Hey everyone, sorry for the long wait. This is just another filler chapter until I can see S3 of Arc-V. Also, I've started an Insta (engirls_yuboys) and a YT (Braceletgirls Yuboys). Anyway, I hope you enjoy! (P.S. I'm typing this from my phone so I apologize for any mistakes!)


Lulu groans as she wakes up. The first two things she hears are the sounds of the waves and the birds chirping in the sky. Slowly opening her eyes, Lulu takes in her surroundings and knows exactly where she is: Paradise City in the Standard Dimension. (Though she's secretly been calling it the Pendulum Dimension because of Yuya's new method.)

"Come on, Kit! We have to train harder if we're going to get Dipper out of that card and help defend our home from those Fusion Freaks!" A familiar voice shouts. Julia. Getting up, Lulu follows the sound of Julia's voice until she comes upon a small alley hidden in the docks where they're training.

Kit is about to perform a Synchro Summon when he spots her and stops. "Hey, it's that girl, Lulu." Julia looks over her shoulder, not quite believing Kit until she sees Lulu for herself. The two Leo duelists call their duel off as they go over to her.

"Lulu what are you doing here? And where are the others?" Julia wonders.

"It's a long story. But why don't we go back to You Show with Zuzu's and Yuya's parents and Aura, I have a long story to tell and I think it's best if everyone is there to hear it." Lulu replies. Julia and Kit nod as they start calling Yoko, Skip, and Aura over to You Show.


Once inside the duel school, Lulu is sitting on a couch as Yoko and Skip ask about their children. Lulu wanted to invite Henrietta, but she has this feeling that she wouldn't care about the welling of her two sons unless it's about them accomplishing their mission.

Taking a deep breath, Lulu goes into what she has experienced in the Synchro Dimension. All of them being split-up, meeting Jack and the turbo duels. The Friendship Cup and Underground, Roget, Dennis, all of it.

"Where's Yuya now?" Aura wonders.

"And Zuzu?" Skip adds.

"I have no idea. Zuzu and I were sucked into different dimensions. Since I'm here and we were in different places when we were sucked in, she's either in my home or in Fusion. And for her sake I hope she's in Heartland."

"But didn't Duel Academy invade Heartland?" Yoko wonders.

"They did, but there's a group there known as the Resistance. Our friends Kite, Allen, and Saya are among some of the members. They are also three of the strongest duelists I know. If she's there, and she finds them she'll be fine. Especially since they will most likely mistake her for me until she can set them straight. If she's in Fusion then I have no idea what will happen. She could be at Duel Academy or maybe they have a city where she can hideout. I don't know much about the Fusion Dimension. Sorry, Mr. Boyle."

"And Yuya?" Yoko repeats Aura's earlier question.

"From what I know Yuya, Declan, Shay, and the others should still be in Synchro. If not, then they may have transported to Xyz for any Resistance members to help them before going to Fusion."

"And if Zuzu and Yuya are in Heartland together then who knows what she's going to do with him." Aura mutters to herself but Lulu hears.

"Okay, so what do we need to do now?" Julia asks.

"Find a way to send me to Fusion." Lulu replies.

Everyone stares at her in shock. Yoko is the first to recover. "But won't we be sending you straight to this Professor guy if we do?"

Lulu shakes her head. "Not exactly. If we can find a city in Fusion then I can go there. Find a way to Duel Academy and hopefully find Yuto and Rin and Selena before he even knows I'm there."

"And how do we go about that? Didn't Declan make those transporter devices himself?" Kit wonders. "Besides we don't even know how long it will take to make one, so it could be a while before all of us have them."

Lulu smiles sadly at him. "I appreciate the offer, but I'm the only that has to go. I know it may seem unfair, but if we all go then who is going to defend this place if the Professor attacks? He could attack before he even realizes I'm in Fusion. And any duelist has to be ready to take on Obelisk Force. If you all go with me, then who can help some of the other duelists fight off his invasion?" She reasons. "And as you said: who knows how long it will take for you to make even one. If you all have one then that might take weeks, which is time we don't have."

"And how are we going to make it?" Julia counters.

"Declan has the equipment, right? Why don't we go to Leo and make it there?" Yoko suggests. The blonde woman then looks over at her's and Yusho's long time friend and sees that he is still frozen. She grabs Skip by his ear and leads him out with Kit and Julia in tow. Aura is about to follow when Lulu gently touches her shoulder. Aura looks at her.

"May we talk Aura?"

"Sure." With that, the two girls leave the school and head into the city to grab a quick snack to eat.


