Kairi: Well, I figure, even if no-one's bothering to give me opinions on this, I can at least keep updating for a while, since I've got through Chapter 13 done. Anyway, I don't own anything. Just, please review.

Chapter III

Trouble

Kalin smiled and Jack nodded, then the three of them busted down their part of the wall. Crow was on his knees on the floor in front of four men, all of whom seemed shocked and afraid when the Enforcers burst in. Shadow threw Crow the extra duel disk she had picked up on her way there from the spot Kalin had hidden it. The carrot-head put the duel disk on and grabbed his deck from the broken duel disk on the floor.

Then the Enforcers went after the Magicians Four. One of the Magicians turned the lights off, but that didn't slow Shadow down at all. She threw one of her duel claws and caught one of the guys easily. Then the duel was started.

"You're gonna lose, little girl," the guy sneered. Shadow sighed.

"I wish you idiots would stop calling me 'little,'" she mumbled. "I'll go first then. I draw! I summon Galactic Hero – Mars in attack mode!"

All around the warehouse, the Enforcers and the Magicians Four battled for supremacy. Within minutes, Crow, Kalin, and Jack were finished. However, Shadow had caught the leader, and it was taking her just a little longer to defeat him.

"And now you're finished! Go on, Galactic Fairy Nebula! Show him who's boss!" Shadow shouted as the largest of the three fairies on her field swooped in to attack her opponent's life points directly.

"You can attack all you want, but the fact is, you still can't do any damage. And thanks to my bomb, your monsters will be gone during my next end phase," her opponent said. Shadow smirked.

"You seem to be overlooking Nebula's special ability. See, when one of my monsters is due to be sent to the graveyard within the next three turns, she becomes immune to the effects of any and all cards. And, thanks to your bomb, that applies to pretty much all of my monsters!" Shadow said as Nebula's attack hit home and an electric current rushed into her opponent's duel disk, destroying it. Then she turned around and walked over to her teammates. "Well, that's done. Next?"

Crow, Kalin, and Jack laughed. "Let's just head home for now," Kalin said. He turned around and the other three Enforcers followed him. When they returned to the hideout, everything was quiet.

"Huh. I wonder where Yusei is," Crow mumbled. Jack shrugged.

"He probably went to bed already. It's almost midnight," he said. Kalin shook his head.

"No, something's not right," he told her. He ran up to the room he and Yusei shared. It was empty. "Yusei!" he shouted. There was no response. Shadow ran up to the room she and Crow had cleaned out for her, and returned with three cards. She activated her duel disk and placed the cards on it, and they came to life. One was the relatively-familiar Galactic Fairy – Shine, and the other two were copies of Asteroid Bird. Kalin came back downstairs and noticed the duel monsters.

"What are you doing?" he asked. The two birds started to spread out, while the fairy floated around lazily.

"Yusei isn't here. So the birds are either going to find him or give us some hint as to where he is, since their sense of smell is about as good as a wolf's, and don't ask me why. Also… I've got a really bad feeling about this," she told him.

"What's pinky for?" Crow asked.

"I pulled Shine out for relaying messages if and when the birds move out of range of each other," she explained. Then one of the birds stopped. It cawed scathingly and flapped its wings twice, hard, before it glanced over at Shadow. "What?!" she whispered, apparently communicating with the duel monster. The shocked look on her face quickly melted into anger.

"What's wrong?" Jack questioned her.

"One of the other gangs has been by here. They took Yusei," she told the others quietly. The bird that had caught the scent headed outside, picking up the trail and beginning to follow it.

"We've got to get him back!" Crow said. Kalin nodded.

"Right," he said.

"Alright then. Follow the birds," Shadow told them. The Enforcers left the hideout for the second time that night. They followed the birds through the streets of Satellite. Kalin carefully kept track of which sector they were in at all times, so that he would know exactly which duel gang had been responsible for the kidnapping of their best friend. Shadow was concerned for Yusei as well. He had protected her, offered her a shelter, and connected her to three awesome friends.

One of the Asteroid Birds stopped suddenly and looked around the area where they were standing, as if sniffing around. Then it reached a door. Shadow quietly looked over the warehouse, wondering if Yusei was inside. The bird stayed stationary and looked over its shoulder at Shadow, who, in turn, looked back at Kalin.

"Alright. There shouldn't be a duel gang in this area, but we'll just have to fix that as we go along," he said. Shadow nodded and approached the door, listening for anything on the other side. Then she opened it, with Jack, Crow, and Kalin right behind her. Inside, it was dark, but that didn't mean anything. Asteroid Bird moved ahead of them, looking for any signs of Yusei. Then he stopped again and started sniffing a large stack of crates. The crates themselves were quite large, but even with two stacked high, a height of about six feet, Asteroid Bird had no problems going over them.

Kalin helped Shadow and Crow up, then they helped Jack and Kalin. Just as the four of them stood and prepared to follow Asteroid Bird, the bird started squawking. Shadow ran straight for the sound, and the others were on her heels. They jumped down and ran along a path made of crates. Hidden behind the crates was a complex maze. In a large, cleared-out area, Yusei lay completely still in a small puddle of blood. The blood was from his left arm, which had been cut open. Shadow pulled her vest off and covered his wound, but she knew that she had to so something more or Yusei wouldn't make it.

