thirteenth birthday and she appeared. If that makes any sense to you, then good. If it doesn't, too damn bad."
Haruhi blinked a few more times, and they couldn't tell if she was more shocked by Mary's insult or Cherri's explanation. "Aaaanyway, to answer your second question, we're in my universe. The real world. And we're in Mary's laboratory. That gate is how we got into your universe and back again. Understand?"she explained, pointing at the machine. Haruhi could only nod, trying to let all of this sink in. "And finally, to answer your third question, we brought you back with us because we need your help. In fact, we need lots of help which is why we have more universes to go to! But first, snack time," Cherri finished as she pushed a button to open the exit. Mary dragged a table and three chairs out of the corner as Cherri left the laboratory, running off down a metallic hallway.
"Uh...snack time??" Haruhi asked, turning to Mary who was currently spreading a white tablecloth over the table. Cherri had wanted pink, but Mary had wanted red, so they came to a compromise on white. "Snack time. If there's one thing you do not get in the way of, it's Cherri's snack time. So just deal with it, as well as anything else we tell you to do. Trust me, you'll be a lot healthier in the long run..." Mary explained, sitting in one of the chairs and crossing her arms over her chest. Haruhi sweatdropped, mouth twitching as she took the seat farthest from the demented evil half.
Half a second later, Cherri ran back into the room, hitting the exit door button with her foot to close it. "I'm back! And today's snack is milk and cookies!!"she cheered as she walked to the table. Cherri set down a large plate of chocolate chip cookies, a pitcher of milk, three glasses, and three napkins. Haruhi blinked and picked up one of the obviously homemade cookies. "Cookies and milk??"she asked.
Mary had already poured herself a glass of milk and started eating the sugary treats. "Yeah, Cherri's snacks are always homemade...she's an aspiring chef. Feh..."she explained. Cherri pouted as she poured herself and Haruhi glasses of milk. "Hey, I don't hear you complaining about the taste. You know that it would be nothing but pizza, takeout, and fast food if it wasn't for me,"she retorted indignantly. Haruhi glanced from Mary to Cherri down to the cookie she held, then shrugged and took a bite.
"...Wow! These are great!! Even better than that stuff they served in the club...I bet Honey-senpai would have loved these..."she exclaimed happily. Cherri smiled. "At least someone can show some appreciation! Thank you, Haruhi. Sorry that we couldn't bring the others, but we only need the main character from each universe,"she explained. "Why do you need me and those other guys, anyway? What can we do??" Haruhi asked curiously.
"Other-worldly energy," Mary stated matter-of-factly. Haruhi blinked and tilted her head slightly in confusion. "Excuse me?" Cherri sighed. "What she means is that you can do things in the other universes that you can't do in this one. It's harder to die, you can use magic, fast forward through boring scenes, etc. That comes from the energy in each universe, which the main character can tap into to use whenever they want. And that's why we need you and the other main characters,"she explained.
"Oh, okay. I think I understand...except I have no idea how to tap into this so-called 'other-worldly energy'," Haruhi replied simply. "Leave that part to us. You just stay here and entertain yourself while we go collect the others," Mary stated. Haruhi sweatdropped. "Will I get to go back to my...uh, 'universe', as you call it?"she asked. "As soon as we've collected the energy we need from your universe," Cherri answered.
They'd finished the milk and cookies, so Mary wrapped the dirty dishes up in the tablecloth and then grabbed a wooden mallet. She slammed it into the bundle a few times, smashing the dishes to pieces. Mary then grabbed the bundle and pressed a button, opening a panel in the wall to create a window. Curious, Haruhi walked over to the window just as Mary threw the bundle out of it, then pulled a bazooka out of her pocket. She fired a missile at the bundle and it exploded, leaving nothing but a trail of smoke behind.
Haruhi sweatdropped, and was about to ask why Mary did that and where she got the bazooka from when she suddenly saw the view. "Wow..." Outside of the window was nothing but blue skies, obscured in some places by cotton ball clouds. However, when she looked down, her eyes widened because the ground was about twenty stories away. "Surprised? I like my hideouts to be high above the ground..." Mary stated, smirking.
The panel then abruptly slid shut, Mary walking away from a stunned Haruhi and over to the machine console. She noticed that Cherri had already typed in the destination, and smirked. "Finally, we're going to a universe with real power..."she stated. Haruhi, out of her stunned state and curious again, walked over to look at the destination as Mary started up the machine. "Yu-Gi-Oh!...?"
"Yep. That's our next stop. Sorry you can't come with us, but we can't risk losing you in another universe. Besides, crossing one universe's power with another could do who knows what!" Cherri explained, throwing her arms into the air wildly. Haruhi sweatdropped and Mary rolled her eyes, as the titanium doors slid open again. There was a blue sky again, but this time the portal was focused on a simple high school rather than a pink boarding school. "Dammit! Why do they have to still be in high school? I hate school!!"both Cherri and Mary cursed at once.
