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spokeSo. It has been a long time since I did the last of these. Which, in case anyone wanted to know, is here and here.
>:) Now let‘s see what kind of deathtraps await poor Yugi. << If you could hear me, that would sound sinister. Really. Not at all mocking or gleeful, just dramatically sinister. *nodnodnod*
So we have a couple of pages showing Grandpa in the box and the looming monsters. <<; Then,
Seto: Bwa hahahaha! Your Grandfather is "experiencing death" in the virtual reality of the simulator box! In another five minutes he will be insane - a testament to those who would defy me!
Yugi: Kaiba! Let my Grandpa out of this box! You can hardly see his face, but his little hands are in fists? >>
Seto: *tiny panel, just his face* Very well! But I have one condition! *closeup* There is a hidden side to Kaiba Land - "Death-T"! Yugi, I've spent 10 billion yen to prepare this for you! The theme park of Death! Yugi! I'll stop that simulator if you swear to face Death-T!
Yugi with gritted teeth and a couple sweatdrops to go with the !! next to him; then the next page/panel of a closeup and: I understand!! I'll face "Death-T" !!
And I'm thinking, you know, it's about time! Could we have pushed the old guy's heart any longer? >.<;
Seto: Heh heh.. Stop the simulator!!
Minion: Yessir!
So we get to see the air rushing out of little vents at the bottom of the cube, and the holograms fading dramatically. << To reveal Grandpa on his back, trying to catch his breath. Yugi runs in yelling at him :
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Grandpa, are you all right?!
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Which is a bit annoying to me, considering the man is 1. Clearly not all right, and 2. Just as clearly unable to speak at the moment! >.< *bops Yugi for panicky insensitivity* ...Yeah, so I like Soguroku. Sue me! ;p
Nonetheless, the Grandpa bravely attempts to speak to Yugi. Or he just knows it's the only way to shut him up? ...maybe I should stop mocking dramatic family moments... nah! : *in outlined as if to be transparent letters, no less!* Y-...Yugi... *then they go normal again* I'm sorry... I lost...
And okay, even if he's a complete idiot, the tears get me. Yugi: *tearful* Grandpa!!
Grandpa: He... he's a terrible young man.... He'll do anything to win a game... even... take a person's life....
Yugi: *still teary* Grandpa, don't talk..! ! Now he tells him this?!
Grandpa: Yugi... Th-... These are the cards I used in my duel... I lost, but to me, these cards are my soul... take them...
Yugi: Grandpa!
Grandpa: Yugi... I know you can defeat that young man!!
Yugi: :O !!
On the next page, Grandpa seems to be passing out? >.< Yugi: *thinking* I got it, Grandpa! *out loud* I'll beat him! I'll defeat Kaiba with the cards of Grandpa's soul!
Now, finally, Jounouchi shows back up - and for once the resident DumbBlonde had a good idea, a really good sensible idea : Yugi! I called the ambulance! Quick, get your Grandpa...!
^^ *gives Jounouchi a cookie!*
And they stand there watching as the medical technicians take him out of there. Jou just behind Yugi, and Yugi thinking: I'm sorry, Grandpa... I can't go with you... *dark panel which shows only Yugi, looking at Grandpa's deck in his hands* Grandpa!! And the word 'Clench' tumbling off his shoulder
And yes, now we have had enough of the family interlude << >:)
Seto: Ha ha ha ha ha...Yugi! I see you holding your loser Grandfather's cards. You think you can defeat me with those?! And he is standing with his arms folded and the word 'Doom' falling between his chin and his arms.
Yugi, without at all turning: I promised my Grandpa! I'll beat you with these cards!
Seto, with literally a :D as he holds the Blue Eyes in a fan facing Yugi... << *not commenting, no. Nonono.* : Oh, you will, will you? I have three of the most powerful card on earth! Take a good look! Now you don't even have one Blue Eyes in your deck!!
Now, this has no lines to indicate that Yugi is thinking, but it seems like it. Not just that Seto doesn't respond, but it has that quality he has when he's thinking to himself. ...before the Pharaoh is there to respond to it. I wonder if he ever gripes at him about that, or if Pharaoh can tell when he doesn't want to talk.
Yugi : I know! You tore up Grandpa's Blue Eyes White Dragon, you coward! - Yugi, looking pretty ticked off , then to his left - The card he loved the most... the card of Grandpa's heart!
Must. Resist. Urge to mock munchkin-boy. Must not point out that losing the heart of Grandpa's cards ought to make that deck useless by his own philosophy. XD
Seto: *smirking* Heh heh... don't worry! A rematch with you is what I've wanted from the beginning. - Seto with his smirking, then to his left some thinking - Mheh heh... And this time, the probability of success is over 99%....
Then a panel of him standing next to the building, with an arrow pointing at the top of it. Seto: The stage for our duel will be the dome at the top of this building! We're on the second floor now. Each deadly game you clear brings you closer to the top! *closeup on the next panel* But! You will never conquer "Death-T" !!
And of course , enter Jounouchi: Kaiba! Count me in too! I'm not letting Yugi go alone!
Yugi: :D Jounouchi!!
Seto: Heh heh... *thinking* You'll regret that foolish friendship when you experience "Death-T"...
Jounouchi: Listen Kaiba! I could punch you in your lily white face right here and now! But that wouldn't mean anything! A closeup and >:o "Yugi'll beat you at your card game!!" And I'll stake my life to help him get there!
