RESPONSES
Masami, Mistress Of Fire
Toli: Hey, Masami! (hugs Masami) My pal!
Mena: Damie-chan! (tackles Damion)
Toli: Hey, Masami, guess what? (pokes Masami) REVENGE REVENGE! HAHAHA! Um, anyway. Here, I have a prezzy for you--no, it's not George W. Bush, prezzy is not short for "president". It's short for "present"! So here you are--my patented IcyYowtch BangProof helmet! It's like one of those IcyHot patches in that it heals your head, but it also prevents injury! Cool, huh?
Mena: No, Damie-chan, you're the smart, funny, hot--highly thought of one! Not me!
Toli: (rolls eyes)
Kay-Dee-S
Toli: Yep, that's our Seto! A lovable jerkaloid!
Mena: Thanks for reviewing! Hope you enjoy the next chappie!
Shrilanka-San
Mena: Yay! Another new chappie from us!
Toli: Y'know, when you think about it, we're like rivals because we have parodies of the same thing. But I don't really care because your story is so freakin' funny that we love it!
Mena: Yeah, sometimes we even drag our little sister Mani in to read it, and she likes it too. She says she thinks Joey is a pathetic bonehead and needs a smart wife.
Toli: Now look what you've done! Every time I hear anything about the tooth fairy, I think of your story and suddenly start laughing! But it's worth it! Thanks for reviewing, and update your story too!
Mena: We still don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! AAAAAAH! (runs away as Jesselda and Toli chase her down with a frying pan and a baseball bat)
FIVE: The Wicked Pegasus Attacks Again!
NFP: After skipping along, repeating their song (with music coming from the portable CD player inside Seto's briefcase) for about an hour, our heroes finally got tired and started walking. Now Ash will have to use all of his training to figure out just what Pokémon he can use to defeat the gym--
NFP stopped when he notices that Tea, Seto, Joey, and Mokuba had stopped next to the table he was sitting behind and staring at him wordlessly. "What?" NFP asked.
"Wrong universe," all four said in unison.
"It is?" NFP smacked his forehead and stood up, grabbing his microphone. "Darn it. I did it again. Sorry, kids, didn't mean to confuse you."
"What gender are you again?" Joey asked.
Both Mokuba and Seto resisted the urge to stuff him in the nearest trash can.
"Um..." NFP looked at Joey, and then jumped up and ran away. "Gotta go!"
The Wizard-seekers stared after him. "So...why did that just occur?" Tea asked.
Seto shrugged. "Let's not tamper with the fragile balance of remaining sanity in this place," he advised her, both of them ignoring Joey who kept trying to pull his foot into his mouth.
Tea nodded. "Good idea. Let's get back to finding the White Linoleum Road."
Joey stood up and held a hand out to Tea. "My name's Joey!" he told her. "What's yours?"
Tea stared at him. "Oh, sweet Jesus, he's getting worse," she breathed.
Mokuba found a frying pan conveniently lying on the sidewalk next to him. He grabbed it and smacked Joey on the back of the head with it.
"Yow!" Joey cried. His eyes turned into swirls. "E mc2 and four goes into the number 957 exactly 239.25 times," he said before collapsing on the sidewalk.
"Um..." Mokuba stared at Joey. "What just happened?"
"Well, you two know how in cartoons, when someone is hit upside the head, they babble something incoherent and/or dumb before passing out?" Seto said to them. They nodded. "Well, since Joey here has no brain, if he were his upside the head like he just was, he would say something smart in clear speech before passing out." He smirked at Tea. "Welcome to the paradox world of Domino High School."
Tea's eyebrows raised. "Wow. Maybe Mokuba needs to knock Joey out more often." Then, seeing the malicious look on Mokuba's face as he tightened his hold on the frying pan, she quickly added, "Then again, never mind."
"What're you guys doin'?"
Everyone jumped back and screamed when they found Joey in their midst. "I thought I just knocked you out!" Mokuba exclaimed.
Joey shrugged. "You did. I jus' didn' stay knocked out for long." He smiled at Kaiba. "I like yer dress!"
Kaiba glared. "It's a trenchcoat, you numbskull," he growled.
"Why are we here again?"
Everyone sighed. "I can knock him out again," Mokuba offered.
Tea shook her head. "No, let's just hurry and get to the Wizard. And when we get there, he goes in first."
"There it is! There is it!" Mokuba shouted happily, pointing. Sure enough, they had found another place where the White Linoleum Road led to a door. It was a door firmly planted in a wall, so Tea knew it wasn't the one they had gone through before.
Seto opened the door. "It's stairs," he said.
"Stairs! Yes!" Tea cheered. "We'll be down to another floor!"
"Let's go!" Joey cheered. "And let's run down da stairs so Da Witch Guy won't catchus there!"
They ran down the stairs happily. Tea reached the door exiting the stairs first and pushed it open. She stepped out, in awe.
They were on an unpaved road that led off somewhere. On the left was a dense forest. On the right was a rail fence supported by stakes. Behind the fence were horses grazing on green grass. And, sitting crosslegged on top of a horse, eating a lollipop, who was it but Yugi? Yami was sitting behind him, arms crossed, staring off into space. They had their backs against each other's.
"Yugi! Yami!" Tea exclaimed, running over to the fence. She placed her hands on it as Yugi noticed them and waved. Joey, Mokuba and Seto joined her, Mokuba climbing up on the lowest rail of the fence for more leverage.
"Hi, guys!" Yugi said. He guided the horse over to the fence. "Congratulations! You made it to Fiftopia!"
"What're you doing here?" Mokuba asked.
Yami shrugged. "We like Fiftopia. It's about the only floor that's quiet."
"And I'm eating Yami's pink slip package," Yugi explained. "He didn't want any."
"Oh." The newcomers looked confused.
