Reiji slowly got up off the floor following his own mother taking one of his Pendulum Cards. Reiji could easily replace it but that wasn't the point. He had given Academia the power of the Pendulum.

Reiji looked around his office and all his technology had been disabled thanks to Himika. He quickly ran to his office door and opened it.

Much to his surprise, LDS was still standing despite his fears. Workers were walking around as normal. Reiji made his way into the corridor and walked down the tower floors.

Control Room

Reiji walked into his control room and saw all the staff overseeing the tournament via their computer monitors. One staff member saw Reiji walk in and stood up. The others all followed and stood for the CEO. Reiji made his way to the edge of the platform.

"What is the status on the tournament?" asked Reiji.

"Er sir." said a LDS staff worker.

"What is it?" replied Reiji.

"You need to see this footage to believe it." One worker hit a button on his computer and a video came up on the big screen.

The screen played footage of Sora VS Yugo. Reiji watched with shock and then anger as he saw Sora's conversation with Yugo. Reiji also spotted Sora holding some cards in his hand.

"Zoom in." said Reiji. The video zoomed in and Reiji saw something which he had feared. A majority of the senior competitors had been carded. Reiji slammed his fists down onto the bars of his platform. "NO!"

"Sorry sir, we couldn't contact you."

"Yes. We have a problem." said Reiji. "Himika Akaba was a mole for Academia. She blocked all communications to and from my office." Each member of staff looked at each other with shock and looked back to Reiji. "She took out the original Lancers and reported on our doings to Leo Akaba. Yes, my father is behind this." Once again the staff were shocked.

"But… sir…is there more?"

"Not within LDS, no. But Mother had friends in high places. I dread to think what she has in mind. The Maiami Championship was a way to find new Lancers. I thought we had more time, but now they're here."

"What now Mr Akaba?" asked a female worker.

"Lock down the Real Solid Vision. Contain the Academia soldiers within."

"But the duelists are still in ther-"

"Do it!" shouted Reiji. "They got this far into the tournament, they're all Lancers now."

The staff all begun to type away at their computers to seal off the Real Solid Vision field. However as they did, error messages begun showing up on the computers. Each time an error came up, the staff would try again. Reiji watched over from his platform with concern. "What is happening?!" he demanded.

"It appears we're being blocked from doing so!" said one worker.

"Well unblock it then!"

"We can't!" As the member of staff spoke, a loud explosion could be heard from lower down of the LDS tower. Milliseconds after the explosion, the whole room shook with a heavy vibration. The room suffered such a heavy shook that inside, everyone was seeing the room tilt from left and room and everyone including Reiji struggled to keep their balance. Reiji dropped down the floor and slowly got back up as the dizziness faded.

"What was that?!" shouted Reiji. The staff also regained their composure and tried looking at their computers but most were heavily damaged. The computers were sparking and some were even cracked opened. One computer was still barely working and was fizzing around. One female staff typed away and some live, grey, CCTV footage appeared from outside. It caught the woman out by surprise. "Respond!" demanded Reiji.

"Sir…. I don't know how to say this but… it looks like a Duel School! And not from Fusion!"

"What do you mean?!"

"It looks like…. Ryozanpaku School! With different duel disks!"

"What?!"

Action Field - Forest

"Yuya! Rin! Gongenzaka! Anyone?!" yelled Yuzu as she tried to connect to anyone of her friends via her duel disk. She ran along the forest field with a burst of pace as she tried to keep up with the Obelisk Blue students on the other side of the tress. However the issues suffered at LDS tower was now making all the duel disks act up.

"Why is no one answering?!" said Yuzu as she kept trying. She looked from her duel disk to the Obelisk Blue students who increased in numbers. "They have to be… Academia… they look so organized." she thought.

LDSA

"Ryozanpaku?! But what… why?!" shouted Reiji. "Unless…. did… did Mother actually enlist help from this Fusion Duel School?!"

"Sir! They're breaking into LDS now!" said one worker.

On the ground floor the different students who wore ropes, along with Kachidoki, walked around the ground floor. Their head teacher, Ryozan Godagawa walked in afterwards.

"Good job students." said Ryozan. "Academia has rewarded us for our loyalty. These new Fusions are very strong. Make your way up the levels! Taking out the communication generators has given us a clear advantage, but now head to the next floor and cancel all current duels in the tournament. "

"Yes sir!" yelled the students who all made their way up the stairs.

