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Mystery Duelist II
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Original Air Date: Novermber 16, 2002
(Previously <1:08>)
(Opening)
ACT 1 <2:08>
(A black haze seems to have settled into the air surrounding the abandoned warehouse in which the duel continues. Yugi's lifepoints stand at 1500. Spiked into his duel platform just below the lifepoint counter is the Millennium Puzzle, hanging by its chain.)
Yugi (think): I've got to figure out a way to take control of this duel; and win back my Millennium Puzzle. I just wish I didn't have to do it *all alone*. Sure could use my friends right about now...
(Bandit Keith's flat, vacant eyes stare back at him. The brash former intercontinental champion is definitely not himself.)
Bandit Keith/Marik: Make your move, Yugi; it's all over, anyway.
(Yugi gasps a breath, then returns his eyes to his cards, ignoring the taunts.)
Bandit Keith/Marik: You're just prolonging your defeat; it's quite *pathetic*, actually. Stare at your deck all you want; there's not a card in there that can take on my powerful Zera the Mant! This duel is *over*!
(Yugi draws the top card of his deck.)
Yugi (think): The Koumori Dragon. Ahh, he's *right*! It's *not* strong enough to attack Zera. (aloud) I play my monster in defense mode!
(Yugi's set monster glows beneath the surface of the field.)
Yugi: It's your move!
(Behind Bandit Keith's blank, lifeless blue eyes...)
Marik: Ha! I knew it! *His deck is weak*! Just like a rodent in the grasp of a rattlesnake, <3:00> *little Yugi* doesn't stand a chance!
(The distant puppeteer who controls Bandit Keith's mind sits, cloaked in purple, on a plain golden throne emblazoned with the same eye symbol found on the Millennium Items. Something shines golden in his hand.)
Marik: He may've beaten Bandit Keith in *Duelist Kingdom*, but he'll find that dueling *me* will be a much more *difficult* challenge!
(Bandit Keith picks up a card, glances at it, and plays.)
Bandit Keith/Marik: First I play Seiyaryu, in attack mode.
[Seiyaryu 2500/2300//light]
(Pronounced say-AR-oo. It is a relatively small pink dragon or pterodactyl. Something glints in Bandit Keith's eye.)
Bandit Keith/Marik: And for my next maneuver...
(Behind the cover of his hand of cards, Keith uses his up-the-sleeve card concealer to add cards to his hand. He pulls Magic Jammer from it and replaces it with Ground Attacker Bugroth from his hand. Other cards in his hand currently include Solemn Judgement and two others, Curse of Fiend and TYG051_id1. He places a facedown card.)
Bandit Keith/Marik: I place this card facedown.
Marik: I'll unleash its wrath when the time is right!
(He's thinking of the devastating effect of Magic Jammer.)
Bandit Keith/Marik: And now-- last but not least-- "Stop Defense"! It forces the card you played in defense mode, to switch to attack mode!
(Yugi's Koumori Dragon appears on the field.)
[Koumori Dragon ///]
Yugi: My Koumori Dragon!
Bandit Keith/Marik: Is revealed, and since it's now in attack mode, I can destroy it! Zera the Mant, Jagged Claw Attack!
(Zera slices at Koumori Dragon, and it shatters.)
Bandit Keith/Marik: The end is near, little Yugi. <4:00>
(Yugi is starting to look scared; his lifepoints have just decreased to 400. Something glints in Keith's eyes again.)
Marik: And with it will come a new beginning-- *my* beginning, for soon, *I* will be the keeper of that Millennium Puzzle!
(Yugi leans on his console, teeth clenched, shaking, refusing to give up. He looks down toward the Millennium Puzzle.)
Yugi (think): There's no way I'm letting this mind-controlling *freak* get his hands on *my* Puzzle! (aloud) This duel's not over-- whoever you are. I'll never give up!
(Yugi draws, then adds the card to his hand and sets another monster.)
Yugi: I'm placing a monster in defense mode!
Bandit Keith/Marik: Your feeble defenses bore me. Seiyaryu, attack with Razor Flare Blast!
(In the face of the blast, Mystical Elf appears, chanting and mumbling. She dissolves into the flames. Yugi shields his face.)
[Mystical Elf ///]
Bandit Keith/Marik: I'll also place two *more* cards on the field.
