Disclaimer: I don't own Yu gi oh or any concepts or names that you recognize. Although I do own some of my own ideas and OCs.

Anyways R/R and also I will have more information for my story, like character bios and stuff on my other website. It won't be anything you have to know to understand the story but it gives some spoilers and detailed info that you might want to know. Also Kaiba and some of the others are very OOC, but it all fits in somehow.

Last time: The mysterious woman turned out to be Ishizu. She brought Yugi, Joey, and Bakura to a secret location and revealed herself as being part of the Oracle. They also met Seto Kaiba, whose part of it and their strange leader Pegaus. Bakura threatened them all and left. As quickly as this strange meeting began, it ended. And Yugi and Joey found themselves alone again…or so they thought.

Chapter 5: Damsel in distress…who leaves you in distress…

The silver-haired man chuckled some more, "We were all brought here for our own reasons. But our goal is all the same: to stop Marik at all costs." "I will not let either of you, or any of you," Bakura glared at Ishizu, Kaiba, and Pegaus, "get in my way. So stay away or else." He turned and vanished.

Joey and Yugi are once again walking, until Joey decided to stop and eat. "Joey, that's the third time this morning!" Yugi sighed watching his friend.

Joey replied with his mouth full, "But I need my energy to defeat Marik!" Yugi shook his head. Suddenly they heard a scream. They ran out to see a young woman who was screaming and pointing towards a large group of people, "Oh, my god! They're gonna kill him!" They looked over to see a bunch of guys standing in front a shorter guy.

Joey ran over to them, "No one picks on the little guys!" He looked at the first one, "Hey who are you and why are you messing with this poor kid?"

The leader laughed, "You're obviously not very smart so I'll explain for you. We're the Welker Gang. This 'kid' wouldn't get out of our way. Now we gotta deal with him ourselves. Hehe..Get lost before we decide to deal with you as well."

Joey growled, "Hey, why don't you leave him alone and get lost yourself?" The leader laughed and gave a signal as they gang started to close in on Joey, "You'll regret that."

"Joey!" Yugi cried, "Watch out!"

The blond grinned, "Nah, I got this. Trust me."

That idiot is actually going to try and fight all of them? What is up with these people! thought the one watching them.

A little bit later Joey was still standing while several of the members were on the ground. He grinned, "Told ya I had this!" The leader glared at him, "We'll met again." Then he and his people left. Joey laughed and then turned to the one they were after, "You okay, kid?"

He yelled back, "I'm not a kid! My name's Rex." He looked at Joey in disbelief. That guy took out the whole gang! If I had him help, I wouldn't have any problems and I wouldn't get caught. No one would be brave enough to stop me. Better make this good though.

Joey grinned back, "My name's Joey and this is my best friend, Yugi."

Yugi grinned, "So, Rex, where you headed?"

Rex replied, "Uh, nowhere really. Just kinda traveling alone. So where you guys headed?"

Joey had that big stupid grin, "We're goin to face Marik and defeat him."

Rex stared at both of them is disbelief, They're good enough to beat Marik? I DO need these guys. Gotta play it careful though. Can't let them know the truth. He smiled, "Really? Say, mind if I come with you los..errr I mean guys? I'd like to beat Marik to."

Joey grinned, "Sure as long as you're not a liar, cheater, or thief. We don't let those in the group." Yugi nodded.

Rex chuckled nervously, "Uh, I'm not." Hehe suckers!

Joey and Yugi smiled, "Well then welcome to the group!"

Yugi nodded, "Just hope you don't eat as much or often as Joey."

"Hey!"

"Well it's true."

Ugh, add one to the loser's squad. These guys are pathetic. the one watching thought as they walked away.

After the gang had walked a bit, and stopped to eat, yet again, they saw a large gathering of people. "Wonder what's goin on?" Yugi thought as they walked to see.

"Leave her alone you jerk! Stop picking on girls!" Hearing 'her" Rex ran up ahead. The other two looked at each other and followed. They saw a dark-haired man holding onto a blonde girl's wrist. They glared at each other.

That has to be the prettiest woman alive. thought Rex watching.

"What's goin on?" asked Yugi.

Rex stopped, "That's Detective Devlin!" Eep I hope he's not here for me! But Devlin ignored Rex and answered Yugi, "This woman is a criminal. She's being investigated for a theft. A priceless artifact was stolen a few days ago and she was recently seen at the scene of the crime."

"You are pathetic," she said rolling her eyes, "For starters your 'scene' is one of the main walkways out of this town. You said the theft took place at someone's house. Just because I happened to be outside of the house doesn't mean I did anything. Besides what's your evidence?"

He stammered, "Uh, well...uh..."

"Thought so." she pulled her arm away.

One of the bystanders rolled his eyes, "Devlin's always been one of the most pathetic detectives there is. He's always accusing the innocent and never finds the real culprits."

He grabbed her again, "But until we know you're really innocent, you're not leaving my sight."
She rolled her eyes, "Whatever."

Joey asked Devlin, "When did you say that it happened?"

"About two days ago."

He thought about it, "Well then it wasn't her."

Everyone stopped and looked at him. Devlin gave him a strange look, "How do you know?"

Yugi looked at him curiously, "Yeah, Joey, how do you know? "

He flashed a big grin, "Cause we down the road yesterday."

"Yeah, and?" Yugi wondered what his friend was getting at.

"Well she's been following us since we left the last town." Everyone fell over.

She yelled in surprise, "You knew I was following you! How! That's IMPOSSIBLE!"

He chuckled, "Nothin gets past Joey Wheeler."

Devlin looked at her and then back at them, "So you'd say this woman was with you, hmm?"

Joey nodded. Yugi shrugged, "I guess so."

He grinned again and then looked at his officers, "Well then. That does change everything. Arrest them to!"

The three of them blinked. "Why?" asked Yugi as they were surrounded.

He chuckled, "Well evidently you're her accomplices. So you get punished to."

She yelled at him, ""No they're NOT! I don't even know them!"

Devlin shook his head, "Doesn't matter. That's what the evidence says."

Rex looked around, Oh no if they catch me I'm caught. I can't let them find out. He turned and ran out before anyone saw them.

"Wait, let's talk about this." Joey said..

The blonde girl yelled at them, "You idiot! This is your fault!"

A/N: Well whaddya think? Hate it? Like it? Need to know more?

Next Time: Who is the mysterious female that's been following them? (have you figured it out yet?) Is she could or bad? And more importantly now that they've all been caught and arrested for a crime they didn't commit, what's that mean for our heroes? And how will they possibly get out of this one?

Next Chapter – Chapter 6: On the run…from a complete imbecile