Has anyone reading this heard the Yu-Gi-Oh! OST? (Original Sound Track) The openings are so beautiful, especially Overlap, the season five opening. Also tracks like Passionate Duelist and My Turn put the so-so 4kids tracks to shame. Did you see what happened there? I praise the Japanese version and it turns into a 4kids flame. Unbelievable!

When Yugi and the others adjusted their eyes to the light they saw an almost empty room. The walls were painted a dull yellow. There was a couch, TV, and fold-up bed. There were two doors leading out, one on the opposite wall and one on the wall to the right. It looked like a college grad's first apartment.

"Do you think this is a rest area?" Alice wondered.

"Kaiba never lets his opponent rest," Atem said as he moved over to the couch, "This is the next game." Atem flopped down on the couch heavily and closed his eyes.

"Yeah, and if I know Kaiba, it's an escape game," Yugi said joining Atem. Dan, Alice, and Shun cautiously followed. The door slammed behind them… again! Yugi walked over to the door opposite the entrance. Yugi turned the knob, it was locked. Above the lock were three slots. One was shaped like a square, one like a triangle, and the other like a diamond. "I think this is the exit, it's got a key hole."

"Let me see," Shun said. He took out yet another knife and tried to pick the lock. When he drove the knife into one of the locks he jolted back and landed hard on the ground, the knife went flying and hit the other wall. "Gah! It's electrified!!"

"Yup, that's Kaiba," Yugi said.

"Psycho," Atem said passively, still resting on the couch.

"You two seem to know this Kaiba guy pretty well," Shun said suspiciously.

"What are you suggesting, Shun?" Skyrus asked.

"I want to know how you two know Kaiba," Shun said. Yugi didn't say anything. Atem didn't move a muscle. "Well?"

"`Seto` Kaiba is my centuries old rival, who has been trying to out do me since my days as Pharaoh 3000 years ago in Egypt," Atem said in a serious, yet tiered, tone. No one moved, no one blinked. "Don't believe me?"

"Are you serious?" Shun asked, clearly short on patients.

"Yup."

No one spoke. The room was silent. No one wanted to be the next to speak.

Atem sighed, "Kaiba was my rival, that much you can accept, can't you?"

"Was? Don't you mean is?" Dan asked. Atem didn't respond.

"Kaiba has… changed," Yugi said sadly, "He was like this once, but he moved on, out of the darkness of his past." Yugi did his best not to cry. He told the story Mokuba had told him so long ago of Kaiba's abusive stepfather. "But Kaiba had gotten past that! I can't figure out why he's doing this!"

"He told me I'd understand when I fight him," Atem spoke up.

"If all Kaiba wants is to battle you," Alice asked, "why do we have to go through all this??"

"That's simple," Atem said. Now he looked up, "He won't fight me if I've gotten rusty. It's a test."

"Look, this is getting us nowhere," Drago said, "Let's just try to get through this ordeal."

"Fine," Shun said in an angry tone, "But you'll tell me what's really going on here soon enough."

Yugi and Shun went about the room trying to find clues to get to the exit. Alice cleaned Atem's and her own wounds as best she could with the new recourses at her disposal. Dan just tried to be useful; he wasn't a puzzle solver or a medic. This game might take a while.

Deep in the heart of the facility, Seto Kaiba cleaned himself up and changed clothes. He wore his Battle City trench coat, shirt, and pants. The next stage of

FDeath-T was at hand. His plans had changed, but only slightly. After he was prepared, he began his trek to the detention block. He would have a special surprise for his next opponent.

On his way he remembered the strange Dr. Kitrii. The man was the absolute stereotype of a 1950s mad scientist. What a sight!

After Kaiba's encounter with the mystic, Shadi, he left Kaiba Corp. in the hands of his younger brother, Mokuba. Kaiba traveled to Russia, just as Shadi instructed. There he heard word of a madman named Doctor Isaac Kitrii. His side trip was off to a rousing start! He finally tracked Kitrii down to a villa in the forests outside of Moscow. The home was quaint and homey. Kaiba called out to this "Kitrii" and summoned him with the doorbell. When he lost his potions waiting, he called to his scoffer. "Issono! Let's go," Kaiba turned to go, "This was a w…!!"

A figure that belonged in a 50s sci-fi film was no less then a foot away from him. "Impatient, aren't we?" the little gremlin of a man said, "What can I do for you, Mr. Kaiba?"

Kaiba didn't like people sneaking up on him. "I've been told to look into your research. The people around here seem to think you mad, but if you impress me, I may fund your research and help you prove them all wrong."

"Good! Good, come with me!" Kitrii beckoned him toward another building, his lab. "Yes, bring your man with you." The odd doctor showed Kaiba his lab. All the machinery was Cold War era, but Kaiba could tell the soft where was state-of-the-art. "You timed your arrival well," Kitrii said, "I have made a breakthrough unlike anything the world has yet seen!"

"A breakthrough in what?"

"Inter-dimensional travel!"

Kaiba turned on his heel, "Issono, we're leaving."

"So you're going to leave here now and let all the time you spent finding me be a waste?" Kitrii asked.

Kaiba stopped, "Show me."

Kaiba was snapped out of his memories at the sound of shouting. He reached the source of the noise, the cell that contained Runo Misaki. When Kaiba came into Runo's view she fell silent.

It didn't take long for Runo to start again. "What do you want? I don't have anything left for you to take from me! I want Tigrara back! Give her back!!"

"I don't have it," Kaiba told her. He didn't wear his sadistic smile; he just spoke plainly, "It's being shipped off to the leader of the Night Ghouls, Duel Master K"

"Who's Duel Master K?" Runo asked in the calmest tone Kaiba had heard from her.

"I don't know," he unlocked the cell door. Runo was only bound by those bars and now he was unlocking them?

"Are you letting me go?" she asked.

"Meh-heh, hardly." He didn't sound so bad when he spoke this time. "You'll be part of the next game," now the cruelty was back in his voice, "You should consider it an honor!"

For the first time Runo was frightened of him. She backed up as far as she could as he closed.

"It fit!" Yugi shouted. The third key was placed in its lock. The door opened, finally.

"I can't believe how hard that was to solve," Dan said.

"I'll never look at toothpaste the same way again!" Atem shuddered.

The next room had five doors, four plain ones, and one with a majestic dragon carved over the doorframe.

A Kaiba hologram appeared in the room. This one was life-sized and standing. "Well, well," it said, "You've gotten far, haven't you? How's your wound Atem?" No one answered. "Not it the mood to talk? Fine, let's get down to the business at hand. These doors lead to the next stage, but as a reward for you're making it this far, one of you may skip the next level. However, it can't be Yugi or Atem. Good luck, Meh-heh-heh!" Kaiba vanished from view.

"So who's it going to be?" Mahado asked, "Who will fight Kaiba first?"

"I think it should be Shun…" Alice said quietly.

"I agree," Yugi nodded.

"Me too," Atem patted Shun's shoulder, "Kaiba's unlike anyone you've ever faced, good luck, Shun."

By the time the four turned around the center door was already closing behind Dan.

"Wait!!"

Next is the advent of the ultimate power of the perfect life-form; the coming of… the Blue-Eyes White Dragon!!

Shreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm playing Battle of the Gods while I'm typing, it fits so well! (Fel-light93, this is the track we liked from the battle with Dartz.)