Chapter 5: Helping Rex. .
"WHAT?!" Exclaimed all three boys. They were with Rex on the rocky rim of a short volcano in the dead centre of Domino City Central Park.
"Jump in," said Rex gesturing towards the crater which was full of lava only a foot or two short of the brim. He had a tough-looking cylindrical device under his arm, and his brain was once again concealed by the paper bag. "Take this device I've built into the volcano. We need to harness the energy of the Earth's core for power." The boys looked from the lava to Rex's punched fist.
"What are you talking about?" asked Ryou.
"The plan," said Rex. The buildings way below were small specks.
"What plan?" questioned Malik.
"Our plan," said Rex again, confident as ever.
"To do what?" piped up Yugi
"To make the town better, of course," said Rex with high swagger
"What?" asked the boys again, just as a bubble on the lava popped with a belch.
"You know," said Rex, laying out a blueprint in front of the boys. It showed a metal dome with multiple thin leg supports, code named Hikaris-801. The boys looked at it in confusion. "Using my idea and your powers, we will build the Help-The-Town-And-Make-It-A-Better-Place-Machine." The boys looked back up at him as he gestured to the blueprint. "That way everyone will see that our special abilities our good, then everyone will love us. Remember? It was your idea!" He pointed to them in statement. Malik, at the front blinked in confusion. The lava continued to churn.
"Uh," stammered Ryou, trying to remember what they had said, "oh, yeah. But... use our powers?" He asked in earnest, throwing out his arms.
"Yes!" said Rex with encouragement.
"No way," said Malik, dismissing the notion without any hesitation.
"Come on," croaked Rex, very eager. His torn scarf blew behind him.
"Nuh uh," said Yugi sadly, all of them looking set against Rex's request. He looked down, speaking in a slow, but clear voice. They didn't want to risk destroying the city again. "We"re never using our powers again."
"Oh boys," said Rex with slow sympathy. Leaving his cylindrical device on the rocky terrain behind him, he crawled forward towards them over his plan, tilting his head as he spoke. His trench coat trailed on the ground. "Don't be sad." He dropped the sympathetic voice, switching back to encouraging Rex. "Your powers are great!" They looked up from the lava towards him. He grinned down with crossed eyes at them. Rex only wanted what was best for the town, he said. "You just gotta believe in yourself."
A U-shaped grin steadily crawled its way up Rex's face, although no teeth were shown while he did this. He displayed this to the boys with the up most confidence. The boys, still with hesitation, looked at Rex, then back down at the lava filling the volcano crater. Their distorted reflections looked back on them, this was after broken by another lava bubble. Slowly, they looked up towards the centre of the crater. The lava churned slowly, the various shades of said lava moving around each other like chunky jelly.
Without warning, three blurs of light blue, purple and amethyst respectively, shot into the middle of the lava crater, splashing it about. Rex grinned down as the ripples vanish away. Heavy determination was present even in his black pupils.
The boys moved down through the lava, spiraling around red-hot rocks as they did so. Something about Rex's words had propelled them to risk the usage of their powers to make this machine for the town. They had crossed eyes as they shot down through the stuff, approaching a point past all the rocks that resembled a hotter sphere. It wasn't the mantle, although to the boys it felt like it as they got into it.
Briefly blinded as they went inside, they held their breaths as they let go of the device. It steadied itself, its top lid gradually unwinding as it rotated into position. The device was completely resilient to the lava"s red-hot temperature, as were the boys.
Attached to a long wire, the lid shot back up out of the large sphise, the boys moving with it. Their breath started to reach breaking point as they moved through the rocks with the lid, which was moving itself. They could see the approaching surface of the lava. .
The boys burst out of the crater, splashing lava everywhise as they did so, the device"s lid stopping level with the brim of the crater. "Yes, yes, yes!" said Rex in triumph, jumping up and down with excited fists, some of the lava almost hitting him as he did so.
"We did good?" asked Ryou, the lava dripping off of their skin, neithis them nor their clothes affected even remotely.
"You did very good," said Rex with a drawl, his fists clenched together as the boys fell down to hover in front of him. His pupils drew to the side of his head, something else not said. "Very good indeed..."
"Now what do we do?" said Malik enthusiastically, like a starved shark.
Rex returned to the blueprint, pointing at the sides of the dome-like structure. The boys watched over his shoulders. "First we construct the superstructure," he said, moving his hand across the sketched dome.
