Log lies in his hospital bed, staring at the ceiling. He can feel the sense of the blame coming back to for all of this chaos. Kaiba has money and lawyers if he wants to battle him. Though it was all for fun, there is the chance that he has unleashed something major...

The room door creaks open, he looks. A tall woman walks into the room.

"You a nurse?" Log asks.

"My name is Ishizu."

"... And?"

"Though this is tough to explain, but require something from you."

"Like what?"

She looks at his jacket, which hangs on a hook on the wall. Log is confused.

"I need the cards you created. The physical ones..."

Frieza touches down on a rooftop. Looking around, he finds a metal hatch. He grabs onto it and lifts up, a lock on the other side keeps it down. Frieza tries harder, but the force seems to rather quake the roof itself than lift the hatch.

There is a noise from behind him. He turns around, and sees a familiar face. "Cooler... When did you come to exist?" said Frieza, with a sign of frustration.

"The Mighty Lord Frieza doesn't want help from his own family now? Unless you want to have father come into this."

"I thought Cell would be coming."

"Cell is enjoying himself at KaibaCorp..." Cooler then tosses the Duel Disk, less one holo-generator, "But this is what you needed, correct?"

Frieza catches it with one hand, and examines it over. "I'll transfer myself over to it now."

There is the sound of nearby feet running on pavement. And a familiar voice, "Wait up, Yugi!"

"Yugi?" echoes Frieza.

Cooler walks towards the edge of the rooftop to look down. They are on top of a large mall. The parking lot is empty for the night, except for two teenagers running across it. "You know these two?"

"I've seen them once, right when I came online. But if this is the same Yugi Moto as earlier... he might be trouble."

"How is he linked to Seto Kaiba?"

"Rival. Kaiba has the obsession of beating him. Keep him and his friend... entertained... I'll be down shortly."

Cooler pulls out the data disk from inside his holo-generated body. "Here," he said as he tosses it to his brother, "Cell said it was an upgrade for you. Anyway, I'll keep these two occupied..."

Yami runs over to the main doors of the mall, each one being locked. Joey catches up to him, breathing heavily.

"I saw it lower around here," says Yami. "I bet it's inside."

"So we call the police now?"

"I doubt the police will be able to do much against it."

"What? And we can?"

"They were spawned from the Duel Monsters game. Therefore, I believe we have a better chance at beating them." He re-tugs on the last door again, "But it appears that we are stopped here."

Joey walks up to the same door that Yami just tried. "Almost. The mall may have security that's always watching this place after dark. So..." He presses his fingers between the crack in the door, triggering a sensor. The door swings open, "Huh. I thought a buzzer would go off too."

Yami chuckles once with a smile, then steps inside. "Where's the security then."

Joey points at a camera, "See? They're watching us now. Be ready to start explaining."

"I'm getting a bad sense from in here..." said Yami as he continues on.

"Uh... maybe it's just the floor cleaner smell..."

A lone camera stares at the doors... It's off...

Seto inserts his deck into his duel disk, but the room's emitters are going to be used to animate the next duel. Cell stands with his arms crossed and a taunting grin on his face.

"Ready now? I think your brother's wanting out," Cell taunts/

"I'm ready. If I win, you release Mokuba and hand your program over to me."

"Heh heh. Sounds reasonable. But when I win, I want... every access key and access point to all KaibaCorp files. From its beginning to what your secretary wants for lunch next week."

"I won't lose." Kaiba just remembered something, "And I don't want your fake cards in this."

"What? No challenge for you?" taunts Cell. Kaiba doesn't react. "Fine, done." His arm-attached duel disk shimmers for a second.

"Now, let's duel!" yells Kaiba. He draws his hand, as does Cell, and draws his first card. "I set one card face down and set one monster face down in defense mode. Your turn."

Cell draws. "I'll place two card face-down and also set a monster face-down. Back to you."

Makuba watches the duel with worry. He cheers for his brother, but it muted by the observation room.

Kaiba draws, "I summon Kaiser Seahorse in Attack mode, and I activate the Spell Card 'Stop Defense'." Cell's defending monster is flipped summoned, Giant Soldier of Stone. Kaiba smirks, "Now, I'll attack your monster! Go, Kaiser!" Kaiser Seahorse charges in and destroys the Giant Soldier.

"You activated my trap, Bad Reaction to Simochi. Don't underestimate me, Kaiba," taunts Cell 3600.

"Whatever," says Kaiba back as he rearranges his cards. "I end my turn."

Cell chuckles, "I've affected you somewhat." He draws, "First, I'll use Rain of Mercy. But while my Life Points go up, yours go down. Now, I'll set one monster face-down in defense mode. That'll be it."

