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Chapter 11: Loss of Trust

"I can't believe your father asks you to request my help," Yusei spoke in an irritable tone.

It's afterschool and Yusei is planning to continue on with the Matter Wave Project. However, Geo requests his help because his father asks him to do. Since Yusei is a nice guy, he took the request. The two are riding a bus to AMAKEN.

Geo replies, "It can't be help though! You're the only person who can fix things in a fast pace! Dad wants your technical power to fix the anti-gravity machine for the field trip tomorrow!"

Yusei yawns as if he's a bit bored. "Are the workers in AMAKEN incapable of fixing their own machine within one day? It's a good thing that we stop by my house to get my toolbox."

"Speaking about the field trip, I'm surprise that Mr. Shepar actually allows you and Sonia to come despite that you two are recent new students."

"And it all happen because I ask him a question about the field trip. I knew I should have kept my mouth shut."

"Why? Don't you like space?"

"Not as much as you, Geo. I have two things that I'm interested in; one is superhero and two is technology." Then he gasps when he realizes something about his likes. "Actually, I have two more things that I like; which are good food and handmade things."

Geo smile twitches when he heard his other likes. He knows that his friend is only doing this to mess with him, but he sometimes wishes that Yusei should be a bit more serious. Geo knows that's not going to happen.

When the bus stops at AMAKEN, the two teenagers get off and enter it. Looking at the huge building with satellite dishes, model rockets, and an observatory, Yusei couldn't help but be a bit impressed. They enter the building and hurries to the receptionist's desk.

The receptionist asks, "Do you need something?"

Geo nods his head. "Yeah. Can you call my father, Kevin Stelar? Tell him that I got Yusei here with me."

The receptionist complies with the request and calls Kevin Stelar. Yusei and Geo both waited at the lobby and took a seat at some chairs reading a few magazines. They stop reading the magazines as soon as Geo's dad comes into the lobby to greet them.

Kevin is happy to see Yusei here. "It's great to see you again, Yusei! The last time we see each other was when you were moving to your uncle's place."

"Geo told me that you need me to fix your anti-gravity machine."

Kevin nods his head. "Can you do it?"

Yusei sighs and he scratches his head. "Just take me to the machine," he bluntly said, which made everyone to drop a sweat.

Kevin brought the two teenagers to the exhibit hall at the east wing of the building. The exhibit has a lot displays related to space like space landings, satellites, and models of spaceships. Geo is fascinated by these displays, but Yusei doesn't care; all he thinks that he should see the inventions instead of the space displays. Kevin leads them through a door at the far end of the exhibit and inside they're in a room that looks like solar system, but a small enough to fit a room.

The two teenagers are surprise that they're in a room-sized solar system. However, they didn't let their excitement to cloud their objective. Yusei inspects the room with his own eyes to discover that the floor and walls act like viewing glass to show the stars of the solar system. When Kevin turns on the lights, the space room became a white room with white balls in different size on platforms. Kevin shows Yusei the location where the anti-gravity machine is, which is at the ball at the center where the sun supposed to be.

Before Yusei goes to work to fix the anti-gravity machine, he asks Kevin about how he made the room to look like the solar system. Kevin told him that this room was from his father's blueprints before he died. He took those blueprints and applies it to be a part of the exhibit for the public who wants to learn about space. Yusei is impressed that this room is from his father's blueprints and he feels like that's quite a challenge for him to beat his father. As he is about to fix the machine, everyone heard someone entering the room.

"Kevin," said a male's voice, "I was wondering when—oh?"

Yusei turns around and he gasps to see Tom Dubius. "Hey, it's you. It's nice to see you again."

"Yusei, you know Mr. Dubius?" Geo asks.

That said boy nods his head as his answer. Yusei explain how he met Tom, but he minus out the part where he saves Tom from falling. He doesn't want to talk about the reason of why he falls from the sky because he knows how paranoid he is.

Tom becomes a bit agitated to see Yusei in front of the anti-gravity machine as he wonders what he's doing. He turns to Kevin and he asks, "What is that boy doing to the machine?"

Kevin smiles and he answers, "I ask Yusei to fix the machine for the field trip tomorrow! We need to have it ready for it, but for some reason, the machine isn't working. So I ask him to come and fix it very fast."

"Are you sure he's trustworthy?" Tom asks in a wary tone. "Are you sure that he doesn't steal anything from us?"

Geo becomes mad when he heard Tom's accusation. He yells, "Yusei isn't going to steal anything! Don't accuse him like he is some sort of spy!"

Seeing Geo's outburst causes Tom to be a bit afraid. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean it like that!"

"Geo!" Yusei calls his name. "Forget about it! I'm okay that there are people wary of me and I don't want you to become angry because of that!"

Kevin takes Tom out of the room and listens to what he has to say. Geo also leaves the room just to go use the bathroom. Yusei pulls out his toolbox and opens the panel at the platform underneath the big white ball that supposed to be the sun. When he checks the insides of the panel, he discovers the problem of why the anti-gravity machine is in the fritz and he started to replace some the machine's parts.

