And now its time to get back on track… actually the Duel in this one is different…

"Speaking"

*Noises*

"Thoughts, Calls, Monsters speaking or Summoning Chants"

0/0 (Bold means what position the monster has been summoned into)

(Ending of Chapter 13)

As Reiji and company lefted, the Action Field finally started to de-materialise, with Yuya slowly making his way to the viewing room door. "Man, if it wasn't for Reiji forfeiting to leave for something else, they would have won and taken over You Show." Sora said.

"What are you talking about? Yuya would have won, Odd-Eyes was the strongest monster on the field with 3100 ATK, and Reiji had no monsters!" Futoshi countered.

"Actually Futoshi, you needed to pay attention to what other cards are in play besides just Yuya's." Azara said to him, confusing the boy, "We all saw that Reiji's Pendulum Scale malfunctioned, but if it hadn't, he would have won..." Matthew said to him.

"How?" Ayu asked, "Due to the Doom King's effect, when a monster that Reiji controls leave the field, all Doom King's that he controls gain the leaving monsters original ATK, and since he tributed his second Doom King for his Dark Contract of Profits, it lefted and his final King's ATK would have become 6000 ATK!" he added.

"Making it stronger than Odd-Eyes, and since he would have had the chance to attack, Yuya would have losted!" Nigel finished for him… Shocking most of them again. While they were talking about this, Yuya had finally made it to the door, his goggle over his eyes and was just standing there.

"Yuya!" Yuzu said to him as she and the others made their way over to him, but he then fell to his knees, shocking them, "How?… How did he Pendulum Summon already?" he asked himself. "I don't get it, that was my thing until you guys got yours, but now..." he carried on talking to himself.

"Yuya..." Yuzu got out, concerned for him, while Shuzo came down from the control room, "Thank god… The school is saved..." he sighed in relief, but he was sweating slightly. "But it was close though… If it had ended like I thought, we would have losted!" he said, making his daughter annoyed.

"You idiot dad! What if they decide to come back?" she questioned him, "Easy, they can't! As per the agreement, if we won, they would drop the charges, and we technically did due to that forfeit!" he said, making Yuya grit his teeth at that last part.

"And besides, you say it as though if they did come back, you three that did Duel would have to again, remember we have other powerful students at You Show!" he added looking at Matthew, Nigel, Oliver, Sora, Azara and Ronald who nodded at this.

"To be fair, if Yuya hadn't won his Duel, we would have already lost!" Sora said, while most gave him a look, "What?" he asked, "You're not helping moron!" Ronald said to him, making Sora glare back. His words however didn't help Yuzu and Gongenzaka, seeing that she losted her Duel, while Gongenzaka gritted his teeth.

"Seriously what is wrong with you?" Tatsuya yelled at Sora, "Why are you picking on them when you didn't even Duel!" Ayu said, "Chicken! You big chicken!" Futoshi said to him, "What, I was just saying!" he defended himself from them, then turned to leave. "That was rude you three!" Shuzo scolded them.

"This is all my fault! I should have let Nigel Duel, but my pride as a man to save the school got in the way." Gongenzaka said annoyed, "Don't beat yourself up about it Gongenzaka, it was my fault for caving into your demand." Nigel spoke to him, hoping to calm the giant down.

"Well if LDS do show up again, you can count me in to fight them off!" Tatsuya said, "Me too!" Futoshi said, "Me three!" Ayu added.

"So until then let's continue working on our Pendulum Summoning, right Yuya?" Tatsuya said to Yuya… "There's no point if they can use it against us!" Yuya yelled, shocking them all he then tried to make a run for it, but Shuzo grabbed him.

"Don't even think about running off..." he told him making Yuya look up at him, "Look, I can tell that Reiji Pendulum Summoning before everyone else here is getting to you, but you didn't just expect it to stay with just this school did you?" he asked.

"No..." Yuya reluctantly said, "But its still not fair to them or me, we haven't done a thing to them, and yet LDS was trying to take us out." Yuya retorted annoyed, "But Yuya, you need to realise that Reiji Akaba is a powerful person, for all we know he could have gotten permission from DMC to let him test out some Pendulum Cards." Matthew added in, DMC could make deals with other companies.

"But-" Yuya went to say, "But nothing Yuya! This was clearly before you sent in the paperwork, thus they fell out of your control..." Shuzo added… Making Yuya very frustrated now, "But it's unfair!" he said again.

"Stop saying that!" Shuzo yelled at him, making Yuya flinch, "Stop it dad!" Yuzu said getting her fan out, but was stopped by Azara, "Huh?" she said, "Maybe you should let your father sort this out." was all she said to her, making Yuzu look back at the them.

"Let me ask you something Yuya, when Action Duelling was still new. How do you think your dad reacted when others started to Duel like him?" he asked, shocking Yuya, "He would have been annoyed that others were trying to take what he made..." Yuya answered.

"Wrong!" Shuzo snapped, making him flinch at this, "He was flattered." he answered, "Really? But why?" Yuya went to asked, "Let me just say something before you go further..." Shuzo said, "Back then when Yusho first started Dueltaining, he was met with boos and insults, due to him adding acrobatics into a Duel!" he said shocking them.

"You would think people would enjoy seeing something new a first sight, but it was different for them to understand..." he carried on, "But eventually all the booing and insults turned to cheering and encouragement!" he said.

"And the reason for that, was that Yusho kept on Dueltaining, even if they booed him for it, the more they saw it, the more they were amazed by it, until the door to Dueltaining was thrown wide open, and was met was positive responses!" he added.

"And as the person to open a door to something new, he was thrilled that others were following in his footsteps, and he saw that it would lead to better the art he created." he carried on with them all listening to this.

"And like father like son, you too have opened a door, the door to Pendulum Summoning, and with that door opening others will surely follow in trying to learn it, and as the pioneer for Pendulum Summoning, you should encourage others, especially those outside of this school for trying to learn it, not keep it to the school… even though that would be great for the school..." Shuzo pondered.

"Off track principal!" Matthew reminded him, snapping him out of his thoughts, "Y-yes! Sorry where was I..." he said, making the students deadpan at him, "And he was on a roll..." Oliver muttered, with Ronald nodding with him.

