"This is Roget?" Yuzu said.

"Yeah." Rin said. "The head of Security!"

"You have Mina?!" Ruri yelled.

"Yes I do. She is safe… for now. You will all enter the tournament!" Roget replied.

"We will do no such thing!" Yuzu hit back.

"Isn't it obvious, the guy is from Academia!" Shun said.

"What?!" said Yuya. "Is that true?!"

"I have to say the boy is smart, I presume you're from the Resistance due to the red scarfs?"

"So you are!" Yuzu said.

"Was, I was Academia. Like Mina, I broke ties with Academia!"

"Mina broke ties to try and make the world a better place!" Ruri yelled back.

"Regardless, I intend to do things my way! I'm my own boss!"

"And why do you want us?!" Yuzu said. "You have Mina!"

"And you jailed me, Yuzar and Rin!" Yugo yelled back.

"That was a misunderstanding… Mina wasn't captured, she is working with me." Roget replied.

"Enough twisting your lies!" Yuzu said. "She helped saved Yuya and the others from Arcadia, she helped with Ruri and Yuto… now she's been captured by you!"

"Plus you just threatened her!" Rin added.

"I didn't. Mina is here helping me against Academia!"

"Then where are our friends Yuto, Shingo and Yuzar?!" Yuzu added. "Mina was with them!"

"They were captured by Arcadia." Roget replied.

"What?!" Mercy said.

"Why should we believe you?!" Rin said.

"You don't have to trust me, listen to the girl herself." Roget replied. Mina appeared behind Roget.

"Mina?! Are you okay?" Ruri asked.

"I'm fine." Mina said. "We were ambushed by Arcadia when I tried to hide Yuto, Yuzar and Shingo from Sora…. I was knocked out but Security stepped in to try and stop them from taking us… only I wasn't taken."

"A big coincidence that you and Roget are from Academia and have cut ties….." Shun said.

"Well you have to take my word." Mina replied. "I haven't let anyone down yet."

"So your wish to stop Academia happens to align with this… Roget guy…" Shun asked. "Why haven't you made this known to anyone before?!"

"I had no idea about the Lancers and Mina only came to me recently." Roget replied.

"So why do you want us to enter this tournament?!" Yugo yelled.

"We must unite the Tops and Commons." Roget said. "In order to get everyone onside ahead of Academia's invasion!"

"You've done nothing since you've been in charge!" Rin yelled. "You could've made the council change their minds!"

"It's a mentality that Synchro is used to; upsetting the balance would've been a bad idea. Now we have a common goal, we can use this to change things forever!" Roget added.

"Did you block me from leaving this dimension?!" Shun yelled.

"No? That isn't me?!" Mina said.

"So Academia is here?" Yuzu said.

"Maybe… maybe not… it's bad if we're all trapped here." Mina replied.

"We won't dance to your orders!" Shun said. "We need to work out on getting out of here!"

"I'm a genius, I will work on it!" Mina said. "This Friendship Cup is our only chance!"

"What about Arcadia?" Rin asked.

"Aki is the queen… I can't prevent Arcadia entering… the Tops are happy with Aki and Arcadia as long as Aki keeps beating the Commons and stopping them from becoming Tops…. they don't care about those people."

"Those people are my people!" Mercy yelled.

"Oh… you're a Physic Duelist?" Roget replied.

"Arcadia is being misled! I know Arcadia and Security hate each other…. if I enter… promise me you'll let Physic's live a peaceful life!"

"I intend to use Psychic's for the battle with Arcadia, they're powers will be a massive help."

"I don't know…" Ruka said. "This city has ruined lives!"

"You have a few days… think about it." Roget said as the screen faded.

"Great…." Rin said.

"No way can we enter!" Yugo added.

"He's a snake!" Ruka added, Mercy agreed.

"I agree." Yuzu said. "He's playing a game…."

"That guy looks like a sociopath." Pendulum Warrior said who appeared behind Yuzu.

