Disclaimer: WookieeBeta does not own Yuugiou. Two manga and a deck she'll never use, yes; the ideas, the characters, anything that will ever bring her money that at all relates to it (heck, anything that will bring her money at all), no.
Warning: Language.
Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude
Chapter Seven: Open Portals
By WookieeBeta
"Seto," Mokuba said softly, gently nudging his brother. "Seto, wake up. They're back."
The young CEO snapped awake, mentally berating himself for falling asleep in the first place. "Where are they?"
Mokuba jerked his head backwards and said, "They're behind us. I just now saw them; I don't know how long they've been there. Everyone else is asleep."
"All for the better. That means I don't have to deal with the mutt's comments."
"I thought you'd say that," Mokuba said, smiling sadly. "But what are we going to do, Seto? We've only got another hour's worth of fuel left - less, if we have to dodge them. And we're helpless on the ground."
The older Kaiba wracked his mind for a solution. "The helicopter!" he exclaimed suddenly. "Damn it all! Why didn't I think of that earlier? Mutt!"
"Huh? Wha?" Jou blinked, trying to figure out who was talking.
"Good morning. Look under the seat and tell me if there's a laptop or something under there."
The blonde blinked again, this time in confusion, but looked anyway. "Yeah, there is. Why?"
Kaiba smirked. "Those idiots. If I can get maybe fifteen minutes with that computer and this chopper, I can hack into their system code and create an exit portal. Hold on; I'm going to try to lose them."
"And how exactly do you plan to do that!"
Kaiba pointed through the windshield. "You see that snowstorm over there?"
"You've got to be kidding me..."
"Seto, we can't keep this up much longer!" Mokuba shouted. "We're almost out of fuel!"
"I know," was the terse reply. "I'm going to bank left and bring us out of the storm. Unless I've gotten turned around, we should come out right next to a mountain; the six of you are all going to jump out as soon as we get close enough, all right?"
"But what about you? I'm not leaving without you!"
Kaiba spared a moment for a quick glare at his younger brother. "Oh, yes you will. As soon as you jump, I'm turning this scrap heap around and giving those bastards something to worry about. I'll open two portals from in here; one for you, one for me. We'll meet back up in the real world. If anything goes wrong, use the radio in my collar to contact KaibaCorp.; my secretary will help you, or she'll find herself out on the streets."
"But Seto - !"
"Left on three...two...one!"
There was a collective "Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" from the back of the helicopter; the sky cleared as they broke through the edge of the blizzard, and sure enough there was the mountainside looming dark and immovable before them. The CEO's keen eyes picked out a relatively flat spot instantly, and then they were there, the door was open, and Kaiba was shouting orders. The five passengers in the back tumbled out one after another and landed in the snow.
"Now you, Mokuba," Kaiba yelled. "Go on!"
"Seto, I can't - "
"Damn it, Mokuba, just do it!"
"But Seto - !" There were tears streaming down the young boy's face, and Kaiba wasn't too far from that himself. He pulled his younger brother into a tight, quick embrace.
"I love you, Mokuba," he whispered. "Now go. I'll see you soon, I promise."
"I love you too, Seto," Mokuba whispered back. Then he wiped his face with his sleeve and leapt wildly from the chopper, landing gracefully on his feet. Seto tore his eyes away and forced himself to focus on the task at hand.
If you screw this up now, he's dead, he reminded himself. He spun the chopper on its tail and headed straight towards where the Big Five were just coming out of the giant storm, simultaneously reaching backwards and catching the laptop as it skidded across the seat.
"Come on, come on, come on..." The computer seemed to take an agonizingly long time to boot up, but as soon as the screen appeared he started typing furiously. Minutes ticked by.
His eyes flicked up to the controls for an instant as the fuel gauge started flashing red. "Damnit! Too soon, too soon... Come on, you stupid machine!" Lines of code flashed by, and finally the screen came to rest on a single highlighted section. Kaiba smirked and went back to typing. It was easy; they were using a code he'd written years ago.
The red light flashed again, and the engine sputtered.
WHAM!
"Poor suckers," Kaiba muttered. He snapped the laptop closed and put his hands back on the controls. He had one last thing to do before he jumped through the portal waiting just beyond the still-open door.
A/N: Nyuaahaa. Chopper scene. Whole point of the whole thing. (I'm not kidding.) Combined what used to be two very short chapters into one; title change. – WB 09Nórui2006
