Subaru(walking in a dark room): Oh hi there, my name is Subaru Geki. I don't really know why you came all the way here to listen to me since I am most certain that you already have something better planned in your highly busy schedule. But oh well, if you chose to give me attention then I guess I will try to make it worthwhile…

Edo(busting in): Hey Suby, tell them all about how we met the Doctor!

Subaru: Are you crazy, Edo-kun?! Nobody would like to hear that boring tale! Oh by the way, this is Edo Kanda, my best friend. (gesticulates)

Doctor(enters the room as well): Boys, just what exactly is going on here? Are you secretly trying to recreate those inappropriate scenes from your green haired friend's mangas?

Subaru(sighing in annoyance): How did I get into all of this? Oh yeah, it all happened when…

It was yet another rainy mid September day in a certain city from a certain prosperous country. The once great metropolis was now recovering from the damages that its previous war had inflicted upon. The humans were trying their best to repair their damaged futuristic buildings using their construction robots. A legend once spoke that man tried his best to reach the Heavens but his Creator punished him by destroying the tower he had built. Little did the Creator know that man was a stubborn being and once struck he would try again and again to reach his goals. That was exactly what was going on in that city.

At its outskirts an unidentified flying object, commonly known as a UFO that was shaped like a saucer was sitting parked near the city's beach. Its walls were beginning to gain rust marks as a sign of its usage. Throughout three years the ship had to fly throughout the whole planet going through many battles and suffering damages. How it still managed to stay functional was a miracle of man's knowledge of science from that time.

Obviously one would wonder what kind of inhabitants would subject it to such hardships. Were they some evil aliens coming from another world to invade the green planet? Or were they just a bunch of normal humans with bad driving skills? Out of the two options the latter was more likely.

The truth was that its inhabitants had also gone through many hardships just like their precious UFO. They were five young teenagers carrying the heavy burden of keeping their home world safe. Safe from what exactly? What could a group of young teenagers possibly do to save the world? The answer lied in two simple words that described a popular card game: Duel Masters.

Through the power of the game's cards humans were able to summon creatures from another world and use them to fight, to duel, against an opponent. That was what that group had done for the course of three years while they inhabited the UFO. And so time passed, people came and left, evil rose and fell, their victories were either sweet or bitter, but one thing always remained the same for them: their unity. And while their only master and the source of their power, the gem known as the Proof of Duelmaster, was no longer with them, the core of the team composed of its two oldest members and one of their best friends still remained unshaken.

As a sign of relief for them, not anyone was able to summon creatures anymore. With the Proof gone no human was able to bring out creatures in what was called a kaijudo duel unless they owned a Victory card. A Victory card was like any other card with the exception that it had a V symbol on its upper or lower half. And into these cards the Proof chose to leave its power. Thus a duelist who owned a Victory card was still considered what was known as a kaijudo duelist.

The quintet of teens was also known as the chosen duelists. They had been chosen by the Proof to protect the world using its powers. The reason there were only five chosen duelists was because there were only five civilizations and each had to represent one. As for the civilizations themselves, those were the following: Fire, Water, Nature, Light and Darkness. Together they formed a complete whole. And the same was with the five teens up until a certain point. When the Proof disappeared and dispersed its power into the Victory cards, not only were they told that they were no longer chosen but they also saw how other humans received their master's final gift. Thus the ones that had bigger dreams chose to follow them while the others that had their dreams already accomplished chose to stay and live together. And this is where our story begins…

Subaru scratched his rich black hair that touched his shoulders and was shaped like a mane. Then he yawned and rubbed his brown eyes. Afterwards he pushed his head against his right fist as he lay down on the living room's cozy watching a brown haired boy play a video game wildly.

"Suby, you should come down here and try this game as well!" the brown haired insisted.

"No thanks, Edo-kun, I'm not in the mood right now. I'd rather sit here and watch you play." the black haired passively replied to his friend named Edo.

"Hmph fine, suit yourself, lazy cat."

Subaru suddenly stretched all of his limbs and gave a small cry of laziness.

"Man, is there nothing interesting to do here anymore?!" he complained.

