/Yugi mind talk/
/'Yami mind talk/'
##Bakura mind talk ##
#Ryou mind talk #
{Seto mind talk}
=Jean mind talk=
==Professor mind talk==
--any one else--
Chapter1Light was blinding him through closed eyelids. Yami really didn't want to wake up but he was, he could hear voices around him mumbling something about a miracle and ... he wasn't sure but before the spirit could focus the voices were silenced by a 'shhh' from somewhere. Yami decided that this wasn't a good time to open his eyes. He tried to move his arm a little only to find it strapped securely to the bed. What now? /'Yugi are you there?/' Yami left his soul room so that he could see if his hikari was alright, standing in the corridors of there mind he rapped on Yugi's soul room door /'aibou, you ok?/' he heard a muffled yell and a thud so he opened the door a crack, peering into the brightly lit room /Yami where are we?/ said a stunned Yugi who by the looks of the tangled blankets on the floor had just fallen out of bed. Smiling Yami shrugged his shoulders /'Don't know. We're in a hospital by the sounds of all the machines but we're strapped down, even if we had the energy I doubt we could escape./'
/What about our deck?/ Yugi said whilst sitting in the middle of the bright rooms floor he moved to sit on the bed.
/'it should still be their they haven't taken the puzzle so why would they take our cards/' Yami slowly strode over to the smaller teen and sat on the bed next to him.
Yugi didn't miss the attitude of the spirit, he could tell that he was highly sprung, that at the first sign of danger he would use it to relieve some of the pent-up aggression. Yugi, however, was tired; he just wanted to sleep and to know where his friends were. He sighed and sat on the bed next to the spirit, leaning against his shoulder. They sat in silence for a long time before Yugi spoke /Why don't you take control of our body and see what else you can here, maybe they've captured some of our friends, and find out whether we're at a hospital or not! But I agree that we shouldn't open our eyes yet, not when we don't know who or what is out there./
/'Right! But one thing. It's not my body it's yours and I won't forget that./'
Yugi sighed and was about to answer back but the spirit was gone. He shook his head and pulled the blankets to get some more sleep.
When Yami stepped out of Yugi's soul room he almost give a yell of surprise because there in the musky corridors was a man staring at the warm stonewalls with his back to him. Who dares to intrude on the pharaohs mind!? He silently closed the door to Yugi's soul room and growled softly.
/'Few have dared to enter my mind, and none have escaped unharmed. Say who you are and what you seek, and I may let you leave with your mind intact.../'
Xavier turned slowly feeling the presence of something old and angry Interesting. ==And you are?== he couldn't help it, the voice was far too arrogant, and the old spirit was about to realise that Charles Xavier was a master of minds. The spirit was standing still like a statue obviously trying to contain his rage ==I am Charles Xavier.== nothing seemed to move but the air started to drop temperature.Yami wanted to smash this so called 'master of minds' but then he'd have to face Yugi. His aibou, although radiated good will and innocence, was fierce when provoked and it would definitely make his hikari furious if he couldn't at least say that he'd tried to save the man, Xavier wasn't it? /'I am Yami. What are you doing here master of minds/' he smirked at the look on the man's face, he was quite aware that the man hadn't said it aloud but mind games was one of his specialities.
Xavier hid his shock well, only letting it appear on his face for a second before hiding it again ==If I were you I'd be careful, while your safely tucked away in here, who knows what their doing to your body== Xavier smiled and disappeared.
/'Teme/'spat the spirit angrily.
Xavier reached out his mind until he found a familiar presence ==Jean Grey are you there?==
=Professor?=
Xavier found himself in dense woodlands inside Jean's mind, the trees acting a mental camouflage to stop them from hacking into her mind. He walked slowly into the forest trusting that Jean would remove the mental traps before he stepped into them. Before he knew it a young redhead ran up to him wrapping her arms around his shoulders =oh professor= she said almost breaking down.
