Sorry everyone about how long it took to get this up…but after school started…well, things got a little crazy. Updates from now on will most likely be every Sunday or possibly Monday. I can't write it any quicker than that cause of school…sorry, but the good news is that I got a laptop! (cheers!) but you probly don't care…so onto this very long chapter!
For your information: Braveheart lion, Brightheart raccoon, Proudheart cat, Loyalheart dog, Playfulheart monkey, Cozyheart penguin, Lots o' heart elephant, Gentleheart lamb, Treatheart pig, Swiftheart rabbit.
Disclaimer: I do not own yu-gi-oh! Or ze Care Bears….man I'm getting tired of saying that…
Nobody Cares Like a Bear by Eveilly Autumns
Chapter 7: Mission: Rescue Grumpy Bear
"So this is it?" Brightheart Raccoon asked.
"It sure is," Braveheart lion replied. "This is the Kaibacorp building and Grumpy bear is somewhere inside it…"
Seto's Limo
Seto Kaiba was riding down the streets of Domino in one of his sleek limos with his brother Mokuba sitting beside him on one side and his briefcase on the other. His briefcase with Grumpy bear inside it.
'How could this happen?' Grumpy bear asked himself. 'How could they just forget me?' Even though he didn't know for sure whether the other care bears had forgotten him, he figured that that's what must have happened. And now he was practically suffocating, not to mention getting smushed into a very uncomfortable position, while the Limo rolled on further towards the Kaibacorp building where Seto would have to open his briefcase…
Kaibacorp building
"It's a good thing we arrived before Seto did," Lots o' heart said, "now we have time to hide."
"Exactly," Braveheart began, "We'll have to hide inside the building and create a distraction before Seto opens his briefcase."
"And he wouldn't even expect us here this early," said Cozyheart, "it would have taken us hours to get here by the cloud cars. But now that we fixed the rainbow rescue machine we can transport ourselves here and back to Carealot in no time at all."
"It's puuuurfect," Proudheart said. "But where are we going to wait?"
"And what's the distraction going to be?" Loyalheart asked.
"I'm not sure…we'll have to make it up when we get inside. So let's split up into groups. Lots o' heart, Gentleheart, and Loyalheart will be one team. Treatheart, Cozyheart, and Swiftheart, you be another. I'll go with Brightheart, Proudheart, and Playfulheart. We all need to try to find some distraction if we can. That way we can get Seto out of there so we can get to Grumpy, ok?" Braveheart finished.
"OK!"
……..
"AWWWWWWW! Are you lost little kitty?" the secretary asked. She was holding a mewing little kitty in her hands as she said so.
"Meow?" Purred Proudheart.
"AWWWWWWWWWWW!" the secretary squeezed the kitty tight. The plan was working. While the secretary had her back turned, preoccupied by Proudheart posing as a little kitty, the others had just enough time to sneak in the elevator and up they went. Proudheart abruptly jumped out of the secretary's arms and sprinted for it too. She made it just before the doors closed.
"Aww. Where are you going kitty?" the secretary asked but it was too late.
The elevator ascended higher and higher. "His office is on the eighth floor," Braveheart said. "So my team will visit that floor. The rest of you can each take a different floor and try to find some distraction to get Seto out of his office. Then we'll go in and get Grumpy bear from the briefcase and meet you all back on the first floor. Be careful not to be seen by anyone, especially Seto."
"Right, we'll be careful," Swiftheart said as the elevator stopped on floor 6. Swiftheart, Cozyheart, and Treatheart all got off. The elevator went higher to floor 7.
"This is our floor," Gentleheart said as she got off along with Loyalheart and Lots o' heart. The doors closed and it was up to floor 8. The rest got off there (much to the surprise of one employee who thought he was hallucinating) and they all searched for a possible distraction.
…….
The Limo had almost reached Kaibacorp. Kaiba had been running a little late that morning due to the chaos of the prior night. He couldn't stop thinking about the cursed bears and how in the world they could outsmart him. How had it been possible? The next time he saw one of those bears he wasn't going to give them any chance of escape…
Of course little did he know that there was a care bear in his briefcase at the very moment.
"We've arrived Sir," the Limo driver said as they approached the huge building.
"I can see that," Kaiba snapped back; he wasn't in the best of moods. Mokuba smiled weakly at the agitated driver before hopping out after his brother. Kaiba walked through the doors, briefcase in hand, and entered the elevator. All of his other employees had arrived already; they didn't dare defy Kaiba. Well, no one except that gullible secretary at the front desk on the first floor who was murmuring something about a lost kitten.
