Meg, Kat, Yugi, Joey, Taia, Tristan, and Bakura all eventually decided to
go to McDonald's for lunch. Once there, everyone ordered and they squeezed
into a back corner.
"Just warning you," Taia said. "Joey may scar you for life once you see his eating habits."
"Don't worry about it," Kat said, taking a sip of her drink. "We've been scarred for life so many times, I lost track at fifty."
"You have more will-power than me," Meg said. "I lost track at twenty-six."
Even so, when Joey sat down (surrounded by six Big Macs, one carton of 20 chicken nuggets, three fries super-sized, and a super-sized Diet Coke) they had a little trouble keeping their lunch down. Not to mention their breakfast, and yesterday's dinner.
"Um..." Meg said. "S-so where do you think Akkiko went off to?"
"We should have stopped at the Dairy Queen on the way here," Kat said, thinking.
"Nah," Joey said, stuffing fries in his mouth. "We'll stop by after lunch- they have the best desserts."
"Besides, Akkiko hates Dairy Queen, you know that." Meg stared at Kat.
Kat nodded. "I know that. But you know she would never pass up a chance to swear at the people at the cash registers, not to mention spit napkin spit- balls at the customers, screaming, 'You are all blasphemed on this earth by eating in this unholy place!'"
"Wow. . ." Meg said, "That was pretty close."
Taia sweatdropped. "She's that bad?" she said. "I don't know . . . she looked pretty innocent when I first met her."
Meg and Kat stared at her for a minute, then at each other, and then back at Taia. Seconds passed... They burst out laughing. Meg almost choked, and Kat patted her on the back.
"T-Taia," Kat gasped. "A man-eating SHARK looks innocent at first, but he ain't so innocent when he starts chewing on your leg, now is he?"
Taia smiled uneasily. "Uh . . . no."
"Akkiko may look innocent now, but you haven't seen her in demon mode."
"God-willing, you never will." Meg breathed deep, trying to keep her laughter back. "Honestly, it is the freakiest damn thing ever."
"What happens?" Taia asked.
"Let's see...what happened the last time, Kat?"
"First of all, she goes all hissy and horns sprout from her forehead. Oh, and keep toilet paper and duck tape AWAY from her!" Kat thought. "You can only avoid her attack with demon-repellent, and that you can only get through E-Bay and the black market. Other than that, I don't think there's anything else you need to know." Kat leaned back in her seat, and for a while everyone just ate.
Kat noticed Bakura staring at her. It kind of freaked her out, seeing as she knew he could be possessed by a spirit in a necklace, but she tried not to pay any attention to him. Meg found herself staring at Joey. How he could eat and not gain a pound, she didn't know. He was actually kind of cute, despite the fact his eating habits were the equivalent of a starving hyena.
Soon though there was a lot of noise coming from the opposite corner of the restaurant. Screams of "No! I'm a frickin' girl!" could be heard, along with "Aww...you're so cute!!"
Kat and Meg sweatdropped, looking at each other. "I would know that scream of demonism anywhere," Meg said, and the two girls got up and went over. The gang followed.
They came upon a strange (and disturbing) sight. Akkiko, surrounded by giggling school girls, was still in her boys' uniform. It seemed she was being force-fed French fries by the girls, and fighting every moment of it.
"Let me go, you *beep*s! Get you *beep*in' hands off me! I'm a *beep*in' girl you *beep*s!!"
After the initial shock, Kat looked at Meg. "This could get ugly. Want me to handle this alone?"
Meg shrugged. "We might as well jump into the shit together."
They dove in, kung-fuing the girls away. They all shrieked and left quickly, leaving a very *very* angry Akkiko behind. Meg untied the hair extensions that were tying her wrists, and Kat pulled a scrunchie off her head.
"That wasn't so bad," Meg remarked.
"No, it wasn't," Kat agreed.
"WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU??????" Akkiko screamed. "I'm on the street, surrounded by the *beep*in' girls, and you aren't even there to HELP ME??????"
"WE were in school, like originally planned," Meg said.
"Oh, and by the way," Kat said, before Akkiko could go off on another verbal rampage, "Zechs from Gundam Wing is here."
"He's our frickin' substitute teacher!" Meg said.
"Zechs?" Akkiko asked, her eyes glazing over a bit.
"What's the matter with her?" Tristan asked.
"She has a crush on Zechs," Kat said, sweatdropping. "I think it's the long hair."
Before anyone could say anything else, a big man in a McDonald's uniform with "Manager" on the chest came up behind Akkiko.
"Where have you been, boy?" he shouted. "We need you behind till!" Dragging Akkiko off, the rest of them stared.
"Everyone STILL thinks she's a guy?" Kat burst out. "The people here are crazy!"
"No shit," Meg said, going back to their table.
After a while, when Akkiko didn't emerge from the back and they had finished their lunch, Joey stood up and headed over to the counter.
"Joey, where're you going?" Tristan called.
"To get dessert." Joey pulled out his wallet and stepped up to the till.
"Hello, welcome to McDonald's," Akkiko said to him. Her uniform had the name 'Eric' on it. "May I take your order?"
Joey sweatdropped. "Whoa, you sound...professional," he said.
"She works at the McDonald's in Canada," Kat said, coming up behind him.
"Ah."
"Would you hurry it up?" said a cold voice behind them. Everyone turned and saw-
"Seto Kaiba?" Meg and Kat shrieked together.
'I can't stand that guy,' Kat thought. Neither, it seemed, could Joey.
"Hello, Kaiba," Yugi said. Of course, he was the only person who was really friendly in any way. "What are you doing here?"
