Me: Here's chapter 9!
Astral: You remembered the chapter number this time.
Me: So what! I still got it!
Astral: She apologizes if the last chapter was not so good.
Me: I worked on it for one afternoon at a friend's house in UBC while watching Yugioh and Dragonball Z abridged. They had pizza.
Astral: You got the laptop keys dirty with pizza sauce.
Me: I cleaned them!
Astral: And here you are still watching Yugioh abridged.
Me: It never gets old!
Astral: Just get on with it. Also for the last few chapters you've been forgetting the disclaimer.
Me: Ack! Why didn't you remind me!
Astral: I thought you'd get to it.
Me: Uggghhhh! Does it look like I own Yugioh Zexal!"
Astral: If I say yes will you get on with the story?
Me: What! No! It's just a figure of speech! Well not really. But, well, ARRRRRRGHHHH! DAMNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!
Astral: Here goes the 9th chapter.
Chapter 9: This tower really needs better security!
(I'm gonna try writing from Narrative for this part)
Night had already fallen by the time the clock struck 11:00, so nobody noticed 5 kids sneaking around towards Heartland Tower. They all stuck together as they walked as silently as they could.
"Oi Yuma! Why are we breaking into Heartland Tower-ura!" Tokunosuke whispered.
"Shhhhh!" Yuma held his finger to his mouth in a shushing gesture. "I'll explain when we get there."
They walked a bit longer, attracting some strange looks from passerbyers, until they reached the tower. Kotori pointed towards a back door, and they all ran towards it.
"Okay, no explain!"
Yuma took a breath. "Here's what happened. When me and Kotori were at the Duel Festival, we saw Tetsuo—"
"What's so weird about that?"
"Well, usually Tetsuo would have met at our meeting point, but he didn't show up. Then while we were taking a break from duelling, Astral said Kaito was coming. While we were trying to get away, we saw Tetsuo and Kaito talking. So we decided to follow them into an alley. Then Kaito froze time and they started duelling."
"Oh! That's what happened! I just remember following them and then seeing you by Tetsuo."
"Yeah! And it turns out that Tetsuo found Numbers 96!"
"Numbers 96!" Yuma had told them about what Numbers 96 had done before.
"Yup! But Kaito won and then he took Tetsuo's soul! So now Tetsuo's in the hospital and we're here to stop Numbers 96 from doing anything else dangerous and hopefully getting Tetsuo's soul back!"
"And how are we supposed to manage that!" Kotori practically shouted at Yuma.
"Uhhh… It's called improvising!"
"Cat thinks it's a good idea!"
"So to summarize, we're going to break in and get back Numbers 96 before he causes any more trouble and also try to get back Tetsuo's soul?"
"Kinda!"
"Well then, let's go!"
They turned their attention back to the back door. Cat-chan started to pick it with her nails. After a minute or so, the door clicked open. They each stepped in one at a time.
(Yeah this isn't working that well for me so back to Yuma's POV)
I coughed. Who knew the Heartland Tower back door entrance was so dusty. There were cobwebs everywhere. And I mean everywhere! This hallway probably hasn't been used in like a century!
"This is the emergency hallway!" Takashi said. "It's only for large-scale emergencies."
Well that explains the reason why it's abandoned.
"We need to get going!" I started to run, but Kotori grabbed my hand.
"Wait Yuma! The security guards and cameras will definitely see us! Do you realize what will happen!"
"Then how are we supposed to get around!"
"Leave it to me-ura!" Tokunosuke cocked his glasses. "There is a backside to even the most secure of towers!" And he pointed to a ventilation shaft at the bottom of the wall.
We all stared. Finally Kotori spoke up.
"Oh you have got to be kidding me!"
Few minutes of bickering and crawling later
"I cannot believe that we're doing this!" Kotori shouted. I held my ears. "Jeez Kotori! Do you have to shout so loudly!"
"What are you talking about! I'm whispering!"
"To summarize, the sound in here is magnified because the space is so small!" Takashi said. Oh. Well it still hurts my ears.
"Are we getting any closer to where we're supposed to go?"
"How would we know!" They shouted at me. Ouch my ears! "Where are we supposed to go!"
"Ummm…." I looked around for Astral. He's also crawling. "Astral! Where are we supposed to go.
"We should try and find the area where Kaito keeps the collected Numbers."
"And where is that?"
"Try and find a map or asking someone who works here."
"Yeah that might work but WAIT THEN WE'LL DEFINITELY GET CAUGHT!"
"If you keep shouting we will also get caught."
I clamped my hands around my mouth.
"Yuma! Where are we going!" Kotori shouted at me.
"Oh, um, well, we're going to wherever the Numbers are."
"Which is?"
"I'm still working that out." I said sheepishly. Kotori responded by punching me in the head. "Owwww!"
"Yuma. You should shut down the power source and then find a map of this tower."
"Good idea!" I turned to everyone else. "Okay! First we shut down the tower's power source, and then we find a map of the tower!"
"That might work!" Takashi said. "It's a good think that Astral's so smart!"
I dropped. "Let's just get on with it!"
Kotori decided to take charge. "Okay! Tokunosuke, you go with Cat-chan and Takashi to shut down the tower! Me and Yuma will find a map!"
"Nya! Why are you with Yuma!"
"Because I'm the only person who can keep Yuma out of trouble!"
"Let's just get on with it-ura!"
"Split up!" We started crawling some more.
The ventilation shaft had a fork in it. Wow! Talk about coincidence! Me and Kotori went down one path, while Cat-chan, Tokunosuke and Takashi went down the other.
