The two guards lead Yusei onto a hexagonal-shaped connecting area at the center of the facility.
"Well here he is: the little punk with the big mouth." Chief Armstrong greeted. "And I thought you might back down, After all, you're not allowed to have a deck in the facility. And you have to have a deck in order to duel someone, so, uh, since you're showing up empty-handed, I guess that means I win by forfeit. Easy enough; now get him out of my sight!" The chief said with relish.
The guards moved to take him away, and Yanagi, Alex, and Tanner tensed nervously.
"I have a deck right here." Yusei said, holding up the cards.
"What the! Where did you find those?" Armstrong inquired completely at a loss.
"You don't get it. You think we're a bunch of punks who will gladly turn on each other. That's not how it is." Yusei explained.
/
Up on the middle walkway, the guys from earlier and a bunch more surrounded Yusei.
"We know the chief is lying about what Tanner did, so we wanted to say thanks for risking your freedom to save ours." One guy told him, and handed Yusei a card. "And to make sure ya beat the chief, take this. It's my most prized possession."
"Cards are illegal in here, but we've all got that one favorite card we just couldn't let go of. I hung on to this one for sentimental reasons. It's a trap card, but it could come in handy," another guy gave Yusei a card.
"This guy may look cute, but he packs a mean punch!"
"This spell card got me out of a lot of touch jams."
"You can equip this card to almost any monster."
"Use this card to put Armstrong in his place."
"I've kept this card hidden in my shoe. Hopefully it doesn't smell too bad!"
The group of guys handed over cards from all sorts of different hiding places, until finally Yusei held a deck.
/
"With everyone giving me one card, we can win this!" Yusei declared, raising the cards to the cheers of the other prisoners.
"Well, all right then. Even though you're breaking a rule, I'm willing to uphold my end of the deal. You two, hurry up and prepare the duel disks!" Chief Armstrong ordered, and he and Yusei were suited up for battle.
"What's this chain all about?" Yusei asked, eyeing it warily.
"Oh that's…uh…just to make things a little fun. Every time you take life point damage that chain will sorta give you a little tickle." Armstrong grinned sneakily.
"Wait, what kind of little tickle?"
"You'll find out soon." Armstrong said and placed his deck in the duel disk.
Someone, somewhere, whispered, "Kinky."
Yusei did the same and glared suspiciously at Armstrong.
"Let's go!"
Yusei: 4000
Armstrong: 4000
So, Armstrong thought, Goodwin thinks this Satellite is special? Well, let's find out how special he is!
"The first move is mine!" Yusei declared, and drew a card. "And I summon Great Phantom Thief in defense mode!"
A man wearing a black tuxedo and red mask appeared on the field with a flourish of his cape. He sat on his knee with 1000 defense points.
Cries of excitement came from the cells. "All right, yeah, that's my card!"
"Your move, Armstrong." Yusei finished.
"This'll be tough; sure he scraped together a deck with everyone's cards, but it's a big pile of mismatched monsters and traps. And he hasn't had time to strategize," Tanner broke things down for Yanagi. He could watch as long as the old man supported him.
"He can pull it off. I know it!" Yanagi said.
"I hope you're right…"
"I draw; I summon Iron Chain Repairman!" Armstrong summoned a bulky man with a hammer, no shirt, and pants held up with chains for suspenders. He boasted 1600 attack points. "This fella's way more powerful than that sorry specter of yours! Repairman, smash that pathetic phantom into the floor!" With a swing of his hammer, Great Phantom Thief was flattened into the graveyard.
"Aw man! A lot of good my card did him!"
"That phantom may have been in defense mode, but Repairman's got a special ability. When it destroys a monster in battle, it also gets to slam you with 300 points of damage. Brace yourself, Satellite; this part might be a little shocking."
Electricity raced up the chain, into the duel disk, and through Yusei's body. He groaned as his life points decreased.
