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Fanfic Chapter 130: Miles to Go
Episode Basis: Noah's Secret
Previously on Yu-Gi-Oh! The gang arrived just in time to hear Lector tell the story of how Kaiba acquired Kaiba Corporation from his step-father, Gozaburo. Kaiba recruited the Big-5 over to his side and they started buying up shares of Kaiba Corp. But something was wrong, somebody was betraying them to Gozaburo and all the signs pointed to… Mokuba! Mokuba turned to Gozaburo who gave him 2 percent of Kaiba Corp. in return for ratting his brother out. So when the time came, Kaiba wouldn't be able to get the percentage he needed to seize control. At least that was the plan. But Mokuba betrayed Gozaburo and gave his share to Kaiba. Back at the duel, Kaiba was able to free up his magic cards and summon his Blue-Eyes White Dragon to destroy the Satellite Cannon in deep space. But it's not over yet, Mokuba is still in Noah's grip and who knows what kind of plans Noah has for the young Kaiba.
"How could you still be on Seto's side after he used you to take control of Kaiba Corp.?"
"I'll stand by my brother no matter what!"
Incredible, Noah thought astonished. Even after everything I showed him, he's still loyal to Seto. His brow scrunched up in fury. I'm sick of Seto getting everything and leaving me with nothing! I want what he has and I'll start with Little Mokuba. I'll take the one thing in the world Seto thought he would never lose… his baby brother. "What do you think your brother's thinking right now?" Mokuba looked at him confused. "Do you honestly think he's coming here to rescue you?"
"What kind of a stupid question is that?" Mokuba snapped. "Of course he will!"
"Are you sure? Maybe you should ask him yourself, he's standing over there." Noah pointed behind them. Mokuba turned and saw that Kaiba was indeed standing behind him.
"Seto!" Mokuba leapt off the couch and ran over to him. "I knew you would come, I…" Kaiba raised his hand and shoved Mokuba to the ground. "Seto?"
"Stay away," Kaiba commanded. "Don't come any closer!"
"Seto, what's going on?"
"I'm sick of you holding me back," Kaiba snapped. "You're the reason why I'm trapped here to begin with!" Then he turned and began to walk away.
"Seto, wait!" Mokuba called but Kaiba was already disappearing into the darkness. "Seto…"
"Seems like your brother doesn't care about you any more," Noah commented coming up next to Noah. "But I, on the other hand, do." He leaned down until he was eye-length with Mokuba. "I do care about what happens to you." Noah's eyes began to glow red. Mokuba's eyes did likewise. Noah embraced Mokuba, "I'm the only one you can trust."
"The only one I can trust," Mokuba repeated in a droning voice.
The light particles from Lector's disappearing act were still in the air. The others were still trying to accept the fact that they have finally beaten The Big-5.
Suddenly Noah's voice filled the sky, "You may have won the duel, you fool," Noah said (apparently to Kaiba only) "but you lost something much more important: your brother!
"Where's Mokuba!" Kaiba demanded to know.
"Just look down." The missing section of the bridge was filled and a tunnel appeared on the other side of Kaiba. Kaiba started to walk towards the tunnel.
"Kaiba, wait," Yugi called. "It might be a trap!"
"Stay out of this, Yugi," Kaiba returned.
"Who does he think he is, Master of the Universe?" Joey cracked sarcastically.
"This doesn't concern any of you, this if family business!"
"Bah, who needs him," Joey said dismissively.
"Yeah," Duke agreed.
"Guys, we need to help him, for Mokuba if anyone."
"Yeah, and we might even find my body while we're at it," Tristan added from the back of the truck.
"Yeah, Tristan's right," Serenity spoke up.
"Oh thank you, Serenity, I knew you would agree with me." Tristan leapt at Serenity but Duke caught him by the tail and pulled him back.
"For all we know, you're Noah's pet," he pointed out.
"I'm nobody's pet," Tristan said as he and Duke began wrestling.
