Disclaimer: I so forgot to do one of these for chapter one. Oh well, I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, times two.
Full summary: Yuugi Moutou worked at the Kame Electronics Shop, the number one place in Domino City to buy the infamous Human-like AI robots that were quickly becoming the replacement for regular computers. Everyone loved the robots, everyone except Yuugi. In Yuugi's opinion they were just a poor imitation of humans, with fake emotions, and fake personalities. But one day a new robot is delivered to the shop, and he takes quite the liking to Yuugi. Yuugi knows there's more to this robot than meets the eye, but exactly what's so special about this robot that has everyone after it?
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"Sure is comin' down out dere, eh Yuge?" Jounouchi commented.
"Yeah. And it stinks, because today the shop's closed so I could have gone out and done stuff all day."
"Um, Yuge, if da shop is closed, den why is dat robot still on?" Jounouchi asked, pointing to 04, who was sitting next to Yuugi, content with just listening to the conversation.
"04? I don't really know, every morning I come down here to open up the shop and he's already turned on. I think it's some sort of alarm programmed into his system, but I can't override it. I can't override any of his programming, every thing's locked up with passwords and stuff, but I checked his box and the company didn't send us any of them."
"So, basically hez useless…"
"No he's not useless, he can still function fine, but I can't alter anything or see any of his data or anything like that. It's strange."
"I'm not gunna bother tryin' to understand all this computer stuff. But as far as your day off goes, why don't we go to da mall?"
"Alright, and we can take 04 with us too, I guess." A huge grin appeared on 04's face.
"But won't he rust in da rain?"
"My body is constructed of the finest stainless steel on the market, to protect me from damage." 04 stated right on cue, in his typical singsong voice.
"You forgot to say 'new feature' dis time." Jou corrected.
"But it's not a new feature. Industrial Illusions has always used the highest quality materials to ensure that their products are durable and long-lasting!"
"Dis robot's like a walkin' commercial for that industrial illusions place, huh?"
"That's because robots are put into what's called 'selling mode' while they're on display at stores so that they can give people who are interested in buying them their specs, and kind of persuade people to buy them. So, it kind of is being a commercial in a way. When they're purchased we set them to 'basic command mode' so that they act the way they're programmed to, and follow whatever orders they're given, which they pretty much do anyway. After that it's up to the owner to program any special orders into them. But that's where we have the problem with 04. Unless we figure out his passwords, we won't be able to switch him into any different modes when he gets purchased."
"I'm sorry, Yuge, but I have no idea what you just said to me."
"Whatever, let's just head to the mall."
"What do you say we check out the game shop and see what they have for duel monsters cards?" Yuugi suggested, once they arrived at the mall.
"Sounds good to me. But dis mall is so huge, I forget how to get to dat store…"
"Accessing mall map…" 04 said in his more electronic tone of voice, his eyes glowing again, "locating store…"
His eyes stopped glowing, and he smiled. "It's that way!" He yelled happily, pointing in the direction of the store and taking off towards it at a run.
"Hey! Wait up!" Jounouchi called to him, then turning to Yuugi he said, "That robot's pretty handy to have around, huh?" And he took off after 04.
Yeah, it's handy, but that was kind of strange, too. 04 found out where that store was, but Jounouchi never actually asked him to. It's like he assumed that's what Jounouchi wanted. But, normally a robot would only respond like that to a direct order, they can't make assumptions. How was he able to do that?
"You comin', Yuge?" As usual, Jounouchi interrupted his thinking.
"Yeah, I'm coming." He said, heading toward Jounouchi and 04.
Jounouchi was in duelist heaven upon arriving at the game shop. He was running around happily, like a kid in a candy store, gaping at every rare card in sight. Yuugi's reaction was a little calmer, because having been a fan of duel monsters since he was about five, and his grandfather playing it since long before that, his collection contained most of the cards that the game had to offer.
"Wow! Dis card is awesome!" Jounouchi exclaimed, holding up a card he had just found in the display, "I wonder how much it is though, I bet it's expensive…"
"Accessing store price log…searching for item number 35391 23479. Search complete! The price of the card is 52!" 04 exclaimed.
"52! How can you sound so happy about dat? Did you hear dat, Yuge? 52 bucks!"
Yuugi nodded, but the price of the card wasn't really what was bothering him. He did it again. This robot is somehow able to process commands without actually being commanded. But the amount of technology that would require is huge. Maybe I'm just overreacting to this. But it still seems kind of strange.
Later that day the robot's strange behavior was still bothering Yuugi. He couldn't figure out how 04 was capable of acting so independently. Of course, he also couldn't figure out why he was so bothered by it.
Are you all right, Yuge? You seem kinda out of it." Jounouchi asked him worriedly.