(He places two facedown spells or traps.)
Bandit Keith/Marik: And switch Zera the Mant, to defense mode. Confused? This move will become clear to you *soon enough*!
Yugi (draw, think): Huh! Now *this* is more like it! <5:00> (aloud) This card facedown; then Dark Magician in defense mode.
[Dark Magician 2500/2100//]
Yugi: Finally, I play "Magical Hats" to hide him!
(Yugi's card forms a big top hat that conceals the Dark Magician, then duplicates itself. There are now four identical hats on Yugi's field.)
Yugi: Now you'll have to *find* my Dark Magician in order to attack him!
Bandit Keith/Marik: Hm. I shoud've seen that coming. Oh wait-- I did. So I'll play Magic Jammer! Sorry, Yugi; but once I sacrifice a card from my hand, "Magic Jammer" allows me to disable your magic card. Say goodbye to your Magical Hats, and hello to your Dark Magician!
(A glowing seal appears, then mauve-black smoke pours from it. The Magical Hats shatter; and Dark Magician is a sitting duck.)
Yugi: Oh no! My Dark Magician's exposed!
Bandit Keith/Marik: And now I'll play *this*; it's a magic card called "Curse of Fiend", Yugi. It forces both of our monsters on the field to switch from whatever mode they're *in* to the opposite. So therefore, all monsters in attack mode go into defense mode, and vice versa. Since I put Zera in defense mode before, <6:00> it switches to attack mode now.
(The effect of Curse of Fiend hits Zera and Seiyaryu, switching the former to attack mode and the latter to defense mode. Then it strikes Dark Magician, and he switches to attack mode.)
Bandit Keith/Marik: And so does your Dark Magician! Zera-- attack now!!
Yugi: Nice try-- but now I activate "Mirror Force"! It reflects Zera's attack *right back at you*!
(Zera's slashing rays bounce off a prismatic wall in front of Dark Magician.)
Bandit Keith/Marik: Ha! I'll block your reflection with a little "Solemn Judgement"!
(An old man in shepherd's garb, flanked by angels, appears in front of Zera, catches the blast, and it bounces back toward Yugi again, shaping itself into a claw.)
Yugi: No way! How did you block my Mirror Force reflection?
Bandit Keith/Marik: Solemn Judgment's another of my *rare and powerful cards*! I have to give up half of my lifepoints to use it, but in exchange I'm allowed to remove the last card my opponent played! Your Mirror Force is *shattered*!
(The prismatic wall disappears, once again leaving Dark Magician vulnerable. The claw of light strikes through him, and he disappears. Yugi is speechless. His lifepoints decrease to 100 from the attack, Bandit Keith's to 250 from 500, for using Solemn Judgement.)
Bandit Keith/Marik: It may've cost me two-hundred-fifty lifepoints, but that's a small price to pay; because now, little Yugi, I'm one attack away from winning your Puzzle.
ACT 2 <6:52>
(Yami Bakura now stands before the run-down warehouse. Dark fog seems to linger in the air around it.)
Yami Bakura (think): I know the Millennium Puzzle is beyond those doors. <7:00> But my Ring is sensing *stronger mystical energies* than it's ever sensed before. Dark energies from the Shadow Realm.
(Yami Bakura is soon inside, on a railed platform overlooking the room.)
Yami Bakura (think): I'm getting closer. I can *feel it*...!
(Then he looks down.)
Yami Bakura (think): What's this?
(He is standing above Yugi's end of the arena, with a good view of the match.)
Yami Bakura (think): A *dueling arena*? They're *battling for the Millennium Puzzle*...!
(He's spotted also where the Millennium Puzzle is bolted to the side of the arena.)
(Yugi prepares to draw.)
Yugi (think): Okay. Come on, deck-- I believe in you! I *know* you'll come through for me!
(He draws-- and it's a good card!)
Yugi: I'm placing a magic card facedown, and a monster in defense mode. Now-- let's see what you've got!
Bandit Keith/Marik: You'll regret those words...
Marik: ...Little Yugi. You may've gotten *this* far, but my patience is *growing thin*. It's time to end this duel, and claim the power that is mine!
Yugi: You'll *never* get my Millennium Puzzle!
(Keith takes another card from his wristband-holder.)
