Ok peoples!
Yay! I updated!!!! Took me long enough, huh? ^_^U
So now you can read my loverly fic! But first, I would like to show to you some other fics that were written, either by me, Shells, or DVD, that we would like you to go and read. They are all just as good as this one, (In my opinion) and so I'd like it if you'd read and review on them!
I STILL want peoples to go and read Millennium Item Girl, of course. That's obvious from what I've been saying in the last chappie. In addition, though, for those Harry Potter fans, I now have a Harry Potter/Yu-Gi-Oh crossover! It's called Millennium Magic. So go read that. I also have a new Yu-Gi-Oh thing called "Ring Logic." that I've been working on for a while and have just recently posted up. (At least it was recent when I started writing this chappie... ^_^U) Then, DVD's fic has been getting interesting and cool, so I'd like it if you would go and read that too!
And then there's the Fic that DVD and I have started together that's called... "FanFiction Virus!" It's really funny! I'm in it!!! ^_^ We get to save Fanfiction.net from an evil virus that deletes everybody's reviews!!!!!
^_^ So now you know what I've been doing with my time....
Before you read this chapter, be forwarned... This is not called Yami- bashing, it's simply "Poking-fun-at-Yami." It's meant to be funny, not mean. This is so that I dun't get into trouble with rabid fangirls... ^_^
Random question... Biiiig question that has nothing to do with this ficcie.... Am I a preppie? Do you think of me as a preppie? A couple of girls at my school called me a preppie.... It's cuz whe I sit in class, I always have to "play with my hair" alot and "toss it in the air" and "smirk at people as if I'm this super genious and they're just stupid." My hair's really long and when I lean over my work at school, it gets all over my paper, so I have to toss it back over my shoulders at times during class... It apparently annoys people... And I do NOT smirk at people....(I AM smarter than them, but that's beside the point. ^_^)
*Looks at thingy* (ERK!!!) I haven't updated in HOW long?!?!?!? Whoopsies... That's NOT a good thing... I apparently haven't updated for an entire month!!! And I STILL have a stupid shortie chappy! Sorry.... Apparently I can't type as fast as I thought I could type... ^_^U
If you see typos in this chappie, it's because I'm rushing... Sorry. Plus, for some reason, my hands are getting clumsy, and I usually achieve about five typos per paragraph that I have to go back and fix... ^_^U Sowwy! (Not a typo, BTW... ^_^U)
Random note:
ONLY ONE MORE REVIEW AND THEN I'LL HAVE 100!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAYZ!!!!!!!!!!!!! ^_^ I'm very pleased. I've never gotten this many reviews afore! I must thank all of you! Thank you! Thank you! *bows* ^_^
Oh, plus I've realized that I have no disclaimer for this fic! ^_^U Whoops.... Here it is... I'm not gunna do this every chapter, just this chapter.
I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh or related characters or ideas. I also do not own the term temporary physical form. Or the "Doom" song. And probably other things I haven't mentioned as well.
I do, however own the character Mr. Gice and all ideas that he comes up with, the name Radley and the name Roo, but only when applied to Yami Bakura, the Electromagnetic Magnesium-Carbohydrate strips and all related theories and reactions, and the snappers that Mr. Gice makes. If anybody ever makes these in real life, however, they will belong to the person who creates them. ^_^
If anybody wants to use any of my terms, names, or ideas, just simply do so and remember to mention my name in the author notes in the beginning of the chappie. It's also nice to tell me that you're going to do this.
Gee, that was more of a claimer than a disclaimer, huh? ^_^U
Okies!... Now that that's done, there's nothing else to do but the Review Responses, then the fic! Yay!
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Review Responses!
Insane Otaku (AKA Caterfree): You always say that you love my chappies! ^_^ Thankies! Even if the last chappie was kinda short... That's vote #1 for letting Mr. Gice out!
Perpetually Hyper One: Thanks for revealing to me that it ends alright! I was wondering... ^_^
I also hate preppies... When I wrote that, somehow I just KNEW you were going to say something about it... I get preppies around me too... There's a pair of guys that walk by our little Yu-Gi-Oh corner every day at lunch and shout, "Yu-Gi-Oh sucks!" or "Yu-Gi-Oh is Gay!"... one of these days, the 12-20 people sitting around playing Yu-Gi-Oh are going to kick those guy's butts.... ^_^
You like the Stepping Out episode! I do too! Actually, I like all the episodes, so I guess that doesn't count... I guess it does... we'll go with that!
No, my face ish not purple... At least... Dunt think it is... *Looks in mirror* AAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! It IS purple!!! AAAAHHHHHH!!!!! Wait... no, it isn't... my bad... Anywhos, I think what they meant was that it fit my personality, so it was hard to notice... I think... unless they're colorblind and thought that my face was purple... ^_^
Yes, I know... These people, (Teh teachers) are either trying to murder us, or make us go totally and absoulutely insane... _
I like long reviews! Long reviews ish good! ^_^ Very good!
This is vote #2 for letting Mr. Gice out!
Tamara Raymond: Something tells me that you love this story! ^_^ You're welcome for mentioning you twice! I think I mentioned everybody twice because of the review response thing... But that's ok! It's good to mention people! Specially when they review lots! Mmkay, hope to see you around! This ish Vote #3 for Letting Mr. Gice out!
Taby: Hiyz! Always nice to see a new reviewer! And a new FF.Net user as well! Welcome! ^_^ Thanks for adding me to your fav. author list! It is very much appreciated! ^_^ I'll be sure to go and read your fic! Here's the update you requested!
Kate Ryou: Hiya! Another new reviewer! Yay! ^_^ I said this in the reveiw I did on your story, but to make it official, it's perfectly OK for you, and for anybody, to use the name Radley, or the Name Roo in your fics... Just as long as you mention me in the author note. BTW, you're welcome for the review! Again, here's the update!
Pruningshears: Kaiba interlude? Okies! I'll do that this chappie! Bakura interlude? *Shrugs* Probably not... I tried to fit one in at your request, but it gives away waaaay too much of the story line... ^_^U Sorry.
Also, sorry if my story had been giving away Battle city to everyone.Yes, the Mako crying thing WAS weird. He was upset because Joey destroyed his Fisherman card that, to Mako, represented his father. *Sigh* The Yu-Gi-Oh charas get SO emotional sometimes. ^_^
You're welcome for the congratulations! Hope you update YOUR story soon too! And also hope your fruity pebbles get better! This ish vote #4 for letting Mr. Gice out!
YugiPlushie: (NekoPlushie)Thankies for the compliments! Even if the last chapter took forever to get out and was still short. I put the little add ons in because it would be a very boring fic if I simply copied what the show did. The main point I'm trying to put forth is that the people who are recording everything using the FWC's keep editing stuff out. So in order to show that, I simply add stuff in! Hopefully, yes, it ends up looking ok. This ish Vote #5 for letting Mr. Gice out!
Bakurakrazie: Nother new reviewer! yayz! ^_^ Glad you like the story! And the Mr. Gice thing!
Serena Bunny: Dunt worry, your last review not make me sad... Just make me work harder! ^_^ Hopefully, this chapter will be better, (And longer) than my past few chappies... This is Vote #6 for letting Mr. Gice out! For your random question, Funny Bunny is not his nick name, it's the name of his favorite cartoon... If you want it to be a nickname for you, that's alright with me... I guess... Read on for the fic, Funny Bunny! ^_^
bob: uuuuuh... Thanks?
Darkmagic: I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves!!!!! ^_^ glad you liked the story!
Livi: I'll update when I'm good and-... oh, jeesh! What's that SMELL???? *Looks around* Now how did THAT get in there?!?!?! Ew..... I apparently need to update more often... ^_^U
Ethelflaed: ^_^ Hope you get all the way up here to chapter 27 to be able to read this! See ya when you do! Thanks for the review! And Sarcastic Wolf, Cool is a cool word!!!! ^_^ Except that I'm not allowed to use it while talking with Serena Bunny. It is a forbidden word... But it's still cool! ^_^
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That's all of the reviews! Ok, the votes are in! It's zero to six! Gee, I wonder if Mr. Gice is getting out of the nuthouse this time around! ^_^ Alrighty, here's the fic!
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{Daricio}
When Daricio got home from school, she was totally exhausted.
(A.N Gee, that happens alot in here... my charas get tired easily... hmmmm....)
Dumping off her school stuff in the closet and racing up the stairs to her room, she went over the events of the day in her head.
First, it was just talk. Everyone in her class felt that they absolutely had to talk about it... From there, everything just got worse...
Talk turned almost immediately to Gossip the moment class got out. Daricio couldn't take one step without hearing somebody comment on it.
Then, certain news began to leak out, and the black gossip transformed to deadly rumors.
Somebody had discovered that Chris wasn't at school that day. Or that whole last week. The crowd's translation? Daricio had knocked him into a coma, totally beating him up.
It was found that Daricio also hadn't been there the whole week. The crowd's translation? Daricio had knocked Chris into a coma, totally beating him up, and she had either been suspended from school, or had been skipping to avoid punishment and to lower everyone's suspicions.
Then, the worst part of all. They suddenly knew that the fight had occurred because of a Yu-Gi-Oh duel. The crowd's translation? Daricio Beat Chris to a bloody pulp, she had been suspended from school and/or had been skipping, and she regularly beat up everybody she dueled against! If she won, she beat them up as a punishment for losing. If they won, she'd beat them up for beating her.
Finally, the rumors got so out of control, that by the time it was time for Daricio to go to lunch, nobody would even let her WATCH a duel, out of fear that she'd beat up the loser of the duel! Nobody wanted to duel her, trade with her, and she was, very basically, shunned from Yu-Gi-Oh for the day. Probably the week, too, depending on how long these rumors lasted. She hoped it would be less than a month....
//It was bad enough when I was the only girl in the Yu-Gi-Oh corner. now I can't even be that.// Daricio sighed, flopping on her bed and staring at the ceiling. She had spent her lunch in the library, pretending to read a book while really watching Tea drag Yami around to random places in Domino.
