A/N: I OWN NO PART YU GI OH 5DS! ALL RIGHTS GO TO THE CREATORS!

Chapter 19: The Man with Amnesia

Third Person POV

Era sat behind Yusei as he sped up his duel runner. She was beginning to grip a bit tighter but Yusei knew it was looser than what he would've expected. So he was thankful to realize she was starting to get over her fear of riding duel runners.

But even with his mind on that, he was also thinking about the speed of his duel runner, 'This kind of speed is no good! I need a new engine that can surpass the limits no matter what.'

"Yusei, remember what I told you that Yue and I figured out for Accel Synchro," Era told him in Angelic making him turn to her. "Remember, Vizor seemed to have a clear mind when he went to do his Accel Synchro. And his duel runner was going at a normal speed right before he began his synchro summoning. I'm not entirely sure the speed of a duel runner is what achieves Accel Synchro."

"How did you know I was thinking about that?" Yusei asked his girlfriend.

"I've known you for a long time, Yusei. Remember, I've been watching and protecting you since you were a baby. After all that time, wouldn't you think I would know how to read you enough to have a good idea as to what you're thinking about?" she replied.

"I guess," Yusei answered. "But do you really think it's a clear mind that allows one to use Accel Synchro?"

"It's definitely a possibility," Era answered. "So maybe sometime you can try to use a clear mind to achieve it."

"Maybe," he agreed. He pulled up to the Infinity Tower's overlook point and stopped where we got off. Era leaned on the railing again. "Are you going to come to dinner that Trudge and Mina all invited us for?" He slowly wrapped his arms around her waist from behind.

"No, I need to look for demons tonight," Era answered.

"Then I'm staying with you," Yusei decided.

"Yusei, no. You need to talk to Trudge and Mina," Era retorted looking at him over her shoulder.

"Era, I need to protect you. And if you go alone and Brehnam catches you like he did last time, I won't be there to help you get away," Yusei refused and Era looked down seeing his reasoning. He brought her in closer. "I can't risk losing you like that. So just come with us, alright? So I know you're safe."

"But…" Era began but Yusei cut her off.

"No 'buts', Era,' he interrupted. "It's either you come with us and stay by my side, or I'm scouting demons with you by my side."

She sighed in defeat. "Fine. You win. I'll go with you," she gave in.

"Good," Yusei responded and kissed her temple lovingly. Era leaned back into his hold making him hold her tighter.

Era's POV

Later that night, Trudge and Mina sat across from Yusei, Jack, Crow, and I in a fancy restaurant. As soon as we got the food, me just settling with water as I had my weekly meal yesterday, Crow dug in.

"Thanks. I don't know what this is about but…" Crow stopped mid-sentence and noticed Jack and Yusei weren't eating. "Come on, guys, eat."

Jack folded his arms as he said, "This is strange."

Mina and Trudge coughed a bit and Mina asked, stuttering a bit, "W-What is it?"

"Martha always told me, 'Nothing in this world is free. Be thankful to those who speak strict words to you. Watch out for a person who talks to nicely'. Era's also taught me that," Yusei replied.

"It's just as Yusei says. You wouldn't treat them like this for no reason," Jack agreed.

Trudge and Mina obviously were getting nervous. "W-What is it?" Trudge stuttered like Mina.

"So there's no strings attached?" Jack asked.

Trudge hesitantly replied, "Truth is, I have a small favor to ask you."

"I knew it," Jack responded.

"It's nothing too difficult. We found a person with memory loss. We were wondering if you could take care of him," Mina told them.

"Why should we do something like that?" Yusei asked. I knew he was right, I would've even asked that. Trudge and Mina could've found someone else to take care of the guy. There was no true reason to ask them as far as I could tell.

"Right now, New Domino City is busy with the tourists and turbo duelists. It's okay if just for a little while," Mina replied.

"Our garage isn't a hotel," Jack retorted.

"Besides, we can't take care of anyone right now anyways," Crow added still eating.

"Come on, Yusei," Trudge begged.

"Sorry, but we can't," Yusei responded.

"Jack, please," Mina begged.

"No," Jack refused bluntly.

"Can't you do something?" Trudge continued.

"Sorry, but we really can't," Crow intervened.

They looked at me. "Guys, I just stay there when I need to rest after scouting for demons. Other than that, I just hang out there. It's there place so I have no right to make a decision for them," I told them.

"You're being treated to something like this and you plan to refuse?" Trudge asked mad.

