Ketchum's Eleven
05: What stinks?
A PikaFlash's Studio Fanfiction
Disclaimer: All characters, songs and scenes belong to their respective owners...
An A/U Crossover Type fanfic...
"Saturday day is yours. Do whatever you like with it," Sakura said as she addressed the Nine (minus Eriol) in Tai's mansion, in the room with the models of the Game Corners.
Sakura looks around. "Where's Eriol? He's missing his favorite Scones and Tea meeting. Well, anyway roll call is at five-thirty. Keitaro's package arrives at seven-fifteen and Yugi will grab our codes. All goes well there and it's on. From that point, we have thirty minutes to blow the power or Pikachu suffocates."
Warehouse with fake Vault
"Once the power is down, all entry points to the vault and it's elevator will automatically lock down for a couple of minutes. That's when we make our move," Sakura said.
Koji and Koichi pushing the trolley into the fake vault.
"Ok, Pikachu. They've put you in the middle of the room, far from everything. You have to get from here to the door without touching the floor. What do you do?"
Pikachu gets out of the trolley and prepares to make the jump to a ledge.
"Ten says he shorts it," Koji said.
Everyone else took that bet. "Twenty."
Pikachu makes the jump successfully without touching the floor sensors and makes his way to the designated position near the door as the place for explosives.
James suddenly sniffed the air. "What stinks?"
At that moment, Eriol enters the warehouse, covered in sewage. Nothing, not even the smell can hide Eriol's pissed off look on his face. "Window or aisle, people?" The others were clueless. "Alright, lady and gentlemen, boys and girl! We're in deep shit now!"
Yugi was using a hose to wash Eriol off as he spat out water and tries to tell his story, but with the water splashing on him loudly. "Bloody hell, Yugi! Can't you at least control the pressure!"
After getting literally cleaned from head-to-toe, Eriol began to explain the problem.
"Those bloody demolition idiots forgot to readjust and back up the main power lines. It just cooked the mainframe wirings."
Tai looks at Metabee. "Got any idea what he's saying?"
Metabee looks at Tai. "I thought you played enough Video games to know what he would be saying?"
Eriol continued, "They blew up the backup grid, one by one! Just like dominos...no pun intended."
Ash also has an idea on what Eriol means, but decided to ask for the reader's sake. "Eriol, what happened? In some language that we could all understand."
Flashback
In the sewers, Eriol was shadowing some engineers who were investigating the fuse boxes. Eriol was near a waterfall from a pipe.
Eriol's V/O: They did what I had planned to do. Only they did it by accident. Now they know their weakness and they're fixing it.
Eriol hears a noise behind him, so Eriol quickly hid behind the waterfall of sewerage...
Eriol finishes drying his hair.
"So, unless we do this job like Solid Snake, we're like Team Rocket, blasting off."
Ash started thinking. "We could..."
"By tomorrow?" Sakura asked.
"Oh..." Ash said, then started thinking again.
Eriol suddenly has an idea. "I got it. We could use an EMP bomb." Ash looks up.
"What is an EMP Bomb?" Ash asked.
"It's a device that emulates a cardiac arrest for any broad-band circuitry. Or better yet, it's a bomb without the boom-boom bomb. For example, when a Nuclear Weapon detonates, it unleashes an electromagnetic pulse which shuts down any power source in the vicinity, where the EMP name comes from. But it does not matter in most cases as whatever power source in the explosion gets destroyed anyway. Now, the EMP Bomb will create the electromagnetic pulse, without the major headache of mass destruction and death. So, instead of a big hole in the ground, we would get the Warring States."
"For how long?" Sakura asked.
"At least 30 Seconds."
"Is there one that could take out the power of an entire city? One as big as..."
" Domino City? There's only one place with an EMP bomb big enough to do that and it's at..."
Digi-World Secret High Tech Science Lab - 'No Unauthorized Entry'
A van drives into the compound.
Koji and Koichi were in the front with Ash, Eriol and Pikachu carrying the necessary equipment to steal the EMP bomb. Yugi somehow came along.
"You two ready?" Ash asked.
