Quatre: Well, here's the next chapter.

Ame: I've finally shown up. Yatta!

Quatre: Where's mou hitori no boku?

Ame: Restraining Kenshin.

Quatre: Ah. #to readers# I've got a minor matter that's been bugging the hells out of me. You see, I followed someone's favorites list to a good Yugioh fic. But now, I can't find it. Sooo... whoever has a fic where Yugi gets kidnapped in the middle of the night and Yami calls to Bakura to help on their favorites list, please tell me. I'll be eternally grateful because I liked the fic and it's driving me nuts!

Ame: You're already nuts.

Quatre: So? Ah, yes. I'd like to wish my Beta, JK Fie'r, a late Happy Birthday. #streamers fly by everywhere courtesy of Gail and Kurai# Now, for everyone else, here's the next chapter! I would like to say that the explanation Yami gives in this chapter is completely made up by me. I don't know how much of it is true and how much isn't, but hopefully it'll make sense. Now, onto the fic!


Warnings and Disclaimer are the same as before.
Chapter Nine: Sorry to Rain on Your Parade
"See!" Sam said as they entered the infirmary, nodding to the guards at the door. "I told you that something was off!"

"Poor Yugi," Daniel said. "And he just entered the program, too."

"We'll free him," Jack vowed. "We will!"

Hammond was already there, standing a good three feet away from Yugi, or sitting, as it were. Yugi was lying in bed, his arms bound to the bed with padded cuffs. He looked deep in thought, plucking absently at the cuffs, staring at nothing in particular. Pain flickered across his features, but was immediately quelled.

"Everyone's here," Hammond said. "You can talk now."

Yugi continued to stare off into space.

"Hey, snake head, we're talking to you!" Jack called.

Yugi started and blinked, anger crossing his features. "I would ask that you not address me in that manner again, Colonel. I am not a Goa'uld, and never will be."

"You said you were going to explain something," Hammond prompted.

Yugi nodded. "I did. My name at the moment is not Yugi. My name is Yami. I was the pharaoh of Egypt, five thousand years ago. Do not speak," he commanded as Daniel began to voice a protest. "Allow me to continue. You see, ten thousand years ago, the false gods oppressed us. We had no means of fighting back, until the true Egyptian Gods, Ra, Osiris, and Obelisk, emerged from the Realm of Darkness that they'd been sealed in. They taught the ancient pharaoh of a magic capable of destroying the false gods, once and for all. The false gods were driven away, but not destroyed, for reasons unknown. Based on what I've learned here, I've come to the conclusion that the false gods are indeed the Goa'uld.

"For another five thousand years, the Gods watched over our kingdom. The pharaoh and his priests continued to wield the power of the shadows, using seven magic items to channel the dark energy. The puzzle that I am wearing is one of those seven, the Millennium Puzzle.

"When I became pharaoh, however, war started. There were some in my kingdom, on my council, that wished the power of shadows to be available for all the populace to use. They started a war, and I was forced to institute the Shadow Games. These games judged a person's soul. If they were found wanting, Amemait was called upon to eat the convict's soul. I am not proud, but it was necessary.

"Eventually, my high priest came up with the way to stop the Shadow Games and end the war once and for all. The Item Holders gathered in a temple, and we used our souls as sacrifices to seal the Shadow Realm, to make it separate from our world once again. However, my soul was split. Half of my soul was sent to the puzzle, and the other half continued on to the afterlife. Yugi, you see, is my reincarnation. He is the light. I am the darker half of his soul."

"I didn't know about him at first," a quiet voice joined in. Everyone turned to see a second Yugi in the room, sitting quietly on a nearby bed. The guards blinked twice and rubbed their eyes. "Grandpa gave me the Millennium Puzzle to solve. It took me eight years, but one day, a bully named Ushio was threatening my friends Honda and Jonouchi. He told me to pay him a lot of money, or he would kill me. I didn't have the money, and I started to work on the puzzle without really thinking about it. Before I knew it, I'd solved it. The next thing I knew, Ushio was being carted off to a mental institution because he thought everything was money."

