Sorry about the wait guys, but again a life got in the way…

"Talking"

*Noises*

"Thoughts, Calls, Monsters speaking or Summoning Chants, "

0/0 (Bold mean what position the monsters are summoned into)

Sunday, (12:12 PM)

The day after the events of You Show involving LDS was quite… Quiet. That Sunday was very uneventful, with many of the students not showing up for that day. Some of them had part time jobs to make some money, some of those lot were Matthew, Nigel and Oliver. While Sora had just flat out not shown up, despite them not knowing what he did when they had school or work.

The lot that did show up at You Show that day was Yuzu, Azara (With Ruby), Ronald, Ayu, Futoshi, Tatsuya and another student going by the name of Andy Ren… and no Yuya in sight.

Yes, Yuya Sakaki did not show up on a Sunday, which shocked them all (Yuzu the most), as the tomato haired Duelist would always show up on a Sunday, this was clearly hopefully a one off situation for him.

So with most of their small group gone for that day, they decided to have some friendly Duels, but without the others they weren't as enjoyable as they would've been if they were there… But they at least used the time to get along with Andy…

And that was it for that lot.

At the same time at LDS

"So what exactly happened with my Pendulum Monsters?" Reiji asked, he was currently in his office, talking to some of the researchers from their lab over a video call.

"Well sir, it appears that based on the data we have gathered from your Duel Disk, there are some theories that we have gone over. If you'd like to-" they said, "I'd like to hear them please." Reiji asked.

"Very well… The first is the most unlikely, which is that as the cards were finished exactly yesterday for you to use, we didn't get the actual chance to test for faults..." they explained. "I apologise for rushing off with them like that, but I wanted to demonstrated their power..." he said to them. He would admit he was a tad more enthusiastic, at the thought of Pendulum Summoning.

"That's fine sir, no serious damage became of the cards. Anyway, the next theory is most likely, which is that the energy output for the Pendulum Monsters did not meet the stable requirements to Pendulum Summon, there must have been a delay in your Pendulum Summon's energy before it became unstable..." they said.

"That would explain why the Scale became unstable after two turns of it being used..." Reiji thought to himself. "Anymore..." he asked.

"Just one more, and this one may have happened along with the second..." they continued, "We think that the Scale's wavelength at the start of your Pendulum Summon started to breakdown, and when it changed the number for the scale, any Pendulum Summoned monster out of scale's limit was destroyed for some reason..." they finished.

"We're currently correcting these theories, and they should be ready for testing..." they added, "Good, when you begin testing, inform me please, I would like to participate in the testing, personally." Reiji added.

"Very well sir." and with that, the call was ended, leaving Reiji to his thoughts, "Now onto the other problem, finding out who or what is attacking our Duellists..." he thought, thinking about the reason why he had to force a stop in his Duel against Yuya.

"Just a bit longer, and I could've known if my theory about evolving the Pendulum Summon was correct..." he added, a bit frustrated in his mind about the whole ordeal.

"Sir, do you have a moment?" Nakajima asked over a com, this of course derailed Reiji's thoughts, "Yes I do, what is it?" he asked, "The CEO of DMC… Would like to speak with you… Concerning what happened yesterday at You Show." he said.

This caused Reiji to sigh to himself, he had a feeling this would occur, the Denisu Brothers must have told their mother, who just so happens to work at DMC, she must have told her superiors, and gained the CEO's attention. He was hoping that this upcoming talk with the other CEO would've been delayed just a bit longer, for him to collect his thoughts.

"Very well, open a video call with him..." he asked, "Just a moment Sir..." Nakajima responded, while this happened, Reiji flipped a switch to dim the light coming into his office from the outside by just a bit.

After that was done, a new video image had appeared, and there, looking back at him was a middle aged man with tan, fit physique, just from looking over at him sitting down in his office, his hair was brown and close shaved, he wore a dark grey business suit, a blue tie. "Good morning, Reiji Akaba." the CEO said, "Good morning to you too." Reiji greeted back.

"I'll cut right to the case, it would appear that you've somehow acquired Pendulum Monsters already, however, I know for a fact that the summons's energy was just recently perfected by my team" the other CEO explained, "I would like to know who you've managed to collect data for it..." he demanded.

"LDS has state of the art technology that allows us to keep track of various Summoning Energies that can be summoned during Duels within the entire city limits." Reiji answered, "That technology happened to find the energy that the Pendulum Summon released on the day of it's discovery..." he added.

"So you reversed engineered the energy to make your own version..." they responded, with Reiji nodding at this, "Is that a problem between us?" Reiji asked, "No, seeing that you must have been working on this before Yuya Sakaki's paperwork came in..." he answered. "But as Pendulum isn't apart of our contract, plus with Yuya's opinion on the method, you will have to halt production and research of Pendulum Monsters, back only I can overrule Yuya's opinion." Reiji instantly picked up where this was going.

"And what would I have to do to further my research?" Reiji asked, he didn't really mind that LDS didn't make any profit from any Pendulum Monsters they made, they were just fine with what they had at the moment. As long as he could further his research, it would help him with his plans.

After a few moments, the CEO suddenly smirked, knowing Reiji was clearly desperate for the research part, and he would find out why right now… "Tell me about your secret agendas." he demanded from him.

"And don't play innocent, you've been aggressively expanding for the past three years, and no one can figure out what you plan to achieve…" he said, just before Reiji could respond. "I just want to know why, I won't say anything to anyone else… So long as I know that your plans don't affect DMC in anyway..." he finished.

