Chapter Three: Dreams Come True
"Uh…anybody know dis guy?" Joey asked, pointing at the thug that had appeared.
"I…I do, but…" the Pharaoh sputtered out, "he was…just a dream…"
The guy aimed his hand at the Pharaoh and fired out a ray of red magic. He quickly responded by putting up his hand and forming a force field which absorbed the blast.
"He seems pretty real to me, man," Tristan said.
Joey let his outline glow with green magic. "Awright, whoever you are-you mess wit one of us, you mess wit all of us!"
"Joey, WAIT!" Spencer cried, but it was too late-he sent an orb of green magic out which blasted the guy in the chest directly and sent him falling to the floor.
"AH!" The Pharaoh winced and also suddenly fell onto the ground, clutching at the exact same spot where Joey had just blasted the dream thug.
Spencer quickly knelt down beside him and asked, "Are you all right?"
The Pharaoh nodded. "Yes…but I just felt something hit me…it was almost like magic…"
The thug prepared to fire at the Pharaoh again, but he quickly put up another force field, this one trapping the guy inside of it. He angrily pounded on the walls of the field and yelled out, "Hey! Let me out of this thing, you little brat!"
"Aw, shut up!" Spencer yelled at him. He held out one hand over the Pharaoh's injury and let it glow with golden magic. The injury glowed with gold as well, then slowly faded away into nothingness-as did the injury on the thug.
"What de heck is goin' on here?" Joey cried out, staring from the Pharaoh to the thug.
"Joey, that guy is connected to your friends here because he's from their dream," Spencer replied. "You mess with him, you mess with Yugi and the Pharaoh as well."
Horrified, Joey quickly helped his friend to his feet and said, "Oh, man…I'm sorry, Yug…"
The Millennium Puzzle glowed with golden light and Yugi reappeared. "It's okay, Joey, you couldn't have know," he replied.
"Okay, so if we can't blast this guy away, then how in the world are we supposed to get rid of him?" Kaiba asked, folding his arms.
Nightmare suddenly appeared from behind him. He looked back at the thug in the force field and snarled, "You've got him locked away already?!" He shook his head. "All right, so you people can handle one dream easily-but let's see how well you can do with another."
He reached into the bag and flung out another handful of sand, this one slamming Kaiba right in the face. The sand absorbed itself right into him.
From behind him suddenly appeared a bunch of Kaiba Corp security guards and secretaries. "Awright, whoever you are, it's about time you got outta here!" one of them cried out, pointing directly at Kaiba
"And for extra good measure…" Nightmare continued. He hurled the bag around and managed to hit Joey and Téa with more of the magic sand. He grinned and said, "That should be enough. I'll be back for you imbeciles later."
The sand slowly absorbed itself into Joey and Téa.
A laser beam blasted right through the living room wall, sending pieces of it and dust flying everywhere. In through the hole flew a mad scientist guy wearing goggles and a black lab coat with an ignited jet pack on his back, followed by a young girl flying on a blue-glowing scooter with black hair wearing red-tinted glasses and a pink and yellow mini dress.
"This is it, girly-girl; your time is up!" the mad scientist cried.
"Not on my watch, you creep!" the girl replied.
The guys stared up in horror as the two started flying around the room and firing laser beams back and forth at one another, him from a silver gun in his hands and her from her very own eyes.
Téa suddenly felt her clothing shift on her body. She looked down and saw to her horror that she was wearing the evening gown from last night's dream. "Oh no…" she whispered.
The other wall of the living room disappeared, revealing the candlelit room with the same shadowy guy lounging on the settee. "Hello, Téa," the guy whispered.
Now everyone's gaze turned towards him, then at Téa, whose face had become a fierce shade of red. Joey angrily cried out, "Why don't I ever get ta have some dream wit a girl dat's got de hots for me?!"
Yugi quickly shot out his hands, creating force fields around the Kaiba Corp employees, the mad scientist and heroic girl, and the entrance to the romantic room. He turned to the sandman and asked, "We really can't keep these people here in my house for much longer-isn't there any way which we could get rid of them?"
"There's only one way to get rid of one's dreams," the sandman replied. "You have to figure out exactly what the meaning is behind them. Once your problem or desire has been brought out into the open, it can't live in that subconscious area of your mind anymore."
"Let me get this straight-in order to win against this guy, we have to go to sleep?" Kaiba asked incredulously. "That's absolutely ridiculous!"
"Well, since when have some things pertaining to dreams ever made sense?" Spencer replied.
