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I know that this has been a bit far fetched so far but give it a little time and see how you like the story when we get to the dueling on alien worlds, Mokuba's first love, and other way out scenarios that take place when Yugi Mouto becomes lost in space.
Chapter Three.
Yugi awoke from suspended animation just as the fleet was passing by the planet Pluto. At first he didn't understand what was going on. The way he saw it, a moment ago he was standing in the ballroom at Duelist Kingdom celebrating his and Tea's engagement when all of a sudden he began to feel dizzy.
"Where am I?" He asked groggily.
"Don't speak Yugi." Pegasus said leaning down over him in a cap and gown. When Yugi saw this he jumped.
"AHHH!!!" He cried out. "You, you tricked me again Pegasus, you're trying to do experiments on me now aren't you?!" Yugi was totally freaked out. "And Tea, where is she?" He demanded as he squirmed out of his bed.
"Don't worry Yugi, everything's fine, I'm right here." Tea said from across the room. Yugi looked and saw her waving at him from her own bed. She was wearing a hospital gown and her hair was wet. "I think something bad happened Yugi." She told him, "We're not in Duelist Kingdom anymore."
"Not in Duelist Kingdome, then where are we?" Yugi demanded to know from Pegasus.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you so just look out the window." Yugi turned his head and looked out, at first thinking it was night out, but then he realized that the stars outside were moving.
"AHHH!!! We're in outer space!" He exclaimed.
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"Yugi survived." Seto Kaiba said to himself as he watched the satellite photos of the Earth's destruction. There was almost no emotion in his expression as he viewed the pictures sent up from where the Asteroid had hit the planet just as it had in his dream. Now the world was on fire, smoke, and volcanic ash were enveloping the atmosphere. All over the globe natural disasters were occurring because of the asteroids impact on the Western Coast of North America. A gigantic wave had swallowed up the Pacific islands, including Japan, and volcanoes all over the world were erupting. The Planet earth was dieing and there was no way for those left behind to escape.
Even the space proficient nations could not launch their ships in time to get through the planet's super heated atmosphere. Their shuttles and rockets all burned up from the heat created by the impact of the asteroid. It was all happening just as Seto Kaiba had foreseen.
"That's it isn't it big brother?" Mokuba asked as he sat in his chair near the radio console. "All that's left of the human race are the those people we brought with us."
"Yes Mokuba." We are all that is left of the human race and now we must search out a world to call home." His demeanor was just as it ever was. Calm, cool, and collected. He wasn't phased by this horrific tragedy at all.
"Good riddance." Said Weevil Underwood from his station at navigation. "Once the planet cools again, there will nothing left but insects and then they will rule the world."
"Yeah, it was good enough for the dinosaurs to die this way so it's good enough for those fools who couldn't save themselves." Agreed Rex Raptor from his station at engineering.
"It's a pity though, that Yugi Mouto had to go and sneak himself, and his friends off the planet with Pegasus. I would have enjoyed the end of the world a lot better if he'd been down there when it happened." Weevil began to snicker then be just out and out laughed. Mokuba was disgusted with them all. The thought of all those people burning alive down there was horrifying to him and in his space suit, with hic tinted visor pulled down, he cried for them.
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Pegasus gathered Yugi and all his friends together in the infirmary and explained everything that had happened. He showed them the pictures being broadcast from earth and told them of his plan to save all their lives. Needless to say, they didn't take it well at all. In fact, most of them broke down, and some of them cried such tears of sorry as could not be believed. The world they had known and loved and protected was gone.
"What about our families?" Tea asked.
"They're all safely stowed away in the cargo hold in suspended animation for the long trip to the new world." Pegasus told her.
"What about my sister, is she down there too?" Joey asked.
"No, she's on Kaiba's ship." Pegasus informed Joey.
"She's where?! How could you give her over to Kaiba?!" He demanded to know.
"Because that was the agreement. I promised Kaiba that I would send Serenity to his ship as soon as you were all suspended in deep sleep. If I hadn't he would have come to get her himself and then he would have found out about the rest of you. Don't you understand, he was going to leave you all behind, including you Joey. Especially you Yugi. " This was quite disheartening news to them all, including Rebecca who didn't even know this Kaiba person that well. Why would he do that to her friends and family?
"I hate Kaiba, he's terrible for doing this!" She cried and stamped her feet on the floor.
"There there Rebecca." Ryou told her. "We're all safe and sound right here on this ship and we're not the only ones. Uh, are we?" He asked.
