Like I said before, this was supposed to be all one chapter but it was too long so I split it…sorry bout that. But at least I got it up quick…
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! Or the Care Bears or Chef Foyarde or Elmer's glue or Eggo Waffles or Pop-tarts or George Forman or Cocoa puffs or Captain Crunch or anything else I mention in this chapty. So without further ado, bring on the food wars!
Nobody Cares Like a Bear
By Eveilly Autumns
Chapter 6: Hide and Seek in the Kaiba mansion part III
Secret and Friend bear were hiding inside two boxes on opposite sides of the attic, and speaking to each other. Or rather, Friend bear was speaking. But as they heard Kaiba's footsteps on the creaky doors they quieted down. Too late, Kaiba had heard Friend bear. And he knew the bear must be in one of the boxes. The voice had sounded like it had come from the right side…
CRASH! Kaiba began hurtling boxes away, frantically searching for the bear. Though Friend Bear tried to run to another box, Kaiba was over turning them too quickly and finally he found Friend bear beneath one. Kaiba was a little disappointed that it wasn't Sunshine he could kill…but not that much. He picked up Friend bear and was about to throw him across the room or strangle him, whichever came more naturally, when Secret bear came to the rescue.
Secret bear pushed down a pile of boxes on top of Kaiba and Friend bear just in time. Friend bear wasn't hurt, after all he was made of fluff. Kaiba wasn't injured either but he had to throw the boxes off of him to get up. Friend bear ran to join Secret bear by the door but Kaiba grabbed him again. Secret bear knocked some more boxes down so that Friend bear could squirm free and they ran for their lives. Kaiba ran after them as best he could but all the boxes were getting in his way. Friend bear and Secret bear were small enough to run past the big boxes with ease, and they reached the stairs before Kaiba did. Kaiba soon even began hurtling boxes at them but it was too late. They escaped down the stairs and over to his room before he could reach them.
Kaiba decided that it was no use searching for the bears any more. They couldn't hide forever. Some time they'd have to come out in the open, after all, they were trapped in his house. And once they did have to come out, that's when he'd catch them. But for now, Kaiba decided just to go to sleep and forget about the bears. He decided he'd only look for them if he happened to run into one…
Seto's Room
"WHAT!" Mokuba asked Friend bear. "HIS HAIR WAS PINK!"
"Well," Friend bear began, "Not all of it…just some of it…" Secret bear whispered something in Friend bear's ear. "Yeah, Secret bear says it was like blotches of pink."
"But how?" Mokuba asked, walking about Seto's room. At this point there were 7 bears in it—Tenderheart, Cheer Bear, Sherry bear, Wish Bear, Sunshine, and now Friend and Secret Bear.
"Well, it was because of this pink dye…" Sunshine began, a little shamefully.
"Pink dye?"
"Yeah, I squirted it at him…and it spilled on his trenchcoat…"
"His trenchcoat? Uh-oh, Seto's gonna be really mad about that…and he has been finding your hiding spots pretty fast…" Mokuba said worriedly.
"Yes, but we've been able to escape," Sherry pointed out.
"We have, but what about Baby Hugs and Tugs! They're just babies, how can they escape?" Wish Bear asked.
"Well, I'm not sure," Tenderheart began, "but those two seem to always find a way out of trouble…"
Kitchen
Of course Baby Hugs and Tugs always did manage to find a way out of trouble, but first they always managed to find a way into trouble.
"I'm bored, Tugs," Baby Hugs said.
"Me Too, Hugs, let's go exploring!" Baby Tugs suggested, and opened the cabinet door.
"But we're supposed to stay in our hiding spots," Baby Hugs said.
"But we're only leaving for a minute. We'll hide again if we hear anyone coming." Baby Hugs agreed that this reason was good enough and so she joined her twin on the countertop, and the two began to explore the many wonders of the kitchen.
"Tugs, what does this thing do?" Baby Hugs asked, pointing to a blender.
"That…well…it…it makes…candy! Yeah, that's what it does, it makes candy!" Baby Tugs answered triumphantly.
"Oooh! I want candy! Make candy, Tugs!" Baby Hugs urged.
"Well, see…er…you have to put the ingredients in it first…"
"Then let's find them!" Hugs said and so the two began to gather up foods to put in the 'candy making' blender. "Do we have to get sweet foods?"
"No…um…it can be any food," Tugs said, making it up as he went. And after a few minutes they had quite an assortment of food to choose from.
