I am SOOOO sorry for not updating in forever. But here it is and I hope you enjoy it.
Chapter 5
Family Rage
Friday, December 23rd 3:00PM (Las Vegas)
December 23rd 6:00PM (Ottawa)
Saturday, December 24th 8:00AM (Domino)
Kaiba was lying on his back on a little cot that was brought into the room and stared at the ceiling. Mokuba was sleeping in another cot. The ceiling held no information, but it was just a center of concentration. He wanted to know what was going on out in the world. For about three hours he felt Regan's anger and pain and then for about another five hours all he felt from the link she had made was pure fear. He glared at the ceiling. Now he was feeling nothing from her and it unnerved him. Here where the three of them, Mokuba, Noah and himself, in the Dragon Slayer's headquarters according to Roland and Alex driving the Dragon Slayers insane and his outside assistance was sending radio transmissions of everything he did not want to happen. He hoped nothing was seriously wrong. Maybe if he was open to the link he would receive more information. He closed his eyes, but before he could do anything the door slammed opened.
"I've been up for almost forty-eight hours, so if you don't mind slamming opening doors to outtake your frustration; that would be wonderful." He sighed opening an eye towards the door.
Rose growled and marched over to him. "You bastard, what the fuck do you think you are accomplishing here? You think that little AI will keep us busy until you are executed."
"A public execution; that is the exact way I want to die." He nodded humoring her words. He shut his eye again turning his face to the ceiling as a grin appeared on his face. "Seems like Regan isn't on your little threat list anymore, couldn't find her?"
"Oh we found her; she just had some help killing three of our best men and then went off the map. As soon as someone sees her, they are detaining her on sight. For some reason, my father doesn't want her dead for all the trouble she has caused us."
Kaiba laughed out loudly. "You're never going to find anyone if you can lose someone so easily with my system. Of course, you need at least an eighty in IQ to actually function it."
"Where is the missing piece to your game?"
"If you couldn't find it with our brother, then I guess when you guys fucked with my system, you guys pressed something and deleted it. I guess no one will be getting at those plans now. That is, if I can't manage to reprogram it, which of course I can."
"You aren't leaving this box."
"Then so be it. Now, if you are done being a whiny, childish bitch; I want to get some sleep."
"We will get what we have tried so hard for."
"Good luck, you know where I am when you seek my assistance." He spat out the last word. Kaiba listened to the steps of Rose walk towards the exit and the door slammed shut. He sighed. "That girl needs some anger management courses." He went back into his thoughts to create an open mind link for him to read anything Regan might being doing, hopefully not getting into trouble.
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The plane landed and in no time Yugi was hand in hand with Regan in Pegasus' limo with the rest of his friends and the Tenma brothers. The duel professors were in another limo. They were off to one of Pegasus' little getaway houses. It boggled Yugi's mind on the number of things the creator owned, though he couldn't image it was any different with Kaiba. When they got there, he didn't see why Pegasus had called it little. The house was bigger than the farm house of Regan's friend and it was almost rivaling Kaiba's mansion. Then it hit him, the guy had a couple of castles.
"Come inside everyone, no need to be wasting time. From some of my little spies they are getting ready to do something big by the morning, which is going to be in less than twenty-four hours." Pegasus cooed them trying to get them into the house faster. "Not to mention you all need rest before you decided to get yourselves killed."
"Like what?" Regan asked him from the back of the group. She sounded in a much better mood then early. Not going completely insane, though, she sounded still a bit pissed. Probably because Pegasus deliberately avoided the area where he showed them the Dragon Slayer's home base was; one of the lovely buildings in the middle of the city that never sleeps.
"Like murdering your brother in front of the entire world to show an example for everyone else who disobeys them."
That got his girlfriend to move much faster. She took Joey and Tristan with her as she grabbed an arm of each and dragging them up the stairs into the house. The boys' protest was heard the whole way.
"How about we go save him after they start, maybe he would be nicer- AHH I'm sorry I was just kidding! It's just that- Regan please put it away I swear in was kidding! I would never want that to happen!" Joey was heard yelping.
"She's in such a beautiful mood." Atem said sarcastically.
"Remind you of something?" Bakura asked him.
"Yes, of my own sister, she did the same thing a few times, less drastic situations, but the same building blocks. First she would punch them and if they tried to continue a sword was at their throat all nicely topped off with her silver aura glimmering."
