There's a certain hint of gray that stays...

[hackeralastair]

WHO: Alastair, Kiryu, and special guest stars, Bruno and Kaiba
WHERE: KaibaCorp
WHEN: Friday night, late
WARNINGS: maybe some violence, soul-stealing
SUMMARY: Alastair needs more cards to take more souls. Where do you find card blanks? Why, at KaibaCorp!
FORMAT: who am I kidding it's para

The first person to lose their soul was a parking attendant on the street outside Hell Towers. It couldn't be helped, he was in the way, trying to ticket cars that totally weren't blocking the garage entrance anyway. Doing so helped Alastair to discover the single card that had suddenly appeared in his deck with the awakening of his new power, but it also alerted him to the limitation. He could only take souls with an Oricalchos card, that was how it worked. But where to get more? He could probably handle the printing, but he needed card blanks.

KaibaCorp. Surely KaibaCorp had card blanks.

It might have been a little too cold for motorcycles, but there was no way Alastair was going to be beholden to a taxi in this state. He needed to ride, to feel the rush, to control his own destiny. With Kiryu by his side, he could do anything. They could find the bastard who killed Bakura and deal with him their way. Fuck the police, they were nothing but a road block anyway. And so, about an hour after all of this had started, after the first soul had become his victim, the two duelists stood outside the KaibaCorp offices once again. Alastair had his bootleg duel disk on, deck in the tray, ready to wreak some havoc. He looked at the doors and the security camera, and grinned recklessly. He wasn't going to hack in, this time. They were going to go right in and Kaiba wouldn't be able to stop them. Never.

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[allthecards]

Kaiba had been contacted by the remains of his security after the attack. He had been told that two intruders had entered the building. It wasn't known what their agenda was, but they had taken out the security teams in the corporate floors. Kaiba had tried to remotely get into the security camera footage, only to find that it had been taken off line. Most of the electrical grid had been taken out, but was now coming back online. Once it was obvious that he couldn't do anything from where was, he was in his car and speeding towards KaibaLand.

He was greeted by the frantic security guards, and the maintenance teams working on getting everything back up. They believed that this had been carefully planned, because the security systems had gone out but the elevators were still functional. He got the entire briefing on the ride up to the designer's floor where the worst of it had happened. They were warning him that not to go up yet, and that something odd was happening, but he wasn't listening to them anymore.

As soon as the doors opened again, their warnings made sense. The large steel cage in the middle of the hallway, should not have been there. It was too large to have been brought there and it looked like...Nightmare Steel Cage. Inside of it was..

"Bruno!" he shouted angrily, "What happened?"

[donttasemebro]

It had very quickly gone through all conceivable methods of escaping from the summoned cage, including main force. The object did not possess all of the properties of the physical metal out of which it visually and tactilely appeared to be made. The bars could not be bent. This phenomenon could possibly be explained by the fact that this object had been summoned from a Duel Monsters magic card by a probable psychic duelist. It was also therefore probable that the structure would disappear when the psychic in question ceased to actively concentrate on its summoning or lost consciousness.

And so, when Kaiba walked into the room, the "Bruno" to which he was shouting was standing quite calmly in the middle of the cage. When its name was called, it turned its attention toward the speaker.

Seto Kaiba. Its employer/superior.

"Sir," it said, in a perfectly emotionless voice. "There has been another break-in."

[allthecards]

"I already know that," Kaiba said, coming closer to examine the scene. It was definitely Nightmare Steel Cage, but it wasn't a hologram. He was able to touch it, and feel the metal. There was no explanation for how it could have appeared suddenly enough to trap someone though. It was also large enough to have the effect of making it impossible to get around it.

There was also obviously something wrong with Bruno, but he had to solve one problem at a time.

"Where did this come from?"