Chapter 3: Always Look at Both Sides of the Street Before Crossing

Yugi's POV

Why did this have to happen to Tristan and Anzu? Why couldn't it
have happened to someone else? "TELL ME WHY!" I accidentally shouted.
The others just stared at me and looked back at Joey. Mai tried to
comfort him, but it didn't seem to be working. Kaiba and Mokuba stood
in place, looking off in the other direction. I decided to get away
from them and I walked where the roof led. I stopped at the end of the
other side and found a door. I tried to open it, but it was locked.
There was a sign on the door labeled 'Storage.' I looked at the key I
picked up before we got out here. I looked at the label and it said
'Storage' as well. I used the key on the door and unlocked it. I tossed
the key aside and walked in. Inside the room were shelves that held
soap, beverages, and other irrelevant objects. I noticed on top of one
of the shelves a handgun clip. I tried to get it, but I was unable to,
do to the fact that it was on top of the shelves.
I stood on top of some boxes until I reached the top of the shelf
and I grabbed the handgun clip. I jumped off from the boxes and landed
safely on my feet. Just as I was about to turn the doorknob to go out to
the roof, something, or someone, was banging on the door. It must be
another one of those zombies. I aimed at the door to get ready to shoot
it. As the door opened, the zombie rushed in and grabbed me. It tried to
bite me, but out of nowhere, it was shoot in the head and its blood had
shredded on my face. The zombie lost its grip and fell to the floor. I
looked across to see who it was. It was hard to see, but I was able to
make out a person in a black cloak. It was the same cloak that those
rare hunters used. The person looked in my direction and ran off. I
followed after him and noticed that a group of zombies were headed our
way, about a group of fifteen. The man in the cloak and the rest of us
backed away slowly with our weapons ready to be used in case one of them
tried to attack us. "Crap," said the man in the cloak.

???'s POV

I walked toward to the control panel. Those fools have no idea
what's in store for them. They are stuck in their horrible little
virtual world while I'm still in the real world. I walked up to the microphone.

The microphone could be heard throughout the entire virtual world, so

I know they will hear this message. I leaned towards the mic, turned it on,

And said, "May I please have your attention everyone? You are all fucked.
Thank you, that is all." I turned off the mic and walked away.

Joey's POV

What the hell all that about? Is this guy trying to be funny?
Zombies are chasing us and he's trying to make funny comments? No
way, I won't die. I have to make it for the sake of Tristan and Anzu! I
stood up and ran towards them with my iron pipe. I began to beat them
roughly with it and most of them began to fall. Yugi, Kaiba, Mokuba, and
some weird guy in a black cloak had my back by shooting at them. Mai was
simply terrified and ran to the other side of the roof. After ten
minutes of shooting and bashing, they were all dead for good. We walked
in Mai's direction and stood there, looking for a way out. "That door by
us is only a storage room, there's no way out there," Yugi said. That odd
man in the black cloak whistled and pretty soon, many people in black
cloaks appeared out of nowhere. I think it was about a group of six of
them that appeared.
One of them whispered something to the man that was with us. He
walked around and stood by a rusted fence that seemed pretty beat up.
He began to kick the fence and tackle it. We just stared and wondered
until we figured out that he was trying to knock down the fence. In his
attempt to knock it down, his hood slid off, revealing his identity. It
was Odion! "Hold it just a second! Is that you Odion? What are you doin'
here," I asked. He continued ramming it as if he never heard me. After a
minute, he managed to knock it over and went to the path that the fence
blocked. All it did was led to the edge of the roof, and nearby an
apartment building. I think I knew what they were trying to do, jump to
the other building to escape. They all managed to get to the other side,
so that just left Yugi, Mokuba, Ryou, Kaiba, Mai, and me. I decided that
I should try to help them in case they barely made it. I jumped across
the building to the other. I felt a little safer now. The others left
without us and into the building.
Damn them, I'll just have to try to help my friends. Yugi tried to
jump, but nearly didn't make it and I caught him and got him to the
building. Ryou jumped over and made it without help. Kaiba jumped over
with Mokuba and they ran into the building as well. Damn that gut pisses
me off. That just leaves Mai. She looked nervous and she looked down,
which was a long drop if she fell. She closed her eyes and jumped over,
but she jumped to early and nearly took the fall. I quickly grabbed her
hand and struggled to pull her up. She looked at me in fear, afraid that
I was going to let go. After a long try, I managed to get her up. I took
a deep breath and told her and my other friends to go on with me cause
I'd catch up with them. They did as I told them and I looked around the
roof of this building. I luckily found myself a handgun. I grabbed it,
picked it up, and ran into the building.
They weren't there, so I suspected that they had already gone to
the first floor. I found an elevator and called it up to this floor. I
waited until there was banging on the door beside me. "Dammit," I
shouted. It was the zombies. The elevator door opened and so did the
other door. I rushed in the elevator and pressed the button for the
first floor. The elevator door almost closed until a hand stopped the
door from closing. I took out the handgun and fire a round and it let
go of the door. I was on my way to the first floor, so I took another
breather until I got there. The door opened and I ran straight ahead.
I looked in both directions, seeing a door on my left and a door
blocked by a zombie. I ran towards the unprotected door until the
window in front of me broke and a zombie came through. It grabbed my
leg and tried to bite, but I smashed its head by stomping its head
with my foot. I ran through the door and found many innocent people
being chased and killed by these zombies. I can't believe what I'm
seeing...

