In a hotel room, not far from the capital, Yugi and the others waited for Shadi to return. Outside the people of Cairo were growing restless and very distrustful of their leaders. As another scandal unfolded on the news more and more people dressed in dark robes began handing out flyers calling for a revolution. These were obviously Ra'd Amir's people trying to agitated the citizens. According to Shadi and Pegasus they had been doing this for some time. As Yugi/Yami looked out the window he wondered how any of this could be of help in bringing him back to the thrown of Egypt. Then again, he was still unsure of if he even wanted to be Pharaoh again.
"Aside from being a villain it would seem our enemy is also something of political agitator, eh Yugi Boy?" Pegasus said.
"So it would seem." He replied as he left the window and came to sit on the bed. The news was full of the latest gossip and reports of yet another minister being arrested for indecent conduct while in power. Shadi had been right, Egypt was in need of a strong leader. The way things were going, he may have to assume power weather he wants to or not.
"The streets are crowded with evil doers again, I see." Shadi suddenly appeared through the door, this time in caporal form. "Forgive me I startled you my Pharaoh."
"No." Said Yugi/Yami "They do frighten me though. I have seen many like them before." Yami remembered the turbulent times on the past when he and Kaiba battled for control of Egypt.
"They're all a bunch of punks." Kaiba said suddenly appearing from the hallway. "I just talked to one of those twerps handing out the flyers near the hotel entrance, and he doesn't even know what they're talking about. Fools, all of them, and us worst of all. Do you really think that the Egyptian Government is going to stand by and let a king return to rule them when they've had at least the pretence of Democracy for the last hundred years? Look at you, Yugi, you're not even Egyptian anymore. You're Japanese. They're not going to follow you."
"Would they follow you then, Wizard?" Shadi asked Kaiba.
"Hmm." Kaiba replied. "Probably not, otherwise, I'd start a revolution of my own. Not only Egypt but the world needs guidance, wisdom, and leadership of the most unimpeachable quality. As the leader of a multi national corporation, I alone have the skills required." Kaiba was beginning to sound a little too much like his old self there for a moment.
"And while you men are off conquering the world, where does that leave us?" Serenity asked, grabbing Kaiba by the ear she led him out of the room while Tea sat back on the bed and giggled.
"Yeah Yug, you're not going to be able to rule the world without a queen by your side." Joey began to nudge him on the stomach. "So when are you and Tea going to tie the knot?"
"Hey!" Tea protested. "No one ever said that Yugi's going to rule the world, just Egypt, and there's no rule that says that he has to be married to do it."
"She's right, Yugi boy, as a single man let me tell you what fun you can have with more than one woman on your arms. You'd be the most eligible bachelor in the world. The hottest women with the loosest morals will be at your command." This thought did more to upset Tea than it did to intrigue Yami. Being that he was a spirit living inside of a puzzle most of the time, he really didn't have the foggiest idea of what to do with girls. Yugi Mouto on the other hand was really turned on by the thought of having a harum. He envisioned a dozen scantly clad girls laying on pillows, waiting for him, and on each of their lips were the words -
"Excuse me!" Tea suddenly said, bursting Yugi's bubble, and grabbing him by the ear as Serenity had done Kaiba. She led him over to the bed and sat him down. "Yugi, if you even dare look at another woman besides me, then your reign will be a short one if you catch my drift. Not that it was very long to begin with."
"BURN!" Tristan cried. Shadi coughed and then they all turned their attentions back to him.
"My Pharaoh you need to come with me. We're going to meet with a very important member of the government who's help is crucial in returning you to the thrown."
"Lead the way man." Joey said.
"No, the Pharaoh and I must go alone." Shadi said.
"That's fine, we've got more important things to discuss here, and I don't want Yugi getting in the way." Kaiba said.
"What could be more important than making my buddy King of Egypt?" Joey asked.
"Dealing with the Rare Hunters and Ra'd Amir." Merik said.
"Quite right." Pegasus agreed, "We need a plan and that's where Kaiba and I come in." he said. Yugi/Yami left with Shadi and went with him to the Prime Minister's house on the upper west side of the city. There were armed guards everywhere and the house seemed to be an impregnable fortress but Shadi managed to sneak Yugi/Yami and himself inside without detection.
"Wait here in the hallway my Pharaoh." Shadi said as they came to a large door with engravings on it. "This is the Prime Minister's private family shrine where he prays every day before going to his offices, and every night when he returns home. I must go to him now and prepare him to meet you." Shadi disappeared then and so Yugi/Yami waited until at last he heard raised voices on the other side of the door. Suddenly the great door flew open and a man with dark reseeding hair came running out. He stopped when he saw Yugi/Yami and then he fell to his knees and prayed to the gods. Shadi came out behind the man and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Shadi?" Yugi/Yami asked.
"This is the Pharaoh reborn." Shadi said to the man who then rose up and embraced Yugi/Yami in his arms.
