Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Apocalypse ❯ Blaze of Glory ( Chapter 35 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

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Shadow Mistress: Aten will be reunited with Robbie soon….

Crazy Kins: actually….i've had bad writers blocks for the past few chappies but….i guess I just hide that well. *snickers and hands out Ryou plushies*

Blaze of Glory

Jay looked at the back door of KaibaCorp. The windows in the door and beside the door had been tinted black. Karl peeked between the boxes which shielded them from the Crusaders' bullets.

Jay looked at the trap by the door...something had been placed beside it. "Psst...Donny...that box by the door....Do you see

it?"

Donny peeked his head from the other side of the boxes. "Yeah, why?"

"I don't remember seeing that the last time we did a patrol here."

Karl squinted his eyes to see the small metal box beside it. "I don't like the looks of that thing."

Jay shielded his eyes from the bright morning light that was peeking from behind the Domino cityscape. "I don't either...."

Jay narrowed his eyes and saw a group of wires leading between the closed door and the box. "It has a triggering device. It

must be a bomb."

"A bomb? You sure. Jayden?"

"Why would I joke about there being a bomb at the base of KaibaCorp?"

Karl saw something similar shining in the corner. "Wait a second...."

Karl stood up and walked towards the open when Donny grabbed his arm. "What the hell are you doing, Karl?"

"I think I see something by the bushes there. I want to go check it out."

Jay's eyes widened. "Karl? They have guns in there....lots of them. Every time we get near that door, we have to dodge a

rain of bullets."

"Eventually they're going to run out of bullets," Karl said with a grin. "If we make them use up their ammunition, then

eventually they will run out of ammo to shoot at us. Make sense?"

Donny and Jay blinked.

"Karl, you have balls of steel, but this is a pointless risk," Don said.

"Just cover my ass," Karl said as he focused his eyes on his target.

"Karl? Please, there has to be another way," Jay pleaded.

"Cover me, Jayden.....Trust me."

Karl darted out from behind the walls. He ran behind a picnic table that the employees used for their break. He paused,

waiting for gunfire......

No gunfire.

Karl grinned. "I'm home free!"

He ran towards the building and huddled behind a bush. He kneeled behind the bush and moved the branches out of his way. Behind the bush was a metal box similar to the one by the door.

“Karl, what do you see?” Jay asked.

Karl carefully lifted the box and saw a blinking red light on the bottom. There was no opening or access panel to the box

contents. “I'm not sure what this is. My expertise is knots….not shiny, humming metal boxes.”

Jay gasped. “KARL, GET AWAY FROM THAT THING! NOW!”

A hail of bullets rained down on Karl from the second story window.

Donny and Jay pulled out their pistols and fired at the Crusaders in the window. Jay narrowed his eyes and fired, sending one

Crusader falling back with a scream.

“I got one! Karl! Get back here! We've got you covered!”

Donny and Jay fired at the window, sending the Crusaders ducking for cover from the window. Karl dropped the metal box and

ran back to Donny and Jay.

Jay stopped firing and grabbed Karl's arms. “Don't you dare scare me like that again, you asshole!”

Karl hugged his shaking partner. “I'm sorry, Jayden.”

Donny hid behind the boxes and cursed under his breath. “Damn Crusaders. Karl, what can you say about that box?”

“It didn't have any kind of access panel, but it vibrated in my hand. There was a blinking light on the bottom of it.”

Jay and Karl crouched behind the boxes to hide from the gunfire from the Crusaders on the second floor.

“It hummed?” Donny asked.

“Yeah. I heard clicking in there, too.”

Jay shook his head and wrapped his sweater around himself tighter. “That means there's internal circuitry. If I could get one

of them, I could probably take it apart and see what's inside. I'm afraid it might be a bomb.”

Karl raised an eyebrow. “I didn't see no wires connected to anything.”

“If it doesn't have any external wiring, it could be a bomb that can be activated from a remote control.”

