voidtreckernet | VIDEO-ish (cw: torture and murder)

[Before the ICP flickers on, every passenger hears a resounding, deep voice thunder through every car in the train, carrying with it a deathly—if odd—proclamation:]

PENALTY GAME: HELL REVERSE!

[Moments later, every ICP turns on to reveal a figure shrouded in shadows, holding the unconscious body of Xue Yang with one hand as the Eye of Wdjat blazes on both of their foreheads. It's clear they're in the gaming car, but if anybody tries to enter from either end, they'll find the doors are impossibly locked.]

Passengers of the Voidtrecker Express, I hold in my hands an unrepentant murderer who slaughtered one of your very own: the victim being A-Qing, and the criminal being Xue Yang. While she has returned, this crime cannot go unpunished, and I have taken it upon myself to try and burn out the stain on his soul—or, at the very least, provide adequate agony for all of his victims, both on the train and off.

If you need to see proof of my justice...

Avert your eyes if you do not wish to see memories of the brutal death of a young woman in her prime.

[The screen flickers once again, this time showing A-Qing's murder, although it doesn't have any audio. ((OOC: Additional CW for graphic depictions of murder.))

When it returns to the interior of the Games Car, the shadowy figure is gone, but their voice and Xue Yang remain.]

I leave it to the council to dispense their own punishment, as meager as it may be.

Remember, passengers:

I am watching.

[The ICP clicks off, and the train is deadly quiet.]

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I'm sure of it...but it's impossible. It has to be. Or is it?

[ He looks shaken too, but for likely slightly different reasons. ]

His name was Atem. He was a young Egyptian pharaoh from thousands of years ago, but in order to protect his land from a sorcerer, he had to seal his soul away and that cost him his name, his memories...everything. I got to know him when he awakened a few thousand years later, enacting this brand of vigilante justice on the guilty through penalty games.

[ He takes a small breath. ]

I haven't always been the person I am today. A few years ago, I fell into total darkness...I never killed, but I came very close. Atem stopped me with one of these punishments. I was rendered comatose for a few months, forced to experience the sensation of death. I broke out of that total hatred and remembered my love for my brother, but...it took me a while to fully come around to trusting anyone after that. And I became obsessed with beating him.

[ He watches carefully, to see if she thinks he's nuts yet. If she doesn't yet, she will soon. ]

But it doesn't make sense that Atem is here. He's not on the roster, the object that contained his spirit isn't here, and even if he was...he grew past his vigilante justice phase a while ago. Or at least I thought he did.

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Nothing's impossible here.

[She nods as she listens, no judgement, no nothing on her face, just the mantle of a Champion, Leader, and Councilwoman. Her mind's already turning over what he's said, what he's told her and Eva can't say she likes it (even if she is glad it yanked Seto off that dark path, but still...).

It's vigilantism at best and a twisted sense of justice at worst.]

Just because the item's not here doesn't mean he isn't, meaning he needs to be found and fast. This kind of thing cannot be seen as acceptable on the train. Not when it could very well lead to an air of fear or paranoia, and we've enough troubles without adding vigilantism into the mix.

[She's done her best to keep her own crimes from everyone (no-one needs to know one of the Council and Orange Leaders is a thief (finders Keepers with the masterball is still stealing it and could even be seen as worse, given she never told anyone-), and a traitor to humanity (because she's protecting a sapient pokemon instead of turning it in to be destroyed) back home, but this..].

Gods. What a mess...

I'll help you all look. Yugi and I know him best, and he'll listen to us...he hasn't been like this in a while. I don't know what went wrong.

But I know we can't let him be the sole arbiter of justice. Pharaoh or not.

Good. Changed or not, he still crossed the line here and the faster we find him, the faster we get into his head that if he wants justice, it has to come through the Council and that our word on it is final.

[Eva sighs.]

I was going to ask for my laptop at the end of the month, but it might be wise investing in one of the smaller psychic pokemon instead.

I'll be there with you.

How would the psychic help? Does it read clues? Memories?

At most, it'd be able to skim surface thoughts, but that is invasive and people would feel it. It's more like it'd quickly get a 'feel' for a mind enough to know if something was 'off' about the person.

At worst, it likely wouldn't be any help, but either way, a person would feel the psychic's mental touch.

That's...terrifying. We'd have to only use it in the strictest of emergency situations.

It is?

[She honestly doesn't get it.]

Think of it like passive monitoring or a last-ditch attempt to find someone? It's not something I'd do lightly, either. Not with an untrained psychic-type given I know I won't be able to get Banki here.

Yes, it is. Our minds are sacred.

[ Says the guy who installed surveillance cameras in all his duel disks. ]

It's why it's considered invasive, if not rude, and not something I'd do lightly.

[Nope still not getting it.]

Anyway, getting a feel of a mind just means brushing up against it though, which isn't invasive, but you'd still feel it.

...right.

We'll have a lot more to discuss soon. What Atem does...Xue Yang will recover, but it's a tough process. And he'll have to be watched carefully to make sure he isn't relapsing, that kind of mind attack can drive a person into madness no matter how well deserved.

Alright.

I hope we find him soon. Wings beneath you, Kaiba-san.

If you need it, I'll lend Princess to you.

[Because look. Telekinesis and Sing.]

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