Copper: Who does this chapter focus on?

AnimeKiwi369: Someone's impatient.

Copper: Who does this chapter focus on?

AnimeKiwi369: Everyone, really. A little of Jack and Carly, a little of Kalin and Misty, a little bit of Leo and Luna, a little bit of Crow and Dove, a little on Yusei and Akiza, a little on Copper, and a little bit of John, Raven, and Lane.

Copper: Okay.(?) Aren't you going to do a disclaimer?

AnimeKiwi369: Oh, yeah. I don't own any bit of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's or the characters. I only own the story and my own characters.

Chapter 20

Escape

The twins dismally followed the psychic in front of them. They would've tried to get away, but each of the pairs that they had been split into had some psychic behind them to make sure they didn't try to escape. They stopped at a door and the psychic opened it. Both were forced inside as the psychic closed and locked the door. The room was the same they had been held in last year.

"How are we going to get out of this, this time?" Leo asked.

"I don't know, Leo." Luna responded, "But I hope we're rescued soon."

"Yusei will save us." He said confidently, "I know he will."

"I hope you're right, Leo."

With Jack and Carly

"They can't just hold us here!" Carly exclaimed from inside the room she and Jack were being held in.

"They can and will, Carly." Jack said in surprisingly not annoyed tone. "Sayer isn't going to let us out of here. At least not without a fight."

"Then how are we going to get out?"

"I don't know."

"I don't want to spend the rest of my life here!"

"I don't either." Jack responded, "We are going to get out of here. I just don't know how. Just be patient." He told her, leaning down and pecking her cheek. "Just be patient."

With Kalin and Misty

Misty stormed around the room she was being held in with Kalin.

"That man is vile!" she shouted, "First Toby, now this."

Kalin vaguely knew what happened to Misty's brother; every time he asked, she would start to explain before she would get choked up and couldn't explain what exactly happened to him. All Kalin really knew was that Sayer had been responsible for whatever happened to him. Copper hadn't told him either because she wasn't exactly sure either. No one was.

"If I ever get my hands on Sayer I'll…" she trailed off, still angry, storming around the room.

Kalin grabbed her wrist, "Misty, you need calm down." He told her quietly.

"How can I?" She demanded, "After what he did to Toby?" She felt her eyes begin to mist over.

Kalin wasn't sure how to react. He kept a hold on her wrist and pulled her closer to him. They stayed silent for several minutes. He pulled Misty back and looked in her blue eyes; the same blue eyes he knew both their sons would get, thanks to Copper information about the future.

Her eyes locked with his. Kalin leaned forward and planted his lips on hers and for a few peaceful seconds they stayed there. When he pulled away, Misty gave a small smile.

"At least I have you."

With Crow and Dove

"Do you have any idea had on how to get out of here?" Dove asked.

Crow looked at the door with a keyhole, "Do you have a hairpin?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Let me use. It might be our ticket outta this room." Dove removed the pin and handed it to Crow. He bent down to the lock's height and stuck it in. But before he had a chance to unlock it, the door shocked him. "Ouch. Looks like the only way out of here is if the door opened on the outside."

"In other words, we're stuck."

Crow sighed, "Basically."

Dove felt suddenly cold and shivered.

"What's wrong?" Crow asked.

"I think the temperature just dropped."

With Yusei and Akiza

Yusei gently tapped the glass that kept them away from the door in the other half of the room, looking for a weak spot. Akiza stirred a little and opened her eyes; she slowly sat up, finding herself on a bed.

"Yusei?" she asked and he turned around.

"You're awake." He said as he walked over to her and sat down on the bed.

"I'm sorry." She told him, before she could stop herself, looking into his eyes. "I'm so sorry. I didn't want to hurt you. I'm sorry I hurt you by saying all those terrible things. I—" she started but was cut off by Yusei pulling her tightly into his chest. "I didn't mean any of it. You don't know how much it broke my heart to yell at you."

"I know." He said, "I knew you didn't mean any of that. I'm sorry I didn't try to stop you."

"I missed you. You don't know how much I missed you. It felt like I was half-dead."

"I missed you too. I felt the same way. It was like I lost a part of myself."

