BookDragon: "Hey, another chapter, another week."

Bill: "She doesn't own Yugioh and never will I'm afraid."

BookDragon: "On with the fic."

Chapter 21: "I saw it in a movie once."

"Alright, strip that wire."

" No, not the yellow one, the blue one."

"What one?"

"The blue one!"

            Ann glanced at the guts of the phone cord cautiously and hastily claimed her eyes shut as she bit off the plastic covering of the small blue wire, exposing some saliva covered copper. She spit out the plastic and handed the wire out. Mokuba grimaced and slowly took it from her out stretched hand and started to look at the inside of what use to be Bill's beeper, now disassembled, and tried to find which wire to put where. Bill peered into the insides with an ill look on his face at Mokuba gingerly placed his fingers on the exposed wet copper and wrapped it around.

"GROSS! You practically coated it!" Ann blushed, but didn't say anything. Mokuba hastily finished up with the connection and immediately wiped his fingers on his jeans and waited for another wire.

"Are you sure this is gonna work?" Bill asked him, watching his stressed face as he looked for one of the other wires, his tongue between his teeth as he started to apply the next sticky wire with some disgust.

"Look, I saw it in a movie once. They connected a cell phone and a regular phone by taking it apart and connecting the yellows wires, red wires, and blue wires together. They got a dial tone and everything." Bill's apprehensive look didn't change.

"One, this is a beeper, not a phone receiver. Two, This isn't a movie, Mokuba." Mokuba didn't saw anything for a moment, only attached the second slimy wire, and then looked at him straight in the face with the little spare time they had.

"Maybe not, but this is a cartoon. Isn't it?"

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"DAMN IT!" Brain kicked the nearest trash can furiously and watched it tip over and crash into the pavement of the narrow alley. Kyle gave him a brief glare, but thinking of the mess he was causing them to clean up, then found, for the first time in his life, he was too tired to argue with him.

            They had been walking since about eight this morning and with the sun about seventy degrees in the sky, knew they had been walking for at least six hours. His feet felt like hot coals and where throbbing quiet badly, as were probably Brian's, but he wasn't sure. Brian did run cross-country after all.

"We've looked practically ever where in this place! They must have got them." This was looking dire. The three were still missing, they hadn't heard from Mokuba yet, and, to make matters worse, it seemed they were lost.

"If we had just decided to take a map…" And for the fourth time Kyle whacked Brian in the shoulder, and got hit back.

"Look! It's not my fault! I thought you knew where you were going, you were leading after all."

"Shut up."

"After all, it was you who said 'Hey Kyle! Follow me!'"

"Shut up!"

"This is all your-" Kyle's voice was muffled suddenly under Brian's hand. Blinking a moment, he regained his common sense and threw off Brian's hand glaring bolts at him. He opened his mouth to argue but got a fierce look from Brian, as he held his finger to his lips. With the new sound of silence a distinct crunching sound of sneakers on pavement reached his ears like a fire cracker in his ear. Both boys remained motionless, listening very hard for the footsteps to pick which direction they were coming from, to tell them if it were friend or foe. When they found it as only one pair of footsteps they assumed it was enemy.

            Brian signaled Kyle to duck behind the dumpster on the left while he hid behind the one to the right. Already the battle tactic was in both of their minds. They had the advantage. The element of surprise and two against one were what they had. Of course, the enemy had magic and shadow powers. Maybe they were at the disadvantage. Whatever the situation, they're hearts were in their throats as the steps got closer.

"On three." Kyle mouthed. Brian did a quick one nod and watched him as his ears picked up the steps.

"One." The steps were very close.

"Two." Just around the corner. Kyle paused. What was he waiting for?

"THREE!" He bellowed into some odd war cry and dived out at the figure just as their foot landed on the asphalt. Both boys immediately took down the figure with their combined weight and pinned it down to the ground with in a matter of seconds. A stunned breath was all the sounded from the figure, then they realized who it was.

"HOLY SHIT! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" Brain cried out angrily as he got off the very freaked-out looking Bakura off the ground. He was shaking badly and kept blinking from Kyle to Brian.

"I-I was looking for everyone else…They weren't at school today." Kyle placed a hand over his face to keep himself from collapsing with relief as Brian's face clouded over.

"We were looking for Joey, Tristan, and Kaiba today. They're missing!" He growled. "Which Serenity found odd since her brother and Tristan always leaves her a note, so does Kaiba for Mokuba. We couldn't find any letters at all. And if they disappeared together it couldn't have been of their own free will…I mean, Joey and Kaiba hate each other." Brian gave him the equivalent of a 'Well DUH' look.

"Where have you been?" Bakura looked at him straight in the face for a moment, and then shrugged.

"At school of course." Kyle and Brian shared a brief glance with each other and then looked back at Bakura, who just started sweatdropping.

"You guys do believe me. Right?"

"Um, sure we do…"

There was a small pocket of silence.

"Bill left the school today, it was on the speakers, and I figured something was up, so, I went looking for the rest of you…and if you don't believe I'm me, I can tell you something the other me wouldn't know." Brian and Kyle looked at each other, and then shared an evil grin.

"Okay…"

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"And…            Here       we      go!" Mokuba quickly pressed the on button on the pager and with a full grin on his face; Bill and Ann crowded around him, and waited a moment. Then he waited two moments. Then three. Then a minute. Then another minute until he finally slammed the plastic against the side of the car. Nope, nothing. Everyone's hopes were just killed off with a flash of lightning, and gloomily backed away from each other and sulked in their chairs. After what seemed like ten minutes of eternity someone suddenly giggled. Ann looked at Bill, who stared dumbfounded, and then to Mokuba who suddenly just started cracking up in his seat uncontrollably.

"Oh my god. He's finally cracked, he couldn't take the pressure. Kaiba is going to kill me." Bill moaned. Ann sat there looking at him like he had two heads. He started even harder at the looks on their faces and between quieting fits he said two words.

"WE'RE           IDIOTS!" And started with another fit.

"Speak for yourself." Ammon suddenly voiced, causing Ann to hit her head against the roof of the car painfully as Bill suddenly grabbed him and tried to get him to stop laughing.

"What? Why are we idiots?!"

"Because," He said and whispered a small giggle, "We still can get out of here…you have magic." Realization suddenly took over Ann as Bill immediately got the joke and too started cracking up, but he also snapped both of his fingers rather loudly and tore off the door to Ann's right.

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