ME: This is based on a fic that I read on another sight. I only own Evangeline.
Seto watched his younger brother play in the park with the other kids, amazed at Mokuba's maturity. It was easy to forget sometimes that Mokuba was only ten, though at times like this Seto was glad he could watch his brother play and be a child now. Joey was playing with the kids too, looking much like an overgrown child himself, and Seto had to laugh at his lover's antics. Mokuba had convinced Seto to open his heart to the blond that he had wanted for so long, to find that Joey had the same feelings for him.
As Seto watched his brother and his love play in the crowd, he became acutely aware of a blazing siren that startled him out of his reverie. "What the fuck!" he cursed, running to his small family. "Come on! Hurry up!" he said, ushering them to his limo that waited just outside the park gate for them.
"Shit! Is that what I think it is?" Joey asked as they got into the Limo.
"Probably." Seto said. About twenty minutes later, they were going into Seto's mansion and taking the elevator to the shelter that the millionaire had installed a few years ago.
"Seto, what's going on?" Mokuba asked.
"About twenty years ago, when the colonies had first started showing signs of hostility, Japan had installed warning sirens in case of military action, so all citizens would have a chance to get to the shelters." Joey explained.
"How do we know it's not a drill or something?" Mokuba asked.
"For one thing, drills are quieter." Seto said.
"Hey what about Yugi and the others?" Joey asked, naturally worried for his friends.
"I'm sure they made it to their shelters." Seto said, "For now there's not much we can do except wait it out."
The next day the sirens stopped and Seto's small family emerged to survey the damage. The Kaiba mansion was untouched, but about half the city had been reduced to rubble by the bombings. Quickly the three of them checked the shelters for the emerging gang, whisking them into Seto's limo as they were found. Yugi was hysterical with a need to search for Grandpa, who hadn't made it to their shelter, so they set about looking for the old man.
Seto was ushering the group back to the limo when he heard a voice through his collar communicator (the little KC symbol he wore during battle city, it's like a cell phone). "Kaiba here." Seto said into the device that he always wore.
"Seto, I thought you might like to know some military goons are trying to break into your mansion." Noah's voice said over the miniature speaker.
"Damn!" Seto articulated, turning to the others. "I have to get back to the mansion, come on."
"You go on ahead; I need to help Yugi locate Grandpa." Joey said.
"Alright, Mokuba you're coming with me." Seto said, deciding that it would be a good idea to get his brother out of the scene of carnage. "I'm going to send a car to pick you all up in an hour if I cant make it back myself."
"Ok, see you later." Joey said as Seto and his brother got into the Limo.
About ten minutes later, Seto was leading his brother down the hall, listening to Noah's briefing on the intruders. The virtual boy had trapped them in one of the virtual reality rooms and was currently terrorizing them with Dual Monsters projections.
"Noah, could you herd them into my office?" Seto asked.
"No, but I can give you a replica of your office in my VR room." Noah said. "If you promise to bring Mokuba." Seto rolled his eyes at this request, but consented to it. During Battle City, Noah had discovered something after Gozoborono's defeat, or almost lack there of. Mokuba had somehow touched Noah's nonexistent heart, making the virtualized boy obsessed with the youngest Kaiba brother.
A moment later, they went into the VR room holding their guests and stepped into... Seto's office. The intruders weren't in that part of the room, so Seto took his seat at the desk and Mokuba took up the right flank while Noah materialized on Seto's other side with a smirk that made Seto roll his eyes again.
"Are you ready?" Noah asked. and Seto nodded. The door opposite of the desk, the one that wasn't there in Seto's actual office, opened and the intruders stumbled in. There were just over a half dozen of them, all military looking types, though Noah had somehow relieved them of their more dangerous equipment.
"Hello." Seto said coldly. "May I ask why you were caught breaking into the premises."
"We have an international search Warrant." one man said, stepping forward.
"And what, pray tell, are you searching for?" Seto asked, and if he hadn't known better he might have thought the temperature dropped suddenly.
When the man balked at answering Noah projected a roaring sound from the other room and the door gave the impression of creeping closer to the Goons.
"THE HOLOPROJECTOR TECHNOLOGY!" one of the men said, dropping to his knees clutching his ears. "They want to use it against the colonies!"
The first man who spoke up hit the cowering one hard to stop his blubbering then turned back to Seto. "Give us the information and we'll leave peacefully." Seto assumed he was their leader since everyone seemed to be taking orders from him.