Bandit Keith/Marik: Guess again; "Tribute To the Doomed"!
Yugi: Whoa! That's one of the rarest magic cards in the *game*!
Bandit Keith/Marik: Very perceptive, Yugi. <8:00> Tribute To the Doomed is one of my *personal favorites*. It allows me to annihilate any monster *you* have on the field!
(A mummy appears out of the card, and its bandages reach like tentacles for Yugi's facedown monster.)
Yugi: Better think again!
(Yugi flips his facedown; Living Arrow, identifiable with the TCG card "Spell Shattering Arrow".)
Bandit Keith/Marik: It can't be!
Yugi: It is! The Living Arrow, which takes any magic attack aimed at *me*, and fires it-- *right back at you*!
(The arrow fires, and strikes against the bandages, turning them back; they wrap around Zera the Mant instead, and it gets dragged down off the field by a huge hand.)
Bandit Keith/Marik: No! Zera!
(Yami Bakura is watching this whole time, the Ring shining on his chest.)
Yami Bakura (think): Fascinating. It appears the shadow magic energies I detect are within Yugi's *opponent*. Bandit Keith is just a puppet, under the control of an evil master. Well, *this* puppet show is *over*-- for *I alone* shall possess the Millennium Puzzle! (aloud) Ring, sever the strings that bind this man!
(The Millennium Ring seems to resonate, and its center begins to glow.)
Yami Bakura: Free his mind from the Shadow Realm! <9:00>
(After a moment, Bandit Keith's flat, listless face pops; his eyes are wide and staring, his jaw slack, in an expression of desperation.)
Bandit Keith: Ahh...!
(The mystery puppeteer's golden scepter nearly slips from his grip.)
Marik (think): What happened?! My Millennium spell over Keith has been broken! But how?! *Only another Millennium Item* can sever a connection so strong!
(Keith hunches over the duel console, disoriented.)
Bandit Keith: Huh...! Where am I?! And what on *earth* am I wearing?!
(The robe seems to be the least of his troubles, though; next he notices his opponent, and the King of Games is ready to take him down.)
Yugi: It looks like your so-called *unbeatable* Zera the Mant card is *ancient history*! Now it's time for me to win this duel once and for all and take back my Millennium Puzzle!
Bandit Keith: Yugi Muto?! What're *you* doin' here!
(Then his mouth opens in a silent scream, eyes wide with desperation, as the sorcerer tries to regain his grip.)
Bandit Keith: Aaghh..!
Yugi: Bandit Keith...! You're back!
(The mind-puppeteer raises his Millennium Item.)
Marik: Keith-- Your resistance is pathetic. You belong to *me now*, so pick up those cards, and win me that Puzzle!
(Bandit Keith's eyes are wide in a sweat-soaked face.)
Marik (VO): ...Like a *good mind-slave*.
(Bandit Keith holds his head, shouting, then coldly cuts himself off as he struggles for control of his mind.)
Bandit Keith: There's someone inside my head!
Bandit Keith/Marik: Shut up and duel!!
Yugi: Keith?
Bandit Keith: Go awa-a-a-a-a-ay!!!
Yugi: Bandit Keith! Who is it that's trying to control your mind?
Marik: I must regain my power over this fool! <10:00> Whoever's weakening my control must *also* be after the Millennium Puzzle.
(Through the distorted vision granted by the Millennium Item, he looks down on the arena. Bandit Keith cowers, clutching his head, sobbing and screaming.)
Bandit Keith: Ugghh..! No! Stop! Leave me alone!! Aaaaaaaaaaahh!!!!
Marik: I *will not allow someone else to take what should be rightfully mine*!!
(Bandit Keith stops screaming, eyes blank and intense. He hops off the dueling podium and runs straight across the field.)
Bandit Keith/Marik: Ahh! I'm back! Before I lose complete control, I've got to destroy it!
(He seizes the Puzzle where it hangs, raising it as far as the chain will allow, his arm shaking.)
Bandit Keith/Marik: If I can't have this Puzzle, *no one can*!
(Yugi reaches down from the podium above, trying to stop him, but can't do anything but watch.)
Yugi: *No!* Keith, wait! Don't!
(He smashes the Millennium Puzzle against the side of the podium-- and the golden pieces scatter in every direction.)
