All right, by the end of this chapter Yugi and SG1 are finally in the same room. I have been working on the next chapter as well and have yet to get it right. Anyway, I'm glad that people are still enjoying this. And I must thank those of you who give longer than sentence reviews because it has helped me work out some of the details later on in the story.
Thanks for reviewing, it makes my day. I just want to say one thing to crossover authoress in particular. Mai's Harpy Ladies haven't really showed up because she doesn't really have any power to summon them outside of Kaiba's control. I don't know if I will make it possible for her or not, it depends how the story develops. Just to let you know.
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"I take it that this is now considered our plan of action?" Yugi asked. He was sitting up in bed, having finally recovered a fare amount of his usual strength and energy. Dark, Celt, and Mai had finished bringing him up to date. Yugi had taken the fact that two of his duel monsters where standing in front of him quite well. It had been the continued captivity of Yami he was having a hard time accepting.
Blue had left a few days ago, and since then the four of them had been discussing what they should do next. Yugi was being cautious regarding the fact that the information had come from Kaiba's strongest monster, which was not all that surprising.
"It's pretty much all we have to go on. Unless some other idea suddenly pops into our heads." Celt said with a shrug.
"You two really do trust him, why?" Yugi was genuinely puzzled by this.
"Blue has been our friend for a very long time, since before the shadow games originally existed in Egypt even. The three of us would have a grand time playing tricks on all the other monsters. Of course, I always ended up taking the blame."
"That is because we thought the stuff up and you actually did it, well, most of it." Dark said with a quiet chuckle.
"Okay then, if you trust him, we will act on the information he gave us. This means we have to get to Colorado, then Egypt, and then back here."
"Perhaps we should concentrate on one task at a time master." Celt suggested.
"Yeah, probably, but please, just call me Yugi. I don't like the sound of master."
"May I ask you something Yugi?" Mai spoke up suddenly.
"Of course Mai. You can ask me anything."
"Well, I was wondering, you wouldn't really need me to go with you all the way to Colorado. I would most likely get in the way. I was hoping that I would be able to stay here and look for Joey's base and warn him that you would be arriving at some point."
"Mai, you don't have to ask, you can do what you think is best. If you want to look for Joey then go right ahead, and when you find him give him my best." Yugi smiled softly when he spoke his friends name; it would be nice to see him again. Maybe then he would start to feel like they really had a chance.
"If you are going to be looking for Joey let me tell you how to go about it. Celt and I have narrowed down the possibilities and we know where there are safe places to hide in order to avoid the monsters Kaiba has on patrol." Dark and Mai then walked over to the table where he began to give her very detailed suggestions.
Yugi pulled his knees up and watched the scene before him. Even though he was much stronger he was still unable to do much else then stay in bed, especially since neither of his duel monsters ever left him out of at least one of their sights. As he sat there with his head on his knees, one hand absently clutched at the puzzle, as if attempting to hold onto the one missing from it. Moving over silently Celt sat next to his small master.
"What is bothering you ma....um, Yugi?"
"I can't contact him, and no matter how hard I try I can't even contact him. What if, if Kaiba has really hurt him?" Yugi stared deep into Celts eyes, his gaze pleading for reassurance.
"Yugi, this is probably not what you want to hear, but I'm going to say it. We can be relatively sure that Kaiba will keep him safe for the most part. After all, he doesn't have you or the puzzle anymore, so if he does do something too bad to the pharaoh then he would be unable to get him back. He would return to the puzzle if the shadow realm resurrected him."
"You were right, that isn't what I wanted to hear. But thanks for being honest." Celt and Yugi watched the continuing discussion between Dark and Mai. This would be the last night for a while that all four of them would be together. In the morning, everyone was heading out. They could only hope that each would be successful in the tasks they had appointed for themselves.
~~~~~Outside of Cheyenne Mountain, 2 1/2 weeks later~~~~~
"It would appear that Kaiba has not yet given up on getting control of this base. Think this will make things a bit harder?" Celt asked the other two who were with him looking out at the battle currently taking place. They were undetected at the moment by either side; hopefully Dark could keep it that way.
"It seems as though he is only sending his weaker troops thinking that eventually they will be starved out. Blue obviously never told him of his findings." Dark mentioned as they watched the eight Feral Imps and two Winged Dragon Guardian of the Fortresses battle an undetermined amount of defenders.
"They are weakening them." Yugi noticed.
"Yeah, but at this rate it will take hours for them to destroy them." Celt said with a sigh. The three onlookers watched for a few more minutes before Yugi eagerly pulled at Dark's arm and pointed to a spot between the two major areas of battle.
