Here's the next chapter of this story. We're close to the final duel, since Yu-Gi-Oh Rebirth wasn't as long as Battle City or Millennium World. In fact, most of this story is basically dueling. I might have to make up my own ending, because there seems to be no free scans or anything around the end of Yu-Gi-Oh R.
One more thing. This wasn't something I planned ahead, I really did forget about Tea. UGH! I AM SUCH A MORON! Anyways, I did find a way to clear that mistake without major revision. It sounds stupid, but I apologize. This is my screw up of the day lol. Man, I'm an idiot! And my favorite character too! Review please!
Seto led the group to the security room where he previously found Yako. Everyone followed the CEO President to the door and busted right inside. They saw a black rolling chair in the middle of the room turn around. The guy sitting on the chair was not Yako, but an older male with light brown middle-length hair, blue eyes, and held a serious gaze. He wore a business suit, compared to the other duelists.
"Where's Yako?" Seto asked demandingly.
"You mean Mr. Tenma? I'm afraid he left. He says he'll duel ya on the rooftop," the man replied uncaringly. "My name is Ted Banias. If you want to get to Mr. Tenma, you must defeat me in a duel."
"Is this some kind of a joke? That's what the asshole up there said!" Seto glared.
"I'm afraid you have no choice, Mr. Kaiba," Ted replied as the door to the security room shut and locked on its own. Everyone gasped and tried to open the door, but it was locked. "Not to mention your hacking won't help you any good, since you're at my mercy." Ted took out a pistol and Seto shot out a glare.
"You'll be arrested for this!" Gekko seethed.
"I'll take my chances. My payment will be enough for bail and other stuff. All I ask for is a duel," Ted threatened, then pointed his gun at Atem's soul card. "Or the kid gets it!"
"You think that's enough to scare me? Your friend on the rooftop already tried that maneuver!" Seto smirked before Gekko stepped forward.
"I'll duel you!" Gekko said with furrowed eyebrows.
"Very well! I accept your challenge," Ted agreed.
"Did I say for you to intervene?" Seto asked Gekko rhetorically.
"Compared to you, I'm not taking chances. If my brother succeeds with taking Atem's life, he will never forgive myself and neither would I," Gekko explained as Seto responded with his eyebrows furrowing deeper.
"How noble," Atem responded with hint of sarcasm and folded arms. "So glad to know you'll be coming to my rescue in shining armor."
"I'm your only way to getting out of this mess, so I'd be keeping your mouth shut!" Gekko snapped as Atem rolled his eyes in response.
"Well, let's get started shall we?" Ted smirked. Gekko borrowed Hanaski's duel disk and put his own deck into the slot. Gekko and Ted turned on their duel disks and drew five cards. "I'll go first!" He drew his first card. "I place one card face-down, then I summon Spike Rhinoceros in attack mode!" A giant spiked mutated rhinoceros appeared fearsome with one sharp horn on its nose. "I end!"
"Then, looks like it's my turn," Gekko said, drawing his next card. He peered at his cards, trying to decide a strategy. "I summon Learning Elf in defense mode!" An elf with long pointy ears and hair. It wore light armor, high socks, shoes, and a blue cape. The monster seemed to be holding a book in its hand. "I set two cards face-down and end my turn!"
"Nice monsters! Aren't you the one Pegasus claimed to be the 'perfect duelist'?" Ted asked in a mockery voice. "Some perfect duelist you are!"
"Are you gonna play around or are ya gonna duel?" Gekko asked impatiently.
"Fine! I place another card face-down, then I summon Speed Jaguar in attack mode!" Ted declared as a half man half jaguar appeared on the field with revealing armor to where anyone could see its breasts.
"Okay, this has to be overrated!" Hanaski said with widened eyes.
"It's obviously the adult version of the card," Seto pointed out.
"Seeing that the adult version also includes vampires sucking their master's blood, I'm not totally surprised," Hanaski said with a pale and sickly look on his face.
