Chapter 3: - Power Up
ONE WEEK LATER: -
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"You're sure you're alright?" Joey asked, worried when Yami stretched to get something from the top shelf of the cupboard that Yugi's stuff had been put in only to let out a soft hiss of pain and back up slightly.
"The Doctors have prescribed rest." Yami sighed, moving aside as Joey nudged him gently in order to do the stretching for him, "We can get that better at home where we're comfortable."
"But you never just rest at the shop." Joey pointed out as he lifted down a duffle bag so Yami could pack away the clothes and things that had been brought in to make the hospital stay a little more comfortable.
"I'll have to." Yami shrugged as he took the bag and started packing, "Besides, the less energy I expend the more I can send to Yugi to help him recover." When Joey fell silent Yami glanced over to his friend. Concern coursed through him as he took in the guilty look on Joey's face and the way his friend's hands were balled into fists so tightly his knuckles were going white but he didn't know what to say.
Yugi was much better at reassuring the others then he was. He was good at leading them in times of trouble and making sure everyone pulled through, but it was Yugi who was the heart of their group, Yugi who knew how to make people feel better and keep their spirits up.
"It wasn't your fault." Yami reminded him, "We..."
"I know. I know." Joey snarled at him, then caught himself and looked away, taking a deep breath and trying to calm himself. "I know." He said finally, "Short of giving away the fact I have Dialga, there's nothing I can do to change the past. I've heard this lecture."
"I'm not trying to lecture you, Joey." Yami frowned, "But Yugi doesn't blame you," At least the Pharaoh knew his other self wouldn't blame Joey but he had yet to manage to be awake at the same time as his other self to hear it from the horse's mouth, "And neither do I."
Joey didn't reply for a moment but Yami could see that he wanted to disagree or argue that they should, then the blonde Day Care worker changed the subject, "Risha and Daniels are pitching a fit about that cat."
Yami blinked at him, confused, "Cat?" He glanced at Bast. "What did she do this time?"
"Not her." Joey snorted, amusement sinking in, "The pink cat I was telling you about the other day. The one that seems to have moved into the park."
"The floating, psychic one that you told Jamie about over the phone and I could hear her delighted squeal across the other side of the room?" Yami asked, remembering that conversation.
"That's the one." Joey agreed. "Apparently it's incredibly rare, so rare some think it's just a legend."
"And there's one of these cats in our park?" Yami looked disbelieving.
"Yeah I know, what're the odds right?" Joey chuckled, "Probably about the same as my best friend completing an ancient puzzle and getting possessed by the ghost of a dead King."
Yami paused in shoving the final items, let out an amused and self depreciatory chuckle and then smiled at Joey, "Okay, I see your point."
"I occasionally have them." Joey grinned back, "You ready?"
"Yeap." Yami nodded, going to pick up the bag only for Joey to steal it out from under his nose.
"Resting, remember?" Joey scolded him with a cheeky grin.
"I'm not made of glass." Yami scowled as he followed Joey out. Joey just ignored the Pharaoh's grouching, something he was getting very good at doing, and flipped open his phone. Joey scowled as he read something on screen. "Joey?"
"Mokuba." He explained, "Apparently the limo he was supposed to be sending is stuck in traffic." Joey's hand strayed to his belt where his deck and his pokéballs rested, the same belt he had gotten as a gift from Jamie and Mai. Yami could almost read his mind and was ready for when Joey turned to him with a grin and stated, "Kaida's availa..." Joey trailed off as he phone went again and sulked when he showed Yami the screen. The Pharaoh wasn't sure if he was upset or relieved that Mokuba had booked a taxi for them which was due to arrive at the hospital in about five minutes.
"Shall we?" Yami asked, only just refraining from chuckling slightly at Joey's sulk, adjusting his own belt as he did so. He'd had to have an extra hole added to it, and it was laden with his pokéballs and deck. It still felt too loose.
"Yeah, yeah." Joey continued to sulk as they headed for the lifts, "I will get to show you how awesome Kaida looks now at some point."
"Later." Yami promised his friend, "Once I've dropped everything off at the..."The Pharaoh trailed off and darted over to the window as he heard a roar. Joey joined him swiftly, letting out a soft curse as he did so.