Reiji then took a moment to think, he knew they would never say a thing, as he liked to keep his enemies close, and he could ruin the plan seeing that he was a powerful person… The only problem was would he believe him if he told him.

"Very well..." Reiji finally said after a whole minute, with this making the CEO smirk more, "But this will have to be private… Make sure no one is listening to this..." he said, then pressed the com for Nakajima. "Yes sir?" Nakajima asked.

"Make it so that my video call is encrypted." he asked, "Very well sir!" he replied, a while minute passed before Nakajima replied that he had done what was requested.

"You may want to cancel some of your appointments if you have any… We have a lot to discuss." Reiji said, then began.

Monday, (7:46 AM)

The next day, waiting by the school gates was Yuzu, clearly waiting for Yuya. As more students gathered, she still couldn't find sight of her childhood friend.

A few more minutes passed before she got concerned, "Where are you Yuya?" she thought with worry, "Are you still hung up about what happened back then..." she was referring to the events of You Show on Saturday.

"He must still be upset about Reiji being able to Pendulum Summon. Maybe, if he thought about what dad sai-" she added but then. "Yuzu!" a voice yelled for her, snapped out of her thoughts, she looked to her right to see Yuya running up to her.

"Yuya, where were you? You're later than usual." she slightly scolded him, knowing that he did need sometime, so she wasn't going to be rough on him… For today at least.

"Sorry Yuzu, but I had to make a detour..." he said with a nervous laugh, as the route he usually took to meet up with Yuzu was under slight construction… With that out of the way, he had to take the long way around.

As he explained this to her, she noticed that he seemed to be back to normal, not what she last saw him like. "You seemed to be doing better." she pointed out as the two head into the school.

"Yeah, I took your dad's advice, he right. I do need to be someone that will encourage others to further the Pendulum Summon, and if I want others to see what it can do, I need to become a great Dueltainer like my dad!" he said, she smiled, happy that he was back to normal.

"And I can't do that if I'm all frowns and down. Right?" he asked with a smile, which made her heart rate beat a bit faster than usual, "Right..." she said as they made there way into the building.

(1:01 PM)

"Seriously Yuya, just because they call it sea food, it doesn't mean we want to 'see' you eat it like that." Yuzu said, a tad disgusted at Yuya's eating habit, which is him just devouring down his meal in seconds. His eating was putting other students off as they walked passed the two.

While Yuzu continued to be disgusted by Yuya, someone approached her, "Napkin?" the person offered her, she turned to look at the being in question, and was more disgusted at who it was, Shingo Sawatari. "Hello!" was all he said.

"What do you want Sawatari?" she asked annoyed as she turned away, this also put a halt to Yuya's eating, and he to looked up at Sawatari, who just put the napkin away. "My god Yuya, your table manners must be a bad as your Dueling Skills… TERRIBLE!" he said with a laugh.

"Coming from the guy that I beat..." Yuya said while Sawatari scowled slightly at that, "What do you want with us?" he asked, "Been hearing the news lately? If you haven't then you don't know that another Duelist was attacked on Saturday. And people are saying that you're the culprit!" he explained, shocking the two.

"Well these people clearly need to get their facts straight!" Yuzu retorted, "Do they know who it was?" she then asked, "Professor Marco, from the LDS Advanced Fusion Course. Hasn't been heard from since..." he told them.

"That must have been why Reiji had to leave back then." Yuya said to her, "So the rumor was true, you did Duel Reiji Akaba, and I thought the rumor about you being the culprit was weird, like someone like you could take down Marco… Even with that cheap Pendulum Summoning!" Sawatari said, making Yuya glare at him.

"Wait a minute, you tried to steal my cards that caused this mess that happened between You Show and LDS, so why is it now cheap?" Yuya asked annoyed.

"For one thing, you're the only person with Pendulum Monsters to begin with, how is that fair to everyone else?" he retorted, shocking Yuya, who thought that he knew that Reiji now also had Pendulum Monsters, clearly not.

"Well that won't be a problem soon, as DMC has started to make prototypes for Pendulum Monsters!" Yuzu cut in, making Sawatari smirk at this, "Took the words right out of my mouth..." Sawatari said.

"And when they come out, I'll be the first in line to get the best ones..." he said, then glared at Yuya while pointing at him, "And then you and me will settle the score for the third…" he said, confusing Yuya, "Third?" he thought, he had only Dueled the guy once. "… and final time." Sawatari finished.

"Our Duel will take place during the Junior Youth Division of the ARC League Championship..." he said then smirked, "If you can qualify that is..." he said as he walked away with a laugh.

"Qualify..." Yuya blinked in confusion, before it settled into his head, causing him to panic. "Yuya?" Yuzu asked him, "I HAVEN'T QUALIFIED FOR IT YET!" he suddenly yelled out… while Yuzu felt embarrassed to be near him at the moment. "How will I become a Pro now?..." Yuya whined defeated to himself...

16:33 PM...

At the gates leading to the outside of the school was Ayu, Futoshi and Tatsuya, clearly waiting for Yuya and Yuzu, who were making their way to them. "Hey you two, our study group was cancelled today!" Ayu waved to them. "We're heading to You Show!" Futoshi added, "You coming?" Tatsuya asked.

When the two older ones got close to them, the three notice that something seemed off… Yuzu looked fine of course… Yuya on the other hand was clearly upset and was depressed. "Big Bro Yuya! What's wrong?" Tatsuya asked him.

A few minutes later, with the group of five walking to You Show, Yuya had explained what was bugging him, "Your not qualified to enter the ARC League this year?" Futoshi, repeating what Yuya had just said to them.

