United We Stand

"Rapheale's gonna anialate them. Joey and Dejiro are futile when compared to Rapheale

alone, but with Mai, victory is clenched"said Vendick.

"What about the girl, Jane? Those drugs are likely to wear off in just a few minutes"said Calback.

Then retrain her again, we both her and Malik for this to work"

Calback cut the rope securing Jane's wrist to the railing.

However the rope was still tied around her one wrist. Calback took the other end of the rope

and bound her hands together tightly. He then went into Mai's room and stuffed her in the closet.

"Vendick, our time is almost here. We'll have the egyptian god cards won soon, then

Yugi's puzzle. Everything is working perfectly"thought Calback.

**Flashback**

Young Calback cuddled in the alleyway, trembiling. He was about

4 years of age, and like most 4 year olds believed in monsters. He was being

chased by one.

"WHERE ARE YOU BOY! GET OUT HERE!"

"Leave me alone daddy, don't hurt me again"he thought.

He was bleeding from the legs and eyes. He couldn't move, his body was mummified in

pain, his fear also lending a hand in his paralazation.

His father found him soon enough, an angry expression on his face.

"GET OVER HERE!"

Calback merely closed his eyes. His dad picked him up by the shirt and smacked him

harshly, tearing the shirt from his grip and causing him to hit the ground hard.

"YOU LEAVE HIM ALONE!"

It was Calback's mother, with a gun.

"Moomy?"asked Calback weakly.

BANG. BANG.

When Calback awoke he felt woozy, his chest and stomach threatening

to explode on impact.

A strange woman was leaning over him.

"Where's Mommy? Did Daddy hurt her?"

**End Flashback**

"Vendick, we won't fail"thought Calback, his fist clenching

"I won't allow it"

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Joey:2500 Dejiro:200

Mai:1350 Rapheale:4000

"Bingo! This is just what I need"thought Joey.

"I place one card face down, and play Foolish Burial, putting one card from my hand

into your graveyard. That ends my turn"

Rapheale drew.

"I play this magic card, Grave Judgement. For every turn that passes without

a monster going to the graveyard, one of you will lose 500 lifepoints. It would be a waste

of time to use it on you Dejiro, so I'll use it on Joey. Everytime my turn begins, my magic

card will activate and drain your lifepoints piece by piece. That ends my turn"

"That gives me just 5 turns to win this. Well Dejiro's up, I hope he has a plan"thought Joey.

"Now I play Book of Secret Arts. It'll raise Maho Vailo's attack by 300, and his effect will

raise it by another 500"

Maho Vailo:3350

"Maho Vailo, attack Mai directly!"

"Dejiro, no!"gasped Joey and Yami in usion.

"Magna Guard Buster, block it!"

Dejiro:0000

"You lose punk"said Mai.

"Not again"said Dejiro falling to his knees.

"It's okay, you tried. Don't worry, I'll win this"said Joey.

"Good luck, it's two against one"said Rapheale.

Joey snickered.

"Well it's time I evened the odds! I activate GraveRobber, to bring back the card

I put in your graveyard, my egyptian God card Obelisk the Tormentor!"

It had an ATK and DEF of 4000.

"NO WAY!"gasped Rapheale and Mai in usion.

"So sorry to dissapoint ya two, but it looks like I have this match won!

Now I sacrafice my two monsters to activate his effect. First he'll wipe out all

of your monsters!"

Every monster other then Obelisk was blown to digital bits.

"This can't be happening!"gasped Rapheale.

"Next, Obelisk, attack Rapheale and Mai directly!"

Mai:0000 Rapheale:0000

"Too bad! Now release control of Mai as you promised!"

Mai simply laughed.

"Don't you see Joey, I'm under no one's control, I joined the Garder Snakes

of my own free will"said Mai.

"No, you can't!"gasped Joey.

"What are you thinking!"gasped Yami.

"Oh, and by the way Dejiro, I'm gonna have a lot of fun with your sister"

Dejiro jolted up.

"You leave her alone! She didn't do anything to you"said Dejiro.

"And your point is? We'll be back"

"Mai, wait!"called Joey.

However she and Rapheale walked off.

Joey stomped his foot hard on the ground.

"We finally beat those two and we get nothing from it!"yelled Joey angrily.

"Calm down Joey! You'll play into their hands if you overeact. We must think

clearly"said Yami.

"Look at you with all the problems! Mai's not the one who's suffering, who's being

used as a toy, Mai's not your sister! She's not gonna get hurt at all siding with them,

while my sister's gonna be used and then killed off like some old wind up toy!"said Dejiro

with tears.

"Easy man, I'm sorry. Look, I promise we'll get your sister back, just trust me on

this, will ya?"said Joey.

Dejiro nodded, wiping the tears from his eyes.