"Taking Mokubah out to lunch," Kaiba said. Mokubah stepped out from behind his brother.
"Hi, guys," he said cheerfully.
Kaiba noticed Kat and Meg. "Oh, it's you two girls. I applaud your introductions...they were...INteresting." His mouth actually curved a bit. "I've never seen our third-rate teacher more scared." He stepped forward.
"Hello, sir," Akkiko said. Her eyes had turned into big hearts. "Welcome to McDonald's. May I take your order?"
"Hey!" Joey said. "What about me?"
"Get lost, Wheeler!" Akkiko growled at him, and flames actually came from her nostrils. Joey stepped back, and Kaiba placed his order.
Suddenly Zechs walked in the front door. He was holding a buster rifle. Everyone, including Akkiko and Kaiba, sweatdropped.
"So here's where you brats got to," he said, looking at the group. He laughed, and shivers ran down everyone's spine. "Well, this is going to be fun." He started to raise his rifle, but at the last moment, a gaggle of screeching girls tackled him.
"You're so hot!!"
"I dibs the gun!"
"I dibs the bullets!!"
Kat looked carefully at the raging pool of insane fangirls. "Hey, I think those are the same girls who attacked Akkiko!" she said.
"I'll try not to lose any tears over it," Akkiko said darkly.
"HE'S GETTING UP!!" Tristan yelled. Zechs was, indeed, struggling to his feet.
"Ulp," Joey gulped. "Forget dessert-let's sneak out the back entrance!"
"But that's employee use only!!" Akkiko yelled after them. Joey and Tristan turned back and actually pulled her OVER the counter and dragged her along.
***
Back at school, they sat and stood panting by the front doors.
"That was too close," Yugi said.
"Yeah-why would the school employ such a maniac to teach?!" Taia said.
"The school district is thinking of bringing in Totalitarianism?" Kat suggested. "Who knows for sure?"
"Hey!" Tristan called. "Look at this!" He was looking at something taped to the door. Everyone got up to see.
"'School End-Of-The-Year Dance," Meg read. "It's this Friday."
Taia grinned. "Awesome! So, shall we go?"
Everyone nodded, except Meg, Akkiko and Kat. They didn't really like dances.
"Oh, come on, you guys!" Tristan said. "You're hanging out with US now!"
"Yeah," Joey put in. "You might as well make a fool of yourself with us, too!"
The three girls looked at each other and sighed. "Sure," they said.
"Great!" Yugi grinned. "It'll give us a chance to get to know each other. Unless you have to leave by that time?"
Meg paled; Kat dragged her away about five feet, and the three girls huddled.
"What do we say?" Meg hissed.
"We say, 'No'," Kat said. "We don't even know how we GOT here, much less how to get back to our own mundane world."
"That's one way of putting it," Akkiko said sarcastically. "Why the hell do you two want to go home, anyway?"
"How shall Zechs kill us? Let me count the ways..." Kat said poetically.
"It isn't Shakespeare, but she has a point," Meg whispered to Akkiko.
"Damn." Akkiko thought for a moment. "Well, we can at least go to the dance.' Meg and Kat nodded.
"It may be fun!" Meg said, jumping up and down a bit.
"Whatever..." Kat said. She STILL didn't like dances.
They turned back to the Yu-Gi-Oh gang. "No, we don't have to leave by then- we'll be glad to come to the dance," Akkiko said.
"Great!" Joey said, and blushed. "Uh, Meg? Can I . . . talk to you for a minute?"
"Sure." Meg shrugged, and she and Joey walked off a few paces. He spoke to her, and she turned red. Staring at him, she ran back to Kat. "Joey just asked me out!' she said. "What do I do?"
Kat stared for a moment. "Um..."
"I can't say YES!!!" Meg proceeded to freak out. (A/N: To let our viewers know, Meg is very against the idea of having a crush on Anime characters. Actually, she finds it quite disturbing. I wonder why . . .)
"Meg, calm down!" Kat said, and slapped her friend. Meg stood, stunned. "Come on, Meg. Say yes-after all, we don't know when we'll be going home, and you don't have anything to lose, do you?"
"No, nothing...just my dignity and self-consciousness . . . as well as my social preferences." She thought for a minute, looking over at Joey. "Well, at least he has brown eyes . . ." Meg went back to Joey and nodded, as red as he was.
The bell rang for class. "Come on, or we'll be late!" Taia called, and the group disappeared inside. Kat lingered outside.
'I really wish I knew how we got here . . .' she thought, looking at the sky. 'It was so weird, though . . .'
"Um, Kat?" said a voice beside her. She jumped. It was Bakura. He was so quiet, she had forgotten he had even been in the group.
"Oh, hey, Bakura." Kat smiled a little. "Aren't you going to be late for class?"
"Well, yes..." his pale skin flushed a little. Kat recognized the symptoms. 'Oh, God,' she thought.
"Kat, would you come to the dance with me?" he finally managed.
"Uh . . ." Kat flushed, right down to her collar, and she was sure it went further. "Yeah, okay."
"Good." Bakura smiled at her and went inside the school. Kat was left standing all alone.
"Are you crazy??" she said aloud. "You idiot-you just made a date with a possessed kid, who has a friggin' necklace that's possessed by an evil spirit from the great Beyond, who would kill you if he got half a chance!!!" (A/N: to our reader-I do actually talk to myself.) Kat sighed, and went into the school. 'I am doomed,' she thought.
"AHAH!!!" Someone grabbed the back of her shirt. It was Zechs.
'SHIT!!!' Kat thought, her body going numb. 'Now I really AM doomed!!'
