Martha wrapped up Leo's arm, "It's mostly bruises, thankfully. He should take it easy for a little bit, but he'll be fine."

I sat by his side as the others showed up. Luna swiftly clambered into the bed where her brother was, "Is he okay?"

"Yeah, he'll be fine. It's just the exhaustion from being in a duel that deals real damage. If you want, you can go to sleep and we'll wake you up when he comes to."

She nodded, curling up besides him, passing out almost the second her eyes closed.

Aki and Crow sat on some other chairs while Jack leaned against the wall. For a few minutes, we sat in silence, each having our own reasons for not starting the conversation that was on all of our minds.

Jack, as always, was the one who forced us all into talking, "None of us are safe from these bastards. How are we going to deal with it?"

I leaned forward, watching the twins sleep, "There's a strong part of me that wants us all to live under the same roof for safety, but I'm worried that it would make it too easy for someone to get us."

Silence reigned again for a while, before there was movement on the bed. Leo slowly sat up, looking at his sister before looking up at us, "Did Luna win?"

"No. But we're just glad that the two of you are okay."

He waved his hand, "Dueling Demak hurt a lot more."

Luna started to stir, blinking awake slowly. After a few minutes, her eyes lit up, and she looked directly at me, "We should go to Lester's house. If he left anything behind we can use it to find the people behind this."

"Sure. Where is it?"


Leo gasped, "Where'd it go?"

In front of us was an overgrown field, with absolutely nothing but weeds on it.

Luna whispered, "But there was a mansion here! How could it have disappeared?"

Jack grunted, "Maybe you just didn't remember the right place."

We all jumped as Leo erupted into a yell, "Let's ask Bob! He was the one to tell me where Lester lived."

Jack rolled his eyes as we got back on the runners, and drove around until we found Bob, and Leo jumped off of Jack runner, "Hey, Bob! Do you know where Lester lives?"

Bob scoffed, "What kind of joke is this? I don't know any Lester."

Each of us froze, while the twins looked like they were on the brink of a break down. Seemingly unaware of the effect of his words on us, Bob walked away, calling over his shoulder, "See you at school tomorrow!"

What the everlasting freaking heck is going on here? What are we facing?


I rolled out of bed, and sighed, Well, it doesn't look like I'm getting any sleep tonight. Might as well work on the engine.

Stumbling down the stairs into the garage, I crouched next to the test model and started to fiddle with the power output.

Multiple times, I found myself jerking awake as I worked on the runner.

After about the thirtieth time of drifting off, I decided to test the new engine, hoping that the fresh air would help me wake up and clear my head.

Hopping on my runner, I headed to the Duel Tower in the middle of town. Seeing that no one else was on the road, I sped up to see how fast the engine could go.

It stopped accelerating far under the speed that I was hoping for, There's no way that I can do Accel Synchro with this speed. I have to find a better engine.

Pulling up at the Tower, I leaned against the railing, How can I protect the others if I'm scared of our new opponents? Right now Justice and I just are barely getting by in the speed department. If I don't find a way to speed up, the others might also get attacked.


As I fought the waves of exhaustion, two runners stopped behind me, and I reached out to feel concern from my brothers, "Hey."

Crow put down his helmet, "Thought we'd find you here. You took off pretty early today."

"Testing out the engine. It's not much better than the ones we already have."

Jack scoffed, "Which isn't saying much, because you made them without a manual."

Crow joined me by leaning against the railing, while facing his body toward me, "You don't have to do this all by yourself. It took all of us to take down the dark Signers, and that was when we knew what we're going against."

"But in order to beat them we need to figure out Accel Synchro."

Jack narrowed his eyes, "What are you talking about?"

"The guy that we briefly talked to after the kick off party. He summoned a monster using a Synchro monster and a Synchro tuner. It had so many special abilities that it was somewhat intimidating."

Both nodded, and Crow brightened up, "So it may have a way to avoid being captured."

Jack shrugged, "But that doesn't explain who we're up against."

"Aki and I met another female turbo duelist, it's what encouraged her to get her license. But this girl, Sherri, says that her research says that Illiaster is behind the tournament, and that they make anyone who doesn't agree with them disappear. I asked Dad, and he said that they were the ones in charge of the company he used to work for."

Letting go of his ego, Jack also joined us at the railing, "Goodwin mentioned that he worked for them."

Crow nodded, "And Roman mentioned that he met someone from Illiaster at the Nazca lines, and that person was the one who started him down the path of a dark Signer."

"So it's probably safe to say that we need to avoid contact with anyone from Illiaster, because we've upset them enough as it is."

The elephant in the room was brought up by Crow, "If Goodwin worked for them, what are the chances that they are in charge of Security?"

Jack grimaced, "That would mean that we can only depend on ourselves and the girl that Yusei mentioned. We would never be able to ask for help from Trudge and Mina."

"Trudge got frustrated a lot during the dark Signer time. He said that investigations were picked up and abandoned sporadically. No one knew what they'd be working on from day to day."

Both brothers nodded, and Jack muttered, "It definitely reeks of corruption. We're lucky to not have been arrested for alleged crimes."

Crow grabbed our shoulders, "We better head back to the house and clean up the mess we made this morning."