She grinned suddenly, her worries temporarily erased as she remembered some of the interesting places Tea had taken Yami to so far. She had taken him to the nearby amusement park, to the roller skating park, to that one card trading shop, (Yami's choice of course) to the library, and was now currently showing him around the mall.
The amusement park was interesting, as Tea had bought Yami cotten candy. Yami had never had cotten candy before. It was very messy. Especially on the ferris wheel...
//Dropping cotten candy on the ride operator's head from about fifty feet up is not a good idea.// Daricio remembered, still grinning at the ceiling. Then there was the indoor skating park...
~*~*~ Flashback ~*~*~
They entered the dimly lit building and everyone looked around. Basically, it was a building in which you could rent skates and skate around the skating ring in circles while music played. There was also a snack bar, but it was, very wisely, avoided. Apparently, Tea didn't think Yami would like Icees.
The skating was, in itself, an adventure. Yami lost his balance several times, sprawling onto the ring and causing the people behind him to swerve out of the way and/or crash into him. At one point it was Tea who was skating behind him when he fell over, then she tripped over him, then the person behind her fell over her, and the person behind him fell over him, and the person behind him... well, you get it. It took a good ten minutes for everyone to get back up again.
After watching them skate for about an hour, Daricio suddenly desperetly wanted to get away from school for a while and skate with them.
//Can I PLEASE get out of this boring, annoying, stupid history class and go skating?// She asked Yugi, putting her pencil down and rubbing her hand, which was starting to get sore from scribbling down about a hundred notes about Aisa.
//I don't think that would be a very good idea... skating around in a temporary physical form... First off, you'd be slightly invisible... Also, what if somebody runs into you? They'd go through you, and then where would we be? And Tea knows who you are, and then she'd know that we're watching all this!// Yugi said, watching as Yami ventured out onto the skating rink for another try. //I know, I want to skate too, but...//
Daricio simply shrugged. Then she grinned again as Yami took down a few more people with a spectacular, flailing fall.
In the middle of the skating time, the bell rang again, and Daricio had to move to her next class. She did so grudgingly, trying her best to ignore the people who were going way out of their way to avoid her in the halls and whispering about her by focusing on what Yami was doing.
Soon, though, the skating time was over. Tea and Yami went shakily over to a bench to take off their skates and get their shoes back. Then they walked out of the skate park. Very quickly, actually.
"Wow... I can still walk." Yami muttered, swaying back and forth slightly.
//You know, I think that's exactly what I thought when I first went skating.// Yugi said. He and Daricio laughed.
They began walking down the street. Tea was looking from one side of the street to the other eagerly, searching out some great adventure for them to go on.
"Hey, look at this!" Yami suddenly spoken up. "It's a place where you can trade duel monster cards!"
His voice was filled with relief at the prospect of something normal to do. Tea stopped and a grin filled her face once more.
"Great! We can go there next!" She cried, then ran inside. Yami followed, a smile forming on his face for the first time that afternoon.
Daricio hadn't caught what had happened next, because suddenly...
"Daricio Jonesy! Are you listening to me?!?!?!"
"Yes, Ma'am! erm, I mean, of course I am!" Daricio said, looking up quickly.
Several whispers and giggles came from the back of the room which were stiffled quickly when the teacher glanced in that direction. Then she looked back at Daricio.
"Good! Then you'll know that I just called on you to answer the twentieth question on the worksheet I just handed out!" The teacher said, an evil grin on her face.
Daricio looked down at her desk in surprise. "Problem what?" She asked weakly.
"Problem twenty." The teacher said, sounding joyful that she had caught a student not paying attention.
"Are we doing all these together as a class?" Daricio asked hopefully.
"No, this is Friday's homework. We're correcting it. I assume you have it completed? Or did Somebody not do their assigned homework?" She grinned malevolently.
Daricio looked nervous. //Homework? Why don't I remember getting any homework in this class? This is the class that usually doesn't get homework, when did we get homework?// her thoughts raced frantically. //Homework, homework...//
"What?" she asked meekly.
The teacher rubbed her temples. "Homework, Daricio. Did you do your homework, or didn't you?"
A student on the other side of the classroom raised her hand. "Ma'am?" She asked.
The teacher swooped on her. "What is it, Kathren?"
"Daricio wasn't here Friday." She supplied helpfully. "And it's Kathy, not Kathren."
Daricio sighed in relief. That's right... Duh....
"Oh... So she wasn't." The teacher said disappointedly, looking at her roll chart. "Ah well. Sheryl, will you answer the question then?"
Daricio tried hard to pay attention to the lesson after that... but... What Yami and Tea were doing was SO much more fun than this...
~*~*~ End of Flashback ~*~*~
Daricio sighed and looked up at the ceiling again. She had gotten herself into trouble for daydreaming at least two more times before the end of the day...
Right at the moment, Tea was showing Yami around the mall...
//I didn't know that Domino had such a big mall..// She thought to herself.
//It's not really that big...// Yugi said.
//What, 100 different stores not big enough for you?//
//No.... It's just that...// Yugi grinned slightly. //The only store I go to when I go here is the arcade.//
//Oh. What kind of stuff is at the arcade?//
//You'll see. Tea is almost there... as soon as she gets done trying to get Yami to try on some of the clothes in this shop, the next one is the arcade... That'll be more fun than this.//
Daricio grinned. //Tea's trying to get Yami to try on clothes?//
//Hey, it's better than when she checked out a half a ton of books at the library... She had to go and drop them all off at her house before they could do anything else!//
Daricio laughed. //Yeah... I didn't know that there WERE that many books about baby animals... sheesh!//
//So what have you been doing while all this was going on?// Yugi asked her. //Just sitting around?//
//No. Unlike you, I had to go to school, remember?//
//Well, yeah, but I meant when school was over!//
Daricio looked at her clock. It was 3:30! School had been out for over an hour! Time goes by too fast..
//I guess I HAVE been just sitting here...// She admitted.
//I thought so. Thinking about what?//
//Nothin much... What about you? What have you been doing all today?//
//Watching you go to school and feeling happy that I don't have to.//
//That's not very nice.//
//And?//
//Never mind.//
There was a pause. Then, //They're going to the arcade now... Wanna watch?//
//Ok.//
Daricio looked around the room briefly, checking for poeple, then closed her eyes, going into her soul room. Once there, she opened the door between the two soul rooms and stepped about halfway through so that she could see what was happening. The link was getting shorter... the rooms were only about 5 feet apart now...
Yami took a few steps into the arcade room and looked around. "What's this?" he asked.
"This is the arcade! It has a ton of really cool games and stuff in it, it's really fun!" Tea said.
"Oh. What kind of games?"
"Like. well, come on! I'll show you!" Tea went over to one of the games. "This is."
She began explaining some of the rules to the game. Yami looked it over. It was, from what he could see, a fairly small black box with weird looking pictures on the front, and a small screen.
When Tea was done explaining, she said, "Wanna try it?"
He shook his head. "Not really..."
"Ok, we'll find a different one, then." Tea looked around the small arcade room, looking for a game she thought Yami might like. After a few seconds, she grinned.
"There's a bigger arcade downtown! They have sooo many cool games and stuff!" Tea exclaimed. She turned on her heel and walked out of the arcade, heading for the mall's exit doors.
Yami sighed, then followed her. He was beginning to think that just simply going to that museum would be better than This... At least then he would get some questions answered... here, he was just wasting everyone's time and getting tired...
Tea walked briskly down the street, occationally looking backwards to make sure that Yami was keeping up with her.
He was, so she maintained her fast pace.
Soon they reached their destination: A huge building with big windows all around. Around the back was a balcony over-looking the water and inside, Yami could see a huge ton of the little black boxes, as well as many other colored boxes and some things that weren't even box shaped!
"This is... interesting." Yami commented as they walked inside.
Daricio gaped at it. It was huge! Not even the whole mall near her house was as big as this! //Wow.//
Yugi nodded, grinning. //Yup. This is not just an arcade. This is the arcade.//
Daricio nodded silently, mouth still hanging open slightly. //Wow.// she said again.
Tea skipped down one of the aisles, heading for her personal favorite game: The dance.
There was a man playing on it already, and he was beating his opponant badly. Tea watched with interest. She liked dancing, but sometimes, especially with someone as good as this, it was fun just to watch.
The song ended, and the man stood triumphant, while the other boy stepped down off the platform, exausted.
"That's all the exercise I need for today, thanks... I'm sticking to Pinball..." The boy muttered, heading back for the other games.
Tea smiled sympethetically. She had played before and had lost... She knew how it felt... She looked up as the man announced, "Who wants the honor of being Jonny Step's next vitim?"
Tea's smile turned to a grin. "Hey Yami, hold this for me!" She tossed her coat off and started up the steps.
The coat landed in Yami's arms. "Tea, what are you doing?" he asked.
"Dancing!"
He sighed, then looked at the coat. //What am I, a coat rack now?// he wondered.
//Yup.// Daricio laughed.
"It's time to make some nooooise!!!!!" The computerized voice yelled out. Then game began.
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(Yadda yadda yadda, we all know what happened next. ^_^ I'm switching to Mr. Gice interlude now.)
{Interlude: Mr. Gice} (Int that what I just said? *Nods to self*)
There! He had two fully assembled Electromagnetic Magneisium-carbohydrate strips, and fifteen snappers.
And he still had some extra parts from the camera! Not enough to make another full strip, but he could probably figure out how to do something with it...
He stuffed all of his things into a pocket of his white lab coat and checked his watch. Perfect timing! The guards were just shifting duty. He took out his card and slid it through, opening the door once again.
He looked out into the hallway, then nodded. The coast was clear. Just as it should be.
He strode out. He went around the corner... and immedietly ran into somebody. Both him and the other person pulled back, each thinking it was a guard that they had run into. After a few seconds, they both realized that it was a fellow jailbreaker.
