Halo YGO

[High Priest Ali]

(Yeah, since we don't have a board for every single characters' house, generically we post stuff that goes on outside of tournaments etc here. At school (wtf?). XD lol Anyway, my youngest sister and me (ew! bad grammar! XP) I are on a Halo 2 spree, wanting to get the whole of our gang in on it, so instead I'm making this. Never played the game, you need to. Just know that if you're against me, you will die in less than 10 seconds. Never watched Red vs. Blue, go do that. It's freakin hilarious. I'll probably quote from it in this. In fact the opening scene was taking from the 2008 Rock the Veto sketch (also on YT). Here it is-)

Boop
Over the blare of the stereo, Seto almost didn't hear the alert the Xbox was giving. Team invite. Halo 2. Abandoning the trig assignment, he slipped off the bed and grabbed the controller. The prospect of losing an arm to the Reds was more interesting than geometric series.

"Yeah, what?" he growled into the headset he'd retrieved from under the bed.
"Go Blue, K, we're down a man." Yugi's voice came over the speaker.

Seto changed profiles. He had every character from Red vs Blue recreated on his game file as well as several random players of his own. How he ended up Chief was a mystery; he hadn't played the actual GAME Halo 2 in over a year. Whenever all the guys played a team game, they went by Red vs Blue based aliases. Seto was Church, Yugi was Tucker, and Joey was Caboose (by unanimous vote). The Red team featured Duke as Simmons, Tristan as Grif, and again by a landslide vote (neither recipient was too happy about these results), Ryou became Donut. Seto played the role of Sarge on the few occasions when someone didn't respond to the invite, forcing Mokuba to take his place as Church. The younger Kaiba was suprisingly good at the game though.

"You have any idea what number 22- wait, Duke is party leader?" Seto snapped into the mic.
"Everybody ready now?" Duke's voice issued over the line now.
"Why is Duke party leader?" Seto demanded.
"He got here first. He sent the invite." Ryou sounded uncharacteristically sullen. He knew what was coming as well as the others did.

"No! No Duke!" Seto fairly shouted over the headset, "He always makes us play some ridiculously complicated custom game!"
"This one's called 'Blindfolds'. Everyone starts with dual plasma pistols and a flamethrower, no ammo." Duke explained while the others watched the display screen in horror.

"No!" Seto yelled again.
"Oh, come on, Duke!" Yugi complained.
"If you get hit with a green weapon like the plasma pistol, you have to hold the controller upside down, until you get hit with a blue weapon like the plasma rifle."

"What?!" Seto's voice raised an octave.
"But, if you're in a bubble shield which is yellow, and you get hit with a plasma rifle which is blue, then the yellow and blue make green-"
"Can't we just play Slayer?" Yugi whined.
"No, no! This is fun! We played it for like six hours last night, you'll love it!"
"Slayer!" Seto agreed adamantly.

"Why's it called 'Blindfolds'?" Ryou asked.
"Because whenever you get hit with the Needler, you have to close one eye."
"No, it's because this is about as much fun as standing in front of a firing squad..."
Seto's comment silenced a few groans to be replaced by laughter.

Boop
"What?! No! Who started the game?!" Seto half-screamed, "Duke, we don't wanna play this! Everybody veto. Veto! Tristan, veto!"
"I can't, I'm at Duke's place, we're playing Split Screen." Tristan said defensively, "If I veto, he'll kick me out!"
"Ugh..." Seto bit his tongue. Democracy only worked if they were all willing to cooperate.
Which was never.

"Come on, we need one more!" Seto said, "Who didn't vote? Wheeler! Joey, veto!"
"He hasn't said anything in a while, I don't think he's there..." Yugi said skeptically.
"Jo-ey! Joeyjoeyjoeyjoeyjoey!" Seto watched the countdown with dismay.
"I've got it set for five rounds, 30 minutes a round." Duke reminded them. He was enjoying this too much.
"Aw, Wheeler, come on!"

"Hey, I'm back!" Joey came on the line as the timer reached 0. The game was loading. "Sup, Kaiba?"
"Joey, where the hell were you?!"
"Makin chocolate milk."
Seto wanted to kill him.
"What're we playin?"
"Don't ask..." Yugi sighed.
"Oh, man, not 'Blindfolds'." Joey groaned, "I HATE dis game. We played for like 30 hours las' night...everybody veto! Veto!"
"TOO LATE!!" came the resounding reply.

Five minutes later...

