The second duel of the finals commenced just minutes after the end of Kisshu and Deep Blue's duel. This time, it would start up the other side of the bracket, where Ichigo had been placed. The duel would be between Ichigo and one of Deep Blue's most trusted advisors: Gateau Du Roi. He had been beside him since the beginning, and when Deep Blue had come back from the dead, Gateau was right behind him in coming back as well. He had been killed when he tried to fight the team and a then brand new and inexperienced Ringo on the island she normally lived on with her brother.

As both duelists stepped forward to meet with Mokuba in the middle, Dark Ichigo stared him down. She was wearing the outfit that Ichigo had bought with Masaya the day they had been kidnapped by Drun Waynon, but had the intention of transforming right when the duel began. Dark Ichigo thought to herself, "This will be the first step to Deep Blue's defeat. Though this may be the first duel in the lowest bracket, I cannot let my guard down." As they both stopped in front of Mokuba, she told Gateau, "I won't go easy on you." She then took her pendant off of her neck choker.

"I didn't expect you to," he replied to her.

"Mokuba," she then told him as he turned to her. "Before we begin, I must do something." She then closes her eyes and gave her pendant a light kiss, activating it. "Mew Mew Strawberry! Metamorphose!" In a bright flash of light, Dark Ichigo transformed in only a few seconds. When the light passed, she was now wearing her partner's outfit as Mew Ichigo, much to the crowd's delight, all of whom cheered for her. Many of them had known about the team of superheroes who had saved the city the year before, but now they knew who they were. Dark Ichigo thought to herself, looking over the outfit, "I look damn good in this, I gotta admit."

"That little trick won't faze me," Gateau warned her. "Now," he then said as he turned to Mokuba. "Flip the coin."

"Alright, already," Mokuba replied with a slightly annoyed tone. "Be patient, now. Ichigo, you will be heads. Gateau, you will be tails." The coin was then flipped into the air before coming down on the ground and coming to a complete stop. Once it did, Mokuba knelt down and looked at the result. "Alright, looks like Ichigo goes first."

Dark Ichigo and Gateau then turned away from each other and walked to their respective ends of the arena. Then, they both turned around and faced each other as they shuffled their decks in their hands. Dark Ichigo told her opponent, "I see you use shotgun shuffling. That isn't a good way to treat your cards. These aren't your average everyday playing cards after all."

"Whatever," Gateau brushed her off with. "That's none of your business anyways." He then drew his five cards.

"Okay," Dark Ichigo began as she drew her five cards. "I'm ready! Let's duel!" She then drew her first card. "I activate Pot of Greed, allowing me to draw two more cards! I then summon Elemental HERO Heat! Per its effect, its attack becomes 1800!" As Heat appeared on the field to the cheers of the crowd, she then pulled another card from her hand. "I then activate E-Emergency Call, allowing me to add an Elemental HERO monster from my deck to my hand!" She quickly pulled her deck out and selected a card before setting her hand down on the ground and shuffling her deck. "I add Elemental HERO Burstinatrix to my hand! Following that, I set a card and then end my turn!"

Gateau then drew his first card of the duel. "My turn! I set a monster before activating Reasoning! Now, I need you to declare a monster level, Ichigo!"

"Alright then," Dark Ichigo replied to him, thinking about which level she should choose. After a few seconds, she came up with an answer. "I choose Level Five!"

"With that," Gateau continued. "I now reveal cards from the top of my deck until I draw a monster I can summon! If it's a Level Five, I can summon it and discard all the other cards to my graveyard!" He then drew three cards from the top of his deck, and on the third card, he smiled. "Well, looks like I'm in luck." He discarded two of the cards he drew and summoned a new monster. "I summon Freed The Matchess General, with 2300 attack!"

Dark Ichigo recoiled. "Damn it! I thought Level Five would be a good choice!"

"Freed, attack!" Freed then lunged at Elemental HERO Heat, smashing it across the face with a fist, destroying it with ease.

DARK ICHIGO: 3500

GATEAU: 4000

"Reverse Card Open!" Dark Ichigo then revealed her set card. "Call Of The Haunted! I bring back Elemental HERO Heat to my side of the field!"

"I see," Gateau replied, unfazed. "I end my turn."

"My turn," Dark Ichigo declared as she drew a card. "I activate Polymerization, fusing Elemental HERO Burstinatrix, Elemental HERO Heat, and Elemental HERO Bubbleman to form Vision HERO Trinity, with 2500 attack! On the turn it's summoned, its attack is doubled to 5000!"

