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The horrid sound of the alarm clock woke him up at exactly the same time it did every day. Rolling over in his sleep Yusei Fudo blindly started waving his arm about up and down trying to find the damned thing. His flailing arm found it at last hitting the snooze button with more force then was necessary. The figure still wrapped in sheets next to him moaned.

"Yusei don't break it." The bundle said sleepily curling into a tight ball under the covers. "That'll be the third one this month."

Yusei let out a sigh then rolling back over snuck his arms under the sheets and wrapped his arms around the figure that rested under them pulling the woman he loved most in the world closer to him. "I know, I know, but I just want to stay close to you for a little bit longer."

Akiza Izinski let out a small chuckle before wiggling her back deeper into Yusei's chest. "What you mean is you want to get a feel up my ass with your morning hard on while your hands slowly shift their way up to play with my breast."

Yusei smiled into the back of Aki's neck before giving it a gentle kiss. "Guilty as charged." He said. Unable to control himself Yusei let his hands slide along the length of Aki's waist and up her side tracing random pattern's on the thin violet silk nightgown she always wore to bed. Aki shuddered at his touch no matter how many times he did that to her it always gave her goose bumps. Part of her wished he wouldn't stop. Just hold her close and let her know how much he loved her. But life as well as their forthcoming marriage said otherwise.

Twisting in her fiancés arms Aki planted a soft kiss on the tattoo under his left eye. "Time to get going." She said slowly getting out of the bed to disappear into the small bathroom.

Yusei watched her go before swinging his feet off the bed shoving the covers off to the side. Pushing himself off the bed Yusei walked over to the bedrooms single large window and drawing back the covers gazed out into the city. The city was still asleep for the most part. A few people were out, jogging, walking the dog, getting an earlier start on the morning traffic. He was still standing there when Aki walked out of the bathroom trailing a pillar of smoke and dressed in nothing more than her towel.

"Honey," Yusei heard Aki say. "You may want to close your mouth it's getting dusty."

Blinking himself back into reality Yusei discovered much to his chagrin that indeed his mouth was wide open and he was staring shamelessly at Aki's semi nude form. "Nice to see I can still drive you mad with such uncontrollable lust and desire."

"And you always will." Yusei said walking past Aki and into the bathroom. He reemerged about thirty minutes later freshly showered shaved and dressed in long-sleeved blue jacket with a high collar and amber gems over a sleeveless black shirt with a red symbol, blue jeans, knee guards, and calf-high motorcycle boots, his typical work attire. Walking out of the bedroom Yusei took in the rest of the apartment he shared with Aki.

Immediately to his right was the small kitchen complete with stove oven combo as well as a refrigerator and ice box. To his left was the front door. The only furniture was a single couch placed on the far wall across from the bedroom a small TV and TV stand in front of the couch. Aki sat at the small kitchen counter that separate the kitchen from the living room already dressed in her work uniform. A Victorian style outfit of a low-cut red corset with short, white puffy sleeves and a high collar, a sleeveless magenta trench coat that flares behind her which is shorter and pleated in the front. Her jewelry came in the form of a red neck choker and an emerald crested, golden cross-shaped medallion. To top it off Aki wore a pair of dark, elbow-length gloves with a pair of gold bracelets above them. Her stockings are the same color as her gloves with which are connected to her skirt and for shoes simple red high heels.

"I still can't believe they want you to wear that outfit." Yusei said walking around the counter to pull a bowl and some cereal down from the cupboards.

"Well it is a Victorian themed restaurant." Aki said finishing her own breakfast. "And besides admit it you just love looking at my boobs in this corset."

"Once again guilty as charged." Yusei replied as he started to eat from his own bowl of cereal. "That's just it though, all those men staring and gawking at you."

Aki simply laughed. "Oh are we getting to be the jealous type Yusei Fudo?"

"No!" Yusei said, "It's just…well…it's…oh alright you win…I'm jealous!"

"Ha!" Aki said sticking her tongue out at Yusei.

Yusei shook his head in defeat. If there was one thing he loved about his Aki was she was one of the few people who could beat him at anything. Finishing his breakfast and placing the bowl in the sink to be washed later Yusei turned on the new long enough to catch the weather. Shutting off the TV Yusei grabbed his helmet off the kitchen counter. "You need a ride?" He asked Aki wondering if he should grab his spare helmet.

