Hey guys! Sorry this took long to finally get right on it, but I wanted to finish To The Unknown before my birthday, which is a week away by the way! For those of you who read To The Unknown, look out for the upcoming sequel To The Unknown 2: The Dark Light. I also have just started on my Lion King based Yu-Gi-Oh called A Lost Prince. Enjoy and review please!
The elevator stopped at the 13th floor where Atem's office usually was located. They left the elevator room and stopped at the hallway that led to two different directions. There were two things the gang wanted to do. One of them was to go to Atem's office and find any clues that would lead to where Atem was being held at. It was still a mystery of where Yako could've taken him. There was also finding him, who was probably inside Atem's office.
The gang found Atem's office, with his full name on the gold sign on the door, and entered inside. His office stood clean as if nobody ever entered inside. Though, Gekko knew his brother was here not too long ago, judging by the warm seat. He turned on the laptop on the desk to find any clues leading to Atem's location. So far, there was nothing. Yako probably knew the gang would make it to Atem's office, especially since it didn't take much to make it there.
"Wow, so this is Atem's office?" Joey asked, looking through filing cabinets. He noticed tones of papers with complaints from other people, performances of employers, and BILLS? "Since when does Atem have to pay bills regarding this dump? Isn't that Kaiba's job?"
"Atem still runs this part!" Gekko explained as Joey glared, then placed the bills back where he found them. He also looked through another filing cabinet. They looked like orders from different people wanting to buy curtain products from Kaiba Corp. He opened the very bottom cabinet and found different schedules Atem did throughout his day.
"Since when does Atem write schedules?" Joey asked with furrowed eyebrows.
"Since he runs a company, you dumbass!"
"Sheesh," Joey said, rolling his eyes. He checked his friend's schedule of what he does everyday. It seemed to show different times of meetings with different people through every hour. Some of the stuff was scratched out by ink pen and showed curtain times, places, or people to meet or something. It seemed that Atem's schedule had been nothing, but business and even showed different parts of the building he had meet or arrive during a curtain time. "So... I guess I was wrong about Atem sitting on his ass. Wow... he's running around like a..."
"Businessman? Welcome to my world!"
Joey sighed and placed Atem's schedule back in the filing cabinet. He leaned against the wall, feeling even more guilty about his fight with his friend. If only he knew what Atem's life was like! If only he knew about what working as a businessman was truly like, then maybe he wouldn't have been so mad and angry. Now, it seemed that his argument with Atem would be the last thing he would remember.
"I'm sorry, but it seems my brother hasn't left any trace of evidence of where he might've taken Atem, though there is a map that could help us somewhat," Gekko said as everyone gathered around and saw the map of the Kaiba Corp building. Each map represented a curtain floor. "At this point, Atem could be anywhere!" He kept searching every single floor on the map of the building. "Wait!" He got out a map of floor BB. There seemed to be different offices, but over to the very right of the map seemed to appear as a larger room called 'Lab.' "Survey says Atem's right here! Yako would try to resurrect Pegasus somewhere where the supplies and equipment he needs are available!"
"You think that's where my baby is?" Uka asked.
"Yep! Though, he probably has this place more heavily guarded. In other words, we'll be running into a place that's more secure and requires more than just dueling," Yako explained.
"Then, you know we'll be on it!" Joey smirked, feeling pumped.
"I'm coming too!" Uka said.
"You'll need me too! I can trace when we're getting closer to Atem!" Serenity said.
"She has a point!" Tristan agreed.
"Hanaski, you and I will have to go after my brother. I'm gonna need some backup. The duels will get harder," Gekko warned.
"On it!" Hanaski replied with determination.
"And I'll be joining along in case you need some muscle," Duke smirked with folded arms.
"I guess I'll join along with Joey," Tristan said as Gekko nodded.
"Okay. I guess that settles it! Let's get going here, shall we?" Gekko smirked as the group nodded.
Joey, Tristan, Uka, and Serenity walked back to the elevator and entered inside to move to floor BB. The elevator door closed and led on its way to floor BB. Serenity tapped into her necklace and scanned the whole floor to see how clear the future was. It seemed that she could see every aspect of floor BB and the duelists that will appear. Though, when she hit the lab room, which was the biggest room in this floor, she saw Atem lying there in some sort of pod and let out a gasp.
"I saw him! Atem is in that room! It was also the same place I saw him awaken and not being himself," Serenity said.
"Then, looks like we made it to the right place!" Joey smirked deeply as the elevator door opened and the group entered out.
There, in front of the elevator, looked like a short kid with black hair spiked on each side, almost black eyes, and an oversized large sweater and jeans that seemed to be below his hips. Joey furrowed his eyebrows, showing he was ready to duel this kid. Though, he suspected this duelist was probably a nub like all the others, he was ready for anything. It's possible this kid might be a bit tougher, since he was guarding the floor of Atem's location.
"It looks like you girls finally made it down here! Never thought I'd eva get to duel anyone!" The kid responded. "The name's Oscar Kimith! Remember it, because yo' about to lose!"