***
Meg and Akkiko sat down in the classroom just at the final bell rang. Zechs walked in, still holding his gun.
Unbeknownst to the girls, Kat was tied up in the teacher's lounge, trying to squeeze out of the ropes. *And failing.*
"Hey, where's Kat?" Meg asked.
"Maybe she got lost." Taia suggested.
"Oh, good lord," Akkiko said. "How can she get lost in a school?
"Ah, but this is a school in strange world," Meg said, grinning.
Akkiko glared at her, and then paid attention to Zechs (A/N: Remember, Akkiko has a crush on him)
He was saying "Well, I caught one of the hooky-playing perpetrators, and now they are locked up in my secret laboratory, where I will later perform all kinds of illegal government tests on her."
"Oh, crap," Meg said, "Kat got caught-and another thing, Akkiko-WHY THE HELL AREYOU IN LOVE WITH AN INSANE MANIAC???"
Akkiko shrugged. "Demonistic powers attract each other."
Tristan turned behind them. "What are we going to do?" he asked. "We have to save Kat before he turns her into a mutant!!"
Joey hit him "He wouldn't do that!!"
Tristan nodded. "Yeah he would, I've seen in the movies!!"
Akkiko rolled her eyes. "You guys have been watching way too much horror. She said. "If you want quality horror, watch me in demon-mode." She laughed, and everyone in the class looked away, very scared. "I'm sure you'll never think Jack the Ripper is scary again."
Taia shivered. "She's insane!!" she hissed.
"You are just figuring this out?" Meg said.
Yugi leaned over. "Where do you think he's hiding Kat?"
"Let's see . . ." Meg thought for a moment. "He said he was holding her in the secret laboratory . . . It's the teacher's lounge." Everyone around her sweatdropped.
"How d'you you know??!!" Akkiko asked.
"Oh, please," Meg rolled her eyes. "Everyone knows that 'secret laboratory' is teacher code for the teacher's lounge."
"It's a diverse sense of logic, but okay." Akkiko shrugged.
"All right, we know where is . . ." Tristan said. "Now how do we have her?"
"Um . . . That will be a problem." Meg looked over a Zechs, whose feet were propped up on the desk. He was watching everyone in a demonistic gaze not unlike Akkiko's.
"Meg, pretend to pass out," Joey suggested. "That always works in the movies. Once his attention's on you, some of us can go to the teacher's lounge."
"It's just so crazy it might work," Meg said.
"To make it more realistic," Akkiko said. "Why don't I knock you for real?"
Meg glared. "Let the actress do her work," Meg said, and went to the front of the class.
Zechs stared at her. "And where do you think you're going, young lady?"
Meg batted her eyelashes at him. "Oh, please," she said in a pathetic voice. "I smelled some dangerous fumes in the back of the classroom, and now I'm feeling a bit faint-" She collapsed to the ground in an array of *actually good* acting. Akkiko stared. "Well . . . it won't win a Grammy, but that was actually pretty good."
Zechs, of course, being very perverse from the average human being, didn't buy it. "Uh-huh," he said, and opened a gun magazine. "Please go back to your desk, miss."
Meg sighed and got up. "I gave it my best shot," she whispered sitting down."
Joey sighed. "Okay, what now?
"I told you I should have knocked her out for real," Akkiko said. "I'll handle it." She went to the front of the classroom and leaned on the desk.
"Mr. Marquise?" She asked. "Would you like to join the Anti-Heero Club?"
Zechs actually looked interested. "Oooh, and what do you do in this club?" he asked.
Akkiko thought quickly. "Well, every week we egg his Gundam, and other times we dye all his clothes a shocking bright pink."
Zechs leaned forward. "Ooh . . . . This sounds good. How do I enter this club?"
Akkiko gestured behind her back for the others to sneak out. "Well, first you have to get on top of your desk and do the funky chicken dance."
Zechs stared for a moment, and then said, "Okay."
Joey, Meg, Tristan, and Taia slipped out the door.
"Okay," Meg said." Where's the teacher lounge?"
"This way," Taia said, pointing, and the four youths ran down the hallways.
***
Kat struggled in her bonds, wondering how the hell she had gotten here.
"Why does this always happen to me?" she thought, and muttered some obscenities while trying to loosen the ropes binging her wrists.
She stopped, panting. The ropes still held. 'I wish it was the full moon,' she thought, 'then I could turn into a were-Kat and break these ropes.' (A/N: I have a theory about the souls of Meg, myself and Akkiko: Akkiko's soul is a demon, my soul is a were-Kat, and Meg is a sorceress. Sorry for the interruption. That is all)
Suddenly there was a commotion outside the door.
"Shite!" Kat thought. "It's Zechs come back to do horrible things to me. Maybe he'll even dress me in pink!"
Little did she know that he was making a fool of himself back in the classroom. Akkiko now had him doing the Macarena.
The door of the lounge opened, and there was Meg.
"Thank God!" Kat tried to say around her gag. "Meg! UNTIE ME!!!"
After Meg had done this, Kat ran for the front doors. "I am never coming back to this insane school!" She screamed over her shoulder.
Meg sweatdropped. "What now?" she asked.
Joey shrugged. "Let's go back to class," she said.
"Yeah, and hope Akkiko isn't a mass of ashes," Taia said.
***
When they got back to the classroom, they came upon another *of oh, so, many * disturbing sights. Zechs was in a tutu!!!
Meg came up beside Akkiko, who was trying her hardest not ho laugh. "Good God, Akkiko, what have you been doing to the poor guy?"
