A/N: Oh god, I just got the new Artemis Fowl book and, true to form, I burned through it in a few hours. Unfortunately, due to introduction of a...newcharacter, I can now just smell the yaoi slash and the new Mary-Sues. Oh dear god no... XD

STILL, on with the fic, you never know, maybe I'll tackle my favorite fandom next.

Oh, yeah, no update the other day due to an Induction day at my new college and as such my updates will be slowing down considerably, maybe one a week? Two or three at a push depending on my workload.

Envelope One entails THIS little plot-line and another later on, my friends, you have just chosen the most Sue'd bit of this arc, thus making it my job to subvert the Sue-ness and makie it palatable XD You have also unknowingly chosen one set of the "Emotional Revalation" lines I came up with as opposed to the other. Congratulations, have some imaginary champagne. XD

~Ava

~XxX~

"...What is this place?" I asked, confused as we walked through a wasteland of dust and scrubland, the remnants of a Midgar-esque city in the distance. Kaiba glanced at me for a second before answering.

"This is a virtual version of where KaibaCorp maufactured its weaponry." The tone of disgust he took making it clear just how much he hated the history of his company, Mokuba snorted.

"Until Seto had it destroyed." A look of pride on Mokuba's face as we continued walking. I pouted, impressed.

"Destroyed?" I asked, thinking that it would explain the twisted remains we were now wandering through, having just cleared the scrubland. Kaiba nodded sharply as I 'hmmpfed' my approval.

"Razing this place, and Nesbitt's ideas, to the ground was the best thing I've ever done." He said as I wrestled with how to compliment his desicion without sounding fawning or patronising before I was stopped by Mokuba speaking.

"Hey, look! It's Tristan!" I snapped my head to Mokuba and then to the roof he was pointing to, I smiled broadly for the first time since falling down that virtual hole almost a day ago and waved.

"That must mean the others are around here somewhere." I said, knowing that where Tristan was, Serenity was, Joey was, Yugi was and Teá was, like some kind of chain-reaction. The smile slid from my lips like ice on plastic when Tristan leapt from the low rooftop of a tunnel, landing infront of us and laughing wildly before drawing what a ppeared to be a wooden kendo sword and leaping for Mokuba. Without a second thought I grabbed the kid's wrist and dragged him out of the way, behind me as Kaiba moved swiftly to take his brother's place and easily blocked the wooden practice sword with his forearm, wincing slightly at the strength of the contact. "WHAT THE HELL IS WITH YOU TRISTAN?" I yelled at my friend, thinking that, though I barely knew him, he wouldn't attack Mokuba of his own volition.

"I'm sorry girl," The voice that spoke wasn't Tristan's and didn't seem in the slightest bit sorry, "but your friend is currently unavailable. His body is mine now, and I intend on using it to crush you Seto Kaiba!" Every over-enunciated word was puctuated with another attempted attack at Kaiba, who, after the protection of his brother was secured by me, no longer felt the need to take being hit again. I ignored the frankly amazing acrobatics for the moment, instead preferring to curse the Big Five for the possession they had aquired before I heard three voices.

"Sophie!" Female.

"Kaiba!" Male.

"Mokuba!" Male, overly Brooklyn.

The three voices yelled our names as I half-turned towards the person who had said my name, forgetting the peril at hand in favour of grinning at Teá and dragging Mokuba into the safety of our friends before hugging her.

"Oh god Teá! I was so worried are you okay what the hell happened to Tristan how did you find us-"

"Sophie. Breathe." Teá placed both of her hands on my shoulders, ordering me to stop my incessant babbling, I paused and did as I was told before smiling at her. I didn't get an answer however as that was the point when the, already surreal fight between Kaiba and a Big Five possessed Tristan, got even more surreal.

"I-is that a robot monkey?" Duke asked from Serenity's side, questioning the appearance of a brown robot monkey that had just latched itself onto Tristan's head, he growled and tore the AI off his person as he aimed another hit at Kaiba, missing and running past him instead mounting one of the many motorbikes in the scrapyard around us and snatching Mokuba, who had stepped out of my grasp to help his brother on instinct. I grabbed for him but failed, my friends ran to follow him into the tunnel, I instead looked back to where Kaiba was, noting what he was doing and ran to him instead.

"No, Callaghan." Was his curt reply as he mounted the seemingly most powerful motorbike in the row that was present, I ignored him, choosing to mount the bike pillion and grabbing onto his waist, blushing deeply and thanking whatever God there may or may not be that he couldn't see me.

"Shut up," I said, the situation driving me to use the word I hated to him, "you're my friends and I like you, no matter how long it takes for you to admit it and however miserable it makes the both of us."

"I don't have the time to argue with you Callaghan." Was his reply as he revved the motorbike and sped past our friends.

~XxX~

I felt my hands break their hold at the same time as another pair of hands pushed me back, the next thing I knew I was sprawled on the road of an unfinished bridge while Kaiba landed gracefully on his feet after trashing the bike. I picked myself off the ground with a wince as I saw that part of the tarmac had made it's home in my right shoulder thanks to my unplanned dismount, I thanked the same non-entity I had eariler that my lack of a crash helmet hadn't killed me.

"Callaghan." I took it as a question and answered while looking at a suspisciously black-coated man in the midst of the dying fiery carcass of the motorbike.

"Bruised, bleeding but perfectly fine. You?" I recived a 'hmpf' for my answer, both of our attentions now fixed wholly on the man, who had started laughing maniaclly.