"I'm fine, I'm just thinking about 04, is all."
Jounouchi smirked. "Oh, so you got da hots for dat robot, huh? Dat explains why you wanted to take 'im wit us to da mall today. I can understand why though, he looks human enough…"
Yuugi's face turned an inhuman shade of scarlet. "No, I don't mean like that! It's nothing like that at all! It's just that…he was acting so strangely at the mall today."
"Alright, Yuge. If you wanna deny it, then I'll humor you." Jounouchi said with what Yuugi thought was a rather sinister looking grin, "So, what was so strange about da way he was actin'? Seemed to be just as perky as normal to me."
"It's not that, it's just that he seemed to be able to perform tasks without actually being asked to do it. And that's very strange, because robots can't do things like that, they aren't technologically advanced enough to make assumptions."
"But dis is a new model, isn't it? Maybe dis one is that advanced, I mean, isn't technology always advancin'?"
"Yes, but it just sort of seems implausible. The technology that would be required for a robot to be capable of thinking things through like that is unheard of."
"Well, you could always look it up in his instruction manual."
"But all his instructions and specifications and stuff are stored in his data archive, which I still can't access without a password. Looking him up is a pretty good idea, though." Yuugi stated with a smirk. He took a cord out of a drawer in the front desk, and plugged it into the computer monitor sitting on the desk.
"But Yuge, dat's just a screen. Don't you need a hard drive to use it or somethin' like dat?"
"I have a hard drive right here." Yuugi said, patting a rather confused looking 04 on the shoulder. "04 is like a human shaped computer, remember?" He opened the front of 04's necklace, liked he'd seen the robot do previously, and plugged him into the other end of the cable. "04, can you log onto the Industrial Illusions homepage for me?"
"Searching for network…network found, connecting to net…Connection complete, loading Industrial Illusions main page…loading complete!" He added happily.
"Geez, dat was really fast." Jounouchi said, dumfounded.
"New feature! Improved connections speeds allow for faster, better results when surfing the net!"
Yuugi rolled his eyes and looked at the screen. "Hmm…the home page doesn't say anything about the new robots. 04, run a search for robot model 04."
04 looked at Yuugi worriedly for a moment, but complied. "Searching…" This time, the pause took much longer than normal. "Search completed," He said, without his usual enthusiasm. Yuugi looked at the screen, and a confused look spread over his face.
"'Public access not authorized'…but that doesn't make any sense, why on Earth wouldn't they allow people to view the information on their newest robot?" he paused for a moment, then a realization donned on him. "04, run a search for the company's most recent model release."
"Searching…search completed." Yuugi looked at the screen again, taking a few minutes to read through all the information presented.
"I knew it." He stated.
"Knew what?" Jounouchi asked, starting to get confused.
"This model on the screen is the one that Industrial Illusions was supposed to have just released, but it's a different model than him."
"Meanin'?"
"Meaning, they accidentally sent us the wrong model, which explains why this one seems so advanced, and he's probably not even finished yet."
"So what are you goin' to do about it?"
"Well, we can't keep him, they're probably wondering where he is. I'll just drop them an email and let them know we have him, and then they can get him back and send us the right model." At this point, 04 was starting to look very worried. He gave Yuugi a sort of pleading look, but neither Yuugi nor Jounouchi seemed to notice. "04, open up an email to Industrial Illusions." Just as he asked, the web page disappeared off of the computer screen. "What's wrong?"
"Connection malfunction." 04 replied rather sheepishly.
Yuugi sighed. "Reconnect."
04 nodded sadly. "Searching for network…network found, connecting to net…" he stopped, "connection failed."
"The internet must be down right now." Yuugi said, rather annoyed. "It doesn't matter, though. We can just keep 04 here for a while."
The smiled quickly returned to 04's face, and he embraced Yuugi in a tight hug. Yuugi felt himself blushing, but hid it from Jounouchi.
"Well, now that we're going to be keeping him for the time being, we should give him a name. It's a pain to be calling him by a number all the time." He paused for a moment, taking a good look at the robot. "How about…Yami?"
"Seems like a kinda weird name to me, but he isn't my robot…" Jounouchi answered.
"I like it!" was said robot's reply.
"Alright, then Yami it is."
"Mr. Crawford, sir?"
"I hope, for your sake, that you're here to tell me that you've recovered unit 00."
"Not exactly, sir. But he just connected to the Internet, and the satellite was able to re-establish a connection, so we were able to locate him."
"Well? Where is he?"
"It appears he was accidentally shipped to the Kame Electronics Shop in Domino."