"So you came after your pal after all," a sinister voice echoed out of the darkness. Shadow was trying to pull a card out of her deck. Jack, Kalin, and Crow stood up, ready to protect Yusei and Shadow, whom they realized was trying to help Yusei. Shadow removed the Asteroid Birds from her duel disk and put it in her pocket. Then she summoned Galactic Hero – Saturn. Saturn started to glow in a golden light, and that golden light encompassed Yusei as well. The cut on his arm healed easily, and Crow wondered if the broken bone had healed as well. However, as soon as the feat was done, the monsters on Shadow's duel disk were put away. Shine's pink glow disappearing left them in total darkness.

Shadow tried to stand, but fell back down. Then the lights came on.

"It's about time you Enforcers got here. We were getting tired of waiting, weren't we, boys?" the apparent leader said. Shadow growled.

"You know what? I am going to kick your asses. Right about now," she said. Then she pulled out a Syncro monster and summoned it before managing to stand.

"I'm really not in the mood to play fair at the moment, so I'll just give you idiots about ten seconds to run," she added as a dark dragon covered in millions of miniscule dots of colored light appeared. The opposing gang's eyes got big, and they started running. But as Shadow pulled the dragon off of her duel disk, she started to sway.

"Whoa! I think you over-did it a little bit," Kalin said, supporting her. She groaned in response before losing consciousness. Kalin wrapped her arm around his shoulders and started moving. Jack and Crow did their best to help Yusei. Shortly, they were all back at the Enforcers' headquarters again. Yusei was almost conscious, but Shadow was far from it. Kalin laid her down in her bed, then headed into the kitchen to talk to the others.

"That was…" Crow started. Then he stopped and shook his head.

"I know. I'm a little concerned about the way Shadow loses consciousness whenever she uses that power of hers too much," Yusei said. Kalin sighed.

"I'm actually a little concerned about what it could mean for our team," he said slowly. He looked around at the others, but he couldn't force himself to look Yusei in the eye.

"You're not saying what I think you're saying, are you?" Yusei whispered. Kalin closed his eyes, afraid to answer honestly. "We can't throw her back out onto the streets! She's as much a part of our team now as Crow and I are!" he shouted.

"I know that! But if the other gangs find out about her power, they'll start acting differently. And if the remaining gangs formed an alliance against her, not even the four of us and her powers combined could save her!" Kalin argued.

"But that's why we have to strike first," Shadow said, walking into the room. Kalin turned around, startled. "You're right, Kalin. And if the other duel gangs grouped up, I'd run away. I'd run into their hands and dance right back out," she told them. She looked up at them with a sad smile. "I know Satellite now. I know how to survive. If worse came to worst, I'd leave. I wouldn't risk endangering you four."

"Shadow—" Yusei started. She held up a hand.

"But I don't want to have to leave. Which is why we don't have much other choice. We have to take out the other duel gangs, and faster than we normally would. Or at least discourage them from grouping together. Any two duel gangs with any kinds of ties; we take at least one of them out," Shadow said.

"It won't leave as much time for recon, though, which is normally the key to our missions," Kalin said. Shadow smiled.

"Duel monsters roam this world unseen. Even without summoning one into this world fully, I can put more than five to work investigating. I guess it helps that I can see and speak to duel monsters even when they aren't on this plane," she added. Kalin smiled again, and the other teens mimicked the action.

"Alright then. No more talk of cutting Shadow loose, got it?" Jack decided. Yusei nodded.

"Never," Crow said. Kalin raised his fist.

"Once a team, always a team, right Enforcers?" he cried.

"Right!"

"Yuri, where are you going?" Chinaku asked her friend. Yuri was riding around on something she and Sora had been working on; a skateboard that was designed so that they could turbo duel on it.

"Right now? In circles. Why?" Yuri replied. Chinaku rolled her eyes as the two boys walked up. One of them had black hair and green eyes.

"You aren't going to ride in circles all morning, are you?" he asked. The other boy sighed.

"She might," he said, running a hand through his wild, dark blue hair. He then stuck his hands in his pockets. "But, you're going for Sora, right, Yuri?"

Yuri continued to ride in circles and figure-8's for a few minutes. "I don't know, Aikibo. She's not in Neo Domino," she finally said. Chinaku crossed her arms.

"Then let's go to Satellite and search there," the redhead decided. Kuro glanced at her.

"That may not be such an intelligent idea. Even if we did make it, we'd have duel gangs to worry about," he told her. Chinaku rolled her eyes.

"We can beat them. There's four of us, and admit it; we're all good duelists," she argued. Aikibo frowned.

"But how are we getting there?" he asked. Chinaku sighed, but Yuri never stopped riding in circles.

"Are you dizzy yet?" Kuro asked after a few minutes. Yuri finally stopped and gave the group one of her rare genuine smiles.

"Not dizzy at all, Kuro. But I do know how we're going to get to Satellite."

Kairi: Oh, forgot to mention that some names have been changed. (I don't know if I've updated the prologue to account for that yet, but I can't do it now as I'm already running late.) Anyway, Miyoku became Chinaku, Dark became Kuro, and Odin was replaced by Aikibo (since Odin drops in again later). Sora and Yuri stayed, obviously. So, yeah. Also, I didn't realize until I put up Chapter 4 that I forgot to put this chapter up... Oops...