Chapter 9: Resurrection

Gozuboro has gotten a hold of Noah. What are the others to do?

Gozuboro holds his only heir and is spreading his infection through out him.

"Put him down!" Seto yells to Gozuboro whose continues to hold his twitching son.

"Never!" Gozuboro yells to Seto. "If I can't walk out of the duel a winner, then I'm going to take the only thing that I ever had, my son Noah."

"How could he ever call you father after the way you treated him?" Yami yells. "You only used him to trap us here the first time, which failed."

"My son Noah was the only intelligent one before Mokuba and Seto came along and proved someone else can be just as bright." Gozuboro explains. "And by getting into a fight that doesn't concern him, that wasn't too bright so now he has to pay."

"Gozuboro, put Noah down and take me as your sacrifice." Pernia.exe demands.

"What's the use?" Gozuboro snaps back at her. "Only for you to refuse my orders again? No thanks."

"No Pernia." Seto speaks up. "Take me instead. You did all of this to get back at me after all."

"Seto are you nuts?" Yami asks turning to him. "You'll be deleted."

"That's a risk I'm willing to take to save my step brother and my network." Seto says turning his gaze down to the cyber floor. (he cares now for Noah, watch out now)

"What about Mokuba?" Yami asks in concern. "If you get deleted, what will Mokuba do without you?"

"He'll have Noah." Seto speaks up. "Mokuba does seem much happier since he came back."

"But Seto." Yami argues.

"Don't argue Yami." Seto yells his way. "This is for the best."

"No, Seto, I must be taken, for I am the reason your network was destroyed." Pernia.exe says to Seto. He turns to her.

Seto turns his gaze to her.

"I listened to him, thinking he would give me a better life and leave this cyber prison, but instead, used me get back at you." Pernia.exe speaks up walking up to Seto. "I had no idea what his plan was and am dreadfully sorry and by all means, I should be his sacrifice, not you."

"Pernia....."Seto's words trail off, catching with her gaze.

"Neither one of you will do." Gozuboro says sharply, making Seto and Pernia turn to him. "Even if Noah didn't complete the job the first time, He will get it right the second time, this time with me."

Yami turns to Noah, who seems to be changing in color.

"My....system...is...being....brought......down." Noah chokes out between twitching.

Real world

Mokuba continues to watch helplessly, trying not to give up hope. He then turns from the computer and over to the pods, noticing Noah's pod beginning to spark.

"I can't loose Noah, Not this way." Mokuba says jumping up and running to over to the pod, pressing the eject button to open it, but nothing happens. A spark reaches out and shocks Mokuba, making him back away.

"Damn it." Mokuba curses holding his hand. "I'm not giving up. Noah, I refuse to loose you, especially to someone like him."

Mokuba runs back to the computer and begins typing an email, while keeping watch on Noah's pod.

"Don't worry Noah, I'll handle everything." Mokuba promises. "You'll be back with us."

Virtual world

"For the last time Gozuboro, Put him down!" Yami demands. "He has nothing to do with this."

"Like I keep telling you, No!" Gozuboro yells to Yami. "By taking him, he'll know next time when not to concern himself in others affairs."

"By infecting your own heir, do you think you're winning or makes you any more of a man?" Seto asks sharply to Gozuboro. "You're more twisted then I thought you were."

"By infecting Noah, I'll be washing away all the junk you filled his mind with about family and trust." Gozuboro says turning to Noah and making him face him. "We'll be reunited soon son, don't you worry."

Noah turns away from his gaze, continuing to try to fight off the virus that's being injected into his system.

Real world

Mokuba continues typing, when a screen pop ups in front of him, stating Noah's current state of health.

"Critical level at 97%" The computer speaks. "System shut down in 5 minutes."

"Oh no Noah." Mokuba yells, trying to hold back his tears. "I'm not giving up on you."

Mokuba closes the window and begins typing faster to send the email off to it's destination and accidentally hit's the wrong button near the space bar. He looks up to see if he made an error in his typing, but instead finds a bunch of windows popping up on the screen.

"What's going on?" Mokuba inquires, noticing the windows appear, two at a time. One window pops up, covering the rest, indicating Anti-Virus system quarantines are back online.

"Hey, how'd that happen?" Mokuba questions. "Well whatever did happen, I'm glad it did."

Mokuba finishes his email and sends it and now is looking over the windows.

Virtual World

Pernia.exe can't take this sight any longer is about to give up, but something in her mechanism strikes. (not a match)

"That's enough!" Pernia.exe roars, making everyone turn to her. Gozuboro turns to her as well.

