Author's Notes: New story! Yay! Don't worry people, I haven't forgotten about the other one I have going on here, just thought I'd get a second one going since, once again, this has been written for quite some time.

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Changing the World, Chapter One

Crow's Point of View

"I've just about had it, Martha!" I slammed my fist into the kitchen table. "I can't stand what Kalin's done to the Enforcers! We started out helping people by eliminating duel gangs, and now we've turned into the kind of scum we worked so hard to get rid of in the first place!

"So what do you plan to do about it?" I couldn't believe how calmly she said that; it was like she was talking about a stray cat or something.

"Whadaya mean? What the heck am I supposed to do about it?" I came to her for advice why, again?

"Gandhi once said, 'Be the change you want to see in the world'. - "

WHAT? Why would she quote some dead guy at a time like this? "How in the world does that even apply to - ?" I interrupted her, but then, turning from her work making lunch, she interrupted me right back.

"I'm getting to that; learn some patience," she stated, holding up a hand to silence me. I just crossed my arms over my chest, frowned, and waited for her to continue. I can't remember a time she wasn't constantly telling me to be quiet and listen.

"What Gandhi meant by that was if you want something to change, YOU are the one who has to make it happen." She emphasized the word 'YOU' by jabbing a finger in my direction; man, I hate it when she does that! "You can't just sit around, Crow, and expect things to change; nothing good ever happened without a little hard work. You of all people should know that."

I sighed. She's right; I know she's right, and now I remember why I came to her for advice - again. "So what am I supposed to do, Martha?" My temper had cooled some so I wasn't yelling anymore, which I'm sure she appreciated.

"Unfortunately, Gandhi didn't tell us that." Martha turned back to what she had been doing and shrugged. "Some things we just have to find out for ourselves."

"Well, thanks, that's very helpful." I didn't mean to sound disrespectful or anything, but I was definitely being sarcastic with that last comment.

"You'll think of something, I'm sure. But have you even tried just talking to him about it? It can't hurt anything, after all."

"I haven't, no, but I don't even know what I'd say."

"What you told me a few minutes ago would be as good a place to start as any. Though you may want to use a different tone of voice."

I couldn't help but crack a smile at that. "Yeah. That might be a good idea if I don't want to get my face bashed in."

"Kalin! Hey, Kalin! I need to talk to you!" I called out as I arrived back at the hideout later that afternoon.

"Ah, hush your yelling, Crow, I'm right here." I turned the corner and spotted the blue-haired man I used to call my friend sitting in a rickety wooden chair, his feet propped up on the sill of a window that had long ago lost the glass pane. Yeah, we were still a team, but I wouldn't call Kalin my 'friend' anymore after what he'd become.

"We need to talk," I repeated stopping only about a foot from where he sat.

"So you've said," Kalin replied in a bored tone. "Can we get on with it then?"

The hair on the back of my neck stood on end. The Kalin I used to know would never have replied that way. "It's about the Enforcers..."

"What about us?"

I took a deep breath, summed up all my courage, and started into the battle. "This isn't what I signed up for." He gave me a look the equivalent of 'What the heck are you talking about?' so I continued. "I don't know how to say this any less bluntly, but can't you see what's happening here? We are the ones bullying kids now; we've become exactly what we set out to get rid of in the first place."

"Ah, Crow," Kalin replied, standing up to face me. "You're so naive. Don't YOU see? By annihilating all duel disks but our own, we're simply ensuring that no gang can reform. We haven't turned into bullies." His words wouldn't have pissed me off quite so much if he hadn't been looking at me like I was five while he said them. I lost my temper then, which is exactly what I had hoped wouldn't happen.

"Look here, Kalin! You'd have to be completely blind to not see what's happening! Or have you not noticed how people purposely walk on the opposite side of the street to avoid any contact with you? I can't believe anyone could be so - !"

"Then why haven't Jack and Yusei said anything?" His still uninterested tone combined with his cutting in only set me off more.

"Why do you think? They're scared of you, Kalin! Yes, scared! And why? Because of what you've become: a monster! Don't you see that?" By now I was really fuming.

I couldn't believe my eyes when his only response was to brush by me and start walking from the room. Before he disappeared, he stopped in the doorway I had come in through moments before, and said in as a bored of a tone as he had maintained throughout our conversation, "You don't have to stay, Crow; no one's making you. If you want to leave, then fine; go. But if not, then I suggest you stop trying to tell me what to do." Then he was gone.

I still couldn't believe this was the same Kalin I used to call my friend. But this I did know: if things didn't change, and soon, then the Enforcers would be minus one Crow Hogan.