Lulu and Aura are walking down the street as Aura is eating some ice cream (Lulu didn't want any) as they talk about Yuya's and Zuzu's relationship.

"Aura, listen. I know you said that you saw Zuzu being lovey dovey with someone else during the Battle Royale, but the truth is that the guy she was with was Yugo. He's the Synchro version of Yuya and has been looking for his lifetime friend Rin, the Synchro to Zuzu, Selena, and me. She was taken by someone from Duel Academy one night and he has been trying to find her ever since. He mistook Zuzu for her before she could even tell him her name."

"But that doesn't mean that Zuzu couldn't have tried to whoo him while playing with my Yuya's feelings!"

Lulu smiles sadly at Aura. "Zuzu and Yuya have been friends since diapers, Aura. The same as Yugo and Rin. They know each other better than anyone. They are going to want to save the other, regardless if their feelings for each other are romantic or not."

"I understand, but that doesn't mean that I have to like it. Besides, I don't think Zuzu even took an interest in Yuya until after I did. She just realized too late that she missed her chance with him."

Lulu wants to mention that Yuya and Zuzu may have had romantic feelings for each other long before Aura even came into their lives, they just hadn't realized it. "Aura, we're still too young to find the ones we're meant to be with. If Yuya is truly meant to be yours, let him figure it out on his own and don't pressure him that will only make him not see you in a romantic way later. For now if he feels like he's meant to be with Zuzu then let him."

Aura is about to respond when they get a text from Kit, telling them to meet back at Leo. They do.

At Leo, Lulu and Aura find the others in a tech work room; all of them working on their own and together to make a new transporter so Lulu can go to Fusion. "Since we only have one shot at this, how do we know if any of our devices will work? Actually send you to Fusion and not to some other part of town, back to Synchro or back to your home?" Julia wonders.

"She's right," Skip agrees with his daughter's dueling rival. "Even if we make copies of the ones we make, unless we send some sort of food as a tester so we don't risk sending you to some unknown place."

"And none of us are exactly as tech-savvy as Declan." Yoko concedes.

"That won't be a problem. A friend of mine back home, Allen, is tech-savvy himself and has made some pretty impressive things that me and our other friends have helped him work on. If something's good I'll know. Besides, sending an apple or orange first before I use it isn't a bad idea." Lulu states.

With that she and Aura go around and start making duplicates of the others transporters before they gather some fruits and start testing them. Yoko and Skip's were up first. Even with both being used to Arc technology they aren't the best with making it. This proven by the fact that the oranges they use to test it out doesn't even leave. Skip's electrocutes the orange as it malfunctions. Yoko's turns on for a brief second before turning off and falling off the orange.

Next is Julia's and Kit's turn. Each have made their own before they decided to work together. Making Julia and Kit the only ones who have made two a piece. First they try Kit's solo one. The apple disappears and when they go to look at its location, the GPS signal is weak before it glows before completely dying out. Then it's Julia's turn. The apple disappears, but the watch doesn't.

Lulu can only hope that the one they made together works, if not then she isn't sure what she's going to do. Especially since the one Declan made her is completely destroyed and it will take her a long time to fix it. Her only other chance would be to get a hold of a Duel Academy students duel disk and using it to transport back to the school. But that would mean the invasion of Paradise City and she isn't going to stand by and watch as another city is burned to the ground like hers.

Aura hesitantly places the apple on the table before typing in it coordinates and stepping back as they watch it disappear a few seconds later. "Did. . . . Did it work?" Aura wonders.

Kit pulls out the device to track the dimensional transporter to see that it did make it safely to its destination. Lulu smiles. "Thank you all for this, I just hope that Duel Academy doesn't ever show here. . . . again. If they do, they are going to be sorry that they did."

Lulu places her duel disk on her arm and sets her deck in then puts on the transporter.

"Now wait a minute young lady," Yoko says. "It's been a long day for all of us. You are going to be of no use to Zuzu, Yuto, or yourself if you leave in the state you're in. Why don't you stay the night and then leave in the morning?"

"But where will I stay?"

"You can stay with me. There's an extra room in the house for when Zuzu spends the night."

"I agree with Yoko, you're going to need all of your strength when you leave." Skip adds. Lulu isn't sure if he is actually agreeing or if he is seeing Lulu as his daughter who he doesn't want to lose again. Lulu concedes and goes with Yoko.


At the Sakaki house, Yoko is making dinner and Lulu is sitting at the table, looking through the family photo album. Instead of starting from the very beginning Lulu started from the back. There's a lot of pictures of Yuya, Zuzu, their friends and Yoko. Yuya has mentioned his missing father before, but from the looks of things he must have been missing for quiet sometime before all of this started.

