Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction / Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ A New Path ❯ A New Friend? Yugi and co. Prepares For Trouble! ( Chapter 4 )

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Yugi was just awakening as he looked around. His friends were laying flat on the ground as Transphere lay near him.

"Where are we…?" Yugi wondered as he stood up.

"I don' think we're in Domino anymore, Yuge!" Joey stood up as he checked on Serenity. "Sis, you okay?"

"I'm fine, Joey!" She assured as she brushed off her clothes.

Tristan finally got up. "This place looks a bit more…colorful than back home."

"Well now we know the Transphere works. Now let's go, you guys! We may not know where Tea is, but she's sure to be around here somewhere…"

"Hey Yugi, wait up!" Tristan followed, as well as the Wheeler Siblings. Suddenly, the ground appeared to be crumbling as the gang began to fall into what appeared to be a pitfall!

"Hey! Wat's dis hole doin' here!?" Joey snapped as Serenity held on to his arm.

"I'm scared, Joey…" She whimpered as a group of laughter is then heard from above.

"Who's there?" Tristan shouted.

"Show yourselves, cowards!" Yugi demanded.

"You fell into our trap, so prepare for trouble!" A woman, with long, flowing whip-like magenta hair, wearing a white mini-skirt, black thigh highs, black gloves, and an open white shirt over a black top with the letter "R" printed in red, said with a smile.

"And while you're at it, make it double!" An ear-lobe-length-indigo-haired man said with a bit of a British accent wearing a similar outfit as his companion, except that he was wearing white pants and black boots. He had a long sleeved shirt with the red "R" imprinted and black gloves.

Yugi and company watched on, both in shock and confusion, as they two continued their motto.

"To protect the world from devastation…" The woman began.

"To unite our peoples within our nation…" The man continued.

"To denounce the evils of truth and love…"

"To extend our reach to the stars above…"

"Jessie!"

"James!"

"Team Rocket, blasting off to the speed of light…" Jessie said with a pose.

"Surrender now, or prepare to fight, fight, fight!" James finished with a pose of his own. Suddenly, a small cat-like creature with a coin on his forehead jumped up.

"Meowth, Dat's right!" It chimed.

"What do you want?" Tristan snapped at Team Rocket.

"Simple, your Pika-" Jessie looked closely at their "capture," it was obvious that something was wrong with this picture.

James and Meowth went for a closer look as well.

"Hey…" Jessie said, "You're not the twerps!"

"DUH!" Joey retorted.

"Well…anyway, hand over any pokemon you have right now!" The only thing Jessie received were confused looks. "WELL, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!? HAND OVER YOUR POKEMON, NOW!"

"We don't have any pokemon!" Serenity explained.

"What are pokemon, anyway?" Tristan asked.

"Dese people are nuts!" Meowth exclaimed.

"They're obviously two fries short of a happy meal!" James agreed.

"Well I don't care!" Jessie pouted. "They're not going anywhere until they give us what we- huh?" She noticed that their "prisoners" weren't in the pitfall anymore as Joey and Tristan were pulling Serenity and Yugi out. "Of all the nerve…" Jessie growled as she rushed in front of them. "Just where do you think you're going?"

"Do you have any idea how long it took us to dig that hole?" James scolded, standing next to her!

"Yous guys aren't goin' anywhere!" Meowth declared as the Millennium Puzzle then flashed as Yugi appeared to have grown taller, as well as his hair was more spiked and eyes were narrower. Yami has indeed taken over.

"Team Rocket!" He said to the trio. "I don't know what your sick game is, but it ends NOW!"

"Who do you think you are!?" Jessie snapped as she pulled out some type of cannon.

"Do you have any idea who you're messing with?" James pulled out the same type of cannon.

"Now it looks like we're going to teach yous guys a lesson!" Meowth snapped.

"I don't think so…" Yami replied, annoyed as he then extended his arm toward Team Rocked as a golden eye flashed on his forehead. "MIND CRUSH!" After the flash disappeared, Team Rocket was gone.

