Chapter Eight.
Yugioh, Kaiba, and Pegasus stood within a great chamber of lights and gray circles with pillars of stone and a flat table over which was darkened out. The light could not penetrate the darkness over the table and therefore they could not see beyond it.
"Are these the leaders of the invading army?" Asked a voice from beyond the darkness.
"They are." Replied a voice from behind the trio.
"Hold on just a moment!" Pegasus objected.
"Yes," Yugioh said "We're not invaders and we don't have any army with us. As I told your Fleet Commander before, we are Pilgrims, searching for a home."
"So you say." Said another voice, which seemed to come from out of nowhere. "How can we trust you though when you are strange to us, and we no not the circumstances of how you came to be in search of a new home?"
"We have nothing to hide." Said Yugioh. "We come in peace and as you've seen, our weapons are no match for your own. Our engines are damaged and we are out of fuel. We need help to continue on our journey."
"This one speaks true?" Asked the First voice.
"We have scanned their fleet and found that they are in deed out of fuel and in need of repairs." Said the Second voice.
"Then if we render assistance to you, will you be gone from our world, and never return?" Asked the Third voice.
"Nothing would make me happier." Kaiba answered. He was growing impatient in the background. He was not going let Yugi speak for him for much longer.
"What will you offer in exchange for our help?" Asked a Fourth Voice this time seeming to come from above.
"Whatever we can spare." Pegasus replied.
"What could they possibly have that would interest us?" Asked the Third voice.
"We have precious little." Pegasus admitted. "But I'm sure we could come up with something that would be worth it for you."
"I believe I have an idea of how they may render payment." Said the Fourth voice from above. "It will soon be time for the great games to come again will it not?" He asked the others.
"Yes, yes." The other voices agreed.
"Then would it not be interesting to see how well these creatures fair in the great games, and if they fare well, then would it not be most worth our wild to send them on their way in good order?" The other voices agreed with the Fourth voice and then further more they made Yugioh, Kaiba, and Pegasus an offer to tempt them into the games. "We will allow you the challengers to choose the game we will play and to have as many players as you wish against us."
"Against you, the council?" Pegasus asked.
"This is perfect, we've got them right in the palms of our hands." Kaiba said to himself.
"I don't like this, it smells fishy." Yugioh said out loud. "And what if we loose the great games?"
"Then you and your people will be sent on your way without our aide to face you fate as it comes to you." Said a yet another voice, this time from below them."
"What should we do?" Pegasus asked.
"We take them up on their offer." Kaiba said.
"I don't think that we know what it is that we're dealing with here." Yugioh warned. "Something tells me that these Zorg as they call themselves are more than what they seem. We have never seen one of them since we've been here. Remember there was no escort for us on the way down and we were lead here by signs and not a living soul to be found."
"This is too good an opportunity to pass up, Yugi." Kaiba told him. "We've got the top duelists in all the universe with us and enough duel monsters card technology to cream these clowns." Kaiba turned back to the darkness and with as few as two words accepted their challenge.
"Excellent." Said all the voices at once. "And the name of your game?"
"Duel Monsters." Kaiba replied. "Now tell us what kind of preparations we should make to accommodate you with our game technology."
"It will not simply be us of the council you must compete against but the best gamers of our world. We will need one of your computers with uplinks to your ship's database and it must be programmed with all the information regarding your Duel Monsters game and all it's characters." The Fifth Voice said. "Any attempts to cheat us will result in an automatic loss and you will be sent back into space with your ships as they are."
"Fare enough." Yugioh said. "Now may I ask where we shall be dueling?" Suddenly the floor beneath them began to shake and shift about. The room widened and the floor began to move upwards at an incredible speed until it came to a stop in what seemed an even darker room. Then suddenly the sealing above them opened up into daylight and they saw that they were inside of a great Coliseum. It was empty now except for Yugioh, Kaiba, Pegasus and the Council whom they now saw revealed in their earthly forms.
They stood ten feet tall wearing robes of bright colors for their skin was deathly white and their their eyes pink. They were all bald with no body hair whatsoever and their arms and legs were as big around as trees.
"Quite an imposing sight, are we not?" Asked the First one. The trio stood in awe of their opponents.
"You're a race of giants?" Pegasus asked.
"To you we may appear quite large which is what we wished. We do not actually look this way but the effect that this form gives is intimidating and that is what we wish to portray." Said the Third one.
"I see." Yugioh said. "Your true forms are hidden from us. For you have evolved to a point to where your mortal bodies are no longer of any use to you so you use your mental powers to portray yourselves as whatever you want."