"We'll see about that!" Joey smirked as he turned on his duel disk. He was ready to fight this kid with everything he had.
"Go get him, Joey!" Tristan cheered.
"I'll start things out with summoning my Antlion in attack mode, ya heard?" Oscar declared as a huge black spider appeared on the field. "I end it here!"
"Then, looks like it's my turn!" Joey smirked, drawing his next card. "I place one card face-down, then summon Gearfried the Iron Knight on the field!" A strong knight, in steel armor with a sword and shield, appeared on the field. "Time to squish your bug! My Iron Knight attacks Antlion!" Gearfried the Iron Knight ran up to attack Antlion before Oscar showed a devious smirk on his face.
"I activate Antlion's special ability by decreasing your Gearfried by 500 points!" Oscar declared as Gearfried the Iron Knight's attack points decreased to 1300. The bug attacked the knight and destroyed it completely, leaving Joey with 3800 life points remaining.
"Shit!" Joey cursed at himself. "I end my turn!"
"Looks like it's my turn, yet again!" Oscar said while drawing his card. "I equip my Antlion with Insect Armor with Laser Cannon, ya heard? This increases my monster's attack by 700!" Antlion's attack rose to 2200 as cannons appeared on Antlion's back. "Then, I'll just go ahead and summon Worm Drake!" A giant man-eating worm appeared from the ground in attack mode. "All my monstas attack ya directly!" Antlion and Worm Drake attacked Joey directly, leaving him with 200 life points remaining. "Looks like I'm about ta beat yo' asses!"
"Does everyone here speak with negative language?" Uka glared with disapproval.
"Hey, yo shut up, ya bitchy mama!" Oscar snapped at Uka.
"Okay... whoa, do I really sound like that?" Joey asked Uka as she nodded. "Wow, Atem was right about me talking trashy." He turned his head back to the game. "Okay, home boy, time for me to kick your sorry little butt!" He drew his next card and peered at it. "I summon Rocket Warrior in defense mode!" A mini rocket appeared in a defensive position. "That ends my turn!"
"Good!" Oscar smirked, drawing his next card. "I activate my Double Evolution! This doubles the attack Antlion received from Insect Armor with Laser Cannon!" Antlion's attack rose to 2900. "Now, he attacks yo' Rocket Warrior!" Antlion flew over to attack Joey until...
"I reveal my trap Magical Arm Shield, this redirects the attack to Worm Drake!" Joey declared as a box appeared and out sprang some clamps, which grabbed a hold of Worm Drake and brought it in front of Antlion for it to attack. Antlion attacked Worm Drake and left Oscar with 2500 life points.
"Does it matter, yo? I'm about to put a c*** up yo' ass!"
"Okay, you're seriously telling me that I talk like that?" Joey asked Uka with furrowed eyebrows. The mother sighed deeply with closed eyes.
"You have to hear yourself talk to really know, Joey," Serenity said as Joey rose two eyebrows.
"Okay... it's my turn!" Joey declared, drawing his next card. "I play Roulette Spider!" A huge spider appeared and clamped Antlion and spun it around. "Round, round he goes! Where will he stop? Nobody knows!"
Oscar glared with frustration and sweat pouring down his neck. He cried out, "STOP!" and the spider slowed down, pointing right at Joey. "Looks like it's my lucky day!"
"Not for long! I play Probability Change! I can respin Roulette Spider again!" Joey declared, revealing his spell card from his hand. The spider spun Antlion again, then slowly stopped, pointing at Oscar.
"OH F***!" Oscar shouted before being hit by his own bug, leaving his life points 0.
"And cut with the cursing, now it's getting on my nerves!" Joey snapped before walking pass Oscar and snatching the key card. "Never thought I'd ever hear those words coming out of my mouth!"
"Same here, since you almost curse as much as Ryan," Tristan smirked as Joey rolled his eyes. "Now that I think about it, Atem used to be just as bad, if not worse. Then, he started working for Kaiba."
"Speaking of which, I wonder what's going on with him," Joey wondered.
"Apparently, Yako blackmailed him. He's on his way here," Serenity mentioned. "He should be here in about 48 minutes."
"Yikes! How's he taking it?"
"He's pretty mad right now... and I think he's scared too," Serenity replied, pitying the man.
"Kaiba scared? That's a first!" Tristan smirked.
"Seto cares about his employers. I know he works my boyfriend alot, but I've seen how he treats his other employers. He's really close with Atem. I think he's the only friend Seto's got," Serenity said.
"Huh, kinda forgot that Atem and Kaiba are like buddies or something," Tristan said with furrowed eyebrows. "Still can't see why Atem likes that jerk."
"Seto can be a good person, once you get to know him a bit. He's always come out as someone cold, but has a good heart," Serenity thought in her opinion.
"I suppose," Joey said, seemingly to disagree.
"We should probably keep moving," Uka said, wanting to find her son instead of the kids talking about Seto.
"Right," Joey agreed and the group walked on their way to the lab.