"Hello." Mr. Gice said cheerily.
"Thanks alot for scaring me half to death." The other person said, glaring at him.
"And vice versa. What's your plan of escape for tonight?"
"Window. Yours?"
"Front door."
The man looked startled. "The front door?!?! Are you nuts?!?!?"
"That's a stupid question to ask in a mental hospital."
The other guy shook his head. "Fine, whatever. You go your way, I'll go mine. We'll just see who gets outta here tonight."
"Name?"
"Jay."
"Thomas."
"Nice to meet you."
"Vice versa."
"Goodbye."
"Vice versa."
They went seperate ways down the halls.
Mr. Gice wasn't planning on going out through the front door, of course. He was just being funny. He headed for the air vents. He was almost there, when he suddenly realized something... Window......
He did some quick calculations, then stopped, quickly pulling himself into the nearest open door and closing it. He pressed himself up against a wall, trying not to be seen.
"Ten... nine... eight.... seven... six... five... four... three..... two.... one.... " Mr Gice counted downward, whispering.
The alarms went off right as he whispered "zero".
Mr. Gice looked out the window in the room just in time to see Jay fall out of a nearby window, (Opening the window sets off the alarms) and suddenly go sprinting across the grass. He reached the outer fence and grabbed ahold of it, preparing to vault...
ZAAAP!!!!!!!!
Jay collapsed on the grass, and the guards caught up to him and dragged him back into the building. Mr. Gice blinked. He had forgotten about the Electromagnetic Magnesium-Carbohydrate strips that Seto had stuck to the fence!
He wasn't going to be able to get out that way, then... So how else would he be able to get out? He grinned. The front door, of course. Just like he had told Jay...
He looked around him, trying to figure out what room he was in. After a while, his grin got even bigger. He was in the electrical room.
He walked around, and pressed a button. All the lights shut off. He pressed another button. The alarm systems shut down. Then he took the leftover parts out of his pocket and began attatching them to different parts of the systems, creating a sort of robot out of the whole thing.
He walked out of the room and watched as all the doors down the aisle began to open by themselves. He had programed them to do that. He smiled.
Soon, people began poking their heads out, trying to figure out what was going on.
"Now, to tell them what to do." He muttered to himself. He turned and jogged back inside the electrical room and triggered the PA System. "ALRIGHT EVERYBODY, LET'S GO!!!!!! WE'RE GETTING OUTTA HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!"
With that, all the people, following Mr. Gice, ran towards the front exit as fast as possible.
Mr. Gice grinned as he ran. Why hadn't he thought of this before? Sure, the guards could catch one person running away, or two or three, but they wouldn't be able to catch all 170 of the occupants of the nuthouse when they all tried to get out at once!
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The front guard sat drinking coffee and watching the front door lazily. Nobody ever tried to get out that way... he had the easiest job here!
He smiled in contentment. He got paid well for it, too.
Yup, life was good... That an-
What was that?
He sat up in his chair and peered down the hallway, setting his coffee down on his desk.
Suddenly, the ground began to rumble. He looked nervously out the dark window. No, everything out there was stable... This wasn't an earthquake... Than what could it be?
As he watched, everything began to rumble. The walls, the desk, the few pictures on the walls. His cup rattled for a while before falling off the desk and shattering on the floor, splashing coffee everywhere.
He got up quickly. "What the?" he said aloud. "What's going on here?"
He looked up from the spilled coffee, and got his answer. "Ooooohh shoot."
He turned and began to run from the stampeding crowd, but it was too late. Within minutes, the front door was jammed with people, all trying to get out at the same time, and the guard lay stunned on the ground.
After the main part of the crowd had passed by above him, he sat up, groaning. Suddenly...
"Birdie! Fly! Fly!" A very large man suddenly attempted to take flight out the door, but missed, not being able to stay suspended in the air for more than a few seconds and landed heavily on the floor, creating a big dent in it. Then the man got up from his dent and raced out the door with everyone else, giggling.
The guard sat up slightly from where he was lying, dazed on the floor. For some reason, he had been sitting in the dent as well! He collapsed again and decided it would be easier and less painful to simply lie there.
(A/N Ouch... ^_^)
Ten minutes later, when all of the noise had passed by him and everything in the room was silent, the guard looked up slowly, trying not to injure his back any further.
In his sight was...
The one person he had been assigned to watch. Mr. Gice.
"Gice!" He yelled, wincing in pain.
"Yes?"
The guard groaned. "You... You'll pay for this!"
Mr. Gice shrugged and went out the front door.
"Wait!" Jay ran down the hallway toward the door. He ran past the injured guard. Or at least he tried to... The guard used his last bit of energy to reach out and grab him by the ankle.
"You're not going anywhere." The guard rasped. He reached down and pressed a button on his vest pocket. The front doors slammed shut and the security bars went down.
Jay stared at the doors in wonder. Caught twice in one night, and that idiot Mr. Gice had gotten out, while he hadn't! And he did it by going out the stupid front door, too!
He sighed, then walked sadly down the deserted hallway back toward his abandoned cell, pulling his leg out of the feeble grip of the front guard, who then cried out in pain as his arm was suddenly almost ripped off.
Stupid Mr. Gice... He'd pay someday...
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Mr. Gice grinned again as he practically flew out the front gate and up the street.
FRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM MMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(A/N Hey Mojobubbles! Sound familiar?)
He ran down the street, heading off in the direction of his laboratory, about 2.8 miles away.
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Ok, this was going to take a while, and now he was tired of running.
He stopped and sat down on the sidewalk, watching the cars go by and smiling slightly at the strange looks he got from drivers who weren't used to seeing short people in white lab coats sitting by the side of the road watching cars go by. Normal people are SO one-dimensional...
Suddenly, he realized that a lot of the cars that were going by were yellow... In fact, he thought quickly, about 23.26% of them were yellow at this point...
He stood up, looking around, trying to figure out what was going on. On a normal day, only about 14.2% of the cars that went by around here were yellow. Most of the cars around here were blue... 42% of them, in fact... occationally a red one would go by...
But yellow?
Why yellow?
What kinds of cars were yellow? Oh, right.
"Taxi!!!!" He yelled. One of the yellow cars pulled over to him. He grinned and got in.
"Where to?" the driver asked, turning around in his seat slightly.
"Take me to 5826 Slivence Blv." Mr. Gice directed.
"Yes sir!" The taxi took off.
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{Kaiba}
Seto had sent the e-mail to the people he had chosen at that time, but there was still one more very crucial thing that he had to do before the tournament could begin. Testing.
The main testing would be tonight, right now before he went in front of the people to talk to them, but he knew he wouldn't be entirely ready until about a week from now...
Tournaments were hard to set up, especially when you had to bribe teachers and principals into shutting down school for the week that Battle City would take place in.
"Seto, if you try this, you really are crazy!" Mokuba yelled through the communicator to his older brother who was, at the moment, down in his testing stadium trying out his new duel disk systems and the God Card he had just been given.
Seto winced, shaken out of his thoughts. "Don't SAY that." He muttered.
"Sorry." Sitting way up high in the box above the stadium, Mokuba didn't look sorry at all. Seto sighed.
"Besides, I have to do this, Mokuba. I have to test out the duel disk systems to make sure that they're ready for Battle City, and I also need to know if this God Card is really as strong as Ishizu claimed that it was." Seto explained calmly. "And besides, it's not THAT dangerous. It's just my duel disk system."
Mokuba sighed. "He's underestimating the power of exploding machinery." He muttered softly, so his older brother wouldn't hear him. The operator sitting next to him nodded. Kaiba turned and glared at the machine across from him, scowling.
"Start the duel." he growled. Immediately, the machinery started up.
He knew perfectly well that the computer was armed with the deck that he had used during duelist kingdom, including copies he made of his three Blue Eyes, but that would be perfectly all right. The decks used there were composed of mainly high level monsters, and almost no low level, because there were no tribute rules. Now, with this duel, there were tribute rules because of his new Battle City rules. Even if the computer was at the highest level, which it was, it most likely wouldn't be able to get any monsters out on the field.
His so called high tech scientists might be worried, but he definitely wasn't. Especially if he was able to get his new 'All powerful' God Card out on the field.
"Draw five cards to start..... Draw one card for turn... Processing... Set one card in defense mode.... End turn..." The computer informed him.
Seto blinked. Who told it that it was ITS turn? He shrugged and drew his first cards. Stupid machine.
(A/N: Must be a Microsoft product...)
He looked at the cards. Perfect. He already had the Oblisk card. Now he just needed to be able to get enough monsters out to tribute for it.
"Hmm. I play one card face down, and Battle Ox in attack mode! Battle Ox! Destroy his face down card!" Seto said confidently.
The Battle Ox raced towards the card. The monster appeared, shimmering slightly. A Cyber Jar.
"No! Not a Cyber Jar!" Seto growled in frustration.
"Cyber Jar special effect. Destroy all monsters on field." The computer said, stating the rules. The Battle Ox and the Cyber jar both shattered. "Special effect number two. Summon up to five monsters onto field... Processing. Set two monsters onto field."
"Hmm. I summon four monsters to the field!" Seto announced, grinning.
"What a digital dummy!' He heard Mokuba over the communicator. "It just gave you the upper hand!"
"Draw card for turn... Processing... Analyzing new Battle City rules... Sacrifice two face down monsters for Blue Eyes White Dragon in attack mode."
Seto stared as the computer's face down monsters appeared briefly, a Wall of Illusion and a Aqua Madoor, then they disappeared in a flash of light and one of his own Blue-Eyes appeared, ready to take him down.
"Opponant has one card face down. End turn."
His worried look faded. It was afraid of his face down! He drew his next card, then grinned. Never mind that there was a Blue Eyes on the field, he could simply take it out with one shot. A flip effect.
"One card in defense mode." he stated. "Then I'll end my turn as well."
