A/N: Back to do the next chapter, so I don't lose interest in it.


Yusei was driving back to the Tops, after having had his conversation with Rua.

'How the hell will I tell them this?' he thought to himself. 'Worst of all, how am I going to tell Ruka?'

"Maybe I should talk with Jack first…" he said to himself, before pushing a few buttons on his D-Wheel's menu. In a matter of seconds, Jack's face appeared on the monitor.

"What is it? Have you found him?" asked Jack, who seemingly just got into his D-Wheel.

"Yes… but we need to talk," answered Yusei, still thinking about how to begin to explain it.

"We definitely do – my mark is gone! Where are you?" asked Jack, revving up his engine.

"Head for the Tops, I'll meet you at the entrance," said Yusei, to which Jack just nodded. Yusei, seeing Jack understood, turned it off, and headed there, at full speed. Speed always had a way of clearing his head and helping him think.


At the Tops, it had been a few hours since Ruka and Aki had arrived. They sat there, watching TV, hoping to get their minds off of Rua's disappearance, and away from thoughts about what might have happened to him.

'Why didn't he leave any clue to where he was going?' thought Ruka to herself. 'What if he has lost his memories… what if I will never see him again…' the thoughts ran through her mind, and were not going to leave her alone.

She got off the couch, and paced around the room, to avoid thinking about it. A thought crossed her mind… what if he has been here? Their loft has access to the Tops security system, meaning they had video and audio access of the entrances, exits and parking places. She began checking each one of them. Aki noticed it, but thought it was what Yusei told them to do, either way.


Soon enough, Yusei reached the Tops, and saw Jack already waiting there. He sighed as he pulled near his D-Wheel near Jack's.

"Where's Rua?" asked Jack, noticing that Yusei didn't have Rua with him.

"We need to talk," answered Yusei, getting out of his D-Wheel.

"What's wrong? Is he alright?" asked Jack, worried.

"A stone tablet fell from the sky, again. As the previous times, it was Ylliaster's," started Yusei. "I went to it, and found someone standing next to it…" he added slowly.

"What are you saying?" asked Jack, getting out of his D-Wheel.

"It was Rua… or… rather, Alexander… At least, that's what he called himself," answered Yusei, not looking Jack in the eyes.

"I don't understand," replied Jack.

"He said he's part of Ylliaster, and served as a fail-safe, in case of Z-ONE's death…" explained Yusei, while he saw surprise, shock and confusion build up in Jack's face.

"What?!" shouted Jack, in his usual angry voice.


At the shore of Neo Domino city, a portal appeared, and Rua came through. A few tears were streaming from his eyes.

He took off his jacket, and put it on the sand, and took a deep breath, now being left only in his shirt, and jeans. He looked out to the sea - the monument, which unites Neo Domino and Satellite caught his attention. But that lasted only a couple of seconds, as suddenly, he had a sharp pain in the back of his head, and memories came flooding to him.

He held his head, as he saw images of Aporia, in his old age, looking at the monument, thinking he was the only human left on Earth. Another memory of Antinomy, looking at it, hoping a Machine Emperor would have ended his life already. He felt their hopelessness and their despair, as if it was his own.

The pain subsided quickly, but he was a lot weaker, so he decided to sit down on the sand.

He pulled his wallet from his jeans, and took out a picture from it. It was a picture of Team 5Ds after winning the WRGP – after defeating Team Ragnarok. They had known that things would only get harder, but they celebrated nonetheless. He just looked at it for a couple of minutes.

He got a few short memories of Z-ONE, researching Yusei. This one wasn't as painful, as the other ones were. "Yusei managed to get Shooting Quasar, before he even got Cosmic Blazar… he did change the future by a bit… but only accelerated the downfall," he said to himself, recalling Z-ONE's research, and there being no mentioning of Shooting Quasar Dragon, but a few mentions of Cosmic Blazar Dragon, which Yusei did not have, and most likely was not going to have now.

"It was great while it lasted…" he added, before putting the photo aside.

As he was looking towards the sea, another memory came flooding – it was of Z-ONE sending vehicles back in time: Antinomy's D-Wheel, Placido's D-Wheel, Jose's D-Wheel, Luciano's D-Board and another D-Wheel. The D-Wheels were left just off-shore from Neo Domino – the same shore he was at, right now. As he thought about the shore near Neo Domino, another memory came to him.

- flashback -

Antinomy was at the shore, in the same clothes he had worn during the WRGP duels and he also had a yellow helmet on. He looked towards the sea.

"Come! Delta Eagle!" said Antinomy. There was a stream of light originating from the depth of the sea. The sea got rough – tons of waves were making it hard to see what's further away, before the engines of a D-Wheel were heard. Antinomy's D-Wheel surfaced and made his way at top speed, towards the shore, while not sinking, even though the D-Wheel was riding on water.