"What the hell?" Joey demanded as he took in the Duel Monsters that were invading the city.
"I don't know." Yami admitted, worry tainting his voice as he dashed for the exit, "I really don't know."
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"Finally!" Jamie let out a whoop of joy the moment Nurse Joy stepped out of the room. "Free! Free! Free!" She slipped off of the bed and spun Mai around, the pair crashing into Bakura, sending all three of them tumbling to the ground.
"Get off." Bakura grumbled as he tried to extricate himself from under the two women, "At least Valon isn't here to see this." It was bad enough that he could sense his landlord's amusement over the whole situation. He didn't think he could put up with Valon's cackling too. He was the King of Thieves, he deserved some dignity damn it.
"Sorry 'Kura." Mai chuckled. She had been much warier of the barer of the Millennium Ring to start with and she still didn't completely trust him, a wise move considering that he was a self proclaimed thief and a stealer of souls. Now however she had worked out that as long as she stayed on his good side, she didn't really have to worry too much. After all he had already informed her that he didn't waste magic on anyone who wasn't in his way. Since she didn't plan on getting between him and whatever his end game was, not that she knew that was, she wasn't too concerned.
"Free. Free. Free." Jamie continued to chant as she clambered off of Mai and danced around the room, snatching up things and shoving them in her backpack, "Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
"I think she's happy about that." Mai grinned as she offered Bakura a hand up. He took it silently, roughly dusting himself off. She hadn't really expected a thank you anyway. Jaime had been stuck in bed for a fortnight and a bit, caged in this room for another week and a half on top and understandably the girl, who was normally free to roam as she desired, was going stir crazy.
"Next stop Domino." Jamie informed her friends, turning to them before she even finished adjusting her pokéballs on her belt. Aisu nodding along seriously. "I want my squad back and we need to back Joey up. Team Galactic can't have Dialga. I won't let them."
Bakura couldn't help but notice that for all of her determination, Jamie had none of her intimidation factor. A part of his mind wondered if that was because this was the lighter half of the Pokémon Trainer they were talking to. He couldn't help but remember when, in her poison induced fevered and delusional state she had had conversations with herself, conversations between Dragonite, more often shortened to Dragon, and Dratini and from sitting with her he had pretty much worked out which was which.
This Jamie, the one who was trying to dictate where they were going to head next and wanted nothing more than to help her friends and defend her world, was the hikari, Dratini. The other, the one who would be vicious in her retribution when she got a chance, was the yami, Dragon.
"It's a long way back to Domino on foot." Mai worried at Jamie, "Are you going to be alright going that far?"
"I have to be." Dratini informed her. "There's no other option."
"There's a car rental not far from here." Valon finally returned to the group, not looking at Bakura as he did so. The spirit of the Millennium Ring let out a low, almost inaudible growl that caused Aisu to tilt her ears in his direction, the Glaceon highly alert to anything that could be considered a threat to her Trainer. Bakura was pretty certain that Valon had gone to report to his boss that they were on the move and he really wasn't sure what to do about it.
When he had challenged Valon he had expected the young man to cheat allowing him to legitimately set a Penalty Game in motion (and he was concerned Jamie was making him soft if he was concerned about the legitimacy of a Penalty), and to then have to deal with the questions Mai and Jamie asked when he made the young man disappear. However he had been shocked to find that while Valon had lost the game, he hadn't cheated once leaving Bakura with quite a problem.
Even he had to adhere to The Rules of the Shadows. Until Valon slipped up, and Bakura was certain that he would, the Thief King couldn't cast a penalty game on him without consequences that he didn't want to deal with right now.
Still that didn't mean he had to like the fact that Valon was still reporting in to his Taskmaster, whom Bakura had learned during the game was an Atlantean man named Dartz. Considering that Atlantis had been an old fairy tale long before Bakura had ever been born, the tomb robber was wary of getting on the man's radar. However if Valon had reported in, it was highly probable that he was already there.
"Oi Valon." Mai noticed Bakura's mood shifting towards the dangerous end of the spectrum and frowned slightly as she nodded towards the exit, "I need to visit the PokéMart before we leave, I'm hoping they'll have something useful left."