"I cannot take this game anymore!" Seto yelled.
"Seriously. You suck, Duke." Yugi snapped.
"Kaiba, give me yer energy sword, I'm gonna slit meh own throat..." Joey grumbled.
"Fine, we'll play Slayer..." Duke conceded, "You guys are no fun."

Everyone sighed, righted their controllers, and opened their eyes while the main menu loaded.

[High Priest Ali]

Here's the clip if you wanna see it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVQtiazZ2Tw

[Royal Vizier Kris]

And so they were playing Slayer.

By some twist of fate, only because he'd been roped into the game in the first place, Ryou was actually joining in on the fun for the afternoon - ignoring the five page report he still had to do before the coming day - but the random Boop that had sounded off signaling an invite could only mean one thing. It was time for another round of Halo. Red Vs. Blue style, go figure. Though, who was he to deny the challenge this time? Of course there had been other things Ryou had beem more then willing to do, but even the prospect of homework didn't appeal to him this very afternoon. Instead, he could only find himself in front of the floor of his television, controller in hand as he listened to the others over the headset.

He was silent of course, preferring to listen to the others as they went on and on about things that barely registered in Ryou's mind. Actually, he found this quite calming, just being able to listen to the others arguing about something or other. Seto having been adamant enough to voice his own opinion on the game Duke had chosen out - or rather created - before Duke surrendered and finally gave into Slayer. At least, this would be one game Ryou could easily understand without too much of a problem. Slayer was pretty straight forward and could be enjoyable on some occasions.

His silence could never last too long though, as Ryou was snapped out of his own thoughts by the sound of gunfire going off nearby, just barely whizzing passed him. "Tristan!" his sexy hot British accent flowed through the headset immediately.

"Sorry Ryou,"

And with that, Tristan was running off in the other direction, leaving Ryou to watch him with a dazed look for a minute before he managed to bring himself into a crouching position on the game. At least, amongst the tall grass it would be easier to move around and not be seen, unless one of the others had managed to find a good vantage point that Ryou had yet to notice. Though, the whited haired teen could hardly say this was true.

"Couldn't we have just played Capture the Flag?" he mumbled into the headset.

Actually, that wasn't such a bad game to play on occasion. It was at the very least lest fight oriented and more geared toward actually capturing a flag while the others got to shoot until their heart was content. It was one game Ryou didn't mind playing. Naturally though, everyone would have vetoed the idea before it could have been decided. Go figure.

Another round of gunfire went off, this one not too far off from where Ryou was crouching already. "Holy-" his words were cut short though and he could only but turn in the direction of the shots before firing off what little was left in his rifle before the bullets hit zero. Which would then be a clear sign that Slayer was most certainly not his game and h would have been better off finishing his homework. Again, go figure.

[High Priest Ali]

"Perfect..." Seto whispered. He hoped his voice didn't carry over the mic. He had Ryou right in the sights of his sniper rifle. He was in the perfect spot too. The east cliffs. He had the Coagulation map memorized. Typically they called it Blood Gulch seeing as it was the site of the original Red vs Blue series. He was right above him. Nothing to obscure the shot.

BAM
Dirt sprayed at Ryou's feet.

"God DAMMIT!!" Seto yelled.
"You still can't hit a damn thing, Church!" Tristan laughed over the line.

BAM
Another shot sent shards of boulder tumbling over Tristan's shoulder.

"F**k..." Seto growled.
"Quit wasting bullets, give me the damn gun!" Yugi shouted.
"Give me your sword." Seto bargained.
"No way!" Yugi yelled.
"No deal."
Another shot missed Duke by five feet.

"OK, OK! You can have the sword..." Yugi cried, "You're gonna lose this for us..."
Seto traded him in the cave on the cliff. What the others didn't know was they were also trading spots. Yugi remained there while Seto navigated through the tunnels to where Joey waited behind the base. Silent on the headset, Joey came out from behind their base. He wished they'd send him out with something better than a pistol, but beggers can't be choosers.

Duke was on him in a second. Joey circled back around behind the base. Seto leapt down and delivered a finisher to Duke's exposed back.
"Shit!" the boy snapped over the line.
Tristan had seen Joey and was circling around-
"Tristan, no!" Duke yelled, "He's-"
"Son of a bitch!" Tristan yelled.
Seto had slashed his throat with the energy sword.
"The bloody hell is going on?" Ryou demanded.
"It's Kaiba! He's got Tucker's sword." Duke said.

"No, Kaiba's still trying to hit me." Ryou said as a third bullet flew over his head.

"What..?" Duke frowned as he respawned.

Yugi hated purposefully missing a target, but he had to admit, Kaiba was better with the sword than him.

But if they won, it didn't matter.