The boys signature light trails twisted and twirled around giant chucks of ice sticking out of a vast tundra. Against a dark night sky, they landed down in front of a flat stretch of icy ground. They shut their eyes tightly, sending out eye beams at the ice, bringing up clouds of icy fog that clouded their vision.
Once the fog had faded, they approached the edge of the hole they had made, their hair blowing in the tough wind. Malik slid down beneath the large asteroid that was contained in the hole they had just created. Straining only a small bit with the weight, He started to lift it into the sky, grinning. Ryou and Yugi almost laughed too.
Back at the volcano, Rex, speaking excitedly, gestured the three boys into lifting the asteroid closer to the cylindrical device"s lid, which had now sprouted three tight metal rods that anchored themselves to the crater's walls. Malik and Ryou shot four eye beams together , melting the asteroid gradually as Yugi held it steady. The molten rock flowed down into moulding cases that Rex had ready, his mouth giving instructions that the boys were able to follow perfectly. They were proceeding rapidly, faster than one would have thought, even with the boys powers.
Malik flexed one of the many iron bars into place, while Yugi sealed it down with his eye beams. Over on the structure's other side, Ryou did both, attaching its end to another and sealing it in. Even from afar, one could see the structure quickly taking shape, the bars showing the shape of a dome already, even though the top was missing.
The boys streaks shot through the deepest depths of the ocean, weaving around underwater rock formations, a crashed sunken ship and other sunken treasures, until they finally reached a giant submarine on the ocean floor. They slowed up and stopped as they reached its tail end. Light was shining from a large crack on its middle starboard side.
The boys, as one, lifted the submarine up by its tail fin. As the underwater vehicle rose from the rocky floor, the lights inside flickered and vanished, just as a large school of angler fish, with their lit-up angled glowing bulbs, swam away in a hurry.
Rex told the boys to lower the submarine through the structure"s hole. His claws were clenched together the ocean-adapted wreak drawing closer to him. While Malik and Yugi held the opposite ends steady above Rex, Yugi grabbed a lone construction bar. Swinging it fast, He struck the submarine middle, cracking it fully in two like a piñata, sending all manner of technological wires and components to the structure floor.
As Ryou and Malik swept up all the components rapidly, Rex grabbed two of them linking them together. He connected the two wires together in the structure's middle station, lighting up all the wired lights around the place in a luminous green color. The boys gasped in even bigger excitement soundlessly. From afar at the same place, the structure glowed green even more. It was nearing completion without question.
The boys shot out through a vast, cold desert at night, stopping over a bay of large sand. They whirled themselves around the sand dune rapidly, gathering it up in their tornado, the moon glowing close to their point on the Earth's surface.
Rex gestured towards the pile of sand the boys had accumulated, as they sizzled it up to a hot temperature with six eye beams all together. Once hot enough, they used thin glass tubes to blow the melted sand into glass spheres, floating near the side of the completed dome structure.
"Look," said Rex with awestruck admiration as he used a wrench to tighten a bolt on a gigantic glass sphere atop the structure"s middle station, "can"t you see out plan is working?" Ryou fitted one of the glass spheres onto the end of a glass rod sticking out of the large glass sphere, while Malik used his eye beams to meld another glass rod into place, a wire leading inside the large one. "Our work is proceeding as planned!" Yugi carried two glass spheres around to the other side, ready to fit them in. "At last, our lives will be better! As last, we will be accepted!" Rex directed the boys into placing down multiple glass cylinders with dome tops onto holding cups around the perimeter of the structure. He then looked at his blueprint with admiration, lowering it down to see the finished work of their plan.
"At last," said Rex triumphantly, "our greatest work is comple –" Rex abruptly stopped mid-sentence. The structure matched his blueprint down to the note, with windows around the perimeter and an even bigger glass sphere encasing the small ones extending from the inner one. Wires from it led to the entire glass cylinder around the edge in a circle. The control station below had all the necessary buttons and levers too.
"Oops," stuttered Rex slowly.
"What"s wrong?" said Ryou, the three boys floating above him curiously.
"Well," said Rex in a sweet voice, looking up at them with a somewhat sly grin, "thise is one last teeny tiny, itsy bitty thing we still need." The boys stared back at him, confusion ridden on their faces as to what else was required for the plan.
In the lab of the Muto Chateau, a container of Dimensional H rested on the white desk surface. It wasn"t alone for long, though, as the three boys floated up in front of it quickly. Their bright trails zoomed out the front door, through the bright morning day. They reached Rex's observatory within second, which stood alone and complete now atop the volcano.