"Remember, card the non-duelists and dispose of the duelists in a victorious duel. The more we duel, the more we prove to the Professor that we are strong enough for his new utopia."

Action Field - Ruins

Yuya had his Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon out in three-way duel against Mieru and Gongenzaka. The other two controlled Superheavy Samurai Ogre Shutendoji and Prediction Princess Tarotrei. The battle continued within the Ruins.

"Ok Odd-Eyes, go attack Mieru!" yelled Yuya. Odd-Eyes charged forward and unleashed a beam of darkness.

"Hey not fair!" shouted Meiru as the dark beam headed towards her Ritual monster. As the beam shot forward, it began glitching before fading away. This took everyone by shock.

"Hey?! Where did my attack go?" asked Yuya.

"My duel disk isn't reading any duels." said Gongenzaka. Yuya and Mieru checked theirs and also no sign.

"The system must be glitching up." said Yuya. "It happened all the time at You Show. Though… why is the Action Field still up?"

In another part of the Ruins, Hikage and his brother Tsukikage were walking along as their duel against each other had ended early as well.

As they walked alone, they could see the knocked out knights from Shun and Shingo's duel, being surrounded by three male students in blue uniform.

"Well this was easy!" said the first student with black spiky hair, as he clicked his duel disk and the three knights were turned into the cards. Hikage and Tsukikage were shocked.

"What is this?" said Tsukikage.

"Magic?" added Hikage. The three students turned around and smirked.

"Well well well. What do we have here?" said the second student with short brown hair. "Finally some duelists." he said as he smacked his fists together.

"What is that duel disk?" said Tsukikage. "These are not tournament entrants."

"No!" said the third with long purple hair. "We are Academia, and you shall be duel us and face the same fate!"

"Academia?" said Hikage. He turned to his brother. "Is this all a joke?"

"You make your mind up." said student one as he held up the three carded knights. Hikage looked towards Tsukikage.

"Brother, you can move quicker then I, report this to someone."

"I shall." said Tsukikage. "Good luck Brother, get to the bottom of this." Tsukikage disappeared from the scene. Hikage activated his duel disk while the students activated theirs with a purple sword blade.

"This shall be one VS three!" said student two. "And no drawing on the first turn but you can attack apart from the first player!"

"I have no other choice!" said Hikage.

Turn 1

Students LP: 4000 X 3 Hand: 5

Hikage LP: 4000 Hand: 5

"I shall start." said student one. "I summon Ancient Gear Wyvern!" A rusting grey metalled dragon came to the field. It had sliver gears for joints and a giant gear on its neck.

Ancient Gear Wyvern ATK: 1700 DEF: 1200 Earth/Machine/LVL 4

"I add an Ancient Gear card from my deck thanks to its effect! Ancient Gear Castle is my choice and I play it!" The Continuous Spell Card spun around onto the field. "It increases all Ancient Gears monsters attack by 300."

Wyvern ATK: 2000

"Next I playAncient Gear Explosive! I destroy my Wyvern and hit you with half of my monsters original attack!" Wyvern disappeared and Hikage took damage from a shock.

Hikage LP: 4000 – 3150

"Damn." said Hikage. "Already hitting me with damage."

"I end my turn." said one. "You will only get one turn! Make it count!"

Turn 2

Students LP: 4000 X 3 Hand: 3, 5, 5

Hikage LP: 3150 Hand: 5

"I shall! If you control a monster and I do not, then I can Special Summon Earth Amour Ninja!" A ninja wearing a brown outfit appeared. His facemask was half sliver and brown.

Earth Amour Ninja ATK: 1600 DEF: 1200 Earth/Warrior/LVL 4

"Then I summon Ninja Grandmaster Hanzo." A black dress ninja appeared with red markings across his outfit.

Ninja Grandmaster Hanzo ATK: 1800 DEF: 1000 Dark/Warrior/LVL 4

"My Castle activates! When a monster is Normal Summoned, it gains a counter!"

Castle Counter: 1

"Hanzo's effect" countered Hikage. "I can add a Ninjustu Art card from my deck. I add the Trap, Armor Ninjitsu Art of Rust Mist. I set four cards!"

