Chapter 4

The two Kaiba brothers and Emma entered the presentation room where three guests, two boys and one girl, were waiting. With Emma in lead they descended the stairs that led down in to a curved seating area. The room was huge and at the top were windows that looked out from the control room for the product that would later be revealed. The control room however was empty as all the things that needed to be done today could be done via remote control so the extra staff wasn't necessary for the big reveal.

"Who are these people?" Kaiba asked Emma curiously.

"I held three different competitions to win the chance to be here for the presentation, and these are the winners." Emma informed him of how she had chosen the guests which she was left in charge of arranging.

They could hear the three guests talking as they got nearer.

"Even without the King of Games title, he's still a far superior duellist than what Yugi will ever be." Said a boy with black hair who was wearing a soccer shirt and dueldisk. The other two nodded in agreement.

"At least we all agree on something." Said a boy with green hair, wearing a long black coat, as he glared coldly at the girl.

"Yeah well I still think that Ishizu wasn't a worthy opponent for him during Battle City." Said the girl who had short black hair with blue highlights, as she glared back in to icy cold blue eyes with her own grey eyes. "You two are obviously blinded by her appearance because she's nothing more than a …."

"Welcome to Kaiba Corp." Emma said interrupting the girl's sentence. "I hope that our staff have been friendly and helpful, and that transportation met the high standards that were set for them." she wanted to make sure they had been treated right and that the limo rides had done there job of impressing them. She didn't want to mess up and ruin Kaiba's good company name in the process. "Before we continue any further please allow me to introduce you to Seto Kaiba himself."

The three guests stood next to each other as Kaiba was made to welcome each one. Emma searched through her papers to find the details that she had on each of the competition winners.

"This is Andrew." Emma said as they stood next to the boy with dark hair and dueldisk. "He won the small duelling tournament. Notes from the judges say that he duels using a deck similar to your own, and shows respect for all of his opponents regardless of their experience with the Duel Monsters game."

"It's a pleasure to finally meet you." said Andrew as he shook Kaiba's hand. "And I was wondering if, when this whole presentation thing is over, you would honour me with a duel?"

"We'll see." replied Kaiba before he moved along to the girl who was next in line.

"This is Zene. She won the competition for knowing the most knowledge about you and your company. Notes from the judges say that she knew every single detail that had ever been made public." Emma watched as Kaiba slowly and uneasily shook hands with the girl who he knew nothing about, and in return she knew a fair bit about him.

"I knew that I'd get to meet you someday." Zene smiled as she noticed the worried look that was starting to appear on Kaiba's face. "Don't look so worried, I'm not a stalker or some crazed fan girl."

"Thanks, I think." Kaiba said unsurely as he took back his hand and moved along to meet the last guest.

"And finally we have Marcus. He won the cosplay contest. Notes from the judges say that he looked so much like his impersonation and even had the same attitude." Emma braced herself for Kaiba's reaction.

"I wonder who your impersonation was of." Kaiba said as he held out his hand.

Marcus ignored the hand shake gesture and just glared at Kaiba.

Kaiba turned and glared at Emma as he realised that he was the one that Marcus had impersonated. He was not amused.

"This contest was your brother's idea, not mine." Emma explained as she felt his stare burn through her.

Kaiba turned to face Mokuba who was hiding his amusement behind both of his hands. Kaiba's expression lightened as he watched his brother laugh, and began to see the funny side of it.

The door to the presentation room opened and Kaiba's bodyguard called down to Emma. "Miss Pegasus, the rest of your guests have arrived."

"Thank you Roland, please send them through and close the doors." Emma shouted back up as she put down her folder on the table at the side of the room.

"Are you any relation to Maximillion Pegasus?" Andrew asked her with a curious look on his face.

"He's my brother." Emma nodded, as she saw Andrew look surprised by the answer. Zene just stared at her with an expression that was hard to make out just what she was thinking. Marcus stared at her too, his stare was cold and unfriendly and Emma knew that she wasn't going to get along very well with him. She moved away towards the stairs to greet the new guests and also to escape any further conversation about her brother.

Kaiba joined her in her walk. "I guess you've invited more fans for me to greet." he said in a half amused tone.