"What is that?" Tanner shouted. Yanagi's jaw dropped.
"He's getting zapped!" Alex yelled worriedly.
"I'm not sure if that's kinky or cruel."
Yusei: 3700
Armstrong: 4000
Armstrong laughed and Yusei dropped to his knees. "Sorry about that, but I did say it was gonna be shocking. These duel disks we're using have been supped up with static generator devices. When one of us takes any kind of lifepoint damage, this bad boy here generates a little jolt."
"What?"
"This is a correctional facility, Yusei. Everything that goes on here is for the betterment of society. Mess up and do something wrong, you get a little shock. Maybe that'll teach you to make the right choice next time. I place two cards facedown; your move."
Yusei got back up to his feet. "Here goes! I summon the Kick Man in attack mode!"
A purple skinned guy with a large belly, green eyes, gray arms, sandals, nasty colored pants, and a tiny Mohawk of yellow hair stood triumphantly on Yusei's side of the field. Although not as powerful as Repairman, 1300 attack points wasn't something to underestimate.
"My dad gave me that card when I was five!"
"Go Yusei, come on! Kick him into the next century!"
Yusei's turn wasn't over. "Next, I hook this guy up with the Slim Pack equip spell. This buffs him up another 700 attack points!" Kick man was engulfed in blue light, and his muscles grew from 1300 to 2000. "All right, Kick Man, time to take out his monster!"
Kick Man jumped into the air and headed for Repairman.
"Too bad that attacks just gonna slam into my Soul Anchor. Now by equipping this trap onto Iron Chain Repairman, I can render him indestructible in battle," Armstrong countered.
Kick Man's attack connected, and he bounced off of Repairman to flip back over to Yusei.
"Maybe but you're still taking damage!" Yusei reminded him.
Yusei: 3700
Armstrong: 3600
"All right." Yanagi smiled.
"Let's see how much he likes getting a little jolt." Tanner agreed.
Armstrong's scream turned into a laugh. Yusei's eyebrows rose in confusion. "Oh I don't believe this. My static generator isn't working! Maybe they didn't wire it right!" Armstrong grinned evilly, tapping his duel disk.
"Yeah that's it!" Yusei said. He knew the Chief was lying. They all knew.
"You've gotta be kidding me…" Tanner said disbelievingly.
"YOU CHEATER!" Alex yelled down at Armstrong. "That duel disk of yours was never hooked up to shock you and you know it!"
The chief just laughed. "I resent what you're implying there, kid. I can't help it if this thing breaks, can I?"
"So fix it!"
"You're a liar!"
"I knew this wouldn't be on the up and up; the Chief's a cheat!"
"He's not being fair, Yusei! Stop the duel and walk away!" Alex told him.
"He can't walk away, and he won't be walking away unless he decides to give up and forfeit the match to me. But if he does that, then he's going straight to the hole, where he can spend all his time thinking about how he just gave up!"
All three of Yusei's friends gritted their teeth. The duel was to continue, for better or worse.
"Moving on," Armstrong started his turn. "I summon Iron Chain Snake!" A snake made of chains with 800 attack points and 1200 attacks points flashed into play. "So much for your Kick Man's defense boost!" The snake lunged at Kick Man, and landed on him. The kicker's attack goes from 2000 to 1200. "And now is the perfect time for my Iron Chain Repairman to attack!" Another monster crushed into dust from the swing of the hammer.
Yusei: 3300
Armstrong: 3600
As expected, another taste of electricity zapped away more life points.
"Oh, and don't forget; every time Iron Chain Repairman destroys a monster in battle you get hit with a whopping 300 points of damage." Armstrong re-informed him.
More electricity took away another 300 points of damage.
Yusei: 3000
Armstrong: 3600
"This is ridiculous!" Alex complained.
"Yusei!" Tanner and Yanagi cried worriedly.
He fell to his knees again, sweating buckets.