"Oh yeah! You can either stay like you are now and feel sorry for yourself or set the example for what Pendulum Summoning should be about!" he finished, "That's enough for today everyone, you should all head out and go home." he said, then turned to leave.

"Think about what I said Yuya, it may help you get over this..." were the last word Shuzo said to him, as he went to his office. Meanwhile everyone else was starting to leave, "You coming Yuya?" Matthew asked him.

"Give me a minute..." he said, milling over the words again in his head, while Matthew shrugged his shoulder turned and lefted…

(18: 45 PM)

"Welcome back Sir!" an employee said as Reiji, Himika and Nakajima appeared from the lift system, all of the other employees were standing as well as they appeared. "Can I offer you a drink? Coffee? Tea? Or..." he rambled on.

"I'm fine right now!" Reiji cut him off, still annoyed at having his Duel with Yuya ending like it did, just when he was about to see if he and Yuya were right on evolving the Pendulum Summoning. "Just give me the report on what happened to Marco!" he asked.

"Y-Yes Sir!" he said as the screens viewed new data, "The latest incident occurred within District NLO D38 at 17:54 PM!" he said, "The system detected a powerful Summoning energy..." he added.

"What method?" Himika asked, "Xyz… like most of the reports have shown from before." he told him, "Yuya said he doesn't have any Xyz Monsters yet..." she said, still not believing what he told him, "That doesn't matter as he has been ruled out!" Reiji said.

"After all, he was at You Show with us when the incident occurred." he told them, "But let's keep an eye on You Show for now..." he added. "Now onto the case of Marco, has he been located yet?" he asked Nakajima.

"No… but the evidence left at the scene of the incident..." Nakajima said with another employee coming up to them, holding a bag containing a purple Duel Disk that was damaged and some cards, one of them was The Warrior from Another Planet.

"This is just one of the Duel Disk found out there… But this is definitely Professor Marco's, but he and the other who was with him at the time weren't there." that employee said. "Get every resource we have and have them try and discover what happened to Marco and the others!" Reiji ordered.

"Understood Sir!" they said as he turned to leave, "I'll be heading to my office now..." Reiji said as he turned to leave, "Keep me posted!" he said as the lift started to descend.

As he was making his way to his office, "Maybe I should try and bring him back to work..." he said to himself, thinking of an old colleague of his.

Meanwhile at the entrance of the LDS building were Masumi, Hokuto and Yaiba, clearly having a discussion. "Something is going on here, and they won't tell us what it is." Masumi said, "They said that Professor Marco is alright, but why can't we see him?" she added.

"Maybe he's fine, but horribly messed up in some way..." Hokuto said, "Shut up! You don't know a thing!" Masumi snapped at him, "Well one thing for sure is that these people are hiding stuff from us." Yaiba added in. Masumi then collected her thoughts for a sec… then rushed off. "Hey, where you going?" Yaiba asked.

"To find out what's going on here..." was all she said as the two boys decided to follow after her.

The Denisu Residence, (19:23 PM)

"Really, so Reiji can now Pendulum Summon..."Anna asked as she and her sons were digging into their meal, "Yep, and he wouldn't say how he got a hold of them..." Oliver said annoyed as he ate. "Is it possible to get LDS in trouble for this mom?" Matthew asked.

"Well, the cards were clearly made before Yuya handed in the paperwork today, however, I know for a fact a deal hasn't been made with LDS yet either involving Pendulum Summoning... So the jury is still out for now..." she explained, "What I want to know is why did Reiji risk breaking the law, just to get some new cards?" Nigel wondered out loud to them.

"Good question, from our Duels with him, he seems to have an hidden agenda, and it felt like he was testing Yuya for something." Matthew added. Just he did back for them.

"Alright you three, stop fixating on this, from what you've told me about the incident with You Show, it's safe to say that LDS won't be bothering you lot again, seeing that Reiji forfeited which is technically a win, so they have to drop the charges against Yuya." she told them.

The rest of the meal was finished in silence, then they all helped clean the plates and other utensils, "Right, let's watch some TV!" she suggested, "Actually mom, I might go and do some of my assignment for Chemistry..." Matthew said walking to his room. "And I'm going to going to go through my Deck..." Oliver said as he too left for his room.

"... Well, that just leave you and..." Emma said turning to Nigel… but he too had disappeared, she then heard three separate doors shut, meaning that Nigel had also gone to his room. "Being a single mother is tough..." she sighed out, plopping down onto the couch, turned the TV on, and put on her favourite show.

The Sakaki Residences (Same time)

With Yuya and Yoko, they were in the middle of having their meal, Yuya was feeling down from what happened before at You Show and was playing with his food for a bit, Yoko would have asked him what was wrong, but she didn't want to pressure him, so she would wait for him to talk.

"Hey mom!" he finally said, "Yes Yuya?" she replied, "Can I ask you something about dad?" he asked, "Sure, what about?" she asked. "When Action Duelling was still fresh and new, how did dad feel when others started to Action Duel like him?" he asked, while he had heard from Shuzo, he wanted to hear it from someone who was closer to him, and his mother did fit that description, being married to him.

"Hmm..." she took a moment to think, "He was excited of course, why do you ask?" she said, "Just felt like it..." he said lowly. "Well, if it makes you feel better, the longer Action Duelling was around, the more happier he became!" she added shocking him.

"But why… you would think that it would get old at some point..." Yuya asked, but then his mother laughed, "What so funny?" he asked. "Nothing… it's just that your father thought the same thing back then." she said shocking her son.

"He honestly believed that the style of Action Duelling he created would have been just a trend, that would have faded away until the next new thing happened..." she carried on, with Yuya listening closely. "But with him and the others that followed after him in Action Duelling they could improve upon from before..." she added.

"Improving a style..." Yuya said to himself, thinking about what Reiji said near the end of the Duel, about improving the Pendulum Summon. "It will be okay Yuya..." she said, making him look at her, "Yuzu told me what happened." she explained at why she said that.

"I hope it is..." he said, the rest of the meal was like before they had talked, but Yuya's mood had lightened up slightly.

(21:58 PM)

As it was night time now the lights of the city had been turned on, giving the city a new feel to it… but this could be either good or bad, as most people out at this time were mostly shady.

