Bathed and dressed once more, and with his many decks all neatly stashed in their pockets in his coat, Harry locked his doors, strapped down his suitcase, and hopped on his bike. He had a board meeting to attend with the Kaiba brothers and their treacherous company directors.
"What is your business in the Kaiba Building today Sir?" asked the girl at the front desk.
Harry smiled his best, most pleasant and winsome smile for her. "I have a meeting with Kaiba Seto, I promise I'm expected," he told her, even as he walked right past her desk and into the elevator. The doors dinged open several floors later, and he stepped out just a few beats behind Seto and Mokuba stepped out of the other elevator.
"Mr Kaiba," greeted one of the directors hesitantly. "Uh... Welcome back Sir."
"What an unexpected surprise," added another.
"Yes, I'm sure it is, you treacherous snakes," Seto answered with a sneer as he stood in the doorway to his own conference room.
"Though I can't think why it should be," Harry said as he stepped around them and pulled the directors out of their chairs, one by one. "You will all stand. Kaiba Seto will take his proper place of power, and you will cower and beg for forgiveness," he finished with a positively predatory snarl. It may have been helped along by the Thief King. Just a little. He always leant a different quality to Harry's voice, and Bakura did so enjoy intimidating idiots.
Seto took a seat once Harry had forced each of the older, larger men to stand between the conference table and the door. Mokuba sat on his right, Harry on his left, and Harry's suitcase was on the table to the left of Harry.
"You see," Seto started again once the stage of this confrontation had been re-arranged. "I know all about your partnership with Pegasus, and the scheme you had to take over my corporation."
"That's right," Mokuba put in, filled with righteous anger as only a child could be. "What you guys did was really messed up!"
"Not to mention illegal," Harry added, popping open the suitcase and taking out sheaves of papers. "It's all here you know. Records of conversations, plans, print-outs of emails exchanged, everything from who came up with the idea to hold Mokuba hostage to what you intended to do with what Pegasus had agreed to leave to you of the Kaiba Corporation."
"Working with that freak to get rid of my brother and me? You guys are sick!" Mokuba proclaimed.
Harry very carefully did not react to the word 'freak' when he flew from Mokuba's lips.
"You're all fired," Seto informed them. "I suggest you leave now, before I really lose my temper, and take more from you than just your jobs."
"He can do it too, just FYI," Harry added with a smirk. "We have proof here of each and every one of you being an accessory to kidnapping, attempted murder, fraud and attempted fraud, and even a few goodies that Pegasus dug up for blackmail against each one of you, just in case he needed it. Personally? I really think that charges should be pressed anyway, it's not really good for society in general to let scum like you just walk the streets, and it's not like any of you have a family you need the money to support."
"P-please, let us explain!" begged one of the men, a hint of desperation in his voice. "Pegasus gave us no choice!"
"Incorrect," Harry said, handing over one particular paper to Seto for his reading displeasure.
"This paper is a copy of the email that initiated everything, the proposal of the plan you all cooked up with Pegasus in the first place. The whole thing started with you," Seto informed them.
"Peggy was rather fixated on getting his late wife back, but he'd never have thought of trying to do it with advanced holographic technology if you hadn't approached him with the idea of kidnapping Mokuba in order to wrest Kaiba Corporation from Seto's control," Harry added, accepting back the incriminating paper and placing it once more onto the pile it had come from. "Peggy was so sweet to hand over all of the documents pertaining to your operation, but then, he did promise to give me anything if I beat him in a Duel. I sincerely doubt he expected me to want everything. Why, he even provided the back-up plans you insisted on making, just in case. You know, he didn't at all appreciate you doubting him like that."
"And I don't appreciate you tampering with my virtual reality pods and their game programs," Seto added.
"Is there some reason you're still here?" Mokuba asked. "Because I'm pretty sure I heard Seto fire all of you," he pointed out, wiggling a finger in one ear to make sure it wasn't blocked.
"You did," Seto and Harry agreed at the same time.
Seto reached over to an intercom box and pressed down on the button that would get him the head of his security force. "Security, there are five men in the conference room who aren't taking their new status as 'fired from the Kaiba Corporation board of directors' very well. Please come and escort them off the premises."
When the security detail arrived, Harry frowned as he recognised one of them. "You," he said, pointing calmly at one security goon who wore his hair in an even more ridiculous spike than Honda did. "I fired you once already from Industrial Illusions."
"He's also the one who grabbed me, back at the beginning," Mokuba added.
Seto nodded. "It looks like we'll be doing a security check of our security as well then," he commented. "You are also fired."
That short sentence seemed to be the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak, as the security guard in question, as well as the entire quintet of conniving geezers, all charged the two teens and Mokuba (who was only eleven). Harry moved faster, or rather, his magic did.
Defence at his cram-school was, like every other subject there, wandless. A bit of will, a gesture, channel a bit of magic with intent and hey presto: invisible wall between the kids in charge and the adults who only wanted to be.
For a brief moment, Harry toyed with the idea of introducing Seto to real dragons, but quickly discarded it. Seto, and possibly Mokuba as well, would want one, and owning dragons as pets was illegal. He'd just have to do his best to keep the knowledge that they were really real from the Kaiba brothers.
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