Chapter 11 - Home sweet home... well, not quite as sweet as expected
Ryou, Yugi and Kaiba were back on the ship, back in space, ready to pick up Bakura and Yami. The three of them sat patiently around the table, having lunch.
"How much do you think our Yamis suffered, Ryou?" asked Yugi, winding his spaghetti around his fork.
"A lot, I hope," his friend replied, sipping a cup of tea.
"Should we scare them with another hologram?" said Kaiba, spooning caviar onto his peanut butter sandwich.
"How can you stand that stuff?" Yugi looked at the hundreds of little red beads in disgust, especially when they were inside a peanut butter sandwich.
"Food of the rich people," was Kaiba's response.
"And you like it?"
"You get used to it."
Yugi shrugged and went back to his spaghetti.
Ryou put ketchup on his cupcake and relished the taste.
"Do you always have your cakes like that?" Yugi looked a bit pale.
"Sure. It's wonderful, once you get used to it. It's somewhat of an acquired taste."
"You two have such strange eating habits," said Yugi, shaking his head. He sliced up a banana and mixed it in with his pasta.
"Look who's talking," sniggered Kaiba.
An hour later they were ready to look for the Yamis. A radar was set up, and Yugi and Ryou 'unlocked' their Millennium Items, so that their other half could return. They landed on the moon and began to scour the satellite.
As they were farewelled by the Pyrarians, Bakura and Yami re-entered the Shadow Realm, ready to go back to their hikaris. But before they did so, Bakura kept his promise of having a chat with Yami.
Bakura held Yami up by his collar.
"What's this about an alliance with the Pyrarians?"
"Well it all happened so long ago," stuttered Yami. "A few months after I had been appointed Pharaoh, these weird aliens stumbled upon us. So naturally I greeted them and we became friends, and eventually allies. Though I don't think they knew it was us."
"And you made them try and kill me?" demanded Bakura.
"Of course. I couldn't have a thief robbing deceased pharaohs of their possessions. And I had to make sure you were stopped before I died, otherwise I would have never made it to the afterlife."
"So they were the ones who made me think I was a beetle for a month!"
"Yeah, you should have seen yourself," said Yami, chuckling at the memory. The tomb robber had been brought in front of the pharaoh, and with his beetle instincts, tried to fly away. Oh yes, Yami had enjoyed that so very much. "I should go back and ask them to do that again, shouldn't I? That would be funny!"
"I certainly didn't enjoy it," snarled Bakura. "You made me look like such a fool!"
"That's because you are one!"
"So now I get to have some payback!"
"You can't do anything. Our powers are equal," stated Yami as a matter-of-factly.
"So they might be. But our intelligence and wit definitely aren't!" Bakura pulled out his secret weapon, a ray gun, which he had managed to slip into his pockets during his fight with the enemy aliens.
Yami's reflexes were quick, after having played video games against Joey for so long. Yugi had forced him into it, and now he was glad he was put through that torture. He dodged it by a hair, and turned into his spirit form again. Only he forgot that Bakura had already tried that back on Pyrara, and was still affected by the lasers.
"I've got you now, pharaoh!" Bakura started shooting his gun, trying his best to zap Yami, who was running around crazily. His aim was pretty good, and when he was finished Yami was smoking with tens of tiny holes in his jacket. But, everyone knows that it's never over 'til it's over!
"It's time for MY revenge, tomb robber!" Yami started summoning various monster and magic cards from his deck. The Dark Magician came out, trying to blast Bakura with his Dark Magic Attack. Problem was, Bakura was doing the same. He had given his Man-Eater Bug the ray gun, and it was shooting everything in sight (as well as Bakura himself).
"Why aren't they here?" asked Yugi, he and his friends having been looking all over the moon for them.
"I don't know how they could have gotten far away from here," said Ryou.
"I guess we'll just have to wait a bit longer," sighed Kaiba. "Unless you two try and call out to your Yamis through your Items."
"Tried it. Didn't work. Either they've blocked us or they're in some kind of trouble and can't hear or reply."
"We'll give them two more hours. Then we're gone."
Bakura and Yami were both tired out from trying to kill one another. They were both smoking, too, after being zapped with the ray gun so many times that there were small holes in their clothes.
"Can we just stop this now?" groaned Yami, barely able to stand after running around so much. "I'm so tired I could just fall asleep and never wake up. I wish Ryah was here. Then I could order him to torture you."
"I'd love that too," muttered Bakura sarcastically. "But we can't. We've got to get back home and take our revenge on Ryou and Yugi."
"How long do you think they'll wait for us?"
"Dunno, they could have already left."
"Then we'd better go!" Yami couldn't stand being stuck with Bakura any longer.
Bakura once more did something to the whole running of existence, and created another warp in the universe. As they emerged from the Shadow Realm, they had made it back to the moon safely.
Yugi, Ryou and Kaiba all suddenly felt a jolt, then a falling sensation.
"What was that about?" wondered Ryou aloud.
"Have no idea," said Yugi.
"Let's check the spaceship," said Kaiba, wanting to make sure nothing had happened to it.
Once they got back, everything seemed to be in perfect working order. Yugi suddenly turned to look in the opposite direction from where he was looking.
"Hey, Ryou, do you feel that?"
"Feel what?"
"Our Yamis."