"Reverse Card Open," Gateau immediately interrupted her with as Vision HERO Trinity appeared on the field. "Shadow Spell! I decrease the attack of your Vision HERO Trinity by 700 and lock it in place in attack mode while also preventing it from attacking!"

As chains formed and restricted the movement of Trinity, Dark Ichigo sighed. "Not this," she thought to herself. "Now I can't use it... Unless..." "Fine then," Dark Ichigo replied. "I end my turn by setting a card, and because I end my turn, this brings Vision HERO Trinity's attack down to 1800."

"My turn," Gateau replied. "Instead of drawing a card, however, I instead activate one of Freed's effects! I instead shall go into my deck and select one Level Four or lower Warrior-type monster from my deck to add to my hand!" Once he was done selecting his monster, he began his turn. "I summon Dark Crusader, with 1600 attack!" He then selected a card from his hand and placed it in his graveyard. "I also activate its effect! I send a single DARK monster from my hand to my graveyard to boost its attack to 2000! Now, Dark Crusader, attack Vision HERO Trinity!"

"Reverse Card Open! Drowning Mirror Force!" Dark Ichigo negated the attack with her set card. "Now I return both Dark Crusader and Freed to your hand, negating the attack!"

"You annoying bitch," Gateau exclaimed, angered by the activation of the card. He then sighed. "No matter, though. You'll soon pay for that."

"We'll see about that," Dark Ichigo gave a snark reply to. "Draw!" She then looked over her hand."I activate Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy your Shadow Spell, freeing my Vision HERO Trinity from its grasp!" As the chains around Trinity collapsed and disappeared, she selected another card from her hand. "Now, I summon Elemental HERO Stratos, with 1800! Upon its summoning, I activate its second effect to add Elemental HERO Bladedge to my hand!" Once she was done reshuffling her deck, she began her battle phase. "Now, Vision HERO Trinity, attack both of his monsters!" Trinity ran up to Gateau's field and flattened both Freed and Dark Crusader with ease.

DARK ICHIGO: 3500

GATEAU: 3300

"And now," Dark Ichigo concluded her battle phase with. "Stratos, attack directly!"

DARK ICHIGO: 3500

GATEAU: 1500

"You're in quite a bit of trouble if you can't think of something," Dark Ichigo warned her opponent with a confident smile. "I'd be careful if I were you. Turn End!"

"Let's see if I have to be," Gateau replied as he drew a card. "Well, looks like I won't have to be!" He then revealed the card he drew. "Now, I activate Zera Ritual, sending two monsters to my graveyard from my hand to Ritual Summon my most powerful monster, Zera the Mant, with 2800 attack!" As the crowd went wild, Zera the Mant formed on the field in all of its hideous glory. "Now, Zera, do me a favor and wipe out her Elemental HERO Stratos!"

From the sidelines, Zakuro shouted to Dark Ichigo out of fear, "Ichigo, look out!"

DARK ICHIGO: 2500

GATEAU: 1500

As she brushed herself off, Dark Ichigo muttered to herself, "Shit... He one-upped me there..."

"Next turn," Gateau gave a stern warning. "It'll be your Trinity card. Now, start your turn!"

"Right," Dark Ichigo replied as she drew a card. When she looked at the card, she sighed. "An Exodia piece," she thought to herself, holding the Right Leg of the Forbidden One. "This is the last card I need right now. For now, I'll switch Trinity to defense position." "Alright, I pass."

"Pathetic," Gateau said to her as he drew a card. "I'll just have Zera the Mant destroy Trinity! Go!" Zera then slashed Trinity across its chest, destroying it with ease, but dealing no damage to Dark Ichigo since it was in defense position.

Dark Ichigo began her next turn by drawing a card. When she looked at it, she sighed in annoyance. "This is bad," she said to herself. "Okay, I set a monster and end my turn!"

"Very well then," Gateau replied as he drew a card. "I'll just destroy it again with Zera!" Like last turn, Zera destroyed the monster with ease.

From the sidelines, Ryou shouted out in frustration to Dark Ichigo, "Hey! What the hell are you doing?!"

"I draw," Dark Ichigo began her next turn with. This time, the card she drew gave her the help she needed. "Alright! Now I got this! I activate Swords of Revealing Light, preventing you from attacking for three turns! With that, I end my turn!"

"That's your new ray of hope?" Gateau laughed, amazed at what he thought was sheer stupidity. "Three turns will do you no good at all!" He thought the duel was already concluded. "I set a monster and end my turn!"