"No… In order to qualify for the Junior Youth Division, the yearly Duel Record you need is over 50 official Duels, with a winning percentage of 60%…" Yuya whined out, "What is your Duel Record now?" Ayu asked.

"46… With 26 of those wins..." he sighed out, he was thankful his Duel with Matthew officall, even more Duells would be needed to qualify. "Hmm, 26 divided by 46 = 0.565… not enough for you to qualify." Tatsuya said doing the math, "Wow that was fast." Futoshi was impressed. " But if you Duel four more times that will make it 50, and if you win all those, and they're official, you qualify!" he finished.

"I did tell him about that… but..." Yuzu said, then looked at Yuya, who got more depressed.

"No way! I'm not Duelling the guy who uses Pendulum Summoning!" a guy with puffy brown afro hair said to Yuya, who was begging the guy.

"Battle the guy who defeated Ishijima and took his title away? No thanks!" a guy with light blue bowl cut hair said, as his friend laughed, while Yuya pleaded with the guy.

"Sorry but I'm going now… Besides can't you enter any tournament now? You are a Pro now!" a kid with slightly spiky hair said, as he lefted the building… with Yuya chasing after the guy…

"Why did that guy even think I could get into any tournament I want? Plus that Duel against Strong Ishijima wasn't for his title, so I'm not even a Pro..." Yuya whined out.

"In order to become a Pro, one must do good in the ARC League Championship Junior Youth Division..." Tatsuya said, "Then you must take the Qualification Test to get into the Senior Division like the Denisu Brothers all did..." Futoshi added, "And if you get enough wins during that, you can then take the Pro Test!" Ayu finished.

"I know how it works! The only problem is that people already think I'm a Pro now, but I'm not, and now because of that Duel, I can't qualify..." Yuya snapped, "I would've asked you guys to Duel me, but I can't..." he added.

"Why not?" Futoshi asked, "I would need to Duel someone who is in the same Division as me or higher… You three are in the Youth Division so that's out of the question…" he explained, "I can't Duel Yuzu, I already asked her, but she said she's already qualified to enter..." he added, while Yuzu felt bad for him.

"I know, what about Azara, Matthew, Nigel or Oliver?" Ayu added in, hoping this would cheer in him up, but Yuya actually flinched. "I can't do that to Azara, for all I know, she's in the same boat as me… and I don't think I'm ready to Duel those three again..." he told her, while picturing the Brother's aces glaring at him from high up, their forms darkened and their eyes glowed eerie, the thought made his sweat slightly.

"What about Gongenzaka? He let you Duel the Duelist at his Dojo, which is the reason why your record is what it is now..." Yuzu said to him, who then sighed, "He's out of the question as well..." he said confusing her.

"It's true that he's done so much for me, but I can't rely on him on this, not after what he did to save our school just two days ago… No! I need to do this by myself! I need to be better than what I am right now!" he declared confidently.

"To be better than what I am right now?" Yuzu thought to herself, she smiled "Gotta go!" then took off running, confusing the four lefted behind.

"Hey, where are you going?" Yuya called out to her, "Nothing to worry about, but I have a few things to do. Chores to pay and bills to run!" she yelled back, "Bills to run?" he repeated to himself confused. "What about You Show?" Ayu yelled to her.

"Tell dad that I can't make it!" she shouted back as she vanished down the hill. "What was that all about?" Yuya asked confused, seeing the opportunity, Ayu decided to tease the young man, "You gave all the credit to Gong for helping you" she said, with the other two catching on.

"And that only you two helped to save You Show on Saturday..." Tatsuya added, "Not the brightest thing to say Big Bro..." Futoshi finished, shocking Yuya, "B-But-" Yuya went to say, "No buts about you Yuya… You blew it!" Ayu said with a smile.

This caused Yuya to panic, that he may have hurt Yuzu feelings, meanwhile the three kids were giggling to themselves.

Having arrived at the Duel School, where the others were piling in, Yuya and the kids were discussing ideas to get him qualified.

"Are there any small tournaments that he could enter?" Ayu suggested, "Finding the Duelist aren't the problem, finding any that are willing to Duel him is!" Tatsuya pointed out to her, while the four walked down a corridor.

"This seems to be quiet the pickle for you Yuya..." Futoshi said out loud, "What are you guys going on about?" a voice asked from behind, making the group look back to see a boy of 15, with black hair, with a fringe that swept over his left, eye, with the fringe having light blue highlights at the tips. He had blue eyes, stood at 5 foot 6. His clothing consisted of blue collar shirt with a dark green vest jacket, red shorts with black stripes on the sides, and his shoe were a dark blue with no laces.

"Hey Andy!" Ayu said to him, this guy was Andy Ren. "Hi!" he said back walking up to the lot, "Big Bro, this is Andy Ren!" Tatsuya introduced him.

"Hi, my name is Yuya." Yuya introduced himself, "I know who you are Yuya, I've been a student here for a while… and I've been watching you from a distance..." he said, but when he saw the look Yuya gave him, he started to panic.

"I-I-I didn't mean it like that, i-it's just that I'm a huge admirer of yours… N-not that kind of admirer either, it's not like I like you like tha-" Ayu stopped him. "Ignore that Yuya, he's seems to speak his mind sometime, and it gets a bit weird." she said.

"It's alright, and I knew what you meant." Yuya said, calming Andy down, "Thanks… So what was your problem again?" he asked, with Yuya explaining as the group, now including Andy walked to the lounging area.

