Kaiba walked down a corridor, his long white coat swaying. He walked past a window which showed Kaiba Corp workers typing and programming cards on computers. The staff were hard at work. Kaiba looked around the corridor and all seemed to be in order, the way Kaiba demanded things to be. His expectations were high for his staff.

Kaiba stopped at one door, which was at the end of the corridor. He put his hands on the door handle and squeezed it tight while gritting his teeth; Kaiba's annoyance of the current situation was getting on top of him. Kaiba hated to be in the dark on any subject, especially one as big as other dimensions and evil duel schools.

He opened it with a heavy push and inside a waiting room, was Masumi, smirking at him with her legs crossed. She had been waiting for Kaiba to return to her.

"Took your time Se-"

"That's Mr Kaiba to you."

"Fine… Mr Kaiba." responded Masumi. "Are you ready to finally to let me help you?"

Ray, Gongenzaka and Mieru - Hills

Gongenzaka, Mieru along with Ray were still in the outskirts of Domino in the grassy hills. Ray, who had just been freed thanks to the Lancers, was now facing them under the same tree that she was chained to.

"Thank you for the help… but why save me?" Ray reluctantly asked.

"Why? Why wouldn't we?" said Mieru. "We are here to help, like we've been telling you since we arrived in this world."

"But your world took Yuzar away, without his consent?"

"That wasn't our choice." Gongenzaka replied. "That was our leader, Reiji Akaba. His methods aren't something we agree on. He treats us like pawns as well; however, we have to get behind him as he is the only one who can help us in this mess of crossing dimensions."

"But there's that girl… the girl I dueled and who looks like me… I could feel her anger." Ray replied.

"Yuzu… has a tendency to do that." Gongenzaka added. "Do you know what this Academia threat is?"

"Uh…"

"There are five dimensions." Mieru explained. "And each one represents a summoning method. We come from the dimension which has all methods while Academia are from the Fusion Dimension. They intend to build a utopia by collecting you and your counterpart's bracelets as well as by capturing Yuzar and those who look like him."

"People who look like me? Yes, that girl did look like me… why is that?" Ray asked.

"We don't know, but there is someone who looks like you in all the dimensions, same as Yuzar. Academia are also doing something more terrible then that…. they also are carding people by invading dimensions to power their goal."

"Carding? What… exactly do you mean by that? That boy who looked like Yuzar, from that school…., he said something like that as well…." Ray had an idea as to what they were talking about, but she didn't want to believe the truth.

"They turn people into cards. They show no mercy." Gongenzaka said. Ray's face got worse and worse with disgust as Gongenzaka spoke.

"We've both seen it with our eyes." Mieru added. "They invaded our world and…. turned many of our loved ones and friends into card. Most of us still don't know what has happened to our parents…." Mieru said, saddened. Gongenzaka placed his large hand onto Mieru's shoulder to comfort her.

"We will save them, don't you worry about that." he said.

"They actually do that?! To kids?! To innocent people?!" Ray, who was now in shock, shouted back.

"Yes, they do." Gongenzaka replied. "Yuzu also lost her dad."

"She… she did? She did mention…. something like that in her duel with me…"

"Her dad, one of the best men I've ever met, was turned into card, to protect her. Also three of our friends who are only young, also fell."

"And… that caused her anger….." Ray continued to struggle to take all the information in.

"As well losing her best friend in Yuya, yes." Mieru said

"Wait, Yuya?" Ray replied.

"The boy who looks like Yuzar. They've been best friends since birth, he is now missing, and we don't know where he is." Gongenzaka said.

"And it's the same as another counterpart of yours, Rin. She comes from the Synchro Dimension and her best friend Yugo is also gone." Mieru added.

"They've been separated? I couldn't imagine losing Yuzar… I… I've left him alone right now?! He's in danger!"

"It's fine." Gongenzaka said, trying to calm her. "Yuzu is with him, he'll be fine."

"Yeah… she was good at dueling." Ray said. "I just… I can't cope with him being captured…"

"While Yuzu's anger is not an excuse, I hope now you can see why Yuzu acted the way she did." Gongenzaka said.