"Improvising," Akkiko said. "Okay, Mr. Zechs," she said, "The last thing you have to do to initiate yourself into the Anti-Heero club is give me a kiss!!"
Zechs stopped performing Swan Lake for a moment to stare. "Okay . . ." he said. "I hate Heero, and while dying his cloths pink is tempting, nothing is worth that!!" He tore the tutu off of himself and was suddenly in his normal clothes. "Class, take out your pencils, we're having a pop-quiz of the many ways to kill your opponent."
Everyone sighed, and pulled out a No.2. Akkiko returned to her desk.
"So where's Kat?" she asked.
"She ran off when we untied her." Meg said.
"Aww . . ." Akkiko protested. "But there's the entire afternoon left to wreck destruction!!"
"Neh," Meg said. "This is getting boring...if we do have a madman for a teacher!!"
***
Half and hour later, Zechs looked over the tests and found that most of the student s in the class hadn't been too imaginative in the ways to torture and kill their opponents. The only people who got 100% on it were Meg and Akkiko.
"Well done, ladies," he said. "I personally like # five on yours, Akkiko- the one about using fire ants."
"Thanks," Akkiko said, beaming. "It's a gift."
The bell rang. "Class dismissed." Zechs said, and ran out the door.
"Where do you think he's going?" Yugi asked.
"The teacher's lounge." Meg said.
"Yeah, remember? He wants to torture Kat." Akkiko grinned. "He's not going to be too happy."
"Yeah, and do we really want to be around when he discovers she's gone?" Joey asked.
Everyone sweatdropped. "NNNNOOOOOO!!" they screamed and all ran for the door. On the way out, Akkiko collided with someone.
"OOW!!" she said. "Watch it!"
"You're the one who ran into me," said a familiar voice. Akkiko looked up and flushed. It was Kaiba. "Oh . . . I'm so sorry!!" she said in a syrupy voice. "You're right, it was totally my fault."
"Whatever . . ." Kaiba said, and went out of the classroom. Akkiko stared after him, drooling, until Meg came up and grabbed her ear.
"Come on, Demonchild," she said. "Time to go."
With the pain, Akkiko fell back into her usual, demonistic self. "Let go of me, you moronic dingbat!!" she yelled, and hit Meg with a paper fan that seemingly came out of nowhere.
"OOW!!" Meg said, and dropped to the ground her eyes little 'X's.
Suddenly a yell of rage tore through the school.
"Uh-oh!" Akkiko said in a small voice. "That sounded like a very, very angry Zechs."
Tristan and Joey ran back into the classroom, picked up Meg, and ran out again, Akkiko following. Once they were all outside, the two groups parted.
"See you tomorrow!" Taia yelled.
"Uh . . . yeah." Akkiko and Meg turned away. "What do we do now??"
Meg shrugged. "Finding Kat would be good."
"I'm over here!" said a few bushes to their right.
"Kat?" Meg asked, and poked at the bushes.
"No, it's Satan," Kat said emerging. "Is that nutcase gone?"
"Zechs is in the school," Akkiko said, "Looking for you."
"Well, I DON'T want to be found!!" Kat said, and dragged the two of them off.
"WAIT!" Akkiko yelled, and hit Kat on the head with the fan. "Um, have any of you thought where we're going to sleep tonight??"
"Uh . . ." the two clueless looks on Meg and Kat's faces told Akkiko all she wanted to know. She sweatdropped.
"Perfect . . ." she said. "We're stuck in an imaginary world, have no idea how we're going to get back to our own world, and we don't even have a freaking place to sleep!!"
They stopped at a stop-light and waited for the walk signal. A car pulled up in front of them.
"Hey!" Meg yelled. "No parking in front of a cross-walk!"
The back window of the car rolled down. A face with dark sunglasses poked out the window.
"Hey, ladies," the face said. "I have your living quarters all prepared!"
"Do we know you?" Akkiko asked, looking over at Kat and Meg. They both shrugged.
The face took off the sunglasses. Kat's jaw dropped. It was a guy with short red hair, quite a few pimple, and watery blue eyes. He grinned at them. "Recognize me now?"
"Get lost!" Meg said, but Kat stopped her.
"No, I do know him...impossible as it is."
"Who is he then?" Akkiko asked.
"It's Erikson," Kat said. "One of my many imaginary characters."
"What?" Akkiko and Meg said together.
"I get bored very easily, so I create little characters in my own little world." Kat shrugged. "In my little world, I am either one or many different super-sorceresses with magical powers so strong I can destroy a planet with one thought."
Meg sweatdropped. "So where does he come in?" she asked, pointing to Erikson.
"He's the bad guy." Kat shrugged again. "You know, the annoying little cretin who you can never get rid of, he always gets away and then comes back to make more damage?" She sighed and turned to the car. "So, what the hell are you doing here in Yu-Gi-Oh?" she asked Erikson.
"I'm here to give you directions," Erikson said. "And don't worry; I won't make any mischief if you girls behave." He threw a piece of paper out the window. "Head to that address and all will be revealed." The car drove off, leaving the three girls very confused.
"I don't get it," Akkiko said blankly, as Kat picked up the paper.
"Neither do I," Kat admitted. "I don't understand how a guy from my imagination can be walking around in a cartoon." She looked at the scrap of paper and sighed. "Well, I s'pose we should go to the address, like Erikson wanted."
"I thought he was the bad guy?" Meg asked.
"He is." Kat frowned. "Like I said, I don't get it either, and I don't trust Erikson at all, but we don't really have any choice, do we?"
The other girls nodded, and they set off.