"Where is my brother?" Kaiba commanded the man to tell him as I inwardly snickered at the sudden change from, 'ice-cold jerk,' to, 'pissed-off older brother.'

"You'll never see your brutha agian, Mistah Kaibah." I frowned before holding back a laugh at the over-the-top New Orleans accent the man had, I suppressed my laughter sucessfully and reminded myself of the crisis at hand.

"Tell us where he is you bastard." I hissed as I thought of Mokuba in the clutches of a demented maniac like Noah. The man turned to face me, his face still hidden along with the rest of his body.

"I don't know who you ah girl, but you ah sorely mistaken if yah think I'm gonna tell you that." I balled my hands into fists, tired of hearing the first half of that sentence and disliking the last half immensely.

"Tell. Us." I hissed again, knowing that I was fighting a losing battle as he laughed again.

"No, and girly? What the hell do ya think you could do to me?" Another laugh as I took a step forward from the side of the bridge to next to Kaiba, who was sneering at the man.

"I can't do anything to you. But I swear to god that won't stop me trying." Another laugh after my partial threat. Kaiba spoke, not looking away from the man.

"Quiet Callaghan, this is a family matter." I exhaled heavily through my nose, not happy but respectful of his wishes, shutting up and glaring at the man, who turned his attention back to Kaiba.

"Well Mistah Kaibah, I want that bodeh of yours for mah own-" I made a disgusted noise in the back of my throat, once for the perverted manner that could be taken in and once of the overly-done accent, "-so I believe it's time to duel!" Kaiba growled, angry at the lack of information pertaining to Mokuba but shuffling his deck anyway as a duel disk appeared on his arm.

"Move, Callaghan." Being short with his words as the hooded man drew his first card, I copied his growl of annoyance and stalked over to the side, poking my arm and the shallow, gritty wound that was on my shoulder. I licked my hand and cleaned away some of the grit and drying blood, ripping the already shredded blue sleeve off the rest of the blouse to bandage it tightly, tying the knot with my teeth as I watched to two duel, not paying much attention. I was far more interested in the hovering thing a few meters up, a lense glinting in the v-sun.

"Noah." I whispered, just knowing that the little green-haired brat was watching this duel for his entertainment.

~XxX~

"-You even used those closest to you Mistah Kaibah." The man-now known to be Lector, Gozaburo's right-hand-man and in the form of his Deck Master, Jinzo said, taking Kaiba aback. I frowned at his words but continued to eye Lector's 'Imperial Order' card, that was preventing Kaiba from using magic cards in exchange for some of Lector's life points, this coupled with Jinzo's effect of negating trap cards was putting my arrogant friend on the back foot.

"What?" The incredulity in Kaiba's voice was clear, I too doubted Lector's little barb, having seen the two brothers care firsthand I sincerely thought that Lector was...talking utter crap.

"You tricked Mokuba into thinking that he'd leaked the information about your planned takeover of KaibaCorp, when infact, it was you." The nightmarish-looking man said, smugness in his voice as he leaned forward, red goggles glinting menacingly.

"I-I wouldn't betray my brother!" He faltered slightly but the tone he was speaking in confirmed his words.

"In doing so you forced your brother to run to Gozaburo for comfort. All the while using him as a pawn to trick Gozaburo into thinking that he had all the knowledge he needed to keep his comapany as he expected Mokuba to side with him." Lector's Deck Master shook his headmokingly, "But Mokuba was too trusting of you and gave you enough power to overthrow your step-father. At which point you betrayed us all!" He balled his fists in fury, "Even me! Who helped raise you! You stripped our power away and left us a figureheads before disposing of us entirely!" Both Kaiba and I snorted at the same time at his words.

"You didn't help raise either of us Lector! And I would never betray my brother." Kaiba placed a heartfelt emphasis on the 'never' as I decided to taunt Lector alittle in the hopes of throwing him off a tad for Kaiba to take advantage of.

"Still Kaiba," I said, sounding amiable, "I don't know why you fired these lot, " Kaiba shot me a look of half dis-belief and half, 'where-the-hell-are-you-going-with-this,' "They seem like such stable-minded people." Lector/Jinzo fixed me with a chilling glare that I hid my fear of.

"Shut the hell up girl." He hissed, sounding homicidal as I subconcsiously made a connection between his current look, his last name and a certain serial-killer, I bit back my next retort, watching as they resumed their duel. My ears pricked up at the sound of a roaring engine, I turned my head sharply to the other side of the gap in the bridge, seeing a three-wheeled pick-up truck brake sharply, Joey, Duke, Serenity, Yugi and Teá jumping out of the back of the truck as Joey got out of the cab. I squinted slightly, unsure as to whether I was seeing Serenity holding that robot monkey from earlier or not.

"SHUT IT MONKEY BOY!"

Apparently so, Joey's yell cleared my doubts, which were swiftly replaced with shock as Lector summoned a satallite to the field. But not technically to the field, more accturately, to space.

~XxX~

A/N: Huh, longer than normal chapter...

ANYWAY, updates will be slowing down to once/twice a week as college is starting again and A-Level History, Psychology, Govement&Politics and Business Studies will be eating into my time X_X. But still, I chose the subjects, if I can't take it, I only have myself to blame XD

Oh, and in case you didn't get the reference; Lector + Jinzo = Hannibal Lector. The only thing 4Kids did right with the naes.

~Ava