Bloodied White Cross
By Origami Hoshi and Spinel Sun
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Chapter 17: Hypothetically Speaking
Ori: Okay! Hi everyone! I know, shocked aren't you? We finally updated. Ever though.. err.. Gen-chan is not here.
Suppi: Yeah.. well, actually, we asked her to let us write another chapter because of all your great reviewers out there.
Ori: And how could she say no to such wonderful reviewers, ne?
Suppi: So, here is the near-concluding chapter of BWC!!
Ori: Enjoy everyone!
Silence. That's exactly the way Bakura liked it. No stupid or smart comments to shatter the quiet air of the night. The only sound was the quiet footsteps of his companion, dare he call the boy that, who trudged along behind him, weary and exhausted from the several energy-draining jumps he had made on the roofs in attempt to keep up with his clone.
Ryou shuddered, wrapping his arms around himself as though he was cold. But it was definitely not the temperature. The young assasin could still feel the vividly warm, and definitely alive touch of the so-called 'evil' clone. Was it possible for something cloned to feel so full of live? To not be it's own person?
"Stop", commanded Bakura quietly, suddenly halting. Ryou immediately ceased walking, fearing that the white-haired creation had once again been reading his thoughts.
"Well, well. Home sweet home..", murmured the clone sarcastically, guesturing with a pale, slender-fingered hand at the familiar building before them. Ryou breathed a quiet sigh of relief. So, his thoughts had not been read. That was a good sign. Or, atleast, he hoped it was.
"Well, don't just stand there..", growled the other, taking the time to glance over his sholder at the more fragile of the two as he began moving towards the old labs stealthily, "And don't lag behind either!"
"I'm coming…", Ryou sighed, picking up the pace. It would've amazed him that clones were so different from their originals if he hadn't been focusing on trying to keep up with Bakura, who seemed to be going faster than him on purpose.
"Pay careful attention, Ryou…", Bakura said calmly, not looking at the other, "When we get in the labs, your job is to find your team mates and get them out. And do it fast. None of your slow stuff."
There he goes again, thought Ryou, using my name like we've known each other longer than a day.
"There, the main lab is unlocked!", cheered Jou, grinning, "That's one for the Clone-Hikari team and zippo for Dr. Evil here." Seto gave him a strange look before heading into the now accessable main lab.
Like in most labs, there were several machanisms, including the large, once liquid filled tubes that had seemingly given birth to Seto, the ever cheerful Kiram, Bakura, and the leader Yami. The simple tubes and their controls that had taken several years to build. The vast, shiney metal walls. Even, the special high tech lights. And the blue eyed clone hated them all.
"Now the lab is open", commented Seto, folding his arms, "Now, we need to wait for Bakura and Ryou to come." Jou nodded absent, busy looking at all the gadgets and gizmos that provided the most irresistable urge to press their buttons.
Seto-bro! Officer Kiram reporting for duty!! Marik-chaaaann and Kiram-ness should be at the maining lab any time now!! Weeee!! Oops… 'nother wall… The mental link cut itself before Seto had a chance to reply, suggesting that the youngest of the clones was seemingly busy at the moment.
"Don't touch", Seto suddenly commanded. Behind him, a certain blonde Hikari just as suddenly stopped, bent over a large red button. And everyone knows how those are…
"So.. err were you guys born here or somethin'?", Jou asked casually, backing away from the large red button. Seto looked spitefully at the creations of the doctors. Machines. Gizmos. All created here. Was Seto a machine as well?
"No. Clones cannot be born", he answered, almost coldly, "We are created, most likely for a single purpose not of our own desires."
"Oh. Gee.. That must really suck..", the other replied, puasing to blow a strand of many strands that were dangling in his face, "No freedom or nothin'… Man, I can't imagine living like that."
"May you never have to", Seto said quietly.
"Wow, I didn't know you guys had such a nice car..", Yuugi told the two desk workers, "This is pretty cool." Sono and Hana gave each other the 'desk-jobs-have-to-pay-off-somehow' look and chuckled quietly, Sono at the wheel.
Yami sat silently, almost uncomfortabley, feeling awkward in the presence of more strangers. He wasn't sure exactly why they made him nervous…. He had the power to crush their minds if he wished. Of course, with Yuugi here, he knew he could not. He would not.
"So, tell me a little about yourself, uhm… Yami, is it?", Sonoka asked, keeping her eyes on the road, "You're little Yuugi's clone, aren't you?" Both boys sitting in the back seats looked up automatically at the lady at the wheel.
"I'm not that little…", protested Yuugi, "I'm vertically challenged. Besides, Yami is only.. uhm.. four inches taller than me!" Yami chuckled, reaching over and ruffling the shorter's spikey hair.
"My name, as you know, is Yami. I'm the leader of the Dark", he said, pausing and then commenting, "And… I enjoy sweets." Hana gave him a strange look as Sono laughed good-naturedly.
"Yuugi, you know better than to put clones on sugar-high, don't you?", she chided him teasingly, "It might be bad for their health." Yuugi blushed lightly, somewhat embarassed as Yami blinked his ruby eyes, wondering what he had said that had made this strange woman laugh at him.
"Whatever…", sighed Hanako, holding up her hand to glance at the filing job she had done.
A happy sound roughly translated as 'weeeeee' echoed down the halls of the nearly empy lab, as a very familiar and loved clone dragged his koi, poor Marik, towards the lab were Seto and Jou were patiently waiting.
"Almost there!!", chimed Kiram, smiling at Marik innocently, "This is sooo much fun, dontcha think?! Wow!! This is soo cool! Fun fun fun!! We have fun with the Marik-koi…"
"Kiram…Maybe.. You should.. Slow dowwn!!", suggested Marik, still suffering from the headache he had received when the wall, and it was definitely the entirely the wall's fault there, when the wall suddenly jumped out of no-where and thwapped him. And it did it on purpose too!
"Are you tired, Marik?', Kiram asked, glancing at the one he called 'koi', "How about you give me a piggy back ride and them you'll feel all better? I like piggy back rides!!" Marik sighed… How was giving Kiram and piggy back ride going to help him?
"Nevermind…"
Ori: We hope you enjoyed this update of BWC!
Suppi: Our most sincerest appologies for not updating sooner.
Ori: Everyone! If you wanna help us bring back Gen, you can always e-mail her. ^.~
Suppi: Her new e-address is: hikari_no_genki@yahoo.com!
Ori: And Vera, to the extent of our knowledge, Ryou Bakura is not taken.
Suppi: You'll have to go to the site or e-mail Gen to be sure though.
Ori: We're not exactly bright bulbs on the matter.
R + R, onegai!