Sunday, another sunny day at the game shop.
Grandpa Solomon stands behind his counter, as usual. Yugi stands on the other side of the counter, observing his game helmet.
Staring at Yugi's helmet on the counter, Solomon asks, "So, how does this doohickey work again?"
Yugi turns the helmet so his grandpa can see the back, "Well, it starts up just by pressing this green button." He points his finger to the button at the middle of the helmet's backside. "After you press it, visors will come out, and they show a countdown to 10. Then, the helmet transports your mind into the video game."
"Very intriguing," said Grandpa, rubbing his chin. "So that's all you really have to do?"
"Well, no. You first have to find a safe place to lay your body down while your mind is in the game."
"Oh! Well, in that case, mind if your Grandpa give it a try?" He tries to grab the helmet from Yugi, who pulled the helmet back just in time. "Huh?"
"Sorry, Grandpa, but I've already told you: I promised Mokuba and the others that I'd meet them in the game today."
"Oh, come on. Just for a minute, please?" Solomon's eyes sadden with beg.
"Later, Grandpa. I promise I'll let you give it a shot when I'm done, ok?"
Solomon sighed, eyes filled with disappointment, "OK," he moped childishly.
The two Motos heard the customer bell ringing as the front door opened. Yugi turned.
Gramps perked up as he looked up to see his best friend standing at the doorway, "Arthur!"
"Hello, Solomon, Yugi," greeted the nice, taller old man. Arthur wears his usual light-tan suit with his red bow tie. He walks through the hallway of items in shelves. "Good to see you."
"Good to see you too, Mr. Hawkins," greeted Yugi politely.
"So, what brings you here, old friend?"
"Me and Rebecca are visiting Domino City because we heard that they're having an Egyptian festival at the museum here next week," Arthur stands in front of Yugi.
"An Egyptian festival, you say?"
"I don't think I've ever heard of a festival like that before," said Yugi.
"Why, they just decided to organize it starting this year. Archeologists will be there to show their collections. They'll also be lots of fun activities relating to Egypt, such as Duel Monsters. I figured you two may want to join us there? Bring your friends, perhaps?"
"Why count me in then," Solomon said in interest.
Yugi smiled, "I wouldn't miss it for the world! I'll tell my friends about it later."
"By the way," Solomon asks, "where is your granddaughter, anyway?"
"Why, Rebecca is in the car right now. She's on her laptop, searching for decent contact lenses on the internet."
Yugi blinked, "On the internet?"
"Yes, the brand she wants can only be bought online. Anyway, she'll be here in just a-"
The door opened again, causing the bell to ring once more.
"YUUUUGIIII!" A shrill cry caused Yugi to stun in shock.
Rebecca stood at the doorway. She has her blonde hair in two pigtails, as always. She wears her usual oval-lensed glasses. She also wears a pick shirt with a matching skirt. Finally, she wears white stockings under a pair of red dress shoes.
A drop of sweat ran down Yugi's face, "Um, hi, Rebec-" He was cut off when he finds himself being constricted in the crazy blonde girl's arms by his chest.
She closes her eyes in joy, "Oh, Shmoopy! It's been so long! How've you been? Did you miss me? Why haven't you e-mailed me?"
While listening to her blabbering, Yugi was to breathless from her vice-grip grasp, making his turn blue. Now I know what it's like to be attacked by a ferocious boa, he thought.
Ever since the gang met Rebecca for the second time, they discovered that she developed a big crush on Yugi. Now at times, she'd grab him and starts kissing him on the cheek, which makes Tea jealous. Yugi also remembered the time when she and Vivian Wong starts fighting over him during the tournament at KaibaLand.
"Rebecca, Please! Let the poor boy go. He can't breath," said Arthur, trying to pry his granddaughters arms off the blue-faced boy.
Just then, Yugi's phone started ringing inside his pocket. Yugi said suffocate breathlessly, "Um, Rebecca? Th-this phone call might be important. So, do you mind...?"
The short, blonde girl opened her eyes and let go, allowing the boy to breath again, "Oh, sorry, Yugi. I guess I got a bit carried away."
After taking in a few long breaths, he responded, "It's fine, Rebecca." He pulled out his purple cellphone and answered, "Hello? Mokuba? Ok, great. I'll be there in a few minutes. Later." He hangs up his phone and put back in his pocket. He turns to the counter and grabbed his helmet, "Ok, Grandpa, I'll be in my room."