Most of these people seems to be converging at one location for some reason, the location was leading underground, the way to get to this part of the underground was to go into the bad part of Maimi City.

"Are you sure this a good idea?" a girl said to her date, she was constantly looking around to make sure they weren't being follow by police or other authority figures. "Relax babe, this gig is fine, the place hasn't gotten in trouble once..." the guy said… while placing his arm over the girl shoulder and pull her in closer.

"Besides babe, I'll protect you..." he said smirking at how smooth he thought he sounded. A few minutes later, they had reached the end of the underground tunnel, with others funnelling into a door at the end, to the side was a male of big build, clearly the bouncer for the place, to their side was a table, clearly the ticket booth with a girl in a punkish look while chewing some gum manning it. "Two please!" the guy said to the girl.

"That will be 15,000 credits each!" she said bored… then blew a bubble. "Here..." the guy said handing over the money, the girl then reached under the counter, and brought out two domino mask. "What are these for?" the girl asked her date.

"To make sure we aren't recognised by others..." was all he said, the bouncer then moved to the side, and let them enter…

The Underground, Changing Rooms (Same time)

This room was just one of the few that were given to the contenders, to give them time to relax and breath… before the pain from the Duels happened. Within this room was a male of 17 years, was 6ft'2 tall. His clothing consisted of a black t-shirt with a white bolt of lightning running down the middle, silver trousers with a black belt to keep them up and white trainers with grey soles. On his right hand, he has three bronze rings, with the kanji symbol for wealth, he also wears a silver scale pendant around his neck. He had a head of purple medium length, and his eye was a slated grey colour… yes eye, not plural, due to the fact that he has scar running over his left eye, making it completely useless.

This person was Apollo Cronus, long time runner of the Underground Duelling ring, and currently he was going through his Deck to make sure it was ready… to help him destroy his opponent.

*KNOCK, KNOCK* was heard from his door, "Enter..." he said, still going over his Deck, the door opened, and a woman entered, she appeared to be one of the managers for the place. "Oh good you're here..." she said.

"Now Apollo, remember not too..." she went to say, "The Collector!" he reminded her harshly, while she flinched. "Y-yes, sorry about that Collector… anyway, remember not to be too harsh on this opponent, they're new to this type of Action Duelling..." she said.

This caused him to stop going through his Deck, stand and turn to face her, which was scaring her, seeing that his single eyes was glaring at her. "Do you mean to tell me that my opponent is a newbie!" he questioned, making her shrink back in fear.

"Sorry Collector, this decision was made by the higher ups..." she squeaked out while he sighed, "Fine, I just hope that they watch me, that way they can realise that their time calling the shots is almost over..." he said.

"Y-Yes… sir!" she said then slammed the door as she lefted, "I'm surrounded by lesser people..." he sighed to himself.

(22: 28PM)

This arena was like that of the arena above in the Maimi Stadium, but it was a lot smaller compared to it, and the fact that every single person there was wearing the same type of mask to conceal themselves from the others.

Within this cluster of masked people was the girl and her date for the evening, the mask may not give it away, but the girl was worried. "Are you sure this is a good idea?" she asked, "Relax babe, this Underground Duelling Circuit is a private gig, the government will look the other way if paid well enough." he said, and this helped to relax her a bit.

At the same time, near one of the entrances was the newcomer, who was going over the agreements with the manager. "So you agree to not sue us, or reveal what happened to you if you're badly damaged by the shocks!" the manager said, shocking the newcomer.

"Shocks! I didn't think this Duel would involve shocking!" they said a bit spooked, "That's the reason why we have this form, to keep us safe… as well as yourself safe from us, less you talk about what goes on here..." she said ominously. "Now sign this form!" she barked, making the newcomer rush to sign the form.

"Thank you for your cooperation! The Duel should be starting in a few..." the manager said with a fake smile, turned and walked off. Leaving the newcomer to breath properly, "Okay Xavier… just breath…" he said then inhaled.

"You can do this, you come from money, that makes you a powerful person… no one can beat you..." he told himself, reminding himself of who he was.

A few minutes later, the lights started to dim, making everyone in the crowds to go quiet, then a single spotlight appeared from the arena, and with a puff of smoke, appeared a cloaked figure, with a black top hat to go with their theme. The person threw his arms out, making his cape fly outwards.

"Ladies and gentlemen! Thank you coming to tonight's Duel, I'm your host, Mr Shroud!" Mr Shroud introduced himself, while the crowd clapped for him. "Now, I can tell that you lot are excited to see this Duel, but first we must introduce are contenders..." he said then waved to his left.

"Are first contender is quite new to this side of Duelling, meet Moneybags!" he introduced as Xavier walked up to the arena while some clapped for him, acting confident, the reason for them not using his real name was to protect him.

"And now for his opponent, a being who breaks others for disrespecting him, a being who has quite the obsession when it comes to money, his one eye will leave you shaking in your own skin..." he said, with this exciting the crowd at who they were referring. "Let's all welcome back… The Collector!"

At this, Apollo started to make his way out, with the crowd cheering for him, while he made gestures to show off to the crowd, but he was mostly doing it to show them his rings. After a full minute he finally made his way to the arena to stand opposite of Xavier.

"Dude what's with the one eye?" Xavier asked, gesturing to Apollo's scar, making him annoyed that he brought it up. "A chain is only as strong as its weakest link..." was all Apollo said to him, "Er… okay then..." Xavier said confused.

While this was happening, two masked figures walked up to them, each holding a set of spiked bands in their hands, three each. "What are those?" Xavier asked, while Apollo just walked over and grabbed a set, placed two of them on his wrist and the third around his neck.

"Hey newbie, you did get told about the shocking right?" Apollo asked, "Yeah..." he said, "Then put these on… or get lost." he threatened. After a minute of them getting the equipment on, they were ready.

"Alright, now that our contenders have the electrodes on, we can begin the match!" Mr Shroud said. "Let's commence! I activate the Action Field, Painful Cage Match!" he shouted as he ran off the arena, as soon as he lefted the ARC System came to life and materialised the field.

