Kat: Oi, minna! About time we updated, ne? In this chapter everyone starts setting up the "campsite".
Tiran: Of course, with these guys, even something as simple as that becomes insanely complicated.
May: Especially since Tristan and Duke won't stop fighting over Serenity...
Tale: Who's doin' the disclaimer this time?
Tiran: I guess Tea again. Oh yeah, Tale is Set, for those of you who may not have noticed the note in our profile.
Kat: Tale means "green" in Egyptian.
Kanika: And my name means "black" in Egyptian.
Tiran: Funny, I had thought your name was Japanese...
Kanika: It does kinda seem like it, huh?
May: Sure does.
Tale: Well, I guess it's disclaimer time. --frees Tea's head from duct-tape cocoon--
Tea: Kat, Tiran, May, Kanika, and Tale don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, K-Mart, or anything else that doesn't belong to them that might be mentioned in this fic. By the way, I could use some help here! Seriously, being stuck in a duct-tape cocoon isn't fun! Please, help me! PLE-
Tale: --re-tapes her head-- Jeez, I wish people had a volume control...
Kat: An addition to the disclaimer, we don't really hate Tea.
Tale: Speak for yourself...
Tiran: Yeah, she's just fun to make fun of!
May!emit cif s'ti won dnA
Kanika: May, why are you talking backwards?
May: ...aedi on evah I
Going Nowhere at the Speed of Light
Chapter Five: Perverts and Psychos and Morons, Oh My!
Joey, Tristan, and Duke were busy setting up tents in the middle of the store. Unfortunately, they weren't doing a very good job, and were spending more of their time arguing than getting the tents ready...
"Ouch! Tristan, ya just slammed dat pole right onto my foot!" cried Joey.
"..sorry."
"Anyway, I think I should be the one to share the tent with Serenity." Duke remarked.
"No way! I should!" Tristan insisted.
"Why you?" demanded the dice-obsessed teen.
"Because I, uhh... I was with her while she recovered from her eye operation! ..yeah, that's it..."
"Oh, quit arguin' already!" Joey exclaimed, exasperated.
Yami walked up to them just then.
"...what's going on here?" he demanded. "Why haven't you set up the tents yet?" The King of Games was looking quite annoyed indeed.
"They keep arguin' about who should share a tent with Serenity.." explained Joey, sweatdropping.
"I should!" Tristan shouted.
"No, me!" Duke shouted back.
"ME!"
"ME!"
"ME!"
"ME!"
"BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP NOW! ALL THREE OF YOU WILL SLEEP TOGETHER!" Yami commanded, not at all in the mood to deal with their stupid arguments.
Joey, Tristan and Duke just stared.
Yami twitched. "I DON'T MEAN IT THAT WAY, YOU PERVERTS!" he screamed. His eyes were blazing red, his face was flushed, and he was basically looking as scary as Bakura on a bad day. And Bakura on a good day should be kept far away from small children, so Yami was looking pretty darn scary indeed.
"Okay..." the three mumbled, cowering in fear. "We'll, uh, we'll just go set up those tents now!" And so they did, bumping into each other in their haste to get the work done and to get away from the enraged Pharaoh.
((Bakura: FORMER Pharaoh.
Kat: --thwaps him on the head-- No correcting the co-authoress!
Bakura: ...fine. --slinks away--
Kat: Back to the fic!))
"Good!" Yami yelled, stomping off.
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Eventually all of the tents got set up. Once they actually started trying to do it right, Joey & Co. managed to do a pretty good job, though some of the tents sagged a bit in the middle.
After checking out the tent he had picked (which, of course, was one of the non-sagging ones), Bakura thought of something that no one else had seemed to.
"Why are we bothering with tents?" he wondered. "We're inside a store. Why not just use sleeping bags, it's not like it's gonna rain INSIDE or anything..."
Joey, Tristan, and Duke glared angrily at Bakura. Setting up those tents had taken a lot of time and hard work, and they certainly didn't appreciate anyone questioning whether or not all that work had really been necessary. Yami glared too, 'cause he was still in a bad mood. Even Yugi was avoiding him for the time being.
Bakura blinked. "...never mind..."
