The Tabletop Experiment - Choose Ur Own Adventure

"Mm...let's go right," Atem decided and carried Yugi that way. The green continued and Yugi was starting to get sleepy as he continued to cling to Atem's back. He felt a little guilty that Atem had to carry him since the pharaoh must be exhausted as well but at the same time he was too comfortable to care.

"Oh thanks," Atem said.

Flustered, Yugi snapped his head up from where he was resting on Atem's shoulder. "What are you doing reading my thoughts?"

"Well don't think so loudly next time," he said simply.

"That doesn't make any sense."

"Sure it does."

Yugi could only giggle at the silliness and looked on ahead. "This is a really long hallway."

"I have a good feeling about it, though. Do you see that red light up ahead?"

Yugi looked and sure enough there was a dim red light at the end of the seemingly endless hallway. "An exit sign! It must be!"

"That's what I'm thinking. I'm sure we're on the right track." With a renewed energy, Atem picked up the pace and they were at the end of the hall in no time. There were double doors with a handicap button to open them. He pushed the door handles first but they didn't open. "Locked?"

"Probably, just hit the button."

"This?" Atem pointed to the blue wheelchair symbol and gave it a push with his elbow. Wouldn't you know it, the doors actually opened and Atem quirked an eyebrow. "Why would you lock the doors but not bother with the handicap button?"

"They forget that stuff all the time," Yugi said simply.

"Huh," Atem shrugged and walked through the now open doors. Ahead of them was a flight of stairs. "Our assumptions could be right. I think we are underground."

"I knew it!" Yugi looked up too and saw based from their current position that the stairs must go up at least 15 floors. This staircase must be one of those emergency ones that are at the very end of the building and connect all of the floors. "I wonder how far up until we get to the ground floor?"

"Well I guess we'll find out," Atem said before moving forward to take the first step.

"Wait, I'll walk. You shouldn't have to carry me all that way," Yugi spoke up before gently hopping down to walk on his own. He winced a little but the pain was bearable.

Atem wanted to protest but at the same time, carrying Yugi up what could be many flights of stairs did not sound appealing at all. Instead he nodded and held his hand as they made their ascent.

The first flight was easy and they came across another set of double doors with a sign next to them that said B4.

"So I guess we were in the fifth floor basement just now," said Yugi.

"It seems so. That means we have to climb five more floors."

Yugi groaned, "So many!"

"I'll climb 50 flights if it will get us out of here." Atem pulled Yugi along and they started climbing again.

Never before had Yugi felt so out of shape. By the time they made it to the ground floor he was clutching his side and kept having to be dragged along by Atem. There wasn't time to catch their breath, though. Once they made it to the ground floor, they saw the usual double doors like on all the other floors but there was also a door to the right that lead outside!! Both jumped for joy and hurried out the door to find that they were surrounded by woods and any smiles that they had instantly fell. Where the hell were they?

Yugi ran a few steps forward and saw a parking lot nearby and looked back at the building, a look of recognition on his face.

"You know where we are?" Atem asked as he caught up with Yugi.

"Kind of. This looks like a tv station," Yugi answered, pointing up at the giant antennaes that are perched on top of the tall building. "We must be on the outskirts of Domino if there are trees here."

"How do you even know we're near Domino? We could be anywhere and that can be any tv station."

"I'm not sure, but I have a good feeling we're close to the city! We just have to follow the road and I'm sure we'll come across a bus stop eventually."

"Well what have we got to lose?"

Yugi giggled and grabbed Atem's hand, leading the way to the road which they followed through the woods. Had they gone up a few more floors and looked out the window, they would've seen Yugi was correct. As it turned out, though, it only took maybe an hour's walk for them to find a bus stop just as Yugi predicted and they took that home.

The next day, the news were abuzz with a story about a mysterious fire that engulfed a local TV station and how 10 unidentified men's remains were found in the deepest basement where the fire barely reached. Yugi didn't dare ask when Atem came home that evening with a large evil grin plastered on his face and reeking of gasoline.

The End