Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh

*Domino Hospital*

A group of doctors surrounded an unconscious body. At the head, wires were hooked up from a computer. After about half an hour, the data from the computer fully uploaded.

"Excellent," one of the doctors said, "now, let's wake him up."

The doctor removed the wires from the head, and stepped back steadily. The boy's eyes opened slowly.

"It worked!" the doctor exclaimed, "Noah, how are you feeling?"

Noah sat up off the table, and examined his arms and legs in awe.

"I can't believe it!" he squealed, "finally, a body of my own!"

Noah looked up and saw his reflection in the mirror. Sitting on the table, was the body of Mokuba Kaiba. Noah screamed for five minutes straight. The doctors back away.

"Sir, what's wrong!?" they asked.

Noah screamed, "You were supposed to give me the body of an orphan!"

"We did," the doctor replied.

"BUT THIS IS MOKUBA KAIBA'S BODY!"

"Well," the doctor said, rubbing the back of his neck, "You didn't really specify which orphan we should use."

"Wait, what did you do with his mind!?" Noah yelled.

"Um, I saved it on a disk," he replied.

"PUT IT BACK!" Noah yelled.

"Alright, let me find it," he said as he began looking around. Another man entered the room with a bag of video games.

"I returned that Mortal Combat game," he said, "now we can play Tekken and Resident Evil."

The doctor's eyes widened, "Oh no. I saved that boy's mind on that game!"

"YOU SAVED HIS MIND ON A MORTAL COMBAT DISK!?" Noah yelled.

The men flinched, "um, don't worry. We'll just go back and get it. No problem at all."

"Alright," Noah said, "but I'm going with you!"

*In the Shadow Realm*

Shadi and Yugi walked along a dark, gloomy gravesite. Strangely, it was immensely crowded with tons of people standing around talking.

"What's going on?" Yugi asked Shadi, "why are all these people here?"

"Bakura happened," Pegasus said bitterly, as he crossed his arms.

"He sent all of you to the Shadow Realm!?" Shadi asked in panic.

"Actually," a group of officers spoke up, "Marik sent us here when we tried arresting his pedophile sister. But with everyone else, Bakura did it."

"YUUGI!" cried a familiar male voice.

Yugi gasped as he saw his Grandpa sitting at the other end of the graveyard.

"GRANDPA!?" Yugi exclaimed, "how did you get here!?"

"I tried picking you up so we could celebrate your birthday," Solomon replied, "and when I got to the office, Bakura sent everybody to the Shadow Realm!"

"Today's your birthday?" Shadi asked. Yugi nodded. "I am so sorry. Here, let me try to send some of these people back."

Shadi's Key lit up. Several people, including Pegasus, Weevil, and Rex, vanished. Solomon and Yugi frowned.

"Sorry," Shadi apologized, "but my powers are limited. I can only send back those who have been banished very recently. Once the items are returned to their proper owners, I should have full access again."

*Geography*

The class sat around talking and playing their Gameboys as Bandit Keith and Tea continued to talk about America.

"It's a great country," Keith said as he poured her a cup of coffee, "you should go to Yale, it's great."

"You went to Yale?" Tea asked.

"I sure did," he replied, "those were the best two hours of my life!"

"Grr, how much longer do we gotta listen to dis loser!?" Joey yelled.

Tea and Keith glared at Joey.

"You're just jealous because you're unpatriotic!" Keith yelled, "unlike Tea here. She is a true American!"
Bandit Keith bent over and opened his cupboard. He pulled out two Budweisers.

"Here you go Tea," he said with a smile, "drink up!"

"Um, I don't drink," Tea said.

Bandit Keith gasped and looked at her in disgust. He stood up and backed away from her.

"What!? You don't drink beer!? That is the most un-American thing I have EVER heard! You're worse than Hitler!"

Bandit Keith threw the beer bottle at her. Tea screeched and ducked down.

"GET OUT OF MY CLASS!" he yelled.

