Back at Martha's place

"Tag your it!" one of the orphans yelled as he tagged Miles and ran off before Miles could even snap his head over to see who did it.

"Oh you little come back here" he said playfully as he ran after him and a dozen other orphans who had big smiles on their faces. Even Leo and Luna was in that crowd of orphans trying to bring some levity to the situation at hand and keep calm. After everyone was dined and wined, so to speak, they went over the plan. There were four sub-reactors that made the original ener-d work, which was slowly leaking out dark energy. The plan was simple enough, everyone take a reactor, that was differentiated by animal marks on them, and if it was unguarded hurry in and switch it in reverse. It being thrown into reverse would be the key to stoping the dark energy, each signer minus Miles was given a specific reactor that could only be turned on with their key card. So stardust dragon, black rose, and red dragon archfiend were the keys to the reactors. As for Ancient fairy dragon, which was suppose to be Luna's ace, it was revealed to them that it was in the possession of a dark signer and this is where Miles was going to come in, he was going to find the dark signer who had Luna's card and beat him in a duel using the taboo rule, him offering up colossal fighter if he were to lose. But he knew he'd win, for Luna he'd walk over a field of burning coal just to give her a hug and wasn't going to so easily let that dark signer have Luna's card. "Gotcha!" Miles yelled as he glomped one of the little kids and rolled on the ground a little as the little kid chuckled and struggled to break free

"haha I got you" miles said gleefully

"Yes you do have him don't you?" a new voice said as Miles, Leo, and Luna's gazes immediately shifted to the new voice, it was clearly a man from the tone of voice and he was big not fat but built big. He was wearing a black robe with gold trims on the ends of it with his hood up. When the kids noticed him they all immediately hid behind Leo, Miles, and Luna for safety

"Who are you?" Miles said taking a offensive stance as Leo and spread out their arms and told the kids to stay behind them, they trying to act as brave as their brother had been in the arcadia building.

"My name is of no importance and you are of no importance to me, bring me the signer that is in that building"

"Not gonna happen man" Miles said as he looked over at Leo and shrugged his head toward the house and looked at Luna and did the same. Leo and Luna nodded at him then quickly herded the little kids inside while Miles and the cloaked man were in the middle of a stare down

"Last chance, get the signer and nothing bad will happen to you" he warned as Miles rolled up the right sleeve on his jacket and showed his mark

"You're not getting anywhere near them" Miles said confidently as the cloaked man let out a growl

"You asked for this" he said as Miles kept up his defensive pose. The cloaked man revealed a weird duel disk from under his robe and drew out a card "Come forth Earthbound immortal…!"

"Stop!" they both heard someone yell out as he ran out the house and stood next to Miles

"Yusei?"

"Are you a signer?" the cloaked man said as Yusei nodded and rolled up his sleeve to show his mark "Ah finally, now let's start"

"Wait" Yusei said as he signaled Miles to calm down and get out of his stance. "I'll duel you but you have to promise me that we'll duel far away from this house. There's a deserted area at least a mile or two away from here. If you follow me on my runner I'll take you there" he said as the cloaked man thought while Miles whispered something to Yusei

"What are you doing?" Miles asked as Yusei looked to him

"That monster he was about to summon, it needs the souls of people to summon it and when it is summoned it sucks up all the souls near it. If he did that it would've taken the souls of all of Martha's orphans, that's why I got to get him away from here"

"You can't just go alone, who knows what this creep might do" Miles said as the cloaked man made his decision

"I will oblige you, point the way and I shall follow"

"Yusei I'm coming too" Miles said as Yusei shook his head

"No stay here, you need to keep everyone safe"

"You can't just go with that guy alone"

"He's not" They both heard from behind them. They turned and found Akiza at the door as she walked out to join them

"No Akiza stay here with Miles"

"Fat chance, Miles may have to stay here but there's nothing keeping me here like him. And besides someone needs to stay with you" Akiza said as Miles let out a small frustrated groan

"If you're not going to let me go with you at least let her." Miles said as Yusei slightly irritated, giving up arguing because he knew she'd just get her way and go with him anyway. He nodded then gestured for Akiza to follow him to his runner. They both hoped on and Yusei gave her a spare helmet

"Follow me" Yusei said as the cloaked man nodded then retreated into the darkness behind him as Yusei revved his runner and jetted off. Then a moment or two later he heard another engine fire up and zoom off, he could only assume that was the cloaked man.

Miles would have rather gone with Yusei, not only because as guardian he had an instinct and duty to follow a signer into danger but also because he was bored. As selfish as it was he was bored at Martha's place and he wanted some action, anything really. He sighed as he turned to the house and decided on his next move. From how Yusei and Godwin described dark signers and with the new info about the monsters they have that run on souls whether he really believed it or not was irrelevant he needed to keep these kids safe. As he walked in he was greeted by Leo and Luna with Martha and Jack behind them.

