DISCLAIMER! I DO NOT OWN THE SERIES!


Kalen walked through the front door with 5 bags of groceries. The whole place looked like it was ransacked by a pack of wild animals, but that didn't seem all that different. There were three runners lining the garage area with Leo pretending to ride Jack's. Luna was hyped as she talked to Akiza who just noticed Kalen casually putting groceries into the fridge.

"Good morning..." she attempted a greeting, but Leo beat her too it as he ran off to see what he was up to.

"You're back," Crow called out as he climbed out from under his Runner.

"Yeah, please tell me this was a one-off thing and not the lot of you joining Jack's ramen craze." Kalen rolled his eyes as he got himself a glass of water, "This is why groceries were always my job."

"Hey, Kalen! When did you get here?" Leo asked only to be handed a chocolate bar.

"This morning, Yusei raced right past my face," Kallen replied walking over to Luna with another chocolate bar.

Luna was surprised as his face remained unchanged, "Thank you?"

"Yeah," Crow scratched his head trying to make sense of things, "Any call from security is now a priority, ever since they got him that sponsorship." There was a tonne of jealousy in his voice.

"You can do it, Crow, as long as you pass the admissions exam," Akiza encouraged him. "Which is why you need to be reading and not working on a perfectly functional duel runner!" Her mood changed instantly as she began lecturing Crow with the passing and failing statistics of the security college examination.


The sobbing intensified as they approached the supposedly closed off room. A girl sat on a chair raised in the air, cords peaking through her lilac braid stretched from her hair to a set of arched receivers surrounding it. The screen changed rapidly as the girl seemed to be searching through the databases. It stopped on new maps and satellite planning, then all of the duels Yusei and his friends have been in. The screen froze on his file.

"HEY YOU!" Trudge called out.

She spun around staring at the pair only to focus on him. "Yusei?" she called out trying to analyze his face, "Give me a sec." she wiped away her snot filled nose, returning to the files.

Trudge was annoyed, "Miss, you are..."

"Repairing system damage on a software level."

"So it was a software malfunction?" Yusei muttered.

"There was no malfunction- there was a security collapse." The girl replied as the cords snapped off their heady weight throwing her balance off slightly as she climbed down, "If it wasn't cleaned the system would be flooded with cyber terrorism, Officer Trudge. I apologize for not getting permission for this cleanup but it has been so long since the last one it took me 8 hours." Knowing she got her point across, the girl turned to Yusei.

As she got closer it was obvious she was more than a head shorter than him. She was clad in purple riding gear and pulled off her glove, her hand reached out to touch Yusei's face, her finger tracing his mark.

She froze.

"Umm? Can I help you?"

Unfreezing she turned to Trudge, with a swift kick landing between his legs, causing Trudge to collapse."The facility... THE FACILITY?" she screamed as he hands retracted, forming fists. "How could you!? How could any of you?" her eyes filled with tears again. "Was no one smart enough to cross reference the name Fudou in the database?" Yusei grabbed her hand, holding back any addition beating on the Officer.

The screams attracted attention from a higher floor.

Mina raced down with good news, "The systems are back online..." but her celebration was cut short as she watched the small framed young lady fall to tears again.

"It's all my fault! It's all my fault!"