Psyche – Thank you each time for your reviews. Is Mahado good? Is Isis good? Are they both good? Are they both evil? Well only time will tell. Mwahahaha.

Shadows of chaos61 – Thank you! It's great knowing that an author I admire likes my story!

Phoenix87 – Yay! I'm so happy to have picked up another person reading this story! I'm glad you like it! It really doesn't matter if you haven't seen 24 before since it's not a crossover. I just stole the idea from there ::grin:: Lets see…the stuff with Ryou does fit in later, you'll find out later who has hired Isis and Mahado, I'll eventually get around explaining Yugi's death, Yugi being the main villain is interesting but I'm not saying if it's correct or not, I'm also not saying who lives and who dies. Bonkotsu means mediocre. It's Seto's favorite nickname for Jounouchi in the anime and refers to Jounouchi dueling skills. At first it was used as an insult but now it's more of a nickname that Jou hates! Lol It's hilarious when Seto is concerned for Jounouchi yet he still calls him a Bonkotsu. lol

12:00PM

Ryou nervously made his way down to he ground level of the hotel. The valet parking attendant already had his rented car ready for him.

"Thank you," Ryou said to the attendant as he slipped into the driver's side of the car. Racing off Ryou hurried to the arranged meeting point.

'I'm coming Bakura.'

12:06PM

"So are you guys done yet?" Shada complained. After lunch the foursome had arrived at the warehouse to check over the things that Shada had provided for them. After a few phone calls they were then left with nothing to do.

"Now we wait," Mahado replied as he crossed his arms. To him it had always seemed as both his and Isis talents were being wasted with their part of the mission. Something was up and he didn't like it.

"Hey where are you going?" Karim asked as Isis began walking away from their small group.

"I'm going to make a phone call," Isis sharply replied before stalking out the door leaving the males to stare after her with a confused look on their faces. Walking outside, Isis pulled her cell phone from out of her bag and dialed a number she knew by heart.

"It's me," she said into the phone as soon as the person on the other end answered the phone.

"I thought we agreed that you were not supposed to contact me?" the other person replied.

"We also agreed that Malik was supposed to be left out of any danger!" Isis snapped into the phone. "I saw him today downtown, less than an hour ago! You were supposed to handle the situation!"

"Don't worry, Malik will be fine. Remember your purpose, Isis."

"I will! Don't you forget either!"

"Oh I won't," the other person replied before cracking up in an evil laugh. Disgusted Isis ended the call, wondering why she put up with him.

"Something wrong?"

Caught off guard, Isis swung around, while pulling out her handgun, only to come face to face with her partner. "Mahado! What are you doing?! You scared me!"

"Who was that?" Mahado asked ignoring the woman's yells at him.

"Our employer!" Isis snapped back.

"Our employer knows your brother?" Mahado asked while raising an eyebrow.

"That's none of your business!" Isis angrily told him before shoving past him to walk back inside. Leaving Mahado to once again stare after her.

12:21PM

Jounouchi walked through the doors of the club Gravitation, ignoring the closed sign on the front door. Gravitation was the hottest clue around and was the place where Malik's band exclusively played each weekend. The CTU agent was a regular at the club so he knew the place pretty well.

Jounouchi had already been by the shop where Malik had worked only to discover that he had been fired. A call to the hacker's home had also been useless so therefore Jounouchi had known that Gravitation must have been the place where Malik was hiding out.

The huge place seemed a lot bigger when it was empty but then again it made Jounouchi's job a lot easier to spot the blond on the stage as he strummed a sad song on his guitar.

"That sounds good!" Jounouchi called out to him as he walked towards the stage.

"What are you doing here Jounouchi?" Malik dryly asked. "The place is closed."

"That's the beauty of being a government agent, you can go anywhere you want at anytime."

"Hmph," was all that Malik said as he removed his guitar and placed it back into it's case. "What do you want?"

"You're needed for a job."

"If it's about Isis, forget it," Malik replied as he hoped off the stage and walked passed the blonde CTU agent.

"Who said anything about your sister?" Jounouchi innocently asked, mentally wondering how Malik new she was back. He would have to mention it to Kaiba and Yami later. "We have an encrypted disk we need you to decode, that's all."

"I'm not a moron Jounouchi," Malik said as he slowly turned around to look back at the other blonde. "I know this has something to do with Isis so the answer is no."