"No Luna is giving me a ride there today." Aki said grabbing her purse from the bed room. "Although I wouldn't mind it if you showed up at work later on today to show 'all those men' that I'm taken."

"I think I can get behind that." Yusei said grabbing his leather biker gloves off the side table that sat beside the door. "See you soon." He added leaning over to give Aki a slow heartfelt kiss good bye.

"Remember tomorrow we're meeting with the wedding planner." Aki said her voice quite.

"I haven't and I won't." Yusei said pulling his gloves on, on his way out the door. Pulling his helmet on as he swung his legs over his motorcycle. The long, sleek red bike accepted his weight with only the slightest depression in its suspension. Looking over to the door of their ground floor apartment Yusei smiled at Aki standing in the door frame. "Love you." He said.

"Love you too." Aki replied just loud enough for Yusei to hear it.

Yusei's smile only deepened at those words and he kicked bike to life with its subtle but noticeable roar. He glanced back over to the apartment door once Aki still standing there giving her one last smile Yusei gunned the engine shooting out of the apartment complex.

***

The Satellite Construct and Salvage building stood on the edge of the city less then a thirty minute commute from Yusei's apartment. Roughly three stories tall and as large as a small apartment complex the building was divided into three departments. The first floor was devoted to the company's primary form of income construction. The SCS-Construction handled anything from highways to small office buildings. The second story belonged to salvage, SCS-Salvage handled demolitions, and the salvage of building, facilities, wrecked ships and plans, and just about anything that was either destroyed or damaged. The third floor was mainly offices but a small section of it was devoted to the little known section of the Satellite Construct and Salvage Company. SCS-Innovation was the company's small research and development team that was charged with the sole purpose of designing and building and producing technological advances, primary in the field of transportation.

Parking his bike just outside the main entrance next to a bike that was the twin to his own saved it was colored black instead of red; Yusei strolled right into the main lobby. Roughly thirty feet to a side the lobby was small yet functional with hallways off to the left and right leading to offices, a receptionist's desk directly in front of the door half covered a wall sized painting of a main that could have been an older version of Yusei himself.

Dr. Fudo was the founder of Satellite Construct and Salvage, pioneered many advances in science of transportation, construction, repair, recycling and demolitions. To the world Dr. Fudo was a genius. To Yusei he was just plain dad. Walking past the receptionist who was too busy answering calls to notice to notice him, Yusei walked past his father's painting and towards the bank of elevators. Taking to first available one to the third floor the door opened with a barley audible ding over the sounds of various pieces of heavy machinery.

Stepping off the elevator Yusei walked strait ahead passing workers, machines and various piles of parts. Every now and then a worker or technician would look up from their work wave and shout a greeting which Yusei would return in kind and occasionally stopping to check on their progress with whatever project they were working on. Reaching the far side of the room Yusei opened the plain wood door and stepping through was instantly hit with the quite of the other side. The entry way to the three main offices was soundproofed so visitors wouldn't be disturbed by the noise from the work area.

The entry room was small compared to the lobby only twelve feet wide most of the space was taken up by a set of four chair set against the walls as well as the secretary that Yusei shared with his two co owners who sat hunched over her paperwork.

"Morning Carly." Yusei said closing the door behind him effectively shutting out the noise from the workshop.

Carly Magisa Atlas looked up from her paperwork her trifocal glasses slipping down her nose briefly. "Morning Yusei," She said smiling as she pushed her glasses back up her nose before handing Yusei a small stack of papers. "Here are the reports on Mr. Harrington's drive tests. He thinks he's fixed the bugs in the gyros. And your appointments for the day."

"Thank you Carly." Yusei said sticking the stack of papers in his helmet that he had slung under his arm. "You did remember to clear my schedule for tomorrow right?"

Carly nodded. "Of course, Aki promised to 'gut me like a fish' if I didn't."

Yusei let out a short laugh. "That's exactly what she said she's do to me if I forgot or was late."

"And knowing Aki she damn will follow through with it if you are." Carly said turning to answer the phone that had begun to ring.