"I'm NOT going to let my technology be used for war." Seto said, rising. "Come on." he said to Mokuba as he headed for the door that led out, and Mokuba followed him. Seto was almost to the door when he heard first Noah then Mokuba cry out, one with surprise and the other with pain. Seto whipped around to find that one military goon had captured Mokuba while another lat stunned under, or more accurately through, Noah's feet. The man holding Mokuba had a knife pressed to the boy's throat. "Shit..." Seto said.
"Don't Move!" leader said, "If you want your brother to live you'll give us a disk containing the software and blueprints for all of the holographic crap and you'll let us go free."
"You bastards!" Seto said, feeling completely helpless and full of rage at the same time. The billionaire looked imploringly at Noah but at the stricken look on the boys face realized he too felt the agony that came with Mokuba's capture and could think of nothing to do. "Fine." he said, nodding to Noah who snapped out of his stunned expression long enough to snap his fingers theatrically while activating a program to open up a section of the wall revealing a computer terminal that was integrated to one of the 'real' walls.
After a few minutes at the computer, it relinquished a CD in a clear jewel case to the elder Kaiba brother. "Here." He said turning back to where the goons had circled around the one holding Mokuba and the Leader stepped forward to take the disk from Kaiba. "Now release my brother."
"Not until we're home free, now lead the way out of this freak show." The man said, and Seto led the men out of the VR room and to the front yard where a helicopter waited for them. All of the men ran to the machine and clamed aboard taking Mokuba with them.
"YOU BASTARDS!" Seto yelled as the helicopter took off.
"We'll send him back when we're satisfied with the information you've given us." the leader yelled as Mokuba struggled against the men holding him.
"Big Brother!" he cried, kicking and fighting the men who were struggling to retain their grip on the boy.
"MOKUBA!" Seto yelled following the helicopter for a dozen paces. "Mokuba..." he whispered again as the helicopter went out of sight.
Mokuba continued to struggle long after the Kaiba mansion was lost from sight as the chopper flew away from the setting sun. "LET ME GO! LET ME GO!" Mokuba yelled kicking and biting until they gagged him. Unable to find or make restraints though, their leader pushed his head toward the open side of the chopper.
"Do you really want to jump into that?" the man asked as Mokuba looked to an endless expanse of water. Mokuba shook his head and tried to pull back from the yawping opening, though he couldn't distance himself from it until the man allowed him to back away. "Good." the man said and Mokuba found himself tossed into a corner on equipment that hadn't been used.
"What are we going to do with him?" one of the men asked, motioning to the now crying boy.
"If the disk is fake or not what we need, we'll kill him." the leader said dispassionately. "Why the hell didn't you capture the other one?"
"I tried to sir, but I passed right through when I tried to grab him." one of the men said.
"Well why was that?" the leader demanded, turning to Mokuba.
"Go to hell!" Mokuba said when they took the gag out of his mouth, only to be hit hard in the face.
"Tell us you fucking brat!" the leader said, beating Mokuba until the boy relented.
"Noah's mind was downloaded into a computer mainframe when his body was destroyed." Mokuba said miserably. "He was a hologram."
"So we couldn't grab him because he wasn't real? Why the hell was he there then?" another man asked.
"Yea, tell us!" some other guy demanded. "Come on..." he said soothingly, infuriatingly.
"Bastards!" Mokuba said.
"Aww, see." the leader said, "You need to stop letting your mouth run off like that." the man then punched Mokuba hard in the stomach. "Hmmm..." he said, running his calloused thumb along the boys lip.
"Ugh!" Mokuba said, trying to pull away from him.
"Come on boys what do you say we have a little fun?" the leader asked stepping closer to the boy, and most of the men laughed and jeered.
"That's sick!" one man said though, looking away.
"You're such a prude Solo!" some of the other men said, and Solo looked away upset.
Mokuba tried not to understand what was going on as a few of the men leered suggestively at him. "NO! Stay away from me!" he yelled as the leader reached for him again.
"That's enough!" Solo said standing up. "Its one thing to try to acquire more information, but you can't just torture him for your own amusement and pleasure!"
"Don't get your knickers in a twist!" the leader said sitting down. "We were just scaring the kid."
"Right..."Solo said, also sitting back down. For the next few hours of the trip they were all silent, until land came into view to the east of the chopper. Mokuba felt hope and despair war in his heart at that sight, and thinking quickly he made his plan.
"YOU BASTARDS! I WANNA GO HOME!" Mokuba yelled, throwing himself at the leader when the shore wasn't more than two miles from the chopper. The leader hit him several times on the head and shoulders, making the boy dizzy and disoriented but he regained enough wit to know what the next part of his plan called for. In the second it took for the men to realize that Mokuba hadn't been beaten and to reorganize themselves the boy threw himself out the side of the helicopter and fell into the icy waves below.
TBC