When it was finished, the two duellist were now standing within a spiked cage, with floating circular platforms with a ring of spike around them, while several chains hanged here and there.

"Hey newbie..." Apollo shouted to Xavier, "Yeah?" he said, "Try to at least make this exciting for me..." he said as he activated his gold coloured Duel Disk, with the energy blade being pure white. "Funny… I was gonna ask you the same thing!" he said back while activating his Duel Disk, the Shock Rings then connected to their Duel Disks.

"Alright folks! Looks like our two Duellist are ready… so let's begin..." Mr Shroud said and then started off the chant…

"Only the strong will prevail here..." except that this chant was different… "Tearing apart the earth and raining down destruction from the air along side their monsters..." the crowd chanted, "They storm through the field, crushing all that stand in their path! Now behold! This is the newest and greatest evolution of Duelling from the underground!" they said. "ACTION..."

"DUEL!" the two shouted drawing five cards each, while the Action cards were scattered about from their bubble.

Apollo (Collector) LP: 4000

Xavier (Moneybags) LP: 4000

Turn 1

"To give you a chance at beating me..." Apollo said, then laughed at his own little joke, "I'll go first..." he said, "First I activate the Quick-Play Spell, Super Rejuvenation! Then I activate the effect of the Reactan, Dragon Ruler of Pebbles from my Hand! I send it and Arkbrave Dragon in my Hand to the Graveyard..." he sent those two cards to the Graveyard.

"This allows me to Special Summon Redox, Dragon Ruler of Boulders from my Deck in Defense!" he shouted as he took the card that was ejected from his Deck and placed it onto his blade, this caused a stone armoured dragon to appear on the field, it was covered with jagged stones with a spiked tail, it had two horns that appear to have been cut off.

Redox, Dragon Ruler of Boulders: EARTH, Level: 7 [Dragon/Effect] ATK/1600 DEF/3000

"And there it is folks, one of the Collector's most prized cards, having played it in Defense to make up for it's low ATK!" Mr Shroud said.

"Then I place a card face-down..." he said as the card appeared. "And then I activate the Spell, Pot of Greed! Letting me draw 2 more cards!" he said as he drew that many.

"Then I activate the Spell, Gold Sarcophagus! Letting me banish 1 card from my Deck..." he said taking Deck Summon from his Deck and placing it in his Banished zone, "I can then add that card to my hand during my next Standby phase!" he explained.

"I now end my turn! With it ending, Super Rejuvenation's effect let's me draw cards equal to the number of Dragon-Types that were discarded or tributed from my Hand! Since Reactan and Arkbrave were Dragon-Types, I draw 2 cards!" he said, drawing two more cards.

Apollo's cards x 3

Turn 2

"Not bad..." Xavier said drawing his card, "I Normal Summon the Tuner monster Geomancer of the Ice Barrier!" he said placing the card down, as a girl wearing blue winter clothing and a mirror on her face appeared on the field.

Geomancer of the Ice Barrier: WATER, Level: 3 [Spellcaster/Tuner/Effect] ATK/800 DEF/1200

"A fucking Tuner monster…" Apollo thought as he gritted his teeth, while he felt a slight pain in his useless scar covered eye resurfaced. Xavier saw this and smirked, "Wow scared of a Tuner monster?" he mocked.

"Keep flying closer to the sun Icarus… You'll eventually get burned." was all Apollo said to him, "Whatever… I play the Spell, Double Summon! Letting me Normal Summon again! So I Summon another Tuner monster Deep Sea Diva!" he said, this time as sea creature with some human like features appeared.

Deep Sea Diva: WATER, Level: 2 [Sea Serpent/Tuner/Effect] ATK/200 DEF/400

"When Diva is Normal Summoned, it let's me Special Summon 1 Level 3 or lower Sea Serpent from my Deck!" he said as a card was ejected from his Deck. "I Summon Spined Gillman!" his said as the monster appeared.

Spined Gillman: WATER, Level: 3 [Sea Serpent/Effect] ATK/1300 DEF/0

"Now it's effect allows all Fish, Sea Serpent and Aqua monsters to gain 400 ATK!" he said. Deep Sea Diva's ATK: 200 = 600, Geomancer's ATK: 800 = 1200, Spined Gillman's ATK: 1300 = 1700. "But that doesn't matter, as now I Tune the Level 2 Deep Sea Diva to the Level 3 Spined Gillman!" he said as the monsters went through their process.

3* + 2* = 5*

"Synchro Summon! Level 5! Sea Dragon Lord Gishilnodon!" he shouted as a dragon like creature appear, made completely out of water.

Sea Dragon Lord Gishilnodon: WATER, Level: 5 [Sea Serpent/Synchro/Effect] ATK/2300 DEF/1800

"One of those demons..." Apollo thought in slight fear, the pain in his eye searing now, "Wow I thought judging you by your looks, you were a guy of no fear… Guess that's not true..." Xavier mocked some more, as he then sprang into action, by jumping from platform to platform.

Apollo also took action, just when Xavier was about to grab an Action Card… Apollo came out of nowhere and tackled him off the platform, "Wow! What a brutal tackle from the Collector!" Mr Shroud shouted over a com system, while the crowd cheered for the brutality that was going on. After all, that was one of the reasons why they came here for.

"That hurt..." Xavier whined out, clutching his right side, "What do you expect? This is how we play this version..." Apollo said to his downed opponent. "Cheap shot..." his opponent spat out as he got up… then looked to his side and saw an Action Card.

"Looky here, I activate the Action Spell, Clear Path!" he said, "I can target 1 monster I control, I can attack you directly, but battle damage is halved!" he said. "I target Sea Dragon!" he said as the monster glowed.

"Battle! Sea Dragon attack him directly!" he shouted, as the water monster flew over to Apollo, who crossed his arms and braced himself. When the monster made contact and the damage was registered, the bands on Apollo shocked him, but being a regular contender in this arena gave him some tolerance to the pain. Apollo's LP: 4000 – 1150 = 2850.

"That will be enough for now… I end my turn with 2 face-downs!" he said as the cards appeared on the field then faded.

"Redox's effect now activates!" Apollo interrupted, "During the end of your turn, since Redox was Special Summoned, he is added back to my Hand..." he said as the dragon disappeared while he took the card from his blade and added it to his Hand.

