BookDragon: "Hey thanks for the reviews guys!"

Bill: "Yeah, she really though no one who review it after two days, such little faith."

BookDragon: "Thanks a lot Bill…"

Bill: "She doesn't own Yu-gi-oh, on with the chapter!"

Chapter 2: Log Cabin in the Middle of No Where

The small wheels of the long cart squeaked annoyingly as Kaiba and Bakura pulled continuously through the misty black-purple sky and never ending floor spread wide in all directions. She felt a bit trapped as she scanned the horizon for an exit or the way they had entered but found only the darkness, which wasn't comforting at all.

"Why haven't you visited?" Ann shot back to life.

"What?"

"Why haven't you visited?" Bill asked again in an annoyed tone as he wiped sweat from his forehead while pushing the large cart forward with his remaining strength. It wasn't a lot. The cart barely tugged forward even with all of them wheeling it, the engine must have weighted at least a ton. Giving him a confused look she gave a reply just as bewildered.

"How could I have? You're IN a different world, stupid." Bill rolled his eyes angrily.

"Did you at _all_ look at the bracelet I gave back to you." Ann was silent.

"I told you, you should I have written a letter." Kaiba's voice echoed from the front in his business-like manner. Bill glared through the engine like it was transparent to where Kaiba was.

That was why Ann could never understand how anyone in her world could actually have a crush on the guy; he was about as cuddly as a full-grown enraged dragon about fifty-feet long and just a nasty. Ann looked up to the sky and thought again. Then again, he was very sweet to his brother, Mokuba, someone he loved dearly; maybe, the other girls out there thought he'd treat them the same. She pressed on while looking at her shoes already getting tired, to looking under the cart at Bakura's white-worn shoes stepping forward in a steady pace.

Bakura was one she could understand having thousands of fan girls. One only had to take one look at the guy to find him attractive to teen girls that watched the show because he was handsome, well mannered, soft voice, beautiful dark brown eyes, yielding pale skin, and bright white glinting hair. She remembered how her sister had been saying he was cute on the plane ride back to the US, and kept nudging her like it was her boyfriend or something.

"Are you okay?" Ann blinked again and looked at Bill.

"Yes… why do you ask?"

"You're blushing, are you thinking of a special some one…" Bill smirked at her.

"NO!" Ann replied harshly but hastily. The grin on Bill's face widened.

"Oh yes you are… whose the guy? Do I know him?" Her face turned a deeper red of anger.

"I DO NOT HAVE A CRUSH!"

"Oh yes you do! I know him don't I? Come on tell the truth… you know I'll find out sooner or later… come one you can tell me…"

"I-"

"CAN IT BACK THERE!" Kaiba's voice lashed out and silenced the two from the subject completely.

"… Where are we going?"

"To my house." Bill answered wearily.

"Why are we going there? I thought it was Kaiba's machine…"

"It's is… he just doesn't want any of his employees to stumble across it and laugh him out of his own company for believing this "nonsense". So, naturally, he decided to stash it at my house." Ann nodded in agreement.

"That's what I'd do…" The conversation trailed off into nothingness and into the squeaking wheels and ongoing wasteland around them. Ann noticed the hairs on her arms were on end with a tiny uneasy feeling pulling at her, it was starting to scare her, but of course she won't tell. The lugging of the mechanical cargo seemed like hours with everyone puffing and sweating unusually, it was something about the air or the ground or just the place. They all seemed a bit unnerved when finally the squealing was broken.

"How are the others?" It was Bakura's voice. Ann blinked at him surprised and took this into account as odd. Anyone who was anyone that watched the show knew Bakura was shy, so whatever was eating at them all was probably more than very irritating to him.

"Their fine, Marie got her license, Kyle is just an odd as ever, Brian is trying to write some stories, and I'm just going on with live, bored as all hell. How are you guys?"

"Yugi is trying to figure out a way to ask Tea out, Joey misses Marie-" Ann gulped uneasily as this was said, "Yami is looking for the rest of the millennium items, his grandfather is still running the shop, and Pegasus is at the house." Bill said broadly.

"PEGASUS?!?!?!"

"Well, yeah…"

"How the hell…"

"Remember when you said never to pick up hitchhikers?" Bill asked.

"Yeah."

"Well… let's just say I wasn't paying attention last year when I stumbled upon a card that had Peggy's soul trapped in it and released him out of pity, he gave me a whole bunch of money, he's been hanging around the house since, and I'm doing seminars with him."

"Seminars?" She asked puzzled.

"It's a private thing… oh here we are!" Ann nodded more confused as ever and looked around into the oblivion around them.

"How can you tell…?" Bill pointed at her right arm, which had a glowing band shimmering under her long sleeve shirt.

"What the hell did you do to this thing…?" She exclaimed rolling up her sleeve to the golden band that she obtained in the dessert a year ago, no longer plain but covered in symbols and a wand, sword, and a dragon carved into it, it glowed like a flashlight on Halloween night, and stung her eyes as she looked at it.