"This one is very clever." Said the Fifth one. "I will make a wager on this one. I wager seven warthanks that this one with the huge hair will make us an excellent challenge."
"I will wager nine warthanks against." Said the First one. "I do not think his cleverness will allow him to beat one of us."
"Then it's agreed." The Fifth one said. "We shall all retire now and prepare for the games." And so it was that Yugioh, Kaiba, and Pegasus left the planet to return to their ships and their friends to inform them of the great challenge which lay before them and to deliver to the Zorg Council one of their ship's computers with all the accumulated data on Duel Monsters programmed into it's banks.
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"This is going to be a piece of cake." Kaiba said as they flew the Blue Eyes one back into port with the other ships. They docked with the Blue Eyes two and then shuttled everyone else over for a conference in the Captain's briefing room. "Here's how it's going to go down." He told them all. "Our best duelists will face the Aliens in one on one Duel Monsters style. Naturally, I'll start things off, then Yugi, the Pegasus…"
"Wait just a moment there Kaiba boy. I'm not dueling." Pegasus said.
"What?" Everyone exclaimed.
"That's right, I'm a spectator now, and besides I left my deck in my other pants." He joked.
"Fine then we'll just replace you with…" Kaiba was about to say when Joey jumped in.
"Me!" He declared. "I'll step up to the plate."
"No way Wheeler!" Kaiba shouted. "We need good duelists out there to face these Aliens and their mental powers. Which is why my brother Mokuba will be taking Pegasus's spot."
"What, me?" Mokuba asked, surprised.
"You beat Yugi with one of his own cards and took that card from him." Kaiba stated. "If you can do that then you can face an Alien monster with no prior dueling experience. Now that leaves two spot open and I think that Ryou should fill one of them."
"I'll be glad to help." Ryou said, "Just as long as I'm not called upon to use the power of my Millennium Item. It's too powerful for me to control and we've all seen what happens when I use it."
"Point taken." Kaiba agreed. "Now that just leaves our little Miss Duel Monsters Protégée."
"Um that's going to be a problem." Rebecca said. "I kind of don't have my deck with me. I left it back on Earth."
"What!" Everyone exclaimed together. "How could you do that Rebecca?" Yugioh asked.
"I was mad and so I threw it away. Even the card that you gave me Yugi, I don't have a single one left. Mokuba's tried to help me put a new one together but none of the cards seem right."
"Don't worry Rebecca." Pegasus said placing a hand on her shoulder. "I'll help you build a deck you can be proud of. I've got card galore aboard my ship, and some that have never been seen before. Just tell me what kind of deck you'd like and I'll find the cards for you."
"Gosh, thanks Mr. Pegasus but I think that I'd like one like everyone's." She said. "I want a little of everyone's deck in mine so that all my friends will be with me out there on the battlefield."
"Please, give me a break." Kaiba said. "In any case, we'll keep Wheeler, Tea, Duke, and Mai in reserve incase anyone of us can't continue on or incase they surprise us and want to add some more of their people to the list." They had their game plan together and now it was time to practice. Their alien counterparts would certainly be practicing as hard as possible in order beat the creators of the game they would be playing. The group split up then to find some small corner of the ship to battle in where their moves would go unnoticed.
"Pegasus," Yugioh said walking over to him. "May I ask a favor of you?"
"Anything for you Yugi Boy." He replied.
"Could you have this card repaired before the tournament?" Yugioh handed Pegasus the card and he gasped.
"Yugi, this card is… But you have the Egyptian God Cards. Why do you want this one repaired?" He wanted to know.
"It's a gift for a friend." He said. "I'll need duplicates made of these cards too." Yugioh handed over his Dark Magician, Spellbinding Circle, Light Force Sword, and Swords of Revealing Light.
"I'll do what I can with the equipment that I brought with me but why these particular cards?" Pegasus asked.
"They are the best in my deck and I want someone else we both care for to have all the help she can get."
"You mean Rebecca. Yugi, she's going to be fine. I'll give her some of my best cards also. Don't worry, I'll take good care of her for you."
"Not for me, for Mokuba. Look at them over there." Yugioh pointed out. Mokuba and his brother were dueling each other for practice and Rebecca was cheering Mokuba on while Serenity cheered for Kaiba. It was encouraging to see the brothers and their girlfriends in such a good mood. It made their circumstances seem less tragic and their out look on the future less bleak. "Together we are all the future of the Human race, and we must do all we can to insure our victory, or else we'll parish into darkness with the planet we escaped from."
