Well, last time, you recall… um, er… now, what happened again again?!
TRISTAN: "Man, Rex Kamex, how do you keep forgetting this stuff?!"
Um, er, well…
TEA: "Forget it, Rex. Okay, in the last chapter, Joey got fired from his job, right?"
Yes.
ODION: "And I found the pieces of the Millennium Puzzle and gave them to Yami when I saw him again."
JOEY: "And that happened after we changed the Yamis back with paint."
YAMI YUGI: "But then, a thunderstorm came along, and so we all started running for our lives to our houses!"
Oh yeeeeaaahhhh…
DUKE (happily): "And I'm having the time of my life surfing in Kaiba Corp after accidentally breaking Seto Kaiba's computer and setting off the sprinkler system!"
KAIBA: "My computer is not broken, you twit!"
MOKUBA: "Did we miss anything?!"
I highly doubt it, so let's begin the next chapter…
Chapter, um, uh, Chapter…
EVERYBODY: "Twenty-six!"
Oh yes, Chapter 26- "Gaaaaaaaaah! Get Outta This Storm!"
It was a lovely and peaceful night…
But not in Domino City where our story takes place.
Thunder boomed! Lightning flashed! (Okay, so that wasn't in chronological order, but who cares?) The rain poured heavily. Yugi and his friends were all still dodging the traffic and trying to get home. At the same time, Duke was still surfing on his piece of cardboard. Mokuba landed on him after jumping off of his surfboard.
"DUDE!" shouted Mokuba. "THERE'S A LIGHTNING STORM AND WE AND OUR WET SELVES MAKE THE PERFECT LIGHTNING RODS! WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO?!?!?!"
"You're right!" said Duke. "We should get some hairdryers and spray ourselves dry!"
"IF WE DO THAT, WE'LL DIE FOR SURE, IDIOT!" shouted Mokuba. "CAN THIS NIGHT GET ANY WORSE?!"
"No, Mokubaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" shouted Kaiba who was instantly out of his denial stage.
Suddenly, the lights went out. Everyone in the building screamed as the power went bye-bye.
"MOKUBA, YOU FOOOOOOOOOOOOL!" cried Kaiba. "YOU ARE NEVER SUPPOSED TO BLURT OUT THOSE FORBIDDEN WORDS! HAVEN'T YOU WATCHED THE CARTOONS?!?!?!"
"Who turned out the liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiights!??" shouted Duke Devlin.
"IT'S THE LIGHTNING STORM, DIMWIT!" Kaiba shouted at him. "THANKS TO MOKUBA HERE, WE'RE OUT OF POWER!!!"
"But you just said it was the lightning storm!" shouted Duke as they continued surfing down the dark hallway.
"MOKUBA CAUSED THE LIGHTNING STORM TO DO THIS TO US!" shouted Kaiba.
"Mokuba… hold me!" shouted Duke.
"I AM HOLDING YOU, YOU IDIOT!" shouted Mokuba, clinging for his life.
"Hold me too, Duke Devlin!" shouted Kaiba as he jumped off his desk and into the darkness.
What an idiot.
Well, that was his mistake, you see, by not seeing where he was flying, he accidentally pushed into Duke and Mokuba. Lightning flashed for that quick instant, and he instantly realized what he had done in that blink of time.
"Whoopsee!" shouted Kaiba.
"WE'RE GONNA GET SHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCKED!" shouted the soaking wet Mokuba.
BOOOOOOOOOOM!
Thunder boomed loudly as the three idiots screamed their heads off.
"What do we do, Seto?!" asked Mokuba as they fell off.
"JUST HANG ON!" he answered in panic.
As he landed in the water, Duke said, "Don't you mean hang ten?"
"SHUT UP!" responded the two Kaiba Brothers.
At the same time, the other characters had split up due to the fact that each person was in different homes.
"LET'S ALL GO TO YUGI'S HOUSE!" shouted Tristan.
(Sheesh, nobody listens to the narrator anymore…)
Anyway, it turned out that everybody was headed over to Yugi's house instead. Yami had begged them not to do it because he wanted to sneak in alone, but they wouldn't listen. Yami ran ahead of everybody else so that he could close the door on them when he came to the house. Lightning flashed again.
"And I bet Duke's having the time of his life somewhere!" complained Tea as she splashed through the puddles.
"IF WE DON'T DO SOMETHING, WE'RE GONNA GET KILLED BY THE LIGHTNING!" Tristan tried to shout over the following thunder.