"What did you do?" Serenity asked Yami.

"I sent them to the Shadow Realm…" Yami explained. "I'll return them here after our search for Tea has finished."

In the Shadow Realm, Team Rocket looked on in horror…

"Where are we, Jessie!" James whined, "It's so dark in here!"

"I don't know, James…" Jessie responded, showing a bit of fear.

"Beats me… The only ding I remember was those people. Den I heard some guy with da glowing eye on his forehead screaming something about "Mind crush!"

"You mean the pharaoh?" A dark voice replied as figure walked towards them.

"Who…who are you?" Jessie asked, now completely scared.

"What do you want?" James asked as he and Meowth hid behind her.

Out from the shadows was a man with a purple cape wrapped around him. He had long, bleached blonde-haired with the part of it spiked up. "I'm Marik, but you can call me your worst nightmare! Welcome to the Shadow Realm, where you'll spend all eternity!" [1]

Team Rocket were shaking in their boots (Or in Meowth's case, paws) as Yami Marik released a loud evil laughter. Suddenly, lost souls made their way toward them. "…Why couldn't Team Rocket have just blasted of again!?" They cried in unison, afraid of what their fate has led them.

Meanwhile, in a tent, Tea was getting more acquainted with her new friend, Rikku. Rikku was camping out in the Thunder Plains in an attempt to get over her fears of lightning. When they were little, Rikku's brother was practicing a thunder magic attack in the water which went wrong and struck her instead. It took a while, but Tea felt she could trust her as she then gave her the sphere she found. It turned out that the sphere's in Spira were much like Videos and DVDs back in Domino. Rikku was also a Sphere Hunter, like the Leblanc Syndicate who jumped her. She and her group would go around Spira looking for valuable spheres which documented Spira's history. It was more of a trade between them: Rikku taught Tea about the world of Spira, Tea taught Rikku about Duel Monsters.

"…There are number of starts which shows how powerful cards are!" Tea explained. "For monsters with one to four stars, you can summon normally. But for monsters with five or more stars, you'll have to make a tribute summon."

"Tribute Summon?" Rikku's eyes went wide. "You mean to play more powerful monster cards I have to sacrifice the ones I already have?"

Tea nodded. "If the monster has five or six stars, you have to sacrifice one monster. But if the monster has seven or more stars, then you'll have to sacrifice two monsters. And there are some monsters that can be fused together into a more powerful monster by using a magic card called Polymerization. There are even some monsters that are so powerful that not only do you have to sacrifice a number of monsters, but the type and number of monsters requirements vary with the monster as well as a ritual magic card to summon monsters such as Black Luster Soldier and Magician of Black Chaos."

"Whoa…" Rikku is taken back from this. "Duel Monster's more complicated then I thought."

"It's easy once you get used to it." Tea smiled.

"If you say so…" Rikku looked down, as she then looked at Tea. "Are you any good?"

"I'm okay. But nowhere in any league with my friends, Yugi and Joey…" She then went silent. As much as she didn't want to admit it, after what happened between her and Yugi, she really missed them. The fact that, thanks to the Syndicate stealing the Transphere, she was stuck here only made her sad.

"Oh? How good are they?" Rikku asked.

"Well…Joey's awesome. He was the runner up at a tournament called 'Duelist Kingdom,' and came 4th at the Battle City tournament." Tea explained, remembering at Battle City that he lost to both Marik, the runner up, and Kaiba, who surprisingly came in third place since it was HIS tournament. The thing that shocked Tea the most is how good he's gotten in a short period of time. One day, he couldn't even beat her, and a few weeks he gets 2nd Place at Duelist Kingdom. "As for Yugi…" She blushed. "They don't call him the 'King of Games' for nothing." She saw Rikku's confused expression. "It's a title Yugi got after he won at Duelist Kingdom."

"Ohh…" Rikku nodded. "Hey! Why don't you come with me?" She suggested.

"Come with you?"

