;; its screwing up agin so this is the simble for the dragons talking;;
Chapter13
Kaiba was pissed, as he started wandering the corridors following his dragons lead. ;;Turn right here.;; Kaiba wordlessly turned. ;;Not that way! Weren't you ever taught your right and your left?;;
;;Yes but I want to know where you learnt yours, seeing as you have been stuck in a bit of card for a millennia or two,;;
;;Well…;;
And how can you see to know when to turn?
;;Well, it's nice to know that he's back to normal;;
;;Yeh, but why did he decide to pick on us;;
Because the pharaoh isn't around said the last dragon with a not quite suppressed snigger. Seto hid a growl at the pharaoh's name as he turned and walked back down the corridor the way he came ;;now get it right this time.;;
Logan was wandering around the base following Rouges scent, her trails were crossed every now and then by various people, but he could separate them following the same musky tone of her scent. While the rest of the trails were heading to the bases exits this one seemed to be going deeper into the base, occasionally the copy would decide to go a certain way shattering any door that was in his path, 'where the hell is it trying to get to?' He wandered as he walked deeper into the centre of the base… hang on chuck… this is the route to Cerebro, but why, what does Cerebro have that it could want? Information, surveillance, turn off the power, weapons aww crap… it's connected to the automated defence system err thing… he thought as he started to run quickly down the corridors. As he turned a corner in the labyrinth he saw the smashed doorway to Cerebro. Beyond that there was a deep darkness revealing nothing of what the room contained. His nose could pick up the mix of the musky smell that was Rouge and the sharp smell of ozone, which he'd been following along the corridors. There was the sound of shuffled feet about seven eight meters ahead. That means that it's standing at the console… I've got you now. Logan cautiously stepped forward making his footsteps as silent as he could. This is for your own good kid. Quietly dose it now stand behind it and… THUD and another muffled nose as Rouges prone form fell.
Kaiba was really starting to consider tearing up the cards. ;;So let me get this straight. You're kind of like bats only you use magic instead of sound.;;
;;I think he's got it…;;
;;It would have been so much easier if you hadn't kept arguing among yourselves…;;
;;Hang on. Something's there;; Seto tensed as he felt shadows around the room warp stretching to cover as much space as possible.
"I know you're there come out…" Kaiba stated in a monotone voice.
"Ah, its you." Said a particularly deep shadow from the corner "You will forget that we met, go back." Kaiba felt a warmth wash over him making him feel drowsy, he almost didn't noticed as footsteps came towards him. He snapped out of his stupor as he heard a shout in the back of his head,
;;HOW THE HELL WERE YOU EVER HIGH PRIEST IF YOUR SO EASILY CONTROLLED!;; Growling, he did the first thing that came to mind. He lashed out, hitting Marik in the side of his jaw sending the young female form to the floor.
;;You would have thought that he would be more paranoid and careful wouldn't you?;;
;;Yeah but he's a bad guy;;
;;And?;;
;;Well… er… I don't know, that's as far as I got…;;
;;Thanks for your input! ;;
They didn't notice as a shadow detached itself from a deep shadow and hurried further down the corridor.
Reanne wasn't feeling to good as she sat up from her hospital bed "Ugh I feel like I just been partying for three days straight and this is the hang over… She looked down to the side of the bed where Kitty had been when shed fallen asleep only to find that the cheerful brunet was still there.
"Hey you know you don't have to stay here. I ain't going anywhere."
"Yeah I know but I want to be here, besides if I wasn't you would be board witless."
"And instead we have yet another hour of trying to do the cryptic crossword, oh joys."
"Well it was suggested that I bring your home work?"
"Right twelve down, small Russian bread is such a bother! Seven letters."
"HA! Erm-"
"Do you smell something." Reanne gave a small shiver "Kinda like ozone but not?"
"No not really but then again my nose isn't as sensitive as yours." There was the sound of footsteps out side Kitty stood up walked to the curtain. "Hello is any body there…" She pulled aside the curtain "Rouge! What are you doing here?" Rouge smiled the smile seeming to stretch her face unnaturally, just then Kitty heard a guttural growl behind her she turned as a blur of brown streak past her line of sight. "Reanne! NO WHAT-" there was a crash as the two of them hit the floor a mass of limbs fur and teeth. Yells growls and the occasional yelp came from the mass, as Kitty ran looking for help…
"IS ANY ONE THERE… PLEASE… YOU HAVE TO HELP ME…"
Kaiba heard a scream and ran along the corridor towards the sound Damn it, Yugi, you turned me into a hero! A year ago this wouldn't have been an issue. He thought as he ran past a hysterical young girl and turned into the room she had dashed out of, there was the sound of a small brawl coming from inside.