Donny scratched his head. “You know, I've seen those things around the perimeter. On my last survey of the area, I've found

them around.”

Jay swallowed hard. “If they placed explosives around the perimeter……….”

Karl and Donny exchanged worried glances. “Then that means they could have some explosives inside.”

The three men looked up at the tall building.

“With enough explosives, they can take down this entire building,” Jay said.

Karl looked at his partner uncomfortably. “Do you think they will set them off?”

“They have the richest man in America in their custody…..They have access to unfathomable wealth and technological

secrets…..They are a people with a dangerous agenda….what reason do they have for not setting them off?”

Karl and Jay took each other's hand and looked up at the top floor. “We have to help Seto.”

Donny peered beyond the boxes at the metal object by the door. “We have to get a hold of one of the metal boxes and see

if they contain explosive materials.”

Jay poked his head out from behind the boxes. “I can grab one. You both keep me covered.”

Donny held onto Jay's wrist. “I'm not going through this again, Jayden!”

A rain of bullets came from the second floor once again and Jay ducked behind the boxes, covering his head.

“I have to get to one of those boxes!” Jay screamed to Donny and Karl over the raging gunfire. “If I don't dismantle them in

time, KaibaCorp will go up in a blaze of glory!”

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Bakura's POV

“Ryou?!” I called upstairs. “Ryou, come down for dinner!”

Ryou hasn't come out of his room since our fight in the hallway. It's so tempting to go up there and knock down the door!

But….I promised myself that I would not do that anymore.

I saw Marik sitting by the window. His arms and legs were crossed as he looked out of the window pensively. His eye twitched randomly as I watched him.

“Ishtar? What's wrong?”

“………………..”

I turned towards him. “Oh, Ryou gives me the cold shoulder and you're doing the same thing?”

Ishtar turned his head to me slowly. “I'm thinking.”

“I can see that. You've done nothing but sit and rock yourself back and forth on that rocker all day. I'm ready to give you a

hot cup of tea, wrap a shawl around your shoulders, and call you Grandpa. You've been rocking on that thing constantly. Don't

you have to go to work?”

“I'm off today. I can sit in Ryou's rocker if I want.”

He turned his head towards the window. Something is definitely wrong with him and he's not talking.

Malik has no trouble talking…..Aten and Marik were always tight-lipped about everything. Like Father, Like Son. It looks like

I'll have to wheedle Marik's problem out of him the old fashioned way.

I walked up to Marik and kneeled in front of him. I parted his legs and kneeled between them. I tilted his head towards me

and I licked his lips. “Tell me what is troubling you.”

This action always promised to get me one of two things. I could either get Marik to open up and talk. Or it would make Marik want me so much he's throw on the floor, have his way with me, then after a nice hot rough sex session, he'd open up and

talk. Somehow, I got the feeling that this may entail more of the first possibility. Marik didn't look or feel particularly aroused.

“Bakura, Yami, it's time for di----.”

I was thrown back by Marik jumping to his feet. I looked up and saw him pointing an accusatory finger at Malik. “DON'T YOU

DARE EVER CALL ME THAT AGAIN, HIKARI!”

Malik gasped and covered his mouth at Marik's fury. “I'm sorry! I'm sorry, Marik! Please forgive me!”

Malik ran into the kitchen quickly.

I stood up and saw Marik seething furiously. His chest heaved with his fury. His hands were trembling and I could tell they

were itching to hit or punch something.

“Marik Jibade, tell me what is going on,” I said as I stood up.

Marik walked towards the kitchen and I jumped in front of him.

“Talk to me, Jibade. What is going on?”

Marik took a deep breath. “I am not Yami…..I never could be him.”

What's all this about?

“Ishtar, why do you want to be like Yami? You're not a power-wielding, power-hungry jackass.”

“I saw…….”

“You saw what?”

Marik gently moved me aside. “I'm hungry. I want to eat.”