An hour later, Yusei has finish fixing the anti-gravity machine and every worker is surprise how fast he is. Geo is standing at the panel where they turn on the room. Yusei orders Geo to turn on the room to activate the room, which turns the room back into the solar system and have Yusei floating in the room. As he floats, he uses the weight of his upper body to move his floating body so that his legs are in position. He kicks the sun underneath his feet to make his body to fly across the room and into the wall. Yusei flips his body to have his feet landed on the wall and he kicks again to fly across the room.

After flying around the room for a few minutes, Yusei tells Geo to turn off the machine. Once the room is turn back to the white room, Yusei lands on the ground and he raises a thumbs up at the workers and his best friend. The workers thank him for the help as he runs up to Geo.

He said, "That was fun flying around the room, but I think I already kill my expectations for the field trip."

Geo gasps when he says that with a smile. "What do you mean? It's exciting for me! Shouldn't you be excited?"

Yusei doesn't have that sort of feeling just like Geo. He is just not interested in space like his friend because journeying the unknown doesn't seem to excite him. He knows that by going on a journey to space means to leave his loved ones, which he doesn't like. That sort of journey is what got him and his sister to be orphans. It's not like he hates space, he is just not interested in them.

Then someone calls Geo's name as they turn to see Aaron Boreal walking up to them. He said, "Geo, it's great to see you again since your last visit!"

"Hey there, Mr. Boreal!" Geo smiles when he says that.

Aaron notices Yusei as he introduces himself. "I'm Aaron Boreal and I want to thank you for fixing that special exhibit we have planned for the field trip tomorrow."

Yusei nods his head. "I'm Yusei Light and you're welcome." He picks up his toolbox and continues to talk to Aaron some more. "How come you and your workers don't fix the anti-gravity machine's problem before it got worse? If I hadn't fixed it today, then that machine would malfunction and fluctuates the gravity back and forth from no gravity to heavy gravity repeatedly. Please check the machine regularly and if there's a slight problem be sure to fix it."

Aaron chuckles, but he is surprise to hear that from Yusei. "Thanks for the tip. We'll be sure to do that."

"How do you know that would happen if it malfunctions?" Geo asks.

Yusei answers, "I once saw the blueprints of my father's anti-gravity machine when I was young. I did ask him about the malfunctioning part and he told me about that problem. By the way, I have good memory on remembering blueprints."

"Kevin did told me that you are Thomas's son," Aaron spoke. "Though the way you act reminds me of how Thomas would act."

Yusei wonders how Aaron knows his father. He first figures that Kevin told him about his father, but Geo explains to him that Aaron use to work with Kevin and Thomas before the death of the workers of Peace. Yusei is surprise to hear that Aaron use to work with his father because he doesn't know anyone else to be somewhat a part of the space station's destruction.

Then out of the blue, Aaron starts talking to Yusei about his father and his time working with him. He tells Yusei about how Thomas helps him how to reprogram NAZA's security program during a virus outbreak, which they manage to stop before it got close to the main system. Aaron told him another story of Thomas deactivates a malfunctioning generator that was set to explode within one hour. Geo listens to his story as if he's impressed, but Yusei listens to his story with a burning anger as he thinks his father sets up a challenge for him.

Aaron chuckles when he finishes his stories. "Thinking about those times made me think of how much an incredible person he is. He's a good friend that I made and he makes me feel like he gives me strength. So Yusei… what do you think about having bonds?"

Yusei bluntly answers, "I think having bonds is a good thing to have because humans are social creatures. By creating bonds with people, you gain some sort of strength to pass through the weight of reality and the world itself."

Aaron becomes satisfied with Yusei's answer and Yusei notices his smile as he puts on a smile. However, underneath Yusei's smile is a grim face. Deep down in his heart, he knows that having bonds can be a weakness as well. It is because there are people out there who would treat human relationship as a toy and tosses it away on a moment they feel like it. There's no such thing as honest people if they're just using others to achieve their own goals. Yusei considers having bonds is a double-edged sword because he gains strength from others and they become his weakness if they're put in danger or worse.

Then Aaron spoke, "It's good to know that you value friendship over selfishness. There are times when we need our friends to help us when we're in trouble. We humans and other beings must come together to overcome any obstacles that would bring us down.

"You're quite passionate with this whole bond thing," he said with a smirk.

"Mr. Boreal really cares about friendship," Geo said, "in fact, he befriends with most of the workers here, including my family. He even willingly helps them when they're in trouble, which makes it sound like what you would do."

Yusei slightly chuckles at that comment. He knows what Geo means by that because he too helps people, but he does it in his own power. Though he doesn't know how Aaron helps people, he decided not to continue the conversation because he has to get home and make dinner. The two teenagers say their goodbyes to Aaron as they leave AMAKEN and headed back home.