"Sounds rather dangerous, whose idea was it to give your sister sharp knives?" Pegasus asked as they entered the room.
"Mahad." Atem stated blankly as Regan put her blade away and Joey backed away from her really fast.
"Yugi get her under control, I like my head right where it is." Joey said after grabbing his shoulders.
"You're the one who needs someone to control your mouth, mutt."
"Whatcha say?"
"You obviously heard me." She stated and then a sly grin appeared on her face. "So… let's call it even because I'm actually in a fantastic mood; how about you get to hold the pretty sword."
"Uh Regan, are you sure?" Tristan asked.
"Yea its fine, he probably won't be able to do anything with it anyway."
"Are you serious?" Joey asked.
"You have been asking me forever if you could just see what the sword would reflect in you. So I decided to give in." Regan said pulling out the blade and twirling it around creating a really interesting aura circle with it.
Joey narrowed his eyes. "What's the catch?"
"The catch is you can only hold the sword when we get back Seto and Mokuba and are home in Domino City."
"Dammit, fine, the faster Rich boy and Mokuba are back with us, the faster we can go home."
"Exactly."
"Pegasus, get the blueprints out! We have plans to make!"
Yugi shook his head. This was going to be the most interesting way to make plans he was ever going to be faced with. They spent several hours that dragged on until about two in the morning which was really seven at night in Domino. He was counting the hours until Christmas Day. His grandfather and his mother were probably worried sick as they had planned on some sort of celebration. What is was he wasn't sure as he thought about it lying on a bed. He was in one of the guest rooms unable to sleep. Then a knock was heard on his door. Confused, he went to it and found Regan slightly blushing out of shame outside of his door. She was wearing just a simple nightgown probably given to her by Pegasus. It wasn't the same PJs she wore the night before.
"What's wrong?" He asked her.
"I was wondering if I could come here and stay with you. I tried to get some sleep before we leave in a few hours, but I'm still a little nervous about closing my eyes." She said quietly shifting back and forth on her toes.
He didn't notice before, but the floor was cold. He opened the door wider and stepped out of the way. "Sure."
She walked into the room and Yugi followed her. After a few moments they were looking at each other under the covers. Yugi felt Regan grab his hand as her eyes started to close.
He faintly smiled. "Don't worry, I'll be right here."
"Thank you, Yugi." She whispered as she drifted into a light sleep, slightly squeezing his hand.
Yugi wasn't too long after her as his eyes started to close on him as well.
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Regan walked straight into the building. Though, it wasn't part of the plans, at least the others would be able to do their jobs easier if every single Dragon Slayer was focused on her destroying everything. She took a quick look around the lobby of the building. It was like any other building except for the large symbol of the knight slaying a white dragon behind the security desk. Not to mention the lobby was huge with high ceilings. The time on the side of the wall read five in the morning which would make it about 10 at night back home. She sighed inwardly as she took note at a couple of suits which were very similar to the guards in Kaiba Corp standing around the edges of the room motionlessly. She walked towards the elevator just beside the security desk and thought that by the time she got there, the suits would be on her case. But they weren't. She pushed the button for the elevator and turned to the woman behind the desk wondering why she hadn't said anything to her. On the computer screen the woman was staring was the Facebook game Farmville. Regan sighed mentally in annoyance at the fact that no one was paying attention to her which wasn't creating the distraction she wanted. Then, a thought came to her. "What floor are the Kaiba brothers on?"
"Floor eighteen," the woman replied automatically without paying attention to her as she continued playing her game.
The elevator door opened and Regan walked into the box. "Can you let them know that Regan Heartin is here to bring them home?"
The woman immediately turned away from her game. "Hey you're not allowed-!"
"Thanks!" Regan exclaimed waving goodbye as the guards started to the elevator and the doors shut.
An alarm went off through the elevator. "INTURDER ALERT! INTURDER ALERT!"
Regan grinned as she pulled out her phone and tapped on Téa's name.
~Regan?~ Téa questioned as she picked the call.
"Hey,"
~What is that noise?~ Téa asked after a moment.
"Oh that, just every single security member of the building heading up to the eighteenth floor elevator." Regan shrugged.
"What did you do?"