Xavier's cards x 1

Turn 3

"Time to cast my judgement on you..." Apollo gritted out, still recovering from the shock, "Draw!" he drew his card. "Sarcophagus's effect now lets me add Deck Summon from my banished zone to my Hand!" he said as the card was added to his hand. "Deck Summon!" he declared.

"I then activate it!" he said, "Now using the Level 7 Blaster, Dragon Ruler of Infernos and Tidal, Dragon Ruler of Waterfalls from my Deck, I build the Overlay Network!" he shouted as the monsters appeared on the field, then turned into red and blue energy, shot into the air, then down into the galaxy that appear beneath his feet.

"Xyz Summon! Rank 7! Mecha Phantom Beast Dracossack!" he shouted, slamming the card he took from his Extra Deck over it material. This caused a mechanical airplane dragon to appear on his side of the field, it's size had been reduced to accommodate into the cage .

Mecha Phantom Beast Dracossack: WIND, Rank: 7 [Machine/Xyz/Effect] ATK/2600 DEF/2200, OLUs: 2

"When you Special Summon a monster, I can activate the effect of the Dragon Ice from my Hand! I can discard 1 card… Which will be Dragon Ice itself..." he said sending the card to his Graveyard, "This now let's me Special Summon it from my Hand or Graveyard!" he said, a dragon, made out of ice appeared in Defense.

Dragon Ice: WATER, Level: 5 [Dragon/Effect] ATK/1800 DEF/2200

"I activate Redox's effect from my Hand! I send it and 1 EARTH monster which will be Exploder Dragon in my Hand to the Graveyard..." Apollo said sending those cards to the Graveyard.

"I can now target 1 monster in my Graveyard, and Special Summon it!" he shouted, "I choose Arkbrave Dragon!" he said as the monster appeared.

Arkbrave Dragon: LIGHT, Level: 7 [Dragon/Effect] ATK/2400 DEF/2000

"Now I activate Dracossack's effect! By using an Overlay Unit..." he said as the monster absorbed one of it units, Dracossack's OLU's: 2 – 1 = 1. "I can now Special Summon 2 Level 3 Mecha Phantom Beast Tokens!" he said as two miniature monster similar to Dracossack appeared in Defense.

Mecha Phantom Beast Token: WIND, Level: 3 [Machine/Token] ATK/0 DEF/0 x2

"Battle! Dracossack attack that Sea Dragon!" he ordered as his monster opened its mouth, making a missile shot out of it, and explode upon hitting the monster.

While the battle damage was small- "Aahhhhhh!" the shocking pain that Xavier was experiencing was very strong. Xavier's LP: 4000 -300 = 3700. After the shock was over, he fell to his knee, to try and catch his breath.

"First time is always a bitch!" Apollo said looking down at him, smirking all the while, "And that was just a small taste of my judgement on you… Arkbrave Dragon now attacks Geomancer!" he said as the dragon unleashed a beam of light at the Ice Barrier monster, destroying it. 3700 – 1600 = 2100. (Xavier) His opponent screamed again.

The second lot of damage was just as bad as the first, but not by much, "That will be all for your punishment this turn, I now place a card face-down and end my turn..." he said as the card

Apollo's cards x 2

Turn 4

It took a while for Xavier to get back to his feet, "Can you still compete?" Mr Shroud asked him, "Yeah, just wasn't expecting the shocks to be that strong..." he said, still recovering, "Alright then..." he said.

"My… turn..." he drew his card, "Yes!" he said, now filled with energy somehow, "I activate the Spell, Card of Sanctity! This let's both of us draw until we each have 6 cards!" he said, as then both he and Apollo drew until they both had six cards.

"Now I Normal Summon Dewdark of the Ice Barrier!" he said, with this making a ninja like monster, carrying ice weapons to appear.

Dewdark of the Ice Barrier: WATER, Level: 2 [Aqua/Tune/Effect] ATK/1200 DEF/800

"Then I activate the Spell, Monster Reborn! And Special Summon back Gishilnodon!" he said as the monster appeared again, "And now to Tune my Level 2 Dewdark with my Level 5 Dragon Ice!" he said as the monsters went through their process.

5* + 2* = 7*

"Synchro Summon! Level 7! Gungir, Dragon of the Ice Barrier!" he shouted as a dragon made out of ice appeared with a roar, making Apollo's scar to burn again.

Gungir, Dragon of the Ice Barrier: WATER, Level: 7 [Dragon/Synchro/Effect] ATK/2500 DEF/1700

"Gishilnodon's effect now activates! When a Level 3 or lower monster leave the field, it's ATK become 3000 until the end of the turn!" he said, Gishilnodon's ATK: 2300 = 3000. "And now for Gungir's effect! I can send up to 2 cards in my hand to the Graveyard..." he said sending exactly two.

"And now I can destroy cards on the field, up to number of cards I sent!" he said, "I'll destroy your Tokens!" he said, Gungir then shot out two icicles at the Tokens destroying them, while Apollo shivered from the cold that occurred from the effect.

"With them now gone, Dracossack can now be destroyed… But first I activate the Field Spell, Umiiruka!" he said… And this caused water to pour into the cage, so both Duelist started to jump onto the platforms as the water continued to rise.

"This Field Spell allows all WATER monsters on the field to gain 500 ATK! But they lose 400 DEF!" he said. Gungir's ATK/DEF: 2500/1700 = 3000/1300, 3000/1800 = 3500/1400 (Gishilnodon)

"Battle! Gishilnodon attack Dracossack!" he ordered as the monster charged at the airplane like monster, and destroyed it. 2850 – 900 = 1950. Luckily Apollo managed to keep still as the shocked went through his system.

"And now Gungir take out Arkbrave Dragon!" he ordered, with this making Gungir open it's mouth, inhale, then release a beam of cold energy at Arkbrave, freezing the monster solid, as well some of the water, making a platform around Apollo. The monster then shattered, dealing more damage and another shock to Apollo. 1950 – 600 = 1350. (Apollo)

"Ha! What do you think of my 'punishment'?" he gloated to Apollo, who was very annoyed… Not just at Xavier, but at mostly at having to deal with one of the monsters that took his eye… A Synchro Monster.

