In the Mood (Part 2)

DIMENSION: ANIME (The One That Pays to Save the Day)

Téa heard everyone down below again. "Yeah, I know! I still don't get why I'm up here either," she yelled back down.

"Yes you do. A part of you does," Bastet said toward her. "An ancient part of you has had the suspicion for some time."

Oh. That wasn't fun. Téa looked toward Taweret. The way Sekhmet was holding Masika. "We're not important enough for . . ."

"You are perfect," Bastet announced to her. "It has been thousands of years since even a simple god was born again, that even Taweret wanted to come down."

///Téa: No./// "But? Just . . . not really . . . you know, we are sort of human? Not like you, but I mean, me and Masika? Human? Can't?"

"How is Horakhty created Téa?" Bastet asked her as Sekhmet finally lowered Masika and started to groom her head.

"The cards. The . . . " ///Téa: Stop trembling, Téa!/// "Winged Dragon of Ra, Obelisk, and Slifer the Sky Dragon."

"Where did we put Masika at first to bond with you again?" she once again asked for something she probably already knew.

" . . . a c-card."

"What do cards do? How does the player become more powerful in the face of enemies?" Bastet asked. "Think back to how your games are played. What do you do with weaker cards?"

Téa sucked on her lip. Weaker cards. "They can be combined with trap or magic cards. They can be . . .?" Oh. She really didn't want to say that word, but it looked like Bastet wanted her to. "They can be given more defense power, and they can sometimes join with other cards depending on their ability."

"And?" Bastet urged her.

"They can be put in defense." Téa didn't want to say it.

"They can be sacrificed, for a stronger monster," Masika said for her as Sekhmet continue to groom her.

"We are humans, we can't be sacrificed! I mean, what good would that do?!" Téa felt like she was freaking out. "There's no way just little us equals 33 million people, right? We're just meaningless when you think of it that way."

"Oh, she's so scared." Bastet scooped Téa up like she was the cat in her large arms. "Don't be scared, Part of First Tear of Ra. Of course you aren't worth anything alone except nostalgia. The key word to the thinking is 'combination'. Infusion and de-fusion, creates gods. Hathor was split apart, defused, to be Sekhmet and I. Horakhty is infused of three gods, Ra, Slifer, and Obelisk."

"Okay, let's do this!" Sekhmet said as she used her magic to lift Masika upward. Téa watched as a big white glow started to appear behind Sekhmet.

"Sekhmet doesn't like long explanations, sorry." Bastet lifted Téa as well, while more white big glowy orbs showed behind them. Bastet leaped backward into the light, as well as Sekhmet.

"I have a bad feeling about this!" Téa looked toward Masika and tried to hold her hand as she felt herself being flung into a huge light orb.

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"What's going on already?" Yugi could see a lot of light going on top of the building.

"I don't care the risk, we gotta get up there," Joey insisted.

"Atem?" Yugi asked. "What do you think?"

"He doesn't know anything, he's royalty," the Bandit King answered. "I'm going up."

"Are we sure about this?" Bakura asked him as he followed him and Joey.

"Wait, there's something coming down," Atem warned them. There were large white orbs and-

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"Got some bad feelings about this," Joey said as he watched everyone there but him get pulled into glowing orbs and moving toward the top of the building. Should he go back to his sister and Mai? Kaiba was there. "Something's going on, and I've gotta find out what." He headed upward into the building. It was a simple hotel, so he got a room on the top floor. He went up the elevator and then found the emergency exit.

By the time he got up there he saw Téa and Masika on the ground, resting in some gold blankets, with Sekhmet and Bastet around them.

Sekhmet roared at him, but Bastet made it easier.

"The ladies will join you soon. They are resting. Go seek the others, they went back to the ground."

Yeah, they looked like they were resting. They were kind of glowing too. Like a lot. Should he leave? ///Joey: Yeah, yeah. Lion saying she don't care if I live to see if my kid is born right now./// He headed back down. The white orbs were hanging around the back of the hotel where they had hollered before. "Hey, guys? Can you leave the big white . . . orb things? Hello?" Nothing.

He waited a little while. Kicked a rock around on the ground for a bit when he watched one of the orbs spit up one of his friends. Oh, not one of his friends.

Bandit King growled as he pulled himself out the ground. "Fucking blasted- the fuck was that?!" He looked at himself and then toward Joey. "Are you waiting to take a picture?"

"Naw." Joey glared right back. "Don't flatter yourself. What happened?"

"I don't know. We were sucked up and then spit out."

Yugi tumbled out next. Also definitely naked, but a lot more upset about it. He crawled behind a trashcan. "What the heck happened? Where are my clothes?"

Joey heard a yell as he watched another one come through. The other friendly Bakura. "Hey, Bakura. You'll probably be naked, and I don't have any clothes for anybody. Sorry." At least he could apologize.

"Thanks?" Bakura went behind the trashcan.

He watched Atem leave the orb, but he landed on his feet. Still, he looked at himself and didn't seem happy. He joined Yugi and Bakura behind the trashcan.

"Joey? Could you go and get some clothes? We can't really go anywhere like this," Yugi warned him.

"Yes please," the friendly Bakura announced. "We can't help anyone if we are naked, Joey."

"Okay, okay. I'll try to get something for everyone." Ooh. "You think Téa and Masika will need some clothes too? They're wrapped in big blankets up there, and those goddesses didn't want me getting close."

"Why the hell is Masika gaining any of this attention?" The meaner Bakura said as he just walked away being naked like it didn't bother him a bit. "She was trash of Egypt, just like me, what is going on around here? Why am I naked? Why was I thrown into huge orbs of light with the likes of all of you?"

"I don't know," Joey said. "You stay here, you're gonna get seen by people and arrested. We should figure out what's going on. Home isn't far."

"He's right," Bakura urged him. "Please stay here."

"Oh, fine, but I'm not hiding with all the trash," he said, "or any of the garbage either."

Yeah, yeah, he could joke all he wanted, he didn't need ladies seeing a naked angry mean spirited guy heading toward them. Joey arrived at the Game Shop and saw Mai, Serenity, and Seto Kaiba all there. "So? Yugi and everybody else got sucked up by some magic and spat back out. They're kind of all naked though, so I need to get inside and get some clothes."

"And that's just the beginning," Kaiba said to him. "I'm telling you, you should have kept your card. Things are going to get worse, not better."

"The hospital called," Serenity told him. "They said Tristan is starting to become responsive. We are all going to go down and make sure he really is okay once Kaiba's escort gets here."

"Nyah, hah, see?" Joey looked toward Kaiba. There's no way he could bother Serenity about a real relationship now. It would last until Skeezy was out of the picture, and that was the end of this thing with Serenity and him. He wasn't real fond of Tristan being Serenity's boyfriend, but he was way better than having Seto Kaiba. "Clothes."

"Not my place. Ransack it all you want," Kaiba said as Joey passed by.

"Hey, I'm fine by the way," Mai called out to him. "I'm heading out with Kaiba to go see Honda too."

"Probably a good idea," Joey said. "Sorry. I know this is all weird. We'll get a chance to relax at my place soon. You still got the key?"