Have a Hoppy Easter Everyone!
Yugi couldn't believe how ridiculous the situation she was in was. A mafia Sky by the name of Byakuran had showed up, and her boyfriend had taken one look at him before dragging him and his Guardians to the testing holographic deck that was normally used for them to see how popular a new game would be in the Duel World system.
While Duel World was undeniably one of the most popular attractions at Kaiba Land and they had to add extra 'areas' for the players to visit since it was almost always booked, Kaiba had a separate holographic area for his employees and beta testers to use for their own use.
Kaiba was undeniably a genius when it came to increasing his money. In every main branch of a country, he included a Duel World set up for employees to use...but only if they fulfilled certain conditions first. The main one being a set amount of hours per month and a specific work-quota based on which department the employee was in. They couldn't exceed a certain number of sick days or delayed projects, and he did allow for extenuating circumstances like pregnancy or family emergency...provided that they proved they legitimately had one.
Despite his dragon reputation, Kaiba was actually well liked by his employees.
Back to Byakuran though.
The white haired Sky had taken one look at her boyfriend and laughed. Kaiba had smirked and then declared war on the other Sky...which lead to the most ridiculous situation she had been in, by far.
Yugi was on top of what looked like a gigantic marshmallow Peep chicken. Her weapon, if you could call it that, was a flaming sword made of burning marshmallows. Her shield was a giant chocolate bar, and there were already signs of melted marshmallow on it. Her armor looked like it was made of candy.
Seto looked very silly indeed...he was covered in melted marshmallow, and they had a fun time doing a mock snowball fight using oversized marshmallows in place of snow.
Needless to say Yami hadn't stopped laughing since he nailed Kaiba in the face at least once with the melted confectionery.
Since this was a holographic world, they didn't feel the uncomfortable sensation of melted or sticky sugar...but the visual effect was still there, thus making it a great deal of fun. Yugi had to giggle when she saw her hair apparently 'on fire' with marshmallows on the spikes.
Yugi giggled as Kaiba got hit with another marshmallow bomb, and the 'bomb' splattered everywhere.
By the end of the mock warfare, Kaiba looked completely splattered and ridiculous, Byakuran still hadn't stopped giggling madly with glee, and Mokuba looked darkly smug as he had been the one responsible for most of the 'bombs' tossed in his older brother's direction.
"That was beyond silly," said Yugi grinning. "What was that about anyway?"
"This idiot is marshmallow obsessed, and this seemed like a good way to attract much younger players to the holographic decks," said Kaiba.
Considering Byakuran was snacking on a bag of marshmallows, Yugi could see his point.
"By the way..." said Kaiba, looking particularly ominous, "I also have a scenario where players have to defeat the Peep overlords who want revenge for their fallen comrades of Easter's past...and if you don't do it right, then they can combine into a megaboss made of the remaining parts of the Peeps that weren't dealt with properly."
Yugi couldn't help her laugh. The candy land adventure was silly enough (and was decidedly kid-friendly) but that sounded like something he had made up while running on fumes and having way too much free time on his hands.
"You're as fun as ever, Tsu-chan!" said Byakuran.
"It's Seto or Kaiba now," he said firmly. "Tsuna allowed himself to be lead around the nose by the jackass and the old geezer."
"Fair enough," said Byakuran. "Also I have the alliance papers with me."
"I had a feeling you would," said Seto amused. "How's Yuni by the way?"
"Eager to meet your new Queen," said Byakuran, eyes glinting. "She's a better fit than your last one."
"Last one?" said Yugi, rather dangerously.
Seto was rather calm considering his girlfriend had an overprotective older brother who could put him into a death vision without a second thought.
"Last time I ended up dating a girl who could be a carbon copy of my mother because I had limited options. I ended up in the accident before the divorce was finalized."
Kyouko had hated the mafia. Particularly since she was stuck in it both through her soon-to-be ex-husband and because her brother was forced into a life of crime rather than professional boxing like he wanted.
Yugi was pacified at the news that there wasn't another girl in his life.
Seto fully blamed boredom and human curiosity for why the Ten Year Bazooka was brought out again.
Rather than leave things to chance, Seto had everyone who wanted to join in on the 'game' set their timers for ten year for now...mostly to remind them fifteen minutes early that their younger selves would be randomly visiting their time.
The first to go was Mokuba.
He had to wonder if vertigo was a normal thing, but once he reoriented himself he couldn't help but look around.
The first thing he saw was that he was in a room with a view, and that Kaiba Corp had gone from an international company to a global one that from what he could tell, dominated the place.
Then he took a good look around, and spotted a picture frame that was in a place where you could see it on the desk. His older self must have been working on paperwork.
In the picture was his older self, along with several other people. Kisara was trying to eat his brother, and was tall enough to still reach his head even though his brother had grown a few inches. The thing that caught his attention most were the younger ones in the picture.
They looked like a mixture of his brother and Yugi. Were these his nieces and nephews?
He had only just sat the picture back down when he was pulled back.
"What did you see?" asked Yugi eagerly.
"I think my other self was doing paperwork. Oh, and apparently you and Seto had kids," said Mokuba.