"Draw one card... Processing.... Summon Lord of Dragons in attack mode."
"What?" Seto frowned. That ruined his flip effect idea...
"Play Flute of Summoning Dragon. Effect: Special Summon two dragons from hand onto feild... Summon two Blue Eyes White Dragons."
"No!!! That's impossible!" Seto stared. The only thing left was...
"Play magic card, Polmerization. Combine three Blue Eyes White Dragons for Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon."
Seto watched in shock as the Ultimate Dragon took shape on the feild.
"Fusion monster cannot attack on same turn it was summoned. Must end turn."
Well, thank goodness for that at least.
His communicator was going crazy! It sounded almost like static... He looked up at the box where everyone was. Nope, not static. everybody was running around, trying to do a bunch of analyzations and other useless junk.
"Shut it down! Shut it down now! Seto's gunna get hurt!" he heard Mokuba shout over everybody.
"No." he yelled. The fierce, three headed dragon roared at him. He grinned. "This is just perfect."
This must have been how Yugi had felt when he was up against the huge dragon... This must be exactly how he had felt...
No wonder he had acted so confident... This was nothing at all....
But even through that, he hadn't actually been able to fully destroy the beast. He had come very close, and it was only his slight manipulation that had saved his dragon's life. And now, he was going to be able to do the thing that Yugi hadn't. Slay the Dragon!
"I'll sacrifice three of my monsters to bring out Oblisk, the Tormenter!" Seto announced, sweeping the cards from the field of his duel disk, putting them in the graveyard slot, and slapping Oblisk down.
The holograms on the field did exactly the same, in their own way: Two of the monsters faded with a flash of bright white light, and the huge head of Oblisk began to come up.
"Now I'll sacrifice my other two monsters to boost Oblisk's power! Now you'll learn why he's called The Tormenter!" Seto smirked.
(A/N Random question: How did he know that he could do that? The cards there have no directions on them...)
Oblisk grabbed ahold of the two remaining monsters and began to drain the energy from them. The holographic box showing it's stats reappeared and the points bagan to get higher.
"Woah..." he heard Mokuba breathe. "It's humungous!"
"It's attack points are-" one of his scientists began. Seto heard a slight explosion, then the communicator erupted into static.
"Stupid thing... Power circit overload becuase of my God Card getting too many attack points?" he shook his head, taking off the communicator as he did. He threw it to the ground. Oh well, he didn't need to talk to his scientists to play a duel. He'd win this on his own.
(A/N Must be another Microsoft Product...)
"Now, Oblisk! Attack!!!" Seto shouted. The giant monster rocked forward slightly, so big that he didn't even have to take a step! "Fist of Fate!!!"
(A/N: Again, how'd he know that? How do any of the people know what the cards' attacks are called? Where'd Yugi come up with "Dark Magic Attack!" "Neutron Blast!"and how'd Kaiba come up with, "White Lightning Attack!" and "Fist of Fate!" and how'd Joey come up with, "Noxious Nostril Gust!" ?!?!?!?! *Shrugs*)
Oblisk didn't even hesitate. He drew back his fist, white looking power surged from it, and he lit into the Ultimate Dragon.
It must have only taken a few seconds, but time seemed to have slowed down. Oblisk neared the Dragon... The Dragon started to roar... It began to fight back... The attack might not work, Ishizu might have been wrong... Oblisk's hand ripped slowly through the Dragon, until it finally shattered into a million pieces, traveling the distance to the Graveyard.
Seto stared for a moment, then grinned. "Great." he said to himself. He picked up the Oblisk card from his Duel Disk and stared at it. As he did so, Oblisk faded from the Hologram Field. "This is the most powerful card I'v-"
He looked up as his dueling machine began flashing warnings and yelling at the top of it's lungs. (Wait... NM...) "Warning! Warning! System Overload! System Overload!"
It exploded.
Seto frowned at it. He'd have to fix that little bug in the system... The Duel Disk systems were NOT supposed to blow up when the duel was over...
(A/N: Bad Microsoft! Bad! Bad!)
He looked back down at his new treasure. This would win his tournament, and his champion title, back to him, along with his dignity.
Now Yugi would be able to see just what a great duelist he really was... And this time.... He wouldn't go easy on him...
He turned and walked over to the wall, stepping over some random pieces of machinary that had flown over from the explosion, and activated the panel on the wall.
The door revealed itself and opened. Seto walked through it and up the hallways, thinking. He still had so much stuff he had to do before the Tournament could officially begin...
He shoud probably expect to start it sometime next week. And with this Oblisk card, he'd be sure to win it as well.
Mokuba suddenly came running up the corridor and ran himself full force into his older brother, hugging him.
"Seto, I was scared... But that was cool!" He looked up into the suddenly softened eyes of Seto, grinning.
"I know." he said. But he felt a sense of pride, knowing his brother could still look up to him when he needed to. He'd always be there for him...
"Come on, Seto!" Mokuba grabbed his brother's hand and began leading him down the hallway, even though he didn't need to be led. Seto went along anyway. "We gotta do that speech thing now... People are out there already, see?"
Seto looked down, noticing for the first time a digital screen on his brother's hand, strapped on like a watch. It was showing a crowd of people waiting outside.
Seto nodded. "Alright, Mokuba. Let's go."
He strode forward, now leading his brother along behind him.
"Hey!" Mokuba said, now suddenly able to take tremendous leaps with each step because of Seto pullling him along. "Seto!"
Seto grinned and chuckled. Then he slowed down a little so that his brother could keep up with him.
Everything was going good so far. Now he just had to do his speech. If Yugi was there, the night would be perfect.
The two Kaiba brothers finally reached the outside spot where the helicopter was going to pick them up. It was already waiting for them, the test duel, short as it was, having taken up more time than had been expected. He'd have to begin his presentation in the copter if he wanted to get done before 8:30...
Seto turned to Mokuba. "You stay here and make sure my workers don't slack off, alright Mokuba?" He said, smiling. "You know how lazy those twerps can be."
Mokuba nodded, still grinning widely. "You bet, Seto!"
He turned rapidly and skipped from the helicopter pad back into the building.
Seto turned back to the helicopter and got inside, activating the switches for the cameras while he did so.
He could see, aways off, that the screens on the sides of the buildings started to light up. The helicopter lifted off the pad, and Seto began to speak.
"Welcome, duelists, to the city of Domino." he began, looking confident.
//I'll be your host, Seto Kaiba!!!// He thought, mentally smirking. He shook the thought away. He had to stay focused!
"I see you all received my invitation, and I'm glad that you could come."
//Sort of...//
"My new tournament that I am starting withing the next week, Battle City, is going to be fierce. It's going to be big. This is going to make Pegasus's great Duelest Kingdom look like a Joke."
He said the word "great" sarcastically.
He was close enough to the crowd now that he could hear their cheering as he made this comment. They were pleased.
"I strongly suggest that you start toughening up your decks and sharpening your skills, or you'll be taken down, and your rare cards with you!" Seto paused, then commented, "For you see, part of my new Battle City rules... The loser has to forfeit his rarest card to the winner!"
The helicopter neared the ground. The trees and signs here and there began blowing around fiercely. Seto took this as his cue and stepped one foot out onto the railing of the copter, making sure the camera kept trained on him as he did so, and swung outward.
"Kaiba! It's Kaiba! Look! Kaiba!" The crowd began murmuring loudly to themselves and each other.
Seto looked out over the crowd, searching. Where was he? Was he not here? Did he not-
Suddenly, he found himself staring into the eyes of the exact person he was looking for. His hair was being blown around by the helicopter wildly, but he kept his purple eyes firmly trained on his darker ones. Yugi.
He smirked.
//So the runt got my invite, after all...//
He began speaking once again, now that the crowd's whisperings had gone down to a minimum. "Go to my registration office, and all of you here who got one of my invites will be allowed to join up and will be able to get one of my Duel Disk systems."
He held his up, still on his arm from his test duel, for everybody to see. They all were enraptured by it. Crowds were so easily amused...
"Anyone else is allowed to join up as well, but only if their pathetic skill levels qualify for the privalage. I myself will be joining the fun in the tournament, putting up my Blue Eyes!" He held up one of his three Blue Eyes.
Actually, one of his copies... He wasn't so dumb that he'd bring one of hs real Blue Eyes with him on a helicopter ride where it could get blown away...
And losing a copy wasn't a big deal. It was easy to tell which were fake anyway. He hadn't engineered his fakes so that you couldn't tell which was real and which wasn't. He had marked them specially on their backs with his, "Not a real card, not worth anything." stamps.
He looked over the crowd one last time. They seemed to have realized that he was about done, so there was no real point in continuing his speech much longer.
"If you have any courage at all, join up. If not..." he let the sentance hang.
He made eye contact with Yugi again, and Yugi nodded firmly. Seto knew he'd join it.
He didn't know why Yugi would join... He had only joined the last one for his Grandfather, he knew, but this time there was no motivation... None that he could see, at any rate.
This just meant that Yugi was more than just morals and goody-two shoes stuff, he supposed. That was good. He was getting tired of all that...
He nodded quickly and curtly back, then climbed back inside the helicopter and shut down his cameras.
All but one....
And that one... Would never shut off.... Because it wasn't his.... But it was trained intently on him all the same... Watching his every move...
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Again, I was going to do more, but then I realized I need to update, or peoples will strangle me... ^_^U
On a lighter note, ONLY ONE WEEK AND SIX DAYS UNTIL SUMMER VACATION FOR MEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!! ^_^
YAYZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alright, I must update now....
Or maybe I could just say one more thing before I go... *Random bush gets thrown at her* AAAAH! *Ducks*
*While ducking, falls out of chair*
Ooooww... Dern thing...
*Shoes get thrown*
O.O Ahh! *Ducks again* Alright! Alright! I'm updating already! Sheesh! ^_^
See ya next chappie! (Hopefully up within the next few weeks or so...)
Byez!