"But..." Valon started to protest, only for Mai to shove him towards the door.
"Let's give the lovebirds some alone time, okay?" Mai interrupted, shoving Valon out into the corridor and grinning at the blush that erupted on Jamie's face as she slammed the door shut behind them.
The moment they were gone some of the joy and determination slipped out of Dratini's features and the girl hesitated as she slipped the last few things in her bag.
"Jamie?" Bakura asked, worried about the sudden mood switch.
"I'm okay." He could easily tell she was lying. She'd never been good at hiding her emotions. She wore her heart on her sleeve, both of her did and he had thousands of years of practice.
"Jamie." His tone was one of warning and caused Dratini to flinch.
"I'm worried." She admitted - something that he was certain she wouldn't have done had he been anyone else, "I think... this is going to sound crazy." She looked at him and sighed, sitting down on her bed, "Bakura, I think..."
"...there's someone else in your mind." Bakura finished for her, noting the way she started and stared at him, panicked and yet confused.
"You know?" When Bakura nodded she let out a frustrated growl and slumped back, "I'm going crazy, aren't I?" Jamie asked, worried.
"No. Well no crazier then you already were." Bakura allowed, causing Jamie to sit back up, releasing a small chuckle as she did so even though he could still see her concern.
"How are my Pokémon supposed to trust me, if I can't?" Jamie asked him, "If I can't control myself during battles, I can't trust myself to fight at all. I won't endanger my team." She sighed, her shoulders sinking, "But if I can't fight, I'm no use to anyone. I need to fight to prevent Galactic from destroying both worlds..."
Bakura considered her for a moment then let out a sigh. "Jamie, do you trust me?"
"Of course," Jamie nodded, confused as to what he was getting at, "You know I do."
"Then I need you to send Mai and Valon away." Bakura said, "At least for a couple of hours."
"Why?" Jamie blinked at him in innocent confusion.
"Because we're going to play a game..."
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"Where're you going?" Mokuba jumped a bloody mile and wheeled around, releasing his Houndoom as he did so. The speaker yelped and backed up as the duel type canine growled viciously until he realized who the speaker was and leapt on her, licking the poor pink haired girl mercilessly as his Trainer recovered his composure.
"Hi Cassandra." Mokuba sighed, waving Houndoom back to his side as he did so, "I don't really have time to talk right now." He went back to packing an overnight bag. Not that Seto thought he'd need one, but Mokuba had learned by now that anything involving Pegasus was rarely as simple as things first appeared.
"You know you're walking into a trap right?" The psychic positive Galactic Grunt complained, watching him shove everything he could possibly need into as small a space as possible.
Mokuba paused; confused for a moment as he tried to work out how she knew what was going on, then he turned and scowled at her. "I thought you said you didn't read the minds of your friends."
"I don't." Cassandra shrugged, "I didn't need to. Galactic and Paradius have had a falling out, so we're keeping tabs on their movement."
Mokuba scowl morphed into a confused frown as he went over what she had just said, "Since when has anything Pegasus…?"
"That wasn't Pegasus," Cassandra interrupted, "That was one of Dartz's goons in disguise."
"Who?" Mokuba asked, then paused, "Wait, what? Dartz? As in the CEO of Paradius Incorporated Dartz?" The Galactic Grunt nodded, waiting for her friend to start asking more questions. "I'm confused." He admitted.
Cassandra huffed, "Seriously? Okay I'll put it in small words."
"Hey!" Mokuba yelped indignantly.
"Look, Dartz isn't who you think he is. According to our files, he's older than that ghost who haunts Mutou." Oracle tried to explain, watching Mokuba freeze as what she said sunk in. "He's also hunting rare and powerful souls. He thinks your brother's soul counts. So Dartz is trying to get him to walk into a trap where he can steal his soul and feed it to his pet leviathan. He knew Kaiba would stop him seizing control of the company, he only did it to bait the trap."
"Shit." Mokuba sat down on his bed. "How…?"