Haruhi's eye twitched a little, and she had to admit that being alone here would probably be nicer than having those two here with her. "Well, we'd better get going. Time's a wastin'! C'mon, Mary!!" Cherri shouted with a grin as she ran through the portal. Mary sighed, then sent a smirk in Haruhi's direction. "Now be good while we're gone. And I suggest not touching anything...the last person who did got zapped to some other dimension where people are inside-out,"she explained before disappearing.
Leaving the now horrified Haruhi, we go to the Yu-Gi-Oh! universe where a certain Cherri Misawa had once again forgotten to bring a parachute. And so, by the time Mary appeared by her side, Cherri had landed on none other than Joey Wheeler and Tristan Taylor. The two boys had been eating lunch on the school's roof with their friends Yugi Muto, Tea Gardner, Duke Devlin, and Ryou Bakura at the time and had been unlucky enough to be sitting where Cherri had fallen. Both Cherri and Mary were in their normal clothes, while the other six were in the mandatory school uniforms. But then, even if the two had been in uniform, they still would have freaked the others out since one had fallen from the sky and the other had practically appeared out of thin air.
Mary couldn't help but cackle evilly. "Oh, this is rich. Even better than your last landing!"she taunted, smirking. Cherri groaned and sat up, wincing as she rubbed her sore back. "Oh, shut up...at least this time my landing was a lot softer..."she muttered. "That's 'cause you landed on us! Mind gettin' off??"came a muffled shout from beneath her.
She blinked in surprise and looked down, finally realizing that she was sitting on Joey and Tristan. "Oh! Oops, sorry about that!!" Cherri quickly jumped to her feet beside Mary, allowing the two boys to stand up. "Uh...not to be rude, but...who are you two?" Yugi piped up curiously from his seat by the others.
"Here's a better question. Why the heck did you fall from the sky and how did you appear out of thin air??" Duke questioned, pointing at each girl in-turn. Cherri knew that she had to think-up an excuse quick, and opened her mouth to reply. "We-" "We're new students and we're sisters; we just moved here from Tokyo. I'm Mary and she's Cherri. We didn't fall from the sky, we jumped down from up there," Mary promptly interrupted, pointing at the roofed staircase leading into the school.
Cherri closed her mouth and glared at her dark half, while the others seemed to accept that the answers were logical enough. "But what were you guys doing up there?" Tea asked, and Mary had to stop herself from throwing the "Friendship Girl" off the roof. "We wanted to see the view, and it's better the higher you go. When we tried to get down, my sister accidentally landed on your friends,"she explained convincingly. Mary wasn't considered an evil genius for nothing, you know.
"Then where are your uniforms?" Ryou asked, and Cherri nearly squealed at his accent. "When we got them they were too small, so we had to send them back. We're getting new ones this afternoon so we had to come to school in normal clothing," Mary explained, taking the whole "excuse" bit onto herself. Joey eyed the tube-top that Mary was wearing, which incidentally revealed quite the hourglass figure. Cherri was more bottle-shaped; but she didn't seem to mind that others considered her darker half to be hotter than her.
After all, Mary was usually too busy making evil plots to care much about that sort of thing. Unless, of course, the attention came from another source of evil. "I thought it was against school rules to wear that kind of shirt," Joey said, blushing a little. He wasn't the only one staring; so were Tristan and Duke. Mary rolled her eyes, tossing her blood red hair carelessly.
"Psh. As if I could give a rat's ass about some stupid school rule. I've broken more laws than a drug lord,"she replied, grinning evilly. It seemed that the teens had finally realized that Mary had red eyes; which, of course, was an impossible eye color. As if reading their minds, she rolled her eyes again. "They're contacts. What, did you think I was a demon or something?"she lied easily. Yugi was about to reply, when suddenly the bell rang and signaled the end of the lunch period.
"Yeah, well, uh...see you two later, I guess," Tea called as the group made their leave. The others said similar goodbyes until all six were gone, leaving the two girls alone on the roof. Mary immediately turned to her lighter companion and pouted. "Can't I pleeeaaase kill Tea? PLEASE?? I'll even make it quick and painless!"she begged. Cherri sighed and shook her head. "I'm afraid not, Mary. You know that we can't cause any big changes that might alter the universe's course. But trust me, I wish we could. I hate her just as much as you do..."
Mary crossed her arms over her chest and scoffed. "Fine. But why didn't we just grab Yugi and get out of here like we did with Haruhi?"she asked. Cherri blinked. "I thought you knew..." Mary groaned and rolled her eyes for about the umpteenth time.
"I do. I just wanted to see if you could remember from when I told you. Apparently, I guessed right, and you forgot. As per usual. Anyway, we can't just kidnap him like we did with Haruhi because he's got the Pharaoh or Atem or whatever the Hell his name is at this time. His shadow magic would stop us, but we need said shadow magic so we have to take the Pharaoh too,"she explained. "Riiight...sooo how do we get them to come with us?" Cherri asked, scratching her head. Mary smirked, a plan forming. "I already know exactly what to do. We just have to befriend Yugi, and then I'll take care of the rest..."