"Of course not. I saved nearly all of my company's employees." Pegasus told them all. "And Kaiba picked only the smartest and the brightest of his company and their families to join him aboard his half of the space fleet. There are over twenty ships in our combined fleet and nearly all of them have people onboard who are frozen in suspended animation. When we reach the new world, we'll unthaw them just like we did with all of you."
"New world?" Tristan asked.
"What new world are we talking about?" Wondered Joey.
"Why the new home world of the human race of course." Pegasus pulled out a star chart and hung it up on the board. "Kaiba's new deep space probe is at this very moment circling a planet so much like our old Earth that they could practically be twins. It's located in the Tri-lone system" He stuck a thumb tack into the spot of the chart were the planet was supposed to be. Yugi and his friends looked at it but were not totally convinced about it's prospects.
"And when we get there, just what are we supposed to do for food, shelter, and shopping malls?" Tea wanted to know.
"Why we'll build our own and we'll be the first humans ever to set foot on the planet's surface. We'll be making history. Future generations will hail us as adventurous pioneers who crossed the distant void of space to colonize a new world." Pegasus spun a good yarn, that was for sure, but when it all came right down to it; Yugi and his friends really didn't know what to make of it all. This was a total shock to them. They had just lost one planet and now Pegasus was talking about building a whole new civilization on another one. They had never even heard of this other planet before either. They didn't even know it's name.
"This is all just a little bit much to take in." Yugi finally said. "I think that maybe we'd all feel better about this when we've had time to grieve for our old world."
"I understand completely, it's hard leaving home, but this is ten million times worse." Pegasus agreed. "Here why don't I show you around the ship and then we'll see about getting you all settled into your bunks. We have a long journey ahead of us you know."
"How long?" Duke asked.
"At least a week's time once we make the conversion to light speed." Pegasus replied and then he led them all down the corridors to the ship's living compartments.
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As the two lead ships flew parallel to one another, Kaiba festered in his bunk Yugi's survival meant that their long standing feud would go on for as long as they both were alive. He couldn't stand it. Now he thought about what this would mean for the great legacy he'd hoped to create. When they landed on the new world it would be Yugi whom everyone would turn to for leadership. He would be the one to blaze new trails, build mighty cities, and be worshiped forever as King of Games. No King of the what would have been Kaiba world, now it would be Yugi's world.
"I can't let that happen!" He shouted from the top of his lungs. "Yugi, this ends now!" He got up then and went to the bridge of his ship. "Bring the Blue Eyes Two to a halt." Kaiba ordered.
"But the rest of the fleet, they'll go right past us!" Weevil exclaimed.
"Big brother, what are you doing?" Mokuba demanded to know.
"I'm settling things with Yugi once and for all with a shadow game in deep space." Everyone on the bridge gasped.
"But Seto, a Shadow Game? Those are dangerous, even more so out here, and there's nothing we can do for you if…" Mokuba couldn't say it.
"Don't worry Mokuba, if anyone winds up floating away into the blackness of space, never to be heard from again, it will be Yugi."
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"This is our ship's sleeping compartments." Pegasus pointed out to Yugi and his friends as they floated down the corridor. "There's room for over twenty people but thankfully we've only got a small crew. That's where you guys come in. I need your help in running this ship so that we can make it all the way to the Tri-lone system on schedule."
"Just what do you need help with?" Tristan asked.
"I don't have a full bridge or engineering crew." Pegasus informed them. "I had to put nearly everyone in suspended animation to make room for all of you. Don't worry though, I'm sure that you can more than pick up the slack. After all, Kaiba has Weevil Underwood and Rex Raptor on his crew."
"Rex and Weevil are alive?!" Yugi exclaimed happily. "What about the Ishtar family, Ishezu, Maric, and Odeon?" he asked.
"They're all in suspended animation aboard one of the other ships." Pegasus informed him. "I told you before that I had saved everyone I could. Now on with the tour. We've still got the galley and shower rooms to see." Just then though one of the bridge crew came floating down the corridor after them. It was Croquet and he had a worried look on his face.
"Mister Pegasus, sir, we've got a problem." He said when he caught up to them.
"What could it possibly be?" Pegasus asked. "Not a problem with the ship, I hope."
"No sir, the ship is running a peak efficiency, but we've got a problem with the lead ship, the Blue Eyes Two. She's stalled and Mr. Kaiba is demanding that we stop too. Just long enough to render assistance." Croquet said.
