Chapter 14- Tracking Pegasus Down
Ryou had worked long and hard on finding out where Pegasus was, but he had come up with nothing. He hadn't been able to locate their prey. 'Heba's not going to like this.' Ryou thought.
Ryou had decided to go see Heba in his room and tell him the news himself. He didn't want Heba's temper to get the best of him while they thought about how they could deal with this and find Pegasus.
Ryou knocked on Heba's door, but there was no answer. Ryou frowned. 'Heba's usually up by now. I thought for sure he would at least be up since he's not in the meeting room.' Ryou thought.
Ryou decided to just go in. He opened the door and froze at the sight that met him.
Heba was still asleep in the bed with Yami and Atemu on either side of him. The three were covered up, and one might believe that they were still clothed under the sheets if it hadn't been for the fact that their clothes were strewn all over the floor. All three were sound asleep, holding onto each other.
Ryou let a small smile cross his lips. He backed out of the room and shut the door back. 'Well, I guess Heba finally talked to Yami and Atemu about everything. I'm glad.' Ryou thought. He headed for his own room to get a little more shuteye.
It couldn't hurt, after all.
Several hours later, Heba woke up. Like every morning, he was drowsy, and it took a few moments for him to get himself together.
It was then that Heba realized that there were arms wrapped around him.
Heba opened his eyes and realized that Yami and Atemu were both still asleep and had their arms wrapped tightly around him. He then remembered what happened the night before.
'I couldn't control myself. I've wanted them both for so long, and I have been alone for too long. I am happy being with them.' Heba thought.
Heba slipped out of bed, making sure that he didn't disturb Yami and Atemu in the process. He took a quick shower and left the room, leaving Yami and Atemu in the bed.
Ryou sat in the meeting room, looking over a few things. When the doors opened, he looked up to see Heba walking into the room. "Morning, Heba." Ryou said.
"Morning, Ryou. Did you find Pegasus?" Heba asked.
"I'm afraid that I let you down on that one, Heba. I tracked his plane up until a certain point, and then it just seemed to vanish. The tracking device might have been turned off." Ryou said.
"I see." Heba said.
"Um, Heba?" Ryou said.
"Yes." Heba replied as he looked through the reports that Ryou had made.
"I went by your room a few hours ago to tell you all this, but you were still asleep." Ryou said.
Heba froze at that. He knew exactly what Ryou would have seen then. "Ryou, abut what you saw-" Heba started.
"I didn't see anything unless you want me to have." Ryou said, meaning he wouldn't say a word about it until he wanted him to speak about it.
"Thank you, Ryou." Heba said.
"No problem." Ryou said.
"Ryou, let's go to the computer room. Maybe between us, we can figure out a way to find Pegasus." Heba said.
"Right behind you." Ryou said.
The two stood up and left the room to the computer room.
Yami and Atemu, after Heba had left the room, had wrapped their arms around each other and were now sleeping soundly.
Soon, the two woke up and were surprised just to find themselves in bed.
"I wonder where Yugi went." Yami remarked as they sat up.
Atemu glanced at the clock by the bed. "Judging from the time, I would say that he's already gotten up and went to work." Atemu said.
"Oh. I guess that makes sense." Yami agreed.
"Come on. We had better get dressed and then get out of here. We need to go back to our room so that we can shower and change." Atemu said.
"Agreed. I don't think we need anyone seeing that we're still in the same clothes that we were in yesterday." Yami said.
The two got out bed and got into their clothes and headed to their room. They were thankful that no one saw them.
"We had better get a shower." Yami said.
"Right." Atemu said. He smiled mischievously and said, "How about we take one together?"
Yami rolled his eyes. "Do we ever take showers any other way?" Yami asked.
"Good. We can find Yugi after the shower." Atemu said.
"Don't forget that we need to call him Heba around others. Not many know the truth about him." Yami said.
"I know that, Yami. Now, let's get going. I would like to get a shower before it gets any later." Atemu said.
The two went to take a shower.
After the shower, the two walked back into their room and got dressed for the day.