"All I asked as where my brothers were, well I asked where the Kaiba brothers were, but you get the point."
"Regan are you trying to get yourself killed?" Yugi suddenly said in the mind link at the same time Téa said it in the phone. Regan blinked at the strange combination.
She shook her head. "I have a shield and weapons that will be very easy to maintain." She spoke into the phone. "You should be able to do your guys objectives with ease now. I doubt there will be very many guards left, if any at all. See you guys at the safe house."
Before Téa could reply she ended the call and watched the numbers light up and turned off as she climbed the building. She pulled her coat back uncovering her two short aura swords in their sheaths. She took a hold of each of the handles and pulled them out. The swords started to charge slowly as the elevator went past floor seventeen. Regan moved to the elevator panel out of the view of the door. She didn't know what to expect from the large amount of security that she could read from the eighteenth floor. It was either going to be a slaughter of gunfire or a horde of people trying to confined her and hand her over to that other group for a reward of more than likely death. She smirked as the elevator stooped. The number of people behind the door was exactly what she wanted. There was one thing that she had learned from that parasite being in her body; the idea of using other people's aura as a source of refueling her own. The idea was scary when she first thought of it, but then she realized if she only used some of their aura that they wouldn't even notice, it wasn't horrible, plus, they did kidnap her brothers.
The doors opened and several different guns were fired. The loud sound caught her off guard slightly as the noised echoed. She glared at the noise that was making holes in the back of the elevator because she wanted to cover her ears, but her hands were busy.
"Stop shooting you fools!" A familiar voice stopped the noise, but Regan couldn't plant it for some reason. "You're all lucky that she wasn't in the line of fire or you'll all be killed by my father."
"But she's intruding and you said to kill anyone who was after the Kaibas." Someone stated.
"I did, I also said if you recall to keep the Heartin girl alive, my father wants her for some god awful reason, dumbass. Now, search for her."
Regan heard two sets of footsteps come towards the elevator door.
"You should probably attack now; get yourself out of this death chamber." Nile appeared on the opposite side of the elevator.
'Alright, you're the expert, so now what.' Regan commented on their link.
Nile face palmed herself, "You mean you didn't plan anything out before you entered the building."
'I planned some stuff.'
"You're spontaneous thoughts cease to amaze me."
'We don't have time to talk about spontaneous stuff and actions, so how do we get out of the elevator, I have everything else planned from there.'
"How about you just go with the rest of your plan: aura streams and shields?" Nile shook her head.
Regan nodded and then saw a foot step into the elevator. She stepped in front of the men and the two of them stopped into their tracks. She narrowed her eyes feeling the weight of the situation. She swung her left sword and released her focused aura stream into the two men. They flew backwards and into the rest of the security behind them creating a bowling pin reaction. The only girl in the room, who also was the only person standing up, was Rose Phono and Regan immediately connected the voice to her. Rose looked frightened slightly, but Regan was glad now that she had even more information.
"Where are Seto and Mokuba?" Regan asked dangerously as she walked towards the girl. She read the floor of all the aura signatures within and found Seto's and Mokuba's aura signature on the far side of the floor. "Actually, I can find them easily, who and where is your father? I need to have a few words with him."
Rose spat just in front of Regan's shoe all fear leaving her face. "Like I'm going to tell you; you think I'm scared of you?"
Regan smirked. "I don't think you are; I know you are." She placed her uncharged blade up close. "Now speak you disrespectful worm."
"Me? Disrespectful? You're the one who walked into my father's building and attack the security of the building and you have the nerve to call me disrespectful." Rose laughed as the security started to pick themselves up. "And besides, you threatening me with a sword isn't threatening, I already know you can't kill a human. It's not in your nature, right?"
"I have every god damn right to call you disrespectful," Regan hissed and turned the blade handle towards Rose and smashed it across her jaw. Rose dropped to the floor as some blood spat across it. "And I can seriously hurt someone and not kill them; there are many things worse than death."
"Get her! Kill her if you have to!" Rose shouted and Regan was surprised at her sudden reaction.
"You need anger management help." Regan muttered as she went in behind wall of large computers.