"I have seen just enough of your abuse and destruction and for you to infect your only blood heir makes you a coward ." Pernia.exe continues roaring.

"You have nothing left to say." Gozuboro yells her way. "You failed me and now my son will take your place."

"Noah has nothing to do with this." Pernia.exe speaks up, hardening her gaze with his. "He came to help Seto and Yami with a pure heart, to undo your damage you caused with evil intent in your heart, and now I'm here to finish the job he couldn't."

"What a woman." Seto mumbles dreamily, keeping his gaze on her.

Yami sighs, lowering his shoulders.

"You're just a program compared to me." Gozuboro yells. "I can have this entire Internet wiped out with an instant."

"Well that's where you're wrong." Pernia.exe speaks warningly. "I maybe a program, but didn't you ever hear of never under estimating anyone or anything."

"No one is like me, no one can compare to me, and for someone like you to try and be above me, will never happen!" Gozuboro yells.

Pernia.exe gains a smile and raises her right hand above her head, and Gozuboro begins feeling his grip on Noah loosen, soon releasing him, letting the boy hit the floor unconscious.

Yami runs over to Noah, picking his head up to get a better look in his face.

"It wasn't completed, he still has a chance." Yami speaks picking Noah up.

"What are you doing?" Gozuboro yells noticing beginning to feel his body stiffen up.

"Amazing." Seto continues mumbling not taking his eyes off Pernia.exe.

Yami sweat drops.

"I'm not taking him anywhere else with me." Yami sighs.

"You forget Gozuboro, with me being just a program, Anti-Virus to be exact, I'm capable of many things and one of them happens to be being able to delete and clean the net of infectious nuisances like you." Pernia.exe roars, now pointing her hand in his direction. "This is where it all ends."

Gozuboro's expression goes from shocked to determined.

"I'm not letting you stop me!" Gozuboro yells trying to move his body, but fails.

"Now you will know what it's like to be held in this cyber prison, with only one promise to go, in hopes of getting out." Pernia.exe speaks pointing her index finger at him.

Gozuboro can feel his body beginning to tighten up and soon little sparks of light begin to surround his body. With each bubble of light, his body then begins disappearing.

"Your destruction and abuse ends here." Pernia.exe speaks continuing to hold her hand to him. "You will no longer be able to hurt or destroy another life again!"

Gozuboro's body continues to disappear, with each part of him becoming broken data, data that is destroyed on contact.

"THIS ISN'T THE LAST YOU WILL HEAR OF ME!" Gozuboro screams now disappearing from their sights completely. Pernia.exe brings her hand down to her side slowly. Yami walks up to Pernia.exe with Noah in his arms.

"Is there anything you can do for him?" Yami asks calmly. Pernia.exe looks down at Noah in Yami's arms.

"He wasn't completely infected. His main circuits are merely damaged, but he can be fixed." Pernia.exe says calmly putting her hand on Noah's stomach. A light appears under her hand and now onto Noah. His body glows a golden light and is now opening his eyes. Pernia then removes her hand and backs away from him.

"What...what happened to me?" Noah inquires consciously looking around. Yami puts him down.

"You were almost infected Noah." Pernia.exe speaks to him. Noah looks up at her.

"Where is father?" Noah asks looking around for him.

"Back where he should be." Yami says looking at the duel monsters field.

"That was amazing." Seto says with dream stars in his face. "Thanks for everything."

Pernia turns to him with a smile.

"I guess you got more then you bargained for when you created this program." Pernia.exe speaks up.

"Yeah I guess I did." Seto speaks up, continuing to stare in her gaze.

"I'm sorry about everything." Pernia.exe apologizes turning away from his gaze." I listened to him, believing that he would give me a better life outside of this world, but instead helped him cause more damage."

"It's not your fault." Seto speaks in comfort. "I can understand how a promise such as that would lead a person on to a lot, but you can't blame yourself."

Pernia.exe turns back to his gaze with a smile.

"It's always good to look forward to what can happen, instead of looking back to what you can always forget." Seto continues and smiles. (Seto smiling? This is the same Seto right?)

"Thanks." Pernia.exe says smiling back. "That was comforting, but now I have to take care of a few things."

Pernia turns away from Seto's gaze and walks two inches from him. She turns her attention to the duel monster's field and raises both hands in the air. She closes her eyes and begins concentrating. With a few seconds, the duel monster's field disappears.

"The field." Yami speaks.

"It disappeared." Noah finishes watching what she is doing.

A golden light appears in front of everyone, almost blinding them. The light begins spreading every place, to any place that was damaged by the virus.