The two went to the meeting room and found it empty.
"That's odd. I thought for sure that he would have been here." Atemu said.
"Come on. We might as well check around. He has to be in here somewhere." Yami said.
"Okay. Heba. Pegasus took off from Domino International Airport. It's where his private jet was readied. After they took off, they flew for a while. The tracking device was turned off here." Ryou said, pointing to a place on the map.
"Okay. So, his plane disappeared in the middle of the ocean." Heba said.
"Yes. I have a contact in the airport. I tried to get a hold of the flight plan, but there was none available. Apparently, Pegasus didn't file one with the airport." Ryou said.
"Well, Pegasus has a private jet, so the airport doesn't require one when the person has their own plane. The fact that Pegasus was a major contributor to remodeling the airport will also make the airport officials overlook things like that." Heba said.
"True." Ryou said.
"Well, we know that Pegasus is somewhere. We have to find him." Heba said.
"Well, I'm open to any suggestions." Ryou said.
Atemu and Yami came across all the others.
"Hey. Any idea where Heba is?" Yami asked.
"Yeah. He and Ryou are in the computer room. Not sure why." Joey said.
"Did you ever think that it might have something to do with Pegasus?" Seth asked.
"Not really." Joey said.
There were groans from Seth and Seto, annoyed at how dense their lover could be at times.
"Maybe we should go and see if they have found anything." Atemu suggested.
The entire group headed to the computer room, where Heba and Ryou were working.
"Found that bastard yet?" Mariku asked.
"Not yet. We're working on it." Heba answered. He looked at a few things in the file that they had compiled on Pegasus.
"What's the problem?" Malik asked.
"We can't locate him. We have checked every place his company is, his mansion, and every other place that is listed under his assets. He is no where to be found." Heba said.
"He has to be somewhere." Seto said.
"We know that he is somewhere, Seto. The problem is finding that somewhere." Ryou said.
"You don't have a clue where he is?" Akefia asked.
"I believe that we just said that." Heba said.
"It doesn't make sense. A person cannot just suddenly vanish off the face of the planet." Amara said.
"Maybe that what he wants." Heba muttered.
"What?" Marik said.
"Pegasus wants us to believe that he has vanished off the face of the planet. He doesn't want anyone to know where he is." Heba said.
"He knows that we're after him. He wants to be hidden so that we can't find him and kill him." Ryou said.
"He knows that we want to find him, and if we do, we'll kill him." Joey added,
"Then, how are you going to find him?" Bakura asked.
Heba got to thinking. "Ryou, bring up the map of where Pegasus last known location on his plane was." Heba said.
"Sure thing." Ryou said. After typing in a few things, Ryou brought the image onto the touch screen.
"Okay. Now, bring up a geological image of the area right beside this map." Heba said.
Ryou did as asked.
"What are you thinking?" Yami asked.
"That we're thinking too hard about this." Heba said, walking over to the two maps.
Touching the map of Pegasus's last known location, Heba dragged it over so that the map was over the geological one. Heba then tapped the area of Pegasus's last location so that the image was bigger.
There were ten small islands brought up.
"Islands. Pegasus is on one of those islands." Ryou said.
"Yes. These islands are not widely visited, meaning that there is no reason for anyone to want to go there. It's the last place that anyone would look." Heba said.
"If the airport couldn't find him, they would assume that the plane crashed." Atemu said.
"That's the point. Pegasus wanted people to assume him dead. Once he was sure that we were convinced he was dead, he would return and try everything again." Heba said.
"There's ten islands, though. Which one is he on?" Marik asked.
"I don't know." Heba said.
"We could fly planes to each island and search them." Joey said.
"Not a good idea, Joey. If Pegasus sees a plane going to each island, he might get suspicious and leave the island." Heba said.
"There must be records if he owns one of the islands." Amara said.
"Not necessarily. The island would be one of the safe havens that he went to. He has that island as a place to go when heat like this comes. There won't be any official paperwork on this place." Heba said.
"How do we find out which island he is on, then?" Joey asked.