Yugi is of course watching and listening to this, and thinks 'Jounouchi...' with a little tear in his eye.
Seto just has time to think 'Heh..' when *does a tiny drumroll*
"Don't forget about me!" Ta-da!! It's Honda! ...with a smallish child in a jumper on his back. << "Yugi! Jounouchi!!"
Jounouchi: *pleased surprised expression* Honda!!
Honda: *smirkingly* Heh heh... and Jou looks down at Yugi with this totally superior smirk, like, now we're all set! Yugi, on the other hand, looks like someone just handed him a cookie or something. Wheee!
...Then they notice the kid. XD
Jounouchi: Honda! What's with the kid on your back?!
Yugi: *stupid surprised expression*
Kid: Gaaa
Honda: What, this thing? My sister made me baby-sit her kid. He kept whining to go to Kaiba Land... We were in the audience when things started getting weird and then you guys showed up! Good thing I was here - you look like you need a hand! Count me in, Yugi! You're not going in there without me!
Yugi: *again with the teary eyed, thinking* Honda, you're so...
Kid: Yaay Kaiba! Kaiba's gonna win!
Honda: *angry facefault complete with headache/annoyed #'s * Shaddup ya little brat! .... << And he knocks the kid on the head. x.x BAP!
Jou: Hey, don't make him cry, Honda!
Yugi: *watching, seeming slightly amused but still with the teary eyes* Honda... Jounouchi... You're doing all this for me... Thanks guys...
Kid: That hurt, Hiroto! I'll tell Mommy!
Honda: *sweatdropped glaring* Just shut up!
Seto, meanwhile, has this vaguely amused smirk on his face, and a 'Hmph' next to him.
Then they strike their dramatic pose, with everyone glaring, and Jounouchi: So let's start the game already!!
Which only makes the smirk bigger. Seto: *thinking* Mheh heh heh... Fine then... I'll bury you all in the same grave! And with a dramatic arm-sweeping gesture, : Open the gate of "Death-T!"
Which we see is conveniently labeled as such, and there is dramatic steaming as of pressure valves and then a shot of Yugi looking at them in trepidation: *thinking* What horrible things are waiting for me behind those doors...?
Seto: >:D Step through the gate, Yugi! We're all waiting for you!
Now, apparently, the crowd can't hear what's been said? Because there is murmuring of wondering what's going on, and jealousy that these kids get to go to a special area of the park. XD Yeah, sure you want to go in there, kiddies. Though it might be funny if it were made a regular part of the park... >:)
And as they go through the dramatic/creepy door, their last sight of the outside is Seto, arms folded with a smirk : Yugi! I'll be waiting for you at the top! Ha ha ha ha ha!
Then they proceed down the long, long tunnel. Which Jounouchi informs them is dark and creepy. << Which gets him teased by Honda. XD Until they reach a door, which is labeled "Death-T-1" ...and yes, they do ask if this is the first game. *points'n'laughs!* Such a buncha idiots...
...however. You did notice the team is not yet complete, yes? Into the midst of sirens suddenly going off and announcing an emergency, a female figure comes towards them yelling, "Please help me!!"
All the guys: *jaw dropping facefaults* Anzu?!?
Anzu: Whaaa?! *points* What are you doing here?!
Jounouchi (apparently) :That's my line!
^_^ I like Anzu. Even if she is insane and has it bad for Mr. Pyscho-Pharoah. XD She quickly tells them the story of losing her Burger World job for punching out a customer who touched her butt << :D! And now she is working at Kaiba Land! I'm the guide to this game, see my nifty costume?
XD She actually tells them the lines she's supposed to say to the customers, and Jou asks her how she can act like that at a time like this - which she takes as criticism of her acting skills, since the idiots haven't told her what's really going on yet. And they decide she's better off not knowing, and just go along with it. Grrr.... *wants to slap stupid boys*
So she, still innocently unaware, cheerfully gives them their vests and laser guns for the shoot-out game, and explains it - basically, laser tag. << Yugi, however, is not buying it. Which is good, considering he only had the whole 'Death Tournament' thing driven into his head repeatedly. x.x He wonders what could be the trap, since this game can't be that simple.
Then the amusing comic moment of Honda handing off his 'baby' nephew to Anzu - who asks if the kid is his XD - and the nasty little brat perving on Anzu, burying his face in her breasts. >.< *shudder* He's not that little and he's just. Creepy. There will be more examples of the creepiness of Nephew later. Suffice to say Anzu does realize: Yech... This kid's a perv...
Neat little shot here - Anzu & Nephew are waving bye-bye - and it switches to Seto's camera-view of same.
Yeah. He saw all that. : Who the hell hired that girl?! She's one of their friends!
Random minion: My apologies, sir.
Seto: *leaning back into his chair* Ah, well... Death T-1, Stardust Shootout! They've entered the electrical field! Is our team ready?
Minion then babbles some about the three man team they have assembled, assassins and mercenaries... and then Seto. And the musing to himself. And, well... : Heh heh... It's over already, Yugi. The guns I've given you are mere toys.... But if the lasers that these three hold hit the sensor on your cyber-vest, you'll get shocked with a million volts! :D I'll be watching you play this death game, Yugi... and nothing will give me more pleasure! BWA HA HA HA HA HA!