Shots were fired and Regan could hear the computers she was behind getting hit. A smell entered the air and it smelled a bit like burning plastic. She threw a shield around her as she left the computers behind and they exploded. Bullets hit her shield as she went to another cover. She dropped her shield and threw an aura stream towards the shooters. She didn't watch it hit anything as she went back into her tiny hideout, but she certainly heard them get it. She threw another one and an explosion vibrated the floor. She took the time while her enemies were disoriented and closed her eyes. She needed to find Seto and Mokuba in the chaos so closing her eyes was the only way to focus on her objective. She opened her eyes as soon as she pinged onto them and put up a shield again. Shots were fired at it and Regan started to feel the effects using much of her aura, even though she was using some of the securities aura, it didn't seem like it was enough to keep the shield going at the same time as her attacking.
She stopped for a moment in behind several crates and pulled off her bag. She needed a little help and with her and Seto's deck combined, she could get all the help she needed. She took out her duel disk and put her deck into the slot. She pulled out four cards and a grin played across her face. She grabbed one of her brother's extra monsters placed all five of cards down on the board as she got out of her hiding spot. She could have handled them individually, but it was a bit of a handful when she needed her hands for using her swords. She placed on her shield again reluctantly and came out of her safe spot. "Dark Magician Girl, Guardian Angel Joan, Lord of Dragons, Battle Ox, and XYZ-Dragon Cannon; let's go."
The five monsters materialized in front of her, but apparently, her foes did not realize her disk wasn't even on. It was just holding her cards and they started to laugh as lowered their weapons.
"Dumbasses, what do you think you are doing?" Rose shouted in rage.
"She just summoned holographic projections." One of the men stated in between laughs.
"You idiots, does anyone read a fucking report around here? Those are real monsters and the duel disk isn't even turned on!"
"XYZ-Dragon Cannon, Cannon Firestorm!" Regan told the monster and it complied without hesitation as its guns and cannons took aim and started to charge. "Guardian Angel Joan use Light Spheres, and Battle Ox attack with your Ax Crusher."
The security members looked somewhat stressed at the fact the other two monsters were readying their attack. A security member fired at XYZ-Dragon Cannon and all three monsters released or rushed their attack at the Dragon Slayers.
In the midst of the chaos between the three monsters and the many Slayers, Regan turned her attention to Dark Magician Girl and Lord of Dragons. "I need your help to get Seto and Mokuba out of well, I'm not sure if they are stuck anywhere, but I'm sure they would be shouting if they were hearing any of this noise. Can you help me?"
"That's a silly question to ask when you already know that the answer is yes." Dark Magician Girl replied Lord of Dragons just nodded in response.
Regan put on a semi-smile. "Thanks DMG, Lord of D."
She left her three monsters as she turned for the wall map on the side of the wall. The floor plan looked like a maze on the other side of the door at the end of the room she was in. There were rooms and hallways everywhere that were not shown in the blueprints of the building when Pegasus had shown her originally. The lucky thing for her was each of the rooms was labeled. The unlucky thing was the room that was labeled "Kaibas holding cell" was at the end of the maze. Regan smashed the butt of her handle against the map's case. The case shattered and she grabbed the map off the wall. A sharp pain entered her chest. She turned to her brother's Battle Ox as it cried out. It fell to the floor and shattered into pieces.
"Sorry," She whispered and went to the entrance of the maze floor. She opened the door and let her two following duel monsters to go in first. When she got inside, the noises of the room on the other side were silenced as she closed the door. There were many Dragon Slayer workers working quickly, or at least some of them were as they walked into different rooms and down different hallways. They went through desk rows and crates that weren't labeled except for the contents being flammable, fragile, explosive, and/or compressed gases. The intrusion of the split second noise of gun fire, cannons, and magic sphere explosions got the attention of the ones who had stopped working. They turned to her and the two duel monsters. There wasn't a seconded between the realizations of her in the room that weapons were up from the people who chose to deal with the situation. The other works left the room bringing whatever research and their few belongs with them. She put up her shield and after a few moments of complete silence, one of the workers which she presumed was one of the higher personal of the team decided to speak.
"So how do you want to play this out Regan?"
"With me leaving with Seto and Mokuba," She answered, "Alive and well."
"You know none of us can do that, the boss needs them for the missing piece to get into the system and you for your abilities."
"Unfortunately, your boss is not getting either of those things."
"We'll see about that." The worker said and snapped his fingers.