"I have an idea. We'll have one of our carrier planes fly out there. It'll look like it's just carrying supplies to one of the islands." Heba said.
"How does that help?" Bakura asked.
"Simple. The carriers are actually very well equipped with the latest in technology. As it flies by, it can run scans of every island. My guess is that the island Pegasus is on will have the same security system that his office building and home have. We find one of the islands that have that security system, and we'll find him." Heba said.
"That's a great idea." Malik said.
"Will it work, though?" Seth asked.
"Well, it's worked for us several time sin the past." Heba answered.
"Who do we get to fly on that mission?" Malik asked.
"We'll use reconnaissance team one. They've never failed before, and they're trained to do this. They'll be able to get is the information that we need, and they know how to not get caught." Heba said.
"I'll inform them to meet here now for orders." Malik said before he left the room.
"Well, we're a little closer to finding Pegasus at least." Joey said.
"Finding him is the easy part. Getting on that island and to him is the hard part." Heba said.
"You think that getting on the island will be hard?" Atemu asked.
"I get the feeling that Pegasus doesn't just have security system, but a weapons system as well. He'll also have the island heavily guarded. He's not going to take any chances." Heba said.
"We'll need a good strike team to go in." Ryou said.
"We're focusing on confirming he's on one of the islands as well as which one. We'll worry about that later." Heba said.
All of the protectorates looked at each other, each one fearing for the lives of their lovers and friends.
Heba met with the reconnaissance team.
"What's the mission, Leader?" the head of the team asked.
"You need to fly out to this set of islands. We need you to do a technological scan of the island. We're trying to locate the types of security systems used on each islands. Also, as you fly over, take full scans of the islands. We need to know everything that there is to know about the islands." Heba said.
"Yes, sir." the leader said.
"You're going to go to one of the islands to make it appear that you are delivering supplies to the inhabitants of one of the islands. I don't want this to be messed up. A dangerous man is on one of the islands. We're trying to determine which one." Heba said.
"We won't let you down, Leader." the head of the team said.
"Good. Stay in radio contact at all times. As you do the scan, send the information directly here. Fox will be waiting for the information to come in. Once you've done the scans off all of the islands and land on one, remain on the island for several hours before you land. If you receive radio contact from an island that informs you to island is privately owned, inform them that you are delivering supplies and will not be landing on that island." Heba said.
"Yes, sir. We understand the mission." the head of the team said.
"Good. Go and do your job then. We'll be waiting for word from you." Heba said.
"Yes, sir." the team said before they left the room.
'I hope that we find Pegasus soon. I want to end this.' Heba thought.
"From the sound of that, they're going to be going right into a dangerous situation." Yami said to Atemu after they had returned to their room.
"I know what you mean. I don't doubt that Yugi is going to be going." Atemu said.
"After all this, I don't know that I want him to take the risk for us." Yami said.
"I know how you feel, Yami, but you know that Yugi isn't going to be dissuaded. Pegasus isn't going to give up just because Yugi and the others are on to him. He wants us dead, and I don't doubt that he is going to wait for the right time and try again." Atemu said.
"Is it worth Yugi and everyone here risking their lives for us?" Yami asked.
"I know that you don't want anything to happen to Yugi, but we know that this is what he does, and there is no way that he is going to stop. He has come too far just to stop now." Atemu said.
"I just don't anything to happen to Heba. After everything we went through just to get him back, I don't want to lose him again." Yami said.
Atemu wrapped his around Yami. "I know, Yami. I don't want anything to happen to him, either, but we can't stop him. Yugi is going to do this whether we want him to or not. This is who he is, and this is what he does. Yugi knows that Pegasus will keep killing, or having people killed at the very least. It's not just us that he's thinking about. He's thinking of the future victims that he could keep from feeling the way we do by killing him now. We'll also be able to leave and finally get back to our normal lives." Atemu said.
"The real question is will we lose Heba whether he lives through this battle with Pegasus or not." Yami said.
Atemu sighed. "I know, Yami." Atemu said.