Short bit with the assassins talking amongst themselves about the 10,000 bounty Seto's put on their targets - dramatic posing as they enter from Yugi-tachi- and! *drops a huge TBC onto the screen*
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...Okay, not really. But I couldn't resist! ^^;;
Duel 29: Shooting Stardust
With each new game, there always seems to be a tiny panel explaining the rules. However, I do not feel the need to explain the rules of laser tag, so you will all have to suffer. ;p
The room they're in is full of angular blocks, two diamonds connected by rectangles. It seems empty, at least to them. It is slightly disturbing, however, when the panels underneath their feet humm to life and they're all showing Seto. XD Yugi yelling 'Kaiba!' and the three guys staring down at him whilst clutching their guns.
Seto: Hello again, Yugi! Welcome to Death-T 1, the first game of the theme park! The three enemies you are about to face are mercenaries I've hired especially for this game! If you're lucky, you'll die in a blaze of glory like a shooting star across the sky!
Jounouchi: *gritted teeth* Listen up, bowl head! Your games suck! We're gonna make it to the top!
Yugi: *thinking* ...And I'll challenge you again with Grandpa's cards! I promise, Kaiba!
Now, there is a panel with Seto thinking gloatingly, nearly the same exact words as before - about the mercenaries having the real guns. all he says outloud, however, is the evil chuckling and :Enjoy your last game. *bzzn* He disappears, and the game begins.
With the boys shooting off their mouths, because apparently none of them have learned the value of silence in survival situations, hello!! >.<
Jou: Awright, everyone! Concentrate!
Yugi: Kaiba will do anything to win! The enemy will be tough! >.< And I know there are people reading this who can picture Yugi's little scrunched determined face. Myself, I am imagining how his voice must squeak saying that. >:)
Honda: No problem! I'm an ace with model guns! When I was a little kid, I could hit a 100-yen piece with a BB gun at fifty feet! ...Honda actually seems totally cool at this point. ^^ For once, he is in his element. I hope he enjoyed this, because I suspect it may never happen again. -.-
There is some divisive arguing among the bounty hunters, of course - who's going to go first and crap. Then the boys start talking amongst themselves. Yeah, now they start whispering. You can tell, because they have the words whisper, whisper next to them as they do so. x.x
Jou: Hey! What are we waiting around here for!
Honda: Idiot! Stay still! Let them make the first move!
And Jou leans back against his little block with the word 'SULK' next to him.
And now the mind reading! Honda: *thinking* In tight quarters like these, you only move forward when you secure a good position! That's a sure survival technique!
Yugi: *also thinking* I agree with Honda's plan! If we stay here, the enemy will come to us!
Jou: *you guessed it! but he also has a scary grimace* No way!! I can't stand sneaking around! A real man faces his enemy head on! *really scary, gritted teeth* I've had enough of this!
And he jumps up onto the blocks next to him, while Yugi calls his name and Honda just yelps. x.x And as if that weren't enough, he then yells: Yeah! Now I've got room to fight! Here I come!!! And he starts running across the tops of the blocks. While poor Yugi and Honda have heart attacks of their own behind him. Maybe he wants to send them to join Grandpa? Idiot. x.x
But then he finds one, and rather than even trying to use his gun, he kicks the guy in the face! >.< Gee, I guess everything he learned as a street punk with a criminal record isn't going to go to waste after all, is it?
Mercenary: K-kamikaze boy... Okay, I had to share that. >:)
Jou: My way is faster! >:D
Yugi: :D He did it!
Honda: -.-;; ...That idiot... He got one of them...
Of course, this leads the other two mercenaries to open fire. XD Jounouchi running and dodging like mad, and this when Honda snaps out of his shock.
Honda: All right! They've shown themselves! You be the decoy, Jounouchi! *nice dramatic shot of Honda sighting his gun* I'll finish them off! He's in my sights... Now!
Kill shot. Right to the heart, or in this case, the sensor over it.
Nothing happens, and Honda stops dead. Lowers his gun out of reflex, and : *thinking* Huh...?! That's weird... I hit him dead on...
Meanwhile, Yugi is calling out to check on Jou, who tells him he's okay with a strained grin, and flashes a thumbs-up. So Yugi finally decides it's time he started shooting, and the fire is flying, and Honda gets clipped. On the shoulder.
And now he knows there's something wrong. : *thinking* Wh-what the?! I got shocked!
And he looks at the gun with narrowed eyes and his background showing that flash of light that is equivalent to a light bulb. Whereupon we cut to the mercenaries moving in on the other two, Jou thinking if they get closer, he won't be able to keep covering the sensor on his chest, Yugi. Yugi? Is frustrated because he thinks he keeps missing. ... XD
Idiot.
Honda: Yugi! Jounouchi! We have to pull back!
Jou: What?! Run away?!
Honda: There's something wrong with this game! ...Have I mentioned I love Honda? ^^ Because I really feel that I should.
Now it shifts to Anzu and the perverted nephew, and he pretty much hits on her and freaks her out a little bit. But she does remark that he is awfully mature for a baby, and asks his name. Which it turns out is Johji. Joy! This is easier to type than 'the perverted nephew' and such, over and over. And sadly, we are stuck with this little monster for the long haul.
