The 'Height Wars'- samuraiduck27
Plot- PsychoKitty13
A/N: Hello, minna-san! Guess what? UPDATE! This is why I love short ficcies… and getting a second writing-wind. Seriously, I'm on a fricking roll lately!
PK13: And you won't shut up about it… though this is kinda nice that I don't have to bug you constantly about updating right now…
SD27: Keywords being 'right now', PK-chan.
DISCLAIMER: SD27 doesn't own anything but Niiro-chan and SD in this ficcie. PK13 owns PK, Rakir,and the plot idea. All anime characters and copyrighted material belong to their respective owners.
SD27: Yada yada yada… ONWARDS!
Chapter 3- It Begins… Dun Dun Dun…
"WHAT? You mean to tell me that damn raven was sneaking in here? RAWR! I will get PK for this… how dare she use my tactics!"
"…She's talking to a fox."
"A fox that apparently is listening to her."
Niiro-chan had returned a little while earlier to the CIA HQ, and the little micro-camera - courtesy of an easily persuaded Seto (Mokuba's doing)- attached to his neck was removed and looked at by the slightly-insane leader of the army. While SD ranted on about PK's supposed tactic-copying, the members of the CIA who were within close proximity gave odd looks at the girl and her pet.
"Why would a fox be listening to a nut job like her?" Seto scoffed.
Unforunately for him, the younger Kaiba had overheard his little comment.
"Nii-sama! Be nice!" he said, frowning at his older brother, who shrugged.
SD, however, was oblivious to all that was going on behind her as she began talking to the russet-colored kit at her feet. Ed, Hiei, and an unwilling Yugi had gone to go work on battle stratagem, while the younger members- Rebecca, Mokuba, and Shippo- were huddled around a computer in the corner, muttering amongst themselves while Seto played 'Big Brother' to the fullest and kept a sharp eye on them at all times.
Kenshin had disappeared off to Kami-knows-where, Misao was sent to go find him, and Koenma was sitting in one of the chairs, talking a small nap.
SD finished looking through what she could see of the ATP meeting, and growling over the fact that PK had acquired a list of her members, she muttered random things under her breath and rubbed her temples in frustration.
After she had calmed down sufficiently, she sighed and yelled over to the preteens/kitsune in the corner, "Hey! Mokuba! C'mere, will you?"
Hearing his name, the jet-haired boy got out of his seat and ran towards the older girl, "Yeah? You needed me, SD?"
She handed him the camera chip and he nodded, "So it went okay?"
"Yeah… I need you to figure out where the heck PK's base is at; apparently they ordered pizza during the meeting and Niiro-chan got a good look at the outside of the base, as well as the area around it. It looks familiar, but I dunno."
Mokuba nodded and picked up Niiro-chan, who was chewing on his sneaker laces, "I'll try and find out; can I take Niiro with me?"
"Mokuba… I don't want you anywhere near that animal." Seto's voice growled out from his seat as he watched the two.
The pair ignored him though, "Sure, go ahead. Just make sure he doesn't take anything shiny from you guys, or swipes the mouse ball."
"So we've got a shipment of red and blue on backorder with the company, and how many cases of silver did you get, Yugi?"
"About ten; why do we have to be in charge of this, Ed?"
Red eyes flashed as Ed was cut off from answering. "Hn. Because- we're the strategists of this sorry group."
"Well, then why the heck isn't Kaiba here?"
Ed, Hiei, and Yugi were in one of the smaller rooms of the HQ, calling up weaponry suppliers and getting orders placed. The guidelines for the weapons- as put down by "the Almighty SD-sama"- were that
One) It had to be non-lethal.
Two) It had to pack a punch.
Three) It needed to be flashy, but easy to use.
And Four) The more money it costs, the better, as cheap weaponry usually equals cheap efficiency.
So… the three put their heads together, and Hiei was surprisingly the one to find a good solution. So, they called up various places, and they had gotten a good amount of ammo for the team.
"We still need the protective gear though; you never know what the other side'll come up with." Ed remarked as he looked at the list of items and the cost of them all.
Yugi frowned as he looked at the item list as well, "True… but according to SD, the other side's leader isn't too intelligent, so maybe we're over thinking this and we should go with a truce?"
"Truce? That's treason! I should hang you by your thumbs in the dungeons!"
The three turned around at the roar of SD's voice as she walked into the room. The slightly insane glint in her eye had returned and she looked down at Yugi with a frown.
"You're supposed to be on my side! My battle planners extraordinaire! But… you're plotting against me…that, that, that's NOT NICE!"
(Did we mention that SD has discovered the wonder known as caramel covered, coffee-flavored candy? No? Well… it explains the insane-ness and mood swings. Moving on…)
"Do you even have dungeons, Onna?" Hiei scoffed, smirking at the look or apprehension on Yugi's face.