"Yeah! We got an airship, the Celsius! And guess what? You could help us find spheres!" Rikku placed an arm around Tea. "I can see it now: 'Tea Gardener: Sphere Hunter extrodinaire!'"

Tea was unsure about this decision. Other than the Transphere Kaiba gave her, she knew nothing about spheres let alone hunting for them. And Rikku was the only one she knew. Besides, she has nowhere else to go. Tea had no other option. "Sounds like fun!" She replied as a red huge aircraft suddenly flew their way.

"Well…that's us! Better get everything ready!" Rikku chirped as she and Tea went to take down the tent and gather their stuff.

Back at Domino, Logos and Ormi managed to make a deal with Kaiba. He would work hard to get them back home, but they would have to work their way to actually do so. So Logos and Ormi both became another one of Kaiba's servants. Despite their jobs, they still wore their Syndicate duds, much to Kaiba's dismay. Right now, they were possibly doing one of the most difficult tasks: Babysitting. Namely, Kaiba's little brother, Mokuba.

"Hey Logos," Ormi asked riding shotgun in a black limo. "Why are we doing this again?"

Logos, driving, sighed in annoyance. "Ormi, you pinhead, Mr. Kaiba has made it clear to us if we wanted to get back to Spira, we would have to work for it. That means babysitting a mere child."

"I heard this kid's the only family he has left." Ormi explained, "I've done some research on our new boss earlier."

Logos's eyes went wide. "You actually have done some research for once?" He always thought that Ormi wasn't exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer.

"Yeah, I got bored. I also found out that they both went to an orphanage when both their parents died."

"Hmm…" Logos thought as if he was coming up with a plan. "Ormi…I think that our services to Mr. Kaiba will no longer be required."

Ormi looked to his companion in confusion. "What do you mean?"

"Let's just say that we'll be getting back to Spira soon. Very soon..." Logos said with an evil grin as they pulled up to Domino Elementary. "Ormi, stand outside until the brat comes out!"

Ormi nodded as he got out from the limo and stood near the back door. As the kids piled out of the school, they gave him odd looks, because of his outfit, but he ignored them. Suddenly, a boy with long black untamed hair approached him.

"Wow…Big Brother must've come around and allowed Casual Fridays…" He commented.

"Let me guess… Mokuba I presume?" Ormi asked.

He nodded as Ormi then opened the door. "You must be the new guys!" Mokuba stated as he stepped into the backseat of the limo. Ormi then stepped back into his seat as they then drove off.

Mokuba seemed to be very peaceful as he played his Game Boy Advance. He wondered what did his brother thought about Ormi's outfit. He felt as if something weird was going on. His suspicions came true as they then made a turn which was as if they weren't going to the Kaiba Mansion.

"Umm…excuse me, but do you know where you're going?" He asked, tapping on the window between him and the driver. "This isn't the way back to the mansion!"

The window slide down to reveal Logos and Ormi sitting at the front. "Who said we're going to take you home, Little Boy?" Logos replied with a grin.

"Who are you guys?" Mokuba glared at them. "I order you stop this limo at once!"

"We're not taking orders from a little brat!" Ormi stated.

"Just wait until I tell my brother about this! You'll be sorry!" Mokuba stated as his eyes narrowed.

"I'm afraid you won't be doing any talking where you're going." Logo informed.

"What are you guys trying to prove?" Mokuba demanded.

"Simple. You're our ticket out of this wretched universe!" Logos explained.

"Universe? You won't get away with this!" Mokuba shouted as he tried to open the door. He couldn't' care if he would get injured for jumping out of a moving vehicle, as he would've at least been safe from them.

"That won't work Kid it's under a child-protection lock." Ormi laughed. "It appears that we've already have gotten away with it." Logos sighed at Ormi's comment as he continued to drive.

It has been a couple of hours as Yugi and co. searched for Tea. They couldn't find any trace of her, unfortunately so they decided to stay at a place known as a "Pokemon Center."

"We won't find Tea here, Yug…" Tristan declared.

"Yea...We've searched for hours." Joey added.