LIST OF FOOD
Milk
Eggs
Cherry limeade fruit drink
Oatmeal cookies
Bananas
Artichokes
Pineapple
Mashed potatoes
Chef Foyarde Canned stuff
Eggo waffles
Marshmallows
Peanut butter
Chicken legs
Pop-tarts (strawberry filled)
Cocoa puffs
Yes, this tantalizing menu of foods were placed in the blender and yes, they all fit as it was a very big blender (and expensive).
"What do we do now?" Baby Hugs asked.
"Well…we have to turn this thingie," Tugs said, referring to the dial.
"What does the thingie do?"
"Well, whichever word it points to is the type of candy it makes…" Tugs said.
"Oooh! I want chocolate! Which one is that?"
"This one!" Tugs said and pointed the dial to the very highest level it could go. "Now all we gotta do is turn it on…" and Tugs reached for the power switch, of course not realizing that the top was not on the blender…
Meanwhile in the hallway
Seto Kaiba was walking downstairs. He decided he'd take a drink of water before returning to bed. He headed for the kitchen…
Poor Seto, all he wanted was a little glass of water but instead he was greeted with a very large SPLAT as the blender whirled on and sent its half mixed contents flying everywhere. And naturally a huge blob of the milk/eggs/cherry limeade fruit drink/oatmeal cookies/bananas/artichokes/pineapple/mashed potatoes/Chef Foyarde canned stuff/Eggo waffles/marshmallows/peanut butter/chicken legs/pop-tarts (strawberry filled)/Cocoa Puffs mixture splatted him head-on so that his entire face was dripping with it.
"Oops…" the bear cub twins gasped as the mixture continued to fly everywhere, sticking to the walls like two day old Elmer's glue.
Kaiba had no idea what had happened when the blob hit him, but he wiped it off his face as best he could with his sleeve and grabbed a kitchen towel to try to wipe off the rest…but it didn't work so good. There were still some spots where apparently the peanut butter-marshmallow combo was sticking on hard. But he was able to see at least. And he saw the two frightened care bear cubs that had tackled him in their first meeting.
"Ummm, we're sorry," they said but it was too late. Kaiba was already charging like a bull towards them and so they ran for dear life across the countertop, knocking over some baskets, the toaster, a popcorn maker, a coffee pot, one of those George Foreman grills, and a slow-cooker as they went. Kaiba didn't even use half that stuff. They were just there for completeness.
"Quick Hugs, up here!" Tugs said, pointing to the cabinets that were higher up. He clamored up there first and was high enough to be out of Kaiba's immediate reach but poor Baby Hugs tripped on another kitchen towel and fell onto the counter.
"Tugs!" she called desperately.
"Hugs!" he called back, trying to think of what to do as Kaiba grabbed Hugs and began walking in the direction of the oven.
"Finally you'll get what you deserve, pathetic bears, you—" Kaiba began, but couldn't finish because he felt a sneeze coming on. "Ah—ah—achoo!" he sneezed, dropping Hugs in the process and began sneezing some more as she scurried to safety with Tugs who was looking rather proud of himself for being so smart as to throw pepper at Kaiba.
"Thanks, Tugs but what'll we do now?"
"Well…we'll…we'll fight him with the food!" Tugs said, for once knowing what he was talking about. And so he and Hugs quickly grabbed any foods they could find from the cabinets just below them and poised themselves for the food war.
Kaiba stopped sneezing after a minute or so and once again focused his attention on the bears. He was amazed that they hadn't run away like the other bears had.
"So finally you're not going to act like cowards any more and hold your ground," Kaiba began, "I'm impressed. But you should have run when you had the chance, because now there's no way you'll escape from—"
SPLAT!
Some thing splattered Kaiba again on the side of the head. It was mustard that Tugs had squeezed out. The first action of the food war had been made. Kaiba instinctively flung the refrigerator door open and used it as a shield. "Two can play at this game," he mumbled. He was gonna have to fight fire with fire. He grabbed a container of ketchup and squeezed away. The cubs ducked behind the cabinets.
It was Kaiba with the refrigerator VS Baby Hugs & Tugs with the cabinets. Man, would that have been a great seller on pay per view.
The food war raged on and on and neither side gave in. The bears hurled gram crackers, granola bars, cinnamon rolls, rice, potato chips, canned soups and just about every cereal imaginable at Kaiba. He dodged most of the foods, though he did get hit strait on with some Captain Crunch a few times.
And Kaiba threw hot dogs, ice cream, maple syrup, lima beans, cheese (mmmm, cheese…) tomatoes, whipped cream, and the occasional strawberry at the bears. They dodged most of it too except the whipped cream, but that was only by choice.
