Mechashipping (Keith x Roba)
Roba was so focused on flipping through his cards that he didn't see the other man on the sidewalk until he had bumped shoulders with him.
"Oof!"
His cards flew from his hands and scattered across the sidewalk. He snatched for them but only managed to grab a couple.
"I am so sorry," he said, scrambling for his fallen cards before the wind took them. "I wasn't looking where I was –"
The man swore at him in English – when Roba glanced over his shoulder, he saw the other man trying to pick up fallen Duel Monsters cards as well. Roba tensed a bit in spite of himself. The man was much taller than him; he could tell even though both of them were crouching down to retrieve their cards. His cut off vest revealed toned muscles in his arms – this was not the kind of person that Roba wanted to get angry. He picked up the pace in retrieving his cards.
He flipped through them quickly, counting – no, only thirty nine. He should have forty. Where was the last one?
He looked behind him nervously. The other man had stood up and was counting his cards as well. Then Roba spotted it – his last card, Reflect Bounder, had flown behind him and was sitting just under the man's booted foot. He reached to grab it, but couldn't tug it out from under the man's boot.
"Um, excuse me," he mumbled. "You're standing on my card."
The man might have glared at him, but it was hard to tell through his sunglasses. Either way, he didn't move until he had finished counting his cards. A frown tugged at his lips, and his head tilted towards the card Roba was trying to pick up.
"That's not your card," he said. "That's mine. You trying to steal it, kid?"
"Huh? N-no, of course not. This is my last card...I'm still missing one."
"Well so am I, kid, and I'm missing a Reflect Bounder," the man said.
He bent down and snatched the card from Roba's hand.
"Now wait just a minute," Roba said, drawing himself up. He wasn't going to let this man take his card from him. "I'm still missing my Reflect Bounder. How do you know that one's yours?"
"Because I said it was," the man said in his heavy American accent. "You want to argue with me over it?"
He loomed over Roba, his eyes glaring out through his sunglasses. Roba's confidence wilted. After a beat, the man just grinned at him.
"Didn't think so," he said, and he stalked off.
Roba watched him go, feeling sick. That wasn't fair. Now he was missing his Reflect Bounder. He needed that card. He should have asked to count the man's deck to make sure he hadn't just taken it for the sake of taking it.
Something skittered across the ground. He glanced down. His eyes widened as he saw one last card sliding across the sidewalk in the breeze. He dove for it before it went into the street.
With a sigh, he flipped it over. Reflect Bounder.
"There you are," he muttered, putting it back into his deck.
He tucked the cards into his pocket. He didn't want to repeat that episode again.
A/N: So Roba and Keith do actually both use Reflect Bounder, if not in the anime then they have it in their deck lists for a few of the video games. I was glad to find a card that they shared; made this a little more believable. But really, what was I supposed to do with these two? Next is Measureshipping (Shada x Karim).