"The gods be praised, he is here, just as the spirit said. My King, you have returned." Said the man and he wept.
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"So what are we going to do about these Rare Hunters?" Inu-yasha asked as he paced about inside the hotel room.
"My old network stretches around the globe to dozens of countries, with thousands of followers." Merik said "I may be able to summon a few of those still loyal to myself if I can contact them through the right channels. Then again if I tell them our plans they could be leaked to the enemy."
"That's if we even come up with a plan." Shippo said.
"He's right, we're going to need a good failsafe plan and a back up incase that one does fail." Miroku told them. "It has to be a good one and we can't count on anyone except ourselves to carry it out." Tea sat on the bed with Mai, Serenity, and Kagome.
"Couldn't we rely on the government to take care of all this?" Tea asked. "I mean, there's the police and the army to handle the Rare Hunters if there is an uprising. Right?"
"We have people inside the army and the police." Merik said. "Or at least we used to. Now they follow Ra'd Amir. More than likely, he's already got them standing by incase we cross his path again. He's got one of the swords now and he's got an army of Rare Hunters at his command. They will fight to the death for him as you saw in the desert. Those few who ran away will be punished and the rest will fear Ra'd Amir worse than death."
"Then we've got to have an army too." Said Kaiba. "Luckily, I just happen to have a privately trained force waiting for my word to come in by helicopter."
"What?" They all exclaimed. "Kaiba, you sayin that you've got your own army?" Joey asked in disbelief.
"My private Kaiba Corp security forces are a lethal, state of the art, high tech army of the best and the brightest minds in all the world. Privately trained by the best Mercenaries in the world, and equipped with weapons my father never dreamed up. Mokuba is waiting for me to radio him right now. Once I do, he'll lead the first division in." Everyone was shocked. They knew Kaiba was a little out of his head and a little hardcore but this was going over the edge. Why on earth would he need an army of privately trained soldiers to protect his company?
"Kaiba, you're crazy!" Tristan cried.
"Crazy like a fox." Inu-yasha said going over to stand with Kaiba. "This is the best plan I've heard yet. When can you have them in and ready for battle?"
"I just need word from Yugi." Kaiba said. "I won't offer my forces to help him unless he asks me, no, until he begs me to." They all sighed.
"Kaiba, are you still on the stupid grudge?" Kagome asked.
"It's not a stupid grudge. I'm a proud man and I won't lend my army to anyone without their coming to me totally in need. They are my soldiers after all." Well it seemed that they were back to square one. Without a plan and without a clue as to what was going one outside of their hotel rooms. Where was Yugi? What was Ra'd Amir up to at that moment? What was going to happen next?
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Ra'd Amir played with his sword as if it were a plastic toy and he had not the respect for it's power that his opponents had. He wielded the power of this first of the two Swords of Chaos like a child would wield a loaded gun.
"I grow tired of this." he said to his lackies. "Gather our full strength. We march to Cairo where I shall take control of the government now before anyone is the wiser. With this Sword of Conquest I shall rule Egypt and then the world."
"The army is with you." Said a Rare Hunter with army boots protruding from underneath his robes.
"Excellent General. I will need the army to encircle the city so that no one can get in or out."
"Are you really going to attempt and Cue so soon after our defeat at the hands of the Pharaoh?" Layla asked.
"You doubt me my dear?" Ra'd Amir asked her.
"No my lord, I doubt nothing, but the Pharaoh is strong and he now wields the King's sword."
"My men will take care of him." Said another Rare Hunter. "I'll have Yugi Mouto and his friends placed under Arrest and hold them in the city jail."
"Good then, I'll leave it to you Chief." Ra'd Amir said. "We will go now to Cairo and war."
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"So you are the great Pharaoh of Legend. Yami." The Prime Minister said as he poured Yugi/Yami a cup of Mint Tea.
"I am." Yugi/Yami replied. "Or rather we are. I inhabit this body of my reincarnation and together Yugi Mouto and I are an unstoppable team. We have faced many enemies, including the Rare Hunters."
"Ah, the Rare Hunters. I have been wanting to talk to someone about this for a long time, but no one I approach is willing to admit that they exist. They are a largely secret organization of rouges and thieves, and marauders who travel the world looking for the Rarest of all things. After their leader Merik's defeat at battle city though, they have stopped hunting for duel monsters and turned to hunting treasures of the ancient world." The Prime Minister said. "I believe these same Rare Hunters are behind the scandals which are forcing my country into the grips of civil unrest. Everywhere I look now I see men draped in black cloaks hiding in the shadows. They are a menace."
"I agree, and we believe also that they are behind the civil unrest that is worsening throughout not only Egypt, but the entire world." Yugi/Yami said. "I fear that this is just the tip of the iceberg. I fear for the world. The Rare Hunters have acquired a great weapon. Have you ever heard of the twin swords of Chaos?" He asked the Prime Minister.
"The swords forged by the gods to do battle with one another? Yes, I've heard the legends, and I've seen reference to them on certain hieroglyphs. Are you telling me that they actually exist?"