I watched him enter the kitchen calmly, much to my amazement. I can tell Marik's moods by looking at him. He can't hide

anything from me. I know him better than he knows himself.

“Bakura, did you hear if Ryou's coming down?” Malik asked.

A vicious growl from Marik made Malik move his chair closer towards me.

“He hasn't come out of his room. Ishtar, did you talk to him last night?”

Marik's eyes lowered and he looked at the back door, almost as if looking for a way out of the room to avoid the question.

“Ryou……went to the Shadow Realm.”

I began choking on the tea I was swallowing and I coughed violently. “WHAT?! Ishtar, how can he get there? He can't open a

portal anymore than we can.”

“I'm telling you he went to the Shadow Realm and I found him fucking the pharaoh!”

Malik put down his fork. “Ryou? Ryou wouldn't sleep with Yami…not willingly, anyway.”

Marik growled again. “Oh no, it was consensual!”

I heard the upstairs bedroom door open and Ryou ran into the bathroom.

“Yami was blabbering some shit about Ryou carrying his heir.”

I stood up quickly. “Tell me you're lying!”

Marik stood up and put his palms on the table. He leaned over and his hair spiked. “Why would I lie about this?”

Ishtar was right. He had no reason to lie.

“Ryou can't get pregnant anymore, Ishtar.”

“Do we know this?”

Bakura nodded. “Remember? After we destroyed Anubis when the kids were born, we took Ryou to the hospital? We had Zira

do a scan. Ryou didn't have a womb anymore. How can he carry the fetus, is he going to put it in a box on the bureau?”

Malik shivered. “That would be creepy.”

“Ryou can't be pregnant, Ishtar. It's just not going to happen. If Ryou could have gotten pregnant, we would have had a herd

of our demon spawn running around here tearing this place apart.”

Malik giggled. “A herd of Ishtar demon spawn…..”

“Hell, Marik, we could have populated a small city with our kids alone if Ryou could have gotten pregnant.”

“Yami can control life and death with his item! What makes you think he can't make Ryou bear him an heir even if he doesn't

have a womb?”

Is Marik serious about this?

“Marik, the fetus needs a womb to grow inside! There is no womb in Ryou!”

“Itemri, Royal Magic can do ANYTHING!”

I stood up. “Let me talk to Ryou.”

“Will Ryou talk to you, Bakura?”

“I have to try.”

I left the room and walked up the stairs. I heard Ryou puking his guts out in the bathroom. I knocked on the door. Maybe

there was a chance I could talk to him and have him take me back.

“Ryou, it's Bakura.”

Ryou coughed and spit in the bathroom. “Go away!”

“Ryou, do you need me to get anything for you?”

Ryou opened the door and he pushed me back. “Get away from me! I told you I was okay!”

I stepped back. “Ryou, did you sleep with Yami?”

Ryou smiled. “Jealous?”

“How could you?! You know what that son of a bitch put you through! You know what he put Aten through and yet you chose to

sleep with him?!”

“We're no longer together, Bakura! Why should you care what I do?”

I clenched my teeth and my fists. I could feel the blood pumping through my veins. I could feel myself grow angry as I

remembered Aten telling us what Yami had done after his abduction by Charlie, Vinnie, and Yami. Aten had told us what Yami

had made him do. The thought of Aten being harmed by that pharaoh fueled my rage.

"Your own son was hurt by that son of a bitch and you sound okay with that!"

"Aten probably deserved it!"

I could feel blind rage beginning to take over. Aten did not deserve what that sadistic fucker did to him! Aten was just a little boy...much like I was when I serviced my first Noble.

Before I knew it, Ryou was on the floor holding a red cheek. "You hit me?!"

"You're damn right I hit you! You deserved that!" I bellowed furiously.

I heard familiar footsteps and Marik and Malik arrived at the top of the steps...no doubt to tear us apart if Ryou and I engaged in another brawl.

"How dare you hit someone who's pregnant!"

"Damn it, Ryou, you are not pregnant!"

