Part 5: the breaking of the code
(Zoey's dream in her point view)
A Lady looked down at me; she had brown skin, black hair and eyes looking down at me, as I was in a crib. The women picked me up and she was singing a lullaby while gently rocking me back and forth, this woman was my mother.
"Mommy," I said but all that came out was a crying noise. I reached out my tiny hand and touched her face, it felt like rose petals. She held my tiny hand in hers, just then a brown-skinned man came in to the room. He was tall and looked a body builder, he pinned mommy to the purple walls, "Why haven't you cooked dinner, you useless winch," he shouted.
As he stared hitting her I soon figured out that he was my father, "No leave mommy alone!" I screamed, but it only came out as more crying.
My mother started crying while I screamed, "No, Daddy, please stop it you're hurting her." My mother said, "I was trying to get the baby asleep."
"Forget about her, I work my butt off to put a roof over your head, I should come first! Not the kid," my dad said angrily. My mom looked down, in silence and then my dad raised his fist again.
"No, don't hit mommy!" I said.
Suddenly out of nowhere, a metal bat hit my dad. He looked at me with great angry "How dare you!" he snapped at me. My dad picked me up I cried for my mom, she chased my dad, but he pushed my mom down the stairs she laid unconscious.
"Mommy," I screamed.
My dad stuffed me in the baby seat. Dad drove me "Why dad, why did you hurt her?" I cried. My dad left me in a basket in front a building with the initials CWS and he left me with a note. "Come back, don't leave me here!" I cried reaching out of him. The front door slowly opened.
(Later in the dream)
Two agents ran after me, "No, Leave me alone!" I shouted.
Yugi, Kaiba, Mai and Joey stood in front me protecting me then I saw the agents pulled out their guns and killed every one of them.
"No!" I cried and then ropes reached toward me binding me causing me not to move and a rectangle glass cage fell on top me. Dr Whitman looked at me and he pushed a button on his remote, then horrible pain went through every cell of my body making me so weak.
I had to lie down on the ground, and then everything was gone, nothing but darkness was left.
"A terrible darkness has fallen upon us," I said. (End of dream)
Mai was usually in a deep sleep almost nothing woke her up, but her intuition was telling her something horrible was happening. She woke up next to her drooling and snoring husband.
Mai had to smile remembering all those times Joey risked his very life for her. Mai gently kissed her husband Joey on the cheek. He smiled a little and tossed on the side of the bed.
Mai got up and went out the guest room, closing the door gently behind her. She went to check to see if everything was fine, everything seemed ok; the only sound was clinging and clanging coming from the kitchen.
Mai went to the kitchen but she only saw robot butlers cleaning the dishes. One of the robot butlers went up to her "Would you like anything Mrs. Wheeler?" asked the butler.
"No thanks" she said. The robot butler went back to clean the dishes. She went back to the guest rooms she looked at the clock on the wall it read five in the morning.
Mai was about to go back to her room but something was telling her to go to Zoey's room. 'Maybe Zoey is in trouble I got go help her' Mai thought.
Mai ran to Zoey's room and opened her door she looked in, and found Zoey sleeping on the guest bed looking like angel. 'Zoey is fine' she thought in relief.
Mai was about to leave but then Zoey said, "Come back don't leave me here," automatically Mai went next Zoey's bed side as like a big sister would for her frightened little sister.
"It's ok Zoey I'm right here," Mai said holding Zoey's hand. "Why Daddy, why did you hurt her?" Zoey said crying.
Anything that was metal in the room whirred around Zoey's bed. She began breathing heavily as if she was running a race. "Zoey wake up, you're having a nightmare!" Mai shouted.
"Check… pockets Dedi," Zoey said still breathing heavily. "Wake up!" Mai shouted shaking Zoey's shoulders. Zoey stop breathing heavily and stayed silent for a few seconds. Zoey began to speak, "A terrible darkness has fallen upon us," in zombie like tone of voice.
