Quatre: The second chapter of my double update. Enjoy!

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Chapter Fourteen: What do you mean, "There's three of you?!"

Ame tossed the luggage into the room Yugi pointed out and flopped onto the bed. A quick check of the clock on the bedside table told him that it was only around 0200, and most sane people were asleep at this hour.

/So, Yugi,/ Ame said conversationally, /are there any pizza places open at this hour?/

In his soul room, Yugi shook his head. /Not that I know of. Besides, we don't have any money./

/So what can we do?/ Ame asked.

/Sleep. I'm tired enough to,/ Yugi yawned. /I didn't get much sleep last night./

Ame pouted. /I slept, though,/ he complained.

/Then walk around town in your spirit form. Don't talk to ANYONE, though. Just explore. This is your chance to discover all of the pizza places,/ Yugi added.

Ame was caught. /I'll see you in the morning!/ he said cheerfully, appearing next to the bed and going through the floor in his spirit form. Yugi took control of the body and kicked his shoes off, tossing his jacket on the desk chair. He curled up under the blankets and sighed contentedly. It didn't take very long at all for him to fall asleep.

"What is taking Dr. Mutou so long?" Anise asked impatiently. She was sitting tensely in a chair in the SGC briefing room, hands folded on the table in front of her. "I told the Council we'd be back before now!"

"He's a teenager," Daniel shrugged. "He probably hasn't found everything of his yet."

"It doesn't matter. We must leave soon. I am going to get him. Will one of you escort me to his quarters?" Anise stood and looked at the members of SG-1 pointedly.

"I'll do it," Daniel sighed, standing also. They made their way to Yugi's quarters as fast as they were able. Anise knocked firmly on the door.

"Gather what you can, Dr. Mutou, we must leave at once," she called.

No answer.

"Dr. Mutou, if you do not answer, I will come in," she said.

Again, no answer. Anise scowled and opened the door.

The room was empty. Daniel stepped in and took a good look around. There was nothing, not even luggage.

"Where is he?" Anise demanded, rounding on Daniel. The archaeologist put his hands up to ward off the verbal assault that was soon to come.

"I don't know," he said. "This is as much of a mystery to you as it is to me."

He noticed a square of white on the neatly made bed. He walked over and picked it up. It was labeled, "To Anise."

"I believe it's for you," he said dryly, handing it to the Tok'ra. She took it and unfolded it, eyes scanning the words.

She growled, handing the note back to him to read.

I promised Yugi that he would not be forced from Earth. I've kept this promise. We've no intention of hiding from you forever. This is only to show you that you and the Council can force us to do nothing. Once you've accepted this, ask one of the Taur'i to send an email to Yugi. We will get it, and return.

It was signed "Mou hitori no Yugi."

"What does that mean?" Anise asked angrily. "The signature?"

"The other Yugi," Daniel said truthfully. And it was true; he'd looked it up.

Anise looked murderous. "The Council shall hear of this," she promised vehemently. "We will find him, and the punishment shall be severe."

She turned sharply on her heel and walked out. Daniel snickered quietly, tucking the note into a pocket and following the Tok'ra.

Ryou raised his head as he heard footsteps by his temporary room.

"Grandpa, what're you doing up so early on a Sunday?"

A dark chuckle from the other side of the door.

"Good morning to you too Ryou." Yami opened the door to Ryou's bedroom and leaned casually against the doorframe.

"...And here was me thinking that that was a dream. Okay, what happened in America to make you come back via the Shadow Realm?"

"Put on the Ring. Bakura may wish to hear this one as well."

Ryou sighed, got out of the bed, stretched slightly, and grabbed a pale blue dressing gown. It was, surprisingly, fluffy, and had a little bunny on the pocket.

Yami raised an eyebrow. Ryou caught the look, and smiled wryly.

"I'm having breakfast before I even think of waking him up."

"...Actually, no, it's the bunny that 's got me, I'm afraid."

Ryou wrinkled his nose.

"My father gave it to me. Sometimes I wonder if he knows I'm a guy. I mean, first he gives me the Ring, which just happens to look like a necklace, and then he sends me this dressing gown, wrapped in, would you believe it, pastel pink paper and a cute little bow. It probably doesn't help that the only pictures he has of me all have me with long hair."

Yami couldn't help it. He collapsed against the doorframe, sobbing with laughter.

Ryou watched calmly, then stepped smoothly over the former Pharaoh.

"Now, if you're quite finished having a good old giggle at my expense, you can get up, and help me with breakfast."

