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Chapter 13: United We Stand

-S-

I didn't get where Lector was trying to go with this. He kept going on and on about my past, telling me things I already knew, things I had already lived up to. I was beginning to get bored and was contemplating interrupting him if he didn't shut up soon. Finally, it seemed like Lector was coming to a close with his obnoxiously long speech.

"And then who got all the credit after you made all that money? You and only you received credit for making that money." I rolled my eyes.

"Of course I did, it was my idea. What did you expect? All you did was follow through with the orders I had given you," I paused for a moment before continuing, "In fact, that was all you were ever good for. You've never been capable of coming up with an idea for Kaiba Corp., which is why you'd never be fit to run my company." It was the truth. This idea, that Lector was the rightful heir to the Kaiba Corp. thrown? It was all just a fantasy Lector must've come up with in his head; even Gozaburo knew he wasn't fit to run the company.

"Oh, but Mister Kaiba, that's where you're wrong. Not only could I, but I will once I defeat you in this duel." Another roll of the eyes, and I decided to carry on with my monster's effect.

"As if… now, because my Giant Germ was destroyed, it activated its special effect which allows me to summon another Giant Germ to the field."

"Don't you realize you're only delaying the inevitable? Because of Jinzo's special ability, all of your trap cards are useless. And there's no way a person can win a duel with monsters alone." That's where Lector was wrong. Because if he truly knew who I was, he'd know that I'm not easily brought down by others.

"Lector, I'm going to say this once and only once; I'll never lose a duel to you," I stated proudly. And it was true. It would take a lot more than a quarter of my deck being held useless to defeat me. There was more of a title that went along with the name Seto Kaiba than people give me credit for. This was one of those situations.

"Oh believe me, you'll lose so much more than just this game," Lector drew one card from his hand as he began his turn, "Because of my Solemn Wishes card, I gain 500 life points for every card I draw from my deck. Then I place two cards face down." I got the cue that he was done and drew my own card from my deck. I barely glanced at it, before turning my eyes towards my monster.

"Spear Dragon, attack his face down monster!" I commanded. Spear Dragon opened his mouth and fired another typhoon at Lector's monster.

"I'd give you an A for effort, but it looks like you just activated my Cyber Jar's ability." I winced at the sight. I knew this monster's effect, and it wasn't pretty, "As a result, it destroys every monster on the field." I watched in distraught as one by one, each of the monsters on the field was destroyed. My Spear Dragon and Giant Germ, as well as Lector's own Cyber Jar disappeared. I was defenseless. But there was still hope.

"Now as you well know, the other part of Cyber Jar's effect is for both players to pick up five cards from their decks and summon any level four or lower monsters they draw to the field." I grinned when I saw that Vorse Raider and Twin-Headed Behemoth were one of the monsters I had drawn. When I looked up at his field, I saw a monster of his own facing me. "I summon Injection Fairy Lily to the field!"

"I may have lost life points last turn, but because I draw a card at the beginning of my turn, I gain 500 of those life points back." That gave him 2200 life points so far. At least I had been able to keep my life points safe, and it was some good luck that had given me some defense to protect me as well. "Now I activate Watch Tranquilizer! This magic card lowers the attack strength of your monsters one hundred points for each of its level stars!"

A dart shot out from the magic card Lector had just activated and hit my Vorse Raider. I winced again. Because Vorse Raider was a level four monsters, that meant it would lose 400 attack points and lower it to 1500. I looked back over at Lector's Injection Fairy Lily. It only had 400 attack points to account for, still making it weaker than both my monsters.

"I hope you didn't think I was done, Mister Kaiba, because I'm just getting started. And with that said, I'll activate my Injection Fairy Lily's special ability. By paying 2000 of my life points, I can increase Fairy Lily's attack power by 3000!" I narrowed my eyes. That brought her attack strength up to 3400. That wasn't good. "Now Injection Fairy Lily, attack!" The Injection Fairy Lily flew over to my Vorse Raider and attacked it. A huge explosion occurred, and I held my arm over my face to cover myself from the blow.

When I looked back down at my duel disk, I saw that I only had 1200 life points left.

