A/N: Okay, this is short, but what do you expect from a Double Daily update? Well, let's not hang around! Here's chapter 15! Oh, Dragonlady222: That is IT! I am now convinced that you come from the same, or atleast a similar timezone to me, and with no bio to go on, if you don't mind my asking,WHERE ARE YOU FROM!Just in general, I mean... Like England (Whoo!)or France or Canada orthe USA or whatever. I swear, you review so fast it scares me, the ever mysterious dragonlady... Ahem. In other news, I have managed another chapter today, even if it is short. And I am tired. But yes, I'll enjoy my trip, methinks...

Disclaimer: Same old, same old...

Fifteen: What goes Up… Must come Sideways

If Mokuba's theory was correct; if the floor and ceiling really had swapped places, then that left a few very good questions, one of which Jenna voiced.

"Here's a question for ya…" Jenna said slowly. "If the ceiling is now the floor and the floor is now the ceiling… do we go up to go up or down to go up? I mean, if up is down and down is up, to go up we need to go down, but down isn't up anymore, because down is now up, so do we go up or down in order to go up?"

"You've lost me there…" Azreal blinked.

"Me to." Yugi added, farther away from the others, nearer to the centre of the room.

"She wants to know if in order to go up we need to go through the floor that used to be the ceiling or the ceiling that used to be the floor." Ryou explained, used to Jenna's speeches.

"Which is what I said!" She protested, rolling her eyes. Azreal laughed.

"That's it!" Azreal declared. "I have found a new best friend, and it ent you, Seto!"

He ignored her, saying instead: "I'll guess we'll never know till we find an exit…" he shrugged.

Yugi felt something moving, a slight shifting in the sand around his ankles. "Guys…?"

"Oh? And how, exactly, are we going to that?" Jenna asked Seto.

"People!" Yugi cried as the movement increased.

"Well, we'll have to look!" Seto cried. "I'm doing my best, alright?"

"Yeah? Then maybe your best isn't good enough!"

Yugi could actually see the sand swirling away now, like water down a drain pipe. "Um, guys…" He tried. "I really think you should see this!"

"I'm doing more then you are!"

"If you call stating the bloody obvious more!"

There was evidently some sort of hole in the floor that had opened up and was now sucking the sand, and Yugi, down it. "Hey!" He yelled. "A little help?" But everyone assumed he was trying to stop the row and blocked him out.

"If it's obvious then why did you ask?"

"You're the 'genius', you tell me!"

"I've found an exit!" Yugi called desperately. "And I'm being sucked down it!"

"You need to be told a lot of things!"

"Really… any help would be appreciated…" Yugi cried, trying to claw his way back up out of the hole.

"Yeah?" Jenna spat back. "Well, come on then!"

"Seto! Leave it!" Azreal commanded. "You to, Jenna. You shouldn't pick fights with Seto, you'll come off worse." She turned to her smirking 'boyfriend'. "And as for you… stop being a smart-arse!"

"Guys…?" Mokuba said uncertainly into the stony silence. "Where's Yugi...?"

"Probably wherever we're going!" Azreal yelled as she grabbed onto Seto in a vain attempt to stay upright as they slid inexorably towards the swirling vortex of sand in the middle of the room.

"Geez, you'd think we'd notice something like that." Mokuba complained as the giant vortex began to suck them in along with all the sand that had previously been the floor of the duelling arena. He slipped, falling onto his back, and teetered on the edge of the large hole before eventually falling down it, yelling out, the others dropping around him.

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It was a completely vertical drop, he was sure of it, yet somehow they came out of a hole on the side wall of a corridor. He sat up, wobbling and disorientated.

"That hole didn't curve, did it…?" He asked. "I'm sure it was straight… but then how did it come out of the wall rather the ceiling?"

"I wouldn't know." Yugi's voice came from one side. "I never understand this stuff…" Hey, at least they'd found him. Mokuba climbed shakily to his feet in order to investigate the hole.

It was a dizzying site when he looked through it. He could see the ceiling of the room he had just been in. They had defiantly fallen downwards, yet the hole came out sideways…

"He must have changed the centre of gravity…" Seto muttered. "Changed the way it pulls… Impressive…"

"Really?" Jenna asked. "So, in essence, we… fell up a hole." (A/N: Heeheehee… LBC crew, you know where I'm coming from!)

