Standing on top of the crates that gave a full view of the events that lay before him, he searched for Yugi.

Finding him was quick enough, figuring out why he was battling Joey, one of his friends, was another matter.

"Yugi!" Kaiba shouted.

Yugi, Tea and Joey all looked at him. Even from far away, he knew that mysterious duellist would be watching him.

"Kaiba?..Joey's possessed" explained a weakened Yugi, steadying himself on his knees.

The strange, demented new Joey frowned at Kaiba.

"Kaiba? What's he doing here? You're just spoiling the fun… unless you're a new source of enjoyment. Yugi's getting tiresome." The new Joey laughed.

"What? Joey you're delusional! You're just like the dog that I ever met, even in Domino High!" Kaiba sneered.

Joey's smile seem to fade away. Even if his mind were taken over, he'd still remember how he hated being called a dog.

"You'll regret saying that Seto!" He screamed.

Joey took a small box, like a remote control.

"Let's see how you like this" Joey's smirk returned.

Underneath his feet, Kaiba could feel the crate he was standing on was shaking. Using his instincts, he jumped off onto the crate below, making sure it was stable to his weight.

Finally the shuddering stopped. As Kaiba was about to shout back at Joey, a million fragments of freshly shattered crate blew into his back, knocking him forward onto their duelling arena.

He tried to stand up but couldn't from the pain of the splinters digging in to his back.

"Kaiba!" Yugi called from the decking.

He rose up to just his knees, resting his arms on his aching legs.

Behind him stirred the new problem. An infra-red light turned on along with a series of whirrs and clicks of his robotic trunk sized arms.

Kaiba edged his head around to face the monster twice his size. The machine rolled out in front of him letting his wooden casing drop off like featherweight sticks.

Joey spoke again

"You'll have to push yourself Kaiba, it'll crush you if you're not careful." He joked.

Through desperation and pain, Kaiba rose to his feet and struggled off.

Yugi couldn't help but watch after Kaiba tripping and slipping behind a metal bunker door behind him and the large gorilla-of-a-monster machine follow after him crashing into the door he closed behind him.

"Marik, you have to stop this!"

"I'll choose what to do without your advice Yugi, however there are other things at stake," He pointed to the timer; 1:46, 1:45, 1:44.

Yugi had no choice but to carry on his duel, to save Tea, Kaiba and Joey.