Ignoring Tristan's and Duke's squabble, Yugi stared at the tunnel. "We can't let Kaiba go alone," he decided and took off.
"Yugi, wait up," Tea called as she ran after him.
"Hey wait for me," Harold said as he followed suit. "Somebody's got to keep you two in check."
Joey was still sulking, "I'm sick of helping out that rich snob and not getting any thanks."
"Me too," Duke agreed. "If we were in trouble, Kaiba wouldn't even think about helping us out."
"I don't care about what Kaiba thinks," Serenity said firmly. "I'm going to do the right think and help rescue Mokuba and Tristan's body!" And she turned and ran to the tunnel.
"Serenity, wait," Joey called. Then he sighed and followed her as did Duke.
"Hey what about me," Tristan called pulling at the rope. "Hello, I'm still here!"
"I got you," Amara said untying Tristan from the truck.
"So does this mean you believe me?" Tristan asked.
"No, I just don't believe in animal cruelty," Amara said fitting Tristan on her shoulder.
Serenity was almost at the tunnel when it suddenly disappeared.
"Yugi, Tea, Harold, hang on," Joey said.
Kaiba reached a fork in the tunnel. He cursed Noah and his tricks then took the right fork.
"Help!" Kaiba skidded to a halt. Someone was calling for help and it sounded like Mokuba.
"Mokuba? Mokuba!" Kaiba turned into a side tunnel and saw someone standing in the darkness. "Mokuba, is that you?"
The kid turned around. The clothes he was wearing was Mokuba's but it wasn't Mokuba, it was Noah. Laughing, he floated into the air as a bright flash of light engulfed both of them.
Yugi and Tea came to the same intersection.
"Which way?" Yugi wondered.
"This way," Tea instructed taking the left fork. "Kaiba went this way."
"Are you sure?"
"Nope, just following woman's intuition."
"Oh, woman's intuition," Yugi parroted. "Hey wait up, Tea, your legs are longer than mine!"
The two continued running until they saw a bright light. They came out into a forest in front of an old mansion.
"What is this place?" Yugi wondered.
"I don't know, looks like an old house," Tea said. They could hear a baby crying in the distance. "Yugi, did you hear that?"
"Yeah, sounded like a baby."
"In a place that creepy, it must be alone. We have to find it."
Yugi noticed an old brass nameplate that was covered with dust. He brushed most of the dust out of it.
KAIBA
"This is Kaiba's house!" Yugi gasped.
"Impossible, there's no way Kaiba would live in a dump like that. And what's with the baby?"
"Maybe if we find the baby, we'll find a clue as to what's going on here," Yugi guessed.
"You think so?"
"Nope, just following Duelist's intuition," Yugi said with a smile.
Harold also came to the same intersection that Yugi, Tea, and Kaiba came to. "Great, now where? Oh well, when in doubt, take the right path." He went down the right-hand path. He went around corners until he started to wonder if he was going the correct way. Suddenly there was a flash of light and he was falling.
"NOT AGAIN," he screamed.
Yami-Marik kicked a wall with his foot. "Where are those fools?" He asked. "If I'm going to receive the ultimate power, I need the Millennium Puzzle and the other two Egyptian God Cards! Where could they be?"
"They are dealing with a more immediate concern than you right now." Yami-Marik turned and saw a piece of an off-white dress peeking out from around the corner. Even without seeing her face, Yami-Marik knew it was Ishizu.
"What do you mean?"
"They are dealing with a bigger threat than you are right now. And until they defeat this greater threat, you will not get what you seek."
Yami-Marik growled and kicked the wall again. "It's time to teach those fools where their immediate concern should lie." And he turned and stormed out.
"Are you sure that was wise?" Kevin asked. "To lie to him like that."
"How do you know I'm lying?" Ishizu asked back.
Yami-Marik stormed off the blimp, "I'll teach those fools that I am not to be discarded like rubbish!"