"What? But what for?" Rebecca asked.
He looks back at her. "Oh, well, I-"
His grandfather interrupts, "Don't worry, Yugi. I'll explain everything to them. You run along and have fun, now."
His grandson smiled and nodded, "Thanks, Grandpa. See you guys later!" He walks to the door to the right beside the counter.
"Huh?" Rebecca looks at Solomon, "Hey, why's Yugi going to his room right now? Why does he have that weird helmet?"
"I'll explain later. But for now, how about we head to the living room, talk about our lives, and maybe play some of our favorite board games?"
Rebecca "hmph'd," "You two play your silly board games. I'm going to see what Yugi's up to."
As she tries to follow his grandson, Solomon stood in her way, "I'm sorry, Rebecca, but he can't be bothered right now."
"Why? What's so important to Yugi that he has to go to his room and not spend time with me?!"
Yugi warped through the portal again, this time, he's getting use to it. When he reaches the light at the portal's end again, he finds himself in front of the Stage Select screen. He also found himself dressed as Lucas again.
"Well, it's good to be back here again. Now, let's try out the code Mokuba gave me." He holds up his wrist and the Data Band appeared around it. Its ball glowed, projecting the holographic screen.
This morning, Mokuba had called and gave Yugi the code to enter Smash City. When he did, he gave the code to the rest of his pals.
Yugi scrolls down to the option in the middle of the screen that says, "Login to Smash City". The option is only available when someone is at the Stage Select screen. That's one thing that Mokuba forgot to point out.
He pressed SELECT on it, a password screen popped up afterwards. He sees a numeral keypad below, with the "enter" key. Yugi speaks out the numbers while typing the in, "8, 5, 6, 4." After typing in the code and hitting "enter", he heard a computerized voice that says, "Access approved."
A new image appeared at the bottom of the bigger screen. It looks like a city, just like the one Mokuba described last night.
"Alright, I'm in! Now, time to check it that place out."
Yugi holds up his hands in a horizontal holding position, causing his Data Band to disappear. A Wii remote appeared in his hands. He scrolls the cursor to Smash City. After pressing the "2" button, he vanished, leaving the screen to load again.
Yugi materialized from midair, he landed on his butt. "Ow! So much for not really feeling anything here," he said in pain. After standing up, he rubs his bottom before dusting off some virtual dirt. After straightening himself out, he looks around the environment and gasped.
He found himself standing in the middle of a street, but no cars are present. Instead, he's surrounded by tall, colorful, futuristic buildings. A lot of the skyscrapers have walls that are made of glass, just like Domino Heights. They shine from the reflection of light emanating from the very realistic sun.
"Wow," Yugi said in utter impressiveness, "Kaiba and Pegasus has really outdone themselves."
Unbeknown to Yugi, Mokuba is standing on top of a small building on his right, watching him sightseeing. He's wearing a dark green jumpsuit under a silver flight jacket. He has a brown utility belt wrapped around hi waist with two objects attached on both his sides: on the right, a laser gun inside its holster, strapped to his thigh, and a strange, hexagonal device with a glowing, blue core. He also has on a headset, featuring a monocle-like covering with a lime-colored lens in front of his right eye. Finally, he wears silver, fingerless gloves, a pair of black and red tanker boots, and he has cream_colored fox ears in his hair and a creamy foxtail with a white tip. His headset around his head had stuffed down the upper part of his hair, making the rest of his hair look half its average size.
Mokuba cupped his hands around his mouth and called out to Yugi, "I see you're already enjoying the city, Yugi!"
Mokuba's call made Yugi turn his head in separate directions. He stopped as he spotted the other boy on the roof of the building on his right. Before he could get a good look at his clothing, Mokuba leaped off the roof. Yugi watched him land on his feet in style.
He stood, "'Sup, Yugi?"
"Hey, Mokuba," Yugi smiles. "I'm loving this secret stage, already. I like your outfit, by the way."
"Right back at 'cha."
"So, who are you supposed to be?"
"I'll tell you that later, but right now, the others are waiting."
"Ok. Where?"
"I told them to wait at the Smash Tower, the tallest building in the stage. We can't see it from here, but when we go around some of these skyscrapers, we'll be able to see easily."
"Sounds cool! Where to?"
"I'll lead the way. C'mon!" He walks past behind Yugi. The spiky-headed teen follows.
The two boys walked down the street. "Ok, Yugi, when you see a really tall and really skinny building with a ginormous Smash Ball on top, that's the tower."