The weapons that surrounded the room she noticed weren't guns like the ones in the other room, they were something else. Her swords charged without a second delay and she let the power go towards the weapons. The weapons went off throwing strange, almost clear nets. Some of the nets were destroyed by her aura streams while the other three hit her shield. The nets' wires turned the color of the multicolored shield and started to suck the energy from it. The puzzle felt heavy as she dropped the shield without a second thought and the nets dropped to the ground. The colors in the wires of the nets danced inside the cage.
"That's really not good." Nile stated in her head.
'No I think not.' She replied and glared at the weapons as two more were fired. She dodged one and destroyed the other with another aura stream. 'Their boss must be working or under the influence of them.'
"Or they know, remember that doctor in Vancouver, she knew about aura."
Regan's glared darkened. "Dark Magician Girl attack with Dark Burning Attack and Lord of Dragons attack with Dragon's Rage, target their weapons."
The two spellcasters followed her order. She joined in on destroying the weapons with her swords and she got up close and personal when one of them just missed her. Her sword went right through the weapon cutting it off the barrel right in front of the Dragon Slayer's finger. She then proceeded to round house kick the guy with her aura charged in her kick. She thought she heard something snap when she connected, but she didn't question it as she went on her way into the maze of halls and rooms.
The guy hit the ground with a crash behind her and he screamed. "My ribs!"
"That's the last thing you should be worried about." Regan stopped and turned to him noticing the lack of personal in the room with her and the two spellcasters. "One thing you bastards did not know about and you most certainly forgot about was me. And since you did, you are going to wish karma was visiting instead of me."
"You're a monster."
Regan flinched inwardly then she wandered over to him. She knelt down beside him. "You are the monsters and in order to get rid of you, I must also become one also. Until this group is burnt to the ground and all its members in jail or on death row depending on who they are and every single threat that comes towards my way; I'm going to be the monster that haunts their monstrous dreams to protect my friends and my brothers."
"Your brothers?"
She got up and turned back to where she needed to go. "You're lucky I'm not like Seto, or you would be dead, like I said, broken ribs are the least of your problems. I suggest for your own safety right now is to hide and stay out of our way when he comes walking by."
The man didn't say anything as she walked away looking at her map. Dark Magician Girl and Lord of Dragons walked beside her. Every so often when she turned corners where lots of rooms were connected at the corner, the three of them had to fight off the nets that shot out from the darkness. After a few miss turns and close calls, she finally saw the room where a large metallic holding cell off to the side. The room was empty from what she could tell, but there was only thing she cared about was the two signatures she knew well inside the metallic box. There was a single door to get inside with a handle to open it. Without thought she went to the door and turned the handle. It opened without effort and inside were Seto and Mokuba playing tic-tac-toe with the dust of the floor.
"Guys?" She questioned them. She did not expect two kidnapped people to be enjoying a game on the floor where their kidnappers put them.
They immediately looked up to the door. She was about to run in but Mokuba beat her as he charged right into her in a huge hug and sent them to the floor.
"Regan!" Mokuba yelled happily in her ear, but she didn't mind. She was just as happy as he was to see both Seto and him safe to a degree. Seto walked out of the cell and helped Regan up.
"How are you doing?" She asked them.
"Just peachy," Mokuba retorted. "What we both agreed on the first thing we would do when we got back home was take a long good shower."
Regan smiled. "That's good. Hopefully, that will be soon. We just have to get to the elevator, go down eighteen floors and out of the lobby. Everyone else has the other details set."
"What about you?" Seto asked her. "Are you fine?"
"Same as you two," She sighed. "When I get back I'm taking a twenty-four hour nap. But first, I have question."
"What is it?"
She didn't get a chance to state it when Lord of Dragons pushed her into Seto and Mokuba and stood right in front of the three of them. A gun went off several times, one after another like it was from the same gun. Regan clenched her chest with each shot as the duel monster was hit. Each hit hurt which didn't make any sense to her as Seto held her from collapsing on the ground. The spellcaster shattered and in behind it was Rose, who looked really pissed off as she threw the gun she was holding to the ground.
"Dammit, you were supposed to be dead Kaiba!" She screamed.
"Out of ammo?" He asked though Regan couldn't tell if it was in a mocking tone or a sadistic one.