"That's not all! Since Kick Man was saddled with Iron Chain Snake, you have to send three cards from your deck to your graveyard. Look, it's obvious you're losing, but I want you to know, if I'm being hard on you, it's all in the name of rehabilitation. You see, you left me with no choice but to use you as an example for the others, kid. Now get rid of those three cards!"
Yusei extracted three cards from his deck and placed them in the grave to join the Great Phantom Thief and Kick Man.
"If you think you can still win, get up. If not, stay down and we'll call it a day."
"Yusei!"
"Don't give in!" Tanner shouted.
"Rise up, Yusei!" Alex exclaimed.
"I'm gonna make sure you don't leave the facility for a long time, Yusei, and no matter what you do to try and stop me from winning this duel I'm not taking my eyes off the prize!" Armstrong boasted. Cameras flashed, displaying the entire duel to watching guards in a separate room.
Yusei: 3000
Armstrong: 3600
Tenaciously, Yusei stood on his feet once again. He was breathing heavily, every bone in his body ached. But he couldn't stay down.
"Good to see this duel isn't too shocking for ya, Satellite!"
"Well that's easy for Armstrong to say. Especially since his duel disk isn't connected to the static generator." Tanner observed.
"It's my turn! And I think I'll start by playing the spell card Nightmare Steel Cage!" Yusei said. A large dome-shaped cage encircled him.
"Don't you know you're already behind bars?" Armstrong taunted.
"Yeah, well, these bars are gonna keep me safe from your static generator's shocks for the next two rounds!"
"That little cage won't save you." Armstrong scoffed.
"We'll see. I lay down a face down and end my turn."
"Steel cage! That was my card! See, I told you my deck wasn't lame!" One inmate told his roommate.
"Listen, I said you were lame, not your stinking deck!" He corrected.
"Shut it you two, you're both lame!" Armstrong yelled. "Now you might think you're safe with that steel cage stopping my attacks, but I don't need to attack in order to win this duel. And here's why, Yusei. First I'll play Iron Chain Snake, and since I have Iron Chain Repairman already on the field its special ability lets me bring out another monster. So I think I'll bring out another Iron Chain Snake. Next up I'm activating these two spell cards. And with them in play this match is all but a lock for me because with two level five chain monsters on my field; my Poison Chain now forces you to send 10 cards to your graveyard if my monsters don't attack. When your deck runs out of cards to play, Satellite, you know what happens, don't you?" Armstrong made the universal thumbs down sign.
Yusei's duel disk glowed a sickly purple-blue color. "I lose."
"Now I hope you didn't have anything planned for the next couple of years, Yusei. Cause' once I win this duel, you can wave bye-bye to your future," the chief waved with fake courtesy.
Yusei pulled out ten cards and sent those to the grave.
"So with those ten cards gone, you've only got 19 left!"
"At this rate, Yusei won't survive for more than two more rounds!" Tanner said worriedly. "Come on, Grandpa, there's gotta be something that Yusei can do to stop Armstrong's spell!"
"There is, but I don't think the guards are gonna let him run away and hide!" Yanagi offered unhelpfully.
"Now I play my spell card Paralyzing Chain which shocks away 300 life points whenever you suffer the effects of my Poison Chain!"
Electricity zapped away life points.
Yusei: 2700
Armstrong: 3600
Alex glanced at the clock in his cell before lifting up the flat board used as a mattress for the bunk bed. "It's almost time. Sorry I can't wait any longer. You had your chance, Yusei." With a small bang the lid closed behind him.
"Looks like that cage isn't so safe after all, huh Yusei? Guess those cards are as useless as the people who gave them to you!" Armstrong insulted.
"I'll show ya useless!" Yusei countered, and started his turn.
"I'm sure you will, if you can last." The Chief said doubtfully.
