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apricot-kingdom · 4 years

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Powershipping AU (Under the cut)

Instead of Yami Marik just killing Malik’s father, they struggle with the Sennen Rod and fight. Resulting in them both dying. (Malik/Yami Marik and Mr Ishtar.) Distraught, Ishizu grabs the necklace and sees her first vision of the future. They smuggle their younger brothers body to Japan going to Kaiba corp. Where they meet Seto Kaiba. Through bribery, dragons and whatever else. He agrees to help.

Seto then creates a fully interactive holographic image of Malik with his mind within the projection, he can come and go from a room into a virtual world. Sometimes there is a glitch in the systems which Kaiba’s a tad too stuck up to admit since he hasn’t seen it himself. The glitch is Yami Marik still residing deep within Malik’s mind.

Eventually Seto begins to set more projectors and such around the building and city so he can explore further. However getting too far away from the main frame they can glitch out but honestly Malik doesn’t mind. Still he usually reports it back because it can be due to an error back at the mainframe/labs. His siblings are able to visit him within the virtual world using headgear. And Kaiba comes to check his condition a lot, well it wasn’t a lot at first but now it kinda is.

Sometimes however Malik will purposefully glitch out to avoid situations he doesn’t want to be in. He can control it if he concentrates on doing so, such as to get past guards or particular topics like his father. Plus honestly, he doesn’t really remember what happened. And no one has the heart to tell him, and he doesn’t tell them about the odd dreams he gets about it sometimes.

He knows his father died and they moved to Japan. He does question occasionally but mostly in private, staring at his own hand, he knows he’s not exactly alive. Because he’s not really human any more mostly a hologram and Kaiba started work on a robotic body for him, he’d tested that a few times but it still needed a higher power source and more testing.

They do need to recharge at the end of the day regardless so most nights he does stay in the computer, Kaiba has the highest security on that singular computer. Higher than most of his own data and information. He programmed Malik a house there and a room, everything he wanted.

And if you want it more series related:

They play duel monsters often and Seto is intrigued in some of the rare cards Malik holds within in deck. He still participated within Battle City tournament, because at this time he had actually started to question why he was different. And he faintly remembers Shadi’s words. He starts growing angry knowing he was being lied to and runs from Kaiba corp, with the help of Rishid he creates the rare hunters. Rishid helps because he will not lose his brother. Not again.

Kaiba merely continues his work on duel disks and when Ishizu comes requesting to see him, he won’t admit it but he’s curious where Malik went. Malik stole the blueprints and built a new worsened charge station for himself but it worked. So Kaiba hadn’t seen him since he ran off. Then instead she starts going on about magic and he’s thinking well if you had magic why come to me with your brother and waves her off but she presents him with a God card, one Malik had spoken off in their duels.

He’s unaware Malik has anything to do with the rare hunters, he still hopes Malik comes to his tournament. When he comes but under Namu he’s confused but doesn’t care because he actually showed up, he set up a charging station in his room and Malik’s a little surprised but smiles when he sees it.

During Rishid’s duel where the lightnings going on and he’s freaking out, he’s actually just glitching with all the thunder, and he’s being corrupted by Yami Marik’s programming that’d been lying almost dormant but now had a shock to his system and has come back. Using the false winged dragon of Ra didn’t just glitch Kaiba’s systems, it affected Malik’s too.

Kaiba scoffs it off because he was trying to defend his duel disks systems but intentionally he was regretting not looking into that early mistake in his data with Malik. But he still thinks his system couldn’t possibly have a bug, that had to still be Malik so he doesn’t look too far into it.

Meanwhile Malik attempts to weakly project himself to Bakura using his duel disk and such things. Anzu’s phone and such, anything to help him try to talk to others as him.

Meanwhile Yami Marik’s reprogramming different things such as their clothes, deck and everything else. Trying to dispose of Rishid and all his shadow games and such. During Noah’s arc because I’m going off that verse. He’s just glitching himself around the ship but due to the lack of projectors and such he has trouble getting through Noah’s fortress deciding brute force because he knew regardless he was damn safe being digital.

During Mai’s duel he’s programmed the shadow realm and such so in this Au he’s actually quite a good programmer and stuff.

And then at the end of Yami Marik and Yami Yuugi’s duel when Malik and Yuugi switch back in, Kaiba actually installed a function that’d basically delete Yami Marik from the system if Malik gave up. Yami Marik tries to blame the Pharaoh on taking their humanity and his father but Malik sighs and shakes his head. He knows better and he feels a weight off him with Yami Marik gone from his programming—well mostly gone. He’s a cockroach. You’ll never full delete him.

After Battle city Malik goes with Kaiba and Kaiba’s upgraded all his systems just in case. They have some fun but then he says he needs closure and goes to Egypt with his siblings because despite my opinion being his dad’s a huge jerk and all that stuff. Bleh. He wants to give him a proper burial, he wants closure because deep down he’s still really hurt and angry and he needs this.

Which is season four, then season five. Yuugi’s gang came over and everyone assumed Seto came because Bakura told him too and slightly yeah because it’s Bakura. But also he wanted to set up a better system for Malik in Egypt. Malik smiles and thanks him between everything. Kaiba refuses to admit to it but he’s quite attached to Malik in his own way, and thus stands down to watch his ultimate rival basically battle someone else to die rather than battle him. Because deep down he knows Malik wants the Pharaoh to move on so his duty as a tomb keeper could be fulfilled.

Malik stays with Seto for a while afterwards to both help move on in life and they live not happily ever after, but you know moderately alright. Happily together, and as they go on, Seto does build that machine from DSOD but because then in the afterlife, he and Malik can be together. That or just maybe he could bring Malik back to life properly.

And that’s all I have. have fun.

Also. Rishid keeps the rod because I want him too.

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