My apologies for taking a month to get this out. I had midterms which were a killer not to mention the projects that came afterwards. Not to mention that I discovered it's really hard for me to write dialogue heavy scenes especially if it had a ton of characters. But the good news is that I graduate in three and a half weeks (yay!). And time for reviews…

KeybladeSamurai- I'll squeeze in duels when I can.

VongolaHermit- Yes there is going to be a connection between Don Thousand and the Sagiris

Double-DecaKiva-DenBlades- What you want won't happen until much later

KizaruaBoss1- Thanks for all of those PMs. They gave me a lot of ideas for future chapters.

Kaito was massaging his forehead trying to fight off the forming migraine. He had traveled out to these coordinates because he detected Barian activity only to discover Yuma and a few members of his group plus another group of people he didn't know. In the next ten minutes he learn in the mere week that Yuma had been gone he had gotten kidnapped, thrown into a world inside a TV, nearly gotten killed by a twisted version of himself, gain a new power called Persona, and now gotten eight others who also had this ability involved in the Number and Barian mess. And on top of all that at least one of the Barrians now had access to this alternate TV world and its power. Now he had to adjust his plans to accommodate the new players.

"Kaito Tenjo?" He heard some call his name and thankfully is was someone he knew.

"Detective Shirogane, it has been awhile."

"Huh? You two know each other?" Yosuke asked.

"I was hired by the city of Heartland a while back to investigate a major hacking breach. It had knocked most of the major systems. They were restored but the hacker was never caught and I was sent to Inaba shortly afterwards to investigate the killings."

Yuma and Kotori glanced at each other nervously as if they knew something, Kaito was going to ask them about that later.

"So that's how you knew about Duel Monsters." Chie had started to connect the dots.

"I did see part of the World Duel Carnival but I didn't see the finals."

Yuma having recovered from his shock of seeing Kaito asked him a question, "Kaito…how did you find this place?"

Katio sighed, "I've been keeping an eye for any sort of Barian activity ever since Saragasso. I detected a large amount from this location and instead of finding Barians I find you all. But hearing your story," Kaito then motioned to the Investigation Team and Yuma, "I don't think it's safe for you to keep looking for these Legendary Numbers."

Kanji was furious, "What gives you the right to say that kid!?"

"I'm eighteen."

"What?"

"I said that I'm eighteen years old…not a kid."

"Oh well….my apologies…" Kanji then tried to hide behind the group in embarrassment.

Yu then took charge of the situation, "I can sort of understand why you don't think we should be here….but why did you say the same for Yuma?"

"Clearly…" Kaito sent a glare towards Yuma, "he has a tendency to attract trouble and now that he has gotten another force involved that nearly killed him….it might be safer if he remains off the map for awhile."

Yuma was feeling rather hurt right now. He didn't want to be shuffled off again, especially since he got back with Kotori and the others again.

"That's not your call!" Yuma was surprised to hear Yosuke shouting, "We promised Yuma that we would have his back."

"You!" Kaito pointed an accusatory finger at Yosuke, "Have no place being here. This not your fight and you got Yuma involved in something that he had no part in!"

"That's enough Kaito." Astral's calm voice broke the tension. "If it's anyone's fault it's mine. I was the one who brought them."

Kaito was taken aback. Astral was the one who brought them along? He was almost certain it was Yuma who did. "Why?"

Astral paused before answering, "I had a suspicion that the Barrians would discover the power of Personas sooner or later. I didn't want any of us to get caught off guard."

Kaito couldn't argue with that logic. Still…he wasn't going to back down on his stance, "I still think you all should go back home and take Yuma and Astral with you."

"No way! We're sticking around!" Kanji had recovered from his previous embarrassment, "We're just as involved in this as you are!"

"You don't even know how to duel." Shark growled.

"Well I'm learning," Rise seemed to boast, "I even finished my deck this morning." She said as she held up a deck.

"Did you do that during school?" Yukiko wondered.

"Maybe…."

"What deck type did you choose?" Rio was now curious.

"Madolche."

Kotori was surprised, "You built a Madolche deck? I heard that deck is really hard to use."

"Only if you are missing one card from a combo, I liked the idea of building the combos on each other and that you can recycle cards. No need to worry about decking out."