"Do we know all this?" Oracle asked, "We were working closely with Paradius until Spectre did what he did to Mutou." She explained, "Dartz was under the impression he'd finished Mutou off and pitched a fit at our Boss." Mokuba's hands balled into fists, of course Yugi would be a target too, he always was when the crazy started happening, "Then Dartz cut ties with us. This, of course, is when we started keeping an even closer eye on what he was up to."
"So basically some ancient ghost wants to steal my brother's soul and is willing to ruin our company to do it." Mokuba acknowledged, "And took advantage of the 'real' Duel Monster that are currently hovering around worldwide and the fact it doesn't matter…" Mokuba paused and looked at her, "The Duel Monsters that appeared this morning? His fault?"
"Probably." Cassandra allowed.
"I need to talk to Seto." Mokuba scowled, "And then the Yugis." He paused and shook his head in amusement, confusing the girl until he spoke again, "And getting him to believe this would be so much harder if it wasn't for Battle City."
"Oh?" Oracle asked, blinking in her confusion.
"I'll explain on the way."
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"YAMI!" Yugi struggled against the hand wrapped around his neck, watching in horror as the Puzzle burst apart, scattering the golden pieces everywhere, and, with the Pharaoh sealed once again in darkness, his body fell to the floor of the school gym, unmoving. "Yami! Yami!"
"Shut up!" Yugi screamed as electricity played across his spirit at Spectre's snarl, agony coursing through him as the ghost Pokémon's attack continued its assault. Panting for breath when the attack finally cut off, his world blurring and spinning around him, Yugi vaguely heard Spectre demand to know where Dialga was but had no answer. When the Puzzle had shattered his memories of the masterball containing Dialga had shattered with them.
"I can't..." Yugi pleaded, desperate to get to the Puzzle and put it back together, "Please! I don't know where it is!"
"I don't believe you!" Spectre snarled, "Dusknoir!"
"No! Please!" Yugi loosed an agonised wail as the lightning struck again.
Suddenly the lightening stopped and darkness swelled, the Pokémon holding him letting out a screech that chilled Yugi to the core before the hand at his throat vanished and he hit the floor hard with a pained whimper.
Spectre let out a terrified screech of his own but Yugi couldn't muster up the strength to open his eyes, yet alone raise his head to find out what was going on.
"Yugi." The speaker was concerned as they rolled Yugi over and took him into their arms, pulling him close to their chest, semi sat up, "Yugi, wake up." He knew the speaker, Yugi realised in his dazed, agonised and confused state, but it couldn't be who he thought it was, not with the Puzzle in pieces. "Yugi, please!"
Yugi forced open his eyes, only for confusion to sink in. Not only was he in his soul room and not the school gym, but Yami was here and the pain had receded. "Yami?" Yugi mentally winced at how hoarse and weak his voice sounded.
"I'm here, you're safe now." Yami promised, realising that this was the first time that they had been awake at the same time since the attack, "I've got you."
Yugi's wail as he spun in his dark half's arms and latched onto the Pharaoh, sobbing in his pain and relief, made guilt rise in Yami as the thought that if he had been just a little bit faster activating his game, or had followed Yugi a little more closely, his hikari wouldn't be hurt now occurred to him once again.
"It's alright now." Yami promised his other self, hugging the wounded boy tightly enough to reassure but not so tight he aggravated any injuries.
"I t...thought..." Yugi hiccupped when the tears slowed to a mere trickle compared to the river they had been before, "When he smashed the Puzzle..."
"It's happened before, Yugi." Yami tried to reassure him, "I was okay then too, remember?"
"But you hurt so much," Yugi whispered, "when that claw ripped through you. I thought..."
The Pharaoh grimaced slightly. Yes, that had hurt. Almost on par with the pain of what had come next. Having his soul shattered was never a pleasant experience. Still he was fine now. Yugi had once again solved the Puzzle, putting him back together too and the light of Yugi's soul was just the balm he needed to fully recover from his ordeal. "I'm okay, I promise."
"I'm glad." He felt Yugi relax in his arms as the boy spoke. They sat there for a moment, just enjoying each other's company, both relieved that the other was alive, both having feared the other wouldn't live to see another day. Then a thought occurred to Yami. There was a way he could help his hikari recover faster. Just as Yugi had done for him when he had been badly injured by Ra's flames, he could draw off part of the pain and take on some of Yugi's wounds. His only real concern was that it would leave them both susceptible to attack.