"Sayer tried to get me to forget you, but I couldn't. I just couldn't. I didn't want to. Once I loved you, I just couldn't forget. It was like—"

"Breathing? Once you learn, you can't forget?" he guessed and she looked quizzically at him, "Jack told me to forget about you, but I felt the same way you did. I wasn't going to come after you because I felt lost without you and didn't have the confidence to face you. And after everything we've been through, I couldn't just believe you'd hate me, but I couldn't bring myself to come here. Martha was the one who talked me into believing that I was right. That you still felt how I felt. But it was Copper's idea to sneak in."

"I couldn't forget anything about you, Yusei. I couldn't forget about your eyes, the sound of your voice, your embrace, the way it felt it be around you, the taste of…the taste of your kiss."

"Neither could I, Akiza. Nothing. I couldn't forget about your eyes, the sound of your voice, your embrace, the way it felt it be around you, the taste of your kiss." He said, repeating everything she listed.

"I love you." She told him. "I've been longing to tell you that since I had to break both of us."

Yusei smiled a little, "I love you, too." He leaned down a little and placed his lips on hers. She kissed a little back and they broke apart after a few seconds.

"How did we get in here?"

"Sayer forced all of us into different holding rooms."

"How do we get out?"

"While you were unconscious, I looked over the glass keeping us from the door and I think I found a weak spot that can shatter the glass."

"How do we break it?"

Yusei took a deep breath, "I think the only way it would shatter is if we took a chance with your powers and materialize a monster to break it."

Akiza got her normal look back in her eyes, "If it's the only way, let's do it, but you'll be by my side, right?" He nodded. They got off the bed and Akiza stood in a ready position. Yusei showed her the spot before he went and stood behind her, placing his hands on her shoulders. She leaned back into his chest and drew a card. She materialized Violet Witch and had it attack the spot Yusei had pointed to. As he predicted, the glass began to shatter and she turned into him as it broke in all directions.

"Good job…Black Rose." He told her as she pulled away from him.

She put her card back into her deck, "Thank you, Stardust." She responded, "I also missed hearing you call me that."

"You're welcome." He said and carefully stepped through the shards of glass towards the door. He tried opening it, but it was locked, "I think we'll need your powers again."

"Anything to get out of this horrible place." She responded as she drew and materialized another monster. It attacked when Yusei was safely out of the way and it took several shots before the door was opened. She replaced her monster again and began to move out of the room.

"Wait a second." Yusei told her.

"What is it?" she asked in a slightly annoyed tone.

He took out the energy stabilizer and locket. "I believe these are yours."

"You found them." She said slowly, taking the energy stabilizer from him and fixing it by rolling her bangs in it. As she did this, Yusei brought the locket around her neck and secured it. "Thank you." She repeated.

"Anything for you." He told her and she smiled a little at him. "I'll lead us to where Sayer split the group up and then you can lead the way to where you think the others were taken. You know this place better than I do." She nodded.

They walked out of the room and began to make their way to their friends.

With John, Raven, and Lane

"How long have we been here?" Raven asked.

"Does it look like either of us have a watch or can even look at a watch?" John snapped.

There was a strange sound coming from below. It sounded almost like something being broken down by extreme force.

"What was that?" Raven asked.

"I don't know." The other two responded.

They heard the door open and Sayer came in.

"Looks like neither you three or Fudo are going to be leaving." He said before he left and locked the door. They heard something shift, but they didn't know what. Then they heard something start moving and they looked at the walls.

"Uh-oh!" they exclaimed at the same time. The walls were slowly moving in on them.

"Anyone have an idea how to get out of this?" John asked.

"Not unless we can get out of this rope." Lane said.

Raven saw something in John's bag wriggle. "John, what's in your camera bag?"

"Duh. What do you think, Raven?" he asked rhetorically, "It's a camera bag. It has a camera in it. And my laptop." He added.

"Then which one is moving in it?" she asked, trying to cringe from it, not knowing what else was in it.

"'Moving'?" Lane and John both repeated. Whatever was in the bag wriggled out and jumped on the ground. It was furry and a light tan color with some dark brown rings of fur mixed in it. And it was small. The ball of fur looked at them and they recognized the familiar creature.

"Fairwin!" They exclaimed, seeing Copper's well-trained pet.

"You don't know how glad we are to see you!" Lane told the ferret.

"Fairwin, can you untie the rope?" Raven asked. The animal seemed to understand and scampered up the ginger-haired girl and she laughed a little. "That tickles!" The ferret gnawed at the rope that held them tied together for a couple minutes while the walls slowly closed in on them. The rope fell to the floor and the Fairwin crawled onto Raven's shoulder.