- end of flashback -

'Wait…' thought Rua, trying to recall the name of the D-Wheel that was sent for him. Something inside his head said 'Cyber Lightning'. "I wonder…" he said before getting back up, facing the sea.

"Come! Cyber Lightning!" said Rua, loudly, before a bright ray of light came from the depth of the sea. Suddenly, the engine of a D-Wheel was heard. "I can't believe this worked," he added, surprised beyond measure, as he saw a light blue D-Wheel coming towards him. He grabbed the jacket from the ground before shaking it, so there would be no sand in it, and then taking a few steps back from the shore.

The D-Wheel was similar to a lot of D-Wheels he had seen in the past. It had the same wing-like back design as Crow's, the same front design as Yusei's, and similar handles as Aki's. This D-Wheel had varying shades of blue. In the front, it had two eye-like headlights.

"Awesome!" said Rua, smiling from ear-to-ear, as the D-Wheel stopped before his feet. 'If only Ruka and Yusei were here to see it…' he thought to himself before his smile faded away. 'They'd probably just tell me not to ride it, 'cause it's dangerous or something,' he thought before chuckling.

He raised the right handle, before getting in. He started feeling pain in his head again. Dozens of Antinomy's memories came to him, about D-Wheels.

A helmet was attached to the front of it, so he took it and put it on.

'With this, I probably now know just as much about D-Wheels as Yusei…' he thought to himself, as the memories stopped coming. He revved up the engine a couple of times, before he sped up, navigating through a rough road, in order to reach the highway.

Eventually he got to the highway. 'Maybe we could have a turbo-duel instead…' he thought, 'so that, even if I lose, I'll have fulfilled my greatest dream…and won't go away with regrets…' he added, recalling what will happen if he loses.


A few minutes later, in the middle of the city, Yusei finished explaining the whole situation to Jack – at least the parts he himself knew.

"I can't believe it…" said Jack, who was sitting down on the ground – his jacket was a bit dirty from it, but that was the least of his concerns. "First Bruno, now…" he said, clenching his fists, almost piercing his gloves, with his fingernails.

"Maybe…" said Yusei, who was facing away from Jack, with closed eyes. "Maybe we really are making things worse…" he said reluctantly.

"Don't tell me you believe those lies," said Jack, in an uproar voice, as he stood up.

"Bruno wasn't lying. Why should Rua?" asked Yusei, not looking at Jack.

"Yusei," said Jack, as he put a hand on Yusei's shoulder. "Z-ONE said that we had changed the future. Shooting Quasar is proof of that, is it not?" he asked.

Yusei let out a heavy sigh. "How are we going to tell her?" he asked, turning towards Jack.

"I don't know," said Jack hesitantly. "We don't even know what to tell her! She grew up with him… she won't believe us, and even if she does, it'll crush her," he added, to which Yusei nodded.

"We should head up," said Yusei, going towards the entrance. Jack followed shortly. Both were still coming to terms with this, themselves, so they did not know how to explain it to someone who was as close to him, as Ruka.

After reaching the floor, they got in without knocking, noticing Aki, who, for some reason, was trying to comfort Ruka.

"What is it?" asked Yusei, going towards her.

"We heard you talk on the camera system," answered Aki, stroking Ruka's back, who was hugging her.


Back with Rua, he was testing his new D-Wheel. It was quite fast, almost as fast as Antinomy's – that's what he thought anyway. He had some experience with the D-Boards, but never actually ridden a D-Wheel – the only reason he was doing so now, was because of the memories he had gotten from Antinomy.

"I wonder…" he said before grabbing the handles tightly, and accelerating as much as he could. A thought ran through his mind – a few months ago, when they had first met Antinomy, he had gone so fast, that it seemed like he vanished – maybe it was just a matter of the D-Wheel… He tried accelerating as much as possible, but couldn't do it.

He was a bit surprised at this. He thought that maybe this way, a memory would come to him, showing him how to do that. 'No luck, I guess,' he thought to himself, before slowing down.

As he realized that, his thoughts went towards Turbo Duels. He knew some about it, but he thought that it won't be enough. "If I am to take on Jack and Yusei at the same time, I need some practice…" he said before heading towards an exit that would lead to the city. A few dozen feet before going through the exit, his eyes went a darker shade of red for a few seconds. "Or…" he said before entering a few keystrokes on his display. A few red dots on the highway showed up. He turned back and went back on the highway, heading for one of the moving dots. After a few minutes, he had caught up with one of them. When he got to it, he saw a girl, riding a dark-red D-Wheel. A few silver strains of hair were sticking out from her helmet.

"This should be fun," he said before pressing a button on his display. Something in the back of his head screamed not to do this, but something in him wanted this more than anything.

