RESPONSES
GottaLuvJoey
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straykitty
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Shrilanka-San
Mena: It's our buddy Shri! Yay!
Toli: Hey, Shri! Poor Ryou, huh? Afraid of his own shadow...hmm...that might be funny to see, Ryou getting freaked out by his own shadow!
Mena: Yep, too bad your characters don't have a car. Especially a shiny red convertible!
Toli: Stop rubbing it in. Glad you like our new penname, by the way! It took us a whole twenty-seven seconds to think of...yeah...
Mena: Anyway, thanks for reviewing! And thanks for the...uh...threat...I guess...
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Shebythedogdemoness
Mena: I haven't watched that movie in a while...
Toli: (sweatdrops) Yes, that was odd, and incredibly random. Thanks for reviewing!
Masami Mistress Of Fire
Toli: Hi, Masami! (hugs Masami)
Mani: Hi, Masami! (hugs Masami)
Mena: DAMIE-CHAN-KOI! (jumps into Damion's arms)
Jesselda: ...Um...(smiles shyly) Hi, Masami...
Toli: Awww! See, Jesselda? Masami won't bite!
Jesselda: Uh...okay... (backs off and waves)
Mena: Like I told you before, my hot Damie-chan valentine, I forgive you! I'm just glad it's behind us now! I think it made our relationship stronger!
Toli: (lets rock drop) NOOO! Send me the doomsday device! I need one to replace the old one my mom accidentally blew up while vacuuming!
Mani: (cuddles Yugi plushie) I love my plushie, Masami! Thankses for making it! I have a prezzidy for you, by the way... (hands over a box of chocolates) Happy late Valentine's Day!
Toli: Mani, the chocolates are half gone...
Mani: Uhhh...I was hungry?
Toli: Yeah, sure. But anyway! Thanks for reviewing! And before we go... (pokes Masami in the face twice) Ha HA! ULTIMATE REVENGE TIMES TWO! BWHAHAHAHA!
Mena/Mani/Jesselda: (sweatdrop)
Mena: You're back! I'm so glad Jesselda's words didn't scare you off!
Toli: If Yu-Gi-Oh were ours, Seto would be nicer, Yami would like going topless, Yugi would be in love with a mysterious girl named Toli, Tea would have blue hair, and Tristan wouldn't exist. Since none of that is true, you know that Yu-Gi-Oh isn't ours!
Mena: And we don't own Switchfoot either!
Jesselda: (reads a magazine while trying to ignore her hikari and Toli)
SEVEN: Pegasus Attacks Yet AGAIN!
"So, Ryou, what strange place is in the second floor?" Tea asked as they drove along the White Linoleum Road, which had strangely widened to accommodate the car.
"Oh, you mean what city or town?" Ryou asked. "It's called..." he sighed. "Braveheartville."
"Ouch," everyone else said in unison. "Let me guess. You, the wimpy coward, live there?" Seto asked.
Ryou nodded sadly. "Yeah," he said. "That's what makes it even worse that I'm such a wimp. My parents are so ashamed of me. I started toting that water gun around to look tougher, but you guys saw right through my act."
"That's because it wasn't a good one," Seto told him. "You sounded like a man from New York who was slowly acquiring laryngitis. You should have gone to the Wizard a long time ago."
"I know," Ryou said. "But I was just too scared."
"Hey, guys!"
They all looked up. A midnight-blue convertible with purple flames painted on the sides drove up beside them. At the wheel was Yami. Sitting next to him was Yugi. Rebecca was by herself in the backseat. "Heading for Braveheartville?" Yugi questioned them over the noise of their engines and the wind whipping by.
"Yeah!" Tea said. "What are you guys doing here?"
"Going out for our annual drive-over-every-floor drive," Yami answered. The CD player in the front seat was blaring the song "Adding To The Noise" by Switchfoot, effectively adding to the noise.
If we're adding to the noise
Turn off this song
If we're adding to the noise...
Yami turned it down instead of turning it off. "If you guys are headed for the Wizard's in Cafeteria City on the first floor, you'll have to pass through Braveheartville!" Rebecca yelled from the backseat, her arms hanging out of the convertible. "But be warned! If they think you're a danger, they'll try to kill you!"
"Kill us!" Tea exclaimed.
"See ya!" the three Midgets yelled. Yami floored it and they screeched away. "AND DON'T FORGET TO FOLLOW THE WHITE LINOLEUM ROAD!" Yugi and Rebecca screamed back.
"I think that's their motto," Tea said.
"No, I think it's jus' somethin' they like to say a lot," Joey told her.
Everyone glared at Joey, including Seto. When he turned around to drive again, they found themselves speeding towards a tree that had sprouted in the middle of the road suddenly.
"Oh no!" Tea cried. "We'll crash!"
"We'll die!" Ryou screamed in a high-pitched voice.
"We'll burn!" Mokuba cheered.
"I am not a woman!" Joey announced.
Seto shrugged and made no attempt to swerve away.
"Seto!" Tea screeched. "Do something! Or else we're all going to smash into that tree, die instantly, and be sent to The Big Room for judgment! I may be ready, but I know good and well you aren't!"