Yami continued laughing. Ryou shook his head as he made his own way down the stairs.

"Ohayo Yugi-kun. What happened in Ameri...ca..."

There were two Yugis in the room, and Ryou could still hear Yami's laughter coming from upstairs.

"Good morning to you too, Ryou-kun." Yugi 1 said calmly, sipping at a steaming mug of something that smelt like coffee. The second Yugi was rummaging through the fridge.

"Hey, do we have any Pizza in this place?"

Ryou sat down heavily.

"No, I don't think we do. Besides, I don't think that's a very nutritional way to start the day," he said numbly.

"Pity. Oh well."

"On the other hand, I think we may have some chocolate pudding on the top shelf, if Bakura hasn't gotten to it on a midnight snack raid," Ryou added, before Yugi 2 could pull his head out of the fridge.

"Banzai!"

Yugi 1 raised an eyebrow as Yugi 2 – who had silver eyes, Ryou noticed – closed the fridge and headed to the cutlery drawer with his bowl of chocolaty goodness.

"You consider chocolate pudding to be a nutritional breakfast?" Yugi 1 asked, before downing the rest of his coffee.

"We're guys. There's a certain rationalization ability that comes with the territory. It's like Jelly Doughnuts. They hold four of the five natural food groups, yet still people consider them to be bad for you," Ryou replied, recovered enough to make a slight joke.

"I should never have shown you that cartoon," Yugi 1 muttered.

"I should never have introduced you to Garfield, so we're even. Now, will somebody please tell me what's going on? Who's this guy? What, you go over to America and discover some random long lost twin of yours, Yugi?" Ryou's voice was demanding now, although there was still that slight underlying confusion.

"No, he went to America, went through a gateway to another planet, the original Earth name of which I've never bothered to learn how to pronounce, but is now more commonly referred to as the Stargate, whereupon he was taken over by yours truly, so that he now has two other people inside his head. After that, my people decided that they wanted him to live with them, making me stay with them as well, on another planet. Naturally, Yugi, Yami, and I, all disagreed with this course of action, in my case because my people do not know the meaning of Pizza, and so we came back through the Stargate, packed our bags, and arrived here shortly afterwards. You may call me Ame, and no, I was not kidding about anything I just said, particularly not the part about the Pizza. Now, where's Bakura? I wanna start planning pranks on Yami now."

Ryou stared dumbly at Yugi 2 for a long while before Yugi 1 sighed and pushed a cup of coffee into his hands. "It's all true, Ryou. Now, what has gotten my other half to suffocate himself upstairs?"

Ryou was long gone to school a few hours later, leaving three very bored people trapped in the house. Fortunately, Grandpa had ignored Ame on his way to the store, which saved Ame another round of explanations. Unfortunately, that didn't change the fact that there was nothing to do.

Ame located an anime on TV and plopped down onto the sofa, bored. "When does your school get out?" he asked Yugi. The teen was currently dueling against Yami a few feet away.

Yugi checked the clock. "In an hour. Then it'll take a few more minutes for Ryou to get home."

Ame groaned, flopping sideways on the couch as he dropped the remote. "Why can't we go out?"

"We'll go out after we finish dueling," Yugi sighed.

Ame cheered.

Forty minutes later...

"Are you two still dueling?!" Ame asked incredulously. He'd sat up and was currently engrossed in Gundam Wing, which he'd managed to find on tape.

"We've both got 100 life points," Yugi assured. "Although I don't know how much longer this will last. Sorry, Ame."

The Tok'ra pouted and turned back to the show. He was watching the episode where Quatre went nuts The only problem with that little tidbit was the fact that it was bordering on eight times having completed the episode. "At least this is fun."

The front door opened just then. "I'm home!" Ryou called. "I brought Jounouchi because he was worried about you, and everyone else just... followed."

Ame raised an eyebrow at the large group of teens currently filing into the room. "All of them?"

"Yeah."

Yugi waved at them. "Hang on, just one more move..." He turned back to the game, frowned at his hand, then placed a card on the field. "I win."

Yami frowned at the field, then sighed. "Nicely played game, Yugi." He gathered up his deck and turned to Katsuya Jounouchi. "It's been a while, Jounouchi. I trust you've been well?"

Jou shrugged. "I've just been worried about you guys. Speaking of which... Why are there three of you?"

"Oh, I'm sure Ame will explain quite eloquently," Ryou said cheerfully. "I'll get the drinks, you guys get settled in." He vanished into the kitchen.

