******Yu-Gi-Oh*******

**Malik arrives! It's time to duel! Part 1**

Suddenly, Osama seemed to go back into a trance. But something strangely was different about him. Unfortunently, Yugi and his friends were too busy running away from the fire storm to notice.

"Are these things common in this area?" yelled Triston as a metal gear whizzed over his head.

"I should think so! It says here that it is very hot, result of a-" Grandpa yelled back as he jumped over a cow.

"Lemme see that!" Joey yelled, narrowly dodging a car. "No, it just says that it is hot here! Nothing about heat storms!

"Well, we better find some shelter, or we'll be dead meat!" Yugi proclaimed, ducking as a barbeque grill soared over his head.

"Yugi's right!" Tea added and they all dove into an empty warehouse and shut the door.

"Bang! Bang!" the door crashed.

"Who's there?" Joey yelled.

"Bang! Bang! Galoomph!" a piano barged through the door and everyone ducked for cover. It smashed against the wall as a whole assortment of household appliances barged through and vicously attacked our five friends.

"Duck!"

"Jump!"

"Dodge!"

"Dive!"

"Runaway!"

"Hey! That's not such a bad idea!"

Suddenly another voice proclaimed, "Run! Run for your itty bitty lives! Run for like little babies! Run YOU COWARDS!" The magically amplified voice boomed through the empty warehouse and drowned out the hell the firestorm was making. "You COWARDS! Ye all stinking yellow livered fools! Crouching in a little box calling for mommies protection." He laughed hysterically. "If you want to get out of here? You'll have to face me first!" Suddenly, Osama bin Laden crashed through the back entrance. "This puppet will duel you, and I will decide your fate for Yugi," the Millenium Puzzle suddenly fell and Osama snatched it. Joey lunged for him but was thrown back by an invisible shield as the voice continued, " has something I want. But because of the rules I must win from you in a match."

"But it was originally mine! And it still is!" Yugi ran through Osama and grabbed the puzzle.

The voice seemed to smirk, then said, "Very well, but you will pay for your ignorance! The vengence of Malik will never go unnoticed!"

"Well, at least you told us our name!" Joey mocked back.

"Is that a mock? I will kill you!"

"Is that a threat?" Joey smirked. He clearly was getting on Malik's nerves.

"Why you-"

Yugi transformed and the battle was on, taking place on a dueling platform they had not previously noticed.

"Have you ever noticed that all our enemies specialize in lose-lose situations?" Joey whined as the duel began.

[Yugi 2000 Osama 2000]

"For my first brilliante move!!!" Osama muttered, "I'll play this! This! And this! All face down in defense mode!"

Yugi drew his hand and noticed that his super combo, Koribo and Multiply were in his hand. Mirror force could also come in handy. And to round it all off, he had his Summoned Skull at his diposal.

"I'll play this card face down, and summon the mighty Summoned Skull [2500/1200]! Summoned Skull, attack the card to the far right!" Bang! The explosion rocked the battle field as the Bone Haimer died.

"No biggy. I'll just play three magic cards face down and end my turn."

"I wonder what he is planning." Yugi thought as he placed two cards face down, one a creature and the other a magic.

"Now I'll use Summoned Skull to attack the creature to the far right!" Another monster died, but the puppets face showed no scrutiny or fear. Instead it gave a hard stare towards the deck, as if to summon up the card to win the game.

"I'll play the mysterious puppeteer [1000/1500] in defense mode!"

Yugi analyzed the situation. The Mysterious Puppeteer was a very rare card with a special effect. Whenever Yugi played, or Osama played, a monster, he would gain 500 life points. A very powerful card. But it didn't stand a chance against the Summoned Skull. So what was his strategy? Probably the 3 magic cards were it. Wait! He had just drawn a despell! Well, it's worth a try.

"I'll use despell on the magic card on the middle!"

"Hahaha! It was a trap card!"

Yugi groaned. He had missed. Well, at least he still could attack.

"Summoned Skull! Attack Mysterious Puppeteer!" Once again another one of Osama's monsters exploded.

Meanwhile Bakura was watching the match with much glee. "I wonder what Malik is thinking about. He must be really mad..."

"This is getting a little crazy! All my orders are getting scrambled up!" Malik thought.

"I should get rid of this little threat. Millenium Ring! Sever the connection!"

"Now someones trying to get rid of my control! This won't do! Millenium Staff! Reestablish control!"

In the shadow realm two beams of powerful magical energies clashed. This conflict drained the power of both mens minds, but Yugi, oblivious to the conflict continued the match.

Laden drew his next card, then suddenly something changed. "Now I'll summon the Swarm of Scarab Beetles [500/1000] to destroy your Summoned Skull! Then I'll use God's Blessing and Rich Goblin, allowing me to draw two cards and gain 1000 life points!"

[Yugi 2000 Osama 3000]

Yugi thought again. Suddenly the puppet had taken an offensive stance. He had five monsters on his field. Yugi could easily destroy the Swarm of Scarab Beetles though. He hadn't lost the match yet.

"Komori Dragon! Attack Swarm of Scarab Beetles!" The firey blast incinerated the beetles as they disintegrated. Meanwhile, across the country a small school on New Jersey's English Class who's teacher was named Mr. Burkett had just chosen new team names, one, coincidently was The Incinerators.

"I'll play INABANOSHIROUSAGI! [700/500]"

"Inabanowhat?"

"INABANOSHIROUSAGI!"

"Inabanoshirwhat?"

"The pathfinding white rabbit spirit!"

"Oh! It's Inamanorabbitsagi spirit!"

"Attack!"

"What?"

"I can't hear you!"

"What did you say?"

"What?"

Before the banter of "I couldn't hear you's" continued, the attack made contact and suddenly instead of being slaughtered, Yugi's lifepoints started to decrease.

[Yugi 1300 Osama 3000]

"What?"

"That's the special ability of Inabanoshirousagi. He can directly attack your life points! Then, he automatically returns to my hand!"

"That means..." Yugi gasped.

"Yes! While I chip away your life points, you are held useless to his attack!"

"Notsofast! Card Destruction! Activate!" Yugi grinned, having pulled another rabbit out of his hat.

"No! Not my Fushinotori!"

"I'm not listening!"

They both discarded their hands and drew five more cards.

"Hahahahahaha! I play Injection Angel Lily [400/1500]! Especially in attack mode!"

"What?!" Yugi was starting to get slightly miffed by Osama's onslaught of monsters he had never even heard of. "Komori Dragon! Attack Injection Angel Lily!"

Back at the school, some birds mysteriously were nosediving into the ground. Everyone found this strange, but they didn't pay much attention to it.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA!! I offer 2000 of my life points to increase injection Angel Lily's Attack and Defense by 3000! [3400/4500]

[Yugi 1300 Osama 1000]

"Injection Angel Lily! Lil lil lil..."

The attack destroyed the Komori Dragon, but Yugi didn't lose any life points.

"This idiot appears to be equipped with two millenium items!"

"Your mind is weakened by the strain put on the mind control! I am fresh and will conquer you!"

"But I have a secret weapon!"

"What?!"

"Servers of Malik! Channel your powers to me!" The beam intensified.

"Damn! I won't be able to hold this up much longer." Bakura thought.

"Well, you may have won the round, but I'll be back!" he jeered, before signing off and letting Maliks mental energy blast through.

"That disrupted my last command, but now I'll be back at full force!"

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Next Time: **Malik Arrives! It's time to Duel! Part 2**