A little while after that, Seto and Mokuba reached the eighth floor and Seto entered his office. Braveheart, Playfulheart, Proudheart, and Brightheart were all watching from behind some plants. "Hold on Grumpy," Braveheart whispered. He knew there wasn't much time. In just a few seconds Kaiba would open his briefcase! Mokuba shut the door to the office and Braveheart sprung up and knocked on it almost immediately.
"Hey, someone's at the door Seto," Mokuba said, wondering how he couldn't have seen anyone in the hall.
"See who it is, I have too much work to do to be bothered right now," Kaiba barked and Mokuba opened the door. Seto didn't even look to see who it was as he turned on his laptop. But when Mokuba opened the door he saw…nothing. No one was there….or so he thought until he looked down and saw Braveheart standing there, motioning for him to close the door, which he did.
"Who are you?" Mokuba asked.
"I'm Braveheart, a care bear cousin and I'm here to rescue Grumpy bear!" he said urgently.
"Grumpy bear?" Why does he need to be rescued…" Mokuba trailed off as he suddenly realized that Grumpy bear had never left his hiding spot. Maybe that wasn't the best hiding place after all. "So he's still…" Mokuba trailed off. Braveheart nodded. "I've got to get him outta there or Seto will hack him up like he did my stuffed one!" Mokuba said and swung the door open to see Kaiba just about to open his briefcase.
"STOP!" Mokuba yelled as if his life depended on it. Seto stopped in his tracks and looked up at Mokuba with concern.
"What?" he asked and Mokuba quickly closed the door so Kaiba wouldn't see Braveheart. He tried to think of an excuse but it wasn't working too well.
"Well….you never replaced the snack machine…." He lied, rather poorly.
"Why is that so urgent?" Kaiba said, reaching for his briefcase again.
"Because…" Mokuba then ran up to Kaiba's desk and 'accidentally' knocked/pushed his brother's laptop off and it fell to the floor with a clang.
"Mokuba…" Kaiba growled angrily. He thought he had fixed the problem of Mokuba knocking off his laptop by getting rid of the snack machine so he couldn't get sugar high but apparently it hadn't worked. Mokuba was naturally high.
"Ooops…sorry big bro," Mokuba said in his most 'I can't help that I'm naturally high' voice.
Kaiba picked up his laptop carefully and surveyed the damage. It didn't seem to be hurt that much but he couldn't really tell so he placed it back on his desk to examine it more closely. Meanwhile, Mokuba grabbed the briefcase and began carrying it towards the door.
"Where are you going with my briefcase?" Kaiba called after Mokuba.
"Oh…this thing…I'm just…going to clean it, be right back!" Mokuba said and exited the room, leaving Kaiba to wonder exactly what had been put in his brother's breakfast that morning.
"I got him!" Mokuba said as soon as he stepped back into the hallway.
"Good work!" Brightheart said. The other three care bear cousins had come out from behind their plants and couldn't wait to see Grumpy Bear safe again.
Mokuba quickly put the briefcase on the floor and opened it carefully. But when he did so, everyone gasped. It was empty. No Grumpy bear.
…….
"What kind of distraction are we looking for?" asked Loyalheart.
"Any kind as long as it works," said Lots o' heart. The threesome moved down the hallway carefully and quickly so they wouldn't be seen.
"Do you think—" Gentleheart began but Loyalheart placed his hand over her mouth. The three could hear footsteps. Someone was coming.
"Quick, let's hide in there!" Lots o' heart suggested, pointing to a nearby room. They all opened the door and clamored inside as an employee walked by with a cup of coffee in his hand.
"Phew…that was close," said Gentleheart as they all turned around to see what room they were in.
"What is this place?" Loyalheart asked.
"What are these things?" Gentleheart wondered.
"I don't know but they look important to me…important enough for a distraction…" Lots o' heart said as he gazed around the room. The sacred copy room.
Another part of the KC building
That was a close one…" Grumpy bear said as he walked along the 5th floor. He had slipped out of the briefcase as the elevator came to the 5th floor. There was a group of employees headed for a meeting room that entered on that floor and as they all came in, Grupmy had slipped out ever so carefully. But what was he supposed to do now? "Try to get out of here I guess," he said. But that was easier said than done. The 5th floor was the busiest in the building. "I should have known I'd get the busy floor."
Dr. Anthony's office
"Ah, I see what you mean," Dr. Anthony said as he watched the tape of Kaiba pulverizing the stuffed bear.
