Bare with me my friends I have to set the plot so you'll understand the story. I know it's not the most exciting thing to read and believe me it's not the most exciting thing to write either but we all know it's important so if you start to drool please by all means skip down a page or two or to the next chapter and you'll hopefully be entertained again.
As for my reviewers thank you very much for reviewing!!! (Sends giant dog with chocolates to give kisses and loves!!) And I apologize I lied. Cockroaches and Yami are in the next chapter. This one ended up being longer than expected so…yeah. Fighting and torture all come in due time. I hate writing the beginning. It's so…. dull. Anywho read and review:D
Chapter Three: Questions and Answers
"So like I was saying, this guy walks up to me and starts blabbin' about how we need to start savin' the cockroaches. How it ain't right to kill the last remaining animals from our 'mother Earth.' I was like; 'you've never met a cockroach have you?" Kaiba rolled his eyes in annoyance as Joey continued to talk about his…er…life. Why of all people did he have to be reincarnated?
They had left the hospital about an hour ago taking off in Duke's vehicle. It wasn't all that different from the cars when he was alive the first time (God, that sounded weird in his head.) except for the fact it hovered above the ground instead of using tires. They were headed to where the reincarnates worked. The only place Kaiba could really think of the two working at would be in a machine shop or washing dishes. He had to smirk at the thought of Joey elbow deep in dirty dishes and soap suds.
Sitting in the backseat Kaiba stared out the window and took in the scenery around him. It looked pretty much like Earth. There were trees and grass, the normal vegetation you would expect to see in a city. There were buildings of all sizes made of what looked like mirrors. The reflection of everything around could be seen perfectly on the walls. People walked to and fro across the sidewalks heading to work or just hanging about. They all looked pretty normal too for the most part. Of course he was zooming passed them at high speeds so he wasn't really able to get any true detail. But as he looked up watching the blinking signs fly by and the occasional officer on what looked to be a floating motorcycle he noticed the sky. It wasn't blue like he remembered but a reddish-pink. The clouds, he also noted, were not the fluffy white or gray but a dull orange. Seeing this somehow bothered him. Looking away from the window he settled himself for staring at his hands.
The sky had always been his escape. Every time his mind would wander or his day would go exceptionally bad, and even when he was just relaxing he would always stare at the sky and watch the clouds just lazily shift passed. It was his escape. And now… that was gone as well. He no longer felt like the hot shot CEO he once was or the top man. Now, he just felt out of place and…. lonely? How could he possibly say he was lonely? He never had a wife or any friends! But…he always did have a sense of familiarity and dominance. Now…he was nothing.
The thoughts began to strike close to home and once again he was forced to focus on something else. This time he decided to think on his mission. What was he supposed to do? Quench his lack of love and resolve his guilt with the Pharaoh. Sounded easy enough. As if an after thought he wondered if there was another reincarnate of Yugi around to help. All he had to do was find the puzzle and…he didn't know, probably apologize. For what exactly?
"Sorry, I didn't help you move on after you got your memories back and after Yugi died. Oh, and leaving you in a museum to rot for God knows how long. Hope you die soon!" He thought sarcastically. With his luck the Pharaoh would send him to the shadow realm before he got a chance to even say a word. He was just going to have to wing it. The sooner he finds the puzzle the better. Suddenly it dawned on him. How was he supposed to help the Pharaoh if he was on planet Mars and the puzzle was still on Earth? And even if he did find the puzzle how the heck was he supposed to talk to the Pharaoh? Yugi always translated or the Pharaoh would take over.
"Great, more problems." Kaiba muttered to himself. This was beginning to become a bad day.
"Hey, we're here." Duke announced. Kaiba looked up to see they had pulled up to a large dome shaped building. Like all the others the walls had a sort of mirror effect. As soon as the car landed the three gracefully hopped out.
"This is where you work?" Kaiba asked. Nobody could see it but Kaiba was a little dazzled at the light spectacle set off by the reflection of the sky and the sun.
"Kinda." Joey replied. "This is where we get paid and where the boss sits."
"Then where do you work?" Kaiba questioned. He might as well get his questions all out now.
"You'll find out." Duke answered. The three men entered the building after walking through a door, which Kaiba had a hard time distinguishing from the wall. Stepping inside the three entered into what appeared to be a small waiting room. A secretary desk sat on the far side while a few chairs aligned the walls. It was nothing spectacular or really anything 26th century. It all looked pretty normal.
"Jennie, where you at?" Joey called leaning over the mahogany desk.
"Just a minute, just a minute." A short squatty woman walked out from behind a door that Kaiba had overlooked. "What's up, Sugar?" Came the bubbly voice.
"You know where the boss is? We got us a new candidate for that position." Joey continued.
"Where do you think? Never gets off his big butt." She replied annoyed.
"Looks like she's the one who never gets off her butt." Kaiba thought to himself.
"A'ight, thanks, Jennie." Joey spoke. Duke and Kaiba followed as Joey led the way through the door the woman had come out of. Entering into a hallway they made their way down to another door that was located on the right. Stepping forward Duke knocked three times.