"Very well, return to the bridge and have us come to full stop. We'll have to make the transition to light speed after we help the Kaibas' ship out of their little mess." Pegasus said.
The sub-light engines came to a stop and slowly the two ships pulled up side by side to one another. Pegasus fired grappling hooks to hold his ship to the Kaibas' ship and then they extended a retractable walkway from one ship to the other. Once they were docked, the Blue Eyes Two opened it's main hatch, allowing the vacuum of space to intrude upon it's corridors. Luckily though, everyone was wearing space suits.
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"I hope this works." Weevil said as he stood poised to cross over to Pegasus' ship. The short little worm of a man took one step out of the ship, and planted his foot firmly on the walkway, knowing full well that any wrong move could send him flying out into the void.
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After everyone had suited up in their space suits, Pegasus opened the main hatch of his ship, and as soon as the air had been suck out of the air lock, they saw that Weevil was crossing the walkway on his own and un tethered.
"That fool, he's going to get himself killed like that!" Duke exclaimed. "Quickly now, someone hand me a line. I'm going out there after him."
"Duke, you've never been in space before, you can't." Yugi said to his friend.
"I have to, no one else seems willing to do it." Duke said then as soon as he was anchored, he let out for Weevil who was now struggling with each step he took. "Don't worry Weevil, I'm coming." Duke floated steadily closer and closer propelled by his own momentum.
"Please help me!!!" Weevil cried over his radio. "I…I…I don't know how much further I can get on my own!" Duke came flying up to him and grabbed him up in his arms. Together they floated on to the hull of the Blue Eyes Two where Duke pushed off with his feet and sent them both flying back to Yugi and the others who caught them up in their waiting arms. "Oh thank you." He said reaching for his utility belt.
"No problem Weevil, as creepy as you are, we'd have never left out their to die." Joey told him.
"Then you're a better person than I." Weevil pulled out a large stun gun then and proceeded to zap them all at once. Yugi and his friends were all out cold when Seto Kaiba, Mokuba, and Rex came across from their ship to Pegasus'. Finally Yugi Mouto and his friends were at his mercy and soon, the entire universe would know who was really the best man. Yugi, or Kaiba, for when Yugi and awoke the two ships would be embroiled in the most dangerous Shadow Game ever conceived.
I know that this has been a bit far fetched so far but give it a little time and see how you like the story when we get to the dueling on alien worlds, Mokuba's first love, and other way out scenarios that take place when Yugi Mouto becomes lost in space.
Chapter Three.
Yugi awoke from suspended animation just as the fleet was passing by the planet Pluto. At first he didn't understand what was going on. The way he saw it, a moment ago he was standing in the ballroom at Duelist Kingdom celebrating his and Tea's engagement when all of a sudden he began to feel dizzy.
"Where am I?" He asked groggily.
"Don't speak Yugi." Pegasus said leaning down over him in a cap and gown. When Yugi saw this he jumped.
"AHHH!!!" He cried out. "You, you tricked me again Pegasus, you're trying to do experiments on me now aren't you?!" Yugi was totally freaked out. "And Tea, where is she?" He demanded as he squirmed out of his bed.
"Don't worry Yugi, everything's fine, I'm right here." Tea said from across the room. Yugi looked and saw her waving at him from her own bed. She was wearing a hospital gown and her hair was wet. "I think something bad happened Yugi." She told him, "We're not in Duelist Kingdom anymore."
"Not in Duelist Kingdome, then where are we?" Yugi demanded to know from Pegasus.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you so just look out the window." Yugi turned his head and looked out, at first thinking it was night out, but then he realized that the stars outside were moving.
"AHHH!!! We're in outer space!" He exclaimed.
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"Yugi survived." Seto Kaiba said to himself as he watched the satellite photos of the Earth's destruction. There was almost no emotion in his expression as he viewed the pictures sent up from where the Asteroid had hit the planet just as it had in his dream. Now the world was on fire, smoke, and volcanic ash were enveloping the atmosphere. All over the globe natural disasters were occurring because of the asteroids impact on the Western Coast of North America. A gigantic wave had swallowed up the Pacific islands, including Japan, and volcanoes all over the world were erupting. The Planet earth was dieing and there was no way for those left behind to escape.
Even the space proficient nations could not launch their ships in time to get through the planet's super heated atmosphere. Their shuttles and rockets all burned up from the heat created by the impact of the asteroid. It was all happening just as Seto Kaiba had foreseen.