He would have to trust Yugi's friends to protect them, just as he had in the weeks after the warehouse fire, when the body had been weak and had tired easily. It wasn't something he was comfortable with, but he had done it before and he could do it again.
Half dozing back off again, Yugi didn't notice at first when the pain levels dropped, but when the burns on his left arm transferred from his limb to Yami's he straightened, realising what his darker self was doing, and squirmed out of the Pharaoh's arms, pushing the ancient spirit away. "What're...?" Yugi trailed off as he realised that while it still hurt to move, he could do so more easily and his world didn't threaten to fade away. Yami however looked worse for wear, it was obvious what the Pharaoh had been doing and Yugi bit his lower lip as he considered the dark half of his soul. "Yami..."
"It's alright." The Pharaoh let out a soft hiss as he got to his feet, wavering slightly as he did so. He offered Yugi a hand and the young teen took it, stumbling slightly himself as he stood on unsteady limbs, "How're you feeling now?"
"You didn't need to..." Yugi cut off at a look from Yami and took on a rueful, slightly ashamed expression, "Much better, thank you."
"You did the same for me." Yami reminded his charge, noting that Yugi's mood lightened slightly at the reminder. "Now..."
Yami was cut off by the sound of his soul room door slamming shut. The Pharaoh wheeled around and shot towards the sound, Yugi following as best he could. The heavy metal door was indeed shut when they got there, confusing Pharaoh and teen no end. Yami never shut his door and there was supposed to be no one around bar them.
"Stay close." Yami murmured to his light, his tone protective as he opened the door, half expecting to see someone on the other side. No one greeted them beyond the doorframe, but there were the sounds of footsteps fleeing the scene and a girl's voice urged them to follow. Yami went after them, slower than he would of liked because of the injuries he had taken on but still faster than Yugi, who warily remembered the last time he had been in the ancient artefact and did not fancy a run in with the mummies that had been aides of Anubis.
The pair turned a corner, safe in the knowledge that the Puzzles traps were within its myriad of rooms, only for the floor to be missing below Yami's feet. Yugi grabbed at the Pharaoh's hand as Yami fell, but lost his own footing and joined him in the tumble into darkness.
Shadows swirled around the pair for a moment, then suddenly they were in midair, floating above a giant temple, one that looked like it was of Grecian design and yet at the same time older and different enough that while the style was similar to a Greek temple they could tell that it was in fact from a different nation again. They were only there for a moment before they were drawn inside and landed on the floor of what was obviously a shrine to three giant dragons that had been immortalised in crystal.
"What the...?" Yugi breathed as he took in their surroundings, having never seen anything like this in the Puzzle before.
"Welcome Pharaoh." Yugi squeaked and jumped at the sound of a girl's voice and Yami pulled his light behind him, glowering around until his gaze fell on a Dark Magician Girl, at which point the rage turned to confusion, "There is much we must discuss and very little time."
"Who are you and where are we?" Yami demanded, confusion flickering back to anger as he realised that they had been drawn here for a reason and that the sound of the fleeing footsteps had probably been those of the Duel Monster before him.
"I'm sorry if I frightened you." The Dark Magician Girl replied, "My name is Mana and this is the Realm of Monsters." She gestured around, "My Master would have been here to greet you himself, but he is away fighting off the beasts that have invaded our world since the barrier grew so damaged."
"Barrier?" Yugi asked, curiosity showing as he took another look at his surroundings. Yami could sense that his light wanted to explore this new world that looked to be inhabited by all of the monsters that Yugi had been so familiar with in their card forms. The Pharaoh however just wanted to get back to their world as soon as possible and wasn't comfortable with the way that the Dark Magician Girl's name rang bells in his mind, though he couldn't think why.
"Between dimensions." Mana explained, gesturing between the pillars to the outside world, where darkness had pervaded, destroying the clear blue tranquil skies and allowing access to creatures of darkness that were engaged by the monsters of this realm the moment they passed through the barrier. "Almost half a year ago the barriers started to fall and many of my friends and comrades were destroyed while protecting this land. Now it has spread to your world, aided by two groups of humans and we Duel Monsters alone cannot stop it."