Luckily for Anzu, who has just been invited on a date to a milk stand in the park x.x the door now slams open, Honda storming in with Jou and Yugi in tow. Anzu, who still hasn't clued in, objects that they can't leave in the middle of the game, Jounouchi is upset because : It's not cool to show your back to the enemy!
Yugi, however, has noticed that Honda is steamed. And asks him what's wrong.
Honda: *not turning around* Yugi... This game is rigged!
Yugi: :o What...?!
Honda: *throws his gun down* Our guns are useless! There's no way we can win!
Yugi and Jou: W
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! >:o for Jou and :O for Yugi
Honda: What a lousy trick... And it's all because of Kaiba! That sonova-
At this point. We learn that not only is little Johji a perv, but apparently they get taught to use guns real early in this family. Little sucker starts ranting about them ruining his time alone with Anzu, and now he's insulting Kaiba? >:o ! And he grabs Anzu's gun and opens fire.
Anzu, being an employee, has a real laser. <<;;
So, you know, the running and the screaming and the general amusement on the part of readers and I'd imagine Seto got a kick out of it too. Mine certainly is right now. >:)
Then one of the shots actually hits a vest sensor, with dramatic results, and once again we have a *record-screech* Stop.
Honda: >:O What the... ?! There was an electric shock when the laser hit the sensor on that spare vest!
Yugi gets a shot of looking all frozen, with Brrrr next to him: *thinking* If that had been one of us...
Honda: *has stomped over to his nephew* Gimmie that gun, Johji!
Now, we don't see it, but I think he must have taken the gun at least partially apart - just like I assume Seto is laughing his ass off in his little control/viewing room - because the panel next to his grabbing the gun shows him all, well...
Honda: *solid eyes. >:o* I knew it! Anzu's gun and our guns look the same, but they're built completely different! So that's it! Those mercenaries must have real laser guns! They've got lethal weapons!
Jou: Kaiba didn't know Anzu was our friend when he hired her and gave her that gun. I - I cannot begin to - ! *restrains self from finding a Jounouchi for purposes of grabbing and shaking!* First of all - Seto didn't hire her! Secondly - I can't think of a secondly, but the first one is enough! XD
Okay. x.x Deep breathes. Must not be discouraged from typing by the dumbness that is Jounouchi, especially not when his line is followed by Anzu announcing that she quits - and she cannot seem to keep a job because of these guys, they ought to be paying her or something - anyway - Yugi, being the hero, cannot be outshined by Jou. However much it might sometimes seem that way. A case in point -
Yugi: *having an angsty thinking moment* Curse you, Kaiba! Is this cowardly killing game part of your theme park of death??
O.O XD AUGH!! ...The following sentences must be pictured with me - or anyone - shaking the living daylights out of one Moto Yugi.
One! He - told you - it was!! Two! Did the name "Death-T" tell you nothing even if he hadn't?! AUGH!! Three! If you curse someone, do it properly!! An actual curse, or at least cuss words dammit!! x.x
Okay. More deep breathing. Must continue with the story, and the coolness that is Honda saving their butts. Not be distracted by Yugi's idiocy to the point of wondering why he bothers.
Honda: But now we have at least one gun we can face them with! Kaiba didn't predict this!
Yugi questions what they can do with one gun against two pros, and Jou suggests another surprise attack, which earns a face fault from Honda.
Honda: >:o Idiot! That won't work again! It was a miracle it worked the last time!
Johji starts ranting again, mentioning how he'd like to shoot Honda with the gun, and he shuts him up with a ! look - and then grins.
Honda: >:) Leave this to me!
So the door opens with a bang, to reveal Honda with a gun pointed towards the ceiling, and the mercenaries ask if he's going to keep playing... and you know those serious faces he pulls in the anime? Not that he doesn't usually have a serious expression of one degree or another, but the extra frowning to it. The mercenaries laughing as he raises his arms in surrender and drops the gun.
And as one of them announces that it's execution time, the shot switches to behind Honda's back, where he has Johji strapped to the vest and holding the real gun. >:) Evil little grin on that kid's face. And he doesn't say a word, so the silence from the two of them is eerie - it's a warped little family moment they have here, Honda thinking 'Now!' and a panel later, Johji tossing the gun in the air, thinking 'Take it, Hiroto!'
Two quick shots. Dead on. And as they collapse shaking due to their vest, Honda gets what is a remarkably smirky grin, for him. Wouldn't look all that out of place on, say Otogi or even Seto. >:D I love this line, too -
Honda: >:) Haven't you ever watched any westerns? The hero is always the one who says the least! And as he is leaving, he adds over his shoulder that he has turned the voltage down and they won't die.
And he walks back into the room with the others, to his much deserved praise - and a hissed reminder of a deal from Johji? << Sadly, we are not left in any suspense - he agreed to convince Anzu to take a bath with the little perv in exchange for his help back there. >.< !!
Though I gotta admit, him begging Anzu with bowed head and folded hands that she do this favor is pretty amusing. XD He's still at it as they begin their walk to the next game, tiny behind Yugi and Jou.
And we finally return to Seto, who is still sitting there with his arms folded and the tiny smirk. : *thinking* Well, so you've cleared Death T-1... But how will you fare in the next stage.. Yugi?
And this is as good a place as any to leave off for this entry. Especially considering I need to start getting ready for work now. ^^;;
Next time - Duel 30 - When we learn how much of a chicken Jounouchi can be, and Johji once again proves useful as well as perverted!