Yugi looked up at Hammond and SG-1. "I blacked out a few times after that, and every time something would happen. I didn't realize there was another person inside of me until I attended Duelist Kingdom. Yami and I were sort of forced to meet each other, and we worked together to defeat Pegasus. After that was Battle City, where we had to stop the Holder of the Millennium Rod from gaining control of the Egyptian God Cards and thus the power to control the world. It was a gradual thing, but now Yami and I are best friends," he said with a sheepish laugh. "It wasn't until recently that we found out how to manifest in a separate body. Yami usually is the one to do this, while I stay in control. However, we thought it best that Yami stayed in control of the body, since his mental barriers are stronger than mine. He's the only thing keeping that Goa'uld inside his soul room."

Yami smiled at Yugi. "Thank you for the vote of confidence, Yugi. However, I'm afraid I will not be in control much longer."

Yugi started, jumping from the bed and rushing to Yami's side. "I can try and stop him if you want!"

Yami shook his head. "I do not have the strength to keep him there. I have been thinking. The Goa'uld was under that particular carving for a reason. We should allow it to explain itself before I send it to the Shadow Realm."

Yugi looked uncertain, but he nodded. "What happened to our deck?"

They looked over at SG-1. Jack shrugged, still trying to wrap his brain around Yami's story.

"It's over there," Janet said quietly, pointing over to a small table. Yugi jumped up and retrieved it.

"Okay, Yami," Yugi said. "I'm ready." He turned to SG-1. "Are you guys ready?"

They nodded. Yami closed his eyes. The Puzzle glowed for a moment, and Yami appeared next to Yugi.

The body on the bed looked up with angry silver eyes. "It's about bloody time!" it yelled indignantly. "I thought I was going to suffocate in that hole."

The Goa'uld turned to SG-1. "Even after five thousand years, pharaohs never change. Hmph." He stuck his tongue out at Yami.

This took SG-1 aback. It wasn't everyday that a Goa'uld acted so... human, after all.

"Who are we addressing?" Hammond asked hesitantly.

"Oh!" The Goa'uld made to smack himself in the forehead, but found that he couldn't. "Forgive me for being rude, unlike some people I could mention. My name is Ame, and I and not a Goa'uld, thank you very much. I am proud to say that I am a Tok'ra. One of the first, actually. I got stuck in that rotten hole in the ground because the Council decided that I needed to be there if the pharaoh eventually came by. Something about having to help him save the world, or something."

Everyone blinked.

"I believe him," Yami said.

"How?" Jack asked. "He could be lying through his teeth."

"He is not closing his mind," Yami explained. "He is broadcasting his emotions freely, and as we all occupy one body, I can feel them." Yugi nodded confirmation.

"So Egypt did have a smart pharaoh!" Ame mock gasped. "By the gods, miracles do happen!"

Yami scowled and, imitating Ame's earlier gesture, stuck his tongue out at the Tok'ra. Yugi rolled his eyes, while SG-1 and Hammond sweatdropped.

"Sir?" Sam said, turning to Hammond. "With your permission, I'd like to call Dad and see if the Tok'ra can spare anyone to get the symbiote out of Yugi."

"Hey!" Ame protested. "Aren't you at least going to see whether I'm telling the truth or not?!"

"We will, but until then, you are staying right there," Jack said. "Don't try anything funny."

Ame rolled his eyes. "Like I could." He indicated the cuffs.

Yugi abruptly yawned. "I'm spent," he said tiredly. "I'm going back to my soul room for a nice, long nap." With that, he vanished, as if he'd never been.

Yami nodded to SG-1. "Good day." And he too vanished.

Ame blinked. "And Yugi's already asleep," he sighed. "I need to talk to the pharaoh. I'll catch you guys later!"

With that, Ame closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Hammond looked twice at the teen/Tok'ra and turned to the guards. "Didn't you see Yugi on the bed?"

The guards shrugged. "I didn't see him until just after he spoke," one of them said. "It's like he appeared out of thin air, sir."

Hammond rubbed his temples. "This is very confusing. Daniel, can you substantiate his claim?"

Daniel thought a minute. "I don't recall reading about any of this, but then again, those tablets we have do make some mentions of the 'Games of Darkness.' And that plaque that was on the wall of the corridor where Yugi fell had pictures of seven items, all but one with an Egyptian eye on it. His Puzzle is among those on the picture, surrounded by the other six. I have the pictures that we took from today. I can get to work on translating that wall, if you'd like."

"I'll call Dad, if that's all right, sir," Sam said.