Kaiba came crashing into Noah's virtual waiting room. "Now where did that kid send me?" He wondered.
"Welcome to my home, Seto Kaiba."
Kaiba turned and saw Noah, now back in his white shirt and shorts. "Bring my brother here now," Kaiba demanded then noticed Mokuba peeking out from behind Noah. "Mokuba!"
"Safe and sound thanks to me," Noah said as a cage moved into position.
"But you're the one who kidnapped him in the first place so you better hand him over before I really get angry."
"How soon we forget, it was your ex-employee, Nesbitt disguised as Tristan who took Mokuba, without my permission I might add."
So Nesbitt did take over Tristan's body, concluded Kaiba.
"Maybe you should've been a better boss," Noah said. "I was the one who saved Mokuba, you should be thanking me."
Kaiba just stomped over to Mokuba, "Come on, Mokuba, we're leaving." He took Mokuba's arm and started to lead him away.
"No!" Mokuba shouted to Kaiba's surprise. He ran back to Noah. "Why, Kaiba, why did you stand by and watch them kidnap me? I'm staying with Noah, my real brother!"
Kaiba looked like he was just slapped by his Egyptian God Card. He looked at Noah, "What did you do to Mokuba?"
"Mois? I didn't do a thing," Noah said shrugging. "Maybe all those times you shouted at him finally broke him down."
Kaiba turned back to Mokuba, "Mokuba, snap out of it!"
"It'll take more than yelling to undo all the painful memories of you abandoning him to pursue your own selfish ambitions."
"It's a lie, I would never treat Mokuba that way!"
"Of course you wouldn't," Noah said sarcastically. He then tilted his head like he was listening for something. "Oh, we're about to have a visitor."
On cue, Harold appeared tumbling into the cage. "Ow, that hurt," he moaned. He looked at his surroundings. "Huh, where am I? Kaiba!"
Kaiba looked briefly at Harold. "Harold?"
"What the heck is going on here?"
"Somehow, Noah's brainwashed Mokuba."
"What?"
"What you call brainwashing I call showing the truth. And soon, Seto, you will have nothing! And do you know why you will have nothing? Because you deserve nothing!"
Yugi and Tea made their way through the mansion looking for the source of the crying. Yugi burst into an old room that looked like a nursery. Inside a crib was a rattle.
"This whole place is empty," Tea said coming into the room with him. "What's that you got?"
"A rattle," Yugi said showing the object in question.
"Wow, I guess I'd be crying too if I was trapped in a big scary old house without my rattle."
"I'm beginning to suspect that there was never a baby in here to begin with?"
"So then what did we hear outside? Some sort of sound file?"
"Maybe." Yugi noticed a picture on a side table. He picked it up and saw that it showed two people. The smaller boy standing was clearly Noah, but Yugi didn't recognize the stocky man sitting in the chair.
"Who's that?" Tea asked referring to the man.
"I don't know, maybe Kaiba would know. We'll ask him next time we see him."
Tristan sighed as he laid on the edge of the bridge. A fog had arisen and made it hard to travel so they were now waiting for the others. "Waiting is boring," he complained. He looked into the water and saw four sets of eyes staring at him. "Uh… guys, what has eight eyes and lives underwater?"
"Is that a joke?" Serenity asked.
"I'm really not in the mood for humor, monkey boy," Joey said nonplussed.
"I'm serious, guys, you should look over here."
"He probably just wants attention," Amara said while lying in the truck bed.
"Listen, robo-runt, zip your lip or I'll dissect you," Duke threatened.
Suddenly a water spout burst up and four figures appeared: Gansley, Crump, Johnson, and Lector in their Deck Master forms.
"It's four of the Big-5," Joey recognized. "Can't you clowns leave us alone?"
"Not until we win your bodies," Gansley said.
"Oh no," Serenity said distraught.
"Relax, Serenity, those four losers couldn't duel their way out of a paper bag," her brother assured her.