Yugi's POV

"Joey! Come here," I yelled to Joey when he walked out of the
building. He rushed over and joined us in front of a door with a lock on
it. Ryou took his time trying to take his time unlocking it while we
tried to hold off the zombies for as long as we could. As the zombies
came closer, he unlocked it and opened the door quickly. We rushed in
and we quickly closed the door and locked it. We ran straight ahead and
noticed that Kaiba, Mokuba, and those people with the black cloaks were
standing in front of a door that led to the other streets. "What's goin'
on here!? Why are all of ya standin' here? Lemme get through! We gotta
get out," yelled Joey. One of the people in the black cloaks spoke by
saying, "Okay Wheeler, if that's how you feel, go ahead. It's not my
fault if those flesh-eating zombies eat you. Go and commit
suicide then." Joey got mad and grabbed the person by the collar, and
his hood slipped off, revealing it to be Marik! "Unhand me Wheeler or
you'll face severe consequences," Marik shouted. Joey let him go and
spit on the floor. Why is Marik suddenly trying to help us?
"I'm not doing this for your sake Yugi, I'm just doing this so
I can get the hell out of here," Marik said. The others in the cloaks
nodded. Joey said, "You know, you guys can take of your hoods now."
They put down their hoods and revealed themselves to be the members
of the Rare Hunters. Rare Hunter, Arcana, Strings, Umbra and Lumis,
all of them were here.

Ryou's POV

My head is beginning to hurt a lot now. It seems that the evil
side within the Millennium Ring is wanting to come out. It's not like
I can do anything about it and I will allow it. He's a much better
thinker in situations such as these. After all, he is evil. I just
hope that my friends won't be in trouble with him around...

Bakura's POV

It was smart of my hikari to let me take over the body now. Now
I shall tried to lead us away from this danger, because I can't risk
losing this vessel. Now it is my turn. "Hey, how about one of your
people go and check it out Marik? Just to make sure it's safe?," I
said as if I were my hikari. Marik nodded and sent Rare Hunter to go
check out the streets. Rare Hunter went through and we all stood by
the door watching him. He walked towards the middle of the street and
looked around. He turned around towards us and said, "All clear!" It
was then that a runaway truck was coming down the street and he was
not noticing a thing behind him. "Get out of the way Rare Hunter,"
shouted Marik. He slowly turned around to see the truck for the last
two seconds of his life and... crash. The truck had tossed him
towards the door, lying with a very scary look on his face. "It's
like my father always told me when I was young, always look at both
sides of the street before crossing. Guess his parents never taught
him that," I said.