"Galactic." Yami snarled, understanding easily who the first group of humans were. It wasn't hard to guess considering that they had control over the God of Alternate Dimensions. The second group was not hard to guess either but he did not have a name for them and they had not incurred his wrath quite as heavily. Yet.
"How can we help?" Yugi asked, his eyes flickering to his darker self for a moment, understanding if not condoning the Pharaoh's wrath, and knowing that they had been brought to this world for a specific reason.
Mana looked relieved that Yugi asked as she stepped back to gesture to the giant crystalline statues. "When this first happened, ten thousand years ago, there were three warriors who stood up against the dark ones and saved both of our worlds, but they paid a heavy price. All three were wounded and sealed within the crystal you see before you, as great dragons. There they have stayed, waiting for the day when the chosen warriors would release them from their seal to fight once again."
"For ten thousand years?!" Yugi yelped. Yami too was a little thrown by the amount of time. His imprisonment for five thousand years had been bad enough, but to have been held for ten?
"Pharaoh, I know that five thousand years ago you saved the world." Mana spoke to both of them, "And now I'm begging you to do the same again."
"But..." Yugi trailed off, looking up at the great dragons a little nervously.
"I know your recent battles have wounded you." Mana answered his unfinished question softly, concern obvious as she looked the pair over, "But you can do this, just as you defeated the great evil that nearly destroyed the world oh so long ago. With Timaeus at your side, I know you can."
Yugi glanced up at the dragon she was gesturing to once more, then turned to his darker half, determination written across his features. Yami knew that look. He had known Yugi would want to help the moment that he had heard that Mana had lost friends to the maelstrom above their heads. Yami was not about to object either. The trouble was obviously spreading to their world, today's invasion of monsters had proved that and anything Galactic were tied up in, he wanted to stick his nose in, if only to cause them a headache.
"We'll try." Yami agreed, noting the look of relief that spread across Mana's features, taking Yugi's hand and shooting skyward, the pair of them reaching Timaeus's crystallised head. There, where one of Timaeus's eyes should have been was a sword embedded in the gemstone entombing the great beast.
"Together?" Yugi asked a little nervously.
"Together." Yami agreed, not entirely certain what would happen if they succeeded but somehow knowing that it would take both of them if they were to have a chance. Both of them gripped the hilt, their hands intertwining on the leather wrapped handle of the strangely familiar looking sword, and they pulled.
It did not come out easily, the pair had to strain to shift the blade even slightly and Yami was about to suggest they let go and go about it a different way when the blade suddenly slid free at speed. Yugi and Yami went tumbling in midair, the sword falling to the marble floor with a loud clang.
The pair didn't notice as the crystal covering Timaeus started cracking, waves of energy erupting, sending chucks of the gemstone structure coating it flying. As the waves hit the pair, Yugi and Yami could feel power soaking into them, filling their reserves and pushing them to new heights. As the crystal fell away the dragon started glowing, the light gaining strength sharply, blinding everyone present.
Then Yugi woke up.
Sitting upright in his bed in the real world for the first time in far too long. Yugi blinked as he looked at his surroundings, confusion seeping in as he tried to take in everything. Everything seemed so normal and yet he had a nagging feeling that something was wrong. A feeling that wasn't eased when he realised that his deck was glowing.
He eased himself out of bed, wincing as he put his foot down, only for pain to shoot up his right leg. He wobbled for a moment before moving across the room and picking up the top card of his deck, only to find that it was a card he had never seen before. A card called the 'Eye of Timaeus.'
"So it wasn't just a dream." Yugi murmured as he carefully leaned against his desk, taking his weight off of his bad leg, wondering what the effects of the card were and whether it would work on his Duel Disk.
The amount of light coming in through the window confused the teen and caused him to look out and up, the card almost falling from his hand when he spotted what the cause was. "The Northern Lights? Here?" He watched in shock as a giant eye appeared in the middle of the lights and the Duel Monsters that had invaded his town attempted to strike it down, only to get sucked up into the lights.
Getting the feeling that he and Timaeus were needed in town. Yugi shoved on some clothes as quickly as he could, snatched up his deck and recalled his Pokémon before heading out to deal with this latest threat.