Little did the two know that someone had been listening in on their entire conversation, hidden in the shadows of the covered stairway. His red eyes flashed as he turned and stalked off, long, white hair flowing behind him. Maybe things weren't going to be as easy as Mary first thought...
After school...
"There he is. Just let me do all the talking, okay? No need for your brainless input..." Mary stated as they made their way towards the smaller group of Yugi's friends. It was just Yugi, Tea, Tristan, and Joey; Duke had to go home and run his game shop and Ryou was nowhere to be seen. Cherri scoffed and crossed her arms over her chest, indignant. "Well, excuse me if I speak my mind."
"Speak your mind? More like shout every random thought you have to the world," Mary countered expertly. Suddenly, Ryou stepped in their path, blocking the four they'd been following from their view. Cherri blushed profusely while Mary simply glared at the white-haired boy. "Hey, move it! Can't you see that we're walking here??" Ryou crossed his arms over her chest, and sent Mary's glare right back at her with equal force.
Mary's eyes narrowed as she realized only one person who looked exactly like Ryou could return her glare. "You're not Ryou..."she stated. Cherri blinked, then frowned when she realized it was none other than Yami Bakura. He smirked, his own red eyes flashing behind his white bangs. "Ah, so then you noticed. I knew from the moment I saw you that you obviously weren't from this world..."
Mary crossed her arms over her chest, and the two evil-doers stances matched so well it was scary. "I should have known...if the Pharaoh's still here then that means you are too,"she replied. Yami Bakura's smirk became a frown. "How do you know of the Pharaoh? And of me?? Are you an evil spirit as well?"he questioned suspiciously. Mary smirked and pushed around him, starting to walk again.
"Sorry, but that's none of your business, tomb robber,"she taunted as Cherri tagged along beside her. That seemed to push Yami Bakura over the edge; no one should have known that he was a tomb robber! He turned and quickly stepped in their path again, growling with clenched fists. "How do you know who I am? Tell me, mortal!"he hissed through gritted teeth. Mary frowned and took a step closer to Cherri.
"Cherri, let me take over. Now..."she whispered, eyes narrowed. It was obvious that things might get violent, and the last thing Mary needed was to have the container holding her soul killed. Cherri blinked, but didn't hesitate to disappear as Mary took full control of her body. Yami Bakura's eyes widened. "So then you aren't a mortal. What a...pleasant surprise..."
"Gee, whatever gave you that idea? The red eyes or the fact that my Light just disappeared??"she asked in her usual smart-ass fashion, smirking. Yami Bakura growled again, finding her to be quite the nuisance. "Listen, I didn't stop you so that we could argue. I happened to overhear your conversation on the roof..."he began. Mary sighed. "I knew I saw someone in the doorway. That's what I get for being careless while there are other evil beings around..."she muttered.
He raised an eyebrow at the term "other evil beings". "Are you saying that you're evil? That would explain why you were planning to kidnap the Pharaoh and his Light...not to mention your aura is also dark..." Mary smirked. "You bet I'm evil! An evil genius. And what I plan to do while in this universe is none of your concern, tomb robber,"she replied. "So then you're not from this universe. Who are you really and where have you come here from??"he questioned menacingly.
At least, it would have been menacing to any normal person. But Mary wasn't intimidated by menace, she intimidated others with it. "You already know my name, fool. It's Mary. As for where I come from, it's none of your business,"she repeated. "You are trying my patience, mortal or not. I suggest that you answer my question before I send your soul to the-"he began. "Shadow Realm?"she interrupted, smirking.
Yami Bakura was so shocked that she knew that for a moment he actually looked vulnerable, but soon recovered and glowered at her. "How could you possibly know of the Shadow Realm?!"he hissed. Mary was obviously laughing at him on the inside, and it was making him extremely angry. "I have my ways. And just try to send me to the Shadow Realm. I could beat your sorry ass six ways to Sunday and back again,"she replied, unphased by his look. Yami Bakura had had enough, and unbuttoned his uniform to reveal the Millennium Ring.
"As you wish! We shall play a-"he began, then blinked. Where Mary had been standing was a look-alike cardboard cut-out of her, winking and giving the V for Victory sign. There was also a note taped to it, and he quickly read it. Take your eyes off me for a second and I'm gone. Better luck next time, tomb robber. Don't think I'll let you off so easy, either! Looove, Mary ;)
Yami Bakura growled and crushed the note in his hand, then punched the head off of the cardboard cut-out. "I will discover what you are and where you come from, Mary. You cannot run from me forever..."
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And there ends chapter 2 of this story and part 1 of this universe! I hope you all liked it, and felt that there was a bit more action in it than the last one. Also, I hope that I portrayed the canon characters alright. Anyway, review please! The more people who review, the sooner I'll put up chapter 3 of the story/part 2 of this universe!!
