Well hello and salutations! Ok, enough cordial crap, time for the reality. I am not in a good mood, I have been trying to get this thing at least started for about a friggen month, and the good thing is that it is not my fault! It is my Math teacher's; because she is a bitchy, mean spirited know-it-all with a passion for my pain. Mother of god I have had two hours of homework each night! But that is not the only thing, my school has an anime club, and if you could tell from my bio or my previous rants, that is the greatest thing that could possibly happen within the ever-changing confines of my reality. Soooo, putting it simply, it consumes my life, oh yes, anime owns my soul… Well, anyway, back to business, another thing that has waylaid me in my writing is my other story I have been working on, it is great to say the least. Shameless plug I know it be, but, I want reviews! I know that my last update was a little short, but I had a large and horrible case of writers block, you writers know how it is. Umm…and well, that's it, to sum it all up, I'm lazy as hell, read my other story when I post it, updates will be more spaced out, and my math teacher's a bitch from the depths of hell! Yay! Oh Yes, on a side note it is Christmas time! YAY STORE CREDIT RULES! I love store credit, people always try to get me good anime titles but they almost always fail miserably. With store credit I can pick stuff myself, and it gives me an excuse to go there which is very sweet (I only go to the mall about once a month on average because I live in the depths of the woods where no one returns alive…but we have a good Internet connection.
Yami to Yugi
-Bakura to Ryou-
Malik to Marik
$ Seto to Kaiba$
((Shuicci to Youko))
Author's notes- (Random number) they match up on the bottom of the page.
Random quote from me for this chapter: Children are only small adults with no self-control.
Chapter 14: The Great Escape (Look and behold my originality people, I mean look at the title!)
They had been in the shadow dimension, and/or the boring place of which there is nothing to do for about ten minutes or so, to pass the time, after he had gotten over the brunt of the confusion (he had seen weird things, but this was pretty up there on his list), Yusuke took a quick head-count. Yugi and Ryou were off lamenting over the fact that their respective Yami was evil and twisted. Malik and his double were cackling in stereo. The spirit people that Ryou and Yugi had told him about were happily arguing over what torture they would commence after using a file folder to give the Dr. Three inch long paper cuts on the webs of his feet, Youko was nowhere to be seen, he would turn up…sooner or later. Hiei was also gone; maybe he was exploring the place. Yusuke looked around, 'not much to explore' he thought, as he looked at the swirling black he saw a flash of movement. Hiei suddenly appeared next to him, Yusuke was used to this behavior so he didn't jump in surprise. "What's up Hiei? Hey, have you seen Fox-Boy? He's MIA right now" "Nopers" "Oh, ok…Hiei?" When ever did Hiei say 'Nopers'? "Hiei, yo…dude, you ok?" "A-OK Roger that!" said Hiei. Yusuke took the time to look Hiei over now; he knew after that response that Hiei could not be ok in even the broadest sense of the word. Now that he looked closer in the haze he saw that Hiei had a crazed look in his eyes, quite different from the normal scorn and coldness they usually held. "Um, Hiei, you stay right here, I'm going to go talk to somebody, just stay!" said Yusuke while backing away. Hiei plopped right down and saluted.
Yusuke ran over to where Yugi and Ryou were sitting. "Oi, Yugi can you tell me what this shadow place is made out of?" asked Yusuke, trying to sound nonchalant. Yugi looked up at him "I'm not sure, go ask Mr. Stabs a lot over there. Yusuke surmised that he meant Ryou's doppelganger, who was currently stabbing the hell out of the doctor's arm. He made his way over to where those two were. "Uh, hey, um…spirit dude" "What? Can't you see I am in the middle of something?" said Bakura distractedly, (he took his torturing seriously). "Uh, Yugi said that you knew what this dimension was made out of" "I do" "Could you, I dunno, possibly tell me?" asked Yusuke with a little twinge of frustration. "Well, if your going to talk to me like that, then I won't" "Look, this is serious, if you know something then tell me" "Nope" Yusuke of course got a little hot tempered at that point, this guy didn't look like he could fight a fifth grader, yet he was talking trash like the best of them, and by the way that he was talking, he sounded like he could back it up. " Hey asshole! Are you gonna tell me or what!? Dammit!" he then picked the guy off the floor by his collar. Yami blinked and immediately sidestepped out of the area. Yusuke was suddenly and forcefully blown back about twenty feet by an incredible force of power. As he got off the floor from being thrown he felt his singed eyebrows surprisedly, "What the hell?" he said. Yami decided to pop over at that very moment "He told ya so" he said while pointing to Yugi, who was currently sighing and looking up as if to ask 'why me?'. "Listen, this place is manifested dark energy, sorry I didn't tell you sooner but, as you could probably tell, I had business to attend to" he said while darkly chuckling. "Um, yeah...." said Yusuke while looking at the poor Dr. Imawato. Well, that explained a lot, Hiei, having control of dark energy via the dragon that was one of his signature attacks, was able to absorb dark energy in small amounts. This dimension, being made of about 99 dark energy caused Hiei's systems to overload enviably causing the logical and controlled part of his brain to reboot. In all other words Hiei was high. Great.
