Disclaimer: Yugioh is the creation of Kazuki Takahashi. The Transformers belong to Hasbro.

This is a sequel to "One of Those Days" and will probably make more sense if you read that ficlet before this one. I've also added a new chapter to that story, with the Yugioh side of things.

Several More of Those Days

By Lucidscreamer

1: Yugi

Yugi looked up as Yami appeared beside him in the bedroom. "Did you find out what was disturbing our deck?"

"Yes."

The distracted tone of Yami's voice (and the matching expression on his face), indicated to Yugi that the problem might be more serious than he had expected. Concerned, he set aside the hand-held video game he'd been playing and rose onto his knees on the bed to lean closer to his darker half. "What is it?"

"Someone opened a portal into the Shadow Realm."

"A new Duelist?" Anyone could play the game of Duel Monsters, but only someone with magic - a Duelist - could access the Realm. "Is it someone we should worry about?"

"Only if you consider giant, alien, transforming - sentient - robots from another dimension worrying."

Yugi gaped at his Other Self for a long moment while trying to decide how exactly one dealt with the other half of one's soul having a psychotic break. In a weak voice, he said, "...That's a joke, right?"

"No."

Surreptitiously, Yugi reached for their deck, in its case on the nightstand. Maybe he could summon Dark Magician to deal with this before things got completely out of hand...

Narrowed eyes tracked the movement of his hand. "What are you doing?"

"Um." Yugi pulled his hands back and set them on his knees. "Nothing?"

Yami added an arched eyebrow to the narrow gaze.

"Giant alien robots invading the Shadow Realm, Yami," Yugi said flatly.

"Not invading." Yami looked thoughtful. "Well... Not deliberately, anyway."

"Uh-huh."

"You don't believe me?" Affront, and mild hurt, shone in Yami's eyes.

"Uh..." Yugi desperately wished he could ask Ryou for advice on how to deal with a crazed dark half. The other Item Holder was something of an expert in the art. Unfortunately, Yugi was on his own, as the shop was closed and he and Yami were the only people in the house. "I'm sure you believe what you're saying..."

Yami's stance shifted into what Yugi had mentally dubbed his "the only reason I'm not actively smiting you is that you're literally the other half of my soul... Dammit" pose. Fortunately, it wasn't one he often saw. But when he did, it meant the situation was dire - or that Yugi had just eaten the last chocolate-butterscotch pudding cup in the fridge. Usually, it was the latter.

Shadows swirled up from beneath the bed and out of the corners to surround Yami and, by extension, Yugi. He widened his eyes in the expression he knew his Other Self found hard to resist. (Yugi used it to great effect when Yami had taken the last pudding cup.) "Uh, Yami...?"

"Since you won't take my word for it-" Yami said, reaching out a hand a snagging Yugi's wrist to pull him off the bed and snug against Yami's side. "-I'll just have to show you."

Yugi's yelp of protest (and his body) was swallowed up by the Shadows as Yami pulled them both into the Shadow Realm.

Yugi stared up - and up, and up, and UP - at the robot, which he was forced to admit was most definitely giant and, by logical extension, most probably alien and transformable, as well. Without looking away from it, he stuck his hand out and poked Yami (who was fairly oozing smug triumph) in the ribs.

"Okay, fine." Yugi sighed. "You win."

Yami had gone off to speak with the Autobot leader about... something. Yugi hadn't really caught what, having been too busy staring at the inside of the alien spaceship (and the giant alien robots inhabiting it) to listen to the explanation. So, he wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do when found himself stranded in the company of a yellow robot who could only be called "small" in comparison to his towering brethren.

Fortunately, Yugi was used to being the shortest person in any given situation and, when offered a tour of the ship, set aside his concerns about being stepped on to respond with an enthusiastic "yes!"

"So..." Bumblebee said when their tour had come full-circle to the ship's bridge. "You're from that other dimension, right? Do you know anything about those 'Duel Monsters' creatures?"

Grinning, Yugi pulled out his deck.