Pikachu and Eriol both nod. As Yugi tried to follow, Ash stopped him. "What are you doing?"
"I'm coming with you."
Ash smiles and shakes his head.
"But..."
"Your job is to babysit the twins," Ash said before closing the door.
"No! Don't leave me here with these two!"
Ash, Eriol and Pikachu were able to get pick a lock on the door and got in. Back in the van, Koji and Koichi commence a Mensa meeting (or playing a game) with Yugi watching.
"Are you a Digimon?" Koichi asked.
"Yes." Koji replied.
"Are you a legendary warrior?"
"Yes."
"Lobomon."
"Damn...your turn."
Later
"No, when the speed of light travels from one end to the other, what you see at the end of the speed of light is something happening in the past."
"A fair point, but that is the obvious reason why the speed of light is the preferred speed for time travel."
"That would not make any sense. When you get closer to the speed of light, your mass increases. If you try to travel back or forward 10 years, you'll end up looking like the fat guy from the Nutty Professor. Even fatter if you are returning from the past" Koji said.
"Are you insulting my weight?" Koichi asked.
"Well, you don't know your Quantum Physics, do you?" Koji said.
Later, yet again
After some silence (if silence does not include Yugi hitting his head on the side of the van), Koichi said, "Mom told me that she loves me more."
"She told me that she was going to tell you that, brother."
Oh the humanity. Yugi couldn't stand it anymore and decides to sneak out of the van.
"Stop it!"
"Make me!"
"Stop it!"
"Make me!"
A fight between the twins started as Yugi snuck out without any problems.
As Yugi sneaks in through the door Ash and his team used, Ash, Eriol and Pikachu exited from another door on the same side of the building with the EMP bomb and quickly made their way into the van.
"Now, all we could use is something like a car battery," Eriol said.
"Alright, let's go!" Ash ordered.
The twins stopped fighting and started up the van. The van is moving.
"Wait a minute," Ash said.
The van stopped.
"Where's Yugi?"
Everyone realized that Yugi is not in the van. At that instant, they hear the alarm bells ringing from the facility. Ash, Eriol and Pikachu opened the back door and sees Yugi being chased by Digimon guards in the building.
"There he is."
In what appears to be a scene which does a parody of any Classic Scooby Doo chases, where characters enters the many doors and coming out randomly, sometimes, ending up the chase ending up the other way around.
"Pika pika, chu. Pikachu." Pikachu said as he shakes his head. "Pikachu."
"I agree, Pikachu. That was extremely stupid," Ash said.
"One of us should help him," Koji said.
Eriol gave the answer Ash would give. "Great idea, Wolfie. Then there will be two that needs saving."
"He knows where we are," Ash said.
The two Digimon Guards has appeared on the roof, with no sign of Yugi between them.
"Where did he go?" Koichi asked. Ash, Eriol and Pikachu looks at Koichi. "What?" Realizing that he's the driver. "Wouldn't someone be at the wheel?"
A desk chair flies out of a window, and Yugi climbs out onto the steel-mesh roof around the second floor.
"Alright, prepare to back this van up," Ash ordered. The rear doors of the van were opened.
Yugi was on the shelter of the main entrance and the Van was right under the steel mesh, giving Yugi a way down to the ground floor. Pikachu and Eriol opened the back door, but by then, Yugi was rolling on the roof and ending up in front of the van.
"In the back, rookie!" Koichi said at the wheel.
"Pi kapi pikachu!"
"Like he said. You retard!" Eriol said.
Yugi quickly got into the side door of the van and Koichi put the pedal to the metal to get away, but before the rear doors closed, one of them slams shut onto Pikachu's tail...
"PIKACHU!" Pikachu sent out a large jolt in the van, but luckily it did not hit the EMP bomb as Eriol moved in between the device and took the electric shock. Eriol's hair was standing up and smoke was coming out of his hair and of course, not to forget, the burnt body and clothes.
"Be careful when you do that!" Eriol yelled as he coughs out smoke from his mouth, "We don't want to set it off and turn our getaway vehicle into an immobile pile of junk! Bloody hell, that's the second time already I've got my outfit ruined."