"Now would be the time for final confessions!" Mokuba said.
Tea took a deep breath. "Here goes," she said. "I actually hate all of the friendship speeches they make me say on TV! I'd rather throw myself off a cliff than say another one, but I still want to get paid! And oh yeah, I have a shrine to Yami hidden in my closet!"
"I have several really ridiculous phobias!" Ryou wailed. "Like anthophobia-that's the fear of flowers. And belonophobia-that's the fear of pins and needles. And mysophobia-that's the fear of dirt. And arachidutyrophobia-that's the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of my mouth. And man, does that scare me! I get nightmares everytime I see a Reeses Peanut Butter Cup!"
"I've always wanted to be a dog at least for a little while," Mokuba said. "It was fun with the leash stuff, but I don't like the suit. I like making animal noises. That's why I kept neighing in Fiftopia."
"Umm..." Joey considered. "I ain't got no brain."
With that, everyone except Seto curled into a ball and waited for impact. The tree loomed ahead of them. Seto, uncaring, kept driving. Ryou was sobbing in the backseat.
The tree came closer, and closer. "Brace for impact!" Tea yelled. The moment of impact came still closer, until-
Until the poor little four-inch baby tree was run over and snapped in half by Ryou's dad's convertible.
Seto kept driving. Finally, Tea uncurled from her ball and opened her eyes. "Are we speeding to judgment?" she questioned. Then she frowned. "Oh, man! We're still alive! Why?"
"We are?" Mokuba asked, looking up.
Joey suddenly screamed. "OMIGOD!" he shrieked. "IT'S SOME WEIRD DUDE WIT' WHITE HAIR! IT'S AN ANGEL! I MUST BE IN HELLVEN!"
"That's just Ryou," Mokuba said, rolling his eyes.
"Who?" Joey asked. "I dunno any Carl."
"I have the sudden urge to reach back there and toss Joey over the side," Seto said.
Tea suddenly realized something. "You mean, we all spilled our deepest darkest secrets, and we aren't even going to die! I don't believe this!" She turned to Seto. "Crash this car immediately! I refuse to have released my darkest secret and I'm not about to die!"
"Too late," Seto said.
Tea sighed and slumped in her seat.
"Look! That must be Braveheartville!" Mokuba said, pointing up ahead.
"Yes, that's it," Ryou confirmed unhappily, over his crying spell.
"Da place is huge!" Joey exclaimed.
They saw in front of them a giant stadium-type building. The White Linoleum Road led around the side and into a side door. A sign near the front entrance yelled WELCOME TO BRAVEHEARTVILLE! POPULATION-WE'RE TOO BRAVE TO CARE!
"Is that the whole city?" Tea asked.
"Yes," Ryou said. "We're so brave that we all live in a giant stadium. Since my father is the mayor, we get the big tent on the football field inside. Any other important officials, like the police force, and people like that, get the smaller tents, and the regular families get chairs in the bleachers, the number of chairs depending on how many people are in your family." As those not driving stared at him in disbelief, he added, "That's why a lot of married couples have as many kids as possible, so they can have as many chairs as possible."
"Why?" was all Mokuba could muster.
Ryou sighed again. "We're so brave, we don't need regular houses and normal things like that," he said sadly.
"That's not brave; it's insanity," Seto remarked. "Which means you'd fit right in, Joey."
"But I a'ready live in Summitland!" Joey reminded.
"Nevermind, moron." Seto drove them to the side entrance, and they drove in. A short hall, and they were in Braveheartville.
"Oh, my gosh," Tea said, but not in awe. In disbelief. Like Ryou had said, there was a large tent in the middle of the field, and smaller tents all around it. Groups of chairs were surrounded by partitions and labeled for specific families. All around them were people, any age and gender, wrestling, beating up on trees, trying to tear up the turf, having push up and sit up contests, and eating picnics. The White Linoleum Road cut through the whole mess and led off somewhere that was hidden by the large tent.
"Let's follow da White Linoleum Road quick before we get caught up in any o' dis!" Joey said.
"Good idea," Seto said, driving the car at 87 miles an hour. "I'm surprised you came up with it."
"Hey! Look!" someone yelled. "Newcomers! Let's kill 'em all!"
"You can't kill us!" Mokuba yelled, standing up to shout, as people came after the car. "This is a PG-rated story, which means no Character Death!"
"We're brave enough to try anyway!" the large group of people chasing them replied.
"I knew they'd say that," Ryou said, his face in his hands.
"Peaches an' cream," Joey said to nobody in particular, just to make an extra line in this chapter.
"Floor it!" Tea exclaimed to Seto.
"My favorite line," Seto said with an evil smile. He mashed the pedal to the floor, and the car zoomed to its highest speed, 170 mph. Ryou and Joey had to grab Mokuba's legs to keep him from flying out of the car.
"Everyone stop!" a voice yelled. The crowd stopped in mid-run, and the car stopped in mid-flee. Seto's evil grin was stuck on his face, as was Tea's look of fear, Mokuba's smile of enjoyment-as he liked nearly flying out of the car-Ryou's look of astonishment, Joey's look of stupidity, and the crowd's look of determination to murder. The whole city paused like a scene on a tape.
