This is my first story so please email me with comments at email me if any of the card references confuse you. I sometimes don't realize that people don't know the game as well as I do.

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BEEP BEEP BEEP. The alarm clock went off beside my head. I opened one eye slowly. This was too early for a Saturday. I should be sleeping in but instead I'm waking up early to go play yu-gi-oh. Man I really need to get a life.

I hopped into shower and stood there for a second. I still wasn't full coherent and was still half asleep. Twenty minutes later I was dressed but again wasn't fully coherent. I glanced at the clock and saw 8:55. Dammit I though I've got five minutes.

I ran downstairs and grabbed my keys. I hopped into my car and all traces of sleep disappeared. Now I was psyched. I had just gotten my license yesterday. Now I was determined to get to the tournament on time. I had five minutes to do a ten minute trip.

I did it in four. I pissed off probable five drives and had the police called twice but I made in time. I'm awesome. I walked in and put my ten dollars on the counter.

"Hey Val you're on time today." He said.

"Finally got my license yesterday." I said and started to walk away.

"Hey grab your pack." He said.

"Sorry." I replied. I grabbed my champion pack and ran into the back room. The gang was all there. Susan Walters was against the back wall flipping through her deck again. She was determined to make her water deck work. I didn't that well. The other five regulars were also there, Joe, Jason, Bob, Justin, and Kevin. Joe walked up to me.

"What did you get?" he asked.

"Huh?" I was confused.

"Your champion pack." He replied.

"Oh." I remarked and opened the pack. I pulled out the cards slowly and was shocked when I saw the name was gold.

"Yes satellite cannon." I screamed. I quickly put in my deck. It fit right into my machine deck. Everyone was jealous but not for long because the tournament started. I drew a first round bye. This was my lucky day. Second round I drew Joe.

"Ready?" he asked

"Of course." I replied.

He won the flip and chose to go first. He set two face down traps and one face down monster and ended. I drew and was shocked. It was power bond. I activated giant trunade to bounce his traps and then used nobleman to clear his field. Then I power bonded cyber twin dragon and attacked twice for fifty six hundred each. An OTK.

Second duel he repeated his first turn move. I heavy stormed away his traps and then special summoned cyber dragon. I attacked his deckochi and he drew a card. I set my own deckochi and ended. He activated card destruction. We both discarded and he was able to summon two Goldds. He swept my field but I drew a card. My turn I was able to repeat the OTK. This time I also drew my strike ninja.

"What you run machine. What are you doing with strike ninja in your deck?" He said.

"Fun. The same reason D.D, Assailant is in here." I answered.

"You idiot." He remarked.

In the finals I face Susan Walters.

"I'm going to lose." She said sadly

"Wanna split?" I asked

"Sure." She replied. We split the prize each getting five packs of Cybernetic Revolution. Neither of us drew anything good. Oh well.

"I have a surprise for you. I bought a new computer game. You play a character in a world where yu-gi-oh monsters are real." The shopkeeper said.

"Cool. I'll install it." I grabbed and ran to the computer. Everyone crowded around. The game installed and then double clicked the icon. I booted right up.

That's where it got interesting. We became surrounded by a bright light. I felt like I was moving foreword but couldn't see anything. I passed out.

I awoke in the middle of what appeared like a desert town. Everyone was there but still unconscious. I approached a lady.

"Where are we?" I asked.

"Fordham." She replied

"Where?" I asked again.

"Fordham the biggest capital of the most powerful nation on the planet Gaia. Don't be stupid." She replied and walked away.

Gaia. I had seen that before. It was in the title of the game. And Fordham was the starting town in the game according to the description. I came to a sad realization. We were in the game.