An Orphan's Tale

Explosive Meeting

Chapter 34:

"I call forth my obnoxious Celtic guardian!" Yugi said slamming the card down.

"I summon my Archer Fairy!" I said drawing a card from the top.

"Go Vorse Raider!" Seto called out.

Our monsters battled their way through the crowd of monsters and we slipped through behind them. Our monsters gave us time to find the next doorway.

"Quickly, through here." We came to another scanner and Seto went to slide his ID card like before but it flashed red and repeated 'Denied' every time he swiped it.

"Oh no, someone must have reprogrammed the codes already." Seto growled at the panel while Yugi's attention shifted behind us.

"We're trapped and our monsters are gone." I looked back to see my fairy being destroyed as well.

We heard a voice come through the intercom that was not the automated computer. It was Rebecca Hawkins. Thank God.

"Need some help guys?" Just as the monsters started their charge, the door opened and Seto pulled me inside. The door shut just as they slammed into it.

"Kaiba when this mess is finally over, let me know if you want me to upgrade your security system." Seto snarled but we started running down the new corridor. I'm taking it he wanted to forget the girl's comment. Doors continued open as we came upon them and soon her voice was heard once more over the intercom.

"Bad news guys, I can't access the central computer! Kaiba Corps Mainframe is on a separate system."

"No problem, I've got it from here." Seto said as the last door opened and we were in what I would assume is the central control room of KCSF. I could see a massive domed machine that I could only dream of understanding the components and software.

"This should be able to enhance those photos." Seto said running up to the computer. He slid his access card and I held my breath hoping it would work.

"Initiating Retinal Check, Scanning subject, user recognized. Seto Kaiba, confirmed."

"Voice Recognition, set. Verbal Password is," He paused and looked at me.

"R-I-K-A." He spelled out then quickly winking at me.

"Password accepted, full access granted. Welcome, Mr. Kaiba."

"My name is your password to your central computer?" I smiled teasingly while raising an eyebrow.

"Mokuba would be too obvious; no one knows about you." He said smugly before turning serious once more. He's right, now is not the time for flirting, especially in front of my brother.

"Shut down the new system and reboot with the backup system." He nearly yelled.

"Affirmative." Soon he was pulling out the disk that held the images and slipping it into an appropriate spot. As he typed away, I stood in amazement. This is his technology; he designed and created all of this. I just stared at the screens and buttons in the room.

"Begin analyzing images, reference every inscription, and cross-reference with every known archeological database." He commanded the system. He stood back, eyes watching every screen as the letters and words were being evaluated and compared to all known information available to Kaiba Corp, which was pretty much everything in the modern world. Soon we heard the voice of the professor come over the communicator. Rebecca must be following along somehow.

"After its ten thousand year slumber, the black serpent will swallow the sun and paradise will rule once more." I heard the professor read aloud the translations. Duke said something but he was too far away for us to hear him.