"That's it isn't it big brother?" Mokuba asked as he sat in his chair near the radio console. "All that's left of the human race are the those people we brought with us."
"Yes Mokuba." We are all that is left of the human race and now we must search out a world to call home." His demeanor was just as it ever was. Calm, cool, and collected. He wasn't phased by this horrific tragedy at all.
"Good riddance." Said Weevil Underwood from his station at navigation. "Once the planet cools again, there will nothing left but insects and then they will rule the world."
"Yeah, it was good enough for the dinosaurs to die this way so it's good enough for those fools who couldn't save themselves." Agreed Rex Raptor from his station at engineering.
"It's a pity though, that Yugi Mouto had to go and sneak himself, and his friends off the planet with Pegasus. I would have enjoyed the end of the world a lot better if he'd been down there when it happened." Weevil began to snicker then be just out and out laughed. Mokuba was disgusted with them all. The thought of all those people burning alive down there was horrifying to him and in his space suit, with hic tinted visor pulled down, he cried for them.
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Pegasus gathered Yugi and all his friends together in the infirmary and explained everything that had happened. He showed them the pictures being broadcast from earth and told them of his plan to save all their lives. Needless to say, they didn't take it well at all. In fact, most of them broke down, and some of them cried such tears of sorry as could not be believed. The world they had known and loved and protected was gone.
"What about our families?" Tea asked.
"They're all safely stowed away in the cargo hold in suspended animation for the long trip to the new world." Pegasus told her.
"What about my sister, is she down there too?" Joey asked.
"No, she's on Kaiba's ship." Pegasus informed Joey.
"She's where?! How could you give her over to Kaiba?!" He demanded to know.
"Because that was the agreement. I promised Kaiba that I would send Serenity to his ship as soon as you were all suspended in deep sleep. If I hadn't he would have come to get her himself and then he would have found out about the rest of you. Don't you understand, he was going to leave you all behind, including you Joey. Especially you Yugi. " This was quite disheartening news to them all, including Rebecca who didn't even know this Kaiba person that well. Why would he do that to her friends and family?
"I hate Kaiba, he's terrible for doing this!" She cried and stamped her feet on the floor.
"There there Rebecca." Ryou told her. "We're all safe and sound right here on this ship and we're not the only ones. Uh, are we?" He asked.
"Of course not. I saved nearly all of my company's employees." Pegasus told them all. "And Kaiba picked only the smartest and the brightest of his company and their families to join him aboard his half of the space fleet. There are over twenty ships in our combined fleet and nearly all of them have people onboard who are frozen in suspended animation. When we reach the new world, we'll unthaw them just like we did with all of you."
"New world?" Tristan asked.
"What new world are we talking about?" Wondered Joey.
"Why the new home world of the human race of course." Pegasus pulled out a star chart and hung it up on the board. "Kaiba's new deep space probe is at this very moment circling a planet so much like our old Earth that they could practically be twins. It's located in the Tri-lone system" He stuck a thumb tack into the spot of the chart were the planet was supposed to be. Yugi and his friends looked at it but were not totally convinced about it's prospects.
"And when we get there, just what are we supposed to do for food, shelter, and shopping malls?" Tea wanted to know.
"Why we'll build our own and we'll be the first humans ever to set foot on the planet's surface. We'll be making history. Future generations will hail us as adventurous pioneers who crossed the distant void of space to colonize a new world." Pegasus spun a good yarn, that was for sure, but when it all came right down to it; Yugi and his friends really didn't know what to make of it all. This was a total shock to them. They had just lost one planet and now Pegasus was talking about building a whole new civilization on another one. They had never even heard of this other planet before either. They didn't even know it's name.
"This is all just a little bit much to take in." Yugi finally said. "I think that maybe we'd all feel better about this when we've had time to grieve for our old world."
"I understand completely, it's hard leaving home, but this is ten million times worse." Pegasus agreed. "Here why don't I show you around the ship and then we'll see about getting you all settled into your bunks. We have a long journey ahead of us you know."
"How long?" Duke asked.
"At least a week's time once we make the conversion to light speed." Pegasus replied and then he led them all down the corridors to the ship's living compartments.
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As the two lead ships flew parallel to one another, Kaiba festered in his bunk Yugi's survival meant that their long standing feud would go on for as long as they both were alive. He couldn't stand it. Now he thought about what this would mean for the great legacy he'd hoped to create. When they landed on the new world it would be Yugi whom everyone would turn to for leadership. He would be the one to blaze new trails, build mighty cities, and be worshiped forever as King of Games. No King of the what would have been Kaiba world, now it would be Yugi's world.