Turning the page, Lulu sucks in a breath. On the page is a picture of a young Yuya, around eleven or younger, his mom, and who she must assume must be his dad because it's no wonder where Yuya got his green hair and his love of entertainment duels. Because the man who is Yuya's father, is also the same person who was her teacher back in Heartland before the invasion.

"Is everything all right Lulu?" Yoko asks.

"Your husband is Yusho Sakaki. . . ." Lulu's voice is shaky and she isn't sure if it's meant to be a question or a statement.

"Yes, do you know him?"

Lulu nods and tells her that he was her teacher. Yoko then questions if Yuya never told her his last name. "He has," Lulu admits. "But I didn't want to get my hopes up, I thought it was just a coincidence." Lulu laughs hallow. "Not that I should really believe in coincidences anymore."

"What does that mean?"

"Back in Heartland, before the Invasion. I met Dennis. He was performing card tricks and looking for someone in the crowd and used trapeze magician to pick someone random in the crowd. The person was me. Not long after, the invasion happened. I didn't put the two together at the time because I didn't think Dennis could really do such a thing. . . ."

"But?" Yoko prompts as she places a plate down in front of Lulu and herself.

"One night at the stadium, I saw him with a cloaked figure. I didn't know who it was, but the guy was following me for a short time when I left to go take my turn on patrol. Something must have caught his attention because he left me alone not too long after and then I never saw my friend Yuto again."

Yoko's face shows her sympathy and places a hand over Lulu's. "I know this hard Lulu, but I have to know. The people who lose against Duel Academy are turned into cards. Yusho. . . . was he. . . . is he. . . ."

Lulu shakes her head. "No. Days before the invasion Yusho disappeared and none of us knows where he is. At first some people of the Resistance thought that he may have been in allegiance with Duel Academy, but I never bought it. Yusho taught us how duels can be fun and used to entertain, not destruction."

"So there is a chance he is all right and another chance that he is in one of the other dimensions?"

"Fusion. He has to be in Fusion. I tried looking in Synchro for him because the classes he taught at Heartland's Duel School were always called You Show but at the same time, Gong and Dennis had their entertainment duel in front of a lot of people in New Domino and none of them had ever seen anything like it before. Top Siders and Commons alike."

"So if he's in Fusion. . . ." Yoko can feel her heart stop and sink to her stomach as she thinks about the possibility of her husband being turned into a Duel Monsters card.

"He may be in the city. From what I've seen out of three of the four dimensions there is a main city. In Xyz it's Heartland, in Synchro it's New Domino, in Standard it's Paradise City. There is a chance that when Yusho went to Fusion he was transported to the city."

"I hope you're right, Lulu. Yuya and I lost a great person the day Yusho disappeared from here. If he's been turned into a card. . . . I'm not sure if that's something either of us will be able to cope with."

Lulu silently nods in agreement. If Shay or Yuto were turned into cards, even with help and support of her friends, Lulu isn't sure that she would be able to recover either.

Yoko and Lulu finish their dinner before they go to their rooms for the night.

Zuzu's room in the Sakaki household is very different from what Lulu thought it would be. The sheets are a light pink with a white blanket that has a flower pattern on it. A desk that has a vase on it with some fake flowers inside. The closet has some of her clothes and shoes inside. As does the dresser with her pajamas. Quickly changing into a white shirt with a music note on it and pink shorts and going to the bed, Lulu can feel the softness of the mattress and the clothes.

It's been so long since Lulu has been in proper pajamas and been in an actual bed. (The beds they had while at the hotel in Synchro weren't exactly the best, how those people can sleep on them she has no idea.) It's all too comfortable that it almost makes Lulu not want to leave. She wants to stay here and forget the war, forget what she's doing but she can't. Her friends and Yuto are counting on her. If she chooses comfort over her duties then she will never be able to forgive herself if things take a turn for the worst.

In the morning, it takes a moment for Lulu to understand where she is until the last couple of days comes rushing back and she remembers that she's all alone in and back in Standard. No Shay, Yuto, no one. Getting out of bed the Lyrilusc duelist changes into her clothes and grabs the new transporter. She would like to say goodbye to everyone but it would be almost as hard as when she said goodbye to her friends back home when she and Shay left to come to Standard. Grabbing her duel disk and deck, the long-hair girl puts in her destination and the time to go in three minutes as she goes over to the desk and writes a note down to Yoko about where she's going and how thankful she is for everyone's help. When she's done writing she only has seconds before she disappears and goes to Fusion.