She was busy trying to get the pain in the tolerance zone so she didn't have to make a painful noise. Regan turned to Dark Magician Girl who nodded in acknowledgement. The spellcaster sent a Dark Burning Attack sending Rose to the other side of the room. The girl didn't get back up. Seto made sure Regan was stably on her two feet and then walked over to the gun on the floor. He picked it up and took out the clip. Seto's aura changed from slightly annoyed to rage. A set of footsteps came into her hearing and her brother threw the weapon. There was a shout and then a clump noise of someone falling to the ground out cold.
"Come one, before they figure out what other weapons can do." Seto stated monotone.
"What was that weapon Rose used?" She asked him but for some reason she really didn't want to know. Possible because it could be similar to the net; which was something she was trying to avoid at all costs.
"It's the same technology that the duel disks that were made to make monsters come to life."
"Why put it in a gun?"
"To create a way to destroy real monsters that had been summoned at a faster rate. The bullets that were shot at Lord of Dragons each had 1700 attack points. That idea came to me during the Orichalcos incident."
"The Orichalcos incident?"
Seto sighed. "I'll tell you about it later; it's not a nice discussion anyway so it can wait."
Regan nodded and placed the Lord of Dragons and Battle Ox in the graveyard. She grabbed the map she had stolen and plotted out their way to the elevator. "Guardian Angel Joan and XYZ-Dragon Cannon are both in the room where the elevator is. I'm not sure if it's safe yet, but when we get to the room before that one, I can see if there are any Dragon Slayers on the other side that aren't lying on the ground out cold."
"And how are you going to do that?" Mokuba asked her as they headed out with Dark Magician Girl in front and on alert.
"Well you're aura is less noisy when you are in a resting state. It's like a battery charging up for the next time you are awake." She answered.
The three of them were silent for the rest of the trip and only once was there a tiny ambush with the nets. And she automatically put up a shield when a net went for her brothers and it hit it. But she doubted Seto or Mokuba noticed what it actually did because she dropped it just as fast. After that incident, she and Dark Magician Girl handled it without problems. But Regan was starting to feel the effects of holding five monsters at once, having two of them destroyed, and using a lot of her aura without having the ability to use others. She wouldn't dare use her brothers'; they were in a fragile state of probably a lack of food and for Seto most definitely a lack of sleep, so they were completely off limits. She was glad Nile and her got rid of the parasite, with Pegasus' help, when they did. When they entered the room that connected to the elevator room, it was empty and Regan was amazed that the guy with the broken ribs did manage to find a hiding spot. What amazed her more was that, he wasn't even in the room anymore.
They got to the door and Regan closed her eyes for better concentration. On the other side there wasn't anyone there from what she could tell and it scared her slightly.
"What's wrong?" Seto asked her.
"Either I'm not getting any aura readings from here, or everyone that was in there isn't there anymore." She answered not realizing her feelings showed on her face.
"Well then, let's say hello if there is anyone in there."
"You aren't questioning why I'm freaking out?" Regan asked in surprised looking up at him.
"I doubt any of us have any real sleep in the last few days." He explained while grabbing the handle. "If this is an actual problem and there are people behind this door and this event continues after a couple of days, then I will worry about my little sister and her overpowered aura abilities that she inherited from two combined bloodlines and the other half of her soul that split in two five thousand years ago."
"How you keep important details like that whenever you need to say it still boggles my mind."
"I'm Seto Kaiba, I am like a god. If your little adventure to the future was true, I don't age for nine years. Not to mention, I technically have the blood of a god, if that ancient history stuff is true."
"Yea but that means your rival does too." Regan muttered and he glared at her. Then a thought came up to her. "I never did find out what I looked like the future."
"I'm not the right person to answer that, ask your boyfriend." Seto quickly answered and Regan looked at him curiously.
She shook her head and got ready to draw a card to save their lives if it was necessary. The door opened and the room truly was empty except for Guardian Angel Joan and XYZ-Dragon Cannon standing on guard of the elevator.
"Where did everyone go?" She asked out loud. The room was broken, things were everywhere and there was a hole in the side of the building letting in a cold breeze of the desert morning.
"Down the elevator, they collected the wounded and left the floor." Guardian Angel Joan replied respectfully.
"Sounds like every Pokémon game part where you defeat the leader of the group."
"That doesn't explain where they went." Seto growled. "How long ago did they leave?"
