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Chapter Two

When Pegasus got a letter from Della and Bruce Walker whom he had known for years, telling him about Bruce's sister and how she had adopted of a baby girl and then of her untimely death leaving them to raise the young lady and now that both of them were in ill health and they can no longer take care of the young lady and they wondered if he could help them, well what else could he do but write them back asking them to come stay with him and he would try to figure out what to do. He really didn't know what he was going to do if they asked him to raise Serena after their deaths, he never saw himself as a father, but he and Cecilia always wanted children so he decided to give it a try.

When they arrived and he saw this beautiful young lady there was something about her that reminded him of someone but he couldn't remember who and as he got to know her he fell in love with her as a father would his own daughter. They live there on the Island until both Della and Bruce passed away leaving Pegasus and Serena alone and so as time passed they grew closer and one day she asked if she could call him Max instead of Mr. Pegasus and he smiled at her and she went over and she hugged him and something deep inside of him opened up and he knew that from that day on she would be like the daughter he and Cecilia never got to have.

There was just so many missing parts of Serena's life and Pegasus wanted to find out more about who Bruce's sister adopted her from, so he asked Croquet to call the one person that Pegasus knew who could help him and that was the one person who hated him the most, Seto Kaiba.

When Seto got the call from Croquet he wanted nothing more then to hang up, but there was something in his voice that peaked Seto's curiosity and so he listened to what Croquet had to say and he finally agreed to help check out every adoption agency in Europe and he said he'd get back in touch with him when he got a hit. As Seto sat there thinking about what Croquet had told him he just couldn't imagine Pegasus having been asked by his friends to raise their Neice who Bruce's sister had adopted while she were living in Egypt. So as he started checking he ran into snags along the way and that meant that just maybe this adoption wasn't on the up and up.

Seto then asked his brother Roland to help and together they found out that at the time of this babies adoption it was done illegally and there was no records of any baby being adopted by a woman by the of Walker. Now, they had a problem, where to look next?

Roland then found a web sight that was for people who had been turned down by other agencies for adopting babies and he logged onto it and what he found turned his blood cold. This was a Black Market sight and the name of the person who ran it was someone that Roland knew from his past and if this woman did adopt her daughter from this individual then they may never figure out who she really is.

Roland told Seto about what he found and they both knew that if they were going to find out anything about this young lady that they'd need more help, so Roland called Croquet and told him what they found and he made Croquet promise not to say anything to Pegasus just yet because they had some more investigating to do before they said anything at all.

Croquet knew Roland well enough to know that he was telling him the truth and he said "I'll keep this to myself for now, but if I don't say something Max will get suspicious and try to find out for himself and that could mess thing up."

Roland promised that he'd get back to him as soon as he found out anything else. Next, Roland put a call into a friend who lived in Egypt and after telling him why he was calling, Amir promised to search on his end and try to find out more on this Black Market Adoption Agency and find out more on Sequoia Burton and get back to him as soon as possible.

When Roland hung up Seto asked him "Who is this Sequoia Burton and why is his name bothering you so much?"

Roland then sat down and he told his brother "Years back I was in the Rangers and we were stationed in Egypt and we had to try to bring down a ring leader who ran the biggest Black Market Industry at the time and his name was Sequoia Burton or as people who have dealt with him called him Diablo or the devil because he was so evil. Well Sequoia was supposed to be captured and brought in for questioning when all hell broke lose and several men in our platoon died and this Diablo escaped and until now I thought that he was dead."

Seto looked at his brother and he asked "What chance do we have of finding out anything about this young girl who is living with Pegasus?"

Roland closed his eyes and he said "Little to none. I'm going to call in a few favors and see if I can discover exactly where this Diablo is and if he'll talk to me."

This scared the hell out of Seto and he reached out and grabbed Roland's arm and then he said "You can't be serious about talking to this mad man, what if something happens to you, what about me and Mokie?"

Roland smiled at Seto and he said "Listen, I'm not stupid enough to go anywhere near Diablo without a back up plan so you can rest assured that I will be coming home with or without what information I need."

Roland finally found everyone he was looking for and he had to laugh when he found out that Snake was in jail and he bailed his butt out and then he rallied his entire old platoon to come to Domino for one last mission.

Now all he had to do was to wait and as he was waiting he was forming a plan so that when everyone was together they could instantly leave for Egypt and initiate their plan of attack. He prayed that this mission would end better then the last one they were all together on.

Croquet went to Pegasus and told him "that Seto agreed to do some searching and would get back to him if and when he found anything out." Croquet hated lying to Max but what else could he do? He prayed that Seto and Roland would find something out before Max got suspicious and started investigating on his own.

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Chapter Three Coming Up...Pegasus has to register Serena at Domino High...