Same as last time, I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!, yadda yadda yadda.

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{Location: Unknown. Time: Precisely 9:15 pm.}

A man who was around 6 feet tall walked into the lounge of a building. He poured himself a cup of coffee, then sat at a table with a woman who was taller than him by no more than two inches. She also had a cup of coffee.

"So, Stella. How're things going? " he asked her. She looked at him like he was dumb.

"Victor, you should know. We're both surface agents," the woman replied after taking a sip of her coffee.

"Then things are going well?" Victor responded.

"Yeah, pretty much," Stella explained.

"What about your daughter? Didn't your husband die when she was a baby?" Victor asked. Stella had told him about her daughter. Her husband had died when her daughter was two years old.

"She stays on the internet a lot. Plus, she often has candles and incense in her room, so she can hurt anybody who attacks her. She knows I work for the company that makes the Duel Monsters cards, though. Even if 'make' might not be the right word," Stella told Victor, who took another sip of his coffee.

The two soon proceeded to go inside the building in different directions. Stella went up the stairs, while Victor went somewhere else on the lower level.

Upstairs looked like a star theatre from a planetarium. The ceiling was covered with grids, and, occassionally, there would be a dot. The dot would soon vanish from the screen.

Five or so people were supervising this giant grid. Stella approached one of the two men.

"Dave, has anything new appeared?" she asked the man.

"Yes. One, and it keeps getting away," the man responded. He then went back to his grid work.

::~We haven't visited the Shadow Realm in a long time, now have we?~::

The rest of the monsters watched helplessly as the Blue Eyes White Dragon they called a leader was being caged in a neon-purple laser cage. The bluish dragon glowed white, and the cage swirled into the light with the dragon inside.

A dozen or so light orbs came out and trapped an Ancient Brain, Red Eyes Black Dragon, Electric Lizard, Kuriboh, Fusionist, Change of Heart, and a few more in the same way, and they went through the light portal.

::~Back on Earth...~::

"So this wild one...Has it already breached the surface? " Stella asked Dave.

"Yes, and it always keeps glitching our mechanisms," Dave explained.

"It's strong?" Stella responded, shocked that something that was capable of hurting a Blue Eyes could actually FAIL.

"Actually, no. Just extremely tricky." Dave replied.

{In an abandoned alleyway...}

|They haven't caught me yet...My glitch spell has worked like the charm that it is...| a young Black Forest Witch thought to herself. |I refuse to go. I will not join what they are doing....| she told herself, her right hand caressing a ball of dark magic.

|Though I wonder...How those two humans managed to find a Harpie Lady and a Red Eyes Black Metal Dragon...| she asked herself. She then stroked her ball of dark magic, and it vanished. The witch herself then proceeded to go out of the alley since it was dark and no one would notice her.

A pair of street punks blocked her way out, though.

"Wow, what fancy clothes you have there, miss..." one of them said, examining the fine black dress that the Black Forest Witch wore. He didn't seem to notice the brooch-like eye on the dress, and the other on the girl's forehead.

"You must have paid a lot for them. So...Care to give us all your money?" another asked.

[Actually, I have nothing to give to you,] the young witch explained.

"Heh, Bruiser, she's trying to keep us from taking all her money! Well, little girl, if you won't give us your money, we'll just have to take it!" the first one said. Behind him was a man with large muscles. The muscled man advanced on the witch, whose "brooch eyes" were beginning to glow purple with dark magic. Big mistake.

{What do you want again?] she asked the men, as soon as the muscled guy moved closer to her.

"Your money," the thinner of the two replied.

{Umm, I don't have any of that...] she tried to say. Her telepathy was beginning to stutter out of fear.

"Wha?! Then how'd you get those pins? Bruiser, do your thing," the thinner guy ordered.

[You leave me no choice...] the witch stated as both of her brooch-eyes began to glow a dark purple. She materialized an orb that looked like it was made out of blacklight, then tossed it at the muscled guy. As soon as the orb hit, he became a Kuriboh.

The thin guy looked stunned at his mawler, which wasn't as much of a mauler anymore. The ball of brown fur rubbed against its former leader's leg, and made a purring sound while doing so.

[Umm...That's not what that spell's SUPPOSED to do...] the girl told herself. Her brooch-eyes returned to normal as the other guy was stunned enough at the fate of his companion to let her go.

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