All the duelist present were rather impressed with the knowledge that Rise just expressed. Even Shark and Kaito were nodding in approval.

"I think I still owe you a duel them Rise." Yuma grinned.

"You can do that back Inaba," Kaito repeated his opinion.

"We are not going back until-" Chie started to say.

"Let's head back guys."

The Investigation Team looked to Yu in shock. "Why Sensei? We just got here." Teddie asked.

"Kaito does have a point about this not being our fight to begin with. Not to mention we came very close to getting killed today. We all should head home and be better prepared."

"But what about the other Numbers? We can't just sit around and let the Barians take them." Yosuke pointed.

"If you give me the coordinates and I either go myself or send someone I trust to retrieve them." Kaito said.

"Not to mention I can go get them too." Shark put his two cents in.

Yosuke looked a little dejected, "Fine…."

Yu turned to Kaito, "Is there a way we can keep in contact with you?"

"Certainly…Orbital…make one." Kaito ordered his robot companion.

"O-Of course Kaito-sama." The robot responded and some whirling sounds came from his torso. A bell rang and a compartment opened revealing a D-Gazer similar in design to Yuma's but had a blue lens instead of green. Kaito took it and handed it over to Yu. "This should already have my contact code programmed into it. If anything….and I mean anything….happens call me immediately."

"Of course, and I'll expect the same from you?" Yu asked as he took the device.

"Certinally."

"Come on Yuma…we should head back." Yu called out to the boy.

"Okay…." Yuma responded trying to look cheery but it was clear that he was upset with having to leave his friends again.

"If I bring all of your friends to Inaba tomorrow night will you stop sulking?" Kaito asked.

It worked like a charm, "Sure!"

The trip back to Inaba was rather uneventful. Kanji, Rise, Naoto, and Teddie were impressed with the Different Dimensional Airship and Teddie had to be consistently reminded not to press all of the buttons. They took a quick detour to drop off all of Yuma's friends back in Heartland making sure that Kaito had all of the coordinates he required and for Chie and Yukiko gave phone numbers to Rio and Kotori giggling oddly about something. By the time they arrived back in Inaba, it was close to dinnertime, just in time to head home to avoid any suspicion from their families. Granted if the school didn't call home about Yu and the other's sudden disappearance during class, thankfully that wasn't the case. Before they went home, Yosuke gave Yuma another Conquer's Coin that he had found in the ruins like the one they found in Mach's ruins. And now, Yu and Yuma arrived home just in time to see Nanako putting groceries away.

"Big Bro! Yuma! Welcome back!"

"We're home Nanako, did you go shopping today?" Yu asked his younger cousin.

"Mmm!" She nodded, "I made sure we had plenty knowing how much Yuma eats.

Yuma sheepishly rubbed his head, "I'm sure I don't eat that much."

"Yes you do…you eat more than daddy and big bro combined."

"She's right you know." Yuma gave a small scowl to Astral.

"Big bro, can you help me with homework?" Nanako held up her school bag.

"Sure thing," Yu said as he took a seat at the table noticing that Yuma had just collapsed on the table as well, "You okay?"

"After what happened today….homework is the last thing on my mind."

"How about we all do our homework together, like a study session. I'm sure it will make things easier."

"I'll bring out some snacks!" Nanako beamed.

Yuma lifted his head from the table, "I guess so…snacks make things a lot better."

An hour later Nanako's and Yu's homework was completed and Yu was currently helping Yuma's with his homework with Nanako watching them due to having to keep the TV off since it kept distracting Yuma. This was the moment that Dojima walked in. "Homework session?"

"Welcome home Dad, how was work?" Nanako asked her father.

Dojima plopped down next to his daughter, "Too much as usual….we've all be over worked since the murders earlier this year."

"I know you can solve it Dad, I know you can!" Nanako reassured him.

"Thanks," he gave an affectionate pat on the head to his daughter before turning his attention to Yu and Yuma, "What are you working on?"

"English…" Yuma groaned, "My worst subject."

"Well you're in luck there. That's Yu's best subject."

"You mistranslated that sentence again." Yu pointed to a sentence on the worksheet.

Yuma's forehead met the table, "English was an elective back home…why is it a requirement here?"

"You'll get the hang of it…." Yu patted him on the back before leaning down to whisper, "Is Astral getting the subject?"