"Yes to both of you. Jack, I want you and Teal'c to look through the SGC surveillance tapes. See if Yami or whatever his name is has appeared before, and when. I want to know if he's harmed anyone. From what I remember about those cases he mentioned, all of the victims went insane. There were quite a few around the Domino City area. Also, arrange to have Yami and Ame tested on the Zatarc machine, without Yugi present, preferably." As Hammond was giving out these orders, he shot a glance over at Yugi's sleeping form. He caught a ruby eye snap quickly shut as soon as he saw it. "And try and figure out a way to tell the three apart. I'm going to have a headache trying to talk to them."

"Sir, the Zatarc machine probably won't work," Sam offered. "It'll say they're lying even if they only leave one little thing out. Unless you want to know every detail, I would suggest a standard lie detector test or just waiting until the Tok'ra come."

Hammond frowned. "So what do you suggest?"

"Leave them here. They're restrained, and as long as there're guards they shouldn't be able to do anything. I do suggest we take their deck, though."

"Agreed."


Yami glared at Ame. Ame shuffled his feet nervously on the rough stones of the corridor separating Yugi and Yami's soul rooms.

"You said you wanted to talk," Yami said finally.

"I do. Um... I'm sorry for barging in on you guys like this. It was really dark down there, in that cavern, and I'd only just woken up. I couldn't tell who or what was there and just acted on instinct." Ame bowed his head. "I'll leave if you want."

Yami stopped glaring, but didn't say anything for a few moments.

"You should apologize to Yugi, not me," he said finally. "I'm not the owner of our body."

"I will. Listen, what I said before was true. The council told me that I would have to help the Pharaoh should he pass through that place, and apparently, you have."

Yami frowned. "So you were the weapon that the tablets indicated?"

Ame shrugged. "Seeing as I have no idea what tablets you mean, I don't know."

"I'll let you look at the memory later."

"How kind of you."

Yugi poked his head out of his soul room. "You mind? I'm trying to sleep in here!" He vanished from the doorway, closing the door behind him with a firm snap.

Yami smiled. "I believe that was his half-asleep way of telling us to get some sleep. It has been a long day, and the next will be longer."

"No arguments from me," Ame shrugged.

They parted ways and soon the corridor was filled with snoring, courtesy of Ame.


"I think I have a way of differentiating between the three of them," Sam said while searching through SGC security tapes. She'd traded places with Teal'c shortly after contacting the Tok'ra.

Jack, behind her, raised an eyebrow. "Go on."

"Well, we've already noticed how Yugi's eyes change color every so often. I think that's when Yugi and Yami switched."

"If Yami was really there before," Jack corrected.

"Yes, sir. I believe that Yugi's eyes were red when Yami was in control. They go back to violet when it's Yugi speaking. Also, I noticed that when Yugi and Yami appeared briefly outside the body, it had silver eyes."

"So Ame's got silver eyes? Freaky," Jack muttered.

"Well, he didn't speak like a normal symbiote, that's for sure." Sam ejected the current tape and chose another at random. "I almost hope he is a Tok'ra," she added thoughtfully.

"Focus, Major," Jack warned.

Sam peered at the screen. "I think I've got something, sir."

Jack leaned over her shoulder and looked. The time stamp indicated it was shortly after Yugi's lie test. As the two officers watched, a second Yugi appeared and peered at a tablet. He motioned over to the real Yugi, who came over and read what the duplicate pointed out. The duplicate vanished, and Daniel walked in a few moments later. Yugi pointed to the tablets.

"That's when he figured out that the tablets came from offworld," Sam concluded.

"Seems that way," Jack agreed. "Get a copy of this and show it to the general."


"From what we can tell, Yami isn't a result of Yugi's accident on P4X-987," Sam said to the briefing room in general. "Security cameras have caught no less than three instances where Yami has appeared separately from Yugi. He even stayed the night before the mission in the same bed as Yugi, though I can't imagine why."

The occupants of the chairs around the table looked thoughtful.

"So Yami claims to be the spirit of an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh?" Jacob Carter asked.

Sam nodded. "Daniel's been searching, but he hasn't found anything yet that could corroborate Yami's story."

"Well, I haven't found anything about a pharaoh named Yami," Daniel mused. "Hell, records from that period are rather scarce. It'll take time to search for everything."

"I have no doubt that you'll find something," General Hammond said.

