Super-Powers... UNITE!!!
Disclaimer: I do not own YGO, or Cracker Jacks, or any other brand-name products I may or may not use in this story unless I say otherwise. Which I most likely won't.
D/N: BWUAHAHHAHAHHHAHAA!! I've returned! I bet you all thought I'd leave but I didn't and I came back so now I'm here and not gone because I've returned! -- If you understand that sentence, you have serious issues. Please leave your e-mail so I can send you a 'YOU HAVE SERIOUS ISSUES' certificate and join my club! YAAAAAAAAAAY ISSUES!!!
REVIEWERS ARE GETTING MY RESPONSES!! Which is technically a good thing, but others may see it differently... :
Game and Watch Forever: Awwww, thank you! I feel so appreciated! YOU SEE, ERISO??? (Eriso: Oh, wow. You're finally accepted. Congrats.) Well.. you.... SHUT UP!! . As for Diplomacy, yes, I'm sorry. :( I'm gonna start up a little club called 'The Mourners of Diplomacy.' I've lost half of the chapters, and I can't rewrite them without leaving out have the jokes that gave it its character. Who knows? Maybe I'll write another story that includes Mr. Fred-Sir and the Yamis.... getting... hurt... hmmmmmmm... You know, I think I just found a new villain for my story. YAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!
Hazel-Beka: Oh, don't fret about looking for radio-active monkeys! I have the solution right here! With my Radio-Active-Monkeys-in-A-Can, you'll never run out of radio-active monkey goodness! :D ONLY 10 DOLLARS!!!
Flame Swordswoman: You know, I'm not exactly sure if I'll be having pairings or not in this story. Maybe. If I do, one of them will DEFINITELY be Joey/Mai! Don't worry about the powers, I'll get into more detail about them in this chapter!
WARNING!!!!
There are some... uhm... 'crude insults and remarks' floating around this chapter. If you're so sensitive that you can't risk exposing your virgin eyes to words like 'BUM CHUNK' and 'BUTT KISSER' then I suggest you simply re-read next chapter. HAHAHAHA, I joking. The words that may or may not be used are gonna be harsher than that. ;P And for those wondering why I'm focusing mainly on the Mai/Tea 'cat-fights,' don't worry. I've got an explanation.
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Duke sat in the kitchen, staring at a glass that was across the table. "Ok, Mr. Glass. You're going to come to me when I open up my hand, ok?" Duke told it. Normally he'd feel incredibly stupid, but now was a good time to ignore that feeling.
Duke opened his hand, and waited. Nothing happened. "Uhm... come here?" he tried. Nothing. Frowning, he tried to will the glass to come to him. The glass wobbled and then fell over, but that was all.
"Huh." Duke said to himself. "I was able to do it without thinking before..." Duke thought for a bit, wondering what had gone wrong, when suddenly the phone rang. Duke looked at it, then raised his hand. "Come to me, oh, glorious phone!" He muttered, focusing intently, visualising the phone lifting and then coming to him.
The phone lifted about an inch off of the counter, but stopped at that and fell down. Sighing, Duke got up to answer the phone. "Hello?" he said into it.
"Duke!" a voice said back to him, sounding panicked.
"Mai?" Duke blinked, completely stunned that she of all people would be calling him. "Uh... what can I do for you?"
"Ok, Duke, I have to ask you a very serious question. Please don't laugh, ok?" Mai told him, quite seriously.
"Uhm... ok?"
"Right... uh... Did you... have... a dream last night?" Mai asked.
"Mai, I always have a dream!" Duke laughed, nervously.
"No... I mean, sure, great, but... did you have a dream... about..." Mai seemed to be bracing herself. "About... a green monkey falling out of the sky?"
"Whoa." Duke blinked. "Ok, that's just freaky. How did you know that?"
"Because I had the same dream too."
"Alright... but how did you know I would have the same dream?"
"Because it wasn't a dream."
"Oh, come on! What else could it be?"
"Turn on the TV, and then come to the park."
"Ok... see ya." Duke muttered, as Mai hung up. He walked over to the TV and turned it on, flipping to a news station.
"... But apparently the children remained unharmed." The news reporter said, as Duke tuned in. "And now, our top story. Have the animal testing protesters known something about the testing that we didn't? Has an experiment gone horribly wrong and caused havoc in our city? Are Martians finally invading our planet? Doria Janli has the story."
"Thank you, Sarah." Doria told her, facing the camera. She was in the park, and behind her seemed to be... a giant hole! "Reports of a strange, green object dropping out from the sky and crashing here in Domino City Central Park has brought together many scientists and bystanders to come look at this gaping hole behind me, where a... radioactive test-animal has crash landed after apparently falling out of a passing plane. Details of this event are unclear, since..."
Duke completely shut the reporter out. So it was true! There really was a radioactive monkey that crashed into them! They were blasted with radioactive powers! That's why the die was flying across the room and everything else was happening!