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh, any of its characters, places or locations. I do not own Meg or Akkiko. I claim copyright to the plotline and Erikson only. Any similarity to any persons, places or things, is completely un-coincidental.
"Just warning you," Taia said. "Joey may scar you for life once you see his eating habits."
"Don't worry about it," Kat said, taking a sip of her drink. "We've been scarred for life so many times, I lost track at fifty."
"You have more will-power than me," Meg said. "I lost track at twenty-six."
Even so, when Joey sat down (surrounded by six Big Macs, one carton of 20 chicken nuggets, three fries super-sized, and a super-sized Diet Coke) they had a little trouble keeping their lunch down. Not to mention their breakfast, and yesterday's dinner.
"Um..." Meg said. "S-so where do you think Akkiko went off to?"
"We should have stopped at the Dairy Queen on the way here," Kat said, thinking.
"Nah," Joey said, stuffing fries in his mouth. "We'll stop by after lunch- they have the best desserts."
"Besides, Akkiko hates Dairy Queen, you know that." Meg stared at Kat.
Kat nodded. "I know that. But you know she would never pass up a chance to swear at the people at the cash registers, not to mention spit napkin spit- balls at the customers, screaming, 'You are all blasphemed on this earth by eating in this unholy place!'"
"Wow. . ." Meg said, "That was pretty close."
Taia sweatdropped. "She's that bad?" she said. "I don't know . . . she looked pretty innocent when I first met her."
Meg and Kat stared at her for a minute, then at each other, and then back at Taia. Seconds passed... They burst out laughing. Meg almost choked, and Kat patted her on the back.
"T-Taia," Kat gasped. "A man-eating SHARK looks innocent at first, but he ain't so innocent when he starts chewing on your leg, now is he?"
Taia smiled uneasily. "Uh . . . no."
"Akkiko may look innocent now, but you haven't seen her in demon mode."
"God-willing, you never will." Meg breathed deep, trying to keep her laughter back. "Honestly, it is the freakiest damn thing ever."
"What happens?" Taia asked.
"Let's see...what happened the last time, Kat?"
"First of all, she goes all hissy and horns sprout from her forehead. Oh, and keep toilet paper and duck tape AWAY from her!" Kat thought. "You can only avoid her attack with demon-repellent, and that you can only get through E-Bay and the black market. Other than that, I don't think there's anything else you need to know." Kat leaned back in her seat, and for a while everyone just ate.
Kat noticed Bakura staring at her. It kind of freaked her out, seeing as she knew he could be possessed by a spirit in a necklace, but she tried not to pay any attention to him. Meg found herself staring at Joey. How he could eat and not gain a pound, she didn't know. He was actually kind of cute, despite the fact his eating habits were the equivalent of a starving hyena.
Soon though there was a lot of noise coming from the opposite corner of the restaurant. Screams of "No! I'm a frickin' girl!" could be heard, along with "Aww...you're so cute!!"
Kat and Meg sweatdropped, looking at each other. "I would know that scream of demonism anywhere," Meg said, and the two girls got up and went over. The gang followed.
They came upon a strange (and disturbing) sight. Akkiko, surrounded by giggling school girls, was still in her boys' uniform. It seemed she was being force-fed French fries by the girls, and fighting every moment of it.
"Let me go, you *beep*s! Get you *beep*in' hands off me! I'm a *beep*in' girl you *beep*s!!"
After the initial shock, Kat looked at Meg. "This could get ugly. Want me to handle this alone?"
Meg shrugged. "We might as well jump into the shit together."
They dove in, kung-fuing the girls away. They all shrieked and left quickly, leaving a very *very* angry Akkiko behind. Meg untied the hair extensions that were tying her wrists, and Kat pulled a scrunchie off her head.
"That wasn't so bad," Meg remarked.
"No, it wasn't," Kat agreed.
"WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU??????" Akkiko screamed. "I'm on the street, surrounded by the *beep*in' girls, and you aren't even there to HELP ME??????"
"WE were in school, like originally planned," Meg said.
"Oh, and by the way," Kat said, before Akkiko could go off on another verbal rampage, "Zechs from Gundam Wing is here."
"He's our frickin' substitute teacher!" Meg said.
"Zechs?" Akkiko asked, her eyes glazing over a bit.
"What's the matter with her?" Tristan asked.
"She has a crush on Zechs," Kat said, sweatdropping. "I think it's the long hair."
Before anyone could say anything else, a big man in a McDonald's uniform with "Manager" on the chest came up behind Akkiko.
"Where have you been, boy?" he shouted. "We need you behind till!" Dragging Akkiko off, the rest of them stared.
"Everyone STILL thinks she's a guy?" Kat burst out. "The people here are crazy!"
"No shit," Meg said, going back to their table.
After a while, when Akkiko didn't emerge from the back and they had finished their lunch, Joey stood up and headed over to the counter.
"Joey, where're you going?" Tristan called.
"To get dessert." Joey pulled out his wallet and stepped up to the till.
"Hello, welcome to McDonald's," Akkiko said to him. Her uniform had the name 'Eric' on it. "May I take your order?"
Joey sweatdropped. "Whoa, you sound...professional," he said.
"She works at the McDonald's in Canada," Kat said, coming up behind him.
"Ah."
"Would you hurry it up?" said a cold voice behind them. Everyone turned and saw-
"Seto Kaiba?" Meg and Kat shrieked together.
'I can't stand that guy,' Kat thought. Neither, it seemed, could Joey.
"Hello, Kaiba," Yugi said. Of course, he was the only person who was really friendly in any way. "What are you doing here?"
"Taking Mokubah out to lunch," Kaiba said. Mokubah stepped out from behind his brother.
