WhiteMageRyou: -sings along with the ygo soundtrack-

Mairk: how long is she going to do that?

Bakura: -pulls an earplug out of his ear- did you say something?

Marik: Got any extra ear plugs?

WhiteMageRyou: -smacks them- hey! thats not nice to say when I have your lives in my hands

Marik&Bakura: eep! but but but! DON'T KILL US!

WhiteMageRyou: -raises eyebrow- fine fine, but I'm telling you this, you'll regret ever saying anything about me

Bakura: .. damn it .. we're sqrewed ..

WhiteMageRyou: just say the dang disclaimer

Bakura: WhiteMageRyou doesn't own Iron cheif, Yu-gi-oh or pudding

Marik: ... yeah what he said -points at Bakura-

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Chapter 8: Battle of the Wheeler and the shinning millennium items

Joey walked into a large arena, confused and dressed in his normal cloths, he looked around at all the kitchen supplies. The place looked like a million kitchens shoved into two areas.

The lights turned on and shined up at someone.

"Kaiba! What's this all about?"

Kaiba looked down at him and smiled. He held up a yellow pepper and took a bit out of it. A huge sign flew down and smacked Joey in the head. He stumbled back and read the sign. "Iron Chief?"

A voice started talking in Japanese with a louder over lap of English. "Welcome to Iron Chief. In today's battle Joey Wheeler will be taking on one of the Iron Chiefs. Let's take it over to today's judges. We have here with us Mokuba Kaiba, better known as Mr. Seto Kaibas younger brother."

Mokuba waved at Joey from his seat up higher. "It's a pleasure to be here."

"We also have Mushy, the sumo wrestler from the last chapter."

Mushy sat next to Mokuba, wearing a better hit suit and glasses. He smiled as he said, "I'm very glad to be here. I'm sure this'll be a fun experience."

"And we have our critic, Dartz, also known as Lord of Orichalcos."

Dartz looked down at Joey un-amused. "I'm excited to see what the chiefs will cook up with the theme ingredient."

"Let's welcome Chief Wheeler and our French Iron chief, Hiroyuki Sakai."

Joey blinked unsure of what just happened. A man dressed in red was standing next to him. He bowed and stood near one of the kitchens. Joey guessed he was suppose to be in the other kitchen so that's where he stood.

"Now, to Mr. Kaiba for today's theme ingredient."

Kaiba stood near a large table that had a cloth covered over it. He took the cloth and looked at Joey.

"PUDDING!" He pulled the cloth off to reveal a stack of pudding cups, bowls of pudding and packages of those 'five minute, no cooking needed' pudding.

The voice went on about the history of pudding as Joey did what the other chief did, go up and grab pudding.

Ignoring the comments being said by the judges and the voice he looked around. "What do I do?"

"It seems chief Wheeler is off to a rocky start."

"He seems surprised at today's ingredient." Mushy said.

"Well let's hope he comes up with something that won't kill us or get us sick." Dartz said.

"I'm sure he'll wow us." Mokuba said.

-30 minutes left-

"Has the challenger even done anything?"

"…Nope."

"Okay…"

-15 minutes left-

"I've just gotten word that the Iron Chief plans on having five dishes in total. Mr. Wheeler says he'll be serving three."

-one minute to go-

"Who's dish will rain supreme?"

-15 seconds … 10 ….. 3…2…1-

"That's it! The battle is over! Who's dishes will prove to be the greatest? The tasting, after these messages."

Whoosh

-commercial break-

"Ugh I just can't get my coat to look hip and cool." A strange look a like of Joey said.

"Well, you need starch." Said a voice.

"Starch?" the look a like asked.

"That's right! But not just any old starch! You need Kiab-arch"

"What's that?"

-Pop- a bottle of Kaib-arch appeared on the washer.

"Use this and your coats will be as stiff as Yugi's hair!"

Joey look-a-like holds up a stiff coat. "Wow!" puts the coat on, goes to grab the bottle but can't move his arms. "…Uh.."

"Act now and we'll give you a free box! That's right! A FREE BOX!"

A postage box hits the look a like, making him fall over. "OW! A little help please?"

"Only 99 payments of $1.99! There's a limited amount left so buy you're Kaib-arch today!"

-End commercial break-

Joey looked around as he stood near the dishes he made and all the judges sat at their own little tables.

-first dish-

Each jugde looked down at the bowl of vanilla pudding with a dab of chocolate in the middle.

"And what did you call this?" Mushy asked taking a spoon full.

"… Uh, two flavors of pudding?" Joey said.

-second dish-

Everyone looked down at the swirled chocolate and vanilla pudding.

"Mmm."

-third dish-

"Oooh, beautiful."

The judge's looked at the bowls of pudding that had smashed gram crackers on top.

After the Iron chief gave out his dishes which included dishes such as fried pudding with ice cream, a pudding drink and pudding soufflé, the judge's made their choice on which dish was better.

