This is my second attempt at this story, seeing as how my older version got deleted because it was in script. This version is probably not as good as the old one, because I am much better at writing in script stories.

Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh or The Apprentice or Survivor, or anything associated with them in this fic.

((Anything in Italics is the narrator. Marik is the Yami and Malik is the hikari.))

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Hello. And welcome to an all new episode of The Apprentice. This week, six remain as they compete for the top prize: A spot among the executives of the biggest multi-billion dollar company in the world: the Kaiba Corporation. We now join Mr. Seto Kaiba himself to recap the past weeks episodes. Mr. Kaiba?

Seto Kaiba was sleeping his desk inside his office. And he was snoring. And drooling on his papers.

Um...Mr. Kaiba?

Kaiba's eye twitched.

WAKE UP DAMMIT!!!!!

Kaiba screamed. "EVIL PANDAS!!!!" Kaiba woke up with a start. A very big start. A start so big he fell off his chair. "Wha?!? Oh!" Kaiba mumbled as he pulled himself back onto the chair. "Yes. I'm Seto Kaiba. And we now have six remaining contestants. They are: Yami...Uh...Yami; 5000 year old Pharaoh from Egypt.

Joey Wheeler; 16 year old student from Domino.

Ishizu Ishtar; 20 year old Egyptian government senator-lady from Egypt.

Marik Ishtar; 16 year old student from Egypt.

Tea Gardner; 16 year old student from Domino.

And Maximillion Pegasus, 22 year old creator of Duel monsters from...uh....well, he's from somewhere. And that's all six remaining contestants."

you're gonna hire a 16 year old student?

"Actually I was gonna go with the 20 year old government lady."

Wait a minute...aren't you a 16 year old student?

Kaiba's face got red. "Uh...Anyways...

((Cooperate Meeting Room))

Yami sighed and banged his head on the table. "Why are we here again?"

Joey grinned. "For the food!"

Marik laughed. "No you pathetic mortal! We're here from world domination! MWAHAHAHA!!!!"

"How is this going to get you world domination Marik?" Tea asked.

Marik scratched his head. "Ummm.... I haven't exactly figured that part out yet."

Just then, Kaiba walked in and took his place at the head of the table. "No free food, Wheeler."

"Dammit!!"

Kaiba took out his briefcase and shuffled through the papers inside. "Your first assignment is to..."

As Kaiba droned on and on, Joey turned to Yami. "Hey Yami, Did you ever notice that if you take the 'Ignment' out of 'assignment' it spells-"

Kaiba cleared his throat. "I hope I wasn't interrupting your conversation with Yami, Wheeler, seeing as how it was so important you had to say it while I was still talking."

Joey blinked. "Wha...? Oh no. I was done."

Tea and Yami snickered and Kaiba grew red.

Kaiba glared at Joey. "You better watch yourself Wheeler, or you might find yourself in a lot more trouble than you bargained for." Kaiba turned his attention back to the whole table. "As I was saying, You will all be divided into 2 teams of 3 people each. Your job is to sell 20 boxes of women's high-heeled shoes to random people. First team done must report back to me. Losing team gets one member fired." Kaiba paused, then continued. "Oh, and one more thing- It has to be male buyers."

Everyone stared at Kaiba for a moment in silence. Then the room erupted into yells of protests.

"That's insane!! What kind of normal man would high-heeled shoes?!?" Marik was practically jumping up and down.

For once, Yami agreed with Marik. "That's right! And what does this have to do with corporate stuff anyway?"

For the first time, Pegasus joined in on the conversation. "Funny Bunny thinks that everyone should stop fighting and be friends! Isn't that right, Funny Bunny?" Pegasus pulled out a sock puppet from his pocket and put it on his hand. The puppet was pink and had two button eyes and blue floppy ears. Pegasus moved his hand up and down, making the puppet nod. "That's right, Pegasus-boy!" Pegasus said for the puppet in a high-pitched voice.

Everyone blinked, then all at once yelled. "SHUT UP PEGASUS!!!!!"