Tea ran out of the room screaming and waving her arms. Everyone stopped talking and stared at their teacher.

"Um, I'll take one," Joey said.

"Not a chance!" Keith snarled. Joey frowned, grabbed his bag, and left the room.

*Video Game Shop*

Noah and the two doctors stood in line at the front counter. After about five minutes, it was finally their turn.

"Hi," Noah said, "we'd like to rent out Mortal Combat please."

"Oh, I'm sorry," the man apologized, "but someone already rented it out. They're using it for a tournament."

Noah's eyes, as well as the other mens', grew large.
"T-tournament?" Noah asked.

"That's right," the guy replied, "Loads of people are going to gather up at the Domino arcade to win the Mortal Combat championship."

Noah began to turn pale as he almost fell over. One of the doctors quickly caught him and helped him back up.

"Don't worry," he assured, "we'll just enter that tournament. If Mokuba wins, he'll be safe."

"If not?" Noah asked with a frown.

"Um…if not, his mind will be…um, erased," the doctor responded with a flinch.

Noah began to scream loudly.

*Downtown Domino*

Duke drove around slowly in a suburban ghetto neighborhood. He'd seemed to have lost the cops.

"That was too close," Miho sighed in relief, "I don't know how much more Seto Junior can take."

"Will you forget the damn doll!?" Duke yelled, "in case you've forgotten, the entire Domino police squad is after us! The last thing we should worry about is some plastic heap of junk!"

Miho's eyes began to water up as her doll began to cry. Serenity and Duke stared at the doll in disbelief. Miho looked at her doll as rocked it gently. She then pulled out a stuffed Blue-Eyes from her book bag and dangled it in front of the doll. The doll cooed and stopped crying.

"Wow," Serenity said as she stared in awe, "what an intuitive doll."

*Back in the Shadow Realm*

Yugi, Shadi, and Solomon wandered around looking for the principal. The place was so crowded and dark, it was hard to distinguish anyone.

"This is crazy," Yugi said, "we'll be lucky to find anyone else we recognize."

All of a sudden, a wormhole appeared out of nowhere. They heard screams come through as lightning struck everywhere. After mere seconds, Odion came flying out and landed on the ground.

"ODION!?" Yugi exclaimed.

The three rushed over to help him up. Odion popped his spine and brushed dirt off from him.

"What are you doing here?" Shadi asked.

"Well, I was assigned janitor duty for the science wing," he replied, "I went into the Health room and saw master Marik and Bakura fighting. I tried to break them up when they started using the Millennium Rod on each other. I shouldn't have gotten involved."

"So do you know who has the Rod?" Shadi asked.

"Well, Marik had it when I got sent to here. He freaked out when he accidentally hit me, so there's no telling who has it now."

"This is just terrible," Yugi said, "Shadi, is there any way I can contact my friends from here?"

"You can try my Key," Shadi offered, "you can't bring them here, but you should be able to telecommunicate with them."

*Health*

"You idiot!" the thief Bakura growled at Marik, who was on the verge of tears, "you should've been paying attention!"

Marik threw his Rod across the room and lunged at Thief, shaking him violently.

"Wait a minute," Marik asked, as he loosened his grip, "I thought the Shadow Realm was full. How did Odion get banished?"

"Hmph, somebody must have released some souls," the Thief replied with a grin, "which means, there's room for you now!"

Marik's expression dropped as he reached desperately for the Rod across the room. Tristan stood up from behind the table and watched everything. The thief knocked Marik over and jumped over towards the Rod. Tristan jumped out from behind the table and grabbed it. Marik and the thief gasped loudly as Tristan held it up.

"Put that down you foolish mortal!" the thief barked, "you don't even know how it works!"

"No," Tristan said with a grin, "but I'm gonna find out."

Tristan held up the Rod and pointed it directly at the thief.

A/N: There you go, Tristan finally gets in on some real action. Normally I prefer to have Marik and the Thief be best friends, but this storyline works better with them fighting (plus, they would probably fight over the items anyway). Tell me what you think.