Inside, they floated up in front of Rex, Ryou holding the container of Dimensional H. Rex only grinned even more, quietly pointing to the top of the structure. Without hesitation, the boys floated up there, past the giant glass spheres and the wire-encased walls. Finally reaching the top, Ryou slowly placed the chemical-containing flask upside down in a small hole for the vat, the flask's tube leading directly into the machine, although the chemical stayed where it was.
"Yes, yes, yes!" cheered Rex in triumph, leaping up and down on the spot, his rags shaking as he did so.
"We did good?" asked Ryou again, the three of them whipping around from the top of the machine.
"You did very good," said Rex with a snigger, in exactly the same manner as before, the boys floating down in front of him. The blue sky shone across the city's buildings through the oval windows around the structure's exterior. His eyes slanted sideways again, "Very good indeed..."
"Now what do we do?" asked Malik again, this time even more enthusiastic, if that was possible.
"Well," said Rex slowly, folding his arms behind his back, and briefly closing his eyes, "because you've done so good, I've got... A special surprise!" The boys gasped without any noise yet again as he pointed at them.
A surprise atop helping the town and making it a better place... Despite starting off bad, their lives couldn't get any better or worse now!
"Yay!" Ryou, Yugi and Malik cheered as they ran inside the gates of Domino Zoo, Trailing behind them was Rex, dressed the same as ever, only this time he had a black camera held behind his back. His ragged scarf blew behind him as he entered the zoo.
"Ooh!" The boys said as they stood by a magnificent Borneo elephants exhibit as the elephants were standing around and eating before they giggled when they saw a calf was running around while Rex kept on walking unimpressed. .
"Aah!" The boys said yet again as they were on a glass exhibit where Grey Seals were swimming around inside the water while Rex kept on walking on still unimpressed. .
"Ooh!" The boys said again as they were watching great powerful African Lions as they were roaming around their exhibit as Rex still kept on walking as he was still unimpressed but he knew what the boys want so he might have been nice.
The boys stopped at the Souvenir shop as they squealed and zoomed in and grabbed what they wanted, Ryou was holding a tiger stuffed animal and a tiger hat, Malik was wearing a Lion t-shirt while he held on to a lion pendant bracelet and Yugi grabbed a cute panda souvenir bag and a stuffed little panda toy. They looked at Rex who sighed but nodded as he went and paid, he told the boys to wait here before he went to he cashier who was eyeing them but didn't say anything when Rex paid for their stuff with the money he had been pick-pocketing from the people from other exhibits.
The boys squealed as they ran out before what they saw next made their eyes widen with joy, For there was a sign that said that next to the souvenir shop was a petting zoo. .They squeal as they zoomed there but Rex quietly carries them off toward the Primate Plaza as they were looking at him confused. .
Rex placed the boys down in front of some little monkeys that were using their tails to hang on the trees of their exhibit, They smiled as they watched the monkeys with smiles on their faces before they look at Rex who look uneasy before he smiled and pulled out a camera, as the boys cheered before they smiled politely for the camera as Rex backed up but he waved the boys out of the shot entirely and focusing on the monkey's butt, he smirked as he snapped the shot, the monkey shrieked in pain as it fell off the tree.
Immediately after this, the boys jumped in the camera's trajectory, adopting silly poses. The camera shifted to face an olive baboon yelling at a second baboon. One flash of white light from the camera, and the baboon stopped yelling, leaping away, his fellow looking after him. Rex then turned away from the boys again, zoning in on a proboscis monkey perched in a tree branch, with several humans watching. One picture, and he tumbled out of the branch with a grunt.
In a hot spring, one Japanese macaque, a white-haired monkey, was grooming his partner, picking off and eating fleas. But once Rex took a picture, the groomer macaque towered over his fellow, leering and yelling as his equal lowered himself into the water.
A podgy orangutan ate an apple in silence in a tree. Until the snapping of Rex's camera made him snap his eyes open, spitting out his most recent bite. Afterwards, a gibbon was photographed next, the picture interrupting his slow tree swinging in favor of a butt clutching, falling to the ground.
This process continued on and on, every single monkey, primate and simian in the zoo being subjected to a flash of white light from Rex's camera. They all squealed, flinched, recoiled or otherwise reacted, showing obvious discomfort for some reason. Wherever they were or whatever they were, as long as they were primates, it happened to them. And Rex did this with every last one, right up to a small red tarsier settled against a tree's side. He then joined the boys.
