Chapter 2
Seto Kaiba, in contrast to the Yugi gang, was having a GREAT day. He had fired his entire board of directors, largely due to the fact they were all traitorous bastards who had conspired to have him killed. He had made several important business decisions, which had led to him making a couple billion dollars. He had earned some time off, and had plenty of time to go to his private room at his private mansion (He was still in school, but rarely bothered to go any more) and engage in his favorite activity.
Entering his room, he went right past the king-size feather bed and paid absolutely no attention to the chest of briefcases he had filled with cards to trade in case he ever found a card he REALLY wanted. He walked straight up to the northernmost wall, the one decorated with a massive picture of him. It took some struggle, but he got the picture off the wall and revealed a massive, nine foot tall vault door, ten inch thick solid steel. He turned to the keypad beside it, and a computerized voice said, "State your name."
"Seto Kaiba".
"Punch in your access code."
He punched it in, a thirteen digit totally random number, so no one could possibly guess it.
"Place your palm on the pad for a fingerprint scan."
He did so.
"State your spoken password."
" 'Yugi must die'."
A hypodermic needle extended from the wall. "Prick your finger on the needle and provide three drops of blood for a DNA scan."
Kaiba did so, his dark red blood running down the needle into the computer to begin the DNA scan.
"While DNA scan is running, we will begin a voice pattern match. Speak, and your voice print will be compared to the pre-recorded speech programmed into the security lock."
Kaiba cleared his throat and began: "Seto Kaiba, hair brown, eyes a deep, tantalizing blue. Sinister, yet incredibly dashing. Beyond a shadow of a doubt the best Duelist on the face of the planet, tall, wealthy, and unbelievably handsome. Definitely destined to make a mark on history beyond that of its greatest heroes."
"Voice print and DNA scan confirmed. You may now enter, Mr. Kaiba."
The vault door opened, and fifteen identical doors behind it opened one at a time.
Kaiba smiled. He took security very seriously.
He walked up to the last door and withdrew a key from his vest pocket. Ignoring the door, with its large, inviting keyhole (Which was a complete fake, the door would explode if ever opened) he slid aside a panel on the wall and inserted the key into the keyhole this revealed. A section of the wall slid open, and he stepped into his personal vault.
Inside, an extensive laser web, sensor grid floor, and automated machine guns all surrounded a single pedestal with an elaborate silver box on it. Kaiba said loudly " 'KaibaCorp. rules the universe'."
The computerized voice proclaimed, "Passcode and voice recognition confirmed. Deactivating automated defense systems."
He walked up to the box, and turned the KaibaCorp. logo emblazoned on it counterclockwise three times, then half a turn clockwise, then two more counterclockwise. The box clicked as the poison dart launcher inside was disarmed.
Kaiba took security VERY seriously.
He opened the box and his eyes misted up involuntarily. He fought it off, but he couldn't help shedding a tear of joy whenever he set eyes upon the most precious thing in his life.
His deck.
The beautiful, perfect, individually chosen cards that made up the personal dueling deck of Seto Kaiba. More important to him than ANYTHING up to and including his little brother Mokuba, the deck was the result of years of work and millions of dollars.
And most precious of all, the crowing achievement of his deck, the greatest items he had ever collected in his life, his most prized possessions, his three super-rare, super-valuable, super-powerful Blue Eyes White Dragon cards.
He didn't even bother to try to stop the tears of joy that flowed as he looked at the three identical blue-white reptiles, although he was careful to not allow any to touch his beautiful Blue Eyes White Dragon cards.
He sat for over an hour, just sighing contentedly and staring at his Dragons. Ah, my beautiful cards. How many victories we've won together. ::Sigh::… NO! KAIBA! STOP IT! STOP CRYING! YOU'RE EVIL! EVIL! Ruthless industrialists don't CRY! Oh… but my lovely, beautiful cards… never have you failed me… except that one time…
FLASHBACK
"Draw your last pathetic card, Yugi, so I can end this!" Kaiba taunted.
"My Grandpa's deck has no pathetic cards, Kaiba!" Yami/Yugi replied. "But it does contain… the unstoppable Exodia!"
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?! IMPOSSIBLE!"
"I have assembled all five pieces of the puzzle!" Yami/Yugi proclaimed, and sure enough, Exodia appeared on the field. The massive Egyptian monster towered over Kaiba's Blue Eyes White Dragon cards.
"EXODIA, OBLITERATE!" Yami/Yugi commanded.
Kaiba could only watch in horror as his Dragons were destroyed and his life points dropped to zero…
END FLASHBACK
Kaiba sat where he had been before the flashback, except now he was growling with barely contained fury. His cards were on the floor, forgotten, and he was clenching his fists so he hard he drew blood. He didn't consider his loss to Pegasus a loss, because that bastard had used evil Egyptian magic on him, but his loss to YUGI… "YUGI!" He screamed out to no one in particular. "YOU CHEATING LITTLE BASTARD! I'M THE ONE WITH THE BLUE EYES WHITE DAMN DRAGONS, I SHOULD HAVE WON! ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME!"
Without looking at what he was doing, he reached into the box and removed the other item in it: A customized set of darts. He turned to the far wall of the vault, where was hung a custom-made, well used Yugi dartboard. He spent a half an hour screaming at it and throwing darts, then just walked up and started punching it. He threw it on floor and started jumping up and down on it, cursing like a drunk sailor and roaring insults that would have really pissed Yugi off, had he been there.
Then, the very image of an icy, coldhearted businessman, he hung the dartboard back on the wall, reorganized his deck and put it back in the box beside the darts, and left. He closed the main door, which reactivated the entire security system.
Back in the vault, the lasers hummed and the machine guns continued searching for anyone stupid enough to trip a laser or set off the sensors in the floor.
Suddenly, however, the box containing Kaiba's deck to began to shimmer, and briefly glowed black…
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