Yami saw him catching up with him. "Maybe you guys will get killed, but let's hope the lightning strikes you first."
"What?!" shouted Tristan. "Why I outta-"
"TRISTAN!!!" screeched Joey as the soaking wet teenager with nothing but a T-shirt, socks, shoes, and boxers on said, "THIS ISN'T THE TIME TO DO THAT!!!"
"Aw, but I wanna kill the dead Pharaoh!" moaned Tristan like a little baby. "And besides, that's what Sakura would do."
"IF YOU SAY SAKURA ONE MORE TIME I REALLY AM GONNA SHOOT YA'!" shouted Joey.
The wind picked up as Joey ran. Everybody turned around to see a loose stop sign being carried away by the wind. "Whoa!" shouted Tea as it went near her.
"There's gonna be a tornado, ya'll!" cried Joey as the wind continued to roar.
"Maybe this is all just a dream," said Yami Marik as he ran behind Ishizu.
"SOMEBODY HOLD ME!" cried Yami Bakura.
"Hey, guys, I've decided to change my name!" said Odion.
"WHO CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARES!??" yelled Ishizu and Yami Marik. They ran behind Odion, and Yami Bakura was behind everybody. Suddenly, Yami Bakura had fire in his eyes (which was ironic due to the rain).
"I SAID… HOOOOOOOOOLD MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" he cried as he then pounced on Yami Marik while at the same time, a white bright light of lightning split the sky as an earsplitting boom of thunder came at the same time. (You know what that means, right? If there's no time between the lightning and the thunder, the storm must be directly above them, right? Actually, I'm not sure…)
"WHOA!" Yami Marik screamed as he bumped into Ishizu, dragging her down into the puddle on the road. The three of them lay on the dark street as they saw two bright circular lights grow and head toward them.
HOOOOOOOOOOONK
"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" shouted the Egyptians as they saw the big, speeding truck headed towards them. Suddenly, like a scene in a movie, Yami Marik, Ishizu, and Yami Bakura all rolled back on the sidewalk just as the truck flew by. (Actually, that scene was in a movie…)
"GAAAAAAAAAAH! HOLD ME! HOLD ME! HOLD ME!!!" cried Yami Bakura, shaking and banging his fists on the ground and kicking his legs as well. Ishizu and the two Mariks looked in shock.
Yami Yugi instantly stopped and turned around. "WHY DON'T YOU HOLD ME?! I AM THE PHARAOH AFTER ALL!!!"
"Guys, we gotta get out of this storm!" cried Tea.
"Yeah, and we gotta get to Yugi's house!" Tristan continued as he jumped over a rock as he ran.
"Hey," said Joey. "Why don't we just run into one of the several stores that we're passing right now instead of going all the way to Yugi's house?"
"What fun would that be?" answered Tristan. "Besides, we're already here."
"EGAD!" shouted Yami. "WE ARE HERE!"
The two of them looked ahead at the Game Shop of the Mutous, and they looked at each other and grinned when they saw it.
"Laaaaaaaaand," cried Yami with tears streaming from his Pharaohly eyes.
"Uh, something like that," said Tristan.
"Uh, Pharaoh?" asked Yugi from within the Puzzle. "Can you just go in the house?"
"Yanno," said Joey, "it's amazing how, during all this time, we never got struck by any lightn- GUGUGUGUGUGUGUGUGUGUGUGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"JOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY!" cried Tea and Tristan. The others just laughed.
Oh yes, what happened to Joey? Well what do you think he did, go to Vegas? Actually, during his conversation, he did not notice the big, swift flash of lightning that flew over to him. Therefore, it was not surprising that the lightning struck him.
"GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA H!" Joey cried as millions of volts were streaming through his body. (Well, maybe not millions, but…) He floated in the air as the lightning still continued to strike him. Suddenly, it stopped. He fell just as another boom of thunder came and… well, BOOMED.
Everyone stopped and looked at Joey. The blackened teenager stood silently with his eyes wide open and his hair real straight as occasional sparks appeared and hid throughout his barely-clothed body.
"Uh, Joey," said Tea, finally, "are you okay?"
Yes folks, that was a stupid question, but Joey simply replied, "Now why can't we have massages like this at the mall? That stinks!"
Everyone fainted.
"Ahem!"
The Yu-Gi-Oh! gang looked up, and they saw a gray-haired man in green pajamas staring angrily at them. Grampa Mutou had opened the door to the shop, and everyone realized that they were in trouble.
Yami also noticed the danger that he was in, and so he said, "Yugi… take over!"
