Hey everyone! Glad you liked the last chapter. Here's a new one. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own YuGiOh GX or Jess, she still belongs to ladydream-chan.

Claimer: YAY! This ENTIRE STORY IS MINE! And the one or two or three OCs that show up that aren't Jess are also mine. :)

Remaining Chapters (Excluding this one): 2

xXx

Jaden's POV

"So you killed Bakura?" I asked into my talkie, making sure I heard Atem right.

'Yeah, he's dead, gone for good,' he answered, sounding a bit relieved. I sighed.

"Good. Giese is also dead, so that just leaves Kalin and the leader."

'Jesse killed Giese?' He sounded startled.

I frowned, answering, "Yeah, Giese came to the hospital."

'Is he okay? Jesse I mean.'

"As far as I could tell when he called me, but only time will tell." I sighed and ran my fingers through my hair. "Okay, well, why don't you meet up with Joey and Tristan and head back to the hospital?"

'Good idea, be careful, Jaden.'

"Always am." I flicked off my walkie-talkie and attached to my belt, sighing again.

"Bakura's dead?" Tony asked, looking at me. I nodded and looked back at him.

"Yeah, Kalin and the leader are the only ones left." I looked off, watching people run around the streets. "I never thought we'd make it this far. I can hardly believe that it's almost over."

"Almost over? Jaden, something tells me this is far from over."

I frowned and nodded. "Right." I looked at him, seeing that he was about to say something when my phone started ringing. I held up a finger and grabbed it, answering, "Hello?"

'Jaden!' It was Yugi.

"Yugi, what's wrong?"

'There's a Skull here! They're in the actual compound!'

I whirled around and started running toward the house. Tony jumped up and chased after me. "Idiot, wait for me!"

"Can you guys get out?"

'I think so. But even if we do, where do we go?'

"Go to the hospital." I rounded the corner. We were a little over three miles away from Yugi's mansion. "Get out of there now, Yugi. Tony and I are on our way."

'Right-o. We're gone.' And he hung up the phone. I snapped mine shut and slid it back into my pocket.

"Now that you're off the phone, do you mind explaining to me while we're sprinting back to the mansion?"

"There's a Skull attacking the others." I looked back at Tony. "I think it's the leader."

His eyes grew wide. "You didn't mention that to Yugi."

I nodded. "I don't want him to mention it and have Jim try to be a hero."

"Yeah, let's save the heroism for the man with the hero complex." Tony narrowed his eyes at me, but I just glared at him.

"You're free to stay here."

"And let you go by yourself? Not a chance."

I shrugged and continued running. If the Skull attacking the mansion really is the leader, than this is it. One way or another, this war ends now, either he dies or we both do.

xXx

Narrative POV

Something buzzed on the table.

"Yugi, is that your phone?" Jess asked, pointing at the vibrating phone. Yugi, who was peeking outside, turned around.

"Yeah." He dropped the curtain and walked over to his table, picking up the phone and answering it. "Hello?"

'Yugi, get out of there now!' It was Jaden.

"What, why? I thought you said no one leaves?"

'I think the house has been compromised! Atem just called me and told me that he killed Bakura, but that before he died Bakura said that you guys were as good as dead!'

"Are you sure?"

'Yes! Now get out of there!'

"And go where?" Yugi grabbed his coat from the hook.

"Where are we going?" Blair asked, looking around confused.

'Go to the hospital, just get out of there! I'm on my way to make sure everything is okay.'

"Jim can just check, can't he?" Yugi looked up at Jim, who was looking at him confused.

'No! I think the Skull on the premises may be the actual leader! Jim's not good enough to take him! Just get out!'

"But what if it isn't safe to leave?"

'It isn't safe to stay! Damn it, Yugi! Get everyone out of that house!'

"All right, we're gone." He hung up the phone and looked at everyone.

"We're leaving?" Bastion asked, standing up.

"Yes. That was Jaden and he just told us to go the hospital."