Later, they was looking at a diagram of the evolution of man reading off the descriptions below each one, as Malik started first, "Worthless." He said as he looked at the picture that showed man 4.5 millions B.C.
"Lame." Ryou said as he looked at the picture that said 3.5 Million B.C.
"Stupid." Yugi giggled as he saw the picture that said 2.5 Million B.C.
"Okay." Malik said as he looked at the picture that said 2.1 Million B.C.
"Better." Ryou said as he saw the picture that was man around 750,000 B.C.
"Almost!" Yugi said happily as he saw the picture that was man around 250,000 B.C.
"Awesome!" They all cheered before giggled and laughed at the picture of man that was today, Rex rolled his eyes at the stupid diagram before he looked and smirked evilly at seeing a mountain gorilla. He grabbed his camera and snapped once more, the gorilla eyes widen with shock before it scratched the spot in its hair that it thought bit him . .
Concealed by the flash of white light, something flew from the camera at rapid speed, hitting the gorilla's fur dead on. He blinked in slow surprise, lowering his eyes to his fur, and scratching it in vague curiosity. Yet mere inches from his finger lay a blinking red device, embedded in his fur, obviously a result of Rex's camera. Whatever it was, it too looked sinister. And only one monkey even knew about them at all.
Rex lowered his camera back down, his sinister smile still on his face. His purple scarf blew behind him as he started to pace back towards the Primate Plaza exit.
"Come boys, our work is don- I mean time to go." Rex corrected himself as he started to leave as they boys looked from looking at the Meerkats exhibit. .
"Awww. ." They boys moaned sadly, "But Rex!" They said together as they started to follow Rex who was just smiling as he was walking away with his eyes closed.
"We haven't seen the gazelles!" Ryou in desperation, running past a discarded baby rattle on the ground.
"Or the tigers!" Malik cried as he too walk past the baby rattle.
"Or the Baby pandas!" Yugi wailed, "Please just one Pan-oaf!" He didn't finished his sentence when he tripped over the baby rattle, he turns to see a woman was trying to hush her crying child while her eldest was looking around..
Picking up the rattle, he ran up to catch up with the woman, "Excuse me ma'am, I think you dropped this." He said with his warmest smile but the woman looks at him distrustful and angrily snatches the rattle as Yugi smile left his face while the woman walks away in a huff while dragging her eldest son.
"I thought the zoo kept all the animals in cages!" She said loudly for Yugi to hear as Yugi lowered his head in despair.
His brothers ran toward him, having heard what that woman said, as Malik yelled after the lady, "Yeah well, you're welcome lady! NOT!"
Ryou was consoling and comforting Yugi, "Don't listen, Yugi." He said to him gently.
"That"s right, Yugi, do not listen." Ryou and Yugi looked up and Malik turned, hearing Rex speak as his shadow fell over them. "All of you, deafen yourself to their heartless words." He drew up to them, gesturing to his chest and rolling his eyes as he said the last bit. "They do not know that it is their saviors they are speaking to." He peered down at them as they looked back, Ryou and Yugi curious and Malik still angry from half a minute previously. Rex, however, looked quite happy. "They are unaware that your actions will have helped change their would forever." He gestured widely with that last part, the sun shining out from behind his paper bag-covered brain.
Slowly, the boys mouths grew big, happy grins, resembling in many ways the grin which Rex was displaying upon them. Smiling, he picked all three of them up in his arms, in a meaningful embrace as the boys perceived it. "Because we have helped the town, and made it a better place," he said to then peacefully, his scarf drifting silently behind him.
"You think they"ll be surprised?" asked Ryou, positioned closest to Rex's big pink eyes compared to his sisters.
"Oh, yeah," said Rex slowly, letting his eyes face elsewhere for a moment.
"Do you think they'll still be mad at us for playing Tag?" asked Malik in a fast voice instantly after, though He didn't look angry at all there.
"No," said Rex confidently, slight swagger in his voice, "They"ll have forgotten all about that." About that, he seemed a little less sure then with his answer to Ryou"s question.
"Will they love us?" asked Yugi last, his cute voice and question making Rex frown suddenly.
For about two seconds, Rex stared to the boys' side, out into open space. It was impossible to tell what he was thinking, other then that he was doing so quickly.
"Yes," said Rex, finally closing his eyes.
"Really?" said the boys all at once.
"Would I lie to you?" said Rex sweetly, looking at the boys directly.
Rex stood there with the boys in his arms, all of them smiling with closed eyes. All of them knew great things were going to happen tomorrow.