"Yes I am!"

I growled angrily. "No, you are not! You don't have a womb! YOU. DON'T. HAVE. A. WOMB! There's no possible way you could bear a child!"

Ryou smiled at me smugly. "The pharaoh can change me....like Anubis did. He has that power and I willingly carry his child."

I grabbed Ryou and picked him up off of the floor. "You are a bastard, Ryou! How dare you speak that way about Aten!”

“I'm no longer loyal to you, Bakura. That I do not hide. But I will continue this pregnancy and bear Yami an heir to the throne!”

I shoved Ryou into the wall. “I refuse to have someone I love bear the heir of a soundrel!”

“What are you going to do? Terminate my pregnancy?”

I narrowed my eyes at Ryou. “There's nothing to terminate. You're not with child. I'm not continuing this conversation any further. I'm done.”

The sound of the door opening stopped our argument.

Malik ran down the steps. “Aten! Aten! Marik!”

Marik and I ran down the steps and found Aten hunched over unconscious against Malik. His clothes looked disheveled. His neck had a bruise.

What the hell happened?

I helped Malik drag Aten over to the couch. Lucky for us, this kid still barely weighs one hundred pounds.

Malik ran for a wet rag and Marik held Aten's hand.

“Itemri…..there's another reason why I was quiet before dinner. The other day I went to find Aten. I found out that his friend, Kadin, touched him….and he didn't like it. Kadin continued despite Aten telling him to stop.”

I looked at Aten, sleeping on the couch. His pulse was good….his breathing appeared to be steady….What would make him collapse?

Malik returned and Ryou walked down the steps slowly. Malik put a cold cloth on Aten's face and patted his cheek lightly to try to rouse him from his sleep.

Ryou stood behind me without worry or even concern coming through our mindlink.

Ryou felt nothing.

He wasn't afraid.

He wasn't angry.

He felt nothing.

How could he not? His son was laying here in an unconscious heap and he felt nothing?

Marik rubbed Aten's hand. “Aten was very upset about what Kadin did to him.”

I lifted Aten's shirt and found Aten's pants unfastened and his zipper down. “Either Aten forgot how to dress himself, or someone beat the living hell out of him.”

The phone rang and Malik picked it up.

Normal POV

[Ishtar-Itemri Residence.]

//Hi, Malik…umm…..is Bakura there?//

[Otogi? Otogi, what's wrong?]

//Well….umm….someone broke into our apartment.//

[Oh, that's awful!]

//I found a whole bunch of white hair here….and blond. I wondered if Bakura and Marik came over for something. I know you guys have a key to our apartment in case of emergencies, but do you know if either of them came into the apartment.//

“Marik, did you or Bakura go into Otogi and Tristan's apartment recently?”

Bakura's POV

Go into Tristan and Otogi's place? The only reason I would go in there is to borrow some food, steal Tristan's dirty magazines, and borrow a few frilly, lacy panties from Otogi.

“No, we were here all day. We didn't go out.”

[No, Otogi….they didn't go out…………uh-huh….okay…..blood?.....pill bottle? Aten's Digoxin pill bottle?!...No, I don't know why

Aten would be there in the first place. No, he doesn't have a key to your place……I don't know how he got into your place

without a key…..Really? Oh, Otogi, we're sorry……we'll replace the table….and the couch…..Aww…I'm sorry to hear that, Otogi. I'm sure Skylar has a good home now…..a new foster child? You're thinking of keeping her? That would be so great! I know

you and Tristan will be good parents….Yeah, okay, Otogi. I'll have Bakura and Marik come over later to look at the place.

Maybe they can sense something there…..Okay. Get the chibi in the bath….Bye, Otogi.]

Malik hung up the phone. “Otogi found Aten's pill bottle in his apartment. He says he went to take Skylar out to lunch and

when he got home, he found the door had been opened and his apartment a wreck. His couch, a table, and the carpet has

blood on it.”