"Well you could always join me here." Edo suggested.

"No Edo-kun, I've been playing video games and reading books and surfing the internet and going to the mall and all that other stuff for almost two months now! It's becoming rather tiresome at this point. Isn't there anything else that we can do?"

"I don't know Suby, this is pretty much all we can do here."

"I'm sick and tired of it, Edo-kun! We were once the chosen duelists; we went on great adventures and stopped the likes of Rezo, Tabitha, Kaizer and Tigra. Even though it was dangerous, it kept us busy and it also gave us a nice thrilling sensation. And while we did receive the peace that we had longed for, I never expected it to become this boring!"

"Yeah, yeah, as you say. It's under the right shelf." an obviously inattentive Edo responded to his friend's lament while still playing the video game.

Subaru sighed and gently slapped his own face. As usual clueless Edo was not paying attention and his mind was swapped in another childish activity. Realizing that he could not confess his suffering to him he got up and walked out of the living room. The black haired male put his hands into the pockets of his dark blue jeans and he wandered down the corridors of the UFO while looking at the windows admiring the autumnal rain from outside.

At the kitchen an angelic girl whose head was decorated with a beautiful long blonde mane that seemed like gold, who was dressed up in a long red dress and with a pink apron covering her front was watching TV while waiting for the food maker to finish cooking supper.

"Tsugumi, do you have two seconds?" Subaru asked the girl while entering the kitchen.

"Sure!" the blonde female turned to him and looked at him with her crystal blue eyes in whose sight he got lost immediately. "What's the matter, my love? You seem rather sad today."

"I just don't know what to do anymore…"

"What do you mean by that?"

"I mean that I'm getting really bored here, Tsugumi. I'm sick and tired of the usual daily routine that we've been having for almost two months now. I want something exciting to happen, a new adventure, anything!"

"I understand your pain, Subaru, I really do. If you want, I could try and book us some tickets for a hot spring trip. How about that?"

"I don't know, I wouldn't want to interrupt your own schedule."

"Oh don't worry; if it's for you I'd do anything. So what do you say, three tickets?"

"Hm… make it four. I'm sure that Blane will be stalking us so I'd rather have him come with us instead." Subaru suggested.

"Alright! Once the show finishes I will get onto it!" Tsugumi said and then she took a quick glance at the food maker to see that it still had half an hour left and afterwards she turned her head to the TV and resumed watching her soap opera.

Subaru leaned and gave the girl a quick kiss on the back of her head. Once again he walked out and found himself all alone wandering the corridors of the spaceship. Having nothing better to do he decided to go outside in the rain and admire the beauty of nature's cry. The sound of the raindrops touching the steel roof of the UFO was like music to his ears. Subaru opened the main door of the UFO and stepped outside letting the water fall on his face, black mane and short sleeved black T shirt with the symbol of the Darkness civilization.

"So refreshing…" he whispered while a small smile appeared on his face. "If only every autumn day was like this."

"Is something the matter, master?" a beast's voice resounded.

In the next moment the small hologram of a demonic bipedal lion that had four arms holding two sharp blue swords and one white cross shaped staff and whose head had a majestic blue mane and two orange horns positioned like a V on its forehead appeared on his shoulder.

"Oh it's nothing, Raion." Subaru responded to his avatar which was better known as Liger Blade, Fierce Tiger.

"It can't be nothing because when you are this gloomy something is definitely wrong with you, master." Raion insisted.

"Let's just say that I miss the good old days of exciting adventures and duels. But if those days are long gone, then I fear we might have to find a new purpose."

"Maybe they are not gone just yet, look!"

Raion pointed with one of its swords at the rainy sky in which they saw a shining bright light that seemed like a star. Whatever it was, it was coming on their way for the shining star was in a fall. The demonic lion disappeared while Subaru quickly ran back inside the UFO and expected the worse. Suddenly he heard a crash. When he looked outside he saw an object crashed on the beach. Gathering his courage he walked out of his spaceship and approached it. Even though it was raining, a few of the sun's rays made their way out of the thick black clouds and lighted the mysterious object.