At an abandoned factory, Taurus is bored as he attacks some weak viruses in the area. He is disappointed that he loss to Yusei and the traitor, Omega-Xis. Because of that loss, King Cepheus puts him on standby and allows Cygnus to take command on retrieving the Andromeda Key. However, Cygnus doesn't do anything since Taurus's defeat. That blue swan only did is gathering viruses from all over the city and puts them inside in an EM Wave Cage from the Planet FM. When Taurus asks Cygnus about why is he gathering viruses, all he told him is that it is a part of his plan to retrieve the Andromeda Key.

Once Taurus is done beating his twentieth weak virus, he heads back inside the factory to see Cygnus putting in another virus into the cage. Seeing this, he becomes very angry as he charges at the swan when he's not looking. Cygnus notices that he's attacking him because Taurus makes a loud roar before he charges. He swiftly dodges the attack and stuns Taurus by using his beak and pecks him at the back of his neck.

Cygnus becomes angry as he asks, "Why are you attacking me for?"

Taurus turns to Cygnus and he angrily answers, "It's because you didn't do anything since my defeat! All you did is gathering viruses instead of trying to get the Andromeda Key back! At least do something before the king's reinforcements come!"

"I'm gathering these viruses as a part of my plan!" Cygnus explains, "Looking through my analysis from Mega Man's fights, including yours, I deduce that he can't keep up if there are multiple enemies. With these thousands of viruses, Mega Man will be defeated!"

Taurus smacks Cygnus at the back of his head out of anger. "Didn't I suggest that we should gang up on him before? Now you decided to gang up on him with viruses?"

"The problem about your suggestion was incomplete because we don't fully know his fighting capabilities. Since Mega Man doesn't have any allies, that means he has a bit of a trouble against an army. Having two FMians ganging up on him doesn't mean we get a clear victory."

As Cygnus is about to leave, Taurus asks him a question. He asks, "Why are you leaving?"

"During my time gathering viruses, I have found a perfect human host. I want to see how ripe he is." Cygnus disappears, leaving Taurus to his lonesome.

Taurus snorts and crosses his arms. "Ripe? What is this human, a fruit-base one?"

Later that night at AMAKEN, the three workers are inside the laboratory working on something. The three workers are Kevin Stelar, Aaron Boreal, and Tom Dubius. These three guys are finishing up with the modifications of Tom's Flappack, which they felt really proud. Tom left the laboratory to go to the bathroom, leaving Kevin and Boreal to talk about some things.

Aaron starts the conversation by asking Kevin a question. He asks, "Do you think this Flappack would help get Tom to keep his job?"

"That depends," Kevin said in a solemn tone. "However, I don't believe this would stop Tom from getting fired. You and I both know that there are problems about this invention."

Aaron understands what he means. The Flappack is just a jetpack with wings and minus the whole jet part. The propulsion system only hovers the user and the wings help the user to ascend up in the air. Judging from the Flappack's design, there are a few flaws that many people would point out. Examples would be the weight limit for using the Flappack and how far it would take the user.

Then Kevin leaves the laboratory to talk with the Chief Director about the preparations. Aaron looks at the Flappack in a sad face as he wonders how he can save Tom from losing his job.

"Aaron, my boy!" said an old man's voice behind Aaron. "What is that device you're staring at?"

He jumps and turns to the owner of that voice. The owner happens to be the Chief Director, Bowen Parker. Bowen has dark skin, a body that is a bit bigger than Aaron's body, and his gray hair is nearly shaved. Since he is the Chief Director, he wears the AMAKEN uniform.

Aaron realizes that he's helping modifying Tom's invention in secret from the workers in AMAKEN. However, since he is alone with the director, Tom's invention is in danger to be not a secret. He wants to help Tom from not getting fired. So he quickly made a decision on how to help Tom.

He said, "This device is the Flappack and it is my invention."

"Really now?" Bowen gasps. "This is your invention, you say! Tell me, does it work?"

"It will be after a few modifications," he answers, which he recieves a pat on the back from the Chief Director.

"Splendid, my boy! I'll be waiting to see that invention once it is ready. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm heading to my office since I have a meeting with Kevin. Keep up the good work!"

After the Chief Director leaves the lab, Aaron sighs in relief. He has managed to fool the Chief Director into thinking that he is the one who made it. The reason why he made that sort of lie is to take the blame if Tom's Flappack wouldn't keep him away from being fired. By taking the blame, Tom wouldn't get fired and he still has his job until he made some improvements on his performance. What he did is the sign of an incredible man who cares about the people who he befriended with.

However, unbeknownst to him is that Tom has gotten back from his bathroom break and heard the conversation between Aaron and Bowen. Tom felt sick into his stomach because he has heard that Aaron has taken his invention. What he felt in his stomach is betrayal, just like when he loses his job a long time ago. Ever since that his old colleague betrays him, he have made a promise to not to trust anyone, even after getting a job at AMAKEN. When he met Kevin and Aaron, he felt that those guys are different than the workers from his previous job and he finally thought he could trust someone again. But after eavesdropping on the conversation, Tom misunderstood Aaron's intentions of him stealing his inventions as a betrayal of his trust and he wishes that it were not true. He prays deep down in his heart that Aaron isn't a traitor, but he doesn't know anymore because of his own first experience of being betrayed.

