Disclaimer and legal crapsies: Yu-Gi-Oh! and all related characters, names, paraphanalia, monsters, and so on and so forth, are © Kazuki Takahashi. This is a cross-over fic between the most holy high Yu-Gi-Oh! and the most dementedly cool game, American McGee's Alice.

American McGee's Alice is © to EA Games ((*whisper* Challenge Eev- erything)) and the original Alice in Wonderland and below mentioned alternate title of the same story is © to the long dead yet still cool Lewis Carroll. I take no credit for creating any of the characters in this story which are related to these three items.

Only thing I take credit for is writing the story and for my own original character, Aira Marashima. Like I said before.... Aira Marashima is © to me, myself, and I. She's based on me, and she's cool and she's mine. So if anyone wants to take her and say that you made her up, I will NOT hesitate to send Bakura, Kaiba, and Yami after you!!!

A new addition to the cast in Chapter Six is Lindsi! She is one of my best friend's characters. Lindsi Marashima is © to her original creator, Rinshi Galondel. She kicks ass, and is cool and I swear to gods if anyone tries to steal her and claim her for their own I will send Marik after your sorry ass. And not the hikari, I'm talking the bad ass Yami Marik. You have been warned...Buahahaha....

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Chapter Six: Skool Dayz

Rutledge Mental Institution
Case #46986414
Patient Name: Yugi Mutou
Physician in Charge: Dr. S.K. Lee
Date: October Fifteenth, Two Thousand and Three

Two days have passed since the incident in which Yugi completely dislocated his right shoulder. He has undergone three surgeries repairing separate ailments; the first to set metal pins in his upper arm and shoulder, the second to reattach the various ligaments and tendons to their proper locations, and the third to set pins in his wrist.

All procedures were completed within hours, and were total successes. While it may take quite a bit of physical therapy in order for Yugi to regain use of his hand, I believe that this may be the least of his difficulties. Since the incident two days ago, he has not moved an inch.

Yugi seems to have completely reverted to his former mental condition. His eyes remain affixed to the ceiling and never blink. He has even stopped his terror fits. I believe that I shall try modifying his medication dosage. Maybe increasing it will bring him back around. Another possibility which crossed my mind was the possibility of having Aira return sooner for another visit. With the exception of last time's visit, her presence has brought about general improvement in his condition.

One of the younger patients at the hospital which I've allowed to wander the halls under supervision did however make a visit to Yugi today. This patient in particular, a girl whose situation was very similar to Yugi's; entered his room with one of the nurses. She always carries a plush rabbit with button eyes and embroidered nose and mouth and wearing a grey felt vest. It is slightly charred by the fire she was caught in, but it is her only surviving valuable.

She is actually slated for release within the week. In any case, the strange thing is, she tucked her rabbit beside him and told the nurse that, "It's his turn to follow the White Rabbit home." Not very strange I suppose; considering that this was coming from the same girl who had had a fixation with my new gold pocket watch.

Yet I wonder what she meant, one does not usually follow white rabbits home, especially if one is in a coma. Either way, I found the gesture touching.

One strange event did occur however that I do wish to note; involving the deck of Duel Monster's cards which Aira left here on her previous visit. Having an affinity for the game myself, I had taken a look through his deck out of curiosity. Two cards caught my attention in particular; first and foremost was his Black Magician. In perfect condition, yet it seemed to have faded slightly in color, but still, I could feel the card coming through, its 'heart' if you will.

It seemed to pass me a stern stare as I shuffled past it. Perhaps I was just imagining things. Secondly I noticed his God card, the Saint Dragon Osiris. While I felt honored to even touch this one of a kind card, it seemed different from what I'd heard; the crimson Saint Dragon had become a dull sheen of mud red from the bright scarlet it should have been.

Could this fading be from lack of use? I found it odd that it was just these two cards that had faded from out of the entire deck, and what's even more odd was that they were shuffled deep into the deck, away from any damaging sunlight.

Yet this fading was not the strangest of the strange event I'd like to recall; merely a part of it. After shuffling through the deck, I placed it back on his night stand beside his bed and left. When I returned with his medication a short time later, the deck was sitting in the palm of his left hand; which was not only restrained, but on the complete opposite side of the bed from his night stand.

Yugi could not possibly have put the deck in his own hand, as his entire right side is in plaster casts and pins, and completely immobile. When I inquired about the deck with the nursing staff each said that they knew nothing about how it had gotten in Yugi's hand; and some didn't even know that the deck had existed until I told them about it. How did his deck come to rest in his hand if he was unable to escape from his cast or restraints?