"We can't give up…" Yugi stated, as his friends looked as if finding Tea was all but hopeless and was about to give up.

Suddenly the door opened as Ash ran in with a beaten-up Pikachu in his arms, followed by Brock, May, and Max.

"Nurse Joy, you gotta help my Pikachu!" He said. Before she could respond, however, Brock jumped in front as he then held her hands towards him.

"Oh, my love… I've found you!" He said, much to Joy's shock as she blushed. "At last I have found you! Your crimson red hair, your beautiful eyes! Allow me to have the honor of-"

But before Brock could finish, annoyed Max pulled him away, much to the reaction of the very disturbed Yugi and company.

"Dat…was weird…" Joey commented.

"Ya, think!?" Tristan responded to his friend's comment.

Recovering from her embarrassment, the red-haired nurse smiled as she took Pikachu and took it into the emergency room. (A/N I don't remember for sure where they take injured pokemon for recovery.)

As Brock was being dragged away, he noticed Serenity as he then gave out a delightful cry of love and rushed towards her. "Oh, it's you! My true love, I have finally found you!"

"Umm…" Serenity gave him a confused and surprised look, not expecting this, as Brock continued.

"Oh, my beautiful angel, take me to heaven! Pleas give me the honor to serenade you with a song!"

"Uhh…"

Before Serenity could respond, Brock began to sing. "♪La-la-la-la la, you are my paradise, you'll live On! O-lay O-la-♪ [2]

He was then jumped by annoyed and angry Joey, more of the latter than the former. "BACK OFF FROM MY SISTA, YA FREAK!"

Tristan joined in on the beating of Brock as well, equally, if not, as angry as Joey. If there was anyone who was going to win Serenity's affections, it was going to be him. He already had enough problems with Duke trying to hit on her, or in Joey's case, both of them, without having Brock joining in on the "Serenity Love Train."

"Tristan, Joey, stop it!" Serenity scolded as they then reluctantly moved away from Brock. She was happy that Brock stopped "worshiping" her, but it could've been done in a more civilized manner instead of the barbaric approach Joey often took.

"Yeah! How dare you do that to our friend!?" May responded as she then checked up on Brock. "Are you okay?"

"I've…felt…better…" Brock said, a bit weakly. After years of flirting with women, he never thought that he would be beaten down by two guys.

"So…" Ash asked, trying to change the subject, "You guys are waiting on your pokemon too!"

"Pokemon?" Joey asked, confused. "We've ran into a bunch'a weirdos earlier talking about the same thing."

Tristan added, "They had this motto, something about Protecting the world from devastation and uniting their people within-"

"Team Rocket!" Ash's group said in unison. "They tried to take your pokemon, too?" Ash asked.

"We don't have pokemon, but as for them, they won't be bothering us for a long time." Yugi explained as suddenly, another flash from the Millennium puzzle was emitted. Yami has returned. "I've sent them away…"

"Away?" Ash responded. He shouldn't be surprised, as he, or Pikachu rather, was the one that always sent them "blasting off," but from the way Yami explained, it was as if it wasn't hard. "To…where…" Ash was almost too scared to ask…

"Please….please…let us out…" James whined as the spirits were approaching him and his comrades. They have tried their best to escape the Shadow Realm, but to no avail…

"We promise we'll be good, I swear!" Meowth pleaded.

"ENOUGH!" Yami Marik snapped, almost getting a migraine. "When will you fools realize that YOU CAN'T ESCAPE THE SHADOW REALM!? If I have to suffer eternity here, I'm going to make sure that your stay here is a living hell as well!"

"We're not going to let you push us around!" Jessie, equally as afraid as James and Meowth, threw out her pokeball. "Go Seviper!"

"Who do you think you are, you creep!?" James threw out his pokeball as well. "Go Cacnea!"

A Seviper and a Cacnea popped out from their pokeballs as the Cacnea then turned around and went to hug James, much to his dismay…

"Not me you numbskull, him…" James tossed Cacnea back towards Yami Marik, but much to Team Rocket's dismay, Marik's deadly glare freaked the pokemon back into their pokeballs.

