Just to let you know, I'm rush-uploading these first five chapters. Forgive me for any little errors that you know I would usually pick up on. I'll fix them later, once I get all of the chapters up.
And we are back to the story! Ryou is now Limey Man Bakura Ryo.
This chapter contains the use of several different powers that Limey Man has.
I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh!, YGOTAS, or any of the characters/trademarks in those. I don't own Limey Man, but I do own how he looks in this fanfic.
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In the five seconds it had taken him to transform, the second thug had snuck up on the kid.
"Ok-k-kay," the kid said. He bend down to draw a card, then he looked at his hand. "I-I-I'm going to summon—" He never finished his sentence because the second thug swung his hand in a chopping motion at the kid's neck. He must have hit a pressure point, because a moment later the kid's eyes rolled up into his head and he was knocked out. As he fell to the ground, his cards fluttered out of his hands.
The first thug turned off his Duel Disk and put his cards away. He started walking over to the second thug, who was a bit taller and had tanner skin.
"That's perfect," the guy with the Duel Disk said. "Now let's search him for that card."
"Not so fast!" Limey Man shouted. He jumped out from behind the dumpster and pointed at the thugs. "You leave him alone!"
They took one look at him and both chuckled. "Who're you supposta be?" the second thug asked.
Ryo held his hands open, spread his fingers, crossed his arms over his chest, and faced his faced his palms towards him. The letters L and M were clearly visible from left to right. "I'm Limey Man!" he said bravely. He pointed at them. "And I'm going to take both of you down if you don't leave him alone!"
He second thug laughed. "Whod'ya think you are?" he asked. "We gonna be takin' his card, beatin' you up as well, and gettin' the hell outta here."
The first guy moved in front of the second guy and elbowed him in the ribs. "Didn't I tell you not to talk!" he rasped. He turned to Ryo. "I can hear your British accent, Limey Man," he said mockingly. "Ha! That's hilarious! You don't want to mess with us. Just be on your way, pretend you never saw anything, and we'll leave you alone."
"What if he turns us in, tho'?" the second thug asked the first.
He was elbowed in the ribs again.
"Stop talking!" the first thug growled. He turned to Ryo again. "So, Brit," he said tauntingly. "What're you going to do, throw tea at us?" He kicked the kid's limp body to the side of the alley. In the process, the pile of cards on the ground was messed up and scattered.
Ryo smirked. "That's actually a good idea."
The letters on the backs of his hands glowed. He raised his hands and aimed each of them at a different thug.
Their faces grew confused.
"Tea Attack!" Limey Man shouted. Two jets of a liquid came out of his hands. They shot at the tugs and hit their mouths.
They gagged and sputtered, stumble back a few steps, and held their hands up agains the blast. It had only lasted a few seconds.
They wiped their mouths with their hands. "What was that?!" the first guy said. "That tasted like tea!"
Ryo grinned and lowered his hands. "Of course. Now back off before I hit you again!"
"I—" He cut himself off and looked at his Duel Disk. It was fine.
Ryo got a good idea. He raised his right hand and aimed it at the Duel Disk. "Tea Attack!" he shouted. The tea from his palm shot out and flew straight st the device around the guy's arm. It hit its mark.
Some sparks and lines of electricity started moving around the Duel Disk. The guy screamed in pain when some of them shocked him. The Duel Disk had been ruined by the tea. The thug took the Duel Disk off his arm before it could shock him more.
He glared at Limey Man. "Hey! How dare you! You're going to pay for that! Leon!"
Ryo heard a noise from the dumpster. He turned his head around and saw it opening. A third thug came out of it. The dumpster lid closed with a BANG!
Now there were three guys! This was a bit unexpected.
A small sliver of fear began to run through Ryo at the thought of being surrounded and outnumbered. But then...he looked at the back of his hands and remembered who he was. He wasn't the frightened and passive and defenseless Ryou Bakura. He was the brave and agressive and helpful Limey Man Bakura Ryo. He let the sliver of fear be crushed by his will to fight and serve.
"Leon, get the Brit!" the first thug ordered. "Sean, get the kid's cards." Then he mumbled, "My cards and Duel Disk are ruined..."
Ryo turned around, faced the third thug, and aimed his pointer fingers at the thug like guns. He aimed for the thug's eyes.
"Scone Darts!" he shouted. Two tiny scones in the shape of darts shot out of his pointed fingers and aimed at the thug's eyes.
The darts hit their mark and crumbled when they did. The thug screamed in pain and rubbed his eyes. He stumbled around backwards until he bumped his head into the corner of the dumpster—hard—and knocked himself out. He sank to the floor.
Limey Man didn't have time to celebrate. He whipped back around and focused on the second thug. He was reaching for the cards.
