A/N: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF STAR WARS OR YU GI OH 5DS! I ONLY OWN MY OCS AND THAT'S IT!

Chapter 11: Tunnels

A latch… It was a silver latch. Yusei stood up and walked over. "What did you find, Xiaolong?" he asked and brushed off the dirt to reveal a hatch. Yusei yanked it open and it revealed to lead into a underground tunnel.

"I'm not sure about this," Zeb stated. "I mean, what if there are Insects down there that you don't know about?"

"Xiaolong, go scout the first three miles of the tunnel and let me know of everything you see," Yusei ordered. It gave a small little salute before diving into the tunnels.

"How long do you think it'll take for that thing to get back?" Zeb asked.

Yusei, however, just sat down in a meditating position and closed his eyes, as if focusing on seeing something else.

"Can you see what that thing is seeing?" Kanan asked.

"Yeah," Yusei answered. "The entirety of the tunnels down there are like escape tunnels and are completely made of cement. Xiaolong can't sense any Insects coming near the tunnels to enter and those he sense coming towards them quickly switch directions before getting too close. He feels like there is something off about those tunnels, though." There was a large echo of a high pitched shriek.

"What was that?" Sabine asked.

"Xiaolong just used sound to try to tell where the tunnels go," Yusei answered. "There's about ten miles of that tunnel system that is just one tunnel path. At the end is a ladder that goes up somewhere. From what he can tell, at the end of the tunnel, there's a sound of water from the other side."

"So it's along the coast," Hera stated.

"Xiaolong, come back to me through my power. Don't worry about flying the entire way back," Yusei called and it wasn't two seconds later that the small dragon appeared by Yusei's side.

"If it's along the coast, that means that ladder has to lead to somewhere near the Creator," Yusei stated.

"I'm going," Ezra stated.

"Ezra, we don't know exactly what's down there," Kanan argued.

"Well, the Insects seem to be well afraid of it. If it seems safe from the Insects, it's our best lead to the Creator," the Padawan fought. "I want to get off this world as much as you guys do, but I'm not going to let this chaos and killing go on for much longer. Do you want to find this Creator soon, or not?"

They nodded. Kanan turned to the droid. "Chopper, stay with the ship and be ready to head to our location as soon as we need you," he ordered. It made a beeping noise before carefully heading out to the ship.

"Let's go," Yusei stated before they all jumped down into the tunnels.

They slowly walked and the others noticed how focused Yusei seemed to be, as if listening to everything around them.

Though soon, Zeb said to Yusei, "So you knew a Lasat named Kila?"

"Yeah," Yusei answered. "Why?"

"When I was young, I knew a Lasat named Kila," Zeb answered and they all looked at him shocked. "She went missing a couple years before the Empire wiped out the Lasats on my planet."

"How well did you know her?" Yusei asked.

"We were close friends before she disappeared," Zeb answered. "And then she disappeared and we never saw her again."

"She never talked about her home much," Yusei responded. "Not to Syoku and I, anyways."

"Did you ever talk about your home with your other friends?" Kanan asked.

"Not too much. You need to understand, in this world it's hard to know who you can and can't trust," Yusei replied. "For Ezra, it took a day before I felt I could truly trust him."

"I can get where Yusei can come from with that," Ezra stated. The others looked at the Padawan a bit shocked and confused. "I mean, you never know who would be willing to send you out to the Insects to be killed unless they show themselves as trustworthy."

"Well, if you try to double cross us, Yusei, in an effort to stop the Creator-" Zeb began but Ezra cut him off.

"He wouldn't, Zeb. If there's one thing I've learned about Yusei, it's that he wants to keep the bonds he makes to others," the Padawan defended.

"My priority is stopping the Creator and getting Ezra out of here safe, even if I can't join you guys. But I promised Syoku I would stop the Creator and stop this madness before she died. And that's a promise I'm keeping," Yusei told them, shocking them a bit.

"Your final promise to your friend was to stop the Creator?" Sabine asked.

"That's why I've been trying to look for him as much as possible. Of course, it isn't easy when you and your duel monster friends are the only ones who here before Ezra," Yusei replied. "But I'm not going to stop the Creator just because of my promise. It's so no one has to go through what Ezra and I have gone through again."

"No other reason?" Kanan asked.

Yusei could tell immediately what the Jedi master was pointing towards with his words and said, "If you're thinking I'm doing this for revenge, you're wrong. Not only would the others not want me to after the Creator out of revenge, but revenge won't get me anywhere. Revenge just breeds more revenge and I'm not going to take part in that."

"You seem a lot smarter than you look," Sabine responded.

"I'm not sure how to respond to that," Yusei stated.

"How much farther until we're at the end anyway?" Zeb asked.

Yusei looked at Xiaolong who answered, "Another half mile or so." The duelist repeated it and the Lasat sighed in frustration.

"Zeb, are you really that tired already?" Sabine asked.

"No, I just don't like being in an underground tunnel with no escape," Zeb responded.

"Well we could've gone above ground with all those Insects," Hera responded. "Which is better?"

"Down here, I guess," he answered.

"Sounds like we're getting closer to the coast," Yusei stated. They listened closely and heard the water crashing against the thick rock walls.

"How did you hear that so easily?" Sabine asked.

"After being on this planet, having to learn to listen to everything as closely as possible and survive, you tend to be able to hear things better," Yusei responded. "After all, after learning to listen as close as you can for a long period of time, it becomes a natural thing to do."

"Understandable," Hera agreed.

They walked a bit farther until they reached the ladder. "Alright, let's head up," Kanan stated. They nodded and each went up with Kanan insisting on going last. Yusei waited by Kanan before going up. "I'll be right behind you."

"If anything happens, let me know," Yusei stated.

"Right," he agreed before Yusei went up. Kanan was quick to follow.