"That does seems to be quiet the pickle you got into..." Andy said, quoting what Futoshi said earlier, getting a stare from said child. "I'd be willing to help you-" he said, "Really?!" Yuya yelled smiling at Andy, getting close to Andy's face, making him nervous slightly.

"Yeah..." he said, making Yuya's smile widened, "But I'm in the same situation as you!" he added, making Yuya fall onto the floor. "I just need two more Duels to qualify." he added.

"Well there goes my chance for this year..." Yuya said, getting up with a sigh. "Don't worry, I'm sure we can figure something out." Andy said to the young Entertainer.

After that, the group had finally made their way to the lounging area, with them thinking of other ways to get Yuya into the tournament. They finally walked into the room, when. "Yuya my boy!" a voice said when Yuya instantly entered the room.

"Huh?" the group of five said, looking to see who had said that, Nico Smiley, who just so happened to be Strong Ishijima's Duel Manager. "So lovely to see you again!" he said, rushing over to Yuya, to shake his hands.

"You too… Whoever you are." Yuya said, "Yuya, that's Nico Smiley! The Champion's Duel Manager!" Andy said to him, then looked to see Shuzo sitting down to the side. "Hey Principal!" he said, "Hi Andy!" he greeted back.

"Yuya, Nico here has some amazing news for you!" he said, "You've been allowed to enter this years ARC League Championship!" he said, shocking the group.

"Are-are you serious?" a stunned Yuya said, "Very serious my boy! The Miami's Duel Association took interest in your Duel against Ishijima, and with some negotiating from yours truly, they've allowed you to enter for the Junior Youth Division for the ARC League!" Nico said.

"This is great!" Ayu said, "Now you don't have to worry about entering now!" Tatsuya said, "This gives me the shivers!" Futoshi said, doing his dance. However… Yuya seemed to be sadden by the news. "Something wrong Yuya?" Shuzo asked.

"Yeah… Listen… It's a great offer and all, but..." Yuya said, thinking back to what those guys said to him, from when he tried to Duel them, the last one irked him more than the other two. "Tell them thanks-" he said, making Nico smile, "-but no thanks!" he said, shocking everyone in the room.

"But my boy, why?" Nico asked, "Could I take that offer?" Andy asked, making the kids look at him, "What?" he said confused with the staring.

"Look… It just seems like cheating to me." Yuya said, "Not cheating, favouritism!" Nico countered, "Okay that didn't come out right, but the fact still remains, you're in!" he added.

"It's not just that, but it feels wrong against Ishijima..." Yuya said, "By the way, how is he?" he asked, with this making Nico go stiff and serious, "It saddens me to say this, but he's no longer with us!" he said, shocking them.

"HE DIED!" Andy yelled out in shock, "No! He lefted, not even a goodbye, all I got from him was a sad note… THAT SAID, THAT HE RELINQUISHED HIS TITLE AND IS GOING TO FIND HIMSELF BY TRAVELLING THE WORLD!" Nico cried out, further shocking them.

"And because of this… I, a Duel Manager, am without a Duelist to manage, I am now nothing..." he said sadden, "But if you sign with me, we'll start from the very bottom and work our way up to the top!" he suddenly perked up.

"That's still a no!" Yuya bowed to him, making the manager fall over, "So that's why you're here, you negotiated with the Association to try and become Yuya's manager.", "And also make a name for yourself, with Yuya's Pendulum Summon...", "You're the worse person ever!" Tatsuya, Futoshi and Ayu said in that order.

"Not true! I do admire your talent Yuya, and I do believe you can make it to the top!" Nico defended himself, while Yuya thought for a moment. "If you're being truthful, then could you do me a favour?" Yuya asked.

"Anything my boy… Anything that you need, and I'll try and make it happen." Nico said.

"So Reiji turned out to be the CEO for LDS now, with the Professor in Fusion, it makes since for that to happen..." Sora thought looking up at the building. "This calls for further investigating..." he added, then looked down at the entrance.

"The only problem I would have would be the heightened security… Only the staff and the students of the building seem to get in." he added, watching as a staff member, an Elite Duelist who was recognized by info from the building was just let in. "To be fair, I probably couldn't get in and demand to see the CEO anyway." he added.

"Why won't people just let me have my fun!" he said, then licked his sweet, "Found you!" a voice said from behind him, "Huh?" he looked back to see that it was Yuzu.

"No wonder you didn't show up to You Show on Sunday, you were trying to get into LDS!" she accused him, "W-Wait a minute-" he said, "You leech! You're just trying to leech onto anyone that can give you what you want!" she said.

"But Reiji seems awesome! He can use Fusion, Synchro, Xyz..." he said the last bit with contained venom, "And Pendulum Summoning. Just think of all that he could teach me!" he said. "True, but I thought you liked it at You Show..." she said.

"I do… But I get the feeling that most of you don't like me." he said, hoping to guilt her into changing the subject. "Of course we like you!" it worked! "Enough about that, come with me!" she said, grabbing him by his arm.

"Where are we going?" he asked as he was dragged against his will, "I need your help with something." was all she said, then getting her Duel Disk out.

Within the city just walking about was Matthew, Nigel and Oliver, they were just making there way to You Show, but didn't go there straight from school, and all three of them seemed to be down. "Aargh! I can't believe Reiji can Pendulum Summon now! What more does he need!?" Matthew finally broke the silence.

"I know right, we were pretty even before in terms of skill, but now with Pendulum Summoning in the mix, he'll be able to overpower us faster!" Oliver said, while Nigel just looked onwards.