"Now untie the rope around our arms." John commanded. The ferret seemed to understand again and it began to chew through the rope around Raven. He chewed for a minute before it was loose enough to fall off of her arms. As soon as she could move, she untied the two boys next to her. The walls were still closing slowly.

"Now what?" Lane asked, "The door is still locked."

John looked up I frustration and saw something. "Hey, what's that?"

"Is it not a ceiling?" Lane asked.

"I know it's a ceiling, Lane." He retorted, "I mean that little spot up there." He said, pointing. The other two looked at the spot that he pointed at.

"It looks like a button or switch or something." Raven said and then a thought came to mind as the walls were less than a foot away, but they were moving slowly. "Guys, give me a boost. I might be able to reach it if I use the skills I have from gymnastics."

The boys nodded and laced their hands together, bending down slightly, standing across from each other. Raven placed a hand on each of their shoulders and lifted herself onto their hands and jumped. She quickly placed one hand and foot on each wall and began to make her way up.

"Raven!" John called as he and Lane pushed against the wall in vain to stop it from moving.

"Hurry up!" Lane shouted.

Raven hurried up the closing walls. She reached the top, the walls less than six inches away and she was practically squished. She looked at the thing on the ceiling. It was a switch. By it, it read: MOVE IN/MOVE OUT. And a small trap door that must be what Sayer and the other psychics used to switch the walls from one to the other, so they could get rid of evidence.

Raven flicked the switch to MOVE OUT and the walls stopped moving forward and began to move back into their original spots. They each let out a sigh of relief, forgetting that Raven was feet above them.

"Uh-oh!" she said quietly as the walls moved away from her and began falling towards the ground. Lane and John quickly realized what was happening and both reached out their arms and Raven fell safely into them. But the momentum from her fall was enough to cause the two boys to jerk slightly down.

"Thanks." She told them when they let her down.

"No problem." John and Lane said simultaneously

"Although," the blonde started, "I don't want to do that again."

"That's what I said the first time Copper and I did a toss lift for a routine." Lane told them, "You get used to it after a while."

"Instead of standing around, let's get out of here and get Copper." Raven declared as she picked up Fairwin and put him back in the front pocket of John's camera bag.

"Why does Fairwin have to go in my bag?"

"You're the only one that has a bag, Jonathan Atlas." Lane told him in an annoyed tone and went over to the door. "Now how do we get this open?"

"Let me at it." John commanded. He took out his laptop and looked for a control panel on the wall. When he found one, he took a wire from the circuits in the wall and plugged it in the computer. "I might not be as good with this stuff as Copper is, but I come pretty close. He typed in something and they heard a click of something being unlocked. "Try the door." He commanded as he put his computer back in the bag. Lane tried to turn the knob on the door. It turned.

"Nice job. There is a smart person under that blonde hair." Raven commented.

"Thanks," he said, before he realized what she had just said. "Hey!"

"Don't start arguing." Lane commanded, "Let's go find Copper."

The other two nodded.

With Leo and Luna

Luna sat quietly as Leo paced back and forth in the room.

"Yusei'll save us." He declared. "I know he will."

"That's the twelfth time you've said that."

"Only because it's true." He retorted. As he said this, there was pounding sound against the door.

"What was that?" they both exclaimed at the same time and Leo went and sat on the bed with Luna; both afraid of what was coming next. There was another pounding at the locked door and the door came off its hinges and flew to the other side of the room. Two familiar heads looked into the room.

"Leo! Luna!" Yusei said as he came into the room, "Are you guys all right?"

Both the twins hugged him tightly.

"We are now." Luna told him.

"You came, just like I predicted." Leo responded.

"How'd you guys find us?" Luna asked.

"This was just a guess that Akiza had, since you've been held in here before." Yusei informed as he stood up.

"Come on, we have to get the others."

With Crow and Dove

Every few minutes the temperature had dropped and now it was absolutely freezing.

"Dove?" Crow asked.

"Yeah?" she asked back, looking up at him. They were sitting on the ground, sitting close to each other for warmth.

"If we don't get through this," he started, being unusually morbid, "I wanted to tell you something."

"What is it?" she asked, moving a little closer to him as the temperature dropped again.

"We've been spending a lot of time together these past few months," he started; they could see their breath as they breathed. "and you know that we've sort of gotten close to each other."

