~Ari~

The stone disappears and I get feeling back in my body. I look around to see that everyone is alright. "Looks like Yugi won the duel." Duke says.

Kaiba turns around to face us, "What duel?" he asks.

"Your duel. He fought using your last remaining Life Points and used some of your cards." I say.

Kaiba looks down at his Duel Disk to see his deck isn't there and then grunts. I look up to where Yami and Noah were dueling to see that the land around them is fitting back into place with the ground. Noah falls over unto his knees, "Why? Why did this happen?" he says to himself.

Yami walks up to him, "It was the strength of my friends that guided me. Maybe you can learn something from that Noah." He says.

"It's not fair though! Seto took everything from me, I should run Kaiba Corp! I want my life back, and I'll start by using your body!" Noah tackles Yami and tries to enter his body, but Yami shoves him backward.

I run up to them to see if Yami is alright, with the others closely behind me. "You've lost Noah, so give Tristan back his body and let us out of here." Yami says.

"Ha ha ha ha! You want your body back, do you? Do you really think that you've gone anywhere? No, your bodies are all inside cyber pods; everything here is virtual and therefore has only been happening in your minds." Noah says.

It's just like last time then. We were never falling inside the Virtual World; we probably just fell unconscious and were put into the pods. The sky darkens and turns purple. What is Noah planning now? "You've failed me for the last time Noah!"

"Father? Is that really you?" Noah says.

The clouds shift and Gozaburo Kaiba's face appears. "Yes, after my disgrace of losing to Seto, I decided to digitize my own mind, knowing it was the only way I could come back and seek revenge. That day has finally come Seto." He says.

"So you've been behind this the entire time?" Kaiba says.

"Yes, and once my father defeats you Seto, I'll be the owner of Kaiba Corp, right Father?" Noah says.

"You're not worthy of the company Noah!"

"And so do you think you are?" Kaiba says, "The company belongs to me, because nobody else was fit for the job!"

"You brat! I taught you everything you know! Of course, you are more qualified for the job than Noah ever could be, but both of you don't even deserve to be called a Kaiba!"

"But you trapped me here because you knew I was the better son!" Noah says.

"That only lasted a short time. My original plan for Seto was to upload Noah's mind into his body so he could continue the Kaiba legacy. But, why trash a far superior mind for a clearly weaker one? And I planned to use Seto's body to reclaim my empire!"

"So you used me to trap them here…" Noah says.

"Yes, because that's the only thing your good for! See this?" an image of a satellite appears next to him.

"What do you plan to use that for?" Kaiba asks.

"This satellite was placed orbiting the earth recently by my underwater base. And I plan to use it to launch missiles to destroy the world, and run my empire in the Virtual World! And no one will stop me!"

That's insane! Why would he try and destroy an entire planet just to run his company?! Gozaburo disappears, along with the clouds. Noah turns his attention toward us, "Follow me, I can get you out of here. If we hurry, then you'll be able to stop the missiles." He says.

"And why should we trust you?" Joey says.

"You think I want my father to destroy the Earth? I know that you guys can escape and save everyone; something I can never do."

We look around at each other for signs of agreement or disagreement. "Alright, but you better be telling the truth!" Joey says.

Noah nods and starts walking ahead of us, where the rest of us catch up. We're lead into the forest nearby. "Do you think Noah is telling the truth?" I ask Yami.

"I don't know what to expect. But he does seem to hate his father, so that's the only thing we know for sure." He says.

"But what if he's lying?"

"I suppose we'll have to find our own way out then."

Noah leads us into a cave, making me feel more uneasy about him. Yami grabs my hand into his, probably sensing my uneasiness. "There it is!" Noah shouts. He runs up to a control panel and starts pressing buttons on it, "Oh no, the emergency exit is blocked off. My father must've done this."

"Every virtual reality system has more than one exit Noah, so why don't you use your brain for once?" Kaiba says.

"What's wrong Seto, want to leave so soon? If my father sealed all the exits, then we can stay here together; we'll be a big happy family! I'll never be alone again!" Noah says laughing. Okay, I knew he was lying.

"Noah, stop it! Get a hold of yourself!" Mokuba says shaking him.

Noah finally stops laughing, "Oh wait, I just thought of another exit."

"Where is it!?" Kaiba shouts, now getting angry.

"Follow me." Noah says walking to the exit of the cave.

"He's lying." Yami says.

"Huh?" I say.

"I feel that he's misleading us."

"I'm not sure about that." Yugi says. "I mean, Noah hates Gozaburo as much as Kaiba does, so why wouldn't he help us?"

"Yugi, are you forgetting that Noah has been trying to kill us from the beginning?" Sabrina says.

"Well maybe he's changed. Yami, can I take over, I want to see this for myself."

"Very well, Yugi." He says.

"Me too, Ari." Sabrina says. I nod.

~Sabrina~

There's another exit of the cave that Noah leads us to. Below the entrance is a bunch of canyons. We're lead into one of them, where at the end is a giant door. "Here it is. Once you walk through this, you'll wake up in the real world. Good luck." Noah says. The door opens, leaving us to walk inside.

"So what's so special with you? Are you Marik, or some wannaby that follows his every order?" I say.

"Keep quiet. For now, you'll do as you're told."

I look up at the guy to see that it's Odion. I also notice that I'm tied to a chair. "Or wait? You guys don't scare me." I say.

Wait; didn't I already say that before? This can't be real is it? No, I already went through this when I was kidnapped by Marik. Upon realizing this, I'm transported to what looks like Domino Station. I notice that everyone else is here too. "What happened?" Tea asks.

"Noah probably tricked us." I say.

"Yeah, but where is he?" Joey asks.

"Kaiba and Mokuba are gone too!" Yugi says.

"We've got to find them!"

As you can probably tell, I'm using parts of the Japanese version. In my opinion, that version is better sometimes. I can't wait to finish the Virtual World arc and get back to Battle City.