Alex made it to the blind spot in the search light paths. Just in time too. "There's my signal." He whispered when he saw a flash of light a bit to the left of the opening he pointed out to Yusei earlier. He stood and stared at the night sky. "Maybe Yusei was right about not leaving his friends here…" He remembered what Yusei told him. About not leaving his friends behind for his own benefit. "Well, I'm not about that either, Yusei!"
The monitors showed what the security cameras were locked on, which just happened to be Yusei's cards, focused in to get a better look. They spotted a few trap cards.
"I'll throw down three face downs."
"Then I'll play this: the spell Psychic Cyclone. Now I can choose one of your face downs, and if I can guess if it's a trap or a spell, not only do you lose it, but I get another draw," Armstrong countered. "And I got a feeling in this game, the house always wins! Eeenie, meenie, miney, moe, I…" he moved toward his right, and then quickly changed back to the left. "Say the left one is a trap card. I'm right, aren't I?"
"How?" Yusei asked.
A twister emerged from the spell and blew away Yusei's Dust Tornado trap.
"What can I tell you, Yusei? My instincts never let me down. Now with that trap card out of the picture, your chances of beating me and getting out of here just got a whole lot slimmer."
"No way, I smell something fishy, and it's not his BO." Tanner said suspiciously.
"Now I draw one card from my deck and then I'll end my turn, Satellite."
"I'm just gonna play a face down for right now. Your move." Yusei ended his very short turn.
Armstrong laughed and drew a card. "Then I guess I'll draw. I summon out Iron Chain Blaster!" A chain monster with a giant gray barrel-like chest emerged, boasting 1100 attack points. "Don't think I can't attack you because of your steel cage's effect. My Poison Chain spell card forces you to send 12 more cards to graveyard. So with them gone, next round you're finished!"
Again Yusei was forced to send cards to the graveyard.
Armstrong stroked his beard in a very creepy manner. "Don't be mad. This is just a game. Of course in this game if you happen to lose, you have to kiss all your freedom goodbye. But in the meantime whattaya say we let the effect of my Paralyzing Chain put a charge into this duel?"
The card glowed and volts of electricity shot through Yusei's body again.
Yusei: 2400
Armstrong: 3600
"Shocking move isn't it, Yusei? And it's only gonna get worse cause' now I can load my blaster with Iron Chain Snake to break through your barrier!"
Yusei: 1600
Armstrong: 3600
"I can now bring back my Iron Chain Snake due to Iron Chain Repairman's special ability."
"Yusei! If you don't stop the Chief soon, his monsters are gonna totally destroy you!" Tanner warned.
"That's metaphorically speaking of course. But that's not to say that with your steel cage vanishing this turn, their attacks are going to shock you into submission!"
Yusei took his time catching his breath while Armstrong laughed.
"Looks to me like your time behind bars backfired. I mean all you have left are a half dozen cards in that joke you call a deck!"
Yusei lifted his head up, and glared angrily at the chief. "These cards are the heart and hope of every person in here!"
"Then I'll be sure to destroy them as soon as I'm done with you!" Armstrong promised.
"I won't let that happen." Yusei said and next second the lights flickered off.
"Somebody turn on the lights," Armstrong ordered. The lights slowly came back on one by one. "What was that?" he whispered into a tiny communicator device attached to his collar.
"We're not sure sir, but we're checking the generator control room now." A subordinate informed him.
"Let's get back to business."
Yusei turned towards his cell, finding it empty. Alex, he's gone. That blackout must've been caused by his friends on the outside. Wish I was with you, but I got my friends to think about. Good luck. "Okay, chief, I'm playing this; the trap card the Jar of Greed! And thanks to it, Armstrong, I draw one more card."
The chief laughed skeptically. "Don't you know that with each card you remove from your deck you're one step closer to losing this duel?"
"Not if I play my trap Call of the Haunted. And guess who I'm bringing back with it Armstrong? You should get a kick out of this," Yusei joked.
"You brought back Kick Man? He's as valuable as you are!"
