It was nighttime at the standard dimension where the forcefully fused counterparts finally at peace with each-other resting in yuya's bed fast asleep.

Yuya's mom and Yuzu, who ended up staying the night both sat on the balcony staring at the bright white light from the moon that shone down on them.

"Its weird isn't it?" Yuzu said breaking the silence that was lingering in the air.

"Hmm?" Yoko looked at yuzu.

"You learned so many things, about yuya's darkness, About him being fused with yuto: a boy who looks so much like him, and the existence of real magic within the duel monsters game, not to mention the dimensional war. and yet even though you were originally shocked and horrified, within a matter of minutes you were suddenly okay and accepted yuto and yuya's darkness. and furthermore, yuto himself when i found out about yuya's situation I was so scared for days." Yuzu remembered.

yoko looked surprised for a minute but then smiled and closed her eyes..

"Its because they remind me of me and his father."

Yuzu gave a look as if to ask "What do you mean?".

"I didn't tell you this story, but I once had something similar to what you would call a 'darkness'. Not the same kind of 'darkness' as what yuya is going through, although 'darkness' is 'darkness' no matter what the form. its actually a really silly story, I'm not sure you would want to hear it." yoko dramatically waved her hand back and forth as if saying "No, no im sure its too boring"

"No! I'm sure its a really good story." Yuzu smiled.

"Well then, let me tell you, of the day me and his father first met." Yoko squealed.

The pink haired youth suddenly felt a hint of regret. what did she sign herself up for?

"Would you believe me if I told you I was the leader of a biker gang known as the Miami queens before i met his father?" Yoko looked serious for a second.

Yuzu sweat nervously. She didn't look like the type of person who would get herself involved with a gang.

"Shooting star Yoko..." said the blond haired mother to the pink haired youth staring at her with a confused look.

"That was my nickname at the time. I was unbeatable. I took down more Gang members than any of my teammates. It was enjoyable. The feeling of Destroying my opponents for my own pleasure, only to continue doing the same thing countless times over. I didn't let anyone get in my way... It was an amazing feeling."

Yuzu looked concerned. She never viewed his mom in such a way.

"But in the end..." Yoko continued earning herself the surprised stare of yuzu.

"...in the end, I realized, That feeling of enjoyment wasn't enjoyment after all. it was just my horrible way of coping with the fact that I had nothing else going for me. The more I defeated my opponents the more i wanted to destory them, until there wasn't much left to destroy, I was...alone... and i was afraid i would always be alone because of my own actions and i felt helpless to change" the blond haired mom looked away.

"I'm sorry..." Yuzu looked sympathetic.

"Yuzu, Yuya is going through a similar darkness from what you told me. When he lashed out at his opponents for his own enjoyment, it was because he was scared of something the way i look at it. He was afraid of himself, and while he wanted to look for answers he felt helpless because he didn't have the courage to fix the situation because he was so caught up in the fact he wasn't good enough to change. he allowed the darkness to possess him, And yuto seems scared too. To be honest I don't know much about yuto, But i could tell that something was scaring him as well. It could of been that he was Shy but i honestly think that's not the case at all. I don't think yuto trusts himself at all. He was so nervous when he met me, maybe he was worried that he would mess this up?"

"So they are just scared?" yuzu looked at yoko.

"I have known my son long enough to know that he has confidence issues of his own, Yuto might have similar confidence issues but shown in a much different way. perhaps hes afraid of hurting the people around him rather than confidence issues but that's exactly why they need each other." Yoko looked at yuzu.

"Wait... what do you mean?" Yuzu looked at yoko

"remember how i said that I went through darkness of my own?" Yoko asked

"yes, what about it?" Yuzu asked.

"That wasn't the end of it...One day it all changed with one man and a single card..." Yoko began looking up to the stars.

"One day one of my comrades got captured by a neighboring gang and of course knowing that this was a perfect time to blindly charge into another fight i went to confront them until he came along" Yoko said smiling

"By 'he' do you mean yuya's father?" yuzu asked.

