The arena shut itself off an the holo-images of all the monsters disappeared. All four players gathered their cards (after some confusion) and lowered themselves from the platform and congregated beside the arena. The Gamble Brothers both stepped forward and each extended their hands with a rare card.

"My Torture Wheel," said Jason as he passed the card to Fader.

"And my Riryoku is yours Beezy," added Josh. "You are all that our boss expected and more. even with our special dueling arena working for us we couldn't win."

Fader inserted the card into his deck and looked at Josh. "Your boss? Who is that?"

Teh sound of hands clapping abruptly started. Fader and Beezy turned to see a man in a grey and black outfit with spiky black hair. Beside him stood a blonde girl. Both had Duel Disks on thier arms. "An impressive display from both of you," he said stepping forward.

"Who the hell are you?" demanded Fader.

"My apologies, how rude of me. My name is Evo," he said. He gestured to the girl beside him. "This is my associate Jaina." He then extended his hand to Fader. "It's a pleasure to finally meet you."

Fader feircly slapped the hand away and grabbed Evo's collar, "I don't care who you think you are," he shouted. "Let Serena go!"

"Of course," Evo replied. He then snapped his fingers and Serena began to descend from the ceiling. "I meant the Lady Kaiba no disrespect. She is a remarkable girl. She even won her duel against my Jaina here."

"What the hell gives you the right to treat someone like that?" shouted Beezy.

"I needed bait young Beezy," came the reply.

"Bait?" Fader said appaled. "You would use a human being as bait? For what?"

"For you of course," answered Evo "I needed to further test you. Your duel against Potemkin gave me only a small glimpse of your ability. I thought that another test was in order. Your heroic acts to the benefit of young Beezy gave me the perfect means to secure your presence here today."

"You son of a..."

"Watch how you speak to the tournament organizer," warned Jaina. "You don't want to be kicked out do you?"

Evo reached into his shirt and pulled on a chain. Attached to the end of the chain was a small clear glass ball that contained an even smaller gold item. "You also wouldn't want to lose your chance for this either, would you?" he added.

Fader couldn't contain his shock, "Another peice of the Millennium Puzzle! So all of this was a test for me?"

"To see if you are as strong as I expected."

"Did I pass?" Fader asked sarcastically.

Evo laughed. "I never said that the test was over. You have a long way to go yet." Evo tossed three locator cards at Fader. "i will be watching you Fader. Enjoy the rest of the tournament." Evo and Jaina both turned and began to walk away. They were joined by the Gamble Brothers who had untied Serena and left her unconcious on the ground.

Fader rushed over to Serna's side and lightly slapped her face trying to wake her up. He turned to Beezy, "Hurry and call Medical Assistance. We need to get her soem help.'

"Right," Beezy agreed as he turned to the exit.

"That's alright," said Serena rising off the ground and clutching her head. "I'm alright, I just had a headache from that tramp's cheap shot."

Fader moved to help Serena but she waved him off. "Are you sure?" he asked. Serena nodded. She walked over to a wall and picked up her Duel Disk. She locked it into place, inspected her deck and started for the door.

"Forgetting something?" Fader's voice asked from behind her. She turned just in time to catch a Locator Card he had tossed at her. "Spoils from your duel with blondie I'd imagine."

"yeah," Serena said. "I'll get me revenge on her later; in the Battle City finals." Serena once agian atarted to leave then paused, "Thank you Fader." And then she was gone.

Fader turned to Beezy and handed him the second of the three Locator cards/ "This would be yours then. You're really good kid. And remember; you and me in the finals."

"Definitely," Beezy said high-fiving Fader. "One more thing before we split though. I wanted to give you something. You are one of the best duelists I've seen and there's a little voice inside me that's making me think you'll get more use out of this than I will." Beezy reached into his pocket and threw something to Fader, he then took off out the exit.

Fader opened his palm to examine what Beezy had thrown him. Fader was agast, it was a piece of the Millennium Puzzle.

"Full of surprises," Fader said to no one in particular.