--Daricio
Yay! I updated!!!! Took me long enough, huh? ^_^U
So now you can read my loverly fic! But first, I would like to show to you some other fics that were written, either by me, Shells, or DVD, that we would like you to go and read. They are all just as good as this one, (In my opinion) and so I'd like it if you'd read and review on them!
I STILL want peoples to go and read Millennium Item Girl, of course. That's obvious from what I've been saying in the last chappie. In addition, though, for those Harry Potter fans, I now have a Harry Potter/Yu-Gi-Oh crossover! It's called Millennium Magic. So go read that. I also have a new Yu-Gi-Oh thing called "Ring Logic." that I've been working on for a while and have just recently posted up. (At least it was recent when I started writing this chappie... ^_^U) Then, DVD's fic has been getting interesting and cool, so I'd like it if you would go and read that too!
And then there's the Fic that DVD and I have started together that's called... "FanFiction Virus!" It's really funny! I'm in it!!! ^_^ We get to save Fanfiction.net from an evil virus that deletes everybody's reviews!!!!!
^_^ So now you know what I've been doing with my time....
Before you read this chapter, be forwarned... This is not called Yami- bashing, it's simply "Poking-fun-at-Yami." It's meant to be funny, not mean. This is so that I dun't get into trouble with rabid fangirls... ^_^
Random question... Biiiig question that has nothing to do with this ficcie.... Am I a preppie? Do you think of me as a preppie? A couple of girls at my school called me a preppie.... It's cuz whe I sit in class, I always have to "play with my hair" alot and "toss it in the air" and "smirk at people as if I'm this super genious and they're just stupid." My hair's really long and when I lean over my work at school, it gets all over my paper, so I have to toss it back over my shoulders at times during class... It apparently annoys people... And I do NOT smirk at people....(I AM smarter than them, but that's beside the point. ^_^)
*Looks at thingy* (ERK!!!) I haven't updated in HOW long?!?!?!? Whoopsies... That's NOT a good thing... I apparently haven't updated for an entire month!!! And I STILL have a stupid shortie chappy! Sorry.... Apparently I can't type as fast as I thought I could type... ^_^U
If you see typos in this chappie, it's because I'm rushing... Sorry. Plus, for some reason, my hands are getting clumsy, and I usually achieve about five typos per paragraph that I have to go back and fix... ^_^U Sowwy! (Not a typo, BTW... ^_^U)
Random note:
ONLY ONE MORE REVIEW AND THEN I'LL HAVE 100!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAYZ!!!!!!!!!!!!! ^_^ I'm very pleased. I've never gotten this many reviews afore! I must thank all of you! Thank you! Thank you! *bows* ^_^
Oh, plus I've realized that I have no disclaimer for this fic! ^_^U Whoops.... Here it is... I'm not gunna do this every chapter, just this chapter.
I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh or related characters or ideas. I also do not own the term temporary physical form. Or the "Doom" song. And probably other things I haven't mentioned as well.
I do, however own the character Mr. Gice and all ideas that he comes up with, the name Radley and the name Roo, but only when applied to Yami Bakura, the Electromagnetic Magnesium-Carbohydrate strips and all related theories and reactions, and the snappers that Mr. Gice makes. If anybody ever makes these in real life, however, they will belong to the person who creates them. ^_^
If anybody wants to use any of my terms, names, or ideas, just simply do so and remember to mention my name in the author notes in the beginning of the chappie. It's also nice to tell me that you're going to do this.
Gee, that was more of a claimer than a disclaimer, huh? ^_^U
Okies!... Now that that's done, there's nothing else to do but the Review Responses, then the fic! Yay!
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Review Responses!
Insane Otaku (AKA Caterfree): You always say that you love my chappies! ^_^ Thankies! Even if the last chappie was kinda short... That's vote #1 for letting Mr. Gice out!
Perpetually Hyper One: Thanks for revealing to me that it ends alright! I was wondering... ^_^
I also hate preppies... When I wrote that, somehow I just KNEW you were going to say something about it... I get preppies around me too... There's a pair of guys that walk by our little Yu-Gi-Oh corner every day at lunch and shout, "Yu-Gi-Oh sucks!" or "Yu-Gi-Oh is Gay!"... one of these days, the 12-20 people sitting around playing Yu-Gi-Oh are going to kick those guy's butts.... ^_^
You like the Stepping Out episode! I do too! Actually, I like all the episodes, so I guess that doesn't count... I guess it does... we'll go with that!
No, my face ish not purple... At least... Dunt think it is... *Looks in mirror* AAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! It IS purple!!! AAAAHHHHHH!!!!! Wait... no, it isn't... my bad... Anywhos, I think what they meant was that it fit my personality, so it was hard to notice... I think... unless they're colorblind and thought that my face was purple... ^_^
Yes, I know... These people, (Teh teachers) are either trying to murder us, or make us go totally and absoulutely insane... _
I like long reviews! Long reviews ish good! ^_^ Very good!
This is vote #2 for letting Mr. Gice out!
Tamara Raymond: Something tells me that you love this story! ^_^ You're welcome for mentioning you twice! I think I mentioned everybody twice because of the review response thing... But that's ok! It's good to mention people! Specially when they review lots! Mmkay, hope to see you around! This ish Vote #3 for Letting Mr. Gice out!
Taby: Hiyz! Always nice to see a new reviewer! And a new FF.Net user as well! Welcome! ^_^ Thanks for adding me to your fav. author list! It is very much appreciated! ^_^ I'll be sure to go and read your fic! Here's the update you requested!
Kate Ryou: Hiya! Another new reviewer! Yay! ^_^ I said this in the reveiw I did on your story, but to make it official, it's perfectly OK for you, and for anybody, to use the name Radley, or the Name Roo in your fics... Just as long as you mention me in the author note. BTW, you're welcome for the review! Again, here's the update!
Pruningshears: Kaiba interlude? Okies! I'll do that this chappie! Bakura interlude? *Shrugs* Probably not... I tried to fit one in at your request, but it gives away waaaay too much of the story line... ^_^U Sorry.
Also, sorry if my story had been giving away Battle city to everyone.Yes, the Mako crying thing WAS weird. He was upset because Joey destroyed his Fisherman card that, to Mako, represented his father. *Sigh* The Yu-Gi-Oh charas get SO emotional sometimes. ^_^
You're welcome for the congratulations! Hope you update YOUR story soon too! And also hope your fruity pebbles get better! This ish vote #4 for letting Mr. Gice out!
YugiPlushie: (NekoPlushie)Thankies for the compliments! Even if the last chapter took forever to get out and was still short. I put the little add ons in because it would be a very boring fic if I simply copied what the show did. The main point I'm trying to put forth is that the people who are recording everything using the FWC's keep editing stuff out. So in order to show that, I simply add stuff in! Hopefully, yes, it ends up looking ok. This ish Vote #5 for letting Mr. Gice out!
Bakurakrazie: Nother new reviewer! yayz! ^_^ Glad you like the story! And the Mr. Gice thing!
Serena Bunny: Dunt worry, your last review not make me sad... Just make me work harder! ^_^ Hopefully, this chapter will be better, (And longer) than my past few chappies... This is Vote #6 for letting Mr. Gice out! For your random question, Funny Bunny is not his nick name, it's the name of his favorite cartoon... If you want it to be a nickname for you, that's alright with me... I guess... Read on for the fic, Funny Bunny! ^_^
bob: uuuuuh... Thanks?
Darkmagic: I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves!!!!! ^_^ glad you liked the story!
Livi: I'll update when I'm good and-... oh, jeesh! What's that SMELL???? *Looks around* Now how did THAT get in there?!?!?! Ew..... I apparently need to update more often... ^_^U
Ethelflaed: ^_^ Hope you get all the way up here to chapter 27 to be able to read this! See ya when you do! Thanks for the review! And Sarcastic Wolf, Cool is a cool word!!!! ^_^ Except that I'm not allowed to use it while talking with Serena Bunny. It is a forbidden word... But it's still cool! ^_^
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That's all of the reviews! Ok, the votes are in! It's zero to six! Gee, I wonder if Mr. Gice is getting out of the nuthouse this time around! ^_^ Alrighty, here's the fic!
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{Daricio}
When Daricio got home from school, she was totally exhausted.
(A.N Gee, that happens alot in here... my charas get tired easily... hmmmm....)
Dumping off her school stuff in the closet and racing up the stairs to her room, she went over the events of the day in her head.
First, it was just talk. Everyone in her class felt that they absolutely had to talk about it... From there, everything just got worse...
Talk turned almost immediately to Gossip the moment class got out. Daricio couldn't take one step without hearing somebody comment on it.
Then, certain news began to leak out, and the black gossip transformed to deadly rumors.
Somebody had discovered that Chris wasn't at school that day. Or that whole last week. The crowd's translation? Daricio had knocked him into a coma, totally beating him up.
It was found that Daricio also hadn't been there the whole week. The crowd's translation? Daricio had knocked Chris into a coma, totally beating him up, and she had either been suspended from school, or had been skipping to avoid punishment and to lower everyone's suspicions.
Then, the worst part of all. They suddenly knew that the fight had occurred because of a Yu-Gi-Oh duel. The crowd's translation? Daricio Beat Chris to a bloody pulp, she had been suspended from school and/or had been skipping, and she regularly beat up everybody she dueled against! If she won, she beat them up as a punishment for losing. If they won, she'd beat them up for beating her.
Finally, the rumors got so out of control, that by the time it was time for Daricio to go to lunch, nobody would even let her WATCH a duel, out of fear that she'd beat up the loser of the duel! Nobody wanted to duel her, trade with her, and she was, very basically, shunned from Yu-Gi-Oh for the day. Probably the week, too, depending on how long these rumors lasted. She hoped it would be less than a month....
//It was bad enough when I was the only girl in the Yu-Gi-Oh corner. now I can't even be that.// Daricio sighed, flopping on her bed and staring at the ceiling. She had spent her lunch in the library, pretending to read a book while really watching Tea drag Yami around to random places in Domino.