"Do you think you could help him?" the maid asked, sincerely concerned.
"Possibly. But why should we help him when he could help us?"
"What do you mean?"
"Kaiba is rich after all. I'm sure he underpays you. And I don't receive nearly enough money for the psychos I have to work with. But we can become millionaires off of this evidence."
"How? What do you mean?" the maid wasn't liking the sound of this.
"I mean that we can use this tape to our advantage. We can tell Mr. Kaiba that if he doesn't pay us the money we want, we'll go public with this tape and his image will be ruined even worse than it was after that spiky haired kid beat him."
"But that's not fair," the maid said, more concerned. After all, Seto paid her pretty good and she felt loyal to him.
"Oh come on. A couple million bucks is pocket change to a man like him. We'll split what he gives up equally," Dr. Anthony said greedily.
"No! I won't do it. Master Seto's my boss and he treats me good. I couldn't do something like that," she said defensively.
"Well that's too bad because if you don't agree to help me by collecting more incriminating evidence then I'll have to go public with this tape by myself and I'll personally tell Mr. Kaiba that you were the one who told me to do it."
"You wouldn't!" the maid gasped.
"I would. So do we have a deal?"
The maid hesitated. But what choice did she have? "It's a deal," she said weakly as the doctor handed her the video camera.
"Good. Now find me some more evidence…it's nice doing business with you."
KC building outside Seto's office
"Where'd he go?" Mokuba asked when he saw that the briefcase was empty.
"Are you sure that this was the right briefcase?" Brightheart asked.
"Seto only has one!"
"Could he have gotten out back at the mansion?" Proudheart wondered.
"I doubt it," said Mokuba, "he knew he would be trapped in the house if he got out. And he was petrified to come out anyway! I think he's somewhere in this building."
"But how are we gonna find him?" Playfulheart asked.
"We'd better do something quick, before he leaves the building," Braveheart pointed out.
"Right. We need to find a way to find him quickly…it's not safe to look for him with all the employees walking around," Mokuba said.
"But we've been looking for him with everybody walking around," Playfulheart said.
"Wait, I think I have an idea," Braveheart began, "If Grumpy makes it outside he'll signal to the care bears for help. Then they'll send the rescue beam down to get him. So all we have to do is make sure that he gets out of here without anyone seeing him."
"Good idea, but we need a distraction for that," Brightheart said. "We need a way to get everyone to leave the building, that way he'll leave too."
"The fire alarm," Proudheart said.
"That's it! We'll trigger that alarm and everyone will leave the building!" Braveheart said. "You're a genius Proudheart!"
"But I don't know how to pull the alarm," Mokuba said. "So I guess you'll just have to find some way to make enough smoke to get the alarm to go off. In the meantime I'll keep Seto busy so he doesn't leave and discover Grumpy bear somewhere."
Everyone agreed that this was a good idea and Mokuba told the care bear cousins that the heaters were on the 2nd floor. He suggested that they turn one on full blast so that it could overheat and start smoking. So they headed for the 2nd floor and Mokuba entered Kaiba's office again.
"It's all clean!" he said smiling broadly.
"Great, now bring it over here." Mokuba obeyed and Kaiba was finally able to open it. "Now I'm going to a meeting." He said and began walking towards the door.
"NO!" Mokuba yelled again, running in front of his brother.
"What is it now?" Kaiba asked agitated.
"Ummm….what about the snack machine?"
…….
"Where should we look now?" Swiftheart asked.
"I'm not sure, let's try another room," Cozyheart said.
"How about that one?" Treatheart suggested. The three of them had been searching inside several rooms to try to find Grumpy bear but were of course unsuccessful They hoped that they'd meet with better luck in the next room.
"What is this room?" Cozyheart asked.
"I'm not sure but it looks important," Swiftheart said. "Important enough for a distraction." And indeed, the main computer room was very important.
Sacred Copy Room
"So how do these things work?" Loyalheart asked.
"I think I know," said Gentleheart, "Tenderheart showed me how one time. These machines—she pointed to the copy machines—copy what you put inside them."
"Ok then let's put something inside them," said Lots o' heart, picking up some blank sheets of paper and a few pens. "Let's draw some pictures and copy them!"
"But how is that a distraction?" Loyalheart asked.
"It will be if this room starts overflowing with paper," said Gentleheart and so the three began drawing pictures on blank sheets of paper. It wasn't hard to figure out what they were drawing: the care bears. And then they placed the sheets in the machines like Gentleheart instructed.
"How do we turn them on?" asked Loyalheart.
