A/N - As always thank you all for the reviews. Not too much happens in this chapter since there's a lot of action in the next few chapters.

I must say I'm pretty annoyed with lately becuase of the way some people have been treating Pysche with the reviews they are leaving her. Not cool. I've left twice before for various reasons and I'm prepared to do so once again. I don't like it when people pick on my friends especially over a stupid little thing like OOC when her story takes place two freaking years after the manga/anime so of course some of the characters will be different. ::hugs Psyche::

Phoenix87- I didn't say Bakura was the main villian did I? :p

chibi atemu - I'm so sorry. I'm extremely bad at keeping this story up todate at the Palace. Whenever I think about it I'm always away from my own computer and can't do it. I have some stories exclusively for the Pharaoh's Palace coming up in the new year though.

Pysche - Love ya girl! Otogi dies soon but not in this chapter, sorry.He will not be living through the next two chapters though. ::wink:: And alas Bakura and Mahado don't get to have their confrontation until much later in the story. :)

Dragon - it makes me so happy that you like my stories since I'm such a big fan of yours!

The following takes place between 3pm and 4pm

3:00PM

"We have confirmation that Bakura is released," Mahado said as he flipped closed Isis' cell phone and tossed it back at the female assassin, who easily caught it with one hand.

"See I told you nothing suspicious was going on," Isis replied with a huff as she glared at Mahado.

"Sorry to doubt you," Mahado told her but there was something in his voice that said he didn't mean it.

"Does this mean we can leave now?" Shada asked. "I need to start going house shopping sometime soon."

"No," Isis stiffly told him. "We're to wait here until we receive word that Phase Two of the plan starts."

"Phase Two?" Karim asked while raising his eyebrow.

"It's a personal matter," was all that Isis would say. "Just wait and see."

3:10PM

"This is it," Otogi said as he drove up to yet another police roadblock.

"That you so much Mr. Obvious," Yami sarcastically replied as he stepped out of the SUV. Strolling over to where a body bag on a stretcher was being loaded into an ambulance, Yami held up a hand showing his ID to the paramedics, before unzipping the bag partway to reveal the face of a Chinese, female girl.

"That's certainly not a passenger on the bus," Otogi said coming up being Yami and nodding his head towards the wreckage that was now burnt to pieces after having the fire put out.

"Her name is Vivian Wong," Yami told him with a frown on his face.

"Who?"

"Vivian Wong. She was in an organization led by Marik Ishtar. I helped bring that organization down a few years ago in Egypt. Since then Wong fell off the charts, disappeared. It was thought she went back to her native homeland of China and retired. Which makes it odd why she would be here."

"Looks like she didn't stay retired. Could she be working for that Bakura guy?"

"Possibly. It was Marik's organization that Bakura took over," Yami mused as he thought thinks over. "Check the area. We need to make sure that Bakura was still on that bus when it blew up."

3:22PM

"Yes!" Malik triumphantly cried as he finished hacking his way into Yami's home computer. Yami had a surprising good amount of security features that caused Malik a slight problem but it had been nothing he couldn't handle.

To start things off, Malik decided to search through Yami's email. He had thought it would have been difficult finding out information but he was wrong. There was a large number of emails send too and received from Seto Kaiba. Dates and Times were often mentioned when the two of them could get together.

"Well this is no surprise," Malik mumbled too himself as he shifted through the emails. It was obvious that the two of them had something going on. But what Malik didn't was just how many of their fellow employees knew about their romance.

"Malik what are you up too?" Rebecca asked as she walked over to Malik's terminal. Quickly Malik closed the information that was currently on his computer screen.

"What I'm paid to do," Malik grumbled at her while shooting her an evil glare.

"Don't talk to me like that," Rebecca quietly hissed at him. "We both know that the disk shouldn't take this long to crack! What exactly have you been doing over here?!"

Malik glared at the young girl. She was smart, too smart for her own good. That was troublesome for Malik. For the first time in his life he felt like winging another person's neck until their eyes became lifeless. Closing his eyes and grabbing his head, Malik attempted to block the image from his head. He never liked killing, he could never understand how Isis and Marik got so much enjoyment from that act. It scared him though, especially since he was surrounded by the 'enemy'.

"Malik?" Rebecca asked, breaking through to Malik's head. "Are you all right?" Slowly, Malik opened his eyes and looked at her.