"yes Yushou Sakaki gently stole my world in a heartbeat by swinging into the battlefield swaying on a trapeze and magician showing off his true self in an array of smiles and rainbow colors. It was an amazing sight. It It lit a smile in all of the people in that area including my own, but most of all it showed me something important..that I was missing something, Not just something, but also a reason to fight and that something was to smile."

"to smile?" yuzu asked.

"Yuzu, Im sure you realize yuya is trying to hard to follow his father footsteps... He blames himself for many things, He doesn't feel like he is good enough for his father, hes not truly happy this way. What he doesn't realize is, Hes not doing this for himself, hes doing it for his father. He needs to evolve and not just follow in his fathers footsteps... He needs to surpass his father entirely and continue to evolve and never stop. but without confidence he cannot do it. He doesn't need to impress anyone, Not even his father, he needs to learn to love himself, he needs to learn to smile from from the bottom of his heart, but he cant do it alone. He need support from someone to do it. Something i haven't been able to give him.

"but Yoko, Yuto isn't an entertainer like Yusho, according to shun, he and Yuto both escaped from the oppression and XYZ dimension in order to find shuns sister Ruri who was taken from them. Yuto has always been alone, Until now. if anything hes more like you then yusho. I'm not sure if he could help yuya smile." Yuzu looked down

"Yuzu, I never said i related Yuto with yusho... matter of fact, if that is indeed the case,, that's all the more reason he is more like me." yoko looked up at the stars

"so wait yuya and yuto are both like you? then who is yushou?" yuzu asked before noticing the look in yokos eyes.

Yuzu came to the realization that she had gotten her hopes up because of yoko's story. She assumed that yoko knew a magic solution the the problem at hand but instead she was only trying to cope with the situation at hand by relating to thier situation.

"I-I'm sorry, i jumped to conclusions" yuzu looked down.

"Yuzu, I trust yuto." Yoko began.

"What?"

"Yuya told me he trusted yuto. I trust my son, So if he says he trusts yuto, Then i do too. Matter of fact, I feel relived that my son isn't alone. He has someone with him..." Yoko told yuzu.

yuzu smiled. That was true.

"Besides, I don't ask my son about this but i feel as though he has been in the closet for a long time. Do you think there is something going on between those two? I really hope so. It would be so cute." Yoko suddenly squealed.

Yuzu nervously laughed. His mom was a little weird.

"Oh well, What do I know, i'm only a mom. if that's the case he can tell me if he feels like it." Yoko said.

They continued to stare up at the stars until yuzu yawned.

"I'm heading inside to go to bed, Coming?" Yuzu opend the door.

"I will be in soon." Yoko said.

"okay have a good night" Yuzu said heading down stairs.

a single shooting star fell over yoko's head in the sky above causing yoko to smile

"I guess Even shooting stars like me can use a miracle every once in a while" she whispered.

before heading inside she made a wish on the shooting star as it faded.

"Tomorrow is a new day."

~~x~~

The next day Yuto was awakened by the harsh rays of sunlight beaming down on his faces through the cracked window.

Yuto slowly came to waking life with a yawn and tired eyes.

"Good morning yuya." Yuto said only to realize that yuya was still fast asleep.

Yuto sighed and then walked down stairs for breakfast. He really wanted pancakes.

"Ah good morning Yuto! did you too sleep well?" Yoko asked.

"Yuya is still asleep, " Yuto tiredly yawned.

Yoko got a grin on her face.

Yuto looked up at yoko nervous.

"w-what?"

yoko examined yuto carefully, curious.

"w-what are you doing?"

"Ah, I'm sorry, I'm just curious what its like to be fused together with someone...I have so many questions like, who controls what arm, How can one person be asleep When one is awake," Yoko asked.

"It's hard to explain. sometimes its hard for me to even understand. Sometimes i can feel things yuya feels, sometimes i cant, Sometimes he can control me, But i can also see him as a spirit beside me, yet his location Is...Deep i- " Yuto could not finish saying "deep inside me" because by the time he said that he blushed real hard after noticing yoko Started Smiling at him like a fan girl.

"F-forget it!" Yuto closed his eyes and looked away and went to go eat the stack of pancakes on the table.

