The Convergence

The large metal door slid open, and Mateo stepped through it, flanked by Yusei and Trudge. They approached the side-by-side cells of Jet and Depp. Their time in the Facility had not been good for them. Jet sat on his bed making airplane sounds with his mouth as he waved a toy airplane around. Depp had filled the sink in his cell with water and had a toy submarine that he kept pulling out of the water and resubmerging. Mateo looked back at Yusei and Trudge, before stepping forward and clearing his throat. "Gentlemen."

Depp looked up from his sink and smiled. He pulled his hands out of the water and dried them on his orange Facility jumpsuit. "Lookie here, Jet! Our old friend Yurigaya is here!"

"What, no inaccurate pirate imitations?"

"When you've spent six months in a jail cell made of reinforced clear steel with only Depp for company, you learn really fast that that is really annoying." Jet replied. "Why are you here?"

"A few weeks ago, two boys by the name of Crow and Leo came to see you two here. They were wondering if you would tell us how you managed to find Shiho and I." Mateo explained. "You told them that you would need a while to decide."

"And?"

"It's been three weeks." Trudge said. "The stake of New Domino City is at stake here! If we can't find Shiho Bengo, he's gonna start attacking people, including the Signers, here!"

"I came personally this time. I need to know this information, guys." Mateo sighed. "Without this method, we can't do what we do and save the city."

Depp and Jet looked at each other through the gaps in their cells, and looked back to Mateo. "We will tell you. But in exchange, we want our sentences cut in half."

"You're already serving three life sentences with no chance of parole, each!" Trudge exclaimed. "But here's what we can do. If you tell us how to track Shiho Bengo, I will personally request you be removed from your near-solitary confinement. We can have you put upstairs with the less violent criminals, but only if you swear to be on your best behavior."

Depp and Jet looked at each other again, and nodded. They turned back to Trudge. "Deal!"

Shiho shuffled his deck for a fourth time. He was feeling apprehensive. He could hear Sasuke approach on the other side of the door. That money Hack just stolen got them off the grid for a bit, and it pulled them out of warehouses and into a nice hotel room. But it wouldn't be long now until the battle with the Signers would be upon him. They had to be ready. Sasuke knocked on the door. "Enter."

Sasuke walked in, and closed the door. "Mateo is somewhere you're not gonna believe."

Shiho turned and faced him.

"That's it?"

"That's it." Depp replied. "You Signers send off different energy types. Each type of Signer sends off a different type."

"The last satellite launch was put up by my cousin Aeron's company. I slipped him a quarter mil, and he had the satellite equipped with a sensor designed to detect these types of signals." Jet added. "Provided satellite 76-5P8 hasn't been brought down by the Rocket Co., the sensor should still be there. And it should get you close, a block apart at the most."

"Trudge, is 76-5P8 still in orbit?" Yusei asked.

"I can't be sure. We'd have to get in contact with Rocket Co.."

"Let's do it, then." Yusei, Mateo, and Trudge turned, and started to leave, but Jet knocked on the wall of his cell and made a metallic ring echo through the room.

"What?!"

"Don't forget to put in for our transfer." Trudge sighed as Depp said this. He held out his hand, and a guard handed him a tablet. He typed a few keys on the tablet, and handed it back to the guard.

"There. Request of transfer sent."

"Thank you, Director Trudge."

"Yeah, yeah." Trudge turned, and walked out, Mateo and Yusei in pursuit.

"He was talking to Jet and Depp?" Shiho asked. He snickered. "Man, Mateo must be getting desperate."

"Who are Jet and Depp?"

"Oh, they're these bounty hunters who tried to capture us about six or seven months ago. Somehow, they managed to track us to where we were on the Duel Tracks, and challenged us to a duel. Mateo used Red Nova Dragon and Majestic Star Dragon to defeat Depp and Jet respectively."

"Do you think they're planning on getting intel from them in order to find us?" Hack asked. Shiho sighed.

"That's the only reason I can think of for why he'd go to them."

"So what are we going to do?"

"Hide in plain sight. Mateo's never really seen you two, and you can keep him off Adachi's trail. Go into hiding for a bit." Shiho picked his deck up. "I'll take care of Yurigaya."

"What do you think you're gonna find when you do find Shiho?"

"I have no idea. All I know is that we must stop him before he can destroy everything. Including himself."

"Hopefully he hasn't finished finding the Signers of the Azure Dragon." Yusei replied. "But since we don't know anything about it other than it is a rival of the Crimson Dragon, we don't know how many Signers there are for it."

"Mmhm. We'll need to work quickly. I know he defeated Adachi in a duel, which means there is at least one Azure Signer on his side."

"Hopefully that satellite is still in orbit." Yusei said as Trudge hung up the phone. He approached them.

"I've got good news and bad news." He explained. "The good news is that satellite 76-5P8 is still in orbit, and will be passing over New Domino City soon. The bad news is that it's coming down in a day. If we don't locate them now, we may not get a chance to, again."

"Then let's do this." Yusei approached a computer and started clicking away at the buttons, hacking into the satellite system. He located and selected 76-5P8 and brought up the specs. He selected the sensor, and it brought up an image of New Domino City. There was a large red mass around the area where Yusei's garage should be, as well as a couple of blue dots in the district where the Facility was located. But in the middle of the city was a large blue blob. Yusei zoomed in on that location, and narrowed it down to one of two buildings. "He's either in this hotel, the Sunnybrook, or this one, the Relaxing Fortress."

"Those are some of the strangest names I've ever heard for hotels."

"This city is full of weird stuff like that."

"Well anyways, we should get to it." Mateo pulled his coat on, and checked his Deck box to make sure his deck was there. "We've got a city to save."

The door to the rooftop of the Relaxing Fortress swung open and hit the wall with a metallic clunk. Mateo stepped onto the roof and looked around, Yusei and Trudge in pursuit. Mateo saw that Shiho wasn't on the roof, but he saw a person standing in the center of the hotel across the street, the Sunnybrook. He took a couple steps forward, when his phone started to ring. He answered it. "Shiho?"

"Very good." Shiho replied. "So. You found me."

Mateo noticed that the person on the other side of the street on the Sunnybrook was also on his phone. He was dressed like Shiho. "Looks that way."

"I hear you had the help of Jet and Depp. How'd they manage to find me?"

"Turns out we give off energy." Mateo answered. "They simply tracked it."

"Interesting."

"I'd like to talk with you about it, further, but something tells me you don't want to talk."

"That would be a correct assumption."

"Where's your friend Adachi?"

"He's with the others."

"Others?"

"The other two Azure Signers. That's right. I got to them first."

"It's not too late to stop this, Shiho."

"Of course it is! When I defeat you, you'll die, and then the Signers will be in disarray! There will be no way your side could defeat us!"

"We'll see." Mateo looked down at his watch. "If this duel has to happen, then let's bring it on in style. Meet me at the Duel Stadium in half an hour."

"I can meet you there in ten minutes."

"Be there in ten if you want, then. I won't be there until 5."

"Very well then." Shiho hung up the phone before Mateo could say anything else. He turned back to Yusei and Trudge as Shiho walked off the other rooftop.

"I'm going to have one of the most challenging duels ever." He said. "Will you stand by my side?"

"We all will." Yusei answered. "Go give him hell."