Marik: And why have you come here today?
Peasant: Well..
Your Highness I mean, Your Grace.
Bakura: Ok gang.
Check out this piece of work.
This is Marik the pharaos advisor living proof that dinosaurs once roamed the Earth.
And lets not forget Mariks right hand man.
Every decade or so she gets a new one.
This years model is called Rishid.
( Fly Buzzing)
Rishid: Yeah I got that there Marik.
Rishid try to smack the fly but fail.
Rishid: Unh!
(Fly buzzing)
Bakura: Yep thats Rishid.
Now lately Marik gotten into this bad habit of trying to run the country behind my back and Im thinkin thats got to stop.
Marik: It is no concern of mine whether your family has...
What was it again?
Um food.
Ha!You really should have thought of that before you became peasants.
Were through here.
Take him !
But I
(Guards grab peasant)
Oh OK.
Marik: Ugh
Bakura: The nerve of some of those peasants huh?
Tell me about !
Hi there.
Ooh Your Highness.
Ahem
Marik dust of the throne.
Oh oh oh ha ha ...
Uh you were doing it again.
Doing?Doing...
Doing what?
Doing my job.
Im the pharaoh and youre the pharaohs advisor.
Remember that?
But Your Highness.
I was only dealing with meaningless peasant matters.
Bakura thinking: Whoa.
Look at these vein.
Whats is holding this man together?
Close up on Mariks teeth.
What the..
How long has that been there?
Rishid: Good thinkin Marik.
What do you say Bakura?
Whoa! No touchy!
No touchy no touchy.
Servant: Excuse me your Highness.
The village leader is here to se you.
Oh great send him in.
Oh and by the way youre fired.
Marik: Fired?
W-W-What do you mean fired?
Um how else can I say it?
Bakura snap finger servant comes writhing what he says.
Youre being let go your departments being downsized youre part of an outplacement.
Were going in a different direction.
Were not picking up your option...
Take your pick.
I got more.
Marik: But I-You-uh.
But but Your Highness.
I have been nothing if not loyal to the pharao kingdom for-for-for many many years.
Hey hey everybody hits their stride.
You just hit yours 50 years ago.
So whos in my chair?
Rishid: Oh oh! I know!
Marik.
Mariks in your chair right?.
Very good Rishid.
the snack.
Got it!
Rashid try to capture the snack with is mouth.
Unh Oof!
Rashid fall down from the stairs.
Ok you heard the man.
Up up up.
Rishid: Im fine.
( Marik snarling)
Bakura: Ah.
(Bakura sits down on his throne and make it comfortable)
OK. Show him in.
Athem: Ahem.
Uh afternoon Your Highness.
Im here because I received a summons...
Bakura: Hey there he is!
My main village man.
Um Athem.
Anyway I got this summons-
Bakura: Athem.
Thats right.
You are just the man I wanted to see.
I am?
Word on the street is you can fix my problem.
Bakura slid down with help of the gobelin.
You can fix my problem cant you?
Sure I'll do what I can.
Good just what I wanted to hear.
Are you aware of just how important your village is to the empire?
Well I know we grow the crops that you use here at that palace.
We also heard the sheep that you...
Bakura pull the curtain and shows a model of Athem village.
My village?
Oh yeah
You got a pretty sweet little set up there on top of that hill dont you? Ha ha ha!
Yeah My family has lived on that hill top for the last 6 generations.
Uh huh.
So tell me where do you find you get the most sun?
Oh Id say just on the other side of those trees.
When the sun hits that ridge just right these hill sing.
Well that settles it.
Really?
solved.
Thanks for coming.
Thats it.
Thats all you wanted me for?
I just needed an insiders opinion before I Ok'd this spot for my pool.
Uh...your pool?
Boo-yah!
Welcome to Bakuratopia my ultimate summer getaway complete with water slide.
What?
Isnt it great? Its my birthday gift to me. Ha!
Bakura huging his model.
Im so happy.
Uh...uh... um...I dont understand how this could happen.
Well let me clear it up for you.
At my birthday celebration tomorrow I give the word and you town will be destroyed to make way for this...
(Bakura hums Carnival Tune)'
So if I were you Id pick up some change of address forms on the way home.
But um where will we live?
Hmmm...Dont now dont care.
Hows that?
Oh but wait You cant...
When I give the word you litte town thingy will be bye bye.
Bye bye!
Oh
Heh .
Oh yeah Everything was goin my way.
Marik smack a statue head of Bakura with a sledge
Bakura: Or so I thought.
Marik: He cant get rid of me that easily.
Who does that ungrateful little worm think he is?
Does he...A little to the left.
...have any idea of who hes dealing with?
How could he do this to me?
Why I practically raised him.
Yeah you think he wouldve turned out better.
Yeah go figure.
Well its better youre taking out you anger on these things instead of the real Bakura huh?
(Marik Gasp)
Thats it Rishid!
Thats it!
I'll gett rid of Bakura.
Ha ha ha ha ha!
The real Bakura?
Of course the real Bakura.
Dont you see? Its perfect.
With him out of the way and no heir to the throne.
I'll take over and rule the pharao kingdom.
Brilliant!
So how does that work with you bein fired and all?
The only ones who know about that are the three of us soon to be the two of us.
And Im one of those two right?
To the secret lab!
Pull the lever Rishid.
Marik fall down fron the trapdoor.
Wrong lever!
(SPLASH)
Rishid: Huh?
Marik: Why do we even have that lever?
Marik smack the aligatorn that have take a bite on him.
Get out of my way!
Skull: Please remain seated and keep your arms and legs in at all times.
Marik: Whee!
Rishid: Faster faster!
Marik put your hands in the air!
Whoo-hoo! Whoo-hoo!
(Both got dressed in science coat and do high five )
Ah how shall I do it?
Oh I know.
I'll turn him into a flea a harmless little flea and then I'll put that flea in a box and then I'll put that box inside of another box and then Ill mail that box to myself and when it arrives ah ha ha ha!
I'll smash it with a hammer!
Its brilliant brilliant brilliant, I tell you!
Genius I say!
(Marik accidentally nudge the bottle with poison flowing down on a plant that dies immediately.)
Or to save on postage.
I'll just poison him with this.
Take it Rishid.
Oh ho ho ho ho.
Feel the power.
Oh...I can feel it.
Our moment of triump apperoaches.
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Its dinner time.
END OF CHAPTER 2