A/N: Alright, here's the next chapter! Enjoy! We don't own Yugioh GX or Yugioh 5D's.
When they arrived at KaibaCorp, Manjoume handed Aki a briefcase he was going to drop off while he was there, saying it was a gift for Mokuba—his family's way of trying to butter the guy up. Once it was made clear that she would be speaking to Mokuba, they approached the man from yesterday.
"Hi. We're from the Manjoume Group, here to see Mr. Kaiba," Manjoume said, showing the guy his ID card.
"Hmm..." The man looked at it closely. "Very well. Come on in. The president's waiting for you."
"Uh, actually, sir, I'm here to speak with the vice president," Aki said. "Something about Capmon?"
"Ah. You must be here to deliver his special shipment," the man said. "I'll gladly escort you to him right after we get them to their meeting."
"Okay. Thank you, sir."
The man took them to a large meeting room before escorting Aki off to see Mokuba. Kaiba stood in the back of the room, his back to them, wearing his outfit from Battle City. His stance belayed his annoyance.
"Alright, you dorks. What do you want now?" he asked.
"Honestly, I'm not even sure," Manjoume said.
"What?" Kaiba turned and stared for a moment before asking, "Why am I surrounded by an army of losers? What do you weirdos all want?"
"Forgive us for deceiving you, Mr. Kaiba," Yusei said. "But my name is Yusei Fudo, and my friends and I have come a long way just to see you."
"Oh, really?" Kaiba said lamely, a hint of sarcasm in his tone.
"Yes, sir, Mr. Kaiba. But, before I explain, may I ask you, do you believe in traveling through time?"
Kaiba raised an eyebrow. "What?"
"Well, I was just wondering since I hear you shot a rocket into space in order to use the cosmic waves for something? Doesn't that also fall under the category of science fiction?"
Kaiba sighed, realizing what this boy was trying to say. "Okay. When are you from? And why are you here?"
"Seriously?" Judai said. "Wow, Yugi had me thinking that would be harder..."
While they explained their story to him, Aki was shown to Mokuba. She peeked into the room, saying, "Excuse me, sir. May I come in? I have your package with me."
A 21-year-old man stood there with long black hair, looking overly excited. "Alright! Come on in!" he said.
"Wow. You sure sound excited," Aki said, walking into the room. "Are these that cool?"
"You bet they are!" he said, walking over to take the briefcase from her. "Rare, gold-plated level five Capmon? Who wouldn't want those!?"
"Then here you go, sir! I hope you enjoy them," she said as she handed him the briefcase full of Capmon.
"Yahoo! Thanks!"
"No problem, sir," she said. "Say, while I'm here, would you mind me asking a few questions about the stuff you and your brother do here, sir?"
"Like what?" he asked.
"How about we start with one about a space experiment performed by this company years ago? Is it true there were two capsules launched instead of one?"
Mokuba's eyes widened. "Where did you hear that!?"
"So that's a yes?"
"Why does it matter to you?"
"Then it is true," she guessed. "Now, I know this may be hard to grasp, but I know the card's owner. He's, how should I put this? Having a rough time right now, so to speak?"
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"Can you promise me you won't freak out when you hear this?"
Mokuba looked at her lamely. "Please. With all the weirdness my life's had? I promise, it'll take a lot to make me freak out."
"Okay...," Aki said, not sure she wanted to know. "Then I guess hearing that you're talking to someone who's from the distant future won't bother you?"
He crossed his arms. "Huh. That's a twist. Last time, it was the ancient past."
"What!?" Aki demanded, startled. "Wait, are you talking about the Nameless Pharaoh? You knew him?"
"Sure, he was my brother's long-time rival," Mokuba answered casually. "But, anyway, you were saying?"
"Right. Well, anyway, I surprisingly met that boy who won your contest in his late teens. The bad part is he really shouldn't have been there. You see, I'm from 2000 years in the future. So his reason for being there couldn't have been good. I—"
"Wait, what?" Mokuba cut her off, startled.
"I know. It's weird but true. He and my friends are currently having a meeting with your brother because of it. We believe the cause of his problem is directly connected to that extra card, so we're trying to retrieve it."
Mokuba stared at her for a second before asking, "Right, think you can start at the beginning?"
"Judai, the kid in question, was in my time, totally depressed," she began. "I asked him what was wrong, and he ignored me, telling me to leave him alone. My friend, Yusei Fudo, got him to open up to us, and we found out that he'd stopped aging and couldn't die. He'd revive soon after any deaths, no matter what caused them." She paused to let him absorb that.
"...Okay... And, apparently, one of the cards he sent up into space has something to do with this?"
"Yes, sir. He told us that this was because he fused with the card's spirit at the age of eighteen in order to save everyone from it, and that made him part duel monster."