"What are you... on second thought, I probably don't wanna know," Atem said with a snickering look.
"My Spike Rhinoceros attacks your elf!" Ted declared as Spike Rhinoceros ran out with its mighty sword to slash across the elf.
"I activate my trap Mirror Barrier and equip it to Learning Elf!" Gekko declared as an enclosed bubble surrounded Learning Elf to keep the monster safe. "This negates your attack!"
"Then, I activate my magic card Hand-To-Hand Combat, this negates the effect of all magic and trap cards activated during this battle phase!" Ted declared as he revealed his face-down card. Spike Rhinoceros slashed its sword across Learning Elf and it burst from the field. "Speed Jaguar attacks you directly!" Speed Jaguar ran super speed at Gekko and slashed its sword across him two times. "Due to her special ability, the battle damage doubles!" Gekko was left with 2000 life points remaining.
"Due to Learning Elf's effect, I draw one card when it's destroyed," Gekko declared, drawing one card from his deck to his hand.
"Maybe that'll be your other defense monster! I end!"
"I hope you've got better cards or this whole duel is a complete waste of my time!" Seto snapped.
"And mine! I'd like to get my body and this company back thank you!" Atem said.
"I got it!" Gekko snapped, drawing his next card. "I play Graceful Charity by discarding two cards and drawing three!" He discarded two cards and drew three more from his deck. "I place two cards face-down, then I summon Thoroughbred Elf in attack mode!" A mighty elf appeared on the field with leather and iron armor. "I equip him with Spirit Slayer!" A huge sword with a huge gap in the middle and a red glowing ball at the bottom of the blade appeared in Thoroughbred Elf's hand. Its attack rose to 2300. "My Elf attacks your jaguar!" Thoroughbred Elf ran up to Speed Jaguar, ready to bring out its attack.
"I activate my trap Shadow Spell! This decreases your monster's attack by 700 and negating his attack!" Ted declared as Thoroughbred Elf's attack decreased to 1600.
"This guy's a tough cookie!" Duke commented.
"At this point, this will take decades to reach your asshole brother!" Seto snapped impatiently.
"This is just the end of the second turn, hold your f***ing horses!" Gekko snapped aloud.
"I sacrifice my Spike Rhinoceros and Speed Jaguar to summon out Assault Lion!" Ted declared as Spike Rhinoceros and Speed Jaguar disappeared from the field and were replaced by a giant monstrous lion. "Then, I equip him with Medicine Eater, which gives this monster half of the defense and attack points of one of the tributed monsters! I choose Speed Jaguar!" Assault Lion appeared to have Spike Rhinoceros and Speed Jaguar in each hand, then ate Speed Jaguar, raising its attack to 3100 and defense 2900. "This also doubles the damage when this baby attacks due to its effect!"
"Oh shit!" Duke responded.
"Time to make the finishing blow!" Ted smirked as Assault Lion began running up to Thoroughbred Elf, making its way to pounce the rest of Gekko's life points.
"I reveal Amulet of Affection and equip it to Thoroughbred Elf to reduce its damage to zero!" Gekko declared, revealing his face-down card. Thoroughbred Elf appeared to have an amulet, with a star in the middle, around its neck. Assault Lion pounced on Thoroughbred Elf, ripped its head off with blood slashing everywhere, and bursting it from the field.
"Okay, that is just gross!" Hanaski commented. "Good thing Tea's not here!"
"Where is she, by the way?" Atem asked curiously.
"Isn't she with Joey's group?" Duke asked with two raised eyebrows.
"No, she's with..." Hanaski replied, trying to remember the last he saw of his friend. Tea was last seen with the group before Hanaski dueled Tera. "Uh..."
"Perhaps exiting from the security room next to Atem's office?" Duke asked, pointing to the security camera showing Tea walking to the elevator on the floor where Atem's office was located.
"You forgot Tea didn't you?" Atem asked, seemingly annoyed.