The mad battle of food kept on and on but both sides were running low on ammo. But little did Kaiba know that the bears were holding back their secret weapon…a Jumbo tub of animal crackers! (the tub was shaped like a bear of course) And after all of their other food ran out, they acted like they were completely vulnerable.
"Oh no! All of our food is out!" Baby Hugs said.
"What'll we do now?" Baby Tugs asked.
Kaiba laughed. "I told you that you couldn't escape…" he said, coming closer to the bears, ready to fire at the bears with his trusty pound of bacon. The bears closed the cabinet door and pretended to hide behind it. But really they were getting behind the tub of crackers, ready to push it over as soon as Kaiba opened the door…
WHAM! Kaiba slammed the cabinet door open.
BAM! The bears pushed the Jumbo bear shaped tub of animal crackers at him. And it fell and hit its target head-on, literally.
"DAMN!" Kaiba cursed as the Jumbo tub collided with him. He knew he'd lost his chance. The bears hopped down on top of him and onto the floor, giggling all the way. And Kaiba was left there, lying on the floor in a mass of animal crackers (the tub had come open when it hit him since the cubs had loosened the top) and clutched his once again, aching head.
Ventilator Shaft
"Man, it's been a long time, I hope the Cloud cars come soon," Good luck bear said. He was still hiding in the ventilator shaft. It had been hours since he first hid there and he needed some fresh air. "I'll just pop my head out for a second…"
Hallway near Ventilator Shaft
Kaiba wondered how many more bears were left in the house. He walked into the hallway, ready to go up the stairs when he spotted good-luck bear peaking his head out of the shaft.
Kaiba didn't know what to do. He didn't particularly want to go chasing after yet another bear, but he couldn't just let the bear go. Not after the hell the bears had put him through. And besides, that would be like admitting defeat and Kaiba would never do that. So he started for the ventilator.
"Uh-oh, I better run!" Good luck said and high-tailed it farther into the shaft. Kaiba bent down and looked into the shaft. It was dark and small…barely large enough for him to fit through. At least any normal shaft would have been too small for him but it was super-sized at the Kaiba mansion, so Kaiba wriggled his way inside and began his journey through the ventilator shaft.
Pretty much anyone would have gotten claustrophobic in the space that Kaiba crawled through but Kaiba is braver than most of us (Snaps for Kaiba kun!) so he was ok. Besides, his anger at the care bears fueled him on. Good Luck traveled faster than him down the shaft since he was obviously smaller. And after a while he reached a fork in the shaft. One way led to the heating and cooling center and the other way led to…well, he wasn't sure but he thought it must be someplace better. Since the air seemed to be coming from one way, Good Luck deduced that the other way must lead someplace else and so he went that other way, hoping it would lead him out of danger.
Kaiba was cursing more and more as he crawled along. After all, the vent was filled with more than a few bugs, some dead, some alive. Plus dust. And it was completely dark so he had no idea where he was going or what was happening. Plus dust. And he was beginning to think that it was a bad idea to crawl in there in the first place too. Plus dust.
Then he came to the fork in the shaft and took the way that Good Luck went. Finally he was getting somewhere.
Good Luck had already gotten somewhere. The end of the shaft led to a part of the basement. He used his balloon making power to pop the vent cover off and hopped onto the floor. How would he get outta there? Then he spotted a window. It was high up (after all this was a basement so the window had to be high enough to be above ground) and he climbed onto a chair, then a shelf, then the top of the bookcase, and pushed the window open. He was out.
And it wasn't long before Kaiba was out of the vent shaft too. He squirmed out and brushed the dust off his clothes before spotting the open window. But he didn't have to take the window out, he took the door and was soon outside. But Good Luck was no where to be found because he had crawled through the smashed window of the library. Kaiba knew it was useless to search for the bear outside so he started for the door to get back in when he heard it…a noise that sounded like…distant cars…in the sky…?
The sounds of the food wars had alerted Mokuba and the other bears that something was going on. They had trekked down the stairs carefully and quietly and met Baby Hugs and Tugs at the foot of the stairs and upon hearing Kaiba recovering from the Jumbo tub of animal crackers, they had ducked in the library where Good Luck Bear came crawling into.
"Good Luck Bear!" Tenderheart said, helping Good Luck up. "What happened?"
"Don't worry about me! The Cloud Cars are here!" Good Luck said. And indeed Tenderheart could see and hear the cars in the distance.
"But they'll be headed for Seto's room!" Sherry bear said.
"We have to signal for them to come here!" Sunshine said.