"Yusei went out to duel a dark signer"

"What!?" Jack said in shock

"He's got Akiza with him so I think he'll be safe"

"To hell if he's got Akiza with him dark signers are dangerous!" he said pushing the twins out of the way and Miles too to get to the door.

"Jack!" Martha yelled out to him as she ran out the door after him

"What are we going to do?" Luna asked Miles who looked down at her and Leo

"You guys make sure all the kids get in their rooms, tell them not to leave unless Martha or I say so." He said getting nods from both of them in response "Then after that get your decks and find Mina and Trudge. If one dark signer came here looking for trouble then another might be on his way"

"Or her" Leo said, reminding him of Misty

"Yes or her now go get everything ready you guys" he said as they nodded again and were off. Miles in a flash started to rush around the house and lock the doors and start up barricades. A few seconds later Martha came back into the house and saw Miles running around moving some her furniture around

"What are you doing!?" she yelled as he looked over to her and gestured her to come over

"Help me out we got to barricade the doors to keep the kids safe" he said as he she looked weirded out at what was happening but jumped in to help him knowing that if the kids were in danger then she needed to help.

Meanwhile…

Outside Martha's house a figure, almost like a shadow rushed to the front door. As soon as he got there he stopped and quietly entered the house through the front door. He saw Martha and Miles moving a couch in front of a door. Making quick work he quietly and fastly tiptoed his way to the stairs and walked up them. He looked at the doors a lot of them were closed or being closed right now. Only one or two doors were open and the man walked over to the first one. The room was empty not much in it and none of it was what he was looking for. He walked over to the next open door and saw Leo looking through his cards. The man glared at Leo but tried to repress it as he entered into the light and Leo looked up at him and waved before going back to his deck

"Hey Miles, I got everyone in their rooms like you said. I'm checking over my deck really quick" he said as the man chuckled in his head. He couldn't believe he was actually pulling this off. Now that he knew that he was able to fool even Miles brother it was time for some sweet payback

"Whatever idiot" he said with a grin as Leo looked up at him

"What?"

"I said whatever idiot" he said again as he walked into the room and looked at a small table in there with a deck and a couple items of Miles. He grabbed the deck and grinned to himself

"Jezz crawled in your butt and died?" Leo asked

"Keep talking and I'm shove your head up in yours and show you what died in there" he said as Leo glared at him

"Hey what the heck is that supposed to mean?" he asked hopping off the bed and onto his feet as the man started to walk out of the room "Where are you going?" Leo asked as the man gave Leo a hard flick to the head which knocked him off balance and landed on his butt on the bed. "Hey!"

"Shut up you fucking loser!" he said before leaving the room. Leo growled then hopped up off his bed again and then rushed after him

"Hey get back here!" he yelled fist cocked back as he ran to the man. The man did a quick 180 and grabbed Leo's fist with both his hand and kneed him the stomach. Leo let out a big cough as he swore he tasted one of his lungs as he fell to the floor and held onto his stomach.

"Now stay down" he said before leaving Leo on the floor trying to regain enough of his strength to get back and run after him.

Meanwhile down stairs…

Miles and Martha had barricaded a lot of the house, Mina and Trudge even pitched in and they were sure that the kids were safe now. As Miles took a final look at the house to make sure everything was good he heard someone come down the other stairs that weren't near the front door. He turned around to find Luna holding her deck and duel disk.

"Everyone in their rooms?" he asked Luna nodded and Miles put on a small smile "Good girl" he said making Luna let out a small chuckle

"You think we'll be ok" she asked

"I know the kids will be definitely, I made sure no one can get in. And you…" He said looking at her "…I know that I won't let any dark signer touch you" he said as Luna smiled and walked over to his side

"And even in the unlikely event that I'm not there to fight the fight for you I know you can handle yourself, after all you beat me a lot when we were younger" Miles said recalling the times when Luna was little and dueled a lot that she would beat him almost every time they dueled, he use to think it a personal accomplishment whenever he beat her. Luna chuckled as she wrapped Miles side in a hug, Miles chuckled to that as wrapped his arm around Luna and kissed the top of her head.

"I love you Luna"

"I love you too Miles" She said as they both enjoyed the moment, brief as it was. The next sound they heard was a thump that came from upstairs.

"Did you hear that?" Miles asked as they broke their hug and Luna nodded. "C'mon let's go see what it was" he said as they both sprinted up the stairs that Luna just came down and after navigating through the hallways to find Leo on the ground with…

"What the…?" Miles said to himself as he looked at himself.

The other Miles snickered as he waved good bye with Miles deck in his hand. At the moment he waved Miles saw silent pop out and utter one word

"Help!"