"What?!" shouted Yugi as he felt himself shift into the real world as the cowardly Pharaoh hid inside the Millennium Puzzle.
"YUUUUUUUGIIIIIIIIIIIIII…" said his grandfather as he tapped his foot against the floor.
"Well, you can't use the "I'm bleeding" excuse," said Yami. "The paint I was sprayed with came off in the rain."
"Rats," said Yugi.
"By the way, Joseph," said Solomon, "that's a nice look. Tall, dark, and handsome, I see."
Meanwhile, Duke and the Kaiba brothers were swimming down the stairs. Kaiba shouted, "Hey, Duke, can you do the backstroke?"
"Why sure, Kaiba, but why?" Duke replied.
Kaiba said, with the power still off by the way, "Just asking."
"Where are we, Seto?!" cried Mokuba.
"I think we're swimming down some stairs," said Duke. "I can feel the rough ground that is below me."
(Are you Kaiba? And, like I said, nobody ever listens to me anymore…)
"WATCH OUT, YOU GUYS!" said the blinded Kaiba. "THESE STAIRS MAKE A U-TURN! IF WE'RE NOT CAREFUL, WE'RE GONNA HIT THE WAAAAAAALLLLLLL-"
BAM!
"-Yup, that's it alright…"
As Kaiba removed his face from the dark wall, he felt for Mokuba. When his pointer finger poked him in the eye ("Ow!"), all he had to do was find Duke. When he intentionally punched Duke in his face ("OOOOOOOWWWWW! WHO DARED!?"), he knew he had found a winner. "C'mon, guys, we've got to get to some dry land."
"What are we, pirates?!" said Mokuba.
"Hey, that reminds me of that Monkey D. Luffy fellow!" said Duke, all of a sudden. "Man, I wish I could meet him someday…" (Remember, he was unconscious when he randomly appeared in Chapter 22 or whenever that was…)
"WHO CARES ABOUT THIS LONKEY D. MUFFY FELLOW?!" shouted Kaiba.
"It's Monkey D. Luffy, dummy!" shouted Duke.
"Has anybody noticed that it's stopped thundering?!" said Mokuba.
Suddenly, lightning flashed again, and for a brief moment, the three mortals saw a man with an afro, a moustache, glasses, and stuff like that standing on another desk that was in front of them.
"MARLIN!" they cried.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
"Mooooooooooooomyyyyyyyyy!" cried the crying Kaiba.
"Diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiceeeeeeeeeeeeey!" cried Duke.
"GUHUH GUHUH GUHUH!" laughed Marlin as the noise of the thunder cleared. "DON'T YOU GET IT, GUYS?! I MESSED UP THE SPRINKLER SYSTEM SO THERE COULD BE A FLOOD! THIS BORING BUILDING NEEDED SOME EXCITEMENT AFTER ALL!"
"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!" cried Kaiba.
"Hey, wait a minute!" said Duke. "I thought I saw you for a brief moment with that monster at Kanki!"
"Nope! That was my mother!" lied Marlin.
"Okay."
So anyway, at the same time, Yugi and his friends were sitting on the couch and chairs in the living room as Yugi's grandfather was glaring angrily at them.
Yami Bakura said, "IF YOU DON'T HOLD ME… THEN I'M GONNA HOLD YOU!"
Once again, he pounced on Yami Marik. He strangled him, causing an "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK" to come out of Yami Marik's mouth.
As the two of them were rolling around on the floor, Solomon Mutou whispered in Yugi's ear, "What's wrong with Mister Hold-ME here?"
"It's a comedy story," replied Yugi.
"I see," he answered back. Shaking his pointer finger at Yugi, he continued. "Anyway… you're in big trouble young man! You shouldn't have let the Pharaoh out!"
"What?!" said Yugi Mutou. "But how did you know I let the Pharaoh out?!"
"AHA!" said Solomon. "Just as I suspected! You admitted that you let the Pharaoh out after I repeatedly told you not to! For that, you will be punished!"
"How depressing…" said Odion, groaning.
Then Solomon Mutou turned to look at the others. "For encouraging him, YOU GUYS WILL BE PUNISHED AS WELL!"
"What?!" said Tea.
"I'VE BEEN HEARING COMPLAINTS FROM THE CITIZENS THAT SOME HOOLIGAN DRESSED JUST LIKE YOU HAD TRANSFORMED INTO A GIANT GRIZZLY BEAR AND CAUSED CHAOS AND HAVOC IN THE AREA! AND THEN I HEARD THAT OTHERS HAD TRANSFORMED TOO! WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY FOR YOURSELF, YOUNG MAN, FOR HAVING THE PHARAOH GO OUT AND CAUSE ALL THIS!??"