"But why?" Jim asked, taking Maria from Hassleberry.

"Apparently we're no longer safe here, so Jaden wants us to go to the hospital."

"And how will be we safer there?" Chazz folded his arms across his chest. "I think we should stay and prove that we can take care of ourselves."

"Not today," Serenity said, grabbing his arm. "If the man in charge says to bail the house, then we bail the house." She began yanking him toward the back, everyone else following behind.

"I don't like this," Jess whispered to Jim. "Something just doesn't feel right about this."

"You're imagining things, Shelia." He wrapped his arm around her shoulder. "Everything's fine."

Jess nodded and looked at him. "I hope you're right."

xXx

Kalin, crouched in the cover of trees, smiled as he watched everyone leave Yugi's mansion. Once they were out of his site, he stepped out from his cover, a cell phone and some strange contraption in his hand. To amuse himself, he raised the box to his mouth and spoke, "They're all a bunch of gullible idiots." He sounded just like Jaden.

He smirked and shifted the machine around. "I knew this plan would work." Now he sounded just like Yugi. He laughed manically and looked over his shoulder, back at where he was just hiding. "Everything is clear, Leader. Jaden Yuki will be here soon, just waiting for you to kill him." He turned around, eyes hard. "And now if you don't mind, I'm going to kill my once-best friend."

Kalin dropped the voice-changing machine to the ground and crushed it beneath his foot, walking away, leaving the now empty mansion where a Skull lay in waiting, ready to kill.

xXx

"Is there any particular reason why we're walking through a junk yard?" Akiza asked, looking up at Yusei.

He shrugged and stepped over a large metal barrel, helping her step over it. "Call it a hunch."

She looked at him. "You really think Kalin will be here?"

"Kalin will be wherever I am."

"But why you?" She squeezed his hand, forcing him to stop. "Yusei, why is Kalin so interested in you? Crow and Jack also turned their backs on him."

"Not like I did."

"What is that supposed to mean?"

Yusei sighed and squeezed the bridge of his nose, closing his eyes. After a moment he opened his eyes and released his nose. "When we left the Skulls, I was the one who confronted Kalin about it. I was also the one who went off and started a new gang. It was a double betrayal by one person, the one person he trusted most."

Akiza ran her hand over his face, frowning. "Do you regret turning your back on him?"

Yusei shook his head, covering her hand with his to hold it to his face. "Honestly, no I don't. He isn't the same, he's changed." He sighed and pulled her hand away, kissing her palm. "We all have."

"Yusei-" Akiza began but was cut off by the sound of a gun firing. Suddenly, Yusei collapsed to one knee, crying out in pain. "Yusei!" She dropped down, grabbing his arm to try and keep him steady.

"Aw, look at the lovely, backstabbing couple."

Yusei ground his teeth together and turned to see an approaching figure. "Kalin," he growled.

Said boy smirked wickedly, holding up a gun. "Yusei."

"Are you okay?" Akiza whispered, looking at Yusei.

He nodded, eyes focused on Kalin. He was clutching his leg with both hands, blood running down his hand; Kalin shot him in the leg. "I'm fine." He sighed and looked at her, whispering, "Akiza, I need you to get out of here."

"What!"

"Please, Akiza. Just get out of here."

"What about you?"

He turned away from her, eyes narrowed at Kalin, who was smirking at him. "I've got to deal with him first."

"But, Yusei."

"Akiza!" He looked at her, a pleading look in his eyes. "Please, just go."

She looked like she wanted to argue, uncertainty in her eyes, but she trusted Yusei. So she got up and ran off, looking over her shoulder only once.

"How noble of you, willing to sacrifice yourself for her," Kalin said, laughing. "You always were a hopeless romantic."

"I'm far from a hopeless romantic, Kalin," Yusei said, forcing himself to his feet.

"Right." Kalin's face grew serious, a furious look on his face. "But you are a backstabbing, no good, son-of-a-bitch!"