Pegasus scowled. "You're all big meanies."

Kaiba shook his head, then continued. "Your teams are as follows: Team One: Yami, Tea, and Marik. Team Two: Ishizu, Joey, and Pegasus. GO!!!"

"NO!!!" Everyone yelled in protest.

Kaiba grinned and pressed the radio button on his trench coat. "Guards...?"

Two Kaiba corp. guards immediately burst through the door, and grabbed three people each.

"Toss 'em." Kaiba said, nodding.

The guards carried them to the Kaiba corp. entrance and tossed them out onto the street.

((Outside on the street))

((Team one))

Tea turned to her team members. "I think Yami should be our leader this week."

Marik rolled his eyes. "Sure...always go with the pharaoh..."

Yami's eyes lit up. "Really Tea? Then I accept!"

Marik growled.

Tea glared at Marik. "Got a problem with that Marik?"

Marik kicked a twig under a bush onto the sidewalk, causing a walking pedestrian to trip and fall over the twig. Seeing this, Marik became a little happier, and decided not to argue with Tea....this time, anyway. "No."

Tea smiled. "Good."

Yami remembered their task and frowned. "This is just great! How the heck are we gonna sell 20 boxes of women's shoes to men?!"

Marik shrugged and looked for a bright side, which was very unlike him. "At least there's no time limit...."

Just then, Kaiba opened a window from the Kaiba Corp. building and yelled to them. "Oh yea!! I forgot to tell you only have 30 minutes to do this!!!!" He slammed the window, right on his finger. "OWWW!!!!"

Yami sighed. "This just keeps getting better and better!"

"We might as well get started..." Tea said, shrugging.

((20th Avenue: Team two))

Joey scratched his head. "Alright you guys. Now we have to appoint a leader for this week-"

Ishizu and Pegasus cut him off. "Joey."

Joey grinned and dusted off his hands. "Alright then-WHA?!!? ME???!?! Why'd ya choose me?"

Ishizu racked her brain for an answer. "Um...Because...you're the best leader type!!"

Joey frowned. "I am? Yea...I guess you're right. I am!"

Ishizu turned to Pegasus and whispered to him." Not really. I just figure that if we lose, Kaiba will fire him and not us."

Pegasus made the sock puppet nod. "Good point, Freaky-Egyptian lady."

Ishizu sweat dropped.

Joey rubbed his head. "Anyways, How are we gonna sell 20 boxes in 30 minutes? That's like..." Joey stopped to count on his fingers. "A minute and 50 seconds for each box!

Ishizu sighed. "A minute and 30 seconds Joseph."

"30 seconds? How 30 seconds? 50 is half of 100 isn't it?" He began to count on his fingers again.

"Yes, it is, but there are 60 seconds in a minute."

"...There are?"

"Yes, there are."

Pegasus nodded. "Yup Joey-boy! Freaky Egyptian lady is right! There are 60 seconds in a minute! 60 minutes in an hour! 24 hours in a day! 168 hours in a-"

Ishizu stopped him. "That's enough Pegasus."

Joey shook his head. "Anyway, how are we gonna sell 20 boxes in 30 minutes? Has Kaiba lost it?"

Pegasus made the sock puppet shake its head. "Kaiba-boy has lost it, never found it, never will."

Ishizu ignored Pegasus." If only there was some man who was rich enough to buy all 20 boxes at once...some one who was insane enough to do that...."

Meanwhile, Pegasus was busy searching for four-leaf clovers.

Joey and Ishizu looked at Pegasus and thought for a moment.

Pegasus noticed them and looked up. "Why are you guys staring at me? Is something on my face?

Joey and Ishizu looked at each other and grinned. "Pegasus!"

((Team one-15 minutes remaining Boxes sold: 0))

"Would you like to buy some...uh...men's shoes?" Yami said to a complete stranger.

The stranger noticed the boxes that were lying on the ground next to them, then looked inside and frowned. "How are those men's shoes?"

Marik answered for Yami. "You can...uh....use them for bowls!"

"Bowls?" The stranger and Yami asked curiously.

