Not Very Clever Bad Guys

“So…”

Yugi frowned as he heard Joey’s footsteps stop and turned to look at his best friend. “Joey?”

“Is it polyjuice or a disguise charm?” Joey asked, considering him carefully.

“Wha… what do you…?” Yugi stammered.

“I know you’re not under mind control,” Joey continued, projecting a false sense of calm, while under the surface his emotions were boiling, it had been hard enough for him to follow this fraud this long, “So it has to be one of the above, because I know Yugi’s evil twin, and you’re not him.”

“I never said I…” Yugi stepped backwards, “Joey, please, we have to find the others…”

“Come off it, I know you’re not really concerned about the others.” Joey growled, stance turning threatening, “I only followed you to make sure you weren’t the real Yugi.”

“What are you talking about?” Yugi asked, nervously backing away from Joey, “Of course I’m the real Yugi.”

“Please.” Joey’s scowl froze Yugi in place, “Yugi would never get the names of his friends wrong, or mix up the names of the Duel Monsters in his deck, so I ask again, polyjuice or a disguise charm?”

‘Yugi’ smirked. If Joey had had any doubts left, they were washed away by the foreignness of the look, “Polyjuice.”

“Thought so.” Joey snorted, “Where’s the real Yuge?”

“Oh don’t worry, he’s fine… for now at least. As long as he keeps following you around, he’ll be kept safe.” ‘Yugi’ replied, nonchalantly, “Well, obviously he’s not following you, but you understand what I’m getting at.”

Joey growled, causing ‘Yugi’ to smirk.

“And your plan is?” Joey questioned, his anger obvious.

“Why would I tell you?” ‘Yugi’ laughed in disbelief.

“Because that’s what bad guys do typically?” Joey snorted back, only restraining himself from going and pounding the information out of the bad guy because he was wearing Yugi’s face, which had probably been part of the plan.

“Well I’m not your typical bad guy.”

“No, you’re someone stupid enough to impersonate my best friend.” Joey growled, taking a step forward and scaring ‘Yugi’ into taking a step back, “It’s bad enough that you thought you could fool me with a fake Yugi, but if you tried it with Yami there’s going to be hell to pay.”

The Fake Yugi blanched slightly and looked down the right corridor, confidence fading for a few seconds.

Joey smirked slightly, “Yami’s going to wipe the floor with whoever you’ve sent to trick him, and then he’ll hunt down everyone that helped him. I’m looking forward to joining up with him and helping.”

“You’re not going anywhere.” ‘Yugi’ activated his Duel Disk, shuffled his deck and put it in the deck slot.

“Fine, I’ll kick your ass then find my friends.” Joey did the same. This was too weird. He knew the person he was facing wasn’t Yugi, but whoever it was, was a very good actor… he’d have to watch that didn’t put him off if he wanted to win this Duel.

“Ok then Joey,” ‘Yugi’ said, a little slowly and a little sadly, the villain throwing himself back into the role in order to throw him off, “It’s time to Duel.”