Ryou concentrated for a while, before sensing the familiar angry spirit close by. "Well, it look's like they're back."
They ran out to meet Bakura and Yami, only to see them with torn clothes and daggers in their eyes.
"Yami, what happened to you?" asked Yugi, worried that he had suffered some terrible accident.
"Nothing much," replied Yami, half distracted.
"But we do have something to finish," added Bakura, eyeing Ryou.
Ryou eyed Bakura warily back. The two of them started having a staring contest with each other, and both didn't blink for a terribly long time.
"Why don't you just give up, Ryou? You know I can keep staring forever."
"Wanna bet?" Ryou grinned, and then clapped right in Bakura's face, causing a reflexive action to close his eyes.
Ryou and Yugi giggled.
Kaiba, of course, became bored, wanting to go home and watch all his company's profits rise and rise and rise. He was only there to pick up the two yamis, not to watch a spirit reunion. He went off back onto the spaceship, and the others eventually followed when they heard Kaiba start up the engines.
"Ha, weakling hikari, now it's time for me to have my revenge!" Bakura screamed, drawing his ray gun and pointing it at Ryou.
"Where'd you get that little toy from?" asked Ryou.
"It's no toy," growled Bakura. "It's as real as I am."
"You're a spirit."
"That's not the point!" He pulled the trigger, frying a lock of Ryou's hair.
"How dare you do that!" Ryou pulled out his secret knife, and attempted to cut his yami's hair. However, before he could do that, he stepped on the banana peel Yugi accidentally tossed on the floor, and fell. Now his knife was unintentionally aimed at Bakura's heart.
"Bakura, watch out!" Ryou screamed, as the knife got closer and closer to Bakura, to the point where it made contact with his shirt.
Yugi, Yami, Ryou and Bakura all screamed, unsure of what would happen. But in that fraction of a second, the spaceship shook violently, throwing everyone off balance, and saving Bakura's life. Ryou fell onto the floor, only to have Bakura land heavily on top of him.
"Oomph," said Ryou, being temporarily winded by having Bakura's weight on him. "Get off me," he said, thankful that he hadn't killed his yami, but annoyed that he hadn't cut Bakura's hair.
"Guys, we're having a bit of trouble lifting off. Anyone know what's... Ryou, what's going on?" Kaiba had walked in before Bakura could stand, and he had a most confused expression on his face, seeing Bakura lying on top of Ryou, in a most disturbing position.
"The two of them are finally showing their true feelings for each other," said Yugi sweetly.
"They were trying to kill each other," said Yami nonchalantly.
The two of them had spoken simultaneously, so that neither could be heard, and not helping Kaiba's puzzled mind.
Bakura and Ryou were both red when they heard Yugi's statement.
What should we do to him? asked Ryou to Bakura.
Something really horrible, like putting live lizards in his soup, replied his yami.
Eeew! That sounds great!
"That still doesn't explain why our spaceship doesn't work," said Kaiba after a while, giving up on trying to figure out what had happened to Ryou and Bakura.
"Maybe it had something to do with that weird sensation we felt just before we met up with our yamis," suggested Yugi.
Bakura and Yami exchanged glances.
"It might explain where Bakura got his ray gun," said Ryou.
"Nothing much happened," lied Bakura. "We tried our best to get back to Earth, only we couldn't, and then we had a bit of trouble getting back here, so we used the Shadow Realm." That, at least, had some truth.
"I'd say your little magic trick killed my ship," accused Kaiba. "You know how much this thing cost me? Why don't I make you pay for the damages?"
"Please, no, don't do that!" protested Ryou and Yugi, knowing they were going to be the victims if Kaiba carried out his threat.
"Well then, Bakura, Yami, would you like to fix my ship? Wait, that might not be such a good idea... wait here while I fix it." Kaiba walked off, leaving the others alone again.
"Where were we before he interrupted? Oh yes, I need to give you a brand new haircut," said Ryou, getting a pair of scissors.
"There's no way you're getting to my hair," said Bakura.
"Die!" Ryou started running towards Bakura, scissors snapping along. In a little while the two were trying to kill each other.
Yami and Yugi stayed a fair distance away, not wanting to get involved.
"So what actually happened in those two days?" asked Yugi.
"Nothing much," replied Yami. "But I'll tell you everything once we get back home. If we get back at all."
"Don't worry, Kaiba'll fix everything up."
Ryou had a crazed look in his eyes as he managed to cut a whole chunk of hair from Bakura. "Say goodbye to your precious hair!"
"I don't think they can fix them two up," said Yami.
Kaiba sighed as he watched the four from his control room. I knew this would happen. He pressed a button, while started to release a gas into where Yugi and the others were. that should settle them down for a while.
On the screen, Bakura, Ryou, Yami and Yugi were falling asleep, the sleeping gas (Is there such a thing? Either way, it'll be a harmless gas that just makes people fall asleep. I'm sure there's a name for it....)
Finally there was peace and quiet on the spaceship, and Kaiba went to work fixing a blown fuse. It wasn't going to be long until he would be rid of these lunatics.
So then, with everything fixed, and the two Yamis tied onto chairs so that they couldn't possibly cause any more trouble, everyone went home safe and sound....
Where Ryou and Yugi were again tortured by their Yamis.
Ryou: Let's never do that again. Next time, we are not taking our Yamis ANYwhere.
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