I'm back and I'm bluer than ever! Here's chapter twenty eight.

Dark growled angrily. He only had so many options… only one choice…

"Well?" Satoshi asked, glaring at him as if knowing what was to come. Dark narrowed his eyes. 'Drat…I'm in trouble… there's no way…'

"Hmm." Dark gritted his teeth, frustrated.

"You're wasting time." Satoshi's glasses flashed obnoxiously.

"I…" Dark glanced downward, his hand shaking. "I lose, don't I?"

Satoshi smirked that smirky smirk he always smirks. "Well played, Dark. Though I do believe the term is 'Go fish'?"

"Shut up! Best two out of three!" the entrapped thief yelled.

"I really thought we'd be there by now," Satoshi added, reshuffling the deck.

"If you're going to catch me, you should do it quickly and efficiently." Dark seized the moment to insult his enemy.

Satoshi didn't even glance up. "You mean the same way you lost?"

'Shut down!' Daisuke shouted, which didn't help at all.

"Hang on." The blue-haired boy stood up and went up to the driver's. "What's taking so long? We should have been to headquarters hours ago!"

"Well, first we hit a huge pothole and lost a tire-"

"Then we went and got bagels-"

"Of course, I had to stop in the school and watch my son's harpsichord solo-"

"Enough hindrances! I want us there in ten minutes. No food, no child's concerts, nothing!" Satoshi commanded and sat down bossily. Yes, he sat bossily.

Riku peddled ferociously after the quick van, pulling Risa, Donis and Daisuke's entire family behind her in a toy wagon. Most of them, including Riku, were sipping tea calmly and Risa busied herself with her own personal fortune telling kit, which had told them originally of Dark's whereabouts. Risa, Riku and Donis were more than happy to leave their house tour.

"Dark's going to be okay," she said with a sigh of relief. Ah, Risa! You spoiled the end of the next few chapters for us. "Don't worry, darling! The Dark Squad is on their way!"

"I'll have more sugar," Riku said casually, turning around completely as Daisuke's mom plunked in a few more cubes.

"This is quite bumpy. I'm afraid I'll spill my tea," Donis said worriedly.

"Do you see the truck yet?" Daisuke's mom asked.

"Couldn't there be some seatbelts in here or something?" his dad asked, clutching the sides nervously.

"I told you not to marry him," Gran-dude said.

"No complaining on my bus!" Riku shouted. "Or do you want to walk?"

"Riku! There it is!" Risa said, pointing.

The white truck careened on its two back wheels, honking merrily to announce that it was midnight.

"Why are they being so obvious?" Riku asked.

"I guess that's why this card had a Loudred…" Risa muttered to herself.

"Mush!" Daisuke's somewhat mom said. Riku decided it was better not to say anything and began to invade upon the vehicle.

The van careened down a deserted road to the secret police station. In truth, it wasn't so secret. People walked past it everyday. Sometimes they even made faces in the windows and drew 'wash me' on police cars. But don't tell the police that. They like to think its secret.

"So, where are you taking me?" Dark growled nonetheless.

"To be put in prison forever," Satoshi responded.

"That's so sickeningly evil of you!" Dark yelled. "Grr!"

"Um… is that all you can do?" Satoshi asked with narrow eyes. "You're not as awesome as your name says you are."

"I know, it really sucks sometimes!" Dark started chewing on the bars, hoping some sort of super power would appear and he could bite through them.

Dark ignored him. "Why don't you decide to be nice and let me out?!"

"Are you kidding? Do you know that I've been trying to do this for a long time now?" Satoshi growled.

"Why are you so obsessed?" Dark asked and the world held its breath waiting for an answer to the question that had long been unasked.

Satoshi shrugged. "I guess I like justice."

Dark slapped his forehead. "Okay, you're so not telling the truth."

Suddenly, a huge flash of light came from around Dark's neck.

'It's the ridiculous father-son necklace my dad gave me!' Daisuke quickly realized. 'Grab it! Maybe it'll do something!'

Dark, not knowing what else to do, obeyed.

Fortunately, it did do something. For some reason, Daisuke was sucked into some sort of parallel universe where he could only see his dad.

"Hi, Daisuke!" his dad shouted, waving.

"Uh, hi, father-figure," Daisuke said, half-waving awkwardly.

"Wasn't this a good idea? Now I can give a pep talk about how to get out of there. Oh… Risa says 'hi'…" his dad muttered.

"Tell her I say hi back!" Daisuke quickly pleaded.

"Never mind that, Daisuke. Right now, you need to get out of the van!" his dad explained.

"Well, duh. But how?" he asked.

"Emiko, darling, that's far worse than illegal- Oh, sorry. You'll have to fight Satoshi as Dark. Your mom didn't realize this before, but apparently Satoshi is from her enemy's family and has the spirit Krad in him," the dad said with a shrug.

"R-Really?" It was no wonder Dark sort of hated him.

"To fight Krad, you'll have to tick him off," Señor Niwa explained (I was running out of ways to say their names, okay? Daisuke's going to be the spiky red-head next.), "into to transforming into him. Think you can do that?"

"Uh, Dark already got started," the spiky red-head understated; Dark was already spouting off every un-K+ word he knew and seemed to be enjoying himself. Satoshi raised an eyebrow, but showed no signs of cracking.

"WITH A BUCKET OF beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep ALAKAZAM!" Dark shouted, finally finished, panting.

Satoshi clapped sarcastically. "That's the best you can do?"

"Well, excuse me, Mr. I'm My Enemy's Name Spelled Backwards!"
Those were the magic words. Krad appeared in the place of Satoshi.

"Yay!" Dark shouted, samba-ing, but it was short-lived; a huge gleaming ball of fire pelted him through the metal sides.

"Hey! Enough rough-housing in my van!" the driver shouted, not bothering to find out what was going on.

Not-so-far away, the Dark Squad watched in marvel.

"It's all up to Dark now," Risa said, staring at the two fighting.

"I'll make some popcorn!" Emiko said cheerily.

"Now don't be surprised if you die." Gran-dude's attempt at cheeriness.

All they could do was watch in their wagon. Riku finally flopped from exhaustion and no one cared.

There was a Potter Puppet Pals reference, in case anyone's a fan. My sister's also thinking of doing a fanart for my story for the celebration of chapter 30! Hooray! Also, my birthday was the day before April Fools day. I'm one day before obnoxious! Huzzah!