"You shouldn't underestimate the power of any card. Especially one that can join forces with a card in my graveyard."
"But your graveyard is full of-"
"Cards you forced me to get rid of. So it seems your strategy is the one that back-fired, because now I can call out Axe of Despair to give my Kick Man an extra 1000 attack points!"
Kick Man smiled enthusiastically as his attack rose to 2300.
"All right, of course I did the same combo back in my pro days in the Circuit," Tanner praised.
"And next up, I'm summoning Exiled Force!" A small army of battle-ready warriors was summoned. "Kick Man, attack!"
Using his new axe, the monster sent the chain snake to the graveyard with one slice.
Yusei: 1600
Armstrong: 2100
Armstrong screamed as his duel disk finally shocked some life points out of him for a change!
"Hold on." Yanagi said, confused. "His duel disk finally shocked him."
"Yeah, looks like someone turned the power back on." Tanner acknowledged smugly.
"Now Exiled Force, move in and slay that serpent of his with a direct attack!"
Panicked, Armstrong tried to protest, but this time Yusei wasn't showing any mercy. "Now hold on, time out, wait, there's something wrong with my-no!"
The second snake went up in smoke, and the chief received another dose of electricity.
Yusei: 1600
Armstrong: 1900
"If I find out that the person who turned my duel disk back on knows you, Yusei, they're gonna wish they never met you," the chief said weakly before falling on his face.
An officer on a loudspeaker blared through the Facility. "Chief Armstrong, an intruder has been caught and restrained in the power generator room. We're bringing him to you A-SAP."
Still on the ground, the chief growled. "Now let's see who did this." Stiffly, he got to his feet.
"Sir, here's the culprit." A guard announced as two others brought in…ALEX! "This was Yusei's cell mate."
"No, they caught Alex!" Yusei half whispered. Tanner and Yanagi stared, mouths wide open, at the even higher stakes now.
"How did this punk sneak out of his cell?" Armstrong demanded.
"Sir, he dug a hole and got to the power room, and fried the mainframe."
"He did what! Go fix it, my duel disk has been shocking me."
"Exactly, and it's not going to stop," Alex smirked victoriously at the chief.
"I SAID FIX IT!"
Another officer spoke through a phone, and Armstrong heard him through his hidden communicator device. Behind the officer, the mainframe sparked and shot lightning everywhere. It was obviously broken. Thank you, Alex! "I'm sorry sir, but the mainframe can't be repaired. Which means the shocks that are currently running through your duel disk will continue for the remainder of the contest!"
"So this means after this you and I will have a nice long conversation!" Armstrong grunted at Alex.
He remained unfazed. "But first your duel. And with the playing field evened up, I'd be shocked to see you win."
"Why'd you come back, Alex?" Yusei wondered.
"Well, I couldn't just leave ya here. I had to try and help you, Yusei. That's what friends do for each other. Just like you put your friends ahead of yourself, I wanted to do the same for you."
Yusei nodded his appreciation. "It's time we add to the stakes. Now that your duel disk is working again, I say we battle it out for Alex. I win, you don't punish him. I lose, and he goes into lock down like me." Yusei proposed.
"Um…Yusei?" Alex said uncertainly.
"Sounds perfect. You're done next turn anyway. Let Alex watch his future disappear." Armstrong commanded.
"So then, let's keep going. I sacrifice Exiled Force to destroy Iron Chain Repairman!" Both monsters disappeared in a column of orange. "It's your move chief."
"This is it, one draw, and one card. And if it's a monster, Yusei has to throw away all his cards!" Tanner told Yanagi.
"So…um…what's so bad about that?" The old man asked.
Tanner looked disbelievingly at Yanagi. "What's bad about it is that he'll lose! Didn't you ever find a rule book when you were traveling the world? Man, it's like talking about this to my dad…"
Yanagi was still confused, but about the wrong thing. "But you called me Gramps."