A green book dropped on the ground and opened. Toonland's castle appeared, the little door on top opened, and Pegasus stepped out. He looked pleased with his handiwork. "I knew that idiot Joey would never notice that I stole his Time Wizard card from him!" he gloated. "Now I can take my jet-heeled-black-length...uh, knee-spiked...oh forget it. I'm getting my boots!" He walked to the car. Leaning over, he smirked at Tea. "Isn't it a nice day?" he said. "Perfect for stealing what's rightfully mine!" He considered. "Well, if it's rightfully mine, then I guess it isn't stealing. Anyway!" He glanced at his watch and reached inside the car. "I'd better hurry up or I'll miss Totally Spies!"
Suddenly, the boots started to glow, and Tea, Mokuba, Joey, Seto, and Ryou were snapped out of the time prison. "Hey, what gives?" Joey asked, looking at everything else that was still stopped. "Who pushed pause?"
"You!" Tea exclaimed. Pegasus had leaned over to take the Ebony Boots, so his and Tea's faces were about an inch away from each other.
"Gee, I didn' know you felt dat way about Tea, dude!" Joey said.
"You're an idiot," Mokuba and Seto said to Joey.
Pegasus straightened up. "Yes me, the Wicked...eh...Manchild of 11:00, here to get what's rightfully mine!" His voice became a whine. "I want those Ebony Booooots!"
"We're not going through this again," Tea said, opening the car door and stepping out. Seto and Mokuba did the same and flanked her, glaring at Pegasus. Ryou hid behind Seto. Joey tried to open the door and get out, but when he closed it-SLAM-he shut the door on his hand. He tried to reach them, but he was stuck.
Tea noticed him. "You just slammed your hand in the door!" she said. "It's supposed to hurt!"
"It is?" Joey looked down at his hand. "Oh, okay, well, lemme know when it does!" He continued trying to tug his hand out.
"Idiot," Pegasus said. "Anyway," he went on, "I'll just be using my Toon Blue Eyes once again-"
Suddenly, Yugi and Rebecca fell from the sky and landed on him, knocking him to the ground. "Aaaah! Hey! Why are there Midgets falling from the sky on me!"
Mai and Yami floated down from the sky and settled on the ground near them all. "That's vertically challenged little people, you idiotic psycho," Yami growled. "How many times will I have to say-"
"You should not be callin' Mai dose kinna names!" Joey said indignantly.
Everyone except Joey sighed in exasperation. Mai waved her wand at Joey, and the pain suddenly showed up in his hand.
"Huh? OWWWWWWW!" Joey yelled.
"Give it up, Pegasus," Mai said. "I told Tea not to let you have the Ebony Boots and she's sticking with it. You're just not getting them, already!"
"Oh, no?" Pegasus wheezed underneath Yugi and Rebecca's behinds. He weakly shook a fist. "Well, I'll not let that stop me-"
Suddenly his watch beeped. Rebecca glanced at it. "Time for Totally Spies!" she cheered, grabbing Yugi by the head and dragging him off Pegasus. "Let's get back to Summitland!"
"Already?" Pegasus stood up and glanced at his watch, not noticing that he was flat as a pancake from his shoulders to his stomach. "Whoops! Gotta go!" He stepped in his castle, and the book closed and flew out the exit.
"FOLLOW THE WHITE LINOLEUM ROAD!" Yugi and Rebecca screamed at Tea and her group before Mai took them and Yami back to Summitland.
"Well, you heard them. Let's go!" Tea said.
"But what about...?" Ryou pointed at the rest of Braveheartville, which was still frozen in time.
"Oh, leave them there," Tea said. "They're better off not seeing which way we went anyway."
"We can't use the car, then," Seto said. "It's frozen in time too."
"Then we'll walk!" Tea said. "We're almost there, anyway!" She looked around. "Hey, where's Mokuba?"
Everyone else shrugged. Tea noticed that Mokuba's fur hat was under her shoe. She picked it up. Inside, written in white chalk, was a note from Mokuba screaming I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!
"We'll have to find him!" Tea said.
"If he's smart, he'll have followed the White Linoleum Road," Ryou said.
"Good thing it isn't Joey that's lost, then," Seto remarked.
"Hey!" Joey exclaimed.
"Come on guys," Tea said as she and Ryou started walking. "You can fight on the way."
Joey and Seto followed.
END CHAPTER
Mena: Please join us next time!
Next time in Chapter 8... So, what did dear little Mokuba lose?
Seto and Ryou came running up to where Tea had fallen off and barely managed to stop before they fell. But Joey came running, and kept running and, yes, you guessed it-SLAM-ran into them both, knocking them all down towards the water. Mokuba swung out and grabbed them all and deposited them on the shore, then continued swinging around over the water.
"What's da matta wit him?" Joey asked in confusion.
"I think he's lost his mind," Ryou said.
"No, I think he's lost something different," Seto stated matter-of-factly.
Mokuba let go of the vine and splashed into the water. He started swimming to shore and stood up.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Joey and Ryou covered their eyes in fear. Seto covered Tea's eyes.