>:) Now let‘s see what kind of deathtraps await poor Yugi. << If you could hear me, that would sound sinister. Really. Not at all mocking or gleeful, just dramatically sinister. *nodnodnod*
So we have a couple of pages showing Grandpa in the box and the looming monsters. <<; Then,
Seto: Bwa hahahaha! Your Grandfather is "experiencing death" in the virtual reality of the simulator box! In another five minutes he will be insane - a testament to those who would defy me!
Yugi: Kaiba! Let my Grandpa out of this box! You can hardly see his face, but his little hands are in fists? >>
Seto: *tiny panel, just his face* Very well! But I have one condition! *closeup* There is a hidden side to Kaiba Land - "Death-T"! Yugi, I've spent 10 billion yen to prepare this for you! The theme park of Death! Yugi! I'll stop that simulator if you swear to face Death-T!
Yugi with gritted teeth and a couple sweatdrops to go with the !! next to him; then the next page/panel of a closeup and: I understand!! I'll face "Death-T" !!
And I'm thinking, you know, it's about time! Could we have pushed the old guy's heart any longer? >.<;
Seto: Heh heh.. Stop the simulator!!
Minion: Yessir!
So we get to see the air rushing out of little vents at the bottom of the cube, and the holograms fading dramatically. << To reveal Grandpa on his back, trying to catch his breath. Yugi runs in yelling at him :
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Grandpa, are you all right?!
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Which is a bit annoying to me, considering the man is 1. Clearly not all right, and 2. Just as clearly unable to speak at the moment! >.< *bops Yugi for panicky insensitivity* ...Yeah, so I like Soguroku. Sue me! ;p
Nonetheless, the Grandpa bravely attempts to speak to Yugi. Or he just knows it's the only way to shut him up? ...maybe I should stop mocking dramatic family moments... nah! : *in outlined as if to be transparent letters, no less!* Y-...Yugi... *then they go normal again* I'm sorry... I lost...
And okay, even if he's a complete idiot, the tears get me. Yugi: *tearful* Grandpa!!
Grandpa: He... he's a terrible young man.... He'll do anything to win a game... even... take a person's life....
Yugi: *still teary* Grandpa, don't talk..! ! Now he tells him this?!
Grandpa: Yugi... Th-... These are the cards I used in my duel... I lost, but to me, these cards are my soul... take them...
Yugi: Grandpa!
Grandpa: Yugi... I know you can defeat that young man!!
Yugi: :O !!
On the next page, Grandpa seems to be passing out? >.< Yugi: *thinking* I got it, Grandpa! *out loud* I'll beat him! I'll defeat Kaiba with the cards of Grandpa's soul!
Now, finally, Jounouchi shows back up - and for once the resident DumbBlonde had a good idea, a really good sensible idea : Yugi! I called the ambulance! Quick, get your Grandpa...!
^^ *gives Jounouchi a cookie!*
And they stand there watching as the medical technicians take him out of there. Jou just behind Yugi, and Yugi thinking: I'm sorry, Grandpa... I can't go with you... *dark panel which shows only Yugi, looking at Grandpa's deck in his hands* Grandpa!! And the word 'Clench' tumbling off his shoulder
And yes, now we have had enough of the family interlude << >:)
Seto: Ha ha ha ha ha...Yugi! I see you holding your loser Grandfather's cards. You think you can defeat me with those?! And he is standing with his arms folded and the word 'Doom' falling between his chin and his arms.
Yugi, without at all turning: I promised my Grandpa! I'll beat you with these cards!
Seto, with literally a :D as he holds the Blue Eyes in a fan facing Yugi... << *not commenting, no. Nonono.* : Oh, you will, will you? I have three of the most powerful card on earth! Take a good look! Now you don't even have one Blue Eyes in your deck!!
Now, this has no lines to indicate that Yugi is thinking, but it seems like it. Not just that Seto doesn't respond, but it has that quality he has when he's thinking to himself. ...before the Pharaoh is there to respond to it. I wonder if he ever gripes at him about that, or if Pharaoh can tell when he doesn't want to talk.
Yugi : I know! You tore up Grandpa's Blue Eyes White Dragon, you coward! - Yugi, looking pretty ticked off , then to his left - The card he loved the most... the card of Grandpa's heart!
Must. Resist. Urge to mock munchkin-boy. Must not point out that losing the heart of Grandpa's cards ought to make that deck useless by his own philosophy. XD
Seto: *smirking* Heh heh... don't worry! A rematch with you is what I've wanted from the beginning. - Seto with his smirking, then to his left some thinking - Mheh heh... And this time, the probability of success is over 99%....
Then a panel of him standing next to the building, with an arrow pointing at the top of it. Seto: The stage for our duel will be the dome at the top of this building! We're on the second floor now. Each deadly game you clear brings you closer to the top! *closeup on the next panel* But! You will never conquer "Death-T" !!
And of course , enter Jounouchi: Kaiba! Count me in too! I'm not letting Yugi go alone!
Yugi: :D Jounouchi!!
Seto: Heh heh... *thinking* You'll regret that foolish friendship when you experience "Death-T"...
Jounouchi: Listen Kaiba! I could punch you in your lily white face right here and now! But that wouldn't mean anything! A closeup and >:o "Yugi'll beat you at your card game!!" And I'll stake my life to help him get there!