Anzu Mazaki, Hiroto Honda, Kaiba Seto, Kaiba Mokuba, Mai Kujaku, Ryuuji Otogi settled onto the various pieces of furniture scattered around the room. Jounouchi stared at Ame.

"Would you stop that?" Ame asked finally. "I feel like a specimen ready to be autopsied by Anise, and that's creepy."

Jou blinked. Shrugged. Sat next to Anzu.

And Yugi told the story of what had happened in America. All eyes turned to Ame.

"Stop that!" he said. "Really. I feel Anise behind me with a scalpel, I'm serious."

"So why do you look like Yugi instead of like a snake?" Otogi asked suspiciously.

Ame shrugged. "Dunno. Can we go get pizza now? I'm starved!"

"Ah, yes, one thing I forgot to mention," Yugi grinned. "Ame is addicted to pizza, and it's probably genetic."

"PIZZA!" Ame whined.

Yami glared at him. Ame eeped.

"Quatre!" he whined to Yugi. "Heero's deathglaring me!"

Yugi and Yami shared a raised eyebrow. "We're not anime characters, Duo. Now get in here and we'll go for pizza." Yugi couldn't help the smirk.

"If you're Quatre, then we need a Trowa and Wufei," Yami muttered to Yugi as Ryou came back out with drinks for everyone and Ame vanished.

Yugi looked at Kaiba. "I've found Wufei."

/And the big bad Jaffa is Trowa!/ Ame said eagerly.

"Dear lord, we're dubbing Gundam pilots," Mai rolled her eyes. "Okay. You've got an alien in your head. Can't be much worse than Yami, right?"

"We've dubbed Ame as Duo for a reason," Yami said pointedly. She raised an eyebrow, then understood.

"Oh..." She sipped her drink. "And I thought the mutt was bad."

Jou glared at her. Yugi smiled behind his glass.

/It feels good to be home,/ he said to Yami.

/Glad someone's home,/ Ame muttered. /My home's several hundred thousand light years away./

Yugi wrapped him in a mental hug. /It's okay, Ame. You're free to sleep over any time you like./

Ame grinned. /Thanks, Yugi./

He turned his attention back to the real world in time to see Bakura and Yami start arguing. He sweatdropped.

/Joy./ "No Shadow Games in the living room, people, and especially with living people!"

Colonel Jack O'Neill was not pleased.

"How the hell did a scrawny little kid like him manage to get past all of our security, especially with luggage?!"

Sam couldn't help her smirk. "We managed it, Colonel, though we didn't have the luggage." She frowned. "How did he manage that?"

"Well, I just got an email back from Yugi's friend Isis. She said that she'll be here shortly to tell us what she can about Yami, though she didn't say why she had to be HERE," Daniel said. "I wrote her about their little disappearing act, too, and she warned me that they could be anywhere in the world. She seems to know how they vanished, Jack, so when an Egyptian woman dragging along a boy carrying a golden rod stops at the gates, let them in."

Jack blinked at him. Opened his mouth. Then shut it again. "Hmphm."

"I'll take that as an okay. Has Anise been able to find Yugi?" Daniel asked Sam.

"She says no, although the Tok'ra called and said that one of the Goa'uld ribbon devices was missing." Sam rolled her eyes. "I can guess who took it."

Daniel cocked his head. "I suspect he may have been behind the PA, too, when it broke down."

"Is there nothing that kid won't do?" Jack asked incredulously.

"If he's anything like Duo Maxwell," Daniel said, deadpan, "then he doesn't lie."

Jack and Sam slowly turned towards him. "You've watched Gundam Wing?"

Daniel nodded. "Jack left a tape at my house one day. I watched it. I've been stealing tapes so I can finish the series."

Jack stared at him. Looked away. "We've all officially cracked."

"Not until you write what humans call 'fanfiction', O'Neill," Teal'c said, walking in. "I, too, have seen Gundam Wing."

The rest of SG-1 stared at him.

"I'll start making the signs," Sam suggested.

"I'll make the phone calls," Jack sighed.

"And I'll get the guns," Daniel said.

"That won't be necessary," Hammond said, an amused note in his voice. "You've still been unable to locate Dr. Mutou, I take it."

"Not a single hair points to where he is," Jack said. "Sir, I suggest a homing beacon next time."

"Noted," Hammond said. Shook his head. "How the hell did he manage this?"

"No idea," Jack, Sam, and Daniel chorused.

Hammond sweatdropped. "Ame is contagious, it seems."

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