Yugi: No-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o!!!!!
ACT 3 <10:34>
(The Millennium Puzzle is smashed against the side of the podium-- and the golden pieces scatter in every direction.)
Yugi: My Puzzle!! No-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o!!!!!
(A few of the pieces clatter to he ground.)
Marik *Perfect*! Now...
(Only a few pieces of the Puzzle remain intact on the chain hanging from the podium.)
Marik (VO): No one else shall take my prize!
(Bandit Keith is screaming and wailing again, clutching his head.)
Bandit Keith: Aaaaa-aaaaa-aaaaaaaahhh!! Stop, go'way!
Bandit Keith/Marik: Aahh-- I'm back again!
(Just then, Bakura swings in on one of the chains that hang from the warehouse ceiling. He seems back to being his usual friendly self, not the Spirit of the Ring.)
Bakura: That's quite enough of that!
(Bakura swings into Bandit Keith, knocking him back, then off the side of the arena. He lands on the ground next to the arena with a pained groan. <11:00> Yugi climbs down from the podium.)
Yugi: Where'd *you* come from?
Bakura; Hi, Yugi. Tea told me what happened.
(Bakura picks up a piece of the Puzzle from the arena floor. Soon he has them gathered into a pile in his hands.)
Bakura: Hm. Oh, my. Keith certainly did a number on your Millennium Puzzle, didn't he. Well, better shattered than stolen, I suppose.
(Yugi accepts the bundle of Puzzle pieces solemnly.)
Yugi: Yeah-- I guess you're right. It took me *forever* to put it together the first time, but at least I have a chance to try. Who knows, since I did it once already, maybe this time it'll be *easier*.
(Bakura innocently watches Yugi, who's already looking toward the Puzzle; Yami Bakura is watching, too, and he's palmed a piece of the Puzzle and kept it back.)
Yami Bakura (think): Hmph-- and once you've completed it, I'll be there to take it away! But in order to make sure that no one stands in my way again, I'll need to, *manipulate* a piece of the Puzzle.
(The Puzzle piece Bakura holds behind his back glows briefly, then dulls again. Yami Bakura watches Yugi optimistically examine his handful of Puzzle pieces.)
Yami Bakura (think): Yugi-- you're such a *naive fool*. You have *no idea* of the ancient powers the Puzzle contains within!
(As Yami Bakura speaks, he envisions each of the seven Millennium Items, as they light up in turn.)
Yami Bakura (think): Magical powers that, when combined with the other *six* Millennium Items, are so incredible, whoever possesses them shall rule the world! <12:00> Powers that will soon belong to *me*-- once I collect all of the Items, *one by one*! My Millennium Ring will track them down so I can unlock the mystical energies that were imprisoned in these objects, long ago in the age of the shadow games!
(He envisions the Millennium Stone, a sarcophagus-like figure with slots for each of the seven Items to be placed into; it holds the Eye, the Ring, and the Scale. Amidst blue-black flames against a wall of painted heiroglyphics, appear seven silhouetted figures; the central one is easily identifiable by the shape of his hair, the other six are in nondescript robes.)
Yami Bakura (think): Hmhahahahaha! The Pharaoh and his loyal minions thought they could banish the power forever by dividing it up among the Millennium Items, and hiding them away. But the time has come for me to claim them *all for myself*! And the Millennium Puzzle is *no exception.* Ring, transfer a portion of my spirit into this piece of the Puzzle-- so that I may be forever near its *ultimate power*...!
(The Ring begins to glow, and the glow from the Ring shoots into the Puzzle piece Bakura kept back. Bakura's fist is shining with power. Yugi is regarding the Puzzle and the pieces in his hands, oblivious to all of this.)
Yami Bakura: Hmhahahahahahaha! Unbeknownst to *Yugi*, <13:00> a part of me will be infused *within* the Puzzle. From this one piece, I'll be able to explore the inner chambers of its mystic Millennium components.
(Bakura's secretly-doctored piece will fit somewhere into the Puzzle's left-hand side, just below the eye design. Somewhere in the Puzzle's winding passages, stairways, and doors, a portal streams golden light.)
Yami Bakura (think): And one day soon... claim them for myself!
(Bakura approaches Yugi, all innocence.)
Bakura: Yugi, you missed this one piece.