(Okay, I'm back to writing Narrative POV)
After crawling down the shaft for a while, Cat-chan spotted an opening. She pried it open with her claws and jumped down. Tokunosuke followed and Takashi fell out of the shaft, landing with a thump. They snuck around, going lower and lower until they reached the basement.
"Now we find the power generator!" Cat-chan whispered.
"Leave it to me-ura!" Tokunosuke took out his magnifying glass and started looking through it around. "Every powerful tower has a backside to it, and that's where the power source is! Finding it will be tough but I will—"
"Hey! Why don't we look over there!" Takashi pointed to a door. Tokunosuke dropped. "Were you even listening to me! And why there!"
"Because of that!" And he pointed to a sign above the door that said "Power Generator"
". . . . . . . . . Oh."
Over to Yuma and Kotori!
"Yuma! You're going to get caught if you go there!"
"Why!"
"Don't you see the security cameras!"
"Oh right! So how are we going to get a map?"
"That's your problem!"
You know what, let's just go back to Cat-chan and the others. Yuma and Kotori aren't making much progress right now.
"Okay! We're in!" Takashi said.
"It's pitch black in here-ura!" Tokunosuke complained.
Cat-chan looked around the room, then flicked a switch. Suddenly, the room was filled with light.
"Ack! My eyes! Give some warning nest time you do that!" Tokunosuke complained again.
"Kya! Sorry!" Cat-chan started walking around, then paused.
Tokunosuke and Takashi came over to look at what she was staring at, then paused as well.
"Oh"
"My"
"God"
In front of them was a humongous machine the size of a 2 story building. There were red, yellow, and blue lights blinking on and off the sides, and the top half of the machine was silver, while the bottom was only grey.
"Umm, I think we found the generator." Takashi said, still staring.
"Seems like it-ura!" Tokunosuke said. "Now how do we shut it down?"
There was silence. Then Cat-chan and Takashi exploded together.
"AND YOU EXPECT US TO KNOW SOMETHING LIKE THIS!"
(Okay, Yuma and Kotori have stopped arguing so back to them)
"And what about the time when you licked the swing set!" Kotori shouted.
"You told me to!" Yuma shouted back
"No I did not!"
"Yes you did! You were all 'Yuma, lick the swing set'!"
"No! I said 'Yuma, don't lick the swing set' and then you were all 'You can't tell me what to do Kotori' and then you licked the swing set!"
Ummm, okay, they'll make progress in a sec. And really Yuma, a swing set? You know it's a wonder that they haven't been caught yet.
"Ugh! Fine! I think it's this way!" And then Kotori ran across a corridor. Yuma followed.
"You think what's what way?"
"The map!"
"How do you know that!"
"Women's intuition!"
"Now how do we get the map?" Yuma asked.
"We just look for one!"
They crept around, looking around hopefully for a map. Suddenly, Kotori grabbed Yuma and pulled him behind a corner.
"What are you do—" Yuma's sentence was muffled by Kotori's hand, which went over his mouth just in time as two scientists walked by.
"—you hear about Kaito?"
"Mr. Heartland's Numbers Hunter?"
"Yeah! Turns out he's exhausting his body with the use of the Photon Mode!"
"We should figure out a way so that using the mode won't break down your body."
"But Kaito refuses to admit it to Mr. Heartland so he won't get help!"
"Really! His body will break down if he continues to use it over and over!"
The scientists continued walking down the hall, but Yuma no longer listened to what they were talking about.
Kaito's body's gonna break down? Kaito, how far are you willing to go for Haruto's sake! Please don't go too far! You need to think about yourself for a bit too!
"It seems as Kaito cannot use the Photon Mode without some after effects on the body." Astral said. Yuma just nodded.
"Come on Kotori. Let's go." And Yuma started walking down. Kotori followed.
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanng!
"What was that!" Kotori spun around and looked.
"I dunno! We'd better go check it out!" They ran down the hallway towards the screaming.
I'm gonna go over to Kaito now
Kaito sat on the edge of his bed in his room resting. He fell back onto his bed, sighed, and picked up a picture frame. In the frame was a picture of a younger Haruto on a swing and smiling up at a younger Kaito. He stared at it, remembering the times when Haruto would smile. Sighing, he put the frame back and looked back at the ceiling.
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanng!
Kaito sat back up in a panic. "What was that!" He ran out of the room down the hall. "Orbital! Come in! What's going on!" He said into his communicator.
"Some strange black force has appeared on the 5th floor!"
Black force? Like the black force from this morning? It's that Numbers! Numbers 96 Black Mist!
Just then, all the power in the building went out.
Me: And here's chapter 9! The photo is the one from 24, the one that Yuma saw before going into the Emperor's Key
Astral: We are not sure if Kaito does have his own bedroom. I am pretty sure that he does.
Me: Also, who saw episode 54! Tron versus Droite! It was awesome! Although Tron did something weird to Droite.
Astral: Also, did you notice how in episde 37-38, her D-Gazer reads Droite, but in episodes 53 and 54, it reads Dolowa?
Me: Weird. Right?
Astral: Also, after this story is over, would you like her to start the yugioh zexal/cardfight vanguard crossover, the other yugioh zexal story, or the Naruto fanfic.
Me: I have the most ideas for the Naruto one, although the others would be fun to write too. I can't wait until it's summer. Then I can write every day! Yay summer vacation!
Astral: Review.
Me: The chapter!