"That's not all!" Lector announced, "I also activate my other face down magic card, Sebek's Blessing, which increases my life points by the amount that you just lost. Before I end my turn, I'll play one more monster in defense. Your move." His low life points was all I had left to hit him with, and now he was back up to having 2100 of them. I had to admit, Lector had planned his deck out well.

"Fine," I said, drawing one card from my deck. I stared at my hand for a very long time, my thoughts beginning to get the best of me. I thought back on my life, and the obstacles I had faced. In the end, I had always took every challenge life had presented me with head on and became the victor in the end. This duel would be no different. I would make sure of it. "I play one monster in defense mode."

"Is that all you've got? This may be easier than I thought. I'll activate Life Absorbing Machine in response to that. This little trap card increases my life points by half the amount I paid in my last turn." His life points had gone up… again! Now he was up to 3600, and all I had remaining was a mere 1200.

"Now, I'll sacrifice my face-down monster in order to summon my ultimate weapon!" The field in front of me began to glow as I looked down. A rocket or missile of some sort began to rise from the ground in front of me and shoot up into the air over head. The exhaust from the rockets swished by me, but I barely noticed. My eyes were locked onto the missile that had disappeared from site within seconds.

"What on earth…?" I stared bewildered as it left an exhaust trail in the air. I didn't know what to expect, and yet I could feel as though it was locking onto me even though it had completely left the atmosphere at this point. And it was ready to attack whenever Lector decided to press the 'Launch' button. I continued to stand still and stare up into the sky.

Now what?

-M-

The images on the screen seemed more alive and more real with every twist and turn of the duel. I would sit down, and find myself re-emerging back onto my feet only seconds later. At times, I thought I knew what my brother was doing, and at others… I didn't know what to think. I was worried and frightened for my brother.

Soon the calling of a third party could be heard on the screen. The camera view widened and it was apparent that Yugi and the gang had arrived and had begun to cheer Seto on. I felt better knowing Yugi was nearby, and also giving Seto encouragement he could count on. I knew most people didn't know it, or probably wouldn't believe it, but my brother strived on praise and encouragement. It helped him when he was stuck like this.

"Looks like the gang's all here… good," Noah said, "I was hoping for someone else to witness his demise."

"It'll take more than one silly rocket to bring my brother down. He'll beat that creep and come rescue me right away." Noah had his legs crossed and a smug look on his face. He gave a low chuckle.

"Oh Mokuba, sometimes you say the darnest things. What could possibly make you think that your brother cares about you?" I turned towards him, but only huffed with disproval.

"There are many instances in the past that I can recall right here and now to prove that he cares about me so I'll tell you right now, quite your act. You can't convince me to hate my brother, you simply can't." I thought to myself that I would never hate my brother, or ever doubt that he cared about me. Not after the experience at Duelist Kingdom, when I was in the Shadow Realm. I had seen my brother duel and lose. I had seen the way his eyes pained with regret and how the only thing he had truly been ashamed of was losing the duel and failing me.

The only reason he had dueled Pegasus was to save me. Not for honor, not for pride, and not to be the greatest duelist on the planet. He did it just for me, to save my soul. I wasn't going to let some green-haired weirdo come in and change all of that. I knew my brother better.

The duel continued. Things continued to look grim for my older brother. I couldn't help but twitch and wince with every painful move. This duel, somehow, seemed more real and way more intense than the duel we had encountered with Nesbitt. I honestly didn't know what the difference between the two could possibly be, they were both slim balls.

But I supposed Lector had some sort of edge. He seemed to really know what he was doing, and I was beginning to fear Seto wasn't on control of the duel anymore. After dueling by his side, the idea of my brother being a God at duel monsters had faded in some ways. But even with the knowledge that my brother was nothing more than a human being, that didn't mean his skills were any less perfected. And so I waited for my brother to turn the duel around.

It didn't. And I remained afraid.

"How can I stop a weapon I can't even see?" Seto yelled aloud, looking up at the sky.

"You can't. My weapon is so far up there are barely any monsters that could attack it at this range. And after each turn, it'll gain 1000 attack points," Lector continued, "Seto Kaiba, prepare to lose everything you have. It'll serve you right for all that you have done. This will serve as pay back for destroying your own step father, betraying the Big 5.