"Kalin." Yusei's voice was flat, level. He was trying to convince Kalin. "You need to let it go. We left, so what? Are you really going to hold it against us forever?"

"Us? Oh no, not us. I'm going to let it go in just a few minutes, once the ringleader is dead!" Kalin threw the gun into a pile of garbage, tackling Yusei to the ground. Yusei grunted in pain, become dazed when Kalin punched him in the face.

"What makes you think I'm the ringleader!" Yusei snapped, forcing Kalin off of his chest. Kalin tumbled backwards until he stopped in a crouched position. Yusei sat up and mimicked the pose, whipping blood from his lip.

"I know you're the damned leader! Crow and Jack would never have betrayed me in such a way, not unless you convinced them!" Kalin swung his leg out, snapping Yusei in the side and sending him flying into a light post.

"Agh," Yusei hissed, flinching as he stood up. He glared at Kalin through one eye, his other closed loosely. "I didn't convince them to do anything! It was Crow's idea to leave the Skulls!"

"Liar!" Kalin grabbed Yusei's collar and flipped him onto his back, spinning him around and dropping his full weight onto Yusei's chest, causing him the cough up blood.

"I'm not lying! Crow had the idea to leave the Skulls and Jack had the idea to start the Signers!"

"I refuse to listen to you spew more lies!" Kalin picked Yusei up and threw him, causing Yusei to land heavily on the ground.

"Argh." Yusei clutched his chest, rolling onto his back as he tried to focus on something other than the extreme pain he was in.

"Hurts? Now you know how I felt when you bastards betrayed me!" Kalin stopped moving, standing a few feet away from Yusei. "When you betrayed me."

"You betrayed us!" Yusei was looking around, trying to find something that would help him now. Kalin was going to kill him unless he could think of something, and fast.

"I never betrayed you!"

"You told us the Skulls were good guys! They're murderers, monsters with no heart!" Yusei glared at him. "You lied to us!"

"We were best friends, it shouldn't have mattered!"

"Of course it matters, Kalin! We don't kill for the hell of it! Everyone person has a right to live and it isn't yours or anyone else's job to decide otherwise!" Yusei looked up and noticed that Kalin was standing at the bottom of a shoot, a shoot that lead from a scrap metal container.

"Oh, now you're all high and mighty! You've killed more than once!"

"To save my friends; to protect the people I care about!" Yusei noticed the release switch to the shoot, right next to Kalin.

"I was your friend!" Kalin grabbed his knife out of his belt, eyes dead. "And you betrayed me and now you lie there trying to justify your decision."

Yusei felt around for something, anything, when his hand closed around something: Kalin's gun. Instantly, a plan formed in Yusei's head, but he only had one shot.

"And now, you die." Kalin raised his knife, ready to fling it and kill Yusei. "Say goodbye you bloody traitor."

"You first!" Yusei rolled up, grabbing the gun and firing at the release shoot. The door at the top opened and shards of broken and rusted metal tumbled out and down the slide. Kalin stopped and looked up, screaming when all of the metal fell on him, burying him, impaling him, killing him. Yusei stared at the metal pile, knowing that Kalin was buried and dead beneath it. He dropped the gun and fell back against the ground, sighing.

"Yusei!"

He sat up and saw Akiza, Jack, and Crow running toward him.

"Hey, guys."

The trio slowed down, seeing Yusei lying on the ground.

"Where's Kalin?" Jack asked, looking around. Yusei rolled his head toward the pile. They looked up at it; Akiza flinched.

"Wow," Crow said. "That's a tough way to die."

Yusei nodded but looked at them, sitting up slowly. Akiza dropped to her knees and helped support him. He looked at her, then at Crow and Jack. "Yeah, but if you're born a Satellite, you're going to die like one."

xXx

Kalin's gone and the only Skull the remains is…THE LEADER!

GASP!

Two more chapters and then we're all done folks! So…REVIEW!

-x-Anime-Queen-2011-x-

-o-Mel-o-