"Snap out of Zoey!" Mai said concerned. "A terrible darkness has fallen upon us," Zoey repeated mindlessly. Mai was horrified whatever question Mai asked Zoey she would robotically chant, "A terrible darkness has fallen upon us."
Mai ran out of Zoey's room to the guest room next to hers, which was Yugi's room. Mai slammed opened the door "Yugi wake up!" exclaimed Mai.
Yugi mumbled, "I don't want to go to school today, I'll go tomorrow, ok Grandpa," he whined in his sleep.
"Yugi, please wake up," Mai said panicking. Yugi got up, rubbed his eyes and looked at Mai. "What…Mai... what going on?" asked Yugi sleepily? "Something is wrong with Zoey," said Mai. "What!" Yugi said he tossed the blanket got out of bed.
They got out Yugi's room, Kaiba was there staring at them. "Do you know what time is?" he said grumpily with his arms crossed Mai bit her lip to stop herself laughing there was Kaiba with pajamas with printed blue white dragons on them and blue eyes white dragon slippers.
"Nice slippers" said Yugi. "Thanks Mokuba gave to me on my birthday, hey what is going on?" said Kaiba with a sarcastic smirk on his face.
"Something is wrong with Zoey," said Mai quickly. "Come let's go," said Kaiba. "Should we wake up Joey?" asked Yugi. "Let the sleeping dog lie," said Kaiba sneered.
They went to Zoey's room, and they found that Zoey curled herself into a ball breathing heavily. "She's just having a nightmare Mai," said Yugi. "No, watch this," said Mai, "Zoey wake up."
"A terrible darkness has fallen upon us," responded Zoey. "What's that suppose to mean?" asked Kaiba. "I don't know, I just came here to check on her and then she kept repeating that phrase," said Mai.
"Wait a minute she told me to check in her pockets," said Mai, so with great difficulty Mai checked Zoey's pockets. She found gum some lose dollar bills, candy and a folded piece of notebook paper. She unfolded the piece of paper she started to read off it.
Dear unfortunate soul who found me,
If you found me repeating a phrase repeatedly, it is because it has a code the only way to break is to finish the phrase. If you are unsuccessful, I suggest you get as far away from me as possible because if the code is not broken a tracking device will go off and then the CWS (center of weird and supernormal) agents will find you and kill you. Please before go before it is too late.
Yours truly
Project Z
"Well, now what?" asked Yugi. "We have to break to the code or at lease try; I can't let her go back in the CWS. She endured enough pain and suffering already, we have to help her," said Mai in a concerned voice.
Yugi looked at Mai's determination; she was right looking at Zoey it reminded Yugi of the time, he met Noah and how crazy he had became from being alone so long.
Noah had been left alone too but he ended up saving Yugi and all his friends. Yugi sighed, "We need is to figure out what kind phrase is needed," spoke Mai.
"Well it doesn't sound like a phrase for a TV show or movie maybe it's from a book," said Kaiba. "Yeah but which book?" asked Yugi just then Kaiba led them to his own private library.
Kaiba's library was enormous it seemed that every book that was ever published in it. "This will take forever," said Yugi "Well maybe, but we can at least give it a try," said Kaiba.
He picked a book titled Robin Hood, first and started reading it.
Meanwhile, Agent Dark was pacing back and froth waiting for the tracking device to go off it would not be long, Agent Dark waited to kill anyone involved with project Z.
A sinister grin spread on his face "Soon the hunt will begin" Agent Dark said to him.
Joey rolled out of bed; he saw that Mai left the bed. Therefore, he decided to check on Yugi. He walked in to Yugi's room, and saw Yugi was gone too. Now Joey was worried, so he ran to the master bedroom where Joey discovered that Kaiba was missing too however he did fine a blue eyes white dragon bathrobe of the floor, but he decided to tease later.