"FOUR?!" all the students shouted.

"I don't know who you are, but I shall protect the people here. That is the way of Fuma."

"Fuma? Is that your duel school?"

"It is. And me and my brother serve its teachings proudly." All three students paused for a minute and burst out laughing. "What is it?!" said Hikage with anger.

"Your duel school taught you this?! No wonder it's easy!" said student two.

"Yeah, if these are your teachings, then our duel school will trample yours! Glory on the Academia!" added student three.

"Academia? Never heard of it, however, how dare you mock Fuma! I end my turn!"

Turn 3

Students LP: 4000 X 3 Hand: 3, 5, 5

Hikage LP: 3150 Hand: 0

"Excellent! My turn!" said two. "I summon Ancient Gear Solider!" A giant metalled monster appeared with a huge sliver gear in its left shoulder.

Ancient Gear Solider ATK: 1300 DEF: 1300 Earth/Machine/LVL 4

"Castle increases its attack by 300!"

Solider ATK: 1600

Castle Counter: 2

"Next I equip Ancient Gear Tank to my Solider! Bumping up its attack by 600!" Solider jumped up and a motorcycle which was grey appeared. It had big tires with grip and a gun at the front. He landed on the seat.

Solider ATK: 2200

"I use three Continuous Traps!" said Hikage.

"THREE?!" all shouted.

"First is Ninjitsu Art of Duplication! I target a Ninja monster on my field and then Special Summon one or more Ninja monsters from my deck whose levels add up or equal that monsters level. I target Hanzo and bring forth a level four monster! Appear Twilight Ninja Shingetsu!" A green and black dressed Ninja appeared.

Twilight Ninja Shingetsu ATK: 1500 DEF: 100 Dark/Warrior/LVL 4

"My second Trap is Ninjitsu Art of Decoy! I target my Shingetsu and my third is Armor Ninjitsu Art of Rust Mist! Decoy stops my Shingetsu from being destroyed by battle and Rust Mist halves any Special Summoned monsters attack, just as long as I control a Ninja!"

"Sneaky like a Ninja. Fine! Attack his Hanzo!" Solider aimed his equipped tank at Hanzo and fired a red missile. The missile was about to hit Hanzo before it redirected at Shingestu. This caught the students out by surprise. "What is this?!"

"While Shingestu is on the field, you cannot target Ninja's expect this one for an attack."

"And due to Decoy… it's safe! Damnit!" said three. Two chuckled and then smirked. The missle hit Shingestu and Hikage took some more damage.

Hikage LP: 3150 - 2450

"It makes no difference. I play the Spell Ancient Gear Explosive. I destroy my Solider and inflict damage to you equal to half of its original attack!" Solider exploded and Hikage took a hit from some flying metal this time.

Hikage LP: 2450 - 1800

"When Tank is destroyed, you take 600 points of damage!" Hikage shielded his eyes as he was electrocuted from his duel disk.

Hikage LP: 1800 - 1200

"I end my turn with a set card!" said two. Hikage looked weakened.

"I shall continue… to fight." he said.

Turn 4

Students LP: 4000 X 3 Hand: 3, 2, 5

Hikage LP: 1200 Hand: 0

"Well not for long. I shall win on this turn!" said three.

"If I can… just hold on…. until my turn…" said Hikage.

"I play Ancient Gear Recycle! I can use an Ancient Gear card on someone else's field!"

"Someone else's?!" One and two nodded to three, they smirked.

"I take advantage of Ancient Gear Castle and I play its effect! This was once known as the Tribute Dimension, before becoming Standard, this will fit in well here."

"Dimension?! What is this?" said Hikage.

"It doesn't matter; soon you will be a card! I can use the counters on this card as monsters for a Tribute Summon! Since I have two counters, by Tributing this card, I can Tribute Summon with it! I treat is as two monsters!" Castle disappeared from the field and the student smirked. "Appear! Ancient Gear Golem!" A giant metal warrior appeared.

Ancient Gear Golem ATK: 3000 DEF: 3000 Earth/Machine/LVL 8

Hikage looked at the colossus of a monster and begun to sweat with panic. "This… this is…"

"Your end? Not just yet. I Ancient Gear Double Imitation! I Special Summon two Ancient Gear monsters from either players graveyards and bring them to the field with their effects negated! Return Wyvern and Solider!" Both Ancient Gears appeared on threes field and all three smirked.