Kaiba stood up near the top again. The voice went on about how it was a hard battle and that this was it!

"Both meals were cooked to perfection, yada yada yada, Joey won."

"The challenger has done it! He is the-."

"CAN IT ALREADY!" Kaiba yelled.

"Yes Mr. Kaiba…"

Joey followed Kaiba into his office were Mokuba and Dartz were standing around waiting.

"How'd you get up here faster than me?" Joey asked Mokuba.

"I didn't take the easy way with the elevator. I took the escalator."

"Damn…"

Kaiba sat down behind his desk. "You were able to pass my challenges after all Wheeler."

"Yeah, yeah, Kaiba I came here ta' ask ya' why you took over the world. You could of pretty much bought it, you didn't havta' go enslave the world."

With a sigh Kaiba looked at Joey. "You still have no idea do you?"

Mokuba and Joey both looked back at Kaiba. "What are ya' talkin' about?"

"Joey, would you like to see what I have right now?" Kaiba asked as a screen appeared. Serenity was tied up to a chair.

"Kaiba! Leave my sister outta' this!"

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Bakura and Marik dragged their hikari's to Kaiba's large building.

Malik had his head down, Ryou was trying hard not to cry.

The millennium ring and rod started to glow. Ryou looked down at his ring and then at Bakura, who had noticed it too.

Marik looked at Bakura and then at the millennium rod. The items started to glow brighter. Ryou could feel surges of energy drawing out from the ring around his neck. Malik looked at Ryou as Bakura and Marik drew away.

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Kaiba opened his mouth to say something but everything flashed blue. "Huh?" He turned around in his chair and typed into his computer.

"Find Bakura, Marik, Malik and Ryou."

A four screens appeared. Each had a picture of Bakura, Malik, Ryou or Malik on it. The two with Ryou and Malik were fuzzy and kept flashing static.

"Stop what ever is going on."

The screens all flashed 'Order Denied'

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Odion sat in a chair with is eyes locked on the computer screen. Duke sat up and rubbed his head. Odion looked over at him. "Only one has come back so far, something must be going wrong."

Duke sat near Odion and poked Malik. "Wow … it really was just a game?"

"I'm afraid it might be more than that now." Odion said, "Much more."

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"We have to tell pharaoh about this." Bakura said.

"Fine." Marik said.

Bakura and Marik ran off, the light dimmed and then vanished. Ryou looked at Malik. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah. What was that all about?"

"I don't know, but I think we should find the rest of our friends and then go find Yugi and our yamis."

"Right."

Malik and Ryou spotted Serenity being held hostage. They burst in and got her free before filling her in quickly.

"So … that's why we have to do this." Ryou said.

Serenity looked at the ground. "Well, if this is just a game than I'll be fine."

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Duke helped Serenity to her feet. "You ok?"

"Yeah, thanks Duke." She looked at Odion. "They asked me to tell you that you should keep waiting for what you all agreed on."

Odion nodded.

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Kaiba stood up. "Grrr, this must be one of their faults."

Joey looked down at Mokuba.

"Don't look at me, I don't know."

Dartz looked around. "Well, you know … uh, the walls are melting." He looked down at the ground, "And the floor is a picture of an eyeball. I think we should get out of here."

Kaiba's eye twitched. "GRR! When I get my hands on them!"

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"Hey look." Serenity said as Mokuba, Kaiba, Dartz and Joey all woke up.

Joey jumped to his feet and grabbed Kaiba. "What did you think you were doin' back there?"

Kaiba starred at him oblivious to what Joey just said. "What do you mean?"

"Don't play dumb with me!"

"Let go of my coat and tell me what happened Wheeler."

"You went insane."

Mokuba rubbed his eyes, "Yeah Seto, you were being really mean."

Kaiba kneeled down to Mokubas height, "I didn't hurt you did I?"

"No."

"Alright then." Kaiba stood up as Mokuba yawned. 'Something in the system must have gone wrong… but why would that have me forget that I even tested out the newest program?'

To be continued...

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WhiteMageRyou: Pharaoh, get up and off the coach, get ready! -jumps around-

Pharaoh: ... five more minutes -rolls over-

WhiteMageRyou: ... pharaoh ... Yami .. Hey! .. you-who! Yami Yugi .. Atemu!

Pharaoh: zZzZzZz

WhiteMageRyou: -eye twitch- paging Dr. Yami, paging Dr. Yami

Bakura: .. uh oh .. -backs away-

WhiteMageRyou: YAMI GET YOUR ASS OVER HERE! -throws script at the pharaohs head-

Pharaoh: ok ok ok! -gets up and starts reading his lines- Yugi, you look so surprized. You shou-

WhiteMageRyou: -eye twitches more- Malik, give me the millennium rod.

Malik: .. I thought you were over the whole 'take over the world' thing?

WhiteMageRyou: I am, now give me the millennium rod so I can kill-

-beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep-

Ryou: we're experiencing some technical difficulties .. please review ...