I just remembered that they say Ruka is 11 during the entire series. (Except for the finale I guess) From my view point, a few years should have went between the Dark Signers and WRPG since its sort of crazy that they'd all almost die nearly ten times within a whole year... So for this story, Ruka will be around 14 , Kaze will be around 18 and so is Sherry, because if not, its extremely weird given the plot with an 11 year old and a 18 year old... I hope this doesn't confuse anyone too much. (I honestly forgot that in the anime there was no break in arcs until I went to an article about Ruka to check something out, which is why I'm just putting this now...)

"Is everyone alright," Yusei called out. Part of me wanted to scream out that clinging onto Rua's arm for dear life didn't exactly make me okay, but if I did, I'd probably startle everyone and we'd get in to even more trouble.

"Hang on...! I'll get you up," Rua muttered although he was extremely stained, even with Jack doing his best to pull us up to ground. I saw Rua wince and a second later I flew to the ground, Rua by my side as Jack returned to his D-wheel. "Ah.. Thanks," Rua muttered as I slowly got to my knees, uninjured by the throw due to my helmet and the rest of my safety equipment. I took a moment to catch my breath though before Rua helped me to my feet.

"What are we gonna do now? We can't go together," Jack said and nodded towards the center of the room, which had no ground and separated us from the others. Yusei and the man on the blue D-wheel were on one side of the room and Crow and Aki on the other, leaving Jack, Rua, and I on the remaining side. The man with the blue D-wheel walked over to his D-wheel and Yusei followed, both of them observing the screen. A few seconds later the man's face appeared on Jack's screen, followed by what seemed to be a map.

"You see, we're all, surprisingly, connect to one of the Planetary Gears... If we don't stop these three gears, then we won't be able to make the Plus Rotation that we want," the man said.

"Guys! We're going to have to go our separate ways if we want to save Neo Domino," Yusei shouted. Jack simply pulled his side bar down before turning his D-wheel around towards the path behind us.

"Jack," Rua asked.

"You heard him. We've got a mission," Jack said. Rua and I nodded before digging in our backpacks and pulling out our separate Duel Board, Rua's a blue and mine a pink. After we mounted and grabbed on to one of Jack's side bars, we gave our nod of approval that we were ready so Jack shot off, easily pulling us along. For the first few minutes, I gave a silent prayer that Kaze would be along this path. If he wasn't, the other probably wouldn't have any remorse taking him down to get rid of the gear's rotation... But if I found him... There's still a chance I could help him get his memories back! But with that in mind, if Kaze was there... His 'master' would probably be there...

"Ruka," Rua said, pulling me out of my thoughts.

"Yeah," I asked as I turned to him, seeing he was still looking straight ahead.

"Are you ready for this," Rua asked.

"What kind of question is that? Of course I am," I said.

"You're just zoning out, that's all... I just wanted to make sure your alright," Rua said a light entered the tunnel, causing me to look ahead. I quickly let go of Jack's D-wheel and slowed to a stop.

"This must be it," Jack muttered as he looked down to the slowly rotating gear.

"The Planetary Gear," Rua muttered.

"That's correct," a voice said, causing me to quickly look up. A white light erupted out of the center pillar, nearly causing me to look away, and I would have if I hadn't saw a familiar figure exiting the light. To be correct, two familiar figures. One of Aporia, who used had beaten in the last round of the WRPG, and the other, Kaze.

"Aporia! Kaze," Jack shouted.

"It seems that you three are after the Planetary Gear... Zone won't be too happy if we let you do as you please," Kaze said, still speaking and looking as if he had no soul.

"Kaze-," I started when I felt something hit my chest. I looked down and saw a small device on the left side of my chest with a blue light. I instinctively reached for it and tried to pry it off, but it didn't even move. There was a click as something wrapped its way around one of my legs, causing me to look down once more, this time seeing a handcuff came out of the ground and trapped my ankle, keeping me in place.

"Explain what-," Jack started when he quickly grabbed his device. Just as I was about to ask what was wrong, a spike of pain went through my chest, causing me to nearly fall to my knees as I gripped the device on my chest.

"It.. It hurts...! What... what is this," Rua muttered.

"You...! What are these," Jack barked.

"With these, you can't run away," Kaze said.

"It doesn't matter either way. We'll crush you before you can even think of running," Aporia said.

