Confessions and Betrayals

Yusei went to the chamber Akiza was in. He heard sobs from the other side of the door he stood in front of. Yusei took in a deep breath and exhaled slowly before he knocked on the door.

"Come in…" Akiza said as she sat on a bed, entirely depressed. She looked down when the door opened.

"What am I supposed to do now?" she asked.

"Akiza, it's me." Yusei said sitting next to her. Akiza slowly raised her head and when she saw Yusei's face, she buried her face into Yusei's shoulder, crying in happiness.

"Yusei! You came for me!" she said as Yusei smiled and gently hugged her. "I missed you."

"I missed you too Akiza." Yusei said. Akiza looked up at Yusei and smiled.

"I was so scared…" Akiza said, hugging Yusei, tears still streaming down her face.

"I'm here now. You aren't alone anymore." Yusei said, wiping Akiza's tears from her eyes.

Akiza blushed slightly and smiled. "Umm… Yusei, I have something to say to you…" she said.

"What is it?" Yusei asked, a little curious.

"I know how much you did to rescue me from the Black Rose personality and to show that there were people that actually cared for me other than Sayer." Akiza said. "I am really grateful for all you did…"

"really, well, you're welcome." Yusei said, smiling a bit.

"That's not what I meant, I also had fallen …" Akiza started before she blushed deeply.

Yusei blinked for a moment. "Fallen in what?" he asked.

Akiza giggled and kissed him on the cheek. "Fallen in love, silly." she said.

Yusei blushed slightly in embarrassment as he smiled.

"I see." he said.

"Do you feel that way about me?" Akiza asked.

"Maybe." Yusei said, teasing Akiza.

"Ahh…. You're mean…" Akiza said, pouting a little.

"I do care for you that's all I will say for now." Yusei said.

"Never give someone a straight answer when it comes to romance…" Akiza said, smiling.

Yusei laughed. " got that right." he said.

Akiza grabbed his arm.

"Please at least stay with me for a while." she said, closing her eyes as she rested her head on Yusei's shoulder.

"As you wish princess." Yusei said, joking a little as he gently laid his head on top of Akiza's.

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"So, Phantom wants us to find a Signer here in this little town?" Sayer said to Hiita and Inferno Wing.

"Correct," Hiita said to Sayer. " Phantom may have you be in charge of this mission, but I am not working FOR you."

Sayer glared at the Fire Charmer and turned to Inferno Wing.

"So, what's the worst threat we could face here?" he asked the Evil Hero.

" The Dark Magician Girl, Mana and Elemental Hero Bubbleman are the main threats." Inferno Wing answered.

"Wonder who it is. We already got Akiza and Yusei." Hiita said.

"Who cares, let's get going." Sayer said, getting his duel disk prepared.

"Alright Psycho." Hiita said, mocking Sayer.

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Axora sighed as he looked at the moonlit sky. He was getting tired of what he was doing. He glanced at the sleeping Synchro monsters and grumbled.

He couldn't work like this anymore. He then grinned when a thought came to mind.

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"AKARI!" Mana screamed as Inferno Wing grabbed the Harpie by her throat and choked her untill she became limp. The Evil Hero then tossed Akari to the side, towards a Fire

Bubbleman was trying to evacuate the citizens from the town when he saw Inferno Wing throwing Akari to the fire. He leaped and caught the unconscious Harpie but was flung back, unaware of how much force was used to throw her. The Elemental Hero covered Akari's head and held her close as he crashed through several brick walls back first before stopping in a tree. He coughed up blood before passing out.

Sayer was laughing maniacally before he placed three Hinotama spell cards into his duel disk and the three fireballs struck numerous buildings, setting them ablaze. He was doing the damage to try to lure out any opposition.

Leo and Luna were hiding in a hidden chamber in the basement in Mana's house, both terrified. An explosion was heard before Hiita entered the chamber. "Well, well, human twins. One of them has to be the signer." she said, grinning.

