“S...Stay
away!” Kari stopped mid step at the feminine, frightened yelp, causing Tristan
to barrel into her and knock her over. The pair tumbled to the ground, crashing
into a tree and ending up in a tangled heap at its base.
“Oh
shi...!” A man squawked just before a a bright burst of purple light bounced between
the trees. Two men bellowed in pain, and then a girl darted past them, a Duel
Monster following her.
Kari
recognised the Duel Monster, for all its unusual colouring it looked like a
Dark Magician Girl and there was only green variant of that card in
circulation.
“Danielle.”
Kari called to the player the monster was protecting, wondering what the hell
was going on.
The
reporter glanced over her shoulder at them, paused, then stopped, her Duel
Monster, Maddie, getting between her and them. “I...” She started, frustration
obvious as she glanced in the direction she had come from.
“There
she is!”
Dani
squeaked as a couple of men, these ones dressed much differently from the ones
who had tried to grab her on the boat. She recognised them though, or rather their
uniforms and she gestured for her Dark Magician Girl to deal with them.
The
mooks were prepared, the magician’s attack was sucked into a vortex of wind and
disappeared.
Tristan
didn’t give them a chance to counter attack, startling Kari by leaving her side
and swinging for one of the mooks, taking him out with one powerful punch.
Danielle’s Dark Magician Girl blasted the other one, sending him crashing into
a tree and making him drop the bleeping object in his hand.
Kari
scooped it up, trying to work out what it was. She took two steps back, pacing slightly
as she poked and prodded at the touch screen before cussing profusely.
“Kari?”
Tristan asked.
“It’s
a tracker.” She informed him, showing him the machine, which was clearly
tracking Danielle. “I don’t know what the signal’s coming from but...oh...” She
turned to Danielle, “The only new thing you’ve got on you is your DimDisk
right?”
Dani
nodded, taking it off and passing it to Tristan when Kari asked her too. Her
suspicions were confirmed when Tristan wandered off and they tracked him down
easily only to find he had had to knock out another pair of goons.
“They’re
tracking our DimDisks?” Dani scowled, “No wonder I couldn’t lose them.”
“I’m
not surprised.” Kari shrugged, “Kaiba’s Duel Disks do the same thing. My boss
said it was to ensure that he could find out if any of his players decided to
go awol during the tournament or enter any restricted areas.”
“Is
it legal?” Dani demanded, angry that she hadn’t known about any of this.
“I
assume so.” Kari replied, having wondered that herself and never gotten a straight
answer from anyone within the company. “But is this really the time to be
asking that?”
“She
has a point.” Tristan nodded, “Pass that to me?”
Kari
chucked him the tracker and he poked at the screen until he called up the list
of Duellists tapped Yugi’s name. The little dot on screen appeared halfway
across the island, but not where they had expected it to be. Instead it looked
like Yami was heading for the castle.
“Huh.”
Tristan showed Kari.
“If
Yami’s heading for the castle, we should probably go that way too.” Kari said,
thinking aloud, “You don’t have to come with us.” She offered as she looked at
Dani, “Since you’re trying to avoid the goons.”
“Oh
no, I want to get in the castle.” Dani corrected her, “I just have no intention
of ending up as someone’s prisoner again. It wasn’t much fun last time so
excuse me if I don’t go for a repeat.”
“Why
don’t you stick with us.” Tristan suggested as he started for the castle, Kari
in tow. “Though you might want to ditch the DimDisk if you don’t want them
following you.”
Dani
paused, having not thought of that before now. When she tried to remove her
deck from the slot, however, the DimDisk let out a high pitched screech and a
metal guard slid up and across to cover the deck, something similar happening
to her graveyard, leaving her with only the green Dark Magician Girl available.
“Hey!”
Kari yelped when something similar happened to her DimDisk, preventing her from
accessing anything that wasn’t in the hand she had already drawn from her deck.
Tristan,
who didn’t have a deck and had discarded his DimDisk early into their travels,
scowled. “So, just you two? Or everyone?”
“THIS
IS AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO ALL PLAYERS.” Kari hadn’t known the island was rigged
with speakers until a voice started booming out of them, “WE CURRENTLY HAVE A
HACKING ISSUE. ALL PLAYERS MUST RETURN TO THE CASTLE TO HAVE THIER DIMDISK
RESET WITH THE UPDATED SECURITY PROTOCOLS TO ALLOW GAMEPLAY TO CONTINUE.”
“Hacking
issue my behind.” Kari frowned, “Unless...” She sighed, “Unless my boss is
repaying the favour.”
“What
do you mean?” Dani asked, well aware that Kari worked for Kaiba Corp.
“I’ll
explain on the way.”
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