"Well, I don't like it much…" Azreal said. "Urrgh… I think I'm going to be sick…"

"Please don't…" Seto replied, though they were all looking pretty green. Having the direction of gravity change was a nauseating experience.

"Hey, where's all the sand?" Ryou asked suddenly, looking around. It was a good question, and a nice way to change the subject.

"There are filters in the floor." Yugi supplied, glad to do something helpful. "They opened up while you guys were out."

"Out?" Mokuba yelped. "What's that supposed to mean?"

"You were out cold…" Yugi informed.

"For how long?" Mokuba demanded.

"I have no idea…" Yugi said miserably. "I'd only just woken up myself when the filters opened up, and that was about three minutes ago…"

Mokuba suddenly felt tired. Very, very tired. "So… We have no idea where we are. We also have no idea why we're here, what purpose it serves. And, in this artificial light, we have no way of telling even roughly how long we've been here. Great."

"Well, we can assume by the fact that we're all still here that we haven't gone over our three day survival limit." Azreal pointed out.

"And if the filters for the sand have only just come on, then we can't have been here all that long." Yugi said comfortingly.

"Unless he's trying to mess with our heads." Seto said coolly, earning glares from the others. "What? It's a possibility!"

"You are way too paranoid…" Azreal laughed it off.

"It comes from having a girlfriend like you." Seto shot back, giving a rare smile.

Watching them, Jenna could see that they really did like each other, despite all the banter between them. She smiled to herself. Anna must be a pretty amazing person if she got someone like Seto Kaiba to smile. She had a feeling that perhaps this Anna was slightly more then an average human, but still… She hoped that one day she'd have someone like that…

"Well, this doesn't look good…" Ryou said from beside her. Her focus snapped back to the present, but at first she couldn't see what she was supposed to be looking at.

"What?" She asked.

"Heat, coming up from the floor…" Ryou said, pointing. "A shimmer in the air. See?"

"Ahhh! Fairy!" Azreal joked. A smile flittered over Jenna's lips for a moment, and she laughed a little.

"Great, maybe they can magic us outta here." Jenna sighed, rolling her eyes. This time Azreal giggled. The four boys looked at them in bewilderment.

"What are you two on about?" Mokuba asked.

They glanced at each other. "Never mind!" They chorused, although, true to form, Azreal's was more of a 'N'er' then a 'Never'.

"Okay… and, moving on." Mokuba said. "Any ideas why there would be heat coming up from the floor?"

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Whatever the reason there was heat coming up from the floor, it was probably not the same reason that there was heat and smoke, issuing from the bonnet of the car.

Tristan cursed. His boss had left him in charge for five minutes and…

The phone in the office started ringing. Tristan looked hesitantly between the smoking car and the ringing phone. Could he leave the car without it exploding…?

He went into the office. If the car was going to explode, he wanted a wall and a space of at least ten metres between them.

"Hey, Ern's Mechanics." He answered.

"Tristan?" Serenity's voice sounded distant. "Since when has your name been Ern?"

"Oh, that's my bosses name…" Tristan began, and then realised what he'd said.

"Your boss? But I thought you owned the garage…"

"Errm… um… yeah, I do… that was the last owner's name… and… it was well known before… yeah."

"I see." Serenity laughed at him. She'd never believed him in the first place. "Well, anyway, the thing is, we have a bit of a problem…"
Tristan listened as carefully as he could. He thought he knew how to find them, and if he took some rope he could easily tow them to the nearest petrol station- It wasn't far…

"So, can you help us?" Serenity finished hopefully.

"Well…" Tristan looked out at the car, which, as though it knew it was being watched, let out a banging sound and sent sparks skittering across the floor.

"What was that!" Serenity asked in alarm.

"Nothing!" Tristan assured her hastily. It was time to get outta there… "I'll be with you as soon as I can." He promised, hanging up.