Inferno Wing flew to the ground and dashed to Mana after she landed. The Evil Hero slashed at Mana repeatedly with the claw like blades she had on her gauntlets. Mana winced in pain before she fell to the ground face first.

"INFERNO WING!!!!!" Bubbleman said as he emerged, changing into Neo Bubbleman while he lunged at the Evil Hero. "BRING BACK MY COMRADES!" Neo roared, punching the Evil Hero in the face, sending her flying. The Elemental Hero was panting heavily, with shards of glass embedded into his back when he crashed through the walls. Inferno Wing flapped her wings and regained her balance.

"How DARE you touch me!" Inferno Wing said, lunging at Neo Bubbleman.

" I will bring you back to your senses, even if it kills me!" the Elemental Hero said, lunging at the Evil Hero as well.

"LET ME GO!" Leo demanded as Hiita dragged him behind her while carrying Luna over her shoulder. The Fire Charmer went to Sayer and grinned.

"Found the Signer, but looks like we got an extra." she said.

"I remember those two, one has the ability to speak to Duel Spirits in the Human World." Sayer said. "The other is just garbage."

Hiita grinned before she set the twins down.

"You two, listen to me closely, run South of here, don't stop until you see a black Duel Runner, I want you to take it and use it to get out of here, It is already set on auto pilot with a destination already set." Hiita said. "now, SCRAM!!!"

Luna and Leo ran in the direction Hiita told them to go. Sayer growled.

"HOW DARE YOU!" Sayer barked at the Fire Charmer. "I THOUGHT YOU WERE ON OUR SIDE!"

"I never side with anyone who plans on betraying Phantom." Hiita replied, smiling.

The Psychic Duelist set down three Ookazi Spell Cards, causing three explosions to happen, engulfing Hiita. "That's what you get for betraying me!" Sayer said, laughing. After the smoke cleared, there was only a charred coat and staff remaining from where Hiita stood.

Inferno Wing and Neo Bubbleman exchanged punches to the head, while Inferno Wing's punch had the blades involved, therefore causing more damage than Neo was doing with his to the Evil Hero. Neo backed off, his face bleeding profusely. He then called out his weapon, the Bubble Blaster. Which he then ran in with it as a shield. Inferno Wing lunged at the Elemental Hero again, but her blow was blocked by the Blaster and then Neo gave the Evil Hero an uppercut, then his hand glowed.

"De-Fusion…" he muttered as the Evil Hero began to glow violet and separated into the Elemental Heroes Avian and Burstinatrix. The two dazed Heroes collapsed to the ground. Too weak to stand up.

Neo Bubbleman reverted back to his normal half. "hey, glad to see you two lovebirds again…" Bubbleman said weakly as the other two Elemental Heroes got to their feet.

"Bubbleman… I'm so sorry for what we did…" Avian apologized but was giving a punch to the fist.

"You're an Elemental Hero, not a wimp…" Bubbleman said, grinning. "You're already forgiven, both of you." Bubbleman raised a fist and the other two gently punched his fist.

"Boy,… that surely… took a lot … out of me…" Bubbleman said weakly before collapsing to the ground, not moving afterwards.

"No… Bubbleman…" Burstinatrix cried, shaking the Elemental Hero of Water, trying to get a reply.

"You… You can't do this to us you idiot…" Avian said, joining Burstinatrix's side. Bubbleman remained silent and still. Burstinatrix turned to bury her face into Avian's chest. Avian hugged her as she began to cry. "Thank you , dear friend… and goodbye…" he whispered as tears began to roll down from under his mask.

"Oh boo-hoo. He was weak. Things are better off without him…" Sayer said as he came into view.

"YOU!" Avian said, snarling as he looked at Sayer in hatred.

"He gave his life to save us, and you call him weak!?" Burstinatrix said, rising to her feet.

"The weak are useless, and only the strong have a purpose." Sayer explained before he drew a card.

"Seems like you have no understanding to what I mean."