"Oh no you don't!" he shouted.
"Mini-Bow!" Limey Man shouted. He held up his right hand. In a split second, the Magic Mini-Bow on the right side of his belt shot to his hand. He grasped it firmly.
"Magic Chopstick Arrow!" Limey Man shouted. He held out his other hand. An arrow instantly appeared in it. He strung the arrow in the Mini-Bow.
He aimed it at the second thug's hand, but not directly at it. He fired.
The chopstick arrow grazed the side of the thug's hand and made him bleed. The thug drew his hand back, held it in the other one, trying to stops the flow of blood, and glared at Ryo.
"Magic Chopstick Arrow!" Limey Man shouted. He held out his other hand. An arrow instantly appeared in it. He strung the arrow in the Mini-Bow.
This time, he aimed at the thug's forearm. He fired. Like before, the arrow grazed his skin and drew blood. But the arrow had been closer and made a slightly deeper cut. The thug screamed in pain and his free hand moved from his inbred hand to his injured forearm.
Ryo took this chance to aim another attack. He raised his free hand and aimed it at the thug's head. "Tea Attack!" he shouted. This time, the blast was much more powerful. It pushed the thug's head back and made it hit the ground hard, knocking him out as well.
The first thug looked at the other two thugs, then at Ryo. "Don't think you're going to get away with this that easily, Limey Man!" he growled.
Ryo re-aimed his hand. "Tea Attack!" he shouted. The tea aimed at the thug's head.
Although it did push him back against the wall, he braced his hands against it so he wouldn't be knocked out like the other two had been.
But the tea kept coming. It covered his face and deprived him of air. He made gurgling noises and tried to breathe. But he couldn't. Eventually, he passed out from lack of air. Ryo stopped the moment he saw the thug go limp, so as not to kill him.
Ryo looked around him, his gaze lingering on each of the three thugs. He frowned and felt a pang of guilt at what he'd had to do to them. The first guy's breath... The second guy's arm... The third guy's eyes...
He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, then exhaled with a sigh. He shouldn't feel guilty. He hadn't killed them and they would recover. And he had helped out the kid.
"Speaking of which..." he mumbled. He walked over to the kid's limp body. He was still knocked out, but breathing evenly. He was lying face-down with his head turned to the side and his arms spread out behind him.
Ryo knelt down and rolled the kid onto his back. He tried shaking his shoulders to wake him up, but it didn't work.
He knew what would.
He stood up and took several steps back.
"Slingshot!" Limey Man shouted. He held up his left hand. In a split second, the Magic Slingshot on the left side of his belt shot to his hand. He grasped it firmly.
"Magic Tea Bag!" he shouted. He held out his other hand. A tea bag instantly appeared in it. He placed the small bag in his Slingshot.
He aimed at the kid's face. He fired.
The tea bag hit the kid's face, then exploded into a small cloud of dust. The dust wasn't that thick, so Ryo could see through it. He saw the kid breath in the dust. He coughed and appeared to be waking up*.
The dust cleared. Ryo smiled. The tea had worked. He ran over to the kid and knelt down beside him.
The kid opened his eyes.
"Are you alright?" Ryo asked him.
His eyes moved until they met Ryo's. They widened. The kid sat up abruptly and scrambled backwards away from him until he had backed into the wall. He was breathing hard. Then, after a few seconds of looking Ryo over, he seemed to relax. "Wh-Wh-Who are you?" he stuttered.
Ryo smiled reassuringly. "I'm..."
The kid looked around and noticed the three thugs, knocked out. "D-d-did you do that to them?" he asked Ryo, interrupting him.
"Yes, I did."
"Wh-wh-who are you?" he asked again.
Ryo held up his hands, crossed his arms over his chest, and faced his palms away from the kid so the letters L M were visible. "I'm Limey Man," he said with a smile.
The kid's eyes returned to normal. "L-L-Limey Man, huh?" he echoed. "Th-th-that's interesting..."
"You don't have to be scared of me," Ryo said.
"I-I-I'm not," the kid insisted.
"Then why do you keep stuttering?" Ryo asked.
The kid blushed and rubbed the back of his neck nervously. "I-I-It's just a condition I have. I-I-I stutter the beginning of all of my sentences, so I usually try to do run-on sentences so that I don't have to start a new one and I'll stutter less and say more and this usually works but I can't force myself to speak in run-on sentences all the time because I don't talk like that and I usually have to think about how I'll make the sentences run-on and it especially doesn't work when I'm nervous because I think anyone would stutter and pause when they're nervous which makes it worse and plus speaking in run-on sentences all the time gets annoying for people listening to you." He didn't seem out of breath after saying all that. He had been talking normally the entire sentence at a normal speed, and had only stuttered the first syllable. "P-p-please don't think of me as weird...for that."