"Right, and the only way is a care bear stare!" Tenderheart said and in a flash all the care bears sent that stream of light into the sky to signal to the cloud cars that they were in the library. Kaiba could barely believe his eyes as the 8 symbols shot into the sky. (Baby hugs and tugs weren't old enough to do a care bear stare yet)
Domino City Turtle Game Shop
"I knew it!" Yugi said as he got up and looked up into the sky. "I wasn't just seeing things before."
"What does this mean?"> Yami asked.
"I'm not sure," Yugi began, "but it's weird, the symbols look like…the heart I saw before…a four-leaf clover…a sun…a milkshake…a rainbow…a lock…some flowers…and a telescope…all coming from the Kaiba mansion…what's going on? I'll have to talk to the guys about this one tomorrow..."
And so the cloud cars arrived and the care bears jumped in them and flew off to Carealot. But not before Tenderheart had a chance to say to Kaiba "Don't worry Seto, we'll be back," before flying off. Kaiba was powerless to do anything. And Mokuba acted like he had tried to stop them from leaving but they were too quick.
It took everything Mokuba had not to laugh at his brother. Though he felt sorry for him, he did look like something the cat dragged in. His hair had blotches of pink dye and sticky food in it. Actually, all of his clothes had sticky food on them. Plus they had soot, dust, some dead bug guts and who knew what else on them. But Mokuba just went to bed and didn't comment on Seto's appearance.
Kaiba trudged up the stairs and collapsed on his bed…just as the sun came up and it was time for work. He took a shower and luckily the dye and food and dust and dead bug guts and other stuff all came off him. He wasn't so sure about his clothes or his poor trenchcoat though. Kaiba walked back into his room and saw the Care Bear pajamas lying on the floor.
"Maybe I will burn them…"
Carealot
"Are you all right?" Champ bear called as the other bears arrived back in Carealot.
"We're ok…" Tenderheart began but then saw who was waiting for him. It was the care bear cousins, the animal relatives of the care bears.
"Champ bear said you needed our help so here we are," Braveheart said. And they all were there indeed.
"Thanks, we definitely—" Tenderheart began but was interrupted by Wish bear's shrieks.
"We forgot Grumpy Bear!" she yelled.
"Oh my gosh! We did!" Yes, poor Grumpy Bear was still in Seto's briefcase, the one he was going to take to work, completely unaware that the other bears had left him…since he had fallen asleep. "We've got to save him!"
"You leave that to us!" Braveheart said, "You all deserve a rest, let us rescue him." And so it was agreed, the care bear cousins were to go on mission: rescue Grumpy Bear.
Maid's room
The maid woke up the next morning, fully rested. She had put ear plugs in here ears so she didn't hear any of the commotion of the hide and seek fiasco. And Seto and Mokuba had left for work (since Seto worked even on a Sunday) and now the house was empty except for the maid. She went downstairs to find the kitchen completely bashed, the library torn apart, soot all over the floor in the living room, and Seto's trenchcoat she had left to dry gone. Left instead was a note from Seto that read: I forbid you to purchase any more pink dye or dye of any color. And oddly, the dye bottle was gone. The maid took the note and snapped pictures of all of the messed up rooms in the mansion, for it wasn't long before she would take her evidence to the psychiatrist…
And that, my friends, is how the best game of hide and seek in history ended.
End of chapter 6….ouch my wrist hurts from typing…
Finally it ended! I think it's the longest chapter yet! Sorry it got put up late in the day…but for the following reasons, the chapters won't get put up early in the day:
A: I sleep in till 12:30
B: I have stupid summer reading assignments to do (school starts in 5 days…>0 )
C: I'm too lazy to write them early in the day
So there you have it!
IMPORTANT NOTES!
Shrilanka-san suggested that I give the maid a name as she is indeed becoming an important character. I didn't give her a name yet cause I simply couldn't think of a good one. So if anyone would like to suggest a name, please do! I may or may not choose to give her one of those names though.
ANOTHER IMPORTANT NOTE!
Eventually Kaiba will duel the care bears. I already made the deck for the care bears by looking through the card list on my Yu-gi-oh GBA game. The problem is that my most recent GBA game is the Worldwide edition game and that's pretty old. Since I don't have an updated list of cards there could be some I missed that would go well in the care bears deck. If any of you have a suggestion for a card you think fits the care bears deck really well then tell me so I don't overlook it! Thanks!
Preview of next chapter: Mission: rescue Grumpy bear!
The care bear cousins must rescue Grumpy bear before Kaiba finds him!
See you next chapty!
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