Cyberstorm Crisis P-2

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"Man, this traffic is terrible!" Brian peered through the windshield as a mini-waterfall cascaded down the glass thanks to the storm, "We're not making good time...,"

"Can't we just get out and walk?" Tea said, a hint of urgency in her voice, "They're in trouble!"

"I know, I know," the Watcher pounded the steering wheel in frustration and sat back in the seat, "But if we leave, we leave the gear behind and sooner or later, someone's gonna find the stash of weaponry and we're going to get into trouble...we have to sit tight until The Powers That Be give us a break,"

"Powers That Be?"

Brian nodded, "Divine powers up there," he pointed towards the ceiling of the car, through the roof and towards the sky, "The all-powerful forces who watch and guide mankind and other forces of good,"

"Oh...,"

The American urged his hunk of junk car forward a bit as the traffic began to let up a little, "Tell me again what you heard on the phone,"

"I already told you like three times!"

"Tell me!"

Tea sighed, not wanting to go through it again, but gave in.

"Mokuba-,"

"The little brother of this rich pain in the ass kid, right?"

"Right," Tea nodded, "Mokuba said that they were in trouble, and something was killing people over at KaibaCorp...at least that's what I think he meant, the batteries were going low and there was some interference, but-,"

"It's okay," Brian cut her off, "Given the details Giles gave us earlier, it's safe to assume that whatever is happening to the brat and his brother-,"

"He's not a brat...,"

"...is happening over at KaibaCorp," her Watcher finished, "The supernatural energy reading probably has something to do with that," he sighed, "I hope to The Powers That Be that it's not the damned Beast again,"

Tea looked at him oddly, "Beast? What Beast?"

"The Beast," Brian repeated, "You know all those pictures about a man in red with horns and cloven feet?"

"...I'm not all that familiar with Western Religion, Brian,"

Oh, that's right...damn! Brian cleared his throat, "It doesn't matter. He was big, red, nasty, and hard as hell to kill. He made the city of Los Angeles have a total eclipse for God knows how long,"

"Wait, I remember that!" Tea turned in her seat, "We saw it on the news a long while ago. The sun was only blacked out in that part of the world...," she frowned, "Are you saying a Demon did that?"

Brian nodded, "You interested in a little story, Tea? It'll help pass the time while we wait for the traffic to let up,"

The brunette Slayer shrugged, "Why not?"

"Okay," Brian cleared his throat, "The Beast was a huge, powerful demon who was banished to the pits of Hell in 1789, in Prussia. He was banished by a Sisterhood of Priestesses called the Svear, and up until some years back, he didn't come back. He pushed through the Earth and popped up in Los Angeles back in the United States-,"

"I know where it is...,"

"Don't interrupt, it's very rude. Anyhoo, the Beast, heads to a nightclub in Los Angeles and damn near slaughters everyone until the brave heroes of the city come to fight him. However, even the Beast proved too much for them at the time and with an ancient alchemical symbol called The Eye of Fire and brought down a hellish rain of fire down upon the city that very same night,"

Tea stared at him.

"Then The Beast wanted some dark energy from this...ancient...evil thing and then slaughtered everyone at a law firm that's not only working with humans, but for demons, monsters and inter-dimensional beings. While it hunted for the evil thing to gain it's power, everyone who died by The Beast's unholy hands became a zombie and soon the whole building was crawling with them. In the end, the Beast killed the entity and took it's dark power while the heroes from before, who had come to save a friend of theirs, watched on. The Beast probably would've killed them there, but they were transported back to their homebase, saving their lives,"

"What did it do with the energy?"

"I'm getting to that," Brian held up a finger, "Having killed Mesektet, the evil entity, The Beast decided to hunt down the rest of the Ra-Tet, Meseket's family,"

"Why?"

"Because while Mesektet had the dark power, the rest of the Ra-Tet each had something that The Beast needed to conduct a ritual. He killed the remaining three Ra-Tets and gathered each of the artifacts from their corpses and with that ritual, he brought upon the total eclipse of Los Angeles,"

"Unreal...," Tea shook her head slowly, Then again, with what we're used to, I shouldn't be surprised... she adjusted herself in the seat, "Wait, the eclipse went away, what happened?"

Brian cleared his throat again, "Apparently, The Beast knew a great evil from centuries past, an evil vampire called Angelus. Through some mystical mumbo-jumbo, the good guys brought Angelus and questioned him about The Beast. Now, mind you, Angelus is a bastard, made out of pure evil and after they got the information they needed, he broke out and tried to wreak havoc on a city that was already being sucked down into the tenth level of Hell,"

"So, they had to deal with a major demon and a big-time vampire?!"

"Yeah, but then the Watcher stationed in Los Angeles went to a prison and busted out a Slayer,"

"Why was a Slayer in prison?"

"She killed a guy, and did some other bad things," Brian revealed, "Like I saying, the Slayer was brought to Los Angeles and encountered both The Beast and Angelus-,"

"Let me guess," Tea grinned knowingly, "She killed them both?"

