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All right, welcome back to the first proper chapter of Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V: The Fifth Dimension

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Surprising considering there was just a prologue, but hey

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All right now that that's out of the way…

We hope you enjoy!

Yuya grinned as he walked up to door of Reiji's office in LDS Tower. It seemed like an eternity ago when the Lancers had finally officially disbanded. Obviously he saw Yuzu and Gongenzaka often, and Shingo had declared himself Yuya's official rival and continually showed up to challenge Yuya, occasionally even winning a duel. But other than those three, Yuya really hadn't seen any of the Lancers for just about a year now.

Dominobutterflies flying around his stomach, Yuya rapped on the door. He was expecting many things, but one of them was not for Tsukikage to throw open the door, looking rather panicked.

"Hey Tsukikage, long time no-" Yuya began to say before Tsukikage interrupted.

"Yuya." He curtly greeted. "It's nice to see you again, but we have a situation on our hands currently." Yuya's eyebrows furrowed.

"What's going on?" He asked curiously. Tsukikage nervous wrung his hands together before stepping aside, clearly gesturing for Yuya to enter. Walking down the entrance hall, Yuya arrived into the sitting room and immediately noticed several things were definitely wrong.

First off, Gongenzaka was holding Reira in his arms, who was sobbing uncontrollably, with Yuzu attempting to comfort the infant girl. This is despite the fact that Reira did not enjoy Gongenzaka's company in the slightest, and Yuzu was only slightly better. Second, Sora and Shun were right next to each other without being locked in a Fusion-Xyz debate, which was very commonplace, and even more so after not seeing each other for so long. Third, Dennis was attached to the wall by some sort of glowing bindings, which Shingo was currently prying away at. Finally, Reiji was nowhere to be found, despite the fact that it was his office.

"What's going on?" Yuya asked, completely confounded by the activity currently going on. Immediately, every Lancer froze and turned to look at Yuya. Even Reira stopped crying upon hearing the Entertainment Duelist's voice.

"Yuya!" Yuzu exclaimed in relief. "Thank Ra you're here! We've got a problem."

Yuya took in the surroundings and nodded slowly.

"I see that."

"Allow me to explain!" Dennis said, still attached to the wall by the strange bindings. "You see, I was just having a meeting with Reiji and…"

"Very well Dennis." Reiji finally said with a nod, writing a note on the chart on his desk. Said chart had a picture of each Lancer, alongside several small notes Reiji had written beside each portrait. "I'll consider it." Dennis grinned

"Thanks a lot Reiji!" He said with a huge grin on his face. "I'll make good use of-"

Dennis was interrupted when a pillar of blue light erupted from the ground in the corner of the office. From that pillar, a man wearing an outfit that resembled a uniform, consisting of a dark blue shirt with golden armored shoulder pads, dark blue pants and golden boots, as well as a crimson red belt with golden stars embedded onto it, and the dark blue helmet on his head. The helmet in particular was interesting as it closely resembled the helmet of the famous Duel Monster Black Luster Solider.

"Who are you?" Reiji demanded immediately, activating his Duel Disk. The man scanned the room, then tapped the side of his helmet.

"No sign of her here." He said, before turning to address Reiji. "You. Have you seen a girl come here? She's wearing a golden dress and silver shoes."

"No, I haven't seen anyone like that." Reiji calmly replied. "Now I repeat my question. Who are you, and why are you here?"

"That is unimportant." The man said, turning to leave. However, just as he did, he caught sight of the chart on Reiji's Desk. "Wait a minute…"

The man walked over, roughly shoving Reiji out of the way, and snatched up the chart off his desk, inspecting it closely.

"She changed her hair, but that won't fool me…" the man muttered. "That's her face all right."

Perhaps having an idea of who the man was really looking for based off his comments, Reiji decided to speak up again.

"Sir, whoever you are looking for is not that girl." Reiji explained. "That is Yuzu Hiragi, and she is of no interest to-"

"Don't lie to me!" The man exclaimed, throwing the chart down onto the table and walking to Reiji, pointing his finger at him. "I've tracked her down more times than I can count. That's her face. Now will you show me where she is, or will we have to do this the hard way?"

In response, Reiji activated his Duel Disk. The man just grinned and did the same

"W-wait Reiji!" Dennis stammered, activating his Duel Disk as he moved to assist the leader of the Lancers. Without even taking a glance, the man raised his non-Duel Disk arm, which had a large gauntlet on it. With a tap of a button, the gauntlet launched several glowing bands, which latched onto Dennis' wrists and ankles, and sent him flying back into the wall, banging his head as everything went dark.

"Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning will attack your weakened Doom King Armageddon!"

Dennis jerked against his bonds as he regained consciousness, just in time to watch as the man's armored monster sliced through Reiji's ace monster with its sword, destroying it and eliminating the remainder of Reiji's Life Points

Reiji: 2600 LP - 3000 LP = 0 LP

WINNER

Reiji slumped over unconscious from the force of the attack, which seemed to be made of Real Solid Vision judging from the way Reiji's office was now torn up. The man grabbed Reiji's unconscious body over his shoulder and walked back towards the portal. Dennis watched helplessly as he pulled at his bindings to no avail. The man walked up to the portal, gave Dennis a wink and stepped through, the portal vanishing as he left.

"So he just took Reiji and left?" Yuya asked Dennis. Dennis nodded.

"Then after that it took a while until Yuzu showed up." Dennis explained, gesturing the girl. "And then everyone else started arriving. You're the last one to arrive."

Yuya nodded in, soaking in all the information. It was a lot to take in, but he had an idea. Yuya got to his feet and clasped his hands. Immediately, all the Lancers' attention were on Yuya.

"Reiji implanted location devices into all our Duel Disks, remember?" Yuya reminded, holding up his Duel Disk to emphasize the point. A few people nodded in confirmation. "So then let's just locate his Duel Disk and find where he was taken to."

"That can't work," Shingo said dismissively, before taking a glance at Shun. "Can it?"

Shun furrowed his eyebrows in thought.

"It might actually work," Shun admitted after a second. "I'll try."

Shun walked over to Reiji's desk and booted up his computer and began to type away at the keyboard. Yuya walked over as well, but paused upon noticing something on Reiji's desk that caught his eye. A chart. Yuya quickly grabbed the chart and read through it.

The chart had a picture of each Lancer, along with several notes written in neat handwriting that Yuya assumed Reiji had written. Curious, Yuya read the notes for his profile…

"New Performapal cards…more Magician (Pendulum) cards….Odd-Eyes cards(?)"

"Reiji's been making more cards for everyone." Yuya observed to himself, scanning the rest of the chart.

"I wonder why he'd be doing something like that," another voice wondered. Yuya started a bit at the voice before shutting his eyes.

"Where've you guys been?" Yuya asked. Yuto crossed his arms.

"Well, we decided to give you complete control for today because of the Lancers reunion, remember?"

At this, Yuya mentally face palmed. Of course. He had completely forgotten about the discussion the previous night due to his nightmare again.

"Still, what the hell is going on!?" Yugo exclaimed, wringing his fingers together. "This guy was able to beat Reiji so easily?"

"Don't worry about it Fusion." Yuri jeered sarcastically. "I bet I can beat that guy no problem."

"It's Yugo you stupid cabbage-head!"

While the Synchro and Fusion counterparts began to argue yet again, Yuto and Yuya elected to have a calm conversation.

"Well, all we can do is hope Shun can locate Reiji's signal." Yuto mused. "Other then that, I can't see many other ways to find him beyond simply scanning every dimension inch by inch"

"I've got it!"

Yuya jerked back to the real world at the sound of Shun's exclamation. Immediately, all the Lancers (including Dennis, who Shingo had successfully freed from the wall) crowded around the computer. Shun directed the group's attention to a flashing point in a blank area of a map.

"That's Reiji's signal." Shun explained. Tsukikage frowned.

"But that isn't inside any dimension," Tsukikage pointed out. "And he isn't traveling, since then he'd be moving."

"Well then…how about we check it out?" Yuzu suggested. The group quickly grew silent as they pondered the idea. Yuya finally spoke up.

"I agree," he said. "Shun, lock onto those coordinates and beam us there."

Accepting the instructions, Shun nodded, and after a few clicks, eight warp cards shot out of a slot on the side. Quickly plucking the cards up, Shun handed a card to each Lancer.

"All right Lancers," Yuya said, gripping the card tightly. "Let's go get our leader back!"

The Lancers all simultaneously inserted their warp cards into their Duel Disks, enveloping the room in a bright blue glow. The glow grew brighter and brighter, and when it finally blinked out, the Lancers were gone.

AN:

So that was the next chapter I guess

Just a bit more basic setup for the plot really

There'll hopefully be a duel in the next chapter…probably

Probably maybe

Maybe definitely sort of

Bye now!