Yugi nodded, "Got it."
When the boys walked past the last building, Yugi spotted the purple tower Mokuba described. It's taller than the others, it's slender I width, and it has the oversized, glowing orb on the top. They could see it straight ahead from a long hallway of more buildings.
"Pretty cool, isn't it?" Mokuba crosses his arms.
"It is," Yugi replied.
"That Tower is located at the center of Smash City. It's basically the heart of the city." He looks at Yugi, "Hey, you wanna race?"
Yugi looks back at the other boy and nodded, "Sure! Why not?"
"Hmm. Good luck." He makes a mad dash to the tower. He ran as fast as a fox, which is the animal he seems to be cosplaying as.
Yugi's eyes grew entirely. He sighed, "I'm guessing that is 'why not'. Wonderful." He makes a dash after the other boy.
Mokuba glanced back to Yugi, who's trying his best to catch up. He grinned, "What's the matter, Yugi? Am I too fast for ya?"
A vein popped in the spike-haired boy's head. He tries to sprint after him, but he still couldn't catch up. Catching up to his apparently fleet-footed "opponent" is only causing struggle for him.
"Don't worry, Yugi! You can meet me at the tower after you're done eating my virtual dust! See ya!" Mokuba sticks his tongue out as he faces the tower, leaving poor Yugi behind.
Just as he's about to give up, he thought about what Mokuba said this morning. Wait a minute, he thought, Mokuba mentioned that special moves are really effective here. So maybe... When Yugi studied his moveset, his recovery move is the PK Thunder. He decided to try it out. He stops in his tracks. His shoes roughly rubbing against the concrete made a tire screeching sound, also causing a trail of dust from behind. He slowly makes a complete stop.
As he watches the other boy dashing to the tower, he calls out his superpower, "PK Thunder!" He shot an electric, purple ball from his palms. He uses his mind to guide the ball to his back. He learns that when a character like his attacks himself with his PK Thunder, the attack actually launches the controller across the opposite direction where the thunder hits him.
The electric ball blasted him in the back, making him launch across the road like a rocket. He's flying so fast, that he's already about to bypass Mokuba. In other stages, the thunder launch strategy could only launch him at a few feet. But in Smash City, he could be launched as far as the eye can see.
Mokuba heard Yugi screaming. Before he could glance behind him, Yugi had passed him. "What the!?" Mokuba exclaimed in surprise and outrage as he saw Yugi turn his head and stuck his own tongue back at him.
After he's done imitating his taunt, Yugi noticed that Mokuba's covered in flames. "Two can play at that game," he said before he launches himself after Yugi. Thanks to the city, he could also travel at farther distances with his recovery move, known as the Fox Fire. He flew close enough to Yugi for a neck-n-neck.
Almost to the tower, the boy in electricity and the boy in flames tries to get pass each other. Their hairs are flowing against the pressured wind like crazy. They exchange looks. Mokuba has a determined face while Yugi looks back, but in wonder.
"Hey, Mokuba? I just thought of something."
"Yeah?"
" Um, how do we stop?"
"I don't know. But know that you mention it..."
They both look back at the tower, realizing that they're coming too close to it, with no way of stopping. In panic, they both screamed. Before they could think, they crashed through the large door. A loud thud noise was heard from outside.
After some dust cleared, Yugi and Mokuba find themselves headfirst against a large, glass, elevator tube. The electricity and flames around them vanished. They fell on the floor.
When the boys picked themselves up, they rubbed their heads. Yugi groaned, "I can't believe I've went too far again."
"Hey, don't worry about," Mokuba stopped rubbing his head, "this game can do that to you. We're just trying to have fun. No biggie."
"Yeah, I guess you're right." As Yugi stopped rubbing, he looked around the room. The entire room is empty. He looked up, only to see the tall transportation tube. The room is as high as the tube. "Why is this tower so empty? Where is everybody?"
"Oh. Never mind this room. The real fun is up in the big Smash Ball."
"Woah. There's a room in there?"
"Yep," he smiled, "the room is almost as big as the ball itself Everybody else is up there." The young boys see an elevator coming down the glass tube. As the transporter hits the floor, the glass door slide open, and then so did the elevator door. "C'mon, you're gonna love the room."
Yugi smiled and nodded, "Sure."
After they both walked in, both doors closed back up. Then, the elevator lifted back up to the tube, disappearing up into the dark hole.
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