==Hush child, it's all right... I think I've found the one to save us. but he's quite hostile and I doubt that he would have let me explain before he attacked... so I need your help?==
As the professor had said the youths mind was interesting, a labyrinth of corridors instead of the open fields of the normal human mind. Who was this teen? She felt something move behind her. She shrieked and darted forward, without getting a clear glimpse of the source of movement. She turned a corner of the stone maze trying to escape that feeling of unease, almost running head long into a young boy. She shrieked in surprise as she fell to the floor, the boy looked at her with compassion and smiling said /don't worry, it's only the shadows, who are you?/
Could this be the hostile youth the professor was talking about? All she could see was a deep sense of fear and mistrust for her, but also a great amount of compassion and warmth. She smiled and asked =who are you?.. emm.. Sorry you asked first I'm Jean Grey and I was looking for some help. do you know were you are?=
The youth smiled almost laughing said /I'm Yugi Mouto, and we're in some kind of underground hospital, I was kind of hoping that you could tell me more..? And what do you want help with, not that I think I can help, they've got me fastened down to the bed pretty tight, and the fact that they still think I'm unconscious/
Jean stared at this youth for a while thinking the professor thought him to be hostile?
=well I think that you've been dragged into our war... emm... you see these people David's at least that's what they call themselves, they have bean hunting us mutants down for a while now. They caught me a couple of days ago so I can still resist the drugs.. but some of my comrades have bean down here as test samples for weeks, months even.. I don't know what to do so I've been searching for mutants who can still fight, who can help me and my friends to escape... will you help us please...=
The youth had been standing still for a while now with his eyes closed as though waiting for something to happen../well there's not much point in denying you our help because if what you say is true, then we're in as much trouble as you. How can we help?/ he said opening his violet eyes and smiling at her.
=Surly this can't be the same youth that the professor was talking about thank you so much so what are your powers?=
The boy stared at her puzzled /what do you mean?/
=well you're a mutant, like for example I can move things with my mind, and look into other peoples minds, there's a girl kitty who can walk through walls so what can you do? You are a mutant aren't you?=
The boy seamed to think about this for a while /I'm not sure that I want to tell you. See another man came into the corridors of my mind and, well, we're not sure which side he's on, or what side you're on and if its true that these people want our powers then we're not going to give the game away by telling everyone./ He really did hate being so paranoid but he didn't want to lead Yami into a trap... but if it was a trap that he could control them... /But if you could do me a favour?.. and give me your cell number and a mental map of this place and a message to a friend then I'm pretty sure that we can get you out...then all you've got to do is get us out of this base/
=professor= she searched trough the woodland trough the mental defences until she saw him sitting in the clearing smiling fondly at her,
==Jean am I to presume your visit was successful==
=yes professor but I am confused the boy looked like you described him but he was different he wasn't hostile, in fact he seemed quite worried about me and the rest of us, but he agreed to help... with a couple of conditions of course.. he asked me to repeat a coded message to another person who was down here, he told me to look for the boy with a mind like an ice dragon... but you know the strange thing was that this kid did have the mind of a dragon it was white with blue eyes and fierce. she shivered but I gave him the encoded message and now all we have to do apparently is wait for the signal then this Yugi will open all of our cells=
==And you trust this boy!!! How can you!! ==the professor sighed and was about to start telling Jean how much danger she had put them all in when the power went out.
Seto was not having a good day he thought. First he has to help the pharaoh get a curse caller of the streets of Japan and then they all end up in some kind of underground facility, in where he guesses is America. The pharaoh sends a bloody mind reader to give him a message, just as well she gave him it in ancient Egyptian otherwise he would have killed her on the spot, and what had the pharaoh asked.
'wahb,hm-nchr ah-b oosr,phty' which is the equivalent of 'turn off the power priest' Yami knew that Seto refused to answer to that name but that means that he had a plan which is more than he did, not that he was going to admit that to Yami. The power was a bit of a problem hacking into, they had three backups but non of them was attached to the main grid so they could be safely shut down, but what he had to ask someone is why hadn't they removed his laptop it just didn't make sense.