Yusuke slapped a hand to his forehead, this was just what he needed at this point, but at least Hiei was docile. Yusuke still had scars form the last time he had really pissed Hiei off. He looked around for a sign that could get them out of this stupid place. Not finding one, he went over to see what the two spirit dudes where arguing about.
" Yes"
"No"
"YES"
"NO"
" YES!!!"
"What the hell are you two arguing about now?" said Yusuke angrily. " We are arguing about taking a break in this man's eternal hell to go and prepare an alibi so no one will know that we escaped from an insane asylum" said Yami, not taking his eyes off Bakura. They seemed to be staring each other down like they were going to get in some kind of fight. Normal for them, but Yusuke didn't exactly know that, just finding out they exist and all. Now, joy of joys, apparently they were now (with the imprisonment and torture of Dr. Imawato and the very eminent escape) considered fugitives, which was absolutely wonderful, he thought he had gotten away from that kind of record when he left his home town area. "Listen, I just can't keep calling you.... people... By what you are, do you guys have names or what? " You may call me Bakura-sama (1) mere mortal! BOW DOWN TO MY AWESOME POWER! I-" "Zip it Baka (2)" said Yami loudly, cutting off who Yusuke now knew as Bakura the overly loud and angry. "I am Yami, you may call me pharaoh, highness, master-" "You shut up!" said Bakura, pushing Yami out of the way roughly. Yusuke an idea of how these two acted on a daily basis. This whole ordeal just made his head hurt.
Seto stared at the large ocean of people below him for a moment, savoring the fact that he was so popular. After wiping a single tear from his eye he began to rummage around in his shiny metal suitcase. Kaiba, who had been mesmerized by the very large amount of people chose that moment to snap out of his momentary stupor $ Hey, are all those people your fans, seriously, what did you promise, your money objects to rain down on their heads from the sky? $ $No actually, they are my fans because a. I am very rich
b. I created the system that allows them to see in life like detail the cards that they love so much. $
$ Well, in my day you used your own magic to duel, none of this 'technology' crap that you people use now, and if you didn't have magic then you didn't play at all! $ $ Well I have capitalized on the fact that people do not have 'magic', and now I have insane amounts of money and power. Who's the smart one in this conversation? $ $Apparently not you, first of all, I was a high priest I had insane amounts of money and power. Second, as you so wittingly put it about an hour ago I am just a not very important voice in your head that just won't go away, 'smart' people don't reply to voices in their heads. Finally, as your were talking to me the people in the crowd that was about half a mile away noticed you about five minutes ago, and are now herding toward you like crocodiles to a struggling animal. $ Seto, who had been blankly staring in the crowds direction now came back to earth and noticed that the large crowd was indeed running toward him.
He was less perturbed then Kaiba wished, he merely took an object out of his suitcase and lobbed it expertly at the crowd (which was now closing in). The thing immediately burst open to reveal a large amount of gas that settled on the crowd. The crowd began coughing and blindly running away. Before Kaiba could ask what the hell that stuff was one of Seto's body guards asked " Sir, did you have to use the tear gas?" and Seto answered " I am not paying you to have the slightest amount of compassion". "Yes sir" " Well, lets get to this stupid thing already so I can get some coffee...speaking of caffeine dependences...where is Mokuba anyway?" Mokuba happed to be right behind Seto, he had been tugging on Seto's trench coat for the last five minutes. Only now did he turn around to face him, he didn't speak about the large crowd that was currently temporarily blinded, he only grabbed Mokuba's arm and whipped him into the limo. He yelled for the limo to drive to a generic hotel and settled into the comfortable designer seat thinking hard. The crowd was now on to him being in the general vicinity. That was very bad. They would go to great lengths to see him...sometimes he wished that he didn't have such fans. But now was not the time to think about the what-ifs he had to think of an evasive tactic based plan just in case his crazed
Fans found him again. $You could kill 'em, that would get ride of them easy$ $ I do not need your stupidity right now$ $ It was a genuine suggestion! $
Meanwhile, halfway around the world the various bodyguards and staff members that Kaiba halfway thought he could trust were whooping it up when they were supposed to house sit. They frankly didn't care though, even if Mr. Kaiba did find out they would blame it on Joe in accounting, nobody liked Joe anyway.