"I understand… losing people that important in your life must be tough… for all of you… I admit, I'm not the most trusting of people nor do I have the confidence of Yuzar, I guess I mistreated you all. I'm sorry, and especially to you." Ray looked at Mieru. "I apologize for my comments, without you, I would've still been tied to that tree."

"That's fine!" Mieru said. "I felt I needed a kick to finally know where I stand in this team anyway! Anyway… what's your relationship like with Yuzar?"

"I've been watching over Yuzar for years now, he's a dueling champion and celebrity, he has the ego the size of any mountain. While he's my best friend, when he duels, he can't stop being the main man. It means I've had to step-up and look after him in all other areas. Making sure he eats is a tough task, all he can think about is dueling… he is determined to get the number one rank."

"Number one rank? Who is number one?"

"I'm surprised you didn't know by now. His name is Seto Kaiba, the man who hired those thugs."

"Kaiba?" Gongenzaka said. "Those two goons did say his name."

"Who is he?" Mieru asked.

"He runs Kaiba Corp, the company which designs new cards and builds the duel arenas. Kaiba and Kaiba Corp run the whole game of dueling across the world… or as you might say, the Ritual Dimension."

"And he's the number one rank?" Mieru said.

"Yeah, his past is quite the story." Ray said.

Yuzu, Yuzar – Park

Yuzu and Yuzar had arrived back in the park and as it was near night, Yuzar was no longer at risk of being chased by fans. The two sat on a bench.

"So this Kaiba you spoke about, you want to beat him to get to number one?" asked Yuzu.

"Yeah, I've never dueled him since he doesn't consider me to be in the same league. Rankings are done via point system and he is well above me. I need to keep winning tournaments to take him on; he claims that it would be a waste of his time to duel me however as we're so far apart in the rankings."

"That's… awful!" Yuzu said.

"Well, he's just Kaiba! He actually comes from a pretty weird past. He was an orphan with his brother. Both had high hopes but couldn't do anything while they were stuck in the orphanage, so they got tough. Kaiba Corp was once a company which made military equipment and duel monsters was just a small game but the game gave Kaiba and his brother hope for the future." Yuzar explained.

"Then what?"

"A billionaire business man went to the orphanage as a marketing stunt but was called out by Kaiba to a game of chess. If Kaiba won, he would adopt them both, while if he lost, Kaiba would have to work for him for free. Come the end, Kaiba won. The man, Gozaburo Kaiba, reluctantly adopted them and intended to use them as basic pawns for military testing anyway, but Kaiba had other ideas."

"Other ideas?"

"Kaiba was a genius at most things. Building, educating, things like that. He had developed the holographic system which is used today after he was adopted. His father wanted to use it for his military weapons but Kaiba refused. He gained some serious financial backing for his software to be used for dueling and soon he and his backers had enough to buy out his father's company and use their resources to make the world a better place through dueling, rather than war. He bought the company which made the game and merged it into Kaiba Corp."

"You know a lot about him?" Yuzu said.

"Yeah…. I read his autobiography many times!"

"Well, we will need their help in this dimensional war." Yuzu said.

"Yeah, I don't think he'll believe you."

"Well, we have a similar person in our ranks, Reiji Akaba. He can help."

"Well it'll be worth a try." Yuzar said. "And maybe I'll get my duel at long last!"

"It's getting dark…" said Yuzu looking up the sky. "We should find our friends first."

"Yeah, let's find them." Yuzar said.

Kaiba Boardroom

Kaiba was in his boardroom with Masumi and Kisara. Kaiba sat at one end of the table while Masumi was sat the other. Kisara was stood next to Kaiba.

"So you finally came around to working with me, Mr Kaiba." Masumi smugly said.

"I don't believe in what you showed me was another dimension, what you showed me was the power of your technology. That's what you meant by another dimension, another dimension in technology!"

"Sure, fine, whatever floats your boat."

"My staff tried to harness the power of your equipment but they couldn't." Kaiba replied.