And then his door opened revealing a rather tired looking pharaoh "you took your time" Seto snapped
"There's one or two more people that we have to get out before we leave, and your incentive is that they know a bolt hole near by" the pharaoh said looking slightly irritated. Seto guessed that Yami didn't care for the others which probably means that Yugi arranged the whole thing while Yami's back was turned, he didn't bother to hold back the smirk.
They ran along the white corridors until pharaoh stopped outside of a room and pressed the open button "what are these people, idiots, don't they have any security that a toddler couldn't solve? " Seto growled.
Yami couldn't help but think that Seto was right this was too easy "trap" the response was quick and sharp.
"Definitely. They expect us to free the others so we'll be slowed down, easier to catch and we'll be forced to reveal our resources so that the next attempt will be harder"
"damn, now all we can do is hope that they've severely underestimated us" Yami stared around the bleak room, if you could call it that. It looked more like a single cell and there sitting on the bed was the red head Jean. She smiled and started to walk towards them only to stumble and be caught by Seto, unspoken they moved to the next cell only to find a crazed animal inside "are you sure it safe to let it out?" Seto asked but before Yugi could back him up Jean had hit the release button and yelled "Wolverine it's me we're getting out of here!" only then did Yami realise that it was a man not particularly tall but was built like a bear on steroids and obviously had a attitude to match he strode past /I don't think we should get on the wrong side of him Yami, I think he'd only need one shot/ Yami smirked and thought /'but who'd be the faster, he's definitely a lot older than he appears though./'
Suddenly all of the other buttons pressed opening certain rooms /they must be her comrades. Do you think we should tell Seto not to piss them off 'cos they'd probably hit back, or would that just make him more determined?/
"Hey earth to Yugi" a hand wove dangerously close to Yugi's face "I wouldn't do that if I were, you he doesn't like things moving quickly close to his face" Seto smirked, thought interesting though it would be he didn't want them to see Yugi and Yami's switch there was only a subtle difference but at the distance that the red head was standing she was sure to notice, "come on he'll snap out of it before the Nile runs dry"
"wh-what" Yugi said shaking his head as though waking from a dream
"So who are you?" a thin teen asked
"Introductions can wait," said the bear like man "lets just get out of here first and if you survive then you can tell us your name."
/'I think that he will be fun to play against./' /Yami shush, we agreed that we'd save your energy till later so rest already/
A lot of running and about twenty corridors later and Seto was getting annoyed, there wasn't a guard in sight there was however a few locked doors but the mind reader and the kids had handled that easily there isn't much that could stand up to a blast from the red head, he wasn't sure how they did it but he wasn't showing his ignorance in front of the pharaoh. Then a boy of about 14 fell and split into seven people all identical copies Seto had to grab on to Yugi so stop himself joining the boy or boys on the floor then he under stood "mutants" he whispered harshly "I know that there's a mind reader among them but how many other dangerous people are we helping to escape and what are you going to do when they come for you?"