The only thing was… Rex was doing so for a different reason.
The sun shone dimly on the horizon at dusk later that day, it's limited glow only partly visible from the gigantic machine atop the volcano.
Inside the observatory, Rex was making some very fast adjustments with the various buttons and levers in the control station. His paper bag-covered brain wriggled with the various actions he performed. In front of him hovered the boys, watching with anticipation.
Yugi had his hands clenched over his eyes, fearing that something was going to go wrong. Ryou had his hands over his mouth, watching silently, uttering not a sound. Malik shielded his ears, fearing that the machines were going to fail.
All three of them grew more nervous and anxious as they watched Rex's routine checkup. They just felt that something was going to go horribly wrong –
Rex suddenly stopped his work, just at the same moment that the lights beeped positive. The boys let out mute gasps.
Rex stepped out from the control station, opening his arms one more time. The boys all smiled, soaring into his arms simultaneously. Illuminated by the machines light, they looked as happy as they could. The bond they had established in but a few short days…
Yugi subtly planted a slight kiss on his cheek, making Rex open his eyes with realization. Letting go of the boys, he waved as they soared away from him towards the observatory's exit.
The boys soared away from the observatory just as the sun was setting. Inside, Rex's happy smile remained, although his eyes suddenly curved, making it resemble more of a grin.
His finger touched a button on the panel. The glass cylinders around the permitting began filling with water. Near Rex's feet, the trench overcoat and ragged shirt landed softly on the floor. As water filled upwards in the large cylinders, the scarf joined the pile of rags.
Last to go was the paper bag. One of Rex's feet stomped on the lot as he passed it by.
The sun finally set fully, plunging the observatory into semi-darkness. All that could be made out was a pair of pink eyes accompanied by that familiar grin.
That night, the dark sky shone darkly over the Domino City suburbs. The Muto Chateau stood alone, only the main living room light on. All was quiet until the boys signature light streaks shot through the air, straight through the front red door without damaging it. Inside, they floated around happily, all smiling ecstatically.
"I"m so excited!" said Ryou with glee, whizzing through the air diagonally.
"Yeah, we"ll show them!" said Malik with confidence, doing the same the other way.
"Hey," said Yugi, stopping in a certain spot, pondering something as He raised an arm, "where"s –"
The red door was kicked open by one of two cops, both of them having Solomon in their grasp. They then tossed Solomon into the air violently, slamming the door behind them. He hit the ground with a thud, his hair still askew.
"Professor!" cried out Ryou, Yugi and Malik together. They floated down to his level, Malik using his laser eyes on the handcuffs on his hands behind him.
"Oh boys, thank goodness you're okay," Solomon said as the handcuffs melted and his arms fell by his side. "I"m so sorry… I"m a terrible, terrible parent!" The boys looked at each other and then back at him, not truly understanding.
"You must hate me for not picking you up from school," he said slowly, moving his eyes sideways. "But it's not my fault. It's this town – they've gone crazy!" He widened his eyes, then let them lower again. "It"s like they've never seen kids playing before."
He looked up at the boys, sighing as he talked. "I knew your powers would take some getting used to. But jail?" Ryou had his mouth wide open. "Lawsuits?" Yugi was the same, even though they didn"t entirely know what that meant. "Angry mobs?" Malik had his mouth stretched widest of all.
"What"s next?" said Professor frantically, gesturing with a fragile hand.
"Don"t worry, Professor, things are gonna get better. We promise."
Although these words successfully penetrated Solomon's ears, they did not reach the ears of a certain primate.
The dome-like observatory stood atop the volcano, no one even noticing it, strangely. Even more strange was what was happening inside.
In the machine"s center sat Rex, finger raised above the controls. His hobo clothes ditched, he was currently wearing nothing, his skin illuminated red against the glowing technology. All around the observatory, all the large tanks were filled with water, illuminated green. The machine seemed just as sinister as Rex.
Rex's finger hit one of the buttons, making it flash red –
Also flashing red quickly was the device in the mountain gorilla"s fur, back at the zoo. He stood asleep in the same position as before, unaware of it, before he suddenly vaniHed right out of the air.
The orangutan sat asleep on solid ground in his pen. A device blinked out of his fur too before he also blinked out of sight. Simultaneously, the Japanese macaque lay in his spring. Ripples crossed the water as he vaniHed too. The olive baboon lay peacefully against a tree trunk, until he also disappeared, with a sucking blink sound, and a frame"s worth of red sparks. The proboscis monkey stood asleep in his tree perch, until the blinking device attached to him whisked him away.