"To be fair, that won't be a problem for us soon, when we get out Pendulum Monsters, things should be even again. Right Nigel?" Matthew asked, but got not response, "Nigel? Hey Nigel what are yo-" he said, looking at his brother, who seemed to have stopped and looked straight ahead.

"What are you looking at-" he said, then turned to see what Nigel was looking at, "What are you-" Oliver went to say, but Matthew grabbed his face, and turned it to where the other two were looking.

And what they were looking at was a funny sight to behold, there standing outside of a sweet shop, was Azara, with Ruby at her side, gazing into the window where all sorts of sweets were arranged to be looked at, and to make it a bit more funnier was the fact that Azara was drooling in delight, more so than the dog.

"Yummy..." she whispered to herself, "Azara! What are you doing here?" Nigel said, scaring Azara out of her delicious thoughts. "AHHHHH! HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN THERE!" she screamed out.

"About a minute..." Oliver said sweat dropping, "What's up with you? We thought you'd be at You Show already." Matthew said. "Well..." she began...

Five minutes later, the four walked out of the sweet shop, where Ruby was waiting and the four (plus one dog) started to make their way to You Show.

"What's been on your mind?" Oliver asked, biting into his favourite sweets, "Nothing much just needed to get out for a bit..." she said licking her lollipop. "Is this about what happened at You Show on Saturday?" Nigel asked, biting into some of his rock candy.

"A bit… That and the rumor going around about the attacks." she said, "Oh that…" Matthew said, "Did you hear that one guy was found outside of a hospital, and may be a victim that escaped?" Oliver said.

What Oliver was talking about was that on the Sunday after the events of You Show, in the morning a guys was found right outside the hospital, with serious burns around his wrist and neck, the authorities are baffled where he received such injuries.

"Nah! He can't be, they released pictures that showed that the guy was shocked by something… Plus the rumor going around about the attacks, not one victim has been found, it's like they vanished, if the guy was a victim, he would have disappeared like the rest." Matthew explained.

"But I think I do know where the guy got the shock burns from..." he said, "Where?" Azara asked, "Are you talking about the Underground Circuit?" Nigel asked speaking up, shocking her, "How do you know about that?" she asked.

"The three of us went to see one once… But how do you know about it?" Matthew asked suspiciously, with her getting red in the face.

"I don't like to talk about this, but I actually was going to enter once." she said, shocking the three. "Are you insane! Going to see one is one thing, but actually Dueling in there is crazier!" Oliver snapped, "It's- It's not like I wanted to do it, but I needed the money, but then this tournament happened-" she said.

"Reiji's mother did say you were in a private tournament once… What was your life like before?" Matthew asked, after saying this Azara went quiet, "I-I don't want to talk about it..." she said weakly. They understood and dropped that subject.

"Alright you were going to enter, but do you know who you were going to Duel?" Oliver asked, "They didn't give me his actual name, but I think they said he went by the name 'The Collector'." she said, making Nigel stiffen up at the name, that was the stage name for Apollo Cronus, who Nigel had Dueled last year.

"You okay Nigel?" she asked, seeing that he looked a bit pale, "... I-" he went to say, *Beep! Beep!* All four of their Duel Disk went off. "Hold on..." she said, then checked her Duel Disk with the other three following her lead.

All four seemed to have gotten the same message, which was…

Sender: Yuzu Hiragi

Can you guys meet me at Warehouse 52, where the incident happened? It's important, plz hurry!

Yuzu

Was what the message said, "Yuzu wants to meet up..." Azara said, "Same!" Matthew and Oliver said as well, while Nigel nodded to confirm he got the same message. "Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!" she said, as she rushed off, with Ruby behind her, with them then taking off after her.

At the same time a bit further into the city, was Masumi, Yaiba and Hokuto standing outside of an alleyway, that had been blocked up with keep out tape.

"This is where Professor Marco was attacked. Down this alleyway..." Masumi said, both Hokuto and Yaiba looked into the alleyway, seeing that it was dark within said alleyway.

"What gave it away? The keep out tape!" Yaiba retorted, "Someone wants to keep this behind closed doors." Hokuto said, while Masumi started to go under the tape, "Let's go find out what happened." she said, then travelled further in, with Yaiba and Hokuto following her.

"It sure is creepy in here..." Yaiba said nervously, "Smells just as bad too..." Hokuto added, holding his nose in disgust, "Smells like someone died here..." he added, then bumped into Yaiba who had stopped, "What the hell-" he said, but then realised why Yaiba had stopped… the reason was that Masumi had stopped to glare back at him.

"S-Sorry..." he said weakly, while she just turned and walked again, "What?" he said, getting a look from Yaiba. "Moron..." he said and started to catch up with Masumi.

Further in, they started to hear people talking, "Get forensic to get a look at this!" one voice said, so the three walked a bit faster, and hid around the corner, where they peeked around, and were shocked at what they saw.

It wasn't all the Elite Duellist there doing their job, but the large claw like marking scattered about the walls. "What the- What caused all this?" Yaiba exclaimed loudly, "What was that?" one the Elites asked, with them all looking at their direction. "Busted!" Hokuto said, as the older lot ran up to them.

"Hey, what are you three doing here?" one of them asked, "Ummm...", "Errr...", "We're here to find out what happened to Professor Marco!" Hokuto, Yaiba and Masumi said in that order. With another Elite Duellist hearing this. "Students maybe?" he said as he approached them.