"Maybe these CWS agents came to take Zoey," Joey said to himself. He went to Zoey's room and found the door open he walked in and there was Zoey sleeping on the bed still breathing heavily and rolling her self into a ball.
"Hey Zoey, wake up" said Joey. "A terrible darkness has fallen upon us," she said as if hypnotized. "What?" said Joey confused "a terrible darkness has fallen upon us," Zoey repeated relentlessly.
'Zoey needs help have find I have find the others,' thoughtJoeyJoey ran to the living room but in his rush, Joey tripped over one of Kaiba's robot butlers. Joey rubbed his head, the robot butler got up and said, "Mr. Wheeler can I assist you?"
"Yeah can you find Seto Kaiba, Yugi Muto and my wife, Mai?" asked Joey. The robot butler starting beeping and said "Searching" in few seconds later the robot said, "Search compete they are in Mr. Kaiba's private library," said the robot butler.
"Take me there," ordered Joey. "Yes sir, follow me," said Robot butler and Joey followed the robot butler.
The computer flashed "Tracking device activating in 5 minutes," Agent Dark walked to Agent Light's room. He looked at the nice clean floor and knocked on a door that read Agent Light.
"Come on it's almost show time" said Agent Dark. "Hold on a sec Dark!" said Agent Light. "We don't have much time," said Agent Dark impatiently. Agent Light held two guns, and two huge metal looking things.
"Flamethrowers nice touch," said Dark.
"It's what I do," said Agent Light.
"Come on hurry" said Dark "What the rush Dark?" asked Light. "Well, I did some research; I found the people who helped Project Z are smart," said Dark.
"Oh yeah, I remembered reading about Yugi Muto, some guy named Joey Wheeler and Seto Kaiba in the papers, suppose to be the highest rated Duel monsters champions," said Light.
Agent Dark's eyebrows raised surprised that his partner knew this information, "What? I read the newspaper so sue me," said Agent Light. "The picture of Yugi looks a lot different then when I saw him last time, I wonder what's that about?" asked Agent Light.
"Who cares we going killed them anyway!" said Agent Dark. "Yeah I guess," sighed Light.
"Oh no, I know that sigh you plan examine Yugi don't you?" said Dark "You got me" said Light.
"Well we will knock out Yugi and Mai bring project Z and kill the rest," said Dark. "Sounds like a plan," said Agent Light.
Therefore, both Agents Dark and Light went out towards Domino city with their weapons hidden. In search for project Z agent Dark heartbeat faster because he knew the time to kill was drawing near.
The robot butler stopped in front of metal door. A video camera focused on Kaiba's robot butler and Joey.
A computer voice said "password please" The robot butler said "Lisa" and door opened. "Mr. Kaiba, Yugi Muto & Mrs. Wheeler is in there," said the robot butler.
"Thank you Mr. Robot," said Joey. "Is there something else you need" the Robot asked. "Not right now, thank you" said Joey so the robot went back to kitchen.
Joey found Kaiba and the others franticly trying to skim every book in the library. Kaiba scanned over a book titled Catch 22 and throw it on the ground Kaiba rubbed his head "oh my head!" he complained, "I don't think I have read this many books since I was adopted."
"What are you doing?" asked Joey. "Well the Mutt is finally awake," said Kaiba Joey ignored him. "Zoey's in trouble" he said pointing out the obvious. "We know that Lassie, that's why we are here" said Kaiba in his usual 'I know tone'.
"I'm confused how is reading going to help Zoey?" Joey asked. Mai went to him and give Joey a folded piece of paper "this is a note we found in Zoey's pocket," she said. Joey opened the note and started reading it.
"Two minute until Activation" flashed Agent Light's laptop. Agent Light and Dark sat on the park bench under a street light, agent Dark licked his lips " soon" said he as he tossing a flamethrower back and froth from his hands like a child who just couldn't wait for something.