"And who said we wanted to duel you for them?" Crump asked.
"Huh?"
"We prefer to gain our bodies the old fashion way," Lector explained. "Taking them by force!"
Serenity grabbed Tristan and carried him over to the truck. "Can they do that, Joey?"
"I'm not waiting around to find out," Joey said activating his Duel Disk and inserting his deck. He summoned Baby Dragon (1), Rocket Warrior, Little-Winguard, Swordsman of Landstar, and Battle Warrior (2) and sent them into battle. As the remaining members of the Big-5 did battle, Joey tried starting up the truck but it wasn't turning over. Serenity with Tristan climbed into the cab and Duke and Amara jumped into the bed. The truck finally turned over just as the Big-5 was finishing off Joey's monsters. With a loud screech, Joey took off down the bridge. The Big-5 gave chase.
Amara searched through her deck as Joey swerved to avoid an attack by Lector. "Joey, keep it even, will you?"
"Sure, if you don't mind being body-napped!" Joey snapped.
"Well if I'm going to have my body taken over, they're going to have to work for it," Amara said. "I summon Witch of the Black Forest (3), Beautiful Headhuntress (4), Kanan the Swordmistress, Succubus Knight (5), and Dancing Elf (6)! Hopefully, they'll be able to hold them off in time for us to get away." But the Big-5 were already making quick work of even Succubus Knight, one of Amara's strong monsters.
"It's time you learned the truth," Noah decided. A projection came alive with an image of Noah standing in front of Gozaburo Kaiba.
"Hey, I found another door!" A door appeared and opened and Yugi and Tea walked in. "Now where are we?"
"Yugi, Tea," Harold called.
"Harold, what are you doing up there?" Yugi asked.
"Just hanging around," Harold replied dryly.
Noah rolled his eyes, "It seems I'm just so popular today."
"Tea, you go show Kaiba what we found, I'll free Harold," Yugi instructed.
"Right."
"So, Yugi, any idea on how to free me?" Harold asked.
"Just one," Yugi said activating his Duel Disk and drawing a card. "I summon Alpha the Magnet Warrior (7)!" A strange humanoid magnet carrying a sword appeared. "Alpha, cut down that cage!" Alpha leapt up and sliced through the cage causing Harold to fall to the floor.
"Thanks," Harold said rubbing his sore butt.
"No problem."
Meanwhile Tea went up to Kaiba. "Kaiba, does this mean anything to you?" She showed him the picture she and Yugi found in the mansion.
"It's just another trick," Kaiba dismissed.
"What do you mean?" Tea asked as Yugi and Harold came up behind her.
"It's a picture of Noah with my step-father, Gozaburo."
"That's Gozaburo Kaiba?" Yugi asked. "But how does Noah know him?"
"Watch this movie and you'll find out," Noah said as the video started.
The five of them watched as Gozaburo pulled out a picture of young Seto from his desk. "I want you to meet my latest business acquisition," he told Noah. "His name is Seto and he's an extremely bright young man. And I plan on bringing him in so that you would work harder on your studies."
"Harder?" Noah asked.
"Yes, you're going to have to prove that you have the intellect to run Kaiba Corp. some day."
"I won't disappoint you, Father."
Yugi, Harold, Tea, and Kaiba all gasped at this. Kaiba was especially taken aback.
"It's true," present day Noah confirmed. "I am Gozaburo's one true son and you were just one of his servants."
"It's not true," Kaiba argued.
"Yes it is, and now the time has come for me to reclaim my rightful position as head of my father's empire! Looks like you're out of a job, Seto."
"Wait, if you're Gozaburo's only son, why haven't I met you before?" Kaiba asked.
"The answer is quite simple, Seto, you see I was…" An alarm went off as a new video image was played, one of Joey, Amara, Serenity, Duke, and Tristan being chased by the Big-5.
"Joey and the others are in trouble," Yugi said horrified.
