~Ari~
"What do ya mean da engines don't work?!" Joey yells at Roland.
"They're still down from when we escaped that explosion. We're working as fast as we can. But we won't take off until Mister Kaiba and Mokuba are present." He says.
"Oh great, perfect time for Kaiba to go missin! Come on guys; let's find him so I can beat him up!"
Joey doesn't even wait for our approval though before making his way off the air craft. I guess the rest of us have no choice but to follow him. Duke, Bakura, Mai and Serenity stay behind though, along with the Ishtar's. Joey keeps mumbling about how much pain Kaiba is going to go through if he doesn't show up. "Joey, we get it. We'll find him." Yami says.
"And besides, do you really think Kaiba would lose a fight to you?" I say.
Joey frowns since he knows I'm right, "Well, I can dream can't I? Let's just start looking."
We search around the rubble of the island, but Kaiba and Mokuba are still nowhere to be found. The doors to the tower is locked, so I'm not sure if it automatically closed after we left, or Kaiba just didn't want anyone to go inside. The search continues until we estimate that we have about fifteen minutes left. "Hey guys!" Bakura shouts.
He and Duke come running toward us from the blimp. "You guys better have some good news." Joey says.
"Not exactly. The engines are still down. I'm guessing you haven't found Kaiba yet, right?" Duke says.
"No, he might be in the tower though. The doors are locked, and even if we got them open, who knows if we have enough time to search the entire thing." Tea says.
"What are we gonna do?! I don't wanna die!" Joey yells.
"Wait, couldn't we just take that helicopter over there?" I ask.
It's the one that came for Sabrina when she was in a coma. "Um, why didn't we think of that sooner?" Joey says.
"It doesn't matter! Now we've got to warn everyone inside the blimp and hurry up!" Tea says.
"Right!" Duke and Bakura run back to the blimp to warn everyone.
The rest of us go inside the helicopter and wait for the others. "Hey, thanks for falling unconscious!" Joey says to me. "Then we wouldn't have gotten dis 'copter."
I'm not really sure how to respond to that, "Your welcome?" I say.
He laughs. Roland and the other guard step inside the helicopter. The rest of the gang and the Ishtar's then come onto the helicopter, "We've got thirty seconds left. Hopefully Mister Kaiba found another way off. Start the engines!" Roland says.
The helicopter lifts into the air, but we're not far away enough yet. I kind of feel bad for Kaiba and Mokuba though. What if they can't escape? "Ten seconds left." Roland says.
The helicopter is now a pretty safe distance away from the tower. We watch out the windows as the tower begins to explode. The rest of the island starts to go up in flames, along with the top of the tower. "Kaiba… why?" Yami says.
"Do you think he was suicidal?" I ask.
"Then why would Mokuba be left behind?" Joey asks.
This makes all of us puzzled. "Hey, what's that?" I say.
Out of some of the smoke comes a Blue-Eyes White Dragon. "Wha-?"
It lifts into the air and floats next to us. I look at the head to see glass at the top. Through the glass, I can see Mokuba waving at us and Kaiba laughing. "WHAT?! HE HAD A PLAN ALL ALONG!" Joey yells. Well, I'm glad that they're okay, but that was a pretty nasty trick.
The radio at the front of the helicopter starts speaking, "Yeah, we're both alright." Mokuba says through it.
Joey runs up to the radio, "Kaiba, how about ya land so I can beat ya to a pulp!" he yells.
"Sorry Joey, we're not going to land with you guys. We have some Kaiba Corp business to attend to." Mokuba says.
"Are ya planning another tournament?"
"You'll just have to find out Wheeler." Kaiba says.
The radio goes silent and then their Blue-Eyes Jet turns in another direction. I know we'll never see the last of them. "We should be able to land in Domino before nightfall." Roland says.
We all sit cramped in the helicopter for hours until we finally make it to the pier. The helicopter lands and lets us off and then takes off again toward the hospital it came from. The sun sits low in the sky and the water sparkles like gold.
"Pharaoh," Ishizu says, "I want to thank you once more for saving my brother. And now you can finally work on your journey to recovering your memories."
"Pharaoh, you helped me conquer my demons, and for that I am truly grateful. I hope that now we may become friends. And when you're ready to return to Egypt, I'd be happy to help guide you two." Marik says to Yami and I.
"Okay, Marik. I hope we'll meet again soon." I say.
"Best of luck." Yami says.
The three Ishtar's nod and then head over to the boat that Marik arrived in Domino on. They board and then moments later start heading back on their journey back to Egypt. "I guess it's time for all of us to say our goodbyes." Duke says. "I have to head back to my game shop and start updating Dungeon Dice Monsters. Here Serenity." He says slipping her a sheet of paper.
Duke walks away; Tristan grabs the piece of paper, "Hey! He slipped her his phone number! Come back here dice boy!"
In the distance we can here Duke chuckling, but makes no move to come back. "Here Serenity." Tristan gives her a slip of paper and we have a pretty good idea of what it is.
"Back off Tristan! No one's going out with my little sista' while I'm here!" Joey yells.
We all laugh. "I guess it's my turn now." Mai says.
"Your leaving too Mai?" I say.
"The open road calls for me. I came here for Battle City and that's over, so now it's time to move on."
"Thank you Mai, you've done so much for us." Serenity says as a tear slips down her face.
"I should be thanking you Serenity. You were the one who always stood by me while I was trapped in the Shadow Realm. And Yugi, the next time we meet, we're going to duel."
"Of course, Mai." Yami says.
Mai walks away and Joey then chases after her. "What a stud." Tristan says.
"You're one to talk." Tea says.
"Well, I… um, I'll see you guys around."
Tristan leaves, along with the rest of the gang. This just leaves Yami and I. "Ready to head home?" I ask.
"Yes. I'm glad that now we'll have time to uncover the secrets to our past." He says.
"It's not going to be easy though."
"I know." He then turns toward me, "But we'll figure it out together." He leans and then kisses me.
I'm going to put up one more Battle City chapter, because there was an episode that came after this one. After that, I can finally work on the Waking the Dragons arc. And when my computer broke, I lost the file of the cover image, so I thought, why not make another? I'm pretty sure this one will be permanent though, since I've already changed it like three times.