Real world

The windows on the screen disappears, allowing Mokuba to see what's going on now.

"What's happening now?" Mokuba Inquires again, now seeing everyone in plain view. A window pops up in Mokuba's face, stating everyone's state of health.

Seto: 100% Noah: 100% Yami: 100% Anti-Virus quarantines and repairs were successful and cleaned.

Mokuba smiles now seeing everyone's stats back up.

"Oh wow!" Mokuba shouts in excitement. "Yami , Seto, Noah, will be coming back after all. Wait who is she?" (Mokuba missed something)

Mokuba turns to the pod Noah is in and sees the sparks have died down. A light cloud of smoke is hovering over the pod now.

"Noah....." Mokuba's words trail off.

Virtual world

The golden light soon dies down. Pernia puts her arms down and opens her eyes, now turning back to everyone.

"What just happened?" Yami asks.

"I just undid the damage that was caused by Gozuboro and his hateful destruction." Pernia.exe speaks. "Everything has been repaired and cleaned."

"You created some program Seto." Yami speaks turning to Seto.

"Don't I know it." Seto grins watching Pernia walks up to him. When she is within touching range, she grabs Seto's right hand and holds it in hers.

"Everything is back to normal." Pernia says staring into his blue eyes.

"So does this mean I can continue in the real world?" Noah inquires.

"Yes it does." Pernia speaks not taking her gaze off Seto.

"I don't know how to thank you." Seto speaks.

"You don't. Just always remember that you have one program that will always be here when you need her." Pernia speaks letting go of his hand. "Now I have to send you three back."

"Wait, before I go, can I ask for one thing?" Seto asks. Pernia continues looking at him.

"Even though you're a program and I'm not really here, would it be possible to get a going away present?" Seto questions with hope.

"I see nothing wrong with that." Pernia says walking up to him and giving him a peck on the cheek. Seto's face turns red in the face.

"Now, the real world needs you." Pernia says making circles of light appear around them.

"Will I see you again?" Seto asks.

"Our paths will cross again." Pernia says watching them log out. "That I'm certain of."

The circles of light that are circling them soon log them out.

Real World

Mokuba watches the ending, with a few tears he sheds, but is knocked out of his world buy the pods opening up. He turns to them and sees Noah awake first.

"Was I sleeping?" Noah inquires dumbfounded. Mokuba smiles and runs over there to Noah, embracing him.

"Oh Noah you're ok." Mokuba yells in excitement. "I was so worried about you. "

"I'm ok Mokuba." Noah says calmly hugging him back.

Seto and Yugi wake up last.

"What a dream." Yugi says climbing out. Seto climbs out as well, remembering what happened while they were there.

"Pernia......" Seto's mouths with his trail off.

"Well I'm glad that's all over." Yugi says walking up to the three. "That was some adventure. Anyone up for pizza?"

"I am." Mokuba says helping Noah out of his pod.

"Yeah, let's go get something to eat." Seto says shaking his head.

"I'm paying." Yugi says happily. Mokuba and Noah run ahead of them. Yugi isn't far behind, but is stopped by Seto. Yugi turns to him.

"Yugi I would like to thank you for helping me out." Seto says, trying to get his apology feelings to surface.

"It was no problem Kaiba." Yugi smiles turning back forward and running ahead of him. Seto follows behind. They begin running up the stairs from the basement and when they reach the top and passes through the doors, everyone begins clapping for them.

"Whoa, I didn't expect this." Seto says watching everyone around him.

"What's going on?" Yugi inquires.

"That Program of yours Seto is a nice piece of work." One of the workers say.

"You saw what happened?" Seto asks.

"What do you mean did we watch?" The man asks. "It became the office broadcast after the scramble cleared up."

"Oops." Mokuba says. "The computer downstairs, is connecting to every computer in here. The proxy connection made is possible for everyone to see the fight."

"Well I'm glad it's all over." Yugi speaks.

"Well I don't know about you guys, but I'm starving." Mokuba speaks.

They walks through the aisles of congratulations and out the doors, now heading to the nearest pizza place to celebrate.

A/N: Chapter 9 done. Nearly brought tears to me eyes just writing the last part. Sorry, sorry, getting sappy. Um Review as usual and please be nice about it and no flames as usual as well. Chapter 10 is soon, maybe a bit short, but it's coming.

A/N 2: For new comers to read this story, I have another one out called Soul sire. Please be sure to read and review that, thanks.

A/N 3: There will be a sequel to this, made in the works, so please look out for it.

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