When he took a better look he saw that it was a dark blue police box with an unlighted lamp on its top and with the words POLICE BOX and PUBLIC CALL written above its doors.

"That's strange. Why would a police box fall from the sky right here?" Subaru asked and then he noticed a large sticker on its left door which he read. "Police telephone, free for use of public, advice & assistance obtainable immediately, officer & cars respond to calls, pull to open."

Shrugging his shoulders Subaru pulled the right door which opened and then he walked inside. What he saw in there amazed him like nothing else had ever done it before. He did not walk in a normal police box for no police box was smaller on the outside and way bigger on the inside. Also no normal police box looked on the inside like a UFO rip off from sci-fi movies. There were many metallic pathways and all lead to the same place which seemed to be its center. There was a glass platform that had a hexagonal machine which seemed like the ship's control device with a cylinder coming out of it and connecting with the ceiling.

"Amazing!" Subaru gasped as he walked up the metallic footsteps to the machine. "Just what is this thing?"

"This? It's the TARDIS." a young British man's voice resounded.

"Who said that?!" the black haired teen jumped scared and turned around.

"Over here! I could use a little help you know!"

Subaru looked down and had the amazement of seeing a swimming pool underneath him. Besides that he also saw a man trying to jump out of it but with no avail. The teen laid down with his belly on the floor and stretched both of his hands downwards allowing the man to successfully jump and grab him. Then he used his full force and pulled the man up to his level.

When Subaru got a better look at him, he saw that the man had green eyes, dark brown hair that was fairly long, still not as big as his own black mane, and he wore a white shirt, black jeans, a brown collar and a red bowtie on his neck. Also his clothes were soaking wet.

"Well frankly I didn't expect any visitors to come and see me today but I'm glad someone did." the man spoke rapidly and then he offered his hand. "I am the Doctor."

"Doctor? Doctor Who?" was Subaru's first reaction which immediately brought a smile on the strange man's face.

"Just call me… the Doctor."

"Alright then? My name is Subaru Geki."

"Subaru Geki… brilliant name I daresay! Just brilliant! It has such great sonority and such a nice oriental touch. Anyway, pleased to meet you!"

The duo shook hands and while the Doctor seemed more than pleased in meeting the black haired teen, Subaru was rather surprised and a little freaked out of the stranger.

"Now that we have met I have some rules that you must follow." the Doctor said.

"Rules?" Subaru asked while raising his eyebrow.

"Yes – do everything I tell you, don't ask stupid questions, and don't wander off."

"Woah, woah, woah, stop right there pal! I don't even know you and you're already telling me what to do?"

"Well why not keep everything safe since we are aboard this great adventure?"

"Adventure?"

"Yes, you see life is one great adventure." the Doctor affirmed while walking towards a set of stairs. "But to make it all exciting you must know which path to choose."

In the next moment the Doctor accidentally walked off the platform and fell once again in the pool. Subaru sweated while he approached the edge of the platform and then he spoke to the even wetter man:

"And that certainly isn't one of them."

A few minutes later Subaru had once again helped the Doctor get out of the pool but this time they were at the lower level of the machine closer to the door from which he came inside.

"Well I guess I have to thank you for your help a second time." the Doctor suggested.

"No need to." Subaru replied. "Say, where are you from exactly?"

"Me? Well let's just say that I am not from this planet."

"So you're an alien?"

"Alien? Yes, to humans I am an alien, but to other beings in this universe I am not."

"That's just… weird."

"I know!"

The Doctor wandered off inspecting his ship and trying to look for damaged areas. Subaru followed the strange man looking at him with great interest and then he asked:

"But Doctor, where did you come from? What's up with this crazy ship of yours?"

"So many questions you're asking me and yet we don't have much time for them all." the Doctor commented while pulling out from his collar's pocket a strange metallic screwdriver with a green light shining on its top.

"What's that?" Subaru asked.

"Oh this? This is my trusty sonic screwdriver. Never leaving anywhere without it." the Doctor said while pressing a button on it and making the screwdriver extend its upper region and reveal a shiny green light and three metallic spikes.

"That's even weirder…"

"I know!"