I shot a glance at Marik, who reached out and was rubbing Aten's stomach. “My poor boy,” he whispered.

“Otogi doesn't understand how Aten got in there without a key. He had it locked.”

I couldn't help but laugh. “Malik, Aten and Aria grew up in a household where both of their fathers were expert thieves. These

kids did not grow up without learning how to pick a lock and break out of handcuffs. What's all this about us going over

there?”

“I just figured that you could sense something if you went over there. Aten wouldn't break into Otogi's apartment…especially

not alone. Besides, it looks like Aten was beaten up. Look at that bruise on his neck! I'm willing to bet someone caught him

in Tristan and Otogi's apartment and beat the shit out of him.”

Aten's eyes started to open and he gave a whimper of pain and shifted his hips on the chair. “What…..Who?....Where am I?”

“Aten, you're home. Do you remember how you got here?”

Aten shook his head. “No…I was……going to the….pharmacy…….to pick up…my med---medi-c-a-tion. I remember

seeing….Kadin…”

Marik narrowed his eyes beside me. “Kadin did this? He hurt you again?”

Aten shook his head and gripped onto Marik's hand. “Dad…..”

Marik narrowed his eyes. “I'm going after the punk! Aten , where does he live?”

“I…..I don't remember….”

Marik ran out the door.

Great.

Just great.

“Aten, you were in Otogi's apartment, were you?”

Aten clenched his eyes tightly and I saw him start to cry. I held him against me and I stroked his hair. “Now, now, Chibi

Ishtar….no tears.”

Ryou's irritation sounded loud and clear between our mindlink. /Grow the fuck up, Aten./

//Ryou, the boy is in pain.//

/He's a teenager. Boys his age don't cry./

//I remember you crying when you were his age.//

/………………/

//I thought so.//

Aten struggled to sit up and he held onto me tightly. Malik sat behind him and rubbed his back. Between Malik and I, I knew

we would have our hands full.

Psycho Ryou….

Pissed Marik…..

And a Dazed and Confused Chibi Ishtar.

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Jay eyed the metal box by the wall one more time. `I'm going to get it this time….if I don't succeed, everyone in that building

may die.'

Karl and Donny cocked their weapons and aimed their weapons at the second floor window. Karl looked at his partner.

“Jayden, do me a favor.”

“Yeah, Karl?”

“Don't die.”

Jay gave his partner a little smile. “I won't. Just keep my tools here and cover my ass….WITHOUT STARING AT IT, KARL!”

Karl snapped his fingers. “Why can't I stare at your ass?”

Donny rubbed his temples. “Boys, this is not helping. Focus!”

Jay looked at the bush by the building. “I can get it. Leave it to me.”

Donny and Karl aimed their weapons at the second floor. “One………..Two……………R 30;……….Three.”

Jay bolted from behind the boxes and ran towards the bush. The bellowing of gunfire opened from the second floor window

and aimed all around him. Jay reached into the bush and grabbed the metal box that was hidden behind it. Jay crouched in

the corner as the gunfire increased.

Karl took another gun by his hip and fired both guns at the window. The firing from the window ceased and Jay bolted back

behind the boxes.

He sat down, panting heavily, clutching onto the box.

Karl hugged his partner. “Great job, Jay! You okay, buddy?”

“Yeah, with the exception as being used as target practice!”

Donny handed Jay his tools. “Open it up.”

Jay turned the box over and under in his hands. He quickly unscrewed the lid and saw a wire that connected to a remote

controlled activation system. He quickly severed it so the bomb would not explode from the remote location.

Jay examined the battery and the liquid in tubes beside it. “A bomb!”

“Those things are all over the perimeter!”

Jay looked closely at the material inside the metal box. “Don, I know this stuff….just an ounce of this stuff is explosive

enough to take down five KaibaCorp buildings.”

“Meaning…….one push of a button is all it will take to reduce the building to ashes….and killing everyone inside….including Seto

and the Kaiba Family.”

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