It was the Battle City tournament semi-finals Joey Wheeler had already lost to Marik Ishtar and Seto Kaiba and Yugi Moto's Duel was during to a close. The fight had been tough for both duellists, taking an extraordinarily long time.The 2 duelists were standing on top of Kaiba's duel tower surrounded by Kaiba's virtual coliseum filled with hundreds of computer generated cheering crowds, both of their Egyptian god cards had been destroyed. All throughout the duel Yugi had been insisting that Kaiba's lust for power and greed and denial of his past would cost him the duel but Seto still just laughed in Yugi's face telling him that there was such thing as the heart of the cards and Egyptian magic was just hocus pocus nonsense. The battle raged on until eventually Kaiba played the card that would change the world as we know it destroying Yugi's remaining life points, the shock of the attack causing him to fall to his knees. The virtual crowd let out one final cheer at Kaiba's victory before fading away with all the other holograms on the field.

"Now Yugi bow before me, I have now defeated you. Now hand over your Egyptian god card." Kaiba thrust out his hand ripping Yugi's Slipher the sky dragon from his trembling hand and threw his head back and let out an awesome, evil and slightly insane laugh. "Now I have your 2 god cards Oblisk the tormenter and Slipher the sky dragon I am undefeatable. You put your faith in the heart of the cards and hippy Egyptian fairytales and look where it got you, nowhere! I make my own destiny and my destiny was always to defeat you." Kaiba ranted on.

"B-b-but how could my cards let me down." Yugi stammered slowly getting to his feet unsteadily.

"Seto! You won!" Mokuba yelled running over to Seto and throwing his arms round him

"Mokuba go and prepare for the next duel." He said prising his little brother off him.

Seto was in his room preparing for the final duel of the battle city tournament, it was important that he plan his strategy carefully against Marik and his Egyptian god card , the winged dragon of raa. The winged dragon of Raa was the most powerful god card, but Kaiba had 2 God cards Oblisk the Tormentor and Slipher the Sky Dragon but even with his God cards the match would be long and hard. Seto turned round and to his surprise there stood Ishizu Ishtar, he jumped not expecting to see her.

"What are you doing here?"

"I have come to give you something to help defeat my brother's evil side. You see the power of the millennium rod has taken over his body and only defeating him in a duel will release his good side."

"Look I've told you before I don't believe in your hocus pocus nonsense and you won't convince me otherwise. I would appreciate it if you kept your family business out of my tournament."

"You will need this card to defeat my brother. It is called fiend sanctuary and is the only way you can defeat Marik's God card. It is your destiny and only you can do it, you have seen the evidence the ancient Egyptian's predicted this duel and now it is here it is up to you to save the world" Ishizu continued as if Kaiba hadn't spoken holding out the fiend sanctuary card.

Kaiba took the card from her hand "I don't know how this will help but I will take it after all a card is a card and if it's free. Just so you know I'm not doing this for brother or to save the world, I duel for power and personal gain and that's what this duel is about. Erasing my past , to prove that I am the best and to rid myself of my step fathers burden."

"Your lack of faith will be your greatest downfall Seto Kaiba."

"That's what you said about are duel and the duel with Yugi but I still won them didn't I so if I were you I would keep your opinions to yourself."

"I see there is no way to convince you so Good Luck in your duel you will need it." Ishizu said slowly walking out of the door and then she was gone.

"LIES! It's all lies. Yugi, Ishizu everyone trying to poison my mind with this Egyptian fairytale crap I won't take it anymore."Kaiba burst out slamming his fist down on the table in front of him, a cold sweat dripping down his handsome face, breathing heavily trying to take everything in. There was a small knock o the door, Kaiba straightened out his clothes and hair and pulled himself together "Enter. "He called out and Mokuba came through the door. "Oh it's just you Mokuba."

"Big brother is everything alright I thought I heard shouts."

"No it was nothing."

"Well I just came to tell you that the final duel is going to start in 15 minutes."Mokuba went out the room but Seto called him back.

"Mokuba do believe in this Egyptian legend stuff."

"I don't know it all seems a bit ridiculous but I'm not sure they all seem so certain."

"Well thanks. And you know as soon as I win this tournament this whole place is being burnt to the ground."

"I don't think you should do that you know. It just doesn't seem right your just making more destruction it won't change anything."

"Well I'm not changing my mind. You know I always hated this place and the only way to move forward is to destroy the past."

"Maybe but I still think it is wrong. Good luck with your duel bro."He said walking out the door with a sad expression on his face.

The final of the battle city tournament was about to begin both duellists Seto Kaiba and Marik Ishtar were prepared to duel, perched on the top of the duel tower. Both duelling for power and glory of the victory, with intentions filled with nothing but greed and selfishness. They were on high podiums, Yugi, Joey , Mokuba ,Tea and Tristan was watching from below while Duke and Serenity were looking after Mai and Bakura who were still locked in the shadow realm,

"Kaiba you will know by now that when you duel me it is a shadow game and the loser is sent to the shadow realm for eternity with no chance of escape."Marik said in his low menacing voice

"Well it's a good job that I'm not going to lose them isn't it so prepare to hand over your God card."

"No prepare to hand over yours. How about we raise the stakes as well of just are rarest card how about my millennium rod and your second god card after all I will need both off them to succeed in my master plan."