"Oh, god..." Duke mumbled, grabbing his coat and dashing out the door. However, if he had stayed a little longer, he would've heard the rest of the report...
"...and scientists are still unsure of what the long-term side effects this may have on any humans who have come into contact with the animal." Doria went on, as men in radioactive suits were walking past, carrying something in a large jar. "However, they have managed to trap one living organism who has apparently come into contact and are about to begin tests on it to see what exactly happened to it. The creature was a common spider, but it is above-average now, as it has been glowing a strange green aura around it and has at least tripled in size over the past few hours. More on this later. Back to you, Sarah."
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"It's about time you showed up." Kaiba snorted, as Duke came running up to the group, out of breath. The reporters had left by now, and the gang was huddled in a group of trees, safely hidden from others, yet they still had a clear view of the hole.
The small group that was in trees consisted right now of Mai, Kaiba, Mokuba, Tristan, Yami, Yugi, and now Duke. Mai had just called them all right after she had seen the report on TV.
"Why are you here?" Duke asked Kaiba.
Kaiba rolled his eyes. "I was here when the monkey crashed."
"So now, we only have to wait for Tea, Joey, Serenity and the Tomb Robber." Yami said. Yugi was standing right next to him, apparently still traumatised by the 'pot incident.' (Eriso: AHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!! / Qk: Yeah, shut up. / Eriso: 'Kay!)
"Well, here's Joey... and... uh..." Tristan blinked at the 'person' moving alongside him in a wagon. "A pile of coats?"
As ridiculous as that may sound, Tristan had gotten quite to the real answer. There, next to Joey, was Serenity, her head covered in possibly every layer of her clothing she obtained. From the very small opening at the top was a small end of a scuba-tube, which Serenity was using to breathe. And Joey was lugging her up the hill seemingly no effort - although it was a very steep hill and Serenity and her clothes must've weighed a good 300 kilograms - (Qk: CANADA STRIKES AGAIN!! / Eriso: aha... no.) since poor Serenity could not walk due to the fact that she would topple over from the great weight on her head.
As Joey finally reached them, Mai asked him, "Hi Joey... What's with the closet?"
"It's Serenity." Joey shrugged. "And I'd be careful what you say. She can hear you." Everyone blinked at him. "She said before we put all this stuff on to only ask her yes or no questions, or questions that she can answer easily by waving her arms or somethin'."
Tristan leaned forward. "SERENITY!!!" He shouted. "CAN YOU HEAR-"
POW!! Tristan lurched back after Serenity slugged him in the nose. Luckily Serenity's movements were hampered by the clothing, or that would've really hurt.
"GEEZ!! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" Tristan demanded.
"Duh! If she can hear you, she's obviously sensitive to sounds now. Shoutin' in her... er... face isn't exactly the greatest thing for her right now." Joey shrugged again.
"Serenity," Mokuba said, from a distance. "Can you really hear us?"
Serenity gave a thumbs up sign, as everyone - except Joey, of course - held in their gasps of amazement.
"Hey, everyone! And Mai..." A voice called out from behind them. Everyone turned around to see Tea, looking very drained, coming up the hill. "What's up?"
"And so we see what Tea looks like when the plastic surgeon gets tired of her incessant friendship rants." Mai scoffed.
Tea glared at her. "Ok, first of all, I don't go to a plastic surgeon, unlike someone, Barbie. Second, the only way a plastic surgeon would 'ruin me' is if you slept with him so he'd do it for you, which I wouldn't put past you."
"Actually, I think it's a reward for such a good job you did with him." Mai narrowed her eyes, smirking. "Perhaps you should get a little more expirenced. You don't seem to have done a good job."
"Maybe I can take a few pointers from you, Mai." Tea snapped. "You would know what he'd like, since you've done every guy on this planet, except for the exception of these guys." She waved a hand at the boys in the group.
Mai only got a chance to glare at her, before Kaiba stepped in and said, "Ok, enough is enough. As much as I enjoy seeing the two of you pick at one another, we've got more pressing matters to discuss."
Mai only huffed and walked away from Tea, and settled in between Yami and Joey. Particularly Joey. (Eriso: ... / Qk: Problem? / Eriso: Hmm... how should I answer that? / Qk: You shouldn't. / Eriso: 'Kay! / Qk: -.-;;)
"That's right." Mai said, taking full control of the discussion immediately. "Now, all of you remember waking up this morning with the memories of what happened yesterday, but we simply thought it was some strangely realistic dream."
"But now we know that's what really happened." Tristan added. "I mean, I think it's pretty safe to say that not only was that crazy dream real, but we've also done the impossible as well."
"We've got super-powers." Joey muttered.