Yugi is of course watching and listening to this, and thinks 'Jounouchi...' with a little tear in his eye.
Seto just has time to think 'Heh..' when *does a tiny drumroll*
"Don't forget about me!" Ta-da!! It's Honda! ...with a smallish child in a jumper on his back. << "Yugi! Jounouchi!!"
Jounouchi: *pleased surprised expression* Honda!!
Honda: *smirkingly* Heh heh... and Jou looks down at Yugi with this totally superior smirk, like, now we're all set! Yugi, on the other hand, looks like someone just handed him a cookie or something. Wheee!
...Then they notice the kid. XD
Jounouchi: Honda! What's with the kid on your back?!
Yugi: *
Kid: Gaaa
Honda: What, this thing? My sister made me baby-sit her kid. He kept whining to go to Kaiba Land... We were in the audience when things started getting weird and then you guys showed up! Good thing I was here - you look like you need a hand! Count me in, Yugi! You're not going in there without me!
Yugi: *again with the teary eyed, thinking* Honda, you're so...
Kid: Yaay Kaiba! Kaiba's gonna win!
Honda: *angry facefault complete with headache/annoyed #'s * Shaddup ya little brat! .... << And he knocks the kid on the head. x.x BAP!
Jou: Hey, don't make him cry, Honda!
Yugi: *watching, seeming slightly amused but still with the teary eyes* Honda... Jounouchi... You're doing all this for me... Thanks guys...
Kid: That hurt, Hiroto! I'll tell Mommy!
Honda: *sweatdropped glaring* Just shut up!
Seto, meanwhile, has this vaguely amused smirk on his face, and a 'Hmph' next to him.
Then they strike their dramatic pose, with everyone glaring, and Jounouchi: So let's start the game already!!
Which only makes the smirk bigger. Seto: *thinking* Mheh heh heh... Fine then... I'll bury you all in the same grave! And with a dramatic arm-sweeping gesture, : Open the gate of "Death-T!"
Which we see is conveniently labeled as such, and there is dramatic steaming as of pressure valves and then a shot of Yugi looking at them in trepidation: *thinking* What horrible things are waiting for me behind those doors...?
Seto: >:D Step through the gate, Yugi! We're all waiting for you!
Now, apparently, the crowd can't hear what's been said? Because there is murmuring of wondering what's going on, and jealousy that these kids get to go to a special area of the park. XD Yeah, sure you want to go in there, kiddies. Though it might be funny if it were made a regular part of the park... >:)
And as they go through the dramatic/creepy door, their last sight of the outside is Seto, arms folded with a smirk : Yugi! I'll be waiting for you at the top! Ha ha ha ha ha!
Then they proceed down the long, long tunnel. Which Jounouchi informs them is dark and creepy. << Which gets him teased by Honda. XD Until they reach a door, which is labeled "Death-T-1" ...and yes, they do ask if this is the first game. *points'n'laughs!* Such a buncha idiots...
...however. You did notice the team is not yet complete, yes? Into the midst of sirens suddenly going off and announcing an emergency, a female figure comes towards them yelling, "Please help me!!"
All the guys: *jaw dropping facefaults* Anzu?!?
Anzu: Whaaa?! *points* What are you doing here?!
Jounouchi (apparently) :That's my line!
^_^ I like Anzu. Even if she is insane and has it bad for Mr. Pyscho-Pharoah. XD She quickly tells them the story of losing her Burger World job for punching out a customer who touched her butt << :D! And now she is working at Kaiba Land! I'm the guide to this game, see my nifty costume?
XD She actually tells them the lines she's supposed to say to the customers, and Jou asks her how she can act like that at a time like this - which she takes as criticism of her acting skills, since the idiots haven't told her what's really going on yet. And they decide she's better off not knowing, and just go along with it. Grrr.... *wants to slap stupid boys*
So she, still innocently unaware, cheerfully gives them their vests and laser guns for the shoot-out game, and explains it - basically, laser tag. << Yugi, however, is not buying it. Which is good, considering he only had the whole 'Death Tournament' thing driven into his head repeatedly. x.x He wonders what could be the trap, since this game can't be that simple.
Then the amusing comic moment of Honda handing off his 'baby' nephew to Anzu - who asks if the kid is his XD - and the nasty little brat perving on Anzu, burying his face in her breasts. >.< *shudder* He's not that little and he's just. Creepy. There will be more examples of the creepiness of Nephew later. Suffice to say Anzu does realize: Yech... This kid's a perv...
Neat little shot here - Anzu & Nephew are waving bye-bye - and it switches to Seto's camera-view of same.
Yeah. He saw all that. : Who the hell hired that girl?! She's one of their friends!
Random minion: My apologies, sir.
Seto: *leaning back into his chair* Ah, well... Death T-1, Stardust Shootout! They've entered the electrical field! Is our team ready?
Minion then babbles some about the three man team they have assembled, assassins and mercenaries... and then Seto. And the musing to himself. And, well... : Heh heh... It's over already, Yugi. The guns I've given you are mere toys.... But if the lasers that these three hold hit the sensor on your cyber-vest, you'll get shocked with a million volts! :D I'll be watching you play this death game, Yugi... and nothing will give me more pleasure! BWA HA HA HA HA HA!
