Welcome, one and all, to The Finale.

Before we get started properly, can we first say a huge thank you to everyone who stuck with us through this whole story. Yugioh Delta was a much larger and more stressful project than we could ever have imagined, especially considering that the initial inspiration for it was basically "We have some fan-made Numbers... hey, let's make a fanfic so they can have a place to live". Still, we made it in the end. We'll put a proper closing statement at the end of this story, but for now, let's just get on with the story. Sound good? Good.

I never thought it would end this way.

And I'm not just saying that to be cheesy or mysterious... I mean it. None of us could ever have predicted what would happen on the day we attacked the Professor's stronghold. Looking back on it, we still can't quite believe that it actually happened, that it was all real. And who could blame us? If I had just woken up after a day like that, I'd have just thought it was just a bad dream – a really really bad one. No stretch of my imagination could've made me believe it was real.

Well, I suppose I'll know that for sure when I can actually sleep again. It's been nearly two days since then, and I haven't gotten so much as a wink of sleep. Everyone keeps telling me that I need to rest, to conserve my energy, to try and put my mind at ease... but how can I? After everything I did, after the horrific decision I made that day, how can I possibly just lay my head down and sleep? How could anybody?

That decision... don't get me wrong, I'm glad I made it. By taking responsibility and making that choice, I saved my teammates – Katie, James, Leah and Dan – from going through the hell I am right now. Yes the experience was traumatic and horrifying for them, and if we ever make it out of this place alive then I doubt they'll ever be able to forget it. But at least they weren't the ones who caused it. At least they don't have that guilt weighing down on them every second of every hour. That's the one victory I can claim in all of this: I saved my teammates from the guilt of a god.

A "god"? Wow. That sounded a bit pretentious of me, didn't it?

I guess that's why Leah suggested I write this 'diary', of sorts. It helps to order my thoughts, and stops me from wallowing in the endless pit of despair like the monster I am. It's weird... I know full well that no-one will ever read this, yet writing it still seems to give my mind some modicum of comfort and structure. It's distracting, and in being distracting it's also helping. So why stop there? If writing these few little diary entries has helped me this much, maybe seeing that whole hellish day laid out in my own handwriting will help me even more. Yeah... alright, I guess it's worth a try.

Then sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

The story of how we destroyed the world.

Fun Fact #1: Just to clarify, yes, this little extract of Matt's diary was written by him after the invasion of Usur's building. This first half was put here as a prelude, of sorts. You'll get the second half of it at the end of this story, once you know exactly what happened that day.

Fun Fact #2: This idea for the main character writing a diary to organise their thoughts is quite a common way of changing up one's style of writing, but in this case, we took the idea from the book 'Necropolis' by Anthony Horowitz (don't sue us, etc). And yes, I know that we bang on about that book a lot, but what do you expect? It's a very good book.

Fun Fact #3: Flashbacks, flashforwards', flashsideways'... this is less like an Episode of Naruto now and more like Doctor Who.

Fun Fact #4: Real content next time, we promise.