Chatper 34: Operation: Infiltrate Lazyland

"WAKE UP."

The group sprung up from their 'peaceful' slumber, looking around for the strange female voice that woke them. "Where'd you go?" Bakura hissed.

"Right here..." the writer known as Ren revealed herself, "You guys sleep too much."

"HEY!! We need our sleep..." Atemu rubbed his eyes, ignoring the fact that Ren rolled hers.

"Look, you guys are supposed to be trying to save Ryou and Yugi... right?"

"Yea... hey. Why can't you just give them back to us? You're a writer right Egyptianeye?" Shadow noted.

"Nope."

"Why not?"

"Lazy locked himself in his room... with Ryou and Yugi most likely locked in a cage.. or something."

"Oh... so we STILL have to go and rescue them."

"Yep... And I guess," she stopped temporarily to revive the unnamed writer that she killed last chapter, "I'll have to be your guide."

"Ren? Aren't you being a bit nice to them?" the 'unnamed' writer asked.

"I owe Train-sama a favor," she shrugged, leading them away from the mountain, to Lazy and Slacky's lair.

"Hi again!"

"Luffy? Are we really going to put ANOTHER character in the fic?"

"Well not really Shadow, I'm actually Xellos, this is my new body, remember that SOMEBODY destroyed my old one?"

"Oh c'mon it didn't hurt you"

"How could it NOT hurt me?! It was a METEOR... in my HEAD!"

"K' why are you here anyways?"

"It's a secret!"

"Okayyy... we are leaving"

"Wait! It's not really a secret but that's my catchphrase so I had to say it some time"

"THATS you catchphrase?"

"Yeah...you know Xellos...from Slayers"

"Whatever, why are you here anyway?"

"He's here because I resurrected him, remember?" Ren rolled her eyes once more. "Hey Xell? Did we honestly make them THAT oblivious?"

"I didn't think so.. but I guess."

"We're not oblivious, Ren-chan," Train blinked.

"Why are you picking favorites?" Xell turned to his friend, knowing she made Train smarter than the rest.

"Um... Because he's my avvie?"

"Speaking of which, if all the other writers are their avvies, why aren't you Train?"

"Um... hello? Girl in a guys' body?" she put her hand to her hip, "That's just not right."

"OOH! But it's okay for Yamis and Hikaris to make out?" Shadow coughed.

Xellos looked with great anticipation for the answer.

"Look. We're supposed to be moving, not standing around talking about Yaoi," she avoided the whole topic, leading away in her (for some odd reason...) kimono.

"Why does she have a kimono? She's not Japanese... and all the other writers have cloaks..." Train looked at Xellos for an answer.

"Well that's because... we are writers and we can do anything we want okay?"

"Hey why does Lazy needs this magical water thingy anyway?" asked shadow

"Well...we don't really know yet" said Xellos

"And with that the little excuse for a plot we had has disappear"

"Come on Bakura I'm a professional writer I know where the story is going, haven't you read Restless?"

"Oh yeah about that, my lawyers are going to call you about a little something called invasion of privacy"

After hours of grueling and painstaking exploring, they finally reach Lazy's hideout. "This raggedy shack is his hideout?" Shadow huffed, "You think he would have some kind of castle or a manor."

"Maybe he's not as powerful as the other writers. I mean come on; this hideout is a joke," Yami ranted as the team entered the hideout. They went down the stairs into the underground labyrinth. Yami, surprised, said, "Great, big tunnels and dead ends. Shadow can't you scout the area?"

Shadow went on ahead to look for Yugi and Ryou. Shadow, came back to the team, saying, "I found Yugi and Ryou. Follow me." They followed Shadow through the tunnels. They found Yugi and Ryou and Lazy sleeping on the floor.

"That's Lazy," Train panted, "Well the lives up to his name."

Yugi shouted, "Yami! Get me out of here!"

Train and Shadow released Yugi and Ryou. "Let's get out of here before he wakes up," Bakura said.

"Too late...", Lazy replied, "Did you bring the water, I'm really tired..."

Yami gave him the water.

"Thanks..." Lazy said. He went off to make and drink coffee.

"This was all for coffee!" Shadow shouted, "We're not your errand boys!"

Lazy twitched and sealed off the exit. Lazy shouted, "Come, Slacky!" Slacky came out and loafed around.

"Is that a pokemon?" Train asked.

"Why yes, it is!" Lazy cried, "I'm so bored! Play with my Slaking!"

"We don't have time to play with your pet," Yami explained.

Lazy shouted, "I'm not giving you a choice!"

Written by Egyptianeye, Xellos, and LazySlacker