"I'm fine," he lied. "Can you get me a drink of water or something though? My head is killing me."

With a nod of her head, Rebecca hurried off. While she was gone, Malik quickly brought up the information on the computer disk before picking up the phone and dialing the number for Kisara's desk.

"It's done," he told her as soon as she picked up the phone. A few minutes later both Seto and Kisara were standing behind Malik as they looked over the information.

"Bakura again," Seto muttered.

"Huh?" Malik asked his interest perking up.

"The prison bus he was on was attacked," Kisara informed him. As far as they knew Bakura and Malik barely knew each other through Marik. They had no clue that Bakura and Malik had grown up together.

"So he's dead?" Malik casually asked trying to keep the worry out of his voice.

"We don't know yet," Kisara told him and Malik sighed with relief.

"What's that?" Seto asked pointing to a folder that Malik had not seen before.

Cautiously Malik clicked on the folder hoping that it was nothing important, all while cursing himself for being such a fool for missing it in the first place. Malik couldn't believe he had made such an error and he hoped that Bakura would still be all right in his escape plans. What appeared though was only an address.

"Send everything to Mana," Seto sharply ordered Malik. "Kisara, tell her I want to know what that address is. It could be a clue."

"Right," Kisara replied with a nod of her head while Malik sent over the data.

"Good job Malik, you can leave now," Seto told him as he began to walk away.

"What about Isis' pardon!" Malik cried as he jumped to his feet. Slowly Seto turned around and glared back at the blonde hacker.

"You'll get it after Isis is caught."

"Then I'm not going anywhere until I get it!"

"Fine but if you're staying around you're doing some more work for us!"

"Fine!" Malik shot back as he tried to keep the smile from forming on his face. Sticking around at the CTU headquarters was exactly what he wanted at the moment. Sitting back down at his computer, Malik once again began looking over the information he was gathering about Seto's and Yami's romance. Going by his hunch, Malik was pretty sure that none of their fellow employees knew of the affair, which caused a small smile to form on his lips. Malik knew that this information could be his key to getting away from CTU and getting back at Yami for what he did to Marik.

3:40PM

Tanned fingers tapped lightly on the laptop bringing up a picture of a person with spiky tri-colored hair.

Things were going good at the moment. Bakura was free, Malik was safe for the time being and soon they would have their revenge against the CTU operative that broke up their family.

"Soon, it ends for you Yami Mutou," the person softly whispered while smirking at the picture on the computer screen.

3:45PM

"Got it!" Mana triumphantly cried and Seto hurried over to her.

"You found the address?"

"Yes, and guess what? It belongs to an alias of our dear, now homeless, friend Shada."

"Good," Seto told her as he picked up the phone and called Yami.

3:50PM

Yami sighed as he stared at the ruined bus. They had yet to confirm that Bakura had still been on the bus when it blew up and Yami's hunch told him that the white-haired criminal was now somewhere loose in the city.

The beeping of his cell phone however drew him away from his worries.

"Mutou."

"Yami, it's me," Seto rapidly spoke. "We found a lead on that disk that was discovered in Honda's car. An address that belongs to a warehouse owned by Shada."

"Give it to me," Yami replied as he hurried back over to the SUV and made sure the computer in it was still ready to receive information.

"Mana is sending it now," Seto told him as a beep came from the computer indicating that they received the info.

"Okay, Otogi and I are going to check it out," Yami informed him. "We can't do much more here since it looks as if Bakura made it out alive."

"Hold your position Yami!" Seto ordered. "I have Jounouchi assembling a task force right now. If they are there, you and Otogi won't be able to take them on by yourselves."

"That's a negative Seto. You worry about finding Bakura, since it's kinda obvious he's gone. You have the technology there to track him down, I don't have that ability out here on the streets. Let me handle whatever Shada is hiding. And if Mahado is there I plan on getting revenge against that murderous bastard!"

"Yami!"

"Mutou out!" Yami snapped before ending the conversation. "Otogi! Lets go!" he then called to the black haired agent, who came running over.

"What's going on?" Otogi demanded to know as he slipped into the passenger seat of the SUV seconds before Yami began speeding off.

"Hopefully finally some action," Yami grumbled as he pressed the gas pedal down further trying to get the to warehouse as fast as possible.

4:00PM