"It's about time you got what you deserved. All your life, all you ever did was use others to get what you want. You even went as far as to use your younger brother in your plan!"

"That's a lie!" I yelled without hesitation.

"Calm down Mokuba, listen to what Lector has to say. It's time you knew the real truth of the matter." I shook my head. Nothing Lector was going to say was going to be good, but I had already started mentally preparing myself for whatever horrible speech he had prepared. It wasn't going to work this time, because my cognitive thinking would be able to out do a flash back of any sort.

Lector spoke of times I remembered vividly, painfully. Seto called it his ultimate plan. He had told me that I was a crucial part of his game plan, and I accepted it with pride. But then one day I came home to find him turn on me. Someone had been leaking information to Gozaburo and Seto had blamed me for it. I didn't know what to do at the time. I thought I had lost my brother, my only friend.

Seto had detached from me for months, leaving me to wallow in my grief on my own. Until certain someone came in and "rescued" me. That was Gozaburo. He held out a hand when I was in trouble, and although it was the hand that had only given me pain in the past, it was the only hand I could hold onto at the time. I slowly found myself floating over to Gozaburo's side of the ring.

That was before it happened. The day Seto had finally confronted our step father about the take over. He had presented his game plane like any business man would before the time was right, before he had declared check mate. But Gozaburo claimed he hadn't lost yet, and that was because he believed he had my 2%. Little did he know that my dedication to Seto would never die, not then, not now.

"…After that dreadful day, Gozaburo found himself a broken man. He would go on to take his own life, and it was all YOUR fault Mister Kaiba! You drove him over the edge!" My eyes looked back up towards the screen, watching Lector and Seto stare down one another. "You played us all like fools! YOU were the one that leaked the information to Gozaburo! You wanted him to believe it was Mokuba, so in turn he would let you buy up the forty-nine percent of the company. He thought he would have Mokuba on his side.

"But you knew better, didn't you? You knew your brother would remain loyal to you no matter what. In the end, he was just another pawn in your plan. It's what makes me truly disgusted by you, Mister Kaiba, truly disgusted." I shook my head violently.

"No! It's a lie! My brother would never do that!" I protested. I looked back at Noah. He looked pleased by my emotionally torn face. But I wouldn't let Lector get to me. I couldn't. After all, these people were only trying to tear us apart. Nothing they said could be seen as the truth, even if my heart hurt in a way that it did.

"Mokuba was the only person I ever trusted, and I knew that together we would be able to bring our step father down!"

"You USED Mokuba! You took advantage of him and his trust! That is what makes you the lowest of the low, Mister Kaiba. And that is why it'll be a pleasure to defeat you once and for all!" I bent forward and slammed my two hands on the table in front of me.

"I know it's not true…" I said to myself, looking down at the table below me. My palms felt sweaty and my body was shaking. The worst part about realizing the truth was that it's not an easy thing to come by. But the best thing about love and brotherhood was understanding that there is always something more to the story. Something he couldn't have been telling anyone.

I knew my brother wouldn't deliberately hurt me, against all odds. He loved me and would always try to protect me. But people are so quick to attack and judge my brother, that sometimes even they miss the truth. My brother and I were a team. We would always be together to fight against all odds, and all people who tried to bring us down.

I looked back up at the screen. There was still a duel to be won.

A/N: Hey guys! So the funniest thing happened just now. I opened up a document to start on the next chapter, and I kept having this weird feeling. I looked at the last chapter I had published and kept feeling like I had already written up most of what I was supposed to write. It was really freaky cause I was like "DUDE, HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE??" Cause my brain just couldn't seem to figure out what was going on. Then I opened up a document and saw I had already written the 13th chapter. Lol, my bad. Anyhow, I feel like I should work more on Severance and Forlorn, but this story is getting so good I can barely contain myself! I think I speak for all of us when we say, "OMG, I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEXT PART!" Hopefully that'll come soon if this duel hurries up-.- It will, I promise! Thanks for reading!

P.S: I know I keep updating super fast and not updating my other stories, but bear with me guys, THIS STORY IS JUST GETTING GOOD! So hurry up and review so I can post the next chapter!!!!!!:D