"Those fools," Noah grumbled. "They're breaking my rules again. Excuse me." Noah started to disappear.
"Noah, wait," Kaiba called but Noah had totally vanished.
Their entire area shattered like broken glass leaving the four of them suspended in mid-air.
"Have to move fast," Yugi said as he drew a card. "Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress!"
"Wingweaver!" Harold called.
"Blue-Eyes White Dragon," Kaiba summoned. The Winged Dragon picked up Yugi and Tea while Kaiba's and Harold's monsters carried them to safety.
Lector used Jinzo's trap-destroying beam to knock out the road in front of the truck causing Joey to swerve out of control and crash catapulting Duke and Amara away. Joey, Serenity, and Tristan hauled themselves through the top window of the cab.
"Sorry, guys," Joey said helping Serenity out of the truck. "I tried my best."
"Your best wasn't good enough, Joseph," Johnson said as he, Crump, and Lector walked up to them.
"Joey, I'm scared," Serenity said cuddling Tristan (much to Tristan's delight).
"I don't think you're scared enough," Gansley said throwing Duke and Amara with the others. "Now, let's pick out a body shall we."
"Can I get one of the girls?" Crump asked.
"And who says you get to decide first?" Johnson asked. "I'm the judge, I should render a verdict."
"Oh quit that legal crap," Crump snapped. "I want a body and I want it now!"
"Quit your whining," Lector said. "There are plenty of bodies for you two to choose from."
"Yes so choose," Gansley threw in.
"Well, guys, looks like this is it," Joey said.
Suddenly the four Duel Monsters were strafed with fireballs and energy attacks. Everyone looked to see Wingweaver, Winged Dragon, and Blue-Eyes White Dragon descend.
"It's Seto Kaiba and those other twerps," Lector realized.
"Leave them alone," Yugi shouted.
"Get them," Lector commanded and the four of them flew up to meet them.
Suddenly a large tornado separated the competing powers. Johnson, Crump, Lector, and Gansley were all sucked into it.
Noah's voice could be heard, "I warned what would happen to you fools if you broke my rules," he said. "Now suffer the consequences." The tornado sucked the Duel Monsters up into the sky and disappeared.
The Duel Monsters landed and Yugi and his friends were reunited.
Kaiba was the only one not happy, just staring at the picture.
"Kaiba," Yugi said walking up to him. "Do you think what Noah said about being your step-brother is true?"
"Noah's just trying to mess with my mind, Yugi," Kaiba said.
"How so?"
"The conversation he supposedly had with Gozaburo would've taken place six years ago which was when this picture was taken based on the inscribed date. But look closely at the photograph itself and you'll see why I believe it's a hoax."
Yugi looked at the picture carefully. It looked legit to him, Noah looking the same…
Yugi realized it, "Noah looks the same back then as he does now!"
"But if that's true, then that means that Noah hasn't aged in over six years," Tea concluded. "How is that possible?"
The End
Duel Monster Database
(1)
Name: Baby Dragon
Level: 3
Type: Dragon
Attribute: Wind
ATK: 1200
DEF: 700
(2)
Name: Battle Warrior
Level: 2
Type: Warrior
Attribute: Earth
ATK: 700
DEF: 1000
(3)
Name: Witch of the Black Forest
Level: 4
Type: Spellcaster/Effect
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 1100
DEF: 1200
(4)
Name: Beautiful Headhuntress
Level: 4
Type: Warrior
Attribute: Earth
ATK: 1600
DEF: 800
(5)
Name: Succubus Knight
Level: 5
Type: Warrior
Attribute: Dark
ATK: 1650
DEF: 1300
(6)
Name: Dancing Elf
Level: 1
Type: Fairy
Attribute: Wind
ATK: 300
DEF: 200
(7)
Name: Alpha the Magnet Warrior
Level: 4
Type: Rock
Attribute: Earth
ATK: 1400
DEF: 1700