"My turn," Dark Ichigo replied to him, drawing a new card and confident she could turn the duel around now. "Alright, a second Exodia piece. It's not the best draw, but it's still not bad." "I pass. I'm all set."

"Fine by me," Gateau replied as he drew a card. "I set a Magic or Trap Card and end my turn."

As Dark Ichigo began her turn and drew a card, she thought to herself, "Okay, second turn. Let's see what I can do." "I activate Monster Reborn, and I bring back Vision HERO Trinity from the graveyard to the field!" As Trinity came back to the field, Dark Ichigo looked over both of the set cards Gateau had on his side of the field. "I won't attack them. I can't take any risks here." "I end my turn!"

"You have one more turn," Gateau replied as he drew a card. "And with that, I pass. Let's see what happens next."

"I predict that your life will end with this next card I draw," Dark Ichigo proclaimed to him, a sinister but deserved warning. "It wouldn't be the first time we killed you, though. Your unjust second lease on life will end here." She then drew her next card and looked it over. As she did, her eyes widened with excitement before she held the card up for all to see. "Now, Gateau Du Roi, prepare to face the wrath of an Egyptian God! By sacrificing Vision HERO Trinity and its three tributes' worth from the number of monsters needed to Fusion Summon it, I can call upon the Egyptian God Card that Mutou Yugi and the Pharaoh Atem once wielded together in the first Battle City tournament! Come forth, Sky Dragon of Osiris!"

Yugi exclaimed with excitement as Osiris began to form on the field, "Alright! She did it! She summoned Osiris!"

Meanwhile, Kaiba stared in shock, having disbelieved reports that a girl as young as her could have wielded an Egyptian God until now. "No way," he thought to himself. "She really can wield Osiris! This is incredible! A girl with seemingly no direct connection to the Millennium Items can possess an Egyptian God Card!"

The crowd went berserk as Osiris let out a mighty roar at a frightened Gateau. Dark Ichigo explained its relevant effects to him. "Since I have three cards in my hand, Osiris' attack and defense go up to 3000 each! Zera is your most powerful monster, is it not? Too bad if it is!" She then pointed at Zera the Mant. "Osiris, destroy Zera the Mant! Thunder Force!" Osiris opened up its lower mouth and fired a giant beam of energy at Zera, destroying it.

DARK ICHIGO: 2500

GATEAU: 1300

"I end my turn," Dark Ichigo replied. "You don't have much longer left."

Gateau was frightened to see Osiris on the field, and was visibly shaking as he drew his next card. He knew that nothing he could do could save him, as none of his cards could even touch Osiris in terms of their effects. "Damn it! I'm out of options! I..." He then just stood in place, silent as he dropped his cards from his hand. He realized in that moment that he had failed, and that he was going to die when he lost. He simply Flip Summoned his set monster, which was a relatively weak Pale Beast with 1500 attack.

"I'll take that as you ending your turn," Dark Ichigo replied as she drew a card, boosting Osiris' attack and defense to 4000. "This is the end of the road for you, Gateau! Osiris, Thunder Force!" In the blink of an eye, Pale Beast was destroyed by Osiris, ending any chance of Gateau winning by reducing his life points to zero.

DARK ICHIGO: 2500 (WINS)

GATEAU: 0000 (LOSES)

Dark Ichigo's Mew Mark began glowing on her forehead, indicating she was about to administer a penalty game upon him. "I hope you're ready, because this is the last thing you'll ever see!" She then pointed at him and exclaimed, "PENALTY GAME!"

In an instant, a bolt of lightning emerged from the roof of Tokyo Dome and crashed down upon Gateau, electrocuting him and causing him to scream intensely in pain as the electricity and intense heat flowed through him for several seconds. Once the lighting stopped, Gateau collapsed to the ground, his clothes and cards burnt and his body twitching. He had been electrocuted and burned to death by real lightning. Unlike many other times, this punishment was not merely an illusion.

No, this was real, and Dark Ichigo was out for blood when it came to Deep Blue and his henchmen.

Mokuba, somewhat disturbed by the proceedings after the duel, cleared his throat and held up a microphone to announce the results to the confused but cheering crowd. "The winner of the duel is Momomiya Ichigo!" The crowd went wild, amazed by her dueling ability and her possession of an Egyptian God Card. Many of them chanted her name as she turned to the rest of Tokyo Mew Mew on the sidelines and nodded to them, with Zakuro, Minto, and Hime all nodding back. All of them were relieved that Dark Ichigo had won the duel, and now they would prepare for the next duel in the tournament.