"I am." Replied Yugi/Yami. "And one of them has fallen into the hands of the Rare Hunters' new leader. Ra'd Amir."
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As Yugi/Yam and the Prime Minister talked, Shadi stood guard outside. He could sense something was not right. Something was coming and it was a bad sign. He suddenly felt the need to get Yugi and the Prime Minister out of the house.
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"If what you are saying is true, and I do not doubt you, then we are too late." The Prime Minister said. "What hope we had in keeping the Rare Hunters at bay are gone. With the Sword of Conquest in Ra'd Amir's control, my country will fall." Suddenly Shadi came bursting in on them.
"My Pharaoh, Mr. Prime Minister, I sense evil about. We must go!" He said and with his powers he cast an invisibility spell on them all. No sooner had they vanished than a hundred armed men in Rare Hunter Uniforms came barging into the Prime Minister's house. Outside the city was in utter chaos as from out of nowhere thousands of Rare Hunters came riding up in tanks, in jeeps, and armored cars. They drove through the city in police cars and in army staff cars with microphones blaring for the people to stay indoors or else take up arms with them in this cue.
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Inu-yasha slashed through the wall of the hotel room and leaped down into the streets with Kiaba and the others following close behind as bullets rained over their heads. Miroku turned around opened up his wind tunnel to absorb the bullets and the Rare Hunter's guns but there was just so many of them that before long his wind tunnel began to spread. He had to close his hand up or else it would start to suck him in too.
"This way!" Cried Inu-yasha as they ran down the streets towards the open desert. Helicopter search lights followed them all the way and down every twist and turn they were blocked by Rare Hunters in Police cars, Jeeps, and Tanks. It seemed that there was no way for them to get out of the city alive. "Well, if we're going down, we're going down with a fight." Inu-yasah said and they all readied themselves for death.
"Oh, I'm too young to die!" Serenity cried.
"Don't worry sis, it'll all be over soon." Joey said taking his sister in his arms and holding her close.
"Don't tell me you've all given up?" Kaiba asked as he pulled a radio out of his pocket. "Mokuba, it's time!" He shouted and almost as he said it, a rocket breezed by them and struck the armored tanks and jeeps which had cornered them. Overhead flew a squadron of Blue Eyes White Dragons and they each were armed to the teeth with the latest high tech weapons ever dreamed up by mortal man. They fired lasers down at the ground and launched missiles at the grounded tanks. They flew over the city of Cairo and without hitting a single building, or home, they surgically struck at each and everyone of the Rare Hunters' positions. Following the fighter jets were helicopters which shot down all the Rare Hunters' helicopters and cleared a path for Kaiba and the others to escape out into the open desert where the rest of Kaiba Force One had set up camp for the siege of Cairo.
"Commander Mokuba, sir, we're ready to proceed with the second phase of the operation." Said the Squad leader over the radio. Inu-yasha, Kaiba, Joey, Kagome, and the others all came wandering into camp about then.
"Mokuba, you did all this?" Serenity asked.
"That's Commander Mokuba." The boy said, "And yeah, isn't this all so totally cool?" He asked them.
"We have to hurry, NOW!" Tea said. "Yugi's still in the city!"
"Actually," Yugi/Yamiu said, stepping into the tent, "I'm right here."
"Yugi!" they all cried while Shadi and the Prime Minister came in behind the Pharaoh.
"Who's this guy?" Joey asked.
"This is the Prime Minister of Egypt," Shadi said, "And we must protect him. We need his help to reinstate the Pharaoh."
"Sorry, Shadi," Kaiba said, "But it looks like your dreams of having Yugi as Pharaoh again are shot. Ra'd Amir still has the city, and even though we've destroyed his tanks and helicopters, he still has over a thousand soldiers. If we go in now, it'll be a blood bath."
"So?" Inu-yasha asked, "Those are the risks we took when you helped us take down Naraku the Elder."
"Those were swords and arrows, not bullets and bombs," Kaiba said.
"Yeah," Tea agreed, "You just can't go around killing people."
"Then what is my country to do?" the Prime Minister asked, "We'll be in the midst of a civil war!"
"He's right hun," Mai said, "These people can't live in a state of total chaos like some other countries do."
"Then what do we do?" asked Sango.
"I must face Ra'd Amir," Yugi/Yami said. "But first, Kaiba, I need your forces to lead him out of the city, here to the open, where we can use the desert to our advantage."
"What do you have in mind, Yugi?" Kaiba asked.
"Pretend you're retreating," Yugi/Yami said, "And pull your forces back 10 kilometers. Then reestablish your base camp in a line of fire."
"You're quite the military tactician, Yugi," said Kaiba. He took out a walkie-talkie, and ordered, "All forces pull back."
"What will you do now, great Pharaoh?" asked the Prime Minister.
"Now my friends and I will go to the gates of the city, and we will call Ra'd Amir and his people out."