"Hmm…I highly doubt that his shipment was an accident. But I do believe this development may be rather helpful to me, maybe I'll allow our little friend to continue his visit for a while longer. Good work, Croquet."
"Thank you, Sir." Croquet left the room.
Pegasus took a sip of his wine, contemplating his situation. "Computer."
"Sir?" the machine replied.
"Access model 04, unit 00's main visual computer and show me what's going on at the Kame Electronic Shop right now." He chuckled at his own slyness.
"Yes sir." The computer replied, and after a moment an image appeared on the screen.
"Well, now that we're going to be keeping him for the time being, we should give him a name. It's a pain to be calling him by a number all the time… How about, Yami?" Said a rather short boy on the screen that Pegasus noticed looked remarkably like his robot.
"Seems like a kinda weird name to me, but he isn't my robot…"
"I like it!" Pegasus recognized the voice of unit 00.
"Alright, then Yami it is."
Pegasus turned off the computer. "Yami, hmm? I look forward to seeing the outcome of this little mishap." He took another sip of his wine.
Yami stood at the front desk, carefully eyeing all the corners of the shop. Yuugi had asked him to keep an eye on the shop while he went to take a phone call, and Yami intended on doing a good job. After all, he wouldn't want to do anything that might upset Yuugi and cause him to reconsider keeping Yami there with him. Yuugi was nice to him, not like those other people, and he definitely didn't want to go back to them.
The bell that signaled the opening of the door rang and he looked up. The young man who entered was tall, with icy blue eyes and short, well groomed brown hair. Based on his appearance and apparent lack of weapon, Yami decided that the young man wasn't a thief, and he relaxed a little.
"Hello, Yuugi." The young man said.
Yami smiled at him. "No, my name is Yami, not Yuugi. But are you looking for Yuugi? I'll call him for you." He turned to the door behind him that led to the house, where Yuugi currently was, "Yuugi!" he called, "Yuugi! There's a tall boy here to see you!" He turned back to the tall stranger. "I think Yuugi is on the phone, but he told me he'd be back soon."
"That's fine. Are you two cousins or something? You look just like him."
"New feature! Advancements in physical design allow me to appear even more human!"
"You're a robot!" the stranger exclaimed.
"Yami, did you call me?" Yuugi asked, entering the shop through the back door with Jounouchi.
"Yes, I said that there's a tall boy here to see you." Yami said, running over to Yuugi and embracing him in a hug.
Yuugi looked up at the room's other occupant. "Oh, hello Kaiba."
"Yuugi, that robot is absolutely incredible. How much are you charging for him?"
"Sorry Kaiba, Yami isn't for sale."
"Name your price, I'll pay anything." But Yuugi just shook his head. "I understand. If I had a piece of technology that amazing I'd probably get attached to it, too."
Yami smiled; did this Kaiba person just say that Yuugi was attached to him? He looked at Yuugi, and realized that he was not quite as excited by the comment as himself. He seemed rather flustered. "It's not like that!" Yuugi corrected, "It's just because he was sent to us by accident, this model isn't supposed to be released yet. So, obviously we can't sell him, because we aren't even supposed to have him."
Yami frowned. Did this mean that Yuugi was going to send him back to that place after all? Kaiba scoffed. "Your loss." He said, turning and leaving the store.
"Who was dat?" Jounouchi asked, fairly confused by everything that had just happened.
"That was Seto Kaiba. You could say he's a bit of a robot fanatic."
"Kaiba? Dat name sounds kind of familiar."
"It should. His father, Gozaboru Kaiba, owns Kaiba Corporation, the world's leading producer of military weaponry and technology. So he wasn't kidding when he said he'd pay any price for Yami."
"Why didn't you make a deal with him then? You could've become rich! After all, it's da company's fault for sending you the wrong robot, it's not like dey could blame you for it."
"But, even if I was authorized to sell Yami, I wouldn't sell him to Kaiba. When I say that he's a robot fanatic, I mean it. He comes in here occasionally and buys one of the new models. Then he takes it home, analyzes all of its programming, rewrites the programming so that it's even better, and then uses to build newer, better robots."
"Man, dat's pretty crazy stuff."
"Yeah, and normally I'm fine with that, lots of people do it. But I just get this feeling that it wouldn't be a very good idea to let him tamper with Yami's programming."
Yami smiled, he didn't want Kaiba, or anyone else for that matter, tampering with his programming either.
Tbc
A/N: I just want to clarify, in case anyone was wondering that Yuugi is not in anyway related to the game shop at the mall, in this the only store his family owns is the one with the robots. And also I realized I was starting to make it seem as if Jounouchi spends all day at Yuugi's house and never goes home, because he's always there. The thing is, having him around just makes the plot flow so much better. Besides, everybody loves Jounouchi.
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