"Yuto, one more thing." yoko began.

"hmm?" yuto looked up.

i got a email from Akaba Reiji. were going on a road trip." Yoko said.

Yuto blinked.

"Wait what?"

"well, turns out, one of leo corporations many affiliates has invited us to their town. apparently a corporation located in domino city, called the Kaiba corporation. i wonder who that is?" Yoko asked.

Yuto of course who came from an entirely different dimension had no idea, but the female voice behind them chimed in.

"Seto Kaiba was the head of the multi million dollar company who invented the duel disk in the first place. according to newspapers there was a huge disaster that took place in domino and it was solved by him and his rival, and legendary duelist Yugi muto the king of games. after the disaster was solved something changed within the once legendary duelist.. he claimed he once embodied the soul of a old pharaoh from long ago who he fell in love with, and now that he was missing he didn't know what to do with his life" yuzu explained.

"wait what happened after that?" yoko asked.

"he locked himself in his room one night and when his friends found him he had fallen into a coma for 10 years...but just last month when they went to go check on him, he disappeared leaving behind a note. something along the lines of "I'm finally at peace." It was assumed that it was a suicide note, but there have been mysterious reports lately on the news of sightings of the legendary boy in various places. Some think they are just practical jokes but there were so many sightings, that its hard to think its just a joke. he very well may still be alive. " yuzu said looking down

"It seemed that Kaiba and Yugi had some sort of connection then...But Why is kaiba inviting us to our town? were kinda getting off track" yuto asked.

"well, it seems to be that Kaiba Wants to meet the pioneer of pendulum summoning... that would be yuya who is asleep right now. Apparently he is curious about him. according to reiji he Is also part of the team that will be saving the standard dimension. he says that yugo is going to be there too and a few others, and there is another huge event there happening now other than that i wasn't told much else. a lot of people are apparently in panic. i guess when we get there we will find out." yoko said.

~~X~~

meanwhile in the Xyz dimension judai, who at the mercy of yuri was beginning to wonder how on earth he would escape when suddenly out of nowhere judai heard the sound of an explosion.

when judai turned around he saw yuri fly backwards.

"what on earth!? judai gasped.

behind him judai noticed a group of duelists picking up yuma who was unconscious.

there was a boy with orange hair, a boy with yellow and green hair and one with purple hair.

"wait..., shingetsu...kaito... shark... please rescue that young man too, he tried standing up for us," Yuma said weakly.

"but I think he's from fusion!" kaito glared.

"observation # 1 There are good fusion users too..." astral said.

"Astral thinks so too ..." Yuma said coughing.

"Agh, fine," Vector huffed.

Shark glared at yuri who was trying to stand up.

"Hurry up and grab him then before he comes back."

Kaito huffed.

"Orbital seven get your ass over here and remove that collar."

"Yes Master!" orbital seven replied hacking into the collar and removing it successfully.

"T-thank you," Said judai.

"I don't trust you since your a fusion user but if you want to escape hurry up." Kaito glared.

"My name is Judai yuki! What is going on?" judai asked.

"What?! You're a fusion user and your here and you have no idea?" astral asked.

"Hehe I usually never know whats going on, I just was curious what those duel soldiers are doing with the portal back where i was." judai closed his eyes nervously smiling and rubbing his nose.

"I used to go to academia but it was never like that when i was going to school there. It was a fun school where you would learn about card games so you could be come a professional duelist, i was in orisis red there was also obelisk blue and raw yellow. I graduated a long time ago, but i was given a tip by one of my friends manjome thunder that it was taken over by some people, apparently not anyone nice. plus that jerk yuri ...kissed me. who the hell does he think he is?! all i wanted to do was challenge some tough duelists" judai said pouting.

the group of duelists stopped in their tracks. They never heard this side of the fusion dimension before...plus the kiss part was sorta way out there and the fact that Judai could actually hear astral when only yuma could in the past was sorta a shock too.

"Its just as I thought, you can see me," Astral said.

"yeah, I can see all sorts of duel spirits, like my friends hane kuriboh here and yubel."

kuriboh and yubel appeared next to them.

