Last Time

"What a loser..." Yugi said.

Kaiba turned around. "Yugi? What do you want?"

"You're welcome to her...she's a loser...maybe you were right..."

Kaiba growled softly. "About what?"

"She's pathetic and friendship is for losers..."

"What about those Society geeks of yours?" He teased.

"We all serve the Light...and are bonded in it...Don't you think she's pathetic?"

"No. You're the pathetic one..."

"HA! You've said that since we first dueled and I'm the better duelist!"

Kaiba growled softly as he gritted his teeth.

"So, I guess the most pathetic girl on the island fits you..."

Seto calmly set the unconscious Tea down on the grass next to a tree and then he walked toward Yugi. "You will regret that..." And then, without warning, Seto punched Yugi.

Yugi, not expecting that, groaned in pain, rubbing the area where he'd been struck.

"Say that again about Tea, and I'll do far worse to you...whether or not I'm in the Society, understand?"

"I'm shaking in my white boots, Kaiba…" He mocked.

"Just remember who owns this school..." Kaiba growled and stormed off, picking Tea up and carrying her away.

End Flashback

Yugi chuckled softly, as he turned back to his girlfriend.

"He'll soon be one of us," Alexis smiled.

"Yes I know my love."

"Perhaps she may be of use to us..."

"Who?"

"Tea Gardner..." She replied calmly.

Yugi laughed softly. "You must be kidding me."

"I'm serious. Master Sartorius wants everyone to be embraced by the Light. Those that refuse, however...must be forced."

"But Lexi she's a horrible duelist."

"It doesn't matter, and she's beaten people before, right?"

"Joey when he was just learning, That's basically it."

"What about in the virtual world?" she queried, having heard about it in class.

"Oh yeah, Crump but she would've lost had I not been foolish enough to help."

"You helped? Then she does have purpose with us..."

"Maybe..."

"Let's bring them both in when we bring in Mokuba..."

Yugi blushed slightly. "You always have the best ideas, Lexi."

"You do, too..."

"You think so?"

"I do..." she smiled.

"Sure about that?" Yugi teased.

"Perfectly sure, my love...Now let's do it..."

"As you wish my angel."

Meanwhile, Seto carried the weakened Tea back to the Slifer dorms.

"Yugi?" Jaden asked.

"Yeah...Jaden, he's gone berserk and he's broken Tea..."

"How? Broken leg?" He asked cluelessly.

"No, he broke her heart, stupid!"

"How did he do that?"

"He asked Alexis to marry him...sorry, kid..."

Jaden felt his own heart feel like it too was about to shatter but he masked that with a hopeful smile. "She didn't accept did she, Seto?" He asked, though he was truly dreading the response.

Seto gently set Tea down on a couch. He laid a hand on Jaden's shoulder. "She did accept, Jaden..."

That finally broke his spirit. "No..."

"Jaden..." Somehow the boy called out Seto's own memory of his brother. And so he hugged the Slifer.

Jaden hugged back as a tear ran down his cheek. "She's making a huge mistake isn't she?"

"I think Yugi definitely is and Alexis isn't thinking straight anymore...he dumped a wonderful girl in Tea..."

"What do you mean by Yugi making a mistake? Lexi's just as good as her if you ask me, and I know she isn't thinking straight. That 'Light' of hers turned her heart like a freakin ice chest!"

"Lexi's not his soul mate...I may have feelings for Tea, but I'd love her enough to let her go back to Yugi. They belong together. And Alexis...belongs with you..."

Unfortunately for Kaiba our evil duo had been spying on them and hearing that infuriated them both.

"Why those..." Alexis growled.

"Sniveling bastards?" Yugi asked, just as angry as her.

"That fits...We'll...forget what Master Sartorius wants!"

"What do you want to do?"

"I don't know...but I want to settle their hash!"

"As do I my sweet. Please you with that baka Jaden? Ha! What a joke..."

"Yeah...why have a Salisbury steak when you can have filet mignon?"

Yugi stared at her, puzzled by her steak metaphor.

"That means, why should I settle for second-rate?"

"Oh. True after all you have the King of Games." He giggled softly.

"And you are the original..." Alexis smiled. "Now what to do with my ex, yours and your rival?"

"Your ex?" He asked, puzzled once again.

"Jaden and I were engaged, sort of..."

"How? I didn't see a ring." He teased.

"Like I said, sort of..."

"Come on lets go my love."

"Yeah, let's leave this dump.

"After we destroy them first." He said, smiling wickedly.

"But shouldn't we plan it, then do it, darling?" she asked.

"Nah I always do best on my first instincts."

"Then what shall we do?"

"Your choice."

"I always have to think first..."

"Why?"

"I just do..."

"We could always draw them out here then insult them for a bit to warm up so to speak."

"We could do that...or...do you see that hornets' nest over there?"

He grinned softly. "Yes why?"

"I was thinking we'd get it and...shoot it through their door..."

He grinned wickedly. "I like that but how do we shoot it without getting hurt ourselves?"

Alexis grinned. "I do have bee-keeping equipment back in my dorm..."

"Atticus?" He asked.

"Nope...not him...my ideas..."

"Ok normally id be really scared but tell me why as I'm not scared."

"I'm capable of punking people when the occasion warrants..."

"You don't seem the prankster type." He teased.

"I'm a Rhodes...it's in my blood..."

"Heh go and fetch that stuff, I'll hang out here my angel."

Alexis ran back to the Obelisk dorms and got her equipment including something that looked like a bazooka.

Yugi smiled wickedly as he could easily imagine his victims' screams.

"Okay...Hold the bazooka up so the open barrel is right under the nest," Alexis said.

"Oh no this was your idea my wicked queen, I'm just here to enjoy their suffering."

"I need you to help me so I can get the nest down from the tree, Yugi!"

"Ah, all right don't yell..." He replied as he took the weapon from her.

"Just hold it there." And then, with a well-aimed rock, she knocked the nest into the bazooka.

Then he handed it back to her, knowing she had the better shot.

"Heh heh....FIRE IN THE HOLE!" she shouted, firing.

Yugi grinned maliciously as he watched.

Seto, in the building, heard the boom and threw himself on top of Jaden and Tea. "WE'RE UNDER ATTACK!" Hassleberry shouted. "RETURN FIRE!"

"What in the..." Yugi muttered.

Hassleberry grabbed the nearest thing to contain the hornets' nest, a huge stock pot and then grabbed the nearest projectile he could see...a jar of rancid mayo.

"Damn it where's all the screaming..." Yugi asked, annoyed.

Hassleberry came running out of the dorm toward them with the jar. "ATTACK!!!"

"THIS IS FOR THE SARGE!" Hassleberry yelled, throwing the industrial sized plastic jar.

However. Yugi being far smaller was able to duck out of the way, unharmed as it smashed.

However, the Queen of the SOL didn't get out of the way quick enough and got splattered. "HASSLEBERRY YOU DINO DIMWIT! YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT!" Alexis shouted.

"YOU BETRAYED THE UNIT!" Hassleberry shouted back. "I'M GONNA GET YOU SENT TO GITMO!!!"

Yugi cackled. "Please you twerp your pathetic if you think you can take me or Lexi down."

"Oh, yeah? I can kick your butt, Yugi!"

"Please if you duel half as well as you talk jargon I can perform a one-turn-kill against you."

"Well, at least I didn't turn my back on my fighting brothers, like you two did..."

"What?" Yugi growled, growing mad.

A new war had just begun…

To be continued…