A brief note and confession. I been failing to do something required of me for the last two chapters, and I will now amend that situation: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh in any of its forms, from the original all the way through ARC-V. I do own a copy of 2010 World Championship DS game, and have been basing the majority of the story off the the adventure of the player character from that game. There will be large deviations from that game as I am attempting to fill in plot holes that existed in the game and also make this my own story. I only own the concept of my main character, Wilhelm Jernigan. All other characters in this story are based upon characters who already exist within the game, and I have been filling in for their personalities with OC-ness where I deem it necessary. I also do not write the duels myself, but rather record the duels as they happen, inserting elements more in nature of the anime in the editing process.

I also apologize for the terrible prologue chapter. It provides basis for the main characters relatively unique skill and power set, and little more. Thank you.

The man in the green and black suit introduced himself to me as Sayer. Both Liquid and Okita nodded to the man who was apparently our boss. He then pointed to the woman in red standing next to him, "This is Akiza Izinski. She has been given the honor of being invited to take part in the Fortune Cup Tournament. I need the three of you to infiltrate the event hall in order to support her. There is a rear entrance, I don't believe that you should have any issues going in so long as you say that you're with us.

"Even though you're going to be a secondary security force for us, none of you yet have the power or discipline to bend a psychic duel to your will. You will have to work together! Consider it a sort of field training exercise.

He then turned back to the woman, "Akiza, make sure to give those other contestants a real taste of your powers!" He had an odd gleam to his smile as he said the word contestants, almost as though he didn't consider them worthy and that he had the utmost contempt for them.

"As you wish, Sir. It will all be as you wish." Akiza replied with complete sincerity, as though she suspected that nothing could possibly stand in her way of doing what Sayer told her to do.

"So shall it be. You three, head over to the tournament. Do not fail me!" the threat conveyed with his order was unmistakable, but I refused to be cowed like my roommates and didn't say a word. Sayer left the three of us in the room, taking Akiza with him.

"Our first mission… The Fortune Cup?" Okita suddenly seemed possessed by anxiety.

"Don't worry about it, with Akiza leading the charge there's no way that we'll be unsuccessful." Liquid smugly replied.

"She's out of the room and out of your league, Liquid." I mentioned. The blush on Liquid's cheeks was as scarlet as Akiza's dress.

"Shut up, Willie. Lets just go." Liquid stammered back as we all left the room laughing.

"What do you mean that you won't accept our credentials?" Okita seethed.

The door guard responded somberly, "You are not entered in the tournament, so we can't let you into the building unless you're with sector security."

I pulled Okita out of the situation as soon as it looked like it would soon escalate into a fight, thinking to myself that the twig wouldn't last long were it to come to blows. Liquid eventually came up with the idea that we could sneak in through a service entrance that had accidentally been left open. It took a bit of finagling around the boxes that had been left in the small garage, but we managed to get into the waiting room eventually.

We got in just in time to see the final duel between Akiza and some unknown with a criminal mark and hair that looked like it consumed way too much gel. She was screaming at him about Sayer, which made no sense, but he responded by saying that she needed to think for herself. Something about the man with the mark reminded me of something, but I couldn't put my finger on it. Whatever it was, I wasn't able to figure it out before Akiza broke down into tears and the man ended the duel with an attack from his dragon. We left the waiting room just as the announcer started yelling into his microphone and making a scene on national television so that we could meet up with Sayer and Akiza.

Just around the corner I could hear Sayer speaking, "You did well, Akiza. Let's go home."

She couldn't quite find the words to speak and Sayer's charming smile said, "Let's go. You need to rest now."

Then he looked at us, "Everyone, the plan is on hold. We're going home." That, of course, was just before a tiny, clown-faced buffoon ordered us to stop where we were.

"Director Goodwin would very much like to speak with you, Ms. Izinski."

"Lazar, you assume that I would even give our esteemed Director the time of day." Sayer spoke for Akiza.

"Feisty then, aren't we? Ah, well," Lazar shrugged. "I guess that I had no other option than to take you by force."

Sayer looked back at us, "Deal with this nonsense. I don't have the time to consider this riff-raff. Akiza needs to get home and rest."

Immediately, Liquid, Okita and I rushed between the opposing parties.

"Get out of our way!" yelled one of the suits.

"Gladly," I replied nonchalantly. "If you duel me first."

"How common. Fine, have it your way." he grunted.

"Have it my way? Very well, I accept the first draw, thank you ever so much." my newfound opponent looked flabbergasted as we both donned and activated our duel disks.

Suit: 4000

Wilhelm: 4000

Wilhelm: Turn 1

I looked carefully at my first six cards, "I'll start by summoning the Mystic Tomato and setting a face-down."

Mystic Tomato: 1400/1100

"Then this will be easy! I draw." the suit responded.

Suit: Turn 2

"I summon Masked Dragon and attack your Mystic Tomato" the suit declared as his dragon snapped its jaws on a part of the tomato before both of them shattered.

Masked Dragon: 1400/1100

"Well done," I conceded. "Neither of us take any damage, both of our monsters are destroyed and we both get to choose new monsters to fight with. I'll choose Genex Controller."

Genex Controller: 1400/1200

"And I'll select Baby Dragon, but I'll put him in defense mode." a small orange dragon with pre-pubescent scales emerged onto the field with a smirk on its face.

Baby Dragon: 700/1200

"Then I'll activate Shifting Shadows before ending my turn." The suit said.

Wilhelm: Turn 3

"So be it then." I replied casually, drawing my next card. "I'll start by summoning Telekinetic Shocker and equipping him with Big Bang Shot, increasing his attack by 400 and allowing him to deal piercing damage."