Kaiba 3000 draws, "I now use Kaiser Seahorse's effect. By sacrificing it, I can use it as two tributes. With that, I summon to the field the mighty Blue-Eyes White Dragon!" The giant dragon roars as it materializes onto the field.

Cell doesn't really react to the strong monster's presence.

"Now, I'll equip it with Fairy Meteor Crush. And I send it to attack your face-down monster." The Blue-Eyes charges in.

The monster card is destroyed, the hidden Man-Eater Bug growls as it dies. Kaiba growls loudly.

"Don't worry, Kaiba, I'll be gentle. I won't destroy your Blue-Eyes just yet." Cell chuckles, "Oh, no... I'll destroy your other one, the face-down one, with Man-Eater's effect!"

The hidden monster, Sanji, is destroyed.

"Hm... so my suspicions were correct, you were attempting something. I know your tactics, Seto Kaiba. You have a Crush Card buried somewhere on your side of the field."

"You think you can read me like a book, huh? Let's see what you can really do then!"

"Does that mean that you end your turn?"

Kaiba glimpses at his hand and back, "Yes."

"Good." Cell 2200 draws. "First, I set one card face-down on the field and activate the Spell Card, Dian Keto the Cure Master. Another 1000 point boost for me. Then, I summon Gearfried the Iron Knight in attack mode! Now, I activate another Spell Card. Snatch Steal!"

"What! Grrr... That's why you spared my Blue-Eyes..."

"Indeed, so now it's mine!" The Blue-Eyes moves to the other side of the field. "Now you have no monsters to stop my attack... Blue-Eyes will now end this. Go!" The Blue-Eyes powers up and fires a White Lightning attack.

Kaiba smiles, "You need to upgrade that A.I. of yours. Reveal trap, Magic Cylinder!"

Cell goes wide-eyed.

Two large magician's cups appear, the attack goes into one. "So now, your attack is set right back at YOU!" The other cup unleashes the attack right back.

The attack hits Cell entirely and his life points drop by an astonishing 3000.

"Down to only 200 Life Points already," taunts Kaiba. "My my, how strong your skills are to me."

"You taunt now, but it is still my turn. Gearfried, attack him now!" Gearfried charges in and slashes Kaiba, doing a smaller 1800 points of Life Point damage.

Kaiba 1200 stands right back up quickly, confident.

"And now, my turn ends. And with that, you gain... or rather, lose 1000 Life Points because of Snatch Steal. Down to 200 already as well, Kaiba."

"It may seem like anyone's game now... but in a moment, that'll be different." Kaiba draws...

A motorcycle drives up to a set of traffic lights, two riders sit on it but only the driver has a helmet.

"Stop here," says Ishizu, the passenger. The motorcycle stops at the red light, Ishizu dismounts.

"Where are you going?" asks Marik as he lifts his helmet visor.

"I need to see the pharaoh immediately."

"Then why are we stopping here?"

"I'm stopping here. You need to get to KaibaCorp as fast as you can."

"But why?"

Ishizu hands him something. Marik looks at two unfamiliar cards.

"Get one to Seto immediately."

"And the other?"

"That's yours when the time comes..." Ishizu takes off.

"Sister!"

"Don't worry about me right now! Go!" she yells back.

Marik lowers his visor and takes off towards KaibaCorp...

A figure walks down the nearby sidewalk where the two siblings separated. "I... know those two from somewhere," says Bakura.

A ghostly image of Yami Bakura appears behind him, "Follow her..."

Yami and Joey continue heading through the mall. While Yami is trying to sense any sight or sound unordinary to this place, Joey seems to be doing a bit of window shopping.

"We've been in here for over ten minutes," says Yami, "and we haven't met any security yet."

"Maybe they're asleep."

"That's not very productive of them."

Joey shrugs.

Yami notices a marked door, 'SECURITY' it read. He heads over to it.

"Uh... Yugi?" says a confused Joey.

Yami pulled on the door handle, but it doesn't budge at all. "It's locked."

"Yeah, so?"

"Why would it be locked now?"

Joey shrugs again. "You ask too many questions. Honestly, if they seem absent, we won't get in trouble."

"Trouble?" says a voice from behind. Both teens turn to look. "Trouble is what you already stepped into," says a humanoid figure.

"Looks like we've found our Freezer thing," says Joey.

"... First, his name is Lord Frieza. Second, I am his brother. I am Cooler."

"But just as freaky..." mutters Joey.

"What do you want?" questions Yami.

Cooler's tail moves around behind him, "I'm just buying my brother time. Once he returns--."

