It had been sometime since Joey had seen anyone he knew he had heard of a new tournament that was about to start in a part of Domino City. But, it wasn't even in Domino there were duelist left and right going near a huge gate that was sitting in the cities square and then out of nowhere came Mokuba, a few body guards followed by Seto Kaiba himself.
Out of anyone, Joey couldn't stand Kaiba and he tried to beat him in so many countless duels that in turn had ended in defeat. Joey clenched his fists and Had a smirk on his face.
Then a familure voice next to him spoke. "I know that smirk anywhere you wanna kick Kaibas butt don't ya Joey?" Joey turned and sighed with relief to see that this voice belonged to Yugi his best bud.
"Yeah, you know it Yug I got so many new cards that I plan to kick some major butt!! Because you taught me to never turn a duel down" Joey said with more than hope in his voice.
And of all people that Joey wanted to duel it was Kaiba he already couldn't stand him he was always so smug and pretty cold to him.
"Hmm..this might be a good idea" said another familure voice Joey went red fast as he turned to see that this voice belonged to Mai. "Hi ya Mai!" Yugi said happily as he and her highfived. "Yugi, good to see you and if it isn't Joey Wheeler its been awhile hun" Mai always called everyone "hun" it was a thing she always said but she didn't highfive Joey he had saved her on a few occasions with no call or care about hisself Mai hugged him instead.
Joey wasn't sure how to take this hug because he only hugged his sister and he admired Mai as a duelist but he blushed said nothing to her and didn't want to rush whatever feelings Mai had for him...if any.
Kaibas goons hushed the crowd as soon the whole city became quiet so that way he can be heard.
''This outta be good" said a pretty girl next to Yugi as she crossed her arms.
"Listen up, this is not an ordinary tournament this machine that you're all about to go through is a high-tech vertual reality portal. Thus, sending you all to a place I call The LINK here you can use this to come and go freely and duel anyone, anytime or anywhere"
Kaiba paused and looked at the crowd and then continued. "This will test everyone and their skills to be the worlds first ever dueling champion and in this reality everything here is real" Kaiba took a second pause to look at Mokuba his younger brother and said "Open the gate" Mokuba nodded "You got it big bro" Mokuba did as he was asked and opened the big gate like machine as it projected to the other reality on the other side.