Then a voice speaks to him. That voice said, "That man is awful, isn't he?"

"Who's there?" Tom jerks his body to turn to where the voice is coming from, but there's no one there. "Am I losing my mind? Who is speaking to me?"

A blue light appears in front of him as it begins to take shape. Seeing this phenomenon, Tom drops down onto the floor out of fear. Tom is so scared that he couldn't muster up the strength to scream. The light finishes taking shape and it turns out to be the FMian swan named Cygnus.

"Who are you? A monster?" Tom points at the FMian while he shakes.

Cygnus shook his head and he bows to the human. "I am merely a benefactor. My name is Cygnus and I have to meet you, Tom Dubius. You're probably wondering how I know your name; well, that's because I've been watching you for quite some time. Can you believe what that human did to you? Taking the credit of something that you work hard to make… some friend he is."

"Stop it… That's not true…!"

"Why are you denying what you see? You can't keep denying this incident. Deep down, you know that you cannot trust anyone."

"That would also mean that I don't trust you!" Tom made a fierce glare when he says that.

Cygnus chuckles as if he is enjoying Tom's reaction. "You can trust me because I understand what it feels like to be betrayed by the ones you have trusted. So you have my sympathy and I want to give you power to make sure that no one can betray you."

"I… I don't need power…"

The FMian moves a closer to the human as if he's whispering to his ear. "Are you really sure? There's one thing I know about people like that man is that he loves to take advantage over the weak. Do you want to be taken advantage forever?"

Tom becomes hesitant. He doesn't know what to believe: Aaron's actions or the FMian's words. Then he remembers his first betrayal and he knows how much it hurts him. He doesn't to feel that pain again as he accepts this power that Cygnus is offering.

Cygnus is happy to hear that Tom accepted his offer as he went inside the human's Transer. He then said, "I'm glad that you accepted my offer. I'm going to teach you about your powers as an EM Wave Being."

"An EM Wave Being? You mean like Mega Man?" Tom remembers hearing the news about the Blue Bomber.

"That is right. Mega Man has formed a partnership with an alien that I know very well; however, that alien stole something from me and I need it back."

"That alien stole something?"

"Yes, he did. He betrays my trust just so he can obtain the Andromeda Key. The Andromeda Key is our last defense against invading forces, but if fell into the wrong hands, it can be used for destruction. Mega Man is being used as puppet for this alien and I need it back. So will you help me?"

Tom nods his head. "I will help you! Just tell me what I should do!"

A chuckling sound comes from Cygnus's voice within Tom's Transer. "Good… I have a plan that will solve both our problems." Tom's body glows blue as he disappears.

The next morning, Yusei is in class as he sees the excitement on his classmates' faces. There are a few minutes before Mr. Shepar enters the classroom to get the students as Yusei is taking a nap on his desk. When Sonia enters the classroom, everyone greets her and she greets back with a bright smile. Sonia went to her desk to see Yusei sleeping as she decided to poke fun before the teacher comes in.

She silently signals everyone in the classroom to stay quiet as she pulls out her ear clip headphones from her backpack. Everyone knows what she is doing as they watch her placing one ear clip headphone onto his open ear. Luna tries to intervene, but Geo stops her and covers her mouth because he wants to see his surprised face. As Sonia gently place the clip onto his ear, she plugs in the jack of the headphones into her Transer and raises the volume up to max. She pushes a button and Yusei quickly wakes up as he jumps out of his desk.

Yusei pulls the ear clip and he exclaims, "That music is loud! Who put this ear clip on my ear?" He looks at where the wire is connected and it happens to be connected to Sonia's Transer. He looks at Sonia who is giggling as if she's amused by his reaction. "I can't believe that you did that, Sonia. To be truthful, I never thought you're that mischievous."

"There are things you don't know about me," she said with a smile. "Even I want have fun a little."

Yusei chuckles. "I guess I understand that. We're young and we might as well seize the moment of having fun." Then he notices everyone looking at him and it made him nervous. "Why is everyone looking at me?"

"Are you really a teenager?" everyone in the classroom says in unison.

Yusei nearly fell off his chair when he heard everyone say that. He understands why they say that because he didn't get mad at Sonia and talks like an older sibling rather than his age. Even though there are times when he acts immature, he does act like a caring person despite he acts a bit harsh on others.

When Mr. Shepar enters the classroom, everyone in the classroom quickly heads to his or her desks. The teacher tells them the school bus is here to take them to AMAKEN for the field trip. He started to read a list with students' names and puts the students in pairs. Most of the students are hoping to be paired with Sonia; however, their hopes are crush when Mr. Shepar pairs Sonia with Yusei. This earns Yusei plenty of glares coming from his fellow classmates and he decides to prepare himself for the worse during this field trip.