She grinned suddenly, her worries temporarily erased as she remembered some of the interesting places Tea had taken Yami to so far. She had taken him to the nearby amusement park, to the roller skating park, to that one card trading shop, (Yami's choice of course) to the library, and was now currently showing him around the mall.
The amusement park was interesting, as Tea had bought Yami cotten candy. Yami had never had cotten candy before. It was very messy. Especially on the ferris wheel...
//Dropping cotten candy on the ride operator's head from about fifty feet up is not a good idea.// Daricio remembered, still grinning at the ceiling. Then there was the indoor skating park...
~*~*~ Flashback ~*~*~
They entered the dimly lit building and everyone looked around. Basically, it was a building in which you could rent skates and skate around the skating ring in circles while music played. There was also a snack bar, but it was, very wisely, avoided. Apparently, Tea didn't think Yami would like Icees.
The skating was, in itself, an adventure. Yami lost his balance several times, sprawling onto the ring and causing the people behind him to swerve out of the way and/or crash into him. At one point it was Tea who was skating behind him when he fell over, then she tripped over him, then the person behind her fell over her, and the person behind him fell over him, and the person behind him... well, you get it. It took a good ten minutes for everyone to get back up again.
After watching them skate for about an hour, Daricio suddenly desperetly wanted to get away from school for a while and skate with them.
//Can I PLEASE get out of this boring, annoying, stupid history class and go skating?// She asked Yugi, putting her pencil down and rubbing her hand, which was starting to get sore from scribbling down about a hundred notes about Aisa.
//I don't think that would be a very good idea... skating around in a temporary physical form... First off, you'd be slightly invisible... Also, what if somebody runs into you? They'd go through you, and then where would we be? And Tea knows who you are, and then she'd know that we're watching all this!// Yugi said, watching as Yami ventured out onto the skating rink for another try. //I know, I want to skate too, but...//
Daricio simply shrugged. Then she grinned again as Yami took down a few more people with a spectacular, flailing fall.
In the middle of the skating time, the bell rang again, and Daricio had to move to her next class. She did so grudgingly, trying her best to ignore the people who were going way out of their way to avoid her in the halls and whispering about her by focusing on what Yami was doing.
Soon, though, the skating time was over. Tea and Yami went shakily over to a bench to take off their skates and get their shoes back. Then they walked out of the skate park. Very quickly, actually.
"Wow... I can still walk." Yami muttered, swaying back and forth slightly.
//You know, I think that's exactly what I thought when I first went skating.// Yugi said. He and Daricio laughed.
They began walking down the street. Tea was looking from one side of the street to the other eagerly, searching out some great adventure for them to go on.
"Hey, look at this!" Yami suddenly spoken up. "It's a place where you can trade duel monster cards!"
His voice was filled with relief at the prospect of something normal to do. Tea stopped and a grin filled her face once more.
"Great! We can go there next!" She cried, then ran inside. Yami followed, a smile forming on his face for the first time that afternoon.
Daricio hadn't caught what had happened next, because suddenly...
"Daricio Jonesy! Are you listening to me?!?!?!"
"Yes, Ma'am! erm, I mean, of course I am!" Daricio said, looking up quickly.
Several whispers and giggles came from the back of the room which were stiffled quickly when the teacher glanced in that direction. Then she looked back at Daricio.
"Good! Then you'll know that I just called on you to answer the twentieth question on the worksheet I just handed out!" The teacher said, an evil grin on her face.
Daricio looked down at her desk in surprise. "Problem what?" She asked weakly.
"Problem twenty." The teacher said, sounding joyful that she had caught a student not paying attention.
"Are we doing all these together as a class?" Daricio asked hopefully.
"No, this is Friday's homework. We're correcting it. I assume you have it completed? Or did Somebody not do their assigned homework?" She grinned malevolently.
Daricio looked nervous. //Homework? Why don't I remember getting any homework in this class? This is the class that usually doesn't get homework, when did we get homework?// her thoughts raced frantically. //Homework, homework...//
"What?" she asked meekly.
The teacher rubbed her temples. "Homework, Daricio. Did you do your homework, or didn't you?"
A student on the other side of the classroom raised her hand. "Ma'am?" She asked.
The teacher swooped on her. "What is it, Kathren?"
"Daricio wasn't here Friday." She supplied helpfully. "And it's Kathy, not Kathren."
Daricio sighed in relief. That's right... Duh....
"Oh... So she wasn't." The teacher said disappointedly, looking at her roll chart. "Ah well. Sheryl, will you answer the question then?"
Daricio tried hard to pay attention to the lesson after that... but... What Yami and Tea were doing was SO much more fun than this...
~*~*~ End of Flashback ~*~*~
Daricio sighed and looked up at the ceiling again. She had gotten herself into trouble for daydreaming at least two more times before the end of the day...
Right at the moment, Tea was showing Yami around the mall...
//I didn't know that Domino had such a big mall..// She thought to herself.
//It's not really that big...// Yugi said.
//What, 100 different stores not big enough for you?//
//No.... It's just that...// Yugi grinned slightly. //The only store I go to when I go here is the arcade.//
//Oh. What kind of stuff is at the arcade?//
//You'll see. Tea is almost there... as soon as she gets done trying to get Yami to try on some of the clothes in this shop, the next one is the arcade... That'll be more fun than this.//
Daricio grinned. //Tea's trying to get Yami to try on clothes?//
//Hey, it's better than when she checked out a half a ton of books at the library... She had to go and drop them all off at her house before they could do anything else!//
Daricio laughed. //Yeah... I didn't know that there WERE that many books about baby animals... sheesh!//
//So what have you been doing while all this was going on?// Yugi asked her. //Just sitting around?//
//No. Unlike you, I had to go to school, remember?//
//Well, yeah, but I meant when school was over!//
Daricio looked at her clock. It was 3:30! School had been out for over an hour! Time goes by too fast..
//I guess I HAVE been just sitting here...// She admitted.
//I thought so. Thinking about what?//
//Nothin much... What about you? What have you been doing all today?//
//Watching you go to school and feeling happy that I don't have to.//
//That's not very nice.//
//And?//
//Never mind.//
There was a pause. Then, //They're going to the arcade now... Wanna watch?//
//Ok.//
Daricio looked around the room briefly, checking for poeple, then closed her eyes, going into her soul room. Once there, she opened the door between the two soul rooms and stepped about halfway through so that she could see what was happening. The link was getting shorter... the rooms were only about 5 feet apart now...
Yami took a few steps into the arcade room and looked around. "What's this?" he asked.
"This is the arcade! It has a ton of really cool games and stuff in it, it's really fun!" Tea said.
"Oh. What kind of games?"
"Like. well, come on! I'll show you!" Tea went over to one of the games. "This is."
She began explaining some of the rules to the game. Yami looked it over. It was, from what he could see, a fairly small black box with weird looking pictures on the front, and a small screen.
When Tea was done explaining, she said, "Wanna try it?"
He shook his head. "Not really..."
"Ok, we'll find a different one, then." Tea looked around the small arcade room, looking for a game she thought Yami might like. After a few seconds, she grinned.
"There's a bigger arcade downtown! They have sooo many cool games and stuff!" Tea exclaimed. She turned on her heel and walked out of the arcade, heading for the mall's exit doors.
Yami sighed, then followed her. He was beginning to think that just simply going to that museum would be better than This... At least then he would get some questions answered... here, he was just wasting everyone's time and getting tired...
Tea walked briskly down the street, occationally looking backwards to make sure that Yami was keeping up with her.
He was, so she maintained her fast pace.
Soon they reached their destination: A huge building with big windows all around. Around the back was a balcony over-looking the water and inside, Yami could see a huge ton of the little black boxes, as well as many other colored boxes and some things that weren't even box shaped!
"This is... interesting." Yami commented as they walked inside.
Daricio gaped at it. It was huge! Not even the whole mall near her house was as big as this! //Wow.//
Yugi nodded, grinning. //Yup. This is not just an arcade. This is the arcade.//
Daricio nodded silently, mouth still hanging open slightly. //Wow.// she said again.
Tea skipped down one of the aisles, heading for her personal favorite game: The dance.
There was a man playing on it already, and he was beating his opponant badly. Tea watched with interest. She liked dancing, but sometimes, especially with someone as good as this, it was fun just to watch.
The song ended, and the man stood triumphant, while the other boy stepped down off the platform, exausted.
"That's all the exercise I need for today, thanks... I'm sticking to Pinball..." The boy muttered, heading back for the other games.
Tea smiled sympethetically. She had played before and had lost... She knew how it felt... She looked up as the man announced, "Who wants the honor of being Jonny Step's next vitim?"
Tea's smile turned to a grin. "Hey Yami, hold this for me!" She tossed her coat off and started up the steps.
The coat landed in Yami's arms. "Tea, what are you doing?" he asked.
"Dancing!"
He sighed, then looked at the coat. //What am I, a coat rack now?// he wondered.
//Yup.// Daricio laughed.
"It's time to make some nooooise!!!!!" The computerized voice yelled out. Then game began.
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(Yadda yadda yadda, we all know what happened next. ^_^ I'm switching to Mr. Gice interlude now.)
{Interlude: Mr. Gice} (Int that what I just said? *Nods to self*)
There! He had two fully assembled Electromagnetic Magneisium-carbohydrate strips, and fifteen snappers.
And he still had some extra parts from the camera! Not enough to make another full strip, but he could probably figure out how to do something with it...
He stuffed all of his things into a pocket of his white lab coat and checked his watch. Perfect timing! The guards were just shifting duty. He took out his card and slid it through, opening the door once again.
He looked out into the hallway, then nodded. The coast was clear. Just as it should be.
He strode out. He went around the corner... and immedietly ran into somebody. Both him and the other person pulled back, each thinking it was a guard that they had run into. After a few seconds, they both realized that it was a fellow jailbreaker.