"I now end my turn..." said, as he was confident that he was going to win his first Underground Action Duel.

Xavier's cards x 2

Turn 5

"I told you..." Apollo said, his eye was shadowed by his hair, "What?" Xavier asked, "I told you, that if you get to close to the sun..." he said, at this moment, his eyes was seen, but he looked a bit crazed, spooking Xavier a bit. "Your gonna get burned!" he growled as he drew his card.

When he looked at the card he just drew, he smirked, "I activate the effect of Tempest, Dragon Ruler of Storms from my Hand!" he said, "I can banish 2 WIND and or Dragon-Types from my Hand or Graveyard, banishing Redox and Tidal!" he said as his Duel Disk told him they were now banished.

"This lets me now Special Summon Tempest!" he said as then as sudden storm appeared, then it scattered, revealing the Dragon Ruler in all it glory, it's body was comprised mostly of winds.

Tempest, Dragon Ruler of Storms: WIND, Level: 7 [Dragon/Effect] ATK/2400 DEF/2200

"HA! And what is that thing meant to do against my monsters?" Xavier mocked as his monsters roared in challenge.

"By itself… Nothing!" Apollo answered, shocking Xavier as well as confusing him, "Oh my… Does this mean he's about to bring out one of them?" Mr Shroud asked dramatically.

Meanwhile in the crowd, "What's he going on about?" the girl asked her date to her right… "Wrong person girl!" the guy she was asking told her, making her flinch away, "S-Sorry!" she quickly said, "Babe? I'm over here..." her actual date to her left said to her, making her look correctly at him.

"And to answer your question..." he said, but took a while to answer, "It's probably better if you just watch..." was all he said, and they both turned back to the duel.

"This is what I mean..." Apollo said, as he revealed a card, "I activate the Spell, Sacred Dragon Fusion!" he yelled. The image on the card was that of four monsters, coloured red, blue, orange and green, and all four were spiralling towards the centre.

"Fusion! You can Fusion Summon as well?!" Xavier asked shocked and scared, "Yes, and with Sacred Dragon Fusion, I can Fusion Summon by banishing Fusion Material from my Hand, Field or Graveyard!" he said.

"I Fuse the Tempest that is on my Field and Dracossack in my Graveyard!" he said, as Dracossack appeared on the field as a ghost, then both it and Tempest glowed blue and red.

"Ruling dragon of storms, become one with the power of the winds and bring about a new ruler!" he said as the monster swirled together. "Fusion Summon!" he shouted, bringing his hands together, his Extra Deck then opened and ejected a card, which he grabbed. "Come forth! Level 8! Gale, Sacred Dragon Ruler of Typhoon!" he shouted.

And from another gust of wind, that looked like a hurricane, burst forth another dragon, it looked similar to Tempest, but it was bigger, the wind that made up its body was grey, as well as sparking with electricity, to contain most of its wind like body, it was covered with dark green smooth armor, the helmet that showed it face, seemed to be designed to look like a crown, it appeared with a roar, that sounded like a thunderstorm.

Gale, Sacred Dragon Ruler of Typhoons: WIND, Level: 8 [Dragon/Fusion/Effect] ATK/2900 DEF/2700

"What the hell is that thing?!" Xavier cried out, "Your executioner..." Apollo said solemnly, "Gale's effect activates! When Fusion Summoned using Tempest on the field, I can return all other cards on the Field to our Hands!" he told him.

"WHAT!?" his opponent screamed out, "Gale's Wrath!" Apollo declared as Gale started to create an updraft, making the crowd forcefully keep a hold of their mask, while the other cards on the field started to float… more than usual, and while Xavier was struggling to keep himself grounded, Apollo was smart enough the grab onto his platform.

Finally after a full thirty seconds, the winds died down, and all other cards on the field had vanished.

"Gone… They're all gone..." Xavier whispered out, "I'll give you this, if you want salvation… you're gonna have to pay the fee!" Apollo said to him. "Yeah sure whatever!" Xavier said, making Apollo smile. "Battle!" he said.

"Wait what!? I thought you said that you would give me salvation!" Xavier demanded, "I am… I'm going to make this as painless as possible for you!" he answer. "Gale will now attack you directly!" he ordered, as Gale inhaled for a while.

"Typhoon's Havoc!" he shouted as Gale released a wind from it mouth, it was sparking with energy as it made it's way over to the scared Xavier, upon hitting him, he was blown right of his feet. 2100 – 2900 = 0. (Xavier)

Apollo: WINS

Xavier: LOSE

As this was the final attack that finished the Duel, the shock Xavier was experiencing was twice as painful as the first he experienced. And as he hit the floor, he didn't move a muscle, his eyes wide open, but they were dulled.

"And our victor is the Collector!" Mr Shroud yelled as the crowd clapped for the winner, while said winner made his way over to the downed loser. "And to the victor go the spoils..." Apollo said smirking as he took Xavier's Duel Disk off of him, and took out the cards, as well as the cards in the Extra Deck.

"This will be my fee for ending your suffering..." he said, then turned and left, while two medics hired by the Underground Circuit came and took Xavier away. "I hope you enjoy that folks! For we shall be back here next week!" Mr Shroud said as everyone was starting to leave.

"A-And here is your w-winnings!" the bidder nervously said, handing over a fat wad of money over to Apollo, who held it to his ear and flicked through it, smiling all the while. "Ah… The sound of money..." he sighed contently as he flicked through it again… But then looked at it strangely.

"Hmmm…" he said, then flicked through his winnings again, "S-Something wrong?" the bidder asked nervously, "Yeah… there is..." Apollo said… Then flicked through his winnings once more to confirm something.

Out of nowhere, he grabbed the bidder by his collar, "It appears that my winnings are smaller than usual..." he growled out, his good eye boring into the bidders eyes. "Care to explain?..." he asked/demanded.

"W-W-Well y-you see, du-e to so many people betting on you to win, we have to make sure they get their..." the bidder explained, but then Apollo increased his grip on him, "Look at me when I say this..." he said to him, "Does it look like I give a crap about if the others get their winnings?" he asked.