"We should enter though." Yuya said. "We can perhaps find more allies if we play him at his own game."

"And risk getting injured by Aki…" Yugo said. "No chance!"

"Yugo when I arrived with you into this dimension, you told me about wanting change… this might be the chance!" Yuya added.

"Yuya's right." Rin said.

"Whaaaaaaaaaaaat?!" Yugo replied in a shocked response.

"We need to use this chance! We each have a different summoning method; we can beat Aki and the others to win! We can use it as a chance to rebuild our way… and we can get close to what Roget is playing at."

"Rin?!" Yugo said. "You're meant to back me up!"

"Not if we disagree!"

"But we always agree!"

"I agree that you're clumsy!" Rin added back.

"They're like an old married couple." Pendulum Warrior whispered to Yuzu.

"I agree…." Yuzu said.

"Not much different from you and Yuya."

"You better shut up or I'll put you in a fridge or something!" Yuzu yelled, this caught the attention of everyone, including Shun.

"Weirdoes…." Shun said.

Ruka's House – Basement

Ruka flicked on a switch and a big basement was shown to the Lancers.

"What on earth?!" said Yugo.

Inside was a huge hall with an indoor Turbo Dueling track which covered the whole room. In the centre were some seats.

"You have this…. in here?!" Yuzu said.

"It's a benefit of being rich and having a brother who's a Turbo Duelist!" Ruka said.

"We have to learn… to ride D-Wheels.." Yuya said with some nerves.

"It's going to be fine!" Ruka said. "Trust me, they're safer then they look! Just give me a minute." Ruka said as she went to another room.

A few seconds later, a huge garage door opened from within the hall, there inside was a dozen D-Wheels.

"What?!" said Yuzu and others who went over.

"Rua owns all these, he's outgrown them literally! We've kept them for the memories." Ruka replied.

"So… we can ride these?" Mercy asked.

"Of course, they're all set to auto-pilot, all you need though is to know how to balance yourself and get used to it." Ruka replied.

"Whatever happened to dueling on the ground?" Shun asked with his back turned.

"Turbo Dueling became a way of freedom for Commons… until Tops outlawed it and took it for themselves." Yugo hit back. "It's our language!"

"Fine, I guess I can't criticize how another dimension works…." Shun said.

Rin walked around the D-Wheels and saw a board on the wall. She looked at it and was surprised.

"No way?!" Rin said.

"What?" Yuzu said as she joined her counterpart at the board.

"Accel Synchro?!" Yugo said.

"Yes… Rua was trying to work out how to do it." Ruka said.

"Accel Synchro is where you need to tune a Synchro Tuner and a Synchro Non-Tuner… but also… you need to have something else to summon it…." Rin explained.

"Something else?" Ruri added.

"It's not as easy as summoning a card… Accel Synchro Monsters have a special power… a power which no-one seems to know about. There was once a person who did such a summon but they disappeared." Yugo said.

Next to Rin, her inner-angels loyal warrior, Callistis appeared. She was woman in crystal amour appeared. Her white hair was so long that it flowed right to her ankles.

"Ms…" said the duel spirit, catching Rin by surprise.

"Oh it's you!" Rin said.

"I am so sorry, but I have some information about this."

"Who are you talking to?!" said Shun, he could see or hear nothing. Tsukikage went up to him to fill him in.

"What is it?" Yuzu said.

"Accel Synchro… it's a power which goes back to our world."

"Really?" Rin said.

"Ms, your inner angel, Linette, she represented the energy which became Synchro energy.. Accel Sycnhro… was the power beyond… you could wield this power and bring it back again."

"But who could've used it before?!" Ruka asked.

"I have no idea. I am so sorry." Callistis replied.

"Warrior, do you know?" Yuzu said, Warrior emerged.

"Why would I know?" Warrior replied. "I was more interested in other things…. Callistis was a nerd for that sort of thing."

"Why are you so frustrating?!" Yuzu yelled.