Mr. Shepar took his students to the bus and everyone sits next to their respective partners. Yusei and Sonia sit at the back of the bus as Yusei allows Sonia to sit next to the window. Once every students and the teacher are in the bus, the bus starts moving to AMAKEN.

Geo, who is sitting in front of Yusei and Sonia and sitting next to a female student, talks to Yusei. He asks, "How is it like sitting next to a famous person?"

Yusei smirks and said, "You just like to poke fun at me, aren't you?" The two boys smile at each other and laughs.

Sonia doesn't understand why these boys are laughing, so she thought it's just a boy thing and doesn't want to pursue what they're thinking. As soon as Geo sits back down, she started to have a whispering conversation with Yusei. She whispers, "I talk with Nao during an collaboration event yesterday and she told me that she met you that one weekend."

"Oh… did she tell you about our conversation?"

The girl nods her head and she makes a gulping sound. "Yeah… Yusei… Am I causing you trouble?"

Yusei could lie to her and tell her that she's not causing him trouble, but he chose to be honest with her because sooner or later that trouble would come. He answers, "You may soon to be causing me trouble because of your fame, but I would not hold that against you. You want to know why. It's because I want to be your friend who only sees you as Sonia the person, not Sonia the famous idol. But I just couldn't stand people who are causing trouble because of a stupid reason."

"But…" Her voice began to tremble. "If I am causing you trouble, then you can just leave me."

Yusei immediately flicks her forehead, which made every student to gasp in shock. They couldn't believe that a teenage boy flicks the famous idol's forehead. They glare at the boy, but he just straight up ignores them and continues this whispering conversation with Sonia.

He said, "Don't say things like that. Ever since I talk to your idol friend, Nao, I started thinking about some things. I don't want to abandon you because of some sort of harassment. That's not who I am. Also…" He places his hands over Sonia's cheeks and forces her mouth to smile. "Smile, smile! Making a sad face like that would ruin that pretty face of yours."

Sonia's mind went blank for only three seconds, until her face becomes red. Her heart is beating pretty fast and she starts to fluster as she quickly turns her head towards the window. She couldn't believe that he say those things to her with a straight face. The idol tries to rationalize the situation and she thinks that he only says them because he doesn't want to make her sad. She believes that is his reason, but her feelings are saying otherwise and it makes her fluster even more.

Yusei finds Sonia's reaction amusing and he wonders if he is starting to act like his sister when she teases his female friends. He then proceeds to close his eyes and leans his back on his seat. He drifts off to sleep as a means to pass the time until the arrival of AMAKEN.

At AMAKEN, Aaron is looking around to find Tom. He and Kevin haven't seen him since he went to the bathroom yesterday and he was hoping to see him today. However, he hasn't seen him today either. Aaron knows Tom is too diligent when it comes to work and this is the first time he never sees Tom in his workplace. The reason why he wants to meet with Tom is because he wants to talk to him about the Flappack.

Kevin calls out Aaron's name to get his attention. "Aaron! I see the school bus coming towards the front! We should hurry to greet the students!" Then he notices his friend's sad face as he asks, "Are you worried about Tom?"

Aaron nods his head as his answer. He didn't say anything because he's too worried about Tom.

"Don't worry about it!" Kevin pats Aaron on the back. "I'm sure he'll turn up soon! Come on! Let's hurry and greet the students!" Aaron follows Kevin to the front entrance of the AMAKEN building.

When the school bus arrives at AMAKEN, the students get down from it. Yusei is still groggy from his short nap, while Sonia regains her composure from her early conversation with Yusei. The students, besides Yusei's friends, are all vex about Yusei's early action as they glare at the boy. That said boy pretends to ignore them as he starts to feel sleepier than normal.

Geo is concern for his friend's health as he asks, "Yusei, didn't you get enough sleep last night?"

"No…" Yusei yawns his answer to Geo's question. The sleepy teenage boy didn't want to explain why he's sleepy. The reason why he is sleepy happens last night during a training session.

Last night, while his sister was asleep, Yusei transforms as Mega Man to figure out how to use the Mega Buster more effectively in combat. However, due to its problems, Yusei just couldn't find any use of it.

"Mega, is there a way to boost the performance of the Mega Buster?" he asked as he defeated a Mettenna with a cannon arm buster that happened to be in the area.

The alien answers, "We could find 'special' data within the EM Wave World to power up the Mega Buster."

"Wait! What do you mean by special data?"

Omega-Xis explains to him that there are special data in the Wave World that can boost their Mega Buster's performance. These special data are irregulars in the EM Wave World; they look sort of like statics in the Wave World and they can absorb it to boost their Mega Buster's performance. However, it's pretty much random because they can't differentiate the data on how they improve which of the Mega Buster's power, rate of fire, range, or charging speed. Omega-Xis did see these statics during their time of when they're training.