"B-but it-it's the policy…" the bidder breathed out, "Don't care! Just give me the rest of what I earned..." he said to him, then pushed him away, the threat scared the bidder into giving into his demand. "Thank you..." he said, then turned to leave.

"D-don't you want to hear what's happened t-to your opponent?" the bidder asked, "Don't care!" he shouted back as he shut the door with a slam. "Great… I'm going to get fired for doing that..." the bidder whined out.

A few minutes later, Apollo was walking out of the tunnel leading to the Underground Circuit, putting his winnings in his pocket, and then taking out the Deck he took as 'payment' for ending Xavier's suffering.

"Hmm… some of these cards are good!" he thought holding up Dragon Ice, "I'll use this one… and this one..." he went through in his head going over the cards… but came to a halt when he was looking at some of the cards.

The ones he was looking at now were all Synchro Monsters, were once again irritating his useless eye. "These cards..." he thought with slightly contained rage. To this day, he still remembers what happened on that day.

(3 years ago)

We see a young Apollo at the age of 14, who doesn't have a scar over his eye yet, currently he and his friend were Duelling, this was during the Maimi ARC League Championship of the Junior Youth Division.

Currently this Apollo had no monsters on his field, they had all been wipe out by a card his friend/opponent at the time had activated. While said friend had just Synchro Summoned a Level 8 Synchro Monster going by the name of Avenging Knight Parshath.

"Sorry to end it here buddy, but my Parshath will now attack you directly!" he ordered as the knight like centaur monster charged at the defenceless Apollo, who then looked at the weapon in the monsters hand…

And then the monster slashed down at him... A scream rang out from the young buy, falling over and clutching at his face.

The young Apollo soon passed out after that, so he couldn't remember what happened after, but he was told that the ARC League Championship of that year had been cancelled after that Duel. The parents of the other contenders were frightened that their children may suffer like he did, and pulled their children out of it.

When he came to, about a day after the Duel, he found himself in a hospital, in the child ward, the doctors told him that the slash from that attack had completely rendered his left eye useless.

He was now blind in one eye, it had also left a deep scar across said now useless eye. During the time he took to recover from the incident, the stares he received didn't help, some looked at him with pity, others made funny of him for now being a cyclops… But others now hated his guts… these lot were the lot that had managed to enter the tournament that year, who had all struggled to get a chance to enter, as well as lose their chance at winning because of him.

But they weren't even blaming his friend for causing the incident in the first place… speaking of said friend, the young Apollo had since stopped seeing him, feeling hatred for him, and he too hated Apollo for ruining the tournament, despite him being the one to cause it.

And all this happened with just one card… A Synchro Monster...

After having snapped out of his flashback, he hadn't realised that he was now standing outside the building to his apartment, and the fact he was still looking down at the Synchro cards.

He then went through the entire Deck and took out every single Synchro Monster… and tore them in half.

He then tossed them to his side, the wind carrying them off into the sky, "The world would have been better off without them..." he said to himself, then made his way inside.

His apartment was fairly nice, having spent a lot to get it, lucky his time in the Underground had helped to pay rent… the reason he didn't live with his parents anymore, was that he after the incident, he saw or felt that they were the reason he was so weak during that time. So when he was ready, he begged them (which he hated that he had to do at the time) to allow him to live on his own.

The reason for this was to ensure that he could be stronger, without anyone helping him out… Of course his parents had to pay the rent for a while, but this was before he started to enter the Underground Circuit, that reliance from his parents quickly stopped.

He still loves his parents, but he needed to get away from depending on them all the time… and they were quite proud of him for his independence at 15.

"Right… time for bed..." he yawned, as he then turned to make his way to his room…

*beep, beep!* His Duel Disk went off, "Oh for god's sake! What now?" he moaned out, not really up for it, but if he didn't look at it, he would have trouble falling asleep. So he activated his Duel Disk in it communication mode, went into his message… and got angry at the sight of who sent him a message.

Sender: Reiji Akaba

I need to speak with you about something, contact me as soon as you can.

Reiji Akaba

Was what the message said, "Reiji Akaba… what the hell does he want with me again..." he spat out.

A few years ago, during which was when Apollo still new to living by himself, and was seeking work. The son of LDS was offering a job… said job was Apollo becoming a Hitman or Debt Collector with him dealing with the people that Reiji did shady business with, of course he didn't hurt them... too much. He just made sure they kept their side of Reiji's deals.

The pay was good… but during last year, that partnership was ended. The reason, well there were many reasons… from the first day that Apollo and Reiji had meet, Apollo could tell that Reiji had other secret agendas that he was keeping from the public… more secret than the work Apollo was offered.

That year, Reiji had tasked him in testing out Duellists for potential for one of his secret agendas, and had told him to restrain himself against his opponents, the reason for him restraining himself was that one of his opponents was a Synchro Duelist... going by the name of Nigel Denisu.

To him, that Duel with Nigel was amazing, and he would have enjoyed it, if it weren't for the fact that Nigel could Synchro Summon, he ended up losing that Duel, and Reiji said that Nigel was acceptable for his motives. He would also test him himself.

And that was the last he had talked to Reiji, "Still, what the hell does he want?" he asked himself, "Delete!" he said deleting the message, then making his way to bed… "Still, all that thinking of what happened last year is making me think of him..." he said.

He then activated his Duel Disk once again, and sent a message to someone, "I wonder what he'll think when he gets that..." he thought smirking as he finally made his way to bed.

At this time of night, all them should have been asleep, their mother was asleep, and they should be too… if it weren't for the fact that Nigel had woken them up.

"Seriously Nigel, why are we up at this time? Couldn't this have waited until tomorrow?" Oliver whined out, clearly not happy at being up now still, "Not if this was sent to you..." he said, showing them the message he had just gotten on his Duel Disk a few minutes ago.

His two brothers were slight rubbing the sleep out of their eyes, but when they saw who sent it, their eyes were wide open in shock.

Sender: Apollo Cronus

Hello there Nigel. Do you remember me? If not, then allow me to jog your memory, I am the very person who put you through the fire and flames last year. And in case you're still blanking out… not that I would blame you for suppressing it, you may remember me by my other name "The Collector".

