Chapter 5 - What can I say? They're all Lunatics!
Yami and Bakura both slept in the following morning. They were consumed in their dreams of drifting around, eating their favorite foods. When they finally did get up, they were extremely sluggish in their movements.
"Are you two alright?" asked Ryou in a concerned voice. "You don't look so good."
"We're fine," mumbled Bakura.
"Whatever you say." Ryou shrugged, then went off to join Yugi.
"Ah, last night was the best day of my life," said Yami drowsily.
"I totally agree," said Bakura. "We should do it again tonight."
"Mmmm... the taste of fried, oily chicken... and mashed potato... hot dogs...."
"The wonderful flavours of pizza... meat... and steak and mushroom pies...."
The two of them just stood there, drooling, until Malik spotted them.
"You guys, this is no time to be daydreaming. If anyone finds out what you've been up to, I don't think they'd be all that pleased."
Bakura snapped out of his drunkenness. Just in time, as well. Kaiba announced their landing on the moon. When everyone had gathered together, Kaiba gave out instructions.
"I will give you each a spacesuit. No, it's not the same ones from last time. These ones are especially designed for the extreme temperature range of the moon. They've been weighted, so that you won't be able to float off into nowhere. You should all have plenty of oxygen available; I've learnt a lesson from our little space adventure. It should easily last more then five hours. However, if you do somehow manage to use up all your air, just go back into the spaceship - remember to close the door - and refill the oxygen tank.
"If you want to collect moon rocks, place them in this container. I'm sure you'll all remember which ones are yours. Either that or you won't mind. If you find any foreign objects, report them to me, so that I can either deem it safe or harmful to our existence."
One by one Kaiba handed them each a spacesuit. Then they all went off to change. Ryou was the first to finish putting on his suit, followed by Yugi, Téa, Bakura, and then Malik. Kaiba was waiting just outside the door, not yet changed. He was going to once he made sure everyone else had put on their suits properly.
"Hey, where's Joey?" asked Téa, noticing his absence.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!! SETO KAIBA, I SWEAR I'M GOING TO KILL YOU ONE DAY!" Joey stormed into the room where the others were waiting. Everyone saw what he was wearing, blinked, then Yugi, Yami, Ryou and Téa tried to muffle their giggles, while Bakura, Malik and Kaiba weren't afraid to show their amusement.
"I just wish Duke were here," said Kaiba. Joey gave a low growl of warning. Kaiba only laughed harder.
Joey was mad. Really mad. Fuming. He was wearing the spacesuit Kaiba had given him. A spacesuit in the design of a dog. One that resembled the dog suit he had to wear when he lost to Duke playing Duel Monsters. Only this suit had big soppy puppy eyes, big floppy ears, and a long fluffy tail. He couldn't stand being tortured anymore. He charged at Kaiba, ripping off his helmet so that he could really sink his teeth into Kaiba. Kaiba have a cry of pain as he was bitten on his arm. But when Joey tried to attack again, Kaiba was ready. He easily dodged Joey's lunge and grabbed him by the neck of the spacesuit. Joey struggled a bit more, until he realized it was useless and hung his head in shame. Kaiba let go of him.
"Calm down, it was just a joke. Here, you're real suit's here," said Kaiba. Joey narrowed his eyes, untrusting, before eventually accepting the suit and going off to change again.
They were finally on the moon. Kaiba was driving the moon buggy, taking the others on a trip around the moon. They alighted at a flat area and went off to explore the place. Kaiba went off started collecting rock samples.
"You shouldn't have humiliated Joey like that," said a voice from behind him. Kaiba turned around to see Téa.
"It was a harmless joke."
"It might have been, but it was still a cruel thing to do. You might have thought it funny, but it really hurt his feelings. You two do have quite a few things in common. Think about how he feels." She walked off, leaving him to think about her words.
"Whee! I'm flying!" Yugi was jumping up, down and all around. He loved the sensation of weightlessness. It was so much fun. He had total freedom. "I'm a bird! Joey, Ryou, Yami, Téa, I'm flying!"
Ryou was doing the same. They started to play space tag. Joey was collecting moon rocks, looking for ones that closest resembled cheese. He was talking to himself, wondering what would happen if he tried to eat a moon rock. Then he decided that it wouldn't be such a good idea.
"Hey everyone, I have a great idea!" said Yami all of a sudden. Everyone turned to look at him. "How about we make a moon rock castle? You know, it'll be like a sandcastle, only made with moon rocks instead. Then it could drift around the moon, and anyone who visits will be able to see it, providing that no one wrecks it."
"That's not a bad idea," said Bakura. "We could try and make a replica of Ancient Egypt, and redesign it so that-"
"I'm the Pharaoh," concluded Malik.
Interestingly enough, the idea worked. No one had to worry about the monument collapsing, because it couldn't. All they had to do was make sure they didn't bump into any other piece. They worked on it for the rest of the day, returning back to the spaceship every now and then to eat and get more oxygen. All throughout the process Half the people were muttering, "we must be insane to be trying this. Utterly insane."
They worked for three days, perfecting their sculpture, making sure that that everything appeared just right. In the end a wonky but decent result was achieved. There were plenty of pyramids and faceless sphinxes, as well as mini models of various Duel Monsters. Kaiba and Joey had created a Blue Eyes White Dragon and a Red Eyes Black Dragon respectively. They had placed them floating above the city, preparing to launch their attacks. Téa had placed the city of Domino between the pyramids, while Ryou placed models of themselves in their masterpiece as well.
The gang was proud of their work. They took plenty of pictures of their accomplishment, before it started floating off and crashing into the moon and the spaceship. Bits and pieces began to break off, though it still managed to keep itself together fairly well.
"Take that Kaiba!" yelled Joey triumphantly as the head of the Blue Eyes White Dragon hit the ground and broke off, leaving a headless dragon. It then crashed into Joey's Red Eyes and then the Blue Eyes' wings broke off. "Yeah, my Red Eyes Black Dragon rules!"
On the fourth night, while everyone was asleep, two people stayed awake. They were outside, creating scratching noises. Joey and Yami stayed up the whole night, trying to dig a hole through the moon. It wasn't all that successful, but they had managed to make a pit a metre deep.
"Wouldn't it be funny if someone stepped in here and fell?" whispered Joey.
"It sure would be. Let's get Malik or Kaiba in here," replied Yami.
In the morning Joey and Yami were hyperactive having drunk too much coffee to keep themselves awake. They managed to aggravate both Kaiba and Malik, and lead them right to the hole. However, they forgot one thing. There was almost no gravity on the moon. Kaiba and Malik had sunk a little into the pit, been unable to move forward for a while, but easily solved the problem and proceeded to strangle Joey and Yami once they had dragged them back onto the spaceship.
They day of their departure was nearing, and everyone wanted to make the most of the little time they had left. Yami and Bakura were raiding the junk food room again, when they heard a strange sound from outside. For a moment they thought they'd been discovered, until the arrived back at the bedroom and found everyone fast asleep. Yami and Bakura looked at each other, puzzled.
"Probably just our imagination," murmured Bakura in Egyptian.
"Yeah, I certainly hope so."
Bakura suddenly looked outside the window, then shook his head.
"What? Did you see something?"
"Nah. Just forget about it. It's most likely to be our sculpture floating around, creating shadows and crashing into things."
The two had a restless night, having disturbing dreams full of aliens.
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Yami and Bakura have watched too many alien movies if you ask me. But who knows, maybe there are really aliens out there....