Kairi: So... Read and Review please. I'm still kinda on the fence regarding this story.

Chapter II
Teammate

"Wow. Talk about underestimating your skill. How old are you anyways?" Crow asked as they all walked back inside.

"Um, I think I'm about fourteen. At least, that sounds about right. I can't be completely sure though," Shadow told him.

"Fourteen? You're tiny! No offense, but I doubted that you were even twelve yet," Kalin said. Shadow shrugged.

"For some reason, the phrase 'I'm small, but I'm old' seems really familiar. Probably because it applies to me so well," she replied. Crow laughed.

"Yup. Sounds about right," he said.

"Hey, Shadow? Weren't you saying something about feeling bad about me getting hurt because I was protecting you earlier?" Yusei asked. Kalin resisted the urge to roll his eyes, especially as Jack walked in, looking at the girl curiously, as if wondering why she wasn't gone yet.

"Yeah. Why?" Shadow replied.

"What if you joined the Enforcers? Only for a little while, of course," Yusei proposed. Crow's face lit up, but Jack crossed his arms.

"Hang on a second Yusei. For one thing, we barely know her," the blonde said. Then Shadow stepped up.

"Actually, I think it's more than fair to you guys. I've heard from some of the other kids I've met that the Enforcers are trying to rid Satellite of duel gangs so it's safer for everyone. And besides, if Yusei hadn't tried to protect me, he wouldn't have gotten hurt," she said. "Since Yusei's out, I can at least help to pick up the slack. No offense meant, Yusei. I'm not trying to replace you or anything."

"No, that's actually what I meant. I'm not gonna do the Enforcers a lot of good until my arm's healed, but I really don't want us to have to stop what we were doing because of it. If you'd help us out, we'll still be able to work as usual, and you'll probably feel better," Yusei replied. Jack's arms were still crossed.

"Well, I'm not completely sure. I mean, yeah, we need the help, but I don't think asking you to put yourself in danger is a great idea either," he said. Shadow rolled her eyes.

"Well, for one thing, whether or not I'm in danger is entirely my problem. And secondly, even if you did ask, I'd be more than happy to help you guys," she told him. Crow laughed and Jack finally smiled.

"In that case, we'll have to work on the first of those statements, because when you're part of a team, whether or not you're in danger is everyone's problem, because your teammates will stop at nothing to save you! Right, boys?" he shouted. Crow and Yusei both fist-bumped him, but their three fists hung in the air. Shadow smiled.

"You're gonna have to fix that," she said, swinging her own fist up to join theirs. Kalin, happy to see that everything had worked out, added his fist to the circle.

"Right. We aren't all boys anymore," he added, smiling. Jack nodded.

"I'll make sure to take care of that."

Shadow had decided that the Enforcers weren't actually a duel gang. They were more of a messed-up family that anything else.

She, Kalin, and, for the things that required only one hand, Yusei, were in charge of making the gang's meals. Depending on who had cooked, she, Crow, and Jack cleaned up. However, Shadow also put herself in charge of shower schedules, laundry schedules, and other chores that needed doing around the place, in an attempt to get the messy 'apartment' cleaned up. Kalin often tried to talk her out of assuming this motherly role, but to no avail.

She checked Yusei's arm every day, a routine that quickly rose to the top of Jack's annoyances list. However, despite his own discomfort at the responsibilities that Shadow had taken on, Kalin was pleased with the order that had finally managed to take root in the Enforcers' headquarters.

Shadow had only been with the Enforcers for two weeks when Kalin decided that they had waited long enough. "Meeting on the roof!" he shouted, running up the stairs with his duel disk on. Yusei started heading straight up himself, not bothering to grab his duel disk. Shadow, Jack, and Crow followed him up, each with their duel disks. Shadow had swapped hers out for the standard one used by duel gangs. Also swapped out was her outfit. When Yusei had found her, she had been wearing a rather tattered black dress and black boots. Now, she was wearing gray capris with those black boots, a black tank top, a brown vest that matched those of the other Enforcers, and black fingerless gloves that reached up almost to her shoulders. Her long black hair was bound, and a metal headband held her bangs out of her face, letting her different-colored eyes show.