Yuma whispered back, "If what he's been reciting for the past ten minutes, then I think so."

Yu chuckled, he really wished he had the glasses on right now. Maybe when they're back in their bedroom he could put them on and converse in English with Astral.

"I don't remember much from my high school days but I could help a bit," Dojima pitched in.

The homework session went on for ten more minutes before Yuma tried to rip the paper in half it was decided it was time to call it a night.

"Welcome to the Velvet Room"

"Hello Igor, Margaret, how are you doing?" Yu politely asked waking up in the ever so familiar Velvet Room.

Margaret gave a gentle smile, "We are doing quite fine, thank you for asking."

Yu looked to his left expecting to find Yuma there, but the seat was empty, "Where's Yuma?"

"His presence is not required for this evening." Igor explained, "Our business is just with you."

Yu raised an eyebrow, "What do you mean?"

"Like I said during our last meeting, Yuma's original journey has caught up to him, and they are now very familiar with you."

"I was worried about that…."Yu leaned back in his seat, "What can I do about it?"

"We…have a little present for you to help." Margaret opened the Compendium with Yu expecting for a Persona card to fly out of it but much to his surprise, Duel Monster Cards floated out instead stacking on the table to form a deck.

Yu was rather confused, "Are these…."

"Something to help you in the future. You may find the concept of deciding issues over a card game ridiculous but it's a skill you're going to need." Igor's grin didn't even flinch a centimeter, "I've taken the liberty of building a deck for you. I am certain that you will like it."

With some hesitance, Yu picked up the deck from the table and began to look through the cards, the very first one standing out to him, Fool of Prophecy. "Is this?"

"That's right," Margaret answered, "This deck is based on the Aracana, just like your social links."

Yu continued to fan through the deck when something odd caught his eye, "Why is this card blank?"

"Ahhh that one…" Igor sounded like he was day dreaming, "That one is a powerful card…but you don't have permission to use it yet. But keep it on you at all times, you'll never know when you'll need to awaken its power. Until then we'll await your return."

"Wait! How-!" Yu fell unconscious before he could even finish his sentence.

Durbe stormed through the palace as fast as he could, as much as he regretted it, he needed to find Vector. He knew that Vector was withholding a ton of information and he wanted answers.

"Durbekins! You're back already?"

Durbe took two seconds to suppress his seething rage before turning to Vector, "I am Vector."

"Awww…what's the matter…didn't get that Number? We need that so bad…." Vector was drawing out his sentences and it was irritating Durbe to the extreme.

"I don't see one in your possession either." Durbe managed to retort.

Vector huffed, "Got me there…now if you would excuse me I have…" he was cut off when Durbe pinned him against the wall, "Durbe! I didn't know that you were…"

"Persona."

"Pardon?"

"Don't coy with me Vector, you know something about this Persona didn't you?" Durbe's aura was already spiking higher than Vector would have liked.

"Fine…you win…" Vector raised his hands in mocked defeat, "Those Persona's come from this world that you can access though a human TV."

"Don't lie…"

"Not lying here! If you want, go to the human world and try to stick your hand through a TV set. Though be careful, that world tends to show your inner self…and it can get rather violent." If Vector currently had a mouth, he would be grinning.

Drube took one long look at Vector before releasing him and heading off. Vector brushed himself off when the all too familiar voice echoed in his head.

He's getting too suspicious Vector, you need to be careful.

He wouldn't be if you allowed me to tell them in the first place!

I could not allow that.

And why?! You're making now sense! I rescue that pesky fly and get him to tell me where the legendary Numbers are, but forbid me from telling anyone else! Then you tell me to absorb number 96 then tell me to let him go?!

Do not question my methods Vector. You will understand in time. Now…it will be best if you go return to the other world. I have a suspicion that Astral will return there soon.

This attracted Vector's attention, I like that idea.

But first before you leave make sure Alit and Gilag are under my control, they need to retrieve Numbers soon. You may tell them of the locations.

Fine….Vector headed off to go do the deed…all of this better be worth it.

So now we know the deck arc types that Yu and Rise use. I went with Maldoche for Rise due to it being heavily strategy and combo based and Prophecy for Yu for rather obvious reason. So glad I didn't have to give him Saiou's deck from GX. As for that blank card…let your imaginations run wild.