"I'm not sure," said Gentleheart.
"Well, it's gotta be one of these buttons!" said Lots o' heart and he began pushing all the buttons in sight. The others copied him.
Domino City Park
"Say what?" Joey asked Yugi who had just told him about the strange beams coming from the Kaiba mansion.
"I know it sounds weird but it's true," Yugi began, "Yami saw it too."
"But what do you think it was?" Tea asked.
"Maybe he was having a lazar show or something," Joey suggested.
"Yeah right, a lazar show with hearts and flowers…that doesn't sound like Kaiba," said Tristen.
"But it had to be something…" Yugi said. "I guess I'll just ask Kaiba in person tomorrow at school."
Main Computer Room
"So how do they work?" asked Treatheart.
"Tenderheart showed me how once," said Swiftheart. "It's easy!" he said, turning on one of the supercomputers.
"PASSWORD PLEASE" the computer said.
"Password? I don't know it…" Swiftheart said and so he began pushing all sorts of buttons. That's always bound to help. Meanwhile, Cozyheart had waddled over to a smaller computer that was already logged in. Some careless worker had left it on. The word processor was on and Cozyheart began typing a message….
"I LOVE THE CARE BEARS!" it read.
Cozyheart laughed. He had no idea what he was doing. He turned around to tell the others to come and see his message and accidentally pushed the 'print' button. A message popped up. "What's this?" Cozyheart asked. He didn't know what to do.
Swiftheart, meanwhile, had been pushing so many buttons that the computer now read "ERROR" and then went blank. Swiftheart didn't know what happened but it couldn't be good so he walked over to Cozyheart. "Hey, are you gonna print that?"
"I don't know," said Cozyheart. "How do I print it?"
"You click on the number of copies you want to print and then push the print button," said Swiftheart. "I know, let's print a lot! That could be a distraction right?" So Swiftheart punched in the number 999 and clicked for it to print on all the different printers in the copy room and clicked 'print.'
Copy Room
Well, Lots o' heart had gotten the copy machines to work…and they were now printing off an endless number of copies of the care bear pictures. Gentleheart and Loyalheart were taking out more paper and adding it into the machines when the printers roared to life. They began printing off seemingly endless pages that read "I LOVE THE CARE BEARS!"
"Wow, that's amazing," said Lots o' heart. "I think this might work. All we have to do is make this place look messy enough and it'll be a great distraction."
And so they quickly began pulling out the picture copies and printed pages and scattered them all over the floor with ease. And they emptied the filing cabinets of their files by scattering them all over the floor and they added more paper to the printers and copy machines and then scattered them everywhere. It wouldn't be long before the entire room was overflowing with paper.
5th Floor
"How am I ever gonna get out of here?" Grumpy bear asked as he hid in a storage closet. But he wouldn't have to wait long…
Heater Room
"Mokey was right, there are a lot of heaters in here!" said Brightheart.
"Ok, so let's turn them up full blast," Braveheart commanded and so they did. But nothing happened.
"I guess it will take a while before they start smoking," said Proudheart.
"Not if we help them!" said Playfulheart and he raced out of the room. In just a few seconds he was back…with a pile of paper. "If we put this paper around it, it'll start smoking!" he said.
"No don't!" the others screamed but it was too late, he had placed the paper around one of the heaters and it abruptly caught fire.
"That's not supposed to happen!" said Playfulheart as he ducked behind Braveheart.
"Well it did and we'd better tell Mokey! I think the alarm is going to go off sooner than we thought!" Braveheart yelled and they raced out of the room as the fire spread and smoke began to curl.
"Wait, you're not supposed to use the elevator during a fire!" said Brightheart since they were just about to enter one.
"But it'll take forever if we use the stairs!" Proudheart said.
"Then we'll wait downstairs. That way we can see Grumpy bear when he tries to evacuate the building!" said Braveheart and so the three took the stairs to the first floor and ran outside, not bothering to distract the secretary. They hid behind the bushes and waited.
Kaiba's Office
"And that's why we need the snack machine!" Mokuba finished, exhausted. He had tried his best to stop Kaiba from leaving the room and it had worked for the last ten minutes but he was out of topics now. He had started with the snack machine and darted off into just about every sub-conversation that was possible before circling back to the machine and ending the discussion.
"I'll think about it," said Kaiba and then he strided right past Mokuba and was about to open the door when…
RIIIIIIINNNNNGGGGGG!
The fire bell rang.