"Well, I guess this is the part where we go in a circle and say what our powers are?" Mokuba asked. Not waiting for a response, he said, "I can stretch my arms! I'm like... a rubber-band! I can be Rubber-band Boy or something! Ooh, does this mean we all get to be super-heroes and fight crime and have really cool names and costumes and stuff?"
"Yeah, Mokuba." Tea told him sarcastically, then glared viciously at Mai. "Hey, Mai, you can be Super-Slut."
Mai narrowed her eyes at Tea. "Excuse me?"
"Quit drooling all over Joey." Tea snapped. Mai instantly let go of Joey's arm.
Mai glared back. "I am not drooling over that dolt."
"Dolt?" Joey blinked.
"Oh, please! I can hear you slobbering from here!" Tea snorted.
"Tea, you seem a little stressed. Why don't you go play with your little midget boyfriend and relax?"
"Midget?" Yugi repeated, hurt.
"Why don't you-" Tea began, but was cut off.
"Hey! Guys! Cool it already!" Duke waved his hands in front of them. "We don't need to start killing each other right now! Let's just get back on track! Ok, Tea, what powers do you have?"
"I'm... not too sure..." Tea admitted. "I think I can read minds and stuff. My mom's thoughts were really loud this morning, but when I went outside, everything was quiet again! And right now I'm not hearing any of your thoughts... so... maybe it was just a fluke or something."
"Ok... well, maybe it'll come back to you." Duke shrugged.
"Yay, Tea!" Mai said, sarcasm dripping off her every word. "Now you don't have to work so hard to cheat on tests just to get a 60!"
Tea growled threateningly, but Yugi stepped in quickly and asked, "Kaiba, what do you have?"
"Levitation, I suppose." Kaiba grunted, apparently not too pleased with the fact that he could be deemed a 'freak.'
"I've got healing powers!" Tristan grinned. "That's probably why I was the only one who woke up without a head-ache today!"
"Well, I've got telekinetic abilities now." Duke said. "One of my dice was knocked across the room, and all I did was open my hand for it to come back to me."
"I've got super-speed, I think. Or maybe time control..." Mai wondered. "All I know is that I found my phone in the bottom of my closet on my third floor, while I was on the first floor, and I did it in less than a phone ring!"
"Gee," Tea rolled her eyes. "That's gonna help your little business on the street corner now, isn't it? You can entertain 5 guys at the same time! Oh, wait, you already do!"
"At least I can get a guy!" Mai hissed. "I mean, a guy I don't have to pay."
"Can you two just knock it off?" Yami snapped. "What's with you two, today? You're fighting much more than usual!"
"Yeah!" Joey agreed. "I mean, before it was just a few insults, but now you guys look like you're about to kill each other!"
"Oh, we had an interesting little conversation on the phone today, didn't we, Mai?" Tea glowered.
"Oh, indeed we did." Mai glared back.
Yami rolled his eyes. "Well, anyway, Yugi says I have the ability to make things burn."
Kaiba smirked. "Spontaneous combustion? It seems more like a Bakura thing." Kaiba then looked around. "By the way, where is Bakura?"
"I don't know. Probably maiming squirrels or rabbits or something." Yami shrugged, then, as an afterthought, added, "Or getting maimed by them."
"Yeah, right." Joey grinned. "The only way Bakura could get attacked by rabbits would be in his dreams."
Everyone was silent for a moment before Joey said, "Well, I think I've got super-strength or something. And Serenity's got... uhm... super-hearing." Serenity gave a thumbs up sign. "So... I guess all we've all said our powers then. We just gotta wait for Bakura."
At that exact moment, Ryou came running up. "GUYS!!! GUYS!!! GET OVER HERE NOW YOU HAVE TO HELP ME!!!"
Mai raised an eyebrow. "Aren't we technically already here?"
"Oh." Ryou thought for a moment. "BESIDE THE POINT!!! BAKURA'S GOT FREAKY POWERS RIGHT NOW AND HE'S WREAKING HAVOC ON THE CITY!!!"
"And that's different from any other day... how?" Tristan asked.
"Oh... well... it isn't really..." Ryou blinked. "BUT YOU HAVE TO COME HELP ANYWAY!!!"
The group groaned and rolled their eyes, but got up and rushed to the scene of the crime.
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D/N: OOOOOOH!!! I wonder what Bakura's doing... OH WAIT!! I ALREADY KNOW!!! AHAHAHAAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHA!!! Anyways, for some of my readers, the whole 'spider' thing may be a bit of a blast from the past for you. From a story called... DIPLOMACY??? Guess who gets to be the villain! GUESS!! GO ON!! GUESS!! BWUHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! Whether the Spider-Trio is in here though is a 45/55 chance. I sorta want them in, but I don't see how'd they fit in, and why I'd want to go through all that trouble trying to make them fit in. And the powers... I gave you sort of a generalised idea of what Mai's powers were. I'm not sure whether to make it time travel or super speed. Which do you think?