Joey scratched his head "well that explains a lot," he said. "Yeah and we already searched most of Kaiba's library collection, if you can believe it," said Yugi. "What the phrase is again?" asked Joey. "A terrible darkness has fallen upon us," they all repeated in unison.
"I think I remember hearing that phrase before," said Joey closing his eyes trying to remember.
Kaiba and Mai looked at Yugi he shrugged his shoulders. A few minutes passed "Strangers!" shouted Joey.
"Kaiba do you have any Dean Koontz books?" he asked. "Of course I do Mutt," said Kaiba with pride. "Look for a book titled Strangers," Joey said.
Kaiba moved a big rolling ladder and moved to section labeled K, Kaiba climbed on the ladder to the fourth shelf of the bookcase.
He looked for the author that Joey suggested, "King Kill hem… O here Koontz," said Kaiba. "Strangers is the title right?" asked Kaiba. "Yeah" Joey called out. "Found it!" shouted Kaiba with pride.
"Tracking activating," said the laptop. "It's about time," said Agent Dark. "You have the patience of a two year old," said Agent Light.
"So!" exclaimed agent Dark. Agent light sighed, "Let's go," he said. So they ran with the tracking device leading them towards project Z.
Kaiba did not have look for long to find the phrase "A terrible darkness has fallen upon us but we must not surrender to it. We shall lift our lamps of courage and find our way through the morning Anonymous member of the French resistance 1943," read aloud Kaiba.
"Wow, Joey how did you know it was in that book," asked Yugi Muto. "I used to be Dean Koontz fan myself, now come on we don't have time," said Joey.
Kaiba climbed as fast as he could down the ladder and carried Strangers with him.
Agent Dark and Light stopped to catch their breath, "The tracking device is leading to the old Kaiba Corporation, building, we don't think of that?" said Agent Light. The two agents toke a few minutes to rest
Yugi and the other ran up to Zoey's room, her conduction was getting worse she kept hugging her knees and repeating "terrible darkness".
Kaiba open the book titled Strangers to a dog -eared page where he found the quote. "A terrible darkness has fallen upon us" Mai read "but we must not surrender to it. We shall lift our lamps of courage and find our way through the morning," Mai said. "Anonymous member of the French resistance 1943," said Joey.
Suddenly Zoey said, "754 Code deactivated."
"That's a good thing isn't it?" asked Joey worried.
Agent's Light laptop stop blinking and the tracking devise stopped completely, leaving them at the old Kaiba corporation building.
"Is this where they are?" asked Agent Dark. "I don't know," said Agent Light. "Let's go inside," said Agent Dark. The agents went into the building.
Zoey stopped, hugging herself and breathing heavily, she was sleeping regularly again. Yugi and the gang let a huge sigh of relief.
"That was fun, let's do that again" said Kaiba sarcastically. "I never want to read another book again," said Yugi wearily. "Does anyone want go back to sleep?" asked Mai. "I don't think I can after all that," said Kaiba. "Well I'm going to bed," said Yugi.
"Me too" said Joey. They both headed out Zoey's room.
"You better go and let Zoey rest a little," said Mai. "Oh and what about you?" asked Kaiba. "I'll stay and watch her," said Mai as she pulling a chair next to Zoey's bed.
Kaiba smiled a little, headed toward out the door, and closed it.
Mai sat next Zoey's bed "Don't worry your Dedi, is with you, your safe," she said as she hold Zoey's hand.
Agent Dark went out of the old Kaiba building "I can't believe it!" he suddenly shouted.
"I know, I thought for sure that project Z would in there," said Agent Light. Agent Dark was so angry he began to yell and cruse at the sky.
"How did they break the code?" enraged agent Dark.
"Ok, Dark chill" said Light calmly, "we'll find them," he added knowing his partner's temper was about to blow.
Agent Dark was angry breathing; he toke the flamethrower began to burn the old Kaiba building. "Agent Dark, stop that now!" and voice shouted from behind them.
…To be continued