"I don't wear pink slips," Joey said to no one in particular.
He was ignored.
"But we'd better go," Yugi said, checking his watch. "We can't leave Rebecca alone for so long in Summitland. That's what got us taken over the last time. Have a nice trip, and don't forget to follow the White Linoleum Road!" He steered the horse away.
"Hey, horses!" Mokuba said. "Let's ride 'em!" He was over the fence before anyone could say yay or--
"Neigh!" Mokuba cheered as he ran for a horse. "Let's ride!"
"Hold up, Mokuba!" Tea said, climbing over the fence. Joey climbed over after her, and Seto stepped up and down the rungs like they were stairs. Mokuba had thrown himself over the back of a gray horse in three seconds. "C'mon, let's ride, Tea!" he pleaded.
"Okay, but you shouldn't start neighing," Tea said. "You could scare them." She climbed up on the horse beside Mokuba's, a brown one with white spots on its face. Joey leaped up to a dark brown horse and SLAM! fell off on the other side. Seto stepped up on a stirrup like it was a stair and climbed onto the back of a black horse.
Joey leaped up on the horse's left side and SLAM! fell off on the right side.
SLAM! He fell off on the left side.
SLAM! He fell off on the right.
SLAM! On the left.
SLAM! On the right.
"Oh, for sanity's sake, just get on that horse normally, would you, fool?" Seto growled.
"That's what I'm tryin' t' do!" Joey said.
Seto and Tea started off on their horses. Mokuba let Joey ride on the back of his horse, since none of them were sure Joey could steer a horse right anyway.
Seto had his horse leap over the fence. Tea did the same. Mokuba's horse crashed through the fence. Unhurt and unfazed, they followed the smarter two back to the White Linoleum Road.
"It leads into the forest," Tea said.
"That dense place?" Mokuba said, looking up at the thick trees and bushes. It looked dark as night in there.
"If that's where the White Linoleum Road goes, that's where we're going," Tea said. "We can't afford to find our own way."
Seto opened his briefcase and pulled out a modernized lantern. "I'll lead the way," he said, steering his horse into the forest. Tea followed, and Mokuba and Joey brought up the rear As soon as they hit dark, Seto's lantern came on.
"This forest is awfully dark," Mokuba said, shivering.
"Dat's 'cause it's so tense," Joey reminded him.
"He means dense, which is exactly what he is," Seto informed them.
"All the same, I hope we're out of here soon," Tea said.
Suddenly, they all heard a thud. "Ow!" Joey cried. "Somebody threw a book on my head!"
"Oh no," Tea said. Sure enough, Toonland popped out of the book, supplying its own glow to light the area, and Pegasus stepped out of the little door on top.
"Who's this character?" Seto asked.
"I," said Pegasus, "am the Wicked...eh, Male of 11:00, and I want those jet-black-knee-length-spike-heeled Ebony Boots!"
"You're not getting them," Tea said. "I told you already."
"Well, that's what I've come for!" Pegasus declared. "To take them, since you won't give them!" He whipped out a card. "I summon my Toon Blue Eyes White Dragon yet again!" The little psycho dragon appeared, snickering evilly. "Toon Blue Eyes, get me those Ebony Boots!"
The Toon Blue Eyes sailed at Tea, claws outstretched.
"Is that your best?" Seto said with a sneer. "Don't make me laugh." He whipped out a card. "I summon my Blue Eyes White Dragon!" The real thing showed up, nearly filling the clearing they were in. Its roar scared all the birds out of the treetops.
"There ain't enough room in dis hea clearin' for all twelve of us!" Joey complained.
"Blue Eyes, blast that ridiculous cartoon knock off out of the sky!" Seto ordered. The Blue Eyes opened its mouth, and a blue ball of electricity appeared and fired at the Toon dragon. It was destroyed.
"Oh, come on!" Pegasus exclaimed, throwing up his hands and letting them drop to his sides. "Why can't you just let me have those jet-black-knee-length-spike-heeled--"
"Because Mai the Good and Attractive and Sought After Witch of 8:00 said you can't have them!" Tea reminded him.
Pegasus glared. "Well, I've still got another trick up my sleeve," he said. He whipped out another card. "I'll play Doppelganger, and have it transform into a Blue Eyes White Dragon!" A Blue Eyes appeared. "Blue Eyes, you get me those Ebony Boots!"
Mokuba poked Pegasus's side.
"Ow! Hey!" Pegasus said, removing Mokuba's finger from his side.
"Blue Eyes White Dragon, attack!" Seto commanded, taking advantage of Pegasus's distraction. The Blue Eyes shot another ball of electricity at Pegasus.
"Yipe!" Pegasus squeaked. "I'm outta here!" The little door on top of his castle opened, and he jumped in. The Blue Eyes he created jumped in after him, and the book closed and flew away before the attack could land.
"You coward!" Seto yelled after him.
"Heyuh, I jus' noticed," Joey said to Tea, "you ain't ridin' sidesaddle."
Tea glared at him. "So?"
"Ain't that, like, unladylike?"
"Tell you what," Tea said sarcastically, "if you become a lady, we'll discuss what's ladylike and what isn't."
"You got a deal!" Joey said.
Everyone stared at him with pity.
END CHAPTER
Toli: We'll see you next time!
Jesselda: Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Mena: Can you guys please untie my arms? They don't bend that way!
Next time in Chapter Six...Okay, now they're ALL getting tired of Joey...
"We've gotten through Summitland, Sixfloor City, and Fiftopia, so we can take whatever strangely-named civilization is on this floor, right?" Tea said.
"You better hope so," Seto said. "I don't know how long I can stand having this brainless mutt near me."
"Hey!" Joey cried in protest. "That's no way t' talk about a lady like Tea!"
Everyone sighed.