"Who is it?" a male voice sang out. Kaiba paled considerably. Please let it not be true.
"It's us! We found a new guy for the job." Duke hollered back through the door.
"Oh goody! Bring him in!" was the excited reply. Opening the door the three stepped inside.
"Why me?" Kaiba thought bitterly. Sitting before him was none other than Pegasus himself.
"This here's Seto Kaiba!" Joey motioned toward Kaiba who was having a hard time not staring at he white haired man sitting before him.
"It's a pleasure!" Pegasus spoke extending his hand. Kaiba stiffly returned the shake. "He's not very talkative is he?"
"He's had a rough day." Duke replied.
"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. Well you get the job." Kaiba looked at him a little stunned. That easy? "Don't give me that look. You see we don't get many who will apply for the job. It pays quite handsomely it just…"
"Just what?" Kaiba questioned. This was the second time he did something stupid without thinking it through. This really was not turning out to be a good day.
"The life expectancy isn't all that high. But I'm sure you'll do just fine!" Pegasus beamed happily. "Now all you need to do is sign here and you'll start tomorrow." He directed to a piece of paper he pulled from his desk and handed Kaiba a pen. Sighing Kaiba signed.
"Great see you tomorrow at six!" And with that the three men were back out in the car.
"See that wasn't so bad." Joey said slapping Kaiba hard on the shoulder. Kaiba just glared.
"We'll take you to our place till you can get the money to rent your own." Duke reported setting the car in motion.
"What have I gotten myself into?" Kaiba sighed. "What exactly is this job?"
"Oh, you'll find out tomorrow." Joey replied with a goofy grin.
"Just think of it as a surprise!" Duke chuckled.
"I hate surprises." Kaiba muttered leaning back into the seat annoyed. It's been concluded; this is not a good day.
An hour later they arrived at run down apartment building. It didn't have the mirrors on the outside but the bare steel beams shown instead. Roof tiles were missing and a number of windows were broken and replaced with a plastic bag. Brown paint chipped off the walls and doors. Too put it straight it was down right ugly. Kaiba was led up a narrow staircase until he came to the door 324. Stepping inside he was surprised to find a clean simple living area. It was bigger than he expected. Two rooms could be seen behind open doors in the back and a kitchen to the right. A large orange sofa sat in one corner facing a large screen implanted into the wall. And a small coffee table sat to the side under the window as well. It was comfortable to put it in the least.
"You can sleep on the couch for tonight. We'll wake you up about five, work for you?" Joey spoke.
"It's fine thank you." Great now he was saying thank you to the mutt.
"Are you hungry?" Duke asked from the kitchen.
"No I'm fine." Kaiba stated.
"Alright then I'm gonna hit the sack."
"Me, too." Joey agreed. Tossing Kaiba a blanket the two men went off into their separate rooms. Sitting down weakly Kaiba stared at the ceiling.
"I am so confused." Kaiba sighed to himself.
"I bet you are." Jacob replied. Kaiba bolted upright and stared at the angel that was now sitting on the arm of the couch.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Kaiba whispered harshly.
"Oh just wanted to see how you were doin'?" the angel replied uninterested.
"How I've been doing?! I'm stuck on the planet Mars with not a clue on what's going on, I've been signed up for a job I have know knowledge of except that it has a low life expectancy, I'm stuck with two of the biggest idiots who ever walked the planet, and you left me high and dry! How do you think I've been doing?" Kaiba growled back keeping his voice low so as not to wake the roommates.
"Oh come now it's not that bad." Kaiba gave him his death glare. "Okay so maybe I should have enlightened you a little bit more."
"You think?!"
"Alright, fine, I'll answer any questions you have." The angel scooted down so that now he was actually sitting on the seat. His wings folded gently against the pillow.
"Why the hell am I on Mars?"
"Well because Earth is uninhabitable at the moment. You can't tell me you didn't figure that one out yet!"
"Shut up."
"Fine, sheesh, next question."
"Why did you leave me?"
"Oh now we got to get all personal!" Jacob spoke rather loudly.
"Shh!"
"Calm down you're the only one who can hear or see me. Now next question."
"You didn't answer my first."
"Good golly fine. I needed you to come back so you could find Yami. And I figured that if I told you the whole story you wouldn't come. Oy, I have a feeling I'm going to be here awhile." Jacob said rubbing his temples.
"If you had told me everything in the first place we wouldn't be having this conversation!" Kaiba bit back.
"If you had told me everything." Jacob mocked in a high squeaky voice. "Next Question!!"
"Where do I find the Pharaoh?"
"I can't tell you that."
"What? What do you mean you can't tell me that?"
"Meaning I can't tell you that. I don't know everything!"
"You like leaving me in the dark don't you?"
"Maybe."
"Do you at least know what planet he's on?"
"Earth."
"What?!"
"I didn't say this was going to be easy."