"Speed World 2, activate! Turbo Duel!" said the sound system in the D-Wheels.

"What is this?" asked the girl, being surprised at the strange behavior of her D-Wheel, before noticing the D-Wheel behind her. "Who are you?" she asked.

"I want a duel! But just as insurance, if you stop your D-Wheel before the duel ends, it'll go up in flames, and you with it," he explained before accelerating enough to stand by her side.

The girl looked at the challenger for a bit, before deciding that she seemed to not have much of a choice either way. "Fine, I'll duel you! If you want to be defeated so badly," she said. "My name is Yuki Phoenix. What's yours?" she asked, wanting to have a name, when she was going to talk with Security about this.

Something inside him screamed to say 'Placido', but he decided against it. "Call me Alexander," replied Rua, with a kind of weaker, unsure voice.

"Very well," replied his opponent, before accelerating.

"Duel!" they both said, before drawing five cards.

"I'll take the first turn," said Yuki, before drawing another card.

Rua VS Yuki
4000 | 4000
5/5 | 6/5
35/40 | 34/40
SC 1 | SC 1

'I should check what kind of deck he has, first,' she thought, before looking at the cards in her hand.

"I set a monster face-down," declared Yuki, before a horizontal face-down card appeared before her D-Wheel.

"I set two cards face-down, and end my turn," she added, as two cards faded in and out, beside her D-Wheel.

"My Turn, Draw!" said Rua, before drawing a card from his Deck.

Rua VS Yuki
4000 | 4000
6/5 | 3/5
34/40 | 34/40
SC 2 | SC 2

"When you have a monster on your side of the field, but I don't have any, I can Special Summon Cyber Dragon," said Rua, before a big metallic dragon showed up close to him.

Cyber Dragon
Level 5
2100ATK / 1600DEF

"I summon Plaguespreader Zombie in attack position," declared Rua before a dead-like monster showed up on his side of the field.

Plaguespreader Zombie
Level 2
400ATK / 200DEF

'This is the chance to try out my new monster,' thought Rua, before he accelerated.

"I tune Plaguespreader Zombie on Cyber Dragon!" said Rua before the zombie-like creature turned into two green circles, while the metallic dragon turned into five star-like lights.

"Light that drives out all darkness! Eternal power that will rewrite fate itself! Come, Cyber Zero Dragon!" said Rua, pointing a finger towards the sky, before a huge flash appeared.

Cyber Zero Dragon
Level 7
2700ATK / 2500DEF

A huge dragon appeared from the flash. It was a dragon, similar to the metallic one that was on the field previously.

"Cyber Zero Dragon can't attack the turn it is summoned. So, I set two cards face-down and end my turn," said Rua before two cards faded in and out, on each side of his D-Wheel.

"My Turn, Draw!" said Yuki, before drawing a card from her deck.

Rua VS Yuki
4000 | 4000
2/5 | 4/5
34/40 | 33/40
SC 3 | SC 3

'What effect does it have…?' thought Yuki, looking at the futuristic looking dragon. 'It can't attack the turn it is summoned… Meaning it must have an effect that is about attacking. Knowing that doesn't really help much, though,' she thought, before looking at her own cards. She had Destiny Hero – Plasma in her hand. 'I need to buy me some time, or maybe this will work instead…' she thought, as she looked at a card in her hand, Mimble Momonga.

"I set another monster face-down and end my turn," she said before another horizontal face-down card appeared next to the other one.

"My Turn, Draw!" said Rua, before getting a card from his deck.

Rua VS Yuki
4000 | 4000
3/5 | 4/5
33/40 | 33/40
SC 4 | SC 4

'If beating Yusei and Jack will be this easy, I don't need to worry… but it won't,' he thought as he looked at the card he drew.

"I remove Cyber Dragon and Plaguespreader Zombie from my graveyard," said Rua, before two cards got ejected from the graveyard. 'Let's see how you fare against one of the most powerful cards in Duel Monsters,' he thought, before placing a monster on one of his monster zones.

"Light and darkness, through using both, an old door opens! Come forth Envoy of the Beginning, Black Luster Soldier!" he said before a soldier in full-body heavy armor appeared on his side of the field.

'That might be just what I need,' thought Yuki, looking at the legendary monster in front of her.

"I activate Cyber Zero's effect," said Rua, before placing the Black Luster Soldier from his monster zone to his spell/trap card zone. "I can choose one monster on my side of the field, and equip it to my dragon. This way, it'll get its effect, as well as 100ATK points for every level that monster has," he explained, as the heavily-armored soldier got on top of the dragon.

Cyber Zero Dragon: 2700ATK → 3500ATK

"But that's not all. I now summon Knight of the Beginning," said Rua before a younger version of Black Luster Soldier appeared on the field.