"I understand." Pegasus said then took his leave. He had work to do in order to get the new cards ready.
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"They have delivered the computer." Said one member of the Council.
"Excellent. Now begin the assimilation of data." They walked over to the computer terminal and interfaced with it.
"Interesting. I think that I shall formulate my deck to suit the water species of their home planet." Said the First One.
"I have chosen Fire." Said the Second One. "I have chosen Machines." Said the Third One.
"I will choose these creatures called Grave Keepers." Said the Fourth One.
"I have chosen warriors." Said the Fifth One.
"Then it is finished." Said the First one. "We shall now commence dueling each other to prepare ourselves for the odd rules which govern this game. There are many and we must go by the book completely if we are to win our victory against the Earthlings."
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Pegasus toiled away for hours making the new cards for Yugi. Aboard the ship which bore the name of his deceased wife Cecilia, he'd stored his card manufacturing equipment, and his art studio. To recreate the cards which he'd been given was hard work indeed for a man of his advancing years. Yes, he was getting older now, no longer youthful, and no longer able to see the great love of his life from afar.
"Oh Cecilia, I'm finished." He said at last. "I've remade the fourth Blue Eyes White Dragon and now I've got the cards I need to make young Rebecca her new deck." He took the picture of his dead wife in his hands and kissed it for luck. "We're sure to win now that we've restored this great beast to life. Yes, the Blue Eyes White Dragon number 4 will live again."
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"Kaiba." Yugi said stepping onto the bridge of the Blue Eyes Two. "I've got something for you."
"What's that Yugi, another piece of useless information like I should believe in the heart of the cards or other such nonsense?" Kaiba asked him.
"No, it's an old friend of yours, you'll need him for the games." He said and handed Kaiba Obelisk The Tormentor.
"What's the meaning of this?" Kaiba asked.
"You'll need him before the end of this, and besides, I gave The Winged Dragon of Ra to Mokuba."
"In other words you broke up a set and it doesn't work for you anymore. I'll take you handout this time, Yugi, but don't expect me to just give Obelisk back when I'm done."
"I didn't expect you to." Yugi replied then turned around to leave.
"Hey Yugi!" Mokuba shouted to him from the bridge, "My brother's really very grateful."
Yugioh, Kaiba, and Pegasus stood within a great chamber of lights and gray circles with pillars of stone and a flat table over which was darkened out. The light could not penetrate the darkness over the table and therefore they could not see beyond it.
"Are these the leaders of the invading army?" Asked a voice from beyond the darkness.
"They are." Replied a voice from behind the trio.
"Hold on just a moment!" Pegasus objected.
"Yes," Yugioh said "We're not invaders and we don't have any army with us. As I told your Fleet Commander before, we are Pilgrims, searching for a home."
"So you say." Said another voice, which seemed to come from out of nowhere. "How can we trust you though when you are strange to us, and we no not the circumstances of how you came to be in search of a new home?"
"We have nothing to hide." Said Yugioh. "We come in peace and as you've seen, our weapons are no match for your own. Our engines are damaged and we are out of fuel. We need help to continue on our journey."
"This one speaks true?" Asked the First voice.
"We have scanned their fleet and found that they are in deed out of fuel and in need of repairs." Said the Second voice.
"Then if we render assistance to you, will you be gone from our world, and never return?" Asked the Third voice.
"Nothing would make me happier." Kaiba answered. He was growing impatient in the background. He was not going let Yugi speak for him for much longer.
"What will you offer in exchange for our help?" Asked a Fourth Voice this time seeming to come from above.
"Whatever we can spare." Pegasus replied.
"What could they possibly have that would interest us?" Asked the Third voice.
"We have precious little." Pegasus admitted. "But I'm sure we could come up with something that would be worth it for you."
"I believe I have an idea of how they may render payment." Said the Fourth voice from above. "It will soon be time for the great games to come again will it not?" He asked the others.
"Yes, yes." The other voices agreed.
"Then would it not be interesting to see how well these creatures fair in the great games, and if they fare well, then would it not be most worth our wild to send them on their way in good order?" The other voices agreed with the Fourth voice and then further more they made Yugioh, Kaiba, and Pegasus an offer to tempt them into the games. "We will allow you the challengers to choose the game we will play and to have as many players as you wish against us."
"Against you, the council?" Pegasus asked.
"This is perfect, we've got them right in the palms of our hands." Kaiba said to himself.
"I don't like this, it smells fishy." Yugioh said out loud. "And what if we loose the great games?"
