Chapter 7 - The reason locks were made is to keep people out.
Ryou led the two Yamis through the spaceship. Yami looked around and knew they were in trouble. They went past the bathrooms. They went past the bedrooms. They went past all the other rooms in the ship. And finally ended up at the big padlocked door all the way at the other end of the spaceship. The locked door. Well, it was locked. The automatic door closed behind them.
"Would you care to explain?" Ryou asked sweetly.
"Um, well... er..." began Yami.
"Have no idea why we're here," stated Bakura.
"Are you sure?" Ryou put on a bigger smile.
"Positive."
Ryou's eyes flashed. "My dear Bakura, you know I know what you've been up to. The room behind the door tells all." He smiled evilly. "You will be punished accordingly, along with Yami."
"But you can't accuse us unless you have evidence," said Bakura, trying his best to slip his way out of this predicament.
"Guilty until proven innocent. You should be familiar with that concept," said Ryou.
"You can't argue with him there," whispered Yami under his breath.
"So then, I'll see if you can prove your innocence." Ryou started pacing back and forth, intimidating the two Yamis.
Yugi and the others stared through the glass of the door at where Ryou was questioning the others.
"Boy, he's good at this stuff," commented Joey. Ryou was making the Yamis very uncomfortable. "I never thought Ryou could act like this."
"I wonder what he's going to do to them," said Kaiba. "Ryou was asking whether I could make a return trip to the moon again. I think he's got something pretty nasty up his sleeve." He chuckled. "Oh, I can't wait to see Yami's reaction when they hear what he has to say! Serves them right for eating all that food. That chicken was supposed to be for me."
They watched on as Ryou walked around, with a devious smile on his face.
"Any bets on what'll happen to the two?" asked Joey, holding his hands out.
"Ryou'll put them through the tickle torture!" exclaimed Yugi.
"He'll be nice and just tell them off," said Téa. "And give them a good beating."
"They'll be subjected to eating vegetables for the rest of their life," suggested Kaiba.
"And I'll make them wear dog suits! It's payback time! Well, to the wrong people, but it'll still be funny," said Joey.
Everyone fell silent again as they suddenly they saw Ryou slap Bakura and the face. Yami was looking very afraid now.
Ryou glanced at Kaiba through the window. A few minutes later a most wonderful smell wafted into the room. Bakura smelt it. Yami smelt it. Their mouths started to water. A grumble escaped Yami's stomach.
"Oh, the sweet smell of chicken," drawled Yami. "I can't believe I still remember what it smells like."
"Tempting, isn't it?" asked Ryou. "Would you like to have some?" He produced a drumstick from a box he was carrying. He waved it in front of Bakura's face. Bakura attempted to chomp down on it.
"Uh-uh-uh. Not unless you tell me who broke this lock."
"How am I supposed to know?"
"Can you tell me how this lock was broken?"
"Well..."
"You're a thief. One would expect you to be an expert at this kind of stuff."
"It was unlocked with a wire. And a knife was used to prise it open. What would you expect?"
Ryou raised an eyebrow. "Anything else?"
"No."
Ryou took the broken lock from the door and shoved it in Bakura's face. "Then what do you call this?" The key-end of the lock was slightly charred. The metal arch was all twisted.
"Uh, well, um..." Bakura was finding it more and more difficult to evade Ryou's questions.
"Well?"
"It could, er, easily have been twisted with... a... um... one of those metal burning things. You know, them," answered Bakura lamely.
"You do realise we don't have metal cutters lying around, waiting to be taken? The only ones are in Kaiba's control room, and that type of security is almost impenetrable." Ryou's questions were becoming more direct. He turned to Yami.
"Yami. Can you tell me how this lock came to be in this state? Answer truthfully," warned Ryou after watching Yami's eyes flicker to Bakura. "Or face the consequences."
"What can you do?" asked Bakura. "We have magical abilities. You don't. You wouldn't be able to do anything to us."
"Yami," continued Ryou, "now I'll ask you this, since Bakura has so kindly given us some new information. What kind of abilities do you have?"
"We can fiddle around with souls, we can use a mind crush attack, which can do a lot of damage, we can go to the Shadow Realm-"
"And so you would have the power to manipulate objects to some extent?"
"Yes," admitted Yami meekly. Bakura punched Yami's shoulder and looked at him angrily. "Nice going," he said in Egyptian. "Now you've just proven our guilt!"