Seto had warned him that the future they would see were simply the most likely one to happen at this point of time, so there was no real point in trying to obtain information outside general details.
A threat in the future might not even exist by the time they returned, since by visiting even briefly could change it anyway.
He had also explicitly banned the scientist trio from going anywhere near the thing. Shoichi's stupidity had given him enough grief the first time around, thank you very much. It was his attempts to alter his future that caused the mess with Byakuran in the first place!
Coincidentally Byakuran was banned from messing with the bazooka as well, for much the same reason. He was currently messing around with the "Peep Apocalypse" as Seto jokingly called it with his guardians and Yuni.
Yugi was rather eager to see what her future might turn out like.
When it was her turn, the first thing she noted was that they were on a beach...and that Yami had somehow gained a body.
"I forgot it was that time. Good thing he had us set timers," chuckled Yami.
Yugi took note of the small child hovering behind him.
"Why did mama get so small?" he asked Yami.
"If you recall, your father mentioned they were messing around with Lambo's bazooka ten years ago," said Yami paternally. "Today was the day that she switched with her younger self."
"When did you get a body?" asked Yugi.
"Ask your husband. He brokered a deal with the Egyptian gods so that I could have a second chance at life. Though he was less amused by the fact that doing so speed up the process of him no longer being quite human," said Yami.
Before Yugi could ask what he meant, she returned to her own time. Chrome handed her the Puzzle back.
She gave Kaiba an odd look.
"You made a deal with the Egyptian gods? How?"
"Remember when I borrowed the cards right after the Battle City tournament?" said Kaiba. She nodded. "I used them as a conduit to speak to the fragments of the Egyptian gods...though as a side effect, they left a chunk of their power in the three most receptive to them."
"Wait, you can do that?" asked Jounouchi baffled.
"Considering that the Throne of the Sky is accessible from the Vongola Rings, and you can openly speak to past dons through it, yes. The real trick is getting into the right meditative space to pull it off," said Kaiba dismissively.
Any attempts to question him further disappeared as it was his turn with the bazooka.
He had better not get trapped in a damn coffin like last time. If so, he was going to kill everyone and let the gods sort them out.
He was on a beach, and he spotted a few kids running around that bore a striking resemblance to both him and Yugi. It was obvious there were his, and his intuition purred in confirmation.
He saw Xanxus lounging around with a few strong drinks, Takeshi and Squalo having fun in a mock battle in the ocean, and Yami keeping an eye on the children with a paternal expression on his face. Judging by the ring he was married, but Seto couldn't be bothered to find out who his other half was.
He had to admit, Yugi certainly grew into quite the looker once she was older...even if she was still incredibly short.
"I'm so glad you had us put timers on our phones. Otherwise it could have gotten incredibly awkward," said Yugi smiling.
"We're switching ourselves with older versions of us. How would it not be awkward for them if we didn't give them a head's up?"
Yugi managed to sneak a kiss on him before he switched back. It was only long experience that kept him from blushing.
At least it was an interesting day.
Kaiba was about to head for yet another dose of his 'special' coffee (that only he and Reborn could drink without getting instant heart attacks from the sheer caffeine level) when his hyper intuition screamed he was about to be in for a bad day.
His first reaction was obvious.
He paged Chrome.
"Chrome, get the 'special' migraine medicine ready and prepare for a class three...no, make that five on the Vongola Bullshit meter headache," said Seto.
You could hear the wince on the other end.
"It's not them is it?"
"No, something tells me we're about to be caught in the Pharaoh's side of the bullshit meter again," said Seto.
"I'll get the special medicine for the extra extra strong migraines and alert Shamal he had better keep it coming then," said Chrome dutifully.
Seto immediately pulled out the extra strong beans that he only used when he knew the paperwork was going to be downright hellish.
He called them the 'Decimo Beans' for obvious reasons.
It was as he was about to return to his desk that he saw it. He took one look and without hesitation started swearing worse than Xanxus in a mood.
The reason was obvious. There were actual duel monsters roaming around the city and he knew damn well his company was about to be blamed for it all.
Chrome didn't need to be told. She handed him the special medicine, then started fielding calls like a pro.
At least they were able to get the Koumori Dragon off the roof by having Kisara blast it with her plasma blast.
By the end of the day Seto looked like hell, but managed to hide on camera long enough to provide an emphatic statement that whatever these things were, they were NOT produced by Kaiba Corp holograms and that they were looking into how to get rid of the stupid things.
And then the Pharaoh walked in.
"What the HELL did you do?" demanded Kaiba.
"I took the god cards to the stone tablet and held them up. Next thing I know, the tablet is frozen and these creatures showed up," said Yami.
Kaiba's face twitched.
"Did anything else happen?"
"A strange voice was goading me on before that point," admitted Yami. He blinked when Kaiba literally face-palmed at this information.
"Do you still have the god cards?" asked Kaiba. Yami nodded. "Hand them over. I guarantee you whatever is causing this will come after them next and it's better they deal with my security than possibly go after your grandfather."
Yami paled at that.
"Do you mind if we stay over tonight?"
"Yugi owes me cuddles, dammit," said Seto with a growl.
Inside their shared mental space, Yugi started giggling and even Yami had trouble holding back a grin at that.