After all… once in hell, only the devil can get you out!

"That creep again?" Matthew said annoyed, he remembered the hell that Nigel literally went through last year against the guy. "Yep, still not sure why he would send me this..." Nigel said, going over the message again. "How did he get your number..." Matthew asked, shady involvement, most likely.

"Maybe he's trying to mess with you, hoping that when he sees you again, you'll be freaked out." Oliver suggested. "I don't know..." Nigel muttered, "Do either of your remember last year?" he asked them.

"Yeah?" they said, "Do you remember that it looked shady that he lost against me?" he said, as he remember he had just Synchro Summoned Prism Splitter (something that had annoyed Apollo at the time) he then threw caution to the wind, rushed for an Action Card…

But Apollo didn't even try to do a thing, and he had 1 of his Dragon Ruler Extra Deck monsters on the field, and he did nothing as Prism Splitter destroyed the monster, he didn't even use the Action Card that he got to help himself. To everyone watching that Duel, Apollo seemed to have suffered from something, but to Nigel to could tell that he was faking it, but he couldn't figure out why.

"Maybe he was actually suffering from a condition..." Matthew said with a bit of hope, "No it felt like he-"

"Boys!" their mother had just woken up, having heard them talking, they froze up, like deer caught in a cars headlight. "Bed… now!" was all she muttered, they did as ordered, she could be very moody when awoken like that. "Night!" they quickly all said to her, and rushed back to their rooms.

"That's better..." she said, then made her way back to her warm bed.

Abandoned Factory

Within this broken down factory was both Shun and Yuto, it was a good location to rest when they weren't out and about within the city. They had only just found the place last week.

"Well, that was boring, that Pawn of Fusion had no back bone..." Shun muttered out, leaning against some of the broken machinery, while Yuto was on his Duel Disk, trying to get a signal, "At least we took down another Fusion Scum..." he spat out.

"You need to calm down Shun..." Yuto said to him, still on his Duel Disk, "The Professor's Son will eventually come out to confront us..." he said.

"I know, but I want to get this done fast, so we can get back to Heartland..." Shun retorted, The plan that they came up with, was to somehow lure out Reiji Akaba, the Son of the Professor, capture him, and use him as a hostage to get Ruri back from Academia.

But that plan was going slowly for now, so they would just use the time to card as many Fusion Scum as they could. "May I ask… what are you trying to do?" Shun asked his best friend, making said friend stop nervously. "Trying to see if there are other Resistance members in this Dimension..." he replied, half lying about it.

The real reason for doing this, was that he hoped that it was Ruri that he saw in the warehouse during his Duel against that LDS Student, and that she was trying to get a hold of him as well, but he had yet to tell Shun about this yet, he wanted to confirm it first, before getting his best friend's hopes up for nothing.

"Why would there be other Resistance members in this Dimension? We were the only two that came..." Shun was saying, but the Duel Disk had finally managed to get a signal from the other side.

"I've got a signal… that means there are others in this Dimension!" Yuto said smiling, thinking it was Ruri.

"Hello?..." a voice said over the com system, it was clearly a male, thus putting Yuto's hopes down. "Who are you?" he asked back.

"Wait… Yuto?" the voice said back, "Yes! But who are you?" he asked, "It's me, Ronald!" Ronald said back to him.

"Ronald!" Shun cut in, remembering Ronald, as they had worked together once, fighting off the Fusion Dimension, "What are you doing here?" he demanded, "Shun is that you? Also I could ask you the same thing!" he retorted.

"We're trying to get my sister back!" he told him, "Sister?" Ronald muttered, he didn't know Shun had a sister. "Well, I was sent here to make sure that Fusion doesn't attack this Dimension..." Ronald finally said.

"We can talk about that later, where are you now?" Yuto asked, they could talk about that stuff later when they were together in a group, their conversation may be recorded at anytime, so he wanted to find Ronald first.

"At the docks, in one of the warehouses… we should meet up soon... how about Monday afternoon?" Ronald said, and that was the last thing they heard as they both turned off their Duel Disks.

"At least we can cover more ground now..." Shun said, while Yuto nodded, "I'll go get him on Monday, while you carry on… taking down more Fusion Scum..." Yuto told him. And that was the last thing they said to one another that night.

End of Chapter 17

Hey guys, sorry it's been awhile, but I've been busy these passed few weeks…, and yes, I've added Underground Duelling to the story, as that was an interest concept to me back during GX… Also Credits will be a currency used. Simplilar than using real currencies. There's Credits, and Duel Credits, used for Cards.

(Action Cards)

Clear Path
Action Spell
Target 1 monster you control, it can attack your opponent directly, but battle damage from that attack is halved.

(Apollo) (And then the Sky)

Sacred Dragon Fusion
Normal Spell
Fusion Summon 1 "Sacred Dragon Ruler" Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck or GY, Fusion Summon that monster by banishing its Fusion Material from your Hand, Field or GY to your Banished Zone. A Fusion Monster Fusion Summoned from the GY using this card is destroyed at the end of your opponent's next turn. During your turn and this card is in your GY: Banish 1 Dragon-Type from your GY: Add this card to your Hand. You cannot add this card to your Hand the turn you use it to Fusion Summon.

Gale, Sacred Dragon Ruler of Typhoons
WIND, Level: 8 [Dragon/Fusion/Effect] ATK/2900 DEF/2700
"Tempest, Dragon Ruler of Storm" + 1 WIND and or Dragon-Type
This card can only be Fusion Summoned using only "Sacred Dragon Fusion". If this card is Fusion Summoned, using a "Tempest, Dragon Ruler of Storms" on the Field as Fusion Material: Return every other card on the field to the controller Hands. Once per turn, target 1 "Dragon Ruler" in your banished zone, Special Summon it, and if you do, inflict damage to all player(s) equal to half the original ATK of that Summoned monster. Once per turn (Quick Effect) should you take damage from an effect, discard 1 WIND and or Dragon-Type in your Hand, negate that damage, then destroy 1 card on the field.

Also sorry for taking so long to make this chapter, but work, the holidays and actually managing to make time for this was a pain... also I hope you lot all had a good Christmas or whatever holiday you celebrated and a happy new year!