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"The hell is that?" Joey complained as he stared up at the giant eye in the sky, Risha and Daniels at his side, the three of them having been on call in case of a Pokémon related emergency. It wasn't related to the creatures that had been invading the world for the last just shy of six months, but this certainly counted as an emergency, hence why they had been called out.
"I have no idea." Risha admitted, his electric Pokémon just as confused as he was.
"Me either." Daniels admitted.
"Damn." Joey snarled, having hoped that the two Trainers from the Pokeworld would have more of a clue about what was going on since his normal weird magnet was at home resting right now. He watched as the eye tried to blast something a couple of blocks away with a burst of gale force winds and light and the Duel Monsters counter attacked, defending the city even as they were being sucked up by the lights surrounding the giant ocular creature. "Kaida!" He called, releasing his Dragonite who appeared in a flash of right light with a roar.
The huge dragonic Pokémon took to the sky, bellowing a challenge to the strange monster in the sky that was trying to destroy HER town. The eye responded to her roar by loosing a blast of light and wind of the same verity that had destroyed a building just moments earlier. Kaida replied with a Hyper Beam that met the incoming attack in midair, causing an explosion that temporarily blinded everyone watching the battle.
"Look!" Daniels yelped, pointing upwards as Joey's vision started to clear. The teen looked where the Trainer was pointing, only to see something darting skyward, surrounded by a pink glow that steadily got brighter the higher it got. "It's Mew!"
The creature in the sky was not as impressed by the tiny catlike New Species Pokémon, launching another blast at the pair of sky-born Pokémon, bigger and more powerful than the last. Kaida replied with a Hyper Beam but it was Mew who did the damage, using its immense psychic powers to contort the eye creature's attack back at it,
The attack exploded on contact, sending out a shock wave of green energy and tiny stones that knocked Kaida and everything else in the air with her out of the battle and forced Joey to recall her.
Mew tumbled to the ground, cartwheeling in midair. Joey darted towards the park entrance, where it looked like Mew would land, only to be shocked as Mew tried to slow down, only to be caught by Yugi just a meter from the ground.
"What're you doing here?" Joey demanded of his friend, relieved to see Yugi awake but worried about him being here in the middle of a crisis, especially when the eye in the sky looked like it was still, mostly, in one piece.
Yugi didn't get a change to reply. The eye above them loosed a tornado that touched down where the Puzzle holder was stood, the insanely fast winds cutting Joey off from his friend and the Pokémon he was cradling tightly against his chest, protecting it. "Yugi!"
For a moment or two Joey couldn't see anything but the tornado and the steadily building power above him. The ocular enemy was building up for a massive attack and Yugi and Mew were sitting ducks, if they were even still alive in there.
Suddenly there was a burst of bright pink light from where Yugi had been stood and the tornado was blasted apart, leaving behind the teen, who was still cradling the Pokémon he had saved in one arm while pulling something out of his deck holster with the other hand, trying to catch his breath as he did so.
"Timaeus!" Yugi bellowed, aiming the card skyward. Joey watched in shock as light erupted from the card his friend was holding and took the form of a huge, turquoise dragon that had a pale, almost white chest and was missing one eye, who without an order from Yugi loosed an attack that struck the eye square on. With the damage from the redirected attack already taking its toll, the second explosion caused the eye to vanish from the skies, a weird shrieking noise that was otherworldly and seemed to shake them to their cores echoing across the city as the Northern Lights disappeared with it.
"Yuge?" Joey asked, worried as 'Timaeus' disappeared and Yugi seems to almost fall, only for a pink light to surround him, keeping him upright. The Mew slipped out of Yugi's arms and circled the teen, concern in its tone as it chattered at Yugi, not that Joey could understand anything but 'mew, mew mewewewew mew.'
"I...I'm okay." Yugi panted, exhaustion obvious on his features as he used the light's aid to right himself.
"What was that?" Joey glanced skyward, wondering what the hell had just happened as the other two Trainers he had been with finally caught up.
"I have an idea." Yugi admitted, warily glancing skyward himself for a moment before looking down at the card in his hand, "And I don't think we've seen the last of it."