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"There's an electric current being passed through the floor up there." Seto theorised, sounding certain. "And, looking at the heat coming out, I'd guess the walls and the ceiling to." He squinted. "Yeah, you can make out the wires, glowing red-hot. Needless to say, it's creating a hell of a lot of heat. Too close, and you burn to death. Tread on one of the wires, you get zapped."

"There's got to be a way past them." Mokuba declared, although it looked doubtful. "He's always given us a sporting chance before. A way to turn off the lasers, if we could get to it. A way out of the dome, if we could win a duel. He even let Ryou and I as far as the security room as long as we could get past the guards at the front."

"So you're saying that there's got to be a way to turn these things off…?" Yugi asked, looking around. "Like this?" He smiled happily, pointing to a row of coloured buttons on the wall.

"Just like that." Mokuba grinned, looking at the Red, Green, Purple, Yellow, Orange and Blue buttons. "I guess we better try putting something in… Have a go, Yugi."

"Shouldn't we think about this first?" Yugi asked uncertainly.

"No, trial and error will get us through this." Mokuba said, falsely cheerful.

"Okay…" Yugi licked his lips. "Let's try reverse order…" He pressed them backwards- Starting with Blue and ending in Red.

Another few wires in the ceiling, wall, and floor, lit up and, after a moment, glowed red-hot.

"Okay, every time we get it wrong, it comes towards us… Great." Jenna sighed.

"We still have quite a bit of leeway." Azreal pointed out. "Try something."

"Alright." Jenna nodded. "Let's try… um… rainbow order." She pressed down on the Red, then the Orange, then the Yellow, the Green, the Blue, and lastly, the purple.

More lasers lit up. It was coming down the corridor about a meter at a time, and now there was maybe three and a half left to go… Mokuba swallowed nervously.

"Maybe he's trying to bluff us." He suggested. "Maybe they're already in the right order…"

They weren't.

"Ryou, you try." Mokuba muttered. Two and a half metres.

"But I really have no idea-" He began.

"Ryou! Just try something!" Jenna yelled.

"Okay… um…"

"Whatever comes to mind!" She howled in frustration.

"Fine then! The 2005 General Election…" Ryou shrugged, referring of course to the most recent election in his home country, even though he and Jenna had voted via post from Greece. As it was, they had seen next to none of each party's propaganda, but he knew each party's colour. "Labour won, so Red… Then it was the Tories, Blue…Orange for the Lib Dems…"

"Green for Green." Jenna interrupted.

"Yes, thank you…" Ryou replied, rolling his eyes as he hit the green button. "Any ideas on Yellow and Purple?"

"UKIP is yellow and purple for Labour Co-op." Jenna supplied.

"Right." Ryou said, hitting first the purple and then the yellow.

Surprisingly enough, that didn't work either. With only a meter and a half left, they could feel the air around them heating up…

Seto brushed past and pushed them in the obvious alphabetical order. It didn't work. "Worth a try." He shrugged, gasping.

There was only 50 centimetres left between them and the mass of heat and electricity, in fact, they were having to huddle together just to fit in the corridor without anyone being forced onto the lasers. Mokuba, nearest them, could feel the tips of his hair starting to singe, sweat pouring from every pore. The heat was stifling, and unbearable.

"One more wrong move…" He gasped. "And we'll be out of room in this corridor… We'll all be zapped!"

"And unless we hurry up," Jenna agreed. "We'll all be fried."

"And it's my turn." Azreal added quietly, sounding nervous.

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A/N: And there you have it. The very last Daily update… Hope you've all enjoyed them, because I'm telling you, it's been hell to do! Fun though… and now, you'll all have to wait till Saturday to see if Az can get it right, or if Mokuba (Our hero) has to find some other way to save them. I do know what the correct combination is, so if anyone would care to have a guess, go ahead. If you get it right, I'll be eternally impressed… There should be a chapter up on Saturday, but, as I said before, I'm on a school residential to the oh-so-exotic Guernsey, so it may be Sunday. I wish Daily Updates could be a normal thing, but school gets in the way. Hmmph. So, hope you all enjoyed it, it hasn't been easy but I tried, and I'll be writing the next chapter in my illegible writing in a spotty notebook in a hotel room! Till then, goodbye!