Marik nodded. "Yea! You fill the shoe with food and eat out of them!"

Tea's face was twisted into an expression of half-horror, and half-disgust. "That's disgusting!"

The stranger took out his wallet. "I'll take four boxes!"

Yami and Tea's eyes grew wide. "Four boxes?!!?"

The stranger nodded. "Yea! That's totally retro! And right now retro is in! Besides, me and my wife have been looking for new bowls for our family, and these are awesome!!"

"That'll be 20 bucks." Marik said, holding out his hand.

The stranger set a 20 dollar bill into Marik's hand and picked up the boxes. "It's worth every penny!" He called over his shoulder as he walked away.

Marik beamed. "Told you it'll work!! Ha! I have all the best ideas!"

Tea shook her head as Yami slapped his forehead.

"Well, don't just stand there! We still need to sell 16 more boxes! Move it people!" Marik blew a whistle into Yami's ear.

"Remind me to kill Malik later for giving Marik that whistle." Yami said to Tea, rubbing his ear.

((Team two-10 minutes remaining Boxes sold: 20))

Joey grinned. "That was too easy! Looks like we're all safe this week! We can't be fired!"

"Speak for yourself! That's only one week we're safe, and I'm out 100 bucks!" Pegasus sulked.

Joey shrugged. "Ehh.... You've got a billion more. You'll live."

Ishizu looked up from the pile of money she was counting. "Wait. First we have to go to Kaiba and tell him we've completed his idiotic task."

Joey was impatient. "So lets' go already!"

((Team one-3 minutes remaining Boxes sold: 19))

Yami shook in head in shame. "I can't believe we sold 19 boxes by telling people that they're a new kind of bowl...More importantly...I can't believe Marik's plan worked...."

"Told ya!" Came the response.

Tea frowned as she looked at the final box. "Guys! We've only have to sell one more box, but we only have 3 minutes! We have to find someone...now!!"

"Okay..." Yami looked around until he saw someone standing on the corner of the street. Picking up a box, Yami approached the stranger.

"Hello. Would you like to buy a box of...um...new and so-totally-horrifyingly-out-of -style-that-they're-retro bowls?"

"Sure! I'll take one box!"

Yami was shocked. "Really? That was easy!"

Marik scribbled something on a piece of paper, and then looked up. "Perfect! That'll be 5 dollars!"

The stranger handed Marik 5 singles.

"Thank you sir!" Yami smiled as he handed the man the last box.

The stranger looked at him oddly. "Oh...I'm not a man." The stranger started down the block.

Everyone's mouth dropped open. "WHAT?!?!"

"Hey!! Wait a minute...uh Lady?" Yami called after the...um...person, but he/she were already gone. Yami groaned.

"This is just great! Kaiba said they all had to be male buyers!"

Tea nodded and grimaced. "And we can't sell anymore-we only have 57 seconds left!"

"And even if we had more time, we don't have any more boxes to sell." Marik said as he banged his fist on a nearby tree.

Yami turned to his teammates. "We'll just have to go to Kaiba and tell him that we sold them all to males."

"But we can't! What if Kaiba has security cameras and saw who we sold the last one to?"

Yami turned towards the street. "We'll just have to take that chance! Come on!" Yami started to walk towards the Kaiba Corp. building, and then broke into a run.

Marik and Tea scurried after him. "Hey wait for us!" Marik said as he stuck out his foot, intentionally tripping Tea. "Urm...Wait for me!"

((Kaiba Corp. /Kaiba's Door))

Joey stood at Kaiba's office door and grinned. "Hey you guys! Looks like we're the first ones here!"

Marik stepped into the hallway, followed by Yami and Tea. "Ha! That's what you think!" He sneered.

Ishizu scowled. "Damn. Marik and the rest of the others."

"We sold all 20 boxes! How many did you sell?" Tea jabbed her finger on Joey's forehead, but it was Pegasus who answered her.

"Well, it just so happens that we sold all 20, Tea-boy!"

Tea blinked. "I'm a girl!"

