animedeprived: hiding under computer desk The gnomes. They're coming! HIDE YOURSELVES!!!!!

Spider-Man: swings in and types animedeprived does not own Yu-Gi-Oh, or me, and she isn't exactly mentally stable, either. swings back out

WARNING: THIS PART OF THE STORY CONTAINS VOMIT INDUCING RAMBLINGS OF LOVE, FRIENDSHIP, AND HAPPINESS. THEREFORE, YOUNG CHILDREN, OLD GEEZERS, PREGNANT WOMEN, THOSE WITH WEAK STOMACHS, AND STALKERS SHOULD AVOID PROLONGED EXPOSURE TO THIS EPISODE. CONSEQUENCES MAY PROVE TO BE FATAL.

We come back to see Mai now sitting on Rex's monitor lizard, looking superior to everyone else in the stadium. Rex is sitting on the ground nearby, looking dejected. Panik, inside his little bubble, has managed to start the lighter he's been messing with ever since the end of part three.

Suddenly, a shuffling is heard over the loudspeaker and Tea's voice is heard.

"Hey, everyone, guess what! I'm back! I finally wiggled out of those handcuffs and got the knots untied. Duke, they hurt! You're supposed to be my friend! Friends don't treat friends like that! We should be supporting one another in times of need and this is a really bad time for me! After today, I won't be able to make my speeches! Do you know how hard that will be? I don't see why you guys don't like my speeches! I'm just trying to teach you about the unity, love, caring, generousity, sincerity, truthfullness, creativity..."

"If she don't shut up soon, I'm gonna get creative on her-"

"Just tune it out, Joey." Yami tells him.

"But it's only been an hour!" Tristan complains. "Even with her being gagged for half of that, I still can't take it anymore!"

"Guys, I know it's hard, but we're halfway done. We can't give up now."

"Only halfway!?" The two exclaim. "Awwwwwww..."

Panik is waving his lighter around his head in triumph, and Tea rambles on.

"...pride, tolerance, faith, good humor, peace, helpfullness, gratitude..."

"I'd be grateful if someone would go up there an make her shut up!" Kaiba says.

"That's a good idea." Pegasus snaps his fingers. "Oh, Dukey-boy! Run up there and take care of Ms. Gardner for me."

"Yes, Mr. Pegasus. Anything you say, Mr. Pegasus."

Tea breaks off her pointless list for a moment to shout, "I HEARD that, Pegasus! For your information, you can't stop me. I locked the door. Now, where was I? Oh, yes. Courage, integrity, ingenuity, sympathy, righteousness..."

"Somebody make her stop!" Weevil screeches, banging his head against the goal post.

The air inside Panik's bubble has turned a shade of light gray.

"TUNE IT OUT!" Yami bellows.

"That's it." Seto says. He pulls a walkie-talkie from his pocket. "I can't take this anymore. Attention, this is Seto Kaiba. I want a chopper here NOW to take my little brother and me home."

"Awww..." Mokuba whines. "I wanna stay and see what they do to Tea."

"No, Mokuba." Kaiba says, grabbing the rope ladder that descends onto the field. "We're going home." The two climb the ladder and take off.

Mako is holding his hands over his ears. His turtle listens to five seconds of Tea's speech, its eyes bug out, and it runs out of the stadium so fast it leaves its shell, with Mako still on top. Kaiba's evil side immediately crawls into the shell, cowering from the words of love and niceness coming from outside.

"I want to be everyone's best friend, so I can comfort them when they're sad, be happy for them and help them through their anger. I will support all my friends until the end..."

"Hey, now there's an idea." Yami Bakura says.

"We can't." Rex says. "There's no way in. She locked the door."

"Wait." Yami says. "I just got a killer idea. Come on, let's all go up there. I can get her out."

Yami trudges up the stairs, followed by everyone still on the field except Kaiba's evil side, who is still whimpering in the turtle shell, and Panik.

The inside of Panik's bubble is clouded with thick black smoke. We can't see him, but he is hacking away and the bubble begins to sway dangerously. Then it falls over. Panik has passed out from smoke inhalation.

"Hey, Tea!" Yami yells, pounding on the door to the announcer's box. "Come out here! We wanna talk to you."

"NO!" Tea shouts. "You'll hurt me, even though I don't know why. All I want to do is spread the joy of friendship to everyone."

"That's what I want you for!" Yami yells, nearly gagging on the words. "This is a friendship emergency! Marik's in trouble and needs a friend to help him out!"

"Then why don't YOU help him?" Tea asks suspiciously.

"Are you kidding? None of us are as good at the art of friendship as you, Tea." Now the rest of the players are picking up the act, but loathing every second of it. "You're the only one who can help Marik."

"Well, why didn't you say so?!" Tea exclaims. "Where is he?"

"Come outside and we'll show you."

"No, you'll hurt me."

"We won't, Tea, we swear, we'll only take you to Marik. Nothing more." Yami says. "I give you my word as Pharoh."

"Well, OK." Tea unlocks the door and steps out.

"GRAB HER!!!!" Yami Bakura yells. He, Joey, Rex, Tristan, and Duke all grab Tea.

"Now, hold on a second." Yami yells. "I gave my word as Pharoh. We are only to take her to Marik." Then he grins, leaning over the back of the stadium. "And Marik's down there."

"THROW TEA OFF THE STADIUM!!!!!!" The crowd yells. "THROW HER, THROW HER, THROW HER, THROW HER YEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!!"

The boys heave Tea over the side of the stadium, then the entire group waves bye-bye as she falls, screaming, to the parking lot.

In the parking lot, Marik is STILL being beat up by the security gaurds. He has a bloody nose, busted lip, THREE black eyes (yes, three. don't ask me how it's possible), and a swollen face. As the gaurds are switching who gets to hold him and who gets to punch, they hear screaming coming from above. Tea falls from the top of the stadium and lands on Marik's head.

The gaurds see Tea and run away, screaming like little girls.

"Marik!" Tea exclaims. "Here you are!"

Marik looks up at her, and even through the drugs and beating, realizes that Tea is NOT a good thing.

"subsitute with word of choice" Marik exclaims. He jumps up and runs for his life, but Tea is right behind him.

"Wait, Marik! What's wrong? Yami said you were in trouble. You can tell me, I'm your friend. Don't run so fast, I'm sure we can work through this if you'll only talk about it..."

"I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS, PHAROH!!!!!"

On top of the stadium, Mai sighs. "Those two were meant for each other."

And that's the end. I thought I told you not to read this chapter. CAN YOU AT LEAST ACT LIKE THE GNOMES ARE COMING!? I bet you didn't see that coming. Yami's very good at keeping promises, isn't he. He did say they would take Tea to Marik... it was just faster to throw her off the stadium. I hope those two have a nice life together, and I'm sure they will...as soon as Marik kills his remaining brain cells so he can't hear Tea's friendship speeches anymore. At his current rate, that shouldn't take too long.