Tanner rolled his eyes. "Never mind."
"Here we go." Armstrong cried and drew a card. Luckily it didn't turn out to be a monster. "Well, well, looks like you're okay. At least for now you are."
'But what Yusei doesn't know is that I've been watching every move of this game since draw one. Thanks to these security cameras, his cards are about as secret as a prime time lineup. And premiering tonight are Yusei's face down cards. And I got a feeling it's gonna be something of a tragedy.'
"It's still my turn right now, and I think I'll mix things up with my spell card Reload. Now I'll just put all my cards in my deck, shuffle them up and redraw." He drew the two new cards with an exaggerated flourish. At the sight of his cards Armstrong snickered to himself. "I play Mystical Space Typhoon. And now I choose to destroy the face down card on the left. Say goodbye!"
A cyclone blew away Yusei's trap card, but it wasn't the trap Armstrong expected.
"What, it's not Battle Mania?"
"No, but the right one is! Check it out, so now our monsters have to attack. And that means I don't lose any more cards in this round." Yusei decreed.
"He did it." Tanner smiled. "Yusei must've switched all his cards around when the blackout happened. Now Yusei's Kick Man can win this!"
Armstrong consulted his concealed communicator. "Hey what's going on? This duel is supposed to be fixed so that I win."
"Don't worry sir; we've stacked your deck with the most advanced chain monster combos available. Yusei's not the only one who knows how to duel with dragons."
Armstrong dropped his collar and growled angrily. All right, Yusei, I didn't go to the trouble to cheat just so you would win. Time to how you the rest of my chain gang. "I summon out Iron Chain Coil!"
A toy-like yellow ball with hands, giant white eyes, and a nozzle like bottom appeared with 1300 attack. He morphed into four green rings and encircled the Iron Chain Cannon, who turned into two stars.
"I tune Iron Chain Coil with Iron Chain Blaster to synchro summon Iron Chain Dragon!" The chief laughed again, and a green-blue dragon with chains across its wings materialized. Two thousand five hundred attack points of dragon bore down on Yusei. "Here's where it gets fun. See for every chain monster in my graveyard my dragon gains 200 attack points, and right now I've got five!"
Lise rolled her eyes. "Wow, he's learned how to count as well as cheat!"
Armstrong shot her a dirty glance as Alex laughed. The chain dragon's attack jumps from 2500 to 3500. "So now that my monster gets an extra thousand attack points, Yusei, I'm attacking you with my Iron Chain Dragon!"
"Trust me, chief, that's a bad idea." Yusei stated, calmly staring up at the beast.
"I know it is; for you!" Armstrong grinned gleefully.
The chain dragon spit out a beam of green that connected with Kick Man.
Yusei: 0400
Armstrong: 1900
"Did I forget to mention that his special ability automatically activates? You see, whenever he attacks, you have to send three of your cards to the graveyard." Armstrong continued.
Scowling Yusei sent the cards to the grave.
"And with Paralyzing Chain's effect, you lose 300 more life points."
Yusei: 0100
Armstrong: 1900
Exhausted, Yusei fell to his knees.
"Yusei, no!" Alex shouted.
"His life points!" Tanner cried.
"He's finished." Yanagi whimpered.
The other cellmates muttered disbelief to each other.
Once more, Yusei got to his feet. "My turn," he said, and drew the last card in the makeshift deck.
"Oh," again more of Armstrong's ear-splitting laugh. "You've got nothing left! You're down to a hundred lifepoints and your very last card. Your deck's empty and you don't have a single facedown!"
"I know, but all I need to win is one card, and a little of your help."
"My help?"
"You spent the whole duel trying to send my cars to the graveyard. You thought my entire deck was worthless; just a mishmash of cards given to me by your prisoners, my friends.
"And maybe, on their own, they wouldn't stand a chance against your super-charged chains, but together they will; with this."