"Do you like to fly?" Kaiba asked menacingly.
"Yes, why? Oh… Next question!"
"Who's the star society?"
"Ah, finally a question worth answering. The star society is the government."
"Then why does everyone seem so afraid every time they speak of it?"
"Well, it's kind of hard to explain. Do you remember the mafia?"
"Yes." Kaiba answered suspiciously.
"Well, think of the star society like that, except with a lot more power."
"…"
"Yeah, I know not good. The star society was and is the original name of the government, but about seventy-five years ago a cult known as the United Justice was able to infiltrate it after rigging the elections. By doing this they were able to bring in more and more of their 'kind', so to speak, until they took complete control.
"What do they want?" Kaiba asked, his anger suddenly replacing itself with curiosity.
"What else, power. They'll do whatever they can to gain the biggest weapons, the biggest ships, and obviously the most money. They tell the people it's for protection and in their best interest. People listen because they're too scared to stand up."
"It's a little hard to grasp." Kaiba stated mulling it over in his brain.
"To give you a better example do you remember the movie 'V for Vendetta?"
Kaiba could vaguely recall watching it with Mokuba many years ago. It was made after some comic book or something like that. "Vaguely."
"Remember the government system? Well, it's like that. Get my picture?"
"To an extent. Are they the ones that destroyed Earth?"
"Uh, no. That was everyone's doing." The angel replied somewhat sadly. "We killed our planet after WW IV. Nobody really knows who, but near the end of the war someone set off a nuclear bomb in hopes to gain the advantage, it ended up becoming a chain reaction after that. Y…. you'd have to see it for yourself to understand the severity of it."
Kaiba nodded his head in understanding. Something like that was to be seen in person. Kaiba sat there quietly for a moment. It was a lot of information to process and he had a feeling he would be up all night thinking about it, but there were two questions still bothering him. "Jacob, why was the Pharaoh forced to stay?"
The angel sighed as he tried to come up with an answer. "After Yami received all of his memories he had been told that he had one mission left to accomplish. Because of this he was forced to stay in the puzzle and wait once again until the right time came along."
"So he's been sitting down there waiting for me?"
"Not only that, but for the issue he's supposed to solve."
"And what is it he's supposed to solve?"
"He's supposed to destroy the star society." Kaiba gaped at Jacob in shock.
"That's absurd! How do you suppose he's going to do that? Send them all to the Shadow Realm?"
"That's one option. It's not your mission to worry about, Seto. Your mission is just to find him and resolve your guilt. So don't even worry about it." The words were calmly spoken but Kaiba felt a little disregarded. Through all the stupid quests he's had to go on, willingly or not, and all the bad guys he's had to help defeat… Help. He'd always just helped defeat the bad guy. The Pharaoh was always the one to actually defeat them. "Seto, just try and worry about understanding everything right now and locating, Yami. That's all you need to do."
"Why do you keep calling me 'Seto?" Kaiba questioned.
"Because that's your name." Jacob replied.
"People usually call me 'Kaiba."
"Well, that's not your birth name so I have no reason to call you 'Kaiba." Jacob pointed out. Seto sighed in frustration. This was too much for him in one night. He wished he would have chosen death instead.
"One last question." Seto spoke.
"And what would that be?"
"Are there anymore reincarnates walking around?"
"Of course, there are tons of reincarnates walking around, but really none that you've been acquainted with. Anymore questions?" Seto shook his head. He was suddenly beginning to feel tired and was hoping the angel would leave him in peace. "I have one more thing."
"What's that?" Seto asked tiredly. The angle reached into his white gown and pulled out a silver and white bracelet. It was thin and made of metal that wrapped around in little strips like vines. Peering at it closer Seto could see the same eye he had seen on all the Millennium items.
"This is for you. I want you to wear it always, never take it off." Jacob gently grabbed Seto's wrist and clipped the bracelet around.
"Please tell me it's not another millennium item."
"Don't worry it's not, but that doesn't mean it's any less powerful."
"What does it do?"
"What is this twenty question? You'll find out when the time is right!"
"Hold on a minute! Don't you leave me in the dark again!" Seto growled reaching for the angel.
"You'll figure it out! It has one purpose and one purpose only." Jacob grinned leaping off the couch.
"Don't you…!"
"Tootles!" And just like the first time the angel disappeared.
Seto crawled back up on the couch resting his head on the armrest. His head spun with so much information that he almost felt like it was drowning him. Wrapping the blanket loosely about his body he suddenly felt his muscles relax. Perhaps he was going to be blessed with sleep after all. Within a couple minutes Seto was unconscious awaiting for the upcoming challenges of tomorrow. And little did he know how challenging they were really going to be.
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Why was it soo long?!?!?!?! AAGH!! I'm terribly sorry if this chapter bored you! I desperately tried to make it entertaining (if that's even possible.) I'm in the middle of taking the WASL so my brain is kind of fried at the moment. So if for any reason this chapter and the next come out all atrocious and stuff blame the WASL!!!!! Heh, heh.
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