"Hi, guys," he said cheerfully.
Kaiba noticed Kat and Meg. "Oh, it's you two girls. I applaud your introductions...they were...INteresting." His mouth actually curved a bit. "I've never seen our third-rate teacher more scared." He stepped forward.
"Hello, sir," Akkiko said. Her eyes had turned into big hearts. "Welcome to McDonald's. May I take your order?"
"Hey!" Joey said. "What about me?"
"Get lost, Wheeler!" Akkiko growled at him, and flames actually came from her nostrils. Joey stepped back, and Kaiba placed his order.
Suddenly Zechs walked in the front door. He was holding a buster rifle. Everyone, including Akkiko and Kaiba, sweatdropped.
"So here's where you brats got to," he said, looking at the group. He laughed, and shivers ran down everyone's spine. "Well, this is going to be fun." He started to raise his rifle, but at the last moment, a gaggle of screeching girls tackled him.
"You're so hot!!"
"I dibs the gun!"
"I dibs the bullets!!"
Kat looked carefully at the raging pool of insane fangirls. "Hey, I think those are the same girls who attacked Akkiko!" she said.
"I'll try not to lose any tears over it," Akkiko said darkly.
"HE'S GETTING UP!!" Tristan yelled. Zechs was, indeed, struggling to his feet.
"Ulp," Joey gulped. "Forget dessert-let's sneak out the back entrance!"
"But that's employee use only!!" Akkiko yelled after them. Joey and Tristan turned back and actually pulled her OVER the counter and dragged her along.
***
Back at school, they sat and stood panting by the front doors.
"That was too close," Yugi said.
"Yeah-why would the school employ such a maniac to teach?!" Taia said.
"The school district is thinking of bringing in Totalitarianism?" Kat suggested. "Who knows for sure?"
"Hey!" Tristan called. "Look at this!" He was looking at something taped to the door. Everyone got up to see.
"'School End-Of-The-Year Dance," Meg read. "It's this Friday."
Taia grinned. "Awesome! So, shall we go?"
Everyone nodded, except Meg, Akkiko and Kat. They didn't really like dances.
"Oh, come on, you guys!" Tristan said. "You're hanging out with US now!"
"Yeah," Joey put in. "You might as well make a fool of yourself with us, too!"
The three girls looked at each other and sighed. "Sure," they said.
"Great!" Yugi grinned. "It'll give us a chance to get to know each other. Unless you have to leave by that time?"
Meg paled; Kat dragged her away about five feet, and the three girls huddled.
"What do we say?" Meg hissed.
"We say, 'No'," Kat said. "We don't even know how we GOT here, much less how to get back to our own mundane world."
"That's one way of putting it," Akkiko said sarcastically. "Why the hell do you two want to go home, anyway?"
"How shall Zechs kill us? Let me count the ways..." Kat said poetically.
"It isn't Shakespeare, but she has a point," Meg whispered to Akkiko.
"Damn." Akkiko thought for a moment. "Well, we can at least go to the dance.' Meg and Kat nodded.
"It may be fun!" Meg said, jumping up and down a bit.
"Whatever..." Kat said. She STILL didn't like dances.
They turned back to the Yu-Gi-Oh gang. "No, we don't have to leave by then- we'll be glad to come to the dance," Akkiko said.
"Great!" Joey said, and blushed. "Uh, Meg? Can I . . . talk to you for a minute?"
"Sure." Meg shrugged, and she and Joey walked off a few paces. He spoke to her, and she turned red. Staring at him, she ran back to Kat. "Joey just asked me out!' she said. "What do I do?"
Kat stared for a moment. "Um..."
"I can't say YES!!!" Meg proceeded to freak out. (A/N: To let our viewers know, Meg is very against the idea of having a crush on Anime characters. Actually, she finds it quite disturbing. I wonder why . . .)
"Meg, calm down!" Kat said, and slapped her friend. Meg stood, stunned. "Come on, Meg. Say yes-after all, we don't know when we'll be going home, and you don't have anything to lose, do you?"
"No, nothing...just my dignity and self-consciousness . . . as well as my social preferences." She thought for a minute, looking over at Joey. "Well, at least he has brown eyes . . ." Meg went back to Joey and nodded, as red as he was.
The bell rang for class. "Come on, or we'll be late!" Taia called, and the group disappeared inside. Kat lingered outside.
'I really wish I knew how we got here . . .' she thought, looking at the sky. 'It was so weird, though . . .'
"Um, Kat?" said a voice beside her. She jumped. It was Bakura. He was so quiet, she had forgotten he had even been in the group.
"Oh, hey, Bakura." Kat smiled a little. "Aren't you going to be late for class?"
"Well, yes..." his pale skin flushed a little. Kat recognized the symptoms. 'Oh, God,' she thought.
"Kat, would you come to the dance with me?" he finally managed.
"Uh . . ." Kat flushed, right down to her collar, and she was sure it went further. "Yeah, okay."
"Good." Bakura smiled at her and went inside the school. Kat was left standing all alone.
"Are you crazy??" she said aloud. "You idiot-you just made a date with a possessed kid, who has a friggin' necklace that's possessed by an evil spirit from the great Beyond, who would kill you if he got half a chance!!!" (A/N: to our reader-I do actually talk to myself.) Kat sighed, and went into the school. 'I am doomed,' she thought.
"AHAH!!!" Someone grabbed the back of her shirt. It was Zechs.
'SHIT!!!' Kat thought, her body going numb. 'Now I really AM doomed!!'
***
Meg and Akkiko sat down in the classroom just at the final bell rang. Zechs walked in, still holding his gun.