"It shouldn't come to that, they think I'm a mutant to" what he didn't tell Seto is that (they think where mutants but he really did want to get out of there alive,) then he noticed that the air had a slight metallic taste the mutants started to sway Yugi wasn't feeling so good /Yami can you just... take over for a... sec.../ "son of a..." Yami cried as the mutants fell to the floor Yami started to control his breathing as a big blue scales started to form behind him. There was a blinding flash of light and the shock wave sent him sprawling to the ground "KAIBA!! Why in the name of Ra must you always..." then he noticed the mutants staring at him as Seto walked up behind him laying a hand on his shoulder and saying "well now you can't hide from your powers Yami... don't try and deny it, we all saw" silent laughter tickled down there link /'stop laughing aibou and I know its not the gas/' Yami managed to pull off a death glare at the world and then stalked straight past, and in one case through, the gawping mutants and out through the former wall into twilight and the open air "now what dragon master" Yami scowled Seto now standing with his back turned he shrugged /I'd pay good money to see his face.. Yami what are we going to tell the others, that we can summon dragons but only when Seto's in the room?/ humour tickled down their link /'what if we say that we need the high priests consent, however they can ask him... that should amuse him/' a smile crossed his face /and kill us/. Just then one of the mutants crouched to the ground holing and clawing at her ears Yami rushed over to her and grabbed her hands before she could further damage her face Seto stood at her side trying to stop her from thrashing at Yugi he just noticed that she had scratched herself with what looked like claws coming out of her leathery hands he yelled to the mutants but before he realised it the girl had already started to look surprisingly like a large blonde wolf
"Iie" Yami was still trying to hold on to the beast, but as Seto said his name they both let go and jumped back away from the dangerously close fangs. The wolf girl then started to lunge at Yami only to be flung to the ground by a blast of air that he guessed came from Jean but then the wolf didn't get up and he heard Yugi call out. Without thinking Yami responded to his hikari's yell and kneeled by the animal checking that she was still alive and unharmed both spirits sighed when they found that she was still breathing "its ok she's just knocked out" said a oddly familiar voice Yami shuddered as he felt something slide through his defences but Yugi also had some bite when he wanted to and he wrapped his mind inside Yami's, forming a glass wall inside Yami's stone defences impenetrable but fragile if Xavier was to call his bluff then Yugi would fall, but at that moment Yami chose to tighten the gap on the mans unwanted presence, causing the man to gasp behind him "Stay out of my mind or I will take actions that will have consequences, and before you ask, Seto also has strong defences only his have quite a lot more bite!!" Yami spat angrily.
When he turned around Seto had to contain his reaction Yami and Yugi had turned into there hybrid state forming the unique face of the two merged souls, that means that whatever stunt that man had pulled it had taken a lot to force him out he knew that he had a stronger 'bite' but he didn't have the power to back it up lets just pray that he doesn't call me up on it he thought.
Yami could feel his Hikari shudder down their link as they separated; it always felt so cold when they separated like you needed to warm up your bones.
Just then Jean gave Yami a sceptical look "our base is only a short distance but you'll have to hurry to get there before the sun sets."
If it was true that there base was a short distance away from the compound Seto wanted to scream at these people that they were all brainless and deserved to be caught but then as he stepped out of the trees he saw what they called their base it was probably once a mansion but now it was just a heap of sad rubble, but one of the young mutants grabbed his arm not noticing his flinch and said "come on there's a lot more down stairs" laughing she started to run through the trees towards the rubble, and no he wasn't kidding she was running through the trees like they were tissue paper, he turned to the now in control Yugi and said "what have we walked into?" the small teen gazed up with his frightfully pale face and shook his head sadly...
As they stepped down some stairs that even for Seto's standards were very well hidden and knocked at a door at the bottom, the girl who Seto had talked to before walked through the door and opened it from the other side letting the rest of them walk through before shutting it with a low thud. They walked down yet more corridors each one smelling of damp and decay before they opened a door that hissed "an air lock?" "Yes.. well the base is completely self sufficient so we just pump the air in from a safe spot, saves against smoke and gas and such" Seto almost furrowed his brow at that he was completely taken aback by the paranoia of these kids {and that's saying something coming from you} he almost burnt his deck at the sound I thought I told you to stay out of my head he mentally glared at his blue eyes white dragons, it always unnerved him to hear voices in his head, he knew that Yugi did it every day but that was him, not Kaiba {and who got the credit for saving all your lives earlier not me of course not even you!!! Why the hell did you do a stupid thing like-} Seto had had enough. He simply with one sleek movement pulled out his deck and gave it to Yugi who looked like he was about to pass out from the shock, he opened his mouth to ask but before he could Kaiba asked Jean "well it looks like we will be staying with you for now, I'm quite sure that you will all have things to sort out between yourselves so if you show me and Yugi to a room then we will save our questions till the morning."
Xavier frowned and thought about suggesting that they talk now, when Yugi swayed violently all most crashing to the floor but Kaiba caught him the whole room held there breaths for a moment and then Yugi shook his head and then pulled himself completely upright "Gomen" Yugi mumbled. Xavier felt the shape of Yugi's mind but the defences were still up strong he sighed and said "your probably right"