skye: i'm back...after another extended absence...sorry*hangs head in shame*

bakura: *pokes her in the back with a rather sharp looking sword*

skye: ow...and i want to thank you for the reviews, specially the ones who got the laughing gas thingamabober!! yay for peggi, bandit-king, and reine keri!!

bakura: *pokes her with the sword again*

skye: ow...and i don't own yu-gi-oh or any of the characters

bakura: *pokes a bit harder*

skye: ow...and i've learned not to allow bakura near sharp objects

bakura: *glares and jabs her with the sword*

skye: OW!! FINE, I'LL FREAKIN' SAY IT!! bakura could beat yami any day, but he just let's him win in the series so that way the series can continue being called yu-gi-oh, cause ba-ku-ra-oh doesn't roll of the tongue as easily

bakura: *smiles*

skye: sadistic bastard...

ryou: and then some.

bakura: quiet, ryou *smirks* you know you like it

ryou: *blushes*

skye: okie, you know what, this a/n got too long...please read the chap!! BAKURA!! PUT THE F***IN' SWORD AWAY!!

~*~

Trees.

So many freakin' trees.

Well, they were in a forest, but still, the amount of trees was incalculable, if not stupid, thought Bakura. In Egypt, had they reason for this many trees?? Nope, just blistering sunlight...He was bored.

After taking different modes of transportation, they finally reached a dark, wooded area which was near a large mansion rumored to belong to Pegasus. However, it was almost nightfall.

Suddenly Bakura felt a weird tugging at his Ring, and looked down to see it sensing a Millennium Item close by. 'Must be the Eye.', he thought, until Shiranai stopped walking, and tensed all over.

"Shira-", Mokuba started, but Shiranai put a hand over his mouth and put him protectively behind her.

"Someone is,", she whispered, "over there.", and she nudged her heads toward a small cluster of bushes, where a twig was heard snapping.

Bakura stood in front of Ryou, as Yami did in front of Yugi, and Joey made sure Serenity was well out of harm's way.

All stood at attention, ready to fight whatever it was that came out of hiding...The bushes rustled a bit more, and out leapt...A small bunny, that upon seeing the group of them, turned and ran the other way.

"Well now, didn't that help a freakin' lot??", Shiranai snipped at no one.

Mokuba walked towards where the bunny had leapt from, and then called out with surprise, "Hey, look what's behind this thing!!"

Sure enough, there was a ring, that when pulled up revealed a set of stairs, descending into what appeared to be a tunnel lit with candles.

"A secret entrance??", Serenity asked, "To his mansion??"

"There were ones all over Duelist Kingdom to his castle-place then, why not here??", Yugi filled in for the confused girl.

"What're you waiting for??", shouted Shiranai, already halfway down the stairs. The others quickly followed suit, Joey pulling the door shut behind them.

~*~

"Oi, Malikky.", Amethyst called.

"Eh?? Whatcha need, Gemshtone??", the inebriated Egyptian answered.

"Let'sh sing a song or sumtin' 'cause it'sh too quiets around heres."

"I agree, Jewel. But, what song wouldja sing??"

Deep in thought, in between bursts of giggles every now and again, the door slowly opened.

"Who goes dere??", shouted out Malik.

"You tell 'im, Malikky."

Pegasus stepped in, smiling smugly, but his smile was soon gone as the pair of hikaris tied to the bed, burst into there rendition of 'Bad To The Bone.'

"Make a witch woman's leg.", Malik sang, not caring it was the middle of the song.

"Make a mud robin seal.", Amethyst crooned, mixing up the words as Malik did.

"Wanna be your's, good good gravy!!"

"Your's and shure as a bone!!"

"But I use some gel or somethin'"

"And Pegsy's bad to the phone!!"

"HEY!! I thought I wush da bad guy thing.", said Malik, while pouting.

"Yea...But Pegsy-man is more evil now.", Amethyst answered, rolling her eyes as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

"But...But I wanna be EVIL!!", Malik cried indignantly.

"But Pegsy-man kidlapped us, so he's evilerer."

"Fine, but I get to be evils laterer."

"Yea...Now be bad to Pegsy-man."

"Yea...EVIL!! BOOOOO!!"

"Yea...BOOOOO!!"

Pegasus looked at his two hostages, very pissed-off at the fact that instead of quieting down, they were louder than ever, and it was hard to inflict any pain upon a perpetually happy person.

He glared at the duo, who attempted to glare back, but only succeeded in bursting into random laughter again. At that he growled in frustration, and walked out of the room, slamming the door behind himself.

While laughing, Malik turned to face Amethyst to point out an incredibly funny notion he had had, if he could remember it for longer than three seconds. As he turned, his wrist came loose from the knots binding it to the other wrist and the headboard of the bed.

"Wow!! How'dja do that??", Amethyst asked, wide-eyed, pulling at her restraints, feeling them a bit looser than before, but not yet untied.

"I'm magic...OoOoOoOo", Malik answered wiggling the fingers on his free hand to demonstrate how magic he was.

"I have n' idea!!", shouted Amethyst.

"What?? Is there candy??"

"Not yet...But there will be...But how 'bouts we go look for our yamis n' stuffs??"

"OoOoOoOo!! I know!! I know!! We get rid of the ropey-stuffs, then be all secret-agenty!!"

"Let's do it!! Do your wrist and feets, then mine."

Malik nodded, and after some minor difficulty, he was freed from his bonds.

"My turn!!", Amethyst shouted, pulling against her restraints.

"Relax...In your cax.", Malik answered, sitting on her stomach, and leaning over to untie the ropes.

Amethyst looked up at Malik confused, "What's a cax??"

"Umm...It's what you have to relax in.", Malik said, laughter bubbling from him again, with Amethyst slowly erupting into giggles as well.

After much confusion where Malik was confused between the difference of untying and tying a knot, both were ready to move about.

Amethyst crept towards the door and pushed it slightly open. Whispering into her left wrist, "Usa to Platinum...Usa to Platinum...Malik that's you!!"

"Wha?? I'm Usa??"

"No, your Platinum, and I'm Usa...We're all secrety-agenty-peopley!!"

"Oh...Okay...", Malik said, and whispering into his own wrist, he said, "Platinum to Usa...I hear you."

"Let's move out...That means let's go."

"Oh...Platinum moving out."

And with that, the two hikaris left their room, and tiptoed down the hall, staying as close to the wall as was possible in their distorted state.

Malik occasionally having to be filled in as to what certain 'secrety-agenty-peopley' lingo was, and Amethyst sporadically humming the theme to 'Mission Impossible'(AN: which i do not own).

~*~

Pegasus sat in his study, a hand firmly grasping a wine glass as he gently swirled the deep maroon-colored liquid inside it. He prided himself on always being technologically advanced, with his own special team of inventors finding other ways to advance his empire.

And to have one of his own specially-tested gases mess up a plan like this, he was less than pleased. Luckily, for the guard that is, Pegasus couldn't recall the man he ordered to release sleeping gas.

The laughing gas would wear off in a matter of two or three hours...He would wait...Then his fun with the two hikaris would begin.

~*~

skye: end chappie!! please review, tank ku!!