Neither knew if Heba would come back to live with them in Domino, or if he would stay as assassin and leave them.
"Heba, the reconnaissance team is flying into position. They will begin the scanning process soon." Ryou said.
"Good. If all goes according to plan, they won't have any trouble at all." Heba said.
Ryou kept his eyes on the computer screen as information started being sent to him. "So far, so good." Ryou said.
Heba, Ryou, Malik, and Joey waited to see if they would be able to pull the mission off.
"How is going?" Gridiron, the head of the reconnaissance team, asked.
"So far, the scanning process is going fine." one member of the team responded.
"Good. Let's try to get this done and the information sent back to Fox as fast as we can. We need to take this guy down." Gridiron said.
"Gridiron, incoming transmission from one of the islands." another team member said.
"All right. Send it through." Gridiron said.
The incoming message was sent through to him.
"This is Croquet Hanirabbi. My employer owns one of these islands. What are you doing?" the messenger asked.
"I am Captain Frank Dreisand of the Tokyo Air Support. I'm just delivering supplies. Your employer's island is not on our flight plan. We won't be making a stop there." Gridiron replied.
"Understood." Croquet said before ending the transmission.
"That was close." one of the team members said.
"It's a good thing that all that will seem like the truth when they look into it." another said.
"Let's just get done." Gridiron said.
"Sure thing, boss." another said.
They continued with their mission.
"Okay. I have the scans of all tem islands." Ryou said.
Heba picked up the communicator earpiece and put it in. "Gridiron, can you hear me?" Heba said into it.
"I read you, Leader." Gridiron replied.
"You're mission is complete. Land on one of the islands and wait a few hours before heading back. Your team got us all that we needed. Good job." Heba said.
"Thank you, Leader." Gridiron said before communication was broken.
Heba took off the earpiece.
"What now?" Joey asked.
"We go over all of the information." Heba answered.
"Okay. I've gone over all of the islands. Five have security systems and of those five, only one has a weapons system as well." Ryou said.
"What about the security system? Is it the same type that are used on Industrial Illusions and Pegasus's mansion?" Heba asked.
"One second." Ryou said. He started typing as he compared the three systems. "The security system used on the island is of a higher grade than the one used at the other two locations, but it's definitely made by the same company. There's no doubt. That has to be where Pegasus is at." Ryou said.
"Okay. Bring up all the scans for that island. I want to know everything that there is to know about that island from the scans we have." Heba said.
"Right." Ryou said. He brought up all of the plans on the island.
"Wow. Talk about high grade security." Joey said.
"You're right. Pegasus wants to make sure that he is safe." Malik agreed.
"Pegasus knows that we're looking for him, and the fact that we were able to get into the underground hanger at Industrial Illusions told him that we have the skill to get to him. He's become paranoid. He wants to make sure that we don't get on the island." Heba said.
"How can we get to him, then?" Joey asked.
"Well, we can fly out to a certain point before we need to stop. They have radar systems that can detect us." Heba said.
"How do we get to him?" Malik asked.
Heba smiled. "I think I have an idea." Heba said.
Croquet walked to the door that led to Pegasus's study and knocked on the door.
"Come on!" Pegasus called.
Croquet opened the doors and walked into the room. "Mr. Pegasus, I have something t report." Croquet said.
"What is it?" Pegasus asked.
"A carrier plane just flew over the island." Croquet said.
"Did you inform them that this is a privately owned island and that they did not have permission to be on it?" Pegasus asked.
"Yes. The captain informed me of what company they worked for and that this island was not on the flight plan and that they would not be landing here." Croquet said.
"Did you check it out to make sure that they were telling the truth?" Pegasus asked.
"Yes. It all checked out. I saw them land on one of the island shortly after they finished the communication with us." Croquet said.
"Hmm. It seems that they were honest. Just to be safe, we are going to upgrade the security. I don't want anyone managing to get on this island." Pegasus said.
"No one will, sir." Croquet assured him before he left the room, shitting the doors behind him.