"Fine with me Marik. Now let's just get on with the duel"

The duel had begun, each duellist fighting superbly with more on the line than a normal duel. None of the people watching had ever seen such a cruel duel, neither duellist showed any compassion or feeling towards the other, they just focused on their own selfish needs. All their God cards had been destroyed and even the card that Ishizu had given Kaiba had been used and had helped considerably with the duel and the Seto saw a glimmer of hope, he knew he could defeat Marik and sure enough when his next turn had finished Marik Ishtar's life points had been reduced to zero. The millennium rod fell out of his had as hit the cold ground but he got up quickly a little dazed and confused but all the evil had gone from his eyes and they knew that he was back to his normal state of mind. Ishizu ran up to her brother to make sure she was Ok. Yugi and his geek squad just stood there opened mouthed staring in disbelief that Kaiba had won the duel. In the rooms on the blimp Bakura and Mai were waking up as they were released from the shadow realm and Serenity gave out a cry of delight. Seto picked up the God card, the Winged Dragon of Raa and the Millennium Rod and held all his God cards in one hand and his new millennium item in the other, raised his arms high and let out loud, long and insane evil laugh. From the moment he had first held the Millennium rod he realized that the mind control powers that it possessed were real.

"I now take my rightful place as the #1 duelist in the world and now I have the 3 Egyptian God cards and the Millennium Rod I have the power to rule the world. Ha ha ha."Seto Kaiba announced

"B-b-big brother what's wrong? This isn't like you."Mokuba stammered worried about his brother.

"Wrong Mokuba this is like me."Kaiba said to his little brother with a wild look in his eyes "Now we shall prepare to leave this place. Does the blimp still work?"

"Y-y-yes I think so bro."

"Then tell the pilot to land the blimp at the Kaibacorp tower and make sure they don't get off until I say so. Then come and meet me and we will destroy this place together"

"Okay." Mokuba walked away unsure of his brothers actions but he carried them out anyway not wanting to upset his demented older brother.


All the contest finalists were boarding the Kaibacorp blimp preparing to take off before the island was destroyed in 10 minutes. In the control room some off Kaiba's Hench men were trying to make the engine start but despite their frantic efforts they couldn't get it to work after the trouble in the Noah's virtual world. They didn't have much time left and there only other mode of transportation they had was the Kaibacopter that had brought medical help for Joey when he had duelled Marik so they all quickly clambered into the Kaibacopter but still there was no sign of Seto or Mokuba And they were starting to get worried that they weren't going to make it after all there were only minutes left to detonation.

Kaiba and Mokuba were in a dark control room underneath the Duel tower flicking switches and flashing coloured lights setting the time and preparing the explosives that would destroy the tower and everything that it represented, Kaiba's step father, all the terrible things that he did to him and his brother. Seto strongly believed destroying his Step fathers tower would rid him of his past although Mokuba was doubtful about it, he had hated their step father, Gozzaburu but before Seto had taken over the business he had at least smiled and he felt blowing up the tower would create more hate and destruction and wasn't the answer to their problems. They had finished their work Seto yelled at Mokuba to get a move on and that they would be leaving now so they went down a dim corridor to a massive room, Seto flicked on the lights to reveal a blue eye white dragon shaped, 2 seated, jet. The brothers got into the jet Seto in the front Mokuba in the back, Kaiba started the plane up setting off into the sky escaping from the wasteland.

Yugi Moto and the rest of his friends were getting increasingly worried about Seto and Mokuba they should have been here but it didn't look like they were coming. Joey was the most agitated angry that Kaiba was making them wait like this, until it came to a time where they only had seconds until the explosives were set off and they had no choice but to leave without them. So they set off praying that Kaiba had found a way out as they heard the huge explosion of the duel tower being blown to pieces and when they looked back they saw a big dark mushroom cloud. Through the clouds to their great surprise they saw rising through the clouds a BEWD but that quickly vanished to make way for the BEWD based jet plane where Mokuba and Seto were in, Seto in the front controlling the jet. Kaiba let out an evil laugh as he brought the jet up to the level of the Kaibacopter.

When they finally reached Domino City and landed the jet on the helipad on top of the Kaibacorp building, Kaiba and Mokuba stepped of the BEWD jet, Seto still clutching the millennium rod tightly in his right hand, shortly afterwards the Kaibacopter came into land the turbulence it created blowing Seto's hair over his face and his coat tails blowing dramatically in wind. Yugi and co were stepping out of the copter stretching and yawning after the long journey. A dozen muscular men in black suits and shades came up onto the roof everyone was confused by these actions.

"Seize them and make sure they can't escape!" Ordered Seto to his Hench men. The men in dark suits all grabbed a person although Joey took 2 men to keep him restrained. They were all struggling franticly but it was no use they couldn't escape the grip on them.

"Kaiba what the hell are you doing?" Yugi called out to him as he was being dragged off to some unknown whereabouts.

"You will see Yugi, oh you'll all see." He said with a manic look in his eyes.

"Big brother what is going on? This isn't right, you shouldn't do this." Mokuba said tears welling up in his eyes

"Mokuba I wasn't kidding you know about world domination. With the power of the 3 Egyptian Gods and the mind control powers of the millennium Rod we can rule the soon to be not so free world. Don't you see this is the better life we have always wanted, the Kaiba brothers world leaders, think about it the power, the glory and the things we can do to change the world for the better." Kaiba went on kneeling down to Mokuba's level putting his arm on his shoulder.

Mokuba was scared his brother was obviously insane and he didn't know what he would do he loved Seto and had always trusted him but this was too much but Mokuba was scared that if he didn't agree that Seto would hurt him like he did to Yugi and the others. After all when he was in this state you couldn't tell what he was prepared to do to get what he desired.

"Okay." Mokuba said shakily "But tell me what have you done with Yugi and the others?"

"It's Okay Mokuba there in very safe hands now." He said laughing at his own private joke.