Yusuke raised his head from the absolute definition of boredom to check if anything was even the slightest bit different from the scene his eyes had left a few minutes ago. Not really expecting to find anything he opened his eyes. To his mild surprise (although this surprise was still etched with boredom) something was different, the Yami people, or the weirdoes, as he secretly called them were now in a huddle whispering about something that seemed important. Hiei was talking about the enigmatic qualities of chickens, nothing new, he had been doing it for a good half hour, and finally the less crazy counterparts were just sitting around as if this all was not real and it could just go away if they denied that it existed in the first place (though this did not include Malik, he was crazy and he was also with the other group).
Finally the group broke and Yami held up his arm, signaling that he had something important to say. " Ok! Here is the deal. We will stop our torture of this undeserving wrath momentarily to get our selves out of the insane people's home! This is how my plan-" Bakura and Malik, along with Malik's double all kicked him. "Our plan! (I thought of most of it) is going down. First, we ditch the shadow realm for now. Then, we proceed to destroy all record that we were here in the first place. Next, we escape and on the way to our respective domiciles we think of an adequate alibi so we will not be sent back here, I do not particularly find this place to my liking" Yugi apparently had something that he wanted to quip in at this moment, " How about you idiots act less crazy for once so you won't be sent here in the first place!" "Aw come on Yugi where's the fun in that venture!" Bakura replied back.
Yusuke was just happy to be getting out of this place, and being a delinquent himself he frankly didn't care a whole bunch how is was done. He grabbed Hiei and dragged him over to where everyone else was. No sooner then when he got in a good spot did Bakura snap his fingers. Yusuke looked around to find that they were back in the office where they started. Though the scene looked a lot different then when they left it. First off, plant life covered the room, that work he could only presume to be Youko's. "Youko! Damn it! I leave you for about two hours and I come back to a greenhouse!" "Hey, I could have made my own escape but I choose to wait here like a good little team member, doesn't that count for something! Yo Bakura, wassup?" "Were just bustin' outta' this joint, I'm bored of it," said Bakura. "I here you there, I've been sittin' here for two hours and there wasn't even anything shiny to steal" "Yusuke fumed a bit at not being answered, but a small realization dawned on him. "Youko! Damn you! You knew about those evil spirit dudes this whole time didn't' you!" "Well yes, I suppose I did, and you probably going to ask why I didn't tell you next, correct? I will save you the breath, I didn't feel like it.
Yusuke was just about to jump across the room to punch Youko in the head when he held himself back, or rather was held back by large plant vines. Youko took this opportunity to throw Yusuke a taunting look. Bakura took this opportunity to not just throw Yusuke a look but to throw something at him. It turned out to be a paperweight.
It really sucks to be on the receiving end of a paperweight to the head. "Stay on task mortal, we yamis are calling the shots, we've done this before" With that statement Bakura started picking his way over the plants that carpeted the floor. Yami followed him, clearly annoyed about the fact that Bakura was more experience then him an area. Why he would want to be more experienced then Bakura in escaping insane asylums was anyone's guess.
They all walked down a generic hallway until at seemingly nothing Bakura threw up his hand. "Stop, three security cameras and one alarm" Yusuke looked around, he really didn't see anything, and he was apparently the only one to care about this fact. Hiei had been normally quiet, but every so often he would blurt out random words like Bacon or golf clubs so that proved to Yusuke that he was still very strung out. Youko was still in control of Shuicci, but Yusuke knew goddamn well that if Shuicci knew what was going on right now he'd be having a mental break down at the thought of tarnishing his perfect record of being regarded by people as sane. The three nut jobs looked like they were professionals in this kind of thing…what the hell went on in this town. So that left him, slightly sane, but still…he may have matured somewhat over the time of him being spirit detective…but…the allure of just being a delinquent was a strong one. Aw hell! WHY THE&) DID HE CARE ANYWAY! Screw maturity! As if to emphasize that realization he shot the last camera that Bakura and Youko had to dissemble with his spirit gun. "HIT THE DECK!" the ever-paranoid Yami said loudly. He thought they were being fired at.