Indeed, I highly doubt that Yugi is Harry Houdini incarnate...

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Lin?

"Enough pleasantries, pharaoh boy; we're even now."

Even?

Yami chuckled darkly. "Indeed. But I have a favor to ask of you, and you may enjoy this one." The one called 'Lindsi' pulled back her wraith- like hood. I was surprised to find that my savior was quite attractive; even if her spectral eyes were staring death at my other self. Her lips were drawn into an intrigued smirk. She brushed wisps of her long passion colored hair from her forehead.

"I'm listening."

"Just wait a minute, here!" I objected, hoping that it was only Yami who could hear me. I watched as a sort of bubble formed around me, and my corporeal face go into a sort of comatose expression as the apparition of Yami appeared within the bubble beside me. "What?" he said, sounding rather impatient.

"Who is that girl?" I asked the spirit. "That? That's Lindsi," he replied all too simply, as if I were the dullest tool in the shed. "I FIGURED it was Lindsi, but who is she, and why didn't she let those card guards kill us? Isn't she working for the Black Dragon Emperor?"

"Okay...where do I start...easy. A quick background on her so I can make you, my hikari friend happy, and so we can move onto saving Carl and that damned rabbit." He said sounding a bit annoyed. "Go on then," I said.

"Lindsi was and is the best assassin in Egyptian history. She is known for being the one to assassinate me, actually," he muttered, "which really pissed her off in the long run, because it ended up being quite beneficial. It was what sealed my soul in the Milennium Puzzle in the first place...She had stupidly chosen the night I'd be at the temple preparing to do the sealing ritual to do me in.....But that's a different story all together. Anyway..."

I could tell he was really hurrying through his explanation, because through the bubble, I could see Lin's already stern face becoming slanted into a steadily more impatient and irritated expression.

"She works for the Black Dragon Emperor and controls his most potent Shadow Magic. His right hand..er...woman, really. But what he doesn't know is that she actually defected from him years ago, and has been working as a double agent sided with the citizens of Yamino Wonderland ever since."

"So she's a good guy?" Yami rubbed a spot between his shoulder blades with an almost uncomfortable look of reminiscence on his face. "You could say that, I suppose." He vanished from the bubble, which popped around us. Yami's eyes opened and he flashed Lindsi a sly sort of smile. "Sorry about that..."

"Right... Now what were you saying about a favor I'd actually enjoy doing for you? As I find that highly unlikely, and I'm a very busy woman, I suggest you tell me quickly."

"You probably have a certain rabbit and gnome in custody, I assume?" She cocked an eyebrow. "You mean the short irritating potbelly and the rodent I intend to turn into a new fur scarf? Yes. They're in custody. What of it?"

"Wouldn't it be an interesting challenge to see if we could free them without the Black Dragon Emperor ever knowing that they weren't otherwise...deceased?"

"That'd be impossible. There are card guards and Boojum all over this place that already know they've been captured." A maniacal sort of grin crossed Yami's lips. It kind of frightened me. He looked as if he'd lost his senses for a moment, gone insane as it were... "What if they weren't around to tell the Black Dragon Emperor any different? You said yourself that he wouldn't mind disposing of a few useless minions..."

Lindsi's face brightened, cracking into a similar, even more insane and demonic grin than Yami's. "Pharaoh boy, I think I've been a bad influence on you...Sounds like fun. I think I will enjoy helping you after all..." she said, her hand melting out from under the shadowy sleeve of her cloak, her palm opening and a crackling ball of black energy forming inches above it.

"Care to see if the Boojum know how to play catch?" she said in a bemused, sickly sweet drawl. "Now wait a second! You don't mean to tell me that you're going to take on all the card guards and Boojum in this place on your own, do you?!" I half shrieked, having just about forgotten that I was not only invisible to Lindsi, but inaudible as well. Yami chuckled to himself as he watched Lindsi clench a fist and disintegrating the energy in her hand before stalking eagerly towards the spiral staircase, "I may be brave, but I'm not nearly that cocky...or stupid...Lindsi on the other hand..."

"Are you coming, you pharonic baka?" called Lindsi as she vanished behind the gigantic post in the center of the staircase only to reappear as she rounded the other side. Yami tucked one hand inside his coat pocket, where I knew the explosive cards resided; but why he tucked his opposite hand in the other pocket instead of keeping it on the Vorpal Blade I didn't know.