Eriol started to wrap a bandage around Pikachu's tail as Ash was reprimanding Yugi.
"When I say stay in the van, you stay in the van, got it? Cause if you lose focus for one second in this game, someone will get hurt. In this case, two."
Yugi looks at Pikachu and Eriol, both giving Yugi a glare.
"Yeah, I got it," Yugi said.
This little spat is not going to end soon...
Meanwhile, back in Domino City, everything was in preparation for the Gary Oak Pokémon battle,
"It's the greatest Pokémon battle of the century!"
The streets of Domino City are crowded with cars and people.
"And people from all over are flooding into Domino City to watch the 'battle to end all battles!'"
The people in Kaiba's three Game Corners were making their bets and playing the games.
"Even with only a few hours before the first battle, the energy here is tense!"
In the Lord of Dragons Suite at Kaiba Land, Metabee moved his equipment to Keitaro's suite for the surveillance and Metabee watches the staff.
Manager (on monitor): How we doing?
A watcher was with the manager.
Watcher (on monitor): I've seen packed hams tighter than this.
"Packed hams. That's a new one," Metabee said.
Tai was pacing around the room while Keitaro was watching a movie from a Jacuzzi.
"Where are they? That's what I want to know. Where are they?"
Keitaro was calm in the Jacuzzi. "They'll be here," Keitaro said in his Hamtaro Urashima voice.
"Oh, 'They'll be here'," Tai said, imitating Hamtaro's accent. "Thanks a lot, Mr. President."
Metabee was at the console watching the screens when he picks something that catches his eye. "Uh-oh..."
At the hotel side entrance, Sakura was waiting when the van arrives while having some sundae. Both Ash and Yugi got out of the van and the van drives off. In the lift...
"Had a nice trip, boys?" Sakura asked.
The argument between the two still has not settled.
"Listen, I want you to kiss and make up whatever argument you had with the other. We can't afford to have any more problems."
As the lift doors open, the trio sees Metabee at the lift. "Sakura, we have a problem."
On Metabee's computer, everyone in the room was looking at the computer, minus Keitaro, who's still in the Jacuzzi.
"You've been red flagged. It means that the moment you step in the casino floor, they'll be watching you," Metabee said. "Like snipers. Snipers with video cameras minus the rifles."
"That is a problem," Ash said.
Sakura remembered Keitaro. "Kei-kun, time to turn that thing off and get out."
"It's time when I say it is!" Keitaro yelled back.
"Now!"
Keitaro got out of the Jacuzzi, turned off the TV and puts on a bathrobe. "I'm out, I'm out."
Sakura points at the monitor. "Do you have any idea how this happened?"
Yugi immediately answered that question. "Easy, he's been chasing Kaiba's woman. Got into a real talk with him a couple of nights ago."
Ash glared at Yugi. "I was shadowing you as a bin."
"On who's orders?"
"Mine," Sakura answered. Sakura and Ash stared at each other. "I knew you couldn't leave Kasumi-chan alone."
Tai was confused. "Who's Kasumi?"
"My wife," Ash answered.
"Ex-wife," Sakura corrected.
"Misty's here?" Keitaro asked. "That's a surprise."
Sakura looks at Ash. "I'm sorry, but I wasn't sure if it would catch you, but it did. You're out, Ashy-boy."
Tai points at Ash. "He's out?"
"It's either that or the operation shuts down. His involvement puts us all at risk."
Both Ash and Sakura were still continuing to have eye contact with each other.
"This is not your call, Sakura."
"You made it mine when you put her over us, Ash. You made it mine," Sakura talked back.
"This is my job."
"Not anymore."
Ash was defeated. Everyone in the room is on Sakura's side. Ash gives a death glare at Yugi before going out to the balcony and calm down.
"If Ash is out, who's going to take his place?"
Sakura puts her hand on Yugi's shoulder. "You up for it, kid?"
Yugi looks at Sakura. Without any choice, Yugi half-heartedly said, "I'm game."
Sakura looks at Metabee. "Find everyone else. Inform them on the change of plan, Metabee. Curtains goes up at seven."