The shaken Yugi slowly replied, "B-b-b-b-but it was his idea… n-n-not mine, Grampa! The Pharaohs!"
"Oh sure, blame me!" said Yami as Yugi's grandfather left the room to go get something. (Actually, Yugi never answered him back.) "I told you not to let me out, but what did you do? Let me out!"
WHAT?! cried Yugi in thought mode. But you were the one that begged me to come out! You said that everything would go fine!
"I never said that things would go fine," said Yami Yugi. "I just said that I was starving and that I wanted to go out for some fresh air. And even if I did say that, that didn't mean you had to believe me or anything like that."
But you were the Pharaoh!
"I DON'T CARE IF I'M KING KONG!" shouted Yami. "You shouldn't listen to every stinkin' thing I say!"
"Okay, Yugi," said Yugi's grandfather, coming back with a large, heavy, brown book. It was one of those old books with lots of wisdom and advice in it, for it was a rulebook. "According to the parental-to-child rules…" He opened the book and rapidly flipped over many pages. The others either just listened or were rolling around on the floor because they were the other Yamis. "… on Part III, Section 2, Paragraph 3, Page 427, if a grandfather instructs their grandchild not to let a hulk Pharaoh out into the real word and they do it anyway, the child would have to repay the debt of which was not paid by going to detention. Any friends who were responsible in this would join the grandkid."
"DETENTION?!" shouted Joey. "BUT… SCHOOL…"
"We'll discuss this further in the morning," said Yugi's grandfather in a firm, low tone. Suddenly, he smiled and chuckled while staying, "But for now, it's time for bed! Don't let the bedbugs bite, people!"
"You all can sleep in my room, you guys," said Yugi, instantly forgetting about the situation.
"Shouldn't we be helping Yami Marik or something?" said Tristan.
"I'll handle this," said Joey, walking over to the two rollers. "HEY YOU TWO! STOP FLIRTING AND GET UP!"
With these words, the two Yamis took one big look at each other and instantly separated with looks of disgust on their faces. "Ewwwwwwwwww…"
Somehow, that night, everybody managed to sleep despite what they had to deal with the next morning. Yugi's grandfather slept in his own bed. Tea slept in Yugi's bed while Ishizu slept in Yugi's room with a sleeping bag. Yugi, Joey, Tristan, Yami Marik, and Yami Bakura slept on the couch. Odion slept in another chair. With all the chaos ended in an abrupt halt, the lightning storm that seemed to have come out of nowhere slowly diminished. Morning came.
The birds chirped as the sun rose over the cloudless sky. This, folks, was the calm after the literal storm but before the figurative storm.
Yugi slowly opened his eyes. "Uhhhh… uhh…."
"Good morning, Yugi! It is around 7 am and it looks like we'll see some clearless skies. This is your Yami speaking, and it looks like things are peaceful around the house."
Yami… thought the tired Yugi.
"Heh heh heh… sorry, Yugi," said Yami. "It's just that I wanted to cheer you up for the way I've been acting lately. I'm really sorry."
Uh, it's okay, Yami, thought Yugi. Don't worry about it.
"Listen," said Yami, "if you'd like, I can take your punishment for you. Is that okay?"
That's fine, thought Yugi, but I don't think Grampa would let me.
"Yugi," said Yami, "if that geezer told you to jump off a bridge into some molten hot lava," Yami replied, "would you do that?"
You said pretty much the exact thing you said when you wanted me to let you out! reminded Yugi, angrilly.
"Well what do you expect?!" said Yami. "I'm unoriginal. Listen to this… WIIIIIIILLLLLMAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
Yugi giggled a bit and then said through his mind, Pharaoh, do you have a dollar I could borrow?
"This is Japan, Yugi!" Yami pointed out. "You can't use American money here! Well, you can in prison, but that's another story…"
I know that, said Yugi, but the truth is, I have an idea…
Mmmmmmmmmm! What's Yugi thinking? Is he thinking of some kind of plan to get out of his situation? Or, is it a plan to get back at Marlin? Could somebody please tell meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?!?!?!
At the same time, with the power still off but the sunlight providing a little bit of decent light, Duke, Kaiba, Mokuba, and Marlin were sleeping on the desk that Marlin was on…
Find out more in the next chapter of… "Yu-Gi-Oh! C"!!!