"What is it, Crow?"

"Dove," he said slowly, bringing his face close to hers, "I love you."

"Crow," she responded slowly like he had and bringing her face closer to his, "I love you, too." They brought their faces closer, again, until their lips touched. It was a brief kiss because as their lips touched there was a pounding that came from outside the door. Crow held Dove a little closer as the pounding continued for a few more seconds. The door fell to the ground and in the door way was Akiza with her duel disk raised.

"Akiza." Dove said. Three more people appeared: Yusei and the twins.

"Why is it so cold in here?" Leo asked, feeling the cold air begin to seep out of the room.

"Sayer." Akiza answered.

"You two okay?" Yusei asked the pair on the floor. Crow and Dove exchanged looks.

"We think so." Dove responded.

"We'll be fine when we get warm." Crow followed, standing up and taking Dove with him.

"Did you use your powers to open the door, Akiza?" Dove asked her friend as she and Crow walked out into the hall. The red-head nodded. "You're powerful."

"Thanks." She responded and looked around for other psychics. "We should find the others." The others nodded.

"Yeah," Yusei responded, "before Sayer finds out we've gotten out of his grasp." h

With Kalin and Misty

"Do you think we'll ever get out of here?" Kalin asked.

"Knowing what kind of man Sayer is…no." Misty responded, "Not unless the others found a way out."

As if on cue, a pounding came from outside the door and several seconds later it fell on the floor. Everyone, but Jack, Carly, and Copper, were there.

Kalin looked at her, "You really can tell the future."

With Jack and Carly

Jack leaned against the wall, like nothing was wrong with Carly next to him. A while ago, she had calmed down. Neither one had said anything for a while either. There was a sound on the door that sounded like something pounding on it. Both looked at the door. It fell to the floor and they saw the rest of the group. Everyone except the younger psychic.

"'Bout time." Jack told them as he and Carly walked out of the room.

"Where's that other girl, Copper?" Carly asked.

"We need to find her." Yusei said, "Then we can get out of here. And get some answers."

With Copper

The water was so high that Copper couldn't touch the floor and she was almost to the ceiling. She couldn't use her arms since they were bound behind her. She coughed as she accidently inhaled water. Copper tried to keep her head above water, but it was getting to be more and more difficult with the passing seconds. Soon her head hit the ceiling and the water enveloped all of her and only a little bit of the room still had air.

He's won. Copper thought dismally, This is the end for me.

She felt herself begin sinking to the floor and closed her eyes, images of her friends and family playing in her mind once again. As she thought of her parents, she found determination begin to fill her.

I can't give up like this, she thought, gathering more determination, I'm a Fudo. And I won't give up without a fight.

Copper felt herself touch the ground and she used her legs to push off of it to get to the top, where a little air still was. She took in a small breath of air and began to concentrate her power on untying the rope that bound her wrists. She managed to loosen it enough to slip it off her wrists. She took another breath of air and began to swim back down to the bottom. She tried to unplug the drain but it wouldn't budge. She tried to knock the door down, but she got the same result. Copper was running out of air and she swam back up and took another breath as the small amount of air was replaced by a final amount of water.

She swam back down to the door. She tried over and over to break the door down, but each time she failed. And time was running out. Finally, she stared at the door and concentrated all of her strength on using her powers to break the door down. While she concentrated, her oxygen ran out, and she was surprised she was able to keep concentrating. After what seemed like an eternity, the door began to move slightly and soon it was gone. The water flowed out of the room into the hall along with Copper. She had managed to get out of the room Sayer had intended to kill her in.

With John, Raven, and Lane

Water dripped from the ceiling a little above John, Raven, and Lane as they tried searching for Copper. The exchanged looks that said: we've found her. They began to running to the next floor to get to their friend.

With the Others

They carefully searched the floor where they had been held, only to find Copper not in any room.

"What if we can't find her?" Leo asked.

"She could be on any floor." Luna commented.

"We're not going to leave without her." Yusei told them, "We can't."

"And I'm not going to leave her here in this terrible place." Akiza said, "No one should be left here."

With Copper

She sat on the drenched floor, coughing, trying to get water out of her system and catch her breath. Copper was completely soaked. She sat with her knees under her with her braid hanging over her left shoulder. She finally caught her breath and took several shaky deep breaths, composing her thoughts at the same time and after a couple minutes, she stood up.