"Hello." Mr. Gice said cheerily.
"Thanks alot for scaring me half to death." The other person said, glaring at him.
"And vice versa. What's your plan of escape for tonight?"
"Window. Yours?"
"Front door."
The man looked startled. "The front door?!?! Are you nuts?!?!?"
"That's a stupid question to ask in a mental hospital."
The other guy shook his head. "Fine, whatever. You go your way, I'll go mine. We'll just see who gets outta here tonight."
"Name?"
"Jay."
"Thomas."
"Nice to meet you."
"Vice versa."
"Goodbye."
"Vice versa."
They went seperate ways down the halls.
Mr. Gice wasn't planning on going out through the front door, of course. He was just being funny. He headed for the air vents. He was almost there, when he suddenly realized something... Window......
He did some quick calculations, then stopped, quickly pulling himself into the nearest open door and closing it. He pressed himself up against a wall, trying not to be seen.
"Ten... nine... eight.... seven... six... five... four... three..... two.... one.... " Mr Gice counted downward, whispering.
The alarms went off right as he whispered "zero".
Mr. Gice looked out the window in the room just in time to see Jay fall out of a nearby window, (Opening the window sets off the alarms) and suddenly go sprinting across the grass. He reached the outer fence and grabbed ahold of it, preparing to vault...
ZAAAP!!!!!!!!
Jay collapsed on the grass, and the guards caught up to him and dragged him back into the building. Mr. Gice blinked. He had forgotten about the Electromagnetic Magnesium-Carbohydrate strips that Seto had stuck to the fence!
He wasn't going to be able to get out that way, then... So how else would he be able to get out? He grinned. The front door, of course. Just like he had told Jay...
He looked around him, trying to figure out what room he was in. After a while, his grin got even bigger. He was in the electrical room.
He walked around, and pressed a button. All the lights shut off. He pressed another button. The alarm systems shut down. Then he took the leftover parts out of his pocket and began attatching them to different parts of the systems, creating a sort of robot out of the whole thing.
He walked out of the room and watched as all the doors down the aisle began to open by themselves. He had programed them to do that. He smiled.
Soon, people began poking their heads out, trying to figure out what was going on.
"Now, to tell them what to do." He muttered to himself. He turned and jogged back inside the electrical room and triggered the PA System. "ALRIGHT EVERYBODY, LET'S GO!!!!!! WE'RE GETTING OUTTA HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!"
With that, all the people, following Mr. Gice, ran towards the front exit as fast as possible.
Mr. Gice grinned as he ran. Why hadn't he thought of this before? Sure, the guards could catch one person running away, or two or three, but they wouldn't be able to catch all 170 of the occupants of the nuthouse when they all tried to get out at once!
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The front guard sat drinking coffee and watching the front door lazily. Nobody ever tried to get out that way... he had the easiest job here!
He smiled in contentment. He got paid well for it, too.
Yup, life was good... That an-
What was that?
He sat up in his chair and peered down the hallway, setting his coffee down on his desk.
Suddenly, the ground began to rumble. He looked nervously out the dark window. No, everything out there was stable... This wasn't an earthquake... Than what could it be?
As he watched, everything began to rumble. The walls, the desk, the few pictures on the walls. His cup rattled for a while before falling off the desk and shattering on the floor, splashing coffee everywhere.
He got up quickly. "What the?" he said aloud. "What's going on here?"
He looked up from the spilled coffee, and got his answer. "Ooooohh shoot."
He turned and began to run from the stampeding crowd, but it was too late. Within minutes, the front door was jammed with people, all trying to get out at the same time, and the guard lay stunned on the ground.
After the main part of the crowd had passed by above him, he sat up, groaning. Suddenly...
"Birdie! Fly! Fly!" A very large man suddenly attempted to take flight out the door, but missed, not being able to stay suspended in the air for more than a few seconds and landed heavily on the floor, creating a big dent in it. Then the man got up from his dent and raced out the door with everyone else, giggling.
The guard sat up slightly from where he was lying, dazed on the floor. For some reason, he had been sitting in the dent as well! He collapsed again and decided it would be easier and less painful to simply lie there.
(A/N Ouch... ^_^)
Ten minutes later, when all of the noise had passed by him and everything in the room was silent, the guard looked up slowly, trying not to injure his back any further.
In his sight was...
The one person he had been assigned to watch. Mr. Gice.
"Gice!" He yelled, wincing in pain.
"Yes?"
The guard groaned. "You... You'll pay for this!"
Mr. Gice shrugged and went out the front door.
"Wait!" Jay ran down the hallway toward the door. He ran past the injured guard. Or at least he tried to... The guard used his last bit of energy to reach out and grab him by the ankle.
"You're not going anywhere." The guard rasped. He reached down and pressed a button on his vest pocket. The front doors slammed shut and the security bars went down.
Jay stared at the doors in wonder. Caught twice in one night, and that idiot Mr. Gice had gotten out, while he hadn't! And he did it by going out the stupid front door, too!
He sighed, then walked sadly down the deserted hallway back toward his abandoned cell, pulling his leg out of the feeble grip of the front guard, who then cried out in pain as his arm was suddenly almost ripped off.
Stupid Mr. Gice... He'd pay someday...
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Mr. Gice grinned again as he practically flew out the front gate and up the street.
FRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM MMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(A/N Hey Mojobubbles! Sound familiar?)
He ran down the street, heading off in the direction of his laboratory, about 2.8 miles away.
2.799
2.798
2.797
2.796
2.795
2.794
Ok, this was going to take a while, and now he was tired of running.
He stopped and sat down on the sidewalk, watching the cars go by and smiling slightly at the strange looks he got from drivers who weren't used to seeing short people in white lab coats sitting by the side of the road watching cars go by. Normal people are SO one-dimensional...
Suddenly, he realized that a lot of the cars that were going by were yellow... In fact, he thought quickly, about 23.26% of them were yellow at this point...
He stood up, looking around, trying to figure out what was going on. On a normal day, only about 14.2% of the cars that went by around here were yellow. Most of the cars around here were blue... 42% of them, in fact... occationally a red one would go by...
But yellow?
Why yellow?
What kinds of cars were yellow? Oh, right.
"Taxi!!!!" He yelled. One of the yellow cars pulled over to him. He grinned and got in.
"Where to?" the driver asked, turning around in his seat slightly.
"Take me to 5826 Slivence Blv." Mr. Gice directed.
"Yes sir!" The taxi took off.
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{Kaiba}
Seto had sent the e-mail to the people he had chosen at that time, but there was still one more very crucial thing that he had to do before the tournament could begin. Testing.
The main testing would be tonight, right now before he went in front of the people to talk to them, but he knew he wouldn't be entirely ready until about a week from now...
Tournaments were hard to set up, especially when you had to bribe teachers and principals into shutting down school for the week that Battle City would take place in.
"Seto, if you try this, you really are crazy!" Mokuba yelled through the communicator to his older brother who was, at the moment, down in his testing stadium trying out his new duel disk systems and the God Card he had just been given.
Seto winced, shaken out of his thoughts. "Don't SAY that." He muttered.
"Sorry." Sitting way up high in the box above the stadium, Mokuba didn't look sorry at all. Seto sighed.
"Besides, I have to do this, Mokuba. I have to test out the duel disk systems to make sure that they're ready for Battle City, and I also need to know if this God Card is really as strong as Ishizu claimed that it was." Seto explained calmly. "And besides, it's not THAT dangerous. It's just my duel disk system."
Mokuba sighed. "He's underestimating the power of exploding machinery." He muttered softly, so his older brother wouldn't hear him. The operator sitting next to him nodded. Kaiba turned and glared at the machine across from him, scowling.
"Start the duel." he growled. Immediately, the machinery started up.
He knew perfectly well that the computer was armed with the deck that he had used during duelist kingdom, including copies he made of his three Blue Eyes, but that would be perfectly all right. The decks used there were composed of mainly high level monsters, and almost no low level, because there were no tribute rules. Now, with this duel, there were tribute rules because of his new Battle City rules. Even if the computer was at the highest level, which it was, it most likely wouldn't be able to get any monsters out on the field.
His so called high tech scientists might be worried, but he definitely wasn't. Especially if he was able to get his new 'All powerful' God Card out on the field.
"Draw five cards to start..... Draw one card for turn... Processing... Set one card in defense mode.... End turn..." The computer informed him.
Seto blinked. Who told it that it was ITS turn? He shrugged and drew his first cards. Stupid machine.
(A/N: Must be a Microsoft product...)
He looked at the cards. Perfect. He already had the Oblisk card. Now he just needed to be able to get enough monsters out to tribute for it.
"Hmm. I play one card face down, and Battle Ox in attack mode! Battle Ox! Destroy his face down card!" Seto said confidently.
The Battle Ox raced towards the card. The monster appeared, shimmering slightly. A Cyber Jar.
"No! Not a Cyber Jar!" Seto growled in frustration.
"Cyber Jar special effect. Destroy all monsters on field." The computer said, stating the rules. The Battle Ox and the Cyber jar both shattered. "Special effect number two. Summon up to five monsters onto field... Processing. Set two monsters onto field."
"Hmm. I summon four monsters to the field!" Seto announced, grinning.
"What a digital dummy!' He heard Mokuba over the communicator. "It just gave you the upper hand!"
"Draw card for turn... Processing... Analyzing new Battle City rules... Sacrifice two face down monsters for Blue Eyes White Dragon in attack mode."
Seto stared as the computer's face down monsters appeared briefly, a Wall of Illusion and a Aqua Madoor, then they disappeared in a flash of light and one of his own Blue-Eyes appeared, ready to take him down.
"Opponant has one card face down. End turn."
His worried look faded. It was afraid of his face down! He drew his next card, then grinned. Never mind that there was a Blue Eyes on the field, he could simply take it out with one shot. A flip effect.
"One card in defense mode." he stated. "Then I'll end my turn as well."