"Of course I won't. I promise. I know what it's like to be bullied by others for being different. I would never." He paused for a moment, then decided to ask, "What's your name?"
"I-I-It's Amari," the kid said. He looked at the Millenium Ring. "I-i-interesting pendant you have there. I-I-I think I recognize that eye thing in the center of it from a card I saw once a year ago."
Ryo looked down at the Millenium Ring, then back at Amari. "Yes... I think I know what card you mean..." That was a slight lie. There were a lot of Duel Monsters cards that used that symbol. Ryo had only seen one or two of them. Amari could be talking about any card besides those two.
"Oh. Th-th-thanks again for saving me. Th-th-they were after one of my cards, and they somehow knew that someone with a stutter like mine and a scar on his lower lip." When he said this, he ran a finger along his scar. "Th-th-they cornered me in here...and then the guy with the Duel Disk forced me to duel him, but before I could take my second turn this other guy hit my neck in a weird place and knocked me out. I-I-I'm just a beginner at Duel Monsters and I didn't know how I had gotten that card just by chance and they wanted it from me but I obviously didn't want to give it to him and he kept making fun of my stutter and scar and I was just so scared and I cried out."
"I know," Ryo said. "I heard your scream. That's why I came to help."
"Oh. W-w-well it's a good thing you did. W-w-we should call the police to come and pick these guys up because I think I saw them on a wanted poster while I was walking around the city and I was hoping that I wouldn't get jumped on my first week here but I did and over cards of all things can you believe that?!"
Ryo closed his eyes and chuckled. "I can. That sort of issue happens all the time in this city."
"R-r-really?"
"Yup. You're new here?"
"Y-y-yes, I am. I-I-I moved here the beginning of this week and I had finally finished unpacking, settling into my new apartment, and transferring schools yesterday, so I decided to walk around the city to get to know it better. B-b-bad idea, I guess, because I've only been out here for half an hour and I already have been jumped over a card! A-a-are Duel Monsters cards really that valuable here?"
"Sort of. They're very popular in Domino City, that's for sure. The CEO of Kaiba Corp lives here, and the Kaiba Corp headquarters are in this city. This is where the Battle City tournament was held. Basically, this city is the heart of the Duel Monsters worldwide fandom."
Amari's eyes widened in amazement. "W-w-wow. S-S-Seto Kaiba and Yugi Muto and Joey Wheeler all live here, right?"
Ryo nodded. "Right."
"A-a-amazing. B-b-but it sucks that I was targeted by thugs over a card..."
"What card?"
"I-I-I don't remember because when I found it I just put it in my deck no questions asked because I didn't take interest with it but they described it to me and I realized that I did had that card which I had bought in the city on my first day here when we passed by it and my mother decided to get me a moving-in present so I would feel a bit more at ease here, but if anything it only made me more scared because I was beat up over it and I really don't want that happening again."
"It won't," Ryo said reassuringly. "I promise."
Amari raised an eyebrow. "H-h-how can you be so sure?"
Ryo raised his hands again. "I just am. Trust me."
Amari smiled wide. "I-I-I trust you. N-n-now can you help me pick up my cards?"
"Sure."
Together, the two of them picked up all of Amari's cards and reorganized them neatly into one stack.
"Th-th-thanks again," Amari said when Ryo handed him the last card. He put the deck into his back pocket, then took out a cell phone from the other back pocket. He looked around again.
"Wh-wh-why are there cookie crumbs and tea and chopsticks everywhere?" he asked Ryo.
"Limey Man, remember?" Ryo replied.
Amari's eyes briefly widened. "W-w-wow, you you have real powers?"
"I do."
"C-c-cool. I-I-I'll be calling the police now. Wh-wh-what street is this? N-n-never mind, I already know." He dialed and took a piece of paper out of his pocket and unfolded it. It was probably the Wanted poster he had been talking about.
Ryo knew he had to go, now that Amari was safe and the police would be coming.
He saw his chance when Amari turned around.
Ryo walked to the entrance to the alley and stood behind the dumpster.
"Time to transform back..." he said sadly.
*It is to be assumed that the tea bag contained some type of ingredient that is supposed to wake people up or keep them conscious. Kinda like a smelling salt, but a kind you would put in tea. I'm not a tea person, so I wouldn't know. I'm not British, I'm American.
The powers mentioned here are only 4 of 5-7 powers that he has. The others will be mentioned in other chapters.
The next chapter will contain the transformation from Limey Man Bakura Ryo back to Ryou Bakura. After that, the next chapter will be the last chapter of Mission 0 and the outro to Limey Man (not really an outro, more like the end of the introduction).
See you next chapter!
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