Chapter One: He's Baaaaack
It was a Sunday night in the town of Domino. Thankfully, everything was quiet and peaceful, and not a single creature or evil being was trying to cause havoc in town.
At Yugi's house, our five heroes were taking full advantage of the time they could have as normal teenagers. They had gathered in the living room and were currently wrapped up in a horror movie marathon on T.V., with Yugi and Téa on the couch, Bakura and Tristan in the armchairs, and Joey lounging on the floor.
"Why de heck are you openin' dat door, you idiot?!" Joey yelled at the screen.
"You know something bad is behind it! Run, man, run!" Tristan screamed out.
"Guys! Can't you please watch the movie without yelling at it?" Téa cried. "It's not like they can actually hear you!"
At that moment, the character on the screen had opened the door, and a horrible-looking creature suddenly jumped out at them. Téa shrieked and suddenly wrapped her arms around Yugi for a few moments. Then, the two looked at each other in shock, and Téa just as quickly took her arms off, blushing.
Joey gave a fake yawn. "Geez, do dese people know anyting about what a real monster would look like? Now dat we've fought so many, I can see how cheesy dey are."
Yugi laughed. "I guess that's one of the curses of being a hero in one's world."
"Yeah, but on the bright side," Tristan said, leaning back and putting his hands behind his head, "once you've seen all of those creatures almost nothing can scare you anymore."
At that moment, a white orb of light appeared in the corner of the room. Tristan screamed and jumped away from it, landing on his behind on the floor.
The light slowly grew and grew until it became large enough for a person to step through. Yugi quickly jumped up and held out his hand at it, making it glow with blue, magic light. "Everyone, be prepared for whatever's happening!" he yelled.
The others stood up, holding their hands up to the light. They glowed with green, orange, pink, and grey magic.
Finally, someone stepped out of the light. He looked almost exactly like the Pharaoh, except for more orange-tan skin. He was clad in a black sleeve-less shirt, blue pants with blue boots attached to the bottom, and a short blue cape. Once he stepped through, he snapped his fingers and the light vanished.
The teen looked around at the glowing hands pointed out at him, then started clapping. "Taking precautions against only what the gods know will come out of a portal-I applaud you for acting ever smart and heroic, amigos míos."
"Spencer!" Yugi cried, lowering his hand.
Spencer grinned. "Yep-I'm ba-ack."
Joey stood up. "How are tings in your world, man?" he asked.
"Well, thus far everything has been going well-incredible, considering how long I've been gone…but, thank the gods, thus far there have been no massive attacks or attempted takeovers…only a few festivals and such that I've presided over."
He suddenly looked over at Bakura. "Hold it…" He stroked his chin. "I don't think I recognize you."
"Spencer, this is Bakura," Yugi said. "He joined us right after we set you free."
"You're from another world?" Bakura breathed out.
Spencer nodded. "Yep; King Spencer of the Dimension of the Gods, at your service, bro." He gave Bakura a bow. "And you're a psychic, right?"
Now everyone stared at him. "How did you know that?" Tristan asked.
"Oh, you don't know all of my powers as the king, do you," he said. "One of my gifts allows me to sense the magical powers and special abilities which different people have." He paused. "By the way, why are you on the floor like that?"
"Oh, uh…no reason." Tristan got to his feet, trying hard not to blush.
Spencer shook his head. "I won't pry, bro," he said. A serious look crossed his face. "Anyway, we have a problem."
"I thought everything in your world was fine," Téa said.
"In my world, yes," Spencer said. "Your world, on the other hand, might be close to having a few…issues."
"What makes you think that?" Yugi asked.
Spencer sat down in the chair which Tristan had vacated. "A couple of days ago, I received a report from the Kingrah police. Our ever so sweet and charming Susiros apparently attacked a Kingrah resident and stole a custom-portal from them. When we were able to find it with our custom-portal satellite tracking system, we discovered that apparently it had been taken over to Resheph's castle and used to come to this world."
Yugi, Joey, Tristan, and Téa stared at him in shock. Bakura, however, looked very confused. "Who are Susiros and Resheph?" he asked.
"Resheph was the former king of Spencer's world, and Susiros is his girlfriend," Yugi explained. "They had originally trapped Spencer and planned on Resheph re-taking over his world, but we were able to free Spencer before they could do so."
"And because a dat, now dey wanna take us out permanently," Joey finished.
"Oh, my."
"Spencer, are you sure that Susiros and Resheph have come to our world?" Yugi asked.
"Our tracking systems have never malfunctioned, especially since they undergo magical healing every single morning," Spencer assured him.
"But we haven't heard of anything outta the ordinary happening in our world for a while," Tristan said.
Spencer's eyes widened. "Oh, great…that's even worse than having him attack right away."
"Why's dat?" Joey asked.
"Because if he hasn't done anything yet, that means he's planning. And the longer he plans something, the bigger and badder it usually gets."
"So, what are we going to do?" Téa asked.
"Well, at the moment, since he hasn't shown his face, there's not much we can do except keep an eye out for him." Spencer stood up. "And that brings me to why I'm here: not just to warn you, but to hang around and be of potential assistance in the case that he tries to attack you guys until he finally decides to go home."
"But, Spencer, where are you going to stay?" Yugi asked.
"And how can ya hang around us if we've gotta go ta school tomorrow?" Joey added.
Spencer grinned. "You don't need to worry about where I'm staying; some friends of mine have created a small dimension that acts as my 'home base' whenever I'm traveling. As for the school issue, I was thinking that perhaps I could pretend to be someone's relative visiting from another country who wants to check out what the schools in Japan are like."
Joey rolled his eyes. "Trust me, dat's not someting you'd really wanna do."
"Why? Are human schools really that boring?"
"That depends-how much do you like English, math, history, and science?" Tristan asked.
Spencer stared at them. "You have to learn that stuff in this world, too?" he cried.
The others nodded.
Spencer sighed. "The things I do for the sake of the worlds…"