"Malik, you have a deal with us," Jounouchi reminded him.

"I don't care! Arrest me if you want, I'm not doing it!"

"Not even if Isis got a presidential pardon?" Jounouchi asked cocking his eyebrow. "Kaiba can make that happen and is prepared to do so if you come with me." Malik said nothing as he looked away so Jounouchi took that as a sign to continue. "I know you love your sister Malik but innocent lives will be lost today if you don't help us. You don't want that upon your shoulders."

"I'll do it," Malik spat. "But Isis gets that pardon!"

"Of course. Let's go," Jounouchi replied and with that the two blondes began walking out of the club.

12:35PM

Dangerous pale blue eyes stared at the scene in front of him.

'Fools', the man thought to himself as the guards escorted the prisoners onto the bus. The prisoners were all being sent to a new high security jail, which was supposed to be unbreakable thanks to its new technology. 'I've broken out of tougher places before. Don't expect any cell to keep me in long.'

It was true. The man had indeed broken out of every jail he had been in since his capture by CTU a year and a half ago. His exotic appearance however often lead to his recapture whenever he tried to sneak out of the country. Tanned skin and bushy white hair was not something you wanted when trying to remain incognito.

When all the prisoners were aboard the bus and shackled down tightly, the bus lurched forward towards their destination.

Two pair of unseen feminine eyes watched as the bus left the compound and began traveling down the street. The owner of one of the purple pair of eyes, quickly dial a number on a cell phone.

"It's time."

"Good. The detonators are in place. Don't lose sight of the bus now."

"Don't worry," the woman replied before hanging up the cell phone and turned to her companion. "Lets go Viv."

The two girls gave each other a deadly smirk before revving up their motorcycles and zooming off after the prison bus.

12:47PM

"Find anything?" Seto asked walking into his office and sitting down in the chair opposite of his desk. After their moment together in the conference room, Yami had immediately holed himself up in Seto's office wanting to be alone. He kept himself busy by using Seto's computer scanning for clues that could lead to Mahado's whereabouts.

"Nothing," Yami grumbled. Currently he felt like shoving the computer to the floor but knew that Seto wouldn't be happy if he did that.

"Well I just heard from Jounouchi. He's on his way back right now with Malik so we should soon know what's on that keycard."

"That's not soon enough!" Yami yelled as he hit Seto's desk with his fist.

"Relax!" Seto calmly ordered him. "I have every agent I have either working here on it or roaming the streets for clues, I've also been on conference calls to our superiors this morning and was able to get full authority to have the LAPD and FBI at my disposal as well as explaining to them why an agent is dead. Not only that but I've had the pleasure of informing Honda's family that he is dead. We're all trying our best Yami! All of us want to see Mahado caught!"

"If it had been Mokuba you would not be telling me to relax," Yami quietly replied with dark eyes.

"You're right," Seto agreed while crossing his arms and meeting Yami's glaze. "But I also wouldn't keep blaming the person I love that a good enough job wasn't being done."

Yami's eyes softened as Seto words sunk in. "I'm sorry."

"Forget about it. By now I'm used to your temper."

"I just can't help but think that there could be something more we could be doing," Yami told him with a frown on his face. "Something doesn't feel right."

"I'm sure it's nothing."

"Yeah," Yami agreed but not quite convinced.

12:53PM

The young woman as she cleaned up yet another table at the café where she worked. The lunch rush would soon be over and she was grateful for that. Nothing much interesting had happened thus far that day besides the minor incident a few hours ago when some punk on the streets had decided to bother one of their customers at one the outdoor tables.

Walking back inside the restaurant, the young waitress was about to head on her break when she spotted a briefcase behind the aquarium that the café owned. Knowing that the briefcase shouldn't have been there, the woman started walking over to investigate it. She never got a chance to reach it however as the briefcase suddenly exploded flying everything and everyone near it far away.

That bomb was only the beginning however as more explosions soon could be heard throughout the rest of the café both indoors and outdoors. Fire caused by the bombs exploding quickly spread throughout the café trapping indoors any survivors. Cries and sobs were heard as people desperately tried to get out with their lives.

1:00PM

A/N - The name of the club where Malik was at is actually the title of one of my favorite mangas, Gravitation.