"Well actually ….." Emma laughed nervously as laughter could be heard and Yugi and the rest of the gang appeared in the doorway.

"You invited the Geek Squad!" Kaiba gaped in an over-exaggerated surprise.

"Insult them all you like but they're still my friends." Emma sighed before adding. "And I don't believe that you're surprised about this one bit." She continued her way as Kaiba remained where he was.

"Hey Em." An over excited Joey waved down at her. "There's someone I wanna introduce ya to." He dragged a girl behind him down the stairs to meet Emma. "This is my sister, Serenity."

"Hi." smiled Serenity.

"Hi." Emma smiled back. "I've heard so much about you, mainly because Joey hasn't talked about anything else since you told him that you would be visiting." she glanced at Joey before returning to speak to Serenity. "So how was your journey?"

"I have a bad case of jetlag, but it was worth it just to see everybody again, and to finally meet you too." Serenity answered.

"Aw thanks. Hope you don't mind but I need to talk to your brother for a moment." Emma pulled Joey to one side away from Serenity and the others who had begun to join them. "Your sister is the secret person that you were inviting!" she hissed at him.

"Yeah, she arrived last night and I thought it'd be a cool surprise." Joey said almost unable to control his excitement.

"I thought that you had invited Mai." Emma said hitting herself on the forehead before resting it on her palm. She saw Joey wear that look that he always wore anytime that somebody suggested that the two of them were an item. Emma wondered if she looked like that every time that he suggested the same about Kaiba and herself. "She is supposed to be your friend after all, but you don't seem to involve her with anything that you do. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if the poor girl started to think that she didn't have any friends."

"Well if she does, then it's not my fault that she doesn't know how to use a phone." Joey said, indicating that Mai should be the one to call him.

"Zip it Wheeler." Kaiba broke apart the conversation. "In case you haven't noticed Emma has a presentation to be getting on with and doesn't have time to stand around chatting to you."

Emma glared at Kaiba as Joey walked away mumbling. She hated the way that he switched from the person that she got along with so well to somebody else whenever the others were around. She never could understand why he did that, and hated the way that he also changed towards her during that time too. She got the hint that told her to hurry up and start the presentation without welcoming the rest of her friends.

She made her way back to the table and opened her folder for her speech notes. "May I have your attention please?" Emma called out through the murmur of talking. "I would like to start by saying that due to unforeseen circumstances representatives of Checkmate and their guests are sadly unable to attend this presentation of their first joint product with Kaiba Corp. Therefore I would just like to state that we here at Kaiba Corp can not take all the credit for the final result."

Looking around the room she could see that she had full attention from everybody. The look she was receiving from Kaiba told her that he didn't think that the unplanned part of her speech was necessary. She continued; "As I'm sure that most of you are aware, Kaiba Corp prides itself with its high standards in technology that have changed the ways that we find to entertain ourselves, and 3DTV is about to become the new jewel in our crown." She clicked a button and a video demonstrating the new product played on the big screen that was behind her. "Combined with the efforts and knowledge of our co-partner, Checkmate, we are about to change the way that you watch television forever.

"3DTV allows you to watch your favourite programmes, films and events in full three dimensional holographic imagery in the comfort of your own home. Allowing each person to have their own one-of-a-kind perspective at any given time, you will never have to watch the same programme rerun ever again " Emma clicked another button on the remote and almost instantly the television screen projected the holographic images in front of and around them. She saw Kaiba smile as everybody gasped in amazement at what they were witnessing.

The video that was being shown wasn't anything fancy, just a duel between the two Kaiba brothers which had been recorded only a few days earlier. This was what Kaiba had originally intended to use 3DTV for, so that his next tournament would be able to be witnessed more realistically by people who were unable to attend the actual duel. But as Emma had pointed out, it would become more popular if it was aimed at a wider audience other than just Duel Monster fans.

As Mokuba was summoning what looked like a baby version of the Blue Eyes White Dragon the images began to flicker quite violently. Emma and Kaiba exchanged a look of panic as the new technology was malfunctioning at one of the worse possible times. There was nothing more unprofessional than having a new product showing any faults during the revealing. Emma had no choice but to stop the demonstration and apologize, but as she reached for the remote she felt herself become dizzy and dropped to the floor.