Unbeknownst to the girls, Kat was tied up in the teacher's lounge, trying to squeeze out of the ropes. *And failing.*
"Hey, where's Kat?" Meg asked.
"Maybe she got lost." Taia suggested.
"Oh, good lord," Akkiko said. "How can she get lost in a school?
"Ah, but this is a school in strange world," Meg said, grinning.
Akkiko glared at her, and then paid attention to Zechs (A/N: Remember, Akkiko has a crush on him)
He was saying "Well, I caught one of the hooky-playing perpetrators, and now they are locked up in my secret laboratory, where I will later perform all kinds of illegal government tests on her."
"Oh, crap," Meg said, "Kat got caught-and another thing, Akkiko-WHY THE HELL AREYOU IN LOVE WITH AN INSANE MANIAC???"
Akkiko shrugged. "Demonistic powers attract each other."
Tristan turned behind them. "What are we going to do?" he asked. "We have to save Kat before he turns her into a mutant!!"
Joey hit him "He wouldn't do that!!"
Tristan nodded. "Yeah he would, I've seen in the movies!!"
Akkiko rolled her eyes. "You guys have been watching way too much horror. She said. "If you want quality horror, watch me in demon-mode." She laughed, and everyone in the class looked away, very scared. "I'm sure you'll never think Jack the Ripper is scary again."
Taia shivered. "She's insane!!" she hissed.
"You are just figuring this out?" Meg said.
Yugi leaned over. "Where do you think he's hiding Kat?"
"Let's see . . ." Meg thought for a moment. "He said he was holding her in the secret laboratory . . . It's the teacher's lounge." Everyone around her sweatdropped.
"How d'you you know??!!" Akkiko asked.
"Oh, please," Meg rolled her eyes. "Everyone knows that 'secret laboratory' is teacher code for the teacher's lounge."
"It's a diverse sense of logic, but okay." Akkiko shrugged.
"All right, we know where is . . ." Tristan said. "Now how do we have her?"
"Um . . . That will be a problem." Meg looked over a Zechs, whose feet were propped up on the desk. He was watching everyone in a demonistic gaze not unlike Akkiko's.
"Meg, pretend to pass out," Joey suggested. "That always works in the movies. Once his attention's on you, some of us can go to the teacher's lounge."
"It's just so crazy it might work," Meg said.
"To make it more realistic," Akkiko said. "Why don't I knock you for real?"
Meg glared. "Let the actress do her work," Meg said, and went to the front of the class.
Zechs stared at her. "And where do you think you're going, young lady?"
Meg batted her eyelashes at him. "Oh, please," she said in a pathetic voice. "I smelled some dangerous fumes in the back of the classroom, and now I'm feeling a bit faint-" She collapsed to the ground in an array of *actually good* acting. Akkiko stared. "Well . . . it won't win a Grammy, but that was actually pretty good."
Zechs, of course, being very perverse from the average human being, didn't buy it. "Uh-huh," he said, and opened a gun magazine. "Please go back to your desk, miss."
Meg sighed and got up. "I gave it my best shot," she whispered sitting down."
Joey sighed. "Okay, what now?
"I told you I should have knocked her out for real," Akkiko said. "I'll handle it." She went to the front of the classroom and leaned on the desk.
"Mr. Marquise?" She asked. "Would you like to join the Anti-Heero Club?"
Zechs actually looked interested. "Oooh, and what do you do in this club?" he asked.
Akkiko thought quickly. "Well, every week we egg his Gundam, and other times we dye all his clothes a shocking bright pink."
Zechs leaned forward. "Ooh . . . . This sounds good. How do I enter this club?"
Akkiko gestured behind her back for the others to sneak out. "Well, first you have to get on top of your desk and do the funky chicken dance."
Zechs stared for a moment, and then said, "Okay."
Joey, Meg, Tristan, and Taia slipped out the door.
"Okay," Meg said." Where's the teacher lounge?"
"This way," Taia said, pointing, and the four youths ran down the hallways.
***
Kat struggled in her bonds, wondering how the hell she had gotten here.
"Why does this always happen to me?" she thought, and muttered some obscenities while trying to loosen the ropes binging her wrists.
She stopped, panting. The ropes still held. 'I wish it was the full moon,' she thought, 'then I could turn into a were-Kat and break these ropes.' (A/N: I have a theory about the souls of Meg, myself and Akkiko: Akkiko's soul is a demon, my soul is a were-Kat, and Meg is a sorceress. Sorry for the interruption. That is all)
Suddenly there was a commotion outside the door.
"Shite!" Kat thought. "It's Zechs come back to do horrible things to me. Maybe he'll even dress me in pink!"
Little did she know that he was making a fool of himself back in the classroom. Akkiko now had him doing the Macarena.
The door of the lounge opened, and there was Meg.
"Thank God!" Kat tried to say around her gag. "Meg! UNTIE ME!!!"
After Meg had done this, Kat ran for the front doors. "I am never coming back to this insane school!" She screamed over her shoulder.
Meg sweatdropped. "What now?" she asked.
Joey shrugged. "Let's go back to class," she said.
"Yeah, and hope Akkiko isn't a mass of ashes," Taia said.
***
When they got back to the classroom, they came upon another *of oh, so, many * disturbing sights. Zechs was in a tutu!!!
Meg came up beside Akkiko, who was trying her hardest not ho laugh. "Good God, Akkiko, what have you been doing to the poor guy?"
"Improvising," Akkiko said. "Okay, Mr. Zechs," she said, "The last thing you have to do to initiate yourself into the Anti-Heero club is give me a kiss!!"