"I'm from the LDS's Advanced Fusion Summoning Course!" Masumi said, "Advanced Synchro Summoning." Yaiba declared, "And I'm from the Advanced Xyz Summoning Course." Hokuto said, with this making the one that came over to dismiss the others to go back.

"That would make you all a part of LDS?" he said, "Right!" they said back, "How did you find out about this?" he asked, "A rumor has been going around that people have been attacked recently..." Masumi said then paused, "And that Professor Marco was the latest victim." she explained.

"Look we just want to know what's going on!" she added, "I heard that he was an International Spy or whatnot!" Yaiba said, "I heard that he was abducted by aliens!" Hokuto said, "But what really happened?" Masumi asked.

"I'm sorry, but I can't say anything to anyone, however your concern will be noted..." the Elite said, with this upsetting Masumi, "Don't worry, we'll find out what happened soon… But for now, you need to go home, study and practice." he said, "Professor Marco would've wanted that for you lot, right?" he asked, with them nodding.

"Oh and one more thing..." he said, with them listening, "This places is off limits to all but us, so you lot need to go and forget what you saw here, understood?" he added, while two other Elites came over, "Take these three back out of the alleyway!" he ordered the two, who nodded and started to guild the three back out.

A few minutes later, they were back at the start to the alley way, the two Elites made their way back in. "Man they were so cool! How do I get to be like them?" Yaiba asked, Hokuto answered while Masumi thought to herself.

"There must be another lead..." she thought, then remembered something, the incident that caused what happened on Saturday. Upon remembering this, she suddenly took off, "Huh? Where you going?" Yaiba shouted to her.

"To follow another lead!" she shouted back, "Another lead?" Hokuto asked confused, "Wow she's determined!" Yaiba added.

Warehouse 52

Within the building of the now partially destroyed Warehouse was Ronald, this was where Yuto had told him to meet up, he had been waiting for about 10 minutes just to make sure the coast was clear.

Above him was Yuto, doing the same thing as Ronald, "It's been long enough, no ones coming!" he thought, "Seems the coast is clear..." Ronald said to no one in particular, but hinting if Yuto was in the building he could come out now.

As Yuto was about to make himself known to his comrade, "This is it!" a voice said from outside, shocking both Ronald and Yuto, with Yuto going back to hiding, while Ronald panicked at trying to find a spot… He couldn't.

"Crap! Who the hell is here?" he thought, arming his Duel Disk, standard one, ready to fight off who it was, but he didn't need to as coming through the doorway was Yuzu, dragging Sora with her. "It's just them..." he thought with a sigh.

Above him however, Yuto was having a similar thought, "It's her! What is she doing here?" he thought, then noticed who she was with, "With Academia no less?" he thought with anger. Thinking that she had been captured.

"Ronald!? What are you doing here?" Yuzu asked him, "Err… I just wanted to see the warehouse that caused the events to start at You Show was like." he lied, with this making Yuto a bit guilty, having clearly gotten some people in trouble due to him, not that he knew why it involved them somehow.

"And I should be asking you that as well!" Ronald said back to them, hoping to get pass him being here, "Nobody asked you! Sora said, "You just did idiot!" Ronald retorted with a glare, with the two getting in each others faces.

"Knock it off you two!" Yuzu snapped breaking them up, "The others should be here soon!" she added, confusing the two plus Yuto. "Others?" they thought.

"Yuzu? Are you in here?" a voice said from outside, "In here!" she said to the open door, with the lot coming in, it was Azara, Matthew, Nigel, Oliver and Ruby.

"We got here as fast as we could, what did you you want?" Matthew asked her, "Yeah…" Sora said, walking about, "You never explained what you needed from me, or these lot." he said, while Ruby sniffed about for something.

All personal in question turned to face Yuzu, who was standing straight, but then. "Please teach me!" she asked, with her putting her hands together in a bow. "Teach you what?" Oliver asked.

"The Extra Deck Summons!" she said, shocking the lot, plus Yuto, "Really, you want us to teach you one of them?" Azara asked, a bit touched that she wanted them to teach her.

"Yeah… After that Duel against Masumi…" she said, then blushed, "And Yuya, for encouraging me..." she added, with the lot minus Yuto smirked at this, "Who's Yuya?" Yuto thought, he could've sworn he heard that name from somewhere.

"I figure that I need to improve my Deck!" she finished, "Sure, I'd be happy to help!" Matthew said smiling, "What makes you think she wants your help? She may want to go for Fusion Summoning!" Sora retorted, "What about Synchro?" Azara suggested looking at Nigel, who nodded to her.

"How about you ask which one she wants to go for!" Ronald said, breaking the argument up, "Right, so which method do you want to learn?" Sora asked smiling, thinking she would make the right choice (him).

"... All of them!" Yuzu said, shocking them all, plus Yuto, while Ruby was still sniffing about, "All- all of them?" Matthew asked slowly, "Well... maybe just one for now, but eventually all of them, I've got Pendulum down, just need the cards for it, but if Reiji can pull off all four in one Duel, then why can't I" she said...

"I don't know, two methods is one thing, but all three-" Oliver said, "Four, if you include Ritual." Nigel said, "Right, but four is a bit extreme." he finished.

"You just need to teach me them, I'll figure out how to incorporate them all into my Deck. Please?" she said, the group looked at one another, before deciding, "Sure!" they all said, "Thank you..." she said smiling.

"Right we need to get organized for this, you want this done by before the ARC League starts, Right?" Matthew asked her, with her nodding yes. "So we'll need to take turns in teaching her." he said, "First we need to figure out which Method she wants to learn first." Azara said.