Pegasus gently swirled the glass of wine. 'I will not be stopped now. After I know that I am safe, I will make certain that they all die, starting with Atemu Sennen.' Pegasus thought.
Heba had gathered together a large team that would be aiding in taking Pegasus down.
"We are going to be going after Maxamillion Pegasus. He is also known as Falcon. As everyone knows, there have been a great many innocent people killed because of this man's greed." Heba said.
There were a series of angry remarks as no one in the Guild liked the man. He was hated because the people that he had killed were all good people.
"We are going to be going after him now." Heba said.
Ryou hit a few buttons, and an image of the island showed up on the large screen.
"This is the island that Pegasus, or Falcon if you prefer, is hiding. He has a top grade security system as well as a weapon system. He also has many guards on the island. We have to get into the castle that is in the center of the island. Falcon will be hiding out there. We will have to fight through the weapons system to get there. I don't know how many guards we will come across, but there will be many of them." Heba said.
Ryou then showed an aerial image of the islands.
"We will infiltrate the island from four sides. Fox, Mutt, Tiger, and myself will be the team leaders. We will fly in four planes, a team on each plane. Once we get two hundred meters from the island, the planes will land on the water. We will have to dive under the water with scuba gear and swim to the island. Once there, we will get on the island and head inland toward the castle. Any guard you find on the island, shoot to kill them. We are taking no prisoners. Everyone on this island is to be considered dangerous. This is a dangerous mission, and there is no guarantee that we will make it out of this alive. This may be the only chance that we have to get into this place and kill our target." Heba said.
Every member of the strike force nodded their understanding.
"We will leave at 0400 hundred hours in the morning. Be ready for departure then." Heba said.
"Yes, sir." came the reply.
"Dismissed." Heba said.
Everyone left the room.
Atemu, Yami and the others had watched this and were worried. None of them wanted anything to happen to their lovers.
"Heba, our lovers don't like the idea of us going." Joey said.
"I know, Joey. None of us want this, but we have to. If we don't, Pegasus will only come back and possibly and kill them this time around." Heba said.
"We know, but they are that concerned about our safety." Ryou said.
"That's understandable." Heba said. He looked at the four and said, "I won't force you to go. If any of you want to back out, do it now."
"You'd let us?" Malik asked.
"Yes. If your heart isn't in this, don't go through with it. We have to stay focused on this mission." Heba said.
"Heba, I'm not backing out. I'm going to make sure that bastard is dead so that Seth and Seto don't have to live in fear that he might come back. I am going to assure them that he is dead." Joey said.
"So am I. Bakura and Akefia mean a great deal to me. I am going to ensure them that he is no longer a threat to them." Ryou agreed.
"Same here. Marik and Mariku are not going to be forced to live in fear. Besides, I'd like to be able to live normally with them when this is all over with." Malik said.
"Good. I don't want any doubts about this mission. There is too much riding on this for anyone to have any kind of doubts." Heba said.
"We don't have any doubts." Joey assured him.
"Good. We need to get ready." Heba said.
The four went off to get ready for their assault.
"I hate this. I don't like the idea of Malik going and risking his life just to get this guy." Mariku said.
"Yeah. Why do they have to risk their lives like this?" Akefia added.
"Because they love us, and they don't want us to have to live in fear of that guy." Atemu said.
"It doesn't mean that we want them to go to that island and possible get themselves killed!" Bakura exclaimed.
"No one here wants any of them to get hurt. The thing is that we can't stop them." Seth said.
"I wish that there was a way for us to stop them. It just isn't fair that they have to risk their lives like this. They might end up getting killed." Yami said.
"There has to be something that we can do." Seto said.
"We'll figure out a way. We have to find a way to save them." Atemu said.
"How?" Marik asked.
"That is what I don't know, yet. There has to be something that we can do though." Atemu said.
"Even if it means going against what they told us and possibly getting ourselves killed in the process?" Seth asked.
"If that's what it takes, yes." Atemu said.
"Fine by me." Mariku said.
None of them were going to let their lovers get killed, and they would find a way to go and help them, even if their lovers didn't want them to and would get angry at them.
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