"We were kinda stressed, okay!" Duke argued as an excuse as Atem slapped his forehead with the palm of his hand.
"Sometimes I wonder what kind of assholes I hang out with! She's gonna be pissed you know!" Atem glared.
"Yeah... probably so," Duke said rubbing the back of his neck.
"Anyways, I end my turn!" Ted declared.
"Looks like its my turn then!" Gekko declared, drawing his next card. He peered into his hand. "What do you know, no monsters in my hand."
"No monsters? HA! This is rich! It's almost like you were purposely trying to lose!" Ted laughed.
"Or maybe you're finding an excuse to waste my time! I activate Armament Reincarnation! This special summons my equip cards as monsters!" Gekko declared as he retrieved Mirror Barrier, Amulet of Affection, Neon Laser Blaster, Laminate Armor, and Spirit Slayer from his graveyard and placed them in attack mode on his Monster Card Zone. They all came as Scapegoat Tokens equipped with each equipped card with 500 attack and defense, if the attack points were not added due to the equipped cards abilities. Everyone's eyes widened with gaping mouths.
Atem couldn't hold back a chuckle as he said, "I think we need to work on that glitch. Good gravy!"
"It's not my fault they look like this, I can't bring out equipped cards to my monster card zone without this shit happening!" Gekko cried out.
"Yes, obviously I'm the one to blame despite the fact Pegasus is the one creating the cards! Isn't that wonderful?" Seto said sarcastically.
"Screw you!" Gekko spat before returning back to the duel. "I reveal my face-down card Power Connection! My monsters get a 500 attack boost for each monster on the field of the same type! That's a 2000 attack power!"
"Oh shit!" Duke grinned excitedly as Gekko's monsters' attack increased by 2000 attack, having 2500 or 3000 attack. "Shit just got real up in this bitch!"
"Spirit Slayer will make its first attack!" Gekko smirked as the Scapegoat with the Spirit Slayer sword slashed it across Assault Lion as its attack decreased to 2600 and burst from the field, leaving Ted with 3600 life points remaining. "And this is where the fun begins!" The rest of Gekko's monsters made a direct attack, leaving Ted with 0 life points remaining. "So long Ted Bananas!"
"It's Banias!" Ted corrected.
"Yeah, I don't care!" Gekko smirked before he snatched the key card from Ted's pocket, then the pistol. He opened the bullet case, then snorted a laugh. "Figures you wouldn't have any bullets." He threw the pistol on the ground. "I suspected it by your logic of having money for bail. What a poor excuse! Cold blood murder is a death penalty!"
"Wait, you knew it was empty?" Duke asked wide-eyed.
"Duh! He was wasting our time!" Atem glared with folded arms. "Why the hell did you agree to duel?"
"Wanted payback from your boss for pinning me up against the wall!" Gekko glared daggers at Seto, who glared back.
"What happened to not forgiving yourself if Atem's life was taken?" Duke asked.
"I meant that, though we're not the ones going after Atem's body. That job belongs to Joey's group."
"In other words, he was screwing around with us!" Atem said in a snappy tone.
"Maybe your boss can learn to show respect next time!" Gekko snapped before leaving the room.
"And you wonder why we hate him so much," Seto muttered as Duke and Hanaski blinked.
"There you guys are! Why the hell did you leave while I was going to the bathroom?" Tea asked furiously.
"I'm so sorry, Tea! I'm such an idiot!" Hanaski apologized.
"We're sorry too! You missed Hanaski's wins. He's getting better! We also found assholes 1 and 2!" Duke said, pointing his thumb to Seto and a holographic Atem.
"Atem, are you okay?" Tea asked.
"For the time being, yes! I'm still pissed at Gekko for wasting fifteen minutes!" Atem replied.
"Let's just find my brother so we don't waste anymore of your precious time!" Gekko snapped before walking down the hall.
"Since when did he get testy?" Tea asked.
"Since we realized that Gekko and anyone of Kaiba Corp. get along like Kaiba and Joey," Duke replied.