~Sabrina~
"That brat! Why did we even bother trusting him? I say we find him and then beat him up till he begs for mercy!" Joey says.
"Joey, we need a plan here. Randomly beating people up doesn't help us." Yugi says.
"But let's put that down as Plan B just in case." I say.
"Let's just find Noah, alright?"
"But where do we even start looking?" Tea asks.
An army of Duel Monsters then surrounds us. It consists of Cosmo Queen, Skull Knights, Command Knights, Lizard Soldiers, and Rock Ogre Grottos. A Lizard Soldier then aims for Serenity, but Yugi summons Curse of Dragon and destroys it. "Good idea Yugi, I summon my Axe Raider!" Joey says.
"And I summon Luster Dragon!" I say.
Our monsters destroy most of the army, but they keep coming back. "Where are they coming from?" I ask.
"I don't know. Maybe Noah's behind it." Yugi says.
While we try and fight them off, we end up going deeper into the city. Axe Raider gets destroyed, and then Luster Dragon, and finally Curse of Dragon. We're in the center of town by now. "Uh, what now?" I ask.
"RUN!" Joey yells.
That sounds like a decent plan. The monsters follow us, but we end up losing them. "Come on, over here." Joey says luring us toward an alleyway.
We sneak inside and make sure we weren't seen. "Are they coming back?" Serenity asks.
"I think they're gone for now." Duke says.
"You might want to rethink that." Tea says pointing behind us. One of the Lizard Soldiers is positioning for attack.
"Dark Magician, come forth!" Yugi says
"Divine Queen, help us out!" I say.
"I summon Gearfried the Iron Knight!" Joey says.
Our monsters destroy Lizard Soldier, but lots more are waiting to attack. Those are destroyed as well, leaving Cosmo Queen as our last victim. "Alright, attack!" the three of us say.
It looks like that was the last monster. "Can anyone hear me?"
"Is-is that Noah?" Yugi says.
Noah's voice echoes all around the Virtual World. "Look, the Virtual World is about to be destroyed, you need to get out now!" he says.
Okay, now I vote on using Plan B; beating Noah to a pulp. "I'm sorry for mistreating you guys, but the satellite missiles are now directed at the computer that controls the Virtual World. And if that gets destroyed, then so do your minds."
Why us? Why are we the ones who always get into this kind of trouble? "Listen, the only exit is located in the Domino Arcade!" Noah says.
"And how do we know if we can trust you?" I ask.
"Sabrina, it's our only chance." Yugi says, "What have we got to lose?"
Ourselves, maybe? I realize that there's no use arguing, if there is an exit, I'm willing to find it. "Fine, Yugi."
"Let's go then."
We start running toward the Domino Arcade. I hear a roar behind us and see that the Duel Monster army is back. "I don't think we can outrun them. We'll have to stay and fight." Yugi says.
"Yeah! The rest of you guys get outta here. We'll meet you at da arcade." Joey says.
"But Joey, I'm not going without you!" Serenity says.
"Serenity, you have to go. Tea, make sure to get her there safely."
"Alright, good luck you guys. We'll meet you there." Tea says. She, Serenity, Duke, and Tristan then make their way toward the arcade.
"You ready guys?" I say.
"Aw yeah! Flame Swordsman time!" Joey says.
I use Divine Queen, while Yugi has Dark Magician. We destroy the monsters in our way, but some keep reappearing and attacking. The three of us make it to the entrance of the arcade, but more Duel Monsters are blocking our way. "Dark Magic Attack!" Yugi shouts.
That gets rid of them and also blasts away the door to the arcade. "Divine Queen, come back." I say.
"You too Flame Swordsman." Joey says.
"And Dark Magician." Yugi adds.
"The exit is the stage in the very back. Just step onto the blue and red platforms." Noah says.
"You guys go first, I'll catch up." Yugi says.
"Alright." Joey says.
I step onto the blue platform, while Joey goes onto the red one. We're then automatically uploaded back into the real world.
I open my eyes to find that I'm in one of the virtual pods. I push open the glass around it and step out. It seems Tristan doesn't look like a monkey anymore. I look over to see someone at the control panel against the wall. I walk up to them, "Mokuba?" I say.