"Pathetic…" Yami Marik rolled his eyes in disapproval as Team Rocket were frozen into their own fear.

It was night time as Tea sat on top of a bed in the cabin on the airship, settling into her new surrounding as she was writing into her diary:

July 6, 2003

Sometimes I wondered what would've happened if I would've just stayed in Domino, and just see things out the way they were. Should I have stayed and try to talk to them about how things were going between us, or was it the right decision to leave. Yugi, Joey, Tristan, Bakura, I really miss you guys. Even you, Serenity, despite you tried to take everything from me. Maybe I'm over reacting, maybe I'm just hallucinating. All she ever wanted was to have friends, but after seeing them happy without me. It just hurt so much. What does it matter, now? I'm now stuck here in Spira, thanks to those two guys who took the Transphere away from me. I'll never get home, now.

At least I have some new friends here in Spira. They almost remind me of my old friends:

· Rikku:A really good friend to have. The first friend I made since coming to Spira. Every time I feel down, she always managed to cheer me up, always looking at the bright side. She was an Al-Bhed, and from what she told me she, like her people, are experts at machines and, what they call, machina. I don't know what the hell so different about them, they all look the same to me. She also told me that you could tell if a person was Al-Bhed as they usually have blonde hair and swirls in their eyes-don't ask. While we were hanging out at the Thunder Plains, I taught her a bit about duel monsters and not only did she caught on quickly, but she managed to beat me twice in a duel. Could the student have surpassed the master? I doubt it, but then again, Yugi's grandpa couldn't be Kaiba, but Yugi beat him twice(The duel at Duelist Kingdomdoesn't count as Kaiba cheated).

· Paine: I don't know much about her. She isn't exactly the talkative type. Rikku told me that she joined with The Gullwings not too long ago. She reminds me of Kaiba. I never seen either of them smile, unless it was out of anyone's misery. But at least she isn't a heartless creep like Kaiba. All she needs is some friendship and she'll start to loosen up. What am I saying, what good did my friendship speeches ever do?

· Brother:Rikku's brother, the Leader of the Gullwings. Who would name their son, "Brother?" It's probably an Al-Bhed thing, I guess. But then again, at least it wasn't that pervert, Krump, who wanted to take my body. Just imagining him in my body just makes my skin crawl. Back on subject, Brother is a nice guy, but over reacts too much. When I told him where I came from, he was freaked out. Like his sister, when I showed her my Duel Monsters cards, he became very fascinated. When he walked in on me practicing my dancing…let's just say that he now winks at me every time he sees me.

· Buddy:He's an Al-Bhed, like the siblings. He seems nice. He's they guy who always finds the spheres they're after. What's the big deal? People would be willing to pay big money for spheres about Spira's history. Perhaps I should help out, as well. After all, I will have to pull my own weight around eventually.

· Shinra: Take a wild guess what nationality he is. He's a smart guy who created something called a Garment Grid, something which they place some dresspheres on to change into different outfits, like a Black Mage or, get this, a Songstress. If it's anything like a popstar, they must have some fashion sense. The strange thing about him: He's just a kid. But then again, considering Seto Kaiba became the CEO of a huge company at hi sage that shouldn't be that much of a surprise. Currently, he's working on some project, but he won't say a thing to me.

· Yuna: Another person who became my friend. No she's not an Al-Bhed…well not fully. She told me only her mom's an Al-Bhed. Yuna told me that she used to be a High Summoner. Don't ask me, the only "Summoning" I know of is summoning monsters on the field in a duel. Despite the extra length in her untamed hair, and her right eye color's green and her left eye color's blue, we kinda looked alike. She told me the reason why she became a Sphere Hunter was because of a sphere she saw of some guy she knew. I could relate to that. If Yugi was in that guy's position, and then there was a sign that he could be alive, I would've done the same thing she did.