"How come I have not noticed them before?" Yusei asked in a shock expression. "Also, why didn't you tell me this?"

Omega-Xis answers, "I need to confirm it with my eyes because I live in a planet full of EM Waves and I'm not sure if Earth's Wave World has those things that I have just mention. So that's why I decide to tell you about them now."

Yusei wants to hit the alien, but the alien is attached to his arm so it's like he is hitting himself. Then he looks up at the night sky to see the night sky and few higher Wave Roads. "Mega, do we have any aerial powers?"

"Huh? What do you mean?

"I mean do we have any flying abilities? Sooner or later we're going to face someone that can fly. I don't think any of my Battle Cards or my current skills can defeat a flying enemy." He remembers seeing Tom Dubius flying in front of him and Nao before and he worries if the enemy can fly.

Omega-Xis talks a solemn tone as he said, "I do know an FMian that can fly so we do have a problem. We don't have any flying abilities to counterattack that certain guy."

Yusei remembers how Omega-Xis taught him how to summon the Mega Buster and wonders if he can apply it to summon some sort of flying ability to counter the whole flying problem. He looks at his back and notices the backpack-sized back armor. The back armor does resemble some sort of jetpack, but he doesn't know how to confirm this theory. He could try to test it, but he knows how late it is and quickly went back to his room to sleep.

After remembering why he is very sleepy, he is sort of listening to Aaron and Kevin's greetings and speech about how AMAKEN works and such. However, due to his sleepiness, Yusei barely listens to what they say. Once they're done talking, the two AMAKEN workers take the students and the teacher to the exhibit hall.

When they got there, all of the students are impress to see the displays. The displays have various models ranging from the first man that ever walk on the moon to sending the space station, Peace up into space. However, Yusei isn't impressed because he has come to the exhibit yesterday. So when no one pays attention to the students, Yusei quietly leaves the exhibit hall and sits at one of the chairs in the lobby.

Yusei solemnly stares at the at the city of Echo Ridge through the big window of AMAKEN. He puts on his Visualizer to see the Wave World that appears within the city. He finds it very cool and thinks that he is looking at a retro-perspective of a far-distant future.

Omega-Xis appears next to him and he asks, "Is looking at the exhibit reminds you of your parents?"

"Sort of…" he replies with a slight chuckle. "No… it's more like a yes… Seeing the exhibit does remind me of how much my parents are excited to go to space and it's because of their excitement is what kills them."

"But you're not sure if your parents are dead, right?"

"It has been seven years since my parents' death, so I'm pretty sure that they're dead. Mega, why do you insist that my parents may be alive?"

Omega-Xis didn't say anything. Yusei knows that Omega-Xis doesn't have any sort of proof that his parents are alive. Even though the alien comes with his parents' Transers, that is still not enough to convince him. Yusei isn't sure the alien's reason of why he keeps insisting that. He figures it could be sympathy because of Omega-Xis's "revenge" story, but he doesn't want to dwell on it.

When the EM Wave alien disappears, Yusei took off his Visualizer and looks up the ceiling. Then Sonia's face appears over his face, which causes him to slip out of his seat. "Sonia! Don't surprise me like that! Also, how long were you standing behind me?"

"I just got here," she bluntly answers, "I notice that you were gone earlier, so I went to search for you." Then she yanks the Visualizer out of Yusei's hands and puts it on. She becomes amazed when she sees the Wave World through the glasses. "This is amazing, Yusei! Did you make these?"

"No, I didn't make them. Geo's dad made them and Geo gave it to me when I move back here. Though I am planning to improve the Visualizer's performance as soon as I find myself a junkyard."

"Junkyard?" Sonia tilts her head when she spoke out that last part.

Yusei explains to her that most of his inventions has some junkyard parts. He just likes to recycle some machine parts that many junkyards have.

"If you're looking for a junkyard, I do know a place where you can find one. There's a place called Dream Island; it's an amusement park in front, but in the back is a junkyard. The reason that I know about that is because I did an event there before."

Yusei appreciates Sonia for giving him the information as he thanks her with a bright smile on his face. "Thank you, Sonia! Is there any way to repay you for that information?"

Sonia is fluster when she heard him that he's going to repay her. She shook her head and answer, "You don't need to repay me!"

"Are you sure?" he asks and Sonia nods her head as her answer. He is fine with her answer because he is not entirely serious with the repayment thing. As he watches Sonia looking around the area, he wonders what she is looking for. "Sonia, what are you doing?"

She explains, "I'm just wondering who you were talking to." Her answer causes Yusei to gasp in shock and he started to sweat. "I didn't fully hear your conversation with your invisible friend earlier, but I notice that when you put on the Visualizer, you were talking to this invisible person."

Yusei is panicking underneath his smile as he replies, "I was just talking to myself. I have a tendency to do that."

Sonia raises an eyebrow as if she's very suspicious of Yusei. However, she shrugs it off and gives the Visualizer back to him. As she watches him putting his Visualizer on his forehead, she felt this warm feeling in her heart as her mouth begins to rise into a smile.