As everyone was leaving the room, Sakura goes out to the balcony and has a word with Ash. Yugi watches but could not hear a word that is said...
"Misty is with Kaiba now?" Keitaro asked. No one answered. "But she's too violent for him."
Kaiba's suite
Seto was sorting out his best cards in his deck while speaking on the phone.
"Then inform the Head of WB that he has a better view on HBO in front of his television. The whole damn arena is full."
Seto hangs up as Misty was putting on makeup. Seto puts his hand on Misty's shoulder. "What are you thinking about?"
"You." Misty smiled.
Sakura was doing a 'Sakura Eye for the Con Guy', as she checks on how Yugi must act, with Yugi in a suit.
"Now, where are you gonna put your hands?"
Yugi puts his hands together on his suitcase. Sakura shakes her head. "No."
Yugi puts his hands in his pockets. "Not the pockets either. And don't touch your tie. Look at me, look at me, look at me."
Yugi looks at Sakura's face. "That's how you're going to stand?"
Yugi moves a bit. "Wrong again. Ok, when I ask you a question, where do you look?"
Yugi looks down.
"You're dead. If you look down, they know you are lying." Yugi looks up. "Looking up will say that you don't know the truth. Don't use seven words when four will do. Don't shift your eyes, look always at your mark but don't stare. Be specific but not memorable. Funny but don't make him laugh. He's going to like you, then forget about you once you're out of his sight. And for Pika's sake whatever you do, don't under any circumstances..."
Metabee interrupted Sakura. "Yo, Sakura, can you come here for a sec?"
"What is it?" Sakura walks to Metabee, leaving Yugi trying to remember every important tip she has given...
Keitaro slips on his shoes. He's feeling very nervous about what's he's going to do.
"It's time, Kei-kun," Sakura said from the door.
Keitaro stood up and ties up his tie. "Let's do it."
Seto was with his manager.
"Any sign of Ketchum?" Seto asked.
"Not for a few hours. You want him out? I can kick him out of the region for violating parole."
"No," Seto said. "Keep an eye on him. He's here for a reason and I want to know what it is. If he goes near Misty..."
"The Baldy?"
Seto walked off, giving the manager the answer he needs.
Outside Kaiba Land Game Corner, Keitaro was waiting when he sees Seto.
"Mr. Kaiba."
"Mr. Urashima, it's a very busy night. Are we on schedule?" Seto asked.
"I have no reason to otherwise. My couriers will arrive momentarily."
A van appeared and Koji and Koichi got out in Bodyguard outfits, with Koichi having a briefcase handcuffed to him.
"Sir, a gift from Madam Daidouji." The briefcase was handcuffed to Keitaro's wrist.
"Shall we?" Keitaro asked.
James got a new position to work from as he keeps an eye on Seto and Kaiba while dealing cards.
"Damn, Dealer bust."
Seto and Keitaro walked through the game corner with their security, Seto happens to see Ash at the slot machines. Seto whispered to a guard. "Find the Manager. Tell him that Ketchum is at the slots."
The guard walked off and Seto continues walking until a certain point.
"I'm afraid that I cannot allow any private security personnel past a certain point. I hope you don't mind," Kaiba said.
"Of course not."
As Koji and Koichi were about to walk off, someone recognizes Keitaro.
"Keitaro? Keitaro Urashima? Is that you?"
Keitaro tries to ignore the person, but the person was trying to get Keitaro's attention.
"Keitaro, it's me, your old friend from Tokyo U?"
"Shirai, Haitani." Keitaro's eyes gave the order. Dispose of him before he ruins everything.
Koji and Koichi carried the man away. Keitaro looks back at Seto. "Mr. Kaiba, please. I never like the touch of steel on my skin."
The two men continued on.
At the slots, Ash decided to play one game of Slots. Three Bars. He wins some money, but this is not what he wants. Ash looks around and notices an American woman behind him watching the two American women on Ash's left and right. Ash quickly grabbed the woman behind him and puts her on his chair. "Piper, you won."
Ash quickly walks off.
End of Part 5