A card dropped out of Yusei's sleeve and into his hand. "I knew you would use the security cameras to spy on the cards in my hand once the match started. But I also knew you wouldn't see this."
Yusei showed Armstrong the card. "It's called Rubble King. I hid it so your little surveillance friends couldn't big brother it. So as soon as you picked the wrong trap card to destroy, I just had to keep you sending my cards to the graveyard."
"For what, to lose?"
"Not quite, I'll show you after I summon him. Now if there are over 30 cards in my graveyard when Rubble King is summoned, like you so thoughtfully provided, I get to use a trap. It comes down to my very last card. I activate the trap Blasting the Ruins! If I have 30 or more cards in my graveyard, then you automatically lose 3000 lifepoints!"
The cards in the grave turned into stones for the Rubble King to use as weapons against the chief. The stone throne he sat upon hovered in the air, but his attack was zero.
"Three what!" Armstrong panicked.
With a wave of Rubble King's hand, the stones flew toward and collided with Armstrong. The strongest burst of electricity practically singed the whiskers off the Chief's face.
Yusei: 0100
Armstrong: 0
Defeated, Armstrong fell flat on his face.
"You beat him, Yusei!" Alex cried.
"He won, he won!" Yanagi cheered.
"Never a doubt." Tanner smiled.
The others followed suit and began to chant Yusei's name over and over.
Armstrong pushed himself half off the floor. Regaining dignity as a fat, bald and recently defeated chief of the facility was going to be difficult now. He pointed at Yusei angrily.
"Put them both into lock down!"
"What!" Yusei exclaimed indignantly.
"But what about our deal?" Alex complained. He was held by multiple guards.
"We don't have any deal! Get them out of my sight, now!"
Alex struggled and protested loudly. The other inmates added to their indignant cries. Yusei glared at the chief as a pack of guards surrounded him.
A second familiar voice broke through the chaos. "I don't think so, Mr. Armstrong."
Alarmed, Armstrong turned towards the owner of the voice.
"I saw the entire duel, and the only person going away is you I'm afraid. I don't see how the facility can be run effectively if no trust exists between the guards and inmates. Pack your things, Armstrong, you're fired." Goodwin stated from the upper catwalk. He pivoted on his heel and walked away.
"So what now, Yusei? You're free to go!" Alex said, happy to change the subject.
"But something's fishy; why did Goodwin show up just then?" Tanner pointed out.
"Oh be quiet!" Yanagi shushed him. "Thanks to Goodwin we're all getting out soon too!"
"I know, and that's why this whole situation just seems strange. Yusei wins, now we're all gonna be free? Just be sure to watch your back," Alex warned.
"Maybe you're right." Yanagi conceded, and pulled out a card from his kimono. "So please, take this card, Yusei."
"I can't take your card." Yusei declined the offer.
Yanagi ignored this and shoved the card into his hand. "Yes you can! I figure you'll probably have more use for it than I ever will."
Yusei smiled and nodded. "This is incredible! Thank you!"
"Hold on," Tanner intervened, and Yusei turned curiously towards him. "I got something for you as well." He pulled out another card. "This card's gonna help you get your runner back. I overheard the guards talking about your sweet ride and how it's locked up at the Impound Center. Now, take this to a store named Bootleg, order some milk, and ask for Blister. He'll help you out!"
/
Goodwin and his partner in scheming were back in his office.
"Are you sure about this?" Lazar questioned. "You're letting him go? If you do that, we might never find him again."
"It's obvious to me that Yusei's mark of the dragon won't reappear while he's trapped inside the walls of the Facility. Besides, I never said that we were letting him go." Goodwin answered craftily.
Lazar smiled wickedly. "You're going to track him! Oh, you are so sneaky!"
"With them free to roam New Domino City, I have selected an elite task force to keep him under surveillance, and watch for any signs of Yusei's mark reappearing. Now as long as no one interferes in our affairs, all we need to do is watch and wait."