"I'd say Fusion, since that is technically the easiest and simplist of the lot." Nigel said, ignoring the glare he got from Sora. "What do you think Yuzu?" Matthew asked her, "Sure Fusion will be fine!" she said, with Oliver reaching into his pocket.

"Well then, the most important card needed for Fusion Summoning, is this!" he said, holding out a Polymerization card for her, "As you know from watching me and Sora Duel, this card is Polymerization, which is what let's us Fusion Summon!" he said.

"It's pretty much what Fusion Summoning revolves around." Sora added, but he was a bit confused now, "Why am I doing this? I know I'm a nice guy, but I didn't think I'd get roped into this..." he thought looking at the group as they gave Yuzu more tips.

"So what you do is send the Material from your Hand or Field to the Graveyard if I activate this card, then I can Fusion Summon!" she said, "Correct, now-" Azara went to say, but notice that Ruby was growling at something, she was looking straight up at something that was above them.

"What's wrong girl?" she asked her canine companion, while this happened, Sora looked at the ceiling, while Ronald looked a bit nervous. "Someone's up there!" Sora said, with this shocking the group minus Ronald, and making Yuto move about.

This of course made Sora run after him, by jumping onto some boxes to reach him, "What are you doing?" Yuzu cried out, while Sora armed his Duel Disk, while Yuto jumped down, with Sora now hot on his tail.

"It's him!" Azara and Yuzu yelled out while Nigel glared at the guy, "Who?" Matthew and Oliver asked, "The guy who attacked Sawatari!" Nigel declared, shocking his brothers, who then narrowed their eyes and armed their Duel Disk as well, followed by Nigel.

With Yuto, he too had armed his Duel Disk, jumped onto the wall, turned, then jumped and headed straight for Sora, their energy blades clashed with them being pushed back a few feet.

"Alright you, talk!" Sora demanded, but his opponent stayed quiet, "Your not from here are you?" he added, thinking of where he came from, due to the fact that he recognised the Duel Disk Yuto wore.

"Neither are you!" Yuto said, "It is you isn't it?" Yuzu asked Yuto, making him look at her, "Who?" Sora asked, having not heard what the lot said earlier. "Sora he's the one that attacked Sawatari!" Azara said.

"Are you behind the attacks going about lately?" Matthew asked, as he, Nigel and Oliver helped Sora, by making a square formation around Yuto. "Talk, what are you planning?" Oliver said serious with a glare.

"Attacks?" Sora asked them, "Some Duelist are being attacked recently..." Matthew said, "And most if not all of them were from LDS!" Nigel said, this time no one was shocked at him speaking, it was too serious for that at the moment.

"So that's what the heightened security was about." Sora said to himself, remembering what happened at LDS before this happened. "Well if this is true, then you need to explain yourself mister!" he declared.

"Make sure he can't get any!" Azara said, getting her Duel Disk ready as well, meanwhile Ronald was to one side, sweating, not sure who to help, if he helped them, Yuto and Shun may see him as a traitor, but if he helped Yuto, then the group would get suspicious of him. "Damn it! I can't help without getting into trouble with either side" he thought gritting his teeth.

"He can start by telling us who he is!" Yuzu said, "Why did you Duel Sawatari? Why are you doing this? And why are you going after LDS?" she asked, suddenly the door opened, "Answer the questions!" a voice demanded.

This made all of them turn to look at the doorway to see said speaker, who happened to be Masumi standing there. "Masumi!? What are you doing here?" Yuzu asked, while the rest of the You Show group glared at Masumi, who ignored them.

"Who are you and what happened to Professor Marco?" Masumi demanded, "Marco?" Oliver asked, "My teacher for the Advanced Fusion Course." she replied, "Now I'll ask this one more time. Where is he?" she added, getting her Duel Disk out of her holder.

However Yuto was still quiet, looking around to try and find a way out, "Fine, if you won't answer, then I'll Duel the answers out of you!" she threatened.

"Now wait a minute! What gives you the right to just come in and do what you-" Yuzu said, but Masumi cut her off, "I don't have time for you, so move it!" she said. "What makes you think he's involved with the disappearances?" Azara asked her, "If we Duel, and he Xyz Summons that Dragon Sawatari talked about, then we'll know it was him." Masumi said back, clearly tired of them getting in her way.

"Xyz Summon?" Sora gritting out, now knowing where Yuto came from, "Enough talking! Let's get this over with!" she yelled out as her Duel Disk's blade activated. "Stop! Your not going to get anything if you do it this way." Yuzu said, standing in front of her.

"This is bad, I can't get out of this, not without hurting them." Yuto thought stilling looking around, but then saw a bright light, "Hmm?" he said, "What are you-" Matthew said, but then also noticed the light as well.

Said light was coming from Yuzu's bracelet, which was glowing brighter by the second, with this shocking everyone, and forcing them to close their eyes.

When the light had stopped, they opened their eyes slowly, but widened them when they discovered that Yuto had somehow vanished. "Where the hell did he go?" Ronald yelled out, with the group that was surrounding him looking around in confusion.

"He-He vanished..." Yuzu got out slowly, "Just like last time..." she thought, remembering when he disappeared, then Yuya showed up after…

"Yuzu!" a voice cried out, making them all turn to look out the doorway, to see Yuya and someone with him. "There you are!" he said, "Yuya?" Yuzu said, "Thank god, your dad was worried, and you wouldn't answer my calls..." he said, "And I'm sorry about earlier." he added, remembering that he may have hurt her feelings.