"Not quite. It's me." He says.
"Noah?"
This gets everyone else's attention. "Yes, I had to barrow Mokuba's body in order to save you guys." He says.
"If you're here then, is Mokuba still in the Virtual World?"
"Yes, along with Seto and Yugi. I told Yugi to stay back so I could help him rescue Seto."
"What?! Yugi's stuck in dat place just because Kaiba doesn't have enough brains to find the exit?!" Joey says.
"He's stuck in a duel with my father. I uploaded a shortcut so Yugi can reach him faster." Noah says.
"But wait, why are you trying to rescue Kaiba? I thought you still hated him." Tea says.
Noah sighs, "I was wrong. I'm sorry for acting the way that I did. I was jealous and angry at all of you mostly because you had something I didn't; friends."
"And I guess we're sorry too. For all that stuff we said about ya." Joey says.
"I deserved all of it."
"Warning! Satellite missiles launch in four minutes! Evacuate now!" the computer says.
"Time's almost up; you all need to return to the blimp."
"Alright, but get them out of there quickly. You're the only one here capable of doing that." I say.
"I know. Please hurry."
We run out of the room and start rushing down a long hallway. This fortress is so huge though that we don't know which way is correct. We then reach a fork in the path, "Which way?" Joey says.
"Wait, don't you here that?" Tea says, "To the right, there are machines over there."
"This is a mechanical fortress, everything has machines!" Joey yells.
"Let's just go to the right." I say, "It's the only lead we have."
We run down there to see lights coming from the other end. Come on, please be the blimp! We reach the end of it to find the blimp there and it's been released from its holding. Roland is waiting outside, "Where's Mister Kaiba?" he asks.
"He's still trapped in there." Duke says.
"Same with Yugi and Mokuba." Tea adds.
"I'm going to raise the platform. Then the blimp will be ready for takeoff as soon as they arrive." Roland says.
He hits a switch and the roof above us opens up and the floor starts to rise. The blimp and all of us are now on top of the fortress. It's nice to have real fresh air instead of virtual. We wait there for a few minutes, but no one shows up. Roland goes back inside the blimp to prepare takeoff. Come on Yugi, where are you guys?
"We should head inside the blimp, Roland is about to take off." Tea says.
"But what about Yugi and the Kaiba's?" I say.
"I hope they show up." Joey says.
We walk inside the door to the blimp, but keep it open in case we see the others. The blimp starts to lift into the air, meaning we only have seconds left. I look back at the door to the fortress, "Wait, I see them!"
"Come on guys, we'll catch ya!" Joey says. Joey and Duke go to the bottom of the stairs and hold out their hands. Kaiba ends up throwing Mokuba at them and then jumps on. Joey grabs a hold of Yugi. Kaiba presses a button on the wall and closes the door once we're all inside.
The blimp starts to get away from the fortress, but we're too slow. I hear a loud crash behind us and realize that the missiles hit already. The shaking from the explosion causes all of us to fall over. Kaiba gets back onto his feet and then heads for the control room. The rest of us notice this and decide to head there as well. The blimp rumbles again, and then I look out the window and we actually start moving faster. "What was that?" Yugi asks.
"I turned to blimp inside its emergency form. Now we should be able to get away with no problems." Kaiba says.
After we all regain our footing and the explosion dies down, we watch the remains of the fortress disappear in the distance. "You know, Noah actually wasn't that bad once you got past all of his anger." Joey says.
"Yeah, he proved himself today." I say.
I look over at Mokuba to see he has a bouquet of lilies in his hands. He opens one of the smaller windows and throws them out, "Farewell in your final journey Noah, and you will always be known as one thing to me; brother." He says.
"Psh, good riddance. I've had enough detours, now it's time to get down to business. Roland, regain our course to Kaiba Corp Island." Kaiba says.
I just had to add the lilies that Mokuba was holding. It was a touching way to signify Noah's death. But no, 4Kids has to be retarded and say 'nope, he was on a back-up file! Now let's all be cheerful and crap and go back to playing children's card games!'. And Kaiba always has to ruin those touching moments, too.