The Doctor used the screwdriver to inspect all of the spacecraft's damages and after half an hour of walking around inside of it followed by Subaru he came to his conclusion:

"Cracked walls, malfunctioned engines, mixed circuits, and a huge hole in my stomach… Yes, it will take me a lot of time to fix all of this."

"So what are you going to do about it?" Subaru asked.

"Well I guess I will just find a way to repair these problems." the Doctor answered and then he put the screwdriver back in his collar and walked towards the exit door looking like an elegant British man from the 20th century.

"Just wait a second, Doctor!"

Subaru rushed in front of the Doctor and blocked his way to the door with a serious look on his face.

"You're a strange guy dressed like what an Englishman would have worn two hundred years ago…"

"Bowties are cool!" the Doctor intervened.

"Whatever. And on the top of all that you're acting stranger than Michael Jackson, Charlie Sheen and my best friend Edo combined!" Subaru criticized.

"I know!"

"Seriously now, who are you and what do you want?!"

"Well to put it in simple words, I am the Doctor and I have come here looking for a new assistant."

"Assistant?"

"Yes… someone that can travel around with me and help me out whenever I need them. What do you say? Would you like to help me around?"

"Geez, I don't know… I mean, it's all just weird! One moment I'm sitting there admiring the rain and next thing I know a police box lands in front of my home and a kooky guy calling himself the Doctor comes to me and asks for help!"

"I know!" the Doctor added with a fascinated smile on his face. "Isn't it just wonderful?"

"All that I wished for was to get rid of this annoying boredom." Subaru sighed. "I guess Tsugumi was right, you should be careful what you wish for."

In the next moment they both heard loud knocks on the ship's door.

"I wonder who could be bothering us at this time of the day." the Doctor commented while pushing Subaru aside and heading for the door.

When the Doctor opened the door he had the surprise of receiving a full fist in the cheek which threw him on his back. Subaru rushed to him and helped him get up.

"Doctor, are you alright?" Subaru asked with worry.

"Blimey, what a way to say hello to people…" the Doctor remarked.

In the next moment a bald fat man dressed in a large white martial arts kimono walked up to them looking all angry and asked:

"Are you the guy that parked this piece of crap on my bike?"

The man showed a small bicycle that lacked wheels and was torn in two.

"Doctor, you did that?!" Subaru asked amazed.

"Hehe, who says that I can control where the TARDIS lands?" the Doctor sweated.

"So you are the one who did it, huh?!" the angered man said while taking a small pack of forty two cards out oh his kimono's pocket which shined with a red and purple aura. "In order to defend the honor of my bike, I, the great Komusubi, challenge you to a duel!"

"A what?" the Doctor asked while looking all confused. "A duel? Just what in the world is that?"

"What? You mean you do not know how to duel? And you dare to disrespect me by not accepting my challenge?!"

The sumo looking man clenched his right fist and showed it to the Doctor. Its next target would have been his face once again if Subaru did not step in front of him and said:

"The Doctor does not know how to duel, mister Komusubi, but I Subaru Geki will gladly accept your challenge on his behalf!"

"Hah, and what chance does a puny boy like you possibly have against someone like me?" Komusubi asked while imposing his fatty belly.

"Well for one I have this!" Subaru replied while showing his deck which glowed with a bright purple aura along with his right hand. "And secondly, I can still kaijudo duel!"

"What? You mean that you have a Victory card?" the sumo man asked with his mouth shaped like an 'o'. "Interesting… Then if I win, I get your Victory card. Deal?"

"Deal."

Both of their decks shined and then much to the Doctor's amazement two metallic tables arose from the floor of the TARDIS. He had never seen his own device do that before but he deduced that it was due to the powers of their decks.

Subaru and Komusubi walked to the tables and both put their decks down. Then each searched them and took out a certain number of cards which they put on the far right of the table. Komusubi had put two while Subaru had put eight. Afterwards they both shuffled their decks and put five cards each on the area that was marked by two black lines. Then each drew five cards in their hand. Both looked at each other and shouted in unison:

"Duel start!"

In the next moment five blue rectangular shields appeared above Subaru.

