So, I have 2 more chapters written ahead of time. Because I'm masochistic like that. I'm hoping it'll help make updates more regular.

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Chapter 4: Pipe Dreams Part 2

"The hatch opens in four minutes," Blitz announced as they ran. "Let's book it."

"Wait up," Tank puffed.

Keisa narrowed her eyes and ran up the stairs three at a time. She flew up a ladder and tore across the roof, stopping herself with the railing. She squinted and stared down at the streets, hoping to see him.

"Can you see him?" Rally asked Blitz, who had taken out binoculars.

Unable to see even a speck, Keisa sat down and pulled out the laptop.

"There he goes!" Blitz exclaimed.

"We've got a clear signal on the monitor," Keisa muttered, pulling up a GPS map and several video feeds as fast as she could.

"Looks like he's approaching the sewage plant," Nervin commented over her shoulder.

The feed from the duel runner shook violently and Keisa began furiously typing away.

"What are you doing?" Rally asked. "What just happened?"

"I dunno. I'm trying to establish a com link between us and Yusei."

A view of metal gates and the sewage plant approached the duel runner. Keisa's blood ran cold as she thought he was going to plow into the gates. They were like the other gates around the city. Most likely they would bend but not break. She let out a breath, though, when the bike lifted and jumped right over the gates.

"So far so good," Blitz mumbled.

Keisa kept trying to create a com link.

"Great. Sector Security is closing in on him," Nervin stated.

"Let's see." Keisa clicked away and a few more blips showed up on the GPS map, these ones green as opposed to Yusei's red one. Nervin was right. They were surrounding him. "Dammit, Trudge."

"Him again?" Tank groaned.

Something flashed across the screen and Keisa gasped. "What? How?"

"What's wrong?" Blitz asked.

"Trudge is forcing him to turbo duel somehow. He just overrode the runner." She began to type furiously again. "Come on com link! Work for me…"

"There's not time to duel!" Rally mumbled.

"...only way to break…beat me. And now...pursuit deck is made of."

"Yes," Keisa sighed. "Com link established."

"Come on, Yusei," Nervin mumbled.

"Guys?"

"Yusei!" Rally cried.

"You don't have any time to duel," Keisa said quickly.

"Don't I know it," he responded.

"You focus on the duel, I've got everything else."

"I'm in!"

"Awesome," Keisa mumbled distractedly. "It's a straight shot, so you won't be able to shake him."

She continued to search the pipe line as Yusei talked with Trudge, who was heckling him.

"You have 2 minutes and eight miles of pipe to go."

"We did six test runs, "Rally said.

"Yusei knows what he's doing," Tank agreed.

"Security wasn't harassing him on those test runs," Keisa said gravely.

"By this point he was so much closer to the goal," Blitz added.

"…to synchro-summon Junk Warrior!"

Keisa smiled and sighed in relief. Her brother had this. Or so she thought. Until Trudge summoned a tuner monster.

"Minute and a half," she announced.

"Now Yuse'll never clear the hatch!" Tank cried.

Keisa tried to ignore the duel. No use getting worried when she knew he'd pull through. Somehow.

Yusei regained speed counters and sped up. But she still didn't know if it would be enough. He was behind now. And the duel wasn't even over yet.

"Come on Yuse! 35 seconds!" Tank cheered.

"Just slip through the side hatch!" Nervin added.

"That die hatch," Trudge said in disbelief. "You're planning on using that to escape!"

"Took him long enough," Keisa mumbled with a smile.

"Guess nothing gets by you." Yusei responded. "Well, except me and my duel runner."

"Don't cheer yet, Yusei. Duel is still going," Keisa reminded him.

"Well, I'm about to rev things up." The speed gauge in the bottom corner of the screen increased.

"Yusei just broke 250," Keisa whispered.

"That's faster than the test runs!" Rally yelled.

"I thought you guys said he maxed it out," Blitz said doubtfully.

Keisa clicked away, logging this information. "I guess it's circumstantial…I don't know…"

After a combination of moves that went completely unnoticed by Keisa, the roar of "He won" shook her out of her concentration.

"He won?" she asked, oblivious.

"Yeah!" Rally laughed.

"Too bad he couldn't stop the clock," Keisa commented, the timer hitting zero. "Yusei, the hath is gonna close!"

"Rev it up, Yuse!" Rally called.

"Shit, shit, shit," Keisa mumbled, seeing the trash begin to fill the tunnel. The runner slid sideways and all the feeds when black. "No!" Keisa began to try and revive the feeds.

"Yusei? What happened?" Tank asked.

"I don't know," Keisa said, her voice shaking.

"He made it through the hatch, I jut know he did!" Rally said hopefully.

Keisa wished she could be that hopeful, that positive, that naïve. But the chances that Yusei made it were slim. She worked restlessly in an attempt to revive something. The video feeds, the GPS tracker, anything. Hard work paid off when a little red dot appeared on the GPS.

"Yusei!" Blitz said.

"He made it," Keisa sighed, smiling. Everyone around her cheered and high fived. Her brother was safely in Neo Domino City. For now.

"You okay?" Keisa asked, having revived the com link.

"Yeah," came the quiet reply of her brother. "I'm fine."

"Yusei!" Another voice called out from Yusei's end.

"Jack?" Keisa gasped.

"I'll contact you later, Keisa."

"Yusei, don't—" But it was too late. Yusei cut the com link off.

"It's okay, Keisa," Blitz murmured, offering a hand to help her up. "He's okay. We know that. Our mission was to help him get to Neo Domino City safely. Mission accomplished."

Smiling, she took his hand and stood up. "Now what?"

"Now," Tank yawned. "We go to bed and hope for the best."

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