"He has, hasn't he?" said Ryou. He laughed at Bakura's shocked face. "Yes, Bakura. I know what you were saying. I spent some of my time learning Egyptian, just to keep track of what you were planning to do. And by your actions, I say that you just proved your own guilt as well. Why else would you hit Yami?"
Ryou's smile was sickening. In fact, it was starting to scare Bakura. "Well then, I've already figured out the perfect punishment for you two.
"You two, instead of returning with us back to Earth, will be left here. I'm sure you won't mind. You seemed to have enjoyed your stay all this time. We'll come back for you in three days time. Just don't run away, or we really won't be able to take you back."
"But you can't leave us out here!" screamed Yami in protest. "We could be attacked by aliens! Or we could starve to death!"
"You're spirits," said Ryou simply. He walked back out and joined the others, leaving the Yamis standing in the room which used to contain junk food.
Yami sighed. "Well Bakura, it looks like we'll be stuck here for a while."
"And it was all your fault."
"My fault? You're the one who broke the lock and started eating all the food!"
"Well then you're my accessory."
"Accessory? Are you accusing me of being a handbag?!"
"No, accessory. Accomplice. Partner in crime," Bakura explained.
"Oh."
There was silence.
"Bakura?"
"What?"
"You should have never gone looking for that junk food."
"Why not?"
"Because you knew we would eventually be caught."
"Would you have survived without all that KFC?"
"No, I guess not."
"You only have me to thank then."
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More silence.
...
"Bakura?"
"WHAT?"
"You've got to stop being a thief."
"Why?"
"It's bad for your health."
"How does that work?"
"Well, Ryou just told us we're going to be abandoned here. We're going to go insane. No food, no friends, no nothing."
"Your Puzzle."
"What about it?"
"My Ring."
"What are you saying?"
"We can always return to Earth through our Millennium Items, remember?"
"Oh yeah."
"Gosh, you're thick!" Bakura commenced banging his head against the wall. "You were a Pharaoh for goodness sake! One would have thought you were smart!"
"I can't help it!" shouted Yami. "I am not looking forward to three days in space!"
"Didn't you hear what I just said?!" Bakura started strangling Yami. "We can return whenever we want through our damn Millennium Items!"
"Let... me... go...." rasped Yami. Bakura threw Yami to the ground. "I feel so sorry for Yugi. I don't know how he puts up with you."
"He keeps me locked in the Puzzle most of the time," said Yami, rubbing his neck. "And you have to learn to be less violent. One day you might accidentally kill someone."
"Yeah," muttered Bakura. "I just might. Someone with spiky purple hair. Purple eyes. Not Yugi. If only looks could kill," he said, his eyes twinkling murderously.
"Are you sure it's a good idea to leave those two alone in there?" asked Téa, watching them through a security camera in Kaiba's control room.
"They'll be fine," assured Ryou.
"Are you sure?" asked Téa again, as they observed Bakura trying to strangle Yami again. Yami then turned transparent, making Bakura fall straight through him and onto the floor.
"Trust me! I've been around Bakura for a long time, remember?"
"And Yami's survived through much tougher situations," said Yugi.
Téa sighed. "If you insist." She took one final look at the camera, and saw Bakura whip out a knife from apparently nowhere and attempted to stab Yami, to no avail.
"PLEASE! YUGI! DON'T LEAVE ME HERE!" Yami was on his knees, grabbing onto Yugi's leg and bawling away. "I DON'T WANNA BE STUCK WITH BAKURA! HE'S GOING TO TRY AND KILL ME!"
"Sorry Yami," replied Yugi apologetically, "but I can't help you this time. You ate the junk food too. It's not my problem."
"I'll do anything! Anything!" Yami was desperate. "YOU CAN'T LEAVE ME WITH A MANIAC!"
"I think Yami's the maniac," whispered Joey to Yugi.
With Ryou's help, Yugi managed to wrench Yami away from his ankle. In fact, he found great pleasure in tossing Yami back onto the moon. It would cut food and electricity bills in half.
Bakura was then thrown out, and the spaceship started to leave.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! COME BACK!!!" Yami pushed off as hard as he could and slowly drifted towards the departing ship. But, he fell miserably short of his goal. The spaceship sped away back to Earth.
Bakura's shadow loomed over him. "Now I can go back to torturing you...."
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So who's starting to feel sorry for Yami? Being stuck with an enemy for three days isn't exactly pleasant, not even for Bakura, who now has to put up with Yami. *Bakura: 'I'm comin' for ya Yami!'*