"You have no heart. Worse than even the Phantom itself." Avian said as he expanded his wings.

"I'll play this card, Lightning Vortex." Sayer said, placing the declared card into the spell and trap card slot in his duel disk. Bolts of Lightning began to struck down onto the ground. Avian grabbed Burstinatrix and took to the sky. He dodged the lightning bolts and flew out of sight.

Sayer sighed. " How am I going to explain that I incinerated one of its best generals as well as how he lost another. On top of failing to get the brats for Phantom…" he said to himself as he walked away from the now destroyed town.

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Mana awoke a few hours later, groaning in pain as she sat upright. She remembered being attacked by Inferno Wing. She then struggled to get to her feet. She then saw the town in ruins now and she then saw the corpse of her close friend, Bubbleman. She collapsed to her knees and crawled to the body, crying now. She gritted her teeth as her tears streamed down now as she grabbed the now cold hand of the fallen Hero. "Why… Why??" she sobbed.

Akari stumbled into view, badly injured and was barely able to even limp over to Mana when she saw her.

"Mana, is that really…?" the Harpie asked as she saw the body. Mana nodded silently before the two sat beside their friend and began to weep.

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"ROSE! ROSE!" Junk spoke to an unconscious Rose before he turned his attention to the gang.

"WHAT HAS HE DONE TO HER?!" he demanded now, wanting Axora more than anything.

"I don't know, but it seems like she's infected…" Road said, looking at the tuner. "and it had to be a triple case of the Dark Snake Syndrome, Level Retuner, and the Ekabiyo Drakmord virus."

"Rose…" Junk said, taking Rose into his arms.

"Bro, stay away from her, you'll get what she has!" Turbo Warrior said.

"I don't care what happens to me, I want Rose to get healed." Junk Warrior said.

"I have an idea, but it won't likely work." Road Warrior said.

"What will that be? Make her a Synchro?" Nitro warrior suggested, joking a bit.

Junk and Road stared at their brother.

"Nitro, That's perhaps your greatest idea that ever came to your head." Junk said.

"You're right, Rose IS a tuner, so she can become a Synchro monster, but two problems, one she prefers to be her true self, and two there's no one here that will Synchro with her." Turbo said.

"Wrong there Brother." Junk Warrior said as Red Synchro Gates appeared and returned him to becoming Junk Synchron and the Ancient Gear. " This thing will be what she'll tune to." Junk said, dragging the Ancient Gear to Rose.

"Rose, I know you can hear me, I need you to do something you'd refuse to do in the past, and that is to Tune. I already got you the Non-tuner you need. So please Rose, become a Synchro, for me…" Junk said to Rose before he "kissed" her on the lips. Rose didn't respond but became some Synchro gates and tuned to the Ancient Gear. After the Tuning was complete, In place of Rose was a Magical Android.

"My aching head…" she said, her voice still the same as Rose's

"Rose, is that you?" Junk asked.

"Of course it's me silly." Rose replied, blinking in confusion. Junk Synchron then hugged her.

"What happened.?" he asked after he let go.

"I remember Axora asking me out to talk about something, once I showed up where we were to meet, I was knocked out…" Rose explained before she reverted back to her tuner self, good as new.

Junk Synchron Tuned back into Junk Warrior and held Rose. "That bastard was responsible for what happened to you, he betrayed us…" he said. "and almost killed you… and I began to trust him earlier…"

Rose stared at Junk Warrior, then nodded. 'I never trusted that bastard in the first place…" she said, nodding in agreement.

"As long as you're okay Rose… I'm okay…" Junk said.

"Ahh just stop with the mushy crap." Nitro said, getting annoyed by Junk and Rose.

"And you just shut up." Turbo Warrior said, whacking his brother against the side of the head.

"Sorry."` Nitro said.

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"Avian… what do we do now?" Burstinatrix said to her boyfriend.

"I don't know Burst…" Avian said as he landed down on the ground.

"I hope Akari and Mana are okay…" Burst said, worried about her friends.