Short bit with the assassins talking amongst themselves about the 10,000 bounty Seto's put on their targets - dramatic posing as they enter from Yugi-tachi- and! *drops a huge TBC onto the screen*
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...Okay, not really. But I couldn't resist! ^^;;
Duel 29: Shooting Stardust
With each new game, there always seems to be a tiny panel explaining the rules. However, I do not feel the need to explain the rules of laser tag, so you will all have to suffer. ;p
The room they're in is full of angular blocks, two diamonds connected by rectangles. It seems empty, at least to them. It is slightly disturbing, however, when the panels underneath their feet humm to life and they're all showing Seto. XD Yugi yelling 'Kaiba!' and the three guys staring down at him whilst clutching their guns.
Seto: Hello again, Yugi! Welcome to Death-T 1, the first game of the theme park! The three enemies you are about to face are mercenaries I've hired especially for this game! If you're lucky, you'll die in a blaze of glory like a shooting star across the sky!
Jounouchi: *gritted teeth* Listen up, bowl head! Your games suck! We're gonna make it to the top!
Yugi: *thinking* ...And I'll challenge you again with Grandpa's cards! I promise, Kaiba!
Now, there is a panel with Seto thinking gloatingly, nearly the same exact words as before - about the mercenaries having the real guns. all he says outloud, however, is the evil chuckling and :Enjoy your last game. *bzzn* He disappears, and the game begins.
With the boys shooting off their mouths, because apparently none of them have learned the value of silence in survival situations, hello!! >.<
Jou: Awright, everyone! Concentrate!
Yugi: Kaiba will do anything to win! The enemy will be tough! >.< And I know there are people reading this who can picture Yugi's little scrunched determined face. Myself, I am imagining how his voice must squeak saying that. >:)
Honda: No problem! I'm an ace with model guns! When I was a little kid, I could hit a 100-yen piece with a BB gun at fifty feet! ...Honda actually seems totally cool at this point. ^^ For once, he is in his element. I hope he enjoyed this, because I suspect it may never happen again. -.-
There is some divisive arguing among the bounty hunters, of course - who's going to go first and crap. Then the boys start talking amongst themselves. Yeah, now they start whispering. You can tell, because they have the words whisper, whisper next to them as they do so. x.x
Jou: Hey! What are we waiting around here for!
Honda: Idiot! Stay still! Let them make the first move!
And Jou leans back against his little block with the word 'SULK' next to him.
And now the mind reading! Honda: *thinking* In tight quarters like these, you only move forward when you secure a good position! That's a sure survival technique!
Yugi: *also thinking* I agree with Honda's plan! If we stay here, the enemy will come to us!
Jou: *you guessed it! but he also has a scary grimace* No way!! I can't stand sneaking around! A real man faces his enemy head on! *really scary, gritted teeth* I've had enough of this!
And he jumps up onto the blocks next to him, while Yugi calls his name and Honda just yelps. x.x And as if that weren't enough, he then yells: Yeah! Now I've got room to fight! Here I come!!! And he starts running across the tops of the blocks. While poor Yugi and Honda have heart attacks of their own behind him. Maybe he wants to send them to join Grandpa? Idiot. x.x
But then he finds one, and rather than even trying to use his gun, he kicks the guy in the face! >.< Gee, I guess everything he learned as a street punk with a criminal record isn't going to go to waste after all, is it?
Mercenary: K-kamikaze boy... Okay, I had to share that. >:)
Jou: My way is faster! >:D
Yugi: :D He did it!
Honda: -.-;; ...That idiot... He got one of them...
Of course, this leads the other two mercenaries to open fire. XD Jounouchi running and dodging like mad, and this when Honda snaps out of his shock.
Honda: All right! They've shown themselves! You be the decoy, Jounouchi! *nice dramatic shot of Honda sighting his gun* I'll finish them off! He's in my sights... Now!
Kill shot. Right to the heart, or in this case, the sensor over it.
Nothing happens, and Honda stops dead. Lowers his gun out of reflex, and : *thinking* Huh...?! That's weird... I hit him dead on...
Meanwhile, Yugi is calling out to check on Jou, who tells him he's okay with a strained grin, and flashes a thumbs-up. So Yugi finally decides it's time he started shooting, and the fire is flying, and Honda gets clipped. On the shoulder.
And now he knows there's something wrong. : *thinking* Wh-what the?! I got shocked!
And he looks at the gun with narrowed eyes and his background showing that flash of light that is equivalent to a light bulb. Whereupon we cut to the mercenaries moving in on the other two, Jou thinking if they get closer, he won't be able to keep covering the sensor on his chest, Yugi. Yugi? Is frustrated because he thinks he keeps missing. ... XD
Idiot.
Honda: Yugi! Jounouchi! We have to pull back!
Jou: What?! Run away?!
Honda: There's something wrong with this game! ...Have I mentioned I love Honda? ^^ Because I really feel that I should.
Now it shifts to Anzu and the perverted nephew, and he pretty much hits on her and freaks her out a little bit. But she does remark that he is awfully mature for a baby, and asks his name. Which it turns out is Johji. Joy! This is easier to type than 'the perverted nephew' and such, over and over. And sadly, we are stuck with this little monster for the long haul.