"Amazing…" the Doctor mumbled.

"Hehe, you're not the only one with surprises here, Doctor." Subaru winked as he placed a card tapped in the zone behind the five cards that represented his shields. "I charge mana with Persistent Prison of Gaia and end."

The card that Subaru had placed on the table was colored like a rainbow and it depicted a blue crystal cage which was surrounded by a wave of darkness and one of fire.

"I charge mana and end." Komusubi said while placing in the same zone of his table a red card that represented a scrapper crushing a creature.

"Charging mana? What is this thing? Suzuki, care to explain this concept to me?" the Doctor asked the black haired teen.

"My name is Subaru, Doctor." he corrected him. "And in this game we have many zones – there is the shield zone which has five shields that protects you, there is the mana zone in which you must put cards in order to pay for summoning creatures, and then there is also the battle zone where you summon creatures, the graveyard where destroyed creatures go and the hyperspatial zone where… special types of creatures lie."

"I see… Very interesting…" the Doctor commented while rubbing his cheek.

"This is no time to explain rules to newcomers! Play!" Komusubi shouted at Subaru.

"Very well, I charge mana and summon Atsuto, Duel Hero Strategist!"

A black haired male with brown eyes dressed in a dark blue suit with a black shirt, red tie and black cape, who was wielding a lollipop in his right hand and a rose in his left hand, appeared next to Subaru.

"Fascinating!" the Doctor exclaimed while approaching Atsuto and examining him. "How did you summon a human right here?"

"Excuse me, but could you fabulously back off from my personal space?" Atsuto asked while gently pushing the Doctor away.

"Oh yes sorry, I didn't mean to!"

"Doctor, this is my friend Atsuto. Atsuto, this is the Doctor." Subaru made the introductions.

"Doctor? Subaru, I didn't know you were sick…" Atsuto spoke surprised.

"No, not that kind of Doctor… I'll explain later, just do your thing."

Atsuto gracefully drew two cards from Subaru's deck and put them in his owner's hand. Then he selected a Darkness GUY, Zero Romanov and a Hades Death Gate which he discarded.

"Are you ladies done yet? If yes, then it is my turn! I summon Zabi Fly, the Pillager!" Komusubi said and then he put a black card on his table that depicted a purple plane with a sharp toothed mouth.

"He's a newcomer to the game?" Atsuto asked while looking at the rather amazed Doctor.

"You can say that." Subaru replied. "Anyway, my turn, I summon Super Go On Pippi!"

A bird made of fire with a pair of dark green glasses on its forehead appeared flying above Subaru and chirped happily.

"Oh hello birdie!" the Doctor waved at it.

"I summon Marauder Deis Drive!" Komusubi said while putting a rainbow colored card that depicted a black armored reptilian creature with spikes on its arms and an eyeless head that had a sharp toothed. "Since Marauder Deis Drive is a speed attacker, I now attack you with it and Zabi Fly, break his shields!"

"He is using those cards to attack you? Take cover, Honda!" the worried Doctor exclaimed.

"The name is Subaru, and no Doctor, they will just break my shields, they won't really wound me." Subaru explained and then he turned to his opponent and watched how Komusubi fired two energy waves from his cards that broke two of his shields.

The shield shards united into two cards that went into Subaru's hand and then he began his turn. The black haired boy charged mana and then he tapped all four cards in his mana zone and showed another rainbow colored card while saying:

"I cast Super Infernal Gate Smash and by its effect I destroy Marauder Deis Drive!"

All of a sudden the rainbow colored card from Komusubi's table bounced off the battle zone and landed at the right of his deck.

"You cast? What are you, a wizard?" the Doctor asked.

"A wizard? No, I just used a spell card." Subaru explained. "This game has a variety of cards ranging from creatures to spells."

"I see… Also, that place where his card went… is that the graveyard?"

"You catch up fast, Doctor."

"I summon Zabi Trash Train, Fuuma Devil!" Komusubi said and then he put a black card showing a train-like creature with two blue arms and an eyeless face that had a mouth with sharp teeth and snake tongue. "Zabi Fly, break his shield!"