"I can't let that happen!" He shouted from the top of his lungs. "Yugi, this ends now!" He got up then and went to the bridge of his ship. "Bring the Blue Eyes Two to a halt." Kaiba ordered.
"But the rest of the fleet, they'll go right past us!" Weevil exclaimed.
"Big brother, what are you doing?" Mokuba demanded to know.
"I'm settling things with Yugi once and for all with a shadow game in deep space." Everyone on the bridge gasped.
"But Seto, a Shadow Game? Those are dangerous, even more so out here, and there's nothing we can do for you if…" Mokuba couldn't say it.
"Don't worry Mokuba, if anyone winds up floating away into the blackness of space, never to be heard from again, it will be Yugi."
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"This is our ship's sleeping compartments." Pegasus pointed out to Yugi and his friends as they floated down the corridor. "There's room for over twenty people but thankfully we've only got a small crew. That's where you guys come in. I need your help in running this ship so that we can make it all the way to the Tri-lone system on schedule."
"Just what do you need help with?" Tristan asked.
"I don't have a full bridge or engineering crew." Pegasus informed them. "I had to put nearly everyone in suspended animation to make room for all of you. Don't worry though, I'm sure that you can more than pick up the slack. After all, Kaiba has Weevil Underwood and Rex Raptor on his crew."
"Rex and Weevil are alive?!" Yugi exclaimed happily. "What about the Ishtar family, Ishezu, Maric, and Odeon?" he asked.
"They're all in suspended animation aboard one of the other ships." Pegasus informed him. "I told you before that I had saved everyone I could. Now on with the tour. We've still got the galley and shower rooms to see." Just then though one of the bridge crew came floating down the corridor after them. It was Croquet and he had a worried look on his face.
"Mister Pegasus, sir, we've got a problem." He said when he caught up to them.
"What could it possibly be?" Pegasus asked. "Not a problem with the ship, I hope."
"No sir, the ship is running a peak efficiency, but we've got a problem with the lead ship, the Blue Eyes Two. She's stalled and Mr. Kaiba is demanding that we stop too. Just long enough to render assistance." Croquet said.
"Very well, return to the bridge and have us come to full stop. We'll have to make the transition to light speed after we help the Kaibas' ship out of their little mess." Pegasus said.
The sub-light engines came to a stop and slowly the two ships pulled up side by side to one another. Pegasus fired grappling hooks to hold his ship to the Kaibas' ship and then they extended a retractable walkway from one ship to the other. Once they were docked, the Blue Eyes Two opened it's main hatch, allowing the vacuum of space to intrude upon it's corridors. Luckily though, everyone was wearing space suits.
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"I hope this works." Weevil said as he stood poised to cross over to Pegasus' ship. The short little worm of a man took one step out of the ship, and planted his foot firmly on the walkway, knowing full well that any wrong move could send him flying out into the void.
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After everyone had suited up in their space suits, Pegasus opened the main hatch of his ship, and as soon as the air had been suck out of the air lock, they saw that Weevil was crossing the walkway on his own and un tethered.
"That fool, he's going to get himself killed like that!" Duke exclaimed. "Quickly now, someone hand me a line. I'm going out there after him."
"Duke, you've never been in space before, you can't." Yugi said to his friend.
"I have to, no one else seems willing to do it." Duke said then as soon as he was anchored, he let out for Weevil who was now struggling with each step he took. "Don't worry Weevil, I'm coming." Duke floated steadily closer and closer propelled by his own momentum.
"Please help me!!!" Weevil cried over his radio. "I…I…I don't know how much further I can get on my own!" Duke came flying up to him and grabbed him up in his arms. Together they floated on to the hull of the Blue Eyes Two where Duke pushed off with his feet and sent them both flying back to Yugi and the others who caught them up in their waiting arms. "Oh thank you." He said reaching for his utility belt.
"No problem Weevil, as creepy as you are, we'd have never left out their to die." Joey told him.
"Then you're a better person than I." Weevil pulled out a large stun gun then and proceeded to zap them all at once. Yugi and his friends were all out cold when Seto Kaiba, Mokuba, and Rex came across from their ship to Pegasus'. Finally Yugi Mouto and his friends were at his mercy and soon, the entire universe would know who was really the best man. Yugi, or Kaiba, for when Yugi and awoke the two ships would be embroiled in the most dangerous Shadow Game ever conceived.