"Hai." He responded, following her up the stairs to stop in front of a door labeled 'Ferst Grayd'. "Shall we see what's behind door number one?" she asked, sounding almost as casual as if she were asking about the weather. "Why not?" said Yami going into the half bow of an 'after you' gesture.

"Wont be needing this then!" she said with a grin rivaling the Cheshire Cat's in width, as she pulled the billowing cloak of shadows from around her body. Beneath her wraith cloak, was a similarly colored knee- length dress, frocked with a white apron which appeared to be neatly pressed and starched.

"Nice dress, Alice," said Yami with a mocking snicker. "Shut up, Pharaoh. I still know many ways of providing you with a highly painful death...or wasn't your last one painful enough?" He chuckled, "Point taken." She flung open the doors, where we were greeted by five card guards whom had taken to amusing themselves by building a card house with their own bodies.

"Act beaten," she muttered to Yami, whom I was very surprised to see actually take the role of one completely and utterly defeated in an less than an instant. His shoulders slumped, his eyes lowered submissively to the ground, and his smile vanished completely. He was beaten. I found this almost as unnerving as the insane grin he'd flashed Lin not a few minutes before hand.

"AND JUST WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU IDIOTS DOING?!" Lindsi bellowed at the card guards, whose house toppled to the musty carpet in a heap. They scrambled to get up, hearts two through six. The two of hearts was first to reach his feet. "Beggin' ye pardon, ma'am! We was just findin' a way to pass the time is all!" She growled at them in a most intimidating manner, "I'll give you a way to pass the time, how about a little vacation in the Shadow Realm?" Hearts three through five clambered to their feet, only to fall to their knees. "Please no, miss! We promise we won't do it no more!"

A sadistic smile crossed Lin's lips. "Gods I love being feared..." The six of hearts finally made it to his feet, leaning to one side to get a better view behind Lindsi. "Um, Mi'lady....ain't that the Savior?" "It is. I'm just bringing him here to await his execution."

EXECUTION?!

My heart leaped to my throat and throbbed there for a few moments before I managed to gulp it back down again. I expected a similar reaction from Yami, but couldn't decide whether I should be relieved or horrified when he continued his façade of 'acting beaten' without so much as blinking at the mention of his own impending death sentence.

"HELLO?! YAMI!? BAKA, WAKE UP! SHE'S BETRAYED YOU, SHE'S GONNA KILL YOU!" I shouted frantically at Yami, thinking that maybe he'd gotten a chunk of Boojum stuck in his ear and couldn't hear what Lin had just said. His silent answer was all I was to receive.

"Y-yes m'lady! Would you want us to be guarding him then?" asked the four of hearts with an eager expression on his face. "Yes...just don't injure him too badly...The emperor wants to have a bit of fun before executing him." She said coolly as she turned and walked past Yami.

"That's your cue, pharaoh boy." She whispered as she walked past. "I was wondering when you'd get to my part..." said Yami in a pleasured undertone, accompanied by a sadistic grin. His hand moved slowly to the handle of the Vorpal Blade. "OY! Keep yer 'and where I can see it..." shouted the Six of Hearts, rushing towards Yami, brandishing his heart bladed spear.

"I think not." Yami's eyes raised from their submissive stare at the floor. A homicidal fire burned in his slanted eyes, his brow drawn tightly in the middle as he stared a death sentence at the five unfortunate soldiers. Every muscle became relaxed, smooth as liquid silk; yet tensed and ready to strike.

It all happened in a matter of seconds. The slaughter was all too easy for Yami; it was almost as if he wished the card soldiers would put up more of a fight. The carnage left by his assault was almost as devastating as a hurricane, only exponentially more bloodstained. Dismembered pieces of the former soldiers lay strewn everywhere; one of the card soldier's arms was pinned to the wall by the Vorpal Blade, dangling by its hand, and lacking its owner's company.

Yami strolled casually over and yanked the blade from the wall with a sickening squish, then cleaned its crimson stained edge on the tail of his coat. The sight made me sick to my stomach. The more of Yamino Wonderland I saw, the more I wanted to go home...

The sound of slow clapping reached our ears, as Yami turned to look over his shoulder, we discovered that it was Lin, a demented yet pleased look upon her face. "Very nice....very nice indeed...You may just make it out of Yamino Wonderland alive after all..."