The roof wasn't actually the roof. It was more like the top floor of the building, since the actual roof had fallen in years before. There was a table up here, which was where Kalin was standing. Shadow had never been up here before, though she had given Crow orders to at least sweep up a week ago when he had grumbled about the bricks from the wall that had come down with the roof.

Kalin pulled out a map and flattened it on the table. Crow, Jack, Yusei, and Shadow gathered around. Well, Crow, Jack, and Shadow gathered around the table, Yusei just looked over Shadow's head.

"Alright, guys. I didn't want to head into Sector 4 until we were all more familiar with our new teammate. Shadow, I've gotta thank you. We're only a week behind now, and we can make up for that easily," Kalin said.

"We're going after the Magicians Four, right?" Crow asked. Kalin nodded.

"Yes. But there's just one problem. Yusei and I did a little recon on these guys before we found Shadow. They switch hideouts every other day," Kalin told him.

"I take it that they don't have a proper pattern, either," Shadow guessed. Kalin nodded again.

"Yeah. But thanks to Yusei, we should have no problem finding them. Luckily, they only have four hideouts. We split up, and search the hideouts. In all of our duel disks are locater chips that turn on when we get pulled into a duel. When one turns on, a signal is sent to the other duel disks," Kalin explained.

"So we split up and search the separate hideouts. But what about the person that finds them?" Jack asked.

"I'm going to assume that they should purposely lose. In which case, we should take an extra duel disk with us," Shadow said.

"Exactly. In the time it would take one of us to start a duel and then lose, the rest of us will be assembled and ready to strike," Kalin added.

"So to sum up the plan, we're gonna split up to find the hideout they're using tonight, and whoever finds them is going to duel them and purposely lose. Then the others will storm the hideout, supply whoever the decoy was with a new duel disk, and we do what we always do and kick their butts. Did I miss anything?" Crow asked. Shadow smiled and shook her head.

"That's about it," Kalin told him. Jack smiled.

"Piece of cake," he said. Shadow nodded.

"Let's get 'em," she added. Then Kalin's fist shot up into the air, and the rest of the Enforcers mimicked him.

"Alright Enforcers! Move out!" Kalin yelled. Yusei stepped back as the others made use of the fire escape outside, jumping down to the street from the second floor. He watched sadly as they left, understanding that while he hadn't been replaced, he wouldn't be able to help them out there until his arm healed.

However, Shadow was thinking about other things than Yusei. Kalin had ordered her to head for a warehouse on the edge of the territory of the Magicians Four. Crow had headed for another warehouse, Jack went to a closed-down marketplace, and Kalin was going to a subway station. It was these three boys whom she thought about as she ran through the streets, heading for the warehouse. When she arrived, the warehouse appeared deserted, but she knew better than that. Carefully, she approached the warehouse and found the door. She took a deep breath.

Then she kicked the door in. It was dark inside, too. Shadow sighed and walked around for a moment, making sure that the Magicians Four wasn't actually hiding. Then her duel disk beeped. Glancing down, she saw that the light on it was flashing green. Green meant that Crow was dueling. So they were in the other warehouse.

She nodded and ran back out of the hideout, heading north for the second warehouse. She intercepted Kalin on the way, and Jack was waiting for them when they arrived. They all waited, listening carefully to what was going on inside. They prepared themselves as Crow lost the duel.

"Be grateful that destroying your duel disk was the worst thing we did to you!" one of the Magicians Four said to their teammate.

"Uh, hey, why is it flashing red and everything?" another guy asked. Crow started laughing, and Kalin smiled and held out his hand, signaling that they were going to wait for a few seconds.

"Because it's a locater," Crow told them.

"A locater for what?" guy number 1 asked. Shadow could see the smug smirk on Crow's face.

"A locater that, when activated by the owner losing a duel, will bring justice down on you," Crow said. "Speaking of which…"

Shadow grinned. "Showtime, boys."