"Yami made it so you could travel to the anime world by pressing something on the inside of the band… so thing you have to do on purpose, not by just wearing it…"

She immediately stopped wheeling the cart and flipped the thing off her arm and looked at the plain golden inside of it, plain except the triangle lightly carved into it. Feeling somewhat stupid she pressed it and held on as it started vibrating violently and started blowing air all over the place. She didn't dare drop the thing incase it would be swept away into this godforsaken place and loose their no ticket to somewhere livable, but the thing tug forcefully in her pale hands, wanting to be set free and leave them stranded to die. Then balls of light started spewing from the golden arm band like embers from a sparkler, which all collected behind them like nails to a magnet, jumping in, one by one, into something that reassembled a hole, except vertical and shinning too bright for eyes to look safely around them. It streamed on like this for a few good minutes, Bill smiling wide like a drunken fool, Bakura emotionless but brown eyes gleaming, and Kaiba, just as serious as ever. Finally the thing coughed up the very last sphere of radiance and dropped into the pool like water, and then the thing opened into a musty basement with all sorts of things on tables and cables leading everywhere. The bracelet tugged toward the doorway eagerly as Bill started clapping at her with the stupidest grin on his face with Bakura looking relieved, probably because they were finally getting out of here.

"Nice job… okay guys let's get moving!" Slowly but surely the huge object was pressed into that though the small hole, sparking at the edges, and slid into their dimension. Ann flipped the thing back on her arm carefully and helped push the thing in, stepping oddly on the cement floor as the portal behind them shut in a blip and a crackle. Ann took a look around the dusty, very common, basement that kind of looked too like a libratory but had a huge grey platform in the middle of the floor. Bill dusted himself off as Bakura wiped his forehead, Kaiba just stood there.

"Where are we?"

"Where do you think we are? Kaiba's house?" Bill said with a strong sense of sarcasm.

"This is my basement, where Kaiba hides his private stuff, help me with this." There was no need for a crane to appear this time because one was already built and standing right over the top of their heads. Bakura had to stand on the cart to reach the swaying chain and wrap it around the engine as Kaiba pressed the button to raise it up and put it down on the platform; Bill took two cables and hooked them up to the machine and walked to the circuit breaker on the side of his walk opposite of the log stairs that lead up. He flipped open the grey door that had all sorts of switches that lead up into a very cramped tunnel going up and down. Bill studied it a moment and climbed up a bit until you could only see the folds in his jeans where the back of his knees where and snapped them both somewhere.

"There we are." His muffled voice sounded through the wall, then his legs moved around a bit, stopped, and shook a bit more.

"Uh guys I think I'm stuck…" His voice cried softly through the thick wall. Kaiba put his face in his hand as Bakura ran over to him. Ann walked over to where his legs where kicking and grabbed the left one as Bakura grabbed the right.

"Pull?" Bakura asked questionably.

"Probably. Do you think we'll need butter to slip him out?" Bakura grinned at the joke and started to pull as hard as possible on the jeans as Ann immediately followed.

"OUCH!!NOT SO HARD!" They let him go to find him more stuck than ever as his legs where limp.

"Can't you just think yourself out of the wall?" Kaiba asked annoyed.

"No, I used up all my juice on moving the engine on the cart…"

"Damn… Well it looks like I was right; you should have opened it up more."

"Just shut up and get me OUT OF HERE!!!" Bill cried out pissed off but somewhat scared. Ann sighed.

"Okay on three…" She grabbed his leg again. "One…two…three!" They both pulled with everything they had downward and shook him until he wiggled free and fell on them. Ann blinked at the sudden realization that she was on the ground and someone was standing over her… it was Yugi. He hadn't changed much, his hair was as wild and messed up as ever but his clothes were darker, it was nice on him, made him look just a little taller, the puzzle swung over their faces like a swing pendant in the jumbled mess.

"What are you guys doing?"

"Putting in the power supply in and getting Ann to visit for a change."

"Hey I didn't _know_ how the thing worked." Ann spat at Bill angrily. Bill struggled out of the mess and smoothed out his trench coat. Ann jumped off Bakura as he sat up slowly rubbing his head. Yugi smiled at them.

"It's good to see you back safely, Yami was getting worried."

"He doesn't need to be…" Kaiba said in his normal "I don't need your help" business fashion, just like him. Yugi frowned at him but shook Ann's hand happily.

"It's good to see you again, how is your sister and friends?"

"She's fine, everybody is fine."

"You will have them visit wouldn't you? Joe's dying to see Marie again…"

"H-He is? Oh well… t-that's great news… I'll get her to visit again… where's tea?"

She immediately went up stairs. Yugi blinked at her, wondering what's on her mind.

"What the matter with her?" Bill asked in the same puzzled way. Everyone shrugged and followed her upstairs, to find out.

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