"Then you and your people will be sent on your way without our aide to face you fate as it comes to you." Said a yet another voice, this time from below them."
"What should we do?" Pegasus asked.
"We take them up on their offer." Kaiba said.
"I don't think that we know what it is that we're dealing with here." Yugioh warned. "Something tells me that these Zorg as they call themselves are more than what they seem. We have never seen one of them since we've been here. Remember there was no escort for us on the way down and we were lead here by signs and not a living soul to be found."
"This is too good an opportunity to pass up, Yugi." Kaiba told him. "We've got the top duelists in all the universe with us and enough duel monsters card technology to cream these clowns." Kaiba turned back to the darkness and with as few as two words accepted their challenge.
"Excellent." Said all the voices at once. "And the name of your game?"
"Duel Monsters." Kaiba replied. "Now tell us what kind of preparations we should make to accommodate you with our game technology."
"It will not simply be us of the council you must compete against but the best gamers of our world. We will need one of your computers with uplinks to your ship's database and it must be programmed with all the information regarding your Duel Monsters game and all it's characters." The Fifth Voice said. "Any attempts to cheat us will result in an automatic loss and you will be sent back into space with your ships as they are."
"Fare enough." Yugioh said. "Now may I ask where we shall be dueling?" Suddenly the floor beneath them began to shake and shift about. The room widened and the floor began to move upwards at an incredible speed until it came to a stop in what seemed an even darker room. Then suddenly the sealing above them opened up into daylight and they saw that they were inside of a great Coliseum. It was empty now except for Yugioh, Kaiba, Pegasus and the Council whom they now saw revealed in their earthly forms.
They stood ten feet tall wearing robes of bright colors for their skin was deathly white and their their eyes pink. They were all bald with no body hair whatsoever and their arms and legs were as big around as trees.
"Quite an imposing sight, are we not?" Asked the First one. The trio stood in awe of their opponents.
"You're a race of giants?" Pegasus asked.
"To you we may appear quite large which is what we wished. We do not actually look this way but the effect that this form gives is intimidating and that is what we wish to portray." Said the Third one.
"I see." Yugioh said. "Your true forms are hidden from us. For you have evolved to a point to where your mortal bodies are no longer of any use to you so you use your mental powers to portray yourselves as whatever you want."
"This one is very clever." Said the Fifth one. "I will make a wager on this one. I wager seven warthanks that this one with the huge hair will make us an excellent challenge."
"I will wager nine warthanks against." Said the First one. "I do not think his cleverness will allow him to beat one of us."
"Then it's agreed." The Fifth one said. "We shall all retire now and prepare for the games." And so it was that Yugioh, Kaiba, and Pegasus left the planet to return to their ships and their friends to inform them of the great challenge which lay before them and to deliver to the Zorg Council one of their ship's computers with all the accumulated data on Duel Monsters programmed into it's banks.
-------Scene Break--------
"This is going to be a piece of cake." Kaiba said as they flew the Blue Eyes one back into port with the other ships. They docked with the Blue Eyes two and then shuttled everyone else over for a conference in the Captain's briefing room. "Here's how it's going to go down." He told them all. "Our best duelists will face the Aliens in one on one Duel Monsters style. Naturally, I'll start things off, then Yugi, the Pegasus…"
"Wait just a moment there Kaiba boy. I'm not dueling." Pegasus said.
"What?" Everyone exclaimed.
"That's right, I'm a spectator now, and besides I left my deck in my other pants." He joked.
"Fine then we'll just replace you with…" Kaiba was about to say when Joey jumped in.
"Me!" He declared. "I'll step up to the plate."
"No way Wheeler!" Kaiba shouted. "We need good duelists out there to face these Aliens and their mental powers. Which is why my brother Mokuba will be taking Pegasus's spot."
"What, me?" Mokuba asked, surprised.
"You beat Yugi with one of his own cards and took that card from him." Kaiba stated. "If you can do that then you can face an Alien monster with no prior dueling experience. Now that leaves two spot open and I think that Ryou should fill one of them."
"I'll be glad to help." Ryou said, "Just as long as I'm not called upon to use the power of my Millennium Item. It's too powerful for me to control and we've all seen what happens when I use it."
"Point taken." Kaiba agreed. "Now that just leaves our little Miss Duel Monsters Protégée."
"Um that's going to be a problem." Rebecca said. "I kind of don't have my deck with me. I left it back on Earth."
"What!" Everyone exclaimed together. "How could you do that Rebecca?" Yugioh asked.