"But their attacks are halved thanks to Mist!" added Hikage.

Ancient Gear Solider ATK: 650 DEF: 1300 Earth/Machine/LVL 4

Ancient Gear Wyvern ATK: 850 DEF: 1200 Earth/Machine/LVL 4

"No difference. Now for your end! I play Polymerization and fuse these three Ancient Gears!"

"Fusion?!" replied Hikage. "But I still have a chance." he thought as he looked at his final set card.

"Solider, Wyvern and Golem. It's time to unite and form the ultimate machine! Appear before us! Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem!" A four legged giant came to the field. It had brown amour with a giant cord tail. He had a giant sliver claw for a left hand and a huge fist on the right.

Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem ATK: 4400 DEF: 3400 Earth/Machine/Fusion/LVL 10

Hikage looked panicked but then snapped back to normal. "Mist activates! My Trap halves your Special Summoned monster!"

Golem ATK: 2200

"Very good." said one.

"But not good enough!" said two. "I play my Trap! Pulse Mines! If I control a Machine monster, all monsters you control are switched into defence position!" Each of Hikage's Ninja's switched positions.

"So what? My Traps are still in play!"

"I don't need to worry about them! Attack my Golem! Wipe out Shingestu!"

"I was waiting for that! Trap activate!" said Hikage but his Trap didn't work. "What is this?!"

"When Golem attacks, you cannot activate Spells or Traps! And this card can inflict piercing damage!" Hikage looked nervous but then closed his eyes as he accepted his fate.

"I tried my best." he said as Golem punched Shingestu. An explosion occurred and Hikage as well as all his monsters were blown away. Hikage went flying and landed on his back.

Hikage LP: 1900 – 0 Students Win

The students duel disks all faded and student one walked towards Hikage. "Don't worry, you shall play a part in the utopia!" As Hikage looked at him, in the distance on top of one of the ruins, he could see his brother Tsukikage.

"I fought my best. For Fuma." The student pushed a button on his duel disk and Hikage glowed in purple. He dissolved away and Hikage's card popped out of the Academia duel disk. The three students laughed and dropped the card on the floor. Tsukikage appeared after the three had gone and picked up the card.

"Brother. I shall avenge you." he said as he kept the card.

Forest

Rin was running to the Forest field and before her was Yuzu. The two ran to each other.

"R-Rin." said Yuzu out of breath. "I think that Academia is here."

"Wh-what?! Are you sure?!"

"Well not unless it was a fancy dress party, yes."

"They want Yugo! I need to find him!"

"He's safe in the warehouse isn't he?!" said Yuzu.

"I don't think so." said a female voice. Yuzu and Rin looked around and then their bracelets lit up. The lights blinded the two girls and as it faded; they could see a girl in a red uniform. It was Serena, her bracelet was also glowing.

"She…" said Rin

"Looks like us." said Yuzu as she finished off her sentence. "You're…"

"My name is Serena! And I am here for your bracelets!" she smirked.

"What about Yugo?!" snapped Rin.

"Oh him? I don't know. But I can say my good friend Yuri is about to bring him to Academia!"

"I need to go!" said Rin.

"No you don't!" shouted Serena as her duel disk activated. "Hacking mode" appeared on the screen.

"Automatic duel activated" said Rin's duel duel disk which then activated. As she tried to run, she was electrocuted.

"What.. what is this?!" said Rin as she stopped.

"This is to stop you running off!" replied Serena. "You can't run away, well, not unless you want to keep getting shocked. But the more you run, the more painful it is! Now duel me!"

"Yuzu… I'm trapped. Go find Yugo!"

"I will do!" said Yuzu as she ran off. She looked back and was worried over Rin. Rin turned to face Serena.

"Why let Yuzu go?! Too scared to duel two v one?!"

"Not scared. It's common sense! I have a much better chance to beat you on your own! Academia taught me everything! Including tactics in the field! Now time to take your bracelet and turn you into a card!"

A/N

Tobias97 – Thanks as ever.

Dknight27 – Thanks for the kind comments.

Serena is now after bracelet #2!

O.C New Card

Ancient Gear Recycle/Quick-Play Spell

Target one Ancient Gear Spell Card on either players field and take control of it.