"Draw one card... Processing.... Summon Lord of Dragons in attack mode."
"What?" Seto frowned. That ruined his flip effect idea...
"Play Flute of Summoning Dragon. Effect: Special Summon two dragons from hand onto feild... Summon two Blue Eyes White Dragons."
"No!!! That's impossible!" Seto stared. The only thing left was...
"Play magic card, Polmerization. Combine three Blue Eyes White Dragons for Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon."
Seto watched in shock as the Ultimate Dragon took shape on the feild.
"Fusion monster cannot attack on same turn it was summoned. Must end turn."
Well, thank goodness for that at least.
His communicator was going crazy! It sounded almost like static... He looked up at the box where everyone was. Nope, not static. everybody was running around, trying to do a bunch of analyzations and other useless junk.
"Shut it down! Shut it down now! Seto's gunna get hurt!" he heard Mokuba shout over everybody.
"No." he yelled. The fierce, three headed dragon roared at him. He grinned. "This is just perfect."
This must have been how Yugi had felt when he was up against the huge dragon... This must be exactly how he had felt...
No wonder he had acted so confident... This was nothing at all....
But even through that, he hadn't actually been able to fully destroy the beast. He had come very close, and it was only his slight manipulation that had saved his dragon's life. And now, he was going to be able to do the thing that Yugi hadn't. Slay the Dragon!
"I'll sacrifice three of my monsters to bring out Oblisk, the Tormenter!" Seto announced, sweeping the cards from the field of his duel disk, putting them in the graveyard slot, and slapping Oblisk down.
The holograms on the field did exactly the same, in their own way: Two of the monsters faded with a flash of bright white light, and the huge head of Oblisk began to come up.
"Now I'll sacrifice my other two monsters to boost Oblisk's power! Now you'll learn why he's called The Tormenter!" Seto smirked.
(A/N Random question: How did he know that he could do that? The cards there have no directions on them...)
Oblisk grabbed ahold of the two remaining monsters and began to drain the energy from them. The holographic box showing it's stats reappeared and the points bagan to get higher.
"Woah..." he heard Mokuba breathe. "It's humungous!"
"It's attack points are-" one of his scientists began. Seto heard a slight explosion, then the communicator erupted into static.
"Stupid thing... Power circit overload becuase of my God Card getting too many attack points?" he shook his head, taking off the communicator as he did. He threw it to the ground. Oh well, he didn't need to talk to his scientists to play a duel. He'd win this on his own.
(A/N Must be another Microsoft Product...)
"Now, Oblisk! Attack!!!" Seto shouted. The giant monster rocked forward slightly, so big that he didn't even have to take a step! "Fist of Fate!!!"
(A/N: Again, how'd he know that? How do any of the people know what the cards' attacks are called? Where'd Yugi come up with "Dark Magic Attack!" "Neutron Blast!"and how'd Kaiba come up with, "White Lightning Attack!" and "Fist of Fate!" and how'd Joey come up with, "Noxious Nostril Gust!" ?!?!?!?! *Shrugs*)
Oblisk didn't even hesitate. He drew back his fist, white looking power surged from it, and he lit into the Ultimate Dragon.
It must have only taken a few seconds, but time seemed to have slowed down. Oblisk neared the Dragon... The Dragon started to roar... It began to fight back... The attack might not work, Ishizu might have been wrong... Oblisk's hand ripped slowly through the Dragon, until it finally shattered into a million pieces, traveling the distance to the Graveyard.
Seto stared for a moment, then grinned. "Great." he said to himself. He picked up the Oblisk card from his Duel Disk and stared at it. As he did so, Oblisk faded from the Hologram Field. "This is the most powerful card I'v-"
He looked up as his dueling machine began flashing warnings and yelling at the top of it's lungs. (Wait... NM...) "Warning! Warning! System Overload! System Overload!"
It exploded.
Seto frowned at it. He'd have to fix that little bug in the system... The Duel Disk systems were NOT supposed to blow up when the duel was over...
(A/N: Bad Microsoft! Bad! Bad!)
He looked back down at his new treasure. This would win his tournament, and his champion title, back to him, along with his dignity.
Now Yugi would be able to see just what a great duelist he really was... And this time.... He wouldn't go easy on him...
He turned and walked over to the wall, stepping over some random pieces of machinary that had flown over from the explosion, and activated the panel on the wall.
The door revealed itself and opened. Seto walked through it and up the hallways, thinking. He still had so much stuff he had to do before the Tournament could officially begin...
He shoud probably expect to start it sometime next week. And with this Oblisk card, he'd be sure to win it as well.
Mokuba suddenly came running up the corridor and ran himself full force into his older brother, hugging him.
"Seto, I was scared... But that was cool!" He looked up into the suddenly softened eyes of Seto, grinning.
"I know." he said. But he felt a sense of pride, knowing his brother could still look up to him when he needed to. He'd always be there for him...
"Come on, Seto!" Mokuba grabbed his brother's hand and began leading him down the hallway, even though he didn't need to be led. Seto went along anyway. "We gotta do that speech thing now... People are out there already, see?"
Seto looked down, noticing for the first time a digital screen on his brother's hand, strapped on like a watch. It was showing a crowd of people waiting outside.
Seto nodded. "Alright, Mokuba. Let's go."
He strode forward, now leading his brother along behind him.
"Hey!" Mokuba said, now suddenly able to take tremendous leaps with each step because of Seto pullling him along. "Seto!"
Seto grinned and chuckled. Then he slowed down a little so that his brother could keep up with him.
Everything was going good so far. Now he just had to do his speech. If Yugi was there, the night would be perfect.
The two Kaiba brothers finally reached the outside spot where the helicopter was going to pick them up. It was already waiting for them, the test duel, short as it was, having taken up more time than had been expected. He'd have to begin his presentation in the copter if he wanted to get done before 8:30...
Seto turned to Mokuba. "You stay here and make sure my workers don't slack off, alright Mokuba?" He said, smiling. "You know how lazy those twerps can be."
Mokuba nodded, still grinning widely. "You bet, Seto!"
He turned rapidly and skipped from the helicopter pad back into the building.
Seto turned back to the helicopter and got inside, activating the switches for the cameras while he did so.
He could see, aways off, that the screens on the sides of the buildings started to light up. The helicopter lifted off the pad, and Seto began to speak.
"Welcome, duelists, to the city of Domino." he began, looking confident.
//I'll be your host, Seto Kaiba!!!// He thought, mentally smirking. He shook the thought away. He had to stay focused!
"I see you all received my invitation, and I'm glad that you could come."
//Sort of...//
"My new tournament that I am starting withing the next week, Battle City, is going to be fierce. It's going to be big. This is going to make Pegasus's great Duelest Kingdom look like a Joke."
He said the word "great" sarcastically.
He was close enough to the crowd now that he could hear their cheering as he made this comment. They were pleased.
"I strongly suggest that you start toughening up your decks and sharpening your skills, or you'll be taken down, and your rare cards with you!" Seto paused, then commented, "For you see, part of my new Battle City rules... The loser has to forfeit his rarest card to the winner!"
The helicopter neared the ground. The trees and signs here and there began blowing around fiercely. Seto took this as his cue and stepped one foot out onto the railing of the copter, making sure the camera kept trained on him as he did so, and swung outward.
"Kaiba! It's Kaiba! Look! Kaiba!" The crowd began murmuring loudly to themselves and each other.
Seto looked out over the crowd, searching. Where was he? Was he not here? Did he not-
Suddenly, he found himself staring into the eyes of the exact person he was looking for. His hair was being blown around by the helicopter wildly, but he kept his purple eyes firmly trained on his darker ones. Yugi.
He smirked.
//So the runt got my invite, after all...//
He began speaking once again, now that the crowd's whisperings had gone down to a minimum. "Go to my registration office, and all of you here who got one of my invites will be allowed to join up and will be able to get one of my Duel Disk systems."
He held his up, still on his arm from his test duel, for everybody to see. They all were enraptured by it. Crowds were so easily amused...
"Anyone else is allowed to join up as well, but only if their pathetic skill levels qualify for the privalage. I myself will be joining the fun in the tournament, putting up my Blue Eyes!" He held up one of his three Blue Eyes.
Actually, one of his copies... He wasn't so dumb that he'd bring one of hs real Blue Eyes with him on a helicopter ride where it could get blown away...
And losing a copy wasn't a big deal. It was easy to tell which were fake anyway. He hadn't engineered his fakes so that you couldn't tell which was real and which wasn't. He had marked them specially on their backs with his, "Not a real card, not worth anything." stamps.
He looked over the crowd one last time. They seemed to have realized that he was about done, so there was no real point in continuing his speech much longer.
"If you have any courage at all, join up. If not..." he let the sentance hang.
He made eye contact with Yugi again, and Yugi nodded firmly. Seto knew he'd join it.
He didn't know why Yugi would join... He had only joined the last one for his Grandfather, he knew, but this time there was no motivation... None that he could see, at any rate.
This just meant that Yugi was more than just morals and goody-two shoes stuff, he supposed. That was good. He was getting tired of all that...
He nodded quickly and curtly back, then climbed back inside the helicopter and shut down his cameras.
All but one....
And that one... Would never shut off.... Because it wasn't his.... But it was trained intently on him all the same... Watching his every move...
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Again, I was going to do more, but then I realized I need to update, or peoples will strangle me... ^_^U
On a lighter note, ONLY ONE WEEK AND SIX DAYS UNTIL SUMMER VACATION FOR MEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!! ^_^
YAYZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alright, I must update now....
Or maybe I could just say one more thing before I go... *Random bush gets thrown at her* AAAAH! *Ducks*
*While ducking, falls out of chair*
Ooooww... Dern thing...
*Shoes get thrown*
O.O Ahh! *Ducks again* Alright! Alright! I'm updating already! Sheesh! ^_^
See ya next chappie! (Hopefully up within the next few weeks or so...)
Byez!
--Daricio