Luckily for Anzu, who has just been invited on a date to a milk stand in the park x.x the door now slams open, Honda storming in with Jou and Yugi in tow. Anzu, who still hasn't clued in, objects that they can't leave in the middle of the game, Jounouchi is upset because : It's not cool to show your back to the enemy!
Yugi, however, has noticed that Honda is steamed. And asks him what's wrong.
Honda: *not turning around* Yugi... This game is rigged!
Yugi: :o What...?!
Honda: *throws his gun down* Our guns are useless! There's no way we can win!
Yugi and Jou: W
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! >:o for Jou and :O for Yugi
Honda: What a lousy trick... And it's all because of Kaiba! That sonova-
At this point. We learn that not only is little Johji a perv, but apparently they get taught to use guns real early in this family. Little sucker starts ranting about them ruining his time alone with Anzu, and now he's insulting Kaiba? >:o ! And he grabs Anzu's gun and opens fire.
Anzu, being an employee, has a real laser. <<;;
So, you know, the running and the screaming and the general amusement on the part of readers and I'd imagine Seto got a kick out of it too. Mine certainly is right now. >:)
Then one of the shots actually hits a vest sensor, with dramatic results, and once again we have a *record-screech* Stop.
Honda: >:O What the... ?! There was an electric shock when the laser hit the sensor on that spare vest!
Yugi gets a shot of looking all frozen, with Brrrr next to him: *thinking* If that had been one of us...
Honda: *has stomped over to his nephew* Gimmie that gun, Johji!
Now, we don't see it, but I think he must have taken the gun at least partially apart - just like I assume Seto is laughing his ass off in his little control/viewing room - because the panel next to his grabbing the gun shows him all, well...
Honda: *solid eyes. >:o* I knew it! Anzu's gun and our guns look the same, but they're built completely different! So that's it! Those mercenaries must have real laser guns! They've got lethal weapons!
Jou: Kaiba didn't know Anzu was our friend when he hired her and gave her that gun. I - I cannot begin to - ! *restrains self from finding a Jounouchi for purposes of grabbing and shaking!* First of all - Seto didn't hire her! Secondly - I can't think of a secondly, but the first one is enough! XD
Okay. x.x Deep breathes. Must not be discouraged from typing by the dumbness that is Jounouchi, especially not when his line is followed by Anzu announcing that she quits - and she cannot seem to keep a job because of these guys, they ought to be paying her or something - anyway - Yugi, being the hero, cannot be outshined by Jou. However much it might sometimes seem that way. A case in point -
Yugi: *having an angsty thinking moment* Curse you, Kaiba! Is this cowardly killing game part of your theme park of death??
O.O XD AUGH!! ...The following sentences must be pictured with me - or anyone - shaking the living daylights out of one Moto Yugi.
One! He - told you - it was!! Two! Did the name "Death-T" tell you nothing even if he hadn't?! AUGH!! Three! If you curse someone, do it properly!! An actual curse, or at least cuss words dammit!! x.x
Okay. More deep breathing. Must continue with the story, and the coolness that is Honda saving their butts. Not be distracted by Yugi's idiocy to the point of wondering why he bothers.
Honda: But now we have at least one gun we can face them with! Kaiba didn't predict this!
Yugi questions what they can do with one gun against two pros, and Jou suggests another surprise attack, which earns a face fault from Honda.
Honda: >:o Idiot! That won't work again! It was a miracle it worked the last time!
Johji starts ranting again, mentioning how he'd like to shoot Honda with the gun, and he shuts him up with a ! look - and then grins.
Honda: >:) Leave this to me!
So the door opens with a bang, to reveal Honda with a gun pointed towards the ceiling, and the mercenaries ask if he's going to keep playing... and you know those serious faces he pulls in the anime? Not that he doesn't usually have a serious expression of one degree or another, but the extra frowning to it. The mercenaries laughing as he raises his arms in surrender and drops the gun.
And as one of them announces that it's execution time, the shot switches to behind Honda's back, where he has Johji strapped to the vest and holding the real gun. >:) Evil little grin on that kid's face. And he doesn't say a word, so the silence from the two of them is eerie - it's a warped little family moment they have here, Honda thinking 'Now!' and a panel later, Johji tossing the gun in the air, thinking 'Take it, Hiroto!'
Two quick shots. Dead on. And as they collapse shaking due to their vest, Honda gets what is a remarkably smirky grin, for him. Wouldn't look all that out of place on, say Otogi or even Seto. >:D I love this line, too -
Honda: >:) Haven't you ever watched any westerns? The hero is always the one who says the least! And as he is leaving, he adds over his shoulder that he has turned the voltage down and they won't die.
And he walks back into the room with the others, to his much deserved praise - and a hissed reminder of a deal from Johji? << Sadly, we are not left in any suspense - he agreed to convince Anzu to take a bath with the little perv in exchange for his help back there. >.< !!
Though I gotta admit, him begging Anzu with bowed head and folded hands that she do this favor is pretty amusing. XD He's still at it as they begin their walk to the next game, tiny behind Yugi and Jou.
And we finally return to Seto, who is still sitting there with his arms folded and the tiny smirk. : *thinking* Well, so you've cleared Death T-1... But how will you fare in the next stage.. Yugi?
And this is as good a place as any to leave off for this entry. Especially considering I need to start getting ready for work now. ^^;;
Next time - Duel 30 - When we learn how much of a chicken Jounouchi can be, and Johji once again proves useful as well as perverted!
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