Brian shook his head, "Angelus killed The Beast using a dagger made from the Demon's bones. With the Beast gone, the eclipse ended. However...Angelus was still around for awhile, but they fixed that problem up, even though some majorly messed up shit happened afterward,"

"Like what?"

"Another story for another time," Brian sat up in his seat and grabbed the wheel, "Traffic's moving,"

Tea turned to see that the cars ahead were indeed moving and as they sped down the road, she couldn't help but wonder if she could ever be strong enough to go through all that. Sure, there were Shadow Games and all, but she always had her friends take care of that, but now she was in her own destined territory and the thought of dealing with big baddies like that Beast and Angelus terrified her.

"You okay, Tea?"

"Hm? Oh, yeah, just worried for Mokuba and Kaiba,"

"Oh man, we're screwed!"

"What the hell are they?"

"Aren't they employees, I saw them wearing uniforms?!"

"How could you see uniforms? I couldn't get past the metal appendages!"

As he listened to the moaning and whimpering of the terrified workers, Seto Kaiba tried again and again to get into contact with the outside world, but with the power out, and no emergency power coming on, there didn't seem to be anyway to get help. Yes, he was concerned for his own safety, and personally he could care less about anyone dumb enough to go outside or to panic, but what he was mostly concerned about was his baby brother.

In the confusion of the attack, he and his brother became separated and he had no clue where Mokuba was at the moment. He just hoped that he was safe, staying out of sight, and finding a way out to get help.

"Mr. Kaiba!" one of his employees approached him, "What're we gonna do, those...those things are out there, and they're mowing down everyone that they come across!"

Kaiba shot him a dark look, "Just stay inside the room and don't make too much noise. You do that, they'll probably just pass us by and not shoot at us," he said in a low voice.

"Really?"

"Hell, I don't know!" Kaiba smacked the man upside the head hard, "All I do know is that my little brother is out there and I'm stuck in here with you idiots!" he looked at the panicky group of workers, "Do any of you have any ideas of what to do?" he demanded, "Any at all?!"

The members of the group either shook their heads or looked away from their boss.

"Oh, that's just fantastic," Kaiba rubbed the bridge of his nose, irritated, "I'm actually wishing I'm with Yugi and his loser friends right now...,"

"Seto?" Mokuba's voice made him look up, "Seto, do you read me?"

Kaiba looked around, but when he couldn't find his brother in the room, he looked down at the collar of his jacket and remembered the communication device he had installed in the lining. The CEO mentally smacked himself and pressed the talk button on the comm unit.

"Mokuba, I read you. Where are you, are you safe?"

"Yeah, I'm safe for now, Seto, don't worry!"

"Where are you?"

"I'm in one of the security offices with a big group of people,"

"How the hell you get there?"

"I don't know! All I know is that after we got separated, I was pushed and shoved around in all directions before getting dragged in here,"

At least he's safe... Seto sighed in relief, "Mokuba, can you or anyone over there call for help? I don't know who these freaks are, but they're in big trouble, and unless we get help, so are we!"

"We can't call outside the building, but I managed to call for help with my cellphone before it died,"

The workers in the room cheered at hearing the news. Even Kaiba couldn't help but smile.

"Good job, Mokuba, so when are the police getting here?"

"I don't know,"

Kaiba frowned, "What do you mean you don't know? Didn't they say when they'd get here after you called them?"

"I didn't call them,"

"What? Who did you call?"

"I called Tea,"

Kaiba became very quiet. He turned away from his employees and tried his best not to lose his temper.

"You...called...one of Yugi's friends...?" he pressed his head against the wall, "You called the Friendship Preacher?"

"Yeah, but-,"

"You had a chance to call for real help, and you called someone who is friends with my dueling rival?!"

"Seto, I had to call her, I barely had enough power to give her a simple message, what could've I said to the cops if I called them?"

"How about 'Help! Under attack and unable to defend building, send the SWAT team!' ?" Kaiba asked loudly into his comm unit, "Did she at least say she'd call for help?"

"No, but knowing her, she's already called for help and the police are on their way,"

Finally, the Preacher's good for something... Kaiba rubbed his nose again, "Listen, Mokuba, just stay there until I find you. You should be safe there, some of those people should be security and if they are, they are well trained, so that should be a good safe room until things calm down,"

"I will Seto. You take-," Mokuba was cut off and the sound of screaming and gunfire was heard on the other end.

"Mokuba! Mokuba, can you hear me?!" Kaiba shouted into his talk piece, "Mokuba, answer me, what's going on?!"

"Here we are,"

"About damn time,"

After pulling into the parking garage of KaibaCorp, Tea and Brian retreated to the trunk and armed themselves using the selection the Watcher had in his trunk.

Brian took a katana, one of his trusty shotguns plus ammo, and a Desert Eagle pistol with ammo.

Tea grabbed a crossbow and her own sword.

The two of them looked at each other.

"Little much, isn't it?"

"I was about to ask you if you wanted to bring more with you...,"

"..."

"..."

"How about we go save the others before we argue about who's carrying too much and not enough?"

"Yeah, good idea,"

Kilnorc: Woot, another YGO update...I'm getting back into it! ...maybe...