"Why..? Kaze, why are you doing this," I asked as I slowly let go of the device.

"Defeat us in a duel and you will be able to stop the Planetary Gear," Kaze said, easily brushing off my question.

"Bring it on! I, Jack Atlas, will defeat you," Jack shouted.

"Then the rules are simple. Aporia and I will form a team and so will you three. We will fight against each other, 4000 life points each. I will go first, followed by Aporia, and then you three" Kaze said, causing sweat to appear on my face. Both Kaze and Aporia were really good duelists... Even with Jack on our side, would we be able to win...?

"Don't worry, Ruka! We've dueled together plenty of times! We know each others' decks! Those guys are probably dueling with each other for the first time," Rua smiled.

"Just like old times, eh," Aporia asked, causing me to look up.

"What do you mean," I asked.

"I'm the one who taught Aporia everything he knows about dueling," Kaze said as his duel disk activated.

"W-what," Jack shouted.

"Then.. Then that means that... Kaze must be on an entirely different level," Rua shouted.

"T.. Then," I trailed off. If Yusei barley managed to beat Aporia, things didn't look too good for us.. I slowly wiped the sweat off my face before taking a deep breath. I had to stick in the game. For Kaze! If I won, he'd probably return to normal! "Let's do this, Rua," I shouted.

"You've got that right," Rua cheered as he activated his duel disk, followed by Jack and me. Aporia's ring that floated behind him turned into a duel disk and the duel finally started.

"Kaze," I screamed as I rushed forward due to the restraints being released. Rua quickly grabbed my arm and, against my struggles, pulled me back.

"Come on, Ruka...! We have to get outta here! The room's gonna collapse," Rua said.

"But Kaze," I shouted as I struggled to break free from my brother's grip, but to no avail. Tears poured rapidly from my eyes as a large chunk of rubble fell down from the ceiling and landed on the path between me and my unconscious friend. Rua let go and I quickly ran to my duel board and jumped on before grabbing Jack's side bar. No one said anything as Jack sped off out of the room and to the Planetary Gear.

"Ruka," Rua muttered as we slowed to a stop on the now dim gear. Rua went to put a hand on my shoulder but I quickly moved my shoulder away, causing Rua to go silent as I rubbed my tears away.

"Don't cry," a familiar voice said, causing me to slowly look up. My eyes widened at seeing Ancient Fairy Dragon with a ball of light in her hands.

"B.. But Kaze...! He... He," I said, struggling for the words. Ancient Fairy Dragon floated down next to the wall and set the ball in her hands on the floor before disappearing.

"What's that," Jack asked. Curiosity got the best of me and I slowly walked towards the ball while still wiping tears away. I instantly stopped the the ball disappeared, revealing Kaze laying against the wall. My tears piled up even more and I sprinted the rest of the way, getting on my knees once I was by his side.

"What happened," Kaze muttered as he slowly opened his eyes but quickly winced as pain from his wounds set in.

"Please don't tell me you think you're a Ghost," I said.

"Do I look like a piece of machinery to you," Kaze asked, causing my tears to get even heavier before I hugged him tightly, causing him to yell out in pain, but I was so happy that I didn't both to lighten up. "L-let go! Its hurts! Not only that but you're gonna get my blood all over you," Kaze shouted, but once again, I was so happy that I didn't both to let go. Kaze sighed, seeing I wouldn't be letting go anytime soon, before wrapping one of his arms around my back.

Reviews:

Johan07: Sorry about that... Had to show how they got to the Arc Cradle and all... This one kind of follows the episode, but its still tweaked until after the duel, where we're back to custom story, so to say. The story will follow the episodes at points, but hopefully that was the only chapter that strictly follows it.

underground-dweller: Thanks ^-^ Glad you like it.

Notes:

- I'll state it again, I'm going off of Placcido's story line for the whole Ghost thing, and I haven't played it for a while, but I'm pretty sure that Placcido said at one point that the hat guy raised him or helped him at one point. If not, just go with the flow... Its a fan fiction, so it's bound to be a little different .

- I had no way of imitating a two against three duel since the games don't let you do that and I don't have their decks... Besides, I probably couldn't get the type of dramatic scenario... So yes, Rua is still the 6th signer in this and has Life Stream Dragon, in case you're wondering.