Shaking his head Yusei smirked to himself walking past the desk and through the door behind it. Yusei's office was little smaller then the lobby but seemed more cramped do to most of the office itself was taken up by various work benches devoted to one type of construction or another. Ignoring the workbenches Yusei instead walked to the far wall and drawing the blinds to the large wall spanning windows sat down at his deck. Simple in design the desk was nonetheless sturdy. Yusei's work computer sat off the right angled to catches as little glare as possible from the sunlight. A few scattered piece of paper were strewn about awaiting Yusei's attention but other then that the only piece of decoration were the two simple picture frames that sat off to the left side of the desk.

The smaller older and most frayed of the duo was an old picture showing a roughly ten to twelve year old Yusei being taught but his father how to use a solder gun for the first time. The second larger newer was of Yusei and Aki having picnic in the middle of a green field. Akio was wrapping her arms around Yusei's neck from behind smiling widely for the camera. While Yusei is trying to get his face out from behind the forest of violet that is Aki's hair. Yusei smiled at the photo's for a few minutes before turn to the stack of papers that need his attention.

***

A loud knock sounded from the door to Yusei's office interrupting his work on a new piece of tech he had come up with a few days before. Saving his work notes and shutting down the holographic schematics Yusei turned to the door knowing who it was. "Come on in Crow, Jack."

Jack Atlas head of SCS-Construction and Crow head of SCS-Salvage walked right on into Yusei's office. Jack wearing his normal harden look of arrogance and Crow smiling, arms grasped behind his head. "Hay Yusei buddy. Jack and I were about to break for lunch care to join us."

"Why not?" Yusei said setting his tools down and pushing off from the table. "I promised Aki I'd stop by her new job today."

"Oh that's right! She started that new job today." Crow said eyes looking up to the ceiling. "I went there once. They make all their attractive female waitress wear such great outfits." Crow started to foam at the mouth only to be stopped short by a calm smack on the head from Jack.

"Owww! What was that for you bastard!" Crow yelled holding the back of his head.

"We all know where those thoughts were going Crow." Jack said his voice even. "Which would you prefer me or Yusei hitting in the head?"

"It still hurt." Crow muttered rubbing his head.

"Hey Yusei." Jack said looking from the injured Crow to Yusei. "Why exactly is Aki working? Didn't you offer to pay for that floral arrangement school?"

"I did." Yusei answered shrugging. "But she said she'd rather pay for it herself. I guess so she could claim to have truly earned going to that school herself."

"Woman's pride I guess." Crow said turning towards the door. "Now let's go I'm starving." Agreeing on that note the trio turned to go. However, Carly stood in the door way obviously shaking. Her face was white as a sheet. Her knees were barely able to hold her weight.

"Carly what's wrong?" Jack asked voice filling with concern as he started to run towards his wife only to stop mid step when a tall figure clad in black appeared behind her.

"There's…there's someone here to see you Mr. Fudo." She said her voice cracking with fear which made Jack only tense more. The figure lightly gave Carly a shove. Already unsteady on her feet do to her fear Carly all but fell into the office before she hit the ground before Jack rushed forward catching her.

"You alright?" He asked. She nodded but looked on the edge of fainting. All but picking his wife up Jack slowly edged Carly away from the black figure.

The figure walked slowly and deliberately into the office ducking his head in under the door way. Who ever he was he was tall, taller then even Jack the tallest of the three friends. From head to foot was covered in armor leaving not a single piece of skin expose. Yet he also moved silently the only sounds he was making were the soft rhythmic sounds of his foot steps. His large almost glowing red eye did not blink, or not seem to move, though all in the room felt like they were the target of his gaze.

"Yusei Fudo?" It asked its voice sounding male and neither muffled by the suit or artificially sounding in fact it an almost a calming deep baritone.

Yusei stepped forward. "I'm Yusei Fudo."

Surprisingly the armored figure came to military attention before bowing from the waist all the way to its knees. When the figure went up right it spoke again its voice unchanging. "I am Gearfried the Iron Knight. I work for the organization call Yliaster. And I have come to deliver a message to you Yusei Fudo. 'We have your fiancé. And we mean to kill her."


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