Seto shrank back from Chaos's hand like it was something diseased. She just stood there for a moment, face freezing. Then, it slowly began to darken. An odd thing happened then. The colors in the room began to completely invert themselves; the room flashed upside down and backwards, and the gilt hue of Chaos's eyes darkened to a silvery jet. All of this happened in the span of a few seconds.

When it was over, Seto fell back, dead.

Chaos pulled her hand back, an imperious glare upon her face.

"Seto's descendent or no, it isn't smart to tick me off."

She stepped past the corpse and out into the desert sun. What met her gaze were the bodies of Bob and Ryou.

"Holy-" she cried, taken aback. She hadn't realized that, in her anger, her power had seeped through the tomb and out to wherever. How far had it gone? There was no way to tell. Therefore, the only way to remedy her mistake was to bring back to life everyone who had died in the last…minute? Two minutes? Better make it five.

She drew a golden chain, spider-web-thin, from around her neck and held it out directly before her gilt eyes. She spaced her fingers over five links in the chain, and then everything inverted.

Bob awoke to find an odd-looking woman standing over him. He jumped up, backing away quickly.

"Who-who are you?!"

"Ah!" the woman exclaimed, pleased. "Milady Pharaoh is awake!"

Then, she threw back her head and laughed nearly as maniacally as Ryou.

"Ah, yes, I am great!" Suddenly, two chibis marked 'A' and 'B' appeared on her shoulders.

"Chaos, Chaos, you're so great! And I have no damn clue what rhymes with great," the first chibi sang.

"Except for late, which you are!" Chaos replied frowning at the chibi.

"Yeah, Washu! You have the greatest mind in- oh shit!"

Chaos was giving Chibi B a glare of impending death.

"Great, 'B'! Now look what you've done!" Chibi A shouted at the hapless 'B'. "You know what happens when you mention Washu!"

"Eeep!" 'B' cried as Chaos reached for it. "Look at the time! Gotta run!" It ducked away.

"Oh, gee, me too! What'dya know." 'A' disappeared as well.

Bob just stared. He was still stuck on the 'Milady Pharaoh'. Chaos turned in a huff to find him staring reverently at her.

"What?" she snapped crossly.

"You…called me Milady."

"Oh. Oops. You just look a lot like the Pharaoh in my day. He ordered everyone to call him 'Milady'. That's all."

Bob's eyes glistened. He sniffled.

"No one has ever called me 'Milady' before. I- I… I'm so happy!" He burst into tears.

Chaos blinked, then began to back away slowly. She ran up against a solid object that grabbed her shoulders and swirled her around to face it.

"Ah!" she cried once she saw his face. "Ryou!" She then preceded to glomp him.

After he dislodged himself, Ryou studied her face for a moment, squinting slightly. Suddenly, his eyes widened.

"Chaos!"

She too, was studying him, eyebrows raised.

"Leather, eh? Nice…"

His face reddened.

"Hey! It wasn't my idea! Talk to the lech, Kaiba!" He pointed at Seto, who was climbing out of the grave.

"I have found it!" Seto cried, holding up the dragon figurine. He spotted Chaos, "Ahh! Not you again!"

"Yup, it's me," Chaos muttered, bored with this game. She turned confidently to Ryou. "Is he mental, or just stupid?"

Ryou growled " ing lech…" and turned away.

Chaos was about to reply, when a high-pitched, nasal cry echoed across the desert.

"YOU!!! You stole MY chibis!"

All four turned to see a cloud of sand with pink hair rushing toward them.

"Well," Chaos said brightly, "time to go. It's been fun, bye now!" She bolted.

After a moment, the other three followed, Washu in hot pursuit.

An hour later found them all- Chaos, Bob, Ryou, Seto, and Washu- at Seto's mansion, on the patio, sipping tea and stargazing.

Washu's chibis were perched on her shoulders once more. She spoke up,

"Thanks again for returning my chibis. I have no idea what possessed them to run away."

Chaos coughed, "Ah yeah. Me neither." She shot a warning glare at the chibis, who had opened their mouths to protest. Their mouths snapped swiftly shut.

"So, Chaos," Washu began, eyeing the girl seriously.

"Hmm?" she replied, not returning the look. Instead, she focused on the surface of the tea.

"What are you going to do, now that you're free?"

One eyebrow perked. "What else? I will not rest until this world and every other lies in ruins."

There was silence for a moment, and then Washu spoke again, "You know, they'll come after you, right? They will and we, too, will have an obligation to stop you."

She snorted derisively. "You can't stop me. No one can."

Washu sipped her tea.

"I certainly hope, for your sake, that you're right. Now then, what do you want for payment for the safe return of my chibis?"

She thought for a moment, sipping the cooling tea in her hands.

"Well, I'll need the Key to the Oblivions, for starters. If I want to destroy other worlds, I will need access to them first, after all, I want that…and my sword."

Washu frowned, "The key I have, but the sword I don't."

"Then the key."

"Done," the scientist replied, whipping her laptop out of thin air and typing away furiously for a moment. She stopped, and there was a pause, which was accented by a ticking noise. There was a 'ding!' and a key appeared on the screen.

"Transaction complete," Washu announced reaching into the screen and pulling out the key. She handed it over to Chaos.

Chaos smiled.

"Perfect."

A/N: So yeah, we haven't given up on this story yet. Acid