Chapter 1: Utmost Importance
Seto Kaiba was in his office, thinking of the best way to deal with his top executives.
"Those bastards will pay for this! First, they turn on me after one loss, and now, they sneak away just after I get back! I should have flown here instead of dropping off Yugi and his friends earlier today, but it doesn't matter. If they think I'll let this blow over, they're wrong!"
"Seto."
Kaiba looked up to see his younger brother, Mokuba, entering the door.
"What is it, Mokuba?" he asked.
"I think something's wrong."
"What?! Is someone following you?! So help me if those executives try what Pegasus did…"
"No, no," Mokuba interrupted, "I mean something's wrong as in suspicious."
"Ok, squirt. You lost me."
"Some of the guards are reporting that a guy with long, white hair is snooping around."
"That sounds like one of Yugi's friends, Bakura. Why would he be snooping around?"
"I don't know, but they said that he's headed towards the filing room."
Seto was in confusion. Why was Bakura snooping around in Kaiba Crop's files? A guard entered the room.
"Mr. Kaiba. The intruder is heading towards the roof. He's already subdued three of the other guards."
"What? Mokuba, you say here. I'm going to find out what's happening."
Bakura made his way up the stairs when four guards erupted from a higher floor door. He took out another card from his deck: the Vorse Raider. It came to life and began to hack its way though the guards. One attempted to shoot it, but the monster stuck its ax into him and threw him over the rail. With a slash, it sliced though another guard's torso. As it was forcing them up, Bakura just followed the fight up the stair, being careful not to step on the dead guards' freed intestines. The monster disappeared as the last guard was killed and thrown off the stairs. Bakura opened the door to the roof and helipad. He took out a small capsule with a button at its top. He pushed it and threw it a few feet away, and a small hovering vehicle appeared, which somewhat surprised him.
"Mortals may be weak, but they do come in handy."
As he got on the hover vehicle, Seto Kaiba came though the door.
"Bakura? So it is you!"
"Not the Bakura you know," he said while engaging the drive. "Tell Yugi that when I acquire all seven."
Seto ran towards Bakura, intending to stop him from getting away. Bakura, on the other hand, pulled out another card. Several bonds of energy bound him as he was within inches of the hovering vehicle.
"Chain energy has always been one of my favorites. See you in the Shadow Realm, mortal."
The vehicle took to the air and flew off.
The clock displayed nine-thirty. Grandpa was closing up the store when he saw a limousine pull up, a familiar limousine. He walked towards the door when Seto Kaiba came though it.
"Kaiba? What are you doing here?"
"I came to see Yugi."
"He's in the back now. If you want to duel him…"
"No!" he interrupted, "This is much more important."
Grandpa was puzzled.
"Are you really Seto Kaiba?" he asked.
"What do you think?!" he snapped. "I'm sorry, but this is of the utmost importance."
"Kaiba?" Yugi questioned as he came from the back of the store, "What are you doing here."
"You must come with me, Yugi. An emergency has come up."
"What is it?"
"I can't tell you here. I need you to come with me. It involves your friend: Bakura."
"I guess," Yugi answered, "Can I, Grandpa?"
"If your friend is in danger, then go. Just be back as soon as you can," Grandpa responded.
Kaiba rushed Yugi into his limousine, which speed off as soon as its doors were closed. He took out a small disc reader.
"Kaiba, I don't mind the rush, but what's this about Bakura?"
"Look at this."
He handed Yugi the disc reader, which began to play surveillance footage of the stairway in the Kaiba Crop building. Yugi almost turned green upon seeing the monster tear though the guards but was shocked to see Bakura casually walking up the stairs.
"He put three of my guards in the hospital and killed four of them with that machine of his. He also took a file from the company's achieves and escaped using a capsule car."
"Capsule car?"
"It can fly though the air and be compressed into a tiny capsule no bigger than the palm of your hand. It's an advanced piece of technology that is only made by one company, one that Kaiba Corp has been doing business with since its early days."
"What company is that?"
"Capsule Corp," Seto answered, "That was the file Bakura took, our transaction records with Capsule Corp."
"Why would he take that?"
"I don't know, but he was last seen heading towards its headquarters in West City. What ever he's after, it's in West City, and that's where we're going."
A/N: It's a bit short, but I'm going to post this with chapter 2, so that should even it out…I hope.