Copper heard muffled footsteps behind her. She felt someone's hands on her shoulder and, thinking it was a psychic, she grabbed the person's wrists with both her hands and shifted her weight and threw the person over her shoulder and onto the soaked ground on their back.

"Ow." The person said with a familiar voice and she looked at who it was. Slightly long ice-blue hair. At first she thought it was Kalin, but she took a closer look and saw blue eyes. "Your parents definitely don't have to worry about you. You're lethal with and without those powers."

It took her a moment to register the easy voice before she finally remembered who she had just thrown on the floor, "Lane?" she asked. "Lane."

"I think you've become paranoid." He responded as he sat up and faced her, "To not recognize one of your best friends."

"Lane, I'm so sorry!" she told him frantically, "I didn't realize—oh, Lane!" she dropped to her knees and threw her arms around him, hugging him tight. "I've missed you." Joyful tears ran down her face, getting herself even more wet. He put his own arms around her.

"Hey! What about us?" Copper heard another familiar voice and she pulled away from Lane and turned around to see her other two best friends, John and Raven.

"Don't we get a hug, too?" Raven asked holding out her arms. Copper stood up and hugged John.

"Ah, you're getting me wet, Cyli!" John exclaimed.

"You're no fun." She said as she went and hugged Raven. She let go and looked at each of them, "You guys don't know how glad I am to see you. I thought Sayer had gotten you."

"He did." John told her.

"We would've been flattened if it weren't for our stowaway." Raven commented.

"'Stowaway'?" she asked.

"Yep. And you'll never guess who it is." Lane told her.

"Who?" Copper asked. John pulled something out of his camera bag, which she just noticed, and she noticed for the first time, that each had their duel disk on. John's hands emerged with a small ball of fur curled in them. The ball of fur uncurled to a familiar furry face that often slept.

"Fairwin!" she exclaimed, taking him from her friends. He crawled up from her hands and up to her shoulder, making her laugh a little bit as he did so.

"Yeah, he snuck into John's bag when we weren't looking." Lane informed.

"He chewed through the ropes that bound us together." Raven said, "And in the nick of time. Sayer put us in a room that had walls closing in, like in the movies. Then I had to climb up the walls to stop them. But it looks like that deranged psychopath gave you somethin' worse."

"Yeah," John agreed, "You look like a drowned fish."

Copper glared at him and tried to wring out water from her hair. "For your information, Jonathan Atlas, Sayer did almost did turn me into a drowned fish. Thank goodness for psychic powers. Why are you guys here anyway?"

"We're here to help one of our best friends, of course." Lane answered

"How did you get to Arcadia?" John asked

"We came to get my future mother back." She responded.

"'We'?" they repeated simultaneously.

"Me and our future parents, plus Leo and Luna."

"Our future parents are here?"John exclaimed, Copper nodded, "Where are they?"

"A few floors down. Sayer separated me from them. I don't know if they're okay or not."

"I'm sure they're okay." Lane said. "Besides, we heard something a floor down from where we were. I think our future parents have gotten away from Sayer. By using your mother's powers."

"C'mon, let's get outta here." Raven suggested.

"Yeah, before that psychopath finds out we've escaped." Lane agreed. Copper's three friends began walking away.

"No." she told them bluntly, "Not yet."

John, Raven, and Lane looked at her incredulously.

"Did you also lose your common sense?" the blonde asked.

"No. But I'm tired of hiding, while he plots. I'm going to make him pay for messing with my family, my friends, and me. Here and now." Copper told them, "I'm going to send him back to our time…today. Are you in or are you out?"

Her friends looked at her and then at each other.

"I'm in." Raven told her.

"So am I." Lane said.

"Count me in." John announced.

"Good." Copper said with small sigh of relief, "Now I don't have to be alone when I face him. Now, let's go send Sayer back to our time and go home."

AnimeKiwi369: A reunion of the kids! And everyone has escaped their imprisonment.

Copper: Just barely. But thanks for the reunion.

AnimeKiwi369: You're welcome!

Copper: Now, what's going to happen next?

AnimeKiwi369: Wait and see.

Copper: Fine.

AnimeKiwi369: Please review and please be kind in-

Copper: Reviewing.

AnimeKiwi369: Would you not do that?

Copper: Let me think, no.

AnimeKiwi369: Sigh. Please review and please be kind.