"Well, until then, I should see what I can find out about this Goa'uld," Jacob said. "Where is it being held?"

"It's still in the infirmary," Jack said. "Apparently, all three of them are asleep."


Yugi was sitting on the bed next to Yami. They both glared at Ame, who was currently in control of the body.

"Come on!" Ame complained. "Let me get out of here!"

"No," Yami said evenly. "You're the one who came in without asking, so you're the one stuck."

Ame pouted. "I said I was sorry!"

"Sorry," Yugi said. "You get to stay there."

Ame mumbled something and pouted.

Janet was watching the three-way staring contest with interest.

"Who's winning?" she asked out of curiosity.

None of them answered.

Ame abruptly jumped against his bonds and shouted "BOO!"

Yami jumped and blinked. Yugi giggled.

"Hah! I won!"

"..." from the three spectators who had just walked in.

"I don't think I need to ask who that is," Selmak said. "Ame, how did you manage this?"

Ame blinked and looked over. "Who's that?"

"Selmak," Sam answered.

"Ah. Ms. Stick-up-her-ass. Gotcha."

That earned him several incredulous stares.

"I pity you," Selmak said. "I have known no other Tok'ra like him, and he grated the nerves of everyone he met."

Sam shrugged. "They appear to be getting along just fine."

"Only because they know how to get out of here!" Ame complained. "I'm stuck strapped to the bed while they can run around and do everything I can't!"

Yami smirked.

"Okay, okay," Hammond said. "So you know him, Selmak?"

"Unfortunately."

"So is he good or bad?"

"He is a Tok'ra, if that's what you mean. However, we would be quite glad to let him stay here."

"I wouldn't let Yugi leave, anyway," Yami said, a hint of warning in his voice.

"So can you let me up yet?" Ame asked hopefully.

Everyone looked at Hammond.

"Fine."

"You're going to regret this," Selmak muttered.

Janet released Ame's cuffs. The Tok'ra bounced up happily.

"Finally! Now what?"

Everyone sweatdropped.

"Now you come with us and answer all of the questions we ask you," Sam said. "First, though, I suggest we get food."

Several murmurs of agreement.


Ame finished banging his chicken leg against the table imitating a drummer and grinned. "Wow. Can I have a set of drums when this is over?"

"NO!"

Ame pouted. "Fine. What else is there?" Without waiting for an answer, he bounded up to the line and came back with several slices of different varieties of pizza.

Yugi looked on from his soul room as he idly tossed one of the stuffed animals that had previously been strewn about his soul room into the air from his comfortable perch on his bed. As in, he was lying down and had no intention of getting up anytime soon. "Yami, I'm getting a really bad feeling about this."

Yami, who had taken a seat at Yugi's feet, said nothing.

Ame's pleased surprise blasted them both.

Yugi sighed. "I believe Ame is now addicted to pizza."

Yami had an eyebrow raised. "That abominable round pastry creation?"

/Hey, don't dis it unless you've tried it!/

"I have, thank you. It's not to my taste."

A pout.

"Don't worry, Ame," Yugi sighed. "I won't stop you from eating pizza."

Happiness.

Meanwhile, in the real world...

Jack: I'm never taking Ame out for pizza.


Quatre: So endeth the 9th chapter of SSR. Kenshin is MIA, mou hitori no boku is in the hospital, #ducks a flying Trig book# Amon is being responsible and trying to get me to do homework, Gail is happily helping #ducks a Latin textbook# and I have a Trig test tomorrow. I need to finish everything, so I'll catch everyone later.

Ame: Banzai! #leaps out of a third floor window into a pool that mysteriously appeared a few seconds ago#

Quatre: #sweatdrop# Kurai, go stop your friend from murdering himself.

Kurai: When will you get to work on my fic?

Quatre: Which one?

Kurai: LFHR

Quatre: Since when is that your fic?

Kurai: Hn. When will you work on it?

Quatre: I go home this weekend, and I'll be able to get the word document then. #steps out of the way of a horde of flying calculators# After that, it all depends on how much time I'll have. Remember, Kurai, I have homework to deal with, as well as a few other fics that I'm determined to not let go down the drain.

Kurai: Okay. #catches a flying ruler# Go do homework before Amon and Gail murder you.

Quatre: Ja, minna-san!

Kurai: Don't forget to leave a review!