Yugi ran up to everyone else just then, carrying several bags of marshmallows. "I found lots and lots of marshmallows! We can roast them over one of those little grills and make this just like a real camp-out!" The guy was as excited as a little kid on their birthday, despite his sugar-rush-y hyperness having worn away by that time. Guess he really loved camping. "And we can cook burgers and tell ghost stories..." Yugi kept going on an on for a while about all the camping stuff they could do.
"And there's absolutely nothing weird about camping out in the middle of a K-Mart, nope, nothing at all..." Ryou muttered.
"I hope there aren't any bears or snakes or skunks or stuff..." Joey said nervously, peering around as if he expected one of those creatures to jump out at him from behind a shelf.
Everyone within hearing distance sweatdropped.
"You baka! We're in a K-Mart, not out in the woods! There AREN'T any animals!" exclaimed Bakura, staring at Joey with a "How-dumb-can-a-person-BE!" expression. Most of the others had the exact same expression, though Yugi was still grinning happily and Yami looked like his head would explode if he got any more annoyed. Joey's display of idiocy did nothing to help his mood.
"Oh. That's right... Hehehe..." Joey said, sweatdropping. "Guess I forgot..."
Everyone groaned.
"I can't believe you're actually related to him..." Tristan whispered to Serenity.
"Oh, he's probably just hungry. He doesn't think very well when he's hungry." Serenity whispered back, with a grin and a small sweatdrop.
"He doesn't think very well at all... " Tristan muttered.
Joey glared. "I heard dat."
"Then again, he is hungry 24/7..." added Tristan with a contemplative look on his face. "So I guess that could explain it..."
"You sound like you're hungry for a knuckle sandwich..." Joey muttered, still glaring at his annoying friend who just smirked back.
Serenity rolled her eyes, sighed, and walked off to talk to May as the two guys started bickering.
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Marik, who by now was quite bored, decided to poke Tea for fun. Tea, still bound in duct tape and lying on the check-out counter-thing, was totally helpless. So he took the Millennium Rod and started jabbing her in the side.
"MMMMMBRRMMMPH..!" Tea mumbled, trying (and failing) to wriggle away from the pointed end of the Rod.
Marik snickered and started poking her harder. Unfortunately he poked her a little too hard, piercing the tape (and Tea's skin). Tea let out a muffled yelp and started thrashing about, eventually falling right off of the counter and rolling into a shelf with a clatter. Tale noticed and stomped over, snatching the Rod out of Marik's hand and whacking him over the head with it.
"Owwwwwww! What'd you do that for!" Marik cried, clutching his head. "Damn...I think I'm bleeding..."
"It serves you right if you are!" Tale yelled angrily, whacking him a few more times for good measure. "I tied her up here so she'd be quiet, and you go and cause her to make all this racket! You wanna be the next to get duct-taped? Huh? WELL DO YA!"
Marik cowered in fear. "N-no..." he mumbled, backing away from Tale while clutching his head, crazy light-blond hair streaked with blood.
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Over in the trenchcoat section, ((Tiran: Does K-Mart even sell trenchcoats? Kat: No idea…)) a mysterious person was hiding behind some darker-than-black coats, listening for any other trapped customers.
Said mysterious person began to wonder why he even CAME to this stupid store. Oh, yes. That was why. Said person's little brother just HAD to buy that copy of Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories.
And what said person's little brother wants, said person's little brother gets. Said person really hated his love for said person's little brother sometimes.
"So, I told Kat about it, and we've been friends ever since."
"Really? When I tell Tea something like that, she just tells me to try and become friends with them…"
Oh no. Someone was coming. This means that said person might not remain hidden like said person wants.
In a flash, said person was on top of the shelf, laying across it in an attempt to hide. But something was missing. Oh, great. Said person's little brother was still out in the store, probably looking for said person.
In fact, said person could see said person's little brother. He was currently walking… no… running around a corner, heading straight for the two girls that had just walked past said person's hiding place. Oh, no. He was gonna hit them!
End of Chapter 5
Tiran: I think we finished that in a good stopping place.
May: I agree.
Kat: I guess.
Kanika: Sure.
Tale: Hey, who was "said person", anyway?
--everyone but Tale sweatdrops--