Bakura looked at the smoking blob that remained after the assault of the blue energy…and whooped. "COOL! DO IT AGAIN! Dude! Did you know that he could do that?" he asked Youko, destructive power like that was very handy at times like this, or when he was bored. Malik threw up his hands, "Mind control sucks! I want his powers!" "But then you wouldn't be able to manipulate the seven-eleven clerk to not call the police when you shop lift half the store" Bakura expertly called back to him. "Oh yeah…slushies!" Malik said happily. "Hey Bakura, can we go get slushies after we get out of the insane people home?" asked Malik. "DUH!" Was Bakura's artful reply. "Except by get you mean steal right?" he asked, very serious. "Do you even have to ask, I've got no cash on me, what else are we going to do?" Malik retorted back.
Just then, as their conversation was coming to an end (along with their journey down the sterile hallways) Bakura's head popped up like a hound dogs. "Silent alarm! Damn it! GO GO GO, they'll have the tranquilizers out in a minute! Yami! Do a mass mind crush! Don't be sloppy this is the crucial time! Bakura looked ready to burst out of his skin as he ran down the corridors; apparently he lived (technically) for this kind of thing. Yami, while running, had begun to be covered by dark crackling energy. He fairly whooped in exhilaration…he also (technically) lived for this kind of thing. With a yell, Yami loosed the power that had built around him just as they exited the building. They ran for about a quarter of a mile and then slowed their pace to a half jog when they, to Youko's immense pleasure, hit some woods. "Yusuke yelled and thrust his arm up into the air. They had actually escaped, and as a plus it was awesome! Bakura had a small bit of bad news though. "Ok, we hurtled phases 1 through 3, now we just have to get away from the cops and-" "Wait, who said anything about cops?" Malik asked, he didn't like cops. Somebody back there tripped the silent alarm; the cops will be looking for a group of adolescents that escaped. Though Yami's mind crush will ensure that the cops won't be getting any more information about us from the psychiatric personnel. "Why, what did he do?" questioned Yusuke. "They all think they're twizzlers" Yami said simply.
They cleared the woods with a little regret from Youko. Right after the thick woods was an eight-lane highway. Yami, Malik, and Bakura looked at each other at the exact same time. "CAR DODGEING GAME!" All of the yamis loved the car dodging game, but for different reasons. Yami liked it because it was fun (more like deadly) and a game, no more needed to be said in that matter. Poor Yugi knew nothing of the car dodging game, Yami always took much care in blocking it off from him, Yugi may be small and nice to other people but Yami had seen him when he was pissed off, a pissed off Yugi is a bad person to share a body with. Bakura liked it for many more reasons than Yami's measly two; the first was that it frightened Ryou to the edge of hysteria. The second was that it was another chance to beat Yami at something and as a plus it was dangerous to borderline suicide. Finally, it tended to test his considerable dodging skills to the point where it was challenging. Oh yes, and it had the tendency to scare the hell out of anyone he got in front of and to ultimately cause much chaos in an isolated area. These things were all good in both Marik and Malik's point of views but the main reason for them was they were deranged.
How the Car dodging game worked was simple, it's namesake told the entire story anyone needed to know. Except for maybe one or two rules. One rule was that you could not quit once you were out on the road; if you went out there it was now or never. If you died then you lost (obviously). …That was about it, it was a simple game after all.
The three squabbled over who was to go first, out of pride and the fact that they didn't want to be second.
Youko was very interested in this game, he didn't exactly know all of the rules just yet, but that was a trifle. He would learn them in time; he always was a quick learner. Yusuke was a reborn delinquent through and through so it suited him to do something stupid to celebrate his return to the world he loved. And then there was Hiei, still high, so logically he was ready to attempt any ungodly stupid act for no apparent reason with little goading. Hiei was like that when he was high. So, to put it simply everyone was ready to attempt this idiotic and useless game for no reason greater then they had nothing else better to do then get chased by officers of the law.
On a completely different side of town Isis Ishtar looked up from getting her nails done in an expensive boutique something was wrong, oh so very wrong. Well, she'd just have to go find out what it was then, after she got her nails done in any case.
1. Bakura-sama- lord/master Bakura, for you Japanese impaired.
2. Baka- Idiot, once again facilitating the J.I. (Japanese impaired)
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