Telekinetic Shocker: 2100/700

Then I ordered my attack, "Shocker, destroy his puny dragon with a ball of lightning!" An orb of crackling energy formed in the Telekinetic Shocker's hands before he threw it at the baby dragon. The suit's face paled slightly.

Suit: 2600

Wilhelm: 4000

"And now it is my Genex Controller's turn to attack, but not before I activate this." I revealed my face down Skill Successor, temporarily increasing Controller's attack by 400. The controller also formed a small ball of lightning and fired directly at the suit.

Suit: 0800

Wilhelm: 4000

"And now that my battle phase is over, I'll use my monsters to synchro summon Psychic Lifetrancer!" three rings of light surrounded four stars and out of the flash of light emerged the cyborg woman dressed in blue.

Psychic Lifetrancer: 2400/2000

"And just to make matters worse for you, I'll use my Lifetrancer's ability to gain life points by banishing a psychic type monster from my graveyard." I pulled Shocker out of my graveyard at the duel disk's behest and put it in my pocket.

Suit: 0800

Wilhelm: 5200

I stared at my opponent smugly, "I end my turn."

Suit: Turn 4

Possessed with a rage, my opponent furiously drew the next card from his deck. "I set one monster and end my turn." he spat through his teeth.

Wilhelm: Turn 5

"Oh good, now I get to draw again." I drew before looking straight at him. "And you get to lose this duel. I'll summon Genex Turbine to my side of the field, and his effect increases his attack by 400."

Genex Turbine: 1800/1300

"Psychic Lifetrancer, mindfray his face-down." as she was bidded, the cyborg destroyed the facedown card with a pulse of mental energy, revealing a small, cute bug just before it shattered.

"Turbine, blow him away." I commanded. The machine powered up a large blast of energy and fired directly into the suit.

Suit: 0000

Wilhelm: 5200

The man in the suit growled at me. He turned around to face his CO only to find Lazar had departed.

I walked up to him and extended my hand, "You tried. I think you just got a bad hand. If you ever want a rematch-"

He smacked by hand away, "We'll still find her and bring her in to the Director. Just watch."

"My orders were only to stall you. What you do now is of no concern to me." I turned and walked away with Okita and Liquid, both of whom seemed to have a much harder time winning than I did, both of whom were once again raving about my seemingly fantastic skills.

"Shut up, gentlemen. Lets just go home and get some sleep." I said.

A young reporter with odd glasses stopped us before we left, "Hey, you guys are from the Arcadia Movement, right? I'm Carly Camine, journalist extraordinaire! Could I get one of you to give me an interview?"

I laughed, "I'll deal with her, gentlemen, go back home." Okita and Liquid nodded and left, leaving me with the woman. I watched the woman with a smirk as I sat down on the nearby sofa.

"Tell me everything that you know about the Arcadia Movement, though, judging by your silence, you seem like you're going to be a tough nut to crack open." Carly shifted on her feet uncomfortably. I smiled politely and started to take off my duel disk.

"I know!" she said. "If I beat you in a duel, you'll have to promise to answer all of the questions that I want to ask you!" I started to laugh, but I wasn't able to respond before we heard a scream from outside within the stadium proper. We both rushed to see what was the matter.

Carly gasped almost as much as I did when we saw the humongous red dragon in the air. "Who summoned that thing!" she whistled. "I'll have to get an interview."

I was too preoccupied to care about who summoned it, far more terrified of the fact that the dragon was staring directly at me. I heard a voice in my head, even deeper and more guttural than my own say You aren't supposed to be here. I could hear the dragon cry out in front of the screaming crowd as suddenly everybody was able to see the turbo duelists again.

I looked up at the board and could see that Jack Atlas, the former king, had just lost his title to the man with the mark, Yusei Fudo. Once again, I recognized Yusei for some reason, but now I could recognize Jack too. My head started growing fuzzy, so I tuned out the crowds and the announcer as I walked back home, hearing what I thought was Jack's voice and Yusei's voice the whole way, playing over and over in my head.

The Director looked out over the tournament, proud of the success that his experiment had brought about.

Akiza looked up at Sayer from the experiment chamber table, tears streaming down her confused face, "Sayer... "

"Shush, Akiza. You need rest."

"What should I do? Please… Tell me what to do…"

Sayer finally relented, "Look me in the eyes, Akiza… That one known as Yusei speaks nonsense and filthy lies. Life will always be better for you if you only believe what I tell you. Don't think about anything right now. Just rest. You shouldn't fret over difficult matters like this that don't even concern you, that is what I'm here for."

She grunted uncomfortable before saying, "As you wish, Sayer. I trust you."

I woke up, I couldn't even remember falling asleep.

"I guess that you're feeling better now?"

I glanced at Liquid, confused, "Huh?"

"You staggered in here yesterday and fell right into the couch, asleep." he replied. "We were a little bit worried. Your first day shouldn't be that stressful. I pray that you get better at this or your future with Arcadia doesn't look very bright."

"Shut it, Liquid." Okita responded in my defense before he turned to me with a smile. "I'm just pleased that you're feeling alright today. After all, I hear that today you are to begin your training in the art of psychic dueling?"

"Oh, right. Could you point me to where I'm supposed to go? I'll pick up some food on the way." I said, still groggy from having just woken up.

"Sure thing, it is the building just west of us when you leave the main lobby of the building on the ground floor." Okita said, pointing west. "The cafeteria should be down there as well, actually. Let us see each other later, my friend."

"Yeah," Liquid said. "See you later."

"Thanks," I said as I straightened my hair walking out the door.