"Okay... So what do you want from us?"
"Well, we figured out that going to space before it's too late and retrieving the card could potentially reverse the events that caused him to have to fuse with it."
Mokuba raised an eyebrow. "So, what? You want a spaceship or something?"
"If that's at all possible, sir," Aki said with a bow.
Mokuba looked thoughtful for a moment. "Alright, let's go see how that meeting with my brother's going," he said at last.
"NONSENSE!" Kaiba bellowed, cutting Yusei off mid-sentence. "The time traveling's bad enough! Do you honestly expect me to believe all that!? If there's one thing I know, it's this! There's no possible way for a human and a duel monster to become one being! Just who do you think I am!?"
Judai muttered, "Yeah, that's more like Yugi said he'd act..."
"Care to prove him wrong? We could always demonstrate," Yubel suggested before laughing lowly.
Judai shrugged, figuring he could do that without hurting anyone. "You want a demonstration?"
"What I want is you idiots out of my face," Kaiba told him. "Now get out before I call security."
"But, sir! You don't understand!" Asuka protested. "We—"
"I said get out!"
"Seto!" Mokuba said as he and Aki entered just in time to hear that.
"I take it things aren't going well?" Aki said.
"Well, he seemed to believe us at first," Yusei said. "But then I mentioned the stuff about Judai, and he changed his mind."
Judai felt an all-too-familiar sensation as Yubel tried to take control of his body. "Judai, I'm taking over! That way, we can really show them what we're made of!"
Kaiba had struck a nerve.
"Hey, cut it out!" Judai protested, resisting her.
"Judai, just once!" she said as she struggled with him. "Just let me have this one super jerk and—"
"Cut it out, Yubel!"
Kaiba humphed. "Quit yelling at yourself. I'm not falling for it."
Judai's eyes started flashing colors, going from their usual brown to orange and green and back again rapidly.
"Judai! Come on! He deserves this! He's the only thing left standing in your way of getting your life back! Why are you so stubborn!? Let's teach him a lesson already!"
"NO!"
Mokuba watched the boy closely. That doesn't look good. Seto, watch yourself...
"Judai! You alright!?" Yusei asked, worried.
"Judai! Just let me do this already!"
He kept fighting, not letting her take control.
"Why won't you ever listen to me? This is the guy the Nameless Pharaoh had trouble with. He'll never listen to us if he doesn't have some really good evidence. And I'm pretty sure my attack will do it. Vines out of nowhere? Get it?"
She was still trying to take over, but she had let up some. She was devoting more of her energy to trying to reason with him.
Yeah, well, is attacking him gonna convince him to help? Judai asked.
Yubel stopped, leaving Judai with a headache. He put a hand to his head.
"Judai?" Aki asked.
Everyone was looking at him with concern. Well, everyone save Seto Kaiba.
"You okay?" Asuka asked.
"Aniki!"
"Just a headache," he said, annoyed. "No big deal..."
"Just a headache!?" Crow exclaimed. "Dude! Your eyes were changing colors at lightning speed! What in the world was that!?"
"Yubel trying to take over because she thinks somebody needs a dose of Nightmare Pain."
On impulse, Yubel responded, "Hey, I didn't say everyone needed some. Just him." She pointed at Kaiba.
"And I didn't say you thought 'everyone' does. Just 'somebody.'"
She humphed. "Sorry. I guess I'm just used to you saying everyone. After all, you usually do..."
This wasn't the first time they'd done this, but, seeing as only he was hearing Yubel right then, Judai wasn't about to go into detail about the other times Yubel had tried to take over. They usually took place when somebody upset him, just like when he was a kid and she'd hurt his friends.
"Yeah, well, maybe you should stop trying to take over all the time!" he said. Then he thought about that for a second. Hmm... Would it hurt any less if I were the back personality? If Yubel was in charge? Oh, geez, what am I thinking? Damn, I'm desperate.
"Enough," Kaiba said, dragging Judai away from his thoughts. "I'm tired of this freak show. Why don't you guys take your mutant act back to the circus where it belongs?"
And all of a sudden, Judai agreed with Yubel—he wanted to hit Kaiba.
"Well?" she asked.
"Seto, maybe you should hear them out," Mokuba said.
"What!?"
"It couldn't hurt to just hear what they have to say, could it? I mean, you're working on an inter-dimensional duel field so you can duel Atem again."
Kaiba growled, looking annoyed. "Fine. You were saying?"
Judai sighed, not expecting Kaiba to believe a word he said. Nevertheless, he continued where Yusei had left off.