From a few yards away, all of the small chimpanzees vanished, with the sound and flashes, from their pen, leaving it much emptier then before.
Two of the chimpanzees teleported directly into the two tanks in Rex's centrical line of vision, to such precision that the suction cups attached to wires placed at the tank's tops stuck to their heads perfectly. In pairs, all of the monkeys teleported into the tanks around Rex, until every last one had a primate in it.
Rex sat very still at the front, a closed grin across his face. His finger near a rod switch, he basked in the light of the surrounding, sleeping monkeys before he flicked it up.
The effect was instantaneous. All the wired green lights around the structure"s wall lit up instantly, accompanied by a draining sound. At the giant glass sphere's top, all but a bit of the Dimensional H was absorbed from it"s beaker, straight into the machine.
The smaller glass spheres inside spun around rapidly, the glass balls on rods pushing out to their full length. The Dimensional H was divided into these balls briskly as they extended outwards. Rex had one fist clenched at the controls, snapping a lever forward suddenly with his other hand.
The balls rotation stopped instantly at this action. The Dimensional H inside all of the balls slowed around briefly until it settled, this sound echoing through all the glass spheres distantly.
Rex"s last action was to turn one dial 60 degrees, such that it activated the machine fully. With a flash of neon green light, the whole place was glowing dark green. Controlled electricity sparked and conducted around and inside the glass balls, making the air almost sizzle as Rex watched the machine do it"s job with his sinister smirk. Simultaneously, the chemical was absorbed into the middle of these balls, sparking with flashing volts until it vanished.
The chemical flowed down the tubes leading to the monkeys" cylindrical resting cases, seeping into them. The instant it flowed in, they all awoke, vibrating as the chemical seeped into their skin, electricity cackling all around them.
The whole place flashed with neon light over and over. The proboscis monkey"s pupils were stretched wide as he trembled like his fellows. A hairy ape and a skinny mandrill were doing the same, their mouths open in shock. The mountain gorilla was squeaked in his case, his hands twitching with the electricity, as was the olive baboon. One of the gibbons was shaking really hard.
Suddenly, one monkey's clenched eyelids shot open. His pupils, open wide, diluted to a smaller size. Electricity sizzled around his trembling hands, as well as his comparatively calm feet. His whole body shook while the cups continued to keep his awake. One monkey"s butt and tail were even alive with the experimental electricity.
The skin around one of the small chimpanzee's head suddenly stretched open, as something extended out of it. Slowly but surely, as Rex"s operation proceeded, the monkey"s brain extended out of his skull. The pink thinking tissue towered above his small structure, raising to a level that was in the same ratio as Rex"s brain to his body. As this happened for all the simians in the locale, the place was suddenly shielded from view by one hissing flash of white light, that rendered one briefly blind –
The neon light continued, still flashing, as Rex laughed one long, loud, shrill, victorious, triumphant, cold laugh. His laughing did not reach the ears of the monkeys, who sat quite prostate in their cases, no longer screeching. A line of five monkeys consisting of a gibbon, the podgy orangutan, a bonobo, the mountain gorilla and the baboon rested still in the liquid in their tanks, all of the Dimensional H absorbed into their body systems now. The technology that the boys had helped Mojo build kept their newly extended brains in check, in more ways then one, it might be worth adding.
While Rex's laugh kept piercing the air, the flashing light from inside the observatory flashed through the large oval windows lines around it"s perimeter. From outside, they flashed continuously, visible as long as the observatory was visible. It stood still atop the park volcano, not moving as it continued to flash green through the windows, Rex"s laugh piercing the air. Only when one reached the outskirts was the view to the observatory blocked by other buildings in the night, although Rex's laugh almost seemed to be audible even this far. But no one was awake to hear it, though it forewarned big things tomorrow.
And in the boys bedroom, the laugh seemed to radiate too, although it didn't disturb any of them. Malik, wearing a natural expression in his sleep. Ryou, having a slight smile on his face. And Yugi, smiling the biggest, with Ra safe in his hand, None of them moved in their sleep or arose from it in any way, too peaceful to do so. They did not know about what had just happened across at the technology to which they had contributed, nor that it had been done with the Help-The-Town-And-Make-It-A-Better-Place machine. They were unaware that their actions had just changed Rex's world forever in a way they had not expected, because he hadn't told them about that little detail. But yet they slept on, thinking that good things would happen for everyone tomorrow.
The darkness of the night finally consumed both the light and Rex's laugh.