"Why are you so shouty?!"

"Fine! Address me as Ms from now on since you seem to need to learn manners!"

"Girl… be thankful I know your name… what was it again….. Anzu?" Rin and Callistis grabbed Yuzu and Warrior and pulled them apart.

"That annoying…..grrrr!" Yuzu said in annoyance. "Why is my spirit the one with an attitude?!"

"Ignore Warrior, she's…. she enjoys winding people up." Callistis said.

"It's fine… we worked out our "issues"" Yuzu said. "I have no idea how Ciel, you and the others coped with her."

"We love her but….. she's a prankster….. it's best to ignore her."

"A prankster…. interesting…" Yuzu said to herself with a cunning tone.

"But she's also a serious warrior who's loyal; she will never let you down." Callistis appeared behind Yuzu without her knowing.

"I know, regardless of her… jokes…. I can tell she is a great person." As Yuzu spoke, Warrior was pulling a face, everyone in front of Yuzu giggled and Yuzu looked confused. "You really push my patience, Warrior!" Yuzu yelled once she worked it out.

"Duel spirits are weird things." Ruka said. "They are connected to humans… even if we don't all see them."

"Nonsense." said Shun. "They're cards!"

"They are real." Ruka said. "You might not believe it, but all those times you really needed a card to be drawn… can you say your deck has ever let you down?"

"That's just skill! To build a deck with the right cards!"

"Correct, but the cards also choose and respond to their partner." Ruka said.

"Oh so Raidraptors chose me?! Is this dimension filled with people who believe such nonsense?"

"Just like Kaiba…." said Yuzu to herself. "Shun, how did you choose your deck?"

"I… well…. it seemed like a right fit!" Shun said.

"And maybe those cards were made just for you….." Ruka explained. "Cards are ideas or concepts of ourselves."

"And the cards you've gained." Callistis said to Yuzu. "The hybrids that you created thanks to the union between you and the girls are proof of that. Revolution Paladin was formed thanks to the feeling of justice and change that you and the girl Ruri felt at that moment, while Valkyrie is the heavenly evolution."

"I had a feeling that was the case." Yuzu replied.

"Now, we need to get you trained up on these D-Wheels, give me a minute." Ruka asked.

Ten Minutes Later

"I'm not sure about this….." Yuzu said, Yuzu wore Rin's white Turbo Dueling outfit, it had come from within Yugo's D-Wheel.

"It's fine, I like this one better." Rin said as Ruka had a bunch of D-Wheel outfits also laid out.

"Why do you have female ones?" Yugo said.

"Rua thought I would be interested when I was around your age to get into Turbo Dueling… I just never got rid of them…"

Rin's new outfit was quite similar to Yugo's in design but with a large collar, elbow pads and a skirt with long boots with rings around them. The outfit was white with green around the sides.

Shun had a purple outfit, Yugo kept his own outfit on along with Ruri's was dark red while Mercy had black. Yuya had red.

Tsukikage and Ruka did not wish to enter as they were needed to figure out Roget's plans away from the tournament.

"You're not entering?" Mercy said to Tsukikage.

"No, my skills are needed elsewhere, but the suit, suits you however." Tsukikage said.

"Was that…a pun?" Mercy asked. "I never thought ninja's told jokes?" Yugo looked at the girls.

"Wow those suits make you all look much smaller-" Rin at that point dragged Yugo away. "It was a compliment!"

Track

Yuzu had a pink helmet on. "Okay…. so now what?" she said as she had a pink D-Wheel at the starting line waiting to go.

As Ruka was about to say, Yuzu could feel the D-Wheel slightly fall to the left.

"No! Don't!" Yuzu begged the machine as it fell on its side.

"Yuzu!" Yuya said as he ran up to help her. Yuya did help her up.

"I'm fine…. this is going to be harder than it looks…" Yuzu could sense Warrior laughing somewhere….

"Maybe we should let them teach us first, hey Yuzu." said Ruri.

