Chapter 3

The 5th signer

Jax caught up with Yusei roughly 15 minutes after his duel with Calvin and the two duelists made for the area of the Tops where Jack resided. They pulled up next to the giant mahogany doors that were the entrance to his mansion. Yusei pressed the button to the doors intercom and a video camera activated and Mikage's voice was heard over the speaker "Hello, Yusei, Who's your friend?" she asked.

"His name is Jax, and we would like to have a word with Jack." explained Yusei

"Just a moment." She said and there was silence

MEANWHILE WITH JACK…

Jack had his duel disk hooked up to a video game system playing a video game version of duel monsters in which he is dueling against a computerized version of Jaden Yuki, the king of games successor to Yugi Muto. At that the door opened and in walked Mikage. "I hope I'm not intruding Mr. Atlas, but Yusei is here with someone who would like to have a word with you." She said

Jack smiled, "How many times, Mikage, do I keep telling you to just call me Jack." He said.

"At least once more… Jack" replied Mikage, blushing.

"Well, anyway, you say Yusei is here with someone who would like to have a word with me?" he asked.

"I have them waiting in the formal living room." Said Mikage leading him there. Jack and another young man roughly a year younger than him and Yusei sitting on the couch.

"Hello, Yusei." Said Jack

"Jack." Said Yusei with a nodd.

"How is life at the to treating you?" he asked

"well, when I'm not dueling in the pro arenas I run a duel runner repair shop, anyway, this here is Jax, he has something he wants to ask you."

Jack looked at Jax, an eyebrow raised, Jax decided to cut to the chase and fished out the data chip from his vest's pocket and slid it across the coffee table "This chip contains data regarding my family's business details with a duelist crime syndicate known as Sonika, A friend of mine, I won't reveal his name for his safety, in the hacking field was able to get this specific information for me to prove my family's company is rotten to the core with criminal dealings, when I saw this I knew I had to get it to the higher ups in security." Explained Jax.

Jack smirked and picked up the chip examining it "So let me get this straight; you want me to use my connection to Goodwin to get this information to the higher up investigators?" he asked

"That's basically the idea I had." Said Jax.

"Do you have a name, my friend?" asked Jack

"My name is Jax Cambell." Said Jax

Jack laughed slightly "Aiden Cambell's boy, eh? I met your dad at one of the fancy parties I went to when I was king, good manners but can subtly offend just about everyone in the room with him."

Jax glared "I came to ask for your help in putting my criminal parents behind bars, if word had gotten out I all I would've been looked at was the offspring of criminals, I do not want to live my whole life with the shadow of my families crimes hanging over me, I escaped my family's home, leaving behind a life of wealth to shape a destiny of my own, to live by the deck." He said "I just wanted a chance to make my own name for myself, nobody making it for me." He added

Jack smirked "Nice speech there, I'll make you a deal, face me in a duel and put up a good fight, You don't have to win, show me that you can hold out on your own, and I will take you to see Rex." Said Jack

"There is no need for that, Jack." Said a British accented voice from the doorway, all three turned to see Rex Goodwin head of the New Domino Security Force standing there in the doorway. "Thank you for protecting that chip with all your worth, and I must say, it is quite a lot." Said Goodwin

"Wait, You knew I had this chip all along?!" asked Jax in shock

"Yes, We've been monitoring your family's computer system for a month now trying to find any weaknesses so we could extract any evidence on your parents dealings for crimes such as bribing government officials, murder, counterfeiting money, drug and weapons trafficking, contraband, smuggling, kidnapping among other things, however we needed a high class hacker to get in there." Explained Goodwin

"So you hired my buddy Alex." Added Jax

"Yes in fact we did, he is an old hat when it comes to investigation, we have hired him to look into other cases in the past."

"Well, knowing him, if there are no possible weaknesses in a computers security, he'll find one." Said Jax "But how did you know the chip was here?" he asked

"Well, we put a tracer on the data itself so wherever it was we would know, we waited until it was in an area that we were certain Sonika wouldn't be able to reach it, we even monitored your duel with that Sonika agent, you used my old Dragon well." Said Rex.

"Wait a sec." said Jax and he pulled out Trident Dragon from his deck houlster. "this was yours?!" he asked

"Yes, it was, you see, that Dragon is the fifth signer dragon, the last of five dragons, destined by the stars to save the world, I was once that signer, however I lost the arm my mark was on in a tragic accident which killed my wife and son, since then I was trying to seek out a duelist with the potential to wield that mark, here is my proposition, we will get your parents behind bars if you will accept the dragon's mark and we will assist you in your fight against Sonika."

"And if I decline?" asked Jax

"Then we will put your parents behind bars and not care if you get killed by Sonika." Replied Goodwin. Jax thought for a moment "I'll give you by tomorrow at noon to make your decision." Said Goodwin as he was about to walk out.

Hold on, catch." Said Jax throwing him the chip. "Count me in." he said.

Goodwin smiled "Very well, meet me at my place for the ceremony." He said.

"Why did you do that?" asked Jack "Either way, you will be targeted by powerful enemies and might end up dead." He added.

"All my life I wanted to make my own way in the world myself, but my parents steered me down paths I never wanted to go, however now I think I've found a way I wish to go." Said Jax

Yusei and Jack looked at each other "Welcome to the team." Said Jack holding out his hand and Jax shook it