"Five minutes ago?" The angel responded with a raised eyebrow.
"When did they start doing the removal?"
"About ten minutes ago."
"You mean they gathered everyone and left in five minutes?"
"Maybe a little longer, seven at the most, it was quiet here for a while before you came here."
Regan noticed that timing was strange and Seto voiced her thoughts.
"That's too coincidental. Mokuba stay in the elevator when we get to the bottom."
"There's a trap waiting for us isn't there." Regan stated. Seto didn't say anything to her and it ate her inwardly. "XYZ-Dragon Cannon, please leave until we get to the bottom floor, I will call you again if assistance is required, if not, thank you so very much for your time and help."
The robot beeped a few times and then it disappeared. Guardian Angel Joan led them to the elevator and pushed the button. Regan got ready to put up a rather weak shield so she didn't have to consume her energy and only to take a few shots in order to give them time to move if there was anyone on the elevator if she was unable to read them through the doors. Dark Magician Girl placed a hand on her shoulder. Regan looked up at her and she winked at her. It was reassuring, but not to ease the sudden hole that started to dig into her gut. There was something else and Regan had a feeling it was due to leaving Rose alive and not tied up. It seemed a little strange for her to go down to such a lower attack from her other spellcaster. She shook her head; placing possibilities in her head that were very improbable was only going to make her lose focus on getting her brothers and the rest of her friends out of the city and home alive. Not in a box, she didn't want to see that box again for a very long time.
The elevator doors closed and Mokuba moved to the panel of the elevator out of sight and out of harm's way. Dark Magician Girl and Guardian Angel Joan were standing in the front of the doors. If there was something there then they could easily deflect whatever came to them. Slowly the elevator descended and each floor as it descended made the number on the elevator rim start a count down. When it finally met the first floor Regan's hands clenched the handles of her swords. The destroyed monsters that died in battle were in the graveyard and XYZ-Dragon Cannon was on top of the deck for emergency backup. The doors opened to a very empty lobby. No guards were around the room and the security desk was also empty and the computer was off.
They walked out except for Mokuba who shut the doors behind them like an elevator should. There wasn't a single sound in the huge room, but it seemed really crowded to her. She shut her eyes and before she could say anything she was knocked to the ground by Seto as feet dropped from the ceiling and guns were fired. She pulled XYZ-Dragon Cannon and summoned it. It came in the middle of the lobby and started to fire its blasts. She grabbed two more cards and summoned them and happily for her it was Van'Dalgyon the Dark Dragon Lord and Felgrand Dragon. The two dragons appeared with anger and immediately started to attack the ambushing force. It wasn't long before her and Seto were surrounded by the five monsters trying to protect them from the force that had encircled them like cattle. Regan tried to count how many people there were but the number didn't match the number that seemed to be in front of them. They all kept moving around so she figured it was due to the moving tactics she couldn't read a number.
Her blades were in her hands for her to fight along with the monsters, but she couldn't risk moving away from Seto. He probably had lots of fight in him, but she also didn't want him to stress himself. She didn't know what kind of condition the Dragon Slayers kept him in.
The number of people that were conscious and moving around dropped as the minutes led on. Victory of leaving was close. She smiled and then everything turned upside down. A monster she knew from her own deck appeared making the ground shake as it landed on the ground. It stood over and above her five monsters as each of its heads roared individually.
"How did they get their hands on that and my duel disk system?!" Seto exclaimed as the five heads turned individually to each monster protecting them.
Regan clenched her jaw as she braced herself. The Five-Headed Dragon released powerful attacks against her monsters. They only lasted a few moments before being completely obliterated. Pain shot through her as she screamed. She fell to her knees and coughed as something caught in her throat. She covered her mouth as she coughed and blood streaked her hand. Seto moved to stand in front of her. There was a single person who stood in the middle of the room holding a duel disk hiding behind the large dragon.
"So what's it going to be Seto Kaiba, are you going to give up or are you going to die due to your own invention?" The man asked. "Either way you will die today, whether or not the girl dies with you all depends on your answer."
Seto turned to Regan and he knelt down in front of her.
"Seto you can't, not again." She begged.
He wiped what she presumed blood that had planted itself on the side of her mouth with his thumb. His piercing eyes seemed to lighten a bit before he looked down at her left arm and took the duel disk off of it. "I'm not going down without a fight."