"Fine…."

A little while later, the group had been watching Rin and Yugo drive their shared D-Wheel around the track.

"We can drive it without auto-pilot, we don't need it but it's safe for you all!" Yugo said.

"All you really need to do is balance on it, and then duel on it." Rin said.

"Okay…. how about we start off with one step at a time…." Yuzu said, nervously.

"It's like riding a big bike." Yugo said.

"I would prefer that..." Yuzu said.

"Wait… did you never learn how to ride a bike?" Ruri said.

"It's not important….!" Yuzu said.

"Yuzu?" Rin asked.

"Fine! No I didn't! I was kinda…. was busy looking after my dad…"

"You don't need to enter Yuzu; I wasn't going to say anything anyway to the others." Yuya replied.

"No, I shall do this!" she said with determination.

As the session went on, everyone but Yuzu were on their D-Wheel's, they were all struggling for balance. Ruri jumped off each time it was going to fall over, same for the others. Shun was getting annoyed.

"This is going to take a while." Ruka said. "Hang on… Yuzu, I can at least help you, follow me." Yuzu looked confused but she followed.

Outside

Yuzu was outside in Ruka's yard, she saw Ruka bring out a white skateboard.

"What on earth is that?" Yuzu said. "I'm not riding a skateboard am I?"

"It's called a Dueling Skateboard actually." Ruka said. "This used to be mine; it has the power to go at the same speed as a D-Wheel for the tournament maximum speed."

"Really?" Yuzu replied.

"Yeah, we can't teach you how to ride a bike in a few hours…. but this will teach you how to duel at speed and how to balance on a moving object!"

"It looks… silly?"

"Who cares how it looks." Ruka said. "Now, have a go!"

Yuzu stepped on it and a strap locked around her boots to hold her in place. Yuzu had a pink helmet on and now had her duel disk out.

"This…. feels funny."

"You look stupid." Warrior said.

"Oh really? If it annoys you, I'm going to keep it!" Yuzu smirked back to her spirit.

"You must be joking!"

"Nah… I quite like it now…." Yuzu said, teasing Warrior.

"I won't hear the end of this from the other Monsters…" Warrior said.

"Now, you just need to start your duel disk and you'll go forward." Ruka said. "It links up to the board's system."

"And I'll crash again!" Yuzu said with worry.

"No!" Ruka said. "It's all about having belief in yourself, it'll be hard but you can do it."

"If you say so…." Yuzu's duel disk activated and the board slowly begun to move. "Whoa…whoa!" Yuzu yelled as she tried to balance.

"Yuzu, it's going at a slow speed, just calm down and focus." Ruka said. Yuzu tried to gain her composure but she fell to the side once more.

"Ouch….."

A few more tries later and Yuzu still couldn't do it. Warrior appeared as Yuzu rested.

"Told you…" Warrior said who appeared.

"I'm not giving up." Yuzu said.

"You're a stubborn person…"

"And I guess Ciel told you she wouldn't give up either." Yuzu hit back.

"I just don't understand the logic of trying something which you can't do."

"Well I'm different." Yuzu said. "Now either help or go away."

Yuzu got on the board and started to go forward once more, Yuzu looked at the ground and it started to move, she felt dizzy.

"Not again!" Yuzu said. As she was about to fall, she felt a force help her back up. Warrior emerged.

"Ciel always said I should try and understand others…. we're in this together I guess…." said Ciel with a sigh.

"Wait why didn't you do this for my D-wheel?!"

"I… might've found it funny….. but you didn't know how to ride one anyway so it's all cool!"

"You really don't understand people… do you…"Yuzu replied.

"Hey, I have to find fun in something!"

Now with Warrior's help, Yuzu was able to balance on her own and go around the yard of her house with no problems.

"Perfect Yuzu!" Ruka yelled. "Soon you'll be able to try a D-Wheel!"

"What about the others?" Yuzu said.