"Where is he right now?" Crow asked.

"He should have been here a long time ago," Trudge remarked.

"If he doesn't come, we can't do anything," Crow told them.

Later, we walked back into the garage. As we walked, Crow said, "That was close. We were about to take in a stranger."

"That's because you ate all that food without paying attention to the details," Jack remarked.

"That's because I never know when I'll eat food like that again!" Crow retorted while Yusei and I sighed.

That's when we noticed someone working on Jack's runner. Jack and Crow then noticed as well.

"What're you doing to my runner?!" Jack asked angry. "Are you one of those duel runner thieves?" he then punched the man in the face so hard, the man flew to the ground. "Don't ever come near my duel runner again! Be glad I'm only doing this to you!" He then drove off.

I helped the person up while Yusei asked him, "Are you okay?"

"Guys, we should just leave that guy alone," Crow told us.

"I don't think that's a good idea," I responded. I saw a lot of light in the man and looked at Yusei who nodded, silently telling me he saw it as well.

Trudge and Mina ran over. "What happened?" Trudge asked.

"It wasn't Jack's fault," Crow replied and pointed over to the man next to Yusei and I. "It's because this guy messed with Jack's duel runner."

"Bruno!" Mina called at the man. "Why are you in a place like this?"

Bruno got on his knees and apologized, "Sorry. I thought his duel runner was amazing and I got sucked up into it."

"Is this the person you wanted us to look after?" Yusei asked.

"Yeah," Mina answered.

"What should we do?" Crow asked Yusei.

"Even if I asked him to…" Yusei was cut off by Jack coming in.

Jack grabbed Bruno and said, "I'll return him later." He then rode off again.

"What's going on?" Crow wondered.

"Let's go," Yusei said and turned to Mina and Trudge as I boarded behind him. "Let us handle the rest."

We found Bruno being thrown to the ground. "Please stop," Bruno begged. "I hate violence." I flew off Yusei's runner and grabbed Jack's arm to hold him back.

"Jack, what's gotten into you all of a sudden?" Crow asked the Signer.

Jack ignored him and asked Bruno, "What did you do to my runner?"

"What're you talking about?" Yusei wondered.

"My duel runner's power has increased," Jack answered surprising me and Yusei.

"All I did was adjust the computer in your runner a bit," Bruno told Yusei.

"Yusei tried to increase the power of our duel runners so much," Crow stated. "And you did all of that in that short amount of time."

"That's the only thing I can think of," Jack added.

I followed Yusei as he walked up to Bruno and placed his hands on Bruno's shoulders, kindly asking him, "How did you do it?"

Bruno got up and went to a computer with Jack's runner on it. "I changed the timing of the boosters so it can power up slightly," he informed.

"I hadn't noticed it before," I said and Yusei nodded in agreement.

"What're they talking about?" Crow asked.

"I have no idea," Jack replied. "Don't let your guard down. I can't think of him as being an ally." I looked at Jack and Crow making them turn back to us.

"Guys, he isn't that bad. He actually has a lot of light in him," I told them mentally and they looked at me shocked. I returned my attention to Bruno explaining.

"This is also applied to Crow and your duel runners," he told Yusei. "If I tweak the program, the power should be greater than now."

"Really?" Crow asked.

"Crow, are you listening to what he's saying?" Jack asked.

Bruno turned to Crow. "I'll adjust it right away," he told the bird named man. Crow began thrilled about it while Jack face-palmed.

"Is your name…" Yusei asked but Bruno finished.

"Yeah, my name is Bruno," he answered. "You're Yusei, Crow, Era, and Jack, right?" We nodded.

"With your skills, I want you to look at this. It's not moving so well," Yusei said and brought him over to his duel runner's computer.

"This is the Ener-D engine using your project," Bruno responded.

"Does it still rotate?" Crow asked.

"It doesn't yet," Yusei replied.

"It's just using a program right now. But it's better for you to use it," Bruno added. "The Ener-D in a duel runner engine gets worn down as it is used."

"But you can use the program to improve the speed, right?" I asked.

"Right," he answered.

"Isn't that what the new engine was for?" Jack asked. "Are you making a mistake?"

"Can you stay quiet for a while? We're talking about something important right now," Yusei told Jack. I was too caught up into what they were talking about to correct Yusei's actions. I needed to learn this too.

But I did hear Jack ask, "Are you serious?" We ignored him and continued to talk to Bruno.