Yugi: Ohh! Thanks a lot, Bakura! The *last* thing I need is to lose a piece of the Millennium Puzzle.
Bakura: Heh, yes, I know! You can't complete it without them all.
(Bakura climbs down from the side of the arena.)
Yugi: Thanks again. You *totally* saved the day!
Bakura: Sure.
Yugi: Wha!
(Bakura fell on his rear climbing down; he rubs it with a grimace, and gets up.)
Yugi: You okay?
Bakura: Yes, fine. I've got to get back to school.
(Bakura leaves, his smile turning evil as soon as he turns away from Yugi.)
Yugi: I'll be right behind you, Bakura, as soon as I unhook my chain!
Yami Bakura (think): Hm!
(Yugi sets to finding a way to get the Millennium Puzzle off the side of the podium. Meanwhile, the forgotten Bandit Keith is still unconscious on the ground. And the puppeteer isn't done with him yet.)
Marik (VO): Rise, you worthless buffoon!
(Bandit Keith opens his eyes, haunted.)
Marik (VO): It seems the duel is not yet done! <14:00> You could still *win* the match, and claim my Millennium prize!
Bandit Keith: Uh! Ah, stop! Stop talking to me!!
(He grabs a metal pipe from the ground and swings it wildly.)
Bandit Keith: Where are ya?! Show yourself!!
(The puppeteer seems to appear before him, grasping his Millennium Item.)
Marik (VO): *Obey me and duel*!!
Yugi: Keith! Stop! No!
(Keith strikes the pipe on the ground, shooting up sparks. He hits everything-- the ground, some crates, a control panel-- its electricity travels up the pole and shocks him, throwing him to the ground. A weakened electrical cable frays, snaps, and falls onto two gasoline containers, causing them to explode in a fiery blast!)
(The arrows posted on every surface still lead all the wrong directions-- straight up, straight down, back the other way, over a wall and into a hedge...)
Joey: Yugi!
Tristan: Yugi!
Joey: Where are ya, buddy?!
Tristan: This is *ridiculous* already.
Joey: Yeah-- someone's playin' us for suckers!
(Tea falls to her knees on the sidewalk, exhausted. Ahead, Joey and Tristan aren't much better off, also catching their breath on their knees.)
Tea: These arrows are like a... giant maze...! Whoa!
(She just looked up, and sees a thick column of black smoke rising around a nearby corner.)
Joey: Check it out!
Tristan: There's *smoke*!
Joey: Whoa...!
Tristan: Fire!
(They've found the warehouse, and the windows are lit with flames, and red-black smoke is gushing from a corner of the roof.)
Tea: Oh..!
Tristan: Someone may need our help.
(Heat distorts the air in the warehouse, but the flames haven't spread to Yugi's side of the arena yet.)
Yugi: Oh no! I've gotta get my Puzzle down and get outta here!
(He pulls on the chain, then on the spike, but neither gives. he stops to catch his breath.)
Yugi: It's no use, the chain's just *too strong*! <15:00>
(Everything beyond the red end of the field is up in flames, including the two high windows.)
Yugi: And this fire is spreading *really fast*! I can't get out those windows.
(He turns back to the Puzzle, hanging broken from its chain, the flames glittering off its edges.)
Yugi: It could be all over for me... *and* for the Spirit of the Puzzle!
(He stares at it in bemusement, a desperate thought occurring to him...)
ACT 4 <15:20>
(The whole roof of the warehouse is now in flames, when Tea, Tristan, and Joey approach. Someone can be heard shouting within.)
Bandit Keith: Help me!!
Tristan: Someone's in there!
Tea (calls): Don't worry, we're here to help you! (to Tristan and Joey) We've *gotta get them out of danger.*
Tristan: We'll try to get in; you call nine-one-one!
Tea: I'm on it!
(She runs away down the street, they toward the warehouse.)
Tea: Be careful, you guys!
(Tristan grips the door handle, then jumps back, holding his burned hand. Joey tries kicking the door in.)
(The fire is spreading, and now surrounds the duel arena. Yugi stands at the blue podium, meticulously at work putting together the Millennium Puzzle.)
Yugi: Come on...! Fit...! *Fit*...! I've got to finish the Puzzle; I'm the only one who knows how to solve it! My time's running out-- and this fire is getting bigger by the second! Focus..! <16:00> If I solve the Puzzle, I save the Spirit! Even if *I* don't make it out, at least *he will*! Come on...!