Joey and Pegasus blinked. "You are?!?"

"Alright! Enough blinking already! And it doesn't matter how many you sold, because we got here first." Ishizu poked a finger into Marik's arm.

Yami turned his head to one side. "Do you people enjoy poking or something? Cuz I don't understand what's..."

Pegasus shrugged. "Maybe it's a girl thing."

".....Tea's a girl?"

And back to the Ishtars...who are still fighting over who got here first. So they're still fighting. What else is new? While we're waiting has anyone seen my sock? I'm missing one.

Pegasus whistled and stuffed his hand into his pocket.

Anyways...back to the Ishtars.

"It doesn't matter who came first Ishizu! Marik said. Kaiba said first one to him was the winner, not first one to his door! His door isn't him!"

"Quite frankly...I don't see a difference." Joey responded.

"SHUT UP JOEY!!!!!" Everyone shouted at the blonde.

"Jeez...can't a guy even make a statement around her anymore?...."

"Your right Marik. Kaiba did say first one to him wins. And since this isn't the door..." Ishizu's voice trailed off.

...Silence

"Must you narrate the 'silence' part?!?" Tea said out loud.

Hey...I'm the narrator! I only narrate what needs to be said!

"Whatever."

Anyways....back to what I was saying- Silence.

Ishizu and Marik looked at each other in silence. Then-at the exact same time- they both grabbed the doorknob. Unfortunately, on the other side of the door, so did Kaiba. Kaiba pulled the door open a second before the Ishtars did, causing a three-way collision.

"OWWW!!!"

"Ouch that's gotta hurt." Joey grimaced.

"Yes...but not as much as what Kaiba's gonna do when he realizes what happened."

"True enough, Yugi. True enough..."

Kaiba turned red and stood up, facing Marik. "WHAT THE-!"

---We interrupt this program to bring you this special news bulletin: Police arrested a teenager today around noon. The teen's name was Tristan Taylor, and he was apparently trying to smuggle 348 boxes of super-hold-hair-gel out of a local Wal-Mart. Details at noon. We now return to your regularly scheduled program.---

"DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?!?"

"Um...yes...."Marik stuttered.

"Actually Kaiba, Ishizu was the one who crashed into you. Not Marik." Yami pointed out to Kaiba.

Ishizu slammed her foot down on Yami's. "Why'd you say that for?!"

"OW!!!!! SORRY! SORRY!!" Yami sat down on the floor and rubbed his foot.

Kaiba turned his head to one side. "She did? Oh. Then everything I just said to Marik was directed to Ishizu."

"Are you even gonna apologize to Me for yelling at me when it was Ishizu-..."

"I DON'T APOLOGIZE!!!!!!!!"

Everyone took a step backwards. "Um...Okay..."

Kaiba: Well then, back to business. Which team got here first?

"We did!!" Everyone shouted at him.

"That must mean you all got here at the same time...hmmm...I guess there's only one thing to do..."Kaiba left the room and came back in a few seconds later holding a T.V.

"Watch television?" Joey said, eyeing the T.V.

"Wrong, you nutcracker. I'm going to watch the video of each team's job and see which one played by the rules the most."

"What?!!? NO!!!"

Kaiba switched the TV on and watched Team Two's videotape of Pegasus buying all the boxes.

"Wait, we can explain-!!!" Ishizu started. But Kaiba cut him off.

"Team two is disqualified!!"

Marik stuck out his tongue at Ishizu. "In your face, sister!!"

Joey slammed his fist onto the table. "That's not fair! You didn't watch their tape! They might have cheated too!"

"No!!!!" Team one protested.

Kaiba watched Team Two's video tape, then turned to Team Two. "Well then...you're both disqualified!"

Just then, two Kaiba Corp. guards entered the room. They walked towards Kaiba and whispered something into his ear, then left.

"Um...I've just been informed that I can't disqualify both teams; cuz then the ratings would go down. So...I'll have to decide which team wins my self."

Both teams looked at each other uneasily. "Okay..."