Then the two teenagers heard someone entering the research facility and they are shock to see Detective Copper and five of the Satella Police Officers. Their appearance also shocks the workers in the area as the officers are scanning the area through their Transers. Yusei becomes curious and he decides to approach them to know what's going on.

When Detective Copper notices that Yusei is coming up to him as he asks, "Kid, what do you want?" Yusei asks him why he is here as he answers, "We have detected an abnormal EM Wave within this facility, so we came here to destroy it."

Yusei wonders if it's because of Omega-Xis, but then he notices the two AMAKEN workers behind him and they look panicky. The workers are a female staff and the Chief Director.

The female staff said, "Sir! We have a problem at the exhibit!"

"What sort of problem?" the Chief Director asks with a concern look on his face.

The female staff answers, "The doors leading to the space room has been lock with the students trap inside!"

"Say what!" Yusei exclaims as he runs up to them. "What do you mean that the doors are lock? Also, my friends are trap inside there!"

The Chief Director looks at the boy and he asks, "Excuse me, but who are you?"

"I'm Yusei Light! I'm a student at Echo Ridge High School and a friend of Geo Stelar! Tell me what happen!"

"So you're Thomas and Marie's son," the Chief Director softly spoke.

Yusei quickly becomes impatient as he runs inside the exhibit hall. Sonia, the Chief Director, and the Satella Police Officers follow him.

When they arrive in front of the door that leads to the space room, Yusei quickly bangs on the door. He shouted, "Geo! Luna! Bud! Zack! Are you guys okay in there?"

Everyone watch Yusei banging on the door with a sad look on his or her faces. Detective Copper orders his men to find a way to open the door; however, they are interrupted by a man's laughter through the speakers of the facility. They wonder who has made that laugh as everyone notices the computer screen display walls change from a chart to a face of some man.

The man is skinny and his face is light blue and looks menacing. He wears teal and black body armor, white swan-like hood, white wings, and black talon-like leg armor. Both Yusei and the Chief Director recognize the man's face and they gasp because they know the identity of that man.

Inside the space room, Bud has been trying to force the door to open by using the charging tackle that he learns from Taurus before. Everyone in the space room wears a space suit that astronauts use when they're out of their space station. The reason why they're wearing those suits is because the room has no oxygen since the room supposed to act like the real outer space. Bud keeps trying to tackle down the door; however, due to the lack of gravity and ground, Bud didn't have enough force to bang the door. Then again, the door is made of hard metal, so that door isn't going to break down.

"Bud!" Geo calls out Bud's name. "That's enough! Don't waste your energy!"

Bud retorts, "But Geo! We have to get out of here!"

All of the students inside the room are panicking and one or two female students started crying. Luna and Mr. Shepar try to cheer up everyone's spirit, but the students' morale is dwindling down for every cheery word. Both Kevin and Aaron look at the student with a sad face as they turn to the screen on the interface of the sun.

The two workers know who the man on the screen is as Aaron asks, "Tom, why are you doing this?"

"Why am I doing this?" Tom repeats Aaron's question. Then he burst out of anger when he shouted, "I tell you why! You betray me, Aaron! You steal my invention and took all of the credit for it!"

Aaron knows what he means as he tries to reason with Tom. "Tom! It's not what you think! I—"

"Spare me with your lies! Also, I'm not Tom Dubius! I am Cygnus Wing! And I will get you back for betraying my trust!"

Aaron can tell that Tom is angry and is no longer to be reason with. He looks down at the ground with a sad face as he felt some sort of regret, leaving Kevin and Geo to be sad as well.

Mr. Shepar spoke, "Mr. Stelar, do you know who that man is?"

Kevin nods his head. "Yeah… That man is Tom Dubius and he is a worker here in AMAKEN."

Then Luna becomes angry as she yells, "Why the hell he traps us here? What do we do to deserve this?"

"Prez… Please calm down…" Zack is afraid from seeing Luna being angry.

Geo looks around and notice that both Yusei and Sonia aren't in the space room, which he is glad. He looks at the door as he prays that Yusei would find a way to get everyone out of here. During that time of praying, Tom quickly cuts off communication of the space room, causing the screen to be blank.

"Tom, why are you doing this?" the Chief Director asks in a panicky tone. During the time when he is trying to talk to Tom, the Satella Police Officers are trying to find some ways to get inside the space room.

"I'm doing this because I loss my trust in all of humanity," Tom answers, "I've been betrayed again because I'm a weakling who can easily get step on. But now I have power and I won't be step on again! Also, I should mention that due to the lack of oxygen in that room, the people are wearing space suits with an oxygen tank. I think you know what I mean, right?"

Everyone knows exactly what he means. The people who are inside the space room would sooner or later lose oxygen and they will die when the oxygen tank runs out. Sonia is frighten at the thought that she would lose her classmates, while Yusei is angry at Tom for EM Wave Changing with an FMian. Yusei couldn't hold back his anger as he runs up to the control panel that is the terminal controlling the space room's system. Everyone notices his action and they are shock to see him what he is doing.