"What the hell?" Kaiba asked as the bell resounded throughout the building. Mokuba smiled. He had no idea that there was actually a real fire that was spreading quickly. But then the sprinklers came on. Full blast. They sprayed out and drenched Kaiba and Mokuba from head to toe. If Kaiba's laptop wasn't busted before, it was now. Kaiba cursed. What was going on?
Everyone else heard it too and soon all the employees in the building were running around like crazy as if a cereal killer was after them. Down the stairs they flew and began piling out the doors where Braveheart and the others watched the crowds carefully, scanning them for Grumpy.
The rest of the care bear cousins dashed out of their rooms too, realizing that this must be the distraction. They almost got trampled in the crowds but no one noticed them since they were too panicked. Down to the first floor they went and were pushed through the door. The other care bear cousins saw them and grabbed them quickly. They were all back to square one now.
Grumpy bear ran around madly too, following the other workers down the stairs and into the lobby. Most of the employees were out by now. The care bear cousins looked through the doors to see Grumpy bear running towards them and they grinned widely. Grumpy saw them too and thought that maybe his luck had changed when Kaiba and Mokuba exited the elevator. Kaiba wasn't afraid of riding it during a fire. (And the fire was pretty much out too because of the sprinklers) And then he saw him. A care bear. And suddenly it all made sense. The care bears hadn't been satisfied with terrorizing him in his home so now they had followed him to work. Well, it was time for payback. Kaiba dropped his briefcase and sprinted for Grumpy bear. Grumpy Bear ran for the doors but slipped on the slick floor and everyone gasped.
The care bear cousins were too far away to do anything and Grumpy bear was defenseless himself. None of this was even his fault. The only one who could save him now was Mokuba.
Mokuba stared in horror. It was now or never and he couldn't just do nothing. Besides, he wasn't a very good thrower anyway…
BAM!
Mokuba had picked up the briefcase and threw it (lightly) at Seto. Mokuba stared in even more horror as Kaiba fell to the ground and Grumpy bear rose from it. Grumpy ran out the doors and didn't slip this time. He made the signal to Carealot and the rainbow rescue beam came down and transported them up to their safe home. No one even noticed the signal since it was shaped like a rain cloud.
Mokuba ran over to Seto and kneeled down on the floor. "Seto! Seto I'm sorry! I didn't mean it! I just couldn't let you hurt him! I didn't mean to hurt you!" he said and began to cry. How could he do that to Seto. "Seto…" he said again and heard a fire truck pull up outside. The fireman and paramedics came in turned Kaiba over. Somehow he had been knocked unconscious (either from the briefcase or his head colliding with the floor, I vote choice #2) but was fine otherwise. Still, the paramedics took him out on a stretcher. Mokuba went along, crying all the way. And the fireman put out the rest of the fire. KC hadn't been damaged too much but it was enough to make a scene.
And the maid saw the whole scene. She was walking back to the mansion when she saw the smoke. And she saw Kaiba being pulled out on a stretcher. She was overwhelmed with guilt. How could she have agreed to collect more evidence for Dr. Anthony? How? "How could I be so cold?" she moaned. "I can't do that to him…and now he's hurt…" But then she changed her mood from sadness to anger. "But I'm not going to collect any more evidence…not about Master Seto anyway…I'll just have to collect some evidence to prove that Dr. Anthony is completely incompetent…and a crook."
And with that everyone went their own ways. Seto and Mokuba were on their way to the hospital. The maid was on her way to dig up some dirt on Dr. Anthony. And the care bear cousins and Grumpy bear were on their way home. But still the care bears saw poor little Mokuba crying and they knew they had to do something else. They had to make Mokuba smile again…they had to make sure Seto went back to the way he used to be…
End of Chapter 7…about time! Mission: accomplished
I just have to say this: YEAR OF THE HORSE ROCKS! Woo-hoo it's my year too! prances about with broom pretending to be riding horse while everyone stares
Anyway, I think I'm gonna keep the maid's name being 'the maid.' I kinda decided that before anyways. Some things are better off like that...like my poor departed fish whom we just called 'fish.' Let's have a moment to honor him...sob...oh well he's in a better place now...
Ahem, anyways, I already planned on putting both Shining Friendship and Injection Fairy Lilly into the care bear's deck! We all must think alike...that's actually pretty scary...
Thanx to everyone for reviewing! It makes writing this fanfic so worthwhile!
Preview: Next chapter the care bears and care bear cousins team up and follow seto to school...i go a feeling it'll be in parts again, and the care bears meet yugi 'n' friends too!
Ok, see you all next chapty!
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