"So you tried to go over my head?" Masumi said.

"I needed to be sure of the power of the person who I was working with."

"Do you trust me?"

"No." Kaiba boldly replied. "But this power…. it's vital to the future of my company, so you are my business partner…. for now. How long before we could get a prototype made?"

"With my help, within two days." Masumi replied. "After that, it'll be easy to mass-produce."

"Another thing." Kaiba said. "Kisara, show her."

"Y- Yes Mr Kaiba." she said. Kisara was caught out by the order. "These are people who are of interest to Kaiba Corp." Kisara gave the file and Masumi looked at them, smirking. It was the Ritual Lancers.

"You know these people?"Kaiba said.

"Yes, these are evil people. They wish to cause harm here."

"How do you know them?!" Kisara shouted.

"They come from my dimension but, since you don't believe in that…."

"Regardless, these people are here to harm Domino? I must make take these down myself! No police power could stop these monsters."

"That's one of the reasons I came here. We both have the same technology, but I want to let you use it for good." Masumi said.

"Y'know, you could've mentioned this earlier… but fine, I shall stop them by my hand!" Kaiba boldly replied.

"You have to beat them in a duel, by using my technology; you should locate their whereabouts and take them on. Maybe in front of the whole city, make a show of them." Masumi said.

"I like that idea…" said Kaiba. Kaiba felt a vibration in his pocket and looked at it. He got out a necklace which had a duel card on the end.

"I need to be left alone, please depart for the time-being." Kaiba said to Masumi.

"As you wish…. Seto!" Masumi walked out of the room and shut the door. Kisara looked at Kaiba with concern. Kaiba pressed the necklace and a screen appeared on the wall.

"Mokuba, is everything ok? I'm busy." Kaiba asked. On the wall was a short haired boy with black hair in a suit. He had a white suit jacket on with a purple waistcoat and a blue tie.

"Hey brother… and I'm sorry, I've signed you up to supply equipment to a company here in Egypt as you wanted. Just letting you know." Mokuba replied. "And hey Kisara!" Mokuba waved to her.

"Hi Mokuba!" Kisara replied back.

"Yes, ok, now if we are done doing childish greetings, I have a meeting to get back to. Call me if you need me Mokuba."

"Yeah… sure Seto." said Mokuba. Kaiba left the screen on as he left the room. Kisara looked at Mokuba. "I'm sorry for Seto's lack of kindness again Mokuba." she said.

"It's fine… you get used to it after a while. He still cares, he just…. can't show his emotions to us anymore, he's a busy man."

"I know but the true man I fell in love with and the brother you truly love is still in there somewhere. I just wish we could get him out again." Kisara said with sadness.

Outside the Hotel

Yuzar, wearing his black hoodie again in the brightly lit street, was standing outside with Yuzu. It was a busy night and many people were going in and out of the hotel. Yuzu, wearing her white school coat, waited for her friends to return.

"You sure they'll come back here with Ray?" Yuzar asked.

"Yeah, Gongenzaka and Mieru said she was coming here with them when I spoke to them via our duel disks." Yuzu replied.

"Speaking to each other through duel disks… your technology is quite amazing." Yuzar replied. In the distance, Yuzu could see Mieru and Gongenzaka walking and she smiled.

"Yuzu!" Gongenzaka yelled.

"Mieru! Gongenzaka!" she replied. The two came running up.

"Where's Ray…." Yuzar asked.

"Oh… she's behind." Mieru said. Yuzar looked again and say Ray across the street. Both smiled at each other while Yuzu showed some concern on her face while looking at her. Her bracelet flickered once more, Ray's did the same.

Kaiba Office

As Kaiba got back to his office, he looked at his desk and saw a enveloped on it. He went closer and looked at the label.

"To my business partner – Masumi"

A/N

Thanks to Rom for ideas again. Also spot the DM easter egg!

Thanks for the reviews and to Royal2, I had them cheat as it was a small reference to Mai and Duelist Kingdom.

And to guest, the parasites don't work on the boys.