(The flames dance hungrily around; if it weren't for the plastic arena Yugi's standing on, they probably would've reached him already. Burning timbers fall from the ceiling.)
(Joey and Tristan get ready to ram the door.)
Joey: Okay-- on three!
Tristan: Three!
(They rush at the door, Joey aiming his left shoulder at it, Tristan his right. They slam into it and bounce off.)
Both: Three!
(They try again, and bounce off.)
Both: Three!
(And again.)
(Yugi is busily working on the Puzzle. A steel pylon across the room falls over, ravaged by fire, and crashes onto the center of the duel arena. Black smoke fills the air; Yugi's fortunate that he's so short. The Puzzle is nearing completion.)
Yugi: Just a few more! I think I've *almost got it figured out*!
(Joey and Tristan stand outside, ready to attack the door again.)
Joey: *Tristan*, you were knockin' that door like a *girl scout*!
(They charge again.)
Joey: This time *hard*!
Tristan: Rrrggghhh...!
Joey: Rrrrgghhh...!
(They crash through the door, which has by now itself caught fire.)
Tristan: Anyone here?!
(Bandit Keith, still in robes, runs out of the flames right at them, screaming, half out of his mind.)
Bandit Keith: Uuuughh! Auugh!
Joey: Heads up!
Bandit Keith: This place is haunted!!!
(Bandit Keith pushes past them and runs out the door.)
Joey: Tristan-- did we just rescue *Bandit Keith*?
Tristan: Huh-- no way!
Joey: Forget 'im; let's make sure no one *else* is in trouble.
Tristan: Right, Joey!
(The two carefully make their way through the burning building, shielding their faces with their arms.)
Joey: Anyone in there?!
(Then they spot Yugi, almost hidden by fire, by the blue podium.)
Joey: Yugi! <17:00>
(He doesn't notice them.)
Tristan: Yugi, what're you *doin'?!
Joey: Let's *go*!
Yugi: I can't leave yet, guys! I've got to finish putting together the Millennium Puzzle!
Tristan: All the smoke's gone to his brain!
(They run over, as Yugi fits the last piece into place.)
Yugi: This should do it...! Yes...! Finished!
(He clings to the completed Puzzle, swaying on his feet.)
Yugi: Ugh... heat... dizzy...
(Joey and Tristan climb up the side of the arena and run over to him.)
Joey: Yugi, ya okay?!
Tristan: Come on, we gotta get outta here fast!
(They try to pick up Yugi, but he doesn't let go of the Puzzle, even near fainting.)
Yugi: My... Puzzle...! Can't leave without... my Puzzle...!
Tristan: All right.
(They set their sights on the bolt holding the Puzzle.)
Tristan: Let's *do this*, Joey.
(Joey grips the chain and tries to snap it off the spike.)
Joey: Ugh... ughh...! You go grab Yugi's deck!
(Smoke and embers pour from the roof, the windows, and the door. Tea runs toward the building, calling.)
Tea: Tristan, Joey! Can you hear me?!
(Tristan gathers up Yugi's cards and jumps down from the podium. Joey's still trying to work with the chain.)
Tristan: Joey, I got Yugi's deck! Any luck with that Puzzle?
Joey: 'Fraid not. <18:00> Rrghh... Man, why'd he hook it to such a thick chain?!
Tea: Guys! Hurry!! The fire-- it's spreading!!
(Flaming debris falls all around as Tristan and Joey try to get the Puzzle off the wall.)
Joey: Ugh, it's no use, bud!
Tristan: We gotta *go*!
(He picks up Yugi and tries to pull him away; Yugi clings to the Puzzle.)
Yugi: We... can't leave yet...!
Tristan: Yugi, it's time to take off!
Joey: He won't budge; not without the Puzzle. We're just gonna have to find a way to *break this chain*. But *how*...?
(Joey looks around, and spots two metal poles, or one that's been broken in half; each is about three feet long.)
Joey: This pole...!
(Joey and Tristan each take one and switch off whacking at the spike, trying to bend it loose or weaken it.)
Joey: Ugh!
Tristan: Ugh!
Joey: Agh! Ugh!