Another energy wave was launched from the sumo man's table and it broke another one of Subaru's shields. However the boy took that card to his hand smiling and then he spoke to those around him with a confident voice:

"Play time is over!"

"What?" the trio composed of the Doctor, Atsuto and Komusubi asked.

"I cast… Miracle Re Born!" Subaru exclaimed while showing a black card that shined with a purple light. "With its effect I can revive a Hunter creature with cost 7 or less and I choose to revive… Darkness GUY, Zero Romanov!"

Suddenly a horned red caped purple armored knight wielding two yellow laser guns, having a yellow X scar on its chest appeared behind Subaru and roared as he searched his deck and let another Darkness GUY, Zero Romanov card fall in his graveyard.

"Amazing! He actually brought that thing in the battle zone…" the Doctor gasped.

"Cool huh?" Subaru winked and then he turned to his opponent. "Since Super Go On Pippi makes all my creatures with both Dragon and Hunter in their race speed attackers I now attack with Darkness GUY, Zero Romanov! With its effect I cast Miracle Re Born from my graveyard and revive a second Darkness GUY, Zero Romanov!"

A second purple armored knight appeared behind Subaru and he put the Miracle Re Born spell at the bottom of his deck and searched for another card which he then dropped into his graveyard. Then the first knight used both of its guns and shot down two of the sumo man's shields, making two cards bounce off his table into his hand.

"Then I attack with my second Darkness GUY, Zero Romanov and cast Hyperspatial Emperor Hole which destroys Zabi Fly and puts Victorious Ryusei Kaiser in the battle zone!" Subaru said and then he watched how Komusubi's creature card bounced off his table and how a blue armored dragon with a red fire horn in its nose and wielding a fire sword in its tail appeared in the battle zone. "Zero Romanov, break two more shields!"

The second knight repeated the gun attacks of the first one and two more cards bounced off Komusubi's table.

"Super Go On Pippi, break his final shield!" Subaru ordered and the fire bird flew towards the fat man and caused the last shield card to bounce off as well and land into his hand. "And now Doctor, the man is shield less, meaning that nothing can protect him anymore from my attacks."

"So what happens then?" the Doctor asked.

"Then you attack him once more and win the game!"

With those words being said, Subaru tapped a card in his battle zone and said:

"Victorious Ryusei Kaiser, todomeda!"

The blue armored dragon gave a loud roar and then it flew towards Komusubi and used its fire sword to hit him and throw him far away from the TARDIS. Atsuto gave Subaru a thumb up and then he disappeared back into the card as the teen packed up his cards victoriously. Then he turned to the amazed Doctor that had his jaw dropped.

"How was it, Doctor?" Subaru asked while crossing his arms.

"Well I'll be damned, that was fantastic!" the Doctor exclaimed. "Those creatures, those moves, those spells, I love it, I love it, I love it! Tell me Mercedes, how can I get to play this game?"

"The name is Subaru, and if you want to learn more about it, then you can come to my place, we've got a lot of fun stuff there."

"Excellent idea! It would be wonderful to meet new people as well. By the way, what was the name of this card game that you were playing again?"

"Oh? It's called Duel Masters."

"I see. Duel Masters is cool."

And so the two new friends closed the doors of the TARDIS and walked out in the gentle autumn rain heading for the UFO in which Subaru lived.

Meanwhile in a prison far away a blonde woman was sitting on a bed with six metallic cylinders covering her arms, legs and horns from her head. The woman opened her cold blue eyes and then she whispered devilishly:

"The Doctor has come."

Subaru(rubbing his hands):Yes, that's how our adventure began.

Doctor: It was a rather delightful beginning; don't you agree on that, Opel?

Subaru(slightly annoyed voice): How many times do I have to tell you? My name is Subaru!

Doctor: That's what I said!

Subaru: Anyway, I hope you join us next time for the continuation of our adventure!

[In the next chapter]:

Subaru introduces the mysterious Doctor to his friends in the UFO while an old foe reappears seeking new power. Our heroes will go on a time travel quest to feudal Japan trying to fix something that went wrong, but what surprises await them there?