"I think that I see what you are driving at Yugi. It would appear that in a few minutes we could time it perfectly." Yugi smiled brightly at Dark and went back to watching the battle. Celt looked at his two companions in confusion. Looking at the battle he tried to see what the other two had, but all he could see was a hectic mess of attacks on both sides.
"Okay, looks like the best time is now. Let's go Yugi, Celt." Dark and Yugi began to quietly make their way towards the base, after a few moments Celt hastily followed. As they got closer and the noise of the battle got louder they stayed closer together, as it was Celt wasn't entirely sure how they hadn't been spotted already.
"Amazing, we've made it to the base, but we still can't get in." Celt remarked.
"Come now Celt, I'm a magician, don't tell me that you've forgotten that small fact." Rolling his eyes Celt simply crossed his arms and made a point of looking away.
"Okay, you two stay here. I have a plan that will get them to take me seriously. Dark, can you manage to keep me from being noticed till I give you a signal."
"Of course, so long as you don't expect me to keep you invincible for a half hour or something."
"Nope, nothing like that. Oh, and Celt, get ready to fight." With that Yugi waited for Dark to perform the spell before heading towards the doors to the base. He needed to get far enough in so that they would take him to whoever was in charge.
~~~~~**~~~~~
"Perhaps we should have sent flowers as well as the note?"
"Colonel, this is not a joking matter." General Hammond snapped. They were in the main conference room, along with the rest of SG1 watching the scene above ground. Over the last few weeks Jonas and Daniel had finally managed to discover that Kaiba was based in Japan. However, no one on the team could seem to come up with a suitable plan to get there. O'Neil especially was getting restless. And it didn't help matters that there was not a day when there wasn't at least a couple of monsters attacking the base.
"Something must have happened Sir. It is the only explanation as to why Kaiba would suddenly change his tactics after months of being methodical." Carter said, voicing basically everyone else's opinion on the matter as well as her own. Because there was never any rest anymore, they had been forced to ask for more than just supplies from the Tokra and free Jaffa. Not that they were really losing anyone, just that they didn't have enough men so that people could get some rest in-between attacks.
"This can't go on forever. He has to tire eventually. Either that or get bored with this." Jonas added.
"Perhaps, or maybe whatever went wrong will get fixed." O'Neil muttered.
"Colonel, please, we are all frustrated, could you rest the sarcasm?" Hammond requested, rubbing a hand over his brow. Everyone glanced at the door when there was a light knock.
"Come in."
"General Hammond Sir, I'm sorry to bother you, but we caught an intruder." The entire room looked intrigued at that statement.
"An intruder Ensign?"
"Yes sir. He was found on level ten Sir."
"And
where did you bring him?"
"Well, actually Sir, we
brought him here."
"Here, why would you do
that? Shouldn't you bring him to the
brig or at least a secure room?"
O'Neil spoke up for Hammond.
"We were going to, but he insisted he was here to meet with, with SG1." Even Teal'c looked surprised at this statement, proved by the sudden rise of one of his eyebrows.
"Well will ya look at that, we're even famous with Kaiba's minions." Daniel gave O'Neil a look at that, at which O'Neil simply shrugged and mouthed 'what'.
"Don't just stand there Ensign, bring him in since you brought him with you." Hammond commanded. The Ensign saluted and exited the room; they heard a brief conversation before the guard holding the prisoner entered, closing the door behind him.
No one spoke when they saw the intruder, in fact they couldn't think of anything to say, though O'Neil nearly choked. They now found themselves staring at a kid around four feet in height with hair that stuck up in all angles, and was also three colors. Add to that his large amethyst eyes (which were narrowed in annoyance at the moment.) and the large upside down pyramid hanging from a chain on his neck, it added up to one shocking scene.
/What is it with kids these days? First Kaiba and now this, is someone trying to make a fool out of all of us./ O'Neil thought as he stared at the kid. Since it seemed that none of the members of SG1, or General Hammond, were going to regain the power of speech anytime soon, the kid spoke up for them.
"I'm looking for Doctor Daniel Jackson, Jonas Quinn, Major Samantha Carter, Teal'c, and Colonel O'Neil. Are any of these people in this room?" No one answered him, and everyone was quite surprised by the rather commanding tone the kid had. Finally O'Neil, after consciously closing his mouth, cleared his throat to speak.
"Why yes kid, we're all here. I'm Colonel O'Neil, and just who might you be?"
"I might be able to help."