"I know that they're alive." Avian said. "Especially Akari, I saw her get to their feet when we fled the town.

"We need to head back to be with them." Burstinatrix cried.

"Okay." Avian said.

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Sayer entered the Phantom's chamber alone.

"I see things messed up badly." Phantom said, it was in the Dark Hunter form again.

"It had. Really bad." Sayer said, bowing down.

" What have you done with Hiita?" Phantom asked.

"I disposed of the traitor. She released the Signer and the Signer's twin and told them to run away." Sayer explained. "She was never really on our side."

"I see my friend." Phantom said nodding.

"As you saw, the Elemental Hero managed to defused Inferno Wing back into the Elemental Heroes that formed her." Sayer reported. " but the one responsible is now dead."

"Good, at least the one responsible for Inferno Wing's premature demise is taken care of." Phantom said before it began to laugh.

"But the Signer…" Sayer said.

"I already got her dragon, so no need for her, besides she's just a child." Phantom explained.

"Of course." Sayer replied.

"Now, take some rest, my dear friend." Phantom said, dismissing Sayer.

"Very Well." Sayer said, leaving the chamber.

Once he left the chamber, he smirked.

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Leo and Luna were hanging onto the handles on Hiita's Duel runner as they rode off.

Like Hiita said, the Runner was on Auto Pilot and the twins weren't doing anything. Luna was wearing the helmet

The twins then saw that the runner was slowing down now and they were in a town.

The runner pulled up into a burnt down house and stopped.

Leo got off the runner and looked around.

"Luna! Come here!" Leo said, waving to his sister. Luna got off the runner now and went to Leo.

There was an envelope there. Luna picked it up and opened it. There was a letter enclosed . Luna began to read it out loud so Leo would know what was on it.

"Leo and Luna,

I know that I have been doing things that are wrong, I also placed you to into grave danger. I am sincerely sorry about what happened to your friends. I didn't want it to go that far. The place that my runner has taken you too was a place I lived in when I was four years old. Junk Synchron was living in here before you met him. The building was once an orphanage. The place was run by a single person that every one of the orphans called Miss Joan. She opened the Orphanage for originally orphaned Tuner monsters, but she took in four girls that were not tuners, Aussa, Wynn, Eria, and Me, Hiita.

Miss Joan wanted to show to others that tuners were not bad ,but were not really that much different than the non-tuners. Many were completely against Miss Joan's motives, and one evening, a black fog came into the building. I was there on that night when the fog came. Miss Joan sent me up to my room, fearing for my safety. Then, I heard a scream once I entered. The scream was so loud that it woke everyone that lived in it. We were so scared that we didn't dare to even leave our rooms until it was dawn. Once the sunlight broke into the room, Junk Synchron was the first to go downstairs. He then screamed at what happened to Miss Joan. When I came down, the sight alone has been enough to immortalize the sorrow and terror I felt that day. The sight of Miss Joan's remains, only that of a blood drenched skeleton… We knew it was her since there was a ring the Miss Joan always worn. The skeleton was wearing the exact ring . After her death, Everyone but Junk left the orphanage, unable to bear to stay where the one person that raised us died in. I never saw him for over a decade after I left. Ever since I left I have been searching for who or what was responsible for Miss Joan's death, and over the past decade, I learned that it was the Phantom's doing. If you can think about it, you can understand my reasons now for being with the Phantom. If you ever come across Junk or any of your friends. Tell them that I'm sorry.

Hiita"

Luna and Leo were silent after that, taking in what they just heard.

Man, really have to say, the decision of killing Bubbleman off was a really painful, since he was the main character for comic relief. I know that Akiza's confession seemed a little out of place in this chapter, but it was a "Do it now or never" situation. Besides, I wanted to do things that really would give this series the feel 5D's has other than the dueling. I originally thought about killing off Rose, but then I realized that people would complain about it, so I decided to make it a close call instead. Letting you guys guess if Hiita is alive or dead, for the time being.