I guess it doesn't seem as bad as I thought. It could be worse. I could be stuck in West City with that luntic. The bright side is that I got a capsule with nearly unlimited amount of space, a pokeball with some bee which they called it "a beedrill," and a clean slate. Besides, now I won't have to go to school and worry about exams, or being abducted by some crazed sicko.

With a soft sigh, Tea closed her diary as she placed it back into her bag. She then slipped into the bed as she then closed her eyes. However, she couldn't help thinking about Yugi, and the rest of her friends at home in Domino. She knew that she wouldn't be going home, anytime soon. She hoped that her friends were at least alright.

Meanwhile, in the Pokemon Center, everyone decided that it would be best to get some sleep for the night. Fortunately trainers were allowed to rest in the Pokemon center for the night. Everyone but Yugi was asleep as he, lying on the bottom bunk bed, was staring up at the bottom of the top bunk bed. There was only one thing on his mind…

The Millennium Puzzle then flashed as an image of Yami stood before him. "Yugi, what's troubling you?" He asked.

"I just can't stop thinking about Tea." He admitted.

"I understand your worry…"

"I mean, she could be anywhere, in any world."

"She wasn't in this one, Yugi!" Yami stated. Ash and his friends have told them earlier that they saw Tea, and then with a press of the Transphere, she was gone. "That's one world down, so she could be in another one."

"I know…but what if we don't find her? And what if we never go back home?" Yugi sighed. "It's all my fault…if only I could've noticed it sooner…we wouldn't even in this mess in the first place…" A tear began to form in his eyes.

"Yugi, don't think about that. We'll find her. I promise…" Yami assured.

"I hope so…"

Yami sighed as he entered back into the puzzle, leaving Yugi to wonder if he'll ever see Tea again…

Back at the Kaiba Estate, Kaiba was just getting home from work as he walked to Mokuba's room. He was expecting Mokuba to be home from school already, doing his homework, but not a trace of him was found. However, he found a pink sphere on his bed. "What the hell is this?" Kaiba examined the sphere as he saw a button. "It wouldn't hurt to check it out…' He said as he pressed the button…

*The setting was at a harbor as Logos appeared on the screen with a smile, "Good evening, Mr. Kaiba." He said. "Now is the time to talk business…"

"The Brat's all tied up and gagged." Ormi said as he approached Logos then noticed that he was recording.

Logos continued, "Let's talk about, let's say, finding away back to Spira. I suggest that you start devising away to send us home, immediately. But now I know what you're thinking right now, 'Why should I do what the Syndicate demands?'" Logos and Ormi moved out of the way to show Mokuba, gagged and tied to an anchor.

Ormi grinned, "It looks like you have a choice. What will it be? Will show up at the harbor and you find us away home and save your brother. Or will you refuse our demands, and allow your brother to fall to his watery grave. His fate is in your hands…" The two Syndicate members let out a sinister laugh as Mokuba tried to struggle out, perhaps to communicate with his brother.*

Kaiba gritted his teeth as the footage ended. He was getting sick of people kidnapping his brother, just to blackmail Kaiba. He figured that at least that they would try something original instead of this. Kaiba sighed as he took out a phone. "Roland! It's me. Bring a limo along with the supplies used to create the Transphere. Fast!" He then placed the phone back into his pocket as he said silently to himself…

"I'm coming, Mokuba…"

A few notes:

[1] I don't exactly know how the Shadow Realm works, so I'm shooting in the dark a bit. Plus thought it'd be a cool idea for someone like Yami Marik to have a Satan-ish like role to give Team Rocket a scare.

[2] I didn't make it up, I got the lyric, well some of them, from an episode of Pokemon Master Quest. I can't remember the name of it, or the rest of the song for that matter, but I remember Brock singing to keep the crowd busy while the others looked for the star's missing Pokemon.

Next chapter, Tea will interact with the Gullwings and might be a bit more. Also, Kaiba goes to Mokuba's rescue and…well…let's just say that there's a possible chance that Kaiba will be in tears…no, I'm not killing off Mokuba. Fangirls would hunt me down for blood.