"My Deck!" he said as the other Miles ran after the other him while Luna crouched down to the floor to help Leo

"Leo what hurts?"she asked him as he groaned and rubbed his stomach

"He kneed me in the stomach" Leo said as he felt something about to come up but pushed it back down his throat "Ugh" He said in pain as he tried to get up

"Leo stay down your hurt"

"No… I need to help Miles…" Leo said as he pulled himself off and thought 'or hurt him'

Miles chased his double outside and glomped him to the ground as he tried to tie his arms behind his back. But his double when he hit the ground rolled over putting Miles on the bottom and began to wail at him. Miles put his arms in defense but this guys punches were powerful, they were really hurting his arms and he knew his arms were gonna fail soon.

Silent was on looking this and began to panic

'What do I do? What can I do?' he asked himself frantically trying to find a answer so he could keep his friend from turning into ground beef. 'I wish my sister was here, she'd know the answer. She'd do something flashy that'd somehow fix…' he thought to himself when he realized it. He could help and he knew how

"Miles close your eyes!" Silent yelled to Miles

"What why?" he asked as his double just kept punching him thinking he was going insane by the pain.

"Just do it!" He said as Miles complied and Silent disappeared in a instant. Then from the thugs hand that still had Miles deck in it, and he was still using to punch him, a extremely bright light flashed from the deck.

"AH!" the double yelled as he dropped Miles deck the cards scattering on the ground as he covered his eyes. Miles opened his eyes to see the other him was dazed and took this chance to sock one to him in the cheek. His double was punched off him and Miles quickly got back up, but so did his double. He tried to open his eyes but everything still looked like dots, he rubbed his face quickly to try and snap him out of it but after he did that something felt out from his right eye. A contact fell to the ground and now theres was a difference between the two now, one had normal eyes while the other had one eye that was black instead of white and the other still having a contact that made him look normal. Miles gasped when he realized what he was

"You're a dark signer"

"No shit" he said as he charged Miles who dodge him and behind him then tried to put him in a hemlock. His double quickly used his legs to backwards kick Miles in his shins. Miles let out a yell as he kept up the hemlock and kneed him hard in the butt. Leo and Luna quickly came outside with Martha, Trudge, and Mina behind them.

"Miles!" Luna yelled as both yelled out 'help' his double being smart enough to know he could still fool them into thinking he was Miles if he just kept his eyes closed, making it look like he was in even more pain.

"No Luna I'm Miles"

"Help me Luna!" the double said as Miles pushed him to him to the ground and said

"Own up your not me!"

"I could say the same to you!" The double said as he tried back kick him again this time nailing his back from the way he was laying on the ground. No one knew what to do or how to handle this, there was no way to know who was the real Miles without trying to separate them which trudge and Mina knew was bad because if they did that there was probably a good chance that the imposter could over power the one who was holding him and run off. Leo was about to charge into the fight but was held back by Trudge as Luna figured out how to tell them apart

"Hey you two!" she yelled at them getting their attentions as she pointed to the sky

"What's the name of that constellation?" Both looked up and answered her question

"Orion the hunter"

"Orion the warrior" The Miles ontop said as Luna smiled

"That one's my brother!" she yelled as the double freaked out and using the momentary used his back and pushed up and shot Miles off him and on to the ground on his back. He quickly got up and stomped Miles in his left shin making him yell out in pain. Trudge and Leo charged the faker but when Leo got to him first he lifted him up and threw him at Trudge

"Leo!"

"Oh don't worry I'm sure that little shit will be ok" the double said as hurried and grabbed all the cards he could before running off with Martha and Luna trying to chase after him. But he hopped onto a dark runner and revved it to life quickly and blasted off. Luna and Martha stopped in their tracks huffing and puffing when Luna gasped then ran back to Miles and gave him a quick peck on the cheek that no one noticed. His mark glowed for a quick second as it mended his pain. He quickly got up and looked at Luna

"Go check on Leo" he said as he looked to see that whoever that was didn't get all his cards, he grabbed the ones he didn't get noting that he got away with a lot of his cards leaving Miles with twenty, one of them being Silent swordsman.

"Miles?" Luna asked as he quickly got up and ran to his runner and revved it to life

"Make sure Leo's ok!" Miles yelled as he blasted off on his runner as Luna stood there for a moment wishing he had stayed back for a little longer to try and sort out all this craziness. Everything at the moment just felt so… weird even by their standards.

Oh god this took… a while and I'm sorry about that. I tried to up Miles bad ass-ness since I like it when he shows off. Ha I guess that kind of makes me like every oter writer with a oc, btw I am legitamently trying to make Miles as far away from a gary stu as I can (When this story began he really was a big gary stu in my opinion and I've tried to make him… flaued or try to put more of me in him to make him seem more real. I don't know if it's working so tell me if Miles is as stiff as a board or if he's at least interesting) Anyway R&R and I'll see you in the next one