Author's Note:

            I'm sorry I confused you all, my loyal readers.  To make this chapter make more sense, I have two pieces of advice.

Keep scrolling down past the words 'The End', because there's more written after them.  Read this:  yes, there will be more to this story.  I have at least one, possibly two, more chapters planned, as well as an epilogue. 

When I wrote 'The End', I was making another joke.  It's really funny if you get it, unfortunately I either put too much space in between the various sections of the joke, or it's a lot harder to get than I thought it was.  One way has me making a slight typing error, the other has me making a stupid joke, so I'd prefer to think of the first choice as being the correct one, even if it isn't.

While we're on the subject of apologies, I would like to make another apology to all my readers.  You all seem to like my writing, but I feel like I've failed you and myself with this story.  Oh, this is a great piece of writing, I recognize that.  But it's also a humor-themed fanfiction, and that implies that it should be funnier than the source material (Yu-Gi-Oh!).  And for a long time, it was. 

Then Noah's arc started up.  As hard as I've tried, I just cannot match the utter absurdity that the anime has plunged into.  I was just stunned when we saw Yugi duel an old man disguised as a Man-Fish, who kept lecturing him on the nature of economics.  Then of course, we had Joey's dueling an evil lawyer whose basic tactic seemed to be to annoy his opponents to death by just never, ever shutting up.  It didn't help that his voice made my skin crawl. 

And now we have Duke 'Filler character who should have been dropped after his annoying story arc but wasn't' Devlin, Serenity 'Naïve damsel in distress who's just way too cheerful' Wheeler, and Tristan 'Not cool enough to be a main character, but too important to the plot to just get rid of' Taylor engaged in a duel.  The fact that these three are engaged in a duel at all probably breaks some law of the universe.  But they're dueling a guy who not only loves machines, he wishes he WAS a machine.  I think that somewhere, Yami Malik is crying.  They postponed his battle for world domination for THIS?!

But the coup de grace, the episodes that delayed my update on this story for over a week and a half because I JUST COULD NOT BELIEVE THEY EXISTED…

Tea dueled.  I like Tea, (She's so cheerful she makes Serenity look like an undertaker, and I have to respect that) I honestly do, but she shouldn't EVER duel.  And that's not even the bad part.  SHE DUELED A GIANT ACCOUNTANT PENGUIN.  You heard me.  A giant penguin.  Who is an accountant. 

      Now do you understand why this hurt me?  In my entire life, I have never created anything as remotely absurd as the scenario I just outlined for you.  It tore my will to write apart with the knowledge that no matter how hard I tried, I would never manage to create something as ridiculous as the Tea/Accountant Penguin battle.

Not that I won't try, of course.

Keep reading, and keep reviewing!  We're almost to the end, so strap yourselves in and enjoy the rest of the 'story'. 

By the way, there's a sequel in the works, too!  I haven't chosen a title yet, but when the first chapter is posted, I'll put an update in this story so you guys don't miss it.  It will take place during the 'Battle City' period, in a manner of speaking, and will feature even more of the 'evil' villains and crippling psychological breakdowns we all know and love.  But I'm not going to get started on it until I finish up this story.