Zechs stopped performing Swan Lake for a moment to stare. "Okay . . ." he said. "I hate Heero, and while dying his cloths pink is tempting, nothing is worth that!!" He tore the tutu off of himself and was suddenly in his normal clothes. "Class, take out your pencils, we're having a pop-quiz of the many ways to kill your opponent."
Everyone sighed, and pulled out a No.2. Akkiko returned to her desk.
"So where's Kat?" she asked.
"She ran off when we untied her." Meg said.
"Aww . . ." Akkiko protested. "But there's the entire afternoon left to wreck destruction!!"
"Neh," Meg said. "This is getting boring...if we do have a madman for a teacher!!"
***
Half and hour later, Zechs looked over the tests and found that most of the student s in the class hadn't been too imaginative in the ways to torture and kill their opponents. The only people who got 100% on it were Meg and Akkiko.
"Well done, ladies," he said. "I personally like # five on yours, Akkiko- the one about using fire ants."
"Thanks," Akkiko said, beaming. "It's a gift."
The bell rang. "Class dismissed." Zechs said, and ran out the door.
"Where do you think he's going?" Yugi asked.
"The teacher's lounge." Meg said.
"Yeah, remember? He wants to torture Kat." Akkiko grinned. "He's not going to be too happy."
"Yeah, and do we really want to be around when he discovers she's gone?" Joey asked.
Everyone sweatdropped. "NNNNOOOOOO!!" they screamed and all ran for the door. On the way out, Akkiko collided with someone.
"OOW!!" she said. "Watch it!"
"You're the one who ran into me," said a familiar voice. Akkiko looked up and flushed. It was Kaiba. "Oh . . . I'm so sorry!!" she said in a syrupy voice. "You're right, it was totally my fault."
"Whatever . . ." Kaiba said, and went out of the classroom. Akkiko stared after him, drooling, until Meg came up and grabbed her ear.
"Come on, Demonchild," she said. "Time to go."
With the pain, Akkiko fell back into her usual, demonistic self. "Let go of me, you moronic dingbat!!" she yelled, and hit Meg with a paper fan that seemingly came out of nowhere.
"OOW!!" Meg said, and dropped to the ground her eyes little 'X's.
Suddenly a yell of rage tore through the school.
"Uh-oh!" Akkiko said in a small voice. "That sounded like a very, very angry Zechs."
Tristan and Joey ran back into the classroom, picked up Meg, and ran out again, Akkiko following. Once they were all outside, the two groups parted.
"See you tomorrow!" Taia yelled.
"Uh . . . yeah." Akkiko and Meg turned away. "What do we do now??"
Meg shrugged. "Finding Kat would be good."
"I'm over here!" said a few bushes to their right.
"Kat?" Meg asked, and poked at the bushes.
"No, it's Satan," Kat said emerging. "Is that nutcase gone?"
"Zechs is in the school," Akkiko said, "Looking for you."
"Well, I DON'T want to be found!!" Kat said, and dragged the two of them off.
"WAIT!" Akkiko yelled, and hit Kat on the head with the fan. "Um, have any of you thought where we're going to sleep tonight??"
"Uh . . ." the two clueless looks on Meg and Kat's faces told Akkiko all she wanted to know. She sweatdropped.
"Perfect . . ." she said. "We're stuck in an imaginary world, have no idea how we're going to get back to our own world, and we don't even have a freaking place to sleep!!"
They stopped at a stop-light and waited for the walk signal. A car pulled up in front of them.
"Hey!" Meg yelled. "No parking in front of a cross-walk!"
The back window of the car rolled down. A face with dark sunglasses poked out the window.
"Hey, ladies," the face said. "I have your living quarters all prepared!"
"Do we know you?" Akkiko asked, looking over at Kat and Meg. They both shrugged.
The face took off the sunglasses. Kat's jaw dropped. It was a guy with short red hair, quite a few pimple, and watery blue eyes. He grinned at them. "Recognize me now?"
"Get lost!" Meg said, but Kat stopped her.
"No, I do know him...impossible as it is."
"Who is he then?" Akkiko asked.
"It's Erikson," Kat said. "One of my many imaginary characters."
"What?" Akkiko and Meg said together.
"I get bored very easily, so I create little characters in my own little world." Kat shrugged. "In my little world, I am either one or many different super-sorceresses with magical powers so strong I can destroy a planet with one thought."
Meg sweatdropped. "So where does he come in?" she asked, pointing to Erikson.
"He's the bad guy." Kat shrugged again. "You know, the annoying little cretin who you can never get rid of, he always gets away and then comes back to make more damage?" She sighed and turned to the car. "So, what the hell are you doing here in Yu-Gi-Oh?" she asked Erikson.
"I'm here to give you directions," Erikson said. "And don't worry; I won't make any mischief if you girls behave." He threw a piece of paper out the window. "Head to that address and all will be revealed." The car drove off, leaving the three girls very confused.
"I don't get it," Akkiko said blankly, as Kat picked up the paper.
"Neither do I," Kat admitted. "I don't understand how a guy from my imagination can be walking around in a cartoon." She looked at the scrap of paper and sighed. "Well, I s'pose we should go to the address, like Erikson wanted."
"I thought he was the bad guy?" Meg asked.
"He is." Kat frowned. "Like I said, I don't get it either, and I don't trust Erikson at all, but we don't really have any choice, do we?"
The other girls nodded, and they set off.
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh, any of its characters, places or locations. I do not own Meg or Akkiko. I claim copyright to the plotline and Erikson only. Any similarity to any persons, places or things, is completely un-coincidental.