SD frowned and seemed to ponder this question for a second, "…No; no I don't. I need to make some." she pulled a walkie-talkie out of her pocket and buzzed it, "Seto! Make me some dungeons!"
There was a static-like sound for a second before the voice of a slightly confused Seto came from the plastic device, "I could have sworn for a minute you asked me to make you some dungeons, Zephyr."
"-Beep- Yeah, I did. I want them done in about twenty minutes, okay?"
"…-Beep- I am not making you dungeons. And why the hell would you need them? And in twenty minutes- that's humanly impossible."
"-Beep- Please, Setooooooooooooooo? I'll cry!"
Ed raised an eyebrow at the conversation and muttered to Hiei, "Remind me why we're here again?"
The fire demon rolled his eyes and didn't reply to the question. The blonde boy sighed and returned to listening to the CIA leader plead futilely with the teenaged CEO.
"I don't give a damn if you cry or not; I am not one of your short little lackeys and I will not do your work!"
As if on cue, the four members of the room yelled, "WHO ARE YOU CALLING SHORT?" into the walkie-talkie.
"-Beep- …That hurt my ears you know."
SD gave a grin to the walkie-talkie, "That's what you get for not listening to your almighty leader!" she chirped.
"-Beep- I don't take orders from people half my size."
"-Beep- Well, it's a good thing I'm taller than that, then!"
Yugi could just hear the smirk in Seto's tone as the bantering went on, He's going to say something stupid soon… I just know it.
And how right he was…
"-Beep- Not by much though, Zephyr. Mokuba's almost as tall as you- and he's eleven!"
"-Beep- WHY YOU… OMAE O KO-"
Yugi snatched the receiver from the enraged girl and, making sure he clicked the button off, started pounding it into the desk harshly so it began to crack. Ed and Hiei raised an eyebrow at this while SD gaped in horror.
"You… you killed my walkie-talkie…" SD managed to get out.
Yugi put on his innocent face, "No I didn't."
"But… but…"
Yugi cut her off with another question while he hid the broken object behind his back, "What did you need, Miss Zephyr? You came in here for a reason, ne?"
SD blinked and looked around, "Oh yeah… sheesh. I really got to stop eating that candy- it's making me hallucinate about walkie-talkies... Oh yeah- I came in here to check on the progress you guys made."
Ed threw her the list and SD looked over it, "Ahh… I like this… who thought of it?"
"I did," Hiei grunted from his corner, "the Detective and the Fox forced me to use one of those things one day- they're easy to use, non-lethal but still painful, and fun to hit people in the eyes with."
The blonde and red-haired girl chuckled and looked to her second-in-command, "So Ed, how much is this costing us?"
A grin came from the amber-eyed alchemist, "Actually… we're getting a discount."
SD raised an eyebrow, "…How much of a discount?"
"They're just about free, seeing as the Braided Chibi here just about threatened to kill the ningen on the phone when he told us how much they were costing us." Hiei replied, ignoring the yelling coming from Ed about his newly acquired nickname.
"You did what?" SD blinked, "Good for you!"
Cue facefaults all around.
"So, were you able to get the location, Rebecca?" Mokuba asked, eyes scanning the screen where lines of typing were going by at a quick rate.
"Mmm… almost, Mokuba. It was dark, and the picture's a little blurry. The GPS device is having a bit of a hard time locating the area this was shot in." the girl replied.
Shippo, meanwhile, was talking with Niiro-chan. Oddly enough, the kitsune and the wizarding-bred (1) fox kit were able to speak and understand each other… don't ask how that works. Niiro-chan, being the oddly intelligent kit that he was, was able to sense the frustration of the two preteens in front of the computer, and decided to relay some of the information as to how he had gotten into the place through Shippo.
"Uh… guys? Niiro here says that there was a big bridge and river near the place, and that their headquarters isn't that big, like something called the "Great Hall"- whatever that is. Also, it's actually really close by."
Rebecca nodded, fixing her glasses as she typed in a search for bridges and rivers within a ten mile radius. A few seconds of the computer whirring and a page loading, they had their location. Mokuba looked over Rebecca's shoulder and raised an eyebrow.
"Close by is an understatement. Their HQ is only about 5 minutes away. Talk about easy access."
Shippo nodded, getting up from his seat. "I'll go find SD. She'll want to know this."
(1) Even though "Here We Go Again! SD and PK Take on Hogwarts" isn't part of this reality and the Duo never went to Hogwarts, Niiro-chan and Rakir are still very smart, wizarding-bred pets. How did the Duo find them, then? The answer is loop-holes, my dear reader. Authoress-made loop-holes.
A/N: Well, another chapter done. Next one'll be all about PK and the ATP. Makes things a bit easier for me if I'm only focusing on one group at a time. Cookies to who can guess SD and the CIA's weapon of choice is!
Well… I need sleep, it's 11:35, and PK's been asleep for Ra knows how long- jerk never replied to my email… (pouts)
Ja mata, minna-san!
SD27