"What the?" there sitting on the floor was what looked to be a very proud dog, and a very miserable Rouge duplicate. What's wrong with this picture?
A girl in wolfs clothing
In which case its weird and abnormal, so just a ordinary day then. Though the dog seems familiar?
Kaiba's eyes looked up in under standing "Aahhh well then let's get him and his friend back."
A Blue Eyes turned to its two companions and spoke in a low rumble,
"Our master is coming back with two."
"I wander how the others are doing."
"The pharaoh and the priest are united this is just a test of there faith and companionship."
"My faith doesn't need testing." Spoke Yami as he and Yugi walked into the room. "Another two to add to your hoard." Chirped Yugi as Yami dumped the two Rouges into the centre of the room, then unspoken the two of them started to move the X-men to the edge of the room, once the five were lined up they started to look for a peace charcoal from some of the rubble around the room finding a suitable peace Yugi started to draw a circular inscription on the floor. After a few moments the sound of footsteps echoed around the room Yami still alert turned to an entrance watching, as Logan appeared a prone body slung over his shoulder stepping over the threshold he spoke.
"I got one. What about you?"
"One each." said Yami turning back to watch the inscription take shape. "So what are you drawing squirt."
"A spell binding circle" replied Yugi giving a halfhearted glare to Logan, "Once we get Marik this means that he wouldn't be able to step over the outer circle unless either me or Yami dispel it."
"Oh right, so do you know how your going to get Rouge back."
"Yes." Spoke Yami "have you finished yet abiou?"
"All but…" with a final movement of the charcoal he stood and turned to face Yami smiling "There all done."
/Yami do you want a break we can merge back together if you want/
/'It would probably be best, we are stronger together'/
/Ok/
Logan blinked the spots away from his eyes. That was weird, really darn weird, turning he saw in the deep shadows a part of a wall ripple as a white hair youth stepped through it followed by a walking Rouge
"What the…" Logan gasped as he saw the vacant expression in the intelligent girls eyes "What did you do to her you albino peace of shi-"
"I wouldn't finish that if I were you Bakura can be very touchy about name calling."
"Oh the priest is still following the boy king. How very obedient of you."
"Bakura, Kaiba. Please be quiet and if you believe that Kaiba is following me then you must be too, we are just all working in our best interests and if you don't mind I for one would like to get this over with as quickly and painlessly as possible." Yami bit back ending all of the current arguments,
/'Its like baby sitting children/'
/Five thousand year old babies/
Kaiba rolled his eyes at Yami's outburst while Bakura just turned looking up to face the three imposing blue eyes, Yami turned,
"What I would like to know is how you've managed to get him walking here, no fight, no bad language, one could almost say he looks possessed?" Bakura had the decency to look embarrassed about this,
"I didn't feel like carrying her, so I took out Marik's soul and put it in here." He said holding up a peace of building debris.
/Hang on let me get this straight. He put Marik into a rock/
/'It appears that way abiou./'
Even Kaiba was smiling at the new twist of events. "So who's controlling the body?" Asked Yami.
"It appears that the kid is feisty she can't do much, but the original owner has some control, probably something to do with all of the others being knocked out. Any more questions or can we get on with this?" Bakura turned to the young girls body "walk into the circle and well see what happens." The human shell started to move jerkily to the centre of the large room, once she was standing in the centre surrounded by her duplicate forms the Yugi Yami hybrid started to mutter slowly under his breath. Reaching into his pocket Yugioh pulled out a card out of the centre of his deck holding it up to the shells before him he called out,
"ACTIVATE DE'SPELL."
The room was cascaded in an eerie light the shadows swirled around Roughs forms pulling and stretching as they started to disperse leaving a single Rouge shape silhouetted against the dusty ground. "Rouge, ROUGE…" Logan cried out as he ran to the girl's side. She blearily opened her eyes as he pulled her body into his covered arms "Don't you ever do something like that to me again! You hear.."
"…orry" she mumbled in Logan's bear like grip
Yugi smiled at the two people kneeling on the floor /aaaaaaawwwww./
'/…?…/'
"Ok… either break it up or get a room." Kaiba bit "Can we go home now, no more saving of the world to do, good I'm going to our room if you need me then bugger off I don't care." Kaiba strode out of the room passing a bemused doctor McCoy as he left, Bakura sat and smirked at the blue doctor turning he walked through a wall.
Lets see what else this place is hiding?
The blue doctor moved his head from Kaiba facing Yugi as he spoke "It's a miracle the professor has woken up he's back to normal."
