Chapter 29: Lost Once More

The next morning the gang woke up to see the odd man, who'd introduced himself as Train, drinking all their milk, "Yo."

"Yo yourself," bakura snapped, "that's MY milk you're drinking."

"I need milk," his eyes shifted, stomach rumbling.

"You sound like you haven't eaten in a while," Ryou took an immediate liking to this strange person, after all since he'd been having difficulty with Bakura, anyone who could piss Bakura off was automatically on his good list.

Train's expression changed, eyes swelled the size of dinner plates, his stomach greeting them with a rather loud growl, "it's been weeks..."

"I'll fix you something!" Ryou snapped to it, breaking out bacon, eggs, bread, and cereal.

Yuugi and Atemu were drawn into the kitchen by the commotion. "Another new person?" Atemu yawned rather annoyed.

"Oy! Yugi! Some help over here!" Ryou called, juggling all the unprepared food. Yugi dashed over to him happily and helped him make Train's breakfast, all while they fanboyed over his 'luscious yellow eyes and thick brown hair'.

"I think we just lost our aibous to this new guy," Atemu growled, grabbing a biscuit for breakfast. The black fuzz-ball coughShadowcough was at a loss for words and merely stared at his oddly shaped gun that for some reason, had tassles hanging from it...

"Hey... what's with his collar?"

"I'm Black Cat for a reason."

Ryou and Yugi dropped the dishes they were bringing him on the floor, but their contents, somehow managed to get to the table.

"How'd you do that?"

"Writing staff..."

"Oh."

"WE CAN'T AFFORD FOR TRAIN-SAMA TO GO HUNGRY."

"Oh my god..." Bakura's eyes glazed over, his voice silky as ever, "You fangirl."

"I AM NOT!"

"Are so."

"DON'T MAKE ME BRING THE FANGIRLS BACK"

"NOOO!!!" everyone screamed.

meanwhile thousands of miles away

"Are you sure we have to do this?"

"Stop being such a wuss Sonic, we are finally going to do something important"

"The red badger is right, you two were meaningless characters but the writers send me to do this and I chose you two to help me"

"But is a Death Squad really necessary?"

"Yes the writers thought that there were too many characters but were too lazy to do something about it themselves"

"That and they didn't want to angry any fangirls"

"But I beat you in a fight, I'm supposed to be the leader"

"Well the writers think I'm cooler than you so now you are my underling"

"Now what?" Knuckles said to Axel.

An excited Axel replied, "We're going to do something useful. Something so important that the writers will acknowledge us and write more of our story." Axel thought long and hard for a idea. Finally, Axel shouted, "Let's defeat the forces of evil!"

"How will that help our predicament?" Sonic asked, "I thought you were evil."

"I was evil. The writers converted me. I've seen the light! Praise Hojo! ...I meant Jesus!"

So Axel, Sonic, and Pig Knuckles started their journeys as the new fighting force known as the Shining Force, only to be changed later.

Back in 'the House'

"Are you SURE we're not on big brother now?" Bakura huffed at the title.

"Positive, this is just a house the writers gave us so that they can keeps Trains' stomach full," Shadow pointed out, watching Train drink his after-meal milk.

"Why's he do that?" Atemu looked to Yugi, but his eyes drooped.

"You don't wanna talk about the past of the Black Cat..." Ryou hushed.

"No, tell me," They gathered around, while an oblivious Train fell asleep.

"He used to work for the bad guys."

"You mean... Betty!?"

"No. Chronos..."

"Who's Chronos?!"

meanwhile... far away with Betty

"Who're you?" Voldemort hissed.

"Number 7..."

"What?!" Betty looked to him, watching him reveal a tattoo of the number 7, "Okay... will you please STOP calling me Betty?"

"WE HAD AN AGREEMENT... REMEMBER?!"

He grumbled.

"Anyway... Chronos wants (for some godforsaken reason) to join forces with you as our target and yours are the same... and that Creed may be coming after you with his Tao powers and we want to get our hands on it, and we'll use you as bait."

"What?!"

"Wait... did I just say that out loud?"

"Uh... yes?"

Written by Egyptianeye, xellos88 and LazySlacker