"The fun will start up again," continues a familiar voice from the other side. Yami and Joey look back. Frieza, his body now in its Final Form, levitates a few inches above the floor with something in his hand, "Thanks for this, Yugi." Frieza tosses the near-dead holo-generator at Yami. When it gets near him, the device activates and returns to Yami's duel disk. Frieza crosses his arms, "Sorry for the wait. What did I miss?"

"Nothing yet." replies Cooler.

Joey looks back and forth nervously.

"Again, what do you want? Both of you?" questions Yami again.

"Maybe you should ask Kaiba about it," says Frieza.

"Nah, he probably is overlooking it," says Cooler. "It's been so long and has likely become so insignificant for him and his company."

"What? What is it!" yells Yami.

Cooler and Frieza laugh.

"So... now, you have your fun, you've scared us, you've taunted us, you've given us riddles... We can go now, right?" asks Joey.

"No."

"What use are we to you?" asks Yami.

"We could always duel you..." smiles Frieza.

"Wait, wait. This is something I don't get," says Joey. "You are programs bent on destroying something of Kaiba's, have access to all of your programs and stuff, can make yourself solid... Why duel?"

"We have our reasons," replies Cooler. "Or would you hinting on a more direct option?" Both brothers tauntingly move in a bit closer.

"We'll find out later," says Yami to Joey. "But right now, we shouldn't egg them on to do anything."

"So what? We actually battle them?"

"Duel Monsters is what we're best skilled at, Joey. Why they prefer it that way, we'll find out later."

"Alright. I'm with you, Yugi."

Yami looks back at Frieza, "Alright. We'll duel you."

Both brothers smile, then move towards one side to stand together.

"Good..." says Frieza.

"Then it will be a Team Duel. All cards allowed. Single Elimination."

"Agreed," replies Yami.

"Eh? Yugi, you sure we'll be ready against their surprises?"

"I do..."

-Afterall,- said Yugi's consciousness, -We have three surprises of our own that they likely know very little about.-

Kaiba studies his hand after drawing a card.

"Sweating buckets, Seto?" taunts Cell, with the Blue-Eyes standing almost in front of him.

"Hardly, I'm going to end this all right now."

"Oh? How so?"

"Easy. First, I use Pot of Greed to draw two more cards. Then, I activate a Spell Card, Final Destruction!"

Cell raises an eyebrow.

"By discarding five of the cards in my hand, I can destroy every card on the field!" A great flash engulfs the field, eliminating all monsters, spells, and traps.

"You're down to one card. What do you plan to do, poke me over the edge?"

"Rather, I'm going to throw you into the recycling bin, virus... Because my last card is this... Dragon's Mirror!" A large circular mirror appears on the field.

"WHAT!"

"With the Blue-Eyes that was on the field, and the two I discarded due to Final Destruction, I can send all three out of play to Special Summon my BLUE-EYES ULTIMATE DRAGON!" The mirror shatters as the gigantic beast comes through it and lands on the field.

Mokuba cheers from the observation booth above, but is muted by it.

Cell growls in anger, "You little..."

"It's over. Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, attack directly! Delete this spam file!" Kaiba grins as the Blue-Eyes charges in and fires a large White Lightning blast from its mouths, the attack blinds everyone.

But there isn't any explosion from the attack. The light fades and Kaiba is shocked to not see his dragon on the field.

"What!"

Cell breathes heavily on the other side of the field (an animated trait function). He grins slightly, "Tough break."

"What did you do!"

"I used a Quick-Play Spell card. Don't worry, your dragon isn't gone." Cell points to a lone face-down card on Kaiba's side of the field, "I used Book of Moon to get it to sleep."

"You've saved yourself this turn. But you still have to overcome my dragon's 3000 defense points."

"You have no hand though. Your dragon is all you have right now."

"I end my turn."

Cell draws and studies his hand. "I guess I have no choice... I activate the Spell Card 'Tremendous Fire' and deal 1000 points of damage to you and 500 to me."

The area dims down and all cards are removed from the field. The word 'DRAW' appears in the air between them.

"You've forced a draw. You're pathetic," said Kaiba. "And because you have done so, you should release Mokuba immediately."

Mokuba continues to stare down, not knowing what is going on.

"Hm... How about a tie breaker?" smiled Cell.

"You're wasting my time! Release Mokuba now!"

"Cool it, Seto, I'm controlling the show here. I propose a quick and simple tie-breaker."

Kaiba growls, "If you are suggesting paper-rock-scissors or odds-n-evens,--."

Cell laughs, "No, I'm not, but it is also a game of luck over strategy. But you are going to need your deck for it."

"Why? What are you trying to pull?"

Cell chuckled again, "It's one of the new program modes. Simple game, one winner. We're going to play Combat Mode..."

To Be Continued...