"Kuri kuri!" Hane kuriboh landed on judais shoulder glad he was okay

"so you finally got that stupid collar off did you?" yubel smirked.

"Shut up yubel! plus i also have...huh!?" judai looked around, He could not find daitokibiji sensei. That's when he realized, the cat pharaoh ran off somewhere.

"uh, I have another friend but I think he's a little busy right now. " Judai nervously sweat.

"I see.." astral said smiling at the kuriboh.

"Kuri kuri"

"You take good care of that boy you hear me?" astral said.

kuriboh nodded. and floated behind judais head.

""where are we headed anyways?" judai asked.

"we are programming the air ship we used in the past to travel worlds. Were going to try programming it to reach this other dimension known as the standard dimension. were going to escape this dimension, but were missing one key factor." Kaito said,

"What is it?" judai asked.

"Well, we have it now, We had to retrieve it from the clutches of the obelisk force." Vector smiled.

"It was yuma here." kaito explained.

"Wait, Yuma?" Judai asked.

"Wait...me?" Yuma asked in an idiotic fashion pointing at himself.

"Well, We tried with only astral but it didn't work but as soon as yuma was nearby the signal that the controls were working lit up. meaning congratulations you silly idiot i guess your special after all." vector laughed.

"idiot was a bit much..." Yuma said.

"Hmph, how stupid." Shark looked away.

"Now you're also calling me an idiot!?" Yuma glared.

"Looks like we didn't have to worry, after all, Your okay," astral smiled.

Judai laughed, In some ways yuma reminded him of himself. He wondered if his friends were okay, Especially manjome. It looked like he would have to find a way back to his own dimension, but it didn't seem like his first stop, matter of fact, if they were indeed heading all the way to standard dimension then it would be a while before he could return.

meanwhile in the fusion dimension manjome went to go for help. he was going to go get johan.

"That stupid idiot making me go save him. I swear when i see him next he will be getting an earful." manjome angrily huffed as he traveled back to domino city.

When he got to domino city he was in for a surprise, There was a large light that looked like it was torn there in the fabric of space.

"What on earth?!" Manjome yelled.

people were in a panic, as they ran around.

"What is this giant rip? " manjome looked at it only to be blown back by a group of duel monster spirits rushing out of it like crazy.

"Hurry up we must escape" Yelled a dark magician girl. followed by a group of spell casters.

"D-Dark magican girl, Dark magician and Ga ga ga girl? Whats going on?!"

"It's coming." said omaja yellow.

"What? Whats coming?" manjome asked.

"The Darkness..." Chimed in omaja green.

"Every duel monster spirit in the world is trying to escape, so there is a portal to escape with in the same location, domino city In each dimension. Domino city is the center portal." Finished omoja blue.

"Well tell them to go back!" manjome yelled.

"I tried but nobody listened they are all too afraid." johan appeared from behind.

"this is really bad." manjome yelled.

~~X~~

Meanwhile back at the standard dimension the same rift was in place in the exact location of domino city, As it is with synchro and Xyz's as well.

Yusei and the other signers looked above

"What on earth is going on?"

"the spirits..they are afraid." one of the twins said looking down.

"Afraid of what?' asked Yusei.

"According to ancient fairy dragon, they are afraid a single thing ,that is close to becoming whole again. and when that happens, the world will disappear into permanent darkness." she said.

"What! then we must stop it!" jack yelled.

"What is the cause of this problem?" Yusei asked.

"The fusion of 4 different things, The spirits are not sure what they are, they just know whatever it is they said the portal wasn't their doing, Nor the natural disasters, But they found the way to escape using the portal"

"So I'm guessing we will find out soon enough.

As yuya's mom pulled in to domino city, She screamed. No one could see the monsters, since they were all spirits. but there was a rip in the fabric of space, in the middle of town.

"What on earth?!" Yuto yelled waking yuya up.

"What happened!" yuya asked

And as reiji pulled up in the car behind him he muttered under his breath barley loud enough to hear.

"...Eventually, it will all be worth it. I just got to get through this small... obstacle.