"Let me guess he's not very happy with me."
"Well he did ask to see you."
"Asked?"
"Yelled."
"Thought so…" he said with a soft smile "I'll head on over why don't you check all of those out." Indicating with a nod of his head all of the unconscious X-men that were lined up against the far wall.
/'Abiou I'm curious it's not very common for people who are after world domination to keep their word about returning one persons soul./'
/Maybe it was part of the game/
/'Probably, I'm just surprised that they didn't cheat./' thought Yami as they approached the hospital room/'now all we have to do is get Xavier to give us a lift home and take out the research laboratory that we were imprisoned in./'
/And of course the obvious of not pressing charges or killing us from his hospital bed./
/'Perhaps we can just let Bakura lose on the building./'
/Yami that's not nice/
/'No but they deserve it/'
/That's why you're not a hikari… Sigh, what will I do with you./
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Joey Wheeler stood in the back yard the breeze moving through his blond hair there was a loud rumbling from all around with a start he calls into the house.
"Tristan, get your lazy but out here… now!" there was the sound of the back door closing with a snap,
"What?… What the hell is that noise?"
"I have no idea mate. Wait its coming from up there" he said looking up into the sky what he saw made him fall to the floor in surprise. "I...I. Move." He yelled as he jumped up and dragged Tristan into the wooden door way as a huge black air craft came to land in the back garden resting heavily against the door frame they both stood there mouths agape at the sight before them. Resting on the lawn was the blackbird the most up to date jet in existence its black appearance looked sleek and dangerous even whilst being perched over the bright flower bed. "W-what the hell?" asked Joey as he stepped closer, he suddenly became aware of a weight on his arm he turned "Tristain if your holding my - oh hi sis…" just then a door way opened in the black bird as the steps fell slowly to the floor a tall thin man steeped out. A small black blur shot past the teens running up and flinging itself on the figure who wrapped his arms around the mass of black hair, the small bundle spoke.
"Niisan." Kaiba responded care and softness evident in his usually harsh voice "Mokuba… … … … you know if you don't let go I can't move." Mokuba seemed to relax slightly still not letting go as Kaiba picked him up resting Mokuba on his arm as he walked down the steps and past the gawking teens striding confidently into the large house.
"Hey guys it's nice to be back."
"YUGI!"
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It had been a few days since returning and Kaiba had arrived to find his business well… ok actually but it might not have been. He did however have enough paper work to keep him busy for the next week.
The squirt pharaoh really doesn't know how much trouble he causes, Kaiba thought as he took a folder of the piled high out tray. There was a knock a the locked door and a muffled cry from his secretary, as the locked door opened revealing a white haired teen closely followed by his harassed secretary. "Locked doors just seem to open for you don't they Bakura?" he said nodding to his secretary signalling for her to leave. "As if by magic." Replied the thief king with a satisfied smirk "I have some thing to sell to you, remember that interesting place that the mutants have?"
"Yes. Get to the point."
"And all of that interesting technology…" Kaiba just glared "well I did a little snooping while I was there, and decided to down load all of there data base including all mutants, blue prints, defence and weaponry… do you want? Once in a life time offer."
"How much?"
"God Card." Kaiba snorted shaking his head "Well I'll just have to settle for cash then won't I. £750,000." Kaiba nodded "On the condition that I'm the only one who you sell this to."
"Deal." He said twirling the disk in-between his fingers as Kaiba opened his laptop, "If you want cash then you will have to wait, but I can transfer it to an account in a alias now if you want? I will not however be delivering it to you in gold"
"Shame it always gleams so, the alias will do nicely Nuk Bakura. How's the baka pharaoh, some one in the hospital seamed to yell at him for I while, I got board and left to head back home."
"It was to be expected, they did not get on. At all. Thankfully the just wanted us out they offered to clean up our mess as long as we left that day and personally I didn't want to stay with them any longer than I had to."
"Oh well another day another profitable adventure. I wander what will happen next week?"
"Well I wont be a part of it that's for sure. The transaction is complete. Now leave and don't bother me or my security staff again." Snapped Kaiba as he grabbed the disk, Bakura gave a bloodthirsty smirk and moved silently towards the door leaving with out a sound. "I'll be seeing you next time."
Nuk - I am.
The end
That is it although this was mostly a plesure to make it was also a pain in the ass i might get round to rewrighting it eventualy but i doubt it will be any time soon.. thank you to all of my revewers i think i would have stoped a long time ago if it wasnt for you... i should have other yugioh storys in the future... if any one wasnts to borrow bits or wants any thing to do with this story then e-mail me and there shouldnt be a problem... thank you all and good night...