"They're doing okay…. but you and Warrior have a very strong connection, I guess the others need time to be able to have a bond as strong as yours… they could do with their duel spirits help though."

"So now what…. I have to duel on this thing?" Yuzu said.

"Yes, if you can duel on that thing first, dueling on a D-Wheel should be simple." Ruka said.

"Right…." Yuzu drew five cards from her deck, she thought she would lose balance but to her surprise, she was able to maintain it. "Oh this is perfect….!"

"What is?" Ruka said?

"Just watch! I set scale one DuPre and scale nine Argerich!" Yuzu was able to balance fine as the two Pendulum Monsters arose. "Now, I Pendulum Summon!"

Two auras's shot from the sky as the Pendulum Zones moved with Yuzu.

"Appear my Mozarta and Pendulum Warrior!"

Mozarta emerged along with Pendulum Warrior. she looked at Yuzu with shock.

"You dare summon me on this thing?!"

"I thought we were partners…. and partners stick by each other….!"

"You are despicable." said Warrior as she looked away in disgust; Yuzu grinned as she had gotten revenge on Warrior.

"Very good, Yuzu. A few more days and you'll be dueling on a D-Wheel!" Ruka said. "Let's see how they're doing inside." Ruka said.

Inside

Yuya watched as Yuzu came back in, Yuzu looked more confident.

"Well done Yuzu!" Yuya said.

"You saw me?" Yuzu said.

"Oh… um…. I was watching you from a distance from an upper-room…. sorry I should've-"

"No, thank you for watching Yuya." Yuzu said. "I did feel you and the others were there with me."

"When will you declare it?" Pendulum Warrior said.

"Declare what?" Yuya asked the spirit.

"You kno-" Before Warrior could continue, Yuzu tried to slap her with the fan but since she was a spirit, it went right through her. Warrior faded away with a smirk.

"Everyone is doing well?" Yuzu said.

"Not bad." Yuya said. "We will need the remaining days to practise."

"And I'll be ready to start tomorrow now I've had a go on Ruka's board!"

"Great Yuzu! Actually, Ruka, why is this tournament a Turbo Duel one?" Yuya asked Ruka.

"D-Wheels are the freedom of the Commons. The Friendship Cup each year is designed to reduce rage between both sides… by using D-Wheels, it keeps Commons happy."

…

Somewhere in the Tops, Mina and Marina were in a junkyard with no-one else around.

Marina looked annoyed as she rode a purple D-Wheel, Mina was smirking.

"You're a disgusting traitor!" Marina yelled.

"Don't care." Mina said. "You'll be a big part in helping the dragons and angels in releasing their full potential!"

"I won't help you!" Marina hit back.

"Then as I said….. Gloria will die if you don't! And also…. you'll be armless as well as eyeless!"

"What do you mean?!" Marina said.

"Your duel disk….. if you lose… it explodes!"

Arcadia

Inside, Euridice watched as Aki rode a red D-Wheel with confidence. It was another indoor track.

"Soon… soon Psychic Duelists will be ruling this city." Euridice thought.

"And soon, I can show myself again."

"You're reading my mind again, Brother?" Euridice thought back as she heard Sayer speak to her in her mind.

"Aki needs to show off against an opponent in the Exhibition Match... is she ready?"

"Yes don't worry…. we know her opponent already." Euridice smirked.

A/N

Thanks to Rom for some great lines/ideas here, so the exhibition is next duel, Friendship Cup and its many plots will soon be told!

Also yeah this chapter was a bit more light-hearted but it was needed after the last few serious ones, thanks for reading!"

Veracity – Thanks and yeah I'll take the idea on board. Thanks for writing this!

Fantasymaker76 – Thanks and all will be seen in time!

Guest - Thank you!

Samueljoo - I do read it often, thanks for the review and cards will try and use.

Royal2 - Thanks again dude, and Mercy is entering Friendship Cup. I will check out your story and also others should as well! Thanks.