Tristan: Agh!
Joey: Igh!
Tristan: Ugh! Ugh, that thing's *not* comin' out!
Joey: There's *gotta* be a-- huh! Tristan, I got it-- put the rod in the hole and we'll both pull!
Tristan: Yeah!
(Tristan threads the pole through the eye of the metal spike, and they both grip the same end, using the pole as a lever and bracing themselves against the side of the podium.)
Joey: Okay-- on three!
Tristan: Three!
(They both pull with all their might-- and the spike loosens, then pops loose. They both fall over, and Yugi slumps to the floor, no longer held up by the chain.)
(Outside, five firefighters with three hoses and two trucks at least are attacking the blaze. Tea stands among them, frantic with worry.)
- Little over there!
- Steady, fellas! <19:00>
Tea: Oh please, hurry up! My friends are in there!!
(Joey and Tristan run out of the building, Tristan carrying Yugi in his arms.)
Tea: Ugh! Yugi!!
(Tea runs over, gasping slightly at Yugi's condition.)
Joey: Don' you worry, Tea; he's safe an' sound, now... and that Millennium Puzzle a' his is, too.
(Yugi, unconscious in Tristan's arms, worn, wearied, and smutched with ash, still grips the Puzzle, chain, spike, and all.)
Joey: Tristan; not for nothin' old pal, but lemme tell ya-- you an' me, we're *heroes*!
(Later, at the Domino Hospital. Yugi sits in a hospital bed, in light blue pajamas with little yellow stars, holding the Puzzle in his hands.)
Yugi: Well, the Puzzle is safe and sound.
Joey: And by the way-- so're *you*, Yuge.
(Tea sits to his right, and Joey and Tristan stand by the window to his left, each, like Yugi, wearing several band-aids.)
Yugi: Yeah. How can I ever thank you guys for *saving my life* back there? You put *yourselves in danger* to make sure *I* would be okay. You're the greatest friends a guy ever had.
Joey: That's what buds're *for*. Right, pal?
Tristan: Yeah, it's a good thing I spotted 'im.
(Joey looks off into space, in a moment of solemn thought.)
Joey: And what about *me*? Thanks to my *brilliant* idea, we were able to pry your Puzzle off the wall.
Tristan (sarcastic): Yeah, *brilliant*! Let's stick the pole into the hole and then we'll pull on it *really hard*!
(Joey grabs him by the collar.)
Joey: Igghh! Rgh, *say what*?!
Tristan (overlapping): Say *nothin'*, you heard me!
Joey (overlapping): I'd like to see...
Yugi: Knock it off, guys, or I won't share my hospital food with you. <20:00>
(Joey and Tristan sheepishly stop growling at each other and let go.)
Joey: Heh... we'll be good!
(Tea stares thoughtfully into space.)
Yugi: The important thing is that we're all safe and back together.
Joey: That's right! Friends 'til the end!
Yugi: You *okay*, Tea? You seem, kinda quiet.
Tea: Yeah, I'm fine, guys! It's been a long day.
(Tea steps out into the hallway, leaving behind the conversation in Yugi's room.)
Joey: I'll take the sandwich.
Tristan: What about *me*?
Joey: You can have the Jell-O.
(She closes the door. Away from the guys, she lets her feelings show, frowning with worry.)
Tea (think): I'm glad those three are back to normal-- but *I'm* not. I mean-- someone's after Yugi's Millennium Puzzle!
(Vision. Tea envisions the Millennium Puzzle, against the backdrop of a starry night sky.)
Tea (think, VO): And because of that, I almost lost him today!
(The Puzzle glows, and the silhouette of the Spirit of the Puzzle appears out of it, and she pictures the two faces of Yugi.)
Tea (think, VO): Ever since Yugi first put that Puzzle together, and bonded with the spirit inside, everyone's been trying to get their hands on it. But something tells me *this time*, we're in more danger than ever-- and I *know* we haven't seen the last of whoever it is that's *after Yugi*!
END <20:47>
* Special thanks to hulu.com and Toonzaki.com for making this episode accessible online.
* Special thanks to Yugioh Wikia as a source for checking cards.
* Special thanks to Kazuki Takahashi, 4Kids, et al. for Yu-Gi-Oh!
Last Updated: November 14, 2011
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