Yusei pulls out a laser pointer, which actually has a setting to be a real laser. He twists the bottom of the pointer, where the power button is, to set the laser to cut through the metal panel of where the power cables are.

Tom notices Yusei's action as he asks, "Boy, what are you doing?"

"I'm getting my fellow classmates out," he answers with a smirk on his face. "If I yank out the power cables, then you have no control over the space room." When Yusei proceeds to do that, a powerful electrical current from the wire he grabs hit him. It causes him to fly out of the panel and made him crash land on the ground ten feet away.

"Yusei!" Sonia shouts as she checks on him. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine," he answers, "I usually seen that kind of thing on TV… I never thought it actually happens."

Yusei grabs his laser pointer again, but someone grabs his arm and yanks him off the ground. He turns to see it is Alan Pryde who yanks him as the officer took the laser pointer off of his hand.

Alan spoke, "I know what you're going to do and I don't think it's a wise thing. Have you forgotten the last time when you used that pointer on some electrical equipment?"

Yusei chuckles as he remembers that incident where he causes a small explosion back in Harmony Town. "Fine, I won't do that again."

When Alan lets him go, Detective Copper approaches him. "Officer Pryde! What are you doing here?"

"I follow you here when I heard that AMAKEN has an abnormal EM Waves," he answers, "Since I'm friends with Yusei here, I'm generally worried about him."

"I see…" the detective solemnly spoke as he looks at Yusei. Then he quickly orders Alan to take both Yusei and Sonia out of the exhibit hall since they would get in the way.

"You got it, sir!" Alan salutes as he takes the two teenagers out of the research facility.

When they got to the lobby area, the two teenagers are getting worried about the safety of their classmates. Alan started calm them down by saying, "I'm sure your friends would be fine! We are a part of the Satella Police and we'll save them! So you two don't make that sad face!"

Sonia is happy to hear that, but Yusei isn't. "I'm going to the bathroom!" he spoke as he leaves the lobby area.

"Yusei…" Sonia mutters as she sadly watches the boy leaving.

"Don't you worry about him," Alan said with a happy smile on his face. "I know him pretty well and I believe he's going to save his classmates behind the scenes."

Sonia tilts her head. "How will he do that?"

Alan just chuckles as he replies, "In his own way."

The teenage idol couldn't understand his cryptic sentence. She does feel like that Alan has some experience dealing with Yusei doing things behind his back, but she chose not to pry it because she doesn't feel like listening to the story without Yusei to confirm Alan's story. When she heard that Yusei is going to save their classmates, she's wondering what she has been doing right now. She wishes that she has something to do to help, but she doesn't know how.

"Mega, who is the FMian now?" Yusei asks as he's hiding in a cleaning supply's closet.

"That FMian is Cygnus," Omega-Xis answers. "He's the FMian that can fly when he EM Wave Change."

"Great…" Yusei sighs as he scratches the back of his head. "So what kind of person is this Cygnus character?"

Omega-Xis explains, "Cygnus is one of the top tactic generals and he is an expert at gathering information. He must have taken the time to study us during our little training session and must have found out our weaknesses. Kid, it's time to go buck wild!"

Yusei nods his head as he inserts the blue Battle Card into his Transer. "EM Wave Change! Yusei Light, on the air!" he said as his belt glows and he transforms into Mega Man. Omega-Xis change their Wave Frequency to enter the Wave World as they traverse the Wave Road to the space room's computer system.

The Satella Police Officers in the exhibit hall has detected Yusei's EM Wave presence in the Wave World. Though they don't know who coming towards the space room, but that doesn't stop Detective Copper to attack the unknown EM Wave Being. Yusei manages to dodge their assault as he phases through the walls and warp inside the space room's computer system. The Satella Police have lost Yusei's presence as they quickly give up and find a way to open the space room's doors.

Meanwhile at the lobby area, Sonia tries to sneak away to find Yusei. However, Alan stops her as he asks, "Where do you think you're going?"

"I'm just going to use the bathroom," she lies with a smile on her face.

Alan puts on a gentle smile as he said, "I know you're lying. Let me guess, you want to find Yusei and see if he needs help with something. If that's the case, then how would you help him?"

Sonia can feel that face is dripping with sweat. She knows that she couldn't think of a new lie to trick the officer. But when he asks her that question, she doesn't know how to answer that. She has no idea how Yusei is going to save their classmates and how is she going to help. As she's in deep thought into figuring a way out of the conversation, she notices that her eyelids are very heavy. She started to feel faint as she fell onto someone's arms behind her. The idol starts to fall asleep.

Alan looks at the mysterious person and said, "Keep an eye on the idol here while I'm away. It seems like things are going to be rough for poor little Yusei." The mysterious figure nods their head as they place Sonia on the chair and watch Alan leaving the area.