-1Hello, and welcome to Chapter III of Taking Back Sundaes.
Continuing from where we left off…
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"Hey, Yugi. I've got somewhere I have to go. Can you come with me?" Yami said.
"Uh… sure."
They went back to the alley where Joey was in. Then Yami told Yugi what he saw.
"But, Yami, why would Kaiba want a piece to the Millennium Puzzle? He doesn't even believe in that magic and spiritual stuff."
"I know, it's a conundrum."
"Can you even spell conundrum?"
"If I try, it'll hurt my head."
Just then, three shady figures appeared at the alley's exit.
"Yugi?"
"Yeah, Yami?"
"Is there another way out of this place?"
"I don't think so."
"So…" Yami said, "…is this the end, then?"
"I hope not." Yugi replied. Then he noticed something. "Yami, wait! Look over there!"
It was an old-fashioned fire escape on the side of an apartment. You know, the ones that start at the roof and go back and forth with steps steadily going down until the last window where there's a retractable iron ladder. Yeah, that kind. Even though the ladder was retracted, the staircase was on top of the dumpster, so that they could just jump onto the dumpster and on the staircase.
"I don't know if it's a way out. It could lead to a dead en…"
"Race you to the top! Heeheehee." Yami interrupted.
Yami started racing up the staircase immediately. Yugi, however, knew that they would just follow them. He took Joey's body and ran up the staircase. He knew that they wanted Joey. So he could use it as leverage. They ran up the staircase and onto the roof. Now, when they reached the roof, just as Yugi thought, there was no way off. Yami chuckled embarrassedly as Yugi glared at him. But then Yugi realized that he was on top of a police station, not an apartment.
"Hey, Yami. I just remembered. The Police Dept. just transferred their headquarters here."
"So…"
"We're on top of the police station."
"And…"
"This is a murder case! We can use this to our advantage to escape or turn them in."
"How do you know that these are the guys who killed Joey?"
"The fat guy's shirt says 'I killed Joey Wheeler.'"
"Whoa! That changes everything!"
"How?"
"Kaiba's fat!"
"I am not fat!" Kaiba interrupted. The three shady figures turned out to be Roland, Kaiba, and the fat guy's name was Joe.
"Ah, man." Yami said.
"What?" Yugi wondered.
"If that guy lost some weight, never touched his hair again, talked like an idiot, developed a crush on Mai, and had an extra letter in his name, he could be Joey!"
Yugi stood silent for a moment, then said, "How can you, at a time like this, think up all that in two seconds after learning his name when at school, it takes you three-and-a-half hours to answer what two plus two equals? Plus, when you do answer, you get it wrong!"
"… I … don't know…" Yami pondered.
"This'll take another three-and-a-half hours."
"Enough!" Kaiba said. "I'm tired of playing games with you."
"Can we play checkers next? I love checkers." Yami stupidly questioned. Everyone just stared at him. "What?" he asked.
Just then, Joe pulled out a gun.
"Ooh! That's a nine-millimeter, isn't it?! I have one just like it at home." Yami stated.
"You have a gun at our house… and you didn't BRING IT?!" Yugi asked furiously.
"How was ANYBODY supposed to know that we would get in this much trouble… enough to where we'd need a gun?"
"I guess you're right… for once."
"You're damn right that I'm right for once… wait…"
"Uh… I guess we're doomed."
"Not so fast."
Yami quickly grabbed Joey and held him over the edge of the building.
"You shoot," he said, "and Joey falls, and when the thud sounds, you'll all be in prison for the murder of Joey Wheeler and Yugi Motou."
"Wow, Yami. You're smarter than I thought… or you can be at times."
"Yeah, I know. Plus," he set Joey down for a minute to say this, "I'm packing an Uzi." Sure enough, Yami pulled out an Uzi from his puzzle and shot Joe. Down he went.
"How do you like those apples, motherfucker?!" Yami said. Kaiba only smiled.
"Yami, you IDIOT!!" Yugi screamed.
"FREEZE, scumbag!"
Huh? The police? Yami thought. Yay! Ha! Now you're sooo going to jail for murdering Joey. Ha!
"You're under arrest for the murder of… who is this kid?" the police chief asked.
His deputy replied, "His wallet says… 'Mai Valentine'? Wait a minute…"
The chief responded, "He must have stolen that girl's wallet."
No surprise there… idiot.
The deputy found Joey's actual wallet.
"So…" the chief said, "…you're under arrest for the murder of Joey Wheeler."
Ha! I knew it.
"…and that fat guy over there that you just shot."
Ooh! They're going to jail for my murder, too!
"Cuff 'im, boys."
Finally!
Click!
"What are you doing?" Yami asked confusedly.
"You're an idiot, Yami." Yugi said, annoyed.
"What's going on, Yugi?"
"We're under arrest because you shot Joe on top of a police station like the IDIOT YOU ARE and our fingerprints are on Joey from holding him and carrying him."
"But, we're wearing gloves."
"FINGERLESS gloves, moron! The only other fingerprints on him are his own and Joe's, the guy you just shot!"
"…Oh. … … sorry?"
"Sorry is a little too late!! We're probably going to prison for life, now!!"
"…Oh. Where's Kaiba and Roland?"
"They left right after you shot Joe and Kaiba laughed because he knew we were out of the way!"
"What do we do now?"
"We wait until Grandpa comes and talk with him there."
"How can I bail myself out of this, hot fuzz?"
"There's not enough money in the world…" the cop said as Yami pulled out a gold coin from his Millennium Puzzle. You see, Yami also had the power to bring back Ancient Treasures from his Tomb in Egypt. When he figured this out, he noticed that every item in their was made mostly of gold (along with mountains of gold coins). He then manufactured every item in there into its own large amount of gold coins. He now has nearly infinite gold coins in there.
"Yeah, and there's much more where that came from. Think of your retirement. It's filled with gold and jewelry and loads and loads of cheap women. You can retire now! If you only act like this never happened."
The cop thought about it. The more Yami explained it, the more he liked it. He finally decided to go along with it. He explained to the cops that they had the wrong people and eventually they left and were still investigating the murder of Joey Wheeler, but Yami still had to go to court for the charge of murdering Joe. So he was placed under arrest and put in prison for the night.