"So that's how it is! You two are working together!" Masumi suddenly said, "You let him get away!" she added, now angry, "Masumi? And you guys? What are you-" he went to say, but Masumi then got in his face.

"Talk! Where is he? Where is Professor Marco?" she demanded, grabbing him by the collar, "Professor Marco? I haven't done anything!" he defended, "Don't lie to me, you're clearly working with that guy." she said.

"Who?" he said, really confused, "Let him go!" Andy said, who happened to be the guy with Yuya, "What's going on?" he asked them, "The guy that attacked Sawatari was right here!" Yuzu explained to them, shocking Yuya and Andy, who heard about the incident.

"He was!? Where is he now?" Yuya asked serious, hoping to find the guy that got him in trouble with LDS, "He vanished… Just before you got here Yuya." Azara said, "Just like before." Yuzu added, staring at her bracelet.

"Really?" he said, "You know where he is don't you?" Masumi got out, now frustrated, "Look there he is!" Andy suddenly said, pointing to his left from the warehouse entrance. "Huh?" the lot said, "Over there, on the roof, he's getting further away!" he said.

"Move it!" Masumi shouted, pushing Yuya out of the way, "Did you get a look at the guy?" Yuya asked, seeing that Masumi was now long gone, with everyone coming closer to hear. "Nope! I lied!" he said, this made the lot fall over in shock. They then started to pick themselves up.

"Well now that that's done, let's start your training Yuzu!" Sora said, "Training?" Yuya asked, confused, "Yeah, Yuzu asked us to teach her Fusion, Synchro and Xyz Summoning!" Oliver said to him.

"Really?" he asked again, "Yeah, but I think she personally wanted-" Sora said, "Sora! Oliver! I think Yuzu wanted to keep this quiet!" Azara scolded the two, looking at Yuzu who was staring at her bracelet again. "Really? What did you want that for? A Surprise for the ARC League?" Andy asked.

"Oh yeah, guys this is-" Yuya to introduce Andy, but "Hey Andy!" Matthew, Nigel, Azara and Ronald said, "Hey!" Andy said back, "Wait! You guys already know who he is?" Yuya asked shocked, "Yeah, we talk to other people besides you." Oliver said, making Yuya a bit sheepish for not thinking of that.

"You were saying?" Nigel said, with this shocking the group that time, serious time was over, "Oh that, listen, I've found my next four Duels!" he said, "Really?" Yuzu said, "Technically yes and no, see Nico Smiley said he would find them for me!" he said with a small laugh.

"Now all I need to do is win them, and I'm in the tournament!" he declared confidently, "Tournament?" both Ronald and Sora asked confused. "The annual Dueling Tournament that takes place every year." Azara explained.

"Really, that's sounds like fun, can I enter?" Sora asked, "Sure… if you've Dueled about 50 times, and won 30 of them." Yuya said shocking both Sora and Ronald, "That's not fair!" Sora whined, "Hold on, I think Nico said, something about a different way to get in, I think it was winning 6 Duels in a row." he said.

"Well that will be easy!" Sora said, having cheered up instantly, while Ronald was also relieved, "That'll be easy for me too." he said, "Would Nico be willing to get me some Duels?" Sora asked nicely, "Sure! Any one else need any Duels?" Yuya asked.

"Get me 2!" Matthew asked, "Same!" Oliver asked, with Nigel nodding yes, while holding up two fingers, signalling that many. "Same for me with Sora!" Ronald asked "Azara?" he asked her, "Yes please! I need 2 as well." she said, calming Ruby down.

"Then I'll talk to Nico about this, see what he can do for you guys." Yuya said, then looking at Yuzu, who was looking at her bracelet once more, he then smiled slighty, "Looks like I'm not the only one trying to get better." he thought.

Meanwhile with Yuzu, she was staring hard at said bracelet, while picturing Yuto's appearance, "Just who is that guy? What is he doing? And why have I got this bad feeling like something's going to happen." she thought.

21:32 PM

Within the city, looking up at the LDS building from afar from a rooftop, was Yuto, his partner, Shun was on a different rooftop, "Damn it, there goes that..." he thought thinking about what happened earlier, hoping to get some info from Ronald, who he noticed at the time was just standing there when he was confronted by them.

"He must know them, that's why he didn't try and help me, they would've gotten suspicious of him..." he added, while scanning the LDS building for something, "That's mean he's close to 'Ruri' and that red haired girl." he added.

"I'll call him later to find out what he knows about them." he hoped to find out if that was Ruri or not, he was however starting to doubt if that was in fact Ruri or not, due to the fact that 'Ruri' was willing to learn Fusion, and the real Ruri wouldn't do that.

"I'll get to the bottom of this..." he got out, as he finished scanning, and decided to return to the factory, with Shun doing the same.

End of Chapter 18

Hey guys, sorry I've been gone for so long, but the reason for it taking so long was work of course… That and I had finished this chapter a while ago… but… I accidentally deleted it the first time, and that bummed me out for a bit.

So I took a month long break, and now I'm all better now.

Oh, and I've also decided to start a new story, a Yugioh VRAINS one to be exact, it will have OC's like this one, so if you're interested, the info to submit an OC for that story will be on the bottom of the first chapter of that story…

And yes, it was hinted before, about chapter 11, that Yuzu in this story will learn more than just Fusion, I was really disappointed with the anime that only Yuya got Fusion, Synchro and Xyz, while she got one... Sure Yuya didn't Synchro Summon for a while after Nirvana High Paladin , but not the point, I've got ideas for Melodious Extra Deck monster for her, and I'm going to use them...

Anyways, I'll see you next time!