I smiled, "What do you two do when I'm not around?"

Both smiled back at me, "Struggle."


My phone's ringtone erupted into existence, scaring the daylights out of me and making drop the tools that I had been holding. I grabbed it and answered without looking, "Hello, this is Yusei."

"Yusei! It's Mina. I was wondering if you three would like to meet Ushio and I for dinner at the new rooftop restaurant."

I glanced at the guys, who were both really bored, "I guess we could. When?"

"Would tonight around 7 work for you three?"

Nodding, I felt uneasy, "Sure. See you then."

As I hung up, I turned to them, "Apparently we are eating at the rooftop restaurant at 7 tonight. Ushio and Mina are paying."

Crow leapt to his feet, "Free food? Awesome!"

Jack rolled his eyes, "You've only ever had free food. This will just be food that you didn't have to steal."

I quickly left the room to avoid being involved in the argument that started the second that I entered the kitchen.

Dad looked up from the paperwork he had in front of him, "Yusei, please tell me that they aren't arguing again."

"Wish I could," I muttered as I flopped down next to him, "But that's how they communicate most of the time."

He sighed, rubbing his temples, "I'm just glad that you are an extremely calm woman. I couldn't handle it if you all liked to argue."

"Martha would have kicked us out a lot earlier if we didn't balance each other out."


I led the way into the restaurant, and saw the two near a window, "They're over there."

Crow strutted over to the table as Jack and I exchanged a look, "Same feeling?"

He nodded, "Yeah. You ask."

We sat on either side of Crow, who looked up from his food, "Why aren't either of you eating?"

Jack leaned forward, "You two can't possibly afford this on a commissioner's pay."

Mina quickly responded, "We just wanted to thank you three for all that you have done for the city."

I raised an eyebrow, "Martha always told us 'Nothing is more expensive than 'free'. Appreciate people who speak harshly to you. Be careful of those who sweet-talk you.' So forgive us if we don't immediately want to eat."

Trudge huffed, "We invite you to a nice meal and you start insulting us!"

Jack raised his eyebrow, "Then this meal has no catch?"

Mina sighed, "We were hoping with help with something."

Leaning back in his chair, Jack scoffed, "I knew it."

She raised her hands up, "We found an amnesiac, and the hospital won't keep him anymore. We were hoping that you'd house him for a couple weeks…"

I shook my head, "We don't have the room."

Mina turned to Jack, "Please!"

"No. I won't force anyone on Hakase when he's still getting used to being a father."

Trudge looked at Crow, "Crow…"

"No way!"

His hands slammed on the table, while glaring directly at Crow, "You especially owe us. You are the only one to eat the food!"

Crow looked around, "We can't take him if he isn't here."

Both of them looked around, and Mina sighed, "He was supposed to meet us here."

My idiot of a brother stood up, "Well, that's that. See you later!"

As soon as we got out of their line of sight, Jack slapped Crow, "We almost had to take in a stranger because of your stupidity!"

Crow held his hands up, "I'm sorry, okay? I was just hoping that they were finally paying us back for how many favors that we've done for them!"

I sighed, "Would you two please stop yelling? I'm getting a headache."

Both of them went silent, until Jack looked ahead, "Hey! Get your filthy hands off of the Wheel of Fortune!"

We watched in shock as Jack punched a guy and started yelling at the top of his lungs. Before Crow or I could do anything, Jack got on his runner and shot off in a fury.

I hurried over to the stranger, and held out my hand, "Sorry about my brother. You're lucky that you are still conscious."

Two sets of footsteps approached, and Mina gasped, "What on earth happened here?"

Crow grunted, "This guy was touching Jack's runner, and Jack lost it."

Mina gasped, "Bruno! Where have you been?"

The guy blushed and bowed to them, "I'm so sorry! I can't help myself when I see such a beautiful runner!"

I rolled my eyes, and finally helped him to his feet. Crow turned to Trudge, "Is this the person that you asked us to take care of?"

He nodded, "But I doubt you can now. Jack isn't known for being forgiving."

Bruno started to head toward the two cops when a white blur shot in, and Jack snatched the guy, "You're coming with me!"

Mina and Trudge froze, while the two of us rushed to our runners, "Sorry about that! We'll make sure nothing happens!"

Crow nodded, "Hopefully we can keep up with him and make sure he doesn't do something that he'll regret."


I pulled off my helmet, and watched as the poor guy scooted against the garage wall, "Please don't attack me again!"

"Jack Atlas, what are you doing?"

He whirled around, "He did something to my runner! Some of the speeds are different!"

The man cowered in the corner, "I just fixed the energy dispersion levels to make it go faster."

No way, I've been working on that for months, and he did it in just a few minutes?

Crow echoed my thoughts, and I walked forward, "Can you teach me how to do that?"

Slowly, he came out of the corner, and went to the computer as Jack's glare got more intense.

In the back of my mind, I was aware of Jack saying something, but I was too fascinated by what this guy was saying.

The hours flew by as he explained everything to me, and at some point I was dragged away from the computer.

I looked up into the eyes of my dad, "You haven't slept in two days. Go to bed."

Blushing, I climbed up the ladder without another word.

As I lay down on my bed, I gazed at the ceiling, I wonder if this will actually work.


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