Knight of the Beginning
Level 4
500ATK / 2000DEF

"I activate its effect. I decide on a monster on my opponent's side of the field, and that monster gets banished," explained Rua, as one of the facedown cards simply vanished.

"But that's not all, I attach it to my Cyber Zero Dragon as well," declared Rua, before the small soldier went to the side of the bigger soldier.

Cyber Zero Dragon: 3500ATK 3900ATK

"The monster that is attached with Knight of the Beginning can attack twice… but better count again, because so can Black Luster Soldier. Meaning, my dragon can attack four times in total," said Rua smirking. 'If I get this combo during the duel with Jack and Yusei, I might actually win…' he thought to himself, before the dragon charged up a blue energy sphere in his mouth. "Cyber Zero Dragon… attack her monster!" said Rua, before the dragon attacked and destroyed the face-down monster. 'If I had had a piercing damage card, I would've already won,' thought Rua as her cards were blasted into pieces.

"Mimble Momonga's effect activates! I can set two other Mimble Momongas, and I get 1000 life points," she said as two horizontal cards appeared face-down.

"I still have three attacks to go," he said before something screamed inside his mind. 'No!' thought Rua, as he felt lose control of his right arm, which was pointed towards the sky. A circle appeared around Rua's and Yuki's D-Wheel. 'What have I done…' he thought, as Yuki's face seemed confused.

The dragon attacked the two other facedown Nimble Momongas. "I get two thousand more life points," she said as a red aura surrounded her.

"Direct attack," said Rua simply, before the dragon turned towards Yuki, and attacked her directly. She nearly lost control over her D-Wheel. It was apparent that she felt pain from that attack. "I end my turn," said Rua, without a trace of emotion in his voice.

It took a few seconds before Yuki caught her breath. "What was that?" she asked, but didn't get an answer. 'A psychic duelist?' she thought, knowing that there are people who are able to do this. "My Turn, Draw!" she said, before drawing a card.

Rua VS Yuki
4000 | 3100
1/5 | 5/5
33/40 | 30/40
SC 5 | SC 5

"I have to do this fast, if I want to survive this," she said to herself. "I activate my trap card, Sacrifice of the Fallen! It allows me to summon as many tokens as the number of monsters that were sent to the graveyard during the last turn," she explained before three fairies with torn wings appeared on the field.

3 X Fallen Token
Level 1
500ATK / 500DEF

'It's time I showed who I really am…' thought Yuki, to herself. "I tribute my three tokens," she started as three of the fairies disappeared.

'Three tributes…? Wait… three tributes in a Destiny Hero deck…' thought Rua, remembering learning something about the Destiny Hero deck in the Duel Academy.

"I summon Destiny Hero Plasma!" said Yuki, as a warrior-like monster appeared, with huge wings.

"…that's… bad…" said Rua, cringing as he vaguely remembered what its effect is – he remembered knowing that it could most likely beat any card in existence, perhaps even the god cards.

Destiny HERO – Plasma
Level 8
1900ATK / 600DEF

"It has a similar effect to your monster; it can absorb one of your monsters, but instead of effects, it gains half of its original attack points! Plasma, go – take Cyber Zero Dragon!" said Yuki before threads of dark-red skin went around the metallic dragon and dragged it inside its wings. The heavily-armored warrior and the younger warrior were torn into nothingness as the metallic dragon got engulfed by the fiend.

Destiny HERO – Plasma: 1900ATK → 3250ATK

'What were the odds…' thought Rua, 'targeting one of the few individuals who have an ace monster with almost the same effect as my dragon…'

"With this, I've won!" said Yuki, as she turned her D-Wheel to face Rua's. "Plasma, end this!" she said as the behemoth widened its wings and started throwing rain-like rays at Rua.


A/N: Is it just me, or is this turning from drama to melodrama? I don't know… it just sort of… happens. As always, if you liked it, leave a review, or… something.
It honestly bugs me that it always goes like this. Like what, you might ask? Like me, starting a story, and not being able to figure out what happens next… If you think this duel/story is already thought-out, you couldn't be further away from the truth. It wasn't even my plan to get Destiny HEROs in this, or a person with the last name Phoenix. Shit just happens the way it does. To be quite honest, I'm just making it up as I go along, which might result in some occasional OOCness.

P.S. Yes, I know, the effects of that dragon are a bit too much. I know. But hey, then again, so were the effects of the Time God cards and the Infinity cards (the Machine Emperors), so I had to make an equally powerful card, to fit the whole theme of Z-ONE's companions.
Just so you know, that card can take monsters from your side of the field and use their effects, and it gets 100ATK for every level of the attached monsters, but if its attack points go over 4000ATK (no matter for what reason), it is destroyed. If it goes to the graveyard, the owner gets 1000 points of damage for every card in their hand. So, maybe that will balance it out? I don't bloody know.