"I was mad and so I threw it away. Even the card that you gave me Yugi, I don't have a single one left. Mokuba's tried to help me put a new one together but none of the cards seem right."
"Don't worry Rebecca." Pegasus said placing a hand on her shoulder. "I'll help you build a deck you can be proud of. I've got card galore aboard my ship, and some that have never been seen before. Just tell me what kind of deck you'd like and I'll find the cards for you."
"Gosh, thanks Mr. Pegasus but I think that I'd like one like everyone's." She said. "I want a little of everyone's deck in mine so that all my friends will be with me out there on the battlefield."
"Please, give me a break." Kaiba said. "In any case, we'll keep Wheeler, Tea, Duke, and Mai in reserve incase anyone of us can't continue on or incase they surprise us and want to add some more of their people to the list." They had their game plan together and now it was time to practice. Their alien counterparts would certainly be practicing as hard as possible in order beat the creators of the game they would be playing. The group split up then to find some small corner of the ship to battle in where their moves would go unnoticed.
"Pegasus," Yugioh said walking over to him. "May I ask a favor of you?"
"Anything for you Yugi Boy." He replied.
"Could you have this card repaired before the tournament?" Yugioh handed Pegasus the card and he gasped.
"Yugi, this card is… But you have the Egyptian God Cards. Why do you want this one repaired?" He wanted to know.
"It's a gift for a friend." He said. "I'll need duplicates made of these cards too." Yugioh handed over his Dark Magician, Spellbinding Circle, Light Force Sword, and Swords of Revealing Light.
"I'll do what I can with the equipment that I brought with me but why these particular cards?" Pegasus asked.
"They are the best in my deck and I want someone else we both care for to have all the help she can get."
"You mean Rebecca. Yugi, she's going to be fine. I'll give her some of my best cards also. Don't worry, I'll take good care of her for you."
"Not for me, for Mokuba. Look at them over there." Yugioh pointed out. Mokuba and his brother were dueling each other for practice and Rebecca was cheering Mokuba on while Serenity cheered for Kaiba. It was encouraging to see the brothers and their girlfriends in such a good mood. It made their circumstances seem less tragic and their out look on the future less bleak. "Together we are all the future of the Human race, and we must do all we can to insure our victory, or else we'll parish into darkness with the planet we escaped from."
"I understand." Pegasus said then took his leave. He had work to do in order to get the new cards ready.
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"They have delivered the computer." Said one member of the Council.
"Excellent. Now begin the assimilation of data." They walked over to the computer terminal and interfaced with it.
"Interesting. I think that I shall formulate my deck to suit the water species of their home planet." Said the First One.
"I have chosen Fire." Said the Second One. "I have chosen Machines." Said the Third One.
"I will choose these creatures called Grave Keepers." Said the Fourth One.
"I have chosen warriors." Said the Fifth One.
"Then it is finished." Said the First one. "We shall now commence dueling each other to prepare ourselves for the odd rules which govern this game. There are many and we must go by the book completely if we are to win our victory against the Earthlings."
------Scene Break-------
Pegasus toiled away for hours making the new cards for Yugi. Aboard the ship which bore the name of his deceased wife Cecilia, he'd stored his card manufacturing equipment, and his art studio. To recreate the cards which he'd been given was hard work indeed for a man of his advancing years. Yes, he was getting older now, no longer youthful, and no longer able to see the great love of his life from afar.
"Oh Cecilia, I'm finished." He said at last. "I've remade the fourth Blue Eyes White Dragon and now I've got the cards I need to make young Rebecca her new deck." He took the picture of his dead wife in his hands and kissed it for luck. "We're sure to win now that we've restored this great beast to life. Yes, the Blue Eyes White Dragon number 4 will live again."
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"Kaiba." Yugi said stepping onto the bridge of the Blue Eyes Two. "I've got something for you."
"What's that Yugi, another piece of useless information like I should believe in the heart of the cards or other such nonsense?" Kaiba asked him.
"No, it's an old friend of yours, you'll need him for the games." He said and handed Kaiba Obelisk The Tormentor.
"What's the meaning of this?" Kaiba asked.
"You'll need him before the end of this, and besides, I gave The Winged Dragon of Ra to Mokuba."
"In other words you broke up a set and it doesn't work for you anymore. I'll take you handout this time, Yugi, but don't expect me to just give Obelisk back when I'm done."
"I didn't expect you to." Yugi replied then turned around to leave.
"Hey Yugi!" Mokuba shouted to him from the bridge, "My brother's really very grateful."