"Well, like you've already protested, I'm fused with a duel spirit. See, that Yubel card I asked you to send up into space for me? Yeah, that just made things worse. She came back angry, vengeful, and crazy, trying to hurt me and everyone I cared for, saying it was because she 'loved' me. She sent the school to another dimension, so thanks for putting that inter-dimensional duel field under the tennis courts. It really came in handy for sending Rainbow Dragon for Johan so that he could use it to get us all back. Except, of course, for him."
"What...?" Kaiba asked—he had the duel field the kid had mentioned, but he sure as heck hadn't sent it to Duel Academy...although he was going to.
"Yeah. So, seeing as Johan was a friend of mine and it was my fault he was trapped in another dimension with a crazy duel spirit, I went looking for him when another rift opened up on the island," Judai went on. "My friends tagged along, but it sent us to a different dimension, a place called Dark World."
"I've heard of that place," Aki said. "According to legend, it's a magical land ruled by tiger/human hybrids. It's called Mystic World now, but it was once called Dark World, right before the birth of its first queen, Tania Misawa. But I thought it was just a legend in a children's book!"
"Uh, Tania and Misawa, huh?" Judai said. "Figures they'd do that... Misawa was one of the friends who followed me to Dark World—Daichi Misawa," he explained. "He stayed behind when the rest of us got out of there because he wanted to help the people of that world. His girlfriend, Tania, stayed with him. Well, I guess I know how his life turned out now..."
He shook his head and continued, "Anyway, things were pretty crazy in Dark World, and, to make a long story short, I found Johan, but Yubel was possessing him, so I had to do something to get her out of him. After I managed that, I went to finish things with her once and for all, remembered something from a past life of mine about her being human and us being...friends...and fused with her to fix things."
"Past lives again?" Kaiba asked. "Now I know you're making this up. You read Sugoroku Mutou's book, didn't you?"
"Yeah, somehow, I knew you'd say that... Ugh, why am I even trying?"
"Do it. That's an order," Yubel said angrily.
"I am not taking orders from you because, in case you forgot, I'm in charge here, in more ways than one," he answered. After all, it's my body, and I'm her prince or king or whatever.
She humphed.
Mokuba looked at the boy for a moment before turning to his brother and saying, "Seto, I know it sounds crazy, but, again, you're trying to duel an ancient Egyptian pharaoh in the afterlife using a modern card game."
The mention of dueling pharaohs in the afterlife got Judai thinking of Abidos, who was probably wondering where he was.
Kaiba growled, unable to refute his brother's point.
Judai pulled his thoughts away from Abidos and said, "Yeah, well, I used a card called Super Polymerization, which, apparently, was something that only existed in Dark World, to fuse with her. I wound up with new powers and a body that never ages. Or dies."
There's no way Kaiba's going to believe this. Maybe I should hunt Yugi down and get him to help me out here. But that would be weird...
The look Kaiba was giving him somehow managed to be lame while conveying a great deal of annoyance.
Mokuba looked back at his brother, arms crossed, and asked, "So? What do you think?"
"Do it," Kaiba said, defeated.
"Seriously?" Judai asked.
"I don't care what you do anymore. Just get out of my face. I'll send word to the spaceport to await your arrival. Heck, why stop there? Since we sent the thing into space for you, we might as well help you retrieve it, right?" He sounded pretty annoyed, though it did sound like he was going to help.
"Seto, does this mean you're—"
"Inform the men on KaibaCorp 365," Kaiba said. "They're going to our space ark."
"Alright!" Mokuba said.
"We did it, Judai!" Asuka cheered. "We're almost there now!"
Judai smiled slightly. The rest all cheered or smiled. Okay, Jack and Manjoume tried, but they looked more like they were smirking instead.
Outside, the green-eyed spirit cheered, along with his dancing companion. "They did it! Hooray! One step closer to our goal! You can do it, guys! You can do it!"
Back inside, Yubel said, "See, Judai? We can do this!"
Yeah, he thought. Maybe...
"That's better, I guess," Yubel sighed, thinking that this was an improvement over the complete pessimism.
Winged Kuriboh looked at him sadly. "Kurii..."
"Isono, please escort them all to the flight port for training," Kaiba said to the man who had shown them in.
"Yes, sir, Mr. Kaiba," Isono said. "Right this way, everyone."
As the gang followed Isono to their destination, Manjoume said to Judai, "I'm sorry, but was that a slight smile you had on? 'Cause, if it was, quit doing it. I thought I was gonna gag." To himself, he thought, Warm, fuzzy inside. Give me a break!
"Don't worry," Judai said. "In present company, I can basically guarantee that's not going to be a common thing."
"But why, Aniki?" Sho asked. "That felt so good."
Judai thought about the fact that Asuka and Manjoume were both coming on this trip, then said, "Long story. Too long, and I'm not telling."
"Aniki..."