He put the duel disk on as rage set in his eyes and turned back towards the Five-Headed Dragon. "You think a five thousand attack point monster is going to keep us here? This isn't the first time I've faced this over used dragon."
"Hey." Regan whispered in a pout.
"I think that it will kill you if this is the way you wish to leave this world."
"I'm not going anywhere but back to my city." He drew a card and didn't even look at it as he placed it on the board. He drew two more the same way and all three cards turned out to be all three of his Blue-Eyes White Dragons. "A little trick that you pick up when you deal with playing games with no rules, just because your attack is high doesn't mean my three dragons can't attack it and you directly."
She got up with a bit of difficulty as the white dragons started to attack the five headed monster. The three of them attacked the five heads in a pattern each taking turns when suddenly the fire head dragon shot an attack at one of the dragons. Blue-Eyes dodged it, but it went straight towards Seto and herself. She put up a wall in front of Seto just as he noticed the attack. It hit the shield and Regan felt pressure against it as it tried to get through. She placed her swords up in a cross like form to strengthen the image she had to form the shield as Seto called his dragons to do a different attack strategy. The shield cracked like pressurized glass, but attack eventually died out leaving her completely exhausted and the shield disappeared. She didn't think her shield could defend against something so strong let alone do it again in the following seconds to minutes if Seto couldn't take out the Five-Headed Dragon.
Regan took another reading again just to make sure others weren't coming from either a floor below, if there was one, or the stairs. All the areas were clear except for the room she was in. There should have been only three people that were conscious: Mokuba in the elevator, Seto in front of her, and the guy that she was tempted to go and punch out, but couldn't because there was a very large dragon that had five heads. One of them would had notice her before she got to him. But there weren't any other people. There were more aura signals about five other ones that weren't in account. She tried to pin-point them and even closed her eyes, but her available aura was at its limit. If she tried any farther she could possibly hurt herself and Nile in the process. Not to mention her six foot four brother being a supreme dragon lord could also be hurt. She looked around the room and saw no one around.
Nile appeared beside her and started to walk around while she stayed in her spot scanning any of the people on the floor. She presumed they were all alive, she didn't see anyone that looked like they were dying both with her eyes and her readings; in pain, most definitely, but injured to cause death, not so much. That's when the idea came to her. She was about to look up when something hit her in the back. She squeaked as the breath was knocked out of her when she hit the ground sending her blades across the floor. She went to get up when she noticed that there was the same netting from the net guns was holding her down. Nile rushed towards her and tried to grab the side of the net, but Nile couldn't get her hand to grab it.
'What is it?' Regan asked her.
'I can't get near it; I think the aura that it is collecting is using it to repel anyone from getting near it.' Nile answered, but her mouth wasn't moving. Regan took a look behind her and saw Seto didn't notice her, which was a good thing.
'This net was placed badly.' Regan sighed and used her arms to slide across the floor and out of the net.
She grasped her chest as more pain was added and she looked back at the net. She glared at the color object for a split moment to turn her attention to where it had been shot from. But there wasn't anyone there. "Where the hell did they go?" She hissed quietly.
"Look out!" Nile suddenly shouted pointing towards one of the walls, but it was a little late.
Regan turned to it just as the net struck her pinning the left arm to her side while the other was only half pinned down to her elbow. She was thrown to the ground as a second one wrapped around her legs from behind. The River's Puzzle jammed itself into her chest a bit as she landed on it without anything to break her fall. She screamed loudly and unwillingly. She didn't know if the edge had embedded itself under her skin or not. Nile was thrown back into the puzzle just as Seto turned to her.
To say he looked shocked was an understatement as he looked down at her. Regan hated the look he gave her hoped she'd never see it on his face after they left, but her thoughts were interrupted when the dark head got out of line of the strategy.
"Seto!" She shouted as a dark pulse exited out of its mouth.
He turned just as Blue-Eyes intercepted it with her back looking down at the two of them just for a split moment before the power of the attack got the best of her. The blast sent the dragon plowing down crashing into Seto. The dragon went right over top of Regan and tried its best to smash into the wall on the other end of the security desk with its side. The dragon fell to the floor and then disappeared. Seto fell to the ground where Blue-Eyes had held him and laid motionless.
"SETO!"
And this is all I give you.