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The message Kaiba recieved was nothing more then some cruel trick from the Garder

Snakes. Mokuba was in his room.

Kaiba was becoming very fed up with the Garder Snakes, and looking for info on

them at his computer.

"It appears these Garder Snakes keep themselves pretty well hidden. There have only

been a few small reports about them, and nothing ins known about them at all. Their

duel disks are off, these guys think ahead. Computer, find some information on

the family of a kid named Dejiro"

"Right away"

It took a few minutes but the profiles soon came up. There were pictures with the profiles

so Kaiba found the Dejiro he was looking for pretty fast.

"Good, now what information do you have on his sister?"asked Kaiba.

All the information known of her was on the computer. He skipped the useless items like

Blood type and allergies.

"Same age as Dejiro, I would've guessed. Grades are pretty high, lives on Suchur street,

right at the end of Domino city. Currently missing, of course. Middle Class family. So why

would the Garder Snakes want her?"

Kaiba was horrified when from out of nowhere a flash of light blinded him.

It took a minute for him to open his eyes, but when he did, he saw what seemed to be

him in a purple robe along with many other men. A girl who looked exactly like Jane

in the nude was layind unconcious upon the floor.

"What is this"he thought.

His other self stabbed a dagger through the girl's heart.

"In the name of the shadows, my daughter will be reborn one day!When she is,

her destiny will become clear, her powers will awake, and I will be there to protect her!"

Kaiba now found himself back at his computer, comepletely stunned.

"What was that?"

**Flashback**

"Why hello Priest Kaiba"

**End Flashback**

"Yami Malik had callne me priest Kaiba, was I reincarnated?

Jane definetly is not normal, I can feel it. She must be saved"thought Kaiba.

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"If it weren't for those egyptian God cards, Joey would've been beaten. We have to duel him somehow

without him using the egyptian god cards against us"said Vendick.

"Perhaps we can use the girl, Jane. Knowing Yugi and Joey, they'll be willing to

do almost anything to get her back for that piece of dueling filth Dejiro"said Calback.

"NO! I musn't risk her, she's too important. However, that dosen't mean

I can't use her to help. Calback, bring Jane to me, those egyptian god

cards and milenium puzzle will be mine once and for all!"

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"Why do you wanna help Kaiba?"asked Joey suspicously.

Kaiba wanted to get this done as fast as possible, so went to

Yugi and the others.

"Never mind, I just these Garder Snakes gone"said Kaiba.

"Well you'll get your chance"

They all looked behind them and saw Calback along with two men there.

Calback was holding Jade close to her. Jane still had her hands bound behind

her and was gagged tightly with a strip of White cloth.

"Jane!"gasped Dejiro running up but Joey held him back.

"Don't be stupid, there's three of them"said Joey.

"You want Jane back, and we want your puzzle and egyptian god cards.

So to settle the score once and for all you'll have to go through the

Death Run"said Calback.

Jane struggled and tried to warn them about this but with no sucsess.

"Death Run?"asked Kaiba.

"Yess, I'll explain, but first, Joey must remove his Egyptian

God cards from his deck. If you don't"said Calback turning his face to

face Jane's trembiling and scared face"Then this bitch is gonna pay

your price"

"Fine"said Joey going through his deck.

It only took him a minute to get all three.

"Now show them to me"

Joey did so, they were all there.

"In order for the Egyptian god cards to be controlled,

they must be won from the previous owner. So just stuff them in

your pockets for now"

Joey did so.

"Allright, take us there"said Calback.

With his Snake Crown, Vendick transported them all to a large pyramid like building.

"Where did Jane go?"asked Dejiro.

"She's back with Vendick. Now allow me to explain, there are 4 levels in this

place. We are no longer in Mai's house, we're in in the burrier seperating your

realm from the Shadow realm. On every layer there's a duelist. You must defeat all

4 to get Jane back"said Calback.

"You're on!"said Joey.

"Good luck"

Calback vanished.

"Man, if we're in a burrier then they can probaly

do things they couldn't normaly"said Joey.

"Who cares, let's just get this over with. I doubt these

duelists will be a problem at all"said Kaiba.

The door opened.

"Let's go!"said Dejiro.

"Yes, let's get your sister back and end this madness"said Yami.

"We'll send these Garder Snakes packing"said Joey.

"This game's about to end"said Kaiba.

They all entered, the doors closing behind them.

The first floor was GIGANTIC! Quite literaly.

"Oh man, I wish I had a room like this"said Joey.

"So who's going first?"asked Dejiro.

"Good question, let's wait until the first duelist shows up"said Kaiba.

"Wait until they see our newest member, they'll be quite suprised"thought Vendick.

Someone stepped out from the shadows, and everyone except Dejiro gasped

at who had entered.

"No way!"gasped Joey"Tristan!"

TBC

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