Kaiba sat at the table and thought quietly for a few seconds.

Joey rolled his eyes. "This is taking forever..."

"....Team two wins."

Joey jumped up and grinned. "Alright!!"

Tea jumped up in protest. "What?!? No fair! Why'd they win?!?"

Kaiba smirked. "It was quiet simple, actually. Although I did say that it had to be male buyers, I never said that it couldn't be a male member of the team. And, since Pegasus is male, Team two did no wrong. Team one, on the other hand, did exactly the opposite of what I told them to, which is sell to a woman."

Team one groaned as Team Two cheered.

"Now, team two, you're safe this week. Team one, I'll call you back up as soon as I decide who to kill-I mean fire." Kaiba turned and left the room.

Both teams left the room.

Kaiba sat in his office, thinking about who to fire.

Mr. Kaiba is now thinking.

Kaiba glared at the camera. "Can you go away? I'm thinking right now."

Mr. Kaiba now wants us to leave.

Kaiba slammed his pen on the desk. "Get out!!!"

Mr. Kaiba is now yelling at us to get out.

Kaiba took a deep breath.. "I'm getting annoyed!"

Mr. Kaiba is now getting a little annoyed.

"A LITTLE?!? GOOD BYE!!!!" Kaiba fumed.

And we'll take a short commercial break.

Kaiba continued to think.

((Commercial Ends))

And we're back. Back to what I was doing before-ARE YOU DONE YET?!?

Kaiba slammed his fist on the desk. "That's it! GUARDS!!!!!"

Alright, alright. Pushy, pushy...

After a few minutes, Kaiba stopped thinking and wrote a name down on a piece of paper. Holding the paper up for the camera to see, he explained. "The reason I'm firing you this week is because you showed no help to your team in any way. I'm sorry I have to do this. Wait...no I'm not." He folded the paper in half and put it inside a jar, the covered it.

((board room))

Tea looked at Yami. "So...which one of us do you think will get fired?"

"I don't know."

Marik narrowed his eyes at Yami. "I hope it's you."

"Well...I-" Yami started.

Kaiba walked in. "I hope it's not me." He said as he sat at the head of the table.

Yami rolled his eyes. "You're the host!!! You can't be fired!!!"

Kaiba thought for a second. "Oh yea. Anyways. I've decided which one of you is being voted-uh, fired this week. I'll tally the votes-er, I'll tally my vote."

Kaiba left the room, then returned a moment later carrying the jar that held his vote. He sat the jar on the table. "First, I'll tell you the one person who is safe this week."

"And I think we all know who that is." Yami mumbled, half out-loud and half to himself.

Marik grinned. "Yes...We do indeed."

Kaiba ignored them. "The person who is safe is the one person who played by the rules. That person showed that they have real creativity and superb business skills. That person is Marik."

Yami laughed. "Ha ha! You-"He paused, finally realizing what Kaiba had said. "WHAT?!!? MARIK?!!?"

Marik laughed right back at him. "Ha ha to you Yami!! Baka pharaoh!!"

"Baka-sama to you!"

Marik blinked. "That makes no sense!"

Tea ended their argument. "Would both of you shut up already?" She turned back to Kaiba. "So Marik's safe. Which one of us is fired?"

Kaiba rolled his eyes.: "I'm getting to that!!" He took the paper out of the jar and looked at it. "The person eliminated today is...." He stopped to turn the paper around so everyone could see it. "Tea."

Yami jumped out of his chair. "YAHOO!!! I mean, sorry, Tea." He said, sitting back down and crossing his legs.

Tea turned to Kaiba. "That's not fair!"

Kaiba sneered. "Yes it is! And...I love this part... YOU'RE FIRED!!!"

"No fair!!!" Tea protested.

"Yes, fair!" Kaiba argued back.

"No!"

"Yes!"

"No!!!"

"Yes!!!"

Yami sweat dropped. "Can't you both stop arguing and act your age?"

Tea and Kaiba both stopped arguing, and looked at Yami. "NO!!!!" They both yelled at the same time, then continued to yell at each other.

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